The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 21, 1932, Page 1

— A adiiind a a fe bs aad — ‘ encarta SS 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 e—- Conn (Section of the Communist Inerstionl) Norker prumist Porty U.S.A. oo VOTE COMMUNIST FOR Equal rights for the Negroes and self-determin- against all forms of suppression of the political rights of workers. 4. ation for the Black Belt. 5. Against capitalist terror; 6. Against imperialist war; for the defensé- of the Chinese people and of the Soviet Union. Vol. IX, No. 147 second-class matter at the Post Uffice at New York, N. Y, ander the act of March 3, 1879 NEW YORK, TUESDAY, JUNE 21, 1932 en | _Price 3 Cents — LEADING U. 8. DENOUNCE WRITERS DIES BILL; N.Y. MEET TOMORROW Dreiser, Gold, Anderson, Steffens, Members of | | Committee Which Issues Statement Union Square Protest Tomorrow at 6:30; Four | Meetings Hel din Cleveland BULLET! NEW YORK.—A tremendous demoastration is expected here when thou- sands of workers will gather at Union Square tomorrow evening at 6.30 to | The meeting is being called jointly by the | protest against the Dies Bill. International Labor Defense arid the Committee for the Protection of the | HOOVER-GREEN FOR WAGE CUT FURLQUGH PLAN House Expécte d to Pass Blow at Gov't Employees WASHINGTON. June 20.—The ac- centance by the House of Represen- tatives of the plan to furlough all governmental employees for one month without pev, was indicated here today. President Hoover in- sisted thet this plan is supported by William Green, of the American Fed- evetion of Labor, as being “in keep- ing” with his suggestion for a five- day week. This plan is more vicious than the direct wage-cut of 11 per cent orig- inally incorporated by the House of Feorcsentatives in the “economy” bill. Not only does it mean that all governmental employees will be de- prived of their pay for one month, which .in itself amounts a drastic wage-cut, but it calls for increased sveed-up resulting undoubtedly in! the displacement of _many workers. ‘The Green slogan of.the “five-day week” is with consequent wage re- ‘ductions in them welcomed by the capitalists and their government. It is a wage cutting measure. Representative LaGuardia approves of this stagger system but pretends to be fighting for a half-month fur Jough instead of a whole month fur- lough. His stand, which is the stand of the so-called progressives, indi- cates therefore that the House of Representatives is now almost unan- imously in favor of the plan which will be incorporated in the economy bill instead of the direct 11 per cent Wage cut. ‘The only controversial point is the extent of the furlough and it is clear that this point will be cleared out by compromise. The prevailing opinjon here is that the House will pass the plan with slight modifications. VIOLENT FIGHTS IN GERMAN CITIES “(12000 More Communist Votes in Hessen BERLIN, June 20:—The result of Yesterday's Hessen Diet; elections were unfavorable. The Communist Party gained seven mandates, lost three hut gained 12,000 votes on the low record registered at the second stage of the presidential elections. Fascists plus Nationalists failed to wir a majority. TY» Social Demo- crats gained two seats probably at the expense of the Socialist Workers Party, which lost half the poll. The fascists gained five seats, the Catholics ermained stale, the middle parties dropped three seats despite their amalgamation. ‘The week-end saw unusually vio- lent collisions everywhere, Organized « fascist demonstrations at Munich in defiance of the police prohibition re- sulted in collisions with mounted and {foot police at many pooints. Five hundred unformed fascists were ar- |rested. Several policemen were in- jured. Collisions In Many Towns. A similar fascist attempt to dem- onstrate at Cologne resulted in fierce collisions with the police using batons en revolvers. Many were injured arrested. The fascist headquar- ters were raided and occupied. Fierce collisions between fascists, revolutionary workers, Reichsbanner, etc., to@k place at Barmen, where a Communist was stabbed, two fascists were sent to the hospital and many workers arrested; at Elberfeld, where “many were injured, including two po- licemen, EDITORIALS ON PAGE 4 © Foreign Born. Sor ree | “Tyrannical,” Say Writers NEW YORK.—“The Dies Bill is one of the most tyrannical and op- pressive pieces of legislation even in- troduced in the Congress of the U. S.” This is how the Dies Bill, aimed to exclude and deport militant for- eign born workers, is characterized by the National Committee for the Defense of Political Prisoners*in a statement issued today, through its secretary, Elliot E. Cohen. “We emphatically protest against the Dies Deportation Bill, and call upon the Senate to defeat it,” de- |clares the statement of the commit- tee, which includes such outstanding writers as Theodore Dreiser, Michael Gold, Sherwood Anderson, Waldo Frank, Lincoln Steffens, Elmer Rice. Lewis Mumford, Malcolm Cowley and Edna St./ Vincent Millay. Roused Thousands The protest against the Dies Bill, has aroused thousands of workers thyoughout the country. Huge mass meetings in various parts of the U.S. many already held and others being planned indicate the sharp resent- ment against the bill which grew di- rectly out of the Fish Committee hearings. In conclusion, the Committee's statement declared that “all who do not wish to see a modern inquisition set upon these shores for the torture and-terrorization. of aliew workers are urged to wire their senators demand- ing that this vicious bill be scrap- ped.” e sets 1,000 Protest in Cleveland, CLEVELAND, June 20. One thousand Cleveland workers gathered in four halls in different sections of the city and bitterly protested against the Dies Bill now pending in the Senate and condemned the attempt to deport Louis Bebrits, edi- tor of the Hungarian workers daily Newspaper, Uj Elore, Speakers represented a large num- ber of organizations, Workers present pledged to carry on the struggle against the policy of deportation. Speakers representing various organizations addressed the workers, A warm demonstration was given Bebrits, who has been ordered de- ported June 29, when he appeared on the platform of the West Side Hungarian Hall. Amis Is Speaker. Another splendid meeting was held in the East Side Hungarian Hall, where B, D. Amis, district organizer of the Communist Party in Cleve- land, spoke, He denounced the threatened deportation of Bebritz to fascist Hungary and demanded that the government. grant him the right of voluntary departure. Resolutions were adopted condemn- ing the Dies Bill and demanding that Edith Berkman and other workers held for deportation be released. WASHINGTON, June 20. — The “Military Order of the World War”, a reactionary army officers’ organiza- tion today wrote to Senator Oddie of Nevada registering their approval of the Dies Bill “in order to keep America for Americans.” RUMANIA REFUSES PACT WITH USSR: BUCHAREST, June 20—Rumania refused to enter into a non-aggres- sion pact with the Soyiet Union it was announced here. Toilers Made to ‘WASHINGTON, D. C., June 20.— Millions of workers will begin to feel today the burden of the manufac- turers’ levies designated to raise $1,118,500,000. Not the manufactur- ers, but the workers who are the basic consumers, will have to suffer their crushing weight. These levies will be paid by the manufacturers, porters after the consumers will buy 4 producers and im-! | joyed by the workers and peasants ist dictatorship in the U. S. the senate where their so-called re Two photographs which contrast vividly the real democracy en- of the Soviet Union with the capital- Photo (left) shows Michael Kalinin, pres- ident of the Central Committee of the Soviet Government discussing with a group of peasants and workers the day-to-day problems and grievances which they are presenting to him, On right, ex-servicemen, victims of the imperialist war and the capitalist crisis, excluded froma presentatives were preparing to deny them their back wages in the form of th Bonus, Revenues The Japanese have launched a strangle-hold on Manchuria by the 500 ON SHIP HIT for Scottsboro AMSTERDAM, Holland, June 20 (By Radio).—It is estimated that a quarter of a million listeners heard Mrs. Ada Wright give her Scotis- boro 3) reached Over into Germany and Belgium, as well as throughout Rolland. Many lettere were re- ceived by Mrs. Wright expressing solidarity with her in her fight for the liberty bs ee epobiepore boys. NEW YORK. i on ae fo the International Labor Defense from workers on board the S.S. York re- ports the holding of a Scottsboro pro- test meeting on board the vessel. The meeting voted to send the following protest radiogram to the U. S. Su- preme Court at Washington, D. C.: “We, five hundred workers in mass meeting aboard S.S. Yorck in mid-ocean en route from Galveston, Texas to Bremen, Germany, vehe- mently protest assassination of the nine Scottsboro boys. We demand immediate and unconditional release of all class war prisoners.” The ‘radiogram to the ILD an- nounced that a full report of the meeting would follow by mail. NEW YORK.—“And now that we case before the United States Su- preme Court,” reads a letter to the Scottsboro boys from the Interna- tional Labor Defense, “we must con- tinue, yes, we must make even a much greater fight than we have made up to the present time. We must get together more millions of workers throughout the entire world to demand your release. Only in this way will we be able to succeed in getting you boys out of prison fin- ally.” This is the promise the Interna- tional Labor Defense has given the Scottsboro boys. The formal receipt from the Alabama authorities of the papers granting an official stay of the execution has already been re- ceived by the ILD national office— papers demanded by the Supreme Court acceptance of the case for re-~ view. But there must be no relaxing of efforts! Rush contributions to the Interna- tional Labor Defense, Room 430, 799 Broadway, New York City. NEW TAX HITS WORKERS Pay Mfrs.’ Excise the taxed commodities. This means the consumers will pay the excises to the retailers. Workers will be com- pelled to pay more for electric light, for gasoline, for toilet preparations, for soft drinks and even for chewing gum. The so-called manufacturers’ ex- cise taxes are really additional levies on the meager wages of the workers, which are already drastically slashed through wage-cuts, lay-offs and un- employments The amount of goods the workers can buy is thus further reduced and the economic crisis is prolonged, LYNCH VERDICTS | ILD ‘Appeals for Funds! over. the radio, « It.) have finally succeeded in getting the | at Darien Move Designed to Strengthen Strangle-Hold On Manchuria move to strengthen their economic seizure of customs revenues which hitherto have been transmitted to the Nanking Government. The move is initiated through the puppet Manchoukuo Government sct up in Manchuria by the Japanese. The seizure of these revenues. is to be —® carried out under the pretense of tar- iff autonomy for the “independent state” of Manchoukuo. The revenues gffected are those collected at the port of Darien in the Japanese leased territory. Customs revenues collected in Manchuria proper already had been seized by the Japanese puppet state. Under a 1907 ; agreement with China, the Japanese are “bound” to treat Darien customs revenues as an integral art of Chi- nese customs. | With typical imperialist hypocricy the Japanese are now loudly pro- claiming their “henorable intentions” to observe this agreement. At. the holding all the key positions in the | Manchoukuo Government’ are pro- ceeding to scrap the agreement. These protestations of “honorable inten- tions” are being made because ‘the Japanese fear that their seizure. of the Darien revenues ‘will bring sharp | protests from the United States and Great Britain. These two imperialist powers want to make sure that all Nanking Government will repay the | loans they advanced to finance the Nanking butchers in their murderous campaigns against the revolutionary masses of the Chinese Soviet districts. ‘The Darien reyenues were applies to | the liquidation of foreign debts, The Japanese Foreign Office has therefore declared its neutrality, pre- tending that the customs-dispute is confined solely to Nanking and the Manchoukuo Government, Which is a puppet of Japan. STATE CAMPAIGN GETS UNDER. WAY Candidates 1 Picked at Convention | SCHENECTADY, June 20,—Pledges | that the Commynist Election plat- form would be brought to thousands of workers and farmers of the state were made by delegates to the N. Y. Nominating Convention as they left for their home cities. ers of many unions, shops and or- ganizations, met here yesterday at the Albany Theatre and nominated a full slate of state candidates for the coming election, headed by I. Amter, Communist district organizer of New York, the nominee for gov- ernor. Amter’s name was placed in nomi- nation by Fallops, a Negro worker, in an impassioned speech. The other candidates chosen were Henry Shepard, Negro worker and unemployed leader, for Lieutenant- Governor, who was nominated by J. H, Cohen, veteran leader of the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union; William W. Weinstone, editor of the Daily Worker, for U, S. Sen- ator, nominated by Sadie Van Veen; J. Louis Engdahl, for Attorney-Gen- eral, riominated by Nolan, of Syra- cuse; Rose Wortis, for Controller, nominated by John Steuben, secre- tary of the New York Trade Union Unity Council; George Powers, trade union leader, for chief justice of the state supreme court, nominated by Walenchick, delegate of the Carpen- ters and Joiners, New York. VOTE COMMUNIST FOR: 5. Against capitalist terror; against all forms of suppression of the Politionl rights of workers — —_—_—® Japanese Seize China very time that the Japanese officials | | Nearly 500 delegates uniting work- | An American Worker Answers “Buy Now” Bunk | j The following letter, printed | | | | | recently im the Los Angeles times, speaks for itself, It aiso speaks for many millions of other American workers: “Editor: “The other day your paper printed a cartoon with the cap- tion, ‘Spend Like An American,’ I'am an American. My people came to Pennsylvan'a in 1757. One of them was an army team- | ster at Valley Forge. Last week I | | earned 59 cents, the week before | $3.50, four weeks no work at, all. The point is ¥ still have 75 cents. T want to spend it like an Amer- ican, but how in hell shall I spend it? One tooth is gone from my lower plate—shall I get @ new one? My watch crystal is cracked—shall I replace it? 1 want to do the right thing, Per- ! haps I should pay for my home | | or buy a car. me? “EARL JAYSON STROCK.” Can you advise 'SHOE WORKERS Four Brought from Mass. by I. Miller NEW YORK.—A very interesting story was told to the I., Miller Shoe strikers yesterday morning by four shee workers from Haverhill, Mass. One of them was notified by Watson, a Board of Trade agent, to come to! work for I."Miller and bring alon> as | many lasters'as he could reach. This worker came to New York with three more lasters,. When they reported for the job'they asked the boss what: | sort of tricks he was up to, by call- ing workers from out of town to come scabbing in New York. “As long as there is a picket line, we shall not work,” one worker said. | “T am 30 years in the trade and never | took. somebody's job away, and: never | will.” Strikers gaye Rosenberg, organizer of theUnion, a rousing welcome on} his return from Long Island Jail for strike duty. Rosenberg and Plecan served a ten-day sentence, He was sentenced by Judge Georgio of Long Island Magistrate's Court for his! strike activity. Miller is now resorting to another scheme of fooling the workers. Spe- cial deliveries are being sent out to | the strikers to report to, the office of the ‘firm. “The purpose is to make them sign statements that they want to go to work, but they are kept out against their will. The strikers are warned to ignore these letters and bring them to the Strike Committee. Stir Up War Fever with EarhartWelcome NEW YORK. — Amelia Earhart, who flew across the Atlantic in a plane, was welcomed here yesterday by Mayor Walker with the army, ; navy and marine corps, an aerial parade, and all the other noise and stir which capitalist governments use to whip up war hysteria. STRIKE. SKALER JOB. NEW YORK. — Twelve painters, the whole crew, of Skaler Construc- tion Co. struck at noon yesterday against a wage cut from $6 a day to REFUSE TO SCAB, REVEAL LEAGUE CONSORTED WITH | Considered | Against U.S.S. “ a ful” R. | Nations sent to Manchuria under | the pretense of conducting an “in- vestigation of Sir anese Hoes f: le ing in frat This was let out “lthe Freneh repre: | commission in a statement pra | | the czarist bandits and declaring th at th | the Soviet Union. | Close Connection. This close connection of the Lea- gue of Nations commission with the Venie guardists was inadvertently | | blurted out ina r item in the June members of the. commission, “The entire. commission considers other things, this journey has com- pelled many to think about this question and has shown that the Russian emigrants in Manchuria are a quite self-sufficient force, complete- ly individual, healthy and useful. “The significance of the role of the Russian emigrants is showing itself more outstandingly than in Western Europe. The sojourn of the commission in Manchuria has com- pelled its members to recollect Na- tional Russia, and to convince them- Selyes that Russia in its cultural forms did not disappear. “Greatest Impression,” “Gen, Claudel told me that from in Harbin and in Manchuria general- with the representatives of Russian emigrants.” WHITE GUARDISTS, The Commission of the League of | h the white | \ 19, hissue of “R + @ | monarchist white gu: t published in New York. The news story follow “Harbin—The re: of a large ; Russian newspape ‘a, was re- ceived by the French consul, M. Re- naud, who stated, “The representative of France in| | the commission of the League of Na- tions, Gen. Claudel, has related to/| me not only his own imp: 4 but | | also the impressions of the other its journey into Manchuria very in- | | teresting and very important. Among | mittee of Left Wing Groups of the| all of these meetings which he had} ly the greatest impression upon him | has been produced by the meeting | through a real strike can the condi-} “5,000 VETERANS LEAVE MUD FLATS; TAKE OVER MORE EMPTY BUILDINGS Washington Workers Demand Among V Vets MARION, Southern Railwa , June Louis Chiape' June 20.—Led b: WASHINGTON, MASSACHUSETTS 230 Delegates |Mills Smash Spindles, {Unemployment Grows BOSTON, Mess., June 20.—Gather- from 23 cities, 230 delegates at |the Comunist State Nominating Con- {vention in the Municipal Building | here yesterday ratified the nomina-| tion of John J. Baliam for Governor ef Massachusetts, and James W. | Dawson, a Negro worker, for Lieu-- | | tenant-Governor, The delegates, ramshackle ing arriving in and automobiles, fro’ 1 orce and Quincy, from the shoe factor f Lynn and Brockton. For seven hours, these delegates, ja pplauded by 569 visitors, discus; \t the issues captronting the workers rose to a demon- | g| stration of working class solidarity | jand support when James W.. Ford, | Communist Party, entered the hall to deliver a speech which summed up | the aims and methods of the -strug- | gle of the working class in this state, | jin this election campaign. The con- vention ended after Ford's speech. Delegate aft delegate to tell of the bitter st: took the floor the workers in their neighborhoods. } | They told of wage cuts and hunger, of their det to rally be-| (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) ‘WARN OF SELL- NEW YORK.—The Central Com- International Ladies Garment Work- ers has issued a call to the active cloakmakers, irrespective of their po- litical opinions, to come to a confer- ence Tuesday night, rizht after work, }a | |Irving Place. | Since the expiration of the agree- |ment, on June 1 officials have been carrying on secret negotiations with the bosses, without any effort to prepare the workers for a real strike. During the past few weeks some of the largest manufacturers have locked out the workers without any steps being taken by the union to fight these lock-outs, and the condi- tions of the workers are getting worse. The call points out tions of the cloak makers be im- proved. By C. B. COWAN. CLEVELAND, Ohio, June 20.—The Cleveland Post of the Workers’ Ex-| |all attempts of the Legion and the} Servicemen’s League and the Bonus March Committee of Cleveland are making a strenuous effort to recover the body of Lloyd White, a Negro worker who died of pneumonia near Pittsburgh while enroute to Wash- ington with the Detroit-Toledo- | Cleveland Bonus March delegation. The body is now in the possession of an undertaker 4n Washington, Pa., who threatens to bury it in potters’ field, The undertaker, a catspaw of the American Legion, the Cayahoga Veterans’ Association and the Veter- ans, is placing all sorts of obstacles in the way of the comrades of the dead worker in their effort to obtain $5. ‘The company is located at 1177 Anderson Ave, Bronx, his body, SNATCH BODY OF “VET” Ohio Negro Worker Died on March White, unemployed for a year, left Cleveland with the ex-servicemen’s delegation June 3. He fought against leaders of the Cayahoga Veterans’ Association to disrupt the ranks of | the bonus marchers and prevent the veterans from reaching Washington. He was with the marchers when they reached Pittsburgh after having been without sleep for two days and j Weak from the lack of food and the rigors of the march from Cleveland. at the edge of Pittsburgh by Police | Commissioner Marshall of that city | and his police thugs, who refused to | allow the marchers to rest or eat in that city and attempted to force them to march several miles to Tedememnie oe tion Before Congress Adjourns CONVENTION IS RALLY TO FIGHT | Report} trucks | came | er | ies | tempt OUT IN LLGW.. t Irving Plaza Hall, 15th Street and | sj the International | that only | ; He was one of those who were met) Get Aid of Soldiers; Marines In Distributing Leaflets Grows for Demonstra: obeeee er BULLETIN 20—Shot by a Special detective for the tta, bonus marcher, died here today. The ex-serviceman was shot in the abdomen as he slept in a box car here Friday en route home from Washington, D. C. y rank and file committees, 5,000 ex+ | servicemen today revolted against the hand-picked, reactionary leadershig of the Bonus Expeditionary Force by turning their back on the muddy Anacostia flats and seizing a number of empty government buildings in *the city. } Pace, of the Workers Ex-Service+ men’s League, was elected a come mander in the commandeered build ings by the veterans This movement of the vets to the | city, although reaching its highest point today, started almost immedi- jately after the senate’s rejection of the bonus bill Vets Show Militancy. The seizure of the buildings today was effected in spite of threats of violence by the police. Washington | Police squads who invaded the com- | mandeered buildings were forced to |retire by the stubborn militancy of the vets. Determined to escape from |the Anacostia mud flats, with its | unsanitary conditions, uncertainty off food, disease and death—and’ what! | was virtus a prison camp — the | Veterans plan to stage a bitter ‘fight |to remain in the seized government} | buildings. ' Simultaneously the who move, si for of the hand-picked leader me |reports from reliable sources. that |$4,000 worth of tear gas and’ addi- with the action of once this, vets, milit the rea i \ (CONTINUED_ON PAGE THREE) prs ts hy died FIRE ON MINERS ‘can be useful” in a war against | vice-presidential candidate of the| 4 F FROM AIRPLANES Mass Picketing in Two | States; 24 | Arre ! geles of | BULLETIN FAIRMONT, Ww. A fight took place be: and seabs attempting to enter the Monongah mine of the € tion Coal Co. (Rocke here. Two men were serio’ jured by scabs and deputies 2nd pe'ice who tock the part ef the Scabs. Twenty-three were arrested, yee eo: Mass Picketing In Ohio BRIDGEPORT, Ohio, June 20.— | Militant picketing, in the face .of sabotage by officials of the United Mine Wor and of terror by state military forces, continues’ to keep |the strike of the 20,000 East Ohia miners 95 per cent effective. In Amsterdam, where the 606 strikers are being led by the United Front Rank and File Committee under the general guidance of the National Miners’ Union, the terror fs | becoming particularly sharp, One }of the pickets, Daniel Wisnick, has been arrested, charged with assault .| with intent to kill Planes Fire Over Pickets National Guard planes are firing machine guns over the heads of | pickets and explain in the press that ;the machine gunners are only prac- | ticing. Two hundred strikers from near Yorkville, all U. M. W. members, or~ ganized a march on Steubenville to demand that the city provide relief for the strikers, but after reaching Steubenville they were persuaded’ by a U. M. W. henchman not to make their demands. The N. M. U. continues to urge strikers to take the strike into» own hands by electing united fi rank and file committees. There is growing ferment in U. M. W.Jocals over the sell-out policy of U. M. W. leaders. Orders Relief Workers Beaten. Pacifice, U.M.W. leader, has or- dered all U.M.W. locals to beat up any representatives of the Workers’ International Relief who are bringing relief to the strikers. Despite this, the U.M.W, locals are sending relief committees to co-operate with the Workers’ International Relief. The W.LR. has already opened six soup kitchens, but more are absolutely es- sential. Rush food and funds to the W.LR., Bridgeport, Ohio. QUEBEC UNEMPLOYED TERROR TORONTO. — Thirty-eight .Quebec workers are held by the police for frame-up because of their work” wa organizing ihe are \ I