The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 26, 1932, Page 1

4 i Rally to the Communist National Nominating Convention! Come to the Coliseum, Chicago, 7 P. M., May 28! VOTE COMMUNIST FOR 1. Unemployment and SocialInsurance at the ex~- pense of the state and employers. 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 ¥ the-Comr (Section of the Communist besrisesinll “Vol. 1X, No.2 =>" at New York, N. Y., Entered as second-class maiter at the oft ander the act of March 3, 1879 EW YORK, THURSDAY, M AY 26, 1932 Norker | unit Party U. 8S aa VOTE COMMUNIST FOR Equa! rights for the Negroes and self-determiri- ation for the Black Belt. Against capitalist terror; against all forms of suppression of the political rights of workers, Against for the defense of the Chinese people and of the Soviet Union. imperialist war; crry EDI! TION Price 3 Cents JAPAN MOVES TO INVADE USSR THRU VLADIVOSTOK-AMUR Division of Labor in Socialist! Party Leadership fF IS in keeping with the traditions of the Second (social democratic) International that the socialist party leadership should close its con- vention in Milwaukee with a plank urging the United States to enter the League of Nation and the World Court. This occurs at a time when the League of Nations, stands revealed as an instrument for imperialist plunder and war conspiracies. Ata time when the League of Nations, with the colleboration of American imperialism, has prepared, for large scale war and intervention against | the Soviet Union, the socialist party approves the League “under condi- tions which will make it a more effective instrument for world peace.” ‘Thus they endeavor to conceal the real nature of the League and se- duce workers into support of imperialist war policy. Diligently pursuing its role of lackey of American imperialism in the ranks of the workers, the socialist party leadership, endorsed the strike-breaking leadership of the American Federation of Labor and thereby reaffirmed its policy of aiding Green, Woll, & Co.,in trying to impose the Hoover hunger program upon the toiling masses. The reso- lution approving “friendly co-operation based upon mutual understand- ing” with the A. F. of L. bureaucracy, contained the following gem of studied hypocricy: “In all their work in the unions socialists should observe the high- est standards of ethics and thus set an example of idealism for othtrs to emulate.” New York workers who in innumerable strikes, have faced the bands of thugs, gunmen, police spies recruited by the leadership of the unions under socialist control and paid for by ‘the bosses, can fully appreciate what future crimes against the workers are here anticipated. Great stress was laid upon the fact that the socialist party policy is ‘opposite to that pursued by Communists.” On that point there was complete agreement. We Communists also agree—which makes it unan- imous. As against the despicable treachery of combining with Green and Woll against the working class, the Communists fight for a united front of the workers against the capitalists and their socialist party and A. F. of L. agents. These two acts—the endorsement of the League of Nations and the reaffirmation of support of the A. F. of L. bureaucracy—are part of one consistent line that attacks the working class nationally and interna- tionally by earrying out the fundamental imperialist policy of trying to find a capitalist way out of the crisis—namely the policy of placing the entire burden upon the toiling masses and by fomenting imperialist war, especially against the strong-hold of the working class of the world— the Soviet Union. This unanimity on policy, throws an illuminating light upon the al- leged inner-conflict in the convention between the so-called left, led by ‘Thomas, and the right, led by. HillquitIt-shows that, in carrying out the Wall Street policy of imperialist: banditry; there is a division of labor in the socialist party leadership; the role of the sham “left” being to try to deceive the masses with more demagogic phrases in an attempt to divert the widespread desperation ever growing numbers of workers and poor farmers from moving toward revolutionary struggle. Norman Thomas, presidential candidate of the socialist party, in pursuit of his role of “left” demogogue, had to pay lip service to recog- nition of the Soviet Union, but he used it as a means to cover up the policy of the socialists who are part of world imperialist machine for armed intervention by demanding “freedom for political prisoners” in the U. S. S. R. Said political prisoners being the notorious agents of imperialism convicted of food poinsoning, wrecking plots and active con- spiracy and technical preparations for imperialist intervention. It is thes? agents of the imperialist powers whose aim is to wage war and in- tervention against the Soviet Union and let loose a campaign of bloodshed, munler and pillage unparalelled in all the world’s history in whose be- half Thomas speaks. The aim here is clear to every class conscious workvr—to dull the vigilance of the workers in defense of .the Soviet Wiicn so the imperialists can immediately proceed with their plots. Emphasizing the unanimity of the convention were the closing words ef Fiilquit, who.declared: “On all essential points, the party platform, the nomination of can-. @idafes and the practical plans for the campaign the convention was unanimous. It adjourned in a spirit of complete harmony.” Vhat is quite true, as far as the leadership is concerned. Only one @iscordant note mared “the close of the convention; that was the remarks of a delegate, Charles Hill of Massachusetts: “We're going home to tell every member of the party what a dirty political machine is running this convention. Every sort of political trickery has been tried. It is worse than Tammany.” A machine called upon to perform such foyl work for its capitalist masters must use the methods of all similar machines—the model of which is Tammany. If Hill and others who have voiced similar opinions are honest, and not merely part of the treacherous “left” leadership, they will not only expose the inner-workings of the machine, but what is tar more important, they will expose the anti-working class nature of the socialist party, leave its ranks and join the Communist Party and calls upon all honest workers to do likewise. NEWS FLASHES COMMUNIST DEPUTIES BATTLE FASCISTS IN PRUSSIAN DIET (Cable by Inprecorr) BERLIN, May 25.—The veteran Communist leader Pieck, colleagne of Liebknecht and Luxemburg, declared in the Prussian Diet today that the fascists introduced murder into the political movement and that their ranks are full of murderers. The Diet was discussing the fascist motion to institute an inquiry against the Prussian legal authorities alleged un- warranted severity against the fascists. The fascist fraction then attacked Pieck. The Communist fraction of 57 rushed to the rescue, defending Pieck pulckily against the 162 fas- cists. Five Communists reeeived severe injuries, including a serious skull injury. The scene was unparalleled. . READY TO ARM IN DEFENSE OF U.S.S.R. (Cable by Inprecorr) MOSCOW, May 25.—The parade of seventy-five thousand worker sportsmen which took place yesterday in the Red Square supporting the Five-Year Plan, expressed readiness to take arms at a moment notice to Gefend the Soviet Union. Stalin, Gorki, Kaganovitch And others greeted the parade from the Yenin Mausoleum. WORKER WOMAN AND BOY MURDERED (Cable by Inprecorr) BERLIN, May 25.—A worker woman and a 12-years old boy died in the last few days as a result of injuries reccived through police bullets in Hamburg various recent disturbances. A seven years old boy lying seri- ously wounded in the stomach and the arm bid Walterhausen Police WASHINGTON | LOOKS FOR EARLY JAPANESE ATTACK AGAINST THE Tighten Grip on CHINESE POSTAL STRIKE SPREADS THRUOUT NATION Threatens to Involve Workers In Other Industries The strike of the Chinese postal workers, which began three days ago at Shanghai, has developed into a nation-wide strike of postal employes. In every important city, with the ex- ception only of Canton, the postal workers have responded to the call to strike against the looting of the postal reyenue by the Nanking (Kuo- mintang) government which endan- Ployees. The imperialists and their Kuo- mintang lackeys who have savagely tried to crush the strike, now fear thatthe workers of other industries will come out in sympathy, thus mak- ing the strike a general strike which would assume tremendous political significance. The United States government con- tinues its direct effort. to break the strike. esterday Edwin S. Cunning- ham, American Consul General at Shanghai conferred with the Chinese mayor, Wu Teh-chen, one of the Kuomintang lackeys who betrayed the heroic defense of Shanghai by the 19th Route Army and the revo- lutionary Shanghai workers. Press dispatches report that Cunningham made “proposals to terminate the strike.” As part of his efforts to break the strike, the United States Consul-General has set up an “emer- gency post-office” in the Internation- al Settlement, with the aid ef other imperialist representatives and the Kuomintang gang. Shanghai dis- been a failure to date. The principal Chinese cities in which the postal workers have come out on strike are, Shanghai (where it began), Peiping, Tientsin, Han- chow, Anching, Soochow, Changchow, Chinkiang, Tsian, Loyang, Chenchow, and Foochow. A Shanghai dispatch to the New York Times reports thatChinese stu- dents are rallying to the support of the striking workers: The dispatch admits that “the strike is likely soon to assume tremendous political signifi- cance.’ The Nanking government has in- structed the provincial and munici- ‘pal authorities to use force to crush the strike, gers the livelihood of the postal em-_ patches admit that this attempt has| SOVIET UNION Hailun Dispatch Reports Japanese Moving to Chinese Eastern Railway Further ominous reports of an impending Japanese attack on the Soviet Union are contained in a Harbin, Manchuria, dispatch to the New York Times. This dispateh declares that the Japanese, acting through their Chinese puppets in Manchuria, are tightening their grip on the Chinese Eastern Rail- way, jointly operated by China and the Soviet Union. The dispatch quotes Roland Strunk, a former German Army Captain now in Manchuria as reporting increasing hordes of Chinese refugees from the scene of the Japanese advance toward the Soviet border. He says “Chinese residents are expecting hell to break loose and the refu- gee throngs are increasing.” Strunk further reports that sol- diers of the Chinese puppet govern- ment are digging trenches along cer- tain sections of the Chinese Eastern Railway, and says: “The Chinese trenches obviously are under the direction of foreign experts. Japanese occupation of the remainder of the railway to the So- viet border is inevitable from stra- tegit consideration, despite the fact that the Soviet authorities have la- belled the zone forbidden.” The Times dispatch reports the arrival at Harbin of Soviet Consul General Progranitchnaya on a mis- sion to survey conditions on the rail- way. Under the caption “Russ-Jap Clash Seen by U. S.,” the New York Even- ing Journal yesterday printed a dis- patch from the International News Service reporting official Washing- ton opinion as viewing the fascist action im.Japan and the Japanese war moves in Manchuria as “crys- talizing steadily toward real trouble between Japan and Russia.” Taxi Drivers’ Meet Today In Harlem NEW YORK.—Negro and white taxi drivers are uniting at the call of the Taxi Workers Union of the Trade Union Unity League. Harlem Local No, 4, a@ new local, has been set up. A mass open air meeting is to be held today (Thursday) at 4 p. m. at 140th St and Fifth Ave. ATTENTION DELEGATES TO CHICAGO All delegates must secure their tickets today in order to get re- duced rates. The train leaves at 8.30 a. m. from Erie Station. Those who do not secure their tickets today will not be entitled to reduced rates, Get in touch with Comrade Stevens, District Office, Commu- nist Party, 35 East 12th Street, 5th Floor. Telephone Al. 4-5757. “OUGHT TO HAVE WAR!” SAYS MAYOR OF LAWRENCE Refuse Permit for National Youth Day Demonstration and Parade ~ “We ought to have a war!” ‘This was the cynical answer of Mayor White of Lawrence, Mass., to the demand of a joint delegation from the Workers Ex-Servicemen’s League and the United Front Nation- al Youth Day Committee that the city council grant a permit for the anti-war parade and demonstration against imperialist war and in de- fense of the Soviet Union. A huge mass meeting has been ar- ranged for today at 12:30 P. M. on the Lawrence Common in protest against this attempt of the textile} mill controlled city government to break the National Youth Day dem- onstration by refusing a permit. ‘The National Youth Day commit- bullets, © etary eng os Mer Aha eiands Police unemployed workers Planits, |for the use of iver School fea rata woundlog rea eypepsareme ETS 9 3h ga lwhere a mass anti-war conference is planned on Sunday, May “29th at 8 in the evening. Ree NEWARK, N. J.—After mych de- lay and excuses to the United Front National Youth Day Committee, the city officials were compelled to issue a permit for the anti-war parade and demonstration in Elizabeth, N. J. The Singer Sewing Machine Co. here has already turned part of its plant and machnery over for the production of machine guns. The Standard Oil Co. and otber, chemical plants are being equally transformed into mvuitions produc- ing plants. The parade will form at Jackson Park on the corner of Second St. and Broadway and proceed through the working class section of the city to Rayen. Mattano Park where @ mass meeting! ‘The siext day will be entirely de-! National Youth Day, | | | | | Gen. Honjo Moves Stajf to Harbin to Speed Attack (By dikcreeore Cable) BERLIN, May 25.—An a‘tack against the | Soviet Union is imminent through Vladivos- tok and through the Amur district, says “Weltamabend”, a proletarian paper and the || biggest evening paper published in Berlin. “Weltamabend” points out that the danger of war has entered an acute stage. Berlin has received reports from Harbin, Manchuria, that General Honjo, Japanese commander in Manchuria, has moved the headquarters of his staff from Mukden to! Harbin, and that Japanese troops are rapidly advancing on the Soviet frontiers. The Ber- liner Tageblatt, a leading capitalist indus- trialist organ, declares that this clearly shows on whose side responsibility rests, and warns Japan that if its “senseless military playing with fire” leads to catastrophe, the world will not listen to Japanese protests of innocence. Walker Gets $246,000 “For Nothing,” Graft Probe Shows Walker Says Didn’t Have “Tin Box”; Kept Money In Safe Mayor Walker, the head of the Tammany government ‘of the city of New York, who was responsible for a. whole series of frightful attacks against the unemployed, whose police and thugs regularly ride down demonstrations of hungry men, wo- Chicago Nominating Convention to Say What’s to 0 Be De Done NATIONAL CONVENTION TO SPUR JOBLESS INSURANCE FIGHT AS RELIEF CUTS GROW Thousands at Caliseust | in’ Citeara. 7 7 P.M., May 28, Will Hear Foster and Ford Blast Fake Relief Delegates from All Over Country Will Tell of Ending of Boss’ Cl harity BULLETIN CHICAGO, May The Nationa! Election Cam of the Communist Party, upon receipt of the informat of the headquarters of General Honjo to Harbin i the invasion of the Soviet Union, stated that the stru of the Soviet Union will be the central issue of the en' The Campaign Commitiee announced that the ac ation calls for the most inimediate practical tas’ the workers. The Convention will consider these ign Committee 1 of the t of its most f the lead- important work. It is expected that this will be the meynists ing specches of the Convention. CHICAGO, Ill, May 25,—The National minating Convention called by the C ommu- nist Party, opens here Saturday morning at 10 a.m. in People’ s Auditorium, and will | o] a historic country-wide campaign on a plat- form, the main point of which is struggle fi insurance at the expensé-of the tate and The convention meets, with delegates fr | ganizations all over the country, in the city where, on 1886, the first nation-wide general strike was started fc Socialists Boost convention will be to appoint Leasnie of Nations mittee to go on Decorat 30, to the graves of the tyrs, the leaders of th: who were hanged in t | Graham Ave., men and children on | the streets, and who jailed Foster, | *Minor and Raymond for leading an Laundry Workers to Meet Tonight; Leader Arrested Tuesday NEW YORK.—Tonight (Thursday) there will be at 8 p. m. at Third Ave. and Claremont Parkway, an impor- tant meeting with a report on the Commodore. strike and the incoming shop delegate’s conference, While the Laundry Workers were meeting Tuesday night, at 11 p. m. three detectives and the notorious scab, David Blum, former vice presi- dent of Local 810 of the Laundry Drivers (A. F. L.) and former presi- dent of the Larry Fay racket, came in and arrested Julius Schribman, a strike leader. ‘The meeting was in 250 East 138th Street, the office of the Laundry Workers Industrial Union. Not frightened by the arrest, the strikers voted to keep up the strike and not to accept the offer of the bosses to settle with discriminations against certain strikers. JOBLESS MEET IN WILLIAMS- BURG NEW YORK.—The Unemployed Cuuncil of Williamsburg will meet tonight (Thursday) at 8 p, m, at 61 Brooklyn, All unem- ploycd workers invited. Amter, | unemployment demonst mitted on the stand be steadter committee there was handed to hi of thousands of nothing at ail. He testified that Paul Block, of the chain of ne given him more than Period of two ycars, through a joint{| brokerage account they kept. The account was started by Block who deposited 2,000 shares of stock. Walk- er deposited nothing. That he put through a bus fran- chise to enable the Equitable Coach concern to raise enormous sums of money through selling stock and! that he got several thousand dollars | out of the swindle was definitely brought out against Mayor Walker yesterday when he made his p- pearance before the Hotsteader com- mission. Walker was called to the stand and questioned by Samuel Seabury to| give an accounting of his financial transactions since becoming Mayor of the city. Previous witnesses be- fore the Hofstadter committee had | produced damaging evidence against Walker to the effect that: | 1—He took to Europe with him) in 1927 a letter of credit for $10,000} ‘ation, ad- re the Hot- day that hundreds dollars for doing (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) will be held. Following t this there will be a Counter Olympic sport meet. v8 ¢€ YOUNGSTOWN, O.—Because of the protests which poured in after the Youngstown city government had declared its intention to refuse the National Youth Day Committee a per- mit, Mayor Mark E. Moore, was forced to allow the parade as well as a demonstration and Counter Olym- pic athletic meet. The anti-war youth parade will be held on May 29th at 3 p. m. from Harrison Field. At 4 p. m. on the came day there will ke a mass meet- ing at the corner of Federal and Ba- sin Si. In the evening, National Youth Day will be celebrated by a Program at the Ukrainian Hall, 525 Ww. t voted tc the sport meet which will be held at Harrison Field from nine! in the morning until five o'clock in the evening. This meet will be a workers sport meet in answer to the war olympics to be held in California. jLeague Is |gotten by the As Sessions Close Chief Or- ganizer of War On U.S.S.R. MILWAUKEE. gMay 23.—The ist party convention closed y | terday, after a long debate on pro. hibition and a closing speech by Morris Hillquit in which he said that all disagreements arising during the convention “have already legates,” and that the convention sdiourned in a “spir- it of complete harmony.” Sor Boost League and A. ion with the League of Nations. lt tried to cover up the war drive be ing carried out through the Lee! by urging that it be made “a more effective instrument for world peace,” ‘The convention also endorsed the strike-breaking A. F. of L. leadership which is the direct agent of the bos: ses in trying to impose the Hoo’ hunger and war program upon the masses. Beer Socialism. The League and A. F’. of L. planks went through with little comment and no opposition. The beer plank which called on the United States to operate breweries, was debated by a number of delegates. George H. Goebels of New Jersey, a prohibi- tionist, walked out of the convention when the beer plank was adopted. Against Social Equality. The white chauvinist nature of the socialist party leadership was shown by the fact that not one Negro was present at the convention. It carried a plank in its platform demanding “economic, political and legal equal- ity” for Negroes, byt deliberately refraining from demanding social Philadelphia Youth to Go to Reading PHILADELPHIA, Pa.—One thou- sand young workers in the Philadel- phia district are preparing to leave equality, CHINESE SATLORS Fourteen Chinese sailors on the been for-! for Reading for the Anti-War Na-| British tanker Saxiona have mutinied tional Youth Day demonstration. The | at the port of Constanza, Roumania. Friday before National Youth Day an |The sailors armed themselves ang quit affair will be held at the John Reed} the ship tying it up in the harbor. Club Hall, 1205 Walnut St. at 8 p. m.| The fascist government of Roumania ‘Trucks wil leave for Reading Sunday | cooperated with the British ship-own- at 7:30 a, m. from 1208 Tasker St. | ers by arresting the sailors and fore- All workes should notify the Work- | ing them back on the ship. ers International Relief office ag @29, The Chinese sailors are forced to Chestnut St. of food collected for|Tesort to this because of thelr mis, _ erable slave conditions, “Bhan oe case. frame-up. Capitalist Relief Ends The convention n lof starvation and mise: | years of unprecedented e sis, in which first of broke down and miillions we: jobless, and now even th lef that has been given come to an end. ts in the midst New York delegates will b: ; Story of the collapse of the lou vertised “block-aid tem Block committees have been hounding the workers who still have jobs for weeks now, but they have no mont their wages are cut and they are on part jtime themselves. The “clock-aiders” so far haye been able to collect only $1,445,557. much of that not in cash |but in pledge ding to a report made yesterday w ork by Barklie MacKee Henry n of the Block Commun: tion. Since there are in N c Ww 1,500,000 unemployed, is less than $1 each | for relief for the season. ad- Southern delegates will tell of the cutting off, Monday, of 1,500 jobless workers who were drawing some re- lief until then in Knoxville, Tenn. and the cutting in half of the food ration for all still left on the list, These are only samples of what is taking place all over the country. 14,000 to Hear Foster, Ford Chicago delegates, speaking in the presence of the 14,000 workers and unemployed workers who are expected to fill the Coliseum, where the second session of the conyention opens at 7 p. m., Saturday night, will tell how in Chicago suburbs the unemployed have been lined up alongside of a wall and shot down with machine guns. This happened in Melrose Park, May 6. William Z. Foster, proposed by the Communist Party as nominee for president of the United States, and James W. Ford, proposed for vice presidential nominee, will speak be- fore the Coliseum meeting, and show up, net only the “block-aid” swindle but all other schemes of the Repub- Yean, Democratic and Socialist city administrations, for fictitious relief to the jobless, often coupled with forced lgbor. They will unmask Hoover, the Republican president of the U. S. A., and the entire hunger and war program of the capitalist class. All Chicago workers are called to the open session of the National Mate toot Convention, 7p. my May. the Coon. i