The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 22, 1932, Page 1

VOTE COMMUNIST FOR 3. Unemployment and Social Insurance at the ex- pense of the state and employers. Emergency relief for the oo restrictions by the government and banks; ex- emption of poor farmers from taxes, and no forced collection of rents Against Hoover’s wage-cutting policy. poor farmers without or debts. Dail Central -. -Co (3ection of the Communist he ey Yorker :: 3 Runict Party U.S.A. . Against capitalist Equal rights for the Negroes and self-deter ation for the Black Belt suppression of the political rights of w Against imperialist war; the Chinese people and of the Soviet Union. VOTE COMMUNIST FOR all forms of ers. terror; against for the defense of "Nol. IX, No. 148 Watered as at New York, —— Y. d-elass matter at tke Pust Uffics under the net of March 3, 1977 NW YORK, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22, 1932__ CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents _ ALF.L. CHIEF TALKS “AID”; FEARSREVOLT Government in Danger Says McGrady, Unless Jobless Are Quieted AFL OPPOSES INSURANCE Tilness Ravages Ranks of Unemployed WASHINGTON, D. C., June 21.— E. F. McGrady, “legislative rep- resentative” (offical lobbyist) for the American Federation of Labor Ex- ecutive Committee yesterday again warned the government that unless the unemployed were placated in gome manner, there was danger of Feyolution. McGrady was speaking before Sen- ators La Follette and Costigan, part of the group supporting the Demo- cratic Party Garner bill for fake re- Nef in the form of a couple of bil- lion dollars to be paid to contractors. Both the Wagner and Garner bills are intended to stifle the struggle for unemployment insurance. “If congress does not do something to meet this situation, next winter it will not be a cry to save the hungry, it will be a cry to save the government,” said McGrady. The A, F. of L. leaders themselves fight unemployment insurance. Pres- ident ‘Green has gone so far as to threaten with expulsion any members that advocate insurance. The whole Minneapolis building trades district council, 16 unions, has already been expelled for their support of. the Workers’ Unemployment Insurance ‘Bill. But Green and McGrady know that they must appear to be doing something for the jobless, or there will at least be revolution against them in the A. FP. of L. Sie gk Jobless Sicken NEW YORK. — Illness sweeping through the ranks of the under- nourished unemployed families was described at the executive session here yesterday of the Committee on the Costs of Medical Care. Frank J. Bruno, head of the de- 3.000. MINERS. GO ON STRIKE 5 ‘West Virginia Pits Closed by Picketing FAIRMONT, W. Va., June 21.— Five mines of the Consolidation Coal Co. in the Fairmont field in northern ‘West Virginia are completely tied up iby a rank and file strike against the 22 and a half cent per ton wage scale which the United Mine Workers of America district machine here has already agreed to. The strike-started in the Carolina Mine last week by a spontaneous walk ‘out when the notices of the wage cut were posted. There are now 3,000 \Striking. The Monangah mine was |pullea out yesterday by a mass picket line which resulted in two scabs go- ing to the hospital and 24 pickets being arrested. “Outscab the Scabs” ‘The United Mine Workers officials here, led by the notorious Van Bitt- mer, district president, are trying now to place themselves at the head lof the strike in order to betray it as usual. They are trying to pave the way for a district agreement on the basis of their famous slogan, “Out- scab the scabs.” ‘To carry through this program, Van Bittner is summoning an emergency |district convention, composed of hand Picked delegates, supporters of his machine, to meet in Fairmont Thurs- Turn to N.M.U. So far all UMWA orders to the striking miners that they must not be militant, have failed. The Nation- ‘al Miners Union is sending all avail- ‘able forces into the strike area. Demand 30 Cents © Against the UMWA demand for 22 and a half cents @ ton and a check- off to the district officials of $1.50 per month from each miner, the National Miners Union calls for struggle against operators and UMWA alike for: 1.—Withdrawal of the wage cut. 2.—Thirty cents minimum scale. 3.—Payment for dead work. 4—Checkweighmen at every tipple. 5.—Recognition of the mine com- mittees. © | 6.—Five dollars cash unemployment, Belted “frons-the eonnties, sonata ahs Chile Workers in ALL OUT TO- Bloody Street Clashes DAY AGAINST Workers Storm “Arserial in al in Effort to Arm) Against Fascist-Militarist Dictatorship DIES BILL! Burn Street Cars, Fight Troops in Gastro; Nase On Union Square U.S. Workers Must Support Chilean Brothers Revolutionary Chilean workers yesterday stormed the government arsenal on the outskirts of Santiago in an effort to arm themselves against the brutal fascist-dictators! hip headed by Carlos G. Davila, Wall Street agent and former Chilean Ambassador to the United States, DIPLOMATS SEE JAPAN IN ATTACK ON SOVIET UNION Admit World War Is Looming in the Far East WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 21— European diplomats have not changed their views that a Japanese invasion of the Soviet Union is “inevitable,” the Whaley-Eaton finance service tells its banker clients in a secret let- ter dated June 20. The letter states: “FAR EAST: Japan, unaccount- ably appears to be banking upon an easy victory over Soviet mulitary forees. Moscow is prepared to fight if provoked by an invasion of her Proper territory. The ‘Red’ Army is well equipped, war material is | not lacking, the troops are excel- | lently trained and efficiently offi- cered, European diplomacy has not ehanged its opinion: it looks for war and does not see what agency can intervene to prevent it. Every official word uttered by Washing- ton !s being weighed abroad to dis- cover whether it contains a hidden attitude in event of a Far Eastern conflict of major proportions, It is said, ‘America, in the long run, can't remain neutral. There is the crux, and the picture of the fu- ture’” Five Japanese armies are already inmotion toward the borders of the Soviet Union. - Japan is hurling fresh troops daily into Manchuria, to be rushed toward the Soviet frontiers. These sinister developments, toge- ther with the admissions contained in the secret letter sent out by the Whaley-Eaton service, should show to every worker the urgent necessity of workers immediately mobilizing every ounce of strength for the strug- gle against imperialist war on the basis of the slogan put forward by the Communist Party in its election cam- paign: gainst Imperialist War! For the Defense of the Chinese People | and the Soviet Union!” lv. S. Nitrates for | Japan’s Bloody War The Workers Should Organize To Stop the Shipment of Munitions! “Hopewell, Va., has been re- minded in recent days of the World War because of foreign ships which have docked at City Point to take away nitrates,” declares the Wall Street Journal of June 9. “One of the arrivals last week was the Kirishima Maru, Japanese, one of the largeSt motorships in the world. Its arrival brought the report that business has picked up slightly at the Atmospheric Nitro- gen Co. plant of Allied Chemical since the Japanese invasion of China.” The workers clashed repeatedly with the troops of the dictatorship, but were finally repulsed. At the same time sharp fighting was occur- ring in the streets of Santiago and Valparaiso, the two principal Chilean cities. Thousands of Chilean workers are rallying to:the revolutionary fight against the dictatorship. Its program is to further starve the toiling masses in the interest of. foreign capitalism and the native feudal landowners. Twenty-five persons were killed and 75 wounded in the street fighting in Santiago, according to capitalist press reports. No information has been re- ceived of the results of the fighting in Valparaiso, Organized workers came out on strike in many cities. In Santiago, the the bakers and street car workers went on strike. The workers attacked séveral cars and burned them in the streets. Cavalry and infantry patrols were hurled in repeated charges against the workers. This is the bloody fascist-dictatorship hailed by the American Socialist Party as a true expression of socialist govern- ment! This bloody dictatorship is being actively supported by Chilean “socialists!” ‘The fascist-dictatership h a s clamped. down. martial. law--on. all sections. of the country, It is threat- ening with military trial and sum- mary execution all striking workers unless they return to work immedi- ately. It, has issued a decree out- Jawing the Chilean Communist Party and establishing drastic penalties for the revolutionary leaders of the toil- ing masses. The dictatorship yestefday arrested 32 members of the Buin regiment, most of them non-commissioned offi- cers, on charges of “conspiring against, the government.” The revolutionary movement against the dictatorship is supported by large sections of the rank and file and petty officers of the army. United States Ambassador Cul- bertson has called upon the dicta- torship to suppress the strike of the employees of the Braden cop- Per mine, owned by the American Guggenheim interests, The Journal of Commerce, Wall Stret organ, yestérday announced Wall Street's approval of the Davila fascist-militarist dictatorship, Illness and Death Strikes Poor More Often Says Survey After studying for five years the Committee on the Costs of Medical Care discovered the long known fact that the poorer people are the more they are subject to disease and the shorter is their life. Of 5,000 people who applied to the Charity Organi- zation Society in New York over 75 per cent had some illness. Persons dependent on charity in order to live are sick nearly twice as often as persons with incomes and the death rate among the former is from 50 to 150 per cent higher than that of the latter. The report states: “As one ascends the economic scale, medical care be- comes more adequate. This results in @ postponement of death in a cer- tain number of instances.” HO! WAY OU T OF CRISIS! Prof. Wants to ‘Sterilize’ 18 Million (See Editorial on Page 4.) SYRACUSE, N. Y., June 21.—A bright suggestion for eliminating the standing army of the unemployed was made here today by a college profes- sor who read a prepared lecture on behalf of an outfit called the “Human Betterment Foundation” of Pasadena, Calif. at a session of the American Association for the Advancement of Science now being held here. “Only” 18 Million. “Bugenic sterilization” is the scien- tific name for the process suggested as a “solution” for the capitalist crisis by the aenemic professor from Calif- ornia, According to his program no Jess than 18,000,000 persons whom he describes as “mental defectives” would have operations performed upon them ‘oprevent them. from reproducing, In the case of women such an operation is a dangerous one, oftentimes. cost- ing the life of the victim. For Workers Only Eighteen million persons is just about one-half of the entire working class of the United States, and the professor's proposition will undoubt- edly hailed as a god-send by the bourgeois economists who are stump- ed by the spectacle of a broken-down industrial system which they are no longer able to manage. Weird Stuff Following the “sterilization” speech, Prof. Edward L, Thorndike, Colum- bia University psychologist, took the floor to announce that “capital is both material and! mental, tangible and intangible, and is largely .an exe pression of Personality,” | ers! To Protest Attack On All W Workers DOAK HELPED ON BILL Protests Continue to Flood the Senate BULLETIN NEW YORK.—New York work- Demonstrate today at 6:30 p.m. on Union Square against the Dies deportation bill! This. bill is now before the U. S. Senate; it has already passed the lower house of Congress. If it becomes law, any foreign-born worker who fights for better wages or conditions can be deported, merely by calling him a Communist, Thousands must come out in pro- test today against this. vicious measure. The demonstration is called by the International Labor Defense and the Committee for the Protection of the Foreign Born. ‘WASHINGTON, June 21.—The Dies Bill, aimed to exclude and. deport mil- itant foreign born workers, will come up for consideration by the Senate tomorrow or Thursday. 1 This information was. obtained today from the secretary of the senate by S, Horwatt, of the Com- mittee for the Protection of the Foreign Born, “The widest mass pressure of the workers is vitalif weiare to prevent the passage: of this: reactionary, bill,” Horwatt today told “a representative of the Daily Worker. Will Aid Doak, According to,the report of the Sen- ate Immigration Committee, Horwatt said, the enactment of the Dies Bill into law “will not only render alien Communists, as such, subject to ex- clusion and expulsion, but it will re- lieve the government of much. diffi- cult proof shat it is now required to make. If the law is passed, it is (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) NEGRO-WHITE UNITY WELDED. Ford’s Boston Meeting Scares Misleaders BOSTON, Mass., June 21—Unity between Negro and~white «workers here for struggle against lynching, against Jim-Crowing and for unem- ployment insurance was welded among all who heard James W. Ford, Communist candidate for vice-presi- dent in his spirited address to the 300 who packed L'Ouverture Hall last night. Nine-tenths of the audience were Negro workers. The meeting was called by the Communist Party, which advertised that Ford would speak on the Scottsboro case. The meeting itself was the largest of its kind held in Boston in many years. Capitalist Lynch Terror. Ford analyzed the forces back of the frame-up and sentencing to death of the Negro boys at Scotts- boro, He told how this case is one of many examples of terrorism, of legal and extra-legal lynching, by which the white business and land- lord interests try to hold Negro work- ers and tenant farmers down to a level of starvation, Scottsboro Mother Right: Marcel Cachin, editor of J. Louis Engdahl, the United States. WORLD-W FOR. SCO PARIS, France, (By Mail).—“We Negro boys of the working-class are This -was the declaration of Marcel: manite, central organ of the Com- munist Party in France, with its daily circulation of 200,000 copies. and for, years leader of the Communist group in the French Chamber of Deputies. ‘This pledge was approved by the 200-‘delegates of the working-class organizations of the Paris District at the’ reception tendered to the Scotts- boro Negro mother, Mrs. Ada Wright, at the headquarters of the Secours Rouge International (International Labor Defense) of France. Marcel Cachin spoke in reply to the | speech of Mrs. Wright in which she Negro.boys and appealed for grow- ing support of the developing inter- national campaign. eve! ¢ Demand Wright and Williams Be Released on Bail NEW _YORK.—The International | Labor Defense is pushing the fight | to-force the Alabama lynch courts to release_on bail Roy Wright and Eu- gene Williamis, the two 14-year old| | Scottsboro boys. These two boys have no conviction against them—even in the Alahama courts. Roy ‘Wright was not con- vieted in the original mock trial at Scottsboro which sentenced eight of disagreement in Roy’s case, one or two of the jury proposing life imprison- ment, while the rest held out for the death sentence. - curred on April 9, 1931, Roy has been held ever since in the county jail at Birmingham, Ala. Eugene Williams, the other 14- year old boy, was originally sentenced to death in the lower court at Scotts- boro. The Alabama Supreme Court, while upholding the lynch verdicts against 7 of the boys, was forced to order a new trial for Eugene when it was conclusively shown by the I. L. D attorneys that Eugene was only 13 years old at the time he was sentenced to death. Although the death sentence has been reversed, Eugene is still kept in the death cell at Kilby Prison, Montgomery, and, along with the seven other boys, sub- Vets in Washington (By a Worker Correspondent) WASHINGTON, 'D.'C.—June 21.— ‘There is no Jim-Crowism among the rank and) file, veterans\in:the: bonus _, army-an the, pletare-X- send of Scorn Jim Crowism soup. lihe shows. -Thesé unemployed veterans are willing to work at anything if only given a chance. Most of the workers in’ this :city’are in-deep Speakers at Giant Reception Attended Workers Organizations and Thousands of Cachin, veteran editor of the I'Hu-| told-of the: judicial lynching of. the| the nifie innocent boys to burn inj the electric chair. There was.a jury, Although the jury disagreement oc- | Greeted in France by 200 Delegates of Paris Workers: Reading left to ‘“L’Humanite,” French Communist Paper; Jean Richetta, Secretary of the Federation of Textile Workers and leader of the Confederation General du Travail U: Wright, mother of Andy and Roy, two of the nine Scottsboro boys, General Secretary International Labor Defense of itaire, Mrs. Ada PARIS WORKERS BACK IDE FIGHT TTSBORO 9 International Labor Defense Demands the Release On Bail of Two Lads Held Without Conviction Beit By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL give our pledge that every organi- zation at every meeting held will raise the Scottsboro iSsue until these freed.” ‘Martial Law In Germany, Threat. Communist Party BERLIN, June 21—The govern-| ment. is reported to be considering | the proclamation of martial law with |the view of overcoming the objec- tions of the state governments. to lappear in uniform at tions. , Under martial law the police powers would be vested in the gen-| erais. With a view of preventing the final] election of a fascist president in the Prussian Diet at Thu 's_ session, the Communist Party proposes to r2- frain from filing its own candidates ;and to vote for candidates of the | Catholics and socialists, providing |these accept two conditions, namely, | | the restoration of freedom of assem- blage, of press and wireless with th> |; Communist right to speak and agree to reject the Papen emergency de- crees for Prussia, The social-democratic Worwaerts rejects the conditions under the cover ‘of furious attack on the Communist Party and declaring the acceptance | would mean street fighting, civil war and appointment of a Reichscom- | misar for Prussia. | Fighting Continues. Yesterday saw a continuation of violent collisions with the police and the fascists by workers, jected to the most horrible torture, forced to witness the exeoution of other Negro workers and told by the jailers that it will be “your turn next.” Aimed as “Attack Upon | permit that fascist storm detachments | demonstra- | Veterans | Waters’ | “high command” of the Bonus three reactionary groups were ged ex-servicemen. Three Groups by Waters, the cannery super- jintendent of Oregon; the others by Allman, one of the deposed co manders, and Foulkrold. No prin- jciple divides these individuals—only ja desire to ‘blunt the edges of the fighting spirit of the ex-servicemen. Water's pretense that he was op- posed to the men leaving Washing- ton following the defeat of the bonus bill is exposed today with > an- |nouncement of the statement of Pel- ham D. Glassford, District of Golum- bia police superintendent. Glassford jdeclares that Waters; in a discussion |with him today, was in favor of the evacuation of the veterans, “provid- ing a small nucleus” remained. |sow confusion among the men by hanging onto the skirts of the cap- | (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) I MILLER SCAB NEST IN JERSEY Boss Eleo Strikers | Chased Out | Runs It NEW YORK.—If the rich ladies | want to know where the I. Miller shoes are being made now, for which | they pay $20 to $25 a pair, they stad | be informed by the five st: | jare arrested in Jersey City, The Miller factory in Long Island | is entirely crippled. Yesterday Mil- ler strikers discovered that the form er foreman of the Eleo who was dis- charged by the firm as a result of the strike, is now running a small ment house in Jersey City. Five Miller strikers followed a Mil- ler truck over and located the place. As soon as he saw he was discovered arrested, but they were released im- mediately afterwards. The Miller strikers as well as the Elco workers are engaged to stop the jscabs from New Jersey. Some of these scabs have considered them- selves employees of the Elco. The Elco workers are determined to con- vince these scabs that no decent | worker of Elco or any other shoe fac- ‘tory will work with them. “WANT TO DEPORT ME!” Nebraska Worker Tells of Fight (A Letter from Omaha, Neb.) Comrades: My hearing on deportation has been called for June 29. Hayes, district immigration man, called it for the 22. (No doubt to try and cripple our preparations for the Mooney- Scottsboro meeting), and he told our attorney that the 29th was the best he could do, so it seems that Mr. Doak is getting more and more anxi- ous to get rid of us class-conscious workers. If they succeed in railroad- ing me out of the country, that will be*three Scotchmen inside of three months. That's Something Else! I asked Hayes why there was never any move to deport Andrew Carnegie back to Scotland. He never took out his papers. That is different. He was one of their gang of cut-throat exploiters. Then there js the question of my family of wife and four kids. Is this going to be another family those puritanical, democracy-loving fascists are going to break up? ‘This is the same bunch of hypo- sympathy, crites bese so Soviet Russia \ dg TERM we some Te Every worker must realize that this | attempt of the bosses to deport every foreign-born worker who is ac- tive in the struggles of the workers for the right to live is an attack against the whole working class and must be fought against and linked up with the infamous Dies Bill just passed by the House of Represent- atives and which we must prevent from passing in the senate. Why Dier Bill? This fascist bill k the logical re- sult of the Fish Committee’s activit- ies coupled with the American Alli- ance, who are the agents of Gerards 59, who are frantically trying to stem the tide of the rapid radicalization of the American workers as a result of the deepening of the crisis, Get Into Fight Fellow workers: Show your solid- arity. Get in the fight. Join the Communist Party and the T.U.U.L. and help defeat the scheme of the bosses. Wown with imperialist war! Defend the Soviet Union, With comradely greetings, the ae (Rantian om With the gap in the admi thority over the starving, rag-* One of the groups is headed | Waters at the same time tried to| w in a flat of an empty apart- | the Miller truck driver had the five | Demand ‘Pace, Militant, Go on Executive fember of Ex-Servicemen’s League Elected, But Reactionaries Fight Seating Henchmen in Open Fight for Control; Men Uncover Active Sp WASHINGTON, June 21.—Open hostility, the past few days, flared up again today in the self-appointed 7 System hushed up for Expeditionary Force. inistration leadership widening, today openly struggling for au- 17 PC. CUT IN _ HOOVER-GREEN * | FURLOUGH BI, | Gov't Employees Must Fight Wage Cut | Passed in House | WASHINGTON, June 21.—Hoover's hunger plan to furlough all goyern- mental employees for one month | without pay was opted by the House of Represer es last night |when the direct 11 p |was stricken out of the “econom} | bill. The furlough plan compels all em~ | ployees drawing a sal: of $1,000 a jyear or more to take one day off each week without pay. Practically it introduces the five-day week as proposed by William Green, President of the American Federation of La- bor—a measure that is thus exposed as a wage-cutting measure. In addition the plan suspends all leaves of absence with pay for the coming fiscal year, thus increasin; the extent of the wage cut enforce upon the Federal employees t this plan. A worker receiving a salary of |@ year or more andentitled t |of absence of one month ¥: |salary cut down about 17 ; | And that is not all. This worker y {be compelled to labor under | creased speed-up which will fw | reduce his salary. | Through the furlough stagger plan | just adopted by the House of Repre- | sentatives the Government expects to | save $10,000,000 in economise which ~ | leave, however, additional economies for $100,000,000 more to be realized if the budget is to be balanced. Upon Hoover's refusal. to- reduce government expenditures affecting the army and navy—namely the preparation for a new imperialist | Slaughter, the cry is being raised to |increase still more the already heavy |taxes which go into effect today. Hoover's program is clear: Not a cent to the starving unemployed | workers, millions to prepare for im- | perialist war, and in addition all the | burdens of the budget deficit on the toilers. _ NEWS FL/ ASHES “SMELL THE NEXT WAR NEW YORK.—A pipe broke yester= day between a chlorine gas tank and }an alkali manufacturing plant (con~ vertible to manufacture of war prod= ucts overnight) and poison gas fumes blowing through a laundry, a maca- roni factory and other shops choked 80 persons into insensibility. Chok- ing and gasping people in a whole section of Upper Bronx and Mt, Ver. non got a taste of the next war, ie ee QUEENS GRAFTER FREE NEEW YORK.—Irving Klein, con- victed of graft through certifying false vouchers while he was super- intendent of highways in Queens Boro, was sentenced yesterday to “one year and three months to two years and six months,” and then told by Judge Thos. Downs he was free during good behavior, One oe HALF MILLION FOR FIGHT, NEW YORK. — Last minute rush at the box office of the Sharkey Schmeling fight caused the promot- ers early yesterday to estimate their gross receipts at $450,000 or over, and the attendance at 65,000. MILITIA SHOOT WOMAN MILLFIELD, Ohio, June 21—Ohio National Guardsmen shot Mrs, ‘Peter Cole in both legs when they turned their machine guns on the picket line here. Many strikers were ars, Tarrants are out for ‘suo