The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 17, 1932, Page 1

VOTE COMMUNIST FOR 1. Unemployment and Social Insurance at the ex- pense of the state and employers. 2. Against Hoover’s wage-cutting policy. 8. 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 ESR unist Party (Section of the Communist International _ Norker - U.S.A. VOTE COMMUNIST FOR 4 Equal rights for the Negroes and self-determin- ation for the Black Belt. 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. Entered as eccon ‘ork, N.Y. _—— we moniter at the Post Office der the act of March 3, 1877 NEW YORK, FRID pay, : JUNE 17, 1932 _ erry: ts _Vol, IX, No. 144 Price 3 Cents_ The Republican Party Platform HE platform adopted by the Republican Party convention in Chicago | not only endorsed the reactionary attacks of the Hoover government upon the working class, but promises a more sweeping offensive upon the living standards of the masses, and a more furious drive toward im- perialist war. To the demands of the’ workers for immediate relief and unemploy- ment insurance, the platform answers that the Republican Party “is op- posed to the federal government entering directly into the field of private charity and for direct relief to individuals.” By which it means to say that the millions must continue to live in a state of pauperism and suffer the miseries of the beggarly handouts of the charity system which has become the only means of staying off death. For the worker ex-servicemen whose blood bespattered the fields of France, dying in the service of an imperialist war, the Republican plat- form echoes the reactionary voice of Hoover —“No bonus, no immediate relief to the starving unemployed workers.’ ’ To the severely oppressed Negro masses groaning under the weight of the crisis the platform blandly states: “That the Republican Party stands pledged to maintain equal rights and opportunities to Negro citizens,” @ promise repeated for decades, a fraudulent promise exposed by the in- creased violence and outright murder of the Negro masses. Increased taxation, higher tariff with its consequent increase in the cost of living, “drastic reduction of public expenditures,” which means increase in unemployment, and the wiping qut of the beggarly sosial ser- vices which the capitalist class has been compelled to give, more contin- uous use of the stagger system, hypocritically concealed under the phrase, “We favor the principle of the shorter working week and shorter work day,” fierce attack upon the foreign born workers, by the further exclu- sion of “undesirable classes” (read worker), and the carrying through and brutal enforcement of the deportation of militant workers, wage cuts and strike-breaking called by the sweet name of “harmony of capital and labor,” denial of the freedom of speech, press and assemblage—these are the internal policies which the Republican Party platform put forward in the interest of the exploiters which dictated and dominated this gath- ering of capitalist politicians. On the field of international politics, the platform promises the con- tinuation of the policy of preparations for imperialist war. In the face of the growing mass resistance of the workers, this party of capitalist reaction conceals its imperialist aims under the guise of promotion of “national defense,” (read defense of thet right of the, exploiters to im- perialist plunder). The platform declares that “it is the duty of the government to perfect plans in times of peace” in order that “in times of war every material resource in the nation” should be harnessed to the aims of Wall Street. The Republican Party promises the continuation of the secret preparations of its war machinery which it has been per- fecting daily and which exposes the demagogic slogans raised by the So- cialist Party when it calls upon the workers to answer the declaration of war with a general strike. To tell the workers to fall back upon the general strike (while sabataging the organization of the workers) when the capitalists have their machinery fully prepared and when they re- sort to “surprise” moves catching the workers unprepared and unorgan- ized, means to disarm the working class struggle against the. war and as Lenin pointed out, means to paralyze the day to day struggle against the war preparations, without which a successful fight against war is im- possible, ‘The policy put. forward in the platform of the Republican Party shows. clearly that the capitalists are “sneaking into a war, a policy which the socialists and pacifists conceal by such phrases as “we will never go into another war” and other apparently radical phrases, The sharpening of the antagonisms between the United States and Japan over the loot in China finds clear reflection in the platform which reiterates and supports the policy of Secretary Stimson. Stimson chal- lenged the plunder of China by the murderous adventure of Japanese im- perialism and laid down the policy of organizing to battle out with the blood and life of the working.class, the issue of which imperialist clique shall exploit the great millions of China. At the same time the platform shows that Wall Street intends to continue to encourage Japan in its provocations against the Soviet Union, (which it refuses to recognize) with the object of weakening its impe- rialist rival, Japan, to profit from the sale of ammunition and above all to destroy the system of socialism which stands in sharpest contrast to American imperialism. Hunger and war is written across the entire program of this party of the trusts and bankers. Against it the workers must wage a resolute fight under the leadership of the Communist Party. {9 : 99 h Mr. Snell “Explains” the Crisi IN the sea of base demagogy, mystification and outright deception in which the Republican politicians in Chicago are striving to drown the real record of Mr. Hoover—a record of hunger and reaction against the | workers—we find a “pearl” deserving of some attention. This “pearl” is the assertion made by the permanent chairman of the convention, Mr. Snell. “We are engaged in ai war of defense.” Thus—- Puns the assertion—‘our enemy is the inevitable but ghastly pestilence of world wide depression. It is the ghost of the world war stalking over | the earth.” ‘Here we see not only the fear that has seized the capitalists and their representatives in the face of an economic crisis of unprecedented sever- | ity, but also the determination to resort to every device in order to white- } wash the capitalist system of its responsibility: . i Indeed, the capitalists are terrorized by the monstrous complexity of | the crisis. They are overcome by the chaotic situation which their own | system has created. They are unable to grasp and control it and at the ; Same time they dare not and cannot pene‘rate the “mysterious” appear- ance of the crisis. Capitalist science is bl!d to the real workings of the profit system, for to understand and jtell the truth of the anarchy of , Capitalism, in the face of a mighty and struggling proletariat, is to doom ‘ that system to destruction, i And it is because of this fear of the awakening proletariat that Snell ' tries to separate “the world wide economic crisis” from the system that has produced it, and to absolve that system from blame. His utterance | is in line with the “scientific” theories of the capitalist economists which }aim to show that the periodic crises of capitalism arise not from the ‘mature of the system, but are the result of spots on the sun, of strange and uncontrolled movements in the cosmic system! That the crisis is not an “inevitable” and uncontrolled misfortune, is proven by the fact that in one-sixth of the earth, in the Land of the Soviets, there is no crisis, no unemployment, no “ghastly pestilence.” It is true that the “ghost” of the last world war haunts the capital- ist world. But not in the sense of this capitaist politician. Snell tries to , Yepresent the crisis in the United States as the consequence of European \ happenings for which the American capitalists are not responsible. The War which shattered the capitalist system and marked the inception of ‘the general crisis of capitalism, was the product of capitalist anarchy, jof the greed of the imperialist bandits, including the Wall Street impe- irialist robbers whose cause Snell pleads, striving to satisfy their lust for oe by seizing with force of arms the loot held by other capitalist iques, For the last world war the capitalist system and the capitalist class, \its governments, its politicians, its political parties, are responsible. This ‘the trickery of the Snells, cannot wipe out. It is this same profit greed which is driving them into a new imperialist slaughter, t The capitalists must do everything in their power to conceal the truth ,Of the cause of the crisis, The working class, under the blows of this ‘crisis, and t‘ded by the Communist Party, armed with the truth of Marx- ‘ism, is each day rising in its understanding that the present misery is not an “act.of god,” or the inevitable working of fate, but the bitter fruit lof & profit’ ridden capitalist system which must be overthrown, seran | JAPAN HURLS NEW ARMY TOWARDS SOVIET BORDER Break in Censorship Reveals New Sinister War Move By Japanese Imperialists Five Armies Now in Advance; Use General Mah as Blind for Attack A break yesterday in the vapanese censorship of news of their military moyes in Manchuria reveals that the Japanese Government is hurling a new army towards the Soviet frontier, in the direction of Blogoveschensk, the main Soviet city on the northern border of Manchuria. Four other Japanese armies’ are NEAR BLAGOVESCHENSK' Jobless Demonstrate Against Hoover Program Part of the crowd cf 3,000 unemployed workers meeting two. blocks from tle Republican National Convention as it opened its first sess They later marched on the convention, denouncing the Hoover hunger regime and demanding unemployment insurance. They were charged 800 VETERANS, ENTIRE ILLINOIS DELEGATION, PICK OWN LEADERSHIP Revolt Is Aimed Against Reactionary Police- Controlled Leaders of Bonus March Militant Demonstrations of Vets Alone Will Compel Congress to Act BULLETIN WASHINGTON, June 16.—Revolting against the reactionary police- controlled leaders of the Bonus Army, the ex-servicemen of the Illinois State Delegation, numbering 800, elected their own Commander and their own committees. At once the newly-elected Commander was placed under arrest, cross-examined, intimidated, finger-printed and questioned about his political opinions, according to a leaflet broadcast today by the Illinois DEMONSTRATION {the Soviet frontiers nouns HITS CONVENTION JIM CROW RULE Workers “Mass at the -Hotel Where G.O.P. Isolates Negroes CHICAGO, Wl., June 16.—Her- bert Hoover, the hunger and war president, was re-nominated at the Republican National Convention today. A staged demonstration of the delegates took place. The Hoo- ver machine called the police and had France, of Maryland, shoved off the platform when he tried to nominate aes: CHICAGO, Ml, June 16. —The Re- publican Party National Convention here is Jim Crow. The republican machine has barred out whole dele- gations of Negrees from certain southern states, and given their Places to white delegates, represent ing practically no one. Such -Negro delegates as were seateti ~havebeen segregated and sent to room in the Vincennes Hotel, at Vincennes and 36th St., south side, where they can smell the stotkyards. Demonstrate Against Jim Crow. A demonstration of several hun- dred Negro workers was held in front of the Vincennes hotel today to pro- test, the entire Jim Crow and lynch gang program of the Republican Party, which is not concealed from the working class by the plank in the republican draft platform which unblushingly claims that “our party stands pledged to maintain equal op- portunity and rights for our Negro citizens.” The convention makes this claim as a vote-catching device, at the very moment it, itself, is ruth- lessly Jim Crowing its own delegates! Police Attack. The demonstrstion was led by’ Leonides McDonald, a Negro stocx- yard worker, and Communist Candi- date for governor of Illinois. The police immediately attacked the demonstration and broke it up by force after a 15 minute tussel, in which speakers der.ounced Republi- can terror against Negroes, and out- lined the Communist program for: “Equal rights for the Negroes and self-determination for the Black Belt.” MacDonald was arrested, Poin- dester, Communist candidate for congressman from the second district was arrested, and four other Negro workers; were arrested. Several Negro republican delegates as long as they were able to stand their ground. MAN HELD; COPS SAY IS HENDRYX NEW YORK.—According to capi- talist press reports, police claim to have arrested a man described by them as K. Y. Hendryx, who in 1929 faced a prison term of seven years following his conviction with six other workers in the Gastonia, N. C., strike. . Detectives made the arrest, ac- cording to the report, at a rooming house at 361 E. 10th St., last night. As the Dajly Worker was going to press, lawyers for the Interna- tional Labor Defense, which defend- ed the workers framed up in the Gastonia trial, were unable to check up on the identity of] the jailed worker. The LL.D. announced, however, that if it is Hendryx the police have arrested, that they will wage a bit- ter fight to prevent his extradition to North Carolina, PARTY MEMBERS READ “A LETTER FROM A NON-PARTY WORKER” Page 4 listened attentively to the speakers | of Blogoveschensk. The new Japanese army is operating north of Tsitsihar end Harbin. Tt has already reached | |the town of Koshan, midway be- tween Blogosveschensk and Tsitsihar. It is continuing its advance toward the Sovie, border on the pretext of “pursuing” Chinese troops comman- ded by the nortorious Japanese agent, Gen. Ma Chen-shan. The General Staff of the Japanese Army was recently transferred from Mukden to Harbin in order to direct the steady movement of ‘Japanese troops towards the Soviet border. One Japanese army, advancing down the Sungari Valley, several weeks ago to be “within less than 30 miles of the Soviet border.” This army is accompanied by a huge of gunboats. The Japanese have seized all available craft on the Sun- gari River for the transport of heavy artillery, bombing planese and other war supplies for this. army. The Sungari River flows into the Armur River which forms thé boun- dary between Manchuria and the Soviet Union, A third army is advancing from Heilut,-railroad of the Hulan-Hailun vailway.— A fourth is advancing. on the Chinese Eastern Railway and has already passed the town of Hail- in, beyond which the Japanése had previously promised «not to ‘send troops. The fifth army is concen- trating directly on the Soviét ‘fron- tier in the angle formed by the Kor- ean-Manghurian-Soviet bordérs, close to the city of Vladivostok. 6 ets Gen. Ma Chen-san is the same renegade Chinese used by the Japan- ese last year to conduct a sham re- sistance against the Japanese in- vaders and to carry out a “retreat” towards the Soviet frontiers, thus affording the Japanese a pretext for pushing their troops closer and closer to the Soviet borders. Ma was later appointed by his Japanese mas- ters to the cabinet of the puppet government established in Manchuria by Japanese bayonets. When the Japanese militarists considered the time ripe for the further develop- ment of their war moves against the Soviet Union, Gen. Ma was oredered to stage a fake rebellion aaginst em- ployers. Conference for Mine and Beet Strike Food at Lyceum Tonight NEW YORK.—More than 25 work- ing class organizations representing tens of thousands of organized work~ ers of New York City will be repre- sented at @ relief conference today at 7:30 p.m., at the Manhattan Ly- ceum, 66 HE. 4th St, it was an- nounced by the Workers Interna- tional Relief District Committee. This conference will approve a was reported | by mounted police. PHILADELPHIA, June 15.—Re. and its mean‘ng to their class, the be held here Saturday at 6 p. m., at the Flynn - anti-sedition has jailed Bill Lawrence, er, and Roth and Adams, Chester workers, for long t which New Brunswick Meet. NEW. BRUNSWICK, N. J.. June 16.—An- open-air meeting in protest |against the Dies Bill will be held at Hale and Remsen Sts. Saturday night. Curtis’ Evasive NEW YORK—The. recsipt. of. an evasive letter’ from: Charles Curtis, vice-president of the U. S. and pre- siding 6fficér of’ the ‘senate reported by the United Ukrainian Toilers Or- ganization of ‘this ‘city whitch sent him a wire of protest against the Dies bill. The letter, sent to M. Kniazewich, secretary of the organization, sid: “I have your wire of recent date, and note what you say about certain leg- to the dttention of the Senate and referred to the proper committee for consideration.” N. ¥. Meetings Sat. NEW ‘YORK.—Just what passage of the Dies bill, would mean to thou- sands of foreign-born workers will be explained at more than a dozen outdoor and indoor meetings in New York and New J@sey, under the aus- Pices of the N. Y. district of the In- ternational Labor Defense. The meetings follow: Bronx, 8 p.m., Wilkins and Inter- Ave., 7'~.m.; Midtown, 41st St. and St. and Fifth Ave., 4 p.m.; Browns- ville, Hopkinson and Pitkin Ave., 4 p.m.; Coney Island, Brighton Beach Ave. and Fifth St. 7 p.m.; South Brooklyn,’ Hoyt and Wyckoff Sts. 4 p.m.; Newark, at Military Park, 4 p.m.; Paterson, at Bank and Main plan for broadening the feeding ac- tivities of the WIR among the un- employed children in this city and to provide funds for the early open- ing of a WIR children’s camp at Wingdale, N. Y., beet strikers’ relief and Ohio mine \strike relief. 3th and Thompson St: islation. Your wire will be brought | vale; Downtown, 10th St. and Second | Eighth Ave. 4 p.m.; Harlem, 110th | for the Colorado | Phila. Meetings to Denounce Dies Bill Curtis In Evasive Reply: 12. Meetings to Be Held In New York, N aay J., Saturday ng the vicious character of the bill at two open-air meetings to 3 & Reed Sts. The fight azainst the Dies Bi'l is being linked with the drive against | | bill “FOSTER SCORES ANACONDA RULE | EUTTE, Mont., Jun? 16.—Three thousand five hundred Butie miners, smelter workers and other ‘workers and ‘jobless heard William Z. Foster, Communist candidate for president of the United States at his big meet- ing here yesterday. | Foster, who is also general secre- {tary of the Trade Union Unity League, told of new siruggles coming | to stop the Anaconda Copper Co. re- gime of starvation and wage cuts in the mining regions of the Rocky Mountain region. He scored the fake progressive Democratic Party senatcrs, Walsh and Wheeler, who, knowing of the mass misery in their state, continu- ally propose relief plans that will not relieve, which are put forward only lin the hope of quieting the Mon- tana miners and causing them to forget their traditions of most mili- | tant struggle. Foster called’ on the miners not |only to organize, but to vote Com- munist, as a mighty protest against the Hcover hunger system, Sts. ab 7 p.m. ; Perth Amboy, Smith and Eim Sts., at 8 p.m. Indoor Meets Also The Lawrence Emery branch of | the LL.D, will hold an open air pro- test meeting at 2462 64th St., Brook- at 8 o'clock. Indoor meetings ing arranged by the Bridge ' Plaza Workers’ ClSub, 28 Rodney St., Brocklyn, and the Workers’ Zukynft | Club, 31 Second Ave., near First St., Manhattan, at 8 p.m. U.S nds of Philadelphia workers are ex- | pected to demonstrate against the Dics Bill | | 3.509 At Butte Meet | Called to. Vote Com- munists=_ =. State Delegation. . WASHINGTON, Senate, and it is clear that the bo actionary opposition when it comes * WASHINGTON, marines ard an armoured car c¢: | uncmployed veterans out of th || Scottsboro Mother | Greeted By 4,000 AMSTERDAM, Holland (By | Radio) June 16.—Over 4,000 sca- men and harbor workers greeted || Mrs. Ada Wright, mother of two of the Scottsboro boys in a mighty Scottsboro demonstration here to- day. The workers held a street par- ade’ to the U. S. Consulate to pro- test against the attempt of the American ruling class to burn the ‘nine innocent, Negro. boys“in. the Jelectric..chair: ‘SHARP CLASHES IN PITTSBURGH EVICTION TRIAL Defense $y) be Negro Worker, Patterson PITTSBURGH, June 16.—One of the mast significant trials in the tory of this industrial empire -is go- ing on here at the present time. William L. Patterson, Ben Caro- thus, Jame sCollins and Fred Grif- fith are being tried on charges of “inciting to riot, resisting an officer and obstructing an officer in the ex- }exution of a writ.”, The first three are Negro workers. & Eviction Fight The case grows out of aneviction | struggle in the Hill District. of this city. Patterson, himself one of the de- | fendants, and Seligman are conduct- ing the defense. The only Negro found in the panel | was excluded by the prosecution. At- ‘tempting to create the illusion of “impartiality,” the judge in a lying speech to the jury declared that there are “no classes in the U. S. and there is no difference between Negro and white before the law.” (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) U.S. ‘RESEARCH’ AGENCY HIRES WHITE GUARDIST : Kolesnikov Worms Into Brookings Institute to Push Anti-Soviet Drive WASHINGTON, June 16.—A lead- ing, Russian white guardist, V. S. Kolesnikov, who in 1921 was a leader in the white teror that slaughtered thousands of workers and peasants in Siberia, has been engaged by the Brooklings Institute here. Kolesni- kov, who worked in close coopera- tion with the Japanese . imperialist interventionists, was “minister of foreign affairs” of the shortlived Merkulov government in the mari- time provinces of Vladivostock and Primorey. Later, in the U. S., he was the head of the anti-Soviet “Russian Consolidated Mutual Aid Soctety.” Furnishes Apologies for Capitalism. The Brooklings Institute, which describes itself as a “ressarch” ganization on economic questions, is semi-governmental in chacater, hav- ing given advice and furnished in- formation to various executive offi- cers and department of the govern- ment, to. standing committees of or- | {nomic Changes.” The Instiute has done work for the Industrial War College, for the Chamber of Com- merce end for the fascist govern- jments of Poland and Bulgeria. S. "KOLESNIKOV. While the specific nature of Kol- esnikov's work has not yet been made known by the Institute, articles about | him in white guard publications in- dicate that he will provide t tellectual” facade for intensified anti-Soviet activities in the United States. . Backed by Bankers. Paul M. Warburg, New York banker, is one of the “sponsors” of the Brooklyngs Institute. Eastman, the Rochester kodak man- ufacturer, who recently committed suicide was also a director of the institution and contributed heavily to. its support. Kolosnikov's role in the Brcoklings Russhove Sova,” W A about Kolesnikov warns of the grow- ing favorable sentiment in the U. S. toward the Soviet Union and urges @ campaign to prevent any possi- bility of recognition and more. ac- tive trade relations | wall Bd Ds George | * as seria The government of which Koles- |nikov, was “foreign mizister,” a pup- pet creature of Japanese imperial- ism, lasted from May, 1921 to Octo- ber 1922, the original coup heving been accomplished with the aid of | the Japanese. On Cctober 25, 1921 the troops of the Far Eastern Re- public occupied Vladivostock and the Merkuloys fled to Japan. | Kolesnikov came to the Washing- tom conference while his “govern- ment” was still leading a precarious existence. He was sent, to the con- |ference by the Japanese with in- structions to persuade the U. S. government that the “victorious ad- vance of the army of the Merkulovs proceeding without any support | whatco: cn the part of the Jap- |anese groups.” Kolesnikov remained in the United States, following the routing of his bandit gang by the Red Army, and has been a leading light among the white guard groups in this country. an hour arrived here yesterday. | ditional troops and the care are to be used to terrorize th *up their Marine Workers) | Patterson is bringing the class is-| June 16.—The Senate Finance Commitice today yoted against recommending the adoption of the $2,409,060,000 bonus biil, Ordinarily, bills reported adversely in committee seldom pass by nus bill will encounter powerfe! up for a vote. D. C., June 16.—Four hundred additional apable of doing a hundred m It is reported that the z he city and force them to fight against hur | and the bonus. | Also with a plan to defeat |the veterans’ struggle, Nor- (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) ‘AFL GROUPS TO BE REPRESENTED AT SCHENECTADY Many More | Delegates from New York Then Committee Expected NEW YORK.—Election of delega- tions from an increasing number of worker groups and organizations, for the New York State Nominating Convention, Communist Party, yes- terday, indicated that the conven- tion would even exceed the exnce tations, of the campaign com! With the designation of rey tives from Locals 1, 9 a 22 of International Ladies Garment W ers Union, opposition group: matyy other’ A. F. of L. and othe! formist union locals, the number delegates from New York City Jen to many more than the 60 or expected. From all over the state, word of election of representatives from the most diverse groupings of worker cieties and organizations continued to pour in. Organization banners and i were being hauled out and in preparation for the trip nectady for the convention Sunday. Many Unemployed Councjls, committees, block com gro and white work: were issuing their credenti egates wh obad never before |part in a political conv A stream of jthrough Room 505 Center to present th credentials and exchang campaign committee credentials to the convention. Today is the last day |that credentials may be obtained |from the stat ecampaign committee. ‘nal plans for transportation of tes were being prepared yes- lay, and will be completed today, | it was annornced by N. Stevens, sec- |retary of the N. Y. State United | Front Election Campaign Commit- tee. Saturday, delegates will begin streaming northward, by boat, “by train, by bus, by car and hitch-hik- ing, to attend the Communist Party ments for the delegates are alsSo be- ing made through the campaign committee. | From numerous block committees |affiliated to the Unemployed Coun- |cil of Greater New York, delegates are being elected to attend the State Nominating Convention of the Come munist Party in Schenect&dy on Sun- day, June 19. Workers onf the Hias breadline as well as those in the Hutton 17th Street breadline are also sending their representatives to sup- port the program for Unemployment Insurance which is the first plank in the election platform of the Com- munist Party. Delezates from the unemployed movement vill travel by truck. They will loave w York late Saturday. All unemployed credentials must be turned in at 5 E. 19th St. top floor by Saturday noon at the latest, ac- companied by $2.50 for travellinging penses. Phone Grame! ~further information, state convention. 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