The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 2, 1932, Page 1

‘To Demand Relief and |e us u clr fal a ae Bonus Resolution | square where a final meeting will be — held before the march to Washing- 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 no forced collection of rents or debts. (Section of the Commuzist International) mUMUNISs oY > Emtered as second-ct at New York, N.Y. « Ps “Vol. IX, No. 131 NEW YORK The Message ofthe Communist, Convention H tine fight against the capitalist offensive and for a revolutionary way out of the chaos of capitalism received a powerful impetus from the gathering of more than one thousand proletarian Negro and white dele- gates that met at Chicago this past, week end. ‘The convention issued a platform of workingclass struggle against the parties of capitalism, against the Hoover government of hunger and war supported by the coalition of the Republican and democratic parties. It rang out with the call for struggle against the “‘socialist” and “labor” bureaucratic henchmen of capitalism who surrender the working- | class to the attacks of the capitalists and who are working unceasingly for the stabilization of the decaying, warbreeding capitalist system. The national nominating convention of the Communist Party put | forward a platform and elected standard bearers comrades Foster and | Ford, who will carry the stirring message of the convention to the broad masses of the land. What is this message of this convention? | The convention says to the oppressed and exploited workers that the | way out of the growing poverty, starvation and terror is the way of or- | ganization in united front formations against the capitalist attacks. Or- ganize the struggle against the brutal capitalist onslaughts under the leadership of the Communist Party! 3 | Join together in united front bodies to fight against the immediate danger of a imperialist world war. Upon the workers themselves united | in one front against the capitalists depends whether th: master class | will succeed in driving down further the standards of the toilers to new unheard levels of poverty while’ a small handful of the rich pile up fabul- , ous wealth. Upon the united front of the working class depends whether the imperialists will succeed in plunging the workers into a war of des- truction of the socialist fatherland so that the system of decaying capital- ism may continue to exist. This is the plain message of the convention. This great convention of proletarian delegates gave unmistakable evid- ence of the burning desire in the ranks of the workers to fight against the whole system of plunder. This was shown by the representative char- acter of the gathering, by the large number of states represented, the great proportion of women and young workers, the toiling farmers that -came to the convention and above all by the large number of the op- pressed Negro workers. The convention showed by its enthusiasm and outspoken endorse- ment, the significance of the great act of the gathering in nominat- ing a Negro worker as a standard bearer in the election campaign. This historic act will finda heartily welcome in the ranks of white and Ne- gro workers thruout the country who are realizing in greater numbers the need for the unity of all the oppressed against their common ex- ‘niciters. The convention drew a sharp line between itself and the gathering of the Socialist Party recently held in Milwaukee. The latter gathering showed that the socialists are moving farther and farther on the road of social fascism. The Socialist Party had as its keynote—faithfulness to the capitalist system, aid in the stabilization of the shattered system of capitalism by sabotaging the struggles of the working class and steering them away from mass fight against the Trusts and Bankers. The socialist convention was held in the spirit of the most determined fight. against the Soviet.Unioa, whose stormy growth with the support of workers of all couritries is dooming the system of capitalism to des~ ‘truction. Thinly disguised by phrases about “recognition of the Soviet _ Government,” socialist “experiment” and other phrases, uttered as a con- cession to the radicalizing American workers, the Socialist Party -rei- terated its policy of struggle for the overthrow of the working class re- public. The socialists came forward for the “freedom of political pris- oners,” and the establishment of the “democracy” which means the restor- ation of capitalism in the Soviet Union. This demand harmonizes with the spirit of the moment in the imperialist world, which is war on the Soviets, the establishment of “civilization” in place of “Soviet barbarism,” the restoration of capitalist democracy in place of proletarian demo- cracy. The Communist Party convention properly characterized these so- cialists as the pathfinders and ground breakers for fascism, the party of henchmen of the capitalists in corraling the workers for the counter revolutionary war of intervention. ‘The members of the Communist Party and the toilers generally must now carry forward this struggle against the socialists and their close co- workers, the Musteites and renegades of all stripes. Only by the sternest struggle against these henchmen that serve as agents of the capitalists im the ranks of the workers can the masses be organized and united for the fight against the ‘bosses. The slightest concession paid to these tools means concessions to the bosses and stems the mass struggle. se ‘The Communist Party convention expressed a strong determination of struggle. It represented a good cross section of the American working class. But it would be a mistake to conceal the fact that the convention lacked a sufficiently strong foundation of organized strength in the fac- tories and mass organizations. The convention was. too narrow in its organized representation. The fundamental weaknesses in party work, narrowness in mass work, sectarianism, failure to establish strong per- sonal bonds with the workers, pointed out in the recent plenum of the Central @ommittee of the Party expressed themselves in the convention. ‘The election campaign will not succeed if it does not reach into the broad sections of the working class; it will be a mere parliamentary cam- paign if it does not aim first and foremost to organize the warkers for struggle, build up the mass organizations, combine the masses in united “front formations for the fight against the capitalist enemy. The policy of fighting for a revolutionary way out of the crisis is mere empty talk if not combined with the most serious efforts to struggle day in and day out for the grievances of the workers. The simple and clearcut demands of struggle formulated in the platform will remain on paper and be unable to rally the wo*kexys if not put into effect in the shops and mines, on the streets and is the working class neighborhoods in the fight for Unemployment Insurance and Relief for the Unemployed, in the struggle against wage cuts, in the fight against Negro oppression and in the struggle against the war preparations. ‘The line of the party calls for the most determined steps to organize a broad united front for the election struggle, combined with concrete actions to resist the capitalist attacks. ‘The party line demands the ful- fullment of the decisions of the Central Committee to draw in a broad non-party strata, especially of factory workers and of the rank and file of the unions, the formation of red election volunteer groups, the wide~ Uterature distribution and fund collections, This was. altogether ‘too little achieved in the preparations for the nati nomination con- vention but must now be undertaken’ and réalized with full success as the campaign goes forward from this historic gathering. PTS MARCH TO CITY HALL FRL Washington which will begin Satur- day, A delegation of the Bonus Marci-| ers will present the demands of the veterans for relief and for trans- portation to Washington to the Board of Estimates and will report back to ton begins. | COMMU: tomorrow from Union Square to de- mand that the Board of Estimate go on record for full and immediate pay- ment of the “tombstone” bonus. The march will follow a mass meeting which will begin at 11 a. m. on Union Square under the leadership of the Workers Ex-Servicemen’s League. ‘Speakers from the League and the al Bonus March Committee x All posts of the Workers Ex-Ser- yicemen will hold meetings tonight to discuss the march plans for Fri- day and Saturday, Delegates for the march to Washington will be elected at these meetings. All veterans now’ meeting -in Madi- son Square are called upon to be at Union Square at 11 8, m. by AND PRO By Calling Kaise New German |Police Fire On Communist Workers in Berlin | ago was hailed and supported the “lesser evil” compared to Hitler whom they denounced as | the “greater evil,” charged Colonel Von Papen, rapid reaction- ary element of the Centrist Party, with the task of forming the new cabinet. The Von Papan Cabinet will merely be a bridge to a more open fascist government head- ed by Hitler later on in the autumn when the Reichstag will be dissolved. According to an an- nouncement made last night, this cabinet will be of an extremely re- actionary character, as it will be dominated by heavy industrialists, big landowners and militarists. The Vou Papan Cabinet will thus be an extreme pro-fascism and pro- war government. Von Papen, as an expert military plotter, will undoubtedly join the imperialists | in their plots against the Soviet Union. Servant of Kaiser. Colonel Franz Papen is a faithful seryant of, the Kaiser whose social supporters, the big industrialists, landowners and generals, will be at the helm of the German government. He is a former military attache to} Washington and was expelled from the United States during the World war for his military plots. It is recalled that as Ambassador to Rome Von Papen maneged not| to be in his office on each August | 11th in order not to be compelled to celebrate the anniversary of the es- tablishment of the new republican regime. | Early this year b> declared him-| self against Bruenin-, although a member of his party, for not being friendly enough t .ard the Hitler) movement. At that time he advo- cated an open fascist government on a “national basis.” As the biggest share-holder in the newspaper “Ger- | mania,” central organ of the Cath- olic Party, he ousted the editor who was too friendly wit: Bruening of whom he cendemned the weak re- actionary character. Hitler is reporied as being ready to support Von Papen in order to let him be Germany’s representative at the Lausanne Parley. His support | is conditioned however by the au-| tumn disbandment of the Reich- stag to which Von Papen already agrees, The Communist Party of Germany called upon the workers to form a revolutionary united front. In a statement»issued the other day, the Party pointed out the socialists as responsible for the present develop- ments and indicates the acute war danger represented by the Generals and nationalists, Communist workers battled against the Berlin policemen and the fas-| cists when naval detachments cele- brated the anniversary of the Jut-| land battle. The policemen fired on the workers wounding several of them, The fascists pooed the policemen for not leting them celebrate more freely the new and intensified fascist drive against the workers. ELCO SHOE SHOP “MEN BLAST LIES NEW YORK.—Recently the ¥. Mil- ler racketeers, the “ConstHutionel Educational League,” circulated lies about the Elco shop, stating that the workers in that shop lost the strike. At a meeting of the Elco workers @ resolution was adopted condemning this strike breaking agency. The re- solution stated that the Shoe and Leather Workers Industrial Union led this strike and carried this strug- gle to a victory for the workers, not only of the Elco shop but also for all shoe workers. i At the last Joint Council Meeting of the Union it was decided to an- swer the lockout schemes of the shoe bosses with strikes, The call of the Council to the workers in the shoe trade is to in- tensify relief activity and regular col- lections, and to mobilize for a shop conference. A mass meeting of Italian shoe workers will be held Thursday, June 2, 1932, at 8 p.m. at the _apaapreies Lyceum, 64 E, 4th St, New Yor Clty, | y . IST PARTY OF GERMANY CALLS WORKERS} TO FORM REVOLUTIONARY UNITED FRONT THURSDA Y, JUNE 2, 1932 R r’s “en to Head Goveriiiment ait by the German Socialists as American Worker Delegates Hail Soviet Victories Call On U. S. Masses to Defend. Gains of Socialism By MYRA PAGE (European Correspondent of the Daily Worker) | MOSCOW, June 1.—The Amer- | ican workers’ delegation which has just completed four weeks of ex- tensive investigation of the condi- tions and developments in the So- viet Union has issued a statement of its conclusions. The statement draws the attention of the American workers to the,fact ‘that-capitalists all over the world are preparing war against the Soviet Union. The capitalists realize that the accomplishments of the workers of the Soviet Union serve as an en- couragement and inspiration to the workers of the world over in their struggle for liberation.” The call for guarding against capi- talist attacks is made after a review of the accomplishments of the Soviet Union. U.S.S.R. Achievements. “The American May Day workers,” ys the statement, “have been given the opportunity by the Russian trade unions to tour a wide territory that is typical of industrial and agricul- tural life of the Soviet Union. We wish to state the following findings. VON PAPEN, CO} VICTED WAR PLOTTER, TC FORM PRO-WAR -FASCISM CABINET Hindenburg Explodes Theory of “Lesser Evil” We have visited a number of indus- (CONTINUED OD AGE THREED is imminent against Foster and Ford Start Campaign Tour | | | William Z. Foster (above), Com- munist candidate for President, speaks in Milwaukee June 5, James W. Ford (lower picture), Commu- nist candidate for Vice-President, speaks June 5 in Terre Haute, In- diana, WALKER GETS MONEY; JOBLESS. GO WITHOUT EvidenceMayor Owned! Bonds of Company on City Contract | NEW YORK.—News reporis from) Detroit yesterday show Mayor Walker declaring that the workers of New York are starving as they walk the streets and that the city is broke, its treasury unable to save their lives. And yesterday the Hofstadter Com- mittee, investigating Tammany graft | in New York, brought out that Mayor | Walker was a stockholder in one of | the companies that draws its money} from the city treasury in the shape} of fat -contracts—contracts awarded | it partly by the Mayor who is an (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) Will Mayor Hoan Dare to Defend His Record Before the Milwaukee Workers? | Foster Challenges Him to Debate June 5 suppression of the 6. Porty U.S.A. VOTE COMMUNIST FOR Equal rights for the Negroes and self-determim- ation for the Black Belt. Against capitalist terror; against all forms of political rights of workers. Against imperialist war; for the defense of the Chinese people and of the Soviet Union. CITY EDITION - Price 3 Cents Foster Opens Communist L ampaign in Milwaukee ith Challenge to Hoan | Socialist Party Mayor Called to Appear at Meeting June 5 to Defend His Attacks Against Unemployed Workers and Soviet Union Ford in Terre Haute Will Contrast Communist Platform With Anti-« Working Class Socialist Party Demagogy in Debs’ Home City ceondidates beginning their nation-wide tour of speechmaking. The Communist Election Campaign gets under way immediately with the two leading James W. Ford, Negro worker and Communist candidate for vice-president, will makd his first speech of the tour in Terre-Haute, June 5. fighter for the working class, Ford will expose and score the HEARING IS SET FOR OCTOBER 10: | of unemployment insurance, |defense of the Soviet Union, | Workers Must Build a! But intense interest has been Tremendous Defense jaroused in Foster’s first speech. speech and others through the KKK state of Indiana. Challenge to Hoan. and equal rights for Negroes in this William Z. Foster, leader of the great Movement steel strike and of a hundred other battles, general secretary of the BULLETIN Trade Union Unity League and the Communist candidate for president | of the United States, will appear in Milwaukee, at German Hall, Sunday, |June 5, and he will appear while | |the town rings with his challenge to the Socialist Party Mayor Hoan to come to the hall if he dares to defend | the Socialist Party’s anti-working |class activities of recent years and In its decision upholding the ap- | gays. | peal of the International Labor De-) yy. Communist Party charges, and fense attorneys for a review of the | poster will matntain before the Mil- lynch sentences against seven of the| vaukee workers, that the socialist piggy cuales Negro boys.| administration in Milwaukee clubbed the U. S. Supreme Court has set Oc-| snq arrested workers demonstrating tober 10 for oral argument in the! ¢,. unemployment relief, that the| Scop i | Socialist Party has a strike-breaking | The decision of the court automat | ong wage cutting alliance with the ically stays the legal massacre of the |1.eaucrats of the A. F. of L. and seven boys which had been set for | tat the Socialist Party is part of June 24, It represents a tremendous | ¢,, capitalist machinery manufactur- partial victory for the revolutionary | ing a war against the Soviet Union. working class. It is the third time| Jy is not known as this is printed that the mass fight for the release | ynether Hoan will acept the chal- of the boys, backing up the defense |tenge flung down to him with all| in the lynch courts, has stayed the| possibile publicity. | bloody hands of the ruling class | | Delegates to Report. lynchers. Lynch Threats Followed Arrest. While the two principal candidates The I. L. D. appeal was presefted | begin their swing around the coun- | by Walter H. Pollak, well-known New| try, there are 1,200 more. spokesmen York attorney. He pointed out that|for the Communist election platform principles who are just getting into action. These are the delegates from all kinds of workers’ mass organiza- tions who «re now and in the next few days returning to those who sent them to Chicago. The returned delegates will report to their organ- izations on the launching in Chicago of a campaign against hunger, | against wage cuts, against war, for the relief of poor farmers, for equality of Negro workers and self- PRINCETON, Ky., June 1.—Wal- | ter Merrick, 40-year-old Negro worker, was taken out of the jail here and lynched today. The lynch- ing was carried out by maskea business men riding in expensive looking automobiles. . * (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) William Z. Foster, Communist Candidate for President of the United States, has challenged Daniel Hoan, Mayor of Milwaukee | and Member of the Executive Comntittee of the Socialist Party, to appear before the Milwaukee workers on June 5 and defend his | record as mayor and the policies and position of the SocialistParty. The Communist Party Charges: 1. That Mayor Hoan as head of the city government of Mil- waukee broke up demonstrations of the unemployed demanding relief and treated the unemployed in the style of capitalist mayors throughout the country. Will Hoan answer? : 2. That the Socialist Party is allied with the American Feder- ation of Labor bureaucrats in apolicy of strike-breaking and wage-cutting in order to help carry thru the capitalist offensive against the working class, Will Hoan answer? 3. The Communist Party charges that the Socialist Party has not changed its policy of slander and attack against the Soviet Union and that it is intensifying it at the very moment that war Will Hoan defend the the Soviet Union. stand of the Socialist Party?. 4, That the Socialist Party is helping the capitalists prepare for war to restore capitalism in the Soviet Union and create a blood bath for the workers and farmers now building socialism in the Soviet Union; that the Socialist Party is doing this by carry- ing out its special task of trying to discredit.the socialist father- land. Will Hoan answer? Will Hoan Appear on June 5th at Ger:nan Hall, Milwaukee, in Debate with Foster! determination of those in the Black Belt. And as this campaign develops in | countless localities, worker organiza- | tions are electing their delegates to| |state nominating conventions, all taking place in the latter half of | June, and nominating for state of- | | fices. | Besides this there is a continual | drive in the states where the Com- munist candidates are not on the ballot yet, to gather signatures to put them on. There are innumerable open formus, street meetings, hall meetings, factory g: 2 meetings, etc., planned, during the coming months. Certain city and county elections are already taking place, showing in each case multiplication of the Commun- ist vote over that obtained in 1928. Printers Still Picket; Again No Scabs Get Into Remington-Rand BROOKLYN, N. Y.—The printing workers strike at the Remington- Rand against a yeduction in wages of 35 per cent through . wage cuts in one year continues strong with picketing going on _ persistently. Again no scabs succeeded in enter- ing the plant yesterday. The Print- ing Workers Industrial League dis- tributed a handbill at the Academy Agency and the Employing Printers Association informing the jobless printers of the strike, calling for solidarity. | Coto, The Workers International Relief has issued a collection list for relief funds for the strikers, All organt- zations and workers are urged to support this strike with funds and relief. Rush funds and relief to W. In the old home of Eugene V. Debs, a modern misleaders who try te BEET STRIKERS 4 MASS PICKET IN FACE OF GUNS “Shoot and Ask About It Afterwards,” Says Sheriff to Growers DENVER, Colo., June 1—There was mass picketing yesterday by starved, ragged men, women and children fighting for the right to live through the strike of 18,000 Colorado beet fields workers. There was mass picketing in ali the fields, in the face of terror, ar- rests and threats by the armed grow- ers to fire on the pickets. “Shoot anyone coming on the land and ask questions afterwards’ are the orders of Sheriff Johnson of Morgan County to the growers, echo- ing the similar orders given several days ago ,by State Law Enforcement Officer Samuel Lee, sent to the strike area by Governor Adams. Company Declares Dividend. The strikers, fighting for a bare living wage, $23 an acre, as against the $15 the sugar companies an- nounce as the scale, are greatly an- gered at the news that the domin- ant Great Western Sugar Co. has declared a dividend on its preferred stock. County officials in Los Animas County mobilized the school children and tried to use them as scabs on the adults. The children refused to work in the fields. Send Relief. Yesterday two truckloads of relief, four tons jn all, were distributed to hundreds of families—a mere mouth- ful. Scores of relief committees are working throughout Colorado, but they will not be able to collect enough. Outside help must come, and immediately, a matter of hours or days at the most. Send all packages and telegrams to United Front Relief Committee and the Workers’ International Re- Uef to 1154 Eleventh St., Denver, Send mail to Post Office Box 2823, Denver, Colo. Sam Lee, the governor's represen- tative who issued the orders for grow- ers to kill the pickets, led a raid on a strikers’ house and arrested Or- ganizer Garcia. Garcia is held in Fort Lupton for deportation to Mexico. “Arrest All Communists.” After the defense grilled Lee on his strike-breaking record, Lee de- clared: “I will arrest all Communists on sight!” oa Seven strikers arrested and held at Fort Morgan were ‘given thirty-day sentences each by Judge Saunders, big beet grower himself. ‘sa Thirty-one of the 33 arrested for picketing at Avondale were among them the fire women Organizers Vega and Salazar are h for deportation to Spain on bail each, ‘The principal point in the omy” bill presented to the