The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 6, 1932, Page 1

| 4 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. Da; Central Orga @; —— en of the Communist International) cgi he-CdAMumniet Party U.S.A. 4. ation for the Black 5. Against capitalist t suppression of the 6. Against imperialist the Chinese people Equal rights for the Negroes and _s¢lf-determin- Belt. error; against all forms of political rights of workers. war; for the defense of and of the Soviet Union. Vol. IX, No. 134 = at New York, N, Y., ander Entered as sccomd-cinsa matter at the Post ( the act of March 3, 1879 ~NEW YORK, MONDAY, JUNE 6, 1932 ——8 Price 3 Cents _ Who Are the Friends and Who Are the Enemies of the Veterans? HE army of worker veterans now moving across the con- tinent on their way to Washington cannot achieve its ajms nor reach its goal if it does not know who are the ene- mies it must fight and defeat in its struggle for the bonus. The ex-servicemen cannot be like the hero in a famous opera who declared “he would lick the enemy if he finds him.” The enemies of the struggle for the bonus surround the movement, their agents are inside its ranks, and are try- ing to sap it of its strength and rob it of its militancy. In that way they hope to steer it into safe channels for the ruling class. The enemies of the worker-veterans are the bankers and the trust magnates and their government in Washington— Herbert Hoover and the politicians of the Republican and Democratic parties. The enemies are the small and big pol- iticians of all stripes, from national Senators to local ward heelers of the boss parties in all cities. These are the people who plunged the workers into the last war and at the ex- pense of the lives and misery of the millions of toilers piled up fabulous fortunes for the handful of millionares that rule the country. From their swollen fortunes coined out of the blood of the men at the front and those at home in the hell holes of industry they threw some crumbs to the soldiers re- turning disillusioned from the “war to make the world safe for democracy” in order to hold them shackled to the system of private property. They granted the bonus but dated its payment far enough in the future so that they could rob them of “their back pay” for the bloody labor of destruction, forced upon the worker veterans, The enemy of the ex-servicemen is the officer and boss-dominated American Legion. The capitalist clique that rules this body promised the worker-veterans the bonus, but when confronted with the demand for immediate payment lined up with their masters the bankers and rejected the demand. The enemies of the ex-servicemen are the American Federation of Labor bureaucrats and their socialist allies who lined up with Wall Street in the last war, helped to put over the draft and are now in league with the Legion offi- cers and the Hoover government in denying the claims of the ex-servicemen. From Hoover to Green, from Roosevelt to Norman Thomas the capitalists and their agents are united against the worker-veterans. Against this reactionary bloc, the ex-servicemen must form their united front. Alone, strong as are their num- bers and the power of their cause, they will be defeated in the battle. Who are the friends of the ex-servicemen with whom the united front can be formed. These are the work- ers in the factories, groaning under the whiplash of the stag- ger plan and the burden of the capitalist wage attacks. The friends of the veterans are the unemployed masses engaged in a determined struggle for relief from starvation. The best friends of the worker veterans are the militant workers’ organizations, and the Communists who are in the front ranks of the fight for relief from the onslaughts of capital. The Communists who form an active part of the march are the most reliable friends of the veterans, who wil! not sell out the movement to the capitalist politicians ang surrender to the government of exploitation and oppression. These, in general, are the friends and enemies of the veterans. But the present march of the ex-servicemen and their fight are beset by a number of immediate enemies against whom the struggle must vigorously be taken up. These are the politicians and stool-pigeons of the bosses and the gov- ernment, who are trying to steer the movement away from a militant fight. They are those in their own ranks who are busily engaged in preventing the unity of the ranks of the marching veterans and are raising a hue and cry about Com- munism, dinning into the ears of the veterans that they must be patriotic, they must be loyal to their “nation and govern- ment.” By heeding this cry of patriotism, the veterans will be playing into the hands of the boss class, who will demor- alize their ranks and keep them divided and disorganized. The ex-servicemen must unite their. ranks by rallying to the slogan raised by the Workers Ex-Servicemen’s League— “A joint rank and file committee of all marchers.” The ex-servicemen have powerful friends. Enormous. masses of toilers, who are hungry and starving as a result of the crisis and the capitalist attack, are in dep sympathy with their demands. If the latter will write upon the banner the demand for immediate relief and government insurance to the unemployed they will draw these millions close to their side. The ex-servicemen will strengthen their movement with the demands raised by great masses of workers, “fight against imperialist war,” “defense of the Soviet Union,” ‘not a cent for imperialist war,” “all funds for the unemployed and ex-servicemen,” and in their turn the factory workers and those thrown upon the streets will make their own fight stronger with the demand for the bonus. Thus a united front of wage slaves will be formed that will break down all barriers put up by the capitalist enemies. Close ranks, worker veterans! Clean out all tools of the bosses. Elect = honest rank and file leaders and join with the Workers’ Ex- PROTEST WAR ONUS.S.R. Demand BloodyAgents Japanese Imperialism! Get Out of Country HOLD BIG MEETINGS Brodsky ‘Speaks Be- fore Japanese Consulate NEW YORK.—“Hands off Soviet Union!” “Hands off China!” “Bloody Agents of Japanese Imperialism, Get Out!” roared 5,000 New York workers as they marched under a forest of banners carrying similar slogans, past the Imperial Japanese Consul General's office at 90 Broad St., Sat- urday. “Fight! Vote Communist,” and “All War Funds for the Unem- ployed,” Were repeated on many ban- ners. As the singing, shouting throng swept by, Carl Brodsky, general sec- retary of the Friends of the Soviet Union was hoisted up on the shoul- ders of a squad of marine workers, and with other husky workers before and behind him to check any attack, pointed at the consulate offices, and shouted, “There is the agent of Jap- anese imperialism, the enemy of the Chinese workers and the foe of the Workers’ Fatherland!” A roar from the crowd answered him: “Down with Japanese imperialism; down with American imperialism; take the armed forces out of China; defend the Soviet Union!” Brodsky continued to speak, de- manding the expulsion of the Japan- ese imperialist agents Consul Had Filed. eae ‘The Japanese Consulate is on the ninth floor of the Stone & Webster building; -appropriately enough, for Stone & Webster, a general construc- tion contractors from coast to coast, is one of the bitterest, slave-driving, belly-robbing gangs known in this country. With the consul’s office, on the same floor, is the Japanese chamber of commerce, and the office and staff of the Commercial Attache of the Japanese Ambassador. The imperialists had hauled down their colors and fled before the demon- stration appeared in front of them. There was not a sign to indicate what office it was, and not a head poked out of the closed windows. ‘The Stone & Webster Building was surrounded by one of the heaviest guards of police seen so far in New York, the hallway jammed inside with dicks, and mounted police stamping around on the side streets. But the demonstration shouted its defiance and condemnation of the war plots against the Soviet Union and the slaughter of the Chinese people, and was not attacked, It held two meetings and finished its march with‘ranks unbroken, in the midst of sweltering heat. Thousands Greet Moore, Mirs.Mooney Pledge Fight for the Scottsboro Boys NEW YORK.—The mass protest of the world’s workers forced the Sup- reme Court to grant a review of the Scottsboro case, saving these boys’ lives for a few months longer at least, just as the mass protest of the Russian workers in 1917 saved Tom Mooney from death at the hands of |capitalist justice in California, But just as Mooney still suffers in San Quentin after fifteen years have gone, so will the Scottsboro boys go to the electric chair or receive life impri- sonment, though they are as inno- masses unitedly force their release. The Mooney-Scottsboro tour: of Mother Mooney and Richard B. Moore, now in its second week, is being carried out under the auspices Servicemen’s League for a virtorious struggle! really high taxation, the Senate sought to supplement the increased revenues with more economies to be realized at the total expenses of the Federal employees. In virtue of the reduction agreed upon .all federal employees receiving a salary of $1,000°a year or cbout $19.25 a week, will receive $17 from ederal Workers Get 10 P. C. Cut WASHINGTON, D. D. oc. June 5.— ‘A 10 per cent reduction of salaries for federal employes was agreed mpon and passed in Saturday's ses- ‘sion of the Senate. While the House of Representatives the revenue bill as drafted the recent conference of Senators representatives, both republicans democrats, thus burdening the swith the heavy, welght of a now on, Only those workers who re- ceive less than $19 a week were exempted from the reduction, al- though they do not escape an in- direct slash to be enforced in com- pliance with the provision of the economy bill which calls for a re~ duction of paid vacations from 4 to only 2 weeks a year of the International Labor Defense for the purpose of arousing the work- ers to accomplish exactly this end, which is within their power through collective and determined action. Mother Mooney and Comrade Moore speak in Spokane, Washington, today, and will hold other meetings there during the next two days. Then their tour turns eastward, across the northern part of the United States. They addressed large audiences in \,| California, Oregon, and Washington, and met with militant response on the part of the workers. On June 6th they will speak in Great Falls, Mon- tana, and will appear daily in var- fous centers throughout the Dakotas, Minnesota and Wisconsin, during the month of June. From there they will go to Missouri, then eastward through Ohio and Pennsylvania, ~ 3000 MARCH; cent as Mooney—unless the working) VETS COMPEL CAPITOL TO FEED THEM War veterans eating at the emergency kitchen which they forced the WashingtOn officials to set up. “The bankers got billions; we want our back pay that is coming to us,” who are converging on the capitol. say over 14,000 bonus marchers Bonus Enemies Try to Keep Veterans Divided Worker Ex-Servicemen Delegates Work for United Front; Prepare | June 8th Demonstration Police Threaten Marchers With Machine Guns and Tear Gas Along VON PAPEN HOLDS SEAT FOR HITLER, SAYS GERMAN CP. “If Workers Want to Live They Must De- stroy Capitalist Order” BERLIN, June 5.—In an appeal issued Sunday, the Communist Party states: The untied front of industrialists, bankers and agra rians appointed a government of fascist reaction through Hinden- burg. The seeds sown by Bruening and the socialists are bearing fruit. Capitalist mismanagement and the Versailles slavery ruined Germahy. If the German workers want to live, they must destroy the capitalist order, Thirty billion marks were lost through wage-cuts during the last three years. The Papen government declares that the previous capitalist tax policy represented state socialism. Papen wants to tremendously intensify the previous social reaction. The govern- ment begins its existence with a threat to crush the class struggle and “cultural bolshevism.” Papen’s challenge means that all rights of the workers will be abol- ished. The workers are threatened with a military dictatorship. Papen is preparing an open fascist dictator- ship in Germany, holding the seat for Hitler and preparing for a hard labor and gallows regime, Von Papen already agreed with Hitler to withdraw the paper pro- hibition of the fascist storm detach- x ments in the immediate future. Route Enemies. of the bonus in the ranks of the war veterans are doing their utmost to divide the marchers’ ranks as the movement grows throughout the country. The en- tire strategy of the police and bosses’ tools are now set upon pitting one group of marchers against the other. The Workers’ Ex-Servicemen’s League, whose representatives are now in Wash- ington arranging for a demonstra- tion on June 8th, are warning the marchers against the tactics of the federal government and local police and have raised the slogan of a joint elected rank and file committee of the marchers. One thousand bonus marchers were attacked by police in the Pennsylvania Railroda yards in Cleveland Saturday. Six hundred war vets, under the leadership of the Workers Ex- Servicemen’s League, marched from New York Saturday enroute to Washington. Mass pressure of the veterans compelled Washington officials to supply food to the marchers until Thursday, . CLEVELAND.—Over 300 police re- serves were unable to halt the de- termined march of the war veterans to Washington here Saturday when over 1,000 veterans from Detroit, Toledo and Cleveland entered the Pennsylvania freight yards and tied up the traffic for over 12 hours. This followed the refusal of the railroad company to transport them to Washington: The Cleveland contingent is under the leadership of the Workers Ex- Servicemen’s League. “In 1917 when they wanted sol- diers,” said John Pace, leader of the delegation, “they came and se {CONTINUED ON P4SGE THHEE? JOBLESS DEFY SOCIALIST PARTY SHERIFF'S GUNS 150 Fight; Save Home of Unemployed Man In West Allis MILWAUKEE, Wisc. June 5.— Seventy-five workers from the Un- employed Council mounted guard around the home of a West Allis worker on June 1 to prevent deputies of the Socialist Party sheriff from evicting him. The local police had already been overawed by a mass demonstration in this workers’ case the day before, but Al. Benson, the Socialist Party leader and sheriff, has recently bought a lot of riot guns to use in cases like this, and the un- employed were determined to fight. One hundred and fifty workers and unemployed workers siprmed the West Allis relief station and fought four hours with the police, of which the whole force had been called out. The police were entirely unable to eject the demonstrators. They held a continuous meeting, forced the sta- tion to stay open an hour past clos- ing time, forced the attendants to give relief to the throngs calling for it, and forced the directors to prom- ise to pay the rent of the worker facing eviction. The next day 75 guarded the work- er’s house against Socialist Party deputy sheriffs, and 75 more flocked into the relief station. The rent was paid. All Allis-Chalmers unemployed are called to join preparations for a hunger march on the plant, to take place next month. “ N.Y. “RELIEF” ADMITS TOTAL COLLAPSE Jobless’ Delegation June 10 Will Demand Unemployment Insurance The plans for a delegation elected by all New York workers’ organiza- tions ahd particularly by the Coun- cils of the Unemployed, to go to the Board of Estimate, June 10, and de- mand unemployment insurance and immediate appropriations for reliet have been given further impetus by the issuing of two veports. One is by the dependent children’s section of the Welfare Council, the other by the Emergency Work and Relief Bureau, “Communisin breaks up the home,” according to the publicity agents of 100 per cent Americanism, but the report of Franklin’) Thomas, chair- man of the dependent children’s section of the Welfare Council, shows that more than 20,000 children of poverty-stricken families in New York City alone are now in various “charity” institutions. This is an increase of 5,000 since January 1, 1930. This increase has taken place in spite of the fact that some 8,500 were “discharged” from such institutions in 1931. These figures show the appalling misery among thousands of working- class familieés which forces them to jeurrender their children to the cold charity and prison-like discipline of public and semi-public institutions. “The report of the Emergency Work and Relief Bureau states ‘hat it “found employment for 44,000 persons during the nine months between Oct. 1, 1931 and January 1, 1932.” In round figures the sum paid to these 44,000 workers in nine months was $9,000,000, This discloses that the average re- ceived per worker for nine months was about $204—or $22 per month. Since only heads of families, or persons with dependents were given these relief jobs, and since the receipt of one of these jobs automatically cut off any other kind of relief, it is clear that the 44,000 families of unemployed workers who got “pre- ferred” treatment had to exist on the starvation monthly income of ACOATINCED ON PAGE THRER) | WORKERS OF MILWAUKEE FLOCK TO HEAR ‘FOSTER EXPOSE SOCIALIST MAYOR date for Vice-Presid Leads in Demand for R e Organized Jobless MILWAUKEE, Wisc., June Mil matic challenge to Daniel Hoan, the now to hear Foster speak at the Germ: posure of the socialist anti-working class activities in Milwaukee will be printed in the Da’ly Worker as soon as they arrive—Editor.) The National Nominating Conven- | tion of 1,200 worker and farmer del- | egates in Chicago, May 23-29, chal- | lenged Hoan to meet Foster in de- bate today. The Daily Worker made | this challenge as public as possible, | printing the Communist charges, that | the Hoan-Socialist Party adminis- tration of Milwaukee broke up un- employed demonstrations by pol: terror, arrested and jailed the work- ers’ leaders, helped betray the Phoe- nix Hosiery strike, provided the So- | cialist Party sheriff with a lot of ma-| chine guns to suppress the workers | and the jobless workers, and that So- cialist Party members of the Mil- waukee Common Council refused to| support demands of the unex for construction of new wor ements to be rent2q at cost price, It was also charged that the Sociali: |Party propaganda against the Soviet Union is war preparation. Hoan Afraid to Debate. .... Hoan himself wrote the Commun- ist Party, refusing to debate, on th2| grounds that he “had no time or in-| elination to fight other workers’ or- ganizations,” including-the Commun- ists, or to “voice any disagreement I may have with your ideas in public debate.” This extraordinary bit of hypotrisy, coming as it did from a man who never failed to find time or inclination to fight the workers of Milwaukee with jails, police clubs and with starvation, was answered sharp- ly through the Daily Worker, and it was predicted Foster would give a complete exposure of the Hoan-So- cialist anti-worker activities in his speech today. Minneapolis, Monday. | Monday, Foster, Communist Nom- inee for President of the United States, goes on to Minneapolis, where he will speak in the evening at A.O. U.W. Hall, 19 South Seventh St., and at Dania Hall, 427 Cedar Ave., with loud speakers rigged to carry the call for election campagn against hunger and war to the overflow crowds. St. Paul, Tuesday. Tuesday, June 7, Foster will speak in Central Ball Rooms, St. Paul, at 8 p. m., particularly exposing the Farmer Labor Party state govern- ment Governor Olson has cut the wages of all state employees, refus- ing to give unemployment insurance on the grounds the state has not the money, but still finds $2,500,000 in the treasury to use for the strike-break- ing national guard. Huge overflow crowds are expected when Foster speaks Wednesday, June 8, at Woodmen’s Hall and Camels Hall, Duluth, Minnesota. On June 15, the Communist candi- date for president will speak in the largest, centrally located space in Butte, Montana. Several meetings in| the Dakotas are scheduled before the fifteenth. Ford in Indianapolis. James W. Ford, Negro worker, lead- er of the Workers Ex-Servicemen’s League and Communist nominee for vice-president, will speak today in Terre Have, Ind. Monday, June 6, Ford will speak in the big industrial center, Indianap- olis, state capital of Indiana. Some of the hottest struggles of the unem- ployed have taken place here, and Theodore Leuse, leader of the jobless, is being held in prison after his one year’s sentence is expired. The au- thorities are trying to make him work out at the rate of $1 a day, a fine of $500. Ford's meeting will back up the de- mang for Luese's release, and will be held in Knights of Pythias Hall, at Senate and Walnut Streets, at 8 p. m. This is a Negro workers’ neighbor- hood, and a struggle to compel the Negro capitalist press here to give space to Ford's campaign has been carried on by Negro and white work- ers. BUSINESS STILL FAILING NEW YORK.—"Slower Recession In Weekly Business Index” is the only raye of hope the New York Times can see in a chart which shows the business turnover dropping in an almost straight line from 92 in July, 1930, to 55.3 in the week ending May 28, 1932, - In Prison Because H to debate today with Foster, and Hoan's yery unheroic before them and try to defend the actions of h's administration, are flocking (important details of Foster's ex- @- (osu Ford, Negro Worker and Communist Candi- ent In Indianapolis elease of Luesse, Held waukee workers, aroused by the dra- Socialist Party Mayor of Milwaukee, refusal to appear an Hall, | CHILEAN GOVT = “OVERTHROWN BY MILITARY JUNTA Reactionaries U Radical Phrases to Win Control The Chilean government headed by President Juan Estaban Mon- tero was overthrown yesterday by a military junta under the leader- ship of Carlos D Ss e Davila, wealthy Chile ean aristocrat and former Ambas- sador to the United States. Da- a was supported by the Chilean air free and ge sections of the navy and army. The movement has also gained the support of large numbers of Chilean workers and peasants who were de4 ceived by the radical phrases of its leaders and their ta’ blishing a Socialist state e bourgeois leaders made use ibable miszry of the C ar {(CUNTINUED UO FAGE THREED JAPAN FASCISTS PUSH DRIVE FOR WAR ON USSR. Attack New Premier Because of Delay in Starting War the The more reactionary of Japanese fascists and miliia opened an atiack on against Premier Saito, head of new military dictatorship. The at- tack is intended to hasten the moves of imperialist Japan for war on the Soviet Union. Pamphlets were distributed in the House of Peers and among members of the Diet, attacking the Japanese premier and his closet advisers and supporters. A Tokio dispatch to the New York Herald-Tribune reports that the pamphlets were issued by the Blood Brotherhood League and young army and navy officers, The league is one of the leading Japanese fascist: organizations. The dispatch describes the move as “the first open opposition of the reactionaries to the Saito government.” Saturday's development is a logicai sequel to the murder of Premier Inukai by Japanese Army officers a few weeks ago. Inukai’s government hed carried on a persistent cam- paign of war provocation and mili- tary threats against the Soviet Union. Inuka#’s government had, however, began to realize that a war - against the Soviet Union would be a very different affair to the war of 1905 “against the corrupt Tsarist | government, Moreover, the Inukai! government, was faced with in-! creasing inner difficulties arising out ' of the catastrophic crisis in Japan. With the increasing misery of the Japanese toilers, the number of strikes was growing and with it the revolutionary feeling which the most drastic repressive measures failed to check, When, therefore, the Inukai government, momentarily shrank from taking the decisive step for armed intervention against the Soviet Union, Inukai was murdered and his government swept out of office, Conditions have rapidly grown worse in Japan, and with this there is an increase in the desperation of the more reactionary elements who are now engaged in a wilder war— indictment against the Soviet Union than ever before, BEVERLY HILLS BANK BUSTS LOS ANGELES, Calif., June 5. — The First National Bank of Beverly Hills, stamping ground of Will Rogers and various movie stars, collapsed last week. William Jennings Bry- an’s son-in-law was president of the , Ha blames the exis,