The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 6, 1932, Page 3

Muskegon Workers in Fight for Relief and Jobless Insurance City Official Says He Will Call Out Army to Shoot Workers Down (By a Worker Correspondent) MUSKEGON, Mich.A short time ago Goy. Brucker made the state- ment that there was no starvation in Michigan. Every unemployed worker knows this to be a lie and we ean prove it right here in Muskegon. Gov. Brucker is cither not interested in the conditions of the workers or 1s unaware of the fact that starva- tion really exists. A worker of Muskegon township got in contact with a member of the unemployed council and was only getting flour for relief. Some were unable to get even flour over a two week period. One family in particu- lar had to be broken up so that the children could get food. This man, en ex-soldier, has five children to support, It was necessary for him to put three of his children out to the neighbors for them to keep. If it hadn’t been for the neighbors help. ing many of these families, no tel- ling what would have happened. Peter Lutyjes, supervisor of Muske- gon township, told one young worker that they could eat “oak grubs.” This is the type of skunks the work- ing class have been putting up with. He also said that he would not both- er about petitioning the township for money to care for the needy. On May 14th the Unemployed Council heard of the situation in Muskegon township and immediately got the workers together for a meet- ing. With the help of leaders of the Une-sployed Council the workers de- cidec to not work the next day until they received immediate relief. Those who did happen 19 go to work were made to quit by a committee of workers elected for that purpose. It was also decided that a committee of 3 from the Bolt Highway section and 3 from the Henry St. section would go to the courthouse at 9:00 a, m. and ask the prosecutor to help them get relief. It was also decided that all-the workers would meet the p. m, for the answer from the prose- committee at the courthouse at 2:00 o'clock. Workers Disillusioned At 2:00 p. m. the workers got their j answer that he could do nothing for them, Workers who before had con- fidence that the law would do some- thing for them, quickly saw that the only way to get relief is by mass pressure. Immediately about 40 an- gry workers rushed ‘nto the office of Poors Commissioners Martin and Benjamin. The poor commissioners felt rather uncomfortable with their: office full of workers who were de- termined to get immediate relief or take it from the stores. Threatened to Call Army. Peter Lutyjes happened to be at the courthouse at the time and tried o sneak away, but through the quickness of one of the workers he was brought back to face the music of hungry workers. Mr. Martin told the workers that they should not do anything wrong as they would call in the army and shoot them down or arzest them. The workers told him that they would rather be shot down than to starve; also that if they were in jail they and their fam- ilies would eat. : The workers are mobilizing here for real relief and unemployment in- | surance. CHILEAN GOV'T OVERTHROWN BY MILITARY JUNTA Reactionaries Us 6 Radical Phrases to Win Control (CONTINUED CRUM PAGE ONE and the ruined peasantry mercilessly exploited by American imperialism and local land-owning-class, and groaning under a bitter feudal and imperialist oppression. In Santiago, crowds of workers deceived by the demagogy of the Bourgeois leaders of the movement surged into the streets shoutin=: “Now we will have work and food.” Their joy was short-lived, as “it quickly developed that the Chilean capitalists had full control of the \. Movement and were using revolution- ’, ary phrases to deceive the masses. ‘The reactionary junta at the head of the present movement is using the tricks of the Social Democracy and their deceptive talk about State So- cialism to fool the toiling masses. The Universal Service reports that the » Chilean workers and some members of the armed forces are already turn- ing against the new capitalist gov- ernment: “Reports were received by Un- - iversal Service early today by tele- i phone from Chile indicating that s workers and military participants in the revolution who believed it i to be a socialist moyement were chagrined to learn that the capi- talist classes only are represented in the Junta.” Other dispatches from Chile report a@ growing movement for a general strike against the military junta. Fearing that the masses and the Yank and file of the army and navy will transform the situation into a serious revolutionary action, foreign imperialist agents in Chile, together with the Chilean aristocrats, are forming a “White Guard,” a “volun- teer force” which was organized last duly against the revolutionary work- ers is also being revived. An example of the shameless dem- agogy of the military junta is shown in its declaration that it would es- tablish a “Socialist Republic of Chile,” and would put through “ideas Jong held by Senor Davila” for “the nationalizgtion of industry, complete social operation of all government activities and other social legislation.” They further declared that the ad- ministration was too “anti-foreign” and free from what they described as “Russian Sovietism.” When asked about his “socialist program,” Senor Davila was most vague. cae Shee Carlos Davila, head of the new _ government, was formerly a supporter _ of former President Carlos Ibanez, - who was forced out of office last July, Chilean Ambas- States, where he | = aairs. State Admits One Half California Workers Jobless SAN FRANCISCO, Calif, June 5—Just about one half of the wage earners of California are unemployed, according to the of- ficial sttaement of the California State Unemployment Commission. The Commission has analyzed statistics from all over the state, and announces its results. The State Division of Labor Statistcis Yerifies the report with one show- ing..that payrolls last month are one half of normal (1926), | International Notes r “Rote Fahne” Editors Acquitted Today. 3 VIENNA.—In two trials in con- nection with press offences editors of the “Rote Fahne” were acquitted by juries in Vienna. The authori- ties were ordered to pay the costs of the proceedings and to pay for all the ‘issues of the “Rote Fahne” con- fiscated on the days in question, The trials were an exposure of the meth- ods of the government press depart- ment. ae Nea BONUS ENEMIES TRY TO KEEP-WAR VETS DIVIDED (OUNTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) took us. It’s 1932 now and we want transportation.” Enthusiasm High The main body of the delegation, with enthusiasm high, came here from Detroit in 10 freight cars which they compelled the New York Cen- tral to furnish. The army moved with precise military discipline. Cops Repulsed The police attacked the veterans twice after they entered yards, but the vets defended themselves well, reentered the yards and urged the shopmen in the roundhouse to sup- port them. The railroad workers fraternized with the vets and pledged them their solidarity in the struggle for the bonus and unemployment in- surance. The Pennsylvania Railroad routed its passenger and mail trains over the New York Central after the veterans had boarded a passenger train and demanded transportation. Railroad Got Millions The Provisional Bonus March Committee pointed out in a state- ment today that the government had given to the railroads a sum total of over a quarter a Dillion dollars in loans and special bonuses, These same railroads, which gladly trans- ported the men in 1917, said the statement, have now spies on the police to shoot down these men in 1932. The Provisional March Com- mittee issyed a call to workers and workers’ organizations all over the country to rasie the demand that the veterans be giyen transportation. Pe ieee | NEW YORK—Six hundred war veterans were cheered enthusiasti- cally by voer a thousnad workers as they marched aboard a Central New Jersey ferry Saturday morning at the foot of 23rd St. and demanded, and won the demand, to be transported free to Communipaw, New Jersey. This was the New York veterans’ delegation enroute to Washingtorf under the leadership of the Work- ers Ex-Servicemen’s League. ‘The men marched off the ferry into the Communipaw railroad yards where they waited while a delegation visited the offices of I. W.*Brown, vice-president and general manager of the Jersey Central to demand further transportation, Get Train Brown at first said that he could not transport the vets, but the mass pressure forced him to. change his mind, When the vets piled on the coaches they were followed by a second group which arrived from New York on the next ferry, Both contingents arrived in Newark about noon. All during the trip to Newark the Police aboard the train did their utmost to keep the two groups di- vided. The second group fell for the cops’ advice, did not form a united front with the members of the Workers Ex-Servicemen's League and were thus disorganized late Satur- day night. The veterans led by.*the Workers Ex-Servicemen’s League proceeded into Blizabeth where they were joined with a contingent from New- ark. Here the vets were given food by the Workers International Relief. DAILY WORKE FOSTER AND BROWDER AT THE R, NEW YORK, MO Page Three CHICAGO CON Communist Party Foster is general secretary of the ‘Discussion on Communist Election Platfor Below are extracts from speeches zations at the National Nominating Henry Storey, Atlanta, Ga, (One of the six Atlanta Insurrection Defendants who may be electrocuted) Comrades: In Atlanta, 70,000 work- ers are unemployed and are starving. I am here to represent the colored majority of Georgia. We workers from the state of Georgia, regardless of what the bosses say, that the workers are not listening to Commu- nism, is a lie. I, myself, spent some time in jail, but, regardless of what the bosses may do in the southern states, the bosses of the southern district have an idea that when a comrade gets arrested, the charge of inciting to in- surrection will stop the workers. But, comrades, they will not. We ex-serveemen, I am one myself. I spent two years in Europe; the bosses say they cannot give us ex- servicemen our bonus. Hoover wants to use millions for war preparations. ‘We workers from Georgia will do our best to help elect workers, Com- rades Foster and Ford, against the capitalist candidates, J, Farmer, Marine Worker from rt Philadelphia Comrades: I don’t think it is netes- sary to emphasze any more than what has already been said about the six points on the platform of the Com- munist Party, I am quite sure that the workers here ahd the workers throughout the United States are well aware that these planks of the Com- munist Party are the most burning issues confronting the entire working class today. First of all, the defense of the Soviet Union ang the Chinese people. We are near to another war, and from every meeting of the bosses and imperialists has come a more inten- sified war campaign. Let us take for example, the ports of the U.S. A. where, within the last two or three months, guns, Armed Camp Striking Postal Workers Called Up ATHENS.—The government has issued a special decree calling up the postal, telegraphic and telephone service workers who are on strike. At the same time it. is announced that all officials who fail to resume work immediately will be dismissed with the loss of all pension rights. The Postal Minister and the higher Officials havo organized a seab ser- vice. oe 8 Rome Newspapers Confirm Yugoslav Disturbances. ROME.—Italian newspapers con- firm the reports which have ap- peared in Austria and other coun- tries concerning serious unrest and disturbances in Yugoslavia. The Italian newspapers report that the Yougoslavian government has closed the frontiers in order to pre- vent details of the disturbances from out. Mass demonstrations and the distribution of leaflets cal- ling for the overthrow of the mon- There are even uncenfirmed rum- crs that the Y1 ian Prime Min- ister Ma has been as- sassinated. Unrest amongst the troops dn d cases of refusals to obey orders, are also reported. Te i | Soviet Government Refuses Lytton Commission, MOSCOW.—Th League of Nations Commission under the chairmanship of Lord Lytton has requested the Soviet government for permission for a group of its through Blagov: with a view to seeking out the Chin- The Soviet Consul-General in Har- bin Slavutzki has been instructed the Soviet Government not to accede to this request on the ground that the Soviet government maintains a policy of the strictest non-interference in ing Chile and its toiling masses, He own and contro) Chile, through the ‘The whole police force of Elizabeth and Newark was called out to attack the men in case they attempted to take a train. But despite the police mobilization the vets, ovér 600 strong marched into the Waverly yards across the Elizabeth line into New- ark, Thorugh the dark dozens of police cars sped into the freight yards loaded with sub machine guns and tear gas. The Waverly yards was an armed camp. .The Daily Worker reporter heard Police Captain Bolger of Newark say that he had ordered police to fire on the veterans if they did not retreat from the freight yards, “The Pennsylvania Railroad pays taxes and we must protect their property,” said Bolger. The veterans, however, outwitted the police massacre plan by counter- marching to Elizabeth, where they slept overnight in the Russian Hall. The marchers were given food here by the Workers International Relief and marehed on the town of Linden where they will demand transporta- tion to the Capitol. % PO aie Phila. Group Leaves Today PHILADELPHIA.—Three thousand war veterans demonstrated here Sat- urday in support of the Bonus march. A delegation of several hundred will leave here today for Washington. Pittsburg Vets Protest PITTSBURGH.—The Workers Ex- Servicemen’s League to Police Commissioner Walsh against his sending police to the city limits to rush the veterans from Cleveland and points west when they by|come through the city. ‘The Pittsburgh delegation plans to meet the Cleveland delegation aboard the train and go through with them to Washington. Pra ai Over 14,000 Marching WASHINGTON.—The mass march of veterans has forced 145 Congress- men to answer the role call in favor of bringing the bonus bill before Nitrate Corporation, the Anaconda | Congress June 13. ot |Gasoir Conger en It ammunitions and the tools of war are being shipped into the Far East. A burning example of this is in the port of Philadelphia, where in the sugar district, cases marked “Sugar” are being loaded without a doubt with ammunition for shipment to the Far East and Japan, And workers who know. the geographical location of where sugar comes from, will know that for Japan to ship sugar from the United States when they could save money by buying it from Manila, is just a screen for something else. Yet in the port of Philadelphia, big cases are being loaded aboard Japanese ships marked “Sugar.” At the same time, we also have reports that in other ports, in New York, in San Francisco and in practically every port of the United States today, not only cases of so- called sugar, but actually poison gas, ammunition is actually being trans- ported into the Far East. And if the workers will undersland that when a person goes into a pawn shop te’ buy a gun, he doesn’t buy it to hang on the wall? When the im- perialists manufactures airplanes, guns, etc, they don't make these things to play with, but to use them. We can see that in the Far East. We can see that the entire battle fleet of the United States is not being centered there for nothing, but the American government today is ac- tually going into war and into a war which will mean that the American working-class will be led into a war against the Soviet Union. Mer ae RODREGUEZ, Col—I will now speak a few words about the situa- tion in the beet fields of Colorado. Little children since they are five and six years old, are being exploited by the Great Western Sugar Co. We have not got the privilege to come to Sehool as the sons and daughters of the exploiting class and the sons and daughters of the owners of the Great Western Sugar Co. Probably many of you have been over 14,000 veterans are now on the march to the capitol. ‘Thé Provisional Bonus March Com- mittee issued a call here today for made by delegates of workers’ organi- Convention, i n Chicago, May 28 and May 29. ‘The Convention was called by the Communist Party and it adopted | the election p latform proposed by the Party, the main plank being, employment I nsurance at the Expense of the State and the Employer . “Dn- in the state of Col seen as you pass the boulevards, the children dragging like slaves, like snakes in the beet fields. But the Great Western Sugar Co., and the other large companies throughout the western states thought they were paying too much and they from $30 an acre to $19 and year again came another ge cut as low as $15 to $14 and even $7 an acre. But comrades ,the beet worker that stale refused to starve ot and them. They said “NO! We will die. So we might as well ig People ave They being exploited. All the in the state of Colorado radicalized by the situation out on picket lines, They are not afraid of the police. Three days he- fgre I came here, 100 workers were put in jail, They ave taking them by the carloads, they 15, 10, 26, 3 as many as they can | hold of, But, the. workers. are sighting against the exploiting class against the oppres 20 sors. SHOW NEW YORK JOBLESS MISERY IN TWO REPORT Starvation, Broken Families, and No Hope Held Out CCONTINUBD FROM PAGE ONE) $22. But these 44,000 workers did not work the full nine months period There was a constant fluctation and shifting of workers favored with an opportunity to starve while working as is shown by the report itself which states that “the largest number on the payroll at any one time was 26,039." These figures blast completely the fiction that the Emergency Work and Relief Bureau, part of the sloover plan of “each community taking care of its ow is really relieving the mass misery causéd by the three year erisis and steadily increasing uncm ployment The report gives a hopelecs pic- ture of the future of the present plan of “relief” as far as the workers are concerned, Unemplieyment is in- creasing but relief is being cut down. William Matthews, director of the bureau, says: “With the exception of the “few replacements that may arise {rom time to time as workers obtain per- manent situations, there is no pros- pect of adding to the group now at> work, as the balance of the funds has been definitely allocated for the months up to Oct. 1 and all openings under the budget have been filled.” “The past three weeks of the bu- reau have been by far the hardest of nearly two years experience, Relcas- ing or reducing the time of those emergency workers whose wages while at work meant only a bare existence, whose pleas to be con- tinued or put back at work flooded the bureau's offices ali day long, snatched away all the original pleas- ure of providing them with jobs.” (Our emphasis.) ‘The two reports are unwitting con- fessions of the complete bankruptcy of th echarity method of unemploy- ment relief. They show, siniply by the bare facts of the striking con- trast between the growing mass misery and the drop-in-the-bucket method of relief, that the Com- munist plan of huge federal appro- priations for immediate payments to the unemployed and unemployment insurance at the expense of the cap- italists and the government affords the only possibility of any actual ado and have | all veterans coming to Washington to | alleviation of the suffering of the register at the Bonus March head- | 12 to 15 millions of unemployed now quarters at 905.I Street N. W. sj in the. United States, Trade reduced | this | refuséd the wage cuts that was given | die fighting as to die in the fields, | now | are, taking. by | and | William Z. Foster (seated right) nominated for President of the United States on the Communist ticket by 1,200 delegates from workers’ organizations meeting in National Conyention in Chi at the call of the Communist Party. Browder (standing) chairman of the convention and representative to it of the Central Committee of the 0, Ma. League. 29, Earl Union Unity MARINES ATTACK 40 NICARAGUANS Several Peasants Reported. Wounded re 1 Several Nicaraguan peasants were wounded near the Honduran frontier east of Jalapa when a detachment of National Guardsmen, officered by Lieutenant R: le of the Unittd Statc; Marine Corps, made “a sur- prise attack” upon forty insurgents A former National Guardsman named Garcia who refused to be used as a too] of United States: Im- perialism in Nicaragua and joined the peasants “fighting against the heavy yoke imposed upon them, was amor those wounded 1e utter hypocriscy of tement to the effect ed ates Marines tioned in Nica ya were not gaged in ast. the in- |surgents, a dispa to the capitalist papers from Managua siates that during the month of May, according to reports frmo the Headquarters of the National Guardsmen, patrols were extremely active” and killed 20 rbels beside woundin§ forty of them. | VOTE COMMUNIST FOR: Against wage-cuiting Heover's Vote Communist BUTTONS Are Ready for MASS SALE and Distribution a Order Now—$20 a Thousand Send Check With Order— Or Will Send C. O. D. Order from— Communist Party, U.S.A, P. O. Box 87 Station D. New York, N.Y. . 1 lat | | whether a Scheme By JUNE SAKS The Bilock-Aiders finding selves more and more embi by the piercing questions asked when out making their collec- tions, have found it necessary to devise new methods by which they | hope to squeeze the last from the wor fund al rs for Using Threats of Jail Various: methods of intimidatior have been most widely used on the foreignborn because * i {knowledge of the lang them without an adequa fight back. For instance, work | the card pledging t tribute so much re | weeks. After a week or ing the racketeer nature Block-Aid and refusing any more, the collector jthem their written | signature. These foreign-born, hardly | understanding what is said to them but seeing their own signature, are led to believe that imprisonment could follow if they refused to con- tribute any They know not where to turn and out of fear of | punishment keep on contributing leach week Taking Care of “Our Own” In order to appeal to the sentiment of foreign-born workers, bulletins are s0, discov f the | y up} how more. with a heartrending for con- | tributions. These bulletins, in the | |tone of appeal, make it m as if @ relief agencies were m con- | | cerned with the distress among these elements who in reality among |the first to be thrown out Jobs It does not need much to show up the vicious character of this appeal. | Let any applicant for.a job tell you in filling out his application the question, “Are you a | citizen” was ever omitted. Certainly | not! The question of |been one of the major looy |the relief sharks |answer to aliens seeki "Oh, you know we must take care of | our own first.” Kindly ask them why |they do not collect from their own | | first, their own—the ones who really are f | of citi ha for | stk ship hole } |own and run this country as they wish,—the big business interests. . | Then the manner of handling re- | |lief cases. Up to about three week | ago there weve practically no three- {day-a-wectk jobs given out despite the fact that the campaizn was] | solely to raise funds for such jobs. The constant excuse for this was that not enough money was coming in despite the weekly reports of how many thousands had been raised. Finally, when everybody including |the workers working for the cam- paign rose up in fury and demanded to know where the money was going to and why no jol were provided, the campaign managers got busy Plenty of Forum—But No Jobs What did they do, did they begin placing some-of the applicants on jobs? Of course not, they began spending mpney. On What? Forms. |Forms ‘or job relief, forms for | clothing relief and any othr kind of forms one could wish. So one now filled out a form and kept coming back over and over again to discover if anything had been done about his application. And always he was told it was being considered and you know there are so many ahead of you and just be patient, it takes a | little time, you know. So it went on as far as any actual relief was concerned The Clothing Racket Then i: there a req | clothing, the clothing for jout and of course “you take it down to the warehouse anc t ul will receive any clothing you desire But wait a minute, you see, ahem was there is a cleaners’ sirike and all the to clothing was at the cleaners be | e | cloth being issued in every possible tongue | Frc put in order and, | zarits Tammany Block-Aid: to Squeeze _ Pennies From the Poor ' Hundreds of Applications Made for Jobs; Only. Select Few Receive Them; ers walke@ wight out, what did they care about the poor, they simply wouldn't do a thing in gettine the s ready so that they could be uted.” refore, dear come back i we will le! di patient worker in n about three daya you know if the strike And of course when you the strike will be on or ehouse has ed and things ju must turn t adjusted a doctor, lawyer or some actually Id relief you will not nstead of trying to cover your 1 bare back. What Became of the Jobs to cover up their fake ef, cards were sent to each office ag a list of blocks and numbers eon were supposed to be cases received the three-day-a agency 1 order nad We in our office had made appli- | cation for hundreds of men and not one of these did we ever know to have received a job. Yet here were a list of some fifty supposed to have received Not in even one instance did we ever actually come across one of that had got these jobs, facts, I leave it to you, to judge just what truth was contained in that list of num- bers. We did discover, howevér, that out the very few that did receive the three-day-a-week job they were se of | asked to work six days with three days pay. How was this managed? Three days they would work on what ever job they were assigned to and the other three days they were com- pelled to put in voluntary work help< ing the regular workers in collecting | funds for the Block Aid. This was forced on these workers in order to facilitatae a general firing mong the relief workers. poked from Top to Bottom is, how the Block-Aid twists f out of giving relief. They will accept any applicant who has been to the charities and neither will they accept. any applicant who hasn’t tried to obtain relief from the charities. They are damned if they do and damned if they don't As far as the firing of reli ers wholesale goes, here fact in just one sentence. cry at tion of the Block- Aid Drive w 2 one cent col- ted would go towards running the ipaign because all that was pro- vided for the Gibson Committee end every cent collected would supposedly ge towards providing three-day-2- week jobs. 2 Workers! get beh your Unem- ployed Coun: and let us expose the Tammany Block-Aid racket. Zaritsky Challenged To Debate Sazer At Chicago Mass Meeting CHICAGO, IIL, June 5.—Zaritsky, the big chief of the Cloth, Hat, Cap and Millinery Workers Union; has been challenged to come to the meeting called by the Millinery Dee partment of the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union. at 17% North State St., Room 406, Tuesday, and defend his actions. The workers charge Zaritsky expelling Blockers’ Local. 42, ing conditions and lower= and flagrant violation of. promises to establish tha fiv eday week in New Yorks e Millinery workers invited; Hy of the Industrial Union, andi formerly organizer for Local 1 of the C. H.C. & M. U, will speak, whether ky dares to come or nof, This not 40 hou! INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHERS BOOK LABOR Facts That Every Worker |FACT Should Know About BOOK SPEED-UP GOVERNMENT ——_—— WAGES WAR PREPARED HOURS SOCIAL INSURANCE BY LABOR UNEMPLOYMENT NEGRO WORKERS Xs st - SOVIET UNION WORKING RESEARCH IMPERIALISM YOUNG WORKERS ASS'N ETC. 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