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

—— , | VOTE COMMUNIST FOR Gnemployment 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. Dail Central Orga ad NOD (Section of the Communist International) VNorker unist Party U.S.A. . ; * “YOTE COMMUNIST FOR 4. Equal rights for the Negroes and self-determin- ation for the Black Belt. 6. Against capitalist terror; aga suppression of the political Against imperialist war; for the defe the Chinese people and of the Soviet Ur Pn at New York, N. ¥.. “Vol. IX, No. 132 Entered as second-class matter at the Pust Office der the act of March 3, 1879 “NEW YORK, FRIDAY, JUNE 3, 1932 CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents “ What Is Behind the Seabury Inquiry? boasted civic virtue of Tammany Hal! under Walker has been shown @ bedraggled harlot who does not hesitate to bring in children like the ; young son of Paul Block, capitalist newspuper owner and enemy of the Soviet Union, to give an air of innocerice to financial transactions which will not bear the light of day. ‘Why was Walker paid immense sums amounting to a million dollars? Why was his friend, Senator Hasting, whose only asset is a sort of low cunning, paid some $350,000, or the equivalent thereof? Because certain. corporations—competing with others equally desirous of defeating commercial rivals and additionally robbing the masses through the monopoly organization—wanted special favors that Walker, in his capacity of mayor, could give. There is nothing new in this. It is part and parcel of the capitalist system which, while its spokesmen prate of “honesty” and “business ethics” is characterized, as Marx long ago pointed out, by continual “cheating, chicanery and fraud.” But what of the Republican Hofstadter commission? What of Sea- bury, the gray-haired “respectable” investigator? Is this commission or at least the majority in this commission out to protect the masses of workers? Absolutely not. In the many months of the sessions of the Hofstadter commission not one single question has been asked, nor a single word said about the conditions of the workers in New York City; not one single word about the existence of more than one million unemployed; not a word about the continual and rapid cutting off of relief; not a word about police bru- tality. in strikes, not a word about the organic connection between the police and the underworld gangs in the armed assaults on strikes, pickets and mass meetings. There is not a single representative of the masses of workers on the Hofstadter commission. Seabury voices the wishes of middle class ele~ ments upon whom the huge bureaucratic machine weighs heavily espe- cially in the present crisis, who resent high taxation and the payment of graft to Tammany ‘or the privilege of conducting a business—that sacred right of the petty bourgeoisie which they are always willing to call upon the working class to defend. No fundamental difference exists: between the majority of the Hof- stadter commission and Tammany Hall. There is a rather sharp com- petition to determine which clique shall serve the interests of big capital —the gigantic banks at,{ industrial corporations; there is competition to see which clique shall carry out the administration of measures against the masses of workers, Since the crisis has cut down sharply the amount of surplus value (profits) extracted from the working class, the capitalist class in general and in perticuler those sections of it which are more heavily hit by the crisis, demand that their suppressive governments operate more cheaply. ‘They demand the same or more results for less money in bribes, graft, etc. * . s The Hofstadter commission and the demagogy of the righteous Sea- bury, himself a corporation lawyer, are nothing else but safety valves for the capitalist class and for its “democracy.” Occasionally, and especially in a period of sharp crisis, the inner differences in capitalist ruling spheres give the masses of workers a chance to see the wheels go around in the capitalist machine. At such a time it becomes necessary for the capitalist class as a whole to make a show of “purification” and. restoration of “honest government” in order to prevent the skepticism and disgust of masses from becoming actual re- pudiation of the right of the capitalist class to rule—and revolutionary struggle for its overthrow. ‘The Hofstadter commission has a republican majority. Seabury is a democrat. This composition is supposed to be proof that there is among the “better elements” of both the Republican and Democratic Parties a burning desire for truth, justice and honesty thwarted only by a few crooks. who have crept into positions of power. The working masses are asked to believe that the capitalist class can cleanse itself, that it wants to be honest and impartial in the administration of the law which from the very beginning is loaded against the workers. ‘The Socialist Party help the capitalists in attempts to restore the waning confidence of workers in American capitalist democracy. In pur- suit of this job Norman Thomas in ‘ue April 2 issue of the New Leader sald: ~ “{n general Judge Seabury’s report on the Magistrate Court was a 2 usefa| and enlightening document. I confess it is a matter of some sitis$pction to me that he did net say much more than I and other vale said when we begged tc make the shocking conditions of the Magistrate’s court an issue before the workers of New York who are thefr victims.” . ‘ Thus, according to Thomas and Seabury, the courts and the other machtyiery of capitalist tyranny are all right if only they are occasionally purified by removal of officials whose corruption has become notorious. A® of these “purifiers” are occasionally willing to sacrifice the individual rafter provided the capitalist institutions themselves are thereby shielded from the contempt of the masses. ; * ‘This is the role of the Hofstadter commission. This is the role of Seabury and of the Socialist Party, of the Republican and Democratic Parties—the three Parties of capitalism, all pe) ated with the corruption of the decaying system, all ready to help ci. alism cover up its inner rotteness with new attacks on the working cass and its revolutionary Jeadership, the Communist Party. In the Soviet Union where the working class has taken and holds power, grafting and corruption in office are rightly considered acts dir- ected against the basic interests, against the very life of the working class and its government. It is considered an anti-social act so criminal in character that it is punished by shooting. § In the Soviet Union worke.'s constitute commissions investigating and punishing graft. There the purpose is to destroy the remnants‘ of capitalism, ‘The purpose of the Hofstadter commission and of Judge Seabury is to strengthen capitalism, to make it more efficient in the robbery and op- pression of the American working class. Hindenburg and Fascism ‘#4 VOTE for Hindenburg is a vote against Hitler and Fascism,” was the cry of the German social democrats during the recent presidential elections. Hardly ha’ the noisy hypvcritical shouting died down than Hindenburg has replaced the Bruening government with a government of _ Junkers and Generals which is only another leap forward on the road to an open fascist dictatorship. : What has become of the “lesser evil” cry of the socialists? Never was the hypocrisy of these social fascists more clearly exposed. The German social democrats have been systematically working to disarm the masses against the growing fascist dictatorship. The Bruening gov- ernment, which the social democrats supported as an alleged barrier against Hitler has been shown to be, as the Communists declared, the government which was introducing the fascist. power. The workers of Germany will now more clearly see that the line of united front struggle which the Communist Party pursued-against the socialist-Hindenburg bloc and at the same time against Hitler was correct. The line of the Communist Party that a vote for the Kaiser's Geversl Hindenburg meant support to the capitalist dictatorship and the strength- ening of Hitler has been entirely confirmed. ‘The establishment of the von Papen government shows that capital- ism. in Germany is trying to solve the ever deepening crisis by fiercer attacks upon the workers and by imperialist war. The German capital- ists are building up a cabinet for the war against the Soviet Union. The American working class must intensify the struggle for the de- fense of the Chinese people and the Soviet Union. It must show its readiness to come to the assistance of the German masses in ther revolu- tionary struggl. That,is how it must react to the fascist advance in “Siberia Can Only Become a Cemetery for Militarists” “Red Star” Warns Japanese Hits War Inciters) Reaffirms Firm Peace Policy of U.S.S.R.. “Siberia can only become a cemie- tery for militarists who have lost their | heads,” the “Red Star,” organ of the Soviet Red Army, warns the Japanese | imperialists in a leading article in| ‘Wednesday's issue. | “We can,” it says “only advise those far-sighted and sober statesmen of Japan who understand the instability of the Japanese situation, particuladly in the event of an anti-Soviet war, to throw cold water on the hotheads)| of the boundless anti-Soviet provo- cateurs, who regard Siberia as the} sacred resting place of their ancestors. | Siberia can only become a cemetery for militarists who have lost their heads.” Referring to the wide-spread agita~ tion in the Japanese bourgeois press for armed intervention against the Soviet Union, and the steady advance of Japanese armies on the Soviet frontiers, the “Red Star” says: “We must emphasize with all frankness and in all seriousness that peaceable declarations fade be- fore the limitless, bloody agitation being conducted by the incendiaries. of war in the Far East. The organ of the Soviet workers and peasants Red Army reiterates the firm peace policy of the Soviet Union and warns that this doe? nob mean that the Soviet. masses. will not. -de~ fend their soil. An “iron resistance” awaits invaders, it warns, and adds: “Coot-headed Japanese circles un- derstand this very well. They under- stand the insanity of those who are building. their bloody plans on sense- less analogies with the Russo-Jap- anese War of 1904.” In a summary of the “Red Star” article the Moscow correspondent of the New York Times admits thaé the fascist developments in Japan and the Japanese war moves on the So- viet borders give the Soviet grounds for grave apprehensions. He says: “The Red Star clearly disclosed the main bases of Soviet apprehensions. Summarized briefly, they are, first a distinct growth of the influence of the extreme militarist jingo elements in the political life of Japan. “Second, the Red Star notes an increasingly aggressive tone on the part of Japanese newspapers of the extreme Right, such as the Nihon, which is said to be undisguisedly de- manding the seizure of the Soviet maritime provinces. Third, there are the military movements of the Jap- anese forces in Manchuria, which are drawing ever closer to the Soviet frontiers, and the transfer of the army headquarters from Mukden to Harbin. portant is the consistent refusal of the Tokyo Government to accept Foreign Commissar Litvinoff’s invi- tation to sign a non-aggression pact. Not without significance is the Red Star’s evident conviction that pop- ular opinion throughout the world would side with the Soviet Union in the event of,a conflict.” NEWARK JOBLESS TO DEMONSTRATE Relief Being Cut Off; Socialists, AFL Try to Split Ranks NEWARK, N. J., June 2—A huge demonstration of unemployed work- ers of Newark, N. J., will take place Saturday, June 4, at 12, noon, lasting until 6 p.m., in Military Park for im- mediate relief and against the cut- ting off of the relief work contem- plated by the city officials. Following the announced prepara- | tions for this demonstration by the Unemployed Council the Socialist Party and the A. F. of L, leaders of Newark have prepared another dem- onstration on the same day, place and time in order to confuse the Red Army Paper [GOV'T DEFICIT UP; “Fourth and perhaps most im- | SENATE HITS VETS, CIVIL EMPLOYEES Economy Bill Calls for 10 Per Cent Wage-Cut) After adopting the revenue bill, which calls for more drastic taxation, both direct) and indirect, of the workers’ incomes, the Senate began to discuss the “omnibus economy bill” intended to accomplish the job of balancing the budget and “restoring the credit of) the United States,” mainly through a slash of civil em- ployees’ wages: Slashes Civil Employees’ Wages This bill is to provide $238,605,000 in economies entirely at the expenses of all federal employees and vet- erans. 732,000 workers will be af- fected which cuts their wages by ten per cent. The extent of this wage slash is much larger, however, in consequence of the provision to red- uce the paid vacations of civil em-| ployees to fifteen days and to in- troduce unlimited furloughs without pay for all workers at the direction of department heads. Attacks Veterans Allowances In addition the bill calls for $48,- 714,000 in economies to be realized, by mercilessly slashing all allowances originally proposed by the House Economy Committee. According to official estimates, not less than 123,- (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) Party. party of capitalism, living standards of city government. Thirty-six ed wit hassault and sentenced | the workhouse. effort to get the co-operation industry.” This justification answer this? workers. ‘The demonstration of the Unem- ployed Councils will take place on the south end of Military Park on Satur- day, June 4, beginning at 12, noon, tw épm — % war against the Soviet Union. arrested; Fred Basset, a worker, was charg- Will Hoan answer? 2. The socialists of Milwaukee helped to break the strike of the Phoenix Hosiery workers and put over a thirty-five per cent wage cut.’ The Milwaukee Leader, organ of the Socialist Party, justifies this cut in its x issue of October 26, 1931, on the ground that ‘it would stabilize the industry. waukee Leader states: “Realizing that such conditions would finally lead to dragging the whole industry down to a starvation wage level, the national union agreed to a drastic wage reduction averaging 85 per cent in an facturers for a program of stabilizing the A. F. of L, bureaucratic strike-breaking ex- cuse for accepting wage cuts. Vet Leader Sees Growing Mass Unrest In Japan Huge Police Guards for Emperor Emanuel Levin, Chairman of the Joint Provisional Bonus March Committee. VETS DENOUNCE Japan was described as “seething | with unrest and dissatisfaction, the same as the rest of the world” by| Frazier Hunt, war correspondent and | 9 National Broadcasting Company ob- GOV T TERROR: | in an, Me 9 server, address transmitted across the Pacific from Tokyo last night. The address was rebroadcast in this country over the network of | MARCH: SWELLS 4. the National Broadcasting Company. | Suse Hunt admitted that “among cer-|Mass Pressure Forces tain classes this (unrest) takes the| Congressman to Act form of a general Red movement.” | He attempted to make it anpear| On Demand that this movement was “without | ee leadership,” ignoring the existence of | BULLETIN the Japanese Communist Party, WASHINGTON, D. C.—Mass which though outlawed by the gov- ernment is carrying on the most he- roic actions in organizing and lead- ing the struggles of the Japanese | workers and peasants. A Tokyo dispatch to the New York Times reports that police plans for} the protection of the Japanese Em- | peror Hirohito at the opening of the Diet yesterday were “unusually ela-| borate, even for Tokyo.” While few! of the population turned out to wit- | ness the ceremonies, “these were kept! League during the recent bonus back and many were searched for} hearings, ea | * 8 6 le Ministers of State “were 21s0| wasHINGTON, D. C., June 2—In guarded with an ostentatious dis-| ay attempt to halt the swelling bonus plays bf sotee! __|march of war veterans which is con- Pie, Present emergency session | verging on the Capitol from ‘all points of the Japanese Diet was called | of the compass, a Washington dis- for the announced purpose of vot- | patch said today that the war depart- ing additional war funds: of 865,- ’ 000,000 for military operations for ment has caused te be moved under “the next seven months.” pressure of the veterans forced Representative Bachcarach to in- troduce a bill in Congress today to provide for the removal of the two year clause which compelled the veterans to wait two years for the payment of half of the bonus after making application for it. This was demand number 2 presented to the Ways and Means Commit- tee by a rank and file delegation of the Workers Ex-Servicemen's (CONTINUED 03 FAGE THREE) WILL MAYOR HOAN ANSWER? Does Hoan Dare Debate Foster June 5, Before the Milwaukee Workers? William Z. Foster, Communist Candidate for President of the United States, has challenged Daniel Hoan, Mayor of Mil- waukee and member of the Executive Committee of the Socialist Hoan has been challenged to appear to defend his rec- ord as mayor and policies and practices of the Socialist Party. The Communists charge that the Socialist Party is the third and that it is aiding directly to depress the the workers and to prepare the imperialist Here Is-the Proof of the Communists’ Charges: 1. On March 6, 1930, a demonstration in Milwaukee of 40,000 workers against unem- : ployment was broken by the Socialist Party 8. The Socialist Party at its national convention called for the entrance of the United States into the Imperialist World Court (Point 4 of the Socialist Party plat- form) and the entrance of the United States into the League of Nations (Point 5 of its platform) and helps the imperialists to cover up the war-making character of the bandit- League of Nations by phrases to the effect that the U.S. should enter, “under condi- tions which will make it a more. effective instrument for world peace.” The Socialist Party is here representing the League of Nations as an instrument of peace and is covering up its robber and war making pol- icy against the Chinese people and the Soviet Union. Will Hoan defend this policy? 4, N-:man Thomas, Socialist Party can- didate or president, said about the Soviet Unior in his-recent book, “As I See It,” Page 93: ‘The Russian government rules by ty- ranny and terror, with secret jolice, espion-, age and arbitrary executions.’ The’ Com- munist Party charges this is not only a shameful slander, but it is outright impe- rialist propaganda conducted by the Social- ist Party to justify a war against ‘he Soviet Union. Will Hoan answer? workers were to one-year in The Mil- of the manu- is the usual Will Hoan Will Hoan Debate with Foster at German Hall in Milwaukee on June 5th? RELIEF FOUGHT IN MILWAUKEE BY SOCIALISTS Foster Challenges Mayor Hoan to Appear June 5 at German Hall and Defend This Policy SOCIALIST MEMBERS OF COMMON COUNCIL RESIST MOTION TO BUILD $5,000 NEW TENEMENTS Minneapolis Farmer-Labor Board Members Cancel Permit for Foster Meeting in School BULLETIN MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., June 2—The workers here are roused to tremenodus mass protest against the school board’s canceling of the permit for Foster to speak Monday night in North High School Audi- torium. A huge protest demonstration will be held aSturday at 7 p. m. at Britdge Square. Workers demand the auditorium, but meanwhile arrangements have been made for Foster to speak Monday night at A. O. U. W. Hall, 19 South Seventh St, and at Dania Hall, 427 Cedar Ave. the overflow crowd outside * N. Y. ANTI-WAR PROTEST ON SAT. Protest Robber War On China; Defend ~ Soviet Union NEW YORK. — Working- class organizations throughout i the city are rallying their members and other sympathe- tic workers for the anti-war demonstration tomorrow. Massing at the corner of Broad and South Streets, thou- sands of workers will demon- strate at 12 noon tomorrow against the present robber war on China, against the developing war moves abelnust the peaceful Soviet Union. In a statement issued yesterday, the Trade Union Unity Council calls upon ail members and sympathizers of the Trade Union Unity League to Participate in the demonstration against the Japanese imperialists and United States imperialists bloody war plahs to destroy the Soviet Union and the Chinese Soviets. “No worker's life is safe from slaughter by these imperialist ban- dits who plan to again send thou- sands and millions to death and destruction for their profits and power. At any time they may force the working class to sacrifice their lives as they are making us sacrifice our standards of living during this crisis. The American Federation of Labor misleaders, which supported the bosses in the last war will be one of the chief instruments of the bos- ses in forcing the workers to fight the bosses war for just as the bosses they want to see the destruction of |the only country in the world which want peace and where the workers have jobs, the U.S.S.R.” The Unemployed Councils of Greater New York issued a state- ment which pointed out that while whole loads of munitions are being shipped daily for the slaughter in’ the Fer East by the American bosses, wage cuts and lay offs are increas- ing. Unemployment relief is being govefnment insurance. All the Unemployed Councils, Block Committees, committees on the breadiines, in the trade unions and markets are urged to rally all the refuses stration. To come in a body from your point of mobilization in large groups with placards picturing your slogans. Organize your defense groups to give a defense against all pos- sible attempts to stop your demon- stration. LEWIS ASKS FEDERAL CONTROL WASHINGTON, D C,, June 2— International President John L. Lewis of the United Mine Workers today appeared before a Senate com- mittee and asked for federal regu- lation of the coal industry, The Na- tional Miners Union fights this as a scheme to faseize the coal fields. W.LR. CONFERENCE ON JUNE 17 June 5 Conference of W.LR. pos- poned to Friday, June 17, at Man- hattan Lyceum, 66 East 4th. Street, at 7:30° pm, cut down more and more while the | unemployment | workers to participate in this demon- | At the latter hall amplifiers will be rigged to carry the speech to * . MILWAUKEE, Wisc., June 2.—When the masses of Milwaukee workers and unemployed workers gather in German | Hall here Sunday to hear William Z. Foster, Communist Can- didate for president of the United States opened his campaign, they will keep an eye on the door to see whether the Socialist Party Mayor, Daniel Hoan dares to appear, too. Foster has challenged him to come to the meeting and debate. And these masses of work- ers will have before them already |Milwaukee Leader Admits Challenge to Hoan Is Received MILWAUKEE, W The Milwaukee Li admits that Fost Hoan to debate | Hoan left for tt mayors in | comment on the c | Milwaukee Leader the ridiculous alibi for the mayor | that he “has no knowledge of the request that he meet Fo: Milwaukee workers demand t | Hoan admit that he |papers and s |defend his ad: | Socialist Par |June 5. Hoan is in jdiscussion on city | Mayor Murphy of | Says, “Milwaukee is t standing city for efficient |ment”—which the work | stand means the admi |saves most by giving least relief. , June 2. the latest bit of evidence of the } of the charges that Foster ma’ against th Socialist Party and Hoan’s administration. A delegation of workers and jobless elected at the May 15 deinonstr of 2,506, placed before the M Common Ccuncil demands that the (CONTINUED ON PAGE THRE) GERMAN CABINET TO DISBAND THE REICHSTAG $0 0N rr Cable) : ‘The Von Papen Cabinet took theh oath today on the Weimar C ution! As a result of the Cen Party’s decision to oppose the new government and the with wal of the Post Minister Schaetzle by the Bavarian People’s Party, the new Cabinet found itself unable to secure a majority in the Reichstag. The new Premier there- fore received from Hindenburg full power to dissolve the Reichstag and |the press expect the disbanding to take place tomorrow, perhaps, Reliable sources report that the government is considering the intro- duction of a reactionary alteration of the franchise by an emergency decree constitutional mbly on the basis of the reactionary franchcise. The appointment of Warmbold, director of the Egay Dye Trust, as a temporary Labor Minister, repre- sents a provocation against the workers. The Communist newspaper, Thue- ringer Volkblatt, was suppressed for ten days by the Gotha authorities, which ausing “pub- lie w i “in nt to riot,” j ete. Unemployed workers yesterday raided several foodstores in Duis- burg. The police began to shoot im- mediately,” killing @ 40-year-old worker, :