The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 23, 1932, Page 1

<r AC VOTE COMMUNIST FOR @ VOTE COMMUNIST FOR 1. Unemployment and Social Insurance at the ex- { 4. Equal rights for the Negroes and self-determin- pense of the state and employers. ation for the Black Belt. oe ae ee ns Ne 5. Against capitalist terror; against all forms of 3. Emergency relief for the poor farmers without 4 suppression of the political rights of workers restrictions by the government and banks; ex- . ) >) Ss A emption of poor farmers from taxes, and no @ l ae Orga unist arty U. e ry 6. Against imperialist war; for the defense of forced collection of rents or debts. p) the Chinese people and of the Soviet Union. (Section of the Communist International) ee Entered as eccund-class matter at the Post Office i Vol. IX, No. 149 at New York, N. Y.. ander Price 3 Cents_ USE VETERANS TO AID BOSS POLITICIANS ‘Support Congressmen Who Backed Bonus,’ Waters Orders ‘ELSE LEAVE THE CAMP’ 2 Big Meetings Held By W.ES.L. WASHINGTON, June 22—Expul- sion from the Anacostia flats for all veterans who refuse to sign pledges supporting Republican and Demo- cratic congressmen who voted for the defeated bonus bill was threat- ened by Walter W. Walters, self- styled “commander” of the Bonus Expeditionary Force, in a blustering speech “ere today. ‘ks With Police. At the same time he joined with P. D. Glassford, police superin- tendent, in issuing orders to the vet- erans to evacuate the empty govern- ment buildings which they com- mandeered in an effort to escape from the sweltering heat of the Ana- costia “camp.” Glassford again re- peated his standing offer of trans- portation to the main highways in a feeble effort to beguile the veterans out of the city. While a heavier military police force is being placed about the camps on the other side of the Potomac, reports persist that the medical au- thorities have decided to quarantine Anacostia in a final effort to drive the veterans out. Meanwhile the men are holding out bravely against star- vation. Vets Hold Meetings. A large crowd of bonus marchers and Washington workers cheered speakers of the Workers’ Ex-Service- men’s League and the Communist Party at two erithusiastic open-air meetings held here last night at ‘Tenth and Virginia, S.E., and Seventh and “I” Sts. N.W. The meeting at Virginia Ave. blocked traffic for a short time. A number of rank and file veter- ans spoke, denouncing the Waters leadership and urging support for the fighting program of the W.E.S.L. Following the two open-air meetings the workers and veterans proceeded to the Workers’ Lyceum and the headquarters of the Unemployed Council, where another meeting was held. Meet Thursday Again. The Washington Post of the W. E. S. L. is calling a mass meeting to take up the fight for the bonus and unemployment insurance for tomor- ‘row night at Pythian Temple, 12 “U” St. NW. Pressure on the part of the veter- ans today forced into the senate en amendment to the Wagner “relief” , bill, providing for the cashing of half of the $2,000,000,000 outstanding ad- |Justed compensation certificates. There is considerable skepticism, eaeyes about the prospects of gen- uine help coming to the veterans as @ result of this gesture. 10,000 STILL STRIKE IN COLO. Southern Fields Solid; Terrible Starvation fields. But the strikers, 10,000 of them, in the southern fields are still out, still determined to block the 25 per cent wage cut. ‘ Mass arrests have not discouraged southern field workers. The commissioners are driv- children to the beet desperate attempt to and save the crop. an F 1 es a° . | Vestigating” Commission on the Sinc- Textile Industry Turns Out Big Orders for War'| Recent opening of bids for Army jcontracts in the textile industry |inelude 20,250 yards of olive drab for leggins; 8,500 bleached cotton pillow cases; 739,940 yards for den- im; 4,400 bleached cotton sheets. As frequently pointed out, the tex- tile industries are among the most important industries involved in war preparations. In the United States, as in other countries, they have been specially active in re- cent days, in turning out war or- ders, Japan Threatens To Occupy All North € hina Continues Troop Movement On Soviet Borders (See Editorial, Page 4) Following up its ultimatum to the United States to keep its hands off of the Far East, Japan yesterday inti- mated it would move to occupy all North China. Tokio dispatches indi- cated that this action would be car- ried out through the puppet state set up in Manchuria by Japanese bayo- nets. As in the case of the Japanese attempt to seize the Chinese customs revenues collected at Darien, the Jap- anese Government would disclaim all responsibility for the invasion of North China by Manchukuo. Through her control of Chinchow and the Je- hol passes, Japan is in a stragetic posjtion for the invasion of North China. The stage is being set for the new drive on China by a series of accusa- tions against China-as a “treaty vio- lator” and by the sham pretense that the Nanking Government, which has never lifted a finger to defend Man- churia, is “supporting” the anti-im- perialist fight of the Manchurian workers and peasants. Viscount Ishii has also attacked the mass anti-Jap- anese boycott in China as “an act of war” against Japan. In the meantime, the Japanese are continuing their movement of troops against the Soviet frontiers. Japan- ese troops clashed yesterday with a strong force of Chinese rebels north of Hailun, Northern Manchuria, near the Soviet city of Blagoveschensk. The League of Nations, with the agreement of the Nanking Govern- ment, has delayed for six months the piesentation of the report of its Japanese conflict. The extension of time is given to allow the Japanese to further consolidate their position in Manchuria and to convert the ter- ritory into an armed base for the war of intervention against the Soviet Union. Senate Will Pass Plan to Furlough Employees WASHINGTON, June 22, — The “economy” bill adopted by the House of Representatives with the provision that all civil employees must be fur- loughed for one month without pay, was accepted by the senators confer- fing on the measure with Represen- tatives. The adoption by the Upper House of this hideous measure which un- loads on the rank and file workers the burden of the governmental eco- nomies is thus assured, it was stated sador to the United States. Reading Left to Right: Col. Marmaduke Grove, who has been im- prisoned by the Davis group as “too radical’; Col.. Arturo Meringo, Arturo Pugo, and Carlos Davila, Wall Street agent and former Ambas- tas » CHILE DICTATORSHIP TURNS MACHINEGUNS ON HEROIC WORKERS Many Dead, Hundreds Wounded in Streets; Davila Outlaws Communist Party U. S. ‘Socialist Party Defends Dictatorship; U.S. Workers Must Defend Chilean Masses BULLETIN. ‘Three thousand striking miners, marching on Santiago to support , armed and organized, are reported the revolutionary workers of that city in the armed struggle against the Chilean fascist-militarist dic- tatorship. The Chilean fascist-militarist dictatorship continued yesterday its bloody attacks on the working-class. At the same time it increased its sham promises of establishing a “socialist landlord exploitation.” Many workers were killed and hu: BLOODY CLASHES IN GERMANY Fascists Provoke ' Fights (By Inprecorr Cable.) BERLIN, June 22. — Bloody col- lissions between workers and fascists continued in a number of German cities yesterday. In Hamburg, five fascists were seriously injured, in- cluding a number of members of the Town Council. Police who arrived upon the scene shot into the crowd of workers, wounding several. Fight in Altona, In Altona, following the wounding of three fascists as a result of a clash with workers, police made mass arrests, confiscating many weapons. Uniformed fascists attacked the village of Vornstedt, but columns of workers repulsed the raiders, sending three to the hospital and capturing two, stripping their uniforms and releasing them without their coats and trousers, Clash in Kiel, Ten persons were taken to the hospital in Kiel as a result of con- tinuous clashes, In Stettin a group of workers were ambushed and two shot and seriously wounded. In Essen, Heinrich Mertins, a member of the Anti-Fascist League ‘was ambushed by armed fascists and stabbed to death. Sharp fighting with workers ended the fascist meet in Andernach, with a large number wounded. Fights in Berlin. Nearly a score of street. fights took place in Berlin today with a fascist killed and many wounded, others ar- rested. Uniformed fascists at the university at Frankfurt am Main, attacked Communist students, whereupon the university rector here. (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) BOXING MAKESA PROFIT Sharkey Just Had to Win Rally behind the Counter-Olym- pic meet of the Labor Sports Un- jon, Chicago, July 28-30. tee nea 4 Well, your reporter didn’t have $23.50 for a ring side seat, so he heard the loud speaker on Twelfth St. tell a couple of dozen others like i 5 g crop is already des- of attention and 2 8s RE | : & 3 : 3 ‘There are a great number of de- him all about it. This is the way it went: “Schmeling Black Root. This} boring in, always boring in. Schmel- the beets if they are/ing hasn't taken a backwards step since the fight started! “Zowie! What a punch! Schmel- ‘fense cases pending, and hunger is|ing smashed Sharkey in the eye! growing. There are no funds either|Bang, Schmeling uppercut Sharkey tor defense or relief. Rush food and|on the nose. Sharkey tried a right ;money at once to United Front Re-|cross and missed. Schmeling’s box- \Met Committee, 1154 Eleventh St.,|ing better than we thought, | Denver, FOOD WORKER FRACTION MEETING AT 8 TONIGHT NEW YORK.—A special fraction meeting of the Cafeteria and Ho- tel and Restaurant sections of the Food Workers’ Industrial Union be held tonight at 5 E. 19th Communists in sjthe fight | There - “Sharkey gets another in the sore eye! Sharkey is tangled in the ropes. with Schmeling pounding him right and left! / “T tell you boys it’s a great fight! Schmeling is beating up Sharkey with real Teutonic determination!” ‘That's the way it went. About half the time Sharkey was mixed ith the ropes, and by the end of his eye was closed entirely? wasn't a record of a single! telling punch that Sharkey landed on Schmeling. You could hear the crowd yell. When the end of the last round (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) state” and “abolishing capitalist and ndreds wounded in fierce street battles %in Santiago, Valparaiso and other cities. The government ordered its troops to turn machine guns and tanks on striking workers. Following | a night of bloody’street fighting in Santiago the dictatorship succeeded | in driving the workers off the streets. Troops were ordered to open fire im- mediately on any group of workers trying to re-assemble in the streets. Outlaw Communists. In its effort to crush the revolution- ary actions of the-masses, the dicta torship is attempting to deprive them of the leadership of the Chilean‘Com- munist Party. It has arrested hun- dreds of Communists and outlawed ;the Communist Party. An edict is- |sued yesterday declared membership in the Communist Party illegal and threatens Communist workers with summary execution, exile, imprison- ment and fines, Army reservists have been called out to help the regular army put down the uprising of the working- class. Tie struggle here is leading towards am armed struggle for power; for the @verthrow of capitalism and the establishment of a workers’ and peasants’ “government. Tanks and machine guns have been placed around the presidential palace from which the dictatorship, headed by Carlos G. Davila, Wall Street agent, is directing the slaughter of the revo- lutionary workers and peasants. The United States Government, through its Ambassador to Chile, has called upon the dictatorship to sup- press the strike of the workers of the Braden Copper mine, owned by the American Guggenheim interests. The dictatorship urged the Guggenheim and other foreign interests to use their private police to crush the struggle of the workers. This is the bloody fascist dictator- ship which its leaders and the Ameri- can Socialist Party are attempting to pass off as @ true expression of “so- cialist government.” \Conditions of Soviet Building Workers to Be Broadcast Sat. NEW YORK. — A radiogram has been received from the Building Trades Workers International Com- mittee in Moscow that the Central Trades Union Council will broadcast a report on the conditions of build- ing trades workers in the Soviet Un- ion, The broadcast will be over a m. New York time, Saturday. The wireless announcing the lecture was to the Building Construction Work- ers Industrial League of the Trade Union Unity League here. “You rat—you would hit me! Wait ’till I get you outside! GARNER FOR | RED BAITING PROGRAM .sks Presidency On) Basis of Drive Against Workers OPPOSES INSURANCE Borah ‘Adds to Tangle Of Wet-Dry Issue WASHINGTON, D. C., June 22.— Speaker Garner of the heuse of rep- resentatives yesterday announced his candidacy for Democratic Party nom- | ination for presi-| | dent on a plat- form of ruthless war on the work- points, makes one | of the points a| brutal attack by all government forces on the fF, Communist Party, JOHN N. GARNER leader of the The Heatst Candidate WOrking class, and | not only on the| Party as such, but on all workers who show any sympathy or “tendencies” | toward struggling under that leader- | ship. yent their further spread and they | |ready been held in Boston, Detroit, Philadelphia and other cities, with| meetings planned in Chicago and| elsewhere. The Dies bill is due to} |come up in the Senate in a few days. | Speakers at Union Square included | Morgan, Breslaw, Tafi, Kasanoff and Strong of the LL.D.; I. Amter, Com- (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) ‘MOONEY MEETS Times So Hard Counterfeiters Make Pennies Now SOUTH BEND, Ind., June 22.— In this Hooverian age of prosper- | ity, counterfeiters can’t get change | |for the best $10 bills they make.| |They even have trouble with! | smaller money. They have finally been driven| |to counterfeiting pennies. Post- |master Hunter here turned over} | Jone that was spent for a stamp) a short time ago. The Penny is| thinner than the U. S. mint vari-| ety. Limes are hard and even copper costs money. | 4,000 AT UNION SQUARE MEETING RAP DIES BILL Amter, Candidate for} Governor, Speaks | ers. Garner, in | a short, statement — | of only seven| NEW YORK.—Roused to the dan- ger that the Dies deportation and exclusion bill will be enacted into} law unless a strong protest movement | develops against it, 4,000 New York| workers yesterday evening streamed | into Union Square from the shops, tenements and park benches to de-| nounce the proposed measure. The demonstration was called | jointly by the New York district of the International Labor Defense and | the Committee for the Protection of the Foreign Born. A large number | GET BIG CROWDS very powerful radio station, at 6 p. poles. |Mother Mooney’s Eves Better; Tour Goes On By RICHARD B. MOORE. MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., June 22.— Mother Mooney’'s eyesight has been steadily improving ever since she resumed her speaking tour for the release of Tom Mooney, framed 16 years ago and held in San Quentin prison ever since. “Thank Goodness,” said Mrs. Mooney, as she resumed the tour, Wednesday last week, “my eyes, though weak, are much better now. I will fight on to the last to free my innocent son, Tom.” Five hundred workers shouted a j rousing welcome to her in Minneapo- lis, Wednesday, when she came through the railroad station. They paraded enthusiastically with her through the streets and held a big parade to demand Mooney’s rcv lease. Masses rallied at protest meetings and a banquet in Minneap- | In Duluth, Mrs. Mooney spoke over the -radio followed by an appeal to join the International Labor Defense campaign for Mooney’s release, made by the writer. Masses of workers are joining the campaign. Hundreds are signing pledges of active support of the cam- Paign to free Mooney. ‘The rank and file workers in A. F. of L. unions and railroad brother- hoods are lining up behind Tom Mooney and the LL.D. A strong minority among the freight handlers in Duluth sent del- egates with a money contribution and told how the union mislead<rs just barely prevented by one vote a mo- tion in the local to endorse the cam- Rank and file members of the National Association for the Ad- vancement of Colored People are joining. The campaign is going on, determined by mass struggle to free Mooney and the Scottsboro boys and all class war prisoners. Veteran’s Landlord Was His Boss; Didn’t PayWages But Evicted NEW YORK.—Workers rallied to a worker ex-serviceman yesterday and under the leadership of the Un- employed Council in the neighbor- hood put his furniture back into his room on West 66th Street after it had been thrown out by the court. This ex-serviceman’s landlord was also his boss. The ex-serviceman got no pay and when he demanded his pay he was thrown ut of his room. After putting back the furniture the Unemployed Council held a meet- ing attended by 100 workers, a col- lection was taken, and organization work was started among the work- ‘erg.in that street, ‘ ~ olis and St. Paul, and in Superior. }satisfied except that a group was be- munist candidate for Governor; John Steuben, Trade Union Uni Council, N. Y.; William Simo Anti-Imperialist League; Harold Wil-| liams, League of Struggle for Negro Rights, and Weissman, of the Un-| employed Councils. | All the speakers warned of the| sinister character of the bill | STRIKERS HIT | WOOD’S SLANDER hallenge~ ; Capitalist | Press to Get Facts | NEW YORK— attended Strike | meetings of the I. Miller and Geller crews yesterday repudiated as lies the speech of the strike-breaking U. S. Commissioner of Conciliation, Charles | Wood, as that speech was reported in the capitalist newspapers. ‘Wood, addressing the Queens Ro- tary Club, lied about the strike when hesaid that all I. Miller workers were | ing kept out by Communist agitators. | Wood proposed to break the strike, | support of the Dies deportation bill now before Congress. The strikers voted to send a chal- lenge to the New York Times and} all other papers which carried Wood's | lies, that these papers should really | send reporters to the strike meetings and learn the facts about the strike, how the workers struck in masses against wage-cuts and bad conditions, About 900 are striking in the I. Miller and Geller shops and there are very few scabs in the departments struck. Another lie of Wood is that the Strike Committee does not want to settle the strike. Right in the very first week of the strike, it is known to ail the workers, the Strike Com- mittee sent a letter including all the demands to the firm and notifying them that the committee is ready for negotiations. Up to date, no answer has been forthcoming from the firm. | secretary | mittee FARMERS MARCH INTO | DULUTH; JOIN JOBLESS IN DEMANDS ON COUNTY Farms; for Unemp! ‘For Tax Reduction; No Foreclosures On loyment Insurance Police In Armored Cheered; Tax Strike DULUTH, Minn., June 22.—St. |marched three miles through Duluth and joined a crowd of | 1,500 unemployed and part time workers before the courthouse. | They marched in the face of the police force, armored cars with machine guns, tear gas bombs, They presented mands with the unemployed; workers for tax exemption and| cancellation of back taxes, no| sheriffs’ sales for the farmers; and immediate cash relief, no evic-| tions, no cutting off of electricity or} gas and no arrests of unemployed | workers, The county commissioners | }evaded or rejected all demands, and the mixed crowd of farmers and| workers vigorously denounced them | for this, and voted to support the | Communist election campaign, to| |declare a tax strike, and to fight on/| for unemployment relief. March On Foot. | Fifteen hundred farmers in 124 | cars and trucks gathered at the| call of the National Farmers League | caer in-[Of police were stationed in the Gamer says: "The constantly in| square and plainclothesmen filtered |®%4 dismounted at the top of Du- | creasing tence belied Socialls™ | through the crowd luth Hill. There the heavily armed | Seip oci aint: ts Ale. gravest poe | : |police met them, but the farmers| sible menace. The government should) The New York meeting is one Of) snowed great determination. They | use every means in its power to pre-| Scores being held throughout the|;omeq ranks for a march on foot, country. Demonstrations have their demands, through the town. When the marching farmers got to| courthouse square, the unemployed workers enthusiastically | |tila, a joint committee of farmers }and unemployed workers went to see the county commissioners. They found the Farmer Labor Party com- missioners completely absent, and the other commissioners drew them into a long argument. Communist Speaks. Meanwhile the crowd outside was addressed by Wm. Schneiderman, Communist candidate for governor of Minnesota, by A. Harju, national of the United Farmers League, and by Mackie, Kuncisto and others. After a while another delegation was elected and went in to demand the commissioners stop stalling and answer the demands of the first commission. After an hour, the com- came out, and Anderson, Bartley and Tantila reported to the crowd. The workers and farmers voared an indignant approval of the resolution condemning the commis- sioners, pledging to carry on the fight, to vote Communist, and to refuse to pay taxes on farm lands. The farmers then marched back through the police lines in as mili- tant a spirit as it entered Duluth, and returned home in an. organized fashion. SUIT OVER INSURANCE POLICIES HELD BY RUSSIANS NEW YORK —A suit to determine whether insurance policies taken out in American companies before the Russian Revolution by Russians can be collected or not is before Supreme Court Justice Alfred Frankfeld. The policies that would be affected total $7,000,000. The suit is against the Equitable Life Insurance Co., whieh simply refused to make any more payments on Russian policies after the Bolshevik Revolution. MELROSE PARK CASES JUNE 27 In a recent news story on the Mel- rose Park cases telling of the in- dictment of 57 workers following a machine-gun attack upon them and others by police, the date of the trial was given as July 27. The cor- rect date is June 27. BASEBALL MOSCOW, U.S.S.R. — Admiration for American technique has extended to baseball—minus its major, minor and “bush” leagues, with its profes- ‘sionalism and corruption. Popularize Game. Thus, the game will be played this summer in many corners of the Sov- jet Union, in the largest industrial centers and on the state and collec- tive farms. | To the Moscow Foreign Workers’ Club, it appears, goes the credit for introducing the game. Two nines have been, organized and the boys have been warming up regularly at the Park of Rest and Oulture, with iii IN U.S.S. R. Workers Take Up American Sport large crowds of workers as interested spectators, At the same time, a decision to develop soft-ball league games has just been made by the Supreme Couneil of Physical Culture. Equip- ment, consisting of indoor baseballs, bats and bases, is being made at the State Institute of Physical Culture in Moscow, What is more, regular base- ball will be developed during the coming year, and the Soviet Union expects to have a Russian baseball team in the 1933 World Spartakiade which will be held in ‘Moscow, Supreme Court Justice Samuel jiJccrs, Americans here are Nd ito. ee joint de-® jand naval efficiency. Communist Is Declared Cars; Louis county farmers and riot guns. Moves to Weaken U. S. Rivals Thru Arms Reduction Hoover’s Proposal Re- jected by France WASHINGTON, June 22.—In- an effort to weaken the rivals of the U. S., President Hoover proposed a fe- duction of armed forces, it was an- nounced. His proposal was submit- ted to a special session of the Geneva Conference. Herriot rejected it flat- ly, both for its substance and its form. MacDonald said that it would be con- sidered but threw cold water on. it. Hoover's proposal is calculated to save the United States from $10,000,- al-| nd paraded with banners carrying | 000,000 to $15,000,000,000 in the next ten years without impairing military He wants to big crowd of |Make the next war cheaper and hide grected them |ehind a pacifist smoke screen. It calls for abolition of chemical war- |fare and other “offensive” arms clear- | Led. by Anderson, Bartley and Tan- | jly specified; in addition it calis also for reduction of land armies over and fabove the so-called police require- ments. It is evident that the proposal so far is intended to weaken “the European rivals of the United States. Hoover said in announcing his pro- posal that “the armed forces of the world have grown up in general mu- tual relation to each other and, speaking generally such relativity should be preserved in making reduc- ions.” With this assertion he wanted to cover up the attempt of the Wall |St. government to alter the correla- tion of forces in its favor. Anti-Soviet Coalition. GENEVA, June 22.—Nets coming from Lausanne point out that while a general anti-Soviet and anti-United States coalition is being more or less successfully formed, this coalition is torn by the Frenco-German antagon- ism. Herriot is quoted as having stated at Lausanne that his govern- ment “will never yield on the ques- tion of complete immediate cancella- tion of reparation tributes.” He pro- Posed a moratorium of several years to be ended by the payment of a lump sum by the German govern- ment. Von Papen, who leads the Germah | delegation to’ Lausanne, is reported jto be bargaining, but the general j opinion is that he will compromise |on the basis of a more or less long moratorium for which Herriot expects some concessions. NEWS FLASHES CUT OFFICERS? OH, NO! WASHINGTON, D. C.—Rather than take action on the proposal to eliminate some of the 12,000 officers demanded by the War Department supply bill, a senate committee ab- ruptly adjourned here today, STEEL HITS NEW LOW LEVEL NEW YORK.— Steel operation# have hit a new low level, being down t@ 16% of normal, according to the Iron Age, trade organ of the industry, This is a drop of 2% since last week. SOCIALISTS FAIL IN ATTACK Socialists in the town of Villaesca, near Leon, Spain, were balked in an attempt to lynch a number of Com= munists, according to an Associated Press dispatch, BACKERS PUSH DIES BILL WASHINGTON, D. C.—Backers ot the Dies exclusion and deportation bill were cheered today with the an- nouncement that the Senate will not adjourn Saturday as was first expect- ed. They say they will put up a sharp fight to put the bill through. FREE BANK CROOKS’ PAL Isidor J. Kresel, former counsel ani director of the defunct Bank of thi ‘United States, in which thousands of workers lost deposits, was today or- dered freed of the perjury charge by b