The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 14, 1932, Page 1

WORKERS OF THE WORLD, _UNITE! (Section of the Communist International) Ct oa ALL TAG DAY BOXES MUST BE RE- TURNED TODAY WITHOUT FAIL TO THE DISTRICT DAILY WORKER OF- FICE, 50° E, 13TH ST., NEW YORK CITY, FIFTH FLOOR. DELAY WILL MEAN THE CRIPPLING OF THE DAILY WORKER. Vol. IX, No. 62 en. Sretircniate imc neg ae ae NEW YORK, MONDAY, MARCH 14, 1932 CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents CHICAGO COPS SHOOT WORKERS BRANDING WAR, TERROR Smash the Growing Terror! ENRY FORD'S gunfire has found its echo'in Chicago: In front of the Tribune Building, headquarters of one of the most rabid imper- jalist sheets in the United States, office of the Japanese consulate, Chi- €ago cops, spawn of the Capone underworld, opened fire at: a demon- stration of 5,000 workers protesting against Japanese ‘imperialist war against the Chinese masses and rallying the workers:in defense of the Soviet Union. American capitalism, faced with deeper crisis, growing mass unem- ‘ployment, financial bankruptcy, begins its rain of bullets against peace- ful demonstrations for jobs and relief and against imperialist war. Ford of Detroit, symbol of the body-wracking exploitation system of American capitalism, opened up the murders policy. The Chicago administration, protecting Japanese imperialism, expands upon what is without question @ new murderous drive against the entire American working class. This is the prelude to the new campaign for a drastic lowering of the standard of living of the entire American working class. It is the opening wedge of bloody assault against all workers’ organizations, par- ticularly against the organized unemployed fighting for bread and for unemployment insurance. It is part of the preparations for war against the Soviet Union, logically having as its first aim the shooting down of militant workers in the United States who expose the imperialist war aims and mobilize the masses to stop the bloody program of the enraged Capitalist class. The same capitalist press which strove so mightily the wipe the blood from Ford's hands by trying to blame the Communist leaders, now faithfully plays the game of the Cermak-Dawes-Stimson gangster machine in Chicago. With the facts established by thousands of eye- witnecsses, that the Chicago police without provocation opened fire at ®& peaceful demonstration, ruthlessly riding into the crowd of workers, smashing heads left and right, cracking the skull of one worker to the point of death, the capitalist press blazons the lie that “workers opened tire.” As in Detroit, the demonstrators in Chicago heroically, and with their bare hands defended themselves against the revolvers, clubs (‘clubs with spikes on them’—New York Times), blackjacks, horses and motor- cycles of the cops, The murderous attack at the Tribune building had its rehearsal on Friday, the day before at the Joint Emergency Relief Station in Hum- boldt Park. There, too, 5,000 unemployed were set upon by cops who fired * into the crowd. There, too, the workers heroically resisted, and answered the brutal and savage attack by a determined resistance in which seven police were beaten back. Both the Murphy regime in Detroit and the Cermak machine in Chicago were elected on the most extravagant promises of relief to the unemployed and of protection of the “rights of the workers”. The city of Chicago, which is faced with complete bankruptcy, with thousands of teachers and other city employees unpaid for months, is completely under the control of the leading bankers (Dawes, Strawn, etc.) who are coh- nected with the Hoover regime and carry out the policy of Hoover-—bul- lets instead of bread for the unemployed! The same bankrupt govern- ment of Chicago, which hasn't a cent to pay its school teachers, finds enovgh money to shoot down workers demanding bread and protesting against robber war. ‘6 pees The murderous, grafting Chicago regime, like its counterpart in De- troit, is closely linked up with the officialdom of the A. F. of L. The gangster officialdom of the Chicago Federation of Labor sometime ago’ pointed the way to Cermak by beating to death Weizenberg. Later, the murderous policy resulted in the cold-blooded shooting of two Negro workers on the South Side. Now, desperate, hiding its deeper bank- tuptey, its refusal to feed the starving unemployed, protecting the mur- derous representatives of Japanese imperialism, the Cermak regime opens @ new wave of murders against the Chicago workers, Detroit and Chicago! Heavy industrial centers of American capi+ talism, two cities in which the workers were led to believe great plans would be made for “unemployment relief”, begin the Hoover program an- nounced some time ago of feeding the unemployed with hot lead. ‘War and unemployment, these are the gifts of American capitalism to the workers, and murder is the reply of the bosses when the workers, believing the stories about American tradition of the right of petition and demonstration, attempt to mobilize their forces to voice their protest against war and hunger, to present their demands for relief and for a stoppage of the robber war against China, for an end to the war moves against the Soviet Union. These latest attacks will spur on the struggles of the workers, will tear off the flimsy, bullet-torn mask of democracy, will show the workers that only by organizing in greater masses will they be able to force the capitalist masters to feed the starving millions, and to force the passage of unemployment insurance. ‘The Chicago cossacks’ guns and clubs, helping the murderous attacks of Japanese imperialism in Shanghai and Manchuria, will not stop the growing protest against the imperialist war. New millions, steeled by the brutal attacks of the war mad bosses, will rally behind the struggle against the war mongers for the slogans of: “Hands off China! Defend the Soviet Union! Fight against hunger! Demand all war funds go to the unemployed in the form of unemploy- ment insurance! Drive out the representatives of Japanese imperialism, | protected by the clubs and guns of American capitalism! Smash the growing terror!” Save “Daily” to Organize Against Boss Terror CHINESE RED ARMY BATTLES NANKING TROOPS; ATTACK KUOMINTANG IN PEIPING Imperialists Admit Kuomintang Is Hated By, Masses, Who Are Rapidly Turning to Chinese Communist Party ; National Revolutionary Struggle Gains Giant Proportions With Tempestuous Upsurge Throughout China A Hankow dispatch admits that 600 Kuo- mintang troops have been killed in a two-day battle with a Chinese Red Army beseiging the walled city of Tsaoshih, 60 miles westward of Hankow. The dispatch claims that Kuomin- tang reinforcements arrived at the city and forced the Red Army to withdraw. Other Chinese Red Armies are operating much closer t. Hankow, around which they are grimly tight- ening their net. The same dispatch admits that the Kuomintang militarists {CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) The Exposure of “New Tactics in the Hunger Offensive” By BILL DUNNT. AN APPEAL FOR FURTHER LOCAL ORGANIZATION WAS MADE TODAY BY LEADERS IN THE “WAR AGAINST DEPRES- SION” CAMPAIPN. OF THE-AMERICAN LEGION:AND ASSOCT- ATED ORGANIZATIONS, AND IT WAS ACKNOWLEDGED THAT THE DRIVE FOR 1,000,000 JOBS IS ITSELF IN-A STATE OF DEPRESSION. REPORTS FROM ALL PARTS OF THE COUNTRY SHOW A TOTAL OF 202,576 JOBS OBTAINED SINCE FEB. 15, BUT DUR- ING THIS PERIOD MANY HAVE BEEN THROWN OUT OF EMPLOYMENT AND THE VALUE OF THE JOBS PROCURED IS QUESTIONABLE. —NEW YORK EVENING POST, MARCH 11— Aieceeer The Daily Worker exposed the “Give a Million Jobs” cam: paign, and other fascist features of the drive against the work- ing class on the hunger front in a series of articles entitled “New Tactics in the Hunger Offensive,” published Feb. 29- March 3. We said: “,... production continues to decrease. Where one work- er is hired two are fired. On this basis some eighty thousand “new” jobs have been found, according to the latest figure of the capitalist press. This is a long way from a million. THESE {UONTINUED PAGE Suicide Bares Crash of Huge Int'l Match Cartel The suicide in Paris yesterday of Ivar Kreugar, head of one of the largest international cartels, the Swedish match trust, lays bare the story of the smash up of what was touted about by capitalists of all countries one of the strongest mo- eral crisis of capitalism, the siuiced of Kreuger at the same time gives | the lie to the theory of the “Social- | ists” that capitalism can peacefully grow into socialism by the develop- | ment of such international cartels as the Swedish match trust. nopolies ever built up. Bearing direct witness to the im- possibility of any sphere of capitalist industry escaping the hammer blows of the crisis, and of the particular | and blood of millions of workers in | every country in which he had his | huge financial and industrial inter- | ests, Kreuger committed suicide when 70,000 Detroit Workers Pledge to Carry on Fight of Four Dead ‘Thousands’ Take Part. AN wesado Or FLOLESLS During Day Put Demands on Mon. Workers Determined to Broaden Their Fight} ‘DETROIT, Mich— The workers of Detroit buried their martyred dead in the greatest funeral demonstration | ever witnessed in this | sity. Woodward Ave.,, the main traffic ar-| tery, was tied up com-) nletely for two and a| half hours as the mighty} march of 70,000 followed be- | hind the four hearses bearing | the bodies of those murdered | by the Ford-Murphy gunmen} —yYork, Bussell, Deblasio and} Leny—to the Woodmere cem-} etery facing the Ford River} Rouge plant. As the coffins emerged from | the Workers Hall ‘grim silence pre-| vailed among the massed workers.’ Twenty-five thousand clenched fists were upraised while the orches- tra played the revolutionary funerrl Crowds are expected when the workers’ committee presents to the City Council and Mayor Murphy the resolution and demands at 11 o'clock Monday morning at City Hall. Preparations are being made for.mass memorial meetings and a workers’ inquiry and trial of those responsible for the massacre. At the head of the funeral march a huge red streamer was born, read- ing: “Smash -Ford-Murphy police terror”. The march was studded with flaming red banners and pla- cards with such slogans as “Join the Auto Workers Union”, “Join the, Communist Party!” | ‘The march was marked by prote- | tarlan discipline, order and grim bit- terness and determination that drove fear into the hearts of the perpe- trators of the Ford massacre. Dele- | Japanese gations from Pontiac, Grand Rapids, Flint, Lansing, Dearborn, Ecorse, | Lincoln. Park Berkley, Chicago, Bloomington, Cleveland and Toledo, marched together with the Detroit workers. Roof tops, window ledges, and side- | | walks were crowded with scores of | thousands.| Rousing cheers greeted the slogans and angry boos for the police whose riot cars quickly moved | out of the way. As the hearses and several thou-/| sand machines left for the cemetery, the march entered Grand rival of the marchers. Eight. miles away at Woodmere Cemetery, thousands waited from Circus | | His fortune, built up on the sweat! Park where 10,000 awaited the ar-| ‘ ERNST HAELMAN 4 Communi; candidate for president in yesterday's elections in Germany. the results. NEW YORK.—As the Daily Worker goes to press, no full reports have been received as to the re- sults of the German presi- dential elections, Prelimi- nary final figures received are as follows: Hindenburg, 18,661,736 ; Hitler, 11,328,571; Thael- man, 4,971,079; Duester- berg, 2,557,876; Gustave Winter, 111,477. |One Worker May. Die; Hundreds Badly In- jured in Chicago 5,000 DEMONSTRATE Denounce Butchery ‘of Chinese Masses Ford Workers CHICAGO, IIl., March 13.—Five thousand Tomorrow’s issue of the | Chicago workers dem- Daily Worker will contain jonstrating yeste rday a complete report of the || against imperialist but- N. Y. WORKERS PROTEST RORBER WAR ON CHINA March Before Japanese Consulate NEW YORK.—Over 700 New York workers marched through the gown- town and financial districts on Satur- |fense of the Chfhese masses and the | Soviet Union. | The workers carried signs denounc- ing the Japanese butchery of Chinese | workers in Changhai and Manchuria land the Japanese war provocations |against the Soviet Union. They marched past the Japanese Consula on Whitehall Street shoutin off China”. They held a me the foot of Whitehall Street which they marched to meeting at Hanov meetings were ad Japanese, white and Neg! e representing the [Communist Party and the revolutionary Tr Unior Resolutions were unanir adopted demanding the withdra of all imperial a China, stoppage of from second The the wi and other imperia | against the Soviet Union, and cal for the support of the entire work- |ing-class for the Chinese | the growing Chinese S: and for the victorious | struction in the Soviet Union. districts ist con- Thousands of workers lin streets showed their sympat the demonstration. While passing through Wall Street several of the | workers heard one of the bosses de~- |manding of a policeman why the lemonstration was permitted, and vyhy the police did not jump on the The pol workers. he was “waiting for on them.” The militancy of the marchers and | the evident shpport for them of the chance to jump day in a demonstration against the | | robber war on China and for the de- | man replied that | election and an analysis of chery of the workers in China and in De- troit, ‘Michigan, were (CHL COPS FIRE ON 7000 JOBLESS | protest demonstration on March brutally attacked by an army of police who shot inte the workers. The Communist Party has issued a call for a mighty 18, turning the Mooney-Scottsbero | the bloody terror against Chicayo | workers and for the release of Tom | Mooney, the Scottsboro bo: | class-war prisoenrs. {7 Police Injured As | Workers Fight Attack } The location of the March 18 dem- | al m onstration has been changed from | CHICAGO,IL, March | the North Side Annex to the larger 13.—Over seven thou-! Coliseum Hall, seating 15,000 sand workers ‘led by stratibd anil di ace fe t Unemployed. Councils of the North West side’ demonstrated militantly on! March 11th at 2 p. m. at the} Humboldt Park relief station WORKERS IN FORD nese the oo let now fe | PLANT PLEDGE TO ployed. As the workers started to| AVENGE MASSACRE (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREL: assemble on North-and California | Avenues, marching from various points they were attacked in the! ae ; most brutal manner by hundreds of | Pj a0 “. 7 police and detectives, the police apen- | Will Replace Fallen by ing fire on the demonstrators in’ an | Thousands attempt to massacre the militant | — who refused to starve. DETROIT, Mich.—“We shall Workers offered militant resistance never forget our dead comrad to this vicious attack resulting in a | massacred by Ford on Bloody drawn out battle in which seven | 71 «1929 ra ae police and detectives were injurea| March ‘th, 1932,” reads a and several unemployed severely | Statement adopted by a group bruised, | of workers in the Ford plant in Immediately after the demonstra- | front of which Ford’s gunmen ion the Emergency Relief Commis-| shot down four hungry unem- sion made a statement that due to | ployed. this and other protests they will, at “We the group of Ford workers lish the box ration system and | pledged ourselves that we will replace will continue to grant relief in cash | the fajlen comrades by thousands Not only were the local police mob- | and tens of thousands joining the ilized to smash this demonstration | Auto Workers Union, Young Commu- against the hunger policy of Mayor | nist League, Communist Party, the | Cermak and the Joint Emergency | workers in the Ford shop are jush Relief but twenty additional squads | looking at each other and without wete dispatched by the detective buro | saying much they understand each in an attempt to break this workers demonstration. The workers carried banners as well | as the relief boxes now being issued by the charities with the following other, they hate to see the State Troopers and the Ford Servicemen passing through every department and bulldozing us. “The workers of the Ford shop early morning in t he cold. These | thorsands of workers on the sidewalks | inscriptions: “We demand cash relief | collected funds to bury the fallen | violence with which-monopoly capi-| he saw the rapid destruction of the swelled to 20,000 when the bodies |convinced the police, however, that | not the hunger. rations of the char- | comrad argags ; | talism is hit in the period of the gen- | bs jcomrades and to build the union, werewere lowered to their common | it would be best not to attack the/ ities.” “We want milk for our babies.” | which will stand as a monument of grave. demonstration. , “Stop evictions.” “Spend twenty mil- | our dead comrades. We appeal to all lion on unemployed relief not on|the Ford workers throughout the graft and corruption.” | country and the world over to or- After this vicious attack eighteen | ganize into Auto Workers Union, workers were arrested and are now| Fight against the wage-cuts, fight. being held on the charges of inciting | the speed-up, against the brutal at- to riot, unlawful assembly and dis- | tack on the unemployed on Bloody One hundred thousand workers showed their solidarity in Detroit at the mass funeral of the workers murdered at the Ford plant, thousands of workers in Chicago, while demonstrating against murderous Japanese imperialism and the Chicago hunger program, defended themselves against the (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) AN OPEN LETTER TO. |Mutinies Grow in Japanese Army In South China brutal attacks of the Chicago police. } Throtgh these demonstrations the workers froced concessions from the bosses. Thousands of new workers are beginning to learn how to fight against the boss terror. Thousands of new work- ers must become readers of the Daily Worker. | AT THIS TIME, HOWEVER, WE JUST BARELY GET OUT, CONTRIBUTIONS ARE FALLING DOWN. FRIDAY WE RECEIVED $98.41; SATURDAY, $235.87. WE NEED AT LEAST $1,200 A DAY. | i WORKER—READER U Have you done your share to save the Daily Worker? ; Have you donated as much es you possibly can? : Did you get another worker to donate? Has your orgenization of which you are u meinber donated? ANSWER these questions and immediately sh funds to the Daily Worker to save the Daily Reports of increasing mutinies in the Japanese army continue to seep past the strict Japanese cen- sorship, On January 29, over 200 Japanese soldiers were arrested at Shanghai and sent back to Japan for trial by court martial. On Feb- tuary 11, several hundred Japanese | soldiers held a meeting in Hon- kew. Leaflets were distributed among the men signed by the revo- lutionary soldiers’ committee. ‘These leaflets appealed to the nen to refuse to fight against the Chinese and to agitate for an im- mediate and complete evacuation of Chinese territory. Following ‘his meeting over 600 soldiers mu- inied and refused to obey o: | “fany detachments were disarmed snd sent back to Japan, Over 100 ‘oldiers were imriediately shot by he brutal Japanese generals in their efforts to crush the growing spirit of revolt among the Japa- nese soldiers, From ROBERT L. CRUDEN (Whose 19-year old brother was shot by Ford’s police.) You, a patron of the arts, a pillar of the Episcopal Church, stood on the bridge at the Rouge plant and saw four workers killed and over twenty wounded. You did not lift a hand to stop it, and when the massacre—for massacre it was —was over your only care w> for your hireling, Bennett. who was hit on the head with a stone. Did it please your esthetic | EDSEL FORD Did it exalt your piety to; have your gunmen batter with lead the bodies of hungry men and boys? Did it fit your sense of lead- ership to kill the men who came for bread? For a long time, Edsel Ford, | your company has bitterly op- pressed and exploited the work- ers, driving them at their jobs, terrorizing them with your ser- vice department. But news of this has never been published—exploita- tion* and human misery are not “news” to the capitalist press. But ¥en worse than this, your company | stenccs, Several years ago the Ford com- pany announced it would go on the five-day week, that as soon as the workers produced in five days what they had formerly produced in six they would receive six days’ day. They did—they sweated and broke themselves to produce—but your com- pany added not a penny to their wages. In 1929 your father said the com- pany would raise wages to a mini- mum of seven dollars a day. The fact that most of the raises amounted to only “) and 40 cents a day, in- stead of vhe dollar which your father led everyone to believe, is not im- portant here. ifancy to see the trampled snow "pas systematically flooded the coun-! What 1s Important {s that almost dyed with the blood of work- | @y with lying propaganda. ers? & will remind you of a few in- coincident with the wage raise 30,000 | (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) orderly conduct. One of the workers, Walter Barrnis, is now in Bridewell hospital after being brutally slugged by the police. March 7. “We shall never forget the bloody March7th, we shall never forget our comrades massacred by Ford.” ‘Cops Shoot at Workers Who Resist Longfellow Evictions NEW YORK.—Gunfire and the threat of machine guns placed on the roofs of five houses on Long- fellow Ave. introduced a new, fero- cious stage of the attempt of the landlords and their police tools to break the rent strike and evict 80 workers from 1795, 1801, 1805, 1809 and 1850 Longfellow Ave. Detroit, Chicago and now New York, the bosses show their desperateness and fear of the hungry workers with guns and gunfire, Continuous, wild attacks of the po- lice and splendid, militant resistance on the part of the workers marked @ hectic, bloody day, Saturday, when thousands of workers massed to pre- vent the evictions of the families. The police came at 10 o'clock in the morning as a vanguard to clear the streets of workers for the mar- shals, They started their assaults immediately, flinging into the work- ers with clubs and blackjacks. They tried to rout the workers and drive CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO!