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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-18
JAPANESE SEND WARSHIPS TO SOVIET WATERS
Bosses Attempt to
Break Strike of
Laundry Workers

NEW YORK.-The boss of the New
Style Laundry, at 10th Street and Bird
Avenue, has lost much of his bust
ness, and the racketeer bosses asso-
citation is assisting him by forcing
quite few Of the downtown laun-
dries, such as the Lion Laundry, at
$40 East 18th Street and the White
house Laundry, at 9th Street between
Avenue G and Avenue D, to send in
truckloads of laundry bundles.
After falling in all their attempts
to terrorize the inexperienced strikers
on the nickel line, the numerous
arrests and frame-up of the most
militant men strikers and union Off
Gals, the bosses association is now
trying to demoralize the ranks of the
strikers BY making it seem that the
laundry is doing a normal amount Of
business.
However, these militant workers,
though inexperienced when they
struck 100 per cent seven. weeks ago,
IN solidarity with a Negro worker,
who had been fred, are very well
aware of this trick and all their
other tricks, and they have been very
quick to realize the Importance of
this strike. They are therefore just
as determined now as seven weeks
ago to continue with their activities
in order to win their fight against
sweatshop conditions.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-18

The Reverend Norman Thomas
had just finished speaking TO the
crowd who had become bored by the
usual election campaign platitudes
mouthed by these takers, when the
front battalion of the demonstrators
arrived at the square with placards
and screaming banners denouncing
the vicious Scottsboro frame-up and
the crowd turned away from the
takers and broke into hearty cheers.
When the column arrived at the
front of the square near the So
cialist platform, the Socialists called
upon the police to chase the demon
strators away. They shouted these
people are reds" they don't belong
with us, they have no business here
please make them go away, Mr.
Commissioner, they want to break
up our peaceful meeting The workers
continued to cheer the demonstrators
and booed the Socialists and the
police many workers expressing open
disgust with the collaboration of
Socialists with the police.
The militancy of the crowd pre-
vented the police from carrying out
their cossack tactics.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-18
WARNS
THE JAPANESE
WAR INCITERS
Soviet Peace. Policy
Exposes War Moves

The Soviet newspaper. "T~ravda, y
yesterday warned the Japanese i'm
perialists that the Soviet masses will
defend their soil against the robber
plans Of Japanese imperialism, which
is acting as the spearhead of world
imperialism in the butchery OF the
Chinese masses and the now open
war moves against the Soviet Union.
According to dispatch to the New
York Times by its Moscow correspon-
dent, Walter Duranty, Pravda de-
clared:
Tn the Fail and Winter of last
year it was bandits acting on the
orders of the Japanese military and
ON their money and with their
arms, who served as the excuse for
the extension of the Japanese occu-
patton. Now the version about
bandits is dropped and the Japan
csc imperialists have set dynamite
going.
"'White Guards who cannot
take a single step in Manchuria
without the knowledge and orders
of Japanese powers, have already
tried to shatter the Sungari Bridge
with dynamite. Then they threw
dynamite on the eastern section of
the Chinese Eastern Railway In an
attempt to shatter Soviet Japanese
relations.
Chinese police authorities, act
ing at the behest Of japanese cir
Giles, are arresting Soviet citizens.
In Hardin dungeons they are tor
turing guiltless workers and en-
ployees of the Chinese Eastern
Soviet citizens.
From the outset this country
has carried on firm policy of ono
intervention and neutrality In the
Manchurian affair, but II the paci-
ficism of the Union of Socialist
Soviet Republics Is TO be taken and
utilized by Japanese imperialists
as proof of our weakness and in
capacity to defend our borders, so
much the worse for them. We
have fought invaders before and If
needs be We will fight them again"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-18
MRS. WRIGHT TO
SPEAK FRIDAY AT
FAREWELL MEET
Scottsboro Mother
Leaves Soon for
Europe

NEW YORK.-On Wednesday night,
April goth, Mrs. Ada Wright, mother
Of Andy and Roy Wright, two Of the
Scottsboro boys, one Of whom is
among the seven sentenced TO die in
the electric chair on May 18th, will
make a farewell address at the Rem
aissance Casino, 138th Street and 7th
Avenue, before sailing the next day
for Germany.
The. International Labor Defense
of Germany has asked Mrs. Wright
to come to that country
At this meeting Joseph r. Brodsky
chief attorney for the International
Labor Defense, will speak, as will
also Richard B. Moore, Sadie Van
Veen and others. Carl Hacker, Dis
trict Organizer Of the New York
District International Labor Defense,
will act as chairman of the meeting.
1t should be borne in mind that
in 1917 it was the action of the
Russian soldiers, sailors and peasants
in demonstration before the Ameri-
can embassy in that country that
forced the President of the United
States to intervene in the case of
Mooney and Billings, the result Of
which was a Communication OF SEN
tence.
Every worker should attend this
farewell meeting, which will also be
a mobilization, for demonstration at
the pier on Thursday when Mrs.
Wright boards the ship to sail for
Germany.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-18
1000 March in Scottsboro
Demonstration in Harlem
Denounce Lynch Verdict; Demand Release of
Scottsboro Negro Boys; Brooklyn Workers
Hold Several Meets

NEW YORK.-Alniost 1000 Negro
and white workers paraded through
the streets Of Harlem ON Saturday
afternoon in a demonstration against
the decision of the Alabama Supreme
Court unfolding Scottsboro lynch
verdicts and setting May Is as the
date for the electrocution of seven
OF the nine innocent Scottsboro Negro
boys.
Beginning with short meeting at
125th st. and Lenox Ave. the work
ers with banners denouncing the
Scottsboro lynch verdicts and de-
handing the freedom of the Scots
boro boys and Tom Mooney and
all class war prisoners, marched
through the streets of Harlem for
fifty blocks terminating at 10th St.
and Fifth Ave. where huge rally
and mass meeting was held.
All along the line Of march the
demonstration was greeted with
cheers from the workers in buildings
and on the sidewalks, while hun
dreds of workers, Negro and white,
joined the ranks of the paraders.
At 10th st. and Fifth Ave. a half
dozen speakers spoke on the great
danger of the Scottsboro boys being
sent to the electric chair on May 10,
and appealed to the workers present
to rally to the mass campaign to free
the boys and not to have any legal
istic illusions in fairness" of the
courts of the lynchers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-18
World Scottsboro
Protests Alarm
u. 5. State Dept.
Consular Agents Ask Government for Guild
ance in Face OF Mass Indignation in
European Cities
German TOilers Invite Scottsboro Mother for
Defense Tour of Germany

The worldwide of working cass protests against the
Scosboro lynch verdcts forced the u Depart
met to ask the of Alabama furnish with Gin
formation in the of the innocent Negro boys facing
the electric chair in Alabama The date of execution has al
ready been for May 13 for of the boys The
two facing trials
Washington dispatch to the New York Times report
ing the action Of the State Department. says that the nforma
ton to be transmitted to American Consuaes abroad
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-18
1000 CHI.
MARCH
FOR BONUS
Pledge to Defend the
Soviet Union Against
Inperialist Attack
TUUL Supports Vets
Legion Stand Scored
In Union Park Meet

CHICAGO, fillmore than two
thousand world war veterans DEM
opstrated in Union Park, Saturday
under the leadership of the Workers
Ex-Servicemen's League demanding
full and immediate payment Of the
tombstone bonus.
The demonstration followed mass
parade of the vets, which was en-
Enthusiastically cheered by the work
ers on the sidewalks.
When the speakers pointed out
that the capitalists throughout
America were aiding Japan in its
attack on the Chinese masses and
we're sending munitions which is TO
be used against the Soviet Union the
vets to a man pledged to fight the
next war for the working class. The
meeting went on record to defend
the Soviet Union.
Bob Brown BROUGHT greetings from
the Trade Union Unity League and
declared that the workers in the
revolutionary unions we're behind
the vets in their struggle for the
bonus. The attitude OF the An1eri-
can Legion officials was condemned
by the speakers and the Legion's
fake job campaign was characterized
as move to defeat the bonus fight
and the struggle of all the workers
for unemployment insurance.
The veterans unanimously adopted
a resolution demanding immediate
cash payment Of the balance OF the
bonus.
More than two hundred war vet
Grams signed applications for mem
bership in the Workers Ex-Service-
mems League. The ex-servicemen
pledged their full support to the
Stockyards Hunger March which
viii be held in Chicago April 10.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-18

OF the insult trust, which is even
a greater crash than the Kreuger
affair, is an indication of the in
creasing number of monopolies and
cartels which will be drawn into
the whirlpool of the crisis. 1t shows
the internal rottenness and weak
ness of monopoly capitalism, in
spite of its external appearance Of
giant and unsuitable strength.
Although the bankruptcy of four of
the largest branches of the insult
power trust is being carefully con-
cealed by an attempt to make the
receivership action appear tenn
porary, the testimony of the attorney
for the Corporation Securities Co.
reveals that the four companies are
completely destroyed.
In response to the assertion of the
attorney that the company hoped"
to repay its debts, Judge Linley re-
marked cynically:
We'll, hope springs eternal in the
human breast"
The price Of Corporation Security
stock has already sunk to one eighth
while that Of insult Utility Invest
ments was 81. Stocks of the other
companies are practically worthless.
The crash of the Middle West Sc
curities Corp, the largest of the four
is seen as the beginning of
the disintegration of the huge insult
power monopoly. Already the Ma
tional Electric Power Co., whose
stock the Middle West controlled, has
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-18

become independent. AS the full de-
tails of the bankruptcy are brought
out, this disintegration of one of the
largest monopolies in the world will
become clearer and more rapid.
The insult Utilities Investment and
the Corporation Securities were both
holding corporations, by means of
which insult evaded the antitrust
laws and controlled the east seaboard
units of the insult monopoly.
Through the medium Of these
holding corporations, insult controlled
the huge Commonwealth Edison Co.,
the Peoples Gas, Light and Coke Co.
and the Public Service Co. of North
ern Illinois, besides number of less
important utility companies.
Frantic with fear that the bank
ruptcies may spread to the rest of
the insult system, the bankers who
hold the securities of the various
power systems have placed insult and
Owen D. Young in charge of manipu-
lating the other companies in an
effort to prevent them from also
crashing.
The collapse Of these companies
also exposes the huge holding COM
pany swindle by means of which the
bankers and financial magnates, by
buying up a few hundred thousand
dollars worth of holding company
stocks, were able to control and get
the profits of billions of dollars
worth OF public utility companies.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-18

lister Araki, in connection with the
White Guardist attempt to blow up
the Sungari River bridge on the
Chinese Eastern Railway, jointly op-
Grated by China and the Soviet I'm
ion. The Japanese and their White
Guard allies attempted to fix respon-
sibility for the attempt on the bridge
on citizens Of the Soviet Union.
Defeated repeatedly in their var
provocations by the firm peace policy
Of the Soviet Union, the Japanese
imperialists are now fevershily seek
ing a pretext for war on the Soviet
Union in the fishery question, nego-
tiationS
Extreme tension is reported along
the Manchurian- Soviet border as
the result of long series of events
in which the Japanese have DELHI
erately tried TO provoke the Soviet
Union into war. A Tokyo dispatch
to the New York Tribune reports
that Soviet citizens are reported TO
be leaving Hardin and other Man
churian cities. The same dispatch
says that Gen. Gregory Semenov,
the notorious White Guard leader
is in Tokyo. He Is evidently in
conference with the Japanese gov
eminent officials. The dispatch re-
ports him declaring in an interview
with the "Asahi Shimbun" that he
had come on a business trip and
would return TO Manchuria within
few days"
A Tokyo dispatch to the New Yorf
American reports:
How seriously Tokyo regards
the growing tension between Japan
and Russia on the Manchurian
border was indicated today, when
the Navy announced additional
warships will be sent to waters off
Kamchatka Peninsula, in anticipa-
ton of Soviet aggressions against
japanese fishing interests.
Toxic newspapers announced
completion today of Soviet troop
concentrations along the frontier
of the Japanese-fostered indepen-
dent Manchurian state of Man
choukou. The implication was that
Russia Is now in a position to In
wade Henry Pu-Yfs domain"
The Soviet Union has recently
strengthened its forces in the Far
East as a result of the japanese
troop concentration on her borders
and the general knowledge, admitted
even in imperialist circles, that the
Japanese imperialists are planning
to attack the Soviet Union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-18
Relief Buro Workers
Hold Meet Tonight at
DOwntOwnHighSchOOl

NEW YORK. - A mass meeting
of employees Of the Emergency
Home Relief Buro to demand con-
tniuation relief measures adopted by
the city will be held tonight at the
Washington Irving High School,
10th st. and Irving Place, at 745
p. m.
The meeting is called by the City
Social Club, newly organized group
Of the Home Relief and Emergency
Work Buros and will be addressed
by Winefred Chappell OF the Metho-
dist Federation of Social Service;
Liston Oak, members of the writer's
delegation to Kentucky; Carl Win
ter, secretary OF the Greater New
York Unemployed Council and Rod
Hall, leader of the Columbia stu
dent strike.
All workers who were on the re-
lief lists and have been cut off by
the city are invited to attend this
meeting
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-18
Trade Union Unity
Council MObiliZes
for May First

The Trade Union Unity Council,
the Shop Delegate Councils of the
unions and the Executive and Trade
Boards, the secretaries of shop and
opposition groups, representatives of
the Unemployed Councils, will meet
Monday. April 18th, pm, at Irving
Plaza, 18th Street and Irving Place.
At this meeting the T. U. U. G. will
outline the tasks Of the revolutionary
unions. industrial leagues and oppo-
sition groups in mobilizing the work.
ers for May First.
All comrades that fall under the
above categories must come to this
meeting. All other trade union
meetings are called Off in order to
make 1t possible for all the comrades
to attend.
Trade Union Unity Council Buro.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-18
Huge insult Power Trust Goes
Bankrupt in $3,OOO,OOO,OOO Crash

CHICAGO, April 49,
Crashing to the ground be-
meath the powerful blows of
the deepening crisis, four large
divisions of the huge insult
Power Trust went into the
hands of receivers Friday,
The bankruptcy of the Mid
die West Utilities, the insult
Utilities Investment, Inc, the
Corporation Securities and the
Mississippi Valley Investment
Company involves over three
billion dollars. 1t is the larg-
est bankruptcy ever recorded.
The efforts of the bankers show
that the sharpened crisis is not
stopping short at the small and
medium capitalist firms, but is de-
stroying the largest monopoly
giants which capitalism has built
up. Instead of being projections
against capitalist crisis and chaos,
they make these even greater and
sharper. Their efforts will only
sharpen the crisis and involve
more of the huge firms, because
the very sharpness Of the crisis is
due to the merging of bank capital
with industry and the resulting in
crease in all the contradictions Of
capitalist industry.
Coming on top Of the Kreuger
cartel bankruptcy, the bankruptcy
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-18
Tokyo Sends
More Troops to
Soviet Border
Seek Pretext for War on U.S.SR. in Fisheries
Question Now Being Negotiated
Dispatch of Warship Follows Threat of Japan
csc War Minister Araki Against
the Soviet Union

The japanese government yesterday moved
nearer to armed intervention against the Sow
let Union with the announcement that Japan
csc warships would be dispatched into Soviet
waters off Kamchatka, Northeastern Siberia.
and that additional troops would be sent into Manchur where
large japanese already concentrated on the Soviet
border.
This announcement follows close upon the heels of the
threats against the Soviet Union bv Japanese War Min
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-18

cause of Communist agitationsj
against the sentences" 1t adds
that the information was re-
quested at t he suggestion of
the consulates.
Workers in European countries
have demonstrated before the Amer
lean ConSulates in scores of c.5ies in
vehement protest against the at
tempt of the Alabama bosses to
murder the ScottsboYo boys and
;. st the sharpening national OPP
On of the Negro masses in this
country. In most OF the demonstra-
lions, windows in American Consul
2tes we're broken by the workers and
messages thrown in demanding the
release of the boys. The Times dis
patch refers to these demonstrations
and adds indications have been that
Communists we're attempting to make
political issue of it (the Scottsboro
Cace), as they did with the Sacco-
yanzetti CAGE in Massachusetts,"
The United States State Depart
ment is not seeking the real facts of
the vicious frane-up against the
boys 1t has not even made the pre-
tense of making an investigation
into the case, but has asked Governor
3. NJ Miller and the Alabama lynch
courts to furnish the lying lynchers'
version of the case. The State De-
partment is merely seeking to furnish
its Consulates with defense" Of
American imperialism and its bloody
terror against the Negro masses: the
defense" In this case to be the lying
frame-up rape" testimony of two
white prostitutes against the nine in
nocent Scottsboro Negro boys. This
is made clear in the statement of the
Times dispatch that:
"The tState) department re-
quested the information at the
suggestion of Consulates, which
said that press reports published
abroad apparently were incorrect
and that a misconception of the
circumstances existed"
German workers have invited Mrs.
Ada Wright. mother of two of the
Scotsboro boys, TO make tour of
Germany in connection with the
mass defense of the boys. Mrs.
Wright is to leave for Europe soon.
The tour will be conducted under the
auspices Of the German Red Aid.
In the meantime the International
Labor Defense attorneys are putting
every ounce of energy into the prep
arations to take the fight to the
United States Supreme Court. A
fighting fund Of ten thousand dol
lars is needed at once. Workers and
sympathizers are urged to rush con-
tributions to the Scottsboro Defense
Fund, Room All, 80 E. 18th ST., New
York,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-18
BROOKLYN MEET is SMASHED
BY POLICE

oL
In Williamsburg, Brooklyn, where
march had been planned to begin
at st. Felix and Fulton st. the police
were on hand and the moment the
first speaker mounted the stand to
speak, the meeting was broken up
with the arrest of six workers. Many
OF the workers present made their
way to Borough Hall where the main
demonstration for Brooklyn was held.
The Scottsboro protest demonstra-
ton, held at Borough Hall, Brooklyn,
in which several hundred Negro and
white workers under the leadership
OF the International Labor Defense
and League of Struggle for Negro
Rights voiced a stormy protest
against the recent decision of the
Alabama State Supreme lynch court
calling for the electrocution of seven
OF these boys on May 10, was a huge
success in spite Of the efforts of the
local social fascists to prevent the
demonstration by taking possession
of the square before the demon
strators arrived.
A parade was staged through the
working-class section of Brooklyn in
spite Of the efforts of the police to
break up the marhh by arresting six
Of the participants. These arrests
occurred in spite of the fact that the
police had previously granted per-
init FOR the parade and meeting.
The socialists, with fancy dec
grated platform and expensive loud
speaker apparatus, had taken pos
session of the square and their
meeting was in full sway when the
demonstrators arrived. Almost the
entire Brooklyn police force was out
to protect their socialist comrades
from the terrible Reds"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-18
BROWNSVILLE WORKERS IN
DEMONSTRATION

In Brownsville, too, more than
two thousand workers paraded and
demonstrated against the Scottsboro
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-18
Brownsville Workers To Hear Mrs.
Wright Tonight.

Workers of Brownsville will have
an opportunity tonight to hear Mrs.
speak in that section of the city
before she leaves the country for a
tour to Germany, where she will
rouse the German masses of work
ers in the campaign to save the
Scottsboro Negro boys from the cleo
trio chair. The meeting will be held
at the Brownsville Workers Center,
1918 Pitkin Avenue, at o'clock.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-18

lynch verdicts. Here too the police
tried to stop the parade but we're
so overwhelmed by the large mass
of workers that they were compelled
to allow the parade to take place.
Evening star., 1932-05-12
CHARLES CARROLL
HOME IS DEDICATED
Part of Johns Hopkins Plant.
Mansion Is Restored to
Colonial SpIendor.

BY the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE, May 12.-Restored to
its colonial splendor, Homewood, built
In 1901 by Charles Carroll of Carroll
ton, a signer Of the Declaration of In
dependence, for his extravagant son,
Charles Carroll, jr., was dedicated yes
terday as part of the Johns Hopkins
University plant.
With DR.. James Rowland Angel,
president of Yale University, the guest
speaker, and DR.. Joseph S. Arnes, pres
ident of Johns Hopkins University, pre-
siding, dedication exercises were held
in the great house, whose splendor
hundred years ago was known through
out the East.
Saved From Guin.
The house, now the property of Johns
Hopkins, was found two years ago to
be falling in ruins. rs restoration was
directed by DR.. r. T. II. Halsey, pro-
fessor of colonial art at st. Johns Col
lege, Annapolis, and paid for by Mr..
and Mrs. Francis P. Garvin Of New
York
Every room but one in the great house
appeared today as 1t did when young
Carroll took his bride across the threSh-
old. The house had been given them
by John Carroll as a wedding gift. Only
the kitchen was closed. Its restoration
has not been completed.
Charles Carroll Of Carrollton was one
of the richest men in the United States
when he built the house. Ten thousand
dollars was the amount he had ex-
pected to spend. But his son had ideas
of his own of how young gentleman
should live and the fathers account
books show frequent references to the
large sums used in the purchase of the
furnishings and other items.
Lighted BY Candles.
In the restoration the maple floors
were sandblasted, the white woodwork
was restored to the colonial tints of
gray, blue and green and brocades from
Europe. more than 100 years old. were
hung to replace modern trimmings.
The original family portraits again
were hung on the walls.
The house was left unwired. and is
lighted only by candles.