The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 6, 1932, Page 1

VOTE COMMUNIST FOR VOTE COMMUNIST FOR Unemployment and Social Insurance at the ex- pense of the state and employers. Equal rights for the Negroes s and seif-determime ation for the Black. Belt. Against Hoover’s wage-cutting policy. ll f of all forms OF Dail Norker Central «Orga unist Party U.S.A. (Section of the Communist International) Against capitalist terror; against Emergency relief for the poor farmers without suppression of the politica] rights of workers. restrictions by the government and banks; ex- emption of poor farmers from taxes, and no forced collection of rents or debts. oe the defense of he Union, for and of t Against imperialist the Chinese peaple war; Soviet —= a a Entered as second-class matter at the Post Vol. IX, No. 187 S25 Office at New York, N. ¥., under the act NEW YORK, SATURDAY, AUGUST 6, 1932 Ue ITY EDITION Price | 3 Cents BIG PROTEST TODAY ON CUBA TERROR Workers Mutilated and Murdered By Machado Police WORKERS’ CHIEF MISSING Anti-War Demonstra- | tion Fired on from Ambush A direct challenge to the workers | all over the United States who are protesting against the murderous terror of Machado, dictator of Cuba, was thrown out yesterday by the refusal of Wall Street’s Bloody Butcher in Cuba to accept a cable of protest from the Inter- national Labor Defense. The cable demanded that Mac- hado produce Armando Averhoff Grau, Cuban working-class leader, to show that he is alive, and that Grau be permitted to consult his attorney. Machado read the cable but took the opportunity to show his de- fiance of the protest which is mounting among workers all over the poe * 8 NEW YORK, N. Y., Aug. 6—In a| Joint statement issued today by the | International Labor Defense and the | Anti-Imperialist League, all New ‘York workers are called upon to dem- onstrate tomorrow (Saturday) against the new campaign of fiendish terror | launched against the Cuban work-| ing class by the Machado govern- ment. The demonstration will take place | at 2 p.m. at 115th Street and Lenox Avenue, in the heart of the Latin-| American. workers’ section of New| York. In the latest murderous campaign jof President Machado to drown the working class movement in Cuba in) a sea of blood and terror, an anti- war demonstration in Havana was | on from ambush, wounding fsa two workers were horribly mu- itilated and murdered, and Armando \Grau,. well-known working-class lead- ‘erin Cuba, was imprisoned. The whereabouts of Grau, arrested (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) CANNONS ROAR IN GRAN CHACO ‘Artillery | Bombard- ment Started B: Bolivia BULLETIN LA PAZ, Aug. 5—Bolivia has lagreed to an armistice today on the basis of the present positions lim the disputed Grand Chaco | region, instead of on the basis of the positions of June Ist. SRT RS ate) ) Heavy artillery bombardment began ir Pilcomayo in the Gran Chaco gion, according to a bulletin issued Colonel Pena, commanding the aa division, and posted at ihe “chain of the war developments th the disputed Gran Chaco region not broken by the diplomatic Fe Sree to both Bolivia and y by 19° “neutral” nations. The note was not intended to break being merely designated to pave way for not recognizing war re- unfavorable to the major im- countries interested in the ite. Bolivia will have a well-equipped of 11,000 men in the Gran “region in a few days, a dis- ich from Buenos Aires states, juoting General Miriaco Pando to effect that 6,000 soldiers well ed for duty in the jungle are ady in the disputed region. | The mobilization of men for war is intensified also in Paraguay, yhere the war fever is being spread ith the aid of frantic “patriotic” Is.) loover ‘Relief’ Plan llapses; No Funds Hands, s, Say Agents ayaa D. C., Aug. 5.—The Hoover - Gifford “relief” fency, which gave no relief to any cers, collapsed today, according ‘a statement of the “relief” experts lves.. The plan, which was d as a real boon to, humanity : Bene ne went out comnts, on, according to a statement by "AC ian ti taeastihn Victim of Machado Armando Grau, Cuban working- class leader imprisoned last week by Machado, Wall Street puppet, and held incommunicado. It is feared that Grau, like scores of Cuban workers, has been mutilated and thrown to sharks in Havana harbor. HUNGRY MINERS DEMAND FLOUR “Will Seize from Red Cross If Not Fed” BRIDGEPORT, Ohio, Aug. 5— Driven to desperation by the Red Cross policy of starving them back to work, Amsterdam mine strikers are meeting today to plan mass action. Their committee has already notified the local and county Red Cross or- | ganization that if they are not fed they will seize supplies of flour in the hands of the Red Cross. Fifty single miners of the Amster- dam United Front strike committee marched to the local Red Cross headquarters. They demanded that | discrimination against the militants in the strike be ended. They de- manded @n increased allowance for the married men and flour for the single men, who now receive nothing. Donated Heavily. The local Red Cross officials de- clared they could do nothing. The miners pointed out that when they were working, huge sums _ were checked off their pay by company Officials for the Red Cross. Now when they are on strike against starvation, and are actually starving, the Red Cross refuses to feed them! The local Red Cross officials re- ferred the committee to the county headquarters of the Red Cross in Steubenville. ‘The miners elected a committee of six which saw the Red Cross in Steubenville, and the officials there referred the miners back to Amster- dam. The committee is reporting to mass meetings at Amsterdam today. Starvation is general throughout the east Ohio strike area. The Workers International Relief, Room |4, Fretter Bldg., Bridgeport, Ohio, is calling for donations of food and money to feed 20,000 strikers. CITY EMPLOYEES FIGHTING CUT Majority "OF Firemen Vote Against It NEW YORK, N. Y., August 6—As predicted by the Daily Worker last week thousands of city employees here have refused to accept the “vol- untary” wage-cut of one-month’s salary demanded by Mayor Walker. The opposition of the school teach- ers has now been strengthened by the opposition of the firemen, the great majority of whom are now re- ported to have voted against the pay-cut. The street-cleaners are also reported to be determined not to voluntarily accept the cut. Strikebreaker Lehman Running for Governor, Roosevelt Endorses ALBANY, N. ¥., August 5—Lieu- tenant Governor Lehman announced he is a candidate for governor of New York in this election, and immediate- ly afterward, Governor Roosevelt en- dorsed him. As Roosevelt is the democratic nominee for president, it is improbable that the party leaders will risk a fight with him over Leh- man’s candidacy. Lehman, while Smith was governor, was his appointee to smash the great garment strike of 1926, and did smash it through an arrangement with the leaders of the International Ladies Garment Workers. While acting governor in 1929, Lehman decreed the shooting to pieces of the Auburn pris- on mutiny against overcrowding and bad food. “No compromise!” was Lehman’s threat to the persecuted ee FOR BERKMAN Aids Deportation Plot by Doak LL.D. Opens Fight for Voluntary Departure CHATHAM, Mass., Aug. 5.—Jus- | tice Louis D. Brandeis, the much- touted “liberal” of the United States States Supreme Court, today refused to permit the case of Edith Berkman, militant textile leader, to be brought before his court, thus throwing her | back into the bloody hands of Sec- retary of Labor Doak, whose hound- ing of Berkman for the last year has made her a tubercular invalid. This decision makes Berkman immediately deportable to fascist Poland, where no militant deportee from America can remain alive. Brandeis’ action tears aside the veil of “liberalism” which has been an active enemy of the workers. Berkman is now at the mercies of have conducted the persecution since since she was seized by them for organizing the starving textile work- ers of Lawrence, Mass. The International Labor Defense calls on all workers, all worker or- ganizations and all sympathizers to wire immediate protests to Secretary of Labor William Nuckles Doak, at} Washington, D. C., demanding the | right of voluntary departure for) Berkman’s life, and of the lives of thousands of workers against whom Doak plans to use theprecedent he has tried to establish in her, gase, that membership in a revolutionary tion. REPORT TWO BRAZILIAN TOWNS RECAPTURED RIO DE JANEIRO, Aug. 5—Two towns, Salto and Apiahy, were cap- tured after fierce fighting by Federal troops according to a government bulletin. The rebel forces are understood to be counter-attacking the Federal troops. They are led by the govern- ment of San Paulo and aim to over- throw the ‘Federal Government headed by Getulio Vargas, a tool of United States imperialism. BAR HEARING IN U.S. COURT | Brandeis Decision Now | FACES DEATH IN POLAND | woven around him, exposing him as/ Doak and his agent Tillinghast, who) Edith Berkman. This is a matter of | union is sufficient cause for deporta-4 Foster in Visit to E. Berkman; Calls for Fight WORCESTER, Mass., Aug. 5.—Wil- liam Z. Foster, Communist candidate for President, today visited Edith Berkman, textile workers’ leader held |a prisoner in the Northeastern Sani- torium in Rutland, Mass, and |brought her the revolutionary greet- ings of the thousands of workers whom he has addressed during the course of his campaign tour. Berkman’s stay of deportation, signed by Supreme Court Judge | Brandeis, expires today, and she is now in immediate danger of deporta- tion to fascist Poland. In a statement made following his j visit to the sanitorium, Foster called upon workers throughout the whole ‘country to intensify their struggle | against the vicious Doak deportation drive and to demand the immediate release of Edith Berltnan and other militant leaders held for deportation. In Lawrence Today LAWRENCE, Mass., Aug. 5.—Tex- tile workers, thousands of them un- employed for months, are expected to crowd Colonial Theatre, Hampshire Street, here tomorrow evening (Sat- urday) to hear W. Z. Foster, who is; now making a tour of New England |cities, putting forward the fighting (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) | ARREST POWERS | LEADING JOBLESS “Citizens’ League” In Plot With Police PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Aug. 5.—At | the call of the Unemployed Council, hundreds of Philadelphia workers marched to the city hall yesterday and sent in a committee, headed by M. Powers, district secretary of the Trade Union Unity League, to ‘de- mand immediate relief, no evictions, an dno cutting off of gas and elec- tricity. The city council refused to see the delegation, on the ground that it was. then conferring with the Unemployed Citizens League committee, and would recognize..the League instead of the Unemployed Council. Police then dttempted to disperse the jobless, who put up a struggle on the stairs leading to the city council chamber, and were driven out only after police reserves had arrived. Powers ‘was arrested. He is charged with disor- derly conduct. Heavy forces of police finally cleared the City Hall Plaza also, CHINESE RED ARMY NEARS WUHAN CITIES Guns Thunder Within 5 Miles of Hanyang, Site of Arsenal REDS CAPTURE 4 TOWNS Smashing Campaign Against Soviets In another shattering blow against the new fifth “Communist Suppres- sion” campaign of the imperialist bandits and their Nanking lackeys, the Chinese Red Armies yesterday advanced to within five miles of Hanyang, in Hupeh province Han- qang is one of the important indus- trial and strategic Wuhan cities which include Hankow, Wuchang and Hanyang. It is the center of the iron industry and the site of the great Central China arsenal. Tighten Iron Red Ring The Red Armies have tightened the iron Red Ring around Wuhan by the capture of the towns of Tsaitian, Kotien, Yanglo.and Lotien. ‘This development has caused great alarm among the imperialist powers ‘|forcing them to discount the lying claims of, their Nanking agents of “great victories”’ against the Red Armies. A Shanghai dispatch to the | New “York Times expresses this alarm: “Repeated victories of Communists | are resulting in gradual tightening of the .circle .of hostile armies around Hankow, nothwithstanding Nanking’s daily announcement of ; supposed government victories.” Strong forces of imperialist war- ships and marines are’ at Hankow to oppose the Red. Army. advance. Martial law, established in the city several months ago, is being savagely enforced in: the attempt to prevent an uprising of the — revolutionary workers in the city aud more than 300,000 destitute, starving flood re- fugees: quartered on its outskirts. Rush. Imperialist Warsips Recently,’ seyeral. American and ‘British warships were rushed as reinforcements to Hankow, including the flagship of the commander of the British Asiatic fleet. Strong Japanese -forces are. also present, in- cluding warships and marines. The Japanese concession in Hankow has been barricaded and’ machine guns and cannon set up against the Chinese workers. letter. “Dear comrades: Daily.” drive if it is to survive. paper. shop-mates to contribute and on it? I contribute $....... Name Street ___ CONTRIBUTIONS District 1, Boston Lith, Work: Ukrainian Educ. Org., New York .-.___.-...._._ 5.00 Section 1, Unit 6a, New York... 2.00 foeane. New York 5.20 Section 2, wy 4 ‘Workers Women's last pennies so that the “Daily” can live. Enclosed you will find fifty cents for the “$40,000 Save the ‘Daily’ Fund. last fifty cents and I can’t afford it, but neither can the workingclass afford to lose Workers, send in your contributions NOW. Delay is dangerous . Fight for it, support it, contribute to the $40,000 Fund and get your friends and Don’t let the “Daily” be gagged in the midst of the greatest struggles that have ever faced the American working-class. Below is a partial list of yesterday’s contributions to the $40,000 Fund. subscribe. to the $40,000 Save the School No. 2, Brownsville, I. W. 0, Brooklyn —_.____._-______-____. Fred Baldes, New York Section 6, New York -—.—.... Brotman, New York . Brownsville Schule No. New York . Section 1, Uni Morris Klosner, New York——._____ H. L. Borine, Brooklyn. Ed Mertins, New York iS ary New York—______ 1. We Schule No. 4, New York tech Rew York anop, BE . R.. Br. 1, Bleyer 1.00 0 Birr) Bingen, Bor Raber cw ent neEANTH New Haven Worker, Unemployed 4 Years, Sends §0c to ‘Daily’ From W. L., a New Haven, Conn. worker, the Daily Worker has received the following It is my _ the This letter is one of the many similar letters that the Daily Worker is receiving from workers in widely-scattered parts of the country. Hundreds of workers are sacrificing their The Daily Worker welcomes the contributions sent in by these devoted and self-sacrificing workers, but it. must issue a warning that the results of the financial drive so far have not yet removed the danger of suspension. Not hundreds, but thousands of workers must contribute: to the . “Daily’s” . financial The “Daily” is your Is your name “Daily” Drive. (group of Sake ge and oppress) Jenny Pronen, Atlantic city City. Plan Meets Thruout U. S. to Greet Vets Driven from Camps Convention W.E.S.L. to Issue Call for All Cities in US. to Elect Delegates to Mass FIGHT FOR REAL STRIKE IN FAKE N. Y. STOPPAGE. Workers Picket While | Hillman Plans for Sell-Out NEW YORK.—The Hillman gar- ment. stoppage, designed to lay the} jbasis for a new wage-cut through a leo called stabilization plan, tended to | |get somewhat out of the hands of | jthe union officials yesterday. A | section ‘of the workers, taking the struegle seriously, attempted to stop a |truck in the market and were at-| |tecked by the police, one of whom | | drew a gun and threatened to shoot All day long police were mobilized in the market to halt attempts of | the workers to turn the fake stop-| page into a real strike. Clothing bosses in interviews with | the press yesterday. revealed the fact | }that the stoppege was not directed | |against them, but called in order to | “stabilze” the industry. ‘The,..second reason for the calling of the stoppage is to get a complete check-up on the workers in the shops in’ order to hijack dues from mem-| bers of the Amalgamated. | The left wing group in the Amal-/ gamated issued a call to all the strik- | ers to take the struggle.in their own hands and make it a real one. AFL. SHOE UNION | CUTTING WAGES: Aided by. Commis-) sioner Wood in Franklin Co. NEW YORK.—The strikes in the Princely Slipper, the Riverside and | the Five Star Shoe Co., are going} on with efficient picketing every day. | It is necessary for the shoe and slip- per worker's to realize that the strikers must be supported financially in or- der to be able to maintain their fam- ilies. Donations and contributions should be sent immediately to 5 East 19th St., New York City. The ‘strike-breaking activities and wage-cutting campaign of the Boot and Shoe Union is agqin revealed in the Franklin Shoe Co., 11 Hope St., Brooklyn, New York. This shop has} a stamp agreement with the Boot and Shoe. The workers were ap- proached by the boss for a wage-cut. At a meeting the organizer of the Boot and Shoe urged the workers to arbitrate. When the workers said that they will: not accept wage-cuts the noto- rious strike-breaker, Charles D. Wood the conciliator of the U. S. Depart- ment of Labor was brought on the scene. Wood helped to break the Inde- pendent Shoe Workers Union and just recently helped the Miller and the Geller Shoe Companies to get an injunction against the strikers. Sunshine Dairy Hires Armed “Detectives” NEW YORK.—The Sunshine Farms Co. in which 40 drivers are striking under leadership of the Food Work- ers Industrial Union, has called in the armed thugs of the Washington Detective Agency. This agency was also employed by the I, Miller Shoe Co. in the recent strike here It is located at 370 Seventh Ave. The strikers are standing firm. THE BOSSES ARE SCARED NEW YORK.—The following item appeared in a recent issue of “Var- jety”: “Wealthy Manhattan commuters who use the railroads stil have some luvurious club cars attacked to reg- ular trains “But the roads ask them to keep the shades down when in stations, as they don’t want the mob at large to peak under present conditions.” WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug., File Committee of the Bonus Expedit were found guilty of the charge of a and were fined by the court here yest Pace was sentenced to pay a fin $50 each by the court. Pace and McKinney were releas pected that the others will be —John Pace, ionary Forces, | Father Cox Booed Down By Vets In Johnstown; American Legion Aids In Attack On Marchers lea ttempting to p’ erday. e of $70 The cther seven it sed this afternoon on bz out tomorrow. ex- ational Prepare tor W.E. &. L. Convention The Daily Worker yesterday announced that the W. E. S. L. will hold a convention to organize the nationa’ fight for the bonus. will meet within the next few days The date published yesterday in the gestion of veterans from the field a of the convention. Watch for the ca 1 struggie for the continuation ef the The National Executive Committee of the W. E. S, L. to issue the call and to set the date, Daily Worker was sent in as a sug- nd mistakenly published as the date I and date! WILL WELCOM VETS TOMORRCW Pace and Levin ss Speak Sunday NEW YORK. — A welcomé home party to greet the members of the bonus army who were ‘jailed in Weshinsion for their activities in the figint ‘ov the bonus will be held Sun- day, Aug. 7, at 8 p. m: at 131 W. 21 St. under the auspices of the Workers | Ex-Servicemen’s League Emanuel Levin and John Pace, leaders of the Workers Ex-Service- men’s League, will {be among the speakers. The W. I. R. band will provide music for the occasion. There | will be entertainment and refresh- ments Admission will be 15 cents. Leaders of the rank and file com- mittee of the bonus army will ad- | dress a mass meeting, held under the | | auspices of the Post 2 of the Workers | Ex-Servicemen’s League ,at 125th St. and Fifth Ave at 8 p. m. tonight. Amter at Queensboro Plaza Meet Attacks | Bosses’ Injunctions , NEW YORK.—Israel Amter, Com- munist candjdate for Governor of New York, addressed a mass meeting of workers yesterday afternoon at Queensboro Plaza, on the fight against labor injunctions and the | present election campaign. “The bosses believe that they can smash the fighting spirit of the workers by injunctions,” he said. “The workers have been told by the lying bourgeois press, moreover, that | President Hoover has signed an anti- injunction bill. They know that this bill is a complete fake, because it was immediately followed by new injunctions, shoe strikers, and other workers. It is clear that injunctions will con- tinue to be issued with increasing frequency against the militant work- ers who are figting against Hoover's | wage-cutting program. “The workers will not be fright- ened by the injunctions but will con- tinue to organize and fight. The Communist Party, in this election campaign, has advanced the slogan of Fight against Hoover’s wage cut- ting Policy.’ Support to the Com- munist candidates is support of the fight against injunctions.” Cops Assault and Jail Workers Demanding Relief at City Buro NEW YORK. — Police viciously attacked a crowd of unemployed workers who went under the leader- ship of the Unemployed Council to} the relief buro at Christopher and! Belmont Sts., to demand relief. Three | were arrested. One worker, Ben Blecker, is held on a charge of as- sault. The Unemployed Council an- nounced that it will hold.a protest; demonstration to force relief for the unemployed and demand the rele: of the arrested workers. wand t against the I. Miller | } Labor Defense is appealing the cases of all the veterans. Pace left for New York, where he will speak at a mass meeting which. will be announced later. JOHNSTOWN, Pa2., Aug. 5—While the last of the bonus army was being forcibly evicted from Ideal Park by ;armed_ state. troopers the Workers’ | Ex-Servicemen’s League moved. for- ward to rally the vets into a solid united front with the workers for a renewed and greater struggle for the | bonus and unemployment insurance. | The ‘Workers Ex-Servicemen’s League Executive. Committee will | meet in the next day to issue a call | for a National Convention which will be held in Cleveland. The date for | the convention will be announced in | this call. Mass meetings throughout the country are being planned where | delegates to the convention will be |elected. Thus the mass fight for the bonus goes on led by the Workers Ex-Servicemen’s League. Evacuation measures moved slow |today despite the show of armed forces and the widely heralded plans to drive the veterans out by noon. | Over 2,000 ex-servicemen are still in the'camp. Only a hundred left the | camp in twelve hours, | ‘Those marchers who had automo- | biles were given only $1 to buy gas and told to leave. Many, however, have refused to budge from the camp. | Legion Supports Ouster | Post 294 of the American Legion | did its bit to help the bosses and city officias drive the veterans out. | The Legion yesterday ran a three |; column ad in the local papers urging | the veterans to leave the city. A | statement signed by the executive | committee of the post said that it | was “unfair for anyone to ask the | community to aid strangers.” At the | same time quoting ironically from the preamble of the Legion constitution, | the statement said that it was the Policy of the Legion to “consecrate and sanctify our comradeship by our devotion to mutual helpfulness!” Meanwhile word was received here stating that preparations were being made by the W. E. S. L. in cities throughout the country for mass | meetings to greet the veterans when they arrive. John Pace who was released from jail in Washington today will speak at a mass meeting to be held soon in New York City. DUMP VETS.IN’ CHICAGO One of the first group of veterans tobe ousted from Ideal Park, 145 from the west coast, were dumped off the train in Chicago and told te get back the best way they can. Father Cox. leader of the fascist Bue Shirt movement, arrived in town at three this morning and was booed | down by a group of over 400 veterans when he proposed that he be made | the commander in chief of a com- bined Khaki Shirt and Blue Shirt |movement. The priest was not ale |lowed to continue with his speech | and left hurriedly for Pittsburgh, «NURSES FIGHT WAGE CUT Whe nthe nurses of the Jewish Hose pital in Brooklyn were told that their | Wages were cut $6 a week, they ree ~ |fused to accept their week's wages, | Nurses of this hospital, and all other: nurses, are urged to join the Medical Workers’ League, 16 West 2ist St. and organize a broad united fight | against unbearable conditionsd ey