The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 20, 1932, Page 1

VOTE COMMUNIST FOR 1. \..employment and Social Insurance at the ex- pense of the state and employers. 2. Against Hoover’s wage-cutting policy. Emergency relief for the restrictions by the government and banks; ex- emption of poor farmers from taxes, and no forced collection of rents poor farmers without or debts. Orga he-Cod —— 4 (Section of the Communist International) amunist Party U.S.A. es Entered am eccond-claue m at New York, N. Y.. ander the set of March 3, 1879 aiter at the Pont Ufftice > BONUS ARMY TO PICKET WilTE HOUSE Pace Will Lead Mass March in Front of Presidents’ Home CALLS FOR 1 )R MILITANCY Waters Thugs Kidnap Joe Singer HINGTON, D. C., July 19— Masses of war veterans rallied to an open-air meeting held this morning at 13th and “B” Sts. and cheered the call of the Rank and File Com- mittee to picket the White House to- morrow to demand an extra session of Congress to pass the bonus legis- lation. Herbert Hoover, who fled the ;White Hous> Sunday in face of the angry army of veterans, returned to- day under a heavy guard. The meeting of veterans this mernine was one of the most en- ‘thusiastic and militant held here so! \far, The call for a yote to picket lthe president's house’ was greeted ‘with a thunderous “aye.” Pickets will mobilize at 13th and “B” Sts. tomorrow morning at 8:30, from which point they will proceed to the Whit: House led by George Face and a Rank and File Commit- ‘tee. All throughout the day committees lof veterans honeycombeg the camps Jand billets, urging the workers to come out on thé picket line to de- mand that the government pay their back wages. The Washington press continues its campaign -of slander against the| ‘bonus marchers, hoping to scare ‘them out, but with no avail. Vet- erans in all camps show that they have decided to stay and fight to a bitter end. Vet Slugged. The Waters military police are still busy slugging and beating up veterans who have joined the rank) and file movement. One veteran was attacked by eight Waters men jthis morning while distributing leaf- Jets. In answer to this attack, vets mata ache (ON PAGE PAGE THREE) JUNKERS ORDER WORKERS SHOT Three More Dead In German Clashes BERLIN, July 19.— The Junker dictatorship is understood to be pre- paring an edict for promulgation to- morrow placing Prussia under a Fed- eral commissar with dictatorial pow- ers. The move is in response to the demands of the Nazis for such a step. “Von Papen has called a conference for tomorrow with Karl Severing, Prussian Minister of the Interior, and Heinrich Hirtsiefer, Minister of Wel- jcan. You must learn that money can j less you force them to. fare. It is understood that the decree will be promulgated after this con- ference. * 8 8 BERLIN, July 19. — The Geymon Junker dictatorship has ordered its police and military to shoot on sight all workers carrying weapons for self- defense against the fascist terrorists. ‘The order follows on the heel of the edict prohibiting open air demon- strations and calling for the disarm- ing of the workers, The edict threat- ened summary trial and death to any worker found in the possession of arms. $ In the meantime, the fascist ter- ror continues to rage throughout Germany. Three persons were killed and a number seriously wounded in clashes yesterday between Commun- ist workers and Nazis in a number of German cities. In a fierce clash at Striegau one Nazi was killed. Two persons were shot and killed at Wes- seling when Nazi Storm troops ap- -peared on the streets in uniform and tried to terrorize workers, pte. mae Hitlerite Plot LONDON, July 19.—The London Daily Herald, Laborite newspaper, printed an Amsterdam dispatch to- day declaring that the Nazis are plotting to seize power on July 31.! The dispetch says that Hitler in- tends to re-esteblish the monarchy with former Crown Prince Wilhelm fas emperor, , . + Tours for Foster-Ford | | Tony Minerich, member of the National Executive Committee of the Young Communist League now on a national tour in support of the Communist election platform and candidates. He chalienges the feaders o fthe Young Peoples So- cialist League to defend their re- actionary polices in Cleveland on July 23rd. (See story on page 2.) FOSTER ATTACKS A. FE. POLICY Seores “Nonpartisan” Fake of Leaders CINCIN? O., July 19. — Wm. Z. Foster, ¢: ate for President on the Communist ticket in a vigorous speech here last night sharply at- tacked the fraudulent “nonpartisan policy” of the A.F.L. which was once more put forward by the reaction- ary officialdom of the organization. Foster characterized the policy as “viciously deceitful.” ! ee ae ee Tells of St. Louis Victory. Urging an unrelenting fight for unemployment insurance, and citing the victory of the St. Louis workers in forcing the appropriation of $200,- 000 for immediate relief, Foster said. “Don’t starve like sheep. You must learn that during a crisis the capital- ists force you into starvation if they be gotten to feed you if they want to, but they don’t want to do it un- Hooverville, U.S.A. “Mr. Hoover said in 1928 that capi- talism had become so great that we'd never have another crisis. He said the poorhouse is about to disappear —to vanish from our midst. IM seems to me, comrades, that the whole damn country is becoming a poor- house. “Go along your river banks, go to the city dumps and you will find new} American cities—built out of tin cans. And what are they named? If a man is great, sometimes a city is; named after him. Well, then Mr. Hoover must be the greatest man of all times because thousands of these new American cities have been named | after him. Hundreds of Hoovervilles and Hoovertowns throughout the (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) Gorgulov Trial Set for Monday in Paris PARIS, July 19. — The trial of Paul Gorgulov, white guardist as- sassin of President Paul Doumer of France, will start in the Seine As- _NEW “YORK, WEDNESDAY, JULY 20, 1932_ c ry EDITION ILLINOIS 1S SCENE; ONE WORKER DIES Attack Is Result of| Hoover Hunger Policy | STRUGGLING Workers United Front| Must Be Answer | MARSEILLES, Ill, July 19. Twenty-five to thiriy workers were mowed down by the gudfire of armed guards today when thr=> hundres) unemployed stormed the Illinois Waterway Dam, a Federal State Construction Camp, demand- ing work at union wages, FOLLOWS LONG STRUGGLE. Stephen Sution, 45, of Joliet, died of his wounds. At least three of the other workers shot are in a serious condition. The shooting was a climax of a Tong fight which began in this ter- ritory months ago. Several times unemployed ion men of neigh- boring towns made demands on the bosses of the construction | camp for jobs and union wages for those employed on the job. The workers first made their de- mands for the jobs yesterday. They were refused and returned teday with reinforcements. FIRE ON MARCHERS, When the men neared the camp the armed guards which surround- ed it fired on the marchers, The workers used their ‘fists and sticks and stones and fought back gal- lantly retreating before the with- ering gun fire. ‘The rate of pay on the job, which is contracted by the Stephans Brothers and the Miller-Hutchison Companies is 35 cents an hour for Jaborers, 40 cents for truck drivers | and 90 cents for crane operators. Unemploymed union men demand- ed these jobs at union rates of 50 cents, 70 cents and $1.62. REPUBLICAN HEAD NAMED IN MURDER Leaders Dodge Blame In Stark Case | NEW YORK —The Republican leader of Oyster Bay, Deputy Chief Frank J. Tappen, boasted that he had placed one foot’.on Hyman Stark’s stomach and another on his throat and rocked him back and forth,” it was testified by Martin W. Littleton, Jr., assistant district at- torney, in the hearing held at Mine- ola, L. 1, following the brutal third degree’ murder of Stark by Long Island cops last Friday. Stark was one of four suspects held in connection with the alleged beat- ing and robbing of the mother of Joseph Hizenski, a datective. He died of a broken Adam’s apple when all four were brutally beaten up by the police, “Unity Against Facts.” The hearing was marked by & united front of the, police sluggers and capitalist politicians to keep out FOR JOBS sizes court on Monday, with Judge Eugene Dreyfus presiding, facts damaging to the “higher-ups.” (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) VOTE COMMUNIST FOR Equal rights for the Negroes and self-determin- terror; against all forms of suppression of the political rights of workers. 4, ation for the Black Belt. 5. Against eapitalist 6. Against imperialist war; for the defense of the Chinese people and of the Soviet Union, Price 3 Cents Schwab, Champ Wage Slasher, Pays His Dentist $60,000 for One Year The man who recently told the newspapers that there were no more rich people in the United States—“‘we are all poor now,” has just paid his dentist $60,000 for one year’s service on his teeth, according to press reports. This man is Charles Schwab of the Bethlehem Steel Corporation. If by some stretch of the imagination the day rate in his mills were $3, it would take 20,000 workers to.darn this sum in one day. Federated Press on May 9 reported that “.. .the 15 per cent wage cut announced by the Bethlehem Steel Co. was linked with Pres. Hoover's message attacking Congress.” And the rise in the stocks of Bethlehem Steel and other companies at the time of the wage cut was a direct result of the pay slash put over. Press reports tell of Schwab's annual $60,000 dental bill. And the Daily Worker (June 18) says: “Then Mr. Schwab, head of the Bethlehem Steel Co. stood in the yard of the Fore River Shipyards plant (Quincy, Mass.) and made a speech in which he said ‘there shall be no wage-cuts in our plants, and no layoffs.’ came out of his mouth (where the lavish dental repairs are found), was laying off the workers.” The very day these words he Carolina Strikers Close 100 Mills Unemployed Join Hosiery Strikers; Smash Down Mill Gates Thousands Rally to Militant Struggle; Shut | Off Power in Mills HIGH POINT, N. C., July 19.—A strike of hosiery workers against a wage cut which began here yester- day spread today to 100 local mills and has stopped mills in Thomas- ville and Kernersville. The strike began when 3,000 mill workers walked off eight plants at High Point against a new sweeping wage cut, Committees of strikers went in trucks today to nearby mill towns and rallied new workers into the struggle. At one mill in Kernersville the committee was denied admission to the plant. The workers thereupon battered down the mill gates and per- suaded tle workers to join the strike. ‘The workers who formerly got $2.25 per hundred pairs of stockings were reduced through the recent cut to $1.50 per hundred. Hundreds of strikers rode up and down the road all night singing and shouting their strike demands. Many of them entered the mills, blew the ‘Indiana Jobless March on Capitol Police Bar 1 Entrances to State House INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., July 19. — “We Want Bread! We Demand Un- employment Insurance!” ‘These were the slogans put for- ward by the thousands of unemploy- ed in the Hunger March before the lidiana state bonus today, So great was the demonstration be- fore the capitol that state officials agreed to receive a committee of five jobless into the Indiana General As- sembly, ‘The proposal was made after po- lice barred every entrance to the State House. An attack on the Hoover-Hunger Government and de- mands for unemployment insurance were made by one of the speakers, Zip Kotch, of Gary, Ind. whistles and set the machinery in motion and then cut off the power. The unemployed workers joined the strikers and marched from mill to mill calling those still working to join the strike. HEAR FORD IN ATLANTIC CITY Recorus of Hoover and Roosevelt Exposed ATLANTIC CITY, N. J, July 19— More than 400 workers, three-fourths | of them Negroes, heard James W. Ford, Negro worker and Communist candidate for Vice-President of the United States, when he spoke here at the first and largest meeting of | its kind ever held here, One-third of the population of this resort are Negroes, the majority of whom are unemployed immedi- ately after the summer season. Dis- crimination and police intimidation of the Negroes here is a continuous policy. Exposes “Relief” Bill. In his speech, Ford exposed Hoov- er’s “relief” measures as a guarantee not against hunger and misery, but for additional millions to the bankers. This is shown in the refusal to in- clude a “publicity clause” which would give the names of the bene-~ ficiaries of the loans—on the excuse that the borrowers’ credit might be affected. “This,” said Ford, “is another out- rageous example of the conscious class policy to deceive workers as to the true character of the Wall St. government.” Show Roosevelt Role. Governor Roosevelt, the Tammany (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) VOTE COMMUNIST FOR: 6. Against imperialist war; for the defense of the Chinese people and of the Soviet Union. |Sklar be unconditionally jgates from various shoe factories, I. BAR RELEASE OF PAROLED ORGANIZERS Prison Chief Holds Up Release of Imperial Valley Victims HAD SERVED T WO YEARS! Seek to Deport Sklar and Horiuchi SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Although ‘slated to be released parole today, Oscar Ericson and Dan- | ny Roxas, two of the Imperial Val- ley organizers with others to serve terms of three to forty-two years in 1930, today re- mained behind the bars of San Quen- | tin prison, Commissioner Wythe of the State Board of Paroles held up their re- lease offering as an excuse that they | had not as yet “approved” of the jobs which Ericson and Roxas are to take upon their release on parole. Two other victims of the Imperial Valley strike frame-up were to have | | Jul. 19.— on sentenced six | Michael Gold, working class author, who wriies on the much- advertised “model socialist city” of Milwaukee in an interview with Daniel Hoan, $13,500-a-year mayor. (See story on Page 4.) orway Bars Mrs. Wright on Radio Speaks with Engdahl in Many Cities STOCKHOLM, July 19.—Acting| under diplomatic pressure by the U. S. Government, the Norweigian Gov- ernment radio yesterday refused per- mi: cast the Scottsboro appeal to the peo- been released today — Horiuchi and Carl Sklar, the latter from Folsom | Prison. Horiuchi is being turned over to the immigration department who threaten to deport him to fascist | Japan where certain death awaits| him, while Sklar held in| Folsom prison u role board | meets again beca the immigration authorities have refused to allow him | to go to USSR; it is being planned to hold him into the immigration de- | tention on indefin Sklar, born in Czarist Russia, can- | not be deported to the Soviet Union because of the absence of diplomatic relations. Thats the authorities’ story. A nation wide protest against these vicious actions of California author- ities is growing. The International Labor Defense is fighting harder than ever to save these workers, T Lj L.D. demands that E farsi Roxas be freed immediate! fr that Horiuchi be ¢ of voluntary departu ing shipped off to death in Japan. AFL CARPENTERS || HIT INJUNCTION Elect Delegates to Conference NEW YORK —The anti-infunction | moyement is beginning to penetrate | the ranks of the A. F. of L. ‘The las’) membership meeting of the Carpen- ters’ Local 2090 elected two delegates | to <the Anti-Injunction Conference that will take place on July 28 at Manhattan Lyceum, 66 E. Fourth St., and not in Irving Plaza, as it was re- poretd yesterday. The Provisional Committee has also | received credentials of elected dele- W. O. branches and other fraternal organizations. The committee urges all organizations to send in their credentials as soon as delegates are elected, The headquarters is at 799 Broad- way, Room 337-338. ! after which th ple of Norway. Mrs. Wright, mother ;of two of the Scottsboro boys, and J. Louis Engdahl, national secretary of the International Labor Defense, are touring Europe in connection with the world-wide mass defense cam- | paign, Many workers’ organizations have rallied to the campaign. The trade unions have given their pledge to | build up a powerful campaign around the Scottsboro case. The response of Norweigian work- ers to the tour of Mrs. Wright and ;Engdahl has been highly gratifying. Thousands greeted them at the rail- way station in Oslo. Many demon- strations were held at which vigor- ous protests were adopted and sent to the American Embassy and to the U. S. Supreme Court. The tour of Mrs. Wright and Eng- | dahl will continue next in Sweden, sy will both attend the World Congress against War, called to meet in Paris on August 21, 22, 23, | From there, they will go on to Spain jand the Balkan countries. Hoover Signs Bill to Help Bankers, Bosses WASHINGTON, D. C., July 19.—| President Hoover today signed the bankers and manufacturers relief bill to the tune of $2,122,000,000. Hoover, who made a hurried exit from Washington when bonus mareh- |ers announced plans for picketing the White House, returned to the city today to sign the bill. The president said that there were “some features” of the bill that he was opposed to, but “they are not ,s8 great as to warrant refusal to japprove the measure in the face of the great service that the major pro- visions will be to the nation.” THIRD RAIL KILLS CHILD NEW YORK.—Henry Dunlap, age 6, was instantly killed when he came in contact with the third rail of the Long Island Railroad near Broad Channel. Residents had asked re- peatedly that the railroad company build a protective fence at this place. FORM WORKERS UNITED FRONT AGAINST HUNGER, WAR! ALL OUT AUG. 1! | beri years ago on the First broke out. world war. of another. having raised the standard of living the workers of all lands, the revolutionary road for the solution of the crisis—the revolutionary way out, of escape from crises, characteristic of capitalist society. Manchuria is an armed camp. has seized the harbor of Harbin as This August First brings us face to face with the imme- diate danger of a new imperialist world slaughter. class and all its servants are rushing this country“ headlong into a new They expect to. transform the starving millions into cannon fodder for the mass murder of the workers of one country by the workers Above all, the capitalist class is driving toward a war of intervention against the victorious working class in the Soviet Union which the capitalists of the whole*world hate with deep fury. Why? Precisely because the Soviet Unian, through its Five-Year Plan, by its magnificant socialist construction, having completely liquidated unemployment, and Japan is close at the borders of the Soviet Union, ready to attack the Soviet Union at any moment, of August, the imperialist world war Today the capitalist of the toiling masses, has shown to Japan a step for war against the Soviet Union. American imperialism is shipping ammunition to Japan to supply it with weapons for war against the _ Workers. who workers’ fatherland, THE BONUS FIGHT. On the'steps of the Capitol at Washington, 20,000 ex-servicemen, represent the mass of three millign ex-servicemen over the country, have vainly petitioned Congress for many weeks for payment of their adjusted service compensation tual starvation, (“bonus”) to relieve them from ac- But Washington ,which without hesitation has voted over three bilion dollars subsidies to WaH Street, refuses even to give a loaf of bread to the starving ex-soldiers on its doorsteps. In the shops and factories, 1 workers still “blessed” with jobs are suffering wage-cut after wage-cut, so that rapidly even the employed workers are being driven down below the starvation line. Hundreds of thousands of workers enter the shops faint from hunger, for their wages no longer suffice even to provide sufficient bread. At the same time, the speed-up grows more intense, driving the workers even faster, sucking out their life blood and throwing them out ruthlessly upon the scrap-heap to be replaced by new hordes of starving workers from the vast army of unemployed, MILLIONS STARVING. Millions of little children are going hungry and naked. Milions of women have been thrown onto the streets. 'The highways and railroads of the country are covered with young boys and girls, homeless waifs, cut off from al organized social life, driven to vagabondage, crime, and degeneration, by the blood-sucking capitalist ruling class which refuses unemployment insurance and relief but pours out its treasures for the disposal of the banks and trusts. ‘he mass of farmers are being. systematically bankrupted and driven | off their land by the mortgage bank: Statement of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the United States of America s and trusts. The producers of the country’s focd are starving because they have produced too much, TERROR AGAINST WORKERS, The government and the bankers in order to carry through its pro- gram of war is letting loose a reign civil rights of the workers are being trampled upon. and Negro workers are singled out Bill for deportation of foreign born working class. The toiling masses in feat this vicious anti-labor bill and being brutaly carried through, of terror against the workers. The The foreign-born for special attacks, The Fish-Dies workers is a challenge to the entire the United States can and must de- the entire deportation system now The bosses, fearing the opposition and resistance of the workers to their imperialist war plans, are “trying to sneak into a new world war behind a smoke screen of “peace” maneuvers. The workers must be on guard. Let us remember the lessons of the last world war. Did not Wilson and his pacifist flunkies also plunge the workers into world war with the pacifist slogans of “a war to end wars, a war to make the world safe for democracy.” “DISARMAMENT” SMOKESCREENS. ‘The disarmament conferences before the last world war only hastened the outbreak of the conflict. The present Geneva Disarmament Confer~ (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREES * ion to Mrs. Ada Wright to broad-)| |sible opportunity JEHOL; NEW WAR LOOMS Workers! Defend Chinese People; Soviet Union OUT AUGUST FIRST | ALL [Demand War Funds | for Unemployed BULLETL More than 500 Chinese workers died during the past week from cholera which is ravaging Kuo- mintang China as the result of the diversion of funds from sanitary works by the Nanking Government. These figures are for three cities | only, In Shanghai, 29 foreigners have died of the disease. | Invading Jehol Province, to the westward of south-western Manchuria, the Japanese milit- arists yesterday extended their robber war against China. Japanese troops defeated Je- hol province forces in clashes on the border and advanced along the railroad in Jehol to Chaoyang. where another bat- | tle occurred. This was also won by |the Japanese forces who are press~ ing their advance. Nanking Shifted Troops | "The Japanese invasion of Jehol is aimed at the occupation of all North China, It is a further step in the (CONTINUED ON PAGZ THREE) DELAY IS WON IN E. BERKMAN FIGHT Brandeis Signs Papers for Court Hearing NEW YORK, — The International Labor Defense today announced that Supreme Court Judge Brandeis has granted a stay of deportation until August 5 in the case of Edith Berk- man, held a prisoner in the Central Northeastern sanitorium in Rutland, Mass. This hard-won victory gives a pos- for arguing the Berkman case before the Supreme Court and for putting the fight against deportations on a stronger basis. This information came in the form of a wire from A. J. Iserman, I, L. D, attorney. Attorney. Iserman left at midnight Monday to submit to United States Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis, at his summer home in Chatham, Massachusetts, an appeal from Senior Circuit Judge Gingham’s “decision” and a request for a stay of ‘the deportation mandate. . An application for bail, which has. sey- eral times been denied,—twice denied —in fact—since her protest hunger strike from May 7 to May 18—was included in the request to Justice Brandeis, but was denied on. ithe ground that she was in a sanitorium. HIT UTICA TERROR AT AMTER MEET Mass Protest Saturday In Buffalo BUFFALO, N. Y., July 19.—Five hundred workers in Buffalo and 350 in Lackawanna heard I, Amter, Com- munist candidate for Governor -of New York, speak yesterday on the Communist Party election program. Resolutions were passed denouncing the vicious police terror that is raging in Utica at the present time, where four workers were jailed at an open- air meeting. Amter called on the workers to smash the new series of frame-ups by organizing mass protests throughout the state. The International Labor Defense announced today that a big outdoor protest demonstration will be staged on Saturday, July 23, at 6 p.m. at the Broadway Auditorium. The seven Utica workers are charged with riot and assault and were held on bails ranging from $2,500 to $7,500. Five are now out on ‘Aug. ae