The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 1, 1933, Page 3

‘| Homeless Youth Tell i DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 1, 1933 ROOSEVELT’S “MORE AGRESSIVE” FOREIGN POLICY of Mine Thugs ICK LOCKS |\yeene BOYS IN 1CE CAR 3 DAYS ie " of Hardships on the Road } “NEGRO PROPLE KIND” Forced Labor, Beat- }; ngs Is Only ‘Relief’ These folk were among those ee savagely attacked by Franklin NEW YORK.—Shivrvine and| County’ deputy sheriffs at West exhausted, three loys stag-| Frankfort, IL, recently. Photo was ert of a refriger: x | taken as they called on Governor gered out of a refrige mLOy DOK |: Teentc Ag meena tee steer ar, as the trap door was op-/| c >P- | miners in the coal fields. ned when the train pulled in- | | to the New York freight yard Mon- | “Abeing thab fiely tach, names hous ‘Forgery Case Used tor, all of them 17, told about their | forWar Propaganda M not be printed, Frank, Joe and Vic- plight to the Daily Worker reporter | yesterday. f “A bull seen us in the refrigera- tor and locked the top so we could not get out, had to wait till we got Into town.” And so, from Saturday morning until late Monday night, without water or food and shiver- ing from the frigid temperature within the rolling ice-box, these three boys lived through one of those try- ing experiences which falls to the lot of hundreds of thousands—boys, men and women wandering homeless over the roads and rails of the richest country in the world. Driven By Hunger Beaten by rubber hose, threatened and chased by “cops” and railroad “bulls,” begging morsels of food at door steps, they made their way to the “sunny” south, and then back north again. Joseph is from Boston, Victor from New York City and Frank from a small town in West Va. When ask- ed why they went on the road, all gave similar reasons, “T sta: it huntin’ for work,” explained rot, whose father im- posed frequent beatings’ and. threat- ened to send him to a reformatory, “No money at home, so I went to N. J., from there to Exmore, West Va,, and there took a freight to North Carolina,” said Victor, who was sec- onded by Joe, who also said that he “left home looking for work.” Meet On The Road Frank. met Joe in Philadelphia. ‘Then they lost each other, and in the meantime Joe met Victor, To-* gether they went to the Salyation Army flop house in Greensboro, N. C, and there again found Frank, Not a single instance of sympathetic aid given to the boys, was to be found in the long story of their experiences. ‘The Salvation Army compelled them to work until after 1 a. m. when they applied for shelter around midnight. In the morning, exhausted and hungry, they were confronted with the condition that they must work before getting anything to eat. The boys left and gathered morse]s of food trom more sympathetic hands. “The kindest people are the Ne- groes,” they said in this connection. “The-Negro people are terribly mis+ treated, they are treated worse than anybody, but they treated us best of all,” remarked one of the boys, Treat All Alike As many as 200 boys and men were to be found on a single train, at var- ious times as the boys were making their way into the South. ‘ : Eat in Jungles In Valdosta, Ga., they pulled in with about 200 other boys on the train, and there, found “cops who said they would shoot if we got off,” Frank related. And so, for two days, at times the boys would have nothing to eat. A “jungie” is one of the places of refuge in such cases. Here, hungry boys and men cook anything they can get hold of, eating out of old, rusty cans. Asked about their plans for the future, the boys looked at their worn shoes (Frank had nothing but an old pair of tennis slippers) and said there was nothing to be done, but to try and get along as they had been doing. All three, however, are making con- tact with the Young Pioneers, and there will find an answer as to the future of the American youth. International Notes By ROBERT HAMILTON FASCIST STAFF OFFICER RESIGNS A staff officer of the Fascist storm detachments in Bavaria, named Mogg, has resigned from the Fascist organization. His statement of re- signation says that Hitler has en. tered into an alliance with Hugen- berg and Von Papen against the masses of the German people. He protests against the persecution of the Communist Party, which, he de- clares, fights against capitalism, real cause of Germany's misery, He announces that he intends to follow the example of ex-Lieutenant Scher- inger, ie, join the Communist Party. GERMAN SOCIALISTS ALLIED WITH DEMOCRATS The German State Party (Demo- crats) has concluded an electoral alliance with the leaders of the So- cialist Party. Now Socialist workers will realize why the Gefman Social Democrats do hot want a united front with the Communists, why Heilmann and Hil. fe g, their leaders, attack the united front with Communists as “impossible”! They prefer to ally themseluaa with the State Party, the _ Says Soviet Daily ‘Pravda’ Exposes New Provocations in New York, Berlin By H, BUCHWALD. (European Correspondent of the Daily Worker.) MOSCOW, Feb. 28.—In connection with the arrest of the German avia- tor Count Von Bulow and Dr, Greg- ory Burtan by U. S. secret service men on charges of counterfeiting and the subsequent attempt of the U. S. imperialists to utilize the forgeries for war provocation against the So- viet Union, the Soviet newspaper “Pravda” writes: Fress Anti-USSR Drive, “The arrest of adventurers in the forgery of banknotes which took place in the United States has been simul- taneously caught up by New York and Berlin reactionaries as the oc- casion for a fresh anti-Soviet cam- paign, | trivial criminal affair for the object of ‘high polities’ It is superfluous to point out that the actions of New York officials and the seeret police who published false reports regard- ing connections of the speculators Burtan and Bulow with the US8R. fully harmonize with the general line of the present erican admin- histration now atrirwcs good..'The “latter, before handing over its busi- ness to its successor has no objection to once more poisoning the atmos- phere. German Bosses Use Story. “In their turn, the German reac- tionaries conducting a pre-election campaign with the aid of unbridled terror against the revolutionary workers caught up the anti-Soviet canard as a weapon which must fill up the gaps in their pre-election ‘ideological arsenal.’ The newspapers “Lokal Anzeiger” and “Angriff,” these very little respected organs which are facing failure in the entire affair, continued a base campaign directly attacking ane slandering the Soviet Government. Also, the “Lokal An- zeiger” with the face of a religious cheat, continued to utter sentences regarding “high political importance of the activity of forgers.” Remember Forgeries. “It is interesting to watch how the official organs of the National Socis]- ists‘and German Nationalists, taken red-handed, will come out in their foolish position. The number of symptons evoke certain suspicions. Berlin's reactionary circles are known since long ago as a workshop where anti-Soviet forged documents are manufactured. The names of the white guards Elagine Orlov and Af- share connected with these circles are intimate bonds. Everyone still re- members the famous ‘protocol of the Politburo manufactured by the reac- academician forged documents ant successfully pursued his occupation in Berlin. One cannot but recall this latter fact, especially at the pfesent moment, Mad Cries. “As is also known, bands of Bul- garian fascists at the time they mas- sacred Bulgarian toilers ytilized the forged documents of Drujelogky’s mastership on a lerge scale. Now when the German fascists and monr archists gre openly threatening a “Saint Bartholomew messgere” for the German proletariat, their mad cries against ‘Moscovites, and ytilir zation of absurd and stupid antir Soviet inventions are not at all age cidental. “The possibility is far from excludy ed that the entire provocation is eon- cocted by them with the Fagan of this campaign. Both of the forgers, as the “Lokal Anzeiger” asserts, worked in Berlin in 1929, Evidently they studied there a high course of fabrication of forged documents, in- cluding bank notes, The provocation of the American spies and of the “Local Anzeiger” and the “Angriff” has failed. Its counter-revolutionary aims are clear, The bg gery of Germany, the United States and the whole world will be able to draw the corresponding conclusions from this fresh anti-Soviet sally.” party of big merchants and bank- ers. This is the logical conclusion of the Socialists’ defense of the Wel- mar Republic, under which one pro- letarian position after another has been surrendered, climaxed now by a formal alliance with a “liberal’ group of multimillionaires. 14 DIE IN MINE SHAFT PLUN JOHANNESBURG, South peeled Feb. 28—Two European workers and 12 native workers were hurled to their death here by defective elevator apparatus in a 7,000-foot shaft of the (-"-"* ™3ner, Both decided to utilize this| PITTSBURGH, BOSTON GAIN GROUND IN “DAILY” DRIVE; I. W. O. STILL FAR BEHIND 34.4% Quota Raised; Two Districts Above 50%; California, Seattle, Dakotas Lag Badly; More Action Needed Everywhere Some surprising changes are recorded in the tables covering contributions to the Daily Worker fund for the half-week from Friday to Monday inelu- sive, during which total con- tributions of $2,438.81 were received, The greatest centage gains were recorded for burgh and Boston, Pittsburgh, with a quote of $360, raised $84.42 during the half-week, boosting its per centage from 30 to 54, This places it right behind New York, which is first with 614. Con+ nectiout dropped to third place, with 48.1, while Boston, after dropping completely out of the first five dur- ing the past few weeks, jumped up to fourth place, with 46.8. Its con- tribution for the half-week was $185.60. Boston has kept a good pace now for five full days, and much is ex- pected from this district from now |on until the end of the drive. Buft- | falo, with 38.1, holds down fifth place |in the national rankings. L.W.O, Members, Get Into Action! The contributions of the Inter- national Workers Order so far in the drive gives canse for alarm. Altho the contributions have been steady, they are far too low, jon- ately, for an organiza’ whose quota for the drive is $8,000. The cempaign of the Daily Worker for funds cannot be a success unléss the quota of the I.W.O, is fulfilled. This is what makes it se important for the branches of this organiza- tion all over the country to come to life immediately, with bigger and more frequent donations, So far the LW.O, has raised a total of §1,~ 127.18, or only 14.1 vent of its quota, This is far most of the districts, the poorer ones of which have raised, for the greater part, at least 20 per cent of their | drive quotas, Minnesota, with a quota of $750, has raised only $146.16. Kansas City has donated only $60.87 out of a quote of $350. The Dakotas, with the game quota, have contributed a mere $21.25 during the drive! Where the farmers for whom the “Daily” fights? California, Seattle Show Little Life tricts are matched by the two big west-coast districts, whose showings so far are disgracefully poor. Seattle's quota of $750 has been only 8.7 per cent fulfilled. California, with 13.6 per cent of $1,000 is searcely better f. It is essential that these five dis- tricts, which are way behind should immediately tackle the job of pro- ducing results. And all the other dis- tricts must make up for past ae This week is critical for the Total donations to the Daily Work- er for the two days, Sunday ahd Monday, were $1,024.62, or slightly over $500 each day. The three big contributors of the week-end were New York, Ohicago and Philadelphia, which raised, re- Speetively, $379.86, $213.10 and $132. Other districts contribyted fatr-tor middlin’ sums, with the ¢: of several which fell down pals. ‘These include Detroit ($3.86), the Dav kotas ($3) Seattle ($1.17), Connecti- cut ($2) and Colorade, which failed to send anything at all. districts with largest quotas should be setting the pace for all the New York, ROCK SLIDE KILLS 3 MINERS tionary Kreuzzejtung. Drujelovsky, | Bay have killed three miners and injured fourteen today, ‘These mid-western delinquent dis-| ¥ Again it Road be etreeasd tat the on others; that these districts (Boston, | / Philadelphia, Cleveland, | house parties for the “Daily!” 10-K. ©, M—ND.-6.D, Fla, je-mtveniee ~ io L Ww. 0, Canada ‘Total —__92438.81 $19121.88 $96250 ia Bi Detroit, Chicago, California, Seattle, Minnesota, New Jersey) should be sending in EVERYTHING THAT THEY POSSIBLY CAN RAISE NOW. If these districts and the I. W. O. raise their quotas soon, the success of the drive will be assured. ‘Workers in ell districts: Get your friends, neighbors, shopmates, to con- tribute! Circulate your collection Usts wherever you go, at meetings, dances, affairs of all sorts! en ni yush all available money immediately to the Daily Worker! ‘otal received Sun. and Mi reviolsly received Total to dete ..—....--. . $18,121.88 SUNDAY’S & MONDAY'S CONTRIBUTIONS DISTRICT Workers’ Club 12.55 Boston Gare 50 Total $55.70 “16 Yotal to date $467.75 soo DISTRICT 2 50 New York ont Fohnatown Unit 2.50| ¥ f Kap. J Jenkins by Unit 3, Seo 7 7.00 John Heed Clob 69.91 BN 1.00 J Pageniste 3,00 & Lowell 1.00 es Miss Key 3 ed Bre, Hants ote | Kducstional Wkrs. H Ar} Veague 08 e BS Stern 5,00} 1.00 Repot 1.00 1.00 £ Jaren 317 08 A Calabrese 2.00 25 Kevetensty 2.00 38 © Lowery = 3 Twesntn: °20 Anenymeas Rend 00 | D # reer 30 | E. staalshewisky Unit 2 4,90| J+ Greenspan L Sherwin 1.00 | A. Resnik D Dorenx 1.00 | . Dilsberg A Friend gop | nenymous R Diett 1.00| Berman Cloatmakers Dandy Store Couneil 1 (35) Fem Cafeteria Women’s Cénnelis: M. Bei Ne. 1.86 18.20 1.50 10.00 7 PP eseepar S3382e nymous , Sehnelder WORKER CORRESPONDENCE | | Member of Unemployed Delegation Beaten Up By Red Squad HOW VETERANS ARE REWARDED FOR THEIR SERVICE LOS ah cag Cal.—-Eara Chase, war vet, of Servicemen’: League, who was among tee iiltnes 5 & af 5 i a H $3 q 2. i : 2 # ul 5 Hig g 5 e z i i Et eed Brit : i | z 7 j He i ts BE Se: 3 g ad Boe ga ae 4 i us fhe i : i i They took him to a car, searched him, and threatened to take him for @ ride. “Sonofabjtchés like you don’t to live and we'll take you for and that you don’t live.” him loose at the officer, threaten- head in if you more demonstra- AE your any Among the labor lawyer, Bara Chase, , Basil Dell and Sam My- Couneil members. the American Ojvil Liber- injured are Leo Galla- Inion; Miriam Brooks and Karl of thé International Labor se Chsiten tee worker, all, Proekal and sick ch Opal Dell and numer- unindent Persons. Jarence Lynch, a lawyer, formerly the Arizona Legislature, in the Council hearing, fered lurnish the Los Anglees rd with an affidavit that the Squad used blackjacks ip their petitioners, but to accept the at- Lynch insisted it be drawn fact of use of black- rt gf sist (he s ie | throyghout Germany was suppressed %| gency” decree issued by the govern- \ers we 3 | | 2 Woke one eoere | Workets Industrial Union, the Sea- ‘S| in Hanover. M. Almen DISTRICT 5 Anonymous (Pistsburgh) Anonymous TOTAL $75.45 Lerman Bros, vba Prykoweitc Ttl to date $189.10) Ben R. Perole DISTRICT 6 Olrs Johnson (Cleveland) | TOTAL $25.30 TH. to date DISTRICT 7 B. Fisher (Detroit) D. Lenner TOTAL $3.86 H. Howard 8. Yumunsky TH to date $134.45 DISTRICT 3 (Chicago) TOTAL $218.10 DISTRICT 9 NEGRO RIGHTS IS GROWING United Front Built in Buffalo, Phila. and Alabama FOR SCOTTSBORO LADS To Present Demands to Roosevelt March 6 | BUFFALO, Feb. 28. — The | Scottsboro-Utica Defense Con- |ference held Sunday night at Bristol Hall, unanimously en- Til to date 1,140.75 dorsed the call of the League] ‘TELLS HOW JAPAN of Struggle for Negro Rights for a | delegation to present the demands | of the Negro people for the abolition of the chain gang, lynching, dis- |franchisement and discrimination on the Governor's Conference called by president-elect Roosevelt for March 6 in Washington, D. C. 43 delegates were present from 24 organizations, Fleichman Deoo- | aoeens Milas Ce, .so| TOTAL $42.82 t 20 | ? a io | Tt to date $1 Seat 8) mermor 10 25} _ (Kansas City) Aeenreces ¥ TOTAL $16.50 D. Goldstein 5 r Ui sueeee TH to date $60.79 M. Worden DISTRICT 11 | Sancherger (N, & 8, Dakota) Kubitz TOTAL $3.00 F. Wolotch ] M. Warsaw Tt. to date $21.25] Btatr DISTRICT | Wisbsra (Seattle) | Max Sugee TOTAL 1.17 | A. Ki - | ©, Kraus TH, to date $$64.97 | Anonymous DISTRICT 13 L. Genzer (California) I. Lebediker TOTAL $10. Mrs. Reiboaritz Anonymous TH to date Slapock DISTRICT 11 Worker & wife (New Jersey) Max Geisen TOTAL $14.00) Fred Gould Anonymous Tt. to date $299.84 M. Horowitz DISTRICT 15 z (Connecticut) TOTAL TOTAL Til to date Til. to date DISTRICT DISTRICT 16 (Phila hin) i (N. ©. & 8. ©.) TOTAL $13: | TOTAL Tl. to date $514.87| Tt. to date $7.00/ DISTRICT 4 DISTRICT 18 (Butfale) | (Milwaukee) TOTAL $29.00| TOTAL $20.36 TH to date $219.96 MAN ACCUSED OF ARSON IS COP SPY (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) » agents Provocateurs and similar elements who penetrate their ranks, The Dutch Communist Party has or- ganized mass meetings in all cities and big towns for this evening to Protest against the fascist attempt to make the Communist Party of Germany and the Communist In- ternational responsible for the crim- ina} activities of an exposed, ex- pelied agent provocateur- Press Is Banned. The whole Communist Ttl to date $190. press for four weeks by a drastic “emer- ment teday. The whole Socialist press is suppressed for 14 days. To- day's editions of the left wing news papers, “Welt Am Bergen” and the| “Berlin Am Morgen,” were confis- cated and their editorial offices oc- cupied by the police. All Communist and Socialist election campaign post- Wholesale Arrests. Orders were issued for the arrest of all Communist deputies in the Reichstag Diet and Town Council. Twelve members of the Reichstag Diet were arrested so far. One hun- dred and thirty persons were arrested in Berlin, including Wilhelm Pieck, a member of the central committee of the Communist Party, Remmele and Ludwig Renn, author of “War” and many other non-Communists includ- | ing Ossietzky, Hodmann, Muehsam, ete. Raids and mass arrests were car- ried out in many other cities. One hundred forty are reported arrested | Ernst Torgler, leader of the Com-| munist fraction in the Reichstag, is charged with direct connection in the Reichstag fire, the police alleging he was “seen” talking with the arsonist immediately preceding the outrage. Torgler appeared before the Police Presidium today indignantly denying these lying charges. Wildest Anti-Red Lies The fascist and nationalist press| are conducting a terrific campaign of vicious incitement against the Com- | munist Party, publishing the wildest. stories concerning alleged Communist plans, ineluding poisoning of reser- voirs, foodstuffs and attacks on the children of political opponents. The hectic atmosphere of 1914 has been revived. Today's Cabinet session decided to issue an emergency decree against the Communist movement, contain- ing the severest measure without, however, according to the bourgeois press, directly suppressing the Party. Related organizations, like the Labor ‘ Defense, etc., are likely to be sup-' pressed, according to the bourgeois press, although details are as yet un- available, In a statement issued to the bourgeois press, the government declares direct connection of the Communist leaders with the Reich- stag outrage has been “proved” but offers no proof. It repeats the slan- der that Communist “provocators” are operating in police and fascist uniforms, thus attempting to placate the Catholics for the attacks on them | by armed unifoymed fascists. The} statement further says that the “ar-| rested Dutch Communist” admitted | relations with the Sociglist Party.) However, not the slightest shred of proof is offered to support any of these contentions, The statement | further alleges the “discovery” of a Communist plan to institute a reign |from Florida, including four congregations of Ne~ gro churches. The conference eleeted E. K. Green, as chairman, and Ger- trude Walsh as secretary. The defense conference went on record to ask all Negro churches to set aside Sunday, March 5, as Seotts- boro Day, ‘Se ae Big Response. NEW YORK.—The national office {of the League of Struggle for Negro Rights reports responses to its call for a delegation to the governors’ conference from Atlanta, Ga., Bir- mingham, Ala. Bronx, N. ¥. and Plans for the election of delegates are also being pushed by several unions and Negro groups 5, in New York City, it was stated. units ‘key Phila. United Front. PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 28, — One hundred and two delegates, repre- senting 59 organizations, attended the conference Thursday night for the defense of Willie Brown, 16-year old youth of Philadelphia, and the nine Scottsboro boys. The delegates unanimously went on record to work untiringly for the defense of the nine Scottsboro boys whose trial is now set for March 20 and Willie Brown. A mass meeting is to be held on March 17 at the Broadway Arena, at | which prominent speakers will speak on the Scottsboro and Willie Brown cases, Fight for Boys in Ala, | Was brought out at the Joint Con~- | ference of the Alabama Farmers’ Re- lief Association and the Alabama | Conference of Unemployed, as one |of the most immediate and pressing | tasks confronting the Alabama work- ers and farmers in their struggles | for better conditions. Lockout Smashed, militant action of the barge captains (workers in charge of each barge) under the leadership of the Marine board Sand and Gravel Co., were forced to reinstate every worker they locked out last week on the pretext that someone had set 26 barges adrift at Port Jefferson. Some of the workers belong to the Association of Marine Workers whose Jeaders are not interested in fighting with the men against wage cuts. By JAMES CASEY wo the appointment of William H. Woodin as head of the U. S, Treasury Department, Roosevelt has laid firm the foundation for an open dictatorship of finance capital in Washington. Moreover, by this act, the Presi- | dent-elect has convincingly revealed that he is giving utmest ¢o-opera~- tion to the bankers and industrislists in hastening parations for a new world slaughter of workers as the “way out’ of the crisis. For Woodin, who through a maze of interlocking directorates 1s associated with the Morgan and Rockefeller interests, is also one of Wall Street's leading military experts. The new Secretary of the Treasury has made a special study of all the plans of the War Department. For this particular reason, Woodin has been placed in a cabinet post where he will have complete super- vision over all the government funds and at the same time serve as the central link between the military, the bankers and the manufacturers of munitions, But before reviewing Woodin’s more or less secret con- nections with the War Department, it is important to cite other reasons why, in the eyes of the business over- lords, he is qualified to hold an of- fice of the highest trust under the new Wall Street regime. Coal Magnate’s Scheme. A Many years before this latest cap’ talist crisis, Woodin “distinguished” himself in public office as an astute agent of big business and as a ruth- less foe of the working class. It was in the fall and winter of 1922 that the coal magnates of the Pennsyl- vania anthracite region had suddenly of terrorist acts culminating in an armed revolt, embarked upon a course of excep- tional profiteering. They volun- | m Young These young children are seen Saluting the Japanese militarists at the war office in Tokio. They are getting an early training in the glory of giving their lives for im- perialist conquest. MONTGOMERY, Ala. — The mass | reports, the South American fight to free the nine Scottsboro boys | War Congress which was to have| Seamen Reinstated | NEW YORK.—As a result of the| BOMBS CIVILIANS Invasion Is Held 1 p by Insurgents The Japanese drive in vince was held spread insurgent a the Japanese front capture of six Manc! from the Japanese, 1 Pre wide- behind g in the towns and tion Chinese trenches. Herbert Ekins, reporter for the New York Sun, an eye-witness acount of the murder- ous bombardment ef the village of | ¥ehpeishou, and machine-gunning of peasant refugees by Japanese planes swooping low. He reports that such attacks are of daily oc- currences. ‘The Chinese volunteer troops have dug in over a w and are e fectively holdir advance. the men of corps, mostly and Iron” fi the the volunteers f Shanghai proletariat who put Da “Blood heroic struggle against the Japa during their descent on that South China city in January, 1932. Anti-War Congress Set for March 11; Increased Support YORK- NEW rding to latest opened in Montevideo, Uruguay, yes- terday, has been postponed to March 11. The postponement is made be- cause the delegates from Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay and Peru are unable to reach Montevideo on ti! as a result of the throughout most of the continent The Anti-Imperialist League of the | U. S. urges all organizations to util- | ize the present postponement to se- cure additional greetings and expres- sions of solidarity with the struggles of the workers and intellectuals of South America against the imperial- ist war mongers and their puppet governments. Rail Local Demands New Mooney Trial DENVER, Col—At the last regu- lar meeting of Local 14 of the Main- tenance of Way, a railroad union, a resolution was passed thi Mooney be given a new trial, SPEEDS WAR FIGHT FOR) cats of over 5,000 Manchukuo tr from the Japanese masters of the puppet Manchukuo sta Japanese air bombers savagely attacked the de- serting Manchukuo troops, causing heavy losses among ther Japanese planes showered bombs on several Jehol villages behind the | war conditions | PREPARE T0 FIGHT JAPAN FOR LOOT Naval Preparations Evoke Fears in Phillipines BRITISH MOVE | Arms Ban Harms U. S. Nanking Puppets set | | ATTACK BULLETIN MANILA,, Philippines, Feb. 28.— U. S. Naval and Military prepara- | tions and movements in the Phili- | pines are causing grave apprehen- sion amOng the population of this city, and evoking fears that the people of these islands will soon be involved by the U. 8. in a war with Japan WASHINGTON, Feb. 28.—In line with Wall Street's 1: for a more d especially to U. B. president-elect erday the year old Vir- ator Claude as his Secretary m is reported by to have a “thor- 0 ledge of naval af- f i through his experience i Id and as an asso- ciate of Roosevelt during the latter's t as Assistant Secretary of the Hold War Talks. Cordell Hull, Roosevelt's Secretary f State, jy has begun putting effec more aggressive” for- policy, and d secret confer- s of re than an hour each the British and French ambas- sadors yesterday in an attempt to sound out Britain and France on their attitude on the question of war n the U. S. and Japan, which Wall Street Government is in- ting U. 8. Attacks British Move, The decision of the British Gov- ernment to put into effect a “tem- porary embargo” of arms shipments to both Japan and China was sharply attacked by Washington officials and leaders in Congress as an overt aid to Japan. The State Department de clared that the U. S. Government would not follow the British example r Borah declared: “T certainly am ‘no! ‘favor of following suit. To put an Ss embargo on China and Japan is to te with Japan under the cor h now ex- Japan Threats Retaliation. The Japanese imperialists took the British move lightly, but utilized it to further dramatize the developing ar situation between Japan and the threatening retaliation to the ly if any attempt is made raw supplies-for ire of munitions. Department informed Nations of its “wil- co-o} with the Advisory Committee of 21 named to “observe” Far Eastern de- In accepting the avitation, the State De- r made it clear that the U. S. Government reserve ence of action Ss its “independ. resolution was passed by a unani- mous vote of the members present and the sec YY was instructed to Send a copy to the judge, prosecuting overnor Rolph of Califor- » and a copy to the Rocky Mountain News for publication. A copy was ordered sent to Mooney in care of the Molders’ Union, teered the excuse (which iny tions proved to be groundless) their exhorbitant prices we! ated by a shortage produc! Dealers in New York City throughout the state seized th portunity to send retail price ward. The result was that {homes everywhere were left wi }eoa] during freezing weather | Protests by the thousand were | sent to Nathan L. Miller, then Gov ernor of New York State. The Goy- ernor (who has gone down in his- } tory as a demagogue to compare fa- orably with Roosevelt himself) ap- pointed Woodin as\a sort of coal dic- tator, At that time Woodin was a leading Republican. Today Woodin is @ leading Democrat. (This is not the kind of a change to bother Woodin much, since not even the keenest capitalist politicians could distinguish any material difference.) On Sept. 22, 1922, Woodin was named to regulate prices and adjust condi- tions. A Bitier Winter. Week after week passed, only to find profiteers intensifying their ac- tivities. Woodin turned a deaf ear to all pleas and demands for relief. The winter was a bitter one, Suf- fering among working-class families throughout the state reached alarm~- ing proportions, Even the capitalist welfare agencies were forced to ad- nit the need of immediate relief. | Thus the State Legislature had ap- propriated a $10,000,000 emergency fund to alleviate the widespread dis- tress. Woodin refused to use this money for relief. The workers could fr to death—that was none of Woc business! As an agent of Big Busi- ness, a8 a capitalist himself, he ‘belehed forth meaningless technicali- workers’ | c in’s Woodin Exposed in Transit Steal and Coal Magna tes’ Price Plot e the coal profiteers ran riot and the United Coal Merchants Association acclaimed him for his unswerving callousness. Thus i i given Woodin his test. in had won his spurs. Woodin was destined to public limelight again pernicious enemy of In December, Walker of New otiations with ine promoters, who roup of bt eventually organized the Equitable Company. Of course, Walker Ul his work through former | Senator John Hastings. The |amazing story is |minds. In brief, the company was to receive a franchise to operate | busses through Manhattan and the Bronx. Later the routes of all the boroughs were to be covered by the buses of this company. Eventually, under the plans, the company was to take over the city’s trolley lines and subways and then raise the | transit fares to burden the masses of the workers. Four years after these negotia- | tlons were begun, Woodin’s name was | linked to this conspiracy. The new Secretary of the Treasury is presi- dent of the American Car and Foun- | dry Company. This company, a jlong drawn out investigation dis- closed, was supposed to build 850 fresh in many | | buses for the Equiteble concern, thus | helping to put over the biggest tran- sit steal in the history of the nation. Woodin has admitted that he had conferred with Mayor Walker's agent in_ connection with this crooked deal. Tt is manifest that Woodin enters the cabinet with sufficient experi- ence to provide the country with an- | other Tea Pot Dome scandal. (Te Be Continued.) “er