The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 8, 1932, Page 1

| 8,000 Honor Murdered en in Chicago Memorial 1. Unemployment and Social Insurance at tHe exe 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 VOTE COMMUNIST FOR “al poor farmers without forced collection of rents or debts. Dail Central :+ Org, u -€ ‘(Section of the Communist ee eer Rnunist Party U.S.A. VOTE COMMUNIST FOR Equal rights for the Negroes and seif-determine ation for the Black Belt. Against capitalist terror; against all forms of suppression of the political rights of workers. Against imperialist war; for the defense of the Chinese people and of the Soviet Union. _Vol. IX, No. 188 Entered as second-class matter at the Post “EP Office at New York, N. ¥., under the act NEW YORK, MONDAY, AUGUST 8, j932 ey “CITY EDITION ~ Price 3 Cents __ WIDEN FIGHT OVER U. 8. CUBA TERROR Protest Meetings to Be Held All Over Country DEMAND END TO TERROR | Machado “Holds Grau | Incommunicado NEW YORK, N. Y., Aug. 7— Widespread, protest against the new ‘wave of murderous terror launched against the Cuban working class by Machado, dictator of Cuba, is devel- oping throughout the United States, with one protest demonstration held yesterday in New York and others being organized in many citiies. In the new wave of terror launched by Cuba’s “Bloody Butcher,’ an anti-war demonstration in Havana was fired on from ambush, with an unknown number of workers killed and wounded, two workers have been horribly. mutilated and murdered, eight sailors who were charged with organizing a mutiny on a warship Ihave disappeared and have probably been sent to the medieval torture chambers on the Isle of Pines, and Armando Grau, Cuban trade union leader, has disappeared after having been imprisoned on the charge that } he was a Communist. Grau is a Polish citizen who has lived in Cuba for seven or eight years. Workers Bodies Found in Harbor Bodies of other workers, obviously murdered by Machado’s police, have ‘been found floating in the ‘harbor at Havana, or in the bellies of sharks, 4and peasants have been strutg ap on trees, The raid on Grau’s home and his arrest have been made the basis for an intensification of the new cam- |paign of terror, the International Labor Defense said yesterday . The capitalist. press cf Cuba is aiding the murderons plans of the “Bloody Butcher,” Machado, by lay- (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) WORLD CONGRESS MEETING TONIGHT Anti-War Meeting to Be Held at Labor Temple NEW YORK, Aug... 7.—Working- class organizations throughout the country are rallying their forces in support of the World Congress Against Imperialist War, it is re- ported by the American Committee for the World Congress, which has jnitiated a campaign to send a strong 4american delegation to this gather- ing. At meetings held all over the bees and the Middle West, workers an intellectuals have been elected to attend the congress, which will take place in Erussels on August 27th, 28th and 29th. The anti-war conference to be held tonight at the Labor Temple, 14th ‘St. and Second Ave., at 8 p, m. will be attended by delegations rep- i presenting unions affiliated with the ‘American Federation of Labor, the revolutionary trade unions and frat- ernal organizations. Speakers at the conference tonight will include Joseph Brodsky, C. T. ‘Wang, Roger Baldwin and Lloyd Westlake. It is reported by the American Committee that five hundred fifty delegates to the international con- gress against war have been elected by workers in war material and chemical factories and by workers employed in the railways and ship- ping companies of France. The workers’ and peasants’ con- ference recently held in Paris elected an especially large number of del- egates from the war material and metal companies. The Autonomous Federation of French Civil Servants, counting 45,000 members, wrote to the anti-war con- ‘gress committee requesting it to ob- ‘tain leave of absence for the civil service employes who ‘are delegates to the congress. 57 Miners Lose Lives Tn Japan. Explosion TOKYO, Aug. 6—Fifty-seven min- The New York veterans, persecuted and hounded out in New York. and food. They are in need to be repeated here? ; protest? The veterans are your bloody rule of capital. New York Workers! Will You Allow the Outrages Against the Vets to Be Repeated in N.Y.? were treated to bullets and tear gas bombs in Washington, Already the graft-ridden city government is terrorizing these veterans. | York will you allow the brutal treatment of the veterans Will you allow them to be treated as outcasts without Come to their support. food and shelter from the city. Show them proletarian solidarity. Demand for them and for yourself immediate relief from hunger, the bonus and unemployment insur- ance. To your task . . , workers of New York! part of the bonus army that of Johnstown, have arrived They are without ‘shelter of relief. Workers of New fellow-fighters. against the Demand TAILORS BATTLE COPS IN FIGHT AGAINST SELLOUT Police Attack Workers, With Guns; Left Wing Leader Shot NEW YORK:—The third day of the stoppage of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers found the rank and file of the union putting up a real militant fight against the wishes FOSTER IN BOSTON SPEAKS TO 1,800 IN FANEUIL HALL On Radio In Hartford Wednesday/ Night BOSTON, Aug. 7.—‘“It was in this historic Faneuil Hall that the rising American capitalist class met and organized the Revolution which gaye birth to the capitalist state in this country. Now the voice of the Com- FEAR SEIZURE OF BERKMAN BYDOAK GANG New Court Order Paves Way for Immediate Deportation BRANDEIS HELPS DOAK Labor Defense Issues Call to Workers BULLETIN WORCESTER, Mass., Aug. 7.— “Lam being guarded by police in the sanatorium ever since Saturday nizht!” said Edith Berkman today. This is in accordance with Doak’s Policy of trying to rush the de- portation of this militant textile organizer. 8 6 | RUTLAND, Mass., Aug. 7.—With the signing of an order on Saturday by Federal Judge James A. Lowell, for the deportation of Edith Berk- | man, militant textile leader, the way | is left clear for her momentary kid- | napping by agents of the Depart-| ment of Labor, Berkman is lying sick of tuber- culosis in the Northeastern Sani- torium here. She contracteq the richest city in the word, Here’s Your Bed, “Hoover Prosperity” Style A jobless worker in Union Square, New York. Daily scenes in the (P. P. Pictures) ‘SOCIALISTS DROP | NEGRO CANDIDATE, Jim-Crow _ Crosswaith In Harlem District | NEW YORK.—Charles B. Noonan, | a socialist from Schenectady, has | been substituted by the Socialist | |Party to run for lieutenant- governor | in the coming elections instead of | |Frank H. Crosswaithe, Negro re-/| formist, the S. P. campaign head- quarters announctd Saturday. Cross- waithe was nominated at the recent | disease while in prison following her arrest by immigration officers for | her activity in the last Lawrence | textile strike. Although the International Labor | convention of the socialists held in Utica. Withdrawn by the Socialist Party | jas a candidate for lieutenant-gov- jemnor; Crosswaithe will run for Con- Negro Education Conference Hears |James W. Ford NEW YORK.—Speaking before the 12th Annual Teachers’ and Sv udents’ | Educational Conference, a Negro or-| | Sanizgtion, at the Young Men's Christian Association hers, James W. | Ford, Communist candidate for Pres- ident, outlined the disastrous effect of on and science, which, capitalism education he held, can expand} and develop only under a free work- | munist Revolution is being heard in Defense, which has been fighting | gress in the 2ist district, Harlem. In| ers,lost their lives today in an ex- of the Amalgamated officialdom, At Fifth Avenue and Mercer Street, Saturday, the workers, showing their determination to turn the stoppage into a real strike, set about the work of stopping trucks that were carrying goods out of the market. Police were called, who viciously attacked the workers with clubs and fired into the ranks of the strikers, wounding ‘Isidor Landesman, leader of the Left Wing Rank and File Committee. Three workers were ar- rested in the demonstration. Led by Rank and Filie The struggle against the smuggling of goods out of the market was led by the Amalgamated Rank and File Committee, The active participation in tHe front line of the struggle by the Rank and File Committee members has spurred the workers in the cloth- ing industry into a new spirit of militancy. The fight against the betrayals of the Hillman machine, the interest of which in calling the stoppage is to further speed up the workers, introduce new wage cuts and to organize the Contractors Associa- tion as well as to strengthen the Clothing Exchange. Today the “settlement” committee, (CCNTINUED ON PAGE TWO) HINT SHERWOOD MAY TESTIFY Charged With Aiding Walker’s Graft NEW YORK, — Ru Russell Sherwood may appear to testify in the hearing of Seabury charges of graft against Mayor Walker, says the New York Enquirer, a weekly Tammany paper |here, which appears Sunday after- noon. This Tammany journal puts it this way: “One of the surprises which is rumored for the occasion is the sim- ultaneous appearance of Russell Sherwood, the Mayor's reputed financial agent whose absence Sea- bury has stressed so heavily in his charges against Walker and the de- mand for his removal.” Seabury charged that hundreds of thousands graft money was handled by in playing the stock market for Walker. Walker pretended to want Sherwood to, ap- pear but never told where he was. It may be that now Sherwood has agreed to be the goat and will try to clear Walker, The “public” hearing will be Thursday, in Albany, and the room will be small enough so that, after all the capitalist reporters are in, there will not be any room left for the. public. Leading up to the Hearing have been a series of tilts through the newspapers between Seabury and Walker, in which Walker, after ad- mitting receiving gifts of enormous arfounts from firms doing business [plosion at the Soraohi cial mine on| with the city declared that he was ‘the northern island of Hokkaido, 40 miles northesst of Sapporo, } a deeply insulted by Seabury’s intima- tion that this was graft, this hall. In this same hall, we are now meeting as a step in the organ- ization of the Communist ‘Revolu: tion, the Revolution that will give birth to Soviet America.” With these words, William Z. Fos- ter, Communist candidate for Presi- dent, closed his speech before 1,800 Boston workers in Faneuil Hall, the so-called “Cradle of Liberty” of Bos- ton. This was the first time in the history of the United States that a Communist had spoken in this hall. Foster traced the history of the Faneuil Hall as a symbol of the fact that capitalism did not always exist, that it was established by an or- (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) JAPAN TO ANNEX |.” NEW TERRITORY Send Troops | South of Great Wall NEW YORK, Aug. 7.—Japan is Preparing to annex a large section of Chinese territory south of the Great ‘Wall, it was-indicated yesterday with the movement of large forces of troops to points near the Wall. The official Japanese pretext for the moyement of troops was that sev-.| eral Koreans had been killed in Chingwangtao’ in Chinese anti- Korean riots. Chingwantao:is twelve miles south of the Great Wall. After Japanese troops had occupied Chingwangtao, Japanese sources in Manchoukuo an- nounced that they would consider “favorably” any petition to. annex the territory, a strip about 70 miles long to Manchoukuo, and that such @ petition was already being circu- lated among sections of the Chinese population. It is clear that the an- nexation “petition” is being cireu- lated by and among Japanese-con- trolled agents. © An intensification of the attack on Jehol by Japanese seemed imminent as Japan announced that all hopes for the release of Gonshiro Ishimoto, a Japanese representative |allegedly kidnapped by Jehol irregular soldiers, had been abandoned and that “mili- tary leaders are considering appro- ene steps for a campaign to release y Two of the largest universities in China were closed last week by the Nanking government, which was forced to admit for the first time that student demonstrations against the. murderous Nanking government have been taking place continuously. Novak Paint Shop Strike Victorious NEW YORK.—The Novak and the union and demands were granted. The shop is at 378 Ralph Avenue, Berkman’s deportation, has the/| “right” to appeal to the Court’ until Aug. 17, the fact that | Justice Louis Brandeis refused to ex- tend the stay of deportation, throws | the strike leader once more into the hands of Deportation Doak. Call for Mass Fight. The International Labor Defense yesterday issued a statement calling for a nation-wide protest against the imminent deportation of Edith Berk- man.to fascist Poland. The state- ment gays, in part: “Dork is preparing to deport Berk- man to Poland and is planning to Sneak her out of the Central New England Sanitorium here, after she contracted tuberculosis while held in Racca deportation barracks in Bos- “Berkman is- too ill to be moved on a stretcher from place to place, and such a removal would gravely endanger her life. “The International Labor Defense is demanding that Berkman be granted the right of voluntary de- parture. In the meantime she must remain in a sanatorium of her own choosing for a year, the period the doctors say is necessary for her re- | covery, at the expense of the Depart- ment of Labor. “The I. L. D. calls upon all work- ers, workers’ organizations and sym- pathizers to send immediate pro- tests to Secretary of Labor Doak at Washington.” Special Drive Offer—Wm. Z. Foster's “Toward Soviet America” with yearly subscription. this way the Socialist Party hopes) Supreme | that none of their ‘lily-white’ middle | - class supporters. will be offended, as would have been the case. if Cross- waithe Had run for the state office. With the 2ist Congressional dis- trict predominantly Negro, the So- cialist Party is thus jim-crowing their candidate, and not endangering its chances for securing eagerly- sought votes from white chauvinist supporters. 5DAYS JAIL NEWARK, N. J., Aug. 7,—A five- day sentence for “smiling in court”, was given an unemployed leader, Johnson, here, Friday. Johnson, James Friedson, candidate on the Communist ticket for state assem- |blyman, and Thomas Damascus, an jex-serviceman, were arrested when the Unemployed Council at Charlton | St. and» Waverly Ave. There have been numerous strug- | gles here for the right to speak, and |the Communist Party Friday issued |a@ statement urging workers to. fight on for the right to’ meet and to speak. The Unemployed Council has called for another meeting at the same corner, at 7:30 p.m., August 8 The struggle for a meeting place is part of the fight by unemployed workers -- against evictions and against. the attempted deportation of an unemployed Negro’s family to the South. ers’ society. Ford said, in part: “It is neces- jsary to break through the tradi- | tional conception of educ if our understanding is to become a | practical force in shaping the course of history. The id2a that education |is confined to educational ’institu- | tions, that is, merely a study of | books, is, at best, an unreal and | poverty-stricken conception. If ideas | are to become a force, they must seize hold of the masses. After a | hundred and fifty years of develop- | ment, capitalism is bankrupt. The decline, the moral and spiritual de- cay which characterize capitalism as WATERS TOUR AIMED TO HERD VETERANS INTO FORCED LABOR CAMPS | Workers Ex-Servicemen’: s League Opens Drive To Unite Workers and Veterans \Mass Meetings Throughout Country to Elect Delegates to Vets’ Conference NEW YORK.—Aug. 7.—Walter W. Walters, in announc-} jing that he will tour the country to build up his new Khaki’ | Shirt organization, revealed clearly the fact that he proposes |to herd the war veterans into forced labor camps where they will be kept under strict abet d ne to be | shock troops 8000 IN CHICAGO Seite" IN MEMORIAL FOR ‘30 — MURDSRED VET “Se> v Parade of 5,000 Prior ai | To W.ES.L. Meet CHICAG, IL, Aug. 7—Catled by t he Workers’ Ex-Servicemen’s Lezgu: and supported by an Emer- geney Conference of 300 de:cgates, a memorial demonstrator in honor of William Hushka, s'ain in Wash- ington on “Bloody Thursday,” was attended by more than 3,000 work- ers (in the Coliseym yesterday. | The huge meeting was preceded by de of more than 5,090 wor! who marched 20 blocks through working-class sections to the Coli- s2uny. One-fourth of the marchers were Negro workers, and the parad- ers were repeatedly cheered by the |crowds of spectators. The chairman of the Coliseum memorial was Gardner, commander of the Illinois contingent of the Bo- nus Expeditionary Forces until ex- ah to aid the same a aters, being used rank and file of Waters ington.” ganization to fi their back pay, ances. It has t ing to Waters’ the most notori | the country Waters, in or Shirts and B. E. F, win over the veterans his FOR “SMILING” police broke up a meeting ‘called by | pelled by Waters, self-styled com- mander of the B.E.F. Speakers in- cluded two rank and file members of the B.E.F. who have just returned to Chicago; Fahr, Good and Hurt of a whole, are also reflected in the sphere of education.” The workers’ and farmers’ candi- date then proceeded to outline the | general ‘situation in the educational field today, the methods ulilized by the ruling class to poison the minds of the people, the conditions under which teachers and scientists work, their unemployment problem, etc., and contrasted them with conditions in the educational field in the Soviet Union, where unprecedented devel- }opments in the cultural field for the | masses of people are taking p! “The inescapable truth of | should be particularly clear,” ae Conference called by the W.ES.L. for Communist candidate concluded, “to| August 28. More than 200,000 leaflets | | the Negro people and the Negro ag been distributed in the two days | | tellectuals. The highest achieve-|Prior to the meeting, as well as 50,- ments of capitalism have trickled | 000 copies of the down to the Negroes over a blood- edition of the “Workers’ Voice,” stained wall built up out of jim-| crowism, segregation, peonage and | lynching during the last 150 years. ‘The Communist Party is the sole ‘political force for the education of the widest masses to the only way out of a system whese highest | jachiévoments are mass_ starvation, | misery and war.” Hurt, who was the main speaker, is munist candidate for Congress. He was followed by Joe Weber, of the Chicago Trade League, and Herbert Newton, can- didate for Congress against the Ne- gro misleader, De Priest, in the First District. | Resolutions were adopted in sup- of- of the Chicago district. VETS HOUNDED BY N.Y. CO READERS! | The Daily Worker, asks the support. of the workers throughout the country because it is the only nationwide daily newsaper that is‘at the head and in the midst of every struggle of the working class in the fight against starvation and the entire system of cap- italism. The Daily Worker provides day-to-day leadership in the struggle for unemploy- ment insurance, in the fight against wage-cuts, in the fight for equal rights for Negro workers, in the fight against imperialist war, in the fight against terror, and in the greatest of all fights—for a workers’ and farmers’ government. THE DAILY WORKER IS NOW IN THE MIDST OF A DESPERATE FINANCIAL CRISIS. ‘PUBLICATION. ership of the struggles against starvation, terror and war. I contribute $.. NBM ee owacas Lhiees Street QHY!. sek ocve) se... to the $40,000 Save the ‘ IF YOU HAVE ALREADY CONTRIB : Rally every effort {o support Your Daily for the lead- __ | their families. 2 |200 Are Driven Out of Washington Sq. 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All along the line from Johnstown to New York police were mobilized to terrorize and harass the men and At Jersey City all the police reserves were called out to | meet an incoming train carrying over treet eeneeeeeeerarerseenaces [600 VOtOraRs, Ao tame ig | the Workers Ex-servicemen’s League. | secretary of the W.E.S.L. and Com-| special memorial | ficial organ of the Communist Party | NEW YORK.—Over 400 war vet- | jaction against the vets. since. they | | emption of poor farmers | Sea i ra |Veterans of Foreig: to use them agai and against the w and wherever the m: are trying to fo city, state or fed: Shows Eis The very fact that W | bi (CONTINUED ON PAG STOP SCOTTSBORO | MEET IN BERLIN Union Unity | this | port of the Rank and File Veterans’ | Police Prevent Speech Of Mrs. Wright BERLIN, Geconty: Aug. 7.—Ada | Wright, mother of two of the Scotts- boro boys, and J. Louis Engdahl of ae International Labor Defense, |were again prohibited iday from | addressing German wo Police violated even the govern- ent’s own announced policy to | break up a meeting of International | Red Aid officials called to discuss the | Reichstag elections, the future tasks of the Scottsboro campaign, the com- memoration of Sacco and Vanzetti }and the Red Aid World Congress. The government has officially pro- hibited public meetings only, whereas |this meeting, at which Mrs. Wright {and Engdahl were to speak Friday, | was organizational. nN |A.F.L. Drivers Defy ™ | Officials and Help_ | Sun. Dairy Strike NEW YORK.—The officials of Lo- jcal 584 of the A.F.L. Milk. Drivers | Union are doing their best to pres vent the rank and file of the union from supporting the strike of 40 men |at the Sunshine Farms Co., 466 11th | Ave. But the A.F.L. rank and file jeontinue to help take care of scabs in a strike that is led by the Milk Drivers Section of the Food Workers Industrial Union. The Sunshine strikers have dis= tributed leaflets among other drive ers, particularly thos: in the Shef- field Farms, urging them not to scab, Sheffield Farms tried to send strike » breakers even on the first day. but, without success, Strike headquarters are at 433 W, 39th St. VOT™= COMMUNIST FOR: 3. Emergency relief for the poor farmers without restrictions by taxes, and no forced collece _