The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 1, 1932, Page 3

| | j | | | j => BOSS PRESS MOCKS AT GIRL WHO SLAVES FOR DOLLAR A DAY tall Makes Joke of Pathetic Letter from Girl Who Sells Hats for 10 Cents a ee es (By a Worker Correspondent) HAMMOND, Ind.—Condit’sns around here and in Ham-} mond get worse every day. ¢.n a local press I read a pathetic letter from a young girl who writes asking how she was to live on the wages she made selling hats, which paid 10¢ com- She sold on an average of 10 hats a day. The editors of the rotten capitalist press aren’t interested in answering such questions, and make a joke of the letter by putting above it, “this would stump an Einstein.” In Peru, Ind., Louis Neiswender, 49-years old, killed himself, because he lost his job. son Campbell, 29, committed suicide by taking poison because he was un- | employed. mission on each hat. employed and despondent. Shifting the Burden ‘The boss class is ever on the alert | for ways and means of shifting the burden of misery onto the shoulders of the working class, The miserable Calumet City Relief Organization publishes and appeal in the local press appealing for kerosene stoves for 12 families, who are receiving food from the relief, anything to cook the food on. The gas and electricity have been cut off from the homes of these families. The capitalist class in the Calumet district, which includes Hammond, Gary, Indiana Harbor, East Chicago and Whiting, @re sending columns and columns of rubbish to the papers on the great boon and blessing the community gardens will be to the un- Chicago Cop Tries to Break Up Workers Home (By a Worker Correspondent) CHICAGO, Ml.—I was one of those arrested in the Melrose Park shoot- ing, and put into the County Jail. My wife, not knowing what had be- come of me, whether I was in the hospital or in jail went to the Cook county building to find out. A big fat, well dressed flunkey of the rotters directed her to the jail where she found me. When she found me. When she left, this same skunk stopped her and said: “Oh, I suppose your husband was arrested in Melrose Park -with those reds? Lady why should you look for a man like that? He will never work. You have two little but haven't | League and carry on the struggle against wage cuts and for better | | conditions. Hach shot and In Andlatispelis, Morri- ‘They will benefit the re- lief agencies who will use these gar- dens as an excuse for cutting down even more the meagre relief they are now handing out. They also forget | to tell the unemployed who are given | the garden plots how they are go- ing to hold out until,the food stuff grows. The boss class solution of suicide | and garden plots, and slow starva~| tion on miserable wages will not bring back prosperity.) The unem- ployed must organize nhilitant unem. ployed councils and fight for unem- ployment insurance at the expense of the boss class and their govern- ment. Those who still have jobs must organize into the Trade Union Unity children. Why don’t you get your- self a man that’s working? You ought to look out for your chil- dren and yourself, not for him. He's a red and he’s not worth looking for.” My wife swears that if she hadn't the children with her, she would have knocked his teeth out or blinded him, she was so angry. So you sée comrades, whenever you read the lies about the Soviet Union breaking up families in the capitalist Papers, don’t believe them. It’s not taking place there, where the work- ers are the rulers. Here in. theU.S. is where it’s taking placé, “just like the example I gave you. { Must Ask Relief While Working in Laundry ° (By a Worker Correspondent) TOLEDO.—One of Toledo's most “reliable” sweat shops cut their em-" ployees wages so low that workers. have to depend on the City for re- lief to live. These workers who have worked and are working at the pre- sent time, are being forced by land- lords to move or also be evicted trom their homes because of the fact that their pay will not meet their rents. Workers who have worked at this place for as long as 15-years and now find that they are unable to live on the Wages they receive. Women work as long as 45 hours per week, received as low as $5.00 per week. Toledo workers should get into the unemployed council. New Socialist City for Soviet Miners Tagil, USSR. Daily Worker: Just @ few lines on what the So- viets are doing in the mining indus- try in Tagil. be the first to enjoy the new houses which are being built in Tagil. A new socislist city in going up here and the foundations for two houses ary already laid. These houses to be three stories in height and occupied by 6 families, each z oveupied by two persons, This summer 36 houses will be Daily Worker: in oh hGn totes ition of Rep. McLeod's to pay Wis back pay PROVIDING buy at least 20 acres of land about takes the blue ribbon for law-making. If the soldier Ai Would Tell Vets How to Spend Money built wth the 6 rooms and bath suites and 16 communal houses. In the courtyard between the houses will be an L shaped building for school, theater and meeting hall and a small- er building, part of which will be a kinder garten and nursery. One of these squares will be these two buildings while others will have stores, laundries and other shops that are needed by the workers. F. W. BOWMAN, 6.0, Foreign Dept., Tagil, USSR. for? No wonder a Washington mag- azine is able to print the fact that the Legion has lost over 600,000 members since the last convention. “Don’t give the ex-serviceman his back pay, give him near beer.” We say, “Give us the money and we'll Sanchez now Carry Communist Election Issues Into Shops; Get On Ballot! Delegates to the Communist Election Ge on in Chicago tram Ree > Walter Waaecnasn Ronse Tamra» Ha a i CLAUDE PATTERSO: Father of Haywood Patterson, one of the Scottsboro Boys DESPERATE NEED Convention Animated by FOR RELIEF TO_ BEET STRIKERS Picketing in Spite of Police Guard, But Starving DENVER, Colo., May 31.—A tele- gram from Organizers Guynn and touring the southern beet strike field states that the ne- cessity for relief is ry critical in Pueblo, Colo., and the region around. It is vital that relief reach these hungry strikers immediately or the strike front will be broken by mass starvation. are good, and the fighting spirit high. Otherwise. the meetings In spite of police guard, there were picket lines at Avondale. i Rush funds and food to the strik- ers. Send all packages and tele- grams to United Front Relief Com- mittee at 1154 Eleventh St., Denver, Colo. Send all letter to Post Office Box, 2823, Denver Colo. (In one issue of the Daily Worker this box’ number appeared incorrectly. The correct number is 2823), MEETINGS PLAN INDIANA STATE HUNGER MARCH Detroit Jobless Mass Protest Stops Part of Forced Labor (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) those who get the crumbs thrown ,by the corrupt relief agencies, a system of forced labor has been introduced. The workers are forced to work on garden and farm projects for more than 8 hours, being transported to and from these “convict farms” like cattle, as a condition for receiving small grocery rations from the re- lief agencies. The workers of Gary, Hammond and Indiana Harbor are starting a march to the state capitol on June 22, They will demand the calling of a special session of the legisla- ture, which Governor Leslie refuses to do, the appropriation of $25,000,000 for immediate relief and the imme- diate release of Theodore Luesse, leader of Indiana’s unemployed. Ppa iig™ 1,800 Demonstrate. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., May 31— Eighteen hundred workers and job- less demonstrated last week on the state house steps against the con- tinued imprisonment of Theodore Luesse. Luesse was sentenced to a year in prison and $500 fine for lead- ing struggles of the jobless here. His year was served on May 22. The au- thorities are trying to hold him 500 days longer, a dollar a day for the fine. A delegation to Goyernor Leslie got a flat refusal from that official to their demand for Luesse’s release. ‘from workers’ clubs; delegates from Real “Will By MOISSAYE J, oan. CHICAGO, IIL, May 30,—-While this is being written, thousands are pouring into the Coliseum. Young Pioneers with red banners are march- ing through the hall, singing. Waves of sound are surging from various parts of the vast place, and cheering mnigles with “Solidarity” and the “Scarlet Banner.” The spirit of holi- } day is in the air, but it is a fighting holiday, all animated with the will to struggle. Most of the delegates have been through the thick of strikes, picket lines, hunger marchés, arrests, All of them are proud to know that we are at the head of a great mass movement which is making her con- quests every hour. But not many of them realize what an immense dif- ference there is between the Party now and the Party as it exis.ed only four years ago. to Struggle” tistics will show that many of them| have just recently joined the revolu- tionary movement, Less than half are Party members, and these are probably the youngest as far as Party | life is concerned. Behind every ut-| terance, however, you feel the exist- ence of a mature, undaunted, un- flinching, revolutionary spirit. The result of many years of intense Party | struggles. The difficult years of prep- aration are helding resus Browder speaks, Clear words spoken with emphasis, Every sentence la- den with meaning. Every paragraph can be developed into a pahmphlet. Yet, the speech is simple. Every work- er can understand it. Every worker will feel its importance, for it speaks directly from the very heart of the working class, At last our Party has} learned how to put important thought The Nominating Convention is not | ito nal henvirglenergecsreeg words, | only a cross-section of the Commu- ae must and will find re- nist Party but also of the broad mass movement that is influenced and di- rected by the Communist Party. Rep- resentatives of the red unions and leagues affiliated with the Trade} Union Unity League but also many delegates from locals of the A. F.| of L., delegates from the Interna- tional Workers Order and delegates | farmers and delegates from workers; Negro workers in considerable num- bers; women; the youth; the youth is very much in evidence; perhaps it is the first convention where we have so many young workers coming from the battle-front of the class struggle. All Industries Represented Altogether it is a proletarian con- vention. It represents alt industries of the country; it represents every section of the United States, includ- ing the South; it is all aglow with the aggressiveness of revolutionary fighters. Yet most of these men and women are obviously new in our Party. Sta- TO DEFEND OMAHA PARTY ORGANIZER ILD to Fight Attempt to Deport Stalker OMAHA, Neb., May 31.—Schroader and Hogle, Civil Liberties Union law- yers undertook the defense of Com- rade George Stalker, Section Organ- izer held for deportation in the county jail under 4,000 doliars bail, the International Labor Defense an- nounced here. Comrade Stalker is charged with’ being a member of the Communist Party advocating the ovrethrow of the government, etc. The Interna- tional Labor Defense was unable to furnish the bail as every kind of| intimidation was used against the bondsmen. This is a clear indica tion of the Immigration Authorities’ determination to “prevent the Com- munist Party from geting a foot- hold in Omaha’—as it is frankly ad- mited by them—through the depor- tation of its best and most militant ! Some phrases impress themselves on the mind with particular force, “The issue of the elections is the issue of work and bread—of life o death for the workers and farmers.” “Only the fight of the masses can win these demands. Every party that tells the workers to depend upon representative in Congress to give these things to them, is fooling the workers, is trying to keep the work- ers quiet while the capitalists con- tinue to rob them and oppress them.” “There is no other practical strug- gle for immediate demands except the class struggle led by the Com- munist Party.” The convention listens in tense si- lence. Every demand, every powerful expression is punctuated by an out- burst of applause. Yet the crowd is disciplined. The transition from a roar of approval to complete silence is almost instantaneous. At times Browder manifests a grim humor. Thus he says about the “block-aid” plan. “J. Pierpont Mor- gan spoke over the radio for it, and said: ‘You give a dime and I give a dime, and we aoll share equally’,” or about the homeless living in holes: “Hundreds of these cities, all over the country, have very properly paid homage to the fame and glory of the Great Engineer in the White House by adopting the name ‘Hooverville’.” The conyention breaks out in a chorus of derisive exclamation. Laura Osby, Negro working woman with an outspoken Southern accent, makes, perhaps, the most colorful speech of the day. She looks plain; she speaks without oratory; but every phrase is full of cutting satire, and she serself is so full of the meaning and significance*of what she is say- ing that she carries these thousand workers with her like a man. She | speaks about the Negroes as “the most oppressed nationality.” She points out that never in the history | of the United States has any Negro had a chance to be nominated for the vice-presidency until the Com- munist Party came into the field. Such a simple truth—but-so full of historic meaning! And how about the old capitalist parties? Says Com- rade Osby: “The difference between a republican and a democrat is this, that the democrat will set a trap |equality for all men.” z | North, to Chicago—as eagerly ex- “Mother Bloor “HIT LYNCHING BY VOTING FOR FOSTER, FORD” Negro Woman Dele-| gate Makes Moving Speech By JOSEPH NORTH CHICAGO NOMINATING CON- VENTION.—“If you're tired of being | lynched, vote Foster and Ford!” Her name is Laura Osby, of Chicago, formerly housemaid in the mansion of a plantation owner of Louisiana. | She stood before the audience with | he back bent, her arms akimbo (it was hard to unbend the back com- pletely after years over the wash-| tub) and she shouted into the mic- | rophone: “We're not only fighting for bread. We're fighting for social | A Negro worker had been strung up to a tree; his body riddled with bullets; the corpse, still warm, tied to the rear bumper of a car and dragged through the Louisiana towns. ‘Of course,” she said, “the charge | was rape—just like the Scottsboro | boys.” Shortly after that she came | pectant of freedom as a 1900 immi- | grant to the Golden Land, Defies Machine Guns. “The bosses. of Chicago”—(Chicago: in 1900-1920, the wonderful city whose spires gleamed in a mirage which even the Negroes of distant | Louisiana could see and be drawn North)—‘“never will solve the crisis with machine guns.” And she shook her fist into the megaphone. She kept calling the Communist Party, the “Comrade” Party. “The Comrade Party has the world of workers stirred up. Don't forget, comrades. . She told of the old man she met on the street yesterday: “I've always voted Republican and I'm going to vote Republican to the day I die. “He told her.” He was an old man about seventy, she said. “You're so much older than I am,” she related, ‘Tm sorry to see that you're such a damn fool.” And she told why bosses try to destroy the unity of white and Ne- gro workers. “The bosses know that when the Negro and white worker would become acquainted with each other they'd have to throw away their book and pencil and pick up a pick and shovel.” The storm of applause swept over the rows of delegates at the Coli- seum, The red pennants were wav- ing and the children were cheering”: “We want Ford—we want Ford. Ford was carried on the shoulders jof white and Negro workers about the hall. Negro and White Together, Laura Osby stood up on her chair and shouted and shouted till her voice gave way. Then she wispered the rest of her story to me: “The women is fightin’ side by side with the colored women. And we find today, comrade, there is no discri- mination between the white worker and the Negro—what difference is there between two empty stomachs”? Worker Delegates of All Races From HISTORIC MOMENT AS FOSTER AND FORD ARE NOMINATED IN CHICAGO State Rise and Pledge Solidarity By MICHAEL GOLD (Author of “Jews Without Money,” “120 Million’) CHICAGO, May 28 (By Mail)—The Communist Nominating Conyen- tion—15,000 men and women waving red banners, singing, cheering. Brase bands, slogans, color, excitement, earthquake, sunrise, hope. Foster has just been nominated for President; Ford, States, Foster, cool, deathlessly loyal, in- | corruptible labor leader who cap- tained the strike of 400,000 steel mill workers in 1919. Young Ford, Negro war veteran and grandson of a lynch. ed Alabama Negro worker It is a historic moment, and all feel it. The depression has made desperate every American worker. They are sick of capitalism; they! have nothing to lose Another war darkens the ‘horizon Soon all will be called to the colors | to die for Wall Street again And the tide of terrorism against workers grows, especially against Ne- groes. Now the Communists answer | by nominating a Negro for Vice- jEresiient, the first time in American history and by challenging wage cuts, | unemployment, war. Tense and Fateful ‘The crowd is singing Solidarity, a labor song whose words are set to the tune of John Brown's Body. And |the atmosphere is as tense and fate- ful as that as the famous conven- tion held by John Brown and his abolitionist partisans in Canada just a short year before the Civil War. At this very moment James Ford, the young Negro worker is being carried around on the shoulders of | white workers, while the 15,000 cheer his triumphant march around the vast hall. Young Negro and white Pioneer kids follow him, with red/| kerchiefs, and arms about each other. And behind them, the ban- ners of all the states in the Union— ‘Texas, Maine, South Carolina, Ne- braska, Kentucky, Pennsylvania, New | York, Louisiana, darkest Georgia, darkest Macsachusetts—all of them, the roster of America. Communism has penetrated everywhere—it is a theory no longer, but a living move- ment, a part of American life. Workers Speak The speeches of the rank and file | delegates this morning were moving | and convincing. At the Socialist convention only lawyers and min- isters and other prosperous liberals | debated. At the Republican and De- and grafters and professional words- | lingers will be the stars. Here at the Communist convention spoke niyo Negroes, steel workers, sail- Ss, teachers, textile weavers, house- wives stockyards workers, farmers, | and child workers. ‘Yes-America—the | America of the dispossessed, the Am. | erica whose voice is heard nowhere | else, the America of deep-rock, sup- | pressed wrongs which some day will be avenged, to the utter amazement | of the subtle statesmen, spoke here. Wilson, a miner cf Kentucky, said: “Fifteen of us started out,” he began | quietly, “but only three of us made it. The thugs beat up the others. ‘We do not know what happened to them. I’m no speaker, I never spoke to such congregations of thousands. But, brothers, we, coal diggers in Kentucky, are with the Commun- ists.” Bauman, a lean, blue-shirted farm- | er of Minnesota, with the dirt of| ploughed fields on his battered shoes | and overalls: “The bosses and bank- ers once called our own Clearwater County the land of prosperity and clover. Poorhouse. And we ‘re behind the Communist Party and Foster and Ford.” Bradley, a steel worker of Spar-| |rows Point, Md.; young, dark, in- tense: “Life itself shows that i Communist program is correct. fellow workers will vote for you out | of their blood and hunger.” “Veterans for You.” Stember, the secretary of the Workers’ Ex-Servicemen’s League, “the veterans are tired of being fooled. And they're hungry. They're breaking from the Legion and other boss organizations, they're with you,| Now we call it the farmers’) for vice-president of these United ; they are rushing under the wings of the Communist Party.” | A sailor from the Philadelphia | waterfront, a young giant in overalls: “We have seen hundreds of cases of sugar going to Japan. Why? Japen can buy sugar in Manila. These are munitions. We will stop the muni- 1s. We will defend the Soviet ion, our own fatherland. The bosses can take their guns and muni- tions and go plumb to hel A handsome, vital girl from Ari- zona, Hilda Calkin: Even our | Southwest is waking up, the deserts | and plateaus. We will get a vote be- {cause America y and | thoughtful at last.” | Henry Story of Georgia, a tall, | Stalwart Negro veteran: “The bosses |Say the workers won't receive the |Communist Party, but. it’s only what they hope. We black and white workers realize the Party is our only jrefuge. They.can't separatc us, rest |for sure, comrades. This boss system does not provide the worker with a way of life, but Communism does.”! | And there was a child, a young | 15-year-old Mexican boy who works jin the beet fields of Colorado, a | proletarian poet if there ever wag one. | “They are destroying the children of America. But youth is fighting, we jare not afraid of jail, we will build Communism.” | ‘These are only a few excerpts from the moying picture of oppressed proletarian America the flashed across the screen of this Communist convention No other cohyention speaks for this | mass. And it is a mass that will be heard. There are 12,009,009 unem- + | ployed. And there are 12,000,000 Ne- | groes, This was a convention of the |Negroes, the unemployed and the jother millions of Americans whose | Wages are cut, whose mortgagés are foreclosed. Will the cocoained peace last. for- jever? Will these masses forever be | unrepresented? History answers to |the contrary. Despite all the skep- | ties, the future in America belongs | mocratic conventions the bankers | '° ene Com anise arty JAPANESE RAIN DEATH FROM AIR ON HAILUN MASS | Japanese planes. "yester ay set fre to the Manchurian city of Hailun ia a deliberate campaign of frightfule ness against the Chinese masses.who are heroically resisting the Japanese seizure of their countr Scores of | incendiary bombs w dropped. in the working class quarters of the city setting fire to the flimsy struc- ture in which the workers are housed. Hailun has a population of 50,000, This act of deliberate savagery -is | aimed at crushing the resistance of | the Chinese masses. It is of a kind with the murderous bombardmont of Shanghai. South China, by the Jap- anese. Bombing planes, battleships and heavy artillery were used by the | Japanese to rain death on the un- jammed workers, men, women and children, of Shanghai. The Chapei Proletarian section of the city was completely razed to the grounds by | the Japanese bombardment, In the | Shanghai bombardment over ten |thousand Chinese workers were MY slaughtered, and additional tens of | thousands wounded, many of them | maimed for life. H | Harbin dispatches also report the Japanese bombing planes are ace tive against other Manchurian towns, in addition to Hailun which was yes terday set on fire. Several flerceebattles are reported | between Chinese insurgent forces and | wants land why not give it to him?|/make our own beer,” (if we want! But the governor offered to let him members. for you while the republican will pull} For her husband and she have | Communists.” He fought for it not long ago. We also fought for the Constitution I ucts? If expert farmers are goin, bankrupt with years of farming ex- perience how is an amateur farmer going to make good? How about we railroad men and others who have been laid off and need the money? Are we then sup- posed to give up the farm to the Uke another scheme to turn over government checks to the bankers to thaw out some of tha frozen as- sets they're carrying in the form of farm mortgages. Would the ex-solder also be re- quired to buy a “popular” make of tractor which is made by an Amer- jean manufacturer in Ireland, or would he be required to plow and Cultivate the 20 acres by hand with shovel and sige and hoe the pro- any). At least we still believe that, we who fought have the same con- stitutional right to spend our own money as others have. R. R. VOT COMMUNIST FOR: 1, Unemployment and Social In- surance at the expense of the state and employers. 2. Against Hoover's wage-cutting Policy. COMING THURSDAY The Daily Worker will pub- lish on Thursday a smashing answer by James W. Ford, Ne- gro worker and Communist candidate for vice-president of the U. &., to the editorial by Dr. DuBois on Communism in the June Crisis, Comrade Ford will also re- sume in Saturday's Daily Wor- ker his answers to the 14 bour- geois Negro editors who wrote on Comimunisin in the April and May issue of the Crisis, Every revolutionary worker should read these articles which slearly bring out the Perty’s Une on the Negro question. go if Luesse would promise to be “a good boy” and not have anything more to do with the starving unem- ployed. Luesse has just come out of “the hole,” solitary confinement, and has spent nine days hung up by the hands for protesting against reduc- tion in food allowance to prisoners. Released prisoners have made affi- davit that they’ were threatened with loss of good time if they associate with Luesse. The Unemployed Council calls for further activity for Luesse’s release. wee em Stop Murphy’s Forced Labor. DETROIT, Mich. May 31—The workers in “Fisher Emergency Lodge,” one of Mayor Murphy’s flop- houses, have won an important vic- tory against forced labor. After a fire in the Detroit Sulphite Pulp and Paper Co, the regular work- ers there were laid off end the un- employed at Fisher Lodge were sent down May 13 to clean the grounds, stack wood, ete. The regular work- ers picketed the place. On May 15, the unemployed were even forced io work on pulp wood. The International Labor Defense cals upon all workers to develop a mass struggle in defense of Comrade Stalker as only through such a mass Struggle it was possible to obtain the release of Comrade Blakely, a Negro worker who was framed up on a charge of robbery. All workers must demand the im- mediate release of comrade Stalker, declared the International Labor De- fense today. stormed around Duquette, the super- intendent of the Fisher Lodge, boo- ing and Jjeering at him. They de- manded the forced labor, the scab labor, be stopped. ‘The next morning it was stopped. The day after that, in response to} continued pressure by the Unem-| ployed Council forced labor on the | Req Cross flour was also stopped. On the morning of May 17 a rous-| ing meeting at the Trade Union Cen- | ter endorsed demands as follows: 1. No forced labor, pay for all work | at the rate of 50 cents an hour. | 2, Three decent meals a day, to be cooked at Fisher Lodge. 3. No discrimination or favoritism. The next day the Unemployed): Council! put out leaflets - Berend leper, ‘nnd £0, of the Ee Meetings ‘continue and organiza tion Is Growing. ce other?” speaker heightens the spirit of the ing. the trigger.” About solidarity be- tween black and white workers, Laura. Osgy says: “When the stomachs are empty, what difference is there be- tween one empty stomach and the Every sentence of the delegates; every word is full of pro- letarian scorn and proletarian shock- troopers’ onslaught. Only the Communist Party could call to the front such fighters and such expression of prretarian pride- in-struggle. More as « more are com- Communists Get 22 Per Cent of Votes in Barkley, Mich. BARKLEY, Mich, May 31.— Arend Wickerts, Communist can~ didate for mayor, polled 22 per cent of the total vote in munici- pal elections her May 23. This was the first time Communists have been run here, Other can- didates were Fred Arsneault and Gearge Spiller, for city commis- sioners, \ Barkley is neat Detroil, and was been jobless for more than a year. Three dollars monthly in relief is their lot from ‘the charity organiza- tions. And she enumerated the list of groceries they expect her and the husband to survive on: “Nothing but an ol’ five pound sack of flour; 5 pounds of sugar; 5 cans of tomatoes; two pounds of beans; piece of meat this bik....,” she showed the palm of her hand....,” one can of baking powder and two pounds of rotten old coffee.” Two people live off this a month, No wonder she is hungry, no won- der she said. “When you go to the poll and get the ballot, when you cross that little round square.. you will show you will not tolerate starvation, If you're tired of being dim Crowed, if you're tired of bein’ lynched, remember Comrades Foster and Ford.” West Coalst Vets Reach Nevada SPARKS, Nev., May 30.—Two hun- dred World War veterans, on their way to Washington to demand im- mediate cash payment of the tomb- stone bonus, camped here today ‘The Negro delegates seemed to make the most impressive speeches, full of fervor, Laura Osbee, a stock- yard worker of Chicago, thrilled the great crowd when she said: “We look back in history and cannot find that ever @ member of my poor, oppressed, downtrodden race has ever had the chance to run for Vice-President. This Communist fight is not for a lousy $15 a week, and we Nogroes know it, It’s a fight for equal hu- man rights and social equality. I don’t talk much, because when I get thinking about the oppression of my race I only want to fight. But I've learned to line up with the comrade- Party against the boss-party, And, when war comes, and they give us guns to turn against other races, we'll tarn them on Wall St. We have been persecuted under the footstool of the bosses too Jong.” Another Negro worker from Lou- isiana said these amazing words out of a simple heart: “I bid Godspeed to this great old Communist Party, and may our red flag never trail the dirty streets of our land, but wave in triumph, The news is flashing east and west, north and south, and awaiting the arrival of an eastbound just this year changed from a village to «8 city. twain lo cary them across the Grest Desert, ~ . all the poor men and women, the black and the white, who had not heard before, all the common people, percha an i sO ORAS 2 OPER ONION | the Japanese armies which are push-' ing their way to the Soviet frontiers. Most of the Chinese insurgent forces are carrying on @ heroic resistance to the Japanese. Other so-called:in- surgent forces, like that headed -by the Chinese renegade Gen. Mah Chen shan, are in the service of the Jap- anese and are used to pretend a re- sistance to the Japanese, in which they constantly retreat towards the Soviet frontiers, thus affording the Japanese the necessary pretext for continuing the advance on the Soviet borders. U.S. Marines Attack Peasants Near Two Nicaraguan Towns MANAGUA, Nicaragua, May 31.— Led by United States Marines, heavy detachments of National Guards- men engaged in fierce batles with Nicaraguan peasants, described as Sandinistas, near Armonia and. near Apali. i Being far outnumbered by the Na- tional Guardsmen » id United Marines who were fully police ng the insurgents were defeated. Maby of them are reported slain as 9 78= sult of the two battles,