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for repeal OF the Eighteenth amend
ment had been pui through. So Mr..
Garner drew up such a resolution
and announced that he would insist
on Its being put to vote In the
house on Monday. the first day OF the
short session. 1t was a resolution for
fiat repeal. with no mention of pro-
lection for the dry states.
Many congressman. both Democrats
and Republicans, called on the speak.
err with protests and pleas for delay,
and MIR. Garner began to weaken. say
Ing that If he found there was con-
siderable objection to consideration
Of his resolution he would just as
soon back up and say. I'VE win
wait" Fred Britten of Chicago and
other eminent vets tried to keep the
speaker to his determination. Britten
assuring him that the Republican side
of the house would supply more than
100 votes for the repeal resolution
But there was no certainty OF more
than 1870 Democratic votes, so 1t was
doubtful whether the necessary two.
thirds majority could be obtained
Later In the week some OF the dry
members from the South were re-
ported to be sliding over to the re-
peal side and the prospects OF the
resolution were considered brighter.
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News Review of Current
Events the World Over
More Sguirming to Avoid Payment of War Debts to
America-Repeal and Beer Worry Members of
Congress Assembling for Session.
By EDWARD W. PICKARD

be pared from the naval budget and
said he was now willing that the build.
Ing program should be reduced to
point far below the maximum set by
the treaty of London.
From what Mr. vinson said II was ap-
parent that Mr.. Roosevelt hopes to
provide the United States with a small
but powerfully effective navy. He
fected by the consolidation of some
bureaus and a better control OF all
purchases.
DRESIDENT-EI.ECT ROOSEVELT
held series of conferences on farm
relief with farm organization leaders
AMI legislators. including Senators Rob.
inson, Wheeler and Bankhead. and
Henry Morgenthan. and the net result
seemed to be probability that moth
Ing would be done during the short
session except the enactment of some
emergency measures such as price FIX
Ing ana perhaps mortgage rennancing
Mr. Roosevelt declined to announce his
own plan in advance saying THAT
would be too much like telling con-
gress what to do"
Farm leaders In Washington said
they thought Mr.. Roosevelt wants to
meet the 1888 crop emergency and that
they are willing to accept temporary
measures such as the price-fixng bill
that was proposed In the previous ses.
sion.
LENRY FORD spent the week In
the Detroit hospital thai bears his
name, recovering from IN operation
for strangulated hernia. The opera
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nIREcTLY connected with the war
- debt affair was the fall of the
pound sterling, long the unit of In
ternational finance. to Unprecedented
~ low prices. BY the middle Of the
week the European gold standard ex-
changes also weakened considerably,
and at the same time the Japanese
yen and Chinese currencies broke
badly.
From London came reports that
there had developed sudden scarcity
of available dollars In the world mar
kets that Britain may purchase to
pay the United States. The evidence
was that American currency had been
bought up In France and elsewhere
by exchange brokers as part of a
scheme to depress the pound for the
benefit OF bears on sterling
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ment unless headed by himself. How
ever, there was hope that Hitler would
yield In later conferences. Ii not.
might instruct Won Schleicher to form
q cabinet and dissolve the reichstag
Or else, he might create business
cabinet under Won Papen and let II
carry on, regardless of public opinion
The Nazis said II the government
dissolved the reichstag forcibly. this
would be considered by them an lille
gal act and would evoke an illegal
answer"
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DRESIDENT MACHADO OF Cuba is
not afraid Of his political foes
who have so often sought his life; and
he Is determined to restore internal
peace II possible He ordered Gen
Alberto Herrera, chief of staff. to re
lease SO political prisoners. and the
following day he directed that 66 9th
err oppositionists be LET out OF the penl.
Tertiary on the Isle of Pines. Mill
tary rule was discontinued throughout
the Island except In Havana.
Machado's enemies said his mag
nanimity was due to unofficial pres
sure from the United States, but he
denied this fatty.
DAMON DE VALERA, president OF
- the League of Nations council.
passed the Lytton commission report
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DEER would seem to be occupying
- too prominent place In the
American public mind, were 1t not for
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y REPRESENTATIVE CARL vINSON
~ OF Georgia, chairman OF the house
committee on naval affairs, had long
talk With President Elect Roosevelt at
Warm Springs, and came away with
his former big navy" attitude consld-
erably changed He did not quote Mr..
Roosevelt. but announced that he would
favor drastic cuts In the naval build
Ing program and general economies
He declared at least $10O0OO,O0O could
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aires recovery was matter only of
rest and quiet. Members Of his i'm
mediate family. who visited him daily,
were no longer anxious about his con-
dltlon. BY the time this Is read he
may have been permitted to leave the
hospital for his home.
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DREMIER HERRIOT of France and
Ambassador Dovgalevsky Of Rus
sa signed In Paris the new Franco Rus
sian treaty Of nonaggresslon and con-
citation. 1t Is the first such pact that
the Soviet government has completed
with any Of the great powers.
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LENRY FORD spent the week In
the Detroit hospital thai bears his
name, recovering from an operation
The daily worker., 1932-05-17

When the news was received in the
other striking shops, there was great
enthusiasm, The workers see in this
settlement, the power Of the Union
its ability not only to lead the work.
ers in struggle, but also to lead then
back organized into the shops after
the struggle.
The settlement of this strike has
greatly strengthened the situation at
Andrew Geller, and Paris Shoe shops.
Developments are expected there very
soon as a result.
The I. Miller strike is in best
shape. Developments are expected in
the cutting department. The firms
promise to some scabs that many
workers would come back to work on
Monday, exploded yesterday like an
empty bubble. The crew is solid. To-
day the workers will be treated to a
movie. and special entertainment ar
ranged by the WIR, and its cultural
department. Special mobilization is
being made for mass picketing in the
morning, at noon, and in the even
ing.
The daily worker., 1932-05-17
Endicott Johnson Calls for
Troops AS 800 Strikers Meet

compromise offer for the acceptance
Of a partial cut. He will make a
statement Monday morning at the
factory gate mass meeting. Rank and
File preparatory meetings among the
rest of the Victory plant workers as
we'll as throughout the factory are
being held to stress the demand Of:
mo Wage Cut and No Lockout" An
Endicott johnson workers who was
chairman at today's meeting and the
speakers Gertrude Welsh and Sam
Zieball of the Shoe Workers Indus
trial Union stressed amidst great en-
thusiasm the splendid example of the
unprecedented events last Thurs
day when seven hundred Victory
plant workers paraded through the
streets of Johnson iCty invaded
other Endicott Johnson plants, shut
off the power and enrolled thousands
of other workers in a militant parade
carrying banners and protesting the
cut and lockogs.
Company officials and the police
were overwhelmed by the force of
the erraged workers. The company
directors fearing a general strike im-
mediateIy notified the majority OF
the workers in the Endicott plant not
to report until Tuesday. Solidarity
action against the wage cut and the
lockout are popular slogans through
out the tyi.cities. a.r,.
The daily worker., 1932-05-17

BINGHAMTON, N. Y. May 16.-
Over eight hundred Endicott John
son workers packed the Lithuanian
Hall here this afternoon with scores
more gathering outside pledging
unanimous support for a monster
solidarity mobilization against the
lockout at the Victory plant Mon
day morning. This is the zero hour
in the opening of general struggle
throughout all the plants against
wage cuts and the lockout. Mass
resentment and joint action of
thousands of Endicott johnson shoe
workers is OH foot against tine ten
to twenty per cent cut and the lock-
out of seven hundred in the Victory
plant.
The company issued a statement
today which both called for one
company of state troopers and the
mobilization Of the police and fire
departments and tried to break the
solidarity Of the workers.
The statement reads: "The Com
pany will gladly take back every
workers who desires to return"
In the meantime the workers in
the other plants are forced to sign
new yellow dog contracts pledging
them to continue to work.
Leon r. Wilson, the spokesman Of
the yictosZ workers issued . further
The daily worker., 1932-05-17

Writing in the Soviet news
paper, "Izvestia," Karl Radek
calls the bluff of the Japanese
militarists who are using peace
phrases to cover up their
growing war moves against the So
Wet Union. He calls upon the Jap
anese to sign non-aggression pact
with the Soviet Union as guarantee
of their good faith" Such a pact
was offered several months ago by
the. Soviet Union and bluntly turned
down by the Japanese government.
Radek writes that the Soviet Un-
ion is pleased by the recent express
sions of friendly attitude by the
Japanese Foreign Office, but that this
in view of events in Manchuria can
not be considered as sufficient proof
of Japan's peaceable intentions.
Radek sumed up some of the events
in Manchuria as follows:
First-Japanese forces invading
Manchuria have approached the
Soviet frontiers.
Second-They reckon little with
the economic interests of the So
Wet Union In the Chinese Eastern
Railway (owned by the Soviet Un-
ion and jointly operated by China
and the Soviet UniOn.)
Third-The Japanese govern
ment has failed TO accept the So
Wet invitation to create a diplo-
matte instrument to facilitate
peaceable solution of the disputed
questions"
The daily worker., 1932-05-17
First Aluminium Producing
Plant in Soviet Russia Opens

the Five Year Plan despite num-
Der of serious shortcomings.
Production of iron was substan-
TALLY increased although 1t is some
what below schedule. The oil, coal
and steel output, though outstripping
the declining production of these
commodities in the capitalist coun-
tries, fell somewhat below the figure
for March.
The Soviet government has re-
Gently made every effort to increase
efficiency in these industries and to
bring their organization up to sche-
dule. The leadership in these in
dustries has been severely criticized
ind changes are being made in or
der to improve the quality and guam
tity of the products SO as 10 speed
an the completion of the Five Year
Plan.
The daily worker., 1932-05-17
Big Communists Vote Recorded in
Los Angeles and Long Branch

LOS ANGELES, Cal, May 16-The
Communist candidate, Edward A.
Sander, got 1,425 votes, according to
official figures announced last week
The election was held May 3, and
was for the recall OF Mayor Porter,
charged with misconduct in office.
Porter saved himself by slim ma
jority, on the straight Yes" and NO
vote to recall him. Ten candidates,
including Porter and Sander. ran for
mayor, at the same time. that being
the way Los Angeles conducts re-
call campaign. The local press con-
cealed the fact that Sander was run
ming on the Communist ticket, and
the various other candidates had
hundreds OF thousands OF leaflets,
sA y VA !
The daily worker., 1932-05-17

Unless the workers by mass
demonstration, by sending
hundreds of sharp resolutions
to Secretary of Labor DOak,
and to u. S. Commissioner
of immigration Tillinghast of East
Boston immigration Station, force
her release, she will be killed in her
hospital Jail, either through hunger
or by the tuberculosis which she got
from her long Imprisonment. Don't
let this heroic leader of the Law
renee strike die martyrl Demon
strate hold meeting, adopt resolu-
tons demanding her release, send
them by telegraph! A wave of mass
demonstrations throughout the coun-
try is needed.
Berkman was removed from Mas
Sachusetts Memorial Hospital at
p. m. Saturday afternoon, in the
custody of Mrs. Anna Tillinghast,
Commissioner of immigration. A
score of plain clothes men. and uni
formed police we're on hand when
she was taken out. For over "a
hours, the authorities succeeded in
hiding her. DR.. Henry Pollack, sup
erintendent of Massachusetts, Mem
orial Hospital refused to say where
she was taken. He had been very
free with threats to send her to an
insane asylum or psychopathic ward
if her hunger strike continued, so
Boston workers Immediately began
The daily worker., 1932-05-17

'l9l4-19l8.' 1t says further:
MANY japanese here believe that
two months will see a major clash
with Russia. Others think more
than this time will ensure, but that
the clash is inevitable.
Japan will not wait till Russia
has improved her industrial posi.
tion, by means of her Five-Year
Plan, however much that may come
up to the original expectations.
The Japanese argue that n
would be foolish to wait if the OBJ
ject is to dispose of Russia, this
time for good, as a major factor
in the affairs Of the Far last
These also think that the time TO-
day is such that Japan can never
hope for again, with every nation
engrossed in its own affairs and,
perhaps, with the exception OF
Japan, war-weary, because most
know the hell that modern war
means--the japanese yet do not"
The dispatch confirms the reports
of few days ago that Japan is con-
centrating an army in Korea, in ad.
dition to the japanese armies al.
ready advancing in Manchuria to-
ward the Soviet frontiers. 1t tells
Of growing attacks on revolutionary
japanese workers and peasants, who
are resisting the war plans of the
ruling class, 1t says:
alleged Communists here are
being arrested right and left and
a ban was imposed on publication
of such news"
The dispatch further reports that
the japanese War Minister, AraH,
is stumping the country in an at
tempt to incite war sentiment
against the Soviet Union
To-day The war Minister Is
stumping the country, talking about
our sacred mission in Manchuria
and Japan's determination to pre-
vent the Soviet from depriving
Japan of her right to make Man
churia a Paradise The papers are
echoing and re-echoing the same
thing"
The Soviet Union has maintained
policy of strict neutrality in re-
gard to the Japanese aggressions in
Manchuria, but, as the Daily Worker
has pointed out and the dispatch
admits, the japanese militarists ara
determined to carry through their
adventure
a.. One can guess at the next
objective Of the militarists who feel
tha. they have 10 go with the add
venture; that they have gone too
far to turn back. even If, as / think,
they have begun TO realize that
they have bitten OF more than
they can chew. srv pya
-,--, --~--...---ssa 4 u s-- = NJ "
The daily worker., 1932-05-17
STOP THE SHIPMENTS OF ARMS
AND MUNITIONS TO JAPAN!

on bulkheads Negroes are not per-
mitted to work in the shops. and are
Jim Crowed in the city, on the beach,
and in schools. More than 1000 are
unemployed, with little relief. and
discrimination against Negro jobless
Election issues aside from the
above were the decision of the COM
missioners to give s33S,663 out of a
budget of s778Ooo to the bankers for
payment on city debt. The Commu-
nists demanded this sum be used for
unemployment relief.
Long Branch is a Ku Klux Klan
center. Last year the Communist
Party conducted a fight for the right
to speak, in which workers were ar
rested, beaten, tear gassed, etc. by
police. Some we're arrested and the
cases are still pending in court
The daily worker., 1932-05-17

NCllb oSOOJODOlO NC5lO DOJo, AdSlAlS
legal lynching in Alabama. Mrs.
Wright is the mother of Andy and
Roy Wright, two of the boys,
Thousands of workers gathered last
Thursday night in the Freidrichshain
Hall to hear the Scottsboro mother.
When told that the socialist" au-
thorities. at the behest of the Amer
ican government, had prohibited Mrs.
Wright from even appearing at the
meeting, the workers we're furious.
Mrs. Wright had sent rousing mes
sage to the aSsemhlage. AS soon as
this was read and received with thun-
derous cheers by the workers, the po-
lice launched vicious attack on the
meeting, clubbing the workers and
breaking up the assemblage.
The daily worker., 1932-05-17
! search of al such institutions.

a search of al such institutions.
Attorney A. j. Isserman, who came
to Boston on behalf of the National
Committee for Defense of the For
eign Born, went to see Commissioner
Tillinghast. She sent her husband
to talk to Isserman. All information
as to where she was was refused, but
Mr.. Tillinghast let out the reasons
for the kidnapping of Edith Berk-
man. They are:
1. To keep her away from any
contact with the workers whatsoever,
and to isolate her, with the idea OF
breaking down her spirit, and fore
ing her to end the hunger strike.
2. To prevent any demonstrations
or mobilization of the masses.
3. To facilitate speedy carrying
out of the order to deport her to
Poland, if the decision Of the Circuit
Court now in session is against her.
1t is intimated that the decision
will be handed down in a few days,
that it will be against Berknlan, and
that a visa from the Polish govern
ment has already been secured. II
she is sent to Pilsudsk's Poland, she
may be shot.
Sunday afternoon searching par
ties located Edith Berkman in Cen
trail New England Sanitarium at
Rutland. The hospital staff there
admits they have her. No one has
been allowed to see her yet.
The daily worker., 1932-05-17
JAPAN WILL ATTACK SOVIET UNION IN LESS THAN
EIGHT WEEKS, SAY REPORTS FROM PEIPLNC, TOKYO
Terrorist Preparations in
japan for War on the USSR
TERRORIST PREPARATIONS IN JAPAN FOR WAR O.
THE SOVIET UNION.

TERRORIST PREPARATIONS In JAPAN FOX WAR ON
Il THE SOVIET UNION.
Fascist murders and open terrorism on unheard of
scale in Japan mark the drive of the military party of Jap
imperialism for invasion of the Soviet Union through
Manchuria.
The difference within the ruling class of Japan as to
the Soviet Union relate only the time tactics
OF the military campaign against the Chinese people and
the Soviet Union
The Toxic correspondent of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle
predicts the Soviet Union within two months 1t may
begin in two days!
The entire capitalist press united in the view that the
murderous terror in Toxic carried out by army and navy Of
ficers is the prelude to the Soviet Union.
Huge Japanese troop shipments into Manchuria are of
daily occurrence.
The Japanese imperiast forces now in Manchura
tinue to drive toward the Soviet frontiers.
Naval mobilization is being hurried in the vicinity Of
NIadivostok.
Stop the shipment of al munitions and raw mater
ials to Japan
Boycott all shipments of every kind of goods to Japan!
Organize the most militant demonstrations before the
japanese consuaes and embases Force the expusons of
all Japanese diplomats and trade representatives from the
United States!
Organize strikes every factory making munitions
Raise the question of the defense of the Soviet Union
in factory and shop Raise this question in every
union, every workers fraternal and benefit society,"
Organize Protest meetings against imperialist war!
Show to American workers that American imperialism
which starves millions of unemployed workers and cuts the
of those still working is leading force in the
ganzaton of the mperiaist against the Soviet Union
and the Chinese peoples heroic struggle for iberaon
Expose the lie that the Soviet Union will bring
prosperity!
Fight and defeat the war program and the support
given to Japanese imperialism the spearhead of the
drive the Soviet Union by Wall ST. Hoover government
Show by the fighting might of the American working
class that refuses jobs bought with the blood of the
revolutionary workers and peasants of the Soviet Union
and of China!
Smash the drve
Defend by every the fatherland of the worlds
working cass-the Soviet Unon Defend the ant-imper
iast revolution of the Chinese workers and peasants
Make every factory fortress against imperialist
and unbeatable center of resistance imperast
the Soviet Union!
The daily worker., 1932-05-17

MOSCOW.-A guarantee that the
Soviet Union would soon be indie
pendent of foreign aluminium pro-
ducers was given today with the
opening of the first Soviet Aluminium
Plant at Volkhov, near Leningrad.
The plant is an important step
forward in the fulfillment of the
Five Year Plan in four years.
The opening of the plant was
hailed with enthusiastic productions
of its success and it was declared that
at the end of the second Five Year
Plan, 1t would be producing 100000
tons of aluminium annually. This
would be equal to about three quar-
ters of the present world production.
The first complete report on in
dustries throughout the Soviet I'm
ion in April emphasized the gigantic
forward strides in the fullfillment Of
The daily worker., 1932-05-17
Win ElcO Shoe Strike; Raise
Lasters' Wage; Recognition
Encourages Andrew Geller and Paris Strikers,
l. Miller Strikers Enthusiastic

NEW YORK.-The Elco Shoe Co.
strike has been won, under the lead
ership of the Shoe and Leather
Workers Industrial Union of the
Trade Union Unity League.
After three weeks strike, the
firm was forced to call the shop
committee to negotiate for settle
nent.
Lasters Get Raise
The terms of the settlement are:
recognition of the shop committee,
no discharge, no discrimination,
equal division OF work, committee to
decide on the matter of damaged
shoes, all prices to be settled by the
price committee, the lasters to re-
ceive &c extra on pair for shoes
with tips, three out of the 5 dis
charged workers 20 back to work i'm
mediately, the other two to apply as
new help.
The strikers, as we'll as the Union
considered the terms OF the settle
ment for two days before a decision
was arrived at The Union weighed
and measured the points In the set
tlement. When the final agreement
was made, it was clear that the ques-
ton of organization was the main Is
sue around which the fight centered.
On this ooint the workers won. They
r~.o ''-''t TO belong to the Union,
collect dues and meet outside the
factory.
Organize Shop
The strike committee Dissolved af-
ter the settlement, and a shop COM
naittee and general shop chairman
were elected A
The daily worker., 1932-05-17
Workers Everywhere
Rush Funds to Save
Berkman's L i f e !

To carry on the fight to save
the life of Edith Berkman and
force the U. S. Immigration au-
thorities to release this militant
leader of the working class, funds
are badly needed. Rush donations
by wire to the Edith Berkman
Committee, 1893 Broadway, Room
410, New York City.
The daily worker., 1932-05-17

of the iGtast the
of
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The daily worker., 1932-05-17
ELEVATOR MEN STRIKE

NEW YORK.-A maintenance
workers strike was declared yester-
day at an apartment house located
at 1895 Grand Ave. following the
firing of two elevator operators. The
strike is led by the Building Main
tenance Workers Union. All the
tenants of the house have signed a
petition demanding that the workers
b yNlnytated
The daily worker., 1932-05-17

Smash the illusions OF the pa
cifists in the struggle against war.
Learn 10 struggle In the revolution
ary way against war. Read "Revo-
Versus Pacifism," by A. Bittelman
five cents.
The daily worker., 1932-05-17
Exposes Sham Peace
Gestures of Japanese; Offers
Soviet Non Aggression Pact

In his third point Radek clearly
refers to the Fisheries and other dis
putes raised by the Japanese Govern
ment in its attempt to mobilize the
Japanese people for war against the
Soviet Union.