The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 30, 1932, Page 1

eVOTE COMMUNIST FOR Equa! rights for the Negroes and self-determin- ation for the Black Belt. Against capitalist terror; against all forms of suppression of the political rights of workers. Against imperialist war; for the defense of the Chinese people and of the Soviet Union. Daily, Worker Central <3 2 VOTE COMMUNIST FOR Unemployment and Socia! Insurance at pense of the state and employers. the ex Against Hoover’s wage-cutting policy Emergency relief. for the poor farm ‘(Section of the Communist International) restrictions by the government and S3 OX emption of poor farmers from taxes, and no forced collection of rents or debts. we Ss at New Vol. IX, No. 181 Entered as eccond-class matter at the Post Office York, N. Y.. under the act of March 3, 1977 NEW YORK, SATURDAY, JULY 30, 1932 CITY EDITIO! é _ Price 3 Cents_ AIL JAMES W. FORD, COMMUNIST CANDIDATE, 42 OTHER VETS, AS HOOVER WAR ON EX-SERVICEMEN CONTINUES Down with the Hoover Wall Street War on the Vets! Protest! Demonstrate August Ist! Workers! Defend Your Rights by Forging An Unbreakable United Front! William 1". Foster, candidate for president of the United States, following statement on behalf of the Central Committee of the Communist Party War in Washington. Cavalry, infantry, machine guns, tanks, motor trucks laden with ammunition, gas bembs. The bugles sound, the drums beat, the army advances bristling with steel. America has its bloody Thursday! Against whom is the U. S. making war on the banks of the Potomac? It is advanc- ing against the former army of the U. S., the present Bonus Expeditionary Force. _» This és how capitalism pays its rank and file soldiers. Blood has been spilled at the very steps of the capitol, the blood of those very men who:fought the war to make the world safe for capitalist profits. This blood is on the hands of Hoover. | It ison the hands of the capitalist class, represanted by Hoover. “What is the veterans’ crime? Why was it necessary to call against them the Federal Army? -They- demanded their back pay for war timé; they did not wish to wait till 1945 to get theit war-timé wages. They were ~ starving and homeless today. They de- manded relief. Hoover, Hurley, McArthur, Glassford, gave. them instéad clouds of tear gas and volleys of bullets. The soldiers who had sur- vived the trench warfare in France fell on the: battledeld within. the shadow of the White House. This is nothing new in the practice of the rulers. ‘Didn’t they shoot and kill work- ers in Kentucky? . Didn’t they kill hungry workers at the Ford plant in Detroit? Didn’t they.massacre workers in the hunger dem- onstrations of South Chicago? Didn’t they spill the blood of workers in St. Louis? Isn’t their attitude towards the workers de- manding unemployment relief and insurance one’ long bloody trail of shooting, clubbing, torturing, gassing, lynching? Class War Against Toilers! This is the class war conducted by the capitalist: class against the workers and farmers who are suffering in the present crisis for no fault of their own. ._ Now the class war has been extended to the former soldiers, ‘When'the rulers need them to fight their battles overseas they pampered them and glorifed them: as “American crusaders,” (fighting for a “war to end war,” to “make ihe: world safe for democracy.” When the war profits, increased thousandsfold by the workers :and: farmers, had been pocketed; and the former soldiers, thrown out of em- ployment. by their ruthless robbers, began to demand bread, they .got bullets. -The Real Hoover Program. - 4 Billions ‘to’ the bankers; bullets to the toilers—that is the program of the ruling class headed, by Hoover. The fires of the Washington battle throw a lurid light on the capitalist system and its leaders. So this is what the war was fought for? This is what any war is fought for under the leadership of the Hoovers! This is. what the capitalists actually need the army for now—to secure their profits. They need the army NOW—to prepare for another ‘ war,to secure more profits, in the meantime to:shoot and kill those who do not wish to put up with starvation. ~ + . Behind the corpses in Washington looms the menace of.a new frightful world slaught- er. Hellfire now for the Chinese masses! Death and destruction for the Soviet Union! This is the Hoover, Roosevelt program, aid- ed by their lackey, Thomas. The fire of the Washington battle shows clearly the division of the classes in this country.- On: one.side, the-miners of Ken- tucky—the workers and farmers of Kansas, the auto workers of Detroit, the Bonus Ex- peditionary Forces in Washington, the hun- dreds of thousands of war veterans all over the country—all the millions of toilers who have made all the wealth of the country for the capitalists and who are now starving in the midst of plenty; on the other hand, all those who fight the workers and who have fought the bonus marchers—the Hoo- ver government, the Republican Party, the Democratic Party, the Socialist Party, the leaders of the American Federation of Labor —all those who denounced the Bonus Ex- peditionary Forces.under one pretex or an- other, all those who may even now “deplore” the shooting but, who by backing Hoover’s stand against the veterans, actually en- couraged him to order the shooting. There is a trail of blood dividing the two classes and no matter what Hoover may prattle ~ about “Communists” and try to cover up the murderous crime of his government with talk about ‘persons with criminal records,’ ” this is a battle against the working class, a battle of capital against labor. The fire of the Washington battle lights the way for a further advance of the toilers. It says to the army: you, soldiers of today, will be ex-soldiers tomorrow, and you will be treated like these bonus marchers are treated at the hands of your commanders. It says to the bonus marchers: realize now that in the eyes of your masters, you are criminals because you demand bread. Close your ranks! Stick together! On with thé fight under militant leadership! Unite with your fellow workers—organized and unor- ganized. It says to all the toilers: you who will be soon called to go to fight in a new im- perialist war; you see now that the war to be fought under your masters is not for the “flag” or the “fatherland” or “Demo- cracy” or “Freedom” but for billions to stuff the coffers of your exploiters who will then throw you out onto the scrap heap the way they have done with the veterans and, again, in case you protest, you will be riddled with bullets and choked with gasses. It says to all the workers, farmers, veterans, employed, unemployed Negro and white; you are one camp of the exploited; unite against the masters, unite to fight against hunger, unite to force.your demands upon your masters. . Unite to smash the hte tule of the capitalists oppressors! : Down with the Hoover Wall Street war on the veterans! Withdraw the troops! ; Release James W. Ford and all those ar- rested! Veterans! Fight» under the leadership of the Workers Ex-Servicemen’s League! Workers help feed and shelter the vet- erans! Workers demonstrate. for-the Bonus and Jobless Insurance! Soldiers! Wipe out the disgrace of bloody Thursday—stand solidly with the vets and starving workers!: On with the fight, defeat the capitalist parties, the Republican, Democratic and So- cialist Parties responsible for the slaughter- ing of the veterans! Under the banner of-the world Commu- nist Party, fight imperialist war, defend the Soviet Union, make August First the begin- ning of a gigantic struggle for the defense of the rights of the workers! Rally behind the election fight of the Communist Party! Oust the Hoover-Wall Street government, Forward to the Workers’ and Farmers’ gov- arnment! at yesterday issued the Capitol Leers As Hoover Orders Vets Veterans’ S.acks Burning in the Shadow of Wal! Street's Bonus Marchers. Sg be apitel Shacks Burned TROOPS; VETS Militants Arrested at File Veterans from Workers Protests eras and the |v nnounced another “ back to the still- reh for what | Police raided a conference called Fellowing Murderous Attack Gu VETERANS PRIOR “Flames Light Up the Call to Struggle” WASHINGTON, D, C., July 29— The arrest today of James W. Ford, candidate for vice-president on the Communist ticket, followed a meeting last night at which he spoke to sev- eral hundred vets and Washington workers. Ford, himself an ex-serviceman de- clared in the course of his speech at the meeting: “History is being made in this city today. At this very moment while we aré assembled here the United States Cavalry with drawn bayonets and gas masks have surrounded the billets of the ex-Servicemen, In- fantry men with bayonets and gas bombs are driving out the veterans from their dilapidated. government owned quarters. Army tanks and veterans. Secretary .of War, Hurley, and McArthur, the armed forces of the Fedaral Government together of Columbia, have combined to drive out the heroes of 1917, “The Federal Government has one FORD SPEAKS TO Jsie@ In TO HIS JAILING, machine guns ready to fire on the} with the Po lice forces of tHe District | Maermnton | | | | James W. Ford, Negro veteran and vice-presidential candidate for Presi- dent of the U. S., who was yesterday arrested with 42 othér ex-servicemen | in Washington, ‘MASS VETERANS | PROTEST TODAY |Demonstrate Union Suare 5 P. M. . -EY gorge Pace, of the Workers Ex-Servicemen’s leader ;turned from Weshington will be | among the workers at a mass protest demonstration to be held on Union Square at 5 p. m. today. The meeting is called by the | Workers Ex-Servicemen’s. League to protest against the brutal murder of William Hushka who was shot down police while carrying out Hoover's | capital. Demand the release of James W. Ford, Communist candidate for vice- president and war veteran. troops from the capital. aim in view—to drive out the Bonus | Army from Washington, to hide the’ starvation, concentrated at the Ned tion’s Capitol, from the eyes of the masses. | The Hoover” government Demand the withdrawal of the | troops from the capital. Demand an extra session of Con- |gress to vote immediate payment of | to the bonus and unemployment ance. insur- All out against hunger, terror and stands exposed as the war and hunger war at 5 p. m. today on Union Square. PAPER! Workers, answer the S.O.S. call of your ‘paper. During the next month+the American working class must raise $40,000 if the Daily Worker ‘is to continue to live. The workers, and the workers alone, can save the “Daily.” The need is desperate and cannot be exaggerated. The standard bearer of thefight, the voice of workers’ strug- gles, will suspend publication unless YOU rally every force to the collection of funds for the $40,000 drive. The savage fury of the Hoo ver government towards the Bonus Marchers must find an answer in the “Daily.” THE DAILY WORKER MUST LIVE! YOUR ANSWER MUST BE WITH DEEDS, NOT WORDS. RUSH YOUR CONTRIBUTION TO THE DAILY WORKER, 50 E. 13th St., N. YC. <shaengsetiad « DO IT NOW! I contribute $....... PEUIAB es HUAN Le | we sie HE CLEA REVUE) eeib oe Fa EF tae cones dytee Street | City Roe eeesoenssgtnsocnces ACT FOR YOUR + | White House frem all parts of the| by the rank and file committee of the bonus army at the Old Masonic pees on Virginia Ave. and arrested James W. Ford, Communist candi- \date for vice presdent and war vet- cran and 42 other vets. the thirty veterans are being held in- communicado by the Washington police. Ford, who is a Negro worker from Alabama, serveg in the Signal Corps! as a radio and telegraph operator | during the war in France and was 2} member of a delegation which sp- | peared beforé the Ways and ‘Mans ;Gommittee several months ago to de- | the soldiers bonus. Move to Smash Last Camp Commissioner» Glassford to- day tcvod his police to smash the} | sole remaining camp.of about 200 on} the old Baltimore wharf. Police re- serves surrounded. a group of about | 400 bonus marchers who were trudg- |ing down lower Pennsylvania: avenue of the city and on the road leading | }order to drive the vets out of the|out of Maryland. Gusis of rain added to the desolation of the hunger ex- soldiers. The cavalry wes still encamped around Camp Anacostia, forcing stray returning vets away at sabre points. Reut_ Wome nand. Children Women and children who attempted | to camp for the night in a park near | Baltimore were routed and ordered “keep moving.” Fugitive groups | moving north were shunted further |away from Washington by police and | from | state troopers, | Washington.” It was clearly the policy of federal and state authorities to drive the bonus army permanently away from Washington and to prevent it from teforming at any point. Hoover government is planning more | | bloodshed for the veterans is obvious. Word came from Kansas City more | than 200 veterans en route from | | California will leave there on Sat-| urday or Washington. A spokesman | declared “The fatal shooting of @ |veteran in Washington will bé the! signal for thousands upon thousands | | Of ex-servicemen to converge upon |the capital.” Stool Pigeon Can Remain 'W. W. Waters, stool pigeon com- mander of the “B..E. F.”. organiza- tion which he owns by. virtue of hay- ing incorporated the name, attempted to capitalize the murder and shoot- ings in order to build his “Khaki shirts” Fascist organization. He an- nounced the opening of headquarters in Washington. Aparently, the priv- \ilege of remaining in Washington is granted. solely to this demagogue, who announced last week chat his organization will be modelled on those of Hitier and Mussolini “to stand be- tween the constitution and anarchy.” All the vets in Washington were nursing sore, red eyes. The troops | who laid down the tear-gas attack | |yesterday made no distinction be- tween veterans and non-veterans, One red-eyed spectator today, watch- ing a sweating infantryman driving sightseers from the part at the foot of Capitol Hilt called out to him, “on orders Frotest telegrams poured into the} country. This followed the lining up of over a hundred veterans at’ the United front Conference earlier in the day. At this time the arrest of the 43 Meets Throug! ) WASHINGTON, D. C., July 29.—Unsatisfied by vicious destruction of the Y, miltary authorities, under ne direct s ‘mopping up” to drive out with force and violence the few vets and their wives and chil- Ford and | That the} WEN DRIVEN FROM CITY BY MAKE HEROIC STAND AGAINST TERROR Meeting of Rank and in Washington rs Flood , Wht ite House; heir brutal attack on s marchers cantps icn of Herbert Hoo- campaign to take place late today veterans, them James W. Candidate for Vice the Conference were forced into the ‘ranks of the thousands of veterans driven out of the city by the troops’ and police. The main body of the veterans moved ts in their march are har- assed at every point along the road. | Maryand and Virginia pi stated that will not allow the marehers to states. Waters, self-sivled leader of the bonus army wic deserted the men | yesterday and hid in the Hotel {Raleigh while police and troops were |Jaunching their vicious attack, today |League and Samuel Stember just re-|mand full and immediate paymétit of tala that he would proceed to Johnse | town to organize a fascist corps called |the “Khaki Shirts’ along the lines of | Mussolini’s Black Shirts and Father | Cox's Blue Shirts. As a pretense for a further attack | against the. veterans, Washington police and the pres circulated the provocative rumor that groups of yets were on their way to the capital with in cold blood by the Washington and drove them with thelr clubs out | machine guns. A final check up on the casualties shows that one was killed and 60 | Wounded in the army and police at- tack yesterday. William Hushka, the veteran who was murdered by the police: during the attack, was a member of the Workers Ex-Servicemen’s League. President Hoover, in a letter to the District Commissioners, criticizeq the district police for what he called their laxity in dealing with the vets. The International Labor Defense in the cities of Washington ‘and Balti- more is preparing for |mass dem= onstrations to demand the”release of | all ‘arrested veterans, the withdrawal. of trvops’ and payment of the bonus. Vet News Flashes The . Workers Ex-Servicemen’s League today called on workers everywhere to supply food and cloth- ing to the thousands of Bonus Marchers’ who were evicted arom Washington yesterday and who now. face absolute starvation. Bonus Marchers charge that a wat Vet's child was burned to death in . one of the Anacostia shacks leveled to the ground by the Fort Myers soldiers. William Hushka, the slain Bonus Marcher was a member of the Work- ers Ex-Servicemen’s League. A dramatic incident revealing that the ruling clsas shows no quarter in its struggle with the workers came to light in Washington today. Dur+ ing the World War Joe Angelo, @ young worker from Camden, N, J. saved the life of his commanding of: ficer, Colonel Patton by dragging him » wounded, into a shell hole. Yesters day the same Patton, now a’ major, led the cavalry charge which demoli« shed the shack where Angelo, now @ member of the B.E-F., was living and gave the order for the gassing of all the veterans in the shacks, including Angelo. Some of the shouts heard in Wash- rontemptuously : |ington yesterday while the troops “Work hard, buddy, and maybe|were “mopping up” the Bonus you'll get a bonus some day.” |Marchers were: “Here Are Hoover's: Cossacks,’ Your Guns Away.” Military authorities in Washington said they would continue to “mop up” the camps until every veteran was driven out of the District of Columbia.