The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 16, 1932, Page 1

\| y | \! w, 4 VOTE COMMUNIST FOR VOTE COMMUNIST FOR 1. Unemployment and Social Insurance at the ex- om ‘ 4. Equal rights for the Negroes and self-determin- pense of the state and employers. ation for the Black Belt. . Against Hoover’s wage-cutting policy. ri ; ce 4 ¢ 5. gainst capitalist terror; against all forms of 3. Emergency relief for the poor farmers without ; die f 8 f the political t # restrictions by the government and banks; ex- a sentral (<1 4 unis’ Party U. Ss. A. eat ye a eRe Same nceeee ‘ emption of poor farmers from taxes, and no 6. Against imperialist war; for the defense of forced collection of rent: debts. . i 5: the Chi i d th iet ion. collec e rents or debts a (Section of the Cossminsit let tional) e inese people and of the Soviet Union. a Entered as second-class matter at the Post pastes: Seas cag i Rea ria a ; r Sip aM Vol. IX, N Ye 195 “EHPr-m Ottice at New York, N. ¥., under the act NEW YORK, TUESDAY, AUGUST 16, 1932 iM city EDITION Price 3 Cents Foster Scores Wage-Cuts for Shoe Workers in Binghamton SHOE BOSS’ DEMOCRACY IS A TRICK Endicott-Johnson In Flowery Promises, But Slash Wages 1,000 HEAR COMMUNIST Pledge Fight Against Cuts, for Insurance Ford on Western Tour, September Following is a list of the meet- ings at which James W. Ford, Communist candidate for vice- presidednt of the United States, Negro worker and veteran of the world war will speak in Septem- ber. Milwaukee Sept. 1; St. Paul 2, Superior, Wis., 3; Frederick, N. D., 5; Fargo, N D., 6; Minot, N. D., 73 Butte, Mont., 9; Spokane, Wash., 11; Seattle, Wash., 13; Tacoma, Wash., 14; Aberdeen, Wash., 15; Portland, Ore., 16; San Francisco, Cal, 18; Los Angeles, Cal. 20; Tuscon, Ariz., 22; Salt Lake City, Utah, 24; Denver, Colo., 25; Ros- well, N. M. 27; Oklahoma City, Okla., 29 and Little Rock, Ark., on Sept. 30. BINGHAMTON, N: Y., Aug. 15- A thousand shoe workers from the Endicott-Johnson plant here cheered} to the echo while William Z. Foster, Communist candidate for President, tore the mask of demagogy off the face of President Johnson of the shoe company. This meeting, yesterday in Lithu- anian Hall, was the first the Com- munist candidate addressed after his arrest in Scranton on Friday. In Scranton Foster had announced that he would attack the proposed 20 per cent wage-cut on the coal miners and the additional 5 per cent wage- cut on railroad men, both of which reductions are being put through with the co-operation of A. F. of L. and Railroad Brotherhood officials. So the Scranton police smashed the’ meeting and arrested Foster: Continues the Fight. Ee took up the same fight against wage2-cuts, however, in Binghamton. After an exposure of the lies in| Johnson's flowery newspaper articles | and the treachery in Endicott-John- son’s fake welfare schemes, Foster proved by figures that workers gen- erally have received a 50 per eent lowering of their living standards in the last two years. This is what they got instead of the “industrial democracy” that President Johnson continually harps on. Foster then used the example in the railroad and mining industries to show that the wage-cutting program had not ended, and that Endicott-Johnson would | meet. his discharged employes with bullets just the same as Ford did al- ready this year. Eleven Cents a Day. Foster pointed to the eleven cents a day “relief? which the City of Binghamton gives part of the unem- ployed shoe workers here, as a most) vicious starvation policy. He called | on the Binghamton jobless to organ- ize their unemployed councils, and to the shoe workers to organize to fight wage-cuts through the leadership of their own committees, and by joining the Shoe and Leather Workers’ In- dustrial Union. He showed the work- ers that of all the political parties | in the election campaign, only the Communist Party comes out in its platform for “Unemployment and so- cial insurance at the expense of the state and the employers,” and “against Hoover's wage-cutting pol- icy.” Furthermore, only the Commu- nist Party plunges into the day to day struggle on the side of the job- less fighting for relief and insurance, n the side of the workers resisting lfmew wage-cuts. Foster named the preacher, Wilson, who recently sold out a strike, as the type of stool-pigeon which the employers use to divide the workers in the unorganized industries. The Binghamton shoe workers gave Foster a big welcome and pledged to support the Communist platform. Pane ie Cleveland Public Square. CLEVELAND, Ohio, Aug, 15.—Fos- ter speaks Wednesday at 7:30 pm. st a huge election rally on Public Square. Arrangements have been made for the use of loud speakers. see Other Meetings. Foster speaks Friday in Toledo and fn Canton, Ohio, on Aug. 22. He speaks in Akron, Ohio, Aug. 23 and in Charleroi, Pa., Aug. 24. Hurricane Kills 17: Troops Are Called HOUSTON, Texas, Aug. 15.—A urricane which killed at least 17 per- sons and injured 50 swept South ‘Texas Sunday night. The known numbef of casualties is mounting as communications broken by the storm sre resumed. ; ~The greatest damage done was famong tenant farmers, whose crops were practically destroyed. Starva- “BUILD MINE AND METAL UNIONS”, FORD'S MESSAGE, Thousands Cheer In Pennsylvania Towns for Communist | AMBRIDGE, Pa, Aug. 15— Smashing through all Jim-Crow poli- cies here, a hundred Negro steel workers came with 2,000 other steel workers from all over Beaver Valiey to the picnic here at which James W. Ford, Communist candidate for President, and himself a Negro worker, was the main speaker. Ford reported to them of the na- tional convention then going on in Pittsburgh to form the Steel and Metal Workers’ Industrial Union. Ford was a fraternal delegate to the convention. Ford reminded the steel workers of the sweeping wage-cuts in their in- dustry, and the more drastic though less advertised day-to-day depart- mental and mill cuts which have sapped their strength by starvation. He called for organization and strug- gle, for the union and unemployed councils. Ambridge is controlled by the Am- erican Bridge Co. Very little relief was ever given the jobless here, and recenily the soup line was cut off altogether. A fight by the Unem- ployed Council forced its restoration. Defy Company Spies Stool pigeons of the Jones & Laughlin Steel Co. tried to terrify the’ steel workers and spoil Ford's meeting but did not succeed. The fighting spirit of the workers is growing. Many groups in Ford's audience had come in from surrounding towns. Many joined the Communist Party, especially Negro workers being anxi- ous to join. . Fight Against Starvation COVERDALE, Pa., Aug. 13.—Ford told 300 miners gathered in a mest- ing on a hillside outside the bar- racks of blacklisted men here, that with organizers of the National Miners Union be had visited 25 Pittsburgh Terminal miners houses on the evening of pay day, and that 18 of them had no supper that day. He showed hew under the United Mine Workers wage cut agreement in the Pittsburgh Terminal s:ines, 65 families at No. 3 out of a total of 125 there, had to get relief to eke out the miserable wages they received. Government flour is being distrib- uted to the employed familics, who otherwise would starve, but until the Unemployed Council conducted a fight, tae jobless got none. Hunger March Aug: 31 Ford called for full support to the hunger march on Pittsburgh on Augusé 31. ‘There must be a fight here for the (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) LL. D. WINS POINTIN CASE OF NEGROES Force Authorities to Recognize Attorneys for Accused Negroes PROTEST MEET WED. Link Case With the Scottsboro Fight WASHINGTON, D C., Aug. 15— The police used the killing yester- day of the policeman Shinault who brutally murdered the war veteran Hushka as a new pretext for un warranted searches of Negro homes and mass arrests, Bullock, a Negro worker has been arrested charged with killing Shi- nault, The bourgeeis press is carrying on an open incitement to race riots and mob violence against the self-defense on the part of the Negro workers is being played up as “murder.” They are viciously? persecuting Ferguson a white marcher, living with a Negro family, eee e WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. 15.—The authorities have been forced to permit the Interna- tional Labor Defense attorney, Bernard Ades, to see the nine Negro workers facing death on a frame-up charge in con- nection with the killing of the park. policeman, Kennedy, fol- lowing his brutal attack on a group of Negro workers. Although both Ades and William L, Patterson, of the National Office of the I. L. D., have written retain- ers from the prisoners and their families, it was necessary to wage the sharpest striggle to force the author- ities to grant the defendents the right to select their own attorneys. A similar attempt it will be remem- bered, was made in the case of Or- phan Jones, Negro farm laborer, in Maryland. Attorney Rothbard has joined the defense. A protest mass meeting is being held here on Wednesday, August 18. The defendants have repudiated the fake confessions extorted from them under a brutal police third de- gree. The prosecution, however, is skillfully proceeding with the mass frame-up. The white capitalist press has been mobilized to inflame public opinion against the defendants. This is also true of the Negro capitalist press which is servilely following the lead of its white imperialist masters. Onthe other hand, the entire working class here, white and Negro, is thor- oughly aroused and the basis for a big mass defense movement is al- ready visible. In conection with this case the I. L. D. urges that it be linked up with the world wide pro- test movement for the release of the Scottsboro boys and Tom Mooney. Remarks: Here Is Proof ea 2 of the Robbery Phone BRyaat 9-26132615. Exsablished 1913 ~---—} H. COHN, Prop. EFFICIENCY EMPLOYMENT BUREAU 4133 Cae “Bet. ¢hes od 48th Sea. ISL SIXTH AVE. NEW YORK q all al RECEIVED from. aa SSE Addren i she amount Ce rama tige ce O or providing » po Salo 00 = LBS age 3 AED ws e's Se. 1 ecerdence wth Seco SGT of Cheyer 70 of th Lowe of 1910 ot Picture of the receipt given hy the agency to a worker from whom it took fees. that “payments were made outside the office.” to show that they were made to th The agency, in an effort to evade responsibility, has claimed We print this photograph ie agency. Agency Robs Jobless of Last Cent; ‘Victims Turn Over Rent Money, Borrow Pen- Gives No Job nies for Big Fees; Sent to Mythical Addresses Uenmployed Council Calls Protest Mass Meet Today at Noon; Demand Refund of Money! NEW YORK—A new and more vicious variant of the fake unemploy- ment agency racket was discovered yesterday when a group of workers came to the Daily Worker office with proof that they had been defrauded of sums ranging from $5 to $50 by 1151 Sixth Avenue, between 44th and Hitherto the employment agency racket has confined itself to taking outrageous fees for jobs that lasted only a few days by arrangement with unusually crooked foremen and su- ATTACKS COURT ON RUEGG TRIAL Defense Committee Exposes Tactics (Cable By Inprecorr-) SHANGHAI, Aug. 15.—The Rueggs Defense Committee today issued a statement declaring that the proceed- ings of the first three days in the resumed trial of Paul and Gertrude Ruegg confirm the prisoners’ defini- tion of the trial as a farce. The statement points out that the accused have been denied the opportunity for proper defense. Faked “Evidence.” The statement further declares that, first, the three steel boxes in which the alleged documents were found could not be opened by keys found at the rooms of the accused, and were forced open by the police; second, that the judge useq the docu- ments against the accused without proving their validity and authen- ticity; third, that the minutes of the trial of July 5 and 6 abound with mistakes and the court refused to make an English translation of the minutes, but insists on demanding that the accused sign the Chinese text, which they have refused to do; fourth, that the court did not produce any evidence proving that the bank accounts and post boxes really belong to the accused, and refused to call bank managers as witnesses. The protocols alleged to have been found in the search of the accused rooms have also not been produced. Violate Own Laws- In direct violation of Chinese law, the court also did not allow the ac- cused to see all the evidence against (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) the Efficiency Unemployment Bureau, 45th Streets, perintendents. In the case of the Efficiency Unemployment Bureau, however, not a single worker was given a day's work, although the average fee demanded was $15. ‘Tammany police have by their re- fusal to interfere with the racket given it their sanction. Some of the defrauded workers went to the 100th Street Police Station to register their complaints against the gyp agency, but the cops refused to listen to them, Other workers were similarly treated at the 47th Street police sta- tion when they sought to make out complaints against the a gency. The case of Albert Carteret, a gassed war veteran, is typical of the others. He paid the agency $25 for a job as superintendent that was to pay $25 a -week. He was sent to a Mr. Kitson, 910 West End Avenue, but found that no such person lived there. Another worker, J. Kendall, handed over his rent money, $15, and spent several hours hunting his sup- posed employer before he realized that he had been defrauded. R. Andrews paid his last $10 and bor- rowed $15 more to pay for a supposed job at an address that didn’t even exist. Andrews has a seven-week-old sick baby. Rely on Daily Worker A large group of the defrauded workers came to the office of the Daily Worker because, they said, they knew the “Daily” was the only paper that would expose the “gyp” agency. They said that they would distribute the Daily Worker among the thou- sands of unemployed workers who haunt the job agencies on Sixth (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) ARREST 89 IN CHINA SHANGHAI (By Mail).—Eighty- nine persons, mostly workers, arrested at a meeting of an anti-Japanese or- ganization here, are now charged with being members of the Chinese Communist Party. They are being taken to Nanking for trial by court- martial and are threatened with death sentences, Phila. Workers Pledge $6,000 to “Daily” Campaign W. W. Weinstone, editor of the Daily Worker, told more than 200.workers at an Emergency Conference in support of the $40,000 Save the “Daily” drive held in Philadel- phia last Saturday that the financial crisis which was holding’ the “Daily” in its grip could be broken only by the devotion and self-sacrifice of the American working class. The workers at the Conference, representing trade unions, mass organizations, the I. W. O. and other fraternal bodies, workers clubs, cultural bodies, the Young Communist League and the Communist Party, immediately raised $137.60 and PLEDGED THEM- § Held for “Free Mooney” Run on the Olympic Games Field LOS ANGELES, Aug. 15. — The demand for the freedom of Tom Moo- ney was thtust-into the faces of the representatives of the imperialist na- tions of the world when six workers, dressed in track suits, crashed their way onto the track of the Olympic Stadium and circled the cinder path with “Free Tom Mooney” signs on their backs. The runners shouted demands in front of the packed stadium which marked the ending of the 1932 Olym- tion already faces these and the mayor of Freeport has appealed for the National Guarq to prevent the farmers from helping themselves to food and shelter, - pic Games. All of the runners, four men and two wemen, were arrested as the officials tried to drown the ef- fect of the demonstration by the Playing of a patriotic song. SELVES TO RAISE $6,000 FOR THE DAILY WORKER IN THE COMING MONTH. The workers of Philadelphia will see to it that they raise their quota of $6,000 to save their newspaper, WHAT IS YOUR ORGANIATION DOING IN THE CAMPAIGN TO SAVE THE DAILY WORKER FROM SUSPENSION?’ How much have you contributed to the cam- paign to guarantee the existence of the fighting standard-bearer of the American working. class. How much have you collected’ from thé workers in your neighborhood for the $40,000 “Save the Daily” campaign? Rush your contribution in today! Get your shop-mates and friends to contribute. Send all funds to the Daily Worker, 50 East 13th Street, New York City, immediately. I contribute tn) Name . to the $40,000 Save the PREC eeeee reer eee eee eee Creer cer eee re eee ee cere eee “Daily” Drive. Street ...ccccccccncasdecvccvccnverccevece seceeer ses eere reese eerie see nen ee ederee gure City. ... W. E.$. L. CALLS LOCAL VETERANS CONFERENCE IN CHICAGO AS PART OF NATION-WIDE DRIVE FOR BONUS 1500 at Communist Party Meeting In Warren, Ohio, Support Fight of CALL FOR UNITY | | | | VETS IN FIGHT To Elect Delegates to| National Conference In Cleveland CHICAGO, Aug. 15.—The Workers’| Ex-Servicemen’s League and the Chicago United-Front Committee to-| day announced that the Chicago War) Veterans’ Conference will be held} Sunday morning, Aug. 28, at Sokol) Hall, 1062 North Ashland Ave., be-| ginning at 10 a. m. ‘Thoroughly aroused over the slay-| ing of William Hushka and Eric Carl-| son, bonus marchers murdered by Washington police, and tl body-| snatching methods employ: in| keeping the remains of “Bill” Hushka} from his Chicago comrades and fel- low-workers after the, Workers’ Ex-| Servicemen’s League had been given| permission by relatives to ararnge a} mass funeral demonstration, the vet- erans are more determined than ever | to carry on the struggle for immedi- ate payment of the bonus and «unem- ployment insurance. The conference on August 28 will map out plans for carrying on the fight locally until Congress recon- venes and will select a large delega- tion to represent Chicago at the Na- tional Conference at Cleveland on Sept 23, 24 and 25. Invite All Vets. ‘The Chicago conference call is be- ing addressed to all posts of the American Legion, Veterans of For- eign W ars, Disabled American Veter- ans, Polish American Legion, Work- ers’ Ex-Servicemen’s League, and to (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) FINAL PLANS LAID FOR RELIEF MARCH Militant Conference Attended by 400 More than 400 unemployed workers | from breadlines, flophouses, block committees, trade unions and mass| organizations took part in a con-| ference at Manhattan Lyceum last | night that laid final plans for the Relief March that is to be held on September 10. It was voted to call the demon- stration for relief a Relief March rather than a Bread Parade, the name by which it had been design-| ated in preliminary plans- Sam Wiseman, organizer of the Unemployed Council, was elected chairman of the meeting, and Carl! Winter, secretary of the Unemployed | Council, addressed the main report. A militant note prevaded the meeting as worker after worker got up to tell of the struggle against the unbearable starvation conditions of the more than a million unemployed — workers in the city and their famiies. One worker from an unemployed committee on a breadline sai ‘We can’t stand starvation and breadline slop any more. We are now facing our fourth hungry winter and we are tired of it. This relief march will not be just another march where we will present our demands. We are going to show our strength to the city. We will show the city govern- ment and the capitalists who con- trol them that we want immediate relief and that we are going to get it” The worker was thunderously ap- plauded. A series of local demonstrations in the various neighborhoods will pro- ceeq the main relief march in Sep- tember. At each of these local dem- onstrations committees of workers will present demands on wholesale food dealers for relief for all those starving workers who have been turned down by the city. Further reports of plans for the Relief March will appear in future issues of the Daily Worker. ATTEMPT TO RECRUIT JOBLESS IN ARMY NEW YORK, Aug. 15.—Advertising trips to the Far East and the Pan- ama Canal, two army recruiting ser- geants invaded the City Employ- ment Office at Leonard and Church St. this morning and made speeches to the jobless men urging them to | “economic | rations. Ex-Servicemen and Unemployed Hoover Calls Bosses to OF JOBLESS AND |Session on Wage-Cuts Will Plan New Aid to Banks and Bosses; Mass Wage-Cuts Behind Agenda Communist Party Calls Workers to Answer With United Front Struggle for Unemploy- ment Insurance, Not A Cent to Banks A further sharpening of the capitalist offensive against the already | lowered standard of living of the American workers looms sinisterly behind the President’s conference with the 12 business committees recently estab- lished in the Federal Reserve districts. This conference will be held in the purpose of turning additional mil-¢ lions to the banks and industrial cor- porations of the United States while “canvassing the means, methods and powers available” for unloading the cost of this governmental relief to industries upon the shoulders of the American workers. New Wage Cuts Loom. It can hardly be doubted that the 12 committees to participate in the conference will find further wage- cutting as one of the best means of advancement” for the great industrial and financial corpo- These committees are direct repre- sentatives of industry and finance. They will insist upon further wage- cutting which industry and finance consider “indispensable.” “The Com- mercial and Financial Chronicle” al- ready says that “if the President could be induced to prevail upon the wage-earners to adjust wages upon a lower basis, one more nearly in ac- cord with the times, trade depression would soon be a thing of the past.” In a statement just issued the Hunger President, who gave bullets to the masses of veterans demanding bread, made no effort to hide that the fundamental purpose of the Conference to be held on August 26th is to further expand the credit of the government to industries and big ag- ricultural “cooperatives,” to enlarge the programs for maintainance of the railways, White House on August 26th for the For Vicious Stagger Plan. In an attempt to lull the masses of workers into passivity in the face of the new capitalist offensive being prepared, Hoover stated that the conference will create a body for the “further spread of employment.” It is obvious that this body will be created to further spread unemploy- ment, and not employment, by en- couraging the widest application of Hoover's stagger plan. As to the method which will be followed, it is clear that the Conference of business committees will recommend ‘he old method of mobilizing the aid of the so-called “labor leaders” of the Groen type. In answer to this conference of workers’ enemies, called by Hunger President Hoover, the Communist Party is urging the toilers of the United States to intensify the strug- gle for unemployment insurance at the expense of the government and the bosses, for the immediate pay- ment of the back wages due to the war veterans. The workers must rally behind the Communist Party in its election campaign and develop a mass strug- gle against the new offensive of the bosses and their executive, Herbert Hoover. The workers’ slogan must be: Not a cent to the banks and big indus- trila corporations; all the funds for social and unemployment insurance. Father Cox Surrounded by Thugs in Move to Crush Fight of the Unemployed Only Those Who Can Pay Own Fare Allowed to Attend Fascist Convention Priest Says He Will Run on “Blue Shirt” Ticket to Halt Revolution PITTSBURGH, Aug. 15.—The Rev, James R. Cox, Catholic priest, who recently returned from Europe where he consulted Hitler and Mussolini on plans to develop a fascist movement in America, opened his national cam- paign yesterday to lead the unemployed away froma real program for unemployment insurance and relief. ¢ The campaign of Cox took the form of a motorcade trek of the “Blue Shirt Army” composed of nearly 500 men, women and children from Pitts- burgh to St. Louis where the priest proposes to put himself up as a candidate for president on the Job- less Liberty Party ticket, The local capitalist press admits that the priest’s promise of thous- ands of delegates to the St. Louis convention offered a miserable con- trast to the small number who -ac- tually departed. Surrounded by Pugs Cox has surrounded himself with thugs and prizefighters headed by Cy Seifert, labor “leader” and man- ager and trainer of boxers. The Pittsburgh press says that “it is their job to see that no Communists join the delegates.” This is in line with Cox's order that only those who can pay their expenses will be permitted to go the St. Louis, thus excluding the really suffering unemployed. Against Revolution The miserable turnout shows that the masses of unemployed are not wanted to voice demands for a real fight against hunger. Cox says his fight is against revolution. Distribute Leaflets Workers from the Unemployed Council made a successful distribu- tion of leaflets here before the del- egation left. The leaflet called for building the united front struggle for unemployment insurance against the Coxes and other misleaders, who RUMOR A NAZIS COALITION GOVT Bruening Would Share Posts in Germany Following upon Hitler's refusal to enter a “non party” cabinet under Von Papen’s chancellorship as sug- gested by President Hindenburg, rumors that the Catholic Centrists and the Nazis would join in an ef- fort to set up a cabinet under the leadership of the Junker General Von Schleicher were circulating widely in Berlin, It was indicated at the same time that Von Papen sems to have changed his mind about defying the Reich- stag to unseat him. This {fs inter- preteq as meaning that Von Papen may favor a cabinet under the leadership of his present Defense Minister, General Von Schleicher, generally considered as the real power behind the present Government. If Hitler should agree, the new cabinet would have a composition of two Nazis for every Centrist. Wormer Chancellor Bruening is reported to be in favor of such a composition of the Government as this is in line with his suggestion that the Nazis assume join the army, Nobody answered the are trying to steer the movement into fascist channels, Se a large responsibility in the Govern- ment, ‘ We