The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 9, 1932, Page 3

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, MAY 9, 1932 BORN MASSAC ~ ose WOLL’S CONNECTION WITH AMERICAN CAN, DEARB Police Guards at U. S. Consulates Fail to Stop A | the United States Worki Scottsboro Protests Abroad ctivities in the United States Working | Chives Workers Micet May 13, Score Sho ‘The largest hall in the Coftisssgor: mass meeting of protest against the meeting will be held May 13. oyed Council and Internationa! Labor 2 nation-wide campaign of protest against the Melros® Hold demonstrations and mass meetings te his terror to the workers. Send resolutions and to The Daily Worker and to Dr. Edward Brust, Westlake Woll’s ‘Evidence’ of Communist ‘Popular’ Appeal for MoreAnti- Class Legistlation Thousands of Hamburg Workers Cheer Mrs. | ‘ Ada Wright, Mother of Two of the Scottsboro Boys 1. Nov Ban it Gang Terrorizes é Fireman Tajared at Pope at Pope Wf 2 Mill; Explosion Tears Out (If Floor Columns-Firemen Vind Che - divi ae protest t Party and terror WRECKED | BY BLASTS meaning of Pouring in miele waves into ‘the streets, last Saturday, | ers and poor farmers militantly ex-¢ pressed their firm solidarity with the persecuted Negro masses of this coun- | try in the struggle against national oppression and ruling-class terror. The demonstrations were called by the International Red Aid and its sections, which set aside May 7 as) an international day of struggle against the Scottsboro lynch verdicts, | for the unconditional release of the | , boys and of Tom Mooney and other Jf class--war prisoners. j Rouse By Chicago Massacre. In the United States, the demon- Tes Men io Band Becaage Ghela Wil One Ciiaes and Drive Him to Cover; ‘Leet Te $4,600, : 1. Neaver | millions of toilers throughout the world indignantly protested peopel sh Unexploded Sticks of Dyna- ge atewatton | | ' cose Park, Ill, also to EB. Whalen, president of Cook County’ against the murderous attempt of the Alabama ruling class ane orn Pe Ik mite Set in Beams to Destroy posers aie bases aye : Regattas Lene bidiegeh riage ger mL) to legally lynch the nine innocent Scottsboro Negro bo} sarbea ee” Sprinkler System-Copper Still * ng of 500 workers held at Seventh St. and Avenue B NewYork: ad” Fighting for the right of the streets in many places, the work- aor | Teen aa] on First Pr loor of Plant | from Termont Workers Club open forum, New York Oty. ” “aa | Embassy on Bendlerstrasse and the | Consulate General on Bellevue strasse in anticipation of demon- strations announced in the Com- munist papers.” $1,500,000 Blaze Weeks as. Plant Of Pennsy | [3 (10 FIRES?) + LOSS MONDAY | | A {AT MGREGOR leGregor Cotton Oil Mid Is) Destroyed Shortly After 2) Putting Communists On the Ballot in Middle West MILWAUKEE, Wi s—Pull_ prepara; While preparing for the Présiden- tions are being made in Wisconsin for | tja1 campaign and for the huge mazs the National Nominating Conventio| meeting for Comrade Foster, Juns ad the fall electio campaign in the State of Wisconsin. Calls have been | 5th, in Milwaukee, the work is pro- | sent out already in several cities for | ceeding full speed to put # full state tieee of the Its oem Life against y*bich our Government. Lacks power to p or all forces seeking to destroy it. German Police Fire On Demonstration, | In Chemnitz, Germany, police bru-| tally fired into the Scottsboro demon- | stration, wounding a dozen workers, | The workers fought back fiercely against the police attack. Three work- + I enclose 9 list of the members of thos the request that you write any er all of th nid in bringing about the desired legi Very truly yours, — A AERTS Seraesrese strations were given added signifi- cance as workers on their way to the rallying points learned of the mur- derous machine gun massacre of un- employed workers at Melrose Park, Chicago, by the police. In additions to resolutions protesting the Scotts- boro and Mooney frame-ups and de- manding the release of these victims of capitalist class justice, resolutions were adopted denouncing the new police massacre of unemployed work- ers demanding bread and unemploy- ment relief and social insurance. Telegrams denouncing the massacre were sent by many meetings to the governor of Illinois and Mayor Cer- mak of Chicago. In Hamburg, Germany, thousands of German workers cheered Mrs. Ada Wright, mother of two of the Scotts- boro boys. Mrs. Wright, who is tour- ing Europe in connection with the world-wide mass defense of the boys, was the main speaker at the Ham- burg demonstration. J. Louis Eng-| dah], who is touring with Mrs. Wright, also addressed the huge dem- onstration. Two days before, a mon- ster demonstration of Hamburg work- ers greeted Mrs. Wright on her ar- rival on the SS. Hamburg. In Ham- burg and other German cities, the American Consulates were surrounded by strong police detachments, in an effort to block the demonstrations against American imperialism, which is trying to murder the Scottsboro boys. In Berlin, the American Embassy was also strongly guarded. A dis- patch to the New York Times re- ports: “Berlin was reminded this after- noon and tonight of the impending execution of eight Negroes at Scottsboro, Ala., by police detach- | ments guarding the United States ers are reported in a critical condi- tion. A dispatch to the New York} Times tries to hide the nature of the demonstration as a protest against | the crimes of American imperialism against the Negro people. The dis- | patch attempts to confine the dem- onstration to a protest against the reduction of the dole. Cuban Workers Demonstrate, Havana workers demonstrated in front of the Havana Post, an American owned newspaper, shout- 4 ing: “Down With Yankee Imperial- ism,” “Free the Nine Scottsboro Boys.” A New York Times dispatch | reports: “They threw stones and other} missiles and shouted insulting re- marks against ‘Yankee imperialism’ in their demonstration against the impending execution of eight young Negroes at Scottsboro, Ala.” In France and other European countries and throughout Latin America strong police guards were placed around the American Em- bassies and Consulates in an ef- fort to block the expression of the indignation of the toiling masses against the brutal terror of Ameri- | can imperialism against the Negro people. In many cities, the work- ers fought with the police for the right of the streets, for the right to express their solidarity with the oppressed Negro masses. Mass organizations, get into revolutionary competition toe save Daily Worker. Prepare for the Straw Vote on the Bonus! ON TASKS OF THE REVOLUTIONARY _ TRADE UNION ORGANIZATIONS IN WORK AT Resolution of Eighth Se of the Red International of Labor Unions (Continued from Saturday's issue) DIVISION OF WORK A division of labor, efsuring the drawing into the work of all the members of the revolutionary trade union must be arranged within the general factory group and within its shop, brigade and shifts. In the initial stages of the activity of the revolutionary trade union factory group, when it still consists of but ® few comrades, this division of la- bor should bear only the most primitive character (organizer, treasurer, etc.). Later on, every fac- tory group should build up its elec- tive and collectively working bu- reau, which will lead the day to day work of the group and which will control the fulfillment of the decisions adopted and the direc- tives of the higher organs. As the factory group becomes consolidated and widened organizationally, the following most imporiant branches of factory trade union work which should be divided among the mem- bers of the Bureau and the best militants, must be provided for: 1) connection with the respective organs of leadership—local (dis- SPEND YOUR SPRING Moyes ead Camp Ntgedaiget it well heated with steam heat, het wat and many other im- provements, The food is clean ‘and fresh and especially well pre) SPECIAL MATES FOR WEEK. ENDS 1 Day $3.00 2 Day 5.50 3 Days 300 For further information cal] the COOPERAT! OFFICE 2800 ‘East ‘Tel.—Esterbrook 8-140 THE FACTORIES « ssion rion of Central Council trict) and connection with the | shop, shift and brigade groups—as a rule, these duties must be laid upon the leaders of the factory groups and the shift, shop and bri- gade links; 2) a factory trade union newspaper; 3) the spreading of lit- erature; 4) a treasurer who should also direct the collection of mem- bership and other dues and sub- scriptions; 5) leaders of corre- sponding auxiliary factory organ- izations formett by the revolution; ary trade union group; 6) leaders of the revolutionary trade union oppositions and the factory organ- izations of the reformist, Christian unions. The leaders of every one of these branches of work must organize temporary and permanent commis- sions and brigades for the fulfill- ment of their tasks, drawing into them both the members of the groups and those in sympathy with the revolutionary trade union movement. The most important day to day duty of every member of a factory revolutionary trade union group is the constant and persistent recruiting of workers in the ranks of our union. In waging mass recruiting campaigns, and applying the methods of persistent and individual education of sepa- rate workers, the factor® shop groups and sections must contin- uously widen their ranks both from ‘A M. by Blaze of an Un- ‘Take All Money hm Hand Machine Gun Bk Bandits‘ op, lie Wk local conferences on May 15th and|and congressional ticket, and scores May 22nd, which will elect part of | of candidates for state senatorial and the 50 delegates from the State to| state assembly and county offices, on Chicago, the balance to be sent from|the ballot. Committees will be sent mass meetings in many cities. The| Out to new territories, especially the | Milwaukee Conference will be held/| farming counties, to collect signatures ‘INNOCENT GANGSTERS:-- % Capture and Lo and Loot Town Pine River, Mina, Dee. . ng Rr Mie Du 9 (UP) Panag an dat, der, site sem machine ee sande Mokay ad — ‘CRIMINALCOMMUNISTS’ ala MATTHEW WOLL By BILL DUNNE REATION of a “popular” and receptive atmosphere for murderous attacks on workers is one of the main jobs of the propa- gandists of capitalism. - In the United States this is a highly hon- ored and highly paid occupation in capitalist circles. Matthew Woll, Ralph M. Easley and their colleagues of the National Civic Federation |Another Sample of Woll’s Slanders Against Workers | Sunday, May 22nd, 2:30 p.m., at|and mobilize for the state-wide Nom- Workers Center, 1207 North 6th| inating Convention held on June 26th Street. ‘in Milwaukee. wnat RTT Rano FIRE Fires Are aecarony sto. Tee MORE TERRORIST BOMBS IN MAIL, -FASCIST LEADERS IN U. S. WARNED ee ie (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONB) / jmembers of t he American Legion, jand with machine guns and revolv- jers trained on them, the workers | were forced to line up alongside the wall of a house. Shot Down. Suddenly, and without provocation, | Police started shooting with a sub- machine gun, and with pistols. Sev- eral wounded by the machine gun fell almost at once, and the other victims began to run. Machine gun fire and pistol shots followed them, | }and several more fell and were left | an Ona |lying in their pools of blood until) | Farkas be sistas: ‘women in the crowd ran back to them ss noms = }in spite of the danger of more shoot- ing, and gave first aid. The fleeing | | workers were clubbed as well as shot | | explosives Sent from Here to Consul at Cleveland. CHICAGO POLICE SEIZE PACKAGE Guard in Nation- wide Plot. Fears that the atx hombe found in the Eaaion, Pe, post ottiee yesterday were’ ealy |at, and many were arrested. Those known to be wounded are have set themselves the task of creating an alibi for the gang- sters, gunmen, narcotic peddlers and the underworld in general. The recent increase in crime whose curve rises as that of the crisis drops downwards—kidnappings, bank robberies, in- cendiarism, holdups—and even disasters like mine explosions and forest fires—are ascribed to Communists by these two provocateurs in their latest piece of stoolpigeon insolence. The blood of unarmed workers shot down Friday in Mel- rose Park near Chicago spurted in hot jets upon Matthew Name Leaders of Murder Gang Which Shot Down Workers CHICAGO, M., May 8—The names of some of those who led | and gambling joint owner, 22nd the atack on the workers in Mel-; rose Park are given by the Inter-/| national Labor Defense as follows: Dr, Edmund G. Burst, village | president, 518 N. 11th Ave. Tony Farino, operated a house of prostitution near Lake and | Wes Swanson, John W. Miller, Frank } |Vancheskoff, Paul Palos, Otto Schultz, J, Jacobson, J. Schulhofsky, ¥ jand John Wickstrom, George Re- Peter Urgo, confectionery owner | presas. Stories Don't Match. first story issued by Lieutenant Maggio declared that the | | workers flourished knives, fired pis- Ave. Al Miller, operates beauty par- lor, 15th and St. Charles Road, | The Legionnaire. : |tols and attacked and knocked over J. B. Rego, dentist, 161 Broad- | | Patrolman Bronze who carried a ma- way. Harry Young, gasoline station, | erties Union. | chine gun, and that the machine gun | Woll, vice-president of the American Federation of Labor and acting president of the Na- tional Civic Federation, and upon Ralph M. Easley, chair- man of the executive commit- tee of that anti-working class organization. Their open incitement against the Communist Party, their classifying of Communists and militant workers as criminals in their propaganda broadcast through- out the United States, attempting to identify Communists and unemployed and striking workers fighting against the Wall Street-Hoover hunger drive, with the crimes and outrages com- mitted by the underworld allies of capitalism, make them responsible for such blood baths for workers as that in Melrose Park, Illinois, last Friday. Accompanying a printed list com- piled from newspaper reports of dis- asters, crimes, etc., embellished with cuts of newspaper headlines (some of which we reproduce), totaling sev- eral scores of these incidents, Woll has sent a letter to the members of the judiciary commiitees of the Sen- ate and House of Representatives in which he says: “There is enclosed for your in- formation, a report of a survey we have made df the outrages perpe- trated....” “It is not contended that any or all of these outrages are the direct result of Communist or other sub- versive propaganda activity. BUT, SQ MANY OF THEM POINT CLEARLY TO SUCH ORIGIN THAT THE QUESTIONS ARE RAISED: “Is not this situation the result of organized effort under control of master minds? And if so, who among the unorganized workers and from the members of the re- formist, Christian, and other reac- tionary trade unions, It is of par- ticular importance to win to the side of the revolutionary trade union movement popular leaders of the workers and first of all the or- ganizers and leaders of strikes and other mass revolutionary action of the workers. Trade union democra- cy and self-criticism in the activity of the factory groups of the revo- lutionary trade union organiza- tions must be applied most widely are they? It is hardly reasonable to assume that all this is simply a record of sporadic happenings.” (Our emphasis.) One would think that even Woll and Easley, hypocritical as they are in their efforts to exonerate capital- ism and its gangster allies, and un- limited in their hatred of Commu- nists, would have some hesitation in mentioning such things as “bank lootings” as evidence against Com- munists. | The hanks have been looted from inside—by the masters of Matthew and consistently. “(To be Concluded) |, Woll and his associates in the execu- tion of Labor, The Federation Bank of New York City, of which Woll was one of the heads, was also “looted.” Workers and unions found themselves unable to get hold of some $12,000,000 they had carelessly entrusted to the same kind of individual who now try to divert attention fram the big looters working from inside the boards of directors of the hundreds of banks that have failed since 1929, The campaign of lies, slander and insinuation against militant workers jJaunched by Woll and Easley is an integral part of the war preparations of, Wall Street government. It coincides with the increase of unemployment—now over 12,000,000. It co-incides with the cutting off of even the miserable “winter relief” for hundreds of thousands of work- ers. It coincides with the 15 per cent wage cut announced by the Steel Trust. Tt coincides with the new wave of struggle in the coal fields against wage cuts. Finally, it coincides with the Ford massacre of unemployed workers in Dearborn and the mass shootings and jailings in Melrose Park. ‘The latest, propaganda offensive of the National Civic Federation with the American Federation of Labor leadership directly involved through Woll is intended, by the most servile and contemptible service to Ameri- can imperialism, to justify such out- rages against Negro and white work- ers as the Scottsboro case, to justify mass slaughter and jailings as in Dearborn and Melrose Park. It is intended to give “popular” at- mosphere for these bloody attacks, It is intended’ to be the “moral” justification for more suppressive Jaws against the Communist Party, the unions of the Trade Union Unity League and the entire working class. It is intended to furnish an alibi both for capitalism and its under- world criminals and to make easier the open consummation of the al- liance of the armed forces of Wall Street government, its local and state department with the gangsters and the fascist elements of the Ameri- can Legion against the working class, This latest step in the capitalist offensive must be exposed and its leaders discredited among the work- ers—especially in the local unions 23rd, at present a bootlegger, 131) 24th Ave. | Peter Metrik, jeweler, Legion-) naire, 152 Broadway. | Tony de Grazia, beer runner) and operator of gambling joint. F. K. Stryznecki, stool-pigeon, optician at 161 Broadway, and Village Treasurer. Arthur Leeseberg, chief of police, | 519 North llth Ave. | 20th and Lake, Legionnaire. Thomas McBreen, Republican candidate for state representative, represents Home Utilities Trust Co., and collects gas bills fer Pub- lie Service of Northern Ill. Anton Joncha, villagh trustee and manager of Oil Appliance Co., of Maywood. . Paul Rego, contractor, North 16th Ave, | | | | | of 914 (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) ' About 300 Negro workers were in the | parade, with another thousand Negro and Latin American workers march- ing on the sidewalks. ‘The parade was led by the Interna- | tional Workers Band, preceded by a line of Negro and white leaders of the revolutionary organizations in this district. From a loud speaker on | a truck, a Negro working-class leader shouted to the workers on the side-| walks to join the parade and demon- stration, An impressive feature of the parade were the organized sten- torian shouts of the workers, led by the worker at the loud speaker. The two main slogans were “The Scotts- boro Boys Shall Not Die!” “Negro and White, Unite and Fight!” These slogans were taken up not only by the marchers but by the crowds on the sidewalk and by many at the windows of houses along the line of march. Many of the workers marched be- hind the banners of their organiza- tions. Among the organizations rep- resented were the Irish Workers Club of Greater New York, the League of Struggle for Negro Rights, the To- bacco Workers Industrial League, the Council of Working Class Women No, 8, the Finnish Workers Club of Harlem, the Unemployed Council of Harlem, the Food Workers Industrial Union, the Esthonian Workers Club, the Communist Party, the Young Communist League, the Pioneers and the International Labor Defense under whose auspices the demonstra- | tion was held. } The slogans on scores of banners | Save Boys and posters attracted wide attention 4,000 DEMONSTRATE IN HARLEM ** @ AGAINST SCOTTSBORO VERDICTS | first story, in a special edition, de-| Justice Mean: and Lynching, Frame-up, War,” “Fight Against Imperialist War! Defend the Chinese People!” | | Honor Toussaint L'Ouverture! Save Scottsboro Boys! Demonstrate May 20!”, “Stop Legal Murder of Working- Class Boys!” “Only Mass Fight Can The demonstration at .110th Street and 5th Avenue was addressed by 1 Amiter, district organizer of the Com- munist Party, who sharply exposed the lynch character of the Wall Street government and pointed ou the con- | \accidentally began shooting as it lay jon the ground, and wounded the sev- en workers before it could be stopped. | \Sistant State’s Attorney whose statement was published evi- | jdently without first being made to fit jTepeats the lie that j opened fire with the machine gun, | Workers Unarmed. j Murder | mching and Boss | Terror Means to Drive Us to Hunegr- | This story was contradicted by As- Markham, that of Lieutenant Maggio. Markham the workers were armed but says that Bronze “in self defense”. And with these stories are con- ers whose stories were published be- realized the necessity of lying. For |example, the Chicago American in its tradicted by capitalist press report-/ fore the big capitalist political leaders | \ine Shot Down as Police Line Up Jobless ‘n Chi. Suburb for Machine Gun Massacre sentative of the American Civil Lib- McKenna was arrested by Lieutenant Maggio himself, taken for a ride, beaten up and thrown out of a ruhning car. He is in a hospital It will be seen that the machine gun fire on the workers Friday is the high point of a regular policy of mur- der, torturea nd terror by the Amer- ican Can Co. officials and gunmen in Melrose Park, by which these capital. ists think they can cow the jobless and stop the demand for unemployed insurance and relief. Lies of French Gov't ¥ Aim To Stir Up Anti- Soviet War Feeling | (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) pretext to immediately carry out its ‘long-known plans for armed inter- |vention against the Soviet Union French imperialism has been one of the most ardent supporters of the Police | Japanese aggressions in Manchuria | and war provocations on the Soviet | border. The Japanese in announcing their intention to attack the Soviet Union, have openly stated their ex- pectation of aid from France and its puppet states on the Soviet western frontiers. A Paris dispatch to the Saturday New York Herald Tribune stated that Gorbuloff, under questioning | of the police, admitted that he “had assassinated President Paul Don- mer in order that France might declare war on Russia. | “European states seemed favor- | able to Bolshevism,” the prisoner | finally declared, “so I decided to kill the president and cause France to declare war on Russia.” “The Russian said he was born in |1895 at Braviseala, Russia, in the Caucasus, and was trained as a Cos- sack, He said he had served with the Czar's army on the Austrian clares: Seven men were wounded, three | probably fatally, when Melrose Park police opened fire with sub-machine guns, shot guns and pistols on a group of 200 Communists attempt- ing an unemployed parade this afternoon. No shots were fired by the Communists.” AMERICAN CAN CO. RULES Melrose Park is a suburb where workers live, twelve miles west of the | main business section of Chicago. Tts| local government. is completely con- | ‘trolled by the American Can Co. Its | Officials have a close working agrec- ment with the American Legion and | front and had been educated in medi- |cine at Prague.” | Other dispatches report that ‘he or- ganized a society of Russian fascists. | A Prague dispatch to the New York Times reports that he is the son of a Tsarist officer who became a prop- lerty owner in Labinskaya, Kuban. It | further adds: | “After the Bolshevist revolution he returned to Labinskaya and prac- ticed medicine, although he had no degree. Overcome by hatred of the Bolshevists, whe had confiscated his mother’s property, he fled on foot over Poland into Ozecho-Slo- vakia,.” In their efforts to protéct the nection between the Scottsboro lynch | Sangster, part of Al Capone's old | White Guardists and to implicate the verdicts and the recent freeling of | the fourw hite lynchers in Honolulu, | ‘mob.” The Village President, | Edward G. Brust, personally led an Dr. Union in the assassination, | Sov’ jet \the French bourgeoisie are being ably Hawaii, the indignation of United attack on the May Day demonstra; | backed up by the traitorous soctaliet States government officials and Con- gresmen that Honolulu jurors had dared to bring in a verdict of guilty against these lynchers, and the. sup- port of the United States government for the Alabama ruling class in their attempt to legally murder the inno- cent Scottsboro boys. Harold Williams, district head of the League of Struggle for Negro Rights, acted as chairman. Other speakers included Carl Hacker, dis- | trict organizer of the I. L. D., Shep- | herd, Negro worker and organizer of | Section Four of the Communist | Party, Mae Berkley, Negro woman worker and member of the L. 8. N. R., La Belle of the Youth Committee of | the Scottsboro Defense Committee, and Sol Harper, Negro worker. The meeting adjourned with the singing of the International and the militant pledge of the assembled | workers to build the mass fight which alone can save the Scotsboro boys, tion a week ago. Alter this |demonstration had been smashed by | | police at Lake Street. and 23rd Ave- | hue, A. Berman, an unemployed car- | | penter, was seized by police and | Legionnaires and dragged off, with| |the kidnappers shouting, neh jhim.” He was later found lying in le ditch near Mt. Carmel cemetery. with his skull fractured from blows with revolver butts. He is in a hos- | pital, James Cain, a railroad worker, was arrested at the same time and thrown in jail along with Ed Starovich and |several others. Starovich was picked up on the street after the demonstra- tion. All were beaten up in jail. with Brust, Chief of Police Leese- berg, and a dentist and local poli- | tician named J. B. Rago, personelly | | Present and directing the torture. | Cain was beaten so terribly that both |jaws were broken, and he is in a} hospital now. May Day | | leaders. A Paris dispatch to the New York Times quotes a statement by | Leon Blum, head of the socialist party, defending the White Guards: “For our part,” writes Leow Blum, head of the important socialist party, in his own Le Populaire, “we should be ashamed to abuse the | declarations of a madman to stir up public opinion against the White Russians in Paris, whose military | organizations enjoy so strange a tolerance, For it is once more a question of one of those madmen without a straightjacbkel whose menace prowis around the heads of all states and surprises even police precautions.” The French government's policy of suporting the White Guards was de red divecily responsible for the | ination by L’Humanite, official jorgan of the French Communist Party ‘The Communist paper cherged ‘that the purpose of the assassin was and central bodies af the American | of the workers on the sidewalks, Others were arrested and beaten ‘tive council of the Américan Pedera- Federation of Labor. |'Tom Mooney and other class war Among the slogans were “Capitalist prisoners, 4 | later, including 'Tom McKenna, repre- to arouse feeling against the Soviet Union,