The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 2, 1932, Page 1

VOTE COMMUNISY FUR =, 8 Unemiployment and Social Insurance at the ex- pense of the state and employers. 2. Against Hoover’s wage-cutting policy. & Emergency relief for the poor farmers without f pestrictions by the government and banks; ex- Ce neral emption of poor farmers from taxes, and no “OC )> erotic? lecrion, of rents on diy (Section of the Communist International) OU IE ost Pac a ats erin 0 ia OE ale cao munist Party U.S.A. Vol. IX, No. 183 ecRpp2, Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N, ¥., under the act of March 3, 1870. Pe Sone dD NEW YORK, TUESDAY AU ation for the Black Bi suppression of the po! VOTE COMMUNIST FOR Equal rights for the Negroes and self-determite elt. Against capitalist terror; against all forms of litical rights of workers, Against imperialist war; for the defense of the Chinese people and of the Soviet Union. CHILD DEAD FROM HOOVER GAS ATTACK Gov't Launches Vicious | Drive Against Levin to Cover Crimes 18 VETS ARH STILL HEL o| Hushka’s Murderers to, “gd ” o Salute” Him WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. 1.—One More victim was added to the death | toll of the Hoover w st the | veteran-. The victim was a child,| She died last mital as a on the bonus nerd Meyers, i the effects of! be FPoover government in an at- nt the bloody bur: a child vontinue azainst the Com- to cover ment of Lebor, hard in band. with Hoover thé Well Street bankers, have | Evmenuel Lev . AN eX- | lencor Hoover Out to Frame This Ex-Marine ane) Levin, vet leader jailed in Washington by the Hoover gov- ernment, shown in uniform while in service as a U. S. Marine. TO CALL NATL, VET CONFERENCE, 'W.ES.L. Statement, on “Bloody Thursday” The fight for the full payment of HUNGER IN JOHNSTOWN Local Press Tries to Incite Lynch Spirit Against Marchers 7,000 IN STEEL TOWN ‘Police Comb Ranks for Militants JOHNSTOWN, Pa. Aug. 1—All |th eforces of the steel trust here, |from the local press to the Pennsyl- vania State Police, are mobilizing at full speed, preparing to carry on the | brutal war against the ex-servicemen which was started by Hoover in Washington last week. The thousands of veterans who are trudging along the roads leading to Johnstown are harrassed at. every turn by the police, Seven thousand ex-servicemen, their wives and children, weary and |sick and starving, are encamped here in Ideal Park, three miles out of the city. Try to Trick Vets Out. The official policy of the city and the remnants of the Waters admin- istration, which has set up its head~ VETS FACE [Stops Fascist German Communist Victory Advance; Iron Front Defeated' (By Inprecorr Cable) BERLIN, August 1.—The Volksecho, | organ of the Communist Party in Berlin and Brandenburg, declares | that the outstanding feature of yes- terday’s elections is the Communist advance. The flood of lies, the wave of suppression and intimidation, plus the efforts of the so-called iron front were unable to prevent the working class “electors from flooding sto the Communist Party, the Volksecho states, What is most significant, the paper explains, is the fact that the Com- munists gained chiefly in the indus- trial areas where the socialist losses were biggest and the fascist advance was stopped or turned into @ loss. ‘The Communist Party is the strong- est Party in all workers sections of Berlin. The boastful promise made by the fascists to “smash the Marxist front” was not fulfilled, instead thou- sands of misle dtoilers were won away from the fascists, The elections rejected Papenism and answered the treacherous policy of the social-democrats and particu- larly the latters’ sabotage of the po- litical mass strike efforts by the Com- Papen’s anti-Prussian coup. All the repressive and_ terroristic measure against the Communist Par- munist Party following upon Von | TENS OF THOUSANDS IN MIGH 2 reeted FORDTELLS OF VET STRUGGLE 800 Hear Candidate In Baltimore; Many Are Negroes W. Z. FOSTER IN BUFFALO Speaks to 2,000; Huge Overflow Meeting BALTIMORE, Md., Aug. 1.—More than 800 workers,nearly two-thirds Negro, jammed Albert Hall here to hear James W. Ford, candidate for vice president on the Communist ticket. ,Tremendous interest was aroused in Ford's arrival in the city, especially since it followed his arrest following the murderous attack on the veteran. Ford in his speech compared “Bloody Thursday” in Washington sia, Hoover hailed the “evacuation” (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) > | AT BIG RALLY Y EDITION cl TY N.Y. DEMONSTRATION MASS MEETS CALL FOR BONUS, INSURANCE FOR JOBLESS, USSR DEFENSE | ALA. WORKERS HIT MURDER OF VETS Defend Soviet Union, Scottsboro Boys BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Aug. 1—Two hundred Warrior Mine workers and their wives demonstrated |war yesterday, displaying Alabama backhills solidarity ‘unparalleled |the history of the South. Resolu- tions were unanimously adopted for |the defense of the Chinese people against in in’ Washington where an attempt | 2nd the Soviet Union and for abet had been made to frame him up| release of the Scottsboro Negro boys) land the payment of the veterans’ |bonus. Fifteen joine dthe National | Miners’ Union. | with “Bloody Sunday” in czarist Rus- | The demonstration was in prep- | | aration Aug. 1. The workers plan a big anti-war demonstration on | August First before the mine office | in protest against wage-cuts and | evictions. for | Reviews Sport Event |. | | One of the most recent photos | | of Joseph Stalin, secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, taken when he reviewed a | demonstration of worker-sports- men recently in Moscow. | ‘DROP DEATH ON | Union Square yesterday : “Communist Party Only Party Workers Can Support,” Say Amter and Shepard; Trumbull Hits Bonus Assault DEMONSTRATION LARGEST IN YEARS 4 Marches Converge on Union Square NEW YORK, N. Y., Aug. 1. In one of the most powerful demonstrations held in New York City in recent vears, New York workers streamed into’ raised high the banner of struggle against imperialist ar and voiced a mighty denunciation |of the Hoover . government’s | murderous atack on the war veter= ans. Tens of thousands of workers: marched into New York's Red Sq |in four gigantic columns as the great international day of gis against imperialist we At the same time th: workers were assembling throughout the U. S. in Birmingl Alabama, in Pittsburgh, in San F; of the Wo! |the bonus must be continued. Serious ty, the suppressions of 12 Communist 10,000 DEMAND ‘The Cullman district farmers: also cisco, in Philadelphia, in Chica wrenmen’s League for special | tion z | mn and 17 other workers and} yeters“s, all of whom are citizens of | a s, ate still being held | rol authorities on redicu- | donortation charges. | fil the jailed, werk ill appear | won an habeus cor- pus writ on Secretary of Labor, Wil- liam Nvelsles Doak, who is directly | resnorsible for the arrest of the work- | c John Pees, leader of the rank and | file committee, who is held on three | separate charges under $3.000 bail wil! | elso come up-for o hearing Tuesday. All the cases are being defended by | the International Labor» Defense. | It was revealed today that seven cf the nine workers arrested Saturday night when police raided the Commu- nist Party headquarters were veterans | who came there to sleep. following the police and army attack on their | camn and billets. Following the stealing of the body ef Hushka, war veteran who was mur- dered by the Washington police, by | the war department, it was announced that the American Legion and Vet- erans of Foreign Wars would hold a military funeral for the body. ‘The most brazen and cynical piece of insolence, surpassing even any vi- cious act every performed by the Russian Czar, was the announcement today that a firing squad picked: from the Third Cavalry—the very same cavalry which drove the vets out of the capital—would fire a salute over the grave of Hushka in Arlington Cemetary. First we murder you then we salute you—this is the latest slogan of the Hoover hunger government, ‘The coroners’ inquest, which was called for today to cover up the mur- der, was indefinitely postponed. The International Labor Defense of ‘Washington is calling for a series of mass protest meetings throughout the city to demand the release of the jailed workers and veterans and a special session of Congress to pass the bonus bill. Bie Six Mass Meet | © Called for Tonight | on Arbitration Move All members of the Typographical Union No. 6 are urged to attend a mass meeting to be held tonight (Tuesday night) at 7.30 p. m. at Man- Yattan Lyceum, 68 East 4th St., to ‘discuss the betrayal of the union of- ficials who, without giving a chance to the membership to vote on the. question, have surrendered to the publishers by agreeing to arbitration of the new wage scale, ‘The officials have violated the union's constitution by refusing to call # special meeting on thé ques- tion in spite of the required number of signatures to the petition for the fmesting. Only a strong rank and file movement can force the publishers to | preparatory work must be carried on throughout the entire’ country for a new drive to foree Hoover's Wall St. government to pay the bonus, de- clared the Workers’ Ex-Servicemen’s League today. Hoover's murderous attacks on the veterans did not defat the movement for the bonus. The efforts of W. W. Waters to sidetrack the movement onto a farm in Marylang will also fail in its pur- These developments only bring to a close one phase of the fight. In the first place they bring clearly to light the role of the enemies of the bonus. It exposed the Wall Street-Hoover government which, while handing out (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) Amter Urses City Workers to Fight ‘Denounces Walker Move for Pay Cut NEW YORK.—Following up his open letter to Mayor James J. Wal- ker, denouncing his call for a “vol- untary” wage cut by the 147,000 city employes, Israel Amter, Communist candidate for governor, yesterday made public an open letter to the employees themselves, calling on them to organize and fight against the wage-cut. On behalf of the Communist Party, Amter called on them to learn to use the weapon of the strike in re- sisting any attempt to benefit the taxpayers of the city at the expense of the wage earners. Urges Demands" He called on them to make the following demands on the city ad- ministration; 1, That the salary of all high- paid city officials shall be cut down to no more than $3,500 per year. 2. There shall be no cut in the pay of the lower paid city em- ployes, 3, That retinues of useless, po- litically appointed secretaries who surround Mayor Walker and vari. ous high city officials shall be abol- ished and that no city official shall have more thantone car at his dis- pesal. All the other limousines, Packards, Dusenburgs, etc., shall immediately be sold and the pro- ceeds turned in to the city treasury. 4. The taxation upon the cor- porations and banks, as, for ine stance, the New York Central Rail- road, Consolidated Gas, New York Telephone, New York Edison, Pene nsylyania Kailroad, ete., shall be | materially raised, while the taxa- tion upon small property owners shall immediately be lowered. ere to the wage scale proposed by 5. All economies so effected Nae committee of the Big Six Local 4, the Amalgamation Party. (CONT: INUED ON PAGE TWO) | City ........¥5.5 quarters in the office of the Mayor, MoCluskey; is to turn the marchers away from the camp: at Ideal Park. The ruse used by the officials to send large groups out on so-called recruiting duty. Arrange- ments have been made with train- men to carry the vets out of the | (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) 500 Labor Athletes March In Final Day of Meet CHICAGO, IIl., Aug. 1—Five thou- hand Chicago workers witnessed the final day of track and field evenis of the first International Workers Athletic Meet of the United States, The meet was held at tSagg Field at the University of Chicago. Opening the events of the after- noon was a mass drill in which two hundred athletes participating in. the meet was greeted by enthusiastic cheers from the stand. A telegram from Tom Mooney greeting the athletic meet was read. A radiogram was received from the French section of the Red Sports In- ternational, A mas chorus of over 400 voices sang revolutionary songs during the afternoon events which wound up with a soccer game between the Red Sparks A. C. of New York and the Englewood Sports Club of Chicago, @aily newspapers during the election | campaign, the complete evclusion of Comrhunist speakers from the wire. less, the prohibition and dissolution of hundreds of Communist meetings, the police brutality coupled with the repeated threats to suppress the Par- ty, all this was unable to shake the working class voters who rallied to the Communist standard enabling the Communist Party to win the biggest FREE NEGRO BOYS Mass Turn Out In Den- Anti-War Parade mark for Scottsboro NEW YORK, Aug. 1—At Copen- hagen, the first cty in Denmark vis- | ited by Wright and Engdahl, ten|Unemployed workers demonstrated on Chinese volunteer troops in the | Detroit were -similiarly demo ling under the slogan of the 1 | united front against the capitalis' tacks. Tremendous demonstrations took place at the same time in Mc CHINESE TOWNS in New | hetet ~a demonstration ~ yesterday against war. i Japanese Presents: Jobless Aerial Bombing — | cow, Berlin, Paris and other grea! Scarner ae proletarian centers. Derands to Mayor) murderous aerial bombardments fl onetlicns chines “Weleomuld the |the civilian populations of several} Jehol Proyince towns and an attack | incoming streams cf wo! as arrived at Union Square in org: formation, after having mar nized hed | WILMINGTON, Del., August 1. — election success, The advancing fascist wave broke on the solid bulwark of revolutionary internationalism, but the fascist dan- ger is not past, the Volksecho point out. The bourgeoisie is increasing the terroristic campaign against the workers. The struggle must continue in the factories, in the Labor Ex- changes, in the Trade Unions against fascism, for socialism and workers’ and peasants’ government, ARRESTED AFTER 3 MONTHS ‘TIMMINS, Canada—Ralph Tha- chuk was atrested here by provincial police from Rouyn, Que., and taken to Rouyn for trial on charges re- meeting. His father, Nick Thachuk, well known to workers in Northern Ontario, was arrested at Kirkland Lake. Information regarding the charges is not yet available, 7,000 paid-in-advance bundle or- ders by November L, sulting from the Rouyn May Day| formed into a parade and marched through the streets of the city in a bama courts. Ten thousand workers jammed the hall in which the Scotts- boro Money imeeting was held in that city. Ten por cent of the population of Aalberg, Denmark, attended the Scottsbore-Mooney meeting held there yesterday to hear Ada Wright, damother of two of the Scottsboro boys, Defense. .The town has a population of 60,000, and six thousand were pre- sent at. the meeting. The Aalberg meeting, which set a new high level ofmass protest for the European tour of Wright and Engdahl, followed large meetings and demonstration at Sonderberg and Ejsberg. ‘Answer Hoover's War Against Masses with Dollars to Your ‘Daily’ Workers, Hoover’s war against the veterans is only an aspect of his war against the American working class, In the midst of his vicious offensive against the workers, the Daily Worker faces suspension as the result of a financial cri The Daily Worker must raise $40,000 in the next month if it is to continue to live. Your “Daily,” the chief organizer of the working class, the fighting standard bearer of workers’ struggle, needs your self-sacrifice and devotion now. A contribution to the $40,000 Save the Daily Fund is a real blow at the Hoover government and the system of slavery and exploitation that it represents and protects. A subscription to the Daily Worker means added strength to the only daily working class newspaper printed in the English language. Save your “Daily.” Contribute now. The “Daily’s” need for funds is desperate and requires action on your part immediately. and subscription to the Daily Worker, 50 East 18th Street, New York, N. Y. I contribute $ . Name ‘ aN i steitecbia Samoa eee OURCRL Don’t delay. Rush your contribution . to the $40,000 Save the “Daily” Drive. |.stration, which was organized by the | Unemployed Councils, was followed | diate relief for the unemployed. gt i A 'Fight Use of Coal Scabs on World | Anti-War Day | TERRE HAUTE, Ind., Aug. 1. | Today, International Anti-War. Day, of scabs by the company, Sheriff Joe Dreser, acting undér the orders of the mine owners, tele- graphed to Gov. Harry G Leslie de- manding that state troops be sent to Shoot down the strikers. HOTEL EXPLOSIO KILLS 4 FIREMEN Cops Guard Jewelry in Park Ave. Fire NEW YORK. — An explosion fol- lowing the cutbreak of a fire in the fashionable 41-story Ritz Tower tf Sith St, before noon yesterday re- sulted in the death of four firemen. Many more were so badly injured that they were not expected to live. The fire developed in the sub-base- ment paintshop of the building and was discovered by the painter who turned in a fire alarm While the firemen were battling against the fire a terrific explosion shook the building tossing many of them egainst the walls, The cause ascertained”, Jewels valued at $85,000 were blown out of a Jewelry store located in the building Several detectives were stationed to guard them after they had been collécted in the Hotel's lob- by. LAY OFF 700 AUTO WORKERS TARRYTOWN, N. Y.—Seven hun- dred workers of the Fisher Body plant were laid off. One thousand workers are left, but it is expected that the entire plant will be closed down in one month, _|in the apartment hotel at Park Ave. and | of the explésion was reported “un- | | ‘The Japanese Rengo News Agency huge demonstration of protest against | PY @ parade to the headquarters of | reporting the new attacks does not| the attempt at legal lynching of the | the mayor's so-called Unemployment | give the names of the Chinese cities framed Scottsboro boys by the Ala-| Relief Committee to demand imme-|pomparded nor the number of peo- ple killed and injured b ythe. air ids. As most Chinese cities are emely crowded and congested the laughter from aerial bombs is natur- ally terrific. It will be remembered that ofer 10,000 Chinese women, children and men were slaughtered Japanese bombardment of Shanghai, while many additional and J. Louis Engdahl, national Sec-| hundreds of striking miners con- | thousands were maimed for life. The |retary of the International Labor] yerged on the Dixie Bee coal mine in | Japanese news agency records the | against the Chinese people within | the next few days. | Japanes2 reinforcements are being rushed into Jehol Province, with the aim of adding that province to their |Manchurian lcot and seizing the passes into North China. The Nan- |king butcher government, as usual, jis making no resistance to the Japa- invaders. The Japanese offensive in the Shanhaikwan area clearly indicates | that the invasion of North China | will be carried out in a_ pincers movement: from Jehol Province, frem Shanheikwan on the coast and | by sea. | The Japanese are moving to occupy the large cities of North China, in |an effort to crush the growing anti- | imperialist, anti-Kuomintang move- ment in those citjes to facilitate the fifth “Communist Suppr2ssion” cam- paign jointly prepared against the | Chinese Soviet. Republic by the im-+ | perialist powers and their. Nanking | |lackeys. The plans for this cam-| |paign aim at crushing the mass up- |surge in the cities at the same time that the imperialist warships and the | Nanking armies invade the Chinese | |Soviet Districts with the object of | |re-enslaving the emancipated work- | Jers apd peasants. of these districts. | The attack oh the Chinese: Soviet | | Republic is the prelude for open) |armed intervention against the Sov- | |iet Union andvits triumphant Social- | ist construction and abolition of un- | jemployment and race hatreds. Yes-| |terday, throughout the world, mass | |demonstrations were held against | this imperialist butchery, | RAIDS AGAINST ANTI-WAR FIGHTERS HAVANA, Aug. 1,—Cuban police carried out raids and mass arrests of Communists last night in an effort to prevent the anti-war demonstra- tions called for today, ~~~ thousand workers greeted them at|here against imperialist war and for |region of Shanhaikwan marked the | from various concentration points in the Central Railroad Station on their} the defense of the Chinese people }opening, on Sunday, of the threat-| wide arrival. At the station the workers}@nd the Soviet Union The demon- ened Japanese invasion of North China. | y-scattered parts of the city World war v rans (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) RADIO HOOK-UP | AUG. LIN MINN, Action F oa ced B | ‘Anti-War Masses MINNEAPOLIS, Aug. anti-war mass sentiment just returned vy 1.—Powerful evoked by | a determined fight to prevent the use |threat of more aerial bombardments |i. august First preparations forced the radio station KSTP to give a state-wide radio hox ip for an anti- war speerch by William Schneider- man, Communist candidate for gov- ernor, for which special broadca jequipment was set up at Auditorium | Square. | Announcement of the arrangement by the radio station came as thou- sands of workers were gathering for the anti-war demonstratioh and pa- rade at Briggs Square. Officials of |the radio station admitted that the |hook-up was arranged because of pop- jular demand, with requests pouring into the KSTP headquarters, many coming from A. F. of L. unions. KSTP is one of the largest and most pow erful stations in the Northwest, {| Schneiderman’s speech is to be broads cast following the parade to Auditore ium Square, Bt ting amaica Cops Attack Anti-War Meeting JAMAICA, L. T., Aug. 1—-Alarmed at the growing anti-war sentiments of the masses, Jamaica police brutally attacked the August First demonstrae tion against imperialist war at the Town Hall here. Over 800 workers showed an !ron resistance to the bosses’ drive for war as a “way out” of the crisis, and when the Town Hall meeting was broken up re-assembled at the Kings Park, where they lustlly cheered the Communist speakers and pledged ac- tive defense of the Chinese People and the Soviet Union through a re- lentless fight against the production and shipment of arms to the Far East, and other anti-war activities, This meeting was again brutally at~ tacked and broken up by the police, Immediate payment of to. the ex-soldierg ~~ ~ o setae. j the ‘Bonus’