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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-20
BRITISH PRESS EXPECTS EARLY ATTACK ON THE USSR BY JAPAN
POLICE BREAK UP
ANTI-WAR MEET in
TAMPA, FLORIDA
Arrest 2 Communists
and Beat Them Up
Severely

TAMPA, Florida, May 49,
A new wave of terror was let
loose here when uniformed
and plain clothes policemen,
aided by Immigration officers,
broke into the hall at Labor Temple
where the Young Communist League
was holding an anti-war and anti
deportation meeting on Monday, May
10th. Frank Gida and Mike Comas
were arrested and severely beaten up.
Many hundreds of workers, aroused
by the intensified preparations for
war against the Soviet Union and by
the recent deportation of Ferras and
Elspinoza, filled the hall to capac-
ity. But as soon as Frank Gida, or
ganizer of the Young Communist
League, was through speaking, he
was seized by an officer on order by
chief of police Logan and taken TO
Jail. Mike Comas was also seized,
taken miles away and beaten across
the back with black jack by masked
men.
From Jail, where he was likewise
beaten up, Frank Gida was released
into the hands of about is masked
men, among whom we're sheriff
Joughin and Police Chief Logan.
They rode him out of town, forced
him to kiss the American flag and
left him with eyes blaekened, fingers
twisted and several teeth knocked
out.
With each blow delivered, they
asked Frank Gida the address of H.
Gordon, Communist organizer whom
they threatened to hang on sight.
But as Gida refused to answer he
was beaten up into insensibility.
Gordon was present at the meeting
but the cops were already outside
when they were told he had not left
the hall as yet. They surrounded the
hall, the entrance to which was
closed from the inside, and did not
dare to break in because they knew
there would be no peaceful subnis-
sion..
Frank Gida was told never TO re-
turn to town: go back to New
York" was told-"and tell your
comrades that this is our method of
dealing with anybody attempting to
cause trouble"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-20

police, who tried to tsrrorize the vets.
Someone spread the alarm that there
was going to be a demonstration be-
fore the capitol building.
About 25 rank and file members OF
the Veterans Of Foreign Wars arrived
in Washington this week to collect
their back pay. They say that they
will stay in Washington until they
get the money.
A representative Of the Workers
Ex-Servicemen's League visited the
Daily Worker yesterday and requested
that greetings Of the League be ex-
tended to the veterans now in WASH
ngtou
when they say they are Foirs
10 stay until they get the money.
they have the right line he said. |
That's what We all intende 20 d..
Tell the veterans 70 get bahin6 |
the march 70 Washington. Az tbs
veterans who are unattached sAcuIs
start for Washington now ws VII
ali be in Washington. Juns g We
Hill get or hsrk nay WIS. w~ &c
there this time, fos Ne ara rcs-s
prepared to stay until We ess st.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-20
Chinese Red Armies in Big
Advance in 3 Provinces; Cut
of Marking Troops in AnneVeiI
Kuomintang Troops Desert to Revolutionary
Forces, Marking Aviators Refuse to Carry
Out Orders to Bomb Masses in
Soviet Districts

to black any attempt of the Nan
king butchers to send fresh forces
into the besieged city.
Chinese Red Army forces are also
winning victories in Honan Province,
Honan Province borders Anwhei on
the west. A powerful Soviet district
has existed for several years on the
Anhwei- Honan- Hupeh borders. Red
Army forces from this district are
also operating in the vicinity of Han
kow, the principal city of Hupeh
Province and one of the most inn
portant industrial and strategic cit
les of Central China. Anhwei IL on
the northern borders Of Kiangsi
Province, in which the city of Nan
king is situated. Bourgeois dis
patches admit that the growing pow
er of the Anhwei- Honan-Hupeh So
Wet district is threatening the very
existence of the traitereus Marking
government of the Chinese bankers
and landowners and their imperial
list masters.
In Fukien Province, the Chinese
Red Army is still carrying on VIC
torious advance toward the borders
Of Kwangtung Province in khich the
Canton wing Of the Kuonlintang
traitors have their stronghold. Chin
ese and foreign merchants at Annoy
Fukien seaport IS miles from the city
of Chang-chau which is in the pos
session of the revolutionary army
have raised fund Of 100000 to fin
ance the Canton clique in its Com
munist suppression" campaign.
The Canton navy, which is In re-
volt against the Marking govern
rnent, has seized the island of Hahn
an, of the coast of Kwangtung prov
ince. They have dismissed all magis-
trates and seized the funds of the
central bank. The revolt so far is
merely an expression of the internal
conflicts between the Ruomintang
betaryers of China. These conflicts
are in turn an expression Of the diff
ferences between the various imper-
ialist masters Of the two groups.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-20

The report that Berlin had picked up
Russian radio communication call
ing 100000 men to the colors for
maneuvers east of the Urals is dis
credited here, as there has been no
confirmation of it whatsoever. No
doubt is felt here that there would
have been official news of it If IL
were true.
g. 1t is not believed here that
Russia will do anything but defend
her own territory if attacked"
Further admissions of the criminal
intentions of the Japanese miitarists
are appearing in the German press,
according to Berlin dispatch TO the
New York Times. The VoSsiSehsI
zeitung sees the inminence Of a new
world war, the key TO which it says
lies in a secret drawer of the French
General Staff" The Vossiscfle Belt
ung adds:
once conflsgration was broken
out it is useless to try to quench it,
and efforts to localize it would be
just as hopeless.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-20
Secret Fascist Council Formed
to Meet War and Deepening Crisis

than the open conference" which
has proved 10 be long on talk, but
short on practical foilow-l
DICTATORSHIP" which Is be-
ing advocated more from week TO
week, would be avoided, but some
Of the practical merits Of Dictator
ship would be obtained. At least
this Is the hope behind the idea,
which Is an adaptation Of the set
mp represented by the war time
Council of National Defense.
One practical objection Is that
the PUBLIC MIGHT BE UNDULY
ALARMED BY IMPLICATIONS
IN THE SUMMONING OF A
COUNCIL OF ADVISERS. This
Is one reason why the President has
tried to work 20 quietly In previous
crises, when consultation with ex-
ira governmental leaders was re-
quired. II u now being argued,
however, that the public Is fully
aware Of the serious state Of sf-
fairs, and would welcome the open
establishment Of group Of advis-
crs.
WE HAVE REASON FOR BE-
LIEvNG THE PLAN WILL MA
rERIALIzE. ard w sdvins 700 In
advance Ia ecnsidar. II q good agu.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-20
JAPAN SOCIALISTS
BACK FASCIST ACT
FOR WAR ON USSR
Support Move for
Brutal Fascist
Dictatorship

The Japanese fascist drive for i'm
mediate war against the Soviet I'm
ion and increased terror against the
Japanese toiling masses is openly
supported by the Japanese socialists.
Even the bourgeois press which GUS
tomarily helps the socialists in con-
cealing their betrayals of the work
ing class is forced TO admit this. In
an editorial headed 1.-THE Sumurai-
Socialist Alliance" the New York
Herald Tribune yesterday admitted
that the fascist movement derives its
greatest strength from the support
of the socialists who are still able to
deceive large sections of the Japan
csc proleSariat. The editorial states,
in part:
When the army and navy leaders
meet to demand that the upshot of
this crisis be the final eclipse of
party politics in superiority Cab
met, they are not speaking for the
new fascist recruits to their cause.
They are speaking for a very big pro-
portion of the nobility, including
members of the imperial family, for
the sumarai, in or out of uniform,
and for the Japanese socialists.
The Japanese who shares with the
military and the aristocrats their re-
sentiment against the control of cor
rupt parliamentary politics by a
bourgeois oligarchy can see in their
reactionary program a long step
backward, if he likes, toward Asiatic
patriarchism. But, if it suits him
better, he also can seen in it a long
step toward the evolution Of a So
cialiSt state"
ut is this close cooperation of
the socialists withe militarists in
their 'super-party' plans which
gives the publication movement
such stability and importance
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-20

churla-thefe has been persistent
refusal to believe that Japan will dc
anything provocative.
Japan" he adds, "has able
friends in Great Britain and these
friends are now discussing every
probability of war;
The general belief, however, the re-
ports, is that Japan is determined TO
attack the Soviet Union and could
count on help from some European
states anxious to have Communism
beaten on the field of battle. Soviet
foreign experts themselves think
there is a great chance that a Far
Eastern war will lure Poland into an
attack on the Russian western from
tier mad that this might easily in
volve all Europe in a conflagration. y
The Post correspondent admits
that the reports spread by the Ger
man socialist paper "Vorwaerts' of
great military preparations by Rus
STA" are discounted in all circles. He
says:
"These reports simply are not be-
lieyed and there is certainly no Off
cial evidence to substantiate them.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-20
BULLETIN.

A Peiping dispatch TO the New
York Post yesterday reported that
the Chinese Red Army In Fukien
Province had captured the town of
Shfhma, IL miles from the seaport
Of Annoy, and were preparing TO at
tack the KuOnintang forces hold
ing that port. The dispatch makes
the sinister threat that ''the belief
here is that foreign naval forces
now at Annoy can handle any
trouble" These forces include
American, Japanese and British
warships engaged in direct armed
Intervention against the revolution
airy struggle of the telling Chinese
masses.
A Hankow dispatch reports that
Chinese Red Army forces were Oper-
ating within ten miles of that city.
the course of the fight last year
The Wall Street government yes.
terday issued fresh orders to its Nan.
king butchers to send troops agafnS
the armed forces of the revolutionary
Chinese workers and peasants in An.
hwei Province.
A Marking force Of 1000 which
invaded Anhwei Province about ten
days ago has been surrounded and
cut off BY the Chimes Red Army.
Bourgeois press dispatches from
Nanking admit that most Of this
force has joined the revolutionary
army. The same dispatches re-
port that the Marking government
is finding it increasingly difficult
to induce its troop to fight against
the Chinese Red Army. Marking
aviators are reported to have
bluntIy refused TO carry out or
ders TO bomb the Red Army and
the revolutionary masses in the
growing Soviet district in Anhwei
province. ->-r.
The Arlhwei Red forces have sur.
rounded the important city of Peng.
pu, and are moving to cut the Tient-
sin-Pukow Railway south of the city
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-20
Crucible Steel Workers Out
on Strike in Jersey City

JERSEY CITY, N. J., May 1s.--
The whole day shift OF $50 men In
the Crucible Steel plant here is on
strike, and the night shift Is ex-
pected to join the struggle. The
strike is against IS per cent wage
cut, the fourth cut within a year.
The plant was working four days
week, with a Stagger system by
which the men all lost one week out
Of every month.
The first Cutl asst year was from
ten hours to eight, with proportional
reductions in pay. The second cut
was October, 1881, ranging from 10
to Is per cent. The third cut was
Feb. |, 1882, ranging from 10 per
cent TO fifteen per cent. On May is
cut Of fifteen per cent was started,
the bosses going the first day TO men
in one department and announcing
it, the next day TO men In another
department and announcing 1t there,
etc.
Wednesday Is men walked out.
This morning so more walked out. At
1880, when work was to start after
lunch. the whole day shift struck.
The strikers have rank and file
committee for leadership.
The Metal Workers Industrial
League proposes to them that they
elect a broad united front rank and
flls strike committee, stas+- mass
picketing. and try to spread the
strike to another plant of the s.nns
company in Harrison, N. J,
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CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE,

tcoNrIAUED FROM PAGE cNEJ
merely political leaders 81 both par
ties, but also representatives Of m
DUsTRIAL, FINANCIAL, AGRI-
CULTURAL AND LABOR INTER
ESTs. They would act best as ad-
vsers TO the administration, and
also az executive instrumentalities
in liaison with their respective
groups. The spirit Of the thing
would be non-partisan rather than
bipartisan.
Precise duties have not been
worked out.
Actually, the President already
has the benefit of advice, more or
less secret, from leaders in the
democratic party, and from all
sorts Of leaders In budnesx, agyi-
cultural and labor groups. The bur-
den Of decisions Is heavy. Even
after decisions are made IL becomes
a question Of whether the country
VIII go along. Some additional
mechanism for execution Of gov
ernmental ideas, for translating
them into action, for enlisting CO.
operation from various groups Of
the public, Is now deemed desir-
able. The reason for . gmsll group
b that II would be less unw4eIdy
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-20
Workers in Many Local.
Conf Choosing
Delegates to Chicago
Huge National Convention Called by Commu-
mist Party Will Launch Election Campaign
With Demand for Unemployment
Insurance Main Issue

A wave of Communist Election
Campaign conferences is spreading
over the country. There are so many
they cannot be simplicity reported
in the Daily Worker All of them
elect delegates to the National Nom
mating Convention called by the
Communist Party, to meet in Chicago
May % ana %. Local conferences
are made up of representatives of
all sorts of workers organizations,
ranging from shop groups and local
unions to cultural language, frater-
nal, insurance, defense, sports, eX-
scrVlcemen's organizations. In addi-
ton to the delegates from local con-
ferences, there will be in the Ma
tional Nominating Convention large
numbers of delegates sent directly
from the larger units Of such Or
CARNATIONS.
The convention will have presented
tc it BY the Communist Party for
amendment and adoption draft
program for the election campaign
which stresses a demand for unem-
ployment and social insurance at the
expense of the state and employers.
; The Communist Party will propose as
the conventions nominees for presi-
dent and vice president of the United
States William z. Foster and James
w Ford. Foster is general secretary
Of tine Trade Union Unity League
and Ford is Negro worker leader
from Alabama
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-20
tBy a Worker Correspondentl

BRIDGEPORT, Ohio, May 1S-
The Communist election campaign
was opened here with a mass meet
ing last week in front of the City
Building. Paul Bohus, a candidate
ON the Communist ticket spoke
particularly on the treacheries of the
United Mine Workers of America
leaders in the present mine strike.
These officials, all parts of the repub-
lican party machinery, except few
who are chiefs in the democratic
party ruling clique. have called off
mass picketing at the very moment
the operators are trying to reopen
the mines under protection of the
National Guard
Fred Bell, Communist Party organ
izer in East Ohio showed up the fake
promises of republican and demo-
cratic party public officials, and ex-
planned the Communist platform
plank: Unemployment and social
insurance at the expense Of the state
and employers"
Another open air meeting will take
place Saturday night at the same
place.
The Belmont County, Ohio, confer
ence to ratify the county candidates
on the Communist ticket, will take
place June Is, p. m, at Bohemian
Hall, Lansing, Ohio, and all workers
organizations are invited to send two
delegates each.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-20
ESSEX County.

NEWARK, ". j., May 1Ss-The Es-
sex County Conference was held on
Saturday in this city, with II dele
gates representing "a organizations
and a membership Of 1900. Our
delegates to Chicago were elected
one from the Rabbit Workers local
Of the Needle Trades Workers Indus
trial Union; one from the Eclipse
Aeroplane shop; one from the Slovak
Workers Society, and one from the
Woman's Council and Jack London
Club, combined. In addition, rep
resentatives of the four branches of
the International Workers Order
promised that the four branches
would get together and send two del
egates to Chicago, directly.
An additional three delegates will
be elected jointly from the Russian,
Ukrainian, Hungarian, Lithuanian
and several other mass organizations
in the county.
A large banquet and dance is being
arranged to send on the delegates
May 81 at 347 Springfield Ave, New
al, New Jersey.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-20
1880 CARMEN IN
BOSTON GET WAGE
CUT THRU A. FL.
Mahon Saves Company
Huge Sum for Sake
Of "Co-operation"

BOSTON, Mass. May ITO their
long history Of labor betrayal, the
American Federation of Labor bu-
reaucracy today added another chap
ter by forcing wage-cut upon the
1890 workers in the Boston Carmens
Union.
When the voluntary" cut together
with demands for the lowering OF
conditions was first proposed by the
company a month ago, the Carmen
refused every demand. They held
fast TO this position until a week ago
when International President Mahon
Of the Amalgamated Association OF
Street and Electric Railway En-
ployes was called in TO do the bosses
dirty work He accomplished this in
short order, only a week
For helping the company put over
the cut, Malaon received public ac-
claim. In the statement given out
by this company today the following
Is noted I'VE wish publicly to com
mend the employees of the Boston
Carmens union and their Off
GERS ." And further.
The wage reduction already in
effect. and the present settlement
will result in a saving of sl,loo,ooo
(tor the company"
The cut amounts to six and a half
cents an hour, from 75c to 68 1-2c.
Without even demagogic statements
that 1t will spread the work" or
assist unemployed carmen" the Ell
company quite openly and frankly
admits that this cut will mean a
saving OF 100000 for II.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-20
BENJAMIN to Speak
On Unemployment in
Cleveland, June 18th

CLEVELAND. O.--Herbert Benja-
min, national secretary OF the I'm
employed Councils of America, will
speak in Cleveland on Saturday, June
4. on the struggle for unemployment
insurance. Benjamin is well-known
in Cleveland for his working class ac-
tiyities here, and he was one of the
leaders Of last years National Hun
ger March on Washington. The
meeting Will be held In the Slovenian
Auditorium, SALT 81, Clair Ave. be-
gHnt1G ~ 2 ,, m : i-l--.-----.--s,...-.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-20
BONUS BALLOT

of lying promises, face deportation
If they insist on living wage,
though Secretary of Labor Doak
leaves them alone as long as they
are willing to starye to death quietly.
They are organized now into beet
workers Industrial union under the
Trade Union Unity League, and for
the first time are presenting q mii-
ted front to the beet sugar barons,
Child Labor.
The wage conditions won now will
determine the life of the beet work.
ers for the entire summer. After
the period Of wedding Is over, TIE
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-20
n. ]. County Conferences.

NEWARK, N. j. May 13.-Ihe New
Jersey State Nominating and Ratifi-
cation Convention will be June 26 at
Labor Lyceum, Newark All workers
organizations are invited to send del
egates. The Convention will be pre-
coded by an. entertainment and dance
to welcome the delegates. June 25, in
the same hall
There were four county confer
ences held Sunday to elect delegates
to the National Nominating Conven-
ton III Chicago. All endorsed the
proposed platform submitted by the
Communist Party and Foster and
Ford for president and vice-presi-
dent. AL passed resolutions demand
ing release of Edith Berkman and
the Scottsboro boys. Each elected a
committee of eleven TO manage the
Communist campaign in that county.
Other county conferences we're held
before Sunday, and there is one to
come, May 20, in Camden, for Cam
den county.
LINDEN, N. J., May 15.-The I'm
ion County Communist Election
Campaign Conference met here May
Is with 25 delegates, representing IS
organizations, with total member
ship of sos. 1t elected two delegates
to Chicago.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-20


The hundreds Of evtcted families
are desperately in need of tents. at
once. All available tents IN posses
sion of other unions, or of workers
camps or other organizations. should
be rushed TO the above address i'm
mediately.
Funds for the defense OF the ar
rested strikers, who are charged with
intimidation" and with violation
OF the state anti-picketing law
should be sent at once to the Pro-
visional Defense Committee and the
International Labor Defense, 1918
Fifteenth ST., Denver, Colo.
Decisive Moment,
This is the critical moment Of the
struggle 1t will be decided in the
two weeks from May Is to June 1,
In that period the beet-thinning
must be done, or the gigantic invest
ments OF the Great Western Sugar
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES said to total
sl75,0oo, ooo-will be sacrificed. uni
ted support Of one hundred per
cent walkout will compel che bosses
to yield, the wage cut they are try
ing 10 put over ON the beet workers
will be defeated,
The sugar beet Industry is the
largest in the state Of Colorado, and
thousands Of Mexicans, Spanish, and
German workers are employed.
Child labor in it's most fragrant form
is the rule on the sugar beet ranch
es, Nest OF the Mexican and Span
lsh workers.. brnuRht In on the bssi,
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beet workers have still other work I'd
do in the beet fields, cultivating ana
eventually harvesting the crops
Observers report pitiful condition
of the workers ana their children
Small boys, five years OF age. on thell
knees on the cold ground, are seen
by travellers pu6lir1 al the beet roots
With bleeding fingers In the winter
their mesger wages already gone
the families Of these workers collect
in the cities, where, heartlessly dis
criminated against, they stervo and
freeze through the whites, vsitins
for the next sugar beet ssesun
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Middlescx County.

NEW BRUNSWICK, N. j., May ID,
The Middlesex County Conference
here May Is, had % delegates repre-
senting 10 organizations with a TO-
tai membership of $751; Jesse A.
Smith, % year old Negro worker and
George r. Carroll, an Irish American
shop worker, were elected delegates
to Chicago. A progrsm~of action was
adopted for the county, and $40 was
raised and more pledged for cam
paign expenses,
There will be q dance in Perth
Anboy, Middlesex county. on May
Il, at 500 Elm st. to send Of the
delegates, and similar affair on
May q at II Plun ST., Kew Bruins
wick.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-20

Smash the illusions of the paclasts
in the struggle against war. Learn
10 struggle in the revolutionary way
against war, Read Revolutionary
Struggle Against War versus Peel
fisn.," by A. Blttelman, Ave csntss
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10 Mee4 In Houston

HOUSTON, Texas, May 1s--sev-
snty representatives OF workers or
carnations attended the Workers
Election Conference here. Lewis
Hurst and A. w. Berry, Communist
Party section organizer, made the
main reports. Berry pointed out that
a fourth Of Mississippis farms are
being sold for auction, and conditions
are little better in Texas.