The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 17, 1933, Page 4

Published by the Comprodally Publishing Ce., Ine. 13th St., New York City, N. ¥. Add and Page Four Telephone AL.gonquia 4-7936, ail checks to the Daily Worker, 50 £, 18th St., New York, N. ¥. daily except Sunday, at 50 B. Cable “DATWORK.” JAPAN IMPERIALISTS PUSH | DRIVE ON N. CHINA: CLASH WITH U.S. BOSS INTERESTS Gov't Threatens Use of Navy to Protect Nanking Puppets Roosevelt Belgian Socialist Leaders Aid Japan-France| War Bloc BULLETIN | Chinese insurgents in Manchuria drove the Japanese out of the town | of Hsinfengkuo in sharp fighting yesterday. Heavy fighting is also re- | ported at Chiehlinhou, north of the Great Wall In the Tientsin-Peiping region, Chinese regulars, under General Sung Cheh-yuan, continued to attack the Japanese positions at Sifeng Pass, despite instructions from the Nanking Government to discontinue re- sistance and withdraw “tc a safe position from the Japanese line.” While the Roosevelt Government is feverishly preparing | tor an armed challenge to Japan’s threat against Wall Street’s| spheres of investments, the Japanese Government pushed its | plans yesterday for the seizure of the Tientsin-Pieping area} in North China. This move is itly intensifying the antag- | onisms between the two dit imperialist powers PERU SOLDIERS ban- In answer applica- | ion of v Al | ernment, | een | have ope: 0€ | Ty ; y no retreat in their plan to invade; Fought Boss Wars; the U. 8. spheres of invest ir Nas s ais | North China. ‘The invasion of China Urge Protests is proceeding alc | infamous Tanaka American dispatches report lays down | 2 Peruvian Government has of China a! et | Succeeded in crushing the mutiny in } the G joined the Union and United Consider Arms Embargo. 1e tates ion of troops who n toiling masses in eir heroic struggle to convert the Hugi vilson, U. S. Minister to i pean Be wilkon, | Minister tO} Leticia imperialist war into civil war Switzerland, took his seat with the] sgainst the capitalist. war-mongers. League Committee “inquiry” on| ~ 50 Face Cont Murua’ =| Ek coe Stitch ang| Fourteen officers and 260 rank and| ae cs raha ee eee le soldiers have been arrested and eee ees eB as e facing court martial and death. against both China and Japan c rnment to this would Chinese mi nese rival, The embargo ck it fe opposed to the | ng between Co- | declared war ‘€/Iombia and Peru. In addition to these latest arrests anti-war fighters, over 6,000 Pe- ruy stud and workers, includ- M,/ing the secretary and Central Com- s.| é " -1,| mittee members of the Peruvian such) Communist Party, held in jail i arges of “tre ’ to the bour- mov the blockade all Chinese ports or sink any vessel carryin; of terial to the Chines Th brought the threat from the U. to furnish warships to convoy vessels into Chinese ports, veiled hint that the Fleet, which is now ci the Pacific would be swer any Japanese at t to st U.S. arms shipments to China. Admit Arms Shipment. Urge Mass Protest s. and all to imme ruvi rush protests to the n Minister at Washington, to The League commitice is avian Consuls in all cities, and be seeking an agreement “among|to the Peruvian Government, de- the arms-shipping countries, the] manding the safety and release of United States, Great Britain, Ger-| these thousands of arrested anti-war many, France, Italy, Belgium, Czech: slovakia, the Netherlands, Norv Spain, Sweden and Switzerland.”| ‘These powers, most of them mem-| g bers of the “peace lov: ue of| ,, | fighters. | For Right of Asylum The Peruvian Government yester- ay requested the Chilean Govern- |ment to arrest and return to Peru Nations, have been huge} hundreds of mutinous soldiers who quantities of war Japan | ¢ the Chilean border to seek for the slaughter f Chi- um following the collapse of the nese toilers. mutiny. Protests should also be sent | Socialist Heads Aid War io the Chilean Government demand- Dr. Christian Lang of Norway 4 ne right of asylum for these re- elected president of th mittee of “inquiry Belgian Social: mans, who, afte League cc replacing ader, Paul trom the Peruvian terror. Nanking Claims to depose, tea Have Crushed an fatigue. In : 5 tpn | Uprising of 50,000 peee ee tne Bele: | SHANGHAI, March 1—The Kuo- in support of th who are in the ench camp, wi is supporting Japan in ing war situation with the Japan Agents © Meanwhile, Y of the Japanese delegation wh cently staged a dramatic withd from the League of Nations cc ence, is coming to the U. S. on r own imperial minta have ¢! nking Government claims hed a powerful peasant Hupeh and Honan Pro- v e al China. The uprising is said to have involved over 50,00 active fighters against the Nanking or and landlord robbery. ng Gove#:ment has over roops in the two provinces an unsuccessful “Communist | suppression” campaign has been pro- last Summer. The gov- s that the peasants e supporting the Chinese Red Ar- my 21 to partite agreement between the U. S., Japan and Britain, with th diverting the impending anti-Soviet channels CZECH ARMY READY FOR BOSS | y of the Mediterranean| rol over the small Balkan rows more sharp with the} of the world-wide crisis of | involving a fierce struggle| w markets and a re-division of} ‘The Czec declared De Czechoslovaki Adm r threg slovakia Entente, which recent! | ' war | treaty setting 1 aares 1 can no longer Danube region from the toiling ss whom decay drive of the imperialist] US vapitali s prep to use camps in Europe, o: nd Francel| C22Mon fodder, thus it is openly dis- and its vassal the other|| Cussed in the ch parliament and Italy, Germa: which are engaging in ment to prepare the the impending conflict. London newspapers de- scribe situation in Europe as “threatenii and “acute,” and ad- mit that there is sabre-rattling across the Rhine in the Polish Corridor. Struggle for Markets ‘The members of the Little Entente G@zechoslovakia, Rumania and Yugo- slavia, are all, with Poland, unde the influence of French imperialism ‘The leaders of the two blocs are mi: Thus the the Prance and Italy whose rivalry for JAPAN BUYS 7 BRITISH SHIP FOR TRANSPORT OF MUNITIONS Seven British vessels have been brought by‘ the Japanese recently and are being taken to Japan to be used as troop and munitions trans- ‘The vessels are the 24,000-ton Baltic and the 15,000-ton Megantic, formerly of the White Star Line; the 20,000 ton Cunarder Caronia; When the 12,000-ton Royal Mail ship Arcadian, and four smaller ships built, the Baltic was the biggest ship in the world Only e. y men wer llowed to man the ships for their trip to Japan. essels were allegedly sold for “scrap,” but not} to preyent the Japane rom using them in their imperialist war in the Far East x In the United States. production and shipment of ammunition to is also increasing. Send in reports of every | Japan and South Ame poe n is being made and shipped, and , ase you know where ammay THE VEVER ANS GET A “NEW DEAL!” Karl Marx and Negro Liberation rote and Acted During Civil War and Reconstruction to Rally Workers of the World to By JAMES W. FORD | ‘The liberation struggle of the Negro people in the United States against national oppression, for equal rights, and for self determination in the Black Belt of the South, can go for- ward only on the basis of scientific theory and practice founded on the international experience of the work~- ing class and the experiences of human society as a whole. This theory and practice is the theory and practice of the class struggle es- tablished by Karl Marx. The working class cannot carry through its revolutionary task of overthrowing capitalism unless it at the same time brings to the support) of the revolution the allies of the proletariat, that is, the broadest sec- tions of farmers and other toilers. The proletariat. cannot carry through the successful struggle against capitalism, unless it supports and leads the lib- eration struggle of the oppressed na- tionalities against imperialism. Neith- er can the oppressed peoples free themselves from imperialist subjuga- tion without the active support of the proletariat. The Negro reformists and mislead- ers, fearing the growth of Commu- nism among Negroes, consistently) | } | }and openly show their opposition to Marxism, and openly expose their! support of the capitalist system. These misleaders sometimes talk | about Marx, but only to distort, mis-| lead and deny his revolutionary teachings. “THE CRISIS” LIES ABOUT KARL MARX In the April and May issues of the| “Crisis,” official organ of the | NAACP., edited by Dr. W. B. Du- Bois, a& symposium was organized} against Communism. In the March| issue of this year is an article, “Karl Marx and the Negro” which makes an attempt to block the influence; and spread of the revolutionary | teachings of Marx among Negroes. One sentence reads as follows: | “Whatever he (Karl Marx) said | and did concerning the uplift of | the working class must, therefore, | be modified so far as the Negroes are concerned by the fact that he had not studied at first hand their peculiar race problem here in Am- erica.” This statement denies Marx's scientific analysis of capitalism; it denies the Marxian method of work and approadh and the revolutionary conclusions which follow. It is also misleading in reward to the essential fact of Marx’s understanding of the Negro question in the United States. Marx never set foot on American} soil, but nobody on this side of the) Atlantic understod and followed more closely events of the Civil War and slavery than Marx did. And he drew conclusions for us today to follow,| as the correspondence between Marx and Engels, his co-worke! well as a series of articles in the Vienna] Freie Presse, show. The International Workingmen's Association in 1864 sent a@ brilliant letter written by Karl Marx to Abra~ ham Linooln on the occasion of his re-election. In the very opening paragraph, Marx speaks, not to Lin- coln, but to the American people, the working men, the true political power of the North, and congratulates them for re-electing Lincoln by a large majority and declared that “the triumphal war-cry of . . . re-elect! is death to slavery.” POINTED OUT WORKERS’ ROLE IN FIGHT ON SLAVERY But most of all, Marx begins to set forth, by a penetrating analysis, the role of the working class, its instinc- tive feeling toward Negro freedom, and the distinctive destiny of its class interests. . When 3,000 slaveholders by armed force tried to maintain slavery and to rescind the establishment of the Rights of Man, and maintained that slavery was & beneficial institution, | “then,” said Marx, “the working class | of Europe understood at once, even) before the fanatic partisanship of the upper classes . . that the slaye-| holders’ rebellion was to sound the} tocsin for a general holy war of property against labor, and that for the men of labor, with their hopes for the future. even their past con- quests were at stake in that tremend = | { SUBSCRIPTION RATES: ‘By Mail everywhere: One year, $6; siz months, $3.50; 3 months, §2; 1 month, Te, excepting Borough of Manhattan 4 Bronx, New York City. Foreign an@ $5; ¢ months, $3. BY BURCK ORGANIZE PROTEST DEMONSTRATIONS _ AS THAELMANN, TORGLER FACE ASSASSINATION BY NAZI FIENDS Leaders of German Masses in Danger of Being Shot; Hitler’s Butchers Are Freed from Prison; Torture Jewish Writers Fascists Set Up Special Squad of Killers in Weissenburg; Teach Them How to Torture Victims NEW YXORK.—Workers: Come to the Anti- Fascist demonstration and memorial meeting for the 50th Anniversary of Karl Marx’s death. German Workers’ Club, 1536 Third Ave., tomorrow at 8:30 p.m, ° ° . BERLIN, March 16.—Attempts to learn the condition of the leaders of the Communist: Party who are in Hitler’s torture chambers have been futile. Ernst Thaelmann, secretary of the Communist Party of Germany, and Torgler, head of the Reichstag fraction of Com~ munist deputies, are in the greatest danger of being shot: at any moment. World-wide pro- tests are pouring into Berlin and preparations for demonstrations of mass fury before the German embassies are being¢————————____—_ i rushed to completion to force|in the Prussian cabinet has set free and knives in Dragoner street, Ber~ the fascist cut-throats to re- lease from their bloody clutches the tens of thousands of political priso- ners and the leaders of the German working class. gangs of Hitler’s butchers who had/ lin, Rabbi Fraenkel, died Moriday. been’ sentenced to prison for murders} The head of the foreign institute in of Communists. Six of these butchers| Stuttgart, Dr. von Wanner was had been in prison since last sum-| bludgeoned into unconsciousness, af- mer for killing a Communist worker | ter lying in the street for more than at Beuthen. The six involved in this| an hour he is in a private hospital Pardons Nazi Murderers As a further act of provocation against the Communist Party and the révolutionary workers of Germa- ny, the fascist minister of “justice” Struggle Against Slavery in the South ous conflict on the other side of the Atlantic. Everywhere they bore there- fore patiently the hardships imposed upon them by the cotton crisis, op- posed enthusiastically the pro-slavery intervention—importunities of their betters — and from most parts of Europe dontributed their quota of blood to the good of the cause.” ANALYZES ROLE OF THE NORTHERN FARMERS | Shamelessly the “Crisis” tries to slur Marx and Communism by refer- ence to so-called Communist friends of Marx of that time who they say opposed abolition and were silent on the question of slavery. But in a letter to Engels on July 1, 1861, Marx. in reference to Northwestern states throwing thc weight into the bal- ance, sets forth in brilliant style the role of the northern farmers as fol- lows: “This population richly mixed with German and English elements, and mainly SELF-WORKING FARMERS, was naturally as un- willing to be intimidated as the gentlemen of Wall Street and the Quakers of Boston ... And it was this Northwestern popuistion which in the Kansas affair GOT INTO SKIRMISHES with the Border Ruffians.” (My emphasis—J.W.F.). The formulation of the question by the “Crisis” on the Negro and the labor movement is done with an aim to confuse the Negro masses. Marx constantly made that labor must take ‘The most cla: was the following “In the United States of Am- erica, any sort of independent labor movement was paralyzed so long as slavery disfigured a part of the re- public. LABOR WITH A WHITE SKIN CANNOT EMANCIPATE IT- SELF WHERE LABOR WITH A BLACK SKIN IS BRANDED. But out of the death of slavery a new vigorous life sprang up, the first fruit of the Civil War was an agita- tion for the 8-hour day—a move- ment which rang with express speed from the Atlantic to the Pacific, n. this question. of all his statements ar his position) JAMES W. FORD oughly disgraced itself in America also,s:0 that in the future it can neves preach on its own merits, but only as a means and transitional form to the social revolution.” In other words, no longer should Negroes bow to Lincoln and the Re- publican Party. The Revolutionary heritage of the Civil War and Recon- struction period is what Marx and } Soviet Russia represents the most practical and lasting accomplish- ments of the scientific theories of Karl Marx further advanced by Lenin and Stalin. The Marxist-Leninist teachings on the national question provide a way out for the Negro people in the United States today. Soviet Russia’s insistence upon ab- solute equality for all people is a fundamental policy ‘of the Communist Party on its national question. This policy has led to the freedom of the nationalities formerly oppressed by the Czarist regime in the same way that Negroes are oppressed in the United States, to the recognition of the right of self-determination and of equality of these people, resulting in the establishment of the Soviet Union as a voluntary union of all Taces, colors and nations on the basis of proletarian solidarity. ‘We see the development of the Na- tional liberation movement of the Negro people in the armed struggle of the Negro sharecroppers in Talla- poosa County, Alabama, and the great response to international solidarity that is given to the Scottsboro de- fense throughout the world. It is fitting that Negro people honor and commemorate the 50th Anniversary of the death of Karl Engels passed down to us today. Marx. Van Der Lubbe Becam | . Goehring Investia, official paper of the Soviet | ulaire.” from New England to California.” (My emphasis—J.W.F.). FROM ONE SLAVERY TO ANOTHER The most advanced representatives Hitler. Incendiaries Paid by Hitler Continuing, the French paper says, that the firing of the Reichstag building was in reality the action of | the fascist terror in Germany, reported in the Paris publication, of the American working class were| @ criminal gang, working in the pay also clear on this point. Great credit] of the National Socialists and fin- must be given to a white labor lead-| of the plot was to give a pretext for er, Sylvio, for the following remark} ancial and oil magnates. The object in ® speech delivered to a meeting} the destruction of the workers’ par- of white workers at Sunbury, Pa., in 1868: “No man in America rejoiced more than I at the downfall of Negro slavery. But when the shack- Jes fell from the limbs of those four millions of blacks, it did not. make them FREE men; it simply trans- ferred them from one gondition of slavery to another; it placed them npon the platform of the white working class, and made all slaves together.” The Negro misleaders, on the other hand, consistently advance opinions about the inherent antagonisms be- tween white and black workers. It is no accident that the “Crisis” tries to confuse the workers on revo- lutionary traditions by lumping Marx together with Thaddeus Stevens and Charles Sumner. “Naturally,” says the Crisis, “Marx stood with the abolitionists’ democracy, led by Stevens and Sumner.” Certainly Marx was against slavery with all his power and prodded along all forces that could aid this oause, But it is nonsense and distortion to imply that Marx stood with these representatives of other class inter- ests. Thaddeus Stevens was a repre- sentative of the industrial bour- geoisie and Charles Sumner was a petty bourgeois reformist. Marx knew that the industrial bourgeoisie, although the driving force against the Southern oligarchy, would betray Negro freedom as they did during Re- const! jon. Marx and Engels knew the class forces that were the real allies to Negro freedom. ties in Germany on the eve of the elections, to bring about a rupture of relations between Germany and the Soviet Union. Van Der Lubbe Prussian Spy Van Der Lubbe, who was said by Nazis to have alone set fire to the Reichstag and whom the fascist papers said was a Communist, is a Prussian secret police agent. He, along with five or six others partic- ipated in setting fire to the Reichstag. ‘The other participants escaped to Goehrings palace where they were protected. During the fire this palace was oc- eupied by National Socialist storm squads. It is a known fact that Van Der Lubbe was himself a Nazi. Became Paid Police Agent It is known that the incendiary, Van Der Lubbe, had some misunderstand- ing with the police of Westfallen some time ago and that since then he has been definitely connected with the secret police and became an agent provocateur. At the official investigation it was discovered that the fire in the Reich- “LE POPULAIRE,” FRENCH PAPER SAYS NAZIS PAID REICHSTAG FIRE BUGS e Prussian Cop Agent; Lead Plot By N. BUCHWALD. | (Europan Correspondent Daily Worker.) | MOSCOW, March 16, (By Radiogram).—The Paris correspondent of government, reports revelations about “Le Pop- ‘The paper carried an authentic story to the effect that the burning of the Reichstag building, which the Hitler gang tried to pin on to the Communists, must be attributed toe@—- - crime were first sentendd to death, the court decreeing that “ihe gravity of the crime is aggravated by its monstrous barbarity.” They had sub- jected their murdered victim to the most atrocious burning and mutila- tion before they finally killed him. The Von Papen government com- muted the sentences to life imprison- The fascist “special” police of Hitler line up militant workers against the wall of a cellar in a Berlin house and threaten them with thelr guns. A fiendish torture system has been instituted against the toilers, Marius Van Der Lubbe, one time Dutch police spy and now a Prussian Secret Service Agent and a member of the Hitler Party in Germany who was used by the Fascist leaders to set fire to the Reichstag building. The fascists then made an unsucd2ssful attempt to blame the Communists for the fire. i ment. Now the Hitler regime frees them and issues the statement that their foul crimes were “actuated by patriotic considerations” and they will not hold in prison German “patriots.” This is regarded as in- citement to more vitious murders against the working class. Abolishes Republican Flag President Von Hindenberg, whom the socialist leaders of the world hailed as a defender of the republic, has issued a decree abolishing the republican flag and establishing the black-white-red banner with an iron cross in the center—the’ old emblem of the days of the Kaiser, General he was to be shot; three shots be- ing fired behind him. After this he was told the fascists changed their mind about shooting him and pro- posed that he should keep silence about the whole thing and threatened that if he talked he would be’ shot from ambush. Werner von Blomberg, the defense minister, directly in charge of the murder campaign, signed the decree with Von ‘Hindenberg. Murder Rabbi in Sireeis After lying unconscious for five days as a result of a brutal Nazi Hitler’s Murderers at Work storm squad attack with black-jacks at the point of death. More Attacks The famous writer on Jewish mys= ticism, Professor Martin Buber wag severely beaten at his house in Frankfort-on-the-Main, and all the manuscripts of the late Professor Gustav Landauer, which Buber way editing were contiscated and de- stroyed. This sort of vandalism and terror is being systematically carried out to exterminate from “German soil” what the gang of butcher-clowns call “Jewish influence.” Special Squads of Assassins The Prou newspaper “Social-De- mocrat” reports that in Weissenburg, Germany, there exists a “special squad of assassins numbering 24” where the systematic teaching of all fiendish devices of fascist terror is promoted. They declare as their pur- pose to fight “Marxist offal.” Next to the report appears a photograph representing a group of young cut- throats and trained fascists, one of which lies prone on the ground with his hands and feet tied while an- other fascist butcher is astride his back holding a knife in his hand, This is supposed to be an illustra tion of how to proceed with the muti- lation of workers; 9 practice that is becoming more widespread every day. Otto Braun, BASLE, Switzerland, March 16. The social-democratic leadeys are doing all they can to try to arrest the mighty united front action of ever larger sections of the toiling mas- ses against the Hitler terror. Otto Braun, who with ° ing, was re- cently ousted as head of the Prussian government , is in Switz stag building broke out in many places sirsultaneously—and that it was physically impossible for one man to set fire to all these seperated places at the same moment, _ The paper further. reveals that on the night of March 15, several Nazi storm troopers broke into the lodging of the Soviet ditizen and prominent physician, Ishlansky, and in spite of the fact that he presented his pass- port they dragged him into a wait- ing automobile and took him to a building used as a “refuge for young Engels in a letter to Marx in 1862, sums up the position of the bour- geois democracy in the following sen- ience “On thgone hand it is well that the ls republic hay so thers men.” ‘There Ishlansky was fiercely beaten with fists and irop clubs and his passport was snatched from him, being told he was tortured for being 3 Soviet citizen. He was then tled to erland and has tele- graphed his resignation as a mem- ber of the. Reichstag and member OTTO BRAUN Cover for Vicious Attacks ‘Thus the social-democratic leaders again show that they are bound up with the capitalist state no matter what form it takes. Severing and Braun were removed from offi¢e in Prussia so they might be in better position to carry on their sabotage of the mass fight against fascism and try to arrest the move of social-de~ mocratic workers to the left. ‘Thus’ they tried .to weaken ‘the fighting os os ls WO bt Helm peng Socialist, Former Head fascism consolidate its power. Refutes Trotskyist Deceptions THE “PROLETARIAN PARTY“ IN DETROIT Daily Worker: Detroit, Mich. Herein Detroit the Proletarian Party holds meetings frequently. At their forum on March 5 they exposed their social fascist role by sabotaging @ resolution against Hitler's terror in Germany. f ‘A worker proposed a resolution of dor in Washington. John Keracher, national secretary of the P. P., who was the speaker, said the resolution was alright, but also said, “Suppose we send it, what good will it do?” He added that if there were any r@s- olutions to be proposed they should _ of Prussian Diet Won’t Fight Nazis ; refutation wf the counter-revolution- | ary theories of the Trotskyists who ‘This action of Brgun and the in-| say that social-democracy is a main direct support social-denjocratic leady| support of the capitalist class under ers aye giving Hitlerism by trying to| pariamentary democracy, but it is not disorganize and disintegrate the| the main social support under fase struggle against fascism is another| cim. Letters from Our Readers had helped save many working-class fighters, citing the international fight.and the action of the Russian workers that saved Tom Mooney's life in 1919. He also showed that while such resolutions are a mild form of -working class. action, still }such action can be the start for highe er forms of action and struggle. This Proletarian Party outfit t& s sect that has been for 10 years or more claiming to be “Marxists” and “Leninists” but when it comes to any kind of working class action they are on the other side, For instance, they refuse to help in any struggles of the Unemployed Councils, the In- ternational Labor Defense or other mass struggles, but they make united fronts with such demagogues as Ma- yor Frank Murphy to “liberate Tom Mooney,” and with Prank X, @angster and |