The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 15, 1932, Page 1

oe WAR VETS’ BONUS PARADE FROM MADISON SQUARE TO j Fi XR WORKERS OF THE WORLD,’ UNITE! Dail Central . ¥ -63 DAY AT il orker Rumict Party U.S.A. (Section of the Communist: International) Vol. 1X, No. 90 = at New York, N. ¥.. amder the act of March 3, 1877 Office OCLOCK JEW. YORK, FRIDAY, APRIL 15, 1932 _ JAPANESE WAR MINISTER THREATENS U. S. S. R. Norman Thomas Helps Tammany Hunger Drive Kr ‘THE campaign against the unemployed and employed workers the capitalist class finds its most dependable tools in the ranks of the social fascists. This contemptible part played by Norman Thomas and the socialist party leadership in the campaign to put over the “block-aid” swindle again emphasizes this. Thomas, in a recent radio speech and in his article in “The New Leader” comes to the aid of his capitalist masters by denying the Communist accusation that the “block-aid” scheme is in reality an attempt to still further shift the burden of the crisis upon the backs of tue workers and is an organization, under police supervision, of a vicious spy system systematically penetrating every working class home. ‘The increasing mass demonstrations against the Wall Street hunger program and for unemployment relief and insurance strikes fear into the hearts of the capitalists and their allies. The job of Norman Thomas and his social fascist associates is to try to sidetrack and arrest this movement. With his customary social fascist sermonizing the Rev. Nor- man Thomas, in the New Leader of April 2 says: “1 speak for the block-aid only because it promises some immediate help in a desperate emergency, only because the right sort of support may obviate some of the dangers thoughtful men feel ...the most magnificent thing about the crisis is the generosity of the poor to the poor’ In the next issue, April 9, the Rev. Thomas states what these dangers are—mass demonstrations and hunger riots. Contributions to the fascist money-raising scheme many times forced by threats of the bosses that accompanies the police and spy program of recording and filling details about workers’ families are hypocritically described as “generosity of the poor to the poor.” * Although using demagogic phrases against Tammany, the leadership of the socialist party, in reality plays the same game against the workers, employed and unemployed, as Mayor Walker and Chairman Gibson of the Emergency Unemployment Relief Committee, who has utilized the misery of the unemployed to compel work for hunger rations. They are part of one united capitalist front frantically striving to stop the mobil- ization of unemployed and part-time workers for raising the mass strug- gle against hunger to a higher stage. While aiding the bankers and Tammany put over the fascist block-aid scheme, the socialist party leadership, by that very action helps Wall Street in its entire program of trying to find a capitalist way out of its crisis at the expense of the toiling masses—which includes pacifist de- ception as an aid in the terrific.drive toward imperialist world war and the further ferocious oppression of the colonial and semi-colonial masses as is manifested by the demogogic manouvers of Yankee imperialism in regard to Phillipine independence in the year 1940, 2 manouver praised hy Norman Thomas in the New Leader of April 9, as “a wise, even a fine thing.” Block-aid definitely carries forward the war preparations of American imperialism by registering every working class family and utilizing the suffering of millions upon millions of unemployed to beat down the stand- ards of life as a prelude to conscription of youth and young workers in the armed forces of the United States and conscripting workers in industry on a starvation dole. Every honest worker who is in the ranks of the socialist party or who has heretofore supported that social fascist outfit should unmask and repudiate such treacherous leadership and participate in the united working class front against hunger by fighting in the ranks of the block committees organized by the Unemployed Councils. Only a united front of unemployed, employed workers, white and Negro, native and foreign- born, can defeat the attack on the unemployed workers and advance toward realization the struggle for immediate unemployment relief and social insurance at the expense of the capitalists. By waging such a fight we can deliver heavy blows against the whole program of the hunger and war-monpgering program of Wall Street. Workers’ Ex-Servicemen’s League to Lead Scottsboro KILL PICKET IN FIGHT IN OHIO STRIKE Tear Gas Thrown As Gunmen’s Autos Are Turned Over UMW Prepares Sellout | BULLETIN STEUBENVILLE, Ohio. — While speaking to a miner going to work, Walter Kimbel, a 50-year old pick- et was shot and killed by the aide te the National Guard Colonel here. ‘The firing occurred on the road to the Somers mine of the Goodyear Rubber Co. | Pickets lined the road as car- | load after carload of Guardsmen and deputies rode by. The work- ers retaliated by overturning two of the gunmen’s cars. In order to break up the angry group of pick- ets the deputies hurled tear gas bombs into the crowd. (Special to Daily Worker) WHEELING, W. Va., April 14.— Yesterday fifty miners who were arrested for pickting in Muskin- gum, were indicted by the Grand Jary for inciting to riot. At a meeting of all National Miners Union orgamizers today take a report on the strike situation was given, While the United Mine Workers Scale Committee prepares @ seli‘out at Zanesville, reports show that miners everywhere are asking what the scale is, Indications are that the small operators are fighting any union, while the large operators are willing to accept the United Mine Workers Union as a wage cutting agency. In Cambridge open terror exists with scabs being hauled in county ears. Boys folrteen to sixteen are employed in the Walhonding mine. At Amsterdam four mines are out one hundred per cent and the National Miners Union is gaining daily. The United Front Relief Committee is orwking here. At Piney Fork the Deep Shaft mine struck 100 per cent. Picketing is carried on daily. The miners favor the National Miners Union policy but fear the terror. The United Mine Workers Union has set up a soup kitchen but ther is no soup. At the Sommers mine the Police are on the job to break the Jail Threats Fail to Halt Worker Vets; Force Congress to Hear Them |Stember and Ford Take Floor in Bonus Hear-| ing After Hot Fight; Demand | Immediate Cash Payment (Special to the Daily Worker) 6 WASHINGTON, D. C.—Following a hot battle on the floor of the Ways and Means Committee hear- ing on the soldiers’ bonus, 8. J. Stember and J. W. Ford of the Na- tional Committee of the Workers Ex-Servicemen’s League, who had been repeatedly denied the right to speak, forced the concressmen to hear the demands of the work~- er vets on the bonus issue. The chairman of the committee, Crisp, threatened to have the work- er vets’ delegation arrested, but Stember and Ford stood their ground and forced the committee to hold a special conference in which the congressmen decided to give the W. E. L. delegates the floor. Both delegates were allowed 20 minutes. Their statements calling for militant action of all the vet- erans and a mass delegate parade to Washington to force Congress to pay the bonus was received with enthusiasm by the 200 veterans who attended the hearing. “The present proposals of Con- gress are insufficient,” said Stem- per, “and furthermore, the means by which they are proposing to raise the funds will not in any way add to the relief of the war veterans or the masses of peo- ple. We propose that the money be raised by using the money now used for war preparations, by taxing inheritance, by removing tax exemptions on securities and imposing a surtax on industries.” Both delegates urged all veterans, and particularly the members of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, to have no confidence in the actions of the democrats or some of the republican representatives who may vote or speak for the bonus. “It will be only our mass pres- sure that will force Congress to heed to our demands,” said Ford. On May ist the Russian workers will celebrate the triumph of Socialism. Demonstrate against the bosses who are preparing war on Socialism! Communists Poll 40 ‘TOKYO LIES WAR FEVER Speeds Campaign of| War Incitement AgainstU.S.S.R. | James W. Ford, a member of the | National Committee of the Workers’ | Ex-Service League, appeared with S. J. Stember yesterday before the ;Ways and| : “ | © Means Commit-| Open war threats against the) tee and in a 20) Soviet Union were made yes-! minute speech eae demande. im-|terday by high Jananese gov-} In Open Threats; mediate cash es - | paste of the ernment officials in both To- tombstone bo- nus. Ford, a Ne- gro worker was! 5 @ member of the 96th Divi- sion during the | kyo and Manchuria. | ing on the dynamiting by in- surgent Chinese treops of a Japanese; troop train in Manch a as a con-j; World War, i venient pretext for further advane-} 4aMES W. teaght in |ing aie eo ram of the nee FORD France. Tanaka Doeu rt for a robber war | | the inion, Jananese | ineluding Minister of War VETERANS 70 ae + nect the Soviet Government with the of the troop train. A| ‘ch to the New York MARCH TODAY ne quotes the Japanese | | sources as follows: j | T0 UNION SQ “Reports from Changchun, where | 4 4% WIN) the plot to blow up the Shanghai | * — bridge is being investigated, hint that if evidence supports the as- sumption that the scheme was fos- tered by Russians, ‘adequate meas- ures’ will be taken against the country responsible. “The evidence so far brought out Veterans of the world war) in the investigation is reported to will voice their demands for| indicate that ‘a certain country’ is full and immediate cash pay-| ttembting to embroil relations be- 5 “| tween Japan and the new Man- ment fo the tombstone bonus! cnurian state. The plotters are in a mass demonstration and said to have been promised a large parade which will commence at 11| reward if the attempt against the a.m. at Madison Square today. railway bridge was successful.” The demonstration, which is part! Thus, the Japanese try to blame of the nation-wide drive of the the Soviet Union for conditions in Workers’ Ex-Servicemen’s League to | Manchuria which developed as a di- mobilize the masses of veterans to|Fect and expected result of the Jap- force Congress to pass the bor.us bill, | @nese attempt to subjugate the Man-| should be the largest and most mil-|churian masses by bestial butcheries | itant organized rally of war vets held Of Manchurian workers and peasants | thus far in New York City. jdaring to resist the Japanese inva- ;Sion and conquest of their country. Rank and file veterans who have and what is “the evidence so far been betrayed by the American brought out?” The Tokio dispatch Legion, unorganized veterans and cays of the attempt to blow up the members of the Veterans of Foreign pride: Wars and disabled veterans organiza- teearicin wittnw devices toxnd on tions are urged to rally into a huge 2 ‘ Parade Starts at Mad- ison Square at. Noon TO STIR UP Protest Parade in City Sat. Mrs. Ada Wright, mother of Andy the South at 4.25 p. m. today. Wright is on her way to Eu- the invitation of the German fense of the Scottsboro Negro boys and in vigorous protest against the recent decision of the Alabama Su- preme Court upholding the lynch verdicts against these innocerit boys. ‘The war véterans will participate 100 per cent. Posts 1 and 2 will hold Joint open air meeting at 125th Street and 5th Avenue at 1 o‘clock iturday afternoon in preparation the parade, which will be led by League's Bugle and Drum Corp. A statement issued by Post No. 2 calls upon “all veterans and friends to participate along with the Workers Ex-Servicemen’s League in a mighty gree" Saturday's demonstration ts called oy the United Front Scottsboro De-' fense Committee, in conjunction with the League of Struggle for Negro Rights and the International Lahor Defense, ‘The workers will assemble, many of them behind the banners of their organizations, at 125th Street and Lenox Avenue. The parade will be- at two o'clock, and will proceed up Lenox to 132nd Street, east to Fifth Avenue, north to 135th Street, west to Lenox, north to 141st Street, west to 7th Avenue, south to 116th Street, east to Fifth Avenue, and down Fifth Avenue to 110th Street where the parade will culminate in a tremendous demonstration, with well- known working-class leaders, Negro and white, addressing the assembled workers, A series of street meetings along the route of the parade will acquaint the workers with the nature of the parade and help to mobilize them for the protest demonstration. united front today and show their picket lines since 8,000 pickets set up an American flag only to find that it is no protection to marched on Tuesday, The miners orkers, the sheriff riding over it in his car. At Fairpoint, Lafferty and Pro- vidence all are out. At Bellaire the miners’ distrust of the officials is growing. At the Stewarts mine 7 voted for a United Mine Workers charter, the others favor the Na- tional Miners Union. Read the Central Committee Resolution in the April issue of “The Communist.” Price 20 cents, Per Cent of All the Votes in Brantwood BRANTWOOD, Wis.—The elec- tion results for the Town Board of Knox shows a 50 per cent in- crease in the vote of the Com- munist candidates against the social-fascist ticket. The Com- munist vote was as high as 40 per cent of the total vote, and the Communist candidate for Assessor received a higher vote than one of the tow social- fascist candidates for that office. The United Farmers League en- dorsed the Communist Party elec- uneompromising will to fight until their back pay (called bonus) is wrested from the Wall Street govern- ment. The veterans cannot rely on con- gressmen and senators. Congressmen and senators, who claimed they stood for the bonus, ordered Ford and Stember, members of the Ex- servicemen’s League, arrested yester- day when they appeared before the Ways and Means committee calling for a mass united front to force the government to pay the bonus. Force the fat bocses who got rich on the blood spilt on Flanders iield tion program and its candidates. by rallying with your buddies at Madison Square today. | the span were said to be too in- genuous to be the work of Man- | churian bandits.” G ral Sadao Araki, Japanese War Minister, is reported by the dispatch as declaring that the blowing up of the bridze would be “investigated” thoroughly, and that | “proper steps will be taken upon the result of the findings.” These threats have only one in- terpretation. They are the direct pre- lude to an immediate armed attack against the Soviet Union! Japanese troops are already massed on the | Soviet borders! Japanese troops are advancing through the Chiento dis- trict in Manchuria to within strik- ing distance of the Soviet port ‘of Viadivostak, ,| THE 50TH BIRTH- |! DAY OF COMRADE AMTER | Bolsheyk leadership, revolu- | 'y steadfastness and integr- | ity, is one of the most necessary | factors for the successful conduct | of th estruggles of the working- | class, The celebration of the 50th | Birthday of Comrade Amter is not | @ personal matter, pvt a political act to emphasize that our Party is | | more and more aware of this fact, | and 1s more and more raising our | standards in this respect. The Central Committee joins with the | New York District is observing this | anniversary in the spirit of estab- | lishment of the highest Bolshevik | standards of leadership, of the ability to earn the trust of the! workers by tireless devotion and | | the strictest intesrity, by ey | | | | | | ering ad‘erence to the leadership of the Communist International. Central Committee, C. P. U. S. A.| WORKERS OF NEW ZEALAND BATTLE POLICE, SAILORS! Workers Seize Food In Fighting Off Fascist Forces thousands of unemployed bat- tled police and sailors through the streets of Auckland, New Zealand, today. For three hours the work- ers defended themselves against the police, sending scores to the hospital, smashing store windows and helping themselves to food and other supplies which the gov- ernment has refused to give them. The workers were armed with bricks, fence pickets and_ sticks, and the police were unable to con- trol the situation for three hours. Hundreds of business men were hurriedly sworn in as fascist forces to help beat back the hungry workers. The capitalist press reports that girls were in the forefront of the fighting. About 150 people were received at the hospital in Auck- Jand and it seems as if the greater part were policemen. This is the second militant de- monstration to take place in the rotting British Empire within 2 week. Last week over 10,000 work- ers stormed the parliament at Newfoundland, beat up the Prime Minister and forced the govern- ment to flee. Also there the cause was the refusal to give unemploy- ment ald. It is reported that the streets Took as if an earthquake had rock- ed them, with thousands of dol- lars of damage to the starvation government and its supporters. MORE WORKERS BEING LAID OFF AT NATIONAL TUBE (By a Worker Correspondent) LORAIN, O.—Looking for a job in the National Tube Company a few days ago, I couldn't get any. This is one of the largest factories in this city. 6,000 workers used to be on the job in this plant. I found out that only 100 are working there now. only one or two days a week, And now they are working UNITED FRONT COMMITTEE CHANGES MAY 1 MARCH ROUTE Fellow Workers! May First is coming—the day of International Workers’ Solidarity! Since 1886 it is the day of strug- gle of the workers against their cap! This May Day finds over 12 million workers un- employed—over a million in New York City alone. Hundreds of thousands of families are without food! Even the miserable charity of the “home relief bu- reaus” completely have been stopped by the city. an excuse for stopping all relief, the fake “block aid” is set up—the bosses spying machine for war. Demonstrate May First for Unemployment Insurance at the expense of the bosses and the government! The most terrible suffering facts, unemployed Negro workers.» Even in charity, the bosses discriminate against the Negroes. Young and women workers suffer discrimination at “relief” bureaus. Negro Workers, Young Workers, Women ‘Workers, Em- ployed and Unemployed! All Ont! May First Against Discrimination! Hundreds of thousands of War Veterans have been robbed by the Wall Stréet government of their war bonus, They are on the bread lines, Wages of emp! talist exploiters. destroyed. thousands are une: Yet the A. F. of As | ment insurance. in preparation | per cent. especially the their miserable | Pay! Demonstrate out to divide up C! in flop houses, mercy—in all industrial! working 2 or 3 days a week, Union standards are A. F. of L, members by the hundreds of printing and other workers will soon be cut 20 to 30 The bosses carry the cuts to our homes thru their “block aid” sales tax hold-ups. Rank and File Members of the A. F. of L., Employed Workers— Make May First a Day of Mighty Struggle Against » Wage Cuts, for the 7-Hour Day Without Reduction in Join the Fight for Unemployment Insurance for All Unemployed, Part-Time and Laid Off Workers! Workers, Negro and White, Native and Foreign-Born The bosses want to solve their crisis by plunging us into a- fresh World War! in China. The Japanese imperialists are slaughtering thousands upon thousands of Chinese workers, their women and children. The imperialist governments are churia. their war base against the Soviet, Union! The May First for Immediate Payment of Bonus, for Cash Relief, for the Workers’ Unemployment Insurance Bill! loyed workers are slashed without Hundreds of thousands are mployed and starving in New York. L. leaders fight against unemploy- Wages of thousands of building, Already the war is on hina. They are out to make Man- fill the hospitals and jails, hungry and starving! Their | bosses’ government is spending billions of dollars for war, Plans are ready to draft an army of € million. ” checks are stopped. “compensation’ jet Union. Soviet Russia stands out on this land of Socialism. Soviet Russia is that has abolished unemployment! country that is building up its industries end arvicul- While all capitalist countries are in deep crisis, while our wages are slashed and millions starve in ture! capitalist America, WAGES ARE GO! SOVIET UNION! The workers there day, free vacations with pay, free medical care, second 5-Year Plan will greatly increase the well be- ing and comfort of the entire population. The workers of the Soviet Union show to the work- ers of the entire world that the onl; unemployment, crisis, hunger and following the leadership of the Communist Party, by fighting militantly in defense of the workers, by overthrowing the rule of the capitalists and landlords and by establishing a Workers Soviet The capitalists and their Wall Street government are, therefore, getting ready a bloody war Government. against the Soviet Union. Already are at the gates of the Soviet Union. Governments speak openly about against Worker’s Russia, Poland, Rumania, Hungary, Czecho-Slovakia are being armed to United States and France. ’ ‘ the bosses’ hunger May Day as the the only country It is the only wages.” for the League of ING UP IN THE enjoy the 7-hour The pare for war. ery in the last wor! that they drag us world butchery. ly way to abolish oppression is by conditions of the Demand Immedi Japanese armies All Capitalist @ Spring drive Stop Transport ALL OUT MAY March in Might Government! COMMUNIST the teeth by the Mass May Day Demonstration and March, Sunday, May First, 12:30,at Union Sq.; March from There to Rutgers Sq. and war drive. The A. F. of L. chiefs shout about “war prosperity” and “high war They break every strike, and act as the spies of the bosses in every struggle of the workers through- out the country. The Socialist leaders, Norman Thomas, of L. lesders and the bosses. Norman Thomas stands Nations—the imperialist world war instrument, the International strike-breaking machine. The Socialist and pacifists cry “peace,” and pre- Remember the bloody Socialist treach- Id war! It is with phrases of peace step by step into the imperialist Workers, Make This May First a Day of Mighty Strug- gle Against the Hunger and War Allies of the Bosses —The Socialist and A. F. of L. Leaders! on this May Day the Unity of the Workers in Joint Struggle Against the Bosses and their Agents! Defend the Chinese People and the Soviet Union! Demonstrate ate Withdrawal of All Imperialist Forces from China! of Munitions to Japan! 1 AT UNION SQUARE! y Masses to Rutgers Square! Against Capitalism—For » Workers’ and Farmers’ PARTY, YOUNG COMMUNIST Govlalat and A, F. of L. leaders are helping | LEAGUE, 50 East 13th St, New York Olty. HARBIN SEES JAPANESE IN ATTACK SOON \Foreign Observers | Report Tense | Situation | Anticipate War Foreign observers at |Harbin, Manchuria, | look for an early attack | ; | by the Japanese against jthe Soviet Union, ac- | cording to a dispatch from that city to the New York Times. The dispatch fully confirms the admission ap. pearing in the American press during the past few days that Japen was rapidly moving towards armed | intervention against the Soviet Union and its successful socialist construcs |tion. The dispatch likens the site uation to a keg of powder ready te explode at any minute. It says: “Conditions are so disquieting in Manchuria that the city of Harbin is reported to be like a keg of powder, as in 1929 and last Sep- tember.” The dispatch here refers to the | Japanese-inspired attemy of the Chinese militarisis to seize the Soviet owned Chinese Far Fastern Railway in 1919, and to the advance of Jap- anese troops last September toward the Soviet border. The dispatch furs ther reports: “A most reliable source says: “‘Harbin’s atmosphere is simflar to that of 1929, when the Chinese ousted Soviet representatives from the Chinese Eastern Raflway. The situation is unexpected, but, now that the Soviet Union is ready to fight, the slightest slip is most like- ly to cause a conflict without a declaration of war.” The dispatch soft-peddles the fact, admitted by various imperialist sources including the New York Her- |ald-Tribune, and U. S. Major Gen- jeral William S. Graves and Wash- ington officials, that the Japanese imperialists are deliberately driving towards war against the Soviet Union. It is not a matter of “the slightest slip” precipitating armed conflict, but of the deliberate war program of the Japanese and their admitted intention to attack the So- viet Union. The dispatch reports that Harbin is placarded with posters bearing » red sun in which appears the flag of the ‘new Manchurian puppet state. At the top of the flag is @ crowing cock, from the mouth of which come the words: “With Jap~ an’s help, Manchuria flourishes,” This is regarded at Harbin as Jap~ an’s declaration that Manchuris has been amazed. | JOBLESS WORKER HANGS HIM- SELF James Krecci, 48, of 3434 E. 52d Street, a laborer who had been out of work for several months, hanged himself last night in the attic at his home. Doctor Tells of Japanese Troops On Soviet Borders Returning recently from the Far East, Dr. Arthur Torrence, American physician and expedi- tion leader, reported that the Japanese were massing a large army and hundreds of airplanes on the Soviet border. He admit- ted that all the elements for a new and bloodier world slaughter are present in the situation cre- ated by the Japanese imperialists on the Soviet border. He is quoted in the bourgeois press as stating: “Japan is massing hundreds of airplanes and thousands of - men along the north Manchu- rian frontier to oppose Russia in the coming major war. And Japan is getting money and munitions from France, “All that is needed is one spark to kindle a terrific con- flagration which will embroil the entire Orient and perhaps more, America must watch her step.”