The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 11, 1932, Page 1

WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! Dal Central Org NOD (Section of the Communist International) . PROTEST DETROIT MASSACRE TONIGHT AT CENTRAL OPERA HOUSE ee eee Nork: STK All Out for “Daily” Tag Days’ March 11, 12, 13.—Watch For Address of Your Nearest Station U.S.A. — ———— = —~ = —=— Se es Jol. IX, No. 60 SE eemencrecel wit eweer ns ect or aren ss tee NEW YORK, FRIDAY, MARCH 11, 1932. ee CITY EDITION, Price 3 Cents MURPHY FORCED TO ADMIT FORD GUIL The Ford Massacre---“The Internal Side of Imperialist Aggression” HE drive against the American working class takes on new ferocity with the Ford Massacre. Paris Commune Day, March 18, International Day of mass struggle against terror and suppression of the working class and colonial peoples, approaches this year with imperial reaction, riding hard and fast over the mangled bodies of workers fighting the Wall Street program of hunger and war. ‘The crisis has tightened its grip on American capitalism in spite and because of the frantic measures of coalition of capitalist parties to put over the Well Street-Hoover program of hunger, wage-cutting, suppression and war. The capitalists and their government proceed against the working @ass on an ever wider scale and with more brutality as measure after measure fail to halt the downward trend. The official optimism of the capitalist party politicians is sharply discounted by conclusions of the more outspoken capitalist economists. ‘The basic fact is that productoin continues to decline as markets con- tinue to shrink. Lewis Haney, director of New York University Bureau of Business Research, writing in the New York American of March 8, said: “The volume of industrial production and business shows no gain despite the early Easter season and weekly business indices have fallen to new lows. Automobile production is very disappointing and sales of cars are so small as to make many skeptical about this year’s prospects. Railway traffic is below seasonal expectations and January net income was 60 per cent below a year ago. Retail trade shows no improvement and mail order sales are down.” Under pressure of the deepening crisis and the rising militancy of the working class the veil of humanitarianism is stripped from Ford and hig demagogic schemes. He and they appeat in their true character as an-integral part of American capitalism—characteristically cruel and | ruthless, fit companions in arms of the other multi-millionaire capital- | ists, with their mercenary bands of police, thugs and spies, in the mining, | steel and textile industries, etc. Ford, the murderer of unemployed workers and their leaders in Michi- | gah, is the same Ford who maintains hired killers who. murder striking miners in Kentucky. Ford, whose prosecutors and police carry out wholesale arrests of Communists under the criminal syndicalism law in Michigan to cover up his ‘own guilt and check the rising mass struggle, is the same Ford who, with Rockefeller, Insull, Morgan and the local coal operators, organizes 2 reign of terror in Kentucky and carries out wholesale arrests of striking miners and organizers under the criminal syndicalism Jaw in order to strangle the struggle against starvation. Ford, with his fellow capitalists and their government, more and more liscarding the democratic phylacteries and taking on more and more the character of rule by open force, are responsible for the Dearborn massacre. Reaction rises as the myth of permanent American prosperity and with it the Ford myth are pushed intosthe background by the decay of -apitalism and the increasing misery and militancy of the working class with the Communist Party at its head. | T ly against the working class at home. “Political reaction as a system of administration has uninterruptedly ed in all capitalist countries in proportion to the development of ‘ialism,” said Comrade Manuilsky in his report to the Eleventh of the Executive. Committes of the Communist International, “and represents the other or internal side of imperialist aggression.” ‘The Communist Party calls upon the working class to organize and fight the growing reaction at every point. It calls upon workers to carry forward the mass struggles for unemployment insurance, to secure mil- lions of signatures for the Unemployment Insurance Bill of the Unem- ployed Councils, to build the militant unions of the Trade Union Unity League. The member’ of the Young Communlst League, the members of the Unemployed Councils and the Auto Workers’ Union, the unemployed workers who fell before the fire of Ford’s police, were fighting for un- employment relief and insurance, for work, against suppression of the elementary rights of workers, against war on the Chinese workers and peasants, against war on the Soviet Union. ‘The Communist Party calls upon workers to join its ranks—to join the only revolutionary political party of the working class—and thereby strengthen the wh0le struggle against imperialist reaction. ‘Defeat the drive of terror and suppression launched by Ford, the capi- talist class and their government. All out for March 18—international day of mass struggle against ter - ror and suppression! Three-Day Battle TO SAVE DAILY WORKER ——— PONSIBLE! Wey RES DETROIT MAYOR TRIES TO | EVADE RESPONSIBILITY FOR MURDER OF WORKERS DETROIT, Mich—Mayor Murphy has drawn up a form telegram, which he has sent out in answer to the mass of angry protest telegrams pouring in from all over the country against the Ford-Murphy murder of four unemployed workers. The telegram says: one DETROIT MICH 1033A MAR 10 1932 YOUNG COMMUNIST LEAGUE 50 EAST 13 ST NEW YORK N Y IN DETROIT THE MARCHERS HAD POLICE PERMISSION AND POLICE PROTECTION AND WERE ORDERLY STOP IN SHORT NO DIFFICULTIES OF ANY KIND TOOK PLACE WITHIN THE CITY LIMITS STOP THE PRESENT DEPLORABLE TRAGEDY GREW OUT OF A MARCH IN THE CITY OF DEARBORN FOR WHICH IT AP- PEARS NO PERMIT WAS ISSUED STOP THE DEARBORN POLICE OPPOSED THE PASSAGE OF THE MARCHERS AND WITH THIS OPPOSITION THE TROUBLE BEGAN STOP THE ENTIRE CON- FLICT WAS BETWEEN THE DEARBORN POLICE, THE FORD PO- LICE AND THE DEMONSTRATORS STOP AN APPEAL WAS MADE TO THE SUPERINTENDENT OF POLICE IN DETROIT FOR HELP IN QUELLING THE RIOT AND HE DIRECTED A NUMBER OF MEN TO THE SCENE WHO ARRIVED AFTER IT WAS OVER STOP DETROIT POLICE HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH THE TROUBLE AND THE DEMONSTRATION WITHIN DETROIT WAS ORDERLY STOP THE RIOT HAPPENED IN DEARBORN AND AT THE FORD PLANT STOP NO INVESTIGATION IS BEING MADE BY THIS OF- FICE SINCE IT IS OUTSIDE OUR JURISDICTION STOP THE COUNTY PROSECUTOR HAS ANNOUNCED AN INVESTIGATION AND STATES HE WILL PRESENT THE ENTIRE MATTER TO THE GRAND JURY NOW IN SESSION TO DETERMINE THE FACTS FRANK MURPHY Henry Ford whose police murdered 4 workers demand- ing jobs or relief tast Monday and wounded over 30 others in| the massacre, 10 P. C. Wag eCut Is. Announced For All Workers in Macy’s | NEW YORK.—A wage cut of 10 | per cent for thousands of workers in R. H, Macy’s department store here will take effect next March | 24. The announsement was made | last Wednesday in the pay enve- | lopes, the bosses using the example of the United States Steel Corpo- | ration and other wage slashers as an excuse for wage cuts in Macy’s. | In Department 13, house fur- | nishings, the workers who previ- | ously got $3 a week for overtime have already had this cut. They work overtime without pay. | | Some Questions for Ford’s Mayor Murphy! Under the mass pressure of workers’ meetings and resolutions adopted, pouring into Murphy’s office, the mayor of Detroit, Frank Murphy, has been forced to admit the guilt of Ford and the Dearborn police for the massacre which occurred on Monday, March 7, Mur- phy attempts to evade the responsibiity and conceal the following damning facts: ] His administration is part and parcel of the Ford machine. pend denies that his police took part. Yet his district inspector of police, William Black, proves Murphy is a liar and says: “Inspector Stevens and I both warned the crowd to disperse or move on, and when they refused, our officers charged with their night sticks. You know the rest.” aes police are co-operating with the Wayne County prosecutor, Toy, in the whole-| sale arrests in a reign of terror. Why does Mayor Murphy keep silent about the con- spiracy to deport foreign born unemployed workers? Ae. Detroit newspaper on the day of the massacre stated that Detroit police were at the scene and took part in the breaking up of the hunger march. —The Dearborn massacre followed the precedent set by Murphy in forcibly breaking up a recent unemployed meeting, clubbing workers wholesale and arresting John Schmies, William Reynodls and thirty other workers. Gay conceals the fact that in the intesrests of the auto manufacturers and bankers he has cut unemployment relief, discharged workers and cut wages; that his city ad- ministration accepted a five million dollar loan from Ford with the provision that an attack be made on unemployed relief. Howe tries to conceal the fact that his city administration ig part and parcel of the Wayne County Murphy-Toy-Martel-Ford machine with its underworld gangster base, utilized for attacks on workers. SOME QUESTIONS FOR FORD’S MAYOR MURPHY. 1 —In the circular telegram sent to the Young Communist League, 50 E. 18th St., and other| organizations, New York City, Mayor Murphy states: “An appeal was made to the Superintendent of Police in Detroit for help in quelling the riot and he directed a number of men to the scene who arrived after it was over. Detroit police had nothing to do with the trouble.” | QUESTION: The Detroit Free Press of March 8, says: “District Inspector William Black, who was in charge of the Detroit police detail when the marchers left S. Fort St. and moved out Oakwood, scented trouble, and ordered his men to get to the Ford plant as quickly as possible.” ‘ WHO IS LYING? 2—wny did Mayor Murphy’s police arrest the funeral committee? —In the telegram Mayor Murphy says: “No investigation is being made by this office Opens This Morning ‘This morning at 10 o'clock is the beginning of the three-day Tag Day fight to save the Daily Worker. Today, tomorrow and Sunday, workers all over the United States will go out to canvass their fellow workers for funds to save their paper. “All class conscious workers are called upon to take the lead in this fight to save the.workers’ paper. All class conscious workers are called upon to report this morning at one of the stations li&ted below, and draw in the wide masses of their fellow workers to the support of the only nation-wide paper that leads the workers’ struggles. Enroll early. The success of the three-day hattlé depends upon YOUR. support. Give your decisive answer to the bosses’ terror wave. Here are the stations. Pick the one that is more con- _ WORKERS! TO YOUR since it, is outside of our jurisdiction” and that “the county prosecutor has announced an investigation to determine the facts”. Why does Mayor Murphy try to cover up the fact that this investigation is to lay the basis ror the frameup of Communists and other unem- ployed workers? QUESTION: Is not County Prosecutor Toy part of the bi-partisan Murphy-Toy-Martel machine, supported by Ford? If Murphy disapproves of the investigation and its intentions, | why did his police arrest workers and hold them for the Grand Jury? fs eat states that the demonstration was orderly in Detroit. Why does he say nothing about the attempt to frameup on a charge of criminal syndicalism, Foster, Schmies, Rey- | nolds, Pace and other leaders of the unemployed, for speaking in Detroit in favor of unem- ployment insurance and relief for the hungry workers? —The massacre of the Detroit workers occurred because the workers marched to demand immediate relief, jobs and unemployment insurance. Question: Did not the Murphy administration cut down the relief to the unemployed workers, cconomize at the expense of the workers and worsen the conditions of the Detroit workers? Did not the Murphy ad- ministration accept a loan of five million dollars from Ford on condition that unemployed | relief be cut down? | | Union. OF MASSACR 7 SOVIET Cord Workers Discuss 5-YEAR PLAN Strike to Attend Funeral of Massacre Victims Stops Sale of Copper for Growing Indus-. tries of USSR : Force Release of 44 Workers Jailed After Mas- Chicago Workers sacre; Bodies Lie In State At Workers Hall To Demonstrate ~ - Before Japanese Consulate Sat. CHICAGO, All, March 10. Chicago workers will demonstrate at the Japanese consulate on Sat- urday, March 12, at 12 noon, Tri- bune Tower, 435 North Michigan. Murphy’s Police Arrest Workers For Collect- ing Funds For Funeral Expenses BULLETIN. NEW YORK.—Thousands of determined workers and young workers of Greater New York will s tonight in mighty protest against the Detroit massacre and against the bosses’ campaign of terror, hunger, and war. This demonstration will take place tonight at the Cen- tral Opera House at 7:30 p.m. sharp at 67th Street and 3rd Avenue. Clarence Hathaway, of the Communist Par- ty, M. Himoff, of the Young Communist League, and I. Amter, will be amongst the speakers Yesterday workers of Rotterdam Holland, demonstrated before the Japanese Consulate in that city in angry protest against the robber war on China and the Japanese war moves against the Soviet DETROIT.—In a whole series of mass meetings marked | by the insignation and militancy cf huge crowds of workers Consulate building with stones | atending, and which are preparing the mass funeral of the Wrapped in leaflets carrying the | murdered victims of Ford’s police and gunmen set for Sat- demands of the international pro- | urday, the following demands have been proposed and ap- pica eae ying proved amid the greatest enthusiasm. They have been given Manchuria and other parts of | Wide circulation in Detroit, Dearborn and throughout Wayne China and stop their war provoc- | County. Se ee es ceheied 1. No suppression of the rights of workers, the right fhe Soviet Union ana Soviet China, to free speech, the right to demonsirate, the right to or- stood their ground against the at- ganize in unions. tacks of the police. 2. Not bullets but unemployment relief! Immediate «ie | jobs and unemployment insurance furnished free by the The Ja panese are; government to all workers! : ; ; 3. Immediate and unconditional release of all workers HOW Liebe to ~ epee arrested in connection with the Ford Hunger March. war moves against the 4. Punishment for those guilty of the massacre. Soviet Union behind 5. Abolition of all Ford factory police and spies and the pretext that these| immediate discharge of all factory police and spies. war moves are causing concern| 6. Indemnity to be paid to the families of all mur- in the Soviet Union only be-| dered workers by Ford and the cities of Detroit and Dear- cause of “the Soviet Govern-| born. ; ment’s old obsession of the im- Workers Committees are being elected to carry through minence of an attack by capi-| the arrangements for the mass funeral and to head the struggle talist powers.” |for the above demands. The protest meetings are under the ‘Thus crudely does Japanese impe- | joint auspices of the Unemployed Councils and the Auto Work- tialism try to dispose of the cold-| ers Union. blooded facts of the advance of Jap- Preparations are being made for huge demonstrations on The aroused workers smashed several windows in the Japanese | . {CONTINUED ON PAGE THREED All Party members are instructed to return their collection boxes no later than Sunday to their assigned station and present their receipt to the next unit meeting. District Org. Department. Foster Brands Murphy-Ford Massacre of 4 NEW YORK.—William Z. Fos- | ter, national secretary of the Trade Union Unity League, who spoke at Danceland at a mass meeting in Detroit the day before | the Ford Hunger March took) place, and for whom the Ford- Murphy police say they are “look- ing.” arrived here yesterday after completing a speaking tour. The Trade Union Unity League has prepared a Statement brand- ing the deliberate and vicious murder of the four workers in| Dearborn by the Ford-Murphy gunmen, and exposing the attempt to frame-up Foster and other leaders of the militant working- class organizations in an effort to) whitewash Ford's bloodshedding. | fe cr he econ or Sacauees Paris Commune Day, March 18—international day of organ- ization and struggle against all forms of capitalist terror and of a section of the Chinese Eastern Railway, jointly owned by China and the Soviet Union, of the mobilization+ and’ arming Dy the vapanese of anti-/ are boiling over with resentment, blaming Hen- ry Ford for the murder of the four unemployed Japanese officials of Japan’s inten- 7 7 yr 7 ot ste. aalea CAT ESL PRCT workers who were shot down in cold blood by region, of the notorious Tanaka) Ford’s hired gunmen at the demonstration Document of 1927 which outlined the contributing to the burial fund. Mass meetings of the International Labor Defense secured the released of the 44 arrested through the mounting mass¢@——H—————— hundreds crowded the County | day at 1343 East Ferry and proceeds Building after Judge Dinge-| west on Ferry to Woodward end man refused the habeus corpus } South on Woodward to Grand Circus proceedings. Four more were held,| Park, from where the hearses will Investigation disclosed that there Aye Micolg it the So leaae was not a single weapon on the work- not discuss change to side streets or ers, and that not a single policeman | alleys. or any of Ford’s private gunmen were delegation from the mass meeting ers are now lying in state at the workers’ hall and thousands file past while the first bloody models of the new Ford roll off at the River Rouge be buried side by side at Woodmere Cemetery, directly overlooking the scene of the massacre. The cemetery is located on the boundary line of swing. All halls and headquarters are jammed with workers. A-special leaflet to the Dearborn, Ecorse, Lin- coln Park and Melvindale Ford —Thousands of Detroit workers are starving! Why does not Murphy increase the relief to the unemployed by taxing the rich auto manufacturers? STATIONS TODAY FOR DAILY WORKER TAG DAY ARMY-—SEE YOU air bases on the very frontiers of the : Soviet Union, of the Japanese seizure | Suppression. . * DETROIT, Mich., March t0.—Ford workers Soviet White Guard troops in Man- churia, of the declarations of high robber aims which Japanese impe- | Monday at the River Rouge plant. They are rialism is now carrying “out in its) discussing strike to attend the funeral and are Saad | afternoon has been issued. The pressure of the workers 8/ rineral begins at 2 o'dock on Satur- and the leaders of the militant work~ | Proceed to the cemetery. ers are being sought A workers’ funeral committee have ok An ovetflow mass meeting is ex- ei pected Friday at Arena Gardens. A The bodies of the four dead work- plant where the workers were shot down. The murdered workers are to Detroit and Bloody Dearborn, Funeral preparations are on in full workers to demonstrate at the Wood- mere Cemetery at 5 o'clock Saturday This statement will be published in full in tomorrow's Daily Worker. | Ud r | will present @ resolution and de- mands to Murphy and the City Coun- cil Monday at 11 o’clock in the morn- ing at the City Hall and also at the | City Council in Learborn. A star chamber grand jury “inves- tigation,” headed by Prosecuter Toy, is looking into “the shooting and al! Communist activities.” Murphy's police have swung inte action and are arresting workers Steve Bednarsky, collecting funds for funeral expenses for the four mur dered workers, was arrested. Mur-~ phy’s police are provoking new bloed- Shed by forecasting an “uprising” at the funeral at which scores of thou- sands are expected. RS ON PAGE 2 #%, “ge! TET, 4