The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 7, 1932, Page 1

] ry VOTE COMMUNIST FOR Unemployment and Social Insurance at the ex- pense of the state and employers. 2. Against Hoover’s wage-cutting policy. forced collection of rents 3. Emergency relief for the poor farmers without restrictions by the government and banks; ex- emption of poor farmers from taxes, and no or debts. Daily Central Orga ne-E>any ‘(Section of the Communist International ) Norker unist Party U.S.A. ~ Against capitalist a 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, Against imperialist war; for the defense of the Chinese people and of the Soviet Union. Vol. IX, No. 161 as Eatered as second-ciass matter at the Pust Uffice at New York, N. Y.. amder the act of March 3, 1879 NEW YORK, THURSDAY, sux 7, 1932 _ VETS VOTE FOR MASS DEMONSTRATION LED BY RANK AND FILE Workers Ex-Servicemen’s besa. Calls Meet- ing in Anacostia Today “He’s A Dick, Too”, Foulkrod, Ex-Burns Man, Hints Regarding Waters WASHINGTON, D. C., July 6.—Over a thousand worker veterans who rallied to a mass meeting called last night by the Workers Ex-Servicemen’s League vigorously protested against the present B. E. F. leadership. The proposal for a mass dem- onstration to be Jed by a rank and file committee at the Capitol oo 2? ae Beh rae MASS CHALLENGE TO BOSS TERROR AT RALLY JULY 9 iCall Workers to Ratify Fight on Hunger NEW YORK.—In the face of the (flood of injunctions being issued in | New York against workers in the shoe industry, laundry workers and many others, the Red Ratification Rally in Coney Island Stadium, July 9, will be a mass challenge to the bosses, the injunction judges, and the mis- Jeaders of labor, the Communist Dis- trict ‘Election Campaign Committee @nnounced Joday. ‘The Rally, where the workers will be invited to ratify the Communist tickets for the state and national yelections, and the Communist Party ‘platform, will be addressed by James W. Ford, Vice-Presidential Commu- nist candidate; William W. Wein- stone, U. S. Senate candidate and editor o fthe Daily Worker, and other ‘militant leaders. . Bread Or Beer? At the demonstration, too, the false promises and fake issues raised and approved by the conventions of the three capitalist parties, Democratic, Reublican and Socialist, will be ex- posed, The fake fight for beer, which takes first place on the capitalist list of issues, will be set against the workers’ fight for bread, which is the main issue in the Communist pro- gram and platform. ‘The capitalist parties’ discrimina- tion against Negroes will be chal- lenged by the Communist Party be- fore the workers by Ford, Negro worker, who is the Party's candidate for Vice-President. Against Firing, Wage Cuts. “The capitalist press recently pub- lished statements from the New York superintendent of schools, William J. O'Shea, proudly pointing to the ‘economies’ effected in the school -budget through firing of teachers, in- direct wage-cuts by hiring substitute teachers to take the place of teachers on full time, and increasing by 50 per cent the number of pupils per teacher,” the Election Committee stated. “The statement cynically re- lated the ‘benefits’ of. the crisis of ‘am unemployment, supposedly gained by this means, and by the forced de- duction of a percentage of the pay of teachers to feed the starving chil- dren of the unemployed in their class- tooms. “Against this cynical attitude of ,Tammany grafters, the Communist ‘Party in its state platform demands free food, shoes, clothing, free milk, school supplies and medical at- tendance for all children of unem- ployed, part-time and striking work- ers, This relief is to be paid for by the government, not by forced de- ductions from educational workers, This is a plank in the platform which (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) HUNGER MARCH IN ST. LOUIS Ito March to City Hall -» Tomorrow - ST. LOUIS, Mo., July 6.—The Un- » employed Council will lead a mass ‘march of jobless workers to the City ‘Hall Friday noon, July 8 to demand immediate relief for the starving ‘The marchers will demand an im- mediate appropriation of 10 million dollars for emergency relief for the fifteen thousand families recently cut from all relief by the city charities, ‘The march will arrive at the City Hall shortly after 12 noon, where a committee of worker's will present de- mmands. to the Board of Aldermen. he ‘Unemployed Council backed by “masses of workers compelled the to call a special session to hear ‘Workers’ demanda, ‘on Friday was unanimously ac- cepted by all the veterans at the veterans at the meeting. Meetings are being held by the W. E. S. L. in all sections of the Bonus Army to day to get mass endorsements of the rank and file program. Call Meet in Anacostia. ‘Tomorrow morning a mass meeting will be held in Camp Anacostia by a rank and file committee where the draft program of the Workers’ Ex- Servicemen’s League and the de- mands to be presented to Congress in Friday’s demonstration will be presented for discussion. Waters and the military police have continually denied the rank and file veterans to hold a meeting in the camp. The worker veterans, how- ever, declared today that they will hold the meeting despite Waters and the M. Ps, Dick Assails Dick. A new split in the “High Com- mand” was developing rapidly today. Harold Foulkrod, the ex-Burns de- tective from Philadelphia, stated that someone (applying Waters) was working with the Department of Jus- tice... Waters, it is reported, is doing his utmost to’ get rid of Foulkrod. It is obvious now that both men are working with the police, but are in disagreement over the division of labor. Rank and File Conference. Emanuel Levin, of the Workers Ex- Servicemen’s League, said today that the demonstration before congress on Friday would serve as a base for a rank and file conference to be held at a later date. A rank and file com- (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) VON PAPEN SEEKS: ARMS EQUALITY Ready tol Barter German Masses The Lausanne reparations and war debts conference continued dead- locked yesterday with the French persisting in their attempts to sweat angther billion dollars in reparation payments out of the German masses and the German Chancellor offer- ing $618,800,000 if, as, and when the German bourgeoisie can sweat that amount out of the impoverished toil- ing masses, ‘The German Chancellor von Papen at the same time tried to secure sev- eral concessions for the German bourgeoisie in exchange for thig ser- vice, He asked for equality of sem- aments with France and suppressio@ of the “war guilt” clause o fthe Ver- sailles Treaty which made Germany solely responsible for the crimes of all the imperialist powers in starting the world slaughter. Both demands were rejected by the French, who also refused to consider any settlement of the reparations and’ debts ques- toins apart from their proposal that the United States should wipe out the French war debts to America, ‘The conference is expected to set an early adjournment date with plans for another meeting in the Fall. Steel Activity at 12 Per Cent of Capacity Steel industry this week operated at 12 per cent of its capacity, de- clares the “Iron Age”, a capitalist publication, This is considered an important indication of the econo- mic situation as a whole. CIVIC EMPLOYEES GET DRASTIC WAGE CUTS, FRANKLIN, Pa., July 6. — A wage cut of 25 per cent was forced upon all employees of the Fire Depart- ment here. The workers employed by the LaGuardia Simply Can’t Recall Who || Took $80,000,000 | WASHINGTON, July 6.—The | fake progressive, LaGuardia, is exceedingly careful about an- | | tagonizing the Boys Who Count. | | In the debate on the Wagner- | | Garner “relief” bill, LaGuardia said he had no “objection to broadening the base of the Re- construction Finance Corpora- tion since one institution only a few days ago had borrowed $80,000,000.” Several Congressmen, seeking to embarrass the New York Tammany politician, called on LaGuardia to use the name of the bank that had obtained this huge sum, but he replied that he was “unable to remember the name.” Don't recall, Fiorello? It’s the Central Republic and Trust Co., and your friend, Charley Dawes, is, as you know, its president. 36 JAILED ON MILLER SHOE PICKET LINE Mass Picketing Hits Court Anti-Strike Edict NEW YORK, July 6.—In an at- tempt to uphold the court injunction against mass picketing, a mass picket line was attacked last night in front of the I. Miller factory and 30 work- ers were arrested. ‘These thirty workers along with six more arrested this morning were dragged before the court today where they were held in default of $10 bail each, Demonstration Shocked Judge Masses of workers milled around the court. The judge was obviously shocked by the demonstration and proposed that the strikers accept a suspended sentence on the basis that they promise not to continue to pick- et the factory. The workers told the judge that the strike committee re- decisions regarding picketing. They would make no promise and were held by the judge for special ses- sions court in default of bail. today which declares in part: “The bosses and their courts which jssue injunctions against us, police brutality and gangsters will not weaken us. We are determined to win our fight and imprisoning will not scare us. We know that the judges work hand in hand with the bosses, but the unity of the Shoe Workers and the support of the rest of the workers in the fight against injunctions will force the I. Miller and Andrew Geller shoe bosses to give in to our demands.” Enemies Exposed Enemies of the strikers, attempting to organize a company union, “The | Federation of Shoe Workers,” were exposed today by the strikers from the Andrew Geller shop. These men, working in cooperation with the bos- ses, had promised to win the strike. The workers, however, demanded ac- tion and the company union backed out. The Strike Committee issued a call today to workers in New York and Brooklyn to rush strike relief to) the office of the union, 5 E, 19th St. UMWA PRESIDENT RELPS SHERIFF Brought Séabs to Blains Mine © the local president of the United Mine Workers of America, the sher- iff’s men broke the mass picket line here today. “I am here to stop the picketing of this mine as the sheriff ordered,” said the local A. F, of L. president. jail.” The president shook the hand of every deputy who arived here to drive the miners from the front of the mine. The company brought in two truck loads of scabs and five cars loaded with deputies. Pee hee DILLONVALE, Ohio, July 6—Five hundred miners overrode the A. F. of 1, leadership here today and forced the chairman to give the floor to Bohus, organizer of the National Miners Union. The miners voted a unanimous vote of thanks for the address of the N. M. U. organizer. The International Labor Defense Attorney arrived here today to han- dle the case of the two miners ar- Street and Water Department were | rested. ‘their wages by 50 per cent, confronted with an ‘order cutting tal ee ‘The Powhatan Mine was gassed by aeroplane yesterday, COURT MAKES) ~ ON BEBRITZ presenting all the workers could make | ‘The prisoners sent out a statement | BLAINE, W. Va., July 6.—Aided by | “Do as the sheriff orders or go to! FINAL RULE Writ of Habeas Corpus Voided; Ordered to Fascist Rumania IS HOUNDED BY FISH Decision Spurs Fight On Dies Bill NEW YORK —The Department of | Labor and the courts have ruled that Louis Bebritz must be deported to facist Rumania, where he faces long yeasr of imprisonment and possibly immediate death. The write of habeas corpus granted by Judge Woolsey in the case of Bebritz, former editor of the Hun- garian Communist paper, Uj Elore, was dismissed yesterday by Judge Julian W. Mack of the Southern Dis- trict U. S. Court, thus openly uphold- ing the vicious anti-labor policy of Secretary William N. Doak of the Department of Labor, Condemns Worker. This means that the capitalist court is determined that Bebritz, be- cause of his activities in the revolu- tionary labor movement, must be condemned to deportation to fascist Rumania, where he will certainly be imprisoned and possibly murdered. Judge Mack said he “personally favored” voluntary departure for Bebritz, but he offered as ah excuse that it was not within his power. All he could do, he said, was to dismiss the writ of habeas corpus and “let things take their course.” This decision comes immediately after the Dies-Fish exclusion and de- portation bill met its first setback in the U. S. Senate as a result of the| waye of protests against it from every part of the country, Demand Voluntary Leave. A ten-day stay has been given to Bebritz, and the case will immedi- ately be taken to the Circuit Court (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) FOSTER SPEAKS IN K. C. FRIDAY EVE. Big Crowd Expected to Hear Candidate KANSAS CITY, July 6—Eagerly| awaiting the arrival of William’ Z. Foster, Communist candidate for | President of the United States, a jlarge audience is expected to greet him when he speaks here at the In- ternational Arena this Friday eve- ning at 8 o'clock. | Foster comes here after big meet- lings in Salt Lake City, Denver and ‘other Western cities. Misery and privation are on the increase in this city, with more than 40,000 men, women and children 6n the verge of starvation. Following loud publicity blasts an- nouncing the opening of the Ford |plant, only several hundred: workers |are meployed, and these work only two and three days a week at star- vation wages. Scores of packinghouse workers who have suffered continuous wage- \icuts are expected at che Foster meeting, The result of Hitlerite provocations, bloody collisions have been taking place in Germany between fascists and Communists workers. Photo shows a scene in the Moabit district, Beriin, where workers tore up the streets to erect barricades against the fascist and police attacks. Hoover Veto Again Proves Him Chief of the Wage Cutters WASHINGTON, July 6, — Using his veto power, President Hoover kil- led a bill requiring that wages paid to laborers and mechanics on public buildings must be equal to the rates prevailing in the section where the | buildings are located. This leaves the road clear for systematic wage- cutting by contractors. Hoover's yeto is also an outright attempt to protect the strike-break- ing role of Secretary of Labor Doak who steps in as “arbitrator” every- time the workers protest against the miserable wages paid them in public works, DEMAND DEATH FOR JAPAN ‘RED’ Jail Sentences for 201 Others The trial of 202 Japanese Commu- nists under the Peace -Preservation and Dangerous Thoughts laws was concluded yesterday, with the prosec- utor demanding the death. penalty for Mitemaru, member of the Cen- tral Committee of the Japanese Com- munist Party. Life sentences were demanded for three other Commu- nist leaders, and terms of from three to fifteen years for the others, Mass protest action by tens of thou- sands of Japanese workers defeated the attempts of the court to carry on the; trials in secret. The Japa- nese Communist Party has appealed to the world proletariat to rush pro- tests to Count Uchida, Japanese For- eign Minister and to M. Miyagi, judge of the Law Court in Tokio, Japan. Workers and their organizations are also urged to send resolutions to the local Japanese Consulates in test against this savage attack on the revolutionary workers of Japan. Rail Workers’ Strike Strong In Mexico, Car Men Halt City Transit MEXICO CITY, July 6—The strike on the Southern Pacific Railroad of Mexico continues, paralyzing traffiic on the entire west coast. The work- ers are determined to win the strike. The carmen strike in Mexico City also continues as vigorously as at the beginning. The Minister of Commerce tried to| break the strikes yesterday as he moved to “arbitrate” the workers in- to capitulating before the two tran- sit companies, After the Deal Was put over as the presidential nominee. Over: Chicago, 1932 Exhausted after hours of bargaining with Democratic convention leaders whose votes were needed to put over Roosevelt, John W. Davis, candidate for president in 1924, catches a snooze in the convention hall. The deals were finally made, and Roosevelt the Wall St. lawyer was | | sentatives meeting in the President's mansion | (MOVE TO STRIKE PUBLIC WORKS Jagner and Garner in Plan; Workers De-| mand Insurance WASHINGTON, D. C., July 6.— Speaker Garner made a pretense of scoring Hoover's stand on the “relief” bill here today. Both Garner and Senator Wagner had agreed to re- vise the bill in line with Hoover's proposals before. Last night Hoover personally in- formed leading senators and repre- attending a preliminary that he will veto the “relief” bill un- less the provision for public works is stricken out completely. Later in the night he issued an official state- ment in which it is declared that at another meeting the Cong! onal leaders would “endeavor” to notify the “relief” hill False Promises In an effort to stem the workers’ struggle for social and unemployment managed to keep in the bill a prom- ise of future employment for a few ; workers through a limited amount of public works, Hoover, however, said that not even this promise should be retained in the bill and in a special message stated that instead of a provision to this ef- fect, the bill should increase the au- thorization for more loans to finance “self-sustaining projects.” The workers are realizing that, be- jhind the alleged diff2rences between Congress and the President, there is the common determination to hand industrialists, while refusing to give | out a cent to relieve the starving un- employed. In answer to the President mployed, In answer to the President and to his republican and democratic | collaborators in congress, the workers ar2 participating in ever greater num- bers in the struggle for unemploy- ment insurance at the expense of the employers and the state. BiG SCOTTBORO Phila. to Welcome Lucille Wright PHILADELPHIA, Pa. July 6— Philadelphia workers will welcome Lucille Wright, 11-year old sister of two of the Scottsboro boys, on her arrival at Broad Street Station, Fri- day, July 8, at 6 p. m. In protest against the Scottsboro lynch verdicts and the police terror in Philadelphia, an open air demon- stration will be held at 13th and Fil- bert, to be followed by a parade. A permit has been obtained for the same, Every working class organization is urged to turn en masse to greet Lu- cille Wright and to help build the mass fight for the release of the Scottsboro boys and of Willie Brown, the 16-year old Negro lad railroaded to a death sentence on a vicious frame-up by the Philadelphia police and courts, The demonstration and parade will be followed by a mass meeting Fri- day night at 806 Girard Avenue. This meeting will be under the auspices of District three of the Young Pioneers of America, of which organ- ization Lucille Wright is an active member, WHILE HOOVER TALKS “DIS- ARMAMENT.” PLATTSBURGH, N. Y., July 6.— While Hoover speaks of “disarma- ment” the last 1,237 of the 2,300 young men will attend Citizens Mili- tary Training Camps tiis year, ar- ‘| sived here. last night, OUT OF ‘RELIEF’, with him} insurance Garner and Wagner had/ PARADE FRIDAY Price 3 Cents = JAPAN RUSHING August First! MEXICO CITY, July 6.—Police wall of the Japanese Legation, . of the Soviet Union,” is being fighters is being concentrated at Harbin, new headquarters of the Japanese General Staff {which removed its headquar- ters from Mukden a few weeks ago in order to speed up the military preparations for armed intervention against the Soviet Union. The planes | are being tested out daily. Extend R. R, to Soviet Border. The Tsitsihar-Koshan Railway is being extended toward the Soviet. border to facilitate the Japanese plans for invading Soviet Siberia Enormous stocks of railway and building supplies already have been pushed to Koshan and the wor’ of |extending the railway is being fran- tically pushed. These anti-Soviet. moves, together with the recent open call of the Jap- anese to the other imperialist pow- ers to join in the “crushing of the | Soviet Union,” clearly show that the Japanese imperialists are bent upon extending their present robber: war on China with an armed: aitack on the Soviet Union. Demonstrations August 1st. The workers of the United States, | the workers of the whole world, must |answer these criminal war-mongers with determined anti-war actions, against imperialist war, for the de- fense of the Chinese People and the | Soviet Union, for stopping of the shipment of munitions. The imminence of the armed at- tack against the Soviet Union must serve not only to increase immediate | anti-war actions for the stopping of munitions, for the exposure of the imperialist war mongers, but must |serve as a warning to broaden out |and intensify the preparations for the anti-war demonstrations on | additional billions to the bankers and | August Pirst pro- “FIGARO” CALLS FOR WAR ON USSR |Says France Must Aid Japan Expecting an early attack by Japan against the Soviet Union, the French newspaper “Figaro”, semi-official or- | gan of the French Government, has | come out in opposition to the signing |by Poland and Rumania of the non- aggression pacts offered by the Sov- iet Union, The “Figaro”, voicing the anti-Soviet aims of French imperial- ism declares: “We should like to point out that @ non-aggression pact would be very injurious to our relations with | Japan. Indeed if war broke out | between Japan and Russia, our neu- | trality would not only harm the cause of civilization, but we should also be unable, to supply Japan with arms and munitions.” The Salvation Army, like the Tzar-. ist White Guards, is preparing to play its vicious role in the attack on the Soviet Union. General Higgins, head of the organization declared in London yesterday: “The Russians ended our efforts with the revolution, but we shall be ready when the time comes to re- commence our work,” Poland and Rumania, vassal states of French imperialism on the eastern frontiers of the Soviet Union, have delayed for several months the sign- ing of the non-aggression pacts, of- fering various pretexts for the de- lay. Both countries, together with other French vassal states on the oviet border, have been converted in- to veritable arsenals in preparation for the attack against the bk Union, A secret military alliance exists be- tween Japan and France, aimed against the Soviet Union and at ‘the crushing of the Chinese Revolu- tion and other revolutionary strug- gles of the colonial masses. in -! East. MORE TROOPS TO SOVIET BORDER In Frantic Drive to Extend Tsitsihar-Koshan Railway to Soviet Frontiers Answer With Tremendous Demonstrations on Stop Shipment of Munitions BULLETIN. attacked an anti-war demonstration before the Japanese Legation yesterday and arrested Juan Gonzalex Sanchez, Mexican worker, for writing “Down With Imperialism” on the The open call of the Japanese militarists for the “crushing followed by a feverish increase in Japanese troop movements toward the Soviet border. Heavy troop movements are taking place along the Tsit- sihar-Koshan Railway, in northern Manchuria. of bombing planes and small® A huge fleet CHINA RED ARMY PUSHING DRIVE ON CANTON FACTION Nanking “Government Shaken By Rising Tide of Revolt The Chinese Red Army invading Kwangtung Province, South China, continued its smashing advance yes- | terday, capturing several additional ; towns and increasing the consterna- tton of the Canton clique of the Kuo- mintang. ‘The Red Army entered Kwangtung jfrom Kiangsi Province, most of which is under the control of the powerful Central Chinese Soviet Gov- ernment, It numbers 50,000 troops and is operating in three forces. One force yesterday advanced on the im- portant town of Shiukwan, terminus of the railway running north from Canton, projected to extend to Han- kow, but uncompleted. Another force captured the town of Namhung and continued its advance. The third force captured Nanafu after a sav- age struggle in which there were thousands of casualties. The Red Army drive into Kwang- tung Province, has completely caught the Canton gang by surp; It of the greatest political and strategic importance, threatening the very base of the power of the Canton ganz. The drive was timed to coincide with the factional struggle for power and loot now taking place in southern Kwang- tung between Gen. Chen, Canton commander, and Admiral Chan, head of the deposed Nanking faction but who still controls most of the Canton navy. The Canton Commander, Gen. Chen, has sent 10 bombing planes against the advancing Red Army. He is frantically strengthening his forces in the city of Canton, fearing an up- rising of the Canton proletariat in support of the advancing Red Army. It is expected that he will institute a rigorous martia law throughout the province in the effort to prevent a general uprising of the impoverished workers and peasants. At the same time that the Kiang- si Red Army is threatening the very existence of the Canton militarists, Nanking dispatches report the im- minent collapse of the Nanking Gov- ernment under the hammer blows of the victorious Red Armies and the rising revolutionary struggles in the big Chinese cities. The Nanking Government {is reported facing a ter- rific financial crisis, and unable to pay its troops and civilian employ- ees. Tens of thousands of these troops. have. aready deserted to the Red Armies, and further arge deser- tions are feared. A Shanghai dispatch reports that “many federal employees, who have been long unpaid, are resigning, fear- ing a. collapse of the government, 500 Score Kidnapping of Y. C. L. Organizer BELOIT, Wise., July 6.—In spite of the very bad weather, 500 workers assembled at Horuse and White Park in protest against the beating and kidnapping of Ed Peterson, Young Communist Organizer of Beloit. ‘The workers came to the meeting, militant, well organized against any attacks which the American Legion fascists—under protection of the city administration—might make, The response of the workers to this meeting showed clearly that the un- employed and employed workers, starving, are not going to let these ra