The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 7, 1932, Page 1

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. Darl Central Orga e-Cod ee @Worker munist Party U.S.A. (Section of the Commuzist International) VOTE COMMUNIST FOR a 4. Equal rights for the Negroes and self-determim ation for the Black Belt. 5. Against capitalist terror; against all forms of suppression of the political rights of workers. 6. Against imperialist war; for the defense of the Chinese people and of the Soviet Union. Entered as seco: at New York, N. Vol. 1X, No. 135 Se ler the act of March 3, 187" NEW Y matter at the Post Office ORK, TUESDAY, JUNE 7, 1932 CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents More About: the Seabury Investigation 1 ke true role of the Hofstadter Committee investigating the corruption of the New York government was clearly revealed by Samuel Seabury, counsel for this committee, in his two speeches before the graduating studnts of Jefferson College. Judge Seabury, whom the socialists are hailing as a fearless and spotless knight of old engaged in mortal combat to restore the purity of the city government degraded by a “few” grafting politicians, declared that the Hofstadter Committee would continue its investigation until “those who are degrading the city government. are ousted.” He added however that this job cannot be accomplished unless the population of New York snaps out of its “indifference” and does some thinking of its own in order to secure a “better government.” Behind this apparently “democratic” appeal to the “civic responsi- bility of the population” there is the role of the Hofstadter Committee— to conceal the inherent corruption of capitalist government and entrench . more firmly the rule of finance capital. The Hofstadter Committee, aside from trying to convey the false impression that the capitalist corruption of municipal as Well as state and federal governments can and will be eliminated by capitalism itself, is in effect attempting to centralize and concentrate the political power of finance capital. Seabury stated in fact, and not incidentally of course, that he believes “the manager type of government the best remedy for municipal corruption,” admitting at the same time that “this system would be urged for New York. “Better and more efficient government” is the: slogan of the Hof- stadter Committee voicing the interests of finance capital. Translated into common terms, this slogan becomes “better and more reactionary g°vernment at a greater cost to the workers.” Finance capital does not want to eliminate the corruption of the municipal or state government. It merely wants to monopolize its graft. Tt does not want to destroy the Tammany method of ruling it. It wants to make it more effective and safer—more ruthless and bloodier for the workers, but less self-exposing. Through the Hofstadter Committee, finance capital endeavours to accomplish this with the help of bourgeois “democracy” if possible. By saying with Seabury that the “entire population” must help in realizing a “better government” of the “manager type,” the Committee wants to giye the more centralized power of finance capital the sanction of “de- mocracy.” As part of the general trend towards a more open capitalist dicta- torship against which the workers must wage a relentless struggle, it cannot be excluded that as the crisis becomes ever more profound, finance capital will attempt to further centralize its power by rendering the ap- ointment of the municipal manager independent from the “popular will”—or an act from ‘above which needs no sanction’ by the masses. Seabury already offered the justification for such a possible step when he said that the masses “usually get the kind of government that they deserve.” One thing in the meantime stands out as unquestionable. The rot- teness exposed by the Hofstadter Committee is typical of all the capitalist | governments. The New York municipal government is not the only one permeated through and through with corruption. Graft scandals are widespread in the country and graft is shown an organic part of the rotting capitalist system. This corruption of public officials and executives as well as legislative capitalist. bodies is not new. What is new is its unprecedented virulence and its wider scale which reflect the utter parasitical natute of the entire capitalist system, Capitalism—said Marx—came into being dripping from every pour with blood and dirt. As it decays, it becomes even more violent and stinking with corruption, until the working class puts an end to the whole reactionary system by following the example set by the workers and peasants of Russia. The Maneuvers for a “Coalition” Dictatorship ‘HE definite trend toward a more open dictatorship of finance capital is shown daily now by statements from various quarters. Further repression of the working class and its organizations as the (way out of the crisis and to speed war preparations is the main motive. behind these maneuvers. The utmost vigilance and militancy on the part of workers is needed now in the most urgent way. It is quite clear that in order not to alarm and arouse the masses the advocates of a “coalition” dictatorship are trying to give it a legal covering. This is the conclusion to be drawn from the latest bulletin of the Kiplinger Agency through its Washington letter, “circulated privately to a limited number of business executives,” which says on this point: “Some of the president’s friends are trying to get him to recreate the war-time Council of National Defense, with its advisory council of various kinds of leaders drawn from private life. This would work through cabinet members, so as not to disturb normal government Opera- tions . . . The theory is that it would be a safety measure, and a SUBSTITUTE for coalition or dictatorship. It COULD be done volun- tarily under existing law. Some of the president’s opposition critics are getting ready to force the establishment of such a council by legislation.” Petitions for such a council are circulating quietly in infiuential quarters. - + + Despite denials, we have reason for believing the advisory council idea will be developed and applied. We think we can foresee reasons why it MUST be done.” It will be noted that the “president's opposition critics’ are not opposed to the proposals for a dictatorship like that of the Council for ‘National Defense, but want to establish it “legally.” Ve ‘The only difference of opinion regarding the further strengthening of the machinery of suppression is the method of accomplishing it in the face of mass resistance which such a proposal will arouse. * The struggle against any and all denial of the elementary political rights of the workers and toiling farmers is a central part of the struggle against wage cuts, mass hunger and imperialist war.’ In this sense it is necessary more than ever for Communists to ex- plain, expose and take the lead in organizing mass resistance to the ruling class offensive, and to expose especially the plans for an extension ‘of the capitalist dictatorship, whether disguised as “an aid to business,” ‘as a “coalition government,” as a “national advisory council,” or in any yother form this new assault upon the living standards and liberties of the working class takes. ‘There must not be the slightest concession to the Socialist Party’s treacherous demagogy about the need for “more efficiency” in government. This is their contribution to the drive toward a more open dictatorship of capital and its war makers, | NEWS FLASHES Communist Murdered TE FosTER yap VETERANS Fit ft i * " ‘ munist, Gloger, in the village of “MILWAUKEE, Wisc., June 6—-W.|Krashkov, near Oppelin, on Sunday. &. Foster, Communist presidential Sieesae Han cerwes Mest fascists undertook a punitive tandidate, addressed 3,000 workers, aid on the vollage of Oberkerbs- , tmong’ who were many ex-service-| walde, near Eldingen. As soon as they men at Kosciusko Park, South arrived in motorlorries, they sur- fide, before his evening meeting. Ex. |0unded the villages, beat up land- vervicemen cheered the Communist workers, destroyed cycles, clung an injured worker into a pond and fired arty stand on the bonus, Detailed pe: ‘ory will follow tomorrow, many shots. The police remained Passive, MASSES MOBILIZE FOR WORLD SOLIDARITY DAY AGAINST WAR, JUNE 12 Anti-War Action Planned Throughout World Against Robber War on China, for the Defense of the Soviet Union “Tf Capitalists Start War on U.S.S.R., Workers Must Answer With Socialist Revolution,” Kuusinen Says in Greetings NEW YORK.—Millions of workers throughout the world will make June 12, World Solidarity Day Against War, a day of militant struggle against the present robber war on China and for defense of the Soviet Union. Answering the criminal war NEW CHILEAN GOV'T EXPOSES - FASCIST AIMS New Revolutionary Outbreak Reported in South Military and naval forces at Con- cepcion and Talcahuano, Chile, are reported in revolt against the new Chilean government set up by the military junta headed by Carlos G. Davila, wealthy landowner, and for- mer Ambassador to the United States. Students in several cities have also held demonstrations against the new government. News is being censored by the military. The Davila military junta accom- panied its seizure of power with the most shameless demagogy aimed at deceiving the toiling masses whose sufferings have become intolerable as a result of the deepening agrarian crisis and the almost complete col- lapse of the Chilean nitrates and copper industries, which are con- trolled by American financial inter- ests. The sham promises made by the Davila junta included seizure “of big 4 business and large estates” for the benefit of the starving masses. Con- fiscation of sterling deposits, “with reimbursement at a fixed rate of ex- change, and socialization of the banking system” was also talked of. The depth of this demagogy is really @ measure of the mass discontent and the desperate position of the (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) BILL PASSED TO EXILE MILITANTS Urge Workers 'to Act! Against This Plot WASHINGTON, June 6, — The House of Representatives today pass- ed the vicious Dies bill aimed to de- port all foreign-born militant work- ers, Introduced by Congressman Dies, of Texas, the bill is officially “di- rected against Communists who ad- vocate the overthrow of government by force and violence, assaulting of Government officials, destruction -of | property, sabotage and setting up of a system based on «2mmon owner- ship of property.” ‘That the purpose of the bill is to, provide a general dragnet to make easier the persecution and deporta- tion of all militant workers is seen in the fact that the immigration bill already has a provision relating to the “advocacy of force and violence.” * os ‘The Committee for the Protection of Foreign-born, from its office in New York, called for a relentless fight against this bill and warned that if enacted into law would become a sin- ister weapon in the hands of the bosses for the purpose of crushing strikes, intimidating workers and smashing militant orgenizations. Reichstag Election July 31 (Cable by Inprecorr) BERLIN, June 4.—The Reichstag elections have been officially fixed for the 31 of July, ote ts (Cable by Inprecorr) BERLIN, June 6.—Fierce collisions between workers and fascists occured througnout Germany over the week- end. At Bucholz, near Berlin, the fascists attacked the workers but suf- fered a defeat. The police arrested fifty workers and 20 fascists. . Twenty-five members of the Reich. banner were in jured at Eberswalde in a fight with fascists. 250 were arrested by the police. \ incitement of the imperialistst and the frantic drive of the Japanese fascist imperialist circles for an immediate attack on the Soviet Union, the workers of the world will demon- strate their iron determination to de- fend the Sccialist Fatherland against the capitalist war mongers. In the United States demonstra- tions will be held throughout the country, under the auspices of the Workers International Relief, with the Trade Union Unity League, its councils and unions, and other work- ing class organizations co-operating. The national office of the Workers International Relief announced yes- terday that reports from the coal and beet strike fields show enthusiastic response among the strikers and oth- er workers to the call for mass dem- onstrations on June 12. New York workers will demonstrate at Starlight Park, 177th St. and West Farms Rr., in a joint demonstration and recep- tion to the 16 American workers del- egates to the Soviet Union, who will arrive in New York port that day. Revolutionary greetings to the American working class have been re- ceived from Comrade Kusinen, it was announced yesterday by the National Office of the Workers International Relief. Comrade Kusinen is a mem- ber of the Executive Committee of the Communist International. Calling on the world working class to strengthen its struggles against the capitalist of- fensive of hunger, terror and war, Comrade Kusinen states: “If the world-bourgeoisie starts the war against the U.SS.R., it is betting on @ single card. For on that day the international solidarity of the proletariat will raise the en- tire force of its millions in every country for carrying through one great slogan: FOR THE SOCIAL- IST REVOLUTION! “An efficient support and stren- gthening of the actual class strug- gle of the proletariat against the ruling bourgeoisie, for extending and consolidating its class front, in order to enable it to fight heroical- ly and victoriously in the socialist revolution—that is today the main task of proletarian solidarity! “May the revolutionary mani- festation of the Workers Interna- tional Relief of June 12th efficient- ly contribute in order to make mil- lions of workers understand the great task of world history!” VE" MANDEER FREIGHT S COM A Workers Ex-Servicemen’s League delegation boarding a freight train for Washington in the Pennsylvania yards at Cleveland. The p®lice viciously attacked this group beating two of the vets unconscious. The railroad workers in the yards laid down their tools in sympathy with the marchers. Note the raised fists—the working class salute. AND POLICE FAIL 10. HALT BONUS MARCH TO CAPITOL 3,000 In Capitol; Mere On Way; New York Group Arrives In Phila. BULLETIN PHILADELPHIA, Pa., June. 6—Over one-fourth of the veterans of the New York delegation arrived here last night and are proceeding to Baltimore. . * * WASHINGTON, D. C.—Emanuel Levin and §S. J. Stember, leaders of the Workers Ex-Servicemen's League, were warned today by reac- tionary agents to either leave Washington or be taken “for a ride.” The reactionaries are working hand in glove with the police in an actempt to split the ranks of the veterans and defeat the fight for the bonus. The reactionary leaders of a section of the veterans have set the date for the march in front of the Capitol for today, thus hoping to liqui- date the great united front demonstration which is called by the Provisional March Committee for tomorrow. . . WASHINGTON, D.: C., June 6.—Police terror and repeated attempts on the part of the bonus enemies to divide the ranks of the veterans have failed to halt the great bonus army’s march against starvation. Over three thousand World War veterans are now in the Capitol. They are being joined hourly Manufacturers a *by new contingents which are Mourn Death arriving on trucks, freight trains and on foot. Final preparations are being of B enjam in S ch lesinger made by the Provisional Bonus | March Committee, the Workers Ex- | Servicemen’s League. and represen- Industrial Union Lists Betrayals of I-L.G.W.U, | tatives of detcgations of vets through. Chief; Calls Workers to Struggle NEW YORK.—Leading manufac- turers joined today in mourning the death yesterday, in Colorado Springs, Colo., of Benjamin Schlesinger, pres- ident of the company-union Inter- national Ladies Garment Workers Union, On the other hand, the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union, in a statement issued last night, de- clared that “the thousands of cloak- makers and dressmakers will not mourt the death for Schlesinger, for to them his leadership has meant misery and untold suffering.” Expressing the sentiments of pro- FSU Delegation to USSR Here June 12 The Friends of the Soviet Union delegation to the U. S. S. R. will ar- rive in New York June 12, it is an- nounced, in time to participate in the International Solidarity Day demonstration to be held that day at Starlight Park, 177th St. and West Farms Rd. where they will make their report. The solidarity demonstration is ar- ranged by the W. I. R. Trade Union Unity Councjl and the Friends of the Soviet Union, The New York F. S. U. is orga- nizing a mass reception at Pier 42 N. R., to be followed by a bus and truck parade to take the delegates from the pie rthrough the working class sections of the city, ending at Starlight Park {out the ‘city for: a gigantic united |front march and demtonstration be- minent exploiters in the cloak and tore the Capitol tomorrow to demand dress trade, the correspondent of | that the government: pay the bonus “Women’s Wear,” trade publication | immediately. of the manufacturers, declared that} Reactionary groups: under. direct Phsrhtad ah partateiralid ae leadership are operating inside the when . experienced - and cOnservative | Tanks of all veterans groups now in counsel. fs. most needed to.safeguard | Washington and through putting into the union labor movement in this; 0Peration a tactic: of splitting the country from falling into radical united front are attempting to de- hands.” High praise for Schlesinger and his cClass-collaboration policies came from a large nuraber of bosses, in- cluding Samuel Klein, executive di- rector of, the Industrial Council of Cloak, Suit and Skirt Manufacturers, Inc., Harry Uviller, manager of the (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) | Jersey Legislature Meets Tonight to Cut Employes Wages HOOVER GIVES MILLIONS TO BANKS, CAPITALISTS, Announces $670,000,000 Went to Railroads and Bankers As Hunger Grows Relief Being Cut Off in All Cities; Fight for Jobless Insurance Must Go Forward! WASHINGTON, D. C., June 6.—President Hoover revealed yesterday that more millions of the billion dollars Reconstrue- tion Finance Corporation are going to the banks, big corpo- rations and railroads In an official statement issued immediately after the week- VETERANS’ FASCIST LEADERS American Cloak and Suit Manufac- turers Association, Inc. Leo A. Del Monte, president of tho Industrial Council of Cloak, Suit and Skirt Manufacturers, Maxwell Coneloff, ex- ecutive director of the Merchants Ladies Garment Association, and others, Foe of Workers Left wing workers yesterday point- ed out that Schlesinger wes for years one of the bitterest foes of the workers and led in strike betrayals. They called attention to the dress- makers strike ecrly this ver wi ware cuts ranping from 29 to 59 ner it were put over after the workers were fooled into returning to the shops; the fake cloak strike of 1929, which resulted in ruinihg the work- ers’ standards. During the recent. (CONTARUED ON PAGE TWO) TRENTON, N. J., June 6. — The New Jersey state legislature meets tonight to take up motiogs to red- uce wages of all state employes by tem per cent to balance the budget. ‘They have before them also a sales tax law, and also thousands of let- lers from all over the state opposing it.. It would raise the cost of living for the masses of workers in the state. They have also demands for re- lief for 800,900 registered jobless, but his. is not worrying them s0 much. What the areument will really turn around is whether Quartermester General C, Edwerd Murra of ,State militia is to get $6,000 a year salary or not, and whether Lieute- nant Colonel William Higgins, a member of Governor Moore's staff, is to get a salary of $3,500 a year, as proposed, the | SHAM BATTLE ON BILLION DOLLAR TAXATION BILL Increase Still More Burdens On U. 8. Workers WASHINGTON, June 6. — Passed with relevant changes by the House of Representatives, the billion-dollar revenue bill drafted by the recent conference of senators and repre- sentatives was back to the senate this afternoon, where it faced the usual sham opposition. It is gener- ally admitted however that the huge tax bill which imposes unheard of jmisery upon the workers whose ab- solutely meager incomes will be fur- ther taxed, directly as well as indi- rectly, will be adopted as it stands. Workers To Pay The procedural opposition launch- ed by some senators who assert that the above mentioned conference of {members of both Houses was not “constitutionally”. empowered to change the original revenue bill, will not be maintained, a dispatch to the New York Times states. One of the changes made by the Conference of Senators and Repre- sentatives against which this sham opposition is directed, is the one that shifts the 3 per cent tax on electri- city upon the consumer whereas ac- cording to the original bill such a tax was to be paid by the “producer.” The question is simply a formal one, as no matter what the provision of the bill would be, the tax on. elec- tricity would undoubtly be shifted on the consumer. As soon as the revenue bill will’ be adopted, it will be sent to President Hoover, who is expected to sign it immediately with the speed that is characteristic of him when it comes to hit the workers. New Wage Slashes After this job is done,’the U. S. senators will take up the economy bill, just adopted by the House of Representatives, with a view to in- crease the wage slash enforced upon the federal employees by adding to it a new provision for unlimited fur- loughs without pay, as suggested by Hoover. THUGS ATTACK STRIKE PARADE Commodore _ Strikers Make Able Defense NEW YORK.—A horse and wagon parade yesterday notified all in the neighborhood that there is a strike at the Commodore Laundry. The wagons bore strike signs, and called for all workers to show solidarity. The laundry is located at 1360 Se- neca Avenue, The brothers, Sam and Benny Moretzky, of the racket association and famous strike breakers, charged down with a car and ran into one of the wagons. They then attacked the paraders, and in the course of the struggle, all the windows in the gangster car were broken and the sluggers driven away. The Moretzkys then called the police and had one of the workers arrested. The Tam- many judge at the 181st Street court refused to. order Moretzky’s arrest. Two of the four strikers arrested last week: Herman Kramer and Max Pouch are held on $1,500 each charged with felonious assault, though ‘they were at the union office and knew nothing of the alleged assault. They were arrested at the strike head- quarters, 1323 Southern Blvd. | Picketing and open air meetings are going on regularly and with en- thusiasm. The bosses are still visiting the strikers at home; offer- but these workers have had lots of experience with the Commodore Laundry, and always refuse, ing them money to be strikebreakers, | to end parley at Rapidan Camp General Dawes and Governor Meyers of the Federal Reserve Bank, Hoover revealed that huge amounts have already gone to these corpora= tions. He states that $670,000,000 were used to help the big industries, while the unemployed relief is bei cut throughovt the and the worker-ve' ing to Washington for their cl: on immediate relief from starvation, with United States terans are stream- m: Billions for Capitalists. Hoover's plan was already known jin its general lines. The main feat- ure of the program as outlined in an \Foster on National Tour, Strips Mask Off Heover Program MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., June 6. —William Z. Foster, Communist candidate for president, continues | his nation-wide tour to expose the Hoover hunger program and fake relief, and to fight for unemploy- ment insurance, the main plank in the Communist election plat- form. Foster spoke yesterday in Mil- waukee, where Mayor Hoan feared to debate with him. He speaks in two halls here tonight and in St. Paul Tuesday. Wednesday he speaks in Woodmens Hall and Camels Hall, Duluth. After that Foster meetings will be held in: Savo Hall, Frederick, N. D., at 2) p.m., June 10; Bismark, L p-m., June 11; Minot, vary Temple, at 8 p.m., also June | (1; Brush Lake, Mont. 2 p.m.,| June 12; Great Falls, Mont., June 13; Butte, Mont., June 15; Spo- kane, Wash., June: 17; Seattle, Wash., June 19. official statement issued by Hoover immediately after the week-end Parley at his summer headquarters, is the authorization given to the Reconstruction Finance Corporation for increasing the :-sue of its secur- ities to the maximum of $3,000,000,000 in order to enable it to relieve or at least attempt to relieve the banks, the industrial corporations and the big agricultural co-operatives under the pretense of helping the starving workers. According to this plan the Recon- struction Finance C rporation is to use its reserves amounting to billions of dollars to grant loans to political subdivisions and public organizations as well as to private corporations “so as to start the construction of in- come producing or self-liquidating projects. The corporation is further- more authorized to grant similar loans to farm co-operatives through the Federal Farm Board and to those state treasuries which “are unable to finance themselves for distress, Won't Overcome Crises, The whole plan thus appears as @ scheme to cover the bankruptcies of |the state treasuries and run to their assistance. Naturally this assistance is to be concealed behind the alleged intention to enable the depleted state treasuries to relieve distress, As the economic crisis becomes ever more profound, it becomes evident that not even this plan, with all the financial assistance that it implies, will bring about the much talked about economic “recovery” of the United States. Relief for Jobless Cut. Hoover declared in his statement that the funds given to the corpora- tions benefited thousands upon thousands of workers. “The starv- ing and. jobless workers of the Uni- ted States know that this is utterly false. They know that the little re Hef given to them is now being mer- cilessly cut off. The workrs must answer the new attempt being made by Hoover to unload the burden of the crisis upon their shoulders while giving millions to the big corporatious in an effort “lift” them out of the “depres- sion,” by fighting for unemployment and social insurance at the expense of the governmens. \