The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 5, 1932, Page 1

VOTE COMMUNIST FOR 1, Unemployment and Social Insurance at the ex- pense of the state and employers. 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 poor farmers without or debts. Daily. Central “<< Onda FE ‘(Section of the Communist Internatio 3 4 NO nal) Nol. IX, No. 186 Entered as second-class matter at the Post GB 26 Office at New York, N. ¥., under the act NEW YORK, FRIDAY, AUGUST. 5, 1932 orker | unist Party U.S.A. ation for the Black Against capitalist t suppression of the Against imperialist the Chinese people Equal rights for the Negroes 2 47 VOTE COMMUNIST FOR id seif-determin Belt. 8 error; against all forms of political rights of wor war; for the defense of and of the Soviet Union. 7 CITY EDITIO! Price 3 Cents DEATH FACES FIGHTER OF CUBA TERROR LL.D. Calls for Drive to Save Life of Armando Grau OTHERS WERE MURDERED Harlem Demonstration On Saturday NEW YORK, Aug. 3.—A new cam~ paign of murder and bloody terror against the workers of Cuba has been launched by the reactionary Macha- do government, tool of Yankee im- perialism, with a toll of two dead ahd an unknown number of wounded and imprisoned in one day, accord- ing to word received today by the International Labor Defense here. The two workers were murdered July 25, following the breaking up of a demonstration preparatory to anti- war day, August 1. bs Armando Avehhoff Grau, a work- ing class leader of Cuba, was ar- rested on the eve of August First and has since been kept incommunicado. Rumors run that his life is in danger and he will “disappear” (the way butcher Machado has done with scores of revolutionary leaders in the past). Against this new attempt of Machado, the workers of the United States must protect and demand the immediate freedom of Grau, holding Machado and the Hoover hunger government responsible for the safety of this leader. ‘The radiogram sent by the I. L. D. to President Machado, is as follows: “International Labor Defense condemns most emphatically recent raid on hmoe of Armando Auerhoff Grau in Havana. Recent finding multilated bodies of workers brings forth world wide demand you pro- duce Grau. We hold you responsible for life of Grau, Demand lawyer right to see him... CARL HACKER, National Secretary.” Resolutions and telegrams of pro- test should be sent to President Ma- chado, Havana, Cuba, and to the Cuban Embassy in Washington. Wherever — possible demonstrations should be held before the Cuban con- sular offices in the various cities. The Latin American Trade Union Con- federacion has called especially on all trade unions to send protests. The murders followed the breaking up of an anti-war meeting of the workers in the central part of Ha- vana; with a fusilade from ambushed gunmen. So many were wounded and arrested that it was impossible to immediately estimate their numbers. Among the wounded were some of the most active workers in the revo- lutionary organizations in Havana District. At dawn next day, the 26, the body of a youth, Rafael Rodriguez Pool, was found horribly mutilated in the suburb of Marianao, near the fash- ionable Country Club. He was one of those present at the demonstra- tion the previous day, and had “mys- teriously disappeared” at the height of the shooting, A few hours later, in the same part of the city, the corpse of a worker, apparently a foreigner, was found. Té is quite certain that this is the body of a Jewish worker who was shot the day before. The fate of eight sailors who were accused of preparing a mutiny on board a warship is still unknown. The International Labor Defense, together with other workers! or- ganizations has called a demonstra- tion for 2 o'clock Saturday afternoon, at 116th St. and Lenox Avenue to protest the terror against workers in ‘Cuba, German War Minister Admires Adolf Hitler BERLIN, Aug. 4.—Admiration for Hitler was expressed by the Junker General Von Schleicher, War Minis- ter and the real power behind Von \Papen, according to the newspaper ‘Zwoelf Uhr Abendblatt which quoted him as saying that the fascist leader is “fired with faith.” After contrasting Hitler with for- mer Chancellor Bruening whom he cescribed as an “ascetic,” von Schlei- ‘cher declared that Hitler's movement must be made use of. Rumors that trial ballots“are being {launched to .bring a Schleicher- |qritler’s rule of the Reich, continued 'to circulate. BOULDER DAM WAGE CUT (By a Worker Correspondent) LAS VEGAS, Nev.—Hoover has decteed the 30-hour week on the oulder Dam job. Now the workers vho have been having a tough time eeping themselves and their families ‘alive on their starvation wages will Interviewed by ‘Daily’ | Harry Pollitt, British Commu- nist leader, who was recently inter- viewed by the correspondent of the Daily Worker (U. ). The article appears on Page 4 of today’s iss CLuiHING BOSSES ON COMMITTEE IN HILLMAN STRIKE? Stoppage Not Against | Bosses, Union Head Declares NEW YORK. — One of the most brazen labor swindles in recent years in the New York clothing industry was the stoppage called yesterday by Sidney Hillman, head of the Amal- gamated Clothing Workers of Am- erica. The whole vile nature of the Hill- man “strike” was laid bare yester- day in a statement made by Chas. D. Jaffee, president of the New York Manufacturers Exchange, with whom Hillman is working hand in hand to put over new wage-cuts in the ih- dustry. Revealing the fact that the stop- page is not directed against the man- ufacturers but against the workers, Jaffee said: “The proposed stoppage of the Amalgamated is not directed a- gainst the organized market in this city, as the agreement existing be- tween the New York Clothing Man- ufacturers Exchange and the union is in full force and will not be violated by the stoppage in so far as the membership of the exchange is concerned.” Further elaborating on the sell- out plan, Mr. Hillman blurted out the following in an interview with the press: “This stoppage is not a ‘freeze out? movement, but is aimed at stabilizing conditions for every- body The word “everybody” in this case |means everybody who owns.a cloth- ing shop. Following the recent sell- out in the cloak industry in which the workers were forced into a new wage-cut, Hillquit, socialist leader and co-worker of Hillman, likewise announced the settlement as a vic- tory for “everybody.” Bosses on Committee Following a meeting held -Wednes- day by the Greater New York Cloth- ing Contractors Association, the aim of which was to bring the stoppage to a success, Rudolph Greef, general manager of the association, was chosen to act on the settlement com- mittee along with Peter Monat of the union. Indeed, the settlement headquar- ters has been set up far from the native habitat of the workingclass. The headquarters where the settle- ments will be negotiated is located right in the offices of the New York Clothing Contractors Association. Put Over 10 Per cent Cut It was made clear by Human at the Joint Board meeting which he called on July 23 that he was not interested in striking for better con- ditions in the shops. At this meet- ing Hillman gave the manufacturers free hand in making settlements on (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) Home L’ndry Strikers In Bronx In Militant Picket Demonstration NEW YORK.—Surging past the police, strikers of the Bronx Home by workers in the neighborhood staged a militant demonstration in front of the plant against an in- junction pending in court. ‘The strike is now in its fourth week. The bosses have used the tactic of reducing prices in order to overcome the drop if their business due to the strike. This failed and the workers are determined to de- feat all other strikebreaking attempts. The Laundry Workers Industrial Unioh asks all workers who can as- have a hugs alice taken out of these | sist the strikers m picketing to re- ate port at 1130 Southern Boulevard. Laundry, 1010 East 173rd St., joined | Resi PUSH WAR ON JAPANESE IN MANCHURIA Peasant Partisan Troops In Big Gains PRESS ATTACK ON CITIES Tokyo Prepares Seize North China Confident that they will meet no real resistance from the Nanking government, the Japanese held up temporarily by the huge upsurge of the national revolutionary war in Manchuria, are again pushing their invasion of Jehol Province as part of the drive for the seizure of all North China, The Japanese attack on North China is aimed to coincide with the joint armed intervention of the British and American imperial- ists with their Nanking tools against the emancipated workers and peas- ants in the Chinese Soviet Districts. Drive Gets Setback ~~ The attack on the Chinese Soviet Republic suffered a severe set-back two days ago, with the defeat by the Chinese Red’ Army of two Nanking divisions. The rank and file of these | divisions, number about 40,000 men, later shot their Nanking officers and| joineq the Red Army. The Japanese yesterday demanded the retirement from the Peiping- (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) BETTY GOW LEAVES U. S. A. NEW YORK.—Betty Gow, nurse- maid of the kidnapped Lindbergh baby, sailed secretly on the Maure- tania about the time Mrs. Morrow, grandmother of the kidnapped child, returned from abroad. Betty Gow was subjected to sev- eral “third-degrees” in connection with the kidnapping. Her parents live in England. War Funds for the Jobless— through. mass circulation of the bribe OF BA Sorta <2 OR EER Fei ods Aa ORR ass Gy OF BATT BS their motorcycle. 'Two members of the Red Front Band, which participates in mil- itant workers’ demonstrations in New York, with the immediate de- mands of the Communist Election platform conspicuously posted on THREAT MARTIAL LAW IN GERMANY Cabinet Meeting to Declare Emergency BERLIN, Aug. 4.—An emergency meeting of the German Cabinet was called for today to establish martial law without transferring however, all authority to the army. ‘The author- ity would continue to be exerted thru the police. Although it is stateq that the sup- pression of the Communist Party is not contemplated at present it is ob- vious titat the martial law will not be used to curb the terroristic cam- (fascists). Chancellor Von Papen and Baron Von. Schleicher, Minister of Defense in the Junker Cabinet, will not pre- sent at this meeting. THREE NICARAGUANS SLAIN MANAGUA, Nicaragua, Aug. 4— Three Nicaraguan peasants were slain by National Guardsmen led by a United States marine near Silencio Daily Worker. last Monday. TROOPS COME T0 AID MINE SCABS |1,250 Soldiers to Guard | 64 Scabs | TERRE HAUTE, Aug. #— he} | picket line of 3,509 miners which had |kept up for nearly 48 hours at the | |Dixie Bee mine was temporarily | |ended today with the arrival of 250 | National Guardsmen who had come | to the aid of 64 scabs in the mine. | |The pickets. kept up an exchange of | | shots with the scabs until the troops | were within 500 yards. A further | thousand soldiers are on their way | to fight the miners. paign of the National Socialist Party) Among the scabs whom the cap-| italist press has been attempting to} }make out as innocent, defenseless | creatures were found revolvers, rifles, | | shotguns and stacks of hand-made dynamite bombs ready for imme- | diate use. One of the scabs boasted that it was he who had killed Taylor Keller, a 24 year old picket, with a high-powered ‘rifle. The authorities made no attempt to hold this killer., Four of the scabs are said to have been wounded, Tampa Class War Prisoners Call Upon Workers to Sup- port $40,000 ‘Daily’ Drive The “Daily” has received the following letter from the strikers imprisoned on framed-up charges in the recent tobacco workers’ strike and now serving long terms J ineir 13 months in prison awaiting] | in the hell-holes of the Tampa jails. “To the readers of th Dear Comrades :— We have read in the “Daily” that it is in danger of suspension unless the working- class contributes $40,000 in the next month to prevent this from happening. Comrades, you cannot let the “Daily” suspend. How could the workers know of our struggles in Tampa, of workers’ struggles in other parts of the country, if the “Daily” | didn’t appear. Here in jail we are suffering very much. One of our comrades is going | crazy from suffering. Some of the comrades are in solitary confinement and cannot eyen see their families on visiting days. They are in a nine by six cell—the cell of the dead. You must know how the Tampa workers are defying the brutal terror, how they are be- ing constantly tortured and beaten, how they are being deported to fascist countries, how | they are sent to jail without The workingclass can never know of our struggles unless you save the “Daily.” | We know that the “Daily” is the only paper that is not afraid to tell the truth, it is the only paper that defends us, it is the only paper that fights the bosses and fights war, the paper that helps us fight for bread. The “Daily” is our defender. We call upon you only e Daily Worker., charges and without a trial. to strike all your power to save it. It is our duty.” Comradely, I contribute $.. INSMRE 7. hin Sine cis ode ole a ale ole Welsleerereie eal sshanwyeeerse rey DIST. 2, NEW YORK Avanta Farm seeeseses Camp Nel Lehen, Glenham, N.Y. ‘Trombenicks sta Unit 18, Section 50 Ida Schwartz * + New York. City Golding “ Anthony Kooper J. Lubken Isador Midler ‘Wagner Trade Union Opp., Local 8 ote at Gibson's Farm Plazer Paint Supply Sid Gotchett ‘M. Kish 'T. Rodov ee oa es ge 28 3.3 BRosessesse THE TAMPA see.. to the $40,000 Save the Woodridge, N. ¥. M, Rosen 45.62 Patchogue ‘Theo. C, Glockler 2.00 ‘New York City Bection 15 37.98 Central Body Women’s Council 17.25 Bookshop 35 Section 5, Unit 3 3.25} Ctancia 5.0° A Teacher 5.00 Section 2 2.15 Section 1, Unit 7A 1.50 Section 2, Unit 10 3.50 Selma Newman 5.00 Gertrude Dauber » 2.00 A Friend—Uiattenbers, 50.00 Beotion 1, Unit 44 1,00 Beotion 1, Unit 10 2.25 Bection 5, Unit 14 135 Sound Beach. L. 1. H. Lawe 3B Patehogre, L. L H. G. (Rex) 1.00 New York City A. Yokinen 5.00 B. Stremerck 1.00 L. Andry 1.00 3, PHILADELPHIA —__ hitadeinh! R.. Freytag 3.00 Signed, CLASS WAR PRISONERS “Daily” Drive. (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) ‘wm. F. Shamitz 1.00 Ww. Chapla 3.00 ‘W. Schymanski 1.00 W. Cabay 1.00 | H, Pruchnicki 1,00 J. Cegielkowski 1,00 C. ‘Susell 50 AS. 50 f, Novakowski 281 Ki 30 Aner 60 er 1,00 er 2.00 Atlantic City Ray Thomas 1.00 Washington, D. C. E. Simonides 1.00 DIST. 4, BUFFALO Erie, Pa, M, Bender 1.00 Endicott, N. Y. A. Korbel—Moravian Club 1.70 North Tonowanda Pete Wasilevsky 1.00 . Buffalo R. Dunn 1.00 Sam Zemmer 1.00 Friends of Soviet Union 5.00 RESISTING VETS DRIVEN FROM JOHNSTOWN CAMP BY ARMED STATE POLICE | 5,000 Had Refused to Move Following Distribution of Call By Workers Ex-Servicemen’s League Troopers Herd Veterans Into Locked Trains; Convention Soon to Plan Vet-Joble ss March to Washingt What Ne Bonus The fight for the veterans’ bon xt in the Fight us will go on and must go on side by side with the struggle of the workers for unemployment insurance, against imperialist war and for the defense of the Soviet Union. The Workers Ex-Servicemen’s League, the only veterans organiza- tion carrying on a fight for the bonus, now calls on the vets to close their ranks and develop a real revolutionary struggle for their back wages. A huge mass protest movement the vets by the government must be Veterans in each locality are uri ers Ex-Servicemen’s League. In all cities and towns joint coi employed Councils and other worke against the brutal treatment given | developed throughout the country. ged to organize posts of the Work- mmittees of the W.E.S,L. and Un- rs’ organizations must immediately be set up to greet the returning veterans, Mass meetings of workers and where delegates will be elected to Workers Ex-Servicemen’s League to veterans must be held in all cities the National Convention of the be held in Cleyeland, October 15-16. This conventien will lay the base for a mass vet-jobless march to Con- gress in December. Meanwhile the demand for a special session of Congress to pass the bonus bill and unemployment insurance must be raised by workers and vets throughout the country. RUEGGS TRIAL IS. | SET FOR AUG. 19. |\Defendants Resume | Hunger Strike (Cable By Inprecorr.) SHANGHAI, Aug. 4—Resumption of the Ruegg trial, fixed for August 4, has been postponed for “unknown reasons” to August 10 by the Nan- | king judicial authorities. The re- | moval of the two defendants from | the hospital tp the military prison | has also been delayed to August 9. | The defendants two days ago re- | sumed their hunger-strike against | the mock trial and removal from the | hospital where they are still in a} critical condition as a result of their | first hunger strike and the barbarous tortures inflicted upon them during | The Chinese defense lawyer, Tschén, yesterday for the third time | demanded transference of the trial| to the civil court at Shanghai. He Geclared that the Nanking Govern- | ment opposes such transference be- cause it knows it is’ ‘mpossible to | support its accusation against the trial, | defendants in its oresent form, on the basis of material allezed to have been “found.” The Nanking Government is pro- posing a new clause to its criminal code forbidding the tiling of “re- peated appeals.” although hitherto | there hes existed an unlimited right | |to appeal. The Ruegg defense is| challengimg this clause, declaring that it cannot be used against the defendants, against whom it is in-} tended, insofar as it was introduced | after their arrest and prosecution. LEVIN WILL SPEAK TONIGHT ON VETS W.BS.L. Leader Will NEW YORK.— Emanuel leades of the Workers’ Ex-Service- men’s League, who has just been re- leased from jail following his arrest | for activity on behalf of the veterans’ fight for the bonus, will speak tonight at the Co-operative Auditorium, 2700 Bronx Park E., tonight at 8 p. m The meeting, arranged by the Workers’Ex-Servicemen’s League, the first of a number to be held in the city at which Levin will report on the struggle of the veterans and the next steps in the fight. Tell of Struggle | A concert and entertainment will follow Levin's talk. The Philippine National Confed- eration of Peasants is however, fight- ing hack blows of the government. Levin, | is | Waters Goes Shonving While (By a Worker Correspondent) WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. 3.—| | |W. W. Waters, the Brown Shirt | | man, went sporty this afternoon. | || He stepped jauntily into one of | Washington's larger department) | | stores and blew himself to about | |$25 worth of fancy haberdashery. | | |Ahong the things he bought were some silk hose selling at $1 per, pair, and several ties, one of) which cost $1.50 and another $2.50. | Another lovely thing happening | |in the nation’s capital was the! | saving of Hoover's gift goldfish by installation of air cooling. The \fish are a gift from the Japanese | | | |government. The heat made the |fish feel faint, and White House | | |engineering had to be called into play. A hose connection was made | from a refrigerator to the fish's! tank, and the nation was saved. | : sna KILL 3 IN ARK. Two More Wounded Trying to Escape TUCKER PRISON FARM, Ark., Aug. 4.—Four prisoners were killed and three wounded today when they attempted to escape from the prison camp here. Guards surrounded the seven con- viets who escaped from the prison camp and cold-bloodedly killed three of them and wounded two others. A in the fight. The battle took place in a wood twenty-five miles from the rison. The prisoners seized all the guns and ammunition they could carry, names of the prisoners, who were killed. R. G, Jones was one of the prisoners wounded. ‘Sings Praise of His; Pal, Matthew Woll This country should make double haste to do something before con- ditions become too acute, Matthew Woll, far-famed labor misleader warned his boss friends during the course of an address at the Wana~ | maker auditorium yesterday. Mr. Woll came to sing praises to the capitalist system on the same platform with H. Bayard Swope, head of the labor-robbing General Elec- tric Co,, and George B. Cortelyou, president of the National Electric Light Association, and of several gas and electric companies. Grover Whalen, former head of the New In spite of the terror, its membership York cops, referred to Mr. Woll as is rapidly increasing, —ewere— the “thinking labor leader” wep . on. In December Veterans Starve || | | | a] | | JAIL BREAK’ prisoner serving as guard was killed | destroyed all the other guns and escaped on horses. | Early reports did not give the F BALTIMORE, M4é., 1 The fourth victim of Hoover derous attack on the | died last night in the M pital here. The vic Gunn, war veteran and steel we from Youngstown, Ohio. Gunn died as the results of the launched against the | by the Wall St. governr week, The other three the attack were William and Eric Carlson, Gertrude Mann child ofa veteran. mur- Ss army vie ,a_ two-year-old JOHNSTOWN, Pa., State troopers helmets and armed with rif and tear gas bembs su the bonus army in thei here today and were evicting the war veteran nd | their families. The bonus |forced to march | between two lines trains where they were | later whisked out of \heavy guard. The t plied by the Bethlehe lowing a confe |steel barons, lieutenants of W. W. The eviction of the starving however, did not {as the steel bosses |gang thought it would vetérans, stirred into acti jleaflets distributed by Ex-servicemen’s League, |the camp and refused fo to the trains. The ouster order, the evacuation of (CONTINUED ON PAGE march we f o! nce so st ich calls for the all bonus THREE) ‘FORD SPEAKS IN HARLEM TONIGHT To Talk on Vets and Election Campaign NEW YORK. — | Negro veteran and C didate for vice president, | tonight at 8 p. m. in F | Hall, 15 West 126th The meeting is being arra | jointly by the Harlem Post | Workers Ex-Servicemen’s Leag Negro Workers’ Club, the Workers’ Club, and the Unemployed Council. Ford, a member of the Workers | Ex-Servicemen’s League, was arrested | with forty-one other veterans and |thrown out of the District of Col- |umbia by Washington police sup- |ported by Hoover's cavalry. He will |speak on the subject of the bonus }march and the united front of the | Democratic, Republican and Socialist | parties against the veterans and the | bonus marchers, “The special discrmination against {the Negro vets” he said yesterday, |“was symbolized by the fatt that the \first veteran arrested was a. Negro, | The Southern white and Negro bonus |marchers’ camp was the first point |of attack by the police in the eviction |from Washington. | Ford will also be the chief speaker at the “Preiheit” picinic Saturday, | Aug. 6, in Ulmer Park ‘JAIL 6 AT BRONX Whalen, Ex-Cop Chief | ‘JIMCROWPROTEST Fight Discrimination at Swimming Pool NEW YORK.—Six arrested by police who ar |riot wagon at the demonstration of 1300 Negro and white parents and children who protected yesterday against jim-crowism at the Bronxdale | Swimming Poc:. A gun was pulled by Jone of the cops making the arrest | ‘hoe arrested included Ethel Sil- ver, Ray Bennett, Bern Fink, Lena Kammen cad Ida Canter. Brought to court, Ray Bennett and Ethel Silver were released, and the other freed without bail pending a hearing on Monday, aNd