The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 19, 1932, Page 3

| DAILY WuRi ba, ial y UL. a, sect oDA, Liar id WORKER CORRESPONDENTS EXPOSE WAR PREPARATION ivul E COMMUNIST CANDIDATE IN MINNESOTA IS NEGRO VET. DULUTH, Minn., May 1€.—Robert Turner, Negro worker of St. Paul, “has been proposed by the Commun- ist Party for the office of secretary of state of Minnesota. Turner is 26 years old, born in Washington, Iowa. His father was a laborer. He is a cook, but has worked at various other jobs, He had to leave school at the age of 17 to work for the support of his parents. We is an ex-serviceman, having joined ‘the army in 1926, where he was put on labor Lind of slavery. ‘After witnessing the eviction of an unemployed worker in St. Paul in 1931, he joined the Unemployed Coyncil, and was sent as a delegate on the National Hunger March to Washington. He joined the Com- munist Party after returning from whe march to Washington, Duluth Candidate @ Martin Kuusisto, section organizer 4 bt the Communist Party, is candidate \[for member of the board of educa- tion in the school elections May 17. The Party is conducting an active campaign which the capitalist press admits is meeting with much res- yonse. The chief demands of the Communists are: 1. Free carfare, lunches, clothes, and school supplies for the chil- dren of the unemployed. 2. Pree medical and dental ser- vice for ajl workers children. 3. No reduction in teachers wages. 4. No discrimination against the workers children. Better schpol faeilities in the schools located in working-class neighborhoods. 6. Union wages for all work done under jurisdiction of Board of Education. 6. School buildings to be avail- able for workers meetings. ". School gyms to be open for workers spert clubs. 8. School work and curriculum to be under joint control of stud- ents, parents, teachers, and repre- sentatives of workers organizations. 9. Abolish the full-time attorney. 10. Discontinue the payment of $413,000 annually for interest and installments on school bonds; to be used instead for free food, clothes, and medical attention for workers children. The Communist Party points out that the so-called “Labor Ticket” of Borg, Johnson and McKnight here is just another scheme like that of the Olson Farmer Labor Party, which has fought all unem~- ployment rellet measures, NEWARK, N. J., May beet tes, representing pad sin ay Opa and 1,600 workers, met here Saturday and sul re i 5 z i 5 i i : : § i i Hal 3 E 5 $ § a E ‘ " : ae ee 2 F at g & as : i [ : : { uu be elected to attend the National Nominating Convention at Chicago. A number of A. F. of L. locals have SANYAL . MIDY fee Risbele cstssan detail, the vilest | unions and fraternal organizations, On Saturday, May 21, a tag day! will be held to raise funds to defray teh expenses of the delegates and to finance the Maryland and National Election campaigns. The tag day will start at 10 a.m. Headquarters will be maintained throughout the day at the Tom Mooney Hall, 20 S. Lioyd St.; 9 S. Greene St., and 703 Ponca St. Following the tag day, a banquet wii be held Saturday evening at the Tom Mooney Hall, 20 8. Lloyd St. ie ee YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, May 16.— All workers’ organizations are urged to elect. delegates to the Communist Election Conference, which will take place in Youngstown on Sunday, May 22, at 2 p.m. at the Workers’ Center, 334 E. Federal St. This conference will endorse the couuty candidates for the Communist ticket in the Mahoning County and also elect delegates to the National Nominating Convention in Chicago, Ti, on May 28 and 29. Delegates are expected from Camp- ‘bell, Struthers and Youngstown. rear KANSAS CITY, Mo., May 16.—Lo- can conferences to elect delegates to jthe Chicago convention are being held in a number of states making! ap Comunist Party District No. 10. Conferences were held May 15th in Little Rock, Arkansas; St. Joseph, Mo.; Blackwell, Okla., and Houston, exas. Next Sunday there will be similar conferences in Omaha, Nebr.; Sioux City, Iowa; Kansas City, Mo.; Craw- ford County, Kansas, and Oklahoma City, Okla. The Kansas City, Kansas, confer- ence is on May 20, On May 24there will be conferences in Lincoln, Nebr., and Council Bluffs, Iowa. Besides the delegates from these conferences, delegates from workers’ groups in Dallas, Waco, San Antonio and Galveston, all in Texas, are be- ing elected. In Oklahoma City a huge banquet 14s being planned on May 24 to send off delegates of Oklahoma and Texas. On May 26 there will be another in Omaha for delegates from that part of the country. In Kansas City, a banguet will be held May 25 for those delegates. The delegates from Dis- trict 10 are mostly packing house workers, marine workers, miners, farmers, railroad workers and dele- gates from various A. F. of L. locals. LAWRENCE CITY COUNCIL REVOKES PERMIT FOR LAWRENCE, Mass.—Declaring that{ mediate full payment for the unem- it was “too sacred a day to allow meetings for other than patriotic purposes,” Alderman Eberhardt, Com- missioner of Parks and Public Prop- erty here revoked the permit which had already been granted for Second National Youth Day. Last Friday a group of young work- ers elected by the United Front Na~- tional Youth Day Committee to the Alderman for a permit for the use of the City Commons for May 30th at 3.30 p. m. The alderman was not in. ‘Two days later the committees re- turned and received the permit for the demonstration. In the mean- time, an application was filed for a permit for a parade of young and adult workers against the hunger and war program of the bosses and for defense of the Soviet Union on Na- tional Youth Day. After receiving this application, the City Council met. Alderman Eber- hhardt announced that he would re- voke the permit for the demonstra~- tion for the reason mentioned above. A still larger commitee of workers is now demanding that the revoca~ JAPANESE SPEED DRIVE FOR WAR | ON SOVIET UNION, Use Bandit Pretext for| New Advance on | Soviet Border All sections of the Japanese ruling | ¢lass are openly suporting the ulti-} matum of the militarists for the es- tablishment of a “national govern- ment.” Tokyo press dispatches re-| port that the Seiyukai (government) | party thas “indicated its willingness” to form such “a coalition govern-| ment.’ | The criminal aims of the fascist action for the intensification of the | crive for war against the Soviet Union are already in process of reali- zation, as proven in the increasing terror against the revolutionary Jap- anese toilers and the rush of fresh troops to Manchuria to strengthen the Japanese concentration on the! Soviet borders. | ‘The Japanese Rango News Agency yesterday broadcasted “news” of an alleged “massacre” of Japanese by Chinese irregulars in the Manchurian town of Ilan, near the Soviet border. The Rango News Agency dispatch Signiificantly adds that the “insur- gents” were in retreat toward the Soviet border and were being pur- sued by Japanese troops. | Tokio dispatches report wholesale arrests of Japanese workers and poor peasants “suspended” of revolution- WHITE GUARDIST ASSAS Dr. Paul Gorguloy is shown SIN OF FRENCH PRESIDENT being led to police headquarters where he admitted killing President Doumer of France to incite war against the Soviet Union, Ballots Show Veterans’ Support of Bonus Fight NEW YORK.—Ballots that have been returned thus far HELP FIGHT AGAID NAT'L YOUTH DAY ary activities or sentiments. PREACHER SELLS ployed and for the defense of the Soviet Union. show that the war veterans are solidly behind the program of the Provisional Bonus March Committee which has its tem- porary headquarters with the Workers Ex-Servicemen’s League at 1 Union Square, Room 715. Some of the ballots that have been+ MOSCOW PAPERS NAIL LIE OF NEW YORK TIMES MOSCOW, May 18 (by Ca- ble.) —The Soviet press today officialy denies a report which appeared in the New York Times that the Soviet Union is feverishly preparing to concentrate @ quarter of a mililon men in east- ern Siberia. The press points that the Soviet Union has no intention of taking any such measures and that the report is QUT ENDICOTT- JOHNSON STRIKE Shoe Union Exposes Deal and Pushes Struggle BINGHAMTON, N. Y.—Monday morning, May 16th 2,000 Endicot- Johnson shoe workers assembled at the ground of Victory plant to hear the report of the Committee headed by the preacher, Wilson on the con- ference. { From the report which Mr. Wilson gave, the workers realized that the man to whom they had entrusted their confidence had betrayed them baseless. NEW YORK —The Tires story had attempted to show the Soviet tion of the original permit be with- drawn. Leaflets and meetings are being prepared to get the support of the Lawrence workers for the Na- tional Youth Day demonstrations and parades on May 29th and 30th— permit or no permit. DULUTH, Sainn’—with scorés and resolutions pouring into the office of Safety Commissioner Moore of Du- luth, demanding that a permit be given to the National Youth Day Commitee is calling a huge protest meeting for Wednesday, May 18th at 2pm From this demonstration a delega- tion will be elected to go to demand that the permit be given. Already some organizations have elected their delegates to the United Front Com- mittee and others are being visited, which in turn pledge to join in the National Youth Day campaign. Safety Commissioner Moore acting under the direction of the Steel Trust, denied a permit on the basis that it would “descreate” the dead of the last war. A délegation will be sent form the demonstration demanding that the permit be granted for this parade. The local Veterans of Foreign Wars has endorsed the action of Moore and has asked Governor Olson ‘for the National Guard to help the local police. In spite of the preparations of the bosses tools to smash the demon- stration, the youth will demonstrate and parade on May 30, for the im- Use French Liner Disaster for New War Provocation NEW YORK.—The French liner, “Georges Philippar” caught fire Mon- day off Italian Somaliland, Fast Africa, with a loss of over 300 lives. The Soviet oil tanker “Sovietskaia Neft” was the firt vessel to respond to the liner’s call for help. The) Soviet vessel rescued 400 of the crew and passengers. Two British vessels the “Contractor” and the “Mahsud” arricved later. Most of the bour- geois press in reporting the rescues returning to Marseilles from the Far East. The European bourgeois press exploiting the French disaster as a new anti-Communist provocation, declaring that the vessel was fired Union in “a warlike gesture.” It re- ported a steady movement of Soviet troops over the Trans-Siberian Rail- way to Eastern Siberia. No such movement of troops is taking place. Even bourgeois press correspondents in the Soviet Union are forced to ad- mit the peaceful intentions of the Soviet Union. Karl H. Von Wiegand, Universal Service _ representative states in a dispatch to the New York American: “No preparations for war in the Far East are evident along Soviet Russia’s Trans-Siberian Railway. “Contrary to reports spread in Shanghai, Mukden and Harbin of alleged feverish activity for an ex- pected war with Japan, I found con- ditions along Russia's steel artery to the Far East quite normal. “That the Red Army garrison east of China has been considerably rein- forced in the last two or three months is, however, frankly admitted in authoritative quarters. ° “From my observations the de- duction is inescapable that Russia is leaning backward, that she may not give Japan grounds for char- ges she is preparing for or expect- ing war.” SOVIET PRESS HITS FRENCH WAR INCITING LIE By MYRA PAGE (European Correspondent of the Daily Worker) MOSCOW, May 18. (By Cable).— The Soviet press today publishes an official statement denying the French reports that Dr. Paul Gorgulov, white guardist murderer of the French president, possessed a document con- firming the Red Army service issued to “the Soviet military representa- tive in Prague.” The Soviet Union never had @ military agent in Prague. Gorgulov is a known § counter- revolutionary and therefore it is impossible that he possesed any au- thentic Soviet documents, NE Biss NEW YORK.—A Paris dispatch to the New York Times yesterday re- ported that Gorgulov told an ex- amining magistrate on Monday that he murdered President Paul Doumer because he considered French policy “tolerant” to the Solvet Union, The dispatch states: “When Dr. Gorgulov was told that Mr. Doumer had not been a friend of the Soviet Union, as he had thought, the assassin expressed by Communists believing that it was carrying munitions to Japan. The truth ts that the fire started in an empty cabin as a result of a short eiroult deep regret for his act.” In previous statements, Gorgulov frankly admitted that his act was and sold them out. ‘The workers of Endicott-Johnson Corporation were forced to go back to work and to accept a 10 per cent wage-cut. A meeting was called by the work- ers in the company town of Endi- cott and over 200 crowded the small hall; 50 per cent were young workers. They were addressed by a worker from Endicott-Johnson and by Com- rade 8. Ziebel, Secretary of the Na- tional Committee of the Shoe and Leather Workers Industrial Union. The bétrayal was exposed to the woers. The workers were urged to workers. The workers were urged to organize so as to be able to fight against the wage-cuts. Another mass meeting will be held on Thursday, May 18th at the Lith- uanian Hall in Binghamton, N. Y. Pope Assails Reds to Shield Bosses and War Plotters From the vatican at Rome the head of the Catholic Church, Pope Pius XI, has issued a denunciation of Communism and Atheism and has decreed ‘that a week of prayer be carried out, beginning June 3. This is the same pope who, in 1930, initiated a campaign of lies and slander against the Soviet Union and aided the interventionist plot- ters by calling for a “holy war” against Iverethtuol anory against the revolutionary fatherland of the workers of the world. In bis latest harrangue the vat- {can hireling of international im- Perlalist banditry says that Com- munism and Atheism is responsible for the present world economic crisis. Thus, as always, we see the pope (rying to shield the real capitalist culprits whose regime has imposed mass hunger and misery upon tens of millions of workers throughout the world. ‘The only new thing in the pope's outburst that differs from the en- cyclical bull of Pope Leo is that he can no longer deny that Communism is a powerful world force, whereas his predecessor said that Commun- ism could never gain a foothold be- cause it was “against the nature of god ang humanity.” “His holiness” says that prayers and atonement only will overcome the difficulties facing the world. This, from the head of an institution whose record of torture, violence and bloodshed fills pages of gory history over @ period of a thousand years when that institution shared with! the feudal kings the rule of Europe. The “encycliaa® is a piece of hypocritical propaganda put forth to aid the impzrialist powers in their war conspiracies against the Soviet Union and to incite suppression of received are interesting examples of how the veterans show their support. One vet made a notation on his bal- lot that he js a truck driver and vol- unteers to drive a truck for the march to Washington. Another, says that he is at home after 8 p. m. and wants a representative of the WESL to come to see him about joining the or- ganization. One Veteran made a notation on his ballot that his wife is a war nurse and that they have been. re- duced to a position where they have already been given a dispossess not- fee for their inability to pay their tent. We have given the Unemploy- ed Cottncil notification of this fact BONUS J am in favor of cash payment and will mobilize veterans to fight this eviction. Ballots that were lclipped from the Daily Worker have been received in every mail toda: The Veterans read the Daily Wor! jer and are signing the ballots print- ed in this paper. Veterar it will not be long now | before we will be ready to start our trek to Washington! Get your bud- dies to sign ballois. Get them -be- hind the march to Washington. Headquarters of the Workers Ex- Servicemen’s League, 1 Union Square |Hoom 715, New York City. Ballots will be sent free of charge. SIGN THE BALLOT BELOW ® BALLOT of the bonus to all veterans O 1 am in favor of a veteran's march to the capitol at Washington im What outfit did you serve in? What organization are you in Servicemen’s League, 1 Union Square, Phila. WIR to Have — Camp for Children ‘The Workers International Relief has launched a campaign for a camp for workers’ children. Last year the WIR managed to maintain a camp where over 300 children, mostly of unemployed and striking workers, For Explanation of the Election Platform Points Daily Worker: Over a month ago, on April 2, the Daily Worker printed the Central Committee call for the National Nom- inating Convention, together with the demands for the campaign. Comrade Hathaway, in an article in the Daily Worker of April 25, says concerning these demands that the Central Committee instructed the Districts that they were “to be used unchanged. At the same time we emphasized the need, while using the demands, to widely explain and popularize these slogans in our speeches and articles.” How are the instructions to “widely explain and popularize” being carried District 2, is that not only are not out? My experiance in Section 1, District 2, is that not only not these instructions being carried out, but that some leading comrades in our section do not understand some of the most important demands raised by the Central Committee For ex- ample, in an informal discussion a leader in unemployed work stated that he did not know what demand No. 1 means. He wanted to know why the Party had abandoned the de- mand for insurance at full wages. Others including myself also would like to now whether this demand has been abandoned. If such confusion exists among our leading comrades what are we to expect among the rank and file let alone the non-party masses? Need Written Explanation How is this situation to be ac- counted for? I think that it is because we have never had in the Daily aimed at causing war between France |the Comraunist Parties as part of| Worker, Communist, or in pamph- Union and Soviet the war preparations. Jet form @ clear statement of what now? Send this to: Workers Ex- Room 715. y and comradely va- cation. ear due to the in- creased miscry of the workers we will be called upon to take care of many more hundreds of children. The WIR is calling upon all working class | organizations and individuals to help make this drive a success. Send don- ations to WIR, camp department, 629 Chestnut St., Philadelphia. What Our Readers Say on the Election Campaign these six demands mean. A unit dis- cussion is insufficient. Every active party member must have a copy of such a statement which he can keep and continually refer to. Comrades will no doubt say that there have been two explanatory statements, first the one by Comrade Hathaway quoted above and second the “Proposed National Election Plat- form” printed in the Daily Worker on April 28. Comrade Hathaway's article helps to clear up certain problems but it is the demands and explains the dif- ference in formulation but very evi- dently was not intended as a com- plete explanation. Is Platform Ciear? “The “Proposed National Election Platform” on the other hand ap- parently was intended as a com- plete statement. This statement, re~ printed, is being widely spread in the signature drive. Let us see whether or not it gives a clear statement of what the Central Committee meant by these demands, 1—Concerning demand No. 1 no mention is made of the precise form of unemployment insurance nor is j there any explanation of socia] in- j surance, 2,—The second demand is not made clear. The statement speaks of wage- cuts and also of Hoover's stagger plan but what is meant by Hoover's wage- cutting policy? On this point Com- rade Hathaway is much clearer. He says “The Hoover administration is directly responsible for instituting the wage-cutting campaign. The Lamont letter and other acts of Hoover clearly proves this." proves this.” (article quoted above). This statement amplified somewhat) (I aim not acquainted with the letter referred to and I doubt that many Party members are) will make it more clear why the wage-cuts to be laid directly te Hoover's door. Also I sug- Write for ballots to the National; in no sense a complete explanation in| HE “DAILY WORKER”! ST WAR PREPARATIONS’ D LETTERS TO Government Orders 2,500 Wartime Parachutes NEW YORK.—Ti d for ha st Te- shipped in 60 doys t Naval Ammunition Depot at | Another 0 hippec e Depot at Virginia, | president of this compar 1 é ‘ ois required parachutes much in commer smaller. War Shipments on Japanese Ships from U.S. Show Gain — (By a Worker Correspondent) NORFOLK, Va.—A Japanese ship, Tai Ping Yang. sailea_- | yesterday from Norfolk for “the Far Ea: with 00 tons of | cotton. This is the third Japanese ship to sail from Norfolk nce May 1, and more Japanese ships are expected here within®” * a few days. These unusual shipments of cotton are intended for use in manufacture of Munitions * ing Baltimore coal at Hamptor™: and for other military purposes. 2 40 ‘The unrest among the Japanese | seamen is shown by the action of the! |officers of the ship in refusing to} permit any of the sailors to go} ashore, and armed Japanese marines} stood guard at the gangplank. There} ment was made here that the Pomp- | were twelce marines on this “mer-|ton Lakes plant, a DuPont concern, chant ship.” | which produces munitions and explo- A number ot Japanese ships load | sive , will speed up production next - part of their cargo in Baltimore and | week. come to Norfolk for additional cargo! the com’ ef scrap iron, cotton, ctc., I) number jthink that all of the Japanése ships diate! | | Roads before sailing DUPONT GETS ORDERS. (By a Worker Correspondent) NEWARK, N. J.—An announce The announcement states that, s received a large, to be filled imme-2 Send Rush Orders for Mines | for UWS, Fleet in Pacific = The New York Navy Yard has just } received a rush order for 200 mines. the vicinity of a well-known arnis Welders are being forced to work | manufacturing plant, the Remingt night and day on the shells. | plant in Ilion, N. Y. They haye been Tais is the first time since -1920; manufacturing automatics, shot guns that the Yard has received such an order. The last order it filled was for a foreign power. Never before has the Yard received such a large order for mines, Mines are generally manufactured for the Coast Guard for use in break- ing up icebergs and derelicts. The or- der now being filled, however, is for extremély large mines, built différt ently. The mines are for the’ use of the Conirol Force, U. Fleet. This includes the minelay destroyers, battle fleet and the ype subma- rines which are capable of laying mines. The explosives are being» made~by | a New Jersey ammunition factory. | / It is expected that the mines will be completed by the middle of Ji 1 2 and A will be shipped to Coco Solo and Ma- | on people are bidding for the nila on a transport ‘Army | P! tion of the new machine gun. Base on or about: 3: " | This is a new, light gun, with which, it is said. the U. S, government is planning to equip every man in the army. It was recently my fortune to be it and hunting rifles, as well as t. writers and cash registers. The cash register business has been sold and most of the other departments osten- sibly closed, or working on short time. Very few of the many who used to work there are still employed You have been exposing the manu- facturing of war materials. The Rem- ington plant is being put in order. It is being reported that new floors are being laid in the plant formerly used for cash registers; old, worn out machinery is being replaced with y, it is said. (This, it is rumored, a standing contract with the government to keep their mu- ns plants in perfect workingg or- It is also rumored that the (By & Worker Correspondent) Hamilton, N. Y 4th May, 1932 p= the Daily Worker: This is the system of our “demo- cratic” government, HIS is the tenth series of discussion letters on the elee- tion platform and campaign of the Communist Party at in by readers of the Daily Worker. Articles will be itten by comrades from the Central Committee on the uv various suggestions and proposals as the discussion pro» gresses. ALL READERS ARE URGED THE PLATFORM TO AGAIN READ AS PUBLISHED IN THE DAILY WORKER OF APRIL 28TH AND SEND IN THEIR | OPINIONS AND PROPOSALS. The special supplement containing the platform can. : be secured in the office of your district. gest. that Hoover's encouragement of these demands by linking them up**” Doak’s strikebreaking activities be| with day to day events. The articles*’” included in the explanation of this|on the war danger in the Daily demand, orker of May 12, 13 and 14 are’*“# 3—The farmers’ dew good in this respect but since this is ~” lo be a period of discussion our slogans should be explained in cons nection with other news of the day; for example in the Daily Worker of,~ Thursday, May 12, the first pagt editorial is on the shoe strikes bute there is no {suggestion that these strikes are part of the struggle led by the Party for our second demand “Against Hoover's Wage Cutting Policy.” An article on Comrade Berkman’ hunger strike might have been used” to advance our slogan against ter- ror, A new story of wage-cuts anth;”? organization in the steel industry might again have been used for ada vancing slogan No, 2. 3.—The instructions, “to be used ignored in the statemer worker will. understand plained “tirelessly”) the nec demand No. 3? 4.—Not one word of explanation of demand No. 4 appears, yet surely this will be difficult to explain. I have had some workers tell me that they never heard of the Black Belt and thought that the Party was referring to Harlem, 5.—The slogan, “Defense of the Chinese People “is not explained. Proposals To correct these omissions in the “Proposed National Election Plat- form” I think the following should should be done. 1—A series of articles fully ex- plaining our demands should be| unchanged,” uld be repeated from | started at once in the revolutionary jtime to time At the same time, |press. If this is not done at o1 we comrades must be shown will not have time to properly iso use lesser, more imme- cuss these demands with the masses more concrete slogans in between now and the National Nom-jconnection with our six general inating Convention. slogans 2.—The Press must take every op- BILL 7 Re portunity to explain and popularize Section 1, New York.