The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 6, 1932, Page 5

N GOVERNOR (On the Hunger March to Albany) Some vital history for the workers of New York State— Photo left shows--part of the Hunger March delegation to Albany, as they-prepared to leave Lake Mohegan, N. Y., on the second leg oftheir journey February 27, 1931. Photo center shows Gov. Roosevelt’s state troopers attacking the hunger marchers, upon their arrival at the Capitol. -Photo right providés-an-entirely different scene. For here you saw Tammany’s candidate for president laughingly greeting Prince Ferdinand-and Prince Frederick, grandsons of the ex-kaiser Wilhelm, for whose return to power under a mon- = archy the fascists of Germany are working. Thus, while supporters, Gov. Roosevelt makes a: bid for the German voters in the coming elections. Thursday night Roosevelt made his weekly radio speech, this time boasting of the “achievements” of his state department of Labor, but care- fully avoided mention of the growing unemployment and mass starvation in the state and of the burning question of unemployment insurance. Some of the facts which give the lie to Roosevelt’s em- ! | adding glamor to the murderous Hohenzollerns and their | | DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, AUGUST 6, 1932 e (Roosevelt’s Troopers Attack Jobless) pty boasts include: 1—According to conservative officials figures from wel- fare agencies, etc., there are 1,000,000 starving in New Yo: 2—It is estimated by his own Dep: that the income of the worke is nearly $1,000,000,000 (one 1929; (3) In one health cent rition found among children increased from 18 per cent in In other words, six out of every | 1928 to 60 per cent in 131. ( 2,000,000 jobl in the state, rk City alone. Labor 39 ment of rs of the state in April, 19 billion) less than in October, er in New York City, malnut- | | | NT en ar TE POE reer Page Five Roosevelt Greets Kin of Bloody 10 children at th district are now suf ng fr City hospitals have been ove 25 per cent for the la increased by 100 per c flicted deaths increasi the Bellevue Hospit pitals, that ‘suicides are now longer rey them to the carries no record of the increa nt abo daily. pre Socialists Try to Sneak Over Forced Labor Through Fake Unemployed Council (By a Worker Correspondent) INDIANAPOLIS, ‘Ind.—The socialists here are busy organizing a fake Unemployed Council. It seems they have run short in their radical pre- tenses, so they haye to use our speeches and phrases, aud now they try to deceive the workers by using our names, They are-chartered under the laws of Indiana. Free labor is supplied izati bakeries, i hed ie a dennitiongy zation has no fight in its make-up, of food for the organization's com- and spouts about Christianity and missary. One.can imagine that the socialists here will see their cellars full of winter. vegetables that these workers slave for, and that what is left will be giver out to those that do the work, * ** ° The Socialist, Party. has a fake charity Unemployed Council here, and would, if it’ grew, throw every man out of erfployment who now gets wages, and give their good-for- nothing schemé‘a ‘thance to reduce us all to soup Botinds: They want the starving workers~to swill slop and’ slowly die because a militant working class 1#°the one thing a modern “socialist: hates, Needles to say; this fake organi- ment of the U. S,, eyen calling them- selves non-political, Their main idea seems to be to isolate the Commun- ist Party from the masses. Arizona C. P. Wins Place on ~ State Ballot PHOENIX, Ariz, Aug. 5.—The Communist Party was today offi- cially placed on the ballot in the state of Arizona for the primary and general elections, This victory followed the success upholding the Constitutional govern- | PRISONER INDICTED FOR MURDER TUCKER PRISON “FARM, Ark., Aug. 5—Archie: Jones, one of the prisoners who took part in the jail break here yesterday, was indicted today for first degree murder in the killing of; one of the guards. None of the §dards who killed four prisoners in the course of the jailbreak was charged-with a crime; of the Party in piling up three | times as many signatures of regis- | tered voters as were required by law. A state platform will be adopted and a full slate of candidates named at the state ratification convention to be held here Aug. 28 at 1225 East Monroe Street. All workers organizations are re- quested to send delegates to this united front convention. District Report On “Daily” Drive | thusiastic workers came to hear Wil- m ‘here Wednesday night. for Circulation’ FOSTER IN VISIT | TOE. BERKMAN ICalls for Fight On Deportations (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) | program of the Communist Party. | Hundreds of workers are being cut) jo the “relief” lists each day here. | j Out of 18,000 unemployed in the) city, official figures state that no) | more than 1,400 are receiving help. | Foster is well known in Lawrence| jfor his activity in fhe last strike against a 10 per cent wage cut. | After Lawrence, the Communist | candidate will be in the following | cities: By ANN JOHNSTOWN, Pa., Aug. N. -H., Aug. 9, and Hartford, Conn.,| Aug 10. platform constructed at “Cam | Speaks in Worcester | | WORCESTER, Mass. Aug, 5.—In the largest indoor meeting held here in a long time, William: Z. Foster, Communist candidate for President, addressed more than 900 workers at the A. O. H, Hall last night, He scored the fake “non-partisan” policy of the American Federation of Labor in session here, and for its support of Hoover's 5-day week plan, as being nothing more than a na- tional speed-up and wage-cut scheme. Foster at the same time vigorously denounced the feeble protest of the convention against, Hoover's murder- ous attack against the veterans in Washington. face, told the bonus veterans Washington again, I will!” systematic dispersal of the Bonus Army by Waters, Doak Carter, and their aides, leaves the veterans grasping eagerly at rays of hope. McCloskey’s statements get into the press throughout the country. McCloskey’s picture is published. McCloskey shaking hands with Wat- ers. McCloskey, the veterans’ “fair- haired boy.” source” (see Johnstown Democrat) In Schenectady SCHENECTADY, Aug. 5.—In spite| of a drenching rain that poured all day and night, several hundred en- used! liam Z. Foster, Communist candidate for President, speak at Turner Hall Sadie Van Veen, a candidate from| less betrayal. the Third Assembly District in New! McCloskey, Ex-Pug_ and “Peoples’ Man” Drives Out Veterans Join Hands With Father Cox in Campaign to “Beat the Reds” Got Himself Elected on Slogan of “Lower Rates befor for Public Utilities” Providence, R. I., Aug. 8; Nashua,| Worn, arrived from Washington, climbed up en the rick McCloskey, “friend of the veterans,” the hero! hope for the veterans at a time when exposure, BARTON. 5.—Eddie McCloskey, mayor of Johnstown, boasted friend of Father Cox, and “intimate friend” 2th, t |of Governdr Pinchot, the day after the vets, harrassed and | fund b ety ip McCloskey,” formerly known as “Tdeal,” and with crocodile tears streaming down his puffy | day before, and had “my “If Waters wen’t lead you to aah Ray of starvation, ® other power interests. McCloskey, the fair-haired boy, was Mayor. Out to Beat the Reds. During the first weeks of his ten- DEMONSTRATE TO SAVE GRAU Cuban Workers Lead- ers’ Life in Danger PAGE ONE) (CONTINUED FR at Machado’s crders a week ago, is still unknown and it is fearel that, 2 scores of working-clacs leaders him, he has been tortured, mutilated. a: then thrown into the harbor at vana The murder followed July 25th. cf the two workers anti-war ting on On the morning of the y of Rodriguez’ Pool was wtilated in the urb of M Hear =the fashion able country club, He had demon- strated with the other workers -the riously ’ at the height of | A few hours later, iff the same quarter of the city, the | mutilated corps: of another wor |was found. It is almost certain that | this worker was shot at the demon- | stration on the 25th. an mi a accused by Machado’s police of pre- ‘Senate Committee The fate of eight sailors who were ROOSEVELT’S OWN STATE--IS HE.REALLY THE “FRIEND OF THE FORGOTTEN MAN”? center in a workingclass malnutrition; (4) New York ad from per cent to (5) Suieides in 1930 had ve 1920 fi , With self-in- It is unofficially reported at and other municipal hos- equent that hospitals no and the capitalist press number. rs; yure sed Admits Evidence | Shows. Ky. Tervor +; Costigan and Cutting A dvise Further Probe of “Autocratic and Anti-Social” Regime Miners Told of Murder, Children, Brutal At Deliberate Starving of tacks on Meetings TON, D. C., August 5—The! mass of testimony by miners, college students, and icky has f International Notes NORWAY'S PLEA REGARDING | GREENLAND DISM? THE HAGUE—The of Norwegian Govenment for the | paring a mutiny on board a warship | |i sstill unknown, but it is believed Last night, -as an “unimpeachable | after going into conference with off-|“I’m with you boys, I’m all for civ cials of Bethlehem Steel, McCloskey definitely “requested” the vets to get out—go back to their “homes,” or eq TTA SuBeUI rayJO suozBoIy} oY McCloskey, the “fair-haired boy,” the little savior of Johnstown, has again played his same role of shame- McCloskey, ex-pugilist, gambler got jure of office he made very diverse | that they have either been murdered statements. With Father Cox, at|or are imprisoned in the med his inauguration ball, he said: “I’m| torture chambers of the Isle out to beat the Reds.” A few weeks | pines |later, on “the same platform with aj |representative of the American Ciy- | |il Liberties Union, the Mayor said, | of Anti-Imperialist League Protests The following telegram was sent ;]| today to Machado, dictator of Cuba jliberties—the right of free speecn|by the right of the power vested in |and assemblage!” | him by the American Govermént and | Chandler—friday | Wall Street, his’ employers: The Party holds a meeting in a| “president Machado, park—the gate is locked. And who} Cuba: The Anti-Lmperialist League jcomes to unlock the gate, but Mayor) of the United States demands the McCloskey himself, who swings it right of Armando Aucrhoff Grau open, and says “Boys, you've got a| to see h’s lawyer. In view of the right to speak!” Then a meeting in} workers’ bodies found recently in ® theatre. By a strange (?) coin-| Havana waters, we fear for Grau’s Havana, | of the W was received with great jin Denmark. Id Court sfaction | |NEW AME RO} signated ust Rosso to substitute como De Martino, p: Ambasador to the United |was learned here. Rosso is a wealthy diplomat |present acting as Italian expert on | Disarmament at the League of Na- | tions. | His appointment is part of the dip-| lomatic shake-up which the fascis: | jgovernment is making. | ai others, placed before the preliminary orced Senaters Costigan and Cutting assemble, to strike and to distribute food in Bell and Harlan Counties, Ky. The correspondent of the Daily Worker and publicity director of the D onal Miners Union during the first few days of the Kentucky strike testified to the raid by Bell County authorities on the office of the NMU jand strike headquarters in Pineville three days after the Jan. 1 strike started, and the arrest and impri- sonment for neai four months of and union offi- se ‘and relief 1 as,dozens of miners course of the strike during. the Murder of Organizer, wed the campaign of tied on by the deputies 1 » Wholesale evictions, smashing of all mass meetings that 00 strong for the deputized zur 3gs to attack, the cold blooded murder of Harry Simms, Young Communist League organizer by a deputy. and the deliberate starvation to death of men, women and chile dren by the authorities’ réfusal to SOVIET UNION See’ the’ Noveiiiber 7 CELEBRATIONS atthe: Fifteenth “Anniversary af. the on Russian Revolution $215.00 up” Exclusive World ‘Tourists, Inc. itin- trary includes Leningtad-Moscow- Ivanovo hse anda collective arm Things are beginning to happen in the Daily Worker Drive for mass circuation, The Detroit District reports that conferences have been arranged to speed up the subscription drive in all towns of the district. The first ot these conferences opens today. The last one will take place on Aug. 28. Chicago, District 8, which has becn leading in the drive so far, is fol- lowing up its good work by pre- paring meetings throughout the city under the direction of unit agitprop directors and representatives of mass organizations, The Agitprop Committee of Dis- trict 5, Pittsburgh, in conjunction with section and unit agents of the Daily Worker, is preparing a series of revolutionary press and literature exhibits in which the Daily Worker will play a prominent part. The newly organized Daily Worker Book Service has exended its full coopera- tion in this project, Sailing Oct. 20th on the S.S. Bremen—Berengaria Stuttgart Tour also includes modern third sees Reigecrrquen Patdage in com- ) afte fortable cabins. ping Meetings and conferences are being organized in all industrial centers of District 6. Cleveland. Committees for the circulation drive are being formed particularly in Youngstown, steel center and in Akron, rubber center, Many districts have not reported as yet on the organizational ques- tionnaire sent out to the districts. All districts are expected to answer immediately. SIAN ART SHOP ASANTS’ HANDICRAFTS 100 East 14th St., N. Y. C. Imports from U.S.S.R, (Russia) Tes, Candy, Cigarettes, Smocks, Toys, Shawis, Novelties, Woodearvin Lacquered Work 5 Sleepers, sightseeing, and Soviet visa: valid-for 30 days. Shorter tours as low as World Tourists; Inc 175 ee New ¥ork City” Phone AL 4-0656-1-8 SOVIET TOURS CAN AL! CHASED AT THE BRANCHES, 0 BE PUR- iG York City, who has been active in the organization of the unemplpoyed here, was chairman. Avanta Farm himself elected to office on the slogan of “lower rates on public utilities.” “People’s” man. “Up from the ranks.” “Foe of Big Business.” “Foe of Beth- lehem Steel,” the compariy that is the controller of the lives, the wages, the water-supply of thousands of hunger-ridden miners, steel-workers, railroad workers of Johnstown. A cidence, the theatre is locked. And i¢ is again, Mayor McCloskey who ccmes to'open the theatre. He asks for the floor. (It is an anti-war meeting, held the week of April 6th! last). “I’m with you, fellows,” he says. “I hope something happens (the revolution) and happens soon— ULSTER PARK, NEW YORK WORKERS RECREATION PLACE RATES: $12.00 and $10.00 vote for McCloskey,—a way of pro- —slavery of ther gigantic Bethlehem Steel. Before his went to Harrisburg, Located one-half mile from station Fresh milk, improved bathing, 200 spring chickens ‘and jall kinds of vegetables growing for guests,, DIRECTIONS:—West Shore train. For week-ends $3.75 round trip. Bi Albany 9W Route. By bus: Capito) Greyhound Bus Terminal, By steamboat to Kingston to Ulster Park 22o-by train, election, McCloskey “protesting” interests, In an interview with Sen- ator Reed, McCloskey said he did not fight during the last war because he was @ “conscientious objector” to war. Miners, steel-workers, ground under the heel of the Bethlehem tyrant saw a “ray of hope.” Bungalows and Rooms to Rent for Summer Season Several very nice roo for rent for the summer season. ful farm in Eastern Pennsylvania, 50 miles from Philadelphia. Running water, electricity, swimming, fishing, ete. Rea: sonable rates. Communicate with Tom Jessor, April Farm, Coopersburg, Pa. for Mayor—on People’s Ticket.” A republican, he was not nominate in the republican primaries, But he was nominated and elected on the tickets of the Democratic, Socialist, Labor, and Liberal Parties. McClos- key, friend of the poor, “ray of hope,” fighter against the rich, got into of- fice, attacking Bethlehem Steel, the nd bungalows Beauti- Are you planning to go to the Soviet Union? — SEE DOREVA, Inc. 152-154 Bowery, New York, N. Y, —UNDERSELLS ALL— - Headquarters for all merchandise needed for going across. Full line Men's Furnishings, Dress and Work Clothes— Leather Coats, Windbreakers, Boots and Shoes—Raincoats Bags and Trunks ‘ testing the hunger regime, the work against the hegemony of the power Cards began to appear “McCloskey so that I can take part in it, and not my children.” With “Everybody.” The Mayor's activity is limited to being “with” everybody. The fight against power interests? The work- ers wait for his action. He gives it. He prints slips of paper which say “Paid Under Protest,” and to those who come to him with large bills to remind him of his promise of lower rates, he gives a slip of paner and says “Paste this on your bill when you pay!” What About Starvation? The fight against Bethlehem? No fights against Bethlehem. Shortly after he enters the office he hires an impartial (?) “efficiency expert jointly paid with Bethlehem Steel— $12,500 by the city, and $12,500 by Bethlehem Steel, What about the starvation ques- tion in Johnstown and elsewhere? ‘The mayor the “fair-haired” boy has a solution. “Sidewalks of America” is McCloskey’s idea. What we need, he says, is to build sidewalks, with hand labor, and ‘build them every- where, from coast to coast, This will furnish work, material, every- thing will be fine. The expense for these sidewalks? Well, says Mc Closkey, the tax-payers will pay one- fourth the expense. Local, state and federal governments will pay the other three-fourths. “But wouldn’t that also come from the taxpoyers?” he was asked. McCloskey was stumped. He had nothing to say. A few weeks agg, one member gt life, Will hold you responsible for his murder, Signed, William Simons, National Secretary.” A similar telegram was Machado: yesterday by the tional Labor Defense. The International Labor the Anti-Imperialist Interna- Defense League jand instrument by which the American ruling class dominates Cuba, and that protests against the murder, torture and imprisonment of Cuban workers must be sent to Secretary. of State Stimson in Washington as well as to Machado in Havana. Demand Terror Stop Resolutions demanding .the stop- page of the ferocious terror against the Cuban workers should be sent Stimson, and wherever possible dem- onstrations should be held before the Cuban consular offices in the various cities, The trade unions, in particular, are urged by the Latin American Trade Union Confed2racion to senq their protests. The New York District of the In- ternational Labor Defense, which has pledged its patronage to the Cuban | section of the International Red Aid, added its call today for workers to participate in the demonstration. McOloskey’s personal bodyguard, picked “bad-men” shot and killed a man ata drinking party. This same group was the calibre of men who helped herd the veterans, their wives and children out of Ideal Park, last night, into the trains. This is the kind that pushed a woman ‘holding @ baby, down an embankment, and said to the veterans “There, that’s an example, if you birds get funny!” sent to S.-FRANCO TRADE TRCATY MAPPED PARIS.—Ambassador Edge opened | formal negotiations with the French | tr government for a commercial treaty, | when he sent Premier Herriot a memorandum stating the views of permit food distribution. The nve- |Uminary hearings were held in May of this year, Senator Costigan and Cutting in report state there is a “prima ie showing of autocratic and other anti-social conditions and of viola- tion of legal and constitutional |rights.” U. point out that Machado is only the | immediately to Machado and to! |the United States Government. Edge is reported to have expressed | also the United States- grievances in/ |regard to the Franco-Belgian treaty | |recently signed. It is. understood |here that Ambassador Edge is seek- |ing a Franco-United States treaty to| loffset the unfavorable effects of the |Franco-Belgian treaty upon United | | States’ trade, He Se ANTI-BRITISH SLOGANS ON DUBLIN’S SIDEWALKS DUBLIN, — Anti-British slogans | jwere found on the city’s sidewalks | painted in red, The slogans called for “No surrender to the British im- |perialist. policy,” for a determined | | struggle in defense of the Irish mas- | ; Ses, ete. The police tried to erase the slo- |gans but did not succeed. | President De Valera demanded in |the Dail an emergency sums to fight {back the British trade reprisals. | | a BUY | Mimecgraph Supplies * By mail order and save 50% | tok $1 per Ib, Stencils $2.25 quire | Mimeograph machines §15 up "Plus Postage Union Square filimeo Supply (Formerly. Prolet Mimo) 108 E. 14th St., N. Y. C. Algonquin 4-4763 Room 208 } TE | | | | } The states: “Unquestionably it appears that distinguished visitors have been sub- Jected to inquisitions conterning their religious and. political faith. Some have been stopped on public highways and denied entrance to these Kentucky counties although they willingly gave assurance of their peaceable intent. Visitors have been arrested and in more than one case, ejected by force. Threats and inti- midation have been commonly used.” Hatfield Defends Terror. Senator Hatfield, ex-governor of West Virginia, and strikebreaker of some experience, protests further in- vestigation in his minority report, which claims all the witnesses were “Communi: My inelined.” The Senate is not now in ‘session, and. will order -thé further -tnves:i- gation during the winter, if it does not find means to quiet the defun- ciation of Kentucky terror ‘some other way, meanwhile. Nineteen workers, Senators’ report further union, defense }and relief officials, are now ott on bail on criminal syndicalism charges, with the trial date set for the* Oc~ tober term of court, in Bell County, Ky. Pa fi “Contradictions ’Among th2 ‘im. perialists and Conflicts on thé Paci- Tic Coast,” a brilliant analytioas article by N. Terentyey in “the special anti-war issue of © Communist,” July number, | . “The