The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 18, 1932, Page 4

Published 3th New Y Address and mai Page Four by the Comprodatiy Publishing Co. ork City. y all checks to the L ne, aatly ox: t Sunday, at 50 Hast 18th Street, New York,.N.¥. see Dail _Contral Orde INCREASING STRIKES AND DEMONSTRATIONS IN JAPAN AGAINST WAR If of the of social ent only 600,000 dolla xpenditu 1,000,000 dollars ¥ ose of suppressing 19, when Jap- tack on 0 to “the Militant Strikes s regarding the ig the toiling t, at this very the number TESS, ending in hand-to-hand e, is of great significance. that occurred in an leaked out 20, among the ers”, ended in reported in “Pray. This strike, during which the ades at the entrances and th legal and illegal organs of the Party, which continue publication under the heaviest report successful anti-war demonstrations ar activities all over the country, in ks, villages and schools. The No- er 15 issue of the Musansha Shimbun, the , carries the following r the slogans ‘Long Live the 14th the October Revolution’, ‘Down w ts’ war’, and ‘Protect the So- gh arrests of more than 200 ades were made before the demonstrations nere were altogether over 2,500 partici- Although ) workers (unemployed, railway ters) took part in the demon- 500 workers demonstrated ailway Station, of whom over 100 In Imperial and Waseda Uni- 1,000 students participated in Over 400 workers held a strike tile mill, Unemployed and em- i mstrated in three labor ex- Shimbun goes on to report strations held that same ama and other cities. Every resh news of heroic an' many, significantly of the Reformist Leaders. spirit of the workers, and the chery The fighting treacherous played are rev in the followihg: meeting in the textile mill “Toyo Muslin’, called by the reforr union, a woman worker openly declared, e war in Manchuria is an imperiale ist war to enrich the capitalists at our expense; we stand in constant danger of dismissal and wage cuts; the leaders (reformists) do nothing for us. We are absolutely opposed to the war. and the manageme: The refc ist leaders handed her ov to the police. At the m campaign to collect workers’ signatures testing st her dismissal was highly succ —Nov. 28.) ar demonstrations also took place Oc- ary day of the murder by de Watanabg, secretary the Communist Party of Japan on the occasion Commune celebration on Febru aniversary of the “Japanese Em- se monarch ss and fascists staged and again in —s hen the Tokyo Municipal street Hirowo and Kinshiboro section: that paralyzed tramway traffic e Section of the Anti-Imperialist active among the mgs organ: and demonstrations, publishing the “Daily Anti-War Ne’ peal to the Chinese toiling masses call join in a united struggle against Jap ese intervention. Peasant Demonstrations Against War. The village masses the city workers. Last fall, for example, of the villages in the Toyama Prefecture, and ued in or ov are not lagging behind 500 peasants demonstrated against the war. At- tacked by the police, they shouted, “When we have a Soviet government we will make short | work of you” (the police and nationalists). Fearing reprisals by the militant masses, the police next day released the five peasants they had arrested. This is only one of the many struggles that have been waged by starving peasants, in their fight against parasitic land- lordism. The student masses too, are marching for- ward against the war. On February 11, the an- niversary of the “Japanese Empire”, over 2,000 students of the Imperial University of Tokio, a factory well known for its output of intellectual robots for the defense of the ruling class, carried red banners in a demonstration against the war. The movement is spreading in other schools, too. Anti-Militarism in Japanese Army. The anti-war feeling is spreading in the army, the citadel of Japanese imperialism. In Foo- shun, Manchuria, scores of soldiers were ar- rested for their anti-war activities. In the Na- kano Telephone Detachment, and also in a Mil- itary Academy, arrests were made. In Shanghai | over 600 Japanese soldiers refusing to take up arms against the Chinese toling masses, de- manded to be sent home. In. certain district in, Japan, soldiers sabo- taged their drill and literally broke up a war maneuver declaring, “We are against the war preparations which intends to make us cannon fodder for the bosses’ benefit.” The active elements are small in number, but determined. They consist of workers, peasants, soldiers, students, who are unafraid. With true heroism, they demonstrate against the war, de- nouncing the slaughter of the Chinese masses, though horrible torture and even death may be | the price of their opposition. Their heroic ex- ample and the lead given by the Communist Party in showing the revolutionary way out of the crisis is fast encouraging the toiling masses of Japan to struggle against their intolerable conditions. The Last Year of the First Five-Year Plan On the background of the ever sharpening world nomic crisis, which is ing millions of workers and, peasar the capitalist coun- tries to most dire poverty, the further grand rise in the national economy of the U.S. S. R., indicated in the control figures for 1932, attains particular social and political significance. The pract of Socialist construction in the land of the Soviets is proving again and again the superiority of the Socialist system of production atiletka AFive-eYar Plan) but the mali- rom the bour- geois al-democratic camps which are doomed ‘to failure. The self-sacrificing three- year struggle of the toiling masses of the U. S. S. R., under .thg leadership of the All-Union Communist Party, makes it possible not only to accelerate the tempos of development of the country, but to realize the Five-Year Plan of reconstruction of the entire national economy already in 1932, ie., not in five but four years. An analysis of the most important elements ‘2f the national economic plan for the Current year fully confirms this. A summary expression of the social and economic advances may be obtained from the figures of the growth and distribution of the national income. The na- tional income has increased from 37.8 milliards of roubles in 1931 to 4972 milliard roubles in 1932, or by 30 per cent for one year. This means that the national income will almost double for the four years of the Piatiletka and will provide 100 per cent of the Five-Year Plan, In this connection, it must be borne in mind that the comparative importance of the social- ized sector in the national income has risen from 53 per cent in 1928 and 81.5 per cent in 1931 to 91 per cent in 1932, against 71 per cent according to the Five-Year Plan. ‘The radical changes in the correlation of the class forces in the country in favor of the pro- letariat is proved also by the following table of the mational income: Percentage of Total 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 Proletariat 32.1 346 369 45.5 463 Handicraftmen 68°68. ee at 88 Dollective farmers 1.0 24 #114 215 285 ‘individual farme: 394 326 178 68 Sulaks 39 12 05 01 Japitalist population 4o the towns .... 3.6 24 18 «12 (08 4 | ‘The tremendous growth of the economic power of the proletariat is obvious, a growth which rests upon the success of collectivization, the liquidation of kulakdom as a class, and the extension of the social ang the dislodgement of private economy. The realization of the great building program will facilitate the final con- solidation of the victory of the proletariat. Investments in the national economy for 1932 are estimated at 21.1 milliard roubles, as against 16.046 milliards in 1931. Of this sum, 10.7 mil- liards will be invested in industry, 4.36 milliards in agriculture, 3.3 milliards in transport and almost 3 milliards in housing and communal construction. The Piatiletka will, as a result of this, be over-fulfilled both according to the total volume of investments (54 milliard roubles in- stead of 47 according to plan) by 16 per cent, as well as particularly in regard to industry (26.4 milliards instead of 13.6 according to plan) which wil lalmost be double, and in agrioulture by 156 per cent. It is impossible to under-rate the significance of these figures, They show that the U.S. S. R. is successfully solving the problem of Socialist construction. Seven milliard roubles have been | invested for the past three years in industry alone, while in Czarist Russia the investments in industry amounted only to 4.4 milliards during the whole time of the rule of the bourgeois classes, The technical revolution in the land of the Soviets has become a fact, since the new con- struction is based on the last word of the achievements of world techniue and science. The gigantic metallurgical, machine building, elec- tricity, coal and chemical works, the like of which are not to be found either in Europe or America, are entering into operations already in 1932. In other words, the prerequisites for the development of the productive forces above the level of the advanced countries of capitalism, have been created and the solution of this prob- Jem is now not far distant. The creative work on an pnparalelled scale is telling also in the estimates for industrial production. The gross production in industry in the our- rent year will amount to 37.5 milliard roubles, having grown since last year by 36 per cent. In regard to the production of the means of pro- duction, the growth will attain 44 per cent, giving almost double production in metal and coal and a growth of 144 times THE SIGNAL TO ATTACK yorker Party U.S.A. or Manhattan and Bronx, SUBSCRIPTION RATES: By mail everywhere: One year, $6; six months, $3; two months, $1; excepting Beroughs Foreign: one year. $8; six months 84.60 New York City. By RES Crisis in the Ohio Strike As HE STRIKE of 15,000 coal miners in Ohio and West Virginia is approaching its critical stage. The next few days will probably deter- mine whether the official U. M. W. A. leadership, Cinque, Hall, Pacifico, etc., will succeed in- man- euvering a “uniform wage scale” with the Ohio operators and driving the men back to work at a uniform wage cut, or whether the strike will remain solid, for actual demands, for no wage cuts, for a checkweighman at the tipplpe, for recognition of rank and file committees at the | mines elected by all the miners. At Zanesyille the secret conference of fifty "U. M. W. repre- sentatives is still in session. It is the thirq day of that conference; no word has come out of it. Under the leadership of President .Lee Hall of District 6 and John Cinque, president of the East Ohio subdistrict, a wage scale is being doped out for submission to the coal operators’ association, No word has been given out of -What the United Mine Workers will demand of the operators. Why this secrecy? From the start of the strike, the official demands of the Untied Mine Workers officials have been recognition of the union (which means the check-off) and a “uniform wage scale.” The miners are demanding what wage scale? In answer to this question, which is becoming threatening, the officials have put out “unoffi- cial reports” that they are striking for the 1917 scale, for 58 cents a ton, for $5 a day, and for a six-hour shift. The miners are waiting to see which is correct—the official demands, or the unofficial. They are waiting to see if the secret fifty at Zanesville betray them, if the “uniform wage scale” means a uniform wage cut! Mass picketing, mass demonstrations, a fight- ing spirit, have made this strike 95 per cent effective. But a betrayal at Zanesville is im- minent. On the present crisis of the strike, Tony Minerich, National Miners‘ organizer, gave out the following statement today, ad- dressed to all miners: “The United Mine Workers officials have been telling the miners that they need a union. There’s no doubt about that. Therefore, “join the Untied Mine Workers.” “We admit,” they say, “that the U. M. W. of A. has some lousy officials. All right join our union, win the strike and then throw out the officials.” This is repeated in mass meetings at Powhatan, at Cambridge, in Amsterdam, at Louise—eyery- ing. The tasks of the piatiletka (30.455 milliard roubles) for industrial production will, in this manner, be considerably over-fulfilled, particu- larly in those branches of industry which had already accomplished their piatiletka in 1931, In elecro-technic, for instance, the over- fulfillment is equal to 7 to 8 per cent, in coal 20 per cent, in oil 28 per cent, in machine build- ing 42 per cent, and in tractors 49 per cent. Industrial production as a whole will be quad- rupled as compared with the pre-war level. Further advances are also anticipated in agri- culture. Of decisive importance here is the col- lectivization of the peasant households, which in 1932 will in the main be completed and will embrace up to 72-75 per cent of the peasant households, with 79 per cent of the entire peasant sowing areé. The chief enemy of Socialism in the country, kulakdom, will be liquidated as a class, on the basis of all-round collectivization. Agriculture will. receive new tractors to the extent of 1,000,000 horsepower through 3,100” machine-tractor stations and various other agri- cultural machinery to the value of 900 million roubles. New mechanized technique and the socialization of private households will make it : possible to bring up the sowing area to 141 million hectares, with a simultaneous increase in yield. The Piatiletka is being overfulfilled in the course of four years in the domain of agriculture, in regard to the collectivization of the peasant households, the growth of Soviet farms, machine- tractor stations and sowing area, and the sowing area of technical crops amounting to 136 per cent of the piatiletka, Not a trace is left of the hopeless peasant poverty which was con- nected with the scattered state of agriculture. Simultaneously with the growth and rise in the entire national economy, there will also be a growth in the standard of life of the toiling masses. What are the prospects in this sphere, where. . “But let us consider ‘elections’ in the United Mine Workers of America. I was in the United Mine Workers for many years—and I fought like hell to elect officials that would not beiray. the miners after we had won sirikes. We never succeeded. “Take the 1925 election. We put up Voizey as the opposition candidate to Lewis. You remem- ber that. The election was held in December; the constitution required that by the 15th of January there be a tabulation from.all the locals on the results of the election, By January 15 there was no tabulation. Why? Le aid he hhadn’t the money to issue it. He hadn't the money. But at the same time William Green. who was secretary of the miners, issued:a siate- ment that the United Mine Workers was better off financially than at any time in its history. Why didn’t Lewis issue that tabulation? There is only one answer. And you know it. “Take the election of 1926, in which the miners tried ‘to throw out their corrupt officials’ as Cinque and Pacifico advise us now. John Brophy was opposition candidate to Lewis. Our ‘Save the Union’ committee went all over the field to gather the official reports from locals. All legal steps were taken and. we got sworn reports from all locals. I was a member of that committee. Then Lewis issued the tabulated report of the results. A few examples: “Local 811, Renton, Pennsylvania. «There Lewis had received six, votes, This was the report signed by the president of the local, the secre- tary and secretary-treasurer and the local com- mittee. But when the tabulation came out, somebody had put 20 in front of the 6, making 206. John Brophy had received 109; somebody had cut off the 9, leaving 19 votes for Brophy. These are facts and are all in the record. “Take Kinloch. When the tellers. and the local president had counted the vote,’ Brophy had a majority. Then one of the Lewis men stepped up and said: ‘There are more votes in that box.” He put in his hand and pulled out a wad of votes. We looked at them; they were all folded together, and they.were all for John. ' -L. Lewis. “This stealing we used to call ‘retail? Now _ for an example of ‘wholesale stealing.’ In West Virginia, the official report of the U. M. W. of A. at the convention reported that in West the first place, a further growth in the number of workers and other employees is. anticipated | from 18,700,000 persons in 1931 to 21,000,000 in 1932 instead of 15,960,000 according to the Five Year Plan. Unemployment, this most grievous whip on the working class in capitalist countries, has been liquidated in the U. S. S. R. already Jong ago. The entire industry will be transferred to a seven-hour day. Wages in industry will rise in 1932 by 11 per cent as compared with 1931, The total wage fund will grow from 21.1 milliard roubles to 26.8 milliards, exceeding the piatiletka estimate for the wage fund and average wages of all industries by 20.7 per cent. If, in addition to this, the increase of the social insurance budget be borne in mind, also the considerable growth of socialized wages and expenditure on housing- and communal construction, the rapid growth in the well-being of the toiling masses of the U. 8. S. R. will become perfectly obvious, How’great is the difference in the position and prospects of the workeys end + U. S.S. R. and those of the capitalist countries! Capitalism condemns tO Wie pois os degeneration the people’s masses and to an outlet from the blind alley oy the most profound economic crisis only along the path of monstrous exploitation of the masses and war; while, at the same time, the U. S, S. R. in 1932 is com- pleting its Piatiletka. The Soviet country is developing its productive forces in tempos never before known in history, is changing to the advantage of the proletariat the correlation of the class forces, is raising the well-being of the people’s masses and is completing the building of the foundation of the Sociaiist economics and proceeding to the building up of a classless society. The result of the competition of two social systems is clear. The toilers of the capitalist countries must proceed along the path of the by ld) aggprding to th economic plan for 1992? In ‘Russian proletarinty th Mg | | ‘| 1 Sell-Out Is Prepared Virginia there were only a coupie of hundred dues-paying members. But in the election report after the. convention West Virginia cast 14,000 votes for Lewis! The same was true for Kentucky, Alabama and Tennessee, “The other day at Louise John Cinque said if you don’t like an election, appeal to the International Board members ‘for justice.’ Let me, ask you a question: Who appoints the Internationa! Board members of the United Mine Workers of America? “I bring up these points not because you miners dan’t know them, but because some of you have forgotten them now. This present strike is 95 per cent effective. Don’t let officials proved to be crooked sell it out at the ‘conference table.’ Elect your own strike committees; organ- ize your own picket lines. Make your own strike demands. Fight against wage cuts, for a check- weighman elected by all miners, for strike com- mittees elected by all the miners. Those are the demands of the National Miners Union.” Fear of Communism Increasing Among Irish Parasites By LIAM, “OSLATTERY, (F.0.0.C.) DUBLIN (by mail) HE captains and the Kings (old Celtic), the priests and the “economists”, who do what little thinking is done by the Irish bourgeoisie, are becoming perturbed over the glaring holes in their social system, In the clutch of forces they do not understand, they are aware vaguely that something must. be done to exorcise the grim spectre of Communism, There was the Rev. Father M. P. Cleary, preaching at St. Saviour’s Church here. “Remember that only last year a man died of starvation on the plains of Kildare,” he said, “and no man was made amenable.” “There is no law to prevent the hoarding of corn, the dumping of thousands of sacks of cof- fee into the ocean, the wilful destruction of a whole year’s fruit crop—all with a view to causing an artificial shortage and so bring about a corre- sponding increase in the price of these commodi- ties.” There was aioe the Rev. T. Ryan, S. J., speak- ing at a meeting of the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, If there were a large surplus of produce, goods that, the people had no money to buy, he asked, did it mean that their system of production and distribution was wrong? He went further. “I am of the opinion,” he said, “that we are going to see a disruption of the present social system. When people come to examine the present social order, one finds it has not many defenders.except those who profit by its abi And the reverend Jesuit was quite naive ‘about ‘The capitalist system has been in existence as long practically as the feudal system. I have nothing to put in its place. But we must en- deavor to find a solution before one is forced on us.” (1) And their endeavors to find a solution? Pro- fessor O'Rahilly—a leading “thinker"—babbles of medieval Gilds and St. Thomas Aquinas’ “just price”, and the “Irish Press”, the government or- gan, talks of “decentralization of industry and diffusion of property.” These are to save the Irish toilers from the crash of capitalism! It all reminds one of the “Manifesto”: “Half an echo of the past, half a boding of the future; sometimes striking home to the hearts of the bourgeosie with its mordant, witty, and devastating criticism; always ludi- crous in its incapacity to understand the march of modern history’—such is the criticism of these people! And it is scarcely likely that,these knights who come forward, in the panoply of feudalism, to defend dying capitalism will be able to stop the “march of history.¥ | 83: Bluck-Aiders Expose Themselves By. 1. AMTER, | F°LMARE COMMISIONER FRANK W. TAY IR admits today that “The Bureau now f 1°4,000 applications for relief. The books | 2 closed in about two weeks and will’ be 2d only if it becomes apparent ‘that 16 it be possible to offer relief to those ‘found ice y of assistance, At present there: aré about 3 Home Relief Bureaus and these will be cut own to 24” eving stated one. week ago that there are 25 families unprovided for, now it is admit- d that the number that has been reached and * ) ve no relief amounts to 154,000. *Bub the worst aspect of the whole situation s that as the Block-Ald Committee admits “the ‘age unemployed head of a family on the g list of the Emergency Work and Relief “areau-has been out of work 18. months.” This ‘ows clearly the starvation condition among ‘xe unemployed of New York. Not only are the rs suffering generally from starvation, but 3 reported. only recently 95 men and womep rece treated for. starvation in the city hospitals ? yhom 20 died..How many thousands and tens f thousands of cages, the origin of which is andernourishment. and starvation, are treated hospitals or suffer without any aid, will in unknown. ‘uberculosis is.raging, and is especially wide- ad among the. Negroes. Official reports show {4 although the death rate per 100 thousand s increased to 97, among the Negroes it is ‘zy and among the other. colored races, it is be- cen six and seven hundred. ‘Phe Block-Aiders are-robbing the workers in he tactories. stores.and offices. Up to the pres { time, they have collected $274,000, of which 000 comes from.Manhattan. Where in Mane hstian, it would be interesting to inquire! For it is clear that since they cannot get support in the neighborhoods, they are pouncing upon the workers in the factories, offices and stores, and are compelling them thraugh the foremen and supervisors, ete., to. contribute, nickels, dimes, quovters and half-dollars week]. yor Walker refuses to consider the-reduc- tion of the high salaries of the city officials. He contemptuously declares that he is not, “talking for the crowd and certainly not for snakes.” This is the scoundrel ‘who pretends to be interested in Mooney, who spends his time at Hollywood and the South raking in hundreds of thousands of dollars in graft which Seabury will not ever dare to uncover. This is the head of the Tam: many Hall administration which reeks with graft from top to bottom’ and which Mayor Walker has the nerve to deny. The Hoover government rejecting unemploy- ment insurance and the U. S. Congress which rejected even the pitiful demagogic proposal of La Follette-Costigan, is placing billions in taxes on the shoulders ofthe workers to “balance the budget.” The Six Governors’ Conference, which made a so-called radical proposal for unemploy- ment insurance, but.is only a fake, does not pro~ ceed any further. That it is clear that the work- ers must rely upon their own strength in order to get unemployment relief and’ insurance. Commissioner Taylor declares that “reinvesti- gation of registered.cases of the Bureau show that the need now is as great, if not greater than, last winter when these applicants regis- tere Of course it is greater, and therefore the unemployed must realize that they will get re- lief only through, organization and struggle. ‘The “unémployed: mustvarganize into the Block Committees and Unemployed Councils and dem- onstrate atlevery reliéf bureau and not leave the | relief bureau until every worker is provided for. | Mayor Walker dnd Governor Roosevelt must be told in terms of struggle that the unemployed will not tolerate’ their fooling around with this quéstion any longer. Starvation is rampant, and — ig Roosevelt can make demagogic speeches about the “common people", he will have to under= stand that the “common people”, namely, the workers, do not intend to starve, do not intend to be laid off by the tensof thousands, do not intend to have their wages cut to the starvation ‘line, without ‘a real fight. * In every section;*there must be ‘demonstra- tions and struggles. at~ the relief bureaus Sas on April 21. are . Facts on War The pacifists atdldice for for what they call “mod= est economies” in the War Department. The National Council for Prevention of War, leading | pacifist organization, urges the cutting down of - the number of old’ officers in the army. “Their presence,” say the pacifists, “discourages the. young officers and prevents their getting the experience of commanding men.” Here is another Modest economy suggested by ‘the pacifists. “The-cavalry,” they say, “cane not keep out of the»way-of the tanks and should be abolished.” The pacifists also echo the demand of Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, another notorious nq cifist, that the War’ and Navy Departments should be merged jnto one centralized admin- istration. “It is in keeping with the trend of modern. industry,” say, these lovers of peace. -. The National Council.for Prever.cion of War also claims that if our (the pacifists) air force is weak—it is second in size in the world—it is “because our ‘own, builders are deficient in’ in- ventive skill and oie producing inferior planes,” _ refuses to give out. The U. S. siete any pictures on of modern war now in its possession. “To give out any such pice — ture would be against public policy... It would not be ethical. Think of the Gold Star mothers the country sent over to 3 ce, Over there they saw the lovely “cemeteries. .. We cannot spoil these memories,” the Signal Corps officers declare, Uncover Starvation and Misery — The capitalist press, the agents of the ruling class, has been publ Tess and less news about unemployment. It hides the starvation of the unemployed workers’ families. We must constantly expose the miserable treatment of families of the unemployed by the we: governments and charity institutions. We must uncover all cases of starvation, un~ dern ‘sickness. We must pube lish these casts in our press, in the Daily Worker, - in Labor Unity, tell them at all Workers" meetings, Un- elated jouncils should publish Inform ‘all workers of HI } i a — | }i