The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 23, 1932, Page 1

AUGUST FIRST! lwAgainst 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 hanks... Immediate 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-coldiers. On to Union Square Dail Central August First! Entered as eccon a4 matter at the Post Uffioe at New York, N. ¥.. ander the act of March 3, 18f? 6.—Not promises, byt immediate relief for the starving unemployed. Not one unemployed worker or his. family with- out decent housing, food and OUT INTO THE STREETS ON AUGUST FIRST! INTENSIFY THE MASS STRUGGLE AGAINST THE PRODUCTION OF WAR MATERIALS, AND AGAT THE TRANSPORT OF ARMS FORM. THE REVOLUTIONARY AGAINST HUNGER AND IMPOVERISHMENT, AGAINST FASCISM AND WAR! FIGHT FOR A WORKERS’ AND FARMERS ERNMENT! | clothing. AND AMMUNITION! UNITED FRONT oe Section of the Communist International) On to Union Square August First! NEW YORK, SATURDAY, JULY 23, 1932 CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents VETS REFUSE TO GET OUT te CAPITOL k and File Prepare s Protest Against ee Order Pressure of Vets Win One Demand BULLETIN WASHINGTON, D. C., July 22.— } One hundred and seven . delegates | representing over 1,000 waryyeterans | “fon-o-stares eter 2 enk ana fies) conference here today and pledged to carry on a mass fight against the | order to oust them from the capital and to demand an extra session of Congress to pass the bonus bill. A Negro delegate, Glassford’s ouster order, said, “we | will stand our ground.” This rémark was greeted with thunderous ap- plause. By JOSEPH NORTH. WASHINGTON, D. C., The first step in President Paeek retaliation for having had to prac- | tically barricade himself in the White | | House against the rank and file pick- | sters Wednesday, is the beginning of a campaign to aevacuate the ragged, | The vets how- | ever, say they will stand fast and de- | hungry Bonus Army. mand special sessicns of congress to pass the bonus bill Mass pressure of the veterahs forced Hoover yesterday to sign a bill making it possible for about 215,000 war veterans to borrow one half of their bonus at once. The interest rate on the loans was reduced from (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) SEAMEN STORM N. Y. INSTITUTE 4,000 Hold Building for 15 Minutes NEW YORK. — The Seamen's Church Institute, chief racketser of the waterfront, answered the de- demands of a committee of 50 unem- ployed seamen, led by Hopkins Ja- cobsen and Lorenz of the Water Front. Unemployed Council- and and the Marine Workers Industrial Union who had come to demand the bag- gage of Fritz Liedtke which the in- stitute had confiscated by calling riot squads and over 50 regular police. The militancy of the seamen was 80 great that the first detachment of police had to wait 15 minutes for reinforcements before they attempted to take any action, The Institute was Cleared of all seamen and a plice cordon was thrown around the In- stitute for 2 blocks and no one was allowed to enter the building.. The police made no arrests fearing the militancy of the crowd of 4,000 sea- men. For 15 minutes the seamen had complete control of the institute. Mother Roper Booed Yesterday a committee of five had protested this grafting by the In- stitute authorities and today a-com- mittee of 50 invaded: the Institute. When the committee announced their presence the Institute police tried. to throw them out, but were prevented from doing this by the crowd of 3,000 seamen, A roar of anger prevented the Institute police from smashing E WORKERS SUPPORT| in commenting on | Attempt to Break Up Bonus Army | P. Pictdres) | R. W. Robertson, new self-styled | “leader” of the vets, after learning that Police Officer Glassford had ordered the vets out of the capitol, said today that he weuld person- ally lead over 400 men out of Wash- ington ona “barnstorming tour.” The masses of rank and file»vets, however, say that they will not | leave the city. . : ‘BIG RED PICNIC” 'AT PLEASANT BAY = PARK TOMORROW 'Amter, Shepard Speak, Varied Program Is Arranged NEW YORK.—I.’ Amter, candidate for Governor and Henry Shepard, candidates for governor and lieut- enant governor in the coming elec- tions, will speak at the Red Election Picinic. at Pleasant Bay. Park to- morrow. Amter has. just returned from a campaign tour of the indus- trial and agricultural centers of the state, A tecord crowd is expected at the pienic for which an elaborate pro- gram has been arranged. The International Workers Order and the Trade Union. Unity Council, in statements issued yesterday urge support of the picinic. Varied Program The Labor Sports Union has ar- ranged and games including a soccer match and baseball games, and -ath- Jetic events in which all workers will take part. Proletubeline, English section, will present a mass, recitation; the Workers Laboratory Theatre and the Youth Section of the I. W, O. have prepared. side shows. Other mass organizations have undertaken . the details that. will go to making thé picnic a good place to. spend Sunday. Support Urged The Unemployed Councils and T. U. U. C., it was announced, will issue free tickets for the picnic to unem- ployed workers, without which they will not be admitted, Throwaways advertizing the picinic, and ‘coupons clipped from the picnic advertise- ments will be good for bus: trans- portation from. the 177th Street, Bronx Park subway station to the picnic grounds, authorities tried to speak in defense of Mother Roper he was booed down by the crowd. The Water Front Unemployed Council and the MWIU are calling a giant mass meeting Saturday night, July 23, 7 p. m. at Whitehall and South, in order to discuss the next steps necessary in the struggles that are developing, especially in prepar- ing for a demonstration against the cutting off of relief July 31st and to mobilize for the Aug, 1 demonstra- the meeting and when one of ‘the tion against bosses wars, JAPAN SENDS MORE TROOPS INTO JEHOL Mass Anger Rises In China Over New Invasion FIGHT BOSS WAR AUG. 1. Nanking In Sham Talk of “Resistance” ‘Mass. anger flamed up anew thru- oyt China yesterday as the Japanese poured ‘fresh troops into their inva- ‘sion of Jehol Province with the open- Hy hinted atu of-sexing “all North’ China. Many mass feelin of work- ersiand students were held in a huni- ber of North China cities. So great is the mass indignation that the Kuo- mintang> officials did not dare- to carry out. their usual policy of sup- pressing the antj-Japanese meetings. A new upsurge in the mass anti-Jap- anese, anti-Kuomintang fight is in- dicated. Empty Gestures The Kuomintang authorities. are trying to head off this movement by new-empty gestures of “resisting” the Japanese invaders.’ Chiang Kai-shek, Nanking dictator, who is at the head ef 600,000. “Communist. suppression” troops at Hankow, sent “instructions” to Marshal Chang Hsueh-liang to “resist” the Japanese with armed force, Chiang sent similar instruc- tions to'Chang-in the early stages of the Japanese invasion and seizure of Manchuria. Chang ignored these public instructions and under a sec- yet agreement with Chiang withdrew his huge army from Manchuria, leav- ing the Japanese a clear field. Bepers, Japanese Prepare Tientsin —) Attack $ Unconfirmed reports from Shang- hai say that Marshal Chang is mov- ing his army from Peiping to Jehol. ‘The Japanese are reported to be pre- paring to carry out an-attack from Tientsin, in‘a pincens movement against’ North China which would be invaded simultaneously from Jehol Province and Tientsin where there is already a large: number of Jap- anese troops. Foreign observers in Manchuria re- port huge movémerits of Japanese troops and artillery "toward , Jehol trom Chinchow. Large Japanese forces are also reported to have left Mukien ig sito ~“on-a secret mis- sion.” . VOT% COMMUNIST FOR: 2. Against Hoovers ‘wage-cutting policy. $ on ‘ Workers, Your Daily Is in Acute Danger! Rally to Its Support! Financial Crisis of the Daily Worker Endangers Election Campaign | “Help the Daily’ Collections to Take Precedence Over All Party | Fellow Workers: The election campaign is on. Fund Campaigns National speakers are touring the country. Local! speakers by the thousands dre addressing the workers every evening, in- doors and in the open air. Literature is being distributed. All this requires funds. A campaign for $100, 000 was inaugurated by the Coni- munist party. The campaign was well under way. BUT OF A SUDDEN IT BECAME OBVIOUS THAT THE DAILY WORKER IS IN SUCH TIGHT FINANCIAL STRIN- GENCY THAT DRASTIC MEASURES MUST BE TAKEN AT ONCE. A campaign is hereby launched to’ raise $40,000 for the Daily Worker. of funds is to take precedence over all other collections. This. collection Comrades, fellow workers, we need not dwell on the importance of the Daily in the present political situation. Hunger is rampant. The Daily way to fight hunger. Unemployment is ravaging the toilers. way to secure unemployment relief and insurance. Strikes are on the increase, as witnessed by the heroic struggle of 15,000 in North Carolina and 18,000 in Eastern Ohio. The Daily Worker gives the lead to the strike activity of miners and textile workers, marine workers, metal workers, clothing and shoe workers, and all other workers throughout the land. War is in the air. the toilers. Worker shows the masses the The Daily Worker shows the The powers that be are planning a new terrible slaughter of the masses in order to increase their profits. They prepare a war against the Soviet Union, | which is the only country where the workers rule and build up a The Daily Worker is showing the way to fight against imperialist war and to defend the Soviet fatherland. The election campaign has begun. The three parties of capitalism are approaching the workers and farmers of this country soliciting votes, attacking the workers and at the same time promising all sorts of reforms, trying to deceive the masses by high-sounding, meaningless phrases. The Daily Worker is indispensible in this campaign. The Daily Worker unmasks the traitors, exposes the robbers, attacks the war mongers, shows the workers the way to the improvement of their conditions, fights capitalist reaction, the workers on the road to power and freedom. We need the Daily -Worker. ful instrument of the class struggle. You must come to the aid of the Daily Worker. Organize in Daily Worker groups; make collections in the shops, in the Mobilize! leads The working class could not get along without this power- You must do it quickly. mills, in the mines; in the neighborhoods, in all working-class organizations; send contribu- tions individually and collectively. activities. Put the “Help the Daily” campaign above al! other Remember that the Daily Worker: has no Maadeial backing outside of-the- working masses, who have supported the paper in increasing numbers. The Daily Worker is_be- coming more and more’ indispensable to the very lives of hundreds of thousands. Hurry, for every minute nomic crisis makes itself felt. is becoming important. Prompt and. substantial ‘aid: will put it again on its feet. This campaign for the Daily Worker is not to drag on. Make this month a red letter, month: for -your militant workers’ paper. ooo The paper is in a ‘ad fix. The’ paper is in an acute need of relief. The eco- It is to last one month only. “UNITED FRONT BURNING ISSUE”-THAELMANN German Communist Leader Answers Questions of Socialist Pilticteirses (The burning neéd of: the workers’ united front against German fascism is emphasized in the following spe- cial, correspondence from .BerJin. It describes a highly significant meeting held in the Karl Liebknecht House, Berlin, on July 8, between 20 repre~ sentative Social-Democratic workers and functionaries and Ernst Theel- mann, leader of the fighting Commu- nist Party of Germany) (Special to the Dats Worker. BERLIN.—On July 8 @ significant ieonference took place in the Karl Liebknecht House,. headquarters of the Communist Party of Germany. So furiously hated by the fascist bands, by the entire bourgeoisie, by the ene- mies of revolutionary unity. Twenty Social-Demorcats long active in that|. Party, in the Reichsbanner,. and in the trade unions, came to Berlin from the most important centers of the country, in the name of opposi- tion , social-democratic labor groups, and afti-fascist united front com- jmittees, for the purpose of discus- sing with Thaelmann, as leader of the German Communisit Party, the *|burning question now ‘agitating the working class—the question of pro- letarian unity. An earnest attitude of responsibility toward the working class characterized the atmosphere which reigned during the five hours discyssion between the Communist, Party leader and the 25 social-demo- cratic workers. Pleck Opens Conference . “We, Communist. have. absolutely no secrets fram the Sotial-Democratic workers,” “Wilhelm Pijeck, the old companion-in-arms of Liebknecht and Luxemburg in opening the dis- cussion in the name of ‘the Central Committee. “Distortions, slander about the policy of the Communist Party, are consciously brought into the ranks of the social-democratic workers by our enemies. Therefore this conference today is all the more significant.” “We aim at and we must achieve basic ,clarity on the-chief current problems of the German labor move- ment,” . Thaelmann. several. times emphasized in his talk. “Even though the Social-Democratic workers do not yet all understand, and are sti] un- der the influence of their leaders, we are certain that the revolutionary unity of the German proletariat will be achieved overcoming all hindran- ces placed in its path. Some of the Questions. These are some of the questions asked Thaelmann by the Sodial- Democratic workers: “Does the Communiist Party mean @ united front? Is the anti-fascist campaign merely a Communist Party bait? Can the Social-Democratic workers, the Reichbanner and trade (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) new secure life for all | VON PAPEN SEEKS T0 BAN GERMAN RED UNIONS AND ANTI-FASCIST MOVEMENT Government Conference Today to Take Up Nazi Demands wh for Outlawing Communist Party |Noske and Zorgiebel, Socialist Police Hounds, Retained In Office By Von Papen (By Invrecorr Cable) BERLIN, July 22.—The von Papen government is con: sidering the suppression of the Red Trade Union Opposition and the Arti-Fascist movement, it was learned here today. The Nazis (Hitlerites) are demanding.of the government that it at the same time ban the German Communist Party and its press and jail its leaders. This will be considered. at a gov- ernment conference tomorrow (Saturday). The attempt to first annihilate the revolutionary trade union and anti-fascist movement is clearly based on the strat- egy of dispersing the proletarian mass movement preparatory to issuing decrees proclaiming ¢ | the illegality of the Communist | Party. Arrests Continue BERLIN, July 22.—Workers |continue to be arrested throughout Germany for distributing the special | issue of the “Rote Fahne”, official |organ of the Communist Party con- | taining the call for a mass political | strike in answer to the proclamation of an open fascist dictatorship over} Prussia. The newspaper. was suppressed for | five days, and the banning of other issues of the Communist press in other parts of the country is expected. Carolina Textile Strikers Vote Es Against Slash |Big Strike Meet at | High Point Calls | for Fight a | MANCHESTER, England, July 22.—Twenty thousand textile work- ers voted today to walk out of the cotton mills here tomorrow morn- | ing against 3 a wage-cut. During the past two days 25 Prus- | sian officials have been dismissed | and their places taken by new ap- (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) FORD HITS RELIEF CUT IN CHESTE Radio Announces Fos- | ter Meet CHESTER, Pa., July 2.2—Four hun- dred workers were aroused to a high! pitch of enthusiasm when James W. Ford, Communist candidate for vice | president, called upon them to unite | and build a powerful unemployed movement locally as well as take part in the national struggle for unem- ployment insurance. About three hundred of the work- ers present were Negroes; about a score stormed the platform at the end of the meeting to shake hands with Ford and assure him their sup- port, Lena Rosenberg, local Communist Party organize? described the miser- able conditions of the * workers in (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) JOBLESS STORM. CHICAGO RE- LIEF STATION CHICAGO, July 22.—Police reserves broke up a crowd of 300 jobless work- ers who stormed a relief station on the South Side. The police managed to disperse the workers only after) beating them with their clubs for about fifteen minutes. Windows in the relief station were shattered. Tops of automobiles be- longing to relief workers, parked in font of the station, were scratched and torn. | HIGH POINT, N. c., July 22—Two | mousena hosiery workers meeting |here last night voted unanimously to |reject the bosses’ proposal to with- |draw the last wage cut and to return to work on the basis of the July 1ith scale of $2 per hundred dozen. They decided to continue the strike for the | April 1 scale, which is $2.25 per hun- | dred dozen. Following the vote, 300 textile | workers who had returned to work rejoined the strike. Over 6,000 hos- iery and textile workers are standing solid The vote last night followed meet- ings of workers from each mill, which were held throughout the day to dis- cuss the bosses’ proposals. The pro- | posals were rejected at all meetings. The. workers show a high degree-of organization, having learned. from the |Gastonia and Marion strikers now working here. Every mill has @ strike committee elected by the work- ers, with representatives in every jare united through a general strike committee, which has established authoritative leadership. with D,V. Bradley at the head. So far strike committees and work- ets pass on all negotiations. Bradley, having werkeq in the mills for more than twenty years, has the full con- fidence of the workers. He most lke~ ly started with sincere determination together with the other workers to prevent wage cuts and win the strike. But lack of fundamentals of the class struggle plus terrific pressure of the bosses, city officials and press, Doak’s conciliator, Fred Keightly, is making him an unconscious tool of ‘the man- ufacturers, even though he still stands firm against the wage-cutting proposal of the bosses, Keightly and the local capitalist press. This’ wavering under pressure 1s shown by his repudiation of the ate (GONTINTED: ON PAGE FIVE),