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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-02
Jail Six '"Transients'
For Protest Against
Rotten Food and Bread

OMAHA, Neb., Jan. six workers
leaders in the prot est against
mouldy bread, poor food, and bad
sanitary conditions in the U. S. Shell
ter at 22nd and Hickory st. here, were
each sentenced to 90 days in Jail
without an opportunity to defend
themselves.
This shelter, set up by the federal
government for ''transients," is no.
toriously bad for the conditions I'M
der which the 200 men living there
are forced to live.
A protest was organized, and a
committee sent to the men in charge
Later, the manager provoked a fight
with one Of the committee by calling
him a yellow bastard. The six men
on the committee were arrested and
sentenced to 80 days in jail,
The Unemployed Councils and the
International Labor Defense has
taken up the case, and call upon all
organizations to send protests to
Judge Palmer, and to Woodgate,
manager of the U. 8. Shelter.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-02
Section 5 i'm Chicago
Starts Drive for New
Daily Worker Readers

CHICAGO, Il.-A vigorous cam
paign to secure new readers for the
Daily Worker, starting with the &c
page, tenth anniversary edition, has
been put into action by Section 5.
Communist Party, of this city.
The Daily Worker bundle orders
by this section viii be increased by
100 copies. Attempts will be made
to secure at least 100 new subscribers
for the Saturday edition, and to OBJ
tain at least IS contributors to the
sustaining fund.
Reading circles for the Daily will
be established at the Stewart Die
casting and c. N. w. plants. tn,
Daily will also be sold at these
plants every day.
To help the Daily Worker install
its new press. this section will TOP
its quota in the $4,000 drive by $50.
The tenth anniversary of the Daily
Worker will be celebrated by Section
5, with mass rally and concert,
Sunday, Jan. 14th. s pm. at the
Craftsmans' Masonic Temple, Hard
ing and LeMoyne. Admission tickets.
costing IS cents, will entttle the
holder to two months subscription
for the Saturday edition of the Daily
Worker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-02
Japan, Nazis MiscaIculate

Japan, which began its military
operations two years ago, calculated
that it would be sufficient to an
nounce that these operations were
directed against the Soviet Govern
ment for the entire capitalist world
to come to her side and bless her
actions. Here she miscalculated, as,
may add in parenthesis, the Ger
man Nazis did. In our dispute with
Japan even the capitalist world rec
ognized the justice Of our case, and
attributes aggressive intentions ex-
clusively to Japan. OF course, it does
not do this unselfishly. but because
it realizes that if it recognizes the
actions and policy Of Japan as cor
rect, and thus strengthens her, then
tomorrow these actions ard policy
will turn against its own interests.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-02

small number Of anti-Soviet negotia-
tons and proposals arising from the
same circle of ideas. We have infor-
nation also Of official proposals Of
this kind.
I will not dwell in detail on the
practice which affects our relations,
namely the systematic interference
with Soviet institutions and Soviet
citizens by all kinds Of German
authorities, not for any nnisdemeanors
but merely because they are Soviet.
This is what happened in Germany
and this is what made our former
relations with it unacceptable.
It consider it necessary to say this
openly because from the German side
frequent attempts are made to et-
tribute to us the initiative of changing
relations, and to explain it by our
dissatisfaction with the present Ger
man Regime, the persecution of Com
munists, etc.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-02
jazi Press Upset
lyer LityinOff's
,peech in Moscow
5erman Ambassador
Ready to File
Complaint

BERLIN, Dec. 3i.-The blunt crit-
cism OF Nagi foreign policies and
nti-Soviet proyocations made by
Maxim Litvinoff, Soviet Foreign
Commissar, in his address last Friday
20 the Soviet Central Executive Com
nittee, has greatly upset Mani Official
circles, placing them clearly on the
defensive.
The "Vossische zeitung" today
tsreabeled representations to the
Soviet Government, declaring that
Radok Nadolny, Nazi Ambassador to
MOSCOW, will in all probability make
u has business to interrogate Lityin-
GA on certain aspects of his speech.
Nae tesaor Of the Nazi press COM
IlensS is, in brief, that the Soviet
Foreign ConaniEssar should not have
sessosssiy considered the views ex-
EFsssed by Adolf Hitler before he
game 10 power. Moreover, declares
tAP sanae press which necessarily
asoqaSandisges the idea of the author
isasaan state, wstii HITLER as its head
sxN spokesman, there should be a
differentiation between the views OF
ssee, se an individual, and rft4er
as the Fascist state.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-02
Germany and Japan

Iitvinoff continued" Reviewing our
relations with the external world, 1
do not omit from sight such big
countries as Germany and Japan.
devote special place to them in my
review because they occupy a very
great place in the foreign policy Of
the Soviet Union. The very latest
phase in the development of relations
between these two countries allows
me to hope that they will not hold it
inst me that bracket them to-
her. Unless I am mistaken, they
have even recognized common racial
features between themselves. This be-
came fully possible since race ceased
TO be an chronological and anthropo-
logical conception and became some
thing like the name Of a fighting or
ganization.
''For ten years close economic and
political relations bound us to Ger
many. We were the only big country
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-02

row money directly from the gov
eminent instead Of through the local
bank.
The list of lynchings, the I. L. D.
stressed, is not claimed to be COM
plete. On the contrary, it was said,
the frequent discovery OF records of
lynchings weeks and even months
after they occurred indicate that
dozens more are carried on without
ever being reported anywhere.
Police Murders of Negroes Not
Included
The list does not include either the
murders of Negroes by police, with
out provocation, and almost daily
habit in Southern and some Northern
cities, where sometimes these are
recorded as killings while the VIC
tim was attempting to escape" and
sometimes no excuse is offered at all
The 1. L. D. files, it was said, contain
records of literally hundreds of such
cases of wanton murder of Negroes
by police and other persons, while
hundreds more are never reported
It wss pointed out as especially
significant that the last lynching re-
ported for the year occurred in De-
troit. an industrial center, that its
victim was a militant trade union or
ganizer, and that it has been charged
the lynching was carried out by q
group composed Of American Legion
naires, Ku Klux Klansmen, and Ford
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-02
Soviet Factory, Farm ToiIers
Shape Second Five Year Plan

A Far Eastern delegate brought
greetings from the Kolhozuiks there
to Stain and the Central Executive
Committee and described the intense
enthusiasm for Stains speech on
making all Kolhozniks we'll to do. He
then described plans for a home for
Civil War partisans.
eve live on the border" he said,
I'VE fought for a Socialist country
in 1919 and partisans and their sons
are always ready to defend the So
Wet frontier in the future
This was followed by storm Of
approval from all the delegates.
Delegates regard the first days Of
the session as the time to bring all
information before the Central Ex-
ecutive Committee. The sessions
sometimes take on aspects Of huge
production conferences.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-02

Further, our statements and pro-
tests against this lawlessness have not
been answered by Japan, which vainly
attempts to convince US that It has
nothing to DO with this lawlessness
for which it alleges only independent,
'self-goYerning' Manchuliuo is respol-
sible. We, like the rest of the world,
have another opinion Of this indepen-
dence Of Manchukuo. Manchukuo is
not yet recognized by single gov
eminent, and is regarded by all as
exclusively an agent Of the japanese
government and the japanese com
manders in Manchuria. If it is nee
essary to have objective proof Of this,
it was recently given by lass, the
Soviet News Agency, which published
certain documents the genuineness Of
which is beyond all doubt
From these documents it it obvi-
Gus that violence towards Soviet en-
ployeeS Of the railway alleged to have
been undertaken on behalf of Man
churian courts was dictated by Japa-
nese military and administrative
agents. We therefore stated to the
japanese government that We cannot
recognize its reference to NIanchurian
authorities, and can consider nobody
but the Japanese government respon-
sible for the violation Of our rights
and interests on the Chinese Eastern
Railway.
However, not only the Chinese
Eastern Railway is in question. In
addition to infringing our rights on
the railway, in Japan political per-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-02

which advocated the most extreme
enti-Soviet ideas. The founder of this
party developed his conceptions of
the foreign policy of Germany in
detail in his literary works. According
to this conception, Germany must not
only win back all the territory taken
away under the Versailles Treaty, not
only conquer lands where there is a
German minority, but also by fire and
sword lay a path for its expansion
to the East, not stopping at the
frontiers of the Soviet Union, and
enslaving the peoples of this Union.
Another leader Of this idea, a
former Russian subject, not only
preached these ideas but at the be-
hest and on behalf Of his party en-
tered into relations and maintained
close contacts with Russian, mainly
Ukrainian, counter-revolutionary or
CARNATIONS.
But possibly these people coming
to power, on occupying responsible
posts, abandoned this conception. We
well understand the difference be-
tween doctrine and policy. Sometimes
an opposition party coming to power
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-02

Motors Co. gunner.
The rapid growth of lynching and
murderouS terror, including the
shooting down and killing of pickets
from California TO Pennsylvania, the
open appreciation of lynchings by
Governor James A. Rolph of Cahfor-
mia and other public officials, the
direct participation Of police ann
other officials, and the small nui =
bers involved in most lynchings, are
matters Of record which coincide in
incidence with the MIRA. and the
efforts of the administration to put
it and the cotton plow-under pro-
gram across, at the expense of the
toiling masses" William L. Patterson
national I. L. D. secretary, said.
There is no doubt whatsoever that
We find the government, as a tool OF
capitalism, rapidly and consciously
developing in the United States as q
fascist policy to meet and smash the
growing resistance of toiling masses
to its program Of terror and starva-
ton. 1t will undoubtedly be as savage
as Hitler's in Germany, unless the
resistance of the organized workers
makes its realization an impossibility
The implications of official incite-
ments of lynch mobs, as exemplified
by Governor Rolph in California,
and government sanction of large
scale murder operations against mill
tant labor, under N.R.A., are clear.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-02
Japan's Preparations for Direct Attack

sonages including official represent
tatiyes Of the japanese government,
and also the press have begun to
discuss ti'- question Of war against
the Sov4e5 Union for the seizure Ct
the Maritime Provinces and the en-
tire Far Eastern region. The matter
Is not limited merely to talk, but III
Manchuria near our frontier consid-
cradle numbers OF japanese troops
are concentrated, military material IS
being transported, highways being
built; railways constructed, etc. Thus
there has arisen not only the menace
of violent seizure of our railway by
Japan, but also a direct threat Of our
frontiers. In such a situation moth
ing else remained for our government
but to begin strengthening our
frontier. transferring to it the neces-
sary forces, and taking other mill
tary measures.
While we adopt exclusively de-
fensiye measures, Japan, as is well
known, is feverishly preparing for
war which cannot be other than ag-
gressiye, because no one is attacking
the safety Of Japan.
"Of course, Japan has no lack Of
sensible people who see the entire
danger and risk for Japan in a war
against such giant full of strength
and energy as the Soviet Union. Bus
there are circles with adventurist in
clinations, especially among military
men, for whom evidently the highest
aim in life is war, irrespective Of what
it brings.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-02

"To this I should add that feYerish
preparations for war compel Japan
to increase her exports, using dump
ing on an absolutely unlimited sdsle,
thus setting against herself even those
countries which could potentially be
considered as friendly to her.
COR policy is clear. We are not
striving to take advantage Of IA
vorable conjuncture. We are not
striving to fight on any conditions.
We say to Japan: We are not threat
ening you; we are not hankering after
your land or other territory beyoe
peace with you as hitherto, respe
your rightsand interests, only 4
handing that you take The same a,
titude to our rights and interests
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-02
c. W. A. Workers
Form Relief Union
In Omaha, Neb.
Mass Meetings Recruit
New Members

OMAHA, Neb., Jan. 1.-Two hun
dred C.W-A. workers at a mass meet
ing here formed CW.A. Protective
Workers Union. At a previous netting
an arrangement committee had been
instructed to draw up bylaws and
demands, which we're unanimously
adopted at the last meeting.
The demands call for: a Job or
relief for every worker; so cents an
hour for unskilled, union wages for
skilled workers and a guaranteed
weekly wage of SIS; free transpor-
tation to and from the job; imme-
date new jobs or SIS cash relief for
those laid off; and the right of the
workers to organize into unions Of
their own choice.
An executive committee of seven
was elected, and another meeting
will be held on Jan. g..
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-02
Al Reported Lynchings in 1888 AS Bosses
Push their Fascist Program Against ToiIers

NEW YORK.-Forty-seyen lynch
ings were reported in 1888, according
to records kept by the International
Labor Defense, it was announced to-
day. The number reported for 1892
by the League of Struggle for Negro
Rights was 81.
OF the AZ victims, AZ were Negroes,
and five white. Among the former
were four women, three lynched in
Florida, and one in Alabama, though
the last, the LID. said, had not been
confirmed from more than one source,
and was never reported in the news
papers.
Lynchings occurred in "A states, with
Florida in the lead with eight; Geor-
gia second with seven; Alabama third
with six; South Carolina and Ten
nessee each recording five; Missis-
sippi three; California two, and North
Carolina, Maryland, Missouri, Texas,
Michigan and Arkansas one each.
Public Officials Involved
Notable in the list was the fact
that in fourteen cases Of Iynching,
involving Is victims, police and
officials are on record as partici-
pants, as having lent material aid,
approval, or as being passive spec
tators.
No person has been prosecuted for
any of these lynchings, though four
men were arrested in Maryland for
participation, and Immediately re-
leased, and in South Carolina indict-
nlentS were handed down against sew
eral men for participation in a
lynching, but never pressed.
Another notable fact upon the
records is the fact that in very few
cases we're large "mobS'' involved In
lynchings. Small, carefully organ
lied gangs, in many cases with
county officers at their head, in
some composed of polsce officers,
carried out these Iync1nings. In ~
cases, involving more than 30
victims, the lynchingS were
carried out by gangs Of less than
than IS men each. No murder is
counted as lynching in this COM
pilati0n unless three or more per-
sons, more or less organized for the
purpose, participated, the j. LID.
statement sid.
Contrary to the custody of reform
iSt organizations, which keep records
of lynching, the sporting OF sheriff's
or other badge of authority by a
member of a lynch gang or mob, how
ever, was not considered sufficient to
make the occurrence ineligible for the
lynch list, the 1. L. d. said.
causes" Reveal Economic Base Of
Lynch Terror
In ten cases, involving Is victims,
no charge or official excuse for the
lynchings is reported.
Rape or rape and murder, in
no case proved, and in several def
initely disproved, was the official
excuse offered for nine lynchings in
volving ten victims.
other charges made before or after
lynchings recorded in 1888 include:
threatening of suit for false arrest
against sheriff: arguing with
white man; making a date with a
white woman and being overheard;
stealing hog; attempting to bor-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-02
Support of Insurance
Workers Stops Arrest
OF Leaf1et Distributors

NEW YORK-FoE members of the
Once Workers Union held by police
esterday at the Mutual Life Insur-
nee Building for distributing leaflets
we're released when police realized
mat their arrest would result in pro-
Test By the workers at the insurance
company Offices.
The Leaflets were distributed in
aSponSe to call by the insurance
FuTisers for help in organizing for
dtaon against the rotten food in the
company restaurant. Workers re-
queseed leaflets from the arrested
workers right under the noses of the
police and patches of them were
taszen inside the building.
The strike which was expected
TAXED to materialize when the COM
pany spread the "red scare among
the workers. The Office Workers
0ss&on intends to organize the work.
ess and point out that the ''red scare
Propaganda was a company trick
timed at defeating their detectives
md should deter the workers from
Negle to improve their conditions.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-02
USSR Strives for Peace, But Will Not
Yield One Inch of Land, Litvinof Says

tries to forget the slogans which it
formerly advocated In struggle against
its political opponents. But in this
case this did not happen. At any rate,
we do not know of a single respon-
sible statement which did not com
pletely emphasize the above-men-
toned conception. Literary works in
which this conception is preached
continue to circulate ~ Germany
without any omission in new editions,
including editions marked 1884
These conceptions are even now
openly discussed in the pages of the
German press. Only about six months
ago at the London International Con-
ference, a member of the German
Cabinet set out the same idea of con-
quering the East in a memorandum.
On the part of persons occupying
extremely responsible though not
government posts, there have been no
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-02
Neglect, Speed-up
Caused Death of 9
Colorado Workers
Men Put To Work 20
Minutes After
Blasting
(By a C.w.A. Worker Correspondent

(By C.W.A. Worker Correspondent
GLADE PARK, Colo, Jan. l.
Drilling and blasting beneath a sand
stone ledge that projected over the
roadway caused the cave-in that re-
suited in the loss of nine lives here
Shots that had not fired were not
Investigated into after blasting, and
were not discovered until men had
shovelled into them.
Blasting powder was kept about
200 feet away from where the blast
ing was being done under a shelf
of rock, and the printing caps were
kept in an open box.
Less than 20 minutes after the
blasting, and before the dust had
settled, the men were put back to
work. A few minutes later the cave
in occurred in which nine workers
lost their lives.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-02
Baltimore Seamen
Win Federal Relief
Mass Pressure Forces
Opening Of Anchorage

BALTIMO Nd, Jan. L.
Through the recent struggles of the
Waterfront Unemployed Council and
the Marine Workers Industrial Union
the government has been forced TO
institute federal relief on the water
front for seamen. The Anchorage
YM.CA., through clever maneuver-
ing and lying, have succeeded in haV-
ing part of the Anchorage rented by
the government for relief purposes.
Three meals a day and bed are
given to those who are getting relief.
There are, however, still large num-
bers of seamen who are not getti5-
this relief and the Unemployed Cou
Gil is conducting campaign
larger quarters. A committee is +
ing formed inside the Anchorage, an
will take up the grievances of til,
men and see that better relief is given
out.
Mass meetings are being planned
to popUlarize the demand Of the sea
men, where delegates will be elected
to the National Conference Against
Hunger to be held in Washington,
Feb. 3.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-02

country Of Socialism which America
has Just abandoned. They are unable
not only to destroy but even to shake
the country of Socialism, and there
fore, despite the well known practi-
cality and Commonsense of English
men, we must wonder that among
them there are still such Don Quixote
snipers and partisans.
GAS far as it depends on us, we are
prepared and would like to have the
same good relations with Great
Britain as with other countries. We
realize that good and sincere rela-
lions between big powers are not only
a necessary condition but a guarantee
Of general peace. In the near future
we expect to sign temporary COM
mercial agreement which by remov-
ing some misunderstanding will
make possible, we hope, better rela-
tons between us and Great Britain. :"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-02
Open Anti-SOviet Plans

Naturally we have our own opinion
of the German Regime. Naturally we
are sympathetic to sufferings of our
German comrades, but we Marxists
can least Of all be reproached with
allowing feelings to dominate over
policy.
Representatives of the German
government ask me what we really
want from Germany, and what she
must do to remove any doubt among
us regarding her loyalty. I usually
reply: Let it not do what it does, let
the German government observe what
its numerous agents and emissaries
do and let it tell them not to do it,.
On our part we are not striving for
expansion either East or West or in
any other directions. We have no
hatred Of the German people, and
make no attempt either on its ter
ritory or it's rights, and in no case
will we encourage other countries to
such attempts. We want Germany to
be able to say the same, and that no
facts exist contradicting this" and
that we are convinced that her decla-
rations apply not only to the present
time but also to the time when she
will have greater strength to carry
out those aggressive ideas which her
present leaders advocated before COM
ing to power, and some Of them also
advocate now.
sour relations with Japan have re-
ceived the close attention not only OF
the Soviet Union but Of the entire
world, because the policy of Japan is
now the darkest thunder cloud on the
international political horizon. Since
the conclusion of the Pekin Agree
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-02

not desiring to have anything in COM
mon with the Versailles Treaty and
its consequences. We abandoned the
rights and benefits which this Treaty
reserved for us. Germany occupied
first place in our foreign trade. Based
on these relations, Germany could
more boldly and confidently talk to
her conquerors of yesterday. She sue
ceeded in freeing herself from some
ofthe most burdensome results of
Versailles. She signed the Locarno
Treaty and the Arbitration Treaty
with Poland, which in essence are
nothing but non-aggression pacts.
Germany entered the League of Ma
tions.
"On our part as soon as possible
we also signed non-aggresion pact
with France and Poland. These agree
ments and pacts from brSh sides
should not and did not make worse
our relations with Germany.