The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 1, 1933, Page 4

Page Four DAILY WORKER, | Dail jorker Derty USA Published by the Comprodaily Publishing Co sth St., New York City, N. ¥. Telephone Algonquin 4-7986. Address and mail checks to the Daily Worker, 50 F Inc., daily exeept Sunday, at 50H. © “DAIWORE.” New Yerk, N. ¥. 1th St. everywhere ting B Canzde: One year, 39 SUBSCRIPTION One year, $6; six months, $3.50 rh of Manhattan and 5: € months, 35 RATES: $2; 1 month, S30 Foreign and 38 $ months New York C 3 months, Marine Workers and the Fight Against Imperialist War CREW was recently hired for the steamship “Seafox” which was beizig fitted out as a Colombian gunboat for the Amazon river fleet wages” thirty dollars men during the last war. Wages they were forced fighting. veterans, tor the job. to prove A short time previous several other ships Colombian Navy and in one instance ¢ igan fruit trade was equipped with ¢ Leticia war area on the upper Amazon. militant action of the engine room c: vented a whole crew from being ‘ Every day ships of the Gulf Oriental”, “Dolla: from U. S. ports carr: tions and war materials in crate are loaded into the holds of s! men. the majority of cases the crews of the ships This crew was hired at ‘ of seventy dollars per month which is less than the wages paid regular merchant sea- In addition to receiving fighting through examination that only ex-navy men, qualified gu “Isthmian’ and other lines in the far Eastern trade, sail cargoes of munitions ‘used against the Chinese people in the by Japan. Other cargoes are destined add to the stores of arms and munitions for use by war and intervention against the Soviet Union. , Cases ghting fifteen to hey were re accepted rs, etc., W had been fitted out for the hip in the regular Central Amer- and ordered to proceed to the In the latter instance only the who refused to raise steam p1 hanghaied” into war service. “American Pioneer”, “American materials to be present robber war being waged x European countries and finally he powers plotting Countless tons of muni- and bags bearing innocent labels all nations by American longshore- frying munitions and the lIongshoremen loading munitions are ignorant of the contents of the falsely labeled or unmarked cargo. The shipping companies heed- less of the danger to the men loading and car handling other than marking the cases tempt to hide their murderous trade and mo measures to guarantee saf “fragile”. In this manner thi support of the far Eastern cloak of legitimate commerce. Chemical plants in the C ing fertilizer and innocent comm time. producing munitions for export arsenals. Instances where ships h are becoming more and more freq ‘Trader” recently sailed for the far Piller tractors, acids, automobile ¢ensigned to various ports in the o1 discharged at Tsingtao, Japanese mi chasses and tying these munitions take American robber wars under the manufactur- orking over- r storage in U. S. government load this war material at night ‘The Isthmian line ship “Steel loaded with armor plate, cater- alrplane parts. Although e entire cargo of this ship was ry concentration port in China. edly The physical danger of handling munitions and the careless manner tn which they are shipped is best plosion sank ships over a mile buildings all over Halifax and e: shown by the explosion of munitions aboard a ship in Halifax during the early years of the last war. away ‘This ex- shattered windows and wrecked ected a horrible toll of lives. Am ex- plosion aboard a ship at sea is certain death for the entire crew. The naval collier Cyclops with all the latest safety devices and a eral hundred men was lost without wo! any of the crew. Ships and crews disappearance, but in every inst: tying munitions. The press trie: a crew of sev- ever being heard of the ship or lost without any trace of their he odds are that the ship was car- to conceal these crimes by speaking of such disasters as “mysteries of the sea”. s ‘ARINE WORKERS in war must face all the dangers of actual com- batants in action, in the last war a larger percentage of merchant Seamen lost their lives than did the navy crews. Already steps are being taken to draft the entire merchant marine as soon as war is de- clared. Ships officers are being forced into the Naval reserve and all steam- ship companies are introducing a blacklist system and through this are already beginning a drive to get the militants out of the industry. entire apparatus of the shipowners, Church Institutes, The Y¥. M. C. As, re- actionary reformist unions, clubs and company groups is being used to stir up a patriotic fervor among the marine workers. valent about “Americanizing the merchant marin marine on a war footing”, et ‘White subsidy bill, where! Much talk is pre- , “placing our merchant New ships are being built under the Jones the majority of the cost of a ship is paid for by the government on the condition that the ship is built as an auxiliary naval vessel. Five large ships built under these specifications, have been sent to the west coast in the past 12 months. It is of paramount importance that the mar‘ > workers carry on the most relentless struggle against the imperialisis in the present robber wars they are waging and the world ghter they are plotting. On every dock, on all ships there must be the most persistent vigilance in trying to learn the character materials can be detected. of every cargo so that war munitions and * s . work must be spurred forward by a continuous exposure among the’ seamen and Jongshoremen of the plans of the war-mongers, | especially dealing with the necessity of defense of the Soviet Union and of the colonial masses. With the magnificent wealth of material to show the steady advance of the toiling masses under socialist construc- tion in the Soviet Union as compared to the decay of the capitalist world, Masses of marine workers can be enlisted in the struggle against im- perialist war. It can be made clear to these workers exactly how closely connected is the attack on their working conditions and standards of life with the @rive of the war-mongers. From such understanding the marine workers willcertainly draw the inevitable conclusion that the fight for their every-day demands is closely bound up with the fight against imperialist war: “They will all the sooner against war, tions. realize that there must be decisive actions such as the stopping of the shipments of arms and muni- MARINE WORKERS of America have splendid traditions in the fight against war and in defense of the Soviet Union. One of the brightest pages in the history of the labor movement was written by the longshoremen in Seattle in 1919 when they refused to loac munitions being sent to the allied armies in Siberia for use against the Russian workers. world war. war comes a more iean workers hav stoppe ‘The shipment of munitions must be bear the burden of this responsibility ity of hampering the robber wars now in pri of the imperialists for another world war ani Union. In 1933 the workers of all countries are faced with another War is already being waged intense activity of the strikes, protests, demonstrations and ac shipments of ment must not be allowed to pass into the With the closer approach of working class in the form of revolution. Already Amer- munitions" but this accomplish- limbo of forgotten history. stopped now. upon tk The marine workers em rests the responsibil- ess and spiking the plans an attack upon the Soviet Marine Workers: St®p All Shipments of Munitions and War Materials? Letters from ¢ Our Readews MORE ABOUT SPEAKERS | WHO DON’T SHOW UP Editor of Daily Worker, Dear Comrade :— It has become the practice of | some of the outstanding members and) speakers of the movement to agree to appear and speak at var- jous groups and affiliated meetings, to allow their appearance to be widely advertised, and to drop out at the last minute. Tite as an example the meeting at the Central Opera House on Dec. %_4in, celebration of Gorky’s 40th anniversary. The list of speakers scheduled was an imposing one and wag responsible to a large extent for the full attendance. Two speak- ers came: Joseph Freeman and Cy ee Olgin. three other speakers, Michael | Gold, John Dos Passos, Louise ‘Thompson did not even put in an appearance., By a curious cpinci- dence they were all sick at the same time. yt, is hardly, fair, to the many | comrades, workers and ‘friends of the, movement to have these fail- ae occur time and time again. ae, workers loudly Dire siynecs intment.. ot- | a9 a a pointments at revolutionary meet~ ings, that the schedule of speakers was not to be taken too seriously, while others declared that they will not be taken in again. The movement cannot have too many friends and sympathizers. The effect of just such disappoint- ments can only estrange rather than attract workers to our ranks, As prominent figures in the move- ment, responsibility to the movement and to eager, expectant workers who come to listen and learn. —Jane Weinstein. The worker is certainly correct in her general criticism of the irresponsible attitude of many comrades toward meetings at which. they are scheduled to speak, In regard to the Gorky celebration, the Daily Worker has repeiyed, through the Revolution- ary Writers Federation, which arranged the meeting, letters from Michael Gold and Louise Thompson stating that they were sick in bed. John Dos Passos was unable to attend, sent a let- ter to that effect, but the letter ea ee amt ol d similar disap- [ our speakers have a double | ‘EveryFactory Our Fortress’ Establish Intimate, Per- manent Contacts With the Workers. “The successful accomplishment of this task (winning the major- ity of the working class) requires that every Communist Party shall establish, extend and strengthen pertnanent and intimate contacts with the majority of the work- ers, wherever workers may be found.”—From the 12th Plenum Resolution, E ©. ct. \E. ‘XPERIENC. ES IN ' 4 NEEDLE TRADES SHOP AM representing the shop nucleus from ‘the needle industry. It isa dressmaking shop under jurisdic- tion of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union. ‘There are 160 girls working and about 45 | men. Our shop nucleus has existed for several years. We have nine members there so far. I want to touch mainly on three points: the work of the shop nu- cleus, the relation to the trade union work, and our perspectives. The work of the shop nucleus for the last two years improved. Until then there was a time when our shop nucleus worked well and then Personal squabbles developed. Hiow- ever, we got over that period; we haven’t any more of those personal squabbles and for the last two or three years we started to do real work. For instance, we organized an LL.D, branch in our shop. We were unable to get these members into the Party. They were not even sympathetic to us. We organized a shop I.L.D. branch with 75 mem- bers, I think it was the first I-L-D. branch on a shop basis in New York. Those who know the work of the ILD. in our district know that this branch does very good work. We recruited three members | into the Party during the time the branch has existed. & septs pets the Election Campaign we organized a Vote-for-Foster Club. Out of this Vote-for-Foster | Club (when the election campaign | was over), we called the members of the club together and asked them what they intended to do next. We in the shop nucleus pro- posed that the club as a body enter the IL.D. This was taken up in the Execut’ 7e of the Club and they called a meeting and decided to enter the ILD. We have a shop paper, but it doesn’t come out reg- ularly. Not only that, it doesn’t show the role of the Party as well as it should. It is our fault partly, because we don’t know how to write up the material effectively. It is also to.a certain extent the fault of the section that they do not help edit the paper properly, especially the last issue. The district. sent down a comrade who took up the question with us two times; we had a discussion and made a decision that we should give out the bulletin every month, and I think we will carry this decision into life. We decided to have a comrade take care of the shop bulletin work, and we should get somebody from the Agit-prop to help in this work. be sie 'E HAVE also decided at the end of every month to discuss these articles and to invite the section editor to come to our meeting and discuss them with us, so that we will have direct guidance from the section editor, and she will have direct contact with us. I think we have a much better trade union group than a shop nu- cleus. Our.main work is in the op~ position. During the last year and a half we had two strikes. boss has two shops, and there are two separate shop nuclei, one in our shop of nine, and the other six members, and through the shop units working as a fraction we car- ried on work in the trade union. We have a trade union opposition group of about 35 members of which our comrades are in the forefront. We had two. stoppages, one against the check-off system. After the strike the A.F.L, bureaucrats decided to have the check-off sys- tem, whereby we come and renew our books, or take out working cards, The idea was to check up on the militant workers and any time one of these workers are a week or so over in their pay- ments, they can kick them out. We pointed this out at the shop meet- ing, and the comrades in the shop | decided that I should not collect the working cards. I will not go in detail, but I did not collect the | cards, I was expelled from the un- ion and taken off the job, And so we had a stoppage and I was rein- stated in the job and into the union. And the stoppage on work- ing cards resulted in the entire card system being taken up, and there is no such question any more. E SUCCEEDED tn stopping the reorganization schemes of our local. I was on the negotiations committee and the boss was ready to admit the question of reorgani- zation—a 40 percent reorganization. Our effoxts stopped this. I also want to say that our shop nucleus {s not perfect. We have a lot to criticize ourselves for. The fact that we did not recruit any new members, except three, for the last three years, is nothing to brag about. I think that the suestion of personal contact, that the com- rades brought out here is very im- portant. We are recognized in the shop, the workers know us, we al- ways have a Communist or a left winger as the chair-lady, But when it comes to consolidating our influence and gaining C.P. members we don’t do it. This is due primar- ily to our failure to develop per- sonal contacts. When we sit in the ©“:op we talk to the workers as much as possible, but our comrades haye the tendency when we go to lunch, to gang up and be separate from the workers. This has to be overcome; we should mingle with the workers, instead of remaining by ourselves, , We also have now and then an ‘omen unit meeting, where we inetie Our | | NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1933 OVER IT GOES! Jee” gem ure yon a aye I Am Saved From the Chain Gang (This is Jesse Crawford’s own story of how the International Labor Defense, through mass Pressure and legal defense, saved him from being extradited from Lansing, Mich., to serve out a sentence on the Georgia chain gang. In simple, dramatic lan- guage, Crawford tells the story of his life—the Life story of thou- sands of young Negro workers, and many young white workers. The chain gang doom that hangs over these young workers throughout the black belt of the South is constant, It is much the same chain gangs as Crawford here describes, that Angelo Herndon, 19-year- old Negro organizer of the unem- ployed, has been sentenced to serve eighteen to twenty years for his work of organization against starvation.) eee By JESSE CRAWFORD Y was born in Atlanta, Ge or- gia, Sept. 16, 1913. My father died in 1915 when I was two years old. My mother became an invalid since 1921. My family consisted of five, my mother, three sisters and myself. I started to work Jesse Crawford when I was eleven years old, while I was going to school, delivering groceries. In order to support my family, I was compelled to quit school when I reached the sixth grade, and got a job. ¥ I got two jobs, one at Jacob's Pharmacy as delivery boy, and the other at the post office as special delivery boy. Both jobs brought me $16 a week. I found it very hard to always work. on two jobs. My relatives in Detroit wrote and informed me that everything there was bright, and if I came there 1 would make good. 1 quit the drug store and post office job in At- Janta and came to Detroit in De- cember, 1928, hoping to get a better job, so I would be able to better support my family, I ESCAPE The drug store boss for whom I worked got very indignant when I quit and framed me up on a charge of stealing his money. As a re- sult, I was arrested in Detroit be- fore I found my relatives, I was 15 years old. I was taken to the Boys’ Detention Home, where they kept me for two weeks and trans- ferred me to police headquarters and held me for extradition to Georgia. Detective Young of At- Janta, Georgia, came to take me back, AI In the train, on our way to Georgia through Ohio, Detective Young kept telling me of the hor- the workers of the shop that are close to us, we discuss various prob- lems, ask them to criticize the com- rades and sometimes they have quite 2 bit of criticism. We discuss the problems with them and then take them up with the Buro and try to solve ems baa HUNGER MARCH: ‘We took this question up at a meeting, where there were 75 to 80 girls pre- sent. We explained what the Hun- ger March was and asked them to elect a committee to the conference in New York, The committee was elected and we succeeded in elect~ ing a right winger who never went to such conferences. But at the discussion, because there were a few Musteites who said “Don’t give any money to those bums.” We had a long discussion on this and the committee was sent and we ‘col- lected $5 to donate to the Hunger Marchers, The important thing is to show the face of the Party, to become a shop nucleus. We took this ques- tion up and considered it carefully and from this conference and from the experiences of the other com- rades, I am sure we will learn something and -will be able to con~ duct the work more constructively ‘hey Rem ~ | true, | rors and tortures awaiting me in Georgia. Knowing that this was I made up my mind to escape or die trying to escape, | rather than go back. I asked per- | mission to go in the toilet. He gave me permission, and I went in and jumped out through the win- dow of the toilet, handcuffed, while the train was moving pretty fast. I ran and hid until it was dark. I broke the chains between the cuffs by the use of a wrench, pushed the cuffs up my sleeves and beat it to Pennsylvania. ‘The Pennsylvania police arrested me on the street, on suspicion, found the cuffs up my sleeves, held me in the detention home until my uncle, who lives there, came and got me out. I worked in Pennsyl- vania until November, 1929, when I left and went to Atlanta, Georgia, I stayed there until January, 1931, when I left and went to Fayette- ville, Georgia. I: stayed there with my aunt and worked on the farm. I bought a 26-model Ford coupe, for which I was arrested, after hay- ing the car six months. I was charged with theft of the car. The man from whom I bought this car | left town. Although I had a re- ceipt and three witnesses to prove that I bought the car, they con- victed me of theft and sentenced me to 12 months on the Georgia chain gang. I was on the chain gang two months when one day one of the officers left to get some milk, and I left right after him, carrying a chisel and hammer, with which I cut the chains off my legs and escaped. I went to Cincinnati, Ohio, where I was arrested on suspicion and held for the Georgia chain gang. I signed the papers to go back to Georgia. On December 4, 1931, the police from Fayetteville came and took me back to Atlanta. Ben Adams, the sheriff, and three others took me from Atlanta to Fayetteville. On our way to Fayetteville they asked me about something .that occurred in Fay- etteville while I was in Ohio. I denied having any knowledge of it. ‘They beat me and led me out to a tree in ‘the woods overhanging Flint River. They threw me in the water while I was handcuffed. I strug- gled to get out, but was pushed back each time. They laughed and had lots of fun pushing me back into the water. Finally they took me out and made me stand on the running board of the car, because I was wet, while one of them held me by the handcuffs and took me to the jail in Fayetteville. All this happened on a cold December day, Dec. 4, 1931. As a result’ of this treatment T was sick in bed in jail for four days. They refused to give me any medical aid. a ee ve § soon as I could walk around, I started looking around for a place to escape. I discovered ihat the only way of escaping was by digging a hole through the concrete and steel floor. So I went to work. ‘There were two of us in this jail. IT made a hole through the floor after several days’ and nights’ work, and found that I could not get through with my clothes on, so I. took off my clothes, leaving my underwear on, asking the other boy to give them to me after I got through the hole. The sheriff, his wife and nephew, who lived on the floor beneath us, heard me when I reached the floor and tried to stop me, but they failed. I had no time to get my clothes from my boy friend. I ran through woods and ploughed fields about three, miles to my cousin's house, where I asked for clothing. While he was trying to find some clothes, the sheriff ran in, so I ran out through the back door and kept going through woods and fields for about ten miles, when I got clothes. and went to Atlanta, Georgia. In Atlanta, on the night of Jan, 28,1932, the police woke me and two other boys, arrested 'us: and charged us with theft of money, After the two other boys had con- fessed to stealing this money, they asked them what they did with it. ‘They replted that had hh while I was working. I received a sentence of from three to five years, sending me back to the same chain gang T had left. ON THE CHAIN GANG One of the most dreaded instru- ments of the most brutal torture which is used on the chain gang to punish prisoners is the stock. I was put in the stock six times. One day while working in the quarry a heavy rock fell on my shoulder. As a result I was very sick that night, and being unable | to get out of bed to go to work the following morning on account of a fractured shoulder, I was put in the stock. When you are let out you cannot stand up, but the guard will kick you, urging you to get up. I was put in the stock several times because I answered the guard's questions. Prisoners are put in the stock for little or nothing. I don’t think there is any human as cruel as these guards. ‘The only way to escape some of this brutal treatment is to spy on other’ prisoners, but, if you don’t, these guards will curse and call you everything. They will always frame- you up and have you put in the | stock or sweat box or work you at top speed each day and club you on the head with a pick handle. Several prisoners were found un- conscious when taken out of the stock. Often prisoners are over- come by the heat and fall out on | the ground, or get cramps in the stomach, caused by eating the rot- | ten meals which are given to them. ‘They are forced to work eyen in | The prison doc- | these conditions. tor will always give you pills, no matter what is wrong with you. The clothes we wear are always scanty and very dirty. Those that work in the quarry are always wet, summer and winter. Our beds are always lousy and with bugs in abundance. Bes Shes Pa IN the building, where a row of | tsilets run from one end to an- other, flies, mosquitoes stench keeps us awake all night. The ‘only drinking water available is in the buckets which hang over every toilet, around which flies swarm. The shower baths are lo- cated in a small corner of the room, under which about 100 men are pushing and shoving, trying to get wet. They are allowed only five minutes to do this, while the guard curses and abuses us, Those who are double-shackled have to, sleep in their pants; if they did not they would not beable | to get to their feet on time the next. morning. Jn summer they were wet with sweat, but we had to put them on the next morning. It was the same thing for breakfast every day, sarghum-molasses, thick sliced fried bacon half done, hot stuff “(chicory coffee) and hard corn bread two days’ old. If we complained we would be punished. | Sometimes we were given biscuit | bread, which when broken open had flies and cockroaches. We got black-eye pea soup for dinner, ; which had stones, dirt and worms floating on top of the soup, fat bacon and the same hard corn bread., For supper we had the same thing. Every evening there was some one being put in the stock because he complained about the meals, I worked {n the stone quarry with a 40-pound hammer, breaking rock 12'and 14 hours a day in sum- mer. A half-inch steel cuff was put around my neck. A full- length trace chain, nine feet long, was attached to this collas. At work, I wrapped this chain around my waist and tied it with a string. Thad a cuff on each leg with four- teen links of chain running from one leg to another. A chain which | is called the upright chain runs from the middle of the chain be- tween my legs up to my belt. I tied thie chain to my belt with a string. Before I want to bed T untied this chain from around my © waist and let it hang down, ‘The building chain ts a chain which runs from one end of the and the | “The domination of monopoly capital, which, at the present day, has brought under its sway al- most the whole economy of cap- italist society, makes it ex- tremely difficult, in the conditions of the general crisis of capital- i to overcome the economic cri: the way that was usual for capitalism in the period of free competition.” (2th Plenum. ‘iteesis.)~ HIS means that the bourgeoisie will use all of its agencies, and especially its main social base, the social-fascis as well as fascists, to maintain the bourgeois dictator- ship. The declarations of the tech- nocrats see the chief reasons of unemployment in rapid advance of technique, aiming, under the cloak of anti-capitalist phraseology to throw confusion in the ranks of the workers, create illusions that the employment question can be solved and a “change” can be made under | capitalism. | DENIES ROLE OF WORKING CLASS ‘Technocracy is a bourgeois ultra- reactionary scheme which denies the class struggle and the historical role of the working class. By the constant cry about the collapse of the “price system,” they decry all forms of struggle for insurance and relief and attempt to paralyze the struggle of the working class. The 14th Plenum of the Central } Committee sharply calls attention to bourgeois demagogy sweeping the country designed to tie the masses to the bourgeois politicians. The technocrats are a typical example. Technocracy, with its anti-capi- talist phraseology, its denial of class struggle, contains elements of fascism, peculiar to the American situation. And the American so- cial-fascists international brothers in paving the va ‘a In speaking of , the "Milwaukee Lead- of Friday, Dec. 12, 1932, states: “For the Socialist, technocracy and the work of the technocrats now can become the text book brought up to date from which to preach the socialist gospel of the fullest life that we are now told by these scientists must come or hopeless disaster take its place.” | And again, Victor Olander, Sec- | Labor, states: “Technocracy echoes the age- long cry of the working people.” Lost as they are in the jungle | of capitalist contradictions and in the anarchy of capitalist produc- | tion, they hang on to every straw. ver UNION SHOWS THE WAY. The victory of socialism in the Soviet Union, the tremendous growth of industry, the elimination of unemployment, the raise in the material and cultural level of the masses, based on planned socialist economy, has shown the way out of the economic ¢risis of capitalism to the world working class, and struck a defeating blow to capital- ist economy. The tremendous enthusiasm shown by the masses in the capi- talist countries to the victories of socialist economy has led the bour- geois economists to say that planned economy is also possible under capitalism, in order to delude the masses and keep them from the | revolutionary struggles for the way out. All the proposed plans to | regenerate capitalism with a dose of “planned economy” beginning with Chase and Swope, have been smashed on the rocks of capitalist | contradictions. - | The entire parasitic nature of | monopoly capitalism, which feeds ! on profit on the backs of the work- H and on the swallowing up of the smaller enterprises, cannot ex- ist. without profit and war. Capi- talisi economy is just the opposite of planned economy. Only the abolition of the capitalist system can guarantee planned economy, as was so conclusively proven in the U.S. S. R. As Engels said: “Society, released from the is a large pen of bloodhound dogs, for the purpose of running down esc..ped prisoners. THE N. A. A.C. PL I was on the chain gang two months before I succeeded in mak- ing my escape. I escaped by bor- ing holes through the wooden floor with an auger and cutting the | retary of the Illinois Federation of | the unprecedented wave of | are not behind their | \Statement of Chicago District C. P. on Technocracy shackles of capitalist production —gsiving birth to a new genera~- tion of producers with all around development who understand the scientific principles of industrial production and who make a tical and separate study of aah branch of production from be- ginning to end ... and create a new productive power.” (Anti-Dohring.) ones ae ‘HE fierce struggle the imperial- ists are waging for markets: to get rid of thelr over-production, the tariff wars and the race’ for armaments, have already led to the immediate danger of world war. In fact, the war is already on in China, and in South America, The im- perialists are preparing. war asa way out of the crisis. They are trying to save themselves by turn- ing millions of toilers into cannon fodder, and by slaughtering whole- sale the toiling masses in the colo- nies. WAR PREPARATIONS BY U. S. BOSSES ‘The United States of America hae concentrated its fleet in the Pacific. American marines are in active ser- vice in China. The United States, in spite of its sharp antagonisms with Japan, has sent millions of dollars worth of ammunition to Japan and has not raised its voice against the recent slaughter ‘in Shanhaikwan insofar as Japan con- fines her attack on the frontier of the Soviet Union. Japan is estab- lishing a base for an attack on the Soviet Union. “Should the Japanese move ment be limited to one north of the North Great Wall, in. in- formed opinion here, Soviet Rus- sia would be the only power that might be affected through Japa- nese forces advancing to the bor- ders of Soviet territory.”—Wash- ington Dispatch-New York Times, | TECHNOCRATS HELP | the | | | | | I went from there to Atlanta, where | I took off the prison clothes. From | there I made my way to Detroit. 1 was arrested on atispicion in River | Rouge, taken to police headquar- ters and held for extradition to the Georgia chain gang. While € was in jail, lawyer Har- old E. Bledsoe came to.me and said he was from the N.A.A.C.P, He asked me if 1 was willing to ! go back to Georgia, TI said no, and he asked me if I had money to fight the extradition. I told him I didn’t have money, Then he sa’d he would take care of the case and he believed he could keep me from going back. He talked to me very nicely until the three Georgia officers came. They asked me who my lawyer was, and I told them Biedsoe, and they said they would talk to him, The same evening he came back and said he had talked to | the officers. His attitude toward They had me was changed, and he said he didn’t think he could do any- thing for me and it would be best for me to go back and serve my sentence, I told him I didn’t think I could live through it again if I went back, but he still insisted it would be best for me to go back. He said: “We don’t need any boys like you in our town, It will be better for you to , BO back and complete your sen~ tenes (THE LL.D. ‘That same night Lawyer William. Banks came to me | and told me | ought to,join, becau Helbig rnd eae | es RUSH WAR PLANS The technocrats, demanding sub- missiveness on the part of the work- ers, by helping the capitalists turn workers into fassive auto- matons, are giving. direct ald to drag the working class into a bloody slaughter. “It is only the firm peace policy pursued by the U. S. S. R. and the fear the bourgeoisie entertain of prospects of imperialist war be- ing converted into civil war and colonial uprisings, that restrain them from slipping into war and intervention.” (12th Plenum Resolution.) ‘What must we do? i. Combat ideologically and ex- pose the entire mesh of anti- Marxian theories developed by the technocrats and social-fascists. 2. Deepen our’ mass struggles among the workers in the factories, against wage-cuts and the stagger system, to increase our struggle for unemployment insurance in the neighborhoods, and unite the strug- gle of the employed and unem- ployed for the revolutionary way out | of the crisis. 3. Popularize the achlevements of the Soviet Union—the advance of science and technology and how it raised the standard of living of the Soviet worker. A MARXIST ANALYSIS OF TECHNOCRACY «ePECHNOCRACY AND MARX~- ISM,” by William 4%. Foster end Earl Browder, has just been published in pamphlet form. It ts a clear and simple analysis of the very latest “plan” which has re- cently been receiving reams of pub- licity in/the capitalist press. 3 ‘The pamphlet also contains “The ‘Technical Intelligentsia and Social= ist Construction,” the speech by V. M. Molotov at the Fifth All- Union Conference of Engineers and ‘Technicians of the Soviet Union on Nov. 26, 1932. District literature agents and in- dividual workers are urged to ‘put in their orders at oncé to Workers’ Library Publishers, 50 B. 13th St., New York. Individual copies 5 cents; special rates in bundies. eee o_o my case to him, and told him about Lawyer Bledsoe. He said he would take up my case and that the LL.D. would fight to keep me from g back to the chain gang. Since I ' was disappointed by Bledsoe and the N.AA.CP. and Lawyer Banks and Lawyer Sugar explained to me that masses of workers would tight chain off my legs with*a hack saw. | for my release, I was sure that only the I. L. D., backed by the work- ers, would win my release. I had more confidence “in the I. L, D. because they did not ask me for money, and that was the first thing that Lawyer Bledsoe asked for. Bledsoe did not even have @ habeas corpus writ out, although ke, knew that I was being held , without’ ‘The first day Lawyer Banks talked to me he had a writ taken out to make them produce a warrant to give'me my f On the way back from court in. swer to the writ, the out the writ, and beer rege would never get another favor. him because he promised: one thing and did another. I didn't tell him that Banks got the writ. The International Labor oat got busy and organized - quae eas and got ot veaflela telegrams and sent to Governor Corti de- manding my release. people went up to behalf and asked for my The officers wanted to know so many white people were ested in my case. I now that the LL.D. organized these Ne= gro and white workers for my de- The only way to break up the horrible tortures to the Ne= groes is by organizing Lomtoee the white and colored 4 Everyone who is ni n of the International i