The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 15, 1932, Page 1

COMMUNIST PARTIES ISSUE CALL TO FIGHT AGAINST IMPERIALIS1 Stee saa 1. Unemployment and Social Insurance at the ex~ pense of the state and employers. 2. Against Hoover’s wage-cutting policy. 8. Emergency relief for the restrictions by the government and banks; ex- emption of poor farmers from taxes, and no forced collection of rents . *’ VOTE COMMUNIST FOR poor farmers without or debts. Se ‘(Section of the Communist International) Sack Porty U.S.A. NO) VOTE COMMUNIST FOR 4. Equal rights for the Negroes and self-determin- ation for the Black Belt. 6. Against capitalist terror; against all forms of suppression of the the Chinese people political rights of workers, Against imperialist war; for the defense of and of the Soviet Union. “Vol. IX, No. 168 Sx at New York, N. Entered as second-cl matter at the Pust Office ¥.. under the act of March 3, 1879 NEW YORK, FRIDAY, JULY 15, 1932 CITY EDITIO! Price 3 Cent ae VICTIMS OF CONEY FIRE DESTITUTE Only Workers’ Groups Provide Effective Relief FIRE APPARATUS FAULTY Harrassed Victims Slugged by Cops (Photo on Page 3) By M. USHER NEW YORK.—Widespread suffer- Ing among thousands continued yes- terday following the disastrous 20- hour fire in Coney Island which de- stroyed four square blocks, made more than 1,000 families in the crowded resort homeless and which deprived thousands of workers of their clothes and personal belongings which were destroyed in the crowded tenements, improvised shacks and bath houses razed by the fire. Aggravated by an antequated fire apparatus, lack of water pressure and the congested character of the district the fire gained greater head- way than it ctherwise would if the Tammany grafters had not been too busy diverting municipal funds, Striking Contrast. The workers’ resort yesterday pre- sented a striking contrast. Against a background of tinselled “show”— ferris wheels, “Rides-to-the-moon” and “shoot-the-shoots” which at- tracted thousands of curious who had come out to see the fire—was the start spectacle of desolated homes aixd {amilies. £,8y & few blocks from this “gay- «jy, more than 5,000 workers who were homeless and had lost “every- thing they ever owned and the vast majority of whom were even without clothes stood around and contem- plated the ruin that had overtaken them. Many of the workers had been on the beach when the fire broke out and had been refused permission by the police to rescue their meager effects. Others who had een at work had returned to find their houses in flames and were brutally beaten by the police when they attempted to break through the lines in order to search for their families. Many” of the workers who refused to give their names for fear of retaliation by the police, denounced the conduct of the police in scathing terms and told of many instances of terrific beatings administered by the police to workers frantic with fear for the safety of their families. Fake Relief, Varrious patriotic organizations, under the fold of Tammany, have es- tablished a so-called relief station which makes a miserable pretense of helping the sufferers. Here the Daily Worker representative found several hundred of the homeless workers standing around apathetically, most of the mwearing nothing but their bathing suits, some wore their work- ing clothes, all they had left. They had been thrown pell-mell into a dingy, badly. lighted basement and were given bare army cots without (CONFINUED ON PAGE TWO) PACE 10 LEAD VET MARCH WASHINGTON, D. C. July 14— Bonus Expeditionary Forces are pre- paring for a big march and demon- stration tomorrow at the Capitol to demand that Congress does not ad- journ until the bonus is paid. The parade, which will begin at 15th and Constitution Ave. at 10 a. m. and proceed to the Capitol, will be led by @ rank and file committee. George Pace, chairman of the rank and file committee, said that follow- ing the march a committee would be elected to present the demands of the veterans to Congress. 9,000 at Capitol All during today thousands of vet- erans milled around the Capitol. By five o‘clock there were over 9,000 vet- erans in the vicinity of Congress. Meetings held by the Workers Ex- Servicemen’s League throughout the city have been given the support. of thousands of veterans, The Workers Ex-Servicemen’s Lea- gue has announced that the first edition of its paper will be off the press within a few days, OMISSION _ By a typographical error the name of A. Feld was omitted as the writer \ Rush Support to Communist Election Drive Workers, the Communist Party, the party of your class, the party that is leading the fight for @ workers’ and farmers’ government in the United States, YOUR party, is now in the heart of an election campaign, To bring the Communist pro- gram of struggle before the toilers of city and country requires money. This money must come from you: It cannot come from the bankers and bosses, who starve and exploit you. The $100,000 Fighting Fund for the Communist election cam- paign must come from the self- same workers who are now either unemployed or are on part-time or have had their wages cut and from those farmers who have their farms mortgaged to the hilt or are already bankrupt, But upon sacrifices such as these are built the successful struggles which will finally lead to the de- struction of the system of capital- ism. Participate in the $100,000 Fight- ing Fund National Tag Days on July 22, 23 and 24, and in the New York City Tag Day on August 14. Send your contribution to this pa- per or to the District Ofice of the Communist Party, U.S.A., in your vicinity, or to the Communist Na- tional Election Campaign Commit- tee, Box 87, Station D, New York, N..Y. er any accredited repre- sentative of the C. U.S.A. Big Response to Injunction Fight Workers ‘Prepare for July 28 Confrence NEW YORK. — Excellent response has been received from the workers’ organizations to the call to the Anti- Injunction Conference on July 28, to be held at Manhattan Lyceum, ac- cording to a report from John Steu- ben, secretary of the Provisional Committee. The International Labor Defense, the I.W.O,, and a number of building trade unions of the A. F, of L., are entering into the fight against the injunction with real vigor, he reports. ‘The Shoe and Leather Workers In- dustrial Union which elected dele- gates to the conference from its shops yesterday called upon the workers of the entire labor move- ment to support the fight to smash the injunction in a statement today. “Somebody Exploits the Honest-Working A. F. of L. Members” Wm. Green, President of the American Federation of Labor, stated yesterday that undoubted- ly some members of the Federa- tion were exploiting the hard- working and honest members of the unions. Mr. Green, however, convenient- ly overlooked his own huge in- come. The following show what pres- idents of certain unions draw: Bridge and Structural Iron Workes, $15,000; Elevator Cons- tructors, $12,000; Mine Workes, $12,000; United Garment Work- ers, $12,000; Stage Employees, $20,000; Teamsters, $15,000; Plum- bers, $10,000. 4 COMMUNIST NOMINEES IN KY. ELECTED Control School Board in Nevisdale, Ky., Mine Town WIN ALSO IN OTHER TOWN Farmer Is Elected in Carpenter, Ky. MIDDLESBORO, Ky., July 14.—Polling a majority of the votas, three Communist can- didates were elected to cons- titute the school board of Ne- visdale, Ky., a mining town, despite a vicious red-baiting campaign against them. The Communist candidates received 81 out of a total of 135 votes cast, 60 per cent of the total. At Carpenter, Ky., Steve Mc- Kiddy, a farmer and member of the Communist Party, was elected to the school board also. McKiddy was the only Com- munist on the ticket. On the day of the election, a last-min- ute attempt was made to de- feat McKiddy, charging that he was a “dangerous Commun- ist,” but the farmer received nearly two-thirds of the entire vote after a vigorous speech on the program of the Communist Party. These elections are only samples of what the workers and farmers will do in Ken- tucky this fall, they declare. DAILY WORKER All Workers Called to Discuss Paper NEW YORK.—The recent forma- tion of a Daily Worker Club on a block at East 100th Street, for the purpose of activizing workers in the Communist Party Election Campaign, is a splendid example Daily Worker can be made an,im- portant part of the workers’ strug- gles. ‘The Daily Worker is not an isolated “reported” of events. It is an agitator and organizer of the workers’ bat- tles. To knit the Daily Worker more closely to the workers’ daily life, a day, tonight at 8:30, on\the second floor of the Workers Center, & E. 13th St. All workers, worker correspondents, Red Builders, members of mass or- ganizations, all readers of the Daily Worker, are invited to tonight’s con- ference. VETS MASS TODAY NE WYORK.The Workers Ex-ser- | vicemen’s League will hold a mass meeting at 1 p.m. today on Union Sq, in support of the veterans’ march on the Capitol. MEET TONIGHT, of how the} conference has begn called for Fri-! ou the demonstration. police acted admirably.” Remarkable photos showing t! s Police Attacked Heroic St. Louis Jobless Battling for a Bias Bottom picture shows another he police assault upon the 15,000 hungry St. Louis worke Unemployed Councils, who recently stormed the City Hall with demands for immediate relief. ture shows police and plainclothes men on the sidewalk opposite the city hall, hurling hand grenade: filled with tear gas at the unemployed. One of the bombs is circled. Four workers were shot, one now dying—many injured and scores arrested in Following the attack on the hungry workers, Oliver T. Remmers, police commissioner, told reporters: “I looked out of the window of the Civil Courts building and saw it all. Reli s, led by the Upper pic- view of police hurling the bombs. In my opinion the 3,000 IN SWEDEN HAIL MRS. WRIGHT 130,000 Soviet Workers Pledge Fight “Three thousand workers greeted Mrs. Ada Wright, Scottsboro mother,” states a radiogram received today by the International Labor Defense, “in an enthusiastic demonstration before the city hall in Trondheim, Sweden. “The crowd of workers unanimously adopted resolutions: protesting the Scottsborolynch verdict, sending the resolutions to the American Embassy in Oslo and to the United States Su- preme Court. The crowd of workers pledged Mrs. Wright, mother of Roy and Andy, two of the nine innocent Scottsboro lynch verdict, sending the | by the white boss government of Ala- | bama, and cheered both Mrs. Wright and J. Louis Engdahl when they spoke.” Tour Great Success . The tour of Mrs, Wright and Eng- dahl, who left the United States on April 27, has had such success thru- out Germany, France, England, and other countries’ that it has been ex- | tended to cover practically all the re- mainder of Europe. 130,000 Soviet Workers Join Fight From far-off Roslavi, a rural dis- trict in the Soviet Union, has just come a resolution on behalf of the Scottsboro boys, sent by the Interna- tional Red Aid organization there, representing, it is stated, 130,000 workers and collective farmers. , The resolution is signed by Somkin as chairman, Lukirsky as secretary, and by a presidium of three members, Simonoy, Kvitkovsky, and Lvanoy. THE FIRST OF AUGUST — INTERNATIONAL DAY AGAINST New York District All Set for Aug. 1, Anti-War Struggle NEW YORK.—The whole machin- ery of the New York district is now in motion to mobilize thousands of workers in the struggle against war and for defense of the Soviet Union. Activities for August First include: Four marches from different parts of the city to the central demon- stration at Union Square at 5 p. m. Issuing of leaflets arid placards by all mass organization’, clubs, unions, etc, and assignment of speakers. Two-week concentration with shop-gate meetings, open air mect- ings, neighborhood leafiets, etc., by eagh section. A total of* 320,000 leaflets will be issued by the Needle Trades, Food Workers, Unemployed Councils, Mar- ine Union, Building Trades, Womer Councils, Pioneers, Ex-Servicemen’s League, Friends of the Soviet Union, Workers International Relief, Inter- national Workers Order and the various language organizations. Massacre Workers In Peruvian Town Recaptured by Govt. The Peruvian town of Cajambama was re-captured yesterday from the revolutionists by government, forces who instituted a savage reign of ter- ror against the working-class popula- tion of the town. The revolutionary forces retreated toward Huamachuco which reports indicate is still held by revolutionists. Hundreds of workers and peasants in the Trujillo district have been murdered by th2 gevernment troops following the recapture of the city of Trujillo several days ago. (Call Issued by the Communist Parties of Germany, France, Great Britain, Czechoslovakia, To the Workers of the World! Class comrades, working men, women and youths in town and country! In the fourteen years which have passed since the end suppressed*by the bourgeoisie with all the methods of brutal The capitalist rulers are seeking to drown the shouts of the hungry unemployed in the reports of rifle fire. violence. QUESTIONS HUGE LOAN TO DAWES |Not a Cent Given to Jobless Admission was made in Congress | | yesterday that the Reconstruction |Finance Corporation was used to enrich the big bankers and railroads at the expense of the workers. | |Democratic Representative Sabath |declared the corporation “could have saved a number of small banks in Chicago and declined to act.” ‘Sabath covered up the fact that the | | life savings of workers were deposited in these small banks and that it was workers who suffered by the corpora- tion's discrimination in favor of the big bankers and railroads who are} |making huge contributions to the| Republican election campaign. It wag also brought out that the} recent loan of $80,000,000 to the Cen- tral Republic Bank and Trust Com- pany of Chicago, of which Charles G. Dawes, former chairman of the cor- poration, is chairman, was the largest handout given the big banks. No mention was made of the additional $15,000,000 which was _ previously turned over to this bank. The investigation was sidetracked when Hoover struck a bargain with | the Democrats for joint control of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation. Every effort is being made to stem off the investigation of the transac- | tions of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation as it would bring out the fact. that the government has given huge doles to the bankers while re- fusing unemployment relief and so- | cial insurance to the impoverished ANGLO-FRENCH PACT AIMED |15th St, and Irving Place. Many | AT U.S.S.R; CHINA -SOVIET Japan Interferes With The Menace of Imperia The seizure by the Japanese of officials who under the guise of adv! anese puppet state in Manchuria. China and the Soviet Union. This new provocative act agains frontiers, © 31 STRIKERS 60 ON TRIAL TODAY Workers Expected to} Jam Court | The case of the thirty-one work- | ers who were arrested last Tuesday | at the I. Miller factory strike was | to come up today in the First Dis- | trict Magistrate Court, Long Island City. Several hundred of the strik- | ing shoe workers were to be on hand | in the courtroom to demonstrate their | solidarity with the arrested workers. | The outcome of the case will be | particularly important in view of re- cent developments of the strike. The comrades who go on trial Were ar- rested for picketing despite an in- junction issued by the courts. Yet |when several hundred I. Miller strik- ers picketed on Wednesday the po- lice did not interfere. The police | were so confused by the militancy of the workers that they did not dare| arrest anyone; instead they pleaded with the strikers not to picket. Several more workers in the Five Star shoe factory left .the factory yesterday and joined the strikers. Virtually the only one still working in this factory is Umberta’ Spotula, tool of the bosses. Spotula is the secretary of the Socialist Party branch at Gunhill Road. } A Shop Conference, which will be} held July 23, at the Irving Plaza,| shops have already met and elected | their delegates to the conference, Arrest Army Officers In Ecuador Planning | New Military Revolt | The government of Ecuador claim- ed yesterday to have crushed a plot for a new military revolt with the ar- rest of Colonel Luis Larrea. Several army officers of the garrison at Loja, including Commander Bolivar Val- diviesso, also were arrested. The government claims to have uncovered evidence that a coup was/| intendeq for Friday—today. Colonel Elba was provisional presi- dent of Ecuador for two months last year. He succeeded Dr. Isidro Ayra who was forced to resign on account of the deepening crisis and growing unrest in Ecuador. Alba's attempt to set himself up as a dictator was defeated by Alfredo Baquierizo Moreno, then head of the | Senate, who himself seized power. An} abortive attempt was made by Alva a} few months later to overthrow Mo- unemployed millions and refusing to pay the bonus to the veterans. IMPERIALIST WAR DANGER reno’s government. Alba had since been relatively inactive in politics. Railway at Harbin, Manchuria, was carried out by a churian local police under the direct command of one of by a constantly growing mobilization of Japanese troops on the Five large Japanese armies are now situated at | the JAPAN SEIZES R. R. DOCKS Operation of Chinese Eastern Railroad list World War Grows} Answer On August First BULLETIN the docks of the € group of 3 of the isers direct the polici The railway is jointly it the Soviet Union is accom tegic points along the bor BERLIN, 14.— purpose of the Anglo- is to weld a uniied fr the Soviet Union is clear statement today by th matische Korresponder official publication which put ward the attitude of the Von pen cabinet on the Pact in the fol- lowing words: “Before joining the pact we must receive rances unclear aims can in no wise be stretched to include the forms of a united front either a ¢: U. S. or Soviet Russia, or other Powers.” This statement by the Yo Pen government discloses th: hind closed doors secret ments have been formes the war preparations against the Soviet Union-hatched at Lausanne and Geneya. It will be recalled that Litvinoff and the Soviet dele- gation were excluded from secret conferences where negotiations were conducted aimed at ihe So- viet Union. egardin ae The French and British gov- ernments have formed a secret agreement which has_ been forced by American pressure into the open. The agreement is described as intended to set up a European “common fror Under the terms of treaty, the two power to present a united fro question of the war debts United States. They agree ther will undertake to payments to the United Stat (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) HUGE BELGIAN STRIKE SPREADS Police In Raids Mass Arrests the and (Cable by Inprecorr) BRUSSELS, July 14—Yesterday numerous new strikes broke oul in province of Namur and the Sabre district coal mines and other undertakings, adding additional thousands to the 150,000 workers al« ready on strike in many industries, At the Lessines quarry three thous sand workers walked out. The choc- olate factory workers in Brussels have also joined the general strike movement. Police yesterday occupied the Communist Co-operative Central in Brussels, closing premises and confis- cating the workers’ treasury, Thirty more Communists were arrested in the mass arrests being carried out by Poland, Roumania, Italy and the U. 8. A.) /the police and military, The whole of Manchuria has armed camp. The imperialist powers: France, Great Britain, Germany, already been turned into an BIG ANTI-FASCIST MEET IN BERLIN of the last world war the danger of a new and still greater world war was never so acute as it is at present. Its strong- est bulwarks undermined by the world crisis capitalism is making desperate efforts to find a solution for its internal and external difficulties by means of war. War at home, that is civil war against the working class! A capitalist offensive, wage-cuts, cuts in unemployment and other benefits, the destruction of social legislation, the sup- pression of strikes, capitalist class justice and fascist murder are the methods of attack in the civil war which has already begun against the industrial proletariat and the masses of the working people in general. The struggle of the workers, peasants, commercial employees, young workers and women workers to.maintain @ bare minimum of existerice is being Fascism, which is already in power and has established its bloody regime in a number of countries, is about to attempt to set up its murderous dictatorship against the working masses in a number of other capitalist countries. Manchuria An Armed Camp War abroad, that is the imperialist war against China, the suppression of the colonial peoples who are fighting for national freedom, aboye all, that is war provocation against the Soviet Union, the direct preparations for a new impe- rialist world slaughter! Japanese imperialism is feverishly intensifying its preparations for an attack on the Soviet Union and is sending large masses of troops against the | frontiers of the socialist fatherland of the working class. Poland, Czechoslovakia and the United States of America are supplying Japanese imperialism with weapons of war and munition in huge quantities for its predatory war against China and in support of its preparations for an armed attack on the Soviet Union. The armament magnates are already doing good business. They are coining gold out of the blood of the slaughtered workers and peasants of China. With the support of the bourgeoisie who have of- fered them willing hospitality in the capitals of the capital- ist countries, the white guardist bands are now openly form- ing their military units for use against the Soviet Union. The white guardists are the organizers of the bloody pro- vocations and assassinations which have been carried out in { (CONTINUED ON PAGE.TWO) } zis Ambush Work ers; Kill 2, Wound 12 (Cable by Inprecorr) BERLIN, July 14.—A huge anti- fascist mass demonstration was held yesterday in the fashionable West Berlin district with enormous pro- cessions of workers from all quarters. Workers returning to Siemensstadt from the demonstration were am-+ bushed and fired on by Nazis, Two Communists were shot dead and eight others wounded. Nazis also fire