The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 13, 1932, Page 1

| | j WIDEST PROTEST OF WORKERS URGENT TO DEFEAT PASSAGE OF VICIOUS, ANTI-LABOR DIES BILL! VOTE COMMUNIST FOR Unemployment and Social Insurance at the ex- pense of the state and employers. - 2. 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. ail Central : (Section of the Communist International) y, «Worker Party U.S.A 4. ation for the Black 6. suppression of the e 6. the Chinese people * ae ~~ YOTE COMMUNIST FOR Equal rights for the Negroes and self-determin- Belt: Against capitalist terror; against all forms of political rights of workers. Against imperialist war; for the defense of and of the Soviet Union. Entered as secon 2 Ne Vou Vol. IX, No. 140 = jase matter at the Post Office ler-the act of March 3, 1977 CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents _ —— The White Guardist Provocations ya GUARD terroristic organizations throughout the world are actively pursuing the role of provocateurs of imperialist war against the Soviet Union, The direct war provocations of the Japanese imperialists failed to break down the firm peace policy of the Soviet Union, failed to provoke the Soviet: Union into war. The imperialists and their White Guard allies are now supplementing the Japanese provocations with a campaign of terroristic acts against bourgeois statesmen in the imperialist countries, and against foreign ambassadors to the Soviet Union. These terroristic acts are admittedly aimed at involving the Soviet Union in war, by af- fording a pretext for the imperialists to declare war on the Soviet Unica. . The trial of the White Guardist agents Vasiliev and Stern in the Soviet Union brought out clearly the war provocation nature of the plot to kill the German ambassador to Moscow and the wounding of Twar- dovski, counsellor to the German embassy. The murder of the French president, Doumer, by the white guardist, Gorgulov, was likewise aimed at involving the Soviet Union in war. Gorgulov admitted at the time of his arrest that his act was designed to afford the French imperialists with an opportunity for declaring war on the Soviet Union. The killing of Dou- mer was intended to create a new Sarajevo, to plunge the whole world into a new and bloodier slaughter. One assassination in 1914 served to Plunge the world into war. In order to start a war of intervention against the Soviet Union and its victorious Socialist construction a whole: series of bloody provocations and outrages in various countries has to be carried out. Although these attempts to involve the Soviet Union in war have thus far been defeated by the vigilance of thé Soviet proletariat, Com- munist Parties and press and the exposure of the sinister purposes of the outrages, these attempts have not been abandoned but rather intensified. These outrages are not only sanctioned, but promoted in capitalist circles. In France, the murder of Doumer has not yet been brought to trial. The French police and government have made every effort to pro- tect the White Guards in France and to build up a fairy tale fabric of Slander and lies against the Soviet Union and the Communist Parties. The activities of the White Guards are not limited to Europe. The White Guards in the United States who have been wined and dined by Americen financiers are also busy. As the Daily Worker's exposure on Saturday of their activities show, these White Guards are linked up with the most reactionary imperialist circles, with the industrial barons, and ; With Fish, Woll and other enemies of the working class. Their efforts to |promote war against the Soviet Union has the full sanction and support ‘of the Wall Street Hunger Government. The criminal aims of the campaign of terrorism have been admitted ‘not only by the arrested tools of the White Guardist-imperialist murder clique—Stern, Vasiliev, Gorgulov, ete. but have been openly announced in the White Guardist press and by White Guardist leaders. On June 5, sthe Russkaya Gazette, a monarchist-White Guardist paper published in New York joyfully announced. the imminence of an armed attack against the Soviet Union, declaring its information based on the “most authentic sources”, On May 23, the Tsarist White Guard “Grand Duke” Alexander in an interview in the Scripps-Howard papers declared war against the Soviet Union to be “inevitable”. He cynically expressed his contempt of the working class who would be called on to supply the cannon fodder and ito fight for the robber interests of capitalism against their own class interests. He stated “human life was plentiful” and “blood always makes the market rise”, The struggle of the working class against war must embrace the most resolute campaign for exposing and combatting these degenerate White Guard bandits. It is necessary to take up the slogans raised by the workers in France against these vicious tools—‘Drive them out!” The struggle against imperialist war must be widened and intensified. Above jal, the struggle against. the war danger requires that we pass from agi- ‘tation to demonstrations, strikes and other actions to stop the shipment ‘of arms and munitions against the Chinese people and the Soviet Union. The SocialistsW ant Relief --for Whom? \PHE great mass struggle of the worker ex-servicemen for the immediate payment of the bonus is a fight of unemployed masses for relief from the tortures of hunger and a part of the struggles of the millions of un- employed throughout the country to force relief from the profit greedy capitalist class. Every honest worker throughout the U. S. greets this ‘fight against the Hoover-Wall Street government which they instinctively - 'feel répresents their own cause. The bonus alone will not drive misery out of the homes of the work- ers. It cannot permanently insure them against unemployment and starv- ation. To enable the workers to receive substantial relief from the misery caused by the crisis and the capitalist offensive, the workers must fight sunitedly for unemployment insurance. To free themselves entirely from the horrors of the capitalist system, the working class must fight for the ‘overthrow of that system. All of which is entirely clear. t But when the Socialist Party issues an appeal to the veterans now in |Washington, to turn away from the fight for the bonus, and to return home to fight for “public works and unemployment insurance”, they per- form a deed for which the Hoover government and the Wall Street bank- ‘ers will be especially thankful. \ The veterans have come to the Capitol because they say, “They would JOBLESS 10 FLAY HOOVER IN CHICAGO Demonstrate Tuesday Before Republican Convention CHICAGO, Il, June 12—Thous- ands of unemployed and part time workers, led ‘by the Unemployed Council, by unions of the Trade Union Unity League and by the Workers Ex-Servicemen’s League, will demon- Strate here Tuesday before the Re- publican National Convention. They will demonstrate against the Hoover war plans and against the Hoover hunger. They will demand unemployment ingurance at the ex- pense of the government and the employers. They will pledge to pro- tect the Soviet Union, and will de- mand hands off China. The demonstration will begin at 11 a, m,, before the convention hall, the Chicago) Stadium at 1800 West Madison St, The International Labor Defense is organizing workers and unemployed workers to demonstrate before the hotels which are headquarters for the California and Alabama delegates to the Republican Party convention. These demonstrations will demand freedom from Tom Mooney and for the Scottsboro boys. ‘The Chicago police department an- nounces that it is sending 500 police to protect the Republican convention. This is their preliriinary alibi for an attempt to supp-ess the demon- strations. Fake Prosperity The Chicago Tribune, the paper of biggest big business here, urges the thousands of small grocers and other. shop owners who haye gone broke to get some-goods and put them in the rows of empty windows, “to make an impression of Chicago prosperity.” All indications now are that the Republican Party will nominate Hun- ger-Hoover for re-election. A strong candidate for the vicepresidency is “Helin Maria” Dawes, of the funny pipe, and the Dawes plan which be- gan the ruthless looting of German workers that the Young plan has carried on since. Worried over Soviet Trade Information received by your cor- respondent is that there is a strong sentiment among certain sections of the Republican Party convention del- egates for a plank in the platform for the “recognition of the Soviet Union. There is gossip among the delegates that the plank has already been written, and has been intrusted to a man in Hoover's confidence to introduce, if Hoover thinks necessary. Hoover's program of smashing Sov- iet trade with the U. S. and letting other countries get it is not liked so well by some of the hard-hit big businessmen, MOSCOW SUBWAY WORK " DISCLOSES 12 RIVERS MOSCOW, June 12.—The existence of about 12 underground rivers flow- ing under the streets of Moscow was disclosed here when test borings were made for the new subway system, ANOTHER BANK FAILS IN NEWARK NEWARK, N. J.—Many workers were refused the possibility*of with- drawing their hard-earned savings, when the four branches of the New Jersey National Bank and Trust Co. closed their doors here. rather starve in Washington than starve in their desolate misery stricken homes.” They march in large numbers and commandeer trains on their way to the seat of power of the capitalist class. They undergo indescrib- able hardships in the Capitol city where they are fed on six cent meals a day in order to demonstrate their determination to fight for their de- imands. Their struggle is stimulating the class fight of the workers throughout the country. The march of these thousands of decisive sections, jof American workers to Washington is an unprecedented act which will [leave its mark off the whole course of struggle of the working masses of ithe United States. And at such a moment the Socialist Party, which pretended at its ‘recent convention, to stand for the “class struggle”, tells these worker ,ex-servicemen to return home, to withdraw from the struggle, all of which ithey say in the name of the fight for unemployment insurance. He who in the name of unemployment insurance tells the workers to give up their fight for-immediate relief, not only show that for him unemployment in- surance is a meaningless and demagogic phrase, but is directly scabbing on the workers, and on the fight for jobless insurance, in the interests of the capitalist class. The struggle for unemployment insurance can be won ‘only if it is a mass fight, only if the initiative and mass actions of the workers are developed, only if the capitalist class are forced by fear of ithe mass power of the workers—and not by surrender! By their appeal, signed by Norman Thomas and Mayor Hoan, the so- leialists are not only strike-breaking upon this splendid fight of the ex- servicemen, but show that the slogan of unemployment insurance is for them only a means to divert the masses from a real fight for relief and ‘The Hoover government and the capitalist class which it represents, haye just caus. to fear the action of the ex-servicemen. They are there- fore resorting to one device after another, including police provocation, in order to get the ex-servicemen out of Washington. The socialists come to the aid of the government; and under the cover of a fight for “higher aims”, they seek to perform the job of stemming the development of the (mass struggles of the unemployed. Indeed, the socialists come out for re- ‘Nef—for the eepttalist masters which they serve. Tom Mooney Greets Bonus March from San Quentin Prison WASHINGTON, D. C. June 12,— Tom Mooney whose application pardon was recently denied by Governor James Rolph, Jr., of California, sent greetings today to the bonus marchers at Washing- ton, D. C, “National Bonus Marchers 901 First St. Washington, D. C. “From San Quentin prison I send you congratulations for your militant struggle against hunger. While the masters of finance and industry were shipping you across the world safe for Wall Street, they were railroading me to prison for trying to make the world safe for workers. They paid me with death sentence communted to life imprisonment and reward you with six cents a day food which pris- oners would refuse. Stand firm in your demands. The Amorican masses ate with you. TOM MOONEY—31921” Mooney is now completing his sixteenth year of imprisonment in San Quentin, Driven to Her Death} 4 oe Violet Sharpe, 28-year-old maid in Lindbergh home, driven to suicide by unceasing third-degree tortures at the hands of the police. LINDBERGH MAID SUICIDE RESULT OF THIRD-DEGREE Admit English Girl Is Innocent In Kidnapping TRENTON, N. J., June 12.—The suicide of a working-girl, driven to death by three-degree methods, is the crowning achievement of an interna- tional search for the kidnappers and slayers of the Lindbergh baby con- ducted by thousands of police work- ing in the closest cooperation with American gangland. Sharpe, maid in the Lind- bergh home in Hopewell, killed her- self. by swallowing poison Friday night. Previously attempts to implicate employees of the Lindbergh: house- hold in the kidnapping of the baby resulted in the sweetheart of Betty Gow, a sailor, being held for de- portation. Mrs. Dwight Morrow, Lindbergh’s mother-in-law herself declared that there was no doubt of the innocence of Emily Sharpe, and said that “she was simply frightened to death.” Her fright was clearly the result of months of hammering by state police and detectives and nerve-shattering third-degree methods which the 28- year-old English girl sought to escape by suicide. Communist Gets 388 Votes, Decatur, IIL, School | Bd. Election DECTAUR., Ill, June 12—The Communist candidate for school board here got six and a half per cent of the votes, although the vote this year was five times as large as ordinarily. All capitalist forces, donated cars, the local capitalist press, evrything, was used against the Communist program for: free text books, free hot lunches, and cash wages for the teachers in- stead of scrip. The vote was 6,600 and the Communist vote was 388. Communit candidates were: Arthur Jay and Lee Stickle. The Illinois state convention of the Communist election campaign meets here at 10 a, m., June 26. “Toward Revolutionary Mass Work” Pamphlet containing 14th Plenum Resolutions NEW YORK, MONDAY, JUNE 13, 1932 SAVE NEGRO FROM UMW. LYNCH GANG Ohio Rank and Filers Rescue Organizer of National Union BRIDGEPORT, Ohio., June 13.—Alex Dorsey, Negro min- er, National Miners Union or-} ganizer and national board member, was saved by the rank and file Negro and white miners Friday night from be-| ing lynched by two carloads of gangsters led by H. Netzel, a United Mine Workers of Amer- ica official. Netzel was a strike- breaking deputy sheriff during the National Miners Union strike here last year. e Two hundred miners and members of their families of Blaine, O., had gathered and heard Dorsey explain the united front policy of the Na- tional Miners Union. He “told them how the UMWA officials were be- traying the strike of 20,000 Ohio min- ers by refusing to provide relief, and how the UMWA had signed wage cutting agreements in northern West Virginia, ‘also how separate Ohio mines were being signed up without (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) CAMPAIGN IN “BLACK BELT” Foster Carries Slogan of Negro Equality NEW YORK.—The national cam- paign headquarters of the Communist Party announced today by William Z. Foster, Communist candidate for President, will enter the South swing- ing through the heart of the Black Belt to stress one of the six major demands of the Communist platform, “Equal rights for the Negroes and self-determination for t he Black Belt.” Arrangements are already completed for Foster to speak in Alabama, Georgia, Texas, Louisiana, Tennesee, Kentucky, Florida and other southern states. Five Months Tour Both of the candidates of the Com- munist Party, William Z. Foster and James W. Ford are now speaking daily in all sections of the country and will continue their campaign tour up to election day. The National Headquarters an- nounced today the next eight speak- ing dates for Foster and Ford. The presidential candidate will speak in Butte, Montana, on June 15; Spokane, Wash., June 17; Seattle Wash., June 19; Tacoma, Wash., June 20; Port- land, Oregon, June 21; San Fran- cisco, Calif., June 23; Oakland, Calif., June 24; and Los Angeles, Calif., June 26. James W. Ford, the vice presiden- tial candidate will speak in Utica, N. ¥., June 16; Schenectady, N. Y, June 16, at Crescent Park, 7 p. m.; Albany, N. Y., June 17; Johnstown, N. Y¥., June 18; Boston, Mass., June 19 and 20; Concord, Mass., June 23; and Providence, R. I, June 24, Bonus Fight, Part ot Whole Workingclass Struggle Communist Party Calls for Wide Mass Sup- port of Bonus March NEW YORK, June 12. — The Communist Party in a statement issued today supporting the worker veterans’ bonus march, pointed out that the movement and the whole struggle of veterans for compensa- tion is part of resistance of the American working class to the devastating attacks upon living standards. The statement issued to the ve erans in Washington says in part: The American Legion and the Veterans of Foreign Wars is part of the warmaking and anti- working machinery of the Wall Street Government, This leader- sh'p first tried to turn the ex- servicemen against the rest of workers in sirikes and so on by coming out for the bonus. “Now they show their true character as agents of the parties of Wall Street government by repudiating the bonus “They are trying to split the ranks of the bonus marchers by slandering, arresting and per- secuting the most militant fight- ers for the bonus—Communists and miltant worker veterans who support the program of the Communist Party .. . ».“The Socialist Party, mas- querading as a “workers’ party,” has already come out with a statement against the bonus and the bonus marchers, “We point out that the struggle against Jim Crowism lynching, ai) forms ot — aiseriminauon against Negroes, and especially against Negro Ex-Sery'cemen, the stragle for the liberation of the Negto masses from all forms of special oppression and terrorism, is not only the struggle of the Negroes themselves, but espe- cially the duty of the white workers, veterans and others.”,. | | i | | | | or | white guardist plot to kill American ‘Boasts of Engineering | Honored by U.S.S.R. (F. P. Pleture::) Frank E. Herzog, former chief en- | gineer of the Wickwire Spencer Steel Co., Buffalo, N. ¥., who has been} awarded the title “Udarnik,” (shock- brigader) by the Soviet Government. He won it by cutting down the cost Sovet steel production. sne Daily Worker Saturday exposed a engineers in the Soviet Union in an} effort to cripple socialist construction and to help in war provocations, WHITE GUARDS IN’ U.S. SEEK FUNDS IN WAR DRIVE Crimes, Inciting | War.on.USSR (See Editorial) ~ Details of the activities of a Rus- | sian white guard organization oper- ating in the United States for the purpose of raising funds to perpe- trate terrorist acts in the Soviet Union and for financing the Man- churian white bandits being mobil- ized for an attack against the U. S. (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) SLIPPER SHOP JOINS STRIKE Rosenberg Won’t Pay Fine; Union Needs It NEW YORK.—The I. Miller and Geller shoe factory owners have ap- Plied for injunctions against their strikers, and the notorious Charles Wood, U. S. Commissioner of “Con- ciliation,” has stepped in, he says, on orders from the U. S. Secertary of Labor, Doak, to help get the injunc- tions. (See article on Wood and in- junctions on Page 2 of this issue of the Daily Worker.) But, the shoe workers are so far from being frightened by these des- perate efforts of their bosses that on Saturday 70 workers of the Tupper Slipper Co., at 25 Lafayette ‘St., Brooklyn, struck against wage reduc- tions and discrimination. This is the tenth.shop to strike in the last three months, and five of these strikes are already won, settled victoriously for the strikers. Saves the $50. I. Rosenberg, union organizer and leader of the I. Miller strike, having been given a fine of $50 or 10 days in jail by Judge Georgio, chose to serve the ten days, pointing out that the $50 would serve a greater purpose as strike relief. As a meeting of the strikers a motion was carried to send a telegram of greetings to Rosenberg. A mass picket demonstration is planned for today at I. Millers, Police Shield Thugs. At the Champion Shoe Shop, 104 Bleeker St., where the workers went out on strike last Wednesday against the lock-out, Max Spierer, a leading member of the union, was severely beaten up on Saturday by the thugs and gangsters hired by the bosses. The beating was watched by the po- lice, who did not interfere, Worker-Delegate to USSR Speaks in N.Y. Wednesday, June 15 NEW YORK.—Carl Ansmus, elec- trical worker from Southern Calitor- nia and member of the May 1 Dele- gation to the Soviet Union, which has just returned, will speak at Irving Plaza, 15th St. and Irving Place, on Wednesday evening, June 15, ARMY F ORCES KEPT READY TO ‘HANDLE VETS’ Call for Unity With Unemployed Issued by Workers Ex-Servicemen’s League Militancy Grows; Vet Army Reaches A conspiracy of the po lice and self-imposed fascist leadership of the “Bonus Ex- brought to light here today. position of national command er of the march through th assistance of the police, said| today when he was informed of | rumors that masses of unem- ployed were preparing to march to Washington to demand relief that the “Bonus Expeditionary Forces” would not under no circumstances throw its | lot with the unemployed. | | | The War Department issued a statement today which said that high military men were watching every detail of the situation and that “sol- diers and marines in the barracks near the city are being kept on the alert against any emergency caused | by the pressurz of this great gather- ing of hungry and destitute men.” Veis Want Unity The attitude of the rank and file of veterans throughout the camps is for unity of the whole working-class, the employed and unemployed workers, a vtvong unity of the vets with all the toilers in the struggle against hunger, war, wage-cuts and for the bonus. War ve-erans in the camp today hailed support oiterzd by the Unem- ployed Councils and workers’ organi- zations in all sections of the coun- try and abroad and declared their tight on one front against starvation. Veterans and workers were warned today by the Workers Ex-Service- men’s League and Unemployed Coun- cils to beware of such self-styled jeaders of the uzzmployed as Father Cox end Henry W. Hayssen, the later a leader of tne “Vonquermg Cnris- tian Soldiers” from Milwauxee and the former a priestly businessman | who collects. thousands for relies | wa:ci.he sells the jobless in Pitts- | burgh, | “We must form a solid united front | with the unemployed. workers.” says. the siatzment o: wie Woiners w..-| Servicemen’s League, “but we must | beware of such leaaers es Cox and Hayssen who are of the same type as | Waters and Alman who are doing WORKERS GREET USSR DELEGATES : ‘ ’ “Solidarity Day” Is Celebrated Here NEW YORK. — Expressing their unity with the workers of the Sov- jet Union, New York workers gather- ed at Starlight Park, 177th St. and West Farms Rd., yesterday to cele- brate International Solidarity Day and to welcome the returning May Ist Delegation to the U. S. S. R. ‘There was a large attendance despite the rain which continued throughout the day. A large number of workers had earlier in the day greeted the 16 re- turning delegates when they arrived on the S, S. Bremen. Hailing the brilliant achievements of the Soviet Union, the delegates described vividly their visit to the leading industrial and |agricultural centers. They contrasted the ad- vance of the Soviet worker with the growing unemployment and misery of the American workers, and called for defense of the Soviet Union against the imperialist aggressors. According to the Friends of the Soviet, Union, a large number of meetings are being arranged in vari- ous parts of the country at which the delegates wlil report. KOUMINTANG POLICE CLASH ‘Three Koumintang policemen were injured at Pieping, North China, on Saturday in a clash between the po- lice and 400 students from the Pei- ping Normal School. VOTE COMMUNIST FOR: 1, Unemployment and Social In- surance at the expense of the state and employers. | peditionary Forces” to keep the bonus movement divided from the national movement for unemployment insurance was W. W. Waters, who rose to the UCHIDA TO SPUR JAPAN'S DRIVE FOR WAR ON USSR Nanking ~ “Protests” Japanese Plans on Chinese Eastern While the Japanese censorship has stopped all news of Japanese troop movements toward the Soviet border, Tokyo dispatches report new sinister developments toward a “more aggres- sive” policy in Manchuria, including open recognition of the Chinese pup- pet government set up by Japanese bayonets, and the pointment of Coun Yasuya Uchida, president of the South Manchuria Railway, as Foreign Minister in the new fascist-military dictatorshjp. Uciida’s views are reported “to be somewhat in advance of those of the Fo.eign Office and closer to thosg of the army.” The Seiyukai and Minseito parties passed resolutions favoring recogni- 4 tion of the puppet government. The Nanking government of Kuo- mintang China yesterday issued a statement refusing to recognize the legality of Japan's attempts to scize The the Chinese Eastern Railway. statement declares, in par “Recently, it has been le the ‘Manchouko government’ pointing a director general, direc and chairman of the bo: of di tors .of the” Chinese It must be pointed out that railway is the joint concern of China and Russia and that under the stipu- lations between China and Rus: dated May, 1924, the administration of the railway is solely handled by the Chinese and Russia, and that no third party shall interfere.” The Nanking government action, which is stimulated by the Wall St. Government, is symptomatic of the antagonisms between Japan and the United States which are sharpening even within the growing understand- ing for world imperialists intervention against the Soviet Union. way the Call N. Y. Workers to Stage Fight Against Dies Anti-Labor Bill NEW ORK.—A vigorous denunciant denunciation of the Dies Bill is con- tained in a resolution adopted at a special meeting of the New York dis- trict committee of the Committee for the Protection of the Foreign Born, New York District. Pointing out that the bill, which has passed the House of Represen- tatives and soon comes up for action by the Senate, will mean the inau- guration of a still greater reign of terror against all workers, especially foreign-born, the Committee urges trade unions, workers. fraternalSte? sympathetic organizations to flood the senate with protests against the bill, — Stalin Interview The Daily Worker will begin in its Tuesday issue an interview of Emil Ludwig, German author and biographer, with COMRADE J. STALIN, a full text of which®has just been received. The interview covers such questions as “Do you admit a parallel between yourself and Peter the Great” “Do you see a contradiction between the ma- terialist conception of history and the prominent role of historical personages?” Is Soviet stability due to fear?” and other vital and interesting questions. Th's inter- view has just appeared in the journal “Bolshevik” No. 8. ls Rush orders for additional coy les by wire, \