The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 13, 1932, Page 3

DAILY WORKER NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, JULY 15. Page Three NATION-WIDE AUG. 1 PROTESTS MURDEROUS ATTACKS ON JOBLESS Nonna Thomas Segregates TRAIN FOR BOSS WAR-REWARD: ARD: SLAVE MARKET! Negroes in His Audience in South, Student Says “Let Them Sit in the Gallery,” He Tells Rich White Friends ‘Can’t Promise’ Racial Equality Under Socialist Party Regime (By a student correspondent) RICHMOND, Va., July 15.—I recently met a Negro student who told me the following experience: In January, 1932, Norman Thomas spoke at the Mosque Theatre, Rich- mond, On the platform was Mrs, Arthur Guild, a rich woman of the city, who is known for her prejudice against Negroes. In the audience were many FOSTER T0 SPEAK i IN ST. LOUIS ON THURS, . NIGHT (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE)! relief and unemployment insurance. At the meeting the Communist presidential candidate will show that the evasions by local politicians of promises for relief forced by the un- employed through their demonstra- tions, is part of a deliberate na- tional policy of sharpening the at- tacks aaginst the unemployed. From St. Louis, Foster goes to Terre Haute, Ind., wheré he speaks on July 16; Indianapolis, Ind., July 17; Cincinnati, O., July 18; and in the state of Michigin, July 23 to 30. * 28 @ In Cincinnati on 18th. CINCINNATI, O., July 12.—William Z. Foster speaks here in Labor Tem- ple, 1318. Walnut St. Monday even- ing, July 18. Prior to the election rally, an open-air meeting will be held at the Old Hospital Lot, 12th and Central at 6:30, where delegates \ ffom working class organizations will form a parade at 7 p. m, to greet Foster at the station. 2 oe 8 @ t | Jersey City Workers Hear Ford. JERSEY CITY, N, J., July 12.—W. J. Ford, Negro worker, and candi- date for vice-president of the U. 5. on the Communist ticket, last night suoke to 200 workers in Ukrainian Hall, 160 Mercer St. Attempts on the part of the police to intimidate the owners of the hall to forbid the meet- ing failed. A number of uniformed police and plainelothesmen were present during the entire period of the meeting, Local. Conditions Exposed. Highly significant is the fact that this was the first indoor meeting held in a long time, previous meetings having been prevented through police intimidation against hall ownelrs. Held in the stronghold of the cor- rupt Hague machine, workers at the meeting exposed conditions in the city, and especially among the men in the Crucible Steel Company. Mayor Hague of the city yesterday pledged to swing New Jersey for Roosevelt for president, revealing clearly the alliance the Jersey cor- ruptionists with the Tammany ma- chine and its nominee ° Robert Davis and Albert Coving- ton, candidates for the Board of Free holders, followed Ford, citing the attempts to extend the foreed labor schemes for the unemployed to all cities of the state. Wage-Cuts Throughout State. They cited the statement of the Mayor of Irvington, 15 miles from Jersey City, who declared that work- ers will have to accept a lower stand. ard of living—‘if they can’t pay for electricity,” he said, “they will have to use kerosine.” Wage cuts in the state have amounted to 40-50% in all industries, they stated. They cited the victory of the work- ers in the Crucible Steel plant in Jersey City as evidence of the ef- fectiveness of an organized fight. Here 300 workers struck for four and one half weeks aaginst a ten per cent wage cut, They won the strike, despite the fact that the company 1000 Tickets ...... me) the Socialist Party. Some Negro workers and students who were interested by promises made by the Socialist Party, came along to the meeting. At the door they were denied admittance. This was a meeting of the rich whites. ‘They protested that this was a meet. ing of the Socialist Party that made special promises to Negroes. Norman Thomas was called for. Faced with the choice of openly @eserting the Negro workers and students ‘or displeasing his rich white friends, Thomas compromised, and said, “Let them sit in the gallery.” During the meeting the Negroes, Made suspicious by the welcome they received at the door, pressed Norman Thomas with questions about the So- cialist Party’s attitude to Negroes and the position of Negroes under the Socialist regime. Posed by their ques- tions and embarrassed at having to answer anything favorable to the Ne- groes in front of the rich white audi- ence, he made the admission that he couldn’t be sure that race pre- judice would ceac> under the So- cialist Party's reime. “I can’t pro- mise you,” he «aid, At subsequent times Norman Tho- mas and Paul Blanshard have spoken to students in Richmond, one in- stance being at the John Marshall High School. On this oceasion, the rich society element of the Socialist Party again dictated orders. The Ne- gro students were segregated. The Negro student who told me this realized the difference between the promises of the Socialist Party ‘and their actual policy. He knows there is no place for Negroes or any other workers there; so when he was asked, because of his known interest in labor and his influence with Ne- gro ‘workers. and students, to take-a course in. Socialist Party tactics at the socialists’ expense, he refused the offer to mislead his people in Jim Crow tactics. * that if it admitted: a victory on the part of the workers, it might result in an “undesirable influence” on the 10,000 other workers in their plants. Shop Committee Effective The shop committee in the Jersey plant, while not officially recognized by the company is recognized by the workers, and a recent instance where the committee prevented the dis- charge of a worker is an indication of its strength. Ford’s meeting in Jersey City fol- lows successful meetings in Newark and Neptune City. On Wednesday night he speaks in Passaic, in Kantor’s Auditorium, 259 Monroe St. In Newark Thursday 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 Jerszy, ‘include: ‘Thursday, 8 p. m., Kreuger’s Audi- torium, 25 Belmont Ave., Newark. On the following week: Monday, July 18, at 8 pm. (place to be announced later), Atlantic City, N. J.; Tuesday, July 19, 8 p.m. (place to be announced later). A. F. OF L. MISLEADERS MEET ATLANTIC CITY, July 12—New tricks to betray the workers and keep them from struggling against wage- cuts, speed-up and for immediate re- lief will be devised by the Execu- spread tales in the press that the| tive Committee of the American Fed- strike was lost, explaining privately | eration of Labor meeting here. Workers! ! Fight Against Imperialist War Danger! How bosses are training working class youths at Citizen’s Military ‘Training Camp for war against the Soviet Union and for use against the 15,000,000 starving unemployed workers in this country. | All ca Out August Fi irst! ! ‘The reward—workers being sold on the slave block in Los Angeles, Calif. The boss press gleefully reported that Vivian Foberts, 27 (above) “goes to the highest bidder” at 50 cents an hour, HOOVER IN DEAL |Nanking Trying Make Dope Addicts of Chinese Masses Wall Street Butcher-Agents Legalize Deadly Peppy to Raise Funds for War On Soviet Districts TO STOP QUIZ (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) the Reconstruction Finance Corpora- tion to the big bankers and railroads under the pretext of “loans” for re- construction work, Following the sweeping victories by the Chinese Red Armies in Hunan, | At the same time two ranking mem-| Hupeh, Kwangtung and other provinces the Kuomintang militarists and bers of the Treasury Department and/ their imperialist masters have clamped down a strict censorship on all news the Federal Reserve Board appeared{% the gigantic struggles now proceeding in China. Latest reports of that | before Congress to oppose a move to| struggle show growing revolutionary activity among the workers in the big investigate these two departments. | | cities in support of the great counter-@ ‘They warned the Congress that an} investigation “would seriously disturb the confidence and faith of the Amer- ican public at this time.” The Senate yesterday yoted to keep the Finance Corporation quiz! secret. A Washington dispatch to the New York Times describes the action of the Senate as actuated by the fear of “damaging confidence. in the borrowing .institutions” if any disclosures were made of the tran- sactions of the Reconstruction Fi- nance Corporation whereby the big bankers and railroads have been en- abled to raid the U. S. Treasury at. the expense of the small bank de- positors and especially of the work- ers, poor farmers and city petty- bourgeoisie, The working class is now paying for these raids on the Treasury through the huge increase in taxation on necessities, the in- crease in postal rates, etc. The figures released by the govern- ment show that the huge sum of $1,054,815,486 was handed out in “doles” to the big banks and rail-| roads while the government and the A. F, of L, bureaucrats were de- nouncing the workers’ demands for unemployment. relief and social in- surance as an attempt “to institute the dole system.” They declared that payment of unemployment relief to the starving workers would be a “dole” and “a blow to the self-re- spect of the American working class,” The self-respect of the bankers has not been affected by the tremendous doles The workers must demand that these hug? handouts to the bankers and railroads be stopped, that the bosses and their govern- ment be forced to pay unemployment relief and social insurance to the 15,000,000 unemployed workers and| their starving familizs. Demand pay- ment of the Graveyard Bonus to the worker ex-servicemnen! | offensive with which the Chinese Red Armies have answered the fourth “Communist Suppression” campaign of the Nanking butchers. The Nanking Government is des- perately trying to raise funds to re- organize and finance the shattered fourth “Communist Suppression” campaign... The. Legislative Yuan several days : ago revived the National Finance Commission under a decree tightening the control of the Chinese bankers on the government apparat- us. The task was set the commission of reorganizing the bankrupt govern- ment economy and raising funds for the war against the revolutionary worker-peasant masses in the Soviet Districts. One of the first acts of the Chin- ese bankers in control of the com- mission was to endorse the crimi- nal plans of Chiang Kai-shek to | legalize the hideous opium traffic. ' The following Tientsin dispatch to the New York Sun tells the revolt- | ing story, even while attempting to conceal the role of the Wall Street | tool, Chiang Kai-shek in this at- tempt to dope the Chinese masses, “Opium, long known as the great- Jest scourge of China and the deter- rent of Chinese progress, is to be given a form of official recognition, if reports here are to be credited. “In dire need of funds for admin- |istrative purposes, Marshal Chiang | Hsueh-liang, once the proud suzerain of Manchuria, but now the admin- istrator of the Peiping area through the grace of the Nanking Govern- ment, has, according to reports here, consented to a government monopoly of the opium trade. “Armed geards, according to ac- counts published here and which have not been denied, are to be sup- | plied as convoys to bring the opium into north China from distant Jehol. |Special licensing stamps are to be | placed on all official cargo, and that which does not carry the stamp is to In the special anti-war issue of “The Communist” (July), Earl Browder writes on the problems of placing the party on a war footing. MASS ORGANIZATIONS Have Your. Own Picnic With Us! DISCOUNTS TO ORGANIZATIONS! 250 Tickets .. 560 Tickets ,. 750 Tickets .. «+20 15 - 10 PICN Cents Each Cents Each -..12% Cents Each Cents Each AUGUST 21st, 1932 Pleasant Bay Park Ic TORTURE PROBE MAY BE HALTED Disappearance of Guards Is Excuse JACKSONVILLE, Fla, July 12— guards who are considered key wit- jnesses in the Sunbeam Prison camp cruelties, there lomed up a possibility that an investigation will be spiked. When Arthur Maiillefort, of West- field, N. J., met his death in the camp's torture box last month, the Daily Worker was the first to reveal the horrible circumstances. of his death. Otherwise it was ignored. James Travis, one of the inform- ants, described the torture chamber as a “sweat box” three feet in width and six and a half fest in height. The interior is absolutely airtight. | Prisoners who refuse to labor like slaves in shackled chains on the state roads are stripped, whipped, and then thrown into this box. Such a pris- oner is lucky if he is given an ounce of bread and water a day. VOTE COMMUNIST FOR: 6, Against imperialist war; for the defense of the Chinese people With the disappzarance of two prison; be seized and burned. “Chinese newspapers here have made. frequent mention of the new monopoly, but when one such paper the stamps, that page of the paper on which it was printed was seized, torn out and the remainder of the paper only permitted to reach: the subscribers, “Large areas in Shansi and other northern provinces are now under poppy cultivation with the hope that legalized, even if subterranean, sale of opium may be profitable.” Large sums of monies collected for the relief of the millions of des- titute flood refugees have been di- verted to the cultivation o the deadly drug. One of the first actions of the Japanese invaders of Manchuria was to legalize the opium traffic and set up government stations for its sale in the attempt to make sddicts of the population of Manchuria and thereby kill their heroic resistance against the Japanese invasion. The Chinese bankers and landowners are now engaged in the effort to dope the enslaved populations in Kuomintang China. (U.S. Sells Planes to Nanking to Bomb the Chinese Masses Col. Yee, head of the Nanking Aviation Department, is traveling incognito in this country buying planes and other war material for! the Wall Street-inspired drive of the Nanking Government. This drive aims to re-enslave the eman- cipated Chinese masses in the Chinese Soviet Districts. Yee is accompanied by Madame Chang, wife of Gen, Chang. Within the past few days they placed an order with the Curtis-Wright Company for planes to be shipped to China. The Wall Street Government, through its diplomatic representa- tives in China, has also contracted with the Nanking Government for the training of Chinese aviators. Eleven American aviators recently arrived in Yokohoma, Japan, on their way to Shanghai to help the Nanking butchers re-organize their air-service for bombing ex- peditions against the Chinese So- viet Districts. American workers! All’ out on August First! Protest against American support for the butcher Nanking Government! Demand | the withdrawal of American troops and warships from China! Defend the Chinese Pelple and the Chin- ese Soviet Districts! Defend the | Soviet Union against armed inter- vention! published an illustration of one of/ VETS CALL FIGHT. ING CONFERENCE (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE)| six or eight committees to work out @ program and submit it to the rank and file for approval. “We will follow any group that has | a real program to win the bonus,”| said the Pittsburgh leader. The Pittsburgh group wild send del- egates to the conference. An Alabama preacher reported that | his group is “all radical and ready| for action.” This contingent will also be represented in the conference. The Oregon group, which recently broke | with Waters will be well represented at the conference. Only Few Left Official figures show that only 802) veterans were ticketed” by the’ gov- ernment into accepting’ the ‘Hoover railroad passes. The masses of veter- ans have decided to stay and fight for their back pay. Mass hunger is still sweeping thru all sections of the bonus army. A Chicago veteran was found mak- ing a sling-shot yesterday to kill spar- rows for food. Mr. Zero was denounced by the vet- erans today following his arrival to auction off an ex-serviceman on the Capitol steps, Robinson Joins With Waters Robinson, self-imposed leader of the newly arrived California group, join- ed hands with Waters today and led a feeble parade to the capitol. The rank and file of the veterans in the California group are sending delegates to the conference tomorrow. ‘The group of veterans led to the; Capitol by Robinson was met by a battery of congressmen, including Patman, Walcott, Rankin, Connery and the Farmer-Laborite, Kvale. Kvale was given the razz by the veterans when he told them to go home, Patman spent most of his time attacking Communists, whom he advised the veterans to horsewhip. The rest of the time was spent in telling the vets to go home. The veterans were cool to the proposals of the congressmen. Says Waters Takes Hoover Orders Harold Foulkrod, the ex-Burns de- tective and member of the Waters “High Command” who attempted un- successfully to stampede the bonus army and cause the veterans to de- sert the fight for the bonus, today declared that Waters takes orders from the White House. VOTE COMMUNIST FOR: 2. Against Hoover's wage-cutting policy, Camp Wocolona MONROE, N. Y. Lodging: $1.00 Per Day $4.00 Per Week FOOD STORE ON PREM Light lunche: all hours Regular, Meats Served at $1.40 Fer Dey ROUND TRIP FARE—$2 Erie B.R, Bungalows and Rooms To Rent COMMUNIST PARTY, U. S. A, 50 E. 13th St. N. ¥. C. I enclose the following contribut NAME ADDRESS and of the Soviet Union Contribute to the $100,000 Fighting Fund of the Communist Election Campaign THOT nese eaeevereeeeeneenaeeenrensen Soviet Miner Tells of Great Advances Writes to Kentucky Miner That Workers of U.S.S.R. Prepare for August First Reports Giant Strides Toward Soci Cont struction in Workers’ Land The following letter from a Russian coal miner has been received by Tilman Cadie, Kentucky miner who was a member of tite American workers’ May Day delgation to the Sovit Union: “Today is just a month since your delegation visited our mine. True, it is a short period of time, but faxing this month much has occurred upon the front of socialist construction. “Yesterday I was in the shaft! in ore of the American revolutionary which your delegation visited. This papers, It said that your American sheft has been considerably Tecon- | bourgeoisie is preparing an atteck structed. upon us, that it sells arms to the “All of the mechanisms are work- ing much better and the flow of coal by the conveyor has increased. On the 18th of this month a powerful new sorting department will beein to work. This will be one more victory in the fight for reduction of the ash content in coal. We are speeding up the construction of our new kitchen factory attached to our mine. Care for Workers. “Two kilometers from our mine one of the largest mines is being con- structed and we have taken upon ourselves to care and supervise the cultural and social side of the life of the workers of this mine. “One kilometer from our mine thi construction of a large freiht rail- way station is being started. This will serve the surrounding region for ¢he shipment of coal. Likewise one kil- ometre from our mine the construc- tion of a fireproof rick factory is) |being started. Our construction werk) is greatly in need of such a factory.| “Four hundred workers are now] engaged in this work, and in May,| 1932, 5,000 will be at work. “Tilman, I have one more bit of cheeerful news to communicate—this is about our greatest victory, attained by the workers of the Magnitorsk mill in the Ural. A few days ago | they started the second Komsomol blast furnace “Unicum,” the volume } A similar blast furnace was also started | |Tecently by the workers of Magnito- | of which is 1,180 cubic meters. gorsk, In U.S.S.R. and U.S.A “There are no such blast furnaces in Europe; only you in the United) States have four such furnaces, in| the mills of Gary on Lake MicHigan. But of these four blast furnaces, as we know, only two are working—the rest are waiting for Hoover “pros- perity.” Already we have two such blast furnaces, which are expected to give us from 2,500 to 3,000 tons of pig iron in 2. hours. Blast furnace No, 2 is the eighth of the 24 blast furnaces that have begun to be op- erated this year in the USSR. In 1930 there were only five; in 1931 we built five new blast furnaces. We are bringing the number of blast} furnaces operated in the USSR to} ene hundred at a time when, in Ger- many of 155 blast furnaces only 40} were working in April of this year; in France, of 211, only 79 working; in England, of 304, only 69; and in the United States, of 298 furnaces, jonly 53 were operated on the first of June of this year. In Austria the crisis has extinguished the last blast furnace. “Our metallurgy has now taken | first place in Europe. We are second in the world—after the U. S—in pro. duction of pig iron. “This, Comrade Tilman, is not the | | Japanese interventionists and assists the Russian White Guard bandits. It seems to me, Til that their murderous p a against us ted by: the American ‘e are likewise on guard. We follow closely every step of our enemies. “The workers of Soviet Russia, on jguard against the enemies of the working class, are preparing mass demonstrations all over the USSR, Augst ist to demonstrate to world im- Perialists their strength and their willingness to defend the workers’ | fatherland from attack. | “Write to us how you live, and give my flaming regards to the fighting miners of Kentucky and to all who fight for liberation from the age-long |Oppression hy fat parasites . | P. KRIJANOVSKY, | Shaft No. 10, Dis. Donbass, USSR. ‘DETROIT POLICE CLUB CHILDREN | AT CITY HALL DETROIT, July 12-——One hundred police, with clubs, on horses, and on mergency trucks, attacked the Chil- dren's Hunger March in Detroit on Monday., The workers’ children, numbering about 500, resisted the at- | tempt of the police to drive them from the steps of the City Hall. | The demonstration started at 11 a. |m™. at the Lincoln School, in the heart Stalino Station |of the Negro neighborhood, gathered |farce as it went along. The parade stopped at Grand Circus Park, and listened to speakers representing var- ious working class organizations, Mothers of children who need food, but are getting nothing, spoke. Work- | ers’ children from different parts of | the city also spoke. A committee of ten parents ‘ad children, supported by 50 children, ; | went to the City Hall to demand that they see Mayor Murphy. They were | told that he was busy and would see |them later. Meanwhile the entire demonstration marched from the park down the main avenue to the City | Hall with the children singing and {cheering. Speakers mounted the steps. Police rushed out from the | City Hall and began to club and beat ‘the children. Children Thrown to Ground | After putting up a stubborn fight, jin which a number of children and | mothers were thrown to the ground jand one young worker. arrested, the | workers and children went back to the park, and held a meeting at which last blast furnace. There will be| the committee to the mayor reported, |many more, and the time will come | very soon when we will take first} Place in the whole world in produe- | Likewise in other | ments to the bankers, which form 42.7 tion of pig iron. the steel kings of America far behind. fields of production we expect to leaye “A few days ago I read an article Murphy used his typically demagogic phrases, but when pinned down, re- fused the demand to cancel the pay- per cent of the city budget, and use the money, over $30,000,000 for relief of the starving children, august ast! USE THIS ISSUE : TO GET NEW SUBS Ay WORKERS ‘AND WORKERS’ ORGANEEATIONS:. PREPARE Y OUR PLANS! Spacial rates for this isaue only—$7 for 1000, 98:80 for 500 DAILY. WORKER--50 E. 18th St, N. Y. ¢., ORDERS MUST BE ACCOMPANIED BY CAB! i Deadline On Orders—July 20th 4 v (OWN if } freer ‘ cea | A