The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 1, 1932, Page 1

Watch For VOTE COMMUNIST FOR 2 Unemployment and Social Insurance 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 no forced collection of rents or debts. ie ( Section of the Com unist munist fe iia — > oem Party U. S. A. Vol. 1X, No.130 >* Entered as eccund-clase maiter at the Post Uifice at New Yurk, N.Y. ander the act of March 3, 1879 NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 1, 4932 ‘Out of His Own Mouth... Socialist Party and its leaders teli American workers, as they did in their Milwaukee convention ,that they are against imperialist war. ‘The Socialist Party leaders tell the American rulers and their agents something entirely different. Here is the proof: “"Notman Thomas, presidential candidate for the Socialist Party, who shudders with fear when he sees the resolute and forcible manner in which the Russian workers and peasants, led by the Communist Party, achieved and defended the proletarian revolution from all enemies, includ- ing “Sovialists”, testified as follows before the War Policies Commission, “May 14-22, 1931, in Washington, D. C. (Copy of stenographic record): “Mr, Norman Thomas: “I think a better result would be achieved insofar as anything can be done, by recommending a solemn reso- lution of pledging the country to pay for war as you go, that is, te tax war.” “IT am certain that the cost plus plan is an abomination; if I ‘understand my friend, Mr. LaGuardia, correctly, he is for a con- ‘stittitional amendment which would permit us to take over every- H thing we need in war.” “IF WE WERE ON THE VERGE OF WAR, I SHOULD PROB- ‘ABLY BE FOR IT, BUT I HAVE NO GREAT ENTHUSIASM FOR? IT.” ***I do not think the power to tax would mean the power to de- “atroy*in war time. I have not heard any reason yet why it is im- “poss! ible by proper control of credit and fiscal machinery and by a | proper coordination of relative need, TO PAY FOR WAR AS | YOU GO.” ““Second, I do want to congratulate the Contmission and the country upon the dawning, if somewhat muddleheaded conviction that when it comes to an emergency like war, the ever-blessed “profit system won’t work WITHOUT AN IMMENSE DEGREE OF CONTROL.” SAS A SOCIALIST, I REJOICE at the demonstration given by the Jate war that planned production is absolutely essential.” “The planned production of the World War was both impressive ‘and’ imperfect.” . “Secretary Hurley: “Mr. Thomas, I want to thank you for the vieéwS you have given.” “Mr. Collins: “I take it from your statement that there are "= PW@-kinds of national defense. One is national military defense, and “the-other comes through certain peace agencies that may be set up, ‘or could be set up.” “Mr. Thomas: “YOU TAKE IT CORRECTLY, SIR.” “"s08Mr. Hurley: “We thank you very much, Mr. Thomas.” ‘Secretary of War Hurley, speaking as the head of the imperialist war machine, quite naturally was grateful to Norman Thomas for his valu- ‘able contribution to the demagogic procedure of putting over Wall Street’s ‘war-plans on the American masses as a great popular welfare enterprise —as'a step towards socialism. - Fhis extract from the minutes of the hearings of the War Policies optcinimion permits us to peer deep into the inner mental chamber of the presidential candidate of the Socialist Party. It is not a pretty sight. “‘Her@rwe see the other side of Socialist. Party. policy—that side which conspires with the most ruthless enemies of the working class to make im- ; war, providing it is well managed and conducted at a minimum cost in “dollars (Thomas says nothing about workers’ lives) appear as a * shining’ experiment in socialist construction. Isit any wonder that “the Socidlist Party, as the third party and cunning.defender of capitalism, stops at nothing to aid the imperialists combat.the Communist Party of the United States and the Communist | International who tell workers that the only wars which are steps to- J ward socialism are the revolutionary wars of the working class and their allies,-the colonial peoples and suppressed national minorities, against imperialism, for its destruction, and the liberation of the robbed and oppressed masses of all countries? Qut-of his own mouth..., ‘ Rank and File Leadership of the Fight for the Bonus Ce ierker-veteran delegations who are marching to Washington to ~-present their demands June 8 for the full payment of the “tombstone” bontis will have to guard against, in the most vigilant manner, the or- gaiived= attempts now being made to split their ranks, divide them up into small and ineffective groups—and defeat the fight for the bonus. Those who need the bonus are the worker veterans—most of whom are’ tnemployed. The officer caste led by Archibald Roosevelt, still smeared! with the oil from the Teapot Dome scandal but still drawing his dividends from his aid to the Sinclair Ofl Company in this piece of typical capitalist banditry, has declared against the payment of the bonus. Glassford, head of the militarized police forces of the capital, has gathered’ some fascist forces around himself and now uppears as the | “seeretary-treasurer” of some un-named group of ex-servicemen. The strategy of the police is a split strategy. Witness the following ‘ from the: Washington Post of May 30: “Before turning into their billets for the night, Patrolman James E. : Bennet of the Traffic Bureau told the marchers: Fellows, you're welcome here. But the minute you start mixing with the reds and the socialists, out you'go. If you don’t think we will do it, we have got the marine bar- tracks, the navy yard and Fort Myers to call on’..” | That there are definitely fascist groupings among the veterans now | in Washington (possibly organized dirvctly by the various government secret service agencies) is clear from the.mext paragraph of the report: “The men cheered him.” ‘You won't have to eject them,” said Walter W. Waters......” If we find any red agitators in the group we'll take care of them and take them to the District line. We came here under the same flag for which » The: Washington authorities, headed by Glassford, are tools of the | Hoover -administration—which is opposed to the bonus, to federal un- employment insurance and relief, and which is supporting the Japanese war drive toward the Soviet Union frontiers. The. Washington police authorities are trying to set up complete mili- tery control of the veterans’ delegations arriving in Washington. -The-strategy of the Hoover government and its Washington police is to divide the ranks of the ex-servicemen. They want to divide the ranks..on the basis of “good” and “bad” groups—that is, those groups which stand for rank and file leadership of the struggle through elected committees, like the Workers Ex-Servicemen’s League, and those who sre still under the influence of individaul capitalist party politicians and the capitalist parties. ~The- veterans should set up their own independent leadership. To trust further the fascist American Legion officer caste leadership, and ithat of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, both of which are part and parcel | of the machinery of the enemies of the bonus, unemployment insurance ‘and-belong to the war making machinery of Wall Street-Hoover govern- sent, is to turn the struggle for the bonus over to the avowed supporters of the budget balancers, sales tax advocates and all those groups which are trying frantically to put more of the burden of the three-year crisis om the backs of the tolling section of the population. |, «iFirst of all every effort to separate the struggle for the bonus from | po Aaa getemnel cages ign ‘wage cutting and imper- ‘war should be fought in the most militant manner. Secondly, the rr relating to feeding, housing, etc., should be handled by elected committees, es presentation of the demands to Congress should be by an élegation representative of all sections of the country and the supporting demonstration should be organized by a big elected ttee. ..NO__DIVISION OF THE RANKS BY POLICE AND MILITARY RENCE—THIS SHOULD BE THE BASIS FOR THE OR- Sonmiacce THE MASS STRUGGLE FOR and file veterans should set up their own leading committees. Third, THE BONUS IN UNITED STATES, CANADA AND FRANCE IN HUGE WAR SHIPMENTS TO JAPAN Japanese Purchase 100,000 Tons of Scrap Iron in Canada and United States files City Trades and Labor Council Joins the | Growing Protest of American Workers Against War BULLETIN. MILES CITY, Montana, May 31.—Pressure, from the rank and file members of the A. F. of L. has resulted in put- ting the Miles City Trades and Labor Council on record against the shipment of war munitions to the Far East. In a communication sent to the Montana senators, Burton K. Wheeler and T. J. Walsh, the Council recommends legisla- tion to this effect, or for placing a prohibitive export tax on such shipments. : Huge Japanese purchases of war materials in Canada, the United States and France are reported in two news stories appearing during the past week in the bourgeois press. HINDENBURG TO st don as see por FORM GOV'T: WITH is in ceeds ant is NAZIS’ SUPPORT iron in Canada and this coun- New Cabinet Bridge tdy. The Sun admits that the purchase is significant in view to: Open Fascist Government of “recurring reports of threat- ened hostilities between Japan and Soviet Russia as an aftermath of the Manchurian trouble with China.” The liberal Vancouver Sun attempts, how- ever, to cover up, the real war pur- pose of the purchase with. the lie-that. it probably represents “signs of great industrial expansion in Japan.” ‘The Sun reports that 50,000 tons of scrop iron have been assembled at Seattle for shipment from that port on Japanese freighters shortly. Ten’ thousand tons are at Port Coquitlam, | 5,000 at Vancouver, 1,500 at Port Mann, Canada, awaiting shipment to Japan. A Paris dispatch to the New York | patty News reports tremendous ac- | (Cable by Inprecorr) BERLIN, May 31. — Hindenburg continued today his negotiations with party leaders in order to form a new} government to take the place of Bruening’s cabinet. Wels Breitscheid, social democrat leader, received five | minutes, while Hitler was closeted | with Hindenburg for more than 60] minutes. In the evening a proposal was made to entrust Von Papen, leader of the reactionary fascist wing of | the Catholic Party, with the forma- tion of the new cabinet in order to| secure the catholic support. Papen, | fanatical anti-Communist, is sure of | the fascist and nationalist support. ‘The Hindénburg group is consider- ing a coalition government with the fascists, but the latter are not anxi- ous for the moment to participate in it, preferring to leave the Lau- sanne negotiations to others and if possible avoid the responsibility of | the coming emergency decrees. The fascists’ demands are there- fore exorbitant. They want the | try “despite the industrial crisis.” | Wherever possible, factories of war materials. “Much of the ma- terial is shipped abroad. Part of it goes to Japan.” The dispatch reports further “the Hotehkiss automobile factory is man- ufacturing a 20,000,000-franc order of | machine guns in the Lavallois factory | for the Japanese government.” Three Communist deputies have re- cently exposed this open arming by French imperialism of the Japanese | allies for their criminal plans of at- tivity in the French munition indus- have | been converted to the manufacture | Jépanese Op Issues Stern Inciters “Pravda” (European Correspondent MOSCOW, May 31. (By Cable.— In an article captioned “Provocaiors Strength,” the Soviet newspaper “Pravda” today deals with the in- tensive propaganda preparations for an anti-Soviet war on the part of Japanese military circles. “Pravda” quotes a number of statements by Japanese military men and journalists concretely presenting Soviet Union. The folowing passage quoted by “Pravda” from.the Harbin newspaper “Kuoning Kubao” shows how far-reaching are the schemes of the Japanese military: “Japan considers that in order to strengthen her position in Man- the Maritime and Amur districts; Siberia in order to guarantee peace- fulness and internal means transportation and system of man- agement of Manchuria. The Jap- anese Army must establish three lines of defense: the first line at Chita; the second at Novosibirsk; the third in the Urals.” (All points referred to are on Soviet soil— Daily Worker.) “Pravda” quoting says: ‘Tf one were to. look at-this-state~ ment as a persohal view, it would this passage madman, written in full accordance with the campaign conducted day after by the Japanese military. the Japanese military does not in. alone. This is shown by the declara- tion of the prominent Japanese journalist Kinisuke Adachi, who ar- | purposes. “The sooner war breaks out,’ clared Adachi to a representative of the Scripps-Howard newspaper trust, the better for Japan. The U.S.S.R. is becoming stronger every of war Are Overestimating Their} plans for war operations against the | churia it is necessary first of all | to drive out the Red Army from | besides it’s necessary to capture | of | appear that this is the frenzy of a| Un‘ortunately all this is} Evidently | tend to restrict itself to propaganda | jrived in New York for propaganda | de- | enly State Aims “To Seize Siberia, ' Extend Lines to Urals” Warning to Japanese of War By MYRA PAGE. | of the Daily Worker) | day Should Japan postpone at- tack for tomorrow this may be too late.” | er that together | Poir j with age 8 ‘| | On ussiaanfalbven, Cache at Port, pagan, to) | Be Shipped: to Orient | TIN | ese militari men of Japan official states- ly ex-j have | pressed themselves most favorably for ike i sonaeiah - cousuiess bY) 2 eeceomett Melati Wor in Europe and Latin Amer- liegoee sting the lynch verdicts. Pays: s fight, the NAACP. mis-|s | “We heard quite a number of | such declarations. But which are we to believe? Which of them re- flect the real tendency and policy of Japan? Well, the hostile cam- paign against the U . has long since overgrown the c’ immediate attacking the U.S.S.R. | which cannot be ¢isguised by aiplom: speeches. Who after all is responsible for the foreign policy of the Japanese | Government Such p’ | not contribute towards | lishmeft of co cannot remove th ale per- arising between the con- on what ‘ec nd what the J 'Pawest Le uder Hae Vet Marchers Flogged | | tionary | torous | tional Association for |wide mass fight paign for | + premiership and the Ministry of the Interior both in Prussia and in the Reich, the further dissolution of the Reichstag and new elections where- by they hope to gain an absolute majority or at least a considerable gain in strength. They also demand that the prohibition of the storm detachments be withdrawn. More than likely Hindenburg will form a cabinet of prominent person- alities enjoying the confidence of financial, industrial, and agrarian circles and the puppet of the Reichs- wehr, A coalition ecyecment of fascists | with catholics is possible in Prussia to be followed by a similar one in the Reich during the autumn. \ The Communist Party issued a statement onthe present situation declaring that finance capitalists, Junkers and Generals gave Bruening his marching orders. The statement points out that a wave of fascism is beginning and reminds the workers of the full responsibility of the so- cialists for the existing situation owing to the unlimited toleration of the Bruening emergency decree-dic- tatorship. ‘The Communist Party repeats the offer of a revolutionary united front of all conscious workers, particularly members of the Socialist Party, Christian Unions, Reichsbanner, etc, In its statement the Party warns the workers that the i ‘onsified danger of war calls for a fight against the militarist policy of the Reichswehr Generals and Nationalists, concluding with an appeal for the immediate formation of united front committees in all factories, labor exchanges, a- gainst fascism. MACHINE GUNS AT RE-OPENING OF COAL MINE LATHROP, Ohio, May 31.—State militia with rifles and machine guns menaced pickets at the re-opening today of the Black Diamond Coal Co, mine tap Troops were sent by Gov- tacking the Soviet Union. The French |government refuses official statistics \on munitions productions, mors in France that the Schneider arms plant at Cruesot is rushing an | order for heavy tanks for the Jap- anese, RALLY AGAINST { ‘Demonstrate at Broad and Whitehall Streets NEW YORK. — A demonstration against the bloody imperialist war moyes in the Far East by Japanese imperialism and the intervention plans of the world capitalist powers against the Soviet Union will be staged Saturday, June ., at White- hall and Broad Street. All unions, workers fraternal organizations, clubs ete., are mobilizing for this ‘mport- ant demonstration, All organizations should take note that the place of mobilization has been changed from Whitehall and- South Streets to Whitehall and Broad Streets, one block east of the original place. With the bombardment of Hailun by Japanese troops and the setting the whole city in flames, the Japan- ese Imperialist Government is carry- ing further its provocative work a- gainst the Soviet Government. The Soviet Government has warned the Japanese Government that “Siberia is not an open street along which any imperialist robber can walk in safety.” ‘The mobilization of all forces in New York against Japanese Imperi- alism and U. S. Imperialism, which is openly supporting the Japanese Government with soe and ammu- we The dispatch reports persistent ru- | | WAR SATURDAY: Provisional Bonus March Committee Calls On) It! . Foster and Ford Start National Tour in Communist Election Campaign; Milwaukee and Terre Haute, June 5 _ Daily Worker Convention Supplement Coming- 4. ation for the Black suppression of the the Chinese people VOTE COMMUNIST. FOR Equal rights for the Negroes and self-determin- Belt. Against capitalist terror; against all forms of political rights of workers. Against imperialist war; for the defense of and of the Soviet Union. Price 3 Cents S. SUPREME COURT TO REVIEW SCOTTSBORO BOYS’ LYNCH VERDICTS Decision a Tremendous Partial Victory for the Working Class and World-Wide Mass Fight Workers Must Guard Against NAACP Spread- ing Illusions On “Fairness” of Lynch Courts The United States Supreme Court yesterday decided in The decision to review the® sentences is a tremendous| partial victory for the revolu-| working class and a smashing defeat for the trai- | activities of the the Ad- Colored the of | Negro and white workers throughout | the world have rallied to the world- | vancement of the People misleaders. During past 14 months, millions against the lynch| |verdicts and for the freedom of the | innocent Scottsboro boys. Their protests have rung from one end of the world to the other. Scores of demonstrations have been held be- leaders mepeniedly attacked and at- |} \tempted to disrupt | This partial victory again proves the effectiveness of mass pressure on the bosses’ courts to stop the bioody hands of the ruling class. This is third time that the revolutionary 's have forced t lynch courts | to postpone the carrying out their blody plans to massacre* these in-| cent working class youths as an| act of terror against the | ro toilers and the whole working | class. The decision of the Supreme | |Court to review the verdicts auto- | maticaily the ex nad been set for June 24 of jour Vigilance. The mas: around Scottsboro stron than ever |must realize that this decision will w be used by the bosses ¢ nts in the N tempt to the airness’ and e” of the boss courts. The -lynchers and th Vets to Oust WASHINGTON, D. C., May 31.— Walter W. Waters, fascist, and self- which arrived here May 29 from| Portland, the man who fled when the vets were confronted with the Na-| tional Guard in East St. Louis, Tl, is working hand in glove with the en- | emies of the bonus, the Washington police, etc., in their attempt to dis- Yupe @,united front of the ex-soldiers. Following the lead given by a po- lice officer, Bennett, who has been carrying on a vicious campaign against the Workers Ex-Servicemeni’s League, Waters set up a kangaroo and sentenced them to ten lashes for distributing leaflets gotten out by the Provisional Committee. __ The leaflets called for a solid united front of the veterans under rank and file leadership to present their de- mands to Congress June 8, The Pro- visional Committee has called on the veterans to expel Waters from their ranks and carry on the strug- gle under the leadership of a rank and file committee duely elected by the masses of veterans. Mass pressure behind the demands of the Provisional Bonus March Com- mittee and the Workers’ Ex-Service- men’s League has already forced the Washington officials to supply hous- Painters Urged to Help Picket Cohen’s NEW YORK—The Alteration Painters urge cyery painter to come to 1150 Southern Boulevard at 8 p.m. every morning to help picket Sol Cohen & Son. The strike is against @ wage-cut. Cohen has been trying without success to bulldoze the wire r rey ite styled leader of a group of veterans | court which “tried” two worker vets | W. W. Waters ing, food and bedding for the veis | now in the C: |. The March Com- | mittee dem: { additional sup- |plies be appropriated for the mass | delegati of vete yet to arrive ‘TIE WALKER T0 | pias | NEW YORK. — Mayor Walker was shown up yesterday as ing ch more to-do with the secret Sherwood accounts running into hundreds of thousands of dollars, than he admit- ted when he was on the stand: James T. Ellis, committee accountant, took the stand in the Hofstadter Commit- tee hearing and brought out that Walker himself authorized payments out of the accounts of Sherwood. Walker authoried the use from this account of $41,668 for securities and ofe$16,500 for a letter of credit. . J. Allan Smith, the slush fund manager for the Equitable Bus Co., which the mazyor denies he was in- terested in, but which previous’ evi- dence shows him much concerned about, came on the stand again. He is the man who bought the mayor a $10,000 letter of credit when the Equitable wanted a franchise, and made good a $3,000 overdraft on it, later. Smith reluctantly admitted that the Equitable was using Senator John A. Hastings as a go-betWeen for the Equitable. Hastings has denied this, but Smith admitted it when he saw the committee had documentary evi- dence, Smith sir ply failed to bring his check stubs and other documents that were subpoenaed, and gave no explanation. The ARS ds still. mis- wer vi ty | SHERWOOD CASH to present the of agents will attempt decision as “proof” ments, in order to j | fense of the lynch co their argu- ify their de- nd to pre- pere the way for the murder of the boys. The.mass ‘fight must be strength- 9 one-hundred fold. From this partial victory, we must go forward to complete victory, for the’ uncon- |ditional release of all nine of the | Scottsboro boy the smashing of the lynch practices of the bc court and the frightful national op- pression of the Negro masses. This partial victory is an emphatic |answer to the lies spread by the N.| AA.C.P. misleaders that the ILD. attorneys were neglecting to take the apepal with | | | proper steps in filing the jthe U S. Supreme Court. |BEGIN PUBLICATION OF CONVENTION DISCUSSION, SKETCHES, TOMORROW Tomorow the Daily Work- er begins the publication of the discussion of the de- mands and platform at the Nominating Convention. This most interesting and important part of the con- vention in which dozens of delegates from all over the United States took part will be accompanied by pictures and sketches by Burck, Gropper and other proletar- ian artists of a number of the worker delegates, Negro and white, who spoke on various points of the plat- form. No worker should miss this feature of the con- vention proceedings. Order bundles for your shopmates erances by Japan-) rover of the appeal filed by the International Labor Defense eee te cereameope wx | attorneys calling for a review of the Scotsboro lynch verdicts. | KANCOUVER SUN, MA: | The I. L. D. appeal was personally opposed b eral Knight of Alabama, representing the bes: Attorney Ger) lynchers. “CAMPAIGN MUST. GET INTO ALL PLANTS, MILLS" C ommittee U rges Drive to Put Communists On the Ballot May 31. — The Na. CHICAGO, = tional Nomi Communist but the is must be and ories shops, phasizes toda Collect Signatures William Z. Foster mes W. nated for president By Ford 1,200 dele gates, Negro and wi and women, employed from every part of all workers, figl program and putti worker candidates Now, the Campai out, it is necessary ers of the for these The Co: the ballot. been accom it mear tent | signatures. Get On Ballot. that sent t “| to mobilize a. Commun! their state s for candidates s June speaks at Toledo, Ohio, on J Ohi 4 directic Milwauke neapolis Minne: same at various pe Dakota from Jun ACQUIT 2 iN PATERSON CASE PATERSON, h y 31.—Lieb, and Gershanowitz, two of the five Paterson silk workers charged with murder, during a picketing were tried today on felonious assault charges preliminary to their trial with three, other silk workers for murder, The court was forced to find them not guilty. The jury was out only ten minutes. The New York District of the In- ternational Labor Defense, in a state= ment today, said: “The mass pres- sure of the workers of New Jersey and New York is responsible for the victory just won in the Paterson case, The fight for the five Paterson work- ers must now go on to a successful conclusion, As & means of rallying the workers further and of consoli- dating the protest of the workers, the LL. D. had arranged a tour of the five Paterson workers. It will start with a meeting at the New Harlem Casino, 100 W. 116th St., New York City on June 3rd at 8 p. m. This will be followed by a meeting on the 4th