The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 11, 1932, Page 1

\] 4) VOTE COMMUNIST FOR Unemployment and Social Insurance at the ex- pense of the state and employers. L 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 forced collection of rents or debts. Central Dail Orga ie (Section of the Communist ned, “agen unist Party U.S.A. VOTE COMMUNIST FOR 4. Equa! rights for the Negroes and self-determin- ation for the Black Belt. 6. Against capitalist terror; against all forms of suppression of the political rights of workers, 6. Against imperialist war; for the defense of the Chinese people and of the Soviet Union, Vol. IX, No. 164 Entered as second-clam matter at the Post Office at New York, N. Y. under the net of March 8, 1879 Br 5 Price 3 Cents _ CHINA REDS IN NEW BIG VICTORIES Cut Railway and Tighten Ring Around Hankow MARTIAL LAW IN CITY Chiang Warns Bosses Major War Looms Nanking and Hankow militarists launched a savage reign of terror against the workers of Hankow yes- terday following a series of important victories by the Chinese Red Armies in Hupeh and Hunan Provinces and the attempt of a Hankow worker to assassnate the Nanking butcher, Chaing Kai-shek. The strictest mar- tial law has been clamped down on the city. All news is being censored. The censorship is so strict that the Ghinese correspondent of Shanghai’s largest newspaper has been jailed for #ttempting to send out the news, & full division and a half of Nanking troops deserted to the Red Armies in the Sinyang area following the Red victories. The PREPAREREDTAGDAYS For Fighting Fund in the Election Campaign; July 22, 23, 24 INGRESSMAN GARNER stated yesterday that he opposed an investi- | gation of the U. S. Treasury because “all that the American people had left was faith in the government, and that they would lose this faith if the U. S. Treasury were investigated.” Graft and corruption do not exist only in the U. S. Treasury. Phey exist wherever capitalism exists. Capitalism itself, is legalized robbery, grows fat on robbery, periodically engages in robber wars. To destroy cor- ruption in capitalist governments it is necessary to destroy the thing which gives it birth—the system of capitalism. In the United States wealthy grafters like Andy Mellon are rewarded by high office, In the Soviet Union, grafting is a capital offense—graft is one of the two crimes in the Soviet Union punishable by death, Fight capitalism—the system on which is based the robbery of the working class—by contributing to the $100,000 Fighting Fund for the Com- munist election campaign and by participating in the Tag Day on July 22-23-24, The $100,000 Fighting Fund will be used to bring the Communist program of struggle to workers in every corner of the country, it will be used to help the Daily Worker pull back the veil of lies and misrepresenta- tions which the capitalists and their huge propaganda machines have Red forces have won control of a long stretch of the Peiping-Hankow Railway, cutting one of the main lines of supplies for the Hankow garrison and further strengthening thé iron ring of the Red forces ground that chief Central China ity, ‘The victories of the Red Armies in Hupeh ‘and Honan, following closely m the heels of the invasion of Kwangtung Province, in South China, by a huge Red Army, has @pread the greatest consternation ‘among the imperialists end their Kuomintang allies. Chiang Kai-shek yesterday renewed his pledge to the ‘imperialists that he would “per- sonally lead” the fourth “Communist, Suppression” campaign against the Red Armies and the Soviet Distrcts. The campaign already has been shattered by the powerful counter- offensive of the Red. Armies, Threat Large Scale War Chiang is now threatening civil war on “a large scale.” He has re~ quested the imperiadists to notify all foreign legations to order the withdrawal of their nationals from “large areas in Hunan and Hupeh Provinces.” Six students were killed, four se- riously wounded, and four Nanking gendarmes killed in a pitched battle between students and the military at Hopei Normal School in Paotingfu, sixty miles southward of Peiping, yesterday. The gendarmes surrounded the schoo land opend fire on the students as a sequel to the declara~ tion of martial law following the police claim of widespread Commu- nist plots for extensive armed up- risings in North China. The stu- dents are reported to have fought back, shouting “Long Live the Com- munist Party.” Arrest Communists ‘The militarists are carrying out mass arrests of Communists and anti-imperialist fighters in Peiping and other North China cities, A bloody reign of terror is already under way in a desperate attempt by the militarists to save their threatened rule. ‘The Nanking government is trying to raise funds to finance “a six- months anti-Communist campaign under General Chiang kai-shek.” Chiang, who personally commanded at the beginning of the Third “Com- munist Suppression” campaign and promised his imperialist masters to wipe out the Soviet districts “within three months,” is now asking six months for the new campaign. The Third campaign left the Soviet dis- tricts stronger than ever. The fourth campaign has already seen a tre- mendous extension of the power of the Chinese Soviets and a corres- pondingly weakening of Nanking power and prestige. VOTE COMMUNIST FOR: 2. Against Hoover's wage-cutting policy. Bolivians, Paraguay- ans Clash; Four Reported Slain LA PAZ, Bolivia, July 10. — Four ;Bolivian soldiers were killed when a Paraguayan military detachment at- tacked Fort Mariscal at Lake Chu- ;quisaca in the disputed Gran Chaco “region. ‘The attack occurred June 29th ac- cording to a dispatch from the Chaco region adding that the Bolivian out- post finally forced ‘*e Paraguayan detachment to retreat. ‘The dispute over tne Chaco region dn 1928 precipitated open hostility be- jtween Bolivia and Paraguay, The ‘dispute reflects the Anglo-American thrown around the program of the Communist Party. The $100,000 Fighting Fund is ammunition in the battle of the work- ing class for freedom from their oppressors. ‘Take your place in the struggle. Contribute to the Fighting Fund and collect in the Tag Days on July 22-23-24. COMMUNIST NATIONAL ELECTION CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE, $100,000 Dist. 1. ++$ 4,000 Dist. 2 4. 35,000 Dist. 3. 6,000 Dist 4. 2,000 Dist. 5 . 3,000 Dist. 6 6,000 Dist. 7 6,000 Dist, 8 15,000 Clarence Hathaway, Campaign Manager. *. * FIGHTING FUND QOUTAS FOR DISTRICTS. Dist, 9 Dist. 10 Dist. 11 Dist. 12 Dist. 13 Dist, 16 Dist. 1% Dist. 19 Government Proclaims State of Seige In Bel- gian S trik e Area BRUSSELS, July 10. — The Pro- vince of Hainaut was proclaimed in a state of seige by police last night following a clash between striking coal miners and strikebreakers. Many workers were injured in the collisions ‘Troops’ were rushed” to" the scene of the strike which is rapidly spread- ing to other trades. Many Commu- nists, who are playing a leading role in the strike, were arrested, The sirike has extended from the coal mines to the other industries, stopping furnices, glass and cement plants and electricity and gas works. ‘Transport was halted and the workers are preparing to march to Brussels despite the fact that all meetings and processions have been prohibited under penalty of 10 years imprisonment for the participants. FORD SPEAKS AT JERSEY MEETINGS To Discuss Mass Wage Cuts and Layoffs JERSEY CITY, N. J. July 10— James W. Ford, Negro worker, vice- presidential candidate of the Com- munist Party in the coming elections, speaks here Monday night at the Ukrainian’ Hall, 156 Mercer St. Intensive preparations for Ford’s meetings are being made in seven different cities where he is to speak. Thousands of unemployed workers and impoverished farmers will be reached through Ford's meetings which are being arranged by the newly rganized District 14, Commu- nist Party of the U. S. A. Ford’s schedule follows: ‘Tuesday, 8 p. m. at Turn Mall, 725 High St., Newark, N. J. Wednesday, 8 p. m., at Kantor’s Au- ditorium, 259 Monroe, Passaic, N. J. Thursday, 8 p. m. at the Krueger's (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) Soviet State Farm Workers Help World Fliers | After Crash MOSCOW, July 10.—With the aid of workers on the Soviet State farm near Borisov, and of Red Army sol- diers and a crew sent by the Rus- sian Civil Aviation Socjety, James Mattern .and Bennett Griffin are busy dismantling their’ damaged Plane, which crashed Thursday in a forced landing at a peat bog near Borisov. Both aviators spoke en- thusiastically of the hospitality and helpfulness of the Soviet workers, though they were sorry they had lost their chance to beat the record set by Post and Gatty for a round- the-world flight. A representative of the Council of People’s Commissats of the White Russia Republic, the division of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics in which the fliers landed, arrived yesterday at Borisov to help the vis- itors. The fliers ar going to Moscow today where an official reception is waiting for them, PROVIDENT MINE SCABS HALTED; STRIKERS JAILED Relief Urgent to Help Miners Carry Fight to Victory BULLETIN STEUBENVILLE, July 10.—All forces of the state and the United Mine Workers of America are mob- ilized in a final attempt to break the East Ohio miners’ strike. Re- lief to miners has been stopped in many places by the county. Miners in Jefferson County are organizing a hunger march to Steubenville tor Friday, July 19. The march will be led by the United Front, Strike Committee of Amsterdam, . oo BRIDGEPORT, O., July 10.—The third morning of determined pick- eting at Provident mine ended peace- fully with the scabs going home in- stead of to work. The pickets stopped the cars, made the scabs empty the water from their lunch buckets, turned them around and sent them home, Only 80 got to the mine and these went home because they “could not do any good.” Scabs in the Blaine mine find they have to clean out the rock, before they mine any coal. Some of it is rock which was left when the strike started. They get no pay for doing this work, One scab told him he had to move without pay. The scab threw away his checks and walked out. of the mine. Mass Arrests. PROVIDENT, ©O., July 10.—John Domyslyanovich, a striking miner, was arrested at Provident for distri- buting a leaflet of the National Min- ers Union calling on the strikers to form rank and file strike committees, | Picket the mines and win the strike. Deputies who arrested him. said it was a “preeaution” to keep from causing trouble. In reality it is just another strikebreaking act. Several other miners were arrested at Provident today. Then were ar- rested yesterday, and six the day be. (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) HIT TAILING BY JAPAN OF 202 WORKERS 2adiogram to Emperor Warns of Protest Thruout U. S. I. bk D. LEADS FIGHT Fight War r Plan Aimed at USSR on August 1 BULLETIN NEW YORK.—The International Labor Defense yesterday sent a radiogram addressed to the Em- peror of Japan protesting against thesavage persecution of revolu- tionary workers in that country and the convictions against 202 leading members of the Japanese Communist Party. The raidogram pointed out that protest action will be organized throughout the U. S. Wisi Ne Prepare Aug. Ist Demonstrations are being prepared throughout the United States for August Ist, the eighteenth anniver- sary of the start of the last im- perialist world war. The Daily Worker appeals to all workers to send it re- ports of the preparatory work for these demonstrations. Japan’s robber war on China, in- volving the seizure of Manchuria and the slaughter of tens of thousands of unarmed Chinese civilians, was yesterday described by Gen, Araki, Japanese War Minister, as a “neces- sary move” to “prevent the spread of Communism.” Speaking before the League of Nations “Investigation” Commission for two and a half hours, the Jap- anese War Minister discarded all pretexts that Manchuria was to be an “independent” state and argued that.inclusion of Manchuria in the Japanese Empire was “necessary for Japan's safety.” He hypocritically defended the theft of Manchuria from China as aimed to “prevent the further disintegration of China.” He carefully. developed a thesis on the necessity of a united imperialist front against the Soviet Union, stressing Japan's service to world imperialism in its murderous drive against the revolutionary struggles of |the Mar -aurian masses, claiming that Japan thereby was “preventing the spreed of Communism.” In support of his thesis for an anti-Soviet front, Gen. Araki con- jured up the picture of a Manchuria freed of imperialist oppression and ruled by Soviets of Manchurian workers, peasants and soldiers. This “terrible” picture he intimated would now have been realized but for Japan's armed intervention in Man- churia and her savage assault on the Manchurian masses. The League Commission which is supposed to be “investigating” the Japanese aggressions in Manchuria is reported to have asked Gen. Arkai three gcneral questions—frist, the relation of Manchuria to Japan's national defense; second, the army's plans regarding the maintenance of order in Manchuria, and, third, the army's view of Manchuria’s future, Gen. Arkai replied that “the in- tersts of Japan and Manchuria were inseparable.” He declared that Man- churia was Japan’s “first line of defense.” He answered the third question with the statement that “the maintenance of stability in Manchuria was of vital interest to Japan.” The League Commission which is now in the final stage of its “in- vestigations” is preparing a white wash of the Japanese aggressions which will seek to legalize the con- version of Manchuria by Japan into an armed base against the Soviet Union, and at the same time attempt. to deceive the toiling masses of the world into belief that the League of Nations js working for “peace” in the Far East. COLUMBUS, Ohio.—Twenty lashes at the whipping post .on the charge of petit larceny was the fate Wynn here, to protect the bosses’ property. whipping prisoners. The two prisoners were allowed to keep their shirts had no underwear. of two workers, William and Jesse The judge said he would “stretch all laws until they crack” | He admitted there was no state law for on because they FOULKROD SABOTAGES BONUS FIGHT; PACE HITS HOOVER PLAN Ex-Detective Attempts to Get Vets Out of Washington Via Fare Scheme Workers ExServicemen’ s League Urges Men to Stay in Capital WASHINGTON, D. C., July 10.— in an attempt to stimulate rod, legislative chairman of the Waters “High Command”, applied for ai ticket home today and advised masses This action was not a surprise to the rank and file of the veterans, for | the role of Foulkrod as a stool pig-o eon and detective was well known in all sections of the bonus army. The fact that Foulkrod is an ex-office| manager of the Philadelphia Burns | Detective Agency was exposed last week by the Daily Worker. Pace Assails Hoover. George Pace, Commander of the 14th Regiment, in a statement to the press today assailed the Hoover evic- tion plan as an attempt to starve the | war veterans. “The veterans must resist this at- tempt of the government to trick them out of Washington,” said Pace. | “Hoover is trying to drive us back to the breadlines to starve. We must re- fuse to leave. We must organize new delegations of veterans to march here and demand that Congress pass the bonus bill before it adjourns.” Main Body Stands Fast. Only a few hundred veterans were} tricked into acepting the railroad} passes, which they themselves will have to pay for. The main body of the army is still standing fast on the Po- tomac determined to force the gov- ernment to pay their back wages. At the headquarters of the Workers Ex-servicemen’s League veterans de- clared that they were not drafted into the army by their respective city gov- ernments. “We were drafted by the Federal government,” said a vet from New York, “and we're going to stay and demand that Congress passes the bifl. We haven't spoke loud enough for the bonus. We veterans must make Congress hear us in a real militant demonstration.” VOTE COMMUNIST FOR: 6. Against imperialist war; for the of veterans to follow his example. DEBT AGREEMENT AIMED AT WU. 8. ‘Does Not A bolish Reparations The thirty-fiith war debts reparations conference adjourned at Lausanne on Saturday with the Pow- ers initialing the agreement whereby the von Papen Junker Cabinet | tracts Germany to continued political | and economic slavery and the pay-| ment of war tributes to the victor | powers in the last World War. ‘The conference possibility of sweating out of the im- poverished German masses the en- tire balance of the huge sixty-four billion dollars reperations bill exacted | by the terms of the infamous Ver- sailles Treaty and arranged for un-| der the Young Plan. Germany has already been forced to pay twelve billion dollars of this sum. The conference refused to wipe out further payments, and set the final payment at $712,500 and pretending to make a substantial reduction in the amount of reparations still claimed by the Powers. This reduc- tion, however, is made contingent upon the success of European pres- sure upon the United States to free the former Allied Powers of their war debt obligations to this country. These debts amount to over eleven billion dollars, according to figures released by the U. S. Treasury on Saturday. The agreement is thus not final defense of the Chinese people and of the Soviet Union. (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) INTELLECTUALS BACK FIGHT ON FISH-DIES BILL Mencken, Dewey, Dos Passos Among Signers of John Reed Club Appeal H, L. Mencken, John Dewey, Mich- ael Gold, John Dos Passos, and Pro- fessor Edward A. Ross of the Univer- sity of Wisconsin are among those supporting the campaign of the John Reed Club against the adoption in the Senate of the so-called Dies Bill for the “exclusion and expulsion of alien Communists”. he signers of the protest join in characterizing the bill as “a flagrant violation of funda- mental human rights,” Others signing the protest, the first response to the John Reed Club ap- peal, include Malcolm Cowley of the “New Republic’; Robert Littell, well known writer; Professor Vida D, Scudder of Wellesley College; Bab- ette Deutsch and Lola Ridge, poets; Owen R. Lovejoy, executive secretary of the National Child Labor Commit- tee, Clifton P. Fadiman, critic and lecturer. Dr. William J. Robinson, Virginia Dabney, John Hermaan, Clara W. Mayer, Josephine Herbst, Cheynoy, Lucia Trent; also A. Rob- bins, editor of the Hickman (Ky.) df “American Foreign Investments”; Louis Lozowick, artist; Professor Ber- nhard J. Stern, New School for 80-| Ralph | that ‘You can’t hang a man for what “Courier”; Robert W. Dunn, authorfHouse Resolution cial Research; and Professor Kirtley ) F. Mather, of Harvard University. Sent to Senate. The protest which these individuals! signed, and which is to be forwarded to Senators Robert F. Wagner and Royal S. Copeland of New York, states in part: “A popular belief is to the effect he thinks.” In view of this we draw your attention to a provision in the 12044 ~~ recently passed by the House of Representa- | tives and soon to come up in the te = ft SS sat” “This bill provides for the exclu- sion and expulsion of any non-citi- zen who ‘believes in...a system based upon common ownership of property and abolition of private property, provided that the platform, program or objectives of the Third Interna- tional...shall be held to embrace said doctrine.” “Vicious Bill’. “We feel that the express and im- plied powers of this bill do such vio- lence to freedom of thought even when unacompanied by overt act or propaganda, that further argument as to its vicious nature is unneces- “10,000 AT N.Y. RED RALLY CHEER COMMUNIST NOMINEES AND UNITED FRONT PROGRAM Meeting Lays Basis fc for Huge r Huge Aug. 1 Anti-War Demonstration in Union Square Ford and Weinstone Expose Boss Parties, Put Forward Communist Program of Struggle More than 10,000 workers of Greater New York gathered in Coney Island Stadiam Saturday night to greet James W. Ford, Communist can- didate for the vice-presidency at the Red Ratification Rally, the mass demonstration which opened the national and state election campaignS here. o——_ United Front Is Keynote. | stone was a call for a a , united front in The keynote cf the rally as put|the election campaign to include A. ferward by both Ford and Wein- F. of L. members and honest rank {and file socialists behind such sio- gans as “Not a man, woman or child Leader | a general | retreat of the Bonus Expeditionary Forces from the capital, Harold Foulk- | and! admitted the im-| FOSTER IS HAILED : AT BIG MEETING, IN KANSAS crry * Raps “Liberty Party” Hi | Exposes Howatt Who | | Takes Floor KANSAS CITY, Mo., July 10.—| | Nearly 1,500 workers heard William | |Z. Foster, Communist candidate for! | President of the United States, when he spoke here Friday night. Foster made a vigorous expose ef | the parties of capitalism, and ama- | lyzed the basis and aims of the semi-| fascist outfit known as the “Liberty | Party” which has its national head-| quarters in this city. 500 Negro Workers. | More than 500 Negroes attended the meeting, and joined with the} white workers in giving an enthusi- ic response to Foster's stirring ap-} peal to unite in the struggle for Ne- gra rights, for self-determination in| the Black Belt, for the veterans’| bonus and unemployment insurance, and in defense of the Soviet Wnion. Owen Penney, Communist candi- | date for governor of Missouri, and} Paul Cline, Communist district or-| ganizer, followed Foster and exposed | local starvation conditions and the | |maneuvers of the bosses’ candidates |in the election. Winstons, young Ne- |gro worker, exposed the Negro mis- leaders and urged them to join in| support of the Communist program | | picketing, jend candidates. | eee. ' | Exposes Howatt, Betrayer of Miners.) PITTSBURGH, Kan. July lu— More than 1,000 workers, including} hundreds of coal miners, heard Fos- | ter at a meeting here Saturday. The) Communist candidate made a slash-| jing attack against the Socialist | Party and its candidate for senate, | |the racketeer, Haldemann-Julius, | who failed to appear in answer to a challenge to defend the Socialist | Party position before the workers. Foster scored the betrayals of the }coal miners by Lewis ang Howati. | Howatt, at one time an insurgent, took the floor and weakly attempted to defend himself, but admitted Fos- \ter’s charge regarding his own pre- vious alliance with the Fishwick- Walker outfit in Illinois in their | fight with Lewis for the domination jover the miners. | Paul Cline exposed the efforts of |the Kansas politicians to keep the Communist Party off the ballot by deception and terror. J. W. Ford Predicts Next Steps in Menus “by “Relief” Groups NEW YORK—Speaking to 10,000 workers at the United Front Rati- fication Rally at Coney Island |. Stadium Saturday night, James W. Ford, Negro workerr and vice- presidential candidate, declared in the course of his speech: “While the country is glutted with food, 15,000,000 unemployed workers are starving and capital- ist ‘relief? agencies are suggesting sample menus on which it is claimed the workers and their families can subsist. This menu consists of wheat porridge, wheat soup, wheat croquettes and wheat coffee.” “The next step,” Ford declared, will be for these ‘relief experts’ to provide menus of water soup, water croquettes and water pie —with air bubbles for dessert.” COMMUNIST ACTIVITY IN MEXICAN ARMY. MEXICO CITY, July 10. — Three soldiers were dismissed from the Mexican Army for “spreading Com- munist literature and propaganda” General Quiroga of the War Depart- ment sajd-pere, ——————remgriegy without food, clothing or shelter”; “Stop the payment of subsidies to the bankers—all funds for the job- less; “Not a cent for war, cent for the payment of the ex-service- isen’s bonus and relief through un- employment insurance.” The meeting was not only a dem- | onstration of enthusisstic support fer the Communist Party platform and its candidates, bul a mobilization point for the huge anti-wa rr be held in Union Sq. on Augus as part of the international d | stration of labor. Wild Ovation. The crowd went wild with enthus- iasm as the vice-presidential car date was carried into the stadium on the shoulders of ex-servicemen and twice around the bowl at the head of a cheering procession of the E: vicemen’s League. The cheering (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) “MILLER SHOE C9. STRIKERS MARCH IN SPITE OF BAN Sociali st Secretary Leading Seab in 5 Star Strike LONG ISLAND CITY, July 10. — Despite the court injunction a; 200 striking shoe wor of the I. Miller shop marche to the factory gate Saturday to demand the return of $50 which the company i jholding as security for the infamol “Yellow Dog Contract”, which de- nied the workers the right to orga- nize and strike. While the marchers waited ostside the factory gate a committee we: jin to see the bosses. The commit- tee demanded the immediate retnrn of the $50. The committee also in- formed the boss of the strikers’ de- ; cision regarding a registered letter which was received by each worker telling him to come for his tools and money, The answer of the cémmit- tee was that all the workers were ready to take their tools home and continue the strike. The committee pointed out that the strikers would not come for their tools individually, but in groups of ten. When the I. Miller bosses heard this they knew their scheme to speak to the strikers individually was smashed. The fir mhanded the committee a statement to the effect that the Millers are released of all obligations and the workers are released from their jobs. The boss asked the com- mittee to sign this statement. The committee rejected the statement and Jed the strikers back to the strike headquarters. Shouted for 10 Weeks. For ten weeks the Millers shouted that there was no strike and that the workers had quit their jobs; now Millers want to discharge them, These »bviously clumsy tricks of the Miller Company are a reflection of company’s panicky situation. Although the injunction has been in effect for over a week, the strike is more solid than on th eopening day of the struggle. Strikers In Court Today. The 31 strikers charged with dis- orderly conduct will come up for trial Monday in Long Island City. Five Star Strike Strong. The Five Star Strike is going strong. More cops are detailed around the injunction zone and are becoming more vicious threatening the strikers with physical violence. The Five Star Strike Committee desided to follow the example of the Miller strikers by holding daily mass picket demonstrations. Socialist Scab, Umberto Spatola, member of. the Socialist Party and secretary of thé Gun Hill Road Branch of the S. P. is one of the leading scabs in the