The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 16, 1932, Page 5

8 een Take Precedence Over Unbalanced Budgets War Vetusiie tide Déemiand That They Be Paid Their Back Weges in Cash Bonus “Marchers Learn That Country .Is Not “2 Theirs After Ali + By MAX BEDACHT Millions’ of workers, ruined farmers and other petty bourgeois elements are without Bread, In this emergency these toilers, World War veterans, who seryed in the World War are now without jobs. weges; yet wages are the only form of income they have. They cannot collect Therefore they are demanding of the government their back pay, falsely called bonus. To this moment-the governmerit has refused to pay: As soldiers: in’the World War these toilers have defended what they con- sidered theit*tountry. They staked their lives in its “defense”. Now they find that the country "is’t theirs. at all. They find that they do not evén cwn a big enough share of it to guarantee them a living; As workers their lives depend on*jobs, These jews are owned by ‘thdse who own the factories and miils and mines, At this moment-the owners of fac- tories, mills,.miies and railways— the capitalistsi=refuse jobs: to the workers, therahy.they deprive these workers, war yeterans as well as many more millions of wor'ers, their right and their chance to live. The government, bases its refusal of an immédiate- cash payment of back wages of the veterans on the claim tha’ such payment would make impossible the,,balancing of the budget. Unbal: Stomachs, The problem,of the veterans, how- ever, is their unbalanced stomachs. The unbalanced.stomachs of them- selves and Of their families right- fully tak~ precedence in their sym- pathies over.the, unbalanced budget of the government. This precedent is justified and fortified by the knowl- edge that dixing, the war the goy- ernment, withoutregard of budget ba.onces, borroWed billions to pay cash. all of -the- profits of the war contracts. The ~weterans ask: Why did the government uhhesitatingly accept as its-duty the payment of war profits in-eash on the spot while the samé goyegniment. vehemently: de- nies its duty;te-pay cash for the tisk of th\ lives--anék<imbs of the mil- lions uf workers . Who fought on the battlefields of, the World War. Why cash for profits without risk, and why promiscory notes for risks with- out profits? ..... The war -yetetans rightfully de- mand that the unbalanced budget of the government;be-balanced with the millions whieh: the--profiteers stuck into their pockets during and be- cause of the war. They rightfully de- mand that the-government help bal- ince the stomachs of the veterans and their families by immediately cashing the promissory notes they had given thenrin place of cash due them. The capitalists were paid in Bungalows=and Rooms to Rent for Summer Season Sa— Several vety-nitt=tooms and bungalows for rent for eee season. Beauti- ful farm in * Pennsylvania, 50 miles from Pi i, Running water, clectricity, swimming, fishing, ete. Rea- bl municate with Tom » April Farm, Coopersburg, Pa. / 30 ike of Interesting European Travel “fmpliing 7 Days in the U.S.S.R. for as low as $190.00 Saligs’ Weekly on: ” S.S. Bremen, Europa, Ber- engaria, New.York, Cale- donia, ‘Statendam and * “Adititania Special ‘Social Study _¢Fours. - 23 Days in the U.S.S.R. Including Leningrad, Moscow {vanov Vosnesensk, Kharkov, Rostov, Dniepropetrovék, Dniep- sqatroy and Kiev. $300.00 up 0 GR Lowest rates on steamer, bus and rail transporta- “tion, Piha For further partioulars call: World-Tourists, Inc 175 Fifth Avenue New_York City Phone AL 4-0656,7-8 ‘cash for their dangerless but profit~ able services in the war; the veter- ans demand to be paid in cash for their unprofitable but dangerous service. The Republicans and Democrats are united on the discrimination against those who fought in the war, just as they were united during the war in favor of cash payments of the war profits of the capitalists. Then and Now. Nineteen nineteen the Republicans and Democrats acclaimed the World War veterans as heroes. Today they sie the police on them because they demand their due, Nineteen the World War veterans were acclaimed by Republicans and Democrats as the saviors of the American government; today the Re- publicans and Democrats deny these saviors access to the government to demand their due. Heroes in 1919 because they had done what the government called their ‘duty, the workers veterans be- came undesirable in » 19322 because they demand of the government to do what they think is its duty. The worker war veterans see in the budget figures of the government that hundreds of millions are spent in preparation of new wars. They rightfully demand of the government that it should first pay the workers for their services in the last war instead of building new battle ships and developing new poison gases for the impending war. Part of. Workers’ Fight. The struggle. of the World War veterans is part of the struggle of thé millions of, unemployed workers for a chance to live. It is part of a strug- gle to determine whether the govern- ment. ds to -pay war- profits and to lend billions to big business. to pro- tect it in the economic crisis while the masses of workers starve, or whether the government. is to be forced to protect and guarantee the lives of the masses. The worker war veterans rightfully maintain that the first consideration of the government must be how to feed the masses. On this question the worker World War veterans have a common interest with the masses of the American working class. In this respect the struggle for the bonus and the strug- gle for unemployment insurance are united. Unity of the working class for the struggle for the bonus and for the wiemployment insurance will se~ cure victory. If such a victory can- not be forced as a concession from the capitalist government in Wash- ington then it can be obtained from a workers’ government which a unit- ed action of the masses of workers and poor farmers and bankrupted middle class can establish after their united action has defeated the rule of the war profiteers and war mon- gers, the rule of the capitalists, in An: PITTSBURGH SUB DRIVE NEAR GOAL Picnics Planned in De- troit Drive Off to a good start, the Pitsburgh District is steadfastly nearing its Boal of 450 yearly subs and 300 paid- in-advance bundle orders in the Daily Worker drive for mass? circula. tion, E. P. Cush, district Daily Worker representative in Pittsburgh writes: “We will take steps immediately to call a City and also a Tri-Sstate con- ference of Daily Worker agents who Tepresent units, sections, etc. and’ also Daily Worker unit committees, \ “yore they exist. Where they do noi exist “SALT FROM FACTORY mo FARM / ‘WORKERS we will build them during this drive.” The Detroit district reports that a series of picnics are being aranged to intensify subscriptions. Response indicates that the goal of 60,000 new readers by Nov. 1.set for the “Daily” will be reached soon. ‘The Daily Worker's drive for mass circulation must be put across as part of the revolutionary struggle against unemployment, wage cuts and wat. Send a sub teday to the Daily | Worker, 50 EH. 13th St, New York City [working-class and MOTHER HURLS GIRL, -uuY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, JULY 16, 1932 ANSWER THE BOSSES’ HUNGER-WAR DRIVE; DEMONSTRATE AUG. ist! Unbalanced Stomachs DAILY NEWS, TU SD DE 10 DEATH, =a Hunger and Want Among Teachers Tnereasing Daily Woman Believed Crazed by] “aosara Poverty Dives Alter Child esate ae oa Ip "Suicides fe Refused gen NEw YOR = Jobies HOBLESS MAN KILLS SELF -1N Logat ROOMING HOUSE fet bio | OUT OF WORK, 2 —-1| BREAKS GLASS = JAIL FOOD i= en ills Himself to Give Family po Life Insurance Boy wy Says Charity Help RUNGRY CHILD ‘OF EATING GARI ref preeeetee 10. DEA \TH STRIKES FOOD FORAGE Another Critically il Parents Cu d Food From sand Cans ho Was Insufficient 5 Self with Gasoline, D $s atch and Dres)f igies -Fo! BOY, 16, HANGS MINSELF. n Applicants, Most ot Wives an Page Five aca ANS gia Corporations To Split Melons to Stock-¥. olders Today. fo nent, Be WULLETIN id (Uowing the Séerond sd Brena Jobless for Year; oF nds Life ii in Home of criminal yndicalen, police Riot and bloodshed Joyed at noon today on tl 4 Mothers. fing, Second and Broadw Demand Freedom { for Kidnapped Bulgarian Leader ; NEW YORK—In response to an| appeal from the International Secre- tariat of the League Against Im- perialism, the Anti-Imperijalist League of the United States has sent a cable to Prime’ Minister Muchanoff of Bulgaria demanding the release of the Macedonian Communist leader, Kavrakirov, kidnapped by the same fascist band which murdered Andria- nov two months ago. The League has also sent state- | ments protesting against the terror in Bulgaria to Deputies Traikoff and Martulkoff, as well as to Bulgarian newspapers. All anti-imperialist or- ganizations are asked to join the League in its campaign to save the! lives of Kavrakiroff and two depu- | ties also in danger. The campaign is being conducted in co-operation with the Macedonian Peoples’ League, Detroit, and the Bulgarian Macedonian Educational Club, New York. Workers and workers’ organiza- tions are called on to protest against the kidnapping of Kayrakiroff, the threatened attacks upon the lives of the Deputies Traikoff and Martul+ koff, the murder of more than 2,000 Macedonian workers and the cam- paign of terror instituted by the Macedonian fascist organization, Imro. Protests should be cabled to Prime. Minister ssw “Bofia, Bulgaria, POWERS IN WAR MOVE ON USSR. (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE} claim that the puppet state of Man- choukuo is an expression of the free will of the people of Manchuria. Draw Germany Into Anti-U. S. 8. R. Front Through the “gentleman’s agree- ment” signed at Lausanne and the new Anglo-French pact, the European Powers moved to clear the repara- tions questions out of the way in order to draw Germany into the anti-Soviet front. The readiness of the German junkers and fascist to join an anti- Soviet alliance was already expressed by the German Chancellor von Papen in the early days of the Lausanne conference on war debts and repara- tions. Von Papen offered such an al- liance in exchange for concessions on reparations. The violence and@’terror of the von Papen government, the fascist reaction in Germany, are di- rected toward crushing the opposi- tion of the German toiling masses to the anti-Soviet front. The von Papen statement of yesterday pretending op- position “to the formation of a united front either against the United States or Soviet Russia, or other powers” is a pre-election concealment of the anti-Soviet aims of the German fas- cists. Von Papen has in mind the hostility of the German masses to- wards armed intervention against the Soviet Union. His statement is also a manouyer in regard to the United States and the European drive for the cancellation of the war debts owed to the United States. Sharpened Antagonisms The attempt to wipe out repara- tions at the expense. of the United States has further sharpened the antagonisms between France and. England on one hand, and the United Stataes on other, , The Wall Street +Government yesterday. warned the European powers that it would resist the concerted attempt to force can- cellation of the European war debts to America. The move is led by France and England, and supported by Italy and Belgium, “Morgan Must Get His” Faced with the impossibility of col- Jecting all the war debts, the Wall Street Government is talking vaguely of willingness to make concessions on the basis of the “capacity to pay.” It is, however, firmly opposed wiping out of the private war debts to J. P. Morgan and other big bankers, Any concessions it is forced to make will be on the gove:nmental loans, thus placing the burden of debt re- vision on tke backs of the Amorican the potty bour- ‘FOSTER AT BIG ST. LOUIS ‘MEET Jobless Force $200,000 for Relief (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) ses,” Foster urged the building of the St. Louis Unemployed Councils and the strengthening of the Communist Party as the best means of forcing concessions from the bosses. 65, Stel OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla, July 15. “Alfalfa Bill Murray has been cam- paigning throughout the country tel- ling what he is doing, but what has he done in Oklahoma to relieve the suffering of the workers and farm- ers?” asked William Z. Foster of an audience of 1,500 workers, many of whom were Negroes and jobless oil workers. Foster pointed out how Murray had attacked Roosevelt as one controlled by Wall Street in the nominating campaign, while he is now calling on the workefs to support the democratic nominee. The Commu- nist candidate for president attacked the Socialist Party, specifically ekpos- ing the role of Oscar Ameringer, the local socialist buffoon and journalis- tic prostitute who edits the “Ameri- can Guardian,” and who was a flunkey for the corrupt Walker-Fish- wick machine which helped to pues tle the Illinois miners. ~ $.P. Joins JimCrow Policy. Foster emphasized the reactionary attitude of the Socialist Party to- ward the Negro massés and their support of the Jim-Crow system. Much of Foster’s speech was devoted to exposing the Oklahoma Jim Crow and segregation system as a part of the capitalist, system and against the workers. Foster then proceeded to destroy the theories of “white super- jority” and “Negro domination” as excuses for the frightful oppression and persecution of the Negro mas- ses and explained the economic bas- is of Negro suppression and the Com- munist Party’s slogan of rights and self-determination for the Black Belt.” ‘Foster's points on the Negro question was well taken by the white workers, and there was fre- quent applause. Describe Suffering in City. J. I. Widden, Communist candidate for U. S. Senate followed Foster. He sketched the conditions of the un- employed in Oklahoma City, citing instances where the workers are kept in camps, under military discipline, and called on the workers to organize and resist such practices. He also cited one ¢ase of & working class mother who was forced to give birth to a child under a viaduct While the authorities were spending money for feeding lions in the 200, G. E. Taylor, Negro worker, and candidate for congressifan-at-large, made a stitring speech against the present starvation system and called on the Negro and white workers to unite and fight. “Hoover spends $4,000 a year for milk,” declared Tay- lor, “while the children’ of the un- employed are starving!” ~ Many workers joined tle Commu- nist Party after the meeting. i geoisie. The present manouvers, the exer- cise of economic and ‘political press- ure-on the United States, seek to bridge the difficulties surrounding the reparations question, The imperialist powers have in mind, so far as they can control events, to submerge their sharpening antagonismns in order to strengthen the anti-Soviet front and carry out their criminal aims for a joint attack on the Soviet Union. Study the 14th Plenum Resolutions. | Get a copy of the new Pamphlet, “Toward Revolutionary Mass Work” ‘ime “Equal | f Jobless Councils Send Food to Vets Responding to the call of the National Committee, Unemployed Councils of New York, Philadel- phia, Baltimore and other nearby towns are gathering food and smokes to be sent to the jobless ex-servicemen in Washington, Cereals, canned-food, preserves, etc., and tobacco and writing pa- | per are most urgently needed. All workers in these cities are | asked to help in the gathering of these supplies and to bring them | to the nearest Unemployed Coun- cil headquarters. A delegation elected by the Ni | tional Committee of the Councils will deliver these supplies and fraternal greetings to the Bonus Marchets some time next week. CHALLENGE YOUNG. WISC. SOCIALISTS Mary Himoft To Ex- pose Betrayals Mary Himoff, member of the Na- tional Committee of the Young Ce unist League, will speak in Milwaukee, August 8th in behalf of Foster and Ford. This meeting is part of a national tour to mobilze the youth in support of the Commu- | nist Election Program . In Milwaukee, Mary Himoff will charge the Young Peoples Socialist League and the Socialist Party with disarming the e coming imper- 5, lalist war and be- fraying them for the boss class. She will point out how the “socialist” city waukee H miltary training. the recent resolu- tion voted by so- cialist Supervisors | with the added vote of Frank Met- time off to go to military camp for two weeks, She wil also expose be- fore the young workers of Milwaukee, the hunger and slugging program of “socialist” Mayor Moan, fully sup- ported by the leadership of the Young Peoples Socialist League. At her meeting she wil call on the leaders of the Young Peoples Social- ist League. At her meeting she will call on ithe leaders of the Young Peoples So- cialist League to defend their staid and the treacherous election pro- gram of the Socialst Party before the young workers of Milwaukee. The tour includes uch important cities a Madison on August 4th; West Allis on August 5th; Racine on Aug- ust 6th; an outing in Milwaukee and a meeting in Granville on August 7th; her meeting at which she will ndict the YPSL's in Milwaukee on Augtist 8th; Beloit ,Wis. on August 9th; mass meeting on the South Side of Chicago together with Tony Minetich on August 10th; and a mass meeting on the Chicago West Side on August 11. RUSSIAN PEASANTS’ HANDICRAFTS | 100 East 14th St., N. Y. C. Hcl aint from U.S.8.1t, (Mussina) Slgareties, | Simocks, Toys, Tea, Wooenrving, ork 4-094 haley Ta jequered Phone ALgonqui .| mass meeting of veterans held on the young workers ‘for | government of Mil-/ advocates | She will point to| calf, socialist candidate for Governor | of Wisconsin, requesting that all Mil- | waukee county employees be allowed | ART SHOP | RANK AND FILE Prepare Huge Aug. Ist VETS IN MARCH Calling Marines Fails to Terrorize Vets (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) | |rank and file. Along with banners demanding immediate cash payment of the bonus were placards calling for a struggle against imperialist war. One banner demanded unemploy- | | Ment insurance for the jobless. | | This is the first time that pla- | ecards of this nature Were carried on the capitol grounds since the Na-| tional Hunger March last December. | Smith, leader of the Workers Ex- Servicemen’s League from Detroit, was marshal of the parade. George Pace, Commander of the 14th Reg- iment of the B.EF., was chairman |of the meeting at the Capitol. Aftef the vets artived at the Cap-| itol a mecting was held and 36 rank| and file marchers, fepresenting 36 states, were elected to present the | demands to Congress. Ten Negro | Veterans were on the delegation. } The committee proceeded to the office o f the Vice-President where they presented their demands. The committee reported back to aj steps of the Congressional Library. George Pace, Johnson, a Negro vet from New York, McKinney, “Levin |and Stember addressed the meeting. | Pace flayed the Waters’ leadership and was cheered when he said that the fight for the bonus will go on j under real rank and file leadership, | despite all enemy attempts to defeat it. | All the vets who marched in the |parade joined with the mass pick- eting of the Capitol following the meeting on the Library steps. The Rank and File Committee has | called a broad united front ‘confer-| ence to be held the early part of next week, Army Increases. Meanwhile the army of veterans | | continues to increase, in spite of the |statements in the press that over a} | thousand’6f th emen have gone home. | {Most of the yeterans here have no| home to go to. |Hoover Takes Pay Cut; | Now Must Struggle on Measly $85,000 a Year WASHINGTON, D. C., July 15— | The first of a series of pre-election publicity stunts, President Hoover to- | ‘day cut his salary by 20 per éent in an attempt to smother the national | indignation at the tax bill recently | foisted upon the country by Congress. Hoover at the same time announced that the under-secretaries would have | their salaries cut 10 per cent and the | assistants 9 per cent. | The president will now have to struggle along as best he can on $60,000 a year, aside from the $25,000 | Which he receives annually for “ex- | | penses.” Fear that Hoover ahd his family might suffer privations as a result, is allayed by the knowledge that Hoover Still has many millions stored up as a result-of shady mining promotion in China and elsewhere and similar ac- tivities during the past 30 years, YOUNGSTOW AWAIT MOTHER MOONEY i | YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio., July 15.— When Mother Mooney and Richard B Moore arrive hers next. Monday they j will be received at the railroad station | by several hundred workers. Imme-!| diately after the reception a demon- | stration will be held at Telegram Sq. | A mass meeting will be held in the| evening at the Contral Auditorium. Avanta Farm ULSTER PARK, NEW YORK WORKERS RECREATION PLACE RATES: $12.00 and $10.00 ee chickens and all gtowing for guests DIRECTIONS West her For week-efds 83.75 round Albany 9W_ Rout 8) spite) Grevbound Bus ‘Terinteel. enindoat to Kingston to Ulster Park Ye by train. train. By DAILY WORKER 50 B. 18th St. N.Y. C. NAME ‘ABDETSS Contribute to the $100,600 Fighting Fund of the Communist Election Campzign 1 enelese the follow!tiz, conieviion . ongtration of unm : fourth floor af. the Frost : ' phere a brane of the Count . Anti-War Action in Cities of Middle West |Hoover Hunger and War Government Spend- ing Millions for War 1,600 Canadian Workers Score Imperialist War Call for U.S.S.R. Defense (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) ers, the enormous strides in education, | physical culture, health conditions, Government will spend $500,000 at the | etc. Navy Yard and Base, the Hampton Roads Naval Air Station, the explo- | Sive loading plant and the St. Juliens Creek Ammunition Station. This huge expenditure was authorized by Cogeress under the pretext of un- employment “relief.” ‘The hypocrisy of this move is shown by the fact that much of the funds for these expenditures will come out of the wages of the Navy Yard work- ers, who are being given forced “va- cations” without pay. Service men are also being used to a considerable extent to take the places of civilian employes. “Relief” Fund Spent on War WASHINGTON, July 15.—A total | of teh million dollars of the so-called “relief” fund will be spent on the “yards and docks” branch of the navy to speed up war preparations. This does not include the appropriations for the army and for other war pur- poses, Ce ye, Canada Prepares August First VANCOUVER, B. C., July 15—| Walter Larson, longshoreman mem- ber of the American workers delega- | tion to the Soviet Union, reported to a meeting of 1600 Canadian workers at the Royal Theatre on the gigantic achievements of socialist construction in the Soviet Union. He told of the | huge engineering undertakings suc-} jcessfully cartied through, steady improvement of the material and aoe conditions of the work-j of the] | | | He stressed the firm peace policy of the Soviet Union and pointed to the growing provocations of the Jap- anese militarists, supported by other imperialists. The workers unanimous- ly adopted the following. resolution to be sent to the Canadien Prime Minister and the Minister of Defense jat Ottawa: “We, 1,600 workers assembled on July 10 in the Royal Theatre, Van- couver, protest against thé shipping of war materials to Japan to be used against the Chinese Peéple and the workers and farmers of the US.S.R.” Pe enn British War Maneuvers WEYMOUTH, Ehgiand, July 15— British imperialism brushed wp its war fleet with @ royal sham battle in which 17,000 men, 60 vessels and @ score of airplanes participated. King George, symbol of British tmperial- ist oppression, looked oh approvingly from the yacht “Victoria.” Submar- ines dived alongside the royal yacht to show their sinister effectiveness in sinking merchant ships loaded with civilian passengers. The warships fired numerous salvos from their fif- teen inch guns, at a Cost per salvo of $5,000 to the toiling British masses and enslaves colonial peoples. 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