The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 4, 1932, Page 1

le Vol. IX, No. 185 VOTE COMMUNIST FOR 1. Unemployment and Social Insurance at the ex- pense of the state and employers. 2. Against Hoover’s wage-cutting policy. 8. Emergency relief for the restrictions by the government and banks; ex- emption of poor farmers from taxes, and no forced collection of rents or debts. poor farmers without Dai Ceontrel ft Ong (Section of the Communist International)’ =, ation for the Black Cod suppression of the Against imperialist the Chinese people VOTE COMMUNIST FOR y Equal rights for the Negroes and self. -determine Belt. Against capitalist terror; against all forms of political rights of workers. war; for the defense of and of the Soviet Union. es Entered as secon: Office at New York, N. ¥., under the act matter at the Post NEW YORK, THURSDAY, AUGUST 4, 1932 _ ciTy EDITION Price 3 Cents _ FOSTER RAPS NEW HOOVER o-DAY PLAN Roosevelt’s. Silence Shows Approval, Is Charge -SPPAKS IN SYRACUSE ‘Bosses Will ‘Answer fo, Bloody Thurs.’ SYRACUSE, N. Y., Aug. 3.—“Gov. Roosevelt's silence indicates | elo- quently his approval of Hoover's ‘five-day plen,’ the newest wrinkle in the stagger system,” William Z. Fos- ter declared here last night, as more than 800 workets cheered the Com- munist presidential candidate in Davis Hall. Hoover's plan, he charged, 1s mere- ly a means of making the partly- employed workers assume the obliga tion of unemployed relief by this na- tional speed-up, wage cutting scheme. No opposition is forthcoming from Norman Thomas, sociafist lead- er, or William Green, head of the American Federation of Labor, Fos- ter declared. “On the contrary, these gentry, as in the past will line up be- hing this new program aimed against the living standards of the Ameri- can workers,” the Communist candi- date said. Bitterly attacking the Hoover-Wall Street atatck against the veterans in Washington on “Bloody Thursday,” Foster exposed the maneuver behind the elaborate military funeral for Hushka, the slain vet, following the murderous assault upon him and his comrades. “The big capitalists who rule the United States—not Hoover alone— will pay dearly for the lives of the murdered ex- servicemen,” Foster warned, as the workers in the hall thunderously applauded him. Waters, the Communist candidate said, fostered himself at the head of the marchers. “A few more such ex- periences such as the bonus army met with, they will not greet Con- gress by singing ‘America’ but by singing the ‘International.’ ” President Hoover’s nine-point “re- lief” program, Foster said, will only bring a deepening of tpe present sit- uation. Gov. Roosevelt's policy is identical with Hoover's. Foster, in conclusion sharply, at- tacked the Syracuse nine-cent a day starvation “relief” system. * Despite the heavy concentration of police outside and within the hall, the workers were not intimidated and cheered Foster and the other speakers repeatedly. Local speakers included Theodore Gordon and John Nulem, who acted | as chairman. 5 SHOE STRIKES CONTINUE IN N.Y. Mass Meet to Discuss Miller Strike NEW YORK.—The Fascist Federa- jtion, which for several weeks tried ito disrupt the strike at the Andrew ‘Geller, is using another bluff now. It issued an appeal to the shoe work- ‘ers asking them to send contribu- tions. The Shoe and Leather Work- ers Industrial Union warns the shoe workers against these fascist fakers, not to be misled and to expose them as strike-breakers wherever they ap- pear before shoe workers. Pree ayy ‘The attempts of the Riverside boss to disrupt the strike through spread- ing rumors that the shop is moving id no effect on the strikers. ee ie The 5 Star strike is solid. The workers who are striking for five weeks are getting financial relief and a good functioning kitchen was established at the strike headquar- ters. . The strike in the Werman & Son, at 588 Hendricks St., Brooklyn, re- irdless of the terror the bosses use ainst the strikers, the workers are aia more consolidated. A kitchen established by the strikers which is supplying food to the strikers. Princely Slipper strikers at 500 Driggs Ave. are carrying on mass picketing every day. The union appeals to all shoe, slip- per and stitchdown workers to bring financial aid to the strikers to enable {hem to maintain the hungry fami- lies of the strikers. ars Membership meeting of the Shoe id Leather Workers Industrial inion will be held.on Thusrday, Au- fust 4, 7 pm., at the Irving Plaza, ‘sth St. and Irving Pl, New York tity. nN St. Louis Jobless May Starve, But Not Cats and Dogs ST. LOUIS, Mo., Aug. 3.—In this city where 15,000 hungry,| jobless workers recently demon- strated for relief under the lead- ership of the Unemployed Coun- cils, cats and dogs will soon have nothing to worry about! An $86,000 trust fund for their care was left by Henry C. Bab- cock, 85-year-old oil broker who lied here last month. The purpose | of the fund, as set forth in an elaborate document left with a St. Louis bank trustee, is to pro- vide care for cats and dogs “and to eliminate suffering among | them.” BROOKLYN FUR WORKERS WIN WAGE INCREASE 5 Arrested in Dogskin Strike as Gangsters Attack Workers NEW YORK.—The strike conduct- ed by the Fur Department of the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union against the Moos Fur Dyeing Corp., 2-10 Evergreen Ave., Brook- lyn, a shop employing close to 100 workers, was settled yesterday with a victory for the workers. The shop was settled under the following con- ditions: A general increase in wages of $2 per week, and a reduction of five hours, a 3 per cent unemployed fund, equal division of work, and recognition of the union. The workers returned to the shop victorious an ddecided to spread or- ganization among the rest of the fur; dyeing shops which are mainly un- organized. Attack Striker—Five Arrested. The end of the first week of the dogskin strike found the ranks of the strikers solidly united. The com- pany union and the bosses realize that solidarity of the workers will sooner or later force the bosses to come to terms. They haye therefore decided on a last desperate effort to interfere with the strike. On Wednesday morning as the strikers were picketing their shops, @ machine of gorillas stopped in front of a striking shop. A bunch of gorillas jumped out of the machine and made a bloody attack on Hyman Chernoff. The workers immediately rushed to his aid. As soon as the strikers learned that the gangsters were in the market they came out in mass to the fur center. The go- rillas fled in panic. Five of the gang- sters were later arrested. New shops are being taken down daily. Among them is one of the big- gest shops in the fur industry, Fen- ster Brothers, 33 Seventh Ave. The shop is completely stopped. Condi- tions in this shop, which was one of the outstanding shops controlled by the Council, were miserable. Workers were getting $20 to $25 below the minimum wage scale. Series of Vivid Articles on Life inUSSR Starts Fri. Beginning this Friday, the Daily Worker will print a series of arti- cles by Myra Page, correspondent for the Daily Worker in the Soviet Union. No worker can afford to miss this remarkable series of ar- ticles. They deal with the life of a family of Soviet workers emp‘oyed in the Singer sewing mac>'ne plant located in the town of Po- dolsk about an hour and a half journey away from Moscow. Be- fore the revolution the plant was owned by the capitalist Singer. Today it is owned and operated by the Soviet workers themselves just as all large workshops, factories and mills are. The article recounts in a highly interesting manner the huge in- crease in the standard of Living of the workers in the Singer plant since the acquisition of the plant by the workers. It further is a damning condemnation of the ex- ploitation of the workers in the Singer plant located in capitalist United States. The contrast be- tween the steady betterment of the conditions of the Soviet work- ers in the proletarian owned and controlled Singer plant ang the rapid worsening of conditions in the capitalist controlled Singer plant in America is living proof of the superiority of the Soviet system, of the triumph of the building of socialism in the Soviet Union. Every worker should buy the Daily Worker, read the articles in the series and pass them on to his BIG VICTORY ang Kai-shek’s _ Divisions MEN JOIN R RED ARMY Maneuvers In a smashing counter-offen- sive against the new Fifth “Communist Suppression” campaign organized jointly by the imperialist powers and feated two divisions of Nank- ing troops west of Hankow, in Hupeh province. The two ‘di- visions, the 30th and 31st, numbering around 40,000 men, surrendered to the Red Army. The men then shot most of the Nanking officers and joined forces witht the Red Army. ‘The combined army is reported mov- ing westward for an attack against the Nanking forces. The Nanking troops operating in Hupeh Province against the Red Armies include several of “the crack brigades” of Chiang Kai-shek, who is in personal command of the new offensive against the emancipated workers and peasants in the Chinese Soviet districts. Spreads Consternation. The news of the Communist vic- tory has spread conserrmtion among the Nanking butchers who fear fur- ther wholesale desertions of their troops to the workers and peasants Red Armies which are fighting for the emanicpation of all of China from the oppression of the-imperial- ists, and the Chinese militarists, bankers and feudal landowners. The struggle has now reacher the pro- portions of a major civil war, with the Red Armies meeting the enemy in pitched battles. This victory is the latest of a long unbroken series of Red Army vic- tories and has caused a profound stir among the Nanking forces. The loy- alty of these forces is already shaken as a result of the failure of the Nan- king government to pay the wages of the troops for several months. The growing anger of the Chinese masses. against the repeated sell-outs by the Nanking gang to the imperialists is also finding reflection among the troops. This anger has recently flam- ed up anew as a result of the new Japanese invasions in Jehol Province and North China and the failure of the Nanking regime to offer any re- sistance to the Japanese invaders. Bloody Rewards. In its desperation, the Nanking government is offering huge cash rewards to its troops for the cap- ture of Red Army generals, units and artillery. So far none of the Nanking troops have been able to collect any of the offered rewards. Chiang Kai- Shek is also engaging in the futile attempt to bribe the Red Army troops into deserting to the camp) of their class enemy. This device has} also met with complete failure. A Shanghai dispatch to the New York Times sadly reports that “so far, however, he (Chiang Kai-Shek) has had no results from this campaign.” Another desperate demagogic ma- neuver of the Nanking government is a sham promise to the embattled workers and peasants that they will be allowed to “vote for provincial assemblies and local councils”, if they will stop their revolutionary fight against the government. This, also, has met with no success. U.C. Fights to Enforce Ruling on Job Agencies NEW YORK.—As a result of the fight of the jobless under the leader- ship of the Unemployed Councils, the license commission was instructed gyp job agencies not to collect any fees in advance, Despite this instruction, the sharks are continuing to charge workers for their “jobs” in advance and life moves on in the same old way. The Unemployed Council Job- Agency Grievance Committee is mobilizing workers to fight for en- forcement of this ruling and is rally- ing the workers to demand adequate free employment agencies run by the city. The Committee calls upon workers to report any grievances to it at 5 E. 19th St. where workers will be instructed how to proceed to win their demands. Special Drive Offer—Wm. Z. Foster's “Toward Soviet besser wth onc, uberis * their Nanking lackeys, a Chin-| ese Red Army yesterday de-| CHINESE RED! ARMY IN NEW Capture Two of Chi-| Nanking in Desperate | As N. Y. Workers Participated in Huge Anti-War Demonstra of the Soviet Union, and chairma' tant demonstrations held in recent months. Photo, lower right, shows I. n of the demonstration, calling for a tions adopted by the assembled workers. On August First New York workers gathered in Union Square in one of the largest and most mili- Denunciation of the Hoover assault upon the vets, for the payment of the bonus, Unemployment Insurance, and a call for the defense of the Soviet Union were the keynotes of the demonstration. izer and candidate for governor of New York State, and Marcel Scherer, national secreta a demand Amter, Communist district organ- 'y of the Friends yote of upraised fists én resulu- OTTAWA POLICE ATTACK RALLY Bennett Rejects Wor ers’ Demands reserves broke a demonstration by delegates to the Workers’ Economic Conference yesterday. More than 6000 workers participated in the dem- onstration with the delegates to the conference. ‘The reserves were called while a delegation of the Workers’ Economic Conference was presenting a series of demands to Premier Bennett, whose anti-soviet and anti-working class policy was exposed. “Revives “Dumping” Lie. ‘The demands presented by the dele- gation included social insurance at the expeuse of the state, recognition of the Soviet Union, etc. Premier Bennet reiterated the imperialist lie that the Soviet Union is “dumping” and tried to pin on the Socialist Fatherland the responsibility for the deep crisis affecting the lumber in- | dustry in Canada. He refused to} discuss the other demands. The conference was the most gi- gantic working class conference in the history of Canada. Despite all attempts of the local and Lome al governments to prevent ‘the dele- | gates from reaching Ottawa, 500 workers participated in the confer- ence which opened on August Ist and constituted an effective anti-war (CONTINU! ON # PAGE THREE) All} OTTAWA, Aug. 3. — Heavy police | |Red Victory in Germany Hailed By the ‘Pravda’ (By Inprecorr Cable.) MOSCOW, Aug. 2.—Today’'s Prav editorially commenting on |the German elections, states: “Al- |ready on the basis of the tentative reports, and following the basic po- elections of July 31 testify that the evolutionary upsurg> in Germany is growing at a fast tempo.” Despite the wave of terror, th? Communist Party gained about 700,- 000 votes more than in the last more than in the second Presiden- tial elections. This, Pravda contin- ues, is the reflection of the general upsurge of the masses. Workers Learned Lessons. After reviewing the development of jthe crisis and unemployment and analyzing the attempts of the bour- geoisie to solve the problems of the crisis by preparing for war, crush- ie the masses and getting a “peo- es’ mandate” for aggressive im~- [verialist. machinations, Pravda | clares: | “The results of the elections show that the masses of toilers something in the grim school of the class struggle about the treacheries of the social-demo- | cratic leadership and the fascist terroristic policy of emergency de- crees by Bruening and Von Papen. 15 | learned (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) litical conclusions:.to be drawn, the} Reichstag elections and over 1,500,000| de-| § SHOT IN MINE WAR IN INDIANA |Thousands Rally to Halt Seabs INDIANAPOL) Aur. — The Indiana Nationa! Guard has been ordered by Governor Ha | lie to proceed to the D: 6 near ay Haute, G. Les- Bee TERRE HAUTE, In On? union miner was k scabs were ¥ nded in a battle at the Dixie Bee Min day morning. The dead miner was Raylor Kellar, 24, of Linton, Ind. The prosecuting attorney and Sheriff Vigo attempted to besiege the mine and fill the pit with scabs. Ten thousand miners had gathered in front of the mine to stop a from being herded to work. In an attempt to crush the al tant fight of the miners against star n, Sheriff Jeceph Dreher appealed to Governor Harry G. Les- lie to send troops to the min? to gas the miners out 2 The message to the governor read “Four men wounded at Bee Mine. Battle continues. iff and deputies fired upon. quest troops. Send planes Sher- Re- wth gas at once.” The militancy of the miners is |high All orders issued by Vales, | president of the U. M. W. A,, in this | district, that the miners should stop | picketing against the injunction have ‘been ignored by the workers. Alaska Workers Contribute to $40,000 “Daily”? 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Datoft 50 Gus Ztietf 5 Roy Poloff 50 (*Contributions from Alaska tonalbis $16.60, Collected by Alek Sodot 168 Juneau, Algskar Pia Brae uhcae CET OUT” JOHNSTOWN MAYOR TELLS VETERANS WHOM HE HAD INVITED anchot Sends State Troops and Trucks to New March JOHNSTOWN, Pa Aug. | by issuing an order that the Governor Pinchot announced ¢ that he would send trucks to the camp, accompanied, of course, by state troopers, to carry the vets and their fam- jilies out of the city. the McCloske: In issuing order, revealed the fact that the Water gang, the present self-styled leaders of the bonus marchers, would heip carry out the ouster. “The officers of the B. E. F. are | behind me in this move,” said Mc- Closkey. “It looks like we have to get out so we will go,” said Ellison, one of Waters’ lieut We may all go together and we may break up — that's what we will talk about now.” Following the announcement that the bonus army would be driven from. their new camp at Ideal Park, it was disclosed that Waters had turned over the wooded tract at Watarhury, Md., to the owner. Waters hed stated that he would open a camp here as a central headouarters for his fas- cist “Kahki Shirt” organization. | After Waters had returned the deed to the owner, police entered the property and ordered the few ene: D thr to vacat before 6 p. m, toda 3.L. To Fight Ouster While Mayor McClosley and Wat- r|crs’ men were doing their utmost to r|dissolve the struggle for the bonus | by ordering the veterans out of the | city, the Workers (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) REMOVE RUEGGS BACK TO PRI Two Nefendants Are Critically Tl (Cable By Inprecorr) i SPANGHAT, Aug. 3.—Nanking ju- dicial authorities now declare that the health of Paul and Gertrude Ruegg, who were near death a few days ago, is so much improved that they can be returned to prison short- | ly. Their trial is expected to be re- sumed this week at Nanking, the gov- |ernment having twice denied the ap- | peal of the defense committee, head- ed by Madame Sun Yat-sen, for transfer of the trial to Shanghai. The two defendants have resume |their hunger strike after being ad | vised of the decision of the Nanking | court ordering their transfer from | the hospital to a Nanking military | prison and early resumption of mock | | trial. The condition of the defend- jants is extremely critical, as a re-| |sult of their ‘first hunger strike and | | the horrible tortures inflicted on them during their 13 months in prison awaiting trial . |YCL to Debate with Young “Socialists” NEW YORK.—The District Com- | mittee of the Young Communist League accepted the challenge to a debate issued by the Young Peoples’ Socialist League. The challenge is the direct con- sequence of the pressure brought to| |bear upon the leadership of the YP SL by many young workers and rank and file members of the League, as the District Committee of the YCL pointed out in accepting the chal- lenge, The District Committee of the YCL proposed that the subject of the |debate should be “Resolved that the |Communist Party is the only Party (of the working class.” It proposed furthermore that the debate should take place Friday evening, Septem- { ber 25, at the Manhattan Lyceum. Two speakers from each organiza- | tion should participate in.the debate. NATIONAL GUARDSMEN POISONED BY FOOD LEBANON, Pa.—Thirty-five mem- 9 | bers of the First City Troop, National Guard, were stricken with ptomaine) | poisoning, after eating meal of PF | chicken saJad in “8 h other eviction. Eddie McCloskey | vited the veterans to the city, followed the Hoover pelicy today would have to disband and Jeay Ex-Servicemen’s | | to 20 percent. | and firing through the shop com: Drive Out Hungry Army of 8,000 | Drive for Relief; for National Vet Conference; in December SSPE Ree 3.—The bonus army faces an- y, mayor of Johnstown, who in- starving ex-servicemen’s e the city ue POLICE ATTACK { | WHITE PLAINS | DEMONSTRATION Jail 7 As Workers De- | mand Immediate Jobless Relief WHITE PLAINS. ing clubs viciousl night attacked a t stration of employed workers and arreste The demonstratio the Unemployed Co immediate relief for workers. Over 250 ro! army hungry workers’ dem The police attack b Jackwin was addr of the Unemp for the unempl Beating w lice pushed | of the crowd and Jackwin and | The demonstration was the largest eyer held in the city {of workers completely up t traffic at the corner of Winches and Martin Streets. | A resolution adopted at the meet- ing demanded $10 a week for each unemployed worker and $2 for each } dependant, free gas and no evicti The International Labor Defense taking steps to demand the release of the ailed workers. ‘Alteration Painters |Win 3 Shops Strikes; Get. Wage Increase NEW YORK. — The wo shops have forced their bc an agreement with the Painters Union for wage inc Recognition of the union and shop committee, all hiring | tee, eight hour, five day week. T Officials of the brotherhood have been accusing the Alteration Painters | Union of ‘signing with bosses for $5 | a day wages. The Alteration Painters Union has information on a shop signed with the Brotherhood where the men are | working for $5-a day. Members of the Brotherhood working in this shop jcame up to the Alteration Painters Union and stated this: The workers in the shop were receiving $5 and $6 a day before they paid $22 to join the Brotherhood. Bronx Home Laundry Strikers in Mass De- monstration Today NEW YORK. — The strikers of the Bronx Home Laundry, who won a court battle Tuesday against an at- tempt of the bosses to get out an in- junction to restrain the strikers from picketing, will hold a mass demon- stration today at 2 p. m. All work- ers are urged to come to 1130 South- ern Boulevard at 1 p. m. and march with the strikers in a body to dem- onstrate against the bosses’ attempts to break the strike which aims to stop wholesale firing and wage-cuts. Demonstrate Against Jim-Crowism at Bronx Swimming Pool Today NEW YORK. — A demonstration protesting the discrimination against Negro children at the Bronxdale Swimming Pool, near Bronx Park §. will be held this morning. Children and their parents will meet at Allerton Ave. and White Plains Rd. at 11 o'clock and march to the pool. A previous demonstration was held at the pool last Thursday. Police at that time arrested Rose Chernin, candidate for sey in the 6th A.D, Bronx, and the other work- exe aa foe. Vem encores ee v