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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-02

THE incidents In Manchuria seem
to indicate that the Soviet govern
ment and Japanese Imperialism
have a secret understanding on the
Manchurian war" Again on Feb.
20 of this year the New Leader
wrote under the heading Have
Russia and Japan a Secret Pact?"
THAT question is being debated
today and nobody has definite an
swer. It is significant, however,
that no bristling manifestoes have
been sent out by Moscow against
the Japanese seizure of Manchuria
and the undeclared war on China"
Then it tries to act impartial but
shows" that the Soviet Union
is in favor of Japanese dismember-
ment of China because the Kuom-
Japan and has no love for the
League of Nations" which Japan
is supposed to be fighting.
But listen to what Comrade Molo-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-02
Poison Gas and
Shell Production
SDeeded in Phila.
by a Worker Corresponding

Wy {" RNOhAASA wv
PHILADELPHIA, Pa. - Pre-
paratiOns for war are going on at
full pace. The Midvale plant is
producing shells. Budds Auto
Plant making bomb carriers for
airplanes. They are telling the
workers that they are making re-
lease hooks.
The Barrett Chemical Works
in Frankfort is working "A hours
shifts making chemical gases
for war.
The Young Communist League
is organizing the workers to fight
against imperialist war. On April
% the Y. C. L. will celebrate its
10th anniversary. Young workers
are urged to mobilize now for
this anniversary meet and for
the struggle against inperialist
war and TO defend the Soviet
Union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-02

when the capitalists have to make
war. the capitalist government has
to run the railways that is
socialism in the socialist bible as
read by Reverend Thomas. Workers.
take these two sentences of Thomas
and you know where these takers
stand. But in case this isn't enough,
just hold on. We have more. Joseph
w. STARTS is member of the Ma.
tional Executive COMMITTEE of the
S. P. He spoke in Detroit, on March
10, 1882. The Detroit Free Press
quotes him as saying that he would
much prefer to engage in a nation
alist war (the kind of war Japan
says 1t is carrying on in Mcnchuria
and Shanghai than in one against
his fellow eountrymen" A ma
tionar war is imperialist war. A
war against "his own fellow coun-
trymen" is revolutionary war
against the capitalists, Ford, Rock
efeller-the war makers.
That is why to-
morrow thhe Socialist party will be
shouting: THE WAR ON RUSSIA
is A WAR FOR DEMOCRACY,
FOR PEACE, FOR LIBERTY"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-02
BY ID. ZASLAVSKY

rory Hlll1On SCrOnS, nealGny nu-
man beings, skilled workers, capable
of welding hammer, an axe, or
pickaxe, are doing nothing but
drag out a half-starved existence.
Forty million in the advanced
capitalist countries, not counting
those who do nothing and starve in
China, India and other colonial
countries. The population of an en-
tire country of the size of France
is doomed to a life of enforced idle
ness, dependent on charity, to an
existence where there is no ray of
hope; and some of them not even
to this life, but to plain death. The
awful pangs of hunger, and the no
less awful moral anguish-the tor
ture of idlenesS, the absence of any
chance of turning their hands to
reasonable, productive work.
The crime of unemployment is
committed by capitalism, and the
Social Democrats call upon the
workers to reconcile themselves to
this foul crime. as the priests call
upon them to reconcile themselves
to the disasters of the earthly world,
that they may receive their reward
in the world to come And nobody
dares to encourage the workers to
believe that the position can change
under capitalism. They merely hold
out a hope that unemployment will
become less severe: not forty mil
lion will face hunger, but only thirty.
And yet these hope are deceiving.
The crisis becomes more intense.
unemployment grows. There is no
way out. And the weight of enforc-
ed idleness is felt not only by those
who are thrown out upon the streets
and knock in vain at the gates of
| the factories. Even those who are
still employed feel themselves DOOM
ed. The terror of losing their work
hangs over all the employed. The
bony spectre of hunger grins behind
the shoulder of every worker, chill
ing him in its icy breath.
Unemployment is the normal
thing in the lands where capitalism
holds sway. But there is no unem-
ployment in the land where the
workers govern. The Social-Demo-
Gratis gnash their teeth in impotent
Jury, but they cannot deny this fact.
There was unemployment even in
the Soviet Union during the period
when national economy was being
restored, after the ravages of war
and the Infamous resistance of the
bourgeoiSie. But unemployment be-
gan to decline on new and in
comparably narrower basis. Unem-
ployment dwindled down and van
1shed altogether at the moment
when the capitalist crisis threw mil
lions OF workers on the streets in all
bourgeois countries.
There is no longer any unemploy-
ment in the Soviet Union. and the
Social-Democrats who at first tried
to deny this astounding fact are
now compelled to hold their peace.
In the land where the workers rule
there is not, and cannot be, this
disgraceful, criminal state of affairs
i'll which a healthy man, worker or
peasant. who is DESTROYS and capable
OF working. cannot get work. There
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-02

tov, Chairman of thhe Council of
Peoples CommissarS said last No
vember: Nevertheless, the Soviet
Union has not concealed and will
not conceal in the future, its at
titude towards the Chinese people,
towards its struggle for emancipa-
ton from the imperialist yoke, to-
wards its struggle for national in
dependence and unity. In these
intang expelled Borodin, agrees with
respects the workers of our country
are intellectually with the Chinese
people.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-02
BY JAMES LERNER

The formal declaration" of war
is minor matter in warfare
of capitalist nations. AS a matter
OF fact the present Japanese War
shows that it is possible to carry
on wars without the President an
nouncing it or the notary pubic's
SEAL" But preceding a start of
war a long, steady campaign to
convince the masses who are to
give up their lives in the battles,
why war is necessary and must
take place.
In the United States, the lead
ing organ Of the socialists is the
Jewish Forward" It is enough
to recall that in the last war, the
papers editor, Cahan, publicly urged
the Jewish youth to fight for
American democracy. He is still
editor and has learned much more.
The present deeds or the socialists
are even more bold. On May II of
last year this sheet printed an edi-
torial which embodies in it the So
cialistpacifist attitude towards war.
THE overwhelming majority OF
the representatives of merchant and
finance capital in all countries are
now opponents of war and supporters
OF a policy of peace and disarma-
mont - ATI IN fI1f, Of =;
torial, baSing itself on the kellogg
Pact, Locrano, and SO forth, con-
tinueS to wipe away the danger Of
armed conflict. But not stopping
at this pacifism, the socialist ends
by stating that I'm truth, however,
the Soviet government is the only
government which does not cease
to inject itself into the internal
business of all countries and which
lays all its hopes on a new European
War.
THE BolShevist militariSm really
represents a great danger for peace
=" Twelve years of this and think
what not only the many readers
of the Forward" but the millions
OF socialist press readers in the
world have been told The forced
labor campaign and the anti-terror
campaign carried on even at this
very moment by the socialist press
is doing its best to convince the
yfyp,lrn1sr
plague: that it would be an aid
to peace and liberty to destroy the
country. Leave. it to the capitalists
to announce war when the ripe
moment has arrived. The socialists
are preparing the masses to respond.
Would any workers who believed
that Russia today is a government
Of small minority which has taken
advantage of special conditions to
gain and hold power. 1t enjoys
power through force and terrorism.
It's reign of blood is almost as alb
horrent as war among nations"
morris Hillquit) or that "Bolshev-
ism lives on the idea of a perma-
net state of war and so does fas-
cism" Games O'Neal! New Leader
Aug. 2, 1880 be ready to defend
the Soviet Union or to oppose war?
But let us put the past aside.
What is happening todays What are
the socialists saying today not of
war which exists only in the
minds of the Bolsheviks, but of
war which has already taken ter,s
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-02

U. S. Federal Budget, fiscal year,
l93o-31, $2,831 1926, 1862 will go for
preparations for and results of war,
according to Senator Wesley Jones,
chairman, Senate Committee on
Appropriation. This amount equals
about 10 per cent of the total ex-
penditures by the United States
government.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-02

THE Soviet Union Stands for
Peace" the great speech made by
COmrade LitvinOv, representative
Of the Soviet Union at Geneva,
shows the peace policy of the So
Wet Union and the war plans of
the capitalist nations. One cent
pamphlet.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-02
THE SECOND 5-YEAR
PLAN AND THE ESTAB-
LISHMENT OF A So
CIALIST CLASHES So
Getty.

The fundamental political
task of the Second Five-Year
Plan is the final liquidation of
the capitalist elements and Of
classes in general. complete re-
moval of the causes which pro-
duce class differences, and ex-
ploitation, the overcoming of the
remnants Of capitalism in econ
omy and in the minds of the
people, conversion of the all of
the working population of the
country into conscious and act
i've followers of the classics So
cialist society,""
From the Resolution on the
Second Five Year Plan ad-
opted by the 18th Party Con-
erence of the c. p. S. u.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-16
The Issue in the Far East
fFrom PORTLAND MAJ EXAMINE Ner. /

PORTLAND
The immediate issue in the Far East is compare
lively simple. 1t not that Japan desires Manchuria
1t is not that China considers Manchura integral
part of chinese territory and opposes and resents the
Japanese invasion, any nation would the invasion
of what it deemed its domain.
The issue is not the relative merits of these two
opposing contentious.
The issue is that Japan, having, along with fifty
four other nations signed the pact of Paris by which
has bound itself to settle its differences with other
nations by non-military means, has violated this
pledge and has gone to with China.
That there has been no declaration of war does
not alter the situation For that reason the League
of Nations was entirely right in serving notice on
Japan to desist For this reason the United States
was entirely right in joining with the League of Ma
tions on this issue.
For this reason the United States could do no
better, or other than make the emphatic protest
which Secretary Stmson did, Jan. Z, declaring
that this nation would not recognize any treaty or
agreement entered into or arising out of Japans
course. The nine-power treaty likewise invoked.
Indeed the whole issue centers the sanctity Of
treaties.
Japan has placed itself in the position Of out
law nation. Japan by its acts stands indicted
before public opinion of mankind. If Japan is
allowed to proceed unhindered, only international
3 chaos can result Nor is any one nation on earth
today powerful enough to resist the public opinion
of mankind provided that opinion is effectively mo-
bized.
The United States warning TO Japan is first
STEP 1t is to be hoped that this first step will prove
sufficient II it does not, other subsequent steps,
Including severance of diplomatic relations and later
an economic boycott, may bring the militarists Of
Japan to their senses
For it should be borne in mind that Japan is not
s democracy. To be sure, even in democracy-Such
as our own-the public viii is at tmes-though less
-misrepreSented by its elected officials This
condition is due to inelaSticity and inadequacy
IN democratic forms of government
In Japan the military is in the saddle. The I'M
DERIVING issues between Japan and China COM
pick Settlement of them by arbitration may be-
will be-difcult. But certain it is that they never
can be settled at all by violence.
The World conclusively showed that force
settles nothing 1t did not achieve single important
objective for which the millions who bled and died
therein enlisted 1t aggravated the wrongs and evils
which were alleged in justification for the Right
is not established by might.
Public opinion in the United States may in q
very practical manner sustain our government by q
voluntary abStention from the purchase Of goods
made in Japan. abstenton which may be con-
tnued Just as long Japan refuses to abide by its
own solemn pledges.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-16
Just Every Day Sense
BH MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

al men on earth, surely small Mahatma
- Ganom Is most brave Any being who could
walk over conservative England in lon cloth and -
sheet possesses the highest sort of -
the mind - OOUA "se-UnaS OF
1t Is only when recall the male aversion tn
changing the style OF his garments that we can gain
an luea OF now ValorouS Mahatrna's behavior on
ms recent visit to London haunt of the aues,ritn
ana monocie, nome OF the cane and the spat.
we are reminded frequently Of the masculine
longing Ior adventure and of how the brave he-man
S@ieS INTO danger and ventures undaunted into the
Jaws OF death Yet from the history of his raiment
It's % proved veritable stay-at-home and coward
Wnen compared with his women
M lille we have run the gamut of hats in every
conceivable size and shape he has chung to
nus SUN straw his creased fedora and his uncomfort-
aDe oerpy We have gone forth in headdreSseS that
were Doth weird and unweldy, and have decorated
tnem with many objectS-frutS, flowers fowls leop-
ara SKINS and laceS insects, grasses and grains -
Wnie man with his adventurous soul quivering awaits
each year his mayors proclamation to Law off his
winter for his summer hat
His business surroundings show the same tin,;ditv
and monotony although his little home body" re-
furnishes her house in hundred different fashions
She goes from the gaudy to the severe from the
modern to antique and back again
she has tried walnut and hirdseye maple and
white ivory and Mr.. Morris mission which must have
been the father Of the modern mode She has court
ed the gaze OF startled world with her buStleS her
mobile skirts, her knee-length dresses her bathing
suits and her lounging pajamas
Only one man appearing in civilized community
world ever has outdone her in spectacular undressing
And that man is Mr.. Gandhi ~
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-16
Will They Be Fed?
. hungry persons in this country.


Speaker Garner of the house has been quoted as
saying he favored passage of some sort of measure
which would make available to the hungry and the
jobleSs small part of the federal farm boards vast
stock of wheat Chairman Marvin Jones of the house
agriculture committee has been quoted as saying he
favored similar measure
And yet the bill prepared by Jones himself and
the bill which the senate passed, have been permitted
to lie in the agriculture committee without action or
any immediate prospect of action.
Neither Garner nor Jones' would deny the national
need Of this wheat. Garner and Jones and the con-
greSS and the country know that even the federal farm
board itself, through O statement Of its chairman
James G. Stone has gone record as favoring dis
tribution OF some Of this wheat among the hungry
The senate controlled by Republicans, has passed
bill making some of this wheat available to welfare
hungry.
VIII Speaker Garner allow the house his Demo-
cratic party controls kill the measure?
Probably there small difhcuptes to settle con-
corning the language of the BILL the agencies to dis
tribute the wheat, the bookkeeping to be employed
by the farm board as 1t makes this wheat available
But, aSSuredly these be settled quickly amicably
They understand that to make this wheat avail
able to the hungry through dependable welfare relief
agencies win not by any settle the problem
confronting the country and its millions of jobleSs
But they certainly recognize it as sample work.
able means Of alleviating some of the distress.
There are hungry persons in this country VIII
they be fed?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-16

right to indict all the natives of the
Islands because of savage crimes
which have occurred under Ameri-
can rule.
[ will go further and say that we
have made sorry mess of things.
We have been largely instrument
tai in creating race problem where
for decades there was none. Even
after the coming of the first white
visitors, the races not only lived to-
gether peacefully but intermarried.
and there was perfect amity.
The United States either has very
bad luck or very little efficiency in
the matter of supervising colonies
and territorial possessions. Surely
our rule has hardly been a shining
success at any point from the
PhllippineS to the Virgin Islands.
When the senatorial investigation
is made in Honolulu, hope it will
include a certain Stock-taking of
ourselves and our imperial actiyi-
ties. Out of very sad and bad
business there might come one good
thing. There might come a new
colonial policy. Our colonial policy
ought to be not to have any colo
MES.
Copyright, 1882. bv The rri,,As, 49,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-16
1T SEEMS TO ME BY HE RES2S

made up largely of our missionaries
and business men.
We depoSed the Queen and PEN
stoned her. Although it was a grab,
1t is fair to say that no very fierce
opposition was raised against our
coming. The economic conquest of
Hawaii had been accomplished even
before the annexation.
Twenty years ago such rancor as
existed found its way to the surface
in sort of defensive humor. I
knew at that time a Hawaiian girl
who was married to an American
officer.
She told me: 1.-THE missionaries
came and told us to look up to God.
When we looked down again we
found that they had stolen all our
land"
Possibly no visiting Americans
stole anything. Maybe they only
drove good bargains. But the is
landers were eaSygoing, and in a
short time they found themselves
the disposSessed in a land which
bore them.
The country has always been a
paradise, but now the natives were
thrust largely outside the gates of
Eden. It is one thing to live on the
fruit provided by a bountiful nature
and another to be caught up in the
speedup system of some big canning
company.
In one Of Mr.. Hearst'S papers
read, Outside the cities or small
towns the roads go through jungles,
and in these remote places degener-
ate natives or half whites lie in wait
for white women driving by"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-16
Most Causes of Insanity Comfortable
~RoeGee

Another predisposing cause OF
mental disturbance is the strain OF
modern civilization. The human
body is not built to go on inter
minably at high speed.
Following crash in the market
many human beings suffer con-
tinuously with strain, and some OF
them Succumb.
The exciting causes of mental dis
ease also include physical factors
such as sudden infection, poisons
injuries to the head that involve the
brain and complete exhaustion from
prolonged physical strain, or from
hemorrhage.
In other instances mental de-
rangement follows a sudden emo
tional shock such as the sudden
death of a loved one, or a financial
or social reverse.
A consideration of the causes OF
mental disease indicates at once
that many, if not most, of them are
comfortable,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-16
Loyalty Before Conscience

ZONES Postmaster General
~ Brown, who seems to have
been selected as stage manager of
the Republican show, announcing
that President Hoover will run
again, just as if it were news, while
the Democrats celebrate victory ten
months ahead of time, just as they
have been doing for the last 100
years.
Many Republicans have been toy
ing with the hope that President
Hoover wouldn't run, but the ma
jority Of them won't do anything to
stop him, or vote against him if
he does.
No Democrat is sure of whom the
party will nominate, or what the
platform will sound like, but nine
out OF every ten regard triumph
not only as foregone conclusion,
but as the best thing that could
possibly happen, regardless Of can
didateS, or commitments.
Our power to think has gone to
seed in welter Of slogans, catch
phrases and clique loyalties. We
see no consistency In kicking our
conscienceS under the table if it
helps our party, faction or group.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-16
Views of Times Readers

But, again, remember this is "Old
Kentucky" and while the state as a
whole is surrounded with national
halo, those admirable citizens who
founded its charm and those who
since have cherished its traditions
must be struck with shame when
some Of its absurd laws or lawyers
come to the surface.
Recently a legislator dragged out
in the open that law which per-
ta1nS to shooting from ambush. This
law placed bounty on marksman-
ship. If a Kentucky citizen, spurred
on by the interest of a family feud,
mining row, love affair or other
excuse to test his prowess with fire.
arms, took shot at another citizen
from ambush and missed his aim
entirely, and was caught, he would
be liable to ten years in prison.
If he hit his man, regardless of
how seriously he wounded him, he
would be liable to only five years in
prison. OF course, If he killed him,
he lost the discount and might, if
apprehended, before he could reach
the mountains or the border, have
to pay the price on the gallows.
A law that would permit a prose-
cutor to exclude from the court
room representative from any
newspaper savors Of the same stuff
that incensed the boys over in Bos-
ton to give a load of the kings tea
to the fish.
If there ever was any doubt that,
as the News Sentinel stated, it was
trial Of labor rather than one
Of conspiracy to murder, the yam
mering of this judge and prosecutor
have forced the nation to believe
the News Sentinel was right.
PAT HOGAN.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-16

veyed from an infected person in
the vicinity to one who is not in
fected.
The exciting causes Of mental
diseases are usually the immediate
circumstances or conditions which
precipitate the actual attack.
DR.. Levin compares the onset of
mental disease, therefore, to stick
of dynamite. The constitution of
the. stick of dynamite is predis-
posing cause, but it takes an cleo
trical spark to set it off and to bring
about an explosion.
The predisposing causes of men
tai disease include certain stages
in human existence which are un-
balanced stages.
These are the ages from II to ii,
in which the child passes from adol-
escence to maturity, and period
from As to SIS, when the body has
reached the end of maturity and
begins to break down.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-16
HarmfuIIy Clever

TINE frame of mind which our
l. attitude toward prohibition re-
veals, and in producing which
prohibition has played no small
part, explains some of the diff
culties we have experienced in at
tempting to handle the depression
To state it bluntly, we have
grown too clever, technical and
evasive for our own good, prefer
complicated methods to simple
principles and shrink from stating
our problems in plain terms.
There is insincerity and equivo-
cation in half the moves we make
because they are designed to &C
compliSh some strategic purpose
rather than to get at the truth
Whether it's a murder trial, an
election, or the formulation of some
foreign policy, we forever are play
ing game, trying to outSmart
somebody and, of course, losing
sight of the real objective.