The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 11, 1932, Page 3

a ’ 4 Ghai : Deepens ~ With Many for Japan Bank Failures Tokyo Dispatch Admits Situation Desperate With Government in Financial Straits and Unable to Keep Pledges A Tekyo dispatch to.the New York Times reports that oank failures are greatly increasing in Japan, with a large re- duetion in deposits and loans of leading banking institutions and a gener! depreciation of securities. This means an enor- mous deepening of the crisis in Japn, The dispatch adds: JOBLESS SCORE ATTACK AGAINST ~ NEGRO WORKERS 8 R. R. Firmen Killed By Masked Mob in South NEW YORK.—‘White and Negro workers must organize together in defense corps to protect the Negro firemen of the Mississippi alley Rail- xoal, upon whom murderous attacks are being made,” said Herbert Ben- jamin, National Secretary of the Committee of Unemployed Councils, in a statement issued here last week. Sharply denouncing the campaign of terror against the Negro railway workers of the South, Benjamin pointed out that “these attacks are the result of deliberate instigation by white bosses and landlords, of while workers who are among the 12,000,000 suffering jobless and star- vation in the United States. Such attacks upon Negro workers can only result in the worsening of the con- ditions of all the workers. “We appeal to the workers in the South not to be misled by this ob- vious trick of the bosses. We call upon Negro and white to join to- gether in common struggle against common oppressors. Instead of trying to take the bread out of the mouths of sorely oppressed Negroes who still have some kind of job, we urge all workers, Negro and white, to turn their atetntion to the fight for unemployment in- surance and imemdiate relief. It is an old and well-known trick of the boss class to try to divert the anger of the workers at their mis- ery by pitting one race against an- other. UNEMPLOYED COUNCILS FIGHTS JIM-CROWISM “Lhe Unemployed Councils will fight vigorously against the dis- crimination practiced against Ne- «gro workers, We urge the white - and Negro workers to organize de- fense corps and to meet the cow- ardly murderers who are shooting down Negro railwaymen.” Five railroad firemen of the Mis- sissippi Valley road have already been killed by masked attackers. Wilbur Anderson, of Baton Rouge, La., is the latest victim. The National Committee of Unem- ployed Councils was the organizer and leader of the National Hunger March on Washington, D. C., on Dec. 7, last year. Sweeping aside all Jim- Crow lines, 1,650 delegates, over one- » fourth of whom were Negroes, went to the capital to demand unemploy- ment insurance and immediate re- lief, without discrimination as to race, color, sex and creed. Local Unemployed Councils in vari- ous sections of the country have fought vigorously against Jim-Crow practices at relief stations and job > “An illustration of the current trend is shown in the report of the clearing house of thirty-five cities in Japan for February. The de- posits held at the end of that month totalled 5,468,749,000 yen the yen is now worth ahout 33 cents). Loans outstanding at the end of February totalled 5,229,947,- 000 yen for these clearing house banks, a decline of 400,003,000 yen from 4 month previously. “Depreciation of securities ranges from 5 per cent in the case of the Mitsui Bank to 3.47 pet cent for the Mitsubishi Bank, which obliged them to draw on their reserves to the extent of 12,500,000 and 10,000,- 000 yen, respectively. Other banks had to make similar transfers in proportion.” The dispatch reports that the Jap- | anese government is unable to fulfill its promise of aid to private com- panies and municipalities in meeting their payments on interest and sink- ing funds on foreign loans. This promise was made at the time of the collapse of the gold standard in Japan, following its collapse in Great Britain and in almost all of the cap- italist countries, The enterprises and municipalities are now demand- ing that the government come to their aid. The dispatch says: “In view of‘ the government's own finan- cial straits, there is little hope of their getting relief.” The robber war against China rep- resents a desperate attempt by the Japanese capitalists to find a capi- talist “solution” of the crisis through war. But the war and the powerful Chinese boycott against Japanese goods have simply served to further sharpen the crisis. In the meantime, the crisij deepening throughout the capitalist world and the other capitalist pow- ers are rapidly moving toward war as the “solution.” They are pushing their plans for armed intervention against the Soviet Union, where So- cialist construction is leaping ahead at the very time that industry is be- coming more and more paralyzed in the capitalist countries. The capi- talist press is now forced to admit the success of the Soviet Five-Year Plan. Friday's New York World- Telegram carried a story from its Moscow reporter, in which it was stated: “The abolition of unemployment: has removed the fear of being job- less; the fears of illness, old age and disability have been dissi- pated; millions now read and write who were totally illiterate before the Five-Year Plan was begun.” 40,000 Lose Their Farms in Closures By Banks in Miss. Poor Farmers, Negro, White, Hardest Hit JACKSON, Miss., April 5.—Almost agencies. CONGO MASSES CONTINUE FIGHT "ON IMPERIALISTS (Inprecorr Press Service) BRUSSELS, April 10—The Belgian and French imperialists in the Af- rican Congo have succeded in drown- ing in blood the latest uprising of the frightfully exploited Negro mass~ es. That they have not been able to suppress the movement for eman- eipation ean be seen from the fact that the crushing of armed resist- ance has been followed by a tremen- dous increase ef the activities of the native “secret societies.” In the Congola district the military and police authorities have made mass arrests of the mem! of a secret native society whose sign is a red band. Two of the leaders of the society have been deported. 40,000 farmers i nthis state lost their Jand and homes yesterday when 25 per cent of the privately owned land went under the hammer for payment of debts. Foreclosures, were made on 39,699 farms, or 16.2 per cent of the agri- cultural acreage of the state. Mississippi is one of |the chief cotton-growing states, and one in which the Negroes are i na majority. The sale of farms for debt is part of @ process, which is rapidly gaining momentum, of expropriation of the small farmers from their land. The larger landowners are i this way jereasing their holdings by starving out the smaller farmers, many of the large owners in this section hav- ing added thousands of acres to their holdings in this manner, Because of the low price of cotton, the new owners do not as a rule con- tinue its cultivation, and this with it the mass eviction of |the tenants and croppers, who are turngd out to starve. Out Into the Streets May Ist! The Internationa Day of Struggle Against Hunger and War! Starvation in Montana Copper Region Great Falls, Mont. T am one of the slaves that wear the copper collar that is provided by the great philanthropist, Dee Ryan & Co. In the last few years we have had one wage-cut after another, so that we are now nearing the limit of our Patience. From an average wage of $5.50 three years ago we “Liberty” party and that Coin Har- vey is our coming savior. Also they say that it is no use to try and bet- ter our conditions, as the workers will not stick together anyway. The average workers are afraid to say anything here for fear that they will lose their job, despite the fact tt they are actually getting hun- ea: 2 3 i i in the face. 8 z i fs 58 the slop sa ke ge H ga g at | 3g is is| provided Salvation Army, who | rade Kirkman was taking + of providing “relief | te Trainmen’s Room at .”” More subscrip- | Station. He had e way shortly for | his Daily Worker bundle and this Cleaners and Dyers Local Affiliates With Red Unions PITTSBURGH, Pa.—The Cleaners} and Dyers Independent Local of Pittsburgh, with 85 members, voted unanimously here recently to af- filiate with the frade Union Unity League. These workers are at present working under the most inhuman Conditions, with yery low wages. Many of these workers were making as high as $70 a week three years ago Now they are making only $15-$20- $25 a week. The young girls are re- ceiving only $6-$10 a week. All these workers are faiced to work 12 ic 16 | hours a day | ‘This keen! applied for 2 cHarter ta | the American Federation of Labor three months ago, and although, with their applicacion, they sent a check | of $15 for the charter, up to now they | received no answer. These workers are ready for struggle against their | Present conditions, Exporters Admit Trade With USSR, NEW YORK.—“The time for hy- sterical thinking and acting about Soviet Russia is past,” said Vice- President Thomas A. Morgan of the Curtis-Wright Expert Corp. and president of the Sperry Gyroscope Co, in an interview Friday with hewspaper men, In pointing out that normal trade relations with the Soviet Union would give jobs to American workers, Mr. Morgan said: “When millions of American workers are compelled to live by charity alone,” he said, “and up- ward of 100,000 jobs could be cre- ated producing commodities for ex- port to Russia, prejudice should be put aside, “I have known Russia for nine- teen years and I say we have noth- ing to lose and everything to gain by the establishment of normal re- lations with that country. “No company with which I have been associated would have ac- cepted one dollar of Russian busi- ness if it had been in any way harmful to the interests of our country, “I doubt if there is any other country in the world about which we, as a people, have acquired so much misinformation and so many misleading ideas.” * CINCINNATI.—Urging normal trade relations with the Soviet Union, Robert S. Alter, vice-president of the American Tool Works, in an inter- view with éhe press, said the Ameri- can “attitude on forced labor is ridic- ulous.” Plan Big May Day Meet in | St. Louis | 1,500 Demonstrated | April 6th ST. LOUIS, Mo., April 10.—Follow- ing the big anti-war demonstration on April 6, in which over 1,500 work~- ers participated, plans are being rushed forward for an even bigger demonstration on May Day. The April 6 demonstration was one of the best ever held in St. Louis, Thirtyfive per cent of the demon- strators were Negro workers, A large number of young workers and ex-servicemen were present. Candi- dates of the workingclass on the Communist ticket for the coming elections were given a huge ovation by the workers. Resolutions were unanimously adopted denouncing the robber war on China, demanding the withdrawal of American and other imperialist forces from China and demanding the release of the nine Scottsboro boys, Tom Mooney and other class war prisoners, A, F. of L. Carpenters Endorse Struggle for Jobless Insurance CLEVELAND, Ohio. — Carpenters Local 105 of the A, F. of L, the big- gest in Cleveland, has gone on rec- ord for unemployment insurance. This is the second carpenters local to take such action, the first having been local 1180. ‘Two painters’ locals, numbers 867 and 128, have passed resolutions for Means Jobs Here: ARMY OFFICERS HELP LABOR SPY AGENCY BOOM BETTER GAS ATTACKS ON WORKERS The igtter from the stool-pigeon | agency is as follows: “¥ou are cordially invited to attend the most practical and complete demonstration of the various uses of tear gas for inside and outside de- fensive purposes ever put on in this part of the United States. If you will let us know whether or not you are interested in being present we will advise you tim and place, “Our long experience with labor difficulties, strikes and other protec- tive situations requiring more than ordinary defensive measures has re- sulted in our purchasing a quantity of chemical warfare gas weapons and munitions. “After an intensive search of the material of this nature that is avail- able, we selected the products of the Lake Erie Chemical Company of Cleveland, Ohio, as best suited te our needs, partly because they offer not only tear gas but more powerful gases which still do not produce per- manent injury and partly because they have the only gas weapons ever approved by the Underwriters‘ La- bortories. In fact, we are so im~- pressed with the high character of both the products and the company that we have decided to act as the representatives of the Lak Eri Chem- ieal Company in this territory. “We are convinced that practically all of the difficulties in handling in- dividual or mob violence can be taken care of with Lake Erie gas weapons and munitions without resort te bul- lets or other defensive means that may cause serious casualties. We are also convinced, along with important executives of large industrial plants, STARVING MEN STOLE TO FEED THEIR FAMILIES “Shocked” Judge Jails Them for Failure to Post Bond ——- PHILADELPHIA, Pa.—Two jobless men, George W, Schaffer, 24, and William Empting, 28, admitted before Magistrate Lindell that they turned robbers to feed their starving fami- lies, Although the magistrate was “shocked” and tears came from his eyes, he sentenced the men to iail in default of $1,200 each. Tens of thousands of workers are actually starving to death in Phila- delphia. The mayor continues to yell that there is no starvation in the city, A cabinet member of Mayor Moore said that 60 per cent of the unem- ployed in Pailadelphia are lazy and wouldn't work if jobs were brought to them on a silver platter, Following these beastly statements the Lloyd Committee, the cfficial re- Uef agency of the city, announced that there would be no relief for the unemployed after the middle of April, These statements from the rulers of the city followed by the cutting off of relief in the middle of Apri) show clearly that the rich city bosses are determined that the workers of Phil- adelphia, should starve, The workers answer to these statements and the cutting of relief must be expressed by greater activity in the fight against evictions, the building of more unemployed block committees and drawing in of larger sections of the working class to the struggles for unemployment insurance, Over One-Fourth of unemployment insurance, and the Painters’ District Council is also on record for it, These locals are plan- ning to call a city-wide conference for unemployment insurance in the near future to which all other A. F. of L. locals are inyited to send dele- gates. ¢ Daily Worker Agent Arrested in Kansas KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Charles Kirkman, an energetic and devoted ore misery and want is|D8lly Worker agent in Kansas City, was arrested last night at the Union T have sen men est~ | Station, and taken to the 19th st, fumps and cans | Police Station. ‘The arrest took place while Com- @ bath in the Union as with always, him, . the labor fakers and | City of Niles, Ohio, Is on the Soup Line NILES, Ohio. — Over one-fourth of this town are “on the soup line"—~ that 1s, 4,077 adults and 300 school children eet in the city “relief sta~ tions”. The town has a population of less than 16,000. How the meals are can be judged from the fact that each meal per Person costs only 1'% cents, including food, labor, equipment, gas, etc. City workers have been compelled to give 10 percent of their wages to buy coal for the unemployed. So far this has amounted to over $5,000. On May Ist the Rus- sian workers will cele- brate the triumph of Socialism. Demonstrate against the bosses who are ig war on we ts that there is considevable likelihood et continued and possible increased difficulty in the handling of labor situations and adjustments attendant upon the upset conditions of industry. in general “We are especially impressed with the knowledge and experience of the officers of the Lake Erie Chemical Company, several of whom are Re- serve Chemical Officers of the U. S. Army. The president of that com- pany was chief of Chemical Warfare Service; Second American Army, A. E. F. and directed all of their gas and smoke operations in the World War. Major General Amos A. Fries, Chief of Chemical Warfare Service A. E. F. said of him: “One of the best living experts in chemical war- fare. He did more than any other man to get the army in the field to understand gas, its dangers, and what was still more important to victory, its proper use.” “It is, therefore, a pleasure that we are able to offr to you not only the expert advise of the officers of the Lake Erie Chemical Company, but are in a position, as distributors of their products in this territory, to Properly equip you with these effi- cient and humane weapons and mu- nitions with which to protect your persons and property. “A request for a personal call or more information places you under no obligation. O'NEIL INDUSTRIAL SERVICE CO. Book Bldg, Detroit. Professional Murder Gang One of the most recent exploits of the O'Neil stool pigeon agency was its strikebreaking and gunthug ac- tivities against workers who were on strike against the State Creamery company. A State Creamery Co. wagon, op- erated by strikebreakers, was pick- eted by union me nat the corner of Lyman and Orleans streets. It ap- pears that the union men did not} molest the wagon beyond calling upon the strikebreakers to give-up their jobs and join with the srikrs. As he strike pickets walked along beside the wagon, an automobile drove up. The machine was later found through its number (¥-2383) to be the property of a detective in the employ of the O'Neil Secret Serv- ice Co. Immediately upon the ap- pearance of the automobile, the strikers were threatened by the men in th wagon—it proved to be filled with men—and ordered away. After this a whistle blew three times and a volley of shots was fired from the milk cart. Two union men fell wounded. The horses of the milk cart ran away, overturning the cart and throwing the gunmen upon the street, None of them were hurt, No policemen witnessed the fracas, The union men, unarmed, retired to safety, The mysterious automohile disappeared, In the injunction proceedings against the strikers, no evidence was preduced to show th estrikers guilty of any violence during the course of the strike. No members of the O'Neil Secret Service Co. were arrestd. It was definitely proven that the com- pany had ben rtaind by the em- ployers, Workers Will Meet Challenge, CONSULATE In | Coast Workers Mighty April 6th Demonstration BLOOMFIELD, N. J., April 10.~ The first anti-war demonstration ever held in this! small industrial town brought out fifty workers, half of whom were young workers. Most |of the workers present work in the Westinghouse, General and the He - lipse Aviation Corp | few cava: taten 488 demonstra- | |tion, young workers painted and |chalked anti-war slogans all over the |town, with special attention to fac- |tories. Thousands of leaflets were | distributed. Police attempting to pre- | jvent the demonstration, arrested several young workers on the charge of distributing leaflets. | MILWAUKEE, Wise. —Five thou- sand five hundred workers demon- strated in front of the City Hall against the bosses war and hunger offensive. The meeting was address- ed by Clinton Stitt, Negro National | Hunger Marcher, Fred Bassett, Ed Nehmer, E. Gardos and Seket The efforts of Dan Hoan, “social- | ist” mayor of Milwaukee, to intimi-| date the workers with an army of| police failed completely. The mili-| tancy of the workers was so great | that Hoan and his police thugs did |not dare to attack the demonstra- | tion. 2 3 | | COVERDALE, Pa.—Hundreds of | Negro and white workers, native and | foreign born, demonstrated here 6n | April 6 against imperialist war and for the defense of the Chinese people | and the Soviet Union. Resolutions | were unanimously adopted demanding the withdrawal of all imperialist arm- | ed forces from China and the im-| mediate reelase of the Scottsboro boys. Speakers included John Bal- lam, Weeks, Nellie Harteis, J. Rob-| inson, A. Woods, Joe Vynovich. | BOSTON, Mass.—The following | resOlutions were unanimously adopted at the anti-war demonstration in | South Boston which was held on| April 4th. “We workers of South Boston, as- sembled in a mass meeting, Monda: April 4, protest against the imperial- | ist. war plans. We demand ‘Hands Off China! Hands Off the Soviet Union!’ “We call upon all workers to fight | against the capitalist war and hunger offensive by building the reyolution- ary organizations.” * ¢ LYNN, Mass.—Several hundred | workers attended the anti-war dem- onstration April 6 at the Cooperative Center. Resolutions against imper- ialist war and the Scottsboro lynch yerdicts were adopted unanimously in an atmosphere of the greatest mili- tancy and enthusiasm. | Every workers’ Club should | have a greeting in the May Day Daily Worker! | Order bundles for the May Day Daily Worker! e Winds Begin ‘You will find it warm and cozy Camp Nitgedaiget it well heated with steam heat, | | hot water and many other tm- 1000 INMARCH |Father ON JAPANESE Pension Grab provements. The food in clean and f and especially well SPECIAL RATES FOR WEREK. ENDS 4 Day oe RRO 3 Days > BBO 3 Days wee STE ao For further information cal! the— { seaiiietnaientees Cox in $125 a Month Page Three as Vets Starve NEW YORK.—Father James H. Cox, the Pittsburgh priest, who tried to break the mass struggles of the unemployed for immediate winter re- ief and unemployment insurance. receives a pension from the United | States government of $125 a month This amount has been paid regularly jto the “holy” faker since 1928 unde the retired nergency officer ac because Cox claims he suffered a more than 30 per cent (disability | when he knelt in the mud on Flanders Feld during the World War, a safe distance from the firing lines and prayed for Jehovah to help the Christian allies wipe out the Christian Germa and Austrians At that time Co was lieutenant in the chaplains’ corps Veterans Assail Faker Many jworkers, especially World War veterans who see the govern ment cheating them out of their bonus and who participated in Cox's fake hunger march to Washington |are sharply critical of this pension- grab exposure of the holy swindler Staged F; ist Attacks. Last January, when Cox was or- ganizing his Washington “hunger march,” to try to offset the great National Hunger March of the Un- | employed that entered | Washington December ‘th, he in- structed his henchmen to carry out fascist attacks against workers who dis ter handbills exposing him A year before that the reverend faker ad proved to his bosses his ability as (a strike-breaker by helping to br the Pittsburgh taxi drivers strike | The rulers of the slave pens of tisburgh, whose leader is the U. 5. Stee! Corporation, have found in Coz a servile lackey upon whom they ean depend for any piece of dirty strike- breaking and scabbery or inciting to fascist violence, hence they all ap- prove of their government at Wash- ington helping the holy faker live in luxury by paying him $125 a month in addition to his regular graft But not any fascist violence ean prevent the exposure of this pulpit, pounder to increasing masses’ of workers, who will reject such dema gogic leadership and line up behind the program of the Unemployed Councils in the fight against the Hoover hunger program. PROTEST VICTIMIZING CLAUSE OF IMPERIAL VALLEY PAROLE The International Labor Defense{ Stockton Cal’ Prank C. Sykes, 114 has placed a strong demand before the state board of terms and paroles demanding a change in the victim- izing parole conditions in the cases of Carl Sklar, Tsuji Horiuchi and Eduardo Terrera, three of the six Imperial Valley prisoners. In deciding to deport Sklar the board did so with the full knowledge that he was a Russian citizen and that in the absence of diplomatic | relations there is no possibility of de- portation. Sklar is being held in Fol- Som prison and according to the bos- ses law a “convict” paroled for de- portation can not be accepted by the immigration officials until ready to deport him. This means explained the I. L. D. that Sklar is virtually convicted to serve 18 months of his parole in Folsom. “We protest against your decision to deport 'T. Horiuchi who faces death in fascist Japan, Carl Sklar who faces longer imprisonment in Folsom be- | cause of lack of diplomatic relations between U. S. S. R. and the U. S. A. and Eduardo Herrera, scheduled for deportation to Columbia”, the I. L. D. wired in protest. “We request the change of parole conditions of these workers from the present status to immediate release in the United States.” The wire was sent to Charles Neu- miller, Bank of American Building, Kohl Bidg. San Francisco; Joseph Stephens, Merchants National Bank Bldg. Sacramento, Cal. The I. L. D. calls upon every work- er and sympathizer to aid in this campaign through the following methods: 1. Union and fraternal or- ganizations adopt resolutions upon Teceipt of them; 2. obtain copies of resolutions and mail to addresses | stated above. | ‘The balance of the Imperial Val- |ley prisoners have received reduced | sentences from 14 years to 5 years on parole through the mass pressure of the working class. Lawrence Emery, the last of the prisoners, will be freed in February 18, 1933. Use Relief Jobs to ‘ Lower lowa Wages CEDAR RAPIDS, Ia. — Because | non-union wages are being paid on union jobs which are secured thru the Citizen’s Unemployed Relief Com- mittee, employers are taking advan- tage of this and paying only 30c an hour for skilled union work. Thirty cents an hour was estab- | lished by the relief committee. The Cedar Rapids Federation of Labor has taken no action against this. * | RALLY THE WORKERS TO FIGHT BOSSES’ WAR AND TO DEFEND U.5.5.Re AND THE CHINESE MASSES WITH GREETINGS IN THE MAY Dail DAY orker Porte USA ALL THOSE CONTRIB- UTING SINCE JAN. 17 WILL BE Detroit workers, who have faced | the murderous fire of machine guns | and withering tear gas attacks andj} who have ripped the hypocritical mask off the face of the demagogic mayor, Murphy, for his part in Ford's Dearborn massacre, will answer the Plots of the O'Neal Secret Service with more militant struggles. The bosses of Detroit will learn that such attacks, far from defeating the work~ ing class fight against, hunger and wage cuts, makes the workers more determined than ever to organize their forces to build up the the Auto Workers Union, to create a united fighting front in the industries and to mobilize the masses of unemployed and part-time workers to defeat the capitalist offensive, WANTED COOPERATIVE OFFICE 2800 Bronx Park East ‘Tel.Hsterbrook 38-1499 Buttons Are Ready “Send Money With Order $2.00 Per Hundred COMMUNIST PARTY, VU. 8. A. P. O. BOX 81, STATION D. NEW YORK, WN. ¥. VOLUNTEER SOLICITORS FOR THE MAY DAY DAILY WORKER 100,000 COPIES WILL BE SOLD! 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