The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 16, 1932, Page 3

i] i | i || | [ 5,000 in Minneapolis Capture Farmer-Labor | Meeting; Put Up Reds March on Auditorium, Demand Jobless Insur- | ance; Hear Communists and Unemployed Police Helpless Before Mass Militaney While Governor and Mayor Flee from Hall BULLETIN DETROIT, Mich., May 15.—Two hundred and eleven delegates, rep- resenting more than 100 organizations, with 15,000 workers in them, frem 15 cities around Detroit met to ference here today. form the District Nominating Con- They elected 50 adult and 10 Youth delegates to the Nalonal Nomi- naing Convntion called by the Communist Party, to meet May 28 and May 29 in Chicago, . * MINNEAPOLIs, Minn., May ‘< 15.—Five thousand workers marched to a meeting aSturday night which had advertized that Governor Olson Mayor Anderson would speak on unem- ployment. The workers capture d the meeting, seized the stage and amplifiers, and amid the cheers of thousands, speakers of the Communist Party and of the Un-« employed Council addressed the| crowd The Farmer-Labor Party politicians | who were present, and who were ad-| vertized to speak, were simply swept aside. When one or two of them tried to say something, the crowd jeered them down. Mayor Anderson, scheduled as chairman of the meet- ing in the Farmer-Labor Party an- nouncement, was afraid to appear at all. Governor Olson was there, but did not dare to go up on the plat- form, and sneaked out hastily, with- out making his announced speech. The police were helpless in the face of the militancy of the crowd. March to Auditorium. The Farmer-Labor Party had called for a mass meeting at the Auditor- ium, with a demonstration outside, and had invited workers and jobless| workers to come. They did come. They met two miles away at Bridge Square, on call of the Unemployed Council. After a brief meeting there, they marched the two miles to the Auditorium, where they proceeded to take over the works. At the Auditorium, Communist speakers showed up the treacherous, lying policy of the Farmer-Labor Party, showed how they have tricked the jobless with lying promises, and starved them on the breadlines, where there have even been breadlines, how they have endorsed forced labor. Vote Communist. ‘The Communists contrasted the program of the Communist Party for unemptoyment insurance at the expense of the state and employers. ‘They urged all jobless and employed workers to organize and carry on the fight for relief. They pointed out that this action at the Auditorium by the masses of workers was a ter- rific blow to the Farmer-Laborite election campaign, coming as it did on the eve of the city conference for the Communist Election Campagn, scheduled for today, and during the preparations for the city hunger march, The Communist and Unemployed Council speakers adjourned the Aud- itorlum meeting and led a march to the City Hall, where ths governor and mayor were skulking. A short, militant meeting with more speeches War Veterans Should Pre- pare for the Daily Worker Straw Vote! TRAVEL through the SOVIET journed in ‘orderly fashion. | took place at the city hall and ad- NATLY WORKER. NEW YORK, MONDAY, MAY 16, 1932 NOTICE TO ALL DISTRICT ORGANIZATIONS The May issue of The Commu- nist has been sold out in the first printing. A limited reprint is now being ordered, after Which the type will be destroyed. Consider- ing the urgent need of the May issue of The Communist in popu- larizing the decisions of the Cen- tral Committee Plenum, all dis- tricts are urged to wire in at once whatever additional orders they May require, | Threat of New Wage Cut In Westinghouse TURTLE CREEK, Pa.—Westing- house electric has just announced a “contemplation” of a new wage cut— one week before the Westinghouse workers, employed and unemployed, unite together with other workers of the Turtle Creek Valley in a United Front Conference in support of the draft platform of the Communist | Party in the coming elections. The Conference will elect a campaign Committee and elect delegates from the Turtle Creek Valley to the Chi- |cago Nominating Convention of the Communist Party. GARY, Ind., May 15.—Six hundred Gary steel workers held an enthu- Siastic meeting here Friday, and heard demands against the 15 per cent wage cut ordred to start this week. Ten workers discussed the de- mands from th floor, and the whole group decided unanimously to send the demands to the company. Speak- er emphasized particularly the need for dpartmental and mill struggles and organization of the Metal Work- ers Industrial League. GARY AND SOUTE CHICAGO STEEL WORKERS ORGANIZE Three Big Meetings Vote for Struggle Against Wage Cuts Ordered This Week Steel Workers Roused SOUTH CHICAGO, Ill, May 15.— Two meetings totaling 550 steel work- ers of this city were held here Friday to work out plans to resist the wage cut ordered in the steel mills. One hall had a meeting made up en- tirly of Polish spaking workers. The meetings were unanimous for fight against the wage cut, and for de- mands for insurance for the unem- ployed workers. “Affairs” “Affairs,” a finance magazine pub- lished in Washington for private cir- makes the following significant stae culation to American capitalists, makes the following significant state- ments: “That France and Japan have had an understanding regarding mutual aims in the Orient has been appar- ent for some time. “The extreme militarist school of thought in Japan is known to favor the slicing off the Amur and Pria- mur Provinces of Siberia in order to secure the valuab lIfeisheries of the Pacific Coats and also to transform th Japan Sea into a Japanese lake. This school also argues that now or not at all is the time to strike Rus- sia, After the Soviet has been able to work out its Second Five Year Plan, it is argued, Russia will be far too powerful for Japan to attack, although on the other hand if Rus- sia ewere attacked now, Japan could rely on the support of the capitalist world in a ‘crusade’ against Com- musim.” “There appears to be no doubt that 2 Russo-Japanese war would bring in Poland and Rumania against, then Germany and then UNION or A new magazine of travel in the USSR, offers monthly voyages to interesting parts of the workers’ republic. Scenes and achievements, peoples and industries under colorfully illus- trated review by the greast Soviet writers. THE NEW MAGAZINE “SOVIET TRAVEL” printed in English, published monthly in Moscow, will take you from bustl- ing Moscow to fabulous ancient cities; and you will learn about 169 distinct nationalities and cultures all being welded into one national enterprise. 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C.P. to Hold Election Ralty In McKeesport McKEESPORT, Pa., May 15.—The Monangahela River Valley confer- ence of the Communist Party will be held in McKeesport Sunday, May 22, to eléct delegates to the Chicago Nominating Convention of the Party. The preparation of the conference the carrying through of the en- election campaign is going hand hand with the fight against the brutal wage cut and fight for unem- ployment relief. Plans are under way in MéKees- port to cover the city with a network of Communist Campaign Committees leading to a committee in every precinct and every ward. roll around, See Admit Criminal Plans of Imperialist Powers for Attack on Soviet Union Washington Finance Magazine, Admits France and Puppet States Moving - for Joint Attack on Soviet Union WASHINGTON, May 15.—With several Japanese armies rapidly advancing on the Soviet border, admissions of the sin- ister war aims of Japanese imperialism are piling up fast and thick in the bourgeois press, which is working feverishly to mobilize the American People for war against the Soviet Union. ALABAMA POLICE CLUB HUNGRY, JOBLESS NEGROES Workers. ‘Held March On City Hall to Demand Relief CHATTANOOGA, May 15.—A Birmingham dispatch to the Times of this city gloatingly relates that Birmingham, Ala., police viciously attacked a march of starving, un- employed Negro workers last Thurs- day as they were on théir way to the City Hall to demand relief. The dispatch says that the work- ers addressed each other as com- rads, and intimates that the Negro leaders of the demonstration are members of th Communist Party. The Times gave the story the ap- proving head: “Billy of Officer Routs Btrming- ham Negro Reds.” Large numbers of workers are unemployed and actually starving in Birmingham. As in other cities, the Negro workers are the worst sufferers, being the first to be fired and brazenly discriminated against in the meager relief handed cut by the boss charity charity rackets. Negro and white workers have sev- eral times demonstrated together against these miserable conditions. Connecticut St March to Page Wigs a eS ate Huuger Begin Today Ware BURY NAUGaruer, l pate ea | DAN BURY ee NeW Lorine ‘ / a | | EW HAVEN Guums | (Gon) A he yw ° | i! | ONE BRivGePont nm | ORAVALIC al ae * sp STAMFORD | | dives 5 Start ox MILES | } 2. | PLAINENBED | | Wornwicm | t poet SCHEDULE or Two Columns of 150 | | March will begin today. ~| 5 from Norwalk, 8 from Danbury, trom Hartford, (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) Coliseum meeting. He appeared with his head swathed in bandages, because of the terrific beating given him with revolver butts by the Mel- rose Park police. Berman had been carried out to Mt. Carmel cemetary, beaten into unconsciousness and left lying justs barely alive, in a ditch. The Coliseum meeting was his first public appearance since then. The spirit of the meeting was very high, With every seat filled and 500 standing, the crowd cheered enthu- siastically when it was announced from the platform that the mayor of Melrose Park has yielded, at least in words, to the mass campaign for the right to meet. Mayor Brust sent over @ message that hereafter permits will b granted for meetings such as the one that was shot. up the week before. ‘Berman, with his fractured skull, Cain with both jaws fractured and wired together, and Helfriteh with the machine gun bullet wound in his leg, received a grat ovation from the crowd when they appeard on the platform. ‘The main speech was delivered by John ‘Williamson, representative of the Communist Party, and ‘one of the Pioneers who was arrested in Melrose Park for assisting to organize the qdemonstration spoke and was greeted with enthusiasm. Communists Speak. Speakers in addition to the above, were William Browder, chairman; O'Brien, lightfoot, Mates and Wil- ltamson. Communist candidates in the election this Fall explained to the militant crowd before them that the Melrose Park Massacre, which shows a typical example of an American Industrial City and its government, is an issue in this campaign. Mayor Brust and his police take their or- ders from the American Can Co. which controls the main industry in the town, and which has made mil- lions of profit, while its employes are Mostly unemployed, starving, and even those who work are speeded, have their wages cut, and work only part time. Aiding the police and forming a large part of the armed force that shot the jobless workers May 6, are the American Legion and the gangsters who belonged to Al Capones crowd. The policy of Amer- ican capitalism, and of ite parties, the republican, democratic and so- clalist parties, is to fool the unem- ployed workers as long as possible with promises, but when they become impatient and demand.some actual food, then to kill them. The speakers pointed out that the Communist Party enters this cam- paign with a demand for workers’ unemployment insurance as the main point in its platform. Chicago itself, of which Melrose Park is a suburb, Vets to Demand Bonus In Marc h On Capitol War Veterans Straw Vote on Tombstone Bonus Begins Today NEW YORK.—To compel the U. 8. of veterans from all over the United States to be held on June 8. Veterans are already heading for Washington from various sections of the country, including the south. their families and force them into the bonus and support of veterans al) over the country for the march on Hayen, 5 from Selton-Derby-Ansonia-Seymour-Naugatuck, Waterbury, 3 from Bristol, 3 from Torrington, 10 from New Britain, 30 COLUMN ONE Delegates Will Form March; Preparations Are Being Rushed Throughout State Following closely on the heels of the Massachusetts Hunger March which stormed the State House with the roaring demand of the jobless workers for unemployment insurance, the Connecticut State Hunger The Marche in which 150 delegates of the unemployed workers will participate is to be composed of two columns. The first column wt have 125 delegates of whom five are from Greenwich, 15 from Stamford, 20 from Bridgeport, 25 from New 8 from The second column of this historic March will be composed of 25 delegates from New London, Willimantic, Plainfield and farms, The March will end May the 18th, 5,000 MASS IN CHICAGO TO CONDEMN SHOOTING MELROSE UNEMPLOYED is the place’ chosen for the National Nominating Convention to be held May 28 and 29, at the call of the Communist Party, but made up of delegates freely chosen by unions, workers’ fraternal bodies, Unem- Ployed Councils, ex-servicemen’s organizations, and all kinds of work- ers’ organizations. To this conven- tion, the Communist Party proposes as national candidates, William Z. Foster, national secretary of the Trade Union Unity League, for Pres- ident, and the Negro worker, James W, Ford, for vice president. To this convention, the Communist Party also proposes a draft platform, con- taining the slogans for unemploy- ment insurance, and others appear- ing at the top of the front page of this issue of the Daily Worker. a resolution demanding the release jof Edith Berkman, confined to Bos- ton immigration detention station because of her leadership for the National Textile Workers Union in the Lawrence strike last year, and a resolution demanding the release of the Negro boys sentenced to death in Scottsboro ,Ala. The Communist candidate for vice-president, Ford, is from Alabama. ee Smash the illusions of the pa- cifists in the struggle against war. Learn to struggle in the revolution- ary way against war. Read “Revo- Versus Pacifism,” by A. Bittelman, five cents. Call to All Workers for Clippings from Their Local Papers! The Daily Worker sends an urgent appeal to all workers to send in clippings fro mtheir local capitalist papers dealing with the Soviet Union. All workers should also send in workers’ letters pub- lished in the capitalist press which show the workers’ opinion and feeling concerning Soviet Russia today. Watch your papers for clippings and send them to the Daily Work- er, 35 E. 12th St., New York City. ‘The Coliseum meeting also adopted | N Means Mass ae iFor Steel Workers || (By a Worker Correspondent) PITTSBURGH, Pa.—The 15 per cent wage cut for the steel work- ers to be put into effect today} means more starvation and pov-| erty. In Pittsburgh the unemploy- ed and part-time steel workers are actually facing starvation or are living under “partial starvation” | conditions, | The relief given out by the Wel-| fare and charity organizations has| been reduced to almost nothing.| The “Family Help Family Plan” of Senator Harris, which has been lauded to the skies, has not solved the problem. The relief given out by the “Shepherd of the Jobless,” Father Cox, is even less than the| amount given by the Welfare agencies, The number of families asking for relief is being increased | by over 250 daily. The part-time workers are liv- ing under the same conditions as the unemployed. Last week a worker reported that he saw foud| workers with pay checks amount- jing to less than $1 for two weeks pay. The lowest he saw was a check for 28 cents. These workers are employed at the Jones Laugh- | lin Steel Plant. Hundreds of other| steel workers earn only $6, $8, and] $12 in two weeks, Hoover’s Wage Cut Stagger Plan Used by DuPont Rayon Co. A typical example of the stagger plan in textiles is in operation at the plants of the DuPont Rayon Co. The scheme of this company is to cut full time employment from eight to six hours a day with a corresponding cut in wages. Working hours are now only 36 a week, so that a worker, making 50 cents an hour, gets $18 for full- time work. The stagger plan is one of the methods by which the employ- ers put the burden of the crisis on the workers at the same time boast- ing that they are doing a favor to |the workers by “distributing work.” The DuPont plan is praised by the Hoover “Organization on Unemploy- ment Relief” in a pamphlet recently issued by it called “Spreading Work.” The whole pamphlet is a glorification of the wage cutting stagger plan of the Hoover government. (Cable Bq Inprecorr) BERLIN, May 13.—A mass meet- ing was held last night at the Freidrichshain Hall, to protest against the threatened legal lynch- ing of the innocent Scottsboro boys. Mrs. Wright was booked to speak, but at the last moment the socialist police chief, Grzesinski, prohibited her speech and even forbade her to attend the meeting and forbade the reading of any Statement from her. When the particulars of the po- lice action were announced, the thousands of workers present were furious. The police, finding that their defense of the crimes American imperialism had served further to stimulate the mass defense fight for the release of the boys, declared the meeting closed and cleared the hall only NEW YORK.—Admission ¢ United States government i tively engaged in an attempt block the European tour of Mrs. Wright, mother of two of boro Negro boys, and disrupt Scottsboro mass defense movement in Europe, is contained in an article in “Affairs” for April 22. “Affairs” is a finance magazine published in Washington for private circulation among American capitalists. The article deals with the action taken by the United States govern- ment a few weeks ago in requesting the governor of Alabama to furnish it with the Alabama lynchers’ ver- sion of the vicious frame-up of the nine innocent Scottsboro boys on a to Ada the Scotts- lying charge of “raping” two white prostitutes. “Affairs” admits that this action was “unusual.” It says: “Another unusual step was taken by this government last week when it asked the governor of Alabama for information regarding the death sentences imposed upon seven young Negroes for assault upon ' freight train near Scottsboro. two white women while riding in a The the | the (U.S. Government Continues ‘Attacks on Scottsboro Boys‘ | Defense Movement in Germany Berlin “Socialist” Police Officers at Bidding of Wall Street Government Prohibits Mrs. Wright from Speaking at Mass Meeting BULLETIN ear information was requested becaase most of the American Consulates | in Germany have been the object of hostile demonstrations, none of them serious, but resulting in some cases in having stones hurled through consulate windows. Deme onstrations also occurred in Ams- tria, The American Consul Gene | eral in Berlin, George S. Messer- smith, suggested that the State Department send him factual in- formation regarding the case, in order to allay, if possible, the tide of propaganda spread against the United States concerning the case “Radical and Communist organ- izations in Central Europe hawe been using the Scottsboro case te stir up feeling against the United States and especially to emphasize the inequality race treatment existing in the South, Agitation is growing in much the same way it did during the Sacco-Vanzetti case, | when American Embassies, Con- sulates and Legations in almost every country of the world were objects of unfriendly demonstra- tions. The State Departmenthapes in the present case {o stop theagt tation from growing In its efforts to block the Scobie boro defense campaign, the United States government has inade “ine formal” representations 1o the Ger- man government ar representations AS esult of these the German govern- ment, aided, as usual, by the Ger- man “socialist jaunched a murderous attack German workers protesting the iynch verdict and the frightful national oppression: of the Negro mi In Chemnitz, |Germany, police fired into a Scotts- boro demonstration on May 7—In- ternational Scottsboro Day—murder- ing outright one German worker and fatally injuring two—others. At Hamburg tt ocialist police officials prohibited Mrs. Ada Wright from ad- dressing a mass meet of tens of thousands of German workers who had turned out to pledge their mili- tant support to the world-wide fight to free the innocent Scottsboro boys, | SAN DIEGO, Cal., May 15.—By conducting a three-week “write-in” campaign here the Communist Party through its andidate, Francis von Hoeseler, succeeded in rallying 586 admitted votes at the election for *|mayor, April 26, Without question as many additional votes were cast and “disqualified”. This is the first time the Commu- nist Party has conducted a political campaign in San Diego. Three A. F. of L, locals, the Car- penters, No, 1296, the Plasterers, No. 346, and Cooks and Waiters, No. 402, indorsed the campaign with this resolution: “We, affiliated with the American Federation of Labor, do hereby ac- cept the slogan of “Class Against Class” in the mayoralty election of April 26 and indorse Francis von Haeseler for the position of mayor of San Diego.” Over 6,000 leaflets were distrib- uted. Fifteen car banners were cir- culated and a 12-foot sign advertis- ing the campaign was placed on one of the main highways. One daily and one weekly newspaper an- nounced the campaign. Broken Promise. The most interesting highlight in the entire campaign was the success- ful invasion by about 50 Unemployed Conferences _ Building National Nominating Convention Council members, of a pre-election rally staged at the Woodrow Wilson High School for the benefit of the Chamber o fCommerce candidate for mayor, John F, Forward, and his hand picked crew of counilmen. Pre vious to this meeting it was an. nounced that every candidate would be allowed to speak. However when von Haeseler asked permission he was refused. In order to combat this ruling, several hundred leaflets were issued and distributed to those attending the meeting demanding the right of free speech and also pre- senting several pointed questions for the candidate, Forward, to answer. The audience responded remarkably well and actually supported the de- mand that Von Haeseler be given the floor. As a result of this pres- sure on the chairman the demand was won. Speaking for a full 10 minutes, Von Haeseler painte da vivid pic- ture of conditions, the local cor ruptness of city and the officials First Red Election Campain | Gets Big Vote in San Diego drastic need for a change. Thunder- applause from the one thousand persons present gave evidence of the audiences hearty approve Mirst May Day 150 workers bearing plac- ous Fully ards, flags and banners marched on May 1 in San Diego's first May Day parade. Headed by a huge scar. let Unemployed Council banner, the parade section for a distance of 13 blocks to New Town Park, Gélume bia and G where 790 workers gathered to participate in the’deme onstration At the conclusio: time n, the parade,this ned and - kers”’ Cette 250 strong g, wa marched back to the ter. N, Oh fay 15. conference of all ass organizations will be held in Youngstown on Sunday; May 22, at 2 p.m. The conference takes YOUNGSTOW city ection place at the Workers Center, 384 B, Federal St The conference will. endorse the county ticket of the Communist Par- ty and elect delegates to the Nation- al Nominating Conference in. Chi- cago, Ill., on May 28 and 29, The election committec..urges alt organizations to elect delegates te this Responsibility of Comrades in Election Drive New York, N. ¥. Dear Comrades:— It is the purpose of this letter to insist again that we cannot get good results in our work, unless we begin to enforce responsibility. The election campaign: Last week the section headquarters did a noble job of impressing the members of our unit of the “political signifi- eance” of our election campaign. All members were duly impressed. The immediate issue at hand, was the securing of nesessary signatures for the primary. And......out of seventeen mem- bers, evactly four, secured signatures, And the four did no where near as ‘well as could have been expected. And......last night, another noble job of impressing the “political sig- nificance of the election campaign, will be received by the section? by the district? by all the districts, in all the states, of the country? . And......if this is the results re- ceived from signature work, what kind of results are we going to re- ceive from the entire election cam- paign? And when the election cam- paign is over, if we receive a 1,000, or a 100,000 or a 1,000,000 votes— will you expect an intelligent rank and file member to believe that whatever votes received were the maximum number that could have been received—if we had a real or- ganization? Is it wrong to insist that the pre- sent volunteer system on assign- ments, is at least ONE of the prin- ciple causes of our weakness in this particular case? Is it wrong to insist that the only solution to this problem is rigid en- forcements of responsibility for all assignments? And this to be fol- lowed up by: systematic supervision, to make doubly certain that all as- signments are properly executed? Is it wrong to insist that an elec- was made before the unit members. Na eee how many members do YOU think will go uot for signatures thisweek? And......in view of the fact that a letter from section headquarters revealed that only 100 out of 190 ‘to the Heeef the | volmteers had participated in Isst| system to make these suocesstu works -work—HOW Tans signatures | tion campaign is a terribly important part of our struggle to obtain Com- munism? And that therefore we must remove any part of our system which prevents a campaign from gresses. THE PLATFORM A The special supplement WIS is the seventh series of discussion letters on t tion platform and campaign of the Communist sent in by readers of the Daily Worker. written by comrades from the Central Committee.om various suggestions and proposals as the discussion prde Articles wall. ALL READERS ARE URGED TO AGAIN READ PUBLISHED IN THE Eid WORKER OF APRIL 28TH AND SEND IN OPINIONS AND PROPOSALS, containing the platform com be secured in the office of your distriot. immediate steps to establish enforcement of responsibility, systematic supervision? Comradely yours, ALLEN SILVER. rigid and Seamen Suggests Mass Marches of Declassed Sailors to the Polls rade, a seaman, made a very val-| uable suggestion in regard to the) being successful? And therefore re- quires the establishment of a new paigns And. therefore“ election cam ‘The seamen, hot having perma-| nent residences, are denied tha) right-to vote. This is a- New York, Dear Comrades During the discussion in our unit. (a waterfront unit). a com-| issue among the seamen, and I have heard it discussed in many a foc'sle. Sailors are indignant-on account of being denied this ele~ mentary right. The comrade in our unitsuge gested that the Marine We Industrial Union, Tnengiees Councils and Communish Pasty lead mass marches of distran- chised and declassed seamen to the registration headquartersiand polling places in al seaports to'de=- mand the right as. ottizens and workers to vote This is a very important political issue, and I think it should be acted on at once. w