The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 4, 1932, Page 5

“Glad ‘to Get Daily” Writes Negro Worker; Foster’s Book With 1 Year Sub Negro and white workers alike are beginning to realize that the Daily Worker,leader and organizer of the} American masses, points the only way out of their miserythe revolution- ary way. The following letter from a Negro worker if Jacksonville, Flor- ida, hotbet of reactién, proves this: “As a friend to my race and the cause you and your paper espouse, I am writing,” begifis the letter. “A few days dgo, someone, a white man, stopped in my place,.as I had stepped out for a minute end left me a copy of the Daily Worker. I was glad to get it, I read it, am reading it yet, every line and page. We down here need Communism and what you all are doing for our race up there.” Workers! The Daily Worker is the guiding spirit of your class struggles! Read it and pass it along to your fellow workers and subscribe for a month, six months or a year. With a yearly subscription you are entitled to a free copy of William Z. Foster's latest. book, “Toward Soviet Amer- ica.” Write to the Daily Worker, 50 B, 13th St., N.Y.C., today for a sub- scription and a copy of this splendid book by Comrade Foster. RAISE BAIL FOR | PA. MINE LEADER | Must Raise Bond for Four More Workers PITTSBURGH,’ Pa.—The Interna- tional Labor Defens® Bail Committee here succeeded in securing the $10,000 property bail demanded by the gov- ernment to free Vincent Kemenovich, leader of the National.Miners Union who is held for deportation. The government. officials, in a further attempt to keep the mine workers’ leader in jail, have insisted ‘on making an extended investigation {of the property. It is expected, how- ‘ever, that Kemenovich will be re- leased on bail Monday. The International Labor Defense is also trying to secure bail for Marensh and three leaders of the unemployed held here in jail charged with in- citing to riot. All workers in the Pittsburgh District are urged to re- port all available property’ that can be put as bond to release the workers now in jail. A mass rally against deportation of workers will be held at Walton Hall here June 9. SWOPE WAGE CUT PLAN ADOPTED been The “Swope Plan” has adopted by the National Association of Hléectrical Manufacturers. The plan, announced first by , president of the Gen- eral Electrical Company, is a scheme to tax 200,000 employes at work, one per cent of it to provide “not more,) than half his former pay and in no case not more than $20 a week” for ten weeks for those who have been able to starve along on awope pay for six months. Three hundred companies have joined in the plan, which is offi- cially known as the.“Nema Mutual Unemployment Benefit. Plan.” On June 1, a delegation of unem~- ployed General Electric workers came down on Burton Delack, manager of the Schenectady G..E. plant, with demands for $8 a week relief plus $1 per dependant for ail-fired workers, and also a demand “for a minimum wage of $15 week in the plant.” In view of this, the Swope dec- jaration for relief to amount to “half pay and in no casé more than §20 a week” is sheer irony, The great majority of workers-in the electrical manufacturing plants are drawing $12 @ week or Jess..-None of them are going to get- anywhere near $20 ftw wages, and under the Swope- “Nema” plan, their relief would be about $6 a week, for ten weeks only and even then, only after a wage cut for the six months preceding. SOCIALIST BARS COMMUNIST OFF BALLOT IN FRISCO (CUNTINLED RUM PAG ONES increase of 4,000-in-the last week, and this increase is part of the answer of the workers here to atempts of the Socialist Party, "particalarly, one of whose officials holding county office has launched a vicious campaign to disregard these signatures of the workers, and arbitrarily keep the Communist Party “off-the ballot. The election officials in San Fran- cisco admitted yesterday that the prime mover in their plan announced May 25, to bar the Communist can- didates from the ballot there is the old time Socialist ~ Party leader, King. Oy postales Bars from Ballot King is chief clerk of San Fran- cisco county, and as such is chief registrar of -voters. His office must ‘approve of the signature lists before they are sent to the Secretary of State, and this King refuses to do. Not only that, he has also visited the Alameda county officials and asked them to do the same thing, but these capitalist Republican and Democratic Party officials have too much politi- cal sense to adopt a brazen, self- exposing openly labor hating plan as is proposed by the Socialist Party leader. They are. willing to let the “Socialists” do it. They have refused to nullify Alameda county petitions, Demonstrate June 18! The Communist Party calls for mass demonstrations, throughout the state of June 18 against this out- rageous atempt in San Francisco to keep the workers’ candidates off the ballot. BEET STRIKERS APPEAL TO ALL Call On Eyery Union to Rush Food DENVER, Colo, June 3.—The United Front Beet Workers Strike Relief Committee has sent circular letters to all trade unions, fraternal and worker organizations within reach. The letters notify them of the striké of 18,000 beet workers ugainst slavery and peonage. The letter. states: “In 1930 wages were $23 per acre. Still poverty was widespread due to the smallness of this wage. In 1931 rates were slashed to $18 per acre whereupo nentire communities went on charity relief, although employed. Now, for 1932 the rates have been slashed to as low as $8 and not exceeding $15 in any region, without any guarantee of pay—J. R. Ruber- son, Investigator of the State In- dustrial Commission last week stated he “found a condition of industrial slavery far worse than the chattel slavery of old.” The letter’ tells of the use against the strikers of the Colorado state anti-picketing law, under which over @ hundred arrésts have been made tf best strike pickets. The beet strikers appeal to “all workers to immediately rush funds and food so they can win their strike for $23 an acre, and for a guarantee that the workers will actually be paid for the work they do. Send packages and telegrams to United Front Relief Committee, 1154 Eleventh Street, Denever Colo. Send letters to this committee to P. O. Box 2823, Denver, Col. Dresiser Calls for a Relentless Struggle Against War on USSR ‘Theodore Dreiser, writing in the June issue of Soviet Russia Today, on the newsstands today, says: “There is widespread feeling that war is imminent. This is reflected in the press of Europe, Asia and Am- erica..... “The Japanese received a setback in Shanghai, due to the heroic resist. ance of the Chinese pegple, to the opposition of Japanese workers to the plans of their afscist ruling class, and to the unwillingness of Japan’s im- perialist rivals to allow the Japan- ese to grab the monopoly of the rich Yangtze Valley. The dominant cir- cle of American finance capital sup- ports Japan in the attack upon the Chinese revolution and in the pro- posed war against Soviet Russia. But the quarrel comes over the spoils— the resources and the markets of China. “The attack upon the Soviet Union, planned for years, has been delayed by various forces, chief among which are the world-wide opposition to war; the capitalist fear that imperialist war would be followed by civil war —tevolution; and the contradictions and rivalries between nations, inher- ent in capitalism. Since Japanese invasion of Manchuria and China, these rivalries have been intensified. Unquestionably Japan would have al- ready launched her troops into Sov- iet Siberia, had she been given the undivided support of all western im- perialist nations. “But now the time is. approaching when this unity against the U.S.S.R. may be achieved, to some degree at least, by Japan, France, Great Britain, and the United States. “Friends of the Soviet Union can and should postpone or prevent the threatened war. Every day means more factories for the Soviet Union. The revolutionary activity of the pro- letariat is the most powerful force against the program of the imper- ialists to “save civilization from Bol- shevism’—or, in plain words, to save capitalism from ruin, “Humbug pacifism will not help. Militant opposition to war plans, mass pressure, mobilization of the masses against the transport of mu- nitions, economic boycott of imper- ialist Japan, demand for recognition and free trade relations with Soviet Russia—this is the program for friends of the Soviet Union and So- viet China in this critical period. 1 appeal to all intellectuals to lend their support to the workers on this program of resistance to war.” Other articles in the June issue of Soviet Russia Today include an appeal for the defense of the Soviet Union and opposition to fascist im- perialism from Fomain Rolland; a story, Abdul and Pavel sign up for Socialist Competition, by Ivan Kata- ger; Stalin, the Man and the Leader, by George Bertram; Socialist Cities, by A. A. Heller; and an article on Why Recognition, by the editors, A. A, Heller and Liston M. Oak. AGREE ON BILL TO UNLOAD DEFICIT ON THE TOILERS Congressmen Rush the Revenue Bill to President ‘The fiscal offensive against the workers received a further impetus when @ conference, of leading sen- ators and representatives, working under strict secrecy, agreed on the final draft of the revenues bill to be presented to President Hoover eo his signature. ‘ This onference in which both re- publicans and democrats participated was called to harmonize the revenue bill as adopted by the senators with the one previously passed by the representatives. If iss assured that the final draft agreed upon em- bodies all the hideous features of the bill rushed through by the Senators in response to Hoover's personal ap- peal. Hoover is expected to sign the revenue bill when the drive to bal- ance the budget through a drasti- cally increased taxation, direct as well as indirect, on the continuously shrinking income of the working Masses Will reach its climax, The bill agreed upon by Senators and Representatives calls for $1,125,- 000,000 in revenue to be squeezed out of the meager wages and incomes of the workers through the most vicious taxation which réflects the entire anti-working class policy of the cap- italists and their government. °¢ According to an estimate of the Secretary of the Treasury, the bud- get will not be balanced unless in addition to the revenue bill finally agreed upon, the economy bill is not speeded up. This provides for $238,- 000,000 in economies to be realized mainly at the expenses of civil em- ployees and veterans whose respec- tive wages and allowances are to suffer merciless slashes. ‘The misery which this economy bills imposes upon the Federal men who fought for the United States imperialists, was revealed by several senators in an outburst of dema- gogy intended to keep the workers and ex-servicemen ffom putting up a réal mass fight against the slashes of their wages and allowances. MOONEY LAUDS SPORT MEETS Writes of the Counter Olympic Committee High praise for the work of the National Counter-Olympic Commit- tee, of which he’ is honorary chair- man, is contained in a letter to the committee from Tom Mooney, fa- mous class-war prisoner. Writing from his cell in San Quen- tin prison, California, Mooney tells of the “reports that haye reached me of the ‘FREE TOM MOONEY STREET RUNS’ that have been suc- cessfully held in New York, Pitts- burgh, Baltimore, Youngstown, Cleve- land, Chicago, San Francisco arid many other cities.” and says that he knows of “no other movement which has on a national scale used a more effective means of dramatizing my case.” Praises Work. The Counter-Olympic Committee is waging a sharp fight against the im- perialist Los Angeles Olympics as a protest against the frame-up of Mooney, * “It touches me deeply,” Mooney writes to the committee, “to hear that ‘every athlete in the Counter- Olympic Meet is proud of the fact that Tom Mooney is chairman of the Counter-Olympic Commit and I wish to state in turn that Iam honored at being the honorary chair- man of your militant sports organiza- tion.” “Sport and Play,” the official ot- gan of the Labor Sports Union, is praised by Mooney in his letter, which says that the magazine “is informa- tive and indicates the splendid work being accomplished by your organ- ization.” Urges Shop Fight. Mooney, in conclusion, urges: the Counter-Olympic Committee to re- double their efforts “to boycott the bosses’ Olympics in Los Angeles and to further the success of the Inter- national Workers’ Meet in Chicago.” JONES-FERRARI MEETING AT MANHATTAN LYCEUM An error occurred in the issue of June 2 in the story relating to the protest meeting called by the Inter- national Labor Defense and the Marine Workers Industrial Union protesting against the arrest of Jones and Ferrari. This meeting is sched- uled to take place at Manhattan Lyceum, 66 East 4th Street and not Stuyvesant Casino as stated in Munition >| now. DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, JUNE 4, 1932 Discussion on Communist Election Platform Delegate at Chicago Exposes Shipment to Japan | ference, Part of the scene when 1,200 representatives of workers’ and farmers’ organizations all over the country met at the call of the Communist Party in a National Nominating Con- vention in Chicago, and on May 29, named Wrz. Z. Foster and James W. Ford as their stand- ard bearers in an election campaign against hunger and war. all over the country. it went. . Leona Johnson, Indiana, I want to speak about a suggestion that was made by one of the workers of Hammond, Ind. He is not a Party member, but he suggested that No. 3 of the Party platform where it says “Emergency @elief for poor farmers and exemption from taxes,” should also include the word “work- ers.” We know today under the capitalist system that the workers ate being evicted from their homes in the cities as well as on the farms. All the comrades have spoken about the different sections of the working class that are oppressed. One section has not been stressed and that is the women. - In Hammond, we haye one candy factory. Most of the girls are worked like slaves, and when they get checks at the end of the week, they hardly get enough to buy shoes and stock- ings which they wear out in the fac- tory. The Young Communist League in- tends to fight and show these young workers that they are oppressed and help them eliminate these conditions. ‘Women go back to your towns, your state, your neighbor, tell the other women that we must struggle agairist the war. War is no longer a possi- bility. It is an, actual fact today. And we must struggle today. You must go to your neighbor and every- time you hear her say any of these bourgeois stories about the war that will bring back prosperity, just punc- ture that little ballon for them right quick, ane eet Berman, Melrose Park I represent the so-called historical town of Melrose Park. I guess you all read just a few weeks ago about how our fellow workers were standing up against machine guns there. I want to tell you fellow workers that ma- chine guns cannot and will not stop our struggles. I want to tell you, fellow workers throughout the entire world are gathering their strength to overthrow this system. The bosses’ answer is machine guns, What I want to tell you’ is that few of us might be victims, but thousands and thousands of other workers will take our places in struggles for the work- ing class. ‘The main reason for the fight in Melrose Park is the fight for unem- ployment relief. The workers are ready for relief. They are starving The bosses, instead of giving them relief and unemployment in- surance, are giving them machine guns. The workers are ready to come out with the Communist Party because they know that it is the only Party fighting for the working class today. Therefore, the two main points in the platform that must be stressed is unemployment insurance and de- fense of the Soviet Union. The work- ers are looking for some way out, and they know that they cannot get it from the capitalists. The most im- portant point is the question of de- fense of the Soviet Union and the Chinese masses. Siac Tae Schmies, Detroit ‘We must raise in this convention the immediate demands and go back to the districts and begin build up struggles first of all ‘for this real- ization, This will be the main basic guar- antee for the success of the Commu- nist Party in the election campaign. Comrades, unemployment insurance is one of the central demands effect- ing not only the 15,000,000 workers who are unemployed, Comrades, the building up of shop organization, the building up and carrying into the Thursday's issue of the Daily Worker. shop the platform of the Communist We print below extracts of speeches made by the workers and farmer* delegates at the National Nominating Convention by the Communist Party in Chicago. The convention met May 28 and 29 and adopted a platform of class struggle of whic hthe first plank was: insurance at the expense of the state and the employers.” sible to give the words in this limited space of the 1,200 delegates from These extracts are samples, to show in general how “Unemployment and social It is impos- Party depends upon to what extent) we are able to take up the grievances with these workers in the depart-| ments, with the workers in the mines, with the workers in the mills and to that extent we can show that our platform has as the immediate aim, the struggle against wage cuts, for higher living standard, to that ex- tent will we succeed to place our can- didates successfully before the work- ers in this country. So let us say that we will go back/ into the districts with one determir- ation, that out of this convention there must increase local struggles for unemployment relief; not one hunger match in one city, but thou- sands of hunger marches before the Welfare stations, before the city hall against the politicians, together with our shop activity, making as a part of the workers inside the factory, building the necessary bound between these workers who are responsible for giving proper leadership and organ- ization. PeBEa Bie Hilda Kaugman, Arizona I wish to give my revolutionary greetings and I will say that while in the last presidential election we were on the ballot, our Party was very small and we did not even have an organizer. But this year, while we have only had an organizer for three months, to show the tremendous Progress that we have had, we have representatives here not only from the capitol but from all other cities of Arizona. There is @ great deal of starvation right there and especially among the Mexican workers. \These Mexican workers are being deported to Old Mexico, When times were good and they needed workers on the railroads the Southern Pacific Railroad and other companies were only too glad to go down to Mexico and bring them into the country. The A. F. of L. didn't organize them into unions and these people were unorganized and their wages were miserable, but they | had no voice. They were brought there illegally and they did this so} that when they became radical they could use the deportation laws against them, especially now, during the crisis —and this is one of the things we must fight. | FOSTER SPEAKS MINNEAPOLIS | MONDAY i | Foster will speek Monday, June 6, in the evening, at A, O. U. W. Hall, 19 South Seventh St., and at Dania Hall, 427 Cedar Ave., both in Min- neapolis, Foster will speak June 7 at 8 p. m., in Central Ball Rooms, St. Paul, Min- nesota, He will speak» Wednesday, June 8, at Woodman Hall at 7 p. m.,, in Duluth, Minn., and at 8 p. m. at Camels’ Hall, also in Duluth, RUSSIAN ART SHOP) PEASANTS’ HANDICRAFTS 100 East 14th St., N.Y. C. (Rust PRASANT LI DOYS—NOVELT CANDY—CIGAR: Send $5.00 for Special Axsort pent for Phone ALgong'n 4.0004 [BRIGGS HUNGER MARCH MONDAY Demand Relief and 10 Per Cent Raise DETROIT, Mich., June 3.—A pow. erful huriger match of unemployed workers and workers still employed in the Briggs auto plant here will take place Monday. The men Briges turned out to starve in the streets will march down those streets to the gates of the plant and demand from the Briggs company that it provide them with unemployed relief equal to half their wages when they were working, and in no case less than $15 a week, The marchers demand that there be ho discrimination against Negro, young or women workers, and no paying back for the welfare. They demand 10 per cent increase in the present starvation wages of the Briggs plant. They demand that the line slow down in the plant, and that workers have the right to or- ganize. Starts at 10 A. M. The hunger marchers will meet rst at 10 am. at the employment office at Warren and Connors Streets. The march will start at 11:15 a.m. The Auto Workers Union and the Unemployed Council, which issued the call for the march, urged the workers inside the plant to elect grievance committee by departments and mobilize for the march. The unemployed were urged to build block committees to mobilize for this march, Slave Drivers The Auto Workers Union declared today “that one of the effective ways of fighting against the Briggs com- pany, that piles up millions of dollars in profit, all at the expense of the exploited employed workers and the misery of the unemployed Briggs workers, is by organizing a powerful hunger march.” 30 Days of Interesting European Travel Including 7 Days in the U.S.S.R. for as low as $190.00 Sailings weekly on S.S. Bremen, Europa, Ber- engaria, New York, Cale- donia, Statendam and Aquitania Special Social Study Tours 23 Days in the U.S.S.R. Including Leningrad, Moscow Ivanoy Vosnesensk, Kharkov, Rostov, Dniepropetrovsk, Dniep- rostroy and Kiev. $300.00 up Lowest rates on steamer, bus and rail transporta- “tion. For further particulars call: World Tourists, Inc 175 Fifth Avenue New York City Phone AL 4-6656-7-8 \ “Branch Offices:— Chleage8 N, Clare Bt 07 © si . 8. 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This world etonomic conference, in | which ing t the most accord discuss the and the | them ation papers, will be represented world economi p through “int War obligations and re well as inflation of silver cu and tariffs, will not be discu Only on this condition, the U States government agreed to pe will bilities encies | pate in the conference quest Barring all these economic ahd political which {s not itrel ence will evident! t ions on the “Red ‘Mens ussian dumping of commod nding on ich i prices adoubterly ain measure road to “stabilizing’Jthat is The Conference w attempt to realize a c of “international cooperation” for for speeding up the mobilization for war po cmeah tec taniioddd the Soviet Union. 2,900 TERMINAL COAL MINERS “recover requir And Come Out Against | AGE ONE) (CONTINUED FROM P. fact that the men voted unanimously for strike by walkingr out of the minés, the U. M. W. A. is today taking @ “secret ballot” in all Pittsburgh Terminal mines, as to whether there shall be a strike! Expose Strike-breakers ‘The National Miners Union is call- ing meetings and exposing this trick, pointitig out there is no way to pre- | vent the U. M. W. A. officials stuffing the ballot boxes and declaring the men have voted against a strike even while they are on strike, mass meeting called by the National Miners Union last night in Coverdale, and heard Frank Bofich, national Secretary of the N. M. U. call on the strikers to take over the leader- ship of their struggle theniselves, through the election of broad united front strike committtees at each mine, and excluding from the com- mittees all paid officials of the U. M. W. A. and those who in the past have advocated the U. M. W. A. policies of retreat. Challenge Fagan The mass meeting voted unanim- ously for the policy of the National Miners Union and against the U. M. W. A,, afd issued @ challenge to Pat Fagan, U. M. W. A. district president here to debate Borich at the great mass meeting scheduled for Cover« dale on Sunday. VOTE COMMUNIST FOR: 2. Against Hoover's wage-cutting policy. Cut to 35 Cents | Page Five IN. Y. VETS OFF Five hundred miners attended the} | Hinois, FOR- CAPITOL TODAY AT 9 11,000 March to N. Y. City“Hall; Mayor Denies Aid CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONB) favor of Cash onus, that immediate d to the jobless war ployed workers in New York that transportation be pplied todzy to carry a thousand bon maréehers from New York to Washington Walker Refused Demands ll of the demands were refused by er who. said that he had taken all matters of relief in the fecent ors’ conference in Detroit where rs went'ot record from a-vast jabor army under War Depart- it leadership as a “relief” mieas- ‘e for the jobless. Vets March Today committee reported back to the chers informing them that: the yor had refused their demands, > vets, with their ranks increased,) 1 marched back to Union Square} a@ meeting was held and pre-; ms were made for the march Washington which will begin at | the square today at 9a. m. résolution nt of the bx relief be sup} and ure and us Ww up may 28 ma Over ee Marching ARE ON STRIKE! WASHINGTON, D. C.—Delegations |of veterans, numbering over 1{,00¢ |are converging on the Capitol from | all sections of the country. Troops are: Defy UMWA Leaders] marching from Tennessee, Alabama, |Louisiana, Arkansas, Texas, Okla- homia, Missouri and Georgia. Over a thousand prepared to march from Philadelphia under the leader- ship of the Workers Ex-Servicemen’s League. Large delegations are now on their way to the Capitol from Michigan, Towa, New Jersey, Maryland and Colorado. The thousands of veterans ‘will as- semble at the capitol June 8,’when a rank and file committee wif ‘present demands for paymerit of the bonus to Congress. All veterans toming’ to Washington are urged to register at once at the headquarters°éf the Na- | tional Provisional Bonus March Com- mittee, 901 Ist Street. : VOTE COMMUNIST:EOR: 1, Unemployment and Sééial ‘In- surance at the expenié of the state and employers, :: Five Years of Kuomintng Reaction Shanghai—May, 1932 &® special edition of the CHINA FORUM CONTENTS — KUOMINTANG WHITE TERROR KUOMINTANG vs. PEASANTS KUOMINTANG ys, WORKERS beak gee IN REVOLT NKERS NANKING AND THE BA: GANG RULE IN SHANGHAI NANKING THE POWERS NANEING vs RED ARMIES CHINA'S. 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