The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 24, 1932, Page 1

\ Aceh) VOTE COMMUNIST FOR Unemployment and Social Insurance at the ex- pense of the state and employers. 2. 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. ~ Dail Central > (Section of the Communist International) orker Orga aS Swhunist Party U.S.A. © VOTE COMMUNTST FOR « 4; [quatrights for the Negroes and self-determit» ation for the Black Belt. 6. 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. 1x, No. 123 Ss Entered an eccomd-cl at New York, N. ¥., amder the act of March 3, 1 moaiter at the Post Of =< NEW YORK, TUESDAY, MAY 24, 1932 CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents ‘GRAND DUKE’ BOASTS JAPAN WILL ATTACK SOVIET UNION Roosevelt---Demagog! EMAGOGY AND DICTATORSHIP—These are the methods by which Wall Street government and its various agencies are attempting to solve the acute crisis. ‘These are the means by which American imperialists and their hangers-on are preparing for war. Under the head of shameless demagogy comes the speech of Governor Roosevelt to the graduating class of Oglethorpe College. Here Roosevelt put forward the outworn “liberal” theory of the reorganization of capi- talist production and distribution for the benefit of the “common people.” His speech was a mixture of the vaporings of William Jennings Bryan and the “trustbusting” hypocricies of Theodore Roosevelt and his Bull Moose colleagues. But it was more than that. Roosevelt aimed in his speech to sidetrack the workers from struggling against the capitalist system by throwing out the faint suggestion that speculation and the bankers are responsible for capitalist chaos while the system itself is sound, For, most of all, of course, the governor of the richest state in the Union, with its more than 1,500,000 unemployed, is interested in main- taining the present system. He says so, in the following quotation from his speech, which, like his whole deluge of words, is unaccompanied by a signle con¢rete proposal as to HOW to better the conditions of the masses NOW! “Do what we may have to do to inject life into our ailing economic order, we cannot make it endure for long unless we can bring about a more equitable distribution of the national income. It is well within the inventive capacity of man....to insure that all who are willing and able to work, receive from it at least the necessities of life. In such a system, the reward for a day’s work will have to be greater, om the averag@, than it has been, and the reward to capital, especially capital which is speculative, will have: to be Jess.” (Our emphasis). Roosevelt wants to maintain capitalism. He puts forward the gen- eral proposition that capitalists, especially speculative capitalists (bankers and stockbrokers, etc.) as distinct from industrial capitalists whom ‘he considers useful, should accept a smaller “reward” while the “reward” for “a day’s work” should be “greater.” This is poppycock intended for mass consumption, Roosevelt has no intention whatever of increasing the wages of the workers and reducing profits of the capitalists. The wage slashes in his own state are positive proof of that. But even if this charlatan meant what he said only fools would be- lieve that the murderous capitalist system could in any way change its Course to raise wages and lower profits. “The yery development of modern industry,” said Marx, “must progressively turn the scale in favor of the capitalist against the working man, and that consequently the general tendency of canitalistic produ:- tion is not to raise, but to sink the average standard of wages, or to push the values of labor more or less to its minimum limit.” ‘The whole machinery of capitalist government is organized to enforce this process. F "Po reverse this process requires a social revolution.-Only then does the mechinery of production under the proletarian state begin to serve the social needs of the toiling population—by production for use instead of profit. ¢ Even to check this process from time to time of the constant worsen- ing of the conditions of the masses of workers under capitalism requires powerful industrial unions and militant mass struggle against the capi- talists and their government. Millions of workers who never heard of Marx are coming to realize these basic facts of the class struggle. The existence of the Soviet Union where the November revolution overthrew capitalism and made possible the building of industry under the control of and for the use of the toiling masses led by their Com- munist Party has shown.the only way out of the capitalist crisis and out of capitalism with its unemployment, hunger and war to huge armies of workers, poor farmers and colonial peoples. The generalities of Roosevelt are not the result of ignorance nor do they represent any outpouring of sympathy for the working class in the United States. No one knows better than Roosevelt, as governor of New York State, containing the city which is the headquarters of finance capital, that Wall Street and its government will recede not one inch from its program of crawling out of the crisis at the cost of unspeakable misery to the workers caused by the reduction of millions to the pauper level and by the slashing of the living standard of the entire working class, accompanied by rapid increase of the dictatorial powers of state and national government—except in the face of the most resolute mass | struggle by the working class. ‘The role of Roosevelt and the liberal pose which he is assuming is to demoralize the working class in the face of the ceaseless offensive of eapitalistn on a”: fronts. He asks votes for Roosevelt from the starving masses. He assures the working class, and the ruined middle class elements, that the demo- | erat party, with him at its head as president, will turn back the wheels of the capitalist system, make it work for the “interests of the nation as a whole.” ‘This “nation as a whole” conception is the pet phrac> of these capi- talist party demagogues. It is used consciously to obscure the ever sharper relief into which the continual decay of capitalism throws the sharp facts of the class struggle; it is used to cover up the fact that the basic eonflict in America today is class against class—working class against eapitalist class, Roosevelt, has the ambition to follow in the footsteps of Woodrow Wilson in his prime. Wilson was the most skilful of all demagogues in his use of the “nation as a whole” conception. With it he cajoled the masses into support of an imperialist war which brought finance capital to its present pinnacle of power with: the House of Morgan at its apex. Workers will do well to remember in connection with Roosevelt's speeches, which will grow more radical as the crisis deepens and the elec- tion campaign advances, that Wilson wrote a book called “The New Free- dom” in which he too promised “a more equitable distribution of the na- tional income.” y - Remember too that Wilson appealed to the masses during a period similar to this—the period when imperialist war was already going on, and that he promised to “keep ‘us’ out of war.” Roosevelt wants to be a war president on a peace program—just as Wilson was. Nothing gives such a thrill to such Hars and hypocrites, The Communist Party as the revolutionary party of the workingclass has the task of exposing the anti-working class character and the loyalty to American capitalism of these agents of imperialism to whom the lives, and misery of millions of the working class are something to use in the interests of the very system and the rulers they pretend to denounce. ‘The struggle to expose these demagogues must be intensified and must be an important part of the election fight which yoes forward on a larger | scale with the Communist Party Nominating Convention in Chicago. 00 Workers Put Back 7.4 ants were mobilized by the ‘urniture of Evicted | Unemployed council and put up a 7 A splendid fight. The furniture of the Family in the Bronx evicted family was put back by taave that 300 workers, who later partici- pated in an open-air meeting. In view of the workers’ militancy the police did not attempt to prevent enings St., Bronx, The head of this|the workers from putting back the ily works three days a week for) furniture or from perticipating in the YOW YORK.—A family with three Pell children was evicted yesterday torning from the apartment at 845, TO ATTEND NATIONAL CONVENTION Thousands of Workers Will Answer Threats Against Session CHICAGO, Ill, May 23. — Prep- arations are all completed by the Chi¢ago District of the Communist | Party for the National Nominating | Convention called by the Communist | Party. | It is fitting that the workers in the large industries of Chicago and vici- nity should have an opportunity of | sending their representatives to help | select the presidential and vice-pres- idential candidates of the Communist Party and formulate its election plat- | form. | The workers of Chicago and vici- | nity will have not only the opportu- | nity through their elected delegates | to participate in this convention but | thousands of them will have the op- | portunity to jam the large auditorium | of the Coliseum at 15th and Wabash | on Saturday evening May 28, at 7:30 p. m, and be spectators during the | session when the nominations for | president and vice-president will take | place. For Foster and Ford. ‘The Central Committee of the Communist Party has already pro- posed Wm, Z, Foster, well known | to workers of Chicago, for president. of Us 8; Av and James W. Ford, Ne= gro worker from Alabama who also | worked in Chicago for many years, | as vice-president. | The Communist Party has also proposed a draft platform, printed in | full in the Daily Worker of April 28. | Themain emphasis in this platform | is laid on “Unemployment and Social | Insurance at the expense of the state and employers.” Five other planks of the proposed platform are published | regularly at the top of the front; page of the Daily Worker. | In addition to the Chicago workers who will attend the Coliseum meet- jing, reports are already coming in| that truckloads of visiting workers |from all surrounding towns who will ; |be riding all day Saturday to reach | the Coliseum meeting in the eve-! ning. | The Coliseum meeting will be the! second session of the National Nom- | inating Convention. The first ses- | sion will be at 10 am, May 28, in| People’s Auditorium. | | | VOTE COMMUNIST FOR: MOBILIZING 18,000 Beet Workers Are Now Out Ts ARIST LEADER SAYS on Strike; Company Orders Shooting WAR AGAINST THE SOVIET es: to you at aber’ for the’ fierdi i nt as which, ciuposed af: since the on @ colf. chat advan ‘or transportation and some en. By tenes we know that the are able’ to” bution of t disputed funds. t this time, ve vant to ask that F district, of tect’ workers duriAg "thi during their working s 4 0R account. cf, charac! ein) 1 year, through your splendid, coroperation, of a That eFrort with your bring practically complete success this y Many of the families working in the district virtue’ of advances nade by‘ the Company. be oye roheli be ther or not in your neighborhood; some owe doctor: em to keep house on the farms. fieldman in your district has a complete record 6f ali enounts It is quite necessary that ve u 03 before making any advances or any settlement, coutracting family admits any indebtedness. tormine’the focts of each case and make accurate distri- Yours very truly, ‘Tas Genar Feoreen Susan formasr |Sugar Barons Instruct Farmers to Fire On All Organizers DENVER, Colo., May Billings, Wont., June 12, 1951, a you sexe ng thinking or hoblag without first |parts of the beet work- ing of the Central Strike Committee held yester- day in Denver show there are 18,000 now on strike. @ The struggle began exactly }a week ago, when the season | for weeding and thinning the beets | officially opened. The first day ten {thousand struck, and the movement | has continued to spread every- day since them. Approximately 80 arrests and the direct threats by the sheriffs of the counties affected have only F ia putting thes ety Some of them ove re! for for household utensils advanced to e you at this tine te amounts shosn to state ich have been furnished the fleldaen are often disputes by Nt ed aah c's AY ieee Speeder) ee rot rcemrenrmried The ‘sugar company, which con- leas, be de A ung forwarded, to, the, Coppany for disposition, os ve | tracts with the land owners for their crop, has advised all farmers to shoot |down anyone to persuade workers to (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) ‘THE GREAT WESTERN SUGAR COMPANY 23.—Reports from all} jers strike to the meet-| UNION 1S “INEVITABLE® Plan “To Clean Up the Slate” In Far East and | to Carry War of 1904-5 “to Its Logical | Conclusion” | | Cynically Declares “Human Life is Plentiful” | and “Blood Always Makes the Market Rise” : Drawing on his intimate knowledge of the criminal plans of the imperialists for armed |intervention against the Soviet ‘Union, the | Tsarist White Guard “Grand Duke” Alexander yesterday in a signed article declared that war was “inevitable” between Japan and the Soviet Union. His | article was broadcast by the United Press. This blood-thirsty | White Guard inciter of war against the Soviet Union openly | praised the Japanese “Manchurian-Siberia-bound drive” as con- stituting “as healthy an expression” of Japanese “imperial in- | stinets as the pioneers march toward: the Pacific was.” | this Tzarist butcher. He cynically over the world does not concern declares in his article “human life is plentiful” and “blood always makes the market rise.” | That another war means tre- misery for millions of workers all It Forces Farmers to Enslaye Workers American Sugar Company Letter Shows How | ‘Mrs. Wright Given Tumultuous Ovation at World Congress of _ -Seamen and Harbor Workers BULLETIN. io WASHINGTON, May 23. — At- torneys for the International La- bor Defense fighting the lynch ver- dicts against 7 of the nine innocent Scottsboro Negro boys today. filed with the Supreme Court an appli- cation for a review of the convic- tions. * 8 8 (By Cable to the Daily Worker) HAMBURG, May 23.—Mrs. Ada Wright, mother of two of the Scotts- boro Negro boys, addressed the First World Congress of the International Seamen and Harbor Workers yester- day. Rising to their feet singing the “Internationale” the 139 delegates and visitors gave the, Scottsboro mother a tumultuous ovation. Mrs. Wright told the story of the Scotts- boro frame-up, declaring her sons and the other boys innocent vic- tims of lynch justice. J. Louis Engdahl, who is touring ; all ships and ‘in all harbors of the} Thousands Greet Against War Masses and Sovie Joined “Mrs. Wright in urging the unanimous ‘adoption and ° energetic carying through of the Scottsboro | resolution before the Congress. The, resolution calls for the sending of protest telegrams’ to the American Ambassador at Berlin, President Hoover and Governor Miller of Ala- bama. .It provides for the building} of Scottsboro defense committees on The war situation in the Japanese Imperialist Governm ese Eastern Railway. Daily it the Soviet border. War may b: ‘The U.S. bosses are daily shipping: world, » | carloads of war supplies to be used Tremendous enthuslasm . greeted; against the Chinese people and tlic Engdahl'’s appeal for the building of | Soviet Union. The time for propa- the mass fight to free the Scotts-|sanda and agitation alone is over. It boro boys, Tom Mooney and all polit-| is now necessary for the workers also ical prisoners, | to proceed to action in defense of ‘The 139 delegates at the Congress the Chinese People and the Soviet represent the dock and-harbor work- | Union. Organizational steps must be ers of 27 countries, including Japan, | taken on the docks and shops to: stop China and India. | the production and shipment of am- unition to the Far East, Revolutionary workers York, represented in the Trade Un- ion Unity League, Unemployed Coun- cils, Communist Party, Friends of ‘the Soviet Union, International La- Workers to Demonstrate Sat. Before Japanese Consulate Rally Against War Inciters' Shipment of Munitions ! ' against the Soviet Union. It now threatens to seize the Chin- of New, During the past few months the | White Guards have been feverishly preparing to join the Japanese in | their plans for an attack on the Sov- | jet Union. White Guard headquar- | ters in Paris, protected by the French ‘imperialists, have sent out several Drive on USSR & to White Guards all over the world to be ready to join in the at- j tacks on the Soviet Union. The ! Defend Chinese t Union! Stop the | mendous loss of life and increased | | | Japanese in Manchuria have recruit- jed and armed large numbers of | White Guards. Japanese agents in |the United States, Poland, Czecho- | slovakia, Rumania and other coun- White | tries are openly. enlisti i ; Guards with the aid of the govern- Far Hast is sharpening. The ments of these countries. In the ent continues its provocations | United States, American police are used to guard the Japanese Consul- ate in San Francisco and to sort out is rushing more troops towards , Visitors to the Consulate to assure jthat only White Guards are given reak out any day. | entrance, > Long Island City in Solidarity With I. Miller Shoe Strikers |Strikers’ Ranks Swell As More Workers of | Packing and Cleaning Plant Walk Out ' Close to 3,000 shoe workers and strikers wives and children marched heya Social Insurance,” etc. ‘Towards the end of the meeting a 4, Equal rights for the Negroes and Europe with Mrs. Wright in con- self-determination for the Black | nection with the world-wide fight for Belt. | the release of the Scottsboro. boys, ‘United Front Campaig: \day; 700 Delegates at NewYork City Conference | NEW YORK. — The United Front Election Campaign Committee of 50 | elected at the New York City Confer- | ence Sunday is meeting today at 6:30 |p. m. at 50 East 13th St., Room 505. All should be present for this very important meeting. Ford Rally. A. James W. Ford for vice-presi- dent rally will take place in Harlem on Wednesday, May 25th, at 8 p. m. at St. Lukes Hall, 125 W. 130th St. Ford has just returned today from Washington, where he exposed the vicious policy of betrayal of the N. A. A. C. P. at a mass meeting. In Harlem he will explain to the Negro and whit eworkers the platform of the Communist Party, and its struggle for Negro rights. Ex-Servicemen for Ford. In connection with the Ford rally, the Workers Ex-Servicemen’s Lea- gue points out that Ford is a war veteran and a member of the Na- tional Executive Council of the Lea- gue. The League will conduct a spe- cial supporting campaign for Ford throughout the United States. Amid cheers and applause tha , lasted fully ten minutes Israe] Am- ter, Communist Party District ‘Orga- nizer, was unanimously accepted by the City Election Campaign Confer- ence as candidate for governor of “Ford for Vice-President” Rally in Harlem, Tomorrow n Committee Meets To- This demonstration was again re- peated when Comrade Henry Shep- ard, a Negro worker and organizer of the Communist Party in Harlem, was accepted as candidate for Attor- ney General. Striker Pledges Suppor?. A striker trom a cleaners and dy- ers shop, a member of the democratic party, exposed the corruption in this Tammany controlled party and a contrast. told of the untiring effor of the T. U. U. L. to help win condi+ tions for the cleaners and dyers in their strike. His pledge of support was met with great applause by the conference, An oustanding example of the growing understanding of the work- ers of the necessity to organize re- gardless of color was seen in the proposal of the organizations repre- sented to finance a large Negro dele- gation to the Chicago Convention. ‘The conference opened and closed with the singing of the “Internati- onale” was but one expression of the determination of the workers of America to abolish’ the present re- gime of terror and starvation. The delegates are now ready to go to their organizations and mobilize every member to help collect signa- Moore and Mother Mooney on Tour Big Receptions at Rail- way Stations and Meetings LOS ANGELES, May 23.—Large numbers of workers greeted Rich- ard B, Moore-and Mother Mooney at a huge banquet here last Satar- day, All present unanimous!y en- dorsed the mass fight to free the Scottsboro boys and Tom Mooney and pledged their energetic support. Over one, thousand packed the Cooperative Auditorium at the pro- test mass. meeting. On Sunday again the Music Art Hall was packed with more than one thousand workers. The Red Squad turned out in full force, but such was the militancy of the work- ers that the police did not dare to attack the meeting. at a Negro Baptist Church and at a Negro forum. Mother Mooney was present with him at both meet- ings when Negro and white workers together pledged to support the fight for the freedom of the Scotts- boro boys and Tom Mooney. At all meetings along the route of ‘the tour arranged for Mother Mooney ‘and Moore, they are given tremendous ovations and mass re- ceptions at the railroad stations. Portland workers are planning a 28, Seattle workers are prepariny a huge demonstration for May 39 at the People’s Park. tures to place the Communist candi- dates on the ballot; to help in spread~ ing the program of the Communist Party into every workers’ home, ee “VOTE COMMUNIST FOR: \2, Against « Hoover's .. wage-cutting pli ee ;bor Defense, Workers Ex-Service-|im Long Island City yesterday un-| resolution was unanimously adopted \men’s League, Workers International | Ger the leadership of the Shoe and | to intensify the fight by mass pick- ‘Relief, United. Council of Working; Leather Workers Industrial Union, in} eting as the only means of defeating Earlier in the day Moore spoke | glant reception for them on May | ; Class Housewives, Workers Clubs, in- cluding the Irish Workers Ciub, are mobilizing their forces and call upon the workers to demonstrate with them against Japanese Imperialism as the spearhead of world imperial- jism, in its attacks upon the Chinese | People and the Soviet Union. The demonstration will be held at | Whitehall and South streets on Sat- | urday, June 4, at 12 o'clock noon and will march past and demonstrate be- fore the Japanese Consulate. Rally in defense of the Chinese | People and the Soviet Union! ; Drive out the representatives of | Japanese imperialism! Stop the production and shipment of amunition to the Far East! ‘Delegates to Nat'l Convention! Get in Touch at Once! All New York delegates to the | National Nominating Convention | | |in Chicago, and organizations that || lexpect to send delegates to the! Convention, must immediately get jin touch with the Election Cam- | | paign Committee, 50 E, 13th St.,| Sth floor. Bring the money for, the railroad fare an@ obtain cred- | entials for the Convention. This! j must be done no later than Tues- | |day night 2nd the delegates are | | urged, if they cannot come in per- | | | son, to phone Algonquin 4-5707. Anybody who can lend a car for i n the election campaign is j lacked to get in touch with the | | committee at the above address. VOTE COMMUNIST FOR: 5. Against capitalist terror; against all forms of suppression of the a mass demonstration of solidarity} the schemes of the I. Miller Co, | with the I, Miller shoe strikers At the end of the meeting, one of The parade started from the Strike the agents of I. Miller, tried to gain Headquarters at 1 p.m. sharp, fol-| Control of the platform. and asked to |lowing the Strike meeting. At the| “tell the other side of the story.” The strike meeting itself, the line of Workers booed him down and when march and its. purpose Was outlined |he tried to nize a meeting on by the organizer, Rosenberg. Before | the opposite corner, it was broken up the meeting ended, each sign and and he was chased away by the slogan to be carried in the march | 8"8ry workers. |was submitted to the strikers who| In the parade, the strikers of An- voiced their approval with great ap- | drew er and Paris shops carried plause and mighty shouts of “aye.” | banners greeting the I. Miller strike The march, led by the W.LR. Band|¢"s- A delegation of Elco workers jpassed the I, Miller factory, circled | marched wilh a sign reading: “we jaround it, going past the Star and| Won Our Strike — We'll Help You | Premier shops, and past many metal Win Yours. \and food shops in the neighborhood.! One» of the most remarkable | As they marched by I. Miller shop,| achievements came when the mars the workers shouted slogans—‘Down | chers returned and found the rest of | with the Company Union'"—‘Don't| the workers of the Packing and | scab—join us"— “We fight layoffs | Cleaning Departments out of the |and starvation wages,” etc. Thruout| shop and waiting in thé headquarters |the line of march, the workers. in| to be registered as strikers. Also the shops crowded to the windows three workers—one whose name was of their factories, waving and cheer- mentioned in the Freiheit as working ing the marchers. | in- I. Millers — came down yesterday The parade continued past the|and joined the ranks of the strikers. Long Island City Hall, thru parts of | This worker, Morris Magidow, admit. the business and working class sec-| ted his mistake and asked that his tions, and going by the I. Miller; name be cleared in the working class | shop once more, ended with a mass press. He also calls upon the rest open air meeting in front of the who are still working to follow his | Strike Headquarters. |example and be welcomed into the Many placards and slogans were /Tanks of the strikers, ‘carried by the marchers, some of/ A meeting of strikers wives and which read: “I. Miller Strikers Fight | women ‘took place after the open Wage Cuts and Layeffs’—We De-|mass meeting, and a women's com- |mand Cash Return of the $50 Sec-| mittee was organized’ and plans laid urity Bonds” — “Organize and Pre-| for strengthening the fight. |pare for ‘a Mass Strike of Shoe After the meeting, cll the marchers | Workers’—“Down with the Yellow, were treated to ah cxcellently pre- | Dog Contract”—"Long Live the Shoe d meel of hot svcw, sandwiches, |and Leather Workers Industrial Un- etc., by, the Strike Relief Committee }ion and the Trade ,Union Unity in cooperation with the W.LR. | League’—"Free Tom Mooney, Edith; ‘The entire day was a day of jubile Berkman and the 9 Scottsboro Negro| ation-with a feeling that victory is - Boys"—"We Demand Unemployment not far off Uae mg uae Yes,