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DAILY WORKER, h TUssDAY, MAY 31, 1932 Nomination Speeches Show Communist Leadership in Struggle “FOSTER, LEADER IN CLASS WAR? Amis, Nominating Him Rechisions Adopted by Convention 1, Against the war danger, calling for the formation of anti-war com- “IS THE ONLY (Demand Paymentof Vets Back WORKER PARTY” Pay;Support the Bonus March, ' Accepting Nomination, By SOL HARPER (Worker Veteran) The bonus march to Washington VETS DEMAND BONUS BE the full payment of the bonus and opposed the “Bonus Steal Beel..” Again on October 30, 193], Job Shark Pulls Gun . On Worker; Jobless Demand Money Back N. Y. Unemployed Councils Open Cam fage Lares 4 wad Tells of Struggle Foster Points Issue | On Gyp Job Agencies a] (By a Worker Correspondent) | While waiting for the police, the jcarried out a demonsrtation before | 4 |the White House, elected a’ delega- |mittees m the factories, for commit- tees of control to stop shipment of, has begun! The Washington bonus stealers, Foster Accepis. Amis Proposes Foster. | B. D. Amis, Negro delegate from Cleveland, in his speech proposing Foster for Communist nominee for President of the United States said: “The imperialists of the world are feverishly preparing for a new war— * for the slaughter of the workers and poor farmers, for an attack on the ®oviet Union, for the partition of Chi- na. Ia this mad rush to seize more booty, Japanese imperialism with the “moral sanction of the League of Na- tion is the spearhead of aggressive action. | “American imperialism gives its | support through the shipping of war materials and ammunition to Japan and by passively consenting to the vape of Manchuria, the slaughter of Shanghai workers and the mobiliz- ing of thousands of Japanese sol- | fiers on the Soviet frontier. “Our Party mobilizes American toil- ers to give stubborn resistance these planned attacks against the Soviet Union. We answer that cap- italism will break its teeth on the iron stronghold of socialist con- struction because the American pro- Jetariat together with the interna- tional proletariat will intervene. Such intervention will express its solidar- | ity in action, will help strengthen the | Red Army, id buttress the defense of the Soviet Union, | Socialist A War Party. ' To carry out this policy of war | and of attack against the worker's, the bourgeoisie is building up its third party, the socialist party, in | view of the fast waning influence | end Igss of confidence in the two | major parties, the republican and | democratic. Ihe rapid radicalization of the masses indicates that the re- publican and democratic parv.es can | no longer quell their precwund dis- content, Therefore the capitalist class finds it expedient to bolster up | the socialist party in order to use | these so¢ial-fascist leaders as a means of turning the militant up- surge of the masses into channels un- harmful to the capitalists. There is also a deliberate attempt being made vive the fast disintegrating A. F. of 1, officialdom as manifested in the Peumhoylvania-Ohio niiners’ strike. This gesture has for its only Pp ¢ to betray the strikers’ strug- confuse the struggling work- prevent them from joining itant Red Trade Unions. Clogs. Against Class. a situation that our ard the program of , of-war to the end overthrow of capitalism. lead these gigantic igeles and to become the symbol rd bearer of the’ fight capitalism, to force the bour~ 5 ie to grant concessions to the workers, I nominate for president the United States one who has exposed the bureaucrats of the A. F, one who has rooted himself uceply in the working class as a Jead- er of the great steel strike, of the Pennsylvania-Ohio - West Virginia - KKeutucky coal strikes, an outstanding fighter for the freedom of the Scotts- ar bero boys, for the freedom of Moo- hey and of Berkman, For these voesons which prove his ability to joad the workers today in deadly siruggle against imperialist war and capivalism—to show the revolutionary way out of the crisis, I nominate William Z, Foster.” “FORD A SYMBOL OF OUR PROGRAM” Communists Demand Pull Negro Equality” Hathaway Proposes Ford. C. A Hathaway, manager of the Communist Election Campaign Na- tional Committee, proposed James W. Ford as Communist nominee for vice- president. Among other things he eald in his nominating speech: “The Communist Party has decided to recommend an action by this con- vention never before taken by any national political party. We propose as candidate for vice-president of the United States a Negro worker, a leader of the oppressed Negro people. We make this proposal not with a vote-catching motive, We do it be- Cause it corresponds to the funda- mental position of the Communist Party and of those who support the Communist Party om the Negro ques- von ./¢ stand for complete uncondi- icnal equality for the Negrocs, not egualily in some narrow limited sense, but for complete economic, po- litical and social equality. Further- more we stand for a solid fighting ‘front of all toilers, Negro and white, munitions, for development of strikes in factories manufacturing munitions, calling for the expulsion of the Jap- anese imperialist representatives and boycott of Japanese goods, withdrawal of troops from China, and setting up the imperialist Hoover government is encouraging and supporting the at- tacks. by the Japanes2 government upon China and the imminent inya- sion of the Soviet Union. 2, Greeting the Japanese proletar- iat in its heroic struggle against op- pression and the war. 3. Demanding the payment of the soldiers’ bonus in America. 4. Endorsement of the “Free Moo- ney National Convention” in Chicago on Labor Day, and of the national campaign to force Mooney’s release, calling for a mass movement to free the Negro boys framed and sentenced to death in Scottsboro, Ala., this movement to proceed under the slo- gan: “They shall not die!” - The res- olution demands the release of Edith Berkman and all other working class war prisoners. 5. Denouncing the Los Angéles Olympic games and calling for the support of the Counter-Olympics in Chicago. “NEGRO TOILERS Ford Calls for Unity of Races in Struggle Ford Accepts. James W. Ford, nominee for vice- | president on the Communist ticket, said in his acceptarice speech: “Negroes exist as a nation of s0- cial-outcasts in this country. This ig their status after seventy years of so-called ‘emancipation’, And now the crisis has sharpened this and brought untold misery 1o the Negro masses. In city after city and in al! paris of the country, one out of every three Negro workers is unemployed. “The Negroés were jim-crowed in the army, they were discriminated against and lynched. Upon their re- turn to this country many of them were lynched while wearing the uni- form of the United States Army “The two capitalist parties, the re- publican and democratic, help to carry out the attacks on the Negro masses. ‘The socialist party, despite its pretense of friendliness to Negroes follows basically the same line and Policy of the American Federation of Labor and the ruling class towards the Negro masses. United Struggte. “Life itself is proving that the Ne- gro toilers are rallying to the strug- gle along with the white workers: struggles of Negro and white work- ers here in Chicago against ‘evic- tions, struggle for unemployment re- lief in Cleveland, the struggles in the coal fields of West Virginia and Pennsylvania. “The Negro toilers of the South too, at Camp Hill have begun to struggle against domination of the white landlords, “The enemies of the Negro toil- ers are not only confined to the white agents of the ruling class but found also among Negro politicians and re~ actionary organizations, notably the | National Association for the Advance- ment of Colored People. Unconditional Equality. “The Communist Party fights for unconditional political, economic and social equality for the Negroes, fights against all forms of persecutions of the Negroes, for the smashing of all Jim-Crow barriers in whatever field. It fights and carries on the struggle for the right to self-determination of the Negroes in the Black Belt where they constitute the majority of the population. All these demands can only be realized through the closest fighting unity of Negro workers with white toilers against capitalist op- pression. “In accepting the nomination for vice-president, I will boldly and fear- lessly put forward “the election plat- form of the Communist Party and call upon the Negro masses to fight along with the white workers for these demands.” NEW ANTI-LABOR »PARTY stem the workers’ turn’ to the left W. O'Brien, a lawyer here, has launched a third party of which he is the self-appointed candidate for governor. It is named the “People’s Party”, of an iron wall of defense for the} Soviet Union. The resolution declares | ARE RALLYING” CHICAGO, Ill—In an attempt to | | to force the granting of such equal- ‘ity now, and to march forward to the emancipation of all those op- pressed by the yoke of capitalist rule. in what is known as the ‘Black Belt’ where Negroes constitute the over- whelming majority of the population. Land to Negro Tenants. “Thirdly, we demand that in this “In the first place is our demand | territory, Negroes be giveti complete . the land of the southern white | right of-self-determination; the right ndlevds for years tilled by Negro |to govern tliemsslves as they see fit, ‘-duut farmess be confiscated and | (he right to separate from the United tusned over to the Negroes, This is | States if they wish, With these de- the only way to ensure the economic | mands for Negroes, with these de- quality for tenant farmers, lutionary white Workers in the fore- “Secondly, we propose to break up| front of the struggle, the unity of the present state boundaries and to| white workers, small farmers, ‘and ro the state unity of territory Negro masses can be established,’ a a CE ee ee a oa > frre Fs ee he encore “nhac tn, ote sent hon anttmbatis tt thine Aree —eeneratneenannenta a Foster, in his speech accepting the | nomination to run on the Commu- } nist ticket for the office of president of the United States, stated: i “The republican and democratic | | parties will soon hold conventions | | here in Chicago. But the workers | can expect nothing from them except | ® continuation of the present misery and starvation.’ They are the parties of the capitalist class. In the com- ing election campaign, the progres- sives: Pinchots, La Guardias, La Fol- lettes, Murrays, etc., will make a demagogic show of opposition to the | Hoover government for vote-catching | purposes. But they have supported every basic policy of the government. | They are representatives of the smal- |ler capitalists and rich farmers. “Nor can the workers look for re- | |lief to the socialist party which has | | just held its convention in Milwau- kee. The socialist party is the third party of capitalism. “The most dangerous of all sec- tions of the socialist party are the so-called ‘Lefts’ and fringe elements, ‘militants’, Musteites and Oommu- nist renegades. These elements per- form the special task of covering up the reactionary policies of the Hill- quits, Thomases, Brouns, etc., with a cloud of revolutionary phrases. The socialist party is the enemy of the working class. It is part of the cap- italist exploitation machinery. “The Communist Party also warns against the corrupt, fascist A. F. of L. leaders. For Emancipation. “The Communist Party is the only party that defends the interests of | the toiling masses. Its program alone | provides means of securing relief | here and now for the starving mas- ses; it alone prepares the way for their eventual emancipation. The Communist Party calls upon the workers to organize for militant struggles now against hunger and against war. It calls upon to pre- pare for thé overthrow of the cap- | italist way out of the crisis through | mass starvation and war, the Com- munist Party proposes the revolu- | tionary way out of the crisis through | | class struggle and the overthrow of | capitalism and establishment of 4 workers’ and farmers’ governmitnt World-Wide Struggle. “The” Comniunist Party of the | United States is a sectiom-ef the great world party of Lenin, the Com- munist International. It is a brother party to the great Russian Commu- nist Party which blazed the way of world revolution, and is carrying through the Five-Year Plan victori- ously, to the amazement of the world. It is also a brother party to the heroic Japanese Communist Party, so courageously combatting imperialist war, and to the Chinese Communist Party now controlling great stretches of China. It is a brother party to the German Communist Party which is fast preparing millions of German workers for revolution, “The Communist Party in America is still relatively small, but in its hands rests the future fate of the producing millions in this country. The revolutionary workers and farm- ers will build it into the ruling party, the party that will lead the revolu- tion and the building of the United | bill year jrank and file support our program. and the Congressmen who voted to pass the half-loan veterans’ bonus intend to force the war veterans to forfeit the balance through default in payment of in-| terests of 4 1-2 per cent on the prin-/| cipal (half loan) and the increasing compound interest added yearly to the half-loan. The Bonus “Tin Box.” Congress, and those who spon- sored such bills, Congressman Pat- man of Texas, Congressman Ham- ilton Fish, of the notorious Fish | Committee for fighting the working | class, thought that by loaning us| half of our own money at 4 1-2 per} cent interest, they would be able to| furnish a “little tin box” for the bankers who bought the Bonus Pay- ment Bonds at the expense of more than three and one-half million war veterans. The Workers Ex-Servicemen’s League, organized in 1930 has con- stantly exposed the activities of the boss veteran leaders of the Ameri- can Legion, the Veterans of Foreign Wars, the American Disabled War Veterans’ Association, numerous fas- cist groups, and the War Street war profit makers who control the legis- lative agents in Washington. The We must elect big committees of rank and file veterans to take charge of the march, to carry on the fight against fascists and spies of the bos- ses and officers’ clique and to pre- sent our demands to Congress. The League sent a delegate, the writer of this article, to Washington on February 10, 1931, with delegates of the National Committee for Un- employment Insurance, at that time rank and file veterans in the Coun-| cils of Unemployed, and other work- | ing class organizations supported the | move to put forward the fight for! ’ . tion of three which entered the White House and demanded the Full Payment of the Tombstone Bon- | us. The speaker for the delegation | ¥ pointed out the fact that the veter- | ans would return on Dec. 7th. ie This was carried out during the | National Hunger March in which more than 400 veterans marched, | and raised the demand for unemploy ment insurance and payment of the bonus. | Veterans Demand Unemployment | Insurance The worker veterans demand un- | employment insurance. There are many of us unemp'syed, we are a pert of the working class and we are supporting working class de- mands:—unemployment and _ social insurance. Only by the solidarity of the unemployed with the employed, only by unity of all workers, Negro and white, native and foreign born, can we win. On to Washington June 8. In the National Hunger March, the veterans gained many valuable ex-| periences, these must now bue used | in a still more effective way. The| este ree oe movement must be organized as a|hall. The singing of revolutionary solid uni'‘d front of the rank and|Songs was carried far out into the | file~ veterans. | streets by loud speakers and reflect- | The veterans in the cities ap-|¢d the tremendous enthusiasm of the proaching Washington should or- | delegates, most of whom had traveled ganize solidarity meetings of veter-|Mmany days to the convention, many ans and other workers, explain to|of them by freight and old automo- them that the fight for unemployed |biles. Delegates included many fight- insurance will be raised by the vet- | ers in past and recent struggles—Ken- erans in Washington on June 8. |tucky and Pennsylvania miners, Law- Worker-veteran delegations, to to|rence textile, Colorado beet workers. Washington, June 8th! | ‘The large meeting hall of the Peo- | Demand the immediate payment | p/es Auditorium was painted fresh in| of the full amount of the bonu: a clean brick color. Along the beams Demand unemployment and social | around the hall were painted figures insurance fo rall workers! of workers in bright blue overalls. Demand all war funds for the un- | Each figure wielded a hammer in the omployed! | right hand, a sickle in the left. Mili- Defeat the imperialist war! tant slogans decorated the hall, such * “Workers of the World Unite!” A truckload of world war vet- crans enroute to Washington to demand cash payment of the |tomstone bonus on June 8. FIRST SESSION OF CONVENTION | CALL TO FIGHT ED FROM PAGE ONE) (CONT! u as | of workers went to the agency. NEW YORK.—The Herald Square | workers called the agent down, A employment agency at 45th St. and|man in the office said, “There'll be Sixxth Ave., charged a worker five|trouble here is that’s the way you dollars for a job. He worked two|feel;” and reached in his drawer for days for three dollars a day and got/a gun. The workers dared hint to laid off. He went back to the agency | draw it. and asked for a refund of his fee.! The agent gave the young worker The gyp refused to return it and|50 cents and told himthat he would the worker went to the Unemployed | get the money bac kat 9 a. m. Seber Council representative, the Daily| day morning if the boss did not give Worker seller at 49th St. and Sixth| him a daytime job Friday evening. Ave. A hastily gathered delegation rater a cop came up to the Daily | Worker seller and told him to “keep The shark asked what “this mob| out of those agencies or I'll vag you.” is doing here.” He was told. Inside) 4. Long Island agency in peas smanutes the worker ‘had his | asked a worker 12 dollars for @ #23 a week job. Another agency asked The Hanover agency at 49th St./_ worker -10 for a $10 a week job, and Sixth Ave. was reported by &/| One worker has had a deposit of one young worker as having sold him 4) dojiar tied up in an agency for over job under misrepresentation, He paid | two weeks while waiting for the “job” for a daytime dishwashing job at | promised him, $8 a week. When he got there the} boss wanted him to work nights. He | refused and the boss signed the card, stating that he had not received the in May, how can we expect to sa job. 5 The young worker returned to the pad log om eateries Pt 8 agency. They told him to retarn at) by these agencies, who for the most 12 o'clock. part are gyping workers. The only way Pulled Gun on Worker |are gyping workers. The only way At 12 o'clock they told him that|to stop it is by organizing delega~ he would have to return next Mon- | tions to get your money back and to day. He reported this ang a dele-| demand the jobs at the legal rate of gation of workers went in with him. | ten per cent. They ded his money and the} Join the Unemployed Counsitet agent called the police on the phone.! Fight the job sharks! ‘These are examples, workers, With 15,000 losing their permanent jobs in N. ¥. C. in April and more expected Bethlehem Steel Layoff Continues & (By a Worker Correspondent) ,3 o’clock in order to get his pay. BALTIMORE, Md.—The Bethlehem| The local charity is giving out some Steel is constantly laying off men at| relief to the married men only te the rate of 100 in 24 hours. Especial-| keep them quiet. Once the compeny ly the hot mills are affected. No/finished laying off, and the wage one knows who will be next. This|cut has taken place, all relief wil! lay-off is taking place on all three|be discontinued and starvation ex turns, day and night, The hot mill | disease will reign unless workerg-etop BONUS BALLOT 1 am in farer of cash payment of ‘What-outfit- did you serve in?.. What organisation are you in Servicemen’s League, 1 Union Square, Room 715. MARE AN the honue to all ysterans “Right Imperialist Soviet Union.” Newton Welcomes Delegates ‘The National ational” al 11:30 a, m., War-—Defend the Convention opened | st session with singing/of “the | and Negro. worker, dele- | bosses come around to the workers while they are working and hand them a white slip (starvation ticket). It may be midnight or two o'clock in the morning. A worker may have finished his turn or be in the middle} of it, nevertheless he gets his slip. | it by organization. Some of the men realize this E&Y are already forming into groups te resist the growing misery. ‘Thess groups are statrted by the Metal ‘Workers Industrial League. The Metal Workers Industrial League %& from: Chicago “district, of ° the | Jonmuyist Party and Communist | candidate for Congress, welcomed the | le; i) nomination of B, K. Gebert, | cago district organizer of the Com-~ Party, lWarl Browdét, was manent chairman, , On ination of “Mother” Bloor, New- was elected permanent secretary, nidst of a great ovation now? Send this to: Workers Ex- Adopt Class Struggle Platform at National Convention in Chicago ws ser soniecn (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE | usent situation from the viewpoint of organizing « fight for the interests of the working class. The interest of the working class at the present time demands that this be done. 2. Unlike the capitalist parties, we make no demagogic promises. Our campaign centers about the issues of organizing the workers for the strug- gles of téday. A Houston, Texas, dispatch re- ports that Texas democratic leaders “believe they have found 2 loophole in the Supreme Court decision hold- ing invalid the law barring Negroes from party primary elections.” ‘The loophole, says the dispateh, consists in having the state Legisla- ture repeal all statutes governing election procedure in Texas, thereby returning to the party's executive committee the inherent right to de- termine the qualifications of its membership. A special session of the Legislature is under considera- tion. This is the same decision that was hailed by the National Association Advancement of Colored Peoples misleaders as “profoundly tmport- ant” and a great victory for which they claimed “Negroes owe a deep The Struggle for the Majority of Work. By O, Kuusinen. The War Offensive—Tightening ‘The Second Five-Year Plan. By, | Lenin. Soviet States of America.” 3. The election campaign must be Bare poo Hathaway concluded, | Crs of which he told of the arrest, “the election campaign is the|°t the delegates from Washington, A presidium of 50 was chosen, in- cluding Central Committees members |present and representatives of each | | delegation An honorary presidium wa’ chosen | Tt include n ‘| light before he can get his money. He is forced to wait around fill day-| the only organization here that fights in the interest of the workers against ‘Then they make him go to the|the company two restaurants and get clearance! Help the Bethlehem Steel woekwew slips. And finally he has to walk all| fight against starvation by goining the way to the shipyards and wait till| the Metal Workers Industrial League. SOVIET PRESS EXPOSES PLAN OF JAPAN TO INVADE USSR (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) ———sensscin Pointing out bi 1 | Japan more sober politicians who see that there are Ernst Thaelinan, Germany; Sen Ka- |tayama, Japan; Harry Pollitt, Great} | Britain; Wang Ping, China; Joseph Stalin, Soviet Union; Thorez, France; and outstanding class war prisoners | utilized to develop every phase of activity: penetration of the factor- ies, building revolutionary unions, ination of the Negroes Mooney, Edith Berkman, McDonald, | Oaty 40. the. extent. that tase Theodore Lucy and Billings. S) A large nutnber of telegraphed | and farmers, can they be drawn into | ate 5 ” the election. catigaign Sad the Coin. | . Get *5:000 New Members! " ; | Browder, as permanent, chairman, | munist Party be guaranteed WOrkINE | setivered the keynote speech, in the strenghtening of all phases of our |D. ©, and the disappearance of 14 will undoubtedly clear the Far |tne whole danger of such an adven- Eastern continent cnd the western | ture on the part of Japanese tmps- ean Pacific of all hostile | riatist circles, “Izvestia” concludes: elements. “, " If Hiroto Hiromoro considered il iieseie Gy Bien” Teak Hae ae necessary to pretend that it 18 ®/ the Japanese nation a billion roubles question regarding preparation for | ana‘much blood and the imperialists defense by Japan in case of an at-|had to go home. ‘This was when tack by the U. S. 8, R. and the| RRS |the Red Army was just organizing United States, the reactionary “Nik-/ang when the USSR. did not prod- hon” throws away all convential- | tice coal and iron three times as much ities in publishing articles by Ka-|as gapan Should the Japanese ime maichi captioned “Japan-American succeed | perialists now in invot or. Japan-Soviet War.” |the Japanese nation into a hea ate “Izvestia” in exposing this article | venture, they would break their teeth of the Japanese fascist journalist | ,eainst Siberia which knows and ree quotes numerous passages showing | members the Japanese imperialiste TEXAS BOSSES ACCEPT PLAN OF SUPREME COURT © TO BAR NEGRO VOTERS June Issue of “The Communist” CONTENTS OF “THE COMMUNIST’ FOR JUNE debt of gratituds to the NAACP.) legal defense committee.” | At thatt ime, the Daily Worker pointed out that the NA.AC.P. mis- leaders were again attempting to be- tray the Negro masses, and to re-~ store the shattered prestige of the lynch courts whose role has been vividly exposed in the Sedttsboro case. The Daily Worker stated fur- ther: “Actually, the decision contains legal loopholes as wide as a barn door, for the convenience of the southern democratic bosses. While declaring that the means chosen by the democrats to maintain the dis- franchisement of Negroes were un- constitutional, the decision care- fully points the way by which the same end may be attained legally.” | delegates from Kentucky, probably | kidnapped by deputies. He introduced peaking foi Meang | Claude Patterson, father of one of the Pere A otrdhuenberg nce. | Sootteboro boys, and Patterson was sented a series of concrete proposals bee ba pada sorceete't for raising funds invioving the widest | Browder put forward as a concrete | participation of the workers in the |0"sanizational proposal the obtain- shops, factories and on the farms, |i" of 25.000 new members for the | The widest publicity, said Trachten- Communist Party during the elec: berg, must be given the campaign by | ton campaign, and the doubling of the Communist Party press. He|th® circulation of the Daily ‘Worker. 5 He proposed to the convention the proposed two national tag days dur- | ing the campaign to raise funds draft platform of the Communist Six Conferences. Party, the six main planks of which Bix conferences took place during |PPear every day at the top of the Sunday afternoon: Youth, women,| ‘ont page of the Daily Worker unemployed, metal, Southern and| After Browder's speech, the dele-| |@ates generally took part in a lively Negro and farmers. | One hundred delegates took part in| Uscussion of the platform. the Youth Conference | Why the Crisis. | Fifty-three metal workers in con- | Browder said in his keynote speech: | ference decided the main points for “Class against class, that is the the election campaign in the steel |¢XPression of class alignment which industry should be the cities of the the workers must fight for and se- cure in the elections. Our six main groups of mills: Pittsburgh, Kn! Re at planks represent the most pressing Youngstown. a Sad ia ace a needs of the millions of the masses of America. “Millions are starving,” he said, “precisely because there is TOO MUCH OF EVERYTHING. That.is what all the wise men of Wall Street | tellus. That is the fundamental law of our economic and social system. | |'That is capitalism. That is the in- evitable result of a system in which the machinery of production and work,” National Tag Days. One hundred and sixteen, more than half Negro, attended the Wom- en’s Conference and raised special demands for working women. They made plans for mobilizing women especially in the struggle against im- perialist war. Eighty-three Ex-Servicemen were recorded as delegates to the conven~ tion, dis- There were more than 150 Negro tribution is the private property of “| delegates. small parasite class—the capital manifest tendencies of Japanese mil- | itarists towards capturing Siberia “Tavestia” says | “‘Nikhon’s’ articles won't fright- en the Soviet Union, The U. 8. | S. R. demands nothing of Japan but respect for ber borders and in terests. The U.S, 8. R. is striving towards peaceful, good-ncighboriy relations with Japan, towards strengthening economic relations | which are equally advantaceous for both countries and which may find | for the Japanese nation « way out | from the difficult situation in which it is presently placed.” and will meet them accordingly. “Siberia is no street along which imperialist plunderers and murder- | ers may take walks unquestioned, But unfortnnatelr, not only the imperialists would have to pay for | their adventures but also the na- tional masses of both countries. Therefore the population of the U. S.S.R. watches with tension the stroggle of the adventurist els. ments in Japan and urges most insistently all elements in Japan having common sense to pat an end to this unprecedented bloody agitation.” fice, but complete agreement that the workers and farmers shall pay all the costs of the crisis, complete agreement that the government treas- ury shall be used primarily for the benefit of the banks, the railroads and the great corporations.” Browder attacked the socialist par- ty for endorsing the Reconstruction Corporation, the joint work of re- publican and democrats, and for sup- porting Morgan’s block-aid scheme, “For Negro Equality” cheers of the whole convention, that the Communist Party alone, “fights every day in the year for equality of the Negro masses, complete equality without any restrictions, economic, political and social.” He enumerated After a stirring demonstration by Browder declared, amidst the) Perialism’s strongest. rivals, Hoover and company are dragging the American working class into a world slaughter for re-division of the world. The new world war, which will claim millions of the working-class lives, ean only be postponed by the most energetic, fearless, self-sacrificing ace tion of the workers of all lands, espes cially of America, to fight against and halt the whole capifalist offens sive. We must mobilize a tremendous movement to expose and struggle against the war policies of the Amere |tcan government. Browder urged thet the workers stop the shipment of munitions to the Japanese imperialists and to demonstrate against the represente- tives of Japanese imperialism and drive them out of the United States, “Force Concessions.” ‘The Imperialist Offensive and the Fourteenth Plenum of the Central Committee Some Elementary Phases of the Work In the Reformist Trade Unions, By William Z. Foster ~ Fascism, Social Democracy and Communism. By W. Knorin. Lessons of Two Recent Strikes. In the Light of (he B.C.C.1. Resolu- tion on “Lessons of Strike Struggles In U.S.A. By Jack Stachel. United States, By Bill Dunne, Moissaye J. H Marxiom and the Nationa! Probters, pane On Utteratzre. the delegates in response to an ap- peal by a delegate who is a Colo- rado beet strike, the delegates col- lected $109 for relief in that strike. the Working Class and Our Mass pa nnn CHEVROLET LAYS OFF 900 (By a Worker Correspondent) SAGANAW, Mich—On Monday, May 23, the Chevrolet foundry in this city laid off about 900 men and girls. Thirty per cent of those work- ing are on part time, This all hap- announcement tn the Capitalist Dictatorship In the leading the fight to save capitalist profits. at the expense of the. lives of the workers,.their wives and -chil- |dren.” But he pointed out that “the question is not one of Hoover. It lis the system, of “which way out of ‘the crisis.” Another tremendous outbessk, of applause cams when Browder anes . | cluded : ‘ “There is no other practical gtrug- gle for immediate demands,” Browder concluded, “except the class struggle jet Union. Secretly and openly in-| led by the Communist Party. A pile stigating Japanese imperialism to ing up of a mass vote for Foster and of ioover,;” af the imperialism, is one of the chief or- ganizers of the war against the Soy- } Not Only Hoover Hoover's policy has been carried begin this task in the East, the Hoo-/Ford and the Communist platform in the presidential elections will foros