The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 19, 1932, Page 4

one ALgonquin 4-7956. Cable ng C&, in, Gaily Szcept Sunday, at 90 wast “DAIWORK.2 y Worker, 60 East 18th Street, New York, N. Y. wy mail everywhere: One year, SUBSCRIPTION RATES: $6; six months, $3; two months, $1; of Menhettas and Bronx, New York City. Foreign: one year, $8; six months, 94.50, xeepting Boroughs ay US. INTERVENTION AGAINST RUSSIAN REVOLUTION LIEUT. X and SERGEANT J Members of 339th Mic Infantry ir 2 to get sickrating; supplies were British Archangel, Third Battali talion debarkeq at Bakaritza, om Archangel, and went on ng towed upstream on the men of this battalion nd were carried on board old barges, dyi m the way. The Second lion w left ard Archangel. Colonel Georg: vart was in command of the American forces in North Russia, but even he did not know where his troops were when the British “EF chic) Command” finished | ordering us here, hither and yon, A friend of the writer states he does not believe the British G. H. Q@. itself knew! (as my friend was a British officer on the G. H. Q, liason, he is qualified to We learne in addition to the American forces, there were 6,000 English troops, all the rank and file g Class 3-C men, who were rightly entitled home. The English G. H. Q. idea being to n the “inferior people do the iighting, contained nearly as many | | current could carry him! | he was tied up snugly—and immovably—far to ‘ought up to the front linés, rge against the Reds and kept right on going (after hoisting white flags during the charge) till they reached the Red lines and disappeared with much shouting and laughter..! Yes, indeed, they took all the equipment. ! ! On the arrival of the allied forces at Arch- el the Reds had retreated to Pinega on the t, to Onega on the left (each city about 40 from Archangel) and to Shenkursk on the th. The rivers flow northerly in this region White Sea and Arctic Ocean. Shen- ursk was 200 miles from Archangel. This was the Front an inverted V-cone. The railroad ran due fh from Archangel, midway between the Dvina and Onega rivers. General Poole, the English commander-in- » was getting the “Allied” forces into all ts of predicaments with his “shavetail’ of- ficers. On one occasion the captain of the-Brit- | ish monitor operating on the Dvina River, swag- | gered into the American quarters, and loudly demanded: “Where are the bloody Bolsheviks, and which is the way to Kotlas?” This officer had made himself particularly obnoxious to the Americans on all occasions, and he has promptly given the information he desired by the properly-impressed American ser- geant in charge of that outpost (who promptly sent a wigwag to the Bolsheviks by some mem- bers of his company who had an old score to settle with this officer as well as a rapidly- | developing sympathy for the Bolsheviks). The noble Admiral steamed haughtily up the river and found the Reds: who promtpty heaved a shell into him amidships, killing seven, wound- ing 18....and His Noble Highness, commander of the one-craft battle squadron, scuttled down the river as fast as his crippled engines and the When next wanted, the rear! Shortly after this incident General Edmund Ironside, who had been “especially selected,” replaced General Poole as English commander- in-chief. The Americans promptly named him “Old Tinribs.” He was as stupid and haughty as Poole. All winter the outpost fighting continued: | there was never a regular pitched battle; we fought in groups of 5 to 150 men; we lost three | or four men to each skitmish; the Reds lost By BURCK : Lynch Law to Strengthen the War Machine in Hawaii hahawai that Lieut. Massie and his his elegant mother-in law, Mrs. Fortesque plotted and car- ried out the lynching of the young man. Darrow fought to shield and justify the lynching by re- echoing the traditional lie orginated by the slave holders of the South against their victims of lynch terror—“the sanctity of white womanhood By H. M. WICKS. L ee DEFENSE in a Honolulu court of the naval officer, Thomas H. Massie, his mother-in law, Mrs. Granville Fortesque, and the two sailors, Jones and Lord, on trial because they lynched Joseph Kahahawai, young Hawaiian, is @ challenge to all fighters against American im- more, due to the Springfields outranging their 1 several | @tms. The British G. H. @ ordered us to take ve, SSP Py "dew ON . | this or that point or village. Sometimes we did; dians, and some Cossacks” and “White” Rus- , often not. Nearly all the British officers and fais: /cthe total “white? forces numbering, | ™8my of the American officers remained at finally about 13,000. Archangel—where 40,000 cases of whiskey were French Troops Balk gaara: The French troops balked on hearing of the Armistice from the Bolshevik leaflets, threw | down their arms and walked out. The Italians troops refused to fight from the start nor did | they AT ANY TIME fight. | The Serbs savagely disliked the British and the British ai ; against the Reds they held no enmity; they would have liked to fight the Italians (a holdover from the Western front) but their main desire was to go home, The Cossacks most of whom were “Cossacks’ by virtue of their uniform only, proved sickening “duds” and couldn’t be trusted the length of a | bayonet in a scrap against the Reds. In the | first skirmish their speed was positively mar- * ous! Finally, the “numberless patriotic (sic) Rus- officers a: There were also hundred each of Company L Refuses To Fight Back in Archangel, L Company, who had been sent back for a rest, were ordered to return to the front. They refusedi A liason and G, H. Q. officer told me at this time many mutinies and near-mutinies were being reported, but were immediately censored and ignored. It would be interesting to know how many actually occurred among the scattered detachments and units from Pinega to Shen- kursk to Onega and back to the base at Ar- | changel. In fact, by April 2, 1919 the rage and actions | of the enlisted men as well as some of their | officers had become so great that General Wllds B. Richardson, a former commander in Alaska, | arrived to sound retreat. No shots were fired éians” who were to spring to arms in defense against the Reds after that....in fact, in many of the fatherland—as interpreted by the British ; cases none had been fired for several months. —showed up in battles some 10,000 strong and In the next sixty days we were placed on anything but strong at that! ships and sent home, leaving over 200 killed, Of these, two battalions mutined in Arch- | and having 250 wounded with us end those who angel, smd under orders again of the English died of sickness, are, as usual, not lsted in such Command, the Second Battalion Americans | little affairs, turned their guns on them while the “White” | We learned many things that were unexplain- officers executed thirteen of the mutineers. | able at that time. We have learned that the ‘This caused savage resentment among the Am- | men we fought as enemies were our best friends. ericans, {ncluding some of the officers, not only We have learned that those who sent us against agetmst guch hangman's work asked of soldiers, | the Reds were hypocrits, Hars and cowards ! |— but also against the English for not using their in the pay of the millionaire class, or their own troops. Afterwards we learned the English blind dupes! troops had refused to such work! And . . . WHEN THE NEXT TIME COMES Three Battalions Go Red | WE HAVE LEARNED MUCH... THAT On another occasion, three battalions, in heavy | WE SHALL NOT FORGET ! { ~ Ely on Curley—Curley on Ely By T. WYNN R. Mayor Curley of Boston is a Roosevelt man. He is the fellow who is carrying out the policy of the Republican and Democratic bosses in the city of Boston and vicinity. He is | & great demagogue, of the type of Mayor Mur- phy of Detroit. Mayor Curley has carried out a hunger policy for the 100,000 unemployed and wage-cuts for the employed. Curley is supported by the A. F. of L. State Federation, the Central Labor Union and the Socialist Party. His police are as brutal and terroristic as are the police of any Republican or Democratic mayor. Mayor Curley and his courts have sent dozens of strikers and unemployed to jail for fighting against wage-cuts and for unempolyment insur- ance. He has recently helped to send L. Keith, organizer for the Young Communist League; Whither, Dalowich, Sanders and two other workers to Deer Island for a period of three to twelve months, for their unemployed activity. Mayor Curley has always boasted that there are no hungry unemployed in the city of Bos- ton. He says he is paying out over a million dollars 2 month for relief. His gang of the A. ¥, of L, always boosts him as a “friend of labor.” 4 Mr. Ely, governor of Massachusetts, ts also a democrat. What is said about Curley holds good for Ely too. Fly is a Smith man now. He and David I. Walsh are the high hats of the Smith jgang. Governor Ely is as ardent a defender of ithe present system as A. Mellon, | In January, 1932, Ely seid hg would not pro- because he saw the immediate return of pros- perity, In March this year Governor Ely proudly telegraphed to the Congress Committee, saying that there is no starvation in his state, The same Ely who did not propose any relief meas- ure is, however, proposing a 20-million-dollar finance corporation to help the bankers and industrialists. Governor Ely helped to break the last Lew- rence strike, as well as being active in all wage cuts in the state. ‘There are over 400,000 unemployed in the state of Massachusetts. 7 Mr. Ely ts just as big as demagogue as Mayor Curley whom the revolutionary movement, under the leadership of the Communists, must expose | before the entire working-class, ‘To make it easier for us, let us put Governor | Ely on the stand against Mayor Curley. On April 13th, Mr. Ely appeared for the first time at @ Smith rally, Attacking Mr. Curley, of the Roosevelt crew, he said: “My frenzied political opponent in this domestic struggle in Massachu- setts, nightly paints the picture of episodes— episodes portraying human suffering, that is a daily occurrence, I might say an hourly occur- rence, while Curley was away this winter for » two months’ vacation in Florida.” So tragic was the situation of the thousands of unempolyed workers of the city of Boston and vicinity that the Mayor*left for @ vacation 1,500 miles sway. The same demagogue, Curley, who told the Unemployed Council of Boston that there is no suffering in his city, is now in his dirty Demo- cratic campalgn, testifying against himself. Let's put Curley on the stand against Wy: perialism. The defense of these lynchers is a dramatic climax of a campaign to establish lynch law against the inhabitans of that American possession, which is regarded by the highest officials at Washington as the chief strategic military and naval outpost in the Pacific. The defense of these lynchers is a part of Wall Street's war preparations in the Pacific. It is in accord with the demagogy of the im- perialist ruling class that the services of Clarence | Darrow, the much-advertised “liberal” and “hu- manitarian” should be enlisted as chief of de- fense counsel to put over its lynch policy in Ha- wali. Darrow has of late become an expert, spe- cializing in aiding lynchers. Only recently he aided the National Association for the Advance- | ment of Colored People in an attempt to disrupt and disintegrate the world mass movement in defense of the Scottsboro boys. He tried to aid the Alabama lynch gang in their frame-up to railroad these innocent boys to the electric chair, under the pretense of desiring to defend them in court. Now this same Darrow becomes the “star” .attraction .in .the .anti-climax of the tragedy that began with the bestial lynching of @ young Hawaiian at the hands of @ depraved naval quartet. In Alabama Darrow aided the lynchers in their attempé to drive out the In- ternational Labor Defense, because its activity threatened to defeat the lynch plot against the Scottsboro boys. In Hawaii Darrow now openly defends lynchers. + Darrow’s first legal “skirmish” in Honolulu was an attempt to bar Hawaiian and other citi- zens who were not white from the jury. He fought fo a “lily white” lynch jury that would bring in the sort of verdict advocated by William Randolph Hearst's “New York American”, of Friday, April 15, a jury “fixing the guilt upon him”, that is to say upon the dead Hawaiian youth, Joseph Kahahawail, Darrow’s second “skirmish” was to introduce into the case the story of the alleged assault upon the wife of Lieutenant Massie as related by her and totally unsupported by anyone else, It was because & jury refused to believe her story against Ka- 1932 in Boston and vicinity.” This Curley stated the first week in April, when his campaign began. Ely said there was no starvation in his state, but Curley comes out and throws s num- ber of starving people in Ely’s face, for certain fake reasons. The facts are that Mayor Curley is as big @ liar as Ely. One Hes on a city scale and the other on a state scale. The number of starving workers in the city of Boston is more than five times 200, and the undernourished children and unemployed workers who are a step from starvation, are in the thousands, Mr, Ely’s Ue is pinned by himself, by Curley, by the suicides which are so often covered up by the press. His He is exposed by the agonizing suf- ferings of the tens of thousands of under- nourished textile, shoe and other workers and their families, ‘The state hunger march is exposing this and will do more before the Legislature on May 2nd. We must not have any illusions about this fake battle between different factions of the capitalist | parties. Especially in this period, social dema- gogy is dangerous. The democrats, Republicans and Socialists are creating fake issues, using “left” phrases in order to cover up the real is- sues. They are trying to draw the workers away from the fight for unemployment insurance and into the fake fights of the capitalist parties. Thet three capitalist parties are planning a way of putting the burden of the crisis on the backs of the workers. Mr, Smith in his speech on April 13, presented 6 points to save capitalism. This is the same program that the Republicar Party has. ‘The Communist Party program in the coming Presidential elections is the only working-class program around which millions of workers should be rallied. It shows the workers the is threatened.” That slave holders’ rallying cry | for wholesale butchery of defenseless Negroes is the slogan of the imperialist fiends against the natives of Hawaii today, who want to make se- cure their rule of frightfulness in the Islands and strengthen their war position in the Pacific. “Honor of Womanhood Is Real Issue Before | Honolulu Jury,” screeches the headlines of Hearst’s reptile press. The Hearst editorial of April 15 continues: “The real case before the court is the Cause of the killing of Kahahawai and not the killing itself. : “Under the circumstances it is irrelevant to speak of the ‘sanctity of the law’. “There has been no sanctity of the law in Hawaii so far as it is concerned with the pro- tection of white women. “At least forty cases of vicious outrages against them have been reported in recent months and nobody has been punished, “That is to say nobody has been punished by the law. eeeeeee . “What more natural than that the husband and the mother of the outraged woman should take the law into their own hands and thereby vindicate the sanctity of womanhood-” ‘The same dastardly lie, the same infamous slander has appeared, word for word, in hun- dreds of editorials defending the monstrous in- stitution of lynching. The papers of Scottsboro, | Huntsville, Birmingham, Chattanooga, Atlanta, said the same thing in regard to the frame up | against the Scottsboro boys, against Willie Peter- | son, is used in the South (and in the North) to | try to destroy the growing ‘unity of white and | Negro workers in the fight against the hunger and war-mongering program of Wall Street. In Hawaii the same policy of fomenting-lynch- ings and massacres is being introduced by the | agents of American imperialism. Members of | the Hoover cabinet, republican and democratic | senators from the North and the South, have | convicted themselves out of their own mouths | of plotting to establish lynching as an institution in the Hawaiian islands, as a part of their policy of colonial frightfulness and to strengthen that important war base in the Pacific. Secretary of the Navy, Adams, stated at Wash- ington on January 16 that he does not “wish it to be understood that the navy is satisfied with the Present, system of justice in the Islands.” In reply to questions of Senator McKellar, lynch senator from Tennessee, Adams let it be known that he wanted definite assurances that naval interests in Hawaii would be “: ”. Secretary of the Interior Ray Lyman Wilbur, whose de- partment has jurisdiction over Hawaii, upheld Adams’ views, “so officers and their families could safely be on shore in Hawaii.” Senator Bingham, the republican senator from Connecticut, and McKellar, the Tennessee demo- crat, attacked the Hawaiian jury system because natives, and other racial groups other than white, - were permitted to serve on juries. Both those senators advocated the establishment of a sys- tem prohibiting any but whites serving on juries, the same system prevailing in the Southern states, which bars Negroes from jury service. Congressman Fred A. Britten of Inois, rank- ing republican <aember of the House Naval Com- mittee, urg’ s changes in the laws to secure com- plete naval tyranny over the Islands. Britten declared: “Naval maneuvers in Hawaii are absolutely essential to developing the efficiency of our navy. Nothing should be allowed to interfere with them.” A Senator Bingham, whose Committee on Ter- ritories, has jurisdiction over legislation affect- ing Hawaii, urges a virtual naval dictatorship and contends that: “Hawaii is our chief strategic outpost in the Pacific, It is obvious that we must maintain large military and naval forces there at times and that the officers and men of the army and nay must be able to live at peace with the in- habitants of the territory.” Senator McKellar, commenting upon the lying mandant of Pearl Harbor, that more than 40 as- sault cases had occurred in the Islands in the eleven months before the alleged Massie assault, also brought out the importance of Hawaii for war purposes: “We have one of our principal army garri- sons in Honolulu, we have one of the most im- portant of all our naval stations at Pearl Har- bor, and I understand also we have ¢ here a force of marines, yet, despite the present of these forces, apparently little, if any thing, has been done to correct a situation so grave that the government is afraid te permit our officers and enlisted men to go ashore for fear it may lead to bloodshed.” Can one read the above comments from Wash- ington and doubt the intimate connection be- tween the plot to establish lynch law in Hawaii and the preparations for imperialist war in the Pacific? But more damning still are the facts about the absence of assaults on women in Hawaii, Dr. Thomas Mossman, of the Honolulu city emergency hospital, which handles all assault cases, was reported in the New York Times of January 11 to have said: “Any statement that gives the impression that we have had 40 cases of criminal assault here in the last eleven months is far from the facts. “During 1931 we handled some 60 cases of the so-called sex type. Of these 20 proved to be absolutely non-intercourse incidents. There were approximately 29 cases in which females less than 16 years old were involved and 20 other cases involving women between 16 and 20. “It is inaccurate and unfair to classify any of these cases as criminal assault when there is every reason to believe they were not.” The case of Mrs. Massie, wife of the naval thug who, with his mother-in-law and two sail- ors, one of whom testified that he was always drunk, lynched the Hawaiian youth, throws a bright light upon “official life” in the upper set of the armed forces of Yankee imperialism. The Massies were participants in a drunken orgy at the home of another officer. Mrs. Mas- sie wandered from the house in, a drunken stu- por and in the course of an hour or so made her way to her own home where shé was found a bit battered and somewhat the worse for wear and tear. The Massie family later gave out the “assault” story to explain her escapade. This occurried last September. Later four young Ha- wailans were arrested and tried for assaulting her. The jury disagreed because most of them refused to believe the unsupported word of @ drunken wife of a naval officer. In January Massie and his mother-in-law, with the aid of two sailors, carried out the lynching of Kaha- hawai because the jury refused t6 carry out the wishes of the naval clique and legally lynch the five boys. This is the specimen of “white womanhood” the agents of American imperialism are raving about. This is the sum and substance of the case that is being used by the imperialist bandits to es- tablish 8 naval tyranny over the Islands, to de- prive the natives and other colored inhabitants of even the meagre rights they have hitherto been permitted to exercise. ‘This case is just as much a@ part of the war preparations as are the naval and military ma- neuvers in the Pacific; the mobilization of bat~ teships, airplane carriers and cruisers in Ha- walian waters; the “summer exercises” in Chi- nese waters; the announcement from the navy department that a “decision may be made to retain most of these ships in the Pacific for some time,” because of the uncertainties of the “Far Eastern situation.” _ Against this conspiracy the working class of the United States must wage the most deéter- mined strutgle, and demand that all armed forces be withdrawn from Hawaii, from the Phil- ippines and all Pacific “possessions” and that the inhabitants of those Islands be granted im- mediate and complete independence, This is an integral part of the fight against lynch law in the United States, the fight against the Hoo- ver hunger program, the fight to free the Scotts- fight against the ravaging of China and the de- fense of the Soviet Union. “The Soviet Union Stands for Peace,’ the great speech made by Comrade Litvinov, rop- resentative of the Soviet Union at Geneva, shows the peace policy of the Soviet Union and the The Boss Press Loses comt | Jd) this to the Central Office, Faith in Ford By B. K. GEBERT at 7 IN THE early part of March, 1932 Henry Ford | was hailed as the St. George who would Ki the dragon known as “depression.” Tt was ane nounced in every paper in the country that Ford was striving to turn the tide of the present eco- nomic crisis of capitalism and he would lead the country out of the crisis. Here is what the papers in the early part of March said about it: “Ford will spend more than $300,000,000 this year; that he will employ more than 100,000 men in Detroit alone; that he will make $16,500,000 worth of steel in his own mills, and will buy more than $47,000,000 worth from outside steel | makers; that he will spend millions for things like rubber and leather, and glass and castings, and lumber, and copper, and lead; and that he will make use of 236,000 inbound and 228,000 outbound freight cars.” And we were signifie cantly reminded that not Detrcit alone or Michi- gan alone, or even the United States alone that would be affected, for, “looking over the world, Ford's plants will draw materials and finished parts from England, Germany, France, Russia, Canada, India, Brazil China Mexico Japan, the Federated Malay States, and the Straits Settle- ments.” ‘i And now, what are the results? The Chicago | Evening Post reports on the results as follows: “Thus what is reported to have been another bit of prosperity bullyhoo from Washington has had precisely the opposite effect. Instead of increasing confidence it has actually curtailed the normal spring rise in automobile sales for competitors whose new models are already in the market. The result of this curtailment is directly reflected in the low ratio of ingot output in the steel industry.” The Iron Age, reporting on the further drop in steel and iron production declares: “Not only has the Ford Motor company failed to fulfill its recent promises of large steel orders, but the delays in its preduction schedule have slowed up other automobile..manufacturers to such an extent thai steel mill schedules have been adversely affected.” The Chicago Tribune, reporting on the pros- perity ballyhoo, put they whole matter squarely, that these announcements of Ford had been made for the purpose of pleasing the Hoover 1 administration, stating very definitely: “. . . that the recent announcement of the new models by Henry Ford were made rather reluctantly, if not prematurely, because of in- sistance by the Hooyer administration that it would help along the prosperity campaign.” These statements of the leading capitalist newspapers are very important as they are addi- tional admissions that all the prophecies of im- provement proved to be empty bubbles. They are admission that there is a further decline in production, further drop in prices, further growth of unemployment, and further develop- ment of the agrarian crisis, as well as a finan- cial crisis. There are lessons to be drawn from this by the working class, that the only real way out of the capitalist impasse is the revolu- tionary way out—that is, the abolition of the capitalist system, This must be placed before the working class at this period in much sharper form than ever before. The present crisis, which began in the middle of 1929, is steadily developing deeper and having @ much broader effect. The whole burden of the crisis is falling on the shoulders of the masses, destroying all previous living standards of the working class by systematic wage cuts, and throwing out of work of new huge masses, The whole country is in a situation where the 4 masses are impoverished more than ever, and the outlook is one of continued impoverishmens as long as capitalism lasts, This does not mean, however, that the capitale ists may not find their own capitalist “solution” of the present crisis. The capitalists, recognize ing this, are attempting to put the whole burden of the crisis on the working class, by lowering the standard of living, institution of the stagger system, and @ very low ratio of relief for the purpose of lowering the standard of living and at the same time preparing for a war in which they attempt to stimulate at least the was industries. These are the conditions the working class faces under capitalist rule. The workers, how- ever, must clearly understand that there is another way out of the present economic crisis of capitalism and that is, the abolition of the capitalist system and the establishment of a government of the workers and farmers. This becomes an outstanding issue and must be linked up as our perspective in the situation, together with the every-day struggles of the workers, | employed and unemployed, Negro masses and ~ masses of poor farmers. Precisely because of this situation, the subjec- tive factor, the action of the impoverished and exploited masses, is decisive, and therefore the organization of the workers in the shops, build- ing leagues and unions of the Trade Union Unity League, development of opposition movements in the American Federation of Labor, building come mittees of the unemplpoyed, penetrating into the masses of farmers, raising to the forefront the slogan of national liberation of the Negre masses, self-determination and equality for Negro masses, becomes a burning issue of the day, Failing to realize the importance of the situme tion today, our Party will not be able to fulfill its task of mobilizing the workers against capl« talism. i Workers! Join the Party of. Your Class Communist Party U 8 A P. O. Box 87 Station D. New York City. of Please send me more information on the Come | munist Party. d » Age.