The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 22, 1932, Page 3

aw Aiud Wore, Nikw YORK, FRIDAY, JULY 22, 1932 Page Three, Three REPORT 25 MARINES JAILED FOR REFUSING TO ATTACK VETS Ford Speeds Up Workers in Overheated Foundry Half Hour Relief in Core Room Eliminated Fast Production Pace Depriving Men of Jobs (By a Ford Foundry Worker) DETROIT, Mich., July 21—While passing through the aisle of No. 3 core room on Friday, July 8, at 6:30 p.m., I saw a worker, who was pulling a hot core fr9m the ores, drop in a faint. He was immediately picked up by his fellow workers before the foremen came around and was taken to the first aid. If, this worker was not sped-up and would have been given a half hour's relief as was given the oven-® ct oe DETROIT MEETING oe ll open OPENS FOSTER’S MICHIGAN TOUR is not build properly. A foundry and core room should only be constructed of a single floor, while Ford’s is two and three floors, which, despite ven- tilation pipes and all that, gives the place a thick and unhealthy air. Foundry conditions in general are terrible, The place is overheated and full of gas and smoke. Despite this hellish situation, Brady, a slave- driver, goes around with his assist- ants, Woodward and Brossky, and drives the workers to increase the production. As a result of this, the production of V.8 cylinder blocks, within the last two weeks, has increased from 21,000 to 34,000, Further, as a result of this increase of production, both the foundry and the core room have been cut down to work from 6 to 5 days, and rumors are going on that in the near future they will be cut down to 3 or 4 days per week, and eventu- ally shut down completely. Service men have been placed at all main aisles and time clocks to see that no worker does “anything wrong.” This means that for the slightest reason they will be singled out and fired by the service men. Fellow workers, there is only one way for us to come out of this in- human working conditions as well as to overcome the fear of losing our jobs, and that way is through organ- ization. The dissatisfaction is great especially in the foundry and core room. Let us organize a real griev- ance committee. VET CONFERENCE ON BONUS TODAY James W. Ford Speaks in Wilmington, Del. (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) Park in November, 1931. CS SS Big Meet In Cincinnati. CINCINNATI, O., July 20.—Nearly 1,000 workers turned out to hear Wil- liam Z. Foster, Communist candi- date for president, at the Labor Temple last Monday night. ‘The mass meeting was preceded by a huge street demonstration at which Foster was cheered by the workers. A parade to the hall followed, A large percentage of the workers who greeted Foster were Negroes. Foster’s speech was received with tre- mendous enthusiasm. He discussed the revolutionary way out of the crisis, the importance of the Communist Party election cam- paign, and exposed the A. F. of L. misleaders. He, pointed out how the Socialist Party tries to deceive the workers. Lies In Local Press, ‘The Cincinnati Post, reactionary Scripps-Howard paper, came out with a slanderous article on the Fos- ter meeting. By quoting several so- cialists who attended the meeting, the article tried to show that there was a great deal of dissension in the audience, ‘The workers of this city are look- ing forward to the arrival of James W. Ford as another opportunity to (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) and B. E. Johnson, rank and file leaders who were arrested while lead- ing the vets in an attempt to picket the White House. The jailed men were charged with parading without a permit. The committee, which was composed of twelve veterans, includ- ing two Negroes and the wife of a veteran, succeeded in having the bail reduced to $100 for each jailed vet and having the case postponed until next Tuesday. All throughout the day committeys of veterans distributed leaflets in An- acostia Camp and the billets in Washington calling on the bonus marchers to elect delegates to the rank and file conference. The aim of the conference is to elect a united command of delegates from all leading committees of the B. E. F. Waters today threatened to cut off all food for groups of veterans who were fighting against his dictatorial leadership. Attempt to Stop Food The rank and file committee reso- lution on the food question adopted - last night at a mass meeting said in part: “Waters has threatened to stop food supplies for groups and indi- viduals who do not agree with him. ‘We point out that the food sent to Washington and all donations re- ceived here are for all members of the B. E. F. Waters, however, has incorporated the name of the B. E. F. as his own private institution. We suggset, therefore, that all food and funds be sent to the BONUS MARCHERS IN WASHINGTON and not to the B. E. F.” Glasford, Washington's police chief, supporting Waters today, said that all food donated to the B. E. F. was the property of Waters. The rank and file committee pro- posed that a Central Food and Fi- nance Department of rank and file veierans, through which all food and money will be distributed equally to all veterans regardless*of political) The | Food and Finance Department, ac-' opinion, race, ereed or color. cording to the plan of the Rank and Vile Commitee, shall post an inven-/ ly of the amount of food on end the manner in which it is oa builetin boards of all billets | deal a blow at the so-called liberal administration here. . Pie Ford in Wilmington, Del. WILMINGTON, Del., July 21—Sev- eral hundred workers, a majority of them Negroes, crowded the Work- men’s Circle Hall to hear James W. Ford, Communist vice-presidential candidate. This city, property of DuPont, munitions manufacturer, centre of Jim Crowism, and home of tenty-five thousand unemployed, sat up and rubbed its eyes with amazement at Ford's reception. Previous Meetings Banned. In the past all open air meetings of workers were suppressed in this city. Intimidation of Negro workers who gathered in groups was rampant. Nevertheless, nearly three hundred Negro workers attended Ford's recep- tion. Negro workers filled nearly every seat and overflowed into the vestibule. For two hours they lis- tened to Ford. A corp of detectives were stationed at the entrance to the hall. They vainly attempted to intimidate the Negro workers. Socialist in this city have always been given permits for open air meetings, while this right has been denied to the Communists. Challenges S. P. Nominees. Ford challenged Maurer, vice- presidential candidate on the social- ist ticket who is scheduled to speak here tonight, to ariswer the charges he launched against the Socialist Party. Ford pointed out how the so- cialists have decried the bonus, war, unemployment, etc. Ford gave with- ering answers. to socialist questions and exposed how the socialist lead- ers have attempted to use the Debs tradition to cover up their work of betarayal. Two weeks ago a committee of workers backed by one thousand un- jemployed put demands to the City Council, / | that radicals would be squelched. He was forced, however to back down. Negtoes Are Starving. A few dollars for each family is the meagre-relief given to the unem- ployed. Negroes are Jim Crowed. Most Negroes here are so pauperized | that the paper shacks they live in are often blown away by the winds. Form the Revolutionary United Front against hunger aad impover- ishment, against fascism and war! Contribute to the $100,000 Fighting Fund of the Communist Election Campaign DAILY WORKEN 30 E, 13th St. N.Y. C. L enclose the following cusiitIbUtion .....cccceccceseeceneeesteenenes NAME ADDRESS City Hall was astounded. | | Only recently the Mayor announced | Veterans’ Leaders Jailed ASS MISERY GROWS IN JAPAN Peasants Fo reed to} Sell Children | TOKYO, July 21—Tokyo is now a city of assassinations and bloody re- pression of the revolutionary work- ers, Raids and mass arrests, shoot- ing of revolutionary workers by the fascist authorities are daily occur- rences. Workers are being stopped and searched by police on the streets in broad daylight. Police| squads are stationed for this purpose on the Tin- za Thoroughfare in the heart of the city. Tne whole appearance of Tokyo is now that of a city on the eve of a revolution. The jails are filled with working class fighters. 201 Commu- nist leaders are facing long prison sentences. The dictatorship is asking the death sentences for others. The American workerg who are op- posed to imperialist war must support the heroic struggles of the Japanese toilers against the present robber war on China, against the criminal drive for armed intervention against the Soviet Union. American qork- ers! All out on the streets Atgust First, International Fighting Day Against Imperialist War. Anti-war actions and strikes are spreading with great rapidity throughout Japan. In the munition factories great strike struggles are taking place. The transport workers are preparing a nation-wide general strike. The Tokyo subway workers are carrying on a heroic struggle. The strikes are increasingl, political in | character, raising the struggle against | |war and for the overthrow of the. fascist-monarchist clique. Attacks on police stations by starv- ing peasants are of common occur- rence in the ruined agrarian districts. Bloody clashes with the police have occurred in the provinces of Saitana, Kokkido and the north-eastern prov- inces. The revolutioniation of the! peasant masses is rapidly proceeding. The agrarian masses of Satano and Chiba, provinces have deserted the reformist leaders and are now al- most solidly behind the Communists. “Is China Going Red?” Is Discussed Under Auspices of N. S. L. BOSTON, Mass., J July 21.—Addres- sing a meeting of students of Har- vard, Boston University, Technology, Simmons, Tufts, and Radcliffe, under the auspices of the National Students League, Senn Hwang, a graduate When war vets attempted to picket the White House Wednesday to demand an extra session of Con- gress to pass the bonus bill police attacked the vets with drawn guns and arrested George Pace, com- mander of the 14th regiment B. E. F.; Walter Eicher, chairman of the rank and file committee and B. E. Johnson, The veterans yesterday at a meeting of the rank and file pledged to carry on the fight for the bonus. Photos show police at- tack, DAILY SUB RACE IS ON Detroit Challenge to Chicago Led Off Revolutionary inter-district com- petition in the Daily Worker drive for mass circulation began today with the acceptance by all districts of their subscription and bundle or- der quotas. The first steps in the competition were announced yesterday when the Detroit District offered to fill its quota before Chicago reached the mark set for its district. As a special attraction to prospec- tive subscribers during the circula- tion drive, the Daily Worker is of- fering the following premiums: With yearly ‘subscriptions: “Land Without Unemployment”, a Soviet pictorial of 208 pages bound in stiff board covers containing more than 250 pictures of prosperity under the only workers government in the world. The volume is ten and three- fourths by six and three-fourths | Gy MEA PANY WN EVERY WORKERS” HAND) inches. Its regular sale price is $1.50. “Toward Soviet America,” William Z, Foster's brilliant picture of how the working class will win power in the United States and what will hap- pen here under a Soviet government, is also offered as a premium with a yearly subscription. The ordinary sale price of this book is $1.25. ARK. ELECTION CONFERENCE HELD The Leader of England March Nominated NORTH LITTLE ROCK, Ark.—“I am more of a doer than I am a talker. I will fight with the workers as long as there is a drop of blood in my veins.” These were the words of the Comminist candidate.for gov- ernor to the first state election con- vention in Arkansas, The candidate is Coney, a poor share cropper, who led the famous armed march of the England farmers, lost winter, There wore 75 delevates at the con- vention. These and Negro share, croppers, tenant jfarmers, poor farmers and industrial} workers who rallied under the six election planks of the Communist Party (see top of Page 1), Others nominated are for Lieuten- ant-Governor, Huchins, a poor Negro) farmer of Pulaski County; Minium,! an unemployed railroad worker, and Tarr, a barber, who led the Henrietta (Okla.) foor march in 1931, Besides the national. Communist election demands, the following im- mediate demands have been put forward: A special session of the state legisla- ture to enact an unemployment in- surance bill at the expense of the state and the employers; An immediate cash appropriation of $10,0u.,104 for unemployed relief; The stopping of evictions and shut- ‘ting off of gas, electricity and water of unemployed and part-time workers, Immediate payment of all savings lost by workers and poor farmers in numerous bank crashes. student of Columbia University, dis- cussed the question; “Is China Going Red?” Stop the shipment of ammunition to Japan GERMAN FASCISTS MOVE TO CRUSH COMMUNIST PARTY; BAN OFFICIAL ORGAN TO PREVENT MASS STRIKE Socialist Leaders Follow Surrender Policy, Re- fuse to Join In Strike Action Yon Papen Flaunts Military As United Front of Socialist, Communist Workers Grows (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) the Communist Party call for a mass political strike. THEIR PROGRAM CLEAR At the same time, it became increasingly clear that the Von Papen government is following the program of crushing all left wing opposition, consolidating the power of the military, money and landed interests, working hand in hand with their associates—the “national-socialists.” In this, however, they reckon without the crowing might of the Com- munist Party and the millions of workers of all political shadings who are rallying behind it in its united front against fascism, conscious of the fact that the proclamation of the Prussian dictatorship is the latest move in the war plans against the Soviet Union. That Von Papen has rested upon the support of the Nazi, and that the present move is aimed to bring the Hitler “national-socialists” closer into the governmental machine, using their storm troops in an effort to smash the Communist Party and the left wing trade union movement, is clear from the glee with which the promulgation of the dictatorship decree was greeted by Hitler himself. “It was high time,” he declared enthusiastically in a speech today in Bremen. The tempo of fascist reaction by the Von Papen government is fur- ther explained by the acuteness of the economic crisis in the country and in an effort to stem the growing Red United Front of Social-Democratic and Communist workers, particularly during the past two months. The participation of the Social-Democratic workers in these giant demon- strations thruout the country is in complete defiance of their party leaders. COMMUNISTS TAKE LEAD The treachery of the Social-Democratic leaders is brought into a sharp light at this time, too,,by the manner in which they pretend to fight against the announcement of the Von Papen Prussian dictatorship, While the Communist Party is calling for mass political strikes and conducting -meetings and anti-fascist actions against the government, notwithstanding the ban, the Social-Democrats are dawdling with comic- opera, legal suits in the German supreme courts in the hope of getting the government court to declare the dictatorship decree “illegal.” Satur- day has been set for hearings on this mock ceremony, aimed to delude the workers regarding the possibility of “democratic processes” despite the brazen, open fascist dictatorship. Side by side with this is their concentration on a demand for wide participation in the Reichstag elections which were scheduled to take place on July 31, The government scheme is, undoubtedly, to postpone the elections indefinitely, and call it in their own good time when it will be nothing but an empty formality. The social-democratic police chief of Berlin, Grzesinski, and his deputy who were removed yesterday, submitted to formal arrest upon their “refusal” to be ousted. They were kept in jail for one hour—suffi- cient to enable them to pose as martyrs in the forthcoming elections to be held on July 31 if the government will permit. IWO ENDORSES PLANKS OF COMMUNIST PARTY Aides $100,000 Election Fund The International Workers Order, jtion campaign is menaced by lack ‘Threw Down Guns When Called Out Against Veterans Vets Elect Committee to I to Demand Immediate Release of Jailed Comrades Mass Meeting Lauds Heroic Acts of Troopss Spurs August Ist Preparations By JOSEPH FROST. WASHINGTON, D. C., July 21.—Despite the war time censorship clamped down on the episode of calling out the marines against the Bonus Marchers, Thursday, July 14th, news has leaked out and has spread like wildfire from shack to shack amongst the veterans in the capitol that 25 marines represented white | through its national committee has issued a statement endorsing the election planks of the Communist |Party and urging its members and friends to work and vote for the can. didates of the Communist Party. “The Communist Party,” says the state- ment, “alone stands for an adequate | system of Social Insurance at the ei pense of the bosses and the govern- | ment. “The Communist Party alone fights | against the persecution of the foreign born workers and against the perse-| cution, segregation, Jim Crowing and lynching of the Negroes. “The Communist Party alone sees clearly that the struggle for the very lives of the workers necessitates workers’ unity, while the persecution | of the Negroes and of the foreign- | born workers is the conscious action | of the enemies of the workers to di- vide them. “The International Workers Order is not a political party. It is a mu- tual aid society. But while our mem- | bers try to help themselves through mutual aid, they do not even for a moment, waive the right to be helped |by the bosses and the government through social insurance, | All Parties Reviewed. “With this aim in view the Na- tional Committee of the International Workers Order have reviewed the re- cord and platforms of all political parties to ascertain their stand on the question of Social Insurance at the expense of the bosses and the goy- ernment. “The Republican and Dem Rarties have an uninterrupted record | pmmme of enemity to Social Ins general and especially to unempioy- ment insurance. The Socialist Party | makes an attempt to conceal the fact | ithat it thinks exactly as the Re- jpublican and Dethocratic Parties do. The Socialist Party demands that a considerable part of the burden of) its Social Insurance proposal be borne | by the workers H Let Bosses Pay Cost. | “We reject this, The bosses pocket all the y ‘ofits from the workers’ la- j bor. Let them pay the full cost of ;maintaining the worke. when they do not use h’r labor. “The only party which approaches the problem from the standpoint of the workers’ interests is the Commu- nist Party. This Party alone, of all the parties, demands a full system of Social Insurance at the expense of the bosses and the government. This demand of the Communist Party is in harmony with the stand of the International Workers Order.” Like the International Workers’ Order, all workers’ organizations, all workers, must rally under the banner of the Communist Party to fight the capitalist hunger program. ‘The ef- fectiveness of the Communist elec- 4 » oeratic of funds. This can be overcome by rushing contributions to the $100,000 Communist Election Campaign Pund. 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. ¥., or to the District Office of the CPUSA in your vicinity, or to any accredited representative of the CPUSA. ‘BRITISH AIM BLOWS ATU.S. Tariff On «Steel and Autos British and Canadian industrialists at the Imperial Economic Conference in Ottawa yesterday drew up a ten- tative agreement aimed at barring United States iron and steel products. American exports of iron and steel |Preducts to Canada are valued at $168,363,980 for the year ended March 1931, and constitute 40 per cent of American iron and steel exports Representatives of the Canadian auto industry are demanding an in- crease of preferential duties to 50% in favor of British products and against American products. The da- mand is understood to have origi- DOAK FORMS SPY GROUP TO PUSH DEPORTATIONS | White Guardist Sheet’ Reveals Meeting (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) to you today that this is not true,| we are striving to render every assist- ance to the immigrants who have ar-| rived here legally as well as illegally. My heart is aching when I hear how uncerimoniously various false friends of the immigrants are robbing them.” Exposes Hypocrisy Commenting on the conference and referring spezifically to the last state- | ment, the International Labor De-| fense in a statement signed by its acting secretary, Carl Hacker, de- clared: “We wish to call to the attention} of Doak and his imprisonment of} Edith Berkman in the East Boston Immigration Station until she con-| tracted tuberculosis and had to be Temoved to a sanitarium. We also! wish to point out the case of Bres- bakies of Portland, Oregon who was beaten into insensibility after being in jail for four months and then thrown on a deportation train, bleed- ing and unconscious. He was brought to New York—to Ellis Island—from | which place he was shipped to Greece and it was impossible for representa- tives of the ILD to find out that he had been shipped out until ten days after he had already left the country. Bloody Terror “These and thousands of other cases are examples of what happens} to foreign born workers who come into the bloody hands of Doak and his agents. | “Although the Dies Bill has not} yet been passed by the Senate and | Congress we already find the Depart-| ment of Labor making wholesale raids and arresting hundreds of! } workers in every section of the coun- try. “The International Labor Defense | and the Committee for the Protec-| tion of Foreign Born calls upon all workers’ organizations to route out of its ranks all those stool pigeons | who are cooperating with Doak in| his so-called campaign to eliminate} the ‘fleecing’ of foreign born workers, | but which is actually nothing more than a spying system upon the for- country. We call upon all workers} both native and foreign born to re- | sist the wholesale raids that ar2 be- ing conducted by the Department of | Labor no matter in what form they are carried out.” nated with the Ford and General! Motors interests in Canada. These plants are said to be the only Amer- | {ean concern which would not be hit by the increased tariff. The Emp‘re Conference mar! other stage in the terrific sh of the struggle betw jand Wal} Street im }mar eign workers to ge tthem out of this|? have been flung incommuni- |cado into military prison for throwing down their guns. when they were called for duty against the starving veterans. A committee of veterans were elected by the Central Rank and File Committee of the Bonus Marchers to demand the fullest information of |the commander of the marines con- cerning those arrested. It is known here that calling the marines into action is the Vice-Pres- ident’s responsibility. Orders and counter orders flew on July 14 and the marines were immediately with- drawn as a matter of strategy and besides the officers were unsure of |the remaining marines’ actions. Threw Down Guns. The iron-clad censorship cannot conceal the following facts: that 25 of the 85 marines called for action against the veterans threw down their guns; other marines afterward fra- ternized with the vets and assured them they would refuse to fire on their “own buddies.” Will Demand Release. At @ mass meeting at 8th and Pennsylvania over 800 veterans list- ening to the speakers from the W. E. S. L. and thunderously cheered the announcement of E. Levin that the investigating committee will visit the commander of the marines tomorrow and will demand immediate freedom for whatever marines were arrested. The crowd applauded the statement that this action of the marines was jthe highest expression of loyalty to the great masses of the working class. This action will spur the preparation |throughout the country for mass demonstrations against hunger and war on August Ist. The action takes on tremendous importance—sirixing terror into the hearts of the ruling class—due to the rapid preparations for imperialist war. The bosses see in this action that they cannot be certain of the armed forces—that after all the sol- diers, sailors, marines and all sections |of the military—are the sons of the working class. ers of The DAILY WORKER Vhe only Crechoslovak working clase ly newspaper in the U. S. and nada, It stands for the very same iple ax THE DAILY WORKER y subscription $6, for & mo. §3, Write for free sample copy today is your neighbor at home, shop, mine or farm a Slovak or Czech worker? f he is, have him subscribe to the Daily Rovnost Ludu Czechoslovak Ocg. of the O,Py USAy 1510 W. 18th St. Chicago, TL Bungalows and Reoms to Rent for Summer Season MASS ORGANIZATIONS t } | Have | TICKETS NOW READY! DISCOUNTS To ¢ Your Own 500 Tickets ......... 04 Cents Pac | | 750 Tickets .. “hide Cents Bach ie | 1000 Tickets .... 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