The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 5, 1932, Page 1

WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! Dail Central - Org, Carry On the Struggle —- Make May 7 A Day of Struggle for the Freedom of the Scotts- boro Boys and Tom Mooney. = Vol. IX, No. 107 — Entered as secomd-clasa matter at the Post Uffice at New York, N. Y.. under the act of March 3, 1879 Price 3 Cents _' CITY EDITIO JAPANESE MOVING TO SEIZE CHINESE EASTERN RAILWAY Doak--Jailer-in-Chief to Wall Street! Make Him Free Edith Berkman! Saibeaesene OF LABOR DOAK, acting for the Hoover administration and the bankers and bosses, whose executive committee it is, fs keep- ing Edith Berkman imprisoned in the detention sheds in Boston for the sole crime of being an organizer of the National Textile Workers’ Indus- trial Union. She has been held since the beginning of the Lawrence strike. She is a worker who enraged Secretary of Labor Doak and his army of stool-pigeon inspectors by being born in Poland. For this attack on American institutibns, Doak has decreed that this frail girl worker, suffering from a severe case of tuberculosis shall be imprisoned at his pleasure while he tries to induce the fascist Polish government to agree to allow her to be deported to Poland. In the colonial period, when Doak's non-conformist ancestors mi- grated to Virginia as indentured servants to escape the persecutions which followed the restoration of King Charles, it was the custom in England to whip dissenters at the tail of a cart, to cut off their ears, to hang, draw and quarter them, to expose their heads on pikes at city gates as a warning to their comrades. Even Doak would hardly care to advocate such measures today for union organizers, even though they were Communists—whom he hates and fears as a reactionary member of the Hoover Hunger cabinet and a grovelling servant of the billionaire robbers who have reduced the living standard of American workers by 40 to 70 per cent since 1929. But Doak is going as far as he can with punishment and persecution of militant worker organzers. His imprisonment of Edith Berkman is an outfage and an insult to every worker in the United States. The whole process by which she is imprisoned is similar to the arbitrary arrest and confinement in the Bastille on orders of the king of any person incurring his displeasure. ‘We have been entirely too lax in bringing this outrage to the atten- tion of the American working class. We have been entirely too easy with Mr. Doak, the behind-the-scene figure in the daily intimidation and ter- rorizing of unemployed and striking foreign-born workers fighting for the right to live, and the moving spirit in putting over the 10 per cent wage-cut on the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen. It is about time that it is made clear to Doak and others of his type, coming out of the ranks of the working class, and using the education and experience they gained at the expense of the labor movement for the benefit of the jaiiers and robbers of workers, that there is a limit to the patience of American workers, We believe that it is possible to arouse American workers against the torture chambers maintained by Doak and his department, We believe it is possible to arouse American workers, when the facts are clearly presented, to the point where they will run Doak’s stool- pigeons out of stadustrial communities. We believe it is possible to make the name of Doak a symbol of the growing arrests and Jailings of workers and workers’ ieaders before, during and after every struggle against wage-cuts and unemployment which is making the United States one huge prison, hissed and hated throughout the length and breadth of this country wherever workers gather. We propose to do just this very thing in the struggle for the uncon- ditional release of Edith Berkman. Doak, with his master, Hoover, and the whole collection of official- dom of the American Federation of Labor, Woll, Green, etc., who sup- port his policy of intimidation and deportation, who even go to the ex- tent of accusing Communists of starting forest fires, etc, as Woll has just done, who serve as spies and provocateurs for the bosses and their gov- ernment, who cluster around the payroll of Wall Street imperialism like flies on a dung heap, can take notice that no longer do we accept jailings and clubbings, police murders, secret assassinations and mass imprison- ment of workers and their leaders as a matter of course. We believe that huge sections of the American working class no longer feel called upon to defend rotten American capitalism, but are ready to defend those revolutionary workers like Edith Berkman who rally workers for struggle against daily starvation and against the system of capitalism. We believe that the American working class can and will defend and FREE Edith Berkman, Mooney, the Scottsboro boys, the Imeprial Valley prisoners, the Kentucky miners and organizers, the workers in Pennsyl- vania prisons following the coal strike of last summer the Communists and militant workers held under criminal syndicalism charges in Illinois, the needle trades workers just sent to prison for three years in New York. “The sword is drawn, the scabbard is thrown away!” ®% We are going to do our level best to see that Doak, jailer-in-chief to the Hoover administration, becomes such a liability to his masters as a result of mass hatred and contempt, that he will end his days in that compost-heap of discards which holds the remains of Mitchell, Palmer, Harry Daugherty and other specimens of capitalism’s corruption and bru- tality. Free Edith Berkman! ““ Down with Doak and the Hoover-Doak-A. F. of L. policy of splitting the working-class ranks by spying, terrorism and deportation! Send in Reports of Discussion On Resolutions and Decisions of the Fourteenth Plenum | ALL Party districts are urged to send in reports of the discussion of the | resolution and decisions of the Fourteenth Plenum of the Central Committee as soon as these take place. | ® All districts are likewise urged to prepare their articles for the dis- j cussion of the resolutions and decisions of the Fourteenth Plenum as part ,of the Enlightenment Campaign which appears in the Daily Worker as ) Part of the task of applying the decisions of the Plenum, ‘The following report from District 8, Chicago, giving an estimate of the recent meeting of the District Executive Committee and leading Party | workers to hear the report of the Fourteenth Plenum of the Central Com- mittee, should be used as an example for similar reports to the Daily | Worker from all distrivts: 1 “At a meeting of leading comrades there was great understanding of jand tremendous enthusiasm for the tasks placed upon the Party by the urteenth Plenum of the Central Committee. The following pladge was taken by all comrades present: | “Atter hearing the report by Comrade Gebert on the Fourteenth {Plenum of the Central Committee and the resolution adopted, we three ‘hundred Chicago active Party workers pledge ourselves to carry out in letter and spirit the resolution of the Fourteenth Plenum especially in mobilizing masses of workers for struggle against imperialist war and defense of the Soviet Union; by carrying out the tasks outlined by the resolution to mobilize masses of workers in struggle for their daily needs ‘and against the offensive of the bosses; by especially concentrating on major shops as proposed by the Chicago District Bureau; by building i utionary trade unfons on shop basis, by building Party and Young ¥ NEW YORK.—New York workers will hold a number of huge demon~- strations on. Saturday, May 7, as part of the world wide demonstra- tions on that day—International Scottsboro Day—against the Scotts- SELL-OUT FOUGHT BY CARPENTERS Carpenters Spread Move for Strike Mass Meeting “I’m Boss”, Says Faker Meet of League Takes Place Tonight Thé growing sentiment of the rank and file of the building trades unions against the sell-out of the Building ‘Trades Council fakers was shown on Tuesday night when a rank and file committee*from carpenters Local 2717 came to the membership meeting of Local 1164, carpenters to ask the membership to respond to the com- munication of 2717 which invited oth- er carpenters’ locals to come to their mass meeting to be held Saturday, May “th at 1 pm. at 218 Sackman St., Brooklyn. Members of Local 2090 also came to urge the members of 1164 to join in this mass meetinf to discuss the presen tsituation in which some carpenters are on strike while others are working. ‘The reactionary chairman of 1164 at first refused to admit the visiting carpenters but the membership of 1164 created such an unroar that he was compelled to urge the members to attend the mass meeting in a body. .This despite the fact that the Jead in demanding the admission of the carpenters of 2090 and 2717. Though the Building Trades Coun- cil has openly accepted the 25 per cent to 40 per cent wage cut, their fear of the rising strike mood of the workers is so great that when at a special council meeting the strike was discussed and the representatives of the plumbers Local 463 made a mo- tion to expell the steamfitters because they are putting up a stiff fight against the wage cuts, the objection of one delegate was sufficient to pre- vent any expulsion action or even j discussion of it. : Bricklayers, the officials tried to hide the fact that they intended to sign up with the independent lumber bosses but wer eunable to do so be- cause of the rank and file pressure. Sentiment of the rank and file was unanimously against this maneuver with the bosses. The rank and file is demanding more guarantee of the wage scale and not just a scale signed on paper, The membership is de- manding militant mass picketing. In Local 9 Bricklayers, a resolution was presented by the rank and file for maintaining wage standards, a joint mass meeting of all locals, nad the election of rank and file strike (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) CHICAGO, Ill, May 4—At a meeting of Chicago functionaries tremendous enthusiasm and under- standing of the tasks placed upon the Party by the 14th Plenum of the Central Committee was shown: The following pledge was adopted: “After hearing the report by Comrade Gebert on the 14th Ple- num of the Central Committee and the resolutions adopted, we, three hundred Chicago Party function- aries, pledge ourselves to carry out letter and spirit the resolutions of the 14th Plenum, especial!y so- of workers for asada New York Workers Plan Huge Demonstrations on May 7 in Fight Against Lynch Verdicts Main Demonstration In Harlem; Tens of Thou- | sands to Pour Into the Streets In Demand | for the Release of Scottsboro Boys and Tom Mooney |Section V; 1400 Boston Rd.; 1157! In the report of Local 34 of the | | boro lynch verdicts and for the re-| lease of the Scottsboro boys and Tom! Mooney. Mobilization of workers or- | ganizations is going forward in all sections of the city in the effort to bring out the largest possible num- ber of Negro and white workers in militant protest against the at- tempts of the Alabama ruling elass| to legally lynch the nine innocent Negro boys, seven of whom are al- ready under sentence of death. The most important of the demonstra- tions in this city will be held in Har- Jem. Beginning at 145th St. and Lenox Ave. a parade will form and march through the proletarian sections of Harlem ending with a monster mass meeting at 110th St. and Fifth Ave. Other demonstrations in New York district on May 7 will be held in the following places: BROOKLYN—Sheepshead Bay and Jerome Aye. 7 pm.; Wyckoff and White Sts. at 6 pm MANHATTAN—Tth St and Avenue A, 2:30 pm.; Madison Sq., at 12:30 p.m. NEW JERSEY — Demonstrations will be held in Paterson on May 6. Newark on May 7 at Military Park. Perth Amboy at Smith and Elm Sts., 7:30 p.m. New Brunswick at French and Handy Sts. at 7 p.m. As a part of these international demonstrations. there will also be. mass collections on the streets from house to house and in the subways and all meeting places during May 6, 7 and 8. The stations at which boxes for collection can be obtained are as follows: BROOKLYN—136 15th St.; 46 Ten Eyck St.; 1813 Pitkin Ave.; 524 Ver- mont St, MANHATTAN—1799 Broadway, No. 410; 347 E. 72d St.; 350 E. Tist St.; 15 W. 126th St. BRONX—2800 Bronx Park East, Southern Blvd. and 569 Prospect Ave. | These stations will be open all day Saturday, May 7, from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m.; Sunday, 11 am. to 8 p.m, All workers should participate in the collection of funds for the Scotts- boro defense DUNNE, HATHAWAY, TO SPEAK. A mass meeting to protest against the Scottsboro frame-up will be held at the Prospect Workers Center, 1157 Southern Boulevard, Bronx, tonight at 8 p.m, Comrade Bill Dunne will speak. On Sunday, May 8th Comrade Clarence Hathaway, who has recently returned from the Soviet Union will speak at the Tremont Workers Club, 2075 Clinton Avenue, Bronx. Com- rade Hathaway will speak on the schools and universities in the Soviet ® Carry Soviet Citizens; Out Wholesale Arrests of Plan Raids On Soviet Buildings in Manchuria Forged “Documents” Being Prepared To Be “Discovered” In Soviet Offices to Afford Pretext for Seizure of Railway and War on U.S.S.R. By MYRA PAGE (Foreign Correspondent of the Daily Worker) MOSCOW, May 3.—Reliable sources in Harbin report all Soviet institutions in Manchuria, while “documents” alr the raids. The purpose of these forged “documents’” will be to “in tempts to dynamite the Chinese Eastern Railway, and in this seizure of the railway and for an armed attack on the Soviet Workers Report New | Facts on War Plans U.S. Commercial Shipping Mobilized for Trans- port Service to Far East (By a Worker Correspondent) | NEW YORK.—Preparations for war in the Far East are being intensified in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Shipments of arms and munitions to the Asiatic station have been increased during the past months. Seven five-inch anti-aircraft guns| (model 1930) are lying on Pier C today awaiting shipment to Manila. The distribution tags on the guns read, “Supply Of- ficer, Asiatic’ Fleet, Manila, P. 1.” These guns will be shipped on the U.S.S. Cyrus, a naval) transport, which is due to arrive here Thursday this week. These guns are of the latest type and can be put into active @service im one working day. Delegation to Fight f or BerkmanAppeals Winchester Arms Increases activity (By a Worker Correspondent) NEW HAVEN, Conn.—Reading the that the Japanese are planning raids in the near future on eady are being forged with a view of being “found” during criminate” the Soviet Union in terrorist acts, including at- way furnish the Japanese with a “justification” for the Union. These decisive operations by the Japanese and the White Guards are expected to begin this week, . * In their numerous war provocations against the Soviet Union, the Japanese are pre- paring to seize the Chinese Eastern Railway, owned by the Soviet Union and jointly oper- ated by China and the Soviet Union. Informa-! tion to this effect is reported by reliable sources in Harbin, Manchuria. Simultaneously with their concentration of troops on the Soviet border, the Japanese, through their White Guard allies, have been carrying out a series of wholesale ar- rests of Soviet citizens on framed-up charges, together with raids on the offices of the Chinese Eastern Railway and open violence against § + citizens, including the Soviet manager * a es Sof the Chinese Eastern Railway and Guns to Put Over Steel Wage Cut Union. for Immediate Funds DEFEND EDITH BERKMAN! | In four days she enters upon a | hunger strike in protest against boss térror and in defense of | | workers’ right to organize. She is | ill from confinement in bosses’ | prisons—this protest endangers | her life. A delegation of fifty workers is ready to go to Wash- ington to protest at Doak’s very door against his illegal and cruel treatment of her. Will you help| pay their expenses? Rush money | today to the Edith Berkman | Committee, Room 410, 799 Broad- way, New York City. Ask your friends for money for Edith Berkman. Send it in quick- ly. WE MUST NOT DELAY OUR DEFENSE! War Veterans Should Pre- pare for the Daily Worker Straw Vote! Daily Worker I noticed that you wanted readers to send in reports | about factories producing war ma-)| |terial. The Winchester Repeating | Arms Co. which went broke a few |months ago is now active, according |to the New Haven Register, produc- |ing both arms and munitions, The report in the Register says: “Increased activity at the Win- chester plant, recently acquired by the. Western Cartridge Company, of which F. W. Olin is the head, is largely due to purchases made. . “In addition to this, the company was reported yesterday to have or- ders of a characteristic nature which have produced more than the usual amount of activity. “In explaining this situation, Al- bert J. Snyder, personnel superin- tendent, said that these orders call for the manufacture of shells, rifles, shotguns and other articles in larg- er quantities than normally would be turned out by the factory.” ee ait been ill-treated and tortured, in an attempt to extort statements from Expect to Fire 50 P.C. of Workers them which would serve the Ja |mese aim of implicating the Soviet | Union in several recent outrages ‘against the property of the Chinese (By Our Pittsburgh Correspondent.) PITTSBURGH, Pa.—An of- ficial of the U. S. Steel Corpo- ration in a private conversation |here yesterday stated that the corporation was not only con- templating a new widespread wage cut around the middle of May, but that 50 per cent of the workers now employed in the plants would be laid off. Machine guns and ammuni- tion has been brought into of- fice buildings of the plants eround Pittsburgh. The offi- cial stated that these guns workers in case they struck. Merchant Marine Mobitizea | Railroad Fires Foreign NEW YORK.—Speaking for the} Born Workers American Steamship Owners Asso- (By a Worker Corr indent) were to be used against the| Foster to Demand Release ciation, H. B. Walker, presitient of private steamship lines were mobil- the association, said Monday that the | | NEW HAVEN, Conn. — Another patriotic act was performed by the of Berkman at Mass Rally NEW YORK.—William Z. Foster will speak at the giant mass meeting Monday night; May 9, to demand the release of Edith Berkman, who by that date will have started her protest hunger strike in a demand for her immediate release from imprisonment. The meeting, which is to be at Irving Plaza at 7:30 p.m., is to be @ send-off for the delegation of 50 Chicago Funtionaries Pledge to Carry Out Plenum Decisions elected representatives of workers’ or- struggle against imperialist war and for the defense of the Soviet Union by carrying out the tasks outlined by the resolutions and to mobilize masses of workers in the struggle for their daily needs and against the bosses’ offensive, espe- cially concentrating on the major shops as proposed by the Chicago District Bureau, building up the revolutionary trade unions on a shop basis, building the Communist Party and the Young Communist League and shop nuclet, Long live the y of tha Ase 3” Net OTS aR ganizations which will retary of Labor Doak in Washington the following afternoon. ‘The letter from the International Labor Defense and the Council for the Protection of Foreign Born stat- (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) 1 Comrade Ford’s Article Unfortunately "we have no ar-| ticle today from Comrade James 'W. Ford in his excellent series on the symposium on Communism running. in the Crisis. Comrade Ford has been speak- infi for the past several days in the Detroit district and was the chief speaker at the huge May First demonstration there. This has prevented him from prepar- ing the article. Tomorrow, however, we are as- sured that his article will be on hand. % capitalists of the N. Y. N. H. and Hartford Railroad. On the 26th of | April they bounced 25 foreign born workers from the Cedar Hill yards. One man asked what he was fired for. The boss told him that he was working for the company for 28 years and never became a citizen. All these workers were told the same thing. This is only part of what is coming, —wW. L. ized and ready to carry troops at any emergency. ““any reasonable arrangements desired by the Army,” said Mr. Walker, “can be made to take care of any situation that may develop in the Far East. Accommodations necessary for | the transportation of large numbers of troops can easily be provided on the commercial vessels and a limit- ed number of soldiers can be ac- commodated without mixing them with the Asiatics, Shipments of ex- plosives, war supplies and animals also can be handled promptly and efficiently on the commercial vas- sels.” 1,000 Fight 3 Evictions in Pittsburgh; 4 Are Arrested al Labor Defense ts demanding that bail be set at $200. A meeting was held in the Work- In order to defend the Soviet Union you must defend {ft also against the propaganda attacks of the capitalists, For “ammunition,” read “Anti-Sovict Lies” by” Max Bedacht, ten cents, 4 PITTSBURGH, Pa., May 3.—One thousand Negro and white work- | ers prevented the eviction of three families in the Hill district of | ers Center-on Tuesday after the Pittsburgh yesterday. Two men | hearing. Josephine Williams, a Ne- helping the sheriffs were beaten up. | gro woman, was let out today on William L. Patterson, Ben Ca- | bail, She was arrested for entering ruthers and Page Watkins were ar- rested and charged with inciting to riot, resisting arrest and inter- fering with the law. They are being her home after the landlord had locked her door. The Unemployed | Council made entry and she was held tor entering and detakner, | Eastern Railway, and the wrecking of a Japanese troop train on that railway. These outrages have been carried out by the White Guard, whose task it is to provide the Japa- nese with the necessary pretext for the seizure of the Chinese stern Railway and for armed interve: n | against the Soviet Union. The Chi- ‘nese Guards of the railway have | co-operated with the White Guards | by being conveniently absent at the | scene of the outrages at the time they | occurred. | Unlike the imperialist brigands, | the Soviet Union does not maintain any armed guards on its railway. These guards are maintained and controlled by the Japanese puppet ‘government in Manchuria. Although | the Japanese and their White Guard |allies have been unable to dig up the slightest shred of evidence im- Pplicating Soviet citizens in the out- rages, wholesale arrests of Soviet citizens are continuing. The increasing violence against citizens in Manchuria, and the plot lof the Japanese to seize the Chinese | Eastern Railway, give additional sig- | nificance to the recent dispatch from | Harbin of three Japanese army col- |umns to reinforce Japanese troops in | Kirin Province districts bordering on | the Soviet frontier. ; A Warsaw dispatch to the Wall | Street Journal, gives further sinister significance to the Japanese war moves against the Soviet Union. The | dispatch states, in part: “Rumors of Japanese orders for arms and munition in Poland have appeared often in the last few weeks here, and hate been denied by the Japanese legation. “Nevertheless, it generally is be- lieved that the Polish munitions in- dustry has received some small orders from Japan. “Gunpowder valued at $200,000 is reported to have been sold to Japan zm the Zagozdon state factory, This, it was reported, was powder already on hand, Other Japanese orders were reported to have been givem the state factory ‘Poeisk.’ The or- ders were reported to have totalled $500,000.” | Several high Japanese officials have admitted that Japan expects active military aid from Poland and other vassal states of French im- perialism on the western borders of the Soviet Union fo rthelr planned attack on the Soviet Union. Smash the illusions of the pa- cifists in the struggle against war, Learn to struggle in the revolution- ary way against war. Read “Revo- lutionary Struggle Against War Versus Pacifism,” by A, Bittelman,