The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 25, 1932, Page 4

caeadllieecace site geamnet Sally GRewwe Saqady, ue co Cable “DAIWC SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Sy mail everywhere: One year, $6; six months, §3; two months, $1; excepting Boroughe of Menhattam and Bronz, New York City. orsign: one year, § JAPAN’S IMPERIALIST P A} OF CONQUEST 3 iz montha, $4.00. By BURCK! Life and Death of 2 Strikebreaker PENN i gave Japan a loan of 800,000,000 Yen. This en- Pe ee ; bled Japan 2 armaments abroad. ILLIAM J. BURNS, jury fixer, strike breuxce, i Capitalist governments have remitted the pur- master spy on labor, and head of William A i c of arms by Japan, The figures given, J. Burns International Detective Agency, is dead, : ee = however, cannot he relied upon, since the greater His obituary has been written by the capitalist anatous th > Japan of armament exporis are invariably sent newspapers extolling his life of sensatior: Fi o) Manchuria sand he description of “machinery,” ete, sleuthing, But part of the record is not given int pane (ihe ocotagy Then‘o i ndicatiy of the extent - to these accounts. Here is part of it, Paes : sa eet hats the whict apitalist countries are supplying Chinese Eastern Railw trate Siberia ategical propagar 1 anti- Carrying Out the Japanese Plan arms te Japan is the sharp rise in the shares armaments firms in all countries, and the ime in the war factories that is For instance, one section of Woolwich ngland is working overtime till 11 constant reportec Arsenal The League of Nations support for Japan, the West powe nd, have made every use of the League of Na- under articles 5, 10, 11, 12, 15 ion can be taken against an ‘aggressor, e has refused to see any aggressor. : when Japan put forward its nands in connection with Manchuria, the endorsed four of them. ‘The fifth was ough » ahead without consultation and without ne interests of the other imperialist , particularly France and Eng- | First as a strike-breaker, Burns was 2 leader in his profession, He offered his strike breaking} services quite frankly. In a typical letter to a) Prospective client he would tell how he was pree pared “to furnish skilled mechanics and crafts- men, trainmen, switchmen, telegraph and tele- Phone linemen and operators, who will keep you informed at all times relative to labor agitation, +. In event of a strike among your employees We are‘ prepared to furnish strike breakers and! guards for your property.” Hundreds of individual companies and em- Ployers’ associations hired him to break strikes, ‘The manufacturers association of ie, Pa., paid Burns $29,817.11 to break a single strike of the Molders union. In Joliet, IL, in 1925, a Burns man was caught throwing a bomb at a non- union garage in an attempt to discredit a strike Immediately the picket was set upon by four Burns operatives who shot him in the leg. Burns agents, in 1929, attempted to provoke i ‘ar violence in connection wi i Japanese troops have seized Manchuria | It is absolutely clear from the course of events at the Allentown silk ee re, workers & puppet government has been set up. that the League of Nations is simply a tool in men and guards were sent to Aiea, atm olian prin nd petty chi been “in the hands of French and British imperialism. ) Pa., and 0 a confere in Mukden to d ations. Thus the first part of the Japanese plan is fulfilled. Now for the Second Part. Japan is losing no The Role of the Second International ight of the abouve facts, let us examine of those Labor Parties, Socialist. Par- ties, and Social Democratic Parties that comprise | the Se¢ond International. efforts made to frame up the strikers voking them into a fight, Newspaper accounts, at the death of Burns, say that “on his acceptance of the post (director of the Bureau of Investigation of the Depart- ment of Justice) he resigned his Position as head by pro-' time in “making use of White Guard troops.” | At first it seems con- | of the Burns agency.” But he continued to direct, The White Guard newspaper “Vosroshdenije” | fusing, but soon becomes quite clear. the operations of this private agency. A docu- (“Resurrection”) reports (January) “Japanese The Second International itself has issued a | ment reproduced in the International Pamphlet leaders repeatedly emphasize that they place ex- ceptional hopes on us Russians that are hostile to the USSR.” All newspapers report tremendous White Guard activity in Manchuria, One lead- er, Semjonov, claims to have an army of 500,000 on the Soviet border. Others (Balderiev in Paris and Tohapaline in London) are recruiting more “Whites” for Manchuria. The USSR has already had to protest sharply against the arming and financing of these forces by Japan. The second part of the Japanese plan is being fulfilled. Now comes the more ticklish problem of seiz- ing the Chinese Eastern Railway (part owned by the USSR) and actual intervention. The Jap- anese Foreign Minister has already circulated a report from what he calls a “reliable informer” that “the Bolsheviks hate the Japanese” and “have 100,000 troops concentrated in the Vlad- ivostock district.” The Japanese authorities have demanded spe- cial facilities on the Chinese Eastern Railway for bringing troops to the Soviet frontier. Refusal by the Soviets would, of course, provide a pretext for seizure. The USSR has consented to only a limited use of the railway. Then efme the re- volt of Manchurian troops on the Soviet frontier. During the disorder the Japanese Consul found it convenient to proceed with his nationals over the border into Soviet territory. Japanese im- perialism now has an excuse for demanding fur- ther railway concessions for the “protection” of its nationals, Thus at the moment of writing, is the mine of intervention set. It needs only a press of the dividing up China as they have for intervention in the USSR. First, districts in China with in- manifesto condemning the “aggression” of Japan and demanding intervention by the League of Na- tions. But in the manifesto the cooperation of the other. powers with Japan is completely con- cealed. The result is that when the other powers decide on open intervention in the Far Eastern war, the Second International will be able to support it. Turning a blind eye, of course to the fact that it’s in cooperation with, and not against, Japan, the national sections of the Second International have issued manifestoes or statements in the same vein, emphasizing par- ticularly the need for strengthening the League of Nations (that is, strengthening French and British imperialism). And the “left wing” of the reformists (the British ILP for instance) de+« nounces Japanese imperialism even more fiercely (that is, for their own imperialists who in turn support Japan). It is only natural, in the circumstances, that the Japanese Socialist Party should declare, through its General Secretary Sikai Minsei, sup- port for the seizure of Manchuria, asking only for “socialist control.” ‘The manifesto of the Second International has not a word to say about the crucial point of the situation—the direct attack on the USSR and on the Chinese Soviets. This cannot be an ac- cident; and it can have only one explanation: to lull the workers into an attitude of security, and to keep the hands of the reformists free for supporting the interventionists, ‘The real attitude of the leaders of the Second International towards the USSR and the events in the Far East can be judged from the docu- sian Bureau” of the Socialis; Workers Inter- national. This manifesto openly admits the near outbreak of war against the USSR and declares Railroad Brotherhood Ofticials the Role ot Company Spies CLEVELAND, ’ Ohio.—Pres. A. F. Whitney, of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen is seen in the role of company spy in correspondence between New York Central officials, which has just been brought to light. Fearing that wage cuts, Brotherhood sell-outs and constantly worsened conditions will drive the men to mil- itant resistance under the leadership of the Trade Union Unity League, Whitney and his brother fat boys have been using an employers’ detective agency against the railroad workers, And now they are appealing to the railroad companies to aid them in their spy activities. These facts are exposed in a memorandum sent out by E. Erickson, New York Central of- ficial at Collinwood, Ohio, to other Cleveland New York Central officials. The memorandum is marked “personal” and urges the officials to | spy on T.U.U.L. activities. Most of it is devoted te quoting a letter from J. G. Walber, vice- president in charge of personnel of the New York Central, to R. D. Starbuck, another vice- president. Walber’s letter, as quoted, shows how closely Brotherhood officials and company officials cut. The letter shows Whitney using the notori ous Railway Audit and Inspection Bureau, an employers’ detective agency which specializes in ! in Cleveland, Toledo .nd Chicago watch condi- tions because of the large proportion of foreign element in these communities; that we knew frequent meetings were called in | hose places, but so far as we have learned | they were attended only by a few of the shop craft employees and laborers, practic- uly all of whom were foreigners. “I thought that you might want to pass nis word along to Mr. MacBain in whose erritory the Communists seem to be more ictive than elsewhere. “I have understood that the Employers Association at Cleveland and Toledo were in ouch with these conditions as they are in 3uffalo, and we may be able to get some information from them.” E. Erickson, cailway Audit and Inspection Co. has a long record of spying on workers not only on the railroads but in many other industries, It is mentioned in Spying on Labor (International Pamphlets No. 17) as one of the leading under- | cover anti-labor agencies of this coyntry. Its | bulletins, marked “Confidential Information,” are sold to employers and carry reports on the activities of the militant unions, Its strike-breaking operations in recent years include attempts to smash the strike of taxi- drivers against the Parmelee Transportation Co. in Pittsburgh in 1930. This spy agency in that strike operated under another name — Central Industrial Service, The R. A. and I. Co. also tried to smash the strike of street car workers in New Orleans in 1929. It attempted to break many strikes of hosiery workers—at Paterson, Allentown, Reading, and Hackerttstown in 1929, and at Nazareth, Pa., in 1930. In the strike of the workers of the Allen- A Hosiery Co. in Kenosha, Wis., in 1930, agents of this bureau threw acid and stinkbombs at | union organizers and sent poison pen letters to the workers. As the above document shows its activities in more recent days have been concentrated on the left wing railroads workers’ movement. The Soviet Union's 15 Years of y HEN the workers and peasants, under the leadership of the Bolsheviks, seized power in Russia in November 1917, their first act was and put into proper shape. Then, in 1927, the Soviets were again invited to @ European Conference, at Geneva, to dis- | group of copper companies in the west, Spying on Workers, page 20, shows Burns writ- ing on the stationary of the Department of Jus- tice in 1923, directing his Los Angeles manager in connection with a big job being done for a This and a file of letters and reports relating to the same oeration were lated extracted from the Burns files by a friend of the L.W.W. The docu- ments show Burns ordering Department of Jus- tice investigators out on his own Private jobs, using them interchangeably with his own dicks to fight the unions. Burns was, of course, always a loud opponent of the Reds, though his confusion of shades in the movement was as notoricus as that of the Fish \Committee. He prophesied in 1924, be- fore a House Committee that “unless the couns try became thoroughly aroused concerning. the danger of this radical element in this couniry, we will have a very serious situation. These per- lor Bolsheviks have sprung up everywhere, as evidenced by the Civil Liberties Union of New York.” He officially stated, the same year, it there were “over 600,000 Reds affiliated with Moscow in the United States, ready to overthrow the government.” As a Red sleuth, Burns opened his files te’ all the proiessional patriots and was particularly intimate with officials of the National Civic Federation, now presided over by Matthew Woll, a vice president of the A. F. of L.; Ralph Easley, Secretary of the National Civic Federation, is said to have taken credit for the appointment of Burns to the directorship of the Bureau of Investigation of the Department of Justice. the employers of the country uphold the hands of Samuel Gompers.” button. ment Officially circulated by the Second Interna- | Work together against the rank and file of rail- ‘ Burns was strong for non-militant unions, and i ; Intervention in China tional. We refer to the “Documents and Discus- | Toad labor. It was through such under-cover Stru le for Peace ini 1020 sent a circular to his employer elientele | Bound up with the question of Intervention in sions of the Secretariat of the Socialist Inter- | Connections as these that the Brotherhood chiefs throughout the country stating, according to a the USSR is the question of partitioning China, | National” No. 12 of December Sth, 1931. ‘This | 8Md the companies worked out their strategy pbtnser ts UIE Sos, confidential pamphlet of the National Civic Fed- | The imperialist powers have similar reason for | Publication contains the manifesto of the “Rus- | for putting over the recent 10 per cent wage eration, that “it is impoftant at this time that | | } habitants have introduced the Soviet system, and its power and influence is rapidly extending. Secondly, China is a rich field for colonial ex< pansion, parition of which might temporarily re. equally openly that a real policy of peace can only reside in the organized fight of the work- ing class for the overthrow of the dictatorial and curbing labor activity. follows: Erickson’s memorandum to send over the radio a message to the world, calling for peace. The wireless stations of Eu- rope, listening anxiously for war news from Rus- sia, heard this call—and promptly jammed the cuss disarmament. Litvinov was the Soviet re- presentative, and it was here he made his fam-, ous proposal; that the way to prevent wars was—simply to disarm! He showed how com- As a friend of Easley and Gomrers, Burns wes particularly energetic i# his pros? «tions of Cau munists. His stool pigions, Moriry and Spols tis sky, the latter still aci ve in the anti-Red hus Neve the present economic crisis, terrorist regime. This is complete unity with the NEW YORK aie RAILROAD ether, plete universal disarmament could—it the na- | around Detroit—haviny. been calied in to testify } It is a great mistake to ard Japanese in- | imperialist governments! COMPANY K 5 tions really desired it—be carried out within a | after the Ford massacrs—were the main provoca~ arene a Anciaent alt ‘On the following day the Soviet Government R ; A tervention in eae as an am mae nt eas oom A Last Word With the Workers | 2 Collinwood, Ohio, July 3, 1931 issued a series of decrees outlining its policy on period of four years, and offered that the Sov- | tive agents in the faiious Bridgeman raid of interlude.” It is simply the other edge of the | 5 y i 1 ti Th nd of these decrees in- | lets would take the lead in carrying it, out. 1922 and the subseque.it indictment of leading aword that is cutting along the Soviet frontier. Thus every part of the imperialist war ma- File 13.4 all questions. © second 0! si Total universal scrapping of all forms of arm- | members of the Communist movement, Easley Unity of Imperialist Powers Against Soviets It is an even greater mistake to suppose that | Japanese imperialism is carrying out operations on its own. The plan of Japan, as noted above, envisaged the cooperation of the Western Powers against the USSR. These powe: ve not bee slow to do their share While Japanese troops were operaing in M shuria ana Cnina the Britisn Government broke off the Angio-soviet debts negotiations, ricted trade credits, and announced an “inquiry into the unsatisfactory” condition) of Anglo-Soviet trade. France at the Disarmament Conference proposed, as a “gesture” that the League of Na- tion should have a special army of its own. It needs no imagination to see how such an army would be of use primarily against the USSR. A more practical French proposal was the creation of @ “Danubian Federation,” and details of this ‘re now being worked out, Such a Federation means a further consolidation of the anti-Soviet forces in the West. Already the small European countries have a total of 574,000 troop: armed and financed by France and Britain and partly by Czecho-Slovakia, on the Soviet’s west- (The April Issue of “The chine is performing its functions. What can stop it? Possibly the rivalries of the imperialist powers will delay the outbreak of the final action. But this is remote. ‘The last, the des e word rests with the work- ers of the capitalist countries. It is their task: 1. To organize such strong support for the Soviets in every country so as to make the gov- ernments afraid of the internal consequences of an attack, 2. To give such firm resistance to attacks on wages and standards of living that the govern- mehts cannot afford to spend any energy abroad. 3. To refuse to make munitions for war, and; 4. To refuse the handling of munitions or troops = Personal Mr. C. N. Kittle, Mr. L. C. Widham, Mr. L. J. Collins, Mr. A, Frank, Mr. C. E. Reed I am quoting letter from Mr. Jno. G. Wal- ber under date of June 24 to Mr. Starbuck which is s planatory and would be very glad if you gentlemen would endeavor to | procure such information as might be pos- sible regarding the activities of the Trad Union Unity League as. referred to in Mr. Walber’s. letter. Please give this your prompt attention and let me have any information you might be able to develop and forward it to me under personal cover: “Vice President Knoff of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen called on me to as- certain what we know about the activities of the Trade Union Unity League. “President Whitney has a file on these ac- tivities going back a great many years, He has been getting the recent reports | about the Wangerin outfit (Railroad Work- vited “all belligerent nations and their Govern- ments to begin immediate negotiations for a just and democratic peace. The only response from the Allies was cries of “traitor” and curses for “deserting” the cause of mass slaughter, Three weeks later the Soviet Government an- | nounced that it_refused to continue “this un- reasonable and pointless massacre” and pro- posed to open peace negotiations with Germany. Twice were these negotiations postponed to give the Allies an opportunity to join in. The only response was a more intense use of poison gas on the Western front. ‘When peace between the Soviets and Germany was concluded, the Allies promptly broke off di- plomatic relations and sent expeditionary forces into Russia, Through three years of interven- tion, the Soviet Government took every excuse for proposing an end to the conflict, even go- ing so far as to reply through its press to an- nonymous telegrams on the question. But peace only came with the defeat of the Allies and their “White” puppets. In 1921 the Soviet Government called a meet- ing of Baltic States to discuss a reduction of | and the sneers of reformist leaders. | proposal for partial all-round disarmament. The aments was and remains the fundamental prin- ciple of the Soviet Union on the question of dis- armament, | On that occasion the proposal was rejected, amid the contempt of the bourgeois statesmen Litvinov thereupon outlined a now practical bourgeois statesmen hastily adjourned the ses- sion to prevent their hypocrisy being still fur- ther exposed. Since then the Soviet Union has taken the initiative in securing non-aggression pacts with several of its capitalist neighbours. Japan — significantly enough—still refuses to sign such @ pact. At the present disarmament conference in Geneva, Litvinov has again put forward the demand for total all-round disarmament. The capitalist politicians knew that Litvinov spoke in the name not only of the workers and pea- sants of the USSR, but of millions of toilers throughout the world. And still, only one coun- try, Turkey, supported the Soviet proposal. Af- and his friends of the Civic Federation raised part of the funds to back up Burns in this prose- cution. . When the Wall Street bomb explosion occurred in 1920, Burns immediately charged prominent radicals with the crime. But one of his own agents testified about the same time that he had written and mailed bomb threats at the behest of Burns’ officials and stated that an- other Burns agent had offered him bombs to plant in radical offices. Later, when a certain Lindenthal was arrested in Warsaw, charged with the Wall Street explosion, Burns stated that there was:“no question that his arrest solved the “plot.” But at the same time Burns stated that Lindenthal had been one of his own under-cover men! Nothing ever came of the Lindenthal story. Burns naturally backed his pal, Harry Daugh- erty, then head of the Department of Justice, and when Senator Wheeler began probing into the oil scandals and the other dirt of the Hard- ing administration, Burns promptly sent three of his special federal agents to Montana, in- i ‘ oD ers Industrial League—Ed.) at Chicago, He | armaments, and offered to reduce the Red Army | ter all, acceptance would mean a speedy end to | structed to “get something on Wheeler.” i i erm frontier. (The to ength of the Hed Communist has had investigations made through the | ¢ 990,000 men (that is, to one quarter of its | the war in China, for instance; and that the As a jury fixer Burns showed such a skillful wf aa a 500 Géatents: | lodges of the BRT to ascertain if any of | then size) within elghtecn months, if the other-| imperialists cannot abide, hand that in the Oregon land fraud case even ‘g and ascern, 1s 560,000). | s their members were Joining the Trade Union such a reactionary as P.esident Taft pardoned In the Far East the Japanese army has paved the way. It has set the svage mM Maucuuua, anu ‘% bas given the ouner umperiaust powers an ex- Ouse 10r seudiuig Lael armies and navies to the Far East in reaainess, Despite tne incense jeal- The World Is Drifting Into an Imperialist World War For National Liberation of the Nezroes! War Against White Chauvinism, by Earl Browder Unity League, or were active in that direc- ion. He has not been able to get any evid- nee, but about all the information they have een able to ob‘ain is that contained in the eports of the Railway Audit & Insp*ction Baltic powers would reduce their armies in pro- portion. This proposal was evaded, however, and the Conference breke up with a joint de- claration that it would “fully support the prin- ! ciple of limitation of armaments.” (Since then | An Army For Defense Alone Because the Soviet army is needed for de- fense alone, it is proportionately the smallest army of all great powers. The USSR occupies one-sixth of the whole earth, and its frontiers the defendants, stating that the Burns work wrs the “most barefaced and unfair use of all the -'v for drawing a jury disclosed to me *in all my experience in the federal cour‘s.” r: he Baltic pow have been supplied with more | are the longest in the world. Yet the Red Army by a WEE ho udasty Sinc.ais of Oumness between the imperialist powers, leading | The Tasks of the Communist Party, U. 8. A— sureau. Mr. Knoff told me also that he | ona more orn ts by Britair ‘and Franee’| is smaller than those of the much smaller cap- fraud case in 1927, it wos bi out thats to interchanges of notes, talix of poycou 0, | Resolution for the Central Committee Ple- called on the Pennsylvania peovly and they | under the pretense that they are needed against | italist states. | ieee Cathie: eblatlowed “ shouia ve noved that in practice tnere is supp num . ‘ i under the p Ss 1 @ee Japan. yThe Japanese army, for insvance Conduns the ouuepsive Irom tne Shangnai In- , ternational Settlement, while the Britisn and the American troops (working in hermony, relicvir each other on sentry and other duties) seo to tha defense. Already there are over 100,000 foreign troops wound Shanghai, and over 100 war vers The Role of American Finareo’ Capital In the Present Crisis, by Harry Gannes Shop Politics and Organization, by John Steu- ben. Marxism and the National Problem, by J. Stalin, On the Theoretical Foundations of Marxism- Leninism (Continued from last issue), by odvised ‘him that they haye been unable to verify the Railway Audit & Inspection Bu- reau’s reports, “Mr. Whitney's interest in the matter is due to the general understanding that Grunau, who started the outlaw strike of 1920, was in the employ of the Communists, and on account of the depression he de- | “Soviet aggression”), In the following year the USSR was invited to take part in a European conference at Genoa. At the first session of the Conference, Chi- cherin, head of the Soviet delegation, demand- ed that Disarmament be made tho first item on the agenda. The reply of the imperialists came through the mouth of Barthou, the French Basing ourselves on statistics compiled by the League of Nations we get the following facts: The number of soldiers per square kilometre in the Soviet Union is 13; in Britain 80; in France 120. ‘The number of soldiers per 1,000 inhabitants in the Soviet Union is 4; in Britain 41; in France 16. members of the jury was that he had done for Sinci done dozens of times for the government. Jus was true. For Burns served the capitalist gov- ernment as he served the capitalists—always ready, for cash, to carry out its orders. es oe by the Chinese Nanking government of ossible to invol 3 penetra t th 4 war with ne USSR, while | 22yv in connection with the events round BickGE War lee? invari union, A union, ga EC Lay es hai, the Le has expressed its “appre- ed into accompanying a Burns| Ap Ngee , A acai on” of the pa intenions of Japan; ex- Besa te ches 8arage where the Burns pros! # rae edna aha ibiting only a certain nervousness that Japan a bomb and told the sirike to run. BO Me outset of the military operations, France | Osw: a Spenser's ‘Philosophy of Life”, by G. | — tho results of the investigations which he has | of ‘the Commission... I now categorically reply |-given in a ‘British Government doouiment-issued } led Pe cd padi bam ae | Ehe Soviet Union Stands for Feace,” te | Ettia America and Our Press. ty A. 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