The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 29, 1932, Page 1

OPEN AIR MEETS FOR AUGUST 1ST ‘Marine Workers ‘And Youth Demonstrate Tomorrow With the. number of open air meet ings increasing all over the city at shops and street corners, the pre- parations for the demonstration on August First are going forward with great intensity. The demonstrations of the young workers yesterday and the Marine Workers on Saturday are in preparation for August First. In ordér that the. August 1 demon- stration may be of the character that it should be, the Communist Party makes the following requests: 1, That there be earnest prolet~| arian discipline’ at the assembly points, on the march and at the Square. This means that there are to be no separate meetings, no con- versations, strict adherence to the Plans of the committee in charge. 2, No collections will be allowed at the Square by any organization. 3.. The Williamsburg and Browns- ville Unemployed Councils are to as- semble at the 7th Street Park. 4, Each section of the :Party is to assign 20 comrades to report on "Monday, August 1, at 3:30 pm. at the District Office. Anti-War Day in Lynn “LYNN, Mass., July 28.—The August First anti-war demonstration here will be held at Lynn Commons at 7.30 p. m, The police are trying to withhold a permit for the demon- stration. The workers are deter- mined to carry out the demonstration in spite of any police interference. Piet dar 3 Attack Anti-War Meet BOSTON, July . 28.—Police and plain clothes men brutally attacked an anti-war demonstration of work- ers here Monday night,ignoring the fact that a permit’ had-been granted for the demonstration. Albert Mallinger, district secretary of the Friends of the Soviet Union, was arrested, manhandled and .drag- ged two blocks, when he refused to (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) if Vol. IX, No. 180 POLICE TRIED| TO FRAME UP COMMUNISTS Printed ‘Grand Rapids Section’ Phoney Letterheads BACKS UP FOSTER CHARGE Capitalist Crisis Real Cause of Crashes Charges made in yesterday’s issue of the Daily Worker that the attempt to involve Commu- nists in “whispering cam- paigns against banks” was the crudest type of police forgery is supported in the most con- vineing manner by the publica- tion today on this page of. forged letterheads of the Grand Rapids, Mich. Section of the Communist Party. Seeking to escape responsibility for the growing bank crashes throughout the country—and anticipating further failures with huge losses to small de- positors—midwestern bankers, headed by Melvin A. Traylor, president of the First’ National Bank of Chicago, had let loose a flood of vague charges (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) Central e PROTEST AGAINST MURDEROUS ATTACK ON VETS! Dail Party U.S (Section of the Communist International) Watered sa wecusd-cinss matter at the Post Office at New York, N. Y.. ander the act of March 3, 1977 | charge that Expose Grand Rapids, Mich., Police “Bank Plot” Havgeniee COMMUNIST PARTY of U.S.A. NEW YORK, FRIDAY, JULY 29, 1932 et than ALL OUT AUG. Ist!' y, Worker Demand the Bonus A for the Vets! Price 3 Cents DISTRICT BEYEN SECTION » 336 Bond Avenue Crand Rapids, Mich. “Deity Worker Office 50 East 17th Street, Tew Yoak “Aty. 7 Dear Comrade, Photo (top) shows genuine letter- head of the Communist Party of Grand Rapids, Mich. Photo (bot- tom) shows crude forgery which the police tried to palm off as a part of their campaign to make the bank “plot” scare tales convincing. This is indisputable evidence of the frame-up character of the charges that “Communists are engaged in whispermg campaigns to wreck banks.” FOSTER DENOUNCES BANK PLOT FRAME-UP. FLINT, Mich. July 27.—Wm. Z. Foster again branded as false the “Communists were spreading rumors against banks” as 1500 workers gathered in an elec- tion meeting here in Kearsley Park applauded. This city has for years terrorized and suppressed workers meetings including the Mother Mooney meet last night. I.W.0. Appeals to Save the ‘Daily’ TO ALL BRANCHES OF THE INTERNATIONAL WORKERS ORDER:— . The National Executive Committee of the International Workers Order a few days ago published in the workers’ press its indorsement of the election platform and candidates of the Communist Party in the present election campaign. In our endorsement we pointed out that the Communist Party is the only party fighting for an adequate system of social insurance at the expense of the bosses and the government; the only party fighting against the persecution of the foreign-born workers and against the discrimination towards and lynching of Negro workers. The Communist Party calls upon the working masses to create a fund of $100,000 for the présent election campaign. unless we actively participate in this drive for $100,000. The National Executive of the I. W. 0. wants to stress that the Daily Worker, the central organ of the Communist Party, the only working class paper published daily’in the English language in the United States, has been forced to issue an S.0.S. for im- mediate aid. It is needless to point out that the Daily Worker is the most important weapon in the hands of the working class in the present election campaign and that therefore the forced suspension of the Daily Worker will-be a tremendous blew to the entire working class and to its vanguard, the Communist Party. It is clear to us that we will not be able to carry on two separate campaigns in our Order. We have therefore come to an understanding with the National Election Campaign Committee and with the management of the Daily Worker to the effect that the I. W. O. will carry out one united campaign for funds, the money to go both to the Election Campaign and to the Daily Worker. The first $6,000 of our minimum quota of $15,000 goes to the Daily Worker. The financial drive for the election campaign and the Daily Worker is one of the most important actions of the working class. Our endorsement of the campaign will be valueless We therefore call upon the members and. branches of the I. W. O. to make every effort to collect one dollar per member and urge shop-mates. that each member should be mobilized to collect money from his friends and We want to stress that we must collect a minimum of $15,000. But we are cer- tain that each branch will strive to realize the slogan of one dollar per member, so that we will contribute $21,000 to the $100,000 Fighting Fund from the 21,000 mem- bers in: our Order, We call on the members and branches of the Slovak Workers Sick Benefit Society and the Russian Mutual Aid Association to engage with us in socialist competition. The abovementioned organizations, who, do to certain technical reasons, have not yet amalgamated with us, should. participate in this campaign equally with the members of the I. W. O. Each of their members should contribute one dollar, so that in all we can contribute $32,000 to the $100,000 fund. All money collected by the members of the International Workers Order must be , sent to the National Office of the I. W. 0., 80 Fifth Avenue, New York, N. Y. _ NATIONAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE INTNL. WORKERS ORDER. _ Workers’ organizations, follow the example of the International Workers Order! yy We are enclosing cuttings from te-days Grand Rapids Press which contains big headlines and s fake copy ef instructions held by the police supposedly in comection with Rand the Daily Worker ‘The official party meper 1 sins Refer te SAILY WORKER Our audiences and it'le omy e aaster of ties bank: shout: July 27th ,1932 COMMUNIST PARTY: OF USA. DISTRICT SEVEN Grand Repids TISTROCTIONS ON BANE=CAMpareH may of all othgre that are now failings) ee” ees Rapies, ebanking tnstttutton, | ‘ Section. Organise the unerpaniied Intoa new fighting union failures. Po | paying it in wi ‘many wo: When it fais it wild ¥ legtidte om einen. ting. Photo shows William Z. Foster, speaking at a recent open-air mecting of thousands at Clark Park, De- troit. The candidate said it was one of the biggest meetings of its kind which he addressed since 1917, Communist candidate for President, HOSE STRIKERS STAND SOLIDLY Refuse to Return to) Factories HIGH POINT, N. C., July 28.—Fol- lowing the announcement of the mill owners that 24 hosiery mills would open today and that thousands of strikers would return to work only 80 workers entered the mills. Half an hour later these thirty walked cut and rejoined the strike. The strikers marched up and down the streets shouting their demands and pledging their. determination to continue the strike until their demands are won. ‘ Cops Patrol Streets The whole strike area is under a state of virtual martial law. Hun- dreds of North Carolina highway patrolmen are sieging the town. But the strikers who are now on their tenth day of strike are holding out solid for their demands of $2.25 per (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) MORE JERSEY AUG. 1st MEETS NEW BRUNSWICK; at French and New St., at 3:30 p.m. PERTH AMBOY; at Elizabeth and Hall St., at 7 p.m. LAKEWOOD, N. J. (indoor) in Wolkpin Hall, on 4th St., at 8 p.m. CARTERET, N. J. (indoor) Workers’ Home, 307 Romanosky St., 8 pm. TRENTON, N. J. at Battle Monu- ment Park, at 7 p.m. JERSEY CITY, N. J. at Orient St., and Jockson Ave. at 8 p.m. VOTE COMMUNIST FOR: 1. Unemployment and Social In- surance at the expense of the state and employers, in) DELEGATED MEET | HITS INJUNCTIONS 225 at N. Y. Confer- ence Plan Struggle | NEW YORK.—Meeting to fight the | bosses’ injunction weapon, 225 de- legates representing 30 labor organi- zations, including A. F. of L. unions, | gathered at Manhattan Lyceum, 66! |E. 4th St., last night at a mass con- ference, Painters, pocketbook makers, but- chers and other trades were repre- sented, as well as accredited delegates from the Full-Fashioned Hosiery Workers affiliated with the United Textile Workers Union, of the A. F. of L. John Steuben, secretary of the Pro- visional Committee for the Anti-In- junction Conference delivered the ;main report and called for a mass campaign against the injunction me- nace, citing recent struggles such as the shoe workers’ strike to point out the need for urgent action. Reports by delegates, discussion from the floor and concrete propo- | sals for making the ‘tight effective | had not yet been made as the Daily Worker went to press. A full report of the conference will appear in tomorrow’s Daily Worker, Pace, Stember, Speak at Big Vets’ Mect In Union Sq. Tomorrow NEW YORK. — John Pace, ex-| soldier, and Samuel Stemberg, ex- sailor—both leaders of the Workers Ex-Servicemen’s League now in the forefront in the fight for the bonus in Washington, will speak at a de- monstration called by the W.ES.L. (in Union Square tomorrow np 5 pm, CHINESE SOVIETS |perialists are preparing for active | participation in the new fifth | the emancipated workers and pea- |sants of the Chinese Soviet Republic. | tremendous victories of the workers | and peasants Red armies in smash- | by the Nanking butchers about two | merchant ships | rivers, | final action to close up the children’s ATTACK ON THE Joint Campaign With Nanking Butchers The United States and British im- “Com- munist Suppression” campaign against This criminal decision follows the ing the fourth “Communist Suppres- sion” campaign which was initiated months ago. U. S. Prepares Blood Bath HOOVER'S CAVALRY, TANKS, INFANTRY MAKE WAR MOBILIZE MASSES | ON BONUS MARCHERS AFTER POLICE KILL TWO Use Fors Forged Letterheads in Michigan Bank “Plots” BASIS FOR ATTACK ON MEN Communist Party Demands Withdrawal of Troops, Revocation of Eviction Order, Bonus Payment Ex-servicemen ‘Defend Selves In Hand-to-Hand Fighting With Washington Police BULLETIN. WASHINGTON, July 28.—Cavalry, infantry and tank corps troops, called out by the War Department today against the veterans, hurled tear gas bombs and finally drove the ex-servicemen out of the government buildings at Third and Pennsylvania Aves. Simultaneously, President Hoover issued a statement asstming full responsibility for calling out of the military and the attack en the men. Gen. McArthur, chief of staff of the U. S. Army, looked on approving- ly, according to press reports, as his men “mopped up” the area. Terror reigned thruout the region as 50 cars filled with homeward- | Hungry Armed marines have been placed aboard allUnited States and British | flying in Chinese | coastal waters and on the Chinese | The American-owned “ “Yang- | tse Rapid Steamship Company” has) equipped each of its ships with troops. | | (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE: TROOPS SHOOT AT EAST OHIO MINERS | House of Evicted Min- er Burns Down cence ATHENS, O.—Thirty-five shots | were exchanged here yesterday be- tween National Guardsmen and an | “unknown sniper” near No. 6 mine at | Millfield. Reliable reports indicate | that guerilla warfare has broken out throughout the Athens strike area. The same reports say that the | house of Harvey Sullivan, a recently | evicted striker, was found burning | yesterday. Authorities charge the striking miners with setting fire to | the house. | Adjutant General Frank D. Hen- | derson flew from Camp Perry to | Athens yesterday and conferred with | Colonel Gilson Young, in charge of | | troop operations in the strike area, The Ohio State Welfare Depart- ment announces thet it has taken soup kitchens in Jefferson, Belmont and Harrison counties, all in the strike area. Teh National Miners Union has | | endorsed the Workers International | | Relief Children’s Hunger March in | | Jefferson County and urges miners | by the thousand to support the | march and demonstrate at the Steu- | benville Court House. The N.M.U. charges that the Ohio government is attempting to drive the miners back | to work by snatching the last crust | of bread from the mouths of their children. Tag Days Start Today for Aid to Striking Miners ‘Today, tomorrow and Sunday will | be tag days for the collection of funds for the relief of the striking miners in East Ohio and West Vir- ginia. The District Comnittee of the | Communist Party calls on all work- | ers and working class organizations to mobilize all forces in thisdrive, All workers should report at the follow- ing tag day stations: Concoop Branch, WIR, 2800 Bronx Park East Section; Bronx Workers’ Club, 569 Prospect Ave.; WIR Cen- ter, 16 W. 21st St.; Needle Trades | Center, 131 W. 28th St.; Williamsburg | Workers Center, 61 Graham Ave.; | Brownsville Workers Center, 1813 Pitkin ’e.; Bath Beach Workers’ Center, 2273 Bath Ave,, Brooklyn; TORCH LIGHT ANTI-WAR MEET NEW YORK.—A torch light anti- | war meet will be held Saturday night, | July 30, at 730 p.m. at Cleremone | Parkway and Washington Ave, bound government workers were stalled by the activities of the troops. The cries of children whose eyes were blinded by the smarting gas were heard thruout the area as the troops donned masks to protect themselves. Following the hurling of the gas, fire broke out and flames leaped 20 feet in the air, Seeking to justify further terrorism against the heroic veterans, army officers said that the ex-servicemen started the fire. WASHINGTON, D. C., July 28.—Following the continu: ous attacks by the Hoover government and the repeated at- tempts to evict them from the city in order to stop their fight for the bonus, Washington poliee today fired upon ex-service- men quartered in government buildings at Pennsylvania Ave- nue and Third Street. One vet was killed, a bystander fatally wounded and | several injured following a clash with police and a hand-to- {hand battle—the result of the police attempt to evict the men |from their quarters. A large number of vets were arrested. ATTACK WAS PLANNED That the federal government planned this attack in order to justify intervention is seen from the promptness with which the Hoover government ordered troops to the scene. ‘Communist Party Denounces Assault ‘on Vets; Demand Payment of Bonus NEW YORK. —The Communist Party of the U.S.A., from its na- tional headanarters here, denounced the “deliberately planned police as- |sault upon the ex-servicemen” and called for protest demonstrations of workers thruout the country against the aetion, The statement of the Party declared that “the attack was planned in a conference participated in by President Hoover, Secretary of the | Treasury Mills and Secretary of War Hurley. The police attack was or- ganized as a basis for the invasion of the troops into the city in order to smash the fight for the bonus.” | The Party called upon all workers to demand the immediate with- | drawal of troops, the revocation of the eviction order against the men, | and the payment of the bonus fer which a special session of Congress |should be called. It called for the passage of protest resolutions by all | workers’ organizations, and yrged support for the Auzust First demon- | | strations against imperialist war which will at the same time demand | payment of the bonus, unemployment insurance and against boss terror. This was the second attempt today of the police to drive | the veterans out of the government buildings at Pennsylvania Avenue and Third Street. The veterans fought back valiantly. Sticks and stones | were their weapons. They sent many ‘police ‘to the hospital. | In the fighting Gen. Glassford had his gold badge torn off, | and slightly shaken up in the process. TROOPS ORDERED OUT Shortly after the police attack Secretary of War Hurley ‘ordered General Douglas McArthur, Chief of Staff of the Army, to surround and clear the area. Cavalry from Fort Meyer | was rushed to Washington. Virtual martial law exists in the | capital. The attack on the veterans follows a conference held yes- terday between Hoover, Ogden L. Mills, Secretary of the Treas- |ury, and Secretary of War Hurley, at which plans for calling |the troops against the veterans were laid. GLASSFORD LEADS ATTACK The police attempted to evacuate the bonus marchers |from the 3d and Pennsylvania billets early this afternoon. Over a hundred police under the direct command of General Glassford rushed the building where men from Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia were quartered. The vets were driven out by the surprise attack, but soon | rallied at the rear of the building. Using the military tactics | taught them by the capitalist government during the imperial- ist war, the veterans flanked the police and drove them off with sticks and bricks. The police retreated from the area only to return soon with reinforcements. Over a thousand veterans were in and asics ante TRO LAE ee