The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 8, 1932, Page 3

t i Moscow workers, fermer Red Guards and participants in the Civil War, at the head of the armed factory groups in the May ist demon- stration, one of the powerful turbines. | U. §. Army Journal Exposes War Mobilization Plans RECRUITING INFORMATION ISSUED BY DIRECTION OF THE ADJUTANT GENERAL | (By a Werker Correspondent) NEW YORK—The “U. 5. Army | Recruiting News,” a bulletin issued | under the direction of the Adjutant General of the army, exposes in the January, 1931 edition war prepara- tions that were being made at that time. An article :n this issu2 of the bul- jetin deals with the Watervliet Ar- senal, which is located in New York and is known as the Army Gun Fac- tory. The article in the “Recruiting News” s | "The Watervliet Arsenal is prin- cipally concerned with the plans for industrial preparedness. . . . Under the new plan, however, the total war requirements in the w of cannon have been Wetermined, and of this amount the Watervliet Ar- senal has been assigned as many guns, ef various calabres as its ex- istiry plant can produce. Plans for erating at full capacity should emergency arise, have been an worked out in minutest detail and with material en hand work can be | | | | | | | started on a day's notice. “The arsenal is also assisting oth- er plants in the commercial field, which have been allocated assign- ments in cannon manufacture, to prepare their own factory plans so that they will be ready to start pro- duction on short notice, should the occasion arise. “The small number of skilled me- chanics now employed in the gun plant can be used as a nucleus for expanding this establishment and training its largely increased per- sonnel if necessary, In ease of an emergency, the arsenal, no doubt, would also be called upon to supply a certain number of experienced employees to be used for the same Purpese at those private plants where cannon would be canufac- tured in case of war.” This plant is one of the most im- portant of the six manufacturing ar- senals maintained by the U. S.° gov- ernment. It was established in the year 1812. It is valued at $15,000,000 and covers 108 acres. , Police Try to Provoke Bonus Marchers (CONTINDED FROM FAGE ONE) | caused bloodshed of brother Amori- | cans in oxder to get money.” The Hearst sob sister Patterson ends a feature story with the words, “These men are fixed on a fanatical purpose. Let's not fool ourselves, igentlemen of Congress and citizens ‘of Washington, Here is a keg of dynamite, The lid is off. The keg is open.” The atmosphere is more tense Mere than during the days of the great hunger march last December, | Vicious hatred of the worker-vyets who have invaded the Capitel is ex- pressed in all of the political head- quarters of the ruling class. Althqugh Communists are not leading an overwhelming majority of the bonus marchers, the move- ment represents a gigantic rank and ilie demand which police agents have the greatest difficulty in contrelling. This is shown by the fact that after Almon, a fascist leader, was disposed yesterday by a committee after an altercation in which the comunitt2e protested pure methods of registration, he was reinstated only after two new rank and file members were added to the com- mittee, Yet; Denounce Provocation. The Workers Ex-Servicemen’s League issued a statement to the press teday denouncing the Glass- ford proveeation and emphasizing the need of unity of the rank and file against all efforts of their ene- mies to divide tucir ranks. The Dies bill barring alien Com- munists, which was passed by the heuse here yesterday and is part of the Wall S3reet government's at- tempt force further starvation on the American workers and is also in line with the police provocations divide the ranks of the yeterans, Tt is now an established fact that Secretary of Labor Doak brought agents here from all over the country to spy on the vets, despite the fact that service In the military forces automatically fixes citizenship: f Rope Off March Line. The line of march of the veterans’ parade tonight is being roped off by police to prevent marchers from fra- ternizing with spectators and to fa~ cilitate police control. Alman, the fascist leader, stated that his forces would help the police against “agitators.” Police and’ reactionary agents are trying to point out that members of the Workers Ex-Servicemen’s League are not bonifide vets, but are having difficulty in putting the lie across, for the vets marching under W.E.S.L. | leadership are all carrying their army papers with them. Many Vets Sick. ‘There are many cases of flu,-sore throat, and fever among the march- ers now as a result of lack of shel- ter, Large numbers of veterans were forced t o sleep in the rain at Ana- costa, the internment camp which be Washington officials have set up fer the marchers, Over 150 veterans were ejected from the Capitol yesterday by police who said that their attitude was “threatening.” eta Lito eo AN INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHERS BOOK LABOR Facts That Every Worker FACT Should Know About BOOK SPEED-UP GOVERNMENT WAGES WAR PREPARED sith si SOCIAL INSURANCE BY LABOR )YMENT NEGRO WORKERS . 4 ‘ SOVIET UNION wo! RESEARCH IMPERIALISM Noe | wOniERA. ; CONVENIENTLY AND SIMPLY ARRANGED Order from 85 Cents DAILY WORKER BOOK SERVICE 5 5 Books on Important Industries COAL What is happening in them, tions of the workers, their their organization. Prepared by Labor Research Association : Each $1.00 Order from DAILY WORKER BOOK S LABOR AN International Publishers Books By Anna Rochester TEXTILES By R. W. Dunn and Jack Hardy LUMBER By Charlotte Todes AUTO- MOBILES / By R. W, Dunn SILK By Grare utchins the condi- struggle’, ERVICE FIGHT IS BEGUN AGAINST “DIES” ANTI-ALIEN ACT \Bill Passed By House Backed by Fish (CONTIN 1D RUM PAGE ONED the I. L. D. and the Council for the Pretection of the ¥Yoreiyn-Born as jimiuediate steps to prevent the pas- sage of the bill in the senate, | Fish Is Sponsor. | Introduced ‘oy a reactionary demo- crati> congressman from Texas, the Dies Rill is aimed not cvly to pre- v the entranee of militant work- to the United States from other ccurtries, but provides for their de- jporiation. Deliberately formulated | “broadly,” it 1s brought forward as |a trap in which to ensnare workers lara trmg about their exclusion or jd-nortation on a verity of ground | A diect outgrowth of the Fist Committee “investigations,” the Die Bill was put through with the a*- tive support of Hamiltan Fish of New York and his associate on the to- torious committee, Congressman Bachmann, of West Virginia, tool of the West Virginia open-shop coal operators and member of a family which has grown on the underworld. The character of the Bill is. indi- jeated byyone of its provisions which |defines a Communist as one who teaches among other things. “the duty, necessity, or propriety of the unlawful assaulting or kil- ling of any officer or officers (wither of specific individual or officers generally) of the Govern- | ment of the United States or of any other organized government, because of his or their social char- acter.” Vilify Militants, Fish and Bachman were among the congressmen who took the floor te speak for the bill before it was passed. Fake gesture of opposition to the bill was made by LaGuardia of New York, who in a demagogic speech, said that existing legislation was sufficient to deal with the situ- ation.” The discussion on the bill brought, forward frenzied and lying speeches by various congressmen, chiefly Fish and Bachmann, the latter quoting mythical figures that “90 per cent of the Communists in the country are either aliens or unnaturalized citizens.” More than 20,000 foreign( born workers were deported from the U. S., during the past year as a result of the activities of the Department of Labor, the strikebreaking branch of the government. With the passage of this bill, however, it is hoped to facilitate the deportation of militant workers, Trap for Workers, That the purpose of the bill is in- timidate workers from joining revo- lutionary organizations is clear from a provision which declares at “no alien shall be held to he 8 Commun- ist under the proyisions of this Act if he shall prove that he became a member of such erganization on ac- count of fear, duress, compulsion, misrepresentation, or fraud.’ ’ Workingelass organizations and individual workers are urged to flood the senate with demands that the Dies bill be defeated when it comes up for consideration. Vote Communist BUTTONS Are Ready for MASS SALE and Distribution Order Now—$20 a Thousand Send Check With Order— Or Will Send C. O. D. Order from— Communist Party, U.S.A. P, 0. Box 87 Station D. New York, N.Y. DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDA SOCIALIST CONSTRUCTION AND ADVANCE Dneiprosiroi, largest power plant in Europe—gigantic achievement of first Five-Year Plan. OF SOVIET WORK JUNE 8 Pictu Delegates to USSR Greeted on June 12 Mass Demonstation, Auto Parade for Return- ing Workers ERS ; Seize Church Arrive on “International Solidarity Day” ;| Report at Starlight Park | , 1932 re shows Soviet workers looking at CHILEAN REDS * FIGHT FASCIST DICTATORSHIP | Workers Fight Police; Properties Arriving Sunday afternoon, June 12, International Solidarity Day, 16 workers’ delegates to the Soviet Union will be met at the pier by’ thousands of workers. They will pro- ceed from the pier in busses and trucks to Starlight Park, 177th St. and West Farms Road. Rallying be- hind the slogan “For Defense of the | Soviet Union and Against Imperial- | ist War,” workers will hold a mass demonstration and reception. Realizing the immediate danger of | an open armed attack upon the, Workers’ Fatherland, the Friends of | the Soviet Union, International Labor Defense and Workers International Relief have combined their forces to make the reception to the delegates an outstanding event. All workers, regardless of affillia- tions should be at the pier on Sun- day afternoon, The delegates will | mendous advances made in the land | ruled by workers. Instead of bread- | ines, mass misery, poverty, wage cuts, police and Natignal Guard bru- tality that workers are confronted with, here, they will deseribe con- ditions where the workers’ standard of living is constantly being raised, 4500 WORKERS HEAR FOSTER IN MILWAUKEE (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) It is the task of the militant workers to win their fellows who fought in the world war over to the Workers Ex-Servicemen’s League demands, }against the opposition to the officer {easte in soldiers’ organizations. Many ex-servicemen filed applica- tions to join the Workers Ex-Ser- vicemen’s League right at the meet- ing. They are ntaking arrangements to leave for Washington and present their demands for the bonus within a day or so. Fifty-six workers at the Kosciusko Park meeting turned in their applications to join the | Communist Party. | Over 109 Join) the Party. | An equal number turned in ap- | plications to join the Party at the meeting addressed by Foster in German hall, in the evening. German House was packed with 1,500 workers. This was the méeting | to which Mayor Hoan was invited | to come and debate with Foster and jdefend himself, his administration and the Socialist Party from charges flung at them by the Communists. |Hoan evaded this heeting with a | hypocritical statement that he “had neither time nor inclination to fight other workers’ organizations.” Foster was able to show the Mil- | waukee workers, among whom were hundreds of rank and file socialists disgusted “with the sections of the Socialist Party, that Hean never stopped fighting the workers. Socialists Cut Relief. Foster reminded Milwaukee work- ers that the Socialist Party admin- istration here was worse than many Republican and Democratic admin- istrations in other cities. The So- cialist’ Party leaders, for example, voted for the Groves fake insurance bill. City of Milwaukee Socialist Party alderman and Mayor Hoan supported all measures to cut down relief notwithstanding. that the un- employed in the country receive only $2:60 every two weeks for a family of five, amounting to four cents a day to live on for each per- son, Foster reminded the workers that Mately a drive, with the Socialist Party behind it, has started here to cut down the rent appropriations 35 a month. Besides this the Social- jist Party is hélping an army of snoopers and stool-pigeons to*spy on, the workers and prevent thém from getting relief; the Socialist Party is) trying to still more reduce them to tine level of starvation. Evicted In the Night, The Socialist Party sheriff, Al All‘out June 12th to the Workers’ Delegates reception! Defend the Soviet Union! Defend the Chinese toilers! with imperialism! Stop munitions shipments against the U.S.S.R-! REVENUE ACT NO IN OPERATION Taxes Almost Every - Man, Child in U.S. WASHINGTON, D. @., June 7 Additional indirect taxes were placed on almost every man and child in the United States through a series Down give eye-witness reports of the tre-|of exises and miscellancous levies as | the revenue bili adopted by Congr was signed at 5 p.m. on Monday by President Hoover, The revenue bill which is now a legislative Act, adds millions of tax- Payérs to the United States’ roll in compliance with the pounded by former Secretary of the ‘Treasury, Mellon, in his book entit- led “Taxation, the people's business.” The gist of this “principle” is that taxation, to be effective, must not fall on the few rich men of the Uni- ted States but must transform into taxpayers the largest number of toilers. The taxes which the new revenue act imposes upon the workers in- creased as the bill was being draft- ed and redrafted, discussed and re- discussed in Congress. At a bi-par- tisan parley of senators and repre- sentatives the 3 per cent tax on electricity was shifted on the con- sumer whereas originally it was placed on the producer. 3,000 RAILROAD WORKERS TO BE FIRED (By a Worker Correspondent) NEW YORK.—It was announced that 3,000 workers will be laid off on the New York Central Railroad be- the next few weeks.—C. P. __|patch reports that “rioting developed principle ex- | tween New York and Buffalo within | onstrations, is hard at work evicting | Chilean Communists are actively) | Opposing the new fascist military dic- |tatorship established by the military |clique headed by Carlos Davila, Wall| | Street agent and former Ambassador jto the United States, and General) |Puga and Colonel Grove, Chilean | militarists. The Communists are re- |ported in the leadership of the revo- |lutionary outbreak which began in |Southern Chile and is spreading to | other sections of the country. Mass demonstrations against the dictatorship have occurred in Santi- ago and several other cities in the |north, Large crowds of workers |gathered in front of the Government | House and shouted their hostility to | Col. Mamarduke Grove, the junta’ minister of defense. A Santiago dis- | when police made unsuccessful efforts |to clear the streets. Similar’ disor- | |derly scenes occurred in Varparaiso.” | A strong anti-religious movement | taking form. Church properties | have been seized by: the starving | workers in many cities, In Santiago, nuns were turned out of the con- | vents yesterday, In an effort to placate the work- the dictatorship. is promising to+ © the Communist leaders of the | recent naval revolt. It has rein- | Stated numerous school teachers who | were suspended under the Montero regime for Communist activities. It has also ordereq the government pawnshops to disgorge all pledge clothing and other possessions which starving workers were forced to pawn to stave off death by starvation. The New York Times yesterday stated that American imperialists, who were at first alarmed by the demagogic utterances of Davila, are now reported to be confident that the new government will not molest their loot in Chile. BEET STRIKE IN “DECISIVE STAGE; AID. NEEDED € | Hunger, 250 Arrests, in Colorado Beet unemployed workers from their | Fields Now houses and flats and does his dirty | read work at night, to make it harder) «conTINUED FROM PAGE ONT! for other workers to realize what is | a et going on. The socialist supervisors in. the county board have introduced meas- ures, and they have been approved, to substitute forced lab6r for relief. As far as thé Negro masses are concerned in the City of Milwaukee, the Socialist Party administration permits Jim Crowism and segrega- tion as bad as any in any other city. The higher leaders of the Socialist Party dropped from their list of can- didates a Negro proposed for alder- man by one of the pary branches. There is not a single Negro in elec- tive office in Milwaukee. The Negro worke rs live in the worst slums and are discriminated against in employ- ment and discriminated against in relief. Must Get 20,000 Names. A big united front movement will now be developed in Wisconsin to get 20,000 signatures to put the Communist oandidateseon the ballot. This task can be carried out only in a struggle against the LaFollette iake progressives who are misleading the workers and poor farmers, and in struggle against the Socialist Party. Among the speakers at the meet- ings, besides Foster, were local work- er leaders and candidates on the Communist ticket, They included Bassett, Communist candidate for governor; Hansborough, a Negro wor) er for U. 8. Senator; Brigg, candidate Sa congress from the Fouth Con- @ressional district; Gardos, @indi- date for congress in the Fifth district and Rihartz, candidate for sherift against the Socjalist Party ridt gun sheriff, Benson. The Wisconsin state convention of the Commuhist election campaign wil be held in Milwaukee, at South Benson, who recently bought new guns to sppress workers’ dent- Side. Turner Hall, Sunday, June 26, and Communist candidate > ders from sheriffs and state agents |to shoot pickets on sight. |More striking, however, is the firm solidarity displayed by the strikers in face of the widespread starvation | sweeping the entire beet fields from | jend to end. | Instances have been reported to} |the strike committee where entire | |towns are living on a soup made mm wild cactus and grass. Despite this, on the whole, the ranks have held solid with the exception of sev- eral outlying districts where the star- vation has been teo great and where, as @ consequence, the workers have been driven back into the fields. Expect Solidarity, The bond which creates such de~ termination in the ranks of the workers is the expectation prevail- ing among the strikers that “the workers wil Ihelp us, wait just a lit- tle longer.” All winter long these thousands of workers have been given a crumb of charity by the County relief agencies and various charitable institutions, until such time as they would com- mence work in the fields, thereupon the grewer would “carry” them by small credits at country stores based upon their seasons earnings. It is clear, then, that at the beginning of the strike the workers had no re- serve and that food was imperative the first day the strike was called, because when the workers struck, all County aid was stopped and no | “credits” certainly could be expected |from the growers. v The “thinning” and weeding season |lasts about a month, and is the most | strategic of all seasons to strike for | better conditions, inasmuch as this thinning of the rows and weeding must be done by hand. on bended knees, whereas the other segsons of the crop can be done by machines Page Three STIRS RETURNING U.S. DELEGATION Joseph Stalin, secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and Kalinin, president of the Central Committee of the Soviet Union, during the mass parade and demonstration in Moscow, May L Section of the Red Army in the May Ist demonstration, Moscow, These and similar scenes were viwed by the American workers’ delega- tion which is returning to the U. S. on June 12, Japanese Cavalry Ordered to Manchuria As Crisis Deepens \Mass Misery Grows With Thousands Forced to Eat Cattle Feed; Silk Workers Robbed « $700,000 in Wages, Girls Sold for $200 Japanese cavalry units are at i Sent into Manchuria. The Japanese} The War Office in making this announce | amor “4 They ment yesterday gave the usual “ex-| total 50,000 square miles in area and planation” that the new troops were | have a ¢ ned population of about being sent as “replacements” for | 5,787,000. They comprise much of troops that were being withdrawn,| the richest farming land At no time since the beginning of| Reformist leaders of the impover- the Japanese aggressions against the | ished farmers have gone to Tokyo to Manchurian masses and war moves|tnake the sham gesture of presenting against the Soviet Union have Jap-|a petition to the Diet. The new milie anese trodps been, withdrawn from! tary dictatorship and its socialist. Manchuria, with the exception of|allies are peddling all sorts of demas units which haye refused fight | gogic promises of “early relief’ in an against their Chinese fellow wor to divert the ruined farmers An indication of the terrific er om the revolutionary way out of the and increasing mass misery in Jap is given in a Tokyo dispatch to the New York Times. I is this catas- | trophic crisis which is driving the Japanese fascist imperialist circles to war in an effort to find a capitalist way out of the crisis. Times | dispatch says that investigators of the regular intervals.” prefect mentioned the lar in Japan are st effort is | fre FORD CAMPAIGNS THROUGH OHIO Department of Agriculture report Fomreee “poverty unparalled in the history of | (1.4. T "i Tut modern Japan” in the four largest jG01 don, Negro W t iter, perfectures: Niagano, Iwate, Nitgata | Urges to “Vote and Hyogo ” Fp? ae Communist” * “The people are reduced to cat- a ing rough grain usually reserved for NEW YORK—The Conununtst chicken feed and are covking up and eating the dried fish uscd for fertilizer and beancake customarily tian mpaign attention Committee calls to the tour of icular James W. Ford, Negro worker and fed to cattle.” ex-serviceman, and Communist can« The investigators report that girls | diq for Vice-President of the “as young as 15 4 being seld for | [ states. Ford is winging eastaj $200 each.” Japanese silk workers in the Ni- | cip igata Perfecture have been robbed of wages amounting to over $700, 000 following the closing of the silk filature plants. m Indiana, through the prine, Ohio, and will come inta! hern Pennsylvania and dow! gh New York In gonnection with Ford's came paign, the National Campaign Com- The, Times dispatch further re-|mittee of the Communist Party had ports: |published a statement by Eugene: “An investigation being conducted |Gordon, a Negro journalist, whe by the newspaper Asabi shows that | Points out that the Republican Party Prafectures, villages, banks and in- | ‘Hinks it has the Negro vote sewed! dividuals are faterlogged by debt. | UP forever by merely claiming loyalty The debts in one district are es to “those who set the race free" — timated to average $700 a fam | to be oppressed as wage slaves iristead €ollection of taxes in many dis- | ©! being oppressed ag chatel slaves. tricts appears hopeless, Teachers | The democrats claim the Negro’s in elementary schools are said to | vote in the name of “radicalism,” be receiving payments of $2.50 to $5 | “Cutting loose from old loyalties” and | becoming ::a sort of dare-devil, a |reckless, devil-may-care son-of-a-gun (such as “topping”). | thumbing his nose at convention” and Must Come from Outside, |getting office so that the unem- Strike relief on the whole must Ployed Negro worker can stay in the come from the outside for the reason | slums “bathed in a golden glory” bee that with the exception of Denver |cause Tammany has got a political and perhaps one or two other smal-| position for some “Colored Gentlee ler towns al other towns and cities | man.” of any size in Colorado are deeply| “The Negro voter,” says Gordon, involved in the beet strike, are beet | “begins at last to see that the Repube centers and owe their existence to|lican Party is not going to keep any the condition of the beet market,|of the lush promises it makes to him, The strikers cannot collect food or|He knows that the Democratic Party relief from the landowners. in these | is not going to keep Its promises. The territories because it is against these | two perties themselves know that the that the strike is directed | Negro¢s know it, but they trust te His Win Or Lose Now. | stupidity” to keep him voting for The situation is such that relief | them.” must arrive in substantial amounts| “The Negro worker is thinking immediately, or else we must categor-| about all these things now. He is ically state that because of the lack | thinking of them both as worker and of this relief, the lines will break jas voter, One of the regults of his Send everything to the United| thinking is going to be the swelling Front Relief Committee, 1154 Elev-| Communist vote in Yosro this” enth St., Denver, Colo, yoar.”* ‘i rey 2 saa