The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 27, 1932, Page 1

=e WORKERS UNITE! Dail Central Org 4 “OD (Section of the Communist International) orker unist Porty U.S.A. May Day Must Show A Marked Increase in the Struggle Against Imperialist War ‘Vol. 1X,No.100 "Sasaki anraescs meres NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 27, 1932 ae ___Price 3 Cents _ INTO THE Against Starvation and Imperialist War on May Ist! ss SPRING OFFENSIVE against the unemployed and employed workers has begun with a new sharpness and huge masses of workers are now being deprived even of that smal amount of relief furnished during the winter months. New wage cuts are announced for the stel industry and for govrnment employees. On May First, 15,000 families in New York City alone will be deprived of all relief. In Detroit 11,000 families have been deprived even ef the Starvation rations. furnished by the city. There is a proposal in th Detroit City Council to cut the wages of 18,000 city employees fifty per cent for the next two months “to balance the budget and to enable the city to extend present obligations and borrow more money from the banks,” The federal, city and state governments, and all capitalist agencies, Nave been making every effort during the winter months to suppress the organization of mass struggle against starvation and for the demands of the Unemployed Councils, including unemployment insurance at the expense of the government and employers. Mass misery in the United States has reachd unheard of propor- ns. Now that th winter months have passed, the employers and the mnment agencies are proceeding with the most cynical brutality against the millions of unemployed workers and their families. ‘There is no improvement in employment. On the contrary, even the usual seasénal increase in production has failed to materialize. Industrial activity continues to decline. Bank failures on a large scale are again occurring s in Boston following the drive against hoarding which brought $25,000,000 in savings back into the banks for the bankers to seize. May First, international day of struggle and of working class soli- darity, occurs this year in the United States in a period when the at- tacks against the working class have reached a new height, at a time ‘when imperialist war rages in the Far East and the preparations for an attack on the Soviet Union are apparent on all sides. The struggle against unemployment is an inseparable part of the struggle against imperialist war. Mass starvation is no mere phrase at the preser‘ time in describing the Gonditions of huge sections of the American working class. The organization of these masses of American workers for militant struggle is the central task of the Communist Party. The preparation gor the May First demonstrations require from all districts of the Party the systematic exposure of the drive of the capitalists and their govern- zaent and the mobilization of the mass forces into a militant army of struggle. May First should be a revolutionary reply of millions of American workers to the starvation offensive and the war preparations of American imperialism, Final March Route of May Day Parade, Sun. ‘The United Front May Day Arrangements Committee announces final arrangements for the May Day parade. The march route will be FROM UNION SQUARE along 4th Avenue to 14th Street; East along 14th Street to Avenue A; South along Avenue A to Houston St, From Houston to Ridge and Montgomery, South to East Broadway, West along East Broadway to Rutgers Square, ASSEMBLY POINTS: Section 1—15th Street East of Union Square, facing the square. 2—16th Street, East of Union Square, facing the Square. 3.—17th Street, East of 4th Avenue, facing the Square. A4—18th Street, East of 4th Avenue, facing Fourth Ave. 5.—19th Street, East of 4th Avenue, facing Fourth Ave. 6—19th Street West of Broadway, facing Broadway. 7.—l8th Street, West of Broadway, facing Broadway. 87th Street West of Broadway, facing Union Square. 16th Street West of Broadway, facing Union Square. 10.—15th Street, West of Broadway, facing Union Square. 11—13th Street West of University Place, facing University Place. 12.—12th Street West of University Place, facing University Place, 13.—12th Street East of Broadway, facing Broadway. 14.—13th Street East of Broadway, facing Broadway. AFFILIATIONS: — All members of the Communist Party will organized into 14 sections, All organizations are asked to find their Section number below. Then turn to the table above, locate the num- ber of your Section of the parade. The street next to the number of your Section is your assemble point. Make sure your membership gathers at your assembly point at 11 a.m. sharp. All organizations should take careful notice of the formation of organizations in the parade. The order outlined above will have to be lived up very strict- ® PHILA. M AY |Threat to Use Troopers, STREETS MAY FIRST! AGAINST HUNGER, WAR! DAY PLANS Tear Gas Will Not Halt NOT HALTED Police Say Committee Represents No One; Terror Increases (Special to Daily Worker) PHILADELPHIA, Pa., April 26— With the approach of May First the Philadelphia police are getting more vicious and are increasing their ter- ror against the workers. The city administration, true to its policies of serving its capitalist masters refusés @ permit for a May Day parade and demonstration. Dodge, Director of Public Safety, in a statement to the press calls the Committee arranging the parade a bunch of irresponsible Communists who do not represent anybody. In spite of the threats of the pol- ice to convert the May Day parade into a blood bath, the indignation of the workers against the stupid and brutal tactics of the police is rising and they are determined to show Dodge on Saturday whether the | Workers | Mass. Hunger Marchers and Farmers Greet Hunger Marchers On Their Way to Boston to Demand Relief BOSTON, Mass., April 26.—Despite the ac- JAPAN ORDERS TROOPS TO REMAIN WITHIN STRIKING DISTANCE OF SOVIET UNION | Secretary of State Stimson In Secret Confer- ence With Japanese Delegate and British War Minister at Geneva Attention! Tomorrow the Daily Worker will publish in full the proposed election plat- form of the Communist Par- ty for this year’s elections, together with the proposed | candidates for President and Vice-President. All workers are urged to) secure the Daily Worker of | tion of chief of police Sargent of Clinton or- dering the National Guard and state troopers and securing machine guns, tear gas guns and bombs to prevent the Hunger Marchers from parading and staying overnight, the Clinton Delegates of the Massachusetts State Hunger March insist on their rights to use the highways and proceed to Boston as planned; the mar- chers will proceed to Polish Hall at 68 Spruce Street for an that issue, study the propos- ed platform, and then write letters expressing their op-| inion on the proposals made. |The discussion will continue in the Daily Worker until the National Soviet An early attack by | Bourgeois Press Dispatch Visualizes Early I Attack by Japanese Against the Union the Japanese imperial- | | ists against the Soviet Union was visualized by | the bourgeios newspapers yesterday. A Geneva Committee sent up to him for a per- mit represented anybody or not. Yesterday several workers were ar- rested. Arrangements are in full swing and tens of thousands of work- ers are expected to turn out to the demonstrations Saturday noon at Thirteenth and Thompson and 4th and Federal and from there march to Reyburn Plaza, Dockers Fight on As Ryan Negotiates for Sellout NEW YORK.—While Joseph P. Ryan the two hundred pound presi- dent of the International Longshore- men Association, was in conference with the shipowners yesterday nego- tiating for a sellout the week old New York dock strike, the longshore~ men, urged by the organizers of the Marine Workers Industrial Union, continued their determined struggle to win. Ships from the Morgan, Clyde- Mallory and Savannah lines sailed from the docks with light loads in their holds, despite the bringing in of scabs and strikebreakers to do the work of loading and unloading. One strikebreaker, who attempted to go to the docks, was stopped by a group of strikers at the corner of Canal and West Streets and when he insisted on scabbing the dockers gave him a sound thrashing. Otherwise it was @ rather quiet day all along the West Side strike front. ‘The Marine Workers Industrial Unfon urges the strikers to rally at once to elect a rank and file comimit- tee to lead the strike and’ beware of any negotiations that Ryan is making with the shipowners. No matter how innocent these negotiations may ap- pear, the dockers must understand that only their own elected rank and file body can assure them against a sellout. The M. W. I. U. urges the longshoremen to set up mass picket lines to halt all attempts to bring strikebrekaers to the docks. Meanwhile eight railroad lines which bring cargoes to the docks for the deep sea lines remain effected by the strike. I.L.D. Attorneys File Records in Scottsbord Case With U.S. Court; Mass Protest Grows Millions of Workers to Demonstrate May First and May 7 All Over World Against Brutal Lyn ch Verdicts WASHINGTON, D. C., A pril 26.—In their move to take ly. All Workers Theatre groups, choruses, dance groups, etc., will march in the section assigned to the Workers Cultural Federation, ex- cept the groups of the W.LR., which will march with the W.LR. All organizations are further reminded to have their membership turn out immediately after the parade to the Bronx Coliseum, where Comrade Foster will be the only speaker at the celebration for which an extraordinary program has been march with their respective mass organizations. The parade itself is prepared, Mass Meeting to Protest Police Brutality, Friday A huge mass meeting is being pre- pared by the Unemployed Council of Greater New York to protest the po- lice frutality at the demonstration of the unemployed before City Hall last Thursday and to demand the’ immediate release of the workers ar- rested and being framed on charges ot’felonious assault and inciting to riot. The meeting will be held Fri- day evening, April 29, at Irving Powers, Secretary of the Buildinr and Construction Workers Industri> League; David Jones, Secretary o/ the Marine Workers Industrial Up ion; and Ferrera, a militant Italia’ worker, come up in court this morn- ing for hearing. They are being held on bail ranging from $3,500 to $7,500 each. . The brutal police attack on the’ workers gathered at City Hall to de- mand the reopening of the Home — Relief Bureaus and increase of un- employment relief, followed by at- tempts to victimize the most milit- ant workers and send them off to long jail terms, shows the determin- ation of the city government to carry costs. The attempted frame up of workers who were rioted upon by the police is in line with the action of Tammany Hall in framing the leaders of the great unemployed de- monstration in New York City on March 6, . Among the speakers at this protest the fight for the Scottsboro boys into the United States Su- preme Court, attorneys for the International Labor Defense yesterday filed with the clerk of the court the records in the Oe Scottsboro Case. This is ordinarily the preliminary step toward asking the court to re- view a case, The I. L. D. attorneys wil file a formal petition in a few days re- questing the U. S. Supreme Court to review the circumstances under which eight of the nine boys were railroaded to death sentences in the original moch trial at Scottsboro, Alabama, The Alabama Supreme Court recently upheld the lynch ver- dicts against seven of the eight boys, remanding the eighth boy for a new trial on the administration that he was only 14 years old at the time of the Scottsboro “trials” and there- for the Scottsboro court had no jur- isdiction over him. While pushing the fight against meeting will be Israel Amter, Com-|the lynch verdicts in the coutts, the mnunist candidate for Governor, who was one of those sentenced for lead-! orship of the unemployed movement >s a result of the March 6th demon- ‘ration. Other speakers will include ctive workers in the revolutionary rade unions and unemployed block committees, Carl Winter, Secretary ot the Unemployed Council of Great- er New York will be chairman, All workers employed and unem- ployed, are called upon to participate in this meeting as a sign of their determination to carry on the fight for unemployment relief and ‘insur- ance, How will the war zone in the ‘ext war cover also the civilian population? Read “Chemical War- fare,” by Donald Cameron, ten L L. D. has repeatedly warned the workers against illusions in the “fair- ness” and “justice” of the bosses’ |courts, These courts are al instru- ments of the ruling class for the maintenance of the oppression of the toiling masses, black and white, The final decision in the Scotsboro case rests, not with the prejudiced courts of the murderous ruling class, but with the working clffiass and the ex- tent to which we, the workers, de- velop the world-wide mass fight to save and free these innocent work- ing class children. May First, international working class solidarity day, and May 7, In- ternational Scottsboro Day, must bring new millions of workers into the streets in indignant protests against the Scottsboro lynch verdicts, of Tom Mooney, against bosses’ war, hunger and terror offensive. De- mand the release of the Scottsboro boys, Tom Money and al class war prisoners! Demand hands off China! Hands off the Soviet Union! Defend the Chinese masses! Defend the Soviet Union, the Socialist fatherland of the oppressed toiling masses of the whole world! Karl Severing, leader of the Ger- man “Socialists” and Minister of In- terior of Prussia, today made an open bid to Hitler to join with the | “socialists” and the Catholic Center informing a coalition government in Prussia. In interview with a representa- tive the United Press, Severing said: “The Socialists as well as the Catholic Party. is strongly inclined to see the Hitlerites share govern- men t responsibility.” Severing made this bid to the fas- cists for joint government against the workers in the name of the German Socialist Party of which he is a leading figure, to Prussia but to the Reich govern- ment a# well. It is doubtful whether Hitler will overnight stopover. After a meal, they will address a Tally which has been arranged by the Clinton workers. A telegram was sent by the State Hunger March Committee to Lieu- tenant Governor Youngman de- manding that he instruct the Na- tional Guard units of Clinton to keep their hands off the delegates and holding him personally responsible for the safety of delegates and any disorders that may occur as a result of an unprovoked attack. At Salem Square, Worcester, last night, 500°workers met in a sendoff to the delegation. Five hundred workers met at Gardner. Besides the twenty-five elected marchers, 200 joined the march starting this morning at New Bed- ford. Two thousand workers marched along to the. city. limits while 60 Police attempted to separate the workers from the marchers and make them walk°on the sidewalks. - Column 1 will arrive in Fall River tonight, At Lawrente, Mayor White said he would not permit “labor agit: | ators. to use the City Council ses- sions as an open forum for the creat- ion of feeling against the textile mill Managements.” o 8 ee CLINTON, Mass., April 26.— Five | hundred workers met in Gardner Monday morning to send off the twenty-five hunger marchers. One hundred ‘marched ‘together with the hunger marchers to the city limits. ‘Twenty-five hundred workers and farmers’ greeted the marchers in ‘Westminster. Four hundred workers met the marchers at the Fitchburg Upper Common and marched toge- ther through Main Street to Depot Square and Prichard Street to the headquarters of the Unemployed Council singing and shouting the de- mands of the unemployed workers. At 8 o'clock @ mass meeting was held in the City Auditorium at which 750 workers attended. This was the biggest indoor and most enthusiastic meeting ever held in Fitchburg. ‘Twenty-five Ashby and Fitchburg workers joined the march and a hundred workers participated in the sendoff Tuesday morning. The marchers arrived at Leomin- ster at 10:30, where fifteen hundred to two thousand workers lined the sidewalks waiting for the marchers. The police tried to revoke the parade permit before the arrival of the marchers. Fifty city and state pol- ice failed to disperse the masses. A crowd was milling around the square anxiously waiting for the marchers, giving them an enthusiastic reception when they arrived. Hartquist was arrested and charged His bid to Hitler applies not only | with distribution of leaflets. He is oe. | dispatch to the New York American declared that relations between the Soviet Union and | Japan were at “a delicate point.” Japanese sources in Harbin, Convention, to be held in Chicago, May 28 and 29. Send orders for extra | Manchuria, had sent out a statement the previous day that copies, relations with the Soviet Union were at “the brenking point.” EDITOR. Significantly, United States Secretary of State |yesterday held a secret conference at Geneva with Tsuneo Socialist Victories Mark Soviet May Day Red Star of Triumph Placed on Top of Magni- togorsk, Largest Blast Furnace In | All of Europe | 1000 TONS CAST IRON TO BE DAILY YIELD Stalingrad Tractor Plant Is Only One In World Operating at Full Capacity By MYRA PAGE (Daily Worker Foreign Correspondent) MOSCOW, April 25.—May First in the So- viet Union, the one country where this Inter- national Workers’ Day is a two-day legal holi- day, w!I be celebrated this year by fresh out- standing victoriés in the building of Socialism. At Magnitogorsk, in the Urals, the best shock brigade workers have already set in place a huge Red Star, symbol of their triumph, on top of the largest blast furnace in Europe. Its daily yield will be more than 1,000 tons of cast iron. At Kuznetz, in Western Siberia, a furnace with the daily output of 850 tons has now been set going. In Moscow one of the five largest’ and best equipped ball bearing plants in the world was recently opened. While beyond the Soviet borders Workers Arrested at | more blast furnaces are ostensibly City Hall to Appear being put out, here monster ones are in. Court Tomorrow being lit. The Stalingrad tractor plant, about The cases of Power, Ferrero, Stack and Jones, arrested during which the boss press made such the City Hall demonstration last Propaganda over its starting diffi- culties some months ago, now” has Thursday, will come u pin Tombs | set a record for the working class Court at 10 a. m. tomorrow, Tunning its own industrial giants. The plant is operating at full capa- city and is the only one in the world | today producing 144 tractors daily. | Enthusiastic workers are brepar- | ing a counter-plan for extending the works’ productive capacity. The Or- der of Lenin has been awarded to the factory as a whole, to individual leaders and shock brigadeers who distinguished themselves, Open Giant Hydro-Electric These workers are held under heavy bails on framed up charges the purpose of which is to “justify” the police brutality unchained against the workers demonstrating for immediate relief. Workers are called to pack the Court Hall and protest against the deliberate attempt to railroad these comrades. All to Tombs Court at 10 a. m. being held on $100 bail. join with them in a fascist regime against the exploited masses. But so far as the Socialists are concerned they are willing to enter into open partnership with Hitler. . . . The German social-democrats have been supporting the Bruening hunger government under the pressure of a common front against fascism. With | the old cf the socialists the Bruening government put through its hunger degrees—cut the wages of the unem- Ployed and the miserable allowance of the unemployed, introduced a ter- rorist press censorship’ and let lose a reign of terror against the revolu- tionary workers, Now with their open bid to join! hands with Hitler, the socialists of | Germany took the next logical step on the road to open fascism. In the elections of last Sunday tomorrow. German Socialists Propose Coalition with Fascist Hitler petty bourgeois elements who had been under the influence of the “so- cialists” deserted the ranks of social fascism and went over to Hitler. With their policy of supporting the Bruening dictatorship the “so- cialists” have paved the way to open fascism of which their present bid to Hitler is not only a clear expression but positive proof. The idea of inviting the fascists to “share government responsibility” with the “socialists” is not new. S eral months ago a prominent cialist” writer named Ivanowitch, wrote in the Jewish Daily Forward that the fascists in government would not be nearly as bad as out of gov- ernment, Read the April “The Communist.” issue of Plant May 1. The crowning event marking the Soviet May First will be the opening) | of one of the world’s bigegst hydro- electrie stations on the Dnieper | River. The strenuous, ardent labor of 48,000 men and women ‘hes suc- | ceeded in harnessing this stormy | river and the dam has been com- | pleted two years ahead of the time orivinally set by the American ex- perts and six months ahead of the schedule set by the Five-Year Plan. So the Soviet workers show the capitalist world another “miracle” ac- complished by workers who know their labor is of interest to them- selves and their class of the US.S.R and of the entire world. Séven hun-| ;dred and forty thousand cubic | meters of concrete has been poured into the dam. The station will yield before the end of the year three hun- dred and seventy-two thousand kilo- watt power, one half of its total work- ing capacity The river level above the dam has been raised thirty-one ; meters, making the upper Dnieper navigable for large vessels. Workers Arrive From All Over World. A thousand delegates from many j | countries are arriving here for May Matsudaira, Japanese delegate to the League of Nations Assembly, and the British War Minister Viscount Hail- sham, Secretary Stimson is reported to have refused to see the Soviet Foreign Commissar, Maxim Litvin- off. These two facts are of extreme significance. Both the American and Japanese bourgeois press have admitted within the past fortnight that Japan was waiting for a signal from the United States to carry out her threat of armedy intervention j against. the Soviet Union and “its successful Socialist construction. The American bourgeois press have ad- mittéd that Japan would not dare to attack the Soviet Union without the suport of the United States, Great Britain, France and other im- Perlalist powers. This was pointed out long ago by the Daily Worker. ‘The Geneva dispatch to the New York American claims that Soviet Foreign Commissar Litvinoff, “prior to his departure for Moscow today, was commissioned to sound the pow- ers” to determine their attitude in the event of Japan attack the So- viet Union. The dispatch quotes Geneva sour- ces to the effect that the Soviet Union is sending troop reinforce- ments to the Far East to meet the growing threat of invasion of Soviet soil. by the Japanese. Litvinoff is reported as refusing Soviet Co-op- eration with the League of Nations’ commission in its sham “investiga- tion” of Japanese aggressions in Manchuria. The commission began its “investigation” with a series of banquets with Japanese officials in Tokyo. The banqueting was later shifted to Shanghai, South China, and later to Hankow in the interior where the commission expressed its alarm at the growing power of the Chinese Soviet districts and the growth of the revolutionary anti- imperialist movement of the Chinese worker-peasant and student masses, A Tokyo dispatch to the New York Times reports that Japan is streng- thening its armed forces in North Manchuria In addition to the rushing of fresh troops to the Soviet border, the Japanese War Ministry yesterday cancelled instructions for the return to Korea of the Thirty- ninth Japanese Army Brigade. In line wi th their usual hypocrisy, the Japanese imperialists had anouncéd that fresh troops which have been sent into Manchuria during the last week were ‘sent for the purpose of relieving the Thirty-ninth Army Brigade. To give an air of authen- ticity to this claim, the War Minis- try then ordered the withdrawal of the Thirty-ninth Brivade. This order is now countermanded. 8. R. are being rewarded by 2 trip to Moscow to take part in the Red Square celebration, while others from Moscow plants are traveling to Lenirigrad, Magnitogorsk, Dniepros- tory and other centers. The Soviet workers clearly realize that they. are carrying ahead their tremendous struggle for building a Socialist classless society surrounded by. hostile forces of world imperial- ism and that imperialist war plans are threatening to interrupt the con- structive work of the Soviet toiling millions, On May First the Soviet workers and peasants will demonstrate again their firm policy of peace and at the same time their readiness and ability to protect their achievements from enemy intruders from what- ever side they come. In this they Price 20) pirst, ‘The best workers from the| know they have the active supposs wap TE | inci ener of eT 6 a He ‘ohana ng toy ~ the sauiinued imprisonnient | accept the offer of the epclaliate-to java: lected ache 8 er. ee