The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 8, 1932, Page 3

PROGRESS EVERY DAY/‘ IN AMO PLANT, MOSCOW, SAYS AMERICAN TOILER Month’s Vacation In Caucasus to Cost Him | Very Little Food Wholesome, Recreation and Medical At- | tention Free | AMO, MOSCOW,—I have given a machinery which we still need badly. last is putting out 70 trucks all made with Russian materials by Soviet | We hope in three months to raise our workmen, a great achievemen. daily production to 100! I think we But now I am getting more and® Tore used to this life and find it interesting. It is different from the states, where life had no future to it, My little fellow is going to kinder- Garten and speaks the language bet- ter than I do. My wife. was very sick recently. In a few days all are going to the country for three months, I will spend a moth in the Caucasus. I became a member of the shock-brigade and Inventive So- ciety. This vacation will cost me very little. Progress Every Day. One cannot write any time as there is so much work to be done. We all are voluntarily working overtime to fulfill our plan. Moscow has no rest days, chimneys smoke day and night, as men and women work full force with enthusiasm. Every day pro- gress is made. Tourists and writers see only the} external appearances. One must go to the workers in the shops and to the various institutions. Shorteomings. There are shortcomings, damage done through inexperience. Don't forget that we have had to take peo- ple from the farms and the army, and teday they are working on the most modern machinery. I have three hundred men and > rien under me. Workers get good wholesome food, enough salary to live on, and free medical attention. They get checks for clothing, theatre tickets, free edu. cation for their children. The per- fermances in the theatre is wonder- | “ul. Since my short st-y 4 hay2 seen - most of the les. “7 comrades. They are plain people, who know full well what they are talking about and helping to overcome the various dif- ficulties. I personally am satisfied. I have no more than the other work- ers in the factory and everything possible is done to make our lives comfortable and happy. Best regards, —A Benedik, Zardo-Amo, Moscow 68, Leninskayo, U, S. S. B. RED ARMY TAKES TOWNS (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) is reported at 50,000 troops. The Canton militarists yesterday claimed to have re-captured the town of Namhung which was taken several days ago by the Red Army. This claim is unconfirmed and extremely unlikely as the Red Army has already advanced over a hundred miles be- yond Namhung and was yesterday re- ported beseiging Shiukwan (some- times spelled Shau-chau), terminus of a railway running north from Canton. Riyal Militarists Divided So great js the alarm of the Can- ton gang that an S.O.S, has been sent to the Kwangsi Province militarists pleading for 10,000 troops to help stem the advance of the Red Army. Kwangsi Province is on the western border of Kwangtung. A strong Red Army is operating in that province @s well. A few days ago the Kwangsi militarists requested permission from Canton to send an army through Kwangtung Province to make a flank attack on the Red Army in Kwangsi. The Canton gang turned down the request, not trusting their rival mili- tarists and fearing that the Kwangsi \troops would take sides with the Nan- king militarists in the factional strug- igle now going on between Canton and Nanking. Fear Canton Uprising Fearing an uprising in Canton in support of the advancing Red Army, the Canton clique is unable to spare sufficient troops to send against the Red Army. Canton bombing planes yesterday bombed the military stronghold of Admiral Chan Chak, Nanking repre- sentative, at Hothow on Hainan Is- land. Hong-kong dispatches claim that the Oanton planes inflicted; heavy damage on the gunboats of Ad- miral Chan, + 8 6 Washington Admits Red Victories A Washington dispatch admits fur- ther Red Army victories in “Kansu, Honan and other provinces of China.” ‘The dispatch says the Wall Street Government has again sent urgent instructions to its butcher-agent, (Chiang Kai-shek, ordering him to re- organize the shattered fourth “Com- funist Suppression” campaign. Chi- tng’s Nanking government complain- ed several days ago that its bank- tupt treasury could furnish no further funds for the campaign. Shanghai dispatches during the past few days tave reported increasing desertions tmong the huge unpaid Nanking army. Even the civilian employees tre resigning in fear that the Nan- {ing government will soon collapse brat hammer blows of the vic- worker and peasant Red Ar- ‘and the rising revolutionary tide b the cities. | ure of solitude—privacy—this, accord- large part of my salary to help buy | Our factory starting from October | will make it. Soviet Humor Paper Writes of Al Capone MOSCOW, July 7.—The Soviet hu- morous weekly, “Crocodile” in its) current issue, puts Al Capone, Chi-| cago gangster in his “historic setting.” Devoting almost a full page to ‘the | racksteer now temporarily in Atlanta prison, the magazine carries a series of imaginary letters, one from Capone to a girl friend, Conchita, and the others from other persons to the gangster. To be left algne, to enjoy the pleas- ing to the “Crocodile” is Capone’s chief ambition in prison, He com- plains about the never-ending pro- eession of callers he is forced to re- czive, including newspapermen, pro- tographers, love-sick women, bankers, unemployed grand dukes and others. Typical of the mail Capone receives in prison from admirers, the “Croco- dile” imagines the following from a banker: “Dear Sir: It is clever of you to rob banks when those very banks, if intelligently administered, could be- come for you hens laying golden | eggs? A raid on the largest bank | will not give you the hundredth part of which we financiers extract by bank and exchange operations from the pockets of stockholders, So you | See that our methods are much bet- ter perfected and more suitable to the high prineiples of our epoch than yours, | Other fan mail includes a letter from a Russian emigre who suggests a Russian-American bandit alliance, Capone's gangsters and emigre White Guards working together “for hu- manity,” Red Cross Flour for ‘Good Presbyterians’; Nothing for Negroes FINLEYVILLE, Pa.—What church do you belong to?” This is the first question asked by the Red Cross leaders here when a worker applied for a few pounds of mouldy flour. If the worker is a Presbyterian in good standing no more questions are asked. He gets his ration of stale flour without further ceremony. But if he is not a good standing Presby- terian—then he is investigated. If he is a Negro he is out of luck. Unemployed workers owning a ra- dio or a nice piece of furniture are told by the investigators that the Red Cross can do nothing for them. Prisoner Dies in Prison Sweat Box In Jacksonville JACKSONVILLE, Fla., July 7— Another prisoner died in the sweat box in the Jacksonville prison camp, it was disclosed to- day. Arthur Maillefert of West- field, N. J., is the latest victim of this vicious type of punishment. A sham investigation is being | made by Circuit Court Judge George C. Gibbs in an attempt to sidewalk at 2504 Olinville Ave. Above is shown the furniture of eight unemployed workers on the Eight unemployed families were evicted in the rain Wednesday at 2504 Olinyille Ave., by the Tammany city government, Forty tenants of this house are striking for a 15 per cent reduction in rent. The tenants have declared that they will continue the fight until the evicted workers are put back and the 15 per cent reduction is won, Capitalist City Government Evicts Rent Strikers BIG AUGUST 1 IN MILWAUKEE to plan the next imperialist war! When the social-fascists appear be- fore the workers, they preach paci- fism, praise the war organizing League of Nations, and try to con- vince the workers that there is no danger of a war. In addition, they actively participate in the prepara- tions for war, Prepare August Ist. ‘The workers of Milwaukee County will answer the war preparations of the imperialists with the biggest Anti-War demonstration ever held on August 1st. Shop gate meetings, workers’ organizations, Trade Unions, ete., will be visited in order to draw the workers into the struggle against imperialist war. Besides the increased number of street meetings and shop gate meet- ings, three preliminary demonstra- tions are being organized in the county of Milwaukee for Sunday, June 31st. One demonstration in Haymarket Square, in the Negro ter- ritery on the North Side; another demonstration at Koschusko Park, on the South Side; also a demonstration in Central Park, of West Allis. Use August 1st Daily. Preparations are being made for distribution of the special August First Anti-War edition of the Daily Worker, The North Side sub-section of Milwaukee has already set itself cover up the outrage. a quota of 5,000 copies, In addition (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE)} } i JAPAN POLICE IN MASS ARRESTS With, the Japanese | "a filled with thousands: of .revolutionary fighters ggainst. imperialist war, the police are continuing their mass arrests and raids on working-class organ- izations, On Juny 26, Tokio police burst in- to the conference hall of the pro- letarian first aid organization, ar- rested forty of the delegates and seized all papers and other confer- ence material. ‘The police have prohibited the holding of the annual congress of the Proletarian Theatre Guild. The congress, which was convened in de- fiance of the police edict, was broken up when the delegates protested a- gainst the tyrannical action of the police, many of them were arrested. Mitemaru, a member of the Cen- tral Committee of the Japanese Com- munist Party, is facing a death sen- tence, with 201 other Japanese Com- Their trial has just been concluded. Sentence is to be pronounced within a few days. to this, preparations are going ahead for the special issue of the. shop papers in Allis Chalmers (West Allis), Seaman Body (Milwaukee) and Nash (Racine) plants. Demonstrations are being organ- ized in many other cities in the Wis- consin Section; Racine, Kenosha, Madison, Beloit, Sheboygan, etc, Mass resentment is growing in Treland against the savage economic war program with which the British government is attempting to coerce the Irish people into submission to its robber “rights” in Ireland, The program is sponsored by Ramsay MacDonald, British Prime Minister, and J, H, Thomas, Dominions Minis- ter, both former shining lights in the Second (Socialist) International. Robbery of Masses, The economic war program was proposed in retaliation against the attempt of President de Valera, rep- resenting the Irish bourgeoisie, to take over the annual land taxes which have been paid to the British government unde ra treaty imposed upon the Irish people by British bay- onets. The land annuities are not py a colonial tribute, but an ac- jowledgement of the subjection of an Irish people to a foreign over- De Valera, representing the Irish bourgeoisie, is willing to permit “ar- bitration” of the question, but J. H. ‘Thomas has refused to recognize the | “Workers Voice’ right of the Irish people to even challenge the payment of this trib- ute to British imperialism, Speaking in the House of Commons, Thomas declared: “The British tusanaes never ex- » _ DB Vderna pected the Irish Free State to as- sume that treaties and agreements could be torn up with impunity by our side.” War Argument. The sham independent status of the “Free” Irish State was complete- ly exposed when Lloyd George in a % MASS ANGER RISES IN IRELAND AGAINST BRITISH BOYCOTT THREAT Calls for for Fight on British Imperialism and Irish Capitalists speech made a war argument for holding Ireland in subject to British imperialism, He declared: “We had had the experience of the war, when the coasts of Ire- land were the dealiest trap for our ships. If the const of Ireland had then been in the hands of an inde- pendent sovereign State we might have been done for, and we were not going to take that risk.” The “Workers’ Voice”, organ of the Trish Revolutionary Workers Move- ‘ment, in a front page article in its June 25 issue calls for a struggle against British imperialism and the Trish capitalists who under the threat of the British economic boycott are now ready to betray the revolution- ary struggle for Irish freedom. It is- sued the following slogans: “Not @ penny tribute to British imperialism! “Clear the garrison from Irish “No continuance of the robber tribute from the working farmers! “Build the revolutionary working class movement to lead the fight’ munists facing long terms in prison. | ‘Mother’ Bloor, 70, and Still Battling, Reviews Life of Struggle 1 in the Ranks| WILL BE HELD IN SALT Today is the 70th Birthday of that veteran fighter of the working class—Ella Reeve Bloor. The Daily Worker extends greetings to her. The following is | a short biography of her life, By ELLA REEVE BLOOR, My birthplace was Staten Island | (Mariners Harbor), New York, July | 8, 1862. My father had returned | from the Civil War to marry my mother, a New York girlo f 20. She was @ descendant of the old Huge- nots, who settled in Connecticut— and all her ancestors on her mother’s | side were in the Revolutionary war, | and later figured largely in the po- | litical and business lives of New York. Hamilton Weed who owned half of Brooklyn, now covered by Putnam and Willoughby Avenues, | then called the Caroline Park, was| my uncle, Another uncle preached | in the Old John St. Methodist Church | —Levi Weed. My father and mother were mar- ried in the Presbyterian church oi the corner of 2nd Avenue and 14th St, now the Labor Temple. With this old American background, 1) early in life became a rebel. Took} my name off the church book at| 14 years of age. Read Thomas Paine, Ingersoll, “and studied evolution much to. the horror of my father. | ‘My mother was an ally but she died when I was 17 years of age. The old uncle who gave me all kinds of radical literature to read— was an old abolitionist and athiest —then a Greenbacker and a popul- | ist. To Dan Ware, I owe my whole | foundation of later revolutionary | thought and action. I later married his son—the father of Harold M. Ware and my other children. In 1893 I became interested in the | weavers of Kensington, Philadelphia and joined’ the first textile union there to induce the women to stand for better wages, etc. Studies Socialism. In Bryan’s first Free Silver Cam- paign I began to study Socialism from books brought to me by a young | doctor friend, just returned from a German University. I accepted this Philosophy but did not know how to ally myself with the movement. At that time moving to New York, be- came acquainted with Eugene V. Debs, who had later, after his im- prisonment in the Pullman Strike, formed an organization called the | Social-Democratic Party— most o?, the members in New York and Brooklyn were Railroad men. They began to advocate and work for a colonization scheme which I consid- ered unscientific from a Socialist point of view, and I left Debs to join the Socialist Labor Party led by Dani- iel DeLeon. This action 33 years ago helped me develop a good basis for future work in the Labor movement. DeLeon. Lucien Sanial and others called a National Convention where the Socialist Trade and Labor Al- Vance was organized. I participated actviely in this conyention, was on the Constitution Committee and was elected on the General Executive Board, During the time of my aec- tivity in this work—in spite of the fact that I had two babies, Dick and Karl Marx Reeve, beside four other | children, I led strikes of weavers in Slatrsville, R. I, was active in or- ganjzing machinists and street car- men, Active in Struggle. At that time it was also my duty to |. write a ful page article on the labor movement for the Sunday Edition of “The People.” Later on, differing | with DeLeon on the policy he adopted Party—always taking “left” positions in that Party, and always taking part in the big strikes of the time, notably Colorado, Ohio, Pennsylvania Coal strikes, Calumet copper strike in 1914, many machinist strikes, cic. In these strikes had many arrests. In some of the strikes, in the needle trades, my children were in jail with me, While in the Socialist Party, served 14 years 6 states, While State-Org. of Ohio, in 1911 and 1912 was associated with Ruthenberg who was then State Sec- retary. We had at that time 90,000 Socialist v otes in Ohio, and 13 So- Cialist mayors were elected. In 1917 taking a strong stand against war and having been nomi- nated by the Socialist Party for Lieutenant Governor of New York, I had many inner Party conflicts and much “outer” persecution—became a Labor Party in Kansas City, Mis- souri, In the service of the Commu- nist Party, have been a delegate to th e Red International of Trade Unions, have visited the Soviet Un- ion three times, have covered the! United States from coast to coast 32 times, have visited every state in the Union, except Florida. Twice hitch- hiking from San Francisco to N. Y. without paying a cent for R.R. fare getting subs for the Daily Worker, This when I was 63 years old and again when I was 65. All the ex- perience of these years am applying now to organization of hundreds of thousands of militant farmers in the Northwest. My faith and confidence in the working class remains strong and unshaken. With all my strength, with all sane, clear conviction I be- lieve in the coming of victory for our class. In my time, it will come. We shall see the dawn of the new day for the workers and farmers right here in America, “Toward Revolutionary Mass Work” Pamphlet containing 14th Plenum “Resolutions * its revolutionary | | |toward the Trade Union, I left the| S. L. P, and joined the Socialist | as National Org.-State Organizer in| charter member of the Communist | - es i Page Linee ELLA REEVE BLOOR ‘VETS CHEER i * PACE IN CAMP. | (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) Johnson, Stember, Eicher, Reeves and Pace. Support for the coming rank and | file conference to be called at an early date is growing throughout the Bonus Expeditionary Forces. Veterans billetted at 8th and “I” Sts., a section of the Waters Oregon group, ousted their commander to- | day and elected a rank and file com- mittee to lead the fight, Waters Men Desert. A group of military police, former adherents to Waters, threw thelr | clubs away and came to the head- quarters’ of ‘the Provisional ‘Bonus March Committee at 905 “I” St. and declared that they were through do- ing the dirty work for Waters. They joined the rank and file movement. Hits Hoover Plan. Herbert Hoover today, in a letter to Speaker Garner, proposed that the starving veterans be given non- negotiable railroad passes to their home cities instead of food ardd their back wages, the bonus. The money to cover the expense of the passes, the president suggested, shall be taken out of the back wages due the men. “We don’t want railroad passes,” said George Pace, Commander of the 14th Regiment and leader of the Workers Ex-servicemen’s League. “We are here for our back wages, and we demand it in cash, every cent of it. Most of us haven't got homes.” Reports received here from Cleve- | land and Chicago that new contin- | gents of veterans with food supplies have left for Washington under the leadership of the Workers Ex-ser- vicemen's League, Buck, | VOTE COMMUNIST FOR: 4, Equal rights for the Negroes and self-determination for the Black Belt, To the Readers of |The DAILY WORKER Phe only Czechoslovak working class rin the U,. §. and nds for the very same principle ax ‘THE DAILY WORKER Yearly subscription $6, for 6 mo, $3. Write for free sample copy today © neighbor at home, shop, mine farm a Slovak or Czech worker? If he ts, have -him subscribe to the Daily Rovnost Ludu Caechonlovak Org. of the O.P,, U.S.A . 1510 W. 18th St., Chicago, TL. UTAH NOMINATING MEET LAKE CITY ON JULY 10 Demands for Farn ners, Cattle Ranchers to Be SALT LAKE CITY, Ut Preparations are in full s' Utah State Nominatin; of the Communist Part here on Sunday, July 1 Center, 168 S. W. Ter p. m. Daily reports are received of dele- gates elected directly fr ings throughout the state te pe larize the platform of the Party. Nineteen delegate: unemployed industrial and tural workers and poor farmers, represent Ogden. American Fo. farming community, elected 11 dele- gates. From Midvale come five; from Sandy, three. Murray will d 11 delegates, who include representat: from Taylorville, W. Jordan and Union. From Salt Lake, about 100 delegates will represent the Commu- nist Party, Unemployed Neighborhood Committees, the Friends of the Soviet Union, Workers Ex-Servicemen’s Lea- gue, International Labor Defense and Working Women’s League. The draft platform.to be presented at the con- vention will include, besides tional platform demands, planks for to be held 1 » mostly agri he na- | further demands for poor farmers and | cattle ranchers. Foster Meeting Crystalizes Convention Preparations Dealing with the discrimination against Negro workers, the terr tic methods of the government against the foreign-born; the three capitalist parties, Democratic, Repub- lican, Socialist, and all third parties such as the Citizens Party of Salt meeting here last Friday, sounded the call for militant action against the | Hoover Hunger program, and for par ticipation of all workers in the Com- munist election campaign. Exposing the A.F.L, leadership, he declared: “Whenever capitalism has some dirty work, they call upon the AF.L. lead- ers.” Appeal to A.F.L. Members At the convention, a special appeal will be made to the rank and file of the American Federation of Labor, especially in the Building Trades lo- cals here, which are disintegrating due to the failure of the AFL mis- leaders to adopt a militant policy and to organize the unorganized, resulting in a union so weak that those few building trades workers who are em-| ployed are forced to work at a scale 50 per cent below the union éeale. They will be called upon to organize Lake, Wm. Z. Foster, presidential can- | | didate on the Communist ticket at a arbers Union, for recently, ommunist Party. Ine son is one of the leade ¢ Citizens Party of Salt tion will be followed by ing the same evening in JAPAN RUSHES %@ PLANES IN EAST CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) need its readiness. The workers whole w must answer this nal war drive against the Soviet Union with tremendous anti-war demonstrations on Aug. 1, and ine eased anti-war actions to prevent 2 production and shipment of itions against the Chinese people and the Soviet Union. Uchida Call for Anti-Soviet Front. Count Uchida, Fo! the new Japanese eign Minister, yesterday issued a ement to the Japanese and fore press, in which he makes a des- effort for the composing of pening differences between ialist bandits in the strug for loot and markets in China. a’s statement is clearly an offi- cial follow-up to the Japanese call to © unite to “crush te the o the Soviet League Prepares Whitewash. Uchida assures the Powers that Japan would “not act unnecessarily” against their interests in Manchuria. Since Japan has already grabbed everything in sight in Manchuria, this assurance will not by itself help to compose the quarrels of the im- perialists, but the assurance is ac- companied by secret conferences and bargaining between the imperialists |and their League of Nations Com- mission. This Commission, which is supposed to “investigate” Japanese aggressions in Manchuria, is now in Japan fraternizing with the militar- ists and preparing a whitewashing report. In an attempt to save its |face, the Commission has begged | Japan to postpone “recognition” of its puppet state in Manchuria until after it has rendered its report. | faking his cue from the British, | who urge that Japan be not too hasty jin “recognizing” the puppet state set into the revolutionary union affiliated up by Japanese bayonets in Man- with the Trade Union Unity League. |churia, Uchida calls upon the Japa- In the Barbers Union, considerable | nese militarists and fascists to be ferment is created following the at-| “patient.” He warns them that the tempts of M. I. Thompson, president | time is not propitious, that Japan of the State Federation of Labor, to must further strengthen her position expel M. P. Bales, former president! in Manchuria, AUGUST ist £,000.600 COPIES of. the SPECIAT. ANTI-WAR ISSU B 3 FIGHT IMPERIALIST. WAR!,, Defend the Soviet Union by Spreatiatg This Issue USE THIS ISSUE TO GET NEW SUBS ALL WORKERS AND WORKERS’ ORGANIZATIONS! PREPARE YOUR PLANS! 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