The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 9, 1932, Page 1

“AD Ont for “Daily” Tag Days March 11, 12, 13.—Watch For Address of Your « Nearest Station WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! "(Section of the Communist International) WH" NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9, 1932. he Pont Office ader the act of Marck 5, 1879 Eatered as second- at New Yerk, N.Y. Vol IX, No. 58 ——— CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents FORD-MURPHY RULE IN SWEEPING RAIDS, MASS JAILINGS 10 WHITEWASH MASSACRE OF JOBLESS BY FORD GUNMEN , JAPAN SENDS FLEET TO VLADIVOSTOK; BUILDS AIR BASES NEAR USSR | ght oe | a | Sa as | a Mass Protest ~ AGAINST SOVIET UNION Friday; Funeral massacre of the Ford Hun- ger Marchers Monday. The picture to the right shows where the slaughter took eae place. ; ' d Imperialists Push Move’ for Baltic and Danube Set or atur ay Blocs for Drive on Western Frontier J eft se Mayor Murphy of Detroit who rushed his police to help in the slaughter of unem- ployed Ford workers. de- manding jobs or relief. Warrants Out for Foster, Reynolds, Goetz and Others; 44 Arrested, Being Framed on , “Murder” and “Criminal Syndicalism” B | Troops Brought In to Aid Ford Against Job- less; Murphy-Ford Rule Threatens No Meet- ings for Working Masses; Hoover Hunger Government Aids Murphy 5 BULLETIN. MUKDEN, March §.—The government of Japan's Manchurian puppet state has decided to raise an army of 100,000 as quickly as possi- ble, Organization, training and equipment has been undertaken by the Japanese military authorities.” Jt is also reported that the Japanese reinforcements originally in- {ended for Shanghai are being diverted to Manchuria. - = - Organize Mass Defense Against Ford and His The presence ofa Japanese fleet off Vladi- | j 1 vostok. chie? port of the Soviet Union on the Felloay Capitalists---Murdevers of Hungry Workers! acific, < { ildi f air bases by the i = 2 ae ee nies ||Demonstrate Today at Ford Co. Offices workers to organize ‘to resist the capitalist offensive in all its forms and at all points. Organize and strike against all wage cuts—organize and fight for unemployment insurance at the expense of | | the government. Struggle against the Wall Street hunger and war program. In every action the capitalist class and its mercenaries grow bolder, 1] From the shooting, gassing, clubbing and jailing of hun- | dreds of workers in the Pennsylvania-Ohio-West Virginia coal miners’. strike against starvation, they have proceeded to the organization of actual fascist murder and lynch terror in Kentucky and Tennessee (a thousand dollar award is | posted for Frank Borich, secretary of the National Miners’ Union, dead or alive), from the murder by police revolver fire of: five unemployed Negro workers in Chicago and Cleve- ‘HE Ford myth has been wiped out by the blood of un- employed workers slaughtered by Ford machine guns. The Ford “high wage and mass production” fiction has gone : | the way of the permanent American prosperity theory in z = the murder and wounding of workers who took his promises : ; Fe i . at their face value. a fe heh fo | Henry Ford, a few days ago, promised. through the. Ja L l Two M ore nm capitalist press that his entire fortune would be used to give * . | Kentucky on Criminal — \ . . S d , l Ch unemployment relief. ¥ n Ica us t arge The entire capitalist press is now engaged in an attempt jobs to‘ workers and “restore prosperity.” | Fre to whitewash Ford, his son, Edsel, and their puppet Mayor vithin 1 il f the Soviet fron- Japanese within 150 miles 0 e Sov. | 12. O'Ulock Nav, Auainet Ginaphter! tier are the latest dramatic developments in’ the rapid movement of the Japanese imperialists toward an} | The New York District Inter-| Broadway and Sith St., | national Labor Defense calls upon | o'clock noon today. *CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) at 12 All workers | | all its members and the members | are requested to report at the cor. of all working class organizations | of 54th St: and Broadway at 11:50 | to turn out in @emenstration | sharp. | against the murders at the Ford| On Friday another protest dem- | | | plant which occurred on Monday. | onstration, called by the New York | | The demonstration will take place | District of the Young Communist | | | at the Ford Company Offices in | League, will take place at the Ford Ford’s promise was carried out day before yesterday by New York City at the corner of | Company at 5 p.m. the rattle of machine guns at his Dearborn plant-and the = massacre of unarmed Ford workers demanding jobs and DETROIT, Mich. — An attempt to white- wash the wholesale murder of unemployed workers by Henry Ford and Mayor Murphy’s KNOXVILLE, Tenn., March 8. — Two more} ng miners have been arrested in Middles- | vo, Ky., charged with criminal syndicalism, | ix already in jail on this charge. The} pre! ry hearing for those in the Middles- boro jail, arrested because of their strike ac-| ivities in the coal area in Kentucky-Tennessee, | will not be held. All will be brought before the) -y for indietment. Jake Hurst and an unnamed miner Murphy of Detroit. The unarmed workers defended themselves from. ma- chine gun and revolver fire with stones. The injury of some of Ford’s hired murderers is now being used as an excuse to fasten the blame for their own deaths and {njuries upon the unemployed workers. Mass arrests are taking place. Murder and criminal syndicalism charges are being preferred. The callous and cynical nature of this whitewash scheme goes side by side with the brutal speed-up of workers in the Ford plants. Ford, his son—two of the richest men in America—with land, and the wave of murder terror against Negroes in the South, Ford and his fellow capitalists and their government have arrived at the point where they massacre unarmed un- employed workers with machine gun fire. The Communist Party calls upon the American working class to put a stop to this campaign of mass murder and suppression, Organize protest mass meetings based:first of all on workers—employed and unemployed—of the Ford plants. Bring the campaign directly into the mills and factories of |henchmen, mass raids and arrests are sweep- ing Detroit. Forty-four workers have already been arrested and they are to be charged with “homicide, assault with intent to kill” and with “criminal syndicalism”. With four workers dead, their bodies filled with bullets fired by Henry Ford’s gunmen, and 23 jobless seriously wounded, because they grand j were other industries. | Elect committees of workers to go before all loéal unions of -the American Federation of Labor national and international unions and place the issue squarely—organized mass defense, or surrender! | took part in a hunger march to the Ford plant Monday, demanding jobs or unemployment re- lief, the entire armed forces of Michigan are being mobilized against the hungry masses. A nong those recently jailed. lia ed strike leaders who have been in the Pine- anuary 4, and who were recently indicted, are) held tinder the most stringent restrain and terror. Judge Jones | their assistant murderer, Mayor Murphy, are responsible be- fore the American working class for the murders’ and maimings of jobless and hungry workers. Their bloody acts are the latest stage in the campaign ordered ll of them held incommuni- of police and fascist murder terror and suppression: by Send committees to all branches of fraternal and benefit ° x ieedox: a, a rio eA: tox Bividg gta thugs to be used| criminal syndicalism laws and other anti-working class | societies and cooperative organizations. new reign of terror has been inaugurated by \geauhernd soe We Stone ig | for the relief of unemployed miners! measures of the struggles of workers against wage cuts, Strengthen the fight for unemployment insurance. the hypocritical Murphy regime. their a'toraay, J. W. Stone, is capes - f mass unemployment, hunger, actual starvation and imper- ialist war. Ford owns mines in Kentucky. He and his fellow ‘capi- talists, Rockefeller, Morgan, Insull, etc., are responsible for the murder of Harry Simms by a hired assassin, they are Forty-four workers have been arrested and |are being tortured and third-degreed by the police department of the “liberal” Mayor Mur- phy who rose to office by promising relief to Organize demonstrations before all Ford factories and assembly plants. Organize demonstrations before the of- | fices and homes of Ford dealers. Flood the city administration of Detroit and the Michi- gan state government with protests holding them and their refused admission to consult with instead. : the prisoners. » -In..Knoxville, where the Commu- =a ‘ : nist Party had scheduled a meeting oe eee one, Soon yesterday at, Floyd Hall to answer utions against the new arrests| the Hes spread by the capitalists, est tel 2| and the latest terrorism, demanding dozens of cops and plairiclothes men the right of free speech and free as- stood in front of the hall and ter- 1 cig’ ‘ascii i Peat ster, y stri y si ass - 7 ” a “ t sequihage. ES a ps rv oar oh responsible for the reign of fascist murder terror in Ken- | master , Ford, strictly responsible for mass murder of un- | the unemployed and who now, along with Ford, The Next Step. Rlathall Necuned er the 'aesting: tucky and Tennessee, they are responsible for the wholesale | armed jobless workers. | feeds th bullet | ‘The, strike executive committee is-| “It is clear,” said a, statement | jailings, deportations and beatings of miners, organizers, | Demand repeal of all criminal syndicalism laws. | Sani ee ea CUS ee : writers and intellectuals who come to the aid of the strike Demand the disarming and dissolution of the Ford army 18 1s the beginning of a colossal frame-up by the auto jsued’ “a statement saying that the) issued here by Tom Johnson, “that | the cit yadministration, which only | recently declared that Communist meetings will not be interfered with, has received orders from those to control it to smash such mobile bosses and their government to cover up, if they can, | their savage slaughter of the unemployed, their deliberate and murderous assault on an orderly march of unarmed, hungry workers, who came to demand jobs or food from Henry Ford, who in 1931 coined over $44,000,000 in profits from their toil and sweat. ee ope ke i The frame-up dragnet which the Detroit police have flung out is aided by the Federal dicks of the Hoover hunger gov- ernment which itself followed the policy of threatening murder for the National Hunger March. 3 Federal agents are working with:the Detroit gunmen of |Henry Ford seeking to round up leaders of the unemployed ! |masses. The capitalist press declares that the bosses’ cops T A D P O F B R E A D ! jand private gunmen in Detroit are “searching” for William Z. | Foster, leader of the Trade Union Unity League, who spoke at a mass meeting of unemployed workers the day before the Hunger March to the Ford plant took place. Henry Ford’s plant in River Rouge is an armed camp. Not only are his private gunmen there, armed to the teeth mex’ Step in the struggle will be to set up unemployed councils, under | the -National Miners’ Union leader- | ship, in those sections where the | strike is in effect. The blacklisted | and.unemployed miners will be ot meetings of the workers.” ganized. The demansd raised are $3) The announcement was made that | a~week for families under five; $4 a | a.mass protest demonstration would | week for families over five; no evic- | be. held against the breaking up of tions for non-payment of rent; two the meeting Saturday, March 13, at meals a day and free clothing for|3 o'clock in the afternoon in front school children of, blacklisted and) of City Hall. BULLETS Bullets instead of bread, the slogan of the | ers returning furniture of an evicted worker, Two Negro | thugs, on Febr uary 20, in Kentucky. {the police near Sacramento. Hoover hunger government, and all the graft- workers were kiled by the police. | The arrest and jailing of 15 strike leaders and/ San Francisco Mooney demonstration on December ing and corrupt boss city’ administration, is Youngstown, Ohio—National Youth Vay. Demon- charged sie ar syndicalism by the Ford-Rovke- | 1st. Two delegations to Governor Rolph arrested. Work- ry A + ant], “¢ as . stration attacked by police and American Legion. Seyen | ‘eller-Insull controlled Kentucky courts. jers brutally attacked, gassed and clubbed being carried into action. Detroit is the latest shot. Scayes clubbed and arrested. | Tampa, Florida, November 7th celebration attacked. ing miners and their hungry families. The exposure of Ford and his fellow capitalist rulers, of capitalist government, of its war en the American working class in preparation for further war on the heroic Chinese workers and peasants and attack on the Soviet Union, must be carried throughout the ranks of the working class. The Communist Party of the United States, whose mem- bers, with those of the Young Communist League, because they take a leading part in every struggle of the proletariat, | bear the brunt of these attacks, calls ‘upon all American of thugs and spies. Fix. the responsibility for the murders and maimings upon Ford and his agents before the whole working class. Organize a nation-wide movement against the terror, suppression, hunger and imperialist war drive of Wall Street government. Organize the united front of the working class, white and Negro, native and foreign born, to. fight. and win the elementary rights to organize, strike, demonstrate, to meet and speak! . The kidnapping and beating of Joc Weber and Bill| He cana ‘ : f answer of the bosses to the demands of the Wildwood, Pa—During the Pennsylvania coal min- | Dunean by coal operators’ gun thugs [Forty-seven workers arrested on frame-up charges of With the very machine guns that spattered death into the 12,000,000 starving jobless who demand work/ery strike. "strikers attacked—one shot dead, | Writers’ Committee attacked while bringing three | Murder. ranks of the hungry unemployed, but Ford's killers have beet | Steubenville, Ohio, January 21.—Unemployed work- ers’ mass meeting attacked by police. Hammond, Ind.—National Hunger March ctration attacked by police. 4 or unemployment relief. In the past year there have been many brutal attacks and murders of unemployed workers. _The Daily Worker has been able to collect the following facts: Detroit,—The attack on the Ford Hunger March using machine guns, revolvers“and teat gas and murder of Joe York, and three other workers, Ford’s police. Thirty five workers seriously injured and scores clubbed. Chicago., August 4th.—In the course of an eviction unemployed workers atatcked. |Three Negro workers murdered by police. Hundreds clubbed. Scores jailed. _ Cleveland, Octohor 6th.—Attacked unemployed work- reinforced by the 125th Michigan Infantry that was mobilized in Detroit, and as the capitalist papers say, “is ready to swing into action.” ‘This battalion, says the capitalist press, “in- cludes three rifle companies, a machine gun company anda wounded. | truckloads of food to the Kentucky strikers. é William Simons, young miner, shot by mine gun- | The posting of $1,000 reward for the reiurn of | man, while picketing the Gaylord mines near Yorkville, "rank Borich of the National Miners’ Unioti, dead or Mogg blstiniat Art : sca 4 | Tonawanda, N. ¥., December 29.—Unemployed work- | The Brooke Wunger March on Welisburgh, during | Lawrence, Mass.—Clubbing and arrests of scores of oye 4 and brutally beaten in the halls of the | headquarters’ company. the course of the Pennsylvania coal miners’ strike at- strikers during the course of the texille strike.” Sity Council. | ¥ tacked on August 23 by state troontes. The brutal aviack againg. Negro sharo croppérs at| ‘Pilteburgh, Pa., February 4th.—Unemployment dem- — Tecra Pra The frame-up and railroading to “legal” lynching | Camp Hill, ‘Alebama, who were organ‘tdre; ‘0 the Agri- oNs:ralion aitacked by police. 28 workers arrested. | A detailed story of the murder of the 4 Detroit workers by the Ford- of the nine innocent Scottsboro boys on charge of “rape” } cultural Workegs’ Industrial Leaguc, on August 4th, The | Minneapolis, Minn.—Iebruary 41h unemployment ; Murphy regime will be found on page 3, besides photographs showing on the evidence of two known prostitutes. murder of Ralph Gray and arrest of 49 Yogrocs. | demonstration smashed by the® police. actual scenes of the bloody asxault against the hungry wnemplored The murder of Harry Simms, 19 year old youth or- Barberton, Ohio, May 27.—Macs prostst mocing Los Angeles, Cal,—Police raided workers’ club. 46} | workers, . ganizer of the National Miners’ Union, shot by gun!against the murder of Louis Alexpader. fiiacked by | workers arrested. es | ebaletenaaiea demon- |