The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 6, 1932, Page 4

Published by the Comprodaily Publishing Ce, ine. daily except Sunday, at 60 East New York City. N. Y. Adéress and mail all checks to the Daily Worker, 50 Mast 13th Street, New York, N. ¥, Page Four 13th St, Telephone ALgonquin 4-7856. Cable “DAIWOREK.” RESULTS OF THE SHANGHAI] 3 “PEACE CONFERENCE” By WASS MIN je of the Ck Treaty by wi the impe: nai ng way out ¢ called Opposi landowners i their China, the im- ng “law that they vice. The s on the wor and else de- the s and r ow nical therefore the landown up of sants attempts at striving for treaties eaty, which is a | Table Conference | oliaboration of at and the Briti: ” and are obviously the chief creators of MacDonald, Hoover themselves, or their agents, along, 1 the Kuomintang, practice the most monstrous © nery and carry out the most repressive measures against the Chinese people. The retreat of the victorious Chinese fighters from the Shanghai front to Kunshan was the | resuli of the intrigues and threats of Simon | and Lampson, of the League of Nations resolu- } of Washington. | | | | simon, | The tionand the | Shanghei “Pe: y is the result of the endeavors of 1 d of the “m * move- | ment orgénized by the British agents, Generals | Macnaughten and Bell, (the former and present rman of the municipal council of the | Shanghai International Settlement respectively), s of the active co-operation of the Americyan Ambassador in China. Stimson’s visit to Geneva, as a result of which the well-xnown League of Nations resolution of April 30, on the Shanghai “Peace” was adopted, plays an im- role. This resolution, in which it is openiy stated that the Chinese troops must not adyance one step east of Kunshan, that an | area comy nty-mile circle round | Shanghai must be placed under international | administration, that the withdrawal of the ese troops from Shanghai—formerly fixed months time—is now postponed in- definitely, which silently approves of the com- plete dissolution of all anti-Japanese organi~- zations and the carrying out of the secret treaty between China and Japan regarding Manchuria and .Mengolia, is further confirmed and ex- tended by the “peace” negotiations which for months have been going on behind the scenes _in Shanghai. The Kuomintang regime and its 30-called opposition now demagogically declare that at the Shanghai “peace” negotiations only the armistice and the withdrawal of the Japan- ese troops were discussed, and that not a single political question was touched upon. Thus they represent the “armistice” and the “withdrawal of Japanese troops” as a purely technical prob- lent. By the solution of this technical problem, however, Shanghai has been practically handed over to the imperialists and the way cleared for the partitioning of China. The first delegate of the Nanking government at the Shanghai negotiations, Koo Tai Chi, has been appointed Chinese Ambassador to England, and will travel to London with Lampson. Here he will play the same role as played by Li Hung Chang (who signed the treaty between China and Tsarist Russia) at the time of the latter's visit to Moscow. Also the Japanese give tangible expression of their thanks to England. The Toward Revolutionary Mass Work ( a Times” of April 3, reports from Tokyo the Japanese Ministry of Finance has sent ntative to London in order to negotiate the taking up of a loan of 50 million yen for the Southern Manchurian railway. The “peace” treaty was signed on May 5, but it was actually completed already on March 21, at the conclusion of the preparatory conference, a fact which was divulged by the Shanghai paper, un Pao” of April 7. The “peace” negotiations in Shanghai, which lasted for weeks, were nothing else but a comedy deliberately staged for the purpose of deceiving the people. The Japanese have openly exposed this secret. chu Pao,” which appears in Dairien, wrote issue of April 27: “China suddenly turned with the details of the peace negotiations from Shanghai to the League of Nations. The Nanking Government knew quite well that Geneva would refer to Shanghai the final solution of the details of the peace negotiations. They only wanted to shift the responsibility on to Geneva in order to repel the attacks of their political opponents at home.” On April 29, the same newspaper published the following telegram from Shanghai: “The Nanking Foreign Ministry were quite aware that the population would sharply at- tack the Shanghai peace negotiations. On be- half of fo: ners, they wrote in the Shanghai newspape! ‘Foreigners regard Lampson’s draft treaty as exceedingly just. It contains no political conditions or a1y violation of Chinese sovereignty. To postpone the signing of this treaty would harm the interests of China.” In these lines there is revealed the true fea- | tures of the treacherous Kuomintang. After the retreat of the defenders of Shanghai, the Kuomintang proclaimed that it would pre- pare for a prolonged fight against Japan. What preparations had it made by the 5th May? It had completely forbidden the boycott of Japanese goods, and granted favorable condi- tions to Japanese imports; it had recognized de facto the “independent” Manchu-Kuo; it had supported the Japanese provocations of the Soviet Union, it had organized the fourth cam- paign against the Chinese Soviet Republic, and had attempted to disarm and kill the revolu- tionary soldiers of the 19th Army and the armed workers and peasants. The Japanese im- perialists have also recognized these endeavors of the Kuomintang. On April 29, Manchu-Pao published the following telegram from Shanghai: “The staff of the Anti-Japanese Associa- tion in Shanghai have each received from the Shanghai government a mopth’s salary and have been expelled from Shanghaf. By this seyere measure a revival of this organization is made impossible.” The Chinese landowners and the bourgeoisie, who cherish undying hatred towards the soldiers of the 19th Army, describe the officers of the same army as national heroes. What have these “national heroes,” with Tsai Chin Kai at their head, done in the meantime? They have carried out the retreat of the defenders of Shanghai. They have taken part in the Shang- hai negotiations and signed the secret agree- ment regarding Manchuria and Mongolia and the peace treaty. (Two generals of the 19th army were delegates at the Shanghai negotiations.) Tsai Chin Kai has caused innumerable revolu- tionary soldiers who agitated against Japanese militarism to be executed. He has ruthlessly dissolved the volunteer troops of workers and peasants on the Wuchitchangchow front. The act of the shameful treachery of the Chinese militarists and politicians and of the insolent action of the imperialists only streng- thens the fighting spirit of the Chinese working masses; they will fight with still greater deter- mination for the devélopment of the Soviet movement, for the advance of the Red Army against the imperialists. The new victories of the Red Army on the Hankow-Peiking line, the victory in South Fukien, the founding of the 26th Army in Kiangsi, are proofs of this. ba een me so eS Tork x oe. Fei r ; two months, $1; excepting. Boroughs sign: one year, $6; six montha, 9-60. “AS A SOCI ALIST, i REJO at the Semabsieanon given by the late wat that planned production is absolutely essential.’ —NORMAN THOMAS at a hearing of the War Policies Commission. By BURCR COMMUNISM AND THE NEGRO IN HIS summing-up edi torial in the June “Cri Dr. Du Bois expresses most clearly the dastardly aim behind the symposium on Communism organized by “The Crisis” and conducted in its April and May issues. That aim is to head off the rising struggles of the Negro masses against the growing persecution and oppression by the white ruling class. As a prerequisite for this latest betrayal of the Negro masses, the bourgeois Negro editors find it necessary to combat the growing in- fluente of the Communist Party among the Negro toilers. They ar® forced to admit the leading role of the Communist Party in the real fight for Negro rights, and against all forms of Negro persecution, lynch terror, Jim-Crowism, segregation, etc. Repeating his infamous betrayal during the ‘World War, when he called upon the Negro masses to stop their struggle against the white bourgeoisie, and to “close ranks” with their oppressors and fight against the enemy of their enemy, Dr. Du Bois today again calls for a halt in the struggle for Negro rights, for Negro lib- eration. In his attempt to head off the struggles of the Negro toilers against their white bourgeois masters, Dr. Du Bois advises “thought, study and experiment” as the primary need of the starving, increasingly desperate Negro masses in JAMES W. FORD Candidate of the Commenist Party for Vice-President DISCUSSION OF THE, 14TH PLENUM ~The Party Unit as a Political Center for Mass Work To the New Party Members: ‘We request the comrades who are new in the Party to send in their opinions regarding the functioning and activities of the units. What is being done to help them become active in the Party, politically educated, etc.? Also what have they found lacking in the Party which docs not enable them to bring in their shop-mates and friends? PYER being a member of the Communist Party for about four months, I want to relate some of the conditions existing in some units of our Party in Chicago. In these few months I w itnessed and experi- enced how the Party is going on with its work. An absolute demoralization is existing in some ‘units of our Party. By becoming a member of the Communist Party I always thought to find @ revolutionary discipffline. It is far from being a@ united disciplined party at the present time. Let us go to a meeting and e xperience how the Suggestion for a Pamphlet FTER speaking at several mass meetings during the Massachusetts Hunger March, and personally speaking to the workers after the meetings, and after hearing Comrade Hathaway's speech in Boston on the imme- diate tasks of the Party and on our mistakes and weaknesses, I am convinced that a book- let should be prepared by a responsible com- rade dealing with this question: “Will an Imperialist War Bring Back Prosperity?” We know it will not, but do the masses know it? No, the masses do not know it and our many speakers have not touched on this subject in the manner that would sufficiently convince the masses that an imperialist war will not bring back prosperity, but on the trary, it will only bring more misery. We publish a small booklet dealing on this By N. DUNKER, Chicago plans and decisions of the Communist Party and the Communist International are carried out. What do we see? The meeting, which is sup- | posed to start at 8 o'clock, usually starts at 9, and sometimes later. units function very badly. never meets on time. The leadership of the The unit, bureau Comrades, we hear much about that we must get more politically developed, to understand the class struggle, that for this purpose we must organize study circles and learn more about the Communist movement from a theoretical view- point. But this was never done with much suc- cess in our section. 4 Our unit once organized a study circle and we were promised that an instructor would be as- signed to our unit to the study circle to do the work with us, But he never showed up. This was called to the attention of the section com- mittee, but nothing was done about it, and I can say that a study class was very important at that time, and it ‘- important that we have one now. I can say that these conditions are existing in most of the units in this section. The unit meetings are very dry; discussions are held very seldom, Comrades who are longer in the Party, and who should set an example to the new ones in how to carry out the decisions and plans of the Party and to comply with Party discipline are the last ones to do s0, Conditions like these existing in the Commu- nist Party are quite disgusting at times to new and old comrades, Comrades, something must be done to remedy these demoralizing conditions. I can say that the section is absolutely sleeping on the job. Not much attention is peid by section leadership in how the units tunction. The District Committee should make a check-up on this section and unit leadership, as to their activities an d capability to do the work. ‘The Party discipline must be. enforced in every unit of our Party. Assignments and decisions must be carried out in a true revolutioriery manner. Study classes should be organized. Unit meetings must begin on time. Comrades, by having a strong, disciplined Party, will we be able in organizing the large masses of workers into our movement. A strong Communist Party will help us fight Imperialist wars, will lead the working-class in struggles against the social-fascists and A. #. of L. fakers and misleaders of the working-class. Comrades, let us get together and build up a strong Com- munist Party, which will lead the working class in the fight against this rotten capitalist system, and for the establishment of a Soviet America. The June Issue of “The Com- munist” and Our Trade Union Work E 14th Pienum in its statement on the carrying out of the 14th Plenum resolu- tions called particularly for the populari- zation of the resolution of the ECCI on the lessons of strike struggles in the U. S. A. The June issue of The COMMUNIST has a number of articles dealing with the various problems raised in the ECCI resolution, The article by. Kuusinen on “The Struggle for the Majority ofthe Working Class and Our Mass Work” takes up ‘the question of the pre- paration for strike struggles, the question of the political results of strike struggles, political content and methods of shop work, the working out of demands, the struggle against the reformists, the work in reformist unions, etc, ‘The article by Foster on “Some Elementary Phases of Work in the Reformist Trade Unions” takes up the question of partial de- mands, shop work in the reformist unions, relations of revolutionary unions and min- orities, the question of Trade Union Unity, the exposure of the bureaucrats, the posiijon of the reformist unions. ‘The article by Stachel analyzes the Ken- tucky miners and New York Dressmakers’ strikes in the light of the ECCT resolution. 4 the ever-deepening crisis of decaying capitalism. In other words, patience and a surrender of struggle. Capitalism, Dr. Du Bois admits, is in grave difficulties: “the world is ill." Therefore a truce with the capitalist enemy of the working class and the Negro masses! Thus does Dr. Du Bois support and defend the capitalists and their brutal oppression and persécution of the Negro masses, while paying lip service to the Negro liberation struggle. Untouched by Misery of Negro Masses Dr. Du Bois advgnces the “brilliant” argument that the Negro masses aré turning to Commu- nism because they are ruled by emotion. Him- self unmoved in the presence of. the terrific sufferings of the Negro masses, he refuses to‘ conceive of any logic in .1e growing struggles of the Negro masses, ‘n thcir increasing recognition that the revolutionary, struggle offers the only way out of their misery and oppression. He States: “It is manifest, however, that the main appeal of communism to the American Negro, so far, is emotional rather than logical. Com- munists are suffering with the Negroes and ‘even going to jail. And, he further argues, the question of the ruthless oppression of the Negro masses, the question of Negro liberation, must be solved not by emotion but by “thought, study and. experi- ment.” In other words, patience and a boot- licking diplomacy begging for petty reforms. The suffering masses must display the patience of humility. They must not show any initiative of their own. They must not resist the grow- ing terror and hunger offensive of the bosses. They must not think of mass action in alliance with the white workers. They must leave their “salvation +o the Negro bourgeoisie, whose record of betrayal “stinks to high heaven.” He says “After all, our problems are not to be solved by emotions, but by deep concerted intelligence.” Wants Patience in the Face of Increasing Persecution This formulation of the question is a typical formulation of a bourgeois intellectual. The elegant Dr. Du Bois has tio emotions on the suffering and misery and brutal persecution of the Negro masses. In the face of the rising lynch terror, of the growing legal lynchings in the courts, of frightful suffering and misery among the unemployed and part-time Negro workers and ruined farmers, Dr. Du Bois ad- vances patience as the primary need of the hour. Patience and study only—for the starving tens of thousands of Negro workers. Patience and study for the impoyerished and ruined Negro farmers, for the enslaved Negro croppers and peons. Patie-. and study, a stifling of their emotions—their resentment—against the sharpening lynch terror in and out of the capi- talist courts. Patience and study and a crush- ing of resentment in the face of the hideous attempts of the lynch courts to legally massacre the nine innocent Scottsboro boys; patience in the face of. similar lynch frameups all over the country: Orphan Jones (Maryland), Willie Brown (Philadelphia), Willie Peterson (Birming- ham, Ala.), etc. Patience and a stifling of resentment in the face of the bloody attack by white landowners and their police on Negro croppers at Camp Hill, Ala., orgamiz'n~ against stars. -.1; the murder by Cleveland and Chicago police, acting under the orders of white and Negro landlords and the them and sentences them to starvation. They protesting against evictions. this, Dr. Du Bois calls ‘or patience and study as the primary need of the hour. Of course study. The Negro masses must study the economic basis of their oppression. They must learn the reasons for their murderous oppression by the’ capitalists. They must study the tr:itcrous role of the Negro bourgeoisie ‘and other white and Negro agents and. apologists for the sy: t and s entences them to starvation, ‘They ‘orstard ‘1 Jim Crow base of the Negro bourgeoisie to find the selfish ;rofit motive for the traitorous policy of the Negro bourgeoisie. He Gives Capitalism a Clean State Dr. Du Bois offers a course of reading.» And whose works does he propose The writings of the, social-fascists and other cnemies of the working-class, Negro and white, He brings in Karl Marx’s “Capital” only as a cover for his attempt to trick Negro workers into reading the literature of the enemy. Dr. Du Bois claims that it makes no differ- ence “what Communism says or does,” or what “present capitalism does or has done in the This again shows his cold intellectual ap- proach, He has no emotions over the terrible misery and oppression inflicted by capitalism on the Negro masses. While he admits that capi- talism “has left this sinister heritage of poverty, maladjustment and race prejudice,” he argues that capitalism must not be judg:d by what it “does or has done in the past.” i.e claims i- is a question of indifference what communism does or says. Yet it is precisely what Communism says and does that is begin- ning to make a difference in the lives and hopes of the Negro masses. This is what the capital- ists and their agents, Dr. Du Bois and others, are beginning to realize.' This is the basis for their worry and alarm. Pretending tobe above the battle, Dr. Du Bois calls for patience and study as the primary need of the starving masses. Behind this pretense, it is clearly obvious that Dr. Du Bois has a program. It is clear, Dr. Du Bois, that your program is.the program of the big white bourgeoisic. You oppose the initiative of the masses. You oppose the grow’ ~ unity of Negro and white workers in joint struggle against their common enemy. You argue that the Negro masses will be emancipated ' the Negro beurgeoisie. This is pure bunk and uplift talk. It is only the Negro masses themselves who will carry on a relentless struggle against capitalism and those who try to calm their emotions, to stem their resentment and to adjust them to the capital- ist system of mass misery and oppression. The burning need of the hour for the Negro masses is organization and action, under a proper pro- ‘ gram. The Communic‘ Party '*s that pro- gram, the program of class against class, of joint struggle of the Negro and white working class against the exploiting class, of all the oppressed against the oppressors. Dr. Du. Bois, you stand for*the bourgeoisie in its whife and black skin. We Communists stand for the working-cldss in its black and white skin. Only the workers can emancipate them- selves. ¥ Strengthen International Solidarity Against War and Intervention RKERS of the World Unite” is the slogan on the banners of the proletariat of the whole world, but never was it so urgently nec- essary to put this slogan into practice as now. In all the capitalist countries the fiercest of- fensive against the workers conditions, a steady driving down into the abyss of starvation. The workers fighting back through strikes, demon- For the Unity ot Indiana Miners By BILL GEBERT. IN the Indiana coal fields there are about 16,000 Part-time employed and striking miners, with about another 15,000 unemployed. The situation in the Indiana coal fields presents itself as fol- lows: The largest groups of miners belong to the U.M.W.4, numbering about ¢,000, local organiza- ttoms of miners im Bicknell end Olimten em- brace @ few Wandred miners and then about 10,000 part-time employed miners are unorgan> ized with the unemployed miners completely un- ‘organized, The coal operators declared a lockout on April ist, when the contract between the coal opere ators and the U.M.W.A. expired. The strip mines have been open on the basis of the old. contract, with $6.10 a day wage scale, pending settlement between the U.M.W.A. and the coal operators. A few of the mines that have struck in the first few days, the miners showed mili- tancy by picketing the mines. The pickets were attacked by the sheriffs and gunmen. A hum- ber of miners were beaten up and arrested. After this the officialdom of the U.M.W.A. did everything to stop the miners from picketing the mines and advised the miners when they were brought to court for participation in the picket- ing to plead guilty. Workers’ Discontent Grows. There is a resentment against this among ‘the miners. There is a growing discontent of the miners in the U.M.W.A. as a result of this policy. A Number of mines are working on a so-called co-opergtive basis—that is, miners receiving very little are supposed to receive part of the earn- ings of the coal companies, and it is so divided that the coal operators get the profits and the miners get the statement that there is no profit. Some mines are working on the $5.10 day wage scale and others on the $4.10 day wages. In all the mines there is the 8-hour day with mines working a few days 2 week and sometimes a few days a month. There is mass starvation throughout the coal fields of Indiana. Some petty fakers in the U.M.W.A. in Indiana, which is controlled by the Lewis machine, are beginning to speak against Lewis. for the pur- pose of gaining control over the miners. They speak against. Lewis in favor of Walker, who sent his. organizers into Indiana for the purpose of taking the leadership away from Lewis. In view of this situation, the task confronting the miners in the state of Indiana is the unifice- tion cf all the miners, members of the U.M.W.A., miners who are members of some local organize- tions, unorganized miners and masses of the unemployed miners into one united front move- ment against wage-cuis and for immediate relief for the unemployed. What It to Be Done. To ¢arry out these tasks. it is necessary: (1) That in the local unions of the U. M. W..A. a rank and file opposition movement be’ developed against the officialdom of the U. M. W. A. around the immediate needs of the Miners, Such as (1) against wage-cuts, (2) im- mediate relief for the unemployed, (3) for safety in the mines, and establishment or working conditions which haye been completely taken away from the miners. These demands are to be concretized for each mine, according to the situation in the mine. (2) To develop a movement against the local fakers of the U.M.W.A., such as Bennett, socialists of Clinton, who organized a move- ment among the miners under the slogan of “back to the mines,” and the issues of ac- cepting the wage-cuts. To build locals of the National Miners’ Union in the mines that are unorganized and organize everywhere the un- employed miners into the unemployed coun- cils. To unify the struggle by building the united front from below, organizing miners regardless of their affiliation and even if. they are not members of any organizations whatso- ever gn the basis of fighting the policy against the wage-cuts and for relief. To Prepare for Conference, - The opposition movement and the Ripowenes of the United Front in Indiana must be very” careful not to place themselves in a position te organize only miners outside of the U.M.W.A~ The united front movement can be succassfu only when it represents miners from all organ: izations and unorganized miners, together with the unemployed. Therefore the United Front Rank and File Miners’ Conference, which is. being planned for June, assumes tremendous importance. The delegates to this conference are to be elected from locals of the U.M.W.A. or miners in other organizations, from unorganized miners, calling special meetings, from unemployed miners—from opposition groups inside the U. M. W. A. or any other organizations, ‘The conference has the task of unifying the struggle of all the miners on the basis of the immediate needs of the miners. In all these activities the program of the N.M.U, is to be brought forward in agitational form. The role of the N.M.U. is to be explained, pointing out that it is the only national organization for the miners, and, wherever there is no organiza- tion, local unions of the N.M.U. must be built, "These are some of the immediate tasks con- fronting the miners in Indiana. i the workers in every capitalist try to high the banner of International the struggle against wage cuts, unemployment benefit cuts, reduced expenditure on essential social services, and above all against imperialist af strations and mass actions, but the full force of the workers power is disorganized through the policy of the reformist leadership of the labor movement, » In China, the Chinese workers and peasants fighting back against the bloody onslaughts of In the face ‘of all stom which robs, persecutes and opprésses Japanese Imperialism in a manner that has aroused the admiration. of. the world, at the same time as they fight against wage cuts and attacks on their ‘conditions, which are headed by the treacherous KuoMin- Tang Government. The events in Y have opened out the war period of the economic crisis, as the Imperialist Powers f gather | their forces to ‘effect the partition of China. Against the Soviet Union the ine pn inter- vention has already begun — 1 eis of M&nchuria by-‘Japen: ‘This lowed. by the gathering of* the 2s of the eounter- revolution in all the berder states, rezdy to strike against the Socialist Fatherland at the | first favorable opportunity. ; ‘In this situation.. neyer was. international - “solidarity, so necessary and vital aé now. ‘The Solidarity Day of Jutie 19h; organized*by the Workers International Spr must rag hg d war and armed intervention. A great day of world demonstrations on June 12th can be the answer to the imperialists who bope to use the workers in another bloody shagmbles such as took place in the aban It cam mark the beginning of a new-found solidarity and power our Chinese comrades in to build up their fighting zations, and to relieve if i F il working-class movement, irrespective of various organizations to which they betong, get together now, to make in the Reng te unions, and at the labor exchanges and in ' streets, the call for the Solidarity Day of Ji 12h, the meens through which the workers’ scaivered forees can be brought ther in common day of struggle and fight | phase of the capitalist offensive but a against. war; that can build up more uate He : i pean great } 1