The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 21, 1932, Page 1

NN. Y. Conference on Communist Election Campaign Meets Tomorrow, Manhattan Lyceum, 11 A.D VOTE COMMUNIST FOR 1. Unemployment and Social Insurance at the ex- pense of the state and employers. . Against Hoover’s wage-cutting policy. 8. Emergency relief for the poor farmers without restrictions by the government and banks; ex- emption of poor farmers from taxes, and front forced collection of rents or debts. Dail Central y vor ( Section of the Communist ees) frunist Porty U.S.A. VOTE CON 4. Equal rights for the } ation for the 5. Against capit suppression 0: 6. ‘Entered as eccon at New York, N. Vol. IX, No. 121 moniter at che Post Office ander the act of March 3, 1sz NEW YORK, SATURDAY, MAY 21, 1932 _Price: 3 Vents 4 a SOVIET PRESS EXPOSES LIES OF TROOP MOBILIZATION “With All Power At Their | Command” T the inaugural session of the International Workingmen’s Association (the First International), September 28, 1864, Karl Marx delivered an Istoric address, the final paragraph—fitting so well into the present | atuation of imperialism—being the following words: “The shameless applause, the sham sympathy, or the idiotic in- difference, with which the higher classes of Europe received the an- nexation of the Caucasian Mountain regions by Russia and the as- sassination of heroic Poland, the monstrous, unresisted encroach- ments of this barbarous power, whose capital is St. Petersburg and whose influence exists in every cabinet of Europe, has taught the Working class that their duty lies in mastering the secrets of in- ternational politics, in keeping a watch upon the activities of their governments and, when necessary, with all the power at their com- mand, counteracting such acti And when these designs of the ruling class have been brought to nought, the workers must come forward in a united fashion with the simultaneous demand that the simple laws of inerality and justice, which are considered right in the relations of private persons, shall be recognized as the supreme law governing the intercourse of nations. The struggle for such a foreign policy is embraced in the urtiversal struggle for the eman- cipation of the working class, Proletarians of all lands! Unite!” Marx spoke those words sixty-eight years ago about the aggressions of Russian Czardom and the ruling classes of Europe toward those ag- gressions. At present the words of Marx fit exactly the war of conquest being waged by Japanese imperialism, and the “shameless applause, the sham sympathy or the idiotic indifference” of the ruling classes of the other imperialist powers, Certainly imperialist France is giving “shameless applause” to Japan's | seizure of Manchuria, and just as certainly, American imperialism is ex- hibiting “sham sympathy” for the Chinese people and in Stimson’s cus- tomary fake “alarm” lest Japan make war on the Soviet Union. While Japan's Foreign Minister openly says that Japan “feels no necessity for making a non-aggression pact with the Soviets,” Secretary Stimson “felt 9 i} HUNDREDS OF DELEGATES. | by the Communist Party, ARE COMING Fight for Unemployed | Insurance; Session Must Start en Time NEW YORK.—The New York City Election Campaign Conference, called meets at! 11 a.m. sharp, tomorrow, Sunday, at} Manhaitan Lyceum, 66 East Fourth, Street. The District Campaign Com- | mittee points out the great necessity | of starting this conference: on: time, and appeals to all delegates to be prompt, es there is a very «crowded four hours’ session necessary. The conference is made up of rep- rescntatives of all types of workers’ | “organizations, as long as they are in| sympathy with the main points of the; Communist Party struggle for unem- | ployment insurance, against wage | | cuts, for equal rights for Negro work- | ers, and ‘against the imperialist’ war’ plots, ‘The degree to. which the Commu-! | | | | Lan || | Soviet Union as a desperate letter says: In a secret letter to iis banker clients, | service describes internal conditions in Japan as “ that the Japanese fascist action is directed towards Finance Agency Says Japan Aim to. Overcome Crisis by Anti-Soviet War dated May 19, the Wha rous.” ‘The jet p2eding the d attempt to save the crumbiing capitalist bave in Jap: MOLOTOV SAYS U.S.S.R. WILL HOLD 10 FIRM PEACE POLICY, BUT WILL DEFEND ITS SOIL Moscow Papers Answer Provocative Rumors FRENCH WORKERS Uper i. “Political developments in Japan are of paramount importance. hang not only the future of Japan and China, but that of Rv ternal ‘situation is dangerous....Whether Labor, or Communist strong enough to block the movement (toward a faveist dictatorshi “OR CAN BE PREVENTED FROM ACTING BY A MILITARY FORA THE SIBERIAN BORDER, WILL BE DETERMINED IN THE NEAR FU A Tokio dispatch to the New York Herald-Tribure yesterdas sharpening cf the agrarian c \the ‘militarists and their fer “the relicf of the farmers.” demanded. a “firmer ‘fanch intensifying the murderous DEMAND RELEASE: [imentsing the murder OF SCOTTSBORO 9 pee taresed Artertsion gs iF | | on of nzt the Soviet Unien. Spread by German Socialist Press; No Reserves Have Been Called to Arms By MYRA PAGE Correspondent op: of the Daily Worker) MOSCOW, May 20.—The Soviet press to- 'day publishes official denials of the series of provocative reports appearing in the bourgeois nd “socialist”. press abroad, particularly in Germany alleging a “state of alarm in Moscow” Reged ‘ 1 arming,” ete. ss categorically denies the reports publishéd press of a speech al- the workers of that French city in: giant demonstrations»: in. protest | against the murderous attempt of the ron soi ee iT CET INC G BRIN IGS OUT MORE delivered by the chief of the General Staff after the ag~ ination of the Japanese Premier announcing. Soviet war prepata- The chief of the Soviet Gen- See Staff made no such speecit, American ruling class.to legally jyneh | Neither did anyone e} Veith anyone else. Mo, necessity” of even talking with Litvinoff at Geneva—an act of.omis- | nist Election campaign is part of the sion aimed to, encourage Japan to open war on the Soviet Union. But more important than either shameless applause or sham sym- pathy,-are the munitions being sent from America and Europe to Japan. “The American capitalist press “admits” that Europe is sending munitions. And .in Europe the capitalist press is equally frank in “admitting” that America is.selling vast quantities of war supplies to the Japanese rava- (gers: of China and attackers of the Soviet Union. * ‘The capitalist: press of America—and the so-called “socialist” press ‘which mimics its “sham sympathy” for the victims of Japanese war tThakers—have a reason in concealing American imperialism’s. part in eid- ing “this barbarous power” whose influence exists in every cabinet. of capitalist Europe and America because they, also, are barbarous and all alike hate the Soviet Union and wish to destroy victorious socialist con- struction. ‘The reason American imperialism is concealing its part in supplying Japan for war. is that the American masses would vigorously object if they knew the extent of American cooperation in this respect. And today we have new. proof of this underhand intrigue in the form of a news item published by a Japanese language paper in San Francisco (“The New World,” May 13), stating that the cleverest secret service agents of Japan have recently arrived on both coasts of America, and are getting “excellent cooperation” from the American police, evidently—for one thing—to in- sure the flow of war supplies from America to Japan against stoppage by refusal of American: workers to make or transport such supplies. It is nothing new to American workers to feel the clubs of American police on their heads whenever they strike against wage cuts or demand ffom the government of “the richest country in the world” the food, cloth- ing and shelter needed to keep them aJive during unemployment. But this “excellént cooperation” given by the American government and police to Japanese spies against American workers is new enough to rouse masses of workers to action—and ti is the duty of every revolutionary worker to arouse and organize every American worker to indignant protest. No doubt this sneaking “cooperation” was responsible for the “Red Squad” of Los Angeles, headed by the notorious Hynes, breaking up a meeting of Japanese workers opposed to the Japanese “socialist” war- propagandist Oyama, who came to America along with the Japanese secret service sies. In any event, it is the duty of American workers, as Marx said, to “keep a watch upon the activities” of the government, and “with all the power at their command” to counteract the present sneaking activities of the American government in aid of Japanese imperialism. Out of the country with every agent of Japanese imperialism! Smash the ‘secret cooperation of American police with Japanese spies! Refuse to work upon, to make or transport anything whatever of use to Japanese imerialism in making war on the Chinese people and the Soyiet Union! idisbensible for Effective Struggle Against Imperialist War THE FOURTEENTH PLENUM PAMPHLET HE resolution of the Fourteenth Plenum, the last resolution of the Cen- tral Committee on Unemployment, the Eleventh Plenum of the Ex- ecutive Committee of the Communist International resolution on Imper- ialist War, now are all printed in a pamphlet called “Toward Revolutionary Mass Work.”. The price of the pamphlet is 10 cents. -Thoroygh. study of the Plenum resolutions is necessary for under- standing of the immediate tasks facing the Party in all its mass work, and especially the struggle for defeat of imperialist war against the Soviet Union’and the Chinese people. The Plenum discussion, if they are to be concrete, must firist of all be based on a thorough knowledge of the resolutions adopted by the Plenum, ‘The Plenum pamphlet also carries the Central Committee resolution on unemployment adopted last October. This important resolution was hardly made known to the Party. An understanding of the C. C. unem- Ployrhent, resolution will be of great help in the development of our unemployment work. The main resolution of the Plenum makes special reference to the unemployment resolution. There is a great deal of unclarity on the basic Leninist principles of our struggle against imperialist war. The 11th E. C. C. I. Plenum resolution against imperialist war can serve as an important weapon in Mobilizing the Party for the present immediate tasks in the sharpening struggle. With this in mind the above mentioned. resolution is included in the pamphlet. } District leadership should take a PERSONAL INTEREST in the cir- . culation of the Plenum pamphlet. Every Party member should get a copy of the. Plenum cosrahartesad Brooklyn Workers Stop} Eviction; Police Break _Up Open Air MassMeet diately. ca, Geuie ice, pS ag oi More than 100 workers participated ‘Brooklyn, »was stopped yesterday when|in @ mass meeting, which was bru- the workers of the block persuaded | tally attacked by the police, - the movers, who resented being ad- dressed to as scabs, to quit throwing the furniture on the sidewalks. The furniture was put back imme- | League, | New York building workers’ | the A. F. of L. leaders, to all its mem- | at 2 p.m., at 108 East 14th Street, and ;Mmoney with their delegates to the daily struggle of the workers is shown by. a-call issued by the Building and Construction Workers Industrial | fighting the sellout of the Strike by bers and sympathizers to meet today elect representatives to the Manhat- | tan Lyceum Election Campaign Con- ference. The building workers. will. first hear a representative of the Communist Party explain the Com- munist program. Many. Delegates Credentials from workers’ organiza- tions are stil coming in, practically on the eve of the conference. The latest to elect delegates are the striking shoe workers, as well as the Shoe Workers Union, Metal Workers In- dustrial Union, Food Workers Indus- | trial Union, Building Trades, Needle Trades. Workers* Industrial Union, Building Maintenance League, Medi- cal Workers League, Educational Workers League, Office Workers Union, Photo League and the Trade | Union Unity Council. Those organizations that have pledged sums of money for the State | and National Nominating Conven- | tions are asked to please send this | City Conference. Graft and Starvation The conference meets only two days after the latest exposure of Tammany graft. Richard B. Hunter, the banker who handled the money testified yester before the Hofstadter Committee that twelve days after Mayor Jimmie Walker jammed through the Equitable tri-boro bus franchise, J. Allen Smith, the agent of the bus company, went and bought & $10,000 letter of credit for Walker. The conference comes in the midst, of unexampled starvation of hundreds of thousands of unemployed workers in New York, whom Walker, with the bus company’s $10,000. in his pockets, sends police to club down if they ask for two pieces of bread instead of one. Hundreds of delegates are expected at tomorrow’s conference, represent- | ing workers’ organizations from all over the city of New York. From this conference delegates will be elected ‘to the National Nominating Conference. The City Conference will also elect a broad United Front Election Campaign Committee that will lead all the activities during the election campaign. Amter To Debate IWW Leader Tonight At Marine Workers Hall NEW YORK.—Israel Amtet, pro- posed Communist candidate for Gov- ernor of New York, will debate to- night with Ben Fletcher of the LW. W. on the role of the Communist Party at the headquarters of the Marine Workers Industrial Union, 140 Broad Street. Comrade Amter will deal particu- larly with the problems and strug- gles of the seamen and longshore- men and the role the Communist Party is playing in leading this sec- tion of workers, VOTE COMMUNIST FOR: 4, Equal rights for the Negroes and self-determination for the Black Belt the nine Scottsboro Negro boys.” Strong police guards have been; placed around the- United States Em~ bassy as a result of the growing in-| dignation, of the French workers against. the brutal.persecution of the Negro masses, The French workers are looking for- ward with great enthusiasm to: ‘the forthcoming visit of Mrs. Ada: Wright, iMother of two of the Scottsboro boys. Mrs. Wright is now touring Germany, ‘where tens of thousands of German Workers are rallying to the. world-| wide fight to free the innocent Scotts- boro boys. The German workers in many cities have defeated the at- tempts of the United States govern- ment and the German socialist police to block the tour of Mrs. Wright. The growing world-wide mass fight of Negro and white workers for the Scotsboro boys and against all forms of Negro oppression and persecution stands out in sharp con- trast to the traitorous. activities of | the N. A. A. C. P. misleaders, who are right now hob-nobbing in the Washington convention with the ruling class lynchers and oppressors of the Negro ——— BERLIN, May” 18, ‘wy Radio). —Mrs. Ada Wright, mother of two of the Scottsboro boys; spoke at a giant demonstration in Darm- stadt, in Hessen, Germany, last night. © A huge crowd of German work- ers greeted Mrs. Wright upon-her arrival with J. Louis Engdahl at the station. Defying the social- jast Noske’s police, the workers held a great mass meeting. at which both Mrs. Wright and Eng- dahl spoke. BEET TOILERS; RELIEF URGENT DENVER. Colo.. May 20.— The strike of 12,000@eet work- ers is'firm, and is growin~, in spite’ of many.*arrests, whole- |sale- evictions, and gexera!) | Starvation. : also. C ely cut off oing Vv je of to, the tec, 2736 La them. “Sorte of ‘the ‘growérs in Fori Mor- gan vavéalresdy: mace, overures to! the United Front Strike Committee. These farmers now offer £16 ad $17 Wper acre for thinning beais, in can- | trast to the $6 to $8 they first of-| fered when the season opened. They also. guarantee the pay. This is one of the most important demands of the strike. But the strikers put forth |a demand for $23 per acre. | In Puritan, Colo.,.sixty more fami- |ties have walked’ off the bect fields as a regult'of picketing. Calif. Japan Beasts of rat: Tells of Fine Co-o With Japanese § Spies Sent Here to Organize A mass meeting of 1,000 beet work- | ‘ers took place in Greely, Colo. The starvation is* especially bad | around Greely, Merchants there are | refusing all credit’ to strikers. | In Arvondale, the whole colony of '65 families are evicted. In Gilcrest there are fifteen evictions. " Rush. Relief. A central relief committee has been organized in Denver, and a united front: conference of all workers’ or- st Whi SAN FRANCIS format en £CO, May 2 2 New Worll” of a dispatch from Les Angel Japanese Government Secre‘ Band Rona oa Span Mel More arogant even than workers throughout the country in| and without the latter’s sending food and funds for relief. | American masses of this “excel ae caient Pratt maunptietely. oP ipaper elaborates its boast by« eres’ were clatgely, fiving’ on capitaiist | telling that the recently ar- charity waiting for’ the beet season | TV ed Secret Service agents of | to open, May 15,-the date of the| Japanese imperialism are “the Gov’t Sets Up New “War Council” to Hand Bankers More Millions DER the chairmanship of Owen D. Young,. chairman of the General Electric, there has been welded together in an attempt to find a capitalist Chiang Kai Shek Holds Rueggs Incommunicado; Delays Trial (Cable by Inprecorr) SHANGHAI, May 8~The recent open letter published by the widow of the great Chinese national revo- lutionary Sun Yatesen and the new wave of protest against the contin- ued imprisonment without trial under the most scandalous circum- stances of the Pan-Pacific Trade Union Secretary, Paul Ruegg, and his wife, have caused the Nanking authorities to issue once again their usual evasive statements concern- ing the “removal of the accused to Nanking,” the “examination of the documents in the case,” and “the coming trial.” The truth is that the real whereabouts of the accused cannot be discovered, that their de- fending lawyers’are not permitted to see the accused or even to see way out of the ever-deepening | ists. making up the coalition, were | called, together by George L. Harri- | crisis, the most powerful coal. son, governor of the Federal Reserve ition of bankers and.industrial-| pon of New York City, to cai ists ever organized. | further the policy devised at The: bankers and, industrial- | | Washington meeting of the govern- ors of Federal Reserve Banks earlier in the week. L. Mills, and Eugene Meyer, gov- ernor of the Federal Reserve Board journeyed from Washington to New York, to participate in the latest aa) 'move of the real ‘government’ on} the so-called “documents in the | Wall Street. case.” Embraces All War Industry One of the most prominent and oldest members of the Kuomintang, Professor Tsai Huan-pei, the presi- dent of the Chinese National Coun- cil for Scientific Inquiry, has sent a letter of protest to Wang Ting-wei in which he remands public treat- ment for the Ruegg case and per- mission for the defending lawyers to carry out their tasks. He points out that the Ruegg case has at- tracted the attention of the world and thet scientiiic and other public men in Europe and America have formed a special committee to de- fend Ruegg. He declares that if China demands international jus- tice, then it must show justice to foreigners. The benkers’ and industrialists’ | coalition ‘takes in all basic war in- dustries. Besides Young's trust, gan and Rockefeller banks, also di- rect representatives of Standard Oil, General Motors, American Telegroph and Telephone, chemical trust, pub- lic utilities, railwey and steamship combines. Ii is openly announced that this step was taken because of the failure of the Reconstruction Finance Corp- oration to arrest the devasta fects of the crisis upon business. The official announcement says: “Fear and uncertainty on the part (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) for A nti- °\the unspeakable “Red squad” Secretary of the Treasury Ogden | ese Paper S. Aid ite Guards by J. W. 20.—An astounding piece of in-| ne to light here in the local Japanese capitalist of Friday, May 15,in the form | boastfully stating that the) ganizations is called to meet here /“excellent cooperation from the American police authorities.” | the American capitalist press need for concealment from the! ent ccoperation,” the Japanese | [eleverest in Japan,” and were sent to America because of the im- | portance of their mission here. Stimson and Hoover figure that {Japan will immediately attack the Soviet Union, and Stimson and Hoo- ver are ready to arm Japanese. fas- | cism for that, and gamble with the | lives of American workers and farm- ers, who will pay with their blood. Workers! It is clear that if war is to be stopped, you” must. stop it! | Stimson and Hoover ready’ to risk | the lives of millions inva new world | war in order to try to destroy the socialist construction in the Soviet Union, will do nothing to drive these Japanese spies out_of America, while Polige, such as Hynes in Los Angeles ang |the Tammany dicks -in New. York, |and the cops and dicks of other cities, will give “excellent coopera- | tion” to these secret agents of Japan | fight the danger of war. And the Gow’ t Bans An printed in England, the main suppressed by the United St. for'distribution in New Yori C Joint action by ‘the svt Washington in this arbitrar Section 305-A of the tariff a tion of literature advocating “ of securing political changes. Numbers Four and Five (CONTINUED | x new ar-| three more Arvondale, maki arrests so in the strik last nine held without charges placed Soviet War ion of American Police against American workers, who really! ON PAGE FIVE? The Soviet press also brands as a provocative lie the reports issues by the Transocean Agency declarinz that the Soviet Government was mobilizing four classes of maned- vers, Molotoy, Chairman of the Coun¢il of Peoples’ Commissars, yesterday de livered a speech at the opening of the | mew chemical combingtion “Beres- miki” in which he declared that the Soviet Union would not permit itself to be provoked into wat but would protect its ows) territory if sitacked |and supply effective proof of the | fighting capacity of an armed pro- Istariat. The firm peace policy of the Soviet Union is known to everyone. Even the enenty bourgeois press has beén forced | to make repeated admissions that the Soviet Union does not desire war and [is resisting the persistent war prova- | cations by the Japanese miilitarists. .’ ‘These provocations have taken the ‘form of a steady concentration of | Japanese troops on the Soviet borders, of wholesale arrests and tortures’ of Soviet citizens by Japanese and White Guard troops in Manchuria, of the ,organizing and arming of White | Guards by the Japanese for war pro- | vocative acts on the Soviet border, Service agents, recently arrived (of open attempts by the Japanese to from Japan in beth New York and Los Angeles, are obtaining | 2°. the Chinese Eastern ilway, owned by the Soviet Union. : White Guards, inspired by the Jap+ anese have raided the offices and property of the Chinese Eastern Rail- way, and have even attacked and | beaten up members of the Soviet con- sular staff at Harbin. “In, addition, the Japanese War Minister and other | high officials have made open threats | agaitist, the Soviet Union. Japanese high officials in secret official documents have brazenly outg’ Iined their ‘robber aims toward Soviet | territory and called for a “holy” cru: sade of the world capitalists for arm: ed intervention against the Soviet Union and its victorious Socialist con- Striction.’ In’ the face of all thése | provocations ‘the Soviet Union ‘has |maintained its calm and continues its struggles for peace. SLI Sai EMER capitalist press will continue to: cons | egal this. reaction: intrigue. < |. Nevertheiess,. a. storm; of protest. from. the. workers -and farmers, can: deleat these dark~ agent’ of Japan, secret or open, from. America! Or=j ganize the masses to smash the “ex- |celent, cooperation” of the American police with Japanese spies | American ead tt Wai ti Issue | of ‘Communist International’ the , General Electric, there are the Mor- | Number Six of the Communist International magazine, shipment of whiche has been, - ates Customs department and” delivery refused, is Bie aginst here and will be ready’ * Cit: e and cusvoms depertment stn cens' taken under’, et which forbids the importa- force and violence” as a meana | were seized in April under a”