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30 CENTS A DAY FOR 16 HOURS WORK IN CAN EFIELDS OF CUBA 1,200 “Political Prisoners” Buried in Old Dungeons 4 Corpses on Public Highways Increasing at Alarming Rate (By a Worker Correspondent) HAVANA, Cuba.—Misery in Cuba is growing more intense every day. The number of unemployed is reaching enormous figures, and the govern- ment has attempted nothing toward calming the pangs of hunger, which in the canefield regions is most frightful. Lately canefield workers have been earning 30 cents a day for 16 hours’ work. And even then they are note- paid in cash but in scrip, which must be presented at company stores where prices are sky high, League Reorganized The struggle against the grip of Wall Street is becoming intensified. In Havana, and ramified throughout the republic, the Antilmperialist League has been reorganized and ac- tivized, carrying on the work of its) last president, Julio Antonio Mella, | student leader, who was murdered in| Mexico by thugs sent down by the} Cuban Government. In this island colony of the Wall Street capitalists there are approxi- mately 1,500 “political prisoners” a/ pretty name for mass suppression of | the workers. The significance of this | figure can be realized when it is | known that the population of Cuba} is 3,500,000. Old Dungeons Used In the Castle of Principes, dungeons | are being used which were discarded at the close of the period of Spanish domination. In the Isle of Pines jail there are about 200 “political pris- oners.” All those arrested are brought up before military txibunals, with no right of appeal, and at least 90 per cent of those arrested have been in | jail for six months without ever having been brought before the judges. Lately the authorities have even refused to divulge the names of those under arrest, and it is neces- sary to find out -by means of relatives, for if the newspapers dig up the in- formation they are forbidden to pub- lish the nanies. The number of workers found dead on the coun-/; try highyays is mounting at an alarming Tate. DEBT AGREEMENT, AIMED AT U.S. (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) and does not mean that the collec- tion of war tributes from Germany has been abandoned. The agreement. is both a defeat for the German Junker Cabinet and its mascist sup- porters, who have declared they would make no further reparations payments and a maneuver against the Uniteq States. It is also aimed to present the “possibility” that Ger- many may be able to make some payment on the private loans, thus attempting to win the support of some financial interests in this coun- try for an extension of the Hoover moratorium. While the French were denying that the Lausanne agreement was in the nature of an ultimatum to the United States to cancel its claims against the European powers, the Wall Stret government yesterday is- sued a formal statement declaring there had been no change in the attitude of the government on the war debts owed this country, as ex- pressed in the Hoover statement of June 30, 1931, advocating a debt holi- day for one year in the hope of saving German capitalism, In that statement Hoover declared that he did not approve “in any remote sense of the cancellation of debts to us.” French Stand. The French have made it clear that without such cancellation by the United States the Lausanne “agree- ment” will be null and void. The 4) French bourgeois and socialist press is reported unanimous in stating that Europe has fulfilled Hoover's condi- tion of settling reparations and now the United States must act to cancel the war debts due this country. A supplementary document to the Lausanne agreement provides that should the agreement of treaty not be ratified a new war debts and rep- arations conference would be called. It provides further that in the mean- time the Young Plan should be op- erative, but with the payments sus- pended. This document, referred to as “a gentleman's agreement,” was signed without consultation with the German delegation. It fully exposes the sham nature of the so-called war debts settlement. It clearly shows that the powers are still intent upon sweating out of the German masses ll they can, and have only suspended its because it is utterly impos+ \ \) | Berkman, ible to collect with the economic already reaching catastrophic /# depths and the German government admittedly bankrupt and unable to collect money for reparations in spite of its savage attacks on the already low living standards of the masses, its reduction of unemployment relief, ete. German Masses Protest. So great is the indignation of the German masses against the agree- ment concluded by von Papen that the Hitlerites, who hav all along sup- ported the Junker Chancellor in the negotiations at Lausawne, are now pretending to be shocked by von Papen’s action. In the face of this pretended opposition, German and BERKMAN AGAIN HOUNDED BY DOAK Ill Leader Forcefully Removed from Room WORCESTER, Mass. July 10.— despite her grave condition, Edith ill .with tuberculosis in prison-hospital at Rutland, Mass., has been removed to a general ward. The tloctor in changing her room did so because Mrs, Tillinghast, red-baiting immigration commissioner, refuses to give Edith Berkman the treatment which her condition requires. The doctor in an interview with Berkman told her that it was ab- solutely necessary that she receives the best treatment, that she required perfect quiet in a private room, and that without these things speedy re- covery was impossible. He added that freedom from worry was the first prequisite for recovery. But none- the-less, Edith Berkman is continu- ously subjected to harrassing and worry-provoking situations, as exem- plified in this last removal, the jlatest one in a series of forcible re- |movals from one institution to an- other. This maltreatment of Berkman by the immigration commissioner, Til- linghast gives the lie to her state- ment, repeated by Secretary of Labor Doak, that Berkman is receiving the best possible treatment. The workers of this vicinity are indignant over this latest outrage, and plan to demand that Berkman be accorded the treat- ment her condition requires. These demands and the primary demand for her immediate and com- plete release from the clutches ofthe | immigration authorities, at a con- ference to be held on Wednesday, July 13, 8 p, m. at Knights of Pythias Hall, 6 Mechanfe St., Worcester. At this conference, to which A. F. L, locals and workers fraternal organi- zations have already elected delegates, the workers of Worcester will lay the basis for an intensive campaign to stop the deportation of Edith Berk- man, to fight the Dies Bill, and to demand the release of the Scotts- boro boys. Workers of Worcester, if they have not already done so, are urged to elect delegates from their organizations and to come them- selves to the Conference. A.C.W. OFFICIAL COVERS CROOKED BUSINESS AGENT IndianapolisConditiods Drive Worker to Suicide (By a Worker Correspondent.) ‘INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana, July 10. —A few weeks ago a group of workers investigated the business agent, B. Foster, of local 145, Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, and found that he was stealing money. The workers immediately exposed him by bringing- charges to the Board of Directors, This board, part of Fos- ter’s clique, called Frank Rosenblum, the district manager, from Chicago (who previously had been booed by workers of local 145). He came here and gave plenty of hell to the board members and covered up everything, leaving Foster on the job. Such is the leadership of local 145, which brought the conditions of the work- ers to the point of suicide, Pearl Evans, a buttonhole maker at the coat shop of the Kahn Tailoring Co., was making only $4 to $5 a week, was transferred to the vest shop, and when she complained about it where she made only $2 a week. Being threatened by the clique that she was going to be thrown out of the shop if she did not pay her dues, and so not being able to make a living, she committed sucide, and left a note saying. I cannot worry any longer.” Workers in this local are beginning to see what is wrong with the present. leadership and they will get busy to get rid of them. VOTE COMMUNIST FOR: Against Hoover’s wage-cutting policy. Seven Killed In A Railroad Crash In Ohio Seven were killed and many injured when two Cincinnati and Lake Erie Railroad electric cars crashed near Hamilton, Ohio. The official explanation offered by the company was that “signals had been misun- | derstood.” Long hours and the necessity for many railroad workers doing two men’s work is causing fre- | quent accidents, DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, JULY 11, 1932 (FP Photo) FORD SPEAKS AT JERSEY MERTINGS (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) . Auditorium, 25 Belmont Ave., New- ark, N. J. On the following week: Monday, July 18th, at 8 p. m. (place to be announced later), Atlantic City, | N. J. Tuesday, July 19th, 8 p. m. (place! to be announced later), Trenton. N. J. Delegates vel kas ve Preparations DECATUR, mL, July 10.—While shops in the same city are closing! down, the force at the Rock Island} Arsenal has been doubled, one of the delegates at the recent. Illinois state nominating convention declared dur- ing the discussion from the floor. Last year only 500 workers were employed at the Arsenal, while today there are more than 1,000, Himself a worker in the Arsenal, the delegate | said: “The arsenal is hiring workers while other shops are closing down. Last year only 500 workers were em- ployed and this year they have over 1,000. At Savanaha Illinois, they have ail ammunition and you could see carload after carload of am- munition, At Savanaha they sealed the building and at the Rock Island arsenal they do not allow workers to visit it. They have built nine tanks, They sent one to Washing- ton, which cost over $10,000. It was sent down a week before the ex- servicemen went down there. We have many contacts in the arsenal,” Get Less than Convicts Unemployed workers in Granite City, Ill, are feeding their children on one and two-fifths cents per meal, less than the prisoners in the state prison at Joliet receive, J. Warden, & delegate from Granite City re- ported. Speaking from the floor, Warden said: “I have not worked for two years, In the mills in Granite City, getting 30 and 40 per cent cuts, I aboslutely am one that refuses to take that $1.25 and $1.50 a day. I am going to stand by the Unemployed Coun- cil s and try to make it just as strong as it is possible to make it, We have a Jim Crow system in Granite City and on National Youth -Day, the Negro comrades spoke for the first time from the City Hall in Granite City, Mass lay-offs and wage cuts in the Chicago steel mills was reported by another delegate, J., of Chicago, who said: “I am representing here the steel workers. In my shop we have mass lay-offs of workers and cutting of wages. Wages have been cut from $90 for two weeks to $26 for two; weeks, One department has laid off 1,200 workers. There are 40 men left out of 1,200. These dre drawing $26 for two weeks’ labor. They are hay- ing a 25 per cent cut and another day’s work and now another 10 per cent cut. I think the workers should get wise to themselves and organize. Under the present conditions it is impossible for a ma nto live, in this industry or any other. “They | have recently installed $2,400,000 worth of equipment in my mill, It would probably take a thousand or so men to turn out what 150 men are turning out with the machine, They usually get out about 60,000 tons, Last week it was 9,000. Every time one tries to organize he is discharged. A man worker working with me was dis- charged for that reason. I am the only one left to organize the work- ers. I may be out next week. It | doesn’t make any difference to me. But even if I am fired, I will still organize.” kw foreign political observers in Ger- many confidently predict ratification of the agreement. It can only be ratified with the support of the fas- cists. The Communists will vote against it. Should the fascists also vote against it, it would be defeated. The tactics of the fascists are ap- parently base don exploiting the mass anger against their Junker allies in an attempt to secure full power for | themselves in the German elections) yon Papen ssid his “cour of July 31, They realize that the junkers have little chance of win- ning the election. Once they are in power they-will scrap all their fake promises to the masses just as they have already scrapped many such promises, The social-democratic press, which originally supported the robber Young Plan, are pinting columns of fulsome praise on the agreeme: dg i) MOSCOW, U.S.S.R., press here and abroad US.A.; E. Hamdi, for the Interna- tional union of Revolutionary Writ; jers, Charles Ashleigh of the Mosco' ; Daily News, and Myra Pagé, corres- pondent of the Daily Worker. State- ments were,-also read from W. Daily Worker and P. Bertram, of the “Rote Fahne,” official organ of the Communist Party of Germany, Speaking on behalf of the Commu- |nist Party of the U. S., of which} | Walker was a member at the time, of his death, the representative of the Party said: “Saw Essential Issues,” “Ryan Walker was in his way a CHARLES ROLLINS TO TUESDAY N.A.A.C.P, and Repub- licans Seek to Betray Negro Worker KANSAS CITY, Mo. July 10-~The case of Charles Rollins, young Negro framed on an alleged a ttack of rape and robbery, was brought up before Judge Joseph J. Daugherty for pre- | liminary hearing last week and post- jponed until this Teusday. When the court room was opened, John Love, |the local president of the National | Association for the Advancement of Colored People, was on the job ac- companied by Attorney Almer Knox, |@ Negro politician, who was once Re- publican state legislator, Charles | China, another local Negro faker, was also on the job, with a Republican white lawyer. China is president of the local Negro Republican club, a Jim Crow organization. The purpose of the National As- sociation for the Advancement of Colored People and of the Negro Ré- publican Club in entering the case is to block the efforts of the Inter- jmational Labor Defense and the League of Struggle for Negro Rights to save Rollins from the vicious frame up heaped upon him by the bosses. Love is doing his best to encourage Rollins to accept the sole defense Of the N.A.A.C.P. On the other hand, the local Negro Republi- can Club is trying to influence him to acept the defense of the Republi- can Party. But despite the efforts of the fak- ers, up to now Rollins still prefers the League for Struggle for Negro Rights and the International Labor | Defense, the organization that is de- fending the Scottsboro Boys to have his case. Police Aid Socialists In Attack on Workers DETROIT, Mich., July 10,—Two Communist workers were arrested when the police attacked an open air meeting to please their “so- cjalist” friends. The meeting had been called by the socialists, but when they refused to answer questions, the workers transformed it into a militant Com- munist street meeting. A comrade mounted the platform and began to address the workers, The socialists attempted to break’ the meeting by throwing bags of water on the workers. And when they failed to do the job, the police stepped in attacking the workers with their clubs, ‘A protest meeting was held after the two comrades were arrested. Holmes, correspondent of the London | TRIAL POSTPONED, Honor Ryan Walker | at Moscow Funeral Speakers in Tribute to Revolutionary Artist at! Cremation; Symposium in New York (By Mail)—The funeral and cremation of yan Walker, famous revolutionary artist, took place here June 23 at 7 p. m.| and was attended by many friends and representatives of the revolutionary Speakers included a representative of the Communist Party of the | ist knew how to reach the masses. He saw the essential issues of his time and know how to formulate them in the sharp and| telling terms of his art. He wavered | in the stormy days when the So-| cialist Party—sporting revolutionary | Phrases—led its folowers down the road of reaction. Yet as sqon Walker discerned the treache | boldly severed himself from its ranks, |joining the Communist Party to| | Whose cause he faithfully devoted | as he The Fahne” Statement of the correspondent said: Valued by ‘Workers. “Ryan Walker's many years of ac- tivity in the working class movement and his work during these last years for the Daily Worker and the Amer- ican Communist Party has won for him a lasting place in the ranks of the vanguard of the working class of the U, S. and the world.” On behalf of the British Worker,” said: “Through his work as a cartoonist Comrade Walker was widely known among the British workers. He will be remembered, his work valued, and his loss deeply regretted by the British workers.” “Rhite “Daily Thos. Holmes statement Symposium Next Sunday. “Ryan Walker and the Reyvolu-| tionary Movement” is the topic of a symposium on Walker's life and work to be held by the John Reed Club, of which he was a member, in its all, 63 W. 15th St. next Sunday after- neon at 3 o'clock. | Speakers will include Jacob Burck, | William Gropper, Hugo Gellert, Louis | Lozowick, Hary Raymond and Alex- ander Trachtenberg and others. RUSH ORDERS FOR AUGUST Ist DAILY Help Distribute the One Million Copies Replying to the professional flag- wavers who are trying to blackjack the workers into line for Wall Street war preparation’, the Daily Worker will spread broadcast 1,000,000 of its special anti-war issue on August 1. The deadline for bundle orders of the special issue, which sells at the rate of $7.00 per thousand, is ‘uly 15. All orders for the issue must be in the national business office of the Daily Worker, 50 E. 13th St. New York City, by that date. ‘ The million-cop issue gives militant workers an excellent opportunity to reply to war provocations, Ernest Jahncke, assistant secretary of the navy, said: “The struggles of the Argonne have been succeeded by the struggles of enomic conflict...... “History teaches us that whenever nations, ancient or modern, become competitors for the controy of any trade, they will either merge their interests or fight. In the last analy- sis, war is merely economic competi- tion continued to its sharpest aspect.” In other words Jahncke admits that war is inexitable under capital- ism, The Daily Worker as the fighting champion of the oppressed toilers deserves their support. Help the “Daily” reach new mas- ses in the fight against imperialist war and attacks on the Soviet Un- jon, Order a bundle of the Million 4Copy Anti-War Issue today. Write to the Daily Worker, 50 E. 13th St., New York City without delay! | more rot like that is said in the pa- |pers. |leading to ;employed in boom times. himself to the end. tc PROVIDENT MINE SCABS HALTED; STRIKERS JAILED Relief Urgent to Help| Miners Carry Fight | to Victory (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) | | fore, all for strike activities. To arouse prejudice against the} strike, a local newspaper reported the | arrest of Domyslyanovich as a red} invasion. He was booked, according to this sheet, as John Donley of| Pittsburgh, because “he had a foreign | name of length and spelling that stumped the best of them.” | Press Lies. | The lies of the press concerning the miners’ union didn’t stop there. | It goes on to say that the literature is “most inflammable that was ever | given out in this section. It called on the miners of the country to go| in and wreck the mines or take them | over by force for themselves.” A lot Call to Action. The actual circular which Domys- lyanovich was distributing calls on the miners to take over strike—not the mines—for themselves and win decent conditions as workers. It cites the rotteness of Lewis, Cinque and cther UMWA betrayers, and urges rank and file committees of the min- ers to run the strike. Domyslyan- ovich will probably be charged with | criminal syndicalism. Another wor- ed in St. Clairesville | He is being held without | charges, for a hearing July 22. Dorothy mine will not open Mon-| day, because fire destroyed a trestle the mine. Police say “radicals” set the trestle afire. | Newspaper accounts are so unreliable | that in one case the papers reported more scabs in a mine than the mine; LANSING, O., Julyl0—That UM WA officials called the strike to sell it out to wage cutting operators in| exchange for the check-off was the | Jalmost unanimous opinion of dele-| gates to the NMU district conference | held here Friday. In_ Provident, | Ph ing, Guerin No. 1 at Yorkville and Blaine, UMWA officials have led | the back to: work parade, In every mine where the strike has lost much | ground UMWA officials or men said to be on Lewis’ payroll have el ibbing. In some it has reached the | |point where NMU men say the mine |, ;must be re-struck or all should go back to prevent blacklisting of active! men. | The general opinion was that the strike was still in good condition, des- | pite UMWA scabbing, and the mines could be brought out again. Amsterdam Strike Solid. Amsterdam delegates reported solid NMU sentiment among the miners and a solid strike. Only 35 men have gone into Wolf Run mine despite ter- roristic methods of the militia and mine guards. Twenty-five Wolf Run | men are in jail, on charges ranging | from riot to attempt to kill. The Am- | sterdam men have picketed en zante | from the start. They refuse to be} divided by the agreement of the sher- iff and UMWA officials that pickets shall stay in groups of three fifty |feet apart. Must Have Relief. Disastrous conditions of hunger and misery threaten the very existence of the striking miners in eastern Ohio. Relief is needed and immediately to keep thousands of miners fighting |the battle .of the working class| |against the,combined power of the | bosses and the state and local gov-| ernments. Food must be sent to the striking miners and their families at once. Send all relief to the Workers In- ternational Relief, 4 Freiter Bldg. Bridgeport, Ohio, Judge Orders Families of Spartanburg Mill Strikers Evicted SPARTENBURG, S. C,, July 10— In an attempt to break the textile workers’ strike in Arcadia mills, Magistrate John L. Lancaster issued warrants to evict 24 families of strikers from company owned houses. Nine families were evicted from company houses last week, WE ANSWER CRITICISM Some worker correspondents write us very helpful suggestions on making the paper. We want more of them. ‘Typographical errors are noticed by many. We are trying constantly to |Makes ____ Page Three GERMAN COMMUNIST PARTY LEADS MASS UNITED FRONT IN STRUGGLE ON FASCISM Inroads Among Social-Democratic |Workers By Policy of U Jniting Ranks Below | “Socialist” Officials Use Foree Against Work- ers’ Anti-Fascist Mass Actions (Cable by inphe corr) BERLIN, July 10.—The Communist Party of Germany in its struggle against fascism is steadily making inroads among social-democratic sili Su | Stocker, | by its policy of the united front. Recently the Communist Party made an appeal to all the branches of the Socialist-Party, the Reichsbanner and the lower organizations of the HUNGRY WORKERS: DEMAND RELIEF IN HAMMOND, IND. |Elect 19 Delegates to| Indiana Hunger March July 19 HAMMOND, Ind, July 10—The unemployed workers in a militant march on the Township Trustee's Office for Poor Relief Thursday forced the management to recogni: j@ delegation and listen to the read- ing of the demands of the hungry workers for immediate relief. A delegation representing the work- Jers demanded that forced labor be |abolished, that more and better re- lief be given to families, that young | and single workers be given relief without discrimination as to race or age and that groceries be given \single workers when they have their | own quarters instead of sending them to slop house where 20 cents profit is made on each worker. March Applauded The workers marched through the jcity and were applauded by those on the sidelines. Although the office ma called tt sure of the er of the the 's forced |mass pre her to hear the dem The Unemployed Counc: joating a greater of mployed w for a return ee f the dema Delegates for State March Following the mrach a mass meet- | ing was held where the plan for the Indiena State Hunger March to In- dianapolis which will take 5 July 17, was outlined by Com Nineteen delegates elected to participate in the march. ‘The marchers will demand 25 mil- lion dollars for immediate relief of the unemployed at a special session of the “legislature. are not met. PHONE CO. CUT: SUTS. (By a Worker Correspondent.) MILWAUKEE, Wis., The Wisconsin telephone company hi their employees to all phones or be dismissed. This is in order to re- gain part of the 12 per cent reductior: in rates recently ordered. ordered all of | CAll man Confederation of Labor (ABGB) cal upon them to hold joint demons! The leaders of |the Iron Front led by the Socialist Party put a condition that the Come nists must stop attacking the “so- cialist” leaders who are continuing their policy of betraying the workers. The Communist Party naturally re- fused United Front From Below. The Communist Party is being rec- ognized as the only Party conducting the workers’ struggles against fascism. The united front is being formed from below in workers’ meetings by the election of committees and the formation of mass defense detach- | ments. % United front actions are proceed« ing against wage cuts, forced labor, levictions, etc. The “socialist” leaders | pre the participation of lower organizations inextra-par- clalist amentary actions against the Von Papan government. The “socialist” leaders are occupied in appealing to Hindenburg and the fascist Minister of the Interior Von Gayl. | Socialist Officials Use Force Against Workers’ United Actions. The socialist Prussian Minister of the Interior, Severing and the police |president Graesinski are mobilizing the police with armored cars against the anti-fascist actions of the work- “socialist” trade union bueau- rats publish their program for the ation of capitalism and use the trade union apparatus to pre- ag again that ty is the chief social of the | capital: ists, “socialist” leaders declare themselves for a “responsible national ”” to the Von Papan gov- The Communist Party and the supporters of anti-fascist action are mobilizing for a political mass strike. BUY Mimeograph Supplies By mail order and save 50% Ink $1 per Ib. Stencils $2.25 quire Mimeograph machines $15 up ~ Plus Postage Union Square Mimeo Supply | (Formerly Prolet Mimo) | 108 E. 14th St. N. ¥.¢. | Algonquin 4-4763 Room 209 Dail SPECIAL AN Defend the Soviet This Special rates for this issue c DAILY WORKER-- overcome these and you will see less of them all the time. FIGHT IMPERIALIST WAR! 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