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Imperial Valley press., 1930-05-02
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Sport Briefs

Les ANGELES, May ?. W.H-
The Boston Bruins, runners-up for
the ice hockey championship of the
world, won the first of a two-game
series with the Chicago Blackhawks,
4 to 3, here last night.
Chicago led l to 0 at the end of
the first period, but the Bruins
found their stride during the second
session and when it closed they
were leading . to |.
The second game is scheduled for
saturday.
PASADENA, Calf, May 3. U.P)
RI Ernie Hood won an easy victory
over Leonard Rahming in an eight
round feature event here last night.
Mack House, colored featherweight,
knocked out Jimmy McDermott in
the second round in another main
event. Don Kennedy and Pete Ma
Gallancs fought draw; Billy Wag-
ner won a decision over Gabby Null
len and Billy Cain and Benny Rod
rigucz went four rounds to a draw.
LOS ANGELES, May .. W.H-
Baseball teams of University of
California at Los Angeles and of the
University of Southern California
are scheduled to open three-gam
series here tomorrow to determine
the championship of the California
Intercollegiate Baseball Association.
HOLLYWOOD, May .. Wp)-
Hector Mcdonald, of Vancouver, B.
c., regarded as one of the leading
lightwcights in the northwest, is
slated for a 10 round bout here to-
night with Johnny Lamar, local
Mexican favorite. The Hollywood
American Legion which is sponsor
ing the fight, plans to award the
winner a gold belt buckle emblem
attic, to the local post, of the Pa
cific coast lightweight champion
ship.
HOLLYWOOD, May >. WH-
Charles Baum, secretary of the Hol-
lywood Ball club, has wired the Bos-
ton Braves to return Red R0llings,
former Hollywood third baseman,
when the eastern team is forced to
cut down its player roster May Is.
Imperial Valley press., 1930-05-02
FOX DIVIDEND SURE

NEW YORK, May 2. U.P)-Direc-
tors of the Fox Film Corporation
have no intention of omitting the
corporations common dividend of
81 due at this time, according to a
statement today by Harley L..
Clarke, newly elected president.
Clarke said that directors of the
corporation would meet in few
days to take dividend action.
Imperial Valley press., 1930-05-02
Valley Shipments

One lone carload of tomatoes
from Brawley constituted the veg
etable shipment from the valley yes
terday over the Southern Pacific
lines. The inclemency of the
weather had a great deal to do with
this apparent letup, it being diff
cult for the farmers to get into
their fields while the ground was
in such condition.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-18
THE JAPAN ELECTIONS
AND THE MOVEMENT OF
REVOLUTIONARY LABOR
Mikado DissOlves Parliament; Finance Capital
and Feudal Monarchy the Ruling Power
825 Revolutionary Workers Face Trial and May
Be Executed Under Cover of Election

military occupation of Shantung and
also the dynamiting of Marshall
Chang Tso-lin, although done for
the good Of Japanese imperialism,
did not bring any of the desired
results.
On the contrary the way they
were executed brought forth pro-
tests from every quarter. Naturally
the protest came even from the
bourgeoisie.
In this connection it is necessary
for us to remember that the state
ment made by Comrade Tanaka at
the Tenth Plenuna of the E.C.C.I. He
said: "The seizure Of Shantung by
the Japanese imperialists had two
fold meaning: Firstly, to divert at
tention from internal contradictions,
and secondly, direct military action
of conquest" (Inprecorr, Vol 8, No.
81, p. 1919
The ruthless naturalization proc
ess in industry and extension of
working hours coupled with in
creased "pauperization" of the
small peasantry, and small hold
ers were causing growing unrest
within the country. The workers
and peasants were rapidly drifting
towards the left.
Then the mass strike and revolt in
Korea against Japanese imperialism
began to be felt strongly by the
Japanese ruling class. It wanted to
shift tie attention of the middle
class as well as of the backward
elements of the country from inter-
nal affairs to the external.
However, it could not let alone
the internal trouble. To suppress
the mass movement of workers and
peasants, both Japanese and Korean,
the old militarist, Premier Tanaka,
pursued the same tactless positive"
policy as he took in regard to China.
In defiance of the Imperial Diet, the
Tanaka government proclaimed en-
June go, 1928, as an Emergency Jni-
perial Ordinance, an amendment to
the now notorious 'Peace Preserva-
ton Law" this time providing capt.
tai punishment for Communist lead
| ers.
| Premier Tanaka's government con-
Quoted two big Communists raids,
respectively, on March Is, 1928, and
April 16, 1929, arresting more than
1000, of which S25 were charged
with conspiracy. Their case is to
come up in court for retrial in Feb
ruary or March, i.e., nearly two
years after their arrests. He also
ordered three militant labor organ
izations, ie4 the Labor-Farmer
Party, the Left Union Centre and
the Proletarian Youth League, to be
dissolved in the spring Of 1928.
(To Be Continued.)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-18
UNEMPLOYMENT GROWS MORE
DAILY.

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New York, a key industrial state,
the drop was even worse, going
down 34.4 per cent.
The fact that the crisis is still
worsening, despite the much vaunt-
ed rise in steel output, is contained
in a review by R. G. Dun & Co.,
business statisticians. The review
says:
Most of the statistical barom-
eters which measure the rise or
fall of business continue to show
declines from similar data year
ago. The loss in bank clearings re-
mains large and is practically
general in the principal cities,
sharp reductions in the value of
building permits occurred again in
January, the excess of commodity
price concessions is still marked,
and railroad freight traffic is at
the lowest level for several years"
The basic industries are not re-
covering as the capitalist propa-
gandists state, but continue in de-
preston of severe nature. The
Iron Age states that there will be a
reduction in steel production shown
for February. In Pittsburgh, where
steel production is at 65 per cent
of capacity, as compared to IS per
cent last year, the Journal of Com
merce (Feb. IA, 1930) says: "This
is accounted for largely by the con-
tinued light demand from automo-
tive interests"
"Never in the history of this de-
partment," recently said Mrs. JEFF
fries, Commissioner of the Public
Welfare Department in Detroit, the
heart of the automobile industry,
"have conditions been as they are
at present, and each day sees the sit
uation grow worse. No future i'm
provement can be visualized. In
December we cared for 10000 FAM
lilies (of unemployed workers., and
our total for January is far in ex-
cess of $4,000 Chat is in spite of
Mr.. Davis's and Mr.. Hoover's fig
ures that employment increased in
january. Every available hospital
space is crowded to the very limit
and more than 900 of our patients
have had to be placed in private in
situations"
Here is an actual picture of the
starvation of the automobile work
ers as a result of unemployment.
The same holds true for workers in
every other industry.
But the Unemployed Councils are
organizing the unemployed, not to
stand by and see their families die
off by slow starvation, but to fight
for unemployment relief.
Workers! Mobilize for the inter-
national demonstration for work or
wages, March 6!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-18
Hosiery Takers Idea of Strike-Is to Attack
Soviet Union

low to sell out the workers on strike.
At the mass meeting very little was
said about the strike.
No mass picketing was advocated,
nor was any mention made of the
unemployed in America. But the
politicians were very busy in sub
jecting and fooling the workers. The
strike can be won with a policy of
struggle. First the strikers must
control their union, not the labor
takers. Shop committees must be
elected, and the injunction is but
scrap of paper, issued by the capi-
talist tool, Judge McDevitt, in the
interest of the bosses. To hell with
the injunction and the tools of the
capitalists. Mass picketing, all out
on strike, spread the strike to all
the mills. Join the T.U.U.L., which
organized and led the Gastonia
strike and the New Bedford strike,
which is struggling for the workers
against the bosses.
w, C.. P.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-18
JObless Masses Cut
Sale of Wheat

Continued from Page One)
out that the surplus of the 1928
crop is still on hand, that the worlds
granaries are crammed with 1929
crop, and harvest of the 1880 crop
will begin within a few months.
With mass unemployment in all
countries totalling more than To-
100000 with 100000 all told
counting their dependents, their
starvation cuts the markets for
wheat in all countries and inten-
sites the severe world agrarian
crisis.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-18

and told Of the 5000 unemployed
and starving workers in Greenville
alone. The curtailment planned in
the textile industry is causing great
suffering and the United Textile
Workers Union has betrayed the
mill workers, and is ignoring the
Negro workers.
Solidarity Negro and White.
Luther McCurry, Greenville tex
tile worker told Of the need Of the
Trade Union Unity League in this
period Of general unemployment.
Caroline Drew, Southern repre-
sentative Of the Workers Interna.
tional Relief stressed the necessity
OF solidarity between Negro and
white workers under the leadership
Of the Trade Union Unity League,
which is organizing the unemployed.
She stated that only by fighting and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-18
Friends of Soviet
Union Call Protest
Meets on War Plans

The Executive Committee OF the
Friends Of the Soviet Union, Amerl-
can Section, ITS Fifth Ave-, New
York City, has decided to organize
mass meetings all over the country
to protest against the new anti
Soviet aggressions by the imperial
list powers. In New York City a
big meeting will be held Monday,
March 8, at 8 p. M, at Irving Plaza,
18th st. and Irving Place. The La
Dor Sports Union and Russian and
other workers organizations are CO.
operating in the meeting.
A statement issued by the Execu-
tive Committee Of the F.S.U. calls
upon all workers and other sympa-
thisers with the Soviet Union to
make this protest meeting a real
demonstration Of their determine
ton to resist all attempts to crush
the Workers Republic. The state
ment declares:
"a new wave of anti-Soviet ag-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-18
rr..1r1re3ss
Russian Church
Denies Holy Lies

Continued from Page Ons)
appealed for loyalty to the Soviets.
The priests are allowed to hold re-
Igious services, to deliver sermons
and give religious instructions to
adults.
The Metropolitan declares that the
atrocity stories are absolutely base
less. There are no priests SEN
fenced to death for non-payment Of
taxes" although there are occasionsi
fines imposed in such cases. The
Greek Orthodox theological semi
nary exists unmolested in Moscow.
Metropolitan Sergius condemns
the intervention of the pope, decIAr-
ing that the pope sides with the rich
against the poor, and Sergius indig-
nantly rejects the hypocrisy Of tbs
head of church {Rome) which is
guilty of century-long prosecutions,
of torture and murder, now irsolent
enough to protest against nor-
existent prosecutions.
Sergius suggested in the intsr-
view that the pope's aim is to Sc
cure an unfair advantage for Catho-
licism. The speech of the Archbishop
of Canterbury is declared by Sergius
to be untrue. The heads Of the
Russian church are issuing q mari
festo to the faithful rejecting inter-
ference from outside churches which
supported armed intervention against
the Soviet Union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-18

When the lawyer protested such tes4
timony being exacted, the Judge
ruled that the role of the Commu-
mist Party and the League had to be
brought in, in order to prove that
they are against the government"
All these repressions will not stop
the Unemployed Council, which il
affiliated with the T.U.u.L., nor
will it stop the Communists from
aiding the fight of the unemployed.
The workers are ready to battle for
their rights to demonstrate for their
demands, the only way to force
some relief out of the Golfers Of the
capitalist class. Thousands will turn
out for International Unemployment
Day on March 6. And this will
broaden the organization and push
the fight for social insurance more
vigorously, with much broader
masses behind it.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-18
Japanese Imperialists Shoot Down Koreans

ISLANDERS. Over 40 killed and an I'M
known number injured.
"The Japanese official statement
declares students began trouble by
throwing stones at soldiers and at
lacking them generally. The soldiers
retaliated and a struggle followed
throughout the city, especially in
the alleys. A number of the stu
dents carried revolvers. Boxes Of
ammunition were discovered in the
boarding houses frequented by the
students.
Immediately December 12) the
Japanese authorities enforced a
strict censorship, prohibiting any
mention Of these incidents or Of
rumors concerning the matter. 1t is
impossible to know therefore what
are the conditions throughout the
country. Investigators appointed by
the New Korea Society were ar
rested.
All Korean organizations here
have been placed under the strictest
supervision (Seoul). The leaders OF
the above-named society together
with the staff Of the Far East Daily
News and Of all other important
groups have been taken into custody
Massacre Reported Also at
Ping.rang.
"On December 13 twelve Korean
students at Ping-rang suddenly cried
out: Down with Japanese imperial
ism! Long live Korean indepen-
dence!' They started a street parade
which was participated in by 4
thousand other students. The Jap.
anese troops and police were has
tened to all important points.
"In the evening crowds of Korean
girl students converged on the
streets In the reighborhood Of the
Japanese troops and lectured the
people. The troops used force to
break up these gatherings with the
result that an undetermined number
are reported as killed or wounded
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-18
200 J0bless Workers
Parade in Greenville

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to speeches marched to the court
house, bearing their placards, and
the same speakers addressed them
from the court house steps. The
procession grew all along the line
Of march, and so have joined the
unemployed council formed here.
Speakers Stress Organization.
Anna Burlack, organizer for the
National Textile Workers Union
spoke pointing out that the time had
come for the unemployed to put
forth their demands. She stressed
the Importance Of the international
demonstrations against unemploy-
rent which will be held March c,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-18
(Bu d Worker Correspondent)

(BV w OTkGT COTTeSpoTtueht/
PHILADELPHIA, Pa.-The mis-
leaders Of the A. F. of L. called a
mass meeting at the Allegheny The
atre to protest against the injunc-
ton against picketing by the Aberle
hosiery strikers handed down by
Judge McDevitt, who was supported
and approved by these very same
misleaders. A torrent of abuse was
hurled at the workers by the labor
takers and the invited speakers
and the main speaker was the arch
betrayer and enemy of organized la
bor--Senator Brookhart, who spewed
forth a torrent Of lies against Soviet
Russia and advocated cooperation
with the cockroach business men and
others who are being oppressed and
eliminated by the finance capitalists.
The A. F. Of L. officials, like
Green, McKewen, Of the hosiery
workers, ETC., advocate cooperation
with the bosses-who are their
masters and whose policy they fol-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-18
prosperity" Hits the PrintshOp Workers
Lay-Offs

SEATTLE, Wash.--Col. Blethen,
owner of a daily newspaper called
the Seattle Times has just come
back from Washington where he had
a conference with Hoover and the
rest Of the industrial barons about
prosperity.
Well, to make matters short, as
soon as he got back he laid off half
the crew in the printing shop, and
he says he is going to lay off some
more men.
Strange to say, nothing is said
about the lay-off in his newspaper,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-18

Henry Ford, chief SLAVE driver
of hundreds of thousands of slapes
at the belt. Ford has th5'olon
scores of thousands of avorkeTs
on the streets after speeding them
up to the limit. The aUorkers and
former 1corkers of the Ford plants
wiU be IN the front ranks of the
unemployed a0orkers aoho demon
strdte on March uRder the lead
ership of the Communist Party.
Worker correspondents frequently
a0rite the Daily Worker of the
Slavery aud the lay-offs in the
Ford plants.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-18
By S. SAKURAI.

A Tokyo dispatch of January %
reports that the 57th session of the
Imperial Diet, as was expected, has
been dissolved on the first day OF
it's reopening after Christmas re-
cess and the new election which has
to take place within 80 days has
been set for February 20. The rea-
son given for the dissolution of the
parliament was that "the govern
ment was supported by only 172 of
the possible 466 as against the OPP
positions 240 and whose national
policy differs greatly from that of
the government, which could not
carry on its national policy smooth
ly."
From our point Of view they are
both bourgeois parties. The only
probable difference lies in the fact
that the present government party
gets its principal support from the
urban bourgeoisie whereas the OPP
positions main strength comes from
the big acknowledgements bloc.
Apparently the usual talk of COM
promise and bargaining of members
of the parliament did not work out
this time.
At this juncture it is necessary
for US to realize how it happened
that the Tanaka Cabinet which was
supported by a majority in the
parliament had to be replaced by
minority forces last July. The an
swer is short but precise: "Such
was the demand of the japanese
finance capital"
When the Tanaka cabinet had re-
placed Wakatsuki's government in
the spring of 1927 following the no.
torious bank failure it was because
the financiers then thought that
General Tanaka's Seiyukai party
would be of more help to them.
However, during the two years
that followed in which drastic eco
nomic and industrial reorganization
Of the country had to be undertaken,
the Seiyukai cabinet whose head
was the old militarist Tanaka, and
whose finance minister was one
time school teacher Mitsuchi, showed
itself to be utterly incapable OF
meeting such a great task.
For example, in spite of its re-
peated talk on lifting the gold en-
barge the Tanaka government ne
yer could and, consequently never
did lift it. That this caused dissatis-
faction among the big financial cir
cles could not be overestimated.
Then the so-called positive" and
therefore tactless-I mean for the
bourgeoisie-policy in regard to
China, especially to Manchuria, was
inviting disastrous effect on Jap
anese capitalism as a whole. The
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-18
BIG WAR FLEETS
is OUTCOME OF
NAVY ARMS MEET
Recall w ar Threats
That Hoover Made

Continued from Page Ons)
doors declared the situation to be
Serious"
With even the appearances Of
agreement" and Limitation" com.
pletely out of the question at ths
London conference, the war danger
between the imperiaEst powers be-
comes greater than ever before.
Hoover, in his armistice day speech,
threatened the other imperialist
powers, saying, "There are fears,
distrusts and smouldering injuries
among nations which are the finder
Of war" He demanded that they
reduce their navies while U. S. inn
perialism be given parity with
Great Britain.
His threats assume greater signi-
fieance at tie present stage Of the
race-for-armament conference.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-18

and the same number Of papers will
be printed as usual, but in order to
do this each man remaining on the
job will have to do at least two
mems work with no raise in pay,
needless to say. I understand now
why Col. Blethen attended the
Hoover conference. 1t was a profit
able trip for him, at the workers
expense.
Printshop workers must organize
under the Trade Union Unity
League. The A. F. L. printers
union is shot full of graft and is
for the bosses.-Printshop worker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-18

how the U.M.W.A. henchmen served
IS deputy sheriffs, gunner and
stoolpigeons and actively assisted
the operators in their effort to break
the strike.
At the same time the board dis
cussed the errors made in the Illinois
struggle and urged that they be
studied In order that they nay serve
as lesson in the coming struggle
Of the miners under the leadership
of the N.M.U.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-18
(By Pan-Pacific Red Aid service)

(By Pan-Pacific Red Aid Service)
SHANGHAI.--According to des-
patches by the World News Service
to the "Kuo Min Jih-pao," (Repub-
lican Daily News), official organ OF
the Marking government, Japanese
soldiers in Korea fired upon and
killed many Korean students during
demonstrations for national indie
pendence during December. The i'm
perialist press here reported in a
few lines the arrests Of hundreds
and gave short summary of the
Japanese government statement but
has not mentioned these killings at
all.
The World News Service report
gives good picture of the brutal
suppression of the Korean struggle.
We have therefore translated it for
the benefit Of our readers, together
with a despatch concerning an al
legged bomb plot by Koreans against
Japanese officials in Korea. The
reader win note that this latter item
was released for publication just
about the time that the Japanese
government statement on the whole
sale arrests was made.
1t is obviously an attempt to
brand the independence movement
q wholly an effort by individual
Korean terrorists to kill off the JAP
snsse. The city Of Kuang-chou re-
ferred to in the Chinese newspaper
is evidently the "Koshu" referred
to, many places in Korea having
three Names Chinese, Korean and
Japanese. The Dispatch is as fol-
lows--dated from Seoul, Korea, De-
cenaber 20:
"A general strike in all schools
has followed the student riots at
Kusng-chou. The Japanese arrested
1900 students. The Kuang-chou un-
rest rose again, resulting in street
demonstration. Japanese military
police fired on the students and BY
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-18
(By a Worker Correspondent

(By a Worker Correspondent
PHILADELPHIA. - After being
unemployed for over A months l
have finally landed a temporary job
for the wonderful sum of $3.50 per
day to keep a family on. On ac-
count of bad unemployment condi-
tions in Philadelphia about one hum
bred men with families are forced
to accept this low wage from a pub
fishing house in Philadelphia that
makes up the City Directory Or. l..
Polk G. Coz
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-18
THREE FORD CREWS
DO WORK OF FIVE
REST ARE LAID OFF
"Its Clear Unemployed Must Organize" Writes
Jobless Worker Correspondent
Hoover prosperity AS Described By Workers
in More Industries and Plants

days a week. Not satisfied with the
results Of its former staff of fore
men, Ford officials from the East
have completely recognized the
slave-driyers by firing all the old
foremen and supervisors, and put
ting in an entirely new personnel
Ford Worker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-18
'It's Clear That Unemployed Must Organize"

The job is calling on about 200
homes a day, getting their names,
occupation, etc. When asking the
occupation of the resident, boarder,
etc., I hear from about 80 per cent
of those I covered say, "He's not
doing anything now" "Unem-
ployedw "Not working" etc.
It's clear that the unemployed
must organize. In the T. U. U. L..
we can organize the unemployed
with the employed and force the
bosses to come across with relief
Publishing House Worker.