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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-23

VAerefore the sympathies Of the
N Anchurian masses for hte Soviet
ystem must be drowned in blood
Manchuria must be saved for capt.
talist exploitation
"Manchuria viii be saved from
the Soviet, opened TO foreign capt.
tai and development and created
into a strong buffer state between
Japan and the Soviet or between
the Soviet and North China" page
o.
'The Manchurian problem will be
settled on the field of battle
China will lose Manchuria." page 81
Japan sees the handwriting on
the wall and her military leaders
have appealed to the right of self
defense"
Moreover, japanese imperial m
points to the crimes of the other inn
periaHsts as sufficient justification
for its own robbery and plumber.
What is Just ard good for Great
Britain in Iutlia, in Egypt and Me
sOp0tamia; for France In Algeria
and Morocco; fOr It2iy in tho Med
itterranean and for the United
States in the Caribbean, must also
be just and good for Japan in Man
churia. And with much greater
reason" page 39)
Thus openly are stated the robber
aims and counter revolutionary pur-
pose of the Japanese attack on China,
of the increasing Japanese war provo
cations on the Siberian frontiers of
the Soviet Union And even while
the imperialist plans to dismember
China and make war against the So
Wet Union are boldly stated, the
writer's Of the pamphlet continue the
effort to deceive the masses as to
the true role of the League Of Ma
tons and the various pacts and treat
les created under the protectorate of
the League as direct means for cam
ouflaging war preparations, directed
especially against the Soviet Union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-23
800 WORERS AT
SAN FRANCISCO
COMMUNE MEET

SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, March
IA Paris Commune and Ford
protest meeting was held last night
and over 800 workers adopted res
OlutiOns against the war prepara-
tions, condemping Ford and Muir
ply, and demanding the immediate
release of Mooney and Billings, the
repeal Of the criminal syndicaiist
law aud requesting the Prison
Board to change the parole con-
ditions for SkIar, Boriuchi and
Herrera, Imperial Valley prisoners
threatened with deportation to I'M
conditional release in the United
States.
The John Reed Club presented a
powerful Paris Commune play. The
San Francisco workers are being
modified for the Saturday, March
rs parade and demonstration at
Governor Rolph's residence TO de-
mand the freedom Of Mooney, Bill
ings and the Imperial Valley pris-
oners.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-23

WASHINGTON-The result of the
various secret conferences held by
the Ways and Means Committee, to-
gether with the demagogic opponents
of the sales tax in the House of Rep
resentatives, has been announced as
being q complete certainty that the
sales tax will pass the House Of Rep
resentatives when it comes up for
vote Wednesday.
The hypocritical fight put up
against the sales tax, by means of
which the capitalists intend to put
the burden OF the bankruptcy of the
American government on the Shout
ders Of the toiling masses to the tune
of $600,000,000, has disappeared. La
Guardia, leading demagogue in the
House and leader of the "opposi-
ton to the sales tax, is reported to
have dropped his opposition as soon
as announcement was made that Ger
tain articles of mass consumption
would be technically exempted from
the sales tax,
Later, in order to maintain his
mask Of being the guardian of the
interests Of the workers" La Guardia
came out with tardy statement that
he would continue his fight ION prin-
ciple."
That this fight and the so-called
victory OF the ''insurgent group"
means absolutely nothing as far as
the actual levying of the sales tax
on the masses is concerned, was
made clear in the Kiplinger WASH
ington letter, a document mailed
privately to a limited number of mil
nonaires and corporation directors.
This letter states:
Tax action is dictated largely by
politics, group and sectional poll
tics more than party politics. You
viii see many strange votes shortly
politics. Proposals and counter
proposals will be confusing. When
the smoke clears the bill will have
been passed"
The same letter also explodes the
lame excuse that the sales stax, the
latest blow at the living standards
OF the masses, will be merely tenn
porary one. Behind diplomatic talk
OF abandoning the sales tax after one
year, the politicians and financiers
state frankly that the sales tax will,
from now on, be a permanent feature
in the campaign of reducing the con-
ditions of life of the already starving
millions.
SALES TAX WILL BE PER-
MANENT, despite current assur-
ances that it is only for year or
two. 1t is a major change in our
past taxation practices. Whether
it is good or bad depends on what
substitutes can be devised, for there
is no doubt that the treasury must
have at least a billion year addi-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-23
Maryland Jury Whitewashes
Lynchers OF Negro Worker
Cant Find Anyone Remotely Connected
With Lynching, Says All-White Jury
Reporting on Unmasked Lynch Mob

BALTIMORE, Md, March 22.-
A report completely whitewashing
the mob of big businessmen who
Iynched Matthew Williams, a Ne
gro worker, on Dec. A, has been re-
turned by the Wicomico County
Grand Jury, which met last week
ostensibly to investigate iynching.
After listening in secret sessions
to a list of over 100 hand picked
witnesses, the grand jury of white
businessmen reported that 1t found
no one remotely connected with the
Iynching." The brazenness of this
whitewashing is shown by the fact
that the lynchers we're unmasked,
that the ymade no effort to con-
ceal their identity, that they walked
to the very door of the General
Hospital in which williams lay
dying to drag his wounded body to
the court house square and burn 1t.
The appointment of new grand
jury Of por farmers and Negroes
will be demanded of Governor
Richie of Maryland by the BaIti-
more International Labor Defense.
They will also demand an investi-
cation into the death OF Jacob
Conquest, Negro patient in the
hospital ward from which VIII
liams was taken, and the disappear
ance Of Rufus Jcrnigan, another
Negro who was in the ward. The
I. L. ID. will ask that the new jury
investigate certain county officials
who, they claim, were In the lynch
mob.
Fourteen lynShiAgs n Negro
wurkers are admatted ~ ssate effs-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-23
WELFARE AGENCY
ACTS ON RITCHIE
HUNGER PROGRAM
Mother Has Sob" But
Family Starves

BALTIMORE, Md James Dixon
living at 304 West Bnmor Street, a
laborer has been out Of job since
August 8, 1880, almost two years. Up
till October 1881 he was able to Sc
cure odd and end jobs now and then
but since that time, he has not been
able to get one days work. Even
though, he is a powerful built man,
his wife, the mother of three small
children must go out and be the
bread winner for the family.
Her wages is eight dollars a week
and from this starvation pay, she
has been paying steadily every week,
five dollars for rent. From this small
wage, they were determined to stay
in their house rather than live on the
streets like dogs.
The food supply in the house will
last only till today SO as prevention
against starvation tomorrow, he ap-
piled to the Welfare Agency for re-
lief. The answer of the Welfare Agen-
cy was mo :" Ritchie says the We'll
fare Agency is taking care of the
starving people. The workers of Bal
timore know that it's a lie.
All workers out to the City Hall
demonstration on Friday, March %,
/ p. m. Back up the demands of the
committee for immediate relief to the
needy cases that will be presented.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-23
By CYRIL BRIGGS.

Japan's predatory and muir
derous war on China is brazen-
ly justified as a noble act
of imperial.st "self-defense"
against the growing Soviet Sys-
tenn in the pamphlet present
ing Japan's Side of the Case"
just published by the Japanese
Association in China and being
privately distributed am on g
business men in this country.
The pamphlet presents the
seizure of Manchuria, the bes-
tial butchery Of tens of thou
sands Of revolutionary Chinese
workers in Manchuria and at
Shanghai as an act of "self-de-
Tense" a "war to save civiliza-
ton" "war to destroy the
threat of Bolshevism" to CAPT
talist civilization" For, have
not the Chinese masses impu-
IDENTIFY challenged the right of
the imperialist plunderers to
rob, Cypress and murder them &?
Must not this callenge be met
with new blood baths? Are not
the Chinese masses turning to
the Chinese masses, turning to the
new world system of working class
and national emancipation, of revolu-
tionary dictatorship against the i'm
perialiSt enemy? Is not the Soviet
System growing at the expense of
the dying capitalist system? Are not
the Soviet districts in China growing
daily more powerful? And is not the
infection" spreading not only over
all China but over all Asia and to
Africa as WE'LL as the frightfully OPP
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-23
Canton Army to Aid
Chang in Neev Drive
on Soviet Districts
Cantonese Commander Tries to Combat Effect
of Communist Propaganda i'm
Uniting Masses

Behind the smoke screen of paci-
fist phrases and sham peace
maneuvers, the Japanese yesterday
continued to dig in on the new war
front northwest of Shanghai. A
Shanghai dispatch to the New York
Post cynically states:
New parIeys for peace and new
branches for war were under way
simultaneously here today"
The Koumintang leaders who be-
trayed the heroic struggles of the
revolutionary Shanghai workers and
soldiers are making no preparations
to resist the Japanese. A Shanghai
dispatch to the New York American
reports the Kuomintang In traitorous
agreement with the Japanese to crush
the mass anti-Japanese boycott. 1t
reports furious mass protest de-
veloping.
In the meantime, the Kuomintang
betrayers OF China are pushing prep
arations to carry out the bidding of
the imperialists for a new "Cornmu-
mist determination" campaign against
the revolutionary workers and peas
ants in the Chinese Soviet districas.
Bearing in mind the experience with
other Kuomintang expeditions against
the Soviet districts, Chen tang,
Cantonese commander, yesterday ad-
dressed warning to his 100000 mer-
cenary soldiers, urging them ito avoid
the snares Of Communist propa-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-23
IU.M.W.A. Officials
Would Bar Coal from
the Soviet Union
BY Labor Research Assn.

Anthracite operators and off
Gals of the United Mine Workers
Of America are jointly promoting
a new campaign for complete EN-
barge against coal from the Soviet
Union. They have revived the old
lies about forced labor in Soviet
coal mines.
Actually the imports Of Soviet
anthracite for a year amount to
considerably less than one days
production of the United States
anthracite mines. In fact the
imports of anthracite from all
countries amount to Clio OF per
cent of the total United States
production, and the Soviet Union
accounts for about onc-foTth Of
this Clio Of | Per cent.
Some operators are backing q
tariff Oh all coal imports including
tho Soviet coal and a bill pro-
posing a tariff OF Is cents on
every 100 pounds of imported coal
and coke has been introduced by
Representative Turpin. Other OPP
orators fear retaliatory tariff
from Canada and oppose this
measure.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-23

NEWARK, N. jim spite of the
threats of the burocratic officialdom
of the Brotherhood of Carpenters,
over one hundred rank and file mem
bers responded to a mass meeting
called by the rank and file opposition
groups here in Newark March 5, to
discuss the miserable conditions in
the trade and the coming wage cut
being planned by the bosses.
Delegates of the District Council,
i henchmen iof the official machine
were there to check up and put
damper on the meeting. In spite of
the repeated attempts to frighten
the Rank and File carpenters into
submission, good, enthusiastic discus
sion took place on the floor by the
members present, and the Council
delegates we're forced to lay low and
take things easy when they saw the
determined spirit of the carpenters.
The mass meeting adopted the fol-
lowing resolution which was to be
carried into every local in the District
Council by the Rank and File COM
mittees Of action:
Whereas; the greatest majority OF
the carpenters are today totally I'M
employed, and those that are FORUM
ate enough to work are only working
part time and many of our brother
carpenters and their families are to-
day facing actual starvation, and,
Whereas; the bosses have taken
advantage of this tremendous amount
of unemployment and have cut our
wages down to as low as SO to SO per
cent below the stipulated union scale
of wages, and the speedup that we
are forced to endure, makes us go
home after a days work physically
exhausted and,
Whereas; many diseases have
found their way into the trade, such
as sub contracting and corporations
which have become weapon in the
hands of the bosses to further lower
our standards of living, and,
whereas; our officials in the Dist
riot Council, have not made the
slightest attempts to enforce union
conditions on the job, but on the
other hand, have done all in their
power to work hand in hand with the
employers against the membership,
and at the same time drawing sala-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-23
Waukegan Legion
Baked in Attack
On Unemployed

WAUKEGAN, Ill One thousand
workers demonstrated last Saturday.
at the Waukegan Court House against
starvation, shutting off local relief
and demanding real relief and Uneni-
ployment Insurance. The Chairman,
Mr.. Blech, of the Chamber of Com
merce Relief Committee was forced
to go to Chicago and secure the meas
ly sum of $4,000 from the Illinois
Emergency Relief Committee to feed
the unemployed in waukegan and No.
Chicago.
Comrade w. M, Good from Chicago
was the main speaker and when in
his speech he mentioned that the
workers will defend themselves
everywhere In the demonstrations"
this brought a show of enthusiasm
from the workers and was a final
blow against any attempts Of the
Legionaires from interfering. One Le-
gionaire was going around, trying to
get the others to make some trouble,
but nobody dared to support his pro-
vocations. When the Chairman Lauk-.
konen announced that Good is an
ex-serviceman, this put a long face
on the Legion heads.
Comrades King and Bill Caldwell
spoke on the local conditions, pointing
out to the workers that only thru
organizing into strong Unemployed
Councils will the workers get real
relief and this would be their guaran-
tee in securing Unemployment In
surance.
After the meeting, over 100 workers
paraded one mile to the Workers
Hall and there Comrade Good ex-
planned how block committees should
be organized. how they function, etc.
This method Of organization brought
enthusiasm from the workers and
they decided to begin building a real
unemployed movement here in Watt
kegan. r -s-ea . ~.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-23

their present robber war against
China and their plans of war against
the Soviet Union under the hypo-
critical pretexts Of self defense" and
security" A Geneva dispatch re-
ports;
"Jarsn vii ask the disarmament
conference TO consider a special
security in the Far East in view
of the unusual circumstances ex-
listing in Russia and China.
This situation involves the fact
that Japan's two neighbors are
Flu, STA ard China. The first has
political, social and military organ
ization which is different from sim
liar organizations in other cOun-
tries, the japanese point out, while
the second is unable TO maintain
order in her own domain, they in
sist.
The Japanese will demand that
the conference consider these cir
cullstanceS Wnen discussing dis
armament or limitation of arms
Of Far Eastern nations, thus i'm
plying that Japan vii not be in
position to reduce her military ma
chine unless she receives guar
anty of security. In some ways
this proposition is similar TO the
French disarmament theseis, which
places guarantees of national Sc
curity before limitation of arms"
A Moscow dispatch TO the New
York Tribune reports that the Jap
anese Ambassador at Moscow yester-
day answered the protests of the
Soviet Union on the concentration of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-23

the refornist bureaucracy of the AM
sterdam Miners International con-
corning the so-called coal Iagree-
ment and economy make this
European mine workers congress to
q struggle congress against the Am
sterdam Miners International and
the mining capital.
The struggle for the hours shift
which has been introduced into Eng
land in the beginning of July will
give the foundament of struggle
alliance between the British comrades
and those of the Continent.
A programme VIII be given at this
Congress for the struggle for a bet
ter safeguard of the miners. No pit
should stand aside facing the inn
portance of this Congress. Every pit
elects a delegate.
The Disaster Pit Mid Rhondda Elects
Delegates.
Tile workers of the South Wales
pit Mid Rhondda where the terrible
pit disaster happened the 25th of
January at which II miners we're
killed and many were wounded dealt
with the European Mine Workers
Congress in a mass meeting and
elected a delegate. The miners of
disaster pits in other countries and
mining areas should follow this ex-
ample to organize the common fight
against the pit catasrophes.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-23

Japanese troops on the Soviet from
tier and the encouragement by the
Japanese of White Guard activities
against the Soviet Union. The Japan
csc Ambassador Is reported to have
admitted the uassing of Japanese
troops on the Siberian and lSoI-
can Siberian borders, but to have
argued that the mobilization was not
directed against the Soviet Unie1
Further admitting that the japanese
had concentrated troops along the
Chinese Eastern Railway, the Japan
csc Ambassador gave the pretext that
this was done TO protect Japanese
lives and property" and to prevent
bandit raids which would have men
aced the movement of traffic"
Although it is vel known that the
Japanese concentration on the So
Wet border forced the Soviet Union
to strengthen its frontier garrison,
the Japanese Ambassador attempted
to make this an issue of his CONVEX
sations with Soviet Acting Foreign
Commissar, Karakhan. The dispatch
states:
"He tthe japanese Ambassador
inquired in turn about q rnaSsing
of Russian troops reported in that
region. Nj. MARKHAM said ouch IN
formation was without foundation.
The Soviet, said the cpmmissar, is
continuing Its peace policy. does
not expect to violate the Ports
mouth Treaty, and hopes the jap
anese government and its represen-
tatiyes in Manchpris vii do the
same"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-23
GENERAL STRIKE
CALL ISSUED IN
CUBA FOR THURS.

| NEW YORK The Nationa !
Workers Confederation of Cuba, the
revolutionary workers. organization, is
preparing a general strike all over
Cuba for this Thursday, March oath,
in support of $4,000 tobacco workers
out on strike for several months
against a wage cut. The butcher gov
eminent Of Machado in order to stop
the general strike preparations. is
keeping close watch on all union
halls. On Sunday, March 18th, over
sixty workers were arrested on sus-
piciou of organizing the general strike
and locked up in the Principe Port.
The government has announced that
all foreign born workers involved in
organizing strikes and demonstrations
will be expelled.
The Anti-Imperialist League Of the
United States calls on all workers
organizations, particularly the tobac-
co-workers of Tampa, to collect funds
for the tobacco workers strike and
send them through us to the strikers
directly. Protests against the arrests
and announced deportations should
be made, sending kilograms to Presi-
dent Machado, Havana, Cuba. Tel
egrams Of solidarity with the Ma
tional Workers Confederation of Cuba
should be sent through the Anti-Im-
perialist League.
TAMPA, Fla, March 20.-Sending
its greetings to the $4,000 striking
tobacco workers in Havana, Cuba,
the Tobacco Workers Industrial
Union here in telegram states they
"pledge full support to our heroic
comrades of Havana Province in their
resistance to the vicious wage cut at
tack Of the American Tobacco Trust"
We will stand solid against any at
tempt of the manufacturers to
weaken your strike by carrying out
their threat to shift factories TO here
and to Key West" the telegram says.
Forward TO the Strengthening of
the strike through mass activity for
ward to victory Forward to the
building of a strong revolutionary
trade union center in Cubal For
ward to the Unity Congress of the
Confederation Nacional Obrera de
Cuba! Long live the International
solidarity of the working class!
"(SgdD VALDEZ, Secretary"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-23

ganda." In the previous three major
campaigns of the Kuomintang mill
tarists against the Chinese Soviet
districts, most of the Kuomintang
troops either refused to fight against
their fellow workers and peasants or
went over in large bodies to the Chi
nese Red Army.
The League of Nations Commits
sion, now in Shanghai, has instructed
the Kuomintang lackeys of imperial
ism TO negotiate directly with the
japanese over Manchuria. This ac-
ton, which is the net results of the
Leagues deliberations" over Man
churia, is tantamount to handing
Manchurta to the Japanese. A Shang-
hal dispatch to the New York Times
expresses the opinion that Chang
Kai-shek now considers Ibis position
Is strong enough" to carry out this
new betrayal of China. The dis
patch admits that sixty days ago"
Chang would have been forced to
pretend opposition to this move.
The Japanese forces in Manchuria,
while continuing thefiction of Man
churian independence" are carrying
out a policy of barring immigrants
from other parts of China. A Diarien
dispatch reports:
"In contrast to this, cables from
Tokyo indicate that there is we'll
financed movement in japanese Of
ficialdom to assist in financing
Japanese settlers in Manchuria."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-23

The half dollars come rolling in!
Just 5,813 since March 16, the first
announcement of the half-dollar
campaign,
The half dollars come rolling in
from the districts! New York is
ahead with 3,763 half dollars, over
20 per cent of its quota Connecticut
is next, with a decided jump in
tempo. Philadelphia and Chicago
are behind, and the western districts
are slack. except for the Butte, Mon
tant, district, which is fighting ahead
with real zeal! OF the middle west
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-23
] Japanese to Cite
Soviet Union AS
Menace at Geneva

japanese military experts and delegates to
the sham disarmament" conference of the
League of Nations at Geneva are reported to
have formulated proposals opposing any reduc-
ton or limitation whatever of Japan's armed
forces The proposals be put forward under the hypo
critical prete that Japan must have security agann the
menace of Russia and China"
This is attempt by the Japanese mperass to justify
their bestia buchey Of the Chinese masses camoufage
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-23
HALF DOLLAR CAMPAIGN

ern districts, Cleveland has sent in
more in proportion than has Detroit,
although both these proletarian dis
tricts are behind New York and
Connecticut in their quotas.
Thehalf dollars come rolling in
but they have only just started! This
is a good beginning. Steady-and
rally! Every worker jump into the
socialist competition to save the
Daily Workers Send in your half
dollars!
Following is the daily report.
Watch it daily.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-23

Gals to have occurred i'm Maryland
since 1885. Not single indict-
ment has been returned against the
lynchers. The Salisbury grand jury
is continuing the traditions of for
mer iuries of being hand in glove
with the lynchers.