The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 24, 1932, Page 1

VOTE COMMUNIST FOR Unemployment and Social Insurance at the ex- pense of the state and employers. 2. 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. Dail Central : (Section of the Communist International ) orker | ily _Wo Party U.S.A. Ps Satered as second-class matter at the Pust Office at New York, N. Y.. under the aet of March %, 1879 Equal rights for th Against capitalist suppression of the 6. Against imperialis' the Chinese people and of the ~ VOTE COMMUNIST FOR ation for the Black Belt. e Negroes and self-determin- terror; against al! forms of political rights of workers, t war; for the defense of Soviet Union. “Price 3 Cents Vol. IX, No. 150 ‘NEW _YORK, FRIDAY, JUNE 24, 1932 LITVINOFF CONDEMNS SABOTAGE OF DISARMAMENTS AT GENEVA PUSH BLOODY TERROR ON CHILE MASSES Dictatorship Tries to Disarm Workers of Santiago ARREST ARMY OFFICERS U. S. Concern Boasts of Breaking Strike Murderous attacks on strikes and @atherings of workers, mass arrests and threats of summary execution ‘were continued yesterday by the bloody Chilean fascist dictatorship, headed by Carlos G. Davila, Wall Street agent and former ambmassa- dor to the United States. In addition to arrests of hundreds of revolutionary workers, the dicta- torship last night arrested 15 petty officers of the Ferfocarrilero Regi- ment on the charge of distributing leaflets calling for the overthrow of the dictatorship. The former avia- tion corps lieutenant, Diego Arozeno, was also arrested. These arrests in- dicate the growing disaffection in the Chilean armed forces, Edict to Disarm Workers. The dictatorship issued an edict aimed at the complete disarming of the working class and setting drastic penalties for the carrying of arms. It threatened the workers with new blood baths, declaring that attacks on the “rights” of private property will be ruthlessly repelled.” It threat- ened with military trial and sum- mary execution all striking workers who did not immediately return to work. This is the murderous. boss- class government defended by’ the American Socialist Party as a genu- ine “socialist” government! The American bourgeois press yes- terday boasted that,as a result of the bloody terror of the dictatorship and the threat of summary execution against strikers, ¢he raijroad and bakers strikes have been broken. The American-owned Braden Copper Co. (of the Guggenheim interests) also boasted that its striking workers had been driven back to work. Fear Communist Move, All open-air meetings of “groups of more than three persons” have been forbidden. A 10 o'clock curfew has been established in most cities, with ithe workers ordered to keep off the streets after that hour. In spite of the bloody terror against the workers, bourgeois press dispatches from Chile still express the fear that ‘these measures would not be sufficient to check Commu- nists in Santiago, and that there would soon be a determined effort by Reds there.” This fear is based on the fact that the conditions of the impoverished workers and ruined peasantry are rapidly growing worse and that the toiling masses have no way out of the crisis except through revolutionary struggle. SHEPARD JAILED BY RELIEF HEAD | NEW YORK.—Henry Shepard, Ne- gro unemployed worker and section organizer of the Unemployed Coun- cil, and Communist candidate for lieutenant governor of New York State, was arrested yesterday after- noon while leading a delegation of jobless demanding relief for an evic- ted Negro woman worker and her family. With him were arrested the other members of the delegation, Loretta Tarmon, Eugene Nigob, William Fitz. gerald, Louis Campbell and Norman Smith. All were charged with dis- orderly conduct. A great crowd of unemployed work- ers assembled outside the North Harlem Emergency Relief Headquar- ters within which the delegation ,made the demand for relief was ‘smashed by squads of police in three riot cars. The struggle resulted in some re- Hef being given to the evicted family. Fitzgerald one of the arrested com- mitteemen has recently lost a child, which died in a hospital a few days ago. The evicted woman came earlier in the day and asked for relief. When she was rejected, she went to the Unemployed Council. The delegation from the council went in, and a demonstration started outside. Frances Toplitz, the relief director in charge called in a police- man named Frank Berger, who im- , Mediately sent in a riot call. ( : AE RRP Dutch Farmers In Three Scottsboro Demonstrations PARIS, June 23 (By Radio- gram).—The Scottsboro tour in Holland wound up with three dem- onstrations by the peasant masses in Freisland, At the same time the British workers in London carried through a Trafalgar Square demonstration there in the absence of Mrs. Ada Wright, mother of Roy and Andy Wright, and of J. Louis Engdahl, secre- tary of the International Labor Defense, who had been refused a visa. The demonstration of Brit- ish workers was in protest against the exclusion of Engdahl and Mrs. Wright from the British Isles, and against the infamous Scottsboro death verdicts, BARRICADE FIGHTING IN BERLIN STS. Workers “Clash with Fascist, and Police (Cable by Inprecorr) BERLIN, June 23.—Further violent collisions between the fascists, police and the workers occurred in various towns last night and today. In the Moabit working class district of Ber- lin workers erected barricades in the streets against the police and held them throughout the night. Colli- sions also occurred in other parts of Berlin. In one of these clashes a Communist worker, Otto Mueller, was shot. Fierce collisions occurred today in Breslau where the fascists violated the prohibition against demonstra~- tions and marched in uniformed ranks through the streets. ‘The police remained passive in the face of this provocation, but the workers drove the fascists from working class dis- tricts, wounding three. The police then fired on the workers wounding many and making large numbers of arrests. Eleven wounded workers were_sent to the hospitals, ‘The leader of the Reichsbanner in Anhalt, Engineer Maacj, was stabbed by fascists. Collisions also occurred in Brunswick, Osnabrueck, Halle and Sangershausen. Today’s anti-fascist raeeting at the Lusigarten has -been prohibited by Severing who procezied against the “Rote Fahne” on @ charge of incite- ment to riot. Despite prohibition, demonstrations were held in Moabit, Wedding, Neukoelln and the East End. WORKER SHOT BY L.A. “RED SQUAD” Attack Unemployed in Private Home LOS ANGELES, June 22.—One un- employed worker was shot by a mem- ber of the “Red Squad” last night, and several others beaten up and ar- rested when the squad broke into a private home on East Vernon Ave., where unemployed workers were meeting. Jailed In Hospital. Basil Dell, who was shot, was rushed to the Georgia Street, Hospi- tal, and later placed under arrest there by the police who at the same time jailed Russell Dell, Louis Doug- las, James Murphy, Al Safo and Cornelius Nelson, a Negro worker. All are charged with criminal syndi- calism. While workers in the past have been viciously slugged by the “Red Squad” this is the first time they have attempted to murder by shooting. The workers were seated around a table discussing the problem of se- curing relief for the hungry, unem- ployed workers in the neighborhood when the raiders broke in and at- tacked them. When the workers de- fended themselves against the clubs and blackjacks of cossacks of the Chamber of Commerce with fists and chairs, Paul Phelps, leader of the squad, drew a gun and shot Dell through the hip, Basil and Russell Dell and Murphy were out on bail at the time pending trial on charges of “battery” follow- ing the breaking-up by the police of a demonstration of unemployed workers and their families in June at the office of the County Welfare Bureau. Workers throughout the state are flooding the mayor's office with pro- tests denouncing the murderous at- oe | “po 1 MINE STRIKE SPREADS IN PENN. AREA Borich in W. Virginia Urges United Front of Rank and File MARCH THRU GAS IN OHIO Sheriff Declares Will “Scatter Pickets” Pittsburgh, Pa., June 23—The Wal- nut Hill mine strike against a wage cut goes into the second week, led by the National Miners Union, and with ranks solid. The strikers are sticking although reduced to a diet of bread and black coffee. The strike committee meeting this morning de- cided to spread the struggle immed- iately to the Fancy Hill mine owned by the same company. At Fancy Hill there is a wage cut of 20 per cent. Mass meetings with National Miners Union speakers will be held at Fancy Hill, Mofit and Maple Sterling to- morrow to help spread the strike. John Moore, the operator at Wal- nut Hill has already requested a meeting with the strike, This strike can be won, if food and funds for relief are sent immediately to the Workers International Relief, 611 Penn Ave., Pittsburgh. RIVERSEAM, W. Va., June 23.— (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) PAPEN IN ANTI- SOVIET MANOUVER Proposes Franco-Ger- ‘man Military Alliance LAUSANNE, June 23.—In an ef- fort to consolidate the imperialist front against the Soviet Union, Chan- cellor Franx Von Papen proposed a military alliance between France and Germany. “If the Pacts of Paris and Locarno do not assure France enough sec- urity,” the rabid reactionary Chan- cellor of Germany declared here, “then the welding of the two armies, by a suitable formula, should allay France's fear and permit solution of the now seemingly insolvable prob- lems of disarmament as well as the riddles of Central Europe.” The military alliance, it appears quite clearly, is thus aimed to meet France’s demand for security before disarmament and to quiet down the imperialist ‘antagonism be tween France and Germany as a contribu- tion to the strengthening of the uni- ted front against the Soviet Union. German Police Bans Workers’ Gatherings BERLIN, June 23.—Several work- ers demonstrations scheduled to take place today were banned by the pol. ice yesterday, The Hessen police prohibited all workers demonstrations until further notice. Several collisions occurred through- out the city yesterday between work- ers and fascists. DEMAND HOMES BE. BUILT FOR NEW YORK WORKERS | I. Amter, right, and Henry Shepard, Negro worker, are candidates of the Communist Party for governor and leutenant-governor in New York state in the coming elections. While Ham Fish is exposed as an owner of vile tenements in New York's East Side, these candidates put forward the demand fdr an appropriation of $1,000,000,000 for workers’ homes, parks and playgrounds. Investigation reveals that housing con- ditions among thousands of Negro workers in Harlem where Shepard is section organizer of the Unemployed Council are among the worst in the city. DIES BILL SPONSOR, FISH, IS OWNER OF VILE N. Y. TENEMENTS| With Other Millionaires, Owns 600 Parcels of Property in 14 East Side Blocks Hamilton Fish, chief spirit, behind the Dies Bill to exclude and deport foreign-born workers, is an owner of some of the vilest tenements in the city of New York. According to a report of the State Housing Board récently made public public, more than 600 parcels of property in the lower East Side district of New York, covering 14 city blocks are owned by prominent estates such as those of William Astor, Robert Goelet, Elbridge T. Gerry, and Fish. During the “Fish Committee” hear- ings, in answer to charges of the Daily Worker that he owned these tenements; Fish denied in a state- ment to the press that “he owned any real estate whatsoever.” An analysis of the report just made by the Labor Research Association re- veals that more than 2,000,000 per- sons in New York live in unhealthy, disease-breeding homes.” Commenting up on this, I. Amter, candidate for governor of New York state on the Communist ticket, de- clared that “conditions are even worse than the State Housing Board has been forced to admit. In the election campaign of 1932, the Com- munist Party demands that jobless workers shall not be evicted from their homes. It demands further that the City of New York shall un- dertake an extensive building pro- | gram to divide decent housing for the working class families. It demands the immediate appro- priation of $1,000,000 for building of workers’ homes to be rented to work- ers af cost and for additional schools, hospitals, playgrounds, nurseries and par! Amter, who was one of the speakers (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) CITY'S CHILDREN IN HUNGER MARCH Parade Saturday Altho Permit Denied NEW YORK.—A demand for a per- mit for a Hunger March of New York’s starving children and their mothers will be made to the police department this morning, the United Children’s Committee announced last night. The police had denied a for-| mal application for the permit. Whether the permit is granted or not, however, the children will march, leaders of the committee declared. Mayor, Walker has ignored the de-} mands of the hungr ychildren and tonight leaves for the Democratic national convention. ‘The police excuse for rejecting the parade permit is that “no one will be in the City Hall after 12 noon,” but the children charge that this is pure evasion, since { tis known that acting mayor McKee will not leave for Chi- cago until late Saturday night. The parade of the children and their mothers will start at Rutgers Square at 11 a.m. ST Roosevelt “Man Mixed Up in Raw Fight Decision By SI GERSON (Secretary Labor Sports Union) A scandal, the trail of which can be followed right up into the Demo- cratic national convention, threatens to break over the “raw” decision in the. Sharkey-Schmeling. fight .on Tuesday night, Followers of boxing—and they number millions among the workers in the United States—say that they are through—the stench of this de- cision is too great. (The N. Y. Daily News cartoonist, Edson, calls it “The Odor of the Day.”) The air is full of charges, counter-charges and talk of investigation. Sickens Even Cynics. Was it just a “robbery” of a de- cision? Was it merely a case of a decision being given to Sharkey by one Judge, George Kelly, and the referee, Gunboat Smith, without the knowledge of all the other principals in the fight? Absolutely not! In fact the thing was so raw that even NCH RISES OVER PHONEY FIGHT , the cynical sports writers on the New York capitalist papers were un- able to defend it—on the contrary! The facts? The referee, Gunboat Smith, is a former boxer and was managed by Jimmy Johnston, the promoter of Madison Square Garden, as well as the promoter of the fight. George Kelly, the judge who voted for (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) Gangsters, Politicians Run Boxing Racket This chummy scene indicates the close connection between gang- dom and jthe sport world. Photo shows Al Capone, notorious gangster, Jack Sharkey, present heavyweight champ'of the world, |arms reduction” |two chief imperialist rivals in U. S. Would Increase Navy, Army |Aim for Naval Gacy is glaringly e are designed to give the United Britain and to reduce the naval Pacifist Smoke Screen; Up Anti- War Fight by Hoover’s “Arms Cut” Proposals With Britain and to) Reduce Forces of Japan and France Workers Must Take The cynical hypocrisy of the Hoover proposals for “drastic | xposed in the admissions by | | Washington officials that the much heralded “peace proposals” | States naval parity with Great strength of Japan—America’s the struggle for world democ-| | racy. | A Washington dispatch to | the New York Times quotes official Washington opinion in ad- missions that the Hoover propasal: “would provide absolute tonnage parity in all classes of ships be- tween the United States and Great Britain, according to tables com- piled by experts today.” A Universal Service dispatch from Washington is even more explicit in| |describing the effects on “disarma- !ment” of the Hoover proposals: “The (U. 8.) 220,750 tons of cruisers and would have to build 3: Navy~ now has | 3,500 additional tons | | to reach the strength of 254,250 | allowed if the cut (sic!) is made. | Great Britain would have to scrap 120,021 tons, and Japan 77,707 tons.” The United States will alo “be entitled to build 9,950 tons” of air-| craft carriers, while Great Britain | would have to scrap 14,100 tons and Japan 8120. This is imperialist | | “arms reductions!” [ee | Some More “Reductions.” | In the field of land armaments, the | same process would be applied. Un- der the Hoover proposals, the United States would be entitled to increase its regular army from its revorted | present size of 139.957 officers and men to “over 190,000.” This also is admitted by Washington officials. the New York Times reporting Washing- jton opinion as to American “sacri fices” in, the interest of “peace,” as follows: “President Hoover's vroposal to reduce by one-third the streneth of land armies over and above the ‘police component’ presumably would not affect the American ar- my, which now numbers 139.957 officers #mI men. wherers on the basis of one soldier fo 650 citizens as permitted to Germany. the American Jand forces should be ever 390,000.” The French, British and Jananese, | erainst whom the Foover pronosais ere directed, are sharply opposing those sections of the proposals af- fecting them, while supporting those sections affecting their rivals. / Struggle for Supremacy. The French are opvosed to reduc- tion of French land forces and of} submarines. The British, who like America. see the submarine as a threat to their trade routes. are sun- | porting the Hoover demands for the reduction of submarines. The Ital- ians who are unable to compete with France in the building un of heavy armaments are asking for drastic | cuts in heayy armaments. The Brit-| ish want to limit the size of capital ships because they cannot compete with America in the building of | these costly vessels. Japan's atti- | tude is similar to that cf Britain in this respect. The United States, on the other hand, is opposed to such limitation. The British, while sup-| porting the Hoover demands on limi- | tations of submarines and bombing | planes are opposed to the demand) that Great Britain should scrap some of her capital ships and cruisers so as to permit the United States to attain parity with the British navy. Japan also opposes the demand that | she cut down her naval strensth far | below that of the United States. ‘The ¥rench are especially resent | ful. In French official circles, the} Hoover proposals are characterized as a “surprise attack” on France and an “American bombshell.” The French imperialist press describes the Hoover proposals as a vote-catching device | for home consumption an attempt “to barter armament reduction against a possible revision of war debts without allowing the Furopeans the full assurance that debt cancel- Jation will take place.” The sum- | mary of French opinion is that the proposal are a vote-catching device. i “Toward Revolutionary Mass Work” Pamphlet containing 14th Plenum Resolutions ee \ ™ |the old “Leader” BAR SOVIET DELEGATES FROM TALKS | Litvinoft ~ Denounces Exclusion from Main Discussions “PROC EEDI? FUTILE” Workers Fa atherland Only Is for Peace (Cable by NGS Inprecorr) —Graphic Phot) RYAN WALKER IS DEAD Revolutionary Artist for 32 Years (Wireless by inprecorr) MOSCOW, USSR. June 23.— Ryan Walker died yesterday in Rot- kinsky hospital of pleuro-pneumonia, He was a staff cartoonist for the Daily Worker and a member of the Communist Party of U.S.A. Ryan Walker had been active in the revolutionary movement for 32 | years. He worked on the “Call” and and other Socialist Party dailies. He toured the United States for the Socialist Party giving “chalk talks” on current political topics. After the Bolshevik revolution in Russia, Ryan Walker broke with the Socialist Party and gave his support to the Soviet Union and the program of Lenin. In the autumn of 1930, Ryan Walker joined the Communist Party. He became also an active member ‘of the John Reed Club and gave all his great talent and energy to the | revolutionary movement. In October, 1931, Walker went to the Soviet Union, being then quite ill, but determined to see the Work- ers’ Fatherland, After a tour of the U.S.S.R., he contracted pneumonia in Moscow, and was sent to the hos- | pital, where, four months later, he | died JAIL 4 MEMBERS OF IRISH CLUB Lead Eviction Fight in Bronx NEW YORK.—Four members of the Irish Workers’ Club are held in the Bronx County jail on charges of fel- onious assault, following an eviction fight on E. 147th St., Bronx, in which a large crowd of unemployed workers took part Wednesday night. The jailed workers were badly beaten by police in the patrol wagon on their way to teh jail, Those arrested are Martin Mori- arty ,Rooney, Mallallay and McCair- nay. They are being defended by the International Labor Defense. ‘The fight followed the attempt of the workers to replace furniture of an evicted Irish working woman with six children. A policeman who stood guard at the entrance of the door was rendered helpless as a result of a bed falling upon him, The reserves were then called. Mallallay was given the worst beat- ing, his body being covered with welts. Although the judge examined him today and saw teh extent of his injuries, he refused to permit his lawy to file a cross-complaint against Kane, the cop who slugged him. Hearing has beem eet for Monday before Judge Hageis in Magistrates’ Court, 161st St. e@md Brook Ave. Im- migration agemts are ‘already. snoop- ing around the jail, rte gnme~y, | eh | GENEVA, June 23.—Maxim | Litvinoff, head of the Soviet | delegation to the “disarma- | ment” conference, yesterday spoke before the General Com- mission of the Disarmament Conference. Litvinoff’s speech has been boycotted by the | italist press. In his address, Li demned the con cap- vinoff ences as sabotag- con- jing real disarmament. He de | that the Soviet Union is unalie to (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) ‘TRY T0 BREAK FORD'S MEETING Workers Disregard the Democrats’ Scheme PROVIDENCE, R. I., June 23 James W. Ford, speaking here V nesday assailed the Democratic ad- ministration of this town, Mayor Dunne speaks always about the ne- cessity for relief, but insists on two days forced labor for a relief dis- tribution of $5 to $7 per family. The rest of the week, the 12,000 jobless here can scour the garbage c2 Single workers have this pri e all week, for they are denied a lief whatever. Jobless Insurance Ford was able to point tempts being made by cratic Party while he spoke ence that. the capitalist politicians fear the workers will fall in line for the ‘Communist program of unem- ployment insurance and _ no e cuts. While 200 Negro and white work-/ ers were crowded in the Ford elec tion rally in Armenian Hall, the De~ mocratic Party speakers first tried to draw some of them out by holding a meeting across the street. When this did not work, the Democrats moved right under the windows of Armenian Hall, and put up a loud speaker. The workers at Ford’s meeting still paid no attention to the Democra and some of the crowd assembled by to the st- the Dem o- the loud speaker came up to Ford's | meeting. | Speaking with Ford were Jim Reid, | president of the National | Workers Union and Communist car didate for governor of Rhode Island, and Ann Burlak, Communist can- |didate for mayor of Pawtucket. The whole audience rose to greet Ford when he entered, and after he spoke, a “Foster-Ford Club” was or- | ganized to carry on election activity. | Ford speaks now at: Lawrence, | June 23; Worcester, June 24 in Washe | ington Hall; Concord, June 25; Fall | River, June 25; Lynn, June 26, in |Lasters Hall; New Bedford, June 27, lin Bristol Arena; Springfield, June 29; New Haven, June 30, in Music Hall; Bridgeport, July 1, in Oddfele lows’ Temple; Stamford, July 2, | (MORE ELECTION NEWS ON P, 8) Jail Six Werkers in White Terror in Bulgaria (Cable by Inprecorr) SOFIA, June 23.—Workers accused Of being leaders of the illegal Com- munist Party and the Young Com- munist League of Bulgaria were sen- tenced today. Zanev. Koptcheff, Matanoff, Popoff and Palovski were sentenced to twelve years and six months of hard labor each. Accusations against six others have been filed. Thirty-six in all were arrested. Protest demonstration immediately occurred on the streets of Sofia with meetings at two prominent points where Deputy Naunioff addressed the masses, Large forces of armed poe lice brutally attacked the workers, making many arrests.