The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 13, 1932, Page 1

- Be Sure to Read “Pages from the History of the Mooney WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! Wptered am second N.Y. "Vol. IX, No. 88 Inna matter at the Punt Office ander the act of March 3, 1879 No Illusions---Only the Mass’ Fight Can Save the Scottsboro Boys! HE toiling masses, black and white, who have rallied to the mass fight to save the Scottsboro boys now face the necessity of grimly combatting the lega ic il ns with which the reactionary Alabama demagogs and the white and Negro reformists are seeking to confuse and disrupt the mass fight. | Phe dissent of Chief Justice Anderson from the majority opinion of he Alabama Supreme Court upholding the lynch verdicts of the lower court at Scottsboro, the support of this dissent by a section of the Ala- bama ruling class and their publications, show that the mass movement organized by the International Labor Defense, the League of Struggle ‘for Negro Rights and the Communist Party was able, in spite of its weaknesses, to precipitate waverings and hesitations on the part of a section of the Alabama ruling class in the carrying out of its original aims in regard to the Scottsboro boys, It would be a dangerous mistake, however, to consider this dissent of Chief Justice Anderson and tne support of his position by a section of the Alabama ruling class as a disagreement in regard to policy. It would be incorrect to assume that lynching and legal lynching of Negroes has been rejected by these reactionaries as & method of suppression of the Negro masses, of that the ruling clffiass have undergone a change of fhind, that they have given up all intentions to make the Scottsboro boys the victims of their brutal terror against the Negro masses. in his dissent, Chief Justice Anderson was forced to admit that the boys had not had a “fair” trial. He however, took no issue with the majority opinion of the court that the “fairness’ of the trial was not affected by the barring of Negroes from the jury panel. The majority {opinion hoypocritically pretends that Negroes were not barred because of jtheir race. This, in spite of the fact that the Jackson County Sentinel, ‘published in Scottsboro, met the demands of the I. L. D. for a new trial with Negroes on the jury with a threat against the life of any Negro who should dare to acceptservice on the jury. This organ of the Scotts- boro lynchers brutally declared that ‘a Negro juror would be a curiosity in Jackson County. And some curiousities, you know, are embalmed.” ‘The differences exprfessed in the dissent to the majority decision are merely differences within the limits of this general policy, in other words tactical differences. The dissent expresses an attempt on the part of the more far-sighted slave drivers (in view of the mass defense movement) to botain the same results by a manouver—by raising the strictly legal \question of “fairness” of the trial, and in this way to leave an opening for further manouvering with the lives of these innocent working class lchildren. This already has been expressed in an editorial in the Bir- mingham Age-Herald suggesting commutation of the death sentences to life imprisonment in the dungeons of the South for these innocent boys. ‘This demagogic manouver is calculated to bolster up the waning pres- tige of the bourgeois courts by fostering illusions among the masses as to “careful consideration” “fairness,” and “impartiality” of these courts. It is an attempt to disarm the vigilance of the masses, The Negro reformists and the “socialists” are supporting this man- ouver. From the outset of the Scottsboro frame-up their attacks were directed not against the lynch courts attempting to legally murder the boys bu against the revolutionary Negro and white workers and their organizations defending the boys. Today, they attempt to justify the decision of the Alabama Supreme Court upholding the lynch verdicts on the basis of the defense of the boys by the revolutionary workers and their organizations. In other words, they traitorously declare that the main danger is the mass movement in defense of the boys and not the ‘Alabama lynch courts. They are conviently silent on the fact that the boys were sentenced in the first place with the help of the Ku Klux attorneys of the N. A. A. C. P., and that it was only the mass defense movement that prevented the legal mass murder of the boys on July 10, The Alabama Supreme Court has rejected an application for a re- hearing of the appeals. The next step is to carry the fight to the Uni- ted States Supreme Court. This is being done. In this connection the I. L. D. has secured the services of the nationally known attorney, Walter Pollack. But we must never for a moment forget that the United States Supreme Court is itself a weapon of the ruling class to maintain the suppression of the toiling masses, Negro and white. Nor can we ignore the possibility of the ruling class attempting to carry through the mass waurder of these working-class children on May 13. In the final analysis, the decision in the U. 8. Supreme Court depends om the strength of the mass movement and the relationship of class foreas, This requires the building of a powerful mass movement, outside of the bourgeois courts, to smash this hideous frame-up, April 6 marked a big advance in the mass defense movement. Scotts- boro was in the forefront of the scores of demonstrations throughout the Sountry in which tens of thousands of workers participated. We must continue to strengthen and extend this mass movement. - Agitation, or- ganization and mass defense actions must be increased tenfold. Scottsboro must be an integral part of the May Day demonstrations &s millions of toilers demonstrate throughout the world against the bosses USE ‘CRISIS’ CRY 10 CUT ~ OFF RELIEF Tammany Carries Out Wall Street Starva- tion Policy Even the Tammany pretense of relief is to be done away} with by the New York City Hall gang. The Tammany press itself admits that there are almost a million unemployed workers and their families who face actual starvation. Frank J, Taylor, commissioner of public works, has notified Mayor Walker that the Gib- son Committee’s relief fund of $18,- 000,000 will be exhausted by the last of May. Another $12,500,000, appro- priated by the city for unemploy- ment relief will be gone on the same date. The fact is that the workers will not have to wait for June 1 for the miserable dole handed out for city work to cease. The miserable handouts to a large extent have been stopped already, as cases reported in the Daily Worker have shown, Tammany is thus carrying out the policy of its Wall Street masters. Budget Already Cut In Half | A confidential letter that fell into the hands of the Unemployed Coun- ordered to cut down budgets on re- lief by 50 per cent. ‘The rankest discrimination is prac- | ticed in the administration of the| Tammany “relief”. The letter adds} that: “Nationalities accustomed to a| lower standard of living, such as Ne. | groes, Italians, Porto Ricans shall be cut more than the others.” This del- iberate mass starvation is being im- posed more drastically upon the most | oppressed sections of the population in an effort to divide the working class and defeat the growing move- ment toward a consolidation of the} fighting working class front against | the hunger program of capitalism. ‘Tammany has all along been using all of this so-called relief fund that did not go to pay the salaries of the hordes of officials, “investigators,” | and hangers-on in general, in the most discriminating fashion, in the hope of keeping the workers divided. | The fraud of Tammany relief is seen in the rising death rate from| starvation in New York City. The official magazine of the Welfare Council (“Better Times”) yesterday published a list of ninety-five cases | of starvation in hospitals, twenty of which resulted in death. Countless others who die of starvation are re- ported as having died from other causes, On top of thsi is the “Block Aid” fake that is used as a fascist attack against the whole working class and is an attempt to still further beat down the living standards of the workers Organize Mass Campaign The Unemployed Councils are call- ing on the workers, white and Negro, natvie and foreign born, to unite and defeat the whole attack against the * hunger and war offensive, for the defense of the Chinese People and the Soviet Union. Only the mass fight of millions of Negro and white workers can smash the Scottsboro lynch verdicts! Against legalistic illusions! Broun, “Dough”-Boys and the Bonus LLOWING the usual line of the socialist party to confuse the workers in their struggle against capitalism, Heywood Broun, writing in Tues- day’s “World Telegram,” bewailed the fact that the Workers’ Ex-Service- men’s League is preparing a demonstration to be held at Madison Square in New York City on April 15 to demand full and immediate cash pay- ment of the tombstone bonus. ‘The chief grievance of Mr. Broun, it appears, is that he fears a real mass movement of world war veterans would lead sooner or later to what he calls a “dictatorship of doughboys.” Indeed, Mr. Broun says he would be against such a dictatorship and would rebel against it. \ ‘Now the fears of Heywood Broun are well known to all Communists. He fears what all socialists fear, what the Rev. Norman Thomas fears— he fears to see the world war veterans joining with the struggles of the whole workingclass, not merely for full payment of the bonus, but for unemployment insurance, for the freedom of class war prisoners, against imperialist war, and against the whole capitalist system. ‘The dictatorship that Mr. Broun fears is the dictatorship of the pro- letariat. ’ And as far as the doughboys are concerned, every worker who knows anything about the Russian revolution and the dictatorship of the pro- letariat in the Soviet Union knows that such a dictatorship is a govern- ment of workers, poor farmers and, yes, doughboys. It was the Russian doughboys who joined with the workers and pea~ sants and kicked out the capitalists, the Czar and Mr. Kerensky, who like Broun, was also a socialist, And it will be the American doughboys, along with the workers and farmers, who will kick out the American capital- ists and Heywood Broun. The real truth of the matter is, however, that Broun is for dictator- unemployed workers and against the whole working class. An intensive campaign is on to mobilize the workers in all neighbrr- hoods. Thousantls of leaflets are be- ing distributed by all Councils and Block Committees for Thursday, April 14th. Indoor meetings will take place tomorrow in’ many workers’ headquarters, Friday morning there will be a wave of demonstrations at, all Home Relief Buros to force them to keep open. This campagin will be broadened to embrace tens of thousands in a great city hall dem- onstration Thursday, April 21st. (Section of the Communist International) NEW YORK, : Pp p) Rnumist Party U.S.A. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 13, 1932 War Vet Delegates in Congress; Urge Vets to Spur Mass Bonus Fight | Workers’ Ex-Servicemen’s League Members Demand Floor at Bonus Hearing |Congressman Patman and Leaders of Vet- erans of Foreign Wars Try to Muzzle Worker Vets BULLETIN. WASHINGTON, D. C.—J. W. Ford and 8S, J. Stember of the National | Committee of the Workers Ex-Servicemen’s League, who appeared yes- | terday before the Congressional Ways and Means Committee to present | a statement demanding full cash pyament of the tombstone bonus, were denied the floor in the first session. Congressman Patman and the Veterans of Foreign Wars’ delegation did their utmost to sidetrack the workers’ delegation, The Ways and Means Committee insisted on censoring the W. E. L. statement. Ford and Stember, however, refused to allow one word to be stricken out and demanded to be heard from the floor. The whole morning session was consumed with humdrum hokum. The hearing will be continued today. ° NEW YORK.—Calling on the veterans of the last war to rally behind the fight for immediate cash payment of the | tombstone bonus through mass demonstrations, resolutions, |parades and finally a mass delegate parade to Washington, J. W. Ford and S. J. Stember of the National Committee of fore the Ways and Means Committee of the House of Repre- the Workers Ex-Servicemen’s League appeared yesterday be-| sentatives, The delegates from the Workers Ex-Servicemen’s League, cil reveals that already the “home| both of whom served in the world war, brought with them a | relief bureau supervisors” have been | statement which pointed out that © the cash payment of the bonus is only part of the demands of the millions of unemployed workers. “The bonus to the soldiers,” the statement said, “is wages due and is considered by Congress as such. The payment of the bonus is not a substitute for relief. Unemploy- ment insurance for the workers as a whole including the war veter- ans is the urgent demand of all the workers today.” Declaring that the House of Rep- |resentatives bill number 1 and the statement of Mr. Patman, who pre- sented it, do not answer the needs of the war veterans, the statement of the Workers Ex-Servicemen’s League ‘said: “The democratic representatives and some of the republicans who may vote for the bonus is not con- sidered sufficient by us to pass the bill in this Congres or overriding the veto, “We_must develop mass pressure throughout the U. S. A. through mass demonstrations, resolutions and by a mass delegation parade to Washington. Any other action or mere dependence on Congress will not secure for the war veter- ans the passage of the immediate payment of the bonus.” It was brought out clearly in the} statement of the W. E. L. that the campaign of the, Veterans of Foreign Wars, which relies on a signature drive alone and is giving full sup~ port to Mr. Patman and the demo- cratic party in breaking down the militancy needed to force the con- gress to concede to the demands of the vets. The Workers Ex-Servicemen’s League in demanding full and im- mediate payment of the bonus, is- sued a challenge to the’ American Legion to permit a referendum by the rank and file, under rank and file control, on the bonus question. The League calls on all vetrans to form their own Workers Ex-Service- men’s. League and unitedly carry on monster demonstrations in every community, winning the support of the veterans and the workers in gen- eral. Through this united action the veterans wil carry on an insistant campaign to elect mass delegates to march to Congress. May Ist Delegation Send-Off at Central Opera Tomorrow The mass meeting of the New York workers to greet the May First Dele- gation and to pledge golidarity with the Soviet workers to fight the war plans will be held in the Central Opera House, Wednesday night at 8 p.m ; Alex Trainor, General Electric worker from Schenectady, will be one of the speakers at this meeting. De- spite the terror of the General Elec- tric, thousands of workers have shown their interest in the May Day delegation. Peter Onisick, Jr, a miner from the Anthracite, will also speak at the meeting. He is endorsed as a dele- gate by six locals of the United Mine Workers Union and by the District ship, but the dictatorship of the “dough’-boys down on Wall Street, the ‘Morgans, Mellons and oe i a mm ogy Go is id ip. | Mine Board, which has representag tives from 42 locals of the United A The miners in Western Pennsyl- vania, have also elected their dele- gate, a miner from the Pittsburgh Terminal Coal Co., where a bitter strike of 40,000 was waged last sum- mer. Delegates are on their way to New York from Seattle, San Francisco, Minneapolis, Chicago and © Tampa, | Fla. The Central Labor Union (Ameri- can Federation of Labor) of Newport, R. L, voted to send with their <ele- gates, Gancz, a machinist, “a mes- sage of encouragement and best wishes to the Russian workers.” This over the opposition of the patriotic bloodhounds in the Naval Torpedo Station. In addition to these delegates, there are the delegates from the New York Distrinh the amalgamated | ap Sayles Ulan DelegaiOD igs \on Tuesday, April 19, wiih Mooney |War Vets! All Out to Madison Square *on Friday! Veterans of the last World War: On Friday, April 15, the Workers’ Ex-Servicemen's League is calling a mass demonstration and parade in New York City as part of |a@ nation-wide drive to force the Wall Street bosses to pay at once and in cash the re- | mainder of the so-called | tombstone bonus. |. You, like all workers, de- |mand work and are willing to work, But the bosses want you to beg on the streets and on the “relief” lines. . Demand what the govern- ment owes you. Demand your back pay, the balance | |of the bonus. Come out in | | masses at Madison Square, Friday at 11 a. m. March with the veterans to Union Square. Organize and fight for full payment of the bonus and unemployment insurance for all workers, Strike of New Style _ | Workers Continues The boss of the New Style Laun- dry, at 16th Street and 3rd Avenue, seems determined to hold-out in or- der to smash the spirit of his Negro and white workers who are striking in solidarity with a fired Negro worker, This stubbornness of the bosses’ part does not, however, come from himself but it is an expression of the stand which the Bosses’ ssociation has taken against the Laundry Workers Industrial Union that is leading this strike, The racketeer Bosses’ Association, known as the Inter-Boro Laundry Board of Trade, realizes that if this strike is won, the Laundry Workers Industrial Union will be able to or- ganize the 50,000 Negro and white workers in Greater New York. ‘The workers grasp the importance of the strike, also. They are deter- mined to win against all odds and in spite of the bosses’ terror. Clothing wortyr, Mirable, a wire worker frem the Anaconda Wire Works, a longshoreman from the Morgan Dock, a marine worker and a seaman. The delegates will speak at the meeting, and in addition there will be a speech by Max Bedacht. The National Committee of the Friends of the Soviet Union calls upon the New York workers to jam this meeting and to demonstrate their solid support to the Soviet workers, through the American workers’ anti-war demonstration of \ U. S. GENER _ JAPAN LEAGUE OF Namons | Henry J. Reilly admits that rapidly Union. Union, Gen. | “inevitable.” He writes tions in Shanghai, show its He sees Japan embarked on a | campaign to conquer China, seize | Soviet territory and dominate all of Asia, He says: | “To do so she needs on her land {| (or Asiatic continent) side, a split) | up, greatly weakened China and Rus- | sia. She also needs the coal, iron | | and food supplies lacking in her home territory. ear “The 21 demands she forced down China’s throat in 1915 and her aid| | to the White Russians in eastern Si-| beria from 1918 to 1920 would have | given her all thsi. i | “Her course in Manchuria has not | only detached that immense terri- | tory and its 30,000,000 population |from China, giving Japan contrcl of | | the iron, coal and food supplies, but: | has clearly shown her to be prepar- ing it as a springboard for her army | when war with Russid comes. “Her complete seizure of ‘all rail- | ways, the garrisons which she has_ placed, and other indications common to preparation for concentration, all show this, just as clearly as Ger- many’s preparation in years vrior to 1914 showed her intention to concen- trate ner army on the French and| Belgian borders. | “It is these unmistakable signs of| preparation for war which have! caused the Bolsheviki so much con- | cern, made them strengthen their; Siberian garrisons and caused them} to yield as gracefully as they can| to each Japanese violation of their | rights in North Manchura.” He further admits that in spite | of the sham and pretense of the protests and “peace” moves of the League of Nations and the United States over the Japanese invasion of Shanghai, “Japan has gotten what she wanted at Shanghai.” He sees an attempt on the part of rival imperialists to isolate the United States and speculates as to choosing “between lending support either to autocratic Japan or to Com- munist Russia in the war between them which the present crisis in the Far East more and more proves in- evitable,.” —— Price 3 Cents _ L PLAN Gen. Reilly Says Anti-Soviet War Is “Inevitable” Admits Japanese Invasion of Manchuria Is) Preparation for Armed Intervention Against the Soviet Union | In an article in last Sunday’s American, U. 8. Brig. Gen. the Japanese imperialists are moving toward armed intervention against the Soviet Forced to admit the firm peace policy of the Soviet Reilly declares, in effect, that in spite of the struggle of the Soviet Union for peace a Japanese attack is ‘Not only events in Manchuria, but also Japan’s ac- imminence.” JAPANESE IN NEW ADVANCE ON SOVIET BORDER Forces in Chientao District Threaten Vladivostok The Japanese forces in the Chi- entao district of Manchuria contin- ued their northward advance yes- terday toward the Soviet border, in a drive that various imperialist circles have characterized as a pre- liminary move for immediate armed attack on the Soviet Union. The Chientao district is on the Man- churian-Soviet border. It is di- rectly behindVladivostock, the Sov- iet Pacific port. The New York Herald Tribune of April 10 ad- mitted that “it has been a tradi- tion in the Far East for a genera- tion or more that when Japan next had occasion to force a conflict on Russia it would begin with a drive on Viadivostock through this very Chientao area.” The so-called “peace” parley at Shanghai between the Japanese in- vaders and theKuomintang betray- ers of China has been halted as a result of the fear of the Kuomin- tang offcials to accept responsibil- ity for signing the terms offered by | the Japanese, in view of the tre mendous mass resentment through- out China, The Japanese themselves are afraid that the importance of the Kuomintang as an instrument for the betrayal of China is rapidly di- minishing with the growth of the national revolutionary movement, which is threatening the influence and control of all the imperialist powers and their Kuomintang tools. Has your club sent in $5.00 worth of half-dollars? “IT am either guilty or not guilty | declared Tom Mooney from his prison | cell in San Quentin, California, to| the International Labor Defense, denouncing the, “commutation in two years” threatened by Governor Rolph, Jr., as his decision ditional liberation now before him. Governor Rolph has stated that he | will make his decision public at noon Mooney Denounces Rolph’s Threat to Delay Release declaring, “reliable sources indicate that the verdict will be against an unconditional pardon. > ‘ The International Labor Defense is carrying through a wide campaign of protest during the week left be- fore April 19, calling for the sending in the demand for Mooney’s uncon-| of telegrams, resolutions, letters to) Governor Rolph demanding the im- mediate, unconditional release of Mooney. The statement of Mooney is printed on page 3, a dalagy.. | ‘ SAYS ATTACK ON THE SOVIET UNION Litvinoff Fights for Arms Cut at Geneva Meet Gibson Hits French Tardieu Speaks of “U. S. Trickery” Into the Geneva arena, where world imperialist plots are being car- ried out and imperialist antagonisms are being raised to a higher stage under the mask of pacifism, Maxim Litvinoff, Soviet Commisar for For- eign Affairs, again threw the Soviet plan for immediate cuts in all arm- aments. He proposed to reduce all armies of above 200,000 men, includ- |U. S. Battle Fleet In Secret Maneuvers in Pacific Ocean The United States battle fleet | yesterday carried out a secret ma- jneuver and sham battle off the Pacific Coast. | A Los Angeles dispatch to |New York Times reports that | maneuvers was shrouded with greatest secrecy. It says that for], the first time newspaper men,| | photographers and other civili were barred from accompanying the fleet. The maneuver is significant, fol- lowing quickly on the large | | public maneuver of the fleet held |only a few months ago. It is a reminder to Wall Street’s imper- jalist rivals, particularly Japan, all of whom are now engaged in a@ diplomatic struggle at the Ge- neva “disarmament” conference that Wall Street has something more material and substantial to} | fall back on than “diplomacy.” the the the ing the Soviet Red Army 50 per cent and armies below that number were to enforce a five per cent cut. A similar plan was proposed for reduction of naval and air forces. Hugh S. Gibson, ambassador to Belgium, and head of the American delegation at the so-called world dise, armament conference launched an} attack upon French policy yesterday in a series of land arms limitation proposals. The Gibson proposals came in the nature of a bomb shell and followed) so closely upon the latest French ate, tack on the dollar in the world mow ney markets that the connection be- tween the two is plain. Would Ban “Offensive Arms” Gibson proposed the abolition of| what he described as |“aggressive arms,” which include heavy mobile guns, tanks and poison gases. The representative of American imperial- ism deliberately confined his pro posals to land armaments, and made} no suggestion regarding naval arm- aments or air forces. In his proe posals he attacked the French posi- tion formulated by the late Aristide. Briand, which concealed its imperial-' ist war machine under the pretense! of maintaining forces to guarante®’ security from attack. In his propos |sals Gibson said: “It is clear that even some of the nations which, maintain the highest level of arms) aments, adequate presumably to deal! with any possible ssion, are among those most fearful for their national safety.” French Counter-Blast Premier Andre Tardieu, came back| at Gibson with a statement that France would not agree to the Am- erican proposals and sarcastically re« marked that Gibson made no refer ence to battleships, “the most obvie jous ageressive weapon.” As against {the Gibson proposals Tardieu said rance favored “common action against an aggressor nation.” The Paris capitalist press openly charged Gibson with attempting to “isolate France,” but added that the attempt’ was frustrated by Tardieu, who proposed an “international mil- itary force” under the League of Na+ tions. The Litvinoff counter-proposals are a continuation of the Soviet policy on disarmament. Repeated proposals for complete disarmament, as the guarantee for peace, were rejected time and again by the imperialist bandit powers. Showing its sincere |desire for peace, the Soviet repre-; sentatives made the above ‘a for immediate sharp cuts lin arms,