The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 17, 1932, Page 2

Against U.S. 200 Intellectuals Protest Gov't Aid to| Japanese Attack on China Ministers and Tepresentatiy es of the motion picture industry, writers, lawyers and artists are among the two hundred signers of a protest against the Japanese i nvasion of China and American aid to it, it was announced today by the Anti-Imperialist League of the United States and the Nation al Committee for the Defense of Political Prisoners. The protestors, who represent states as widely separated as New t only as inst that countr Union They ‘charge that Japan of financiers and capitalists of 4 | Wa Ido Frank Tully and peasants. e boldly They have ne: China dummy si of Manchuria, but with its according to press reports, purposely left indefinite on the side that faces the Soviet Union. The! whole war in China we regard as ome of conquest and malappropria- | tion. It has been distinguished by brutality and terror against the Chi-} nese poor. It has been accompanied by the slaughter of women and chil- | dren, the burning of homes and the destruction of the entire workers’ quarter of the city of Shanghai. But, above all, we regard the war in China not only as being against that country, but also against the Soviet Union; and we see it as a movement undertaken not by Japan alone, but by Japan as the forerunner of the financiers and capitalists of France, Italy, Great Britain and the United States, of every country with im- perialist aims. It was financial aid of the type already given by Amer- ican capitelists to Japan that in- volved this country in the last Euro- | pean war. “We do not make our deductions alone from the significantly vague} borders of the “new Manchurian State.” nor from the seizure of Har- bin and the massing of troops against the Soviet border, nor even only from the reputed secret Anglo-French treaty for the division of South Rus- sia into spheres of influence (though this latetr is vouched for by no less an authority than the British states- man, Winston Churchill). “We are conscious, beside all this, | of the movement of English, Italian, French and American troops into China; of news dispatches actually sent from Tokio and the affected freas in China predictind—even an- nouncing—a Japanese offensive against the Soviet Union for the spring. We know, too, that even | while monotonously ineffectual peace | foves are undertaken by the gov- ernment of the United States, Amer- | fean financiers and manufacturers | are profiting from the sale of war| supplies to Japan. “As this statement is written, the newspapers carry the suggestion that) a truce may be concluded between Chinese and Japanese forces. This, | ‘we recognize, is in part the result of stubborn resistance made by the Chi- | nese against the Japanese. An an-| alysis of the reported terms of the) armistice and of other news from the | war areas, however, leads us to be- lieve that more may be behind this Tatest move than appears on the sur- | face. In the first place, so far as we can determine, peace, if it is con- ¢luded, is to be with the reactionary Nanking government. Apparently it does not at all effect the Chinese workers’ troops. Then, news, which comes simultaneously with that of a possible peace, informs us that “Chi- nese leaders are negotiating a huge loan with American interests” and that “one of the largest makers of airplanes in the United States is ne- gotiating for the sale of aviation equipment both to China and Japan.” “These things give us the right, at the very least, to wonder if Chi- nese warlords, who before this have aeted in behalf of the imperialist ‘howers, are not now again preparing fo co-operate with them in an attack What’s On— 4 Woke Allred Brand, 21D, vill mest at 534 Vermont , at 8 p. York and California, treat ‘the war in up a|§ te, roughly comprising the | J | Upton Sinclair Mary Heaton Vorse Wm. Siegel Jospehine: Herbst Helen Black Michael Geld Leon Denin | Langston Hughes Louis Bunin Adolph Dehn Al. Valante | Elliot E. Cohen neptee) Wie Workers will meet at 16 W. 21st pana on the ne discussion ‘plan will be held. China as being st the Soviet the forerunner Great Britain y, but a ig as Italy, of China feel that a war, whict be the concerted action le of the nations whole world can whose purposes in China might m into the conflict. ‘There- we call for the immediate re- 1 of American troops and naval} es—which regard as now ing only interests of Amer- in China—as well| from Chinese territory | we the imperialists 2 Japanese, eaters. “Finally we feel justified in our that we make this appeal not| in our names, but in the names | of Americans of every classification —the workers and farmers who would in casé of war be brought | nto the conflict to fight and die for sn unjust and gredatory cause; the men who would lose husbands, sons and brothers; the writers, doc- tors, artists and scientists among whom we count ourselves. We urge | Relief include Joseph Freeman, Om@- | ley | Fields, | subject. | with the these people and all others to join] us in making our protest effective.” Marguerite Zorach David Lew Phan H. Levy W. C. Curtis Alexander Godin Albert Stone Herman Spector Grace Hutchins Walt Carmon Charlotte Todas Thurber Lewis Ruth Shaw Rev. Prof. Robert Willson John Howard Lawson Jim Tully arthur Garfield Hays Arthur a io Fi rray Godwin Henry Neumann Horace Davis William Rose Benet | Ralph Cheyney Jack Hardy Anna Rocheste; Manuel Gomez Walter Snow | A. Bank Rae Lehr Newton Arvin Matthew Josephson Malcolm Cowley George 8. Counts Charles R. Walker Hugo Gellert F. Bank Eric Walrond A. L Bollock William Zorsch Wm. Fernandez C. Hartley Grattan C. Piccoli Helen Mallory R. Chodorow Frances Hady M. Spivak Polly Boyden F. Payne James Rorty 8. Buchwald Walter Wilson W. Quirt Adelaide Walker M. Kamman | Granville Hicks E. Ishigaki | Edward Dahlberg I. Rose Louis Colman Som Ornitz W. Van Beek Herry Freeman Harrison George Ab. Phillips | Spencer Meredith Basis Gruliow Paul Lobel W. Hawkins Esther Shemitz Wm. Gropper Marry Johnson J. Harvard Lawson Eleanor Copenhaver Harold U. Faulkner Berle Curti Norman MacLeod Harry Carlisle W. L. River Alexander Portoft Allan M. Marx Otto Sogiow Wm. Monroe Trotter | I. Klein Bruce Crawford Keen Wallis Arnold Johnson Joseph Gollomb Lee Kuns | John Germann Paul E. Guthrie Joshua Kunitz Paul M. Reid Harold Hickerson Richard W. Jungfer Bugene B. Link Thos. P. Krumpo James A. Dombrowsk , Tames A. Dombrowsky | Grade Lumpkin Anna Rosenberg Liva Cinquergrana David Burliuk M. Becker David O. Kendall | | Robert Carr John Heischler | Belle Baker Lester Schiff | Tess Slesinger G. Parker Weiss M. Larkin Willard Spence | Liston Oak Huber A. Kiemme —| Michael Gold N. H. Donne | W. Chambers Marion Frenyear | Marie Lear Kenneth 8. Kline Louis Berg C. EB. Opdyke Oakley Johnson Thos. N. Stern Ayako Ishicaki M. Haldeman J H. B. Davis Lydia Gibson Lydia Nadejuns Edgar Fraley Ed. Rolfe Eugene Gordon | Kenneth Nearing. ‘PHOTOGRAPHERS G0 ON STRIKE |Fight Against 25 Per Cent Wage Cut The workers of the Edison Jazan- | jian Studio, located at 724 Fifth Ave., near 57th St., struck against an addi- tional 25 per cent wage-cut, after having had two previous cuts of 10 and 15 per cent. This last wage-cut was attempted in @ disguised form, which the pho- tographers quickly saw. One of the | owners, Mr. Kaidon, stated that in order to relieve the depression he will pay his workers with shares of the firm instead of money. That is, one week they get full salary and the next week they would get 50 per cent money and 50 per cent in “super preferred stock.” Some of the work- ers work 48 hours for as low as $6 per week, The highest skilled worker gets as low as $15, $20 and $27 a week maximum. The workers not only militantly rejected the offer of the bosses, but unanimously answered this proposed dirty deal with a 100 per cent or- ganized strike, ‘The strikers call upon all photog- rapSyrs, especially those workers in the immediate neighborhood, to as- sist in picketing and support the strike. | | Wednesday evening at 7:30. |sion is fifty cents. | H. E. Briggs | | | | Street. l | Won’ t Send Delegate | | \to State That Keeps Mooney Imprisoned | NEW YORK. meeting, Friday, Hebrew-American Union, of the Ini — At its regular) | Local 83 of the "Typographical national Typo- | graphical Union, voted against | delegate to the Inter- onvent of the Union held this year at Long Beach, Ca-| lifornia The vote was a protest against | the continued imprisonment of |Tom Mooney by the State of Ca-| lifornia and the recent refusal of Governor Rolph to grant Mooney’s freedom. The printers declared that they would not send a dele- gate to any convention of their | union held in California SYMPOSIUM WED. EVENING ON. CHILD MISERY NEW YORK. been aroused in the symposium to | be held at the New School for Social | Research at 66 W. 12th St., on “Child ty and starvation in the United | States” and child care in the Soviet | Union The speakers for this symposium which is being held under the au- spices of the Workers International — Wide interest has Johnson, Mrs. Alice Withrow noted author and Max Weiss | The speakers will take up various | topics in connection with the main Special speakers will deal | situation of the working class child in the United States, with the conditions of the Negro child, the child in the Soviet Union and other similar aspects of the subject. The mask of demagogy with which the report of the White House Con- | ference on child health and welfare | is being circulated makes this sym- posium particularly important. The symposium will be held this Admis- Tickets for sale at the Workers Book Store, 50 E. 13th | "00 PLEDGE SUPPORT T0 MASS FIGHT FOR SCOTTSBORO- BOYS AT HARLEM MEETING Hear Story of Frame-up from James W. Ford, Proposed Communist Candidate for Vice-Pres- ident, Eugene Gordon, Melvin B, Levy and Louise Thompson NEW YORK—Over two thousand persons attended the Scottsboro mass meeting and concert Sunday night at Rockland Palace, 155th Street and Fighth Avenue, organized by the Na- tional Committee for the Defense of Political Prisoners with the aid of a |large number of Negro and white eae artists. The meeting James W. ist candidate for Vice-President of the United States, Louise Thompson, and Eugene Gordon, well-known Ne- gro writers, Carl Hacker, of the In- was addressed by} | ternational Labor Defense, and Mel- | vin B. Levy, of the National Com- mittee. Donald Henderson, professor of Economics at Columbia University, acted as chairman. Ford, proposed Commun- | During the evening a _ telegram was read to the audience trom Lang- | Ston Hughes, Negro poet and author, expressing his solidarity with the mass fight for the release of the in- nocent Scottsboro Negro boys, and calling upon all workers and honest | intellectuals to support that fight. ‘The concert program included con- tributions of talent by Rose McGlen- j don, one of the stars of “Por “Never No More” and other play |Martha Graham and her dancers, Bob Lewis, member of the Group Theatre, H. J. Williams, Negro basso accompanied by Francis Mann, George Harvey of the “Porges” cast, | Walter Hernandez, of “Black Birds,” Taylor Gordon, tenor and author of “Born To Be” and the Hall Johnson | | Singers. VOTES TO NEW YORK.—Ninety-one dele- | sates from 53 knitgoods shops, repre- senting about 4,000 workers, assem- bled at the conference Sunday in Irving Plaza ang decided to organize a mass strike in the coming season for better conditions, They adopted a tentative set of demands which have been turned over for discussion to the knitgoods workers at the shop, section and mass meetings. Thedemands are (1) 10 per cent increase in wages, (2) 20 per cent increase in wages for the lower paid workers, such as finishers, examin- TRIES TO EVICT TENANTS TODAY Landlord Out to Break Up Rent Strike | NEW YORK.—An attempt to halt a mass fight against the threat to | evict five tenants who are on a rent strike at 3215 Holland Avenue, Bronx, | was made when the Landlord's at- Melvin P. Levy Joe Kaplan | Ralph Preston D. Dorenz E. Haldeman Julius | Z. Maud Lester Cohn J. Burek Louis Browne A. Wolfe Nathan Asch C. Kait Louis Losowick Sol Wilson | Bernard stern Chas. Burroughs Pierre Loving P. C. Kirk torney reached an agreement and | promised to have it signed on Sun- | day. |ney for the landlord was This became clear yesterday when it was announced that the tenants would be evicted during the day. Later on the marshal said they would have to move on Tuesday. It is evident that while the attor- “negotiat- ing” the agreement, the proceedings to evict these workers wére being prepared. The Williamsbridge Unemployed Council calls upon all workers of the neighborhood to help the tenants in their rent strike and to see that they | are not evicted. PATERSON CASE IN COURT TODAY Revived on Demand of Bosses, Socialists PATERSON, N. J., May 16,—Teib and Gershowitz, two of those ar- rested months ago in a fur strike here, are coming up in Paterson Dis- trict Court today on a new charge—felonious assault on the nephew of Jake Harbins, the shop owner who was killed in an attack on strikers. The case was supposed to have been dropped. But recently a meet- ing of business men. socialist party chiefs and leaders of the Workmen's Circle here demanded that it be re- vived, and this is the first step. Workers’ organizations should send protests at this new attempt to rall- road to prison militant workers. Send protests to the district atorney in Paterson. WIR Calls for Artists to Help in Shoe Strike Cultural programs for the shoe strikers are being arranged by the Cultural Department of the Workers International Relief, with the coop- eration of the Workers Cultural Fed- eration, All workers and artists who can sing, play an instrument, draw, etc., and who are free Tuesday and ‘Thursday afternoons, are asked to send in their names and addresses to the W.LR. Cultural Department, 16 West 21st St., or to come to this address Mondays, Wednesdays, or Fridays, between 11 and 1 o'clock “The ihigge against militarism | ust not be postponed until the moment when war breaks cut. Then it will be too late. The struggle against war must be car- ried on now, daily, hourly.” LENIN. yg - ers, packers, floor girls and boys, (3) 44-hour week, the knitgoods trade is now working on the basis of 48 and 50 hours; (4) the right to the job, (5 abolition of sub-contracting. (6) establishment of an unemploy- ment insurance fund, (7) recogni- tion of shop committees and the Needle Trades Workers’ Industrial | Union. ‘Turnoff was chairman of the meet- ing. Joe Rapoport, organizer of the knitgoods department of the Indus- trial Union, reported on the organ- izational activities, showing that in the course of a short period close to 700 workers were organized. The knitgoods department has carried on @ number of strikes and has won some improvements in the conditions of the workers. However, these gains were not in any way sufficent to af- fect the conditions in the entire trade and in order to stop the wage-cuts and secure decent conditions a mass strike is necessary. Among the speakers was a young American girl, a striker of the Para- mount Garment Co. In her simple language she told of the hunger wages for which the girls of her shop | ————___ | Furriers Elect Today and Tomorrow; Mass Meeting on Thursday NEW YORK.—The elections for Trade Board, delegates to the execu- tive council and organizers of the Fur Department of the Needle Trades Workers’ Industrial Union begin this morning at the office of the union, 131 W. 28th St. The present situa- tion in the trade requires an able leadership that will direct the strug- \gle of the fur workers against the | wage-cuts and contracting. | All fur workers are called upon to participate in these elections. There will be a mass meeting of all fur workers Thursday at 2 p.m. at Irving Plaza to receive a report on the so-called “Fur Workers’ Conven- tion.” Come ang hear how Kaufman, Mc- Grady and Woll unseated the duly elected delegates from New York, Toronto and Chicago and controlled the convention, Mass Meet to Protest Polish Fascist Terror NEW YORK. — A mass meeting will be held Thursday, May 19, at 8 p. m. in the Irving Plaza Hall, 15th Street and Irving Place to protest against the Pilsudsky terror in Po- land. Hundreds of workers and peas- ants are being killed in Poland, thou- sands are thrown in jail and tor- tured to death by Pilsudsky in an attempt to stem the revolutionary movement of the workers and pre- pare for an armed attack against the Soviet Union. Workers are urged to attend this mass meeting and demand the re- lease of political prisoners. BORUCHOWITZ TO SPEAK TODAY. NEW YORK.—J. Boruchowitz will speak at the open forum Wednesday at 1:30 at Bryant Hall, 6th Ave. and 42nd Street on the following topic: “Has the Convention of the Inter- national decided for a Real Strike in the Cloak Trade or a Fake Strike Manouever Similar to the:Fake Strike of 19292” All cloakmakers are call+ ‘ed upon to come-to: this meeting: KNITGOODS SHOP CONFERENCE CALL MASS STRIKE |Demands 44-Hour Week and Ten Per Cent Wage Raise; 91 Delegates from 53 Shops were forced to slave. The boss, she further stated, put into effect one wage-cut after another, until finally the girls went on strike and turned for aid to the Industrial Union. They are determined to win their condi- tions. A delegation of knitgoods workers from Philadelphia greeted the con- ference. ee eee NEW YORK.—L. Berg and Ida Barshak, two knitgoods workers, were arrested at a picketing demonstra- tion held Monday morning at the Powell Underwear: Co., 441 Blake Ave. Brooklyn, which’ is now on strike against wage-cuts and dis- charges. They are accused of throw- ing rotten eggs at the few scabs that made an attempt to go up to work. The knitgoods department of the Needle Trades Workers’ Industrial Union calls on union members and sympathizers to come to a mass dem- onstration Wednesday morning “at 7:30 in front of the shop, 441 Blake Ave. Brooklyn, to support, these | young girls in their fight for better conditions. “Siberia Patrol”, New Soviet Film at Cameo Theatre “Siberian Patrol” the third Soyiet talkie to be releasedin the United States and now the current feature at the RKO Cameo, 42nd St. and Broadway, deals with an episode of the imperialist intervention in Si- beria, 1918-21. The story deals with a group of Siberian peasants, who defending their land and revolution against im- perialist and white guardist inter- vention have captured an enemy field piece and are trying to get it through for use of the revolutionary forces. A British and white-guardist outpost blocks the regular route amidst the vast snows of the Siberian steppes. the heroism of the partisans to get the gun through at all costs after their first qualms ofdoubts, leads them to push on. They capture a British sentry while the latter thinks of his life and work as a steel worker in Great Britain. The first reaction of the peasants is to kill the British soldier. The lat- ter is clouted and subjected to a shower of blows and curses from the peasants who see in him the imper- jalist enemy, who together with the white Russians have driven them from their farms, shot and outraged members of their families and want- ed to restore the rule of the landlords and czarists. One peasant however demands that they propagandize the enemy. Then follows a fine scene of characteriza- tion as the peasants try to ake the Britisher understand what they are fighting for and what their revolu- tion means. Finally the word Lenin becomes the key to a partial under- standing between them. The peasants push on with the captured field piece. At a treacher- ous turn in the road it falls upon one of the pertisans and crushes him beneath its weight. The silent efforts of the peasants to release their dying comrade reveals to the British soldier the heroism of the defenders of the workers and peas- ants’ revolution. Across the river he sees the Union Jack flying in the breeze, at the foot of the hill the dead partisan receiving the last respects of his comrades. He has to make a choice. With a quick decisive mo- tion he rips off the British insignia from his hat and directs his steps towards the partisans, The difficulties that this presents, |. Jobless Demonstrate in Front of Jewish Aid Society in N. Y. NEW YORK.—A mass demonstra- tion was held yesterday morning, un- der the leadership of'the Down Town Unemployed Council, in front of the Jewish Aid Society at Herdel and Pitkins Avenues, Brownsville. More than 500 workers participated in the demonstration and elected a committee of 8 to present their de- mand to the Society. The Committee was promised re- lief for all the workers outside. The police clubbed the Secretary of the Unemployed Council and Freda Chaplan as they were on the speakers platform. Four workers were arrested. In spite of the fact that a permit had been obtained for it, the demonstration was broken up by the police, FORCE BOSS TO GRANT DEMANDS Laundry Toilers Victory NEW YORK—The boss of the Bronx Home Laundry, which is also called the Edison, was forced to grant the demands of the drivers, calling for an increase in wages from $5 to $10 a week. For many months Mr. Bell, the boss of the laundry, was maneuver- ing and presented several schemes to the drivers. Every scheme meant a wage-cut. The drivers were terror- ized and acecpted them. Score Finally, the drivers, under the lead- ership of the union, elected a com- mittee and on Saturday, May 14, pre- sented their demands to the boss. After a seven hours’ conference the boss gave in. It is important to note that the boss invited Mr. Steinhorn, the president of the Racket Associa- tion, who proposed to take Hoffman, the union organizer, in the garage and “fix him up.” The Laundry Workers’ Industrial Union calls upon all laundry workers to bring their grievances to the union, to form shop committees and join the union, 260 E. 138th St. TRIAL OF HIAS STRIKER TODAY Workers oe to Be in Court at 10 A. M. NEW YORK.—The striking work- ers of the Hias, under the leader- ship of the Food Workers Industrial Union, are more than ever determ- ined to bring the fight to a success- ful conclusion. This is demonstrated by their mil- itancy in the face of the police ter- ror and arrests. Friday, one of the strikers arrest- ed and framed-up on a felonious as- sault charge, later on changed into a charge of “disorderly conduct.” The trial of this worker, Butel, who is out on bail, will come up to Court today, at 10 am. All workers are urged to be present at the trial. Yesterday an open air meeting was held in front of the Hias and hun- dreds of workers participated in it. A police attempt to prevent the meeting was unsuccessful. A call to proceed to the headquar- ters of the Unemployed Council, was answered by many of the workers present. SOVIET FILM “VILLAGE OF SIN” AT ACME | One of the finest examples of the moving picture art to come from Soviet Russia, “The Village of Sin,” is now playing at the Acme The- atre, 14th Street and Union Square. ‘The story, a drama of village life in old and new Russia, gives an ink- ling of the problems the woman has to encounter in the village to com- bat old ideas and. superstition, and the new educational system of the Soviet regime. The picture was pro- duced by Olga Preobrazhanskaya, who directed “Cossacks of the Don.” ‘The Jeading role is enacted by Em- ma Cessarskaya, one of foremost screen .artists in the Soviet Union. The same program will have the latest. Newsreel released by W.LR., showing scenes taken on the work- ingclass front. CHEVALIER AT JEFFERSON AND FRANKLIN « Maurice Chevalier is now appear- ing in his latest film, “One Hour With You” at the Jefferson and Franklin Theatres. Genevive Tobin plays. the chief female role in the production. Beginning Wednesday both theatres will present William Boyd and Ginger Rogers in “Car- nival Boat”, At the Jefferson trom Wednesday to Friday will be shown an extra feature, “Beauty and the Boss,” with Warren Williams and Marion Marsh. Short subjects are shown in connection with the main feature films. ith STREET -& UNION STARTING TODAY—3 DAYS ONLY! “The Village of Sin” A ripping story of village life tn Russin—before and after the Revolution , ith EMMA CESSARSKAYA, Directed by OLGA PREOBRAZHANSKAYA, who produced ‘Co: ——ADNEN ATTRACTION— W. I. R. Newsreel—Latest Scenes from the Working Class Front ACME THEATRE brilliant Soviet ‘chs of the Don" 150),* Weg rM. 1S¢;,:: Sat. & Sun, Midnite Show Sat. — Only 5 Days Left to Elect City Conference Delegates NEW YORK—Credentials from workers’ organizations and local unions are coming in to the office of the New York District Election Campaign Committee daily. Work- ers’ organizations are electing their representatives to the City Confer- ence, which will elect delegates to the National Nominating Convention in Chicago. This City Conference | will be in Manhattan Lyceum, May 22, and will start at 11 a.m. The District Election Campaign Committee points out that to get out a large number of workers’ repre- sentatives at this conference, to plan the Communist Election Campaign here ahd to give a broad base for the selection of national delegates, all workers’ organizations in the city should hurry to elect their represen- tatives to the City Conference and send in copies of their credentials to Room 505,60 E. 13th St., New York City. Delegates should be elected by shop groups and by shop commit- tees and by minorities in the old unions who stand for the points in the Communist election program. Union locals and all kinds of work- ers’ organizations should send dele- gates. The City Conference, says the Dis- trict Committee, must show the present bosses’ corrupt government. that the workers of New York City are determined to select and vote for their own candidates—are deter- mined to do everything in their power to elect people to represent ee pas | District Committee for.Communist Campaign Calls for More Signature Collections \ vad | This conference must expose Jimmy | Walker's slogan for beer as a hypoe critical gesture with which he hope@ to divert the attention of the worke ers of the city from the real issue, that of Unemployment Insurance, Collect Signatures. The collection of signatures to Place the working-class leaders on the election ballot has been going on for two weeks. The placing on the ballot of'these Communist Party cane didates means enabling the workers of the Uniteq States to cast their vote for the only Party that is really leading the workers of this country in a struggle for Unemployment Ine surance and for higher wages—the Communist Party. To place the Communist Party on the ballot means to continue with even greater inténe sity the struggle against the exploita+ tion of the workers by the boss clas& To do this requires the participae tion of every sympathetic worker. The committee says: “If you have not yet volunteered for this work YOU SHOULD DO SO IMMEDI+ ATELY! We cannot affor dto wait until the last minute with this work, but we must do our utmost to colleeb these signatures in the shortest pose sible ‘time. The boss class will dd everything in its power to keep thé workers’ Party off the ballot. Wa workers must make this impossible. Report without further delay to the Election Campaign center in your neighborhood. These centers @p open every night and all dayt em. OF ALL F. 8. Huge Mass General Wednesday Nigh NEW YORK. — Realizing the im- minent danger of an armed attack upon the Soviet Union, the more than 5000 members of the Friends of the Soviet Union, will assemble in a huge mass general membership meeting, Wednesday, May 18, at 8 p. m, at Irving Plaza, 15th St, and Irving Place. The leadership of the Friends of the Soviet Union consider this meet- ing of vital necessity in view of the immediate danger of armed inter- vention against the U. S. S. R. That they are not alone in seeing a war upon the horizon is attested by the following dispatch from the Chicago “Daily News”: CALL FOR MASS MOBILIZATION U. MEMBERS IN FIGHT AGAINST WAR Membership Meeting: Hf t at Irving Plaza | is interpreted in China as thi: S90 | move in a war between Japan ene | the Soviet Union. Competent ot» servers such as the Daily News ¢or- respondent in Peiping are convinced that the long expected conflict is near.” And, further, this report from se Whaley-Eaton service to its ¢ltent® under a Washington date liné of May 7th: “In military circles the opinion § expressed that Japan, within the,nezt few weeks will attack Russia in Man- churia.” The Friends of the Soviet Union, now engaged in an intensivé cam- paign for recognition of the U. 8. S, “The withdrawal of Japanese troops from Shanghai and the dis- patch of a new army in Manchuria R. as well as for defense report an immediate response to their cail for this mass mobilization, LAMUSEMENTS | S| THE THEATRE GUILD Presents 00 TRUE TO BE GOOD A New Play by BERNARD SHAW GUILD THEA., 524 St., W. of B’ Eve. 8:30 Mats. Thurs., Sat. Vhe Theatre Guild Presents REUNION IN VIENNA By nopEet Ee ‘steuwoon: Martin Beck TO°e", as Ev 8:40. Mts Th., Sat. Tel. Pe 6: THE THEATRE GUILD presente EUGENE O'NEILL’S Trilogy Mourning Becomes reel fl Ist Perf., “Homecoming,” 5:30 to 7 p.m. 2nd Pert., “The Hunted’-'"The Haunted,” 8:10 to 11: New Prices: $1, $1.50, $2, $2.50, $3 ALVIN THEATRE, 52d St., West of Biway COUNSELLOR. LLOR-AT: AW ELMER RICE PAUL. ‘MUNI Plymouth at"rwact’ Ssne S38 Dramatic Episode of the Intervention! “Siberian Patrol” New Soviet Talkie with English Titles Based on the Moscow Art ‘Theatre Stage Hit “Armoured Train’ . EXCLUSIVE SOVIET NEWSREEL Opening of Giant Soviet Plant MAGNITOGORSK game between Mi Sports in Mos fewsreel will not he shown other N. ¥. ©. Theatre) ; All Seats ATTENTION COMRADES! Health Center Cafeteria WORKERS CENTER 50 EAST 13th STREET Patronize the Health Center Cafeteria and Help the Revolutionary Movement Best Food Reasonable Prices Garden Restaurant _. 823 EAST 13TH ST. 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