The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 27, 1932, Page 3

A DAILY WORKER, NBW YORK, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 27, 1952 Page Uhree CAL. RANCH OUSTING; ALMOST 200 RANCHES FORECLOSED Farmers Reduced to Water Company Swindle Hoover’s Farm “Relief” Relieves Farmers Of ‘All They Possess (By a Worker Correspondent) MERCED, Cal.—Over 200 and Fresno Counties face evictions from their ranch lands valued $500,000, by 38H Securities Company of San Francisco, who claim they did not pay taxes. The land has been in dispute since dissolution of San Joaquin River Water Storage district. in 1929, after the ranchers defaulted tax payments of 25 cents per acre. The rich company has swindled these lands away from the ranchers, because they could not meet their water assessments. Sacramento and San Joaquin Val- lays, which some years back, werc fruit growing centers are becoming deserts. There has been no normal rains for some time and ranchers are unable to secure water from the rich companies, so everything is dry- ing up. Fresno and Tulare Counties, whole flocks of chickens were wiped out, | and many ranchers lost considerably. Red spiders, vine hoppers and pests suck the sap from the leaves, thus the treets are dying out. Ranches | that sold for $2000 per acre are now selling for $50 and no one buys them. How th Bosses “Buried” the Depression (By a Worker Correspondent) POTTSTOWN, Pa.—Old man “‘de- pression” is dead. Yes, he’s gone. How do I know? Why, our leading and distinguished citizens of Potts- town, along with the Chamber of Commerce, said so. Indeed, they held his funeral on April 6. Sure, the whole’ shebang turned out. There was Schultz, the baker, with his fleet of trucks. He is the leading “socialist” in the town. There were preachers there, American Legion officials and scores and scores of business men. What an elaborate send-off! Now that “depression” is gone we are supposed to spend our money in the stores that advertised his burial. ‘With every purchase we make we get a coupon which entitles us to a pos- sibility of winning a Rockne Six and other prizes, But, damn it, where will we get jers are being reduced to pauperism, , Working about 25 hours a week. The the dollars to spend and to run the car in case we win. * “AFL Blind to Slavery in St. Louis Plant Louisville, Ky. | Daily Worker: In your issue of Saturday, April 16, you carried a story about the plant of the Standard Sanitary Mfg. Co., located at Baltimore, Md., but here in Louisville the empleyes of the same company are worse off than those in Baltimore. We workers in the metal line are supposed to be protected by the A. F. of L. unions of the Metal Polishers and Buffers and the Brass Workers, but we were forced to take from a 20 to 40 per cent wage-cut the first of the year, and the men do not like this, but the heads of the »| workers here. ERS FACE Pauperism Through ranches in Merced, Stanislaus Over 200 ranches have been al- ready foreclosed by the banks around Merced alone. Many more are threatened. Other small ranch- through swindle of water companies and “Hoover's Farmer scheme which relieves the farmers of all they possess. Many ranchers are committing suicide. Rancher Jones, near Merced committed suicide leav- ing a note saying he has no assets left except his five minor children, but he could not use them as secur- ities, for the bank would not accept them. Farmers must be organized. That | the capitalist system is exploiting them through many schemes must be pointed out to them. Organize Uni- ted Farmers League branches and fight these conditions in an organ- ized manner. —A. - The mills are closing, only a few are left working. Bethlehem Steel is average wage is $7 a week. Then Spicers (auto parts) is going to lay off a big force. ‘We have a generous boss here, a Mr, Potter—a general soft soap ped- dler and manager of the Lincoln Underwear Co., who says he’s losing money, but keeps his factory running a few days a week just to keep the workers from being idle. He just bought himself a new Packard car. He cuts the wages regularly. But where are we going to get the dollars to spend and perhaps win the prize? They told us they had buried old man ‘“‘depression.” But how the heck does that help us workers? We must bury old man capitalism. How will we do it? The same way the Russian workers did, of course. Rear up on your legs and organize. We have been servile long enough. Yes, too damned long. N. So far as any good to the workers. is concerned, these unions are dead, and a real live militant organization could do a world of good for the We need assistance badly and the workers are so cowed that they fear to make the first move toward a different system. I believe that a militant organization could make great headway here and look forward to the day the Metal Work- ers’ Industrial League comes into Louisville. We have been sold out long enough by the misleaders of the A. F. of L. union say that this is the btst that could be done. Workers Assail Birmingham Boss Press (By a Worker Correspondent.) BIRMINGHAM, Ala—The Bir- mingham World, a Negro boss paper here, delights in attacking our class organizations that fight against the lynch policy of the white bosses here. It used to say that the Scottsboro boys would certainly be electrocuted because the International Labor De- fense, by organizing a mass struggle to defend them, had ‘sent insulting letters to the lawyers, the judges and the governor. Now it has to sing another song since they have twice been saved from legal lynching. Yours for real conditions, JW. L, even see it. You wanted to keep the Negroes ignorant of the fact that white people can sink so low. You helped the white boss press cover this up and tried to do as you always do—cover up the fact of terrible Negro victimization at the hands of the white ruling class. “But when, on August 4, 1931, the Shades Mountain affair that later developed into the Peterson frame-up occurred, you came forth with the story that the suspect was a Negro—a huge headline started the frame-up story. You helped The bosses know that if we keep up the fight they will be free, so teh Negro capitalist press has to be- gin 2 new flood of lies to try to stop movement. We got tired of saying nothing about this paper, so at a meeting of members of the International Labor Defense and the League of Struggle for Negro Rights we adopted and sent the Birmingham World the fol- lowing: “We call your attention to re- cent editorials in your paper, the Birmingham World, ridiculing the International Labor Defense in connection with the Scottsboro case and its fight to free all class- war prisoners, white and black, from the fron grip of capitalist lynch justice. “We call your atetntion to an incident which occurred on No- yember 4, 1931. On that date Mag- sie Lee Carter, 9-year-old Negro Fairfield girl, was kidnaped and raped by two white men, who after- the bosses frame an innocent, sick, shell-shocked, tubercular war vet- eran, “Is your interest in the Negro child, Maggie Lee Carter, and the white women identical? .No! You are a bunch of cowardly, yellow rats and we denounce you as a supporter of white supremacy, 2 Relief” | Communist Gets 11% of Votes in California Standard Oil Town (By mail to Daily Worker) RICHMOND, Cal. — Elections held here March 26 for the board of education, resulted as follows: of the 2,819 votes cast, bosses’ candidate, a banker, recefyéd 2,500 votes, and the Communist Party candidate, a worker, mother of two children, Florence Crooks, re- ceived 310 votes. This is the first time a workers’ candidate was on the ballot in this oll town. Receiving 11 per cent of votes is of great significance, es- pecial in the face of campaign conducted by the bosses. Standard Oil Company officials kept the workers, day before the elections, half an hour after work, talking to them and telling them not to dare vote for a Communist, as they will lose their jobs. The votes according to sections were, that in North Richmond, Negro territory, of 100 votes cast 75 were for Communist Party; 3d and 5th St. territory, majority (55 votes) for C. P.; territory around Pullman shops also /ma- jority for C. P. Richmond workers are now working to secure signatures to help put the Communist Party on the ballot in California. PROTEST MASS MEET TONIGHT INSCHENECTADY Workers to Push Fight for Scottsboro Boys and Tom Mooney SCHENECTADY.—This evening at Crecent Park, State and Lafayette Sts. workers of Schenectady, N. Y., the town which is owned and con- trolled by the General Electric Cor- poration will have na opportunity to hear Carl Hacker, district organizer of the I. L. D. speak on the growing persecutions of the American workers. The conditions of the workers in Schenectady are going from bad to worse daily. The General Electric plan which in normal times employed 20,000 workers, today has its payroll only nine thousand. Of these re- maining 9,000, three thousand will be fired by May Ist. And judging from information received only recently the next few months will see the continuous cutting down to about two ae FIGHTING WITH THE WORKING CLASS FOR TOM MOONEY’S RELEASE ~ Mother Mooney, aged mother of Tom Mooney, with her daughter, Anna, at the State capitol in Sacramento, California, at the time when Gov. Rolph announced his infamous decision denying a pardon to Tom Mooney, frai -up sixteen years ago by the California bosses and the reactionary leadership of the A. F. of L. in reprisal for his militant fight for the interests of the work’ng class. Although in ill health and advised by her doctor that the trip would kill her, Mother Mooney had just concluded a nation-wide tour under the auspices of the International Labor Defense in connection with the mass fight for Mooney’s release. Ford Tells Hoover of Scheme to Feed Jobless on Garlic Sh bh h---Henry Ford is working on a new scheme. No, not to kill the unemployed but to make tulip and garlic enthusiasts out of them. The idea is so huge that he had to pay a private visit to President Hoover and spill it. Newspaper men surprised him in the act of spilling it. In case you don’t be- lieve it, bloody Henry already guar- antees every pobless man $500 a year side money if he’d turn to gar- dening, growing vegetables. The plan is being worked out in detail —and has been since last year— with Ford workers as the victims. We can’t reveal the full details be- cause Ford is keeping them a se- cret. Most likely he went to Wash- ington to patch the scheme. Ford also announced that “I told the President, that we’re selling all the motor cars we can make and thousand workers. The meeting on Wednesday night will be a protest meeting against the decision of Governor Rolph and a demand for the release of the 9 Negro Scottsboro boys, whm the Al- bama Supreme Court has decided must die in the electric chair on June 24, Workers of Schenectady are urged to come to this-meeting and bring their friends. we're getting lots of cash—much of On May Ist the Rus- sian workers will cele- brate the triumph of Socialism. Demonstrate against the bosses who are preparing war on Socialism! ‘This meeting will be the beginning of an organization campaign of the International Labor Defense to build a powerful mass defense organization in this city. Last Call for May Day'‘Daily’ Every day the Daily Worker rallies the workers of the United States in the fight against the bosses’ program of terror, starvation and war. The demonstrations led by the Unem- ployed Councils for relief, the demonstrations led by the Inter- national Labor Defense for the release of class war prisoners, the demonstrations against war, the mass strikes against wage cuts, have been whole-heartedly backed by the workers’ paper, the Daily Worker. On May Day the Daily Worker plays a particularly im- portant part in the workers’ struggles. The mighty May Day demonstrations against imperialist butchery, for the defense of the Soviet Union, and for the release of the Scottsboro boys, of Tom Mooney and of all class war prisoners, must be accom- panied by another mighty demonstration, the demonstration of the workers’ solidarity as shown in their efforis to spread throughout the land more than ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND copies of the eight-page May Day Daily Worker. May Day will register big gains in the revolutionary strug- gle. These gains will be formed into a solid mass base for fu- ture struggles, through the mass distribution of the May Day carrier of white boss press lies and slander against our race brothers of the working and farming class. “We denounce the Birmingham World as an _ anti-working-class paper that helps keep alive the lynch terror here by fighting against the only power capable of stopping it. “Against you and your class we will continue to fight to stop lynch- ing, Jim Crewism and demand the safe and unconditional freedom for the Scottsboro boys, Willie Peter- son and all other class war prison- ers. We will never stop this fight until we have a workers’ and farm- ers’ government established like it is in the Soviet Union. Then you will stop printing lies or you won't get to print anything. “(Signed) LL.D. and LS.N.R., “Birmingham Section” Daily Worker. The slogans that you shout in the May Day demonstrations, the slogans that you bear on your banners, these slogans you can spread most effectively through the Daily Worker. Send in your bundle orders, pair in advance, at once for the May Day eight-page Daily Worker. And send in your May Day contribution at once so that we can print enough copies to satisfy the demand. Send in your contribution now and get in on the May Day Honor Roll that the Daily Worker prints in tts May Day issue as a special demonstration of workers’ sol- idarity. Fight boss war! Fight boss terror! Fight the boss hun- ger program! Support the May Day Daily Worker! Spread the May Day Daily Worker! it in big bills. 1 mean by that old- style, large size bills that might have been hidden for. some time.” ‘If the people who quit business to go into gambling several years ago would quit that and go back to work at producing something they could sell all they produce.” Apparently this is why there were 10,000 un- employed Ford workers who were met with machine gun bullets in the recent Dearborn Hunger March, lGov't and Private Bolstering Fails to Save Boston Bank BOSTON.—The Exchange Trust, Company of this city, with de- Posits of over $11,000,000, was taken over by the state. Since} last winter the federal govern-| ment, the state government, the, city government and Boston banks had been trying to pump| artificial life into the bankrupt concern. Hoover’s National Credit Corporation which was to stop bank failures together with these agencies have thrown $2,600,000 into the Exchange Trust. And all savings depositors were refused the right of withdrawing their money since last Dec. 17. ‘The bank was a member of the Federal Reserve System and is connected with the huge “New; York Guaranty Trust and the Chase National Banks. Suggestions On The Election Campaign The Daily Worker will in- terpret and explain the is- sues, slogans’ raised by the} various capitalist politician by the so-called progressives and by the socialist party. We therefore request Send Letters And| | 1 | | our readers to send in the elec- such as leaf- is-| tion material, lets, programs, posters, sued by our class enemi We particularly ask our} readers to send in workers’ correspondence, telling other workers what they know about the various candidates about the election speeches and promises. Not merely this. But also suggestions how the Communists ought! to conduct the present presi- dential election campaign. | Mrs. Wright and Engdahl to Sail for Europe on Wed. for World Scottsboro Campaign |Invited by European Workers They Will Tour tional secrétary of the International Labor Defense | They will arrive in Hainburg, Ger- | man, in time for the big May 7th| demonstrations against the Scotts- boro lynch verdicts and the infamous | decision of Gov. Rolph of California denying Tom Mooney a pardon These demonstrations have been | called by the International Red Aid | ‘The Wall Street banker, S. Reading Bertron, yesterday came out in sup- | port of the United States opening ne- gotiations with the Soviet Union for better trade relations. This statement | came on the heels of a speech in the} House of Representatives by Rainey of Illinois and a promise that a res- olution for trade relations introduced by Rep. Sabath, would receive an early hearing. The basis for this concerted effort of business and political leaders of capitalist America for relations with the USSR is not because of a sudden love for the workers’ republic but is best expressed in the words of Rainey who visited the Soviet Union last year, | _ He says: “Our failure to recognize Russia is an economic crime. In 1928 there were eighty-four ships flying the American flag directly between the United States and the Black Sea Russian ports. This has decreased greatly in recent years. In 1930 there were thirty-five. What little cargo now goes to Russia is carried by tramp steamers. “In these times I think we should recognize Russia asa means of giving us an outlet for our surplus goods. I am informed that Russia has can- celed thousands of dollars worth of orders recently primarily because the Hawley-Smoot tariff act barred im- ports into the United States of goods made by forced labor. If Russia can’t sell to us, she won’t buy from us, and | there is no forced labor in Russia. “The time has come for us to change our policy and recognize Rus- sia and get some of her trade. “Rugsia is the greatest. market in ,; the world,” Rep. Rainey continued. “Covering one-sixth of the earth's surface and with 160,000,000 people to whom we could sell things, but we won't admit that it exists. | “It is short-sighted statesmanship that keeps us from selling goods in Russia and it is up to the admin- istration to recognize that nation. We a Chamber of Commerce says: “Keep Faith With Wilmington.” All over the city, on street cars, on bill boards, in store windows, wherever one goes, the signs cry “Keep Faith | With Wilmington,” as though by the very repetition of this slogan, the workers might forget their hunger. But no matter how many times or how often the bosses of Wilmington find it necessary to beg the workers to “Keep Faith With Wilmington,” the hungry people, facing misery, starvation, and evictions, will never have faith with Wilmington or the United States and its government, which allows such suffering while the duPonts, the Warners, and the rest of the rich, wallow in their luxurious homes. Three Cents a Day “Relief” ‘There are many workers receiving not one penny from the Mayors Un- employment and Relief Committee. There are some receiving THREE CENTS A DAY in relief. Many work- ers’ children have no clothes in which to go to school, many babies are without milk. Many workers are told by the relief investigators that they do not need relief, just, because they happen to work a day in a month or so. Hundreds of workers are forced to move from their homes. One old couple after living in a house for 20 years, and paying rent all these years, were forced to va- cate their home for non-payment of rent. Many workers live on the dumps over Market Street Bridge, and eat from the garbage pails. Two workers in Wilmington committed suicide about a week ago because they could find no jobs. The Mayors Unem- ployment and Relief Committee says it must cut down on expenses, so it cuts down on the three days a day given to the unemployed. Not by any chance would it cut down on the sdlaries paid to the ward heelers and their hangers-on who hold “po- sitions” with the Relief Committee. Workers are forced to move from their poor homes to still poorer homes. One family in a room, two families in a room, three and four families in a small house, often with- out food and fuel, this is how the workers of Wilmington are forced to a Wiimington Workers Open Fight on Hunger May First live. First City of First State j This is a picture of the “First City of the First State,” as Wilmington proudly proclaims itself! This is a Picture of the high standard of living | of the American workers, which Hoo- ver boasts about. And the Chamber } of Commerce tells eus KEEP FAITH WITH WILMINGTON! Keep faith with what? With the misery, star- vation and oppression suffered by the workers? What has Wilmington and its bosses done for the workers that they should keep faith and continue to swallow the rotten lies handed out by the bosses and their newspapers? The workers will keep faith with themselves and their organizations. May First is celebrated throughout the world by the workers as a day of struggle. On this day, workers of the entire world demonstrate their Solidarity against war, hunger, and Tacé oppression. Throughout the world, the Communist Party is lead- }ing the workers in demonstrations against the governments which op- pose them, Only in one country, the Soviet Union, does May First hail a victory for the working class. Only in So- viet Russia do the workers live like human beings; there everyone has a job, wages are being increased and hours of work shortened; there the workers enjoy every advantage hith- erto enjoyed by the class which op- pressed them. In the Soviet Union, under the leadership of the Commu- nist Party, the workers overthrew the system which oppressed them, and are now building a socialist so- ciety. They own and produce every- thing and run industry for their own | benefit, while the rest of the world suffers a breakdown in industry, one bank failure after anotner, and a complete collapse of the entire capi- talist system, Wilmington Workers! Celebrate May First at the John Reed Club headquarters, 301 W. Sixth St. (en- transe on Tatnall St., second floor) on Sunday, May First at 4 p.m. A prominent speaker will speak on May Banker and Congressmen Ask Trade Relations With USSR | the New York Times reports “grow- | | States hunger government has three recognize a revolutionary junta in| South America two or three days aft-| er it has won an uprising.” Yes they do. But these juntas are usually organized by American imper- ialism, while the Russian Revolution was against imperialism and capital- ism CHINA RED ARMY ADVANCING IN KIANGS! AREA Canton Militarists Fear Uprising in City Despite frantic appeals from the defeated Kuomintang militarists in Fukien Province for military aid against the victorious Chinese Red Army operating in that province and the insistence of the United States government that Canton send troops | against the Red Army, it is not likely that the Canton authorities will dare to withdraw any large number of troops from the city of Canton. The Canton wing of the Kuomintang is} living in daily fear of an uprising by the revolutionary workers of the Canton area in support of the- Chi- nese Red Army and for the -over- throw of the Kuomintang tools of the imperialists. A Shanghai dispatch to ing unrest’? among the Canton work- | ers, In addition, the Crinese Red Armies in Kiangsi Province are ex- erting increasing pressure against the Canton “Red Suppression” troops. The dispatch says: “Large-scale Communist opera- | tions have already been reported | along the Kiangsi-Fukien border as | well as in Fukien, and Canton is finding its hands tied through the | fear that lawless elements in Can- ton might exploit the opportunity and seize the city if the Kuomin- tang armies were transferred from the East River to the harrassed Fukienese.” An Amoy dispatch to the New| York Times reports that 24 foreign imperialist warships are in that port.| Amoy is only a few miles from Changchow, an important industrial city with one million population, which was captured last week by the victorious Chinese Red Army under General Sun. Martial law has been declared in Amoy. The imperialist warships have their guns trained on the city, in an effort to intimidate the revolutionary workers and to prevent the capture of Amoy by the Chinese Red Army, The United warships at Amoy. Four U. S. de- stroyers and a submarine mother ship are being rushed to Amoy from Chefoo, North China, The Japanese and British are reported to be also} | other European }of the Européan countries. | tects rushing additional warships. The United States government has | ordered the Kuomintang betrayers of China to speed troops to~Amoy to| prevent the capture of the port by| the Chinese Red Army should it try | to do so, The American and other} imperialist warships are there for} direct armed intervention against the | revolutionary worker-peasant masses | in the event that the Kuomintang authorities are unable to held the} city by themselves. | | MASS ORGS ADVERTISE Your meetings Your ‘halls Your “affairs” Your demonstrations in the First and what it means io the workers! a A Germany, France, Switzerland, Austria and Other Countries e NEW YORK.—Mrs, Ada Wright, mother of Andy and | Roy, two of the framed-up Sx ottsboro Negro bo} willl gail at midnight, Wednesday, April 27, on the S. S. Hamburg, for a ; tour of Europe in connection with the world-wide mass fight for the Scottsboro boys. Mrs. Wright has been invited to the German Red Aid. She will be ac-/ companied by J. Louis Engdahl, na-|07 # world-wide scale for May 1 International Scottsboro Day. Mrs. Wright and Engdahl will tour not only Germany, but Switaerland, France, Czechoslovakia, Austria and countries. A tte- mendous Scottsboro defense move- meént is already in existence in most Its ef- have been felt by the ruling class lynchers of this country as evidenced in the reguést of the U. 8. State Department to Gov. B. M. Mil- ler of Alabama for “information” on the Scottsboro Case The action of the State Department followed re- ports from consular agents in many European cities of protest dem- jonstrations of workers and students in front of the consulates. The dem- onstrators denounced the Scottsboro lynch verdicts and demanded the re- lease of the innocent Scottsboro boys In many cases, the windows of the U. §S. Consulate buildings were smashed by the indignant workers in protest against the persecution of the Negro masses by American imperia’ ism. Similar demonstrations have occurred in many cities in Latin America and in South Africa, China, ete. A powerful Scottsboro defense movement exists in the Soviet Un- ion where millions of workers have voiced their indignation against the recent action of the Alabama Sup- reme Court upholding the lynch verdicts against seven of the cight boys who were sentenced to burn in the electric chair at the original mock trial at Scottsboro. ELECTION MASS RALLY HELD IN OKLAHOMA CITY OKLAHOMA CITY, April 26—Over three hundred workers packed every available space of the court room on its |the third floor of the County Court House last Thursday to hear plans for putting the Communist Party on the ballot-in Oklahoma. All of the workers present pledged themselves to do all ‘they could by circulating petitions for signatures. The officials fearing to let the Par- |ty on the ballot in the state have set April 30 as the final date of filing signatures. Op or before thi- date there must be filed with the secretary of state 5,000 signatures and the intention of candidates to run. The speakers at the meeting were J. I. Whidden and A. W. Berry, Ne- gro worker, who stressed the im- Portance of putting a workers’ ticket on the ballot in the coming elec- tions in order to expose the dema- gogues and politicians of the capital- ist parties. Before the meeting was over wort was received that Mooney was de- |nied @ pardon by Rolph. A resolu- tion was adopted to the California governor stating that the workers would organize million strong for the forcing through mass pressure the freedom of Mooney and all class war prisoners. All of the workers who could work full time from now until the 30th were asked to an organizational meeting the following night at which time the District Organizer, Paul Cline, would be present. ORDER YOUR MAY a. DAY Buttons Through your District Office Send Money With Order $20.00 Fer Thousand COMMUNIST PARTY, U. & & P. O. BOX 87, STATION DB. NEW YORK, N. Y. ert When the Winter Winds Begts / to Blow hier hu bera: toon Camp } Nitgedaiget ‘otel—you will alse R- it weil heated with steam Det water and many Sther ime provements, and fresh and * eapectally watt, prepared.