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VOTE COMMUNIST FOR Unemployment and Social Insurance at the ex- pense of the state and employers. Against Hoover’s wage-cutting policy. Emergency relief for the poor farmers without restrictions by the government and banks; ex- emption of poor farmers from taxes, and from forced collection of rents or debts. (Section of the Communist International) the Chinese peopl VOTE COMMUNIST FOR suppression of the political rights of worl ermile of rs, 4. Equal rights for the Negroes and sel ation for the Black Belt. 5. Against capitalist terror; against all form Against imperialist war; for the defense. of le and of the Soviet Union. Entered as second-cia: a matter at the Pust Uffice at New York, N. Y., ander the act of March 3, 1879 NEW YORK, FRIDAY, MAY 27, 1932 =e crry EDIFON _Price 3) Cents —— Money Does Not Smell---But. ONEY does not smell” was a favorite quotation of Karl Marx, the great teacher of the working class. For that reason, said Marx, gold is an ideal medium of exchange for the robber capitalist system. One eanhot tell by looking at a dollar bill where it came from. Looking into the glittering face of gold, one cannot see the shady deals by which it was gotten by its owner. The dollar bill, like the democratic fellow he is, moves around from hand to hand, asks no questions and tells no tales. It is needless to say that good fellow, though he be, he manages to keep away from the hands of the workers. But it is a usual habit that when dollars come in bunches, they are deposited in banks. At least this is done by a lot of people that have this precious article. But deposits, mean records and records tell a tale. Hence, our capitalist politicians have found a way of getting out of this inconvenience by resorting to an old fashioned trick of keeping money in a sock, (modern style—in a tin box). When asked in the Seabury investigation where the hundreds of thousands of dollars which they piled up came from, the Tammany poli- ticians glibly explained, “From a tin box.” But Jimmy Walker is more progressive. As is fitting the office of a mayor of the richest city in the world, Walker explained he got $246,000 for nothing and that this money was kept by him in “a safe at home not in a tin box,” mind you! By means of such cynical lying, these leading henchmen of foul and decaying capitalism try to explain away the fortunes they pile up at the expense of the exploited and oppressed toilers. Money does not smell. But the same cannot be said about Tammany Hall or the Mayor of New York. The Cardinal and Capitalist Party Conventions By here New York Times, that authoritative journal of American imperial- ism, proves that the catholic church and its hierarchy have no con- nection with polities: DUBLIN, May 25.—Cardinal Mundelein of Chicago cabled his regret today to the Lord Mayor that he would be unable to attend the eucharistic conference here this summer. ‘The cardinal said he would have to remain away because of bad economic conditions at home and because HE DEEMED IT UNWISE TO BE ABSENT FROM CHICAGO DURING THE REPUBLICAN AND DEMOCRATIC CONVENTIONS THERE. —Associated Press dispatch to the New York Times. Only the emphasis is ours. To add more would be gilding the lily. NEWS FLASHES (Cable-by Inprecorr) FASCISTS PLANNED ATTACK IN DIET, SAYS COMMU- NIST PARTY STATEMENT; SOCIALISTS FLED FIGHT BERLIN, May 26—The Communist Party issued an appeal to the German workers in connection with yesterday’s attack of the fascists in the Prussian Diet. The appeal declares that the attack was planned and organized, noting statements of the Fascist leader, Kube, and the Fascist newspaper, “Angriff’, showing a deliberate intention to provoke the dis- turbances in the Diet. The appeal condemns. the cowardly attitude of the Socialist deputies, who fled from the Diet immediately without helping to repulse the fascists. It points out that the attack occurred immediately prior to the discussion of the Communist demands on behalf of the unemployed which would have revealed the emptiness of the fascist bombastic promises. It warns all workers that the fascist attack is a sign of the times. It calls for the immediate formation of the revolutionary anti-fascist front of all workers irrespective is party, porteical < union membership. HAMBURG JOBLESS SMASH WINDOWS, RAID BIG FOOD STORES HAMBURG, May 26.—Bloody collisions between police and unemployed occurred here yesterday between police and unemployed. Several thousand unemployed workers marched through the fashionable streets, shouting “We are hungry. Give us bread”. They smashed windows of elegant shops, c.fes, and overturned automobiles. The police- attack with clubs and revolvers, injuring and arresting many. However, they were unable to clear the streets. A number of food stores were raided and food stuffs siezed. Today the demonstrations tontinued. The police fired a hail of shots wounding 15 workers and hitting an oil truck, causing fire and destruction, One policeman was killed and many workers were arrested. . * * DORTMUND, May 26.—Collisions occurred between unemployed and police yesterday evening. Many workers and two policemen were injured. ‘Twenty-two workers were arrested. COMMUNISTS REPULSE BERLIN FASCISTS BERLIN, May 26.—Fierce collisions occurred between young Commu- nists and fascists in various parts of the city here today. The fascists were seriously mauled. One was sent to the hospital. Police clubbed energetically, making a number of arrests. . OLD BOLSHEVIK DIES MOSCOW, May 26.—The old Bolshevik Kidkisch, member of the pre- sidium of the Central Control Commission of the Communist Party and chairman of the Metal Workers Union, was killed here today in automo- bile accident. He had been a member of the Party since 1910, and was a courageous and loyal fighter. * . Remington Rand Workers on Strike BROOKLYN, N. Y¥.—Twenty-f; ve |and conduct negotiations and organ- workers of the Remington Rand poration, nationally known filing cabipet firm, went out on strike Tuesday at the Brooklyn division against a 10 per cent wage-cut, the fourth slash dealt them by the bosses. The workers, most of whom are young, immediately elected a committee of three to lead the strike ~\ized picketing in three-hour shifts. The Printing Workers’ Industrial League, 126 University Place, near 14th St., calls upon the workers to remain firm, continue picketing and spread the strike. It urges the strik- ers and those workers still employed to join the Printing Workers’ Indus- trial League. Commodore Laundry Strikers to Parade; Gangster Is Licked NEW YORK.—A parade of Com- modore Laundry strikers will move through the Bronx . streets today (Friday), starting from Laundry Workers Industrial League headquar- ters at 260 East 138th St. at 1.30 p, m. A carload of gangsters attacked a worker of the Sardem Laundry be- cause he had been active in the Commodore picketing. The worker dofended himself so well he split the Jaw of one gangster. One of the gangsters has such @ long record that "the police have to hold him for in- vestigation, at least for a while, Se Trade Union Unity League Endorses the Chicago Convention NEW YORK—The National Executive Board of the Trade Union Unity League has endorsed the call for a National Nominat- ing Convention in Chicago, May 28 and 29, to adopt a platform and nominate for president and vice-president to run on the Com- munist Party ticket. All Trade Union Unity League national unions and leagues are sending delegates to the nominating con- vention. Local bodies of the TUUL took a prominent part in the city conferences which sent delegates to Chicago, - BEET STRIKE WINS FIRST VICTORIES Several Farmers Offer Guarantee; Rush Food At Once BULLETIN DENVER, Colo., May 26.—The United Front Relief Committee for the beet workers’ strike and the Workers’ International Relief have a new address now. ‘The new ad- dress is 1154 Eleventh St. Mail can also be sent fo Post Office Box 2023. The Relief office is moved from the old address on Lawrence Street. DENVER, Colo, May 26—The strike of 18,000 beet workers is solid in the southern counties, and is still on the up-grade in the northern fields. In Fort Morgan several farmers have already signed a guarantee of wages at least equal to those of last year, and have deposited the check for the season’s wage in the bank, the worker to draw on it as he earns the money. This means winning of two demands, the guarantee, and the demand for cash payment instead of payment in credit on the grocery store. The effect of this initial vic- tory. is very great. The strikers see they can win. The United Front Strike Commit- tee has declared the second demand “guarantee of pay” to be the main demand now. The first demand is for $23 an acre. Organizers Sanchez and Charles Guynn have returned from a trip through the northern beet fields of Colorado, They report the situation favorable, and a general tightening up of the organizational side of the strike activity. Local strike com- mitteés, local relief and defense’ com- mittees are being formed and brought into activity. Section head- quarters are being sei up. s 8 The strikers are full of determin- ation and willingness to fight. The strike will continue to grow, if even some relief can be sent in. Two truckloads of food through the W. I. R. have greatly encouraged them, but. dozens of colonies have had no food yet. Tents are also decisive. Wherever workers are still in the fields, it is because they are facing eviction and see no place to get shel- ter, The colonies are already packed with evicted families, doubling up with those who still have homes. In Greely, a colony ordinarily number- ing 150 now has 350 in if. Sixteen more families face eviction there today. Four families are living in one room, Rush tents and food immediately to the new address of the United Front Relief Committee, 1154 Elev- enth St., Denver, mail address P. O. Box 2023, Denver, Colo. Six of those arrested at La Junta have been sentenced to 30 days for picketing. Three from Swink have been fined $100 each, or sentenced to 50 days for speaking at a strike meeting held after they city council had forbidden all meetings of work- ers. In Greely, 17 have been given 20 days each on vagrancy charges, and one striker has been given 30 days. All these workers’ cases have been appealed, and the men are out on bond. HUNGRY, SHOT AS THIEF CLEVELAND.—Henry L. Smith, 21, unemployed, hungry. and homeless, was riddled with buckshot when he attempted to steal a chicken to eat. He is held as prisoner at City Hos- pital. i “| bility of @ clash with Soviet Russia,” To All Toilers: strike Colorado beet workers. gle, in the face of great odds. The Great Western Sugar farmers, are trying to keep t duce a sarvation wage by cut one-half. and deportation unless they ac conditions are offered by the This strike can be won. workers are not back in the The strike of 18,000 workers is the largest of agricultural werkers since the World War: and the first big struggle of the It is a heroic strug- large sugar interests, who dictate to the ers in conditions of actual slavery, forced labor, starvation wages and use every form of persecution and discrimination. This year they are trying to further re- In addition, the beet workers’ who toil long hours with their whole families, wives and children to earn even a piece of bread: are often not paid for work done, and are forced at company stores which rob them. The overwhelming majority of the workers are Mexicans, and are threatened with jail The whole crop in the Colorado fields may be lost if the This has great advantages for the strikers. STATEMENT OF THE TRADE UNION UNITY LEAGUf idation Co. and other The outecom he beet work- | ance! ting it nearly Rush tents, 2028, Denver, cept whatever sugar kings. fields shortly. But it also calls forth every and terror scheme of the sugar inter before the stri fused to sign the news contracts for a wage cut were denied credit at the stores. dreds have been evicted. immediate support given by the the rest of the country. for building elaborate tion is necessary now. This is one of the most important struggles in the resistance of the nation-wide on workers’ standards of living. concern of every worker. ly to United Front Relief Committee, Eleventh St., Denver, Colo.. Adopt resolutions of test against wholesale arrests, terror and de- portations in Colorado. and adopt such resolutions. once to the United Front Strike Committee, P. O. Box 2023, Denver, form of intim- starvation For the beet workers who re- and every weeks ike, Hun- e of the strike is in the bal- Victory depends on the amount of vorkers of There is no time elief machinery. Ac- Later will be too late. attack It is the food and cash at once, direct- 1154 or to P, 0. Box Colo. lidarity and pro- Hold mass meetings Send them at Colo. Organization of the Japanese acy cist dictatorship was completed yes- terday by Admiral Viscoynt Makoto Saito, with General Sadao Araki con- tinuing as War Minister. A Tokio dispatch to the New York Evening Post significantly interprets the fas- cist action as increasing “the possi- and further states: “The retention of General Araki guarantees the continuation of the | present military policies in “Man-. churia.” ‘These policies clearly aim at an early attack on the Soviet ‘Union. | General Honjo, Japanese command- er in Manchuria, several days ago re: moved his headquarters from Muk- | den to Harbin to direct the advance of four Japanese armies toward the Soviet Union. ; One of these armies, advancing | down the Sungari Valley, was report- | - ELIZABETH SCOTTSBORO MEET ELIZABETH, N. J.—May 26—Lu- cille Wright, 11 year old sister of 2 of the Scottsboro will speak at a children’s rally for the deferise of the Scottsboro Boys in Elizabeth, N. J. This rally will take place on Satur- day, May 28th at Lutwin’s Hall, 69 South Park Street, 7 p. m. NEW YORK.—“We accept your challenge,” says the Trade Union Unity Council in answer to the lying pamphlet put out by the latest strike- breaking agency of the I. Miller Shoe Co. A racketeer group calling itself “Constitutional Educational Le: of 113 W. 42nd St., has distribyted leaflets containing statements that the T. U. U. L. unions are “not unions but political organizations in- terested in the advancement of their revolutionary theories at the expense of the workers in the industries,” and that “they have never won a strike” DETROIT.—Over 1500 ex-service- men jammed the Cass Technical High School Auditorium here Mon- day and rocked the building with enthusiastic cheers in response to the call of the Provisional Bonus March Committee and the Workers Ex-Servicemen’s League for a mass delegate march to Washington to de- mand immediate cash payment of their back pay (the tombstone bon- us). A delegation of 20 worker veterans was elected to present demands to the Pennsylvania R. R. Co, for free transportation of 1,000 bonus march- ers to Washington, 1,000 to March. DETROIT VETERANS TO MARCH 1,000 TO LEAVE FOR WASHINGTON Washington before June 8, Another big rally will be held Tyesday even- ing, May 31 to make final prepara- tions for the march which will leave Detroit June 2. Plans were made for a committee to go ahead of the main body to make arrangements for food and sleeping quarters for the marchers along the route, to make plain the demands of the bonus marchers and to rally more vets to join the march. Speakers from the Workers’ Ex- Servicemen’s League called on the rank and file veterans of ell veter- mass march and send telegrams to Congress to demand full cash pay- ment of the bonus. “One thousand veterans pledged to Join the mrarch which will arrive in “ (Additional News. on Page 3), | ranks more Four Japanese Armies | Continue Advance to Soviet Borders ed four days ago to be “within less than fifty miles of the Soviet border and continuing its advance.” Another army advancing on the Chinese Eastern Railway has already gone beyond Hailin, near the Vlad- ivostok district. A third ermy has reached Hailun on the Hulan-Hailun railway. A fourth army is concentrating in the triangle of the Korean-Manchurian- Soviet borders, direct!y on the Soviet border. W alker Forced to Admit Another ‘Gift’ of $28,000 Claims Money from Agents of Big Business Was Just Benevolence of Very TRADE UNION UNITY LEAGUE N ATIONAL CONVENTION URGES AID TO BEET STRIKE OF COMMUNIST CAMPAIGN _ OPEN TOMORROW MORNING Peers Coming in From All Over Country, Tokyo Dispatch Admits Fascist Action in Drive for War Against Soviet Union : Good People NEW YORK.—‘“Jimmy” Walker | papers, including the notoriously went on the stand at the Seabury anti-labor and scab herding Pitts- : t alker refused investigation again yesterday and be- burgh Post- e. Walker refused | to answer why he s given the gan by testifying that he just didn't know, though he “had an. opinion,” why Mr. Block, chain of newspapers, including the vicious anti-labor scab mine operator advocate, the Pitts- burgh Post-Gazette, had given him $246,000 in the last two years while Walker was mayor of New York. Block is owner of a chain of news- Tell “Constitution League” to “Put Up the Money” (they have really won hundreds of strikes), and that “the workers in the shoe industry have paid the Commu- nist organizers over one-half million dollars,” and other statements equally wild, untrue and fantastic. This “Constitytional Educational League” prints on the cover of its leaflet an offer of $1,000 Reward If Any Information in This Bulletin is Proven Untrue.” * Put Up the Money! This challenge the Trade Union Unity Council, to which the shoe workers’ union is affiliated, accepts in a letter which declares, in part: “After investigating this so-called ‘Constitution ; Educational League,’ we found + ¢ you are nothing but a strike-bt aking and stool-pigeon agency, vubsidized by the I. Miller and the Board of Trades. “You state in your circular that “@ $1,000 reward will be paid if any information in this bulletin is preven untrue.’ Every word in that bulletin is a damnable lie, We ac- cept your challenge and gemand that you deposit $1,000 and let one of your strike-breakers appear at a meeting of the I. Miller strikers to prove what you state in your cir- culars.” ‘The T, U. U.C. then issued a state- ment which declares: “that the work- ers in the shoe industry are now pre- paring for a mass strike, under the leadership of the Shoe and Leather Workers’ Indystrial Union. Some of the largest shoe factories are already on strike, like the I. Miller, Andrew Geller, Paris, etc. The reply of the strikers to all attempts to break their be stronger picket lines, money, and insisted that only Mr. Block could say. “Mr. Block’s life has been charac- terized by generosity and a very un- usual friendship for a great many people,” said Jimmy, without a blush, and continued: “The regret about it is not mine, but I am quite sure his, that any publicity was given to any beneficience that he might exercise for anybody or any He has been a very mode: ways kept his charities as far from publicity as he could.” Real friend- ship, $246,000 worth of it, from an @| agent of the biggest employers to the |mayor of New York The Tammany Claque was pr" yesterday, as on the day befor cheered when Walker, in a tight place over the question of the vote on the taxicab bill, blurted out: “I am he for an inquiry, but it looks as if somebody wants my life!” The bulk of the day was taken up by verbal skirmishing and veiled in- sults back and forth between the ma- jority of the committee and Walker, with Walker evading direct answers to almost every question, but finally admitting that he had profited, with- SCOTTSBORO BOYS! for Historic Gathering Leading Hunger Fight All Workers Invited t o Nominating Sessions in Chicago Coliseum, Saturtay Evening CHICAGO, Ill, May 26.—Last minute preparations are be« ing rushed for the National Nominating Convention for the Communist election campaign. The convention is made up of delegates from hundreds of trade unions and workers’ mass organizations, and from local WORKERS! DEFEND RUSH PROTESTS! Necessary to Act at Once to Smash Boss Conspiracy The United States Supreme Court will give its decision on May 31 as to whether it will review the Scottsboro lynch verdicts, The ap- peal was filed last Monday with the Supreme Court by the Interna- tional Labor Defense atorneys. The state of Alabama is opposing a re- view of the lynch sentences and is fighting to rush seven of the nine innocent boys to the electric chair on June 24. Ihe United States Supreme Court, like the Alabama courts, is an instrument of the ruling class for the suppression of the struggles of the masses, and for the maintenance of the capi- talist system of robbery and mur- der. It is urgently necessary that pro- test telegrams and resolutions de- manding the immediate, uncondi- tional release of the boys be rushed AT ONCE to the U. S. Supreme Court, All organizations and per- sons interested in the fight to free the nine innocent Scotsboro boys should at once send telegrams to Chief Justice Hughes, Supreme Court, Washington, D. C. Stop the legal lynching ot the Scottsboro boys! Rush protests! Organize flying meetings at factory gate and in neighborhoods! Rouse the masses everywhere to protest against the hideous conspiracy to lynch these innocent working-class boys. Delegates to Chicago! Meet Your Train Today All delegates going by train to the National Nominating Convention in Chicago, leaving from New York and New Jersey, should be in the MAIN WAITING ROOM, of the Erie R. R. Station, Jersey City, at 8.30 a, m. | today daylight saving time. extent of $26,000 in the Cosden Oil Pool. Here again he coujdn't quite | understand himself, so he said why he was let into such a nice little) sum. He agreed that lots of people | seem to like him. They ere people with money, people with a need to have the city government on their side full of the Tammany gang, with per- haps a sprinkling of the up-state re- publican contingent who hope to make some political capital out of the exposures, very few of New York's million and a half of unemployed had the privilege of learning how easy With the seats at the hearing all| out making any investment, to the| it is to make money. Carpenters’ Officials Fear. Jobless Insurance Movement Hutchison Threatens Expulsion for Support to Rank and File A. F. of L. Committee Following on the heels of the re- local organizations of the Carpenters actionary President Green of the|Unicn, Hutchinson and Duffy in American Federation of Labor, an|the circular letter which they have attack has been made upon the Rank| sent out repeat the charge of Presi- and File A. F. of L. Committee for|dent Green that this organization Unemployment Insurance and Relief,|is “Communistic.” 1,ouis Weinstock, by William L, Hutchinson and Frank Duffy, president and secretary re- spectively of the United Brother hood of Carpented and Joiner of America, The Rank and File A. F. of L, Committee, with offices at 799 Broadway, has aroused the opposi- tion of these officials because of the referendum which it is carrying on within the A. F. of L. ‘locals for jobless insurance and has already won the endorsement of more than ””' 800 local unions, among them many |Secretary of the Rank and File Committee, has already answered President Green on this point, stat- ing that his eommittee is not a Communist organization, bui in- cludes workers and labor organiza- tions of all shades of political opin- ion, including Communists, who he points out, are acuive in gil workers’ conferences of such organiza- “tions. The first session is Saturday |morning at 10 o'clock, in People’s | Auditorium. But hicago workers | will really appear in force at the second session which will be ad- journed to the Coli where the hall seats 14,000. The Coliseum is ai 15th and Wabash. The Colisevm sés- sion opens at 7 p.m., Saturday, May 28. Every worker in C go is in- | Vited. The first session in the morninr at the Auditorium will dis adopt a platform for the campaign A draft platform submitted br the Communist Party ich make unemployment and social insurance at the expense of the state and th employers the main issue, and fol lows with five other planks (printe at the top of this page of the Dail. Worker). | | .When the great crowds gather ¢ cuss ani is the Coliseum, a summary of even! at the morning session will be give. |from the platform, and then in th presence of the masses, nomination for president and vice-president c | the United States will be made. Negro Proposes Foster. District Organizer Amis of th: Communist Party, Cleveland Dis triet, ‘a Negro worker, will propos for nominee for president, Williar Z. Foster, general secretary of th: Trade Union Unity League. C. Hath away, manager of the National Cam paign Committee, will propose Jame W. Ford, a Negro worker from Ala bama, as nominee for vice-president The National Noniinating Conven tion meets in a flurry of threats o legal action by patrioteer organiza tions: to prevent it from meeting, an int the midst of rymors of attack the convention. The masses of ers will be there, however, to de: their own national convention. The masses will gather with the knowledge of a n onward sweep o' the Communist campaign all over thr country. The latest events to be re- ported to the National Campaign o the Communist Party are the fol- lowing: 29,263 Cal. Signatures. Signatures on the peéitions tc place the Communist Party on the ballot in California now number 29,- 263, and only 15,000 are needed. Thesc signatures were secured while the Republican and Democratic party judges and police made every effort to intimidate the workers. In Sante Rosa, Cal., a signature collector wat arrested. The authorities, with braz- en insolence, charge this worker witt “collecting signatures by pre- tenses” because the worker declare¢ that putting the Communist Party on the. ballot will help the unem- ployed—which it surely will Berkman Honorary Delegate. The National Campaign Commite |tee has alsq been notified that @ |thousand textile workers met on Lawrence Common yesterday, and after protesting the American Wool- en Company’s new 20 to 30 per cent wage cut, elected Edith Berkman their honorary de ate to the Chie |cago convention. Edith Berkman has |been held in confinement for seven |months now, under threat of depore tation, by the Republican Secretary lof Labor Doak, because she led Lawe k |rence workers in strike against wage cuts. Information will be laid before the convention to the effect that there are Communist candidates for state office in practically every state now, and in many states there is a full ticket, candidates tor every office. Worker International Relief Calls Gn All to Collect Tents, Food NEW YORK.—The national of- fice of the Workers International Relief yesterday issued a call to all its district’ and branch organ- izations to launch immediately a campaign to collect tents and food for the Colorado beet work- ers’ strike. All coliected should be sent, pre-paid to the Workers In- crgantzations which are fighting for unemployment insurance. Secretary Weinstock also points ternational Relief, care of the United Front Relief Committee, 1154 11th St. Denver, Col,