The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 30, 1932, Page 1

“INTO THE STREETS ON MAY DAY” IS CALL OF COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL TO ALL WORKERS! * \ WORKERS Da al Worker Read the third article in the series, “Communism and the Negro,” by James a is Sipahe W. Ford, proposed candidate for Vics UNITE! ie: ntral ist Port U. s. : President on the Communist ticket. e Y (See Page 4.) = of the pions ni snabteots a SS —————— ————— — — EEE = omen — Seseess ———— me Vol Gi Ng1s New York, N. ¥.. ntered as second-c! moniter at the Post Office t the act of Marck 3, 1877 NEW YORK, SATURDAY, APRIL 30, 1932 ‘CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents _ May Day and the War Maneuvers at Geneva Ts representatives of world imperialism have maneuvered at Geneva, Their maneuvers mean an extension of the imperialist war now raging in the Far East. Their maneuvers mean that the day for the armed invasion of the Soviet Union has-been advanced. Tomorrow, May Day, the working class throughout the world will give its revolutionary answer to these war maneuvers. The Geneva “disarmament” conference has adjourned leaving naval and military rivalry at a new high point. , It is characteristic that the conference, reflecting the antagonisms and increasing difficulties and conflicts of the capitalist world in third year of the crisis, precisely because a new world war impends, rejected disarmament as ‘a means of lessening the danger. Each nation was in favor of disarmament for its rival, Each insisted on the “speciai” position or “special interests” which made it necessary for it to continue or increase the present gigantic array of military forces and armaments. Only the Soviet Union came forward with a demand for genuine dis- armament—as it has since the first appearance of its representatives at Geneva, 5 American Congress which a few days ago while the heavens are th demands for-economy and government taxation and inflation s raise the cost of living for the masses of the toiling population, sed without debate an appropriation of $347,000,000 for naval ex- penditures. In Poland, a bankrupt nation wrose ruling class remains in power by virtue of French gold and French bayonets, a country in which the work- ing class and the oppressed national minorities are tortured by starva~- tion and fascist oppression, 42 per cent of the entire national Dadeet goes for military expenditures. Approximately the same situation prevails in the Balkan states where together with Poland, Rumania and the Baltic countries, the military base for invasion of the Soviet Union has been formed. ¥ ‘The Geneva conference showed more clearly that previous gatherings of this kind the attempt on the part of the great powers—America, Great Britain, France, Italy—to gather closer around them and to strengthen those smaller nations whose puppet. govesnments are their instruments against the Soviet _Union and their imperialst rivals, This in essence. was ‘the sum ‘total of the proceedings at Geneva. American imperialism especially wanted to weaken France; to force her to withdraw support for the Japanese seizure of Manchuria but under no circumstances to do anything that would strengthen the Soviet Union. Stimson tried to take advantage of the inner conflict in British for- eign policy—with Sir John Simon working for closer cooperation with France and the French imperialist bloc in eastern and southeastern Eu- rope, and MacDonald. standing for more definite support of Germany, a more independent British policy in Europe—to accentuate th. differences between France and Great Britain. MacDonald left Geneva snarling at Tardieu and threatening to en- force the “escalator” clause which allows an increase in naval armaments in the abserse of the international agreement. ‘The Washington agreement of 1921 is now in the discard. The French imperialist press is jubilant, Never has it been more cynically outspoken. It places hew laurels upon the’ brow of Premier Tardieu whose feigned illness to avoid the five-power conference is hailed by his supporters as a masterpiece of diplomacy. Determined to resist» any proposals which would weaken the military strength of the French bloc of Poland, Ru- mania, Jugo-Slavia and Czechoslovakia, or her own military and naval organization, but desiring to have no such formal record made, the ’Tardieu adopted @ subterfuge which would insult the intelligence of i |® moron. ‘The French press chuckles over the way in which Tardieu avoided hat it openly calls a “trap.” The Journal des Debats,” organ of the French government, says: ;“The French government will render a service to the whole world if it remains firm. (In its opposition t. disarmament.) The moment has come to resist. Obviously we shall be the object of venomous campaigns, but, since these occur even when we abandon everything, there is nothing to be lost.” This is exactly the attitude of the Japanese ruling class, which has ‘ carried such an analysis to the logical conclusion and has begun the | imperialist war. France in the West and Japan in the East are obviously committed \to war—and to support of each other. Their trump card in the bloody game of imperialist was polities ts the common hatred of the Soviet Union and its socialist construction and , the acknowledged intention of the French European bloc, together with Japan to make war on the Soviet Union. ‘The border countries under French control have: already instituted that military rule known as “a state of siege” in their frontier areas bor- dering on the Soviet Union. ‘The result of the Geneva conference shows that American imperialism, while it carried through some maneuvers designed to strengthen its own world position and weaken France and Japan, did not act decisively against Japanese invasion of China or against the war preparations of the French bloc, ‘The Geneva conference, adjourning with the war clouds hanging lower than since 1914, shows the burning necessity of carrying through in the United States, deep down in the ranks of the working class, the program of action of the Communist Party, the mobilization against American imperialism ‘and imperialist war, against the war on the Chinese people ‘and the Soviet Union for which, as the most powerful imperialist power, the Wall Street government bears the chief responsibility. Answer the war maneuvers of the imperialists at “ieneva on the streets tomorrow—May Day, international day of struggle. Scottsboro Mother on Way to urope Sends May Day Greet- ngs to U. S. Working Class BULLETIN. The following May Day greetings to the American workers was re- ceived yesterday by radiogram from Mrs, Ada Wright, mother of two of the Scottsboro boys, and J. Louis Engdahl, national secretary of the International Labor Defense, aboard the S. S. Hamburg on their way to Europe: “Solidevity greetings across the Atlantic. . Forward for mighty May - Day of straggle. (Signed). ADA -WRIGHT, fo a ’ al of the warlike attitude. of the imperialist powers is that of | “| war plans. According to Stimson’s Exposes Lies The capitalist press, particularly | John O’Brien, acknowledging the pa | Square. Written May Day Permit | foreed to retract its lying announcement that no permit had been granted jfor the giant May Day parade tomorrow. | Front May Day Committee received permit No. 117 from Chief Irispector 1] The lying announcements in the capitalist press were made in con- | | junction with the police department in the hope of keeping the thou- | | sands of workers away from the May Day parade, which they know will | be a giant demonstration against capitalist terror, hunger and war, of Boss Press the New York Times, was yesterday | -On April 26th, the United rade from Union Square to Kutgers OUT Will March On Thursday one HRoueenae yr the East Side. stopped at the Block-Aid office was held and. a-delegation sent in toy, see the people in charge of the “Make | UNITED STATES IS PREPARING A WORLD WAR IN THE PACIFIC: | the domination of the Pacific. Was combatant ships of the U. S. Navy| ; are in the Pacific. Fully 200 fighting | ships are concentrated on | points: the Pacific coast, Hawaii, and) pretext of maneuvers. However, after the maneuvers thesState Departinent insisted that the Atlantic fleet should remain in the Pacific, the excuse for of what the future may hold for this! The Aleutian Islands, a. part of Alaska and owned by the U. S. A, stretch out threateningly close to Japan. The tip of the Aleutians is only 900 miles from the Kurile Is- lands, owned by Japan. The experi- last summer which excited Japanese “All the debates over the Philippines have their starting point in the role these islands can play as a base for naval operations in a future war on the Pacific. The prevailing military opinion is that for tactical reasons the American ‘navy cannot prevent the capture of the slands by Japan almost immediately after the out- break of the war. The “generous” bill passed by the House granting inde- pendence to the Philippines, shows a! The “insecurity” of the Philippines is the reason for the transfer of the portion of the fleet: normally held there to Guam and Hawaii. The ter- Intrigues In In order fo complete t$he great line of bases from the Aleutian Islands through Guam and Hawaii to the south, American imperialism is try- ing to involve South America in. its scheme, efforts are being made to in- volve Peru, Chile, and Mexico in the war preparation on the side of the US.A. The importance of this al- liance consists in protecting the routes to Hawaii from the south. MRS. ADA WRIGHT” | this being Secretary Stimson’s fears | ehces of the American world fliers of | (BY OUR WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT) Te feverish diplomatic and military activity of Hoover's administration is aimed to con- vert the Japanese war in China and the coming anti-Soviet War into a World War for ington would have preferred to have postponed this war until the preparation of i | the American navy and especially the air forces would be fully completed. But the open of war in the Far East by Japan and its ally, France, has caused American imperialisin | adapt its plans of domination on the Pacific to the present line- -up of powers, The following facts expose these plans of American aggression: considers it of the utmost importance to hold the fleet in the Pacific is em- three | phasized by the fact that, Admiral W. V. Pratt, chief of naval opera-/| Asiatic waters. This concentration of| tions, has been sent for an inspection the navy was carried out under the | of the. situation along the » Pacific coast. The official version of -his-trip tothe West Coast is to determine whether a saving can not be made by. utilizing Californian fuel ‘oil. Among the other battleships. withdrawn from the Atlantic to the Pacific are the Aleutian Islands—New Naval militarists so greatly, as well as Lind+ bergh’s “‘good will vacation (in reali- ty, military study) flight» from Nome to China, showed the possibility of covering this distance. in seven .or eight hours. Within a week a small sent to the Aleutians. The official Philippines and War , tendency which has gathered force in the last two months. Secretary Stimson, having in mind military reasoning, has an opposite opinion. He warned the Senate that “independence. of the Philippines would profoundly disturb the equil- ibrium of the Pacific. ... The state of affairs in the Far East is chaotic. Every element of stability is threat- ened.... Out of the ‘Orient may again come one of those movements Guam and Hawaii roristic methods employed against , the native and Japanese population} of Hawaii, employed to an unparal- lelled degree, are a part of this war South America At the very..moment that prepara- tions are being made for the domina~- tion. of the Pacific, munitions and materials of war are being shipped to spond to the policy of Hoover to. en- courage Japan into embroiling her- self in a war against the Soviet Union. In this way the American im- perialists hope to hamper the course of socialist construction in the Soviet Union, and at the same time exhaust the'strength of. Japanese imperialism, thereby facilitating the .final . con- antal of the Pacific by American im- |" Mother, of two of the rs boys, who is now on her way across | the ocean for a tour of European countries on behalf of her sons and’ er Scottsboro victims. hs ae Despite her critical condition of tubercylosis, contracted in prison,. Edith Berkman, ‘heroic |. young organizer of the Nation. al Textile Workers Union, im- bail for strike activity, has decided to go on a hunger strike in order to draw atten- tion to the brutalities of the oan Srreminant upon militant In a letter‘ to Secretary of Labor naval force including airplanes were | Japan. These military plans corre-| \ prisoned for monthe without | poax, result that Nearaguan waters were) temporarily patrolled by unarmea| ships. Simultaneously. the Japanese fleet | is concentrated in the Japan Sea off| the Siberian coast, in a position suit- yable for an- attack we. Soviet Union. ‘There are no a mansuvers. of the American Navy hag interfered in any way with this | concentration, of the Japanese Navy against the USSR. o Base | version is that a “survey’ of these islands is being made by the De-| partment of Agriculiure. Under such an innocent guise, America escapes the accusation of violating the Wash- ington Naval Treaty. Which will disturb the Agitation of a change the Philippine Islands ment can only inflame ous possibilities.” Consequently, the difference of opinion concerning Philippine inde- pendence reflects the differences be- tween two imperialist cliques for each of which-the Philippine people are only a means for their military plans. whole earth. of status of at this mo- most danger- preparation. Meanwhile the-island of Guam is being greatly strerigthened as @ naval base. Ford’s Tour To Be Announced. Monday ‘The tour of-James-‘W. Ford, pro- Posed Communist candidate for vice-president, ‘will. be announced in full Monday. Owing to the fact that the tour is not finally ar- jranged as yet, it is impossible to - publish it today as announced in yesterday’s paper. “This tour, as well as Foster's tour, will start from Chicago on "May 30 and not on April 30 as it was wrongly stated in yesterday's “Dally, Worker” Unemployed Council, marched in the Hunger Pe The marchers started from the Council quarters at 7th Street and Avenue A. | cil Concentration of American and Japanese Navy I; It is known that at present all the} area of the world. That Washington | new eight inch gun cruisers, with the | Street WAR-TO-AID THE . | Workers. 1,000 in Hunger Parade on East Side Thurs.; Council | on May Day w atey led-by the Downtown | ade through} heac | the way th | Here a meeting | On on Avenue A. the Workers Pay’ * outfit. The dele gation was informed that.there w |no one to see them, Also that they'd | betetr clear out or be arrested. The | delegation reported to the ssembled | workers and then -the whole crowd | marched on to Rutg: Square. \ One thousand workers were asse! at the Square to greet t unger Parade, They all fell into ich proceede h and of the Council, Carl w York, Stone and represer the Block Committees. The Downtown Unemployed Coun- will mobilize for the May Day parade at its headquarters on 7th and Avenue A on Sunday morning, The Council will march through the East Side streets on its way to Union All workers of the neighborhood are called to join in. LONGSHORE! Opens Relief Kitchens | For Strikers | relief kitchen w NEW YORK. opened today at the W national Relief headqu 21st Street, to give solidarity aid to | the striking longshoremen and shoe | The longshoremen have been: called upon to elect a rank ar mittee to aid in the coi distribution of strike W. LR. leaflet ¥ distri uted on the docks today calling attention to the fact that Ryan refused assistance to the W. I. R. and denied, the right | of that organization to distribute relief. The Paris Shoe Workers who have | been Striking under the leadership | of the Shoe and Leather Workers | Industrial, Union will be joined by the Elco Shoe Workers and will re- | ceive aid from the W. I. R. kitchen. The District Committee of the W. | I. R. appeals to all workers and their | organizations to rally in support of the striking workers by rushing funds | | “and suitable food to 16 West 21st St. | ; | Metal League Calls Members for May 1st ‘The Metal Workers Industrial Lea- | gue is mobilizing its members and / sympathizers for the May Day Dem- | onstration at Union Square. The| metal workers will gather Sunday, | May 1,-11 a! m., at the headquarters of the MWIL,.5 Hast Nineteenth St., third floor, and march to Union | Square in a body. In the parade, to Rutgers Square the MWIL will march together with other unions and Jea- gues in the TUUC in Section 3, which | will assemble at noon, Sunday, at 17th’ Street between 4th Ave and Irving Place. EN TO UNION SQ. TOMORROW 12:30 ee ie May 1 Call Warns Booses Preparing ANew World War “Organize Rev dlutionesy, United Front Against Capitalist Offensive of Hunger Terror and War” (Cable By Inprecorr) BERLIN, April 29-—The Communist Inter national has. issued the following May Day appeal: .The international proletariat cele- brates May Day after three years of unexam-, pelled world crisis and in a situation of intense misery among the capitalist and colonial coun: tries plus the war in the Far East. Capitalism’s attempt to solve the world crisis has produced forty million unemployed, wage cuts, intoler- able taxation, reduction of insurance benefits to a semi-starvation level with a resultant wide- spread sickness and increasing mortality rate. Besdies, millions ave peasants are ruined. The Revolutionary Wave Is Rising Despite thé fascist tetror and socialist \treachery the revolutionary -wave is rising and class war is assuming sharper forms. Increasingly larger sections of the toile~~ are rallying to the revolutionary united front under the jez. “hip of the Communist Party against capitalism. The oppressed nations, the colonial masses and the peas- antry are joining in the revolutionary fight against imperial- sm and feudal oppression. .Many capitalist countries are in the throes of a revolutionary crisis whilst in others the revo- 7 i lutionary crisis is maturing. The capitalist world is plunging into disaster. War—Their Way Out. Capitalism is now seeking a solution of the crisis in war. Japanese imperialism has invaded Shanghai and Manchuria with French support. Smoking ruins, hecatombs of corpses and the destruction of invaluable cultural treasures are the first results of the imperialist | war. The Japanese drive also | Mass Protest. for |intensifies the American an- | | tagonisms and brings the” Berkman Release | |threat of precipitating a mon- On May the 10th | strous world slaughter. The | 4 | attack on China i Baith Berkman, National Tex-| |i 120 i doy ai pepe! tile Union organizer, arrested and : against the Soviet held for deportation since. Octo-| | Union. ber, 1931, Lawrence strike, has is- The weapons of the impet= will go on a hunger strike in pro- | rected against the hated Soviet test against her illegal’ imprison-| | Union where there is no crisis, ment’ unless teleased by May 9. }no unemployment. Under the Trade unions and mass orgeni-| | pretext of banditry Japan is oe aye supporting her aa this lcoricentrating i increasing forees stand, and are sending a delega- ‘ bs tion of 50 to protest the persecu- near the Sov iet frontiers. War tion of the foreign born and to| | materials, including poison gas, demand her immediate release. All| | being supplied to Japan by Bu- trade unions, ‘working class or- rope and America. French imperialism is organizing intervention from the West. Un-° ganizations are ‘called ‘upon to der French supervision Poland support this action,, to send dele- gates and wires of protest to Sec- Crechoslovakia and Roumania are feverishly increasing their war pre- retary of Labor, ‘ William Doak, ‘Washington, D. C., demandifg the parations. A state of siege exists om the frontier distrjets! fs immediate release of Edith Berk- man. Organizations should get in touch with the International La- bor Defense, 799 Broadway, New Although Japan has attacked China York City, for information for the} | Wr has pot been declared. The League ,of Nations. which supports Japan will not prevent the conflict. from developing into a world war. official strikebreaker of Hoo- ver’s hunger government, Edith Berk. | up. man. says that unless released by {or ber ewe ad ore race | Young Organizer Held for Deportation to Fas- cist Poland Makes Drastic Decision Despite Her Critical Condition May & she will go on 4 hunger strike | with tuberculosis after a year's in- until her freedom is procured. She | carceration at the East Boston Immi- calls’ upon all the workers of the | gration Detention Station, and is now United Pies ie in a militant demand | being held in the Massachusetts and Scottsboro boys and | Memorial Hospital-in Boston. Mrs. Edith: Berkman. Declares She Will Goon __ Hunger Strike Unless Released by May 8th of the victims of the Tampa frame- Comrade Berkman was stricken C. ane Hae TIR \ity in the Lawrence, Mass. tex sending of the = delegation to } Washington ot on May 10. All the, league sessions, have cynically rejected the Soviet proposals for dis- armament, The Second International will not, prevent the war.. The Sec~ ond International betrayed the work- ers during the last. war. Its sections systematically voted for the war credits. The Second Socialist International supported the attacks ‘on Morocco, Syria and Indo-China. It supported | the “British bombing of, India, sup- ported -the ‘interventionists by‘ cal~ umnies about Red imperialism. The Second’ International promises the le that the Geneva bane: strike in 1930, was released on exor- | Will Jekd' to disarmament, but | conference is actually leading to in- bitant bail, and rearrested in the tensitied building of armiatietint 1931 strike and subsequently denied bail. Despite repeated protests by| They Want betes) the Soviet many organizations and individuals to Secretary of Labor, Wm. N. Doak,| Unable to beat the Soviet (OONTINUED O43! PAGE THRED) er of Immigration of that district, has ben arrogantly oppressive in her attitude, and even threatens to con- fine Comrade Berkman incommuni- | cado in some remote and ittle-Kndwn hospital. i She was arrested’ for strike activ- | \ i