The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 25, 1932, Page 3

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDA JUNE 25, 1 Se cialied Helps Auto Body Company Put Over Pay-Cut; Says Fight Would Be Futile Workers Struck Against 10 Per Cent Cut; Socialist Helps Police in Sell-Out (By a Worker Correspondent) NEW YORK.—The workers at the Standard Commer-| cial Body Corp., 481 E. 104th St., with branches at 931 Ber-| gen St., Brooklyn, 94-15 166th St., Jamaica, also Tarrytown, | N. Y., and Kearny, N. J., replied to the 10 per cent cut by not| going into work. The cut, which was the third in about a year, had been given without notice and the workers had worked nine days before they were told about it by receiving a reduc-} tion in their pay. | The workers were not organized but they elected a rank) and file committee to speak to the bogs. The boss had already informed the cop who came with his horse and Mmarched right into the shop. The workers showed their indignation and gave the cop the razz. The cop im- mediately became very brave and tried to start a fight. Seeing that this failed, he tried to spread dissen- tion in their ranks by saying that he _ didn’t mind their striking but there must be no disorder or people would call them Reds. ‘The spokesman for the committee was a Socialist sympathizer. He re- ported that they had only discussed with the boss the question of the re- turn of the unannounced part of the cut, but they accepted the cut. He asked those who wanted to vote for this to raise their hands, One raised his hand and took it down again. This spokesman asked the men four times the same question and made sure to tell them that it was bucking up against a stone wall to resist the cut. Then the men with two cops and the bosses standing in their midst started to go in, Some started to stay out, but were afraid of -being victimized. ‘The workers should not become discouraged. They won one demand by staying out without any organ- ization whatsoever. If they had been organized, they could have forced the ‘boss to take back the wage cut. There will be another wage cut. The work- ers should orgénize now before it comes. Join the militant Auto Work- ers Union, 5 E, 19th St. SMASH SECRECY WITH AUG. 1 ISSUE Million Copies to Ex-| pose War Plots The capitalist newspapers didn’t| say much about it when the Dies Bill was railroaded through the House of Representatives. The capitalist news- papers are keeping quiet while the bosses are busy trying to shove this deportation and terror bill through the senate, In the same way the capitalist newspapers are covering with a smoke screen of pacifism the preparations being made for a new world slaugh- ter. Awake to Danger Now And just as the workers, througn the publicity in the pages of the Daily Worker, are waking to the danger involved in the Dies Bill, and are coming out in protest demonstrations to block this vicious measure, so too, on a far wider scale, must the work~- ers be rallied to fight the war prep- arations, now, before it is too late. At present, not enough workers are alive to the threat involved in the advance of Japanese troops on the border of the Soviet Union, in the plots being hatched at the Geneva “disarmament” conference, in the sudden increase in the activity of munition plants. Does Your Neighbor Know You, reading the Daily Worker, are aware of what is going on. But does your shopmate know about it? Does your neighbor know? And with- out their help, without millions of workers getting together, is it possible to think seriously of smashing the bosses’ war plans. ‘That is why it has been decided to print one million copies of the anti- war issue of the Daily Worker on August 1, which is International Anti- ‘War Day. These million copies are printed with the knowledge that thousands of workers already know how near we are to a world war, and are willing to bend all their efforts to distribute this issue on a mass seale. What will be your part, reader, in this mass distribution? Haye you any plans to suggest that individuals or workers’ organizations might use to spread this anti-war issue. We shall be glad to hear from you, ANNUAL VACATION SALE 20 Per Cent Discount Revolutionary Literature Starts Today—Until July 2 nally low prices on vatu- and = pampbl Mt the worker who wishes to take advantage of the summer vacation period to gain a greater understanding of the principles of Marxism-Leninism, WORKERS BOOK SHOP 1 FAST 18th STREET Open Ham. to 8 pan. Tel, Alp. 40998 Correspondence Briefs || $7 A WEEK TO SUPPORT FAMILY Clyde, Ohio. Comrades: I am sending you a couple of dimes. Could you send me the Daily Worker for about a week or so, so long as the money will pay for? I get only} $7 a week and have a family of five to support. One of my girls has been in the T. B, sanitarium for four years and the other has just been taken there. If there is a comrade who would send me his Daily Worker after reading it I would be very much obliged. I took it since it was first published until four years ago and haven't been able to raise the price | of it since then. Comradely, E. 8. ar ee (By a Worker Correspondent.) DES MOINES, Iowa.—The first Communist Party unit in this city has just been organized. Des Moines is the trade and commercial center of the state, with a population of over 142,000. Chief industries are pork packing, printing, machine shop products and textiles, It is also a railroad center, It is in the middle of a rich vein of coal employing over 8,000 miners. ‘The workers here are ready to fight against evictions, cutting off of water and for relief for the coming winter, ete, The workers in the shops want to struggle against their wage-cuts, conditions, etc. The Daily Worker was the means of getting the different workers to- gether who joined the Party after a thorough discussion on the work and role of our Party. DES MOINES WORKER. soe 8 CHARGE WASTE OF DAILIES IN CHICAGO Dear Comrades: The last time I went to Melrose Park with a comrade, I saw over 200 Daily Workers in the toilet. Why not distribute these? A suggestion to regular subscribers. When you fin- ish, give your copy to some worker, There are plenty of places where our paper needs to be introduced. WORKER. * ee D. C, FORCED LABOR KILLS PRISONERS (By a Worker Correspondent.) WASHINGTON, D. C.—Joseph B. McCormick, 34 serying a sentence in district jail of Washington, D.C., died from blood-poisoning contracted while working as a painter under the forced labor system of the prison authori- ties, FIGHT DIES BILL, E. BERKMAN SAYS Big Conference Held In Boston BOSTON, June 24.—From her cot in the Central N. E. Sanitorium in Rutland, where she lies ill with tub- erculosis, Edith Berkman, textile union leader, today dispatched a mes- sage to the International Labor De- fense, protesting against the Dies bill. She is facing deportation to fascist Poland for her strike activities. ‘The message was sent in comment upon the successful conference held on Juze 22 attended by 54 delegates representing 19 organizations, Protest Effective Berkman writes: “If it were not for the worldwide protest for the re- lease of the nine Scottsboro boys, they would have been lynched months ago, “I greet the efforts of the Rastern New England district of (h2 I. L, D. in calling this conference to or- ganize a United Front of all workers organizations to fight for the release of the Scottsboro boys and Edith Berkman. Both cases are vivid ex- amples of the terror used by the boss class against the Negro and foreign- born workers.” TCE» Protest in Jersey ELIZABETH, N. J., June 24—A membership meeting of the Slovak, Hungarian and Russian branches of, the International Workers Order, speaking for 300 members, adopted a protest resolution against the Dies Bill and sent a wire to the Depart- ment of Labor, Washington, denounc- ing the threatened deportation of Bebritz, editor of Uj Elore,” Hun- garian Communist daily. | VOTE COMMUNIST FOR: 4. Equal rights for the Negroes and _ self-determination for the Black Belt, i: the campaign. WALKER’S SIMPLE, DIRECT DRAWINGS EXPOSED BRUTALITIE Some of Walker's Character- istic Drawings EMANI AiLtion, Go To THe ONEMPAOYE!) » WORKERS GREATEST RIMe In THe U Noam SA Ryan Walker’s Life and Work Built | Around Struggles of American Labor | Revolutionary Artist Was Known to Thousand s of U. S. Workers ORN at Springfield, Ky., on Decem- ber 26, 1870, Ryan Walker's early life was spent on a hilly, rolling farm. His people were of the early English settler stock, with a dash of Scotch and Irish. Early Talented At a very early age, Ryan Walker developed the traits which had such a decided influence upon his career. To think for himself and express his own ideas, to read and reach out be- yond his narrow environment, to draw pictures on every scrap of paper he could find, and to have a warmth for working folk—the twenty miles from a railroad, in the days before the telephone, radio or automobile. Ryan's particular delight was to print with a pencil and draw car- toons for a little newspaper, and his mother used to help him print the words. From his mother, he acquired that fine sympathy and understand- ing which made him rebel against the hidebound religious bigotry and rotten injustice, which later found a definite expression in his intensity as a Communist. Studies Art Ryan went to Texas with his par- ents. Later his father died and his mother remarried and went to Kan- sas City. Ryan attended the public schools in Kansas City and then spent two years studying art in New York. He sold his first political cartoon to “Judge,” when he was sixteen years old. Upon finishing his art school- ing, he returned to Kansas City, where he took his first newspaper job with the Kansas City Star. It was on the Kansas City Times, that Ryan’s cartoons began to attract na~ tional attention and be copied in pub- lications- all over the world, The country was at high pitch over the Bryan-McKinley campaign, and Ryan's pictures of McKinley as pup- pet Napoleon on a hobby-horse and Mark Hanna dressed in a dollarmark checked suit created a great demand and many copies were distributed in Ryan then went to the St. Louis Republic and developed the first color section for that paper. His work by | this time was well known throughout | the newspaper world and he began to get offers to come east. About this time, he married Maud Davis. Comes East | Ryan came to New York in 1901, and during the following years con- tributed work to a large number of newspapers and magazines. Later, for three years he was art director of the New York Graphic, ‘For a number of years he was a regular contributor to the Appeal to Reason, creating the comic strip, “Henry Dubb” which ecame famous. “Henry Dubb” was reprinted in| bookle¢ form and hundreds of thou- sands of copies were distributed. He illustrated many tracts and booklets which were sent out by thousands. Ryan developed a series of “chalk talks” which went oyer big with thou- sands of workers and farmers all over the U, S, and Canada, ‘These talks Used To were very popular and rolled up thou- sands of subscriptions for the Appeal to Reason. Then Ryan devoted his efforts to the New York Call, before the left wing split in 1919, The Truth Seeker printed many of Ryan's cartoons and he illustrated a booklet for them entitled “Funny Bible Stories” which was widely cir- culated, While Ryan had no children of his own he was very fond of children. He used to have great fun in mill and mining towns, drawing little “Henry Dubb” sketches for crowds of children who would gather about him. The frightful condition of children in these towns touched him very deeply, and stirred him to greater activity, Joins Comunist Party. In the autumn of 1930, after sev- eral years of isolation from the revo- lutionary movement, Walker joined the Communist Party of the United States. Several months previously he had already come to the Daily Worker as one of its staff artists. With char- acteristic fervor and enthusiasm, he SS OF CAPITALISM BEGIN THis Wage CUT BY | threw himself into his work, creating | the new character “Bill Worker” | which became known to thousands of | miners, farmers and workers in the| shops and mills. Loved by Children. | His juvenile characters “Red Pep- | per” and “Joe, Jr.” were especially | loved by the children, and the Young} Pioneers of the country claimed Ry- | an Walker as their own, At this | time, too, his “chalk talks” again were in great demand among the workers, Will Be Remembered, Ryan Walker will live in the heart: of the workers, and particulary those | who knew him. He had a most lovable and charming personality. He | was unselfish, and a loyal fighter in| the ranks of the working class. His| visit to the Soviet Union, though be- | ing then quite ill, was the crowning adventure of his coltorful career, he | had travelled 16,000 miles over the} Socialism and giorying in the real-| ization of his dream, the triumph of | the wotkers, FOSTER BLASTS . DEMOCRATS (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) ises and all of their apparent dif- ferences, the workers must see their reactionary actions while in office, their brutal attacks on the workers and their protection of the rich. The workers must see that these parties have been and are now the defend- ers of the capitalists and the bitter enemies of the workers. Bi-Partisan Attack. “Leading the attack against the workers is the Hoover government with its bi-partisan coalition of Re- posed of rapacious profitseekers, loyal publican-Demiocratic Parties, com- agents of Wall Street, corporation promoters, and the biggest, capitalists themselves, as Mellon, Hoover, Smith, Raskob and Young. “In order to trick those workers and farmers who are no longer fooled by two-party fakery—new damagogy and promises are being indulged in 30 Days of Interesting European Travel Including 7 Days in the U.S.S.R. for as low as $190.00 Sailings weekly on; S.S. Bremen, Europa, Ber- engaria, New York, Cale- donia, Statendam and Aquitania Vote Communist BUTTONS Are Ready for MASS SALE and Distribution Order Now—$20 a Thousand Send Check With Order— Or Will Send C. O. D. Order from your Dist ‘et or from— Communist Paviy, U.S.A. P. O. Box 87 Station D. New York, N. Y. Special Social Study Tours 23 Days in the U.S.S.R. Including Leningrad, Moseow Ivanov Vosnesensk, Kharkov, Rostov, Dniepropetrovsk, Dniep- rostroy and Kiey. _ $300.00 up Lowest rates on. steamer, bus and rail transporta- tion. For further particulars call: World Tourists, Ine 175 Fifth Avenue New York City AL 4-6656-7-8 Branch Oftices: Phil Chestnut St. Room 406 Wash’'n, D.C.—409 Columbian Bldg. to make the masses choose “Progres- sives’ and ‘Reactionaries’ within the two old capitalist parties.” Foster shows that Hoover's pro- gram of gifts to the biggest banks, corporations and railroads, which Hoover calls “unemployment relief” is re-inforced by the Democratic Party “Garner Bill” building of postoffices—-lots of mail facilities and lots of profits, but no food for the jobl Furthermore, Foster points out, Gar ner in his proclamation of his in- tention to run for president, declares “against the dole” by which Garner means unemployment insurance, and for a ruthless terror campaign against the workers. | Foster is scheduled to speak. Sun- day in Los Angesles, Monday in San Diego, and then to go through the southwestern states. | Throughout his campaign, Foster emphasizes that only the Communist Party stands for, and fights for da by day, the workers’ real intere: The Communists demand unempl ment insurance at the expense of the | state and the employers, no wage| cuts, no imperialist war, and demand | relief for the poor farmers, no fore- | closures or seizure of land for non- payment of taxes. | CARS FOR CHICAGO SPORT MEET! New York workers who have cars =| and want to go to the International | Workers’ Athletic Meet in Chicago, | July 28-30, are urged to communicate | |with Arnold Ame, clo Labor Sports Union, 16 W. 2ist St. Expenses will be met for all drivers carrying ath- letes. for unlimited | contractors’ | | Germany, CUTYING YouR WAGES TO WHAT You Are worth + AND LETTING JOOVER’S §. P. CONFEDERATES (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) poor dear Herriot! What the Forward proposes is that America should sign a “security pledge” to protect France against enemy aggression. This, the paper U. 8. 8. R., seeing the great work of | cays, “the free peoples in Europe and | America” should urge their govern- | ments, “in order that the work of both international conferences (Lau- |sanne and Geneva) may be soon crowned with success.” It will be remembered that the Jewish Daily Forward is a pro-Hill- |quit paper, It will also be remem- |bered that at the socialist conven- |tion at Milwaukee, Hillquit spoke in an “almost Marxian” fashion about the bankruptcy of capitalism and the | urgency of workers’ struggle. These | were socialist words. Now we have \socialist deeds, The socialists fully agree with Hoover's proposal to cut the arms of other states so that the arms of American imperialism may |be proportionally stronger. The so- |cialists fully agree with France in her cry for “security” which is noth- ing but an attempt to achieve a formal imperialist alliance agains’ the Soviet Union. (How “aggressions” can we manufacture need not eb {mentioned here) need not peated here), The socialists outdo even the Hoover government in de- y|claring openly and brazenly that the langer of an attack on France (or or Poland, or any other country for: that matter) is to be found in the Soyiet Union and that a world gressor” is the task of “free people: These are deeds. The socialists remain true to the Second Inter- = RUSSIAN ART SHOP PEASANTS’ HANDICRAFTS 100 East 14th St. N. Y. C. Imports from | Send $5.60 for Special Assortment tor Baznars Package P: (Will bring in $ WATCH! 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Page Three A Co-Worker Writes About Ryan Walker | ae Burck, “Daily” Staff Artist, Tells of His Day-to-Day Work With Him By JACOB BURCK N THE rush of daily struggle we do not al |* ities of those working with us. | sharply what we have lost, ays stop to think of the qual The death of a comrade brings home In the last couple of years of acute strife, many be re- | alliance against such “ag- | Phone ALgonguin_4-0084 ——r | of our comrades have fallen on picket lines, in protest demonstrations and jon the no-man’s land of the coal barons, RYAN WALKER WOULD HAVE |PREFERRED TO HAVE DIED® | THAT WAY. He \ of |Tevolutionist. Instead ck |to his drawing board and sent out him. The his “Bil Worker,” “Red Pepper” and | Sw py, youth- “John Henry” to carry on the fight | ful esembled lite thie 'ananradar 2 | vers that of a curly-headed | seni ae child 1 past middle age, | Ryan Walker is dead. He died in| | | pf ss lthe Soviet the land where| Walking to Thompson's for a eof | “Bill Worker’ Born on a smal seen | Kentucky farm in 1870, he ho felt she ‘Gleam ve at seeing sed by a cop~ ay in a s he was nal, but unlike them enly aware of the sort of world in which he lived. His howed the blending of quali- He am ous ‘kid jwith the labor moveme jbeginning to assert |the rise of big ind: |still in his ’teens |market martyrs went : Thomas Nast was n ng the |many tiger squirm h his 5 |Grawings. Ryan Walker h |begun to draw, There were prac- itself same ties, e |tically no art schools then in young r @ person it disliked jartists with false grandiose notions th embrassing removed from actual, life. Even er, Lord-Cut~ |if there were, the social conscious~ fac-Donald — Hey-Gin- jness and fire in young Walker could not haye been drowned out b: cious teachings. He w An jican—a fighter. His home-spun/| | technique expressed exactly what he |felt with no frills or trimmings. | Quite naturally he found himself | in the company of other American | fighters, Mother Jones, Bill Haywood, | |Mother Bloor and Eugene Debs |There he found his real functon. | | Ane so “Henry Dubb,” the strip char- | acter known to all old revolutionaries | | was created and lived for years. | ps were drawn: in ue manner. They were The war was over. The socialist |party divided into two camps, the |red and the yellow. Things were | |moying fast. The Soviet Union be- | lcame an established fact. Ryan | | Water found himself in a whirl- | carefree, full of spirit, untainted by any art snobbery, uninflueficed by any of the stereotyped technique |wind of emotions. Old friendships | characterizing most strip?“ vartists. | proved disillusioning, old ideas had | They were not “great” drawings ac- |to give way to new, Ryan Walker | cording to the standards of, the art |had to readjust himself. He stopped | critics, But they were genuine, part |drawing until he could see his way |of tne man himself, And what is \ clear again. more, part and parcel of tig, lives jand struggles of thousands of? work- | The big crash came—i929. The jers. I say that is real art! ~ |Communist Party organized the big | ae |March 6th demonstration against hunger and unemployment. Work- . . We have lost an artist and fighter. | a tetalinccuals” be | The younger artists who are now jers and intellectuals became aware | working in the movement can learn ised ib beaecta ls olead | from Ryan Walker what qualities |The rebellious spirit in Comrade | ™M® Working-class art. | Walker could not be quieted. Almost | |60, he decided to cut himself com- | |pletely off with old friends, and | strike out on a new revolutionary | road continuing where he left off | He joined the staff | + Wherever You Are YoU Can Have the | jafter the war. hich is the capite | national ist van- |[Only working class paper } apainst the U. S.S, R. The | in English socialists are supporting Hoover's ie - a 4 |nunger and terrof government |fSend in Your Sub for the against the Soviet workers and pea- | Summer sants who have abolished unem- | . weNeY i | a year ($ ployment and hunger and are build- |g] 8° # Year ($8 in N.Y.C.) ing socialism. The workers of this | 50¢ a month |country, in fighting against the | x |Hoover war policies and for thei! DAILY WORKER | Soviet Union, must not forget Hoo- | Ver's sociajist friends and supporters, 50 E. 18th St. N. Y. 1,000,000 || One Million Copies of the AGAINST WAR! AUGUST ist! THIS SPECIAL EDITION MUST BE SPREAD INTO THE HOMES AND SHOPS OF ONE MILLION WORKERS ALL OVER THE U. S. A. 1,000,000 | ii| EVERY READER MUST HELP PREPARE NOW! 2 j | {How many can you use | |Map out a route on your block | Start a campaign in your shop Send in a bundle order, with cash |Get subs for a month or more L | 1,060,000 $1.00 a Hundred to Individual Workers 1 ! 1 ! | Organizations! Send $7.00 and get a thousand copies with your greeting in it DAILY WORKER—50 E. 13th St, N. Y. C.. sinain-vubliceeniilasribneiielaan a