The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 20, 1932, Page 1

VOTE COMMUNIST FOR 1. 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. ° ie ~~ So — DN orker Party U.S.A A Equal rights for the Negroes and self-determin- Against capitalist terror; against all forms of political rights of workers, VOTE COMMENIST FOR 4. ation for the Black Belt. 6. suppression of the 2 6. the Chinese people Against imperialist war; for the defense of and of the Soviet Union. (Section of the Communist International) Vol. IX, No. 146 _ 22 ASST UN NEW YORK, MONDAY, JUNE 20, 1932, _Garepmoy ss, (lop 8 Conia 500 DELEGATES AT N.Y. COMMUNIST CONVENTION ADOPT FIGHTING PROGRAM Nominate Amter for Governor, Shepard for Lieut. Gov., Weinstone for U.S. Senator Delegates from Shops and Breadlines Hit Hoover-Roosevelt Plans SCHENECTADY, . Y., June 19.—In an atmosphere of | | | They heard William Z. Foster, tremendous enthusiasm today 500 delegates to the Communist state, nominated candidates for the coming election and adopted a fighting program symbolized in the struggle against hunger and war. nist Party district organizer for District 2, was chosen as nominee for Governor of New} York. Henry Shepard, Negro worker and Harlem section organizer of the Unemployed Council, was nom- inated for Lieutenant-Governor, Wil- liam W. Weinstone, editor of the Daily Worker, was nominated for U. S. Senator from New York. The convention was called to order at 10 am. today and the delegates were welcomed on behalf of the Schenectady workers by-“Melvin Ly- tell, local Negro worker. Delegates Report First hand reports on conditions in numerous cities and farms were) brought to the convention by large numbers of. delegates, who took the floor and made vigorous speeches, calling for energetic State-wide cam- paign to popularize the Communist | Party platform to the workers every- where. Johannesen, of the Marine Workers | Industrial Union, told how the sea- men are disfranchised in the United States, although during the world war “their blood and guts were smeared all over the decks of ships carrying munitions.” Johaniesen. pledged the support of the union to the Communist campaign, and urged a drive to prevent the shipment of munitions to. be used against the Chinese workers and against the) Soviet: Union. Delegate From Strikers ‘The convention was stirred by the fiery speech of Charles Bronson, dele- gate elected by the striking cutlery) workers of Utica. He reported that! the cutlery strikers as well as the} girls locked out at the Daniels Dress- making ‘Co. in Utica were proudly following Communist leadership, and were conducting their struggle ac-/ cording to Communist advice to elect! their own strike committees. There are 15,000 unemployed in the little town of Utica, and Bronson | reported terrible misery among their: families. : O'Neill, a railroad worker, told of the wide -spread radicalization among men in that industry, and their growing disgust at the mislead- ers of the Brotherhoods and the A. F. of L. as indicated by the mood of the men in the yards and train service. “When The Veterans March” ‘The convention was brought to its| feet by the speech of Delegate Runja, representing Post 35 in the Bronx of the Workers Ex-Servicemen’s League. I. Amter, Commu-¢ SoundAlarm! Defend Chinese- Revolution! See Article on Page 4 The bosses are rapidly extend- ing their murderous war of in- tervention against the Chinese Revolution. .American and other imperialist warships are raining death on the revolutionary Chinese worker-peasant masses of Central and South China ..The Chinese Soviets are being attacked. .Every revolutionary worker should read the article on page four of today’s Daily Worker telling of the devel- opment of the imperialist armed intervention against the Chinese Revolution. Read and ACT! Or- ganize United Front Committees of/ Action against the robber war on China, for the defense of the Chinese People, the Chinese Soviets and ‘the Soviet Union! Organize to stop the production and shipment of arms against China and the Soviet Union! Hoover Speeds Up Fake “Relief” Act While 15,000,000 Need Jobless Insurance WASHINGTON, June 19.—In an effort to secure some action on his fake “relief” program, whether em- bodied in a modified Wagner bill or in the Barbour bill, President Hoover had a conference in the White House Sunday night with republican and democratic ranking members of the Senate Banking Committee. According to reports, the President declared at the conference that he agrees in substance with the Wagner bill, which authorizes the Finance Reconstruction Corporation to lend $300,000,000 to States for immediate “relief” work but wants the $300,00,- 00 to be granted at the discretion of the Corporation. It is clear that the “immediate relief work” will provide jobs for an insignificant handful of the 15,000,000 unemployed, while what is needed is unemployment insurance, at the ex- pense of the employers and the gov- ernment for all the jobless. The Wagner bill was “attacked” by “When the veterans march, the hand-; Allen T. Burns, executive director of eens of revolution is on the wall,” e Seid. Ple campai; s to Support the Communist in New York State were the Association of Community Chests in a letter sent to Chairman Steegal of the Senate Banking Committee. He charged that, if enacted, the bill made by bpposition groups in Locals 9 | “iscontinues all local relief. and 22 of the International Ladies \ Garment Workers, by Joseph Moore, "a Negro worker representing the left wing in the Carpenters’ Union, in New York. : Amter presented the platform for the state Communist election cam- paign, and then Stevens, the district French War Body Admits Czarists. campaign manager, made concrete! Workers Demand (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) Suit Indicates KKK Deal With Roosevelt; Awkward for Tiger NEW YORK —The Democratic Party machine is all excited over the publication of a suit for $7,000 for “services rendered” by the Ku Klux Klan to the Roosevelt campaign for Democratic National Convention dele- F. B. Summers and C. W. Jones, Public K.K-K. support does not look so good to Tammany, which wants to support Roosevelt and yhich has to play along with the Catholic priest- hood in New York. ‘The head of the Democratic Party state organization in Wisconsin has written a letter to the Democratic Their Expulsion With brazen defiance of the French workers’ demand that the Czarist White Guard assassins be ex- pelled from France, the National Union of Combatants (the French organization which is similar to the fascist American. Legion in the United States) has admitted tomem- bership the “Union of Russian Cos- sacks, participants of the World War.” This is another step taken by the bosses in their frantic preparations for an attack on the Soviet Union. ‘This latest action, which unites the Russian White Guards closer to the bosses’ war machinery, recently came to light through the publica- tion, in the “Illustrovanya Rossiya,” a White Guard sheet published in France, of a letter by General Boga- yerski, a leading monarchist officer. VOTE COMMUNIST FOR: National Committec, stating that this, 4. Equal rights for the Negroes and information should bar Roosevelt from nomination. self-determination for the Black Belt. 800 APPLAUD AS | | of the farmers from around here who Ke: | Communist candidate for president, State Convention here, from shops and farms all over the! sum up the indictment of capitalism | | capitalist party,, has filled the land | with 15,000,000 jobless, and has cut FOSTER ASSATES.- HOOVER HUNGER If | a fe | ‘Spokane Workers and| Jobless Rallying to | Communist Progam | SPOKANE, Wash., June 19.— Moose hall had an audience of 800 | workers, andeamong them were many | are losing their land because they can’t pay taxes, and demand immediate and con- tinued struggle for unemployment and social insurance at the expense of the state and the employers, and emergency relief for the poor farm- ers without restrictions by the gov- ernment and the banks; exemption of poor farmers from taxes, and no | forced collection of rents or debts, Foster assailed the brazen lies in the Republican Party national plat- from, just adopted in Chicago. The Republican Party, Foster pointed out, claims to be giving farm relief, yet in the last year of Republican domina- tion in Washington, 150,000,000 acres of farm land are thrown on the market through sheriff's sales for non-payment of taxes. ‘ Hunger and Wage Cuts Foster riddled the Republican pre- tensions of maintaining jobs and preventing wage cuts: showing that their regime, like that of any other wgaes and standards of living of those who do have work, by fifty to sixty per cent. Foster outlined the Communist demands, not only for unemployment insurance and no wage cuts in general, but for the payment of the back wages of the world war veterans, in the form of the rest of the soldiers’ bonus, and pointed to the 15,000° world war vets now camped in the mudholes around Washington, harried by police and faced by the Republican and Demo- cratic Party senate with a refusal of all their demands. Foster showed that lynchings and terror, including new measures like the Dies Bill to deport militant for- eign-born workers, have greatly in- creased during the industrial crisis, and called for struggle against these, and a big Communist vote as an in- dication of struggle. The crowd chereed enthusiastically all of the Communist platform points, Foster is to speak today in Seattle, tomorrow in Tacoma, in Portland June 21; San Francisco, June 23; Oakland, June 24; Los Angeles, June 26; San Digeo, June 27, and will then begin the swing through Arizona, Utah, Colorado and the Middle West. Alteration Painters’ Leader Arrested; 4 More Jailed At Strike NEW YORK.—The painters of the Keizer Shop, at Amsterdam Ave. and West 180th St. are striking and picketing, aided by the Alteration Painters Organization Committee of 1130 Southern Blyd., Bronx. Police terror against striking painters is growing. Four workers from this strike were jerked up by police and taken to the station for a long questioning. The cops didn’t get anywhere with that. Joe Harris, city organizer of the Alteration Painters was arrested Wednesday evening for active par- | ticipation in the Audobon Painting | Co. strike, and police are trying to \frame something up on him, ISRAEL AMTER Candidate for Governor of N.Y. 142 DELEGATES PLAN RELIEF FOR STRIKERS W. I. R. Conference in) New York Sets Up United Front NEW YORK.—Launching a broad relief campaign for the East Ohio} striking miners, the Colorado beet} workers and the East Ohio| struggle against child hunger and misery and to build a children’s camp, 142 delegates, representing 95 organ-| izations, were present at the Workers’ International Relief Conference, held Friday at Manhattan Lyceum. A graphic and moving description of thée-condition of the beet workers in Colorado was given by Mrs. Ade- laide Welker, who told of the appal- ling misery in the beet fields and the struggle of the Mexican and Spanish American workers. Thomas Stark, a Negro miner from the East Ohio fields, described to the assembled delegates the wage-cuts that forced the East Ohio miners to strike. ‘The comference was opened by a report by Michael G. Burd, district secretary of the W. I. R., on the re- lief ca:mpaigns the organization is engaged tn. The conference was addressed by | Secretary Zack of the Trade Union | Unity Council. Shoe and Fur Strikes. Speaking of the role of the Work- | ers’ International Relief, Organizer Maglianacono of the Shoe and Leather Workers’ Industrial Union told of W. I. R. support in that struggle and called for more. A fur worker told of looming strug- gles and the need ¢f a strong relief organization. It was unanimously decided that each organization represented ar- ranges special affairs for the relief campaign. Saturday, July 30, and Sunday, July 31, were proclaimed as | Tag Days to raise funds for relief. A District Committee of 25 was elected. The first meeting of the | newly-elected committee will be held | on Monday, June 20, at 8 p.m. at 16 | and four wounded, The guardsmen| relief and a minimum wage for la- W. 2ist St. Resolutions adopted include one scoring the Dies bill against foreign- born workers, one demanding the im- mediate release of the Scottsboro boys, one against the imperialist war | plots in the Far East and for de- fense of the Soviet Union, The con- ference voted to send a wire of greet- ® OMINATED BY SCHENECTADY COMMUN HENRY SHEPARD |Candidate for Lieut.-Goyernor| Candidate for U. S. Head Communist Ticket in N. Y. |} State Election The Biographies of the three leading candidates (shown above) follows. ISRAEL AMTER Comrade Amter, born March 26, 1881, in Denver, Colorado, Father a small tradesman. Forced to go to work at an early age, Comrade Amter has given his best energies and talent to the Com- munist movement. Joining the So-| cialist Party in 1902, he one of the staunchest fighters against the | opportunism that characterized. that party, especially in its attitude toward | the imperialist world war. | | | The name of Comrade Amter, is identified with most. of the important | and significant events in thepost»war | class struggle in the United States. Becoming the New York organizer of the underground Communist Party in 1920, he was one ,of the first leaders of the unemployed masses. Aiways.a| mass worker, he organized the rubber | and metal workers in Ohio from 1925 | to 1926. In 1927-28 he played a prominent role in the organization and strike struggles of the mine workers. Arrests, jail, brutal police assaults only intensified his work in Ohio, Continuing his work in New York, Comrade Amter was the very center of the great struggles of 1929-30. As @ member of the March 6th, 1930 unemployment delegation, in con- nection with the Union Square dem- onstration which forced recognition of the crisis upon the capitalist press, he was railroaded to jail for six months by the Whalen-Tammany (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) Nicaragua Rebels In Sharp Clash With U. S. Forces Another sharp clash occurred on Saturday between Nicaraguan guards- men organized by the United States and led by an American officer and | armed workers and peasants fighting against the American conquest. ‘Three insurgents are reported killed were led by U. S. Lieutenant Wallace D. Martin, of Texas. STRIKE AT LA PRENSA, NEW YORK. — A-F.L. union typo- graphical workers of La Prensa, a Spanish Language capitalist paper here, have struck over refusal of the ings to Tom Mooney. management to pay the union scale. 7/ENTION | WILLIAM W. WED STONE Senator -| T0 HOLD BIG ANTI- DIESBILLR ALLY IN PITTSBURG, PA. IL | Calls for Mass emonstration on June 22nd PITTSBURGH, June 19.—The Dis- H trict Office of the International La- | bor Defense called upon all Pitts-| burgh workers to participate in a| huge anti-Dies Bill demonstration scheduled to take place Wednesday, June 22nd, at 8 p. m. in the Pythidn Temple, 11 Center Ave. This rally will also be a celebration | of the victory scored by tlic Interna- tional Labor Defense with the acquit- tal of Patterson, Careathers, Griffith and Collins who. faced a two-years sentence because of their struggle against evictions. William Patterson and Frank Bor- ich will be the main speakers at this rally, which will be held under the auspices of the International Labor Defense of the Pittsburgh District. Chicago Demonstration June 23. CHICAGO, June 19.—A demonstra- tion against the Dies-Fish Bill and for the immediate release of the Scottsboro boys will be held here on June 23, 6 p. m. at Washington Park, 51st Street and South Lawrence Streets. Leading candidates of the (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) JOBLESS IN COSTA RICA DEFY POLICE Communists ‘Turn Toward Workers BONUS FIGHT HAS JUST STARTED; VETS OCCUPY Numbers Grow to 20,000; Rank and File Force Waters’ Strong Arm Gang to Release Victim Ex-Servicemen’s Pro- gram for SolidOrganization; Ally With Jobless WASHINGTON, D. bonus, our back wages, has j of the rank and file in the mudhole camps around W: June 19. — “The fight for the ust started!” is the decision shing- ton, to which the thousands of world war veterans returned after the Senate slammed the d of \Mrs. Wright Radios Scotisboro Appeal; World Fight Grows AMSTERDAM, Jure 19. (By | Radio).—Mrs. Ada Wri ‘nt, mother of two of the innocent Scottsboro | | Negro boys, spoke on the radio today, broadcasting the Scottsboro appeal to all the people of Hol- land, | Mrs. radio followed a series of tremen- dous demonstrations of workers in Rotterdam, Amsterdam and Delft, as well as a huge’ meeting at which many Dutch intellectuals |were mobilized to support the worldwide fight to free the nine || Scottsboro boys. A Scottsboro | Committee has been organized, with many intellectuals partici- || 1] Wright’s address on the | | pating. An energetic fight against the | | barring of Mrs. Wright from Eng- | | land is being carried on by work- | ers and intellectuals in Great | | Britain, France, Germany and other European countries. The | Scottsboro issue is to be | jp in the British parliament. ARRESTS IN CHILE Strike Movement, Grows; Air Service | Revolts Over 500 Communists were arrested in Chile last Friday and Saturday following the return of Carlos Davila | as head of the two weeks’ old fascist- militarist. dictatorship. Mass arrests} are continuing. Colonel Groves was ousted as head | of the dictatorship on the grounds; that he had not proceeded sharply | enough against the revolutionary | workers and peasants. The Davila faction has pledged itself to the im-| perialists to crush the rising revolu- | ‘tionary movement led by the Chilean |even the name of the |Government Arrests 58| communist Party. The ousting of! Party rang through the streets as Groves and the mass arrests of revo- | lutionary. workers was followed by a Under the leadership of the Com- munist Party of Costa Rica, workers of San Jose on Saturday heroically | defended themselves against a mur-| | derous attack by the police, who tried | to break up a demonstration against | unemployment and for unemployed] | borers. When police fired into the crowd, the workers answered with a barrage of rocks and other missiles. The chief of police was struck on his head with a rock, and several other policemen were injured. Fifty-eight Communists were arrested by the police and charged with “inciting to riot.” ‘The plans of Japanese imperialism for the domination of China, the seizure of Siberja and ‘the crushing of the United States,’ are boldly out- lined in the Tanaka Document, de- clares Prof. Wilhelm H, H. Roth in an article in yesterday’s Sunday Am- erican, He scouts the Japanese pro- testations that the Tanaka document is a forgery, He declares that “the British diplomatic authorities de- clared their absolute belief in its genuineness” and points out, further, that: “The imperialist program of world conquest, which the Tanaka Mem- orial pretends to outline and recom- | mend is now in the act of execu- tion.” “Autumn of 1931 saw the sudden renewal on a huge scale of Baron Tanaka's “positive policy,” the in- vasion and occupation for good of Manchuria under the auspices of the ‘JAPAN PLANS SEIZE CHINA, E. SIBERIA, CRUSH U.S.’ so-called ‘liberal’ Minseito Govern- ment—and yet sentimentalists all over the world had believed the dreaded ‘positive policy’ of Baron Tanaka to be as defunct as the late General himself.” Roth who has just returned from Japan where he spent the past seven years as professor of foreign lan- guages and German culture of the Imperial National College at Himeji, near Kobe, declares that the Tanka Document is supported in its essence by all circles of the Japanese ruling class and press. He further refers to the secret military agreement be- | tween France and Japan and de-) clares: 4 “We are now, to all intents and purposes, witnessing the opening chapter of a new major drama en- acted on the International stage Only Workers Can Prevent New World Slaughter! Stop Shipment of Arms! most ancient autocracy, rising in revolt against all the pacts and foreign obligations that stand in the way of her national destiny. Armed to the teeth, and organized into one of the most efficient war machines! Endowed with a tradi- tional love of fighting and of dying for the sacred homeland! Proud of her history and divme imperial line! Ready to attain her goal— or to perish! } “This ominous performance, fraught to the bursting point with | imminent danger to the peace of the | world, is secretly applauded and, | behind the curtains, assisted by | France—the high-spirited, victory- drunken Hercules among the im- poverished nations of Europe, as far as collossal armaments, stupendous riches, undaunted martial spirit and | in the Far East. | Japanese imperialism. and the wage Roth omits to mention the heroic anti-war actions of the revolutionary Japanese proletariat, as well as the criminal aid given the Japanese mi- litarists by the United States through the sal2 and shipment of huge supplies |of munitions and war materials to Japan. The professor indicates that he wants the U. S. imperialists to have exclustye monopoly of the spoils On the contrary the U. S. workers should organize anti-war ¢ommittees in the shops aimed both against cutting and war fhaking government of the U, S, A. The Tanaka Document is pub- lished under the title of “Japanese Imperialism \Stripped” and may be obedient military vassals are con- cerned.” \ obtained at the Workers Book Shop, 35 East 12th Street. ’ tremendous upsurge of mass revolu- | tionary activity throughout Chile. Railway workers at once went out on| strike. Trains between Santiago and | Valparaiso are being operated by} scabs under heavy military protec- | tion. Huge hostile demonstrations have occurred in Santiago and other cities. In Santiago, street car service was stopped by the employees, sup- ported by the revolutionary workers in the city. Several cars were over-j} turned. H The Chilean air force has joined the new reyolt against the Davila | military junta. Rebel planes have detained the destroyer on which} Groves and several Communist lead- ers were being shipped to the horrible | island prison of Juan Fernandez. The rebel planes have taken control | of the Quintero airdrome, near Val- paraiso, without resistance from the navy. Mechanics, armed by the rebel aviators, are reported in control of El Bosque airport, |near Santiago. The streets of Santiago and the pal- ace are heavily guarded by troops loyal to the military junta headed by Davila, a former Chilean Ambassador to the United States and a tool of} ‘Wall Street. | The struggle between the Davila and Grove factions reflects the bitter struggle between American and Brit- ish imperialism for economic control of Latin America, Grove during his short stay in power had played with a program hostile to the Cosach ni- trates combine, a concern controlled by Wall Street. He was suspected of antagonism to American financial ine terests and sympathy with British interests. CANADA POLICE TERROR | York have moved out DAVILA IN MASS TORONTO.—Toronto police at- tackeq a meeting of the youth anti- war conference in this city recently. Religious meetings in the. same are undisturbed = — oor in their faces Friday. Great sections of the Bonus Expeditionary Force are ral- lying to the program of the Workers Ex-Servicemen’s Lea- gue. In spite of orders of the Waters “high command” and the po- lice and government officials, groups from Tex: , Ohio, Detroit and New of the muddy Anacostia flats and o ed dozens | of government buildings. This move- ment is still going on, Protest Police Terror. The W.ES.L. wired protests today to Chief of Police sford, to the jchairman of the ways and means committee, which scored the terror d against the rank and file bonus hers. The W.E.S.L, demanded jthe right of free speech and free~ ATTACK AT FORD MEETING Convention in Boston ass Open BOSTON, Mass., June 19.— The Massachusetts State Nom- inating Convention of the Communist Party opened at the Municipal Building today with delegates from all parts of the state. James W. Ford, Comunist candidate for v president, will address the del- egates and visitors at 6 p.m. today. Pat ee Overwhelm Police Oppo- sition. GLOVERSVILLE, x: June 19. — Yesterday for the first time in the history‘of this little city, which takes its name from its main industry, the program and Communist several hundred workers heard and applauded James W. Ford The mayor and chief of police were taken aback when they heard the demand for a permit for a Com- munist election rally. They finally consented, apparently with the in- tention of breaking up the meeting itself, and hoping that the workers of Gloversville, poisoned by capitalist propaganda, would refuse to listen to a Negro Communist candidate for vice-president of the United States. But the workers of Gloversville, and a couple of hundred from the nearby city of Johnstown, gathered on the curb of Bleeker Square as the meet- ing opened. Couldn't Smash Meeting. Hoodlums and police united in a vain effort to smash the meeting. The crowd refused to be intimidated. Several rotten eggs and tomatoes were hurled at the speakers’ plate form by little gangs, who operated right under the eyes of the police, Then, when Ford was introduced, the police tried to stop the meeting © on the grounds of “no permit.” They ordered the crowd to leave and the crowd stood fast. The police cap- tain telephoned this to his superiors, and they yielded. The meeting went on for an hour, and, at the close, the worker audience beat up the gang- sters who had been throwing toma+ toes. Ford was loudly cheered, especially when the meeting continued after the police tried to stop it. Many Negro workers were pres- ent and a number joined the Com- munist Party. This town has 22,000 workers, most of them formerly eme ployed in the glove and leather fac- tories. Mass layoffs started in Jan- uary and-most of the factories are closed. Those that run do so only three days a week and wages have been cut one third. VOTE COMMUNIST FOR: | 2 Against Hoover's wage-cutting ee SA ad m J