The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 30, 1932, Page 1

7 \ VOTE COMMUNIST FOR Unemployment and Social Insurance at the ex pense of the state and employers. 2. 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. ee ~Cotmunist . (Section of the Communist International) gone VOTE COMMUNIST FOR Equal rights for the Negroes and self-determin- ation for the Black Belt. Vol. IX, No. 128 » N. Ys ander the act of March 3, 1879 matter at the Post Office uW YORK, MO NDAY, MAY 30. 1932 Against capitalist terror; against all forms of suppression of the political right rkers, Party U. S.A. Against imperialist war; for the defense of the Chinese people and of the Soviet Union, CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents = —— See ee = =< = tl FOSTER AND FORD FOR PRESIDENT AND VICE-PRESIDENT . IN REVOLUTIONARY FIGHT ON HUNGER AND WAR Struggle Against Imperialis War on Memorial Day 1h their Memorial Day ceremonies today American capitalists and their henchman politicians will utter lying, deceptive phrases over the graves of these who fell in the Civil War, in the Spanish-American War of 1898, and in the World War. Memorial Day is a day of unrestrained jingoism for the imperialists and their spokesmen. The Young Communist League today leads workers in demonstrations against imperialist war and the war lords of America. Against imperialist war the Young Communist League raises the revolutionary standard of the class war! These ceremonies occur on the eve of the most frantic and gigantic preparations for a new world war. War is aiready on !n the Far East; The Japanese militarists are acting as the spearhead of world imperialism in a shameful and merci- 1 robber war against China and for armed intervention against the Sovict Union and its successful Socialist construction. Japanese troops are already within “less than thirty miles of the Soviet border” and con- tinuing their advance! An emergency session of the Japanese Diet has been called to appropriate $60,000,000 for the next seven months of the war. The macs fight against imperialist war must be made today and every day! American imperialism is playing a leading role in the organization of the anti-Soviet war front. The United States is helping Japan to recruit White Guards in this country for use against the Soviet Union. American financiers are help- ing to raise funds for the White Guard forces. The United States mu- nition industry is being mobilized for war. Huge shipments of munitions are being sent every week to Japan for use against the Chinese people, against the Soviet Union. The entire United States battle fleet is mobil- jacd in the Pacific. Congress has recently passed a huge appropriation ‘ov the army. The War Department has announced plans for the train- ing 250,000 men this summer. The sweeping victories of the Chinese Red Army in Central and South China have alarmed the imperialist robbers. A conference of the United States, Japan, France and England is being arranged at Shang- hai. Tts main purpose is to extend, with the help of the Kuomintang militarists, the armed intervention against the revolutionary struggles of the toiling Chinese masses and the Soviet Union as a prerequisite to the division and lgoting of China, ‘The struggle for the re-division of the world is on. It is a struggle primarily directed against the working class, against the Soviet Union and against the rising revolutionary struggles of the Negro and colonial masses. It is on the background of these war preparations and the actual war already begun in the Far East that the capitalists and their poli- ticians are today engaging in peddling a combination of patriotic and pacifist phrases and demagogic pleas for “peace” at their Memorial Day ceremonies. At the same time they are using these ceremonies to push their moral and political preparations for war. These are working class sons in the graves, working class victims of the mad slaughter carried on by capitalism for power, profits, markcts and new colonies. And the same capitalists and their politicians who to- day prate their lying hypocrisies are engaged in a savage war against the working class, a war against their standard of living, against their very right, of existence, a war carried on im the factories, in the capitalist courts (Scottsboro, Tom Mooney, Orphan Jones, Edith Berkman, etc.), by brutal police attacks on strike struggles, increased lynchings and per- secution of Negroes, jailing and frame-up of militant workers on murder charges (Icentucky, Ohio, etc.) and the callous sentencing of millions of destitute unemployed Negro and white workers and ruined farmers to slow starvation. The capitalist war offensive is a continuation and widening of the capitalist hunger and terror offensive against the toiling masses. Today they have sentenced millions to starvation. Today they are destroying thousands of tons of food in the mad effort to maintain their profits. ‘Tomorrow they will attempt the wholesale destruction of millions of hu- man beings. The war of 1898 was fought, the bourgeois politicians told the masses, to free the Philippines, Cuba, Porto Rico. Today, the populations of these countries find themselves more enslaved than ever. The World War, we were told, was a war for democracy. It was a war for profits, a war that extended the tentacles of American imperialism all over the capitalist » World. American imperialism fattened upon the blood of millions, first by furnishing credits to the Allies to enable them to purchase munitions in this country, and later by actively participating in the war in order to protect their loans to the Allies. While the capitalists and their politicians are shedding crocodile tears over the graves of the sons of workers, two significant events are taking place today. In Chicago, the revolutionary delegates to the Na- tional Nominating Convention of the Communist Party have laid plans for strengthening the workers’ counter-offensive against the capitalist hun- ger, terror and war offensive. Today, also, the working-class youth are mobilizing throughout the country in militant celebrations of National Youth Day, as part of the mobilization of the working-class against imperialist war and for the defense of the Soviet Union. ) These two significant events show that the working class is taking up the challenge to the capitalist offénsive of wage cuts, hunger, terror and war. The workers are moving forward, under the leadership of the Communist Party and the Young Communist League to counter action against the capitalist attack. From the Communist National Nominating Convention and from the Youth Day celebrations today, we must go forward to more vigorous struggles, against the capitalist terror and war preparations, for the re- lease of the Scottsboro boys, Tom Mooney and all class war prisoners, for the defense of the Chinese People and the Soviet Union, for the defeat of the imperialist war drive. Shoe Strikers Will Parade on Tuesday NEW YORK.—The Strike Commit-) charge of assault. His only crime tee of the Andrew Geller Shoe Shop| was visiting the Bridge Plaza Court, is planning a solidarity parade Wed-| where the Geller strike chairman was nesday. All strikers and shoe work- | tried on day and sentenced to ers should@march with them. five days ‘or a fine of $25, The action of the police around| which the Shoe % Leather Work- the Williamsburg strike area is be- coming more vicious. At the Paris Shoe, Ingraham St., the police ac- tually prohibit anyone from walking through the block. Many of the kers and also passersby were ar- ed for this. One of the Italian organizers was ers’ Industrial Unica paid. Four workers of the Municipal Shoe, also in Williamsburg, were beaten by detectives and gangsters. In this factory about 50 per cent of the workers are out and are calling | the rest to join in the struggle against a 10 per cent wage-cut, lay-offs and beaien up last week by a Tammany | discharges. For the crime of organ- dick near the strike headquarters. | izing workers against starvation con- Friday a striker of I, Miller shoe} ditions the police with gangsters ter- was arrested and held for 24/rorize and bulldoze the shoe strik- hours and is now framed-up: on-s| ers, JAPAN RECRUITS James W. Ford WHITE GUARDISTS FOR WAR ON USSR. Japanese Consul Prague Issues Visas, Funds | Tn} FRENCH MILITARY AIDS | acaba | |“L’Humanite” Exposes| | Wide Recruitment Alarmed by the growing protest of | the American working-class against | the co-operation of the Hoover Wall} Street government with the Japanese | militarists in their drive for war on} the Soviet Union, officials yesterday |- atempted to cover up the true signi- ficance of the rapid advance of four Japanese armies on the Soviet fron- tiers. “A Washington dispatch to the New York Times reports unnamed Washington officials as declaring: “You may go down the line in) predicting that those Japanese forces are not aimed at Russia and will not clash with the Russians.” This is plainly a move to disarm the vigilance of the American | masses who are sympathetic with | i} i} | | the Soviet Union and are opposed | | Foster Wm. Z. Vote | Communist for These | Demands! -| 4. Unemployment and social |insurance at the expense of the State and employers. 2, Against Hoover's wage cut- ting policy. | 3. Emergency relief for the poor | |farmers without restrictons by the | | government and banks; Jof poor fart |from forced collection of rents or exemption from taxes, and | debts. | | 4, Equal 1 jand self-determination for the | | | Black Belt. | ts for the Negroes | 5. Against capitalist terror; |against all forms of suppression | of the political rights of the workers. | 6. Against imperialist war; for the defense of the Chinese people | jand of the Soviet Union. | 1 | to the plans of world imperialism to plunge the whole world into a | new and more frightful slaughter than that of 1914, Cable by Inprecorr PARIS, May 29.—The orders sent jout by the General Staffs of the white “military unions” dispatching | former Tsarist officers to the Far | East is taking place on an increas-| The Communist Party calls} | snes prcordine iad the French | inon the millions of workers Communist paper, “I/Humanite’. | nd farmers, Negro and white, ‘These officers are to be placed un-/and particularly those rank] Ger the orders of General Dietrich. |. 14 file workers who are now who is collecting snen and funds at hal hi dei leadesaven the Shanghai, South China, under the | RUS : bes : oader's | | protection of the American, British |Socialist Party and the A. F.| |and Japanese imperialists, j of L., to rally to the fight for| “L’Humanite” further reveals that | these demands. The mass| the Japanese Consul in Czecho- | fight for these demands can Slovakia is issuing visas to former| alone develop effective resist-| Tsarist officers to be sent to Man-| Seat 0 te | ing | ance he starve nd we curia. The Japanese Consul is paying nee to the tarvation 2 id war |program of the capitalists. all exepnses for the trip. In. Germany, the recruiting of The fight for these demands, | | white guards for service in the Far | as proposed the me Fast is being conducted by the son|@S PrOpos 1 by Commit of General Lalgardt. jnist Party, means even more. “L’Humanite” also reveals that the |It is the starting point for the former Tsarist naval officer Alexan-| final victory of the toilers, for peti gi (he carpe be vectalting (ee establishment of the work- 0 ‘Latvia for s ré aed 0 oy th : white emigres to go to Manchuria for | TS and farmers’ government, use against the Soviet Union. Podol-|in the United States. This is kin also entered into negotiations|the workers’ way—-tho revolu- with the representatives of the white | tionary way out of the crisis. “military union” in Latvia. ie i k During his stay in Latvia, Podolkin) The Communist Party pro- | maintained close connections with | poses an organized mass strug- |the French military attaches in Riga) oJe for the above intmediate and with the officials of the Latvia’| | tee : ; ss demands of the workers, as the Minister of Foreign Affairs. 1a x P) \first step toward the establish- In Fight With 25 GOVERNMENT, Such a REVOLUTIONAY |GOVE ¢tNMENT alone can free =! sgl the masses from misery and Nicaraguan (war ds) ee by taking over and op- fea tee ‘erating the big industries, Stimson Arranges to trusts, railroads and banks. Marines 4 mill and mine, afd put the Following upon the hels of the | Workers on their jobs again producing the goods which are needed for‘a hungry, starving population. Such a government alone can immediately seize and distribute to the hungry masses the enormous stores of food-stuffs now kept locked up in the warehouses, thus caring for the masses and creating a great demand for new produc- tion. It alone can open up the millions of houses, now held jempty by greedy private land-| recent fightings between National Guardsmen, officered by United States Marines, and Nicaraguan pea- sants, another clash occurred in Chilamatal near Santa Barbara, it is reported from Managua. One ‘insur- gent’ was killed. The National Guardsmen outnumbered the “rebels.” The report from Managua con- tradicts Stimson’s statement, that American marines were not engaged in any drive against the Nicaraguan peasants. that Stimson concluded with Rear Admiral Woodward the arrangements for the reinforcement of the United States Marines already 1 one thousand in Nicaragua, A few days ago it was stated by officials of the State Department, acording to this report that no less than 0 men would be sent there to “supervise the coming elections,” It is officially ‘reported, 7 | lord, jhousing for the millions living | in cellars, sewers, the disgrace- ful public lodging-houses and the terrible “Hoover cities” of . and provide comfortable |; (Highlights of Draft Platform Brought Be- fore the National Nom- inating Convention by the Communist Party) put them busily at work repro- ducing all things necessary. There is plenty and to spare for all. It is held away from the toilers by the capi- talists as their private prop- erty’ and for their private profit. Only a revolutionary Workers’ and Farmers’ Gov- ernment can break through this palalysis of the capital- ist crisis and start economic activity going full speed for the benefit of the masses of workers and farmers. This is proven by the experi- ences ‘of. the Soviet Union. There the workers seized pow- er, in the revolution of 1917. With the ‘government in their can immediately feed, clothe) material and cultural and house all the workers and| the masses is being ra “<= Unemployed Insurance for 15,000 AT COLISEUM SHOW Jobless; End Exploitation $ -————| Carry Communist Candidates in Triumphiai | hands _the last remnants of | Parade Around Hall; First Time Negro ieaverolams ane being uprooted: Runs for Vice-President of U.S. A . oe Ae socialism is being built. The) a Pie len is tON| CHICAGO, TIL, May'29.—Swinging and surging throu Keeteiedect hes ee com. | the giant Colleen last night, 15,000 Chicago workers z | pletely eliminated; wages are| Worker visitors from other parts of the country, and over |being steadily increased; the|thousand delegates to the National Nominating Conven level of | cheered for half an hour following the nomination of V ised; no| Z. Foster for president of the United States and James lerisis such as in capitalist| Ford for vice-president. countries has affected their FOREST OF RED BANNERS programs; the second Five| Hundreds of red banners were flying throughout the h: Year Plan is about to begin. | Thousands leaped from their chairs and formed a parade wit The Soviet Union stands outing about the hall, carrying aloft on their shoulders both t as proof that the workers can| candidates of the Communist Party. Hundreds of workers, mc rule, not only in their own in-| women and children stormed towards Foster and Ford as th terest, but in the interest of all) were borne around the Coliseum and sought to jthose who are oppressed by) hands of the Communist standard bearers in this election ca: | capitalism. ai. | jOLD PARTIES SERVE CAP- | Boo “Red Squad”—“Against Imperialist War” ITALISTS | Over the heads of the crowd, the red festooned hall w The capitalist parties —Re-| flaming with banners calling for “Fight Against Imperial publican, Democratic and So-| Way, “Negroes and White Workers, Unite and Fight”, “L | cialist—together with their A.| fend the Soviet Union”, “We demand Unemployment Inst F. of L. henchmen—will each} ance”, and other similar slogans. jappear in this election cam-| Just before the Coliseum meeting ope Chica jpaign in different garb; each! polico Department's “Red Squad” entered the and w | will pretend to offer a way out met by booing and hissing from the whole aud Browder Opens Meeting. Earl Browder of the Centra] Committee of the Communi ence, «CONTINUED ON PAGE THIRD NEW YORK. — Mayor Walker's brother, Dr. William H. Walker, has mysteriously disappeared since May 19, and up to this time has not been found to testify in the Hofstadter Committee hearings on graft in New York. He seems as hard to find, although he holds. a responsible city office, as is the mayor's secretary, Sherwood, who will not appear to explain @ $700,000 secret account and $960,000 sigck deals which he made, on a salary of $10,000 a year. There is same evidence to. indicate that Mayor Walker shared in the use of the Sherwood account. Shared Commissions A city hall, hanger-on named Scanlan drew commissions for the sale of equipment to the city, Scan- jan’ testifiad that” he got a $10,000 commission for sete to tha ey of ime Builer vacuunr siz2et eweep2rs, whiel al enginesr cf tie Comp- troller's office says are, so far as he knows, the “worst equipment manufactured.” ’ the homeless unemployed. ..It ot 96,000 Scanlan admits drawing a Walker’s Brother, Called Graft Link to Mayor, Gone “** Browder summarized his own keynote speech whic Party. opened the Coliseum meeting with an address outlinin |the Communist Party struggle to win unemployment insu |ance and relief, and to stop wage cuts, in the present econom’ | had been. delivered in the morning at the opening session ¢ i i ,.{ the convention, and told the huge crowd of the adoption of : pes ae re |platform of class struggle at that session. (Extracts from th ica, hoe is proof that Dr. Walker | Platform are published elsewhere in this paper.) got half, in a devious round-about soaked) Amis Proposes Foster. TREMENDOUS ENTHUSIAS! ' way, of two commissions paid to Scanlan on purchases of equipment. There is a further charge made by other witnesses, that Dr. Walk the mayor's brother, besides holding a nice job as medical examiner of the Board of Education, headed a group of six physicians who had a monopoly of treating injured city employes, and also did a big business with private insurance companies. Scanlan testified on May 19, and Dr. Walker hasn’t been seen since, though he agreed the next day over the telephone to come and testify. ° “Ob, He's O.K.” Mayor Walk lounging at the Atiantic Beach Club, Long Isiand, to recover from nervous strain of his own testimony, said with a grin that he “isn’t worried over the health or safety of his brother.” ‘The Hofstadter hearing will be re- an Tuerday. & Browder introduced B. D. Amis, a Negro worker an delegate from Cleveland. Amis proposed Ioster as nominee fo | president of the U.S.A. in the Communist election campaign |and said: | ‘The savage offensive of the imperialists not limited t |attacks on the economic standards of the wotkers, but is ex |tended to a vile onslaught against the politica] rights of th masses. The imperialists of the world are feverishly preparin a new war, a slaughter of the workers and poor farmers, al {attack on the Soviet Union, and the partitioning of. China. The {Communist Party puts forward a. program of working class jagainst the capitalist class, a fight tothe bitter end for the | overthrow .of capitalism.” Amis told. of Foster's long revolutiontery record, of the struggles al! over the country he has led, of the Great Steel Strike and his active present leadership of the Trade Union Unity League. He then proposed his name as nominee for pres- ident, and the hall broke into wild cheers, and singing of The ¥ v \ |