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

AN —s DAILY WORKER, NBW YORK, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 3, 1932 Page Three Demonstrations Thunder Comdemnation of Boss War The Fighting Spirit JOHNSTOWN COPS of the Ohio Miners ATTACK ANTI-WAR MEET; ARREST 8 Smash Relief Station;| Spread Lie That ‘Reds’ Hijacked Food (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) military police should not be used as city policemen. McCloskey and the| self-styled leaders have tried to draft veterans to do police duty in the city | of Johnstown. The men seem to re-} member the dirty work of the Wash- | ington cops. | Waters’ men are still weeding out} as many honest rank and filers as| they can find in the camp. Waters | i. ‘atting rid of many of the vets by Seding them out on phoney er- rands for sixty days, knowing that the city officials propose to close the camp before that time. Lack of food in the camp is ea ing the situation more appalling. ‘The vets are daily demanding food| for themselves and families. The| Waters gang, however, has refused} the men to go into the town to ap- | peal for food. It is obviously the policy of the “High Command” to starve the ex-servicemen out. In an attempt to arouse the vets against the militant policy of the Matthew Smith, young miner, | at the Steubenville, O., courthouse, “Send the O.N.G. (Ohio Natl. addressing a crowd of coal diggers following a march demanding relief, Guard ) Home” says one of the placards. Workers’ Ex-Servicemen’s League, a cock and bull story was circulated here yesterday, and played up in all the capitalist papers, that the reds had hijackeed a truckload of tood which was sent to the bonus army. Smash Relief Center. While this story was being circu- lated, the relief headquarters of the Workers’ International Relief at 101 Clinton St. was demolished by the city police and boarded up. Thus, the only real attempt to bring food to the starving veterans was inter- fered with by the city officials, the same ones who are responsible for spreading the story that the reds are trying to stop relief. Threatens to Use Troops. 2,000 IN DULUTH ANTI-WAR MEET Condemn Hoover Murder of War Vets DULUTH, Minn. Aug. 2—Two thousand workers in anti-war dem- onstration here on Aug. 1, at Court House Square, denounced the mur- jder of war veterans by the Wall Stret government, and pledged their militant and active defense to the hhis wife from a burning tent. |marchers wore bandages. After the routing of the marchers irom Washington, the first tactic sed against the marchers was the fsolating and jailing of all Commu- nists and radical marchers. Bradley, bringing a group from Washington, was attempting to lead a group into Johnstown when a B. E. F. official broke the group up. Bradley was de- ported from the Ideal Park camp. W. I. R. Sends Relief. Immediate steps to open a relief station were taken by the Workers’ Ex-Servicemen’s League and the} Workers’ International Relief. One truck of food has already been dis- tributed in Ideal Park. Many | Mooney, Edit: erkman ani er class-war prisoners and denouncing the deportation terror, were unaxi- mously adopted. Speakers included Wofsy and Davis. Birmingham, ‘Chatta- ‘nooga Hold August 1 Meets; Defy Attacks CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., Aug. 2.— Effective August 1 anti-war demon- strations were held here and in Bir- mingham yesterday. Four hundred workers, nearly 40 per cent of them Negroes, attended the Chattanooga demonstration, de- spite the attempt of an American Legion to terrorize the workers. Two hundred attended the August |Pirst demonstration in Collegeville and East Birmingham. 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Worker, Chicago ‘DISTRICT $—MINNEAPOLIS neapotte UNEMPLOYED NEWS FLASHES WILMINGTON, Del., Aug. 2.—-Two | thousand workers demonstrated here |today for immediate relief for the junemployed of the city. | snes CHICAGO, Ill., Aug. 2—More than 1,200 unemployed workers demon- strated before the Lincoln Park Un- employed Relief Station and won a number of demands for the jobless. eee MILWAUKEE, Wis., Aug. 2.—Mil- waukee unemployed lay plans to strike against county forced labor pointed out how imperialist war | directly affects the workers of Terre | Haute |wage-cuts and other attacks on the | war preparations. | The meeting unanimously adopted |a resolution to Governor Leslie of |Indiana, demanding the stoppage of | shipments of war munitions from In- | diana against the Chinese people jand the Soviet Union, and the re- jlease of all political prisoners in the state. Another resolution was adopted, to be forwarded to Secertary of War Hurley, demanding the withdrawal of ell American armed forces from China, the Latin American countries and the Philippines. It also de- jmanded the stoppage of all ship- ments of munitions to Japan. The demonstrators cheered | terror. 400 In Anti-War Demonstration In Portchester, N. Y. PORTCHESTER, N. Y., Aug. 2— Over 400 workers participated in the 8 | anti-war demonstration in this city, in spite of the attempted intimida- tion by the police who mobilized their full forces to surround the demon- srtators. Pauline Rogers, Communist candid- ate for Congress in the 18th Con- gressional District, New York, was the main speaker. Wagner of Yon- kers also addressed the meeting., The workers displayed great militancy. Police Fire On Austria Workers Augl VIENNA, Aug. 2—Vienna. workers demonstrating against imperialist war and for the defense of the Chi- nese People and the Soviet Union were brutally fired on by police yes- terday at the orders of the socialist #00) municipal government. One woman 1.00 DISTRICT 13—CALIFORNIA 25 | Leo David, Los Angeles ss DISTRICT 16—NORTH CAROLINA Adison Hgts, Van ‘1.00/ Worker was serjously injured. + and exposed the local terror, | \ | the police, were jailed on “vagrancy” working class as part of the bosses’) the} concrete exposures by the speakers | lof the SocigJist Party and the police | 2,500 0UTIN EVANSVILLE ‘Denounce Boss War and Terror # EVANSVILLE, Ind., Aug, 2—Two thousand, five hundred workers, 200 of them Negroes, attended the anti- war demonstration yesterday in Ful- ton Ave. Park. The meeting voted for a militant fight against boss war and terror, denouncing the murder of the war veterans by the govern- ment, demanding the release of the Scottsboro boys, Tom Mooney and Edith Berkman. ‘The speakers were Leo Roberts of the Communist Party, Andrew Mc- Combs of the Young Communist League, both of Terre Haute, and Charles Broadwell of Princeton, rep- resentative of the Unemployed Councils. HIT WAR, TERROR Support Vet Fight In U.S. A. OTTAWA, Canada, Aug. 2—One thousand Canadian workers in an anti-war meeting here yesterday, vig- orously denounced President Hoover for his murderous attacks on Ameri- can ex-servicemen in Washington on Bloody Thursday. The meeting demanded immediate unemployment relief for Canadian unemployed workers, and adopted plans for a march up Parliament Hill tomorrow to present their de- mands to the Canadian government. |Premier Berinett in an attempt to separate the workers from their revo- lutionary leadership declared he “would see” the delegation provided there were no Communists in it. Resolutions were adopted) oppos- sing the shipment of war material to Japan, demanding cessation of the police terror and government vio- lence against the workers of Canada and their revolutionary organizations Party, and Thornton, Daily Worker agent who has been threatened by charges. They were released on bail later in the day. The case has been continued to today. candidate for Congress, was arrested by Chief of Detectives Nowitzky as he was leaving the court, and is be- ing held without charges. Protest | meetings are being arranged to de- mand his release. Anti-war leaflets were distributed today to sailors and marines, pro- testing the attack on the veterans, despite the police terror. 1000 In Cincinnati Demand War Funds fox Jobless Relief CINCINNATI, Ohio, August 2— About one thousand workers demon- strated here on Anti-War Day, 12 and Central, an old hospital lot. Nine mass organizations participated in this meeting under the leadership of the Communist Party. The workers expressed their determination to carry on struggle against all war preparation, to fight the bosses’ war policy which permits millions of dol- lars yearly to be spent for war prep- arations and not one cent to go for unemployment insurance and ade- quate relief for the unemployed toil- ers, Telegrams of protest were sent by the workers to Washington de- nouncing the brutal attack on the ex-servicemen. Previous to the mass demonstration on Anti-war Day a series of neighborhood meetings were held to prepare the workers for Struggle against struggle against war and mobilize them for August Ist. 600 Defy Police Terror In Wa-.\:egan Anti-War Meeting WAUKEGAN, Ill, Aug. 2.—Six hundred workers in anti-war demon- strations here broke the police ter- tor which for two m@mths has pre- vented working-class meetings in CANADA WORKERS | 8. W. Milligan, Negro Communist | AFTER HOOVER’S TROOPS “MOPPED UP” i} Mrs. Elizabeth Mari and her five children sitting among her few meagre belongings after they were ousted from the bonus camp with fire, sword and bullets. ‘STAMFORD MEET 14,000 AT AUG. 1 DEMANDS BONUS Hits War ban ‘Attacks on Vets STAMFORD, Aug. 2—In one of the largest demonstrations ever held Great Turnout to Hear Wm. Z. Foster (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) and pointed out that Roose- in this city, 1,000 workers, Negro and | ans, white, cheered and applauded the | velt’s silence proves his full ap- speakers here on Anti-War Day, | proval of the Wall Street onslaught |on the ex-servicemen. The Communist candidate hailed the rising Communist strength of the |German Communist Party and de- nounced the treachery of the Social- Democrats in paving the way for open fascism by their support of Von demonstrating their iron opposition to the bosses’ war plans. The fol- lowing resolution was unanimously adopted to be sent to Hoover: President Hoover, White House, Washington, D. C. We, one thousand Negro and | Hindenburg. white workers gathered in mass | Local speakers, including Gertrude demonstration at Stamford, Conn., | Welsh, Phil Laloggia, Max Kriwitza, vigorously protest the brutal evic- | denounced the wage-cutting co-op- tion of thousands of veterans [eration of Hillman and the other acefully exercising their consti- | socialist and A. F. of L. leaders with ear-old Negro organizer of the un- |employed, held here for trial for his | life on charges of “attempting to in- cite insurrection,” have been received by the lawyers of the International | Labor Defense, which has taken over the Crescent Park meeting here to- morrow, at which William Z. Foster, Communist candidate for President, is to speak. A huge atetndance is expected. From Schenectady, Foster will go to Worcester, Mass., where he speaks in A. O. U. Hall on Aug. 4; Boston, Aug, 5, in Faneuil Hall; Lawrence, The indictment charges that Hern- | Aug. 6, in Colonial Theatre; Provi- don attended public meetings at| ‘ence, R. I, Aug. 8; Nashua, N. H., | places unknown to the jurors, at-|AU8. 9, and Hartford, Conn. Aug. 10. tended by people unknogn to the} : jurors, with the intention of over-/ Awaited In Lawrence. throwing the government of Georgia,| LAWRENCE, Mass. Aug. 2—The and that he invited workers to join|C0lonial Theatre on Hampshire St. working class organizations for the | has been obtained for Aug. 6, when purpose of establishing in Georgia “a| William Z. Foster, Communist can- new government known as the United | didate for President, will speak here. Soviets Soviet Russia (sic) sometime| The workers here recall how Fos- | the case. The text of the indictment |reveals in glaring nakedness the frame-up character of the charges. called and known as ‘The Dictator-|€?: speaking to them on Lincoln ship of the Propertyless People.’ ” | Court last October, warned them i __ {against the misleadership of the Six other leaders of workers in| United ‘Textile Workers’ officials, Atlanta already face trial under the | who advised them to acecpt the cu! same “insurrection law” of 1866) in order to “end cuts.” During the which is made the basis of the charge |past few weeks one cut after an- against Herndon. The capitalist j other, ranging from 15 to 35 per cent courts of Georgia demand their lives | have been sliced out of the already for distributing a leaflet advocating | meager pay envelopes. Instead of the unity of Negro ang white work- |“plenty of work” promised by the A. ers, illustrated with a picture of a|m of L, misleadership and the City Negro and white shaking hands. |administration if the workers would The ILD calls on all workers and | accept the mill owners’ terms, nearly workers’ organizations to organiz>| 18,900 workers are still without jobs, mass demonstrations in protest) anq only about 8,000 are working. ; against the persecution of starving) ‘The slight pick-up in recont weeks, | Negro and white workers in the south que in a large degree to war orders, and their terrorization through cap-|is accompanied by such inhuman ital trials for their leaders. graph immediate protest against the | of her fingers while cleaning a arrest and indictment of Herndon! machine; she did not dare stop while an dthe Atlanta six, demanding their doing so lest the efficiency clock immediate release, to Solicitor-Gen- | register her for the firing list. eral John A. Boykin and Governor | Richard B. Russell, at Atlanta, Ga. TERROR IN LEETONIA, OHIO ein creme eae a (By a Worker Correspondent) 15 JOBLESS BEATEN DULUTH, Minn., Aug. 2.—Fifteen unemployed workers were brutally beaten when they came to the county buliding today to demand relief. }of the Unemployed Council here | were arrested recently following a brutal police attack on a meeting of unemployed workers. A representa- | tive of the International Labor De- fense, who was active in raising money for the defense and in rally- ing workers to protect this police outrage, was threatened by the mayor wit hviolence, but efforts are ' being continued to free the workers. this city. Forty per cent of the dem- onstrators were young workers. The meeting was addressed by Caldwell | and Houston of the Communist Party and Davis of the Young Com- munist Leaee. ¥ ¥ MEET IN BUFFALO Tele- speed-up that one young girl lost two LEETONIA, Ohio.—Four members |Many Residents of ¥ | Hoover Sat In Study By NAT “Tin soldiers,” “boy scou | were the taunts wh | the troops who were attac | Many of the veter horses. vets until tt troops told. | rhey vet |ploded gas bombs |them back at the tr Jof the vets ha burned in do picked Waters Deserts nd in the tles waged t of the veter mander in Chief” W: acting the of g last. He had “gon jment,” as he announce Hotet Raleigh. And |hote! he remained end file bonus marcher streets, hungry their heads. ,Only inch by inch ha starving veteran the class 1 oes, given bayonets the troops, And now, with “Camp 2 charred shambles, ‘etact troops were d io th and camps. 1 scenes were reveaird brutality by the p the same heroic ve.erans, The troops now proceeded |eostia, the mud-fl in ie’ on the line ur jrode up and ordere i me time to pack my stuff,” she said | “If she isn’t off the lot in three |minutes,” said the officer, “touch a | matclf to everything got here.” | m. two hundred bonus | At 3 2 |marchers, sitting on an embankment |overlooking the smouldering ruins of | Anacostia, were still making a last |stand against the troops. | All night long they had jeered and lcursed the troops, and interspersed |this with brick-bats. Finally the |infantrymen gave them “a little gas,” Jas their officers called it, and the jex-soldiers retreated, stumbling |the hill. up the battle raged in Anacostia. Thous- |ands of Washington residents | watched it, burning with resentment | This crowd too was almost solidly |for the veterans. They jeered |taunted the police and troops |some of the residents threw bri jin support of the bonus marchers. | The veterans were shunted, helter |skelter across the line and Maryland. The fascist leadership hea toward Johnstown, Pa., ther tending to weed out all but {lected band of fascist followel jto build up a “Klaki Shirts” o jization of fascist followers, moc lefter the “Brow Shirts” of Hitlor. | "the heading off of the veterans or the road to T ), the chasing | of them from all other roads, seemed into In Struggle A Said He Was Highly Pleased n the vets, x the vets in Washington. and taunts was kept up by the From 9 a. m. until nearly dawn} Waters Went Into Retirement While Troops Gassed Vets 1zton Joined Vets st Army | While Camp Burned; }} | 1 L HONIG. iting your own buddies,” the spectators hurled at and the cavalrymen to get off their ed pl is Starts, ” began the f repression nd File organiza- and the Workers and the Conference on s broken us by u agexts. e az the 5 of them and depor: sted were James W. it Candidate for vice- Emanuel Levin, en's League r against the the Communist Hoover issued a mob included a few up of Hitt of Com- ele- and “Criminal Elements.” mployed, starving workers, who ght “for dem cy,” come to and the Bonus due them. These sident Hoover, are “crimi- lements.” the crimson glow of the burn- st rence will map plans fer n drive in accordance with the draft program sént to all Comr Party districts last month Eight other sectional conferences in the Detroit District will follow the nary gathering. These will lace in Pontiac, Ann Arbor, Monroe, Saginaw, Kalamazoo, Grand Rapid Muskegon, Lensing and Jackson. Other section conferences jare also planned While Comrade Lewis, who was scheduled to attend these confer- ences, will not be present, he will return to this District later to help in the execution of the work. The Detroit District also reports that it will hold an International Press Day Picnic on Sunday, Aug. 14, at the Workers’ Camp. The . | Daily Worker and Communist Party rs issued rticipate. pap will in foreign languages F Bungalows and Rooms to Rent for Summer Season Several very nice rooms and bungalows for rent for the summer season. Beauti- ful farm in Eastern Pennsylvania, 50 m Philadelphia. 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