The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 16, 1932, Page 1

a \ a VOTE COMMUNIST FOR Unemployment and Social Insurance at the ex- pense of the state and employers. Against Hoover’s wage-cutting policy. 8. Emergency relief for the poor farmers without restrictions by the government and banks; ex- ; emption of poor farmers from taxes, and no forced ¢ollection of rents or debts. Dail Central Orga ommunist ~O) (Section of the Communist International) Norker Party U.S.A. Cc VOTE COMMUNIST FOR Equal rights for the Negroes and self-determin- Against capitalist terror; against all forms of political rights of workers. 4 ation for the Black Belt. 5. suppression of the 6. Against imperialist war; for the defense of the Chinese people and of the Soviet Union ~ Vol. IX, No. 169 Sx Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥.. ander the act of March %, 187 FOSTERMEET | IN ST. LOUIS DESPITE BAN Fight of Unemployed Compelled Cash for Relief SCORES POLICE ASSAULT Speaks to Large Crowd in Oklahoma City ST. LOUIS, July 15—‘“The appro- priation by the city administration of $200,000 for immediate relief is a direct result of the courageous strug- gle of the Unemployed Councils of St. Louis,” declared William Z. Fos- ter, Communist candidate for pres- ident of the U..S., who spoke here last night to more than 1,500 work- ers who crowded Turner Hall. Hundreds of workers were unable to gain entrance to the hall which was filled to overflowing long before the meeting got under way. At the meeting, which was held in defiance of city authorities who de- clared that “al Communist meetings are banned,” Foster bitterly de- nounced the murderous assaults of the 15,000 jobless workers who re- cently stormed the City Hall in a demonstration demanding immediate relief. Four workers were shot, many injured and a large number arrested by the police who fired into the crowd, at the same time hurling gas bombs at the hungry workers. The appropriation of $200,000 by the city authorities and the opening of a relief station were the immediate results of the militant demonstration. Foster analyzed the programs and promises of the Republican, Demo- the Communist Party, citing the six principal planks in the platform. Calling attention to the first de- mand, “Unemployment and social insurance at the expense of the bos- (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) | BELGIAN STRIKERS DEFY MISLEADERS Spurn Order to Return to Work (By Inprecorr Cable) BRUSELS, July 15.—Defying the reformist trade union leaders who have accepted the agreement put for- ward by the “Mixed Mines Commis- sion,” the 150,000 workers now in- volved in the general strike which is sweeping over Belgium are preparing for-a.new and higher stage of the struggle. ‘The workers have let it be known that they will spurn the instructions of the reformist trade unton leaders, who have instructed them to return to work tomorrow. Originating in the coal mines, the » strike’ has. spread like wildfire and now includes workers in steel, iron, gas, electric, water, textile and glass » industries. ‘The authorities are continuing their campaign of terror, jailing scores of Communist functionaries. FINAL FIGHT T0 SAVE THE RUEGGS Seek to Move’ Them from Jail to Hospital .» (By Inprecorr Cable) BERLIN, July 15.—Word has just ‘been received from Shanghai that the tremendous international pressure by workers and intellectuals—headed by Gorky, Rolland and Dreiser —has forced the bloody Kuomintang gov- ernment to agree to the transfer of Ruegg, secretary of the Pan-Pacific Trade Union Secretariat, and his wife from prison to a hospital, _ Both have been in jail more than} @ year, having been turned over to the Nanking butchers by the military of the British Settiement. Pe ‘The Kuomintang officials are nev- ertheless attempting by every means to postpone the transfer, hoping thereby to bring about the death of Ruegg and his wife in prison. Willi Munzenberg, head-.of the Workers’ International Relief, today ealled for an intensified protest cam- paign to free these two comrades. NEW YORK, SATURDAY, JULY 16, 1932 CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents_ FORCE $200,000 FOR RELIEF TO JOBLESS League against forced labor and war. 1,000 MINERS MARCH IN OHIO Demand Food, Clothes from Government STEUBENVILLE, Ohio, July 15.— Over one thousand striking miners mand food for themselves and fam- ilies, immediate withdrawal of the State militia. and the release of all arrested strikers. militant seen in this section of the country. Singing and shouting their demands, miners. and their wives reached the outskirts of the city, but were prevented to enter the city by the police. Following an hour of resistance and protest against the police action, the marchers forced their way into the town and held a meeting at Riverside Park. All attempts on the part of the police to stop the meeting were de- feated by the stubborn resistance of the miners. A committee of fifteen miners were elected to present the demands to the county commissioners. Crowds of workers massed around the park all day and gave their full support to the miners. Donald young, son of Art Young, cartoonist, who was arrested in the strike zone during. the early part of the week, was expelled from the state of Ohio today and was threatened with arrest on a charge of criminal syndicalism if he returned to the state. AUGUST FIRST Fighting Day Against Imperiatist War Special Edition of The Daily Worker Articles on The World Crisis The Five-Year Plan Today * The Election Campaign and War All phases of fight against war will be dealt with 8 8 Spread this paper everywhere. It will aid in mobilizing for the fight against imperialist war. marched today to Steubenville to de- | The march was one of the most! Forced Labor in Capitalist U.S.A. Demonstrate August First, Plow shackles of the feudal serfs had nothing oa this latest forced labor scheme at Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio. The mayor of the city calls this “unemployment relief.” Arrangements were made by the city offi cials for 104 jobless men to cultivate 36 acres of land without the use of horses or tractors. The govern- ment officials who are lauding this humiliating type of forced labor as a blessing to mankind are preparing for war against the Soviet Union on the basis that “forced labor” exists in the workers’ fatherland, Fight Ky. Victory to Spur Communist Election Drive The election of Communists to pub- lic office in Kentucky again proves that no workers withhold their sup- port from the party of their class, the Communist Party, when the workers understand the program of the Communist Party. A large majority of the Kentuck- ians who voted for the Communists hadn’t heard of the Communist Party @ year ago. ‘There are millions. more of. such wotkers—workers who “Heed "to" brought béfore them only the Comt- munist program of struggle to make them devoted supporters of the party of their class. Support the $100,000 Fighting Fund for the Communist election campaign so that the Communist program of struggle can be spread far and wide among these workers. The capitalists and their three parties have millions at their com- mand to spend on misleading the working class on the issues of the present election campaign. The issues in this campaign raised by the Com- munist Party are Hunger and War. ‘The election campaign calls for special expenses in connection with the distribution of literature, in con, nection with the printing of hundreds of thousands of extra copies of the Daily Worker. Therefore the elec- tion campaign calls for special sacri- fices on your part. The need for the $100,000 is abso- lutely vital to you. Contribute now. Get your friends and shop-mates to contribute. Don’t wait until October or November—the capitalists and their newspapers, radios and movies do not wait. Send your contribution to this paper, or to the Communist Na- tional Election Campaign Comm't- tee, Box 87, Station D, New York, N. ¥,, or to the District office of the CPUSA in your vicinity, or to any accredited representative of the CPUSA. | NEVISDALE, Ky., June 15.—The |congressman from this district, Charles Finley, has just written to the coal miners of this town who just got through electing three Com- munists as members of the local school board and another one in Car- penter, Ky., that he and some other fellows are going to put an end to “Communistic activities.” Finley, incidentally, is one of the principal stockholders of the Proc- tor Coal Co., one of the largest mines in Kentucky. ’ Workers Threatened. During the coal miners’ strike in Gatliff and Nevisdale, two adjourn- ing mining camps—struggles led by the National Miners Union police and coal company gun thugs told the workers that it was “illegal to distri- bute or have in one’s possession the Daily Worker, and that anyone seen with a copy would be arrested.” As a matter of fact, many miners were arrested on charges of criminal syndicalism, the sole “evidence” con- sisting of the Daily Worker or other OUT TO STOP THE ‘REDS’ Ky. Congressman Wants to Bar ‘Daily’ found in their homes. Recently, a local worker, John Rey- nolds, wrote to Congressman Finley, of the 11th Kentuck; district, asking him if it was illegal to read the Daily Worker, end if so, why it. went through the U.S. mails. ‘i We're Working On It. The congressman, replying to Rey- nolds under the mistaken impression that he was one of his “loyal con- stituents,” declares optimistically that “we have been ‘working up here for a law to forbid sending through the mails the Communistic literature yhich you mentioned in your letter; and we think we will get it done be- fore this staston ends.’ ’ ‘Tho letter shows a curious knowl- edge of the existence of the capital- ist crisis—that is, for congressmen. “It is true,” Finley, writes, “we are having hard times in this country.” But the statesman consoles himself with the cheerful thought that “other countries of the world are having even harder times.” (See photo of Finley’s letter in ad- revolutionary publications —_ being joining column.) FORD CALLS FOR NEWARK ACTION 1200 At Meet Rallied for Demonstration |. NEWARK? N. J., July 15—The biggest Communist indoor election rally since William Z. Foster spoke during the 1928 campaign was held here yesterday when more than 1,200 Negro and white workers filled the Krueger auditorium to hear James ‘W. Ford, Communist candidate for vice president. Discrimination and Jim Crowism' is t in this city, as in practically | every city of New Jersey. Newark Negroes still recall that the socialist- controlled Labor Lyceum barred them and the A. F. of L. backed this action. At the meeting Rebecca Grecht, District Organizer of the Communist Party in New Jersey, cited figures showing that 50 per cent of all New Jersey workers were unemployed. One-fourth of the state's population is registered for relief. The Democratic and Republican Legislature in Trenton cold-bloodedly adjourned in the face of a report that the number of starving workers. had jumped from 300,000 to 800,000. For the whole six months from January 1 to July 1, the state government spent the grand sum of 7 cents per in- habitant for relief. “On top of all this, the capitalists of New Jersey have introduced a new scheme to enrich the municipalities and to foree the workers still further to bear the burden of the crisis. This scheme is to withdraw all cash relief and to force the workers to slave for a miserable charity handout. The scheme has the support of the A. F. L. in New Jersey through Mr. Quinn, its representative in the State Legis- lature.” This forced labor scheme is to take effect this coming Monday, and Com- rade Grecht called on the workers to organize a demonstration before the city council Wednesday to demand a halt to the new slave scheme. Comrade Ford summarized the long list of crime of the New Jersey ruling class against the Negro workers in the state. RANK AND | FILE VETS. Backs Japan; German Fascists Lining pin Anti-USSR Front LEAD MARCH Attempt to Terrorize | “Gentlemen’s Agreement” and Anglo-French Pact Seek to Clear Up Reparations In Exchange fer Fascist Support Men By Calling Out Marines Fails PACE ADDRESSES MEET cient ca ades ‘CONEY BLAZE on VICTIMS ASK CASH RELIEF WASHINGTON, D. C., July 15.— |\Workers Demand Over 400 worker veterans, led by the| Workers Ex-Servicemen’s League Homes and Rent for overrode police and military threats, marched to the Capitol today and de- manded Vice-President Curtis that Congress shall not adjourn until the bonus bill is passed. Yesterday the Washington officials ° tried to intimidate and terrorize the Destitute veterans who were picketing the! Capitol by marching out a company } (Photo Page 2 of marines in full battle equipment. | Nis sca sttapeparsa ite ee ao ¥ e |lief for the homeless victims of the larines, c] + Pdag ie Aaa Hare ates |disastrous Coney Island fire was the P) 2 T|Gemand made by workers of Coney recalled, the officers fearing that the | yang, organized under the leader- ur nae Nee dae ut ot bea | ship of the Unemployed Councils and vy Shooting | the city committee of the WorkersIn- their ex- iat thelr ex-buddies, ternational Relief at a series of open- Parade Cheered. air meetings held yesterday. A mini- The parade today started at 15th Street and Constitution Avenue and was given a rousing reception all along the line of march to the Capi-| tol. | Robinson, who was at the Cepitol | with a group of pickets, ordered the men he was overlording to withdraw | mum of ten dollars a week for each family, plus three dollars a week for each child was requested. The work- ers also demanded that the city fur- nish homes for the sufferers and that the landlords be compelled to return to the workers the greater part of the season’s rent, which all of them and not join the demonstration led|had paid in advance. by the rank and file group. | At the same time the workers de- More veterans, however, joined the | termined to demonstrate in full force demonstration despite Robinson's or-| this morning before the office of the ders. ; at eet @ OME MMMNef Bureau with their chil- Carry Placards. acon Banners carried by the marchers blazened forth the demands of the (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) Try to Break Up Meetings The police attempted to break up all the meetings, threatening the workers. In the course of the meet- ing held at 27th Street and Mermaid Avenue the workers prevented the eviction of the Scuchman family, des- | titute, and with four children, one} only 17 months old. When the workers gathered in front | GERMAN STRIKES i | many henchmen Iccked the doors and Wor Kkers Want Fas- |retused to allow the workers to leave cists Out of Shops | Later a workers’ committee again called at the Tammany headquarters | jand demanded that some of the 600| idle cots be assigned to the workers. | (By Inprecorr Cable) BERLIN, July 15.—Political pro- test strikes against the Hitlerite- fascist terror are now raging over Germany, with stoppages reported in Berlin, Chemnitz, Halle, Dussel- dorf and many other cities. The workers are demanding that all Nazis be discharged from the factories. At Kirn, on the Nahe River, 2,009 TRANSPORT HEAD Hit BY TUUC |take place at Bridge Square at 4 The imperialist manouvers| |around the war debts question were definitely coupled up yes- terday with the further tight- ening up of the anti-Soviet war front and the intimation that the League of Nations would \legalize the Japanese seizure | and occupation of Manchuria. | | It is against this imperialist war danger that mass demonstration | will be held thruout the world on] | Aug. 1. | | The League's commission of “in-| |quiry” is reported preparing a rec-| | ommendation that Japan be given a} | free hand in Manchuria for from two |to five years. Such a recommenda- | tion carries the tacit understanding j that the Japanese militarists are to) | actively realize as soon as possible their reactionary aims for armed in- tervention against the Soviet Union. | Otherwise their grab of Manchuria) | will come up for reconsideration be- | fore the League of Nations. The | League Commission is to leave, the | way open for such further considera- | tion of the Manchurian question’ with | a statement challenging the Japanese (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) PREPARE HUGE AUG. Ist MEETS IN MID-WEST U. S. Gov't Spending} New Millions for | Next War MINNEAPOLIS, Minn.,. July 15.—/| Seventeen central demonstrations against imperialist war will be held in; this district (District No. 9) on August First, International Fighting Day | Against Imperialist War. | The demonstration in this city will p. m., and will be followed by a pa-| rade to the Auditorium, where a huge | meeting will be held. Other demonstrations are being or- ganized in St. Paul, Duluth, Virginta, ; Hibbing, Ely Bemiditi, Crossby, and Two Harbors—all in the State of| Minnesota. In Northern Minnesova/ i & Workers Must Answer War Maneuvers of Imperialists With Tre- mendous Anti-War Demonstrations on August First REPORT DOAK HAS HAND IN MILLER SHOE INJUNCTION Striker Taken From Bed by Police; More Out at 5 Star NEW YORK.—It was revealed to- day that William Nuckles Doak has joined hands with the Miller shoe bosses in their attempt to force star- vation on the Long Island shoe strik- ers. The strike headquarters received information from a reliable source that the heads of the Miller company recently. received a letter from Doak, who is carrying on a vicious deporta- tion drive against foreign-born ‘work. ers, telling the company bosses tc | Stand fast against the workers. Doak, no doubt, intends to terrorize the strikers with government spies and threats of deportation. New Frame-Ups A striker by the name of Jimmy Vardy was taken cut from the strike headquarters by a detective after one of the strikebredkers pointed him out, y-and -brought.over-te-tie office of the I. Miller, . In the office attempts were made to frkme up Vardy with # charge of assault. Vardy did not let himself be bulldozed and he was re- leased. On Wednesday two workers were arrested in front of 5 East 19th Street, at the T. U. U.C. building, and frame-up charges are being manufac- tured against them. One worker wes put under $10,000 bail and charged with felonious assault, and the other |was put under $1,000 bail and was charged with vagrancy. Taken From Bed Mark Keosseon, a striker, was taken cut from his bed and was brought over to the District Attorney and in the presence of Mike Miller they tried to frame him up on a charge of assault. He was kept in the office of the District Attorney for six hours, and was finally released. Four More Join Five Star Four more workers joined the Five Star strikers. Only a few, about four or five, remained in the shop. Among those five. the most prominent is the Socialist Secretary,.Umberta Spotula, of the Gunhill Road Socialist Branch. Communist, social-demecratic and unaffiliated ‘non-party workers joined in a huge demonstration against hunger and fascism. . They adopted a resolution unani- mously and sent a telegram to Ernst Thaelmann, German Communist party leader, pledging to undertake a militant united front fight against fascism. The wire was signed: “Koehne, Communist Party; Strib, Reichsbanner; Lorenz; Reichsban- ner; Fubr, Socialist Workers Party, and Becker, non-party. Seeks to Outlaw Communist Party Congress of the Anited States Proust of Representatives Berhingtor, Be May 31, 199 wr. Job Reynolis, Fovsedale, Ky. ty doar Sir: Tour letter of May 7th renched we thie Sorning: ant 1 we bastentne ‘te write you in returs, In reply will say we have teen working up bere for lam to forbid ‘Wonding through the male the Commnistic literature which yor sentioned fa your letter; and we think wo vill get it done before this Session ends. ‘Trove Communist ere.vorking all over the Country te sake our citizens dovernnen' Atgentisfied with our fore of t and finally cause @ Bevolvtion. Tt de true that ve are now having bard tines in this Country: Wt vo still have the best Country in the world; and the other Countries of the Morld are having oven harder ties than we are having. It te the duty of all lotic Country loving American eitisens to Fesist such doctrines to the Ditter ends and I an one who te doing that. Your friced, Workers Demand De- | demonstrations will be held in Super- | ior, Owen and Brantwood. In Duluth, cent Standards |the demonstration will take place at |the Court House Square at 7:30 p.m. G. H. Delaney, chairman of the| In Michigan, there will be demon- |Board of Transportation, is called|strations in Ironwood, Iron River, upon to answer charges of discrim-| Hancock and Negunee. lination against Negro workers and| Two international demonstrations \raise the standards of transportation|of American and Cansdian workers |workers. These are some of the de-| will be held on the. Canadian’ borde! |mands made by Joseph Zack, secre-|at International Falls, Minnesota, and tary of the Trade Union Uni peawte, See Ste. Marie, Mich. Council in a pointed letter to the} * * transportation czar. | “A delegation of transport workers,” | reads Zack's letter, “appeared” before | the Executive Committee of the Trade Union Unity Council in regards to conditions of employment as motor- Navy Yard Workers Pay for War NORFOLK, Va., July 15.—As part of its war proparations the U. S. (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) Must Raise Funds Among the important tasks before the shoe workers in New York are. financial support of the I. Miller and Andrew Geller, the fight against the |injunction, .and, the preparations for. the Shop Conference, which will be |held on July 23, at the ¢ Plaza, 115th Street and Irving Place. Al- though for the last five weeks the Union collected over $5,000 in dues and donations, most of it was spent on.relief and legal defense. Why should the workers rpte Communist—read it in the Elee- tion Platform of the Communist=~ Party, one cent. £ men, conductors, etc. on the new Eighth Avenue subway line. Upon| hearing the delegation, the Council) directed me to obtain the following} information: 1.. Will the wage: up to union standard 2. Will union labor be employed or if not will there be any discrimination against union organization? Members of the transport delegates and hours come cials in charge of the enterprise that better paid services. Our organization workers stands for equality, irrespec- tive of color ang I am instructed to ask you for the following informa- tion on this particular point: 1, Will Negro workers be admitted into the skilled and better paid crafts such as motormen, conductors, etc. We also demand the following: take the necessary training required to work in the skilled crafts. 3. No discrimination against Negro workers in the assignment of jobs. 4. The same working standards for white and Negro workers. PEP FOR POLITICIANS have been teld by some of the offi-| no Negroes will be employed in the} composed of 25,000 white and Negro | 2. The right of Negro workers to) | | PUNXSUTAWNEY,, Pa Working on the superficial assump- | tion that the stupidity of the capital- ist politicians in office—from Hoover }down (or up)—is largely responsible for the economic crisis, Dr. Harry Benjemin of New York today pro- posed that a special rejuvenation process be applied to all congress- men, senators and government office | holders pest the age of 55. Performs Wonders The suggestion was made at the tri- county meeting of physicians spon- sored by the Jefferson County, Pa. Medical Associatien. The Steinach method is the name ot the magic formula which, accord- ing to Dr. Benjamin, results in “a certain restoration of mental physical vitality, a better sense of well being, improved nervous equilibrium, in some cases more acute eyesight and and| Doctor Has New ‘Rejuvenation’ Scheme » duly 15.— , hearing, improved circulation and less jhigh blood,” not ;to -niention “new | hair growth or better pigmentation,” Science” At Work ‘The doctor pointed out that expert, |ments have already been tried on | 1,000 individuals during the past ten years, with favorable results, The proposal to add sharpness to |the intellects. of the Senators and Congressmen follows recent sugges. tions made by various bourgeois scien= tists for sterilizing 18,009,000 workers, whom they describe as “defectives.” This number constitutes just ebout | half of the entire industrial army of the U. 8. Ludicrous as all this may sound, it all falls in line with the many at- tempts—of one kind or another—to conceal the crisis and the respon- sibility of the capitalist system and their tools.