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Evening star., 1932-02-08
STEAMER Is lCE-B0UND
tKrassin Goes to Rescue of Ship
Last Seen December 4.

KRONSTADT, Russia, February 8
Np).-Bound on another voyage of res
cue. the icebreaker KraSsin left here
yesterday for Vaigatch Island, in the
Kara Sea, to aid the steamship Lenin,
which is held fast in the ice there
after itself freeing the Maligin in the
same region.
The Ienin set out from Archangel
December 4, but the length Of time she
has been icelocked and whether the
crew still has food is not known. The
Krassin bearing provisions sufficient for
six months, will put in at Murmansk
for coal.
The KraSSin noSed through the north
ern ice in 1928 to rescue the survivors
of the Inflated Italia expedition.
American phonograph records are
x,atlfirncr those frn,,n ni snnr n rinS in
Evening star., 1932-02-08

DIRECTORS
JOHN e. ANDRUS
Manufacturer
The Arlington Chemical Co.
NATHANIEL F. AVER
Treasurer.
Cabot Manufacturing Co.. Textiles
CORNELIUS N. BLISS
Chairman of the Board.
Bliss. Fabyan 4 Co.. Inc.
MORTIMER n. BUCKNER
Chairman of the Board.
New York Trust Company
THOMAS A. BUCKNER
President. New York Life
NICHOLAS MURRAY BUTLER
President. Columbia University
CHARLES A. CANNON
President. Cannon Mills Co.
CALVIN COOLIDGE
Former President of the United States
GEORGE B. CORTELYOU
President, Consolidated Gas
Company of New York;
Ex-SecTetary OF the Treasury
WILLIAM H. DANFORTH
Chairman of the Board.
Rafston Purina Co.
JAMES G. HARBORD
Chairman Of the Board, Radio Cor
porstion of E uerics; Former Major
General, U. S. Army
CHARLES D. HILLES
Resident Mgr. N. Y. State
Employers Liability Assurance Corp.
HALE HOLDEN
Chairman Executive Committee,
Southern Pacific Co.
CHARLES EVANS HUGHES, Jr.
Hughes, Schurman Dwight
Former U. S. Solicitor General
ALBA B. JOHNSON
phiIanthropist. Former President
Baldwin Locomotive Works
PERCY H. JOHNSTON
Chemical Bank d Trust Co.
WILLARD V. KING
Retired Banker:
Trustee, Columbia University
DARWIN P. KINGSLEY
Chairman of the Board.
New York Life
GERRISH H. MILLIKEN
Deering. Miihken Co.,
Dry Goods Commission House
FRANK PRESBREY
Frank Presbrey Co.. Advertising
JOHN J. PULLEYN
Chairman of the Board,
Emigrant Industrial Savings Bank
GEORGE M. REYNOLDS
Chairman of Executive Committee
Continental Illinois Bank & Trust Co.
J. BARSTOW SMULL
Vice-Pres, J. II. Winchester q Co.:
Pres, Y. State Chamber of Commerce
JESSE ISIDOR STRAUS
President. r. II. Macy 4 Co., Inc.
RIDLEY WATTS
Retired Merchant;
Director, Chemical Bank q Trust Co.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-05
SCOTTSBORO ere ITS POLITICAL SIGNIFICANCE

MAY 18th will see tremendous outpourlng on
III the streets Of al those ready TO fight for the
freedom Of the Scottsboro Negro boys and
against Negro oppression. Throughout the
whole world, the toiling masses raise anew the
thunder of their demands for the unconditional
release of the ScottsborO boys, Tom Mooney and
other victims of class justice
The international mass defense movement
organized around the Scottsboro case has al
ready resulted in signal achievements. 1t has
several times forced postponement of the car
rying out of the lynch verdicts against the
Scottsboro boys. 1t has been instrumental in
breaking down among the masses the illusions
that court rtals and legal actions alone will
save our class war prisoners, 1t has developed
working class solidarity between the Negro and
white masses.
The revolutionary mass fight to free the boys
has resulted in bringing the Scottsboro issue to
the fore as the sharpest expression and dra-
matte focal point of the growing antagonisins
between American imperialism and the Negro
people Antagonisms which are rapidly sharp
ening upon the background Of the deepening
crisis of capitalism. These antagonisms are
expressed, on the one hand, in the mounting re-
sistance of the Negro masses, and on the other,
in the desperate attempts Of the ruling classes
to suppress this movement by an intensification
of the terror against the Negro toilers, attacks
upon the growing unity between Negro and
white workers aimed at isolating the struggles
of the Negro masses from the general struggle
of the working class against the capitalist hun
ger and war offensive.
Through the initiation and development Of
the mass struggle for the boys, the Communists
have inevitably dramati0ed and exposed the
whole vicious system of Negro oppression, bra
.F 4alif 10
Crowsm, lynchings, legal lynchings in the boss
courts; they have exposed the underlying mo-
tives of this political oppression as calculated
to enforce the special slavery of the Negro
toilers in the industries and on the land; they
have exposed the extent to which the white
ruling classes will go to maintain the national
oppression of the Negro masses under the con-
ditions of the crisis and sharpening class strug-
gle Scottsboro raised all of these issues in
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-05
Urge to Aid Massacre
Monument Fund

DETROIT, Mich. (TUUL Service)
Sponsored by the Auto Workers
Union, in cooperation with the IN
employed Councils, Young Commu-
mist League, Communist Party and
other workers organizations, collec-
tons are being made from workers
for Ford Massacre Monument Fund
The plan is to erect a monument to
the memory of Joe York, Joe Russell,
Coleman Leny, and Joe DeBlaSsio,
victims of the Ford Murphy machine
gun massacre on Bloody Monday,
March 18th, 1882. The four massacred
workers lie in common grave in
Woodmere Cemetery, overlooking the
Ford River Rouge plant. The grave
located on Vernon Highway, where
tens of thousands of Ford workers
pass daily. The monument will be 20
to 80 feet high. 1t will show a figure
of a worker holding the head of q
dieing worker, and shaking clench-
ed fist at the Ford plant. Lying at
his feet will be three figures Of
murdered workers. All workers and
workers organizations are urged to
send funds to Marie Hempel, Trea-
Surer, Room BIS, Barluun Tower,
Detroit, Mich.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-05

the sharpest maner, laid bare the meaning Of
white ruling class democracy for the Negro
masses
The deep-going character of this movement
which aroused masses Of Negro and white toll
ers into struggle against imperialist Jim Grow
reaction affords irrefutable proof of the correct
ness of the Resolution of the Communist. Inter
national on the Negro Question, which states;
q, even some relatively insignificant acts of
the Ku Klux Khan bandits in the Black Belt
can become the occasion of important political
movements, provided the Communists are able
to organize the resistance of the indignant
Negro masses"
The fierce struggle developed by the Comnu-
mist Party around the Scottsboro case brought
about rapid crystazatien of the class forces.
1t left no place for fence straddhng. 1t forced
all classes and groups to definitely declare on
which side of the struggle they stood,-With or
against the Negro masses
Two lines, representing the fundamental in
terests of the two main classes the inperialist
bourgeoisie and the working class, stood out
clearly.
On the one hand was the line OF the working
class as represented by its advance guard, the
Communist Party and reflected in the mass
fight to free the boys. On the other hand, the
line of the southern ruling class in alliance
with finance capital and supported by the Wall
Street government and its fascist agents CKu
Klux Khan, A. F. of L. bureaucratic of carrying
through the legal massacre of the Scottsboro
boys as brutal warning to the awakening
Negro masses. This line was most clearly ex-
pressed by Governor Sterling of Texas, arrogant
representative of the southern slave-drivers,
who, in refusing to grant stay of execution to
permit the hearing of new evidence in the case
Of Bonny Lee Ross, Negro frame-up victim,
brutally declared:
at may be that this man is innocent; but it
Is sometimes necessary to burn a house in
order to save village"
Faced with the rising resistance of the Negro
and white masses the strategy of the ruling
class was to destroy the mass movement by Vi
cious attacks against the protest demonstrations
and especially against the Communist leader
ship at the same time intensifying their dema-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-05

gogy as TO the "imparGality' Of bourgeois JUS
tice fair trials, etc. pretending that the case
had nothing to do with national oppression, that
it was merely a case of melting out Justice to
criminal offenders.
This dastardly demsgogy found an immediate
echo in the ranks of the Negro reformsts, as
represented principally by the N-A.A.CP. lead
ership Fostering legaistic illusions among the
Negro masses for dependence on the lynch
courts trying TO obscure the character Of the
Scottsboro frame-up as an expression of national
oppression of the Negro masses raising the cry
of red menace even louder than the lynrhers
themselves, these lackeys OF imperialism tried
to make it appear that the main enemies of the
Negro masses we're not the ruling class lyhchers
and their fascist agents but the Communists
and revolutionary organizations In this manner
they completely absolved the in1perislist hang
men in their murderous attack upon the Negro
masses as symbolized in the Scottsboro frame
UP. For instance Mr.. William Pickens joyfully
halls the infamous decision of the Alabam Su-
preme Court unfolding the lynch verdicts
against of the boys. In statement in which
ne exonerates the court and conveniently ignores
che fact that only the mass defense movement
organized by the Communists has saved the
boys thus far, this toady of imperialism de-
clares:
Il wonder now II these COMMUNIST brethren
have learned anything / doubt it: / know
them we'll. They will keep straight on making
Negroes the victims of their revolutionary
propaganda, sacrificing the welfare of ignor-
ant Negroes to their own aims while hypo-
critically pretending to have prime interest
in the Negro himself"
1t is clear that the fight against the Negro
refornlists the Pickenses the Whites, the Du
Boises etc. is an essential part Of the struggle
against the Scottsboro lynch verdcts and against
Negro national oppression.
Negro workers. Down with the mislesders Of
the NAA.CP.!
For united struggle of the Negro and white
toilers against the Scottsboro lynch verdicts,
against the capitalist hunger and war offensive!
All out on the streets May II For the Immedi-
ate Unconditional Release of the Scottsboro
Boys!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-05
Push Steel and Metal
Work in Chicago

CHICAGO CTUUL News Service).
The following decisions have been
made by the Chicago District of the
Metal Workers Industrial League
with regard to the preparations for
the Metal Workers Industrial League
conferences and the National Con-
vention (which will be held in Pitts
burgh at the end of July and which
will be the biggest step yet in build
ing q fighting union in steeD, To call
together the District Campaign Com
mittee which shall prepare the plans
for the city and District Mwu Con-
ferences, to be followed with meet
ings Of the MwIL functionaries In
each city in the district. To assign
three organizers for intensify1ng &C
tivitiee in the South Chicago section
a very important steel sections. II is
planned TO open Workers Center
for the use OF the MWTL.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-05
ILGWU Takers at Convention
to Prepare More Betrayals
Norman Thomas Says Last Fake Strike Which
Helped to Cut Wages Gives Inspiration;
Palestine Called "WOrkers Country"

PHILADELPHIA, Pa, May 3.-At
5chlesinger's international conven-
ton which is being held here, few
interesting speeches we're heard to-
day. A great deal was said on INA
chcine regulations and also an in
teresting report which the generals
presented to the convention.
The speeches which were particu-
larly interesting we're those of Nor
man Thomas and of the Palestine
delegate, Goldie Myerson.
Thomas stated that the last
5chlesinger dressmakers' strikes
through which his gang helped cut
the wages of the dressmakers and
also the report which the Tnterna-
tional chiefs delivered to the con-
vention, give much inspiration It
will strengthen, he said. the courage,
not only Of the membership of the
International, but also of all the
other unions.
The Palestine delegate said that
Palestine has already become an or
ganic part of the working class of
the United States" But she only
forgot to say that this working class"
of which Palestine has become an Or
ganic part, includes such workers as
Abe Kahan, Editor of the fascist
Jewish Forward" Peretz Vernik, Nor
riS limestone, president Of the Uni
ted Hebrew Trades, etc.
Another similar thing which the
delegate had the audacity to say is
that the building up of Palestine
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-05
Phila. Asks for Funds
to Defend Victims of
May Demonstration

PHILADELPHIA, Pa.--'"Twenty
workers are lying in the bosses
jails Of Philadelphia because they
demonstrated on May Day against
the bosses program Of hunger,
lynchings, terror, and war and for
a workers and farmers govern
ment.
These workers are charged with
"Inciting to rio-Parading without
a permit-Disorderly conduct
Assault and Battery-Breach Of
peace" They are held for fur
Their hearing on May 18th under a
total bail of $4,000 zone hun
dred and eighty three thousand
dollars.
Some Of these workers have
large families to support, others
are needed badly to carry on or
ganizational work, some are in
critical physical condition because
of the brutal beating they received
at the hands of the police on May
Day.
The international Labor De-
Tense of Philadelphia calls upon
all workers and synpathi0ers who
can furnish bail or contribute TO
the defense fund to call up Wal
nut 8181 or come down to Room
315, Washington Square Building,
It'll and Chestnut. Streets, Phila-
delphia.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-05
NMU PROGRAM
IS TAKING ROOT
in EASTERN OHIO

BRIDGEPORT, Ohio. CTUUL Ser
vice)-Reports from the Eastern Ohio
strike area brought out the following
points at recent District Board
meeting of the National Miners
Union:
The UMWA Scale Committee has
not made its report, keeping silent
and obviously paving the way for a
seIlout. The strikers are beginning
to ask questions. 1t was reported that
the NM.U. program on the strike is
taking some root among the strikers.
This is shown by the fact that there
is becoming evident more sympa-
thetic feeling toward the N. M. U.
| for example, in Amsterdam, the
strikers are beginning to object that
the UMWA officials are not permit
ting the NMU speakers to take the
floor. The feeling toward the UMWA
officiadom is becoming more and
more antagonistic on the part of the
strikers. In three places a back to
work movement, on the part of the
miners disguised with the UMWA,
is reported. This happened at the
Somers mine, where the big picket
line of 5000 was staged; and in Wolf
Run, in the Amsterdam section.
A tendency must be fought among
some NMU members in West Vir-
GINA that it is impossible to strike
any mines in the Panhandle; also
the illusion that by waiting until
after the UNdWA has established its
Union in East Ohio the NMU forces
will be able to capture control Of
it through the election of its officers.
Tasks the NMU organizers in the
field include;
Immediate mass meetings Of the
unemployed, under auspices Of the
NMU where possible, or the Unem-
ployed Council; revival of NMU To-
Gals and wherever there are no To-
Gals, the establishing of functioning
group; to begin preparing the strik-
ers against betrayal by the UMWA
officials, raising the question why
the scale committee keeps silent on
the GAINESVILLE meeting. The miners
must be prepared against accepting
a wage cut. The attempt Of the
UMWA officials TO make all strikers
Join the UMWA must be resisted,
and a united front Of all miners re-
gardleSs of affiliation called for.
A real campaign to expose and
fight the Dsvis-Kelly Bill is called
for, The Davis-Kely Bill is being
exposed as further trustifying the
mining industry, the shutting down
of the so-caIled Improbable mines
and the throwing out of hundreds
of thousands of miners from the in
dustry; 1t does away with strikes,
which are the only weapon with
which the miners can fight the wage
cuts; it forces the UNfWA strike
breaking officialdom on the miners
Tin the bill the government officially
recognizes the UMWA); it estab-
fishes the check-off.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-05
new BOMBINGS IN
SHA N G Hal AS
MASS ANGER RISES
Clashes Increase As
Marking Prepares
New Sell-Out

One japanese marine was killed
and another wounded yesterday in a
bomb explosion in Shanghai. The
explosion was directed against the
Japanese and is the fourth TO have
occurred within the past FIVE days.
The bombings followed a series Of
viciously provocative actions by the
Japanese militarists against anti-im-
periahst japanese, Korean and Chin
csc workers.
A Shanghai dispatch to the New
York Sun admits that japanese mar
ines have been beating UP Chinese
workers in the International Set
Element during the past week. It
says:
"The marines climbed locked
gates and beat Chinese yesterday
and today Japanese sentry stab
bed Chinese suspected of sniper
activities in ,Chapie."
The first bomb explosion, five days
ago, wounded the five highest Jap
anese militarists in Shanghai and
two other Japanese officials Re-
ports are current in Shanghai that
the bomb was thrown by Japan
csc worker. The Japanese, aided by
the French police, have raided hun
dreds of homes in the French con-
cession and carried out mass arrests
of Korean, Japanese and Chinese
workers suspected Of anti-imperialist
activities.
Mas indignation has famed up in
Shanghai as a result Of the traitor
Gus actions of the Kuomintang Off
Gals in accepting the peace" terms
imposed by the japanese, with the
support of the United States and
British imperialists. These terms
leave China's most important city.
Shanghai, in the hands of the Jap
anese and other imperialists All
Chinese troops are to be barred
from the city. The police of the en-
tire city is to be under imperialist
control. A so-called neutral zone is
to be established on the lines of the
present positions Of the Japanese
troops.
Shanghai Chinese students mobbed
and beat up the Marking assistant
foreign minister two days ago in
protest against the latest betrayal of
China by the Marking leaders.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-05
REICH DISBANDS
FREE THINKERS
Issue Anti Working
Class DEGREES

BERLIN, May 1.-Two emergency
DEGREES were issued today, directed
against the revolutionary organiza-
tons. The first decree places all
semi military organizations under the
direct control of the Reictl's Minister
giving the latter power to suppress
them, The list of organizations con-
tains the Anti-Fascist League.
The second decree suppresses the
proletarian Free Thinkers Association
termed Goddess Assertion" by the
bourgeois press. This represents an
act Of utter arbitrariness on the part
of the government and a concession
TO Catholics who are now the power
full counsels Of German capitalism.
The refornist Free Thinkers Organ
ization remains temporarily untouch-
cd
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-05

(where British imperialism rules)
means building up a workers coun-
try
The report of which Norman
Thomas said that it gives "inspira-
ton" was filled with many lies, but
even according to this report the
officials of the International admit
ted that since the last convention the
International has lost $4,000 men,
bers. At the last convention in
Cleveland, about two years ago, the
report stated, they had a member
ship, according to the per capita of
the dues payments, of $1,000. Now
the reports say, there is member
ship, according to the dues payments
which are being collected with the
aid of the bosses, of only 10000.
The discussion of the machine reg
ulations took place today when the
so-called Rules and Regulations
Committee recommended that roll
call at voting should only take place
then when not less than Is delegates
of S locals should demand it. Kaplan,
one of the left-wing delegates from
local of N. Y. amended this so
that roll call should take place
when 9 delegates of 8 locals should
demand it. He was answered moth
ing doing" according to the usual
line of Schlesingers democracy"
and it will remain as the committee
recommended. Nevertheless, about
40 delegates voted for Kaplan's
amendment.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-05
W.I.R. Calls Workers
to Support Striking
Ohio-W. Va. Miners

NEW YORK.--Local unions of
the National Miners Union and
the United Mine Workers Of
America have asked the support
of the Workers International Re
lief to help the striking miners of
Ohio and West Virginia TO WIN
THIS STRIKE. In Amsterdam, O.,
the children get meals once day,
and only when there is something
left over, a few Of the hungriest
miners get something to eat.
There is starvation in many of
the camps. The miners are not
getting relief from the UMWA
district or National office. All
workers and workers organizations
and WIR branches are urged to
send funds and food to help win
the strike to the Workers Inter
national Relief, Room 4, Freter
Building, Main St., Bridgeport, o.
Ali food and clothing is to be
shipped to the Workers Interna-
tional warehouse at 11S Lincoln
Ave, Bridgeport, o,
In answer to calls made by NMU
and UMWA locals for the support
of the Workers International Re
lief for the winning Of the Ohio
and West Virginia mine strike, the
Workers International Relief to-
day announced that call has
been sent out to all WIR locals
for immediate support.
A conference will be called in
the near future of delegates elect
ed from UMWA and NMU To-
Gals, representative Of WIR
branches and working class Or
CARNATIONS to draw up and put
into action a relief program in
support of the strike. All work
ing class organizations are urged
to Immediately elect delegates
and be prepared to give concrete
support at the time Of the con-
ference which will be announced
in a few days.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-05
VIENNA MAY DAY
RALLIES LARGEST
HELD, PRESS SAYS.

VIENNA, May 3.-The May Day
demonstrations called by the Com
munist Party are admitted by the
bourgeois press to be the largest ever
held.
Collisions with fascists occurred in
Graz.
SOFIA - illegal demonstrations
were held on May Day throughout
Bulgaria. Collisions occurred in So
fla. In the villages Preslav and Toros
the police killed two workers.
When the socialist leader Bu-
ehinger attacked the Communist
Party the demonstration in Buda-
pest the workers protested energet-
ically. They fought against the so
cialist marshals who handed Conamu-
nists over to the police. Twenty-four
arrests were made.
Twenty thousand workers turned
reformist Toxic demonstration mani
| lSSUdUlOIl. Lie lcduSE Ol Tile IeIUIHt-
ist Trade Unions Federation was
howled down. Independent demon
STATIONS were held against hunger,
war and for the defense Of the So
Wet Union. The bourgeois press re-
ports over 1000 arrests.
The Communist demonstrations in
Czecho- Slovaha were the largest
ever held there. Numerous minor COL
lisions occurred. Arrests we're made.
The Communist Party organized
twelve demonstrations and many
rallies in Belgium. Collisions &C.
Cured in Antwerp and Charleroi
when the police attacked the workers
participating in the May Day cele-
brations. Numerous arrests were
made.
Intense police persecution and
mass preventive arrests succeeded in
crushing the May Day demonstra-
tons in Shanghai.