The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 10, 1931, Page 3

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1931 verage Veter Than Alive Under Tombstone Act (By An Ex-Serviceman) ! people know just what the ibstone Bonus” is, In 1925 it sroposed in Congress to give each an an additional sum amount- 0 about $500 per veteran as ad- 2d compensation for the service veterans gaye during the war-in | splendid provisions been made to bury| in a class by himself. ~1919. hat proposal was turned down and sead there was passed the “ad- ted Compensation Act” of 1925, nmonly called the “Tombstone nus.” The great fault with the act is that tries to do too many things at e same time, It tries to be an ad~- isted pay—and old age pe on: ad an insurance police—all three in ne and all three at the cost. of one. 18 a result it does none of these hree things effectively and becomes me of’the seven” blunders of the orld. A Long Wait As an adjusted pay it gives the veteran a cash payment in 1945 for services performed in 1918. Quite ja long wait for pay-day. : Worth $1,000 Dead HOOVER CALLS BOSS PARLEY “10 DUPE VETS Will Issue Further Excuses Why Bonus Should Not Be Paid (By a Negro Veteran) The American Legion which organized by Theodore Roosevelt Jr. (Governor of Porto Rico) and by other imperialists officers is again leading a move to defeat the demands of the worker veterans for the in mediate payment of the tombstone bonus. First the Legion, upon Hoover's and his banker friends’ instructions defeated the demands of the rank and | file mémbers of the Legion for the) immediate payment of the bonus. Now together with the leaders of the ‘Veterans of Foreign Wars, and the Disabled Veterans Association they have called a “parlez Vous” of seven days in the capitalists’ Capitol in| ‘Washington beginning October 26. New’ Fake Disabled‘ Veteran Legislation The parley will work out new meth-} ods of duping the working class vet=) erans. It plans to “obtain economy and expedite direct relief to veterans of all wars,” which means that that| fascists’ decisions further penalizing the vet- | ran’s beneficiary gets all the breaks. ) The beneficiary collects the minute the vet turns up his toes. No wait- ing no petitions to Congress; no mass meetings. The adjusted compensa- tion act makes the average vet worth about $1,000 dead. Why have such} the veterans while so few provisions | have been made to keep him from} being buried? | pen Letter from Wounded : Is it possible that someone wants to get rid of him? | ‘The adjusted compensation act would not have originated in any oth- er mind than that of a “Ninety Day Wonder.” But the “Ninety Day Wonder” is If his genious | isn’t appreciated he'll do like he did during the war: take the crowd out and drill the tail off the pup} Vets to Legion Commander Soldiers Home, Dayton, Ohio. » Commander American Legion, My Dear Sir: There are perhaps 1,500 mem- bers of your organization here in this home, Speaking for. this group of men, we would like to know why the Legion voted against full payment of the grave- yard bonus. Why is it that you, head of the men of the Legion, let this God, and great engineer (Herbert Hoover) dictate to the high officials of the Legion, ' We were made to believe when we joined the Legion that this organ- ization was 100 per cent American and a dispenser of right against wrong. Now when the U. 8. can lend and cancel billions of the tax-payers money to foreign coun- tries which will never be paid back and thousands of ex-service men up against the wall your or- ganization yotes against the pay- ment of the bonus for the starving ex-servicemen. If you belieye you ean decelye the ex-seryicemen any longer you will find out we are getting determined and will fight until the last ditch for the pay- ment of this bonus, which is due us and you can consider that your organization, We actually know that the head men of the American Legion are a bunch of deceivers, camou- flagers, pretenders, parasites and posers grafted by the system to servé masters first, We demand an answer to this letter and if we do not receivg one, we are obliged to believe that you and the rest are tarred with the same stick as | are the rest of your colleagues, |. Herbert Hoover, Frank Hines and | the rest. Worker Ex-Servicemens’ Committee, MASS FUNERAL TODAY FOR TWO MURDERED WORKERS (CONTINUED FROM PA ONED Ave. where the workers will mobilize the mass funeral. The funeral, which will be under the auspices of the Un- employed Council to which both of the murdered workers belonged, will take place at 1 o'clock Saturday. Hundreds View Bodies. The bodies of the two martyred workers are now on view at the hall of Branch No. 8 of the Unemployed Council, at 3804 Scoville Ave. For the past two days, white and Negro work- ers have come from the remotest sections om Cleveland to pay their revolutionary respects to/the two |murdered_ workers, who died in the fight against starvation, evictions, for unemployment relief and for uncon- } ditional equal righis of the Negro masses. An honor. guard of white and Negro workers have stood at at- tention beside the bodies day and jnight. The Communist Party, the League of Struggle for Negro Rights, the International Labor Defense and these 1,500 members are out of [scores of other working-class organi- zations have denounced the murder- jand called upon their memberships and the entire working class of Cleve- land_to turn out in masses for the mass funeral, Thousands In Protest Meets. Thousands of white and Negro | workers have attended the numerous | protest meetings held | throughout -the city since Tuesday's jmassacre. At these meetings the workers have expressed the greatest indignation against the murderous Police terror with which the, bosses jare trying’ to crush the struggles of | the unemployed for the right to live. FIGHT BOSSES IN NEXT WAR; VETS ADVICE TO VETS Horrors of War Told| By One Who Went Through It (By~An Ex-Serviceman.) LOS VEGAS, Nev.—What does the young generation know about war? Most of them get merely the motion picture version, which is like a painted ship om a painted sea—a! shadow war on a shadow screen. Movie war is war with the horrors extracted dnd great gobs of romance thrown, in. The explosions don’t sound genuine.” Also we all know that the dead men are only fooling. Furthermore, one does «not smell veterans, declaring their disability did| the corpses on the movie screen. not start during the war and because | One does not see his buddie blown of their suffering in the war trenches. | to bits. One is in no danger from ‘fhe parley plans to issue yards of | being bombed from above or-mined further excuses to the other unem- | ployed veterans and workers, lying and pleading “the government*can’'t | adopt the dole (unemployment in- | surance) because did not president Hoover and Mellon say that the pay- ment of the veterans tombstone ad- justed compensation would break the government,” “and now we must ‘ldok out for the poor disabled veterans.” New War Preparations | ‘The fakers will also be sure to; deny any representative of the real} Workers’ organizations of veterans if they can, and will go on record to support the bosses in this crisis, | namely their new war preparations for God and Dollar Wall Street. No Negro veterans will get into the meet- | tng. ‘They with 700,000 disabled vet-| erans have been cheated more than | any other section of the workihg/ lass. Their only organization is the Workers Ex-Servicemen’s League. ~ One way to help the Soviet Union is to spread among the workers “Soviet ‘Forced Labor,’” by Max Bedacht, 10 cents per copy. | from underneath, shelled from the front and from the rear—as> hap- pened to many of us; riddled with high velocity bullets and shrapnel, assed, crushed by tanks, scared to death by flame throwers or killed by disease. I might also state here that in the files of the War Department are | several other, novel ways of killing workers that equal and even surpass the above-mentioned horrors. Us ex-servicemen better wise up and when they call for us to fight against fellow-workers in other lands to mike the world safe for Wall St. let us line up with the. working class and fight our real. enemies, the bosses, SMALL CHILDREN DRAFTED TO |r | STATE FARM WORK SACRAMENTO, Cal.—Young chil- dren between the ages of 9 and 14 are being mobilized and shipped to work on the state university farms at Davis, California, The Pacific Grayhound State Line carried a large crowd of these little ones off to slavery last week. BANKERS PUSH INFLATION PROGRAM AS CRISIS WORSENS (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) and the initial declines in prices have let loose forces which now bid fair to lead to disaster unless checked.” _ "The bankers Have one other reason’ forthe inflation and that is to in- erease their profits. The Journal. of Commerce also points this: out) “This action is expected to im- prove the level of bank earning power, especially in big cen- ters where the bansk Have an espe- | olally large proportion of their portfolios in bills and other com- mitments the yield on which will rise sharply with the upturn in the rediscount rate.” ‘living standards of the working class. The inflation that the banks now trying to bring abouf means in the United States, as in Great Britain and other countries which have al- ready started on this course, an in- Yerease in the price of all the com- modities in the workers’ standard of living, The capitalist class ts follow- ing up the attack by an increase in the prices of the goods the workers have to buy, ’ Neither the pools nor the inflation will, however, stop in any degree the development of the financial crisis and the worsening of the economic crisis throughout the country, Neither will they make any basic change in the failure of additional dozens of banks. Against the attack of the ‘SEAMEN TO HEAR WM. Z. FOSTER i erpeseal ‘ Huge Shipping Merger On Eve of Session NEW YORK.—On the eve of the two day session of the National Com- | mittee of the Marine Workers In- dustrial Union here today, at 140 Broad Street, takes place a new manoeuver by the shipping’ interest that will mean more wage cuts and gteater speed up to the seamen and longshoremen. A giant merger of 12 American boat lines has practically settled. The American Pioneer Line, Transport Lines, Line, Red Star Line, Leland Line and Baltimore Line are to be merged under the control of “one by | holding company.” an. outcome of the pressure of the | deepening crisis, further demoraliz- ing the already over crowded ship- | competition between the United | The American interest hope that this | moye will put them in a position to | displace England in the shipping | field and, aid United States imper- ialism in the struggle against Eng- land for foreign markets. At sam¢e | time this fits in with the general | war preparations, by consolidating the transport facilities fofeasier con- trol by the government in the com- ing war. The M.W.LU, will take up this new phase of ‘the situation as it effects ithe seamen and longshoremen. with its general discussion of conditions in the entire industry. William Z. | Foster, secretary of the Trade Union Unity League will open the session esenting the T.U.U.L. Delegates aré arriving from the gulf coast, from the west coast and the Atlantic coast ports to attend the conference. A general report will be made by Geo. , National Chairman of the M. W.LU, followed by an organizational report by R. B, Hudson of the Na- tional Bureau, reports by secretaries from all locals will be made, the un- employment situation will be ex- amined and a definite program of action worked oua in preparation for striiggle on the ships. some have cut 10 per cent once and some have cut twice, since July, states John Burns, delegate to the Marine Workers Industrial Union national 8f¢|oard meeting here today, in an in- yesterday. . “Unemployment is rife on the Pa- cific coast, he states. The steam schooners have a trick of*running a While this inflation may men in-| capitalist oftss through wage-cuts boats. They were not bothered by the creased profits to the capitalist class | and inflation the working class must | {mmigration i they let the boss put things i will mean a terrific attack on the organize in millions for struggle. Name | Address I served in APPLICATION BLANK WORKERS EX-SERVICEMEN’S LEAGUE ‘79 East 10th Street, New York City still Pending. Atlantic | Panama’ Pacific | The merger is| | ping lines and greatly sharpening the | | States and British shipping interests. | Speakers for the Communist Party, |the Unemployed Council, etc., have called upon the workers, employed ‘and unemployed, Negro and white, for the most vigorous resistance to |the growing boss terror, and for the protection of the Negro workers who, in Cleveland, as in Chicago, were es- | pecially singled out for the ‘bullets of | the police. Speakers have all stressed the necessity of the white workers actively supporting the struggles of the Negro masses against special per- secution and for unconditional equal rights, including the right of self- COME ON, LETS ORGANIZE, SAYS EX-SERVICEMAN “cnds Sharp Letter Of Denunciation To Legion New (Tork. | Daily Worker: The following is a copy of a letter | addressed to the resolutions com- | mittee of the American Legion Con- j vention, which was mailed to that ; body by the writer at the time of the convention in Detroit: | “All we get down here is bad news from the convention. Al we hear is that you are having a darn good time, But how about giving @ good time to those that sent you there? “Why don’t you pass a resolution calling for a reduction of hours of work, without a reduction in pay, for all government employes? In the meantime pass the bonus reso- lution. Listen to the plain fellows. Damn the bankers, lawyers and doctors! Let us once again, be- fore we die, know that you are our buddies, as you were in 1917-1918,” Are they our buddies? I guess not. All the trash of humanity,. the gen- erals, bankers and politicians who made the long speeches at the un- employment conference and all those who posed as delegates representing the veterans are our enemies and we vets must fight them. The final re- sults and news from the convention should be sufficient for any vet who is a worker. Come on, let’s build the Workers’ Ex-Servicemen’s League! . i alent Steam schooners are cutting wages: ” vers’ PAGE SUSPENDED—NO FINANCES. The special feature page of ex- ers of these working-class fighters | nightly | determination for the New of the Southern “BI response of the wh has been enthus' méajori- Belt Mass Delegation In Demands. A mass of tives from all militant workin: organizations in. the city visited city : today to demar immediate release of the workers rested Tuesday night when the employed workers defended selyes against the police atta delegation also demanded the wi |drawal of the armed police for {which have been thrown inio Negro section in an attempt to lega representa- ar- un- the ter- jrorize the colored workers and crush their resistance to the bo: vation program. The delegates de- manded a stop to the reign of terror | against the Negro masses and placed full responsibility for the mas: the entire city administratio | The police reign of terror co today, with numerous arresi jtant Negro and wi |throughout the city an te attempts to split the wor and incite to race rioting. T police have confiscated thousands ot leaflets issued by the Communist Party and the Unemployed Council (calling for solidarity of’ white and Negro workers, and have broken, up lall gatherings of Negro workers on the streets. Bosses Whitewash While the workers the mass funeral for the two mur- |dered Negro workers, the city au- | thorities and the boss press are iran- \tieally trying to whitewash the police jattack. The mayor and the ,chief of police have both rushed to defend their police thugs, justifying the shooting without even the usual pre- tense of an investigation. Following |the example of the Chicago authori- \ties after the massacre of Negro |workers in the eviction fight on Au- gust ‘he city authorities are mo- bilizing he local Negro Uncle Tom reformists for work in quieting the | Sue of the Negro masses and di- verting them from the necessary rev- jolutionary struggle against starvation and national oppression. | Wounded Denied Hospital Treatment: | The four wounded workers arrested Tuesday night are still refused hos- | pital treatment although two of them, |Henry White and Davel Nevels, are leritically wounded. They are held in |the prison cells, along with eight |other workers who have been arrest- ed in teh police attempt to whitewash their crimes against the working class. | Several of the police murderers {have been identified by witnesses and reporters for the capitalist press. | The International Labor Defense, supported by other workers organiza- ntinues of mili- Murderers._ are.preparing Vv eteran and Family Evicted from Home (By a Worker Correspondent) BROOKLY N. ¥.—Joseph Romolo, a veteran of the world war and the father of three small children, was evicted from his home here Sept. 30 by the Tam- marshal he was ut a job and could ‘not pay Suppert Worker Ex- because cut off all relief for Romoto last whereupon Romolo took to the American Legion, ated” the matter and Uner Disab} 2 case over to the Wel- Urapliee: fare Department, which, in turn, DRS Sf Oe Tar dis: d it. AU the charity he Americ Fi n Legion teen organizations that the starving vet applied to refused relief, referring him back to the Welfare Depart- ¢ ment, ment of R demand the the We march with Di trying to a s and would be \ Servicemen’s League. your paper and are asking member of the Ex-Servicemens League to meet us in vs We wish to march in fr he unemployed in th nemployment ng to see if joined the veterans’ march Hail on Oct. There, along thousands of his former buddies in the trenches, he demanded relief from starva- | tion, Ne joined the Workers’ Ex- | Servicemen’s League, which is de- immediate relief for to City with every manding Comrade Romolo. VOTE COMMUNIST — bing, murdering parasitic capitalist you this letter on Base employees. red life here We have seen thousands of work- ers slaughtered when we were fight- ing to make Andrew (rotten) Mellon richer and we can plainly see now how we were misled by the lying, rob- ‘The only war we are willing to fight in the future is the war between the robbing class and the honest work- ave felt the crisis friends and the ing class and you may bet the ma- +. the past year we've | Jority of us have our eyes open and we now know who is our real en- mize alon| omize Alon | omy and are willing to die fighting tment eco lines that hit us badly. has meant of us. Lower appropriatio: the loss of nany increases of s2 ult gre almost com- the mercy of the army officers of the base. Most of us have ived increases in such a long at we'rg in a hopeless state. urely need them. At least 7,500 of us are ex- servicemen. About one-third to one- | half of the men are unskilled. These ratings receive an average salary of| $23-$27 per week. Try and support a family on that | no av not rec! time t And SENDER GARLIN Co-editor of the LABOR DE Speaks on e Proletarian Triumphs in the U.S.S-R.” At Irvin 15th St. and Nee Place, Tomorrow Evening | Up until last week instead of hir- ing additional men that were needed they used \army prisoners. And Hoover has the colossal nerve to ask the bosses for more employment for the workers, There’s a rumor here about a wage cut to take place soon. y one at that, but 25| per cent, even say that a lot | of army officers are going to be fired, However, we certainly are not inter-| | ested in these government tools. sports, workers’ rest homes, Moscow, > B a 6 134 KS workers. UNPUBLISHED SCENES Auspices: LL.D., N.Y. | ‘We are always the first ones to be| JLLUSTRATED LECTURE WHAT IS THIS FIVE-YEAR PLAN? FENDER “Boss Terror in the U.S.A: vs. Plaza Hall lanhattan Sunday, Oct 11, 8 P.M. See the latest scenes of the Five-Year Plan—factories, collective farms, UP LEGION CARDS; TO MARCH TO WASHINGION servicemen’s League In Fight for Full Payment of Bonus Pledge to Lead Struggle of Workers For Un- nployment Insurance 2d Soldiers’ Home, D we are no longer misled by hundred members, of the Amer- n Legion have torn their cards in this home in the last week and several hundred of us are marching to Washington and aveyard bonus. hundred and yeterans to ery glad to hear from the Ex- thor We wish to advertise our march through es ao for our class, the working class. Yours for freedom. A determined group of dis- abled We can get res on this let ractically all of the me: DAV and VFW are with 19 Signatures, Montana Vets Desert. Legion Toston, Montana. Daily Worker The Helena Independent of Sept. 25 is authority for the statement that 100 inmates of the Soldiers’ Home at Sawtelle, California, tore up their Le- gion cards when they heard of the Legions’ action on the bonus, —A War Vet. Backs “Hoover Plan” Leningrad, etc. SEE IN CONTRAST pictures of “Hoover Plan,”-—wage cuts, lynchings, terror against militant OF HARLAN, KY. District Adm. 15c tions, has demanded the immediate | * : |removal of the wounded workers to | equésted for donations for the graft- | the hospital and the release of all the beens unemployment funds, salva‘ es arrested workers, Regaiaenl red cross, ete; | | All these things are making us Workers Will Answer Boss Terror! The workers of Cleveland will an- swer the murderous attacks of the police agents of the bosses with a tremendous demonstration at the mass funeral Saturday and with a |further development of the struggle against starvation and evictions, lagainst imperialist war preparations, directed especially at the Soviet Union, and for unconditional equal rights for the Negro People. | | }wake up and the red movement is | being discussed throughout the base. This coming election campaign will } | see many Communist votes from us. We call upon our fellow voters in the | base to do as we are going to do— Vote Communist. Enclosed please find $4 collected from some of us for the Communist election campaign. —A group of army base employees | 8 PAGES INDIAN \ The Most Beautiful THE PRICES WELL-PREPARED PROLETARIAN BEGINNING WITH THE NEW OCTOBER ISSUE —NEW MASSES —— 15 Cents at all Workers Bookshops and all Newsstands At CAMP NITGEDAIGET All the necessary improvemenis for the Fall and the coming Winter months have already been installed A WARM COMRADELY ATMOSPHERE Large Comfortable Rooms are Ayailable in the Attractive HOTEL NITGEDAIGET Te enjoy your vacation or week-end, go to Camp Nitgedaiget The Only Fall and Winter Resort LARGER SUMMER 1 Time of the Year ARE THE SAME HEALTHY MEALS ENTERTAINMENTS $208.50 and up Bis So One Way to MOSCOW $167.50 (Tax Included) HOLMBERG SS. TICKET AGENCY 2 EAST 125th ST. 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