The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 23, 1932, Page 1

S WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! —— Dail Central - Orga ~Co orker Rhunist Party U.S.A. (Section of the Communist International) MAY DAY MUST SHOW A MARKED INCREASE IN. THE STRUGGLE AGAINST IMPERIALIST WAR. Vol. IX, No. 97 E225 Entered as second-class at New York, N. ¥.. ander the act of March 3, 1879 macter at the Post Office NEW YORK, SATURDAY, APRIL 23, 1932 CITY EDITION a = —— Price. 3 Cents JAPANESE WAR MINISTER IN NEW ANTI-SOVIET THREAT | Fight for Mooney on May Day! OV. ROLPH of California has given the answer that the class consci- ous workers -have all along expected from him—the decree that Tom ‘Mooney is to die in prison, murdered by the hand of the contemptible Rolph, and the filthy horde of parasites that Rolph represents. Rolph speaks as the mouthpiece of the ruling class of California. And in this nation-wide struggle in which the main, forces of the highest industrial and banking circles that rule this country have been consulted by the direct hangmen of Mooney—it is possible in the truest sense to say that Gov. Rolph of California speaks for the whole American cap- italist class and government and for its political head at Washington, Rolph’s fellow-Californian, Herbert Hoover. And this crime is directed against the whole working class of Amer- ica—against every man, woman and child—all who are exploited and heavy laden, every worker, every toiling farmer, whether they be white ‘or Negro. Everyone who labors is grossly insulted and struck a cowardly blow by this bloodthirsty act of the criminal parasite class that rules us. And the working class will strike back! Considered as a blow agdinst the one courageous worker—Tom Mooney Mooney himself car endure this heavy blow. His iron will has already shown that he can stand it and die; he has but one-half of a life left to give to the working class, and we do not doubt that he would give it. ‘He can go to his death within the walls of San Quentin, murdered by James Rolph, and Herbert Fleishhacker, Frederick Koster, Harry Chand- er, and by John O'Connell, and Paul Scharenberg, and Wm. Green, and ‘the whole oligarchy up to its pinnacle in Washington and in the Wall Street gambling dens. But we, the great masses of toiling men and women—we cannot stand it. We, the working class, will not be patient with this crime of the farasite class that rules us and enslaves us and sends us to die on battle fields for th-ir profits—and that now is starving us by tens of millions in unemployment through the crisis in their parasite economic system “of exploitation. Rolph’s pretended “investigation” of the frame-up case was itself a e PRIVATE LETTER SHOWS ROLPH'S “INVESTIGATION” IS NEW FRAMEUP OF MONEY Prominent California Lawyer Reveals Gover- nof’s “Investigator” Said “Mooney Would Rot In Jail” Workers to Rally On May Day In Stormy. Pro- tests Against Infamous Decision of Rolph That the so-called “investigation” of the up of Tom Mooney is clearly shown in a letter, a copy of which has come into the possession of the Daily Worker and which we publish on page 8. It is on | this “study” of the Mooney case that Gov. Rolph attempts to justify his infamous decision denying a pardon to Tom Mooney, in face of the general admission even in bourgeois circles, and jincluding the original trial judge, of Tom Mooney’s innocence. The letter is a reply by Edwin V.@ 7 7 McKenzie to a telephone invitation | Mooney Sree lod a ee prececel |by ex-Judge Matt Sullivan to par-|PUrPoses” already made — against ticipate in a conference on the,| Mooney: | Mooney case. Sullivan, with Lewis} McKenzie’s letter shows that at Mooney case by two cronies of Gov. Rolph of | California was in effect an additional frame-| |_HE ASKED FOR BREAD AND GOT CLUBS This worker is one of the 10,000 at City Hall Thursday, demanding relief for the city’s jobless. The Tammany city officials brought out | their “finest” to give these starving workers clubs instead of the bread | they asked for. | Singer Plant Prepares to ‘Turn Out War Materials |Manufacture of Sewing Machines Gives Way 46 | Recruiting White Guards in Europe for War on USSR Japanese Arrest Soviet Station Master at Im- ienpo for “Obstructing” Japanese Troop - Movements Rushing Additional Troops to Soviet Border in Preparation for Attack a The immediately threatening danger of war against the Soviet Union was tremen- dously sharpened yesterday by a new threat by the Japanese War Minister Araki against the Soviet Union. Press reports also showed that the Japanese were recruiting White Guards in Europe for use in Manchuria, while additional Japanese troops have been lispatched to the Soviet border. Simultaneously; Japanesg military arrested a Chinese Eastern Railway ion master at Imienpo on a charge of “obstructing” the movement of eomplete frame-up. Rolph was mayor of San Francisco at the time that | F. Byington, was appointed by Rolph \least one of Gov. Rolph’s so-called | to Making of Car tridg es and W ar P lanes i 1 ties aie ae ae [ives the San Francisco police under his control hired and trained the horde | to “study” the Mooney case. In his| “investigators” not only was not | -_-—- — iNat?] Aeme Company | | master isa Govidt citizes agi movie of prostitutes and petty thieves whose perjury sent Mooney to the death | letter McKenzie, a prominent lawyer | “OPen-minded” in regard to the case | Today the DAILY WORKER publishes material proving| | ¢ i | officials at ‘ strongly sell. Rolph, who speaks so smuggly of his “lack of prejudice toward who has at times had connections but that he had pledged himself to! the rapid increase of the manufacture of munitions. Stories} | Making Shells for 1| ted th ‘ Mooney” is one of the framers of Mooney. ‘Therefore it is no surprise | with the Mooney case and who sus- |Rolph to bring in a “report” against | (°° Ta"d increas : i occ a aie Imperialist War| | ra that Rolph, the employer of perjurers against Labor's martyr in 1916, (pected that he was to be “used” |Mooney before Rolph appointed him| 27!”ted previously, based on information sent in by worker A Parris oe in: eae oat Geliterately framed up an “investigation” with the reactionary black- | only to give a show of “fairness” in|to “investigate.” McKenzie shows| correspondents, show increased output in munitions plants,| (py a Worker arama eee ee guards, Lewis F. Byington ’and Matt Sullivan as the “investigators” and |earing both sides, declined Sul- | that Byington was engaged in a vicl-| and the transition of first one factory and then another to the| | CLEVE AN I | ae 4 tise ia ae Oe that Byington at 2 wild booze party, lost his wits long enough to boast | ivan'$ invitation. McKenzie based | US agitation against Mooney at the | production of armaments Perea che 8 Ga) | Sabet caiees, fo Owing tie eeaey of the frame up—as revealed by the letter of Edwin V. McKenzie, pub- | his refusal on the significant ground | Very time that he was supposed to| : The National Acme Com.| | tpnccuration of Jap eee ished in this issue of the Daily Worker. ; that he believed the decision in the be conducting an “impartial inves- Now we find the Singer Sewing Machine Company in the Soviet border, the Soviet Gove pany of Cleveland is in the ‘ The decision to continue the torture of Tom Mooney to his death tigation” of the facts in the case. | Elizabeth, N. J. built-—presumably—for the production of a | war mchine industry otink-| lange ee ae Eflee ee sities 4s connected with the whole world complex of events: McKenzie cites Byington, one of the | household article, transformed into a source of parts for battle | ing shells. All machinery |.|-troops of the Red Army tn: Siberia, ‘The déeepest-going and longest economic crisis in-the history is grip- two “investigators,” as launching 2} planes and submarmes. Yesterday sewing machines—today ‘ . . ping the capitalist world. The parasite capitalist class is seeking wildly for a way out, not a way out for the toiling and starving masses, but a ‘way out for the parasites that feed on their blood. Throughout the whole capitalist. world, the second imperialist world war is being prepared in éach capitalist country, as the capitalist way out of the crisis. The Jap- anese imperialists have already opened this world slaughter by the mil- itary assault upon the Chinese masses, and are already engaged in milit- ary maneuvers for the opening of the war against the Union of Socialist Soviet Reputlics. The United States imperialists, in irreconcilable rivalry with the Japanese and other imperialist powers for points of advantage from which to suck the blood of the Chinese people—are determining U.S. WARSHIPS THREATEN TO SHELL AMOY Army Carrying Red Flag Advances tirade against Mooney at a wild drunk party in celebration of a birth- day—a party at which Byington “was @ conspicuous guest.” McKenzie fur- ther quotes a conversation he had with Byington in which the latter showed the grossest ignorance of the records in the case and of the loca- tion of the buildings figuring in the case. The so-called “study” by Rolph’s committee had as its deliberate aim | published information from Hopewell, Va., from which a large quantity of nitrates—usually thought of as material for fer- tilizer—was shipped to Japan for use in her attack and seizure of Manchuria and her preparations for war against the Soviet Union. The Singer Sewing Machine Plant is only one example of a transformation that is taking place with terrible swift- | ness in hundreds of American factories. | pistons and cartridges! Not long ago the DAILY WORKER || The purely defensive nature. of this action by the Soviet Union has been | admitted. even in impel circles, | which have also admitted the pro- vocative nature of the Japanese mi]- itary activities on the Soviet border. AT dispatch to the New York S ot | Times—-reports Ar: in the hypo. Danish Seamen : | criti¢at-statement that: $ Protest Scottsboro | “We are unable to understend Lynch Verdicts 3° ..2° The, situation that is used for this purpose is marked not to be sold or | thrown out except by con- sent of the U. 8. govern-| | ment. what preparations , mean. is becoming serious. their actions by their deeper hatred and a belligerent attitude towards + On City Spore acie cathe Sagas The DAILY WORKER urges, its readers to send in sim-| COPENHAGEN, Denmark, April 6 | Russia is concentrating four divisions the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics. fae, ‘ ig Ech naan as | ilar reports from their factories, in order to expose the war| (By Mail)—At a meeting of the | Siberia on. the Manchuria border. Let it clearly be understood that every action of the Federal Govern- * rame up by the California bosses, | 1 f the A x b seamen here, the following protest | We can only vait and see whether ment in these times—and this specific action of the California bourgeoisie The guns of fourteen impe- Saat bead reactionary leaders of | Plans of the American pegeaae $e 7 resolution against the Scottsboro | the storm breaks.” ineluded—is caused by the desire to keep the laboring masses of this |rialist warships aré bared | phat i sein Peta te aga lynch verdict was unanimously “The Soviet Union has made it country within the iron grip of repression for the inevitable world war that is coming. The Wall Street ruling class wants a free hand and does not desire mass pressure against the filthy alliance of imperialist crime which form a part of their war plans. The dartardly act of Rolph is an action of the bourgeoisie in the great Sttuggle etween the parasite class and the laboring masses. For the Sake of life itself, the working class must fight back. Let the organized Yhass fury of the working class be turned loose upon the rotten parasites and imperialists that rule us. Let every picket line be strengthened. Let every revolutionary trade Union under the Trade Union Unity League, clase its ranks and build itself to 100 times its present strength. Let the revolutionary working lass masses within the A. F. of L., the Railroad Brotherhoods and “in- dependent” unions, organize their forces 100 times more solidly. Build the mighty revolutionary arm of the working class and resist every wage against the workers of Amoy, he to pour death into the | city as the Chinese Rebel Army wearing red arm bands and carrying purpose the Langing of Mooney to terrorize the working class of Cali- fornia and break the’'backbone of the militant labor movement. The thunderous protests of the working- (By a Worker Correspondent) From sewing machines to battle-planes, from treadles to certridges—that is the history of a change which is taking place in the plant-of the Singer Sewing Machine Company in Elizabeth, N. J. a red flag, continues its victorious advance on the South China port. Among the foreign war ships in the port are two American destroyers. The sending of these warships to Amoy is a direct act of intervention against the revolutionary fight of the Chinese masses against the trai- class, roused to action by the 1917 demonstrations of Russian workers in Leningrad against the frame-up of Mooney, forced the bosses to com- mute the death sentence to life im- prisonment. This-sham “study” of the Mooney case, the infamous decision of Gov. | The Singer Manufacturing Company is transforming its plant into a munitions factory! It is at present the best- equipped plant in New Jersey for the production of am- munition. Extensive experimental “ATTENTION, PARTY ORGANI- work on} ZATIONS! | airplane motors, airplane pistons and! orous Kuomintang party and its im- Rolph denying, a pardon to Tom | Perialist masters. Mooneyy must rouse to angry pro- | submarine parts is going on under) | the direction of the Singer company. } Today’s Daily Worker carries’ an important letter of the @entral Com- mittee of the Communist Party to all adopted and acopy sent to the Amer- ican Embassy: We seamen gathered at a meet- ing in the International Seamen's Club, April 5, 1932, protest. against | quite clear to the Japanese war inciters that the struggle of the Soviet Union for peace does not mean that the Soviet Union will not defend its territory against the the vicious .frame-up and planned imperialist brigands who have made legal murder of the nine innocent Negro children in Scottsboro, Ala- bama, U. S. A, “We emphatically denounce this attempt of the American ruling class to miurrder nine innocent Negro children for the terrible no secret of their hunger for So- viet territory and their batred of the country is successfully building Socialism and raising the cultural level of the Soviet masses at pre- cisely the time when tens of mil- in the capitatist lions of toilers crime of seeking work and declare that this is nothing but a foul countries have been sentenced. to starvation. tut, and fight every ifch of the way against the capitalist offensive. Let “. eat | In the Dihel Manufacturing biulding,| district organizations and lower units attempt to terrorize the Negro A Geneva dispatch to the New ils organize the workers counter-offensive against the bourgeois attack | gyre, suom mang toons which were | tests the Workers of the entire coun~| 4 subsidiary of the Singer company,| of the Communist Party on the out-| masses of the United States. ;York Times reports the recruitment upon our class. : hey ieee he heading High pe cae | 25 ae a a led ce one | Built expressly for the Singer com-|rageous decision rendered in the; “We demand that the boys be im- | by the Ja of White Guards it : * ni t js ; f stk -room i Mooney case. Please t 2| mediately freed and ali charges rope. It says saaaet the Negro masses be stirred into action—and let the white masses |Changtal and Tungan, northeast of | Alabama Supreme Court upholding | wisn eetiaut er has pas cna avant Peas ria adr ik than enter ae ile, it I understand at last that our class must be united as one man to fight tor | aboy. Kuomintang troops stationed at| the lynch verdiets against seven of| i : | me ee 7 Meatiwhile,: 1+ ts Aantorstdeds aan our cause, black and white, shoulder to shoulder. Let there be no mis- take about this. Those sniveling weaklings in the labor movement who think that the white members of the working class can successtully fight lone, must be shoved aside and every class-conscious white worker must push himself forward to be the first to fight for the equal rights of the Negro and the organization of all of the workers, black and white, in the le unions and in the revolutionary ranks. The Negro masses have before them the ghastly example of the seven innocent Negro children eondemned to death and facing the electric chair at Scottsboro, Ala., an act, of trror of the ruling class intended to intimidate the great masses @f Negroes who are stirring in discontent. Already several monster de- thonstrations of solidarity of Negro and white workers have occurred— ih the anti-eviction struggles in Chicago and Cleveland, and even in | Soth Carolina and Alabama on a smallér scale. Let the Negro and white make comnion cause for the common fight which we must win in orde# that our class may have the right to live. If we understand Rolph’s decision as a signal of mass reaction and | tertor by the whole ruling class against the whole working class—then we Must understand that it is a signal also of the forthcoming murder ot the:nine innocen* Negro boys framed up at Scottsboro. ‘The fight for equal rights for the Negro, the fight for the right ot mination of the Black Belt, must be coupled up in the struggle @f the whole mass both for these and for the liberation of Tom Mooney, » the defeating of the wage-cutting offensive against the workers, against ‘the imperialist war—the concrete struggle against the Japanese imperial- ist war against China and the cohtcrete struggle of the working masses to | defend the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics—and in a hundred-told stronger fight to compel the parasite class through its Congress, to grant unemployment and social insurance to the starving American workers. Gov. Rolph, prostitute of the ruling class, has decreed that Tom Mooney, labor's martyr, shall die in San Quentin prison. © The working class can defeat this brutal crime. This blow in the tace ot thé working class comes just ten days be- fore May 1—the international day of labor, the day of the working class! Let the great world-wide demonstrations of May First show the Am- erican ruling class the anger of the toiling masses of the world! * = In every union, in every working class organization and neighborhood, . {ii every Negro organization and neighborhood, let the militant workers, black and white, organize their ranks and turn out by the hundreds of thousands on May Day. _ Let May Day put tear into the hearts of the murderers of ‘Tom Mooney}, | Amoy are not waiting to meet the advancing army, but. are reported withdrawing toward the northeast. |The capture by the -rebel army of | Amoy is expected at any hour. Amoy is only a short distance from Chang- | chow. The latter city is an impor- | tant industrial center and has a pop- ulation of one million. Send Letters And Suggestions On The Election Campaign | The Daily Worker will in- terpret and explain the is- sues, slogans raised by the! | various capitalist politicians, | by the so-called progressives | and by the Socialist party. We therefore request our readers to send in the elec-| tion material such as, leaf- lets, programs, posters, is-| | sued,by our class enemies. We particularly ask our, readers to send in workers) correspondence telling other workers what they know about the various candidates about the election speeches and promises. Not merely this. But also suggestions how the Communists ought to conduct the present presi- dential election campaign. | |the innocent Scottsboro Negro boys.|_ The Singer plant is strategically Itt is an act of murderous terror | located for work of this sort. Only | against the entire working-class. The | SX miles away is the Newark, Air | workers must pour into the streets | Port. Recently the Newark city au- }on May First in militant demon- | thorities bought a few blocks of prop- | strations against the continued im-|€‘ty, beginning at Parkhurst Ave., | prisonment of Tom Mooney, against | and including the big property of the| theScottsbor o! lynch verdicts, against | Mutual Grocery Company. All of the) the war preparations of the bosses, | buildings on this property are to be| for unemployment relief and socia}| torn down, and the Lincoln Highway |imsurance at the expense of the bos-| Wil! be extended ‘to the Newark Air) | ses and their government, for the| Port, which is also being enlarged. | |defense of the Soviet Union and the| The Lincoln Highway is connected) Chinese People, for equal rights for| With the Singer plant. Thus it is| the Negro masses. (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) = [ | Japanese are quietly trying to re- The splendid militancy and hero- Police Forced to Grant Permit jor May Ist Rally cruit officers and former officers of the remnants of General Wrangel’s army who are now living in Czech- | oslovakia and Yugoslavia, for ser- | vice in Manchuria”. 7 White Guards living in Manehurla jalready have been organized and This is a significant victory for the armed by the Japanese.’ The recent | ism of the unemployed workers yes-| workers of New Work. Now all work-| White Guard attack on the Soviet terday at the City Hall demonstra-| ers, employed and unemployed, are ™Snager of the; Chinese Bastera tion against the closing of the home| urged to speed up preparations for "ilway and on the offices of~ the relief bureaus, forced the Tammany police to grant a permit for the May Day rally. Expect 14,000 to Greet Opening of Presidential Nominating Convention NEW YORK, April 22.—Fourteen thousand workers will gather in the Chicago Coliseum on the night of | Saturday, May 28, to greet the dele- gates) to the Workers’ National Nominating Convention called by the Communist Party, and to hear the nomination of the candidates tor president and vice-president, who will represent the workers and poor farmers in this year’s presi- dential elections, The National Election Campaign Committee of the Communist Party gave ut this information today. Arrangements are already being made by the workers of Chicago for the reception of the delegates and for a tremendous mass meeting to hear the nomination of the workers’ candidates, The Nominating Convention will | open Saturday morning, May 28, in | the People’s Auditorium. Sessions | will continue on Sunday. The pur- pose of the convention is to nomi- nate worker-candidates to bear the | standard of the Party in the elec- | tion campaign and to draft a work- | | Lit program, Reports coming in from the dis- tricts show that the preparations are already being completed for lo- cal conferences in many cities, where delegates will be elected to the national convention in Chicago, The delegates to the local confer- ences will be elected directly by the workers in factories, unions, i- cluding A. F. of L. locals—unem- ployed councils, fraternal organiza- tions and mass organizations of Negroes, In sharp contrast to the plans al- teady made for the conventions of the Republican and Democratic parties, the nominating convention of the Communist Party will not tolerate any Jim-Crowing of the Negro delegates. Both Negro and white delegates will be housed alike, with worker families in Chicago, turning out by tens of thousands to| railway were inspired by the Jepan> Union Square at 12.30 on May First ©S¢ 95 part of their war provotations and for the most gigantic arade New York ever saw. The United Front Committee and Unemployed Councils in a statement | today called upon all workers to answer the brutal police attack upon the unarmed unemployed yesterday | at City Hall, the ferocious tramping and clubbing of women and children by Walker's thugs with a mighty demonstration May First. May Day must also be a mighty mass struggle against the brutal cap- italist hangmen of Tom Mooney and the Scottsboro boys. Wrest Tom Moo- | ney from the hands of the capital- ist executioners! Demonstrate May First for the immediate release of Tom Mooney, the Scottsboro boys and all class war prisoners. All out to the defense of the Soviet | Union and the Chinese people! Turn out by tht tens of thousands! Fight the imperialist war plots on the Soviet Union. Demand the immed- jate withdrawal of ail imperialist forces from China and the Seviet border, rs | against the Soviet , Union. White | Guards were also responsible tor th |attempt to blow up the Sungar. River bridge on the Chinese Easter Railway, an act on which the Jap- |anese immediately seized in an at- | tempt to finda pretext to launch: ap | immediately attack against) the -Sp- | Viet Union. | Over 40 Soviet citizens, employees jot the railway, were arrested by the , | Japanese and their White Guaro and Chinese militarist tools and charged with the attempt to blow up the bridge. All the arrested per- sons were tortured in an effort tc force them to make statements thal’ the Soviet Government was behinc the attack on the bridge. Again the Soviet Union refused to be provoke |into war, 3 The speech of Gen. Aragi show j that the Japanese have now change their tactics and are accusing the Soviet Union of “provoking” Japan Has your club sent in $5.00 worth oi . » olt-dollars? Have you sent in your Half-Dollar?. \