The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 12, 1932, Page 3

J DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, MAY 12, 1932, Japan Suddenly Recalls | ik All Shanghai Forces for ') Use on Soviet Border |” Keep Division at Shanghai Giving further sinister significance | t) the admissions in American and Buropean military circles that Japan the next few weeks,” the Japanese government yesterday suddenly de- cided to withdraw all of its troops from Shanghai, South China. A To- Kio dispatch to the New York Post reports that the decision was made “with unexpected suddenness.” ‘Twenty-four thousand troops with- @rawn during the past few days have been landed at the Manchurian port of Darien and are being rushed to the Soviet border. In addition, three Ppanese columns started out from ee airectly on the Soviet borders. The Japanese have seized all available transport of troops and heavy artil- lery to the Soviet frontier. The Sun- gari River flows into the Amur River, which is the boundary between Kirin Province, Manchuria, and the Soviet Union. Troops are also being rushed over the Chinese Eastern Railway to- wards the Soviet frontier. The withdrawal of the Japanese trops from Shanghai is reported to be completed within a month. Reverse Decision to will attack the Soviet Union “within | ‘arbin about ten days ago for points | craft on the Sungari River for the; Ay |New Zealand Jobless | || Fight Police; Smash || Parliament Windows | | WELLINGTON, N, Z., May 10.— Thousands of marching unem- ployed workers paraded through | the streets of the New Zealand | | capital today, demanding food or | jobs. The parade, which at that | time was estimated by even capi- Threatens Attack alist probe repetath wt-anbee thas | | 4,000, swept into the square beforé Mon coli On Mongolia the House of Parliament. There That Japan plans to attack the | it clashed with the police guard People’s Government of Outer Mon-| | @round the building, and in the golia at the same time she makes | Course of the fight the parliament war on the Soviet Union is broadly | | building was bombarded with hinted by Tokichi Tanaka, former! | bricks and stones, hurled by the | Japanese Ambassador to the Soviet | | Jobless in wrath against a govern- | Union, in an article in “Contem-| | tent which meets a ory for bread porary Japan,” a now quarterly pub-| | With police clubs. One hundred lished in Tokio. | and fifty ‘windows were broken Raging against the policy of the| | before the crowd yielded before revolutionary masses of Outer Mon- | | Police charges. | golia of barring the imperialist rob- | Storekeepers report that many bers from their country, Mr. Tanaka | | stores were broken into by tho threatens that the Japanese im-| | starving jobless and food taken. Serene oe ROMOR PERUVIAN REVOLT; MARTIAL LAW IS DECLARED “The Japanese people are not satisfied with the present state of affairs, and it is reasonable to sup- pose that they may some day be Outer Mongolia is an autonomous | | ' Soviet Republic, whose masses are in| Expect Naval Revolt | close sympathy with the Soviet Union. | oe A | \Senas @ population pf 1.800000 ana| Leader ee a Given | ea J apanese Diplomat selves if the doors are really im- possible to open.” more interested to see for them- an area of 1,367,000 square miles. | York Herald-Tribune reports that | Mrs. Massie Refuses to Appear | ded aces light is shed upon the action of a group of naval officers in smuggling the wife of Lieut. Massie out of Honolulu on a stearhship bound for San Francisco. | { naval lyheh gang in Hawaii by the | The capitalist press reports that a Honolulu policeman attempted to serve a summons on Mrs. Massie that called for her appearance in prosecution of the cases of the four surviving Hawaiians accused of having attacked A naval officer, Captain Wark K. Wortman, assaulted the her last fall. Hawaiian policemah and prevented It is clear that the impérialist the serving of the summons. lynchers and mass butchérs main- tained in Hawaii by the Wall Street govérnmment at Washington don’t want the Hawaiians retritd because a new trial would bring out facts | proving to the whdle world that the of whom was lynched by Massie, his was a viciows frame-up initiated to under complete martial law. Facts, hitherto covered up, would be brought out at such a trial that would shatter the whole fabric of lies about “protection of white woman- hood” and blow the lid off the savage practices of the naval officials and their famili¢s. Already the exploited and oppressed Asiatic and Hawaiian population are openly hostile to the naval regime that has al- ready gone a long way toward of the war preparations in the Pacific. Gang of imperialist flunkeys fear that another trial would bring out that Mrs. Massie was not at- tacked by Hawaiians, but that she left the booze party last fall to meet another naval officer; that it was not a Hawaiian who broke her jaw, but her drunken husband, Massie tensify and increasé the already official military clique is held and make more difficult the establishment of @ fascist military regime in the Améfican imperialism in the Patific. The very evasion of the summons by Mrs. that the navy dare not permit a retrial of the case and thereby blast the contemptible campaign against in which Clarence Darrow, mémber of the legal staff of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, appeared as head of the legal and publicity drive on behalf of the lynch servants of Amer- ican imperialism. Massive evidence has been prod case against the five Hawaiians, one mother-in-law and two enlisted men | aid the drive to place the Islands | | @ military dictatorship as part himself. Such revelation would in- widspread contempt in which the chief naval and military outpost of Massie is proof | the Asiatic and Hawaiian masses uced in the columns of the DAILY Rumors of a Communist revolt in Soviet employees of the Chinese Southern Peru were circulating yes- | WORKER to prove Why the United States ruling class ié so frantically striving to crush Hawaii undér martial law. Supplementing political spokesmen at Washington and the opinions of military experts who dealt | with the subject was the declaration of James A. Farrell, chairman of | Eastern Railway have been “evicted | from their homes by Japanese | troops who have taken over the | buildings as barracks.” The work- | ers are reported to have gone on | strike in protest against this ac- | tion. | Shanghai dispatch to the New York | Post. reports that the sudden , de-| ¢eision has “caused considerable sur- | prise in the local Japanese commu- | nity and even among the military | authorities.” A Harbin dispatch to the New | Wivlans Store City Council; | Force Relief for War Vet RICHMOND, Va.—Recently a worker, John Hagen, living} in Richmond Annex, called at the Unemployed Council and told a pitiful story. He is an American citizen, war veteran, who served twenty-five months overseas. He has a wife, who is expecting another child in four months, also a child five years | terday in Bolivia although not con- firmed. Acording to latter reports the revolutionary movement started | in Lima but did not make any head- | way in the South, \ The rumors of the new revolt, came | closely on the heels of the reported | | approval by the Peruvian Congress; mand for immediate and complete withdrawal of all armed forces from of the fascist presidential decree in- tended to enforce martial law for! fifteen days throughout the country. In any case the feeling was wide- spread in governmental |circles of | Peru that the recent naval mutiny, | although crushed through iron and | fire, did not end the series of revo-! lutionary outbreaks which are loom- ing all over the country. Such feeling is reflected in the/| fascist decree establishing martial | law and in the “laborious” work of the Court-martial still reported sit-| | the National Foreign Trade Council, who, in a speech at Honolulu be- tore the National and Pacific Foreign Trade Council conventions, said: “This great ocean which is developing into a basin washes the | shores of four of the six continents and furnishes their great trade routes to something like half the population of the world. Hawaii is its strategic and commercial center, the crossroads of those trade routes,” Against the vicious drive of American imperialism to establish mili- tary rule in Hawaii the workers of the United States must raise the de- Hawaii and fight for the right of the masses in Hawaii to set up their | own government and make and enforce their own laws. To the Hawaiian | masses we extend revolutionary greetings and urge them to close their ranks and join in an anti-imperialist fight to drive out the whole gang | of yankee tyrants, UMW Officials Campaign for Capitalist Parties in W. Va. I plans of t old; also dependent upon him is his mother-in-law with two children, living under the same roof. For a year he was on the payroll of the mu- nicipal water-works, working on the ger system the rainy His wages were scarcely enough to support the family of six, and then to make things worse he get sick for some weeks. Fired From Job | ting on the Island of San Lorenzo to try the leaders of the naval mutiny. A death verdict is expected for | Corporal Ponzo and his faithful com- rades, arrested immediately after the mutiny was crushed, MASSES ENRAGED JOHN HAGEN | FAIRMONT, W. Va., May 11— Yesterday was the primary election day here, and workers found the United Mine Workers of America busy cany ig for various Re- publican and Democratic party can- didates. The fact that these have no proposal to feed the jobless miners, and that the Communist Party is in the field with an un- employment insurance program, means nothing to the U. M. W. Last year, in the Purseglove mines the U. M. W. made a contract to | cut the wages from 35 cents a ton to 22 cents, and has continued that policy ever since in other mines, Miners who brought the demands of the Communist Party to the at- tention of the groups arguing on their way to vote found sentiment favorable as soon as the Communist program was explained. _The Com- munist Party does not take part About Feburary 1 he started to work again, He jad only worked four days when he was given a piece of paper to sign to donate $4 to the fake local charities. Since he was not allowed to read the paper and didn’t iwant to sign blindly, he offered to ) pay $4 cash. His offer was refused and he was fired. He appealed to the charities organization but was re- fused. After two months he was at the end of his rope and again ap- pealed to the charities. But they had not forgotten him and again refused him. Va, and to send relief | to this man and his family, Hagen, who served in the world war, was told to starve until the Uném- ployed Council got on the job. Te workers of Richmond, stormed the City Council forced the Mayor pointed out that in the case of Hagen the federal government’ owed him over $400 cash bonus. Mayor Meyer said in part: “I am no judge of this case, but if, after an investigation, Hagen is found worthy, we will see that he does not starve.” Refused Relief ‘By this time the family was facing starvation; the gas, light and water had been shut off and he had signed his car over to his landlord for $70 back rent. His mother-in-law went to the charities organization and after some time he was given a monthly allowance of $12, a grocery order. But she was warned that if she gave any to her own daughter, five months pregnant, her son-in-law or five-year-old grandchild her relief would be stopped. Workers Storm Council Tt was at this time that he called at the Unemployed Council. We im- mediately took up the case of John meeting adjourned at the City Hall, food was rushed to John Hagen, get- ting him out of bed at 10 o'clock at night, Workers, that just goes to show what can be done when a little strength and solidarity is shown. Or- ganize and fight against that capital- ist class, Fight against this starva- BY KUOMINTANG SELL-OUT P ACT, A Shanghai dispatch to’ the New York Times reports increasing mass | anger against the Nanking: Kuomin- tang government as a result of its | latest act of treachery in signing the Japanese “peace” terms. The dis- Patch admits that “the Chinese clamor against the peace agreement is assuming alarming proportions.” By the terms of the agreement signed with the Japanese, the latter are left in unchallenged control of Manchuria. In addition, China’s most important city, Shanghai, is turned over to the direct control of the Japanese, British, French and United And then, about an hour after the//’Statés imperialists, ‘The dispatch reports growing fear among the Kuomintang misleaders that the rising mass anger will further promote the growth and influence of the Chinese Communist Party ; The Canton clique of the Kuomintang are especially alarmed at the advance of the Chinese Red Armies toward the Kwangtung Province, in which the organizers. In fact, the U. M. W. by its strike-breaking and wage- culling program in West Virginia has added to the ranks of the un- employed, CITY ELECTION ‘9 CONFERENCE ON SUNDAY, MAY 22 | in the primaries, and is already on the ballot in West Vriginia through collection of signatyres. NOTICE TO ALL DISTRICT ORGANIZATIONS The May issue of The Comma- nist has been sold out in the first printing. A limited reprint is now being ordered, after whith the type will be destroyed. Consider- ing the urgent need of the May issue of The Communist in popu- larizing the decisions of the Cen- tral Committee Plenum, all dis- Call for Delegates tricts are urged to wire in at once Sor al Wormers; |i aoe Organizations NEW YORK.—The campaign to collect signatures on the petitions to place Communist candidates on the ballot in New York is progress- ing. It started last week, with Section 2 of the Communist Party particularly active. The territory in Section 2 is all of the city be- tween 14th Street and 72nd Street. How Section One, ‘Hagen. Refusing to take “no” for an answer, we stormed the city council, demanding aid for Hagen and the other starving workers of Richmond. ‘We threatened to tear open the ware- houses if relief was not given. We . t | Miners Revolt Against UMWA Betrayers (By a Worker Correspondent) TERRE HAUTE, Ind—United Mine ‘Workers of America officials have entered into sell-out negotiations with state officials and Goy. Leslie, open champion of starvation and slavery. Seventy-five thousand rank and file members are in open revolt against their betrayers, Willie Mitch and Abe Vales, who.led 275 miners, framed on a riot charge and were throuwn to the mercy of “Flunky” ‘Whitlock’s court in Vigo County. Leaders of the U. M. W. A. have re- THE WESTERN WORKER A fighter to organize and lead our struggles in the West BUILD IT! 26 Issues $1 RAISE FUNDS! 52 Issues $2 CHY cccveerisceteenannereneoenann Western Worker Campaign Committee tion campaign of the bosses, Refuse to be evicted. Join the Unemployed Councils and fight against gas, light and water shut-off. Demand un- employed and social insurance. Sign the petition to put the Com- munist Party on the ballot. Canton crowd has its stronghold. They fear that the latest betrayal by the Kuomintang will gain further mass support for the Chinese Soviet districts and the Chinese Red Armies. BAN YOUTH DAY PERMIT IN CITY OF “ YOUNGSTOWN YOUNGSTOWN.—The permit for holding a National Youth Day dem- onstration against boss war and for defense of the Soviet Union on May 30 has been refused by the mayor of this city. . ‘The city park commissioner {s also trying to hunt up reasons for re- fusing Evans Field for the sport meet which will be held in connection with National Youth Day, Mayor Moore gives as the basis for his refusal the fact that the mill- tary and patriotic organizations of the American Legion and other fas- | cist bodies are holding their parades | on this day. The lick-spittle agents of the steel trust In Youngstown do not like the idea of the working-class youth and students coming out in demonstra- tions and parades on this day, which, under the name of “Decoration Day,” is used to fill the minds of the youth with their poison war propaganda. They do not want the youth to come out against boss war and against their rotten living and working condi- fused the support of the Interna- tional Labor Defense, but rank and file members are joining the I. L. D. in vast numbers. As a result of intimidation and threats of federal activity in uphold- ing injunctions against the miners, the mines of the district are being opened on a non-union basis and the officials of the union have tried to bluff the militant workers into inac- tivity, but the bosses’ tactics have only unified the solidarity of the workers. SUBSCRIBE NOW! 13 Issues 50c teeeee BUCCE vec erreeeeeesersenenes sacereers SUMLO cceceenereennnereres tions. ‘The Young Communist League is sending ® delegation ye City Calif. 1 to At the same time, the Communist Election Campaign Committee of the district urges all workers who really want unemployment insur- cultural or any other sort of organi- zation. These organizations should discuss the Communist Party’s pro- posed platform, and should elect delegates to the broad, united front City Conference, to be held May 22 ing all trades and workers’ activ- itles, with men, women, young workers, Negro and white included, to participate in the National Nom- inating Convention, May 28, in Chicago. i. The city conference will also dis- cuss and organize the local cam- paign, BLADDER WEAKNESS? Dist. 2 Prepares for Elections Dear Comrades:— From the very beginning of the) Election Campaign in Section One, there is every indication that our} Party is not slow in utilizing past | experiences, adapting itself to new methods of work, and progressing. | The very sélection of the tentative | nominees itself, is a case in point. Where in former years candidates were designated who were not known in the territory and were too husy to carry on @ campaign, this year it is entirely different. Ten lof the twelve candidates, in Section One are workers, known locally, who have led demonstration sand activized them- | selves in the organization of the un- employed, of Negro workers, of ex- servicemen. On April 22, 23 and 24, our Section ran a Red Bazaar, for- mally opening the Election Campaign on the East Side. On Sunday, the 24th the local slate was anounced, and several of our candidates spoke briefly, on local issues, and on the impending war. At the Section Membership Meet- | ing, held last week,- (with 90 per cent attendance) the discussion on the Campaign was lively, free of phrase mongering, constructive and critical. The organization of Agit- prop troops, plans for involving the mass organizations in the campaign, the utilization of local experiences and exposure of the social-fascists, utilizing the resolution of the Com- intern, all of these all of these prob- | lems received major attention. New Methods of Work. ‘April Shows Greate at | Increase of Jobless of Any Month So Far NEW YORK.—Employment fell | | |off 3.6 per cent in the factories) / of the state during last month | according to figures given out yes-| || terday by Frances Perkins, state |’ industrial commissioner. This is the greatest drop in any one month since 1914, In New York| City, itself, factory employment | | decreased 4.2 per cent in April. | | This means that there are 25,000 | | fewer jobs in April than in March | in new York state alone, | Wage-cuts were greater than the increase in unemployment. Fac-| tory payrolls fell off 6.7 per cent | in the state during April, AGENT OF STATE’ DEPT. SEES WAR ON USSR SHORTLY Upton Close Says U.S. Bankers Want War Upton Close, “a direct agent lof American imperialism in China, last Monday repeated the opinion of ported in yesterday's Daily Worker that Japan will attack the Soviet Union “within the next few weeks.” Close, addressing a meeting in the Public Service Auditorium in Newark, N. J,, admitted that American bank- | ers were supporting |the criminal} | Plunge the world into another bloody | slaughter. porting his speech, says: The Newark Ledger, re- “Close reported a conversation he had yesterday with a prominent | man employed by an international banking company with headquar. ters in New York. The banker sug- gested that ‘a war right now would bring back prosperity to the world’ and seemed pleased with the idea, “Japan may precipitate, he con- cluded, the most bloody era tn the world’s history.” This lying propaganda that war “would bring back prosperity” is a variation of the lying propaganda during the last war that the war was being fought “to make the world safe for democracy.” ‘The best proof .of the falseness of this argument is the terrible mass misery, unemployment, and military suppression in Japan, where the ruling class has already turned to war (on China) as the capitalist “way out” of the crisis, Metal League Calls for Fight Against General Paycut in Youngstown YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, May 10. The U. 8. Steel Corporation, Re- Public Steel and Sharon Steel and other companies haye already | posted notices of = 15 per cent wage-cut May 15. Tthe others will follow. The capitalist newspapers, announcing the cut-in the U. 8. Steel Corporation wages a few days ago, did not mention the fact which every steel worker knows, that this he Japanese militarists to) ‘Socialis in PHILADELPHIA.—The plenum of the General Executive Board of | the Needle Trades Workers Indus unanimously passed a motion yes terday to send a rank and file de! | egation of needle trades workers to the Soviet Union next November on the 15th anniversary of the Rus- sian Revolution, The delegates will be eletced from the shops, from among the unorganized workers, the ranks of the Ladies Garment Workers Union and other unions affiliated with the A. F. of L. | A resolution was adopted against of the Soviet Union. PHILADELPHIA, May 10. | Riding roughshod over the cal No. 9, the convention of the “socialist” controlled International Ladies Garment Workers Union {passed a resolution containing the most bitter attack on the Sov: Un- jion and condemning it for “repres sion of civil liberties and the jailing and exiling of political opponents.” The rank and file opposition led by Nathan Kaplan, left-wing dele- gate of New York, lical 9%, exposed |this reactionary motion and pointed out that in actual fact the prisoners in the Soviet Union were “counter- | revolutionaries.” The bureaucratic, corrupt Schles |inger machine steamrolled the reso lution through and squeiched! the motion of the rank and file opposi | tion calling for a delegation of shop j ion, Unable to meet the arguments of | the rank and file opposition, the Schlesinger rafters evaded the ‘Question by claiming that the finan- cial state of the union made the sending of the delegation t o the So- viet Union a luxury. They kept sig- nificantly quiet, however, about the | enormuos salaries that are paid out! yearly, officially and in graft, to the | trial Union which is in session here | from the left wing unjon and from | International , imperialist war and for the defense | | opposition of the rank and file| “s | delegates from New York lo- workers to be sent to the Soviet Un- | ’Garment Unioi_ Bitter Attack on USSI Chooses Moment of Sharpening War Danger to Show Solidarity With Bosses Moore waa received by the bureaucrats with stormy. applauss Not only did the “socialists” sig- nify their solidarity with the head cracking terror of the capitalists by inviting M {6 speak but by havy- ing two of ir national leaders Hil- | quit and Thomas speak on the same platform on different days with Moore and the lickspittle of the cap- italist class Mathew Wall. Mayor Moore spoke before the comi- ion on May 2, two days after his had spilled the blood of work= pools over the streets of Phil- ia, Thomas and Hilquit spoke ceeding days The speech of Woll containing the usual vicious tirade against the workers’ fatherland was received with stormy app’ by the “socialist’” gratfer oncern of the Schlesinger= crew for the “terror” in Union is revealed afresh by the criminal re- the “socialists” for jthe preparation of the armed May Day attack on the marching workers. The officialdom of the “socialist” controlled Full Fashioned Hosiery Workers Union fought a resolution introduced by the rank and file of jthat union demanding that Mayor Moore revoke the prohibition’ of the use of City Hall Plaza for the May Day meeting. \ To further heighten this act, ‘E) black treachery to the working clas and support to the corrupt Varee Moore political machine, the officiajs of the Union seconded the police prohibition by declaring that Labor {Day was the workers’ holiday and not May First. 4000 AT DETROIT SCOTTSBORO DEMONSTRATION Protest Attempts to officersfi of this “socialist” union The stinking hypocrisy of the reso- 7 lution attacking the Soviet Union for Negro Boys “terror against political opponents” is made more glaring by the fact that| DETROIT, May 14 (Delayed) not a sigle word was mentioned at | Four thousand Negro and’ white wark< . the convention about the whole cam-/ers demonstrated here on May 7, paign of murderous terror directed | International Scottsboro Day, against against the working class and partic- | the Scotsboro lynch verdicts and for | ularly about the bloody attack car-| the freedom of the Scottsboro Negro ried out on the Philadelphia workers | boys and Tom Mooneq. ‘The demon- |by the Vare-Moore police during the | stration was held at Perrien Park Legally Lynch | May Day parade. . The fact that the “socialists” are ‘in full agreement With the use of | terror against militant workers by |the capitalist police but try to cover this terror up by lying declarations of “Red terror” in the Soviet in line With the policy of the capitalist is shown by their solidarity with the butcher Mayor Moore of Philadel means a general wage-cut in all |phia whose police carried out the companies, murderous assault on the May Day The Metal Workers’ Industrial | marchers. League headquarters at 534 E. Fed- | Moore was officially invited by the ¢ral St., Youngstown, Obio, is lead- | Schlesinger ‘socialist’ machine to ing ® campaign of mill meetings | address the opening of the Interna- and leaflet distribution calling for | tional Ladies Garment Workers organization and struggle against this cut. Send donations to thtir Organization Fund, Union convention. With the hot blood of the Phila- delphia workers still fresh on his What Our Readers Say on the Election Campaign HIS is the fourth series of discussion letters on the elec- tion platform and campaign of the Communist Party sent in by the readers of the Daily Worker. ALL READERS ARE URGED TO AGAIN READ THE PLATFORM AS PUBLISHED IN THE DAILY WORK D IN THEIR OPINIONS AND OF APRIL 28TH AND S. PROPOSALS, All districts should send in their orders at bundles of the special supplement containing the election off platform. The second edition the press, The cost is $2.50 once for of the supplement is nou a thousand copies. lutionary competition among party and non-Party comrades, two free trips to the State Nominating Con- vention are offered to the comrades | getting the most signatures and sel- ling the most literature up to June 15th. A very close check-up will be made this year, by giving our vol- unteer cpllectors ‘activity cards’ which will record the comrades ef-| forts and degree of success as regards literature sales and signature collec- tions, Weekly reports will be fur- nished to the units and mass or- ganizations so that they may check up on the activity of their member- ship and activize them, Technical arrangements have been satisfactorily made, and as I write this article a battery of typwriters is pounding away, recording contacts made by the comrades in the last few months, which will be used in the signature collection. This year, instead of giving the comrades a section of map when they go can- vassing, we will give them cards con- taining a single name on each. These cards will show how the worker voted last year, and if he signed the un- employment {insurance petition, or. in any other way was reached by a pre- Entering the first phase of the vious Party campaign, this informa- throughout the campaign vassing, When they find empty houses burnt to the ground. or that the signatures have been collected in the wrong election district Charts and Posters. | To popularize the campaign our | main election headquarters has al- ready been decorated with many charts, posters, and an Election Bul- letin Board. This is a chart showing |how many signatures each candi- date received weekly and the guota necessary to place the candidat> on the ballot. Another chart shows the standing of the units and mass or- ganizations in the |paign, week by week. A third poster | shows the leaders in the competition \for the free trips to the State Nomi- nating Convention. Fred Ellis’s car- | toons of former years, illustrating the brotherhood of the democratic, publican and socialist fakers are still timely, and are well displayed Section One expects to make a big signature cam- | re- | | Fifteen street meetings were hold before the main meeting. These meetings were held in the Negro sec= +tion and lasted from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m, 'From these meetings the workers }marched with banners and torches to Perrien Park. Here they were dressed by Comrade James Ford, roposed candidate for Vice-Presi dent on the Communist ticket; R Baker, District Organiser of the Com~ munist Party, and other speakers. | Resolutions of protest were adopted 'at all the street corner meetings and | at the main meeting. They were sent to the Governor of Alabama and | to the Supreme Court of Alabama. | Prepare for the Straw Vote lon the Bonus! ‘Says Campaign Is ~ A Great Historic | Political Event Bronx, N. Y. Dear Comrades:— In my opinion the Communist, » Party's intention vo nominate on the j ‘Oo worker as candidate ident is undobutedly the important historic development tich for most 1 9 vice of this era, This is a devélépment. ~ the American workers can well be) proud of. : Never since the time of Wiliam Lloyd Garrison has there been such | determination been shown to lea? the Negro masses to break the chain? that bind them. { Let the old but mighty challanj resound throughout the nation um! the oppressors tremble with fear: “te will be as harsh as trut and as stern as justice, We are i | earnest; we will not equivocat« | we will not excuse; we will not re | treat a single inch; and we will t heard.” —F.! Suggests Demand for Election Platforr Detroit, Mie Dear Comrades:— i | In regard to the election ea» paign, I think that slogam ( thing of the Election Campaign, and | to this end we here challenge Sec- | tion Two on the Signature Drive, | | beginning May 9th, We declare that | we will first secure the necessary ‘quotas of signatures and that we will | jrecord real mass sales of literature } should be: In case any worker? laid off or fired from his job, pi 4 a week's pay be paid him addi. tional to his regualr wages. —A Priend of the Soviet Russia, Will You Help the + Communists on every city, state