The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 30, 1932, Page 1

VOTE COMMUNIST FOR 1. Unemployment and Social Insurance at the ex- pense of the state and employers. 2. Against Hoover’s wage-cutting policy. 8. Emergency relief for the poor farmers without restrictions by the government and banks; ex- emption of poor farmers from taxes, and no forced collection of rents or debts. = Dail Central Orga Se (Section of the Communist Ineroationa! Norker - Rnumict Party U.S.A. . Against capitalist Against imperiali > VOTE COMMUNIST FOR Equal rights for the Negroes and self-determin- ation for the Black Belt. terror; against all forms of suppression of the political rights of workers, st war; for the defense of the Chinese people and of the Soviet Union, “Vol. IX, No. 155 => Entered as second-class maiter at the ust Office at New York, N, Y.. under the act of March 3, 1879 _NEW YORK, THURSDAY, _ JUNE 30, 1932 _ Price 3 Cents_ SPEED DRIVE FOR WAR AS CRISIS GROWS Japan and France in Plot to Seize Chinese Eastern Railway YEN CONTINUES DROP Reaches New Record Low BULLETIN On June 22, the American bosses sent another huge shipment of war material to Japan. The shipment, consisting of bale cotton and scrap iron, was loaded at San Pedro, Cal. on the Japanese steamer “Rakuyo Maru” under a heavy guard of Pin- kerton detectives. * err Japanese yen exchange continued to drop yesterday, reaching a record low of 2634 cents as against 49.80 normal exchange. The yen has been dropping rapidly in value during the past week as a result oft he tremen- dous deepening of the world capi- talist. crisis and the increasing col- lapse of the capitalist system in Jap- an. The rapid collapse of Japanese economy in Japan is accompanies by @ desperate speeding up of the drive for war against the Soviet Union, with the French and Japanese imper- ialists !n a joint move to seize the Chinese Eastern Railway, jointly oper- ated by China and the Soviet Union. The Japanese are considering pur- chasing from the French bankers the discredited Czarist claims on the Chi- nese Eastern Railway. These claims would then be used as a pretext for the Japanese to seize the railway. dules Massenet, manager of the Franco-Asiatic Bank, is now in Tokyo carrying on the negotiations with the Japanese government. In the mean- time, the Japanese are already using their puppet Manchurian government to seize Chinese control in the road. ‘The negotiations in Tokyo are report- ed to be arousing intense interest in French and American circles. A Paris ispatch to the New York Times ad- mits the existence of the Franco- Japanese conspiracy to seize the road: “tt is known here that the Japanese are keenly interested in the question despite denials. However, the Jap- anese are far from being convinced that the Franco-Asiatic bank’s claims are valid and they realize that at- tempts to seize the railway on any flimsy pretext might cause serious developments whereas they are al- ready fairly on the road to success in taking over partial control of the railway through Manchukuo figure- heads.” In their criminal drive for war against the Soviet Union as a capital- ist “way out” of the crisis, the Jap- anese already have five large armies operating directly on the Soviet bor- ders. The sinister, design of these troop movements is further empha- sized by the strict censorship which the Japanese have clamped down on all news of their trcop movements. U.S. Orders Attack on China Soviets Send Instructions to Nanking Butchers With the collapse of Nanking’s fourth “Communist Suppression” campaign, the Hoover Hunger Gov- ernment yesterday sent urgent in- structions to its Nanking hangmen to push the war against the Chinese workers’ and peasants’ Red Armies and the Soviet Districts. Recently, in spite of the open co- operation of American gunboats with the Nanking forces, the Chinese Red Armies have won what the imperialist press sadly describes as “startling Communist victories,” Two days ago, Chinese Red Army forces raided the swell summer resort of Kikungshan in Honan Province and captured several missionary _ agents of American imperialism. The Hoover instructions to Nanking call upon that bankrupt government to send troops in pursuit of the Red Army forces. While waging war on the revolu- tionary Chinese worker-peasant mass- es, the Nanking Government yester- day prepared to legalize the Japanese seizure of Manchuria, thus complet- ing its shameless betrayal of the Manchurian masses. Press dispatches from Tokyo also announce that the Chinese minister at Tokyo, on his re- turn from China, will assure Japan that the Nanking government has prepared “effectually to suppress” the Chinese boycott of Japanese goods oo other anti-Japanese move- ment ‘ 1,500 Poor Farmers and Families March on Duluth The police. tried in eur to overawe by a great display of armed force. mucleding atmored cirs sad machine guns, the farmers of St. Louis county when they marched into Duluth demanding no foreclosures, no seizure of land for taxes, and relief. Almost a solid line of police forced the parade onto side streets, Here is a small part of the parade and part of the line of cops, SCAB HERDER KILLS STRIKE SYMPATHIZER Ohio Miners. to March in Two Counties and Demand Relief AMSTERDAM, Ohio, June 29.— Ernest Gordon, a strike sympathizer, was shot and killed at the Wolf Run mine here by John Cole, a mine guard. Cole is a discharged “dry squad” officer; he was fired for fram- ing bootleggers, and is now a deputy at Amsterdam. He was leading scabs out of the mine. Gordon was sitting in a parked car by the roadside when Cole came along with a few scabs. Gordon did not move fast enough at Cole's per- emptory order, and was shot down in cold blood. He died two hours later in the hospital. The sheriff re- fuses to arrest Cole, but has arrested two miners who were with Gordon. Miners are holding a protest meet- ing, and the hunger march a few days later will demand disarming of the scabs and withdrawal of all arm- ed forces. Pie eM} BRIDGEPORT, Ohio, June 29— ‘Hunger marches under the auspices of a rank and file committee of striking miners and unemployed workers will proceed on the county seats of Belmont and Jefferson Coun- ties, to demand relief for striking miners and unemployed workers and their families. The Jefferson County march will reach Steubenville on July 5. The Belmont marchers will meet at St. Clairsville July 11. It has already cost the state (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) 38 MELROSE PARK CASES IN COURT States’ Attorney Has Two Prosecutors CHICAGO, Ill, (By Mail)—The case came up Monday of the 58 workers arrested where police, le- gionnaires and Capone gangsters serving as part of the city adminis- tration’s forces shot down nine job- less workers with machine guns, on May 6, in Melrose Park. States Attorney Swanson sent an “observer” and an assistant prose- cutor to push the case. The cases came up before Chief Justice Fisher, News nS lashes NICARAGUAN REBEL SLAIN, WASHINGTON, June 29.—One Ni- caraguan was killed and seven wounded in a clash with U. S,-con- trolled Nicaraguan national guard, according to reports received today by the Navy Department here. 4o ee & TWO DIE OF HEAT IN N, Y. NEW YORK.—With two persons dead as a result of the intense heat which reached a temperature of 84 at its peak, west winds were expect- ed later today to dispell the high hu- midity which caused the city’s mil- lions to swelter. POLICE MURDER 4 WORKERS (Cable By inprecorr) STASSFUERTH, Germany, June 29. —Police attacked the funeral proces- sion of workers here who were bury- ing their comrade, Leinung, murdered by fascists. The police first clubbed the workers, and, when they fought back, the police fired ‘a volley point blank and killed four workers. One of the dead is a 70-year-old woman. Seven were. seriously wounded and Scores less seriously hurt. The blood- bath has roused such resentment that the authorities have declared a “state of emergency” and brought up police reinforcements. GENTLE TO FASCISTS (Cable By Inprecorr) BERLIN, Germany, June 29.—At exactly the same time as the police in Stassfuerth were killing four work- ers for marching in a funeral pro- cession, uniformed Nazis marched within the banned “ons-mile-area” around the Reichstadt building here. attacking all workers they met. The police used no revolvers on them, not even clubs, afd made only a few) peaceful arrests. HUNDREDS ARRESTED (Cable By Inprecorr) BERLIN, Germany, June 29.—Dur- ing the past few days hundreds of Communist workers have been ar- rested at Mansfield on fascist insti- gation and with the police offering no explanations. Scores of the usual collisions of workers with fascists are occurring all over the country. Many armed fascists have been arrested. Machine guns, bombs and pjstols were found in the National Socialist Party of- fices at Minden, WON'T SUPPRESS SOCIALIST PAPER (Cable By Inprecorr) The minister of the interior has requested Severing, Prussian minister of the interior, a socialist, to suppress the Socialist’ “Vorwaerts” and the Catholic “Cologne Volkezeitung” for attacks on the government. It is ex- pected Severing will refuse, where- upon the case will go to the supreme court. HE LIKED THE HORSES Labor Racketeer Used Funds of Union WASHINGTON, June 29.—A flair for betting on horses that chronic- ally stumbled in last, resulted in Dave Evans, former secretary-treas- urer of the International Union of Operating Engineers losing his soft berth in the organization and fac- ing a possible prison term. Evans who was arrested last year following his removal from office was yesterday convicted by a jury in the district supreme court of embezzle- ment of $32,000. Under the law he is entitled to a ten-year term, Fight Among Thieves, Evans was secretary-treasurer when the union was moved to Chi- cago by Arthur M. Huddel, general president, who has since died. Deepening gaps in the union’s fin- ances which made pickings for, the rest of the racketeers in the organi- zation more difficult, resulted in sus- picion being cast upon Evans. His associates therefore removed him and his indictment followed. At the trial it was revealed that Evans had placed bets amounting to £200,000 on the race-tracks, and lost heavily. Defense lawyers countered, however, that part of the stolen funds were used by the foriner president, Huddel, in building up his machine in Cleveland—that is, paying off his gangsters and henchmen, Huddel’s death from heart attack followed two weeks after his escape from death at the hands of rival gunmen who fired point-blank at him and two other general officers in @ lunch room near their office. The bullet. was stopped by a fat wallet which Huddel carried in his pocket over his heart, | N. Y. WORKERS SMASH WINDOWS OF CHILE CONSUL Protest Fascist Terror Against Chilean Masses NEW YORK. —A group of 100 workers demonstrated yesterday be- fore the Chilean Consulate, at 17 Battery Place, ina militant expres- sion of solidarity with the revolytion- ary struggles of the Chilean masses against the fascist-military dictator- ship headed by Carlos G. Davila. Rocks and bottles enclosing a pro- test resolution were hurled through the windows of the Consulate. Three large windows were shattered. The demonstration which was car- ried out under the leadership of the Anti-Imperialist League formed at noon, with the workers unfurling banners, some of which read: “Down with the Davila Fascist Government, Enemy of the Toiling Masses!” “We Demand Release of all Workers, Peasants and Revolutionary Soldiers from Chilean Dungeons!” “Stop Mass Murder of Revolutionary Work- ers!” “Down with Wall Street Im- perialists, Oppressors of the Chilean Masses!” One placard urged _ the | workerg to vote Communist.in the coming election. A copy of the resolution hurled through the windows, reads as fol- lows: “To the Davila Fascist, Yankee con- trolled government of Chile: We, workers of New York, use this | method of expressing our solidarity with the workers, peasants and re- volutionary soldiers and sailors of Chile. We brand the Davila Gov- ernment, parading under the name of a socialist government as an en- emy of the workers and peasants, as a fascist terror tool in the hands of Wall Street. We protest the whole- sale murder of workers and revolu- tionary soldiers, the brutal prohibi- tion of strikes, and the declaration of martial law in the interests of the Wall Street robbers and particularly the Guggenheim bandits. We demand the immediate release from jail and court martial of the thousands of workers, peasants and soldiers, brave fighters against imperialism and their native tools. Neither the shameless demagogy of your govern- ment using socialist phrases, nor the bloody terror against the working masses will stop the heroic struggle of the Chilean masses for the over~ throw of the Davila Fascist Gov- ernment. We demand that the right of the workers and peasants revo- lutionary organizations to carry on their activities be not interferred with. We pledge our fullest cooper- ation to the Chilean workers and peasants in the fight for a Workers and Farmers Government in Chile, which will smash the power of the U. S. and British imperialist brigands and its fascist tools like you.” Many Meetings for Ford In and Around New, York: July 3-9 RK. — Ford's New York a eel ben are as follows: July 3.—Portchester, Aschmann’s Hall, 22 South Main Street, 2:30 p.m. July 5—Jamaica, Finnish Hall, 109- 26 Union Hall St., 7 p.m, July 6— Brownsville, July 7. — Yonkers, 27 Hudson Street, July 8-—Harlem, Ren. naisance Casino, 135th St. and 7th Ave., July 9.—Coney Island, Coney Island ‘Stadium, Surf Avenue and West 6th Street, Coney Island, at Red Ratification Rally, 8 p.m. An error was made in Wednesday's Daily Worker in the announcement of meetings scheduled in the New York City area for James W. Ford, Communist candidate for the vice- presidency. He will not speak in VETS HIT SELF Foster Released APPOINTMENT OF WATERS Growing Demand for | Broad Democratic Elections SCORE STEAM ROLLER Police Cut Off Water | In Camp Meigs WASHINGTON, D. C., June 29.— The Waters gang attempted to per- form a coup d'etat in Camp Anacostia today and declared Walter W. Waters once again “High Commander” of the Bonus Expeditionary Forces. The Workers’ Ex-Servicemen’s League} pointed out that Waters was not| elected by the rank and file and could | therefore not be recognized as the leader. Although elections were to be held| Friday in all camps and billets, the Waters crowd overroad all decisions, marched to Anacostia Camp and ac- | No rank and file vets were allowed | and no vote was taken. The veterans | in the other camps and billets knew | nothing about Waters’ new claim to| his old job. Meanwhile the Senate, in an at-| voted. to pay the fare home of the veterans now in Washington. The vets, however, remained cool to the | plan of sending them home to starve. “Give us the bonus and then we} will go home,” said a vet on Penn- sylvania Ave. This is the opinion of the majority of veterans in Wash- ington. (ADDITIONAL NEWS ON PAGE 3) KIDNAP BELOIT YOUTH LEADER; STILL MISSING: Peterson ‘Seized by 3 Carloads of Thugs with Drawn Guns BELOIT, Wisc. June 29.—Three carloads of thugs with drawn guns kidnapped Edward Peterson, Young Communist League organizer here, Tuesday night. He is still missing. A group of workers, including Pet- erson, were walking home after an unemployed council meeting. The gunmen drew up to the curb, and forced Peterson in the car ,holding the others away with their pistols, The kidnzppers drove away, and the local workers are making every effort to trace him. A mass protest. meet- ing will be held Sunday to denounce the kidnapping, and intensify the fight against forced labor and for| cash relief for the unemployed. The kidnapping is the attempt o} the Beloit employers and Braming- ham, the political boss of the town, and of the police, to terrorize work- ers and prevent the organization of the jobless. It folows closely on the strike of hundreds of the jobless against forced labor. It comes shortly after | the South Beloit unemployed marched and demanded cash relief. It is an attempt also to hinder the placing of Communist candidates on the ballot here. DIES BILL FIGHT OPENED BY LL.D. Weinstone Speaks at Members’ Meet NEW YORK.—Plans for a renewed and intensive drive against the Dies exclusion and deportation bill were mapped out at a well-attended gen- eral membership meeting of the In- ternational Labor Defense, New York district, last night in Manhat- tan Lyceum, 66 E. 4th St. William W. Weinstone, member of the Central Committee of the Com- munist Party and editor of the Daily Worker, spoke and urged an unceas- ing fight against the enactment of the bill. A large number of workers took the floor for discussion, F.\S.U, DELEGATES IN BROWNS- claimed Waters leader. [5 to speak from the top of the shed | : tempt to evacuate the sieging army, | ; By Mass Pressure; OTHER BANKS WRECKED 10 Slugged by Police SAVE DAWES Police Attempt to Frame Criminal cari Forty Institutions Had Charge On Workers’ Leader Fails Communist Presidential Candidate Was Jailed | for Protesting LOS ANGELES munist candidate for president, ‘Red Squad” admitting he had no| Hynes, chief of the police evidence to sustain his charge Foster, and because of a William Z. Foster é Communist candidate for Presi- dent goes to jail for the second time for leading the struggle of the jobless, He. was jailed for six months for leading the March 6, 1931, demonstration in New York, and .was arrested Tuesday for lead- ing thousands of Los Angeles work- ers’ in’ protest zgainst shooting down of a jobless man. He was released again yesterday, Dreiser Committee Wires Rolph Protest | at Foster’s Arrest NEW YORK.—Theodore Dreiser, John Dos Passos and Sherwood An- derson, noted American writers, yes- terday sent, in the name of the Na tional Committee for Defense of Poli tical Prisoners, the following te gram to Governor Rolph of Calif ornia: “National Committee for Defense of Political Prisoners protests the rest of William Z. Foster. Foster is the presidential candidate of a legal political party, and we deplore as an indefensible invasion of constitutional ;| rights the interference of the Los An- geles city government with the poli- tical campaign he is now carrying on. This committee voices the deep re- sentment of hundreds of prominent | writers and educators in America against Los Angeles’ high-handed | fact. It can and will call out thou- | sands more into a nation-wid> pro- test. . . This committee urges the immediate release of William Z. Fos- ter.” Hillsboro, N. H., Mill Workers Strike Over | 60 Per Cent Wage Cut | | was delivered after a second trial, | HILLSBORO, N. H., June 29.—A 60} per cent wage-cut in the woolen mill here brought the 200 workers out on spontaneous strike. The cut reduced the weekly wages to $7 and some few cents. Many of the strikers have families of five and six children. The selectmen of this town of 25,000 are Republican Party men. , Cal., Juni Shooting of Jobless Man e 29.—William Z. Foster, Com- was released today, Captain| of criminal syndicalism against for mass protest) meetings throughout the coun- try. Three others arrested at the dem- | onstration were not released and are still held on the suspicion of crim- | inal syndicalism charges, They are: Edward Sandler, Raymond Lugo, and | | Ezra Chase. | Foster was arrested yesterday at | the demonstration on the plaza. He | was slugged by the police after ar- rest, taken to jail and charged with | “suspicion of criminal syndicalism”. Los Angeles workers went into ac- tion immediately to secure his re- | ; | lease, A writ of habeus corpus was | obtained, and bail was set at $10,- 000. However, bail was not neces- sary, because of the general mass | | protest at this dastardly attempt | to lock up the workers’ presidedntial | cendidate in the coming elections, | Foster was turned out of pen, | suddenly, at 3:30 this morning, Hy- | hes arranged this method of vetting | rid of a case “too hot to Mandle” so |as to avoid a demonstration of greet- |ings to Foster before the jail doors. Demanded Free Speech. Foster was arrested shortly after- noon yesterday when he started to speak from an open car which led a demonstration of thousands-of work- ers against the shooting of . Basil Dell, an unemployed worker, last | Wednesday, Foster had just stood up and stat- ed, “We protest against the suppres~ |sion of free speech in Los Angeles”, when the squadron of. police which had surrounded the. car.he was in, immediately on its appearance, closed in on him, and seized him. The police then attacked the great (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) NEW VICTORY IN | Deadmon In Pitts. PITTSBURGH, Pa., June 29. James Deadmon, a Negro worker ar- rested for participating in puting back the furniture of an evicted fam- ily, was declared not guilty of “in- | citing to riot” desp.te the presiding | judge’s charges to the jury to bring in a verdict of guiity. Deadmon was | jailed attending the trial of William Patterson, arrested for speaking at an anti-Dies-Fish deportation bill demonstration. Patterson has since then also been freed. Another work- er, Carino, is now serving two years in Blawnox workhouse for taking | part in the same eviction fight with Deadmon. The verdiet of not guilty the jury disagreeing at the first. During the trial the prosecutor at- tempted to get Deadmon to admit the charges by offering him “freedom on parole” if he pleaded guilty. The stubborn battle put up by the Inter- national Labor Defense which fought the case prevented, this manouver and obtained the acquital. FORWARD LIES EXPOSED CommunistsFought NaziAnti-Semitism NEW YORK, — The Jewish Tele- graph Agency lied when it reported that Communist deputies in the Prussian Diet, voted for the Hitlerite Nationa! Socialist Party motion to confiscate property of all Jews who entered Prussia after August 1, 1914. All the Jewish “Forward” attempts. to make propaganda of this alleged Communist vote now fall flat. The Morning Freiheit has received from its Berlin correspondent Leo Katz, a report that the motion to confiscate Jewish property carried VILLE. Two F.8,U, delegates just returned from the Soviet Union will give a re- port of what they saw in the Soviet Pitkin Ave., Brooklyn tonight at 8 against the Communist vote. The story appeared June 26 in the “Forward” and other Jewish capital- ist papers (the “Forward” is an or- gan of the Socialist Party, the third Hempstead July 6, but in Browns-| Union at the Workers Center, 1813 | party of capitalism), The lying story ville | was sent out by the Jewish Telegraph Agensy, which is anti-Communist, and which made a special point of saying ‘hat the Communist depu- ties united with the Nazis to pass the motion. The Forward went so far as to print an editorial con- demning the Communists for anti- Semitism, When the Nazis made their motion, the Communist deputies moved to amend it by striking out the word “Jews” and substituting: “former princes, capitalists and rich land- lords." The amendment was defeat- ed by fascist votes, and the anti- semitic motion was passed, with the “Democratic” and Social-Democrat deputies absenting themselves. Re- jection of the motion would Have been easily possible if the “Sociale iste” had voted against tt eal | EVICTION CASE ar- | | Stubborn Fight Acquits| | Closed Doors in \ Past 3 Weeks | BIG BANKERS “AIDED” | ‘Funds for Starving”, | Workers Demand \ | CHICAGO, June 29.—The Recon- struction Finance Corporation had flood of protest telegrams and pre- | permitted nearly 40 banks in and ~’ parations around Chicago to be closed during | the past three weeks, and brought forward millions in cash only when | the bank owned by its former presi- | dent, Gen. Charles G. Dawes was in | desperate danger, it became known | today. | These banks were permitted to go !on the rocks, thousands of small de- | positors losing their savings, while the federal Reconstruction Finance Cor= | poration, presented the Central Re- puble and Trust Company, of which | Dawes is chairman, with a “loan” cf | $80,000,000—undoubtedly arranged for | just before Dawes strategically re- signed as chairman of the Corpora: | tlon on June 6. Knew Bank's State. That the chiefs of the federal finance body knew the exact ¢ondi- | tion of Dawes’ institution at the time {the huge sum was turned over to jhim, is clear from the fact that the |day previously a collapse was noted |in the market quotations of the | bank's stock—sliding from “$47 down \to $1 bid.” As a result of the “loan,” | the bank's stock shot up on the mark_ et from $4, yesterday's last bid, to $9 today. Highly significant is the fact that jon the day that Dawes resigned from |the Finance Corporation he observed, that there would be “insufficient - funds for ‘the states and municipali- ties.” The gift to his own bank fol® lowed three weeks later. Unemployed Suffering. More than a score of banks have crashed in Chicago alone since the Hoover “prosperity” convention ad-! journed here. Growing unemploy- ment and mass misery in Chicago is typical of the whole country. And while the Hoover government, through its agencies, continues to throw mil- | lions of dollars into the laps of the {bankers and railroad magnates, not jone cent is being appropriated for real relief for the starving unem- | ployed, who are increasingly joining the demand for Unemployment In- surance. While the $80,000,000 was being | turned over to Dawes’ institution, the Chicago capitalist press was suppres- (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) FRAME NEGRO IN KANSAS CITY I. L. D. Fighting Police, Ku Klux Terror KANSAS CITY, Mo., June 28— Another frame-up of a Negro worke occurred here last Wednesday wit |the arrest of 25-year-old Charl Rollins on a trumped-up charge + “robbing, beating and attacking” white woman. The attack on the woman is sut | posed to have occurred on Sunday, June 19. One day after the woman | reported she had been dragged from her car, attacked and robbed of $2, the police invaded the Negro district’ with bloodhounds. The police pre~ tend that the bloodhounds led therm to Rollins’ home, at 4219 E. 14th fp on the nights of June 20 Neither Rollins nor any of his neigh+ bors remember seeing the dogs, No arrest was made on either evening. On Tuesday, June 21, Albert Cooper, a druggist at 1122 Askew Ave. and « member of the Ku Klux Klan, took a hand in the case, declaring that he saw Rollins that day and “recognized” him as the Negro he saw on Sunday; night near the scene of the attact — on the Woman. The police at ond arrested Rollins. Since the : gist's “identification” was not qi sufficient for the frame-up, the lice dragged in the lie that bloodhounds had also led the: Rollins’ home. The local International Labor fense at once investigated the Neighbors of Rollins told the I. L, investigators that Rollins was at Union Baptist Church, 13th and sington Aye. at the time when attack is supposed to have occ! July 6 has been set by the boss cou for the hearing. Without a v! ‘protest from the working : other innocent Negro worker railroaded -to, me deaths, to