The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 1, 1932, Page 1

Top left—William Hushka, World War veteran and member of the Workers Ex-Servicemen’s League, who was murdered on Bloody Thursday at the orders of the Hoover government, Lower left—Band giving send- Vol. IX, No. 182 <p>» Dail Ly erialist War a (Section of the Com the-Comn ee etl 4 munist International) orker ee pov Viti » unist Porty U.S.A. NEW YORK, MONDAY, AUGUST 1, 1932 Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. Y.) under the act of March 3, 1870. CITY EDITION off to World War soldiers just before they embarked es ees ‘their lives for greater capitalist profits. Left center—Returned war vets being given noisy welcome at “Victory” Arch in New York. Right Center—Vc-2rans’ pan AiAe being leveled to the ground in the shadow of Wall Street's ¢ Bottom right—First bonus marcher to be shot on Bloody Thursday, being carried off by his comrades. Top rig! napping of the body of William Hus! Washington police last Thursday. This was accomplished by forcing CENTER OBTAINED FOR KHAKI SHIRTS Waters to Build A Fascist Outfit WASHINGTON, July 31—A def- inite step to organize a nucleus for a “khaki shirt” outfit, which prom- ises to blossom out into a full-fledged fascist organization in the United States, was taken today by Walter W. Waters, self-appointed “commander” of the Bonus Expeditionary Force, who announced that he had been given a 50-acre wooded tract of land in Maryland, about 20 miles from the District of Columbia. Waters declared barracks would be erected, and he, as owner, would carefully select the men who could be willing tools of the bosses in pre- venting any real rank and file move- ment for the bonus or any move- ment for veal relief for the starving masses. “The property will stand in my name,” he said, “so that my relation- ship to those given homes there will be that of owner and guests. “Because of this I will be able to limit its population to those veter- ans who are willing to abide by semi-military control and are decent, law-abiding American citizens.” “In announcing this “khaki shi camp Waters used the very same language use dby “brown shirt” Hit- ler and all other fascists in mis- leading the workers. He talked of Wall Street control and giving the country back to the “people,” but at the same time faithfully promised the. capitalists that his fascist gang would ruthlessly exterminate any real movement against the rulers of America. Waters said he had named George Keinholz to canvas for him among New York State workers, Keinholz is from Portland, Ore. : EES A Five hundred Colorado World War Veterans and 200 California vets. began’ marching on Washington as soon as they heard of the killing of one of the Bonus Marchers, the wounding of scores and the gassing of thousands. ‘The Daily Worker needs YOU in its mass Circulation Drive— July 15-November 1 WAR DEPT. SEIZES BODY OF HUSHKA AFTER FAMILY ARRANGED WESL BURIAL Forced Them to Withdraw Authorization Mass __ Funeral Chicago Mass Conference Continues Fight on Issue hka, World War veteran slain by the a signed statement from the murdered war veteran’s widow and from his brothers, after they had given authoriza- tion to the Workers Ex-Servicemen’s League to arrange the funeral. Congressman Sabbath of Chicago and other local politicians, working hand in hand with the Hoover gov- ernment, virtually seized the mur- dered war veteran’s widow and his brother, bundled them in a taxicab, and terrorized them into renauncing the voluntary authorization which they had extended to the Workers Ex-Servicemen’s League, of which Hushka had been an active member. The terrorizing of the slain war veteran's family, after they had vol- untarily agreed to permit the Workers Ex-Servicemen’s League to conduct the funeral, came as a result of the hysterical fear on the part of the Hoover government that scores of thousands of workers would fill Chi- cago streets to honor the militant worker who was shot dead fighting for the bonus and unemployment insur- ance, The fear that the perpetrators of Bloody Thursday have of the mass resentment at the murderous eviction of the Bonus Army, is evidenced by the fact that two days after Hoover issued a statement to the effect that all those who participated in the pitched battle should be ruthlessly persecuted, the Hoover government itself, after a virtual act of body- snatching, makes the supremely hypo- critical gesture of preparing ‘> pay “high” honor to the murdered: war veteran, This morning an emergency confer- ence of members of the Workers Ex- Seryicemen’s League, members of the American Legion and of workers’ or- fianizations was held in Chicago to arrange @ mass funeral for Hushka. This was done on the basis of the authorization previously granted by the dead veteran’s family. The wire of Mrs. Krivenko, the widow of the murdered veteran, to the funeral di- rectors in Washington, follows: “Am authorizing Workers Ex-Servicemen’s League to assist in handling arrange- ments and public protest. I am the divorced wife of deceased and mother retta. Send reply to Workers Ex- Servicemen’s League. Signed, Mrs. Frances Krivenko, 2015 N. Winchester St., Chicago.” A similar authoriza- tion was signed by his brother, Charles. ‘The workers will protest this body- snatching on the part of the murder- ers of the dead war veteran. Hushka will be honored at mass meetings to be held today throughout the country. The fight for the slain veteran's body will be continued by the conference in Chicago, as well as by representa- tives of the Workers Ex-Servicemen’s League in Washington -~aie + of his eleven-year-old daughter Lo- | Geo. German Communists in Biggest Gains, Increase Votes 30%; Socialists Lose 20%; No Advance Made in Fascist Vote GERMAN C. P. GETS BIGGEST GAINS Berlin Poll SI Shows.C.P. Is Strongest ‘ (By Inprecorr Cable) * BERLIN, July 31—At 11 a. m. ap- proximately sixty per cent of the votes being counted, the general ten- dencies are already visible. Big gains by the Communists compared to the result of all previous elections are| clearly indicated. The fascist stag- nation or loss compared to the recent. Prussian elections is established. Gains were registered by the social-| ists compared to the results of the Prussian elections, but they suffered heavy losses compared to the last Reichstag elections, A partial count of the Berlin poll shows the Communist Party is the strongest group in the city. Great successes by the Communist Party are obtained in the Ruhr ang Rhine Districts, At Cologne 208,000 votes were polled by the Communist Party, 30,000 mote than the votes obtained in the last Reichstag elections and 60,000 more than in the recent Prus- Slow’ Response in Drive Sharpens Threat on ‘Daily’ The partial list of contributions printed i n today’s “D:; arebeginning to understand the seriousness of the financial crisis which threatens their newspaper. But the response is far too slow. Act quickly. oe Partizl Returns of German Elections Out of 36 million votes counted, about 60 per cent of the total votes cast, the Communist Party of Ger- many polled 5,222,000. ‘The incomplete numbers of votes polled and seats won by cach of the major political parties are the following: Votes Seats 1930 Communist Party 9 87 3 Social Democrats 000 127 143 Fascists (Hitlerites) 13,441,000 220 107 Catholic Center 4,431,000 77 68 2,000,000 30 41 1,000,000 16 19 People’s 5 400,000 730 Constitutionalists 372,000 2 4 The fascist party of Hitler show- | ed no gains when compared to the | results of the recent Prussian elec- tions, sian élections. The Communists showed in Deus- seldorf almost double the strength of the socialists. At Essen the Commu- nist Party got 94,000 votes, a gain of over 6,000 compared to the Reich- stag elections and over 20,000 com- |pared to the Prussian elections. | Double strength of the socialists was |thus showed by the Communist Party. At Gladbach the Communists re- (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) TAKE HEAVY TOLL ‘FASCIST ATTACKS ; ‘Two Wor kers Kille Many Wounded in Germany (By Imprecorr Cable.) BERLIN, July 31. — Pre-election | collisions in various parts of Ger- many were extremely severe exact- ing a toll of 10 killed and over 80 | wounded. The Berlin police murdered a young worker yesterday evening. Armed fas attacked Reichsbannermen yesterday afternoon shooting nine, three of whom seriously including a Comm t. The police killed two workers and wounded many at Esslingen, One fascist was killed and several per- sons were injured at Werminghoff during a collision with Reichsbanner- men. Riesenberg armed fascists attacked Reichsbannermen killing two and wounding several. Fulda fascists attacked Communist (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) Save your fighting “Daily” for the tremendous struggles for social insurance, for the veterans’ bonus, for food and freedom, for a workers’ and farmers’ government. The Daily Worker must live! 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Of the 114 originally jailed in | Hoover's “mopping up” and murder campaign, 17 still without bail en dep The attack on the C Party continues with i ciou s. At 1 a.m. today headauorters cn Seventh was raided by police and Denar of Justice men, and | arrested. remai in jail nnis sed m wer Police falsely stated that all of the| criginal 17 arrested were released. International Labor Defense however, discovered that the me! were still in jail, held for incommunicado. On Saturday Schwab and Levinson, | I. L. D. lawyers, got out a writ of habeus corpus demanding that the 17 be produced in court. The writ will be served on Wm. Nuckles Doak, and the The preme Court Judge Luhring who, on Friday, in a public statement, said | that he hoped the grand jury would | find Communists were responsible for the police shooting. 48 hours | ¥ F'sever Blamed by Workers and Vets for Killing NEW YORK. July 31.—Geveral thousand. workers and war veterans | vigorou: denounced the bloods | murder Of Wm. Hushka, war yet, who! | Was shot to death by the Washington police Thursday, in a mass demon- ation called by the Workers’ Ex- n’s League on Union Square 4000 MARCHER IN STEEL 70} Mayor Refuses V Permit to JOHNSTOWN Pa side the cit of Johns he: Meet Among the spez at the meeting| for a was 8, J. Stember, of the lead-|struggle for the 1 un ers ct the bonus at 1 Washington, | employment ir ce and Norman Tallentire who spoke for| Nearly four thousanc the Communist Part Speakers laid the eran directly at the do Ec Tremendous be me of Hoover and the Wall | government th of the vet- of the White 228 Bt |employment insurance \ has declared Stember. greater masses of veterans anf just be- the government and the bankers to not only pay the bonus, but unem- ploynient insurance.” to come out to the anti-war demon- | stration on Union sonable re, August Ist 3,000 SEAMEN IN DEMONSTRATION “The fight for the bonus and un-|s “We will] 's for a greater march to force| The workers at the meeting pledged | hungr; piesa Hou d along the road t ate police | The rank and file | thoughte they were here; they understood |stown would be a pl from the bullets and gas the hired assassins of government who their members in cold bi ved their refuge: yonets of Hoover one of nd de- mur ble fire. Invited Only “Lea | But former prize- fighter and m e steel town, had invited 0; of the bonus: army to come to Johnstown— Waters, oDak Carter, R. B. Ellinson and Matthew Burke, out and deserted the those who sold veterans when There is violent anti-Hoover and lDemana Relief from |they were under the fire of Hoover's) anti-war sentiment among the work- ers and petty bourgeois around the | Workers have been heard to} never fight | capital, declare that they will another war again for Wall Street, Among the 17 held in jail on depor- Church Institute NEW YORK, N. Y., July 31.—More oe 3,000 marine workers demon- | | strated yesterday in front of the Sea- | and troops. | ‘The rank and file of the bonus army have been told that they are (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) tation charges are John Pace and|men’s Church Institute, South st.| Mother Mooney, Moore} Emanuel Levin, both ex-servicemen, citizens of the United States and leaders of the Workers Ex-Service- (CONTINUED ON ‘PAGE THREE) Sritish I.L.P. Secedes | from Labor Party | LONDON, July 31.—By a vote of} 241 to 142 the Independent Labor Party decided to secede immediately | |from the Labor Party. The vote is the result of a long- drawnout squabble within the ranks of the Labor Party. ‘The Indepen- dent Labor Party was for many years the “left” cloak of the Labor Party. It stands for a policy of using more | left phrases in order to win the rad- icalized workers away from Commu- | | nig; leadership. Tts outstanding leaders are Fenner } | Brockway and James Maxton. Immediate payment of the ‘Bonus’ te the ex-soldiers, |and Coenties Slip, against the dis- | ‘continuance of relief by that scab in- | stitution. The marine workers marched from ; |the headquarters of the Marine | Workers Industrial Union at 25 South | St. carrying banners calling for a} | unitea fight against imperialist wars, | attacking the dole to the shipping |magnates in the form of a subsidy | while the unemployed are forced to |starve, and demanding that the wealthy institute received its refusal |to distribute relief to seamen. | After Roy Hudson, secretary of the Union put the demands to a vote, a |committee of five seamen was elected, ‘comprising Lorenz( Hopkins, Mac- | Farland, Duricker and Hutchinson, to present the demands of the unem- | ployed seamen to the institute offi- cials. These demands were: 500 free j beds and 1,000 free meals a day, the lreduction of the officials’ salaries, | the reduction of checking rates on jall seamen’s luggage, and the free admission to the institute at all times. of unemployed seamen. \to Speak at Meeting: |in Brooklyn, Aug., 3rd | NEW YORK.—Mother Mooney and | Richard Moore are scheduled to speak | Wednesday, August 3rd, at 8 p. m. in the Finnish Hall) 764 40th St. ' Brooklyn. All workers are urged to attend this important meeting where Mother Mooney and Moore will speak, and to demand the release of Mooney and the Scottsboro boys. Police “escorted” the committee to the doors of the institute, where the committee was informed by Kelly, superintendent of police of the in- stitute, that institute officials would neither see them nor recognize their demands. When the committee reported back to the demonstrating workers, the latter voted unanimously to continue the struggle and force recognition of the committee and granting of” the demands —.