The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 23, 1932, Page 4

Page Four DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, JULY 23, 1932 USE MOVIES TO AID WAR PLANS OF THE BOSSES Hollywood Magazine Army Officers” / Tells How “Selected re Sent to Studios Aim Is to Form Nucleus In Signal Corps as Part of War By SAMUEL BRODY EFINITE information concerning tates Government's s the moribund mo- h despite the flood of press the sed capit sched grapher, a ma in Hollywood Society of Cine: n recent ue this publication proposed that all studio employees donate a good part of their vices to the companies “free of charge” as a means of re- viving the industry!) prints the following item: The United States Government, through the War Department, is keeping abreast of all technical developments in motion picture production procedure. Through a cooperative program worked out by the Academy of Motion Pic- ture Arts and Sciences, selected Army officers are sent to Holly- wood where they spend time in the various departments of the different studios learning current processes and technique. Captain M. E. Gillette, now stationed in the War Department offices at Washington, D. C., has been ordered to his duty and will Preparations in Hollywood later this for comprehensive in the making of sound motion pictures. The officers reseiving this in- struction will form the nucleus of a unit in the Signal Corps charged with the’ production of cational sound motion pic- tures to be used for the instruc- tion of both the Reguar Army and the Officers Reserve Corps. Captain Fred W. Hoorn, who received this instruction through the Academy last year is now lo- cated in Washington, D. C., where he is engaged in the preliminary organization of this new Signal Corps Unit This is an enlightening link in a/ |1ong chain of events which clearly indicates the policy of American cap- italism in turning the movies into an efficient war industry. War against | whom? The gathering wave of re- cent anti-Soviet films can leave no room for doubt. If the War Department believes for a@ moment that the workers will tol- erate open war provocations against the Soviet Union of the “Forgotten Commandments” sort, let them look to the example set by a group of mil- | itant workers from the Workers Film } and Photo League of New York who exposed that film by distributing leaf- lets and protesting its showing on Broadway some weeks ago. U. Hector O. Hamilton (right), Orange, N. J., who shared with two Russian architects the first prize offered in the world competition for a design for the Palace of Soviets. He is shown talking with a worker on the site of the new building. The Kremlin can be seen in the background. | Correspondence Briefs CINCINNATI FLOPHOUSE (fy 2 Worker Correspondent) CINCINNATI, ©., —The Cin- @anjti flop hous2 is located at 9th/ and Plum § served per day—breakfast. The bos- 8@s’ papers say the unemployed can feceive what they want for the ask- ing. _ Well, you sure ask when you »get in there: You'ask them one ques- tion, and to get: even they ask you about a hundred. And about the only question they.Jeave out is, “Are you willing to eat?” Many workers sleep on the bare floor of an old opera house. Hundreds of workers do not even go near this place but sleep in the parks where ithey have police -who see to it that they do not try to go to sleep before 11, o'clock and then are required*to |get up at five in the morning or else 180.to jail _ FIND GOLD—FOR OWNER (By a Worker Correspondent) TRUCKEE,..Cal—Prospectors on a six-foot. red quartz that assayed for $20.a\ton. in, gold and $2 in silver, jon resort.property, “owned” by Dave ' Chambers. As soon as, Chambers heard: about the workers making a rich strike, he-hired 2 bunch of pri- jvate ‘gun .thugs to. drive the pros- ‘pectors “from the place. Chambers stated that:he had no plans for de- veloping the property but would not} alow the poor miners to dig any_of the gold OVER 500 AT MONROE MEET (By a Worker Correspondent) MONROE, Mich.—A crowd of 500 to, 600 attended a meeting here at ‘which. Comrade Geitz, from Detroit. jgeneral secretary of the Unemployed ;Council of this state, spoke. A com- mittee was formed, and over 100 voted to join an Unemployed Council here. Most of us here are out of jobs. (The few that are working have been cut four times already. The wage jsoale is about 27 cents an hour, with ‘work for two to aoe ryt per week, . FORCE SPEAKER’S RELEASE (By a Worker Correspondent.) CLEVELAND, Ohio.—On 125th St. and St. Clair Ave, Unit 24 held ® fine election meeting. I. O: Ford, candidate far U. S Senate, was the S. Architect Designs Palace of s. Only one “meal” is | young American architect of East main speaker Police called by a banker broke up the meeting and arrested Ford, but the workers, by their militant pro- j test, compelled the police to release | the speaker. Much literature was sold, and 14 signatures for the election petition were obtained. WHY WE JOINED (By a Worker Correspondent) CINCINNATI, 0. When I was driving from California, I passed | through St. Louis and saw a crow at an eviction case. Police tried to break up the meeting but the workers’ put up a fight. The poli¢e sent for the state militia. Workers prevented the cops from using machine guns. I had not heard of the Unemployed Council before, but after having seen a case, I joined the Council when I visited Cincinnati. FURLOUGH THIEVERY (By a Worker Correspondent.) WASHINGTON.—Employed by the Federal Farm Board at Washington, D. C., is a young girl earning her living and trying to educate herself in George Washington University, which, by the way, raised tuition last year. This young worker, along with others, was given a payless furlough for a week. Nevertheless she is For | Defense of the Workers’ Fatherland Part of a Red Army Cavalry Division on Review in Red Square, Moscow URGES WORKERS’ | GROUPS SUPPORT DAILY WORKER Consistent, t, Bolshevik! Work Needed to Build Paper The sharp interest taken in the | |Daily Worker. as was evidenced i the large number of work who tended the recent conference held | to discuss building up a mass Daily | Worker, is fu letters received adding to the sug- | QTE SLLA WALSH her evidenced in the! |. ‘The Labor Olympics and a Big Railroad The Story of Stella Walsh, Daughter of Steel Worker of Cleveland, Ohio Fired from New York Central When She Re- fuses to Join Fascist Polish Olympics y W. S. is @ young girl © who was born in Poland. She lives er dad and the other four kids Cleveland. Her pop is a steel er, employed part time. Things en't been so smooth, for the fam- But Stella is a bit luckier than girls. She’s exceptionally sound ‘of wind and strong of legs, with the result that she’s one of the fleetest women athletes known—a crack sprinter, Up to July ist she had been em- ployed by the New York Central Rail- road as a file clerk at their offices in |Cleveland. At any and all meets she \ran, usually with the name N. Y. gestions given at the conference. |Central emblazoned across her trim Many good suggestions were given at |jersey. \ Although a file clerk in the conference, necessitating prolong- | Cleveland she competed in meets in ing the meeting till after mi |New Yo in New Jersey, and in A stenographic report of the discus- | many places far from Cleveland. sion is now being gone over by the| Expenses were always supplied her— editorial committee. The folowing letter is an interest- | ing comment on the meeting: Dear Comrades:— In spite of the self-criticism and | constructive remedies which comrade | Weinstone so ably expressed in his opening address, at the first meeting Friday evening, July 15 called for the purpose of improving the circulation of the Daily Worker, those assembled could not refrain from criticism. | The Real Issues. | The outstanding problems, however, | are how to drive home the important | role the Daily Worker is playing in educating the masses, and above all— work, good honest consistent Bolshe- vik work. This is the most important factor if we are to increase the cir- culation of our Daily. What is our task? Our task is to recruit, to mobilize around our Daily | all the forces of the labor movement who appreciate the significance and) importance of spreading the Daily/ Worker among the masses, and above! all who are willing to work regard-| less of the taks assigned to them. Mass Organizations. of our membership who are so busy in mass organizations, that they have no time to spare for unit work was| Cleary evident through the absence | of representatives of these mass or-| ganizations. | In conclusion a few words regarding | the contents: it seems to me, we must | feature articles which would appeal} to the woman worker, the farmer, the white collar slave and to the de- classed, which are joining the ranks of the workers in tens of thousands. With revolutionary greetings, | | CHARLES SEIGEL, | Anti-War Congress Banned by Geneva. Meet Will Be Held In Paris Instead GENEVA—The Geneva author-| ities who welcome the sham/ disarmament conferences of the im- Pperialist warmongers have placed a ban against the holding in this city of the World Congress Against War, called by Romain Rolland and en-| dorsed by leading European and Am- | erican intellectuals. The Congress will be held in Paris| on August 21 and 22 instead. The} French writer, Henry Barbusse, was | in this city yesterday and registered | forced to work during this supposed furlough. She has been told that her job will be safer if she works. So she is working and taking the pay cut. Washington government workers! Don’t let the politician grafters lower your standard of living. Organize to fight this underhanded manner of taking away your rights. FORCED LABOR IN MOLINE (By a Worker Correspondent) MOLINE. Ill—We have organized he nucleus of an Unemployed Coun- cil in Moline and have had three successful meetings. There are over 4,000 unemployed in Moline, and those thattare working have had their wages cut terribly. Our mayor, who is a member of the A. F. of L., is the one who forces @ vigorous protest against the ban- ning of the Congress by the Geneva. authorities. Henri Barbusse is one of the organizers, with Maxim Gorki and others, of an International In- itiative Committee formed to develop the movement against war. Conference August 8th NEW YORK. — A committee of American intellectuals, headed by Theodore Dreiser, famous American | novelist, has been formed in response | to. Romain Rolland’s call for the Congress Against Wer. The Amer- ican Committee is holding a confer- ence on August 8 at Labor Temple, 14th and Second Ave., to elect the American delegates to the Congress. | Defend the Soviet Union with the | workers to work for two or three dol- lars worth of groceries @ week 1 Daily Worker—Help the drive for | Bimba, iA ‘|fraternal organization, and her picture would appear regu- larly in the newspapers with the 's New York Central very, very visible. Came the Olympic Games. |now the plot thickens! And The Pilsud- government offered her a job on 1e public physical education depart- ment in Poland’a neat little bribe to duce her to run on the Polish Olympic Team. So Stella, who hasn’t any particular amateur scrupples— and in t his respect she is at least honest, which the Amateur Athietic | Union and Olympic officials aren’t— up and took the Polish job and elected to run under the Polish eagle jinstead of the American variety. But |she reckoned without her host, the Olympics Committee and its close connections with bank presidents and railroad officials. Fired! Promptly after her decision to run for Paland was announced in the |press, she received notice from the N. ¥. Central that she was fired! This put her in a bad position for a while, since the family needed her income immediately. She therefore ‘The results of the untiring eftorts |= : “Mollie Maguires”: by Anthony York; International Publishers, 144 pp. $1.00. Reviewed by WALTER WILSON FORGOTTEN chapter in the labor movement of the Seventies that should be read by every worker—es- pecially those who still believe that the workers of this country have no traditions of revolt—and which is of New |particular interest to the eoal min- ers of Kentucky and elsewhere is the tory of the Molly Maguires by An- ony Bimba. This book is a good example of exposure of American |historical literature as ruling class | propaganda. In the past we have been told that the Mollies were cruel ter- rorists and assassins who killed for the fun of it. But who wrote the his- tory of this struggle? One of the best known books was written by Allan Pinkerton, head of the infamous la- bor spy and detective agency of that name, who was paid $100,000 to wreck the union out of which grew the Mollies, Another writer on the subject was F. P. Dewees, a coal company attorney bitterly hostile to |the miners, Who Were These Men? “Who were these men whom the coal ring labelled Molly Maguires and whom bourgeois and ‘labor’ his- torians alike have branded murder- ers and assassins?” Bimba after go- ing over the documentary evidence finds the answer to his question, He finds that they were militant an- thracite miners in Schuylkill Couzzy, Pennsylvania—chiefly Irish — who were also members of a na‘onal Irish the Ancient Order of Hibernians. After a long struggle the ruthless coal operators and railroad companies crushed the union which was known as the Workingmen’s Benevolent Associa- | tion (W.B.A.) The undaunted miners then converted their secret fraternal organization (locally) into an under- ground union and continued the fight which was against a long list of in- tolerable grievances which are well described in a special section of the book dealing with the background of the struggle. Desperate over their failure to erush the union and the fighting mass citculation, spirit of the miners the coal operat- ors turned loose a still more vicious wavered between her allegiances for a couple of days. In the meantime neither the press nor the American Olympics Committee (wha want to capture the Olympic Games, by fair means or foul) were letting the grass grow under their feet. The wires were set to humming and suddenly, on July 11th, Stella was offered a job by Mayor Ray Miller of Cleve- land in the city hall of Cleveland IF she would take out naturalization papers at a special naturalization hearing the following day and then go out and die for the dear old American Olympic team. To top it all she was warned by American officials that if she accepted a job in the Polish physical educa- tional department she would be in- eligible to run. But the Polish managers are not so dumb, and they countered with a proposition that Stella work in the Polish consulate in this country! Stella accepted, let- ting it be known that “she placed her running future secondary to matter of earning her bread and butter” which is at least frank and does not pretend to the amateur hypocricies of the Olympics Committee. Shows Olympics Fakery. This is a clear example of the matter in which the Olympics are organized. Bribes in the form of jobs, pressure on the worker who hapens to be a star, shameless bar- tering and corruption—these are the “principles” of amateur sport as practiced by the Olympics Commit- tee and the Amateur Athletics Union. Workers interested in sports should learn a good lesson from this: Gen- uine amateur sports for workers, where there is no interest in creating “stars” at the expense of the inter- ests of the masses, can be found only in the Labor Sports Union, the only workers’ sports movement in the United States. Workers should give their staunchest support to the L. S. U. and to its Fifth National Con- vention, August 2nd, 3rd and 4th, at | Chicago. BOOK REVIEWS jterror, especially during the Long | Strike of 1875, and many miners were jmurdered—Bimba says that more workers were killed than hirelings of ithe operators. The operators also paid |$100,000 to the Pinkerton agency which sent in labor spies into the Ancient Order of Hibernians to plot, burn and murder. Bimba shows con- clusively that many of the acts of |terrorism charged to the Mollies were actually perpetrated by these labor spies. He does not deny however that the miners, exercising their right of self-defense—which is generally rec- ognized today by the revolutionary movement as witness Gastonia and Hearlan—also killed many thugs in the employ of the coal companies. Origin of Name. Bimba says that the name Molly Maguires was invented by the oper- jators to provide a fatal label to pin on the union leaders to send them to the gallows—there. was a terroristic organization in Ireland known as the Molly Maguires which fought the ra- pacious English landlords and a myth was built up that the Pennsylvania miners were members of that organ- ization. The criminal acts of the la- bor spies were utilized in building up hatred of the name Molly Maguire. Thus it came about that eventually all that was necessary to hang 2 union leader was to charge that he |wWas @ Molly Maguire. The same |met’ vd has been used many times tce. For example the Chicago Hay- market martyrs were murdered for their labor activities, especially their struggle for the eight-hour day. But of course the ruling class could not openly admit this. A myth had to be | built up that they were inhuman | assassins, Bimba’s analysis of the trials of the Molly Maguires and the testimony which sent at least 19 of the union leaders to the gallows bears out this contention. On the testimony of James McParlan, a labor spy and confessed murderer, 19 were hanged —some for crimes committed 14 years before and some for alleged crimes that they had already been tried for and acquitted. Franklin B. Gowen, head of the Philadelphia and Read- ing Railroad which also owned most of the coal land in the district, was the state prosecutor at the trials. He WATERS’ THUGS CAN'T DRIVE VET. FROM CAPITOL Beaten, Fingerprinted, Returns to Fight for Bonus (By an Ex-serviceman) WASHINGTON, July 15.—When we commenced distributing leaflets at |6th and Pennsylvania Ave., I hand- ed out several to men who wanted them, or appeared that they did. on Pennsylvania Ave. at 3d St. I saw a lot of vets there and decided they may want to see the “Bonus News”. So I crossed over with an- other comrade and handed out three or four. When some vet said, “You can't hand that out here,” I said I could hand it out, that I was within my rights according to the Constitution. So the M. P. took us inside the bil- let and called for the commander. My papers, leaflets, army discharge and receipts for. money were taken. When the commander arrived he said, “I guess you know me.” T thought I had seen him somewhere June 8, when I was “kangarooed” at Anacostia, Then he asked me some questions and when I told him that the W.ES.L. was a rank and file organization of vets who elected their own comunittees. He told me to shut up--no more wisecracks. ‘We, the comrade and myself, were taken to headquarters of the BEF. on llth St. and ushered into the private office of the vice-commander. He, said he was the vice-commander. The police detective, who ran the kangaroo court at Anacostia, was there also and recognized me. He wanted to beat me up, but the vice- , |commander said, “Lay off, these men are not to be bruised, as that is what they want.” But the police thugs pushed the guards asidé and took several punch- es at me, one on my ear, a glancing blow, causing a small pain and two thumps on my forehead, causing 2 head ache. After questioning by the vice-commander, we were taken to the War Department to have our discharge OKed. On the way out some one hit me again behind the head, with a big fist, probably. Finger-printec. A newspaper reporter asked me my name, so I told him. But when he wrote it down, an MP. said that no | reporters were allowed, and took the |reporter’s paper and rubbed out the name. The War Department girls re- \ferred the M. P. to the finger print department on the fourth floor. We were finger-printed and they said our discharge was O.K. But the clerks here offered to give our finger prints to the MP.s for their own use. So I was finger-printed again, and my prints are now with the BEF., which I object to. We were taken from the War De- partment to the rear of the billets on Pennsylvania Ave. and all the time threatened by the M.P.s and others in ‘the crowd. After questioning by the M.P., we were taken in the billet and again sent to B.E.F. headquar- ters on 11th St., where we were’ taken to the office of the vicecommander, where Waters stood also. When my receipts were torn up by an MLP., he, Waters, made no protest. Nor did the vice commander. All the justice here was threats of violence dy Shieh in charge. I was then. taken iy: Sutentoie out to the city limits and told to keep going. My head ached and I was tired for a smoke. So after walk- ing a mile I turned off on a side road to rest. I turned back on the side roads and fields, and came to a school house at dark when it began to rain, so I went to sleep. Then at seven A.M. I rode in an auto back into Washington. did not dwell on trying to prove that the accused men had themselves committed any crimes but empha- sized that they were members of the Molly Maguires. Thus we get one of the earliest and most flagrant frame- ups in American labor history. Rich Labor Tradition. After analyzing all the evidence Bimba says: “Sweeping aside the mist of mine owners’ calumnies and lies there stands revealed the militant working class fighter, Molly Ma- guire, if you wish, but minus the | sensational cutthroat prototype of the devil popularized by the workers’ en- emies.” This book has done:'much toward restoring rich, militant labor tradition of the American «workers, who are today themselves adding their struggles, in the same revolu- tionary tradition, to the heritage of the militant labor movers ut, When we came opposite the billets: and said so. He remembered me from | TRAIN WOMEN PILOTS FOR WAR By SIDNEY BLOOMFIEL! HE next war will not be fought by men alone. This applies to every form and method of slaugh- ter. The spreading of poison gas, disease-germs, destruction of cities by bombs thrown from airplanes will be the hellish work of women as well as men. “Betsy Ross Corps. A beginning to mobilize the wo- men for the next world slaughter was made with the organization of the Betsy Ross Corps. “noble” and patriotic sounding name. The’ first corps consists of 76 licensed womén airplane pilots and is named tafter the maker of the first American flag in ordér to “enoble” and “glorify” the devil- ish work of destruction that these women aviators will carry out in the next war. In every part of the country similar groups of women are geing organized. These groups have already been equipped with ambulances, bomb- ing planes, military uniforms, and have taken the oath of ollegiance, pledging themseives to carry out their murderous mission. General Stephen Fechet, in com- mending these patriotic women for their initiative and exemplar ac- tion, said in part: “I have the highest admiration for this work. The next war will develop a great burden which will fall upon the airmen. You will relieve them of a great work. This is a ACTION Defeat the capitalist war plans! Part of the crowd of 15,000 St. Louis work- ers during the recent demonstration just be- fore police began their gun and tear-gas at- tack. Four workers were injured, one of them, Ben Powell, a Negro worker is dying, and scores jailed. The workers forced thru a $200,000 appropriation for relief. International Red Aid Congres sin Moscow BERLIN.—An appeal to all affil- iated organizations calling upon them to prepare for a world congress was issued by the Executive Committes of the International Red Aid. The Congress will take place in Moscow in November, The affiliated organizations of the International Red Aid were urged to mobilize the work- ers against white terror and fascism in preparation for this congress, e's es Norwegian Unemployed March on Oslo OSLO, Norway.—A hunger march of unemployed workers from Trond- heim to Oslo caused a tremendous amount of police attention. Over ten thousand workers welcomed the march in.a giant demonstration. ‘The march was organized and car- ried out in defiance and against the fierce opposition‘of the social-demo- cratic leaders. These leaders were particularly indignant at the defini- tion of the marcli as a hunger march. With the spreading of mass unem- ployment and mass misery, the work- ers of Norway, whose wages are being unmercifully cut down, participate in ever greater number to the struggle fone ntetvauree! . FRENCH COMMUNIST DEPUTIES FIGHT TAX INCREASES PARIS.—Communist deputies at- tacked the proposed tax increases when the debate on the government's finance bill was opened in the French Parliament yesterday. ‘The bill includes also a wage-cut- ting measure affecting civil employ- ees who, led by the Communist Party, demonstrated their determination to fight against. it. Sadie eae & FASCIST MURDERERKS RELEASED IN BULGARIA SOFTIA.—-Four men arrested in con- nection with the kidnapping of the Macedonian Communist leader Kay- rakirov ‘were released by the police, indjeating that fascists have nothing to fear. There is not even the shadow ot a doubt that these four men were mem- bers of the fascist gang which carried out the: kidnapping and the subse- quent murder of.our comrade. During, the examination of the ac- cused ib was revealed that the mur- | | “Betsy Ress Corps” Is Fancy Name for New | Outfit Recently Organized | Workers Urged to Organize Anti-War Groups In Factories to Defeat Imperialists mn D. “women have succeeded men at x golf and tennis and other. ventures, 4 noue n futur superior pilots will } . . Women pilots will | 4 heats actually be in combat some day.” ‘ che SG B28, Jere we have the most outspoken x eine of cities | statement as to the Betsy Ross " . Corps, which is, as women have NODS succeeded men and participated in ve - the same ectivities as in peace Jorps.” time* so also, will women do what i ili vi men will do in war time. ve s t Women in War. vi In the last war, women were en- | y . is i listed not only as nurses in the i fields of battle but also as ambu- . i | lanéé drivers and in the factories i i i | making emunition. Women bat- a i ms were organized, towards the i < to | close of the last war which is proof vi that in the next war, women as is i ese | wellvas children will be drafted to i v3 ry kill and be killed. . e The fight aaginst imperialist war i mist enlist every woman and child who will be the victims as well as the “men workers. This must be brought forcefully to the attentic: of the mothers, wives, daughters id sweethearts of the workers The ‘struggle against for capita! profits must ve carried on in every day~activities of the working class, the danger is growing every minute. The,.war hysteria is rising and can be seen in every action taken by the bosses against the workers, moment may bring a new werld slaughter Organize anti- | war,.committees in the factories, The Spirit, of the St. Louis Unemployed ~ *. 6 c International Not in ,dered ‘Macedonian Andrianov was kidnapped by the same gang in the |same car a few months ago. i ( ¥ * = e 3 vi WORKERS DEFEND SELVES IN Moe ive i VANCOUVER 7 ; in VANCOUVER.—J, Cunningham and re f ili A. Kinlock, who were arrested at a ‘i demonstration for cash unemployment i relief. on June 13th conducted their : i own defense when they came up in court and wer ereleased on suspended sentence: t 2 s ‘ REORGANIZE MEXICAN ARMY MEXICO CITY, Mex. — Complete x reorganization and enlargement of the Mexican Navy awaits only the i offcial sanction of General Plutarco mx Calles, Secretary of War and Marine, * .. | And, pray, who does Mexico intend { to fight? STRIKERS IN BRUEX JAILED PRAGUE. — Over 250 miners are held for trial in Bruex in connection with disturbances which took place during the recent miners’. strike here. Many workers were sentenced to heavy jail terms. Many strikers shot by tli police during their fight are still in th hospital. eine e RED TRADE UNION VICTORY BERLIN.—The pit committee elece tion at the Sofia-Jakoba mine in the Wiitms area gave the revolutionary trade “union opposition list, 1,332 votes,’the Christian Trade Union list 398° Votes, the reformist trade union list “259 yotes and a fascist trade union list 202 votes. , This(represents a gain of almost 300. votes for the revolutionary list, as céthpared with the results of the last election in 1931. The Red Trade Union opposition has now nine mem- bers on the pit committee, an abso- lute majority. Mame AA IMPERIALISM FIGHTERS SEIZED SAN JUAN, Porto Rico.—For :cir- culating among sailors of the U. 8. S. Wyoming a handbill attacking American imperialism, three nation- alists were arrested. The district jattorney declared the handbilis to be defamatory. oy