The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 9, 1932, Page 5

Thousands of Negro and White Workers Rally to Fighting Program Against Bosses’ War and Hunger Offensive (Additional Reports of Anti-War Demonstrations Held Throughout Urited States YOUNGSTOWN, O., April 8.—Preceded by several neigh- rhood open air meetings which were atended by over 1,500 workers, the central anti-war demonstration was held at the Ukrainian Hall with a capacity crowd of over 300 present. The meetings were all marked by the most vigorous mass Protests against the war on China,| against the Scottsboro lynch verdicis' and determination to defend the So- viet Union. | I. O. Ford of Cleveland was the| main speaker. Tremendous applause the robber war against China and greeted his speech as he denounced calffiled for defense of the Chinese People and the Soviet Union. Other | speakers included Sambles, for the} fetal Workers Industrial League, Walker for the League of Struggle | for Negro Rights and Dixon for the Young Communist League. | Walker spoke on the Scottsboro! ease, expesing the lynch verdicts and the national oppression of the} Negro masses. The meeting voted unanimously to send a protest tele- gram to Gov. B, M. Miller of Ala- bama demanding the immediate re- dease of the Scottsboro boys Most sof. the workers present were from! the steel mills. + ee NILES, O., April 8—Over 300 steel ‘workers attended an anti-war dem- onstration at Central Park in spite! of police refusal to grant a permit sand the threats by the police and ‘American Legion to break up the demonstration. The meeting con- cluded with the workers pledging, with raised fists, to fight under the leadership of the Communist Party against imperialist wars and to de- fend the Chinese People and the So- viet Union, WARREN, 0250 steel workers demonstrated against imperialist ‘war and for the defense of the Scotts- oro boys. They pledged support “for the United Front Anti-War Con- ference which wil ltake place Sunday, Aprli 10, at the Building Trades Hall and for the May Day anti-War dem- onstrations. ee 86 NEW CASTLE, Pa.—700 workers; @emonstrated at the Central Fire ” Station against war and the Scotts- boro lynch verdicts. Comrade Mar- shall was the main speaker. Abe ‘Lewish, a worker delegate just re- turned from the Soviet Union con- ‘trasted the unemployment and mis- ery in this country with conditions in ~the Soviet Union where there is no ‘unemployment, where wages have just been raised 11 to 20 per cent, | Munist Party will open Monday, Ap- ‘nd the material and cultural con- @itions of the masses are constantly The students from Minnesota, Wis- INDIANA HARBOR,! Ind—The mass anti-war demonstration at Broadway and Adler St. was attended “ by 80 Oworkers, 20 per cent of whom were Negroes, 20 per cent youth, 20 “per cent women workers. The “Speakers included Herbert Newtons * working class Negro leader and mem- “ber of the District Committee of the “Communist Party, District 8; Rice and Stella Chapa of the Young Com- ‘munist; League, and Morton of the ‘Steel Workers Industrial Union, “An anti-war resolution and e Scottsboro protest resolution were “adopted by thunderous “ayes.” A number of workers joined the Com- munist Party and the Young Com- tmunist League. . ‘the South End in two years, demon- ‘strated at Grove Park Wednesday ‘ight against imperialist war, for the defense of the Chinese people, and the Soviet Union. . Speakers exposed the robber war ‘the Chinese masses, the rapid devel- of Communist Party on April 6) at Shanghai. They find their way | into the light and join the Ciinese | Red Army amid the cheers oi the audience. The Boston meetings held rally was part of 18 in as many towns in Massachusetts cd Rhode Island. in Gardner, Moss, a red flag calling for struggle on anti-war day was fiown from the tallest pole in the town. After strenuous efforts it was finajly removed by the local authorities eee DULUTH, Minn. — Six hundred workers attended the anti-war dem- onstration at Court House Sq., de- spite a steady downpour of rain throughout the day. The fact that the workers were willing to stand in the rain shows their granite deter- mination to fight against the bosses hunger and war offensive. Resolutions condemning the deci- sion of the Alabama Supreme Court upholding the lynch verdicts against the Scottsboro boys and demanding hands off China and the Soviet Union. The resolutions demanded im- mediate release for the Scottsboro boys and Tom Mooney. ea Ss LAWRENCE, Mass. At the anti- war demonstration here, C. Rock spoke for the Young Communist League, and pointed out the horrors of war and the role forced upon the youth in the last war. C. Perry spoke on the preparations for the State Hunger March, May 1 and 2, and the organization of 80 delegates to Bos- ton. C. Tomasselly, speaking for the National Textile Workers Union, pointed out the connection between the wage slashing campaigns and the bosses’ preparations for war. C. Winn exposed the role of United States imperialism in support of the Jap- anese war moves on the Soviet bor- der. He called for a stern fight against imperialist war, against the Scottsboro lynch verdicts, against the national oppression of the Negro masses. Minnesota District School to Open MINNEAPOLIS, Minn.—The Dist- rict Training School of the Com- ril 11th, and continue for six weeks. consin, Michigan and North Dakota will be greeted by an opening affair | on Sunday night at the Workers Cul- tural Center, 1229 Logan Ave. North. Only one third of the quota of Show Your Solidarity with a More Cities Report Anti-War ~ Demonstrations on April 6th ;the Daily by an individual employed al Two thousand students demon- strated again yesterday on the Col- umbia Campus for the reinstate- ment of Reed Harris, student-editor | who was expelled from school for attacking the system of profes- sionalized athletics in the colleges, for exposing the rotten conditions in the Columbia lunch-room, and for supporting the Student Deie- gation to Kentucky. Speakers from City College and Hunter College expressed their solidarity with the students strug- gling for the reinstatement of Har- ris, and pledged the support of their in this struggle. While this meeting was going on, the reactionary athletes, who are paid for their “servies” to the col- lege, and who, therefore, are at- tempting to break up the militant fight of the majority of the stu- dent body held a meeting of their own on the opposite side of the street. They soon broke this up when they saw the students all flocking to the protest demonstra- tion, and attempted, unsuccessfully to break up the demonstration Petitions are being circulated throughout the colleges in New York demanding the reinstatement of Harris, and protesting against the attempts of the faculty to sup- press student opinion. Ten Cops Beat One Worker Asking Aid For Starving Family Ten husky Tammany cops took | part in unmercifuly beating one It- | alian worker until his face was a bleeding pulp and his body was! brusied all over by the blows of| clubs. A The worker came to Home Re-| lief Bureau at P. S. 102, Arthur and Taylor Avenue asking relief for his | wife and four small children. The supervisor remained deaf to his heart rending story of starvation. The workers could not take “no” for an answer, he knew that his children; were crying for bread at home, so} he persisted in his demands. The} supervisor called the cops, who took } him into a back yard out of sight | of the rest of the workers in the| bureau and taught him that the bosses intend to answer the workers cries for bread with blows and blood- | shed. This story was reported to} by the Home Relief Bureau who wit- nessed the brutal scene. Hoover calls May ist Child Health| Day Demonstrate on May Ist for Un- employment Insurance, for food for your children! funds needed for the School has been raised thus far. This means that the drive for finances will haye to con- tinue until the full quota is raised, otherwise the School may be shut down for lack of funds. The District School Committee appeals to all sections and mass organizations to arrange affairs and rush in funds without delay. Pagé Five y On Fight COLUMBIA STUDENT REPORTING ON KENTUCKY TRIP | [USSR Urges Steps to |Prepare Independent Republic for Jew 8| | (Special Cable to Daily Worker) MOSCOW, April 8.—The Pre- sidium of the Central Executive | Committee of the USSR has de-| cided that the Comzet (the or- ganization in charge of settling) | Jewish people on farm lands—Ed.) | must consider as its moc: import-| | ant and urget task to help in the speediest possible industrial| and Sovkoz (State farms) and) | Kolkhoz (Collective farms) de- velopment in Biro-Bidjan through the utilization of the land’s nat-| ural resources, | Accordingly, necessary meas-| | ures must be taken to strengthen | | both economically and organiza-| ! tionally the Jewish collectives, | and State farms. The decision) urges the preparation of a dis- Five-Year Plan for Biro-| idjan as an idependent, auton- ; omous part of the Far Eastern re- | | gion. | BLAST CHARGES AGAINST LIEUT. | SCHERINGER Expose Distorted| Documents Albert Goldschmidt, one of the delegates from Columbia University on the trip sponsored by the National Students League to investigate conditions of miners in Kentucky and Tennessee, is here shown re- porting to his fellow students. The students delegation was not per- mitted to enter Kentucky, being met by the county attorney and a | trial of Li enant Scheringer, a for-| mob of armed gun thugs, together with a special investigator for the | mer fascist officer, who joined. the| United States Department of Justice. In Tennessee the governor of | Communist Party, began with the| that state refused to be responsible for the safety of the students. A | reading of documents forming the demand for safe-conduct was also made upon the United States At- i BERLIN The second day of the} basis of the prosecution. After the; torney General, and. was likewise turned down, reading was concluded, the defense | ___ | attorney ked for the release of | Seheringer as neither“collusion nor attempt to escape was likely. The | | public pr tutor opposed this mo-! | tion and the court refused to grant| the release. ‘ | s for the defense pro- | ——$ showing that the doc- uments brought forward by the pros- Line Up With Fascist Government As the | ecution were all written as answers to] Masses Turn to Real Struggle | requests from former comrades of] ee eee Scheringer for information concern- | Working hand and hand with the peasants were presented to the local /!€ Scheringer’s changed Political | fascist Hungarian government, the|mayors by delegations of workers | Opinions. They also showed that} Budapest socialists, alarmed at the | backed by buge demonstrations. In | Scheringer had been flooded baa militancy of the workers and the the towh of Miskolez soldiers a | such requests, | success of the Communists in win-| policemen placed machine guns in| The defense evidence refuted the | ning the workers for real struggle, | the streets. contention of the Prosecutor that | urged the printers trade unions to Clash With Police | the documents were written in order | call off the strike which had closed} Crowds of workers in the village | '® Conduct propaganda indiscrimi- practically all the [newspapers in|of Balmazujdaros, rallying to the nately. nar nei | Budapest. Communist call for struggle, clashed | _ Grzesinksi, “Socialist” chief of po- A special dispatch to the N. Y.| with the gendarmes. The police fired aon re soatetes ® pamphlet Times states: *¢ at the workers, killing one, where- | CO” at cell rise ol ee ‘The Socialists, obviously alarmed | upon the workers answered with a ped! ad Lae - (Cosa Party ie at the success of Communist agita- |barrage of stones. pak tier tay poualiat, tors within their party in gaining | In the city of Budapest a worker | Pollve ais cn oh eee the ear of workers, this afternoon who was addressing a meeting was | Workers returning from the Lustgar-| suddenly adopted a milder tone and advised the printers’ trades unions to call off the strike, which the unions agreed to do. News- Budapest Sociali ts Take | the police and wounded ; aig lath cars were stop- | hibited songs and shouting: “Down | |ped in [the suburbs by masses of | Hitler!” ; workers who showered the cars with| A “Socialist” demonstration at the papers will appear tomorrow. stones. Lustgarten today was of the smallest | ‘The strike, which was called two| Premier Karoly declined to accept | 2nd all white collar audience char- | days ago following the suppression a memorandum presented by the so- | @cter possible. Despite increasing ter- of the socialist paper “Nepszava,” |cialist deputies “as long as you are) °T aganist all revolutionary working spread throughout the industrial cit-|tied up with the strike.” The so- class organizations and especially jes of Hungary. Two of the largest |cialists bowing courteously to the | against the Communist Party of Ger- Danubian shipping companies were | fascist government, issued a state-| many, propaganda for the Commu- tied up and the street car service; ment to the press in which they ; nist program is everywhere progress- was stopped in many sections. Huge | washed their hands of the strike, in| ing. |to the Workers Internati , ten alleged to have been singing pro- | . street meetings and demonstrations view of the fact that the workers ‘pment of the imperialist moves for @rmed intervention against the So- viet Union, and the vicious frame-up against the Scottsboro boys, Ross Armstrong, of the Unem- . Rolyed Council, pointed out the re- Sults of the last World War. He pointed to the miserable conditions of the New Bedford textile workers ment to intimidate and insult work- ers seeking relief. Mendoza who was present at the meeting to spy on the workers soon after slunk away. In addition to Armstrong, speakers included Kravif, district organizer of BOSTON, Mass.—Over 400 workers attended the anti-war demonstration in the Franklin Union Hall. A ser- demanding Hands off China, Hands off the So- viet Union! Freedom for the Scotts- boro Negro boys, Mooney, Berkman and other class war prisoners. They pledged full support for the State Hunger March/on May 1 and 2. a feature of the meeting was a @laylet, written especially for the demonstration by a Chinese worker and presented by Prof. Henry W. Longfellow Dana, entitled “Three in the Dark.” It depicts a Chinese soldierd, a Japanese soldier and an American marine on the batttle front Your Class; Join May Day Daily Worker Honor Roll The Honor Roll of the May Day issue of the Daily Worker will list organizations and individual workers who realize the importance of their paper and have come forward with contributions to help their paper out of its financial difficulties. This Honor Roll is not only intended as a source of gratification of the contributors. It is another sort of mass demonstration, a mass de- monstration in which workers register their solidarity with their class and show their willingness to make sacrifices for the ultimate victory of the proletariat, Furthermore, every worker on that list who has contributed or will contribute 50 cents or more will receive five copies of the eight page Daily Worker to distribute or sell to his fellow workers. This will give workers a chance not only to register their solidarity but to spread this solidarity in wider circles, . The time to send your contribution is NOW, so that we have the funds to print the 100,000 copies of the Daily Worker. Cut out the coupon in this issue and do your share. F-DOLLAR CAMPAIGN ‘Today’s report shows another batch of half dollars from the Buite District, and also another from thé South—unexpected leaps ahead from unexpected sources, There is still time to reach quotas ahead of New York, the latter having something ess than 50 per cent, All Districts! This socialist competition must increase tempo until May Day! All those who gave half dollars are not excluded from giving May Day greetings to the workers’ paper! Let us hear from the Pacific Coast! WATCH THIS DAILY REPORT! HALF DOLLAR CAMPAIGN a if i showed determination to take up a real struggle. were held all over Hungary demand- | ing freedom of the press. Most of these meetings were lead by Com-| The workers, however, are rallying munists. more and more to Communist lead- In the provinces petitions demand- ership, which is calling for an in- ing political liberty and relief for the | tensification of the struggle for free starving unemployed workers and |press and relief for the starving. Workers Force Cleve. A.F.L. to Favor Jobless Insurance CLEVELAND, Ohio.—As a result, represents 60,000 workers and is the of the mass pressure for Unemploy- | first central body to have repudiated ment Insurance many A. F. of the Vancouver Convention. The fight Hocals have already come on record. | Jitnin the A. F. of L, unions against “The Cleveland Federation of Labor piesa the. reactionary. officialdom’s oppo- was forced to take a position in ast pudiating the Vancouver Convention | sition to unemployment insurance and going on record for Unemploy-| was started in New York by the A. ment Insurance McLaughlin and a number of other racketeers of the Cleveland Federa- tion who are exposed’ among the workers and due to the revolt on the rank and file of the A. F. of L. weré On May Ist the Russian workers will forced “tacitly” not to fight against | celebrate the triumph of Socialism. this proposal. Demonstrate against the bosses who ‘The Cleveland central federation’ are preparing war on Socialism! MAY FIRST DNIEPROSTROY 12 THRILLING DAYS 12 in the Soviet Union ‘Itinerary including Leningrad, Moscow, Ivanovo Vosnesen i | Collective Farm and May Ist Celebrations in Moscow. 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P Special to Daily Worker) , lief roing into the mining camps KNOXVILLE, Tenn., April 7.—“To| and this latest attack is aimed at the Communist Party, operating in| intensifying the starvation of the Knoxville: We, as red blooded Amer-|} militant miners im order to demo- ralize the growing power of the National Miners Union,” the na tional office of the Workers Inter- | national Relief stated today, “We call for immediate increase in_sol- idarity support of the Kentucky Tennessee Miners Relie as a powerful aid in a smashing counter-offensive against the ter- ror campaign of the operators and mill owners.” » and true believers in that shou! ill be full of on he Silent Hand.” | Shrouded in whité g te your road stones from no harp hoodlums num i jored, led attempted last night to Roy Hubbs, who rented his 500 DEMONSTRATE IN WISC. AGAINST FORCED LABOR Sheboyean Workers Pack itv Couneil On Hearing by storming his home w above message. “Citizens” of Knoxville pranced through the streets far into the night in night-shirts in an at- tempt to terror Party comrades, Cut Down Jobless Relief. This vicious attack on the Commu- nist Party comes simultaneously with an announcement that over $49,000 of $63,000 that had been appro ated for relief by the city is spent- with growing discontent of the mill workers over the contemplated ten to thirty per,cent wage cut—with the introduction of the fake Block-Aid Plan which will again throw the bur- den of caring for the unemployed onto the backs of the workers who average $6 a week even when work ing. e the Communist cROYGAN ar Unemploved Knoxville is teeming with uniform- ed men and dicks. Jingoism in the a form of Preparedness Day Parades, wild patriotic speeches, etc., order of the day. Col, Wyri Army Day radio speech, stated that free speech and free privileges were being abused by communists and for- eigners and he urged that more a’ be built. \3 “Investigation of Kentucky” is the Subject of the sermon fn all church- |t $s. The general opinion of the min- isters of Knoxville who are support are the in an Mar and his ed by the Coal Operators’ Associ tion and mill owners, is that an vestigation should be isters of this section”. Ri Joffman said: “New York ministers would not have the correct viewpoint of the situation.” (Editor's Note—This last refers to @ proposal made by a group of York ministers that they be allowed to investigate the conditions in the Kentucky coal fields. It reported by rm . Arthur employed. by script, while | work for it |“plan to pr e rk’ |bor) in Grand Rapids satisfactory, they recor a similar “plan” of | should be introduced he |gan. (They forgot ta |is 78 dollars debt per ca that aft ata bets hat the gun-thug authorities of Bell | Rapids) County accepted this offer, but no-; The local papers stated: thing has been heard of it since.) tion last night. @ NEW YORK.—“The Knoxville |‘°sult of a request on the pai h hae a Prescott-Bayens Post No. 83 eadquarters pf the W.LR. is the ’ : main distribution point for all re- | “™¢tican Lezion that the ¢ at a similar plen.” This shows tf at the American Lesion pl this town is Siniaver Podolier Branch 154 LW.0O. unemp! a. ent in the’ city Concert and Banquet hall cheered and applauded’ tildiy At 108 E. 14th St. when the spi . - {ployed Council Sunday, April 10th, 7:30 p. m. The the city he war-mor ae gers of the American Legion®-4ehé Batten, eae are the agents of the bosses” the ” —Proceeds— Tannery Co. and the Kolilers Ce: Tt DAILY WORKER and must be remembered that Kohler-C0: MORNING FREIHEIT already start nutacture shets HORRING. ERE for the ne ar aaginst thé Soviet wae! Union, while in the Jast-war, KéRler the naire, made tens of militonk of dollars from the war materials. sold When the Winter Winds Begin to Blow You will find it warm and cozy | Camp Nitgedaiget “You enn reat tm the proletarian comradely aimosphere provided im the Hotel—you will also find it well heated with steam heat, to the U. S. gover nt) Alderman Sonnenberg, from» the silk stocking district, wha,.by.the way is also a doctor, was exposed a hundred per cent by the spokes« men of the Unemployed. Counelly One worker said: “Don't forget, fellow workers, when you. need .& doctor, go to Dr, Sonnenburg and hot water and many other tm- when he asks you for payment, The food is clean * daa cnniay "oe sive him a piece of paper. prepared, The Unemployed Council. demand- SPECIAL RATES FOR WHEK- ed: Cash payment of 60 cents per ENDS hour for all work done for the city; no script payment. Free rent, lights: and gas. Free milk for. the.childrenc Reduction of salaries of ail officials. 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