The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 20, 1932, Page 1

VOTE COMMUNIST FOR 1, Unemployment and Social Insurance at the ex- pense of the state and employers. x. Against Hoover’s wage-cutting policy. ro] 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. (Section of the Communist International) Emtered as eecond-clase at New York, N.Y. ande -— Vol. IX, No. 120 matter at the t S on Against capitalist orn COMMUNIST FOR Equal rights for the Negroes and self-determin. ation for the Black Belt. 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. Ff the act of March 3, 15’ NEW YORK, FRIDAY, MAY 20, 1932 JAPANESE INVASION OF U.S.S.R. IMMINEN CONFERENCE 2 DAYS OFF; RUSH YOUR DELEGATES Communist Election Conference Will Be Big Affair NEW YORK—With only two days left before the New York City Elec- tion Campaign Conference, the City Election Campaign Committee ts making the final preparations. The Socialist Aides of Japanese Intervention | hae day brings more alarming facts that point to immediate war and intervention against the Soviet Union. Japan, the present spear- | head of imperialist banditry, has consolidated its “super-Party” fascist | government behind the increasingly heavy concentration of armed forces | in Northern Manchuria, In closing its ranks to carry on war against the fatherland of the | workers of the world, the Japanese bandits have the full support of | the “socialists.” So important is the role of these social-fascists that the new fascist cabinet is referred to as the “Sumurai-Socialist-Alliance.” The New York Tribune showers praise upon these Japanese socialists thus: “It is this close co-operation of the socialists with the militarists in their ‘super-Party’ plans which gives the ‘purification’ movement such stability and importance.” The Japanese socialists, in harmony with the role of international social democracy, have proved to be the best agents of decaying capital- ism in trying to seek a capitalist way out of the crisis by imposing ever greater burdens upon the toiling masses, by dismemberment and ray- aging of China and by war and intervention against the Soviet Union. Now they openly enter the cabinet of murderers, blackguards and fas- cist war-mongers, where they are assigned the job of trying to smash with blood and iron the increasing mass of Japanese workers and peas- ants who, under the leadership of the Communist Party, are waging a determined struggle in defense of the Chinese people and of the Soviet Union, The Japanese Communists have unfurled the banner of revo- lutionary struggle against the war-mongers. They have unhestitatingly put forth the Bolshevik slogan of “defeat of our own capitalist govern- ment.” While the Japanese social democrats have entered the fascist cabinet to strengthen the war and interventionist front against the Soviet Union, their “comrades” in other capitalist countries are playing equally de- spicable parts. In Germany the official organ of the social-democracy, “Vorwearts” comes out with infamous provocations, declaring that the Soviet government has called “to the colors” its reserves of four years, instead of the usual one year’s reserves and that this action is “designed to be a demonstration of Russia’s armed force in ‘riew of the events in the Far East.” This is nothing other than a filthy social-fascist attempt to conceal ixgus the masses the consistent peace policy that has from the beginning been pursted by the Soviet Union. It is an attempt to depict the Soviet Union as indulging in military threats after the traditional manner of the capitalist powers. Even the British capitalist press admits “there is certainly no evidence to substantiate’’ these charges. (See the N. Y. Post, May 19.) m At the very moment Japanese imperialism is organizing direct inter- vention and war against.the Soviet Union the social-democrats. not only repeat their treachery of 1914, when they rallied to the support of their imperialist governments after the outbreak of war, but today they come forth before the war as leading organizers in the attempt to arouse the masses against the workers’ fatherland. In the United States the social democrats, the leaders of the so-called socialist par‘, fall in line behind the imperialist band-wagon. The New Leader, the organ of Norman Thomas, on May 14th came out with one of the foulest attacks ever penned against the Soviet Union—from that utterly putrid pen prostitute, strike-breaker, boss of thugs and gangsters, Abe Cahan, editor of the Jewish Daily Forward. Cahan assails even the capitalist press on the grounds that they do not sufficiently criticize the Soviet Union. In forwarding war preparations against the Soviet Union, the socialist leader, Cahan, lies: “Hundreds of people living near the frontiers flee to the neighboring countries, risking the bullets of the border guards rather than continue their intolerable existence at home.” ‘Thus, according to Cahan, people flee from a country where un- employ is abolished, where there is a rapid and steady improvement in the standard of living of the masses, to the white guard countries lining the borders, and where decaying capitalism reeks in all its rottenness, Cahan’s comrade, Mrs. Meta Berger, who recently returned from Geneva, aids the war preparations by trying to make workers believe that the rival imperialist bandits at the Geneva “disarmament” confer- ence would have reached agreements had it not been for fear of a Bolshevik invasion, which kept the “conference from moving toward its Dbjective of limitation of word’s armaments.” Also on the imperialist bandwagon is Schlesinger and his machine, @t the head of the International Ladies Garment Workers’ Union, which demanded “freedom for socialist political prisoners in the Soviet Union,” at its recent convention in Philadelphia, but tries carefully to conceal from the workers the fact that only counter-revolutionaries, caught in the international imperialist bandits are in prison in the Soviet Union. Following the imperialist bandwagon are the American Trotsyites, piping on their tin whistle and demanding in the May 14th issue of their weekly police rag that the Soviet Union “release the thousands and tens of thousands of Bolshevik-Leninists from the Stalinist prisons and exile camps and restore them to their rightful place in the Party.” All this is part of the war drive that is now under way against the Soviet Union. And the works of all of them have received a special benediction from the pope of Rome, who, from the vatican hurls maledictions against Communists and tells workers not to fight capitalism but to “suffer with mbanied resignation the privations imposed upon them by these hard times.” p ‘The real depth of the infamy of the American social democrats and renegades (Cannon, Lovestone) can be more readily measured in connec- tfon with the definite fascist trend at Washington. Information that came into the possession of the Daily Worker proves that there is being set up @ “super-party” war council in Washington that will function definitely after Congress adjourns. This chain of recent events shows the terrific speed with which the Lepage world plunges toward war and intervention against the Soviet Mion. Every worker should respond in action against this drive toward imperialist war. The world-wide extent of the capitalist attick, the mani- fold forms it takes, must spur the masses to action; must impel us all to exert every cunce of energy and use every available Weapon to fight against the imperialist war. Here we must organize and deliver heavy blows by stopping the ship- ment of arms and munitions or other goods to Japan. We must hurl our |power against the agents of Japanese imperialism, the spear-head of the ‘attack against the Soviet Union, and drive its agents from these shores, German Workers Protesting cottsboro Verdicts, Defy ocialist Police Chiefs EERLIN (By Radio).—Several thousand German workers greeted Mrs. Ada Wright, militant Scottsboro mother, in Stuttgart, Germany, Last minute speakers are being sent out to the various organizations that have not been visited as yet, since, due to the fact that there are hun-; dreds of organizations, it has not been possible to reach all of them. ‘Therefore the Election Campaign Committee especially appeals to those organizations to elect their delega- tion regardless of whether a speaker comes, so that they will also be directly connected with all the plans for the months of campaigning ahead. “The Communist Party, in line with its program of real workers’ solidarity and equality, has attempted to pene- trate into all workers organizations with its appeal for delegates to the Conference. Negro organizations, A. F. of L. locals, workers’ organizations of all nationalities, have been urged to become active participants in not. activities of the Election Campaign. only the conference but in all of the The Toussaint L’Ouverture Anni- versary Mass Meeting that will be held at St. Lukes Hall, Friday, May 20, will also elect delegates to the city-wide Conference. ‘The Conference will start promptly at 11 A. M. sharp and the delegates are all urged to be on time. There will be only one session, with many important matters to be considered, therefore the starting on time be- | comes a very important matter. 68 6 For the First Time NEW YORK.—Workers candidates will run in three Senatorial and two Congressional districts, also two As- sembly districts in Long Island. For the first time in history Com- munist candidates are running in Queens, Nassau and Suffolk Counties. |The campaign of the Communist | Party, especially in this part of New York, will broaden out and increase the struggles for Unemplpoyment In- surance and térror of Negro and Un- employed workers. Cutting off of relief, foreclosures of workers’ homes, high taxation of the thousands of small home owners, will be brought to the very doors of the bankers and millionaires who live in this area in palatial homes, a sharp contrast to be found in prac- tically every one of the towns and} villages. Negro and foreign. born workers, also the majority of the native working class, live in segre- gated sections where it is a common thing to see crumbfed, rotten shacks, unfit for human beings to live in. To carry on this strong and vigor- ous Campaign in the elections, broad United Front Conferences are called for May 22. The Conference involving workers’ organizations from Nassau and Suf- folk will be held in Hempstead, L. at 4:30 p.m., at the Ukrainian Hall, Uniondale Avenue and Front Street. Delegates from the working “class organizations of Jamaica and vicin- ity will attend the Conference in New York, Price 3 Cents’ SAYS BRITISH PAPER World Capitalists Support Japanese rive for War on the Soviet Union WORKERS! TO JAPAN ! DEFEND THE SOVIET UNION! LONDON, May 18.—In a leading article, the liberal Manchester Guardian yesterdy admitted that the whole world stands on the verge of a bloody conflict as the result of the criminal war drive against the Soviet Union by the Japanese militarists, supported by the sham pacifist maneuvers of all bourgeois statesmen who carried out “ihe same policies in August, 1914.” “The Far East is a tangle of conflicts and unless a remedy is found will be the scene of the next great war. The more fanatic sort of Japanese imperialists always dreamed of expansion at Russia’s cost and now when a victory over Russia would be popular in Europe might seem the time to act. “We stand on the verge of a conflict and do nothing. Statesmen work in the same old way, play off one force againsé the other in the hope of gaining a breathingspace whil e the conflict moves nearer.There is unreality, terrible unreality in statcsmen’s speeches, and explana- tions! Were not they carrying out the same policies in August, 1914? “Germany has been-broken and embittered by the venemous Versailles treaty. Japan has even been encoui ged to make the League of Nations the object of cynical ridicule. Every kind of activity which hate, plus mechanical ingenuity, is capable of has been perpetrated at Shanghai against defenseless civilians and now a grave danger exists that Russia, struggling to achicve better social order, grappling bravely with immense difficulties, will have to pause in her work to defend herself against the Japanese militarist: innate decency in ordinary men and women finds expression in those who represent them? aments that statesmen load on their backs. Peaceable people stand foolishly by-while cireumstances of future wars tii which they must suffer are created under their very eyes.” These admissions -by a liberal bourgeois paper, should help every worker to overcome all ling2r and the criminal aims of the huge war preparations being carried on by all the imperialist powers. * * * Peaceable people g How long skall we wait before roan under the weight of arm- doubis as to the imminence of war The drive for war against the Soviet Union con no longer be concealed. Every day brings fresh admissions from all sections of the bourgeois press of the nature of the Japanese troop concentrations on the Soviet border and the anti-Soviet war provocation in France and her vassal states on the w: Union. Workers must answer these definite war moves by organization and action no Workers! war United Front Committees in your shops and unions and other or- Organize Committees of Action to prevent the shipment the bloodbath being ganizations! prepared by the bosses. This is the proleiarian teri frontiers of the Soviet . way and the only way to combat Organize anti-% of arms and munitions against the Soviet,Union and the Chinese people! Let the imperialists another blood, know that the working ¢lass will not be driven into slaughter against their otto: Additional new, on page three. ~ 2,000 MORE BEET WORKERS workers! DENVER, Colo., May -19.—| Two thousand more beet work- ers went on strike from the ten colonies at La Junta. The southern beet field is now en- tirely out, and the northern field is effectively crippled. Thousands of strike calls in English, Spanish and German are being circulated. Or- ganizers of the United Front Strike Committee are working tirelessly, day and night, to bring out the rest of 1,000 SHIPYARD WORKERS MEET TO FIGHT CUTS BOSTON, Mass., May 19. — Over 1,000 Fore River Shipyard workers held an enthusiastic meeting last night at Quincy, Mass., against the announced wage cut of 15 per cent (actually much larger) and other grievances. The meeting was called by the Anti-Wage Cut Committee. Organizer Hurst of the Metal Work- ers Industrial League was the main speaker. A moyement is under way to organize Anti-Wage Cut Commit- tees in every department of the yards. About 2,400 men are having their wages cut at Fore River yard. Local papers say that the number is 4685, but that is nearly twice the number working in the yards since lay-offs began, ‘the northerti ‘field, and to stimulate loéal organization of strike, relief and | defense committees. 22. Arrested. Folowing the threats made at the beginning of the strike by the sher- iffs of Weld and Morgan counties, a savage terror has been started dur- ing the last two days. Mass picket demonstrations are ordered to dis- perse by armed deputies. Seven strikers were arrested to@ay at Fort ‘Morgan. Seven were ar- rested at La Junta. The total of ar- rests in Greely section is now eight, five having been taken up day be- fore yesterday, released, and then re- arrested yesterday. There are in- numerable eyictions® Delegations of sugar company agents among the beet farmers have approached the county officials and requested that al! county relief for the starving beet workers be cut off during the strike. The county officials needed no urg-| ing, they were already doing it. Demand $23 Per Acre. The strike started Monday, and has now grown to about 12,000. The strikers demand $23 an acre, instead | of the $13 to $15 they have been of- on “strike “against 2 25 percent cut, the fourth within the last ‘three months.--~- These ‘are unorganized workers of the Atlantic and Simp- son yards. The A. F. of L..is «trying to get ‘into the situation to sell out the strike, and ‘the Metal Workers Industrial\League urges the strikers to keep control in their own hands by electing a broad rank and file strike committee, which alone shall represent them, and with which the Four hundred workers are actually BOSTON, Mass., May 19.—) Edith Berkman, who has been held for months in detention stations and hospitals by the Federal immigration authori- the future. Edith Berkman started the hunger strike on May 7, demand- ing release from custody of the Bu- reau of Immigration. She was then in Massachusetts Memorial Hospital, M. W. I. L. offers to co-operate fully. Edith Berkman Discontinues Hunger Strike After Thousands Appeal to Her to Save Life later. sky Berkman’s letter is as follows: Central New England Sanatorium, Rutland, Mass., : +) May 19,°1932. Boston, suffering from tuberculosis. | “To Workers and Sympathizers: ‘| was being taken and kept incommu- |fered this season. (Correction, by ac- cident, the Daily Worker reported the demands yesterday as $23 a week. The strikers demand $23 an acre). | Starving; Need Relief! | Absolute starvation menaces the strikers unless relief funds and shipments of food ate rushed at once to the United Front Relief Commit-| tee, 2736 Lawrence St., Denver, Colo. (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) PEA PICKERS STRIKE IN CAL. 1500 Out for More Pay;! Ready to Organize HALF MOON BAY, Cal., May 19.— | Fifteen hundred pea pickers around | |here struck spontaneously on Mon- | \day. They held a mass meeting in| a camp and demanded 75 cents a bag) of peas instead of the 50 cents they lare getting. The sheriff, the American Legion and deputized business men con-) ducted a campaign of intimidation | and threats against the strikers, and they were finally forced back to work yesterday, almost at the point of a gun. The, strikers are temporarily beat- en, but numbers of them have de- clared themselves ready to organize for further struggle, and are begin- ning to join the Agricultural Work- ers Industrial League of the Trade Union Unity League. ; though sick, I was twice forcibly re- moved from the hospitals under armed guard, not knowing where I nicado for days. “*1 discontinued the hunger strike | Secret Fascist Council Formed to Meet War and Deepening Crists Super-Party War Council of Republicans and STRIKE; DEPUTIES 7 AIL g ra Demecrats Directing ing War and Open Dictatorship Both Parties; Prepar- A super-Party War and already beginning ton. This is revealed Council is being formed to function in Washing- in a confidential letter issued to bankers and businessmen by the Kip- linger Washington Agency on May 14th. This agency is one of the instruments of finance capital to direct the lower ranks of the bourgeoisie. It reveals in a somewhat more developed form: the plans for a more open form of bour- | geois dictatorship in preparation for way. for a coalition government wi “Secrecy is maintained” and the present steps are pushed rapidly “to prepare the public mind mean- while.” The maturing of the fascist National Council, it is predicted, will come in July after the adjournment of Congress. Very powerful forces are moving behind this scheme. The sudden un- | animity of all the big newspapers in the past two weeks behind the Hoo- ver-Smith program is one of the first fruits of the new move. The leading group of this super-Party cabinet in- “Some substitute Il have to be formed,” it says. PROTEST LYNCH VERDICT: PICKET RITCHIES MANSION | 2 | ANNAPOLIS, Md., May 19.—Negro jand white workers yesterday picketed jthe Executive Mansion tn vigorous cludes behind Hoover and his im-/ protest against the vicious attempts mediate advisors, the Democrats Al|of the State officials and courts to Smith, Owen D. Young, Newton Ba-| block hearing on the appeal filed by ker as well as the head of the Fed-| the International Labor Defense at- eral Reserve System, Myer and Wil-|torneys against the lynch verdict ties, because of her leadership|A wave of mass demonstrations and in the Lawrence strikes last taeda iat ay ie aN S, es jp. | lease took place, On Saturday, May maa has ended her vag hung 14, police and representatives of er strike, She. explains in a) commissioner of Immigration Anna letter from her present place |Tilinghast kidnapped her from the . Louis Engdahl the right to speak at the meeting. The workers pledged though the government of Wurtemberg denied both Mrs, Wright and plats Brad he rg o pea a the meting "The worker peed ‘Innocent Scottsboro boys, Sey ee of confinement, that she does so only | hospital, and took her to another, 65 at the universal request of many|miles away, where she still is. The workers’ organizutions, who want her | authorities tried to hide her to live and lead workers’ struggles in| but @ committee found her. atime 3 i ) A “Yesterday I discontinudd my hun-| because during the ten days of the) ger strike.’ I did this hot because of | hunger strike ihe Protection of For-| the brutality that Doak’s immigra-|cign Born Committee of the Interna- tion department, together with phe tional Labor Defense, which is de- Police, used agairst me, while I was) fending me. received a flood of tele- sick in the hospital. Not because all| grams and letters from workers urg- during my hunger strike Mrs. Til-|ing met» do so. These letters pointed tors made con-| out that because of my tubercular liam Green and Matthew Woll of the American Federation of Labor, Norman Thomas of the socialist party is advocating many of the planks of the fascist program. The following 1s the complete text | | of the confidential letter of the Kip- linger Afency: The Kiplinger Washington Agency National Press Bldg., Washington, D. C. Washington, Saturday, May 14, 1932. Dear Sir: It is beginning to be apparent that some substitute for a COALI- TION GOVERNMENT WILL HAVE TO BE FORMED to handle the situation after adjournment of Congress, which will probably be on June 10. One month ago this idea was considered “wild” and “fancy.” Daring the past ten days very seri- ous consideration has been given the suggestion in high official quar- ters. SECRECY. 18 MAINTAINED, and the present intention is to make no definite move until July, but’ to PREPARE THE PUBLIC AND MIND MEANWHILE, ‘There are several plans, but one revolves about the idea of ASSEM- BLING IN WASHINGTON, OR SUBJECT TO QUICK CALL, A DOZEN OR | MORE mot jagainst Yuel Lee | Negro farm hand. | Gov. Ritchie had absented himself lin expectation of the demonstration, | but had ordere@ cut 25-of his State police in an attempt to intimidate the workers. The full force of the Annapolis police were also on hand with tear gas guns and clubs, ‘The demonstrators, three-fourths of whom were Negro workers, carrie® banners and slogans demanding the release of Lee, dencuncing the action of the court before which he was tried in barring Negroes from the jury. The workers demanded the re- lease of the nine Scottsboro boys, vie- tims of the same class justice dis- pensed’ to workers, and especially Negro workers, by the courts of the ruling class. Yuel Lee was framed up several months ago on the charge of murder- ing a rich white farmer on the east- erm ‘shore of Maryland. Lee had once worked for the farmed and had been robbed of a day's wages. He was defended by the I. L. D., whose | attorneys forced the court to admit | that Negroes were deliberately barred | from the jury. The TI. L. D. filed | notice of an appeal against the lynch verdicts, but the Maryland lynchers have now raised a legal technicality by which they are attempting to (Orphan Jones), ORGANIZE ANTI-WAR ‘COMMITTEES IN YOUR SHOPS! STOP THE SHIPMENT OF MUNITIONS