The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 2, 1932, Page 3

i \ ¥ f \; DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, MA 2, 1932 Page lhree MUST RALLY VETS IN FIGHT FOR BONUS AND» AGAINST BOSS WAR Mayor Murphy, Who Was Officer in the World War, Helps Sidetrack Bouns Issue Legion Leaders Adopt New Demagogy to Mis- lead the Veterans (By a Worker Correspondent) DETROIT, Mich,—While there are thousands of vets of | the World War in Detroit, many in a destitute condition, a very | small per cent of them has been won over to the organizations of struggle. This is due to the fact that the bourgeois veterans organizations, the Legion, the Veterans of Foreign Wars, and bosses’ political organizations of ex-soldiers, have been greatly | influenced in keeping the ‘“defenders” passive in the face of starvation in 1930-1932. of democrai ali 29 in agogue, Murphy, a major during the war, and used so effect- ively by the bosses in enforcing the bosses’ starvation program on to the working ¢lass of Detroit }--———. pea, in general, has Sinsed the same role | Of & member of the Workers Ex-Ser- with the vets, Rank and File Aroused Since the decision of the National Committee of the American Legion last Steptember, to support Hoover's stand in not paying the rest of the bonus, a great number of the rank and file forced the leadership of their respective posts to officially come out for the bonus. This sentiment on the part of the rank and file for the bonus, has caused the state command of the Legion, which includes such epen enemies of the working class as Legionnaire Gov. Brucker, to threaten, the Wayne Co, (Detroit) division of the Legion with .1e re- moval of their charter The local leadership of A. L, and V.F.W. and bankers in order to re- tain control of the starving vets, and further mislead them have formed what is called a vets rank and file organization That this is not a rank and file organization has been proven by the manner in which the self-appointed leaders, Legionnaires and bosses’ agents, conducted their first few meetings, discussion from the floor not being allowed unless strictly con- cerning the bonus, and utterly dis- regarding the favorable sentiment of the 1,5000 veterans to the proposal] vicemen’s League to unite struggle for the bonus with the struggle of the unemployed millions, for unem- ployment insurance and united work- ing class protest against the ap- proaching war. The Legion chairman, addressing | 1,500 ex-servicemen, asked that pol- | ities be kept out of this vets’ or- | ganization, but by their very policy of disassociating the fight of the ex- soldiers from the struggles of the working class at large, this mislead- ership is delivering the ex-service- men of Detroit in the camps of all the capitalist parties, Must Win the Vets Had the work of the WESL among the ex-servicemen been given more attention, and had those members of the WESL who were present at the above mentioned meeting forced the issue more strongly, a thouogh exposure could haye been effected and a considerable number of ex- servicemen won over to the united front. As it is we kriow from mil- itant response’ given to proposals of the WESL to work increasing in exposing the character of the mis- leaders of the bosses’ vets organiza- tion and to educate them to the pol- ily of the Workers’ Ex-Servicemen’s League. Exposes Fake Relief in Coverdale, Pa. Coverdale, Pa, Daily Worker :— I am the wife of a miner who is blacklisted. I have two children of chool age they have been going to a soup kitchen for their meals, but the treatment they get there is terrible. The only time the children get a decent meal is when they get visitors then they fix up a real nice meal such as meat, potatoes and fruit. And they tell the children to be sure and come that day. Then in the capi- talist press they print how they take This is what they feed them: !such wonderful care of the poor little some slop with a couple grains of | rice in it, some salted cocoa and a dry slice of bread. Whey they get out of school and go there for their meal they have to wait a half an hour before they get their food, children and how many they have to feed. But actually only about ten chil- dren eat there a day. They only want to advertize their so-called charity. —A Miner’s Wife, How Capitalism Destroys the Home (By A Worker Correspondent) The enemies of the Soviet Union very often holler about the “Reds destroying the home.” Here is an article which appeared in the New York Daily News under date of April 27, 1932, which reads as follows: “Manhattan’s marvels and the prospects of an adventurous boat ride to Norway failed to impress three small children who arrived here ‘on their own’ yesterday. They de- sired but one thing, to return to their destitute mother in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. “But that was out of the question. The mother had struggled and prayed before she decided to give them up. But the three children were too heavy a burden for a woman deserted by her husband. “So Clifford Adams, 7; Margaret, who is going to be eight on the boat, and Matthew, 5, found themselves on board an Illinois Central train in care of the conductor, Today they board the Stavangerfjord, bound for their grandparents’ home in Sta- vanger, Norway. “Clifford revealed he would give up his brand new penknife—his most cherished possession—if he could only go back to Sioux Falls, “‘And I'd give up my skipping rope,’ said Margaret. “But we're going to play marbles on the boat,’ the little girl bright- ened ,and added, ‘we've got them in cur suitcase.’ “Well, your mother will soon join you in Norway,” they were com- forted. “*Yes, I guess so,’ Margaret replied. ‘In two or three years, she told us.” The headline on this article was: Poverty Shanghais Brood From Mother to Norway. Comrades! Keep this clipping and the next time you hear an enemy of workers’ Russia yelping about the reds destroying the home show it to the enemy and ask: “How about this?” “It happened in the United States.” “Does not capitalism de- stroy the home?” This is not the only case where homes have been destroyed in the United States, it happens by the thousands every day. American Bridge Co. to Close Doors TRENTON, N. J.—The American Bridge Company of Trenton has made an announcement that by the first of June it will close its doors to the remaining workers who have been on a part time schedule for the past six months. This mill when operat- ing at full capacity had about 600 employees, At present it still has about 200 men working part time. The work of this factory is the making of steel girders, angles, and Starving Mother of Detroit, Mich. Dear Comrades: This morning my attention was called to a crowd of working-class ‘women on the sidewalk of one of De- troit’s streets. I immediately ap- proached that crowd and found a woman weeping. And the reason for her weeping was the open robbery that is being conducted by Murray Body Co. against their employees. “I am a widow, have three kids to take care of, my hubsand is dead three years now, have slaved that long myself in different shops, but I am giving my hopes up by this time,” she said. “when one goes to work at the Murrays’ one works from 7 o'clock in the morning, they let one work i almost “eight o'clock and then power is shut off, the straw boss : Everybody goes home, come tomorrow: and when the next 4 so forth, During the world war they had been building steel hulls for ships and barges. This company which has a plant at Carnegie, Pa. and is a subsidiary of the U. S, Steel Corp. gives its workers w: which are far below the avers workers’ pay. The majority of its workers are foreign born and are driven as slaves with the piece work system that the company uses, 3 Attempts Suicide morning we come in, we find that time is not allowed us at all for the previous morning. We find a zero in the space where we expected at least 45 minutes of time on our time cards. Then we work one hour and fifty minutes the next morning, the same thing is being repeated they give us one hour for it.” She was desperate, “I am going to take the kids and jump off the bridge (meaning the Belle Isle Bridge). What's the use of trying? They want you to do your best for yourself and the kids and then they turn around and rob you.” All the women around her were anxious to comfort her, but she stood her ground that a change of things must come and come quick, otherwise we'll all perish, she said. “And I know what I am talking about, can see it on my kids, edited weight every day,”"—F, The social dem- | hey Correction In Last Saturday’s Article — By J. W. Ford A typographical error occurred in Comrade Ford’s third article on “Communism and the Negro” in Sat- urday’s Daily Worker. These articles provide a theoretical base for the de- velopment of our work on the Négro | field. They are therefore of extreme |importance and not only should be jvead by every worker but should be |elipped and saved by every Party and trade union activist. We present herewith the correction for the tech- nical mistakes in Saturday's article: Correct, paragraph 11 to the open- ing of paragraph 14 as follows: Why does Mr. Kelley think this can be done in Soviet Russia and not in the United States? Because he ac- cepts the ideas of the white ruling | class in this country—that the Ne- groes are naturally an inferior peo- ple. Mr. Kelley admits that “Commu- nism in Russia has brought about | revolutionary reforms affecting the | welfare of the nation’s hitherto sub. | jugated masses,” But, says Mr. Kel- | ley, “these masses are for the most | part white. Here Mr. Kelley displays his com- plete ignorance of facts. The huge population of the Soviet Union in- cludes 70 different nationalities, | millions of whom are of non-white | races. It is not a matter of a certain \“treatment” handed out to Negroes. The Negroes will, etc.... CHALLENGE GOV. F. Spector, Mooney’s Prison Mate, Sends Letter to Governor SAN FRANCISCO, Cal.—Frank Spector, District Organizer of the International Labor Defense here, is challenging Gov. James Rolph, to a debate on the Mooney case at the Civic Center, May 1st, 3 p. m. Spector, prison mate of Tom Mooney in San Quentin where he spent thirteen months as one of the Imperial Valley defendants, an- nounced that the following letter to the Governor was issued today by the International Labor Defense. “Gov. James Rolph, Jr. State House, 7, e Sacramento, California £ Sir: = Your decision denying pardon to Tom Mooney, which represents @ challenge thrown into the face of the working-class by your masters, is part of the terror with which the bosses hope to stave off their dying rule, and with which they aim to crush the workers’ revolt against unem- ployment, starvation and wage cuts. You state in your decision that: ‘Thomas J. Mooney was guilty of the was justly convicted by the jury by offense charged against him; that he whom he was tried; and that the application made on his behalf for a pardon should be denied.’ The International Labor Defense which has led millions of toilers all ver the world in the fight for Mooney’s freedom, challenges you or any of your advisers to appear at the Civic Center at 3 p. m. on May 1 (May Day) to publicly debate with our representative, Frank Spector, on the question of Mooney’s innocense or guilt. On May Day, the world working- class will celebrate its universal holi- day. In San Francisco, as all over the world, May Day will be turned into a powerful demonstration for Mooney’s release and against your decision. The whole world knows that Mooney is innocent. Every evi- dence against him has long been shattered. Yet you and your ad- visors, Judge Sullivan and Lewis Byington, maintain that Mooney is guilty. The masses who will gather on May Day will be the final judges of this question, and under the leadership of the International Labor Defense and Communist Party, will go forward in the fight to free Mooney and Billings, and all political prisoners.” Of Edith Berkman \Endorses Berkman’s ' Intended Hunger Strike BOSTON, Mass—In a letter ad- dressed to Secretary of Labor, Mr. Doak, the New England District of the International Labor Defense en- dorsed Edith Berkman’s protest against her illegal imprisonment and proclaimed its intention to back up Berkman’s proposed hunger strike with a powerful mass movement. After quotiding Berkman’s state- ment, in which the young organizer announced that if not released by Bay 8th, she will be on a hunger strike, the New England District of the International Labor Defense con- cluded its letter to Secretary of Labor by stating: “We hold you responsible for any complication resulting from this intended hunger strike that may endanger her life. In the name of thousands of workers throughout the can| country, we demand that you take Workers Line Streets Despite Heavy Downpour In New York City (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) nue C, then south io Houston Street, to Ridge Street, to Montgomery Street, to East Broadway and Rut- gers Square, where the parade | dis- banded, In point of numbers, of revolution- ary spirit, proletarian discipline and eloquently effective slogans, it was one of the greatest, one of the best organized and most inspiring demon- stration of New York workers. Occa- sional floats, effigies and huge car- toons, that punctuated the line of march, served to add much color and pointedness to the parade. Among the outstanding effigies in the parade was one of Capitalism in the shape of a huge crocodile about 100 feet long. The effigies of Norman ‘Thomas, Matthew Woll and “block~aid” Mor- gan were also quite effective and were in turn booed and laughed at by the tens of thousands along the route of march. The huge figure of a worker carrying @ banner that call- ed for the defense of the Soviete) Union, was one of the high-points of the parade, This bit of effective re~ volutionary artistry was supplied by the Artef (JewisH Workers’ Revolu- tionary Theatre), the other effigies and cartoons being the collective work of the Artists’ Section of the John Reed Club, The most striking and original dis- play in the parade was supplied by the Food Workers’ Section, who in- troduced into the demonstration a unique spectacle. It was a kind of “mass funeral” of the bosses’ injunc- tions used so frequently and so vici- ously in an attempt to break the fighting spirit of the food workers. Strung along four long pole were about 100 injunction papers, copies of the genuine documents. The “hon- orary pall-bearers” were food workers who had been sentenced to terms of prison for defying these injunctions. Throughout the line of march the workers displayed much revolutionary enthusaism. There was not a sec- dr.,| tion in the line of parade but filled the air with rousing cheers, mass- chanting of slogans and inspring, mi- litant songs. About a dozen bands heightened the effect of the mass— singing and roused the workers along the sidewalks to join in the cheering and singing. Beside the “Interna- tionale” the tunes most frequently rendered by the bands were: “Rot Front,” “Soviet, Sailors March,” “On to the Barricades,” “On the Picket Line” and the “March of the Red Army.” It would be very difficult to’ single out the more impressive sections of the march. In every section there was something of the high revolu- tionary spirit that evoked the cheers of the tens of thousands of onlookers. ‘The Youth Section, particularly the Young Pioneers and the Communist League came in for the greatest share of the cheering and showed a high degree of that tense revolutionary ‘spirit and dramatic display of militant working-class so- lidarity that characterized the entire demonstration. In point of numbers the Needle Trades Section was of the most impressive. The National Stu~- dents League mobilized quite a large brigade, and the Workers Cultural Federation, embracing 2 score of workers cultural organization, made & very impressive showing. Despite the numerous placards calling for the unity of white and Negro workers, the number of the latter in the parade was disappoint- ingly small. All in all, it was the most inspiring and overwhelming mobilization of revolutionary workers that has been accomplished in New York in recent years. The response of the tens of thousands of onlookers was enthu- siastic and of the same revolutionary character that marked the entire demonstration, There was hardly an instance of hostile reaction or jeering on the part of the dense crowds of workers that lined the sidewalks. ‘The rain, while causing much dis- comfort to the ill-clad thousands of workers, served as a kind of test of their revolutionary endurance and & challenge to their militant deter- mination to fight starvation, to fight imperialist war and defend the So- viet Union. They stood the test and met the challenge in a magnificent manner. Beside this tremendous manifestation of working-class solid- arity and militancy, the feeble cele- bration put on by the social-fascists the day before, appears in its true proportion and character, as a mock- ery of the great international day of workers solidarity, as an act of dis- honor to the revolutionary tradition of May First. More Soviet Workers Send Indignant Protest Against Scottsboro Lynch Verdicts The following resolution is one of hundreds being adopted by indig- nant workers throughout the Soviet Union in furious protest against the murderous Scottsboro lynch verdicts. A tremendous mass defense move- ment is being built up in the Soviet Union and in me support, of the mass fight in Negro and white wor! conditional release of the innocent Scottsboro boys. The resolution fol- laws: The Plenum of the Regional Com- mittee of the All Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), having learned of the decision of the Alabama Su- preme Court, which has confirmed the death sentences against seven of the nine Scottsboro Negro youths and decreed their execution on May 24 in the electric chair, the Plenum of the Chanevsk Regional Committee of the All Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) takes note with the deepest indignation of the brazen- ness of the insolent American bour- geoisie, which is attempting by the bloody legal lynching of the guilt- less Negro youths, to terrorize the masses of the blacy proletarians ris- ing for struggle, in order, thus, to prevent the growing united revolu- tionary red front of the white and | black proletarians. ‘We join our voice of indignant protest to the voices of the broad masses of the proletarians and toiling peasantry and toiling intelligentsia of the Union of Socialist Soviet Re- publics and appeal to the prole- tariat, the toiling peasantry and to all humanely thinking, honest in- telligentsia of the entire world to come out in protest against the bar- barism of the “civilized” American bourgeoisie. 2 With the united front of protest of all the toilers of the entire world, we must sop the hand of the execu- tioners insolently raised over the guiltless youths of the working class. Let the bourgeoisie know that its barbarism and electric tortures of the martyrs of the proletarian revolu- tion, Sacco and Vanzetti, of the Ne- gto workers and thousands of prole- tarians, will not stop the powerful, broadening front of the world revo- lution in the flames of which it will inevitably perish. ‘The land of the Soviets, the fatherland of the proletariat of the entire world, serves as an indestruc- tible fortress of the world revolution and upon each execution of the fighters of the revolution. We, the vanguard of the world proletariat, will answer with increased tempo of energetic construction of Socialism, thus bringing closer the world revo- lution and the destruction of capital- ism. Hands off the guiltless workers! Long live the world revolution! Long live the Comintern, the world staff of the proletarian revolution! Participants of the Plenum of the Regional Committee of the All Union Communist Party (Bolshe- viks)—60 signatures. Negro Counter-Olympic Group Denounces Infamous Rolph Decision Against Mooney NEW YORK.—The National Coun- ler- Olympic Committee yesterday went, on record as denouncing and protesting the infamous decision of Gov. Rolph of California denying a pardon to Tom Mooney in a decision which dooms Mooney to spend the rest of his life in San Quentin pen- itentiary. In a statement issued through its secretary, Simon Gerson, the Committee pledges to intensify its fight for the unconditional release of Mooney and to spread the boycott it has initiated against the Los An- geles Olympic Games. Mooney is honorary chairman of the Commit- tee. The statement reads in part: “We pledge to carry on our boycott of the Olympic Games and to hold Counter-Olympic meets in every sec- tion of the country. These meets will wind up in the final International Workers Athletic Meet at Chicago which will be a powerful blow to the Olympic Games and the jailers of ‘Tom Mooney. We will not rest until Tom Mooney is once again free to Plans for the next series of “Free Tom Mooney Street Runs,” it was announced, are already being drawn up in all of the larger cities through- out the country. BUFFALO, N. Y., May 1—At a banquet and concert held last Sun- day to celebrate the opening of the new Workers’ Center at 476 William St., a resolution was unanimously adopted protesting against the in- famous decision of Governor Rolph of California denying Tom Mooney @ pardon. A telegram of protest was ordered sent to Rolph condemning his action in the face of Mooney’s clearly established innocence, A motion wa salso adopted to send a letter of greeting to Comrade Sgovio, Parkhill and Grantzback, serving sentences in Monroe County penitentiary for participating in an unemployed demonstration in Ton- nawanda, N. Y Fourteen organizations were repre- sented, with @ total attendance of | 275, Young | ! a |New England Nat'l Guard Intensifies War Preparations | WORCESTER, Mass—It is) Plain to be seen that the Na- | tional Guard is preparing for war. | Armory have been increased, Since Japan's invasion of China and Manchuria the time for drill | for the National Guardsmen here | has been doubled. It is reported that the usual | two weeks’ summer training period | at Camp Devens will be extended | | | | this year for another week a |\Japanese Launch New — ed Terror Against Shanghai Workers; Scores Arrested 7 The weekly drill periods at the! | Use Bomb Explosion as Pretext For } lewA ttack Japanese, Korean and Chinese Workers Among Prisoners Using the bomb explosion in Shanghai last Friday as a pretext for an increased terror ers of the South China city, and Korean workers. A That Against Orphan Jones’ Lynch Verdict Up This Week| Maryland Lynch Courts ‘Advance Schedule in Effort to Carry Through Hideous Crime Against Aged Negro Worker The appeal against the lynch ver- | dict against Buel Lee (“Orphan Jones”), the Negro worker sentenced to death on a framed-up charge of | murdering his white employer, has been secured by the active fight of the International ‘Labor Defense, | which is handling his case along with | the scores of other class-war strug- gles it is carrying on in the capital- ist courts and will probably be heard in the Maryland Court of Appeals next week, Prevented from lynching him by prompt action of the International Labor Defense and the thunderous protests of tens of thousands of workers, and now again forced to postpone his execution while the ap- peal to a higher court is being made, the bosses and their agents in the courts hope to have the death sen- tence of this innocent Negro worker confirmed, so that his murder, along with the attempted murder of the! Scottsboro boys, the lifelong impris- | onment of Tom Mooney, the persecu- | tion and deportation of Edith Berk- man, and the hundreds of other in- stances of class oppression, will en- able the bosses to terrorize the Negro | workers into silent subjection, to di-| vide the Negro workers from their white fellow-workers, to crush down the militant fight of the toiling masses against unemployment and starvation. Workers must inform themselves on the Buel Lee case, typical of boss frome-up rule through the courts. It is being “advanced” for hearing from the original time set for the appeal, having been formally included in the October “docket” this coming fall, which would be a year after the first attempt of the bosses to lynch Lee. Sixty-year-old Euel Lee was ac- cused of the murder of Green K. Davis and three members of his fam- ily at Snowltill, Maryland, last Oc-| tober. The frame-up on Lee rested | solely on the flimsy charge that some time before the killing, Lee had had | @ quarrel with Davis, over wages is @ strong suspicion that the crime, was actually committed by a whiske gang which was out to get Davi and that the killing was fastened on the aged, defenseless Negro to cover up the real criminals. A lynch hysteria was whipped up| throughout the éastern shore area to divert suspicion from the real mur-! from | derers, and Lee was saved lynching only by the quick action of the International Labor Defense, | in mobilizing working class protest Lee was at first denied the right to choose his own lawyer, and was also refused a change of venue. Only through mass pressure and the de- termined efforts of the International Labor Defense attorneys was he fin- ally granted a lawyer and a change of venue from Snowhill to Towson. His trial was a hollow sham, rush- ed through as a mere formality in the process of railroading him, Ne-| groes were barred from serving on the jury. | Jury only thirty-four minutes to sen- tence eLe to death. The vile, traitorous role of the National Association for the Ad- vancement of Colored People in this case should not be overlooked. When Lee was first arrested, the National Association for the Ad- vancement of colored people sent a representative to see him. This representative rushed to the press BEFORE THE TRIAL with a statement expressing belief in the guilt of the Negro worker, and washed his hands of the case, Thus did the NAACP prepare the way for the framed-up conviction of Lee, and again demonstrate its role as the best ally of the lynch bosses and oppressors of the Negro masses. White and Negro,workers should continue and intensify the fight for Lee, who is a victim of the same race | hatred, inspired by the ruling class, which was responsible for the brutal lynching of Williams in Maryland, and of seventy-eight other innocent Negroes throughout the country last year, and the threatened legal lynch- which the latter owed him, There ing of the nine Scottsboro boys. Mooney Greets Soviet Trade UnionCongress on Anniversary of Petrograd Demonstration Says Russian Workers Saved His Life By Ex- posing Murderous Frame-up by California Bosses we From the California dungeon where for over fifteen years he has been held because of his militant fight for the interests of the workers, Tom Mooney yesterday sent the folowing tel- egram of greeting to the Central Committee of the Soviet Trade Unions, Palace of Labor, Moscow, U. S. S. R.: “Comradely greetings on the fif- teenth anniversary of the demon- stration of Petrograd workers who called world’s attention to my frame-up and saved my life. “Gov, Rolph’s recent denial of my application for a pardon chal- Ienges the workers of the entire world. Workers must accept this challenge and renew their demand for my immediate and uncondi- tional release.” | On April 23, Mooney sent to the! revolutionary trade unions of Ger-! many. Willie Munzenberg, Berlin, SW 48 Wilhelmstrasse 132 Germany. “Gov. Rolph’s decision denying my pardon application is a chal- | lenge to the workers of the entire | world. Workers must accept this challenge. You must mobilize a | united front of the militant and revolutionary workers demanding my immediate and unconditional pardon.” Yesterday Mooney received, the} following cable in reply: | «Cable received, We are strengthening fight of the united | front with all workers demanding your freedom.” All over the world the working class is mobilizing its forces for the mass fight which alone can free Mooney and stop the bloody hand of the Alabama ruling class from car- rying out the murderous lynch ver- dicts against the Scottsboro boys. On Sunday, May Day, and again on May 7, millions of workers will pour into the streets to give their thunderous answer to Gov. Rolph and the Ala- | bama lynch courts The Workers will answer the in- | famous decision of Gov. Rolph and) his capitalist masters, Will answer NOR ALR |pouring into the streets! |and the Scotsboro boys! tie cynical answer of Rolph, reported in the New York World Telegram, to the question “Why did he refuse an innocent man a pardon?” The World-Telegram quotes Rolph as answering: ‘l-The Mooney decision? was yesterday!” The working class will let Rolph and his capitalist masters know that we will never give up the fight for Mooney’s release until Mooney is free. Workers! Answer Rolph on May 7th with a tremendous out- Demand the immediate release of Tom Mooney Smash the That terror of the ruling class! Build a workers correspondence gtonp in your factory, shop or neighborhood. Send regular letters to the Daily Worker. SPEND YOUR SPRING bese pirehe a Camp Nitgedaigt Petk fast Tel—Beterbrook 8-140 the J {| rying out wholesale arrests of revolutionar It took the hand-picked | against the revolutionary work- apanese imperialists are car- Japanese, Chinese | The explosion inflicted serious ine | juries on seven of the leading Japa- J | nese militarists who directed the aerial and artillery bombardment of the densely populated proletarian Chapei district of Shanghai, in which ts of thousands of Chinese work- were slaughtered and maimed. ly Kawabata, president of the Shang- hai Japanese Residents’ Association, an organization of merchants and bankers, died yesterday of his wounds. Admiral Nomura, who directed tl hip bombardment of Shanghai, lose both eyes. Mamoru Shi- ul, Japanese Minister to China, in critical condition s of the bomb in his body bomb was thrown during | 8 Japanese military display in Hong- kew Park directed at intimidating the Shanghai workers, The Japanese have number of Korean, | Chines¢ workers, | arrested @ Chinese and together with an American employee of the Shanghat Department of Public Works. The French police in the French Con- cession are making wholesale arrests of Koréan workers and turning them over to the Japanese. A Shanghai dispatch to the New York Times re- ports, “Although reticent, French au- thorities indicated that the Japa- nese were undertaking a clean-up of Korean revolutionaries who had been opposing Japanese operatiofis | im Korea and Manchuria as well as in Shanghai.” The dispatch admits that Japa- nese workers in Shanghai are active jin the fight against their own crim- inal imperialists, It reports that Japanese workers participated in the bombing attack on the Japanese militarists. The Japanese autho: - ties, it says, are at&tmpting to cover up this fact in their efforts to pre- sent the Japanese people as “united” in support of the military adventures in Shanghai and Manchuria. The dispatch says: “A report was circulated that the thrower of the bomb was a Japa- nese and not a Korean. According to this story, the Japanese military officials decided to say nothing about this development. Military authorities and consular officers refused to discuss the report, say- ing a statement would be issued after an investigation had been completed.” The European and American im- perialist governments who supported and condoned the brutal butchery of Chinese workers by the Japanese army and navy at Shanghai have all expressed the greatest sympathy for the injured Japanese militarists and the bloody Japanese imperialism they represent. The Chinese Koumintang party, betrayers of the Chinese’ masses, also rushed forward to ex- press its regrets and sympathy with the Japanese invaders of China: Several Kuomintang Officials, to- gether with foreign diplomatic and military officials, have visited the wounded Japanése militarists. The Kuomintang has shown no concern for the thousands of wounded Chi- nese still in hospitals, many of them maimed for life, as a result of thé Japanese bombardment of Chapeil TO HONOR FOUR KILLED IN THE FORD MASSACRE DETROIT, Mich.—The Monument Committee that will erect a memorial tm honor of the four dead comrades, killed in the Ford massacre on bloody. Monday, March 7th, 1932, announces @ contest for all proletarian artists and sculptors to participate in. This. monument is to be a symbol that wil} forever portray the heroism of thé, four murdered comrades, and the vicious and cowardly attack made upon them. It should symbolize the solidarity of the workers against cap= italist exploitation and Americag im-" Perialism. Pro n artists should use their finest powers to desigh bea social-heroic monument. All sketches and designs submitted will be judged by a Workers Jury. The artist who has handed im the winng sketch will be asked to come to Detroit to complete the task. The artist may use any mediumstone. bronze, marble, etc., for the erection of this monument. The Workers Jury will also con- duct exhibitions of the designs and sketches submitted. These will be shown in Workers’ halls and organi+ zations throughout the country. All artists are urgently asked to forward their entries as soon a& poe sible, as the work of the Monument Committee is already in full swing. — Furthermore, the Monument Com- mittee is in need of funds as no” expense will be spared in this signi= ficant task, The committee is sol- 7 iciting all workers’ organizations of the world for financial help and eol# — laboration in this regard. mh Designs and sketchts, as well as money contributions shoud be sent to the Monument Committee, 3115 Bare lum Tower; Detroit, Michigan, Me