The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 5, 1932, Page 3

5 \ ILGWU Fakers at Convention) to Prepare More Betrayals Norman Thomas Says Last Fake Strike Which Helped to Cut Wages Gives Inspiration; Palestine Called “Workers Country” PHILADELPHIA, Pa., May 3.—At Schlesinger’s international conven- tion which is being held here, a few interesting speeches were heard to- day. A great deal was said on “ma- cheine regulations” and also an in- teresting report, which the generals presented to the convention. The speeches which were particu- larly interesting were those of Nor- man Thomas and of the Palestine delegate, Goldie Myerson, Thomas stated that the last Behlesinger dressmakers’ strikes through which his gang helped cut the wages of the dressmakers and also the report which the Interna- tional chiefs delivered to the con- vention, give much inspiration. It will strengthen, he said. the courage, not only of the membership of the International, but also of all the other unions, The Palestine delegate said “that Palestine has already become an or- ganic part of the working class of the United States.” But she only forgot to say that, this “working class” of which Palestine has become an or- ganic part, includes such workers as Abe Kahan, Editor of the fascist Jewish Forward” Peretz Vernik, Mor- ris Finestone, president of the Uni- ‘ed Hebrew Trades, etc. Another similar thing which the delegate had the audacity to say is that the building up of Palestine rules) coun- (where British imperialism means building up a workers’ try. The report of which Thomas said that it gives “inspira- tion” was filled with many lies, but even according to this report the officials of the International admit- ted that since the last convention the International has lost 36,000 mem- bers. At the last convention in Cleveland, about two years ago, the report stated, they had a member- ship, according to the per capita of the dues payments, of 66,000. Now the reports say, there is a member- ship, according to the dues payments which are being collected with the aid of the bosses, of only 30,000. The discussion of the machine reg- ulations took place today when the so-called Rules and Regulations Committee recommended that a roll call at voting should only take place then when not less than 15 delegates of 5 locals should demand it. Kaplan, one of the left-wing delegates from local 9 of N. Y. amended this so that a roll call should take place when 9 delegates of 3 locals should demand it. He was answered “noth- ing doing” according to the usual line of Schlesinger's “democracy,” and it will remain as the-committee recommended. Nevertheless, about 40 “delegates. voted for Kaplan’s amendment. FOSTER TO DEMAND RELEASE OF BERKMAN AT MASS RALLY (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) ing that the Edith Berkman Protest ‘Delegation would arrive at his office on May 10, was answered by Doak with a letter in which he agreed to ireceive the delegation, but hoped the “delegation “would be limited to as ‘smell a number as possible.” The Sec- jretary knows that the workers are jaroused, and fears—as he well may— ‘that too many of the nation’s prole- ‘taria’ will be at his doors. Edith Berkman, the 28-year old National Textile Workers Union or- ganizer and leader of many strikes who now is threatened with deporta- tion, is held without bail in the Massachusetts Memorial Hospital in Boston. Although ill with incipient tuber- culusis, which she contracted while sheld in the immigration detention \jail, Edith Berkman is unwavering jin her demands for the release of ‘Tom Mooney and the Scottsboro boys, and has declared a hunger strike de- ananding her immediate and uncon- ditional release. a William Z. Foster, candidate cf the Communist Party for president in the ‘coming election, and general secre- tary of the Trade Union Unity League, has issued the following statement on the Berkman case: “The attempt of this capitalist * government to deport Edith Berk- man is not only illegal, but is an affront to and an attack on the foreign born workers and on the other organized militant workers of the United States,” said William Z. Foster, today, following up his stirring appeal for the Berkman defense in the course of his May Day speech at the Bronx Colise- um. “The thousands of workers in the Trade Union Unity League and its affiliated unions will never per- mit Edith Berkman to carry the burden of protest on her shoulders alone. They will demand from Doak and from the Hoover gov- ernment itself the release of this working class leader and organizer. The Trade Union Unity League stands firmly behind the Council for the Protection of the Foreign Born and the International Labor Defense in their determined cam. From the national office of the Workers Ex-Servicemen’s | League comes a declaration in support of eth Berkman’s fight for release ‘addressed to “all posts of the Work- jers Ex-Servicemen’s League”. “Edith Berkman,” reads the declaration, “a leader of the workers in many wee ‘a devoted fighter for the cause of ‘the: working class, was arrested ille- igally and is being held for deporta~ ition to Poland for her working class activities.” Tt is through such arbitraty and anti-working class deportations that the Secretary of Labor Doak, is try- ‘ing to crush the militancy of the ‘workers, the statement declared, and bi that very reason all workers, es- pecially all ex-servicemen, should de- jfend her, particularly since she has \eatcen the initiative in declaring a {hunger strike to begin May 8, . “The fight of Edith Berkman is the fight of the entire working class,” continues the statement. “Each post of the Workers Ex- Servicemen’s League should rally for the release of Edith Berkman.” Among the tasks which the hast, immigration officer, Immigration Detention Home, Bos- ton, Massachusetts, and to elect del- egates, one from each post, to take part in the mass delegation which is to interview Secretary of Labor mittee, Room 410, 799 Broadway, New York City, and to mobilize their membership for the monster mass meeting on Monday, May 9, 7:30 p.m., at Irving Place. Demand the imme- diate unconditional release of Edith Berkman! Urge to Aid Massacre Monument Fund DETROIT, Mich. (TUUL Service) —Sponsored by the Auto Workers Union, in cooperation with the Un- employed Councils, Young Commu- nist League, Communist Party and other workers’ organizations, collec- tions are being made from workers for a Ford Massacre Monument Fund. The plan is to erect a monument to the memory of Joe York, Joe Bussell, Coleman Leny, and Joe» DeBlassio, victims of the Ford-Murphy machine- gun massacre on Bloody Monday, March 7th, 1932. The four massacred workers lie in a common grave in ‘Woodmere Cemetery, overlooking the Ford River Rouge plant. The grave S located on Vernor Highway, where tens of thousands of Ford workers pass daily. The monument will be 20 to 30 feet high. Tt will show a figure of a worker holding the head of a dieing worker, and shaking a clench- ed fist at the Ford plant. Lying at his feet will be three figures of murdered workers. All workers and worekrs organizations are urged to send funds to Marie Hempel, Trea- surer, Room 3115, Barlum Tower, Detroit, Mich. National Textile Board Meeting May 8 PROVIDENCE, R. I. (TUUL News Service)—The National Executive Board of the National Textile Workers Union, which will convene on May 8th in Providence, will take up as central*points the plan for con- centration by the union in Lawrence, Norman | SCOTTSBORO -. ITS POLITICAL SIGNIFICANCE AY 7th will see a tremendous outpouring on the streets of al those ready to fight for the freedom of the Scottsboro Negro boys and against Negro oppression. Throughout the whole world, the toiling masses raise anew the thunder of their demands for the unconditional release of the Scottsboro boys, Tom Mooney and other victims of class justice. The international mass defense movement organized around the Scottsboro case has al- ready resulted in signal achievements. It has several times forced a postponement of the car- tying out of the lynch verdicts against the Scottsboro boys. It has been instrumental in breaking down among the masses the illusions that, court rtials and legal actions alone will save our class war prisoners. It has déveloped working class solidartiy between the Negro and white masses, The revolutionary mass fight to free the boys has resulted in bringing the Scottsboro issue to the fore as the sharpest expression and dra- matic focal point of the growing antagonisms between American imperialism and the Negro people. Antagonisms which are rapidly sharp- ening upon the background of the deepening crisis of capitalism. These antagonisms are expressed, on the one hand, in the mounting re- sistance of the Negro masses, and on the other, in the desperate attempts of the ruling classes to suppress this movement by an intensification of the terror against the Negro toilers, attacks upon the growing unity between Negro and white workers aimed at isolating the struggles of the Negro masses from the general struggle of the working class against the capitalist hun- ger and war offensive. Through the initiation and develffopment of the mass struggle for the boys, the Communists have inevitably dramatized and exposed the whole vicious system of Negro oppression, bra- zen denial of elementary political rights, Jim Crowism, lynchings, legal lynchings in the boss courts; they have exposed the underlying mo- tives of this political oppression as calculated to enforce the special slavery of the Negro toilers in the industries and on the land; they have exposed the extent to which the white ruling classes will go to maintain the national oppression of the Negro masses, under the con- ditions of the crisis and sharpening class strug- gle. Scottsboro raised all of these issues in DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, MAY ——————————SSa——EES—EyEE™ 1932 Page Three , the sharpest maner, laid bare the meaning of white ruling class democracy for the Negro masses, The deep-going character of this movement, which aroused masses of Negro and white toil- ers into struggle against imperialist Jim Crow reaction affords irrefutable proof of the correct- ness of the Resolution of the Communist. Inter national on the Negro Question, which states “.. even some relatively insignificant acts of the Ku Klux Klan bandits in the Black Belt can become the occasion of important political movements, provided the Communists are able to organize the resistance of the indignant Negro masses.” The fierce struggle developed by the Commu-~- nist Party around the Scottsboro case brought about a rapid crystallization of the class forces. It left no place for fence straddling. It forced all classes and groups to definitely declare on which side of the struggle they stood,—with or against the Negro masses. Two lines, representing the fundamental in- terests of the two main.classes, the imperialist bourgeoisie and tie working class, stood out clearly, On the one hand was the line of the working~ class as represented by its advance guard, the Communist Party, and reflected in the mass fight to free the boys. On the other hand, the line of the southern ruling class, in alliance with finance capital and supported by the Wall Street government and its fascist agents (Ku Klux Klan, A. F. of L. bureaucrats) of carrying through the legal massacre of the Scottsboro boys as a brutal warning to the awakening Negro masses. This line was most clearly ex- pressed by Governor Sterling of Texas, arrogant representative of the southern | slave-drivers, who, in refusing to grant a stay of execution to permit the hearing of new evidence in the case of Bonny Lee Ross, Negro frame-up victim, brutally declared: “It may be that this man is innocent; but it is sometimes necessary to burn a house in order to save a village.” Faced with the rising resistance of the Negro and white masses, the strategy of the ruling class was to destroy the mass movement by vi- cious attacks against the protest demonstrations and especially against the Communist leader- ship, at the same time intensifying their dema- gogy as to the “impartiality” of bourgeois jus- tice, “fair trials”, etc., pretending that the case had nothing to do with national oppression, tha’ it was merely a case of meting out “justice criminal offenders. This dastardly demagogy found an immediate echo in the ranks of the Negro reformists, as represented princip by the N.A.A.C.P. lead ership Fostering legalistic illusions among the Negro masses for dependance on the lynch courts, trying to obscure the character of the Scottsboro frame-up as an expression of national oppression of the Negro masses, raising the of “red menace” eyen louder than the lynche themselves, these lackeys of imperialism tried to make it appear that the main enemies of the Negro masses were not the ruling class lynchers and their fascist agents but the Communists and revolutionary organizations In this manner they completely absolved the imperialist hang- men in their murderous attack upon the Negro masses as symbolized in the Scottsboro frame- up. For instance, Mr. William Pickens joyfully hails the infamous decision of the Alabam Su- preme Court upholding the lynch verdicts against 7 of the 9 boys, In a statement in which a2 exonerates the court and conveniently ignores the fact that only the mass defense movement organized by the Communists has saved the boys thus far, this toady of imperialism de- clares: “L wonder now if these Communist brethren have learned anything. I dotbt it: I know them well. They will keep straight on making Negroes the victims of their revolutionary propaganda, sacrificing the welfare of ignor- ant Negroes to their own aims, while hypo- critically pretending to have a prime interest in the Negro himself.” It is clear that the fight against the Negro reformists, the Pickenses, the Whites, the Du Boises, etc., is an essential part of the struggle against the Scottsboro lynch verdicts and against Negro national oppression. Negro workers! Down with the misleaders of the N.AACP,! For a united struggle of the Negro and white toilers against the Scottsboro lynch verdicts, against the capitalist hunger and war offensive! ‘All out on the streets May 7! For the Immedi- ate Unconditional Release of the Scottsboro Boys! Phila. Asks for Funds to Defend Victims of May 1 Demonstration | R ALLIES LARGEST PHILADELPHIA, Pa.—‘Twenty workers are lying in the bosses jails of Philadelphia because they demonstrated on May Day against the bosses’ program of hunger, lynchings, terror, and war and for a workers’ and farmers’ govern- ment. These workers are charged with “Inciting to rio—Parading without a permit—Disorderly conduct— Assault and Battery—Breach of peace.” They are held for fur- ther hearing on May 16th under a total bail of $183,000 (One hun- dred and eighty three thousand dollars). Some of these workers have large families to support, others are needed badly to carry on or- ganizational work, some are in critical physical condition because of the brutal beating they received at the hands of the police on May Day. The International Labor De- fense of Philadelphia calls upon all workers and sympathizers who can furnish bail or contribute to the defense fund to call ‘up Wal- nut 8181 or come down to Room 315, Washington Square Building, 7th and Chestnut Streets, Phila- delphia, the calffiling of a National Conven- tion, the calling of a Woolen Con- jference, and the campaign for the release of Edith Berkman. The call for the Third National Convention of the work in Lawrence, which is most important spot for the NTWU today, is expected to bring out val- uable lessons for the union members in every district. The NTWU has set | made. itself the task of building mill locals jin the following mills: Wood (Law- rence); Botany (Passaic); Atlantic|crushing the May Day demonstra- (Providence); Lorraine (Pawtucket). |war and for the defense of the So- VIENNA MAY DAY HELD, PRESS SAYS VIENNA, May 3.—The May Day demonstrations called b¥ the Com- munist Party are admitted by the bourgeois press’ to be the largest ever held. Collisions with fascists occurred in| Graz. ee BT He SOFIA. — Illegal demonstrations were held on May Day throughout Bulgaria. Collisions occurred in Se- fia. In the villages Preslay and Toros the police killed two workers. ‘When the socialist leader Bu- chinger attacked the Communist Party the demonstration in Buda- pest the workers protested energet- ically. They fought against the so- cialist marshals who handed Commu. nists over to the police. Twenty-four arrests were made. Twenty thousand workers turned reformist Tokio demonstration mani- festation. The leader of the reform~- ist Trade Unions Federation was howled down. Independent demon- strations were held against hunger, viet Union. The bourgeois press re- ports over 1,000 arrests. The Communist demonstrations in Czecho-Slovakia were the largest ever held there. Numerous minor col- lisions occurred. Arrests were made. The Communist Party organized twelve demonstrations and many rallies in Belgium. Collisions oc- curred in Antwerp and Charleroi when the police attacked the workers participating in the May Day cele- brations. Numerous arrests were eieabs Police persecution and mass preventive arrests succeeded in W.LR. Calls Workers to Support Striking Ohio-W. Va. Miners NEW YORK.-—-Local unions of the National Miners Union and the United Mine Workers of America have asked the support of the Workers International Re- lief to help the striking miners of Ohio and West Virginia TO WIN THIS STRIKE. In Amsterdam, O., the children get meals once a day, and’ only when there is something left over, a few of the hungriest miners get something to eat. There is starvation in many of the camps. The miners are not getting relief from the UMWA district or National office. All workers and workers organizations and WIR branches are urged to send funds and food to help win the strike to the Workers Inter- national Relief, Room 4, Freter Building, Main St., Bridgeport, O. All food and clothing is to be shipped to the Workers Interna- tional warehouse at 118 Linclon Ave., Bridgeport, O. In answer to calls made by NMU and UMWA locals for the support of the Workers International Re- lief for the winning of the Ohio and West Virginia mine strike, the Workers International Relief to- day announced that a call has been sent out to all WIR locals for immediate support. A conference will be called in the near future of delegates elect- ed from UMWA and NMU lo- cals, representative of WIR branches and working class or- ganizations to draw up and put into action a relief program in support of the strike. All work- ing class organizations are urged to immediately elect delegates and be prepared to give concrete support at the time of the con- tions in Shanghai. ference which will be announced | in a few days. Echoes of May Day Demonstrations Tisaichout the United States Still Ringing ROCHESTER, Minn.—After Mayor Rieder, Farmer-La-|¢! ene waee-cile and War, prepare) borite, and the Park Commissioner said to a workers’ he at tion applying for a permit: “Go ahead and have your stration in the park; it’s @ public park and free for all; van don’t need a permit,” the police attacked the demonstration started. About 100 workers were participat-| Mooney, soclal insurance, etc, ing in the demonstration when the police dispersed it. The demonstra- tion, however, was held somewhere else. 300 In Dayton, 0., Demonstration. DAYTON, Ohio.—An open-air dem- onstration was held here on May Day, with 300 workers participating in it. Some Negro workers were also present at the demonstration. * Three speakers addressed the work- ers, who cheered and applauded when they pointed out the necessity for a more intense struggle against hun- ger and imperialist war. o ee JAMESTOWN, N. Y.—May Day was celebrated here with a march -| through the business section of the city, a demonstration in Memorial Park and an evening celebration in the auditorium of the City Hall. Not less than 250 workers partici- pated in the parade, while 650 par- ticipated in the open-air demonstra- May |tion in Memorial Park. The City Hall auditorium was filled in the 3 Parades a Indiana HAMMOND, Ind.—About 350 work- ers marched through the streets here in a militant celebration of May Day as-a day of struggle. They were flanked on either side by twice that many sidewalk marchers. At the end of the march fully 2,000 gathered to listen to the fiery de- nunciations of Hoover's hunger pro- gram and of imperialist plans for in- vasion of the Soviet Union. 6a ew Dennison, Ohio, Has Celebration DENNISON, Ohio.—An indoor May Day celebration was held here with 150 workers present. Two Negro and four young workers joined the Party. cen 200 In Square at Massilon. MASSILON, Ohio.—Two hundred Workers took part in the May Day demonstration held im the Public Square, One hundred and fifty work- ers attended the evening celebration. Five speakers illustrated the signifi- cance of May Day as a day of strug- Sor by 500 Out In St. Joseph, Mo. ST. JOSEPH, Mo—May Day was! celebrated here by 500 workers who | demonstrated against the hunger and war program of the bosses. Nineteen new members of the Party were recruited. . 87 4, First May Day Rally in Cartaret, N.J. CARTARET, N. J.—Two hundred workers were present at the first May Day demonstration held here. They were all enthusiastic and some of them joined the Communist Party. All pledged to fight against wage- cuts and war plans, ‘ cee About 600 In Asbury Park. ASBURY PARK, N. J.—From 500 to 600 workers demonstrated here on May Day. The police did nét at- tempt to disperse. the demonstrators in view of their militancy. The section organizer of the Party addressed the workers, who expressed their determination to intensify the | struggle for imemdiate relief to the) unemployed, for unemployment in- surance, against imperialist war, against the wage-cutting policy of the bosses, ’ International May Day Meet In New Brunswick. NEW eer ee ees N. JA real) demonstre- = Qae anttred, ye} and fifty workers, Jewish, , Hungarian, | Polish, etc, participated in it. | They enthusiastically cheered the} speakers, who urged them to close, their ranks and fight against, wage-, cuts, lay-offs, war plans for social insurance, for immediate relief and for the defense of the Soviet Union. en ete 150 Demonstrate in Port Amboy, PORT AMBOY N,. J.—One hundred | and fifty workers enthusiastically demonstrated here on May Day against starvation and imperialitst, war. « 200 Cheer Communist Candidate. LONG BRANCH, N. J.—May Day was celebrated here by more than 200 = =workers, who demonstrated against the preparations for war on the Soviet Union and cheered the Communist candidate for City Com- missioner in the coming elections, which are to take place on May 12. . 700 Hundred Out On May Day ~ In Syracuse. SYRACUSE, N. Y.—With a great show of. evolutionary enthusiasm 700 workers demonstrated at Hanover Square against the bosses’ program of starvation, war and misery. Three comrades addressed the | workers, who enthusiastically cheered them wher they pointed out the} | necessity of struggling more intensely NMU PROGRAM IS TAKING ROOT IN EASTERN OHIO BRIDGEPORT, Ohio. (TUUL Ser- vice)—Reports from the Eastern Ohio strike area brought out the following points at a recent District Board meeting of the National Miners Union: ‘The UMWA Scale Committee has not made its report, keeping silent and obviously paving the way for a sellout. The strikers are beginning to ask questions. It was reported that the N.M.U. program on the strike is taking some root among the strikers. This is shown by the fact that there is becoming evident a more sympa- thetic feeling toward the N. M. U. for example, in Amsterdam, the strikers are beginning to object that the UMWA officials are not permit- ting the NMU speakers to take the floor. The feeling toward the UMWA offictadom is becoming more and more antagonistic on the part of the strikers. In three places a back to work movement, on the part of the miners disgusted with the UMWA, is reported. This happened at the Somers mine, where the big picket line of 5000 was staged; and in Wolf Run, in the Amsterdam section. A tendency must be fought among some NMU members in West Vir- |ginia that it is impossible to strike any mines in the Panhandle; also the illusion that by waiting until after the UMWA has established its Union in East Ohio the NMU forces will be able to capture control of it through the election of its officers. ‘Tasks f the NMU organizers in the field include: Immediate mass meetings of the unemployed, under auspices of the NMU where possible, or the Unem- ployed Council; revival of NMU lo- cals and wherever there are no lo- cals, the establishing of a functioning group; to begin preparing the strik~ ers against betrayal by the UMWA officials, raising the question why the scale committee keeps silent on the Zanesville meeting. The miners must be prepared against accepting @ wage cut. The attempt of the UMWA officials to make all strikers | Join the UMWA must be resisted, and a united front of all miners re- gardless of affiliation called for. A real campaign to expose and fight the Davis-Kelly Bill is called | for. The Davis-Kely Bill is being | exposed as further trustifying the Mining industry, the shutting down of the so-called unprofitable mines and the throwing out of hundreds of thousands Of miners from the in- dustry; it does away with strikes, | which the miners can fight the wage cuts; it forces the UMWA strike- | breaking officialdom on the miners n the bill the government officially recognizes the UMWA); it estab- lishes the check-off, Rush Orders for Na-. tional Election Platform The proposed National election platform for the Nominating con- vention should: receive the widest distribution. We are therefore printing the patform in the same form as it appeared in the Daily Worker supplement of April 28. In this form the printed platform | will be very attractive. 11 will be a four page leaflet with the pic- ture of Comrades Foster and Ford. | The price is $2.50 a thousand. 1 against wage-cuts, etc An indoor celebration was held at Peonle’s Mal Rush your orders to the National Election Campaign Committee c-o | Hathaway, P. O. Box 87 Station D. | which aré the only weapon with | throughout at Kwang tung- Bourgeois Press Dispa Victories of Red Prov The An warned the erican Consul at Red Army force was advancing Kwangtung-Fukien border. M imperialism were reported in fli 1 NEW BOMBINGS IN SHANGHAT AS MASS ANGER RISES) Clashes Increase As}| Nanking Prepares | New Sell-Out One Japanese marine was 4 and another wounded yesterday in a bomb explosion in Shanghai. The explosion was directed against the Japanese and is the fourth to hay ve | occurred within the past five days. | The bombings folowed a series of} viciously provocative actions by the Japanese militarists against anti-im- perialist Japanese, Korean and Chin- ese workers. A Shanghai dispatch to the New York Sun admits that Japanese mar- | ines have been beating up Chinese workers in the International Set- tlement during the past week. It says: “The marines climbed locked gates and beat Chinese yesterday and today a Japanese sentry stab- bed a Chinese suspected of sniper activities in Chapie.” ‘The first bomb explosion, five days ago, wounded the five highest Jap- anese militarists in Shanghai and two other Japanese officials. Re- ports are current in Shanghai that the bomb was thrown by a Japan- ese worker. The Japanese, aided by the French police, have raided hun- dreds of homes in the French con- cession and carried out mass arrests of Korean, Japanese and Chinese workers suspected of anti-imperialist activities, Mas indignation has flamed up in Shanghai as a result of the traitor- ous actions of the Kuomintang offi- cials in accepting the “peace” terms imposed by the Japanese, with the support of the United States and British imperialists. These terms leave China’s most important city, Shanghai, in the hands of the Jap- anese and other imperialists. All Chinese troops are to be barred from the city. The police of the en- tire city is to be under imperialist control. A so-called neutral zone is to be established on the lines of the present positions of the Japanese troops. Shanghai Chinese students mobbed and beat up the Nanking assistant foreign minister two days ago in protest against the latest betrayal of China by the Nanking leaders. REICH DISBANDS FREE THINKERS Issue ‘Anti-Workin g Class Decrees BERLIN, May 4.—Two emergency decrees were issued today, directed against the revolutionary organiza- tions. The first decree places all semi-military organizations under the direct control of the Reich’s Minister giving the latter power to suppress them. The list of organizations con- tains the Anti-Fascist League. The second decree suppresses the proletarian Free Thinkers Association termed “Godless Assocition” by the bourgeois press. This represents an act of utter arbitrariness on the part of the government and a concession to Catholics who are now the power- ful counsels of German capitalism. ‘The reformist Free Thinkers Organ- ization remains temporarily untouch- ed Prepare for the Straw Vote on the Bonus! BLADE | ON FIRE? burning ’ i ae cause with, : ei result my emacs Cioughout the word fer oree 100 ye POR Biab Sen cAtARAU United States legation in Peiping that a Chinese Red Army Reported -Fukien Border; , Split Occurs in Canton Camp te Seatihes Advait Sweeping Army in Fukien ince vatow, South Cl yesterday inese on the own of Ungkung on the issionery agents of Américan ight from Ungkung. The presence of a Red Army hina force jon the Kwangtung-Fukien border in- jdicates the sweeping nature of the victories achieved by the Chinese Red | Army operating in Fukien Province. Two days ago, bourgeois press dis- patches from South China reported that the “Red Suppression” troops of the Kuomintang lackeys of imperial- ism was in full flight before the-ad- vaneing Red Ari Two Kuomin- tang brigades were reported to have mutinied and joined the Red Army. The reported advance on Ungkung indicate that the Red Army is car- rying the war into the very strong- hold, in Kwangtung province, of the Canton wing of the Kuomintang. A Peiping dispatch to the New York Times reports: “Troops from Kwangtung who were sent across the border against the Communists in Southeastérn Fukien Province were believed to have either joined the Communist forces or to be refusing to fight and disbanding.” The victories of the Red Army in Fukien province have caused ~the Breatest alarm among the imperial- ist plunderers of China and their Kuomintang tools. Over 35 imperial- ist warships are being held at Amoy in an effort to intimidate the revolu- tionary workers of that seaport, and to prevent its capture by the .Red Army. Amoy is only 35 miles from the big city of Changehow whieh is now held by the Red Army andthe revolutionary workers in Chagchow. The long standing quarrel between the Canton and Nanking factions over the division of the spoils from the exploitation of the Chinese mas- Ses crystalized yesterday, with a coup at Canton by Gen. Chen Chiatang who seized control of the Chinese fleet and air forces stationed at Can- ton. Admiral Chan Chak, the Nan- king representative, made his escape to Hongkong. Gen Chen ousted’ the Nanking government's commander of the local air forces and substituted his own man. A Shanghai dispatch to the New York Times interprets these developments as presaging an- other civil war between the Cariton and Nanking factions. The conflict between these factions, as between the various smaller groups in these factions, reflect the struggle between the imperialist masters of the various groups for the control and looting of China. The Nanking government is re- ported to have ordered the reopening of the Hanyang arsenal, which had been clffiosed since the last civilffi war, and was not opened to help fur- nish munitions for the defense of Shanghai against the Japanese in- vaders. The Nanking government shamelessly sabotaged and finally be- trayed that defense The Shanghai dispatch to the Times report that the Canton group has over 100 combat planes and is raising $30,000,000 by special taxa- tion to finance the “Red Suppres- sion” campaign. None of these planes were sent to Shanghai for the de- fense of that South China city against the Japanese who were left in unchallenged control of the air to carry out their murderous aerial bombing of the densely populated proletarian Chapei district. Push Steel and Metal Work in Chicago — CHICAGO (TUUL News Service). —The following decisions have been made by the Chicago District of the Metal Workers Industrial League with regard to the preperations for the Metal Workers Industrial League conferences and the National Con- vention (which will be held in Pitts- burgh at the end of July and whjch will be the biggest stép yet in bwld- ing @ fighting union in steol). To ¢al! together the District Campaign Com- mittee which shall prepare the plans for the city and District MWIL Con- ferences, to be followed with méet- ings of the MWTL functionaries in each city in the district. To aggign three organizers for intensifying ‘ac- tivities in the South Chicago section @ very important steel séctions, It is planned to open a Workers’ Center for the use of the MWIZ. Watch for the Daily Worker THE WESTERN WORKER Straw Vote on the Bonus! RAISE FUNDS! 52 Issues $2 BUILD Name ..... 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