The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 14, 1932, Page 1

i! -the Soviet Union. A Shanghai dispatch to the WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! Dail : Central rok Onsen’ of the Communist taal Vol. IX,No 115 @ Entered as eecond-clase matter at the Post Office _gt New York, N. ¥4 under the act of March 3, 1879 NEW YORK, SATURDAY, MAY 14, 1932 IN TWO SECTIONS—(SECTION ( ONE) 5 a # gare ; j —' VOTE COMMUNIST Fro: 4. Unemployment and Soeis' Iosur: t pe ont : ‘ . me f. Against capitalist terror; agus all forms of suppres yt the 6 Against imperialist war; for the defense of the Chinese p aod ‘UITY EDITION P rive 3 Cents “SCOTTSBORO PROSECUTOR SAYS HE’LL F IGHT 10 CARRY QUT VERDICTS ON JUNE 24—MASS PROTEST MUST GROW! JAPAN POURING TROOPS DOWN SUNGARI RIVER TO “CUT OFF ViADIVosTox Fight Against Imperialist War r ‘Another Japanese sse Army Advancing Over - Chinese Eastern Railway; Threaten Soviet Maritime Province Huge Troop Concentration at Tsitsihar and! Harbin; Third Army Advancing Toward Korean-Soviet Frontier Bourgeois press dispatches from Harbin, | Manchuria, tell of feverish Japanese military | activity in the vicinity of the Soviet borders. | The Japanese are reported to, be rushing all! available troops to the Soviet frontiers, These| moves are interpreted in foreign and Chinese | cireles as indicating an immediate attack on| New York Times says that betting is brisk “up and down the coast of China concerning the date of the outbreak of the expected war between Japan and Russia.” The Japanese are reported to “have more than doubled” | their forces in Manchuria “since Apr? 15. There is a large Srna in the regions of Tsitsihar ang Fancheng, on Sungari.” & pe Japanese 14th Division is re- to have “entered the field with kable. speed.” This division arriyéd at Darien, Manchuria, only on. Tuesday,:, after being withdrawn fom" Shanghai, South China, about thie days before. It numbers about 94,000 men, full war strength. ‘whe ‘bulk of the division already arrived. at Harbin on ‘Thursday, and is: being rushed by train to Hailin, on the Chinese! Eastern Railway. These troops ars intended to back up the Peinforced column of General Yoda. General’ Yoda’s column has already advanced beyond Hailun, thus break- tng the Japanese pledge to the Soviet Government. not to.use the Chinese Eastétn Railway to transport troops begond Hailun. This pledge was given several weeks ago, when the Japanese requested permission to use the rail- way on the pretext of sending troops “to protect Japanese lives and prop- erty” in the Imienpo region. General Yoda’s column is now only seventy miles from:the Soviet border in the of Vladivostok, and is reported vontinuing its advance! To the north of Hailun, a huge Japanese army is moving down the Sungari River towards the Soviet border. . Bourgeois press dispatches iiterpret this advance as directed at entting the Ussuri Railway in Siberia and isolating Viadivostok and the Soviet Maritime Province. A Shang- hai-dispatch to the New York Times trankly states: “ If the advance down the Sungari Valley should continue, the Japan- ese would be in a position to cut WM. Z. FOSTER JAMES W. FORD [White Guards At ‘The same dispatch further reyorts:| | Doumer Funeral Yell “Japan's army is progressing down Soviet border. At the same time, a Harbin dispatch reports that the en- tire Japanese Tenth Division left Harbin yesterday for Fangchang. ‘This is intended as reinforcements for the already huge army proceeding by river craft toward the Soviet fron- tiers.’ Fangcheng, a strategic city dominating all roads down the Sun- garl River, is strongly occupied. by the Japanese. Heavy artillery and bombing planes are reported to have arrived at Fangcheng on the way to the Soviet border, Another Japanese army is rapidly {concentrating in the triangle formed ‘bythe ‘Soviet and Korean frontiers. UNEMPLOYED COMRADES “an unemployed comrades must report at Section 2 headquarters at:301 West 29th Street today from 11.30 in the morning to 1 in the afternoon. VERY URGENT. “Down With Russia” The whole White Guard colony of Paris turned out on Thursday for the funeral of President Doumer, who .was murdered last week by Dr. Paul Goruglov, White Guardist, who openly stated that); his crime was aimed at causing war between France and the Sov- iet Union. The White Guards mingling with the crowd, set up the shout of “Down With Russia.” Scores of fist fights followed as Frerich workers attacked the White Guardists, who were supported by the police. The workers fought back against the police. The Communist paper, “L'Hum- | anite” yesterday published ex- posures by many factory workers at Meudon showing that on the day preceding the murder of Doumer, White Gaiardist were cir- culating reports of the plan to murder Doumer. The White Guard general staff is centered at Meudon. Stop the Shipment of Arms and Munitions to Japan! Urgent Tasks for TODAY HE need of the struggle against imperialist war TODAY, for the defense of the Soviet Union and the Chinese people, which is determined by advanced stage of the war preparations, demands the most intense organization of ACTUAL STRUGGLE AGAINST THE WAR DANGER, combined with the widest agitation and e*posure of the war Preparations and the whole program of war aims of the estruggle against the war, but only for struggle for their own partial demands, for higher wages, that it is now useless to appeal to the in- ternational solidarity of workers, but only to their immediate interests and that the war can best be fought against by the bringing forward of the wage demands of the workers, is fundamentally wrong. Such a view is nothing BUT THE REBIRTH OF THE TROTSKY THEORY OF 1927, ACCORDING TO WHICH THERE IS NO SPECIAL” STRUGGLE AGAINST THE WAR, but that the war will be fought | Chicago Daily News Says Japanese Troop Movements Show War Against Soviet Union Is Near HE immediate threat of war against the Soviet Union is again openly admitted in the bourgeois press. it is the Chicago Daily News, May 12, which states: “THE WITHDRAWAL OF JAPANESE TROOPS ARMY TO MANCHURIA IS INTERPRETED IN CHINA Chis time FROM SHANGHAI AND THE DISPATCH OF A NEW AS THE FIRST MOVE IN A WAR BETWEEN JAPAN AND THE SOVIET UNION. COMPETENT OBSERVERS, SUCH AS THE DAILY NEWS CORRESPONDENY IN PEIPING, NOW ARE CONVINCED THAT THE LONG-EXPECTED CONFLICT IS NEAR.” This further confirms the confidential information sent by the Whaley-Eaton finance service to its banker clients under a Washington date line of May 7, that: “IN MILITARY CIRCLES THE OPINION IS: EXPRESSED THAT JAPAN, WITHIN THE NEXT FEW WEEKS WILL ATTACK RUSSIA IN MANCHURIA.” On May 10, the Whaley-Eaton service followed this up with another confidential letter declaring that the above opinion was’ fully confirmed by “important European military circles.” This should show to every worker.the necessity of workers. immediately ‘midOUxing “eery ounce of strength for struggle against imperialist war on the basis of the 2 slogan on ‘hgeadee by the Communist Party in its election platform: “AGAINST IMPERIALIST WAR: FOR THE DEFENSE OF THE CHINESE PEOPLE AND THE SOVIET UNION!” imperialists—American imperialism first of all. Preparations for extending the imperialist war against the Chinese People. These preparatons include moral, political and technical means, The use of the funeral of President Doumer of France for Russian white guard demonstration against the Soviet Union as reported in the capitalist press yesterday, is only one incident in a whole chain of ‘war measures. The latest huge Japanese troop concentration in Manchuria is another. Especially in the United States, where war preparations are Proceeding under the cover of “peace” maneuvers by the state department and side by side with a movement ostensi- bly for recognition of the Soviet Union which has as its pu¥- pose (as in the Scripps-McRaé papers and the demagogic speeches of Rainey, democrat party floor leaders, and other congressmen and sena- tors) the covering up of the implacable hostility of American imperial- ism to the Soviet pita) the Chinese petple and their heroic struggle for liberation, American imperialism must not be allowed to get away further with~ its hypocritical pretenses of a desire for peace and its so-called “neu- trality” in the Japanese advance. toward the'Soviet frontiers, a neutral- ity which js actual support’ of Japan as the spearhead of the imperialist drive, The “friendship for China of the Hoover government “pretense. under which the counter-revolutionary Kuomintang, backed by the imperialist powers, headed by America, is carrying out huge ‘military offensives against the Chinese workers’ and peasants’ revolutionary struggle, must likewise be exposed, ‘The socialist party. and Mustelte “friendship for China,”-and the Chinese people is nothing less than a-screen for American imperialism’s penetration of China. Sherwood Eddy’s denunciation of the Chinese unist Party which leads the workers’ and. peasants’ revolution . be- cause they oppose the missionary agents of the Standard Oil and other American corporations is an outstanding example of the reall ‘position of the socialists. “We must show the masses how important it is for:the imperialist war makers today TO GAIN TIME and set the war machinery running as noiselessly as possible so that the mass of the people will, as far as possible, not notice this, and show how the . above-mentioned “friendship for China” hypocrisy directly serves its, purpose. We can and must convince the masses that the point now is not to. give the im- perialists the peaceful period for the development of their war machin- ery which they and their social fascist agents are striving for, but pre- ferably to wade into the imperialists rather today that tomorrow.” In the struggle for the defense of the Soviet Union and the Chinese people, which is at the same time the central struggle of the whole ia aad class against the capitalist offensive, because this imperialist ‘war against the working class and their allies the’ colonial E sodasian pressed national minorjties, we must be able to combine in. nai concrete manner the struggle for the economic demands of the mociiag class, employed and unemployed, the struggle against all forms of ter- rorism and suppression directéd against workers, the struggle for the liberation of the Negro be acon with the central strug#le against imper- jalist war. We must be able to A pe the inseparable connection between the ruthless drive against the working class in the United States on all fronts with the imperialist war aims of the ruling class, the connection between this and the attack on the Soviet Union and the Chinese people. Mass resistance to the new wage cut drive must be organized. ‘We must be able to organize an absolute check on the manufacture and shipment of all war munitions and armaments in and from this country, We must be able to organize strikes and demonstrations right in the industries against these war measures. We must correctly combine the economic struggles on issues arising daily out of the capitalist offensive—the hunger drive of the bosses at government—with the central struggle against war. “The conception that today one cannot move the workers in ite, factories (and especially those previously unemployed who have now found employment as a result of the extension of war production) for against through the sharpening of the general class struggie.” seeees It stands to reason, that the struggle against the war must . _ not be separated from the daily struggle of workers for better conditions, but it is equally obvious that.a Communist Party desirous of being worthy of the Mame can never renounce, under any ‘circumstances, the revolutionary education of the masses, especially now, of all times.” Raise in every factory, on every railway terminal and dock tion of the struggle ‘agairist ‘war, of the character of the wa capitalist offensive against the whole working class, raise the q of working class unity and struggle against war, for the defens Soviet Union andthe Chinese people. Expose the war preparations under the guise of “k ing the peace of the world.” Organize a proletarian check-up on all war manufactures and shipments. Build the united front of the working class for revoluti for defense of the fatherland of the world’s working cl: struggles of the Chinese masses, for the defeat of imper Parations. by the solid fighting battalions of the working class advancing jously over the shattered ruins of capitalism to a workers’ and farn government ending imperialist war for all time! Shoe Workers Mass Meeting Decides for Mass Strike To Hold Rank And File Conference To Be Held In Middle.Of Next Month ’” ' NEW YORK.—Close to one thou- sand ‘shoe workers packed Webster Hall Thursday evening at the call of the Shoe and Leather Workers In- dustrial Union. The meeting was made by the chairman, was collected. The last speaker, Over $170 with a strong appeal for organiza- ; | Push the appeal. Magliacano, one | of the Italian organizers, wound up| called to order by S. Ziebel, secret- ary-of the Union, who acted as chair- man. “In his opening remarks, he pointed out that this Mass Meeting is the result of the decisions of the last. conference, which decided to prepare for a mass strike in the com- ing season. I, Rosenberg, drganizer of the Un- jon, then reported more at” length about the situation in the trade, the present» strikes, and called upon the workers to prépare for a Mass Shop Conference in the middle of June, that will take final measures for the planned Mass Strike. One of the main features at the meeting was the report of the chair- men of the 4 striking shops. Each of them pointed out the significance of these strikes and how the bosses attempted to force starvation wages upon them thru lock-outs and dis- charges. Comrade Jack. Stachel, assistant secretary of the Trade Union Unity League, greeted the meeting in the name of the T.U.U.L. and his in- timate talk on the role of our Union, affiliated »with the T.U.U.L, was re- ceived with great enthusiasm, $170 Collected * An appeal for strike support was tion, for the building of shop groups. A resolution was adopted to en- dorse ‘the’ decisions of the last con- ference and for the organization of a Mass Strike. A resolution was also adopted demanding the imme- diate release of Edith Berkman, now in jail and on a hunger strike against the Doak deportation order. Also a resolution was |adopted demanding the immediate and unconditional re- lease of Tom Mooney and the 9 Scottsboro boys. Arouses Enthusiasm At the various strike-headquarters, the news about the mass meeting was received with great enthusiasm. All the strikers were convinced of the soe workers’ response to the call for relief. The Miller’s scheme for preventing the cutters from lining up with the strike is breaking down. The firm tried to induce the cutters to stick inside with the statements that the strike will blow over in a day. But the cutters see that the strike is only beginning. A few of the cutters have already joined the strike, and have picketed the shop. The firm was forced to lay-off the cutters again today, to prevent a demon- strative walk-out. in FOSTER AND FORD SCORE LYNCH MOVE, CALL FOR GIANT MASS PROTEST | Attorney General Knight States He Will Fight Delay of Execution and Appeal to U.S. Supreme Court Record Gf Case W CHATTANOOGA, May ruling clas: | International Labor Defense Files Certified ith National Court 3.—The southern is exerting every effort to carry through the legal massacre of the Scottsboro | boys without permitting the boys the right to Railroad 16-Year to Electric Chair; Old Negro Boy Workers’ Protest Legal Lynching of W aie Brown) PHILADELPHIA, Pa. —The si : Willie Brown, f police for the girl, wi e McDevitt. noted for i hating decisions, pro-} hounced the nee, | | ‘fhe whole procedurg lasted two | minutes. An appeal was madé for ltake their appeal to the Court, Attorney General Thomas E. Knight, yesterday lof Alabama, are urged grams to Go risburg, Pen: i the immediste-end--uacondit release of on Brown. United States Supreme Jy announced that he | would oppose the taking of the appeal to the | United States Supreme. Court. | nouncement follows on the heel | York diplomatic p: | the tour of 1 Wright is at prese to ral huge meet-« ings of man workers. As a direct result of the United States.interven- tion, one German worker was killed| jend two fatally wounded by police, | who fired into a demonstration at} Chemnitz, Germany, on May 7, In- | ternational Scottsboro Day. sure on the Ge The southern bourgeois press has |made a big splurge of Knight's state- ments, and are attempting to give! |the impression that the International | Labor Defense is doing nothing: to This lying slander {campaign that is being built up |is part of the campaign of ‘the bosses, | supported by the N. A. A. C. P. mis-| |leaders, to disrupt the mass an around the boys, NEW YORK—William Z. Foster| and James W. Ford, proposed presi- |dential and vice-presidential candi-| dates, respectively, on the Communist | Party ticket, yesterday denounced the efforts of the Alabama lynchers to block the appeal to the U. S. Supreme Court. Foster, in a wire from Pitts- |burgh to the Daily the mass fight to free the Scottsboro boys. His statement follows: The announced determ:nation of the Alabama Attorney General to oppose the petition of the Scotts- boro. boys to the U. S. Supreme Court is part of a foul plot to mur- der these innocent boys without giving them even the chance to take the customary legal steps. We call upon the workers, white and black, to ratly to their defense and strengthen tenfold the mas fight to free them. The white workers must take the lead in this struggle against this murderous legal lynch- ing of the nine innocent Negro boys. The Communist Party in its election campaign will expose and fight this vicious oppression by the Alabama lynchers, who are deter- Ada Wright, mother of two of the § Knight’s an- s of the admfssions in the New Times that the United States Government was exerting rman government to break up ottsboro she has nt in German death in order to strengthen their oppression of the Negro people.” ‘The following statement was alsc issued by’ James W. Ford: “This new move is one more act of the lynchers to sirengthen the » wh | Yoke of oppression on the Negro masses, particularly In the South We call upon all Negro toilers to give the most vigorous support to the struggle for the defense of the Scottsboro boys, The Negro work» ers must join hands with the mili- tant white workers to strike down the hands of the lynchers in this | latest act in the murderous Scotts- frame-up. This proves how false is the advice of the N. A. A. C. P. and other misleaders when they counsel vs to have faith in the bosses’ courts. We urge the Negro people to support the Communist Party in the election campaign as the. only party fighting for the free- dom. of the Scottsboro boys and for equal rights for Negroes.” The national office or the Interna- tional Labor Defense pointed out yes- Worker, called | terday that a certified record of the upon the workers to intensify’ tenfold | Scattsboro .case has been. forwarded to the U. S. Supreme Court. The fee of $105 has been paid that court as the fee of inspection as.required. The I. L. D. has also paid to the United States printer the sum of $1,450 for the printing of the certified record of the case. Walter Pollak has been retained by the I. L. D. to lead the fight ‘in the U. S. Supreme Court against the lynch verdicts Carpenters To Meet Today, At 1 o'clock NEW YORK.—A ‘genéral member- ship meeting of the Carpenters Sec- tion of the Trade Union Unity League will take place today, at 1 Pm. at 5 East 19th Street, S This meeting will take up many problems of vital interest to all car mined to do these nine boys to BERLIN, May 13.—The Cathol! Mrs. Wright, mother of two of the meeting in that city. Three huge meetings were held in the Lower Rhineland. Both Mrs. BULLETT 5 (Radio to the International Labor Defense.) penters who are urged to attend it ie Cologne Government prohibited Scottsboro boys, from addressing a instead in Dusseldorf, Solingen, and Wright and J. Louis Engdah! spoke. | The militant Scottsboro protest movement is growing rapidly through- out Germany, . * hd dad de teh ha ne a ae aed _