The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 26, 1932, Page 1

ne | | { rE VOTE COMMUNIST FOR VOTE COMMUNIST FOR EB Long aperaaRmaa ete oe 4. Equal rights for the Negroes and self-determim Against Hoover’ * * ation for the Blaek Belt. :-7esqmompmaracie . ainst Hoover’s wage-cutting policy. * 8. Emergency relief for th farm ithout hie 5. Against capitglist terror; against all forms of 5 dias ty tne he oa sm a a = Cc ' 1 cs suppression of the political rights of workers. ..* emption of poor farmers from taxes, and no & Orga 2—-Cod a y t Against imperialist’ war; for the defense of forced collection of rents or debts. 7 the Chinese le and of the Soviet Union. (Section of the Communist sutereneenal) bi Vol. IX, No. 177 25 Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office _NEW YORK, "TUESDAY, JULY. 26, 1932 Gait aR Tee ie CITY I EDITION at New York, N. Y.. ander the act of eh 8, 197? Price 3 Cents _ Capital Cops Club and Jail Veterans ATTACK MASS MARCH T0 WHITE HOUSE Pace, Eicher and Four Others Held in Jail; Many Beaten WORKERS BOO POLICE Eicher Speaks to Men From Tree WASHINGTON, D. C., July 25.— Eight hundred destitute veterans of the bonus army marched through Washington’s most fashionable theatre and shopping district to picket the White House todiay under the leadership of the Rank and File Committee, and were attacked by General Glassford’s police. Six were arrested and many club- bed, Their numbers doubled last Wed- nesday’s picket line. The bonus marchers left from rank and file headquarters at 13th and B streets before noon. President Hoover, for whose benefit the picket is intended, had changed his usual routine and remained at his Rapidan week-end ‘orige over Monday. “The bonus marchers turned down Pennsylvania Avenue at 15th Street, téward the White House, and were set-upon by the pdlice, who, swinging clubs unmefcifully, attempted to pro- voke a “riot.” When their provoc- ative tactics failed, arrested Pace, of Detroit, ‘of the file, for “inciting t riot,” Sylvester MeKinney of California, and two other veterans. The worst clubbing was reserved fer an additional detachment of about 100 who arrived unperceived through a side street to demonstrate before the White House. Workers Boo: Clubbers More than ten thousand Washing- ten workers who were massed in the Streets observing the brutality of the police booed the clubbers vigorously, una only the double police line kept them from fraternizing with the bonus marchers. One veteran who refused to stop ishouting for a stesial session of Con- had his clothes torn off him by frenzied plain clothes men who rested him. Eicher Speaks From Tree As the police attempted to. dis- perse the bonus marchers, Eicher, one of; the leaders of the rank and file, tall and agile, climbed into a tree and rallied the men from his lofty perch, shouting: “Down with Wall Street! (We demand our bonus!” It took ‘about ten minutes before two de- ives could be found thin enough climb up after Eicher. They had gag him with their hands before ‘was silenced. After bearing the it of ag police attack, the bonus ers marched back in orderly ranks to their billets. WAGE-CUT IRES N.Y. EMPLOYES NEW YORK, July 26.—Vigorous ition, especially among the gtoups, is rising against the bne-month wage-cut proposed by ‘Mayor Jimmy Walker, New York's millionaire mayor, for all New York's city employees. ‘The wage-cut was proposed by Walker for the express purpose of permitting taxes to be reduced on brganizetions lke the New York Stock Exehange and public utility tompanies. Resentment against the wage-cut So great that some of the Tam- Hall leaders on the city's pay- are proposing that the wage- tut be taken out in 15 to 20 install- ments, instead of in the four install- ments demanded by Walker. Many of teh teachers are openly jeclaring that the wage-cut taken put, of the salaries of the city em- oyees, most of whom are helping heir unemployed relatives, is a drop \ the bucket, compared to the scores millions stolen from the city treas- every year .by the Tammany and that there is absolutely to need for the wage-cut. | Rush Munitions; Workers Prepare|| Mass August Ist]! PITTSBURGH, Pa. July 25.—The| Pittsburgh Post-Gazette of July 22] reports that the Federal Laboratories of this city is working full time on war supplies for the Wall Street gov- ernment under a new one-year con- tract, effective July 1. That these war supplies are both for imperialist war and for further bloody attacks on the struggles of| the. impoverished workers against | starvation is shown by the admission | of the Post-Gazette that large quan- tities of tear gas guns, hand gren- ades, protective guns and gas masks already have been rushed to Wash- ington where thousands of worker ex-servicemen are demanding the payment of their back wages—the bonus. * Pittsburgh and East Ohio Demonstrations Pitsburgh, which is situated in the heart of war industries, coal and metal, is bending every effort towards organizing the August First demon- strations, In Pittsburgh, the central demonstration will take place at 7 p. m. at Kilpatrick and Wylie, center of the Negro Hill section in which tremendous struggles against evic- tion have taken place under the lead-/ ership of the Communist Party and the Unemployed Councils, In East Ohio, steel workers and miners will hold two central demon- strations at Bellaire and Steubenville. Other demonstrations in this district will include Johnstown, at Park Place and Mian St., 7 p.m., Portage, Main and Conemaugh, 7:30 p.m., Browns- ville, at Snowden Square, at 2 p.m., Uniontown, at Croatian Hall at 6 p. m., Coverdale, McKeesport, Avella, East Pittsburgh, Turtle Creek, Char- leston, W. Va., and numerous other towns in Western Pennsylvania, East Ohio ang West Virginia are now in- volved in preparations for August First. Poland—U.S.S.R. Pact May Be Signed Today A Warsaw dispatch reports that the Polish Government has finally decided to ratify the non-aggression pact with the Soviet Union, irrespec- tive of the attitude of its Rumanian ally. It is indicated that the pact may be signed today. The pact, offered by the Soviet Un- ion in its struggle for peace, was con- cluded but not signed last January. A similar pact was concluded with Remania. Bota Poland and Rumania delayed ratification on various pre- texts, while they rushed their prepa- rations to join Japan in joint armed intervention against the Soviet Union. The Polish change of front is said to be due to Polish anxiety over the present developments ii Germany, UNEMPLOYED NEWS FLASHES 1. About 1,000 Negro and white Chicago workers rallied to an un- employment demonstration in front of the Stamford Park charities in protest against the closing of re- lief bureaus on Aug. 1. 2 More than 800 Newark, N.J., workers score forced labor system plans; pledge to go to city council tomorrow to present demands for relief. 3. Blocking traffic, about 1,000 Sioux City, Towa, jobless demon- strated in front of the post office and demanded work. Six workers were arrested, including Goerge Wickey, young Communist. 4, Day-to-Day laborers in Balti- more, Md., are being kicked out of employment by the Department of Public Works at a rate exceeding 200 weekly, Bernard L. Gozier, chief engineer, admitted. 5. Portland, Ore., Unemployed Councils held a huge demonstra- tion Monday against cutting of re- lief and forcing jobless to work for $2 a day in place of the regular $3.50 a day city workers. 6. Leon Platt tells 1,000 Wil- mington, Del., jobless that they are eae a week while the state treasury has a surplus of $13,000,000, 7. Unemployed Councils of Springfield, Il, held a conference on Sunday, formulated demands and established city committee of councils, 8 Philedelphia Unemployed Councils call for united front con- | ference for Aug. 4 at 10 a.m. at | Broadway Arena, Broad and Chris- tian Sts, 9. Middle Bronx Unemployed Council arranging demonstration for Friday, July 29, at 2 p.m, be- 9,000 ATTEND FOSTER MEET IN AUTO CITY Enthusiastic Parade > Precedes Election Rally RAPS MURPHY AND S. P. Condemn Mass Arrests of Foreign Born BULLETIN HIGH POINT, N. C., July 25.— Dewey Martin, district organizer of the Communist Party, Doran and Phifer, who were arrested here while distributing the Daily Work- er to strikers, were located in the Troy jail. An habeas corpus hear- ing will be held temorrow where | the release of the jailed workers will be demanded by the Interna- tional Labor Defense. It was learned today that the | twenty local strike leaders who | were arrested during the first days of the strike and were sent to the Winston-Salem jail were removed Saturday. Their present where- abouts is unknown. The Interna- tional Labor Defense is pushing an investigation to find out where the workers are held. The LL.D. has demanded the release of the jailed workers. aOR Te DETROIT, July 25—Five thousand | workers greeted William Z. Foster, | Communist candidate for president | with wild enthusiasm when he ar- rived here at the Michigan Central station. An.auto parade to the,.Grand Cir- cus Park followed where 6,000 work- ers awaited which was addressed by Reynolds, candidate for governor and Billups, a Negro worker, candidate for Congress. Later in the evening 5,000 workers jammed the Arena Gardens and greeted Foster's appearance with a tremendous ovation. His concrete exposure of Mayor Murphy and the Socialist Party as enemies of the) workers were applauded by the huge crowd. | A feature of the meeting was the | speech of John Pace, leader of the} Workers Ex-Servicemens League, just | released from jail in Washington. | Pace gave a vivid account of the fight | of the ex-servicemen for the bonus} and pointed out how the struggle for | the bonus was a part of the whole campaign for Unemployment Insur- ance. Other speakers included James Ashford, young Negro worker and) candidate for attorney-general; Nel- Ye Bellunas, candidate for state | treasurer, and John Schmies, secre- tary of the Auto Workers’ Union and candidate for congress, who was chairman of the meeting. A statement adopted by the Dis- The “Daily Worker” ‘Pravda’ Writer Analyzes Forces in German Fight (By Inprecorr Cable.) MOSCOW, U.S.S.R., July 25.—W. Knorin, writing on the German sit- uation in “Pravda,” official organ of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union~—issue of July 22—reviews the state of affairs at the time of the creation of the Von Papen goyern- ment. He points out that the Ger- man bourgeoisie have lost hope of a |speedy recovery from the economic) DISCONTENT 'T . SPREADING | crisis, and entrusted the dictatorship | |into the hands of Von Papen in or- der to stem the revolutionary tide and by suppressing the German work- ers in an effort to save the country from bankruptcy. Cris's Gets Deeper The Von Papen government, how- ever, the writer points out, called} forth a further deepening of the cri- sis without being able to smoothen} the antagonisms within the bourg-| eoisic. Von Papen’s program was, first, to obtain success with its for- eign policy; second, to eliminate the antagonisms within the bourgeois | camp in Germany; and third and{ chiefly, to crush the Communist Party and all revolutionary organiza- tions. However, the Von Papen terror had the effect of strengthening the growth of the forces of civil war and hastening the process of the concen- tration of the revolutionary forces throughout the country. Despite the demagogic use of the nationalist issue, Knorin points out, | (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) | BOSTON ACTS ON ARMS SHIPMENT Demonstrate Against | Japanese Arms Boat BOSTON, July 25—A group of workers, led by the Friends of the! Soviet Union of Boston, marched and | demonstrated on July 23 at the East Boston Docks against the loading of munitions on the Japanese ship “Ku- | rama Maru,” for use against the | Chinese People and the Soviet Union. The “Kurama Maru” is one of two Japanese ships which recently loaded in Boston after a stop-over in New | York where they picked up airplane motors and munitions for the Far East. The loading was exposed by worker correspondents of the Daily, Worker, The workers got to the pier just as the ship was pulling out. Placards were immediately raised with slogans “Down With Imperialist War,” “Stop | Shipments of Munitions to Japan.” Party condemning the raids and ar- rests of foreign born workers, par-j ticularly in Detroit, was unanimously | adopted by the audience, | — || the cheese at any price. trict Committee of the Communist) ——___.. SEND STATE TROOPS TO N.C. STRIKE Strike Sprea eads to Mt. Airy Mantle and Table Co. Mill | Stop Hosiery Trucks Leaving City HIGH POINT, N. C., July 25. The High Point hosiery strikers are holding out solid for their demands | and not a mill has opened today | despite the mobilization of all the local officers and state patrolmen to protect “loyal” employees.” Tills of Burlington and other near- by towns are being kept closely guarded to prevent a sympathetic | strike. The police guarding these | mills have forbidden more’ than two | workers to congregate in front of the | mill at one time, HIGH POINT, N. C., July 25.—1n | an attempt to break the Pie | Strike of the 6,000 hosiery worker: here against a wage cut, sixty easily | armed state troopers entered the town today. They escorted a New, York bound hosiery truck for scveral miles down the highway and cruised up and down before the struck mills with a menacing attitude. Mt. Airy Workers Strike The workers of th Mt. Airy Mantie and Table Co. joined the strike on} Friday following the announcement | of the fifth wage cut in the past 18 months. The strikers were unorgan- ized, but at a strike meeting called after the workers walked out a strike committee was elected to confer with the owners and report back to the workers. |Hand Out Wisconsin | Cheese as Bait to | | | Boost Hoover Fund || APPLETON, Wis., June 25.—A | cheesy scheme for reviving a sick industry and at the same time fill- | ing the campaign coffers of the republican campaign fund has just been put forward. a Chairman Robert Schmidt of | | the Outagamie county republican | | campaign fund has just announced | that five pounds of cheese will be | | given to every contributor of $1) | | or more to the fund. | | Ne | Schmidt declares that he is sure that the plan will raise the fund— in spite of the fact that dairy farmers find it hard to dispose of | | 1, Unemployment and Social In- surance at the expense of the state and employers, jital of this, great | the Socialist’ Party in the struggles | |ference in adjourning withevt any Calls for Aid. forced to live on an average of $2 | Is Your Answer The “Daily Worker,” the chief organizer of the Communist Party, has issued an SOS call for aid in the acute financial situation. you doing about this appeal? We address ourselves to all revolutionary workers’ organizations. Comrades and We address ourselves to all District Comittees. We are speaking to all Section Committees and Party Units. We are appealing to every revolutionary worker, to our comrades and fellow-workers that know that a revolutionary mass paper cannot exist without the broadest support, without the greatest sacrifice on the part of the toiling masses. Never was the need for the “Daily Worker” so great as today! er” fights against the danger of an imperialist War. The “Daily Worker” fights against the capitalist program of starvation! The “Daily Worker” fights against capitalist reaction! The “Daily Worker” leads the struggle for jobless relief and insurance! The “Daily Worker” exposes and attacks the enemies of the working class! The “Daily Worker” shows the way to food and freedom! Speed the contributions! Every minute counts! needed. Into the fight for $40,000—one month drive! Rush aid to the “Daily Worker,” 50 East 13th Street, New York City. To All Unit Organizers, District 2 Ev What ? ° Fellow-Workers, what are The “Daily Work- ery dollar—every penny is Because of the desperate financial straights in which the Daily Worker Sinds it- self, unit organizers are instructed to take up gl rs mapa at all aint) paccaes for Aids CrumblingEmpire| (P. P. Pictures) J, H. Thomas, British reformist, who is shown in working clothes at bolster the shaky economic struc- | ture of the British Empire, DISTRICT 2,(C.P. IN AUGUST 1 CALL: Cites War ir Danger i in Appeal to Workers NEW YORK. — District 2 of the | Communist Party, has issued the fol- | towing call to workers to demon- strate on International Anti-War Day. August 1. The call reads: “The so-called Disarmament Con- ference has broken up without any- thing being actomplished except to | (CONTINUED ON PAGE. THREE? injunetion Thousands of expose the impéialist powers as be- ing totally‘ unwilling both to disarm | or to reduce armaments. The U. S. government made the highest bial priation in the history of the c try ‘for war’ purposes. The ahve |of Washington are getting a taste| | of | machine guns, The shipment of | hand ‘ grenades and| tear gas from Pittsburgh to Wash- | ington to drive them out of the cap- | “democracy” . for | which they were ready to lay down| their lives. “democracy.” Ship War Supplies “Shipment of war supplies goes on| steadily to the Far East. The U. 8.) government is buying up thousands of bales of cotton for war purposes. “The drive against the foreign-| |born worlc#s* continues with full in- | | tensity. Scores of workers are be- ing picked up at their homes and sent to Ellis Island for deportation. “The actions of the Socialist Party | and the International Ladies Gar- ment Workers, the acceptance’ of | wage-cuts ‘with all kinds of trim. | mings,’ indicate further the role of | that are taking place. Judge Pan- ken's’ questionable “activities in con- nection with the cleaners and dyers; as well as the actions of the injunc- tion lawyers, Karlin- and Solomon, | show further what the role of the Socialist Party is. Workers To Answer On August 1, all militant workers employed and unemployed, white and Negro, the sincere workers of the So- | cialist Party and A: F. of L. unions and all mass organizations must join in the march to Union Square and there answer the enemies of the} working class and of the revolution- ary movement. ALL OUT AUGUST FIRST! TROOPS CALLED TO ARK. MINE CLARKSVILLE, Ind., July 25, National Guardsmen were called out | when 500 union miners from the | Arkansas and Oklahoma coal fields | halted non-union operations in the Johnson County mining area, When he refused to call the non- union workers out of the mine, Bon Griffith, pit boss, claims that he was beaten by fifteen men. He is nurs- ing numerous bruises as evidence of the beating. Sheriff Fred Russell and Chief of Police McAlester appeared on the scene soon after the 500 miners stormed the mine. The sheriff noti- fied Governor Parnell that further trouble was threatened and orders | went out to the National Guard com- pany stationed here to arm and stand in readiness. After leaving the Clarksville Coal |tion on other agricultural machines jure of the sham “arms cut” maneu- |ther declared: W VICTORIES 5-YEAR PLAN IN SOVIET UNION Socialist Cities Spring Up; Offer Contrast to Capitalist Crisis Difficulties in Heavy Industries Being Over- come; Defend U. S. S. R. August Ist In carrying out its second Five- Year Plan, the Soviet Union will spend seventy-five billion dollars. The amount is nearly treble the ex- penditures in the first Five-Year Plan and is another example of how Soviet industry is forging ahead at the very time that capitalist industry is being shattered. s PAUL NOVICK (European Correspondent Daily Worker.) : MOSCOW, July 25. (Inprecorr Cable)—The Soviet Union under the leadership of the Communist Party is daily gaining inspiring victories in the struggle to. overcome the tremendous difficulties in the way of mastering Socialist production and in the Ottowa Conference called to | forging ahead on the industrial, cultural, agricultural and com- munal front. The periodical “Agricultyral mplements,” published in Ros- tov, addresses a letter to the Communist Party and the Sov- liet Government notifying of the ful- fillment of the plan for the produc- | tion of combines, amounting to 1,700 combines for the present harvest. It | also reports the mastering of produc- and the production of house utilities. | New Socialist Cities Spring Up. The Ural region is ablaze with | building activities, including new rail- |roads, blast furnaces, non-ferrous metal plants, tractors, rolling stock | and other factories. New Socialist | pettiee are springing up everywhere. ‘LITVINOFF HITS BOSS POLICE PLAN Aimed Against Masses —Colonial Peoples. | (Cable by Inprecorr) MOSCOW, July 25.—Speaking Sat-| urday at: the closing ‘session ‘of ' the Geneva “disarmament” conference, |Maxim Litvinoff, head of the Soviet delegation, continued a biting expos- vers of the imperialists. The time has arrived, Litvinoff de- clared, for the conference to give a) reply to the question of disarmament. | “Disarmament myst cease paying the role of a tennis ball thrown over from one comnfissioh to §ub-commis- sion to the cther, from one eonfer- ence to other, {rom one Session” to other.” Referring to the action of the con- concrete action on the. reduction of the armament burdens on the backs | of the toiling masses, Litvinoff fur- | “In six months the reply of the| governments will be the same as néw and we need not postpone it. The the demands of the masses for dis- | armament, but rather a concealment | of an answer, and therefore in its (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) McCoy, New Ford Thug Gets Parole; || Militants Remain | | SAN QUENTIN PRISON, Cal. July 25. — Oscar Ericson and | | Danny Roxas are still in their cells here although due to be re- leased last week—because the Parole Commissioner doesn’t “ap- Prove” of the jobs obtained for them when they leave the prison. They are two of seven Imperial Valley organizers framed up for their part in preparing an agri- cuutural strike in 1930, In the prison, too, is Kid Mc- Coy, Navy fighter, who was con- victed and sent up for murdering his sweetheart, McCoy is up for Parole, too. But no obstacles are put in the way of his release—since he’s not a@ militant labor organizer. And !a job is allready for him, fully | | |approved by the Parole Commis- sioner. The job? Oh, an armed | | thug in the service of Harry H. Bennett, head of the “guards” in the Ford plant in Detroit who, with Mayor Murphy's police shot down the unemployed marchers on March 7. ‘MINERS STORM INDIANA JAIL; FREE STRIKERS Mass Picketing Closes Hoosier Mine Near Dugur, Ind. By JOE TASH. TERRE HAUTE, Ind., July 25~ Over a hundred miners were arrested for picketing the Abby Vales mine, | near Sullivan, anq for violation of an miners picketed the jail and forced the re- Jease of the imprisoned men. Miners .are inviting the sheriff of Sullivan County to arrest them, for, as they say, they will get something to eat. while in jail; on the outside ‘we are starving.’ This attitude on the part of the Indiana miners has baffled the local and county authori- ties. The miners continue to mass picket. Today's reports bring out the fact that miners have succeeded in closing the Hoosier mine, near Du- gur. The state is preparing te send in the National Guard against the miners. U.MLW.A. Against Militancy. The officials of the U.M.W.A. are (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) CALL SCOTTSBORO MEETS IN N.Y., N.J. Workers toGreetMoore and Mrs. Mooney’: NEW YORK.—A series of Scotts- boro Protest Mass Meetings have been arranged in the New York District to greet Mother Mooney and Richard B. Moore upon their arrival in New | York from taeir national tour. proposed resolution is no answer to} a July” 29” will mark the sixteenth year that Tom Mooney has been held behind prison bars on a vicious frame-up because of his militant working-class activities. In a little more than @ month-@ U. S. Supreme Court will beginits hearing on the review of the hide- | ous lynch sentences condemning 7 of the nine innocent Scottsboro Né- gro boys to burn in the electric chair. New York district of the Interna+ tional Labor Defense has arranged the following Scottsboro - Mooney meetings to greet Moore and Mother Mooney and to further build the mass fight: Wednesday, July 27, at Ambassador Hall, Claremont Parkway and Third Avenue, Bronx. Thursday, July 28, at 2708 Mermaid Avenue, Coney Island. Friday, July 29, at 105 Thatford Avenue, Brooklyn. Sunday, July 21, at the Mohegan Colony. Tuesday, August 2, at the New Har Jem Casino, 116th Street and Lenox Avenue, New York City. ‘Wednesday, Aug. 3; at the Brook~ lyn Finnish Hall, 764 40th Street, Brooklyn. ‘Thursday, Aug. 4, at Cantor Audi- torium, 259 Monroe Street, Pages: N. J. Friday, Aug. 5, at Columbia Hall; 385 State St., Perth Amboy, N. J. Saturday, on 6, at 27 Hudson St., Yonkers, N, Y. “The Communist” (July), Esri | fore the Home Relict Bureau, Company mine, the workers started nosey writes on'the problems of | Claremont as a and meee. the $40,000 Save the Daily Financial Drive. enn estingss | or oT er nesaon mines in the | |_ara'tutings‘et fobet ns |:| ‘Thursday, Aug, 11, at Krucgers ue raat ay a ll te A