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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-15
Order Deportation
Of August YOkinen
As Party Member
Repudiated Race Hate,
Seized by Govt

NEW YORK, April 14.--Mere mem
bership in the Communist Party is
sufficient ground on which to deport
a worker from the United States,
according to the running made few
days ago by the United States Circuit
Court Of Appeals in unfolding the
decision Of the Department of Labor
in the case Of August Yokinen, de-
ported on the ground of his mem
bership "in Party which advocated
the overthrow Of the government by
force Of arms"
Yokinen was expelled from the
Communist Party in March, 1891,
after a public working class trial in
New York, In which it was proved
that he had absorbed the poisonous
propaganda of the bosses about the
"inferiority" of Negroes. Yokinen
had failed to fight for the right of
Negro workers TO enter the Finnish
Club and had even stated that he did
not care to associate closely with
Negroes. At the trial, he admitted
his Grim eagainst the working class
undertook to prove that ne would
overcome this attitude of white race
superiority.
The day after the trial, and I'M
questionably because Yokinen had
repudiated his white race patriotism,
he was seized by immigration officers
and his deportation was ordered. The
case is being fought by the Inter
national Labor Defense.
The Judge who has ordered Yoki-
mems deportation has pointed to the
Act of Oct. 16, 1918, according to
which a foreign-born worker who
joins the Communist Party is sub
ject TO deportation. The attem pit 10
deport Yokinen and to enforce this
ruling against him is an attack of
the bosses against all foreign born
workers and therefore against the
entire working class.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-15
10000 May Day Dailies'
Ordered Already By Only
Three Different Districts!

The May Day Daily Worker, with
workers news will be off the
necessary to print than 100000
for 70O0ol New York
its bid for and Detroit three
cities alone!
Also pouring the coming requests for adyer
Using contracts and greeting blanks these
or are already The complete consgnmens
senaves OF the Daily Worker and local shortly
The map in Tuesdays Daily Worker
OF the May Daily Worker
ready Tor It, Send in greetings order your
and other contacts to send in greetings
local business represented May
Day greeting
campaign will be
Workers. Write in experiences getting Day greetings
or ADS Tor the May Day Daily Workeri
telling other workers how
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-15

sense OF political heritage, with the mass movement
that had been worked up in that city beforehand for
the Mooney defense. The same thing can be said of
the winnipeg general strike.
And it is an interesting fact that out of the great
movement later built up by Foster under the name
OF the Trade Union Educational League (now the
Trade Union Unity League), practically every leading
figure in this movement led by Foster had previously
been leading figure in the mass movement for the
defense Of Mooney The movement reached such pro-
portions as very nearly to result in general strike in
1919, in spite of the treachery of certain members of
the leadership. There very bitter struggle in
the Southern Illinois coal fields, preciptated by al
strike for MONEYS liberation
The Mooney movement resulted in the biggest left
wing convention of trade union delegates that ever
menaced the Gompers bureaucracy in the American
Federation of Labor refer to the great convention
OF the Mooney defense movement in Chicago in 1919,
which was dtched Sabotaged and destroyed by the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-15

Preparations for May Day are
going on rapidly all over the United
States. Conferences are taking place
one after the other, in which thous-
ands Of workers are represented. Ac-
cording at hand, May Day is going
to be a day of mighty struggle against
the menace of new world robber
war, for unemployment insurance, for
immediate relief, for defence Of
China and the Soviet Union.
PASSAIC, N. IA successful May
Day Conference was held here on
April l, eighteen organizations we're
represented with 26 delegates. Plans
were laid down for May Day Dem
onstration to take place at Hudson
and Market Street, in the afternoon,
followed by parade throughout the
working class district A revolution
airy program was arranged for the
evening at Pollack's Castle Park,
Rover Road, Garfield.
Leaflets in different languages will
be issued calling upon the workers to
demonstrate. An executive committee
Of IS was elected to carry on the
preparations.
IRONWOOD, Mich.-A well at
tended United Front Anti-War
May Day Conference" was held here
on April 9Th, with delegates from
many mass organizations. A main
demonstration was planned to take
place in the Farmers Market Square
at 2 p. M, in which workers from
Ashland, Marenisco, Wakefield and
other small localities are to partic-
ipate. After the demonstration the
workers will march to Palace Hall by
way Vaughn Street and down Suf-
folk Street. A oinner is to be served
between and o'clock. The even
ing program will begin at 8 O'Clock.
Preparatory meetings are to be held
at the following places: Marenesco,
Town Hall, Wednesday, April 18th,
at p. m; Iron Belt, Wis, Saturday,
April 10th at 1890 a. m. Plymouth
Hall, Tuesday, April 10Th, at 7 p. m;
Gile, Wis, Thursday, April 21st, at
z p. m; Bessemer Old Washington
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-15
Upton Close Predicts That
China Viii Go Communist

In an article in the Cosmopolitan
Magazine for May, Upton Close,
bourgeois authority on the Far East,
repeats his prediction that China
will go Communist. He admits that
the Kuomintang Party is discredited
before the masses and that only the
Chinese Communists have shown
themselves capable of leading the
national revolutionary struggle
against the imperialists. He writes:
What of China? In the past
the only uncompromising leader
ship and resistance to the invader
emanated from the Communists.
The nationalist leaders who had
armies, fortunes or careers to save
are discredited. We may expect a
Communist Oligarchy to dominate
the productive central and south
ern regions of China and to ally
with Russia. The League, America,
have let China DOWN Better go
back to Russia"
1t is this knowledge that the Chi
nese Communists are offering the
only organized resistance to the
plans Of the imperialist powers to
carve up and partition China that
lies behind "the great interest in the
Communist threat" shown by the
League Of Nations Commission dur
ing its investigation" visit to Han
know The League of Nations is
the organizer of the robber war
against China! Close admits that
the Japanese have the backing of
other imperialist powers in their
bestial butchery of the Chinese
masses.
I'm Tokyo before Sept. IS, in the
capitals of Europe and in Geneva
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-15
MEET FOR HUNGER
MARCH IN LOWELL


Lowell Mass.-A meeting was
held In Odd Fellows Hall in Lowell
by the Unemployed Cc%ucil. The
attendance at this meeting was
very good. Workers who last week
attended the socialist meeting
were present and endorsed the State
Hunger March denouncing the role
of the Socialist Party. The chair
man was Jalo Snellman, young
worker and Manuel Perry, youth or
ganizer of Column of the March
spoke on the purpose of the March.
Preparations are being made for
United Front Conference for the
Hunger March. The newly organized
Labor Sports Union club, Interna-
tional A. g. has endorsed the March.
The Lithuanian Sons and Daughters,
mass organization has also en-
dorsed the Hunger March.
An unemployed youth committee
has been organized in Lowell
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-15
u. S. FORCED TO
NEGOTIATE WITH
CHINESE SOVIETS
Seek Release of Mis-
sionary Agent of
Imperialism
BULLETIN

nOAL6 IAN
A Peiping dispatch to the New
York Sun reports that Chinese
Red armies in Fukien Province,
South China, were converging on
the city Of Changchow. Fear was
expressed in the dispatch that the
Kuonnintang could not defend the
city against the Red armies.
Changchow Is on the mainland,
directly opposite Annoy. Mission
airy agents of American imperial
ism are reported In flight from the
city.
The British have sent warship
to Annoy In a move for direct arm
ed Intervention against the revolu-
tionary struggles OF the Chinese
masses.
The Japanese are reported pre-
pairing TO resume their attacks in
the Shanghai area.
American imperialists in China
were forced to recognize the exist.
ence Of the powerful Chinese Sovie'
governments by the dispatch of EN-.
issaries to the Chinese Soviet dis.
trict in Honan to negotiate for the
release of Rev. Bert Nelson, a mis-.
sionary agent Of American imperial.
ism, who was captured by the Chin.
csc Reds several months ago.
Shanghai dispatch reporting the ne,
gotiations states that the Sovie
Government Of the district has re.
fused to release Nelson at present
because OF valuable knowledge hi
has picked up during his captivity
It says:
During his captivity Mr.. Mel
son has become an authority on
the Soviet governments Of Central
China, but Is not permitted TO send
ont any Of his observations"
The dispatch admits that Nelson
Is well treated, and allowed consid-
cradle freedom of movement and
permitted to wander in the noun
tains, from which there was no pos.
Sibility Of his escaping unaided."
The direct negotiations with the
Chinese Soviets is an admission OF
the failure of the various Marking
military expeditions sent ON instruc-
tions at the United States to res
cue" Nelson. The en.issaries on
their return to shangha. reported
that the Chinese Red Army men in
the district declared they we're able
to capture Hankow whenever they
desired and that the Soviet regimes
In China were growing rapidly"
The New York Times reports a
cable from foreign circles that new
floods are threatening the lives Of
Is 100000 people In China. The
Times story says that unless repairs
TO the dykes along the Yangtse
River are made before June, areas
embracing $4,000 square miles will
be flooded. This Is an indirect ad-
Of the criminal responsibility
Of the Nanldng Kuomintang govern
ment, supported by the imperialists,
for the loss Of millions Of lives In
The flood disaster in China last year.
In addition to the tremendous loss
Of life, over So,ooo, 900 people were
homeless and dsstatute. The
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-15
RED SHIRTS" IN
INDIA COMBAT
FAKE ELECTIONS
Militant PeasantMove-
ment Denied Right to
Vote
BULLETIN

Members of the revolutionary Red
Shirts of India were fired upon by
police as they were picketing polling
places in the village of Katlang and
urging workers and peasants to boy
colt the imperialist elections. The
sympathy of the people towards the
movement may be seen by the fact
that in one district where 1881 are
entitled to vote only IS did SO.
Tribesmen are again intensifying
their struggle against the supporters
of British Imperialism in the north
and attacking British planes met
with the fire Of the revolutionary
tribes. The seriousness of the sit
uation is indicated by the visit Of the
viceroy to the territory near Afghan
border.
PESHAWAR, India April 12-Poll-
ing booths we're picketed by more
than 5000 "red shirts" in the North
west Frontier Province, preventing
the casting of votes in the elections
held yesterday. When the polls
closed at Charsadda only one vote
had been cast.
Truckloads of traders and money
lenders were attacked and their &C.
cupants beaten.
The RED Shirts" began organizing
more than year and a half ago
at the time Of the famous Peshawar
mutiny against British imperialist
tyranny and have kept up con-
tinuous fight which, for the most
part, consists in militant demon
strations against British institutions
and agents.
It is primarily a peasant move
nent, and has engaged in many
sharp fights against mass starvation
that threatened to wipe out vast Sec
tons Of the peasant population. 1t
has led many militant fights against
payment of rents and taxes and
fights to hold from British imperial
list agents the products of the soil
Outlawed by British imperialism
and its agents among the Indian
capitalist elements, the Red Shirts"
fight against the supervised" elec-
tons.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-15

on the already shaken position Of
Japanese capitalism, the continued
catastrophe deepening OF the crisis
and the additional burdens imposed
upon the already frightfully ex-
plotted toiling masses Of Japan.
The prospect of a revolution in
Japan, he holds forth both hopefully
and with dread hopefully yecause it
would weaken japanese imperialism
as a rival Of the United States, with
dread because if successful it would
destroy japanese imperialism and
bring about the triumph Of the So
cial revolution in Japan,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-15
May Day Preparations in
Full Suing Thruout States

/ School Lot, Saturday, April 23rd a;
7 p. m; Ironwood, Farmers Market
Square, Monday, April 25th, at $50
p. m; Newport, Thursday, April 26th
at Z p. m.
CLEVELAND, Ohio-As parts Of
the preparations for May Day three
indoor meetings will take place here
arranged by Section of the Com
munist Party. The schedule for the
meetings is as follows: Holton Hall,
1926 Holton ST., Jewish Center, l4l0i
Kinsman; Hungarian Workers Home
1913 Buckeye Rd. ALI these meetings
will start at 7 p. m. sharp.
PHILADELPHIA, Pa.--The Police
Department is doing all in its power
to prevent a successful mobilization
of the workers for May LIST. This
week they refused tho Young Com
munist League a permit to parade
on April 22nd. The official reply Of
the chief of police was: 1--WE haven't
sufficient cops to give you guys pro-
lection"
However the workers are deter
mined not to follow the bosses to go
through with their terror plans and
are making all arrangements to have
a real mass open aid demonstration
and march on April 3oth, and an
indoor mass meeting in the Market
Street Arena on May 1, at $50 in
the afternoon.
The May Conference which was
held April 9th adopted a resolution
demanding that the City Hall plaza
be granted to the workers for May
First and also decided to reconvene
on April 21st, in the Girard Manor
Hall, to make final arrangements for
the demonstration.
All working class organizations not
represented in the April 9th Con-
ference can send their delegates TO
tn April 21st Conference,
WARREN, Ohio.-With rs del
egates from 16 mass organizations,
an Anti War May Day Conference
was held here. 1t was decided that
all preparations for May LIST must be
carried out under the following
slogans: Against imperialist war;
For the defence of the Chinese peo-
ple!"; Immediate freedom for the
Scottsboro boysp; For Federal IN
employment Insurance.; Defend the
Soviet Unionl"
It was decided also that the cen
trail May Day demonstration shall be
held In Court House Park, followed
by a huge parade through the main
streets and the worldng-cl neigh
borhoods; that scores Of preparatory
meetings shall be held in various
neighborhoods before May LIST, that
10000 leaflets shall be issued for the
May LIST meeting, and that anti-ar
literature shall be sold at all meet
ings, particularly the special edition
of the Daily Worker.
TOLEDO, Ohio - Forty-five del
egates. representing II mass or
CARNATIONS, attended the May First
Conference held here. A big mass
demonstration on May LIST was plan
ned.
Organizational measures were
adopted to draw In the demonstration
all unemployed and part time work
ers, ex-servcemen. Negro workers
and women workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-15
Help Build the
Central Comm. Library

Comrades can help great deal in
building UP the reference library Of
the Central Committee by bringing
pamphlets and books and back
numbers of periodicals, particularly
the Inprecorr and the Communist
International, to Room 9o3, Work
ers Center. Pamphlets and books
which are out Of print are partic-
uIarIy needed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-15

tremendous extent Of the disaster
was directly due to the misuse by
the Marking government officials of
taxes extorted from the peasants for
dyke repairs and other flood control
measures.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-15

Women suffer more from war
and war preparations than the
men. Read about 1t in women
Ave cents.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-15

Haye you sent In yox Half-Dsslars
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-15
WHERE ARE The OTHERS?

Up to April 1S, these branches HAVE contributed TO
the MAY DAY DAILY WORKER! But there are thou
sands more to comet YOU MUST ACT QUICKLY! The
MAY DAY DAILY WORKER will be the most important
issue of the workers paper in this critical time for the
proetarat. GET YOUR ORGANIZATION TO ACT NOW
ON A MAY DAY GREETING!
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-16
Who Won
This War
for u. S.?

claims of war contractors, and of
railroads for losses they claimed
as incidental to wartime opera
ton as an agency of national
defense? And do you know, my
dear editor, that the government
paid its half million civilian en-
ployes a bonus Of $240 a year?
Then, too, thousands of able
bodied civilians employed by the
government got Sc to $12 a day.
The prof1teers robbed the gov
eminent as we'll as the people.
Twenty-three hundred new mil
lionaires were created and every
body prospered at home, while
the soldiers got ST. a day.
Do you think they got a square
deal? Nothing was to be denied
them. Nothing was too good for
them. They were heroes then,
but now what? Some beggars.
I would like to know who won the
war = the editors or Talcott
Powell?
Every one is for this bonus ex-
-cept some slackers who did not
have the quits to fight for our
country in her time of need. The
soldiers won the war and saved
this country for Americans.
The people know this and are
for the soldiers and the bonus.
Tell the truth about this bonus
bill and give us a break.
L. w. WOLFE.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-16

man did the "bossing," and now
the working man wants what is
coming to him from the govern
ment, as he earned every dollar
of it protecting the rich mans
interests.
The government could obtain a
large per cent of this bonus
money by cutting salaries of Off
Gals and politicians and dispos-
ing of men drawing big salaries
off the government and not do
ing a thing to earn it. Working
men have been cut from Is to IS
per cent, but 1 have not read
where any government official has
taken any cuts. They do not even
know the depression is on. Let
them collect their foreign debts
and they will have plenty of
money on hand to meet their OBJ
legations, or abolish prohibition
and save the millions they are
spending annually to enforce it,
which can never be done.
The members listed on the tele-
gram from the American Legion
post in New York are men who
would starve to death on a salary
of $75 a month, but they are
against the bonus simply because
they do not need it and r afraid
it might cost them a dollar.
The soldiers risked their lives
and worked twenty-four hours a
day for a dollar a day, while the
men at home were making $40 a
day and taking life easy, so why
not let the ex-service men have
their share of those wartime
profits now?
G.. M. WICKER.
200 West College street, Craw-
louisville, Ind.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-16
Give Us
an EUen
Break

4006AA ~ VA4O
rights of us poor people. You
have stood by the poor year by
year. You and our good old Dem
ocrat mayor have had our water
rates cut down. You have done
more than all the other papers
combined, but I don't like the
way you are giving the veteran
the devil.
1 will admit the veterans are
costing the people lots of money,
but if all the vets were dead and
gone, taxes would not be a bit
lower, and you are all wrong on
some of your information.
If you are going to howl, then
raise the dickens about some of
these birds drawing SIS to $3.50 a
month and some holding down
government jobs.
1 am a veteran, was twenty
months in the army, eight months
of which 1 spent in France, not
all behind the lines. Was two
months in the front lines and ex-
posed to shells day after day. 1
suffered from gas, am still cough
ing from it.
Night after night we stood our
watch over No Mans land and
what are W. getting for it? The
bird who got out of it and made
big money at home owns his
home today and is settled pretty.
You r all o. K. on getting
after some of the boys who are
getting big money and never even
went across, but under that new
law passed several years ago, try
to get more than $40 a month!
am married, have five children
and walking the streets, why?
I think all veterans should get
pensions, a little at first and more
later as the years go by.
AS for the bonus, I say, pass it.
Pay it gradually. The $4,000, 000,-
600 Mr.. Hoover okayed for the
bankers never broke the country,
did it? Or the $4,000, 900 900 the
Allies owes us? We are still
marching on and the bonus will
do a world of good for at least
100000 veterans who r walking
the streets like 1 am, with seven
hungry mouths to feed, with one
of them suffering from T. B. from
the lack of milk.
Now, Mr.. Editor, if you are
bound to make war on the vet
eran. please pick on some of these
soft berth birds, getting from SIS
to $3.50 just because they belong
to the American Legion and have
some one to back them, also be-
cause they r Rpublicans.
Study READER
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-16
War Wage
HeIdLong
Overdue

80 IA
as held by hundreds of veterans
with whom I have come in con-
tact.
We are the common class, the
uneducated "buck private class
of veterans. I believe that it is
wrong to bleed the treasury of
the United States at this, a criti-
cal time. Had the money we de-
served been paid at the proper
time, it would have long been for
gotten.
How many men worked for ST.
a day during the war, outside
the service? Very few, if I know
anything about it. Now, because
we are demanding I'll long over
due wages" every one seems to
be up in the air about it. How
many of your politicians took a
pay cut down to 81 a day during
or since the war?
Yes, there were a few men on
the dollar-a-year list, men fnan-
clally able, not men of the ranks.
who depended upon their daily
wages.
What did the government do in
regard to the railroad men? Gave
them their bonus of back pay IN
full when the country was in as
critical a state as it is now.
Wyh not put a deficit on the
governments books and erect a
wonderful monument to the he
roes of the world, the same as the
state did? What good is that mar
velous and beautiful World war
memorial to the men and their
families who are starving? The
very men it was erected for are
going hungry, with no homes, no
clothing, and in destitute circum-
stances. They can't eat limestone
and marble. They feel as though
what they did for you and every
one has gone unappreciated. In
their uneducated and uncouth
ways can they appreciate a work
OF art? No! It's like a slap in
the face.
I say, let Uncle Sam pay the
bonus in full. It's back wages
for us. 1t isn't compulsory for
your patriotic politicians, nor your
business men with jobs to accept
this bonus, but every mothers son
who is hungry will say he thinks
he deserves it.
Cut some of your high-salaried
officials down to a dollar a day
long enough to meet this deficit
and listen to them rave.
Who is Talcott Powell? Is he
employed or one of the hungry
unemployed?
A FORMER BUCK PRIVATE.