The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 10, 1932, Page 3

| District | “Liberal” Llano Colony Is Forced Labor Trap “Cooperative” Method of “Growing Peacefully Into Socialism” Is Exploitation Racket Workers Complaining of Poor Food or Talking of Class Struggle / Are Dviven Out (By a Worker ker Correspondent) DEMING, N. M.—I write this letter to warn workers and unemployed against going to New Llano, the colony in Louisiana, or thinking of the Liano-way out of the depression. These poor deluded rank and file workers are in the worst state of despair and depression, Anyone not knowing the meaning of the word demagogy will see a demonstration of it at this place. Workers there have many wheat-© less and meatless days, and never do eggs, butter, sugar tea or coffee ap- pear on the table. They get rice, peas and sweet potatoes, with occasionally @ gravy containing a few scraps of meat. From what I hear, that has been the bill of fare for 17 years. I heard many mothers complain their children were going to bed hungry, as not even enough milk was provid- ed, Food For Rich. There is a store with supplies to sell to the colonists who have money, but if a poor family goes there with- cut money they will go to bed hun- ery. About 400 or 500 are now domi- ciled there in “The Pine Clad West- ern Highland of Louisiana,” The management sends out literature misrepresenting conditions, Such stuff as deludes workers go- ing there also deludes idealists into sending contributions, and it is on these contributions with the convict labor of the rank and file workers that the management lives and fat- tens. No wages are paid, while every colonist applying for membership is supposed.to pay a fee or else turn in all money or wealth he or she may possess and live and work commu- nistically, yet I saw that no one did that, as after getting a line on the racket the newcomers would keep in his pocket enough to buy food and get out as soon as possible. Bulletin Board. The bulletin board, which is the place where items of news from capi- talist press and radio are placed each day, plays up news of starvation or hunger marches, to make the work- ers believe they are lucky to be going the Llano Way. Not a single bit of news from the U.S.S.R., but all the slanderous vile propaganda printed by the Hearst papers like the arti- cles of Isaac Don Levine, etc, is used. There is factionalism and strife be- tween the Vegetarians, pacifists, ‘Thsosophists and Christian Scien- t Atheists, Spiritualists, etc. but no class. struggle. Any attempt at protest by the rank and file is quickly suppressed. The general manager has called on capitalist courts to help with capitalist force oust those who protest or ask ques- tions as to how the proceeds from labor are disposed of, The Llano Del Rio Colony racket was started in California 17 years ago but later moved to Llano, La. A few anarchists, spiritualists and veg- etarians, having some capital in- vested in this colony scheme, later saw the possibility of fleecing both ‘the sympathetic public and unem- ployed workers, so now it has been boosted as the ideal place and peace- ful way to arrive at socialism. A Marxist is considered the worst en- emy, and anyone talking of class struggle is ousted, “DAILY” LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS A Wort ON EMERGENCY FENANGIAY, DRIVE AS OF AUG. 8, 1! District Mlstrict istrict istrict District Ristriot istrict District District District District District District | District strict 0—Ka1 11—North Dakota 12—Seattle ___. 13—California 14—Newark 15—Connectieut 16—North Carolina —Al District 17- District etobnie Total from Districts. $1,583.99 not included Car Camp Kinderiand —_—- Grand Total ___. 3,487.82 DISTRICT OSTON Fi Siegel, Cambridge, Mass——_.____$5.00 Y. De Nauw, Manchester, N, H.— 1.00 DISTRICT 2—NEW YORK Unit of Nitgedaiget, Camp Nitgedaiget..1.00 Leibor 4.85 Ww: American Youth Federation, New York 15 A, Gutkowsky, New York... 1.00 ‘W. Saketal, New York - 8.00 P. Farber, Brooklyn —.... 80 Brownsville Wo! Acme Theatre, Marle Braddock, J. A. P., Bronx A member of Garfinkel h Side Uni | Wm, Schmidt, iitiburgh | Lena Poosik, Fiwood City, Pa. DISTRICT ¢—ORIO | vie 8-81, Cleveland —__ | 8-41, Cleveland 40, Clevelan: Immediate payment of the ‘Bonus’ to the ex-soldiers FOSTER ARRESTED), IN TEXTILE CITY Lawrence Bosses Fear Fight on Wage Cuts (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) fare department in charge of relief. Workers who filled the Council Chambers repeatedly applauded Bramhall who in addition to de- manding the right of free speech and assemblage, demanded adequate relief for the thousands of starving textile workers of the city. The line-up in Lawrence is seen from the fact that opposing Bram- hall and the workers’ committee in their demand for the right of free speech for the workers, was John J. O'Rourke, secretary of the Chamber of Commerce, who urged that “all Communist meetings in Lawrence be barred.” At the same time Alderman Gal- vin, spokesman for the council policy, declared that “the city coun- cil, Chamber of Commerce and other similar groups should interest them- selves in securing cooperation from mill owners,” Action Is Denounced. The Foster-Ford election cam- paign denounced the arrest of Foster and charged that “the mill owners, bankers and the ‘Secret Three’ be- hind Mayor White are leaving no stone unturned to prevent the work- ers of Lawrence from taking action against wage cuts and spreading starvation, which caused the death of a worker right on the City Com- mon Saturday. This is part of the plan to prevent the workers of the city from rising up against the wage cuts and starvation and against the cutting off of what little relief is now being distributed.” Hathaway Scores Arrest The arrest of Foster and the break- ing up of the Lawrence meeting which he was to address was denounced in. a statement issued yesterday by Clar- ence Hathaway, chairman of the National Communist Campaign Com- mittee, which said: “The denial of free speech, the arrest of William Z. Foster at Law- rence, Mass., seems to be a concerted move of the police throughout the country to stop all working class meetings addressed by the standard bearers of the Communist Party, This is the second time that Foster has been arrested since the campaign opened. James W. Ford, our vice- presidential candidate, was arrested only a few days “ago in Washington. The Communist presidential cam- paign will proceed in spite of this denial of political rights to workers, and we call upon all workers every- where to organize in defense of their political rights, as well as the right of their candidates to address the tens of thousands of people flocking to Communist meetings. The Com- munist Party raises as one of the central issues in the present election campaign the struggle against capi- talist terror and against all forms of suppression of the political rights of the workers,” “Dictated by Mill. Owners” _“The arrest of William Z. Foster, Communist candidate for President, in Lawrence was dictated by the mill owners, who fear the growing move- ment among the workers against the assistant sceretary of the Trade put over,” declared Jack Stachel, continuous wage cuts that have been Union Unity League. Foster is the national secretary of the organiza- tion. “It is significant that while A. J. Muste, who backs the Socialist Party, is permitted to speak in Lawrence, Foster meetings are barred and Foster himself arrested. The reason is no doubt to be found in Muste’s services to the mill owners in help- ing to drive strikers back to their looms whenever they engage in a struggle against the bosses.” War Funds for the Jobless— through mass circulation of the Daily Worker. DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 10, 1932 For Equal Rights for Negroes and Self-Determination for Black Belt Washington Police Terror Rages Against Negroes; Legal Lynching in Sight Crowd of Workers Attacked by Police Tried to Rescue Arrested Man; Cop Dies Police Provocation Eve r Since Attack On Vet-| erans; Try Bar Negroes from Parks WASHINGTON, D. C., August 9,—Sunday and yesterday police con- | tinued arrests of all Negro workers they consider leaders in a flare up of resentment among Washington's large population of Negro workers, against | over a dozen Negro workers in cells, | police brutality, There are already and the frame-up machine is working overtime to send some of them to death for the killing of Policeman ®- LAUNCH STRUGGLE M. J. Kennedy early Sunday morn- ing. Cop Attacked Workers, Kennedy came upon a group of Negro workers, including some wo- men at Logan circle, Following the concerted plan of the police espe- cially during the last few days since the bonus affair, Kennedy charged into this crowd with club and re- volver, jabbing and threatening and ordering them to get off the streets. He singled out one Negro worker and arrested him and was driving him to the corner to wait for the patrol wagon, when the workers smarting under this and previous assaults, suddenly rallied, and fought with the cops to release the prisoner. Someone. took his club and gun away and hit the policeman over the head with his own club. The cop died three hours later in the hospital, from a fractured skull. Raids and Arrests, Immediately the Washington newspapers launched a tirade against the Negro population of Washington,’ and a series of arrests followed, called in the press, “a round-up of colored desperadoes.” It appears that the police, with the aid of the newspapers, have been trying ever since the notorious attack on the war veterans, to di- vert public attention from that, and have deliberately tried to Provoke | race war. They have beaten up in- dividual Negroes, smashed any group of two or three or more seen on the street, arrested (under Washington's vicious “vagrancy Jaw”) and have arbitrarily seized, questioned, threat- ened and terrorized Negro workers who were not even arrested. Negroes Aroused, They seem to have a policy of simply denying the streets and parks to the Negro workers, The whole Negro worker population, which may be three fourths of the entire indus- trial working population here, is aroused, and is for the crowd that fought back against Kennedy, ‘The necessity for a mass campaign for release of the arrested Negro workers and against the police ter- -{ror in the nation’s capital city is very great. The International Labor Defense both locally and nationally is looked to for defense by Wash- ington workers, “The struggle against militarism must not be postponed until the moment when war breaks out. Then it will be too late. The struggle against war must be car- ried on now, daily, hourly.” LENIN, HAIL NEW METAL UNION Greeted by 2,000,000 Soviet Workers PITTSBURGH, Pa., Aug. 9.—The following cablegram from the So- viet Bureau of the snvernational Committee of Metal Workers greet- ing the Aug. 13-15 convention here to form a Steel and Metal Workers Industrial Union, has just been re- ceived. “In behalf of over two million or- ganized Metal Workers in the So- viet Union, the Soviet Bureau of the International Committee sends brotherly proletarian greetings to the first convention of revolution- ary metal workers in America, Un- der the guidance of the Trade Union Unity League and the Red united front into struggle against the capitalist offensive, against fascist terror, against the prepara- tion of a new imperialist war, for the defense of the Soviet Union. Long live the revolutionary Metal Workers of America. Long live In- ternational proletarian solidarity.” THRU FORD MEET Communist _ Rally Is Over 1,000 Strong (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) comes of a mass struggle against the eviction of an unemployed workers’ family in the Hill section where Ne- gro workers live, and the arrest of Ben Carreathers, a Negro and Com- munist candidate for the state legis lature. Julia Parker and Ann Allen, two white women workers were also arrested. Back Jobless Struggle. The Ford meeting also elected dele~ gates to the August 19 city confer- ence on unemployment which will prepare a hunger march on August 31 from all over Allegheny county to ‘Pittsburgh, thus proving again that the Communist election campaign is a part of the every day struggle of workers and unemployed workers. A colorful parade through. the Hill section preceded the Ford rally in Watt School Auditorium. The hall was full to overflowing. Six hundred of those present were Negro workers, and a hundred of these applied for jadmission to the Communist Party after Ford’s speech, Blasts “Prosperity” Bunk. James Ford, Communist candidate for vice-president, showed in his speech how in each crisis, the capital- ists and their government spokesmen promise new prosperity. Now the bankers and capitalists, including Owen D. Young and Eugene Meyers of the Federal Reserve System have organized a new publicity campaign to show “prosperity is returning”, but the continued decline in basic indus- tries reported in other parts of the same newspapers which carry the prosperity dope give it the lie. ‘The “prosperity talk” said Ford, is only a pre-election maneuver, which will not feeq unemployed workers or give them jobs. On the contrary, Ford pointed out, new masses are thrown out of work every month, Socialists Aid Fascists. Ford exposed the socialists, whose national chairman, Hillquit, is now trying to prove that it is a good thing for Hitler to take power in Germany but actually Hillquit only proves that the socialists pave the way for fas- Garl Price, Communist district or- ganizer, exposed the Blue Shirt and Unemployed Party movement of the Catholic Priest, Cox. Cox is now pre- paring for his fascist convention in St. Louis, on August 16, But already Cox has organized gangs to break up Communist meetings in and around Pittsburgh. The “Blue Shirts” did not dare to attack Ford's meeting. The meeting qemanded the release of Edith Berkman and of the miners now in Blawnox penitentiary. Ford will tour for the next ten days in the mine and steel towns around Pittsburgh. Bungalows and Rooms to Rent for Suzamer Season Several very nice Toms Tooms and bungalows for rent for the summer season. Ly 4 ful farm in Eastern Pennsylvania, 60 miles from Philadelphia. Running water, tlectrieity, swimming, fishing, ete. Rea- sonable rates, ateate, with Tom Jessor, April Farm, Coopersburg, Pa. (1). James W, Ford, Communist Candidate for Vice-President, speaking in Vienna, Austria, in the summer of 1931, on behalf of the Scottsboro boys and colonial peo- ples, Ford was reported from there by the socialist chief of folice, Graetz. (2) Ford with a committee of Russian workers from the factory “Dinamo” at a pro- test meeting in Moscow against the beating up of an American Negro by two white American en* gineers at the Stalingrad Tractor Works, That doesn’t go in work~ ers’ Soviet Russia! (3) At a meet- ing of the Anti-Imperialist League in Berlin, Germany. (Left) Ford, member of the Executive Commit- tee; (center) Wm. Munzenberg, | member of Parliament and Chair- man of the League; and (right) Garan Kouatte, of Senegal, French West Africa, Secretary of the League for the Defense of the Ne- gro Race, (4) Ford, second from right, at a gathering of the em- ployees of “Gudak,” railroad work- | ers’ paper in the Soviet Union. The “Daily” Sub Drive Challenge N. Y. In Sub Campaign By simultaneously accepting the challenge of the Detroit district to fulfill its quota in the Daily Worker Sub Drive, and sending out a similar challenge’ to the New York District, Chicago during the past few days has taken its place among the most active districts in the campaign. The challenge to New York, sent by Comrade Pollar, Chicago Daily Worker representative, through the business office of the Daily, urges an immediate contest to see which dis- trict can most quickly fulfill its complete bundle-order and sub quo- tas. It states, among other things, that Chicago is. oiling its sub drive machinery to achieve its 950 yearly subscriptions and 1,000 new bundle orders. The letter of challenge also dis- closes the facts that a new concen- tration drive will shortly be begun in the South Side/of Chicago, with special emphasis placed on news- stand sales and subs. So far the New York District has failed to reply to the Chicago chal- lenge. Efforts on the part of dif- ferent sections continue as before, with no energetic pick-up in the tempo of the drive. Word of the acceptance of Chicago's challenge is expected any minute, together with @ moticeable increase in activity throughout the New York District. ON THE JOB IN YOUNGSTOWN, OHIO “I received the instructions on the Daily Worker drive and will do my best to put in into effect by calling the agents together and see what's to be done. “T am writing at such an early date because I happen to have the money on hand to send on payment of the Daily Worker bill. “I will try to keep in advance as much as I can on the account of the “Daily Worker. I know how much it is needed in this section, We could not get along without it.” —A Steel Worker. Are you on the job for the Daily Worker drive? Are you helping to get 7,000 new subscribers by November 1st? Page Three | CALL FOR MASS RANK AND FILE BONUS FIGHT’ Vets, Get Together With Jobless, Elect Delegates | (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) gress to grant the just demands of the veterans. Only a solidly organ- | ized mass of veterans controlling their own organizations can win this fight. The fight is not over. It has only begun. But for the next battle we must organize our forces a hundred times stronger. Especially must we learn that we cannot leave our cause in the hands of self-appointed lead- ers who work hand in hand with our enemies. The greatest weakness of the bonus army in Washington was the traitorous leadership, headed by W. W. Waters and his associates, Who broke up the unity of the mass of veterans and tried to divide them, one group against another, and stood cap in hand before the police and politicians begging for their favors and accepting their direction for the bonus army. We must guard our- selves against further betrayals by the leaders of the American Legion, Veterans of Foreign Wars and Dis- abled American Veterans. Fight for Immediate Relief—Fight for the Bonus No solid organization is possible until the veterans elect their own leadership from among their own forces, with the full right of recall at any time. Our tasks are, in addition to fight- ing for the bonus, also to stop the new attacks that are being made against even the present miserable disability allowances, Hoover, at the head of the united camp of our enemies, is preparing at the next Congress session to make further} drastic cuts in even those disability provisions now made for the vet- erans. We must organize the masses of veterans, workers and farmers, clerks and ruined small businessmen, nurses and other women who served in the World War—veterans from all walks of life—regardiess of their political opinion, regardless of what organi- zations they belong to, regardless of creed or color, all veterans and ex- servicemen, Negro and white, who are suffering starvation and disease from the complete breakdown of American economic life, We must save our families from starvation by forcing the government to pay us the debt which it owes to us, which it has acknowledged in writing, but which it refuses to pay in order to have large sums to give to Wall Street bankers and corporations, We must also fight now for immediate relief. This task requires mass organiza- tion in every city, in every town, in every neighborhood, in every shop, in every union—bringing together all veterans under a single program. This requires calling for the broad- est support of the veterans’ struggle, especially from the fifteen million unemployed in the United States, whose demand for unemployment in- surance and relief has been rejected by Hoover and Congress in the same way they rejected our demand for the bonus. Veterans, Elect Your Delegates Camrade Veterans; The Rank and File Committee, who, together with the Workers Ex-Servicemen’s League first called for the national march on Washington, and which led the struggle in Washington not only against Hoover in Congress, but also against the traitors in our own ranks, issues this call to elect delegates to the Cleveland conference, September 23, 24 and 25, Fight for the Immediate Cash Payment of the Bonus, Fight for Immediate Relief and Unemployment Insurance. Unite our Fight with the Fight of the Workers and Farmers Against Starvation, Drive out the self-appointed leadership of Waters & Co. Organize the Mass Fight of all Rank and File Veterans, Regard- less of Political Opinion, Veterans’ Organization Affillation, Creed or Color. Defeat the new attacks against the Disability Allowances, CENTRAL RANK AND FILE COMMITTEE and WORKERS EX-SERVICE- MEN'S LEAGUE, ‘The Management re of the TIONAL PUBLISHERS. ternational Publish If you live in a TAGE OF IT TODAY! BOOK SERVICE! (There can be no revolutionary organization without a revolutionary theory—Lenin.) nounces the organization of a Book Service which will make the country. 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Nobuyoshi as military dictator over Manchuria, A leading militarist and an advocate of a “more aggressive policy” against China and the Soviet Union, Gen, Muto is accorded almost supreme powers. nese forces in Manchuria, Muto will act as gov- mander of the huge Ja’ ernor general f t of K “leased” territory and as ‘ dor on special mission” to tt Manchouko state set churia by Japanese bayonets Koiso Appointed Chief of Staff. Another member of the J: militarist clique, Lieutenant Gener Kuniaki Koiso, Vice Minister of V was appointed chief of staff to Ger Muto. Lieut, Gen, Heisuke gawa became the new Vice Mi up in of War. General Honjo, former Jar anes commander in Manchuria, is returning to Tokio to become a member of the Supreme War Council in which he will probably exercise predominant role. The Japar consulate staffs in foreign countri have also been reorganized. Sharpen U, S. Japan Rivalry. The reorganization in Manchi and in the consular service is unde taken by the Japanese pnilitarists as part of their campaign ¢ speed the drive for armed intervention against | the Soviet Union and for the exten- gion of the present robber war against China, which has again en- tered a stage where the Japanese are threatening anew the robber in- terests of the other imperialist bri- gands. Japanese troops are now concentrating at Chinchow, South Manchuria and along the Jehol- Manchurian border for the invasion and seizure of Jehol Province and) North China, ‘ The ‘ Japanese threat at North China has sharpened the acute an- tagonism between Japan and the United States, mony over Kuomintang China challenges, This antagonism is re- flected in Secretary of State Stim- son’s radio speech Monday night in which he re-stated the United States’ policy of the so-called “Open Door” in China—a policy which assures the economic penetration and control of China by American imperialism~ to the disadvantage of its weaker Jap- anese rival. Meaning of Move. The Japanese move for the seizure of North China tremendously in- creases the danger of an armed clash between the imperialist ban- dits over the division of the loot in China, It at the same time increases the danger of armed against the Soviet Union by further narrowing down to the anti-Soviet front the base upon which the im- perialists can co-operate, “The labor movement will gain the apper hand and show the way to peace and socialism.” LENIN. ' intervention | * | CONTI In addition to serving as com- Ag $$$ 'RACKETEER IN - ACTION IN OHIO Truax, Old “Henchman of Farrington 7D FROM PAGE ONE) up when it looks like easy 1930, he hooked up with ck-Farrington clique, in is district of the UM.W.A, secretary of their “Reorgan- ized {.W.A.” (or U.M.W.A. No, 2, it was called), for Eastern Ohio, instrumental in turning the miners back to the Lewis machine. New Racket, When this deal was ended, and, with it, Truax’s job, he turned to a new He proposed to launch a new “Ohio Mine Workers’ Union,” a nice, safe organization that would keep the miners out of the clutches of the “Reds,” and sold his scheme successfully to a number of Bellaire businessmen. Some say he got some money from the miners as well. But jafter he got his hands on the cash, that was the last heard of his or- ganization—of him, too, for quite a while. So now Bill Truax appears again, this time bound on a relief mission. whose dollar hege- jAn excellent plan for doing the dirty it} Work for the coal bosses—the work of undermining the miners’ united fighting front, of hitting at the hated “Reds,” of corraling some votes in the coming elections, and, at the same time, turning an honest penny for William Truax. Fight for Relief? But the miners will remember Truax’s past record of cowardly be- trayal. 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