The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 15, 1932, Page 1

i 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 rents or debts. Central perer Yorker - ist Porty U.S.A. be, & | “Vol. IX, No. 194 Entered as second-class matter at the Post EER 25 Ollice at New York, N. ¥., under the act =~ NEW YORK, MONDAY, ae 5, 1932 Equal rights for th suppression of the VOTE COMMUNIST FOR e 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 the Chinese people and of the Soviet Union. CAL: “EDITION Price 3 Cents VOTE STRIKE IN ILLINOIS COAL MINES Huge Mass Meetings Demand Convention to Oust Officials FIGHT SLASH OF $1.10 Cut Rejected By Men, Ordered by Lewis SPRINGFIELD, Ill, Aug. 14—A huge mass meeting of coal miners here Friday voted overwhelmingly in favor of a strike to start Monday against the $1.10 cent wage cut (a $2.70 cut below the Jacksonville scale) which was thrust upon them by International President Lewis and ihe Wlinois district administration of President John Walker. Already, picketing Thursday and Friday has absolutely shut down mines around here which attempted to open under the wage cut. Friday only two men reported at the shaft of the Capitol mine, a Peabody con- cern, Over 400 picketed the mine. Not one went to work Friday at two other Peabody mines, Peerless no, 59 and Cora, No, 51. Rank and File Opposition. ‘The struggle against tne arbitrary cut is sweeping through the state. ‘The Rank and File Opposition move- ment, with groups organized in local unions of the UMWA leads the strug- gle in Springfield. The Rank and File Opposition center in Belleville announces @ mass meeting in Benld today, at which a vote will be taken on general strike in the coal fields surrounding. ‘The Springfield mass meeting, and undoubtedly the Benid meeting by this time also, adopted resolutions demanding the calling of a state convention to remove the treacherous Walker administration from office. ‘The miners of Dlinois in an official tefetendiim “nearly a month ago voted down this wage cut. Interna- tional President Lewis and Walker put it to vote “Again last week, and by all unofficial reports, it was voted down again by a huge majority. To avoid making official announcement of this, gunmen riding in the auto- mobile of Fox Hughes, District 1 president, held up the union tellers and robbed them of the tally sheets. A few hours later Lewis ‘declared stealing the sheets constituted an emergency, and with Walker and his higher district officials, Lewis signed the wage cut contract to go into effect at once. Lewis on Friday issued a bombas- tic proclamation, ordering all pick- eting to stop, ordering the miners to accept the cut, and threatening the wholesale expulsion of those who re- fused to do as he and Walker say. Lewis and Walker are trying to claim that the men voted for the cut. The mass meeting, picketing, and strike movement answers that. One of the demands of: the Illinois Rank and File Opposition movement is “Support of the Indiana miners, fighting against armed scabs and militia.” Denunciation of the mur- der of a young miner at the Dixie Bee mine in Indiana by mine guards is general in the Illinois fields. TAMMANY HINTS WALKER MAY G0 ' Paper Intimates He's A Nuisance Now NEW YORK.—The New York En- quirer, a weekly paper appearing on the streets Sunday evening when there are no other New York papers, contains in yesterday's issue a head- line: “Tige Reconciled to Walker Ouster— Tammany Scans Horizon Seeking Walker Successor.” The significance of the article lies in this gha,t the Enquirer has always been a Tammany house organ, de- voting a whole page to Tammany social affairs, and filling its pages with the gossip of “the organization.” The article states the “rank and file” meaning the ward leaders) is ready to admit that Walker must go. It shows some of the undercurrents in Tammany with the demark: “His (Mayor Walker's) record in office, during which he appointed many of his personal friends to high posts in disregard of the organization, 1s pound to reflect on him, it is said. If he had stood more loyally by 'Tam- many, it is pointed out, be might have enjoyed its whole hearted sup~ port in his fgibt to retain office.” On the whole, there are some indi~ cations that Tammany is ready to throw Jimmy overboard as a nuisance during a national campaign in which there are hundreds of milions in graft at stake, and in which the *Tiger” can demand a share, Tibet Army Advance On Soviet Mongolia; Japan Attacks Jehol Araki, in War Threat Against Soviet Mongolia and U.S.S.R.; League Delegate Attacks Five-Year Plan British Adviser to Japanese Says Territorial Integrity of China Is “Myth” SUMMARY OF LATEST WAR MOVES Tibetan army pushes British-inspired attack against Soviet Mon- golia, Japan orders attack on Jehol Province, Inner Mongolia, in drive against Soviet Mongolia, British adviser to Japanese government attacks territorial integrity of China as “a myth.” Fifth “Communist Suppression” campaign of imperialists and Nan- king lackeys in collapse with the route of Chiang Kai-shek’s main army in Hupeb Province, Red Army tightens ring around Hankow. Gen. Araki, Japanese War Minister, in war threat against Sovict Mongolia and the Soviet Union. Japanese call for new imperialist drive against the Rising Com- munist Power in China, cesses of Chinese Communists, 2 The Tibetan army moved nearer to the borders of Soviet Mongolia on Saturday, in a British-inspired move to attack Soviet Mongolia as part of the final stage in the criminal prep- arations of the imperialist war- mongers for armed intervention against the Soviet Union and its tri- umphant Socialist construction. The Tibetan army is proceeding through western Mongolia, Gen, Araki Threatens Soviet Union. At the same time the Japanese fascist government; ordered an at- tack on Jahol Province and released a statement assailing the territorial integrity of China as “a myth.” The statement was drawn up by Dr. Thomas Betty, British legal adviser to the Japanese government. Sig- nificantly, on the same day Gen. Araki, Japanese War Minister, en- gaged in a new war threat against BREAD PARADE CONFERENCE TO MEET TONIGHT Make City Government Feed Every Woman, Man and Child! NEW YORK.—‘Force the city gov- ernment to act!” Not a man woman or child without food clothing shel- ter!” will be the keynotes in the great conference of delegates from the jobless and from worker organiza- tions of all kinds tonight at 7.30, in Manhattan Lyceum, 66 East Fourth St. Credentials from unions workers’ fraternal educational defense cul- tural ex-service sports and insurance organizations are coming in. Also from meetings of unemployed work- ers on bread lines in flop houses, registered with the various employ- ment and relief agencies. r all Active Fighters The work does not stop with the conference. ‘Those elected are the active fighters for unemployment re- ief. The conference is a meeting of the Activists the militant workers and unemployed workers to plan action. They will divide tho work to mobilizing support and go heak to their organizations to rally support for the great Bread Parade irom Union Square on Sept. 10. Demands ‘The Unemployed Council of Greater New York wich calls this conference, proposes that the delegates shal] de- cide on the demands for the bread parade from the folowing sugges- tions: 1—Immediate appropriation by the city to provide cash relief for all unemployed workers without discrim- ination as to color nationality, citi- zenship, residence, age or se. 2.—Abolition of red tape ques- tionnaire system now used to avoid relief payments. 3.—A minimum of $10 a week cash relief fo each family of two and $3 additional for each dependent. 4,—At least $1 a day cash relief for each single jobless man ,woman or youth. 5.—Stoppage of evictions of the unempoyed. Repeal of the eviction law. —Heeding of al children of the unemployed in the schools at city expense. 7.—Immediate withdrawal of Walk- er’s wage-cul order to city workers. 8.—An end to all forced contribu- tions for relief from the workers. o— in salaries of the mayor ?- ‘ fo $3,500 AUN AA dul WU daa 2 WO) Say “world” should be “alarmed” over suc- Attack Soviet Union's Five-Year Plan. * * the Soviet Union in a five-column article published in the “Kaikosha” (Army Club Magazine). In his ar- ticle, Gen, Araki deplores the ex- istence of Soviet’ Mongolia “border- ing on a region (Manchuria) in which she (Japan) has vital inter- ests. The fact that Manchuria bor- dered the Japanese Korean slave colony was used by Araki and the rest of the Japanese militarists to justify the seizure of Manchuria. Likewise, the closeness of Korea to Japan was similarly used in the past to justify the seizure and enslave- ment of Korea, by Japan. Sharp Fighting In Kansuh Province. Severe fighting is reported pro- ceeding between Szchuen Province Chinese troops and Tibetan rein- forcements near Tachienlu, ‘Kansuh (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) 300,000 U.S. Children Wander Over Country Hungry and Homeless (See Editorial.) WASHINGTON, D. C.—The Hoo- ver government has been forced to admit that there is an army rang- ing between 200,000 and 300,000 working class children in the Uni- ted States who wander about the country hungry, homeless and cloth- ed in rags. The figure is based on extensive in- vestigation made by the Children’s Bureau of the U. S. Department of Labor, An article in the Ladies Home Journal on the sta*ving army of chidren tried to clear the American ruling class of the crime against the 300,000 youngsters by stating that the situation "was analagous to the rov- ing bands in Russia” Even the capitalist press has been long since admitting that the bands of children that wandered over the Soviet Union while it was being at- taced by counter-revolutionary ar- mies, have disappeared entirely, the children having been placed in schools where they have been given the best care and training. Berkman, in Hospital 3,000 IN N.Y. MEETING HAIL VETS’ FIGHT Pledge Support to Vet Mass Conference In Cleveland HOOVER “LOSES” PROTEST Waters Backs Legion In Lawrence NEW YORK.—The fight for veterans’ bonus and unemployment insurance was carried another step forward Saturday when 3,000 ex- servicemen and workers met on Union Square under the auspices of the Workers’ E-Servyicemen League and the Unemployed Council and enthusiastically applauded the call for a national vets’ conference to be held in Cleveland Sept. 23-24-25. Posts of the W. EB. S. L, marched into the square in a body carrying placards denouncing the bloody at- tack against the veterans by the Washington police and federal troops, at the same time putting forward demands for immediate cash payment of the bonus and unemployment insurance. Vets on Tour Speakers including S J. Stember, Emanuel Levin and Ben Legree of the W. E. 8S. L., Charles Alexander of the Communist Party and rep- resentatives of the Unemployed Coun- cil, addressed the meeting Emanuel Levin, National Chairman of the W. E. S. L. said today that a group of eight veterans, members of the Rank and File Group of the bonus army, have started a tour across the country and will hold mass meetings at which delegates will be elected to the National Con- ference. Meetings have been arranged in (CONTINUED ON 1 PAGE THREE) . L. D. EXPOSES WASH. FRAME-UP OF NEGROES Two Were In Jail, Two Out of Town at Time of Fight With Cop WASHNGTON, D. C., Aug. 14— Two of the nine Negro workers fac- ing death in the Washington frame- up when Kennedy, park policeman for whose death they have been in- dicted was killed when he attacked @ group of workers in Logan Circle last week, an investigation by the International Labor Defense has dis- closed. Bernard Ades and William L. Patterson, who are conducting the investigation for the ILD, also have discovered that two other workers who are charged in the frame-up case were not even in Washington when the cop was killed. Part of Hoover Attack. The brazenness of the frame-up (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) the Foster Arrested in Scranton; 30 Day Sentence; Smash Meet Seized by Police at Beginning of Speech Urging Organization of Rank and File for Strike Against Railroad and Mine W age c uts; Hall Packed Full With Hundreds More Outside Out on Bail and Continues Campaign; Speaking In Cleveland Wednesday, Toledo Friday, 29. amy Canton, Ohio, Lugaie st ARREST IS MOVE in Foster ” Stater nent) Scores Lewis is, Boylan SCRANTON, Ben -» Aug. 14.—Wil-) liam Z. Foster, Communist candidate for president, issued a statement to| the press here on his arrest Friday | night, The statement is in full as! follows: “The arbitrary breakup of the; Communist Party election rally last| night is the beginning of the cam- paign to compel the miners to ac-| cept a 20 per cent reduction, of wag-| es, Regal Hall was filled with min ers. The police know that Twill expose the attempt to reduce wages. “Conference” Aids Operators. | “The so-called conference which | will take place between United Mine| Worker officials and the operators is for no other purpose but to fool the miners by making a pretense of fighting against the cut. The cut has already been agreed upon by the (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) RUEGGS SCORE COURT ACTION Protest Policeman “Hixpert” at Tri (Cable By Inprecorr) SHANGHAT, August 14—On second day of the resumed farpica! trial of Paul and Gertude Ruege, the examination of the accused was con- tinued although the defendants ab- solutely refused to answer the ques tions of the court and denied all ac- cusations. ‘The defendants also demanded the production of concrete proofs of the basis of the vague accusations of “Communist activities’ and connec- tion with the Chinese Red Armies and the Chinese Soviet Govern- ment. The court still refuses to pro- duce the so-called “statement” by the Rueggs to the police, or other crete proofs. The court has also the fused the demand of the defendants | i for the production of the prosecution | witnesses, thus proving it does not intend to produce concrete proot. The defendants registered sharp pro- test against this total denial of their rights as defendants for, according to Chinese law the accused have the right to demand concrete proofs of the accusations against them, The court then read a statement (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) Urges Aid for “Daily” From her bed in the police-patrolled New England sanatorium, man, who faces deportation to fascist Poland because of her activities Edith Berk- in organ- izing the textile workers for struggle against starvation, calls upon all workers to give their whole-hearted support to the appeal of the Daily Worker for $40,000 to save it from danger of suspension. Her letter follows: “Dear Comrades—I have read in the ‘Daily’ of the desper- ate financial crisis in which the paper finds itself. We cannot, no matter how great the sacrifice we are called on to make, permit the ‘Daily’ to suspend. The ‘Daily’ must live so that it can carry ont the fight against deportations, against the vicious terror of Hunger Hoover, against the attacks of the bosses on the stand- ard of living of the workers, against the developing imperialist war and egainst the plans being made to attack the Soviet Union, “All workers must whole-heartedly support the appeal of the ‘Daily’ for $40,000. On with an intensified campaign to save our paper. “EDITH BERKMAN.” Workers, the appearance of the Daily Worker in four pages instead of six on Saturday is an indication of the financial crisis which holds the paper in its grip. Contribute now, Urge your shopmates and friends to contribute. able funds to the Daily Worker, 50 Li. Rush all avail- Ith St, N.Y. C. I contribute $....,......+... fo the $10,000 Save the “Daily” Drive. Name Street CY: ieee ¥ sees FOR WAGE SLASH As| Delegates From Steel Mills Which Exploit 200, 000 Form Union poration, Bethlehem Steel, Republic Steel, McKeespot Tin Plate Jones & Laughlin and Inland Steel. Among the metal plants represented are those of the Western Electric, | — | Allis Chalmers, and Bliss Munitions. | Mooney Honorary Chairman Amidst cheers, a telegram of | greetings from ‘fom Mooney, a mem- ber of the moulders’ union was re- ceived and read. Mooney from his Foster, Comme: sas City, Mo., om, Pa Lower photo sho crowd Arrested In Scranton t Candidate for President as he looked, speaking at Kan shoriiy before his avvest in Lawrence, Mass, and Scran- welcoming Foster, | Metal League i eta | on oie Piants, | fines Communist Vice-Presic Speak as Fr | PITTSBURGH, Pa., Aug. 14.—Th | the Steel and Metal Workers Industr bor Lyceum here. here were 1 e delegates represented nd, Alaba: Jinnesot They steel mills and} 11 metal plar The total number of wot ployed in the mills naeaniad is 200,000. The mills in- clude those of the U. S. Steel Cor- cell in San Quentin wired accepting as permanent honora: airman of the convention The first’ session yesterday, heard an organizational report by National Secretary John Meldon of the Metal Workers Industrial League the or- ganization calling the convention. In addition the first day's session had reports on the work of organi- zation and conditions in the shops, on unemployed work and on organi- zation of young workers and Negro workers. Meldon reviewed conditions in the industry which, runs now at 15 per cent capacity. Tere is mass unem- ployment, the wide use of the Hoover stagger plan, wage cuts, and a terri- fic terror against steel workers both employed and. unemployed A War Industry Meldon stressed especially the use | of terror by fhe employers and their government, because steel is a basic wat industry and preparations for | war are,going on Meldon pointed out the contrast between the horrible situation of the American steel] and metal workers with that of the workers in the same industry in the Soviet Union where wages constantly rise where there is no unemployment, where workers get full so insurance with every care taken of their health and very (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE | y Urges Concentration | Unity With Jobless lential Candidate Will hv De legate from T.U.U.L. ¢ first national convention, founding al Union, opened Saturday afternoon 13 regular delegates and 27 fraternal he states of Pennsylvania, Ohio, In- Wisconsin, New York, PLAN FOR FIGHT ON CUBAN TERROR ‘o Demand Release of Political Prisoners NEW YORK. At a conference called by the Antj-Imperialist League Saturday afternoon, at the head- quarters of the Porto Rican Anti- Imperialist Association, 22 W. 114th St., plans were worked out for an effective demonstration to protest against the terror in Cuba. During the past week the demand for re- lease of political prisoners, and for the safety of Armando Grau was raised at a series of open air meet- | ings held under the auspices of Sec- tion 4 of the Communist Party and also at those conducted by the Porto Rican Anti-Imperialist Association. ‘The demonsration will start at 4 p. m. Saturday, August 27th at 124th St. and Lenox Ave., marching through the Latin American section of Harlem down to 110th St and Fifth Ave. All working-class organizations are urged to hold open air meetings dur- ing the coming two weeks on tilis subject, to forward resolutions to President Machado, Havana, Cuba, to the Cuban Consulatae, 17 Battery Place, New York City and Secretary of State Stimson, Washington, D. C., also to moblize their membership and neighborhood to take part in the | August 17th demonstration. The conference also decided that all delegates present, as well as ad- ditional delegaies from other organi- zations i+ Harlem should meet on Monday, August 22, 8 p, m. at 24 West 115th St. where delegates are to report on activities carried on by their organization in behalf of Cuba. There final arrangements will be made for the mass demonstration and parade Pe nro aio ta jaa Silaabsi 22, and Charleroi, August 24 “MY PART 10 HIT | REDS” - JUDGE |Charge Preposterous; Jobless Will March | SCRANTON, Pa. Aug. 14 —For the third time during ihis campaign tour as Presi- | dential candidate of the Com- munist Party, William Z. Fos ter has been arrested and the work- ers who gathered to hear him dis- | perseq by police. When Foster appeared Regal | Hall, Friday night, and to \ speak, police seized him and rushed him to jail The hall was crowded full of work- \ers who wanted to hear him. Hun- | dreds were on the street, outside, u able to get in. Foster was 5) 5 inside, in regularly hired public hall—there was ne possible question of “traffic crdinances” or anything jof that sort. It was an arbitrary de- jcision by the § nton authorities not, to let the workers hear the Com- munist candidate for president of the United States | Drive Out Crowd, After Foster was arrested, Barnett, Comnuin'st Party orgar in the Anthracite region, rose on the platform and began to gpeak, de- |nouneing the arrest. of Foster. After three. minutes, the police began to drive the crowd from the hall by fores Among those punched out by po- lice clubs were hundreds of miners who had come to hear Foster's ad- vice on fighting the 20 per cent wage cut which the operators, Interna- tional President Lewis of the UMW and President Boylan of District 1 of the UMWA, are now arranging. This cut comes on top of a whole | series of wage schem in «CONTINUED APPOINTMENT OF HITLER DEFERRED Fight on Standards of Workers Goes On THREE? BERLIN, Aug. 14.—Fearing the mass anger which Hitler's appoint- ment as Chancellor would have aroused, President Hindenburg has declined to hand over the Cabinet to the Nazi leader and has authorized Von Papen to continue the fascist assault on the standard of living and the most elemental rights of the German workers. At the conference with Hitler, Hindenburg asked the leader of the murderous National Socialist Socialist storm detachments, which are spread- ing terror throughout Germany, whether he was ready to enter & “non-party” cabinet of individuals chosen according to their “merits.” Hitler answered with the demand that he be appointed chancellor. The former field marshal of the Kaiser told him that in the present situation a government headed by | Hitler would not be “advisable” that the “presidential” character of the cabinet must be maintained. The conference ended abruptly, according to dispatches from Berlin. ‘The German workers rallying to the united frontunder the leadership of the Communist Party are not slackening their fighting against fascism whether carried out by Von Papen with the preliminary tolerance of Hitler's Nazis and with the extra- legal assistance of their storm dee tachments, or whether executed di- rectly by a Government of National Socialists with Hitler as Chancellor, Von Papen plans to face the Reich- stag when it will meet on Aug. 30th. Bourgeois papers in Germany say that if the fascists will not tolerate the present cabinet Von Papen will not have any parliamentary base as the Centrists led by former Chancel- lor Bruening are determined to vote their nor confidence in a cabinet in which the Nazis have no “respon- sibility.” Reports that the Nazis and the Centrists may join forces in an el- fort to set ® National Socialiste Catholic Government are widely ire Aculated altho not confirmed, - ~~! \