The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 13, 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. 8. 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 rent§ or debts. ‘Vol. IX, No. 193 _ Entered as second-class matter at the Post “ERP Office at New York, N. ¥., under the act — ——— MASS MEMORIAL FOR MURDERED VETS TO BE HELD ON UNION SQUARE TODAY Election of Delegates to Be Held in All Cities for Workers Ex-Ser- ___vicemen’ Ss League Conference in Cleveland MUST CARRY ON rigHT FOR FULL BONUS PAYMENT, Raise Demand Against | Allowance Cut for Veterans NEW YORK, Aug. of the Workers Ex-! gu, 12.—All posts ticns will participate in veterans’ memorial meeting neld et 4.30 today on Union Square to honor the victims of Hoover's “Sloody Thursday. The meeting, asid> from being a memcria}, will put forward the de- ‘ands of the jobless veterans and unemployed’ workers for the bonus, | tlsability allowences, unemployment (surance: and against imperialist war. Emanuel Levin, S. J. 2%3 of the Unempl tank anq file veterans and workers) ‘will address the meeting. CINCINNATI, Ohio, Aug. 12.—A, mass demonstration of veterans and jabless workers to protest against the slaughter of three ex-servic2men and two children and td demand immed- inte relief for the 53,000 unempioy- cq workers who had all reliof cut elf by the City Welfare will be held Sunday at Hospital Lot, 12th and Central at 7 p. m. Prepare for Conference Following the demonstration a se- ries of meetings will be held through- out the city to elect delegates to the National Conference of the Workers Ex-Servicemen’s League to be held.in Clevéland Sept. 23, 24, 25. . Aside from-working out plans for the next steps in the bonus fight the conference will also tale additional steps to stop the attacks that are being made against the miserable dis- ability allowances of the ex-service- men Hoover is preparing at the next session of congress to make further drastic cuts in the vets disabolity al- ‘owances. “The task of fighting for the bonus requires mass organization in every city, in every town, in tvery shop, in every union, to bring together all of the veterans un- der a single program,” says the call issued by the Workers Ex- Servicemen’s League. “This requires the broadest sup- Port for the veterans’ especially from the fifteen million unemployed in the United States who demand unemployment insur- ance and relief and have been re- jected the same as the veterans were rejected.” VETS DENIED AID AT CITY WELFARE March to Relief Buro With Unpaid Bills NEW YORK.—Over 200 war vet- erans and unemployed workers, marching under the leadership of the Workers Ex-Servicemen’s League and the Unemployed Council and carrying with them a big bundle of Wispossess notices, gas and electric bills, demanded relief yesterday at the Department of Public Welfare and were denied it by! James W. Kelly, Second Deputy Relief Com- missioner. ‘The workers and vets gathered at Union Square in the morning, elected @ committee consisting of J. J. Collins, Paul Fransee and Patrick O’Boyle, unemployed veterans. Following an enthusiastic meeting, at which mem- bers of tae bonus army told how they were denied relief by the Public Wel- fare Department when they arrived in the city, the workers marched to the offices of Commissioner Frank J. Tailor. A meeting was held in front of the Welfare Department offices while the committee went inside and de- manded to see Mr. Taylor. The offi- tials said that Tailor was not in town, so the committee presented their demands and unpaid bills to James Kelly, his assistant. . ‘The committee demanded no dis- trimination in city relief, free gas ind electric lights for jobless work- wrs, food and clothes for children of the unemployed and the recondi- ig of the Municipal Lodging Patt tns Dilskatal werohcesiads dec Servicemen’s Lea- | branches of the Unemployed | Council and verkers’ mass organiza- | the mass| to be} Stember, lead-| yed Council and} struggle, | Rept USSR Denies That Bonds Will Be Sold in United States Soviet officials denied that domestic bonds being issued in the Soviet Union will be market- ¢d in the United States or any other country, occording to a dis- patch from Moscow to the capi- talist papers. They stated, however, that any foreign investor willing to do so ; |may purchase these bonds thru | |the State Bank. | The Soviet Government issued bonds to the amount of $1,600,- 000,000 to finance the last year | Jot the Five-Year Plan. The reports published in the United States to the effect that the Soviet Government intended to float these bonds in foreign countries are said to have arisen out of a wrong interpretation of | |the decree calling for the domes- | | tic loan. | A provision contained in the decree stipulates that the bonds may be purchased in foreign currency and that the interest on them will likwise be paid in fore- ign money. THUGS ATTACK PALS TO HALT FURRIERS STRIKE Many Bosses Forced to Séttle With Workers NEWYORK .—The bosses"in a-des+ perate atempt to smash the fur work- ers march to victory in their strike, which now involves close to 2,000, brought out into the market an organized gang of thugs led by the business agent of the Greek company union, The thugs proceeded to at- tack strikers who were picketing shops. A bitter battle broke out in which a few workers and sveral thugs were bddly beaten. It is reported that one of the thugs was taken to a hospital. Picket Jailed One of the workers, Morris Lor- bern, was latter arrested on the picket line. The strike-breakers and thugs, however, were driven from the market and the ranks of the | strikers remained unbroken. It was reported that the so-called big association, which includes most- ly fur coat marufacturers held a con- fidential meeting to discuss what should be done about the present strike which is going on in hundreds of shops. It was said that there was many different opinons among the leaders of the association. Some said that an injunction should be gotten out; others said that a lock-out should be declared in all shops, and still others said such ac- tions would be of no avail, that they'll have to start negotionations to try to reach a settlement. What was decided. at the meeting has not yet been revealed. The second fur-trimming imsnu- facturers association still is insisting on its ultimatum sent to McGrady and his Council a few days ago that if in ten days enough scabs to take the places of the strikers are not gotten the association would be free from its agreement with the Council. A large number of bosses who were members of the association have been forced to tear themselves away in the past few weeks and make agreements with the strikers and the Industrial Union. Break With Association A great, many bosses who are mem- bers of the associations are on the verge of breaking away and signing agreements with the union. There are many applications from bosses, members of the associations, who are ready to negotiate agreements in the office of the union at present. The associations are seeing that there is a danger that they will be smashed altogether. That is why they are trying with might and vain to find a way out of the present situation. spite the fact that the Welfare boasts of its “activities in relieving the unemployed.” Patrick O’Boyle, chairman of the delegation, told the Welfare officials that |the w--"-rs would be back again. “The next time we will come back with the Industrial Union in order | BOSSES PRAISE HILLMAN’S NEW PAY CUT SCHEME B’klyn Workers Strike Against Speed-Up NEW YORK.—High praise for the “wage arbitration” scheme of Sidney Hillman, president of the Amalga- mated Clothing Workers of America, came yesterday from various heads of department and chain stores deal- ing in men’s clothing. he plan calls for the setting up of a board consisting of manufactur- ers and of the A. C. W. machine to determine the wages of the. tailors. That the leading retail merchants and manufacturers will be the chief factors in determining the scale goes without saying. Those who lauded Hillman’s scheme included Charles T. Yafie, president of the Clothing Manufacturers’ Ex- change, and Sam Kappel, of the Howard Clothing Co. At the same time came reports of a strike in one of the larger shops, Wasserman’s, Brooklyn, where the work on the new piece-work and speed-up system. This firm manu- factures children’s jackets. The agreement which Hillman put over in this shop demands that the work- ers produce 2,000 jackets per day in- stead of 1,600 which was the former quota. Side by side with this was put through a 10 per cent wage cut: The fitters, turners and hutton-hole makers of this shop have from the beginning refused to accept these terms. Now, however, they have been joined by the other workers in the shop. The Amalgamated chieftains, meanwhilé, “are repeating their threats that if the workers persist in rejecting the new agreements they put over, that all work will be taken out of New York and brought to the small towns. These threats, far from terrorizing the workers, is making them more and more determined to fight the new speed-up program. Police Arrest Three Demanding City Revief NEW YORK. — A delegation of workers from the New York Unem- plpoyed Council [Thursday made a demand for relief for 25 workers, from the Home Relief Bureau at 235 East 125th Street, New York Cityy. The relief bureau refused the de- mand of the committee on the ground that no documentary evidence was presented which proved that the workers were starving. When the committee insisted that the 25 be fed the relief bureau called out the police riot squad, which arrested three of the workers, Elinor Henderson, Com- munist candidate for Congress in the 21st District, Sidney Spenser and Francis Moody, Picture shows the Catholic Priest, Cox, speaking from one of the trucks in which gangs of his “Blue Shirts” are rushed around Pittsburgh to attack workers’ meetings. The picture was taken of Cox, Aug. 10. Cox is financed by a group of Pittsburgh employers, who hope that his fascist crowd, and his “Unemployed Party” convention this month in St. Louis will prevent the jobless from fighting for unemployment insurance at the expense of the employers and the state, “Blue Shirt” uniform, Cox is wearing the Workers Organizations Thruout Prussia Raided By Huge Police Forces Several Workers Arrested for Unspecified Reasons; Leaflets Confise ated PROTEST DEMO YSTRATIONS DUR RING SEARCH Bruening Threats Vote of No Confidence If | Nazis Are Not Given Responsibility In the New Cabinet (By Inprecorr Cable) BERLIN, Aug. 12—The biggest po- lice actiou in years occurred today against the revolutionary workers organizat_as. The headquarters of the Communist Party, Friends of the Soviet Trion, Red Aid, Workers In- ternational Relief, Trade Union POp- position and other organizations in Berlin, Hamburg, Essen and other cities were raided simultaneously by huge police forces. The homes of several workers were also raided and searched. No one was allowed to enter or leave the occupied buildings while the search was going on. Several arrests were made for un- specified reasons. Judging from a police report which mentions that | only leaflets were confiscated, the action resulted in a gigantic fiasco. Protest demonstrations on the part of the workers occurred in the streets during the search. . Negotiations: Postponed Hitler's conference wit hChancellor Von Papen, which was to take place yesterday was postponed, according to dispatches from Berlin to the capitali, ss. The conference will be held today. Former Chancellor Bruening, whom the Socialists supported as the “lesser evil” compared to Hitler, as having clearly stated to Von Papen in conference that tite Catholic Cen- ter Party will vote no confidence in the new Cabinet unless the Nazis are made to accept at least co-reponsi- bility. PATTERSON DEBATES REPUBLICA NEW YORK.—A debate between the principles of Communism vers' those of “Republic n” as they affect the Negro workers will be held tomorrow at the Urban Leastic, 202- 08 West 136th at 8 pm “William Patterson will for the Communist Party and Clayton T. A. French will speak fcr “Repub- licanism.” The debate is being held under the auspices of the Negro Workers Club, 143 West 136th Street. WITH 1s speak for the Saturday issue: lication. workers go hand in hand. OnlyFourPagesToday! upon the readers of the Daily Worker. drastic measures may have to be resorted to! The Daily Worker needs at least $40,000 at once if it is to continue pub- THE DAILY WORKER IS THE VOICE OF REVOLUTIONAY GUIDE, THE ORGANIZER OF THE FIGHTING MUST NOT BE PERMITTED TO SUSPEND. Rush your donation at once! Thus, material of the most urgent kind is omitted from the paper. fighting program of the Communist Party, the Daily Worker must be in a position to wield hammer blows at the foes of the working class. Not only was it impossible to have six pages today—the printing of the four pages was 4 task which took every bit of resource and energy. Whether we shall be able to return to the Saturday six-page issue depends If support does not come at once, still more Wage cuts, speed-up, THE The Daily Worker appears in only four pages today, instead of six as is nsual With the COMRADES, if you think that these appeals are exaggerated, change your mind before it is too late—because tite situation is desperate! aid of their labor lieutenants, are preparing new assaults on the workers of the U. S. A new wage-cut of the Illinois miners is followed by the attempt to put over a pay slash on the railroads. The bosses with the and terror against the WORKING CLASS, ITS MASSES, IT I contribute $.......... in larger numbers,” sald O’Boyle, }, to the $49,000 Save the * “Daily” Drive. Name St OCT OIE Te No oe AO nee MES oA He Riana pats Vier eu eicele fas tea aie Street ... ieee d AACR Se 3 aavatai is quoted | VOTE COMMUNIST FOR Negroes and self-determine Against capitalist terror; against all forms of suppression of the political rights of workers. 4. Equal rights for the ation for the Black Belt. 6. 6. Against imperialist war; for the defense of the Chinese people and of the Soviet Union. _CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents 7s re Is Silent on “Bloody Thursday” Behind Cloud of Pae CONFERENCE ON BREAD PARADE COMES MONDAY Last Ca ll to Elect De- legates! NEW YORK. — | active fighters for unemployment re- | lief The conference of and unemployment insurance at employers and state, is day after tomorrow. Del- the the egates from block committees, meetings of those registered at the various relief stations and employ- expense of the from ment offices, from the inmates of flop house rom the breadlines, will gather to make plans for fur- ther action. With them will be delegates from union locals, both of the A. F. of L. and Trade Union Unity League, dele- gates from war veter: * organiza- |tions, from clubs and fraternal or- | ganizations of workers. This conference is of great import- ance. It will assign the tasks for the mobilization of a tremendcus Bread | Parade which will march from Union Square on Sept. 10. The conference Monday, Aug. 15 ,is at 7:30 p. m,, in anhattan Lyceum, 66 East Fourth | This is almost the t call for | workers in the various organizations ‘to bring the demands of the jobless bef these bodies, get them ap- proved, get the organization to en- gorse the Bread Parade of Sept. 10, and the conference day after tomor- | row, and elect delegates. The Unemployed Council in its call for the conference scores Walker's wage cutting plan for city employes, and its demands for relief specify that the relief funds shall not be | raised by cutting city workers’ wages. nstead, is a demand that | Walker's sa of $40,000 2 year be cut to $ a year, and the salaries 500 a year of other officials be cut The Unemple: | Committee asks especially for employes to send their delegates the conference e city | to | Mother Mooney Spurns |. |Police Escort; lim Camps This Week| YORK.—“Mother” NEW and Richard B. Mcore will s to. day (Saturday) in Camp aiget | and Sunday at Camp Kinderland. Thursday evening, Mother Mooney was greeted with-resounding cheers when she arrived in Newark. Throngs of workers packed the station as she arrived, Police attempted to break up the welcome demonstration, but failed. They were frustrated again when “Mother” Moon refused the police escort offered her. On Wednesday, 400 workers he: the fighting mother of Tom Moon and Moore speak in Monticello, N Y. The day before, the walls of Sing Sing, in the little town of Ossining. N. Y., echoed to strange music when a crowd of 100 imen, |women and children, Negro and wh greeted her at the station. Later in the eve- ning they spoke to 200 workers on the campaign to free Tom Mooney, the Scottsboroboys and all class-war prisoners. Supreme Court Tries to Heln Rooseyelt Dodge Walker Issue ALBANY. N. Y., Aug. 12.—The sec- ond act in the capitalist legalist farce being played here by Governor Roosevelt and Mayor Jimmy Walker of New York took place today with the announcement that the Tam- many Governor would probably with- hold his decision jon the ‘ial of Walker for taking graft until after the presidential election. | It was also announced that Su- preme Court Justice Hinman had |issued an order for Roosevelt to show cause why he should not be perma- rently prevented from giving any decision. VOTE COMMUNIST Ageinst capitalist terror; against ail forms of suppression of me Red Election Tag | Days Today, Sunday; Thousands | Take Part NEW YORK. — Thousands of workers throughout Greater New York are expected to participate in the Communist Election Campaign fund tag days, today and tomorrow. program of the Party to the masses everywhere, workers from Party, labor and fraetrnal organizations have indicated their intention of participating in the drive today. A complete list of the stations will be found on Page 2 in this issue of the Daily Worker. DEMONSTRATION Will Demand End of Negro Discrimination NEW YORK, Aug. 12. — Bronx workers will hold another demonstra- tion today at 1:30 before the Bronx- dale swimming poo! in protest against the discrimination of the owner of the pool towards Negroes. No Negroes are admitted into the pool. The Negro capitalist press, in with its {policy of supporting the white ruling class. is reporting :that no Negroes are taking part in the demonstrations. line ‘The Amsterdam News, for example, @ leading Negro reformist paper, after stating that Negroes have not been refused admittance into loca] swim- ming pools, was forced to admit that tne manager of a neighboring swim- ming pool actually advertised that Negroes were not admitted. The Amsterdam News has been opposing the holding of the demonstrations. VOTE Emergency Relief for the poor | farmers without restrictions by the government and hanks; exemption ef poor farmers from taxes, and no torced coliection Of rents or Realizing the vital necessity for — raising funds to bring the fighting | | taken in accordance with | gram, |“are not in the past tense, they are encouraging local COMMUNIST FOR | stability lay in debts, Acceptance Speech Repeats Program of Starvation for Unemployed; Praises Himself for Enormous Gifts to Bankers fist Phr: ases, Indicates That War Is on the Way3 W orkers Musi Fight for Insurance and Against | War Fearing to fare the mass anger aroused by the bloody attack upon the veterans de- manding the payment of their bonus, President Hoover stud- iedly avoided to openly uphold his latest terroristic “achieve- ments” in the acceptance |speech delivered Thursday night. He promised however to continue his hunger program, thus indicating | that further attacks upon the work= jers will be launched by the govern= ment. After defending his record of starvation and eulogizing the steps his pro- Hoover said that the steps in action.” Upholds to Bank, “We have used the credit of the | government té6 aid and protect our institutions, public and private,” | Hoover declared in the course of his AT POOL TODAY speech reiterating once more that his program calls for more aid to banks and big industrial corporations in | an effort to salvage them and pre- vent their bankruptcy Outlining his “relief” of misery and distress, the Hunger President said that all Government's efforts were turned toward developing and initative, co-ordi- nating local charity This statement rev that Hoo- ver's relief of starvation consisted and will consist in “mobilizing all the voluntary and official organiza~- tions” to make the workers themselves pay for the miserable charity hand- outs. Denounces Status Quo. ‘The acceptance speech delivered b? Hoover is significant also in so far- 1pon as it throws some more light the “great Quaker's” war pri Hoover carefully worded his so as to becloud this program be! a foggy pacifism designated to de- mobilize the vigilance of the Amere fican workers against imperialist wat. Hoover said nevertheless that the “poisoned springs of rolit the treaties closed the war”. He clearly i that his program is therefore a pro- gram which calls for an alteration of the present statu quo—a program of (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) terview with the Daily Worker on the eve of his speech here tonight in Regall Hall. Fosters's Scranton speech will be a historic call to action in the coal and the railroad indus- tries, for both of which Scranton is acenter, The coal mines around here are largely owned by railroads, Now Bring In Government “The railroad companies have, re-. (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) Conference Today Will Map Plans for Protest Against Cuban Terror NEW YORK.—A conference of or- ganizers and secretaries of working- class organizations will be held at 4 p.m, today at 22 West 114th Street, under the auspices of the Anti-Im- perialist League of the United States, to lay the basis for an effective dem- jonstration in New York against the |murderous terror of Machado. dic: polltieal rights wai workers, tator of Cuba Byotheshood Ciiicle Are Granting Wage-Cut By Use of Watson-Parker Statute Foster Issues Ringing Call in Scranton Speech for Organization and Strike “DON’T BE FOOLED BY FAKE RESISTANCE OF GREEN, MUSTE” . F. L. and Brotherhood Clique Actually Framed Anti-Strike Law They Intend to Use Now XRANTON, Pa., Aug. 12.—‘The suggestion in the capitalist press tha) the railroad companies and the Brotherhood officials intended now to us¢ the Watson-Parker law to “arbitrate” the additional wage cut this year should be a warning bel! to every militant worker, to every railroad man who doesn’t want his wages slashed,” said William Z. Foster, Communist candidate for President in an in-® FORD MEETINGS IN MINE TOWNS Help Build Steel Union. Convention, Also ‘WHEELING, W. Va., Aug. 12.— Miners and steel workers come long distances to hear the message of struggle against wage cuts and for unemployment relief and insurance, which is brought to them by James W. Ford, Communist candidate for Vice-President of the United States. Ford is touring the towns of West Virginia, eastern Ohio and western Pennsylvania, the heart of the wegé. cutting, unemployment and strike struggle in the mining and steel in- dustries. Ford, a Negro worker and an ex- serviceman, issues always a stirring call to action for unity of Negro and CONTINUED, ON -PAGE -THRER,