The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 29, 1932, Page 5

{IN TWO SECTIONS TWO) (SECTION DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, (Section of the Communist International) APRIL DAY 1932: OF GREATER AGAINST WAR MAKE. MAY. A DAY STRUGGLES IMPERIALIST ee 1932 Into the Streets May 1° Fight Against Hunger and War! ORKING men and women, white and Negro; : ist war has already in the past month taken its victims by hundreds of thousands. The smoking ruiins of the Chinése city of Shanghai; Chapei, corpses of men, women and children, shows to the toiling masses of the entire world what is being prepared for them in every country. The bloody spectre of the new world war is reaching out its hands to grasp the throats of the work- ers and toiling farmers in all lands. The hordes of Jap- anese imperialism are being feverishly mobilized on the Siberian borders of the Soviet Union, acting as the spear- head of the first thrust of world imperialism’s desperate plot to crush the Soviet Union, fatherland of the toilers of theworld. Behind Japanese imperialism stands the government ot ‘Tardieu, the system of french imperialism and its vassal imperial- with its mountain of | states of Europe which are bringing to _a head their war ; conspiracies on the western front of the Soviet Union ' which were delayed in 1930 by the crushing of the plot of their agents, the Industrial Party and Mensheviks in the Soviet Union. American imperialism; headed by the Wall’ Street agents—Hoover, Stimson and Mellon—is furnishing vast quantities of explosives and other munitions of war to Japan for its assault against the Soviet Union. Masking itself behind a hypocritical two-faced diplomacy, it is at the same time feverishly intriguing against its imperialist rivals for the hegemony in the looting and division of China and the crushing of the Chinese Revolution, and in the imperialist intervention against the Soviet Union. Workers, you must realize that the imperialist states- men gathered today in Geneva are gambling with your blood and lives, that your fate is also inevitably bound up with that of the Chinese masses whose blood is being spilled today. ‘Fhe representatives in Geneva of the imperialist powers of United States, France, Great Britain, Italy, Ger- many and Japan, in their poker game of imperialist diplo- macy are gambling with the lives of workers and their families of every country. ‘The danger of a new imperialist world war for the re-division of the world was never so great and im- mediate as at the present time! The head-long rush towards war of the imperialist governments is a part of their desperate efforts to find a capitalist solution for the crisis into which their system is daily plunging deeper and deeper. It is the counter-part of the war which already for almost three years has been conducted against the living standards of the toiling masses within each country with unprecedented fury. In the United States the capitalist economy which proudly boasts of its position as the strong-hold of world capitalism has declined by almost half. This terrific burden it has thrown upon the shoulders of those least equipped to bear it, upon the workers, the women, youth, the children; upon the especially exploited Negro masses. Twelve million workers, who with their families, total more than forty million, have been living upon the miserable crusts of charity for from one to three years. But even the charity slops are being systematically step by step reduced and taken away from them altogether. More than 85 per cent of even those workers who have jobs are working on part time and the total income of the entire working class has been reduced by 60 per cent. This smashing destruction of the standard of living of the masses is a part of the capitalist preparation for war, -is a part of the ruthless drive to find a capitalist way out of the crisis over the crushed lives of the toiling masses. The capitalist government in Washington did not hesi- tate a moment to hurriedly enact a law presenting two billion dollars to finance capital through the Reconstruc- tion Corporation. But it stubbornly rejects every proposal for unemployment insurance, for government relief of the _ starving toilers. It bitterly condemns the demands of the ex-servicemen for the payment of the so-called bonus, even though this represents merely an obligation to which it had solemnly bound itself. This capitalist government of Washington takes the lead in launching wage . cut after wage cut. It issues in- ' junctions against workers who organize and strike in the. effort to prevent the destruction of their last means of life. _It uses tear gas, clubs and machine guns against the hun- ger marchers and demonstrations of the starving unem- ployed. It is intensifying its ferocious and infamous system’ of deportation of foreign-born workers, especially those who try to resist the capitalist attacks, It has launched a terrible campaign of lynch terror against the Negroes, typi- fied in the Scottsboro case in which seven young Negro boys are condemned to the electric chair It cynically declares that Tom Mooney, 16 years in prison, although so completely proven innocent that even capitalist politicians find it politically advantageous to speak hypocritically in his behalf, is condemited to, spend the rest of Tis days be- hind prison walls. The “democracy” stands e ruthless high dccobie talk adga: sei tok de of American capitalist -aedtely ; before the masses today as the. a ped the sg _ Street bankers ‘nificent successes of the Five Year Plan. i eee eee erage een emma aot ne ee a te CMO iy ne ee ee en bag fe Appeal of the Central Committee oj the Com- munist Party, U. S. A. gigantic and ever rising construction of the new world, the Socialist World in the Soviet Union. Already the brief years of competition by “peaceful” means between these two worlds has been definitely decided in favor of Sociel- ism, in favor of the proletarian dictatorship, by the mag. At the same mo- ment when capitalism plunges into crisis in every country. when it can no longer feed the growing masses of stary- ing people, the proletarian dictatorship in tie Soviet Union organizing a completely new society on Socialist principles. is advancing with a speed ten-fold greater than any ever before witnessed in the world. even in tke days of the youngest and most flourshing examples of capitalism. Tt is this contrast between the two worlds, that of dying capitalism and of rising Socialism in the Seviet Unien, that induces world imperialism, shaken to its foundations by the crisis, to seek a way out through war against the Seviet Union. - It is this same contrast which shows to the werk- ers of all lands that for them the only way out of the crisis is the way of resistance to the capital- ist offensive, the way of revolatienary~ class struggle. | | / | The workers of United States have begun to fight pack against the capitalist attacks since May Day of a year ago. The daily struggles for bread being organized and led throughout the country by the Unemployed Councils, bear eloquent witness to the rising spirit of struggle of the American workers. The heroic strike of the Kentucky min- ers, of the miners of East Ohio, the Anthracite and South- ern Wlinois; the battles of the textile workers in Law- rence, Rhode Island, Allentown, Patterson; the strikes in the needle trades; the great. battle of the miners in Penn- Sylvania, Ohio and West Virginia; the hunger march at the- Ford plant in Detroit, the packing houses in Chicago ahd the great National Hunger March that greeted the opening of Congress; the growing resistance of the Negro masses against the lynch terror and the working class soli- darity of whites and Negroes in the struggle to save the Scottsboro boys; the magnificent demonstrations against the Japanese imperialist bandits in Chicago, Seattle and Washington; the mighty demonstrations that swept the country demanding the release of Tom Mooney—all these are magnificent testimony of the fighting capacities of the American workers and their determination to resist the attacks of the capitalist class. The capitalist class is savagely trying to beat back the rising tide of working class struggle by the most brutal terror. They are deporting thousands of foreign-born work- ers each month; the list of lynchings of Negroes mounts higher and higher each week. Hundreds of workers are being jailed every day; men, women and children are be- ing clubbed into insensibility by the police as an every day occurrence. The capitalist terror has already claimed a long list of victims, heroic leaders of the struggle of the masses for bread who have been killed by the bullets of the protectors of capitalist “law and order’; the heroes of the Ford hunger march, the Kentucky strike, and of the struggle against evictions in Chicago and Cleveland. But the most vicious attacks of the capitalist class can- not hold back the revolutionary upsurge of the masses. On the contrary, it only steels the movement and in- tensifies the fighting spirit of the movement which is all the more inspired by the heroic spirit of its martyrs. Out of the struggle is emerging the revolutionary or- ganizations of the workers, the unemployed councils, the revolutionary trade unions and oppositions in t he reform- ist unions, and, leading and organizing all these strug- gles, the Communist Party of U. S. A., Section of the Communist International. This May Day must be «a great mew mass mobil- ization of all toilers agaitst the hunger program of the Hoover Government and against the im- "pending imperialist war. Despite the struggles, heroism and sacrifice, the work- ers have not yet succeeded to stop the capitalist offensive. In every struggle they find enemies not only in front of them—the government, courts, police, thugs, army—but in the rear and amongst their ranks, stabbing them the back and demoralizing their struggles, the official- dom of the American Federation of Labor and the Social- ist Party, the Social Fascists, carrying through the program of the capitalists behind the mask of “labor” and “So- Cialist” phrases. -- - he gttictaldom of the Amertean Federaitod. of} Ijibor ' today boasts as its greatest victories of the successful put- ting across of general wage cuts without any resistance from the workers. It opposes unemployment insurance. —it opposes the soldiers’ bonus and supports. the two billion dollar gift to the banks and corporations. The leaders of the Socialist Party openly support t he capitalist charity ! schemes such as the “block-aid system”, the “community | chect’, the “family-help-family” system whereby even the | burden of charity is shifted on to the workers themselves under the slogan of J. P. Morgan that “if I give a dime and you give a dime then the burdens :.re shared equally.” The Socialist Party leaders disgrace the honorable word “Socialism” to mask their vile slanders against the Soviet Union, where true Socialism is being built, in their efforts | to help the capitalists mobilize for war against the Soviet \ Union. Assisted by their allies, the so-called left-wing, the I ! ' Muste group and the Trotskyites and Lovestoneites, these , Social fascists are the most dangerous enemies of the work- | ing class in its struggle against the capitalist offensive. The struggle against hunger and war can only be organized and carried through successfully by de- feating the leaders of the American Federation of Laber and the Socialist Party and casting them out from the ranks of the working class. Workers, white and Negro, members of the American Federation of Labor, members of the Socialist Party, fol- lowers of the open capitalist parties, young workers ana women, working farmers and government and municipa! employees, office workers, intellectuals and small business men! Do you realize on this May Day when your very lives are menaced by starvation and war that you must find a new road? Do you not realize that you riust unite your forces from below, build up your own organizations, , and struggle against a world of enemies who are thrown against you by the rying capitalist class which seeks to continue to live by sucking your blood? Remember the heroic revolutionary traditions of the American masses who furnished the fighters, who destroyed the feudal rule of Britain in the revolutionary wars ot 1776! Remember the revolutionary traditions of the Ameri- can masses whose blood was spilled in smashing the system of slavery in 1861-65! Remember the innumerable heroic struggles of the American workers in the strike battles of modern tirhes! Remember the heroic “mutineers” among the American soldiers at Archangel in 1919, 1920, who forced the withdrawal of imperialist intervention against the Soviet Union. The American working class will not submit to the 1 capitalist attacks, to the program of starvation and war. They will rise in struggle against the crimes and iniquities of a rotten and outworn system, the system of capitalism. On this May Day let all the suffering and oppressed masses rally in a mighty demonstration of protest. Arouse and organize all those who are still passive and indifferent. Mobilize the broad masses for the struggle against hunger and war. Let loose the storms of mass indignation against the Japanese imperialists who have begun the world war in the Far East with’ the support of American and other imperialist powers. Penetrate into the factories, the trade unions and into the homes of the masses a spirit of rebel- lion and struggle. Out into the streets on May Day! Long Live the Revolutionary International Working Class Solidarity! es i Expose the Two-faced Diplomacy of American Impe- rialism Which Participates In the Spreading of War! Long Live the Revolutionary Mass the Imperialist War! Struggle Against Stop the Shipment of Munitions of War to Japan! | » Set Up Fighting Committees of the Revolutionary United Front In the Factories, Among the Unemployed, Among All Toilers In Town and Country! { Fight for Unemployment Insurance at the Expenise of Government and Employers! | Demand the Unconditional Liberation of the Scotts. bore Boys! Demand mbieasits Freedom for Tom Mooney! Defend Soviet Russia! Defend the Chinese People from the Robber War of International Imperialism! Defend Soviet China! Form With Your Bodies a Living, Unshakable Pry tecting Wall Around the Soviet Union, the Land of ¥») torious Socialism! { Defend Yourselves Against the Mass Murder of 4. periaKst War! 1 Signed, CENTRAL COMMITTEE, COMMUNIST a * - PARTY OF U.S. A. fre y rer