The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 21, 1932, Page 1

; ( + Vol, IX, No. 173 GERMAN CP. CALLS FOR MASS STRIKE IN REPLY TO PRUSSIAN FASCISM BERLIN, July 20.—A mass political strike of the German working- « class was called for by the Communist Party fraction in the Reichstag as the answer to the latest move to establish an open dictatorship in Prus- sia—two-thirds of Germany—by the Hindenburg-Von Papen government. The call was contained in a special leaflet issued by the Communists in response to the action of the government. Von Papen threw the Prus- sian government out of office and decreed a dictatorship on the basis of ‘an emergency order issued this morning by president Von Hindenburg. Simultaneously with this came the clamping down of martial law @m the city of Berlin and the Province of Brandenburg. Lord Mayor Franz Bracht of Essen, who has long years of experience serving the industrialists of the Ruhr, was brought in by Von Papen to act as his puppet and given dictatorial power, in Von Papen’s name. The martial law order does away completely with the articles of the Constitution which deal with the right of free speech, the right of as- sembly, the rights of privacy of telegraph, munications. At the same time it places the police under the direct control of Gen, Kurt von Schleicher, the federal Mi fenses, directly aimed ot militant actions, is made punishable by death, under the vague and general category of “resisting orders,” ete. The order setting up the dictatorship declared that “high treason, mob violence and similar offenses may.entail capital punishment instead of life imprisonment as hitherto.” Meanwhile the military has reinforced the usual guard and set up machine guns and other terroristic machinery in the court in front of the federal chancellory A cordon of mili last night all commu: tions were Center, and all vehicles turned back. and police have been placed around Berlin, and telephone and postal com- er of Defense. A long list of of- cut off from Potsdam, the Junker Grezenski, head of the Berlin police and deputies Weiss and Heimannsberg were later arrested by military au- thorities for refusing to surrender their posts. The Von Papen declaration followed the well-calculated program of the government, operating hand and glove with the Hitlerites, to form an open fascist dictatorship and utiliziig the Nazi-inspired clashes with Communist and social-democratic > orkers as a pretense action. The declaration of mar“al law i: ist Party completely in order to carry thru a more fierce offensive upon the living standards of the German workers, already heavily burdened by rees carried thru by the Bruening and Von Papen goy- the emergency dv ernments. to justify their intended to illegalize the Commun- \ } | | The fip’.t against the establishment of the open fascist dictatorship has bees going forward under the leadership of the Communist Party. Over the heads of the social-democratic leaders, the workers have been establishing a Red United Front, including Communist and social-demo- cratic workers, The announcement of the open fascist government was possible only because of the policy of the social-democratic leaders who haye steadily restrained the workers, and who, under the plea of the “les- ser evil,” supported Hindenburg for president. The German masses, who have been moving more and more to the left, will undoubtedly react with revolutionary determination to this brazen order of the plundering capitalists. The German masses will be heard from! American workers—give support to the united front anti fas heard against the fascist terror growing fascist terror in the U st actions of the German mass Make your voices Beat back the German y! 0 All out on August First against ‘fascist violence and war in America, Germany and thruout the imperialist world! VOTE COMMUNIST FOR 1. Unemployment and Social Insurance at the ex- pense of the state and employers. 2. Against Hoover’s wage-cutting policy. 8. Emergency relief for the poor farmers without ° restrictions by the government and banks; ex- emption of poor farmers from taxes, and no forced collection of rents or debts. (Section of the Communist International) y, Worker Party U.S.A bald Entered as second. at New York. N, Jase matter at the Post Office der the act of March 2 1979 NEW YORK, THURSDAY, JULY 21, 1932 suppression of the 6. Against imperialist war; for the defe the Chinese people and of the Soviet U VOTE COMMUNIS Equal rights for the Negroes and self-determin- ation for the Black Belt. Against capitalist terror; against all forms of political rights of workers. of on. CITY EDITION. Price x Cents _ MORE MILLS CLOSE IN GROWING CAROLINA STRIKE JAPANESE DRIVE ON NO. CHINA Extending Armed Base Against US.S.R. THREATEN U. S. LOOT Spee New World Slaughter BULLETIN A Paris dispatch to the New ‘York Post reports a frantic rush by European civilian populations to buy gas masks “in fear of the ‘Next ‘War’” Military authorities of France and other countries are also pushing the work of constructing bomb-proof cellars in preparation for ‘air raids and bombings. —~ daa eae The Japanese yesterday rushed hhuge forces into the invasion of Jehol Province, in a direct threat against all North China and Soviet Mon- golia. “Japanese troops, armored trains, motor transports, tanks and large military supplies moved along the railway from Chinchow, Manchuria, to the terminus of the line at Peh- 'piao, Jehol. The Japanese army is ‘pushing on to the city of Jehol, con- trol of which will give them pos- session of one of the two strategic passes into North China. In South- ‘ef Manchuria, a Japanese force is thoving to occupy the town of Shan- haikuan at the southern end of the Great Wall of China, with the aim (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) NANKING DENIES RUEGGS APPEAL Decision ‘Bans Legal Defense (By Inprecorr Cable) “SHANGHAI, July 20.—The Kuo- min News Agency reports that the Nanking Supreme Court yesterday réjected the appeal of Paul and Ger- le Ruegg for transfer of their tial to Shanghai. ‘The court offered the pretext that 2 transfer is possible only when ow- ing to legal reasons or special cir- cumstances the trial court is unable to carry out trial or when there & ground for apprehension that the court. sentence would be unfair. The court pretends that there is no ground for apprehension that the trial would be unfair. It claims that the defendants “merely contend” that the alleged offenses were perpetrated Shanghai and that both were domiciled in Shanghai and that they Have not shown that a transfer is Warranted under the above condi- tions. “It is ynderstood that the trial will be resumed at Nanking as soon as the accused have recovered suffi- tiently. Both of the defendants have been on the verge of death during the past week as a result of the say- age torture inflicted on them during the 13 months they have been held in jail without trial. They were further weakened by the hunger trike they have conducted in protest gainst this treatment and their gal tmprisonment. ‘Thus the Nanking butcher govern- ent reaffirms its decision denying he right of legal defonse to the ac- ed. The Nanking Government is again acting in full accord with the power world imperialism which, as Ruegg declares in her letter jo her attorney. Fisher, has already Jecided on sentence against the de- ‘endants, Lor} a Pent AUGUST Ist NEWS FLASHES Events , throughout the world yesterday calls sharply to the at- tention of the workers the need for mass demonstrations against hun- ger and war on August 1: 1, Bloody street clashes between workers and the Nazis increased in Germany following the von Pa- pen decree which announced an open fascist dictatorship prohibit- ing open-air demonstrations and threatening suppression of the Communist Party and summary trial and death of workers resist- ing the rascist dictatorship. 2. In South America a new re- volt broke out in Peru. The uneasi- ness of. the ruling classes of Peru, Chile, and Ecuador increased with the rapid growth of mass unrest against the starvation conditions tmposed on the toilers by the in- creasing attacks on their standard of living. 3. Fighting broke out between the border troops of Paraguay and Bolivia, South America. Militarists of both-countries organized hostile demonstrations demanding war, in an attempt to divert the masses from the revolutionary way out of the crisis. 4. In China, the new Japantse offensive threatened an early at- tack against the Soviet Union and at the same time tremendously sharpened the antagonisms be- tween Japanese and American im- perialism, 5. At Ottawa, Canada, the Brit- ish imperialists launched a new economic offensive against their Wall Street rivals. JAPANESE SHIPS LOAD MUNITIONS Workers! Protest U.S. Aid of War Three Japanese ships are being loaded with war materials on the Broklyn waterfront for use against the Chinese People and the Soviet Union. The ships are the “Kinai Maru,” the “Hoku Roku Maru,” and the “Kurama Maru Fuku.” They are loading at Piers 1 and 3, Brooklyn. Their cargoes consist of explosives, airplane parts and motors. Proof of War Drive. The “Kinai Maru” is expected to depart today or tomorraw for Japan with its deadly load. The “Hoku Roku Maru” brought “a cargo of rub- ber, silk and poreclain to finance the purchase of the war material. The (CONTINUED ON PAGE REE) POLICE CLUB VET PICKETS; THREE JAILED Attack Veterans With Clubs and Drawn Revolvers PACE HELD IN JAIL White House Gate Tied With Cable WASHINGTON, D. C., July 20— Police with swinging clubs attacked the war veterans picket line today which was headed for the White House under the leadership of a rank) and file committee. George Pace, commander of the 14th Regiment B. EF.; Walter Eicher, chairman of the rank and file committee, and B. E. Johfison were arrested and held in jail. Five hundred veterans, some with their wives, marched this morning from the rank and file headquarters down Pennsylvania Avenue in a pick- et line four blocks long despite the fact that Glassford, Washington's po- lice commissioner, denied the vets the right to picket. ‘The iron gates of the White House were tied with a steel cable and all pedestrians were barred from Penn- sylvania Avenue from 15th St. down. Cops Pull Guns When the pickets reached 15th St. a huge army of police appeared. They pulled guns and swung their clubs viciously on the heads and shoulders of the advancing veterans. Pace, who was leading the march, refused to be-turned aside. Rein- forcements of police arrived. fred. J. Headly, Glassford’s assistant, thereupon glabbed Pace by the throat. The vets pulled Pace back. Three Jailed Pace addressed the men and said they were not here to provoke a fight, but that they were here to picket the White House. Pace, Richer and Johnson were seized by the po- lice ape taken to jail. Continue March The veterans, undaunted by the arrests and the police attack con- tinued their march all through the area surrounding the White House for over a half hour following the attack, The picket demonstration lasted over two hours. Denied Food In an attempt to split the ranks (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) THE TIDE IS RISING Strikes Challenge Hunger Regime In the heart of the industrial South, at the threshold of the Black Belt, the workers are again in ac- tion. A few hundred strikers at High Point, North Carolina, started a movement that spread like wildfire throughout the Piedmont area. In a few hours there were not less than 15,000 strikers and. unemployed standing shoulder to shoulder against ‘the bosses. This is one of the many events that show that a new tide of struggle is rising throughout the country. One after another the capitalist fighting weapons that are used against the working class are proving ineffective. Open terror and murder such as we have seen in a score of .places, the increasing lynch drive against the Negro masses of the South, the deportation orgy of Doak in his attack against the for- eign-born—all this has failed to stem the rising tide of working class mil- itancy, 24 On every hand there is evidence of the forward surge of the masses, ‘The government, the Democratic and Republican parties ,and the So- cialist Party of betrayal of the work- ers, are objects of contempt on the part of more and more workers. In this ‘situation there is needed more than ever the firm revolution- ary guiding hand of the Communist Party. It is only our platform of action that combines the election campaign with the fight against hun- ger and war and for jobs and bread that can lead the workers to new struggles and to victories. In this crisis we, who have tre- mendously favorable conditions, find ourselves faced with grave financial barriers, This can be overcome by rushing contributions to the $100,000 Communist Election Campaign Fund, Rush all you can RIGHT NOW— TODAY! Send your contributions to this paper, or to the Communist National Election Campaign Committee, Box 87, Station D, New York, N. Y., or to the District Office of ‘the CPUSA in your viciaity, or to any accredited representative of the CPUS% or Labor Boake Once More in the South Workers in-several industrial centers in North (acciina Stem Point, Jamestown, Kernersville and Lexington and Thomasville—have shut down 150 plants involving 15,000 workers, in a fight aaginst a recent 25 per cent wage cut. Struggles are not new in the South; photo shows a scene in Gastonia, N. C., in 1929, when textile workers battled for months under the militant leadership of ‘the National Textile Workers Union. TO BAIL FOSTER WITS BIG PARADE Ford In "Jersey Ex- poses Forced Labor DETROIT, Mich. July 20. — A parade through the city streets will feature the arrival here Saturday of William Z. Foster, Communist can- didate for president wh ospeaks at Arena Gardens, Woodward and Hen- drie Sts., in the evening. The auditorium seats 6,000 and a capacity audience is expected to greet Foster who comes here in the course of his nationwide election tour. The parade will begin at 4.15 p. m. at the Michigan Central where Fos- ter is due to arrive. Meetings in Other Cities The Sunday following his Detroit meeting Foster speaks in the Work- ers’ Camp, near Detroit, and during the rest of the week will speak in the following cities: Pontiac, July 26, Wolverine Hall, 31 1-2 W. Pine, St.; Flint, July 27; (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) Doak Agent Calls On Edith Berkman Seeks Signature for Polish Passport WORCHESTER, Mi Mass., July 20— One day after Judge Brandeis of the U. 8. Supreme Court signed a stay of deportation in the case of Edith Berkman, now held a prisoner in the Central Northeastern sanitorium, immigration inspector Parker of the Department of Laor called upon the textile leader demanding that she sign\a request for a Polish passport, Berkman refused to sign the docu- ment, clearly aimed to facilitate her deportation to fascist Poland, According to the plans of the Der partment of Labor, Edith Berkman was to have been deported by August 5, but the “stay” by Brandeis—a re- sult of the mass protest campaign by the International Labor ‘Defense —calls for a hearing of the case be- for the U. S. Supreme Court. Her temperature rose to 101 as a result of the agitation caused by the sudden visit or the immigration men. Despite the seriousness of her condtion, there is a strong possibi- lity that the deportation officials may attempt to remove her forcibly FRAME STRIKER, HOMICIDE CHARGE Weinstein Held for $50,000 Bail NEW YORK, July 20.—Samuel Weinstein, chairman of the strike committee at the Muskin Manufac- turing Co., was framed today on a homicide charge. The frame-up is the result of Weinstein’s activity in the strike of the Furniture Workers’ Industrial Union. The case upon which Weinstein has been framed arose out of the al- leged beating up of Harry Weissglass and his wife, Sophia. The charge of homicide offered itself to the bosses when Mrs. Weissglass died. Weinstein states that he has noth- ing to do with teh murder and had no knowledge of it until the charges were placed against him. He was picked up on the picket line in front of the Muskin factory at 232 Throop Ave., Brooklyn. Proskin, one of the bosses who often threatened to throw Weinstein into jail, pointed him out to the arresting officer. ‘Weinstein is being held for $50,000 bail in the Bronx jail. The hearing of the ‘case has been postponed until July 26. The New York District of the In- ternational Labor Defense brands this as_a deliberate attack on. the Furni- tute. Workers’ . Industrial Union. Stern, the District Organizer, stated that this'is an attempt to single out and frame the leaders: of the ‘strike, with the aim of smashing it. Weinstein was held incomnmni- cado. Allan Taub, LL.D. lawyer, was refused permission to s2¢ him yester- day. Vice-President to ~ Open Bosses’ Games On Coast July 30 LOS ANGELES, July 20—The bos- ses’ Olympic games will be opened on July 30° by Vice-President Curtis, as a direct representative of Hoover. The job of representative was previously offered to Coolidge but he turned it down, The games at which representa- tives of the Japanese, Italian and all the other imperialist nations will be present will have no athletes from the Soviet Union, the officials having boycotted the USSR. CAROLINA SCENE OF BiG FIGHTS Past Strikes Show the| Need of Rank and | File Control REMEMBER GASTON N.T.W.U.° Calis St Supyort ‘A for) trike By N. H. With the suddeness and swiftness characteristic of the great fighting! spirit of the southern textile workers, | 15,000 textile and furniture workers | have drawn out on strike | The strike, starting among 400 High Point, N. C, hosiery mill workers, did | not come out of a clear sk For the past few months it was evident | that big struggles were brewing among the southern mill workers. At the, beginning of 1932 the south- ern mill workers began to take stock of what had happened in the pre- vious year, and they saw such things as these: They had received in some case six wage cuts in 1931: Over half of them ployed. Practically every employed south- ern textile worker was working on part-time, which in the south often meant one day a month. The southern textile magnates, as- sembled in conferences, had decided on cutting out all night work, which meant unemployment for scores of thousands more. Not even a mere semblance of re- lief was being given to the unem- were unem- CCON TNE ON PAGE THREE) N.Y.C. Workers to Protest Japanes Terror on Friday NEW YORK.—New York workers will protest in open air meetings on Friday, July 22, against the savage terror of the Japanese fascist gov- ernment. Since March 1928, over 2,000 lead- ers of the Japanese revolutionary workers have been jailed, beaten, tore tured or murdered. On July 6, the present fascist dictatorship. demand- ed a death sentence against Shiro Mittamura, a member of the Central Committee of the Japanese Commu- nist Party. It ordered long prison sentences against 201 other Commu- nist leaders. One meeting will be held at 29th St. and Second Ave, at 8 p.m., an- other at Pennsylvania and Sutter, Brooklyn, at 8 p.m, A third at 4th St. and Avenue B. | clubbed and several beaten when | Kalamazoo, Mich., defeat two evic- UNEMPLOYED NEWS FLASHES (1) The Indiana Hunger March- ers demand $25,000,000 relief and warn that they will be back with thousands of workers to get it. Marchers met at Indianapolis by | cordon of police armed to their teeth. (2) Under the slogan of “Bread, not Bullets,” St. Louis jobiess call | a conference for July 24 at Turner | Hall. The 48 workers arrested at | the July 11 demonstration released | Ben Powell, Negro worker, | on bail. shot in demonstration, is in critical condition. | (3) More than 2,000% jobless demonstrate in New Britain, Conn., | against slash in relief appropria- tions. (4) One worker was vic-orsly the riot squad broke up 2 meeting | of several hundred jobless in Kan- | sas City. Luckily shots went wild. | “ear gas bombs and guns were | used by police. (5) The Unemployed Counc’! of tions of jobless families. (6) Philadelphia workers pro- test arrest of 15 starving child bootblacks, demand that relief be provided for them. (7) Thousands of Canada’s job- less and poverty stricken farmers start march “On to Ottawa.” . Mounted police attempts to stop them are futile. Build the united front for jobless insurance. All out Ragu Ist! West Side Unemploy red | To Make Demands On) the Home Relief Buro | NEW YORK. —The West Side Un-| employed Council is preparing for a| big demonstration July 29 at 10 a.m. in front of the Heme Relief Buro to protest against the red tape sys- | tem of registration of the unem-| ployed. To work out plans for the demon- stration the Council is calling a meet- ing of all supporters of the Council | Thursday, July 28, at 7.30 p.m, at} 433 W. 39th St. The Council is issuing 10,000 leaf- lets. These leaflets will have to be distributed in the homes of workers | in the neighborhoods. Workers are urged to come to the headquarters of the Council to help carry on the work of mobilization for this im- portant demonstration. 700 CHOLERA DEATHS IN ONE WEEK | The latest reports on. the cholera | epidemic in Kuomintang China shows that over 700 persons have died of cholera in eight Chinese cities during the past week. Only we seem to recall that a few Why should the workers vote Communisi—read it in the Elec- tion Platform of the Communist ‘Party, one cent. “JT WAS A SOCIALIST” Letters from California and Detroit “My father was an Oklahoma homesteader and a pioneer Social- ist, I have been a Socialist for 26 years. But the present crisis has convinced me that the only thing to do is to be a Communist, So for 1932, here goes! “Will be back in Oklahoma soon, and will give them hell. Have read the American Freeman, American Guardian, the New Leader, La Follette’s paper, the Nation, the New Republic. My conclusion for 1932 is to hell with them all. Yours for the Daily Worker.” M CLAY HUBBARD, Needles, Cal. And from Detroit comes another letter, of a slightly different char- At the same time that the Olympics take place there will open in Chicago the Workers International Counter- Olympic Moet, acter. The handwriting is hard to decipher and the sentences contain those little grammatical erros com- mon to foreign-born workers whoCity. must learn not only English, but everything by themselves. “Comrades: I am out of work 13 months. T am with family on Mayor Murphy soup line. I can’t go with Daily Worker no place, Daily Worker is a leader of work- ing class people. “You find $1.00 in this enevelope, Comradely, J. PROTAS.” " * @ Comrade Protas is right. The Daily Worker is a leader of the working- class, when hungry workers will send their last dollar for a subscription. That's why every worker, native, foreign-born, Negro, white, should get into the Daily Worker drive for mass circulation 7,000 new yearly subscrip- tions, Rush your sub to the Daily 15,000 OUT: STRIKE HITS 150 MILLS Every Factory In Hijsh Point Closed; Masa Picexeting MASS _ HOLD Warn Against U.T.Y Betr HIGH POINT, N. C., July 20.—The spontaneous strike of hosiery workers which began here two days ago and resulted vals in the shutting down of 106 plants spread toda to 50 new factories. Furniture and laundry. workers have also joined the strike. At a mass meeting of over 2,000 strikers held here last night it was reported that four of the mill owners had agreed to meet the workers’ demands. The strikers de- mand that a recent 25 per cent w cut be taken back. General J. Van B. Metts, mander of the North Carol tional Guard, who led troops a the Gastonia and Marion s 1929, was rushed to the Governor Gardner, Shut Off Power. com- a Na- rs in scene by The strikers in High Point were joined by the unemployed The marched in a body to the furniture factories and laundries shut off the electric pow strikers moved to the nea of Thomasville, Kerners ton, Forsyte and Jame staged demonstrations, str mills in each town. All High Point Plants Closed. Not a plant of any kind was oper- ating today in High Point, a city of 36,000 population. Police from all nearby cities patrolled the High Point streets, but their attempts to intimidate the strikers were of no avail, PAGZ THREE) (CONTINUED ON NEW SHOE SHOP OUT ON STRIKE 60 Riverside Slipper Workers Down Tools NEW YORK,—Over 60 workers of the Riverside Slipper Co. downed’ their tools and walked out on strike today because the boss refused to carry out an agreement which he made with the workers a few weeks ago. a LONG ISLAND CITY.—Five last~ ers of the I. Miller shop who were tricked by the bosses to return to work came down and joined the strike tdoya. One of them, Andino, who was a very important worker in the sop, stated that he would stick it out until the workers won, The workers who came out today report that the factory is in chaos, The strike committee stated that it is of the utmost importance to send in more strike relief, All con- tributions should be sent to 5 E. 19th St. as soon as possible, In the Andrew Geller strike the boss is trying to frame up militant workers, A detective accompanied by A- Geller came to the strike head- quarters and threatened to break up the office and beat up the workers. The Five Star strike is going on splendidly. All the workers ag ace Worker, 50 Bast 13th St... New-York.