The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 14, 1932, Page 1

fhe Politbureay of the French 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 hanks; ex- emption of poor farmers from taxes, and no forced collection of rents or debts. Dail Central i ips of the Communist International) VOTE COMMUNIST FOR 4. Equal fights foF the Negroes and self-determin- ation for the Black Belt. 5. Against capitalist terror; against all forms of suppression of the political rights of workers. 6. Against imperialist war; for the defense of the Chinese people and of the Soviet Union “Vol. IX ,No. 141 — Entered as cccond-class matter at the Pust Office at New York, N. Y.. ander t! et ef Marck 3, 1977 NEW xORe. TUESDAY, JUNE 14, 1932 CITY EDITION mene | Price 3 Cents _ The Wagner Bill Will Legalize Starvation passage of the Wagner bill, boasted achievement of the Tammany Hall section of the Democratic Party, is a measure based on a standard of pauperism and starvation for the unemployed and their families, This bill, calling for $300,000,000 to be loaned to the state govern- Mehts for relief of the unemployed has been passed by the House and Senate, meeting under the pressure of the bonus march and rising mili- tancy of the jobless workers, on the eve of adjournment and one the eve of the democratic and republican convention. This measure, accompanied by a fanfare of publicity, is an apparently generous gesture—if one does not stop to think in terms of the ocean of Misery in which the sum called for (even if it escapes the Hoover veto), will not cause a ripple. If the entire sum were distributed to the unemployed and their de- pendents in New York state only, it would mean but $100 per family. At the very most, since this is supposed to substitute for other forms of relief, it means that for the coming six months, or until the next session of Congress, it would give 3,000,000 hungry people an average income of $16.75 per month. In other words, the Wagner bill legalizes the prevail ing starvation standard of relief. _.. But the $800,000,000 appropriation is to be distributed in varying “Sums to all states whose governors put in a request for relief. These loans are to be deducted from the present federal subsidy given to states .for hard-surfaced highways. In this respect then it is clear that the ‘Wagner bill makes no change whatever in the matter of increasing appro- priations for public works but on the contrary is a brazen fraud. “*'Money is taken out of one pocket and put into another—and in this fitocess it is carefully seen to that unemployed workers get no more than “they would in “normal” times. Let us go a little further: In the four states of New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Illinois there “is ‘a minimum of $5,000,000 totally unemployed workers—several millions of whom have had no work for at least one year and whose needs are correspondingly great. ~ Once again taking the absolute minimum of one dependent for each ‘unemployed worker (the ‘‘social welfare” agencies figure five dependents ‘per worker) this makes a total of 10,000,000 incomeless persons in these states alone, ‘Tammany Hall Senator Wagner's $300,000,000 would give to these 10,000,000 just $30°each—until Congress meets again. ‘What a pleasant prospect for the jobless millions! What openhanded generosity on the part of a leader of Tammany Hall, whose mayor, zecording to the Seabury disclosures, grabbed off a million dollars in “graft while a million workers went hungry in New York City. “="We have analyzed this gesture of congressional generosity on the “basis of figures purposely placed far below the actual numbers of un- employed and their dependents in the four states taken as examples. The fact is that when this $300,000,000 is spread out through 48 states, with the usual American deductions for the graft and corruption of the two-party governmental machine, after contractors, merchants and pur- chasing agents, etc., have taken their cut from it, there will be little left for the unemployed except the unutterable misery in which they now exist. The ones who will make good profit from this measure are the bankers. They will grab the interest on the loans to the states, but there will not be a single new job given out beyond those handed the smaller try of the Democratic and Republican Party machines, who will “admin- ister” these loans. ‘The Wagttef™ineasure makes-16 change in the policy of the federal government. It remains the same, ie., to keep the workers in a state of semi-starvation. ‘The unemployed millions will wait in vain for real relief through the ‘Wagner bill. Such measures serve only to point out the need for stronger organization and more militant mass struggle for real relief and un- employment insurance. _ Norman Thomas and the Bonus |ORMAN THOMAS writing in the New Leader of February 7, 1932 gave the real reasons for the Socialist Party opposition to the fight of the ex-servicemen for the immediate payment of th bonus. He stated: “It is probable that so great a bond issue and, tax program as this’sum (the bonus payment) would require would create certain financial difficulties “and perhaps slow up business recovery.” ‘“S"Thus say these socialists to the working class—Do not injure the plunderous financial system of capitalism......Do not do anything which will prevent the reestablishment of the stability of the capitalist system “of exploitation and oppression......The workers may rot from hunger— but- the system of the House of Morgan must be held sacred! 3 “In this argument, Mr. Norman Thomas, repeats the propaganda of every exploiter of labor facing the demands of workers struggling to es- cape from the misery of capitalism. ‘This position of the Socialist Party gives the ‘He to its demogogic agi- tation, that it favors the overthrow of capitalism. The socialists a re the agency of the capitalist class working in the ranks of labor to carry through the capitalist way out of the crisis—to keep the workers chained to the slave system of hunger and war, while multiplying the miseries of the’ working class a hundredfold. NEWS FLASHES Communist Party, wads arrested here. The police was looking for Ferrat since 1927, He suffered heavy sen- tences for his working class activit- ies and is threatened with a further sentence. Detroit Workers Plan Huge Demonstration For Scottsboro! Boys DETROIT, June 13.—Detroit work- ers are planning a series of huge dem- onstrations for the release of the Scottsboro boys on the occasion of the visit here of Lucille Wright, little sister of two of the boys. Lucille, who is touring the country for the Scottsboro defense, will be in this district June 15 to 17. She will speak at the following meetings: Wednesday, June 15, at Flint, Mich. ‘Thursday, June 16, at a demonstra- tion and open-air meeting at Milford and Bogole Sts. . Friday, June 17, in the afternoon in North Detroit, 3125 B. Davison, and | in the evening at Brewster Center, Brewster and Hastings Sts. Lucille’s mother, Mrs. Ada Wright, is now on a tour in Europe and has spoken to many giant meetings in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and ‘OVER 200,000 IN BERLIN SOLID- ARITY DAY MEET (Cable by Inprecorr) “BERLIN, June 13.—Solidarity Day mahal crowded Berlin, where over hundred thousand workers par- ‘ ited in them. More than a mil- Jion workers demonstrated through- out-the Reich. Collisions. occurred ‘at"Erfurt and Gera when the police spersed meetings, making arrests. , Saturday a big demonstration at berg was attacked by the po- with batons and revolvers. A Meniber of the Communist Party, ‘Palkner, was killed. ee y SCOTTSBORO MOTHER ARREST- i ED IN BELGIUM - BRUSSELS, June 13.—The Bel- an’ police arrested Ada Wright she arrived here to speak at series of meetings. She was es-' ‘corted to the frontier. A big pro- meeting at Seraing in which stwo thousand participated pre- vented the police from arresting the representative of the International ‘dor Defense of the U.S. A. The oyernment action aroused great in- -dignation, Jacquemotte and Van- deryeld both protested against it at the Chamber. _FERRAT, FRENCH CommUNIST PARI6, June 13—Ferrat, member UCHIDA T0 TAKE ORDERS FROM ARMY To Push Drive for War On U.S.S.R. The Japanese Government con- tinued to maintain a strict censor- ship of all news the movement of the four Japanese armies which | were recently reported to be ad- vancing on the Soviet borders. The censorship can only have one meaning: that the Japanese mili- tarists are preparing to launch an early attack on the Soviet Union. One of the Japanese armies was already reported, several weeks ago, to be “within less than 30 miles of the Soviet frontier” near the junc- tion of the Sungari and Amur Rivers. The Amur River forms the boundary between Manchuria and the Soviet Union. * Count Yasuya Uchida, Japanese reactionary and president of the South Manchuria Railway, arrived in Tokio yesterday to take over the post | of Foreign Minister in the Cabinet of the militarist-fascist dictatorship headed by Premier Saito. Uchida made it clear that he would tdke his orders from the militarists whose policy calls for an extension of the present robber war against China and for armed intervention against the Soviet Union and at the} same time an intensification of the terror against the starving, destitute Japanese workers and the ruined peasantry. He was quoted yesterday in the Japanese press as intending “to reach a definite understanding with the army authorities regarding their policies.” He has declared himself in favor of immediate recog- nition for the Manchoukuo puppet government established by Japanese bayonets in Manchuria, As president of the South Man- jchurian Railway, Uchcida has taken a leading role in the dapanese. ag gressions in Manchuria beginning with the seizure of the city of Muk- den last September. Although the seizure of Manchuria by the Jap- anese represent the first big action of the imperialists in the dismem- berment of China, Uchida has de- clared that recognition of the Man- chuokuo government would not con- flict with the “obligations of Japan” uncer the nine-power treaty. The nixe-Power treaty is supposed to bind | its signatories to respect the terri- te:al and administrative integrity of China. Japan is one of the signa- tories of the treaty. cdapanese Mini: ef War Araki yesterday told newspaper men that | the army welcomes the appointment of Uchida, 30,000 MARCH ON ARGENTINE CITY To Aid Strikers; Six Killed in Clashes With Police TUCUMAN, Argentina, June 13.— Thirty thousand farmers, mostly | cane growers, marched on this city | yesterday to help the sugar refinery | workers, striking for higher wages | and for an eight-hour day. Six of the strikers were killed in collisions | with rural policemen, The collisions occurred when the Provisional Minister of the Interior ordered the rural policemen to dis- perse the strikers who bravely fought back. | The situation here is serious as the workers are determined to win their \strike which has the active support of the farmers throughout the prov- ince, “Toward Revolutionary Mass Work” Pamphlet containing 14th Plenum * Resolutions SHIELD JER TRENTON, N. J., June 13.—Despite the overwhelming opinion that Violet Sharpe, maid in the home of Mrs. Dwight W. Morrow was driven , to suicide by police as a result of their third-degree methods, state | authorities continued to whitewash jth® state as well as the local police, | Four ‘hundred metal Soviet Leaders on Their Way to Witness Giant Sports Meet More than 100,000 worker sportsmen and women took part in the great Sport Parade held in Moscow on May 24. Photo shows members of the Soviet Government and Political Bureau of the Communist Party on their way to view the event. Left to right: Kyrov, secretary of the Leningrad Party organization, and member of the Polburo, CPSU; Kaganovitch, Political secretary of the Moscow Party organization and member of the Polburo; Ordshonikidse, member of the Polburo and Supreme Economic Council; Joseph Stalin, secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union; Mikuyan, candidate to the Pelbure.. An interview with Stalin by Emil Ludwig, German biographer, will be found on Page 4 of today’s issue of the Daily Worker. 1000 MINERS IN OHIO VOTE TORUNSTRIKE County and Red Cross Cancel All Relief; BRIDGEPORT, Ohio, June 13. — More than 1,000 miners on strike in Eastern Ohio have, within ‘the last. two weeks, openly repudiated the United Mine Workers of America leadership, and have, at the call of the National»Miners Union, taken oven the control of the strike in their localities. They have formed rank and file strike committees on a uni- ted front basis. Yesterday, 95 per cent of the strik- ers at Amsterdam, Ohio, renounced the United Mine Workers and join- ed forces under the United Front Rank and File Strike Committee and the National Miners Union. They met in the U.M.W.A. hall, where only two weeks ago it was impossible for &umember’ of .the National Miners Union to. take ae fia floor. They voted (CONTINUED ‘ON J PAGE THREE) YOUTH STRIKE IN TERRE HAUTE 400 Tie Up Metal Plant Over Firing of Nine TERRE HAUTE, Ind., June 13— workers, the most of them young boys and girls, struck here Friday against the layoff of nine girls, who protested against an average wage-cut of four cents an hour in the Columbian Enameling Stamping Co. A mass meeting at the factory ;Sates today sent the strike commit- tee in to present the following de- mands: (1) revoke the 10 per cent wage-cut, (2) fire the efficiency ex- pert, (3) reinstate the nine girls, (4) recognize the committee, The strikers are largely influenced by the Metal Workers’ Industrial League. Joe Tash was invited to speak at the first mass meeting and Weber also spoke. Stool-pigeons are trying to raise a red scare. The mili- tancy among the strikers is high. The plant produced war products during the last war, and the ma- | chinery can be adjusted in three hours to do the same again. TRY TO FORM THIRD PARTY TO “OVERCOME THE CRISIS” NEW YORK.—An attempt to form a “third Party to meet the nation’s emergency” will be made in Cleve- land at a meeting of the League for Independent Political Action, of which Dr, John Dewey is chairman. The League for Independent Polit- ical Action is an organization reflect- ing the unsatisfaction of thé petty- bourgeoisie, which is being hard hit by the economic crisis, and its ambi- tion to rule and “save the nation.” SEY POLICE Drove Lindbergh Maid to Take Poison lice were responsible for driving the gir to her death, Gov. Moore yester- iday said; that no official “charges had been brought” to him. LONDON, June 13,—"Tt is terrible that I should have lost a daughter through third-degree metheds,” Vio- The 28-year-old English working jet harpe's moth: itterl: girl last Friday night poisoned her- Satelit aig aes oat Mg helf by drinking furniture cleaning DRS TSE Ae renn arn, Herstnte. fluid after being hounded for months} Her daughter came to Canada by the police in an effort to fasten |@bout two years ago. Later she went the kidnapping of the Lindberg baby |to New York where she was hired as on some innocent victim. a maid in the home of Morrow, late Evading the charge that Jersey po-| partner in the firm of J, P. Morgan. Hausner, Imperialist Polish Flyer, Forced to Abandon Monoplane Forced to abandon his wrecked monoplane in mid-ocean, Stanislaus Felix Hausner, who attempted to make a New York-Warsaw flight for the purpose of “cementing U.S,-Pol- ish relations,” was today enroute to New Orleans afte r being picked up by the 8. S. Circle Shell, according to word arriving in New York. Hausner, who was a “goodwill” Messenger for the fascist dictator Pilsudski, drifted at sea for a week before being picked up. FARMERS DEFY CLOUDBURSTS; TO HEAR FOSTER N. Dakota, Montana Section Enthusiastic for Red 1 Program BRUSH LAKE, ~Mont., June 13.— ‘Thousands ‘of farmers, plunging her- oically through some of the worst | weather and deepest mud known in these parts, through cloudbursts, lit- erally forced their way into North Dakota and Montana towns to hear Foster, Communist candidate for president of the United States. Foster declared that from his ob- servation of the two states, he con- fidently ‘predicted election of many Communists to local office. 1,000 at Brush Lake. There were a thousand at Brush Lake, yesterday; good weather would have made it 5,000. Foster showed that while the job- less and part time workers of the cities starve because they can pay nothing, the farmers starve because they get only three cents a dozen for eggs, 11 cents a pound for butter fat, and other products are corres- pondingly low. The farmers were enthusiastic over ;@ common struggle of the workers and the farmers. For 25,000 New Members! Taylor, chairman of the Brush Lake meeting, described the National Nominating Convention in Chicago. Ella Reeves (“Mother”) Bloor re- ceived an ovation when introduced as candidate for congress from North Dakota. She raised especially the slogan, “25,000 new members of the Communist Party.” Many farmers are joining during Foster's toyr. Spontaneous Demonstration At Minot, N. D., where Foster spoke June 11, and at Bismark, N. D., where he had a meeting earlier the same day, there were great crowds of farmers and unemployed workers. At Bismark there was a spontaneous demonstration at the depot for Fos- ter and the Communist program. There is a feeling of enthusiasm for the Communist. platform and can- didates throughout this whole farm- ing region, Foster's next meetings are: Great Falls, Mont., today; Butte, Mont., June 15; Spokane, Wash., June 17; Seattle, June 19 and Tacoma, June 20. After that he goes down through Oregon and California. BONUS NF dS FLASHES ROCHEST4R GROUP LEAVES ROCHESTER, N. Y., June 12.—Ex- actly 60 worker ex-service men left here by truck and auto at noon Sat- urday, minus three disrupters who tried to divide the banks by raising the issue of “no Communists, no rad- icals,’ and who were outvoted by the renk and file at a final rally on the city tine. A collection was teken to give those three carfare back! The delegation proceeded on its way 1 high enthusiasm, under lead- ership of a provisional bonus march committee. Started within the past two weeks by a newly organized Workers’ Ex-Servicemen’s League, the march to Washington’ movement gained momentum rapidly, ert DIES PROTEST IN BOSTON ON SUN., JUNE 26 Cleveland Also Moves for Sharp Fight BOSTON, June 13.—The first dis- trict of the International Labor De- fense to take the initiative in open- ing up the fight against the Dies AntiForeign Born Bill, the Boston or- ganization is calling a conference for June 22 to intensify the campaign against the bill and for the immed-| jate release of Edith Berkman, The conference, at which a large number of labor and fraternal or- ganizations will be represented, will be held in the Association’ Building, 995 Washington St., Room 7. Plans for a large number of mass meetings is included in the program of the conference. Workers will pro- test against the adoption of the Dies Bill.in the South End for June 2 and"a demonstration on the Boston | Common, June 26. . . CLEVELAND, O., June 13.—De- scribing the Dies Bill as an attack “against all workers who dare strug- gle for better conditions, for Unem- ployment Insurance and against the increasing capitalist terror and war preparations of the Wall Street gov- ernment,” the ILD, Cleveland district | today issued a call to ‘all workers of Ohio to protest against the Dies Bill aimed at the foreign born and due to come up for consideration in the Sen- | ate soon. Workers are urged to send protest, telegrams, resolutions and letters to| the Ohio senators, Simeon D. Fess | and Robert Buckley and also to Pres- | ident Hoover. “Only mass mobilization,” the state- ment says, “the mass fight of the working class, will. defeat the, Dies Bill. Negro Film Group Leaves Tonight for the Soviet .Union NEW YORK—A group of 20 Ne- gro workers, actors, students and writers, will leave New York tonight on board the German Lloyd liner “Europa” en route to the Soviet Union where they will be cast for parts in a sound picture. dealing with Negro life in the United States. They have been invited by the Meschrabpom Film Corporation | of Moscow. Many white and Negro workers will be at the pier tonight to see them off, KILLED HUNTING FUEL. SCRANTON, Pa., June 13. — The capitalist press here describes with relish the death by a cave-in of two unemployed workers who entered an abandoned mine, “to try and get a few bags of coal without paying for | Their crushed bodies were dug | it.” out this morning. UMW CUTS Indiana Miners Organize to Fight It TERRE HAUTE, Ind., June 1 The officials of the United Mine Workers of America, District 11, here have just agreed to slashing the former wage scale in Indiana almost in half, from $6.10 to $4 per day. — into effect will FISH, RED BAITER, HEADS FIGHT IN HOUSE AGAINST PAYMENT OF VETS’ BONUS Policy to Kill Bill by Veto, Vets Force Vote in House 226 to 175 Masses of Vets Denounce “High Command”; Demand Shelter in Bonus Camp BULLETIN WASHINGTON, D. C., June 13.—Taking the lead in the f against the payment of the bonus, Hamilton Fish, Jr., Representa’ from New York and one of the sponsors of the vicious Dies-Fish Anti- Foreign Bill, made a bitter attack against the jobless World War vet- erans in Congress today. “We do not owe able-bodied veterans anything,” said Fish, who was the first speaker against the bonus. “We do not propose to be coereed by any veterans here in Washington or elsewhere in the Uni- ted States.” . * * WASHINGTON, D. C., June 13.—The bonus marchers won their first major victory today in their fight against hunger, The House of Representatives, forced by the pressure of the masses of war’ veterans, voted 226 to 175 ee beng, the bonus | bill up for yote. | Although the action can be | considered as a victory and the MASS RALLY ON | zis the House and even te UNION SQ. TODAY [ye ine wane tour by soo) TQ) SUPPORT VETS | veto in the White House by Hoover. \To March to Columbus ‘The Senate is lined up to support | the presidential veto. | Circle at 5 P. M. Today Indignation rose high in the ranks NEW YORK.—A mass demonstra- of the “Bonus Expeditionary For- ces” last night. It rose from the throats of over 6,000 men—that sec- tion of the army which was com- |- pelled to sleep without shelter in the | pouring rain which turned Camp An- acostia into a sea of mud several|tion on Union Square followed«by a inches deep. parade down Broadway to Columbus “Down with the high command!” |Circle,-under the leadership of the shouted the mud-besmeared and| Workers Ex-Service’s League and rain-soaked worker vets who had|the Unemployed Councils of Greai- come to Washington to demand the |er New York, will be held today at ballance of the bonus, their back/5 p.m. to give support to the vet- wages. jerans. fight for the bonus and .the “Let us march to the Capitol and|struggle for unemployment insur- }demond “shelter,” .-erled the angered { ance. 78 ** | vets. “Over the bridget We: want | “All workers, whether they are vet- |shelter! On to Washington! erans or not, are urged by the Work- The cry went up from the veter-| ers Ex-Servicemen’s League and the ans ¢old and sick and wet. | working class fraternal organizations The high command, however, was| throughout the city to rally in mas- not culd and sick and wet. W. W.|ses to Union Square with their ban- Waters ard his aids were comfortably |ners and join the march down — Broadway. (CONTINUED ON, PAGE THREE) | ‘THe yets’ march for the bonus i part of the struggle of all the wor ingclass against starvation and |and wage-cuts ‘ Workers of New York, r: | Union Square at 5 p.m. today. ey the march agai hung UNEMPLOYED TO STORM CHICAGO __ MBET OFG.0.P. sap EETINGS ree eee eae”) WIN WORKERS TO COMMUNISM | Real Issues’ |Elect to ~ Convention CHIGAGO, June 13.—Thousands of | After Discussion NEW YORK.—Next Sunday is the unemployed and starving workers will | | Participate tomorrow in a mass dem- New York State Nominating Con- yention to put the Communist nomi- onstration against hunger and imper- jalist war, for social insurance and de- fense of the Soviet Union in ‘front of the Chicago Stadium at the time nees officially before the working class,and to adopt a state platform Delegates to the convention are be= ing elec'sd from unions, work ore the Republican Convention will be opened here. ‘The demonstration will take place despite the police ban which was} made known today when the appli- ganizations ar from shop groups, [pagan for a parade permit was re-!1n the unions, the basis of represen Jecte |tation is the shop meeting. Many The opening of the Republican|of the delegates will not be Com- jConvention will be marked by a so-| munists, but all will be urged to called “wet revolt” which will be |Support the election campaign against staged and carefully kept up to dis-| hunger and war, for unemployment tract the attention of the /workers|insurance and for immediate relief from the, platform of intensified re-| for the jobless. action and’increased starvation which | Won By Arguments, Secretary of the Treasury Mills will} An example of what is going on fs present fur adoption. | shown by a certain shop in New York. It is generally admitted that Hoo-|A group of 35 met to elect delegates yer, the Hunger President whom the | to the New York united front con workers sarcastically call the “great | ference, held May 22, An anarchist emancipator” for having freed them|got up and opposed sending from the slavery of employment, will/ delegates. After much argument, he be “unanimously” chosen as the| consented to vote for delegates. Then-- standard bearer of the Republican|/when the proposition came up later Party. of electing to the state convention this man did not have to be con vinced; the vote was unanimous. The most recent shops to elect delegates are Cute Dress and G. Bess shop. All delegates are to receive their boat tickets, credentials, delegates’ badges, buttons, etc., Thursday aft- ernoon and Friday at the Workers’ Center, 50 E. 13th St., Room 505, All delegates must send in their credentials and money for fare without further delay to enable the committee to make necessary prep- stat ons, The delegation from New WAGES $2.10 ‘asi for a period of thre? years. lte U.M.W.A. officials get the “Over shop, whic’: is a chance te loot ‘Se miners through tie check off, w rchurn for pu‘ting over the wags ‘This careement, if permitted by the cui, tnimers to be put into effect, will not| The miners are much enraged at only affect the members ot the|this brazen attempt to betray their U.M.W.A. in Indiana but will also|interests. Already groups have met effect. about 8,000 miners who have|and drafted resolutions against the not been affilialed to any organiza-|wage cut, and for the setting up of tion rank and’ file committees to lead a The: stroeaent allowed 40-90 | uggie sent the seh agree wana’ omic ne Ve fo. 0 York will go to Albany on the Huds son River night line, and by bus to Schenectady, the coneention city. All sympathizers, members of work ers’) mass organizations and Come munists are urged to go out for sig~ natures to put the Communist ar didates on’ the balloly “ fi"; a