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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-07-30
Children, Too, Must Fight
Against 1mberialist War !

means todayl And 10000 bodies of
children, alone, more than were kill
ed on either the Japanese or the
Chinese side, were found among the
ruins of Chapel.
In the United States, over six mil
lion children of workers and farmers
are officially acknowledged to be I'M
dernourished. With practically fiji
teen million workers unemployed and
other millions of farmers ruined, the
United States government continues
to spend hundreds of millions for war
preparations and continues to refuse
to spend one cent for unemployment
insurance.
Just the other day, in Ohio, 1t was
announced - that one hundred and
thirty five soup kitchens where hun
CRY children would get enough to
exist on, were closed by the state
authorities to break q strike where
workers are fighting to feed their
children without relief.
WAR means even worse condi-
lions. WAR means losing fathers,
brothers. WAR means hunger and
misery for the children Of the work
ing class. The children must be shown
this. The children must fight this.
Only in the land where there is
work and hope" are the children
first and foremost. Only there are
they cared for, only there can they
develope into citizens who are build
ing a new society. And this land,
Is the land that the war mongers
are plotting to crush. The voice Of
the Russian children call to us, the
American children, to defend the
land Of the international workers
children from boss attack. They call
o. the children to demonstrate in
an their strength against boss wars.
Fathers and mothers of the work.
ing class! You must make the Au-
gust First Demonstrations so big and
so militant that it will strike fear
into the hearts Of the bosses and
bankers.
Down with bosses wars!
All war funds TO the unemployed!
Vote Communist!
Defend the Chinese People!
Defend the Soviet Union!
CENTRAL PIONEER BURO
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-07-30
Ii E r A 7 u RE
FOR THE AUGUST FIRST
CAMPAIGN
THE ACTUALLY OF WAR.

THE ACTUALLY WAR.
Chape IN Flames
Japanese Imperialism Stripped The Secret Document of Premier
Tanaka the designs against the Soviet Union O5
FORCES BEHIND EASTERN STRUGGLE
China Stewart
Soviet China by M. and R Doonpng
STRUGGLE AGAINST PACIFISM
Revolutionary Pacihsm by A.
THEOLOGICAL AND THE STRUGGLE
AGAINST SOCIAL DEMAGOGY
Containing the antl-War
resolution Penum of the E. c. c. - .....1O
Little Library Series 20
Socialism and War, Little Lenin Library Series .......l5
The Struggle Against mperast War and the Talks OF the Com
Resoution)
STRUGGLE THE VETERANS
Ranks
DEFENSE UNION
Soviet M Mvinov
Soets Fight Disarmament Containing Conrade Lvin
speeches Geneva with introduction by Comrade
Lunacharsky
ORGANIZATIONAL
the
ganzer how these pamphlets should be
all anti-war activity.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-07-30
Nesv Workers Delegation to
Soviet Union, November

served for the rich. Women are paid
the same wages as men; there is com
plete equality Of the sexes as there is
complete equality among various ma
tionalities; no matter if worker is
black or white or brown, Jew or Gen
tile or Mohammedan-all enjoy equal
benefits under the Soviet system.
Workers Delegations, such as the
one sent to the Soviet Union on the
occasion of the May First celebration,
are organized by the Friends Of the
Soviet Union in the United States
twice year. At the present time
the F. 8. U. is organizing delegation
for November Z. to join with deiega-
tons from other countries in the eel
ebration of the 18th Anniversary Of
the Revolution, at Moscow. -
Recognizing the close connection
between the defense Of the Soviet
Union and the defense Of the work
ers' interests in the u. S. A., The
Friends of the Soviet Union actively
enters into all the workers struggles
against exploitation and oppression,
against lynchings of Negro workers,
against deportation bills and capttsl-
list terror, against white guard. coz
spiracies and capitalist, discrimina-
ton. s.as&,
In pursuance of its policy of worry
ers' solidarity the F. S. U. sponsors
delegations of American workers. TO
the Soviet Union In the campaigns
for such delegations, the F. S.,p.
enters into close contact with pro-
gressive and revolutionary trade
unions as well as with the politically
backward locals of the A. F. ofoA.
and unorganized W rkers. It endeay-
ors to develop mass campaigns for
the election and endorsement of
workers delegates by thousands Of
workers in the basic industries. This
branch of the work Of the F. S, y. lis
of particular Importance as it helps
directly to strengthen the bonds of
international solidarity between the
American workers and the Soviet
masses. s>s.t'
.-.5r.y
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-07-30
The Poison Gas Weapon
in Modern Warfare

should you walk into a room con
tanning only enough tc fit on the
head of pin, you would feel as
though someone we're tearing your
eyes out with his finger nails. Yet,
if you run out Immediately, all III
effects disappear within fifteen or
twenty minutes.
The sternutatory gases we're used
to produce vomiting and sneeAng
SO that the gas mask had to be
taken of and the victim was then
finished off with some much more
poisonous gas. These gases cause
terrible pain and irritation of the
nose, throat and respiratory chan
nels. They are mostly arsetie COM
pounds and are not only sternuta-
tory but are also toxic, producing
the after-affects of arsenic poison
ing.
The skin was the last sensitive
part to be attacked but the skim
burning v3sicants present more adj
vantages and problems than all the
other chemicals combined. Mans
lungs and eyes, nose and throat
could be protected by good gas
mask but how can the blistering
and burning of the skin, even thru
clothes, be protected?
Mustard gas, the most important
vesicant, penetrates the cells Of the
skin and causes intense irritation
and the formation of deep and
painful bhsters. The lightest burns
require several weeks to heal while
serious ores last for months.
Wherever there's moisture from
perspiration as under the .arm-pitS
and in the crotch mustard. gas at
tacks more easily Yet despite its
terrible severity, mustard was has
considerable delay action. It has
no immediate effect on the eyes or
throat, but few hours afterwards
the victim will be absolutely blind
for a period of many weeks. Be-
cause fits deadly action and be
cause it is effectiveness at coneen-
trations that cannot be detected,
mustard gas is the most effectivesof
all gases in breaking down morale.
In addition to its burning prop
critics, mustard gas is one of the
most poisonous of all war gases.
In the next war its terribly toxic
effects will be more fully utilized
by placing a large charge of high
explosive in the shell which Will
spread it as a very fine spray, thus
the victim will draw into his lungs
in one or two breaths enough to
Kill him. This type Of shell was
very effectively used in the last
months of the last war.
Such are the weapons that are to
be used in the war that is now
developing from Manchuria, that
they could now be used on a fifty
times greater, fifty times more
deadly scale than they were in
1914-1918 is certain. 1t is equally
certain that only the working class
can prevent another world slaugh-
ter. But the enemy of the work
ing class is not war, but the capt.
talist system that is breeding war.
That war is a function Of capital
ism, the workers in all countries are
beginning to see. To prevent war
we must prevent capitalism func-
tioning, by smashing it. Only then
can we build a socialist society in
which the causes Of wars cannot
exist.
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ly emphasized, along with the decep-
tive talk about American democracy"
and political freedom" as opposed
to dictatorship (the speech of Spin
garn) Far from exposing the ruling
class democracy as a vicious dicta-
torship under which the most fright
gul excuses are carried out against
the Negro and white masses, the Me-
gro bourgeoisie tries to deny the ex-
istence of that monstrous dictator
ship, that class tyranny that express
es itself in increasing lynch terror
against the Negro workers and farm
ers.
The thought Of masses of Negro
and white workers joining with the
revolutionary vanguard of the prole-
tariat in fight against imperialist
war strikes terror into the whole cap
italist class. And when, as part of
the campaign against imperialism, in
connection with the growth Of the
revolutionary movement among the
industrial workers, the capitalist class
realizes that we Communists have
seized upon one of the most unstable
links in their imperialist chain, and
have raised the slogan of self-deter-
mination for the Negro majority Of
the Black Belt to the point of seces-
sion, they call upon their Negro bour-
geois lackeys to aid in their campaign
against it, by initiating crusades in
defiance of the lynch ruling class and
it's predatory government.
But all the talk of these mercen-
aries about unity within the con-
fines of the territory now embraced
by the capitalist state power cannot
hide the fact that within the bor<
ders of the United States there is a
subject nation, with a Negro majority
the Black Belt-that cuts through
number of state boundaries.
Organize for Action
In waging our campaign against
imperialist war we must intensity
many fold our work among this ma
jority in the Black Belt. We must
tirelessly and emphatically explain to
the Negro masses that the same lynch
gang that tortures and enslaves them
here is an accomplice in the murder
GUS war of pillage and mass slaughter
that Japan is carrying on against
China; that the imperialist ruling
class of this country is one of the
chief conspirators in the war and in
tervention drive against the Soviet
Union.
How this work of modifying the
Negro masses in the industries and
on the land can be effectively carried
out Is set forth in the Resolution for
the Fourteenth Plenum of the Gen.
trail Committee, held last month. The
broad outlines for this work are
stated as follows in the resolution:
(a) The popularization of the full
Communist program on the Negro
question in connection with the par
tial struggles on every day demands
and events; Cd through populariza-
ton of the solution of the national
question in the Soviet Union, social
list construction in the autonomous
Soviet Republics, mobilizing the broad
masses for defense Of the Soviet
Union; (c) broadening the recruiting
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-07-30

THE introduction of poison gas
marks far more important rev.
olution in warfarethan even the in
vention Of gUnpowder.
Gas can kill-silently, swiftly,
surely. 1t can disable men and
cause horrible wounds that take
months to heal. Gas can cause tor
ture and anguish lasting for hours
or the most intense agony can be
induced for a few minutes only.
Old methods Of military defense are
useless against gas. But the great
est advantage that gas has over all
the older weapons lies in its psy-
Geological effect, lies in its ability
10 crumple che morale of the most
ma Gsne-N and disciplined troops.
SLNce n )st bases are invisible at
conce ri. ations which they are dan
gerous and since some are odor-
less, the soldier is constantly ex-
posed to unseen death" He may
save himself from bullets and
shrapned and grenades by diving
into trench or shell hole when he
hears them coming. Gas sneaks
upon him unawares. Still the very
best protection that has been in
vented is clumsy and uncomform-
able and only adds to the effect
of gas in breaking down morally.
The militarist of the traditional
school thought that the only way
to win war was to kill the enemy.
Experience has shown that 1t is
more effective, for instance, to burn
your opponent with mustard gas,
this not only removes him from
active service for anything from
one to six months but it requires
elaborate and expensive care in
hospital behind the lines. A corpse
need only be buried.
Poison gases are those organic
chemicals that are particularly ef-
fective in damaging the human
body. The number of gases which
are really effective and can be pro-
duced in large quantities on large
scale is comparatively small and it
is important to bear this in mind
when reading the scare stories that
circulate from time to time about
the discovery of new gas so pow
erful that -four drops will wipe out
an army"
On the whole then, despite the
fact that highly trained chemists
are making great efforts to develop
new gases, it is practically certain
in the coming war the gases that
will be used will bethose that were
tried and proved in the last i'm
perialist slaughter.
All gases may be classified into
groups on the basis of what they
do to human beings. First there
are the lethal gases that kill, then
tear gases Qachrymators), sneezing
and vomiting gases tsternutators),
gases that burn the skin (vesi-
cants). Often, of course, the prop
critics Of a gas overlap so that a
gas may attack the nose and throat
as well as the skin, or the eyes
as well as the lungs.
Lethal gases kill by being drawn
into the lungs and acting both by
direct poisoning and by causing in
tense congestion of the lungs.
Tear gases cause intense pain in
the eyes but are not poisonous in
the concentrations necessary to
produce binding tears. Indeed,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-07-30
Negro Capitalists and
War Preparations

more than ever today by the iInpe-
rialist ruling class.
The capitalist class, that from the
beginning of this economic crisis has
tried to find a way out by placing
the entire burden upon the toiing
masses is now preparing to surpass
all its other crimes by seeking way
out through imperialist war-a war
in which the youth and young man
hood of this country is to be con-
scripted into the imperialist armies
and the rest of the working class and
poor farming population is to be con-
scripted at hunger rations to produce
means of carrying on predatory war
fare. To carry out such policy the
ruling class must try to rally to its
support all forces it can bride and
corrupt.
Loyalty" to Lynch Govt.
Hence the Negro capitalist and
professional elements, most of whom
are stool pigeons for the white bosses
among the Negro masses, have the
Job of trying to persuade Negro
workers and farmers to be loyal to
the government of Wall Street. 1t is
not proving an easy job. The real
part played by the capitalist govern
ment, the unity of city, state and ma
tional government as an instrument
of tyranny against our class, is be-
coming ever palmer to increasing
numbers of Negro and white work
ers. A number of recent attacks
against the workers and farmers and
resistance to such attacks-ScottS-
boro, Camp Hill, Atlanta, Birnling-
ham, Chicago, Cleveland-have help
ed to expose the class despotism be-
hind the mask of capitalist democ-
racy.
The growing unity Of Negro and
white workers in the campaigns
against lynching and massacres, in
the struggle against hunger, in the
fight for unemployment and social in
surance, in the fight against forced
collection of debts and increased tax
alton. has called forth the most
vicious attacks from the Negro CAPT
talist elements.
But everything these servants of
capitalism have hitherto attempted
is being outstripped by the vile CAM
paign they are now carrying on to
help the Wall Street gang in it's war
conspiracies.
Unity" With Lynch Gang
Many of the Negro capitalist pa
pers, both in the North and the
South, are carrying on campaigns in
behalf of unity" Of all elements
within the geographical boundaries
of the United States-declaring the
United States to be one indivisible
whole
To be sure, all capitalists and their
agents try to deny the class struggle
and demagogically speak of unity OF
workers and capitalists in myth
cal common national aim. But the
Negro editors and other publicists are
called upon to emphasize the terri
torial unity of the United States
This is an attempt to answer the
Communist slogan for self-determin-
alton of the Black Belt.
At the recent convention of the
National Association for the Ad-
vancement of Colored People the
national unity" slogan was especial
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-07-30
Fathers and Mothers!

Fathers and Mothers!
Fathers and Mothers of the Work.
ingclass!
On August First. workers of every
land will demonstrate against, bosses
wars, and for the defense of the
Soviet Union. $50
Children of the workers will de-
monstrate with their fathers and mo-
theirs in every country in the world.
The August issue of the New Pion-
eer cannot appear. We have no
money to come out this month. And
SO we are unable to call upon the
children of the workers, through
their own organ, the New Pioneer,
to demonstrate on August First. They
are voice,ess.
But we can call upon you, the adult
workers, to bring your children with
you to the demonstrations. - For war
means terrible suffering for your
children as we'll as for you, just as
unemployment means hungry bellies
and stunted bodies for your children,
too.
Children of the veterans down in
Washington, know from the suffering
that unemployment and fake pro-
misses bring, what WAR actually
means. Starvation, disease, and slow
death are the wages, for fighting for
capitalism. Already one child has
been victim of the slow death
meted out to those who are fighting
for what is rightfully theirs, the
Bonus. ~
The Japanese ruling class has Just
shown what war today means to the
workers, and their children. In the
] Chapel section Of Shanghai. China,
more than hundred thousand men,
women and children Of the working
class lived in their crowded quarters
until six months ago. Then came
the Japanese troops and battleships.
For whole days and nights they bonn
barded Chapel. Tens of thousands
of the inhabitants, adults and chill
dren alike persisted into storm Of
bullets and shells, or in the torrents
of flame that swept the section. Now
Chapel is charred and empty ruin.
The few men, women and children
who survived are scsrreted. shelter
less and starving. That is what WAR
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-07-30
BY II. NJ. WICKs

~ 40 AVA V6SAh0
Every outrage against Negro work
ers and farmers is accompanied by
the most debased grovelling before
the lynch ruling class on the part of
the majority of well-to-do Negroes
editors. preachers, business men,
landlords, doctors, lawyers, etc.
The ruling class, in it's increasing
campaigns to incite lynching or to
foment massacres finds willing sup
porters among the leading elements
OF the Negro bourgeoisie. The leader
ship Of the National Association for
the Advancement of Colored People,
which consists of Negro bourgeoisie
and white imperialists, including
such brazen advocates of lynehing as
Clarence barrow, are the best agents
of the ruling class in trying to de-
feat the mass struggle for the liberia
ton of the framed-up Scottsboro
boys. Recently in Chattanooga,
Tenn, when two policemen were
killed in the Negro underworld and
the white ruling class tried to To-
ment massacres against the Negro
working class population. the well-to-
do Negro doctors, lawyers and
preachers issued statements urging
support of the forces Of law and or
der" This, at time when policemen
in uniform, detectives, deputy sher-
ifs and scores of white thugs we're
riding through Negro neighborhoods
terrorizing men, women and children.
The Negro bourgeoisie joined the
lynch mayor of the city, the county
sheriff and the notorious Judge
Fleming in trying to connect the
Communists with the underworld.
This was done to try to burn out in
the holocaust of massacre of Negro
working class neighborhoods that
growing unity of action between Ne
gro and white workers against the
capitalist offensive.
Servants of White Bosses.
Performances of similar nature
are frequent occurrences throughout
the South. In all such outbursts the
Negro bourgeoisie are found invari-
ably fighting on the side of those
who try to foment lynch mobs
against Negro workers and farmers.
The Negro editors and preachers try
to keep the Negro and white workers
divided and try to conceal the class
character of lynching and so-called
race riots (Which are really organ
lied massacres) by telling the Negro
workers that it is the white workers
who are their enemies and the white
capitalists who are their friends.
Such poison propaganda is. for the
purpose Of helping the white ruling
class maintain its segregation policy
a system which ensures the economic
base of the Negro bourgeoisie. 1t is
this system of segregation, maintain
ed by the ruling class as one OF the
chief means whereby the -frightful
suppression of the Negro masses is
carried out, that offers the Negro
bourgeoi5ie a chance to thrive by OBJ
tanning a minor share of plumber
realized through the exploitation OF
the vast majority of the Negro popu-
lation.
Aid In War Plots.
The aid of these capitalist lackeys
who try to use their black skins tc
betray the working class and poor
! farmers of their own race is needed
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-07-30

FOR HOME AND COUNTRY
BUY LIBERTY" BONDS
1917 -
THAT A GOVERNMENT OF THE
PEOPLE, BY THE PEOPLE, FOR
THE PEOPLE, SHALL NOT, PER
ISH FROM THE EARTH',-
BUY LIBERTY BONDS
1917
TO MAKE THE WORLD A
DECENT PLACE TO LIVE IN
BUY LIBERTY" BONDS
1917
SAVE YOUR CHILD FROM
AUTOCRACY AND POVERTY
BUY LIBERTY, BONDS
ALL OUT Al
INTERNATIONAL DAY AG
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1892

225,O00 Chicago homes sold for
tsxes.-News item.
1882
$50 Rule q. S. A." says former
Ambassador Gerard.-News item.
80 1892
Bonus Army lives in mud fats.
Child Of lmsrcher dies from starva-
tion.-News item.
1892
: 10000 Los Angeles school children
lose city food support. Chicago
police beat child demonstration
News items.
GUST FIRST!
INST IMPERIALIsT WAR
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-07-30

particularly in the steel mills of Bir-
mingham correctly described as the
Pittsburgh Of the South masses of
Negro and white workers must be or
ganized into the Metal Workers In
dustrial Union.
In the. very complicated situation
in the South the success of all our
work depends upon the functioning
of our Communist Party as the lead
ing and co-ordinating force in the
organization and struggle of the Ne
gro masses in industry and on the
land. ...