The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 8, 1932, Page 1

WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! | Dail Central Org woe 4 unict >} (Section of the Communist International} orker Party U.S.A. Entered as aecom at New York, N. Y¥., under Vo. IX, No. 85 = ae matter at the Pon the act of Ma _NEW YORK, FRIDAY, APRIL L Intensify the Struggle Against Impe- rialist War! Protest the Slaughter of the Chinese People! Expose the Shameless Provocations Against the Soviet Union by Japanese Imperialism Supported by Amer: ican Imperialism! CITY EDITION | —e Price 3 Cents i ue ORKERS THRUOUT U.S. PROTEST JAPAN’S ROBBER WAR Washington Police, Mr. Debuchi and Mr. Stimson T= Washington police had announced that on April 6th they would | bring to trial the remaining members of the group of demonstrators before the Japanese embassy on March 26th on charges of assault. ‘The case was postponed until yesterday on the excuse that the of- ficial celebrations of America’s entry into the world war interfered. Yes- terday they postponed the case from hour to hour and then transferred it from the Police Court to the Traffic Court. As we go to press news arrives that the case of Joan Hardy and two others are postponed to April 27, while that of Sussman, the foreign-born worker, is artifially separated, and gone to trial. But one thing is certain, namely, that the Washington administration is considerably embarrassed by the issues sharp- ly raised by the demonstration against the imperialist robber war of Japan in China. ‘The demonstrative brutality with which the Washington administra- tion suppressed the peaceful demonstration before the Japanese embassy on March 26th is a fact that the government cannot any more conceal. In the whole bourgeois press were published photographs showing a gtoup of cops, bending with clubs over the body of a girl demonstrator, and another bunch of cops holding their grip of another girl. The bourgeois correspondents who were almost beaten up themselves told more about the brutal zeal of the police, much more than was permitted them to write in their newspapers. But even these facts and descrip- tions were so damning that the Chief of Police rebuked them for “ex- aggerating” the facts. ‘The cameras, however, could hardly be accused of secret sympathy with the bolsheviks. The shameful attack of the police is proved by documents which appeared in all the capitalist papers. The attempt of the administration to conceal the fact that someone “higher wp” was especially interested in giving the demonstration a blood bath, regardless of its peaceful character, was also a complete failure. According to information of the Washington Times, the private sec- retary of Supreme Court Justice Stone, Mr. Dellhorn, a person who cer- tainly can no more be suspected of sympathy with the “Reds” than can the cameras, is ready to testify that one of the policemen expressed regret that they did not succeed in laying low more bloody victims be- fore the Japanese ambassador. The facts show clearly that the general strategy of the police was directed toward demonstratively beating up the participants in the de- monstration against Japanese imperialism, even to cut off their retreat before the police clubs and leave them no defense whatever except that of their bare hands. For this purpose, the demonstration was not only attacked in the front and from both wings, by heavily armed police, but @ special detachment of armed policemen was hidden in the basement of Ambassador Debuchi, and thrown into the battle |at the decisive moment. i The State Department has not succeeded in its frantic efforts to conceal the fact that the..mysterious “higher up”..who organized this blood bath for American boys and girls demonstrating under the slogan of “Down with the Imperialist Japanese Robber War Against the Chinese People” had acted not only in the interests of protecting Japanese im- perialism from any protest, but according to the plans worked out be- fore hand with Ambassador Debuchi and his staff. The bloody brutality of the ruling class in. America, headed by the Hoover administration, is nothing new. During the last month they killed Simms in Kentucky and York, Lens, DeBlasio and Bussell in Detroit. What was new in the brutal attack on the Washington demonstration was the open expression of regret by the police at the small number of victims, regret which perhaps referred also to the absence of any dead. For this the police are not responsible, because it is only a fortunate ac- cident that at least one of the demonstrators, Joan Hardy, member of the Young Communist League, was not killed by the police clubs. But even without a death list, the victims of the police clubs dis- played before the eyes of Ambassador Debuchi, according to the previ- ous agreement, merited the profuse appreciation which that gentleman expressed. The servants of the “higher up” who directed this affair, are now feverishly working behind the scenes of the trial in Washington to save the face of this mysterious unknown who plotted with Debuchi against the demonstration, which truly expressed the general sentiment of the American population, workers, farmers, middle class intellectuals, who are filled with anger against the bloody imperialist Japanese war against . The postponement of the trail from one day to the next, the feverish this high purpose the administration is considering the sacrifice, of the good reputation of a dozen or so cops, and there are'even whispers that the Police Commissioner himself is in danger. But such a manoeuver will not succeed, There is no doubt that the police who ambushed themselves in the ‘Japanese basement, were not acting on their own initiative. The mouth which gave the orders may upon the demonstration in the first place, and the attempted suppres- en ie capi This system was described by the Scripps Howard press go as one of encouraging Japan for war against the Soviet Union, In this system the suppression of all expressions of public hatred against Japanese imperialist aggression, and especially the brutal and bloody suppression of the demonstrations in Chicago and Washington, assume a special significance. : By demonstrating against Japanese agents, the workers and intel- Jectuals are protesting not only against the bloody war being conducted upon the Chinese people, and against the most and open provo- cator of war against the Soviet Union. At the time they are ex- posing the encouragement of Japanese imperialism being given by the Hoover administration. Playing a double role in the game of world im- Politics, Hoover and Stimson must manoeuver to escape the gen- E » eral disapproval of the vast majority of the population of the U.S. The double game of Hoover and Stimson requires the -ambiguousness, the twilight zone character, the complete lack of clarity before the masses, im relation to Japan. State Secretary Stimson is preparing to sail for Europe to personally Play the American imperialist the poker game of imperialist BURDEN ON THE MASS:S Mills Says Bankers Ayre Too Poor to Pay Taxes Would Cut Income Tax| WASHINGTON.—Pleading with the most barefaced hypocrisy that the banks and corporations were “too poor” t opay taxes, that the billions that were and still are being piled up by the capitalist class are non- existent, Secretary of Treasury Mills advised Cogrenss to cut to the bone all taxes affecting Wall Street and to transfer the burden of a four bil- lion dollar government deficit to the shoulders of the working masses and the midle class. Consciously concealing the huge fortunes of the Morgans, Rockefellers, Mellons and their billionaire brothers, Mills declared: Raising the rates on the larger incomes does not solve our prob- lems. They are no longer there. There is no nourishment in the hole of a doughnut.” This lie was purposely put forward to hide from the masses the fortunes in gold which the Wall Street ex- ploiters have wrung from the sweat and blood of the starving masses, ‘The entire program of Wall Street was put forth in the address of Sec- retary Mills to the ‘Senate Finance Committee. This program consisted of two points: relieving the million aires and corporations from the burden of taxes and placing the full weight of the Treasury crisis on the backs of the working class and small owners. Mills recommended that the stock transfer tax be reduced; the exemp- tion provisions of the income tax bill be restored, enabling the parasites to evade taxation on their swollen for- tunes; that the normal corporation tax be reduce; the estate tax to be reduced from 45 per cent to 25 per cent; the gift tax to be reduced an even greater extent; the bond trans- fer tax to be stricken out; the 1% per cent penalty tax for consolidated corporation income tax filing to be stricken out, and that the net loss provision be restored. This provision permits the corporations to escape taxation by claiming business losses for more than one year. After outlining Wall Street’s pro- gram for freeing finance capital from any fear of taxation, Mills turned around and proposed that the huge government deficit be collected al- most etnirely from the working class and the petit-bourgeoisie. This proposition was made after an ocean of crocodile tears had been shed for the “poor millionaires.” Without blinking an eye, Mills said: “When industry and commerce go flat, capital ceases to work and Profits disappear, their income like- wise vanishes and so do our taxes. + « + The large profits and incomes have melted away.” ‘This monstrous lie is being exposed afresh at every hand by the regular dividend issues of all corporations. Mills made the following recom- mendations as the basis for a sweep- ing attack on the standard of living ‘of the masses and the petit-bour- geoisie: a one-sixt* encrease in the tobacco tax; increase in auto, trucks, and parts; a 10 per cent admission tax on all amusements over 10 cents; tax stamp on checks; Federal gasoline tax; 7 per cent tax on gas and ey: German Officer Who Joined Communists Tried for Treason BERLIN, April 7—The important trial of Ex-Lieutenant Scheringer bega todayn, before the German Su- preme Court. Scheringer, a former fascist, joined the Communist Party. He declares that he is being perse- cuted solely for his Communist opin- ions. He is charged with treason, There ‘are no witnesses against Scheringer, and the only evidence presented is private letters confis- cated by the police. Scheringer de- scribed how he visited Fascist leaders such as Hitler, Goebbels and Wagner, hoping to dispel his doubts concern- ing the fascist movement. Goebbels declared frankly that the socialist slogans were adopted by the fascists only as bait to catch the masses, etty-bourgeoisie and is helping the — ® 10,000 Workers Mass} at the Bronx Coliseum 81000 Out In Chicago Big Turn-outs In Many Other Cities NEW YORK.—Ten thous- and workers poured into the Bronx Coliseum Wednesday night, National Anti-War Day, in a spirited, militant demon- stration against imperialist war and/| the national oppression of the Ne- gro masses, and for the defense of the Chinese people, the Soviet Union| and the Scottsboro Negro boys and other class-war prisoners. The huge Coliseum and the sur- rounding vicinity was the scene of the liveliest enthusiasm as the work- ers streamed toward the Coliseum, many of them entering the building behind the banners of their organ- izations and with signs bearing slo- gans which concretized the opposi- tion of the working class to imperial- ist war, Negro oppression and boss terrorism, Thunderous cheers from the assembled workers greeted the entrance of the organizations. Espe- cially enthusiastic was the reception given the Negro and white war vet- erans marching in the ranks of the Workers Bx-Servicemen’s League, The meeting was called to order shortly after 8 o’clock by James W. Ford, working class Negro leader, who was elected to act as chairman by the United Front Anti-War May Day Conference, under whose aus- pices the Gemonstration was held. Thunderous cheers greeted a pro- posal to name William Z. Foster and James W. Ford as candidates for nomination for president and vice-president, fespectively, at the coming National Nomination Con- vention called by the Communist Party for Chicago. Speaker after speaker denounced the robber war on China and ex- posed the role of American imperial- ism in helping to partition China and prepare armed intervention against the Soviet Union. Clubbing Anti-War Demonstrators at Stimson-|Governm chi’s Debu Orders Washington police shown holding Joan Herdy after they had punched her unconscious and trampled her as she lay on sidewalk. activities, furnishes another c Faced with working class ADDITIONAL NEWS ON PAGE 2 cialist construction, with the Telegraph Company Bars Telegram Protesting the Scottsboro Lynch Verdicts Cites Alabama Attorney General Ruling That Delivery of Protests Is “Contempt” of Lynchers’ Court NEW YORK.—A telegram from the Trade Union Unity League Council protesting against the recent decision of the Alabama Supreme Court upholding the Scottsboro lynch ver- dicts, was rejected yesterday by the Western Union Telegraph Company. The telegram was addressed to the Supreme Court Sn eta ae REET of Alabama. In refusing to accept the tele- gram for delivery, the Western Un- ion cited the recent ruling of At- torney General Knight of Alabama that delivery of Scottsboro protest telegrams would constitute ‘“con- tempt of court.” Knight threaten- aimed at saving capitalism. Hitler avoided all plain questions, answering them with general phrases. Scheringer then joined the Com- munist Party and the persecution began. The Scheringer case is exer- cising the greatest influence on the process of fascist camp. Eighty thousand demonstrated in the Lustgarten today. There were dozens of parades, with the workers singing ad renciting slogans, Scores of bands and hundreds of banners were in evidence. The crowds sang the International and cheered the speakers, who talked from sixteen ition in the ed the telegram companies with pro- secution. He lyingly claimed that the Scottsboro protests were “ob- scene” and “threatening.” The tele. gram rejected by the Western Union is typical of the protests that have poured in on the governor of Ala- bama and the Alabama lynch courts since the beginning of the Scotts- boro case. The Daily Worker here- with prints a copy of this telegram: “In the name of twenty thou- sand organized workers, we pro- test against the outrageous show of race hatred displayed against the Scottsboro boys. We pledge our support with the International Labor Defense in fighting this verdict. “(Signed) Trade Union Unity Council of Greater New York.” The action of the Alabama Attor- ney General and the refusal of the Western Union to transmit the tele- gram will not stop the tremendous mass fight to free the Scottsboro boys. This fight is spreading all over | the world, with new hundreds of | thousands of workers being drawn into. the struggle against the Scotts- boro lynch verdicts, against the frightful national oppression of the Negro nationality. The fight will go on, and will continue to grow, Tools of Rareign Tried to Draw USSR in War platforms, Bit ae until the lynch bosses are forced to suce Soviet Union Meets Provocations With Firm | Policy of Peace By MYRA PAGE.— MOSCOW, April 7.--The trial of Judas Stern and Sergei Vassiliev by the Soviet Supreme Court, just concluded, fully | exposed the political conspiracy lying behind the recent at-| tack by Stern on a member of the This case, one link in the chain of anti- yerman Soviet terroristic lear example of the lengths to which the last remnants of the enemy of working class power within the Soviet Union are resorting. toiling m $ thuiasm and the rising stand- ard of living, with the achieve- ments of the first Five Year Plan and the tremendous pros pects opened up by the second Five-Year Plan, these remain- ing elements of former prop- erty owning classes such as Vassiliev and Stern, acting un- der the direction of imperialist enemies are desperately staking their (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) League Commission Organizing War On the Chinese Soviets A Hankow dispatch admits that the League of Nations Commis- sion which is now visiting Hankow is spending most of its time in- munist influence and the Chinese Soviet districts in Central China. The dispatch reports the commis- sion displaying keen interest in the departure of airplanes to bomb the Chinese Red Army and the Chi- nese Soviet districts of the revolu- tionary workers and peasants. The victorious advance of the Chinese Red Army in Hupeh Prov- ince has forced the League com- mission to drop its hypocritical pretense of “investigating” Japa- nese military activities in Shang~ hai and Manchuria, The League commission is now at Hankow pre~ paring a further extension of the present armed intervention against the national revolutionary struggle. PLACE TAX | Trial Shows U. S. Gov't Agreed with Japanese Ambassador to Club Workers in Anti-War - Demonstration in Washington Plotters | transferred from the jury to the traf+ f ent Officials! Fear Anger of Masses Postpone the Trials Try to Reduce Case to} Local Issue WASHINGTON, D. C., April 7.—The trial of the four re- maining workers held in con- nection with the anti-war dem- onstration before the Japanese embassy on March 26 was again post- poned this morning. Called for 10 o'clock, it was postponed to 11:30 and again to 1:30 and was then fic court. The case has not/yet been called, and it is suspected it will be postponed again. The reason for these postpone- ments is plain. The American people are opposed to the robber war on China. They are opposed to the ef- forts of the criminal war inciters and munition makers to plunge the world | into a new and bloodier slaughter. They are opposed to police brutality, and to the breaking up of peaceful demonstrations of workers and intel- lectuals against imperialist war. The government is trying to reduce the case to a local issue. It is trying to shift the responsibility for the mur- derous attack on the anti-war, dem- onstrations to the local police. The | United States government is respon- |, sible for the attack, The attack was | deliberately planned in advance, Po- lice were hidden in the basement of the Japanese embassy. This could only with the permission of the Jap- anese ambassador and the State De- partment. The order to suppress the demon- stration, according to press reports, came from the State Department and at the request of the Japanese am- bassador. Conferences of government offi- cials are going on behind the scenes, as @ result of the wide-spread pro- tests against the bestial brutality of the police. Many bourgeois newspa- per photographers have stated that they came very near being clubbed by the police, (ADDITIONAL NEWS ON PAGE 3) Ecuadorean Navy And Garrison in Hands of Rebels Navy, Consisting of 2 Gunboats, Steams Away | The two gunboats making up the Ecuadorean navy have been taken over by mutineers as the garrison at | Fort Punto Piedro revolted and took control. Capitalist press stories state that | the revolt is due to the return of a former president who had been in exile in the United States. It is im- possible to tell as yet whether this revolt is a maneuver of British im- perialism in its struggle against American-owned presidents in the Latin-American republics or whether the rebelling forces are sympathetic with the workers’ revolutionary move- ment. The Ecuadorean government has been claiming that Communists are attempting to start # revolution. ALL OUT IN OHI0-W. VA. COAL STRIKE Fakers Pretend to Be Militant to Stop the N.M.U. Armed Force on Guard National Miners Union Holds Meetings WHEELING, W. » April 1— ‘The strike in the coal fields is nearly 100 per cent effective im Ohio. Many mines in West Vir- ginia are still held in the vice of the police and West Virginia state thooper. The bridge at Bridgeport, Ohio is guarded and all cars and per- sons are being stopped. The sirate- gic Costanzo mines were ready te strike this morning, but the min- ers were terrorized by armed forces, Two organizers of the National Miners Union were ar- rested and all pickets stopped at the bridge. The plane of the Ohio state militia to stop the picketing at Sommers, Ohio, at the Goodyear mine which is the highest paid in the state, failed to materialize in the face of the march of 4,006 miners, However, the mine was pulled. U M. W, fakers addressing the Sommers miners and 8,00 pickets, promise “a confernce with the mine owners.” The National Miners Union plan @ series of mass meetings through~- out the strike area, exposing the “uniform scale” demand of the of- ficials and urging theplatform of of the National Miners Union under rank and file leadership, In the face of the demand of the miners for a real militant struggle, and fearing the spread of the influence of the National Min~- ers Union among the rank and file, the U. M. W. leaders have made fake pretenses of adopting some of the militant tactics of the N. M. U. Officials are making shamatemp ts to unite Negro and white miners. Dummy “rank and filers’ have been asked to speak at some U M. W. A. meetings. How- ever, the strength of the National Miners Union is growing through- out the field. Every shop, mine and factory & fertile field for Daily Worker sube scriptions. Extend Mass Struggle with May Day Issue Send your greetings to | the May Day Daily Worker issue. Join hands in May Day solidarity in the pages of the May Day Daily |Worker. The coupon is at the bottom of page three. | Cut it out and mail it with your contribution to make | the May Day issue a big event in the workers’ revo- lutionary struggle. We must spead ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND copies of the eight-page Daily Worker May Day is- sue to the workers of Amer- tea. We can do it if you will do your share NOW. Send in your bundle or- War i |imminent! 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