The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 7, 1932, Page 3

ge Three \CHI. BONUS MARCHERS ARRIVE AT CAPITOL; THEY’RE 450 STRONG We Are Going to Keep the Rank and File Run-| ning Things, Says eVt ae POLICE BRUTALITY IS THE SAME ALL OVER, SAYS SAILOR Seaman Hunts for Ship in Norfolk; Cops Poke His Ribs With Clubs; Negro Beaten (By a From Death Cells Scottsboro Boys Hal Victory of Workers Delaying J Executions BRITISH “WORKERS, PROTEST DRIVE TO NEW YORK.—I heard a lot about | police station on some framed-up BALTIMORE, Md.—Our bunch of about 450 workers is southern hospitality, but I never | charge. :. LYNCH i] NEGROE controlled by a Committee of nine marchers who were elected * found out what they really meant by} You see, they have jim-crowism N by the rank and file. Abuot 100 of our bunch are Negroes and WwW orker Col Correspondent. ) (By a Ronis Marcher) it until I was down in Norfolk, Vir- | down here even when it’s just a case | sv*: One of the cops happened to look 5 Watueaiacitn _,Owea BD. Young Favors ) President of the U.S, © , »ctully segregated and insulated com- one sore ngewe ginia, looking for a ship to get on.} Well, you know how tough it is to} get a ship now. .The night I got into Norfolk, I didn't have any money, but I didn’t want to go to a flop-|when we both don't have any money | house so I had to look for some place te flop for the night. I came to one of those parking piaces where they} keep used cars, picked me out a big} car and flopped there. Preity soon, | along came a Negro boy of about 18) years, looking for a place to sleep.} He picked out the car next to me! and went to sleep in it. Early in the morning I felt some- ene poking me in the ribs with a| of a poor Negro flopping next to a white man, Seems to me, a Negro has just as much right to try to grab a few hours’ sleep as I do, especially to sleep in a decent bed, but have to sleep like some sort of outcast animals. And believe me, police bru- tality is the same all over, even! when it is handéd out with ne of those nico, gentile, southern accents | that ae ople have down in Norfolk. VETS DEMAND BONUS (By a Worker Correspondent) | DES MOINES, Iowa. xX-service- pespitable. ¢ ni | L here ear ages Cae and unemployed workers pa- oe gear ag demanding immediate faces of a ccupte of cops, big-belile ed | oe payment of idee ego” ead eas oe _ we hav onus and unemployment insurance. pies fae gu ate Gar Ey, ie A group of veterans are on their aa Reeaa Ho dukellon Me | way to Washington in the Bonus Nncul HEA tb hice why 1| Demonstration June -8. The War a epont the ‘night in the ea, 1| Vetetans, an organization of “vet- sy a ~ erans here, refused to participate in | told them I was broke and had no| money, One of them asked nty why | I had net gone to the flophouse down the street. but I explained that I did| not want to get lousy there. So they pyish?d m* along h their clubs and told me to get out. Negro Beaten. “in the other car and see the Negro boy. Without questioning him, he began to beat that kid up so hard t he must have busted a couple As soon as he saw this, the ether cep piled in to meke a good job of it. At the same time, they were calling that harmless Negro boy Hames that I do not want to see print: in the Deily Worker. The} last I saw of them they were drag- ging the Negro out of the car to the Navy Di igi Olympia, Wash. i Daily Worker:— Dear Comrades:—The hungry un- employed of this city were treated to an unusual feast teday, Some one} cried, ‘here it comes) and sure enough over the trees which sur- rounds the poor and their misery came the U. S. Navy dirigible Akron. the Decoration Day parade.—H. LEWIS AGAIN BETRAYS MINERS (By a Worker Correspondent) ROCK SPRINGS, Ariz.—The U. P. Goal Co. and their henchmen, the officials of the United Mine Workers of America, are preparing to put another wage-cut on the miners. Some of the miners went to see John Lewis. He told them to go home and not worry, that they would have his moral support. Ss. This moal support is an agreement jto a ten per cent wage-cut. ‘The bosses want 20 per cent. The offi- cials of the union and the bosses came to an agreement for a 15 per cent cut. ible Arouses Bitter Comment Many were the biter remarks one | could hear from the distressed work- ers, of how the Hoover Hunger gov- ernment could find millions to spend terror in war against the workers, yet could find no money to provide food, clothing, and shelfer for the pood. —Ex-Veteran. Mesaba Range Miners Get New Pay-Cut (By a_ Worker Correspondent) EVELETH, Minn—What do you know about that? Dear old big- hearted John Oliver has slipped over another wage cut, another one of_: those U. S. raises. They call it a 15 per cent cut, but I nbticed from my pay check that we got a 20 per cent cut. Only the salaried men will get a straight 15 per cent cut. I used to make $140 a month and now I make only $30 a month. I pay $14 for rent and about $18 is left to buy clothes and food for a {family of seven The miners in Eveleth are facing starvation the same as all the min- ers on the Mesaba Range. Only one solution to the present problem of starvation, and that is a militant union of the miners, the National Miners Union. We are steadily gaining members into the union, a union that actually is fighting for our interests, fer the beterment of our conditions, against the wage-cuts and speed-up in the iron mines, —A Miner, 9 Year Old Child Urges Spur in War Fight Cleveland, Ohio. Comrades : I am nine years old and in Joan Barkwill School where I go to Room 206. There are 41 children in my class. Before Decoration Day our teacher told us that we must bring plants to decorate the soldiers’ graves. She said that the state didn’t have any money to decorate them with. Only thre children out of the whole class brought plants and no money at all. - There is quite a few children in my room that have lost their relatives in the World War and whose fathers and mothers, like mine are not working. We receive very llitte from charity and it hardly keeps us going. The live ones should be locked after, not the dead ones, For instance, take the ex-service- men that are alive. They can’t even get what is coming to them, like bo- nus. We children should organize with our parents and fight right against those who make war for their own profit. Excuse the paper I am writing on. I have not any better. ‘More Pewers for the Clearly indicating the trend to- ward an open fascist government, Owen D. Young urged a more ceh- tralized body to cope with the econ- omic crisis. Speaking to the graduating stu- dents of Notre Dame University the | chairman of the General Electric {Company stated that in the face of j'the “severe depression” it is neces- ‘ sary to give extraordinary powers to the President- i “Our democratic dovernment—he said—has since the beginning in- sisted on . . . delegated powers... . It is quite explainable, therefore, that @ government distributed into care- _ partments should function under nor- jmal conditions and should fail when the avalanche comes on.” When it is considered that the gov- ernment of the United States is steadily marching toward a moré centralized power, it is clear what Owen D. Young suggests—an open fascist. government: “Liberator” Must Be Better Distributed; . Call to Party Units NEW YORK.—The next issue of The Liberator will be off the press dune 6, dated June 15, and the sec- tions, districts, and units of the Com- Suspect Mussolini Police Staged New ‘Plot? on Premier ROME, June 6. — What appears to be a “well-ordered plot” is seen in the reported “attempt at assassi- nation” of the fascist premier, Musso- lini, A young Italian, Angelo Sbardellot- to, said by the police to have been armed with a pistol and two bombs was arrested outside Mussolini's of- fice. Sbardellotto said he belonged to an organization called “Justice and Liberty”. Just what this organiza- tion really stands for is not entirely clear, -but the ease with which the attempted “assassin” was arrested creates a strong suspicion that the whole thing was staged. Similar in- cidents revealed that anti-fascists practicising individual terror had been utilized in this manner by Mus- solini’s police. Meanwhile the fascist-controlled press is utilizing the incident for a frenzy of eulogies of Myssolini, and attempting to cover up the increas- ing misery of the workers and peas- ants. F The Communist Party has led a number of strikes during the past months despite the fascist terror, and advocates mass action as against individual acts of terrorism. VOT? COMMUNIST FOR: 1, Unemployment and Social In- surance at the expense of the munist Party are urged to take up the question of The Liberator and state and employers. off the press May 24. Send in your bundle orders to The Liberator of- fice, Room 201, 50 East 13th Street, on instruments to spread death and} Arrange Meetings for Mrs. Ada Wright, Scottsboro Mother BULLETIN MONTGOMERY, Ala., June 6. — |The Alabama Supreme Court was \forced today to grant a stay of ex- ecution for the seven Scottsbéro boys whose legal massacre was set for jJune 24 | PARIS, June 6.—Liberals and in- tellectuals attended the Scottsboro Meeting held at the famous Club | ‘Du Baub®urg, which was addressed by Mrs. Ada Wright and by J. Louis Engdahl. The audience pledged themselves to press the Scottsboro sue at the American Embassy, nd to strengthen the Scottsboro committees throughout France, er ee LONDON, June 6.—The following Scottsboro protest meetings have} been arranged in Great Britain for Mrs. Ada Wright, mother of two of the boys. Mrs. Wright is touring Europe in connection with the world- wide mass fight to free the nine in- nocent Negro lads. She has ad-| dressed huge meetings of workérs and sympathizers in Germany, Aus- tria and other countries on the con- tinent. She will speak in Great Britain on the following dates: Ireland, on June 14; Liverpool, on |June 17; London (Trafalgar Square) June 18; Bristol, on June 20; Glas- gow, on June 21; Dundee, on June 22. The Central London Branch of the National Union of Clerks has un- animously voted to cable a protest to Gov. B. M. Miller of Alabama against the lynch verdicts. The London Co-op Branch of the National Union of Distributive Work- ers has donated 21 shillings to the Scottsboro Defense Fund. It) has sent a protest to Andrew Mellon, American Ambassador to Great Brit- ain: “The contrast. between the ‘just- ice’ meted out to the Honolulu murderers (protected by their c0l- cur and social standing) and to H these eight Negro working lads de- monstrates clearly the mockery of trials in capitalist countries. | “Is this to be a second Sacco | and Vanzetti murder?” the resolu- tion asks. Mellon has persisiently refused to meet delegations with protests from London workers. U.M.W.-POLICE UNITE AGAINST ILLINOIS MINERS Edmundson Tries to Suppress Militant Agitation BENTON, Ill, June 6.—Zip Koch- insky, organizer of the Young Com- munist League and leader of the rank and file miners in. Southern Illinois, was released after being held three days in jail and beaten up by deputies and a state patrolman in an effort to make him tell where the Communist Party and Y.C-L. leaflets are being printed. The sheriff's plans’ were to turn Zip over to the’ United Mine Work- ers of America gangsters, as he wasn't booked or charged with any- thing, but was put in solitary con- finement, expecting to turn him over in the evening. The plans were somewhat spoiled as a lawyer came while in solitary confinement. Before being released he was made to understand that they were not going to arrest any more, but will turn oyer all Red organizers to the U.M.W.A. gangsters. The sheriff stated that before the Reds get con- trol of Franklin County they will have to fight not only him, but the federal government and the state militia, and that the National Guard is already mobilized in Carbondale ready to act, and that federal agents are investigating the Red movement here now: While Kochirisky was in jail, Ray Edmundgon, president of the United Mine Workers’ Sub-District No. 9 and leader of a fake “Rank and File’ Movement” last year, came in. Ed- mundson had just been able, by gangster tactics, to prevent a vote for the rank and file opposition pro- gram in U.M.W.A. meetings. The program was for strike against the bosses’ and U.M.W.A. wageé-cut agree- ment, for use, of all district funds for reliéf in the strike now going on in Zeigler Mine No. 2 and against individual settlements. * Edmundson also placed Kochinski under inquisition, demanded to know where the léaflets were printed and threatened violence against those who printed them, PASSAIC, N. J—Two delegatiotis of the Workers Ex-Servicémen’s A section of the demonstration of Scho®l against the Scottsboro lynch verdicts. Millions of wor kers have demonstrated throughout the for the release of the boys. Other millions in Europe, the United States South Africa, China., have joined the growing world-wide protest. ° Andy Wright Tells of, Relief of Lads As News Is Received CHATTANOOGA, Tenn, June 6. —The following leters from two of the Scottsboro boys indicate the joy and relief with which the seven boys who are still held in ss the death cells “sat Kilby Prison, Montgomery, Ala., received the news of the vic- tory of the work- ing class in fore- ing the U. S. Su- preme Court to agree to review the lynch sen- tences against them. The de- cision of the court automatically stayed the executions which were set for June 24, LUCILLE WRIGHT Now on a national tour for the defense of her two brothers and the seven other Scottsboro boys. ‘The seven boys have been under | terrific metal strain. Practically | children, they have been victims of the most hideous tortures the south- | ern boss lynchers could devise. In} spite of the appeal to the Alabama Supreme Court and now to the U. S.| Supreme Court, the boys are still held in the death ceils. Several} months ago the electric chair was} moved into a position directly in} front of the death cells. have been forced to witness every ex- ecution since that time, mostly of Negro workers. They have been told it will be your turn next. One of the letters is from Andy Wright to the Southern District of the International Labor Defense. The other is from Haywood Paterson to his mother. Andy’s letter follows immediately: “Just a few lines to let you know that. we received the telegram you sent us, that brought to our hearts A small section of the giant demonstration with which Hamburg (Germany) workers greeted Mrs. Ada Wright, mother of Andy and Roy, two of the inmocent Sc%Csboro boys. center, with J. Louis Engdahl, as fraternal delegates to the World Con- gress of the International of Sea Hamburg on May 20. The others are Ameri oviet Union Mrs. Wright is shown in lower men and Harbor Workers held n delegates, in | The boys| joy and consoliation and we hope to} just stay locked up in one cell.” tell you that we really appreciate you sending us the good news about} our cases, not~only that but we are thankful to have you all as our dear friends and comrades because we feel like we are going to get our freedom back again as we should have it. “We are longing for that great day to come when we can enjoy ourselves in the free air again, although we know that it takes time. But still we are so tired of this place. We} can never get any exercise at all, | Haywood’s Letter, Dear Mother: Just a few words in regards to your Kind and welcome (letter) which I received that found me not feeling so well in health but a lot better inj mind because the Supreme Court re- view our case and set aside the ex-| special the matter with me, just the | good news made me rejoice because at | ‘first it was on a wonder, FASCIST LEADERS AND COPS FAIL TO HALT MARCHERS (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) feat the struggle for the bonus. The chief figures in this-reaction- ary are the leaders of a group of vets who arrived from Oregon, Alnan, @ mill foreman, and W-. W. Waters, both of whom were previously affiliated with the Loyal Legion of Loggers and Lumbermen, a strike breaking organ- ization which was organized in 1917 by Col. Disque and secret service agents. ‘This group is forming'a permanent center from which the police are at- tempting {o control the movements of all arriving delegates. It is re- ported that Waters is working in the field lining up veterans in the reac- tionary groups while Alnan is in charge of the center combing out all militant vets. Resent Police Supervision Considerable resentment was ex- pressed yesterday by the rank and file in the encampment against po- lice supervision. The argument as to the right of freedom of political op- inion, which the police and reaction- ary leaders are trying to deny mili- tants, is becoming hot.” Meanwhile American Legion offi- cials are writing reams of resolu- tions denouncing the bonus march, frantically, but futilly urging the rank and file members of their posts not to join. It is reported today that over 9,000 veterans are thrusting their way forward through many states toward their objective, the Capitol. . New York Attacked in Jersey. RAHWAY, N. J., June 6.—The New York contingent of veterans which is marching under the lead- ership of the Workers Ex-Service- ale League has been subjected to the most vicious ~olice terror all along the line of march. This group) arrived here on the highway yester- day morning from Linden where they were attacked by local and state and driven out of town when ewe | tingent ‘naires. The New York contingent arrived in Linden from Elizabeth Sunday. At once all police reserves were mo- bilized and the mayor, an ex-service- man himself, ‘harangued the vets with the usual officer cast demogogy and tried to urge them to leave town. The vets, however, demanded food, | which the mayor was forced to sup- ply, and camped in the old city hall | over night. In the morning at 6 the men arose | and“ under the leadership of thei: rank and file committee marched to | the passenger depot where they at-| tempted to board a west-bound train. The police attacked the war vet- erans, the line of march. to the teeth, surrounded and marched town like prisoners of war the them con- out of The vets camped along the road | and are expected to proceed forward within a few hours. Vets from South March KNOXVILLE. Tenn. June 6— Trammell Scott, commander of the | Atlanta, ‘Ga., Post of the American Legion, said, “The bonus marchers can expect no aid from the Legion- Their stand does not reflect the majority opinion of the Legion.” In spite of the opposition of Le- gion officials, rank and file Legion members are going ahead with their plans to invade Washington and de- mand full payment of the bonus. The Nashville, Tenn., Negro Legion Post has okayed and is making plans to send 500 members to Washington. A Bonus Army of 2,000 from Nash- | ville is also being considered by ‘the Tennessee American Legion mem- bers. nessee are up in arms at the failure of 5 of the Tennessee congressmen to sign a petition asking a vote on the Patmaan bill. A truckload of ex-servicemen of Bell County, Ky., have left for Wash- | ington. A group of 25 veterans left Greenville, Tenn. PHILADELPHIA, June 6,—Fivé hundred veterans met here yesterday under the leadership of the Workers Ex-Servicemen’s League and voted | to proceed in groups to 9 South Green St., Baltimore, Md. Another group of 300 which left League which left here Sunday is re-|they attempted to boatd a westjearly yesterday morning passed bound Pennsylvania passenger train. through. Chester and were on their ported to bé near Washington, many of whom were disabled | and sick, by driving automobiles into | ‘The police, armed | World war veterans of Ten-/} \NEW CHILEAN GOVT EXPOSES | FASCIST AIMS, {CONTINUED CRUST FAGH ONT foreign capitalists and local feudal landowners Latest patches from Chile re- port that the junta, having estab- | lished itself in power, has repudiated all these sham promises. A Santi-| ago dispatch to the New York World-{ Telegram reports with great siasm that Davila has told the United | enthu- | Press that “the government will not molest private property of Chileans | jor foreigners. | “Foreign business men, particu- | larly Americans, were relieved by | his statement. The heads of twenty- five American concerns met at the American Embassy and decided there was no eause for alarm at Present, although public utilities | were expected to suffer: | The extent of the crisis in Chile }and the desperation of the foreign capitalists and local feudal landown- ers is clearly indicated in the follow- ing statement by Davila: “I believe the capitalistic system is dying and that the only hope for Chile is fascization of many in- Gustries, distribution of food, etc. We have no intention of molesting private property, either Chilean or foreign.” Wall Street holdings in Chile are reported to be over a bilifon dollars, | |andl to represent the largest foreign | holdings in the country. During the jpast few years Wall Street has largely forced out its British rival | from control of Chilean nitrate fields, copper mines, etc. way to Baltimore as we go to press. | | NEW ORLEANS, June 3. (By) Mail). —An attempt was. made by the | Calhoun County (Ga.) police to break the solidarity of the Negro and | white ex-servicemen on their march! from New Orleans to Washington. | Oné hundred and sixty Negro and| oye hundred and ten white vets| foiled all attempts of the police to split their ranks and are still enroute to the capitol, iJ jers with whom he | dium, | tional all of us are unemployed worke Unemployed Councils and Worl and the other half are mostly pretty radical and determined to see the march through, Committee in Lead. Also in our delegation we had some few 100 percenters who tried to stir up trouble by saying that the Com- mitee was all Communist and who tried to keep other vets from being allowed to travel with us. The ra and file made these hot air s shut up however and the Committee continued to function. At Strawsburg, Pa., the American Legion tried to make friends with by feeding us bread and black coffee and letting us sleep in bo 's, but we didn’t listen to their line and came right along. We have a lot of rank and file Legion members in our out- fit-but they feel they same way about the Legion leaders that we who be- | long to the W.E.S.L. do. The B & O was the last train we rode and they cut the engine off the train about ten miles out of Bal more and a gang c* State troop met us there. We started march- ing into t-~n but the City met us with trucks and hauled us into town About half belong to the| Ex-Servicemen’s 's League ‘THOUSANDS N BRIGGS MARCH Mio Workers aa Co. Feed "Em, BULLETIN. DETROIT, Mch., June —A mass protestation against the bru- tal smashing of the Briggs Hune ger March and injury and arrest of scores of the jobless, will be hetd at City Hall, Tuesday evening. Dem 6. \ Capitalist S services here report | that 3,000 took part in the hunger march of Briggs Plant unemployed! | workers in Detroit yesterday, Police attacked the demonstration |at the gates of the Mack Ave. plant, Jand used c and tear gas bombs, ‘The jobless fought back and knocked }down a number of the cops, includ- and we slept in the recreation pier,|ing Norton M. Schuknecht, district the same place where the hunger | inspector in charge of the police at) marchers slept. |the plant. The battle raged for half{ Demanded Transportation. Our committee told the cops who were doing the talking for the city, that we weren't going to walk and that we wanted transportation, and we forced the city to furnish line. the file the Le- We are all g0ing to get on job and keep the rank and running things. To hell with fake leaders of the American gion. FORKIN ORDERED SENT TO CANADA. Canadian. Militant Jailed in West FARGO, N. D., June 6.-—-Martin Forkin, who was active in the Estavan miners’ strike in Canada last, fall, is being held in jail here, Secretary of Labor Doak having or- dered his deportation back to Can- ada. Fear is felt for the life of Forkin who is suffering from tuberculosis ond who may remain in jail during ecution date. Mother, ain't nothing | he eet unless $5,000 bail is pro- | vide Forking was arrested by immigra- |tion officers while entering Pembina, | | North Dakota, and held incommuni- | cado for several days while the au- thorities tried to force him into statements involving militant work- had been asso- ciated. The International Labor Defense is | planning an energetic campaign to force the revocation of Doak’s de- portation order, meanwhile seeking to raise the $5,000 bail required to ‘free him pending the hearing. Stagg Field, Chicago, Picked for Counter- Olympic Sports Meets CHICAGO. June 6.—Stagg Field, the huge University of Chicago Sta- will be used for the Interna- Workers’ (Counter-Olympic) Athletic Meet on July 28-30, accord- ing to word received today by the militant sport organization from A A. Stagg director of athletics at the university. The field is one of the largest the U. &., seating 60,000. It has a quarter-mile track, a large well- laid | out field, etc. A large attendance is expected ie the meet, organized as a demonstra- tion against the capitalist olympics | held in California which keeps Tom | Mooney in prisc*. Besides the athletic events in which worker-sportsmen from the | Soviet Union, Germany, Japan and other countries are to participate, an eight-hour cultural program includ- ing mass workers’ choruses, orchestra, pageants, dancing, etc., ranged. us | trucks to the District of Columbia | in| is being ar-/| an hour before finally dispersed The call to the Briggs unemployed to tharch on the plant and demand that the company provide its ex- workers with relief was issued by the Auto Workers Union and the Unem- ployed Council. Capitalist press dis- patches here give prominence as the caller of the demonstration to the name of John Schmies, Trade Union Unity League district secretary in Detroit, and Communist candidate for mayor of Detroit last year. | The demonstrators also demanded ten per cent increase in the wages of Briggs Plant workers, slowing down of the line, no more discharges, ete. Preparations for the march ine cluded formation of departmental grievance committees in the plant. the demonstrators |Cleveland Solidarity Day Picnic, June 12th CLEVELAND, June 6.—Interna- | tional Solidarity Day. proclaimed by ;the Workers International Relief for June 12 will be celebrated by work- jers here with a picnic to be held lin Garfield Park, Ground No. 2 | An attractive program, including features by the Labor Sports Union is announced. The W.LR, is carrying on a cam- paign in support of the striking min- ers and impending steel struggles with a tag day on June 18-19, | Reeth HAs HAR FARM PRICES AT NEW LOW The index of prices of farm pros ducts on May 15 was at a new low of 56 per cent of pre-war as com- pared with 59 per cent on April 15, according t o the Bureau of Agricul- | tural Economics, U. S. Department | of Agriculture. Vote Communist | BUTTONS ‘ Are Ready for MASS SALE ¥ and Distribution Order Now—$ 20 a Thousemd Send Check With Order— Or Will Send C. O. 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