The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 4, 1932, Page 1

? vort communist FOR Unemployment and Social Insurance at the ex- pense of the state and employers. forced collection of rents Against Hoover’s wage-cutting policy. Emergency relief for the poor farmers without restrictions by the government and banks; ex- emption of poor farmers from taxes, and no or debts. Orga (Section of the Com . 158 Entered as secon a Vol. IX, Ni at New York, N. Y. ander the act of Marc! DOAK AGENTS PUSH STEEL MILL RAIDS Lackawanna, N.: Yo-Is Scene of Latest Attack PICK WAR INDUSTRIES Dies Protest in Fifty Wisconsin Towns LACKAWANA, N. Y., July 3.—Ter- rorized by U. S. immigration officials for weeks in the mills and homes of the Bethlehem Steel Company, a group of steel workers threw out a half dozen plain clothes federal agents from a pool hall on Ridge Road, when Doak’s agents attempted to arrest and hold them “for investi- gation on illegal entry.” Scores of steel workers have been arrested in this manner in the past month. Offi- cials of the Bethlehem Company have been co-operating with the immigra- tion officials not only here, but also in the Sparrows Point (Md.) plant and others. Workers are called in to the company office and are being arrested, held incommunicado for days and placed under heavy bail. Many intimidated workers paid as much as $25 “for investigation” to these government racketeers. In War Industry. It is significant that these attacks on the ‘Workers are made especially at this time of war preparations in such vital war industries as steel, etc. Inasmuch as only about 200 of 7,000 Bethlehem workers are employed in the mills since last month with the city welfare department completely discontinuing any relief, the workers now cannot afford to pay the fed- eral agents. Protests were raised by Testimony Not Wanted Betty Gow, maid at the Lindbergh home, who was to have testified at the trial of John Curtis, Norfolk shipbuilder charged with “obstruct- ing justice” in the search for the Lindbergh baby. Fear that third- degree methods of the state police which drove Violet Sharpe, the Morrow maid, to suicide might creep into the trial, was the de- ciding factor in not asking Betty Gow to testify. Curtis was con- victed Friday and now faces a three-year prison term. His arrest and conviction is the only “achieve- ment” of the police foilowing an in- ternational “hunt” for the Lind- bergh baby in which police and gangdom united. BRITISH SHAMNEW “ARMS CUT PLAN” Wall St. Uses “Fourth” to Whip Up War Fever While utilizing the Fourth of July celebrations to whip up patriotic fer- vor and war hysteria, the U. S. Hun- ger Government continues its pretense workers at several mass meetings and in the Polish Catholic and Presby- terian churches against the terror. Lackawana’ workers have also sent (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) SCHDY JOBLESS RALLY TUESDAY Will Frame Demands to City Council SCHENECTADY, N. Y., July 3.— ‘The Schenectady Council of the Un- employed recently organized by the unemployed neighborhood committees will hold an open-air mass meeting at Crescent Park Tuesday at 7 pm. Speakers will be Sadie Van Veen, Jack Rand and others. ‘This meeting will present the de- mands of the Unemployed. Council through an elected delegation for free gas and electricity, for more and sufficient relief and one quart of milk for every child per day under the age of 13 and at least one pint for every child over that age. Ex- pectant mothers and nursing mothers shall receive extra food and milk. The Unemployed Council demands that the city pays rent for the un- employed and where the unemployed owns his own home that he should get from the city regular relief and sufficient funds to met the interest due on mortgages to prevent fore- elosure. ‘A delegation of ten will be elected who will proceed to the Common Council meeting to present the de- mands of the Schenectady unem- ployed. A letter has been sent to the clerk of the Common Council notifying them of the delegation. Mexico Minister Asks Workers to Accept Cuts to Save Bosses While the strike of the Mexican Pullman employees was apparently betrayed yesterday by the labor union leaders, the strike of the workers on the Southern Pacific lines against a new wage cut continues effective. ‘The terms of the settlement of the Pullman strike have not been made public. Abelardo Rodriguez( Mexican Min- ister of Industry, attacked the rail- way strikers a nd the Mexico City car strikers as “unpatriotic,” but was forced to admit the widespread and increasing misery of the Mexican workers, While defending the wage cut policy of the foreign capitalists who control Mexican industry, he attacked the strikers on the lying grounds that they were “creating” unemployment. The core of his argu- ment was that the workers should accept starvation wages in order to prevent the “closing down of mines due to the unprofitability of opera- tions.” of seeking a one-third reduction in the huge imperialist armaments thru the sham Hoover “arms cut” pro- posals, The proposals which aim to strengthen American imperialism at the expense of its rivals have been rejected outright by the Japanese. The British Government has come forward with a counter proposal for an informal meeting of delegates of five naval powers. This conference would give the Japanese delegates a chance to officially state Japan’s op- position to the Hoover proposals. The British would then “regretfully” move to rule out further talk on the ques- tion of naval reductions on the grounds that the powers were not united on the question. In this they would be supported by the Japanese and the French, ang possibly by the Italians. Sir John Simon, British Foreign Minister, is already reported in an attempt to line up the Italians —‘the Italian says vainly and ‘the British imply successfully.” Secret Sessions Against USSR In the meantime the British, American and French delegates are continuing their secret conferences— conferences which, behind the cam- ouflage of seeking a solution on “arms cuts,” are in reality aimed against the Soviet Union which has been exluded from these conferences although its delegates are members of the “dis- armament” conference. Maxim Lit- vinoff, head of the Soviet delegation, has sharply attacked these secret con- ferences and the hypocrisy of imper- ialist powers. In a statement issued a few days ago Litvinoff declared that the Soviet Union could not share responsibility for the failure of the “disarmament” conference to take any steps whatever towards reducing the burden of war armaments imposed on the backs of the toiling masses by the imperialist war mongers. Taxicab Drivers Go On Strike in Buenos Aires BUENOS AIRES, July 3—Taxicah service in the city was paralyzed to- day as a result of a general strike declared by the Argentine Regional Laborers Federation under Commu- nist leadership. The strike was called to protest against recent arrests of large num- bers of the Federation's members charged with “subversive activities.” Port activities and bakeries are af- fected by the strike. Drivers not affiliated with the Federation were prevented from scabbing. JAPAN PEASANTS DROWNED Many Japanese peasants have been drowned and the crops and homes of others ruined following torrential rains at the end of the rainy season with widespread floods throughout Western and Southern Japan. CLASH OVER GREENLAND GODTHAAB, Greenland, July 3.— The Hague Court of Arbitration is soon expected todecide whether Den- VETS CHEER GEORGE PACE AT CAPITOL Foulkrod, Waters Man, Exposed As Ex-Burns Agency Detective VETS BALK “AT DRILL Veteran Delegation to} Question Green WASHINGTON, D. C., July George Pace, leader of the Workers Ex-servicemen’s League, spoke from the Capi- tol steps to 6,000 veterans and was cheered when he flayed the “High Command” and called for rank and file control | and militant action to win the bonus. Pace forced his way to the front, following speeches by Waters and Foulkrod hailing Roosevelt. Pace was roundly applauded when he called for the overthrow of the Wat- ers clique, to formulate a definite | program of country-wide demonstra- tions with the aid of the unemployed and hold real democratic elections. | Foulkrod Was Burns Man. | It was disclosed yesterday that | Harold Foulkrod, Waters’ right hand man, is a former office manager of the Burns Detective Agency in Phila- | delphia. He was received cooly by: the veterans yesterday when he called on them to support Roovsevelt, nothwithstanding the fact that the Democratic convention almost unani- mously defeated the bonus plank. Meanwhile protests against the hat-in-hand policy of the Waters clique and demands for genuine rank and file control were raised vigor- ously throughout the ranks of the Bonus Expeditionary Forces. Lead- ers of the Workers’ Ex-Servicemen’s League and rank and file veterans were given a big ovation at a mass meeting of veterans Saturday night at Pennsylvania Ave. and Eighth St. This was the second of a series of mass meetings organized by the Workers’ Ex-Servicemen’s League since the Waters gang strong-armed its way back to power. The first meeting was held on Pennsylvania Ave. Friday night and was attended by over 800 worker veterans. The, mass meetings Friday and Saturday nights were addressed by George Pace, Joseph Gardner, Eman- uel Levin, S. J. Stember, Reeds and (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) Mobilization Meeting of Shoe Strikers to Be Held Tomorrow A.M. NEW YORK.—A special mobiliza- tion of shoe strikers of the I: Miller and Andrew Geller shops will take place tomorrow morning, the Shoe and Leather Workers’ Industrial Union announced yesterday. The meetings will be held sepa- rately, the Geller strikers meeting at 46 Ten Eyck St. and the Miller strik- ers at a new address to be announced Jater. The fight against the injunction just issued is to be one of the main tasks of the strikers, and an effort is being made to draw all New York workers into a campaign azainst this workers and Communist Party. Used Guns Against Chilean Masses in Sa Troops of fascist-militarist dictator Carlos G. Davila shown with guns. ,Picture taken shortly before overthrow of Colonel Grove, who was charged with not proceeding harshly enough against Chilean revolutionary munist International) ntiago | (PF, P, Pictures) 1000 IN SA Jobless Crowds Cheer date Shows How Gained Local Speakers Score FOSTER, FORD ON ILLINOIS BALLOT Need 50,000 Names to Put Others On CHICAGO, Ill, July 3—The Com- munist Party is on the ballot in the state of Mlinois. The state conven- tion held on June 26, which nom- inated the electors for president and vice-president, served the purpose of putting national candidates on the ballot. A letter received from the Secre- tary of State, Wm. J. Stratton, states: “The names of candidates for presi- dent and vice-president will be placed upon the ballot in this state.” This is a victory of the workers and poor farmers in the state of Tllinois. The Communist Party is preparing a tour for the state candidates, par- ! ticularly Leonidis McDonald, Negro worker and candidate for Governor, through the mining and farming | communities, and is also sending a group of the Blue Blouses in ad- vance, who will put on little theat- vical sketches in connection with the election campaign. Intensive preparations for putting through the collection of 50,000 signa- tures and bringing the election cam- paign to the workers in the factories, particularly the stockyards and West- attempt to break the strike. ern Electric, is now in full swing. HEAR FOSTER ON THE FIGHT TO END HUNGER and Fake “Citizens Party” Led by A.F.L. SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, July 3.—William Z. Foster, Communist candi- date for President, told of the Soviet Union, the land where the workers’ rule has abolished unemployment, to over 1,000 mostly unemployed Salt Lake workers who came to the Communist election rally in the Playhouse ® Friday. the state candidates on the ballot) LT LAKE As Communist Candi- Russian Workers Victory A.F.L. Expulsion Plan Foster showed these workers how, by organizing, they can fight the wave Of wage-cuts, by organizing, they can compel the granting of some relief to the masses of unem- ployed. Foster took up the six main planks of the Communist Party platform, the fight for unemployment insur- ance, the fight against the Hoover wage-cutting policy, the fight or emergency relief to the poor farmers, the fight for equal rights for Ne- groes, the fight against capitalist | terror and the fight against imperial- ist war. Who Is for Workers. The crowd was especially enthusias- tic as Foster compared the gains un- der Communist leadership in the Soviet Union with the increasing misery in America under capitalist leadership. A. F. L. Expulsion Policy. Speaking with Foster was M. P. Bales (known as a labor cartoonist under the name of “Hay” Bales), and former president of the Barbers’ }Union and former president of the Utah State Federation of Labor. Bales exposed the A. F. of L. officials and their tactic of expulsion of every one who fights for rank and file control or to improve the conditions of the workers. Bales has recently joined the Communist Party, and for this, M. Thompson, president of the A. F. of L. State Federation of Labor and leader of the fake “Salt Lake Citizens Party,” united with George A, Yager, president of the Salt Lake , JULY 4, ~ 6. suppression of the VOTE COMMUNIST FOR Equa! rights for the Negroes and self-determin- ation for the Black Belt. Against capitalist terror; against all forms of political rights of workers. Against imperialist war; for the defense of the Chinese people and of the Soviet Union. OPEN CALL TO “CRUSH SOVIET UNION” Fought With Jobless, | Framed As ‘Insane’; Student Now Freed! MADISON, Wis., July 3.—Vigor- ous protests from workers, stu- dents and members of the faculty of the University of Wisconsin has forced the release of Elmer Luch- | terland, former student, from the state insane hospital to which he | had been sent because of his lead- ership in a demonstration by the Unemployed Council. | Affidavits from a number of professors stated that Luchter- land was a brilliant student. His arrest for “blecking traffic” followed an attack by him upon! the county relief officials. Two doctors, who were brought in to frame Luchterland reported | “insone”, but after protects gan to flood the local politicians, two psychiatrists at the hospital | found the prisoner not insane, and Superior Court Judge S. B. Shein, who had ordered his commitment, | was compelled to sign a reiease. AMTER ISSUES S. P. NOMINEE Communist Candidate in Utica Tuesday NEW YORK.—A challenge to the gubernatorial candidate of the So- cialist Party in New York to meet him on a speaker’s platform and de- bate with him in Utica tomorrow has been issued by Israel Amter, Commu- nist candidate. A telegram containing the chal- lenge was sent to the Socialist State Nominating Convention now meeting in Utica, Amter’s campaign speaking tour of {the State will bring him to Tuesday, the d ay following the three- ‘aay Socialist Party convention. In his challenge Amter, on the basis of the national platform of the Socialist Party and its tactics, which are described by the Communist, can- didate as “vote-catching,” charges a complete betrayal of the working class and the cause of the revolution- ary movement. The text of Amter’s telegram fol- , lows: “State Nominating Ccnvention, Socialist Party, Utica, N. Y.. “As gubernatorial candidate Com- munist ticket charge Socialist Party with being third capitalist party and challenge Socialist candidate for same office to debate campaign issues and platforms both parties. Debate to be (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) held Utica, Tuesday, July 5th. “I, AMTER.” MOVIE DOPE INDUSTRY HARD HIT BY CRISIS Report U.S. May Take Over Valuable Agency for Imperialist Propaganda Behold what was once upon a time known as America’s “‘depression-proof industry!” Attendance at moviehouses drops to six million daily from ten million in 1928, Aylesworth, president of the giant RCA trust that recently swallowed RKO (that swallowed , the Pathe!) predicts the bankruptcy of whole industry within three months. It is becoming increasingly difficult to make the masses believe that Chevalier’s smile or Clara Bow’s legs are of any vital importance in their lives. Mass unemployment and wage cuts mean less movies for Amer- ican workers. Also mass desertion from these “palaces of dreams” that offer bedroom and gangland stories in the midst of starvation and misery. Will the ruling class permit the Hollywood poison factories to close down? Will it allow as valuable a weapon as the film to collapse? Never. The movies, like the press and the radio, have a value for the boss-class entirely apart from their value as commodities. They are an unexcelled medium for influencing the workers’ as the last barrier in the way of cre- ating the most popular propaganda medium in history, can now reach even the most backward sections of the masses—and does. We know that our capitalist government is prepar- ing to take over the industry and wield it in the interest of American imperialism. It did so in the last war. Listen to Cark Louis Gregory, bourgeois movie expert, spill the sec- ret beans: “The committee on public Information, in conjunction with the government, sent out thousands upon thousands of feet of motion picture film, showing tie activities of the government and of the army and navy. All of the allied war char- ities attribute their ab‘lity to raise tremendous sums for philanthropic purposes mainly to the agency of mo- tion pictures. THOUSANDS OF MEN WERE ENGAGED IN MAKING PROPAGANDA FILMS OF ALL KINDS. THE WAR LOAN COM- MITTEE, AIDED BY THE MOTION PICTURE INDUSTRY, MADE THOUSANDS OF FEET OF FILM TO STIMULATE LOAN DRIVES. (Our emphasis). So remarkable have been the results achieved in the train- ing of men by the use of motion pic- tures for amusement and entertain- THAT USE WILL BE RELEGATED TO A POSITION OF INSIGNIFI- CANCE IN COMPARISON WITH THE TREMENDOUS PRODUCTION OF MOTION PICTURES FOR ED- UCATIONAL AND PEDAGOGICAL PURPOSES. (Our emphasis).” “The tremendous production of mo- tion pictures for educational purposes” has already begun! Hollywood is be- ing put at the service of the war preparations against the Soviet Union. A war industry indeed! Every im- portant studio lists so-called “Russian stories” in its schedule. Have you seen a sample of these “educational” Russian stories? “Forgotten Com- mandments” is but one of them, It is an open piece of war provocation against the first Workers Republic, “The World and the Flesh” is an- other. We will soon hear more about a bill which has been pending in Con- gress for about three years, This bill proposes to turn the movie in- dustry into a “public utility.” So America’s great Hollywood is. mark or Norway has sovereignty over| minds. The sound film especially, ment purposes, IN A COMPARA-|safe, you sec. Greenland, having eliminated the printed title TIVELY SHORT TIME TO COME } * ~8. B. ‘ ; , is . _— TL | imperialist | Nanking butchers of the Chi- An open call to “crush the} Soviet Union” was made yes-| terday by the Japanese war} mongers. The call urges the| powers and the) nese masses to “join issue to }crush the Hideous Soviet am- CHALLENGE TO | Jtica on! enemy of working class and hereby , bition.” It was issued through the puppet Manchukuo govern- ment set up by Japanese bayonets in Manchuria over the mangled bodies of tens of thousands of mur- dered Manchurian workers and peas- ants. i War Move Admitted. The sinister significance of the call | revealing Jap2 on the brink of translating her criminal war provo-| cation$ against the Soviet Union into! active armed intervention against! workers’ Russia is. admitted in a Manchurian dispatch to the New| | York Times, which c‘ates: | “Extreme tensity between the Jap-| | anese and Russians in Manchuria is| indicated in this report. Its view of | events may be taken as that of the| | Japanese, since the new state is-€om-| jinated by more than 700 Jepanese| | officials.” | Revive War Lies . In their call for joint armed inter-} vention against the Soviet Union, the} Japanese militarists revive with in- ased venom all the slanderous, stu- pid, lying. war-provocations against the Soviet Union. Workers’ Russia is directly accused. of inspiring. the. he-. roic resistance of the Manchurian masses to the brutal Japanese inva- sion of their country. The USSR is charged with “fomenting and incit- ing” this resistance which is a nat- ural outcome of the Japanese adven~ ture and the brutal attacks on the Manchurian people. Admitting the existence of a powerful anti-Japanese and anti-Manchukuo (puppet state) movement, the Japanese accuse the Soviet Union with “conspiring to dis- turb the peace in North Manchuria by making use of all anti-Japanese or anti-Manchukuo organizations.” The Soviet Union is even charged with “fomenting” the Shanghai war forced upon the Chinese people by the Japanese naval attack on Shang- hai and the later landing of a huge (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) USE CHILE FUNDS TO SAVE COSACH Davila Comes to Help of U. S. Bankers | The Chilean fascist-militarist dic- tatorship continued its efforts yester- , day to rescue the bankrupt $300,000,- 000 American-controlled Cosach ni- trates monopoly. The dictatorship proposed to surrender Chile's 50 per cent interest in the monopoly under the pretext that it would esteblish small “independent” nitrate plants to afford work for the thousands of workers. thrown out of employment by the collapse of the nitrates indus- try, Previous reports said that the government would pay substantial sums to Cosach for the privilege of establishing the “independent plants, Morgado Resigns The announcement of this plan was accompanied by the sudden resigna- tion of Aurelio Nunez Morgado, Su- pervisor of Nitrates and Mines, who stated as his reason for resigning that he had been “defeated by the over- whelming interests of the Nitrate Company of Chile.” New York bankers are reported to have arranged for an extension for one year of acceptance credits of Cosach, following their success in ob- taining the withdrawal o f the claims of Chile, through the Wall Street tool, Carlos G. Davila, head of the Chilean fascist-militarist dictatorship. Admit Staryation ‘The financial pages of the Satyrday New York Times reported that unem- ployment in Chile “continues to cause considerable concern.” The report declares “the wholesale and retail turnover for June in larger cities reached new low deyels.” The report which dealt with financial reports for June from eleven Latin-American countries, the Philippines, Japan and China admitted that conditions abroad were “ttle inroads ISSUED BY JAPANESE WAR MONGERS THROUGH PUPPET MANCHURIAN STATE Venomous Attack on Soviet Union Revives All Japanese War Pro- vecation Slanders Against Workers’ Russia With Inspiring Heroic Resistance of Manchurian Masses to Bloody Japanese Invasion Will Remain in Field, |LL.D, Lawyer States, | |Defying Attackers) TAMPA, Fla., July 3.—Defying | | the armed mob and police which | brutally slugged him when he came | to the postoffice for his mail, Ber- | nard Ades, International Labor Defense attorney defending the | framed-up Tampa prisoners, today declared that no amount of terror would force him from the field. | ‘fhe 14 Tampa prisoners, two of them girls—are serving prison| terms varying from one to ten) years on framed-up charges grow- | ing ont of their fight to build the Tobacco Workers Industrial Union. Some are in the Raiford prison | and others in notorious southern | road camps. | Ades missed death at the hands | of lynchers some time ago when he, together with Helen Mays, came to defend Orphan Jones | (Euel Lee), facing electrocution on a framed-up murder charge. As a result of the I. L. D. fight, a stay of evecution until next fail has been won in this case, | From its national office the L. L.| D. has vigorously denounmed the attack on Ades in Tampa. 100,000 IN BERLIN. | IN ANTI-RASCIST DEMONSTRATION Hitlerites in Murder Assaults Upon Workers (By Inprecorr Cable) BERLIN, July 3—More than 109,- 000 workers crowded the Lust today in a giant anti-fa: stration and listened from 12 platforms. to Despite the express prohibition by leaders of th orga: ions, hun- dreds of social-democratic workers, including uniformed Reichsbanner- men, attended the demonstration, fraternizing with the Commun workers midst scenes of tremend enthusiasm. Terror Rages. The Soviet funeral song was s in honor of the nine work:1s mur- dered by fascists and police during the past few days. Police at the Lustgarten demonstration made a number of arrests, but no serious in- cidents were reported. ‘The Hitlerites are waging a system- atic revolyér terror throughout Ger- many, making raids upon revolution- ary organizations. Two workers were shot Saturday in Schoeneberg and late Friday evening fascists in an auto halted before a workers’ hall in Hochstrasse, North Berlin, firing a volley of shots at workers, who dropped to the ground, thus saving themselves from injury or possible death. Immediately afterwards the fascists met a group of men, taken by them to be Communists, but who were actualll Hitlerites, and fired a further volley, killing one and wound- ing a number of others. Daily Raids. Many similar raids occurred in other sections. In Gottschedstrasse, Berlin, two women werkers were shot in the thighs. Raids also were made in Steglitz and Mariendorf, where a number of workers were wounded. In Hamburg last night fascists ambushed a graup of Communists re= turning from a Party meeting and killed one and seriously wounded two others. Expect Hoover to Sign Fake “Relief” Measure WASHINGTON, July 3—A firm conviction that President Hoover would sign the $2,100,000,00 fake re- lief bill was expressed today by ad- vocates of the measure. The bill, among other things, would authorize the Reconstruction Finance Corporation to hand out $300,000,000 for a so-called public works program at its discretion. Assuming the bill is passed, it will provide “relief” chiefly to grafting contractors, with the 15,000,000 un- employed workers being a practically