The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 14, 1932, Page 1

VOTE COMMUNIST FOR 1, Unemployment and SocialInsurance at the ex pense of the state and employers. i %. Against Hoover’s wage-cutting policy. 8. restrictions by the government and banks; ex- Emergency relief for the poor farmers without orker | frunict Porty U.S.A. OTE COMMUNIST FOR 4. Equal rights for the Negroes and self-determits ation for the Black Belt. Against capitalist terror; against all forms of suppression of the political rights of workers. emption of poor farmers from taxes, and no Central a Orga 6. Against imperialist war; for the defense of forced collection of rents or debts bd the Chinese people and of the Soviet Union, ie (Section of the Communist International) mae 7 ube Bi — ns 6 Entered as second-class matter a he Po: ce Vol. IX, ‘No. 167 — 2 mander the act of Barch 3 19 _NEW_ YORK, THURSDAY, JULY 14, 1932 Price 3 Cents_ at New York, N. Y., under the act of March 3, 1879 VETS CALL MASS MARCH FOR BONUS 300 Delegates at Rank and File Conference Plan for Action WATERS OUSTER NEARS Glassford “Proposed as Dictator WASHINGTON, D. C., July 13.— Three hundred delegates represent- ing veterans from every state met today in the Fisherman’s Hall, 320 “F” St. S.W., in the first rank and file conference of the Bonus Expe- ditionary Forces. The conference is working out plans for an organized and militant struggle for the immediate payment of the bonus. Mass Demonstration, As the next step in the fight for the veterans’ back wages the con- ference has called a mass parade which will culminate in a demonstra- tion. in front of the Capitol Friday. At this demonstration demands for | food and no adjournment of Con- gress until the bonus is paid will be presented by a rank and file com- mittee. The conference today demanded that the $100,000 voted by Congress for railroad tickets for the veterans shall be used for food and that the monzy shall not be deducted from the back wages of the vets but be taken from the profits of the rich men. George Pace, commander of the 14th Regiment of the B.EF., was chairman of the conference, Eicher, militant leader of the Workers Ex- (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) COPS SLUG AND JAIL TWO FUR WORKERS Twenty Fur Shops Join in Strike Struggle for Increases NEW YORK, July 13.—Police vici- ously attacked a committee of fur workers yesterday who demanded ad- wission to a conference arranged be- tween the Fur Manufacturers Asso- tiation and Mr. Shore, so-called sup- | ervisor of the Furriers Joint Council who is planning a new list of sell- ats in the fur trade. Several work- a%s were brutally beaten and two m)mbers of the committee, Eva Fysen and Julius Fleiss, were ar- rested. When it was learned that Mr. Shore had arranged a conference with the bosses’ association several hundred fur workers gathered in front of the offices of the associa- tion at 30th St. and 5th Ave. and elected a committee to represent them, amongst whom were many well known fur workers, including Julius Fleiss, Eva Rosen, Metz, Meyer Dia- mond and Sol Wolin. Calls Police The committee proceeded to the office of the association to inform the bosses that Shore did not repre- sent the furriers and had no right to speak for them. Mr. Greenburg and Mr. Kimmel, members of the as- sociation, which for the past few years has been the mainstay of the Joint Council, called the police who drove the workers out. When the committee insisted that they were authorized representatives of the fur workers they were beaten by the police, who sent a call for additional police. Eva Rosen and Fleiss were slugged and arrested. Trumped up Charge Eva Rosen was found guilty on a trumped up charge of disorderly con- duct, despite the fact that all the evidence in the court showed that the policeman was the only who was disorderly. She was given a suspend- ed sentence. The trial of Fleiss was postponed until next week, 20 Shops on Strike ‘The fur workers did not content themselves merely by sending com- mittees but are showing by very definite action that they are determ- ined to ‘get the July raises and to establish union conditions. 20 shop strikes have been declared during the past two days. Amongst them are some very im- portant shops. Many employers, real- izihg the determination of the work- ers to get union conditions, are set- tling on the basis of increases, short- ening of: hours and general improve- ment of conditions. The plans are triple the number of strikes as the sesson'in the fur trate +" 5 Veterans Will March On Friday A rank and file meeting of worker veterans near the Washington Monument. This group will lead a mass parade to the Capitol Friday to demand that Congress does not adjourn until the bonus is paid. ST. LOUIS WORKER TELLS HOW POLICE SHOT DOWN JOBLESS Cops Fired from City Hall City Hall B Building While Workers Assembled Peacefully Foster to Speak in Turner Hall, St. Louis BULLETIN ST. LOUIS, Mo,, July 13.—William Z. Foster, Communist candidate for president of the U.S speaks here tomorrow evening. (Chupsilay) at Turner Hall, 1508 Chouteau Avenue. * By AN EYEWITNESS. Four unemployed workers in a crowd of thousands demonstrating with the Unemployed Council before the city hall, at 12th and Market Street, Monday, were shot down in their tracks by police sent out by the Mayor, Victor Miller, and the chairman of the board of Police Commissioners, | Oliver T. Remmers. Scores of workers, women and children, both Negro and white, were gassed with tear bombs, clubbed, and trampled upon by a mob of 200 police armed beforehand with hundreds of gas-bombs and clubs. Two of the workers are expected to die; at least twenty are seriously injured. At least forty, including ten women and girls, were immediately arrested, thrown into jail and’ held incommunicado, Committee Arrested. 4,500 members of the Unemployed | Councils, and other unemployed work. ers, had gathered at 11 a. m. Monday on the steps and lawn of the city hall, demanding that immediate re- lief be given to the 100,000 starving workers in St. Louis. A committee of twelve had been appointed to pre- sent the workers’ demands before the mayor and the board of aldermen. The city hall was packed with armed | police. The twelve workers were im-| mediately surrounded, although they had been promised a hearing before- hand, and were later arrested, and taken to police headquarters. Cops Open Attack. The mass of men, women and chil- as (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) COX TRIES COVER UP FASCIST AIMS Fears Effects of Mus- solini Visit \ In a move to cover up his fascist tendencies, Father Cox, Pittsburgh priest now traveling in Italy, has is- sued a statement denying that he visited Italy to seek Mussolini’s ad- vice on methods of introducing fas- cism against the American working class. Cox, who admitted that he was; seeking interviews with both Musso- lini, fascist butcher of the Italian masses, and Hitler, aspirant for the role of butcher of the German masses, now declares he has aban- doned his efforts to see Mussolini. Cox is now trying to cover up his sinister designs against the Ameri- can working class by slinging left phrases. He declares that he de- spises all dictatorships, and espe- cially the fascist dictatorship. He tries to confuse the masses by at- tempting to place the dictatorship of the proletariat aimed at securing the victories of the working class in the same category as the fascist dicta- torship of the big capitalists against the tolling massee- MILLS I$ OUT ON $1,000 BOND seek to Deport Leader of Unemployed NEW YORK.—A, W. Mills, or- ganizer of the National Hunger March to Washington last Decem- ber and member of the National Committee of the Unemployed Councils, who was arrested Tues- day on a’ deportation warrant, was today.released from Ellis Istand on $1,000 bail posted by the Interna- tional Labor Defense, Mills was arrested at the Work- ers’ Center, 35 E. 12th St, by an immigration inspector and four de- tectives connected with the New York “Radical Squad.” The date for Mills’s hearing has not yet been set. Meanwhile, the I. L. D, announces that it will wage a stiff fight to free the leader of the unemployed. Doak Is Cheerful Liar, SILVER BAY, N. Y., July 13,— Blandly ignoring the reports car- ried even in the capitalist press, William N. Doak, Secretary of La- bor, in a message read today be- fore a conference of small business “executives,” declared that the crisis has “brought employe and employer to common ground. with an almost total abstinence of strikes, lockouts and disorders.” Political. Prisoners on Hunger Strike in Danger in China NANKING, July 13.—Paul Nou- bon (Rueggs), Swiss, and his wife, ical prisoners held tor more than a year on charges of anti- government activity, were reported in a critical condition today after a hunger strike of eleven days, Lo Wen-kan, Foreign Minister and Minister of Justice, resigned today because of the case, but the government refused to recognize his resignation. The prisoners are seeking trial at Shanghai. ABREST 150 IN M iE STRIKE BRUSSELS, July 13.—One hundred and fifty workers were arrested last night at Charleroy. Additional troops were sent there to reinforce the cav- alry forces in breaking @ miners’ | BELLAIRE, Ohio, July 13—Though MARTIAL LAW DECLARED IN MINE FIELD 1500 Provident Miners Defy Naked Bayonets; Mine Shut Down BIG FUND FOR GUARD Edict to Keep Miners from Mines strict martial law was declared in Belmont County today, the militanc striking miners are continuing their fight unafraid. ‘The declaration of martial law by | Prosecutor Paul V. Waddell and Na- ,tional Guard Commissioner Colonel Shettler came as a climax to the ter- ror wave which has been sweeping the Ohio coal fields. Uncer the martial law the miners |face all forms of intimidation and} terror. Picket lines of any sort are | Prohibited within two miles of a mine. |'Ten thousand dollars has been voted to the National Guard for the pur- chase of guns, bullets, etc. Face Bayonets. Fifteen hundred pickets covering Provident Mine defied the bayonets. of the National Guard at 2:30 a.m. Tuesday. The workers resisted and} would not disperse. An airplane was also used in attacking the pickets. Mines had to be shut down despite the protection of the one hundred and twenty National Guards armed! to their teeth. More Jailed. Eight miners were arrested in the early Tuesday morning struggle. They (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) Lay Plans for Injunetioin Fight To Halt Outlaw Plan of Bosses A call for the mobilization of all workers in a united front. movement | against injunctions was issued today by the Provisional Committee for the ;Anti-Lojunction Conference. The | anti-infunction law recently passed by Congress was exposed as a vici- cus act designed to suppress all | struggles of the workers against the | wage-cut campaign of the bosses. It was pointed out by John Steu- ben, secretary of the provisional com- mittee that every worker and eyery union is concerned in this fight a- gainst injunctions. He demanded that craft ideology should be broken in this fight. “The injunction against the I. Mil- ler shoe workers which is so drastic that it outlaws all strike activity, 'sounds a warning to the entire labor movement that unless the workers rally to fight this vicious weapon of the bosses every semblance of the iright to strike, to organize, to picket, |to ‘assemble, and even to speak to the workers about their miserable conditions are being completely de- stroyed by injunctions,” declared a statement issued by the anti-injunc- | tion committee. Cull to 15,000 Organizations A call has been sent out to more than 1,500 organizations throughout the country, The New York District of the International Labor Defense fully and heartily endorses the fight and calls upon all 1.L.D. branches to join in. A section demonstration will be held in New York City July 27. An Anti-Injunction Conference will be held July 28 at the Manhattan Lyceum at 8 p.m. to lay plans to continue the struggle. Unaifected by Crisis eS William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor and Martin Francis Ryan, treasurer of the organization, photographed at one of the many meetings of the Executive Council in Florida. Green | yesterday called for a conference of industrialists to put over a new “stagger plan”—the current favor- ite eh errs! oan scheme. GREEN CALLS FOR, WAGE - CUT PLAN A. F. L. Council Rolls | In Luxury ATLANTIC CITY, July liam Green, amiable friend of Her-) bert Hoover, and forty of the fat} boys of the Executive Council of the American Federation of Labor open- ed a two weeks council session here yesterday, the purpose of which, we are given to understand, is to form- ulate a series of “new economic planks.” The first of these economic planks, as revealed in the first speech of Wm. Green, is the shorter work week plank —.that is, a shorter working lweek for all the workers still em-| Shenandoah Pa., ployed accompanied, of course, with a shorter pay envelope. Although Boss Green and his forty well-fed cohorts have labeled Lote selves as “representatives of labor,” they have set up their headquarters far from the native habitat of the working people whom they claim to represent. They are ensconed at the luxurious Ambassador Hotel, where the minimum rate is $8 per day. ‘They are being advised by over a hundred representatives of business who have the welfare of the bankers | at heart. To meet the present crisis the President. of the A. F. of L. sug- gested that Hoover call a conference | of all employing interests to work out | a new and more vicious stagger | (wage cut) scheme to saddle the burden of the crisis more firmly on the backs of the workers, Not a word about unemployment insurance at the expense of the bos- ses, not a word advising workers to fight the sweeping wage-cuts was ut- tered by the A. F. of L. President in his long speech. Only vague, mean- ingless ‘words about a government relief bill. » He praised the bosses, denounced the action of the Detroit and St. Louis workers for their heroic mass fight against hunger and hailed the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, which gave millions to the bankers. All Workers Called ¢o BULLETIN PARIS, July 13. — 7ne French worker corresponden’s have sent greetings to the coy.erence of read- ers of the Daily Worker and the Daily Worker correspondents, to be held this Feday evening at 8:30 p.m. NEW YORK. — The New York Worsers Correspondence Group was organized at a meeting of workercor- respondents of all languages held last Monday night under the aus- pices of the Revolutionary Writers Federation. This Friday night, how- ever, all readers of the Daily Worker, French Workers Greet N.Y. Press Conference Friday Daily Worker Meeting including worker correspondents and all workers interested in working out plans for broadening thesmass basis of the Daily Worker, both in its con- tents and in its circulation, will meet with the members of the Daily Worker and offer suggestions and criticism. Workers of New York and vicinity —this is your chance to come for- ward with your ideas on what a! workers’ paper should be, Come to the meeting Friday night, on the second floor of the Workers Center, 80 B18 Bombing Laid to ‘Reds’ Is Work of Company Cops in South Bend, Ind. Studebaker and Bendix-Stromberg Private Police Dynamited Plants ‘and other countries of the c: 13.—wil- | Which They Provocations CANADA WORKERS SUPPORT AUG. Ist |Join World Drive On| Imperialist War OTTOWA, Can., in, July 13.—Uniting | with the workers of the United world in an aggressive drive against imperialist war, Canadian militant la- | bor is organizing a Workers Economic Conference to be held here August 1 To Fight War This conference, part the In- | lernational Day Against Imperialist | War, is being held simultaneously | with British Empire Economic Con- \ference which opens July 15. Here | representatives of the capitalists and ‘financial magnates of British Domin- | ions, colonies and the motber country | will gather in order to find a scheme on how to patch up th? crumbling parts of the once mighty British Em- |Pire. The conference at the same| \time is an indication of the growing Anglo-American rivalries. J. H, Thomas, notor! the British workers, r¢ ; Majesty’s Goyerament” at: the-confer- jence, will demand that Canada buy} coal from Britain—causing more un- employment against the miners of | Alberta. Others will haggle away) of beirayer of SHENANDOAH, Pa., July 13.—Wil- Mine Workers of America, at its re; ular meeting, listened to a report on back by} from a the Soviet Union, Pete Onicick, brought a young miner who was sent 4 delegate by some of the anthracite TO SPLIT LOOT OF U.S. TREASURY | Hoover Move Stops Congress Quiz ; WASHINGTON, D. C., July 3— | House Democrats yesterday respond- jed favorably to Hoover's emergency move to hush up a threatened in- | {vestigation of the raids on the U. S. | | ‘Treasury by the big bankers and rail- roads. These raids were challenged by the Democrats as chiefly benefit- ing the Republican election cam- |paign. Representative O'Connor, De- mocrat of New York, declared in the House that “the Republican cam- paign is financed out of the Treas- jury of the United States.” | O'Connor said he made the state- {ment advisedly. He held that the relationship between tax refunds to the big financiers and campaign con- j tributions by these gentlemen to the Republican election campaign would afford proof of his statement. Democrats Soft Peddled ‘The Democrats had demanded in- vestigation of these giant tax refunds and of the huge “loans” made by the Reconstruction Finance Corpor- ation to the big bankers and rail- roads. Hoover, in an emergency mes- sage to Congress, countered with the offer to the Democrats of equal con- trol of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation. Thereupon, the Demo- crats satisfied that they will now share in the loot, soft-peddled their demands for investigations. In an effort to cover up the stink they have let loose, they joined with the Republicans in promising an “in. vestigation” in December—after elec- tions. | Demand Insurance While the government is ‘handing out these huge sums to the bosses, millions of workers and their fam- ilies are starving because the capit- alist system can no longer afford them employment and the bosses and the government callously deny these workers unemployment relief. August 1 Anti-War Demonstrations Throughout U. S. Will Denounce senting “His | | about wheat and other faces | Miners Hear of U.S.S.R. | [iam Penn local 1398, of the United| | Were Hired to “Protect,” Report Reveals and Mass Terror of the Bosses Utilizes Bomb Plots William Nuckles Doak, head of the Department of Labor, wafch is carrying out a national d>portation drive against militant workers, is utilizing bemb outrages by agent provocateurs to justify his attacks against the foreign-born, (JAPAN SEIZES | oar |Push Drive for Against US.S.R. Continuing their efforts to pro-| ke the Soviet Union into war, the Japanese have seized half a mile of Chinese Eastern Railway waterfront docks et Harbin, Manchuria. The JJocal unions to the Soviet Union for|Pct eovernment for whose acts the | May First, Japanese have attempted to disclaim | ‘After the speaker concluded the|TeSPonsibility. The Chinese Eastern ee eaten Rai is jointly operated by the iY umes 4) Soviet Union and China. | (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) Series of Provocations. The seizure of the docks follows | a long sevies of vicious war provoca- tion actions against the Soviet Union. These acts include wholesale arrests and torture of Soviet citizens in Man- churia. the seizure of sections of the portation of Japanese troops to the} Soviet border and a tremendous troop concentration by the Japanese mil- itarists directly on the Soviet fron- | tiers. The Soviet Union has consistently refused to be provoked into war. The present action is interpreted in for- eign circles in Manchuria as a de- | liberate “test of the patience of the | Soviet Union.” It becomes increas- ingly clear that the Japanese mili- tarists will not stop at provocative acts, but will proceed to actual in- vasion of Soviet soil in their deter- mined drive to disrupt the Soviet Five Year Plan and force a war upon the Soviet masses. War Aimed at Workers. This criminal drive for war is aimed against the entire world work- ing class. An attack on the Soviet |Union will no tonly menace the achievements of the working class in workers’ Russia but will menace the lives of millions of workers through- out the world. A Japanese attack on the Soviet, Union will be the sig- nal that all the imperialist. powers and the Tsarist White guards are waiting for—the armed intervention against the Soviet | Union and its successful - Socialist |construction. On August Ist mass demonstrations will be, held against hunger and war throughout the world. Chinese Partisans Resist. | Press dispatches from Manchuria |report a tremendous growth in the [heroic resistance of Chinese parti- san fighters against the Japanese in- vaders and their puppet Manchoukuo state, In the meantime, the League of Nations “investigating” commission is in Japan hobnobbing with the Jap- anese militarists and fascists. A Universal Service dispatch admits that the commission has secretly converted itself into a white-washing commission aimed at finding a for- cupation of Manchuria. War} gure was carried out by the Jap-| ese through their Manchurian pup- | | | | signal for joint |” | Deportations | rated by five individuals, t | special policemen. | manufacturers | provocateurs. | plained away on the ground t USED TO JUSTIFY ATTACKS BY DOAK Followed “Red” Hysteria WASHINGPON, D. C€., July William Nuckles. Doak’s Depart- ment of Labor was today confronted with the disagreeable task of admit- ting that recent bombing of f: in South Bend, Ind. for which “the Reds” were blamed private detectives of involved. Murray W. Garsson, secretary to the deporta today reported to his chi bombing of the Studebak Bendix-Stromberg plamts Bend on June 3 and 4 y 13.— actori the Released by Police The investigation further that one of the policemen admit that he had “cir aggerated repor revealed ted purpose of scaring them into believ- ““) ing“that thé Reds would kidnap their | RAILWAY DOCKS, children, blow up their plants, and take them for a ride.” The five men, arrested, px quizzed, and then released on their own bond, are William Vernon, chief of the special police “guarding” the Bendix plant; Gordon Joseph Miller, private detective for the Studeb: company; Britt Taylor, no offi title, at whose home several of dynamite were found, W: Woodward, and Walter Hend former undercover man for t hibition unit ‘This gentle treatment a so differer itant workers are ir orded the n wh: mile ‘olved. (CONTINUED ON MANY STRAN IN CONEY IS. FIRE | |Chinese Eastern Railway for trans- | | | | Workers Penniless As Bathhouses Burn NEW YORK. — A fire which broke out last night in Coney Island and which was still raging as the Daily Worker went. sulted in 100 to press, persons being hurt, and in thousands of bathers who jammed the resort being stranded with- out money or clothes. Four solid blocks were de- vastated, with hundreds of restaurants and concessions destroyed, and thousands driven from their box-like “homes,” and left penniless on the beach. One thousand police who were relayed to the scene of the conflagration added to the havoc by their bulldoz- ing tactics, herding the har- rassed workers and their families like helpless cattle. Factory Explosion Which Injured 15 NEW YORK.—A gas explosion caused injuries to fifteen persons, one an 18-year-old girl; when the roof and part of the front wall of a burning factory at 273 Powell St, Brooklyn, were blown out today, The fire started in the Varsity ree mula to legalize the Japanese of- Perea ra a cede the building,