The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 30, 1933, Page 1

‘WE SHOULD DO OUR BEST’ “We all should do the best to keep our paper alive, especially now when nobody cares for the workers except our “Daily’.” —R. FREYTAG, Philadelphia, Pa. (Section of the Communist International) CLUB DONATES $25 The Novy Mir Club of New York City, a workers’ club, contributes $25 to the Daily Worker Drive. Foreign-born work- ers’ clubs and organizations are urged to collect funds for the paper which fights for the workers of all nationalities Vol. X, No. 25 SER New York, N.¥., under the Act of March 8 tered as second-class matter at the Post Office at 1st, NEW YORK, MONDAY, JANUARY 30, 1933 Price 3 C ents NATIONAL EDITION Mass Picketing in Briggs Strike Today and Detroit Hunger March 5,000 IN CHICAGO DEMONSTRATION | RESIST POLICE Gangsters A Aid Police| .- in Brutal Attacks; | © 185 Arrested | @HICAGO, Jan. 29—Five thou-| Sand workers demonstrated yester- day in front of the Japanese Con- Bulate in the Tribune Tower Buil hyg on Michigan Boulevard, protes tng against imperialist war, against the murderous attacks on the Chi- nse. People by Japanese imperial- dst, its war provocations against the Soviet Union and the drive of the Wal Street and Japanese imperial- | iste for war as a solution of their | Young Farm Leader young Nebraska farm leader, who will lead a march | of farmers on the state capitol in Lincoln on February 16, to demand Lief Dahl, 24, sharpening rivalry for mastery of the | jon eee pe es ee. Pacific and control over China. Leda ea ciTinAS League is beconting “increasingly : Police and Underworld Attack. Jn line with the policy of the Wall] Siteet imperialisis of attempting to| twush the anti-war sentiments of the ‘tailing masses, the McCormick-con-|—— tmolled Chicago administration mob- | ilfsea its entire police force to <= FIGHT STEEL CUT up, the demonstration. Hundreds of | Plain clothes men, the notorious po- Bee “Red” squad turned out armed | to.the teeth with steel helmets, ma- | chine guns, riot guns, gas bombs and pick axes. American legionnaires and! YOUNGSTOWN, ©.. Jan. 29. — A tiiugs from the underworld were mob-|mass demonstration against wage- ized. to support the police attackss|cuts, for more work or relief to the on the workers. |part-time workers, and for a general ‘Workers on the way io the dem-|$! raise in relief to the family work- onstration were stopped by the po-|&S will be held in Public Square, liée and their underworld allies,|¥0Unssiown, Wednesday, Feb. 1, at s48:cheq and savagely beaten. One. |3 pm. at the call of the Steel and hundred and cighty-five workers were | arrested. Call for United Struggle. jeut in this district is the Youngstown ‘n spite of these savage assaults |Sheet and Tube Co., which has post- and the seyere cold, two demonstr: tions were held: on the south side|into effect Feb. 1, Republic and the Tower Building, with about|Carnegie are expected to ttroduce 2,000’ workers. ‘Two speakers ad-|big cuts at the same time. dressed the meetings for several| There is a spirit of intense indigna- minutes, calling on the workers to|tion among the workers against this protest against the intervention by |new cut, which comes at a time when the U. S. government, break the|not. 1 per. cent of the workers are strike of the Workers in the Japa-|making a decent living in the mills. nese plants of the U. S, Singer Sew-| The demonstration will send delega- ing Machiné Co. and the vicious at-|tions to the offices of the big steel tempts of both the U. 8. government companies, to the Allied Council, and and the Japanese government to ex- Ploit the struggles of the Japanese workers for chauvinistic incitement to prepare the ‘workers of both coun- tries for the’ new imperialist world war being hatched in Washington and Tokio. Banners were raised with slogans denouncing imperialist war, calling ty the toilers to defend their ‘interes' paectray sid fhe east Fat | given; 7. no discrimination against the Negro workers in giving jobs, on program of the Bosses government,|tne job, or in giving relief for the strengthening of the interna- |""° /°” © ideals tional proletariat front against im-| Derlalist war, for the defense of the| that they will continue the struggles | Chinese People and the Soviet Union. Many small struggles occurred with the; police as the workers defended their right to meet and demonstrate against the war-mongers. By their ae support of the demonstra- tion,’ Chicago workers have shown active In Nebraska, especially since the recent National Farm Relief Conference in Washington, |dorsed by the Unemployed Council. following demands: 1. withdrawal of the cut; 2. more work or relief to’the part-time workers (3 days work or 3 days pay): 4. water; 5. clothes and shoes; 6. one square meal (meat, potatoes, bread, coffee) a day in the soup kitchens, in addition to the coffee and soup now the building of anti-war committees | in the shops and neighborhoods for an organized struggle, under the lead- ership of the ‘Communist Party, against the misery and butchery of imperialist. war. Soviet Budget Shows Growth of IN YOUNGSTOWN |Metal Workers Industrial Union, en- | The first big mill to announce the j ed notices of a 15 per cent cut to go} the city Board of Health with the} Immediate | 3. gen- | eral $1 increase in all relief orders; | against imperialist war and will push | (NEW STEEL WAGE! (UT PLOTTED BY, \WALL ST. MEET |Bosses Fear Influence | of Detroit Automobile | Workers’ Strike The Steel and Metal Workers In- dustrial Union and the Unemployed Councils have now on hand the im- mediate task of organizing some 250,000 part time and totally unem- ployed steel w gle against a new wage cut. This is made clear by week-end developments in Wall Street Myron C. tates Steel Corporation, has assured Wall Street that the to be announced, This information was given to re- porters for the Wall Street financial | journals and the financial sections of the metropolitan press on Friday and reaffirmed with some additions | on Saturday. | Multi-Millionaires To Plead Poverty. The scheme, as given to the re- | porters by Taylor (but as confiden- | tial information not for publication) is to either omit entirely the coming dividend on preferred stock or to re- duce it considerably, and then to use another wage cut, The Wall Street holders of large blocks of preferred stock do not wish to get the huge sums in dividends hinder a wage cut and be the bisis (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) MASS SUPPORT Opens Office in Atlanta | |. ATLANTA, Ga., Jan. 29.—An At- | lanta office of the International La- bor Defense is to be opened here, it was announced, as headquarters for | the activities of the organization in fighting for the freedom of Angelo | Herndon, 19-year-old Negro organ- | izer of the unemployed, last week | sentenced to 18 to 20 years on the | | chain-gang for his activity in organ- izing Negro and white together to ruggle against starvation. | conducted Herndon’s defense, have | filed notice of an appeal and motion for a new trial. They will also be | the legal defense for the famous At- | lanta “Six,” two Negro and four white workers, whose cases, on the same | charge as that named in the indict- | ment against Herndon—“inciting to |insurrection”—have been pending nearly three years. Assistant Soli- citor, the Rev. John Hudson, has an- nounced he will call the cases as soon | though they have not been tio on ers for joint strug- | Taylor, head of the Uni- | third wage cut since 1931 is about) this as a plea of poverty to put over | openly now since they believe it would | IN HERNDON CASE iL. L. D. Files Appeals! "Benjamin J. Davis, Jr., and John| | H. Geer, Negro I. L. D. attorneys who | as he recovers from a slight illness, | | Workers’ Letters Tell oj| : Sacrifices to Save ‘Daily’| RE workers ready to make sacrifices to save the Daily | Worker from suspension? Here are a few answers. | SENDS PART OF RENT MONEY Atlantic City, N. J “Dear Comrades: “Sory I could not answer the call sooner. I was out of work. This $1 that I am sending is part of the rent money that my wife is trying to pay out of the few days’ work that she gets. I am still hopeless ly waiting to get work. “R, T.’ FROM A FIGHTING FARMER “Rickrea!, Ore ‘0 the Daily Worker: | “While money has almost:gone out of circulation here, as long | T have any, T am goitg'to share it with the paper that is leading the farmers to unite with ihe wage workers of the city, so am enclosing money erder for $2.50. Wish I could spare more. Was in the State Hun- ger March and the demands that were made there have crystallized sentiment here more than any other event has. Also a frost has killed all the grain and most of the berries, so the farmers are pinched morc than they ever thought they would be, and destitution is looking many in the face now. Through it all we need the ‘Daily.’ Bate te SICK WORKER SENDS $3 “Rar Rockaway, Long Island “Dear Comrades: “For the last two weeks I have been laid up with pneumonia and pleurisy, and am still unable to go out and collect among my friends and fellow-workers for the support of the Daily Worker's drive for $35,000, which is needed to save the ‘Daily.’ I honestly feel very un- happy not to be able to lend myself to the ‘Daily’ drive. I was a worker will do my utmost toward it as soon as I recover from my illness. 1 feel it my duty and every worker should feel it their duty in order that the Daily Worker should not be suspended for lack of funds. Especially in this drive every one of us should do our bit and more to save our ‘Daily’ because the Daily Worker is our best friend in defending our ‘nterests. “Enclosed please find $3. “Comradely yours, ‘L. Mi" . . . i 'UCH letiers come in every day. These workers are sacrificing, are doing their utmost to keep their paper alive. Are you collecting among your friends, in your organizations, among all those you come in con- | tact with? Have you yourself contributed all you can? Saturday only $170.3 was received, bringing the total to $2,146.75. A long wa from the | $35,000 that must be raised. Immediate action is needed. The life of the only English-language daily that fights for the workers is in dan- ger! Speed contributions AT. pre. to the Daily Worker, 50.6. 13th St. | New York City.» ” ae mingo; where he was impr German C. P. Calls for | A General Political Strike BULLETIN conferences with the fascist leader, | (Cable by Imprecorr). Hitler, during the past month. It is | | BERLIN, Jan. 29.—The Com- expected that the German Junkers | will make another attempt to force Hitler to’ accept a subordinate po- | sition in a Cabinet dominated by the | Junkers. Hitler's retreat from his) former position of demanding “all or munist Party fraction in the Reich- | stag yesterday issued an appeal to the masses for a demonstration in Berlin today (Sunday) against the | threatened strengthening of the | faselst government apparatus. The authorities at once acted to | prohibit the demonstration. The Communist Party answered the prohibition with an appeal to the | workers of Berlin and all Germany to hold meetings on Monday in their shops and neighborhoods and elect preparatory fighting commit- tees for vigorous resistance to the fascist dictatorship. The appeal calls upon the toiling masses to | (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE} | Denver Wo Workers Hold | Lenin Memorial Meet; Assist Daily Worker | DENVER, Colo., Jan. 29.—On) Saturday evening, January 21st, the | Communist Party of Denver held a) {the workers here, ‘of the white ithe struggles of the prepare their reply to Hitler, Papen very successful Lenin Memorial meet- | Soviet Explorer C. Freiberg, woman meteorolo- gist, who is with the Soviet expe- dition headce by Prof, Otto Schmidt on the “Sibi first ever to maki passage to the son, Photo was snapped while was making an obseryation wh guided the pariy. Science and in- vention flourish in the Workers and Peasants Kepublic of the U. R. HAITI WORKERS — COMPEL RELEASE U.S. Tilers Help Win Freedom for Morales PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti, Jan —The Haitian military authorities have been forced, by mass pressure of vith the bis sags the United States, to release one of the twelve workers held here for the past thirty days in conne H. ers against starvation, ext and boss terror. and ‘The released worker is G, ‘ales, white, a Tefugee from Santo Do- oned -for three years, and, culosis of the bone in of President Rafael de Trujillo, be- the dungeons cause he the there to struggle organized Eleven workers, ten Negro and one and white, including three in addition three s still held in. the women, ‘Penitencier tionale” here. They are being sta to death, while the military authori ties, under the direction of R. P. Williams, the Amer 1 commandant of the Haitian Guard, plan to road them to prison for five ye charges of “pi ainst the pub- lic safety.” crime” is that they Began to organize the workers jof the Haiti-American Sugar Com- pany into a militant labor union The government admits the only “evidence” there is their possession of copies a! Obrero del Caribe,” Spanish age paper, containing an article on “How to Organize the Workers of HASCO. In the case of Jacques Roumain, well- known Haitian writer bia is among the prisoners, his “cri against them of tuber- | j workers. against oppression. WILL ANSWER EFFORTS OF FORD, MURPHY, CAPITALIST PRESS TO SMASH STRIKE Strikers Send Protest Delegations to Boss Sheets; Back Fighting Union | Demand Recognition of Phop Committees; Other Workers Rallying in Support DETROIT, Mich, Jan. 29.—A Hunger Mareh io the Briggs Body Corp. tomorrow (Monday) morning and mass picketing will be the answer to the organized efforts, led bj Henry Ford and Mayor Murphy, to smash the heroic strike of more than 12,000 workers at veg Briggs Body ane Murray Body r assisted by the mi lead of the Int tion of Machinists American F | doing every the ational affiliated » n of Labor. possible to de; troy movement < U. S. AND JAPAN. ": RUSH WAR MOVES IN THE PACIFIC ie against | the stri the Auto Workers Union, which leading the struggle, and Sr, the Communist Party eee ses 5h Re ng ers voted to exclude! With Decisive Fight all Communists have been broadcast. on War ats Protest Lies The strikers sending pro’ delegations to the local capitalist press repudiating the statement that John Schmies, org izer of the Communist Party, thrown of their meeting. : “We know he is a but he is part of us and work with him.” They alse} have answered by With by the admittedly armadas | War, the | yesterday the cone “one of ussembled out, islands stated: “Raymond, Gerlach and the Empire.” Previous Auto Workers Union are part of the| cgect that the strike movement and the |leading the strike.” histo gay After closing dowr nis plants to| Caroline prevent the strike from spreading! tween Hawai and to set his workers against the] ippines, outposts of U Henry Ford is trying to scare | in the Pacific. The Ws gs men back to work by an-| ernment has accused Jat nouncing that he may begin to man-/ fying the Caroline facture his own bodies. At the| Islands, which are h ne the Briggs company has} mandate from ihe League ced to make concessions to} ers in the form of 10 to 20| increases and the climina-| “dead time” ‘unpaid time).} union is has ‘been & will take place Guar rd two | maneuv and be- anid Phil+ imperialism ton Goy- he nd of Na Further proof of the increasing tension between U. S. and Japan- ese imperialism over Japan's pres- ent threat to Wall Street's spheres of influence and concessions in China are contained in dispatches reporting (1) an attempt at a meei- the si per cent tion of However, the workers are demanding | recognition oftheir shop committee, | without. which the will 1 most active strik- | be blacklisted and | probd nl Have ing of the budget committee of the : s will have no guarantee! Japanese Diet to force Fore'gn t the company will live up to its) sinister Uchida to question the mises. the Briggs man-| _ ed to deal with the committee elected by the | . S. on the concentration of entire Battle Fleet in the Pacif and (2) construction of bombp: negotiations of sirikere and Tepipeenting,- al! Sout) ahelters ty’ U./6. toopkeat Cine gs plants. | wangtao, a few miles south Big Demonstration Today Shanhaikwan, North China occupied by the Japanese in the'r advance into Jehol Province and “Tomorrow (Monday) is the decisive | The Briggs company is spread-| ing rumors that about 40 strikers| North China, have returned to work and that the| In the meeting of the budget com- rest will be given until noon tomor-| mittee of the Japanese Diet, 2 mem- row to get their jobs back. In reply| ber suggested that relations betw to this, the joint strike committee} the two powers “might be th has issued a statement declaring that} ened” by the U. fleet maneuvers the strike has not been settled. around Hawaii. Uchida declared it or any other Nazi coalition by a political mass strike and a general the court calendar. ing in the downtown section, Eagles’ cation by cable of friends in Hall which was well attended by | York of the arrest of the other work- “The strike will not be settled,” the | Would be “improper” to question the Income As U. S. Declines Ne By H. BUCHWALD on Correspondent, Daily 4 Worker) MOSCOW, Jan. 29—The Soviet budget was presented today to the Executive Committee of the ; Union by Finance Commissar who pointed out that the e Year Plan finds expression in thé financial sphere in the fact that the investment in Socialist construc- tian, ‘totals 116 billion roubles as against. the 86 billion originally | olapiied. This means, he declared, that the country has understood how to util- izé its own internal means without recourse to long term foreign loans and credits. It also finally answers thé) declarations of the capitalists and: the social-democratic leaders that the Soviet Union would be un- able 'to find the means within itself for its of Socialist construc- lige Jt. gives: the. final senly tothe contemptuous bourreois attitude to- said . the Soviet currency. “from the capitalist coun- are distineu'shed,” be. athe d the productive use of our and by the elimination of roe of the national in- by private canital'sts. A com- J over tax (2342 of nearly three billion dollars. The | Soviet Union is almost the only country which meets all its obliga- tions promptly, thereby evoking the general wonder of the capitalists.” Grinko proceeded to give details of the income and expenditure for the Soviet budget of 1933. The total estimated income will be 34% billion roubles. The outstanding character- istic of this income is that 84 per |cent of it will be provided by So- Cialist indusiry through goods turn- billion roubles), and profits from industry (three billions). The direct contribution from the So- | viet population through taxes, vol- | untary loans, etc., amounts to only eight billion roubles or 16 per cent of the total income. State expenditure for 1933 is Planned at 33 billion roubles. A sur- Plus of one and a half billion rou- bles is thus available for the Re- serve Fund. Of total expenditure, 24 billion roubles is allocated to the finance of people’s economy; eleven billions for cultural purposes of | which 23 billions is supplied from | the State budget and remainder from municipal budgets, trade union funds, etc. Exnenditure on education: 13 billion roubles; health protection: ie billions; social insurance 11% bil- ion, Grinko emphasized that in the cur- rent year, forty-nine million people are receiving education free from the State, and often financial support, through social insurance, ete. In con- trast, educational exnenditure in England, Germany and other capi- talist_ countries is steadily decreas- ing. Zngland in the past year has reduecd educational expenditure al- most 12 million pounds, Germany 570 million marks; similar reductions are occurring in the United States, with Alabama and Mississippi clos- ing down most of their rural schools, with other states cutting school ap- propriations, slashing salaries of teachers, etc. Grinko also pointed out that in contrast with the huge sums ‘Id | spent. by the capitalist countries for armaments, the Soviet Union spends J only about five per cent for defense. Building Mass Defense. | Herndon defense committees are | rapidly being organized in this city, | with many Negro and white workers and small merchants joining in the activity, backing up the International Labor Defense policy of mass pressure in support of the best legal defense procurable, Extensive fund-raising activities are going on, as well as membership drives for the defense committees and for the. T. L. D, Between fifty id sixty leading | Negro business men of the city, at- | tending a dinner in honor of a local publisher, which was arranged by the | Nebro Chamber of Commerce, lis- ney Benjamin J. Davis, Jr, a guest of the function, outlined the class issues involved in the Herndon and Atlanta “Six” cases. Several other speakers raised the same issue. | tened with keen interest: while Attor- | | strike. The Communist Party renewed | at the same time its united front offer to Social Democratic and workers in all organizations. a. rey BERLIN, Jan. 29.—The von Schlei- cher Cabinet resigned in a body at noon yesterday, just 59 days after the German bourgeosie and international finance capitalism had placed their hopes in the Junker General to carry |ary upsurge of the German masses, j against the capitalist offensive of | | mass starvation, growing unemploy- ment, cuts in the social services and imperfalist war, and a revolutionary way out of the crisis. The resignations were accepted by President Hindenburg, who forth- with authorized the notorious. von Papen to form a new cabinet. Papen is known to have carried on secret Driven from their homes by the their families, they are wandering —without a goal. The to the good mercies CAS institutions, find t! s out on many driven into prostitution. Many of these homeless youth schools and e they could fit have been fired out of the factories. have taken their pl did not want a few them in a few years, / While these workipg class biaicidamone is and girls of to town, looking for jobs—begging for. food. Hounded by the police, thrown into jail and onto the chain gang in the South, Killed by the railroad guards, these boys wander—wander eless girls, trusting seen the inside of @ factory. Graduates of high They could not eat the crumbs given their | families for the younger children—and there- fore hit the road. Hundreds of thousands more men whom the bosses ago, but who now work for boys’ wages at, speed which will kill lies” enjoy themselves. poverty of ter of the Wall Street from town and similar the streets, and daughters of the road, dirty and hungry—syandering in search have never Of Work, ind teas ind no job, Older men CHAIN GANG. and girls ATION—OR be Wer taSake IN ORDER TO. | out the suppression of the revolution- | comes to Miami, he finds the son and daugh- selves.on the beach—feasting, bathing, happy. While the homeless girl in the city wanders the streets, hungry and miserable, daughter of the millionaire attending the opera, , decked in furs and jewels, eating at swell res- taurants. While the sons and daughters of the ple petpbepeh baagies Sb pollo inpslead the sons This is the system under which we are living —the system that is starving the working class youth, breaking down its morale, driving it to suicide and crime! This is the system which tells the youth of today: YOU SHALL NOT WORK, BUT STARVE. YOU MAY WANDER, BUT YOU WILL BE KILLED ON THE ROAD, BE THROWN INTO JAIL, ‘BE PUT ON THE Homeless youth: DO YOU ACCEPT ‘THIS VERDICT? WILL a YO0 Sunray TO STARV- DEMAND. workers and their families. Pat Toohey, District Organizer, made the principal address which | won him great applause. He told | how the Revolutionary Political Par- | ties throughout the world all look up to Lenin as the greatest leader the} world has produced. : Besides music furnished by nal of the Spanish comrades, a Russian | Mandolin Orchestra took the audi- jence by storm when they played a} number of Russian songs and melo- | | dies for which they were applauded to such an extent that they had to come back time after time for al | encore. At the conclusion, the chairman | made a dramatic appeal for the Daily | Worker and told the audience to dig} deep even though it did hurt and/ they. did, for about $12.00 was col-| leeted for the working class fight- ing Daily Worker. ers in Haiti. It was the mass protest and in- dignation of the workers of Haiti, and the solidarity of the American workers, Negro and white, under the leadership of the International Labor Defense, which forced the release of Morales. Only an in- tensification of this pressure and protest, and especially of the mass protest of Negro and white work- ers in America, against the bloody tyranny of Wall Street, through President Stenio Vincent of H: can force the authorities here release the other workers held 1 before they are starved to de: to News arriving here that the work- ers of New York will hold a protest meeting against the imprisonment and terrorization of the workers of Haiti. has tremendously hi and encouraged the workers here. | When the homeless boy SHELTER? Roosevelt banker enjoying them- she finds the try are not the bosses workers in accept the working class hit the relief. They Therefore, ETHER, “FOOR AND ‘ force on them, fights put up by the Unemployed Councils are compelling them to provide Hunger Mar ership of the Unemployed Councils is a warn- ing that the workers intend to fight for ade- quate unemployment relief and unemployment insurance. HOMELESS YOUTH-REFUSE TO STARVE! (Statement of National Committee Unemploy ed Councils of U.S. A.) : N army of 1,000,000 homeless boys and girls : are out on the road in search of work. spoke of the “forgotten man”—but he has forgotten the children of the working class. Al Smith, leader of the corrupt Tammany Hall, Newton D. Baker, war secretary in the Wilson cabinet, and General Glassford, who heiped to murder the bonus marchers last summer, have not “forgotten” you. They know that the 17,000,000 unemployed in this coun- going to accept the starvation that give them. They know that the the shops and factories will not starvation wages that the bosses They know that the militant more and more know that the splendid National ch to Washington under the lead- Baker, Smith, Glassford, Senator ‘Wagner, and others, are proposing to put you ened | statement continues, “until the strike negotiations committee negotiates | | with the company and then reports all the proceedings to a mags meet- ing, where all decisions will be rati-| fied.” Strike Sentiment Spreads Members of all workers’ organiza- tions, together with their families, jare being mobilized for the mass picketing demonstration tomcerow Meetings in support of the strike are held all over the city of the strikers high sentiment is spt in’ other plant Special is are being made to draw the Ford workers into the struggle is strike Dhe Briggs strikers have protested against the lies of the capitalist | press. Only the Daily Worker prints the truth about this great | struggle and fights for the auto | workers. Spread the Daily Worker. | Contetoute funds to save it from ph Hionctareretigaal chee —Editor, °ii. Miners Wi Win Relief \Fight; Adopt Protest /On Sales Tax Measure BELLEVILLE, Ill, Jan. 29—A demonstration of 50 miners held in the town of Shilohn on Jan. 19 un- der the auspices of the Unemployed | Council, protested against the starv- | ation relief of $4 a month for un- employed miners’ families, and com- pelled the relief officials to furnish immediate relief to nine workers who | had been previously refused. | ‘The relief official wanted to stall | the orders for the nine until “tomor- | row,” but was forced to furnish them | right away. A branch of the Unem- ployed Council is now being formed jhere. The U. ©. in Belleville has | passed a resolution vigorously op- | posing any sort of “Sales Tax” legis- Jation. Build croup neighborhood. Send reguinr lettery eading to the| | U. S, Government on the matter. Japan's answer will be a counter | Maneuver directly between the U. S. Possessions in the Pacific. In announcing the maneuver, Jap- | anese Navy Minister, Admiral Mineo | Osumi, declared: | The southern islands, such as the | Bonins and eyen the mandated | maneuver off them we are only | groups, are our home coast. .If we | doing what the American Navy does The Japanese maneuvers, like the U. 8. fleet maneuvers, involve {the entire navy | A Honolulu dispatch to the New | York Herald-Tribune admits that | the U. S. maneuvers are considered “the most momentous in Pacific history.” More than 30,000 sailors and soldiers will participate. Ten thousand soldiers are already con- centrated in Hawaii, with every modern equipment, including heavy artillery, anti-aircraft guns and a large fleet of bombing and combat planes, The U. S. has recently placed a large order for additional planes, in- cluding 38 of the latest type bombers, Imperialist war is already on in China and South America. The toiling masses of the world are now threatened with a transition of these wars into a world imperialist war, more terrible than the last world war. The rapidly developing war situation calls for immediate and decisive action by the workers and all persons sincerely opposed to war. We must at once strengthen the international proletariat front against the capital- ist war-mongers by setting up anti- war committees in the shops and neighborhoods, by intensifying the struggle against our own bourgecisie, against the hunger and war program of the Wall Street Government against the increasingly murderous terror against the Negro and white workers, by which the imperialists are attempting to “pacify” the home front in preparation for imperialist war, directed mainly, so far as the im} can control events, against the Soviet Union and for the partibion and looting of China, Spacetime . will Sar, aramngac sor pera cuseue eng necespasiontt eo 4