The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 18, 1932, Page 3

DAILY WORKER. NEW YORK, MONDAY. ULY 18, 1932 Page Three ON WITH THE FIGHT FOR VETS’ BONUS AND SOCIAL INSURANCE LAUSANNE FAILS TO REACH AIMS SOVIET PRESS Reparations Problem Remains Unsolved While | Imperialist Antagonisms Sharpen Workers of World to Demonstrate August 1st Against Imperialist War Drive By MYRA PAGE (European Correspondent for the Daily Worker) July 17.—The Soviet press in commenting widely on the Lausanne conference estimates that the confer- | ence failed miserably to accomplish any of its originally pro- fessed aims. It is held that the agreements arrived at in Lau- sanne only succeeded in further complicating the reparations juestion, increasing imperialist ® MOSCOW, antagonisms and bringing nearer their catastrophic out- come. Four Conference Results In a perietrative article appearing in today’s “Pravda”, Ludwig Madyar summarizes conférénce’s results 4s follows: “When ttanslated into language of international politics, the Lausanne agreement exposes that first between France afid England is made an agreement against the United States en one hand and on the other against Germany. The former entente be- tween France and England is in sig- nificant part re-established. Second, England and France succeeded al- though hot very stibstantially in cre- e'ing a Bloc of these two powers with Japan, Italy, Belgium and others on the avestions of reparations and al- Ted debts, aimed partly arainst Ger- many, partly against the United States: ‘United Eufopean Front” avainst America. Third, France and England in spite of serious contra- dictions existing between them pre- snted joint opposition to the United States, actually defeating Hoover's provosals. Fourth, it is nécessary to take into account that in the Far Fast Japan is leaing on an agreement with France which is fargoing if not actually bent on military and political union. “Meanwhile, the Japanese and English imperialists in spite of sharp diferefices ate tehding to re-establish the Anglo-Japanése Alliance. Maneuvers Against U. S. The English and French manéuver- ing at Lausanne was aimed at cteat- ing a connection between reparations and war debts, which very thing the United States has always opposed. ‘There were counter maneuvers by the Umied States atid protests agaitist this connection of reparations and war debts. The United States has hinted at willingness to negotiate on War debts, but not with groups of na- tions but with each individually, thus aiming 0 split “European United “Front” and utilize imperialist con- tradictions to advance own airths, making own political combinations. Especially by connecting wart debts with armaments question, the United States hopes to attract Germany and Italy. Italy supports the Hoover armament proposal because it is di- rected against France. Germany, left by the Lausanne Conference as an imperialist country without colonies and militarily handicapped, will sup- port the United States against the most highly atmed European powers. “Tt is Clear,” concludes Madyar, “that Lausanne greatly incfeased the antagonisms already existing between the powers and utterly failed to bring i | ian National Socialists, and German | character of industry and its private the reparations question any nearer to solution.” Capitalism—The Main Enemy. At the same time, he exposes the attempts of Lloyd George, the Ger- Social-democratic officials to repre- sent the reparations problem as a basic factor “solving” the present world crisis. He points out that even if Lausanne had succeeded in solving feparations questions, the German toiling masses would not have been freed from their present terrific bur- dens nor would the world crisis of capitalism have disappeared. The efisis is dué to more far-reaching and permanent causes of fundamental contradictions between the social ownership, while the causes of the Special depth and sharpness of this crisis are due to flie fact that the ¢risis Of mohopcli-) capitalistn is oc- curring in a pei od of a general crisis of world capitalism. All bourgeois statesmen consciously confuse this fact in order to mislead the workers and divert their anger from the main enemy: capitalism. in “Daily” Drive The importance of building perma- nent Daily Worker organizations in every district, section and unit of the} Communist Party and ih every mass organization was stressed yesterday by the National Daily Worker Citcu- lation Drive Committee in a qués- tionnaire sent to all Daily Worker representatives, =m The questionnaire explained that while the inimediate material aim of the “Daily’s” present circulation catn- paign is 7,000 new yearly stbscrip- tions and 7,000 paid-in-advance bundle orders, permanent apparatus must be built by November 1 if the paper is to keep and extend the cir-! culation and influence it gains, The questionnaire, consisting of 14 questions. on the organization of| district, seetion and unit forces in the! circulation drive, must be returfied to the National Circulation Drive Com- mittee by July 23, FROM FACTORY 0 FARM / ‘WORKERS BUILD DAILY WORKER 50 B. 1th st. N.Y. 0 ADDRESS ... Contribute to the $160,000 Fighting Fund of the Communist Election Campaign I enclose the following contribution ... Ten Thousand Cheer Ford in Brooklyn Over ten thousand workers gathered on July 9 to hear Jatnes W. Ford, Communist Vice-Presidential canddidate, at the Coney Island Stadium, in Brooklyn, N. ¥. (Center) The candidate carried around the huge stadium on the shoulders of ex-servicemen as the ten thousand cheer, (Top and bettom) James W. Ford addresses the crowd. 2,000 IN PHILA. HEAR J. W. FORD Powers Tells of 60,000 Jobless in City (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) Henry, supported by the banks and Judge Harry McDevitt, notorious strikebreaking judge who railroaded Willie Brown to the electric chair ahd who in 1922 said he wished he could put all Negroes. in Fairmont Park and kill them, “have organized a National Negro Association Against Communism and Atheism.” M. Powers, secretary of the Trade | Union Unity ‘League and candidate for Congress in the Third District, exposed Henty and told of the mass jmecting the night previously, where Henry appeared and tried to dehy charges against him, finally calling upon the police to break up the meet- ing. 60,000 Jobless In City. “There are 600,000 unemployed in Philadelphia,” Powers said, “and 2,000,000 in the state. All relief is cut off; the special session of the Legislature has so far appropriated $400,000 for its own salaries, but nothing for relief.” He said that more than 1,000 job- less workers live on dumps in Phila- delphia, on the Delaware and Schuy- kill rivers, eating garbage, and after a few months their bodies get swol- len. He declared that while no money was being appropriated for relief, $3,000,000 spent by the park com- mission is*unaccounted for. Ths Communist Party, he said, demanding that the $20,000,000 loan made by the city to pay contractors be used for relief. The socialists, he charged, pretend to seek unemploy- ment insurances, having introduced a demand for relief which provides only eight cents a day for an unemployed worker and his family. 1,000 Negroes Hear Ford. A second meeting addressed Sun- day by Ford brotight nearly 1,000 Ne- | gro workers to Mt. Oliver Church to hear‘him. Later he spoke at the election picni¢ ot the Communist Patty at Schutzen Park. TICKETS NOW READY! DISCOUNTS TO ORGANIZATIONS! 250 Tickets . 500 Tickets .. 750 Tickets ...... 1000 Tickets ... PICNIC AUGUST 21st, 19382 Pleasant Bay Cents Each Cents Each ...12% Cents Bach 10. Cents Each Tickets ut Gate Will Be 35 Cents MASS ORGANIZATIONS | Have Your Own Picnic With Us! iHTVS NO MON SEAMOEE Park 'VETS STORM U. S. CAPITOL BUILDING Pace Leads Picketing Demonstration (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) Ex-Servicemen’s League, was with the men all duting the demonstration urging them to keep up the pickét- ing. In-an attempt to bolster the wain- ing prestige of Waters and Doak Car- ter, the two “leaders” who have done their utmost to betray the bonus marchers, police took them in “cus- tody during the demonstration. This trick of arresting stool pigeons to build up their prestige as leaders is an old stunt of the poli¢é often used to crush workers’ movements. Almost 8,000 out of the 10,000 bonus marchers billeted in Anacostia had marched up to Capitol Hill to join the rank and file men from Calif- }and file program in picketing the Capitol. Waiers, almost thoroughly discred- ‘ited, had decided that the must make |@ grandstand play to keep all of the veterans from deserting him. Forced by Rank and File All day Friday, by fives and tens, ‘the veterans at Anacostia, disgrun- tled at being kept in the Anacostia flats by Waters, had been straggling up the Capitol Hill to join in the picketing. Due to the mass pressure raised by the Workers Ex-Service- | men’s League arid the Rank and File Cotmittee (of which Richer, a De- troit veteran is chairman), Robert- is son, Whoiti polic2 chief Glassford has béen booming to take Waters’ place a8 Commander, started the mass pick- eting of the Capitol. Waters, seeing | his dictatorship threatened, and yield- jing to the pressure of the rank and file in Anacostia, also decided to call for mass picketing. On Saturday morhing Waters, with almost all the veterans in Washing- ton on Capitol Hill, announced to the men that he was going in to present a petition to Garner. Fake Petition Unlike the method of the Rank and File Committee, Waters, in usual Mus- solini style, did not either submit the or even tell them what the petition was. He came out soon after and told the vets that Garner had promised to “take up the petition.” He also tried |to kid the vets into thinking that he ‘had gotten a promise that Congress ; would not adjourn. Waters Booed ‘erans, both in the long picket line and on the ¢apitol steps kep booing him. Not only was Watets booed, but the more dangerous anq skillful mis- | jekered also, Applaud Ratk and File This was a contrast to the recep- tion given by the Vets to the seakers on Caitol Hill on Friday at the Rank jand File parade and mass meeting. Pace, McKinley, Levine, Johnson (a Negro vet from New York) received steady applause. On Friday Robert- son had tried to keep the vets under his command away ftom the rank and file mass meeting on the Hill, but they came over despite this and approved and aplauded the rank and file committee's rogram. Late on Saturday afternoon and evening, the usual sauvity of the very ornia and the followers of the tank’ petition tothe veterans for approval | All the time that Waters spoke vet- | leaders, Robertson of California, was) ' PROTESTS SWEEP CHINA AGAINST RUEGG “TRIAL” (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE} ing their release. The defense com- mittee, which includes many prom- inent Chinese and foreigners, has presehted a similar demand: Mme. Sun Yat-sen, head of the defense} committée, arrived yesterday in Nan-| king to push the fight for the re-| lease of the Rueggs or a change of venue to the Shanghai court. Compared to Sacco Case. 80 deep-going is the resentment against the government's persecution of the Rueegs that the Chinese- owned “China Press” yesterday pub- liched a long editorial comparing the Ruegges case to the Sacco-Vanzetti case in the United States, and urging the government to save its face by either a transfer of the trial to Shanghai or the deportation 6f the defendants. The “China Press” ad- mits that the citcumstances of the airést of the Rueggs “were question- able.” Paul Ruegg, who was for- meérly secretary of the Pan-Pacific | drade Union Secretariat, was ar- rested with his wife by the British imperialists and turned over to the Nanking butchers. Suppressed Letter. The Shanghai Evening Post yes- terday published a letter from Ger- trude Ruegg to her couhsel. The let- ter, dated July 8, Was suppressed by the Nanking authorities. Mrs. Ruegg declares in her letter that the first words addressed to herself and hus- band When they wejp delivered into the hands of the Nanking authorities were in the form of a threat demand- ing that they confess to alleged polit- ical crimes or never see daylight! again, “I could not confess to participa- tioh In the May Day demonstra- tion in Shanghai in 1930, since I Was in Berlin, nor to writing letters ffom Singapore, since I was never i Singapore. “We were thrown into the prison hospital among cases of tuber- culosis ahd veneteal diseases, then feihoved to a damip, co!j prison, whete we-suffered from neuralgia, Fhetimatism and malaria. We were foreéd to appear before the judge when ill. Authorities tried to in- timidate me, stating that my hus- band had confessed to being the representative of the Third Inter- national for China. I was put in chains in November to force me to stop my hunger strike, “It is clear that the refusal of the Nanking authorities to permit @ trial in Shanghai is with the ob- vious object to deceive the public and prevent any defense. Verdict and penalty probably have been de- cided already in accordance with the wishes ‘of the British imperial- ists, Since arfest, we have been constantly terrorized by the Nan- king authofitiés, robbed of defense rights, not allowed to communicate with friends nor see our child. “Thirteen months of imprison- mént, threats, chains, torture with | bamboo sticks, bringing on severe iliness, make me prefer death to continued torture and imprison- ment,” NEW YORK.—Workers and intel- lectuals and their organizations are urged to rush protests at once to the Chines? Ambassador at Washington, demanding the release of the Rueggs. Vigorous protests were sent forward yesterday by the John Reed Clubs throughout the country by the “Pen and Hammer” and other organiza- | tions. iron fist beneath his kid gloves was then shown against the veterans. Po- lice tried to halt the icketing. Waters had ordered the Anacostia men away from the Captitol and into camp. Robertson had called off the picketing of the California vets. Only the Rank and File Committee was continuing the picketing, and many of Waters’ and Robertsons’ former followers re- fused to quit picketing. Three Jailed Glassford had three pickets arrest- ed, including a one-armed New York veteran, a follower of the rank and! file program, N. Katz. Waters had been released when he was arrested | in the morning, but these rank and file vets were not released. Refuse to Go Home The situation now is that most of the veterans tefuse to go home. Rob- ertson has ordered the California men to leave Washington. Waters wants the men to go home, but is afraid to say so openly for fear that the Rank and File Committee will get the bulk of the vets under its leadership, behind its militant program, Meanwhile the strect meetings of | the Workers Ex-Servicemen’s League held at night, and those of the Rank FOLLOW ST. LOUIS SAYS FOSTER Demonstration Sent Shivers Thru Bosses (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) employed. Under the pressure of the first demonstration the city agreed to put the 15,000 families back upon the relief lists, even though just a ticlans had said that this was to- | tany impossible. Under thé pressure of the second demonstration the city government, within two days, appro- priated $200,000 for emergency relief and then went on record to raise $6,400,000 more. The whole struggle was a graphic demonstration of the power of the masses, led by the Un- employed Councils and thé Party, to force concessions from the reluctant government, Without organization the “concessions” will vanish into hin ait. Advaiitage must be taken |of the victorious stfuggle to build a sdlid movement of the unemployed, to establish the T.U.U.L., to recruit for the Party. Organize Movement. Now the problem is to organize this mass movement, Block committees must be set up all over the city and they must take up a detailed defense | of the interests of the unemployed. The Unemployed Councils must be built up and come forward upon ev- ery occasion with its demands as the ; champion and leader of the unem- ployed. The opportunity is now here for us to really lead and refreshing the vast mass of the jobless. A big united front defense movement must be launched, intensive building of the Party must be initiated, large nui- bers of workers are now making ap- Plications. Failure to carry out these élementary tasks would, of course, soon result in dissipating this splen- did movement of the workers. Largest Meeting Held. Tt happened that in the midst of this movement my scheduled St. Louis meeting tooka place. It was the largest ever held by us in this terri- tory, 1800 being present, of whom 30 per cent were. Negroes. The workers displayed a wonderful spirit, 50 join- ing the Party and the Y.C.L. at the meeting. In many cities our Party stands idly by white the city governments ruthless] ctit unermploment relief. This big movement how developing ih St. Louis shows the possibilities for us where essentiall the right line ig followed. In St. Louis our Party |forces are very small, biit despite this hardship the Party was able to lead this big moVernent. The District efficient workers in the unémployed work from Chicago, Ofer citiés would do well to.pattern after St. Louis and really take the lead of the | unemployed. The lessons of the St. Louis movement must be studied and popularized at once. It is high time that our Patty should really go into action in this uneniployed issue. St. Louis shows what caf be done with the most meagre forces, : MINERS DEMAND FOOD IN OHIO 1500 In Hunger March In Jefferson County BELLAIRE, Ohio, July 17.~Martial law continued throughout the mine sttike area here. Police, how2ver, due to the militancy of the miners, have been unable to protect stabs outside of the city limits. The guards for- mally escorted scabs to the mines; now they only dare take them to the city line, Jefferson County miners and their wives marched to the courthouse, elected a committee of 18 to present demands for immediate relief. Refused eRlief The County Cominissioners refused bluntly to grant the starving march- ers food or clothes, although they ad- mitted that the demands were jus- tified. One of the comtnistioners tried to point out that the county was penni- and File Committee held in the after-/ness, But the miners reminded him noon draw increasingly greater | that there was always plenty of funds crowds. in the county coffers for hiring dep- The applause given the rank and file paraders from the sidewalks and billets on Friday indicated clearly which way the wind is blowing. The Workers Ex-Servicemen's Lea- gue and the Rank and File Committee plans a fight for an extra session of congress. These organizations also plan to carry the fight to the cities and towns from which the veterans come, The Rank and File Committee will slick General Glassford gave way. The | hold @ conference, its segond one, this! ‘uties to club and murder the miners. “We give the sheriff money to keep the roads Clear,” said one of the corn. missioners. Frank Levahdowsky, miner from Wolf Run, raised the demand for re+ lief for foreign born miners who are ‘unable to get jobs anywhere. A com- missioner said: “They come here to make trouble and they shall be de- ported.” Ovér 1,500 workers heard the report of the committee which was given by fe lay! i -"} ‘ew days before the capitalist poli | 000,000,000) 8 is now reinforcing these forces by | ‘Communist Party Calls on Vets to Push Fight in Capitol Denounce Capitalist Parties for Bonus Defeat Demonstrate Throughout Country on August} First Against Hunger z and War (Statement of the Central Committee Communist Party of U.S.A.) Congress has adjourned, after re- fusing to pay the debt due to the ex-servicemen, refusing a single act {to relieve the misery of millions of tnemployed and their families This congress found it a simple task! to provide five million dollars ($5,- in new credits and in- flated currency for thé banks, rail- foads, corporations and trusts. But not one penhy could it find for the statving masses, not evén to pay its legally acknowledged compensation certificates (“bonus”) for the vet- erans. The reason for this 1s, that the Congress and all the political parties all stand fundamentally on the same | platform, notwithstanding their real Struggles for the spoils of office. That | platform is the capitalist way out of the crisis, by putting the burdens upon the toiling masses, and by re- storing capitalist profits. Boast of Defeat This is true of the Republican, Democratic and Socialist Parties, and also Of all their factions, including those congressmen who voted for the } bonus only because they knew it was doomed in the Senate or would meet Hoover's veto. Hoover's Republican Party, including the “progressives,” openly boasts of its defeat of the bonus ahd of unemployment ‘insur- ance. The democrats in national con- vention rejected the bonus without even a record vote, and oppose un- employment insurafce. The Socialist Party openly opposes the bonus, de- nouncing the ex-servicemen in Wash- ington as fascists, and fights against the Workers Unemployment Insur- ance Bill presented to congress by the National Hunger March on Dec. ‘7th, Waters Lated Action The rank aiid file veterans came to Washington to carry through a mili- tant and determined fight for the bonus. But the Watefs leadership working hand in hand with General) Glassford put a patalyzing hand up- on the struggle: Waters and Co, lamed the action of the veterans, reduced their demands to a whisper, followed a crawling cap in hand poliey, and divided the ranks at every turn, Is it any surprise that Hoover and con- gress refused.to pay the bonus? Nev- ertheless the militant actions of the veterans carried through over the heads of the Waters leadership has shown the fist to Congress. The vet- jerans must now set up an elected fighting leadership from its ranks and under a militant leadership carry for- ward the fight to victory. Only the Communist Party, of all political parties, has consistently at all times supported the demands of the ex-soldiers and of the unem- ployed masses, and fought for their immediate realization. Only the Com- munist Party supported the commit- tee of the Workers Ex-Servicemen’s League which appeared before con- gress to fight for the demands of the ex-soldiers, and which issued the call for the National Bonus March to Washington. One of the members of |this committee was James W. Ford, jcandidate of the Communist Part, for vice-president of the Unite States. Only the Communist Part; | helped to organize the various detach: ments of the Bonus Expeditiona: Force, assisted them in their struggle: against the vicious police attacks, an supported them when they arrived i Washington, organizing mass sup} all over the country. The Veterans in Washington are ai this moment serving as shock trdo, of the starving masses fighting fot bread. That is the reason the Com. munist Party has unhesitatingly sup. ported them at all stages of thet |fight. That is the reason all othe: political organizations have fought against them and sabotaged thei: struggle. The Communist Party hi pointed out to the workers of thi whole country that the fight for the bonus is pars of the whole struggle of the unemployed millions for reélie: and insurance at the expense of the} government and employers. The fight for the bonus and for social insur-| ance is in the foreffont of the elec-| tion struggle of the Communist Party] in the national elections. Prepates New War The veterans must be watned that the same government Which 50 in- solently refuses their demands and} Jets them starve, is ab the same time prepating a NEW WAR in Which the workers will be again conseripted to} fiiake the world safe for Wall Street profits ang investments. The fight for the bohus and social insurance) must be at the same time a fight) against the NEW WORLD WAR. On Atigust 1st, when the masses come into the streets against WAR and for DEFENSE OF THE SOVIET UNION, they Will at the same time be fight- ing fot the bonus and for unemploy- ment relief and insurance. The vet-| erans must call upon the soldiers,! sailors and marines, in active service, |hot to allow themselves to be used against their buddies in the BEF., but to join the fight against starva- tion. Now at this moment the demand must be raised in Washington and all over the country, in every eity and neighborhood, with the backing of millions of workers. Congréss must be called into special session for the immediate adoption of the Bonus Bill and the Workers Un- employment Insurance Bill! Veterans! W orkets! Farmefs! Stay in Washington, those who &fe there, ang those who are in the thou- sand other cities and towns organize and demonstrate to support the de- mands upon Washington. Send out groups of organizers to rally support at home. Combine the struggle in Wahsington and in every city afd neighborhood into one fighting unit. Send additional recruits atid delega- tions to strengthen the forces in Washington, of both veterans and uf- employed workers! CENTRAL COMMITTEE, COM-+ MUNIST PARTY, U. Jack Stewart following the meeting in the commissioner's chambets. The miners listened to the report in a stubborn, angry mood. The 1,500 pledged to continue the fight for relief from hunger until it is won. N.M.U, Holds Meets Despite all attempts of the National Guard to stop meetings of strikers, the National Miners Union has held mass meétings at both Afferty and | Fairpoint in Belmont County. The military orders here prohibit gatherings of workers and parking cars within one mile of the mine. Guard Patrols Roads The National Guard patrols the roads continuously day and night. In} Belmont County planes fly over the strike area attempting to intimidate | the miners. Flying squads of dep- uties cruise up and down the roads. The Purseglove mine opened Fri- day. The miners, however, are de- termined to stop the mine from work- ing. A large mass picket line is or- ganized for Monday. Must Have Food Reli¢f funds are practically ex- hausted, Voidsville, Blaine, Ban- nock and Taplin soup kitchens have only a few potatoes and beans. The miners must have food to fight. Rush funds for food to the nearest Work- | ers International Relief headquarters. PROTEST ST. 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