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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-10
World Anti War
Executive VIII
Hold Meet Today

On December 10 TO IL, the Inter
national Bureau Of the World Com
mittee for the Struggle Against I'm
periahSt War elected at the Amster-
dam Congress, will meet. The ten
tative place announced is Strass-
bourg. All members of the World
Committee have been invited to at
tend. Prof. H. W. L. Dana Of Boston,
a member of the International Bur-
eau, will be present.
The meeting will take up:
THE war between Bolivia and
Paraguay.
2.-The japanese robber war in
China.
3.-Report on the international sit
uation by the Internationl Secre-
tariat.
4.-ReportS of the National Com
mitteeS on the movement created af-
ter Amsterdam in the respective
countries and the exposure of the
war preparations in these countries.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-10
Japan DefieS Bid
for Share of Loot
Threatens to Bolt Anti
Soviet Front

GENEVA, Dec. 9-Imperialist riv-
alries and hypocrisy flared sharply
here in todays discussions on Man
churia in the League of Nations As
Sembly, as the japanese delegate,
Yosuke Matsouka openly defiied the
sham threats of the League of Ma
tons of invoking League sanctions to
curb Japan's robber activities in
China.
Wants More Complete Whitewash.
The Japanese delegate bluntly laid
before the League the terms on
which Japan will consent to continue
to cooperate with the tragic-farce
taking place here. He demanded that
the Leagues whitewash Of Japan's
robber war in Manchuria be made
still more complete. He fatty re-
jected the bids of Japans imperialist
rivals for share in Japan's Man
churian loot by "internationaliza-
ton" of Manchuria. He limited that
Japan was ready to drop its MEM
bership in the League. He threat
ened that If there was not a complete
whitewash, Japan would sign the
aggression pact offered by the
Soviet Union in its struggle for peace
against the intervention conspiracies
OF world imperialism.
Tells League to Take Hint.
He carefully pounded home this
threat of a breach in the imperialist
front against the Soviet Union. rs
the League against that peace which
is to be established between Soviet
Russia and Japan in the Far East?',
he asked tongue in cheek, knowing
full well the Leagues role of organ
izer of armed intervention against
the Soviet Union. 1T is for you to
decide" He warned the League and
the U. S. observers to the conference
that as result Of the Soviet Unions
firm peace policy there was "a rapid
change of public sentiment" in jap
an in favor OF the non-aggression
pact.
He significantly asked Cannot the
League of Nations take a profitable
hint from this?"
The League took the hint by ar
bitrariIy closing the debate ON
Manchuria and referring the ques-
ton TO the Cancellation commit
tee of nineteen.
Wants More Concessions.
Matsouka's speech was clearly dir
ected at bludgeoning further conces-
sions from the League of Nations
and the United States on the basis of
maintaining the anti-Soviet front.
While facing Jspans imperialist riv-
ais with the threat Of a non-aggres-
sion pact with the Soviet Union, Mat
souka carefully let it be known that
Japan was one with world infperial-
ism in its hostility to the rising, flour
fishing Soviet world.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-10
MORE VETS A RIVE
Neev Calf, Kansas Units in Capital

WASHINGTON, Dec. 9.-Despite
terroristic attempts to keep them out,
ex-servicemen from all sections OF
the country are coming in daily TO
join the more than 1000 who are al
ready here to demand immediate pay
ment of the bonus and no cuts in
disability allowances. A group of 80
bonus maschers from Kansas and
another group from California arrived
here on the B and o freight. The
California group stated that there
are at least 1000 vets from Calf
ornia on their way to Washington in
freight trains. About $50 ex-service-
men are encamped in Hagerstown,
Md, waiting TO march TO the capital,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-10
MANEUJVER WITH
SALES TAX BILL
Democrats Will Stall
Till Next Congress

WASHINGTON, Dec. 9.-With the
demands of the hunger marchers
still ringing in their ears, democratic
members of the House Ways and
Means Committee today were in
clined to put off consideration OF the
2.25 per cent SALES tax proposed
in President Hoover,s message, till
the next Congress. In this way the
democrats hope to avoid responsible
ity for republican measure which,
in face of the growth OF mass hun
ger and the insistent demands of the
jobless for relief, aims to raise the
price of hundreds of articles con-
sumed by the workers and poor
farmers.
Beer Instead of Bread.
The democrats of the Ways and
Means Committee are playing their
usual game of Offering the hungry
beer instead of bread. They are
planning to give first consideration
to the Collier beer bill, while ignor-
ing the question of immediate relief
and federal unemployment insurance.
That the democrats are not in the
least opposed to the sales tax was
evident from the last Congress, when
a sales tax bill was supported by
Speaker Garner, the incoming vice
president and large number Of
other democrats. When they are in
complete control Of the govern
ment they will undoubtedly try to
put through this attack on the
starving masses as dictated by the
Wall Street bankers.
Want Greater Vet Cut.
At the same time the National
Economy League an organization of
big capitalists and professional patri-
OTIS, which has the support of politi-
clans of both parties, including Al
Smith and Coolidge issued q state
ment expressing dissatisfaction with
the $127 100000 cut in veterans dis
ability payments recommended by
Hoover. The organization calls this
negligible little whiting" and de-
mands that veterans benefits be
given the axe instead of jack
knife"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-10
FIRST COMMUNIST MAYOR ELECTED IN AMERICA
In the Days
NeaVS
EXPLOSION KILLS 5 MINERS

EXPLOSION KILLS MINERS
LONDON, Dec. ga mine explo-
sion, 500 yards below the ground
killed four miners and injured five
4 at the Cottonwood Colhery South
York, today.
TROOPS LEAVE STRIKE AREA
MONTEREY, Tenn. Dec. 9--More
than 200 National Guardsn1en who
activities against the Fentress Coun-
ty coal miners, began moving out
today.
no REST RACKET CASE TODAY
NEW YORK, Dec. 9.-The prose-
cution is expected to conclude its
case today against Patrick j. Com
merford Tammany politician and
vice president OF the Building Trades
Council of the ALL. He is on trial
before Federal Judge Robert P. Pat
terson on charges of income tax
frauds which involve extensive rack
eteering and protection of scabs in
return for huge brides paid TO him
by the bosses.
DEFEATS SPLIT NAZI RANKS
BERLIN Dec. 9-The blow dealt
to the NaI through the loss OF
100000 votes in the last elections
was reflected today through the re-
signation of Gregor Strasser as gen.
eral manager of the party and also
This seat in the Reichstag. At the
lame time Gottfried Fedor, chairman
xof the party's national economic
committee asked Hitler for long
leave Of absence. Great Importance
is being attached here to these de-
velopments as indicating rapidly
growing Generalization within the
Nazi Party.
OVER 800 FIRED BY PHILA.
PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Dec. 300
re-copyists attached to the Re-
corder of Deeds Office we're among
the several thousand small city en-
ployees who have lost their jobs as
a result of the economy drive" or
dered by the City council. The num-
Der OF those added to the unemploy-
ment army passed the 300 mark last
night.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-10

VOCeSs
Mygard ran, openly as a
Communist, on the local
Workers Ticket" for mayor.
Two other members Of this ticket,
who are not Communists, we're also
elected: Frank Plut for trustee and
Fred Richter for assessor.
Crosby is an important mining
town in the Guyana range. 1t has
about 1000 population. The mines
are of iron ore, which contains man
ganese.
Soviet Union An Issue.
During the elections the capitalist
press, furiously opposed the Commu-
mist candidates, and tried to win the
workers away from them by a noisy
campaign against the Soviet Union.
The press claimed that the Soviet
Union was dumping manganese in
America" and that this was against
the interests of the workers here.
Communist candidates were able to
prove, not only that there was no
dumping TO injure workers here, but
that the Soviet Union bought far
more products here, giving employ
ment to American workers, than it
sold here, until federal government
persecution of this trade greatly in
jured 1t.
Furthermore, the Communist can
didates held up the Soviet Union with
its constantly rising wage scales and
improving standard of living, no I'M
employment, in contrast to the mil
lions of jobless and wage cuts here.
New Mayor Led Struggles
There is also much unemployment
in the iron mines of this state.
Mygard, the Communist mayor
elect has been leader in all en-
ployed workers struggles and the
struggles of the jobless.
Under his administration, this fight
for relief and against wage cuts will
go on with renewed vigor.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-10
U.S.S.R. IGNORES
BRITISH THREAT
Refuses Apology, Turns
Down Japan's Demand

The impudent demand of British
that the Soviet Govern
ment apologize for an article in the
Moscow newspaper "Izvestia" was
fatty rejected by the Soviet Govern
ment yesterday.
Continue Peace Policy.
The Soviet Government at the
same time rejected the Japanese de-
mand for the turning over Of Gen.
Ping-wen and other Manchurian in
surgent refugees to the hangmen of
japanese imperialism. These refu-
gees fled across the Soviet borders
and were interned and disarned by
the Soviet forces. The rejection of
both demands gives notice to world
imperialism that the Soviet Unions
vigorous struggle for peace will be
continued as we'll as its policy for
the right of asylum to political refu-
gees from the imperialist terror.
The 'Tzvestia" Article.
In a threatening note to the Soviet
Government, British imperialism had
demanded an apology for "Izvestia's"
exposure of plot by the British
secret service to fake proof" that
Joseph Stain directed the London
Hunger March and was organizing
the anti-imperialist national revolu-
tionary war in India. "Izvestia" in
denouncing this attempt by British
imperialism to duplicate the motor
ious zinovief forgery declared, in
part:
"a fact which we shall not deny
Is that Stain is not only the leader
of the Soviet prOletariat but that
scores of millions of workers and
peasants throughout the world see
in him their leader. Can this mean,
however, that Stain is therefore
responsible for the closing Of Ford's
plants and the bankruptcy of In
sull or for the expulsion of the
British textile industry from the
Indian market by japanese COM
petition.
"Such a conclusion is the delir-
ium which the British Intelligence
Service is able to present the Brit
ish Foreign Office only in the hope
Of purposefuII gullibility."
'Izvestia" further pointed out that
the breaking of the Anglo-Soviet
trade agreement by the British Gov
eminent had been timed to open all
the flood gates for anti-Soviet prop
and had as one of its aims
dissuading the United States from
taking action to improve its rela-
lions with the Soviet Union.
The Soviet Ambassador to Britain
is reported to have pointed out that
responsibility for articles printed in
"Izvestia" Is vested in an editorial
board. This board is not an official
government body. "Izvestia' itself is
an official publication only in so far
as 1t circulates the proclamations OF
the Soviet Government.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-10

motion last night, lifted the po-
lice Gordon and allowed the
marchers into the city, to the
rest halls provided for them.
Pittsburgh mounted police and mo-
torcycle police, under the command of
high police officers stopped them at
the city limits at noon yesterday.
Delegation Goes
A committee from the Information
al Labor Defense, the National Hun
der March Committee here, and the
Unemployed Councils visited the city
council, which was in session yes
terday afternoon, and made strong
protests against this refusal to allow
the marchers into Pittsburgh.
The workers delegation warned the
city council and whole city admins
tration that workers would hold it
responsible for the health and safety
of the msrchers.
The city council then reversed the
orders of the police department, and
the marchers came in to be greeted
at mass meetings to get food, to rest
and reorganize their columns and go
on.
The marchers OF Columns I, 2, 8,
q and S, all the Western. Northwest
os,I Gnt1f hurpSt-
ern delegations, numbering some 1900
National Hunger Marchers, were met
Wednesday evening so miles east OF
Cumberland Md, by forces of Vir-
aginia and Maryland state police, and
driven off the road, into the hills
around Cumberland, and toward
Pennsylvania. Every large city on
the way refused to let them enter.
One at least of the trucks was seized
by police and the marchers driven
down the wintry road on foot, and
the columns disorganized and broken
up.
Stopped in West Va.
They refused to be stopped, and
truck after truck found the road again
through Pennsylvania, toward Union
town. gradually gathering into col
umn again. The original plan was
for Columns 1 and to enter Union
town and then proceed north toward
Pittsburgh, and for Columns 2, and
5 to 60 on from Cumberland through
West Virginia. Sixty-five trucks fill
ed with marchers entered West Vir-
GINA yesterday, and were stopped by
West Virginia state police at Romney
and turned northward.
They camped last night on the
road in Western Pennsylvania, still
seeking a way through to carry their
message of struggle for relief for the
jobless back to the t,ousands Of
Western and Southwestern workers
who sent them to Washington.
ut is not clear from reports wheth-
err these columns are still near the
West Virginia border or whether they
came up to Pittsburgh. --Editor)
Columns and 4, over 500 marchers.
came to the Liberty tubes, under the
mountain south Of Pittsburgh, main
auto road entrance to the city from
that side. Police halted them there,
and drove them back to Mt. Lebanon,
where they halted, until the aroused
Pittsburgh workers forced the city ad-
ministration to admit them.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-10
Canton Commune to Be
Celebrated TOmOr row
at Stuyvesant Casino

NEW YORK.-The 5th anniversary
of the Canton Commune will be
celebrated at mass meeting to be
held tomorrow Sunday at O'Clock
at Stuyvesant Casino, Second Ave,
and Ninth st. under the joint aus
pieces of the Anti Imperialist League
and the International Labor Defense.
Speakers will include Earl Browder.
member of the Secretariat of the
Communist Party of the US, D.
Chen and William Simons, Secretary
of the Anti-Imperialist League.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-10
FIGHT WAGE CUTS
TOCITY WORKERS
! Worker Delegation at
! Legislature Session

ALBANY, N Y, Dec. 9.-As
against the Wall Street. Tammany
program of cutting the wages of
thousands of civil service workers
and reducing relief for the unem-
ployed, workers delegation today
3 demanded at opening of the special
session of the state legislature that
not cent be cut from the wages Of
New York city workers, that relief
appropriations be increased and that
a system of unemployment insurance
be enacted.
The delegation was elected by the
big demonstration Tuesday of 5000
New York workers for winter relief
and in support of the demands Of
the national hunger marchers in
Washington.
The special session of the legisla-
ture. is meeting for the purpose of
putting through sweeping wage cuts
!, nNew York city workers including
eachers, firemen, clerks, janitors,
,olicemen and street cleaning de-
artment employees. It was called by
citing Governor Lehman under
Sessure OF Wall Street bankers who
Ia We refused to lend the city any
n Ire money to meet the huge bills
rtAed up by the Tammany bureau
cratic graft machine unless expenses
are cut down by slashing the wages
of the civil service workers.
The workers committee made the
following demands:
mo wage cuts for civil service
employees and no layoffs.
2-No cuts in relief payments, ELI
mination Of all bureaucratic red tape
at relief bureaus and abolition of dis
elimination against Negro, foreign
born and single workers, as well as
of all forced labor.
3.-No evictions.
4-Increased appropriations to
give $40 week to each jobless work.
er, plus So for each dependent.
5.-Unemployment insurance, the
funds to be provided by the bosses.
6.-City and state appropriations
for public works, to center chiefly in
workers neighborhoods.
Tho taxes on articles Of mass
consumption.
8.-Drastic cuts in all city expendi-
4 lures except social services.
o.-Reduced salaries for all elected
Ssnd appointed officials.
10--A moratorium on interest and
debts due the bankers for the crisis
period.
l1.-Taxation of the rich.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-10
SEAMEN MAKE DEMANDS
Statement Signed by 1000 Presented

WASHINGTON, d. O., Dec. 9.-The
unemployed seamen delegates on the
National Hunger March had some
special demands and special exper-
fences. There were over 300 elected
ssamen delegates. They elected a
representative committee Of 20, which
left the main line OF march while
it was halted two blocks from the
capitol building, Dec, 6, and after the
presentation to congress of the Hun
ger March demands.
With IL police around them, the
seamen's committee marched to the
U. S. Shipping Board at 18th st. and
Constitution Ave. There they found
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-10
Democrat Fights
Eve,1 Fake Bill to
Free Philippines

WASHINGTON, Dec. 9.-Though
the democratic platform fayors
giving so-called independence to
the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. in the
distant future, Senator Copeland,
democrat, of New York, yesterday
tried to put the skids under the
Hawes- Cutting bill which provides
for independence on paper within
Is years.
Copeland declared that the Phil
ippines could be relinquished only
through a constitutional amend
ment or a national referendum. He
said nothing about the wishes of
the Filipino masses who have on
more than one occasion shown
their hatred of the oppressive Wall
Street rule.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-10

The police tactics has been to
hustle to veterans out of the city
together with the hunger marchers.
on Tuesday more than 100 vets, in
Guiding contingents from New York,
Philadelphia, Chicago and Baltimore,
we're deported with the hunger march
ers. There were not enough trucks
for most Of the vets, so the police
surrounded them and forced them to
remain on the road. Only the ar
rival Of trucks sent by sympathizers
from Baltimore saved these bonus
marchers from exposure to the cold
that has fastened its grip on Wash
ipoNTIMuEp ON PACE THHEYa
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-10
Communist Party Has
Place on N. Y. Ballot

ALBANY, N. Y, Dec. 9,-The Com
munist Party is now regularly on the
ballot in this state, without collec-
ton of signatures. The Secretary of
State for New York announces the
vote for Foster and Ford as 27,956
for the state of New York. This I'M
doubtedly indicates wide spread vote
stealing from the Communists in up
state New York, but 1t is more than
the $4,000 legally required for place
on the ballot
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-10
Acme Theatre Shows
Hunger March Film

The Acme Theatre, 14th st. and
Union Square, is now showing a film
on the National Hunger March. The
film reveals this magnificent demon
stration Of the country's unemployed
in all its phases, beginning with the
meeting in New York and ending
with the parade in Washington. Ac-
ton shots of the contingents from
all parts Of the country are included.
The film also shows the leading role
Of the Daily Worker in the Hunger
March.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-10
STRIKER SENTENCED

NEW YORK. - Harry Self, who
was arrested in connection with a
strike of the Chain Upholstery Co.
in Flushing L. l. conducted by the
Furniture Workers Industrial Union.
was sentenced for six months yes
terday. Workers should Immediately
start protest campaign to demand
his immediate release.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-10
FARMERS PUT
DEMANDS TO
c ONCR ESS
Delegation to Eac h
Farm State Member
of House, Senate
HALF BILLION RELIEF
Moratorium on Debts
and Farm Taxes
BULLETIN.

WASHINGTON, ID. c., Dec. o.
Delegations of the Farm Conference
met all mornir.s 9TH senators and
congressman, who shed crocodile
tears but refused TO do anything.
Curtis, Garner and President
Hoover also received delegations
but gave evasiye replies.
Senators Copeland and Wagner.
both democrats of New York, tried
to make political capital Of the sit
uation, but would promise nothing.
The delegation of Alabama Negro
share troopers is here.
The capitol police made show
of force and tried to split the ranks
of the farmers, and Jim Grow the
Negroes. The police inspector adj
mitted he was a Ku Klux Klans-
man. The farmer delegates we're
kept waiting i'll the cold for an hour
at the capitol.
Governor LaFollette of Wisconsin
has telegraphed the conference
that he refuses to release the farm
err CichOn or punish the sheriff
who machine gunned Cichon and
his family while evicting them.
WASHINGTON, D. c., Dec
"a large delegation of farm,
ers from about 80 states
moved up to the Capitol Build
ing today from their Nationa
Farm Relief Conference in the
Typographical Union Hall, and
split into smaller delegations,
to see the congressman and senators
from each of the states represented
by farmers at the congress, and tc
see President Curtis and Speaker
Garner of the House.
They presented these congress-
men and senators with their de-
mands, adopted yesterday in the con-
ference of over $50 delegates, along
with a statement declaring that there
is no surplus of farm products, that
the country is full of starving work.
ers who need food, and that the
farmers are being ruined by the sys-
tenn itself and by the food trust
which pays farmers low prices and
charges workers high prices.
Demand Half Billion Relief.
Their first demand is for congress
to appropriate $500,000,0 900 for relief
of destitute farmers.
They demand that food products
needed for city unemployed shall be
bought directly from the farmers, not
from food trusts.
They demand that relief shall be
administered to. farmers by local
committees of farmers in each town.
ship-no mortgaging to the bankers
who now handle the farm relief"
They demand that there be nc
legislation based on the theory OF
surplus production, no schemes to
destroy food, pillow under every third
row of corn, or anything of the sort
that has been freely suggested by
the government.
They demand a moratorium, OF
debt holiday" on mortgages, taxes
rents for all farmers whose product
has until recently been just enough
to maintain a farm family.
They demand cancellation of the
feed and seed loans of the govern
nlent, which are now used to take
the farmers land from him.
They demand no evictions OF farm
ers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-10

SO more cops, but five spokesman Of
the seamen went in. T. v. O'Connor.
former A. F. Of L. pie card artist
and now chairman Of the u. S. Ship
ping Board was tout" as he always
is when seamen come.
Plenty for Bosses
Delegate Jones presented the de-
mands to the assistant chairman,
Sandburg, and reminded him, that,
true to their promise, the previous
delegation Of some weeks ago was
back, with plenty more seamen. Sand?
burg was informed that conditions
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-10
REPORT VETS ARRESTED

CUMBERLAND, Md, Dec. 9.-It Is
reported here that 10 members of the
Kansas City delegation Of veterans,
led by Harry Smith and Charles
Kirkman, were arrested near here.
Information on this delegation
should be sent at once to Central
Rank and File Veterans Committee,
Box 80, Station D., New York City.