The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 16, 1929, Page 1

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Price 3 Cents <=:, NEW YORK,S ATURDAY, NOV Interpreting Hoover’s Speech Lay Off 7,000 on Armistice Day The capitalist press is working at fever heat to impress the masses of this country with the significance of Hoover’s Armistice Day speech as a move toward “peace.” Hoover’s speech is an open war challenge of American imperialism thrown to the rest of the imperialist world—particularly openly against Great Britain, and none the less certainly against the Soviet Union. } The rapid tempo of the developing economic crisis in the United States and the sharpening of the antagonisms between the imperialist powers, force American imperialism to come out more openly with its war prep- arations, The inevitability of war as a direct outgrowth of the existing contradictions in capitalist society had to be definitely acknowledged in Hoover's words: “Nor does a single quarter of a century-during all the ages of human experience warrant the assumption that war will not occur again.” Facing a serious economic crisis in the United States and in world capitalism generally, Hoover could not longer attribute the coming im- perialist war to the mischiefs of some imperialist power, to “human nature” or other such platonic reason. Hoover had to admit that the contradictions of the underlying economic and political factors of eapi- talist society could never be solved by peaceful means. “... « We must realize that our industrial life, our employ- ment, our comfort and our culture depends greatly upon our in- terchange of goods and ideas with other nations. We must realize that this interchange cannot he carried on unless our citizens are flung into every quarter of the globe. . . We must realize that some of them will get into trouble somewhere .. we have an obligation and every other nation has an obligation to see to the protection of their lives and that justice is done to them.” Another factor that precipitates war, Hoover states, is the fact “that there are peoples aspiring to a greater measure of self-govern- ment.” Although he tries to give it the opposite ance, Hoover sees the great masses of workers and peasants of America, the Philippines, West Indies, Hawaii avd other colonial and semi-colonial countries stirring into revolt against the yoke of American imperialism. His mentioning the subject in connection with war can only mean that his mind is on the imperialist necessity of crushing this revolt by means of war. Experience has definitely proven that the United States is an in- tegral part of world capitalism and struggle between other capitalists must immediately affect the United States. Fully recognizing this fact Hoover had to state: “In such wars (between other nations) We are in constant danger of entanglement hecause of interference with the wide- spread activities of our citizens.” This completely demolishes the petty-bourgeois fable of American isolation. Of particular importance is this statement of war policy concerning the Soviet Union. In the event of an open war between the imperialist powers and the Soviet Union, the United State: immediately be involved and will fight on the side of world imperial against the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics. : The most daring challenge thrown by the imperialist United States to world imperialism through Hoover's speech ‘is the demand for munity of food ships” in a period of war. ‘This war particularly directed against Great Britain and the imperialist-controlled League of Nations. No hard-headed worker shall be misled by the “humanitarism” of a pretended desire of Hoover to feed the women and children in a period ot war. “Immunity of-food ships” is a carefully thought-out policy of American imperialism closely akfh to what President Wilson cham- piened under the slogan: “Freedom of the Seas. During the last world war, American imperialism, because of force of circumstances as well as conscious policy had to sell its food supply to the allies and later to throw in its full military and economic re- serves in the war against the Central Powers. Today the United States. speaks in advance for its right to choose whom to support and whom to defeat. Wall Street imperialism claims for itself the right to decide the victory or defeat of the various imperialist powers that will be involved in a war. The principle of “Immunity of food ships” does not mean that American imperialism will supply food to all countries involved in a war. This was clearly demonstrated in the last world war, where America sent its supplies only to the allies, though the women amd children of the central powers were equally starving, and thereby even before direct American military intervention, greatly con- tributed to the defeat of Germany and the central powers. Besides the general imperialist, and therefore counter-revolutionary, nature of the policy of “immunity of food ships” it has also the more specific counter-revolutionary character of ng a “humanitarian” basis for intervention in any and all other countries in which proletar- ian revolutions break out during the coming war or otherwise. Hoover’s blockade of Hungary during its proletarian revolution, is a living ex- ample of the application of his “food immunity” policy of blockading rebellious working class populations while supplying “poor, starving,” white guard armies bread, uniforms, machine guns and tanks.- In the coming war against the Soviet Union, American imperialism under the pretext of “immunity of food ships” will be a direct participant in im- perialist war against the Workers’ Republic. “Immunity of food ships” is only American ;war propaganda trying to further its imperialist aims. Other imperialist power can really ac- cept this principle where they themselves are unfavorably concerned, and if some camouflaged understanding and pledge is established, it’ would mean that the moment war is declared this principle will be swept aside. It must be definitely stated, first, in all imperialist wars of the past and more so in the future, there will be little difference be- tween the civilian population and the armed forces, particularly today, when imperialism is so rapidly miilitarizing the working masses and making them part of the war machinery. Secondly, food is a war pro- duct—the most essential war product—and it would be impossible in a war between two imperialist powers to permit America to supply food to some and starve the others and thereby sealing the defeat. American food ships would “naturally” be attacked and destroyed. This would give an opportunity to American imperialism to tell the American work- ers that one or more of the imperialist powers at war does not permit American capitalism to carry out its “humanitarian duty of feeding the starved women and children.” / Aside frgm the ideological and political. preparations for war, the direct militarization and war preparations of American imperialism, its huge navy-building program is hardly concealed in the speech of Hoover: x “I am for adequate preparedness as a guaranty that no for- eign soldier shall ever step upon, the soil of our country.” Every American worker knows that it is United States imperialism that “steps upon the soil of another country.” Today, American troops and battleships are still stationed in Nicaragua, Panama, Hawaii, Philip- pines, China, and other countries, where thousands of workers and peasants were slaughtered in the interests of American imperialism. To cover up their war preparations, America as well as the other imperialist powers, is drafting “peace” treaties and now preparing for a five power disarmament conference. However, the very nature of the capitalist system makes it impossible for the imperialist powers to attempt any disarmament. The results of the visit of Premier Mac- , Donald to the United States once more demonstrate that the differences \ between the capitalist United States and England are so great that all of the treacherous “pacifism” of the so-called labor government cannot | conceal the fact that capitalist governments can attempt to solve them only by means of war. Hoover’s speech must clearly show to every American.worker that a war is inevitable, that the present economic crisis is hastening the the Soviet Union. Only the revolutionary action of the working class in the overthrow of the capitalist class and the establishment of a dic- tatorship of the proletariat can abolish this system of society that breeds war. LEATHER WORKERS MEET | mittee at the Irving Plaza Hall, 15th “Long hours, low wages and, St. and Irving PL, at 2.30 p. m. to- speedup’in the leather industry” will | day. be challenged by New York Leather, The Provisions! Committee is af- Belt makers at a meeting culled by filiated to the Trade Union Unity - tha ‘Provisional Organization Com-) League. i 6) | approach of war, and that the threat is particularly directed against at Gen. Electric, 30,000 at Ford Workers Reports Give JAIL OVER 100 | ‘Communists in, 2 Fight tor Negro | FOREIGN - BORN Terror Victims JERSEY WORKERS | Bosses Incite Outrages in Baltimore MBER 16, 1929 STAUNTON MINE. ye hd | CONFERENCE FOR 4222-0407” NU, ‘PROGR AM. Strikebreaking | WASHINGTON, Nov. 15.—Green’s conference here of 105 international |and national union heads, after hear- = “ sega 22, | i a pee ity iPolice in Hackensack} SCHENECTADY, N. Y.,Nov. 15 |Swoop Down on Homes |—The General Electric plant, nor- BALTIMORE, Md., Nov. 15.—The |vising militancy among the Negro | | Adopt Militant Policy ing Green’s speech, began the real business. The conference is osten- | sibly called as a result of the resolu- | |tion in the A. F, L,.convention at) of Belleville Meeting; INDICT SAYLORS; SAW CARPENTER IN LYNCH GANG Will Be Charged With Perjury; Defense to Prove He was Right mally employing 28,000 unorgan- |ized workers, is laying men off by the thousands. Yesterday an an- | nouncement was made that between {6,000 and 7,000 .General Electric | workers would be laid off in the very near future. The announce- ment came from the main office. A large crowd of workers waiting |for employment before the General Electric employment office were told by ‘the hiring agent that the company would hire no more men until next summer at the earliest. The situation is even worse at the | American Locomotive Works, | The local press does not print a word about the mass unemployment in this city and the important steel centers around it, such as Lacka- wanna, etc. The Communist Party is laying plans for broad organiza- tional work among the unemployed, and is preparing concrete demands for relief. DETROIT, Mich, Noy. 14°— Thirty-thousand or more men laid off with the prospect of several thousand more—this is the record of the Ford Motor Company in the past month or so. The Ford plants are 6perating but two to five days a week, just as | parts are needed by Ford. A complet® lay-off of the, work- jers at the Packard auto plant is be- ing planned, the plan being carried out in gradual steps. Within two auto workers will have been laid off, and the plant will operate four | day a week then. HOOVER IN PANIC CALLS EXPERTS Stock Collapse Serious; Want to Cut Wages The seriousness of the collapse in the stock market and the begin- ning of am industrial crisis was further revealed yesterday by the unprecedented aetion of President Hoover in announcing at Washing- ton that he had been in secret con- ference with the biggest New York bankers and trust heads, “important business leaders,” as to how to de- lay the crisis now developing, and that he was now calling for “the middle of next week a small prelimi- nary conference \of representatives of industry, agriculture and labor to meet with the Secretaries of the Treasury, Agriculture, Commerce and Labor, together with the chair- man of the Federal Farm Board, to develop certain definite steps.” Calling in the A. F. L, chiefs looks like a little agreement to cut wages “just to get business going.” This conference of big bankers, corporation heads and labor lieuten- (Continued on Page Two) BOSSES SUPPORT ILEWU “STRIKE” “Do for the dress trade what has | been so successfully accomplished in the cloak trade,” was the appeal of Benjamin Schlesinger, scab-herding president of the International Ladies | Garment Workers Union, to employ- ers’ groups yesterday. | He had just concluded a success- | ful conference at the Hotel Governor | Clinton at which he had convinced two ‘employers associations of the soundness of his company union | | scheme. j What the I. L. G. W. U. actually means to “accomplish in the dress company’s | weeks 20 per cent of all Packard tinued for Dec. 1. of Latin Workers Deportation Planned workers throughout the country, jand in Baltimore particularly, has jeaused the open shop bosses who | bitterly exploit the Negro workers, | to get into action all their forces | of ter As a result a reign of | | terror nst Negro workers here | |Framed Needle Toiler in Chicago Freed ag has been going on in the past week, | as part of the bosses’ scheme to | | CHICAGO, Ill, Nov. 15.—John|keep the Negro workers’ militancy } Boichoff, left wing needle trades | down. worker, framed by the police with) Last Sunday the house of William | the aid of the reactionary officials |Oling, a Negro living at 779 W.| ofthe International Ladies Garment | Lexington St., was set afire at 3 Workers Union, was today acquitted | o’clock in the marning by members | on charges of assault with deadly | of the Ku Klux Klan and other tools | weapons, arising out of an attack jot the bosse.s made by the Van Buren Street slug-} A note was found in front of the gers of the bosses and right wing | Oling home, reading, “Move out be- on women members of the Needle | fore ‘you’re blown out.” Oling’s is Trades Worwers Industrial Union| the only Negro family living on the on Oct. 9. | 700 block of W. Lexington St. So flimsy were the charges On the night of November 13 the against Boichoff that the aequittal| family of William Lee, a Negro, |resulted despite all the machinations | was driven out of a so-called “white of the right wing cliques, the bosses, | block.” Windows and doors in and the state attorne: Lee’s home at 1632 Asquith St., Defense attorneys smashed all the; Were smashed by the terrorists. perjured evidence submitted by the | Lee’s family was forced to move out sluggers thru their attorney Richert, | at 10 o'clock at night. Still for| “Strike Tomorrow” notorious labor-baiter. Rickert w The big bosses here have long ecutor. of race hatred in the white workers The cases of the four members of (Continued on Page Three) the Industrial Union framed up on| Sa TS : nection with the same attack mee BLASTERS JOIN by the Van Buren Street sluggers, | and two more assault charges| All militant needle workers well as workers in other trades have been called to rally in support of But Others tant sections of the labor movement | now under attack by the bosses and their courts in the reign of terror | prosecutor in place of the state pros-| been attempting to incite a spirit the same charges as Boichoff in con- | against Boichoff have been con-| SUBWAY STRIKE Fe the Communist Party and all mili-| designed to crush all militancy . * * Fifteen blast foremen—key men | almost impossible to replace—yes- | terday joined the strike of 800 sub» way construction diggers for aboli- tion of scab wage-scales and better working conditions. The 15 were working on the Bronx Grand Con- course extenison of the subway line. ve hundred workers at the 14th t. and Eighth Ave., B. M. T. exten- sion, however, are still reported by the A. F. of L.. locals involved in the strike to be “coming out tomorrow.” | Meanwhile, subway contractors are | marshaling more scabs in prepara- | tion for the promised “tomorrow” to make it usefully ineffective. No picketing is being conducted |at the Bronx section where the |strike started, reporters for the (Continued on Page Two) HACKENSACK, N. J., Nov. 15. —Terrorism against foreign born workers in its most vicious form raged here last night, when police, acting ostensibly at the orders of the federal government and the open shop bosses in this important in- dustrial section, raided the homes of scores of Spanish and Portuguese (Continued on Page Three) Cuban and Chinese Workers Indignant at Havana Arrests HAVANA, Nov. Great indig nation prevails among both immi-| grant Chinese workers and native ieee aa | Cuban workers at the : ‘rests “10 THE DAILY | by the Machado “government” of Kee Chang, secretdry of the All- | American Alliance for the Support | of the Chinese Worker and Peasant | Chinese workers of the Alliance, at ana Kuo-| aa y of U, S.| the instigation of the Ha | mintang and the autho: | Workers Help Spread impéria'ism. The arrests and raid <a on the Alliance occurred October 28 Your Paper! It is noted that this combination | of fascist counter-revolution proves | how servile is “Butcher” Machado. the Cuban dictator, to American im- perialism, as well as proving how | American imperialism is working | with the counter-revolutionary Kuo- mintang, not only in China, but eve nin Cuba, where the Chinese workers and the rich Chinese mer- chants leading he Kuomintang are | involved in class struggle. i Attention Membership! All League and Party members who can must be at the Workers’ Center at 11 a. m. today for ex-| Lets get together to establish a tremely important Party work. The! mass circulation for the Daily importance of this call cannot be| Worker in the basic and «war indus- exaggerated. |tries so we can mobilize real mass demonstrations against imperialist and for the defense of the So- Workers, give the Daily Worker a chance to speak to the steel work- ers, the auto workers, miners, transportation workers, and above all, help to spread the Daily among the southern mill workers! Worker f you do that, the fac- tory neclei will grow so fast that it will amake you dizzy counting them! To raise funds to connect the | Daily Worker with the masses in all industries—that’s the purpose of {the Daily Worker Entertainment and Dance, to be held tonight at Rockland Palace, 8th Ave. and W. 155th St. ARREST RAKOSI'S SISTER. VIENNA, Nov. 15.—Reports from | Budapest, Hungary, state that the sister of Rakosi has been arrested. This arrest of Gisela Rakosi is a jet Union. The workers in the South are de- manding the Daily! The executive council of the A. | trade” was exposed yesterday in a/ (Continued. on Page Two) purely vindictive measure against the political prisoners. (Continued on Page Two) Ready for Struggle Watt Overwhelmed But Miners Think His Surrender Insincere | STAUNTON, Ill., Nov. 15—The | Staunton sub-district conference, | called under instructions by the | Belleville district convention of the National Miners’ Union, was a com- BULLETIN. CHARLOTTE, Nov. 15.—Louis McLaughlin, Gastonia defendant, was released on bonds at 9:30 this morning. He is the third of the Actually it is a gigantic united front ern textile workers into the militant; Charlotte Toilers Hold by using the “arbitration” machin- | Others Corroborate. Toronto, to “organize the South.” eteiee. of the misleaders of labor to try and Jail Ella May Witness stop the organization of the south- ag: National Textile Workers’ Union, | : and to break any strikes that start| 12th Anniversary Meet ery of the U. T, W. which wrecked the Elizabethton strike. Pres. Tom McMahon of the United Textile Workers, outlined a plan for plete success. About 80 delegates spending $20,000 a month in North were present, according to V. Kem-| and South Carolina, Georgia, Ala- enovich, National Executive Board | hama and Tennessee with 75 to 100 member of the N, M. U., and organ- | orpanizers at $35 a week aiid ex- izer for Southern Illinois, who was | penses, all under the direct control present at the conference. Staunton, | of the A. F. of L. committee that Livingston, Benld,’Henderson, Carl-| would be appointed to control the insville and Wilsonville locals of the | operations. He wanted jurisdiction- a oe ee lal questions waived and a general] The Staunton conference Was educational and organizing drive | called in line with the decision of instituted, . the Belleville convention,” said Kem- seven to come out. MeLaughlin leaves tonight to participate in the LL.D. campaign to release his fel- low workers still in jail. CHARLOTTE, N. C., Nov. 15.— C. D. Saylors, organizer for the Na tional Textile Workers Union is tc be indicted for perjury because he identified City Solicitor Carpente: of Gastonia as one of the Manville- Jenckes lynch gang which on Sept enovich, “but John Watt’s supporter, | Morgan, who is also secretary of | the conference committee, issued the call inviting the U. M. W. A. locals | Clear cut evidence of the nature|7 kidnapped him along with organ of the work the committee will do, |izers C. M. Lell and Ben Wells, and is the fact that Matthew Woll, chief | took them for a ride into the coun- red baiter, joint author with the|try, where they flogged Wells near 1M. W. A. Great Turkestan-Siberia RR. Rises Under 5 Year Plan | MOSCOW (By Mail).—The Turk. way will be completed before the jestan -Siberian Railway, termed time fixed is a sign of the organiza- \“Turksib” for short, which was) tional capacity of the Soviet econ- ‘commenced in 1926, will probably be| omic system which is in general ex- | epneluded about the middle of 1930. |ceeding the plans laid down for the | This new railway whieh will joir:|new projects, and a proof that these | up Siberia with Soviet Central Asia|plans are based upon sober calcula-— and which, economically considered, | tion, despite the enormity of the ‘ranks with the other great Soviet tasks contained in them and despite ‘economic and industrial projects, the their class-character. Dnieprostroi, the Volga-Don Canal, Irom the standpoint of Siberia, jete., was originally planned to be/the significance of the new railway | completed in 1931, That the rail-) (Continued on Page Three) League Members Must Be at Daily . Dance in Uniform! All members of the Young Com- munist League are to come t® the American Bar Association of the | proposed national anti-strike bill, “The conference committee met|acting head of the National ic on the 9th and rejected the proposal | Federation, etc., was made chairman to seat delegate selected by the U. jof it. | Watt’s men fought the| Sitting on it, with McMahon, is| decision as also the further decision | President Mahon of the Amalga-| that “no personalities shall be per-|mated Association of Street and mitted to be discussed at the con-| Electrical Railway Employees, the | ference, only decisions of the Belle- | bureaucrat who sold out the New ville conventio.n” The Watt men | York subwaymen, the present New| wanted to spend a lot of time talk- | Orjeans street car strike, and signed | ing about Watt’s case. \the notorious Mitten contract, by | which he agreed with the czar of | Philadelphia transport never to} unionize any more of Mitten’s men) unless he could demonstrate that the A. F. L, union was mofe useful to thé boss than a company union. (Continued on Page Three) WASHERS DEFEAT made to side track the main issues, | says s . and take up the ‘Watt question.’ |A.F.L. Fakers Retr eat; to Spread Strike “The conference went point by point over the demands and program Under pressure from the rank and file, who were rallied by the Window of action adopted at the Belleville (Continued on Page Three) Cleaners’ Section of the Trade Union | Unity League, the right wing gang GRANT SHOE WRIT = Local 8, Building Service Em ployes’ I. U., and the American Fe leration of Labor international offi- | cials were compelled yesteday to retreat from the plans to split the union a a spreliminary to selling ——- | out the strike of 2,000 window clean- Mobilizes to /*"s | A crowded mass meeting in Man- ae Lyceum jeered and booed to send delegates. “No Personalities.” “At the Belleville convention, | Watt had the whole Staunton local | delegation. At this sub-district con- ferencedue to the fact that the | miners were beginning to see Watt’s policies were leading away from the principles of struggle of the N. M. U., the Staunton local’s delegation was at least 60 per cent for the N.} M. U. The other locals sent dele- | gations entirely for the N. M. U. program, as adopted at Belleville, and against Watt’s splitting tactics in the N.-M. U. Stuck to Big Problems. Union Meet Boss Attacks n u the right wingers when they at- The threatened injunction to pre-| tempted to attack the T. U. U. L. vent members of the Independent |and voted to spread the strike to Shoe Workers’ Union from picket-|Porters, floor scrubbers, elevator ing six locked-out shops was granted | °Perators and other building service | workers in co-operation with the the bosses yesterday by 'Tamman Fudge James Dunne but has so far | Militant Amalgamated Building Ser- been officially served against only | Vice Workers’ Industrial Union. one of the union’s business agents. | A. F. L. Fat Boys’ Spiel. The six shops are the Elbee, Diana,| Harry Wills, vice-president, and Septum, Bressler, Refined and Col- | Paul David, secretary of the A. Fr. onial. Others are expecting a lock- | of L. International Union—both typ- out within a few days. ; lical A. F. of L. fat boys—addressed Meanwhile at the Elbee and Diana| the meeting and handed out the (Continued on Page Two) (Continued on Page Two) Answer Threats of Ga. Boss Paper by Adopting Atlanta Rush Daily South ‘The spirit of socialist rivalry in the drive to rush the Daily Worker to the southern workers is spreading fast! It originated among the workers of Communist Party Unit 7F, Section 3, New York City, which pledged $2.50 a week to aid in adopting the mill workers of Greenville, S.,C., and challenged all other units in Section 3 to help rush the Daily South. The idea of the spirit of socialist rivalry then began to broaden out to other sections of the Communist Party. Yesterday, three units of Section 1, New York City, accepted the challenge of Unit 7F, Section 3, pledging weekly sums to aid in adopt- ing the mill workers of Elizabethton, Tenn., Spartansburg, S. C., and Kannapolis, N. C. They were Units 2R, 4F and 8F, Section 1, New York City. Daily Worker Dance tonight, at Rockland Palace, 8th Ave. and 155th St. in uniform. League members who are unempoyled and who cannot pay will be ad- mitted by their League uniforms. All League members are to par- ticipate in a revolutionary dress parade at the dance. Pioneers are also to come in uniform. D. E. C, Young Communist Today we can announce that the Night Workers Branch of the Com- munist Party in New York has pledged $2.50 a week, to aid in adopting the huge mill center of Atlanta, Georgia. bs This is a direct answer to the statement of the Georgia mill and power bosses’ sheet, the “Atlanta Constitytion,” that “Communists had better beware in Georgia.” That’s the kind of answer militant workers mustemake to open threats of murder by the mill bosses and their viciously anti-working class sheets, But we must point out’two things: ¢ One, the Socialist rivalry in adopting southern mill villages to see League. that the workers there receive the Daily regularly must not be con- Continued on Page Three) y Workers’ Groups Join in Socialist Rivalry to | y to death. This information was released b w. e, foreman of the Meck lenburg grand jury, who said that the indictment would be voted some time today. He stated that Major Bulwinkle, attorney for the Loray mill, member of the prosecution staff at the railroading of the sever (Continued on Page Two) DEMAND RELEASE OF GASTONIA 7 1,200 Hear Leeksville Striker at Meet Greeting their Southern fellow | workers still imprisoned in the milt | owners’ jails and those just out on strike at the Leaksville, N. C., mills .200 New York workers last night crowded New Star Casino, 107th St and Park Ave., and pledged to con tinug the struggle for release of the jailed and to support the latest strikers. The demonstration was under th« auspices of the International Labor Defense and the National Textile Workers’ Union. Louis McLaughlin was get to New York in time the meeting. His greetings, and the | by Fred Beal, N. Y., (Red) Hendry. James Reid, president of the N. T W. U.; Otto Hall, of the Americar Negro Labor Congregs, and J. Louis Engdahl, national secretary of the LL. D., chairman. A tremendous ovation greeted A Gibson, and J. Hudson who greetec New York workers in behalf of the Leaksville stri unable to to talk te greeting conveyer | “We stopped the looms last Wef | nesday,” Gibson said, “and there’ | not nothin’ runnin’ now. I’m a mil! worker, and know what our boys ir Charlotte, Gastcnia—all over the South—have to suffer. “AN they do is Work 12 hours a day for from $12 to $16 a week They don’t eat that Southern ham (Continued om Page Two) PROTEST HORTHY TERROR; ARRESTS H 2 Try 16 Demonstrators at Consulate Today Sixteen workers were arrested at a mass demonstration in protest | against the Hungarian White terror yesterday. Picketing the Hungarian | Consulate at the Cunard Building jon lower Broadway, th carried signs denouncing Horthy’s imprison ment of many hundreds of valiant working class fighters. “Down with the Horthy terror! Down with the bloody fascist Hun- garian dictatorship. Release the political prisoners of Hungary!” the | signs read. The demonstration at- tracted some 5,000 onlookers, many of whom expressed sympathy. | The arrested workers were bru | tally pinioned against the wall till | patrol wagons came. They shouted encouragement to their fellow-work- | ers who continued to demonstrate. It is estimated that over a thou- sand are rotting iu the Horthy jails. (Continued on Page Two)