The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 7, 1932, Page 1

y WORKERS OF THE WORLD,’ UNITE! Daily, Central Org. ° orker Cacia Party U.S.A. » @) : ‘(Section of the Communist International) Make May 7 A Day of Struggle for the Freedom of the Scotts- boro Boys and Tom Mooney. Vol. IX, No. 109 a Entered as second-class matte! at New York, N. Y.. under it the Post Office of Marck 3, 1879 NEW YORK, SATURDAY, MAY 7, 1932 CITY EDITIO —s Price 3 Cents PROTEST SCOTTSBORO VERDICTS! DEMONSTRATE TODAY! San Francisco Police Help Japanese to Recruit Wh N. Y. WORKERS 10 TAKE STREETS TODAY 10 DEMAND Ala. Court Says No Stay of Execution for Scottsboro Boys After June 24th GANGSTERS _TERRORIZE NEGROES: ite Guards for Anti-Soviet War Tsarist Shoots French President in Effort to Decision Made In Order to Prevent Fight Being Carried Through U S. Supreme Court . Which Meets In October FREEDOM OF 9 NEGRO BOYS Main Demonstration to Begin at 2 o’Clock in) Harlem; Mass Organizations Call | WIN BOSTONSpeed Anti-Soviet War For Giant Turnout NEW YORK—Today is interna- tional day of struggle against the murderous Scottsboro lynch verdicts and the infamous Rolph decision sentencing Tom Mooney to die in prison. Millions of workers in Am- erica, in Europe, South Africa and China will take the streets today in| tremendous demonstrations for the unconditional release of the nine innocent Scottsboro boys, of framed- | up Tom Mooney and all other vic- tims of class justice held in the cap- italist dungeons. In New York, the central demon- stration will take place in Harlem, starting at two o'clock from 145th St. and Lenox Avenue, and marching through the streets of Harlem to Fifth Avenue and 110th Street where the demonstration will conclude with speeches of welknown working-class leaders exposing the Scottsboro and Mooney frame-ups. ‘Thousands of Negro and white workers will take part in it. Scores of working-class organization in the city have endorsed the demonstration and called upon their membership and the working-class as a whole to support the mass fight which alone can stop the murderous hands of the Alabama lynchers and force th erelease of the Scottsboro youths. Among these or- ganizations are the Trade Union Unity Council, the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union, the League of Struggle for Negro Rights, the Communist Party. The demonstra- tions are arranged by the Interna- tional Labor Defense, the organiza- | | tion defending the boys. Bronx workers will hold a big | demonstration at Sheepshead Bay and Jerome Avenue at 7 o'clock this evening, and another at Wyckoff and White Streets at 6 o'clock. Downtown workers will demonstrate at 7th Street and Avenue A at 11.30 and at Madison Square at 12.30. Many downtown workers will, how- ever march behind the banners of their organizations in the central demonstration in Harlem. In New Jersey, demonstrations will be held at Military Park, Newark, and at Perth Amboy at Smith and Elm Streets at. 7.30 p. m. and at) French and “Handy Streets, New| Brunswick, at 7 p. m. A series of open air meetings will be hed in the Fluton Street territory of Brownsville, with a mass meeting in the evening at the Howland Studid, 1660 Fulton Street, near Troy Avenue. Into the Streets for the Scottsboro Boys! DAY, May 7, the workers on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean, the working masses on every one of the five continents, will meet in giant The Alabama boss lynehers, through their | | State Supreme Court, are now trying to carry through the legal massacre of seven of the nine innocent Scottsboro Negro boys without States Supreme Court. - i June 24 is the date set for the legal murder‘ of. these| working-class youths. The appeal cannot possibly come before | the. S. Supreme Court before October. The Alabama Supreme Court in denying a further stay of execution is maintaing the | brazen denial of Negro rights which allowing time for the appeal to the United! Bosses and Gangsters) in Organized Attack On Negro Toilers | BULLETIN | BOSTON, Mass., May 6—A mass | outdoor rally protesting against the | attack by white gangsters on two | Negro girls and for the uncondi- tional release of Willie Benders, | Worker Exposes Recruiting of Tsarist Machine Gunners at Japanese Consulate California City Authorities Furnish Police | Guard to Sift Callers at Consulate to Make demonstrations to protest the intended murder of the nine Scottsboro boys. Today Mrs. Ada Wright, the mother of two of these innocent victims of lynch-law justice, addresses her first meeting of workers on European soil. Never since Frederick Douglass, the great Negro leader of the move- ment for the abolition of chatteb slavery, visited England in the 1850's, hhas there been a greater expression of the solidarity of the workers of Europe with the cause of the black toilers of the United States. While Mrs. Wright speaks to the workers of Hamburg, hundreds of thousands of workers in the United States will meet to express their de- termination to free the Scottsboro boys. With the most brazen and open cynicism, the Alabama Supreme Court has refused to grant a new stay of execution, beyond the 24th of June, although the court knows that the U. S. Supreme Court cannot hear the Scottsboro case until October. This means that the lynchers want to do these nine innocent boys to death while their appeal to a higher court is still pending! This means that unless the ‘workers force the Supreme Court to grant a further stay of execution, the boys will be burned.in the electric chair before further steps can be taken in their behalf! ‘We must remember that every court in the United States, from the lowest to the highest, is part and parcel of the bosses’ lynch-law system. ‘The events of the past few days in Hawaii, with the navy, the president and Congress hastening to the defense of four white lynchers of a native- born worker, throws a glaring light on the role of the U. S. government as an upholder and defender of lynch-law. Only a fighting “alliance of Negro and white workers, giant militant demonstrations, a flood of protest telegrams that will throw fear into the white rulers, the building of a powerful mass defense movement of the Negro masses. and black and white workers—these and these alone will throw fear into the hearts of the white lynchers and free the nine framed Scottsboro boys. ‘The roar of countless masses must drown the cries of the brutal lynchers. The hands of the masses must be clenched into one giant fist, that will tear the death sentence to shreds and will hurl away with the electric chair! ” Into the streets May 7! Protest the Scottsboro lynch verdict! Immediate and unconditional release of the nine framed Scottsboro boys! For a fighting alliance of Negro and white toilers! Death to the lynchers! Strike at I. Miller Shoe Co. Spreads to All Departments The strike at I. Miller Shoe Co. gains new forces from hour to hour. The first day of the strike registered nearly 300 workers. Yesterday the whole cleaning department walked ou tjust at the very time the boss at- tempted to hold them back with speeches and lies about the union. Island, on 48rd Ave., corner Crescent St. is alive with activity. At yes- terday’s meeting, a recommendation was adopted that all join the union. A special relicf committee was elected to establish relief. The strikers at Andrew Geller had a splendid picket demonstration yes- hhas characterized both the mock “trials” in the lower Scottsboro court and the decision of the Alabama Supreme Court. The International Labor Defense attorneys ar edemanding that the U. §. Supreme Court order a stay of execution to allow the review of the case by tha tcourt. All of the necessary papers for the appeal to the U. S. Supreme Court have been filed. The chief grounds on which the figh tis beingtaken to the U. S. Supreme Court are the insufficiency against the boys, the admitted fact that the original “trials” took place in a tense lynch atmosphere, and the exclusion of egroes from the jury. ‘Today is International Scottsboro Day “The whité and. Negro toiling test against this latest. manouver. of the’ Alabama ruling class by pouring into the streets in tremendous Scotts- boro demonstrations - throughout ‘the country! Protes tagainst the mur- derous lynch verdicts! Demand the unconditional release of all nine of the innocent Scottsboro boys! Build the mass fight of Negro and. white workers which alone can stop the bloody hands of the fascist Alabama bosses! All out into the Streets! Demonstrate for the freedom of the Scottsboro boys, of Tom Mooney, Edith Berman, Orphan Jones, Willie Brown, and the hundreds of other Negro and. white victims of boss frame-up and class justice! Demonstrations will be held in every important city and town of the United States, and tmscores of coun- Masses must make a thunderous pro- A fifteen per cent wage cut for all workers @## the United States Steel Corporation was announced yesterday. Last October the work- ers recevied a 10 per cent cut. Im the meantime various speed-up schemes have cut wages still lower. With the announcement of the 15 Per cent cut came a statement that if business does not improve soon “similar steps” would be taken. These cuts in the wages of work- | ers who are only putting in one or two days a week due to speed-up on top of the severe drop in pro- duction in th industry are not to stimulate business by cutting prices for competitive purposes. The BOSSES SPEED PLANS TO DEPORT FURRIER LEADER NEW YORK.—The United States government officials are exerting ev- ery effort to speed the deportation of Jack Schneider, militant leader of the New York fur workers, to fascist Roumania. At a hearing of the case in court yesterday Inspector McIntosh of the immigration service trotted in the red bogey and tried to prove that Schnei- der had no right in America because he was a member of the Needle Trades Industrial Union, which is a section of the Red International of Labor Unions. The real reason, however, for the government proceedings against Schneider were made clear to all in the court. The attempt to deport Schneider is part of the bosses vici- ous plan of forcing more wage-cuts tries in Europe, Asia and Africa. U.S. Steel Cuts Wages 15 Per Cent; Other Corporations to Follow United States Steel Corporation, a Morgan controlled corporation, says quite openly that the cut will not be passed on to consumers but the savings will be used to balance the income and expenditure. It is the custom for all corpora- tions in steel and other industries to take the leag of the U. S. Steel and a new sweeping wage cut drive is the immediate prospect for Am- erican workers. ~ No sooner did Wall St. hear of the wage cuts whieh will drive hundreds of thousands of workers deeper into the mire of starvation than stocks began to rise. The Moguls are preparing to feast. Two days ago the Journal of Commerce said that steel produc- tion will fall soon; this will mean according to the confession of the billionaire corporation, new wage cuts, When the hundreds of mil- Hons in profits were being raked in the workers were not included in corporation accounts. When the Profits cease to pour in they at- tempt to take it out of the workers. Only organization and strike can halt the wage cut tide, BUILDING TRADES FAKERS FORCE THROUGH BOSSES’ WAGE CUT The labor fakers of the Building Trades Council have finally succeed- ed in breaking the agreement be- tween the elevator constructor bosses and the fakers controlling the Ele- vator Constructors’ Union in involv- ing a 15 per cent wage cut, the Coun. cil fakers demanding the full cut of 25 per cent to 40 per cent as an- nounced by their masters, the Build- ing Trades Employers’ Association, thus, clearing the way for ordering all the building trades workers now » brother of one of the girls, and for the Scottsboro’ boys’ will be held | tonight at-8 o'clock at Hammond | and Tremont Streets. | Pp 7 ae ar BOSTON, May 5.—Gangsters and) other underworld characters swooped! down upon the Negro section of town | SAN FRANCISCO, white bosses’ program of lynch-law| i $ . by attacking Negro women. The | er al of this cit Negro workers are not knuckling) Guards for service ¢ under to these vicious attacks, but) are brayely defending themselves. Guy (‘Kid Morgan”) Perrelli, well-| of course, but neverthe known Boston gangster, stepped up to| two Negro women and insulted them. | ‘When they showed that they resented | yer ig his.remarks, he knocked one of them | and Governor down.’ Negro , tothe | Scene in defense of the women. Perelli has not been arrested, al-| though ‘he has been positively identi- fled by the women as their attacker. | ‘The white boss press has been try- | ing to-present this affair, as a “ra eral’s office at 22 Batte (CONTINUED By J. W. Sure Only White Guards Gain Entrance May 6.—A San Fran- cisco worker, true to his class, has discovered here yesterday and carried out the| that Kanama Wakatsugi, Japanese consul-gen- | y, is recruiting Czarist White s machine gunners against | | the Soviet Union—in violation of the U. S. laws, | less with the assistance of San Francisco’s police under Mayor Rossi! Rolph, the jailer of Tom Mooney. | =-On April 19, this worker, chancing to be 6 the stieet near the Japanese consulate én-| ry, encountered a White ON. PAGE FIVE) riot.” Like all so-called “race riots,’ the matter shows itself to be in reality a deliberate, planned, brutal attack by bosses and gangsters upon the Negro workers. | The attacks on the Negro section} ‘of Boston are part of the attempts/ Of the bosses to’crush the growing | unity of the white and Negro work-| ers, to crush the mounting struggles | Soviet Consul Torture of at Harbin in Sharp Protest Against . of the toilers. This attack upon the Negro workers. of Boston is a direct expression of the fear of the bosses because of the state hunger march of May ist and 2nd. In this great hunger march were over 10 per cent of Negro work- ers The marchers demanded that all discrimination in relief, against the Negro unemployed, be stopped. On every delegation elected by the hunger marchers was at least one Negro worker. The delegation stayed in a Negro hall, because no other hall would allow them to remain to- gether. The Boston Hunger March was a splendid demonstration of soli- darity between black and white workers. | In this struggle, the interests of Negro workers of Boston. White workers must come to the defense of the Negroes, must organize joint de- fense committees of Negro and white The white workers must be prepared to give their very lives, if necessary, in order to protect the Negroes from these organized attacks of the bosses and the underworld. the whole working-class is with the| to defend the Negroes from attack. | Soviet Citizens | (Cable By Inprecorr) Consul at Harbin, lodged a vigorous protest with the Japanese and their puppet Chinese | MOSCOW, May 6.—M. Slavutsky, Soviet, Says He Sought Re- venge Because France Delays Attack (Cable by Imprecorr) PARIS, May, 6.—After the mur- derer of the French President Dou- mer was arrested he declared before journalists that his name was Kor- dilov and that he was charman of @ patriotic white guard association. He said that he committed the at- tempt to murder with the view of revenge against the French govern: ment because the latter granted | eredits to the Bolshevists instead of declaring war. The bourgeois | press is now zealously spréfding a second vetsion which is 6btiously government inspired accotéing te which the assassin is “a foteign assassin” with the view of détract: ing public attention and ééficen- trating it against foreignéfs, a number of whom have already been insulted and attacked on the boule- vards, L'Humanite has issued a special edition pointing to the direct re- sponsibility of the government, which. for years has encouraged and protected Russian whites, who ate Provocative instruments in the hands of French imperialism. | L’Humanite demands the immedi- ate expulsion of the Russian whites: | President Paul Doumer of France was shot and wounded yesterday by 2 Tsarist White Guard by the name of Paul Gougoloff. The French presi- | dent was critically wounded by | two of five bullets fired by the Tsarist and is reported to be | dying. | In a statement made after | his arrest, the White Guardist ad- mitied planning the assassination of |} the French president in revenge be~- | cause he considered that the French government in Manchuria, in connection with! the wholesale arrests and bestial tortures of | Soviet citizens. | Among the Soviet citizens arrested and tortured by the} Japanese and their White Guard allies is one of the secretaries | of thé administration of the Chinese Eastern Railway, Haiduck! | together with his wife Ovtchinikoy, The favorite method of torture is 9—————_________ pouring a solution of tobacco juice | Union. Despite the brutal tortures | into the nostrils of the arrested per- |f the prisoners, the Japanese have | |Sons. All of the arrested have been | totally failed to obtain any evidence | | subjected to this and other methods | that even remotely implicates the | of torture, including being beaten | Soviet Union or its citizens. into unconsciousness, in the effort to The leading role of the Japanese force statements from them which |in these arrests and torture of So- | would falsely implicate Foviet citi-|Viet citizens is clearly shown by the | zens and the Soviet Union in terror-|fact that the arrested persons are | istic acts in Manchuria. first taken to the headquarters of the | Ghias tavicrtsttn hots ave actu | Japanese military police in the base- | carried out by the White Guards ment of the Japanese Consulate under the directions of the Japan-|WHere the first examinations are ese in order to afford the latter with | ™#de- |the arrested Soviet citizens went on | the strike, far below the official scale as demanded by the Building Trades Employers’ Association. The membership of the unions can now clearly see what a gigantic swindle was being put over on them by Hal- kett and his gang during the past three months when they spread the false idea that the bosses would not demand anything more than a 10 per cent wage cut. Another phase of the wage-cut be- |a hunger strike in protest against their illegal arrests and brutal tor- ture, and demanding a statement of the charges against them and trial in a normal court. The local press was prohibited from mentioning the | strike. The Soviet Consul, Slavutsky, in | | @ pretext for attacking the Soviet} On May 4, one hundred and six of | | | | to the jobs where they have instruct- ed the workers gathered there to go| Protesting the arrests pointed out home, thus preventing any picketing | that former complaints regarding of the jobs. This means that the| ‘he violent activities of the White | Guards against Soviet citizens have | anarchist. imperialists were hesitating in carry- irig'out their plans for armed inter- vention against the Soviet Union. “A dispatch to the New York Stn quotes him as saying: “He shot President Doumer, he said, because he wanted revenge for the French refusal) to intervene in Russia against the Bolsheviki.” Questioned by the police, Gougolof® Stated that he was formerly a Cos- sack, that two years ago he formed what he called the Society of Russian Fascists, and that he had gone to Paris from Monaco on . Wedn night especially’ to undertake the assassination. The French Ministry of the In+ terior is trying to cover up the political nature of the crime by declaring that, first, Gougoloff was not in full possession of his faculties and, second, that he is a Russian All the Paris dispatches to the bourgeois press admits Gov- goloff’s identity as a Tsarist White Guard. Gougoloff admits that he was angry at.the delay by the French imperiai ists in carrying out their understand- ing with the White Guards for im- Mediate armed intervention agains) the Soviet Union, * UMW Local Condemns Green’s Attack of. Jobless Insurance membership must take matters into| their own hands, and fight for spe- | cial membership meetings and mass meetings to take up actual strike activities, elect rank and file strike committees and organize mass picket lines with picketing signs at ihe jobs. If the fakers and bosses can suc- been ignored by the Japanese and their puppet government in Man- churia. He declared that the White Guards were deliberately seeking to worsen the Manchurian situation in order to provoke war between Japan and the Soviet Un- ion. The Consul demanded nor- United Mine Workers of América, | local 3543, Benton. Ill, at iis lest regular meeting held on May 3, 1832, adopted a protest resolution against the action of William Green attack- ing the New York A. F. of L. Com~ mittee for Unemployment Insurance. wv trayal now being enacted is the so-|ceed in putting over this cut with- + |The resolution in part reads: “We Tifth floor are be mal ison treatment for the ar: ie resolutios Ps presieg Heh cer Sook seinen hat piling vps tg sd ind ie oe ri sidd a Pig ie ea ee pails ea haa ie rope cee He called arbitration move started by|out a real struggle by the rank and pears giants Ss citizens and permis- lf ly endorse the referendum for the editilns anbthar day, the:-whole: face bog ictal « member of in ia cel Re x bn aatwind gt eb AVeei shade a! thal: goats the fakers of the Bricklayers, Masons | file a whole series of cuts looms for! sion for representatives of the | Unemploym: Insurane? tory will he ‘tle. up, iat ot netie eters: wn Pigtar terion! petdd tana mil on Wednesday, May 4, when they |*D¢ Plasterers Union over the heads|the future and wages of $5 and less! Soviet Consulate to visit the pri- | Bill and go on record condemning fl pretended to ask a compromise from of the membership who have gone on|a day. soners. He demanded that the the action of ¥ Grom. THIS ‘The spirit of the strikers is very high and militant. Yesterday noon the strikers carried through the most impressive picket demonstration in front of the factory. About 200 workers marched in line proud and determined. ‘The strike headouerters (m Long dressed the Geller strikers and were received with great enthusjasm. ‘The Elco and Paris shoe strikers are solid. All shoe workers are called to come for unemployment insurance. International Labor Defense law- yers have planned to appeal the case to a higher court. The judge, working hand in glove with the fur shop own- ers, has allowed only eight days for to the picket lines on “Monday at 6.30 in the morning. the defense attorneys to prepare the appeal, a a eaten TE C. G. Norman, head of the bosses’ organization, in order to hide their treacherous maneuvers against any compromise cut, such as the ele- vator constructors, and to put into effect the full cut of 25 per cent to a per cent from wages paid before record against any wage cut what- ever, the membership acting against arbitration on the ground that 1t means a sell-out of their conditions to the bosses. ‘The officialdom of these unions have been sending business agents All building trades workers, those who have been working before the | strike and the unemployed, should unite their forces at the following jobs for mass picketing early Mon- Japanese take action to stop the provocative activities of their White Guard allies, The Soviet Consul declared that the responsibilty for continuation of these provocations will rest fully on the Manchurian (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) authorities. ood | local union pledge: { to do every thing in its power for the | tion of the Workers. Unemploymem ag pied Bill. Similar resolution wes adopted at the Musicians Protective Union, lo- cal 219, meeting held on Mav ®