The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 22, 1932, Page 1

MARINES REFUSED TO A ‘TACK BONUS ARMY; 25 HELD UNDER ARRES', REPORTS SAYS (See Page 3) VOTE COMMUNIST FOR Unemployment and Social Insurance at the ex pense of the state and employers. 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 forced collection of rents or debts. Dail Central ly i Section of the Communist International )) VOTE COMMUNIST FOR 4. Equal rights for the Negroes and self-determin- ation for the Black Belt. 6. Against capitalist terror; against all forms of suppression of the political rights: of workers, 6. Against imperialist war; for the defense of the Chinese people and of the Soviet Union. Vol. IX, “No. 174 a Entered as eccomd-clam matter at the Post Uffice at New York, N. Y.. under the act of March 3, 1879 NEW YORK, FRIDAY, JULY 22, 1932, crry EDITION Price 3 Cents GERMAN FASCISTS MOVE TO BAN COMMUNIST PARTY 15,000 HOSIERY MILL WORKERS FIGHT ON AGAINST STARVATION Operators’ Proposal for 25 Per Cent Cut Is| Rejected by Masses of Strikers Struggle in High Point ‘Area Has Background of Militant Strikes BULLETIN HIGH POINT, N. C., July 21—Twenty workers, leaders of the great textile, furniture and laundry strike which has stopped over 150 mills in North Carolina, were arrested today on warrants charging them witii in- citing to riot. They are held iIncommunicado, Masses of aroused strikers and unemployed workers stormed the jail this morning and demanded the release of their comrades. Police and ‘deputies spirited the arrested workers away to Winston-Salem, eighteen miles away, by automobile. Latest strong. reports show the strike continuing HIGH POINT, N. C., June 21.—Over 15,000 hosiery work- é#s who struck Monday against a wage cut, shutting down over 150 mills, rejected a settlement plan offered by the mill bosses today. The mill owners proposed workers but the boarding room? workers 25% and leave the rest where they were when they lowned their tools and walked “The strikers’ committee turned down the wage-cut plen unanimously. Agents of the mill owners working * fnside the ranks of the strikers pro- posed that the workers accept the ésses’ plan which is designed to split the ranks'of the strikers and thus de- feat their struggle against starvation. ‘The masses of workers, however, de- clared that they would stand solid against any form of wage-cut in the industry. s Background of Struggle. This strike follows a series of strikes in the textile industry in the south which began in 1901 when 7,000 eptton workers in Augusta, Georgia downed their tools. Following this strike was the strike at the Fulton Bag and Cotton Mill in Atlanta in 1915; the Gluck and Equinox strike In Anderson, S. C. in 1916; the Jud- son Mills strike in Greenville; the Columbus strike in 1918 and the strike of 9,000 workers in Charlotte in North Carolina in 1921. In the last strike the United Tex- tile Workers Union claimed it was bankrupt and no relief was sent from the National office. During the next big strike in Hen- @erson, N. C. the national office of ‘the U.T.W.U. did nothing but offer the strikers a charter. Some of the hardest fought strikes im the south occurred in 1929 when the Gastewia workers under the lead. ership of the National Textile Work- ers Union set the pace for all, future struggles in the south. _. Green Praises War Dept. ‘The workers in the south have Jearned a lesson from the Danville ‘strike of 1930-31 where they were “ openly sold out by the U.T.W.U. in an “agreement” ihitiated by an open- shop manufacturer. At the time when the militia was being used against the strikers, William Green was Praising the U. 8. War Department and pledging the loyalty of the A. F. of:L. to the government. Striking Workers - in Sweden Greet Mrs. Ada Wright The workers of Vaesteros, the Schenectady of Sweden, gave Mrs. Ade Wright and J. Louis Engdahl a splendid reception, a radio message tothe International Labor Dafense stated today. ‘In Soderhanms, a Swedish seaport where the harbor workers are now on: strike, the striking workers gave the Scottsboro speakers a miilitant greeting at the huge Scottsboro dem- onstration. In both places vigorous protests were recorded against the verdicts of death for the Scottsboro boys. “The Swedish government, like ‘the government of Norway, in which country Wright and Engdahl ad- to’slash the wages of all the FOSTER SPEAKS IN DETROIT ON SAT. Opens Tour in State of Michigan DETROIT, Mich. July 21.—The workers of this city are preparing to greet Foster, Communist candidate for president, when he arrives here Saturday. His arrival will be marked by a parade through the city streets and a huge mags meeting at Arena Gardens. About 6,000 workers are ex- pected to fill every seat in the huge auditorium hired for the occasion, On Monday, July 25, Foster will speak at Clark Park, Scotten and Vernor Highway West. Comes at Crucial Time. Foster will come to Detroit at a crucial time. Conditions here are worse than ever. The Welfare De- partment relief appropriation has been eliminated entirely from the $72,000,000 budget. Forty-two per cent of the budget has been assured to the bankers at the expense of 20 per cent wage cuts of the city em- ployees and the five day week which further cuts the city workers’ wages, and creates a new base for further wage cuts in the factories. All pay- ment of rent for the unemployed has been stopped and an agreement reached to re-hire the laid off police to club the unemployed, starving workers. Murphy uses the term “Five Year Plan” to cover further starvation, wage cuts, lay-offs, to cover the con- vulsions of dying capitalism, Mur- phy’s police still carry out the policy of terror initiated in Grand Circus (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) UNEMPLOYED NEWS FLASHES (1) A. F. of L. officials in At- lantic City meeting appealed to Hoover to introduce the wage cut- ting stagger plan throughout the nation. _ Gpposes unemployment insurance. (2.) Six Minnesota workers ar- rested for demanding jobless re- Hef at meeting. (3.) Van Veen and Rand, un- employed leaders, acquitted in Schenectady court. (4), Arkansas Communist Elec- tion Convention issues demand for 910,000,000 for immediate jobless relief. (5.) Workers throng court in support of June 3rd Los Angeles unemployed demonstrators, Over 600 Westinghouse workers, employed, unemployed, in McKees- port, Pa., cheer exposure of Father Cox, shouting: “We don’t want him here!” 250 delegates representing 151 organizations participated in Detroit Conference of Unemployed Councils to develop fight against the 5-Year Hunger Program of Mayor Murphy’s board, da poke! Scenes in Carmany As Workers F a Against Open Fascist Dictatorship With Prussia (two-thirds of Germany) declared under an opeit fascist dictatorship, and Berlin under martial law, the Communist Party is calling for a mass political strike. Photo shows typical seenes in Berlin with heavily-armed police—now under the direction of the military— invading the proletarian sections of the city and terrorizing workers. ‘That ahy attempt on the part ernment to outlaw the Communist Party of Germany will not be so easily achieved is indicated in the above photo showing part of the huge crowd at the recent Lustgarten demonstration in Berlin organized by the Communists, of the Hindenburg-Von Papen gov- VET CONFERENCE ON BONUS TODAY Demand Release of Jailed Leaders BULLETIN WASHINGTON, D. C., July 22— The Board of Commissioners of the District of Columbia today ordered the evacuation from the District of Columbia of the entire bonus army. The Board directed General Glassford to see that the order was carried out. An extreme time limit has been set for August 4, See PITTSBURGH, Pa., July 21—A shipment of tear gas guns, hand grenades, projectiles, guns and gas masks left here today for Washing- ton. The equipment was consigned to the police department and is, according to reports, designed “for Police use in quelling riots.” + 8 8 WASHINGTON, D. C., July 21—A mass conference of the rank and file veterans of the Bonus Expeditionary Forces to work out plans to compel Congress to meet in an extra session to pass immediate legislation to pay the soldiers’ bonus in cash will be held Friday at the Old Masonic Tem- plpe, 5th Street and Virginia Avenue S. E, at 10 am. The Rank and File Committee, in @ statement issued today, said that hordes of police, secret service men and capitol guards will not halt the fight of the worker veterans for the bonus, nor will they stop the struggle of the veterans and workers for un- employment insurance and against a new imperialist war. Demand Vets Release A committee of veterans marched to the office of the district attorney this morning and demanded the re- lease of George Pace, Walter Eicher (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) 500 MINERS STRIKE IN ALABAMA BIRMINGHAM, Ala., July 22. — Five hundred mers employed in the Sayreton mine of the Republic Steel Co. laid down their tools to- day and declared they would remain out until working conditions were changed. The miners marched in a body to the company commissary to protest against the swindling tac- tics of the store, Two carloads of deputies were rushed to the scene by the company to terrorize the miners back to work. { ‘Nanking Battles Masses; Jap Planes Bomb Jehol Towns New Aggressions By Japanese Invaders of China Red Armies Battling on Wide Front; Workers! All Out August First! ‘Defend Chinese People and 'the*Soviet Union Offering no resistance to the Japanese invasion of Jehol Province and | “\slages Kuomintang Leaders Offer No Resistance to | threat to seize North China, the Nanking: traitor government yesterday continued to develop its latest) major offensive against the emancipated workers and peasants in the Chinese Seviet Districts. Large scale fighting is raging over huge areas of Central and South China between the Nanking forces and the worker and peasant: Red Armies defending their gains. Butcher Civilians. Japanese military planes yesterday spread death and terror among the civilian population of Chaoyang and several’ other Jehol Province towns. Japanese troops pushed a large-scale invasion of Jehol, aimed at securing control of the stategic pass into North China, and broadening their military base for armed intervention against: Scviet Mongolia and the Soviet Un- jon. Heroic Resistance. Chinese volunteers are onering | heroic resistance to the Japanese, en-| gaging them in several battles as well as carrying on telling guerrila war- fare against the invaders. Nanking troops stationed in the Peiping- Tientsin arca, under command® of Manel at poser i Ba he to defend Wall Street loot In China Chinese tersltoey’and Haat cinetond a. the:n new threat’ by the Jap. closer to Jehol city, posséssion’. of which would give’ them, control of the strategic pass into North Ching.. In an effort to placate tHe ‘rising anger of the Chinese people, Marshal Chang has called a conference of. military leaders. Chiang Kai-shek is “expected to attend. Chiang Wall St. Tool. Fighting Opens in f Brazil ( Civil War The Sao Paula rebellion against the Provisional President Vargas of Brazil developed yesterday in sharp Chiang is now at Hankow where | nenune between Federal troops and he has gathered an army of 600,000 men and a huge fleet of bombing] The Varga ‘forces claim to have planes for the offensive against the | captured the strategic town of Itarare Chinese Soviet Districts. He has no|in a drive on the Paulista rebels, who intention of using these troops|are apparently supported by British against the Japanese, unless his Wall |{mperialism in an effort to overthrow Street masters give him instructions DOAK FORMS SPY GROUP TO PUSH DEPORTATIONS White Guardist Sheet Boasts of Conference Held Recently in Washington NEW YORK—For the purpose of perfecting a spy system to facilitate deportations of militant foreign-born workers, Secretary of Labor W. N. Doak organized a conference in Washington on July 7. Under the guise of a campaign against an “international trust of Passport racketeers, Doak .called to- gether 11 representatives of various nationalities—including a number of white guardists—to map out his pro- gram against militant labor through ‘an elaborate espionage. system, Rus- sian white guard war veterans were also represented. The Evidence. This is revealed in an unusually’ crude story which appeared in the July 14 issue of the “Novye Russkoye Slovo,” a Russian monarchist sheet published in New York. The paper quotes statements made by Doak at the conference which reveals sharply and unmistakably the real. purposes of the gathering, which at the same time showed that he hes already Vargas who is a Wall Street tool. METAL WORKERS MEET TONIGHT {To Lay Basis for Con- vention NEW YORK.—Entering the final i thé” preparations for its Convention, the Metal W. dustrial League is calling rs In- a mass meeting for Friday, (tonight) July 22, at 8 p.m. at Irving Plaza, 15th St. and Irving Place. This meeting, which is going to rally the workers of New York for| |the metal workers convention, will be | |e high point in the drive to mobilize |for a determined fight to stop the linereasing attacks on the living |standards of the metal workers. Workers Are At a time when stcel workers are suffering daily to the huge number jalready thrown out of the metal shops, with wages of those still em: ployed, most of them on a pert time basis, at starvation level and_ still |being slashed, this mass meeting will |be a rallying point for all those working in auto, aircraft, radio, ma- |chine, iron, steel and general metal shops, | ‘The meeting will be of especial |significance since, it will lead up to} the convention where a basis for widespread strike struggles thruout |the metal industry will be laid. The NWIL calls upon all metal workers to come to this mass meet- ing. The main speaker will be George Powers, former national Sec- retary of the Metal Workers Indus- trial League. ering Two Shops Settle, Two More Strike; Painters Winning Two shops settled for jncreases in wages and two more shops went out on strike—these are the latest devel- opinents in the Alteration Painters’ Union's struggles. One shop has settled for 50 per- cent increase in wages, tools sup- plied, 8 hour day, 5-day week; all hiring is to be done through the union office, all firing to be taken up with the shop committee. The other shop signed for a 10 percent increase with the same arrange- ments. system among various language groups. ‘“Novoye Russkoye Slovo” quotes Doak as saying in the course of the discussion: “It is interesting that in all cases members of some nationality report each other, and there was no case where a Pole would report @ Russian or a Spaniarg someone else, but al- ways Russians are reporting Russians, a Spaniard reports a Spaniard, etc,” Doak Is Chairman ‘That the conference laid the basis from the fact that before it ‘adjourn- ed, it had “elected” Doak as chairman | of the committee. Seeking to cover the murderous purposes of the conference with sanc- timonious words, Doak at the conclu- sion of the meeting declared: “Among the immigrants it 1s cus: tomary to thinx that the Department of Labor is a cold and severe insti- tution and generally has sentiment No Pay-Cut, Say Carolina Textile Strikers SUPPRESS “ROTE FAHNE,” OFFICIAL ORGAN, ATTEMPT TO BAR GENERAL STRIKE Socialist Leaders Follow Surrender Policy, Re- fuse to Join In Strike Action Von Papen Flaunts Military as United Front of Socialist, Communist Workers Grows BERLIN, July 21.—As the possibility of a powerful mass political strike called for by the Communist Party loomed high in Germany, the govern- ment forces which yesterday decreed an open fascist dictatorship over Prussia flaunted the force of the military in an effort to prevent united front action on the part of the workers. SUPPRESS “ROTE FAHNE” The suppression of the “Rote Fahne,” ofticial organ of the Commun- Party of Germany was the first step of the government today in a frontal assault upon the revolutionary organizations of the working class. Following the publication of the Party call for a mass political strike in answer to the proclamation of the Prussian dictatorship, police raided the offices of the newspaper at the Karl Liebknecht House and banned the publication of the paper. Leaders of the German Social-Democratic Party ahd the reformist trade unions at the same time turned down the call of the Communist Party for participation in the general strike. This is in conformity with their policy of surrendering to the fascist dictatorship. THREATEN MILITARY The declaration of the dictatorship, it is clear, is but the latest move in a continuous and organized program to put over an open, fascist re- gime, steadily prepared for by the previous Bruening government th: its emergency decrees and by the selection of Von Hindenburg as presi- dent, with a cabinet of Hohenzollern junkers and princes, supported by Hitler. Fearing the temper of the German workers and the growing Hed United Front against fascism of the Social-Democratic and Communist workers, Gen. Kurt von Schleicher, the minister of defense, rattled the Sabre, and threatened to hyrl the regular troops of the Reichswehr into action, : Yesterday two Communist workers ‘were ‘killed by police. One was killed and a number injured in Berlin when the police fired on a workers’ iCommunist Party of U. S. Calls for Support of Fighting German Workers The Central Executive Committee of the Communist Party, res- pending to the situation in Germany, last night issued an appeal « all workers to support the united front against the fascist terror n raging in Germany. slogans: Fascist Attacks Upon the Rights of Workers’ United Front in the U. S. by demonstrating August First!” i i | International Workingclass Fight for the Defense of the Seviet Union | | It called upon its district organizations thruout the country to ar- range mass meetings, open-air street meets and neighborhood meetines during the week of July 25-August 1, putting forward the followiny “Down with the Fascist Terror in Germany; Down with the the American Workers; Form the S. Against the Boss Attacks; Join the ously wounded when a fascist fired district. meeting in the proletarian Neu Koelin district. Three workers were ser:- into a saloon at Buer, in the Ruhr Ninety workers were jailed at the same time for distributing (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) N.Y. VETS RALLY FOR AUGUST Ist To Hit War Plans and| Demand Bonus NEW YORK. — All posts of the Workers Ex-Servicemen's League, throughout the United’ States, wil] mobilize on Anti-War Day, August 1. In New York City, a series of meetings are being held in support of the City Demonstrations called by the Communist Party against -impe- rialist war. Five thousand leaflets mittee of the League, and each post | is issuing a special local leaflet. Meetings of the New York Post last night. Harlem Post 2; the Yorkville Post 50; the Bronx Post 35. These Posts will hold a series of special meetings in these sections where they are located. On August 1, they will join with the Unemployed Councils and the TUUC, Needle Trades Union in a prelimin- ary demonstration at Columbus Cir- cle at 2 pm. (59th St. West Side) and March from there at 3:30 to Union Square, i Other Posts Post 40, 75 Brownsville, and 180 Downtown Water Front will march with the Marine Workers Industrial Union, Unemployed Councils and Block Committees at Whitehall St. and South, baginning at 2:30 p.m. Post 1 will mobilize at Madison Sq. Park, 3:30 p.m. TWO JAILED IN EVICTION. NEW YORK, — Sadie Berg and Freda Jackson were sentenced to five days in jail for participating in am against the immigrants. I declare eviction fight at Pitkin Avenue and had been issued by the District Com: | Meetings were held by the majority) TO ‘INVESTIGATE RUEGG JAIL CELL Nanking Gov't Tries to Whitewash Self | (Cable By Inprecorr.) | SHANGHAI, July 21—The Nank- ing ministry of Justice intends to publish a “correction” to the letter of Gertrude Ruegg concerning cone ditions of their life in jail during the past thirteen months. He has dispatched a special staff to ex- jamine their cells in the Shanghai court and the Nanking Military pri- son. The judicial authorities, accord- ling to the Chinese papers, have ac- cused Council Fisher of smuggling a letter from jail, this abusing the “special treatment” exempting Fisher and other visitors from search at the | Prison gates. This is obviously @ manoeuver by the Nanking govern- ;ment to hamper the defense by in- criminating the leading defense counsel. (Cable by Inprecorr) Insist on Nanking Trial, BERLIN, July 21~-The League Against Imperialism and the Interna- tional Red Aid have issued an appeal stating that the long struggle for the lives of the Comrades Ruegg has reached a critical turning point. Im- mediate intensified international pro. test is imperative in order to save the Rueggs. Only international protest has hitherto prevented a summary execution. The Chinese authorities insist on a Nanking trial. The fate of the Rueggs is in our hands. Pro- test, demonstrate before the Chinese and imperialist consulates and em- bassies. The Supreme court of Kiangsu Christopher St. The eviction fight begun functioning the basis of @ spy! for a permanent organization is clear! (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) |took place a week ago, province has refused the Ruegg ap- plication for a trial at Shanghal,