The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 1, 1932, Page 1

i} YOTE COMMUNIST FOR Unemployment and Social Insurance at the ex- pense of the state and employers» ey Against Hoover’s wage-cutting policy. 8. Emergency relief for the poor farmers without restrictions by the government and banks; ex- emption of poor farmaers from taxes, and no forced collection of rents or debts. Dail Central Orga Vol. IX, No. 156 Sa Entered as second-clasa maiter at the (: st New York, N. Y.. under the act of March 3, 187° on ERKMANAND ORD SCORE MES EDICT idge Ruling Against Textile Strike Head Ts. a Mill Owner fORD IN ARSENAL CITY rges Stopping of the funitions Shipments SPRINGFIELD, Mass., June 30.— dith Berkman and James W. Ford ord united yesterday in a statement mdemning the Dies Deportation Bill id the arrest of Foster, Communist indidate fer president, in Los An- sles. Ford, Communist candidate mw vice-president, a Negro worker, isited the leader of the Lawrence ‘xtile strikers in Central New Eng- snd Hospital, where she is confined nder orders of U. S. Secretary of abor “Deportation” Doak. Ford w@s on his way then to a mass eeting of workers in Springfield, art of lis -' :ction campaign tour. Berkman is very ill with tuberculo- - and has been held many months deportation. Immigration author- 5 have admitted that they are try- to snd her to Poland only be- use she is a strike leader. Fight Deportations Berkman and Ford had only five ‘ ainuteg conversation, though both srotested the hospital ruling limited ‘hem to this. The Berkman case hows the reasons for deportation by he U. S. Department of Labor, and he Dies Bill, now before the Senate, vill, if passed start a regular cam- yaign of terror against foreign born v ho try to fight for better ‘sured Berkman that the against deportations and ie Dies Bill will be a central .e Communist election cam- pa. Berfauan informed the Communist candidate that Judge Norton, who ruled against her release, is one of the biggest textile mill owners in New England. “But this attempt to deport strike leaders will not stop the struggle of this j >= wage slaves nor their in- creas, ., yport for the Communist Party,” Berkman declared. Shop Gate Meeting Ford told of his interview with Berkman when he spoke later in the day to 500 Springfield workers, in Hooker School Auditorium. A hun- dred of the audience were Negroes. It) and to prevent the exposure of the was the largest indoor meeting of | workers ever held here, Earlier, at noon, a meeting at the shop gates of the Western Electric in Springfield, to rally workers for Ford’s meeting, was attended by 300. Until the whistle blew, these workers listened attentive- ly and heard for the first time in their lives the Communist platform demands for unemployment insurance and no wage cuts. There are 20,000 unemployed in Springfield. Springfield is a war preparations center; here is where they make the . army rifles, and munitions are et produced here. Ford called for a fight against the shipment of munitions to the Japa- nese imperialists, and for struggle esainst the imperialist war plans. Workers in the audience contrib- uted $36 to the Communist election fund and bought much literature. Several applied for membership in the Communist Party. VETS TO MARCH AT 4 P.M. TODAY Urge Worker Vets to . Join Fight | NEW YORK, “gune 30—The vet- ‘rans demonstration and parade in support of the national bonus march will start Friday at 4 p.m. at 72nd Street and First Avenue. ‘The parade will be held] under the leadership of the Workers Ex-Ser- vicemen’s League and will march to ¢fox Avenue and 111th Street. All osts of the W. E. S, L. call on the nemployed and employed workers join with them in their fight for e bonus, against imperialist war ‘and for unemployment insurance. BENJAMIN SPEAKS TONIGHT NEW YORK.—Herbert Benjamin, national secretary of the Unemployed Councils of the U.S.A., will speak on “The Unemployed and the Elections,” vat Columbus Circle, 59th St. and for Edith Berkman, _ held 8 months and infected with tubercu- losis by the U. S. Department of Labor because she led the Law- rence strike. Calls for struggle against the Dies Bill. CALLS FOR ACTION TO STOP SHIPPING OF MUNITIONS Marine Workers Union | Hails First Big Anti-War Action NEW YORK.—In connection with the preparations for Aug. 1, Interna- tional Day of Struggle Against Im- perialist War, the Marine Workers’ Industrial Union yesterday issued the following call to the American work- ing class to sharpen the struggle against the war mongers and for the defense of China and the Soviet Union. The call states: | ‘Bhe.demonstration of 300 workers, led by the New York Branch of the Marine Workers’ Industrial Union, protesting the shipment of war ma- terials on the “Toba Maru,” clearly exposes the close alliance of the American and Japanese imperialists in the war against the Chinese peo- ple and in the preparations for in- tervention against the Soviet Union. Although the demonstration was] held on private property and the police were strongly mobilized, they took no real action to prevent the meeting, because they feared the} militancy of the workers and because | they wished to minimize the action shipment of war materials. But not only are shipments being made on Japanese ships, but the} Isthmanian anq other lines are also| being utilized for this purpose. | This demonstration was a be- lated recognition of our revolution- | ary duty in the fight against im- | perialist wars. It was the first step from word to deeds, from resolu- tions to action. It must become an inspiration to all branches of the | M.W.LU, and all marine workers | to intensify their activities against | the imperialist war plans. We must strengthen the union (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) Minnevich, Harmonica Star, Still Missing NICE, France, June 30.—Whether Borrah Minnevich, Broadway har- monica orchestra leader is dead or alive is still a mystery. A report by a Nice fisherman that) he found a rowboat halfway between Villefranche and Monte Carlo reveal- ed no evidence that it was the life- boat from Minnevich’s missing sloop. The orchestra leader, who was en- | ers, however, have pledged themselves | also to stand fast, a solid body, in- | full power of the militant workers of WATERS’ AIM TO DICTATE IRES VETS California Men Breal With ‘High Command,’ and Demand Food HUN Waters’ Wife Plans Expensive Trip < VGER sw EEPS CAMP BULLETIN CHICAGO, Il, June 30.—By an overwhelming vote the delegates to the Democratic Convention this afternoon rejected a plank advo- cating full cash payment of. the soldiers’ bonus. The Socialists, like the Republicans and Democrats, haye declared against the benus. Only the Communist Party is fight- ing for the back pay of the worker vets. WASHINGTON, D. C., June 30,— Walter W. Waters, who reascended | to the position of “High Commander” | of the Bonus Expeditionary Forces | yesterday through a coup d’etat of al strong-arm group from ~ Portland} and the Washington police, blurted out his fascist aims today. He wants to become the “Mussolini” of the} B. E. F. for one year. “All I ask,” said Waters in a speech | (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) GELLER STRIKERS TO MASS PICKET Can’t Accept Bosses’ Injunction NEW YORK.—A meeting of nearly all Andrew Geller strikers yesterday discussed the sweeping injunction is- sued against picketing and maintain- ing a strike headquarters, and decided for a mass struggle for the right to organize, strike and picket. Mass picketing will continue in spite of the injunction. This decision | was unanimous. Picketing is a right which can not be taken away from strikers fighting for their daily bread. | Miller Injunction. Although the I. Miller Shoe Co. got its injunction, too, from the same lJabor-hating judge, Wenzel, Jr., the Miller strikers have not been served | yet. The Miller Co, evidently is waiting to see what the results are a tthe Geller shop. The Miller strik- junction or no injunction, A mass Anti-Injunction Confer- behind the heroic shoe strikers the | New York. The official call will be issued soons Show There Is a Strike. The Miller and Geller injunctions were obtained on the basis of lying affidavits by U. S. Commissioner of Conciliation Charles Wood, who} claimed that the Shoe and Leather Workers’ Yndustrial Union, which | leads the strike, is not a union and} that the workers in these shoe shops | are “satisfied” and are not on strike. The strikers need relief. Rush} funds to the union, at 5 E. 19th St., New York. FIGHT EVICTION TODAY NEW YORK.—The Unemployed Council calls all neighbors around 2504 Olinville Ave., Bronx, to rally this morning in protest against the route to Abyssinia to hunt lions, is now four days overdude in Tunis. attempted eviction of 16 tenants. Gather in front of the address. ‘TEACH ME, 0 MASTERS!’ Cox to Visit Mussolini and Hitler PARIS, June 30.—Father James R., dis Cox, Pittsburgh priest, has come to Europe to broaden out his education. He is now in Paris seeing the sights. Shortly he leaves for Berlin, and then to Rome, to call upon two men whom he reveres as masters. Wants “Advice” In Berlin he will confer with Adolph Hitler, blustering leader of the murderous fascist (Nazi) Party. In Rome he will call upon Mussolini, the original kingpin of the “Black- shirts.” From the two, he says, he hopes to Broadway, tonight at 9 o'clock. b, VOTE COMMUNIST FOR: 1, Unemployment and Social In- / surance at the expense of the state and employers. ae get good “advice on how to run the United States” with the aid of his own “blue shirt” organization. Enemy of Jobless As leader of the newly-formed “Jobless Party,” Cox is struggling to dissipate the growing fight of the un- employed by the ‘meaningless slogan “a job for everybody, with churches for lodging houses.” He is planning a “convention” in St. Louis soon. Cox, following the Hunger March to Washington of 1,600 militant work- ers from every part of the U. S., or- ganized a fake “march” of his own, leaving workers who were misled by his propaganda to freeze and starve on the highways. Now Rehearsing Warming up for the time when he hopes to ape Mussolini and Hitler, Cox has already organized a “blue shirt” gang which functions as strike- breakers and strong-arm men. In the Western Pennsylvania mine dis- trict, especially, they cruise about in trucks terrorizing striking miners, ence is being organized, to mobilize |” e- Con: Nie adiace oh the § Communist seirietose Norman Whitaker, jailed is New York on the charge he helped Gas- ton B. Means, Department of Jus- tice agent, stool-pigeon, and “Red Expert,” gyp Mrs. McLean, ex-wife of Washington publisher, out of $104,000, on the claim that he would “recover” the Lindbergh baby. Means drew a 15-year jail term for the job. \Captain of New Jersey 'State Police on Stand Today in Curtis Trial FLEMINGTON, N. J., June 30.—A captain of the New Jersey state po- lice, J. J. Lamb, was on the witness stand today in the trial of John H. Curtis, Norfolk shipbuilder, whom the prosecutor is trying to convict on a | charge of “obstructing justice” in con- | nection with the search for the Lind- bergh baby. Lamb's testimony was largely taken up with details of negotiations with | Curtis during the time he declared he had “contact” with the kidnappers. Later, under police pressure, he said the whole thing was a hoax. .. Although-G@urtis’ slippery activities make it relatively easy to convict him, it is clear that the chief motive of the police is to find a goat and send him to jail for a long term, in order to boast of some tangible “achieve- ment.” JOBLESS MARCH ON GOV, HUNT 1,500 at Capitol Put Demand for Relief PHOENIX, Ariz., June 30.—Fifteen hundred unemployed workers dem- onstrated at the capitol building here yesterday, cheering the hunger march of 400 through Phoenix streets from | all parts of the county. They sent in a delegation to place demands for immediate relief before Governor Hunt and before the county super- visors. The officials answered evas- ively. | DNIEPROSTROY ENGINEER HONORED BY SOVIETS MOSCOW, June 30.—In recogni- tion for his services as chief con- | struction engineer at Dnieprostroy, Alexander Winter was appointed Vice Commisar for Heavy Industry. Dnieprostroy is the new giant hydroelectric station of the Soviet Union, which is the largest station JAPAN IN NEW BID FOR ANTI- SOVIET BLOC Meets Hoover Arms Proposal With Call For Drive on USSR | SEEKS UNITED FRONT Britain, France Reject) Arms Cuts The Japanes: Supreme Military | Council, meeting yesterday in special session at the War Office, denounced | the Hoover “arms cut” as “absolutely | unacceptable”: and not deserving “even passing notice” so far as the| Japanese Army is concerned. The} Japanese Navy Office sent instruc-| tions to its “slegate at Geneva to oppose the Hoover plan. Wants Bloc Against USSR. At the same time, the influential Osaka Asahi newspaper made an at- tempt to soft pedal the classh of imperialist interests on the grounds of the necessity of a united front | against the Soviet Union. It re- gretted that Hoover had “failed to | weigh all aspects of his proposal from | the viewpoint of other countries with | special problems, such as Japan and | France.” It considered a united | front of world imperialism against China and the Soviet Union neces- sary for the survival of capitalism. The “special position” of Japan as the spearhead of world imperialism | against China and the Soviet Union was thus stressed by the Japanese. ‘The Hoover plan seeks to strengthen American imperialism at the ex- (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) STEEL WORKERS WIN STRIKE Victory Over 10 Pe. Crucible Pay-Cut JERSEY CITY, N. J—The work-. ers of the Crucible Steel Company here won their strike against a 10 per cent wage cut, The local capi- talist press, fearing that the victory would arouse thousands more work- ers to struggle, deliberately broadcast | lying statements to the effect that | the strike was lost and the cut ac- ae During the strike the ~-orkers elected a shop committee of 23 to} deal with the bosses in all future matters concerning their conditions. After the strike was settled a fore- man told a man to go home at 11 jam. The worker complained to the | |shop committee, which took the! ' matter up at once and forced the foreman to put the worker back on full time. Although the strike was led inde- pendently by the workers, members | of the Metal Workers Industrial League were most active among the strikers. The workers in the Crucible plant will send delegates to the New York District conference of the Metal Workers Industrial League, will be held July 30, This confer- ence will be held in preparation for a national convention to form the Steel and Metal Workers Union, Aug. 13, which in the world. Dawes, Other from the Reconstruction Finance President) Baltomore & Ohio R. R.......ce05 Pennsylvania R. R. Co........-.006 Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific. Cincinnati Union Terminal. Co, Total loans requested by some ance! gir 400 Million; Jobless Starve Just a few of the banks and railroads who received contributions Central Republic Bank & Trust Co., Chicago (Gen. Dawes, Missouri, Pacific Railroad, in part to pay J. P. Morgan & Co., Kuhn, Loeb & Co., and Guaranty Trust Co............. 17,100,000 New York Central, to pay notes to iP. Morgan, Guaranty Trust Co., First National Bank of N. Y., Irving Trust, First National Bank of Chicago, Continental Ill. Bank & Trust over $400,000,000, . Over half of this total has already been approved by the Interstate Commerce Commission. Workers, demand not a cent to the bankers! All funds to the jobless for im- mediate relief and unemployment insur- 14 and 15, in Pittsburgh. Bankers, Get Corporation the form of loans: - $80,000,000 teeeeeeceneseeseesesesess 207500,000 + 27,500,000 + 10,000,000 - 10,398,925 + 15,100,000 fifty or more railroads amounts to | sponding Norker | fruniet Party U.S.A. ee: a Against capitalist terror; against all forms suppression’ of the political rights of workers, Against imperialist war; for the def VOTE COMMUNIST FOR Equal rights for the Negroes and self-de ation for the Black Belt. ¢ e of the Chinese people and of the Soviet Union, CITY E bit ION. “WE Want to Rule!” of Mon- ‘Thomas J. Walsh, as permanent chairman of the Democratic convention in Chi- Sen, tana, cago. Walsh and Wheeler are the representatives of the Anaconda Copper Co. in the Senate. Waish and his gang are t;ying to oust the Republican machine, and thus serve the bosses in the White House and share in the swag. DEMOCRATS MAKE FAKE PLANK Proposes “Insurance In States, Maybe (See Editorial) CHICAGO, Ill, June platform reported into the cratic National Convention ” —The mo- | the 30. by platform committee has a section on} “Unemployment Relief.” It follows | exactly the prediction of the Daily tho reader will words or Democratic Platform “find some meaningless raise false hopes among the workers | “but ‘hothing: of any value in the mat=| ter of unemployment relief or on the | question of unemployment insurance can be expected.” “Under State Laws.” | The Democratic platform says ab-| solutely nothing about insurance ex- | cept: “Unemployment and old-age insurance, under stat2 laws.” That} is the very tip-top of “ “meaningless | words” intended to “raise ae hopes Aside from this, the Siinacratic| platform proposes about what exists now, as far as any meaning can b2 found for the loose phrases used. It favors “reduction in the Hours of labor” and “the shorter woi week in governmecat service,” which is the case now wiih wor only two or three days a week and corre- Wi uts and then addi- tional wage c’ It favors pu and Garner, for the contracto: of such expenditure: works, as do Hoover and this-is relief only workers get little Communist Candidate Leads Crowd, Saves Longshoreman Home} BALTIMORE, “Md, June 30.—Carl Brodsky, Communist candidate foy) their revolutionary activities. “COMMUNIST RANKS N ANGELES DOUBLE DURING TERROR,” SAYS FOSTER Communist Candidate Tells I How Cops Slugged Him on Arrest and in Third Degree Room \“Los Angeles Outrages Show Fascist Trend; BULLETIN. PHOENIX, Arizona, June 30.—In spite of rumors that Foster would not be able to reach Phoenix for his meeting here, he spoke to 1,500 workers last night in Library Park. | Democratic Illusions Being Shattered” LOS ANGELES, nist Candidate for president, working class. Communist Party Grows, | “Captain Hynes, chief of the | Police Red Squad said the Com- |munist Party is dead,” Foster ! continued “but in the last six months |the Party has doubled its member- | ship in Los Angeles and will triple | it within the next six months.” Foster denounced the shooting ‘down of the unemployed worker, Bliss, here last week, and the smash- ing by huge forces of police and |armed legionnaires of all attempts | of the workers of Los Angeles to meet and hear the Communist candidates speak. He denounced the officials of California as the most reactionary in |the United States, and those ©” Los | Angeles as the worst in California. | “Third Degrecd” Commenting on his own arrest and | the tear gassing and clubbing of the |thousands assembled in the Plaza | Worker editorial, June 28, that in the | | Tuesday, Foster termed it an‘ outra- geous atempt to deprive the workers (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) DAVILA COUP PREPARED IN US. American ‘an Bosses Backed Fascists The fascist-militarist coup by Car- os G. Davila, who several weeks ago | seized control of the Chilean gov- -bernmietit apparatus, was planned in the United States and aided by the American aviation industry bosses. ‘This was admitted yesterday by C. Yoy Keys, former vice-president of the Curtis Airplane and Motor Co. | Keys boasted that panied by his wife, was his guest in his Buffalo home in March, 1930. | Shortly after Davila left Buffalo, 25 |Chilean mechanics spent seveyal weeks at the Curtis plant receiving training. Keys boasts that these |men were mainly responsible for the success of Davila’s coup. The dictatorship is once more com- ling forward with its pretense of a | socialist content in order to deceive | the masses and stem the growth of It has i Davila, accom- | senator, rallied all the neighborhood! promiseed to call a “constitutional Wednesday against the eviction of | assembly” and draft a “new Socialist XSi dehouonhar vila) Hh 7 Ora Sammons, an unemployed long- shoreman here, and they stopped the eviction. Captain Cooney, the constable an about 20 cops and detectives arrived | at the house, 203 North Pond St., the: found such a large and militant crowd there that they agreed readily to two weeks’ extension. MORE VETS TO CAPITOL BRIDGEPORT, Ohio, June 30.— Thirty truckloads of war veterans passed through here Wednesday en-) route to Washington, Three hundred and fifty Wellsburg and Mounds- ville, W. Va., veterans will leave to- When the landlord, Police) constitution” for Chile. | Meanwhile the crisis in the affairs the $300,000,000 American-con- rolled Cosash nitrate monopoly has i aoomenee with the company unable ‘Y | to meet its obligations to the bank- ers. Nitrates and copper constitute 80.5 per cent of Chilean exports. The severe crisis in both industries has severely affected Chilean economy. Several months ago the govern- | ment was forced to stop its interest j Payments on foreign loans. Of the 400,000 workers in Chile, including | agriultural laborers, more than 140,- 000 are unemployed and without any | unemployment relief whatever, DO DEAD MAYORS STEAL? They’re Hunting $50,000 in Jersey ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., June 30.— Dead politicains it seems, ate almost as useful in the graftng game as those who stil infest the land. Take a situation in this town as an example. Anthony M. Ruffu was the man’s name who once was mayor of this city. He died, Money Is Gone! Yesterday charges of $50,000 fraud by the dead statesman were made in Chancery Court here by county court judge Joseph A. Corio, who, as law- yer for the Garibaldi Legion No. 1, is resisting a suit to collect loans for that amount on property of the Gar- ibaldi Building and Loan Associa- tong = * Ry AP Rufty ere Officers of the Legion flatly denied that they had authorized Ruffu to | float the loans. What is more, they don’t recall receiving any of the cash | themselves for use of their organiza- tion in a proposed building operation. The financial transactions were a little involved—fortunately for the beneficiaries. The $50,000 had been paid by checks drawn in favor of the legion, turned over to Ruffu as an agent of the lodge and later en- dorsed and deposited to the credit of a’ real estate corporation headed by Ruffu, according to testimony of of- ficers of the fraternal organization. But who did get the cash? The secret lies with the departed |Piekets Sink Cal., June 30.—“Perhaps the most inter- esting phase of the present situation,” in a statement to the press here | after his release yesterday “is the rapid destruction of all il- | lusion of democracy, leading to widespread re a said Fost Commu- ation of tion eae MINERS COMPEL ARREST OF KILLER Boatload of Scabs; Need Relief BRIDGEPORT. Oh John Cole, the mine ed the strike rested as a result of the big meeting of strikers at Amsterdam. Gordon was murdered as he in. a parked car near the Ws 1 lieries of the Wolf Run Mining Co. He ts charged only with manslaugh- ter and with carrying a gun without a license for it, and is out on $5,000 bonds, There will be a mass Gordon Friday aftern Pickets Control River The Powhatan mine pickets now control *theriver and roads effect~ ively and have sunk one boatload of West Virginia scrbs. Scabs are de- creasing in all the mines wherever the mass picketing goes on. Mass picketing is in defiance of the Uni- ted Mine Workers officials’ agree- funeral for ment with the companies and the sheriffs that only groups of three 50 feet apart will be allowed. Six hundred strikers attended the National Miners Union mags meeting M at Bellaire, home of the U. w strike breaking official Pacifico. At Neff, ers Union meeting ¥ 350. There is the siasm for thd policy ing and control of th ted front rank and file Terrible Starv But starvation is be in the east Ohio mine f months now these min (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) COMMODORE ASKS AN INJUNCTION NEW YORK.—The bosses of the Commodore laundry, at 1360 Seneca Avenue, have asked the courts for a sweeping injunction, restraining the Laundry Workers’ Industrial Union ffrom all activities in this strike, which is now ending its sixth week. Several of the strikers were served with a court summons to appear in court next Tuesday on this plea for an injunction. At a membership meeting held Wednesday night at Ambassador Hall, the entire membership present, at the recommendation of the Execu- tive Board and the strike committee of the Commodore, passed a resolu- tion to violate the injunction, if it is granted by the courts. Ways and means of mass violation were immey diately worked out and the union ig beginning to mobilize its forces. Delegate Slugged a The union has started organizatidn work in the Mott Hayen laundry, at 403 Concord Avenue. This is one of the largest laundries in the Bronx. ‘The bosses of this laundry maintain a strong-arm squad of guerrillas, The workers are the ,most terribly exploited in the Bronx. One worker, who has worked there for about eight years, was among the first ones to join the union, Last Sunday he was the only one frfom the Mott Haven to come to the Shop Delegate Con- ference, and on Monday he was fired. laundry on Wednesday to settle up | with the bosses, he was taken ups © stairs, his hands were held behind his back by several of the gangsters and bosses, and he was given a tere ~ rible beating, his face being a mass of bruises, his gums were torn, and he was thrown down many until he was practically, carried: owt tragic For e beer ‘When he came back to the