The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 18, 1932, Page 1

| | j pent I | ¥ _— VOTE COMMUNIST FOR 1. Unemployment and Social Insurance at the ex- pense of the state and employers. Against Hoover’s wage-cutting policy. Emergency relief for the poor farmers without restrictions by the government and banks; ex- Dail Central Orga e-Conn Frumict Norker | Party U.S.A. VOTE CO: Against capitalist suppression of the 7 f MMUNIST FOR Equal rights for the Negroes and self-determin- ation for the Black Belt. terror; against all forms of political rights of workers. emption of poor farmers from taxes, and no 6. Against imperialist war; for the defense of foreed collection of rents or debts. < the Chinese people and of the Soviet Union. (Section of the Communist Ineroationa) “Vol IX, No. 170 Po Eatered as second-class matter at the Pust Office AT Tap puke gt New York, N. ¥.. ander the act of March 3, 1979 NEW _YORK, MONDAY, JULY 18, 1932, St. Louis Police Baie JoblessW orker to Death Was Jailed With 47 Others Following Police Assault on 15,000 Unem- ployed Demanding Immediate Relief for Hungry Suicide Result of Third-Degree; St. Louis Unemployed Councils Un- dertake Mass Mobilization Campaign of Jobless HUNGRY WORKERS| FINED $50 EACH BY MAYOR'S TOOL Emergency Conference Called for Fight; Back Aug. 1 St. LOUIS, July 17.—His mind deranged by the vicious slugging and third-degree re- ceived at the hands of the po- lice, Thomas Breezly, one of the 48 workers arrested here following the murderous at- tack upon 15,000 unemployed workers who demanded imme- diate relief, yesterday commit- ted suicide. Breezly had been freed on bond with the other workers after they had beon subjected to a severe grilling. After leaving the jail the workers charged that they were severely beat- en. Police Responsible The Communist Party and the Un- employed Councils, leaders of the fight of the joblpess in St. Louis, in \a sharp statement today charged that j responsibility for the death of Breez- __ ly lies squarely with Mayor Miller and ‘his police department. O. T. Rem- ‘“qmeers, “police commissioner, had “placed his seal of approval on the po- lice attack which resulted in four workers being shot and scores in- jured and gassed. “In my opinion the police acted admirably,” h esaid. The appropriation of $200,000 for relief was the immediate result of , the demonstration last Monday which compelled the city administration to ‘net. Jobless Fined Judge Blaine, appointee of the mayor, has already fined a number jof the arrested workers, including un- employed women and Negro workers, '$50 each, and threatens that he will {give other workers “the limit.” In |eouse the demonstrators charged that they had been beaten up and kicked by police while in jail. Replying to'this attack on the job- {less, the St. Louis Unemployed Coun- jcils have undertaken a mass mobil- jization campaign of Negro and white iWorkers, organizing block committees jand intensifying the struggle for 'fo0d. An emergency conference ‘of jall working class organizations is be- ‘ing called, which will at the same time urge the widest participation in jthe August 1st demonstrations being ‘Id throughout the world in the fight ‘against hunger, terror and war. 2,000 IN PHILA. HEAR J. W. FORD (Powers Tells | of 60,000 Jobless in City PHILADELPHIA, July 17.—Preced- ed by an enthusiastic recetion ‘at the ‘station and a parade through the ptreets of the city, a meeting at which James W. Ford, vice-presidential can- lidate of the Communist Party, was chief speaker, brought a crowd of workers. Led by a band followed by Ford the reception committee, three \dred- workers, carrying banners, jouting slogans and singing? revolu- ary songs, paraded from the sta- lion around the City Hall and down ine blocks to the Metropolitan Op- House. Of the 2,000 workers in he hall, more than 400 were Negroes. Recent developments in the Negro tion roused tremendous sentiment the meeting. Magistrate Ed. eee @ Negro eviction judge, who ad jailed 47 workers for fighting an jon had attacked the Communist and the Young Communiet. and spread slanders that hite girls were being paid $10 cash entice Negro youths into the revo- tionary movement. Denounce Slanders. ‘This aroused a storm of indignation fs the workers, and even the jegro bourgeois condemned him. ONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) Negro Misleader CONGRESSMAN ~ OSCAR De PRIEST who made no move to stop cops when they fired into a crowd of workers demonstrating in front of his offices in Chicago. 8,000 IN CHICAGO EXPOSE DE PRIEST Workers Fired on;Slug 9-Year Old Pioneer CHICAGO, Ill, July 17.—Firing into the crowd and savagely beating men, women and children, the police red squad yesterday broke up a dem- onstration of eight thousand workers in front of the office of Congressman De Priest, republican representative of the Negro bourgeoisie, at 3439 So. State St. The demonstration was held in pro- test against the evictions of unem- ployed Negro workers by De Priest, who is one of the richest landlords in Chicago, against his opposition to the payment of the veterans bonus and unemployment relief, his fight against social equality for the Negro masses and similar betrayals of the interests of the Negro toilers, When police pulled speakers off the stand, other speakers took their place at the elevated station and on roofs of houses. Comrades Davis and De- cember and a section organizer of the Young Communist League were pulled off a roof and arrested. Workers fought back with sticks and stones when police began their vicious attack, with bullets and clubs. It is not known yet whether any one was shot. Smash Head of 9-Year-Old ‘The cops smashed the head of Mary Carter, nine-year-old Pioneer of 434 Langley Street. Eight thousand workers participated in the demonstration and a thousand in the march to Congressman De Priest’s offices. More than one-third were youths and two hundred were children. Herbert Newton, Negro Communist candidate against De Priest, led the demonstration, which was held under the auspices of the Young Communist League and the Young Pioneers. Scores of workers have been ar- rested sin the réign of terror which followed the Red Squad attack on the demonstration. Demonstrate ‘Today. in Yonkers Against Suppressing of Meets YONKERS, N, Y,, July 17.—A dem- onstration against the refusal of the right of. the Yonkers Unemployed Council to hold street meetings will be held Monday at 8 p.m. at Park- hill and Linden St. Because of the struggle carried on in the Seventh Ward by the Unem- ployed Council, which exposed Al- derman Calcagno and starvation con- ditions in the word, Police Commis- sioner Quirk has denied workers the right to hold meetings, calling the demonstrations “unhealthy’—for the politicians. A protest meeting was held Friday night to prepare for the demonstration Monday to fight boss terror and all forms of supression of the political rights of workers. End the “Daily's” isolation from the masses—60,000 readers by No- PROTESTS SWEEP CHINA AGAINST RUEGG “TRIAL” Mrs. Ruegg Tells of Threats, Beatings In Jail BULLETIN (Cable by Inprecotr) SHANGHAI, July 17—The Ruegg Defense Committee, headed by Ma- dame Sun Yatsen, branded as a lie the report circvxated by the Reuter Agency of British imperialism alleg- ing that the Rueggs had discon ued their hunger strike. The com- mittee scores this Iie as a fresh maneuver to shake the ranks of world-wide mass defense of the Rueggs. As a result of the torture of the Rueggs by the Nanking Government and their long hunger strike, Paul and Gertrude Ruegg are at the point of death, (By Inprecorr Cable.) BERLIN, July 17.—The Nanking } government is preparing to resume the farcical “trial” of Paul and Ger- trude Ruegg (Noulens) in the ab- sence of the two defendants who are in the fourteenth day of a hunger} strike. The government has refused te permit their transfer to a Shang- hai hospital, stating that the danger of sympathetic demonstrations would be too great. Mistreated and tor- tured for® the past 13 months since their arrival early last year, the two workers are critically ill: Mass Protest. Their savage treatment by the Nanking butchers has aroused tre- mendous mass protest in China and throughout the whole world. Thirty- two prominent Chinese proletarian writers have addressed a statement to the Nanking government demand- (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) Mike Gold Unmasks Hoan of Milwaukee —An Interview Michael Gold, working-class writer, visited Milwaukee re- cently. He interviewed Daniel Hoan, Socialist mayor of Milwaukee. Gold asked him some pertinent questions: forced labor, the club- | | bing of jobless workers, the widespread misery of the un- employed, the real meaning of Milwaukee's “business admigis- tration,” Gold calls his article, “Out of Their Own Mouths: an Inter- view with Hoan.” Read the expose of this “model city” in the Daily Worker this Wednesday. Districts, order extra bundles; workers, order a copy for yourself and one for your shopmate or friend. Gave New Billions 1 3. down the standards of life. The Central Committee of the C The Communist Party calls upon cities and neighborhoods, Slashing Attacks on Workers Congress refused to pay the Bonus while thousands of ex-service- men surged around the Capitol in stormy protest. Denied relief to the millions of unemployed but passed the Gar- ner-Wagner bill granting new billions to the bankers, Passed an inflation bill of $1,000,000,000—thus embarking on a course that will raise the cost of livingsto the masses and further beat Boss Congress Adjourns to Bankers; Made ‘ommunist Party in a statement is- sued today (see Page 3), denounces the actions of Congress and the Re- publican, Democratic and Socialist parties responsible for them. It calls upon the masses to demand a special session of Congress to grant the bonus, immediate relief and social insurance. the veterans to continue their fight in Washington, putting forward a militant rank and file leadership, and combining their fight at Washington with the struggle at home in the It urges the veterans to enroll in the fight against imperialist war and demonstrate with the workers throughout the country on August 1. GREEN “DEFENDS” WORKERS HE SOLD Aided U. 8. Wage Cuts of Federal Employees ATLANTIC CITY, July 15.—Bitter resentment of hundreds of thousands of Federal employees against the A. F. of L. bureaucrats for their aid to the government’s wage slashing cam- paign, forced William Green, A. F. of L. president, to maneuver yesterday in “defense” of the rights of these workers to organize protest and resis. tance against the wage slashes he himself helped to put over. Green and other A. F. of L. heads, together with La Follette, Wheeler, Norris, Mead, La Guardia and other “progressives” in Congress, supported the Economy Conference Report which has been adopted by the House and Senate. The Economy Conference Report cuts $150,00,000 from govern- mental expenses during the year of July, 1932, to July, 1933. Of this sum $100,000,000 was robbed from the wages of the poorer paid government employees. In addition, these workers are being forced to take one month’s furlough without pay. Each worker loses the 15 days annual vacation with pey that he got in the past. A joker In the bill further provides for “indefinite furloughs” (plain dis- charge’, whenever in the opinion of a department head the staff of his department has to decrease due to insufficient appropriations. This joker particularly affects the postal em- ployees. The United States Civil Service Service Commission and Postmaster General Brown have decided that the workers cannot express opposition or organize resistance to this attack on their livelihood. They are barred from expression of opinion on political matters, such as the bill slashing their wages. This has brought a sham protest from Mr. Green, who is now seeking to rehabilitate himself in the eyes of the 600,000 Federal employees he betrayed. Green admits that the action of the Civil Service Commis- sion and the Postmaster General “is in sharp contrast with the recent activity of Assistant Postmaster Gen- eral Glover, who called upon ail ap- pointed postmasters to actively sup- port the candidacy of President Hoover.” PAYS DIVIDEND; CUTS WAGES BALTIMORE, Md., July 15.—'Khe Safe Deposit and Trust Co. recently declared a regular dividend of ap- proximately $125 a share and forced BOSSES LIKE MR. DUBINSKY’S PLAN Left Wing Group to} Meet Today NEW YORK.—The leaders of the Internatiomnal Ladies’ siderable publicity during the past weeks to their plans for ‘a “model strike” to iron out ‘misunderstand- ings,” today declared that they were ready to “straighten out” matters through mediation. The leaders of the International stated that they are ready for media- tion and that they were pleased to know that the Tammany Lieut. Gov- ernor Lehman had offered to act as mediator. The leaders of the Jobbers’ Asso- ciation declared that they have noth- ing against some sort of limitation of contractors. This is one of the demands being put forward by the union~ inorder to fool the workers. In other words, there is nothing left for them to mediate any longer. It is clear, however, whether the union calls a stoppage or mediates everything is already settled between the bosses and the Dubinsky clique. A stoppage, if it is called, will be in order to collect extort taxes and dues from the unsuspecting union mem- bers and strengthen the position of the bosses’ association. ‘The cloakmakers will carry through a mobilization for a real strike at a meeting called Monday afternoon at the Cooper Union Hall by the Central Committee of the Left Wing Group of the International. All clokamakers are urged to attend this meeting to discuss plans for a strike to bring about piece-work and the unioniza- tion of the trade. Defeat Police In Minneapolis Eviction Fight: 400 Mobilize MINNEAPOLIS, Minn, — Four hundred workers of the south side of the city stopped the cops from taking the furniture of an unem- ployed worker to storage and selling it at auction Thursday. The masses of workers marched to the home of the worker, 12th St. and 22nd. Ave. under the leadership of the, Unemployed Council, The committee representing the workers demanded that the Welfare give the worker one full month rent and expenses to move into another house. all employees to submit to a five per cent wage cut. The result was that the workers won a victory. Garment| Workers’ Union, who have given con- ” Price 3 Cents CONGRESS RUSHES THRU NEW BILLIONS FOR BANKS; NO BONUS, NO RELIEF ~ Inflation Bill Passed New Help to nacken aad A One Billion Dollar Wage-Cutting VETS STORM U.S. CAPITOL BUILDING Pace Leads. Picketing| Demonstration WASHINGTON, D. C., July 17— Herbert Hoover left the capital hur- riedly after breakfast this morning for his camp in Rapidan, following an announcement that the war vets have planned to march to the | White House to demand an extra session of Congress to pass the bonus bill. | The White House is under a war- time guard. All throughout the day angry crowds surged. around the streets in the vicinity of the Presi- dent’s home. | WASHINGTON, D. C., July 17.— The Congress of the United States, under the heaviest police-and mili- tary guard in the history of the cap-! ital, slammed the door last night on} {the Bonus Expeditionary Forces and} adjourned without voting a cent for the payment of the soldiers bonus. The closing of Congress was pre- ceeded yesterday afternoon by a mili- tant demonstration of masses of for- mer soldiers in front of the capitol. Telling the veterans to continue the fight, the Central Committee of the Communist Party, in a forceful call. (see page 3) urged the men to rally their forces under rank and file lead- ership and demand a special session of congress to pass the bonus bill and unemployment insurance for the mil- lions of jobless and to prepare for mighty August First anti-war dem- onstrations. Throughout the day yesterday, over 7,000 hungry and determined march- ed around the capitol. The men ig- nored the cordon of police which was | drawn up around the building. They booed Pelham D. Glassford, Washing- ton’s police chief and jeered the hand picked leader, ‘7. W. Waters. George Pace, leader of the Workers (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) Polish Workers ; dj Hold Cotton Miil 4 Days in Siege WARSAW, July 17. — It took police four days of siege to recapture the big Krusche Ender cotton mill in Pabjanice, near Lodz, when 3,400 workers occupied the building and refused to leave until a wage-cut or- der had been withdrawn, ‘The workers held the factory, per- mitting only their wives and chil- dren to enter with food. Trade union misleaders pleaded w:th them to quit, but the workers sent them packing. The police then attacked with tear gas bombs. The factory was closed indefinitely. By WILLIAM Z. FOSTER (Communist Candidate for President) For years past the workers of St. Louis have submitted without seri- ous resistance to rapidly worsening conditions. Especially is this true since the onset of the economic cri- sis. But now the workers have woke up with a bang. At present they are in a state of deep foment and ac- tive movement. The big demonstra- tions of the unemployed on July 8 (5,000) and July 11 (15,000) were un- paralleled in the history of this city. The movement now developing among the St. Louis workers is full of the greatest possibilities. It is, together with the National Bonus March, an outstanding signa) of the growing fighting. spirit of the American working Class and of the big strug- gles looming ahead. It is a striking demonstration of our ability to set vember L. | in motion mass movements of the workers where we correctly apply WE MUST FOLLOW ST. “St, Louis Demonstration Sent Shiver Through Capitalist Class’ Class” LOUIS, SAYS FOSTER the Party line, Stop Hunger Program. The situation in St. Louis was very WM, like that to be found in hundreds of other cities. The unemployed were on’ a starvation relief system. when the capitalist government, rather than raise tax rates, proceeded dras- tically to cut the relief. Among such measures was the arbitrary dropping of 15,000 families from the relief lists. This meant to throw at least 75,000 people immediately into starv- ation. In many cities the capitalist gov- ernments are getting away scathless with these inhuman relief reductions. But not so in St. Louis. The Party and the Unemployed Councils were on the job. Prior to the relief reduc- tions they had been carrying on ac- tive work among the. unemployed by the holding of publiz hearings, fighting against evictions, carrying on general agitation, popularizing the demands of the unemployed, etc. Hence, as soon as the relief reduc- tions went into effect the Unem- ployed Councils were able to respond with a fighting policy. The time was well chosen and the demands appro- priate. Consequently, the masses re- extreme militancy. The story of their brave struggle, in which they sent many police to the hospital in the face of attacks by tear gas, guns, etc. has already been told in the Daily Worker, Four workers were shot and 48 arrested. New “Spirit of St. Louis” The demonstrations had such a mass character and were so mili- tant that the city government be- trayed genuine alarm. The newspa- pers warned of the rising spirity of resistance among ‘he workers. A shiver of apprehension swept through the capitalist class. They got a taste of the unsuspected fighting spirit of the workers. The “Spirit of St. Louis” took on a new meaning. Hence con- cessions had to be made to the un- (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) sponded in great numbers and with | First Anti-War Day Authors of Boss Relief Bill } 1 Senator Robert F, Wagner of New | York and Speaker Garner have been playing capitalist politics with misery. These two gentlemen were sponsors of the bankers’ relief bill which was passed before Congress adjourned. Not a cent for real relief for the unemployed was voted at this session of Congress. DIES BILL IS NOT VOTED BY SENAT Doak Anti-Labor Drive Goes On WASHINGTON, D. C., July 17.— Blocked by a national protest move- ment in which thousands of workers, farmers and intellectuals took part, the Dies Bill for the exclusion and deportation of militant foreign-born workers, had not been passed when the Senate adjourned here last night. Doak Raids Continue. The fact thatthe Dies bill has not yet been passed by the Senate—and re-convenes in December—is not pre- venting Secretary of Labor Doak from continuing his frenzied deporta- tion drive. The continued arrests of workers is serving as a warning ainst a false sense of victory re- rding the Dies Bill. It is clear that while the passage Doak and his agents will continue their campaign against militant labor, at the same time pushing for the passage of the bill at the first oppor- tunity. i Backed By Fish. The bill having been reported fa- vorably by the judiciary committee, it reached the Senate calendar on June 27, but action was deferred by the objection of Senator La Follette, who, conscious of the 50-odd protest meetings in his own state, Wisconsin, alone, made a gesture against the bill ‘The Dies Bill, sponsored by Con- gressman Hamilton Fish as part of |the anti-labor program outlined fol- lowing the “investigation” which he conducted, was introduced in the House of Representatives by Martin Dies, a Texas congressman, on June 6 and rushed through. The rules of the House were sus- pended in order to push the measure through, Congressman Dickstein of New York, who for years has been parading as a professional “friend of the poor” in the tenement house dis- trict from which he was elected, sec- onded the bill with a venomous at- tack on militant workers. Fight Organized. Immediately upon the passage of the bill the Communist Party, the International Labor Defense and the | Council for the Protection of the For- eign Born launched into a vigorous campaign against the measure, or- ganizing hundreds of protest meet- ings throughout the country, and flooding the Senate with thousands of telegrams and resolutions. So great was the protest that Vice President Curtis was compelled to acknowledge it officially from the floor of the Senate. BUILD BLOCK COMMITTEES CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., July 15.— The building of block committees was stressed at a meeting of 135 Negro and white workers in the new Work- ers Center. Several block committees are already organized, and 17 work- ers reported that they wished to build committees if their-blocks, ~),, | wage-cut act and | bankers and manufacturers’ cannot be considered until Congress | of the bill would make easier the de- | portation drive against the workers, | Communists Demand Extra Session of Congress; Rally for August "WORKERS SAY STOP BANK GRABS, All Funds for Jobless Insurance WASHINGTON, D. C., July Advising the hungry millions 17.— of | American workers to starve quietly. | the sleek, wel!-fed Corgressmen and Senators packed up their baggage last night and prepared to leave the capital for a five months vacation: | ‘The Seventy-second Congress ad- journed at 11:26 o'clock following the passage of a billion dollar !nflation a $2,122,000,000 relief | bill (misnamed unemployment re- | lier). The last act of the Congressmen was to pass the “relief” bill. The measure provides not a cent for un- | employment relief, not a cent. for un- employment insurance, but for loans | to individuals (bankers) and private | esneer. The bill also increases to 800,000,000 the capitalization of the Sete tn Finance Corporation. | which recently gave to the Dawes | bank a nest egg of $80,000,000. Of the $300,000,000 which may be advanced as loans to states for public building projects not more than 15 per Cent is to go to any one state. Of the $1,500,000,000 fund for'so-called self- liquidating public works, only $136,- 000,000 are mandatory. The rest. of the funds goes under the control of the Secretary of the Treasury. Along with the passage of the bankers relief bill, the Senators heed~ ing their masters, rushed through the billion dollar currency expansion bill, which is in reality a currency infla- tion scheme designed to bring down the real wages of the workers em- ployed in industry. Congress has thus accomplished the inflation of currency whiclt for the past several months it pretended to be violently opposed to. The billion dollar inflation will re- duce the value of the dollar and bring about an {ncrease in the cost of liv- ing. Along with the new direct wage cuts, which are taking place the wages of the workers will be further drastically reduced through the new tax laws passed by Congress. NEW PAINT SHOP OUT ON STRIKE Greenburger Shop Wins Victory NEW YORK.—Painters of the Renovating Painting Corporation, working for the New York Title and Mortgage Co., are striking under the leadership of the Alteration Painters’ Union. A. F. of L. painters.on the job have joined the strike. A call for a united front strike with pickets at every house. The Al- teration Painters’ Union leaders de+ clared today that there will be no settlement until the workers in the shop approve of the settlement. The strike at the.E. and S. Paint~ ing Co. is continuing solid. The men called down by the A. F. of L. called for the leadership of the Alteration Painters’ Union. ‘The Trosky shop called down by the A. F. of L. has also called for the leadership of the Alteration Pailjters’ Union. The Greenberger shop, Wnere a strike has been called, has been settled, the workers winning a sweep- ing victory. Two Drown; Heat to Go Up Today NEW YORK. — High humidity drove hundreds of thousands of workers to the beaches yesterday. Coney Island, despite its ruins, was host to a huge Sunday crowd, and about 300,000 visited the Rockaways. Walter Korzinsky, 19, drowned while swimming at Oceanside, L. I. and Joseph Romeo, ties was drowned