The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 17, 1932, Page 1

2 { \ a mA y Edith Berkman is in the Tenth Day of Her Hunger Strike! More Resolutions and Demonstrations to Demand Her Release! VOTE COMMUNIST FOR Doak iv 1. Unemployment and Social Insurance at the ex- pense of the state and employers, Against Hoover’s wage-cutting policy. Emergency relief for the poor farmers without restrictions by the government and banks; ex- emption of poor farmers from taxes, and from forced collection of rents or debts, VOTE COMMUNIST FOR 4. Equal rights for the Negroes and self-determin-~ ation for the Black Belt. 5. Against capitalist terror; against all forms of suppression of the political rights of workers, 6. Against imperialist war; for the defense of the Chinese people and of the Soviet Union. Vol. IX, No. 117 25 Entered aa second. ee rantter at the Post Uffice at New York, N. Y., ander the act of March 3, 187 __N Ww YORK, TUESDAY, MAY 17, 1932 _ cry EDITION Price 3 Cents APAN WILL ATTACK SOVIET UNION IN LESS THAN EIGHT WEEKS, SAY REPORTS FROM PEIPING, TOKYO Scien Preparations in Japan for War on the USSR IERRORIST PREPARATIONS IN JAPAN FOR WAR ON. THE SOVIET UNION. Fascist murders and open terrorism on an unheard of scale in Japan mark the drive of the military party of Jap- anese imperialism for invasion of the Soviet Union through Manchuria. The difference within the ruling class of Japan as to war on the Soviet Union relate only to the time, and tactics of the military campaign against the Chinese people and the Soviet Union. The Tokio correspondent of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle predicts war on the Soviet Union within two months. It may begin in two days! The entire capitalist press is united in the view that the | murderous terror in Tokio carried out by army and navy of- ficers is the prelude to war on the Soviet Union. Huge Japanese troop shipments into Manchuria are of daily occurrence. The Japanese imperialist forces now in Manchuria con- tinue to drive toward the Soviet frontiers. Naval mobilization is being hurried in the vicinty of Vladivostok. Stop the shipment of al war munitions and raw mater- jals to Japan! Boycott all shipments of every kind of goods to Japan! . Organize the most militant demonstrations before the Japanese consulates and embassies! Force the expulsions of all Japanese ‘diplomats and trade representatives from the United States! Organize strikes in every factory making war munitions! Raise the question of the defense of the Soviet Union in every factory and shop. Raise this question in every union, every workers’ fraternal and benefit society! Organize Protest meetings against imperialist war! Show to American workers that American_imperialism which starves millions of unemployed workers and cuts the wages of those still working, is a leading force in the or- ganization of the imperialist war against the Soviet Union and the Chinese people’s heroic struggle for liberation! Expose the lie that war on the Soviet Union will bring “prosperity !” Fight and defeat the war program and the support given to Japanese imperialism as the spearhead of the war drive on the Soviet Union by Wall St. Hoover government! Show by the fighting might of the American working class that it refuses war jobs bought with the blood of the revolutionary workers and peasants of the Soviet Union and of China! Smash the war drive! Defend by every means the fatherland of the world’s (working class—the Soviet Union! Defend the anti-imper- falist revolution of the Chinese workers and peasants! Make every factory a fortress against imPerialist war and an unbeatable center of resistance to imperialist war on the Soviet Union! Win Elco Shoe Strike; Raise Lasters’ Wage; Recognition Encourages Andrew Geller and Paris Strikers, I, Miller Strikers Enthusiastic NEW YORK.—The Elco Shoe Co. strike has been won, under the lead- ership of the Shoe and Leather Workers Industrial Union of the Trade Union Unity League. After a three weeks’ strike, the firm was forced to call the shop committee to negotiate for a settle- ment. ‘When the news was received in the other striking shops, there was great, enthusiasm. The workers see in this settlement, the power of the Union, its ability not only to lead the work- ers in struggle, but also to lead them back organized into the shops after the struggle. The settlement of this strike has greatly strengthened the situation at Andrew Geller, and Paris Shoe shops. Developments are expected there very soon as a result, The I. Miller strike is in best shape. Developments are expected in the cutting department. The firm's promise to some scabs that many workers would come back to work on Monday, exploded yesterday like an empty bubble. The crew is solid. To- day the workers will be treated to a movie, and special entertainment ar- ranged by the WIR, and its cultural department. Special mobilization is being made for mass picketing in the morning, at noon, and in the eyen- ing. Lasters Get Kaise ‘The terms of the settlement are: recognition of the shop committee, no discharge, no _ discrimination, equal division of work, committee to decide on the matter of damaged shoes, all prices to be settled by the price committee, the lasters to re- ceive 2c extra on a pair for shoes with tips, three out of the 5 dis- charged workers yo back to work im- mediately, the other two to apply as new help. The strikers, as well as the Union considered the terms of the settle- ment for two days before a decision was arrived at. The Union weighed and measured the points in the set- tlement. When the final agreement was made, it was clear that the ques- tion of organization was the main is- sue around which the fight centered. On this yoint the workers won. They be + to belong to the Union, collect. dues and meet outside the factory. ELEVATOR MEN STRIKE NEW YORK—A_ maintenance workers’ strike was declared yester- day at an apartment house located at 1695 Grand Ave. following the firing of two elevator operators. The strike is led by the Building Main- tenance Workers’ Union. All the tenants of the house have signed a Organize Shop ‘The strike committee disolved af- ter the settlement, and a shop com~- mittee and general shop chairman petition demanding that the workers were elocte? 4s | be reinstated. sess bad U. S. Commissioner’ Ti land Sanitarium in Rutland, M demonstration, by sending hundreds of sharp resolutions |to Secretary of Labor Doak, of Immigration Tillinghast of East Boston Immigration Station, force hospital jail, either through hunger from her long imprisonment. Don’t let this heroic leader of the Law- rence strike die a martyr! Demon- tions demanding her release, send them by telegraph! A wave of mass demonstrations throughout the coun- try is needed. Berkman was removed from Mas- sachusetts Memorial Hospital at 1 p. m. Saturday afternoon, in the custody of Mrs. Anna Tillinghast, Commissioner of Immigration, A score of plain clothes men-and uni- formed police Were on hand when she was taken out. For over 24 hours, the authorities succeeded in hiding her. Dr. Henry Pollack, sup- erintendent of Massachusetts Mem- orial Hospital refused to say where she was taken. He had been very insane asylum or psychopathic ward if her hunger strike continued, so and to U. S. Commissioner | her release, she will be killed in her | or by the tuberculosis which she got | strate hold meeting, adopt resolu-| free with threats to send her to eo [Boston Workers Shout for Berkman’s Release llinghast Personally In Charge of Kidnapping from Hospital BOSTON, Mass., May 16.—While workers’ demonstrations | demand her release, Edith Berkman lies in central New Eng-| lass., weakened but determined to carry on her hunger strike until she is set free. This is the ninth day of Edith Berkman’s hunger strike. Unless the workers by mass?—— ———_ a search of al such institutions. Attorney A. J. Isserman, who came to Boston on behalf of the National Committee for Defense of the For- |eign Born, went to see Commssioner | | Tillinghast. She sent her husband to talk to Isserman. All infermation |as to where she was was refused, but | | Mr. Tillinghast let out the reasons for the kidnapping of Edith Berk- man. They are: 1, To keep her away from any) contact with the workers whatsoever, | and to isolate her, with the idea of | | breaking down her spirit, and forc- ing her to end the hunger strike, 2. To prevent any demonstrations or mobilization of the masses. 3. To facilitate a speedy carrying | out of the order to deport her to Poland, if the decision of the Circuit Court now in session is against her. It is*intimated that the decision will be handed down in a few that it will be against Berkman, that a visa from the Polish govern- ment has already been secured. If she is sent’to Pilsudski’s Poland, she may be shot. Sunday afternoon searching par- | ties located Edith Berkman in Cen- tral New England Sanitarium at Rutland. The hospital staff there admits they have her. No one has Boston workers immediately began been allowed to see her yet. MOSCOW.—A guarantee that the Soviet Union would soon be inde- pendent of foreign aluminum pro- ducers was given today with the opening of the first Soviet Aluminum Plant at Volkhov, near Leningrad. The plant is an important step forward in the fulfillment of the Five Year Plan in four years. The opening of the plant was hailed with enthusiastic preductions of its success and it was declared that at the end of the second Five Year Plan, it would be producing 200,000 tons of aluminum annually. This would be equal to about three quar- ters of the present world production. The first complete report on in- dustries throughout the Soviet Un- ion in April emphasized the gigantic forward strides in the fullfillment of BINGHAMTON, N. Y., May 16.— Over eight hundred Endicott John- son workers packed the Lithuanian Hall here this afternoon with scores more gathering outside pledging unanimous support for a monster solidarity mobilization against the lock-out at the Victory plant Mon- day morning. This is the zero hour in the opening of a general struggle throughout all the plants against wage cuts and the lock-out. Mass resentment and joint action of thousands of Endicott Johnson shoe workers is on foot against the ten to twenty per cent cut and the lock~ out of seven hundred in the Victory plant. The company issued a statement today which both called for one company of state troopers and the mobilization of the police and fire departments and tried to break the solidarity of the workers. The statement reads: “The Com- pany will gladly take back every workers who desires to return.” tn the meantime the workers in the other plants are forced to sign new yellow dog contracts pledging them to continue to work, Leon BR. Wilson, the gpokesman of First Aluminum Producing Plant in Soviet Russia Opens the Five Year Plan despite a num- ber of serious shortcomings. Production of iron was substan- tially increased although it is some- what below schedule. The oil, coal and steel output, though outstripping \the declining production of these | commodities in the capitalist coun- tries, fell somewhat below the figure | for March, ‘cently made every effort to increase | | efficiency in these industries and to | bring their organization up to sche- dule. dustries has been severely criticized und changes are being made in or- | der to improve the quality and quan- ap the completion of the Five Year Plan, Endicott Johnson Calls for Troops As 800 Strikers Meet | compromise offer for the acceptance of a partial cut. He will make a statement Monday morning at the factory gate mass meeting. Rank and Kile preparatory meetings among the rest of the Victory plant workers as well as throughout the factory are | being held to stress the demand of: “No Wage Cut and No Lockout.” An Endicott Johnson workers who was | chairman at today's meeting and the | speakers.Gertrude Welsh and Sam | Zieball of the Shoe Workers Indus- | trial Union stressed amidst great en- | thusiasm the splendid example of the unprecedented events o f Jast Thurs- day when seven hundred Victory plant workers paraded through the streets of Johnson iCty invaded other Endicott Johnson plants, shut off the power and enrolled thousands of other workers in a militant parade carrying banners 2nd protesting the cut and lockout. Company officials and the police were overwhelmed by the force of | the enraged workers, The company difectors fearing a general strike im- mediately notified the majority of the workers in the Endicott plant not to report until Tuesday. Solidarity action against the wage cut and the lockout are popular slogans through- out the tri-cities, ape See Aarti | The leadership in these in- | tity of the products so as to speed| ® | Radek sumed up some of the events The Soviet government has re-|in Manchuria as folows: Fascist Reign of Terror Aims to Speed War Plans BROOKLYN EAGLE CORRESPONDENT REPORTS CONSTANT MOVEMENT OF TROOPS TO MANCHURIA FOR USE AGAINST SOVIET UNION UNNAMED PEIPING CONSUL PREDICTS JAPANESE ATTACK AGAINST THE U WITHIN THE NEXT TWO MONTHS S.R. The present terroristic campaign of the Japanese militarists, aiming toward the estab- lishing of an open fascist dictatorship in Japan, is designed to start war against the Soviet Union within the next two months. This statement was made by a member of the Consular Corps at Peiping, in a message to his Legation, according to the Daily Mail correspondent in that city, a United Press dis- patch from London reports. The same statement was made in a dispatch to the Brooklyn Eagle from its Tokio correspondent. The dispatch to the Brooklyn Eagle from its Tokio correspondent, Alfred E. Piers, ad- mits that the fascist action points “with more definite ominousness” to an early attack against the Soviet Union. The Brocklyn Eagle prints the dispatch with the significant head- eeee hy snes Radek Exposes Sham Peace |“RUSSO-JAPAN ESE WAR. SEEN IN TWO 3 . | MONTHS; SECOND PREMIER SLAIN Gestures of J apanese; Off €TS | “Eagle Correspondent Tells of Troops Go- ing Daily to Manchuria, Set for Soviet Attack— Soviet Non -Agression Pact, |to Resist U.S. on Nine Power Pact.” In his third point, Radek clearly | The dispatch reports feverish military activities in Japan, refers to the Fisheries and other dis-| with crowded troop trains leaving cities daily—“going some- eas ae Borate monnies the where,” Railway platforms in Japan, it says, are taking on Japanese people for war against the | the appearance “so familiar to those who were in any of the Soviet Union. major countries sending troops to ‘somewhere in France’ in 1914-1918. It says further: “Many Japanese here believe that two months will see a major clash with Russia. Others think more than this time will ensure, but that the clash is inevitable. “Japan will not wait till Russia has improved her industrial posi- tion, by means of her Five-Year Plan, however much that may come up to the original expectations, “Phe Japanese argue that would be foolish to wait if the ob- ject is to dispose of Russia, this time for good, as a major factor in the affairs of the Far Kast These also think that the time to- day is sach that Japan can never Writing in-the Soviet news- paper, “Izvestia,’ Karl Radek calls the bluff of the Japanese militarists who are using peace phrases to cover up their growing war moves against the So- viet Union. He calls upon the Jap- anese to sign a non-aggression pact | with the Soviet Union as a guarantee of their “good fath.” Such a pact} was offered several months ago by the: Soviet Union and bluntly turned down by the Japanese government. Radek writcs that the Soviet Un- jon is pleased by the recent expres- | sions of a friendly attitude by the Japanese Foreign Office, but that this in view of events in Manchuria can not be considered as sufficient proof of Japan’s peaceable intentions. Berlin Socialist Police Bar | Address by Mrs. Wright, Mother of 2 Scottsboro Boys (By Cable to Daily» W Eval Worker BERLIN, May 16.—The revolutionary workers of Berlin | are making a flaming protest against the decree of the social- ist police officials forbidding Mrs. Ada Wright the right to speak in Berlin, or to even attend the huge protest meeting {arranged in her honor and for the defense of the nine inno- First—Japanese forces invading Manchuria have approached the | cent Scottsboro Negro boys, facing hope for again, with every nation Soviet frontiers, Hegal lynching in Alabama. Mrs. | engrossed in its own affairs and, Second—They reckon Mttle with | Wright is the mother of Andy and | yw! | Perhaps, with the exception of the economic interests of the So- Roy wright, two of the boys. || Workers Ever here Japan, war-weary, because most viet Union in the Chinese Eastern || Rush Funds to Save}| know the net that modern war Thousands of workers gathered last ' Thursday night in the Freidrichshain||Berkman’s L i f e 1 Railway (owned by the Soviet Un- ion and jointly operated by China and the Soviet Union.) Third—The Japanese govern- ment has failed to accept the So- means—the Japanese yet do not.” The dispatch confirms the reports | lof a few days Japan is con- |centrating an |dition to the |Hall to hear the Scottsboro mother. | | When told that the “socialist” | thorities, at the behest of the Amer To carry on ‘the fight to save the life of Edith Berkman and| force the U. S. Immigration au-| au- viet invitation to create a diplo- \ ; ready advancing in Manchuria to- matic instrument to facilitate a | ican government, had prohibited Mrs. | | thorities to release this militant| |. 263 the soviet frontiers It tells : ‘ = 8 minds || 1e Soviet frontiers. peaceable solution of the disputed | Wright from even appearing at the| | leader of the working class, rowing attacks or ; x 6 4 th ke cig ae 7° | | are badly needed. Rush donations| |°f Sowing attacks on revolutionary questions.’ meeting, e workers were furious. } Japanese workers and peasants, who by to the Edith Berkman} . 799 Broadway, Room Mrs. Wright had sent a rousing mes- | ate Smash the illusions of the pa- | sage to the assemblage. As soon as| | cifists in the struggle against war. | this was read and reCeived with thun-| |“ Learn to struggle in the revolution- | derous cheers by the workers, the po- | ary way against war. Read “Revo- | lice launched a vicious attack on the STOP THE SHIPMENTS Versus Pacifism,” by A. Bittelman, | meeting, clubbing the workers and | ~ | AND MUNITIONS TO JAPAN! are resisting the war plans of the |ruling class. It say 1] “Alleged Communists here are | being arrested right and left and a ban was imposed on publication | of such news.” five cents. breaking up the assemblage. The dispatch further reports that a the Japanese War Minister, Araki, . 4 é‘ is stumping the coun in an ate tempt to neite war sentiment ‘Big Communist Vote Recorded in ey leah “Loday the War Mumister | stumping the country; talking about and: Japan's determination to pres | vent the Soviet from depriving t}on bulkheads. Negroes are not per-| Japan of her right to ‘make Man- | mitted to work in the shops, and are| churia a Paradise’ The papers are Jim Crowed in the city, on the beach,! echoing and re-echoing the same jand in schools, More than 1,000 are thing.” unemployed, with little relief, and| The Soviet Union has maintained | discrimination against Negro jobless.|a policy of strict neutrality in re- Election issues aside from the|gard to the Japanese aggressions in | above were the decision of the com-} Manchuria, but, as the Daily Worker missioners to give $338,663 out of a has pointed out and the dispatch budget of $778,000 to the bankers for| admits, the Japanese militarists ara | payment on city debt. The Commu- determined to carry through their nists demanded this sum be used for adventure: unemployment relief, + One can guess at the next Branch is a Ku Klux Klan| objective of the militarists who feel year the Communist | ‘2 that they have to go with the ad- onducted a fight for the right " venture; that they have gone too |to speak, in which workers were ar-| far to turn back, even if, as I think, rested, beaten, tear gassed, etc, by LOS ANGELES, Cal., May 16The, Busick, the socia list | Communist candidate, Edward A.| 2419 votes. Sandler, got 1,425 votes, according to tJ » * official figures announced last week. 186 Votes in Long Branch The election was held May 3, and| LONG BRANCH, N. J., May 16.— For the first time the Communist was for the recall of Mayor Porter,| 52141 had candidates in a city elec- charged with misconduct in office.| tion here. The elections for city com- Porter saved himself by @ slim ma-| missioners were held May 10, five to Jority, on the straight “Yes” and “No”! ne elected and with 31 candidates vote to recall.him. Ten candidates, !in the field. The three Communists including Porter and Sandler, ran for} were s, Davis, J. Mazza and W. Rich mayor, at the same time, that being | iT x2 Communist vote was 186 high.| the wey Los Angeles conducts a re- * in all Manmouth County call campaign. The local press con- | in which Long is situated, the | cealed the fact that Sandler was run-| Gommunist yote was 28. ning on the Communist ticket, and the various other candidates had Long Long Branch has a silk mill and they have begun to realize that hundreds ‘of: thousands. of leaflets,|@ couple of shirt factories, Workers | police. Some were arrested and the| they have bitten off more tham ee as, ee slahe scat ica cata cases are still pending in cours | they cam chewy’ Be sare Be a cg fuk tee tee ag