The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 10, 1932, Page 1

All Out Friday Morning for Tag Days to Save the Daily Worker --- Look for Your Station on Page £ 2 WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! Dail Central cReceon of the Communist International) All Out for “Dai March 11, 12, For Address ly” Tag Days 13.—Watch of Your Nearest Station Vol, 1X, No. 59 — Entered as eccond-class matter at the Post Office st New York, N. ¥.. ender the act of March 5, 1877 NE EW YORK, THURSDAY ; MARCH 10, 1932, Cc ITY EDIT HON —= Price 3 Cents WORKERS FORCE RELEASE OF FUNERAL COMMITTEE JAILED BY MURPHY; PROSECUTOR BARS WORKERS’ DOCTOR FROM INQUEST Organize mi Defeat the Ford Plan--Mass Production of Mass Murder! Read the indictment: FORD REVEALS PLAN FOR GREAT OUTPUT—He Will “Risk Ali", Spending Hundreds of Millions to Build 1,500,000 Cars in 1932— Program Meas Jobs for 400,000 and Business for Many Mines, Mills and ‘Railways—New ‘Work to Start Soon—World Revival His Aim— Headlines in New York Times, February 28. ihe fulure is here and we are ‘going to do our utmost—risk every- thing if necessary—to use this surplus which the public, through its dealings with us, has provided, to see if we cannot make what the the country needs most—work, jobs! We are going to risk everything we've got to create useful work for just as many people as possible-—Henry Ford, quoted by the New York Times, February 28, Page 19. . * . Detroit, Feb. 27.—When Henry Ford gives the word for mass pro- duction on his new V-eight and improved model A-four cars, as he will do probably next week, there will be revealed, well under way, one of the great epics of modern world industry.—Dispatch to New York Times, February 27. . e . “I heard one of the policemen say “Get out your gats and let them have it.” “All of the men, I think, drew pistcls and fired into the crowd. I saw men falling to the pavement. It seemed to me that 15 or 20 men fell.”—Eye witness account of massacre in news story of Detroit News, Tuesday, March 3. “I saw no member of the mob use any firearms. All of the shooting I saw was done by policemen and guards. When it was all over a Dear," born policeman rushed up to me and said I would have to give up my pictures.-.. “No pictures,” he said, “or there will be trouble.”—State- ment by Ray Pillsbury, Detroit News photographer. + . . “We don’t want any violence. Remember, all we are going to do is to walk to the Ford employment office. No trouble, no fighting. Stay in line, Be orderly. I understand that the Dearborn police are planning fostop us. Well, we will try to get through somehow. But remember, no trouble.”—Statement made to hunger marchers by Albert Goetz in speech’ just as marchers reached bridge over Baby Creek. ir Wi Give Us Work! We Want Bread, Not Crumbs! Moratorium on the Debts of the Poor Farmer!—Some of the’slogans on placards car- ried by the Ford hunger marchers. se A Ford official said the company would have no statement to give out. “The company,” he said, “feels no responsibility because none of its men was involved.”—Statement in Detroit Free Press, March 8. ee Bugene Macks who was shot in the left legt, left hand and right side . . . said he had been out of work for nine months, for- merly being employed as a chassis assembler.—Detroit Free Press, March 8. Henry Ford visited Bennett (head Of Ford Secret Service) at. the hospital last evening. . . . Joe Tocco, downriver beer baron, was one one of the first callers after he learned that Bennett had been, hurt.— Detroit Free Press, March 8, . Another echo came from Prosecutor Toy of Wayne County... . The wholesale arrest of every known Communist in Wayne county (Détroit) who declared no mercy will be shown those responsible for the riot. He threatened manslaughter or murder prosecution for them.—Detroit Mirror, March 8. ; Ford's plans for “world revival” have been revealed in the withering blast of bullets fired into-unarmed workers aS mass production of mass murder. Ford and his murderous tools have killed and wounded, with coldblooded savagery, workers and their leaders de- manding jobs. Ford is a murderer of workers and a liar. Ford, and his gangster Mayor Murphy, and his gang- ster prosecutor attorney, Toy, their appetites for the blood, lives and liberties of workers unsated by the slaughter of workers demanding the promised jobs, have already arrested 44 workers and are carrying though, with the aid of Wall Street’s federal secret het further whole- sale arrests. They are trying to cover up their guilt. They are trying to dam the torrent of working ¢lass anger that continues to rise throughout the country. "A warrant has been issued for William Foster. His special crime is that he spoke to a mass meeting of workers in his capacity as a Communist leader and urged them to organize and fight for work,. unemployment insurance and immediate relief—at the expense of Ford and-his fellow capitalists. Toy, the protector of gangsters, expects by his whole- sale arrests of Communists, to separate the Communist Party from the working class. He,is mistaken. Communists killed no one in the Ford hunger march. Communists were killed and wounded, along with dozens of workers who are not Communists. The Communist Party is supported by hundreds of thousands of workers in this attack upon it as the leader of the struggles.of the unemployed: for work, food and insurance. The American Federation of Labor leadership, the socialist party, many “liberals,” have adopted Mayor Mur- phy as their c#n. Ford has been held up by the A. F. of L, leadership as the ideal employer. They have never made an effort to organize the speeded up and spied upon Ford workers. _» They too, are responsible for the massacre as well as for the increasing misery of the 12,000,000 unemployed whose demands they oppose, together with the American ISTORY OF MURDER OF 4 AS TOLD BY AN EYE-WITNESS Bennett Shot Right At Workers DETROIT, Mich.—An eyewitness account of the unprovoked murder of 4 Detroit unemployed is given in the following graphic report to the Daily Worker by a worker who participated in the demonstration: Now that the bloody thugs of Henry Ford police have murdered four workers following the Ford Hunger March and have wounded twenty others, the local capitalist press is trying to find some excuse for this unheard of brutality. They say that Bennett, the chief of Ford police came out to tell the workers that there will be jobs for everybody soon, but as a matter of fact he drove his car right into the solid body of the hungry, half starved and frozen, blizzard beaten Ford workers, jumped out of his car and began banging his pistol into the crowd and when his pistol was emp- tied he hollered to a narby police- man: “Give me your gun!” ‘There was no need of this killings of these workers; they marched peacefully from their point of as- sembly at Fort and Oakwood Boul- | evard across the bridge into Miller | toad, where they were. ambushed by a@ mob of blue-coated thugs who were hidden in a number of vacant homes under the railroad embank- | | { | FOR YORK’S STORY. JOE YORK Youth leader of the Hunger March Monday murdered by Ford’s gunmen. TURN TO PAGE 3 ment. As they reached that point of the road, two trains were being moved back and forth on the tracks at this section and on the other side of this road theré is the river and while the thugs began to hur! tear gas bombs the crowd had no way out of this point becduse that road was blocked by the Detroit police force who numbered well over a hundred and who were holding up the traffic so that the marchers could not back out of it, by retreating to the rear. ‘The workers were dispersed for a moment but as soon as they found out that the bombs could not harm them in a cold, below zero weather, they proceeded with their march, while the cops got cold feet and ran ahead of the ‘crowd. The capitalist press says that the crowd was stoning them, but this is far from the truth; the cops thought that icy weather would do a better job and there were JAPANESE PRESS PUSHES ITS WAR PROPAGANDA AGAINST SOVIET UNION Try to Interpret Soviet Strengthening of the! Siberian Garrisons as “Mobilization” The Japanéke newspapers continue to pub- lish inciting stories of Soviet “mobilizaton” on) the Siberian borders of the Soviet Union. Yes- terday’s papers carried a dispatch from the) the firemen waiting for the marchers at Dix Road. There the hungry frozen Ford workers simply ran over that line of the police and firemen and kept on marching to the Ford plant. And while the whole Detroit city police force and also the whole force of Dearborn were mobilized by Henry Ford’s cousin, the mayor of Dearborn, and Murphy of Detroit, and Ford himself watched the bloody terror against his victims, the local press has the audacity that Ford did not know that there was to be a march taking place. What a hypocrite. Ordering t oshoot the workers and then looking for such an excuse when the whole community is en- raged against this brutality to the highest pitch. Workers of the country help us combat this vicious terror of Henry Ford and his flunkeys! Every shop, mine and factory a fertile field for Daily Worker sub- scriptions. Japanese Consul at Khabaroysk, Siberia, re- doubled. The Japanese papers attempt to in- as a “mobilization” of the Red Army. The Soviet Union has made no secret of the fact that ‘CONTINUED ON PSGE TRKEE) N. Y. Workers Protest Against Massacre Before Ford Headquarters NEW YORK.—Tammany Hall’s riot squads armed with |S saainla Cairo nen RN eesrata|| | Workers engaged in a peaceful dem- Jong clubs faithfully served Henry Ford here at his offices on 54th and Broadway yesterday when they repeatedly attacked a demonstration of workers protesting the murder of 4 Detroit unemployed by the Murphy-Ford regime bat a hunger demon- 7 More Indicted on Criminal Syndic- alism in Ky.; Dorothy Weber Ill With Influenza in Pineville Jail MIDDLEBORO, Ky., March 9—Joe Chandler, National Miners Union organizer; Allan Johnson, Daily Worker correspondent, and Jim Roberts, A. B. Moore, Jake Hurst, Joe Yeary and Tilman Cadle, striking rainers, were indicted by the Bell County Grand Jury this afternoon on charges of criminal syndicalism and were placed under $5,000 bail each. They have not been allowed to testify in their qwn defense since their arest Jast Saturday. Cadle was not even in his home when the raid was made and is still at large, yet, he, too, is indicted. ‘The trial has been set for the end of May in Pineville. SR NAME RCT Ma Dorothy Weber Ross is critically ill of influenza in the Pineville jail, All the other women prisoners are also on the verge of influenza and $5,000 cash or Liberty bonds is imperative for the release of Com- rade Ross. Large protest meetings and wide publicity should be given for the release of all criminal syndicalist prisoners and eM prisoners held in- communicado, ‘The International Labor Defense and the National Committee for the Defense of Political Prisoners are trying to raise bonds to get the woah sounraden ont of dalh expeaaliy: Dommdy Bagg es; os! spompronp “og 9, ® stration near the Ford plant at River | Rouge. Despite the bitter cold weather, hundreds of workers gathered in front of the New York Ford agency. Cops were lined up at the doors and windows. Bearing banners denouncing the murders, a ‘crowd began to picket the building. ‘Ford answers the demand ‘for jobs or relief with bullets!” “Down ‘with the Hoover hunger govern- ment!” “Fight for unemploymeut in- surance!” were some of the slogans carried, The demonstration was held under the auspices of the New York District of the International Labor Defense. After parading past the Ford build- ing for 15 minutes, the marchers gathered around a speaker at the corner: bed 54th and Broadway. . aker denounced the by murder of unarmed workers. Police attempted to drag the speaker down, but the workers resisted, and only | workers jby ord gun thugs, | | | \lice terror, previous attacks | Jobless Councils, ¢ ‘Watch For Further Exposure of Ford! The Ford spy and thug/ ystem, the Ford employ-| ! |ment system, the Ford po- upon organizers and workers | |—a complete exposure of the |whole Ford system in its jearlier and later develop- | ments, will be published by| the Daily We orker tomorrow. | Auto Union Score Ford Murder of 4 DETROIT, Mich.—Exposing the terroristic frame-up cam- paign of the Murphy regime to whitewash the murderous Ford and his gunmen, the Unem-| ployed Council and Auto Work- |: ers’ Union that led the Ford | |Hunger March in which four] were slaughtered | calls on} their | the workers to rallly |forces for a more determined strugge. | The official statement which says | Nat'l Committee Jobless Councils Brands Massacre. (Statement of the National Com- | mittee of Unemployed Conncils) : Henry Ford, super exploiter, has answered with murderous machine- gun fire the demand for jobs and relief of the now destitute workers whose toil made him one of the rich- | est. men in the world. | This deliberate, cold-blooded, or- | | ganized murder of unarmed workers | is an arrogant challenge by one of the fifty-nine rulers of the United | States flung into the face of the en- | tire working class. It is an open declaration of war right to live. | The ‘burning resentment, the furi- |ous bitter hatred which all workers porting that the Soviet garrison there had been | employed, and unemployed feel as they learn of this atrocious massacre Hi . ee |must be concentrated into a mighty | terpret this strengthening of Soviet garrisons | wave of militant, uncompromising struggle against the bosses’ hunger point of machiné guns. At the bier of our murdered com- Tades we vow to avenge their mur- der by following their heroic ex- ample, by uniting millions of emplo: ed and unemployed workers in mili- tant, stubborn, sustained struggle for the right to live. to rally in great protest. mass demon- strations against the hunger terror and war program of the ruling class and especially against the Ford com- pany which is directly responsible for | onstration for work from the com-~- ers whom they now leave to starve. Long live the memory of our heroic martyrs in the war against hunger! | Demand that Henry and Edsel Ford and Mayor Murphy of Detroit as well as all others responsible for this mur- der conspiracy be held gconumntable’) for this brutal crime. Employed and unemployed: Build | your united Front for struggle against | hunger, terror and war. Organize the fight to comped boss- | es and their government to safeguard | the existence of the workers and their families through a system of unem- ployment insurance equal to full wag- es for all unemployed workers. Organize a mass delegation to car- ry protest and demands of the work- ing class to Congress on May 9 for Federal Unemployment Insurance at} full wages, at the expense of the cap- | italists and the government, without discrimination to all workers—Negro and white, foreign born and native born. | Signed: National Committee, Un- employed Councils of the U.S. or nous program which they enforce at the | We call upon workers everywhere | pany which has accumulated a fabu- | lous fortune out of the 1apor of work- | HENRY FORD P DIRECTS FR ERSONALLY AME-UP TO COVER UP HIS MURDERS Frame-up Workers’ Whitewash Ford-Mu , Prosecutor, Friend « 9 Gangsters, Leaders Helps In Or der To rphy Murder Rule NEW YORK.—Hundreds of workers and young workers of Greater New York will mass on Friday night at the Central Opera House on 67th St. and Third Ave., in mighty protest against the massacre of the Detroit workers who had demanded bread from Henry Ford. Thé protest meeting at the Central Opera House will start on Fri- day night at 7:30 sharp. way of the Communist Party, League and I Amter. M. Among the speakers will be Clarence Hatha- Himoff of the Young Communist DETROIT, Mich.—Henry Ford personally is directing the wholes ued terror against the | workers who took part? | in the Hunger March to Dear- born, Mich., Monday, w hen] |Ford’s gunmen killed four un-| {employed workers. The Mur-| |phy regime is acting with | Henry Ford in order to frame Ca | working class leaders in a drastic ef fort to cover up the cold- blooded | murder of hungry unemployed. Last year Ford loaned the Murphy regime | $5,000,000, and now he is getting) favors for his “gift.” The day after | | the slaughter, Henry Ford visited his | chief killer, Harry H. Bennett, head |of the Ford private police who stari- | ed the shooting by emptying his gun at the unemployed demonstrators. Ford congratulated Bennett for his | killings, and prepared to help in the | frame-up of “evidence” against the jobless. The raids, arrests, and warrants | | | Which are said to be out for Foster, Schmies, Reynolds, Goetz and many other workers, were issued under the instigation of Toy, a friend of the Detroit gang- | stérs. The Ford officials, who have turn- ed their plant at River Rouge into an army camp, sending to the Uni- | ted States Army barracks for more | tear gas bombs, refuse to give out | | jany statements. “The company | feels no responsibility since non of its men were involved,” the Detroit | Free Press quotes a Ford official as against our living standards and our | saying. Every Detroit capitalist sheet | | declares that the entire private police | force of Henry Ford fired their re-| volvers at the hungry unemployed. | Bennett, Ford's head killer, was the} first to open the shooting. The Detroit Mirror says of the ss | (CONTINUED ON PAC THREE) BOSSES REVIVE DRIVE TO MURDER THE ATLANTA 6 Set March 23-for Trial | of Burlak, Dalton, Storey and Brady CHATTANOOGA, March 9.—The | | Atlanta bosses are reviving their attempt to electrocute Ann Burlak, Mary Dalton, Brady and Story, two white girl workers and two Negro workers arresied over a year ago for the “crime” of organizi#g Negro and white workers together. The four workers are charred with | “inciting Negroes to riot. The | charge carries a death sentence | under an old act aimed at sup- pressing the struggles of the Negro masses. Two other workers, Powers | and Carr, were arrested at about the same time on a similar charge. | The trial of Brady, Ann Burlak, | Story and Mary Dalton is now set for March 23 in the Fulton Su- perior Court at Atlanta, They are to be prosceuted by Solicitor John Hudson who has declared his inten- tion of demanding the death sen- tence for these militant working- class organizers, In the meantime, in Birmingham, Dent Williams, a white man, who murderously attacked Willie Peter- son, Negro worker, in a prison cell, has been acquitted by a boss jury. ‘The jury returned its verdict with- in 40 minutes, A( the opening of the trial Williams pleaded not guilty Prosecutor Harry S.| | Latest News From Detroit DEETROIT, Mich., March} 9.—Several hundred workers | forced Mayor Murphy’s po- lice and the prosecutor to| release the funeral commit-| tee who had been arrested |when they were preparing a mass funeral of the 4 workers murdered by Ford gunmen at the Hunger |March at the Ford Plant | Monday. | _ Mass indignation is ris- ing to a high pitch. Five local .overflow . protest | meetings have . already been held. Others are in preparation, leading up to | the central protest demon- stration on Friday evening | at the Arena Gardens, and for the mass funeral on Saturday at 2 p.m, 1343 E. Ferry. The route of the funeral is west on Ferry to Woodward; South on Woodward to Grand Circus Park. The | bedies are now lving in state at Ferry Hall. Prosecutor Toy, as part of |the Ford-Murphy frame-up, refused to permit the Inter- national Labor Defense to have a doctor present at the autopsy of the murdered workers. This is unprece-| dented action and shows] that the automobile bosses| are manufacturing evidence for their frame-ups. York, Bussell, Lenny, and} Deblasio are the final list of | dead. Five of the wounded are in a critical condition j and some may die. The prosecutor is calling a special grand jury and is ng for criminal syn charges against schmies, Goetz, Rey- ce and others. es, the prosecution, the guidance of For under and Mufphy, is planning im. |mediate revival of the tens | year-old Bridgeman criminal syndicalist cases. White of |the United States Depart- pene of Labor, is planning | deportation of foreign born | workers among the 50 or 60 | now held in jail. All are held incommunicado. Maurice Sugar, attorney for the International Labor Defense, today presented writs of habeas corpus for all the arrested, demanding their immediate release, Are rests continue. Many active workers are being sought in the office of the Communist Party and the Trade Union Unity League, a