The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 19, 1932, Page 1

_ JAPANESE INSPIRE MANAGER AND 0 ® May Ist Is the Workers’ Day of Struggle A WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! Dail Central u Orga orker rty U.S.A. HESRMymict Po Vol. IX,No.93 Entered as aecond-clase matter at the P at New York, N. Y., ander the act of Mari iW YORK, TUESDAY, APRIL 19, 1932 May Day Must Be a Mighty Protest Against the Imperialist War |APANESE imperialism, with its armies on the borders of the Soviet Union, is openly threatening war. The capitalist press reported yes- terday an interview with a spokesman of the foreign office in Tokyo in which he declared: “Very serious consequences may result if there are further in- cidents such as the recent bombing of a Japanese troop train near Har- bin,” the spokesman said, adding that reports from the Consulate General at Harbin indicated that Russian Reds wrecked the train. (N. Y. World Telegram, Jan. 18). The meaning of this declaration, of course, is not to warn the Soviet Union of the coming blow. The imperialists, before all Japan, are very far from such “sentimental prejudices.” The real meaning of this open threat of war is to notify the imperialist bandits who are plotting in Geneva under cover of “disarmament,” that Japan is ready for and de- termined upon this attack. It is of no consequences to the imperialist that only 24 hours before General Araki, Minister of War in Tokyo, had admitted that the bomb- ing of the train had no connection with the Soviets. This admission it- self came only 24 hours after the first accusation had been le. Suth accusations will occur daily from now on, to be followed with issions of their falseness until the moment when Japan chooses to make the next drive upon the Soviet border. This moment depends completely upon the decision of the Japanese general staff, and the activities of its terrorist agents The statement quoted above simply means that the Jap- nese war against the Soviet Union can now begin at any hour, because ® pretext is always ready. ‘We are witnessing the full realization of that which the Daily Worker has many times warned the workers and farmers of America. Japanese imperialism has displayed unexampled cynicism in the prep- aration of every desired pretext for each move in its bandit war. The sudden emergence of the Chinese General Ma as again a “rebel” against the Japanese puppet state in Manchuria, and again moving towards the border of the Soviet Union, recalls even for the shortest memory that only a few months ago the same General Ma provided the excuse upon which the Japanese sent “a small punitive expedition” to Tsitsihar, a movement which quickly realized itself’ as complete occupation of the Chinese Eastern Railway and all of northern Manchuria. General Ma is unquestionably another puppet of Japanese imperial- ism. He is described by the Soviet press as “a swindler serving the Jap- | gainst Hunger, War, Wage Cuts, Jim-Crowism, Capitalism! et Organize May Day Demonstrations and Mass Meetings in every town and v in the United States. Let every part of the country, small and large, reverberate on May Day with the struggle against the imperialist war, against wage-cuts, for government unemployment insurance, for the freedom of the Scottsboro Boys the defense of the Soviet Union! for WHITE GUARD ATTACK ON SO FFICES OF CHINESE EASTERN RAILWAY URGE MASS | PICKETING IN DOCK STRIKE 'MWIU Calls Strikers to Elect Rank and File Strike Committee NEW YORK.—Joseph P, Ryan, head of the International Long- shoremen’s Association and the ship- owners are exerting every effort to smash the influence of the Marine Workers Industrial Union and break the longshoremen’s strike against a 10 per cent wage cut which began here Friday. Over 1,000 dockers are now on strike, The docks effected are the ClydeMallory, Morgan, Southern Pa- cific and Savannah Line docks. The strikers all during the struggle have shown a determined and militant spirit and have declared that they will stay out until they win. Yesterday Ryan, who sold out the} dockers’ strike in 1919 and only re- | cently betrayed the Boston long-| shoremen into a wagecut, was on the | waterfront urging the strikers against mass picketing. Surrounded by over 150 gangsters, Ryan called two meet- | ings of the dockers at the Seamen's House on West Street. At these | meetings Ryan promised.the strikers the support of the teamsters and! MARY PEREZ, TAMPA DELEGATE, TO SOVIET UNION “The Glorious Achievements i of Russian Workers Have ! Inspired Me” | ‘Tom Mooney Calls for the Defense of the | Victorious Soviets | 10,000 Miners March| | bell, of Bradley, militant miner, | | troops several days ago. | | with hunger, pledged to carry on| | |to | | against starvation in which their | | | | proceeding to the cemetary there | | | |of the Sorher’s Mine of the Good. > In Mass Funeral of || Murdered Comrade | CADIZ, Ohio, April 18—Over ten thousand striking miners and their wives and children marched behind the bier of William sais | who was shot to death on the picket line by National Guard | | The masses of miners, sullen} and determined, their faces gaunt victory the great struggle felow worker Kimbell fell. TE While the great funeral was was stirring in the National Guard camp. New reenforce-| ments were rushed to the vicinty year Tire and Rubber Co. where | | Kimbell was murdered. \| Before the funeral the miners | held a mass meeting on the fair | grounds. The march to the metary covered a distance of aine miles, Price 3 VIET TOKYO FOREIGN OFFICE ISSUES NEW THREAT AGAINST SOVIET UNION | Troops of Japanese Puppet Manchurian State Looked On While White Guards Attacked Soviet Official and Railway Offices The Japanese war inciters yesterday moved | rapidly toward active realization of their crim- inal plans for armed intervention against the Soviet Union and its successful Socialist’ con- struction. Following quickly on the heels of the an- nouncement by the Japanese Government of the dispatch of warships to Soviet waters off Kamchatka, Northeastern Siberia, and of the sending of ad- ditional troops into Manchuria toward the Soviet border, the White Guard allies of the Japanese yesterday attacked Soviet citizens in the Manchurian city of Harbin. While the troops of the Japanese pupnet government in Miusifesto of sicncdl lye |Kuznetoff. Soviet manager of the Chinese Eastern Railway, which is owned by the Soviet Union and Jointly operated by China and the Soviet Union. When Kuznetoff aged to escape in an automobile, the White Guards broke into the offices | of the Chinese Eastern Railw eae looked on, an organized e and of 400 White Guards attacked United Front Committee | Demonstrate May 1---12:30 p.m. at spent the rest of his time denouncing ” | anese general staff.” His moves on the Soviet border fit in closely with | the M. W. L U. | 1 a ——By TOM MOONEY. sacked the files and wrec ey t the war plans of Japan. It is revealed that the telegrams supposed to be signed by General Ma and sent out to various parts of China and abroad from Blagoveschensk, in the Soviet Union, appealing for military action against the Japanese, were sent by the Japanese Consulate in that city as diplomatic coded telegrams. The aim of this vicious fraud is clear; by making it appear that Ma conducts hostilities from Soviet territory it provided the perfect preparation, even if the fraud is exposed the next day, for Japanese imperialism to begin its war against the Soviet Union. Simultaneously news reports tell of the mobbing by Russian White Guards in Harbin of the Soviet representative in the management of the Chinese Eastern Railway, Comrade Kuznetoff, who bearly escaped death at the hands of these rascals in Japanese pay. The railway line of the Chinese Eastern Railway connecting Harbing with Changchun and the South Manchurian Railway is being reconstructed by the Japanese to the narrow gauge, Japanese standard, and incorporated into the Japanese system tq guarantee the transport of troops and ammunition. Precisely at the moment when Japan completes preparations for war, the dirty intrigues of all the imperialist powers are coming to a climax in Geneva, where the representatives of all the imperialist powers are feverishly negotiating plans for redivision of the world, for new alliances and blocks, behind the mask of “disarmament.” One common main aim binds toyether the imperialist bandits in Geneva—that is, the destruction of the Spviet Union, United in this common aim, the imperialist powers are at the same time fighting bitterly among themselves for the lion’s share of the spoils. and manoeuvering for allies against one another. The Japanese foreign office does not deny that it is “awaiting pos- sible developments” in the alignments at Geneva, and in sharpening | contradictions and antagonisms inside the imperialist camp. Among the sharpest of these antagonisms is that between Japan and the United States. But that does not prevent American imperialism from continuing to give support to Japan for the war against the Soviet Union. Behind | the hypocritical manoeuvers of Washington, behind the pious declara- tions of “progressive” politicians and newspapers, Japanese and Amer- ican ships continue to transport enormous quantities of war materials and amunitions to the Far East for the use of the Japanese imperialist armies. In the United States, as in every imperialist country today, in the midst of the almost complete collapse of industries generally, the business of supplying materials for war is working at full speed. ‘ ‘The imminence of war again emphasized the role of the A. F. of L. and the Socialist party as the agents of the capitalist class, The Second International is operating openly as an appendage and tool of the League of Nations. The burocrats at the head of the American Federation: of Labor, with the same viciousness as their colleagues in Japan, are exert- ing every effort to mobilize the workers in support of war against the Soviet Union, The sharpest example of this, unprecedented even in the rich history of betrayal of the Second International, is the propaganda being made in the Illinois coal fields by the officials of the United Mine Workers of America that “the wage cut in the mining industry is in- evitable unless Japan makes war against the Soviet Union before May 1.” The workers; farmers and impoverished middle class of America must understand that the decisive hour has arrived in the struggle against the imperialist war which is prepared against the Soviet Union. May Day, the international day of the toiling masses, must be a mighty day of protest and strugcle against imperialist war, against the capitalist attacks upon the living standards of the workers, for the de- fense of the Soviet Union. Stop the transport of munitions and war materials to Japan! Smash the two-face imperialist diplomacy of the Hoover-Stimson ad- ministration and its preparations for war! Stop the robber war against the Chinese People! Defend the workers fatherland, the Soviet Union, Directives Issued for Demonstration at City Hall Thursday eisct 2 delogsien a part of tte| °@,0H8% Ball th & boty, delegation to go to the Board of 4-All organizations are called Estimate on Thursday. io to prepare placards with 2—Delegation will meet ‘Thurs- slogans on their immediate issues. day, 10 a. m, at 5 East 19th St. 5—Volunteers for active work in 3—Unemployed Councils shall Preparations for the demonstra- mobilize. the workers in their tion are asked te come to the City Council at 5 East 19th Street neighborhoods to come instructed The teamsters’ support, however, was not forthcoming and while the bosses were bringing scabs to load and unload the ships, Ryan urged the dockers against mass picketing The strikers fought hard against th: bringing of scabs to the docks. In one instance they turned over a truckload that was sent to the Sav- annah Line. MY COMRADELY GREETINGS INTERNATIONAL ISSUE AND RI Thugs Dispersed | A sharp fight took place in front | of the docks Saturday when Ryan's forces of thugs attempted to drive | organizers of the~ Marine Workers | Industrial Union off the waterfront. | In this encounter several of the| gangsters were beaten up and Ryan and two officials of the I. L, A. were driven to cover. MISERY HUNGER AND UNEM! VICTORIOUS ADVANCE, BY REACTIONARY FORCES D. | CONVEY FOR ME TO RUSSIAN WORKERS AND PEASANTS FROM BEHIND PRISON. BARS WHERE I AM SPENDING MY SIXTEENTH YEAR. I HAVE NEVER FORGOTTEN THAT THE DEMONSTRATION OF RUSSIAN WORK- ERS APRIL 25 NINETEEN SEVENTEEN MADE’ MY FRAME-UP” ESULTED IN COMMUTATION OF MY DEATH SENTENCE TO LIFE IMPRISONMENT. THEIR GLORIOUS ACHIEVEMENTS IN SUCCESSFULLY OR- GANIZING FIRST TIME IN HISTORY A SYSTEM BASED UPON | WELL BEING OF TOILING MASSES INSTEAD OF ENRICHMENT’ OF FEW HAVE INSPIRED ME TREMENDOUSLY, THEIR ACHIEVE- MENTS ARE PARTICULARLY SIGNIFICANT AT THIS TIME OF (PLOYMENT FOR MILLIONS OF WORKERS IN CAPITALIST WORLD I HOPE THEY CONTINUE WORKERS OF THE WORLD MUST PREVENT ANY ATTACK ESIRING THEIR DESTRUCTION, VICTORY FOR RUSSIAN WORKERS AND PEASANTS WILL BE VICTORY FO WORLD'S TOILERS, THEIR DEFEAT WOULD BE TERRIBLE CATASTROPHE TO ENTIRE WORKING CLASS. COMRADELY, TOM MOONEY. Urge Rank and File Control The organizers of the Marine Workers Industrial Union are ever present at the striking docks urg- ing the dockers to take full control of the strike in their own hands May Ist Delegation to | 7s | Union Sq.; March to Rutgers Sq.! through a duly elected rank and file strike committee. The long- shoremen must beware of allowing Ryan or his self-appointed com- mittee negotiate for them, The government labor concillators are already on the job. The long- shoremen must permit no nego- tiations with these government agents and must demand that their Leave Today for USSR NEW YORK, April 18.—All the members of the Dele gation to the Soviet Union arrived here. Yesterday night they spoke at the Send-off Banquet arranged by the Friends of the Soviet Union. They are workers whose election as mem- bers of the Delegation was endorsed by many labor organi- zations. They are enthusiastically #29— looking forward to the day when they will be able to set fot on the work- vast “straw country” which was once Russia, j an inning ers’ fatherland and see with their own eyes the tremendous social transformation taking place in the Japanese Use Oil Concession in Shakhalin to Provoke USSR Japanese oil concessions in Soviet territory on Sakhalin Island is the latest question aggressively raised by the Japa- | nese in their frantic hunt for a pretext for an immediate armed attack against the Soviet Union. Former Japanese Ambassa- dor to Moscow, Tokichi Tanaka, yesterday declared at Harbin | that exploitation of Japanese oil con- | cessions in Sakhalin were “meeting | with various obstacles.” “Soviet officials at once took ex- ception to this report, declaring that the oil concession was devel- oping normally and encountering no difficulties whatever. A Moscow dispatch to the New York Post reports that the Tass News Agency was authorized today to deny as absolutely false a report circulated in Japanese. bourgeois newspapers regarding an interview alleged to have been given by Maxim Litvinoff, Soviet Foreign Commissar, at Geneva, to the correspondent of the newspaper Tsitsi events in the Far East. own committee, elected by the rank (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) or any other place,” Agency said. The Agency pointed out that the | interview” was invented by the | Japanese bourgeois press “for their provocative, alarmist propaganda.” The Soviet newspaper “Pravda” | warned the Japanese imperialists that the Soviet masses were prepared to defend their soil and their achieve- ments in Socialist construction. It said: _ “Hired bandits are rushing on our frontiers. They should know there is not @ single window. through which robbers can creep without rish.” “Pravda” bluntly charged the Jap- anese imperialists with spreading lies the Tass concerning | “I am anxious to study socialist | construction now going on in the| Soviet Union,” declared one delegate, John Lorenze, representing the Mar- | ine Workers Industrial Union. “The workers of the Union which I rep-| resent expect me to report when I) return how the socialist construc- | tion effects the marine workers, how | it changes their living standards.” “In the name of these workers I will greet the seamen of the Soviet Union and assure them that the Marine Workers Industrial Union| will mobilize all American seamen to fight against the preparation of war | on the first Proletarian republic. “I know that as part of this prepara-| | {fon ammunitions are being shipned to the Far East in boxes that are de- | clared to contain fruit, etc. A ship| full of a certain substance called | “cellotax” which is highly inflam- | mable left for the Far East the other | day. Japanese hati 1 are trans- | porting gun-cotton.” , Walter’ Frank, a delegate from Minneapolis, received a message from Tom Mooney to be delivered to the Russian workers. We print) Mooney's message elsewhere in this Issue. The entire delegation will leave tonight for the Soviet Union. A} Send-Off Demonstration will take “M. Litvinoff neither talked to nor gave any interview to any | pare public opinion for “f { . , of alelged Soviet “terrorism” to pre-| place at 10. m. at Pier 4, 57th St.,| workers out of their last few pennies Brooklyn All workers are urged to| and for the preparation of war, The yabericinaie tm a demonsizationy arutaity of the poliee-in the damn- jay q WORKERS! This May Day, is our day of unity and solidarity in | struggle for unemployment insurance, against closing of Home Re- | lief Bureaus, for cash relief to all unemployed without discrimination. | The Tammany City administration and bankers conspired against our | very lives. They are ning hundreds of thousands of workers’ fam- | ilies to starvation. Their Block-Aid is a hold-up, to fill the pockets of the Tammany grafters. ; The bosses are trying to solve their crisis by taking the bread from the mouths of our children. The Hoover government is turning over billions to the bankers and trusts and pouring billions-into the war machine, but refuses unemployment insurance, The A. F, of L. leaders support the whole Hoover hunger program. Hundreds of thousands of us, working two or three days a week, already near the starvation level, find our wages cut without limit. The} bosses government directs their attack on the living standards of all) workers. The A, F. of L. and socialist leaders help the bosses put over | wage cuts, break strikes, and split the unity of the workingclass. The bosses try to take away our most elementary rights; to organize and resist wage cuts and hunger. Injunctions and police terror is let loose against us. | The boss terror is especially sharp against the Negroes, lynch ter- ror, discrimination and oppression of Negroes is raging throughout the country. The bosses and their agents try to set up white against Ne- gro, native against foreicn-born, in order to oppress and exploit all workers. The bloody lynch verdict against the Scottsboro boys is a blow against all workers, Demonstrate May First--March! For the richt to organize and strike, against police terror and injunctions, for the immediate release of Tom Mooney and the Scottsboro boys! | On this May First, all workers will unite to fitht against imperial- ist war, The bosses want to pile up huge profits by plunging us into a fresh world Lloodbath, by killing off the millions of unemployed. The | imperialist war is already on against the Chinese People. The Japanese tinperialist butchers are already at the gates of the Soviet Union. The | Imperialist Powers are ready for bloody war against workers’ Russia, | the only country that abolished unemployment, that is rapidly raising | the living standards, and is building a new socialist life for the masses. | | With slogans of “peace” the socialists and pacifists are helping the | bosses draw us step by step into the world imperialist bloodshed, just as they did in 1914-18, Fight the imperialist war! Defend the Chinese People and the Soviet Union! Stop the transport of munitions to Japan! Demand the | | billions in war funds for the unemployed! Out to Union Square May 1, | against hunger, war and capitalism! March to Rutzers Square! i Celebrate at 7:30 at the Bronx Coliseum, East 177th Street. | UNITED FRONT MAY DAY ANTI-WAR CONFEKENCE 5 East 19th Street, New York City. | 2 Unemp!oved to Demonstrate at City Hall for Relief Thursday An in mobilization is golag on for the Cily Hall demonstration on Thursday, April 21st at 1 p, m. The demonstration at City Hall will back up the delegation elected ftom | many workers’ organizations under the leadership of the Unemployed Council demanding: 1—Immediate cash relief for all unemployed; no cutting down of relief; 3—no di crimination in giving of relief; 4—~ for unemployment insurance paid by onsthation against the Home Rel.c. Buro precincts will be exposed a City Hall on Thursday. Mayor Walker in his cyncial de- mogogic form has announced @ “Beer Parade” for May 14th. The issue of beer is now being played up by Tammany Hall to drown the cry of the unemployed for bread. Will- jam Green and Matthew Woll have endorsed this grand idea realizing full well the tactic that Mayor the state and the bosses. | Walker is using against the unem- The demonstration will expose the ployed. This is a follow-up on their fake “Block Aid” which is being .| policy of betraying the interests of the unemployed by voting against unemployment insurance at the Vancouver convention of the A. F. used as a means of fooling the| |equipment. The White Guards {shouted threats against the Soviet | Union. Again the Japanese con- | trolled Chinese troops of the puppet | Manchurian government looked on and did nothing to prevent the raid or arrest the White Guard bandits, These Japanese protected ar | viet activities of the White jare a further confirmation of the |admissions in the imperialist press | during the past fortnicht that the | Japanese were now ready to carry om | their plans to attack the Sovict Une ion. This is further emphasized in jthe announcement from Tokyo of | Japanese intentions to seize the ares Eastern Railway. A Tokyo dispatch to the New Yor® Times re ports that the Japanese are | preparing to change the gauge of st Chinese Eastern Railway to | standard gauge “making it available }for the South Manchuria Railway's | rolling stock.” This will enable the | Japanese to connect up the whole |system of Manchurian railways for transnortation of their troops to the Soviet border. The Sovth Manchuria Roil is owned and or d bv the Janonese, Fenring that even these latest proe vocations wil fa‘l to swerv viet Union from its firm icy, the Japane c monstrous war i open threats against the Soviet Une jon and accusations that the Soviet Union is “vrovoking” Japan. A Toke yo dispatch to the New York Times | reports the renewal by the Japanese | government, throuzh its Foreing Ofe fice spokesman. of the lying accuse sation that Soviet citizens were ree sponsible for the wrecking of a Jape anese troop train on the Chinese Eastern Railway and the attempt te blow up the Sunz2ri River bridte on the railway. The Foreien. Office spokesman was forced to admit that “poritive proof was lackinz.” As @ matter of fact, the attempts against the railway were made by the White Guard allies of the Japanese. It is these same White Gverd allies that are now conducting the “investiga= | tion” of dynamiting of the bridge. | Althourh admittedly failing in his | attempt to connect the Soviet Union or any of its citizens with the ate tempt against the railway, he Jap- anese Foreign wffice spokesman, made the following threatening statement: “If provocative acts like the April 12th wreck were repeated they un~ doubtedly would have serious con« sequences.” This statement was given addi< | tional significance by the attempt.of ment | Japanese military officials at Muke den, Manchuria, to conect the So viet Union with the wreck of the troop train and their statement that Japan was prepared “to stop such tactics at any cost.” fe