The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 28, 1932, Page 1

ey arasorn, et nen AIEES VOTE COMMUNIST FOR issih 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. Dail Central -. y (Section of the Communist International ) orker unist Party U.S.A. ee = VOTE COMMUNIST FOR 4. Equal rights for the Negroes and self-determin- ation for the Black Belt. Against capitalist terror; against all forms of suppression of the political rights of workers Against imperialist war; for the defense of the Chinese people and of the Soviet Union. Entered as second-class at New York, N. Vol 1X,No1270 [2 ‘» under the act of March 3, 1879 matter at the Post Office N 1W YORK, SATURDAY, MAY 28, 1932 CITY EDITION —IN 2 SECTIONS (Section 1) Price 3 Cents CALL JAPAN Two Conventions vO conventions—what a contrast between the National Nominating Convention of the Communist Party in session now in Chicago and that held by the Socialist Party last week in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. | At the Chicago convention are assembled more than a thousand FROM BORDER TOWN AS 4 toilers from factories, mines and farms. Here are Negroes, representatives | of thousands of Negro toilers in both the North and South. Here are dele- | gates elected by hundreds of workers’ and farmers’ organizations with tens of thousands of members. Here are delegates instructed to draft a program for uncompromising struggle against the vicious attacks of the capitalists. In Milwaukee the opposite was true. There, to begin with, no Negroes were to be seen in the Socialist Party convention. For the Socialist Party convention the Negro liberation struggle did not exist. Any workers or farmers who may have been there were hopelessly outnumbered and their voices were not heard. It was a convention of a small handful of Socialist Party leaders (185 in all)—a convention of doctors, dentists, shopkeepers, lawyers, professors and other middle-class elements. There was none of the militancy which characterizes a convention of real toilers who feél the burning sting of the blows of the bosses. Many beautiful middle-class platitudes, a few radical phrases. The only mili- tanc~ to be found in the convention was the militant fear and hatred of | the advancing proletariat of the Soviet Union. This characterized the Milwaukee Socialist Party Convention, At the Socialist Convention talk about “demecracy” was uppermost— not working class democracy such as exists in the Soviet Union, but just | plain, ordinary capitalist democracy such as exists in Melrose Park, Dear- born, in Kentucky, in Scottsboro and other places in the United States, where murderous police attacks are being systematically made on the workets. In fact, in Milwaukee they were opposed to proletarian democ- Yacy e&tablished under the rule of/the workers in the Soviet Union. The socialists want a restoration of capitalist democracy in the Soviet Union. ‘They want democracy for the sabotagers and cdunter-revolutionists, for those who would re-establish the rule of the Czars. Solomon, leading New York “Socialist”, speaking at the Milwaukee Convention, showed most clearly the counter-revolutionary use which the Socialist Party makes of its prattle about democracy: “We don’t want democracy partially,” Solomon said. “We demand democracy for everybedy. Our worst enemy has the same right to put forth their position as our closest friends. I even defend that right for white-guard Czarisis.” Demccraey fox eyerybody! Democracy for the white guards! Democ- racy for the capitalists—Ford, Mellon, Morgan, Rockefeller—and their police agents who are siarying and murdering American workers, their wives and children. . Democracy everywhere—except in the American Federation of Labor unions where Socialist Party members are told to support the bureaucrats but to preserve “the highest standard of ethics.” What hypocrisy! And this gfeat stress on “democracy” is not accidental. ‘Phe masses are becoming tired of the kind of the democracy which perinits them to starve at a time when the warehouses are filled to over- flowing. The working masses, with increasing determination, are prepar- ing to crush such a democracy which only serves the bosses. They are awakening to a consciousness of the situation, to an under- standing of the need of revolutionary action for political power for them- selves, to take over the factories, the banks, the railroads, the warehouses in order to provide themselves with food, clothing and jobs. The masses cannot much longer be held back by the Republican and Democratic Parties. The Socialist Party therefore rushes forward in an effort to stem the rising tide of mass struggles—to preserve capitalist “democracy”—to pre- serve the capitalist dictatorship disguised as democracy. “Stay away from the Communists,” they shout; “they don’t believe in democracy. You must be democratic; there must be democracy for every- body, even for the capitalists. You must not think of confiscating the property of the capitalists. If you wish to take over the banks, the fac- tories and the warehouses, you must pay for them. That is the demo- cratic thing to do.” This is the sinister prattle of middle-class intellectyals who cannot comprehend the suffering of the masses. This is the prattle of people who did and do not sweat and suffer to build the factories and to produce the food now rotting in. the warehouses while the masses starve. This is paci~ fist. middle class prattle intended to confuse workers faced with the need of revolutionary ‘struggle against imperialist war. This, here at home, is an effort to disarm the workers, to prevent them: from victoriously marching forward in the struggle against their capitalist exploiters. When directed against the Soviet Union, this shout- ing for democracy is only preparation for another imperialist war—this time. to crush the workers’ and peasants’ power in the Soviet Union— again ‘carried on as the last war was—“to make the world safe’ for de- mocracy.” This is the meaning of the actions of the Milwaukee Convention of the Socialist Party. : The Nominating Convention in Chicago, this convention of toilers called by the .Communist Party, sheds no tears over capitalist “democracy”. ‘It is called to fight capitalist democracy. It is concerned ‘with the struggle against the hunger, terror and war offensive being ‘waged against the workers precisely by the capitalist state power which is Jabelled by the socialists as “political democracy”. This so-called democ- | acy is the oppressor and enslaver of the masses. It is the instrument of vapitalist oppression. The Chicago Convention of workers puts forward its demands. It fights for them: ; ' 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; exemption of poor farmers from taxes, and from forced collection of rents or debts. ’ 4) Equal rights for the Negroes and self-determination for the Black Belt. 5) Against capitalist terror; political rights of the workers. 6) Against imperialist war; and of the Soviet Union. For this convention of the workers the fight for these demands today fs a further step in the revolutionary struggle to destroy once and for all the ryle of the capitalists, to completely shatter their democracy, and to sset_up 2 Soviet Republic which alone can give real freedom to the masses ‘of toilers. What a contrast!—The Socialist Party, basing itself on the bewil- @ered, cowardly middle classes, shouting for democracy in an effort to stem the tide of working class revolt; the Communist Party, boldly un- Yurling the banner of working class revolution, rallying the workers for | the struggle for their immediate and burning needs today, preparing them ~ for the struggle for the United States of Soviet America. eee at zt r | Remington-Rand Will Be Picketed Today NEW YORK, — The Remington-/jers’ strike, Strikers are warned to Rand strikers, fighting their fourth regard as enemies the agents of A. (9 per cent wage cut, picketed all, 7. of L. Local 23 who came around te yesterday. dnd tried to discourage them. ‘The Printing Workers Industria!| The Employing Printers Associa- League, 126 University Place, points tion is sending workers without tell- the girls of the inspecting de- | ing them there is a strike. Some nt that they ere already who came down refused to work. for as low #8 $7 to $i4 a) There will be another picket line veel. and now have @ ware cut on this morning, at the 42nd St, branch What. Tt calls them to join the prini-|jand the Broadway branch, against all forms of suppression of the -for the defense of the Chinese people > | { JAPAN RECALLS CONSUL ae seats ae ts DIET TO VOTE $60,000,000 FOR WAR DRIVE ® Foreign Observers in i With four Japanese armi Toki @ seven-months campaign in Man gram, pedition, being div: led 124 million istry as an emergency reserve. ment as Significant; “Dramatic Climax” Approaches Military Observers Declare “Situation Never Contained More Explosive Possibilities” : es in a rapid advance to the So-| viet border, the Japanese yesterday recalled the Japanese Con- Plan 7 Months Campaign Beginning June First May 27.—The new cabinet headed by Admiral Saito has de- cided to call the Diet into session June 1 for the main purpose of appro- | priating 193 million yen (approximately $60,000,000) to pay the cost for Both government parties have pledged their support to this pro- The session therefore is merely a forma] one, there being no opposition expected. Out of a total amount to be appropriated by the Diet of 301 million yen, 193 million go to the Manchurian military ex- | |navy, 6 million to the foreign office and 20 million to the Finance Min- With these large appropriations assured, all authoritative observers here believe that the Japanese activity in Manchuria will take on rapid- ly a more open anti-Soviet character. ARMIES ADVANCE ON USSR Harbin View Devélop- Times Dispatch Says churia beginning June 1, yet to the army, 40 million to the sul General and all Japanese York Times reports that this “de- velopment was regarded as signifi- cant” by foreign and Chinese ob- servers in Harbin, Manchuria, The dispatch says “x dramatic climax is approaching in Northern Manchu- HERRICK SAYS WALKER OWNED TRUST STOCK Mayor Had Denied It; Block Says Son, 10, Urged $246,000 Gift Walter Herrick testified before the Hofstadter Committee yesterday that Mayor Walker had 300 shares, valued et $39,000 of the Interstate Trust Co. stock. This stock was used as col- lateral by the Equitable Bus Com- pany backers after Walker got it. It was bought for Walker, according to Herrick’s testimony, by Herrick himself with money sent to him by the mayor's private secretary, Stan- ton, and on the understanding that | Walker. provided the money and got | the stock. Posession of this stock makes Walker heavily involved in the Equi- table, which was at the time applying for a franchise from the city. Herrick’s statement gives the lie direct. to Walker himeslf, for Mayor testified the day before that he never bought and never had the stock in -question, Previous testimony showed an (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) Austrian Workers VIENNA, May 27.—In a tremen- dous demonstrations against the Wall Street imperialists and their Austrian socialist allies, Austrian workers again registered their fury yesterday against the brutal attempts of the American ruling class to burn seven of the nine innocent Scottsboro Negro boys in the electric chair on June 24. Stoning the motor car of Merritt Swift, First Secretary of the Amer- ican Legation in this city, indignantly invading a ceremcny arranged by the socialist city government to honor George Washington, “Father” of the American bourgeoisie and brutal slave owner, the workers shouted slo- gans denouncing the American lynch courts and their Austrian socialist al- lies, and demanding the immediate release of the innocent working class lads. Eight young workers, made up to represent the boys who were sen- Meeeshnbt ts AM sega ntild Manchurian town directly on the Soviet border. NEW YORK. Park Commissioner | subjects from Pogranichnaya, a pe ria.” It leaves no doubt as to the na- ture of the expected climax. It states: | “Japanese columns under the di- rection of General Honjo are rap- idly approaching the borders of So- viet Russia in the advance down the Sungari Valley and eastward along the Chines: Eastern Rail- way.” 7 The dispatch reports that one of the Japanese expeditions is already | “thirty miles from the Soviet fron- tier on the Amur River, and a sec- ond is operating east of Hailin, 100 miles from Pogranichnaya, at the Soviet border.” : | The Japanese military have sus-| pended all passenger and freight ffic on the Chinese Eastern Rail- ‘way, The line is being devoted solely | jfor the movement of troops to the) Soviet border. Foreign military observers in Man- churia are reported by the Times dispatch as declaring that “the sit- | uation in North Manchuria was ; never. more complicated and never contained more explosive possibili- ties.” In addition to the two Japanese’ armies whose movements toward the Soviet border are reported in the Times dispatch, a third Japanese army is advancing on the Hulan- Hailun railway, while a fourth army’ is concentrating’ directly on the So- viet border in the angle formed by the Korean-Manchurian-Soviet fron- tiers. \ Soldiers of the heroic 19tlt Route Army who, with the .revolutiona: | workers of Shanzhai, successfully resisted the combined Japanese army, navy and air forces in the Shanghai war, until bet Nanking Kuomintang leaders, These are the type of the sturdy soldiers who are increasingly deserting from the Kuomintang armies and joining the Chinese Red Army now engnged in a victorious advance throughout nearly all of Central and South China. CHINA RED ARMY IN SMASHING VICTORIES Captures Two Nanking Army Divisions in | Anhwei Province, Besiege Kuomintang | Garrison at Luchow ; In a smashing courter-offensiye against. the feurth “Com- | munist Suppression” campaign Jaunched by the traitor Nan- king government, the Chinese Red Army yesterday captured two full army divisions of Kuomintang troeps yed by the traitorous | sent into Anhweiiof delegates coming by train, DELEGATES TO CONVENTION POUR INTO CHI. Tremendous Response by Workers’ to Call of Communists for Fight on Hunger and War | Scape fra menatingsaine FOSTER AND FORD PROPOSED AS NOMINEES AT HUGE MEETING IN COLISEUM TONIGHT |National Nominating Convention Called By Communist Party Opens This Morning | BULLETIN KNOXVILLE, Tenn., May 27.—Forty delegates to the Nationa} Nomi- nating Convention in Chieago are on their way north today. They are | from Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia, Florida, Louisiana and Alabama. | Others are reported carting from Mississippi, Virginia, North an@ South | Carolina. Included are working miners from Bell and Harlan ¢ounties, Kiy., who defy terror and arrest by becoming delefgates, There are tabacco, steel, marine workers and farmers. One woman farmer represents # large group in Florida. There are several Negro delegates from the “Black Belt”, and from other sections. Few of the delegates belong to the Communict Party, but all are for its campaign. { | | CHICAGO, IIL, May 27.—Delegates to the National Nomi- |natirg Convention of the Communist c¢lection campaign are | swarming into Chicage today from all sides. They are arriving in autos, they are hitch-hiking, and they are riding the freight cars. This does not count fhe orgahized fleets of trucks still on |thé way from Detroit “4nd »- Pa i | ‘ ) such as the 75 lower New other Lake Shore points, nor/yo% and New Jersey dele- does it count the mass bodies | gates who left Jersey City over |the Erie Railroad this morn- with the Chinese Red Army went over in a body to the rev- olutionary forces. The 46th Kuomintang division has been com- pletely cut off and disarmed by the Red Army. The Chinese Red Army is now beseiging the Kuomintang gar- rison in the insportant city of Lu- chow. Luchow is 8 miles directly north of Anking, the provincial capi- tal. The American bourgeois press re- ports with the greatest alarm the sweeping victories of the Chinese Red Army in Anhwei and other provinces, | and the rapid growth of the powerful Chinese Soviet. districts: A New York Times dispatch from Shanghai de~- clares: “Startling Communist victories, involving the loss of two govern- ment divisions, are imperilling the Nanking Goyernment’s hold on An- hwei Province, which lies just west of the City of Nanking. . «+» These victories replenished General Honjo, Japanese comman-) 14) Communis's’ munitions tremen- Protest on Scottsboro Verdict der in Manchuria, moved his general staff from Mukden to Harbin a few days ago. Dispatches during the past week have reported the movement by the Japanese of heavy artillery, tank ‘and airplane units toward the Soviet border, in Stormy Scottsboro, Ala., shouted in chorus: “Free the young Negroes!” Down with Class Justice!” “Down with the Scottsboro lynchers!” and “The So- clalists of Vienna are supporting the murderous United States govern- ment!” dously.” The Times dispatch tries to hold out a crumb of comfort for the im- | perialist robbers of China, stating that | the Wall Street butcher Chiang Kai- | shek “is hurrying to Hankow from which: point he will direct a large-! scale anti-Communist campaign in, the Central Yangtze Valley, part of which is in Anhwei Province.” This. is cold comfort, at best, for the impertalisst, who well remember the spectacular failure of Chiang’s| three previous “Communist Suppres-| sion’ campaigns. | In the meantime, the split between | the Nanking and Canton wings of! the Kuomintang is developing toward | a renewal of their chronic armed) struggles over the diminishing loot. | a SES Leaflets were distributed urging the workers to. drive out the diplomatic representatives ,of the. murderous United States lynch government. the demonstration and arrested 15 young workers. The workers mili-; tantly fought back. NEW YORK.—A Vienna dispatch to the New York Herald-Tribune re-| ports that since the arrival of Mrs. Ada Wright, mother of two of the boys, in Vienna, the socialist police “have taken elaborate precautions to protect the American legation and: consulate building and their officials.” | | In an editoria] note to its Shang- hai dispatch, the Times makes the| following admission of the rapid! Socialist municipal guards attacked | growth of the Chinese Soviet Power, | semble, according to the follewing ang the Central Soviet Government in Kiangsi Province: ~ “Adjoining Anhwei to the south | and west, Kiangsi 2nd Hupeh prov- inces are strongly Communist, as is Hunan, which adjoins both of thes: provinces. Forces said to be Com- munists have in the last few weeks | been overrunning Fukien province, which adjoins Kiangsi on the cast. | The Reds are also strong in Honan | Province, north of baa i i | Relief Band on the west and east ted States Ma nd Sandin‘s- tas “insurgent a. Thursd; in the Jinotega province. One hun- dred men were killed in these bat- les, it is reported Fifty of thein were insurgents. y | vise” | The Sandinistas rallied in the af-| terncon, routed the Guardsmen and fought bitterly to avenge the mur- der of their comrades in the morn- ing battles. From Managua it is reported thet seventeen “rebels” were Monday by the Guardsmen one mil east of the Neptune mine on the Atlantic coast. ‘These reports cxpose the hipocrisy of Secretary Stimson, who declared that’ United States Marines are not fighting the Sandinistas and they are merely to act as clerks in of the State Department | Turn to Page 4 of this issne of | ‘the Daily Worker for the state- | | ment of the District Committee of | |New York District of the Com- tunist Parly on the New York ' Communist Ief't2d last | that | | forsign to Nicaragua, ostensibly to “super- the elections which will take place there in November. This en- nouncement further strengthens the that Secretary of State Stimson in- tends, in reality, to launch an in- tensified, drive against the workers and peasants. ¢ tue abcve mentioned officials, first detachment of the United Sta- tes Merines will leave for Nicaragua during next month. It is'clear there- will dispatch these Marines not. “to supervise” the elections when they will take place, but to prepare the way for them, through armed campaign, in erder to make sure that the United States’ tools are “elected.” Doctor Jose Zepeda, representative of General Sandino, is reported as svating: “Can Secretary Stimson or the American Government expect General Sandino widespread conviction in Nicaragua} gates and some 400 speciators. fore that the Department of State) ium in the, street and loud sp a ruthless | described as |) to control his men and avoid acts | province at the direct orders — es ad jing. of the United States govern- ° ¢ | The number of delegates al- ment. | wdraguan Insurgents Fight ready .arriving through their All of the soldiers of the 7th Back U.S. Marines: Kall Fifty |? fe eee ee js greater than e Kuomintang Division who s eae a that the National Cam mit= : : i Two battles between Nicaraguan | announced, ‘in the meanwhile, that! tee is faced with a probl esating | were not killsd in engagements Guardsmen, officered by the Uni-|650 additional Marines will be sent | |in the first session. It was expected | that the first session of the National Convention, opening Saturday morn- | ing at 10 o'clock, could sit in People’s Auditorium, with places for 800 del¢- It appears now that the delegates alone will probably more than fill that hall, jand ©. A. Hathaway, Communist | Election Campaign manager, s-ates According to the announcement -of | that space in the Coliseum will have the | to be hired for the first session and }all succeeding sessions, or the con- | vention will have to be divided, with | part meeting outside People’s Auditors ers | rigged to connect the two meetings, Nise inside and one outside, Huge Colssum Meeting ‘The second session is taken care of, | it will start Saturday night at 7 p.m, Jin thé Coliseum, Fifteenth and War that seats 0 worker to be there to | nomination for president lent'of the United Sta nominee's speeches. 14 nd vices Ss, and the th: | hear Delegates to the, convention comg., of revenge when nearly a score of| from workers’ orgenizations, particu % thei number are wiped out by aerial | yarly from unions, and from local Election ‘Campaign | Conference. defense?” Nat'l Youth D ay in Harlem Is Youth Action Against Wu NEW YORK.—The New York Uni- ; ted Front National Youth Day Com- | mitiee has issued final directions for the mobilization of the young workers who are to take part in the Second National Youth Day demonstration against imperialist war and for de- | fense of the Soviet Union | On Sunday at 1 p. m. all trucks and individuals must asemble at McCoombs Dam Park located noar the Yankee Stadium. To get thcre by train take the East Side Weod- lawn express to the 16ist St Station. On Monday all groups must as- divisions: Clubs and I, L. D. Youth sections on the west and east side of Seventh Avenue cleng 144th St.; the I; W. O. youth and the National Student League groups on the west and east sides of Tih Ave along 143rd Street respectively; the Pioneers and L. S. U. and Workers International sides of 7th Avenue along 142nd St.; e Trade Union Unity League along 141st St on both sides of 7th Ave; 's League Svottcbezo 140th St. the Workers Ex-Serviceme and the Harlem Youth Defense Committee a on both sides of 7th Ave. The Bronx Section of the Communist League ‘is Ag preparatory march to popularize Na- tional Youth Day. This march will be held this evening at 7 p.m. The parade Longwood. Ave and wind up with @ huge open air rally at 139th St. and Brook Aye. This parade will help rally hun- dreds of Bronx youth to aitend the Second National Youth Day demon- strations and parade against im- perialist war and for defence of the Soviet Union which is to be held in Haflem Monday, May 30th. Torches, placards and tin can bands have been ‘secured in order to ac- tually make this a real mobilization parade for the day of struggle of the youth against imperialist war—Sec- ond National Youth Day, May 29th and 30.2. bombs, against which they have no} conte: Young | organizing the | young workers of the Bronx icr a/ will siart at Prospect: and | xces held in all large eitiegs> |made up of delegates of workers’ o& | ganizations, Unemployed Council, ctc. More than three’ quarters Of | the delegates to the National Conveg- | tion are non-Party membe-s, byt all - | come from o or contere eaces whieh have endorsed the Coffi- | nuupist election campaign for: Une. ployment and Social Insurance aby expence of the and employ= and the oticr main demands uihehed st tie tcp of the iromb page of the Daily Wu r) i German Unemployed Storm Food Shops BORLIN,’ Gormay semployea ¥ i important scaport , losing ell patience with tho inedsquate revef, stormed food shops ell over town lest nigh’ land seincd fucd, vs thore were fights i worke.s or unehis cd of workers, led? inst the National’ Po. 02 by eae the crowds of workers and jobless in Wupperial, and the crowd retaliated with a barrage of bottles and other missiles before it was broken up. At Remscheid police and workers. exthanged shots; there i no Loews — yet of casualties. é “A