The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 15, 1932, Page 1

—_ POLISH DOCKERS IN BLOODY FIGHT TO STOP MUNITION SHIPMENTS — — {STORY ON PAGE THREE VOTE COMMUNIST FOR I. Unemployment and Social Insurance at the ex- pense of the state and employers. Against Hoover’s wage-cutting policy. 3. Emergency relief for the poor farmers without restrictions by the government and banks; ex- emption of poor farmers from taxes, and no forced collection of rents or debts. Dail Central : Orga 4 (Section of the Communist International) Vorke e- Communist Party USA. . VOTE COMMUNIST FOR 4. Equal rights for 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. Against imperialist war; for the defense of the Chinese people and of the Soviet Union. Vol. IX,NoUu2 = at New York, N. Y. @ moniter at the Post Offi der the met of March 3, 187° ~ NEW YOR K, WEDNESDAY Hailing Hoover and Hunger HE keynote speech opening the Republican Party convention was a brazen attempt to cover up the hunger and war program of the Hoover government to find a capitalist way out of the ever deepening economic crisis. The puppet chosen for the job was the Iowa senator, L. J. Dick- inson, who called for the re-election of Hoover as a “dependable means” toward restoration of “normal conditions.” The head of the Wall Street government at Washington, which is the executive committee of the capitalist class, a government which has used all iis power to beat down the standard of life of tlie American workers and farmers, which has directed the increasing lynch law frightfulness against the Negro masses in the industrial cities and in the Black Belt of the South, which has been the aggressive initiator of campaigns of police terror, murder and jailing against the unemployed and their leaders, which has intrigued in Europe and Latin America to build up combina- tions in its world conflict with its great imperialist rival in Britain, which fights against Japan over the question of who shall rule the Pacific, which conspires to dismember China and above all carries on world wide drives for war-and intervention against the Soviet Union—it is the head of such | @ government that the republican keynoter offers “to the nation with pride and confidence.” The lie about republican prosperity that was the keynote of the 1928 campaign was torn to shreds by the terrific impact of the most devastat- ing economic crisis the world has ever seen. Yet, today at Chicago, an- other version of the same lie is put forth in an attempt to cover up the criminal capitalist regime of Hoover. Dickinson's Keynote speech is to be published under the head of “The Republican Recerd,” and used as the bible of the republican campaigners. But there are some things that this “record” will not refer to. For in- stance, the keynote speaker, Senator Dickinson, conveniently neglected to mention the words of Hoover when at Palo Alto, California, on August 11, 1928, in his acceptance speech he said: “We in America today are nearer to the final triumph over poverty than ever before in the history of any land. The poor house is vanishing from among us. We have not yet reached the goal, but given a chance to go forward with the policies of the last eight years, we shall soon, with the help of God, be in sight of the day when poverty will be banished from this nation.” In his only address in the South during. the 1928 campaign Hoover said, at Elizabethtown, Tennessee, on October 6: “4s never before does the keeping of our economic machine in tune depend upon wise policies in the administrative side of government.” After a year and a half in office this man who was yesterday praised as the height of wisdom, repudiated his demagogic words at Elizabeth- town and tried to disclaim responsibility of the government and his class for the crisis. In his message to Congress in December, 1930, Hoover said: Economie depression cannot be cured by legislative action or exec- utive pronouncement.” ; Now, again, we have Dickinson, the Chicago convention keynoter, reverting to the campaign lie of 1928, and claiming that future prosperity will be assured by the reelection of “the great engineer,” the Wall Street ““wonder boy.” The whole course of the crisis is punctuated by the “statesmanlike” utterances of Hoover when time and again he said that the night of “de- pression” was passing and the day of prosperity was about to dawn. On March 8, 1930, a Washington dispatch contained the following illuminat- ing contribution to economic illiteracy front Hoover: “President Hoover predicted today that the worst effect of the crash upon unemployment will have been passed during the next sixty days.” Undaunted by the facts of life exploding that prophesy the Wall Street president on May 1, 1930, said: “While the crash only took place six months ago, I am convinced we have now passed the worst and with continued unity of effort we shall rapidly recover.” * More than two years have passed since then and not even Dickinson, whose special job it was to paint Hoover’s administration in the most glowing colores, dared venture a prediction on economic recovery. Hoover, himself, no longer sets dates for the dawn of “prosperity.” His latest piece of economic wistlom was to grant an audience to Rudy Vallee, the radio crooner and soug writer and request the clown to write @ song that would help “banish depression.” With the cynicism which is characteristic of the reactionary class which he represents, the republican keynoter claimed that Hoover had “moved to mitigate unemployment distress.” The thousands who participated in the hunger march to Washing- ton in the middle of the past winter, the millions of unemployed for ‘whom they spoke when they demanded immediate government relief and unemployment and social insurance know how to measure this hypocrit- ical claim of Dickinson. The army of worker ex-soldiers now in Wash- ington and the hundreds of thousands who are being swindled out of the compensation due them, have by their actions replied in advance to this lie. The thousands of villages built by homeless unemployed of dry goods boxes on swamp land near all the big cities and towns of the coun- try, which are appropriately called “Hoover villages” are monuments test- ifying to the colossal lie that Hoover and his administration have done anything to relieve mass hunger. The swindle that Hoover averted strikes and disturbances by calling in the industrial leaders and obtaining from them promises to maintain “existing wage scales” was praised by Dick- inson, when almost within sound of his voice in Chicago, as throughout the country, there are millions of workers whose wages have been beaten down to the starvation level of existence. Not one word was said about the war conspiracies of American im- perialism, nothing about colonial terror. The growing lynch tyranny against the Negro masses was not mentioned; instead there sat in the convention the official republican politicians of Tennessee who recently at Nashville came out for a party as “lily white” as the democrats, "The republican keynote speech shows that the offensive against the working masses and the poor farmers is to be continued on a scale of increasing frightfulness if’ Hoover and his Wall Street masters (who dominate Republican and Democratic parties alike) have their way. It is a challenge to the toiling masses in the industries and on the land. The one rallying force that can and must mobilize the workers and poor farmers against the capitalist hunger and war offensive is the Com- munist Party. As against the capitalist way out of the crisis—the path of poverty, hunger, misery and death for the masses at home; the path “of imperialist war and of intervention against the Soviet Union — the Communist Party mobilizes the masses for the revolutionary way out. As against the Hoover hunger program the Comntunist Party, as the first plank in its platform for the national elections puts forth the fight- ing demand for unemployment and social insurance at the expense of the state (that is, the government) and the employers. * s The Republican Party, the same as the Democratic, are parties of capitalist hunger and imperialist war preparations. The Socialist Party is the third capitalist party, The Communist Party alone is the Party of the working class, Means, ‘Red. Expert’, Convicted on Charge of Swiping $100,000 WASHINGTON, June 14. — A jury in District of Columbia court last night returned a verdict of -uilty against Gaston4 B. Means, ‘old-time government stoolpigeon, for reliev- ing Mrs. Evelyn McLean, ex-wife of the Washington publisher, of $104,- po. - : . MeLean, long known ag @ Auned ous. 0 cash by Means on his promise to re- cover the Lindbergh baby. Means, whose shady activities have repeatedly brought him into the news has for a long time been a “confi- dential agent” of the National Civic Federation of which Matthew Woll is acting president. Last year Ham Fish hired him to help in his “investigation’, Means led the committee to a lonely ware- house in Baltimore where they were to make a raid on “Red documents” DEMONSTRATE AGAINST HOOVER HUNGER-WAR PROGRAM DESPITE POLICE Republican Keynote Speech Promises More Reaction, Misery Chicago Demonstration Calls for Unemploy- ment Insurance CHICAGO, June 13.— Hundreds of policemen, afoot and mounted, were mobilized today to prevent the starving jobless workers from demonstrating against Hoover's hunger and war pregram at the opening of the Republican Convention in the Chicago Stadium, according to c SPEED DIES BILL TO SENATE: GETS | COMMITTEE 0.K. Ten Meetings in New York and Jersey to Protest | WASHINGTON, June 14.—The Senate Immigration Committee to day put its O.K. on the Dies de- portation and exclusion. bill, thus the Senate where it is to come up soon. ep, Se Pian Protest Mcets Ten meetings in New York and New Jersey on Saturday, June 18 in protest against the Dies anti-foreign born bill is expected to stir action all over the-country against the meas- ure. The meetings are called by the International Labor Defense. New York thus joins Boston Cleve_ land and other cities in swinging into action against this vicious anti-labor measure which has already passed the House of Representatives and its soon to come up for action in the Senate. The meeting in Boston will be held} on the Common on Sunday, June 26. | In announcing the meetings, the ILD says: “The Dies Bill is the latest step taken by the bosses in the legal Persecution of the workers of this country. They have added wholesale deportation to the injunction, frame ups and legal lynchings as a weap- on for the carrying out of their pro- fram of wage cuts and unemploy ment. The Bill must be defeated. The ILD calls upon all workers to protest against this bill to send tele- frams and resolutions to their sena- tors, and to participate in mass meetings.” The ten meetings, all on Saturday, June 18, follow: Bronx, 8 p. m., Wilkins and Inter- vale; Downtown, 10th St. and Second Ave., 7 p. m.; Midtown, 41st St. and Eighth Ave. 4 p. m; Harlem, 110th St. and Fifth Ave, 4 p. m.; Browns, ville, Hopkinson and Pitkin Ave., 4 Pp. m.; Coney Island, Brighton Beach Ave. and Fifth St, 7 p. m.; South Brooklyn, Hoyt and Wyckoff Sts., 4 p. m.; Newark, at Mlitary Park, 4 p. m.; Paterson, at Bank and Main Sts., at 7 p. m.; Perth Amboy, Smith and Elm Sts. at 8 p. m. PITTSBURGH, June 14.—Three hundred worker ex-servicemen yes- iterday protested the passage of the Dies Bill in Walton Hall, and adopted resolution condemning the measure, and demanding that the senate de- | feat it when it comes up. % ‘84 year-old fighting mother of Tom apitalist press reports. “If the Communists get within 2 blocks of the Stadium, it will be be- cause Chicago policemen have for- gotten how to use their clubs”, said Lieutenant ‘Thomas Duffy, | Two blocks away thousands of | workers rallied to listen to a Com- munist speaker who exposed Hoover's “record” of starvation for the un- employed. In spife of the elaborate setting designated to give it the character of a “sclemn ritual”, the opening of the Republican Convention took place this afternoon without even the manufactured enthusiasm which was evident at the opening of past con- ventions. _This is indicative of the fear which seizes the hearts of the republican politicians in face of the mounting wave of workers’ struggle for social insurance and against im- perialist war. The opening speech which was de- livered-by. Senator L. J..Dickinsen of Towa dealt at: length with Hoover's’ record offering it as’ the program of the Executive Chief for the next four years if elected. | This record was extolled by the kennoter as that of the men who “saved the country from the depres- sion” and assured “industrial peace”. But Hoover himself had t oadmit in his emergency message to the Senate only a few weeks ago, that the “downward trend in the economic life (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) MOTHER’ MOONEY IS STRUCK BLIND Doctors Unable State If Temporary CHICAGO, June 14.—Mary Mooney, Mooney, was struck blind here today. “I can’t see,’ she suddenly cried, as « she was participat- * ing in an Interna- tional Labor De- fense Conference, discussing plans for a demonstration agaihst Gov. Rolph and the California delegation at the Republican nation- al convention here. “Mother” Mooney ie y and Richard B. Mother” Mooney Neoore are on a tour on behalf of Mooney and the Scottsboro boys. Physicians hurriedly called were CITY EDITIO N Price 3 Cents_ i A Los Angeles vet says goodbye California delegation, 150 strong, on the bonus. to his family as he leaves with the its way to Washington to demand Fight for ROCHESTER, N. Y., June 14. HUNDREDS OF SHOE STRIKERS JAM COURT ROOM NEW YORK—The Kings County Supreme Court was put in an uproar yesterday, when over 200 shoe work- ers, who packéd the court, voiced their sentiments against the lying statements of the shoe bosses’ law- yer, Mr. Eisenstein. Eisenstein prod- | uced affidavits of scabs that “there is no strike at I. Miller,” that “a| few disgruntled former I. Miller} workers, led by Moscow agents, where | hanging around the shop making | trouble.” “Officicus Inter-meddler” Eisenstein used the notorious Mr. Charles G. Wood, Conciliator for the | U. S. Department of Labor, as his authority for the attacks upon the workers. He had not one word to mention about the conditions in the shop which forced these workers out on strike. "Nor did he have anything to say about the fact of Senator Hurley's (of Holyoke, Massachusetts) charges, | (printed in the New York Times of May 19, 1931) that Charles G. Woods was “incompetent, unreliable and an officious inter-meddler and trouble maker,” and that “Mr. Wood has! done so much to engender the con- ditions of distrust, suspicion and bit- terness on the part of both capital man’s activities are legion.” Over 700 Strike Attorneys Tauber and Schwaub, for the Union, presented affidavits of the strikers, pointing to the condi- tions which led to the strike, and unable to state whether the blindness would be temporary. ® Back in the United States follow- ing a four weeks’ visit to the Soviet Union,| 18 worker-delegates are in New York now prior to their depart- ure to various parts of, the country to tell the workers and farmers of America just what they saw. ‘The delegates visited Moscow, Le- ningrad, Dnieprostroy, Kharkov and the Donbas coal region, as well as workers’ Rest Homes and Sanito- riums. The first of the delegates to be interviewed by the Daily Worker, Frank Fidneigh of Denver, Alex Nelson,| Negro worker of Chicago, John Gancz of Providence and Till- man Cadle, Kentucky miner, told of their vivid experiences in the Soviet Jand. Urge Defense of Gains. The great gains achieved by the Russian workers and the necessity of the American workers joining the ‘WE SAW IT OURSELVES’, SAY WOR showing that the vast majority of the Miller and Geller workers are out on Communist candidate for vice president of the United States. Negro worker and a leader of the ex-servicemen. Jobless Fills Ford Meeting Communists Block 50 Per Cent Relief Cuts and |Workers 1,500 Come to Rochester’s Biggest Meeting ‘The largest indoor meeting in this town | MASSES OF VETS RAISE CRY AGAINST LEADERS; DEMAND FOOD, SHELTER Six Cent Ration and Unhealthy Quarters Arouses Vets to Demand Relief from Rich House Holds Up Bill; Vets See Only Hope ‘In Unity With Masses of Workers BULLETIN PITTSBURG, Pa,, June 14.—C. B. Cowan, leader of the Cleveland delegation of the Workers Ex-Servicemen’s League, who was arrested here on trumped up charges, was released on bail today. The Interna- through the city. “Bonus Expeditionary Forces” of the toiling masses against to the Majority of veterans | now. The demands for rank and file leadership, for shelter land food. put forward by the E x-Servicemen’s |League have won the support of a vast number of the bonus marchers |echoed throughout the variotis bonus This is a city of 40,000 unemployed | army camps toda). workers, and a mass movement here under Communist. leadership has. re- cently prevented a fifty: percent cut mentor against the bonus,” said a{Cago, organized white guard grou; i nrelief, so Ford was chceered to the | echco when he put forward the Com- munist demand for and social insurance at the expense of the state and the employers. Fake Beer. Issue. The Republican, Democratic and Socialist Parties have trying here, as a means of taking jobless workers’ minds off the question of relief and insurance, to make a big sham bat- tle over repeal of the |prohibition laws. Ford showed that, while the Communist Party is against prohibi- tion, against the huge army of spies that is created to enforce it (and to spy on labor organizations at the same time), opposed also to the ad- ditions to the ‘navy disguised as revnue cutter to enforce prohibition, the Communist Party mus; say that (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) STRIKERS APPLAUD DAILY WORKER EXPOSURE OF WOOD AND “CONSTITUTION LEAGUE” NEW YORK. — The I. Miller shoe strikers at their meeting yes- terday adopted a resolution of thanks to the Daily Worker for exposing the “Constitutional League” and Commis. Charles G. Good as enemies of the working class and strike-breakers. The strikers’ resolution pledges to sup- port the Daily Worker as the only paper of the workers. and labor that protests against this|strike under the militant leadership | of the Shoe and Leather Workers In- dustrial Union, Only a handful of scabs are in the Geller shop and less than 75 are in the Miller plant out of nearly 800 workers. The case was continued until next Friday in the Supreme Court, 161st | St., Jamaica, Long Island. KER DELEGATES Back from the Soviet Union, They Contrast Situation Here and There Part of the May Ist Delegation to the Soviet Union which has just ret Will Tell Workers of U. four weeks’ visit in the workers’ and farmers’ republic. . What They Saw in the Soviet Union ea as of | “Hamilton Tish who is against the |reds-and the workers—he is the chief | Chicago vet in Camp Anacostia to- day. “It’s about time that we join unemploymen: | with the reds and ‘all the workers | the United Sta and make this fight a real fight.” This remark was received with an {air of approbation by a large group of veterans. early this morning. It was not a | cheering and jubilant army sheuting | hurrahs for police’ officer Glassford, jas the lying capitalist press would |make one believe... It.was @ quite dif_ |ferent army, indeed—a grim, hungry, (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) Vets Cool to Plan to Lure Them Out With “Sweet Song” WASHINGTON, D. C., June | 14—Although it is alleged that | music hath charms to soothe the savage breast, it is doubted very strenuously that the highly imaginative poliee officer, Glass- ford’s plan to serenade the vets with ‘Home Sweet Home” will start the bivouacking vets on a homeward trek. Glassford suggested that the Army, Navy and Marine Corps bands play a series of good-bye ballads in the bonus camps. This might make the vets homesick, he said, and bring about a gen- eral evacuation of the sieging army. Vets, in commenting on this latest plan, said that they had | no objection to the music, pro- vided it came along with food, | shelter and the bonus. | “They.won't get far with thi: said a mud-bespattered vet. “Our buglers will make bums out of the ballad mongers.” NEWS FLASHES RAID UNEMPLOYED COUNCIL IN CHICAGO; KJAR ARRESTED CHICAGO, Ill, June 14—The Un. employed Council offices here were raided by the police “Red Squad” yesterday in an attempt to interfcre with plans for a demonstration of the unemployed at the Republican convention today. Nels Kjar was ar- rested and is held incommunicado by immigration officials. There is a report Kjar has already been ship- ped on the way to Denmark. The Chicago Daily News has front. page headlines: “Police Halt Red March on Stadium.” Over 7,000 Negro and white women and youth’ workers responded to the demonstration. 4 HURT BY FIRE NEW YORK.—An explosion, the cause of which has not been determ- ined, caused a fire which burned four persons, three of them severely, who were living in the rear of a story at 204 Righlown.-4ve, Brolin Init, ie 8 oth \ 1 a ers rt The’ jobless’ veterans’ army ascee| tional Labor Defense which is’ fighting Cowan's case issued a statement | denouneing the city officials for denying the veterans the right to march . * * WASHINGTON, D. C., June 14.—The rank and file of the are rapidly learning that their fight for the bonus must be linked up with the whole struggle starvation. The buck passing tactic of Congress with the aim to kill the bonus bill is clear WHITE GUARDISTS \OPEN NEW DRIVE ON RECOGNITION | “The only way we can win our eee in years took place here last night when 1,500 workers and jebless workers | struggle is by the common rank and| Monarchist’ Press in gathered into Convention Hall and cheered the speech of James W. Ford, | file taking over command.” ‘These | N ra 2 Ford is a| words of a rank and filer were) New Frenzy Against x R, | Timed with the opening of the Na- ‘tional Republican Convention in Chi- Jare launching a |recognition of tt campaign Soviet gain: Initiated by an outfit calling itself the “United Russian National Organ_ ization,” all “Russian national orge |izations in the U. S.” are urged to n- What Is Your Answer? Workers! What is your answer to these white guard acti |Provecations? Write to ‘t! | Worker—tell us what your at is. regarding thes> ist and their venomous cz lagainst the Soviet Union. rhe | |French workers have raised the Slogan, “Drive out these white guard provocateur: Workers of the U What do jYou say? Write at once, and we | will publish as many letters as possible. participate in a “protest against the possibility of the recognition of the Soviet power by the U. S.” “Urge Protests” The call is contained in an appeal prominently displayed in the “Rus- |skaya Gazetta,” a white guardist |sheet published in New York, in its jissue of Sunday, June 12. Reciting a long list of monarchist organizations in the U. S., they urge that they send telegraphic protests at }once to Washington opopsing any | Move toward recognition of the Soviet | Union. | Backed by Stimson, Curtis A number of these organizations, | the appeal states, have not only sent i} | | (ADDITIONAL NEWS ON PAGE 3) JAPANESE DIET VOTES WAR FUNDS The Japanese Diet yesterday pas- sed the bill for additional war funds for the military campaign in Mane jchuria which is rapidly developing | towards an active realization of the criminal aims of Japanese militariste imperialist circles for armed inter vention against the Soviet Union. The erection of air fields near the Soviet borders has already begun. The lower house of the Diet un- animously adopted a resolution cal- ling for formal recognition by the Japanese government of the puppet Manchukuo government established in Manchuria by Japanese bayonets. A joint resolution to this effect was presented by the Seiyukai and Min- seito Parties. One effect of a formal recognition of the puppet state would be the cutting off from the Nanking | Government of the customs revenues. The Nanking, betrayers of China.s@ who have not raised a hand to de the Japanese seizure of Manchyt will no doubt raise a-howl of i against the seizure of these + (a slowal: Nowy oon F NaN RABI RES