The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 9, 1932, Page 1

Hieortosr: it } ¢ ; ; L i y ' Workers and Working-Class Organizae Park Resolue tions, Protest the Melrose orker ist Party U.S.A. Massacre! Send Protest tions to Dr. Edw. G. Brust, Village 4 uni President, Melrose Park, Mlinois. (Section of the Communist International) OFF e Smetamtocteteierneaaie NEW YORK, MONDAY, MAY 9,192 | CITY EDITION ce Price 3 Cents 9 SHOT DOWN AS POLICE LINE UP JOBLES S IN CHICAGO SUBURB FOR MACHINE GUN MASSACRE Prganize to Smash This Murder Terror Against Workers! re PARK has its unity of police, gangsters and legionnaires, This unity has been christened in the blood of workers. Melrose Park takes its place with Dearborn as the scene of massacre of unarmed workers. One is the bailiwick of Henry Ford—the other that of the American Can Company millionaires, American government is the government of their class, * The attack Friday on a workers’ demonstration in the Chicago sub- urb of Melrose Park dominated by the American Can Company was-car- ried out with a murderous frenzy even exceeding that of the Ford massacre, The police, company thugs and American legionnaires co-operated to bloodily break up a meeting ealled to protest against police brutality. The attack was preceded by open provocation—the arbitrary closing | of the hall by police. The attack was organized in advance. All evidence | confirms this. The workers were unarmed. They were laid low by machine-gun and revolver fire in the hands of mercenary murderers, ‘The police and their gangsters and American Legion allies constituted themselves executioners of workers exercising a legal and accepted right— that of meeting, protest and demonstration. The machine-gun shootings were carried out with the same cold- blooded fascist ferocity that has marked the gang murders in and around Chicago and elsewhere, It is clear that the alliance of police and gangsters against the work- ing class has been made openly. We have pointed out time and time again that gangsterism in the United States constitutes a fascist reserve for the capitalist class. The Melrose Park bloodfest shows clearly the bloody purposes of the police, gangster and American Legion alliance. This purpose is open armed terrorism with definite fascist aspects ‘against all workers organizing and fighting against the new wave of | wage cutting, starvation and suppression now sweeping through the | ‘tnited States. Lenin pointed out that the more developed “democracy” is the more danger there is of pogroms and terrorism against the working class. With praises for American capitalist democracy on their lips, with their press filled with eulogies of the “rights of the individual” in America, the capitalists and their organized murderers’ are proving that Lenin’s words apply with special force to the United States. The Communist Party and its members, singled out for the sharp- est and most ruthless attack, because of its leadership of the struggles of American workers, as in Chicago and its great industrial suburbs, has the duty of throwing all possible energy into organizing the entire working elass for mass defense against murderous terrorism and for a national drive directed against every form of terrorism and suppression. Such a campaign cannot be delayed. The life of the working class moyement, the whole struggle against imperialist war and the hunger program of the capitalists and their Wall Street government depends upon it It is to strangle in blood the rising struggles of the American working | class that such attacks as that in Melrose Park are organized. Organize in the decisive factories of basic industry. Build a solid foundation for the mass drive against the murder terror of the bosses and their government! MILLER SHOE STRIKE GROWS NEW YORK.—The I. Miller shoe ike has grown from the original Ogg strikers to 600, and the number bf strikers and their militancy has baralyzed the bosses, All strikers are loining the Shoe and Leather Work- frs Industrial Union of the Trade Uhion Unity League, The strikers were addressed at a mass meeting yesterday by a repre- sentative of the union and by mem~- bers of the strike committees at the Paris and Andrew Geller shoe fac- tories, also on strike. A call has been issued for all work- ers to help picket this morning at I. Miller Shoe Company, Andrew Geller, Elco and Paris shoe com- panies. Go directly to the picket lines, or to strike headquarters at the corner of Crescent Street and 434 Avenue, Long Island City. Take B. M. T. trains from Manhattan, > - LIES OF FR ENCH GOVT ® SCOTTSBORO DEMONSTRATIONS THRU. AIM TO STIR UP ANTI. OUT U.S. DEMAND BOYS’ FREEDOM. SOVIET WAR FEELING French Issue New Ver- sion to Hide White 3 Guard Act The French bourgeois and their police have come out with a new version of the assassina- tion of the French President, Paul Doumer, who died on Sat- urday of wounds inflicted by the fascist White Guardist, Dr. Paul Gouguloff. The new ver- sion is directed toward afford- ing French imperialism a pre- text for armed intervention against the Soviet Union. In the first confusion which fol- lowed the shooting of the French president the Paris police permitted the bourgeois press reporters to inter- view the assassin. All of these re- porters characterized Dr. Paul Gou- guloff as a White Guardist, on the | basis of his own admissions and of {his known anti-Soviet activities and | his authorship of a book against the! gieu and other French ministers an Soviet Union. These admissions were published in the French bourgeois press. Following the demand by L‘Huma- nite, organ of the French Communist Party, that the White Guards be ex-| Pelled from France, the French bour- | geois presé came out with a second version of the assassination, attémpt- ing to protect the White Guards who have Jong been supported and fi- nanced This report was to the effect that the assassin was “a foreign assassin.” It was evidently government-inspired, | | with the view of detracting public at- tention from the White Guards and directing it against other foreigners in Paris. Yesterday this second version was followed by still another version, in which Alexander Millerand, former president of France and bitter enemy of the Soviet Union, asserted he had “personal information” which “per- mits me to say in the most cate- goric way that the assassin belonged to the regular Bolshevist forces.” The chief of the French secret Police obligingly backed him up with a similar vague statement, devoid of all proof, but with the same aim of affording French imperialism with a (CONTINUED ON PAGE THRER) the French government. | ¢. I. Exposes French Claim That Assassin Is Communist By MYRA PAGE (European Correspondent of Daily Worker) MOSCOW, May —| The Soviet press today ‘publishes the following |statement of the Exec- jutive Committee of the Communist International in connection with the attempts of the French imperialists to utilize the assassination of the | French president by a Tsarist | White Guard as a pretext for armed | intervention against the Soviet Union. | “The Havas Agency, Berlin, re- ports that as a result of an impor- tant conference attended by Tar- the | official communique was issued de- claring the assassin‘ of President | Doumer of France is a member of | ‘Pan-Russian Party of neo-Bolshe- vist character inspired by the Third International’, “The Executive Committee of the Communist International protests | indignantly against this slanderous fabrication issued through the Ha- | vas Agency in an attempt to clear the White Guardists and place re- sponsibility for the provocative act WIRE PROTEST AT MELROSESLAUGHTER CHICAGO, Ill, May 8.—Hundreds of unemployed and employed workers were lined up against a wall Friday in Melr ar k, Hl., and sprayed with bullets from machine guns and revolvers in the hands of city police, American Legionnaires and gangsters. Nine workers were severely wounded by bullets, many were clubbed and over s xty were arrested. The wounded men are in the hands of the police and details are lacking as to the extent of their injuries, but the capitalist newspapers report that three are “probably fatally wounded.” WORKERS REPORT THAT SHOTS INSIDE THE JAIL HAVE BEEN HEARD. SCREAMS FROM THE ARRESTED WORK ERS HAVE BEEN HEARD IN THESTREET : OUTSIDE. , 4,000 Demonstrate in Harlem és CHICAGO, IIl., May 8.—Investigation, and Against Scottsboro’ Verdicts the evidence of the workers at the Melrose Park meeting shot up by police machine guns 1,800 March In Parade Demanding Freedom of Friday, prove absolutely that the police stories the Nine Negro Boys | pe ee rit pi whole affair was a deliber- = > —— ately planned attempt « ‘ i - NEW YORK.—Four yp pt at massacre of the un Harlem was! employed. thousand Negro and cobertied After the machine guns roared, and the white workers demon-| ground was rinkled with wounded workers, the capitalist y a parade through | Officials evidently began to worry about the political effects. strated at 110th St. and Fifth Ave. last Satur- Chicago. The demo: concluded |The Communist Party is in the field as the fighting repre- Bak Gt, | Sentative of the jobless and employed workers alike. Delegate with a 110th .St Ss day, ‘international day of| 1,800 workers marched in the |£T0m all over the country will arrive here May 28 for the Na . e, parade, with groups of young | tional Nominating Convention *— on . struggle against the infamous! yovkers ar sap Masia | Z 2 is Chica workers and ers in evidence. | of the Communist Party. The |!” the streets of this Chicago Scottsboro lynch verdicts and| against the continued impris- onment-of Tom Mooney. Reso-| lutions were adopted demand- ing the unconditional release of | the nine Scottsboro boys, of| (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) | Dood of jobless workers, shed |2UPUrb, cries out in protest against the system which the sh ers represent. The police and coun- ty officials are therefore trying d perately to misrepresent the whole situation. But here are the facts. Peruvian Crews Seize Two Protest Meeting. Tom Mooney, Orphan Jones, | Edith Berkman, Willlie Brown and other Negro and white victims of capitalist frame-ups and class jus- tice. The workers expressed their burning indignation against the new massacre by Chicago police of un- of the fascist Gorguloff on the shoulders of the Comintern, | “Apart from the fact that Gor- | guloff is one of the worst enemies of Communism as shown by his | pamphlet and statéments follow- | ing his arrest, the whole world | knows that the Communist Inter- |@™Ployed workers demonstrating | | national—being an international |é@inst starvation and for relief. | organization of the working class— | Vigorous protest telegrams were | in accordance with its program has |®dopted to be sent to the governor | | always rejected and now rejects |°f Ilinois and to Mayor Cermak of | | individual terroristic attempts. “(Signed) EXECUTIVE COMMIT- TEE OF THE COMMU- NIST INTERNATIONAL. “Pieck, Germany; Shields, Eng- |land; Manuilsky, Soviet Union; Shvabora, Czechoslovakia; Desru- meaux, France; Katayama, Japan; and Furini, Italy.” BERKMAN MASS MEET TONIGHT A mass meeting to send off the} delegation to Washington to demand} the immediate release of Edith Berk- | man will be held at Irving Plaza, Irv- | ing Place and 15th St., at 8 p. m. Anne Burlak, Maude White and Wil- lian Foster to speak. | Cruisers; Battle Government a> control he Peruvian Revolutionary sailors of two of the cruisers of were built | Bourgeois at press New Haven, dispatches Conn. report nine hours against the forces of the|by Peruvian Communists. | government. F After the sailors seized control of | rising of the exp rs and peasants, the government declared a| ashore to rally the workers. state of siege throughout the country | meantime, however, the government and instituted martial law, with bru-| had been warned of the uprising by | tal attacks against the toiling masses.! one of its spies among the seamen, The revolt started secretly just | who swam ashore to reveal the before midnight on Saturday, when j of the revolutionaries. the sailors on the cruiser Coronel Bolognesi overpowered their officers and took command of the cruiser. A similar uprising occurred at about the same time on board the flagship, the Almirante Granz. The only other vessels in the Peruvian Navy are a destroyer and three submarines. All has just recovered from wounds in- flicted in an attempt on his life, di- | rected the suppression of the out- | break. Infantrymen and harbor guards (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) | the cruisers, they sent a landing party | series of kidnappings and br In the | attacks on workers by police in the The meeting which was fired on was called for Friday, May 6, at 3 p.m., by the Unemployed Council a: International Labor Defetise 9 pre |Navy last Saturday and battled for | that the revolt was organized and led | test against the attack by police on the May First demonstration held Melrose Park, and to protest aga days following May Day. Lined Against Wall. A hall had been secured for the plans | meeting Friday, but at the last mo- Gen. Sanchez | ment the police were able to force Cerro, the ruling class president, who | its owners to close it to the workers, Hundreds of workers and jobless ar= rived, found the hall closed, and as- sembled in an open lot near by, There they were surrounded by about 100 police and local gangsters and (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) Denounce Melrose Park Shooting at Coliseum, Chicago Mav 13! Workers! Send Protests to Melrose Park ae Ea protest meeting was to be held, we Eyewitness Tells of fen ite — = antral * . along, two police cruisers sirens Machine Gun Shooting Screaming tear down the street. Im- By AN EYEWITNESS | mediately after come the fire de- CHICAGO, Ill.—Two blocks away|partment’s hose and ladder truck. | from the vacant lot in which the| We arrive opposite the lot. Hundreds | of people are crowded together. We run over to the lot and stop at the curb watching the police, dicks and gangsters running to and fro, brand- ishing their guns. I see one man armed with a long-barrelled Winches- ter, another with a sub-machine gun on his arm. They are herding the workers to the wall of a building on the side of the lot. The police dicks and gangsters form a cordon in front of about 100 workers who are crowded together to the wall. The last few are shoved into place with guns prodding their ribs and stom- achs. Then the police and their as- sistants step asde. ON HUNGER STRIKE On the other side of the lot is the fire department truck, Two firemen pull a hose off the truck, @ small stream of water begins to trickle out, They are too far away from the workers for the water to reach them. Then a man wearing a brown flannel lumber jacket takes his place near the firemen, and the stream of death begins. He rakes the huddled crowd of workers with his sub-machine gun. The police and dicks stand by and sce this Edith Berkman, organizer of the National Textile Workers’ Union, who is being held illegally by the immigration officials for deporta- — tion to fascist Poland, where sure death awaits her, went on a hun- | ger strike today in Boston, She is suffering with tuberculosis, which she contracted in prison. A mass murderer armed with the machine gun. I cannot believe what I see. In broad daylight, in the full sight of hundreds of people, unarmed, defenseless workers are lined up against a wall and mowed down with a hail of bullets. protest meeting in New York to- night will demand her immediate Pelense. most brazen, murderous attack. ‘They, make nol attempt to grab the The workers who are shot fall on| ing out of the torn flesh. We get) | the sidewalk. Two are lying in the| him into an automobile. He leaves| |Toad in full sight’ of everybody, Wel» pool of blood on the street, Here) try to pick up one of the men. We) is another worker lying in the door- | scream for help, The lower part of| way of the building, the same buld-| his leg hangs loosely. The shin bone ing whose wall had been used as the} is broken and bits of bone are stick-| slaughtering place for unarmed work- hospital fhile we were there, The| police came and we left. As I write this, 50 have been arrested and rine are in the hospital, all with ma-| ers, He is trying to stop the flow, of blood from the large wound in his| leg. A woman takes her silk scarf off and his leg is tied up. He is placed in a car and taken off to the| chine gun wounds. One of the work- ers is seriously wounded and in dan- ger of his life. He was shot in the groin, hospital. Seven workers were brought to the | OUTRAGES THROUGHOUT ING INCENDIARY WORK The National Civic Federation, with Matthew Woll, vice-president of the American Federation of La- bor, as its acting president, has launched a national campaign for more suppressive anti-working class laws a ndto justify such bloody attacks upon Communists and other workers as those at the Ford Plant and at the American Can Company Plant, near Chicago last Friday. Woll creates an alibi for gangsters and the underworld al- ies of the employers and bankers. He tries to picture Communists as criminals, An article eposing this | samign ie sbisbet 9p Rage & — eet S TURN TO PAGE THREE! LETTER SENT TO MEMBERS OF THE JUDICIARY COMMITTEES OF; \THE SENATE AND HOUSE/ % \ OF REPRESENTATIVES * ise By MATTHEW WOLL Acting President, The National Civic Federation Dear Sit: a There is enclosed, for your information, s report of @ survey which we have made of the outrages perpes Tis aot coment By or all of these outrages are the direct result of Communist or otlfr subversive ac tivity. But, so many of them point clearly to such origin that the questions are raised. “Is not this situation the result of organized effort under contro! of master minds? And if $0, who are they?” It is hardly reasonable to as- members of the Senate and House Judiciary Committees —the latter now having before it, I am informed, certain he’ Department of Justice fe subversive mavements hess prompt ant va portant give our Government this needed power. the United States will continue impotent to defend itself azarnst any ot all forces ct \SBitet yon to surpor suitable legislation to remedy this dangerous situation . Very truly yours, Acting, President (Floors 48 and 49, R.CA. Tower, New York City SS Apel. 27.1982, 0°