The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 19, 1932, Page 3

Stop Newest War Drive on Chinese People DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, JULY 19, 1994 a e Page Three AllOut August Ist! 87 Families of 3 Villages From BigCollectiveFarms Called “Ray of Socialism” General Management Board Elected by Mem- bers for One Year MOSCOW, U. S. S. R.—We are coffective farm members from the “Ray of Socialism” collective farm, Holmetsk, Dorogobujsk County, Western Prov- imee. At a meeting of our members, we decided to write a letter to our foreign comrades, describing how we live in the collective fatm. From a number of small scattered peasant farms we havé organized a big collective farm of 87 familiés, and > STOP US, SAYS EAST OHIO MINER Each village has a section of land, and there is a general management board electer by the members for on¢ Tells Daily Worker: That Relief Is Urgent to Win year. NEW YORK.—Describing the four! months long struggle of the East Ohio miners against a series of wage cuts, Thomas Coyne, one of four miners that have arrived in New York to arouse the workers for mass relief support through the Workers Inter- Equal Rights for All When we formed >the collective farm, we united all our cattle and implements. On th? average, each peasant brought to the farm one horse and one cow. Some brought more, but the poor peasants and farm workers brought nothing at all. But now ell the members have equal rights in using the property of the farm. In the farm work, we divide our forces into brigades, such as plough- ing brigades, reaping brigades, ete. We pay all the members piece work rates, so that those who do most work re- céive most pay. Government Loan The governmet has issuel us a long term loan of 10,000 rubles, and also agricultural machinery ang a ped- igree bull. We sell all our surpluses (grain, flax, milk) to the government at fixed prices. We have opened a school for the children, and in summer we have a day nursery and a children’s play- ground. Some of the children of the members of the collective farm go to high schools and universities. Two are Isarning to be doctors, three are to be engineers, thrée are to be col- lege teachers, and others are study- ing bookkeeping, stock rearing and agriculture. (Signed) Chairman of Meeting, PAUL KOZIK. Secretary, KOSLOV. Members of the Collective Farm: Burelov, Baranov, Levchenko, Bakla- nova, Porolos. OHIO DELEGATES HOLD CONVENTION Many Stricken Toward national Relief, told the Daily Work- er yesterday that the miners were de- termined to win their strike. “On April 1 we were given a 25 per cent cut that brought down our wages to 26 cents a ton which meant a wage cut of $1.82 to $2.40.a day of 8 and 9 hours. And when in the fields three to five days a week is considered good, ; the miners were put on starvation rations.” | According to Coyne it was the last’ , Wage cut that forced the miners to come out on strike to combat sure starvation. ‘ “With the best of us making $50 a month~and that’s on the best working time in the fields—and after paying out for rent, supplies, dyna- mite, Carbide, hospital and other ex- penses the company makes us pay, food and clothing. And when a min- er’s got a wife and four or five chil- dren it means little food and little of anything.” Terror Before Strike Coyne told of the terror in the fields prior to the strike, that men who complained of the bad conditions were blacklisted and how daily the bosses grew more and more arrogant. “The United Mine Workers officials made an agreement with the sheriff not to have any mass picketing; only \three men fifty feet apart to consti- tute a picket line. Then the bosses we hardly have a dollar a day for) brought in company gunmen, and End of Session | Governor White sent in the soldiers (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) night to ratify the platform and can- didates of the Communist Party of Ohio, and it is estimated that moré than 700 délegates and visitors at- tended the gathering. aia be Adopt Fighting Program MASSILLON, O., July 18.—Coming here from 38 cities, 279 accredited delegates met here yesterday to ratify the state candidates and the fighting program of the Communist Party against hunger, wage cuts, terror and war, The delegates included striking coal miners of East Ohio, steel workers from ‘Youngstown, ex-servicemen, working women and youth from all sections’o fthe state. Calls for Struggle B. D. Amis, district organizer, re- porting for the Communist Party, called for mass struggle on the part of the Ohio workers agains’ the of- fensive of the Ohio bosses and their jagents in the Socialist and Farmer- Labor Parties, and demanded a stub- born fight for equal rights for the Negro workers. Separate youth, women, Negro and for “company protection.” “Hundreds of us have been arrested and jailed, the soldiers have atacked on all picket lines, tear-gassing the women and children.” But in the face of such terror by the state and the companies for more than four months the miners are still holding fast and keeping scabs out of the mihe, Coyne said, Try to Starve Miners Back “The bosses were counting on starving us back after using terror. We had little to fall back on, no savings, no stores of food. There's been many families living on grass and roots for days at a time. But it was the children that were hardest hit; having no good meals.” Coyné told how the United Mine Workers officials refused to give re- lief from their big treasuries and even sabotages the miners efforts in col- Jecting food. . “The Workers International Relief came in and started some kitchens where the children could get two meals a day, and the miners and women a meal a day. Then the WIR organized committees and got locals to hold a conferenc2 to organize re- lief and appeal to all workers outside the fields.” Coyne explained. trade unio nconferences were held in conjunction with the convention and plans laid to bring the Communist Martial Law Won't Stop Miners “The miners took so much up to now that the martial law down in} program to workers throughout the state. The Daily Worker needs YOU in its mass Circulation Drive— July 15-November 1, Bungalows and Rooms to Rent for Summer Season Several very nice rooms and bungalows for rent for the summér season. Beauti- ful farm in Eastern Pennsylvania, 50 miles from Philadelphis. Running water, wimming, fishing, Sh Rea- inioate with Tom tes, Comen pril Farm, Coopersburg, Pa. Ohio won't stop them now. But they need the support of all workers every- where. If we keep our kitchens run- ning, we keep the children fed and that’s what will keep us on the pick-! et line, fighting the wage cut.” Coyne, appealed in his conclusion. He urged that workers and organizations im- mediately send in their contributions! to the Workers International Relief,’ 16 West alist St., New York. BRYANT, WASH. PIONIC (By a Worker Correspondent) BRYANT, Wash—Despite cloudy | weather a crowd of over 500 turned out for the picnic held recently at Pilehuk Creek by the United Farmers League. 2 DAILY WORKEK 50 EF. 18th St. N. ¥. C, 1 cnelose the following contribution .....0.sscsseseseeernetecseceees NAME seeeeepenereeenenseccervons Contribute to the $100,000 Fighting Fund of the Communist Election Campaign Prrererrr rer rrerer rere reer ri ryt (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) ders of other small units with whom he had been dickering, Robertson announced that he would order the group who picketed the capitol last week to leave Washington. Robert- son claimed that they would prob- ably return in the late fall when Congress convened. His move was a direct attack on the fight begun by the Provisional Rank and File Congress to pass the bonus bill. Rob- ertson said he would lead the group on a tour of the country. Since, however, all the men are exhausted from the long stay here under har- rassing conditions and badly under- fed, his march is only a ruse to get the men out of Washington. Waters’ Hand Exposed Robertson's latest move is only an aftermath of the betrayal of the bonus army by both Waters and Rob- ertson on Saturday. When it became known that Congress would adjourn some time Saturday before passing the bonus bill, both Waters (so- called regular commander of Camp Anacostia) and Robertson lost con~ trol of the men under them who flocked to the capitol in a snontane- jous demonstration against Congress. After more than 10,000 marchers had gathered on Capitol Hill and rushed | police lines, Waters was brought to the Capitol to break the militancy of the veterans. After some farcical stage play dur- ing which Waters was twice “ar- rested” for ten minutes by Glassford, er Garner. After the conference Waters came out and made a speech’ to the vets, declaring that Garner had promised that Congress would not adjourn and then he told the men to disperse. When the men had left Capitol Hill, Garner ‘old news- papermen he had promised Waters nothing. This was Waters part in the betrayal. Robertson’s part came late that to march all day and night and Rob- ertson announced that when Con- gress adjourned the picket line would move to the White House. Instead he marched the men to Lafayette Park, gove them a long talk and told further conferences. Today he an- them nothing would be done until nounced he would not picket the White House and a few hours later came the announcement that he was leaving Washington. During the meeting which Robert- son hel din Lafayette Park Saturday night he introduced General Glass- ford as a friend of the bonus march- ers. Twenty minutes before Glass- ford had been beating up bonus marchers who were under rank and file leadership, while picketing the White House. Senators Sneak from Capital As the veterans planned to demand a special session of Congress to enact legislation freightened legislators left the Capitol for their trains under heavy guard. Speaker John N. Gar- ner caught a train in the suburban yards. Taxicab drivers who were called to the Capitol to rush the congressmen and senators to the railroad station stated that the legislators slunk to the bottom of the cabs during the trip to the depot. A large committee of rank and file veterans went to the police station Jast night to demand the immediate release of the two veterans who were arrested while picketing the Capitol. Waters Exposes Role Walter W. Waters, police picked leader whom the vets jeered Satur- day at the Capitol, again made clear his reactionary role when he arose to speak at Camp Anacostia yesterday, “We are still peaceful law abiding Americans,” said Waters. “We are here to stay until 1945, if need be. We are going to eject every radical or Red veteran from our ranks,” The masses of veterans, however, have shown that they do not agree with the policy of Waters. There is not a veteran in the camp who wants to wait until 1945 for his bonus. They Vets Storm Washington Court Room; Break Thru Police Lines Committee for an extra session of | Expeditionary Forces. Call for Conference Eicher, chairman of the Rank and File Committee, stated today that a large rank and file conference of veterans will be held this week where plans for the next steps in the bonus fight will be taken up. The Rank and File Committee and the Workers Ex-Servicemen’s League is making arrangement for a mili- tant mass demonstration before the White House to demand an extra session of Congress to enact the bonus legislatiow and unemployment insur- ance foMr the millions of starving workers. The Rank and File Committee is taking steps to mobilize the veterans for a gigantic anti-war demonstration on August First. mightiest demonstration before the They swept police aside and demanded a special session of Congréss in no uncertain terms. Senators and Congressmen left the Capitol under heavy guard hiding in the bottom of the Taxicabs. (F. P. Pietures) Thousands of World War veterans surging to the Capitol in their adjournment of Congress Satarday. NEW DRIVE ON; FIERCE BATTLES Workers! Defend China People; All Out August First! (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) the Tayu Mountains, near Namyung, after seventy-two hours of fizhtinc The report is not confirmed. The city For Improvement of Namyung was recently captured by the Red Arm operating from Kiangsi | |RUEGGS NEAR _ DEATH REPORTED | Caused by China Jail Torture, Hunger Strike | (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) |“Shanghai Evening Post,” with other leading foreign intellectuals and Journalists have joined the defense committee under the chairmanship of Madame Sun Tsi Lin, widow of Sun Soviet Engineers Are Best Mathematicians inWorld Says American Manager Largest Single Roller-Ball Bearing Plant Just Completed Near Moscow | Production Head Praises Russian Youths’ | teadiness to Learn (European Correspondent). MOSCOW, U. S. S. R.—During the opening celebration of another Sovie\ industrial giant, the largest single roller-ball bearing plant in the world, just completed on the outskirts of Moscow, I learned that the production manager of the plant was an American engineer. “He’s a real guy,” several Soviet workers told me, “worth your having a talk with him. They went off and soon returned with Mr. Schu-@ — bert, a quiet, heavy-set man in tweed ™#kes possible the highest develops nat. | ment of all sciences, both technical “What is your opinion of Soviet | Nd social, based on the principles of engineers?” I inquired. | Marxism. i “There's a world of difference be-| “I've learned by experience,” Schu« tween the older and young genera- bert continued,” to turn over all the tions of them,” he answered. “The | ™athematical problems to these youn, older ones were trained in the Eu-|€nsineers, for I know that when they; topean style—all theory and little ag | Come with thelr results, they will Ue no praetice. They don’t know much/|#solutely accurate.’ about rolling up their sleeves and| Our conversation turned to the sub- tackling a job, first-hand. Before|Ject of the plant's equipment and practical questions, some are floored.| °Peration. When running at capa~ but the young fellows—say, they are| City it will produce 25 million roller real wonders! Their training ties| bearings, about 30 per cent of the en- theory up with practice, at every turn.| ti™e world output. New Departure, American firms sending over engin-|*h¢ General Motors factories, located Waters had a conference with Speak-| evening. The picket line had decided | In the Campaign Statement of Central Committee, C.P.S.U. (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE: state in their district. These meas- ures must include a most thorough ‘ckecking of all legal requirements and the full and immediate mobili- zation of the entire Party member- | ship for the strict fulfillment of these requirements, bearing in mind that. every effort, through legal techincal- |ities, will be made .everywhere to keep us off the ballot. Every District must within 24 hours after the receipt of this statement prepare and send in a complete re- |status of our efforts to get on the ballot. These reports must include: (a) The exact legal requirements as verified by our own attorneys. (b) The last date for filing both state and national candidates in each state, (c) A detailed report on the status of the signature drive, convention preparations and dates, etc., for each state. (d) Mobilization plans for the im- mediate completion of the job. Many Phases Weak. While the Central Committeé here parliamentary indifference shown everywhere by the weak efforts. to place the Party on the ballot, it is also necessary to emphatically state that all other phases of the cam- paign are equally weak (weaknesses in the development of sustained local struggles of employed and unem- ployed workers for their day to day needs, linking these up with the elec- tion struggle; serious weaknesses in the exposure of the social fascists and the bourgeois demiagogues, particu- larly shown in-purely name-calling tendencies and a failure to develop this exposure on a high political plane; failure to develop a broad, organized United Front movement developing the initiative of the work- ‘ers and activizing them in poular- izing the Party platform demands and candidates). All Districts, sections and units must place the immediate strength- ening of the Election Campaign in the center of their work. All the energies of the Party must be ex- erted to create during the Election Campaign the widest, permanent United Front movement in the fac- tories, among the unemployed and among the Negro masses. Successes Can Be Achieved! The Election Campagin must re- sult in the election of a large number of Communist candidates. The elec- tions in Ohio, Minnesota, and now in Kentucky show that this can be done. The masses are definitely moving in our direction. With energetic and thorough work, in line with the de- cisions of the 14th Plenum, great successes can be won. All forces into the election cam- marched to Washington to demand | paign! payment of their bonus at once, And Proceed to place the Province. Canton, It is only 125 miles from| Yat Sen. : The Canton government} Race Between Death and Trickery port, state by state, on the exact) emphasizes particularly the anti-! claims to have effected its recapture, Red Armies Push Ficht in Kiangsi and Hupeh, In Eastern Kiangsi Province a | flerce battle is raging around the city of Kweiki, one of the few Kiangsi cities stil! in the hands of the white {forces. The Nanking government |elaims that the Red Army has been repulsed at this point, with heavy losses on both sides, Nanking also claims the recapture of the city of ; Hwokiu, in Western Anhwei Province, | from the Red forces. Both claims are unconfiremed. Most of the previous claims by Nanking and Canton of victories over the Red Armies have | been shown up as lies by subsequent events, In Northern Hupeh Province, a Red Army of 50,000 has cut off the city of Machang and is energetically pushing a siege. Nanking admits that its armies have been unable to the imperialists that Nanking planes are daily bombing the Red Army around Machang. | Nanking to Attack in Fukien Today. The Nineteenth Route Army, whose heroic defense of Shanghai was shamelessly betrayed by both the Nanking and Canton gangs, has been mobilized in Fukien Province for an Offensive against the victorious Red Army which has captured control of most of that province, The offen- Sive is scheduled to open today. Most of the original rank and file personnel of the Nineteenth Route Army have already deserted to the Red Armies, \following the Nanking-Canton be- trayal of the Shanghai defense. Nan- ist masters are, however, attempting |to exploit the record of these heroic ‘fighters against the Japanese to rally mass support in the Kuomintang dis- tricts for the “Communist Suppres- sion” campaign. The attempt has met with little success. , Cholera continues to spread un- checked in the Kuomintang districts, taking thousands of lives daily. Bankers Furnish Funds for New War. The Nanking government has suc- ceeded in raising a loan from Chin- ese bankers for the new anti-Soviet campaign. The loan is to be repaid| by taxation on the opium traffic, which the government has legalized. There are rumors in Chinese circles that part of this loan was supplied by the Wall Street imperialists. American workers! Demand the withdrawal of American warships and troops from China! All out August First! Demonstrate against imper- ialist war! Defend the Chinese mas- ses and the Soviet Union! Demand all war funds for the unemployed! Demand the payment of: social in- surance and the veterans’ bonus! Stop the production and shipment of arms aaginst the Chinese People and the Soviet Union! Killed Looking for Milk for His Baby (By = Worker Correspondent.) DETROIT, Mich., July 17—Shot by determinedly as far as the Reds, the program of} Party on the ballot in a minimum of | @ cop while engaged in a futile search the Workers Ex-Servicemen’s League | 40 states! has sunk deep roots into the honest Smash the gecterian and oppor- working class section of the Bonus|tunist hindrances to mass work! q to find milk for his 18-month baby Chester Parrish, 23 years old, died in @ hospital here recently, advance toward Machang, but assures | king and Canton and their imperial-! The situation. now constitutes “a race between the. imminent death of the two defendants and trickery of the Kuomintang and judges. The trial. before. the Supreme Court ‘of Kiangsu Province was. resumed on| July.7 in. the absence of the pris- | oners, who could not attend because | of weakness due to hunger strike and | savage torture. The trial was post- | poned following the declaration of} Givens, Irish police chief of Shang- | hai that the Shanghat police would co-operate with the court in the pro- secution. ‘The defense lawyers demands for a transference of the trial to Shang- hai.and admission of the right of the defense to see the prosecution mste- rial have been refused. Meanwhile the foreim press of Shanghai took up an attitude of criticism of the Kuomintang for holding the defend- ants in jail 13 months without trial. | The methods of the court have been | sMarply attacked. The foreign press} has stated that the prisoners are too ak to undergo forcible feeding, but ; that nevertheless the Kuomintang | | authorities are threatening this step; and obstinately refuse demands for transference of the prisoners to a Shanghai hospital. Prisoners Are Sinking The offer of Mad*me Sun Tsi Lin and other leading Chinese citizens to furnish bail was resisted for days by the authorities. After much effort; the Nanking Minister of Justice Lo Wen Kan finally gave his consent, but the judge refused to abide by this decision unless presented by a written statement. Lo ‘then declared that judge was empowered to act in- dependently. Thus many days were wasted arguing this point while the prisoners laid at the verge of death. The judge cross-examined represent- atives of the defense committee and threatened them with imprisonment. Finally he was forced to give in, but then found various pretexts for fur- ther delay, such as discovering that the document required the “Great Seal” which was located at Soochow, )Nanking. ‘putting forward the eers to work here tell their mei ‘Better watch your step on your math | —or those Russian chaps will catch | you napping.’ ly recognized abroad that modern So- viet engineers are the best mathe- maticians in the world. Somehow they have a special interest in such things, and other highly theoretical, scientific problems.” ‘This reminded me of a young So- viet worker's comment to me, recent- ly. He was compiling a report to the| factory Party committee, and was] It’s becoming general- | sweating over checking up on the ex-| act accuracy of every figure he was| presenting. ‘Figures, statistics,” he} added, “that’s socialism.” He had} struck at the heart of the matter. Building socialism both required and necessitating four days further de- Idy while the seal was brought to Latest reports are that the condi- tion of Mrs, Ruegg is such that she was unable to recognize the defense attorneys. As demagogic manouver in the face of growing mass agitation, Lo Wen Kam -offered to resign his post as Minister of Justice but was “per- suaded” by his colleagues to with- draw resignation for fear of further encouraging the agitation for the release of the prisoners. ‘The defense counsel, Fischer, is now conducting an appeal before the Nan- king Supreme Court against the re- | fusal by the Kiangsu courts to trans- fer the trail to Shanghai. Finally Bailed Out. (By Inprecorr Cai ) NANKING, July 18.—Paul.and Ger- | m trude Ruegg (No out yesterday in the fourteenth day of their hunger st and taken figs to the residence of Madame Sun Ts Lin, widow of Sun Yat-Sen, then to the Nanking Drumtower Hospital They were accompanied throuvhout by a heavy military guard in an ef- fort to prevent demonstrations in their behalf. ' The British imperialist Reuter News Agency boasts that a decision of the Supreme Court for a transfer of the | trial to Shanghai is “unlikely.” It quotes the Nanking authorities as| “explanation” | that the Shanghai court transferred _ the two defendants to the military) court last year on the grounds that it was incompetent to try the case, The Nanking Ministry of Justice has issued a statement “refuting” the | accusations by the defendants of cruel treatment in prison. The Rueggs Defense Committee, headed Madame Sun Yat-Sen, points | out that it is necessary to intensify the world-wide mass defense cam- paign in order to force the release of the two defendants. The Nan- king government, under pressure of the world-wide protests, has already ) were bail begun to retreat, in three different Connecticut cities, Produced altogether only 30 million bearings when working at full capa- city. Today, however, their produc- |tion is less than half this amount. The Soviet plant, covering 130,000 square meters, cost 115,000,000 rubles to build. The completed factory em- braces over 5,000 machines, many of which are Soviet made, and a work- |ing force of 15,000. To teach Soviet workers the most modern methods, of work, the factory is conducting a school which has over 3,000 students; |and next year a technical school will be added. “The workers may not be very ex- perienced, but they are quick to learn,” Mr. Schrubert said. “I can pick out many of our workers who are just as good as the best in Amer- ica, The big thing is that a majority have nothing to unlearn, I know | | foreign businessmen who have scoffed, ‘Now Russia has built her industrial giants, how’ll she ever be able to operate them?’ That’s a wise-crack that is proving fals:. “Recently I had a letter from som engineer friends. which ran like th ‘S i in our luxurious yacht ci in Detroit, do you ever give a tho: to the hundreds of cold, hungry w men sitting in the parks? From I read of America now, a little stan- dardization along certain lines cer- tainly would not hurt any. But don’t let yourself be taken in by all the | press has to say about Soviet Russia. I wish you could come along with me and my wife to the opera some e ning, to see the culture that e: and how people enjoy themsely Sache of America if we had 2 the same as here. For we’ from scratch. Th: plants, equipmen means, at our d al! Called aw by a messenger, urned later to: point out a young leather-coated fig- ure mounting the rostrum. “Thai's one of them I was telling you about,” he whispered excitedly, “One of those young Soviet engineers. And this country has hundreds and thousands ike him.” TRY BLOCK RELIEF FIGHT PITTSBURGH, Kansas, Juty 18— We were over to Arma recently to a meeting called by the rank and file for the purpose of getting relief for the miners who have been locked out by the Western Coal Company. Con- trol, however, was seized by William Brady, former pit boss, and a labor | betrayer, who made himself chairs man. Dan Coffey, a local small- time politician and lackey of the grafting politicians of Crawford Coy was chairman of the credentials come mittee. Hank Eli, president of the U.M.W.A. of District No. 14, gave a ‘ short talk, saying that all the miners ‘must back up the relief organization and not criticize them but pat them on the back | Fight Imperialist War! Defend the U.S.S.R. by Spreading AUGUST ist! 1,000,000 COPIES "Dail Contra Special Anti-War Issue ——OF THE—— USE THIS TO GET NEW DEADLINE ON ORDERS—JULY 20th! SUBS | POaRe WORKER, 50 EAST 13th STREET, N.Y.C. orker Dery USA Special Rates:—$7 for 1,000, $3.50 for 500 SEND CASH WITH YOUR ORDER