The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 18, 1932, Page 1

OF: THE WC: LD, aN chen ceca Central -—-Cd Funct Party U.S.A. : Orgony of the Communist debe 1932 oe 1X, No ale Cae er enenn ee [NEW YORK, , MONDAY, APRIL 18 Price 3 3 Cents — JAPANESE SEND WARSHIPS 10 SOVIET WATERS” World Soatiehaes 2,000 CHL BARE CRISIS. Tokyo Sends ~VETS MARCH IN JOBLESS MoreT roo ps to Protests Alarm <22== FORBONIS| RELIEF FUNDS U. S. State Dept. Sess pn to Defend the | |Predict ImmediateHalt | Soviet Border 'Soviet Union Against Bosses Atoms to | Break Strike of | Laundry Workers | W YORK. The boss of the New | Style Laundry, at 16th Street and 3rd | Avenue, has lost much of his busi- | See and the racketeer emocal aSSO- | MOTHER OF 'SCOTTS:-| BORO VICTIM a Consular Agents “Ask ance in’Face of M i) “Government for Guid-| ass Indignation in European ( Cities } German Toilers Invite Defense Tour of Germany Scottsboro Mother for | ne world-wide roar of working-class protests against the | though Scottsboro lynch verdicts has forced the U. S. State Depart-| struck 100 per cent seven weeks ago, | truckloads of laundry bundles After failing in all their attempts | to terrorize the inexperienced strikers on the nicket line, the numerous arrests and frame-up of the most | militant men strikérs and union offi- | try! strikers ing to demoralize the ranks of the by making it seem that the | business. However, these militant workers, inexperienced when they ment to ask the governor of Alabama to furnish it with ‘“in-|in solidarity with a Negro worker, formation” in the cases of the nine innocent Negro boys facing the electric chair in Alabama. ready been set for May 18 for two’are facing new trials. The date of execution has al- seven of the boys. The other | who had been fired, are very well aware of this trick and all their| other tricks, and they have been very | quick to realize the importance of | this strike. They are therefore just A Washington dispatch to the New York Times, report-|98 determined now as seven weeks ing the action of the State Department, says that the informa- tion is to be transmitted “to American Consulates abroad be- cause of Communist agitations?~ 2,000 March in Scottsboro Demonstration in Harlem Denounce Lynch Verdict; Demand Release of Scottsboro Negro Boys; Brooklyn Workers Hold Several Meets against the sentences.” It adds that the information was re- quested at the suggestion of the consulates. | Workers in European countries; have demonstrated before the Amer- ican Consulates in scores of ci#¢s in vehement protest against the at-, tempt of the Alabama bosses to! murder the Scottsboro boys and} “st the sharpening national op- on of the Negro masses in this svulitry. In most of the demonstra- tions, windows in American Consul- ates were broken by the workers and messages thrown in demanding the release of the boys. The Times’ dis- patch refers to these demonstrations and adds “indications have been that | Communists were atetmpting to make @ political issue of it (the Scottsboro Cace), as they did with the Sacco- YVanzetti Cace in Massachuseti The United States State Depart- ment is not seeking the real facts of the vicious frame-up against the boys. It has not even made the pre- tense of making an investigation into the case, but has asked Governor B, M. Miller and the Alabama lynch courts to furnish the lying lynchers’ version of the case. The State De- partment is merely seeking to furnish its Consulates with a “defense” of American imperialism and its bloody ‘terror against the Negro masses: the “defense” in this case to be the lying frame-up “rape” testimony of two white prostitutes against the nine in- nocent Scottsboro Negro boys. This is made clear in the statement of the Times’ dispatch that: “The (State) department re- quested the information at the suggestion of Consulates, which said that press reports published abroad apparently were incorrect and that a misconception of the circumstances existed.” German workers have invited Mrs. Ada Wright, mother of two of the Scotsboro boys, to make a tour of Germany in connection with the mass defense of the boys. Mrs. Wright is to leave for Europe soon. ‘The tour will be conducted under the auspices of the German Red Aid. “In the meantime ,the International Labor Defense attorneys are putting every ounce of energy into the prep- arations to take the fight to the United States Supreme Court. A fighting fund of. ten thousand. dol- lars is needed at once. Workers and sympathizers are urged to rush con- tributions to the Scottsboro Defense Fund, Room 411, 80 E. 11th St., New York. Trade Union Unity Council Mobilizes for May First The Trade Union Unity Council, the Shop Delegate Councils of the unions and the Executvie and Trade Boards, the secretaries of shop and opposition groups, representatives of the Unemployed Councils, will meet Monday, April 18th, 8 pm., at Irving Plaza, 15th Street and Irving Place. At this meeting the T. U. U, C. will tasks of the revolutionary make it possible for all the comrades to attend. ‘Trade Union. Unity Council Buro. ago to continue with their activities in order to win their fight against sweatshop conditions. NEW YORK.—Almost 2,000 Negro and white workers paraded through the streets of Harlém on Saturday afternoon in a demonstration against the decision of the Alabama Supreme Court upholding Scottsboro lynch verdicts and setting May 13 as the date for the electrocution of seven of the nine innocent Scottsboro Negro boys. Beginning with a short meeting at 125th St. and Lenox Ave, the work- ers with banners denouncing the Scottsboro lynch verdicts and de- manding the freedom of the Scotts- boro boys and Tom Mooney and all class war prisoners, marched through the streets of Harlem for fifty blocks terminating at 110th St. and Fifth Ave. where a huge rally and mass meeting was held. All along the line of march the demonstration was greeted with cheers from the workers in buildings and on the sidewalks, while hun- dreds of workers, Negro and white, joined the ranks of the paraders. At 110th St. and Fifth Ave. a half dozen speakers spoke on the great danger of the Scottsboro boys being sent to the electric chair on May 13, and appealed to the workers present to rally to the mass campaign to free the boys and not to have any legal- istic illusions in “fairness” of the courts of the lynchers. : ee ek BROOKLYN MEET IS SMASHED BY POLICE In Williamsburg, Brooklyn, where @ march had been planned to begin at St. Felix and Fulton St, the police were on hand and the moment the first speaker mounted the stand to speak, the meeting was broken up with the arrest of six workers. Many of the workers present made their way to Borough Hall where the main demonstration for Brooklyn was held. The Scottsboro protest demonstra- tion, held at Borough Hall, Brooklyn, in which several hundred Negro and white workers under the leadership of the International Labor Defense and League of Struggle for Negro Rights voiced a stormy protest against the recent decision of the Alabama State Supreme lynch court calling for the electrocution of seven of these boys on May 13, was a huge success in spite of the efforts of the local social fascists to prevent the demonstration by taking possession of the square before the demon- strators arrived. A parade was staged through the working-class section of Brooklyn in spite of the efforts of the police to break up the marhh by arresting six ‘of the partiripiants. These arrests occurred in spite of the fact that the Police had previously granted a per- mit for the parade and meeting. The socialists, with a fancy dec- orated platform and expensive loud speaker apparatus, had taken pos- session of the square and their meeting was in full sway when the demonstrators arrived. Almostt the entire Brooklyn police force was out to protect their socialist comrades from the “terrible Reds.” The Reverend Norman Thomas had just finished Speaking to the crowd who had become bored by the usual election campaign platitudes mouthed by these fakers, when the front battalion of the demonstrators arrived at the square with placards and screaming banners denouncing the vicious Scottsboro frame-up and the crowd turned away from the fakers and broke into hearty cheers. When the column arrived at the front of the square near the So- cialist platform, the Socialists called upon the police to chase the demon- strators away, They shouted “these people are “reds” they don’t. belong with us, they have no business here please make them go away, Mr. Commissioner, they want to break up our peaceful meeting The workers continued to cheer the demonstrators and booed the Socialists and the Police many workers expressing open disgust with the collaboration of Socialists with the police. The militancy of the crowd pre- vented the police from carrying out their cossack tactics, Se BROWNSVILLE WORKERS IN DEMONSTATION In Brownsville, too, more than two thousand workers paraded and demonstrated against the Scottsboro Crashing to the ground be- neath the powerful blows. of the deepening crisis, four large divisions of the huge Insull Power Trust went into the hands of receivers Friday, The bankruptcy of the Mid- dle West Utilities, the Insull Utilities Investment, Inc., the Corporation Securities and the Mississippi Valley Investment Company involves over three billion dollars. It is the larg- est bankruptcy ever recorded. The efforts of the bankers show that the sharpened crisis is not stopping short at the small and medium capitalist firms, but is de- stroying the largest monopoly giants which capitalism has built up. Instead of being protections against capitalist crisis and chaos, they make these even greater and sharper, Their efforts will only sharpen the crisis and involve more of the huge firms, because the very sharpness of the crisis is due to the merging of bank capital with industry and the resulting in- crease in all the contradictions of capitalist industry. Coming on top of the Kreuger cartel bankruptcy, the bankruptcy \cials, the bosses’ association is now | |laundry is doing a normal amount of | | CEICAGO, Imperialist Attack , TUUL Supports Vets | | Legion Stand Scored | In Union Park Meet | Ml—More than two | thousand world war veterans dem- |opstrated in Union Park, Saturday under the leadership of the Workers’ Ex-Servicemen’s League demanding} full and immediate payment of the tombstone bonus. The demonstration follgwed a mass parade of the vets, which was en- thusiastically cheered by the work- ers on the sidewalks. When the speakers pointed out that the capitalists throughout America were aiding Japan in its attack on the Chinese masses and were sending munitions which is to be used against the Soviet Union the {vets to a man pledged to fight the {next war for the working class. The meeting went on record to defend the Soviet Union. Bob Brown brought greetings from the Trade Union Unity League and declared that the workers in the revolutionary unions were behind the vets in their struggle for the bonus. The attitude of the can Legion officials was condemned by the speakers and the Legion’s fake job campaign was characterized &s a move to defeat the bonus fight and the struggle of all the workers for unemployment insurance. The veterans unanimously adopted a resolution demanding immediate cash payment of the balance of the bonus. More than two hundred war vet- erans signed applications for mem- bership in the Workers’ Ex-Service- men’s League. The ex-servicemen +pledged their full support to the Stockyards Hunger March which wil be held in Chicago April 19, Brownsville Workers To Hear Mrs. Wright Tonight. Workers of Brownsville will have an opportunity tonight to hear Mrs. speak in that section of the city before she leaves the country for a tour to Germany, where she will rouse the German masses of work- ers in the campaign to save the Scottsboro Negro boys from the elec- tric chair, The meeting will be held at the Brownsville Workers Center, 1813 Pitkin Avenue, at 8 o'clock, lynch verdicts. Here too the police tried to stop the parade but were so odverwhelmed by the large mass ri- of workers that they were compelled to allow the parade to take place. a greater crash than the Kreuger affair, is an indication of the in- creasing number of monopolies and cartels which will be drawn into the whirlpool of the crisis. It shows the internal rottenness and weak- ness of monopoly capitalism, in spite of its external appearance of giant and unshakable strength. Although the bankruptcy of four of the largest branches of the Insull power trust is being carefully con- cealed by an attempt to make the receivership action appear tem- porary, the testimony of the attorney for the Corporation Securities Co. reveals that the four companies are completely destroyed. In response to the assertion of the ‘attorney that the company “hoped” to repay its debts, Judge Linley re- marked cynically: “Well, hope springs eternal in the human breast.” The price of Corporation Security stock has already sunk to one-eighth while that of Insull Utility Invest- ments was $1, Stocks of the other companies are practically worthless. The crash of the Middle West Se- ¢curities Corp., the largest of the four branches, is seen as the beginning of the disintegration of the huge Insull power monopoly. Already the Na- tional Electric Power Co, whose stock the Middle West controlled, has Mrs. Haywood, one of the nine framed | Scottsboro boys. Mrs. Patterson, like | all the mothers of the boys, has been active in rousing the workers, Negro | and white, against this frame-up. Janie Patterson, mother of | Another mother, Mrs. Ada Wrisht, | whose boys Roy and Andy are both among the framed nine, leaves this | week for Europe to rally thé workers there against the Scottsboro frame-up. MRS, WRIGHT TO SPEAK FRIDAY A _ FAREWELL MEET Scottsboro Mother Leaves Soon for Europe NEW YORK.—On Wednesday night, April 20th, Mrs. Ada Wright, mother of Andy, and Roy Wright, two of the| Scottsboro boys, one of whom is among the séven sentenced to die in the electric chair on May 13th, will make a farewell address at the Ren- aissance Casino, 138th Street and 7th Avenue, before sailing the next day for Germany. The, International Labor Defense of Germany has asked Mrs. Wright to come.to that country At this meeting Joseph R. Brodsky, chief attorney for the International Labor. Defense, will. speak, as will also Richard B. Moore, Sadie Van Veen and others. trict Organizer of the New York District International Labor Defense, will act as chairman of the meeting. It should be borne in mind that in 1917 it was the action of the Russian soldiers, sailors and peasants in demonstration before the Ameri- can embassy in that country that forced the President of the United States to intervene in the case of Mooney and Billings, the result of which was a commutation of sen- tence. Every worker should attend this farewell meeting, which will also be @ mobilization: for a demonstration at the pier on Thursday when Mrs. Wright boards the ship to sail for Germany, Huge Insull Power Trust Goes Bankrupt in $3,000,000,000 Crash CHICAGO, April 16.—| of the Insull trust, which is even become independent. As the full de- tails of the bankruptcy are brought out, this disintegration of one of the largest monopolies in the world will become clearer and more rapid. The Insull Utilities Investment and the Corporation Securities were both holding corporations, by means of which Insull evaded, the anti-trust Jaws and controlled the east seaboard units of the Insull monopoly. Through the medium of these holding corporations, Insull controlled the huge Commonwealth Edison Co., the Peoples Gas., Light and Coke Co. and the Public Service Co. of North- ern Illinois, besides a number of less important utility companies. Frantic with fear that the bank- ruptcies may spread to the rest of the Insull system, the bankers who hold the securities of the various power systems have placed Insull and Owen D. Young in charge of manipu- lating the other companies in an effort to prevent them from also crashing, The collapse of |these companies also exposes the huge holding com- pany swindle by means of which the bankers and financial magnates, by buying up a few hundred thousand dollars worth of holding company stocks, were able to control and get the profits of billions of dollars worth of public utility companies, t Carl Hacker, Dis-; in Already Meager “Relief” | Funds ‘‘Breakdow n Imminent’| |So Says Capitalist Or-| gan of Social Service \ Profession | NEW YORK.—Predicting an im- jMediate crisis in even the meager relief funds that are now doled out to the starving unemployed, and | holding out to the millions of jobless | workers a future of really mass star- vation and increased misery, Survey,” organ of the soc: profession, and “The Busines: | Mc-Graw-Hill publication | the pesition of the un {one almost of living deati: William Mathews, dir | Emergency Work and Relief Bureau | in New York, declares that within | ef funds in New| (ae weeks the r rk will be completely exhausted | “and from present appearances it is | extremely likely that thousands of | people who have been receiving relief of some kind during the winter will be thrown back on the limited re- to them.” The enormous extent of the suf- | fering of the masses of jobless work- ers and their fainilies and the ab- solute futility of the crumbs of char- ity relief that are now privately given | out are exposed in the report of the | | survey. “Huge relief funds raised in New York, Chicago and Philadelphia have been unequal to the staggering loads in these centers of industrial disloca- tion. nent. The fallacy of the idea that private funds could cope with a sit- | | | | funds have done little more than act as a thin emolient on a deep wound. “No rational adult can be blind to what lies ahead. This summer will bring little surcease in human needs, Next winter will be worse, not better. Yet. Congress is deaf. Legislatures are adjourning, cities and counties are temporizing with pinchbeck appro- priations and private social agencies are in a position they cannot main- tain. There is no evidence of any real facing of what is on the door- step, let alone any preparation to deal with it.” of decreasing, has reached ever larger Proportions, the “Survey” says: “Still planless and with no sign of improved employment with relief needs growing and relief funds dwindling to exhaustion, they turn their blind eyes to the future, where already the spectre pf an- other winter is rising.” While Congress legislates bilions of dollars in loans to the railroads and banks, it refuses to grant one cent in unemployment insurance for the 12,000,000 unemployed. Instead it} is now passing one of the most rob- | ber tax bills ever brought forward and preparing for wholesale slashes in the pay of civil service workers and denial of compensation to the world war veterans. An indication of the real intentino of Wall St. to make the workers pay the cost of relief through the various block-aid schemes put into effect throughout the country is given by Mathews, This well-paid director of the grafting Tammany Emergency Work and Relief Bureau openly de- clares that the Bureau collapses millions in New York will starve and that the only thing that will preevnt it from collapsing is the forcible ex- tortion of relief donations from the pockets of the workers through the Block Aid Scheme, “Success of the Block-Aid is nec- essary if the Emergency Work and Relief Bureau is to maintain its present unemployment relief work. Any decrease in this would bring about collapse of the entire structure | of this form of relief.” As against this program of whole- sale condemnation of the working- class to death by starvation, the Com” munist Party calls upon all workers to redouble their fight for full and unemployment insurance to be paid by the employers and the govern- ment, sources, with no avenue of aid open Complete breakdown is immi- | uation of such proportions as this} | One is remorselessly exposed. Private | Stating that unemployment instead ; | Seek Pretext for W ar on rar on U.S.S S.R. in Fisheries Question Now I Being Negotiated Dispatch of W arship F Follows Threat of Japan- ese War Minister Araki Against the Soviet Union The Japanese government yesterday moved nearer to armed intervention against the Sov- | ese warships would be | waters off Kamchatka, Northeastern Siberia, and that additional troops w ould t be already a large Japanese army is berder, THE JAPANESE | WAR INCITERS, |Soviet Peace. Policy| Expos Ses War Moves | “The Soviet newspaper, “Pravda,” | Yesterday warned the Japanese im- berialists that the Soviet masses will | | defend their soil against the robber | {plans of Japanese imperialism, which is acting as the spearhead of world imperialism in the butchery of the Chinese masses and the now open! war moves against the Soviet Union According to a dispatch to the New| York Times by its Moscow correspon- dent, Walter Duranty, Pravda de-| clared: | “In the Fall and Winter of last | year it was ‘bandits,’ acting on the orders of the Japanese military and on their money and with their arms, who served as the excuse for the extension of the Japanese occu- | pation. Now the version about bandits is dropped and the Japan- ese imperialists have set dynamite going, . “White Guards,’ who cannot take a single step in Manchuria | without the knowledge and orders | of Japanese powers, have already | tried to shatter the Sungari Bridge | with dynamite. Then they threw dynamite on the eastern section of | the Chinese Eastern Railway in an attempt to shatter Soviet-Japanese relations. “Chinese police authorities, act- ing at the behest of Japanese cir- cles, are arresting Soviet citizens. | In Harbin dungeons they are tor- | turing guiltless workers and em- Ployees of the Chinese Eastern— Soviet citizens, “From the outset this country has carried on a firm policy of ono- intervention and neutrality in the Manchurian affair, but if the paci- ficism of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics is to be taken ahd | utilized by Japanese imperialists as proof of our weakness and in- capacity to defend our borders, so much the worse for them. We | have fought invaders before and if | needs be we will fight them again.” Relief Buro Workers PRAVDA WARNS Hold Meet Tonight at | NEW YORK. — A mass meeting | of employees of the Emergency | Home Relief Buro to demand con- | | tniuation relief measures adopted hy | the city will be held tonight at the Washington Irving’ High School, 16th St. and Irving Place, at 7:45 | p. m. The meeting is called by the City Social Club, a newly organized group of the Home Relief and Emergency Work Buros, and will be addressed | by Winefred Chappell of the Metho- | dist Federation of Social Service; Liston Oak, members of the writers’ delegation to Kentucky; Carl Win- ter, secretary of the Greater New York Unemployed Council and Rod | Hall, leader of the Columbia stu- dent strike. All workers who were on the re- lief lists and have been cut off by the city are invited to attend this meeting. DowntownHighSchool | | | | admits that the Chinese Red Army | iet Union with the announcement that Japan- dispatched into Soviet nt into Manchuria where oncentrated on the Soviet This announcement follows close upon the heels of the tor of the! open threats against the Soviet Union by Japanese War Min- connection with the White Guardist atiempt to-blow up Sungari River bridge on the Shinese Eastern Railway, jointly op- the | erated by China and the Soviet Un- ion. The Japanese and their White Guard allies attempted to fix respon- sibility for the attempt on the bridge on citizens of the Soviet Union. Defeated repeadtedly in their waz | provocations by the firm peace policy of the Soviet Union, the Japanese | imperialists are now fevershily seek- |ing a pretext for war on the Soviet Union in the fishery question, nego- tiations Extreme tension is reported along the Manchurian-Soviet border as the result of a long series of events in which the Japanese have delib- erately tried to provoke the Soviet Union into war. A Tokyo dispatch to the New York Tribune reports that Soviet citizens are reported to be leaving Harbin and other Man- churian cities. The same dispatch | says that Gen. Gregory Semenov, the notorious White Guard leader is in Tokyo. He is evidently in conference with the Japanese gov- ernment officials. The dispatch re- ports him declaring in an interview with the “Asahi Shimbun” that he “had come on a business trip and would return to Manchuria within a few days.” A Tokyo dispatch to the New York American reports: “How seriously Tokyo regards the growing tension between Japan and Russia on the Manchurian border was indicated today, -when the Navy announced additional warships will be sent to waters off Kamchatka Peninsula, in anticipa- tion of Soviet aggressions against Japanese fishing interests. “Tokio newspapers announced ‘completion’ today of Soviet troop concentrations along the frontier of the Japanese-fostered Indepen- dent Manchurian state of Man- choukou. The implication was that Russia is now in a position to in- vade Henry Pu-Yi's domain.” The Soviet Union has recently strengthened its forces in the Far East as a result of the Japanese troop concentration on her borders and the general knowledge, admitted |even in imperialist circles, that the Japanese imperialists are planning to attack the Soviet Union. | Chinese Red Army Continues Advance on Changchow City An Amoy, South China, dis- } Patch to the New York Times |in Pukien Province is continuing |its advance on the important-city of Changchow. ‘This gives the lie |to previous reports that the Chinese Red Army had been de- |feated with a loss of 2,000 men by the Kwangtung provinelal troops of the Canton government, A Peiping dispatch to the same | Paper reports the arrival at “Amoy4 of the United States destroyer Smith Thompson end a British warsl The dispateh says “the{> Communist menace in Pukien Province is reporied to be growing’ and has caused twenty-two Am- ericans to concemtrate at Amoy from endangered interior points.” The Americans referr:ed to are traders and missionary agenis of American imperialism. The Come munist forces are said to be com-| manded by Gen. Sun Lien-chung.