The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 19, 1932, Page 1

RB d | é | | | 4 SENATORS SLINK OU VOTE COMMUNIST FOR Unemployment and Social Insurance at the ex- pense of the state and employers. forced collection of rents Against Hoover’s wage-cutting policy. Emergency relief for the poor farmers without restrictions by the government and banks; ex- emption of poor farmers from taxes, and no or debts. — Entered as ace at New York, N. Y. der orker unist Party U.S.A. OF CAPITOL UNDER GUARD TO EVADE ANGRY VETS DEMANDING BONUS VOTE COMMUNIST FOR Equal rights for the Negroes and self-determin- ation for the Black Belt. Against capitalist terror; against all forms of suppression of the political rights of workers. Against imperialist war; for the defense of the Chinese people and of the Soviet Union. the act of March 3, (Section of the Communist International) EDIT __NEW YORK, TUESDAY, JULY 19, 1932_ “CITY VETS STORM WASHINGTON COURT ROOM Break Through Police Lines; Hit Jailing of Pickets VETS IN ANGRY MOOD Congressmen Sneak Out. of City WASHINGTON, D. C., July 18.—In a court room packed with aroused bonus marchers, who forced their way in despite attempts to keep them out, Nathan Kalb of New York and Hennigan of Les Angeles, bon- us marchers arrested on Sat- urday night while picketing the White House, which was ‘broken up by’ General Glassford and his police force,—were found -guilty of parading without a permit by Judge Gibbons of the District of Columbia Police Court. Judge Gib- bons, who is notrorious for his ruth- Jess treatment of all labor and Negro cases, fined the two men $35 or 35 days in jail. Bonus marchers cheered and acclaimed the. spirited defense ‘of Charles Ford, International Labor Defense Attorney, in the face of threats by Judge Gibbons to clear the court room. Robertson Sells Out. Roy Robertson, commander of one of the California units which arrived Jast week with a fanfare of suspi- ciously favorable publicity from the Washington newspapers which are Solidly against the bonus army, sold ‘out completely today. After a con- ference with a number of comman- (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) ~ POLICE ATTACK YONKERS MEET Thousands Fight Back; Five Arrested YONKERS, N. Y.—Several thous- and workers rallied to a mass free speech demonstration here yesterday afternoon and defended themselves against police for over a half hour, who were called to deny the workers the right to the streets. Five work- ers were jailed and many were brut- ally clubbed and beaten. ‘The meeting was called by the Un- employed Council against the orders of the Police Commissioner who said that no meetings could be held un- der the auspices of the Unemployed Council. The workers came out to Parkhill and Linden Ave. where they were ad- dressed by Ervine Wagner, Secretary of the Unemployed Council. When the police began the attack, one of the workers climbed a pole and spoke for over 10 minutes. Police with drawn guns clubbed workers, men and women indiscrim- inately. The following workers were arrest- ed: Bentola, Sabantiano, Margolla, Ervine and Wagner. “Bronx Children Fight 'Jim-Crow Policy at the ‘Bronx Swimming Pool NEW YORK. — More than 100 children of the Vanguard Commu- nity Center ‘left the Bronxdale Swimming Pool in a body yesterday when they learned that several Ne- \gro boys were prevented from using the pool. A meeting was called where a pro- visional committee was elected to take action against the jim-crow policies of the owners of the pool, and an open-air meeting has been ealled for this morning at 11 o'clock at Britton St., Bronx. ~The meéting will be addressed by various children and their parents. Later they will form a picket line ahd march with placards to form a picket line before the pool. Send-Off for Athletes. A large crowd is expected to gather -et the Finnish Workers’ Hall, 15 W, 326th St., this Friday evening to greet the New York delegation to the In- co ano (Counter + Olympic) ’ Meet in Chicago. A concert, dance and brief speaking ‘program ‘fas been arranged. Socialist-Labor . Chief Was Aid to Ind. Provocateurs | SOUTH BEND, Ind., July 18.— A leading light of the Socailist Labor Party—its candidate for county clerk—was involved in the bombing plots against the Stude- baker and Bendix plants, it has just been revealed. Wallace Woodward is the name of this individual. He, together with Gordon J. Miller, private de- tective for the Studebaker com- pany ; Brith Taylor, and Walter Henderson, a former undercover man for the prohibition depart- ment, were recently exposed as having organized bombings of the Studebaker and the Bendix Strom- berg plants in June. Charging that “the Reds” had committed the outrages, police and Department of Labor officials had! intensified their reign of terror against militant workers. The bomb plots were said to have been a means by which Mil- ler and the others sought to retain their jobs, at the same time hi- jacking money from the owners on the ground that they were “pro- tecting them from the Reds.” OHIO DELEGATES STRICKEN, BAD FOOD SUSPECTED Rush 110 to Massilon Hospital, But Only Four Remain MASSILON, Ohio, July 18—As the Ohio state ratification convention of the. Communist Party neared to a conclusion here yesterday, more than 100 of the delegates suddenly became ill and were rushed to the city hos- pital, where doctors declared that they were suffering from ptomaine poisoning resulting from a meal which they had eaten earlier in the day. This morning only four delegates remained in the hospital, the others being discharged. Doctors engaged by the Arrange- ments Committee of the Convention are making an exhaustive investiga- tion of the causes for the illness of thedelegates. They were iy mak- ing laboratory tests to decide upon the exact nature of the illness. The news that the delegates were stricken brought an instantaneous response from the working-class sections of the city, who offered every service at their disposal. Hospital Overcrowded. Because the city hospital was al- ready overcrowded, the sick delegates were placed two in a bed, and many of them had to be given medical at- tention as they lay i nthe hospital corridors and on the grounds, where theywere wrapped in blankets. The convention opened Saturday (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) Australian Cops Attack Unemployed SYDNEY, N.S.W., July 18—An at- tack by police on unemployed work- ers demonstrating in the dock dis- trict of Cairns resulted in hundreds of unemployed being injured, some of them seriously. OLD COINS IN MOSCOW MOSCOW, U. S. S. R.—Old silver coins dating from the reigns of Ivan the Terrible and other Russian rulers of the 16th and 17th centuries were discovered in a clay box box by build- ing workers here. Moscow merchants, historical experts say, had buried these coins during the Polish attack against the city in 1613, LIKES TH RUEGGS ARE REPORTED NEAR DEATH Weakened by Jail Tor- ture and Hunger Strike RELEASED ON Mass Protests Mount Ovér World By MYRA PAGE (European Corresp. Daily Worker) MOSCOW, July 18.—The fight for the lives of Paul and Gertrude Ruegg (Neulens) is one of the most intense and desperate in the history of work- ing-class persecutions. It is literally a fight for life since the cruel prison treatment and the hunger strike has reduced the secretary of the Pan- Pacific Trade Union Secretariat and his wife to the verge of death. Mass Protests The savage persecution of the Rueggs has roused Shanghai foreign- ers and Chinese to a state of excite- mentment unheard of in connection with the trials of revolutionaries. Mass demonstrations lead by revoe lutionary Chinese students have in- vaded even the “sacred” International Settlement. The committee fighting for the release of the Rueggs has been joined not only by leading Chin- ese citizens but by many members of the foreign community whose in- terest in the trial is quite unexpected. ‘Thus the American missionary Fitch, well-known throughout China, the secretary of the Y. M, C. A., Turkey, the editor of the American-owned BAIL (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) Strikers March on L Miller Home 5 Star Workers ’Out Solid NEW YORK.—On Saturday the I. Miller strikers got word that Miller had.arranged a conference to mislead workers back to the shop. On Sun- day over sixty workers stationed themselves at 103rd St. and Lexing- ton Ave. to interfere with Miller's efforts to split and mislead the work- ers. From there they marched to Miller’s house at 220 W. 93rd St. and demonstrated in front of the house. More Join Sir-ke. Yesterday he tried to arrange an- other conference at Graham Ave., Brooklyn, but this, too, was stopped by workers. Not only was Miller un- able to break up the strike, but some lasters and heelers came down and joined the strikers. The strikers are calling upon workers who were mis- led by Miller to join the strikers— who are determined to fight until they win; injunctions will not keep them back. The Andrew Geller strikers are following the Miller workers. The police in Brooklyn are brutal towards the strikers, On Saturday they tried to stop workers from walking along Lorimer St. (where the factory is lo- cated) by using fists and clube. But the workers did not let themselves be terrorized and showed resistance to thecops. Five Star Strike Strong. The Five Star Strike is in splendid condition. Practically all workers have joined the ranks of the strikers. The shoe workers in New York and Brooklyn should immediately send in financial aid to the strikers. Funds should be sent to 5 E. 19th St. E “DAILY” Chicago Worker Tells Why in Letter Typical of the letters which the ‘Daily Worker has been receiving dur- ing the past few weeks is one from Alex Smied, a needle trades worker from Chicago, who writes: “I know that my letter would be a proper ons if it was accompanied by at least one new sub or a donation, but that will come later. “What I want to say is this: I have been a subscriber of the Daily Worker for the past four years, per- naps longer. But during the last month or so I've enjoyed every word, every line and letter of it, _ “Not that I didn’t like the paper before, but in the last month there is such an improvement—in the make my own heart, and‘I just had to tell it to you. Not only to you, but now it will be much easier for me to-get subs and readers, that headlines like SAVE THE DAILY WORKER will be a bad memory and a nightmare.” This letter comes during the first week of the Daily Worker drive for 7,000 new yearly subscriptions and 7,000 paid-in-advance bundle orders. The drive will continue until Novem- building a national network of Daily Worker organizations which will pro- tect and extend the circulation and influence of the paper among the workers of the U. 8S. Get into the drive! Send your subs and bundle orders to the Daily Work- ory 50'E, x Sty New-York.Oity, - ber 1, and is the first step toward: still remaining before Election Day, in the election work of the Party. failure of the District Committees requirements . and opportunist, passivity. At the same time the Central FOR IMPROVEMENT IN ELECTION CAMPAIGN! Statement of Central Committee, ©.P.,U.S.A. Precisely at this early date, with more than three and one-half months the.Central Committee considers it already urgently necessary to take drastic-measures to insure an imme- diate improvement in the Party’s election activities. Despite certain achiévements in carrying through the National and @ number of State Nominating Conventions, deadly bureaucratic routine, bound, up with strong sectarian and openly opportunist tendencies, sharply condemned by the 14th Plenum of the Central Committee, still remains in all phases of the Party's work ,and has already proven extremcly costly District Committees Failed. The Party will not be on the ballot, at least with national candidates, in Kansas, Oklahoma and California. This is due in each case to the Ya the Districts concerned, despite timely and repeated warnings from the Central Committee, to keep them- selves informed on the legal requirements for placing the Party on the ballot and to decisively mobilize the Party for the. fulfillment of these In a number of other states (Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Mas- sachusetts, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, Arizona, Idaho) the Party’s posi- tion on the ballot is in jeopardy, due to the same sectarian indifference Censures Districts No. 10 and No. 13. ‘The Central Committee severely censors the District Committees of Districts No. 10 and No. 13 and decides to remove Comrade Paul Cline from his position »s District Organizer in District No. 10. Committee demands an immediate overcoming of these serious shorteomings throughout the entire Party. All District, Committees are instructed to immediately take such measures as will absolutely guarantee the placing of the Party on the ballot in every (CONTINUED ON PAGE. THREE) FOSTER GREETS INJUNCTION FIGHT Urges Militant Mass Violation Policy NEW YORK. — Greeting the Anti- Injunction Conference to be held in Irving Plaza Hall, July 28, Wm. Z. Foster, Communist candidate for President of the United States, sent the following telegram to the Provi- sional . Anti-Injunction Committee, “Greetings to the Anti-Injunction Conference, The injunction against the I, Miller strikers is part of the growing terrorism against the work- ingelass, which includes the Scotts- boro and Mooney cases, the shoot- ing of the St. Louis workers and the deportation drive of the government against foreign-born workers. “The injunction must be defeated. To do this\it is vitally necessary for the workers to join together in a broad united front with a militant policy of mass violation. “In the elections the workers should vote the Communist Party. ticket which is against all forms of terrorism and for the defense of workers’ rights and for socialism.” Ask Longshoremen to Refuse to Load War Ammunitions The Waterfront section of the ;Communist Party held an open air protest meeting against war, in pre- paration for August 1, at Whitehall and South Streets Saturday. Speak- ers are North, Jacobson, Jones, and Simons, called on the seamen and longshoremen to refuse to load and ship ammunition to Japan. , A special appeal was made to a group from the Waterfront head- quartérs of the B.E.F. on the need of all rank and file veterans to stand together in the fight for the bonus. They were urged to join the WES. L, and vote the Communist ticket, since the Communist Party is “the only political party» which endorses the bonus demand. Since the Seamen’s Institute col- lects thousands of the dollars in ths name of the unemployed seamen, it was demanded that the Institute open its doors to the unemployed seamen without discrimination. JAIL UNEMPLOYED (By a Worker espo it) GLOVERSVILLE, N. Y.—Vagrancy charges are being pressed to drive un- employed workers “out of this town. Harry Goodbread, an unemployed resident, was recently sentenced to 30 days in’ jail on a vagrancy charge. Michael Gold Puts . Spotlight on Hoan and ‘Model City’ Tomorrow the Daily Worker publishes an article by Michael Gold, well-known working-class writer, entitled “Out of Their ‘Own Mouths—An Interview With Hoan.” ‘i In this article Gold puts the spotlight on the muc-publieized “socialist model city” and puts Milwaukee in its true capitalist setting. Read this expose in tomorrow's |' Daily Worker and order an ex-' tra copy for your shepmate: or pi TRY HUSH ANGER AT THIRD DEGREE Promise Full Inquiry In Stark Case NEW YORK. — Vigorous steps to disarm public resentment against the brutal third degree methods of the police ave promised by the Nassau County police and the District At- torney’s office, who are conducting separate investigations into the death of Hyman Stark, the 20-year old pris- ner who died of a fractured larynx after eleven hours of “questioning” by the cops last Friday . Hyman Stark, together with three others, had been arrested as suspects Friday morning after Mrs. Valeria Hizenski, mother of County Detective Joseph Hizenski, had, according to the police, been beaten and robbed in her home at Roslyn Heights, in Long Island. District Attorney Elvin N. Edwards promised a “full investigation” after he returned to Mineola, Long Island, last night, but how complete the in- vestigation will be is indicated by the district attorney's evasion of the question whether any photographs had been taken showing injuries or indications of beatings by the cops. Funeral Held, The formal court hearing on the case opened this morning before Su- preme Court Justice Meier Stein- brink. At the same time funeral services were being held for Hyman Stark at 141 Ludlow Street, on the East Side. Friends of the family who saw the body said both eyes were blackened and the face covered with bruises. Apparently the “over- enthusiastic” cops, as the District Attorney cynically called them yes- terday, neglected the advise of one detective present, who according to Samuel S. Leibowitz, Brooklyn at- torney for Philip Cecala, another of the four boys beaten up, had warned the police sluggers not to mark up the face, Stark’s sister, neighbors said, is penniless. Leibowitz said his client was also badly beaten u pduring the eleven- hour gfilling, and while Stark was lying unconsciously on the floor, Ce- cala was taken into the room and a detective shouted, “Here, we've kil- led «this fellow. Do you want to be a wise guy? We'll kill you too if you don’t talk.” What About Breezly? While the capitalist press is giv- ing this case wide publicity, under the pretence that this is an unusual case, other cases of equal or greater outrages perpetrated by uniformed sluggers are ignored. Nothing, or very little, is said of the case of Tho- mas Breezly in St. Louis, whose mind was so deranged by the vicious slug- ging and third degree at the hands of the St. Louis police that he com- mitted suicide last Saturday. ‘The reason for this silence is easy to see. The case was too raw. Breezly was one of 48 workers ar- rested following the murderous at- tack upon 15,000 unemployed’ work- ers demonstrating in St. Louis for bread, and the simplest kind of in- vestigation would have exposed too openly the capitalist terror machine in action against the working class, “Drive Offer—Wm. Z. _ Siperioe” ot” Price 3 Cents_ PREPARE AUGUST FIRST ANTI - WAR MEETS IN SOUTH Struggles Grow Against Hunger and War BIRMINGHAM, July 18.—Southern Negro and white workers are prepar- ing to paly a big part in the world- wide demonstrations on August First, International Fighting Day Against Imperialist War and for the defense of the Chinese People and the So- viet Union. Soviet Will Demonstrate Demonstrations are being organized in Birmingham, Atlanta, Chattanooga, New Orleans, Memphis and a number of other cities, in addition to numer- ous anti-war activities now proceed- ing in the “black belt” and other farming communities, and in a num- ber of southern mining camps. Conditions are daily getting more unbearable in the South. Some fac- as 50 cents a day. Farm Jaborers in the “black belt” are being forced to accept 35 cents and 25 cents a day. ly starving. Unemployed relief, which has always been small, is being cut out. altogether by the bosses. In the recent heat way e19 died from the heat as a result of overwork and un- dernourishment. Expose Starvation The anti-war struggles in the South will expose this mass starvation and misery as part of the bosses’ pregram —the capitalist “way out” of the crisis through hunger and war. At the same time the terror against the toil- ers especially the Negro masses, is increasing. A.Herndon, unemployed Negro worker was arrested a few days ago in Atlanta while on his way to the post office to get his mail. All sorts of fascist groups are being or- ganized by the bosses for vicious at- tacks on the Communist workers. mingham futilely ordering the Reds to get out. Local struggles of Negro and white workers for unemployment relief are increasing with hundreds of workers participating in open air meetings in Birmingham on July 15 demanding immediate relief and mob- ilizing for August First. Against Terror The campaign around August First in the South is a struggle against hunger, fascist terror, lynch iaw, for the organization of the workers in the heavy industries, for the release of the nine innocent Scotsboro Nefro boys, for self-determination for the Negro majorities in the Black Belt and for support of the Communist election campaign. Every effort is being made to acquaint the workers with the tremendous achievements of the Soviet masses in abolishing unem- ployment and racial oppression. ee ee Kentucky in Campaign PINEVILLE, Ky., July 18.—August First anti-war demonsirations are be- ing organized in this city and in Middlesboro and Williamsburg. Hun- dreds of workers are expécted to par- ticipate in all three towns. “I KNEW TH From her cot in the Central North- eastern Sanitorium in Rutland, Mass., Edith Berkman, textile leader, whom Secretary of Labor Doak is seeking to deport to Fascist Poland, writes to the Daily Worker, enclosing a clipping from the Boston Globe. Says the clipping: LAWRENCE, Mass.—Francis Pe- troskas,, 48, an unemployed weaver of 7 Spruce St. committed su at his home late this afternoon by inhaling illuminat'‘ng gas. The bedy was found by his wife about 5:30, when she returned from her work in one of the mills. A pul- tory workers are now getting as low} Many of the poor farmers are actual- | Stickers are being posted all over Bir- | jfor recently the New Gas Bombs Devised to Attack Militant_ Workers CHICAGO, July 18. — Because workers against whom they have hurled tear-gas bombs haye often sent it back in the direction of their attackers, the Chicago police department has perfected a new “one-way” bomb, according to Walter Storms, deputy chief of detectives. The new bomb, its inventors claim, renders the victim help- less in twenty- four seconds, while the old tear gas bomb took four min- utes to explode, during whieh time it could be hurled back at the It police. was developed at DePriest the Englewood government ar. senal near Baltimore, and it gen- erates gas four times more potent than the old type. The new bomb is made neces- sary, it is clear, by the increasing- ly militant demonstrations of workers, the most recent example of which took place here before the office of Congressman De Priest, Negro misleader when pol- ice fired on 8,000° workers. The viciousness of the attack is seen in the fact that the police-thugs smashed the head of Mary Carter, a nineyear-old Pioneer. 'AMTER SPEAKS IN OLEAN, BOLIVAR Ends Upstate Tour in Rochester, Wed. OLEAN, N. Y., (by mail)—I. Am- ter, Communist candidate for gov- ernor of New York spoke here last night in this oil-refining town, which has 4,000 unemployed workers out of a population of 25,000. The mayor tried to bulldoze the owners of the hall in which Amter's meeting was held—a Swedish wo- men’s organization — and wanted them to call off the meeting. But the meeting went on. Amter exposed the Socialist Party above all others. skypilot, radical phrase-mongering Rev. Hahn of Buf- falo spoke at Olean and tried to con- fuse the workers as to the role of the Socialist Party. Amter’s upstate campaign will be concluded with a meeting in Batavia Tuesday night and Rochester Wed- nesday night, . Meeting in Bolivar BOLIVAR, N. Y., (by mail) —For the first time a Communist meeting was held in this town when I. Amter addressed workers here. Both in Hornell and Bolivar, Communist groups will soon be formed. Spike Imperialist Guns with the Daily Worker, 60,000 readers by November 1, IS WORKER” E. Berkman Tells of Lawrence Suicide workers of New England, continues in her letter: “f knew this worker well, and only unemployment and the fear of never getting a job drove him, to suicide, “I was going to write an article on this case, and, of course, to point cut to the workers that struggle ts the only answer to the desperation which brought about this suicide, but I was too weak physically to do so.” The Hoover-Wall Street govern- ment thus drives an unemployed tex- tile worker to suicide while it at- motor was used for two hours with- out avail.” And Edith Berkman, suffering from tuberculosis—held a prisoner— because of her loyalty tothe textile tempts to murder by prison and de- portation one of their leaders who battled with them against the slavery POWERS AID NANKING ATTACK CHINA SOVIETS 10,000 KILLED IN FIGHT NEW DRIVE ON; FIERCE BATTLES IN PAST TWO DAYS Workers! D efend China People; All Out ‘August First! Supported by imperialist warships, the Nanking and Canton governments began on Saturday a new joint offensive against the Chinese Red Ar- mies: with the purpose of re- enslaving the emancipated worker-peasant masses in the Chinese Soviet Districts. The workers’ and peasants’ Red Armies immediately counter- attacked and engaged the enemy in five fiercely-raging battles over five widely separated districts of China. Over 10,000 killed and additional thousands wounded during the past two days attest to the fierceness and extent of the fighting. Workers Must Answer on Auzust 1 This attack on the Chinese So-. viet Districts is of major import- ance to the workers of the United States and of the whole world. It is a concerted drive by the imperial- ists, with the aid of their Nanking and Canton tools, for the partition of China, already begun with the seizure of Manchuria by the Jap- apese. It represents an advanced stage in the criminal drive for war against the Soviet Union, for 2 redivision of the world, for the fur- ther enslavement of the colonial masses and of the working cla: of the “home” countries. The w: ers must answer this monstrous drive for war with tremendous anti- war demonstrations on August First, International Fighting Day against Imperialism. The Chinese Red Army of the Cen- tral Chinese Soviet District has bot- tled yp a whole Canton division in the Tayuling area, near Sinfend, in Kwangtung Province about 175 miles north’ of the city of Canton. 15,000 Nanking troops are being rushed to the aid of the Cantonese and are re- ported to have reached Kanchow, 35 miles north of Sinfeng. Long trains of wounded Cantonese are streaming into Canton, where the hospitals are already overcrowded with wounded. The Canton government claims to have recaptured the strategic pass"in (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) Laundry Strikers Compel Bosses to Hire Canvassers The strike of the Bronx (Edison) Home Laundry workers has crippled the business of the company s0 much, that the bosses are compelied to send out canvassers who promise lower prices on bundles. The strikers point out that work- ers should not be fooled by this ttick, The bosses originally said that they had to fire eight drivers because they had to cut down expenses, Now they are spending thousands of dol- lars each week for gangsters and canvassers in order to block the strike. The bosses in other laundries are trying to aid the Bronx Home Laun+ dry. Chief of these boss strike break- ers is Kaplan of the Port-Morris Laundry. The workers in the Port Morris laundry are the most highly exploited in the Bronx. “The American Reds” New Fascist Outfit in Birmingham, Ala. (By a Worker Correspondent) BIRMINGHAM, Ala., July 17—The “American Reds,” led by stool pigeon elements and subsidized by the steel barons of Birmingh:sn, are carrying on a campaign against the Commun- ist Party in Birmingham. The Ame- rican Reds are a super-patriotic, anti- Negro, war mongering lot who are trying to utilize the militant spirit of the Birmingham workers and their support of the Communists by taking , on the name of the “American Reds”. before the looms. of. Lawrence an oe ee eee | the. New Bedford, \' econnal4 pe