The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 14, 1932, Page 3

{ | - Support the Bonus F Fight! Rally to Meetings June 13th to 20 lll Have You Jailed, Says Cop to Mother Who Asks for Relief School Principal Gives Out Diet Sheets, But Bulks at Food Demands Parents and Children Will Demand Free Food at N. Y. City Hall June 25th (By a Worker © Correspondent) NEW YORK.—Last week at Public School 77, on Ward Avenue and 172nd Street, the teachers distributed a printed diet for school children. My brother received one and brought it home to my mother, My mother looked at the dict sheet and was surprised to see all the swell dishes, that only a rich! family could afford, The principal of this school, the “kind Mr. Jimmie Fen- nell,” had been giving my mother and the family that lives with us relief for the past few weeks. their surprise they saw two big po-@ licemen standing in front of the} school. They went upstairs and sat} C 8 down on one of the benches While | orrespondence Briefs When my mother and, the lady from the other family went to get the food ticket, to} - &. 20th 6, waiting peacefully for the principal | to cail them in they saw the secre- tary go down stairs and bring a po- | With anger the prin- | cipal opened the door of his affice | liceman up. and said, “What do you fant here?” All the while he made sure that he | was behind the policeman. My/ mother told him that they had come to get some food for their children. | “Get out of here or I'll have you ar- rested,” he yelled. With a victori- ous look on his face he had my mother and her friend thrown out) of the building. This principal a few weeks before | had kicked out told them to go back to the country where they came from, because they | had dared to ask him for something | to feed their children with. I know that this is not the és case of mothers being kicked out of schools and relief bureaus because they demanded bread for their chil- dren. What are we children to do, are we going to starve or are we go- ing to fight? Are we going to let those yellow dogs treat our mothers like that because they ask for bread to feed us? Of course not. The 25th of this month there is going to be a demonstration in front of city hall and e@ry mother, father, and child should be ‘there to demand that the schools continue giving re- lief during the summer vacation. Speed Wage-Cuts and Layoffs in Steel (By a Worker Correspondent) BALTIMORE.—Charley Schwab and his gang are proceeding with the Program of wage-cuts and lay-offs jat high speed tempo. In Baltimore, where 12,000 steel workers worked in ‘1929, there are now only 7,000 in the steel industry. These workers are on the stagger system, most of them working only two days a week. The jpay of the ordinary steel workers is 25 cents an hour. When the Bethlehem cut the wages on the first of May 15 per cent they started a new campaign of mass fir- these mothers and | ALL MUST SUPPORT BONUS FIGHT. Daily Worker New York. In view of the tremengous possibil- ities the fight of the war veterans in Washington offers the working class‘ and its party, the Communist Party, I suggest that the workers in the revolutionary movement leave no | stone unturned to show the veterans by deeds that we are with them. This war veterans’ fight must not j be an isolated fight. It is part of the great struggle of the working class against starvation. ‘A Party Member. VET STOPPED. CoLLEct G FUNDS. Daily Worker: New York. Yesterday I was stopped by a po- lice captain, I was collecting funds with a box for the bonus marchers. The captain said he had orders to arrest all veterans collection money on the stréets for the bonus march. ‘The orders, he said, came from the Mayor’s Committee and from Com- missioner Taylor of the Public Wel- fare. —H. R. SOCIALIST SPEAKS AGAINST BONUS. (By a Worker Correspondent) A socialist speaker in Washington Heights last night scored the Com- munist Party for favoring the vet- erans’ bonus and self-determination for the Black Belt. DRIVEN INSANE BY HUNGER. (By a Worker Correspondent) CHICAGO. — Mrs, Edna Scherer, mother of four boys all under six years of age and starving, went in- sane here today, and tried to repel police invasion of her home axing the cope. Neighbors had reported to the police that the woman and her boys had not been seen leaving the house for over six months, ‘The police broke the windows in order to let fresh air into the house. The mother had only some under- wear to wear to the police sta- ing. Eight hundred men were fired! tion and none of the children had during the first week in may. Enough have we steel workers taken from the blood-thirsty steel bosses. It is time for all of us to opén our eyes and think matters owr. We build all the factories, run the ma- chines to produce thé steel and now’ we are thrown out on the scrap heap. ‘We are in the majority and we are power. Let us organize into a ‘solid body regardless of race, creed or color. Let us build up a strong Metal Workers League to fight the wage-cuts. —A. S. Peddlers Organize Against Police Attacks (By a Worker Correspondent) NEW YORK.—Many unemployed workers try to eke out a living by peddling on the streets of New York City some small item that has mass use such as razor blades, socks, etc. Some peddle from hand stock and others have pushcarts or rent them for the day. Some are veterans who are supposed to have a prior privi- Jege over all others in this line. One worker, unemployed for two years,sells razor blades. He has been arrested two hundred and four times. He has been fined anywhere from one to five dollars at a time. In most cases the workers receive suspended sentences, but have their little income seriously hurt by being off the streets from one to twodays. ‘A veteran has been arrested six times in the past three months though he has a vet's license to peddle. A fish peddler in the Bronx goes to jail about every two weeks for one or two days because he refuses ' to pay a cop $3 graft when arrested and cannot afford to pay the fine imposed by the judge. These peddlers are opposed by the bosses’ mercantile associations. This is why the police so relentlessly drive them away from the places where they might sell a little of their goods. Some of these worker-ped- dlers are beginning to organize into any clothing. All were on the verge of collapse from starvation. The Chicago capitalists who insist that there is no starvation in Chicago will have to explain to the workers how this happened. Chicago workers are called upon to fight for adequate relief appropriations from the city and county government by joining the UnemBloyed Cousiolis. U, M. W. A. ‘MINERS VoTE FOR UNITED FRONT, (By a Worker Correspondent) AMSTERDAM, Ohio. — At’ a mass meeting of the United Mine Workers of America, a committee of the Na- tional Miners Union came and pro- posed a united front of the two or- ganizations and unemployed workers. The U. M. W. A. organizer, Mc- Cormick, immediately jumped up and ordered the N. M. U. committee out of the meeting but a call of the rank and file from the floor encouraged the committee of the N. M. U. and unorganized men to stay. This mass meeting was a result of pressure by the rank and file de- manding action, The united front policy under N. M. U; leadership has discrédited the U. M. W. A. leader- ship in this vicinity and pickets are effectively stopping scabs in spite of the state militia and police who are terrorizing the strikers, Calls Cops to Gyp Worker Out of 25c (By a Worker Correspondent) NEW YORK, — The Eton Grill at 157 Montague St., Brooklyn, tried to withold twenty-five cents of a wait- resses pay. The boss had hired the worker who came through an em- Ployment agency and her pay was supposed to be three dollars a week. He fired her after half of her first shift, giving her twenty-five cents, She went back and demanded the balance, the next time she was in that section, The boss tried to call the police but was stopped by the militancy of the workers. He was forced to pay her. The hours are a@ militant organization to protect | from 10;00 to 8:30 for three dollars _ dnquire at the ene OE their rights, Anyone interested may}@ week, Stop this robbery, workers! Union} ® “STRAW VET’ Here is the only vet who was ready to leave the capital when police trucks showed up—a straw man. The veterans laughed at : threats of deportation and the cut- ting off of the G-cent a day ration, ‘FORD TEARS INTO. :! DIES BILL; 67 JOIN THE PARTY Buffalo Negro Toilers Hail Communist With Wave of Cheers BUFFALO, N. Y., June 13.—Filling every seat, standing in all the aisles, and crowding the doors and window sills, 1,200 Negro and white workers greeted James W. Ford, Negro worker and Communist candidate for vice- president of the United States at the Workers Center here last night. More than two-thirds of the audi- énce were Negroes, including Negro mothers with babies, old Negro grandmothers leaning on canés, and young Negro workers. Assails Exile Bill Ford tore into the Dies Bik showing that the blow aimed at the foreign- born workers would not benefit the native-born Negroes, as some Negro. misleaders have been claiming, Ford went into the Scottsboro case, and the crowd adopted a resolution demanding the freedom of the nine Negro boys. It called for unemploy- ment insurance at the expense of the state and employers and endorsed the demand for the bonus for the ex- servicemen. Ford is himself a world war veteran, 67 Join Communist Party Hundreds of workers were turned away for lack of room. Applications to join the Communist Party wero made by 67 workers. A collection of $25.67 was taken up. Ford speaks today in Rochester, N, Y¥., tomorrow in Syracuse, the next day in Utica, and on June 16 at Schenectady, in Crescent Park. This speech is in the same town and only three days before the New York State Nominating Convention of the Com- munist Election Campaign. All of Ford’s meetings in New York State are mobilization centers for the campaign to build a big convention in Schenectady, June 19. DEFENSE FIGHT CANADA TERROR Press Silent on All Protests TORONTO, Canada, June 13—The Canadian white terror, according to the latest announcements of Premier Bennett, is to be sharper than ever. The Canadian Labor Defense is now sponsoring the protest speaking tour of Daviq Chalmers, one of, the six workers framed up on sedition charges in Montreal, and has appeal- ed to the Supreme Court of Canada on behalf of all six. Part of the terror is a policy of silence toward the protests of even such internationally famous writers as George Bernard Shaw and Upton Sinclair, both of whom sent cables or telegrams protesting against the terror in Canada. No. one could say that the deciarations have no “news value.” Mr. McDonald, city editor ‘ot the Toronto Mail and Empire, when he was personally handed a copy of the Shaw and Sinclair cables, threw them back in a rage at the Canadian Labor Defense League representative. In Halifax is now being determined the fate of a group of men who were kidnapped from their homes and held incommunicado, and are being tried without a jury, the charge being that they are deportable aliens and are members of the Communist Party (outlawed by Section 98 of the Crim- inal Code), and the evidencs being, in part, offered by the cairman of the very immigration board which will pass on the evidence! VOTE COMMUNIST FOR: THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS FOR A FEW SHOTS—“NO MONEY” wees THE ; WAR VETERANS’ _BONUS! cents a day per man. Millions of dollars are spent by the U. S. government for war preparations. Here (above) is the Pacific fleet on recent manouvers firing the 14 and 16 inch guns. Each broadside costs thousands of. dol- lars. Below is a scéne at Anacostia Canip where the workers of the last war who came to Washington to demand their back wages (bonus) are forced eto live in squaller and mud on a ration which costs 6 Workers’ organizations throughout the country are calling mass meetings between June 13 and 20th to support the veterans’ fight for the bonus, for unemployment insurance and against imperialist war. PLEDGE FIGHT FOR SCOTTSBORO BOYS /Youngstown — Workers ‘Cheer Lucille Wright YOUNGSTOWN, O., June 13.— Eight hundred steel workers packed the Ukrainian Hall to hear little Lu- cille Wright, sister of two of the in- nocent Scotsboro boys. Delayed in her arrival, the meeting elected a del- egation of Negro and white workers to meet; her .gt the train. As she entered the hall, the workers rose ‘to their feet cheering and sang the “Internationale.” Her appearance on the platform again roused great enthusiasm, while the Pioneers sang “Solidarity.” Her appeal was. simple and strong. At the end of her address she asked: “Are you going to let the bosses burn my brothers and the other boys in the electric chair?” The eight hun- dred workers rose and in one voice shouted a thunderous “NO!”* ‘The workers also gave an enthus- iastic reception to the son of Orphan Jones, framed-up Negro farm-hand facing legal lynching in the State of Maryland. Young Jofies who lives in Youngstown, made a stirring ap- peal for the workers to continue and build the mass defense for his father. The workers cheered ashe declared his solidarity with the revolutionary Communist League. Comrade Abe Lewis, candidate for Sheriff in Mahoning County, reported on the National Nominating Convention and the Communist program for the elections. Cheering broke out when Lewis an- nounced the Communist candidates for President and Vice-President. “Foster for president! Ford for vice- president! Nota vote for the bosses’ Political parties! Vote Communist!” —the workers shouted. ‘The workers voted in a body for the immediate and unconditional re- lease of the Scottsboro boys. A reso- lution was also unanimously adopted calling for the most militant strug- gle against the Alien Deportation Bill just passed by the House of Representatives in Washington. Scores of Negro and white workers joined the International Labor De- fense, Demonstration in Kansas City, June 15 When Relief Ceases KANSAS CITY, Kansas, June 13.— |A mass demonstration is being or- ganized here June 15, against the closing of the Family Service Society, which is scheduled to take place on that date. According to the admis- sions of the charity heads of Kansas City, there are over 1,500 families completely dependent upon charity. ‘Out of a total of $443,000 collected in ‘Wyandotte County for relief, only $64,000 has been “officially” appropri- ated for the use of the Family Service Society. Hundreds of families have been cut off and the grocery orders given out to those who were lucky enough to remain on the list were not more than $1.50 on the average. Immediately upon the announce- ment of the closing a committee call- ed together by the Unemployed Coun- cil unanimously decided to organize the demonstration and to specially concentrate on the unemployed work- “HOUL, copter. at 5| Join the Food Workers Industrial het Hoover's wage-outting |ers at the packing house gates, Thou, sands of leaflets are being circulated. moyement and joined the Young! Communist | Policy Is To Kill Bonus By Veto; Vets ‘Force Vote In House (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) tucked away in the general head- quarters discussing the possibility of launching a new political party, a! fascist party to mislead the workers |and wcrker vets. Troops Held in Readiness. And while the men were shouting for shelfer the military forces of the city, soldiers and marines, were mo- | bilized in the barracks. Tear gas squads and rifle and machine gun companies were held in readiness to attack the veterans. A definite split between the rank and file and the high command is developing rapidly. The demand for democratically elected rank and file leadership and against police super- vision is now being raised vigorously in all sections of the “Bonus Expe- ditionary forces.” The masses of vets were angered and aroused over the order issued by the daper Waters that there must be no public mass demonstrations be- fore the Capitol. More Militants Enter Camp. ‘The rank and file of worker vets won another victory over the fascist leadership yesterday when they de- manded and forced the admission of 200 more Negro and white mili- tant vets into the camp. A,new “red bomb plot” rumor was circulated throughout Washington yesterday by agents provocature, po- lice and underworld agents. Upon in- vestigation, however, it was learned that the “bomb” ~vas an old souv- enir hand grenade, a dude, discarded by a weary and wet veteran, Housed in Fire Traps. ‘The number of veterans here hi now increased to over~17,000 Those not quartered in the muddy and un- sanitary camps have been shoved into vacant buildings, veritable fire traps, where they are forced to sleep on the hard floors. The food ration, which is supervised by police officer Glassford, continues to average less| than 6 cents per man and is com- posed chiefly of an unpalatable dish- water-like stew. Move to Trick Vets. Tt is the popular opinion that the} House will pass the vets’ bonus bill in an attempt to stem the rising tide of militant vets. Even if the bill passes the Senate and let go to the White House, Hoover has promised to veto it and the Senate is cena to uphold the veto. The Workers Ex-Servicemsn’s ‘League pointed out today in a state- ment issued from the National Head- quarters in New York that the pas- sage of the bill by the House of Rep- resentatives was not a final victory for the vets. “The masses of vets,” statement, for full and immediate payment of the bonus to the Senate and the White House. The presentation of the demands must be backed by mass militant demonstrations of the veterans, “Our struggle, 2 struggle against hunger, must be linked up with the struggles of the masses of unem- ployed for unemployment insuranpe and relief and with the employed workers’ struggles against wage-cuts and the lowering of the living level of the American working class.” . VOTE COMMUNIST FOR: Sa eamiien er the. Bleck, said the} “must present demands} ‘KKK MAN TRIES Terre Haute TERRE HAUTE, Ind., June 12—|} Prosecutor Whitlock, K.K.K. organ- izer recently, is trying to railroad three unemployed leaders, Hill, Har- |den and Price, to the penal farm be- cause of a demonstration against eviction of Mrs. Emma Barber, 116 | Park St |’ Mrs. Barber, the mother of seven children, is ‘arrested also for “mali- cious trespass, because she refused to. move out when Constables Kraty, Dillon and Shelby tried to evict her. Workers and jobless workers massed around the house, at the call of the Unemployed Council, and found the constables smashing furniture as they threw it out. The furniture was re- turned and the crowd refused to move away. Constable Shelby was recently whitewashed of a charge on which he had been arrested. Food Graft. When the police “riot squad” came down, it singled out Hill, Harden and Price for arrest on charges of “re- sisting an officer.” They report that lalthough Sheriff Joe Drehr is al- lowed 60 cents a day for food per prisoner, he actually spends about 9 cents, and keeps the rest. | Prosecutor Whitlock is/ generally {directing the terror against workers and jobless workers here. ¢ | | | | | date of the trial, to the Circuit Court | | judge, to Whitlock and to Superin- | tendent of Police Armstrong. ‘Pittsburgh Terminal Strike Broken Thru | ten day strike of the 2,000 Pittsburgh ‘Terminal Coal Co. miners is broken, |through trickery of Pat Fagan, dis- trict president of the United Mine Workers and through assistance given Fagan by Fathér Cox, the priest who is organizing unemployed workers in |a movement against struggle. Cox told the miners to take the cut and jhe would see that county relief made it up The UMWA got control of the strike which they opposed from the beginning, by sending in relief. They then proposed to the men to go back for 18 days more, until the UMWA contract expires. Fagan promises to call the men out then, if the wage cut continues, The rumor is that the 18 days of work given the men now will be used | by the, company to clean the mines jfor a long shut-down, v. F. W. Against March. DES MOINES, Ia—At the 12th | annual convention of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, held in Decorah, Ia., @ resolution was adopted asking the immediate cash payment of ‘face value of adjusted service certificates. On the other ‘hand, the V.F.W. in Des Moines has absolutely refused to encourage, send or support the servicemen in their march to Ws ington. | EO Army Men Contribute to March. NEW YORK, Jun? 13.—Fdur ser- vicemen, now,stationed in one of the New York Posts of the U.S. Army, came over to the members of the W. E. 8, L. and donated one. dollar La bap oe Negroes and jeach for the fight) for the bonus. ‘They said they are going to getothen| soldiers to. make similar donations. a JAIL JOBLESS| | Attacks 3 Leaders In} Rush protests before June 20, the | Father Cox, UMWA} PITTSBURGH, Pa., June 13.—The | | Convenes in Decatur on June 26 to Communist Election Ticket DECATUR, Ul, June 13.—The State | Convention called by the Communist | at 10 a. m. in Decatur, Illinois Work- ers Center, Jackson and Prairie Sts. At this convention the candidates of inated and the state platform will be adopted. Communist Party will not, be on the ballot in the State of Mlinois state that they were not succe: in their fight in 1930 but expect t be this year. The widest mobiliza- tion of the toilers is necessary to s: that the Party is on the ballot Fight Sedition Law The state convention will consider @ proposed platform which will in- clude the fight against the Illinois Sedition Law, the wage cuts in the mining, steel, packing and Bcecsaiiagt 1,000 MINERS IN OHIO VOTE TO County and Red Cross Cancel All Relief; Send Food at Once (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) to continue the strike in the face of the betrayal tactics of the U.M.W.A. leaders, and they urged all Ohio strikers to take the same action. Cutting of Relief The state and county governments jand the Red Cross are co-operating |by cutting off the meagre relief that dam strikers. Starvation is rampant. must be rushed to the Workers In- | Bridgeport, Ohio. | The capitalist press has begun a | vicious campaign of lies against the National Miners Union and in favor Of the U.M.W.A. and the operators. ‘The Wheeling “Intelligencer,” in re- porting the successful formation of @ rank and file strike committe Sat- urday, says, “The newly elected com- mittée was formed for the purpose of ending the strike and of negotiat- ing with the operators for settle- ment on any basis.” The absolute that it hardly needs answering, Another Liar Equally untrue was a story in the; Bellaire “Leader” in its story on the| Flushing meeting, which elected a rank and file strike committee. The “Leader” says the meeting Union members ejected. The largest mines in the strike area are now trying to open again. Militant picketing has so far pre- |vented scabs from entering them. , In accordance with the announced policy of the Nationa] Guard officers, or not allowing the militiamen to mingle too long with any group of area who are from Youngstown, are |now replaced with milifiamen from Warren, Students Investigate BRIDGEPORT, Ohio, The first detachment from various colleges June 13. — of § arrived in Bridgeport today to investigate liv- ing and working conditions of Ohio | miners. The students are from Pitts- | burgh University, Carnegie Institute jof Technology, Oberlin, Cincinnati Ohio State University, Western Reserve and Toledo University. This detachment will meet 50 more students in Cambridge and then all will leave for a two-day trip in the Hocking Valley. Half of the dele- gation will then visit the East Ohio strike area and will speak at meet- ings of the strikers, SEVEN MINERS EMBODIED. NORTON, Va., June 13. here. broken, ever since the explosion Patty in Illinois takes place June 26, | the Communist Party will be nom-| b: The Vigilante Society in their weekly bulletin state that they are| doing all possible to see that the! RUN OWN STRIKE: with the U.M.W.A. and the operators | Food and funds for these strikers! ternational Relief, No. 4 Fretter Bldg. | falsity of this report is so evident| was | broken up and the National Miners | strikers, the guardsmen in the Cadiz | — Seven | men are buried alive, or perhaps they | | are dead by now, in the Splashdam | Coal Corporation mine 35 miles from | Telephone connections are | Tl. State Convention for Jobless Insurance iominate, industries and the fight for mie! ployment insurance On August 1 the relief funds edle lected mainly from the workéts) ull be exhausted and notice has been! served that there will be nothing dene! he state to feed the unemployed.’ The convention will adopt metheds) of struggle and demands against Wis! flagrant attempt of the bosses emd the state to starve the masses, ‘Phe proposed candidates are: U. 8. Sen-/ ator Wm. Browder, secretary ofthe} Shicago District, International Labor Defense; Governor, Leondies McDone ward worker, leadte| Ts on the South Side#| , Militant miner frons. Lt. Governor; Fredertels farmer from Casey, Setree| of State; congressmen at; large,| Leslie Hurt, worker in the railresd | shops, leacler of the Ex-Servicemen in Chicago, and Anthony Pscacylsowwsict,| leader of the Polish workers and! vounded in the Melrose Park’ Mas<« sacre, | | All organizations, workers titg®he hops, groups of workers and {ii ers are asked to send their delegates to the State convention on Sundays! June 26th. International | COMMUNIST WOUNDED me SPAIN, { BILBAO, Spain, June 1 ug eag One Communist was seriousty™ Woded here in fights during a-temonstra-' tion. fr @ DECREE TO LEGALIZE\FASCTST TROOPS IN GERMANY, According to capitalist press dis- patches the Von Papen cabinet: will | Publish an emergency decree tomor- Tow lifting the ban on the,fascist, national socialist storm troops m; has hitherto beén given to Amster-| Adolf Hitler. a We VON PAPEN DELEGATION TO FOLLOW BRUENING ON 4 REPARATIONS | BERLIN, June 13—The German dciegation to the Lausanne Confer- €nce which will be neaded by Chan- sellor Von fayan, erch-enemy of the Soviet Union, ‘s preparing to léare Berlin at an early date, it was ane nacneed here. Aithough a “fin determination” to repudiate repra‘ions is attributed to the delegation’ by the capitalist press, if was stated here that the |delegation will follow the Bruening policy on the question. 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