The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 20, 1932, Page 3

MAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, JUL Y 20, 19 Page Three United Front of Workers Against Hunger, War! All Out Aug.1! On a Chain Gang in Georgia Swamps Former Prisoner Describes Tortures of, Forced Labor (By a Worker Correspondent) Dear Editor: The following are some of my experiences on a chain gang in the South. Thousands of others are still there suffering in ways that nobody knows of. In 1919 I found myself in Jacksonville. Fla., without .a job and with BIG STRIKE WAVE LOOMS IN MEXICO Many Workers Jailed In Terror Drive Mexico City dispatches report the possibility of a general strike thru- out Mexico in protest against the vicious strike-breaking activities of the Wall Street puppet Mexican gov- ernment, The strikes of the Metal Smelting Workers in Monterey, the street car men in Mexico City, and the em- ployes of the Southern Pacific Rail- road are continuing effective in spite of the most savage terror carried out by th2 government against the strikers. The revolutionary trade union cen- ter of Mexico, the Confederacion Sin- dical Unitaria de Mexico, sent an appeal to all workers organizations of the continent, especially the trade unions in the United States, for pro- test actions against the latest wave ef repression which the government of Mexico has unleashed against the trade unions. Assaults Against Unions Facing a rising wave of strikes ef- fecting basic industries such as the Meial smelting strike in Monterey nq strikes of the transport workers, the government has, within the past month carried out assaults against trade unions in various parts of the country. These attacks have been aided by the lackeys of Yonkee im- per:alism in Mexico, the officials of the Confederation Regional Obrera Mexicana. Many Jailed Workers have been arrested and rounded up in th? military prison of Santiago. Later they were transferred to the Islan dof Marias, the Devils Island of Mexico. The following workers are now in this hell hole: Evelio Vadillo, district leader of the CS.U.M.; Miguel Valasco, national crganizational secretary of the CS. U.M.; Guillermo Palacios, recently deported from the United States, and 16 other militant workers. All workers organizations are urged to send telegrams of protest to the President of Mexico, Ortiz Rubio, head of the Mexican government in Mexico City. Stage demonstrations of protest against thi sterror. JAPAN INVADES JEHOL PROVINCE JONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) partition of China and the imperial- ist armed intervention against the Chinese Revolution. The Nanking Government, although admitting knowledge several weeks ago of the Jepanese plans for invading North China, have conveniently stripped this area of troops. These troops have been dispatched to Central and South China to attack the Chinese Red Armies defending the Chinese Soviet Districts. A major civil war is now raging in Hupeh, Honan, An- hwei, Kiangsi, Kwangtung and Fukien provinces between the workers and peasants Red Armies and the forces of the Nanking and Canton butcher governments. American and other imperialist warships are supporting the armies of Canton and Nanking. Answer August 1 Amervican workers! Answer these attacks on the Chinose People with tremendous anti-war demonstrations on August First. Imperialist war is already on. The extension of the Jepamese invasion of China, with its threat of the seizure of North China, greatly increases the danger of an armed clash between the imperialist brigands over the division of ‘the loot of China. At the.same time, the very sharpening of the imperialist entagonisms tremendously increases the danger of armed intervention a- gaifist the Soviet Union by narrow- ing down the basis of possible agree- ment between these bandits to the anti-Soviet front. Sharp Warnings cf War The present developments in China, the disarmament swindle at Geneva, no funds, so I decided to go north again, possibly to South Carolina, where I had once worked. I walked about 20 miles, and I got tired of walking, so when a freight train of the Atlantic Coastline came along I jumped on, got into a box car and fell asleep. When I woke up I heard a voice yell, “Get out of there or T'll shoot,” so I got out, and there were two drunken deputy sheriffs. They put me into an old jail, near Homer- ville, Ga., and about a day or two later the sheriff appeared with a big car and took me to the county jail, which was filthy, and after five days I came before the judge, and he sentenced fhe to $20 fine or two months on the chain gang. I had only $2 so I went to the chain gang, about three miles from the village of Homerville. Kept in Cages On my arrival there, shackles and chains were put on my feet. We were put into prison cars like in a circus where they keep the wild animals, but we had much less freedom than the animals. There were benches one on top of the other in the cages, and so narrow and close together that if I wanted to turn around T had to call the guard, and no one was per- mitted to make any noise, In the mornin we had to get up before daylight, cud I wanted to wash a bit, but the guard hollers, I had to eat breakfast and there was no time to wash. I sat down to eat, but ‘he holers, “On the truck, on the chain.” We had to go out about 10 miles to work. We the prisoners were all chained together. We had two guards on the truck, and two blood- hounds, and the Negroes who were with me on the chain gang seemed to be very frightened. Worked in Swamps The place where we worked was mostly in swamps. We never could straighten out our backs. If a man did not keep up fast enough he was whipped. The first day my hands were full of blisters, and yet I work- ed hard all my life, but I never worked like that. At night we came backs to tHe camp, and it was the same thing every day, every day working on the road or building bridges. Several times I broke down on the road, I was not able to stand up any more. My chest pained me, my lungs were sore, but they never listened to any complaints. Instead, they threat- ened to whip me, but I was so des- perate that I did not cared whether they whipped me or not. I toid them to go ahead and whip me, but they were going to pay for it, and then they did not threaten me any more, About two weeks before my time | was up We were repairing a bridge, and there were all kinds of old planks | lying around nails three to four inches long sticking up. I stepped on| one nail accidentally, and it went right through my foot because my | shoes were wet, and yet I had to work all day with the wound in my foot. When got back to camp that night, I could hardly take the shoe off, and next day a doctor put some salve on and that was all. In a few days they discharged me with the sore boot. They let me go without a cent, and where could I go without being arrested, but I kept on walking all night back to Way- cross, Ga, I could write more of my sufferings in the South, but this is merely an illustration. WORKERS FORCE HEARING IN LORAIN LORAIN, Ohio—The authorities here find that they can no longer ignore the demands of the workers. The Unemployed Council has forced the city to call a meeting to consider relief complaints and plans of the Council. sanne, the Anglo-French pact, the secret military conferences of the French vassals states on the eastern borders of the Soviet Union—all must serve as sharp warnings to the work- ing-class to mobilize its forces against the imperialist war that has already begun in the Far East and threatens daily to engulf the whole world. Workers! All out August First! Demonstrate egainst the war inciters! Demand the withdrawal of all im- perialist forces from China. Demand all war funds for the unemployed and the payment of social insurance the “gentlemen's agreement” at Lau- and the veterans bonus, DAILY WORKER © E, 12th St. N. ¥. C, NAME ADDNIC! Contribute to the $100,090 Fighting Fund of the Communist Election Campaign I enclose the following contribution .........c.sssseessesesseceeoees THE FIGH Waters Plans to Form By N. the men who have been brought to order to betray the war veterans. The government now realizes that the action of over 20,000 war vet- erans from every corner of the Uni- ted States has great revolutionary po- tentialities. The first tendency of the capitalist government was to crush the bonus marchers by force. Thus, on the trek across the country by the veterans, police were called out and hard- fought fights were fought by the worker-veterans, The veterans showed clearly that they were not going to allow armed force to over-awe them. When they reached Washington they promptly took possession of vacant houses, lots, etc. and dug into the billets they con- structed. There is no doubi that the govern- ment had planned to greet the vet- erans’ arrival in Washington with | severe repression. But the veterans’ militancy on the way had great weight. And besides the government was not so sure that it could trust its own marines and soldiers to fire on the veterans, So clever methods had to be used. » Waters Becomes Commander. A fascist named Walter W. Waters, jan ex-lumber boss of Oregon, was |immediately built-up by the govern- ment to k*come “commander-in- chief” of the Bonus Expeditionary | Army. Under his leadership the veterans were herded into the mud-flats of Anacostia, separated from Washing- ton proper by a bridge over the Po- tomac, Terror in Anacostia. ‘The plan was to have Waters, un- der direction of General Gassford, Washington Police Chief, set up a strict military dictatorship in Ana- “| costia, with adjutants, aide-de-camps, M. P.’s etc. The idea was that Wat- ers was to keep the men lying down in Anacostia, far away from the Cap- itol buiding. If a man opened his mouth to com- Plain about the lack of food, about the terror, or about anything, he is set upon by the M. P.’s and beaten up. Waters, to begin with, deserted his Oregon men on th> way across the country. He left them at Caseyvi,le Ql, and went ahead by bus.. This made the Oregon bunch sore as hell. Every few days Waters flies away from Anacostia by plane “to collect money” and comes back saying he has only collected a few dollars.» The men are saying that he’s making a Good racket out of the BEF, Waters and Father Cox, Waters is undoutedly aspiring for a political career, He announced last week in Pittsburgh that he had been promised “enough money to keep the men in Anacostia indefinitely.” This probably means that he has lined up with Father Cox, It is sig- nificant that this fascist used the same words as Cox did in denying that he was for Hitler or Mussolini. It seems sure that Waters wil try, now that Congress has adojurned, to keep only a smal nucleus of his own henchmen in Anacostia and there establish cround himseif a fascist group. It is quite possible that he will try to rally the vets around Cox in the latier’s St. Louis convention, ond he may even run on a presiden- Gal Uickot with Cox, We THE MEN WHO BETRAY BONUS IN WASHINGTON Fight for Wall Street Vets Ired When Robertson Tells Them to Leave the Capital If you want to get an object lesson in the more skillful methods used by the capitalists to crush a great, militant movement of workers, Iet’s take a look at some of tle events in the bonus march and let’s look over some of T FOR THE Small Fascist Group to HONIG, the fore by the bosses’ government in & Waters is so raw that even his own original Oregon group kicked him out and left Anacostia. One Foulkrod, at first played ball with Waters. He was made the legis- lative representative of the B. E. F. Then he got a hankering to-be com- mander, with al its rich spoils, and | broke with Waters. He has now come out in favor of Franklin D Roosevelt, urging the men to go home at once and campaign for the Democratic Party. What the men think of the Democratic Party as well as the Re-| publicans was shown when they booed Foulkrod off the capitol grounds last week, Robertson to the Fore. The government saw that Foulkrod | was through, and that Waters’ influ- | ence had gone away down. They | must now use new tactics, they fig-| ured, | ses, SEND CHALLENGE IN SUB CAMPAIGN Detroit Off ers to Race Chicago Detroit, home of the Ford workers, challenges Chicago, home of the packing house workers in the full- iment and surpassing of the quota assigned them in the big circulation drive of the Daily Worker. A letter to the Daily Worker by the District Daily Worker agent of Detroit says, “We accept whole- heartedly the quota assigned us/ by the National Office, and plan to full- fill our quota before District 8 (Chi- cago). We are Calling a meeting of all the Daily Worker agents, and the Drive Committee, where we will play our plans for the campaign. “The meeting will take place on July 22. Preparations for the mass distrib- ution and increase of sale of the Daily Worker are going full speed ahead. Visiting of subscribers, cir- culation of the Daily at factory gates and neighborhood with copies of the Daily Worker, holding of Red Sun- days and rallies are only part of District seven’s campaign to spread the Daily Workcr among the mas- The campaign of the Daily Worker for 7,000 new paid subscrib- ers, and 7,000 paid in advance bundle orders started on July 15th, and will end on November ist. The work of the campaign is linked up with the work on the elections, Every signer of the petition to put our Party on They brought In Roy W: Robert- | |son, from California. Robertson had | |started out from the coast with 4,000 or so vets, 3,600 of these quit him | }and went on ahead. Why? Because | they charged that Robertson had | collected lots of money for the vets but had sent it home to his own bank } acocunt, But when Robertson arrived in Washington, he suddenly started to use extreme left languae. The papers played him up as the “rebel leader of the B. E. F.” He announced that his contingent would not go to Anacostia, but would camp on the Capitol grounds. He would have “democracy” in his outfit, And the men began to fall for this. Men deserted Anacostia and joined the Robertson group on the Capitol grounds. Glassford was | cleverly building up Robertson to take the place of Waters. But the men began to notice that | Robertson was, as Waters had done| before, goin around arm-in-arm with | General Glassford. Robertson's “de-| mocracy” was exemplified in the fact | that he submitted petition after peti- tion to Congress, but like Waters, never constited the rank and file veterans about it. Moreover, Robert- son said that he would send the men home when Congress adjourned. Any one who tells the men to go home is as popular with these determined vets as a louse is with a dog. And hence Glassford hasn’t succeeded in work- ing Robertson in as “commander-in- chief.” Glassford deserves a few words. He Is the cleverest police official, the slickest agent of the capitalist I have ever seen, He always uses kid-gloves. He takes off his shirt and sleeps with the vets on the capitol grounds. He goes up to a vet and says “I'll bet you I’m more handsome than you” (the vet told him, “we didn’t come here for a beauty contest, we came here for the bonus.”). Curtis orders cut the marines, Glassford makes a grandstand play and orders them re- moved from the capitol. Glassford was really speaking every time Waters made a statement, And Robertson now speaks when and what Glassford wants him to, Doak Carter is one of Waters’ right hand men, He ‘is an ex-Burns de- tective man. The men are generally wise to him now, | will be a keen competition in the |thugs out of the capital. | sentence, jof the Provisional the ballot is a potential reader of the Daily Worker, # future sub- seriber. | Word has not as yet come from | Chicago. Detroit feels sure that there | fullfillment of their quota, which is 700 yearly subs and the increase of 700 paid in advance bundle orders. VETS TO PICKET WHITE HOUSE (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) say that they will drive the Waters ‘The two men who were jailed for picketing, Nathan Kalb and Henni- gan, and who were later given a jail were released today fol- lowing a police grilling. The release of the men was brought about by the j vigorous protests of masses of aroused veterans. # Singer Kidnapped. One veteran, Joe Singer, secretary Bonus March Committee an dmember of the Work- ers’ Ex-Servicemen’s League, was kidnapped in broad daylight July 15) by a crowd of Waters’ thugs. Singer was seized by the thugs at Constitution and Pennsylvania Ave. and hustled to a waiting auto, where he was trussed, blindfolded, gagged | and hit over the head with a black-/ jack. The gangsters called Singer | by his name. They took him six) miles across tife Maryland border, where they slugged Singer and | dumped him out of the car, The Daily Worker needs YOU in its mass Circulation Drive— July 15-November 1. Bungalows and Rooms to Rent for Summer Season Several very ni for rent for the summer season. ful farm in Eastern Pennsylvania, miles from Philadelphis. Running water, cloctricity, swimming, fishing, etc. Rea- sonable rates, Communicate with Tom (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) ‘oven that to pr for w ainst each other, and Unicn. The only country which fought for pea Soviet Union, through its representatives. The Hoover proposals for disarmament are a smoke: increased armaments by Congress and a challenge to its J British rivals. While the capitalists, with their government in Wa ton spending billions for war, concluding secret agreements for war, use pacifist phrases and talk of disarmament in order to cover up the war ence has y he imy war. To defeat the war plans of the capitalists, the workers mu pacifism which hides the danger of war and dulls the watchful the workers. SOCIALISTS BLESS WAR PLANS, The Second Socialist International, and the American Socialist Party endorsed the League of Nations and the Disarmament Conference. The very instruments of war are being blessed by the socialists as instruments of peace. The Japanese Socialist Party, with the endorsement of the American Socialist Party is supporting the Japanese robber war against the Chinese people, and war moves against the Soviet Union. The workers cannot forget the treachery of the Socialist Parties in the last war. The phrases of the Socialist Party aboat peace, about their friendship to the Soviet Union, are only a cover for their active support to the imperialist war plans and campaign of slander against the Soviet Union. The Socialist Party, the strike-breaker in the ranks of the working class are nothing more than imperialist war agents and must be defeated in the struggle of the workers against imperialist war. Workers! The Communist Party appeals to you to unite your forces in one solid fighting front, to fight against this capitalist starvation and imperialist war! We appeal to the workers and impoverished farmers everywhere, or- ganized and unorganized, employed and unemployed, members of the American Federation of Labor, proletarian members of the Socialist Party, to break through all the barriers which separate them and come together in every factoyy, in every neighborhood, in every town and city. UNITED FRONT STRUGGLE. Set up everwhere committees of elected workers’ representatives to dis- cuss the problems of the fight against hunger and war. Adopt a program of immediate struggle for the workers united front against hunger and war. Elect into these committees your best, most honest and courageous fighters and leaders. The Communist Party proposes that August First shal be made the occasion of a great mass demonstration in every city and town, in every working class neighborhood, for this program of struggle. We propose that the workers shall not allow the the present election campaign to be the transitional period of false premises and shallow rhe- toric, but shall transform this campaign into a real struggle to win imme- diately, here and now, their most burning life-needs. Everywhere, where workers come together, let this question be raised, discussed and acted upon. BASIS FOR PROGRAM. The Communist Party proposes for the consideration of such united Front Committees of struggle, the following as the basis,for a uniform program everywhere, to be supplemented by local and shcp demands: 1.—Against the danger of a new robber war. Unite the broad masses for defense of the Soviet Union, for the defense of the Chinese People. 2.—Stop the shipment of ammunition to Japan. 3.—Stop the billion-dollar subsidies to the trusts and banks. Imme- diate unemployment insurance at the expense of the government and employers. 4.—Not a penny off of wages, not a penny new taxes on articles of mass consumption. Stop the capitalist attack against the living standards of the workers, 5.—Immediate payment of the “Bonus” to the ex-soldiers. 6.—Not promises, but immediate relief for the starving unemployed. Not one unemployed worker or his family without decent housing, food and clothing. OUT INTO THE STREETS ON AUGUST FIRST! INTENSIFY THE MASS STRUGGLE AGAINST THE PRODUCTION OF WAR MATERIALS, AND AGAINST THE TRANSPORT OF ARMS AND AMMUNITION! FORM THE REVOLUTIONAY UNITED FRONT AGAINST HUNGER AND IMPOVERISHMENT, AGAINST FASCISM AND WAR! FIGHT FOR A WORKERS AND FARMERS GOVERNMENT! —THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY, USA. HEAR FORD IN ATLANTIC CITY (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) out, Roosevelt as the assistant secre- tary of the navy followed the Wilson administration. in putting over its Jim-Crow policy. Ford, himself an ex-serviceman, told how Negro gun- ners’ mates who would have been promoted during the war were de- |moted as “inefficient” and “unfit.” In return for the support of the Ku Klux Klan, Roosevelt promised , to pay $7,000 to cov: the whole mess, as was revealed following Roosevelt's failure City Bankrupt. candidate for president, made his! first speech Sunday, with former Mayor Small introducing him as “the great leader to show the country the way out of the ‘present great emergency.” The state department of education | Ford, in his speech, pointed out! estimates that at least 50 per cent of that Roosevelt today is being put for-|the Negro population of Atlantic ward as the * ‘defender of the forgot-| | City is unemployed, offering a sharp |? ten man,” but on the same page of Contrast between the great wealth of the paper giving Roosevelt's speech the parasites there and the poverty | apparently against big business, we Of the workers. have the true estimate of Roosevelt and his party by big business. The day Congress adjourned, Henry 3 | Harriman, president of the U. s,| Chamber of Commerce, issued a statement warmly praising the Dem- ocratic congress under Garner's leadership for “its relief measures, its economies, its stand for a balanced budget and its defeat of the bonus bill.” Roosevelt Jim-Crowed Negroes. Ford also exposed Roosevelt's rec- ord in relation to Negroes. During the imperialist war, Ford pointed WHEN GOING ON YOUR VACATION od — THE RELIABLE FIRM — DOREVA, Ine. 152-154 BOWER (Near Broome St.) UNDERSELLS ALL This firm sells everything in the men’s line. Also Raincoats, Windbreakers, Shoes, Boots, Bags and Trinks at the lowest prices in the city. Drop in and convince yourself. Comrades and Sympathizers! PATRONIZE A FIRM THAT PATRONIZES OUR RED PRESS plans, to take the workers by surprise and plunge the country into a new | to pay.|° [FOSTER ATTACKS “NONPARTISAN” A. F. L. POLICY Candidate In Detroit Saturday Eve. | (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) country. Denouncing the deportation, driva against militant workers, Foster said |“This deportation campaign being carrieq on by the Wall Street governe ment through Doak is one of the most infamous in history. St. Louis Example | “Well, last Monday the workers of St. Louis gave the bosses a littl taste of the spirit of the St. Louis working class. And are the bosseg ed? All you have to do is read their cowardly editorials to see how afraid they are,” Foster concluded, Foster in Michigam DETROIT, Mich., July 19.—Jobless }auto workers who have joined bitter |struggles for relief—notably the it n before Fords Dearborn plant— | will form part of the huge audience | which is expected to hear William Z, Foster, Communist candidate ‘ for, |president, when he speaks here in| | Arena Gardens, Woodward and Hen- drie, this Saturday evening, July 23, In Pontiac on 26th Foster will spend a full week in |Michigan, going from Detroit to Dearborn, where he speaks on the 25th. On July 26 he speaks in Wol- |verine Hall, 31% W. Pike St. Pon- |tiac. Efforts to obtain the high school for the meeting failed when |the politicians on the board of edu- | cation who got the Michigan attorney general to declared that “Communist meetings are an abuse of free speech,” Continuing his Michigan tour, Fos- | ter speaks in Flint on the 27th; Sag- inaw, 28th; Kalamazoo, 29th, and on | the 30th in Grand Rapids, where he speaks in L. S. and D. Hall, 1057 Hamilton N.W. TES sabe * CINCINNATI, O., July 19.—William Z, Foster, Communist candidate for president of the U. S. who spoke here last night, sharply attacked the “fake |non-partisan policy of the American | Federation of Labor leadership,” and | characterized it as “viciously deceit- ful.” | Foster came here after big meetings yin St. Louis, Terre Haute, Ind. and jother cities of the middle west. “Tries to Trick Workers” “In order to trick those workers and farmers who are no longer fool- ed by two-party fakery—new dema- | gogy and promises are being indulged Jin to make the masses choose bée- tween “progressives” and “reaction- aries” within the two old capitalist parties,” Foster said. “The American Federation of La- |bor leadership openly supports the Wall Street hunger program, wheth- er put over by Hoover or Roosevelt. It fights against the workers and for the capitalists on every essential point. It fights against unemploy- ent insurance, against the bonus for the ex-servicemen. It tries to stifle strikes and carries on strike- breaking where the work take up fight ag: the b s offen- It helps prepare imperialist war, war against the Soviet Mage Deceitful Policy. “Through its deczitful ‘non-parti- san’ policy of ‘reward friends and punish enemies,’ it delivers the work- ers gagged and bound to the capital- ist parties. It decks itsclf out in ‘victories’ like the so-called anti= | injunction law which fastens injun¢- tions and yellow-dog contracts ever. more firmly upon the workers.” “The reactionary officialdom of | the A. F. of L.,” declared Foster, “is an agency of capitalism among the for putting over the capi; y out of the crisis, which means, ed wage-cuts and tergor.” Do You Want Unemployment In- ~ surance? T The Daily Worker Will You Fow to Get It. | Torchlicht. Sell it at every cam- paign meeting. 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