The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 31, 1934, Page 6

Page Six DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, JULY 31, 1934 Daily, QWorker PRWWRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY L.A, (SUCTION OF COMMHUHIST MITERMATIONALS “America’s Only Working Class Daily Newspaper” FOUNDED 1924 PUBLISHED DAILY,. EXCEPT SUNDAY, BY THE DOMPRODAILY PUBLISHING CO., INC., 50 E. 13th Btreet, New York, N. ¥. Yelephone: ALgonquin 4-795 4. Subscription Rates: hattan and $2.00 mnthly, 75 cents. TUESDAY, JULY 31, 1934 La Guardia “Explains” N OUTBURST of protest has flooded city hall, condemning the order of the LaGuardia administration for the regis- tration of union organizers with the police. The flood of protest organizations, especially from the rank and file in the A. F. of L. and the Socialist Party, has forced such labor mislead as Joseph Ryan, president of the International Longshoremen’s As- from workers’ S sociation, and Louis Waldman, Socialist party Jeader, to make a gesture of disapproval. Mayor LaGuardia then condescended to “explain” the fascist ruling of the police department. But the fascist measure has not been withdrawn, The “explanation” of LaGuardia is aimed to still the mounting protest, to lull the workers with claims that his order has been “misunderstood.” Ryan and his like are helping LaGuardia to put over this fascist measure by declaring them- selves “satisfied” ith LaGuardia’s explanation. Ryan, president of the Central Trades and Labor Council, took occasion to attack the militant rank and file of the A..F. of L., declaring: “We would like nothing better than to get rid of radi- cals who are trying to obtain control of labor unions.” Ryan tried to dampen the wave of protest. against the police order by saying he saw no reason “for hysteria.” The order of the LaGuardia administration re- verts to the police unions of the czarist times of Russia, and to. Hitler's fascist unions. It would give the police department control over union activi- ties, Police Commissioner O’Ryan yesterday once more showed that the order is aimed to crush any militant struggle in the trade unions by re- eating that the order has the purpose of enabling police to distinguish “trouble makers” in the unions. It is not accidental, the rank and file trade union members declare, that this police union decree came out simultaneously with the setting up of a police. rifle and machine gun regiment of 1,200, ready to shoot down strikers, That some A. F. of L. leaders are involved in the inception of the move toward fascist unions was again demonstrated when Inspector Valentine said yesterday that the order was requested by the joint board of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers Union. WORKERS OF NEW YORK CITY! The order for police control of unions must be revoked! The setting up of a regiment of police to act as firing squads for militant workers must be defeated! Send délegations and protest resolutions to city hall demanding that Mayor LaGuardia revoke these two Measures! Fight for the right of the workers of New York to organize, free of police interference, and to strike and picket! Pass resolutions of protest against police union- ism and police terror now being prepared by the LaGuardia administration. Fearful of Revolution HE bourgeoisie uses the working class as cannon fodder in its struggles with rival imperialist groups. But at the same time the bourgeoisie is menaced by the contradiction that as soon as it places arms in the hands of the masses, its own rule faces extinction. Imperialist war gives birth to proletarian revolution if there is a Communist Party to show the way. The fear which the capitalist rulers have of an armed working class is vividly reported by the London correspondent of the Herald-Tribune, who writes today: “Present day tyrants are afraid of mobiliza- tion because it would place rifles in the hands of hundreds of thousands of their bitterest domestic enemies and would most certainly end their usurpa- This truth applies not only to the European “tyrants,” but to every capitalist ruling class, in- eluding the Roosevelt-Wall Street government right here at h¥ne. The miseries of daily life under capitalism: be- come veritable nightmares in times of imperialist war. It is then that the rule of the bourgeoisie is bared in all its horror and brutality. It is then that the “idea of storming the cita- dels of capitalism (Stalin)” takes on living force tn proletarian revolution. Segal report of the London correspondent is an unconscious admission of the profound truth of Stalin’s analysis of the present world situation made at the recent 17th Party Congress in the Soviet Union, showing that the revolutionary upsurge of the masses is rising powerfully and irresistibly. “Fascism,” declared the penetrating Theses of the 13th Plenum of the Executive Committee of the Communist International, “at once hinders and accelerates the maturing of the revolutionary crisis.” The fear which the exploiters have of placing arms in the hands of the masses confirms this powerful Marxist-Leninist analysis. The Commu- nists lead the fight against imperialist war. But im the midst of war they lead the fight, not only for peace, but for Socialism. ‘This August 1, the day of international struggle ‘against war and fascism, confronts us with the job of educating the masses to the imminence and true meaning of imperialist war—its intensified Slavery for the masses, its huge profits for the ‘bosses. Then the fears of the capitalist class at the Spectre of risine proletarian revolution will be fully Sustified, Thomas on ’Frisco T IS instructive to watch Norman Thomas attempt to explain his position on the recent Pacific Coast general strike. He has, of course, his problems. H must not risk losing the favor of the masses. At the same time, he cannot risk losing his ties with the officialdom of the American Federation of Labor with William Green, arch strike-breaker, at the head. ® His problems are further complicated by the fact that he is the proponent par excellence of the general strike as the weapon with which he prom- ises to stop imperialist war. At the same time, the obvious fright which the strike gave the capitalist ruling class, makes it risky for him to give the strike wholehearted sup- port. The method of Norman Thomas is, therefore, to give the strike tempered lip-service, and, at the same time, to water down his support by so many auxiliary reservations, that in the end he has prac- tically arrived at the strike-breaking position of the ruling class and their devoted servants in the A. F. of L. top officialdom, THE first task of the Socialist Party leaders, as, for example, Norman Thomas, is to take away the criminal onus of guilt from the A. F. of L, top officials who stabbed the strike in the back by calling it off. This, Norman Thomas proceeds to do at once. In this week’s issue of the New Leader, Socialist Party organ, he states: “In San Francisco the general strike was soon called off by labor itself.” This is a deliberate blanket whitewash of the treachery of the A. F. of L. bureaucracy, which alone called off the strike, which co-operated with the government and shipowners in attempting to drive a wedge between the “radicals” and the strikers. It was not “labor” which ended the strike. It was the betrayers of labor, the A. F. of L. bu- reaucracy, headed by Green, beloved of the Social- ist Party leadership. . * . IT is not superfluous to repeat again what even so capitalist-loyal a liberal sheet as the “Nation” said this week about the treachery at San Fran- | cisco: “Most shameful of all,” says the Nation ed- itorially, “William Green made himself a party to the strike-breaking. ... Mr. Green’s statement ++» Was superfluous if it was not actually treach- erous, It had no other purpose than to stimulate sentiment against the rank and file who had forced the strike in opposition to their conserva- tive leaders. At the same time that Mr. Green was helping to deliver the workers into the hands of their enemies, Mr. Ryan, president of the I. L, A. also played the strike-breaking game.” For once, the “Nation” here gives the truth about the abyss that separates the rank and file membership in the A. F. of L. and the top official- dom. It is made clear that the Pacific Coast general strike was forced upon a reluctant A. F. of L, offi- cialdom, and betrayed by them at the first oppor- tunity. Now the “Nation” has no obligations to the working class, nor does it pretend to. Norman Thomas offers himself to the masses as a leader in the fight to end capitalism and wage slavery. But Norman Thomas now finds himself to the right of even the pink-tea sheet, the liberal “Na- tion” in his ardor for the most corrupt labor lead- ership in the world, the A, F. of L. bureaucracy! It would be a pertinent question for Socialist workers and members of trade unions sympathetic to the Socialist Party to ask themselves: how does it happen that the leader of the Socialist Party now takes a position more conservative than the outspoken supporters of capitalism? The Model Village OHLER, Wisconsin is called the “model industrial village” by upholders of the present profit system. It is one of those towns owned by a corporation which has been pointed out for years as an example of the great benefits bestowed by the employers on the working class. It is called the “Garden City.” . . . FRIDAY night, deputy sheriffs and armed thugs, directed by the mayor and by the Kohler Plumbing equipment company, made a surprise military attack on striking pickets in front of the Kohler plants. Terrific gun fire was poured into the picket line. Machine gun fire swept the pickets. Armored cars, gas bomb guns, and rifle fire were Jaunched at the strikers. When the smoke had cleared away, two strikers were dead and 47 were wounded, some seriously. Women and children were blackjacked and clubbed as Kohler’s deputies “mopped up.” . . * Tee is a striking exposure of the purposes of the employers in setting up “model villages.” Walter J. Kohler, owner of the town, boasts that Kohler is “an American Garden City.” The frenzied assault on the Kohler workers’ picket line shows up in glaring outline what this means. The Garden City is revealed in its true light as a company town. The vines covering the outside of the Kobler factory serve to screen the exploitation of the workers within. The model city, Kohler’s company town, was set up in order to wring the maximum of profits from the employes. * * * al SUCH model cities, public parks and gardens are the sugar coating which surround the bitter pill of speed-up and low wages. The “employes benefit” schemes promote company unions and aim to prevent real workers’ organizations. The “un- employment insurance” plans, to which the workers have to contribute, tie the workers down to the employer and hold over his head the threat of firing and loss of benefit in case a real fight is put up for better wages. Model housing schemes mean added tribute in rent to the employer and threat of eviction in case of strike. 'HE murders at Kohler, Wisc. demonstrate once more, in a striking manner, that the workers and the employers have nothing in common. The capitalist press still refers to Kohler as the “model industrial village.” ‘THe workers can draw the lesson from the attack on the Kohler Co. strikers. Under capitalism, the employers have one aim—to get as much profit as possible from the labor of the workers. The “model village,” is a company town, with speed-up, low wages and company unionism. The Kohler workers can win better conditions only through continued mass picketing, and mili- tant strike for union recognition and better wages. The smoking guns of Kohler’s deputies, the tread of the feet of 600 national guards, rips the mask of hypocrisy from the “Garden City” and makes it stand forth as an anti-union, despotic company town, EH \Hindenburg And Hitler In Conflict Report President Is Surrounded by Armed | Guards PARIS, Juyl 30.—A serious rift between von Hindenburg and Hitler is reported to have reached a stage where the President is surrounded | by Reichswehr guards in order to protect his life. The Pariser Tage- blatt, a German language news- | paper here, declares that the clash |Was sharpened over the appoint- | ment of von Papen to Austria as | German envoy | “In the neighborhood of Neudeck | East Prussia (von Hindenburg’s es- | tate), which von Hindenburg ap- pears to have definitely selected for his residence, two Reichswehr Reg- iments are on ‘alarm’ footing for the sole purpose of insuring free- dom of action of the Reichspres- | ident,” says the Tageblatt. | Reports from Berlin state that von Hindenburg, who is 86 years old, is seriously ill. No details have been published. Belgian Youth Vote Struggle Against War | Left Socialists Win In| Revolutionary Platform | | BRUSSELS, Belgium.—The §So- | | cialist Youth of Belgium (Jeune | Garde Socialiste) assembled for a | special congress for the discussion | of the war question. After a de- tailed debate on the three reports | | given at the congress, nine points | were laid down on the war ques-)| |tion. Eight points covered the | struggle for disarmament, the in- | tensification of the struggle against | |the manufacture of munitions, the | struggle against the spread of war ideology. and against chauvinist ed- ucation, the formation of revolu- tionary groups for fraternization in | the army, and the demand that the | Socialist Youth International should | carry on a real international strug- | gle against the war danger. | These eight points were adopted | unanimously. The question of the) general strike and of the armed up- rising, as also the question of the united front of the workers on the basis of revolutionary struggle by the Belgian Labor Party and the Second International, were dealt with under the eight points. The ninth point was the subject of a special division. This stated that in case of war systematic sabotage | of all war action should be carried jon by means of strikes and upris-| ings, and that imperialist war, if it |cannot be prevented, must be, transformed into a proletarian rev-| olution, | This ninth point, too, was adopted by the conference, by 19,310 votes to 10,100 abstentions and 35 counter votes. The 10,100 absten- tions must, however, be calculated as left votes, whilst the actual right can only book the 35 votes against the point. In the course of the discussion, | it became apparent that the ‘Con- gress would reject the chauvinist Right policy of the Social Demo- | cratic Party of Belgium. The con | ference further supported the sta‘ | ments of the speaker, Godefroid, | who pointed out that there are only two sorts of capitalist countries— the countries on which the capital- ist dictatorship is carried on openly, and the countries in which this capitalist dictatorship is veiled, but nevertheless carried on with equal intensity against the toiling masses. Belgium counts among these latter. The conference signifies a consid- erable step forward toward the revolutionization of the Socialist Youth of Belgium. FOREIGN BRIEFS FASCIST NAVY MANEUVERS KIEL, Germany, July 30.— War maneuvers of the German Navy will be held here on August 28th, it was announced today. Target practice on floating tar- gets, torpedo practice, and a night sham battle are on the schedule, TURKO-JAPANESE TRADE PACT ANKARA, Turkey, July 30.—A commercial agreement between Ja- pan and Turkey has been signed, it was announced today. British and Dutch interests fighting the spread of Japanese trade to other markets expressed grave concern, NAZI COLLECTIONS AGAIN BERLIN, July 30—The Nazis will permit public collections in order to cover the expenses of the Nurem- berg Nazi Congress, in spite of a previous order suspending all col- lections until Fall. ITALIAN NAVY MANEUVERS ROME, July 30.—Naval maneuvers will be held at Gaita in August with 50 units participating. There will be ten cruisers and 18 destroyers as well as eight flotilla leaders. Sub- marines are attached to each unit. BAN AUG. 1 MEET IN SPAIN MADRID, July 30—The Spanish government today banned all pub- lic meetings scheduled for next week. The planned demonstrations against War and Fascism to be held all over the world on August 1 was the object of the ban. EXPECT TROUBLE IN CUBAN ARMY \ HAVANA, July 30.—Chief of Staff Col, Fulgencio Batista today wired jall military mayors to surrender their posts to civilian appointees. By Burck ay a Doriot, Enemy of Working Class Unity, Expelled by Jacques Doriot, former member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of France, has been expelled from the Commu- | nist Party which condemned his disruptive tactics on the question of the united front. The text of a statement on his expulsion, printed in International Press Correspondence, follows.—Editor, eae Cree The National Conference of the C. P. of France emphatically de- clared: “The Communist Party wishes to achieve unity of action in the fight of the masses against the bourgeoisie and fascism. The Com- munist Party is loyally. and con- sistently carrying out the tactics of the united front.” The National Conference called to mind the judgment which was passed against Treint, who went over to counter-revolutionary Trots- kyism and for whom the united front tactics consisted in “plucking the fowl.” The Conference condemned the disruptive behaviour of Doriot, which is directed against unity. Like Treint in his time, Doroit re- gards the united front as a subor- dinate maneuver and not as a real and sincere effort effectively to organize the anti-fascist fight of all toilers. He wants the proposals of our Party for common action to be rejected .by the socialist party, |whilst we, in the interest of thework- ing class, want to achieve an agree- ment for the fight against fascism. Doriot’s hypocritical phrases about unity aim at masking the under- mining _work conducted by him against @he Communist Party, the champion and organizer of the unity of the workers. Doriot is launching his attack against’ unity at a moment when the socialist workers are coming nearer to their Communist brothers, at the moment when the prestige of the Communist International and of the Soviet Union has increased enormously. The National Conference de- manded from the Central Com- mittee the expulsion of Doriot, and F rench thereby expressed the unanimous; | will of the Party. Communist Party ——_ —- | true to the “source of our legal of Communism, the declared ene- |mies of the Soviet Union, in order} The Central Committee declares: | to undertake a campaign to dis-| Trades Disputes Act as a model, the On the | World Front HARRY GANNES:. By U. S. Bosses Learn From MacDonald and Hitler | 200,000 Slaves in Manchuria MERICAN capitalists are borrowing heavily from in- ternational experience. They do not hesitate to learn from |Hitler, Mussolini, Ramsay |MacDonald, or Sir John |Simon. La Guardia has a | great fondness for the methods of | the Czarist police. | In the San Francisco general | strike, the exploiters dug deeply into the history of the British gen- eral strike. Now they are trying to imitate its aftermath. But instead if following the British model of procedure, they believe in an eclec- ticism, They take the most vicious terror of Hitler, the “democratic,” “legalistic” steps of the British | bourgeoisie, plus the slimy dema- | gogy of a Roosevelt, and by disre- | garding all patent rights, hope to |have the most perfect anti-labor ‘machine in the world. rica cae IMULTANEOUSLY with the issu- ance of LaGuardia’s and | O’Ryan’s orders for registration of | trade union leaders, and the arming of 1,200 New York police with rifles | and machine guns, the National As« | sociation of Manufacturers broad |cast the British Trade Disputes and Trade Union Act of 1927 as a model for similar American anti-labor leg- islation. “The Federal Government,” says the circular sent to the leading bosses in the country, “is being asked to enact national legislation |to control local employment rela- | tions.” And what the National As- sociation of Manufacturers asks for \from the Roosevelt government it | gets. “We may, therefore, examine with profit,” continues the circuiar, “the experience and example of the great | English speaking nation across the water, which is the source of our | legal traditions.” re, SaeAr | [THE National Association of Man« ufacturers, however, is fickle jenough not to hesitate over being traditions” and pick up the bloody pearls cast by Hitler and Co. In recommending the British | Doriot has crowned a long period of | credit the Party and the Communist! manufacturers Association says it |more or less concealed hostility to the Party and its leading organs by} his open fight against the Party and against the Communist Inter- national, Doriot has no regard for his own} responsibility. He refused to carry) out numerous commissions with which the Central Committee wished to entrust him (Strasbourg strike, meeting in Issoudun against the renegade Chassaigne). He refused to’ make an interpellation in the Chamber regarding the Gorgulov| and Stavisky affairs. By creating the foundations of his| group Doriot encouraged and sup-) ported Barbe, who refused to com-| ply with a decision of the Central | | Committee. | Party Doriot has ceased to attend} the meetings of the Political Bureau.) Doriot, in violation of the most} elementary discipline, . wrote and | published numerous articles which | are hostile to the Party and the) Communist International. He con- verted the Communist journal) Emancipation” into a paper full of | Party and its cells. He made it) difficult and even impossible for workers who remained true to the | Communist International to be} present at Party meetings and to} proclaim their allegiance to Com-| munism, | Doriot resigned from his position | as mayor without the sanction of the Party in order to bring about an election campaign, which was directed exclusively against the Communist Party, and in order to attempt to incite the workers of St. Denis against Communism. At the meeting in St. Denis on April 26, he prevented by force the represensa- tive of the Central Committee, Com- rade Marcel Cachin, from obtaining a hearing. Doriot has joined the renegades International (meetings in Rouen and Troyes). In spite of the repeated invitation of the Executive Committee of the Communist International and re- gardless of his own declarations, which were intended to deceive the workers of St. Denis regarding his real disruptive intentions, Doriot refused to go to Moscow. By his hostile reply to the decision of the Executive Committee, which included the illustrious name of Dimitrov among its signatories, Doriot has exposed himself as an enemy of the Communist International. Finally, Doriot, a member of the National Conference, expzessly in- formed the Conference in a letter that he “could have, and still could, Since his open attack on the|state his point of view from the| platform,” but did not condescend to appear at the Conference, and thereby expressed his determination to break with the Party. Doriot has demonstrated that he has become an element alien to the working class and the Communist Party. He has proved that he is not fighting for the unity of the abuse of and calumnies against the| working class. He has confirmed| the judgment passed by the Com- munist Party on his activity, He joins the counter - revolutionary Trotsky. He is slipping down to the abyss. Through his activity Doriot does not support the united front against fascism; he supports fascism. The Central Committee of the Party, having exhausted all means of saving Doriot, and in accordance with the unanimous will of the Party, which is demanding that all obstacles to the unity of action shall be removed, has decided to expel Doriot from the ranks of the Com- munist Party. An appeal against this decision can be made to the Party Congress and to the Congress of the Com- munist International. A.F.L. Delegates and Rank and File Group Plan Struggle for Workers Insurance Bill Negro Youth Murdered by Hartford Cop HARTFORD, Conn., July 30. — Bitter resentment is sweeping the Negro and white working class districts here over the brutal police murder last week of a young Negro boy, Calvin Coleman. Coleman was charged with a simple noise dis- turbance, which constituted, accord- ing to the police, a breach of peace. According to witnesses, Coleman was approached by a policeman and took fright and ran. The police- man fired two shots, one striking the boy in the leg and the other ino the back. He died before reach- ing the hospital. The International Labor Defense announced here today that the father of the murdered youth has turned over the entire case to the I. L. D. The latter plans to wage a mass campaign exposing this brutal murder as part of the increasing terror against the Negro population, aimed at further divid- ing the Negro workers from the white. Two thousand leaflets are being distributed in the working informed circles believed Well Lupat any would resist the order, class neighborhoods denouncing this terroristic act for Relief of the * Unemployed NEW YORK. — Eighty-five dele- gates representing 28,884 workers in New York and New Jersey met at Irving Plaza Saturday to plan the : struggle for the Workers Unem- ployment Insurance Bill and for its adoption by the 54th National Con- vention of the A. F. of L. to be held in San Francisco in the Fall. Forty-seven of the delegates repre- sented 33 A. F. of L. locals and one lodge of the Brotherhood of Railway Carmen. The remaining 38 delegates represented rank and file groups in the A. F. of L. Louis Weinstock greeted the con- ference in the name of the execu- tive committee of the A. F. of L. Rank and File Committee for Un- employment Insurance and Relief, and traced the growing upsurge of the rank and file movement. David Gordon, secretary of the New York Committee, outlined the fight for the Workers’ Bill. In this connection Gordon pointed out the need for pushing the fight for the Workers’ Bill in the State Federa- tions of Labor and in the state legislature. Resolutions were adopted and plans formulated for the struggle for endorsements to the bill, for the organizetion of relief commit- tees in the locals for the purpose and for a struggle for dues exemp- Map Out Fight in Locals. Scottsboro Mothers Take Appeal Abroad CHATTANOOGA, Tenn.—In a stir- ring appeal the Scottsboro Mothers, Mrs. Patterson, Mrs. Norris, Mrs. Wright, Mrs. Montgomery, Mrs. Powell and Mrs. Williams called on the women from many countries all over the world meeting in an In- ternational Congress Against War and Fascism in Paris, August 4, 5, 6, to help save the lives of their boys. Their call was taken across by the American delegation of 32 women from many walks of life and every section of the country. “We mothers of the Scottsboro boys appeal to all of you women from so many different countries of the whole world,” the call read, “to help us save the lives of our inno- cent boys. “Many of you women are mothers yourselves. You can understand what we feel when after three years our boys, who didn’t do anything wrong but go on a freight train looking for work they couldn't find at home, were clapped in jail and sentenced to burn in the electric chair. “We know our boys are innocent. Ruby Bates has told the whole of securing relief to unemployed, et for jobless members world from the witness stand in |“forbids ‘sympathetic strikes.’ It | forbids strikes or lock-outs intended | to coerce the government by inflict- ing injury upon the public. It de- fines the rights of workers (read “scabs”) who wish to continue their jobs during a strike. It forbids the use of contributions by workers to their unions for political purposes unless so used by and with the writ- ten consent of the worker and an accounting made and reported to | the Government.” Bias eet oe | see the past five months, Jap- |* anese imperialist agents have | been Scouring Hopei, Honan and Shantung Provinces, recruiting Chi- nese workers for Manchuria, to build military roads, airdromes in preparation for war against the So- viet Union. More than 200,000 have already been enlisted in the coolie armies. They are not told what they are to do. The starving, dis- Possessed peasants, the unemployed coolies, are approached and prom- ised steady work at good pay in Manchuria. They are packed into boats at Tsientsin or Tsingtao and sent to Dairen, and then trans- ported into the interior of Man« churia. oo ee ‘HEN they arrive in Manchuria, they are put under the military control of Japanese officers. Having’ Signed a contract, they are virtually indentured slaves. They are forced to work at the point of the bayonet, and many are murdered by the Japanese war lords for the least in- fraction of rules. They receive no wages, only the meagrest amount of food. Many, unable to bear the hardships, have escaped and made their way back to China proper. | They tell revolting stories of how they are treated. Here is one of the stories as re- lated by a Chinese worker who es- | caped from Manchuria: ee ek a WENT out to Manchuria along with over 10,000 in all. Under the auspices of the Peiping Ta Chang Company (foreign firm) I was sent to Gupeikow, bordering on the Great Wall, thence to Chen Teh, capital of Jehol, well treated all the way in my journey, receiv- ing several dimes a day in addition to free meals. But beyond the Great Wall the conditions changed entirely. Our batch was the last including some 530 m our numbers. Good treatment was gone. Then ugly-looking Japanese t roo pers ;came to meet us and brought us along in utter disregard of our wishes. “Just at that time wages failed to come. Worse stil, we were given only some diluted gruel for the whole day. We are youths in the prime of life. With only one gruel meal a day, we are almost starved to death. Herded in a concentra- tion camp, we had neither food to eat nor the freedom to move about, confined in such a plight for more than 20 days. Then suddenly ap- peared the Japanese troops in one morning. dividing us into two de- tachments, one composed of youths . and the other of old people. The Manchurian “We older folks were escorted to Eastern Chahar for the repair of highways washed out by floods, From morning to night we worked like slaves without being permitted! to utter a single syllable of com- plaint. Besides hunger and star- vation we had to fear the whips of Japanese soldiers who beat us a8 if making fun.” Decatur, Alabama, that our boys never touched her. Judge Horton who sentenced Heywood Patterson to death for the second time was forced to state that he gave him a new trial because all the evidence showed they were innocent," youths were impressed into the | \\ I) | J