The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 1, 1932, Page 3

YQ DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, AUGUST 1, 1932 Page Three Hushka Escaped Death in Remember 1917 and 1932! Fight ——. Bands Play OBYE OLp GRRE Ong yout ATR G ee POS Foy if Off to War. 1917 Boss-War Only to Be Killed in Capital in 1932 U.S. Dicks Jeer at Negro Red Candidate Threaten to Deport Ford to Alabama and Lynching ‘by Boss’ Tools Dick Chief Tell Vice-Presidential Candidate That “Negro Citizenship” Does Not Count WASHINGTON, D. C., July 31—James W. Ford, Negro war-veteran and Communist candidate for Vive President, spoke at Masonic Hall, before 118 | delegates, Friday and was thunderously cheered. Emanuel Levine, of the! Workers Ex-Servicemen’s League also addressed the same meeting. The meeting was attended by many government dicks. others left the meeting, Ford was seized along with William Powell, an- other Negro worker and Communist organizer in Washington, D. C. Ford was released on Saturday. Following his release, he made the following statement on his arrest: Crowded in Small Cell “When arrested six of us crowded into a cell, 5 by 11 feet. We were ~kept there until others were brought. in during the early evening, when we were taken out for questioning together with other workers, num- bering 43 in all. » “Many of the government police directed sneering remarks at me, say- ing “here is the vice president of the United States.” I was then fin- ger-printed and photographed and taken to the Immigration Depart- ment. Among the immigration of- ficials was one fren Mississippi who claimed he knew Alabama thorough- ly, and tried to prove that I was never in Alabama where I was born. This ruse, however, failed: I was then taken before the chief of the detectives. They asked me io sit down. Whén I moved to do so, going , toward the only vacant chair which ‘happened to be the chair of the chief of the detectives he shouted ‘out, ‘Wait a minute there. Don’t . put your black —— in that chair. , You may be vice presidential can- didate to the United States but you are not good enough to put your black —— in that chair’ He then began to quiz: “Send You Where We Want To” * >“After the quizzing the chief of de- teotives asked: ‘Where do you want | to go, back to Alabama or New York?’ I stated that I demanded my rights to go wherever I pleased, and to be immediately released in Washington. ‘eH then stated that a ‘Negro citizen- ship does not amount to anything. ‘We are going to send you where we want to send you. We are going to Send you to Alabama and let you go down there to tell the niggers what you are doing. They (meaning the white bosses) want you down there anyhow,’ insinuating that they want ime down there for a lynching. Now in Baltimore “I was then taken back after the quiz and thrown with other veterans into an army truck at the bayonet point. We were driven away without knowing where we were being taken. We finally arrived in Maryland and ‘were transferred to a bus which had transported other veterans driven out ‘of Washington. We were turned over |to the Maryland State police and ‘were driven on to Frederick, Mary- Hand. Here three of us demanded to ibe released. TI especially, since I was ‘scheduled to speak in Baltimore. I ‘was finally released and made my iway by train to Baltimore. ‘ “Upon my arrest several papers were taken away from me, including the schedule of my tour and a letter giving reports of my meetings. ‘Jobless Hit’ Murder of Vets; Plan, Huge City Bread Parade NEW YORK—Vigorously condemn- ing the murder of bonus-seeking job- ~aess veterans by troops in Washing- jton, at orders of President Hoover, Unemployed Council of Greater New York, in a ‘spegial session Sat- urday lnked the avXick with sup- Pression of struggles for relief in this city. In answer to the denial of ade- (quate relief and nt In- 1 by the Feaere: and local Wwernments, and as a demonstra- Th cenirar ip erent cas Ot for to prevent or destroy organiza- of the jobless, the Council laid ns for staging a huge bread pa- rade in New York on Sept. 10. ‘Delegates from local bodies of the ployed, from A. F. of L. locals, 2ctions of the T.U.U.L., youth clubs other workers’ organizations af- As Ford and Vet Leader Is Hounded By Doak Emanuel Levine, war veteran, and | one of the leaders of the Workers Ex-Servicemen’s League is among those hounded by Doak’s deporta- tion dicks. SEEK 10 DEPORT 35 WAR VETERANS Doak Hounds Loosed On Ex-Soldiers WASHINGTON, July 31—Of the veterans arrested here after the army attacked the ex-soldiers fighting for the immediate payment of their back wages, 35 are held for deportation, it wes 1eperted here today. Acting upon Hooyer’s instructions and putting into practice the infa- mous Dies-Fish Bill before its enact- ment by Congress, the Immigration Authorities are hurriedly preparing to deport these and hundreds of oth- er veterans. Ex-soldiers are awakening to the realization that their citizenship, automatically established in virtue of their service in the United States Army during the world war, will not stay the hands of the capitalist class and its agents in their_efforts to de- port them, Government officials here are en-| deavoring to draw a line of demiatka- | tion between the veterans and the foreign born workers whom they gen- erally describe as “radicals.’ STEEL WORKERS GREET MOONEY Mooney-Moore Heard! In McKeesport, Pa. McKEESPORT, Pa.—John Zilic, International Labor Defense organ- izer, was arrested following an en- thusiastic Moore-Mooney meeting at which 1200 steel workers sent tele- grams on behalf of Tom Mooney and the Scottsboro boys. Zilic, an unemployed steel worker, Was cross-examined in Clairton by Police and the grafting Mayor McVey who a few days earlier broke up a Scottsboro meeting in that town and refused to arrest the attackers of an 11 year old Negro girl, The meeting pledged support to all class war prisoners and wired Tom Money asking permission for the Mc- Keesport-delegation to nominate him as honorary chairman at the Steel and Metal Workers Industrial Union STEEL WORKERS HIT VET MURDER Thousands In March Demand Relief CHICAGO, Ill, July 31—Five thousand unemployed and pat time steel workers in the largest demon- stration since the 1919 steel strike marched through the working class sections of the city of South Chicago, Friday to demand unemployment re- lief and insurance. Thousands roared their approval to a telegram sent to Hooyer condemning the killing of a war veteran and demanding the withdrawal of the trocps and~ pay- ment of the bonus. Twelve thousand workers were at the starting point of this great hun- ger march at 93rd and Burley Streets. The march was organized by the Un- employed Council and the Metal Workers Industrial League. All traf- fic was completely halted as the march progressed. In the line of march, seven hun- dred Mexican workers, three hundred Negroes and hundreds of women and children sang working class battle songs and shouted the demands of the march. Thousands lined the streets and cheered the parade. _ When the march neared the gates of the Tilinois Steel Corporation, two thousand more workers joined the demonstration. Hundreds of workers joined the Unemployed Council. A committee of seven was elected by the workers to present the de- mands of the marchers to the bosses of the steel corporation. When the committee attempted to enter the gates to present the de- mands of the marchers, detectives and uniformed police rushed to the scene and refused the delegation ad- mission to the corporation offices. Following the refusal of the police to allow the marchers to present their demands, a mass meeting was held where the thousands of workers enthusiastically pledged to support the demands of the march and carry on the fight for relief before the Emmerson Committee and city gov- ernment. PACE, LEVIN HELD ON DOAK'S ORDER (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) men’s League. Levin, Pace, Eicker and Johnson, and seven others come up for trial Tuesday on charges of parading with- out a permit and disorderly conduct. Brotis Faulkner, John Olson and Bernard McCoy are being held under $3,000 bail for assault with a danger- ous weapon. These veterans were arrested at the Third an dPennsyl- vania Avenue billets following the murder of William Hushka by the police Thursday. Police state they will press a charge of murder against these three veterans if an officer whom they claim was hit with a brick dies, Professor Arrested Oakley Johnson, a New York col- lege professor, was among those arrested at the vets rank and file conference Friday. He went to the meeting to ask the veterans to elect a delegate to the World Congress Against War to be held in Paris on August 20, Trolley cars, parks and every nook and corner in Washington is being combed by police for veterans who have not evacuated. Workers Denied Rights President Hoover, in a statement issued Saturday, made clear that Meets Demand Bonus, Jobless Insurance Barrage of Protests Score Hoover War on Veterans 2,000 IN CANTON N. C, Communists Denounce Vets Jailing CHARLOTTE, N. C.—The Com- munist Party and the Young Com- munist League of this district has wired Hoover, denouncing the mur- derous attaek upon the bonus march- ers in Washington. Newark Meet Hits Murder of Vet Elects Delegates to Anti-War Congress NEWARK, N, J., July 31.—A vig- orous gight against imperialist war and condemnation of the murderous United States government attack on the war veterans demanding the cas hpayment of the graveyard bonus, was. voted an an anti-war ‘conference held ih this city at Schary Manor Friday night. One hundred and eighty-two delegates, represent- ing 91 labor and fraternal organiza- tions with a combined membership | of about 19,000, voted endorsement of the World Congress Against War, which is ta conyene on Aug. 20 in Europe. In spite of opposition by socialist representatives the confer- ence voted condemnation of the bloody assault on the bonus march- ers, The conference elected as dele- gates to the World Congress: Lloyd Westlake of the Newark Carpenters’ Local, A, F. of L., and Prof. W. 8. Schlaugh, vice-president of the Na- tional Council of Teachers of Mathe- matics. ber of the Newark branch of the Priends of the Soviet Union. Speakers at the conference in- cluded William Simons, secretary of the Anti-Imperialist League of the United States, and Edward Royce, a member of the American Committee for the World Congress Against War. Delegates to the World Congress from New-York will be elected at a conference at Labor Temple, 14th St. and Second Ave. on Aug. 8 at 8 p.m. Approximately 250 organiza- tions, many of them affiliated with the » xerican Federation of Labor, have already designated their dele- gates to the New York anti-war con- ference. PROTEST WAR ON VETERANS Miners, Steel Workers in Va. Mass Meet —_ WHEELING, W. Va. July 31.—A well-attended mass meeting of steel workers and miners was held today opposite the Wheeling Steel Cor- poration Plant in Yorkville, Ohio. Tha meeting was called by the Com- munist Party. A strong resolution was unani- mously passed at the meeting con- demning the murderous attack of the Hoover government on the vet- erans, demanding the full ang im- mediate payment of the bonus. Comrade Buksa, a miner and Com- munist councilman, called for fullest support of the bonus fight and com- pared Hoover's aetion with the ac- tion of the Ohio governor, White, in sending the National Guard and giv- ing the striking miners bullets when they demanded bread. only bankers and capitalists wili be given the right to come to Congress. In denying workers the right to come to the capital to present peti- tions to the government, Hoover said: “Until further orders, in view of conditions now cxisting in the Dis- ° trict, all organized bodies or groups of persons attempting to enter the District shall be prevented from convention in Pittsburgh on August 43, 14 and 15. \ doing so unless it be established 800 at Y.C.L. Anti-War Meet; Support Vets NEW YORK, July 31,—Three hyn- dred workers participated in a milt- tant anti-war mass meeting, held at the corner of Third St. and Ave. B last Friday night. The meeting was called by the Young Communist that such bodies or groups of per- sons have a lawful purpose in com- ing into the Distriet . . .” “The labor movement will gain the upper hand and show the way to peace and socialism.” League, A resolution was passed demand- ing that the eviction and murder of veterans fighting for the payment of the bonus be immediately stopped. A committee of three was elected Lieyd Westlake is a mem-| Finnish Workers Protest Bonus Arrests | NEW YORK.—The Finnish Work- ers’ Federation ha ssent a telegram to Secretary of War Hurley, demand- ing the immediate release of all the bonus-vets arrested in Washington. Brooklyn Workers Score Vet Attacks 300 Parade; 1000 Meet | Against Boss War NEW YORK, N. ¥—Three hun-| dred workers and workers’ children marched in a torchlight parade thru Columbia, St., Brooklyn, Friday night in protest against the attack on the veterans in Washington, against im- perialist war and the shipment of | munitions to the Far East for use| |against the Chinese masses and the| Soviet Union. ‘The territory covered by the march \is right at the waterfront where Jap- anese ships are leaving regularly with | munitions. Many longshoremen par- ticipated in the demonstration. Three anti-war meetings were held along the line of march, the largest at Court and Carrol Streets where one thousand workers listened to the speakers of the Communist Party and the Young Communist League which had arranged the demonstra- tion, A resolution was unanimously adopted at all three meetings de- nouncing the murderous deeds of Bloody Thursday when the Wall St. Government ordered its troops to at- tack the Bonus Maiehers in Wash- ington, killing one yeterans and wounding scores of others. 4,000 MARCHERS IN STEEL TOWN | (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) not welcome in Johnstown. Carter Orders Vets Out. Doak Carter, still working at his job as a police agent, meets the tat- tered contingents as they come into the city and orders them to go home. Most of them, however, overrode Carter’s orders and entered the city and joined their buddies in Ideal Park. Militants Driven Out. Sixty truckloads of veterans have been held up in the town of Legion- aire, twenty miles from Johnstown, by police since Saturday, Police are combing the marchers for militants and members of the Workers Ex- Servicemen’s League and are shipping them out of town in small groups in} patrol wagons in the opposite direc- tion from Johnstown. In Washington, Pa. police are holding under virtual arrest a group | of 50 vets from Cleveland led by) Cowan of the Workers Ex-service- men’s League. Throughout the state of Pennsyl- vania state police are held in \readi- ness to carry out the Hoover plan of continued war against the veterans. Refused Meeting Permit. Today a group of vets and workers went to the office of Mayor McClos- key to demand a permit to hold an anti-war meeting to be held at Park Place in the cente rof the city to- morrow. McCloskey refused the per- mit and called officers to throw the committee wut of the City Hall. The committee stated that they will hold the meeting permit or no permit. This demonstration will raise a gi- gantic protest against the murder of ‘a war veteran by Hoover's police and demand an extra session of Congress to pass the bonus bill. It was reported that Mayor Mc- Closkey had arranged a meeting be- tween W. W. Waters, the aspiring fascist, and Father Cox, fascist leader of the Blue Shirts, to take up plans for organizing a “Khaki Shirt” or- ganization along the lines of Hitler's storm troops and Mussolini's black |defense of the Soviet Union. | their clubs and the vets fought back | SCORE HOOVER Seorce Wash. Attack) in Pre-August 1 Meet CANTON, Ohio, July 31—2,000 workers assembled in Public Square here yesterday, heard John Marshall, Communist candidate for governor, denounce the Hoover terror against the militant servicemen, in prepara- tion for a huge August Ist meeting. Police attempting to provoke the gathering, were roundly booed as was the name of the fascist Waters while cheering accompanied a resolution in | VET DESCRIBES WASH. ATTACK: “Tt Was Murder, Pure and Simple”, He Says | (By an Eyewitness) WASHINGTON, D. C.—Word was sent to usat 13th and B. Sts., that the poliee were going to throw out the vets located at 3rd and Penn Aves. This was the beginning of the action. We rushed down to this area to help step the eviction. Police started dragging men from the billets, chasing the crowd back some distance. Meanwhile ex-ser- vicemen and civilians were arriving by thousands. The feeling was ter~ ribly intense, they were beginning to realize that they were not only fight- ing for the bonus, but also against hunger, starvation and for a roof over their heads. Then up stepped a burly chap,/| saying, “Come on, you, are going to let those cops get away with this?” The crowd yelled, “No!” then this big boy said, “Let’s go!” and they did!! One vet carried the flag, a Negro on one side of him and the big fellow on the other. The police then started swinging | with bficks from the partly demol-| ished buildings. The big yet was rap- ped on the head four five times by Police clubs. Disregarding the blood streaming down his face, this vet dnally grabbed a policeman and took his club away from him. Vets started scrambling up the stairway to help their buddies. A Waters’ man stood nearby with a megaphone, yelling, and telling the vets to go back. It’s the Communists who started the fighting,” he told them, Another Waters’ man shouted, “Don‘t be like Pace’s men who are trying to ‘blow up the White House,.” These speakers were hooted, booed and yanked down with shouts of “To hell with Waters.” Half way down the stairway, one cop pulled out a gun, fired, and con- tinued pouring lead into a yet. It was MURDER, pure and simple. STUDENT LEAGUE PROTESTS NEW YORK, July 31—The Na- tional Student League Forum sent a telegram to Hoover, denouncing the use of troops against the veterans and demanding the payment of the bonus. Telegrams were also sent to Glassford and the veterans them- selves, Build the united front for jobless insurance. All out August Ist! What Is Your Unit Doing for | the Daily Worker Circulation are very bitter over the killing of ‘Wm. Huska, member of the Workers Ex-Servicemen’s League. The general sentiment among the me nis to carry on @ militant fight for the bonus and unemployment insurance and relief. Scene of Great Struggles. The city of Johnstown was the scene of many militant labor strug- gles during the great 1919 steel strike. It was here that Wm. Z. Foster, lead- er of the strike, was held up by the armed thugs of the steel bosses who demanded he sign a back to work card. Foster, looking into the bar- shirts. rels of the thugs’ guns, refused to LENIN. to send a telegram of ‘protest ‘The masses of the veterans here sign the card. |his party towards the events of| | Hunger Hoover. to return home by offering them their | By Quiri For Bonus. Foster Denounces Murder of Veterans Says Gov. Made War On Vets Because They. Turn to Communists Speaks Before Huge Mass Meet In Grand Rapids, With Overflow Crowd GRAND RAPIDS, July 31—Speaking before a large mass meeting, with| hundreds in an overflow meeting beinch readched with a loud speaker, Wil-| liam Z. Foster, Communist candidate last night denounced the Wall Street for President of the United States,| Government’s murderous attack on thousands of ex-soldiers as one of the blackest crimes of capitalism. ROOSEVELT WITH “Why does the government declare ; War on the ex-soldiers?” Foster cone | tinued. “Because the ex-servicemen, | |facing starvation, are turning to the in the struggle against the bosses’ HOOVER ON V E Tipe o Party as the only leader | 1 | War MASSACRE Sanctions Murder By) Refusing to Comment) in Radio Speech ALBANY, N. Y., July 31.—While| scores of millions of American work- ers were still recounting the detail of the Hoover government’s murder- | ous attack on the Bonus Marchers, | Government Roosevelt, in a lengthy campaign speech over a nation-wide | radio chain last night deliberately re- frained from commenting on the events of Bloody Thursday, thereby | sanctioning by his silence. Hoover's | war against the veterans. nI a set speech about national is- sues, replete with empty phrasés about “lower tariffs guaranteeing aj return of prosperity,” Roosevelt, who was nominated at the Democratic convention that openly went on rec- ord against the veterans’ bonus, made onty one statement in connection with the Bonus Marchers. ‘That statement, taken bodily from the platform written at the same anti-bonus convention, is as follows: | “We favor the fullest measure of justice and generosity for all war vet- erans who have suffered disability or distress caused by or resulting from actual service in time of war.” While Roosevelt, in the face of the growing mass resentment at the mur- derous Hoover government’s actions, | dares not give the true position of Bloody Thursday, his silence on these events is eloquent testimonial to his real agreement with the policy of It will be remembered that from the | very beginning of the Bonus March Roosevelt had been its open opponent, | and actually sent his personal repre- sentative to Washington in an at- tempt to bribe the New York veterans fare back. Hoover later adopted this | very same policy. | ‘The New York Times, leading Dem- | ocratic organ and supporter of Roase- velt's candidacy, gave the true posi- tion of Roosevelt and the Democratic Party on the murderous events of! Bloody Thursday when they unquali- fledly endorsed Hoover for ordering the troops to “mop up” the veterans who a few short years ago were giving their lfe-blood to safeguard the profits of the American bankers. | and Hunger Program.” To his question, “How many ex- soldiers are here? Please raise your hands,” scores of hands went up. “There is the reason,” Foster con tinued. “And there is also the sol- diers’ answer to the government's | hunger and murder program. “The Communist Party is becom- ing the Party of the ex-soldiers. And what of the present soldiers who manned the gums upon the orders of Hoover? These tools are learning their lesson. These, too, are learn- ing the murderous role of the Wall Street government against the star- ving unemployed workers and ex- soldiers, They won't be used many times against the starving ex-service- * men.” Foster closed his address by read-| ing a resolution which was unani-/ mously adopted, c ondenming the Re- publican, Democratic and Socialist , Parties for the ir opposition to the , cash payment of the bonus and their support of teh terror against the ex- soldiers. Stalin F.S.U. Branch Scores Hoover Attack NEW YORK—Seven hundred workers in the Stalin Branch of the Friends of the Soviet Union endorsed the denunciation of the Hoover re- gime and placed on it the full blame for the brutal terror against vets and demanded the unconditional re- lease of all those jailed in Wash- ington. Lh AE RT AE SORT AOE BUY Mimeograph Supplies By mail order and save 50% tok $1 per bb. 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