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\ ITHROUGHOUT LAND TODAY; i i ( ‘i ( | WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! ES woes Dail Central -e Norker Ruumict Porty U.S.A. — Section of the Communist ale aecond-clase N.Y. Entered as at New Yo _Vol. IX, No. 82 -: ander the act of Mar. matter at the Office There fs one officer in the United Statez Army to every eleven men. This heavy force of officers the government holds in readiness to train the recruits in the next war and to lead the centralized fascist forces that may be required to hold down tendencies toward revolt among the troops, NEW YORK _WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6, 1932 “CITY ¥ EDITION —. Price 3 Cents PACK BRONX COLISEUM TONIGHT! AGAINST ROBBER WAR! Rally All Forces to Smash Tammany's Starvation Edict! HOLD ANTI-WAR PROTESTS DEFEND SCOTTSBORO BOYS! Demonstrate Against Robber War on China, | = Against Imperialist Moves for Armed Inter- vention Against Soviet Union! ————_-—— | ~NEW YORK.—New York workers will de-| onstrate tonight at Bronx Coliseum against) the criminal preparations of the bosses for a) new and bloodier world slaughter, and for the’ defense of the Chinese Masses and the Soviet Union. The Bronx Coliseum demonstration will be part of nation-wide Anti-War Demonstrations being held today thru- out the country. These demonstrations will also raise a mighty demand for the immediate release of the nine innocent Scotts- horé- Negro Boys. age Sh SESE? ms nick, representing the youth and un- Working-class organizations from jemployed, I. Amter, district organizer allover the city will attend in a body with their banners, and plac- ards. Thousands of Negro and white workers, together with many Chin- ese,..Japanese and Korean workers | are-expected at the demonstration. J, W. Ford, Negro working-class leader, will act as chairman of the meetnig. Mother Bloor will be one of the speakers. Other speakers in- clude’ Hudson of the Marine Work- ers: Industrial Union and the Trade oe Uniyt Council, Clara baat lof the Communist Paryt, Steuben, of War! 1917- 1932 the Workers’ Ex-Servicemen’s League and Sherer of the Friends of the Soviet Union. Representatives of many other organizations will be present. The doors of the Coliseum will be} open at 7 o'clock. The meeting starts at 8 o'clock. Th€ White Plain train | on the Lexington Subway or the} Broadway and 7th Avenue train will) put you off near the Coliseum. Get off be 177th Street 57 iain PRIL 6, 1917, the government of American imperialism, headed by ‘Woodrow Wilson, entered the world front of the allied governments against German imperialism. “April 6, 1932! saWe now put the question to the entire working-class of the United States, Negro and white, native born and foreign born: What have been the results for the workers of this country? What have the workers of the United States and the other capitalist countries received in return for the oceans of workers’ blood spilled, for the mil- dions killed in battle and by disease, for the multiplied millions of the ‘wounded and maimed in the service of their mperialist masters? ‘The answer is given in unmistakeable terms by the hungry millions of unemployed—twelve million or more in the United States alone—in the ferocious attack on the living standards of the entire working class and colonial peoples at every point, the answer is given by the increasing mass misery in every capitalist country—the answer is given by the -ever sharpening crisis of the capitalist ystem and its ever growing bur- ‘dens-on the toiling population. _ In one country in the world—the Soviet Union—where the working class, led by the Communist Party, with Lenin at its head, overthrew «apitalism, destroyed the capitalist state machinery and set up in its place the state power of the working class, is there light and hope and wndisputed and decisive advances by the toiling masses in every sector 4@ the working class front—economic, social and cultural. -- This is the lesson we American workers have to learn in this period when imperialist war against the Chinese people, and directed likewise against the Soviet Union, rages in the Far East: The lesson is that the working class organized and led by its Communist Party finds its way out of mass unemyployment, mass misery and imperialist war by the overthrow of capitalism and its government and by setting up in place of the capitalist dictatorship the mighty power of the proletariat or- ganized as the ruling class, to abolish capitalism and engage in the most. determined way to carry through its historic mission of creating the basis for the classless society which is Communism. ‘Today 15 years after the entrance of America into the last war, the working population is again faced with war in the Far Easst and the menace of a world war against the Soviet Union. The workers must draw the lesson from the last slaughter and the reactionary war now going on. This lesson is clear: to organize the workers into a powerful united front of struggle against the capitalist hunger offensive, against the sup- pression of workers’ rights, to fight uncompromisingly to stop the war preparations and thus build up the power to overthrow capitalism. = ‘This task includes an unceasing fight against pacifist deception, the capitalists’ agents in the ranks of the workers—the A. F. of L. bureaucrats and the socialist party, these main social supporters of the peaitalist system. ! The stronger the fight against the daily oppression, the stronger grow the ‘ranks of the toilers for the historic blows which will destroy the ig capitalist systern. efend the Soviet fatherland! off the Chinese people! ‘Withdraw the Japanese and American ships and troops from China! Faculty Member Joins in - Strike Call to Students YORK.—A second mass , the student delegation to Ken- tucky, attacked the exploitation of the student wiaters in the college cafeteria, and who fought against professionalized “amateur athletic” was one of a series of steps which the capitalist lickspittles in the educational system are taking to crush the wide ferment in the ranks of the college students, NEW meeting on the steps of the Co- lumbia University library of over judents was held yesterday to Fatify the strike call of the Na- tional Student League and the Co- the students, a strike committee of 25 elected to see President Butler, and a meeting gf pickets called to assign stations for the ome day atrtice, ( |ergency situation demands that every ; Unemployment. Insurance!” “Smash ‘EMERG ENCY CONFERENCE SATURDAY Demand Work Buro Reinstate Workers on List To Canvas Homes Organizations Meet to Plan Fight NEW YORK. — Tammany |Hall and the whole parasite boss class of New York have decided to starve to death tens of thousands of unemployed workers and their families. Two weeks ago the |Emergency Work Buro laid off 4,000 men. Last week 2,000 were laid off and now these still left on the lists are cut from three days a week at $15 to two days a week at $10. The building program of $231,- 000,000 has been withdrawn by or- der of the Wall Street bankers and on April 4 the Home Relief Buro decided: 1. To cut the #5 food cards of 125,000 families 10 per cent. 2. To drop 56,000 families from the re- lief lists. 3. A 40 per cent cut in the daily outlay for food, light, heat and rent. 4. To completely close down all rélief by June 1. It is clear that Tammany Hall wants to spare the rich by “econom. izing” at the expense of thousands of starving unemployed. The Block Aid campaign, organized by J. P. Mor- gan and “socialist” Norman Thomas, is part of the Tammany program to put the “economy” plan into effect. The workers of New York must de- feat this starvation plan. This em- worker rally to the struggle in de- fense of the unemployed. Workers cannot allow this murderous plan to be realized. All workers organizations are urged to at once open headquarters in the vicinity of the precincts of the Home Relief Buro stations and register the | unemployed who were cut from re- lief, Mobilize the workers for strug- | gle for a right to live. Arrange meet- ings to be held in all headquarters April 14 at 8 p.m. to plan the next steps in the fight for real relief. Send delegates to the Emergency Mobilization conference Saturday at 1:30, at |5 E. 19th St. Force the Board of Estimates to go through with the building program. 2,000 in Anti-War Demonstration on Lower East Side NEW YORK.—Marching in discip- lined ranks, 2,000 workers of the low- er East Side yesterday held an anti- war parade, marching through many proletarian blocks which had never before meen the scene of working class demonstrations. The United Front Anti-War Committee and Sec- tion One of the Communist Party were the leaders of this spirited dem- onstration in which many mass or- ganizations participated. ‘The parade was led by the Drum and Bugle Corps of the Workers’ Ex- Servicemen’s League. The workers listened with close attention to speakers from the Block Committees, the Young Communist League, the International Labor Defense, thc Workers Ex-Servicemen’s League and, the Communist Party. As they began the march from Seventh St. and Avenue A, the workers militantly shouted slogans of “All War Fund: for the Unemployed!” “We Demand the Block Aid Spy System,” “Hands Off China,” “Defend the Soviet Union!” Placards calling for unity of Negro |, and white workers, for the release of the Scottsboro boys, were greeted with cheers all along the route, and especially raound Monroe and Jack- son Sts., a neighborhood in which Negro and Irish workers live, ‘The parade ended up with a big demonstration at Rutgers Square. ‘There was a@ unanimous vote to sup- port the giant anti-war demonstra~ todayy iid ar ion this evening at Bronx Coliseum, stusce3 aaa For the Defense of the Chinese People and the Soviet Union To the Workers, Peasants, Negroes, Indians, Exploited Farmers, Revolutionary Students and Intellec- tuals and to all Oppressed of the Americas: Brothers! Sisters! Comrades! The Communist Parties of the Americas appeal to you to rally with all your might to the struggle against the imperialist robber war upon China and for the defense of the Chinese people and of the Soviet Union. Japanese imperialism has cut off Manchuria from China and is establishing there its plundering colonial tule under the guise of an “independent” state ruled by a@ puppet government. The Japanese imperialist murderers are proceeding to turn Manchuria into an- other Korea, the same as Yankee imperialism is doing in the Caribbean through its own puppet governments. This so-called new Manchurian state has already become a base of war against the Soviet Union. Armed bands of Russian White Guards are being equipped and mobilized by Japanese imperialism for attacks upon the Soviet-Manchurian frontier. These bands are already making incursions into Soviet terri- tory (Blagovestchensk) followed by flying expeditions of Japanese airplanes. Large numbers of Japanese troops are concentrated and massed along the Soviet frontier in Manchuria and Korea for war against the Socialist. Fatherland. All imperialist robbers, the League of Nations and Yankee imperialism, are taking part in the partition and further subjugation of China and in the prepara~ tions of war against the Soviet Union. World im- perialism is*seeking a capitalist way out of the crisis by a new war for the redivision of the world and espe- cially by a war against the Soviet Union, while in- tensifying the attack upon the standards of living of the toiling masses in all imperialist and colonial coun- tries. Beware of “Pacifist” Maneuvers. Brothers! Sisters! Comrades! Do not be deceived by the pacifist maneuvers of the imperialists and their “socialist” and anarchist supporters. Thepresent “dis- armament” conference in Geneva and the “peace nego- tiations” between Japanese imperialists and the Kou- mintang traitors under the hegemony of the League of Nations and Yankee imperialism, are designed to hide from the masses the war against the Chinese people and the war preparations against the Soviet Union. These pacifist gestures are also intended to hide from the masses the sharp struggle between the imperialist bandits themselves (Japanese, Yankee, English and French) for the largest share of the Chi- nese spoils in their common drive for the further en- slavement of the Chinese people and for the beginning of war against the Soviet Union, Do not be deceived by the pacifist poison of the “socialist” parties of the Second International, the anarchist and anarcho-syndicalist leaders and the whole tribe of social-fascist supporetrs of imperial- ism, Arthur Henderson, leader of the Second Inter- national, is chairman of the Geneva “disarmament” Conference which has rejected the true disarmament proposals of the Soviet Union made by Comrade Lit- vinov. Paul Boncour, leader of the French “socialist” party, represents French imperialism at the same Con- ference which is trying to cover up the partition of China and the war preparations against the Soviet Union. Remember also the Pan-American Federation of Labor, which, under the hegemony of the social- fascist leaders of the American Federation of Labor, is functioning as an instrument of Yankee imperialism for the further enslavement of the peoples of Latin America and for inciting war against the Soviet Union. Remember also the Yankee Fellowship of Reconcilia- tion and its social-fascist partners, Norman Thomas and Muste, which are aiming to reconcile the oppressed Latin American peoples to the rule of Yankee im- perialism by means of pacifist phrases. Imperialists Consolidate Rule In Manchuria. Finding its drive from Shanghai into the interior of Central China seriously retarded and, at least, tem- porarily checked mainly by the self-sacrificing struggle of the’Chinese masses and the world-wide protests of the revolutionary proletarian and the colonial move- ments, Japanese imperialism is now turning its atten- tion more fully to the consolidation of its robber rule in Manchuria gpd to the utilization of Manchuria as @ base for immediate war against the Soviet Union. Yankee imperialism, which is parading hypocritically as a “friend” of the Chinese people, is seeking to halt the further expansion of Japanese power in China in order to establish there its own domination, as it is doing in Latin America, by driving towards war against the Soviet Union and against the Chinese Revolution. The Yankee puppet governments in Latin America are making ready to support their imperialist master in the war, by placing their countries on a war footing and by the wildest white terror against the masses and their revolutionary organizations. The Mexican and Cuban governments have already openly declared their allegiance to Wall Street and the Hoover government, French imperialism works hand in hand with the Japanese imperialist murderers against the Chinese people and the Soviet Union while feverishly building up the anti-Soviet intervention front in Europe. British imperialism, the chief rival of Yankee im- perialism in Latin America and @1e world over, is fight- ing to maintain its coloni#i possessions in China, is the Soviet Union and the Chinese Revolution. In do- ing so, British imperialism is undertaking to line up behind itself the landlords and capitalists in Latin America, thus sharpening still further the rivalries between the British and Yankee imperialist bandits. The Kuomintang traitors, the Canton and Chiang | Kai-shek cliques, that have betrayed and abandoned the fighting Chinese masses in the face of the im- perialist offensive, are hiding behind the League of Nations and Yankee imperialism while preparing and initiating new offensives against the Chinese Revolu- | tion and against the Soviet Government of China Must Struggie Against War. Only through the heroic struggles of the Chinese masses, inspired by the solidarity of the Soviet Union for the cause of teh Chinese freedom and national independence strengthened by the leadership of the Communist Party of China and by the brave fight | of the Japanese Communist Party against the im- | Workers’ perialist war of its government and especially with the active support of the toiling masses all over the world, can the Japanese drive into Central China be further retarded. Only the self-sacrificing struggle of the workers, peasants, revolutionary students and in- tellectuals and all exploited in all imperialist and colo- nial countries can halt the drive of world imperialism towards war against the Soviet Union, Rise to the defense of the Chinese people and the Soviet. Union. Youth and adults, men and women, mobilize your forces for the defense of the First and Peasants’ Government that has over- thrown the rule of the landlords, capitalists and im- | perialists and that is building successfully a new So- cialist Fatherland—the Soviet Union—the base of | world Socialism and the bulwark of the proletarian and colonial revolutions of the world. Workers, Negro toilers and exploited farmers of the United States and Canada! Join bends wiih the workers and peasants of Latin America, your cicsest allies for the overt! ‘our own capitalist class. Build an iron ring cf nse around the Soviet Union. Support resolutely and n antly the liberation strug- gles of the oppressed peoples of Latin America against Yankee and British iraperialism. Demand the with- drawal of al! Yankee and British armed forces from the Latin American countries. Demonstrate against the white terror of the puppet governments in Latin America—Salvador, Guatemala, Peru, China—which are preparing fer the war against the Union under the hegemony of either Yankeo or British im- perialism. Demand the release of all political prison- ers from the clutches of the white terror. Workers, Peasants, Indians, Negroes and revolution- ary Students of Latin America! Join hands with the workers, the Negro masses and the exploited farmers of the United States and Canada, your closest allies for the overthrow of Yankee and British imperialism and its native supporters. Rally to the defense of the Chinese Revolution and the Soviet Union, which are the greatest guarantee for the victory of the libera- tion struggles of all colonial and oppressed peoples. Fight for the liberation of the Indian and Negro masses from national and social oppression. Dem- | onstrate your solidarity with the revolutionary strug- gles of the workers and exploited farmers and the op- pressed Negro masses in the United States and Can~- ada. Demonstrate your protests against the mur- derous lynching of Negroes, for the liberation of the Scottsboro boys and the Tampa prisoners, for the complete equality of the Negro masses, for the libera- tion of Tom Mooney in the United States and the Communist leaders in Canada. Workers, peasants and fighters against imperialism in the West Indies! Join hands with the workers and all enemies of imperialism in the American countries for the struggle against Yankee and British imperial- ism and for the defense of the Chinese Revolution and the Soviet Union. Rally to the great united front of all oppressed on this hemisphere, under the lead- ership of the working class, to defend the beacon light of freedom for all oppressed—the Soviet Union— and to abolish the rule of the imperialists, landlords and capitalists. Stop the imperialist rebber war against China. De- fend the Chinese people. Defend the Chinese Revolu- tion. Hail Soviet China! Hands off the Soviet Union. Defend the Soviet Union from the attacks of the imperialist war makers Long live the Soviet Union—the base of world social- ism. Heil the Second Five Year Plan for the com- pletion of Socialism. Stop the shipment of munitions and all war ma-~- teriots to Japan. *% Demand the immediate withdrawal of all, Japanese forces from Manchuria. Demand the immediate with- drawal of all imperialist troops and warships from China and the expulsion of all White Guards. Down with imperialist domination in Latin America Hail the revolutionary struggle of the Latin American peoples for their national and social liberation from ‘ the yoke of the Yankee and British imperialist oppres- sors and their native supporters. Hail the revolution- ary struggles of the workers in the United States and Canada. Hail the victory of Socialism in the Soviet Unfon. Build an iron ring of defense around the Soviet Union. partly supporting Japanese imperialism against | Hail the victory of World Socialism and the destruction Yankee imp¢rialism, and is driving towards war against | of world imperialism, Signed by: The C. P. of Argentina The C. P. of Cuba The C. P. of E) Salvador The C. P. of Brazil The C. P. of Equador The €, P. of Ameri The C. P. of Canada ‘The C. P. of ‘Honduras The C. P. of Uruguay. ‘The C. P. of Chile ‘The ©, P. of Mexica The ©, P, of Venesucla pL LT ene ® Hand of Polish War Plotters Exposed in Soviet Trial Second Day Reveals Deliberate Plan of French Puppets to Disrupt Soviet-German Diplomatic Relations The Daily Worker today prints the reports of the second day of tha (rial of Tudas Stern and Vasiliev before the Military Collegium of the Soviet | Supreme Court, The trial of these imperialist tools who tried to involve the Soviet Union in war shows the steeled determination of the Soviet Union to maintain peace. At this time when the imperialists are rapidly moving toward armed intervention against the Soviet Union, when Roumania and Poland are admittedly preparing to attack the Soviet Union on the western front at the same time that the Japanese attack on the Soviet Far Eastern border, the trial of these two plotters and war provocateurs against the Soviet Union is of tremendous significance to the workers of the whole world. The Daily Worker is the only paper which is publishing the full re~ port of the trial. Watch the Daily Worker for the detailed reports of thig trial by our Moscow correspondent, ‘2 Ps » e e 5 Bs By MYRA PAGE European Correspondent of the Daily Worker MOSCOW, April 5.—The first day of the trial of Stern and Vasiliev completely disclosed the circumstances and motives behind the at- tempt to assassinate the German Ambassador to the Soviet Union. Behind all the lies of Stern, his role was fully established as a weapon in the hands of a counter-revolutionary, ter- rorist group. This group was directed by certain foreign circles which aimed by this attack on repre= sentatives of countries maintaining diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union, particularly Germany, to cause political complications between the U. S. S, R. and western powers, attempted to pose as a “hero,” stating that he acted on his own initiative and attempted to shield Vasiliev and his foreign connections. After cross examination of Stern and Vasiliev and a number of witnesses it was fully established that Stern had op- erated on a prearranged plan ac- cording to directives of Vasiliev, who in turn received instructions from third persons. Likewise the social and moral char- acter of Stern was disclosed, as a declassed element and a@ loafer de- spising work and workers and con- sidering the workers as “rabble.” It was brought out that he is an idler expelled from almost all edu- cational institutions where he studied and from factories where he worked for short periods. From early years he was discovered cheating parents, teachers and friends. He had the at- titude of a soulless egoist toward his thus hoping to provoke war against the U. S. 8. R. At the beginning of the trial Stern «— family. He was a counter-revolu- tionary adventurer, joining success- ively Petliura and other bandits in the civil war. He idealises the im~- perialist powers, partciularly the “organized nation” Japan and also “proud” Poland, worships Deniken as ® representative of the “cultured Russian intelligentsia.” Briefly, he is a typical fragment of the rotten corpse of the defeated counter revo~ lution. In capitalist countries such types would belong to the “golden youth,” speculators or other get-rich-quick “heroes,” providing cabarets and night clubs with support, but in the Soviet Union where he faced the necessity of contributing his share to production he became a vile prova- cateur of imperialist war against the proletarian dictatorship. (ADDITIONAL NEWS ON PAGE 3) |of Japanese imperialism by the U.S./ 4 More Workers Face Trial Today for Anti-War Protest Washington Court Jailed 19 Last Week, Fol- lowing Vicious Police Attack on Peace- ful Demonstration WASHINGTON, D.C., April 5.—The trial of the remain- ing four workers arrested in the demonstration before the Japanese Embassy, and who were indicted on assault, opens Wednesday, April 6, National Anti-War Day. Nineteen other workers who were tried last week were sentenced on other charges and areé- now serving in jail from thirty to , administration in a scandalous posi- sixty days. | tion. Among the four who were charged; The defendants will summon to with assault and were picked for Court witnesses of ex-servicemen, Ne- special persecution are Joan Hardy,’ ero and white, who participated in @ member of the Young Communist the demonstration and who are now League, who was knocked unconsci- | Serving in jail because of their fight ous, and whose prostrate form ‘has , 2gainst the Hoover-Debuchi plot. been photosraph7d and displayed in| ;}———— all the bourgeois newspapers. foster Tes Hoover In M‘d-West (ir: wv Vote; Beats Coolidge DANVILLE, Wl.—The straw | vote conducted by the Commer- press | Government. The bourgeois " | | cial News in Vermillion county to admits that the attack on the peace-| | 5.0 who was favored for president ful demonstration was prepared in| | teu ad " ‘ hd e coming elections revealed advance by the police through ‘théir | | the ¢ontowine y Seine ze A agevan agreement with the Japanese Am~| | rigeant fact that William Z. Fos- bassador Debuchi, The fact that a} ter, Communist Party leader re- detachment of police was hidden in celved as many votes as Herbert the basement of the embassy for the The purpose of this persecution of this small group on the charge of assault, is ito cover up the bloody attacks of the police and the support purpose of attacking the demon- agian 51 stration from all sides and attacked Hoover—51 the demonstration brutally, is fur-|| jp oosveit—-co ther proof of this agreement. | Dawes—94 In the first trial of the nineteen) | Garner—44 rested workers, the police were} Coolidge—2s forced to admit that this attack on Murray—22 the demonstration. puts the Hoover

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