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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-19
IZVESTIA BLAMES
JAPAN FOR WHITE
GUARD ATTACKS
Japanese Seek to
Enlarge Military
Conflict

The Soviet newspaper "Izvestia"
yesterday bluntly charged the Jap
anese imperialists with inspiring the
attack by White Guards in Man
churia on Soviet citizens and the Of
fees and Soviet manager of the
Chinese Western Railway.
"The Japanese militarists," 1--we
sstia said, "are seeking to enlarge
the frame of the military conflict
in Manchuria.
"These japanese elements cannot
evade responsibility for the latest
White Guard attack"
AS further evidence of the war
melting policy of the Japanese i'm
perialists, "Izvestia" pointed out that
the Japanese bourgeoisie was DELHI
erately misleading public opinion in
Japan with campaign designed to
place the Soviet Unions peace eff
forts in a false light.
A Shanghai dispatch to the New
York Tribune reports a huge con-
centratiOn of Japanese troops near
Hardin. The concentration is being
carried out on the pretext of
anticipating an attack by the
Japanese tool Gen. Ma, who is now
engaged in a sham vancouver of
Fighting" against his Japanese
masters. Hardin Is on the Chinese
Eastern Railway.
"A Tokyo dispatch TO the New York
Evening Post reports that Japanese
military experts have interpreted"
the action of the Soviet Union in
strengthening its border forces "as a
clear indication that Russia expects
q clash with Japan" AS If the Jap
anese had not shown by the con-
centration of troops on the Soviet
border and their own admissions of
their robber appetite for Soviet ter
r1tory that they intend to attack the
Soviet Unionl The dispatch quotes
the Japanese Foreign Office as fol-
lows:
Our military experts estimate that
the Soviet forces on the Manchurian
frontier between Vladivostok and
Manchuli now number nine divisions.
a total of 10000 men, with the
strongest concentrations in the Pog-
rarlichnaya and Manchuli districts,
where there are two divisions each.
''The experts assert the DISPOSE
tons clearly indicate the Russians
are expecting a clash with Japan.
Although they are of a defensive
nature, they are capable also Of
assuming the offensive
This is both an admission that the
strengthening of the Soviet border
forces are of defensive nature and
q preliminary preparation by the
Japanese to charge the Soviet Union
with the offensive, in the war which
the Japanese are now clearly pre-
pared to begin.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-19

well as from tens of thousands of
workers in Germany, France, Swift
zerland and other countries. Albert
Eirstein and Thomas Mann are
among the German intellectuaIs who
have vigorously protested against the
lynch verdicts. In the Soviet Union,
millions Of workers and peasants
have registered their firm solidarity
with the oppressed Negro nationality
and with the mass fight to stop the
legal murder of the Scottsboro boys
by the Alabama ruling class.
Panama Workers Send Protest.
In Panama, Central America, white
and Negro workers have rallied to
the fight to save the boys. Several
demonstrations have been held. On
April 6, at a mass meeting in Les
seps Park at Panama City, under the
auspices of the Panama section of
the International Red Aid, the fol-
lowing protest cable was adopted, to
be sent to President Hoover:
Panama and Canal Zone work.
ers protest the eIectrocution of the
ScottsborO Negro boys and ask
clemency."
From all over the world the thun-
der of protest is rising, with the
world working class demanding the
unconditional release of the nine in
nocent boys, seven of whom already
have been sentenced to burn in the
electric chair on May 10. The work
ing class demands unconditional re-
lease, not clemency. The boys are
innocent. The working class must
not permit the Alabama lynch bosses
to murder these boys or to brand the
Negro people as a race of rapists.
Fellow-workers! Rally to the build
ing of tremendous mass defense
movement! Hold demonstrations!
Rush funds to the Scottsboro De-
Tense Fund, Room ia, 80 E. 18th St.,
to finance the fight to the U. s..
Supreme Court. Back the fight in
the courts by your mass protests.
Only the united mass fight of white
and Negro workers can save the boys.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-19
Govt Official Admits Move
to Regulate Capitalism Fails

no attempt TO enforce its provi-
sions; it is considered too import
ant TO be utterly abandoned, but
all efforts 10 place II on more
permanent basis have so far failed
and its present influence is nil.
"The renewal of a few Of the less
important cartels can hardly be
considered as proof of the vitality
of the International cartel moye-
ment, although some of its Europ-
can opponents are stu advancing
its claims as a factor in the solu-
ton of the outstanding, inter-
European economic problems"
And so dies another frantic at
tempt of the capitalists to save them
selves. With the cartels go the glor-
ious theories of socialists and rene
gades from Communism that in the
new era capitalism is able TO rise
above the MARKHAM theory Of capt.
talist over-productiou and crises"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-19
Fascist Army Being
Organized by Father
Cox in Pittsburgh

out of the inocent jobless move
ment started by Father Cox in Pitts
burgh at the time when the Ma
tional Hunger March was sweeping
the country there is developing a
fascist movement to fight working
class struggle,
Recently the holy father" stated
to a leading writer that his purpose
is TO keep the jobless from revolving
against starvation. Now he an
nounces the formation OF Blue
Shirt" army under the guise of a
convention to nominate him for
president.
The announcement was made at a
large meeting in a Pittsburgh air.
field. Cox boasts that million men
attired in blue shirts will support
his nomination in August. Cox de-
claims against the capitalists but
Salutes their government and urges
the wealthy to join his movement
The hypocrisy and danger to real
fight for unemployment insurance
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-19

PITTSBURGH, Pa.-Three i'm
portant news items appeared in the
press today in connection with the
strike. The National Miners Union
wishes to state its position on each
Of them.
The government is definitely step
ping in to break the strike. Just as
in the past, the government is show
ing its colors by taking the side of
the coal operators. The government
is particularly concerned to break the
strike at the Soiners Mine, owned by
the Goodyear Rubber Co. because
the Goodyear has large orders from
the government to be used for war
purposes. We thus see that the at
tenpt5 to break the strike is def
initely linked with the war prepara-
ticns.
Planning to Raid N.M.U.
Headquarters.
As part of the attempts TO break
the strike, the coal operators, through
their government agencies, are plan
ming reign of terror against the
National Miners Union forces. The
newspapers today openly carried the
news that a raid is planned upon
the N.M.U. headquarters Although
this strike is officially led by the
UM.W.A., nevertheless, the enemies
OF the strikers fully realize that the
National Miners Union militant
strike policies have struck deep roots
amongst the mass of strikers.
Since the beginning of the strike
the N. M. U. continued to bring their
real militant policies to the miners.
Its members are taking an active
part on the picket lines. The NM.U.
has exposed, and will continue to
expose, the false strike issues raised
by the U.M.W.A. officials. The strik-
ers, though formally accepting u, M,
w A. leadership, are in fact fight
ing In line with the N. NJ. U. strike
program. This is the reason for the
intended attack upon the National
Miners Union.
Cindue Attacks Mass PicketinE.
The third important news item Is
the fact that John Cirque, the sub
district U.MW.A. president, at con-
ference with the stset representa-
tives. desclained responsibility for
the huge fass picket lines that took
place the past couple Of days at the
Somers Mine. The wolf has dis
carded its sleeps fur.
This attitude on the part Of Cindue
means nothing else than an invita-
ton to the government forces to
smash the strike through a reign of
terror. 1t means laying the basis
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-19

Oncisl acknowledgement that the
movement to organize international
capitalism through Cartels in lead
ing industries has failed is given by
Louis Domeratsky, an official of the
u. S. Department OF Commerce.
During the years of prosperity"
the steel magnates Of the European
nations attempted TO form this I'M
ion Of the industry in order to keep
prices up and regulate production.
This was an attempt TO plan CAPT
taliS1n." The same was done in the
sugar, nitrate and copper industries.
But the laws Of capitalist society,
of dog eat dog competition worked
against this movement and Mr.. Dom
eratsky, commenting ont the fate of
the various cartels, says:
"The Continental Steel Entente
is still kept alive by provisional ex-
tensions, but there is practically
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-19


rest of the tzarist pack. Illiteracy
was wide spread. We lived in pow
erty and hunger. We are unable to
describe the misery of the peasants
at that period. At the same time
the landowners of the surrounding
estates were rolling in luxury.
For a days work of IA hours the
landowners paid the workers 20 to
80 copecks. The parasites, the
priests also lived on our labor. They
had land and employed farm workers.
They also did not forget to take our
bread, money etc.
The priests kept on persuading us
not to be envious Of the rich, to work
with the sweat on our brows, in Or
der to get bread for ourselves and
wealth for our exploiters. For this
life of poverty on the earth they
promised happiness in heaven and if
a poor fellow dared to express his
he was Immediately reported by the
discomfort with priests or landowners
priest to the police, was put in prison
and sentenced to hard labor, etc. All
power was in the hands of the
priests and capitalists, landowners.
Lived on Bread and Water.
AS a result of these conditions, we,
poor, peasants, were leaving our
homes and families, in order to look
for work in other districts. But also
there we could not escape the land
owners, priests and capitalists. The
contractor paid us for our work mis-
cradle pennies, not more than SO CO.
pecks day. In the summer we
worked from sunrise till sunset. The
contractor tried to pay us as little as
possible, in order to fill up his own
pockets. The food was bad,
For breakfast bread and water. For
dinner and supper: sour cabbage soup
and pooridge. That was all they
gave us. 1t is impossible to describe
all. The thought of the past brings a
feeling of horror. A worker of our
collective tells us, that in Is years he
worked for a contractor, he was not
with his family even 3 years. He
worked all the time to keep his family
from starving while the contractor
was getting rich on the labor of the
workers.
Destroyed Parasites.
The October Revolution destroyed
these parasites. We are free now.
The land was taken away from the
landowners and priests and given to
the peasants. on this land we are
now organizing large collective farms.
The small, narrow strips of land we
united into large collective fields,
where tractors and various agricul-
tural machinery are used. We col
lected all our implements and live
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-19
tBy q Worker Correspondent

tBy a Worker Correspondent
PITTSBURGH, Pa.-The men are
working only two or three days q
week. On March 16 a 16 per cent
wage-cut took place. There is no pay
for dead work. When the pit boss
finds any dirty coal in any Of the
cars the loader is laid off for two
days as a punishment. If it is found
a second time the loader is fired.
TO every cut of coal the company
takes off five cars of dirt with no
pay. The leaders must carry dirt
from the room necks at least 80 feet
with no pay. The leaders are COM
PEELED to search for rails and tires
all over the mine, although it is
against the law for loader to carry
rails and tires. There is also no pay
for crossbars since last December
The miners have to clean the place
before they shoot coal. Often the
leaders are compelled to clean the
place with q broom.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-19

YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio-The steel
workers of youngstown, in declaring
their solidarity with the brave min
ers who are fighting against starya-
ton in the Ohio coal fields, issued
a call yesterday to members of the
National Guard to take the side of
the miners in their struggle and re-
fuses to act as tools for the Good
year Rubber Co.
The call to teh soldiers said.
Are you, a worker in uniform,
going to help maintain hunger and
starvation? Are you going TO shoot
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-19
GENERAL STRIKE
PLANNED BY NEW
ZEALAND TOILERS
Barbed Wire Put Up
In Effort to Stop
Demonstrations

A general strike to force the
government to take back the 10
per cent wage-cut for civil en-
pIoyes is being considered by the
workers of New Zealand following
a week of militant battling with
armed forces. Meanwhile police
and British sailors patrol the
streets, not allowing any groups
rof workers to get together. Barbed
wire entanglements are being put
up in the streets by the police.
Hundreds of workers have been
arrested for taking part IN the un-
employed demonstrations and po-
lice of Auckland are said to be
looking for q prominent Commu-
mist leader.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-19
I36CnbdnW Writers Send Protests
to Alabama Governor Against
ScottSboro Lynch Verdicts
Join Worldwide Mass Fight to Save Innocent
Boys, Seven of Whom Are Sentenced
to Burn May IL

NEW YORK.-A group of
Sc writers and newspapermen
of Havana, Cuba, yesterday
cabled the following protest
against the Scottsboro lynch
verdicts to Governor B. M. Miller Of
Alabama:
"The undersigned, writer's and
newspapermen Of Cuba, by this
cable message present to you their
most fervid protest against the vio-
latiOn of justice to the ScottsborO
boysS victims of ten racial and So
cial prejudices. Their massacre
would constitute shameful injury
to the legal procedure and an out
rage to humanity and civilization
nd an indelibIe blot in the history
of Alabama"
Among the signers of the protest
are the following noted Cuban
writer's: Ofelia Rodriguez Acosta,
Manuel Marsal, Jorge Manach, Fran
cisco Ichaso, Ramon Vasconcelos,
Raul Ortega, Ricardo illares. Rafael
Suarez Soils and Fernando Rivero.
This protest by group of Cuban
intellectuals is another example of
the extent to which the struggle of
the world warking class for the re-
lease of the Scottsboro boys is sue
ceeding in exposing the brutal char
acter of the imperialist oppression of
the Negro masses and rousing the in
dignation of various groups in the
face of this hideous frame-up of nine
innocent Negro boys.
From Europe have come protests
from various intellectual groups as
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-19
Will Defend Socialism
With Our LiVes, Say
Workers in u. S. S. r.
Construction Workers Write of Rise in Living
Level Since Revolution
Lived on Bread and Water Before 1917; Nov
Workers Get Good Wages and Food
Dear Comrades /:

Dear Comrades:
lutonary greetings
At general meeting decided to describe to you our
life before the revolution and life and work now.
Before the revolution of 1917 the peasants had very
little land family of had from to acres of very poor
land They worked with wooden pows their strips
Of land Their bred lasted them only until October Noven
Der.
There very few schools and those the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-19
Gary Steel Workers Desperate for Food

any relief and that he should have
spent tat money carefully.
Any worker getting one days work
in two weeks in the mills gets no
relief whatsoever.
Those workers who are only work
ing one and two days and all unem-
ployed steel workers should get to-
gether and make the Gleason Relief
give the workers not only food but
force them to pay our rent and buy
our children shoes and clothing. ALI
workers should do the same thing
that did-that is join in with the
unemployed workers into the Unem-
ployed Council at 1914 Broadway and
fight together for more to live on.
j. r.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-19

CHICAGO, IlL-Three hundred
and fifty Delegates representing
two hundred and thirty working
class organizations in a conference
here made final preparations for
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-19

Sell the workers own pamphlet
Unemployment Relief and Social
Insurance" in our May First cam
paign to mobilize them for our
program. Two cent pamphlet.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-19

lower price for milk in the city, and
also support the demand of the I'm
employed Councils and the Young
Pioneers OF America. who are de-
manding free milk be given the chill
dren in the schools.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-19

On May LIST the Ameri-
can Workers Started
the Fight for the s.
Hour Day! On May LIST
ID e m Onstrate Against
Wage Cuts and Unem-
plOyment!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-19

Read the April issue of
"The Commansst." Price col
cents. ' |
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-19

Robert sivert, Dist. sec'y.
The Washington times., 1932-03-02
MONDAY BOUTS
! ILLEGAL, SAYS
! ALAN BOWIE
Promoters Failed to Comply
With State Regulations
in His Opinion

Questioning the legality of
fights staged By professional
boxers in the new Ritchie Coli
scum, at College Park, State 5
Attorney Alan Bowie, of Prince
Georges county, yesterday re-
turned passes to the bouts, held
Monday night, to officials of
the University of Maryland.
In his message to H C, (Curly)
Byrd, assistant to the president
Of the University, Mr.. Bowie said:
I'm my opinion such boxing
matches were illegal, and in
the future l shall do all in
my lower to prevent any Of
these matches from being held
which do not comply with the
laws of my county and State"
1t vas further disclosed that
Mr.. Bowie atte ..pted to discuss
the bouts with Mr.. Byrd late
Monday afternoon, but could not
reach the athletic director. A tel.
ephone conversation with DR..
Raymond W.. Pierce, president of
the university, revealed that it
was too late to stop the fights.
1t was said.
1t was pointed out by Mr..
Bowie that, in order to stage pro-
feSsional prize fights in Prince
Georges county, the permission Of
the county commissioners first
must be obtained; a license pro,
cured from tn. Maryland State
Boxing Commissioner and $4,000
bond posted. Mr.. Bowls said
that he did not believe all of
these regulations had been OBJ
served.
The Washington times., 1932-03-02
OFFICE
OPENSAPR|L L

George Washington, himself an
inventor, signed the original pat.
ent statute on April 10. 1870, and
on July 81 of the same year
granted the first patent ever is
sued in this country.
The recipient was one Samuel
Hopkins, who had devised a new
method of making pot and pearl
ashes.
.Coincident with the George
Washington Bicentennial, observ.
ance will be taken Of the opening
of the new Patent Office here on
April II. WaShington's interest
in patents was discovered by the
committee in charge Of the cele.
bration. Washington invented sew
eral improvements on plowS and
designed the dinner coaster, 4"
forerunfer of modern table de.
vices.
The Washington times., 1932-03-02
.OMENINDORSE
5-P0|NT PLAN

The Montgomery County Fed.
Grafton Of women's Clubs last
night indorsed the five.pctnt pro.
gram to interest clubwomen in
furthering the return Of normal
conditions.
The committe, n led to select
a slate Of officers to be voted on
in May consisted Of Mrs. Henry
M. Milburn, Kensington; Mrs.
Eugene e. stevens, Chevy Chase;
Mrs. Upton D. NoHrse, Dawson
Vile: Mrs. Ivan c. Weld, Sandy
Spring, and Mrs. Beryl English,
Silver Spring. =
Mrs. E. s. Noyes, chairman Of
the Eliza Bennett HartShorn
student ! IN fund, reported three
more girls had taken advantage
of the fund, bringing the total
to 13.
The Washington times., 1932-03-02
RObber Takes Cash
From LnIE1rdrV Till

Police today were without clues
as to the identity Of a light.
skinned colored man who last
night robbed q woman clerk in
the Palace Laundry branch at
2110 s st. N. w. Of approx
nately $50.
Mrs. Myrtle Hayes, Of 1918
Eighteenth st. N. w., the man.
ager Of the branch, was prerar.
ing to close the office when the
robber walked in, produced a gun
and demanded the money in the
cash register.
The Washington times., 1932-03-02
Y. NJ. C. A. Planning
Membership DriUc

A campaign to increase the
membership of the Washington
Y. M. c. A. will be undertaken
by a committee headed by r. w.
Dunlap, Assistant Secretary Of
Agriculture, who has been active
in Y. M. C. A. membership cam
paignS. -,
Merritt o. Chance, former
postmaster, has been appointed
chairman of the Y. M. C. A. re.
ligious education committee.
The Washington times., 1932-03-02

Metropolitan Life Insurance poleyholders representing
about oneth Of the populations Of United States and
Canada should derive deep satisfaction from the
panyng statements Of their Company It must hearten
them realize how sound their einsurance protection
continues to be. ,. ~
The Washington times., 1932-03-02
MRS. NJ 'MAHON
LIBERATED

Mrs. Marie Mcmahon, zoos
M st. N. W., held for invests.
CATION last night by police in
connection with the shooting Of
Bryant Mcmahon, yesterday
morning, was released in custody
Of her attorney, Charles Ford,
.today.
Mrs. Mcmahon could throw no
light on the shooting, which her
husband refuses to discuss.
He Is in Casualty Hospital in
a serious condition with q bullet
wound in his back. He under.
went an operation last night.
The Washington times., 1932-03-02
Prince Georges Denies
Permission for Bouts

Permission to hold professional
prize fights on the Dunbar
property at Silver Hill, Md, was
refused to Milton T. Rowe by the
Prince Georges County Board of
Commissioners yesterday. James
Heal, clerk to the commissioners,
said that Rowe had sought to
hold the bouts for charity.
The Washington times., 1932-03-02
STATES ATTORNEY OPENS FIRE ON BOXING AT COLISEUM
Sees Future Cities Built
OF Tinted Concrete

Concrete cities Of the future
are envisioned by w. d. M. Allen,
chairman of the housing commit
tee of the American, Concrete In
Stitute, now in convention at the
Wardman Park Hotel.
Mr.. Allen believes that Ameri
can cities a few years hence will
be constructed entirely of con.
The Washington times., 1932-03-02

crete in colors, eliminating fire
hazards. The institute Is now at
work on experiments combining
concrete with colors adapted for
buildings and decorations. These
houses, Mr.. Allen says, win be In
Sulated against sound.
Six hundred delegates are at
tending the convention.
The Washington times., 1932-03-02
DUNLAP TO SPEAK

The Arlington County Repub.
liean Club will meet tonight at
the Odd Fellows Hall, Clarendon,
Va. Kenwick Dunlap, assistant
secretary Of. the Department of
Agriculture, will be the principal
speaker.
The Washington times., 1932-03-02
Life Insurance. the great stablzer of human welfare

DEAcE OF MIND, with which to face the present and
plan for the future has meant than means
today. These trying times It difficult to believe
that anyone has escaped the effects of worldwide de-
Aaton of values contraction of enterprise social change
That life insurance companies during the past year,
have been able show increase of insurance force
indeed tribute the high purpose which these nstitu
tions 1t indicates growing national consciousness
of this reliable form of financial protection.
Life insurance is, in real sense investment in peace
of mind with interest payable in future comfort paves
The Washington times., 1932-03-02

the way to education to replacement earning power
cut off by DEATH establishment of credit liquidation
Of Indebtedness estate ereationto these and other
family or business objectives% ....