The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 9, 1932, Page 1

y iy of __ BH Olttice at New York, N. ¥., under the act VOTE COMMUNIST FOR { " VOTE COMMUNIT FOR 1. Unemp! t and Soci - mi ig agin Prag. ssp at the ex> : 4. Equal rights for the Negroes and self-determine : Pas Oy eres ation for the Black Belt. 2. Against Hoover’s wage-cutting policy. Ey 3 5. Against capitalist terror; against all forms of 3. Emergen i pana avine vie Ce 1 P U. S. A. suppression of the political rights of workers. 8} eX- hs Ruunict rty emption of poor farmers from taxes, and no Q Against imperialist war; for the defense forced collection of rent: debts. the Chi i 1 of the Soviet Union. e entered i of the Communist SE Ring igi hs Silas Sate “ Vol. Ix, N 189 Entered as second-class matter at tHe Past NEW YORK, TUESDAY, AUGUST 9, 1932 CITY EDITION Price 3 Cente. CUBA TERROR INTENSIFIED BY MACHADO Girl Murdered by His | Political Police In Banes GRAU STILL MISSING ~ LL.D. Calls for Wider | Protest NEW YORK, N. Y., Aug. 8.—New outrages against Cuban workers | were committed last week by Ma-| chado, Cuba’s Bloody Butcher, the} International Labor Defense an- nounced today. The body of Rita Proenzay Ebra, | cousin of Caridad Proenza, who Ma-| chado's agents have been seeking for| weeks becaus2 of her revolutionary | activities, was found floating in the | river at Banes. Se hag been mur- dered by Machado’s political police. The murdered national revolution- ary and her sister, Julia, were re-| cently injured when the police ex- ploded a bomb in their home. Both} are students. In the fresh wave of launched against the working ney by Machado, Wall Street's agent in Cuba, Armando Grau, well-known) trade union leader, has been seized | by Machado and has been helq in-| communicado for almost two weeks. | An anti-war demonstration in Havana has been fired on from ambush, with many workers being killed and wounded, three workers have been| horribly mutilated and murdered, eight sailors who were charged with organizing a mutiny on board a war- ship have disappeared and have probably been sent to the barbaric torture chambers on the Isle of Pines, and bodies of other workers haye been found floating in the har- bor at Havana or in the bellies of sharks. Working class organizations all over the United States have wired their protest at the murderous terror of Machado and have demanded that Grau be produced and given a hearing in court. GUARD OF SPIES ' AROUND BERKMAN Pr eparations Made for} Deportation | WORCESTER, Mass., Aug. 8— Since Saturday night, when the Brandies decision refusing a stay of Socialist Party Stand Thomas Repeats He Is Opposed to Bonus But Cringes Before Wide Sympathy for Vets as.He Tries to Cover Up| Bethlehem Slaves Post of Report Hitler Offered Premier With Backing of Catholics and Socialists (Cable by Inprecorr) BERLIN, Aug. 8.—A highly significant sidelight on the present negotia- | tions for the re-organization of the German cabinet is furnished in an ar- | ticle appearing today in the “Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung”, the organ of | heavy industry which maintains close reldtions with Von Papen and Hitler. ‘METAL WORKERS TO) FORM UNION Delegates from Mills Meet August 13 PITTSBURGH, Pa. Aug. ‘Twenty-five thousand printed calls, a special edition of Labor Unity and many local leaflets, based on the day- to-day needs of the steel workers, have already been made to pop- ularize the First National Con- vention of the Metal Workers’ In- dustrial League, which will be held in Pittsburgh on Aug. 13, 14 and 15. Out of the Convention “will arise |the Steel and Metal Workers’ Indus- trial Union. Mass meetings in all steel and metal centers are being held in preparation for the Conven- tion. Thousands of workers have at- tendeq these meetings. Delegates have been elected on the | basis of the shop an dthrough local conferences. The delegates will be ganization. a time when there is an upward | swing in the work of the Metal Work- ers’ Industrial League. The Daily Worker needs YOU in its mass Circulation Drive— deportation became public, a squad of federal police, aided by dicks and spies, have been guarding Berkman who is imprisoned in the Central New England Sanatorium at Rut- land, Mass Thorughout the entire night the police kept vigil, turn- ing powerful searchlights on the grounds of the sanatorium, examin- ing entrances, exits, locking and unlocking doors and disturbing all the patients. This police guard has been stationed by Immigration Com- missioner Tillinghast, so that she can fabricate another story about a “red comspiracy” which she has nipped in the bud, and as a result ‘of which she will again forcibly re- move Edith. These preparations are the prelude to shipping Berkman off to Poland, as Tillinghast is so anxious to do. The local press car- ried news items stating that such preparations were being made, and that the order of deportation to Poland can become manadatory any minute. The International Labor Defense is demanding that Berkman be granted the right of voluntary de- parture. In the meantime the I. L. D. demands that she be allowed to remain in the sanitorium of her own choosing for a year because of her tubercular concition. Williamsburg Jobless Force Relief Promise | NEW YORK.—The Williamsburg ‘@ Unemployed Counci) led a demon- | stration which marched yesterday \ trom Stockton and Tompkins Aves | to the Home Relief Bureau. Police | reinforcements amounting to 12 cops | and a sergeant failed to scare the | committee, and the Relief supervisor | was made to promise immediate | action in the case of eight needy families and registration for four that had not yet been registered, 8—| workers representing only actual or-/| The Convention is taking place at} ®* The article declares that. “respon- ,Sible circles,” that is, Hindenburg {and Sehleichog consider that the jrecent electioup showed the necessity |for a continuation of the present |form of government with the par- ticipation of prominent fascists, while maintaining the “non-party” character.of the cabinet and select- ing ministers according to “personal qualities” instead of party: affiliations. This “non-party” smokescreen means that Schleicher, Minister of War, wants active fascist participa- tion in the cabinet, but not Hitler as premier. For the time being the Nazi are rejecting, at least publicly, Schleicher’s advances, | The “Angriff,” organ of the Hitler- jites demands complete Jeadership, or nothing, declaring that the Seles tion of Vieir demands means “rut less sty’.ggl2.” The “Deutsche « fascists to refrain from insisting on the post of premier for Hitler, de- claring that it would compromise the Nazi party, owing to the necessity of bearing full responsibility.(What this organ of heavy industry which sup- ports Hitler means is.that such a bold step would inflame the millions of social-democratic workers and cause them to join the red united front against fascism.—Ed. Note). Report Hitler for Premier. As the negotiations among Hin- jdenburg, von Papen, Hitler and | Bruening in Germany are approach- jing a crucial stage, rumors that the { (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) © gemeine. Zeitung”: is appealing to. the x |Evades Wage Cuts While Speaking In Steel Town; Says Nothing On (By a Worker Correspondent) POTTSTOWN, Pa.—On Aug. 2d the workers of Pottstown had the “honor” (?) of hear-| ing our pious friend, the Rev. Norman Thomas, socialist can- didate for President. He stated that we are in a depression (not a crisis), but if he and his party get elected there might (!) be a change, but he can’t give a clear policy of how this would take place. Did he state what was accom- plished in Germany and England during the fake socialist administra- tion? No, not a word. Did he state anything about the slaves of the Bethlehem Steel Corporation, or equal rights for the Negro people? No, not a peep. About the soldiers’ bonus, he isn’t quite sure: he doesn’t think it is the correct time to pay the bonus, but believes that those who are disabled or destitute should be paid, But he doesn’t know that the great mass of ex-soldiers are destitute, Thomas came out against the bous when the ex- soldiers were in Washington. Now when there is such wide sympathy for the vets, he is trying to dance around the question. Of Roosevelt, the donkey candi- date, he claims that he is a fine citizen. As a neighbor or business man he can't be beat, but as Pres- ident of this glorious land of ours (2) he is not so sure Of Hoover, not ‘a word said against -his. calling-out. the troops on Bloody ‘Thursday. And of the Socialist Party stealing Comrade Foster’s acceptance speech, never a word. White Plains Meeting Tonight Will Protest Arrest “of Unempl. WHITE PLAINS, Aug. 8 —The White Plains section of the Inter- national Labor Defense will hold a demonstration tonight at 815 at Fisher Ave and Grove Street, in| protest of the arrest of several Whie | Plains workers August 4 during an unemployed demonstration. y We Need 40,000 The Daily Worker gives below an account of the strangling debts which threaten the suspension of the pa*er. We publish this because , we know that when the workers understand our needs they will re- spond more decisively. All workers understand that a daily paper, fighting the cause of | Maione stepped trom the running- the working class, hemmed in by enemies on all sides, cannot sur- | vive without the greatest sacrifices on the part of the proletariat. Unless we are able to meet these debts, the crisis will continue Writers and Artists and will threaten to cut off the paper. We ask all workers to con-| tribute to their paper and to get their shopmates and neighbors to| make an immediate and substantial contribution. DIG DEEP TO SAVE YOUR “DAILY”. It must not suspend publication in the midst | he Job» Reed Club, the Revolu- of the greatest struggles that the American working class has ever faced. RUSH YOUR CON-. tionary Writers Federation and the TRIBUTION TO THE DAILY WORKER, 50 EAST 13th ST., DO IT TODAY, DELAY IS DANGEROUS! Printer, Overdue . Workers’ Loans ve Notes to Paper Co., Overdue Short Term Notes, Overdue Needed to Run Daily for Next 7 Wks. ry $20,738.90 | 5,000.00 5,000.00 5,000.00 10,000.00 I contribute $............+.. to the $40,000 Save the “Daily” Drive. Gricrgenny, rele fOr they Peck a CNAME aa aos co gade oct edhe eames dasha cus Caegbe ease cudeus cdae gags sei qegahcs seesaw cote | | | farmers without restrictions by } the government and banks; ex- emption of poor farmers from taxes, and no forced collec- tion of rents or debts. Street City . EAST IN NEW | Japanese “Push Drive | to Seize North China MASS ANGER RISES Partisan Troops siege Mukden Peasant partisan troops pressing vaders of Manchuria have surround- jed the city of Mukden, chief railroad {center and one of the strongest mil- itary base of the Japanese army in Manchuria. The partisan troops have captured Paiyantala, an important center and have advanced almost 100 miles southward to the city of Changtu in pursuit of the defeated Japanese. The partisan troops are also reported to have cleared the Japanese out of Yinkow on the Gulf of Lietung and | to be carrying out a general advance | throughout Manchuria. The Japanese | have been forced to withdraw some of their troops threatening Jahol Province in order to defend Mukden. | The war situation in the Far East | (CONTINUED ON TAGE THREE) ACUTE STAGE Be-| their attack again@ the Japanese in- | fall of Changtu is expected soon. The | WAR IN FAR POLICE BAR VETS AT NEW YORK CITY HALL Marchers Went to Demand Relief from City Government; Cops Guard Doors; Deny Men Right to Sleep In Park | On top is the veterans’ billets being destroyed by fire when the U. S. Army drove the bonus marchers out of the capitol. the flames and gas, five babies o! They are (left to right) Raymond Theresa Smith, In escaping from f the bonus army were left behind. Houser, 2; Janet Reamer, 16 months; 2 1-2, and William Cardoza, 3, CANADA POLICE Worker Charged With Assassination Plot TORONTO, Canada, Aug. 8.— Workers’ Economic Conference was 5th, and charged with vagrancy and remanded for a week. On the following day the Toronto |“Mail and Empire” Conservative |Party organ, published sensational headlines to the effect that Malone's | arrest was ordered by Major-General |MacBrien, head of the mounted po- lice. MacBrien charged that Malone was wanted for a plot on the life| of Jimmy Thomas, leading figure in| the British delegation to the imper- ial Conference and famed through- | lout the world for his open treachery iof the British working class and of |the masses in the British colonies. First Frame-Up Exposed. te days before Malone was ar- rested, an article was received by the “Worker” in which a previous frame | up against Malone was exposed. In this instance, as reported in the | “Worker,” Malone and a number of | other delegates to the Workers’ Ec- onomic Conference were returning to their rooms in a car when they were stopped by officers of the mounted police and the whole party was ar- rested. They demanded to know |which was Malone. They covered thim off and searched him thor- oughly. They made all five prison- ers proceed to the station with them. Arriving at the station, one of the | | officers got out of the car and in- structed Malone to follow him. As board the officer behind him dropped | | (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) Will Protest Against Terror In Hungary | | Under the combined ces ¢ Hungarian Cultural Federation a | mass protest meeting will be held at th® Yorkville Casino, 86th St. be- tween 2nd and 3rd Avenues, on Fri- day, August 12th at 8 p. m. The meeting is being called to register the protests of all workers and in- tellectuals against the wanton execu- tion in Hungary recently of Furst and Sallay. At the same time the meeting endeavoring to stay the death sentence passed on Karikas and Kilian ,revolutionary writers and leaders, A demand will also be de- manded for the release of all other poitical prisoners. Among those who are expected are Sherwood Anderson, Malcolm Crow- ley, Edmund Wilson, Joseph Free- man, Michael Gold, E. Balint, Dr. | Hollos, former president of the Anti- | Tuberculosis Department of Hungary, | Dr. Berkovitz and Hugo Gellert. In order to make the meeting ef- fective all workers and intellectuals are urged to attend. Admission is | IN NEWFRAME-UP_ Daniel Malone, a delegate to the | arrested at his home on Friday, Aug. | | president, | Trade Union Unity Council Is Moving | NEW YORK.—In view of the expansion of certain unions and | their need for larger headquarters, | the Trade Union Unity Council has decided to move its offices to 80 East 11th St. Rooms 237, 238, 239. From now. on all-mail should | | be cent to the above address. The | location of the individual unions | that had their offices at 5 East | 19th St. will be announced in a | few riches FOSTER ON RADIO WED., HARTFORD Later In Pennsylvania and Ohio HARDFORD, Conn., Aug. 8.—Thou- sands of workers throughout New | England and elsewhere will hear Wm. |Z. Foster, Communist candidate for outline the issues of the election campaign and put forward the fighting program of the Party, | when they tune in on Station WOR Wednesday. The broadcast will take place be- | tween 7 p. m. and 7:15 p. m., and will be followed by a mass meeting in Foot Guard Hall, 150 High St. eres Speaks in Anthracite SCRANTON, Pa., Aug. 8—Coming here from a large number of suc- cessful meetings throughout New England, including a rally of 1,800 workers. in Boston, Wm. Z. Foster speaks in this mine section on Fri- | day, Aug. 12. The meeting will be held in Regal Hal!, 125 Franklin Ave. at 7:30 p. m. According to organizers of the kind held !n Scranton in a long time. At least 60 per cent of the local miners are unemployed, the rest are working only two or three days every two weeks, with continuous wage cuts being put through by the oper- | ators. In this they are receiving the support of the Boylan-Lewis machine which has instituted a reign of terror against the membership. Charters are being lifted and members expelled when they resist these conditions. Other Meetings Foster will be in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., Aug. 13; Binghamton, N. Y., Aug. 14; Cleveland, Aug. 17; Toledo, O., Aug. 19; and on Aug. 20, in Columbus, O. The Communist candidate for vice- | president, James W. Ford, will spend the next, three weeks of his nation | wide tout in the state of Pennsyl- | vania and Michigan, after which he swings westward as far as the Pacific Coast. FIGHT EVICTION OF DISABLED VETS FAMILY NEW YORK.—An eviction notice was served to Mrs. Mabel Frankson, wife of a fully disabled veteran to whom the Veterans Bureau refused to grant a pension. She is to be evicted on August 15th from her house at 152 Ten Eyck Street, Brook- lyn for non-payment of rent. The Williamsburg Unemployed Council calls upon all workers to fight against the eviction of this disabled veteran's wife, ‘COPS ATTACK 500 NEEDLE WORKERS | |Jail 5 Who o Attempt to Stop Trucks NEW: YORK.—While the Hillman | clique which heads the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America was | | taking hurried steps today to nego- | tiate a “settlement” to return the aba back to the shops under conditions than before the apbede, the rank and. file con- pene their militant picketing. inst the wishes of the leader- a over 500 workers gathered. in | front of the Branch Trucking Com- pany, Inc., 308 Mercer St. yester- day to protest against the shipment | of unfinished clothing to shops in other cities. Police attacked the workers and arrested 5, One was held for vio- lating the Sullivan law, three for isorderly conduct: and one for | “having a razor in his pocket.” The police attacked the workers viciously ,swinging their clubs in- discriminately. Hyman Silkowitz, a tailor, was singled out by the cops for special brutal clubbing. He was pounced upon by several policemen, beaten unconscious ,taken to the St. | Vincent Hospital and later to jail | when he was hel dfor $500 bail. The mass picketing was led by the} | Amalgamated Rank and File Com- | mittee, In the strike halls the Hillman machine continued to refuse the floor to the rank and file tailors. Committee called on the workers to continue the militant picketing and to insist that the Clothing Exchange ships, where Monan, Hillman and | meeting, it will be the largest of its | Jackson recently granted a wage- | cut, be stopped and that the cut be | taken back. | Sherwood Anderson to Lead Group to Protest | | Against Vets’ Murder NEW YORK—The | Natoinal Com- | mittee for the Defense of Political Prisoners, 799 Broadway, announced today that a delegation of writers | and intellectuals headed by Sherwood | Anderson, well known novelist, will | proceed to Washington, D. C. tomor- row to protest personally to President Hoover against the violent eviction | of the bonus army from the capital. Besides Sherwood Anderson, who | will act as chairman, the delegation | will be composed of the following | Quincey Howe, James Rorty, John Brooks Wheelwright and Professor H. W. L. Dana. The delegation will be joined in Washington by William Jones, editor |of the Baltimore Afro-American. DENIED FOOD; BREAKS WINOW NEW YORK.—An _ unemployed worker, desperate with hunger, threw his shoe through the window of the Fourteenth St. “Automat” Sunday night, and then waited for arrest, in order to be fed. The Automat manager had just refused him a bbow! of soup ‘ cds ee The Amalgamated Rank and File | Communist Party Urges All Work ers’ Organizations to Support Vet- evans’ Fight Against Hunger and Terror | NEW YORK, Aug. 8.—The |Tammany government, follow- jing the line of the Hoover | government, slammed the City | Hall doors today on a group of 'hungry World War veterans |who came to demand relief | from Mayor James J. Walker Over a hundred veterans, part of the New York ‘Now Is. the Time | For Mass Support In Vets’ Fight! Now is the time to mobilize all the forces of the working-class in support of the struggle of the ex- servicemen for their back wages |and relief. Not a day must be delayed. Every trade union, workers frat- erm organization, unemployed branch and club must at once | rally its entire membership to |protest against the brutal treat- |ment given the veterans in all parts of the country and to link |5P the struggles of the veterans | with the struggles of the workers as a whole. The widest support must bs | given to the Workers Ex-Service- |men’s League in preparation for | the national conference to be held | in Cleveland. Organize mass meetings in every working-class neighborhood, in | front of factory gates, to demand relief and food for the veterans | | and unemployed workers. The veterans fight is part of the fight of the entire toiling class against hunger and war. Show the veterans your working-class solidarity by coming to their sup- port NOW! |contingent, who were driven trom | Washington and then from John- |stown, gathered this morning in City | Hall Plaza and demanded to see the Mayor. Instead of seeing the Mayor, |who is very busy nowadays trying to cover up his recent graft episodes, the vets were confronted with the usual show of force and violence. |Armed policemen guarded all ap- {(CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) ACTION MEET OF N.Y.C. JOBLESS | Unemployed Council Plans Bread Parade NEW YORK.—The Unemployed Council of Greater New York calls on all unions, all workers’ organiza- | tions, veterans’ organizations, clubs» etc,, all workers’ in block commit- | tees, bread lines. flop houses and relief agencies, to designate some of their members as- active fighters | against unemployment. These active fighters are called to |a meeting August 15 at 7:30 p.m., at |Manhattan Lyceum, to prepare @ great Bread Parade on September 10, The Unemployed Council in its cir- cular letter to all workers’ organiza« | tions outlines proposed demands for the unemployed to make through the bread parade. Among them are: Im- mediate appropriations to provide cash relief for all unemployed with- out discrimination as to color, na= tionality, citizenship, residence age jor sex; abolition of the present red | tape questionnaire system; a mini- mum of $10 for each family of two, and $3 more for each dependent; | at least $1 a day cash for each job- less single man, woman or youth; no evietions; no forced contributions, Movie Crowd Hisses Terror Against Vets (By a Worker Correspondent) I went to a 15 cent movie house on 14th Street last night with a friend of mine. After reading the bosses’ papers about the attack on the bonus-seeking veterans he was | not quite sure that the attack wasn't justified. But when the newsreels of the attack was shown on the screen some in the audience began to hiss. In a few minutes the whole theatre was hissing the armed sol- diers, Therefore he changed his mind and decided that the army and those who control it were not what they are cracked up to ba, \ os