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sees WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! = Central (Section of the Communist International) “WRF Carry On the uy Struggle = Make May 7 A Day of Struggle for the Freedom of the Scotts- boro Boys and Tom Mooney. * Ss at New York, N. ‘Vol. IX, No. 106 Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office ¥.. under the act of March 3, 1879 f NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, MAY 4, 1932 CITY EDITIO N Price 3 Cents _ WORLD-WIDE SCOTTSBORO DEMONSTRATIONS MAY 7 if On to the Mass Defense of the B U ILD | N ¢ Scottsboro Boys and Mooney!) {ee MAY DAY demonstrations against hunger and war were at the same time another milestone in the development of the mass fight for the freedom of the Scottsboro Negro boys and Tom Mooney. The Scotsboro and Mooney issues were in the forefront of the May demonstrations throughout the world. In the United States alone, over one million workers and poor farm- ers. poured into the streets on May Day in indignant protests against the capitalist war and hunger offensive, against the lynch verdicts and grow- ing terror directed by the ruling ciass against the Negro masses as part of the general offensive of capitalism against the entire working class. ‘This tremendous outpouring of workers on May Day, the militant raising of the demands for the release of the Scottsboro boys and Mooney, folowing close upon the nation-wide demonstrations in the countries of Burope and Latin America clearly shows the growth of mass sentiment behind the fight against the Scottsboro lynch verdicts and the continued imprisonment of Tom Mooney. No time should be lost in consolidating this mass sentiment. The growing sympathy and support of the toiling masses and all honest in- tellectuals for the mass fight for the Scottsboro boys and Mooney must be used for the building up of a tremendous nation-wide defense move- ment, drawing new battalions of white and Negro toilers into the fight for the freedom of the Scottsboro boys, Tom Mooney, the Kentucky vic- tims, Edith Berkman, Willie Brown, Orphan Jones, the Imperial Valley prisoners, and the numerous other victims, Negro and white, of class justice. May 7th—international Scottsboro Day—will be a day of mass mobil- ization mass activities and protest by the international working class against the murderous Scottsboro Iynch verdicts. In preparation for May 7 the revolutionary workers must intensify their activities a hundred-fold. We must promote and hold open air mestings in the net#hborhoods, before factory gates, meetings of groups of workers in their homes to discuss the Scottsboro and Mooney issues and work out programs of action for their particular neighborhoods. Delegation of Negro and white workers should be sent to mass or- ganizations to bring before them these issues and draw them into support for the mass fight which alone can free the Scottsboro lands, Tom Mooney and other class-war prisoners. Personal contacts should be made with the workers in the old unions and with the unorganized These activities must be accompanied by a mass distribution of leaf- Jets and literature. On May 7 itself, central demonstrations must be held in every im- portant city and town, militantly raising again the demands for the unconditional and immediate release of the innocent Scottsboro boys, framed-up by the lynch courts on a lying “rape” charge, and of Tom ‘Mooney, victim of another capitalist frame-up and held in San Qeuntin Prison, California, in the face of the general admission of his innocence. The most energetic efforts must be made to draw the Negro masses into these demonstrations. “Especially is this necessary in the New York district which has signally failed in this connection in the past. Build the fighting alliance of Negro and white workers against the national oppression and persecutton of the Negro masses, against the capitalist hunger and war offensive! All out on May 7! Day A Military Dictatorship for the “Honor of American Womanhood” RITE your representatives in Washington to take the necessary steps to protect the honor of American wom- anhood in the American possessions of Hawii, and also to ‘compel decent respect on the part of the Hawaiian rabble for our American nation and our nation’s patriotic defender.” (Our emphasis.) a ete Leon The issue of chastity, like that of charity, is used to cover a multi- ‘ tude of sins, aims and ambitions. The murderous campaign of incitement against the majority of the working class population of Hawaii, oppressed and exploited to the limit by the sugar barons, now being described as “rabble” by the super- patriotic press, a campaign led by the Hearst press and the outright mouthpieces of the House of Morgan like the New York Evening Post, is directly connected with the imperialist conflicts in the Pacific area and has as its object the popular justification of the establishment of a naval and military dictatorship in Hawaii. ‘The Hearst press in its editorial comment is quite sane. Its political | conclusions are devoid of the demagogic appeals to rush to the defense of the inviolability of the “honor” of an alcoholic and gigolo-crazed wife of a naval officer. In its political demands the Hearst press abandons entirely its main contention that the raping of dark-skined women—the process by which white civilization initiated in Hewaii—is the inalienable rght of the Nordc, and ts corollary, that whte women should be raped only by white men. Bainbridge Colby, whose main Claim to fame is that he was the boy friend of the second Mrs. Woodrow Wilson during the decline of Wilson, writing yesterday in the Heast, puts the issue bluntly: “Hawaii is really an outpost of the United States. IT IS PRIMAR- TY A NAVAL STATION. Its industries, which center around the pro- duction of sugar, fruit, coffee and live stock, should be encouraged. “They are now richly production and should be maintained and devel- oped, but they do not constitute the justification for, nor the signifi- cance of our possession of the islands—situated almost in the center of the Pacific Ocean, and almost equidistant from American and Asiatic shores.” “THE RATIONAL METHOD FOR THE GOVERNMENT OF HAWAII IS TO TURN ITS ADMINISTRATION OVEK TO MILI- TARY CONTROL.” It is clear that the question is NOT one of the “honor” of the wife of 'a naval officer whose burning anger at the injury to his wife took months to rise to the point where he could induce two enlisted men, and his wife's mothe, to engage in a torture and murder expedition which even the cun- ning of the despicable Darrow could not picture as anything else than a desperate gesture to save his face and impress the natives with the mag- nificence and might of the heroes of the navy detailed for arduous duties in the Hawaiian paradise. Darrow, who could not bring himself to the defense of the nine inno- cent Scottsboro boys, victims of the most outrageous “white superiority” frame-up in all history, has feaped to the aid of officer caste of the navy whose Babylonian orgies set the standard by which the Hawaiians judge the moral stability of the Nordic population. ‘The attempt on the part of the jingo press to whip up sentiment for a dictatorship in Hawaii is the offshoot in the colonies of American imperialism, given gfreater venom by the war atmosphere, of the reaction- ary theory of the inferiority of all peoples with colored skins, shown in the United States by the murderous attitude toward the Negroes, The Daily Worker will have more to say on the Massie case. But the principal lesson to be drawn now from vicious activities and unrestrained demagogy of Darrow and the jingo press is that it shows the lengths to which the spokesmen of American imperialism are prepared to go in ‘war preparations, ‘The same methods will be used against Communists and all other revolutionary workers as the war clouds thicken. j hii it ha np Mag a i agg Ae STRIKERS 10. PICKET JOBS. °° \ | Hold Building Trades Release of Boys, Tom Meet Thursday at Irving P Plaza All Are Urged to set | ii The Building Con- struction Workers Lea- gue calls all building) the picket line in the! following concentra-) tion places: Radio City, | ‘6th Ave. and 50th St.;! Metropolitan Life In- surance, Madison Ave.;| Inland Terminal, 16th Street between 8th and 9th Avenue; Post Of- fice, 30th Street and 9th Avenue. A special strike meeting of the ‘Building Trades and Construction Workers Industrial League will take place Thursday, May 5, at 8 p. m., at Irving Plaza, Corner Irving Place and 15th Street. Every member of the League is instructed to be pres~ ent without fail. The present strike was~ called by the fakers in the building trades without preparation itn an effort. to betray the membership into a wage- cut and at the same time to hide their betrayal in order completely to strangle and hog-tie the rank and file. To finish this dirty job these officials are taking further steps. In the Sheet Metal Workers Union Local No, 28 where the oxcials have taken thousands of dollars of the membership money for their own use, the membership is prevented from voting for strike, union meet- jings being called off. Butler, rep- resentative of the local in the Bldg. Trades Council, stated that the Council had proposed a 15 percent wage .cut, though the membership had no opportunity to decide any- thing on this. Postal cards were sent out by these officials notifying the members to go to work Monday, May 2, which was done by the of- ficialdom of many other unions as well. Hansen, chairman of the Carpent- ers’ District Council instructed the membership to go to work for the wage cut scale of $8.00 and $10.00 a day, which means in reality for about half of these figures. Hansen also instructed Brownsville carpent- ers to continue to work for anything they can get regardless of the strike. No action is taken with regard to in- dependent bosses and lumpers, but on many jobs today union men are working on jobs with sanction of the Carpenters District Council without any scale of wages. Two big painting jobs were stop- ped Tuesday morning. On the New Hospital of over 100 men, all hands are out on strike. Radio City is very heavily policed, groups of strikers being immediate- ly dispersed by the cops. This is the result of the failuure of the official- dom to organize regular, systematic picketing which should be demanded | by the rank and file of every union. On one job, the Inland Terminal at 16th Street and Ninth Avenue, the rank and file have started regu- lar picketing which will be extend- ed to the other jobs. The Alteration Painters, an inde- pendent union announced that they will support the strike and that none of their members are to take the places of strikers. a stirring appeal to the toiling masses |of all countries to demonstrate on that day in militant defense of the Scottsboro boys. Mrs. Ada Wright, mother of two of the boys, who is now on her way to Germany, will be the main speaker at a tremendous demonstration of Hamburg workers on that day. Mrs. Wright is accompanied by J. Louis Engdahl, natibnal secretary of the International Labor Defense, which is defending the boys, They have been invited by the workers of sev- eral European countries to speak at a large series of Scottsboro mass pro- test meetings to be held between now and June 24, the latest date set by the Alabama lynch courts for the legal massacre of seven of the nine boys. ALL MILLER SHOE FITTERS TO MEET TONITE IN HALL Fitters Call Entire Crew for Joint Meet the Same ne Evening The I. Miller "fitters are called to an extraordinary meeting tonight by the Committee of Fifteen elected at the last fitters’ meeting. This meet- ing will be held at Astoria Hall; 64 E, 4th St. (between 2d and 3d Ave.) New York. The Committee of Fifteen will re- port on the plans it has adopted in order to prevent the I Miller firm from throwing the workers out of their jobs. The firm until now has maneu- vered in all ways to split the unity of the workers in their struggle to defend their jobs. At the last meeting of the fitters, the chairman brought out how he was threatened by cer- tain individuals, and told not to ap- pear at the factory on Saturday, the day the fitters were meeting inside the factory. These threats came di- rectly from the bosses, The chairman ‘was so intimidated that he actually could not come to that meeting. When the meeting was held in the factory, the boss tried to break the morale of the workers by pointing out that their leader had not shown up and therefore the workers should not organize, but re- main at his mercy. But the spirit of the I. Miller fit- ters has not been broken. At the open meeting on Wednesday, they showed more determination than ever to or- ganize for the fight which the boss- es are forcing upon them. The entire crew is called by the By DAVID MARTIN Article 1._ ¢ i] ‘HERE is a serious, wide- Attention 4 spread illusion among work- Election Committees ers that the coming of war will Send in at once reports on the plans and the progress of the prep- arations for the National Nomin~ ating Convention, to be held in Chicago on May 28 and 29, 7 Send dates of local conferences, the election of delegates from fac- tories and organizations to the lo- cal conferences, and all other lo- cal activities pertaining to the elec- tions. | Send reports on your efforts and successes ih getting the Party on the bring: prosperity to the United States, work for the unem- ployed and high wages all around. This false theory is deliberately fostered by the als, socialists and American Federation of Labor leader- ship. This illusion is based on the [Millions of Workers to Fulfill May Day Pledge | Push Fight for Boys To Raise Thunderous Demand for Immediate Mooney, Edith Berk- | man and Other Victims of Class Justice Mrs. Ada Wright, Mother of Two of the Boys, | Will Be Main Speaker at Huge Demon- stration in Hamburg, Germany The gigantic May Day demonstrations throughout the| world will be followed on May 7 by another outpouring of} millions of workers into the streets for the demand for the} trade workers out oe release of the Scottsboro"Negro boys and Tom Mooney. May 7 has been set aside as International Scottsboro Day by wae In- | ternational Red Aid, which has made > STEEL WAGE CUT IS DUE THIS MONTH Only Organization Can | Stop Companies The workers of the United States Steel Corporation are to receive a wage cut of at least ten per cent before the month of May is up. Journal of Commerce of Tuesday. And size of the cut may be larger than ten per cent. Like the second steel wage cut of October 1, Jast year, this will be followed by wage cuts in all the steel mills of the various smajJer companies. At that time the Weirton Steel cut 15 Per cent. And larger slices in the already small wage of the mill workers were made by other com- panies. In all 1,000,000 workers were hit by the wage cut offensive of last fall. And now as then, the U. 8. Steel will lead the way in a new offensive against the workers in all industries. In 1929 at the notorious get-to- gether of the American Federation of Labor leaders with Hoover and the leading industrialists of Amer- ica, Farrell, of the U. S. Steel, sol- ernly pledged no wage cuts. The fall cut took $39,000,000 out of the pay envelopes of the workers in steel. At present the steel in- dustry is at about 23 per cent of capacity, meaning that the workers are putting in one and two days a week. A further wage cut will mean starvation not only for those unem- ployed but for the remaining part- time workers. The steel bosses will never stop cutting wages in order to keep on paying dividends unless the steel workers organize for struggle. fitters committee to come to a meet- ing tonight at the same hall, to plan for joint action. The Andrew Geller strike is in splendid shape. All workers are very active and are determined to defeat the lock-out of the bosses. The Elco strike is spreading from the fitters to the other departments. All lasters joined the fitters and elected a joint committee to go to the boss with their demands. capitalist press; by the liber-! = 2 BRIGADES DESERT T0 CHINA REDS| | Kuomintang Army in| Fukien Province in Flight | A Shanghai dispatch | to the New York Times kien Province, South before the Chinese Red Army, which two weeks ago captured the important industrial city of Changchow following a vic- torious campaign in which numerous } smaller towns were captured. The Red Army is now not wait to receive them. pression troops” mutinied against the Kuomintang teols of the imperialists and joined the Red Army of the revolutionary worker-peasant masses. |Missionary agents of foreign im- perialism are in wild flight to the coast from all parts of the province. Fukien province borders the | | | | | base in Kiangsi Province. It is in this district that the Central Chi- nese Soviet Republic was set up last Chinese Soviet, Congress, ships at Amoy, a seaport 35 miles from Changchow, Among the war- ships are several American destroy- ers. The Japanese are reported rush- ing additional military police from Formosa, one of the brutally op- pressed colonies of Japanese perialism. Kuomintang troops have also been sent from Foochow, capi- tal of Fykien Province. The Kuomintang government in} Szechuan Province is in such dire| financial straits that the militarists have resorted to banditry and are even attempting to rob the mission- ary agents of their imperialist mas- ters. Militarists raided the French Catholic Mission at Chengtu, Inner Szechuan, and attempted to extract The conditions of the masses are so desperate that the militarists are finding it difficult to carry out their tax extortions. reports that the Kuo-| mintang troops in Fu-| | China, are in pell-mell flight} reported to | be rapidly advancing on the city of | Sungan. The Kuomintang troops did | Two bri-| gades of the Kuominiang “Red Sup- | huge | Chinese Soviet district which has its| year at the meeting of the First | ‘The imperialists have over 35 war-| im- | @ “loan” of $1,500,000 from the bishop. | Chicago's Parade Lucey Par: ———3 | ; PHILA. WORKER CLUBBED FOR DEMONSTRATING MAY DAY Twenty-five thousand workers were in the parade which was brutally smashed. The picture shows one of the 60 wounded workers being led away with blood streaming. Started in This week the signature drive to Place Comrades Foster, Ford, Amter and 100 other working class candid- | ates on the ballot “has started. All the concentrated efforts of ever class conscious worker is necessary in order to assure the placing on the ballot of every candidate—making it possible for the American workers to express their support and vote for the Communist Party, the leader of the workers in their struggle against hunger, wage cuts, speed-up and all the misery inflicted upon the work- ers by the bosses and their gover unprecedented expansion of industry in the United States from 1914 to 1918. The capi- talists of this country supplied both the allies and central pow- ers with munitions; machinery and raw materials that they themselves could not produce, due to their concentration on the production of the means of mass murder. ican workers increased. There was comparatively little unemployment. In some sections of some sndysiries extremely high wages were paid (munitions, ete.). ‘Wages of the Amer-, PLANS TO ENSLAVE THE WORKING CLASS IN WAR-TIME : |days received at least $15 a day. |Such cases were very rare. The {average wage during the peak of war $25 a week. | Nevertheless and there was steady employment \Basing themselves on this many | Workers imagine that the coming war will solve the problem of the crisis and bring with it high wages. This is one of the most serious illusions that we Communists have to contend with in our anti-war work among the masses. It breeds an inertia not only among the workers but even in some members of the Party which Prevents them trom being roused wages did increase experience of the workers in| of coure the newspapers mabe tt| thoroughly against a new imperial By PowrorD ON pace raBEE ., Mtb Sly fifth Mowe, roage Election Signature Drive 50,000 Signatures Needed to Place Foster, Ford, Amter and'Others on the Ballot Prosperity was but little more than New York City i | ment, , More than 50;000 signatures are | r t be collected in ew York. Assist- | in order to make nec and y section is nece ance certain the fulfillment of the required ary number of time signatures in the allotted ‘The capitalist class having wit- | nessed the growing inilitancy of the | workers, will do everything in their | | power to keep the Communist Party off the ballot. It is up to the workers | to prevent this. It is the class duty | of every worker to express his agree- | ment with the policies and aims of | | the Communist Party by. signing the | Communist petition and to help col- lect signatures from other workers. The following election campaign nters will be open every night and all workers are urged to report there whenever possible: Manhattan—418 E. 53rd St., E, Third St. (corner Avenue A). 5 pect Ave 9th St.), 1323 Southern Blyd. Brooklyn.—285 Rodney St., 2921 w. | 32nd St., Coney Island; and Bath Ave., ‘2006 70th St., Ben- scnhurst; 1373 43rd St., Boro .Park; | 1813 Pitkin’ Ave.; 313 Hinsdale . St.; Schenectady Ave. The District Election Campaign Committee is urgently in need of a car for a few weeks to enable to carry on important work up state. Anyone who has a car and can place it as the disposal of the Elec- tion Campaign Committee of the Communist Party for a few weeks, | is urged to report same to the Elec- | tion Campaign Committes, 50 5. | 142 | (near | working class neighborhoods, 21st Aveand | | and the revolutionary trade unions. Huge Led By 1,000 War Vets | es ie March of 50,000 Followed by Four Meetings; sons Sends Greetings ; ares CHICAGO, IIl., May 3. — Fifty thousand workers demonstrated and paraded on May First and not 40,000 as reported in yesterday’s Daily Worker. At Union Park over 35,000 workers, Negro and | white, plus a large percentage of women, and a larger number of youth and children participated. The meeting was opened by John Williamson who acted as a chairman and after short addresses by Earl Browder and a Negro woman com- rade, Osby, the march strated. Over 35,000 were in the line of march which was over one and one-half miles Jong, ten breast, while thous- ands of workers cheered and ap- plauded the crowd for over two hours over the four mile route through the stop- ping all traffic on its way. The march was viewed by over 20,000 workers, Over one thousand banners were carried in the parade with slogans of “Defend the Soviet Union,” “De- fend the Chinese Masses,” “For Un- employed’ and Social Insurance,” “Against Imperialist War,” “Build Unions in the Shops,” “Free Mooney and the Scottsboro Boys,” “Defeat “Vote Communist on November 8th,” “Join the Communist Party,” “Join the Young Communist League,” At the head of the parade was a division of ex-servicemen with over one thousand in the line of march led by a newly organized Chicago workers’ band of music, followed by young workers under the lead- ership of the Young Communist League. Then came the Unem- Ployed Councils, trade unions of the Trade Union Unity League, In- ternational Labor Defense, Inter- national Workers Order and other mass organizations, At the head of the parade the ban- ner of the Communist Party, District 8 was carried and especialy attrac- tive in the parade were the carica- ture cut outs, one on Scottsboro to- gether with a float of an electric chair prepared by the bosses for the Scottsboro boys which was in the In- ternational Labor Defense division, a new Ford model in the form of a coffin, also a huge fist with the slo- gans: “Don't Strave, Fight for Un- employment Insurance.” The demonstration endorsed the international day of struggle for the release of the Scottsboro boys on May 7th. Lucy Parson, widow of | Albert Parsons, leader of the first |May Day in Chicago in 1886, who | was invited to speak, was unablé to come because of sickness and sent greetings to the meeting called on the workers to carry on the reyolu- tionary traditio. of 1886 and rally around th leader of the Negro and white workers, the Communist Pafty. This May Day demonstration in Chicago was the largest in the history of Chicago since its adope tion as an international holiday, | Japanese Police ||’ Jail 1,200 Workers in May Day Raids A Tokio dispatch to the.New York World Telegram reports the arrest by Japanese police of 1,200 workers during the week preced- |ing May Day. The arrests were |earried out in an attempt to dis-4 |organize the preparations of the revolutionary Japanese toilers for the May Day demonstrations against war and hunger. The Daily. Worker has received no reports as’ yet on the outcome of these demonstrations. Previous anti-war demonstrations in Ja- pan show, however, that the Jap- anese masses are carrying on a | heroic struggle against the Japan- ese war mongers and for the de- | fense of the Chinese people and the Soviet Union. These struggles are under the leadership of the illegal Japanese Communist Party

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