The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 10, 1932, Page 1

¥ v —— aor sitet ROSALES NOELLE TH ns eA (Section of the Communist International) Workers and Working-Class Organiza- Protest the Melrose Park Send Protest Resoln- tions to Dr. Edw. G. Brust, Village President, Melrose Park, tions, Massacre! Illinois, =e |. IX, No. 111 at New York, N. Y. um Enutered as second-class jer at the Post Office der the act of March %, 1879 NEW YORK, TUESDAY, MAY 10, 1932 CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents —_— = — WAVE OF PROTESTS AGAINST M © The Socialist Party Aids | rialist War Aims the Soviet Unién is being prepared politically and | ‘War technically. There is @ war atmosphere throughout the capitalist world. | The Geneva disarmament conference was and is part of war pre- varations. What is the socialist party of America doing about this? It is supporting the war preparations. Here is proof! “FEAR OF A BOLSHEVIST INVASION KEEPS THE GENEVA CONFERENCE FROM MOVING TOWARD ITS OBJECTIVE OF LIMITATION OF WOLED ARMAMENTS, BELIEVES MRS. VIC- TOR BERGER, who returned to Milwaukee from the Conference today...... the present world depression strengthens this fear they have a greater fear that the universal hard times make the posstbility of such an invasion greater than ever before.” —THE MILWAUKEE LEADER, MAY 5. ‘This is the provocative manner in which the Milwaukee Leader, ¢mouthpiece of Mayor Hoan and the socialist party government of that eity and the widow of the late Victor Berger, socialist party member and delegate of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, handles the imperialist plots in Geneva against the Soviet Union and the ) grorld’s working class. The whole interview is a whitewash of the imperialist powers and | ‘-wasion,” 1 e. upon the Soviet Union—the only country which time ana fime again has proposed aboslute and sweeping disarmament. Here is the socialist party in action—at the very moment when new taking place, in France the attempt of imperialist cir- | are to fasten the Union and the Communist International, in the Far East the con- lood of Japanese lies accompanying the drive toward the Soviet af H Even the imperialist press services are now admitting the great ac- tivity of munition factories on Japanese orders. The New York Herald ‘Tribune for May 9, for instance, publishes the following from the United “Another report said Japan was ordering arms and ammunition from British factories on an immense scale. Factories are making 300,000 rifles, hundreds of torpedoes, etc., the report said, while Germany - is shipping chemicals in crates labeled as pianos. The Skoda works in Crechoslivakia have sent 18,000 bombs, and the Schneider and Creusot are making twenty heavy tanks, the report said.” War against the Soviet Union is being prepared—politically and technically. But what the socialist Milwaukee Leader and Mrs. Berger do is to go farther even than the imperialist propganda about the prospects of dis- armament. Read this: “Mrs. Berger brings back an impression of the progress being made in Geneva which is distinctly more optimistic than the usual press comment.” = “In answer to those whe write that the conference will accomplish nothing, Mrs, Berger says that the very fact that it convened with 56 nations present, is an it.” The “accomplishment” of the Geneva Conference is to be seen in Japanese military offensive in Manchuria and in the open war prepara- tions against the Soviet Union. ° ‘The protestation of “friendship” for the Soviet Union by the leaders of the socialist party like Norman Thomas, the verbal “opposition” to imperialist war on the part of the New Leader, Laidler, Oneal, Hillquit, and the “left” group, are seen on the basis of such concrete facts as we cite above to be nothing more than attempts of the most sinister kind | to fool workers into regarding the socialist party as a working class party. The socialist party is not against imperialist war. It is part of the war machinery of American imperialism. The struggle against imperialist war and for defense of the Soviet Union must include the systematic exposure and defeat of this “third party of capitalism.” Mayor Walker--100 Per Cent American! ‘HE recent disclosures through the Seabury investigation of the rather crude crookedness of Mayor Walker and his bosom friend and old college chum, State Senator Hastings, would produce something in the nature of a revolt: in any country with # population less corrupted by the motto of 100 per cent Americanism: “It’s all right if he can get with In the Sets slip no with e of the bus franchises and buses, Mayor Walker, who opportunity to boost the virtues of American capitalist democ- its 13,000,000 starving unemployed in contrast to the ugly the Soviet Union where unemployment has been abolished, Police club and jail unemployed Communists and other workers with bloody abandon, seems to have “got away with it.” But, contemptuous of any criticism of his right to get whatever graft ts within reach, Mayor Walker and his go-between left a trail so wide that a platoon of his police could drive down it. Contributions to Walker’s “campaign fund,” 2,500 per month, 200,000 and “expenses” over a period of three years for Senator ® bus company, have been uncovered. ‘Walker has nothing to say. by which Tammany Hall has dismissed the Seabury so far is: “Well, they haven’t caught anybody taking graft.” will now have to find some other formula. The head of Ys city administration is shown to be a common crook. ‘The graft expense of corporations like bus companies are charged up the workers who make them, to the massé¢s who ride on them. Graft and corruption in city, state and national government 1s refiected in the | absence of unemployment insurance, in wage cuts, in higher prices, Graft pays the gangsters who prey upon the workers. It adds to the salaries of the police who club, shoot and jail workers. It helps to tie the under- ‘world allies of Tammany Hall closer to the machine for use against the It is the task of Communists, especially in New York Clty, to bring this understanding to the masses, to organize the working class against ‘Tammany Hall and its Walkers and all they stand for. All Arms Factories Aid Japan’s Thrust at: Soviet Union The munitions and armsjand ammunition from Brit- firms of the whole world are|ish factories on an immense helping Japan in her war) scale. Factories are making preparations against the So-| 300,000 rifles, hundreds of viet Union. Following on| torpedoes, etc., the report the heels of news of Jap-| said, while Germany is ship- anese purchase in America|.ping chemicals in crates lab- of war material and chem-| elled as pianos. ‘The Sdoda icals used in making military | factories in Czechoslovakia erplosives, a London dis-| have sent 18,000 bombs, and patch to the New York Her-|the Schneider and Creusot ald Tribune states: interests are making twenty “Japan was ordering arms' navy tanks, the report said.” a k i | 5 blame for the death of President Doumer upon the So- | SCOTTSBORO ‘GERMAN MEET One Worker Dead, Two Are Critically Wounded BULLETIN CHEMNITZ, Germany, May 9.— One of the workers shot down by | Police at the Scottsboro demon- stration last Saturday died this morning. Two others are critically wounded. Twelve workers were | wounded by the police, when the latter fired into a peaceful demon- stration protesting the frame-up of the Scottsboro Negro boys and de- manding their release. The United States Embassy in Berlin, and United Stataes Con- sulates throughout Germany, were guarded day and night on Saturday by German police. In spite of the Police attacks, huge demonstrations were held throughout Germany. oe NEW YORK—A Hamburg cable to the International Labor Defense reports that the Socialist officials of Hamburg, Germany, prohibited Mrs. Ada Wright, mother of two of the Scotts- boro Negro boys, and J. Louis Eng- 6cottsboro demonstration in that city. dahl from addressing the May 7 By this act the German “Socialists” ine themselves up with the American “Socialists” and the Negro reformists in’ support of the attempt of the American ruling class to burn the nine Scottsboro Negro boys in the electric chair on June 24, But the social-fascist prohibition against Mrs. Wright and |Engdahl could not obliterate the fact of the mighty gathering of workers which met Mrs. Wright and Engdahl when they arrived inHamburg on May 5. Nor could theprohibition obliterate the fact that thousands of Hamburg workers demonstrated on May 7 in the presence of Mrs. Wright and Engdahl, ~ The cable to the I. L. D. stataes that Mrs. Wright and Engdahl were scheduled to speak in various places in the Ruhr industrial district over the weekend, along with prominent German revolutionary leaders. Whe- ther the “socialist” politicans dared to deny the right of free speech at these meetings has not yet been learned. I tis certain that the work- ers of Germany are militantly sup- porting the mass fight to free the Scottsboro boys, and that they will demand that the mother of two of these boys, and the I. L. D. official, be allowed to address the immense crowds turning out in their honor. Mrs. Wright was invited to Ger- many by the German Red Aid, a sec- tion of the International Red Aid with which the International Labor Defense is affiliated. She will speak, along with Comrade Engdahl, in all the principal cities of Germany, Aus- tria, Czechoslovakia, Switzerland, France and England in connection with the international mass defense or the Scottsboro boys. SHOE STRIKERS ' MASS PICKET Special Appeal to the Cutters and Youth NEW YOFK.—There was a picket demonstration several hundred strong in the I. Miler shoe strike yesterday. A special appeal was made to the cutters to come out and join the strike. ‘The afternoon meeting of strikers had over 500 present. Speakers were representatives of the Shoe and Leather Workers Industrial Union, which is leading the strike, represen- tatives of the Youth Section of the Trade Union Unity League. A spe- Workers of many shoe shops in the city are supporting the strikes in I. Miller, Andrew Geller, Elco Co. and Paris Shoe. The Worekrs In- ternational Relief, Women's Councils and the union co-operate to provide further support. A mass meeting to spread the strike to other shops will be held Thursday, at Webster Hall, 1 St. 12 SHOT AT Japanese Rushing Troops by Train and River Craft to the Soviet Borders See United States and Other Imperialist Pow- ers in Move for Armed Intervention Against | Chinese Soviets and Soviet Union All available craft on the Sungari River in Northern Manchuria have been seized by the Japanese for a huge movement of troops to the Soviet border. Scores of river craft, in- cluding sidewheel steamers, are towing scows laden with Japanese troops down the Sungari River toward its junction with the Amur River: The Amur River is the boundary line between the Soviet Union and Kirin Province, Manchuria. To the northeast of the Sungari River scores of crowded | Japanese troop trains are rushing along the Chinese Eastern Railway towards Hailin, a Manchurian town 125 miles from the Soviet border at that point. Japanese troops are reported pushing beyond Hailin to the Man-9— churian town of Pogranichnaya, di-, Worker) is charged with endeavor- rectly on the Soviet Frontier. Japa-! ing to crowd the Russians out of nese troops being removed from| the Chinese Eastern Railway man- Shanghai, South China, are being| agement.” Tushed to Manchuria; 24,000 of these ELROSE MASSACRE BIG MASS MEETINGS DEMAND JOBLESS BE FED, NOT SHOT COMMUNIST PARTY ISSUES 50,000 LEAFLETS URGING STRUG- GLE FOR RIGHT TO ASSEMBLE, INSURANCE INSTEAD OF MACHINE GUNS; 52 ARRESTED HELD TO GRAND JURY; NINE IN HOSPITAL; ONE CRITICALLY WOUNDED CHICAGO, Ill, May 9.—Tens of thousands of leaflets and a number of preliminery meetings summon Chicago workers in mass- es to the huge protest meeting in the Coliseum, 15th and Wabash Sts., Friday, May 13th, at 7:30 p. m., to denounce the Melrose Park massacre and to organize for the fight for the right to meet. Among the speakers will be Communist Party leaders who will point out that when the Melrose Park city officials and their gangster allies lined up 150 unemployed workers last Friday and shot down nine of them in cold blood, they were giving the capitalist political parties’ and capitalism’s real answer to the problem of unemployment relief. troops already have been landed in Manchuria and are on their way to- ward the Soviet frontier. An early attack on the Soviet Union is envisaged in all bourgeois press dispatehes from the Far East. On Saturday, the New York Times carried.a Washington dispatch, based on United States consular informa- tion from the Far East, reporting a Ticket for Murderer of Doumer Had from White Guard Body *The real program is that the unemployed shall die, either by starvation or by bullets. Because of Melrose Park, their deeds speak louder now E xh 1 b it 4 | than their many promises of “relief” made only ion |: : 2 \in words. The Cemmunists will call on the workers to get back of tne national and state campaigns of the Communist Party, to fight for unemployment insurance. They will call on all workers to rally their unions, clubs or large movement of Japanese troops to the Soviet border, : The dispatch “MAN FIGHTING NEARER RUSSIA” Another dispatch—to the New York American from its Far Eastern correspondent, Karl H von Wiegand— reports growing Japanese provoca- tions, through their Chinese militar- ist tools, against the Soviet Union and the increasing danger of war. The dispatch says: “The danger of a Russian-Japa- nese clash, developing out of the extraordinary complicated situa- tion in this Far Eastern cockpit, is growing steadily, “Competent observers are of the opinion that only forbearance on the part of Moscow and greater re- straint by Japan can avert a situa- tion eventually culminating in an open diplomatic break, “Aside from teh many arrests of Soviet citizens, the Manchoukou government (Japanese puppet gov- ernment in Manchuria—Daily Prepare for the Straw Vote on the Bonus! Edith Berkman Starts Hunger Strike to Protest Her Illegal Detention BULLETIN BOSTON, Mass. May 9—Edith Berkman continued her hunger Station led by the National Textile Workers Union, I. L. D. and Un- employed Councils, eet Ss BOSTON, Mass. — Edith Berkman, organizer of the Na- tional Textile Workers Union who is being held by the im- migration officials for deporta- tion to fascist Poland, started on a hunger strike here today. She de- clared that she will remain on strike until she is freed. The fight to free Edith Berkman from the hands of the capitalist hang- men, which is being carried on thru- out the country by the International Labor Defense and the Protection of Foreign Born Committee was in- tensified in a mass protest meeting held = at Irving Plaza Hall last night. At this meeting a delegation from the trade unions and mass organizations, which will leave for Washington to demand the free- dom of Berkman, waa given «©! Gougolov Has Article Calling for War On the) other organizations to send delegates to the 24 Illinois confer- | enees preceding the National Nominating Convention of the Soviet Union in White Guardist Paper the Day of Murder of French President (By Inprecorr Cable) BERLIN, May 9.—Addi- tional proof of the close rela- tions with the White Guard- ists of Gorgulov, murderer of the French president, Paul Doumer, is revealed in the ticket of admission which Goumer received from Struve, president of | the Russian Monarchist Alliance, to the exhibition at which Doumer was murdered, On the day of the murder of Doumer an article by Gorguloy ap- peared in the “Posledni Novosi,” or- gan of the White Guard leader and form Tsarist Foreign Milnister, Mil- iukov, declaring that war against the Soviet Union was the only means of salvation for the Tsarist emigrants. The article stated that war would end the Bolshevist power and that con- tinued peace is ruining Europe, therefore Long Live War! A woman who was present when. send-off. Wm. Z. Foster, Ann Burlak, Cark Hacker, Maude White and Saul Hor- watt spoke at the meeting. Edith Berkman must not be de- potted. She is being held illegally by the mill owners of Lawrence in order to crush the organized resist- ance of the textile workers against wage cuts and lay offs. Demand the release of Berkman to- day! Stop the vicious deportation drive of Doak. Support the delega- tion to Washington by demonstra- tion all over the country against, de- portations, The fight against de- Pportations is the fight of the work- ing class as a whole. Youth At Once Rally Mass Protest. Against Melrose Park Massacre NEW YORK.—Five hundred work- ers meeting at Seventh St. and Ave. B Sunday at the call of the Ronald Edwards Youth Branch of the In- ternational Labor Defense adopted and wired to Mayor Cermak or Chicago the following protest resolu- shooting: “We vigorously protest the bloody massacre of the unemployed workers in Melrose Park, a Chicago suburb. We demand immediate release of all arrested in the. demonstration... We hold you responsthde”” ome’. atemente RY. f Silas Doumer was murdered testified that the murdere Gorgulov was ac- companied by a man and woman who pointed out the French pres- ident to Gorgulov, after which Gorgulovy opened fire on Doumer. The wife of Gorguloy when she was examined by the police de- clared categorically that Doumer is a bitter enemy of the Bolshevists. Despite oll this, the French author- ities arep lainly unwilling to aban- don their lying statement that Gor- gulov is a Bolshevist agent. It is rumored that Gorgulov is suffering French Third Degree method aimed to “persuade him to confess. con- nections with the Third Interna- tional.” Yesterday's leading article in the! “Pravda” declares that Paris has be- | come the headquarters of all anti- Soviet forces, The White Guard mil- itary organizations, it points out, ex- isted with the knowledge and en- ernment, maintaining close connec- tion with the French General Staff. The French Government offered hos- pitality to a gang of terrorists. No doubt remains that the terorists have adopted a systematic policy of mur- dering foreign statesmen with the view of causing diplomatic compli- cations for the Soviet Union and eventually war. “Pravda” quotes various articles tn White Guardist newspapers openly advocating the murder of prominet statesmen in order to incriminate the Soviet Union. “Pravda” declares that the French bourgeoisie paid for its attitude towards the White Guard terrorists with the head of their own} president. (ADDITIONAL NEWS ON PAGE 3) BULLETIN ; Communist Party, May 28,-im-Chi=¢— cago. Meanwhile, in preparation for the | Coliseum mass meeting, the Unem- | ployed Councils and International | Labor Defense are distributing 50,000 | leaflets telling what happened at Mel- rose Park and exposing the lying | stories of the police in the capitalist newspapers. The Communist Party |is distributing 50,000 leaflets calling | for struggle against the terror, The | Workers Ex-Servicemen’s.League is | distributing 2,000 -leaflets addressed particularly to world war veterans— a majority of those shot at Melrose Park were ex-sedvicemen who had to |face German machine guns to make | millionaires, and now face the Ameri- jean Can Co. machine guns in a | struggle for bread. A wave of protest telegrams and resolutions from workers’ organiza- tions all over the country is flood- ing on Melrose Park Village Presi- dent Brust and President Whalen of the Cook County Board and Gov- ernor Emerson of Illinois. It is known that 150 such resolutions have already been sent by workers’ organizations in the neighborhood of Chicago. .This protest movement should| continue! throughont |the country until the murderers of the jobless workers see that there is mass opposition to their plan. Meetings are being atranged rapid. ly in industrial suburbs of Chicago jaround Melrose Park: in Elmwood Park, Maywood, Belmont Heights and Cicero. This morning a workers’ delegation }weni to the Cook County Commis- sioners. County. 52 Held To Grand Jury The 52 workers arrested at the time of the shooting came up before a judge Saturday, and were remanded to the grand jury. The officials are trying to get indictments charging Melrose Park {is in Cook} CHICAGO, Ill, May 9.—Last week, 'rioting—all part of a scheme to ex- just preceding the massacre in Mel-'cuse the police for the massacre and rose Park for the first time the Com- lay the blame on the jobless workers. munist Party was placed on the bal-|| The majority of the prisoners are lot in Elmwood Park. Out of 2,800’ now transferfed to the Chicago detec- votes the Party received 280 votes. tive bureau, and eight of them are Slashes in. Whole Industry Follow U.S. Steel Pay Cut The 15 per cent wage cut for the United States Steel workers, the sec- ond within a year, has been taken as a signal for a general wage slashing campaign throughout the entire stee) industry. The Bethlehem Steel Corporation, through its president, BE. G. Grace, announced Saturday that a 15 per cent wage cut would be inaugurated in the Bethlehem mills on May 16, the same date set for the 15 per cent wage cut of the United States Steel. The announcement of the Bethle- hem Corp, was followed by similar panies. The Republic Steel Corpora- tion will be among the first to follow suit in this drive against the starva- tion level wages of the steel workers, who even now are working but two and three days a week. In addition, the Youngstown Sheet, and Tube Company, the Sharon Steel Hoop Company, the Truscon Steel Company and the General Fireproof- ing Company have given indications that they will second the action of the United States Steel by putting plante i} held for Federal investigation The nine wounded men are in Cook County hospital. Three of them are in a very serious condi- tion. Those most severely injured are Wes Swanson, Otto Schultz and Miller. Swanson is hovering between life and death. Miller has three machine gun bullets in his leg and the leg bones are completely shattered. (ADDITIONAL NEWS ON PAGE 3) Communists Make Melrose Massacre Campaign Issue CHICAGO, May 9.—The immediate answer of the work- ers of Chicago and its indus- trial suburbs to the machine gun fire on unemployed masses last Friday in Melrose Park is a great increase in the state and na- tional campaign to elect Communists in the coming elections. The Na- tional Nominating Convention of the Communist Party candidates for na-~ tional office will be held on May 28, right in Chicago, within 12 miles of Melrose Park, where on Friday offi- cial and gangster agents of the American Can Co. lined up. 150 un- employed against a wall and turned a machine gun loose on them, Bread Or Lead? Delegates to the National Nomin- ating Convention will be picked in the next few days from mass or- ganizations of the workers, from unions, fraternal bodies, opposition groups in reactionary unions and from local conferences of delegates from shop committees and unem- ployed block committees, etc, All these meetings will have freshly be- fore them the example of capitalist relief for the jobless in the manner so well shown at Melrose Park— capitalist “relief” based on the theory that dead men need no food and that the hunger pangs can be satis- fied by a meal of hot lead. Not only does Melrose Park be- come a national issue in this election campaign, the Communist Party and the masses of workers supporting its platform in this election will carry the message into every congressional strict, into every contest for state office, The lesson of Melrose Park and its Bloody Friday will enter into every argument between workers ap- proached for signatures to the peti- tions to put Communist candidates on the ballot; it will appear in the form of resolutions for action in every loca] conference, particularly in Tiiinois, Melrose Park and the Na- tional Nominating Convention have over large scale wage cuts in all their] made Illinois a strategic center of Bu ties « x | cary }