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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-18
To Build An Iron Wall
of Defense Around the
Soviet Union

new world war becomes immediate
danger The greatest and most urgent task
of the whole world proletariat and the toll
ing masses above all, the American prole-
tariat, is to wage most intensive wide
spread, devoted and courageous struggle
against the new imperialist war and in de-
Tense of the Chinese people, and to build an
iron wall of defense around the Soviet Union.
The central task of the C.P.US.A. is to strug-
gle against the new imperast war and above
all to work most deyotedly and courageously
to mobilize the working class in defense Of
the Soviet Union The struggle against Am
erican Imperialism, its war preparations and
intervention plans must be the center of the
every day r0rk of the Party among the mas
SEES; in the factories trade unions, i'll strikes
among the unemployed, Negroes, youth and
women. Only by the ability to rally and or
ganize the masses to struggle for their inn
mediate demands and tgainst the war dan
ger as the most outstanding menace Tor the
working class can the Party come before tie
masses, and must come before them, Sshe.r
revolutionary vanguard-the most conscious.
most devoted and best organized elements
among them
From the 14th Plenum Resolution reprinted
IN full In the April issue Of The Communist.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-18

lly-white hand-picked jury, under conditions
Of mob hysteria melted by the police depart
ment the states attorney, under the general
direction of the well-known strike breaker,
Judge N1cDevitt The State did not even possess
the so-called circumstantial evidence that Is us
ually introduced in frame-up cases, especially
where Negroes are involved. AS a matter Of
fact in the hands of the murdered child was
found the hair Of a white man, and the ring
which was found near the child'S body, doesn't
even fit Willie Brown.
The question for us now to ask is how is 1t
possible, in the face of such evident frame-up,
to hear opinions expressed in the Party and
ranks of militant working class organizations,
that the Party must not arouse the masses to
fight for the release of Willie Brown and should
not even concern itself with the case? Why
do some who consider themselves revolutionary
workers say I'VE should fight for Negro rights,
for the freedom of the Scottsboro boys, but not
for the freedom of Willie Brown? 1t is be-
cause to fight for Willie Brown means to come
into collision with the entire Philadelphia city
administraton-the courts, the ward politicians
and the Philadelphia police department. 1t
would threaten the influence of the Republican,
Ware machine among the Negro masses. This
also explains why the police permitted Scots
boro meetings, but attacked Willie Brown meet
ings why the police permitted the display OF
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-18
Bv icon PLATT

BY LEON RbAlI
TOR the last year, the Communist Party IN the
L city of Philadelphia has made considerable
progress in its work among the Negro masses.
This progress was due to the fact that the Par
ty was fighting for Negro rights as it especially
expressed itself in the struggle for unemploy-
ment relief and thus proved to the Negro mas
ses our sincerity and willingness to fight toge-
Their with them against race oppression.
While through our struggle for Negro rights
many Negro workers joined the Party, at the
same time. the existence of white chauvinism
and the failure of the Party to fight energetic
ally against it, is driving these Negro workers
out of the revolutionary movement. In fact,
we were led to believe that because Negroes join
the Party it proves that there is no white chau-
vinism in the Party. However, today we find
the number Of Negro workers joining the Party
is declining, and together with it, there IS a
decline in the activity of our Negro Party mem
bers This is mainly due to the existence Of
white chauvinism.
The details in the case of Willie Brown are
already familiar to the readers of our Party
press Willie Brown was framed-up on charge
of killing and attacking white child, Dorothy
Lutz The frame-up is evident, if we only ex-
anime the mere proceedings of the trial. He
was found guilty" on the basis of forced CON
fession" after undergoing third degree, by a
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-18
BY BURCK

ances. Strike discussions are going on in MANY
factories.
AS information of grievances and fighting
moods in the factories, reach us it becomes
clearer daily that we are not equipped to lead
these struggles Our territorial units "concen-
trate" on factory where struggle takes place
but the information of the struggle reaches us
accidentally through some non-Party channels.
The shop workers read our leaflets and at
tend our mass meetings and demonstrations,
they cheer and applaud the program of strug-
gle, but they don't see the Party as factor in
their shop leading and organizing their day to
day struggles. We urge the factory workers to
support the struggle against war, but the only
form we have given the Anti-War struggle is
the general demonstration or parade. We have
not learned how TO make even the small inner
factory struggle TO- piece of soap as part OF
the 'Anti-War movement
All these illustrations confirm the estimate Of
the Plenum that our Party appears "as the Par
ty for the workers and not of the workers"
The Plenum resolution applies with equal force
to all phases of Party life and work in the De-
troit District. The resolution gives a clear and
sober analysis of the weaknesses of our work
and skaters the tendencies at dissatisfaction
that arise from temporary and partial successes
in some phases of our work.
The Central Committee Resolution sternly
raises the demand for mass work in the pre-
sent period of momentary danger of attack on
the Soviet Unio...
Lenin On certain occasion said, Serious POI
ltics begin not among thousands but among mill
lions" The present gauge of our influence must
be among the millions if we are to be real
factor in the titanic problems facing the work.
ing class today. The Plenum points out that
the road to the millions Consists in develop
ing the mass struggle Of the workers, the work.
ing women and the young workers on the basis
of their immediate economic and political needs
as they arise from their life and work and con-
flictS with the employers, refornist brreaucrats,
the state, etc" To know these needs to un-
derstand the conflicts to organize and lead the
workers, we must first of all establish. maintain
and broaden our personal contact with the work.
ers, know their lives reactions and moods and
know how to guide their moods into channels
of struggle.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-18

our demonstration, our street units could not
estimate how many workers from their neigh
borhood would participate, the Unemployed
Council could only speak for their active men,
bers and our mass organizations could not guar
antee for their membership.
During this same period, eleven thousand un-
employed, working several days a week for tine
city, to earn their relief Of 81 to per week. had
their pay checks held up for nearly week 1t
was several days before this came to our at
tention. Again we discovered that our contacts
with the relief workers we're insignificant. Again
we relied on the leaflets. The workers responded
to our leaflets well and before the demonstra-
ton which we called materiazed, Mayor Murphy
found" enough money to pay the relief wages.
Not only did these 1000 relief workers live and
work in the territories where our units and
ellis operated, but many Unemployed Council
members and Party members were relief work
erJ and we're affected. This incident again IL
illustrates our lack of personal contact with the
workers and our reliance on leaflets. While our
leaflet resulted in securing the back pay of the
workers, we failed to set up committees at the
scores Of tool-sheds where these workers gather
daily and to involve them in the struggle for
their wages and further demads.
At the present time, sixteen thousand families
who are receiving 15c worth of groceries daily
from the city welfare department are being trans
fered to soup kitchens which Mr. Murphy christ
ened "cafeterias' and which will result in cut
ting down relief to &c per day
Add to this. at least 2oO,O 900 families who re-
ceived no relief at all and whose conditions are
desperate and we see that the Party has not even
made substantial acquaintance with the prob
lens the workers face daily.
Struggles In the Shop.
Even more serious is our isolation In the fac
tories where unbelievable wage cuts are in effect
and where daily the conditions of workers be-
come intolerabe. The general agitation of the
Party and its demonstrations have had a pro-
found effect the workers in the factories AS
we establish the first contacts we meet an UNI
expected response TO our slogans We hear OF
struggles organized by'the workers without our
leadership. In one factory, the workers tore
apart slot machine for soap and distributed 1t
rather than pay-pennies TO the company, and in
another, the workers were organizing to estab-
Ish rest period and hight against daz,y griex-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-18

THE recent struggles and mass mobilization in
Detroit, which followed period of dangerous
decline of activities, serve as special iustra-
ton of the correctness of the Central Commit
tee Plenum Resolution.
Following the Ford Massacre, the Party sue
ceeded in modifying tens of thousands of work
ers over a period of several weeks. For weeks
all available halls we're filled to overflowing
with protest and memorial meetings. From fac
tories and neighborhoods, the workers poured in
angry thousands to view the bodies of the four
murdered workers. Seventy thousand marched
in the mighty funeral procession on March IL.
Again, on April 9th, over fifteen thousand par
ticipated in the anti-war demonstrations, and
on May Day, from early in the morning until
late at night, over fifty thousand took part in
the marches, demonstrations and meetings
These vast demonstrative notifications confirm
the growing rehabilitation of the workers and
their readiness to struggle under Party leader
ship when correct slogans are raised and ade-
quate preparations made.
Lack of Solid Contact
However, closer analysis of these activities
reveals that these masses of workers are not
solidly connected with our movement on the
basis of their daily needs and grievances.
After each demonstration and mass meeting
the Party lost contact with these workers In
scattered over the territory of Detroit, that
about fifteen unemployed branches hold regular
meetings in different neighborhoods, that in a
dozen major factories there are shop nuclei or
union groups, our Party has solid contact
with the masses of workers who voluntarily DEM
onstrated their readiness to fight under our lead
ership
At functionares meeting a question was put
to our active comrades on what was the reaction
of the workers to the Ford Massacre. The an
to this question revealed that the ma jority
of our comrades have discussed the question
with only few non-Party workers, that these
discussions were quite accidental and most of
the information on the workers opinions we're
overheard in street cars meetings street corners
and few in the shops.
When such a major issue as the Ford Mas
Sacre reveals the absence of contacts with the
workers, it is clear that we can't determine the
workers grievances and moods on their daily
problems and needs, and consequently we are
unable to lead them in the local struggles which
are indispensable If our Party is ITO come be-
fore the masses as their vanguard in the strug-
giles against the offensive of the bourgeoisie."
Contact BY Leaflets.
The Party boosted of having issued nearly a
million leaflets in the course of the last two
months in Detroit. While this is a substantial
achievement, 1t is also an illustration that we
have to rely on the leaflets for the mobiliza-
tons and that these leaflets were our main con-
tact with the workers. Our shop nuclei in Fords.
Dodges, Hudsons, Briggs etc., could not assure
us that one hundred or five hundred OF thou
sand workers from their factories would be in
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-18

following statement for the press:
"The War Department is not disposed to re-
gard the situation ON the Archangel front as
dangerous because Of Bolshevist propaganda.
Since the reports of the mutiny were received
the cruisers Galveston and Chester have ar
rived in Murmansk bringing two companies of
railway engineers and Brigadier General w. p.
Richardson, who is TO assume command of the
American forces. The announcement by the
War Department that the American troops will
be withdrawn by next June will probably have
the effect of allaying the resentment of those
who kept there while the organizations in
France and the United States arc being de-
modified"
The statement was issued in the month of
April Two months later the troops we're With
drawn American Imperialism was afraid to al
low the mutinous troops to remain in, Russia.
Thus ended Wall Streets first attempt 70 crush
the workerS reyolptscp IN RIsSA
Evening star., 1932-01-12

21h l1h Telautograph 1.4o) .
Evening star., 1932-01-12
Business Notes

NEW YORK, January 12.-ConSider-
able strength has developed in the print
cloths market, particularly in gray
goods. Active buying in this division
has lifted prices as much as y of a
cent above the levels quoted at the end
of last week Substantial orders have
been placed in 3s-inch 80 squares and
in the 39-inch 68-72s, it is reported in
the trade.
A downward readjustment in prices
will be shown in the forthcoming Spring
hosiery price list of the Berkshire Knit
ting Mills. it was predicted today in
hosiery trade circles. 1t was said that
the company would not cut staple goods
sharply, but would revise prices on
meShes and novelties. 1t was also re-
ported that the list of a large Reading
manufacturer shows reductions ranging
from 37Ia cents to 81 a dozen.
Barring a decided pickup in the next
few days, local retail merchants will
have a decidedly smaller dollar volume
of business in the first half of the
month than the average Of past years
according to gossip in retail quarters
Unreasonable weather and indifferent
buyer interest are held responsible fol
the reduced business
The New York Fur Auction Sales
Co.'S offering of 1880 silver fox skins
will continue today and tomorrow The
cloak and suit trade was well repre-
sented on the opening day of the sale,
and full silvers" brought a top price
of $3.50, or slightly above open market
levels.
Evening star., 1932-01-12
bond PRICES MOVE
IN NARROW RANGE
Market Leans to Upward
Trend, but Trading VOL
ume Is Small.
BY F. H. RICHARDSON.

| Special Dispatch to The Star
NEW YORK, January 12.-Bonds to-
day we're irregular in spots, but the
general trend continued to incline to-
| ward the side of advance. Trading was
in fair volume.
The opening was hesitant, with price
movements uncertain. The Senate S
approval of the Reconstruction FINANCE
| CORPORATION bill was source OF sat
isfaction to the Street, but there was
a tendency to expect technical reac-
ton in bonds 1t was pointed out that
the market has now recovered about
half of the ground lost in November
and the first half Of December. The
chief strength has been in the rallroad
issues. which, of course, have been
helped by the prospects of favorable
settlement of the wage dispute.
Wall Street has been inclined to view
the advance of bonds with misgivings
as long as United States Government
descriptions continued to sag into new
| low ground. Even though this is based
largely on the prospect Of sizable
| Treasury offerings in the near future
factor which should not hurt corpora
| ton issues, especially when they will
| benefit by the. reconstruction corpora
ton, which some OF the coming
| Treasury offerings will be used to
| finance-Wall Street is not used to see
| ing Government bonds unstable at dis
counts ranging FROM l y to l8 per cent
while foreign dollar bonds advance.
Government bonds today were a
shade better after lower opening, but
each advance found heavy offerings
over the market and it was with diff
T oroH TIRE CIIripS dc
recoveries of a to u point from their
lows.
Railroad descriptions had gains rang
ing from fractions to over point.
High-grade types like Atchison general
IS. Chicago. Burlington g. Quincy gen.
eraI Is, Norfolk & Western 4s and Union
Pacific first Is we're slightly higher.
Speculative bonds such as Erie 5s, Mis-
souri-Pacific 5s, Nickel Plate AIS and
IS, Baltimore & Ohio convertible 412s,
Pennsylvania 612s, Frisco prior lien A
IS, and Southern Railway 612s, gained
point or more Chesapeake & Ohio
general 412s, however, were point
lower.
Industrials and semi-speculative util-
tiles were irregular, with price changes
small. Price utilities were steady for
the most part. American Telephone SIS
OptileQ up lldCllOlldlly dIlu ClISu Ie"
ceded narrowly. Utah Power & Light
SIS were fractionally better.
Bonds were irregular at the opening
In many issues there was a tendency
to take profits, while the strong opening
of stocks encouraged those working for
the advance to make further commit
ments in speculative issues.
In the latter group such bonds as
Chicago g. Northwestern 434s, Texas
Corporation SIS, Philadelphia Co. SIS, NC
Kesson g. Robbins 512s, and others were
higher by to points. At the same
time, International Match SIS, Dodge
Brothers IS and Armour of Delaware
5 12s were off fractionally.
In the foreign list, German govern
ment issues were narrowly lower
French, Belgian, Swiss and other Eu-
ropeans were steady. South Americans
were firm and Canadian bonds steady
United States Government issues were
off from 1892 to 4-32 at the start.
Evening star., 1932-01-12
Washington Produce

Butter-One- pound prints, 81; tub, 30.
Eggs-Hennery, 2la23; current re-
ceiptE, 18a20.
Poultry, alive-Turkeys, old toms, 20
a22 young toms and hens, 25a28; chick
ems, pounds and over, 18a21; 2 to 2ls
pounds, 18a20: broilers, l p to pounds,
18a2O; hens, large, 20a22 small, l5a16;
Leghorn hens, Halls; roosters, IL; keats,
young, 40a45; old, 25a35
Poultry, dreSSed-Turkeys, old toms,
24a26; young toms and hens, 27a30;
chickens, 3 pounds and over, 20a22;
to 212 pounds, 23a25; broilers, y to
17a19; Leghorn. hens, 17a18; ROSTERS,
IA; keats, young, 6oa70; old, So
Meats-Beef, prime, 16; choice, Is;
good 121aa13; cow, 912a10; lamb, top.
16a17; fair to good, Halls; common, liza
49, veal, top, Is; medium, IA; pork
loins, to 10 pounds, 14a15; 10 to
IL pounds, 14a15; fresh hams, to 10
pounds, 10; 18 to % pounds, 10; smoked
hams, 16a17: strip bacon, 16a17; lard,
80-pound tins, 81a; package, 8; COM
pounds, 7a71a.
Live stock-Hogs light and medium,
440a465; heavy, 4.O0a4.35; pigs, 4.00a
4.50; roughs, 2.50a325; calves, 4.00a
900: lambs, 4.00a6.50.
FTulLS-O Qudl 10, 4odoo,
apples, bushel baskets, 50a1 90; fancy
box stock. 25O oranges, Florida,
3.00a375; California, 3.75a400; grape
fruit, 2.25a325; pears, 300aS.50 pine
apples, 3.5c; grapes, Emperors, 3.50a
AGO. lemons, 350a5.50; tangerines,
1.25a1.75; persimmons, 1.00a200; kum-
quats, quart, 10a15; bananas, 75a20o;
Alligator pears, flats, 250a30O
Vegetables - Potatoes, 100 pound
sacks, 1.25; Idaho bakers, 2.50a2.75;
sweets, 25a100; tomatoes, repacks. s.
pan containers. 2.00a2 so; peppers, 2.00a
800; carrots, bushel baskets, LOCAL rs:
beets, per 100 punches. 325a3 so;
string beans, ESQ., limas, 5.00a5.50; peas,
800a8.50; lettuce, Iceberg, 5.00a5.50;
cabbage, new, 175a2.oo; old, 75a1,00;
spinach, 75alo 90; kale, 65a75; cauli-
flower, ESQ; mushrooms 65al 90;
broccoli, 3.50a4oO; turnips, so; arti-
chokes, 4.00a5 90; celery, $50; cucun-
bers, Cuba, 500; squash, Cuban, 200;
eggplant, Cuban, ESQ.
Evening star., 1932-01-12
TAKOMA PARK BANK
PLANS NEW BUILDING
Special Dispatch TO The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
TAKOMA PARK, Nd, January l2-
The election of directors and plans to
erect a new building to meet the de-
mand Of the rapid growth of the Citi-
zens' Bank of Takoma Park featured
the annual meeting Of the stockholders
last night.
Announcement was made by Presi-
dent Luther S. Cannon that deposits
had increased 100000 since the annual
meeting last year, which was gratifying
to the officials and stockholders of the
bank. In the event that a new bank
building is erected it will be constructed
on the present site. President Cannon
also announced that the annual stock
holders dinner would be held at ar
early date and that arrangements are
now being completed for the event.
Directors of the bank for the ensuing
year were reelected as follows: DR.
Wade H. Atkinson, Henry E. Allanson
Gull Barber, Luther S. Cannon, J. Mil
ton Derrick, Harry 1. Houston, Law
renee V. LampSon, Alexander Mckenzie
S. E. Mcneil, S. E. Pope, Peter Remsen
z. l.. Richmond, DR.. William A. Shan
non, Louis Sherman, Clarence B. Smith
Alexander Sterling and H. H. Votaw
New directors elected included Jane
yP. Fitzgerald, c. c. Pulver, John D
Miller and Thomas Manley.
Evening star., 1932-01-12
MISCELLANEOUS.

remained at par, the increase would
have been very impressive, but with the
pound down about 80 per cent the sit
uation Is entirely different.
Greece Suspends Private Debts.
1t should be remembered that profits
on and prices of common shares rise in
proportion to the depreciation in ex-
change. Woolworth, Ltd, should prove
no exception.
Greece has joined the ranks of those
VINO seek salvation in a moratorium.
Merchants and members of professionc
IN various provincial towns have pro-
canned moratorium on debts to in
dividuals and banks.
Thls will, of course, have no effect
upon the external obligations of Greece,
including the various dollar obligations
'lelo oy American bankers and investors.
tCopyrlght 1882. by the North American
Newspaper Alliance, Inc
Evening star., 1932-01-12
WASHINGTON STOCK EXCHANGE
QUOTATIONS AND DAYS SALES
SALES.

Peoples Drug Stores pfd.-5 at 80la, 5
at 8012.
Capital Traction Co.-S500 at go.
Capital Traction Co. $50 at 20.
Washington Gas 6s "B"-$1 900 at
l03A.
Evening star., 1932-01-12
WHEAT QUOTA PLAN.

LONDON, January IL P0.-The
governments wheat quota plan, grant
ing British farmers guaranteed share
of the British wheat market at a fixed
price, was approved today at con-
ference between representatives Of the
government, the millers, the merchants
and the farmers.
Details will be settled by q joint
committee before the project is en-
bodied in legislation. This Is preltm-
mary to giving Dominion wheat grow
ers their own quotas.
Evening star., 1932-01-12
Anti Dumping Duties.

LONDON, January II (P.-Effecus
Of Great Britain's anti-dumping duties
for the first four months of operations
were shown in figures issued by the
Board of Trade today
In December imports totaled s77O27,-
303, reduction of f6, 204, lao from the
previous month and fl2,630,2lo from
the December, 1880, total.
In the same month exports were f32,-
o77,425, an increase of f213,976 over
November. but a decrease of f6,38l,o7l
from December, 1880.
For the fiscal year 1881 imports TO-
tailed f862174,709, an increase OF fl8l,-.
8O0,552 over 1880. Exports decreased
by sI8l ,5sl ,599 to total Of f389. 1887.
Evening star., 1932-01-12
CHICAGO DAIRY MARKET

CHICAGO, January II P.-Butter-
Receipts, 1881 tubs; unsettled; cream
cry specials ts3 score), 231aa24; ex-
tras (s2 scorel. 3d. extra firsts (so-sa
score, 22a22A; firsts 1888 score)
2la2l u seconds (86-87 score), 201b :
standards go score, centralized car
lots), %: Eggs-Receipts, 1898 cases;
unsettled; extra firsts, 18; fresh graded
firsts, 17al712; current receipts 15,a
15R.