The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 21, 1932, Page 1

WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! Dail Central . -Orga DW (Section of the Communist International) orker Ganist Party U.S.A. IN every.town and village of States a reader of the Da can become an orgar Day demonstratio ber war on the Chinese people, for government wage-cuts, ey j he United y Worker of a May the rob- against unem~ nm agains ployment insurance, for the freedom of the Scottsboro f boys, for the dee ise of the Soviet Union! —= Entered as second-class ou Vol IX, No. 95 at New York, N. ¥.. ander the act of March 3, 187% macter at the Pusat Office NEW YORK THURSDAY, APRIL 21, 1932 CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents | DEMONSTRATE TODAY FOR UNEMPLOYMENT RELIEF Workers on Cnicago Jury Force Release of Thirteen Anti-War Demonstrators CHICAGO, April 20.—A jury of Fauemniogel workers and small busi- ness men gave nofice to the United States government that the Ameri- | | can people are opposed to war when they defeated the attempt of the | courts and the U. S. government to railroad 13 workers to jail for dar- | ing to protest against the Japanese butchery of the Chinese people =| the Japanese war provocations against the Soviet Union. The 13 workers were arrested as part of the murderous attack by Chicago police against a demonstration of workers and students in front | of the Japanese Consulate in the Tribune Building on March 12. They were charged with “disorderly conduct” and inciting to riot”, Hundreds | | of workers were wounded and clubbed when the police attacked the demonstrations with guns and clubs. A tremendous wave of mass in- | dignation followed the brutal attack by American imperialism on these workers and students protesting the Japanese butcheries and war pte citement. The jury returned a verdict of not guilty after three hours delibera- | tion. The presiding judge, Judge Green, flew into a rage at this mani- festation of the opposition of the American people to war. He dismissed | the jurors from further jury service and shouted at them: “You are} breaking down the courts and the Constitution. You should join the | Communist Party.” } This was an open admission by the bosses’ judge that it is only the Communist Party which is leading the fight against imperialist war, against the threat of a new world slaughter which would surely involve | | the United States and lead to the slaugher of millions of workers, both | | at the front and through aerial bombings of densely populated cities as | happened at Shanghai when the Japanese totally destroyed the densely | populated Chapei proletarian section, dealing out death in its most | frightful forms to tens of thousands of Chinese workers, men, women | and children. . Pacifist Lies on the Eve of Intervention TEEN workers arrested at the demonstration before the Japanese Consulate in Chicago on March 12 have been declared not guilty by @ jury.’ This verdict that workers are not guilty for fighting against the robber war of Japan and against American participation in its anti-Soviet provocations is of tremendous political significance. 1t constitutes a direct exposure of the bloody game of American imperialism in the Far East. It expresses the mass indignation of American workers, farmers and. intellectuals against the Japanese murderers in China and against their provocations against the Soviet Union, It branded the terrorist brutelitysof Hoover's police against the workers and poor farmers, the growing suppression of free speech, assembly, Organization and strike for the toiling masses. And finally, it showed up the hypocrisy or stupidity of those who objected to the mobilization of mass indignation and pro- test against the Japanese imperialists under the pretext that this would weaken the struggle against American imperialism. Every recent experience, including the present Chicago verdict, made it clear that every step in fighting the Japanese robber war in the Far East inevitably brought about a sharpening of the class struggle against Amer- ican imperialism. This was the case in Chicago, Washington, Seattle and everywhere that. mass action against Japan, as a spearhead of the im- perialist war in the Far East, was simultaneously directed against Amer- ican imperidlism. In this light, the arrogant bellowing of Judge Green and his dismis- sal of the jury from further service, because of their verdict, is only a continuation of the same police terror and murder against the demon- strations carried out on the streets. “You are breaking down the courts and the Constitution. Join the Communist Party,” shouted Judge Green, infuriated by th fact that the jury did not consider it a crime to demonstrate for the defense of the Soviet Union. whe indignant judge is probably unaware of the fact that his outburst really confirmed the truth that the Communist Party is the only force which leads the masses in all their struggles against all forms Of exploitation «nd oppression. He probably does not suspect that under existing conditions, terror, and the terrorist activity of the bourgeois state, a}l its agents and supporters who lose their heads, accelerate the process of breaking down the constitutional illusions and contribute to the growth oi the class consciousness of the workers and poor farmers, bringing new sections of them nearer and nearer to the Communist Party. The Chicago verdict of not guilty was granted precisely on the day when the whole bourgeois press started a new maneouver in order to | 1 prevent the masses from organizing struggle against the war,in the Far | East. The »ourgeois press has taken up again one of its old weapons in agitation, declaring that the danger of war is not great, that there is not much danger .of an attack by Japan on the Soviet Union, in fact that this danger is diminishing. This “optimism” of peace, developed in the last two days, is broad- cast precisely at a time when Japan is launching a new arm) of un- announced strength in Manchuria. At the very moment that it is con- centrating its forces on the Soviet border, the Japanese foreign office finds it necessary to proclaim its peaceful intentions. Of course these declarations are intended not only to deceive the Japanese workers and peasants, but the workers and peasants who are being brought into mo- tion for the defense of the Soviet Union throughout the whole world. Thus, on April 19, the Japanese foreign office in Tokyo stated that the “Japanese army is taking the utmost precautions in its operations in Manchuria to avoid the provocation of Russia.” On the other hand, War Minister Araki declared that new reinforcements were being rushed to Manchuria. Simultaneously, reports from Mukden on April 19 showed thet the Japanese armies were being hurried northward from South Man- churia, all the time hypocritically insisting that this “is in no way con- nected ‘with the tension between Japan and Soviet Russia,” offering the _ Official pretext that the armies were being rushed to fight the “bandit” movement. Treating the Chinese people with the greatest brutality, and in this way sharpening to the utmost the resistance of the masses and the in- surgent movements, the Japanese imperialists are at the same time wy- ing. to exploit this movement to further their own provocative tactics. Systematically and planfully, the Japanese military machine is using its advance ‘upon the insurrectionists in order to push toward the direction of the Soviet frontier and to spread its own occupation under the pre- text of pursuing these rebels. At the same time, through their agents, they deliberately instigate provocative movements where and when it 1s in accord with their plans to concentrate new forces on the Soviet border. “Optimistic” and “peacetul” camouflage, on the very eve of open military actions, is an old method of imperialists aiming to deceive the masses, to paralyse their watchfulness, to spring on them tae accomplished fact of a wy that already has begun. The underestimation of the war danger in the ranks of our party ™must be combatted as one of the most dangerous symptoms of opportun-, ism, as an expression of the influence of the imperialist bourgeoisie and social-fascists At: the came time we must emphazise the harm and great danger of the underestimation of the powerful mess forces that could postpone the war against the Soviet Union, providing these forces are mobilized by our Party, by persistent and correct application of the united front tactics from below. The preliminary preparations and the demonstrations on May 1, provide new possibilities for setting up fighting anti-war. organs ona broad united front basis. The organization of anti-war committees, control committees, etc. in all factories, railway ports, the goordination of the work of these organs is the most urgent task of the moment, ® 20, 000 Demand Relief at Gates of Chicago Stockyards ALL OUT 1 P.M AT. Announce 50 Percent Cut in Part-Time Jobs Block-Aid of Morgan And Thomas Fails The program of Tammany Hall |} and the bosses to cut down the relief for the unemployed to the lowest |} possible level is going ahead with | full force. Yesterday William H. | Mathews, a. ctor of the Emergency Work and Relief Buro announced | that the part time jobs which the | buro has given will be cut by half. He said that the April payroll will be been able to see that only the Unem- ployed Councils in the struggles around the Home Relief Buros give them real fighting leadership with immediate reaction to the needs of the unemployed and stopping of re- | lief. Mr. Falconer, General Secretary of the Brooklyn Buro of Charities, was forced to admit on Tuesday that a | great deal of militancy exists among the unemployed workers. He said that relief is necessary because “des~ perate and frenzied were besieging the offices of. the relief stations seek- | ing relief.” He also said “some of the tension which breaks into disorder reduced from $1,400,000 to $525,000. | | The masses of unemployed have | A section of the great funeral pa- rade marching behind the bier of William Kimbell who was murdered | lon the picket fine by the Ohio| troops. Over 10,000 miners partici- | pated in this march at Smithfield, ! | Ohio, ‘Dredgemen Strike In Mich. Against | $40 Cut In Wages A Rah: ‘Helps Gov't and Contractors | may have been caused by Communist | groups, that repeatetily come to our | offices with their demands” and he said “but most of our trouble is not Six hundred dredgemen of the A. | F. of L. in Soo, Michigan went out on | strike when the contractors an- | | unced a $40 cut per month in the | Pledge to eon Miners Death > | | | | ‘MAY 7 WORLD SCOTTSBORO PROTEST 5 Int'l Red ‘Aid Calls sie Huge Demonstrations | Against Lynch Verdict | Throughout the whole {world on May7 millions of workers will march jin indignant protest, against the Scottsboro, lynch, verdicts and in iron de- | termination to force the crim- | inal ruling class of America to ‘free ‘the nine innocent | Scottsboro Negro boys, victims of a vile frame-up. The world-wide demonstrations aused by Communists, it is caused | workers’ wages. In view of the fact | nave: been ‘called by the Interna- oy hungry people grown desperately | oy want,” If is true that the TGacoyityect | Councils, Communists as he calls chem to lead demonstrations in de- manding relief for the starving un- employed. The Communists as lead~- | ers of the workers participate in the forefront of all these struggles. But -hey are forced to admit that the masses of unemployed workers them- selves are developing militant strug- gles in their demand for food. A mighty demonstration today will force the city authorities to change | their minds about shutting off re- lief, The voices of the starving must | be heard by well-fed dancing Jimmy Walker. The workers of New York | must pour into City Hall Park today full force, Answer the starvation government ‘All ou tat 1 p. m. that the work is only a seasonal one, |these Workers are at a. starvation level, The men have tied up the entire Soo area. Here the A. F. of L. Officialdom again has set itself to be- tray the workers and is “investigating and negotiating” with the contrac- | tors. The A. F, of L. burocrats want the workers to accept a $20 cut per | month, In the Soo district, all of the dredge work is government work done by | contractors. Here again, the con- | tractors and the government are+ carrying through their wage-cutting | project in Minneapolis. And just as | program as they did at the Ford dam | in Minneapolis, the A. F, of L. has taken over the strike, but only to betray it. 1500 Workers at Send-Off to Delegation to Soviet Union Sailing aboard the 8. S. Europa, 16 delegates to the USSR were | cheered. loud and long by over 1500 | Bre coklyn, to bid them farewell. The reception o the delegates was | enlivened by some Fascist elements | who tried to break up the demon- | stration. They began by trying to in- | | terrupt the speeches of the delegates | | who were speaking from the deck of the ship. When asked to keep quiet | | they tried to frighten the workers by rough talk. © swing their fists striking wom2n is well as others. The workers, how- | ver, got the upper hand and con- | | tinued with their program. | Speaking on behalf of the Friends | |of the Soviet Union, Marcel Scher- ler, National Secretary, instructed | the delegates to give revolutionary | greeings to the’ workers of the Sov- | tet. Union. Speeches by the delegates who spoke from the deck of the ship to the workers on the pier, were greeted with cheers and applause. Elected as delegates by workers in the steel mills, mines, factories and other basic industries they pledged to the as- sembled workers that on their re- turn they would give a full report of onditions in the land ruled by the workers, Replying to the delegates workers hoisted onto the shoulders of their comrades assured the delegates they would wait eagerly for their report. Others spoke, among them a Chinese worker, who called for the defense of the Chinese Soviet, “Long Live d This failing they began | ) the First Workers’ Government’ Hail | | the Chinese Soviets”, and other slo- ans rose from the’ throats of the "| more than 1500 workers present. | | large streamer banner reading cea | | May First Delegation to the Soviet | | Union”, was spread across the deck. | Large numbers of visitors at the pier | as well as the many passengers looked on interestedly as the workers con- | cluded their farewell to the delegates | | with the singing of the International. | | tional Red “Aid, which in a letter to all its sections has urged the setting aside ‘of May 7 as International Scottsboro Day—“a day of mass mobilization, mass action and’ mass protests” against the hideous at- tempt of the bosses to lynch these | working-class children, against the frightful . national. oppression and economic swindling of the Negro masses. In: its letter, the IRA states, in part: “It is esential for you to under- stand that the campaign carried on to save the young Negroes of Scots- | boro is of particular importance, as } American imperialism aims, by this | act of unprecedented brutality by | the American bourgeoisie against | nine innocent youths who have no political ideology—who are merely | children of Negro proletarians—to | terrorize the masses of Negro toil- | ers who are ypiting with the white | toilers in the struggle against star- | vation, against imperialist war and | against white terror.” | During the past year scores of dem- ‘ onstrations have occurred in many | European cities, and in South Africa China, Latin America, etc. The in- (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) , Unemployed Meeting | in Brony Tonight Tonight at 8 pm. the Unemployed Council of the Bronx is calling a meeting which will deal with the Block-Aid and conditions of the un- omployed, especially in the block of 148th Street and vicinity. The meeting will be held at 652 | East 156th Street. The United Frnot May Day com-, mittee announces that final prepar- ations are being made for the gi- gantic May Day demonstration and | march on May First beginning at Union Square at 12:30. All organi- | zations are called upon to complete | their preparations. All orders for leaflets, buttons, pennants and post- | ers should be placed without delay with the secretary of the United Front Committee at 5 East 19th St. A special leaflet of the United Front committee for organizations is ready and should be ordered without de- lay. All organizations requested to provide bands of music should: at once make arrangements with the, Secretary. A meeting of the United Front Committee will be held on Sunday April 24, at 1 p.m. at 35 E. 12th St., 2nd floor. All delegates should at- tend without fail. A final report of the Executive Committee will be given. The Committee announces that the latest organization to af- filiate with the United Front is the Irish Workers Club, which will par- ticipate in the parade and demon- stration with their banners. Three! local unions of the A. F, of L. will parade with their total membership and their» banners, Thousands of | |! States approval for their Says U.S. Goceentinel Wa Will Be Responsible If Japan Significant admissions of the immediate | Attacks danger of armed intervention against the} Soviet Union and of th United States ¢ e responsibility of the; rovernment for the war inciting | policy of the Japanese appear in an article in Tuesday's New York World-Telegram. article is by William Philip Simms, Foreign| The} ing House Capital Writer Says BOSSES HEAR Japan Awaits U.S. Signal COMMITTEE; for War on Soviet Union REFUSE AID | Negro, W Thite Foreign |and Native Born March Side by Side ENDORSE MAY DAY Hundreds Join Pack- Union CHICAGO, April 20— | Editor of the Scripps-Howard chain of news-| Twenty thousand eri- 8 lowing It carries a Washington date line. xtremely significant heads: It has the fol- “PEACE OR STRIFE IN SIBERIA HANGS ON U. S. ATTITUDE “Washington Must Make Stand Plain to Avert War Betwee Russia and Japan. “TOKIO AWAITING SUPPORT By Large Vipponese Believed Ready to Strike if Assured of Aid Powers.” ployed and unemploy- led stockyard workers demonstrated before the stockyards here Tuesday backing the demands for im- mediate relief and jobs, which |were presented by a worker's’ |delegation to a joint commit. The article itself even more fully admits the criminal re-/ tee of bosses from the Armout, Swift, sponsibility of the United States for > the threat of a new and bloodier | slaughter against the toiling masses of the. world through its encourage- ment to the Japanese militarists. The article says: The question of peace or war be- tween Japan and Russia in the Far East may hinge on the atti- | tude of the United States, an im- portant personage whose name the writer is not at liberty to use, told Seripps-Howard newspapers here today.” The article admits that Japan is only waiting for the signal from the United States government to launch an armed attack against the Soviet Union. It says: “If Japan is given to understand | she can rely on the support of the great world powers, notably Britain, France and the United States, it is pretty generally believed she may decide that now is the time to make her bid for a place in the sun. Her spokesmen claim she needs part of Siberia te reund out her empiré, and this would be the time to take it. “But, on the other hand, if she knew in advance that she would have no such support if she pro- voked a war with Russia, her gen- eral staff would hardly dare at- tempt any such adventure, despite the popular war fever which ob- servers report to be running high in Nippon. “The key to the Far Eastern situation, therefore, is described as being largely in the hands of the United States. If the United States by any act of omission or of com- n, signals thumbs down on Russia, Europe would follow suit and, it is believed, Japan would march.” In the meantime, Secretary of | State Stimson is at Geneva confer- ring with other énemies of the Soviet Union. Suggestions in the bourgeois press that he would arrange for a meeting with Litvinotf, Soviet For- eign Commissar, have not been ful filled. Should Stimson refuse to see Litvinoff at Geneva, Simms implies this would be immediately inter- preted by the Japanese as United criminal war plans against the Soviet Union and its successful Socialist construc- Final Preparations Are Made. for Huge May 1st Demonsti ution rank and file A. F. of L. members, lespecially from the building trades who are getting a vicious wage slash of 30 to 40 per cent this May First, are being mobilized by the Trade Union Unity Council tor the parade and demonstration | All mass crganizations are asked to watch the Daily Worker for final announcements on stations of organ- izations in the parade, and for their gathering points. The Committee especially calls upon all organiza- , tions to immediately send in their | orders for the special May Day Edi- tion of the Daily Worker, and send | in special correspondence for the | May Day Issue. SA AAA SAAS ec NAD I SUSIE Aas OUND DSSSU SEEN ssn tion. sion” such as is referred to in the World-Telegram article. It is therefore crystal clear that United States imperialism, which is already arming the Japanese im- {perialists with munitions, will be re= msible ‘for any attack on the It would be “an act of omis- | | Libby and Wilson companies, The demonstration opened with 3 gigantic parade of over 6,000 workers. | Singing working-class battle . songs, the parade swung through the stock- yard district and was enthusiastically greeted and cheered along the three- rmile-fine of march by over 20,000 | workers.on the sidewalks. Soviet Union, for any act Of the| Japanese criminals and wat mongers | which would plunge the world work- | ing-class into'a frightful slaughter. The American people do not want war. The American workers are strongly sympathetic: to the Soviet Union ‘and its tremendous achieve- ments in the building of Socialism. Chinese Red Army Wins Changchow The Chinese Red Army operating in Fukien Province yesterday cap- tured the important city of Chang- show, 26 miles west of the seaport of Amoy, South China. With the collapse of the Kuomin- tang defense of Changchow, the, im- perialist brigands have openly taken over control of the seaport of Amoy, and are carefully scrutinizing all per- sons entering the city to keep out all revolutionary elements. Only the Chinese landlords and ‘the ‘mission- ary agents of imperialism fleeing be- fore the Red Army are permitted to enter the city. Even the defeated troops of the Kuomintang have becn barted for fear’ that there are revo- lutfonary elements among them. In the ‘action of the imperialists barring these troops from -Amoy, there is strong indication-that the Kuomin- tang rank and file troops did not care to put up a very strong defense igainst the Red Army. An Amoy dispatch to the New York Post reports an .emergency~ meeting of the consular agents of the impe- rialist powers “to prepare for even- | tualities.” The dispatch admits that the advancing army is a Chinese Red Army force, thus refuting the state~ ments in previous dispatches that it was not a Red Army forpe. Follow These | Directives Today | 1—Maijntain proletarian disc!- | lime and order, | 2—Follow the directives of the |leadership of your organization. | | 3—Come directly to City Hall | | in a body from the point of mobi- lization set by your organization, | 4+Do not straggle behind, re- | main with the main body, 5—Groups coming to the dem- jonstration shall not isolate them- | selves from the main body of the demonstration. 6—Insist upon your rights to demonstrate for your demands. "7—Realize the importance of | promptness, be there at 1 p. m jaar | , Thousands Join Demonstration. When the marchers reached 43rd St. and Ashland 15,000 more workers joined the demonstration before the main’ gates of the stockyards. At quitting time thousands of employed workers joined the giant meeting. Negro and white, American and | foreign born marched side by side ; and pledged their determination te carry on the fight until the bosses were forced to give real relief and unemployment’ insurance. Twenty- | five per cent of the demonstrators | were Negroes. Hundreds of Mexican and Polish workers showed their soli- | darity with the American born inthe great gle against starvation. Present Demands. After the workers had all gathered in front of the stockyards and had voted their unanimous agreement te | the demands proposed by the Un+ }employed Council, a committee headed by Comrade Poindexter, sec+ retary of the Hunger March Come mittee, presented the demands to the meat packing bosses’ representatives, The demands included: : 1. Jobs for all laid off workers. 2. Immediate payment of a lump’ sum of $50 to each unemployed stockyard worker. 3 Ten pounds of meat weekly for each unemployed family. 4, Free medical aid for all work- ers, 5. Unemployment insurance at the expense of the capitalists, These ‘demands the bosses’ “repre- sentatives refused to consider and sidetracked them to the “higher ups.” The profits of these so-called higher-ups of the four meat packing companies during the year of 1928 amounted to $27,945,766.75. It is part of these enormous profits that the workers are demanding back today in order to maintain life in their stars | ving bodies. | Hundreds Join Union. | ‘The workers’ answer to the refusa’ | of the meat packers to give imme; | diate consideration to their™ urgent | demands is organization for“ greutet | | struggle. Hundreds joined the Pack: |anghouse Workers’ Union and tht | Unemployed Council following, tht | demonstration. A large amount -ot | working-class literature was sold and |the masses of workers enthusias- | tically endorsed the May Day den | onstration to be held at Union Parh }on May 1 and the Scottsboro dem: onstration to be held April 23. at 23r¢ | St. and Prairie Ave, at,3 p.m. Ou the eve of the Hunger Maret capitalist press announced 4 tion of police to “pro: rds.” national qusattbn in the A issue of Price 20 cents, “ei “The Communistet