The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 10, 1932, Page 1

“ VOTE COMMUNIST FOR 1. Unemployment and Social Insurance at the ex- pense of the state and employers. 2. Against Hoover’s wage-cutting policy. 3. Emergency relief for the poor farmers without restrictions by the government and banks; ex- emption of poor farmers from taxes, and no forced collection of rents or debts. ; Daily, Central sa Entered as second-class matter at the Post “GEB~2 Office at New York, N. Y., under the act 5. suppression of the 6. the Chinese people ~m_— ey VOTE COMMUNIST FOR Equal rights for the Negroes and self-determin- ation for the Black Belt. Against capitalist terror; against all forms of political rights of workers. Against imperialist war; for the defense of and of the Soviet Union. Price 3 Cents_ NATIONAL CONFERENCE TO LAUNCH NATION-WIDE DRIVE FOR VET DEMANDS Cleveland Meet Sept. 23-24-25 to Fight Hoover Program of “Billions _for Wall Street; Not A Cent for Vets and Jobless’: CALL FOR MASS RANK AND FILE BONUS FIGHT. Vets Get Toe ether With Jobless, Elect Delegates ‘Phe Central Rank and File Com- mittee and Workers Ex-Service- men’s League yerterda ed the following call for a national con- ference of rank and file veterans {o organize a nation-wide fight for the benus. The conference will he held in Cleveland, Ohio, Sept. 24, and 25th. Com Veterans: Hoover's slogan “Billions for Wall Street; Not a Cent fer the Vet- erans and Unemployed.” President Hoover drove us out of Washington with the army, using bayonets, sabres, gas bombs and fire. Hoo- Ver’s police shot down our comrades, Huska and Carlson. Hoover thought by thes? methods to smash the de- mands of four million veterans, over haif of whom are literally starving with their families, and leave us to our fate, At the same moment, Hoo- ver ang Congress hastily and gladly gave three billion dollars additional to the banks and corporations fol- lowing the two billions given last Jan- uary and spends huge sums for new wars. The slogan of Hoover and Congress is: Billions for Wall Street but not one cent for the starving veterans and unemployed. The Fight for the Bonus Has Just Begun But the fight has only begun. The rank and file veterans are learning ‘through these experiences the reason for the vote against the bonus and the bloody evacuation from Wash- ington. Only a greater organized power will force Hoover and Con- is (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) | Racketeer Truax Starts New Group ||to Split Miners By AMY SCHECHTER. BRIDGEPORT, Ohio, Aug. William Truax, slinger of radical phrases, running for office on the ticket of the “Liberty Party” (niked with the Father Cox movement), is | the latest recruit to the united front | of coal operators, government and United Mine Workers of America officialdom, in their campaign to | bind down the East Ohio miners to |intolerable slave conditions, ‘Truax, at the present time re- | ported to be a U.M.W.A. official at Shadyside, in the Bellaire section, has just formed the “Belmont County Relief Association,” based on U. M. W. A. supporters in the mining camps ,and is trying to use his or- ganization to break the miners away from the National Miners’ Union and the Workers’ International Re- lief. Left Slogans. At this opening stage of the fight, Truax is trying to pull in the miners by using the fighting talk that he knows they are hungry to hear. It is said that sometimes he even re- sorts to the use of some of the “Red's” fighting slogans. But, at the same time, while slinging militant phrases, Truax is in fact trying his best to entangle the men in a mesh of legalistic illusions, to get them to accept the policy of hanging on to the coat-tails of county and state authorities as a ‘substitute for the fighting policy advocated by the N. M. U. to accept the policy of petitions instead of the policy of struggle. Above all, he is trying to divide and weaken the miners’ ranks in their most vital fight today, the fight for immediate relief, the fight for bread. Always for the Money. Truax is not a new name in these parts. He has always had a way of (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) Clothing Bosses and Hillman Putting Through Wage-Cuts Under Cover of Stoppage Workers Called to Fight New Attack; Picket the Association Shops WARN TAILORS AGAINST TRICKS OF HILLMAN Amalgamated Leaders Plan Strengthen the Bosses’ Organizations NEW YORK.—Workers in the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of ‘America must be on their guard against the new wage cut which the Hillman machine is preparing to put over, under the cover of the stoppage called a few days ago, Hillman has called the strike for two purposes. (1) To build up and ee a strengthen the clothing manufactur- ors associations, (2) To put over a wweeping wage-cut in the industry, Put Over Cut for 4,000 , Although Hillman says the stop- page is called against wage-cuts and sweat-shop conditions, it is a well- known fact.that he has already help- ed to put into effect a wage-cut for vver 4,000 workers in the industry. The workers in the Chas. D, Jaffe thop were given a cut amounting to 5 per cent, The J. J. Price shop was ut 10 per cent; the Goldie and Son workers were slashed 20 per cont. All ‘hese cuts were put over by the boss- *s with the aid of Mr. Hillman. Now Mr. Hillman is preparing to out cuts into effect throughout the ntire industry. Strengthen Bosses’ Outfit At the same time, however, he is attempting to strengthen ‘the New York Clothing Men’s Exchange and che Greater Clothing Contractors’ Association. By directing the fight- ng energy of the workers against the ndependent contractors, urging the vorkers to only stop trucks working gr these shops, Hillman is utilizing | he workers to build the bosses’ or- sanizations. All this is done under he guise of “fighting against sweat hop conditions.” What Hillman fears is that the yorkers will direct their fight against the Contractors Association shops where the wage cut wds only recently ie into effect. There are over 4,000 orkers in thes shops who have not yeen called out, Picket Contractors Assn. Shops The workers, in order to defeat the in bétrayal, must do just that eting against the shops of the Con-|*— tractors Association. Demand that. the wage cut be taken back in these shops. Go in masses to the shops. Fetch the workers out on a real strike against the wage cut. . Refuse to go back to the shops until the wage cut is taken back. Stop the Association trucks. Leading Candidates to Speak at Central Red N. Y. Election Rallies NEW YORK —The first three of a series of central election campaign demonstrations scheduled for the pre-election months in the various sections of New York City, at which the main state candidates will speak, will be held Friday, August 12, in the Upper Bronx, Brownsville and Lower Manhattan, William W. Weinstone, candidate for the U./S. Senate, will be the main speaker at the lower Manhattan cen- tral demonstrations, to be held at Seventh Street and Avenue B. Israel Amter, candidate for Governor, will speak at the Brownsville demon- stration at Hopkins and Pitkin Ave- nues, Moisaye Olgin, candidate in the 24th Congressional district, will be the main speaker at the Upper Bronx demonstration, to be held at 174th St. and Vyse Ave. These demonstrations, to be held at eight o'clock, will be the rallying points to which workers will march from mobilization open-air meetings a re seamen PRA Se cnet ag EDITH BERKMAN’S LETTER TELLS OF HER PERSECUTION Calls Upon W orkers to Stage Protests NEW YORK.—Following the plac- ing of armed guards around the Cen- tral New England Sanatorium where Edith Berkman, militant strike lead- er held for deportation is kept a prisoner, the authorities are now playing searchlights about the yard during the night, according to a let- ter received yesterday by the Daily Worker. Writing from her cot in the san- atorium, Edith Berkman reports: Perseewtes Militant’ “Searchlights are played about the yard all night, federal agents wan- der about the place opening ana clos- ing doors, testing locks, examining all entrances and exists, and in general making life miserable for me as well as the other patients. “Dr. Crane, head of institution, is permitting these outrageous horrors to be perpetrated, in a hospital—in a so-called ‘neutral zone.’ Dr. Crane, who claims to be at all times guided by medical ethics and concern for his patients, ignores these ethics when his bosses, Doak and Tillinghast or- der him to do so, Only several weeks ago he stated that my tubercular condition was getting worse and com- plications were setting in. Now, in obedience to Tillinghast and Doak, he is ready to lie about my health, and thus*enable Doak to ship me off to Poland. This, although he and other doctors have stated that a trip, or any other disturbance, would be dangerous for my health.” Visitors Quizzed At the same time, in a statement SECYSTINSON IN WARNING TO JAPANESE Imperialist C lash Grows Over Control of China SITUATION TENSE UCS, Prates | of Peace; Prepares for War Japanese officials are reported to have expressed sharp resentment over Stimson’s speech on the radio Monday night. The Japanese Em- bassy at Washington has been in- structed by Tokyo to send a detailed report on the speech. Cetera 3 In a speech over the radio on Mon- day night, U. S. Secretary of State Stimson attacked the present Japa- nese challenge against American dollar control of China as manifasted especially in Japan’s military prep- arations to invade and seize North China, Stimson re-stated the American policy of the so-called “Open Door” in China, He threatened Japan with a re-opening of the whole question of the Japanese seizure of Manchu- ria, which the Wall Street govern- ment, together with the League of Nations, formerly supported on the basis that the Japanese would use Manchuria as a jumping-off board for armed intervention against the Soviet Union. He referred to the Kellogg “peace pact” which the Jap- anese have treated with the utmost contempt as “more than a mere ges- ture.” Covers Up War. He spoke glibly of the “renuncia- tion” of war while covering up. the fact that the Wall Street, Govern- ment is today engaged in war on the people of Nicaragua, Haiti and other Latin American countries, as well as against its unemployed workers and war veterans, while at the same time rushing gigantic preparations for a new world slaughter, directed mainly against the Soviet Union but aimed issued by the International Labor Defense, it is charged that “all of Berkman’s visitors are cross-exam- ined and that she herself is spied upon, scrutinized, and made the ob- ject of provocative remarl Trial Today, of Jones, Farrari, Slugged at April 21 Jobless Meet NEW YORK. — Jones and Far- rari, arrested at the unemployed demonstration held in City Hall Park, April 21, are to be tried by Judge Morris Koening, today in General Sessions Court 2, City Hall. ‘These two workers, who were part | of the delegation sent to demand un- employment insurance for the un- employed, were beaten with several others by the police when arrested. The International Labor Defense urges the workers to fill the court. also at a redivision of the world. “A nation which sought to mask imperialistic policy under the ‘guise of protection of its own nationals would soon be unmasked.” Conceals Real Motive In his efforts to conceal from the American masses the real motive of Wall Street's opposition to the Jap- anese plans to seize ..orth China, Stimson hypocritically presented the Wall Street Government as “defend- ing” China’s territorial integrity and “leading” the struggle for peace. He referred to his notification to Japan on January 7 that the United States would not recognize the Japanese seizure of Manchuria, but maintain- ed discreet silence on the previous support given by the Wall Street gov- ernment to the Japanese occupation of Manchuria. His speech is aimed to force the Japanese back to the original tacit understanding for an immediate attack on the Soviet Union and away from their challenge to American loot in North China, William Z. Foster, candidate for President, who was Monday evening @rrested in Law- rence, Mass., when he attempted to speak at an open-air meeting at Communist the City Hall Plaza. The hand of the Lawrence wage-cutting mill owners is seen in the arrest of the workers’ candidate. LAUNCH STRUGGLE THRU FORD MEET AT PITTSBURGH 100 Join Communist Party; Meeting Is Fight for Jobless PITTSBURGH, Pa., August 9.— Careathers and the two women ar- rested in the anti-eviction fight are held on $500 bail each, charged with “inciting to riot”, with trial set for next Tuesday. Bail money and funds for defense should be sent to the International Labor Defense office, 611 Penn Ave., Pitts- burgh, PITTSBURGH, Pa., Aug. 9.—Truck- loads of miners and steel workers from all around the surrounding sec- tion and 1,000 local workers attended the great “Ford for Vice-Presidednt” rally-diere last night. As this story is being written, news (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) Labor Defense Obtains Reduction of Bail Tn Case of Sam Weinstein NEW YORK. — Having succeeded in having the bail for Samuel Wein~ stein, held in the Bronx county jail on a frame-up manslaughter charge, reduced from $50,000 to $25,000, the International Labor Defense an- nounced yesterday that it will press for a further reduction in the bond in order to bring about the worker's release. Weinstein, leader of the Muskin furniture strike in Brooklyn, was ar- rested and charged with the murder of the wife of a scab, Weissglass, in the Bronx. The framed-up worker at the time was in Brooklyn, miles away from the scene. Weissglass, who is taking an active part in the frame-up of Weinstein, has a bad record among the workers, causing dissention among them and fighting militant, united front actions against the bosses. Moreover, they charge that Weissglass who was with his wife at the time of the alleged attack, had frequently mistreated her. On several occasions, the workers de- clare, she was forced to leave him. William Z. Foster Says: “Let Us Save Our Daily”’ By WILLIAM Z. FOSTER. The call of the Daily Worker for $40,000 demands the energetic and enthusiastic response of every class conscious worker. The Daily is a mighty weapon in the hands of the working class. It is the chief spokesman of the party in the election campaign. By means of the Daily Worker we are in hourly and daily touch with the working masses. reptile press to spread its poison in the ranks of the toilers. The capitalist class uses the The Daily alone exposes these enemies, sheds light on the situation of the workers, points the way out of the present condition of unbearable poverty and oppression. The critical need for funds which has compelled this campaign must be turned into a mass mobilization of the workers behind its press. Through the campaign we must build a granite wall of support for the Daily, organize its friends and readers, win new readers and assure a steady enough income to do away with the periodical S.0.S. calls, Every Party member, revolutionary trade unionist, active fighters in the Unem- ployed Councils, workers in the shops and mines, as well as in all working class organiza- tions must rally more speedily to the call of the Daily. TO GIVE SPEEDILY, IS 70 GIVE DOUBLY! We need the Daily for closing the ranks of the workers against the ruthless drive of the capitalists. Carry the Campaign to success. Let us save the Daily. I contribute $.....0eeseee ees Name Street CILY, mresprow eee 429.00 64neeresememesees nr ee gored to the $40,000 Save the “Daily” Drive. Candidate Jailed As He Prepares to Speak to Crowd of 3,000; Bosses Fear Growing Fight Against Wage Cuts and Starvation =< Foster Is Arrested at Lawrence Meeting Mill soldiers and Washington police. derous attack by the Hoover gover Driven from Washington with tear gas, bayonets, cavalry and tanks, the ex-servicemen for days were being sought like hunted animals by Photo shows helmeted soldiers search- ing Washington trolley for vets who still remained following the mur- nment, “They're seeking Reds,” was the stock “explanation” of the Washington capitalist press, to Deal wi DENY HITLER WILL BERLIN. penalty for other repressive measures against Cabinet, The decree received th Hindenburg who is out of Berlin. * Aug. A special meeting of the German Papan for the purpose of adopting |Moves On to Include Fascists in Government | With Centrist-Socialist Support Von Papen Threats Death Penalty As Cabinet Meets ith 1 Emergency Armed Nazis Spread Terr or Throughout Reich, Kill Communist, Socialist Workers In Homes BE GERMAN PREMIER BULLETIN. 9—An emergency decree establishing the death those responsible of acts of terrorism and increasing all “rioters” was adopted by the Reich e telephonic approval of President * * Cabinet was called by Chancellor Von “draconian measures” against terror, | dispatches from Berlin indicated yesterday, ‘Among the measures contemplated is the death penalty for anybody “found with a gun wherever a disorder occurs resulting in a killing. Special Many Endangered Company Played With Passengers’ Lives NEW YORK. — The lust of the In- terborough ‘Rapid Transit Company for nickels endangered the lives of thousands and resulted in injuries to nearly a score yesterday when a short circuit fire broke out in the feeder cable manholes at Walker and Lafay- ette Street, downtown Manhattan, Altheurh (he trouble became known to the LR.T., at 9:26 a. m,, the company permitted trains to pro- ceed south from Ith St. into the danger zone for hours thereafter Even before “investigations” were under way, officials of the I. R, T. were quick to excuse themselves from all responsibility by announcing that a “careless workman's pick” had caused the short circuit which ‘re- sulted in the fire. ‘The choking smoke in the trains drove hundreds of passengers to emergency exits through black-gas- filled tunnels, as gasping for air — they struggled to safety, Women screamed and children wept as the trains, filled with the deadly fumes, crawled at a snails- pace to the stations. Scores bitterly denounced the I.R.T. for its criminal action in permitting the trains to proceed into the danger zone, Partial service on the line was re- sumed only after three and one half hours, The entire metropolitan press yes- terday was filled with official press “handouts” of the I. R. T. seeking to evade responsibility for the fire and the suffering which resulted. Yonkers Mass Meeting Tonite Demands Relief YONKERS, N. Y., Aug. 9. — Wed- nesday night at 8 o'clock there will be a mass meeting ‘at Linden and Park Hill, to demand the right to the use of the streets by workers for their meetings, and to demand the creep ececerennases cece egy secegenars city provide relief'to the unemployed | pendant, ~ In Subway Fire my “Courts to deal with political offenders will also be established. Intensify Fascist Terror. Fascist terror in the meantime ts being intensified throughout Ger- many, National Socialists (fascists) arrested are later releaesd, indicating that the measures to be adopted will not be directed to curb fascist terrér but to suppress the Communist Party and prevent the workers from fight- ing back the attacks of the Nazis. Rumors that Government's repre- sentatives offered the Chancellor's seat. to Adolph Hitler were denied by spokesmen of Von Papen at his of- fice. “The Chancellor does not intend to resign,” they said. Hindenburg Arrives Today. President Hindenburg is expected in Berlin today to decide the fate of the present Von Papen Govern- ment. It is reported that he does not intend to dismiss Von Papen. Several reasons are advanced for this. First of all it is argued that the President intends to keep the Government “above political parties,” second, Hit- ler as Chancellor would create Inter- national “apprehension” by conferr- ing a govermental seal on the fascist militia, which at present is not con- sidered as part of Germany's armed forces. Ready to Include Nazis in. Cabinet. The Center Party, headed by form- er Chancellor Bruening, is reported ready to support a new cabinet in cluding Nazis. It is stated therefore that although Hitler may not be the Chancellor of the Government, he and three or four of his associates will hold important offices when the Cabinet will be re-organized. Socialists for “Strong Government.” The socialists are silent and their silence is interpreted as indicating that they will support “a strong gov- ernment” which, as Hindenburg claims, will be “above parties” and wil restore order.” The fact that the socialists joined the Nationalists in demanding emer- gency measures “against terror,” which in reality is part of the drive to suppress the Communists, is also considered as meaning that they will support Von Papenism, at the rate of $10 for each family of | two, with $2 for each.additional de- €Fz Bramhall, Militant Leader, Heads Committee to City Council to De- mand Right to Meet; Chamber of Commerce Leads Attack Army tes Vets on Washington Street Cars LAWRENCE, Mass., Aug. 9.— The second time he opened his tour, William Z. Foster, Communist since, campaign | candidate for president, w: arrested when he attempted to speak here last night from | an automobile at the City Hall |Plaza, where 3,000 workers | gathered to hear him He was charged with “o ructing a highway’ ’and “disturbing the \peace,” Later he was released on bail. The meeting last night followed the action of the Li Jowners in exerting presst |the owner of the Colonial |to close the place to Foster who was |to have spoken there la turflay |night. A protest meeting atten }id |By more than 500 was at once hdd jin another meeting, and the worke ers told that “permit or no permit” Foster would speak in the city Mon- day night. Go to City Council. A delegation was selected which yesterday morning created a stormy {session at the City Council by de- manding a permit for the meeting at the City Hall Plaza and exposing the role of the mill owners in bar- ring working class meeting in the city. Samuel Bramhall, for whom workers voted when he ran mayor in the last election, was the spokesman of the workers’ commit- tee, He is now a candidate for the city councilman and head of the wel. 1,260 (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) VICTIM OF FORD MASSACRE DIES Williams, Negro, We Clubbed and Gased DETROIT, Aug. 9,—Arrangements are being made for a mass funera; for Curtis Williams, a Negro worker who was gassed and clubbed in the Ford hunger march on March 7 and who died Sunday as a result of the gassing. Williams was born in Ken- tucky 37 years ago and lived in De- troit for 22 years. He was a formen Ford worker and also worked at the Cadillac, Hudson gnd Chalmers plants, He was arrested twice, once for distributing leaflets and once for turning on the electricity for an evicted family. Comrade Williams was an ex-soldier. He had been in the hospital since March 13, The body will lie in state at Ferry Hall, from where it will be taken for burial on Saturday. SHOE STRIKERS WIN ONCE MORE Victory at Riverside in 3 Weeks’ Struggle NEW YORK. — The strike at the Riverside Slipper Co., conducted by the Shoe and Leather Workers In= dustrial Union was settled yesterday. This was an organized shop before the strike. The boss maneuvered to break the ranks through all sorts of provocations. The climax was reached when one of the firm's agents cre- ated disturbances in the shop by fighting and intimidating the work- ers. Though a worker like the rest and a member of the union, this individual was trying to break up the organization to suit his own am- bitious ends. The boss was forced after three weeks of strike to admit his defeat and recognize the shop committee. One of the main conditions in this settlement was that this very indl- vidual who was the cause of the strike shall not go back to work be= fore his case is taken up with the union’s executive who will decide whether he is to go back on the job or not, Three Strikes Remain, Three more strikes are now carried on by the union, The Princely Slip- per Co., §-Star Shoe Co, Te th