The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 8, 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. Dail (Section of the Communist Internatizxal) °; = &) a bo) Against capitalist 6. VOTE COMMUNIST FOR Equal rights for the Negroes and self-determim ation for the Black Belt. terror; against all forms of suppression of the political rights of workers. Against imperialist war; for the defense of the Chinese. people and of the Soviet Union. Vol. 1X, No. 136 Se5 Eutered as eccomd-clase matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., ander the act of March 3, 1879 NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, J r' Y ED ION Police Provocation Against the Veterans great movement of the ex-servicemen for relief from hunger by the immediate payment of the bonus has thrown the capitalists into fits of rage and terror. These decisive sections of the working class that have looked in vain for months for relief at the hands of the Hoover government are fighting for their demands in a way entirely distasteful to the master class. The worker ex-servicemen are resorting to mass action. ‘Their numbers swell from day to day. And they are defending their claims with a directness and forcefulness characteristic of the American workers. The movement of the ex-servicemen to Washington arose spon- taneously. It was given-a powerful impetus, more definite organization and consciousness by the Workers Ex-Servicemen’s League dnd the Com- munists who play an important part in the movement but do not en- tirely lead it. The rapid spread of the movement at first caught the government unawares. But they have now decided to resort to their usual tactics of trying to behead the movement of any militant leader- ship and divide it in order the more effectively to crush and defeat the movement. The government henchmen in Washington are falling back upon their usual weapons of demagogy, provocation and terror to ac- complish their end. In a statement issued» yesterday General Glassford, chief of the Washington police, made the assertion that the Communists have organ- ized to provoke bloodshed and have secretly formed groups to break up the parade called for today by a set of reactionary leaders whom the police are pushing forward. This statement is not only brazen lying, but is intended as a cover for the terror being conducted by the police against the militant veterans. The Communists among the marchers are work- ing for the unification of the ranks of the veterans and are striving to martial the forces of the ex-servicemen coming from various parts of the country into one front for a common struggle for the bonus. The great need of the moment in the ranks of the ex-servicemen is unity and capable leadership. This cannot be provided by leadership handpicked by the police, This leadership can be given only by the rank and file clecting capable fighters and by eliminating all leaders who echo the disorganizing propaganda of the police. The rank and file should associate themselves with the Chicago delegation of the marchers who will not be deceived by the boss class and bonus-enemy propaganda, and surrender to the tricks of the government tools. The worker ex-servicemen should put up an iron front against the attempts to divide them. Divide and destroy the movement—that is the policy of the Hoover government.and the Washington police. Unite un- der militant leadership and win—that must be the policy of the ex- servicemen. Negroes, Beware of Japanese imperialist Agents! GRO workers and: farmers! Be on your guard against the secret agents of murderous Japanese imperialism who are coming among you seeking your support for their war against the Chinese people and against ‘the Soviet Union. j In every large center of Negro population the agents of the Mikado | are agitating with the slogan “Japan is the champion of the colored races \against white domination.” They ate appealing to the well-founded \hatred of the Negro masses against the American imperialist. Jim-Crow system in an effort to secure a base of support among the American masses for Japanese imperialism. ‘The lying demagogy of Japanese imperialism’s pretensions to cham- pion “the colored races” should be sufficiently exposed by the fact that the Japanese war machine has thrown itself first of all upon the bodies ‘of Chinese men, women and children, upon another “colored race.” The dead bodies of tens of thousands of Chinese men, women and children in Shanghai and Manchuria cry out their mute protest against the shame- ful hypocrisy of “Japan as the champion of the colored races.” Unfortunately, however, considerable numbers of honest and sincere Negro workers have fallen victims to this imperialist lie. All over the country large meetings of Negroes are listening to and even applauding this false slogan. They are being deceived by corrupt leaders who are in the pay' of the Japanese political secret service. » secret agents of Japanese imperialism, operating a highly devel- oped organization that covers the United States with a close network, directed by the Japanese Embassy in Washington and the Japanese Con- ‘satreag throughout the country, are working with the tolerant approval i ‘of the |Jnited States government in Washington and even with the active collabaation of branches of the American governmental apparatus. On May iM, the Daily Worker exposed the open boasts of the Japanese news- paper, “New World” of San Francisco, to the effect that the Japanese {govesnment secret service agents, “the cleverest in Japan,” have been sent ito the United States, and are obtaining “excellent co-operation from the American police atithorities.” It is also well known that the Washington police gathered in the base- ment of the Japanese Embassy in Washington, as an ambush from which !to fall upon a few hundred working men and women who were demon- istrating in protest against the crimes of Japanese imperialism, attacking ‘them with tear gas and clubs and throwing a number of them into jail. Negro workers! Do not be deceived by. the demogogues who come among you telling you that the hopes for your liberation lie in support- ing murderous Japanese imperialism. Like American imperialism, and like every other imperialist power, the Japanese government is the hang- ‘man, the oppresser, the exploiter of all peoples over whom it can extend its ower, The only road to the emancipation of the Negroes from the American imperialist Jim-Crow system is the road of united struggle to- gether with the revolutionary white workers. This is the road of struggle against all imperialist governments, white and yellow. The complete ‘emancipation of the toiling masses of all races can come only with the overthrow of all the imperialist powers. Join hands with your white brothers for the common struggle now for ithe immediate demands of all toilers, white and black, as outlined in the ‘election platform of the Communist Party, which includes the demand for ‘complete and unconditional equality for the Negroes and self-determina- ‘tion for the black belt. Join your forces with the white workers behind ‘the Communist standard-bearers in the election struggle, Comrade Foster, Ithe white worker, and Comrade Ford, the Negro worker, candidates for ‘President. and Vice-President. Throw out of your ranks the treacherous paid agents of Japanese imperialism! Defend the Chinese people! De- fend the only fatherland of the oppressed peoples of the whole world, the Soviet Union! | NEWS FLASHES SPANISH GUARDS FIRE ON WORKERS (By Inprecor Cable) (By Inprecor Cable) _ BERLIN, June 7—The recount of Meckjenburg Diet elections give | Presidential Candidate Sheriff Benson MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., June 7. 4500 HEAR FOSTER IN MILWAUKEE; JOIN COMMUNIST PARTY OVER 100 Proves Socialist Party Cuts Relief and Votes Forced Labor Evicts Jobless at Night; Negroes Jim-Crowed, Barred from Office BULLETIN Fifteen hundred workers jammed two halls Monday night to hear Foster speak at the biggest mass meet- ings ever held here by the Communist Party. An overflow crowd heard the speeches in the street through amplifiers. “Today at 6:30 Foster broadcasted a Communist election campaign speech over the radio station WRHM. Tonight he speaks in St, Paul, and tomorrow in Duluth. * MILWAUKEE, Wisc., June 7.— With Socialist Party he has betrayed, thousands of the latter came out and heard William Z. Foster, Communist Candidate for President, open Mayor Hoan still hiding his face from the Milwaukee workers | Communists five seats instead of +, thus destroying the fascist ab- majority. The fascists have seats against 30, The other par- must therefore rely on the Ger- Nationalists to form a govern- ti, Sunday, following upon a fascist tion, the Brunswick fas- attacked the workers’ quarters. | well organized united front de- ns? repulsed the fascists with great he police arrived with three arresting many workers and houses. ‘The Communist “Arbeiterzeitung,’ H in Leipzig, was suppressed lay for a period of eight days by socialist’ Police Chief Fleissner, ¢ . MADRID, June 7.—Civil Guards fired on a workers’ demonstration at Medina Sidonia, killing two and sea many, . eos FRENCH RHONE RIVER DOCKERS STRIKE (By Inprecor Cable) PARIS, June 7+The dockers of Portdebouch, at the mouth of the Rhone River, went on strike against @ wage-cut. The owners are trying to unload ships with scab labor. Fierce collisions occurred when scabs attempted to unload four ships. The police fired, killing two strikers, wounding many and arresting seven workers, the campaign in this city The Socialist Party w. posed thoroughly by desrip- tion of a whole series of star- vation and forced labor stunts it has pulled off in Milwaukee. Particularly did Foster lay bare the attack on the worker veterans of the last war by the Socialist Party, exactly the same stand against the payment of the bonus being taken by Norman Thomas as is taken by Hoover. Hoan wasn’t there, but as usual he saw to it that an army of police and detectives surrounded the meeting in an attempt to terror'ze and keep workers away. Veterans Join League. Hundreds of ex-servicemen present among the 3,000 at the afternoon meeting in Kosciusko Park on~the South Side, chered Foster when he showed that the Communist Party is the only o ne that repre- sents the interests of thé workers and poor farmers and supports the jex-soldiers in their struggle for the cash bonus. Foster exposed the at- tempts organized by the Republican, Democratic, and Socialist politicians to head off the movement of the vet- erans and prevent their getting the bonus. He pointed out to other workers that not all veterans are fascists, thoy they may belong to fascist organizations like the World War Veterans and American Legion. (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) DEMAND LEAGUE HEAR PROTEST ON SCOTTSBORO LL.D. Supports Dele- gation of Swiss Workers BULLETIN LONDON, June 7. — British of- ficials today refused a visa to Mrs. Ada Wright, mother of two of the framed-up Scottsboro boys, who is now on a tour of Europe. NEW YORK.—In connection with the world-wide mass fight for the release of the Scottsboro boys, the national office of the International Labor Defense has sent the follow- ing cable to the chairman of the American delegation at the Geneva “disarmament” conference: “The International Labor De- fense, in the name of 10,000 mem- bers and 200,000 affiliated mem- bers, demands that you receive delegation of twenty Geneva work- ers, grant them floor before League of Nations disarmament conference to protest Scottsboro lynch verdicts and to demand freedom for the Scotsboro boys.” Unemployed Worker Lives on Crumbs Thrown to Birds NEW YORK—Down on the East River, near the New York Yacht Club, where J. P. Morgan lands his power launch which takes him from his estate in Long Island to the city, an unemployed worker is struggling to survive. He sleeps in a packing crate, and he combs the lawn of a ncarby Catholic institution for the bread to “Good Sisters” throw out every day for the birds to eat. An example of the “Block-Aid” system so enthusiastically hailed by Morgan? , in two mass meetings, Sunday. ex-® BEET STRIKE IN DECISIVE STAGE: RELIEF NEEDED Hunger, 250 ‘Arrests, in Colorado Beet Fields Now SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., June 7.— The Workers International Relief and workers’ organizations are now developing a relief campaign for the Colorado beet strikers, particularly among the farmers and agricultural workers . Decisive Stage. DENVER, Colo., June 7.—In a few days any changes in the situation determine the eventual outcome of the struggle of 15,000 beet strikers. The beets in the field have reached that growth where it is absolutely imperative they be “thinned” weeded and hoed, of else the crop will be destroyed. Due to very much rain in the past week the growth of beets has accelerated more than ordinarily. Therefore, tf the ranks hold solid for a while longer the growers will be jcompelled to make terms with the | workers. For nearly four weeks these thous- and of impoverished agricultural workers have held solid in the face of a savage terror by the authorities and employers in all beet growing |centers including 250 arrests and or- (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) Senate Adds Furlough to 10 Per Cent Slash WASHINGTON, D. C., June 7—An attempt to further reduce the wages of federal employes through a fur- lough of 30 days without pay is be- ing made in the senate. Senate ‘Wanderberg proposed that the 10 per cent reduction of wages already voted be supplemented by a furlough which would increase the reduction from 10 to over 16 per cent. | Senator LaFollette declared that he is ready to acecpt the proposal, provided it is amended so that no federal employe could be compelled to take more than five of his thirty days’ furlough without pay at a stated time. It is becoming ever clearer that the economy bill, just as the revenue bill, will be so changed before it is finally adopted as to further increase the misery to be imposed upon the federal employes. Fight Workers Move to Bar Passage of Fish- Supported Act Warning the American workers of the sinister character of the Dies Bill passed Monday by the House of Representatives, the International Labor Defense and the Committee for the Protection of the Foreign-! Forn took the lead yesterday in cal- | ling for e@ nation-wide campaign to prevent its passage in the Senate | Where it is to come up shortly, 1 Meetings of protest throughout the country, resolutions by all trade un- ions, fraternal and other working class organizations are urged by both (CONTINUED OM PAGE THREE) By PAT TOOHEY | Foster and Ford, Communist Candidates memes 5 & William Z. Foster (seated left), Communist candidate for President of the United States, is swinging westward through the Dakotas on his nation-wide tour. James W. Ford (right) Communist candidate for vice-president, is touring through Ohio and points eastward on his nation-wide clection campaign. White Guardist Paper Sees Early Attack on USSR “Russkaya Gazetta’ Boasts of Information From “Most Authentic Source;” Indicates Time Within 3 or 4 Weeks BULLETIN SHANGHAI, June 7.—The United States gunboat Oahu fired on Chinese regular soldiers forty miles below Chungkiang killing many of them, an Exchange " *legraph dispatch stated today. , . . ” Expecting an early attack on the Soviet Union by the Japanese war mongers, foreign newspapers have dispatched their special military correspondents to Moscow and Tokio. The Russkaya Gazetta, white guard-monarchist paper, an early attack on the published in New York, joyfully predicts Soviet Union in a front page*——— article in its issue of June This organ of the white guard- ist war-plotters declare that| its editorial board has infor-} mation from “most authentic sour- | ces” that war between the U.SS.R. | and Japan is a question of the very U. S. Army Gives Huge Rush Order For Truck Tires DETROIT, Mich., June 7.—The United States Rubber Company |} has received a big order from near pais The time is indicated| |; the vy. 5. Army for a speciaily as within three of four weeks || built tire for heavy trucks, The | The Russkaya Gazetta is one of!| order is being rushed as part of the extensive preparations of | American imperialism for war. Further proof of frantic war preparations is the organization the white guardist papers busily en- gaged collecting war funds in this country for Gen. Dietericks, white | guardist butcher who has set un his headquarters in Shanghai, South|| f a war-material procurement China, under the protection of the| | commission is located in the United States, British and French| | G™Stdian Trust Bullding, The fas ; fom funds, | | ¢ngineers who were supervis'ng |imperialists. In its appeal for funds, foo pert a only states| | the. tests of the new aeroplane | the Russkaya Crazetta ovenly states! | engines at the Packard plant, the hostility of the white evardists | t have been transferred to the of- to workers’ rule in the Soviet Un-| | fices of th’s commission. i ion.” It speaks of “the organization| | 20 em | of armed struggles against the Bol- . sheviks” and threatens a bloody ter- ‘Tennessee Jim Cro Bosses Say Negroes ror against the toiling masses of the Soviet Union, and especially against | ~. rT Can Vote —Maybe! NASHVILLE, Tenn., June 7,—Un- the Jewish and other minorities who | | were formerly bitterly oppressed w |der the Tsarist feudal-capitalist willing to admit oficially that they - sanction the disfranchisement of Ne- gro voters, the State Primary Board | American bankers are hely here today adjourned without adopt- |gime. | Jing the white guardist to collect ing a motion to exclude all “except white democrats.” funds. The Wall Street government, In a venomous statement, Collied land various municipel governments, |especially that of San Francisco, aro helping. the Japanese to recruit. white guardists in. this country for use | Godlett. candidate for the democratic against the Soviet. Union. nomination. for governor, had urged ee ‘that all Negro votes in the August 19-YEAR-OLD GIRL KILLS SELF | primaries be thrown out. NEW YORK.—A young girl, nine-| Godlett would have all condidates teen years of age, unemployed,|for office sign a declaration stating jumped out of a second story window |that “the Democratic Party is the at 7 St. Mark's Place, New York,/ white man’s party and that the yesterday, landed on an iron cellar) phrase ‘known democrats’ means door and was instantly killed. white democrats.” Glassford’s Charge of Attempt to Div 14,000. Now WASHINGTON, D. C. POLICE TRY TO PROVOKE HYSTERIA AS EXCUSE TO ATTACK BONUS MARCHERS “Communist Plot” Is ide Vets’ Ranks in Washington; Demand for Ran¥ and File Control Grows June 7.—The statement of General P. T. Glassford, Washington's police chief, in all morning pap- ers charging a Communist plot to start a riot and bring about bloodshed in tonight’s bonus parade marks the culmination of the whole plan of the bonus enemies to provoke a panic situa- *tion in the Capitol, divide, the ranks of the bonus marchers and establish stronger police control in alliance with defin- itely fascist groups. The Hearst Herald carried the following seven column headline this BONUS NEWS FLASHES NEW YORK GROUP IN BALTIMORE BALTIMORE, Md. June 7.—The first. division of the New York dele- gation of the National Bonus March arrived here tonight. They will de- mand transportation to carry them into Washington. 8,000 VETS IN CAPITOL WASHINGTON, D. C., June 7.— With thousands of veterans on the road and some barely starting, from their homes, it was estimated here today that over 8,000 ex-soldiers are now in the Capitol. 100 LEAVE EASTON EASTON, Pa., June 7.—About 4 hundred veterans left here today bound for Washington in trucks. NEGRO VET FOUND DEAD BEACON, N. Y., June 7.—Jess2 Porter, Negro ex-serviceman, was railroed station at, Dutchess Junction. At nine o'clock this morning Porter was trying to organize a group of veterans to join the march to Wash- ington. The cause of Porter's death has not yet been determined. | * COLORADO VETS IN CHICAGO CHICAGO, June 17.—Sixty-seven | war veterans camped here last night |along the banks of the canal- They jartived here. from Denver, Gol. and started cut for Washington today. SAVE PHILA. PHILADELPHIA, Pa., June 7.—An- jother group of veterans numbering 150 left here today for Washington. | * . | SENATOR TELLS VETS TO GO | TO HELL WASHINGTON, D. ©., June 7.—J Hamilton Lewis, democratic senator | from Illinois, met+a group of veterans |in the Senate corridors today and | when they approached him on the question of, the bonus the senator said: “I'm going to the senate—you jean go to hell.” CHICAGO GROUP FIGHTS JIM CROWISM WASHINGTON, D. C., June 7.—A |sharp struggle against Jim Crowism being led in the bonus army camp y the Chicago contingent. Negro and white vets ar esplitting from | their fascist leaders and are rallying | around the Chicago group which has put forward the demands fo no Jim Crowism and against police super- vision and control of the marchers. The fascist leaders have seen to it j that no Negroe sare on the leading | committees, A delegation of two Negro veterans | went to Congressman DePriest. He refused, to endorse the bonus demand and said that he would continue to fight it; that it is unpatriotic at this | time and that the vets have no right to ask for the bonus, On Against Anti-Alien Bill! WE DEMAND OUR BACK Washington to demand immediate payment of the “tombstone” bonus, PAY! found dead at 11:30 today near the) morning: “Reds plan vet riot, says Glassford.” Glassford accuses Reds of “plan to provoke bloodshed,” says the Post | A typical example of the bonus | enemies’ use of all forces of shame | less provocation against the bonus muerchers is a statement issued this morning by E. C. Babcock, comman- j der of the Disbled American War | Veterans, which says: “Rementber that if a riot starts you will be worse than the Hessians who fought with the British because you will haye | .CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE? 2,000PARADE IN SOLIDARITY TO SHOE STRIKE iShouti ng. Cheering: Led by W.LR. Band; Score Co. Unions BULLETIN NEW YORK. — The Shoe and Leather Workers Industrial Un + calls all shoe workers to a meeting Thursday, at 7 p.m. at Irving Pla7a Hall, 15th St. and Irving Plaza in support of the strike and to pre= | pare for tag days for strike relief *| and prepare for the shop delevates | conference coming the last of June, | 2,000 Parade NEW YORK.—Two thousand shoe workers, led by a section of the Wo; fers International Relief Brass marched yesterday noon in sol |with the striking shoe work |Andrew Geller The parade s lier strike headquarters y |were joined by crew of jthe Peris shoe shop and by about 1200 strikers from the I.. Miller shoe |shop, as well as hundreds of other |shoe workers. Slogans and placards | denouncing the company unions of |Geller and Miller, raising the de- jmands of the shoe strikers, and call- ee upon the workers to sur |strikes and their leader: rkers Industrial the marchers. |Shoe and Leather V ried b; | Union, were c | As the mar sed the Paris Shoe Shop the w s raised their voices in a boo” for the |scabs on the inside. For once the |police forgot to display t clubs jand were visibly nervous in face of |the militant display. When the marchers returned to the |starting point, an open air meeting was held in a lot opposite the Gele ler shop, which was addressed by I. Rosenberg and Magliacana, orgatte izers of the Shoe aud Leather Work. ers Industrial Union, as well as many of the strikers. BP Sree! Ce Tag Days Tag Days have been arranged by the Workers Internationa] Relief and the Shoe and Leather Workers Ine dustrial Union to raise funds for the striking shoe workers, some of whom have been out now for more than 10 weeks. The Tag lays have been set for Friday, Saturday snd Sunday, June 10, 11 amd 12. All workers of New A group of over a thousand veterans having their supper in the Cleveland Auditorium. This group was attacked twice by the police when they attempted to board a train in the Pennsylvania yards bound for York are urged to show their solide arity with the striking shoe workers and support these Tag Days. Ree port to the headquarters of your club or Council for boxes and material All shoe workers are to report to the Union headquarters for their boxes, BRIGGS HUNGER MARCH PHOTOGRAPHS ON PAGE 2 On page 2 there are photographs of Mayor Murphy's police attack- ing the hunger march of the un- employed automobile workers on the Briggs plant at Detroit, also Li