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f ASNT TE SE NT TE a VOTE COMMUNIST FOR 1, Unemployment and Social Insurance at the ex~ pense of the state and employers. 2. Against Hoover’s wage-cutting policy. 3. 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 ie the Communist eaenene) ll tie 3h 4. ation for the Blac 6. Against capitalist 6. the Chinese peop] VOTE COMMUNIST FOR Equal rights for the Negroes and self-determin- k Belt. terror; against all forms of suppression of the political rights of workers. Against imperialist war; for the defense of le and of the Soviet Union. Entered at New ‘Vol 1X, No. 124 _— maniter at the & der the act of March JAPANESE ARMY FIFTY MILES FROM The New Thing in Hoover’s SCOTTSBORO Beet Strike -Rouses | Onion Workers Also | Great. Mass Meeting In Las J Animas; Growers Program Is More Starvation poet HOOVER'S “new” program for unemployment relicf and restoring “normal processes” of business proposes nothing really new except more starvation with more workers suffering from it. Hoover's 12-point program published May 23 as a letter to the Amer- | icen Society of Civil Engineers has as its keynote the refusal of any kind of relief to the unemployed by the federal government. Four of the | points especially are intended to maintain mass hunger without govern- | ment relief. | Point (G) of the Hoover program says: “The continuation of such public works in aid to unemployment | as do not place a strain on the taxpayer and do not necessitate govern- ment borrowing.” TI means that those public projects now under construction which will req additional appropriations for comnletion will be stopped if | Hoover has his way. The workers now empiv,éd will be thrown onto | the streets. | Point (H) says: “Continuation of national community and individual {| in relief of distress.” very “charitable* organization under private auspices, every city in | the United States, and the Emergenty Unemployment Relief Committee, leaded by Gifford of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company, have declared their bankruptcy in the face of the gigantic and growing y of unemployed estimated now to include from 12 to 15,000,000 “Community and individual efforts” have merely skimmed the sur- face of the mass misery, hunger, disease and death into which the crisis nd mass unemployment have driven millions of workers and poor farm- | These efforts were intended to stop struggles not to end starvation! Hoover knows this but his sole interest is:to see that none of the cost of alleviating hunger and want is placed upon the billionaire bankers end industrial lords whose guardian he is. This would “discourage capital and add to unemployment,” both Hoover and Al Smith say. Point (1) says: “The introduction of the five-day week in govern- ment which would save the discharge of 100,000 employees and would add 30,000 to the present list. This is plain and shameless lying in addition to the fact that it con- tains a proposal for the five-day week with corresponding reduction in pay—one-sixth cut in wages. This is the “stagger plan” for government employees. In privately owned industry it has been a weapon for increasing unemployment and for cutting wages. It will not give one single additional worker a job. On the contrary. “The pressure of the unemployed compels those who | are employed to furnish more labor, and therefore makes the supply of labor, to a certain~extent, independent of the supply of laborers. The action of the law of supply and demand of labor on this basis completes the despotism of capital.” (Marx.) Point (L) places still more power in the hands of the Finance Re- | construction Corporation and, in addition, provides for inflation to the | extent of $1,500,000,000 in the form of securities which will be a power- ful factor in the raising of prices and consequently the cost of living for the masses of tne population. | This point provides that the funds of the Finance Reconstruction | Corporation are to be used “for the purpose of organized aid to ‘income | producing works’ throughout the naticn, both of a public and private character.” In plain words: Hoover stipulates that no projects are to be financed that cannot pay for themselves. Profit is the determining factor. The very lives, a measure of com- fort for the toiling population now on the breadlines, picking their food out of gutters and garbage cans, beginning and ending each day in agony, | the misery of millions who produced the wealth of the capitalist class Hoover protects—these things are nothing to Hoover. This great champion of public works who all through his career has put forward this scheme as against unemployment and social insur- ance for unemployed workers now proves that he was a hypocrite even in the advocacy of this measure. 4» Hoover, in his letter explaining his 12-point program, gives any num- ber of excuses for “not undertaking further expansions of public works.” All of these excuses are based on.two things: That they would not pay, and that they would increase taxation. The great bulk of the funds of the Reconstruction Corporation will continue to go to railways and industrial companies for payment of their bonded indebtedness and the interest on it—in other words the funds allotted quickly find their way to the big banks, to save the big banks and industrial corporations at the expense of the masses of the workers, farmers and ruined lower sections of the middle class. In his explanation Hoover includes a sentence which is, like all his other claims for his program, an insult to every workingman, woman and child in the United States. He says: “The program I have proposed gives people employment in all parts of the country in their normal jobs under normal conditions at the nor- imal place of abode, tends to re-establish normal processes in business and industry and will do on a much larger scale than the projects proposed in the so-called “public works” program.” Hoover has solved the crisis! Wall Street's president has delivered an ultimatum to the American working class. No work unless there are profits from it for the capital- ists. No jobs on public works if the rich have to be taxed for them. No food for the hungry unless profit is to be made, No homes if rent is not paid, It is no wonder that the New York Evening Post, organ of the House of Morgan, is moved to say: “The country must be grateful, as it presses forward upon its difficult course toward financial recovery......It is in debt today to the president of the United States for boldly making clear its proper attitude......For the establishment and defense of these prin- ciples we offer today to the President our most appreciative thanks.” Fight or starve! This is the challenge to the working class. ‘The exposure of the brutal character of the Hoover program in every industrial center will awaken the most bitter resentment among all sec- _ tions of the working class. Certainly it was never clear.r that the or- ganization of the unemployed, the united front of the employed and un- employed, the struggle for immediate relief and unemployment insurance at the cost ef the government and employers in this the third year of the crisis was never a more urgent and fruitful task than it is today. ‘American workers can and must be organized to defeat the Hoover Hunger program! 1\Communist Leader Gets 2 to 4 Years for Speech in 1928 Election Campaign PHILADELPHIA, Pa., May 24.—The United States Supreme Court has refused to hear the appeal for Bill Lawrence who was convicted un- der the Flynn state sedition law of Pennsylvania for speaking in 1928 for Foster, Communist Party candidate for President. Lawrence will have to serve from two to four years in the Eastern Penitentiary of Pennsyl- vania, Two other workers, Roth and Adams, are serving a year each in Media county jail on similar charges. Morris Powers, secretary of the Trade Union Unity League is also involved. He was arrested at an open air mecting and charged with sedition. Workers should ‘and resolutions to Governor Pinchot nd telegrams Fj doa ed an rst acarep a: ap PROTEST IN HUNGAR | Many Demonstrate! Against; Uy"8, Consulate Q | Mrs. Wright in Austria Workers of a tumultous reception at the rail- way station to Mrs. Ada Wright upon her arrival Monday from Hamburg, Germany. Mrs. Wright is the mother of two of the Scotts- boro lynch verdict victims. She is touring Europe under the au- spices of the German Red Aid. She will address a huge protest meeting this week in Vienna. From Austria, Mrs. Wright will proceed to Budapest, Hungary, where workers are arranging a gi- ant demonstration to protest against the attempts of the American rul- ing class to railroad the nine in- nocent Negro boys to the electric chair. In preparation for this dem- onstration, Hungarian workers demonstrated on Monday before the United States Legation in Buda~ pest. The police, acting under the orders of American imperialism, at- tacked the demonstration and ar- rested ten young workers. Press jenna, Austria, gave | dispatches from Europe during the past few weeks report that United States Ambassadors and Consuls have made “representations” to European governments “against the~ Scottsboro agitation.” “6 BERLIN, May 24. — The German workers turned out in great mas- ses in Hannover in a giant Scotts- boro demonstration despite Nazi- Socialist hospitality, and despite | the denial on the part of the so- cialist officials of the right of Mrs. Ada Wright, Scottsboro mother, to speak. Mrs. Wright was even denied the privilege of attending the meeting by the socialist boss officials, | Alteration Painters of Cohen and Son on Strike Against Cut Ten painters of Sol Cohen & Son at 157 Manhattan Ave. have gone on strike under the leadership of the Alteration Painters’ Organization against the atetmpt of the boss to lower their $6 a day wage to $5. This boss, taking the lead of the A. F. of L. officials, has been cutting the wages of the painters time and again. Some workers formerly received $10 a day. The strikers call upon all workers to show their solidarity and report for picketing at 1130 Southern Blvd., at 167th St. from 7 am. in the morning on, The Alteration Painters’ Organiza- tion is ready to assist all painters to follow the workers of Cohen in the fight against all grievances. ‘Veterans Elect | Offer C DENVER, Colo., May 24, ‘The The strike Cor } | of 18,000 beet growers, fighting for a never higher than $16, entered its {Sena and decisive week yesterday. |. Strike organzation is being perfect- ed, and the Trade Union Unity League has called on the strikers to build the Agricultural Workers Industrial Union during the strike, for their perman- ent safeguard against wage cuts and worsened conditions. The strike is particularly strong in | Otera, Pueblo and Huerfano Counties, jand in the southern field generally, | where everybody is out. The north- ern field is now veing concentrated on by the Central Strike Committee, Jand organizers Charles Guynn and | Sanchez have been sent thete. There have been during the first week of the strike 78 arrests on charges of violating the state anti- picketing law and other charges. There have been hundreds of evic- tions. The beet workers were living on charity even before the strike. They are starving now because char- ty and credit at the stores has been cut off by orders of the American | Beet Sugar Co. Send tents, focd and funds at once to United Front Relief wage of $23 an acre and against the | wages offered by the growers that} jare in some cases as low as $8 and) Compromise; - Relief Need Desperate Committee, | ver, Colo. 2736 Lawrence St., Den- . Onion Workers Meet LAS ANIMAS, Colo., May 24.—The example of the 18,000 best field work- }ers on strike near here against what |amounts to a 40 per cent wage cut, has roused another group of agricul- tural workers to fight against starva- tion. Friday ewning a huge demoustra- tion of onion field laborers was held |-here, on the demands of the workers through their Un‘ted Front Strike Committee for a wage of 40 cents an hour. The growers arnounced some tilie ago that the rute this seaso: would be twelve and nalf cents an hour. | But now they request a meeting wiih the strike committee, and offer 25 cents an hour. PHILA. VETS PREPARE TO MARCH PHILADELPHIA. — The Workers Ex-Servicemen’s League, Post Nr. 10 of Philadelphia, will hold a mass meeting Thursday night at 8 p. m. at Boslover Hall, 701 Pine St., to make arrangements for the march cash payment of the bonus. ‘The Tammany mayor of New York, “Jimmy” Walker, is in the same fix Al Capone of Chicago was in a short time ago—he has to account for money obtained from his numerous racketeering games. This morning Walker is scheduled to appear before the Hofstadter in- vestigating committee, under the chairmanship of Samuel Seabury, to answer charges of obtaining $10,000 in the form of a bill of credit from the Equitable Coach company the same day that concern was granted a monopolistic franchise for use of New York streets. Walker also must explain how he got $26,500 from J. A. Sisto, who was marketing stocks of his taxicab trust. ‘Tax Officers Investigate ‘Walker, one of the leading lights of Tammany Hall, is now under in- vestigation by the federal authorities for suspected evasion of income tax payments on his graft. It seems that the mayor, like Al Capone, did not share his loot with the govern- ment so the federal tax officials are hot on his trial. They are especially interested in the sum of $13,000 placed to Walker's credit by Russell T. Sherwood, his confidential aide, who ran away to Mexico when the lid blew off the latest Tammany scandal, This amount was recorded VOTE COMMUNIST FOR: 4. Equal rights for the Negroes and self-determination for the Black Belt. Workers Council to Lead March As Misleader Deserts CASEYVILLE, Ill, May “ The 300 war veterans who are on their way to Washington from Portland, Ore., to demand immediate cash payment of their bonus, elected a Workers’ Council of 25 to lead the march here today, tollowing the desertion of W. W. Walters, busi- nessman and self-styled field mar- shal, “Didn't want to get mixed up in what I saw coming,” Walters told Sheriff Jerome Munie when he heard the troops were called out. Walters deserted and departed for Indiana in a bus. The veterans, following the ad- vice of the Workers’ Ex-Service- men’s League, declared that they would lead the march themselves by duly elected committees of rank and file workers. When a company of National Guard sped by here today in a train bound for East St, Louis the vets Uned the tracks and jeered. ~ Tbe veterans will-depart on. trucks from Caseyville and East St. Louis for Washington, Indiana. (ADDITIONAL NEWS ON PAGE 3) duel of words in which the question of anti-Se‘aitism, took place yesterday at the socialist the party. Hilquit has been national chairman for some time now, but a group mare up of followers of Nor- ‘Walker Accused of Accepting Graft; Goes. on Stand Today as having been paid for “special” and confidential legal services the mayor performed while drawing his $40,000 a year salary as mayor of New York. | To Stage Tammany Show Preparations are’ being made in the county court house for a capacity crowd today when Walker takes the stand to try to laugh off the graft charges against him. It is reported that Tammany is on the job prepar- ing to pack the place with Walker henchmen. VICTIM OF TAMPA TERROR TO LEAD FIGHT ON HUNGER “It takes more than the police of Tampa to scare me out of the city,” writes Frank Jackson from his bed where he is confined as’ a result of the severe beating received in the police station and on a lonely spot out of the city where he was later taken for a “ride.” Frank Jackson, indefatigable or- @anizer of the Young Pioneers, was arreated during an anti-war and anti- deportation meeting held in Tampa on Sunday, May 15. He was taken to the police station and from there out of the city, where he was told “not to return to Tampa” and left unconscious—a bleeding body of flesh. After describing what happened to him when he was arrested, Jackson relates: “I was rather lucky to find a lake where I bathed my wounds and scars. .I slept overnight in the woods and in the morning I walked the 15 miles to the house... . At present I am in bed and for about a week thePioncer work will be a little slow, but as soon as I will feel better I shall plunge into the work with more spirit.” as a candidate for the post. Americanism, and} When the final vote was taken, the workers, theories on the best tactics of ac-|Hillquit group won 105 to 80, which-| czarist capitalists in suits against the complishing the impossible task ‘of|the socialist party claims means|Soviet Union. making the socialist party look like | 7,526 party members against 6,984.) btter enemy of the First Workers’ a workers’ party got all mixed up,|/The numbers represented by each | Republic. delegate are undoubtedly exagger- | party’s national convention here. The | ated, as all sorts of purely nominal | (empt issue came about in a struggle for @nd one {ime members of the varl+ ugainst the position of national chairman of ,ous branches ate counted iu iepre- |r jand he back tation. Open Enemy of U.S.S.R, Hiliguit was opposed partly be-! man Thomas, B, Charney Vladeck of | cause he {is so well exposed. He is| The to Washington to demand immediate | Beaten Up By Police in Tampa Pione Organizer, Into Fight Jackson, Says He Will Plunge With More Spirit As Soon As Frank He Leaves Sickbed | ary EDITION Price 3 Cents Siberian The United States government a few days ago, the Hoover Wall ships at Amoy to land marines to Red Army in Fukien Province. The Japanese ar my 0 The Sungari Valley expedi | Nakamura. It is reported to h: fifty miles above the junction Elect Delegates Now for ie & At Schenectady, Supe 19; Will Nominate for | State Convention All State Offices NEW YORK—With the final prep- erations made for sending a delega- tion to the National Nominating Convention, to be held in Chicago, the City Election Campaign Commit- tee, is beginning its drive for a huge delegation to the State Nominating Convention, :ASS RALLY FOR FORD, TONIGHT CommunistCandidate’s | ' Speech Advertised at Open Air Meets NEW YORK. the mass rally for James Ford, pro- posed vice-presidential candidate of the Communist Party, at the St. Luke Hall, 125 West 130th Street, at 8 p. m., will take place at 1 p. m. to- day at an open air meeting arranged by the L. S. N. R. at 134th Street and Lenox Avenue. The St. Luke’s Hall meeting will elect delegates to the state nominat- ing convention. Sol Harper, world war veteran, will speak on “Why the veterans should support the election campaign of the leader of thé first veterans’ delega- tion to demonstrate before the White House, and U. S. Veterans Bureau, Washington, last October 30th, and to put the veterans demands into the White House. Veterans from all parts of the city are invited to attend the meeting. Other speakers will be: Schnor- man, Glassford, Williams, Welsh. The Ex-Servicemens’ League plans an outdoor meeting at 125th St. and 5th Avenue at.7 p. m. The Commu- nist Party Election Campaign Com- mittee plans 2 outdoor meetings at 7 Pp. m.; one at 130th St. and 7th Ave., with Charles Alexander as the main speaker, and the other at 130th St. and Lenox Ave., with Shepard and Hall as the speakers. Negro and white workers of Har- Jem are m- munist ine Harlem tonight. . Hillquit and Sham “Lefts” Led by Thomas Expose One Another MILWAUKEE, Wisc., May 24.—A}|Daniel Hoan, mayor of Milwaukee, | ist attorney who frequently appears on the bos: side in cases against He is atorney for Russian He is an open and He is “opposed to war” in words, but has sabotaged every at- to mobilize the workers periiculariy has cemonsirations. moves of ii No Marxist. controversy gave Hillquit, the Jewish Daily Forward and Hay-| certainly no fit person to try to nn however, his chance to cry all over wood “Broun, Scripps paper put forward ‘ of the|vinee. American workers that he -dbeix interenta, Sodiadial ence | — Preparations for | The call of the Election Campaign | Committee “for a greater represen- tation from the shops and factories American Federation of Labor unions,” must be given the greatest atention by all shop contacts, shop groups and opposition groups within thereformist unions. The mobiliza- tion of the workers directly from the shops where they are employed for the convention and in support of the Communist candidates is the biggest task confronting our revolutionary or- ganizations. Together with this, Jevery effort must be made to pene- trate into the reformist and reac- tionary workers’ benefit ‘societies, Communist Election Platform to elect organizations united front commit- tees. The State Nominating Convention must be a much broader gathering than the city conference. In order to accomplish this the City United Front Election Campaign Committee calls upon all organizations to im- mediately ararnge meetings and dis- cussion of the Communist Platform and upon a proper discussion and un- derstanding of the platform, elect delegates to the State Convention that will take place June 19 in Schen- ectady. Particularly does the City Committee wish to call to the atten- tion of the revolutionary trade unions the importance of penetrating into the shops with this ssue. The slogan for this convention must be “for the largest shop delegation.” Workers! Help realize this slogan. With real revolutionary enthusiasm, on to the State ee an 2 AFFAIRS FOR SHOE STRIKERS W.LR. Gives Relief to Help Strike ‘The present strikes in the shoe trade, the I. Milelr, Andrew Geller, the Paris Shoe Co. and the Grand Slipper Co, of Passaic involve over 1,000 workers. These strikes are lead by the Shoe and Leather Work- ers Industrial Union and are of great significance for the revolutionary | trade union movement. The tactics | of our union to base its activities on | large shops in the industry have been proven correct. In conducting these struggles, the Workers International Relief plays a very important and prominent part. The Workers International Relief supplies ammunition to the strikers and their families, by giving out re- lief to the strikers. At present the W. I. R. is ar- ranging two big affairs for the bene- fit of the striking shoe workers. One on May 28th at the 5th Ave. Play- j house. where will be shown the fam- ous Soviet picture “The Road to Life” The other affair, @ concert and dance, will be held on Sunday, May 29th at 6 p. m. at the Brownsville Labor Lycewn, Sackman and Liberty the strike of Chinese postal employees at Shanghai, South China. “on the Siberian borde and from the unions, particularly the | getting them upon the basis of the | delegates and building within these: SOVIET BORDER ‘TWO OTHER ARMIES ALSO NEARING SOVIET BORDER |Have Huge Aviuba Flotilla on Sungari River Near Its Junction With the Amur; Foreign Observers See Move to Cut Trans- \ Railway BULLETIN. yesterday made an atempt to break Only Street government ordered its war- oppose the advance of the Chinese perating in the Sungari Valley, Manchuria, is within fifty miles of the borders of the Soviet Union. This sinister fac | was admitted yesterday in a statement issued by Japanese military headquarters at Harbin. tion, one of the three Japa ose armies moving on the Soviet borders, is commanded by Gen. ave captured Fuchin, “less than of the Sungari and the Amur, The Sungari River flows into the Amur. The Amur River forms thc boundary between Manchuriand Si beria. Gen, Nakamura’s arn ac: companiel by a huge fleet of gun- | boats and armed river boats whic) are transporting heavy artillery anc bombing planes. Harbin dispatche: | have reported that all available rive | crafts on the Sungari River hav: | been seized by the Japanese for thi | oes These dispatches alse ' yeported that foreign observers ti Manchuria were of the opinion tha! the expedition commanded by Gen Nakamura was aiming to cut the : Trans-Siberian Railway and thereb: isolate Siberia. Another Japanese army {s proceed- ling along the Thinese Eastern Kall- way towards the Soviet border. Thi army has already passed the towr ‘ of Hailun, a short distance from thc Soviet border. By sending troops be- yond Hailun, the Japanese ve vio- {lated their agreement with the So | viet Union ‘under which the Sovie Union agreed to the use of the rail- | Way by Japanese troops. The third Japanese army is con- centrating directly on the Soviet frontiers, in the triangle formed bj the Korean-Soviet borders. Gen Honjo, Japanese commander in Manchuria, has arrived in Har bin to personally conduct what is ane nounced by Japanese miliary head- quarters as “a vigorous general at- tack on the Chinese forces whosc operations continued, in rampant fashion, on all sides of Harbin threatening the city itself.” It is significant that the main Chinese force against whom this campaign is allegedly directed ik commanded by Gen. Mah Chan-shan Gen. Mah has been convincingly ex- posed as a tool of the Japanese. It was this same traitor general whe staged a sham fight against the Jap- anese last winter, sacrificing thous- ands of Chinese soldiers in order tc give the Japanese a pretext to push their forces further into Manchuria. When this objective was achieved, Mah came out openly as a Japanese tool, helping the Japanese to set up the present puppet government in Manchuria. When the Japanese again decided to advance in Mane churia, this time to the Soviet border Mah pretended disagreement with his masters and again aranged @ oe resistance to the Japanese, ‘Notice! Delegates | to Nat'l Nominating Convention, Ready! |. All Delegates of New York and |New Jersey, going by train, are j instructed to be at the Erie Sta- | tion, Jersey City, Friday 27, at 8:30 Daylight Savings Time. Dele- | gates must be on time. Delegates | from New York can take the Hud- }son Tubes and get off at Erle Station. Ww. LR The estab- plays in our struggles. lishment of kitchens at the strike headquarters adds to the high spirit of the strikers. ‘The Shoe and Leather Workers Ine dustrial Union appeals to every worker in New York City to come to these affairs and help build the Workers International Relief. VOTE COMMUNIST FOR: 3. Emergency retief for the poor , farmers without restrictions by the government and banks; ex~ Rese nit, ot sd toed ee from | A eg r ara