The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 12, 1932, Page 3

) 4 DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, JULY 12, 1932 “We're Tired of Waters’ Dictatorship,” Say Vets Men Say They Came to Fight for the Bonus | and Not to Do Squads Right By JOSEPH SINGER. WASHINGTON, D. C—As I wa sentering Anacostia Camp at 10 o'clock | to attend a meeting that has been called by the rank and file committee of the various delegations that are billeted in Washington, I met a group of about 50 veterans carrying broken suit-cases, packs and bags coming out of the camp in an orderly manner marching in columns of two. asked one of them if they were leay- ing for home and his answer was that they were not. "We came here to fight for the bonus and not to squads right and ‘Squads left. We're sick and tired of this Waters dictatorship here in this| camp. If anyone dares to open his mouth to protect against anything, there is an MP. right behind you to shut you up. If you try to speak to your buddy about things in the camp, you are branded a “Red” and wacked over your back with @ club and told that if you don’t like it here to get the hell out. To hell with a camp like this. We're moving into the city and join up with a bunch of fellows. We're going to get together with that Paee’s bunch if they will take us in.” if This group of men certainly looked as if they are ready for a real rank and file leader. It is very hot here. The sun is I ground on which I I watch for sweltering. stand hereis red hot. ten minutes a group of 48 veterans. There are Negro and white and all nationalities. They are doing squads HOOVER PLAN TO OUST VETS FAILS California Delegation Arrives (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) decreasing, the B.E.F. increased its Members today following the arrival of the California contingent of over 200 veterans. California Vets Hit Waters ‘The California group at once went into grips with the Waters “High Command” and declared that they would not stand to be bosses around by any “vest pocket Mussolini.” Meanwhile the California group sent six delegates to a meeting held last night in the rank and file head- quarters at 12th and “B” streets to discuss plans for the veterans’ rank ahd file conference which will be held Wednesday. Call Conference Over 200 delegates representing veterans from every section of the country attended the meeting and elected 21 representatives to call meetings in Camp Anacostia to elect delegates to the Wednesday confer- ence. rie | 1,000 At Meeting Over a thousand veterans attended & mass meeting last night calied by the rank and file committee at Penn- y,| Sylvania Ave. and 8th St. and pledged to support the program of the Work- ers Ex-Servicemen's League of mil- itant struggle for the bonus. ° Waters Aids Hoover Plan Although Waters has not come out openly in support of the Hoover evacuation plan, he is doing his ut- most to support the plan under the cover of militant phrases. At the same time Waters was blustering about “staying in Washington until the bonus is won,” he permitted pro- paganda motion pictures to be shown in camp, which were clearly designed to lure the vets from the capital. One of the pictures, an obvious fraud, showed unemployed workers making 20 dollars a day digging for gold. New Animals Throughout the day veterans con- tinued to pour into the city bring- ‘ng news that more are on the way, The California group arrived in four trucks. They said that thou- sands More are on the way from the west coast. Many who have left: for |home on account of their wives and children being sick have returned. One veteran who came in from Utah today said that this was his third trip to Washington. This vet brought his wife with him. He said he will stick with the army until the fight 2 I rs They Didn’t Come Here to Drill | Veterans massed on the Capitol steps demanding immediate cash payment of their bonus. “We didn’t come here to drill,” say the vets. “We came here to demand our back wages.” leftand squads t@&t. They have not thepep that wag had in ‘17 and ’18. I walk furi/«r into the camp s0 as to be nearer to them. They pass a few feet in front of me. Sweat is pouring down their faces, their ragged shirts are soaking wet. They have drilled about one hour. They drag their tired feet as though they aré about ready te drop. They are now marching in columns of two. The formation is out of line. Drill Master “Come on! Snap out of it, you sons of bitches! Close up!” yells the husky drill master of this outfit. (1 later |found out that he calls himself the “boss” of the M.P.s). The men com- pletely terrorized by this thug’s curs- ing, run up into their places to close the ranks. Veterans from various billets are coming in to a designated place set aside for this rank and file meeting. speakers’ platform which is an old iron barrel. Three hundred feet away into the camp 500 M.P.s, armed with clubs and lined up across the length of the camp to form a cordon to keep the veterans in the camp from at- tending this meeting. Five hundred M.P.s to stop the veterans from hear- ing a real fighting program of getting the bonus. Denounce Dictatorship The. chairman of the meeting mounts the platform. About 50 M.P.s walk towards the meeting. They stand silently by until the chairman intro- duces Pace who is wildly acclaimed by all the veterans. The M.P.s work their way through the crowd. Pac talks about the rank and file program and denounces the dictatorship of Waters and Co. The MP.s start shouting, yelling and provoking. After a short time they were forced by the militancy of the veterans to retreat back to their own line to join their brother gangsters. From then on the meeting was or- derly éxcept for a few provocateurs that were in the crowd who tried to start trouble but were not given the chance. Speaker after speaker spoke of the rank and file program and de- Waters” and his thugs. At 12 o'clock veteran moved. After a few minutes one of the M.P.s came near the meet- ing and yelled that if they don’t hur- ry they will miss their meal. He was There are about 1,000 around the group together for a few minutes and} nouncing the tactics of “Mussolini a bugler blew chow-call’ but not a is won. loudly booed away. of, Have Your Own DISCOUNTS TO ORGANIZATIONS! 250 Tickets .........5.....20 750 Tickets ... 1000 Tickets ............... 10 Cents Each Ul - PICNIC AUGUST 21st, 1932 PLEASANT BAY PARK Picnic With Us! Cents Each Cents Each Cents Each +15 «12% rker Pom BSA, Reports Workers Still in Control of Truijllo, Peru The recapture of Truijllo seized by revelutionists in the course of an armed uprising, did not materialize, a dispatch from Lima, Peru, indi-~ cated yesterday. The recapture had been reported the day before yesterday but an of- ficial statement quoted in the Lima dispatch merely regarded it as “im- pending” Heavy guns opened fire on the city in an effort to force the revolution- ists to abandon it. In spite of the continudus bombardment by air- planes and machine guns, the work- ers did not retreat. The revolutionists are said to have attacked the Madrugada jail freeing the prisoners and killing many po- liticlans and military officers. To cut off any possibility of retreat for the revolutionists the government of Sanchez Cerro, a tool of United States imperialism sent heavy rein- forcements to Tayabamba. Foster and Ford Reach Thousands On Tours of U. S. Campaign _ Manager Tells of Big Crowds | (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) Anderson, Frankfort and other In- diana towns are expected to stream into Indianapolis on Sunday night, July 17th, when Wm. Z. Foster, Com- here at the Workers Center, 60342 So. Capitol Ave. Ward B. Hiner, a leading dema- gogue of the “Liberty Party” is ex- pected to come in for a severe drub- | bing at Foster’s hands who is espec- ially familiar as a result of his tour of the West with the activities of this semi-fascist outfit. ae a Parade in St. Louis ST. LOUIS, Mo., July 11—A mass mass meeting to be addressed by Wm. Z. Foster at Turner Hall, 1508 Chatu- jteau Ave. this Thursday evening, July 14th, ‘The parade and reception will take place in the afternoon. Foster comes here after enthusiastic meetings in Kansas City, Salt Lake City, Denver, and other western cen- ters. ete ee Ford in Jersey Hall, 725 High St., will be the scene Party when James W. Ford, candidate for vice-president speaks here Tues- day night at 8 o'clock, On Wednes- Auditorium, 259 Monroe St. Other meetings at which Ford will put forward the Communist program, at the time dealing in detail with mass unemployment and wage cuts in New Jersey, include: Thursday, 8 p.m., Kreuger’s Audi- torium, 25 Belmont Ave., Newark. On the following week: to be announced later), Atlantic City, N. J.; TuesdayJuly 19, 8 p.m. (place to be annottheed) later). Me Es Negro‘Workers Crowd Ford Meet. NEPTUNE CITY, N. J., July 11— | Over 200 workers, thre2-fourths of whom were Negroes, crowded into the W,W.A. Hall, in the heart of the Negro section, to hear James W. Ford, candidate for Vice-President on the Communist ticket. This was the first time that the platform and program of the Communist Party was heard in Neptune Township. Ford called forth a tremendous enthusiasm from the workers, eight of whom applied to join the Party. Hun“ reds Jobless. Most of the workers in Neptune Township are unemployed. The only relief they get is $1 a week in gro- ceries, the worst kind of discrimination. One j Worker told of three white families who were forced to eat their dogs. One family of eight were found by the milkman to have cooked their dog. In one home the gasman walked in and was repelled by @ strong, peculiar odor. On inquiry, he found that the family dog was being cooked for food. All of this has been sup- pressed by the local press. got 25 votes in Monmouth County. This year, in May, the Communist candidate for City Commissioner in Long Branch, not far from Neptune, got 186 votes. In Neptune, itself, 150 Negroes organized an I.L.D, branch. Neptune and vicinity is a stronghold of the K.K.K., but the Communist Party has been growing and break- ing through the terror. Delegate Speaks. Virginia Davis, herself a Negro and a delegate to the Chicago Nom- inating Convention, spoke, She told about the convention and urged the Negro workers to join the Party. She is @ candidate for Assembly in Mon- mouth County. George R. Carroll, congressional candidate, also spoke. . . . Alexander On Tour. Charles C. Alexander, popular Ne- gro orator, who made the seconding speech for the/nomination of William Z. Foster at Chicago, will leave the end of this month for a country-wide tour on behalf of the Communist National Ticket, Alexander wag for- ‘ munist candidate for president, speaks parade and reception will precede the | NEWARK, N. J, July 11—Turn| of a demonstration for the platform and candidates of the Commuhist day he speaks in Passaic, in Kantor’s Monday, July 18, at 8 p.m. (place for which the workers are forced to do various city jobs. The 1,500 Negroes in this township suffer NANKING PLANS NEW TAXES FOR WAR ON SOVIETS New Decree Tightens Control of Chi:ese Bankers An ammunition depot on the out- shirts of Nanking exploded yester- | day, wiping out a suard of 40 Nan- king soldiers and killing scores of civilians resident in the neighbor- hood. The depot was blown to bits and a nearby police station wrecked. Nanking dispatches report the ex- plosion to be accidental. Paar ea The Nanking Legislative Yuan yes- terday adpted legislation reviving the National Finance Commission. The Commission is to devise new ways of taxation robbery of the masses in order to raise funds for Nanking’s war to re-enslave the e*iancipated worker-peasant masses of the Chinese Soviet Districts. While Chiang Kai- suppression” campaign, the hypocritically states that the funds used for civil war. This patent de- ception is aimed at allaying the anger of the masses in Kuomintang China, militant support of the revolutionary governments in the Soviet Districts. The new legislation reviving the Commission, at the same time tight- ens the control of the Chinese bankers on the Nanking governmental appara- tus. The commission is composed ruling class, with the bankers and financiers dominating it. Its 35 to 45 members are alloted to the follow- ing specified classes: (1) high gov- ernment officials; (2) of financial interests; tives of agricultural, industrial and commercial interests; (4) economists, and (5) financial experts. No rep- resentation is permitted*the industrial workers and the peasantry. Even the yellow trade unions under direct control of the Nanking government are ignored. The fourth “Communist suppres- sion” campaign has already met the fate of previous invasions of the powerful Chinese Soviet Districts. Not only have the Nanking invaders been thrown back, but the Chinese Red Armies are carrying out a vic- torious counter-attack and have liberated huge new districts frome the blight of Nanking oppression and tax-extortions, At present, the Red Armies are pushing the offens- ive against the greatest strongholds of the Nanking and Canton gangs. Within the past week, they have not only invaded Kwangtung Prov- ince, the base of the Canton mili- tarists, but have won important vic- tories against the Nanking forces in Hupeh, Hunan and Anhwei Prov- inces and have tightened the fron Red ring around the important Central China city of Hankow. The robber rule of the militarists at Hankow is further menaced by the desperation and growing militancy of over 300,000 destitute flood victims livng on the outskirts of the city. The National Flood Relief Commission is refusing to continue even the meager aid extended in the past. It claims that its funds are exhausted. Most of the funds have been used to extend the cultivation of opium, with a view to making addicts of the whole toil- ing Chinese population. Millions of other flood victims are also facing utter destitution and star- vation in many districts throughout Kuomintang China. In Peh-Hsien over one hundred persons died of starvation in a single day, In Chang- sha, disease is ravaging the flood ref. ugees. Cholera is spreading in all the seaports and in many inland dis- tricts of Kuomintang China. Starving refugees from the famine-stricken agrarian districts are pouring into the cities. Even where a pretense of relief is being made, the fare is so miserable that even the capitalist North China Daily News is forced to admit that the refugees can hardly drag themselves to the soup kitchen. Speaking of “relief” activities in Anh- wei Province, the North China Daily News says: “Some of the 5,000 who get a bowl of millet gruel daily at the soup (3) representa- shek is frantically trying to reorgan- | ize the shattered fourth “Communist | Yuan | taised by the commission will not be} who are more and more rallying to) entirely of members of the Chinese} representatives | Coast Police Thugs Lay Basis for New Tom Mooney Case ; Worrespondent) LOS ANGELES.—A plot by the bosses of California to lay the basis for a new Tom Mooney frame-up is indicated in the recent publication of |a “red scare” story broadcast by Chief Francisco over the statewide teletype that he “feared 25 Communist agita- tors carrying dynamite in thi blanket rolls, were moving on to Li Angeles to stage a protest demon: rest. HIT HUNGER IN NEW KENSINGTO 600 DemandImmediate Cash Relief NEW KENSINGTON, Pa—Six hundred workers were present at a mass meeting held in New Kensington on Friday to protest against the re- lief given out by the Cily Welfare and to demand cash relief. For the last few months, the rolief has been so bad as to be no better than no relief at all. Families have been receiving a basket of food each | week, the contents amounting to from 60c to 90c¢ at the most, The unemployed are especially in- censed by the steady degradation of food received. The bread given out jin the baskets must be months old, | as.it is green and grey with mold and age; it is absolutely impossible to eat. Very little else is given oin the weekly basket; meat is so seldom handed out that it amounts to a tremendous noy- elty when it is seen. The baskets also contain some celery, onions, bits of cabbage, and occasionally, potatoes. There is active qiscriminatior against single unemployed workers: they get no more than $1 a week. To Go to City Council A committee of 15 was elected at the meeting to go to the City Coun- cil and present the demands of the mass meeting. These demands were for cash relief of $3 a week for each unemployed worker, with $1 addition- al fo reach member of his fa=-ily, instead of the weekly baskets, no dis- crimination against single workers, Negro and women workers. Prepare Hunger March Robinson, main speaker at the meeting, also announced the Alle- ghany County Hunger March, to take place August 10, which will go to the Alleghany County Commissioners and demand relief for unemployed and part time workers, the tearing down of slums and building of homes for for the unemployer, to be controlled by an elected committee of workers, etc. Further meetings to mobilize the workers for the Alleghany County Hunger March and to rally them around its demands are planned for Springdale, Verona and other towns in the Alleghany Valley. A NEW VICTIM OF BULGARIAN TERROR SOFIA—The Secretary of the Es- serli branch of the Workers Party died as a result of the bestial tortures inflicted upon him by the police who arrested him with many other work- ers about three weeks ago. of Police William J. Quinn of San| | stration” against Foster's recent er-| workers, the appropriation of a fund} SENATE STARTS | MOVE TO COVER | UP BANKSTEALS ‘Fuiz Aims to Stem Protests Against Trusts’ Grab (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) against these “doles” to the bosses |by the same government that denies any relief to the unemployed and re-| fuses to pay the soldiers’ bonus. The | Bonus Mafchers at Washington have | | pointedly shown that there is money for the bankers, but not a cent for ) the worker ex-soldiers. | While consistently denying relief to | the 15,000,000 unemployed workers, | |the government, through the Recon- | ‘struction Finance Corporation, has | | paid out up to June 30 the huge sum | | of $1,054,815,486 to “banks, other| | financial institutions and railroads.” | |This does not include the sum of} | $80,000,00 recently advanced to the| | Chicago bank of Charles G. Dawes, | formet head of the corporation, who| arranged altogether $95,000,000 in| |loans for his bank. | Of the more than one billion dol-| lars, $642,769,313 went to the big) | bankers, $63,465,500 to 63 insurance | } companies, $213,882,724 to the rail-| |road bosses and $73,600,000 to mort-| | gage loan shark companies. | ‘The workers must meet the sham investigation proposed in the Senate | with the demand that the govern- |ment stop its huge handouts to the | bosses, that the soldiers’ bonus be paid, that immediate unemployment | relief and social insurance be paid to | the unemployed workers at the ex- | pense of the bosses and their govern- }{ment. The workers must sharpen |the fight for the bonus and unem- ployment relief. Hunger Marchers Win In St. Louis 5,000 Force City to Order Relief ST. LOUIS, Mo.—Over 5,000 work- ers marched against hunger Friday, | July 8 and forced the city govern- ment to give immediate food orders to those who had previously been re- fused relief. Led by the Unemployed Council the jobless workers massed in front of the City Hall in the biggest unemployed | demonstration ever held in the city. The head of the city hunger admin- istration, Mayor Miller, fearing the) angry mood of the hungry workers, hid himself behind his secretary, Muldoon, who received the delegation of marchers. Muldoon tried hard, but unsuccess- fully, to dodge the issue of mass star- vation of the 13,000 families who were cut off from all relief, of wholesale evictions and the 45,000 children ac-| ing death unless they are immediately fed. He was compelled to promise the committee to give immediate orders toa ll relief agencies to give immed- iate food orders to all those who were stricken off the lists. REACH NATIVE Thirty thousand new readers of the Daily Worker—this is the immediate objective of the drive for mass circu- lation to be launched July 15 as the first step in a steady effort to make the Daily Worker more effective in the ever-increasing mass struggles against unemployment, wage-cuts, war and for the defense o f the Soviet Union. A permanent network of Daily Worker organizations is to be built during this campaign in every town where the paper has circulation, ac- DAILY WORKER SU Ist ISSUE 1,000,000 COPIES! some crud? shelter that offers scant cording to the plans of the manage- ment committee. ‘This network, whish is to have its foundations in factories, shops, offices and workers’ organizations, will serve to promote a steady increase in cir- kitchen are getting so weak that it is hard for them to get to the soup kitchen and back to their place of bode.” pies Their “plece of abode” is usually Last year the Communist Party protectiqn against the elements. merly head of the Negro Department of the International Labor Defense, rand had totred the states of New Jersey and New York with Mrs. Montgomery, mother of Olin, one of the Scottsboro victims. RAISE FUNDS! 52 Issues $2 City .. oe . culation after the end of the drive. It will also engage in workers’ cor- respondence and news photography, and will conduct readers’ discussion meetings which will serve as the basis for further steady improvements in all departments of the paper. ‘The drive is a result of the general B DRIVE TO WORKERS! AUG. agreement at the last full meeting of the Central Committee of the Com- munist Party that the “Daily Worker must be our chief instrument in the turn toward mass work,” Subscription books, sample copies, information on premiums, which will be given with every subscription and full instructions for procedure in the campaign, are already in the hands of the Districts. ‘The 30,000 new readers called for by the plans of the campaign are to be gotten by securing 7,000 new year- {pedestal on the near corner of the |some of their members and ployed headquarters, a meeting was ; Communist Party. The workers were .| were hearing it for the first time. ly subscriptions and 7,000 paid-in- advance bundle orders. One million copies of the Daily Worker, a special Anti-War issue, will be distributed throughout the country on August 1, at the high point of the drive, Rush immediately all orders for the August ist Anti-War issue to the Daily Worker, 50 East 13th Street, New York City. Cash in advance. Orders must be in before July 15th. Page Thre¢ Phila. Negro Misleaders Incite Attacks on Y.C.L. Form “Association Opposed to Communism and Atheism;” Ford to Refute Slanders PHILADELPHIA, July 11.—Under the leadership of Magistrate Edward W. Henry, Negro magistrate, supported by the labor-hating Judge Harry S, McDevitt, an organization has been formed under the name of the “Na= tional Negro Association Opposed to Communism and Atheism.” This or- ganization is already showing its truc colors through the following incident: Attack Picnic. ent picnic of the Young Come League was attacked by @ ns because of the t that Negro and white girls and were at the joint affair. These ms got the worst of the deal, of the Young Negro and white, later released, formed association, e Henry, declared Workers Demand Food in Olympia Demonstrate — Before State Capitol (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE Ar mu hood! land 1 white That ts are employing a day to “entice” to the capitol bi & list of speak executive of the U. P. L. Negro the Communist cause. Unemployed Council Leads ? 2. That the Young Communist inaugurated a series of for Negro youths and League dances Council thereupon took the theparade. Upon arriving at t itol building, speakers mounted the solely hat Communists are spending $100,000 a year in Philadelphia to oromete Communism andatheism. This nderous tripe spread by this association shows clearly that they are opposed to equality for the Negro people and support the dis- crimination and seeregation for the Nogro youth and the Negro people. The slanders of Magistrate Edward W. Henry, a staunch supporter of the corrupt Republican Vare ma- chine in Philadelphia, as well as Judge Harry S. McDevitt, will be an- swered by the workers of Philadel- phia by rallying in support of the candidates and the plat‘orm of the Communist Party for full social, po- litical and economic equality for the Negroes Ford to Refute Slanders. On Saturday, July 16, 7 pm. the workers will welcome James W. Ford, j@ Negro worker nominated as candi- date for vice-president for the Come munist Party, at the Broad St. sta- |tion of the Pennsylvania Railroad, from where they will parade on Broad St. to the Metropolitan Opera Touse at Broad and Poplar Sts., where Comrade Ford will be the main speaker that evening. capitol steps and drew the around. They exposed the role of misleaders and their demands and presented the demands of the rank and file and the Unemployed Council The U. P. L. leaders theh gathered started @ meeting on the far corner of the steps. A scr took place when members of the Unemployed Council were thrown off the pedestal and a stool-pigeon from Seattle by the name of Fletcher got a broken ankle, Out of the crowd of four thousand, at least two-thirds supported the speakers of the Unemployed Council, though the demonstration had been officially called by the United Pro- ducers Leacue.. Fred Walker, pro-| posed by the Communist Party as candidate for Governor in the Novem- | ber elections, exposed the role of the U. P. L. as a political machine, which was being used to keep the workers from fighting. ‘This political machine was instru- mental in electing John Dore mayor of Seattle—Dore, who is now conduct- ing a widespread wage cutting cam-, paign against the city workers. That evening, at the local unem- SPORTS MEET IN PARMA CLEVELAND, O., July 11—The final Counter-Olympic eliminations for the international meet will be held inParma at Royalton Rd. and York Rd. July 16 and 17. Many ath- letes who took part in Conneaut will ;compete in the finals as well as a good many athletes from Cleveland. All working class organizations are asked to support this meet through their attendance as the proceeds of this meet will cover part of the trans- portation for the athletes to go to Chicago for the International Work- ers Athletic Meet, July 28, 29, and 30. held, where the Unemployed Council program and form of struggle was outlined and was received enthusias- | tically by the workers. Growing Party Influence This demonstration was a tremen- dous example of the growing influence of the Unemployed Council and the not terrorized by the shout of “Com- munist,” even though many of them ‘The workers are now preparing for a real militant hunger march to the state capitol under the leadership of the Unemployed Co ncil, where real fight will be made to force the bosses’ state government to provide immediate cash relief to the unem- ployed. VOTE COMMUNIST FOR: 6. 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