The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 23, 1932, Page 4

Page Four orker Porty US.A. Daily. Published by the Comprodaily Publishing Co., xept Sunday, at 80 £. Inc., daily e 13th St., New York City, N. ¥. Telephone ALgonquin 4-7956. Cable “DAIWORK.” Address and mail checks to the Daily Worker, 50 E. 13th St., New York, N. ¥. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. By mail everywhere: Ome year, $6; six months, $3; two months, $1; excepting Borough of Manhattan and Bronx, New York City. Foreign six months, $4.54 one year, 38; Japan Warns the United States IAPAN will not tolerate American interference with the active realization of the Tanaka Memorandum for Japanese conquest of Manchuria and China and ultimate warld domination s is the blunt warning given by Viscount Ishii, speaking officially for the Japanese Government, to the new American Ambassador to Japan, Joseph C. Drew. Any interference by the United States with Japan’s 1a will mean war, Ishii warns the United States. This is plain The Japanese Japan ha forestall ns in atum tears aside the veil of pretenses with which empted to cover up its drive to dominate China and nperislist rival. The ultimatum reveals the acute- ness of the frantic rivalry between Japan and the United States for domination of the Pa for control of the h Chinese market. The historic rivalry between Japanese and American imperialism for control of the Pacific has tremendously sharpened as a result of the remorseless deepening of the capitalist world crisis, and contains the dan- ger of a world war. The Japanese warning to the United States is issued at a time when Japan knows that American capitalism, itself in the throes of the terxific crisis, is compelled to intensify its efforts for the economic conquest of China. American imperialism has built up its huge production machinery chiefly upon the internal market. With the rapid: decline in the buying power of this market due to the ruination of the farmers and the pauperization of the workers through mass unemploy- ment, wage cuts, etc., American imperialism faces the necessity of securing its markets on the international scene in struggle with its imperialist rivals. As Comrade Radek points out in an article in the July issue of “For- eign Affairs,” Japanese imperialism is desperately fighting against three historical tendencies: (1) the inevitable unification of China by the work- ers and peasants; (2) the economic penetration of China by the United States; and (3) the socialistic industrialization of the Soviet Union not only in Europe but also in Siberia. More desperate situation than American capitalism. hurry Promise of victory.” drive for war against the Soviet Union, and now its open defiance and ultimatum to its American rival in the struggle over the looting and partitioning of China. It is therefore in a Japanese imperialism could issue such an ultimatum to the United | ®tates only because it feels itself backed by British and French imperial- isms at this moment when the sharpening imperialist rivalries are ex- posed in Lausanne and Geneva. Japan and France have a secret military pact for mutual defense of their “interests” in the Far East, Great Britain considers Japan as “an ace in the hole” in her struggle against American imperialism, in the struggle for world domination. The statements of Ishii set the stage for a new onslaught on China. ‘This is clearly indicated in Ishii’s attack on China as a “treaty violator” in an article in “Contemporary Japan,” and his characterization of the anti-Japanese boycott as “an act of war.” Ishii’s statements mean that Japan demands a free hand for the exploitation of Manchuria, which they will use as a jumping-off ground for the war against the Soviet Union. It is an answer to the protests by the United States against the Japanese attempt to confiscate the Chinese customs revenues collected at Darien. American imperialism sees in this proposed action a further threat to the already shaken stability of the Nanking Government, and with it, American influence in China. Seizure of the Darien revenues would also affect the ability of Nanking to repay the foreign loans with which its murderous wars against the Chinese workers and peasants have been financed. The Wall Street Government at the same time pretends that the Japanese ultimatum is “pacific in tone,” and maintains a studied silence. This attitude of the U. S. Government is not based on any desire for peace, but is in line with its calculated policy of promoting war between Japan and the Soviet, Union, thinking thereby to weaken its imperialist rival and at the same time to do away with its chief class enemy, the Soviet Union. In such a war the United States will not stand aside but will join in the attack against the Soviet Union. The United States is even now shipping war munitions and materials to Japan for war against the Soviet Union. The American working-class must give its proletarian answer to these imperialist brigands. The defense of its interests does not lie in the sup- port of American imperialist policy in Asia, nor in the criminal war measurés against the Soviet Union, but in the fight against the Japanese bandits and in exposure of the Wall Street policy and militant struggle ggainst it, and by militant defense of those who are to be made pawns in the imperialist gamble and slaughter: the world working-class, the Chinese People and the Soviet Union. The Ssencale ah in Chile EHIND the rapid changes which are taking place in Chile, the fact stands out that the native puppets of imperialism are endeavoring by demagogy and terror to put down the growing revolutionary upsurge of the masses and the heroic Chilean Communist Party. At the present time it is clear that the Davila coup was directed to strengthen American imperialist domination in Chile “Even though the revolution is professedly ‘Communistic’ or ‘Social- istic’ news comments in the United States seem to assume—and rightly perhaps—that so long as Davila was behind it everything will turn out alright,” writes Jackson Reed in the New York Times last Sunday. Estaba Montero’s rule which was overthrown by Davila and Grove Was set up in the nr t of growing struggles of the masses signalized ‘by spontaneous strikes. The rule of Montero was doomed by the catas- trophic growth of the crisis, worsened by the tariff on copper, which is the second important export product. Nitrogen production fell to 18 per cent of the pre-war output. Un- employment and misery grew among the workers and peasants while the financial difficulties of the country increased as a consequence of the sharply declining exports, which eventually led to a suspension of govern- mental obligation to other countries. The mutiny of the Chilean sailors last year which was smashed by Grove and his air forces and the country- wide unemployed demonstrations last January, drowned in blood by Mon- tero, marked the sharpening of the class struggle which threatened the Montero government In the face of this situation and in view of the importance of Chile as the greatest nitrate producer of the world, the tools of the United states hastened to overthrow the rule of Montero and to replace it With Davila, former ambassador to the United States and a tool of the Guggenheim mining interests. The overthrow was staged as an alleged “socialist revolution” in order to deceive the workers and peasants to whom they threw out the false revolutionary perspective of land confis- cation and industrial expropriation, and by other deceitful slogans. The ‘Socialization’ plans which won the applause of the Socialists and Lovestone renegades in the U. S. was deceitful propaganda. But in the case of the Cosach Mining Trust, which Davila helped to organize, ‘ocialization’ means throwing the burdens of the debts of this bankrupt firm on the masses. But the socialization scheme is intended also to reduce as much as possible the British influence in Chile (whose struggle for Chile -mani- fests itself in the role played by the landlord class led by the militarist Grove). American imperialism is endeavoring to secure the most com- plete contro] of the copper and nitrate and other war products, especi- ally in view of impending war in the Pacific. ‘The workers and peasants of Chile that have already shown great heroism in the struggle with the native and imperialist oppressors are learning from the recent experiences the great lesson that they must fight as an independent force and are in ever large numbers being led into the struggle against their exploiters by the Communist Party of Chile and the Chilean Federation of Labor, which though numerically small and persecuted, have a broad mass influence. The Communist Party points the way out of the crisis—the way of struggle against the present military junta, against the labor lackeys Hidalgo & Co., and for the anti-imperialist and agrarian revolution, and for the revolutionary democratic dictatorship of the workers and peasants, The American revolutionary workers must not underestimate the revolutionary potentialities of the Chilean workers and peasants and must with all their strength come to the ald of these fighters against impe~ alist domination. which is primarily’againet United States imperialism, a Mal ‘ite Japanese capitalism is in an even | “fearing to lose an opportune moment which may still hold the | Therefore its robber war against China, its rabid | _DAGLY WORKER, NEW! YORK, THURSDAY, JUNE 23, 1982 “Step Right In, Gentlemen! The Greatest Show en Earth! ‘Two Socialist Mayors and Scottsboro By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL OTH Vienna, in Austria, and Zu- rich, in Switzerland, have So- cialist mayors. The Scottsboro Negro mother, Ada Wright, spoke in both of these cities. ‘The Scottsboro mother, however, received with thundering enthusi- asm by the great mass of workers, and.by broad strata of non-worker elements, became an object of close surveillance under Socialist orders, Socialist Police Shadows Vienna, “Socialist Vienna” of the | Bauers and Kautskys, pride of the so-called “left” Socialists the world over, where the Socialist, Seitz, is Burgermeister, where the Socialists have the overwhelming majority in the municipal council, through its ruling regime, did not greet the Scottsboro mother nor protest the Scottsboro judicial lynching. In- stead, while its police followed the Scottsboro mother like a shadow all the time she was in Vienna, the Socialist official family had as its guest the American ambassador, Gilchrist Stockton, at the unveiling of a tablet designating one of Vienna's municipal housing projects as “George Washington Hof.” The Vienna socialists thus fawned upon the lynchers and their spokesman. Outmaneuvering the Police But the workers did not let this pass. in silence. In fact, the mass demonstration became mass indig- nation against the Scottsboro per- secution; against the speech of the Socialist mayor, the speeches of workers; against. the attempted speech of the American ambassador the mass distribution of red leaflets among the holiday throng demand- ing, “Free the Scottsboro Negro | Boys!”, and when the police had | carried through numerous arrests, | and thought they had the situation | well in hand, a huge truck appeared carrying workers with their faces blackened to symbolize the victims of the American lynch-terror. This was the signal for a storm of jeer- ing—the piercing “Pfuiruf” of the German workers—as the Socialists and their American boss class allies sought to place in position the Washington Memorial Tablet. Meanwhile the police renewed their attack on the masses, arrest- ing the young workers and the chauffeur on the truck, and seizing the truck itself. While mass arrests were being made, the dedication program, much shortened, was hur- riedly completed and the American ambassador sought an escape in his automobile, more jeering and some stones hastening his depar- ture, Words and Deeds ‘These Vienna Socialists are the social-fascists who brazenly raise the slogan of “Hands off the Soviet Union!” at the very moment when their tribute of the slave-owning American president is attended by the Polish ambassador, the spokes- man of the Ozecho-Slovakian am- bassador, @ representative of the Chinese Nanking government, and similar instruments for the prepara- tion of the war against the Soviet Union, While the workers were demand- ing, “Free the Scottsboro Negro boys!” the Socialist mayor was speaking, in part, as follows: “It is 200 years since the birth of George Washington. This anni- versary is not only celebrated in the United States, but in all the countries of the world. We cele- brate this occasion also in Vienna. “George Washington has becomé the- symbol of the. forward. strug- “PRAVDA” WRITES ON WORKER DELEGATIONS What They Saw During Recent Visit; Some Interesting Contrasts EADED “Guests of the -Soviet Union,” Pravda, official organ of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, in a recent issue de- scribes the impressions and conclu- sions of the worker-delegates from the United States and various Eu- ropean countries who visited the USSR. recently. “The delegates,” says the Pravda, “spent four weeks traveling over the country. These delegations, com- posed mostly of non-Party workers or of members of social-democratic parties and unions, visited during that period the largest undertak- ings, including Dneiprostroy and the state and collective far: The article continues: “They vis- ited rest homes in Crimea and Cau- casus. They spent their leisure hours. amid Soviet workers and peasants. Impressions New! “All these impressions were new to them. They were suddenly transported from the drab existence of their surroundings into a new world, a world teeming with life, in which all the dreams of every class-. conscious worker are coming to life. Wherever the delegations went, in railway carriages, in streeé cars, in hotels, there was an ever-present and heated discussion and ex- change of impressions, These im- pressions and opinions found their expression in the wall-papers edited by the delegations. “There was no wide divergency of opinion between various groups and delegations in the appraisal of the facts which came to their ‘atten- tion, All were in agreement that the fascist and social-democratic press were feeding them lies about the Soviet Union. All were in fa- vor of defending the Soviet Union against the imperialist world. “However, alongside of enthusi- astic opinion, one finds businesslike and sober appraisals of facts the way they were found. The critical approach was evident. Compari- sons were made of industrial equip- ment here and abroad. A member of the French delegation questioned the difference in the pace of de- velopment between town and coun- try. Another member of the same delegation thus answered it: “The working class, which is the ruling class, does not carry on the functions of government for its own narrow interests. The workers are improving the con- ditions of all toilers. The U. S. S. R. is the example of it. Gol- lectivization and mechanization of agriculture have increased the quality of output and the earning power of the producers, Where a man was formerly toiling 14 to 18 hours, now a tireless tractor is working three shifts, This not only increases the income of the peasant—it gives him more leis- ure for cultural development.” “The growth of education, the in- crease. in number of village clubs, transform the peasant from a for~ Jorn creature into a new man. American Speaks, “A member of the American dele- gation, a miner from Pennsylvania, writes for his wall-paper: “The Soviet workers do not haye to worry about working clothes-and lamps, like we have to, They receive these from the conditions of the Soviet miners is far superior, compared to ours. They haye the most modern safety devices. Wash rooms and and rest rooms are better and cleaner than ours. Medical treat- ment and first aid stations are not scattered like in the United States, where a worker must walk gle of humanity, the symbol “of democracy, of the republic. There- mine administration. The general ~ By BURCE Fighting Sell- Out of Penn- Ohio Miners 'HE 10-day strike of 2,000 miners of the Pittsburgh Terminal Coal Co. (4 mines) has been sold out by Pat Fagan, president of District 5 of the United Mine Workers of America, “Fhe ‘agreement doesn’t run out till July: 1st,” Fagan told the U.M. W. A. miners’ locals in the strike.” You must go back to work under that agreement till July 1 (18 days). If I don’t have a new agreement thén; I'll call you out again.” Fagan began’ his assault on the local where the National Miners’ Union membership was weakest, at No. 3 Mine, and when it was voted to accept his proposition he carried it to the next weakest local. When he reached the strong Camp, No. 8, he could: tell.the men that the other camps had accepted and they would be isolated if they didn’t go back to work. Rumor has it that the men are being sent back to the mines to clean them up and put them in shapé for a long shutdown. Only No. 8 is to be operated, so the story goes, producing wash coal. Tried to Starve Workers At First, When the strike first started, Fagan dared not even come near the camps. He set about breaking it by direct dickering with the company. As the strike progressed, the president of one local tried to persuade the county relief agent to cut off all relief to the strikers, but the relief agent refused, say- ing that if they cut off all relief the men would be forced back at a wage-cut and the county would be feeding évery family in the mines, instead of 75 pér cent of them, as at present. Church Strikebreaking. “Father” Cox, Pittsburgh’s cham- pion deceiver of the working class ang the unemployed, told the men to go back into the mines at a wage-cut. They could earn a “lit- tle,” he told them, and he and the county would give them enough to The Negro People and the Election Campaign HAT are the most vital probléms confronting the Negro people in this election campaign, _ and what is the Communist Party do- ing in the struggles of the Negro masses? FIRST: There is the question of unemployment in which Negroes are affected to a much higher de- gree than white workers. Consery- ative estimates place the Negro unemployed in industrial centers as high as three-quarters of the total Negro population. Negroes are af- fected greatly in relation to relief. The ruling class jin almost com- Plete disregard of the terrible suf- fering of the unemployed, deny any relief, and when the pennies are handed out, the Negro jobless are greatly discriminated against. The Communist Party is the on- ly party fighting for the basic needs of both Negro and white workers in the case of unemploy- ment, and the central one of the six major demands in the Commu- nist platform is “Unemployment and Social Insurance at the Ex- pense of the State and Employ- ers.” SECOND: When the Communist Party speaks of equal rights for the Negroes, we mean unconditional economic, political and social equality. We struggle against jim- crow barriers in whatever field they exist. To the Communist Party this is a fundamental de- mand of major importance which will break down the walls set up by the ruling class to keep the workers, black and white, separat- ed and divided. But in the South, there can be no talk of equal rights without the question of self-determination, This question is, today, a vital problem for the Negro people. The right of self-determination means the struggle to win the right of the Negro people, constituting the majority of the population in the Black Belt, to -govern that terri- tory. Exactly what is meant by the Black Belt in the sense that we Speak of it? There is a great stretch of land in the South, cov- ering a number of states which official boundary lines tend to hide. In this large contiguous territory, the majority of the population is Negro. These boundaries are ar- bitrarily fixed by the white rulers in their own interests. Now this Jand is the monopoly of a small clique of white landlords. The enormous majority of Negro and white farmers are landless. eae De) What Do We Mean By Self-Determ-) ination in the Black Belt? MEANS the right for the over- whelming majority of the popu- Jation in the Black Belt, the Negro people, to determine for themselves whatever form of government they want, even to the point of separa- tion, if the majority so wills it. It means a struggle against white ruling class domination, It means a struggle for the con- fiscation of the land of the big white land-owners and capitalists in the Black Belt. It means a struggle against op- pressive taxation and debt slavery. It means the. breaking of the power of armed might used against the Negroes by the white police, white soldiers, white sheriffs, and their courts of law. It means the complete with- drawal from that territory of the armed forces of the American whité ruling class. How does self-determination for Negro affect the white working population in the Black Belt? Self-determination means the right of the Negro majority in the Black Belt to govern itself and any white minority residing there, but, at the same time, the Com- munist Party is the Party of all the oppressed workers and farm- ers, black and white. The struggle conducted for the right of state- hood and self-determination for the Negroes is directed at white im- perialist rule and must be sup- ported by the working class as a whole. It can be realized only through the closest fighting front of black and white workers against capitalist oppression. The crying need of the poor Negro and white farmer is for relief from the bond- age of the land owner, intensified as it is by the present agricultural crisis, especially in cotton. The poor Negro and white toilers are faced with starvation. They are robbed of their crops by landlords and loan sharks. The Communist Party is organizing the struggle for emer- gency relief for these farmers and tenants without any restriction by the government and also for ex- emption from taxes and forced collection of rents or debts. ‘HE bosses’ terror is most sharply felt by Negro workers. The sys- tematic terrorization of the Negro people has gone on for the pags® fifty years. This system of lyncin and legal terror is increasing daily, And now we have the case of tht) nine Scottsboro boys in Alabama, the frame-up of Orphan Jones im Maryland and many other such persecutions. In Negro sections of cities and towns, police and under= world gangsters frequently swoop down upon the Negro people. Of course, this terror against the Negro masses is part of the general terror carried on against the work- ing class as a whole. Fof example, the shooting down of wé@kers at the Dearborn Plant of Henry Ford, and, following close upon this, the shooting down of workers at Mel- rose Park in Chicago, the denial of a pardon for Tom Mooney, the per- secution of foreign-born workers. All of this is part of the reign of terror now being directed against the whole of the working class, especially the suppressed minori- ties and the militant sections of the working class. The Communist Party is organizing the struggle to fight against this reign of terror; against the lynching of Negroes; against the denial of the political and other rights of Negro and white workers. During the last world war, I was not a revolutionary. When I helped to organize struggles against racial abuses practiced against Negro sol- diers, I was jailed in France for carrying on these activities in the army. My experiences are the ex- periences of many Negro soldiers during the war. But now we have learned through bitter experience why we are jim-crowed, segregated, lynched and denied even the ordin- ary civil rights. We have learned that our fight is the struggle of the whole working class, against capi- talist oppression. We have learned through long and bitter experience that the Communist Party is the only Party fighting for the inter- ests of the Negro people against the domination of the ruling class. About the Methods of the Lithuanian Renegades Staternent of the Central Committee, C.P.U.S.A. fore, we can say to the great Amer- ican people, ‘He is not only yours he is ours also, he belongs to all mankind. ‘Therefore Washington is honored throughout the world, therefore we honor him in Vien- na, we Austrians, because we know that our city and our country can only go forward in the spirit that is embodied in Washington’.” Masses Reject Social Demagogy. But the great throng heeded not this social demagogy. Many had already heard the real story of America from the lips of the Scottsboro Mother, The Austrian Socialists had revealed themselves clearly grovelling at the feet of the American reaction, even at the moment when Wall Street’s dollar is tottering in the European ex- changes. And in Zurich, Switzerland, the socialist mayor, Dr. Emil Kloti, had all his police reserves in their bar- racks when the Scottsboro Negro Mother spoke in the city over which he rules. ‘The social democracy everywhere | the same in the countries so far visited by the Scottsboro Mother, Germany, Czecho-Slovakia. Aus- tria, Switzerland; on the side of the Alabama lynchers, against the workers, seeking to aid the capital- ist reaction in maintaining a wide gulf of hatred and prejudice be- tween the oppressed masses of dif- ferent races and nationalities. ‘The European tour of the Scotts- boro Negro Mother is helping to close that gulf in spite of the cap- italist reaction, in spite ofidte. so-, cinisdemooratiovalNan” at times for miles in search of treatment.” “But the same worker remarks: “The work performed by three Soviet. miners is being performed. by one American miner.” To Tell Facts. i Of the numerous answers sent in by the members of the delega- tions, we will quote only that of the American delegates. “Upon our return to the United States we will develop a tireless campaign to tell the truth about the Soviet Union to American workers. We will immediately de- velop a mobilization for a move- ment among the masses of workers for the defense of the Soviet Union, We will do all in our power to or- ganize interference with deliveries of war material to countries plot- ting war of intervention against the Soviet Union. We will do all in our power to influence public opinion in the United States for the recognition of the Soviet | 450 per week for a family of five; Union. $3 for a family of three. When Note: The American Workers’ | bass of Se etn oe Delegation is now touring the to" the birt 4 besa ind various cities, and trade unions coninity oh Been came ce Daan and workers’ organizations should na nid ee Say no} Feuer write to the National Office of © | 4m the county.” the F.S.U., 80 E, 11th St, N.C, | ,, 1 spite .of.'a (U.M.W.) union asking for dates so that the re- checkweis! Sip ec it port of the American Delegation | Short weight on every car sent out can be brought to a wide circle Uundes: Paaen's, Agreement, They of workers, Delegates are now | Claim a loss of one- spl tect available for meetings in New | °@t Plus a shortage of 400 pounds England, New York, New Jersey, | Checked off for “dirt.” Besides, if ® man really sends out dirty coal, he.is fired, eke out an existence. The men re- fused at first to fall for Cox’s bait, Conditions almost unbelievable exist in the mine camps. While the men are working under Fagan’s scab agreement with the Pitts- burgh Terminal, three-quarters of -the families must get relief from the county. Two and occasionally three days a week is the limit of work. According to the men, the time they work in the mine barely covers the items checked off in the pay slip. Union dues of 75 cents each two weeks, rent of the company house, bath house charge, doctor fee, company insurance, blacksmith, powder and check- weighman, take all the men can earn. The county welfare feeds the families. “We work for the company long enough to pay Fagan and the com- pany what we owe them,” said a miner. “Then the country gives us relief to live on. County relief is ats. 'HE attention of the Central Committee has been called to the fact that a donation of $10.50 has been received by the party from the “Naujoji Gadyne” (The New Era), organ of the Lithuanian renegates. The receipt for this donation has been signed by Comrade A. Benson. The Central Committee found that Comrade Benson in accepting this donation, did not know that it comes from the enemies of the Communist movement, neither could he understand the real purpose of renegates Pruseika and Butkus in making this donation. We have learned that these Lithuanian renegates are using this receipt as an offiical party document to fight the party and to mislead the Lithuanian workers. They have published it in their organ and have also been circulating among the Lithuanian workers to slander the party. In their speeches and their organ they insinuate that the Com. munist Party accepts money from any source, that it could be bought with money, that though the party had expelled Pruseika and Butkus, it accepts their money, etc. They further use this receipt to mislead the Lithuanian workers into the believe that only the Lithuanian Cen- tral of Central Committee is fighting them as enemies of the working- class, but the party is not opposed to their counter-revolutionary ac. tivities. The Central Committee, after learning these facts, has decided to return this money to the “Naujoji Gadyne” and brand this high-handed method of the Lithuanian renegates as another dirty maneuver of the enemies of the working-class, The Central Committee calls upon the Lithuanian workers to repudiate these enemies of the Communist movement and to close their ranks under the leadership of the Communist Party as the only party of working-class which fights against the Hoover hunger program, for the unemployment and social insurance, against the imperialist war and for the defense of the Soviet Union, Secretariat Central Committee C. P 8. A. The “New Sport and Play” ERE is something which meets a need long felt in the militant working-class movement. We refer to the attractive New Sport and Play, the organ of the Labor Sports Play, the organ of the Labor Sports Union of America, In this issue Brown does a good job in his exposure article, The Wrestling Racket.” It is based on material in the Philadelphia Sun- day Transcript of May 8, 1932. He it very that. wrestling letes for money purposes.” ‘Two more exposures Of boss-conm~ trolled soccer are made by “Amie, He deals with the Hakoahs and the U. S. Football Assn. and points out the corruption, professionalism and beta sete in these organi« zations, You can subscribe to it—S0c a pean, tas eeneS