The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 2, 1932, Page 1

| qm eS IDOE TT te oa i a VOTE COMMUNIST FOR 8 : vOTE COMMUNIST FOR 1. Unemployment and Social Insurance at the ex- ROS 4. Equal rights for the Negroes and self-determim pense of the state and employers. ation for the Black Belt 2. Against Hoover’s wage-cutting policy. fs 4 sf 5.. Against capitalist terror; against all forms of 8. Emergency relief for the poor farmers without ae 4 suppression of the political rights of workers. restrictions by the government and banks; ex- .; t ‘| p D }») et U $ A emption of poor farmers from taxes, and no S * G unist a y bd ® s 6. Against imperialist war; for the defense of forced collection of rents or debts. 5 ~O)D the .Chinese people and of the Soviet Union. (Section of the Communist International) Vol. IX, No. 157 rt at Now Vere © eader tae hab cE Maced Se OE NEW YORK, SATURDAY, JULY 2, 1932 CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents |, “Only Workers Can SHARP FIGHT FOR CHINESE DUTY LOOT United States Protests Japan’s Seizure of China Customs FRANCE, ENGLAND JOIN Nanking for Renewed Relations With USSR The Nanking Government yesterday advised the Soviet Union of its “read- iness” to renew diplomatic relations, broken off by the Nanking Govern- ment in 1929, at the behest of the imperialist powers, led by the United States. The Nanking action is evidently aimed at allaying Chinese criticism of its hostility to the only power not engaged in looting and partition- ing China and Nanking’s friendship for the imperialist enemies of the Chinese people. It also reflects the sharpening antagonism between the United States and Japan, with the Wall Street Government promoting Chinese opposition to the Japanese and attempting to strengthen China’s hand by having Nanking renew re- lations with the Soviet Union. The United States, England and France yesterday again filed protests with Japan against the seizure of the Chinese customs revenues collect- ed at Darien, in the Japanese leased territory of Kwantung. U.S. Ambas- sador Grew told the Japanese Foreign Office that the Japanese action might.“‘complicate various questions.” He’ declared that the United States has a great interest in the mainten- ance intact of the Chinese customs administration, The French and British ambassadors are reported to have made similar statements to the Japanese Foreign Office. They are ’ said to have received no definite an- 7 | fi A J an swer. Shortly after their protests, Jap- nese police seized the Chinese cus- toms office at Manchuli, on the Si- berian border, evicting the Chinese officers in charge. VET MARCH ¢ CAPITOL LOOMS Vets Demand Extra Congress Session BULLETIN WASHINGTON, D. C., July 1— Over 800 veterans rallied last night to a mass meeting called by the Workers Ex-Servicemen’s League at Pennsylvania Avenue and &th Street and cheered the program of the Workers Ex-Servicemen’s League. * *. * WASHINGTON, D. C., July 1— It. is reported that Waters, self- imposed commander of the Bonus Expeditionary Forces, has been forced by the overwhelming pres- sure Of thé rank and file to agree to a demonstration in front of the Capitol Saturday, The veterans, urged by the Work- ers Ex-Seryicmen’s League, have insisted on’ a militant demonstra- tion to demand that Congress does y not adjourn until the bonus is paid. It is expected that the worker veterans will come out in masses in front of the Capitol militantl de-y nouncing the billion dollar loans given by the Hoover government to the bankers and railrod owners ‘ and putting forward in no uncer- tain terms their demands for the bonus and unemployment insur- knee. WASHINGTON, D. C., July 1— Dictator Waters’ plan to convert the ‘Bonus Expeditionary Forces into a jfascist shock army “to be called out for a National Emergency” was dealt la hard blow today by the Workers’ \Ex-Servicemen’s League. The pro- gram for successful struggle in the ‘fight for the bonus preposed by the W.E. 8. L., broadcast throughout the bonus army struck like a broadside of heavy artillery into the smug camp of the Waters clique and was ceived with approbation by great ctioris of the hungry worker vet- ns. ¥ Guard Treasury Building A heavy guard was thrown around e treasury building today. Orders from the White House barred all ex- rvicemen’s from the building, while bankers and industrialists and their friends who only recently raided the treasury to the tune of 2 billion dol- lars through the Reconstruction Fi- natice bill have “free” acess. Four hundred and seventy-five ad- tional veterans arrived in Washing- last night and 2,800 from Cali- 2 are said to be within a day's to the Capitol. ‘Worth Lite to See Ford,” Says New Haven Negro * here. A ten year old child fainted in school, and when revived, ex- plained, “It was- n't my tum to ‘eat today. There are over 15,000 unemploy- ed in this town of metal and war industries. Single workers get no re- j lief. Married workers get $2 a week SCHWAB’S STEEL MILL AIDS DOAK DRIVE ON LABOR Phila., Pittsburgh to Fight Dies Bill BALTIMORE, Md., July 1—Sec- retary of Labor Doak’s deportation agents have made the offices of the Bethlehem Sparrows Point Steel Mill | their headquarters and base of opera- tions. Yesterday a group of four Greek workers and an interpreter appeared before Cord, general manager of the mill, complaining against having been laid off, after working there over seven years, while so-called “new” men, who are really company stools, are hired. Four Workers Jailed Immediately following the conver- sation with Cord, immigration offi- cials appeared in the office, threat- ening .nd bulldozing the five workers, and arresting one. This worker was later paraded through the plant, while under arrest, as a warning to others. A Finnish worker, Myssola, em- ployed in the Sparrows Point Mill, was arrested yesterday in his home. Three others were arrested last week in Edgemore, one of the many steel sec- tions of the mill. Meeting Called The International Labor Defense and the Metal Workers Industrial League is mobilizing the workers to (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) Picnic Today to Aid “Hunger Fighter” NEW YORK, — Appealing to all workers to attend the “Hunger Fighter” picnic in Pleasant Bay Park today, the Trade Union Unity Coun- cil has issued a statement which “calls upon the members of the revo- lutionary. unions and industrial lea- gues and opposition groups to come in mass to this picnic and express your solidarity with the struggles of the unemployed.” VOTE COMMUNIST FOR: 4. Equal rights for the Negroes and self-determination for the Black Belt. Communist Candidates Assail Democratic Party Governor Who Cuts Wages for “Relief” Plan Mayor of City With 15,000 Jobless Proposed to Take Children Away from Parents NEW HAVEN, Conn., July 1.—“It’s worth my life to meet you,” an old Negro worker told James W. Ford, himself a Negro from Alabama and | Communist candidate for vice-president, here, when Ford came to speak | to 400 who paid admission to a Communist election rally yesterday. Workers at Ford’s meeting told of a recent incident which lays bare the terrific starvation @¢———___________—___— in scrip, if they work three days every three and a half weeks. Would Seize Children. Mayor Murphy of New Haven has conducted a regular campaign to have children taken away from par- ents on the excuse of “malnutrition”. The unemployed council managed to stop this. Murphy is former presi- dent of the AF.L. Central Trades Council in New Haven. Ford spoke in a town where child labor is rampant. Girl apprentices in the sweatshops of New Haven get nine cents for a week’s work, 40 to 50 hours. Other girls average $3 for a week of 50 to 60 hours. Seventy-five per cent of the Negro population is unemployed. Scores Democrat Fakery Ford analyzed the Democratic Party national platform, showing that they had only meaningless phrases, not even promises of in(tt- ance for the jobless, that they gave the war veterans “sympathy” but did not promise any bonus. Ford read the remarks of the Dem- ocratic convention keynoter, Senator (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) CHILE TRIES SAVE COSACH - COMBINE Company ‘in Financial Difficulties Rumors are rife in London that the $300,000,000 American-controlled Co- sach nitrates monopoly in Chile is on the point of “dissolution.” The rumors are based on a crisis in the affairs of the monopoly. Chilean dispatches a few days reported that the combine was unable to meet its obligations to the bankers. Zanartu, Minister of Finance, in the Chilean fascist-militarist regime, yes- terday denied that the dictatorship intended to confiscate the properties of the monopoly. He promised in- stead that the government would try to render financial assistance to the foreign owners of the monopoly. As the Chilean government economy is based on the nitrates and copper in- dustries, which are both in a bank- rupt condition, with increasing finan- cial difficulties for the government, the financial aid that the government can afford is rather doubtful. The promise of financial aid is doubt- less intended to allay the growing alarm in foreign financial circles and to stave off the bankruptcy of the nitrates combine. The dictatorship is continuing ‘its brutal repressive measures against the mases while peddling anew its pre- texts to socialist aims and character. DAWES LEFT A LITTLE IN THE BOX 5 WASHINGTON, July 1.—Grabbing while the grabbing is good, the H- linois Central Railroad today got a $1,000,000 “loan” from the Recon- struction Finance Corporation, fol~ lowing approval by the Interstate Comerce Comission. FT. RIPLEY, Minn., July 1—Ten dollars is what it cost Michael Mag- nan, a local farmer to raise a 215- pound hog. Patiently he cared for the petu- lant, stubborn animal and then when the hog tipped the scales at 215 pounds he shipped him off to mar- ket. The Deal Is Closed! Presently the commission company disposing of the animal sent Magnan notice of the hog’s sale, a check, and a full and complete statement of the transaction. The commission company’s state- ment was stark and realistic. It had sold the hog for $1.61, From that tremendous sum it had deducted ex- penses, state taxes and—of course— its own commission and dispatched IT’S A HOGGISH SYSTEM Minnesota Farmer Convinced Of It to the farmer the balance—five cents. Not Worth the Effort. Magnan says he is going to frame the check—provided he succeeds in selling another hog and thus be in @ position to buy the frame. Friends, however, are suggesting that he have the check. photographed for distribu- tion to the national committees of the Republican and Democratic par- ties whose answer to the demands of the impoverished farmers for relief are proposals for additional funds for “co-operatives” which will benefit only the rich, landlord farmers. Much more to the point, however, would be an application for member- ship in the fighting United Farmers League which is stirring the farmers of Minnesota and other states to real struggle. a ~ OHIO MILITIA PLANE GASES COAL MINERS Powhatan Pickets Set Up Blockade on the River; ‘Naval War’ PLANE ATTACKS BOATS Strikers Sw ing to Mass Picketing BELLAIRE, Ohio, July 1—A Na- tional Guard airplane, flying so low men had to drop to the ground to keep from being hit by the whirring propellor, rained tear gas bombs on the 500 pickets that massed along the roads leading to the Powhatan mine Thursday morning, bathing alike in fumes the pickets and the scabs try- ing to get in the mine. After drench- ing the pickets on the road, the air- plane flew low over the river where pickets have been patroling in boats, and again fiooded the miners with the rank gas. The plane then flew away. Miners are preparing to defend themselves against this unwaranted attack. There was no disturbance on the roads or river before the plane attacked. Deputy sheriffs and mine guards attacked after the plane dropped the gas and dragged the scabs into the mine. * “Marshal County needs a navy” was what the capitalist papers said when the Powhatan strikers took to the river to stop scabs coming from the West Virginia side. The deputies had no boat and could not interfere. The miners drove half a dozn boat- loads of scabs back to the West Vir- ginia side. One boat was sunk and the scabs had to swim ashore, No scabs have tried to cross since. The atack Thursday morning was to clear the river of pickets so scabs ,can cross in the future. Land battles have been fairly suc- cessful for the pickets so far. Few scabs have got into the Powhatan mine. A National Miners Union mass meeting in Bellaire, the home town of Cinque and Pacifico, United Mine Workers sub-district officials, brought out over 60 miners, These miners voted for the mass picket line that was attacked by the National Guard airplane Thursday morning. Another meeting, at Neff, brought out over 350, who also favored mass picketing. Both meetings gave enthusiastic sup- port to the N. M. U. programs of a united front strike. The N. M. U. is holding successful (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) Irish Militants Secretly Indicted Maneuver to Prevent. Brutality Expose NEW YORK—The four militant members of the Irish Workers Club, who were arrested and viciously beaten up following an eviction strug- gle on E. 147th St., Bronx, recently were secretly indicted on felonious assault charges by the Bronx county grand jury on Thursday. This fact emerged yesterday in the Morrisania court, 161st St. and Brook Ave., after Allan Taub, International Labor Defense attorney demanded the release of the defendants, and judge McKinnery dismissed the case. As the defendants—Hugh McKier- nan, Martin Moriarity, John Mullally and John Rooney--prepared to leave the court they were at once re-ar- tested on bench warrants and in- formed of the indicments returned against them. The defendants who are released on bail will speak at a picnic of the Irish Workers’ Club tomorrow at Van Cort- land Park. Workers attending will meet at 242nd St., and Broadway at 12:30. ‘The prosecution hoped that by de- laying the trial the bruises inflicted on the workers by the police third degree would be less noticeable. Many Workers In Court. The date for the new trial has not yet been set. About 150 workers many of them mmebers of the Unem- ployed Councils and the Irish Work- ers Club, crowded the court room yesterday, in answer to the call of the I. L. D. to prevent the militant Irish workers from being railroaded to long prison terms. FORCE RELIEF BUROS TO ACT. NEW YORK, July 1. — Following @ protest meeting yesterday at 581 Beck Street against the eviction of a worker named Woll and his family @ committee’ of workers from the neighborhood forced the Home Relief Buro to give $25 to enable the worker to move into a new apartment. Vote Market Is Set Up As Democrats Deadlock CHICAGO, Ill, July 1—The democratic National Convention was dead- | locked this afternoon with Roosevelt vote standing at 682 anc lacking about | Eighty-seven of the necessary two thirds majority for nomination. Three | Help Us!” Write Scottsboro Boys The following appeal to the work- ing-class has been. received from the eight of the nine Scottsboro boys. confined. in Kilby Prison, ballots were taken in an all night session, and the convention was ad-| Montgomery, Ala. journed today 8:30 p. m., (after the Daily Worker goes to press) to allow| for the necessary bargaining behind closed doors, All afternoon state delegations ca ucused, and the political bosses gath- ered around the battles in private rooms, buying and selling votes with | promises of “patronage,” jobs and the right to appoint to federal jobs, | afd promises of support to the big corporations that control each its group | of. delegates. ;Convention chairman Walsh, Anaconda Copper Co. velt supporter, pulled some pretty raw stuff in the case of the Min’ A -bare-majority of Minnesota delegates voted for Roose delegation. and Walsh declared that over the objection of the Min: he would count Minnsota under the “unit r committee, for Roosevelt. Candidate Garner has been offered the vice-presidential nomination if he can swing his 90 California and man and Roose- | ota | e centra, all 24 votes Texas votes to Roosevelt. | NEW. PAINTERS’ UNION FORMED Alteration . Painters Can Win Strikes NEW YORK. — There is a new union, the Alteration Painters, Deco- rators and Paper Hangers Union of Greater New York. It was formed ‘Thursday night by 350 workers in the trade, at a general membership meet- ing in Irving Plaza Hall. ‘The meeting was called by the Al- teration Painters Organization Com- mittee which has proved in the last few months. that it ca nwin strikes and stop wage cuts, Terrific Wage Cuts. The situation of the painters in this city had become so bad that the boss could work a man any hours, and pay him as low as $5 on the average for work the union scale de- mands $10 to day. There was one case reported of wages at $1.50 a day. The speed-up was terrific. The American Federation of Labor Union, the Brotherhood. of Painters, Deco- tators and Paper Hangers of Amer- ica, simply paid no attention to al- teration painters. The new union will start a drive for improved con- ditions. Work Out Program. ‘The meeting Thursday worked out a draft program, set dues at 25 cents for working members and ten cents for unemployed, and threw the books entirely open until Sept, 1, without initiation fee. After that date, the initiation will be $2. Wages were limited +o $25 < week for officers. Local unions will be chartered by a city council of the union, made up of the officers and two delegates from each local. The officers- elected are: President, M. Kushinsky; vice-president, S. Fa- gin; General Organizer, J. Harris; Secretary-treasurer, D. Becker; Rec- ording Secretary, G, Murox. ENGRAVERS ARE CUT 12 PERCENT Led Into Arbitration Trap by Officials NEW YORK. — Judge Schmuck, Judge John Clark Knox and Ryan, the president of the board of educa- tion, cut 350 photo-engravers working for New York publishers twelve per cent on their wages yesterday. The photo engravers were enticed into an arbitration trap by their A. F. of L. union officials, and the above named Tammany controlled board were the arbitrators. Night workers under this decision get $70 a week ang day men $62.50. The judges, giving their decision cynically remarked, “We feel that the employe should bear a part of the burden that is now oppressing that endeavor which results in the publi- cation of a newspaper.” Which, in plainer words means, “Let the worker pay for the crisis.” Swindle Worked on Unemployed Teachers NEW YORK.—S* many teachers are unemployed now that a big haul was made by a cruel swindler who came to them with fake telegrams which he collected charges on. The telegrams purported to call the teacher to have an appointment con- firmed . Some teachers out of town were summoned by their relatives, and spent their last cent getting in to get the job. The Board of Education boasts that it has doubled up the classes, and insured that few new teachers will be hired.» VOTE COMMUNIST FOR: 6. Against imperialist war; for the defense of the Chinese people and of the Soviet Union, ‘Dunno’, N.J. Troopers | Say About Kidnappers | at John Curtis Trial | | | FLEMINGTON, N. J. July 1— | Echoes of the trial several years ago of twenty Jersey state police on charges of murdering a woman, rang in the courtroom here today where | jfacing charges of “obstructing jus- | tice” in connection with the search | for the Lindbergh baby. Cool.admission by Capt. J. J. Lamb that the state police “know nothing” of the whereabouts of the baby’s kid- | nappers was the feature of today’s | trial. CALL BIG VETS RALLY IN BERLIN U.S. Veterans to Send | Delegates Next Month | NEW YORK, July 1.—A call to all| American war veterans to take im- mediate steps to elect delegates to the World Congréss of War Veterans in Eorlin, Germany, August 28, was re- ceived today from the International) of War Veterans and War Victims} by the National Office of the Workers | Ex-Servicemen’s League, 1 Union Square. The Congress will unit? the work- er veterans of all countries to fight against hunger and war on an in- ternational scale. The Workers Ex-Servicemen’s Lea- | gue today announced that plans were | | already underway to hold mass meet- jings in the Borus Expeditionary | Forces preliminary to the election of | delegates who will sail for Europe around the middle of August. All posts of the Workers Ex-Ser- vicemmen’s League are preparing mass meetings where the purpose of the| Congress will be explained and mass | elections of delegates will be carried out, A cablegram sent by the Interna- tional War Veterans and War Vic- tims to President Hoover said: “In the name of 2,000,000 war | invalids we protest cgainst the at- tempt of your administration to defeat the bonus bill. Further we demand immediate cash payment.” BUSTED, SAYS HUNGARY. BUDAPEST, July 1. — Following | the fashion of the numerous Cen- tral European countries who are go- ing broke, Hungary today ceased in- |terest payments on the League of | Nations loan of 1924. 10: DEAD, 200 HURT IN INDIA, BOMBAY, July 1. — Incited by British authorities, Hindu-Moslem clashes today resulted in ten killed “Dear comrades and friends: “We want to thank our many friends for all that has been done for As poor boys who have been locked up more than one year for a crime which we know nothing us. of. Now since seven of us are under a death sentence we are ask- ing for support from the. public that we may gain our freedom, since we are poor boys and have no help other than the workers, WILL FIGHT THE INJUNCTION AT I. MILLER SHOP Favor of Continuing Their Struggle NEW YORK.—Thursday night the injunction, based on the lies by U. S. the I. Miller shoe strikers. They are ardered not to picket, not to speak to the scabs, not to have headquart- ers near the s hop, and in general it is the same drastic arbitrary at- tempt to break the strike and starve the workers as the injuction served on the Andrew Geller strikers. Big strike meetings yesterday of both Andrew Geller and: I. Miller strikers denounced this attack by' the continue the strike. The picketing will continue Tuesday morning at 10 a. m. there will be special mobilization meetings ot.the strikers to prepare their strug- gle further. The meetings will” be held separately, the Geller strikers meeting at 46 Ten Eyck St., and the | Miller strikers at a new address which will be announced soon: The Shoe and Leather Workers In- dustrial Union and the Trade. Union Unity Council will take steps sodn to draw all New York workers into a campaign against this strike-breaking injunction, and to demand that it be withdrawn. A conference of all workers organizations will be «held soon. The injunction comes up for a court hearing, July 1th. Demonstrating Women Compe! Charity to Give a Little Anyway NEW YORK.—The Charity Organ- ization Society office at 311 Lenox Ave., was stormed by a crowd of women unemployed workers yester- day, demanding some relief. The So- cialist Party lady, Mrs. Freeman, who is in charge called the police, but they could do nothing with the crowd of women. The women yelled, shout. ‘ed: “We are hungry! We. want re- lief!” Mrs. Freeman then locked herself and her staff in a secret room. But that didn’t -work, and the demonsta- tion continued, until Mrs. -Freeman handed out $3 each to the neediest cases. AMTER AT COLUMBUS CIRCLE TONIGHT. . NEW YORK. — I. Amter, Com- munist candidate for governor of New York State will speak on “The Election Issues and the Workers”, tonight at Columbus Circle, 59th St. and 200 wounded. and Broadway, at 9 o'clock. SNARESUND NEW YORK.—For 20 years Cor- nelius D, McNerny snooped around New York's streets, ferretting out per- sons trying to enjoy themslves in dance halls, at theatrical perform- ances—or petty shopkeepers caught selling groceries on Sunday. A Crusader A field agent of the Lord’s Day Al- liance was McNerney, and his task it was to put the fear of the Law into the hearts of those who violated the Sabbatin. Although the position carried no, official salary—like the “dollar-d- year men of another era—McNersey managed somehow to earn enough to keep him in good spirits, not only on Sunday, but also weekdays. ‘Yesterday the good man was sen- tenced to prison for from two to five years by Judge Nott in General Ses- sions, following his conviction for ac- AYSNOOPER McNerney Just Hated Fun on Sabbath cepting a $100 bribe from Charles L. O'Reilley, president of the Theatre| Owners’ Chamber of Commerce, in| return for suppressing - complaints against members of the organization. Aside from. four previous arrests, McNerney had. apparently led 4 blameless life, and between trials pursued his career as field agent for the Lord’s Day Alliance. According to a report brought in by the court probation officer, Mc- Nerney was arrested in Brooklyn in| 1913 on an extortion charge. In 1927 he got in a jam in connection with a $250 check forgery. A petty thievery charge followed in 1930° and ten months later he received a suspended sentence on a similar charge. In each case the judges who tried him treated him with appropriate gentle- ness and McNerney never want to Jail, GRAND JURY WHITEWASA FORD POLICE \Tryng to Lay Blame for Slaughter at Plant on “Reds” 70,000 PROTESTED IT \Hunger Marchers De- liberately Shot DETROIT, Mich. July 1—The |murderous Dearborn police are white- washed for the death of the four hunger machers in the parade which police shot up March 7, at the gates of the Ford Plant. The Wayne coun. ty grand jury has published a state- ment declaring that all the fault lies with the hunger marchers, and re= commending that the prosecuting at- jtorney “invenstigate” and persecute the Unemployed Council which led |the hunger march. The grand jury, made up of the |local business men and agents of the John. Curtis, Norfolk shipbuilder, is|Styjkergs Unanimous in | Ford Motor Company, seeks thus to explain away the killing of unem- |ployed workers by police in a com- | pany owned town, with Edsel Ford, | heir to the Ford auto millions, stand- ing on a raised place in the plant and watching his hirelings slaughter ‘ ~|his slaves. Commissioner Wood, was served on The grand jury reports admit that the shooting might havé been | avoided, but holds it was “necessary |to the protection of the propetty” at the time it took place. Attacks Communists; The grand jury reports admits |that the march was made up 6f real unemployed workers, but claims they | were “misled” by Communists thoush | it gives no proof nor attempts to prove | that it is misleadership for the thou- |sands of men who made the Ford | family wealthy nabobs and who were jthen kicked out on the streets to starve, if these thousands march to the Fow@=PMint and place demands for some relief. | The grand jury reports admits that jbefore the parade reached the Ford plant, and while there was no pos- sible, “danger to property” the Dear- born police hurled tear gas babms into its ranks and started a battle. [put the grand jury, while mildly re- |proving this brutal attack on the |unemployed, says, “undoubtedly the Police believed they were carrying |out their sworn duty.” | The sworn duty to smash every at- |tempt of the unemployed to flaunt |their misery in the faces of those who have pilled up profits mountain high, on their labor at the Belt! Can't Fool 70,000 | After the Ford massacre,” 70,000 Detroit workers held a mass demon+ stration and condemned the slaugter —these workers answered ahead of time the white washing statement of the grand jury. | It was brought out at the time of |the massacre that the killing of Joe | York, Bussell, Lenny and Deblasio, the workers who fell before Ford's plant, the wounding of 20 more and the arrest and ‘persecution of 44 hunger marchers, was paid for by | Ford when loaned $5.000,000 recently |to the Mayor Murphy government of Detroit. Henry Ford himself practically di- jrected the arrest of the jobless wor! ers, and their third degreeing. The grand jury declares that no For employee took part in the attack on the demonstration, but the indeniable facts are that the head of the Ford secret police, Bennett, was so much to the front in the attack that he was hit on the head with a stone thrown by some hunger marcher while dodging bullets. DESERTIONS GROW IN NICARA- GUAN GUARD, OFFICER SEOT An American officer of the United States-controlled Nicaraguan Guard was shot yesterday by Lieutenant Roberto Gonzalez, a native officer, who then deserted with four com- panions. Dispatches from Managua. admit increasing .desertions from the Na- tional Guard as the growing unrest of the Nicaraguan masses against American control penetrates the na= tive armed forces organized by the United States. ‘ 5 YEARS FOR LABOR CROOK. WASHINGTON, July 1. — Dave Evans, former secretary-treasurer of the International Union of Operat= ing Engineers today drew a fives year prison sentence for embezzling $32,000 of the union's funds which he- lost on the race-tracks, 4 MORE INSULL FIRMS-FAIL, > NEW YORK.—The National Elecs tric Power Company and the Na- tional Public Service Corporation, eastern units of the Insull interests, which have been badly damaged by the crisis, were yesterday placed in