The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 20, 1932, Page 1

WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! Dail: (Section of the Communist International) - Se NO) «Worker IN every town and village of the United States a reader of the Daily Worker can become an organizer of a May Day demonstration against the rob- ber war on the Chinese people, against wage-cuts, for government unem- ployment insurance, for the freedom of the Scottsboro boys, for the de- fense of the Soviet Union! Vol. IX, No. 94 Soa zx’ NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 20, 1932 Cae. ae Price 3 Cents _ JAPAN RUSHES STILL MORE TROOPS TO SOVIET BORDER © All Out to City Hall Tomor 10 DEMAND . American Munitions Arm Japanese for War on Soviet Union 0% April 14, the Daily Worker quoted from “Affairs,” a confidential survey issued only to capitalist subscribers, to the effect that large shipments of nitrates for Japan were being made from Hopewell, Va. The Daily Worker has received the following letter in response to this editorial: Hopewell, Va. fo the Editor: Re: Nitrates shipped from Hopewell, Va. I can give you some information about Hopewell, though not as & worker at one of the plants. During the war there was a camp situated there right outside the city, called Camp Yee. Du Pont had a tremendous ammunition factory in Hopewell itself, After the war they sold their plant to Tubize Rayon, Inc. About two years ago a large addition was made to Tubize, which is making artificial silk, and the common rumor around town was that this addition was for the purpose of building ammunitions. Also the Allied Chemical about three years ago started construc- tion in Hopewell of a chemical plant whose purpose seemed to be the manufacture of fertilizers and the extraction of nitrogen from the air. | ‘This plant is very imposing and it is probably the source of the nitrates } raentioned above, j In addition, Du Pont took himself back to that section about two years ago and built a tremendous rayon silk, supposedly, factory, This is situated on the Richmond-Petersburg turnpike, seventeen miles from Richmond, the capital of Virginia. I have never seen the factory be- cause it is situated at quite a distance from the edge of the main high- way and is guarded strictly. All three of these factories are potenti- ally, if not already, munition-manufacturing factories. Hopewell itself consists essentially of the type of workers known in the South as “poor white.” No one else will live there because of the odors from the Allied. The workers pay back most of the salaries to the factories because the majority of the houses belong either to the Tubize or the Allied Chemical. K. K, This letter is an example as to how important is workers’ correspond- ence in exposing and fighting against the participation of American im- perlalism™in the preparation of war against-the Soviet. Union, in -disclos- ing the imperialist cliques which stand behind these preparations, and to what extent the extra profits of these war-mongers is built not only on the future swift death of millions of soldiers, but also on the daily starvation and annihilation of the workers, The ammunition that American imperialism is sending to Japanese imperialism, directly or through French channels, is produced by workers who are poisoned by gasses and enslaved as “poor whites” in the DuPont and other munition factories. This arr ‘nunition, like the immense stores being produced and ship- ped in Burcoe, are destined for use, in the first place, in the war agains‘ the Seviet Union. W enough workers could know all the facts of these munitions, and the conditions of their production, they would find the ways and means te stop this traffic in the death and misery of the masses, in spite of all ‘terror and demagogy of the capitalist class and all its agents. But the plot of the imperialists, and their lackeys, including the Socialist party amd the pacifists, is to cover up the truth, to hide it away, for there is nothing they fear so much as the anger of the aroused masses. One of the best ways to disclose these shameful facts, to expose the war plots and @stions, is workers’ correspondence from the factories. Comrade K. (it is not necessary to explain why we withhold his name) contributed to the exposure of American imperialism by his ‘information, ore than could be done by any general declamation against war. His example should be followed. ‘These are the facts, and there are millions more damning to be dis+ closed, which will rouse the American workers to understand the necessity “» take up and fight for the Communist slogans: i Stop the shipment of war munitions to Japanese imperialism! Smash the two-faced imperialist intrigues of American imperialism, which is participating in the war preparations! OPENING OF RELIEF BURO Mobilize at Head-} quarters of Council NEW YORK.— Throughout New New York and Brooklyn, thousands | of workingmen and women will rally on Thursday, April 2ist to mass in City Hall Plaza at 1 p. m., in protest against the cutting down of unem- ployment relief by the city. A representative delegation has) been selected by numerous trade unions and workers’ organizations, consisting of white and Negro men and women, ex-serviccmen, relief laborers and others suffering from unemployment. This group plans to appear before the Board of Estimate during the demonstration to make clear the demands of New York's workers for immediate adequate un- employment relief. Mayor Walker has been informed of the determination of the unemployed to back up their | delegation with the support of all | other workers and the Unemployed | Council of Greater New York has | informed the Mayor that he is ex- pected to arrange for a hearing of the demands, Groups will form in the morning on Thursday at various Unemployed Council headquarters in éattnéigh= borhood from where they will pro- ceed in large numbers directly to City Hall. Open air meetings earlier in the day will mobilize mass support and participating in the demonstration. Headquarters of workers’ clubs will also be used as starting points for the workers in each neighborhood plan- ning to take part in the mass demand for work and adequate relief for the unemployed. Placards will be carried by the workers exposing the fake “Block- Aid” scheme which has only collected money from the workers but refuses them relief, demanding immediate reopening of the Home Relief Bu- reaus, appropriation of funds for relief of the unemployed, no dis~ crmination of Negro or foreign-born workers as recently ordered by the Relief Bureau. This mass demon- stration will expose Mayor Walker’s demagogy in proposing beer for bread. ‘The following directives were sent out by the Unemployed Council oi Greater New York to all organiza- tions supporting the City Hall dem- onstration: ~ 1) All organizations to elect two delegates to appear before the Board Estimate, Stop the robber war of Japanese miperialism on the Chinese People! Defend the Workers’ Fatherland, the Soviet Union! MWIU Calls Workers to Support Dockers’ Strike MEW YORK.—Over a thousand who struck Friday on committee to lead the strike. Police and gangsters exerted the utmost the West St. coastwise docks against a 10 per cent wage-cut, are con- tinuing their determined struggle to win despite the attempts of the In- ternational Longshoremen’s Associa- tion offocials to betray the strike. ‘The dockers stood solid throughout the day yesterday, but no attempts were made at mass picketing to stop the scabs, Several truckloads of scabs were brought to the striking docks by squads of motorcycle police right under the nose of J. P. Ryan, who has-urged the strikers from the start against picketing. Ryan stood unmoved in the center of the street when the scabs were brought in. Like the scabs, Ryan was given strong police protection. © Not only was this 250-pound gentleman given the cooperation of the Tammany cops, but he was also “surrounded by a crowd of thugs and gangsters, under the leadership of the notorious Frankie Madden. These to drive the Marine Workers Indus- trial Union organizers away from the docks, The Marine Workers Industrial Union organizes whose influence is directly responsible for the strike, continued throughout the day to terror but were futile in their thug- gish attempts from learning of the militant program of the M. W. I. U. This morning the M. W, I. U will hold a mass meeting at West and 12th Sts. where speakers from the union will explain the program of the Trade Union Unity League and mobilize the dockers for struggle against @ sell-out scheme of Joseph Ryan. : to be at West and 12th Sts. not later 2) Delegation to meet at 5 East 19th St. top floor, Thursday at 10 a.m. 3) Prepare placards with suitable slogans for City Hall. ) Mobilize by leaflets and open air meetings workers in each neighbor- hood to meet in organization halls before going to City Hall. 5) Volunteers for active work in preparation of the demonstration report to Unemployed Council, 5 East 19th St., top floor, at all hours from now until the demonstration, 6) Organizations not yet having got leaflets for Thursday, get them at once from the Unemployed Coun- cil, FOOD WORKERS GENERAL FRACTION. A meeting of all Party members of the Food Workers Industrial Union will be held Wednesday night, April 20, 8 p. m., at the Workers Center, to mobliize for the May Day demon- than 7.30 a. m, to help the longshore- men picket the docks. To Give 35 P.C. Building Trades Workers stration and to take up other im- portant organizational questions. Cut for 115,000 In reality they will be much lower. The building trades industry has been affected by unemployment more than other industries with as high as 60 per cent out of jobs. The union scale of wages was long a thing of the past due to the re- fusal of union bureaucrats to carry .n any struggle. iegotiations are still going on and the unions are making no at- tempt to mobilize the workers for PROTECTING COAL PROFITS a Ohio National Guard marching against starving miners in Cadiz, Monday these troops turned their guns loose on a mass picket line of striking miners and wounded three. Despite the armed terror, the miners are rallying their forces for renewed picketing on all struck mines. Force Lynch Court to Give Stay of Execution in Case of Seven Scottsboro Boys Mass Protests Again Block Legal Lynching As: I, L. D. Attorneys Prepare to Take Fight to U. S. Supreme Court MONTGOMERY, April 19—Again the working class has forced the Alabama lynchers to retreat on the date for the legal massacre of the innocent Scottsboro boys. Yesterday the Alabama Supreme Court, despite the vio- lent opposition of the Alabama Attorney General, was forced to grant a stay in the execution, until June 24, of the lynch verdicts pending an appeal to the United States Supreme Court. May 13 had been set for the legal murder of seven of the boys in the recent decision of the Alabama Supreme Court uphold- ing the lynch verdicts of the lower®- court at Scottsboro against these 7 boys. One of the eight boys sen- tenced to burn in the lectric chair of ten thousand dollars at once. Rush funds to the Scottsboro De- fense Fund, Room 411, 80 East 11th Street, New York City. } intent of TO MASK WAR MOVE ONUSSR Use Revolts in Man- churia As Pretext The Japanese yesterday rushed ad-! Gitional troops to the Soviet border, | on which Japanese troops have been} massing for several weeks past. Fresh outbursts of anti-Japanese activities in northern Manchuria were used by | the Japanese government es the pre- | text for increasing its forces on the} Soviet frontier, While there is no doubt that the brutal Japanese aggressions in Man- | churia have created the conditions | for a national revolutionary move- ment, many of the so-called revolts are sponsored and financed by the Jay se themselves to afford the pretext of increasing their forces in Manchuria and to cover up the real their concentration of | troops on the Soviet border. In this latetr connection, a Mukden dispatch | to the New York World-Telegram planation” of the latest movement of | Japanese trops to the Soviet border: | “Officials said that these re-dis- tributions of troops were due en- tirely to activities of the Chinese insurgents and were im no way connected with teh reported tension between Japan and Soviet Russia.” The Chinese and Soviet employees of the Chinese Eastern Railway have called a general strike for tomorrow in indignation over the arrest of | forty Soviet employees of the road in ;connection with the Japanese at- | tempt to link the Soviet Union with the dynamiting of a Japanese troop} train on the railway. The dynamit- | ing was the work of the White Guard allies of the Japanese who are co- operating with the Japanese in a/ monstrous provocation against the! Soviet Union. These same White Guards two days ago beat up the} Soviet manager of the railway and | raided the railway offices, ransack- ing its files and destroying the office | equipment and shouting threats against the Soviet Union. at the Scottsboro mock “trial” was remanded for a new trial. The ninth boy, 14-year old Roy Wright is still held in jail awaiting a new trial following a mistrial et the original “trials.” nies ah July 10, 1931, was the first date set for the legal lynching of eight of the boys. The thunder of work- ing class protest all over the world forced a postponement. The date of April 6 was next set. This was further postponed while the Alabama Supreme Court made its pretense of hearing the motions of the Inter- national Labor Defense attorneys for new trials for the eight boys. The latest stay in execution comes as a direct result of the tremendous roar of protest by workers and many in- tellectuals throughout the whole world and of the energetic action ot the I. L. D. attorneys in the struggle to take the fight to the United States Supreme Court. ‘ ‘The Scottsboro defense movement far from subsiding as the Alabame bosses hoped, is rapidly growing. The growth uf the mass defense move- ment will, in the final analysis, de cide whether these innocent boys are ‘o be released or are to be addec to the long list of working class vic- tims of capitalism. ‘ Workers everywhere should rally tc thte task of building the mass de- fense, and of raising a fighting fund to carry on the struggle for the un- conditional release of the nine boys The ILD must have a fighting fund ican Federation of Labor. The demonstration follows: Fellow workers: The militant workers of New York are at present preparing for May 1, the day of International Working Class Solidarity. The very condi- tions of the workers in the city makes it possible and necessary to point of our struggles for the past les ahead of us. Over a million workers are unem- ployed and the number is increasing. The Home Relief Bureaus will be closed up in a few days. The Emer- gency Relief Bureau cut’ the work days from three to two for those who were given jobs. Out of the $18,900,000 collected from the work- counted for. Commisioner Taylor just announced that if $20,000,000 will not be raised by the end of May, the situation will be a desperate one- this is the admission of the bosses themselves. May First must be a day of struggle for Unemployment Insurance and immediate relief. The conditions of those who are still working grows from bad to worse, Since last May Day the wages of the workers were cut twice and in many instances three and four times. At the present time a new wave of wage cuts is in the making, especi- ally in the building, printing, metal and marine industries. On May First the workers must show their deter- mination to struggle against wage cuts. Along side and as part of ihe bos Ses attacks on the workin» ci danger of war against the Union grows more threatening. Farewell Tonight for Mrs. Wright Tonight Wednesday Mrs. Wright will sail for Germany to carry the fight of the Scottsboro’ boys to that country. All workers are asked to as- semble at the pier at foot of W. 44th Street, steamer Ballen at 10 Soviet are rushing with break-neck speed T.U.U.C. May Day Call The Trade Union Unity Council all workers, Negro and white, employed and unemployed, mem- bers of the Revolutionary Unions and members of the Amer- o——.- — struggle for a re- sued a May Day call to call for a united front May Day ision of the spoils |The war in the Far East is already on. May First is a day of struggle against bosses wars and for the de- gives the following misleading “ex-| fense of the Soviet Union. | The bureaucracy of the A. F. of L., the Socialist party and the Muste outfit are working hand in hand wage cuts, blocking the struvele for row; Demand Jobless ISSUE LIES T.U.U.C. Mobilizes for Tomorrow’s City Hall Demonstration | Att Monday night's special meeting of the Trade Union Unity Council held in Irving Plaza, a decision was made to participate in the demonstration at City Hall called by the Unemployed Coun- cil against the closing down of the Home Relief Bureaus. All unions and leagues of the T. U, U. C. were called to send two delegates to participate in the broad del- egation that will go to the Board of Estimate, The delegates will meet at 5 East 19th St., on Thurs- lay morning, April 2lst, at 10 a. m. on the top floor. The unions were called upon to mobilize their members, employed and unemployed at their head- quarters to march to City Hall ir a body to participate in the dem- onstration at 1 p,m. All unions are instructed to dis- tribute leaflets, prepare placards on the immediate issues in their given industry on the question of unemployment and the demand for unemployment insurance. The Needle Trades Industrial Union is to be responsible for the Needle Trades market in mobilizing the unemployed; the Food Workers Industrial Union for the Sixth Avenue agencies. Trade Union Unity Council of Greater New York CAPTURE BY CHINA RED ARMY Three Cities in Fukien Province Taken General Chang Chen, Kuomintang governor of Fukien Province, South China, has infrmed the imperialist powers that he will be unable to hold the important city of Changchow against the advancing Chinese Red Army, under Gen, Sun Lien-chung. The Red Army has captured Lung- yen, Nanching and Sungtsulin in its advance on Changchow. Sungtsulin was taken yesterday. Changchow is close to the seaport of Amoy, to which the imperialists have sent warships in a direct threat against the revolutionary movement in Fukien province. The warships include one United States destroyer, three Japanese destroyers and a British cruiser. ~The Nanking (Kuo- mintang) government also has two gunboats there and 1,000 Chinese marines acting in concert with the imperialist against the revolutionary masses, A Peiping dispatch to the New York Times asserts that the army of Gen. San Lien-chung is not a Chinese Red Army, but an independent force acting against the Kuomintang lead- ers while at the same time carrying, the dispatch states, a slogan for the defense of the Kuomintang, The dis make this May Day a culminating | with the bosses, helping to put across patch admits that Gen. Sun’s troop: wear a red arm-band. It claims tha year, and prepare for the sharp bat- ; Unemployment Insurence, and ac-| Gen. Sun had denied that his force |of bosses terror, |of our May Day preparations. | tively participating in the war pre- narations and attacks on the Soviet | Union. On May First the workers inside }ond outside of the A, F. of L. will |show their resen'ment avainst the i.» wholesale desertion. of som A. F. of L. and Sotialist burocracy 99.999 men to the cause of the revo bs Aah nt calstedge in the Uni- | jutionary worker-peasant masses oi is a Red Army force. Earlier dis patches described Gen. Sun's force as a Chinese Red Army force, Gen. Sun was one of the officars t« “ed Front May Day demonstration. | south China. ‘The Daily Worker has | ers, only $8,000,000 has been ac-| It is of course in the period of’ no precise knowledge of the present | ‘ising discontent thet the boses and gratus of Gen. Sun and his force, ex- | Their government will increase their| cept that it is clearly, for the presen | ‘error azainst the workers and their’ at least, a factor in the revolutionary | militant orcanizatons. |Nerro workers were murdered in of the imperial'st brigands. | Chicaro and Cleveland, the Detroit massacre, the determination of the white Ie:downers in the South to | mass terror in Tampa, the murder of march under our banners on May Harry Simms, Tom Mooney is still | First. It must be a genuine mass in prison, mass injunction and ar-| United action on the part of the rests, heavy sentences and deporta-| Workers, regardless of their union or | tions, All these are links of one chain | Political affillation. On May First we | must show by our strength that bos- banner of struggle against imperial- ses terror cannot and will not smash ist war and for the defense of the | Soviet Union! | our movement, The present TUUL Recruiting} Forward to May First under the task is not only to mobilize thous-| their government and their agents ands of new workers for May Day; | inside the ranks of the working class, At| we must also organize these workers | the A. F, of L, burocracy, the Muste the same time the imperialist powers | into the ranks of our revolutionary | 849g and the Socialist party! unions, Trade Union Unity Council P. m, for @ rousing send-off, Ho eae word bylchery, in the it is jo thet Ught that we musi ‘far . f Seenten New eck ‘ CHANGCHOW NEAR follow his troops a few months age | Unemployed struggle against the Kuomintang tools ; | -pprosch and prepare for May First. |murder the nine Scottsboro boys, the Tens of thousends of workers must! Forward to May First under the! Drive must become an integral part | banner of unity of all workers against | Our | Our common enemy—the ruling class, | Relief! “TZVESTIA” AGAIN WARNS JAPANESE Exposes Lies and Criminal Provoca- tions The Soviet newspaper, “Izvestia,” | yesterday again published a warning to i the criminal Japanese war in- citers who are sceking to involve the world in, another world slaughter, Under the headline, “Chain of Prov- j ocation and Deceit,” Izvestia bluntly declares: “It is perfectly clear that the campaign of anti-Soviet military propaganda now being carried on in Japan aims at preparing Japa- nese public oinion for a further extension of military aggression, “We declare for all to hear that the Japancse people are being duped in order to lead them with bandaged eyes to meet new catas- trophies.” “Izvestia” points out that the at~ | tempt of the Japanese imperialists to | Provoke the Soviet Union is clearly shown in the provocative acts of Japanese-inspired White Guards and Chinese militarists against Soviet citizens and property in Manchuria, “Tzvestia” refers also to the wide publication in the Japanese bourgeois press of anti-Soviet slanders. and of bogus interviews with Soviet offi- cials and in the persistent refusal to print Soviet denials and explanations. It declared that Soviet protests against Japanese provocative acts meet with excuses, promises, assure ances and regrets, but that ill-treat- ment of Soviet citizens and the anti- Soviet press campaign grows worse instead of better. The imminence of a Japanese armed attack on the Soviet Union is clearly recognized by the imperialist press, as shown in teh fact that to- day the bourgeois press is no ionger talking about China and Japan, but about Japan, and the Soviet Union. The New York-World Telegram, in an editorial yesterday admited the danger of a new world war arising out of Japanese aggression against the Soviet Union. It said, in part: “The Far Eastern situation is exceedingly grave. The danger of @ world war resulting from Japa~ nese aggression is greater now than when Japan invaded China, “Any day there may be a border ‘incident” between Japanese and Russian troops of the sort thatcan happen so easily, either by acci- dent or design, when armies ar® massed along a frontier, Then Japan, according to her own state- ment, would ‘intervene.’ Moscow charged that Japan is using Czar- ist tools to. provoke just such an ‘incident’ as an excuse for inter- vention.” The World Telegram also admits ; that Japan is banking on the sup- | port of other imperialist powers and | especially of the ve states of French imperialism. It says: “If Japan attacks Russia from the east, Roumania and Poland ; will be encouraged to attack from the west. That would be a more exp'os've incentive to world war | than the murder of an archduke | which started the last World War.” The World-Telegram ts also forced to admit the responsibiliy of the United States government for such a new world slaughter. It says: “We believe the American gov- ernmey: and people are opposed to such a. war, Cut Japan does not know that. Recause we treat Rus- sia as an outlaw, Jaron apparently thinks America wou'd welcome, or at cast not object to the Japanese conquest of Russia, That is a costly misundrestanding of Amer- icas policy.” The World-Telegram attempts to slur over the criminal responsibility of the United States government for the war moves of Japanese imperial- ism against the Soviet Union, for armed intervention against the suce cessful building of Socialism in the Soviet Union. The American work- ers must not be deceived. The United States is sending munitions to Japan! The United States government will be responsible for the bloody mass slaughter and misery that will result BW from 4 new world war,