The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-19

mandant OF Pearl Harbor that more than 40 as
sault cases had occurred in the Islands in the
eleven months before the alleged Masse assault,
also brought out the Importance of Hawaii for
war purposes:
"We have one Of our principal army garri-
sons in Honolulu we have one of the most inn
portant of all our naval stations at Pearl Har-
Dor, and understand also we have { here q
force Of marines, yet, despite the present of
these forces apparently little. if any thing, has
been done TO correct situation SO grave that
the government is afraid to permit our officers
and enlisted men to go ashore for fear it may
lead to bloodShed."
Can one read the above comments from Wash
iugton and doubt the intimate connection be-
tween the plot to establish lynch law in Hawaii
and the preparations for imperialist war in the
Pacific?
But more damning still are the facts about
the absence OF assaults on women in Hawaii,
DR.. Thomas Mossman, of the Honolulu city
emergency hospital, which handles all assault
cases. was reported in the New York Times OF
January IL to have said:
"Any statement that gives the impression
that we have had 30 cases of criminal assault
here in the last eleven months is far from the
facts.
During 1881 we handled some so cases OF
the so-calIed sex type. OF these 20 proved to
be absolutely non intercourse incidents. There
were approximately 20 cases in which females
less than 16 years old were involved and 20
other cases involving women between 16
and 20.
cit is inaccurate and unfair to classify any
OF these cases as criminal assault when there
is every reason to believe they were not"
The case Of Mrs. Massie, wife Of the naval
thug who, with his mother-in-law and two sail
ors one of whom testified that he was always
drunk, lynched the Hawaiian YOUTH throws a
bright light upon Official life" in the upper
set Of the armed forces OF Yankee Imperialism.
The Massies were participants in a drunken
orgy at the home Of another officer Mrs Mas
sic wandered from the house in drunken stu
por and in the course of an hour or so made
her way to her own home where she was found
a bit battered and somewhat the worse for wear
and tear The Massie family later gave out the
assault" story to explain her escapade. This
occurred last September Later four young Ha-
waiians were arrested and tried for assaulting
her. The jury disagreed because most of them
refused to believe the unsupported word Of a
drunken wife Of naval officer. In january
Masse and his mother-in-law, with the aid Of
two sailors, carried out the lynching Of Kaha-
hawai- because the jury refused to carry out the
wishes of the naval clique and legally lynch the
five boys.
This is the specimen OF "white womanhood"
the agents Of American imperialism are raving
about
This is the sum and substance Of the case that
is being used by the imperialist bandits to es-
tabhsh naval tyranny over the Islands, to de-
prive the natives and other colored inhabitants
Of even the rneagre rights they have hitherto
been permitted to exercise.
This case is just as much part Of the war
preparations as are the naval and military ma
neuvers in the Pacific; the mobilization Of bat
tleships airplane carriers and cruisers in Ha-
waiian waters; the summer exercises" in Chi
nese waters; the announcement from the navy
department that a decision may be made TO
retain most OF these ships in the Pacific for
some time" because OF the uncertainties Of the
Gar Eastern situation"
Against this conspiracy the working class OF
the United States must wage the most deter
mined struggle and demand that all armed
forces be withdrawn from Hawaii, from the Phil
ippines and all Pacific possessions" and that
the inhabitants of those Islands be granted i'm
mediate and complete independence. This is an
integral part of the fight against lynch law in
the United States the fight against the Hoo
yer hunger program, the fight to free the Scots
boro boys, the fight against colonial tyranny
and the struggle against imperialst war, the
fight against the ravaging Of China and the de-
Tense Of the Soviet Union.
'The Soviet Union Stands for Peace Che
great speech made by Comrade Litvinov, rep
resentative Of the Soviet Union at Geneva, shows
the peace policy of the Soviet Union and the