The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 18, 1932, Page 4

ee ganda in favor of Japan and deci: DAIL Y WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, JUNE As, 1932 FURTHER COLLISIONS IN ZY! R- | ARDOV WARSAW.—Further fierce sions between unemployed workers and the police took place dov which is known as the Dead owing to th ‘ Majority of its ir employed. Unemployed worker: front of the ed work or support back and on foot attacked ers who withdrew and ‘protest meeting in the center of the town. The unemployed workers turned to the Town were ag of police. The workers bombarded tt with stor and bottles. The used batons and revolvers. Fot licemen s ‘workers were colli- Po! the AUSTRIAN C. P. AGAL VIENNA.—Tht of the Commur has issued threate: war on Soviet Union in which it calls on Social Democratic ers to hands with tr Commur workers in the factor factory meetings to war danger and ex] “We propose joint demonstra to the social democratic ¥ negotiations with the Soviet Union. “We propose to them that they elect with us in 4 tories and on the front committees to cor the Austrian bourgeo’ supply the anti-soviet Wat materials, and such attempts with demonstratio: orgar tions and any other measure may appear feasible, incl strike weapon.” rol Ww r je attempts to armies WORKERS AND INTELLECTUALS | GF BULGARIA FOR ANTI- = WAR CONGRESS _ congress et with ent he astral in Bulgaria and Preparatory committee has been formed containing the of many well-known left names tuals,. docto: architects teachers, journalists and si aaditi working clas: *“peasant organizations have expr their: intention of giving the com- Mitise ev possible support and of resented at Geneva being +r AUSTRIA TO HELP DESTROY ’ SOVIET UNION VIENNA—The “Neue Wiener Journal” publishes a leading article tim which it makes zealot pro} that’ it is worthy of credit and port in every 2 form. It ap- peals to the n industrialists to provide war materials for Japan “fn order to save the Austrian eco- momic system and create a way out sf the crisis. With regard to the Moral side of the question, it is un- ©o-operate in the destruction of the tremendous center of unrest in East- ern Europe.” “LAND PROGRAMS” COVER FOR IMPERIALIST RULE IN PHILIPPINES MANILA, JUNE 17.—THE feforms” promised by Governor-Gen- _@fal Roosevelt cover up the strength- ening of U. S. imperiazist rule in the Philippine Islands. These reforms, it geems, will open “virgin” land_ for settlers who will celar it by operat- ing small farms and who will later on be re-expropriated for failure to pay the high taxes imposed on the dand to “balance Sa deca UNEMPLOYMENT DEMONS TRA- TIONS IN GDINGIA. then held a| »doubtedly good that Austria should | land Cochin. French Leader, oe for World Fight || | | for the Scottsboro Boys! & Scandal courageous over the le in the country ated by Comrade Ma pted with appl: le was Other he French Red Aid, e Reqd Trade It of “L'Hu- of the Young s. Wright was ed the plat- and sang “LHu, Cachin writes, in touring the world in of all coun- mocent chil- he defends her ars old) in a pathetic talk. She e to do the drama of the cla the U: States, struggle in that is to say in the most bloody Furtherm manner. is a matter of ers. It is not neces- to recall that in the United = war of the classes is ag. young Negro wor! sary accursed’ children of Ham have en treated as pariahs by all | for them, lynch from which it is plain | more with | y where social conflicts have | d by capitalism in j law re-} Shows Up Imperialist | 3; Greets Mrs. Wright | fanat cal race hatred | fortunate blacks the slaves transplanted into the southern states. To the Honor of Com of the United ternational has called for a common str’ le of the white and black workers. Its efforts have ‘eady succeeded to a large degree and in order to symbolize the soli- darity already attained with the Ne- groes, our American comrad2s are putting up two candidates in the next elections for the White H a | white man and a black man “The scandal of the sentencing of s up Am | ican imperialism in plain’ view asking the workers of the whole world to show their solidarity with the nin: ung innocent Negroes who are threatened with the electric chair, the , the to act from the highest human and reyolutionary motives. Shameful Record of U. S. Imperialism | “Ada Wright, unhappy mother, a| black working woman, the daughter of chattel slaves sold for a few dol- |lars, speaks to the French workers | to ask them to help her save her in- |nocent children threatened with death in the electric chair. W/1 the hearts | jand the ears of the worxers remain closed to this appeal? Let us remem- ber that our duty is not merely to answer this mother’s anguish. It is |most brutal imperialism. This im_ perialism has in its records shameful jlyneh murders: the murder of Sacco |and Vanzetti, the life imprisonment |of Tom Mooney, the assassination of of thousands of militant white and black workers. | “Because it is a matter of a trial involving social conflicts, Yankee jvocations and cynical corruption. d by a terrible war of races. | Only international working class soli- | ;darity by immediate and energetic action will snatch these nine new vic_ tims away from. the assassination which is planned for them.” Negro Children in Baltimore Sign just posted up in Druid Hill Park, Baltimore, calling attention to the fact that Negro children are not permitted to play with white children. WARSAW.—Big demonstrations of | “unemployed workers took place in Gdingia. Several hundred unemploy- ed workers marched to the offices of the government commissar and de- tManded work or support. ‘The police attacked the demonstra- ‘tion’ and made over a hundred ar- ‘rests. Most of the arrested were then “STRIKE AT REFRIGERATORS IN MONTEVIDEO SP MMONTEVIDEO. — A strike has broken out at the great refrigerators s * "in Montevideo and has now extended * to the works of the Anglo-Uruguay Company. \ The ‘authorities have instituted a fierce terror against the strikers and hundreds have been arrested, in- cluding trade union leaders like Miguel, Contreras, Cesle and Peters “HAMBURG PHOENIX RUBBER WORKS SUPPLIES JAPAN HAMBURG, June 17—Worker- " correspondents at the rubber works “Phoenix” in Harburg near Hamburg report that the works are now en- gaged on large orders for rubber tires of a size never before produced in the works. These tires are for Japan. It is assumed that they are for aero- planes, armoured cars and so on. VOTE COMMUNIST FOR: 4. Equal rights for the Negroes and self-determination for the Black \~ Belt, SOCIALISTS A Letter from 2 Worker The Socialist Party held a meeting }and concert on Friday, June 10, in Casa D’Amor, West 3lst St., Coney Island. Admission free. The speak- ers were: Panken, Chas. Solomon, B. Viadek, and Chanin was chairman. anxious to enjoy a free con_ cert, @ group of workers and I de- cided to go. Near to the entrance a bakery boss’s son, recognizing us, immediately rushed ahead into the huge hall to warn them. Scattered, one here, one there, we entered a narrow stairway, which was sentin- elled by a double row of gangsters. Insidé, in the forefront, sat the bu- reaucracy of the Socialist Party and their women folks. White shoulders, arms in white kid gloves, round white throats, a misty shimmer of pearls, and in their hair a fire of diamonds. They wore cloaks of sable and er_ mine. As they moved little swift darts of color sprang from their jewels Solomon had just finished speak- ing. Dressed in white vest, white flower in the lapel of his full-dress suit and sparkling diamonds, Panken rose. He began to speak, a few min- “AT WORK” ‘Ask Workers to Concert, Beat’Em Up simply deported back to their home | utes of quietude reigned over the dig_ nified assembly. Not a word for immediate cash re- and white workers! Not a word for Unemployment Insurance for the 15 million jobless! Too impatient to fur- ther listen to his demagogy, the part of the hall which was slightly sprin- kled with workers, uprose, like one man and booed him several times! The army of gangsters were called | into action; black jacks and chairs | were flung freely! Panken stopped speaking, as pale as a ghost. The fight was on in full swing! A pillar of capitalist ju- diciary was crumpling; the dignity of the court suffered a set-back. Slo- gans of “Long Live the Communist Party!” “Down with the Socialist fakers!” and singing -of “Solidarity Forever” was heard in and out of the hall. The meeting broke up in wild uproar! The police were instantly put on the job. We attempted to hold an open air protest meeting. Swinging their clubs left and right the police protected “their” socialists. Thus we saw the socialist at work! ) Vi a necessary to attack and crush this} Harry Simms, the death of hundreds | class justice is accompanied by pro- | lief for the starving millions of Negro | THE IMPERIALISTS’ DREAM. “Ah, Love! Could you and I with fate conspire to grab this Bolshie scheme ef things entige! Would not we batter it like hell, and then bleed and exploit it to our heart’s desire?” From the British “Daily Worker” of the Communist | International Red Aid is calling upon | Blackjacks and ‘Hunger Rule Wichita Camp Hell |Beatings and Exira | WITCHITA, Kansas, June 17.—De- | tails of fiendish tortures at the Wit- chita Prison Camp continue to seep through despite the denials by Bert C. Wells and Chief of Police O. W. Wilson, in charge of the farm. The Daily Worker of May 21 published the story on forced labor at this camp. Failure to perform the forced labor either because of sickness, weakness | or lack of good physical condition is ;punished by bread and water and a 50 per cent reduction in credit al- lowed for serving out fines paid, it is revealed. A prisoner just released has de_ scribed the brutal beating of another prisoner, Peter J. Gentile, as follows: ““‘Curley,’ as we called him, was on bread and water for 35 days when they took him out to work. He could not stand the potato hoeing. When he gave up and started for the shade, Moody, the guard, grabbed him as if to drdg him back. There was a bit of a struggle ang Moody knocked him down with a blackjack. It peel- ed.a long piece, hair, hide and all, off Gentile’s head Knocked Down and Beaten “Then, when Genfile taunted Moody with using a blackjack on a weakened man, Moody handed the weapon to Superintendent Tom Cas- ner and lit into the prisoner, knock- ing him down and beating him. Cas_ ner stood close to Gentile with the blackjack but the man was too weak to be dangerous. “After it was all .over, Casner cursed Gentile and told him he would see to it that the prisoner served every day of the 114 it takes to serve out his fine on half pay, that he would stay on bread and water every day of it. Hands Cracked and Scarred “Another man, who worked in the kitchen 16 hours a day to get double time on his fine, said he was re- quired to scrub three dish drying towels for three hours steady on a washboard and in lye water. He showed his cracked, scarred hands, ““T couldn't have stood it another day,’ he said, ‘although I worked every day I was there.’ “Casner gives you sugar sacks for dish cloths and makes you even wash out the printed name on them. “I know of one boy whose fingers were cracked down to the bone back to the first joint, He couldn’t work any more in the kitchen so he tackled the job of pulling the plow. His jin- |gers would bleed from the strain of pulling with his hands behind his | Prisoners ‘Een Work, Dealt to Sick on his trousers.” Sour beans, another released pris- oner reported, were served four days in a row to the workers on the farm. No drinking water to be had from 8) p. m. to 6 a. m,, no reading matter, | rotten, poisonous food—these are among the charges made by these workers sentenced to forced labor on the farm for the crime of being un_ employed and homeless. BOSSES LACK COURAGE, SAYS RICH PARASITE He Pays Gita Soa . in Marsha!! ield Store CHICAGO, Ill.— James Simpson, chairman of the executive board of Marshall Field and Co., back from a pleasure trip which included big game hunting in Africa and India, declared that the business men and politicians of the country are sadly la‘king in courage and leadership, because they are making gestures of trying to re- lieve the widespread misery and un- employment in this city and through- out the United States. Mr. Simpson can afford to take pleasure trips at the expense of the help employed in what is boasted as being one of the largest department stores in the country. The underpaid girls who earn from $8 to $)5 cannot afford to take vacations, to say noth- ing of the thousands of extra sales girls who are kept on tap and are called down when a rush is expected at a special sale. If the rush isn’t as large as was expected they are told to go home. If they are fortunate enough to get @ day’s work they are paid the grand sum of $1.50 a day. Yet Mr. Simp- son has the brass to come out against eny sort of appropriation to take care of the unemployed, declaring that a “national financial disaster will oc- cur unless the government stops is- suing “bonds for unemployment re- lief, farm relief, soldier's bonus and other reliefs.” The underpaid slaves of M>~shall Field's and the 700,000 unemployed in Chicago will answer Mr. Simpson by back and the blood wouid drip downorganizing in ever greater numbers. The Trade Union Unity League on receipt of news of the murder and wounding of workers on strike against the American Smelting and Refining Company (a Guggenheim concern) in Mexico and the decision of the Mexican government arbitra- tion board in favor of the company, sent a telegram of protest to the governor of the state of Monterey and one of solidarity to the striking workers, Arouses Great Enthusiasm. The pledge of solidarity ¢ent by Comrade Foster in the name of tl TUUL was~eceived with tremendous enthusiasm by the workers, The pro- test to the governor aroused his anger as the reply shows. We publish below the reply of the strikers-and that of the governor of Monterey A Letter from the Workers. Trade: Union Unity League: Yesterday we received your tele- gram signed by Comrade Foster dated the 4th in which you send us a declaration of solidarity with the sharp struggle we are carrying on against the jmperialist enterprise of the American Smelting Co. The tele- gram in question was read at the general meeting of the strikers and gave great stimulus to the struggle. We have printed and circulated and posted it in many diferent vis- WM. Z, FOSTER ible outstanding places, we have taken advantage of it to show the -contrast that while the working class of the U. S. is with us in our struggles, the authorities of the country support by all means at their disposal the imperialists of that country. Information on the Strike. Two hundred ninety workers went on strike against a decision of the fascist court of Counciliation and Ar- bitration, which reduced the working days from 30 to 20 days a month. The struggle against this decision was linked up with other demands in the factory. This is the first strike in any imperialist enterprise 'Dedounees Murder of Strikers in Monterey By Guggenheim Trust Mexican Governor Justifies Terror Against). Workers In Shifty Letter to Foster ation the fascist court that must be informed of every strike according to the law. Shoot Down Workers. On the. first day of the strike two strikers were seriously wounded and one policeman was killed. The police in order to break the protec- tion of the strikers which was inside because it was an Italian strike, at- tacked the workers, resulting in the Secretary of the Trade Union, com- rade Jose Prado, of the Union of Shoe Workers, receiving a bullet wound in the head. Many other workers received bullet wounds. By this method the police and the army came out in support of the fascist court. and the American imperialist bosses. The Governor’s Reply to Foster. SA Monterey, NL Mex. June 6 William Z. Foster Trade Union Unity League 50 East 13th Street, New York. Yours of: yesterday protesting in the name of the workers of that country the so-called crime against the strikers of the American Smelt- ing Company, this government re- grets the unjust judgement of colum- nious character that you hold. You ignore the tolerance that has been observed with the illegal procedure of the strikers who do not stop be- cause of the outside influence in the campaign of harmful and injurious propaganda (oral and _ written) against the authorities of the state and of the republic. I conceive the confusion of your position to show your carelessness in judging on mat- ters of which you know nothing and I am sorry for the impolite phrases that you use in your message and that my discretion before the courts and the respect for the people and government of the United States keeps me from considering these phrases. Mexico is a country where all the precepts of the law are ob- served with dignity and where all the institutions are respected. I will be very pleased if you follow the same conduct. Governor of the State, FRANCISCO. A. GARDENAS. The Trade Union Unity League is sending a letter to the governor in re~ ply to his demagogic telegram and is forwarding a copy to the strikers pointing out the attempt of the Monterey ,governor to aid the Amer- ican Smelting Company by lying about the role of the government and the issues in the heroic strike of the Mexican workers. DICTATORIAL DECREE DISOLVES ROUMANIAN PARLIAMENT BUCHAREST, Roumania, June 17— —The Roumanian Parliament was dissolved today by a dictatorial de- cree issued by King Carol. New élections for the Chamber of Deputies are called for July 17 and carried without taking into consider- | for the Senate on July 20th, KNOXVILLE, Tenn, June 17.— Cotton mill workers of Knoxville have just received some more merciless’ wage cuts. The Brookside Mills, nor- mally employing 1,200 workers, got a 20 per cent cut; the Appalachian Mills, employing 1,890, got a 33 per cent cut; and the Cherokee Spinning Co., employing 500 got a 40 per cent slash. These mills have thrown so many out of work that they are only running half to two-third of normal. At Brookside, the workers also got a ten per cent cut last January. Even befors this last 20 per cent cut, work- ers only made $6 to $38 a week. Rent and water for the company -houses are deducted from this meagre pay. The compapy gets more graft by holding back a week’s wages from ev- ery worker. Workers are forced to put out twice 2s much work as formerly, and are speeded up beyond the en- durance point. Brookside Mills is listed as having authorized capital of $1,600,000, and carries $5,500,000 worth of insurance. In 1931, the company set aside for depreciation reserves $2,600,000. Nine Cents an Hour At the Appalachian Mills, worth $1,- 980,531, conditions are even worse. Group of Mexican Workers and Peasants MILL WAGES CUT 40 P.C. Profits in Tenn. from 9 Cent Hr. Pay per cent have brought workers down to slaving for 50c a day, or nine cents an hour. Workers who used to make $16 a week, do well now to make $3 and $4. Workers living at a dis- ance, who have to pay 20c for lunch, go home with 70 after a ten_hour day. The ‘speed-up and stretch-out are unbearable. Workers who used to run two speeders now run four, Spinners have to run six sides and also have to clean up. Workers are so tired at the end of the day, they can hardly drag themselves home. Cherokee Spinning Co., which gave the biggest cut, does an average busi- ness of around $1,200,000. Most of thes? mills have interlocking director, ates. Thé directors and owners are among the wealthiest residents of Knoxville, swilling the best food webring the finest clothes, and riding around in th: most expensive cars, while the workers are given one pay cut after another. Knoxville mill workers, to prevent further wage cuts, and get better con- ditions; must organize. They musi prepare to fight beck against the con- tinued attacks of the mill owners They must join a militant union, ¢ union controlled by the rank and file, the National Textile Workers Union. The last two cuts amounting to 33 <"TWortker and tarmer sportsmen “are invited to contribute to this cole umn, Address WORKERS SPORTS, q., Baily Worker, 50 E. 13th Sty New-York City). INTRODUCING OURSELVES [FERE we are! Yep, we're going to lgok at the box scores and the fight results and, particularly at the cht time, at the Olympic garhes ‘n we're gonna tell yon some things about this boasted world of OLYMPIC FLASHES Do you know, for instance, fellow, worker, that while you are walking the. streets unemployed—and there's 15,000,000 of us who that—that the Olympi is spending a cool $6,000,000 on the Olympic games at Los Angeles? The State of California, which holds Tom Mooney a prisoner, spent 2 million for the games, having voted a special bond issue for this purpose alone. According to figures gotten out by the..organizing committee in charge, $480..per athlete will be spent to transport the athletes and house them while at Los Angeles! The model village in which they will be housed cost $500,000 to build. It has 550 special portable houses and 40 private kitchens and dining rooms. And the State of California can’t pay out any adequate unemployment relief! AND ON THE OTHER HAND We. have the International Workers Athletic Meet, to be held as the winds up of-the Counter-Olympic Campaign at Stagg Field, Chicago, on duly 28, 29,.30.:: At this meet. there won’t be any. petted and pampered “expense account. amateurs.” They'll all be workers, farmers and working class students. If you want to get in touch with this.meet then write to the National Counter-Olympic Committee, at 799 Broadway, New York City, or to the National Organizing Committee, room 611, 140 N. La Salle St., Chicago, Ill. Better still, hook up with the nearest club that’s affiliated with the Labor apie jeanne ics weal STUDENTS—GOOD AND | OTHERWISE The recent events at Columbia University should have opened the eyes of lots of workers. The foot- bali-gang auacked and beat up students who were on strike against the dismissal of Reed Harris, stu- Tucker, Backland and Cohen, win- ners of the New York “Free Tom Mooney.’ run, held recently. Similar runs.are being held throughout the country under the direction of the Labor Sports Union. Gant editor. These are the same fellows who are supposed—accord- ing to popular sport page bally- ‘h66+to ‘go out and die for dear old Siwash . (every Autumn Saturday afternoon) just for the love of the game, © Se ee That Schmeling-Sharkey Fight In ‘connection with this fight it ts wise to remember that Owney Mad- den, racketeer, has his finger in the Madison;Square Garden pie and owns a string of boxers, including Primo Carnefa, ape He _ COMING EVENTS NEW YORK —Track and field meet (eliminations for the Int'l Meet) Ulmer Park, Brooklyn, Saturday, July 16th. There will be @ track and field events, with the added feature of ‘tlie Tom Mooney Mile Relay. En« tries can be gotten throu7h the N. Y. Counter,Olympic Comm..:¢e, 16 W. Ast. St, N. ¥. C. ‘Swimming meet, eeereee Pool, Ie ats CLEVELAND.—District elimination meet for the Int'l Meet at Conneaut, July +8rd and 4th. Get entries at the Labor Sports Union, Room 311, 1428 W. 3rd St., Cleveland, O. SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA—July 2,3, 4 at San Diego. Get entries from the Counter-Olympic Committee, 120 Winston St., Les Angeles, Calir. NEGRO VETS JAILED IN 1... WASHINGTON WASHINGTON, D. C., June 17— Willfath ‘Powell, a Negro war veteran, ‘awrenc? Owen, Negro vet, Sophie Russ and another worker were ar- ested here last nisht when the police xttempted to break up a meeting of 2 thousand workers and veterans sola att and 7th St. to demand the ‘éleese of the 9 innocent Scottsboro JOYS. EPROM NE a