The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 17, 1932, Page 1

, of men fighting against starvation, FURRIERS WIN 81 STRIKE VICTORIES UNDER LEADERSHIP OF INDUSTRIAL UNION © VOTE COMMUNIST FOR 1. Unemployment and Social Insurance at the ex- pense of the state and employers. Against Hoover’s wage-cutting policy. 8. Emergency relief for the restrictions by the government and banks; ex- emption of poor farmers from taxes, and no forced collection of rents poor farmers without or debts. Dail Central Orga u e- Co ¢ Section of the Communist Sigel ) Norker | Rinumiet Party U.S.A. _Vol. TX, No. 196 Entered as second-class matter at the Post GPA Olfice at New York, N. ¥., under the act NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, “AUGUST. li, 1932. COMMUNIST STANDARD BEARER IN OHIO COAL AND STEEL STRUGGLES During Democratic State Convention, Workers Candidate Will Con- demn Democratic Governor White for Militia Terror in Coal Fields | FOSTER ONTOLEDO RADIO FROM 5 TO 6 THURSDAY Mass Meeting Tonight In Cleveland, With Parade Thru City CLEVELAND, O. Aug. 16.—The Communist election campaign now rises to a high pitch in the state of Ohio through a series of great mass | meetings arranged for William Z. Foster, standard bearer of the Party, its nominee for president of the United States. Ohio'has its hundreds of thousands of unemployed. It has the strike against wage cuts of 20,000 miners in the eastern counties. It has its huge steel industry where, in Warren and Youngstown especially, the new Steel and Metal Workers Industrial Union rallies for a bitter fight against unprecedented wage cuts and more than 50 per cent unemploy- ment. Ohio workers will give the spokes- man of the Communist Party, whose election campaign is not one of mere promises but is a living part of the daily struggle for the right to eat, a tremendous reception. Struggle for Relief. “Unemployment insurance at the expense of the state and employers,” says the Communist platform, @nd the Ohio workers know of dozens and scores of hot struggles of the jobless for relief and against evictions. Against Wage Cuts “Against Hoover's Wage cutting policy,” says the Communist plat- form, and the Ohio workers will re- member how Hoover gave the word, and the steel companies took the lead in sweeping 10 per cent wage cuts, one after the other. Terror “Against capitalist terror,” says the Communist platform, and the Ohio workers have before them the spec- tacle of militia rushed into East Ohio mine fields by the Democratic Party Governor White, where they sprayed machine gun bullets on picket lines where they sprinkled tear gas bombs from airplanes on miners and their wives and children, where they brolie the strike, and forced thou- Is of miners down to further stajration, in a field soaked with the blocil of three miners killed by bul- lets. Faster speaks tomorrow in Cleve- Yand in the Public Sq. at 7:30, at a meeting prepared for by parades thraugh the city beforehand, and by numerous preliminary open air meetings. Sieh Radio Speech Thursday. The Communist candidate then goes on, to speak over the radio sta- tion WSPD from 5 p.m. to 6 p.m., ‘Thursday. Foster will then address a mass meeting in Toledo, at Roi Davis Hall, £05 Jefferson Ave., Friday night. On August, 22 the Communist can- didate speaks in Akron, O. From there he goes to speak August 24 in Charleroi, Pa, Exposing Democrats. Right in the midst of the Foster campaign in Ohio, on Thursday in Columbus in speeches, he will point |to the policy of the Democratic Party governor of Ohio, who cut off relief in the mine strike area to starve the miners’ children untli their fathers would go back to work with a wage cut. He will denounce Governor White's consistent campaign of ter- ror, and his collaboration with the United Mine Worker chiefs for strike breaking purposes. The state admin- istration ordered mass _ picketing stopped in the mine strike, and the U.M.W.A. leaders enforced this edict. Organize and Fight. Foster will call on miners to join the National Miners Union, for steel workers to join the new Steel and Metal Workers Industrial Union, for shop and mine committees of action to fight wage cuts, and for unity of the struggle of jobless and workers. Panama Rent Strike Forces 30 Per Cent Reduction in City ') PANAMA CITY, Aug., 16.—Thru a militant rent strike the President of Panama, Ricardo J. Alfaro, has been forced to issue a decree re~ ducing rents in the city by 30 per cent. The decree also suspends constitutional provisions regarding property rights. This decree ex- empts unemployed and sick tenants from payment of all rent. The strikers demanded that the reduction start of June 30 and also won this demand. VOTE COMMUNIST FOR Equal rights for the Negroes and self-determination in the Black Belt, iA Mass Picket Illinois Mine Pay Cut Sheriff Barricades Taylorville Mines to Pre- vent Men Joining Strike Rank and File Opposition Calls Big Meeting In Belleville, to March on Sparta Mine SPRINGFIELD, IL, Avg, 16—Mass picketing is going on both in Springfield and Taylorville sections of the coal fields, Mass meetings are continuing throughout the fields against the wage cut. Sub-district confer- ences are being held leading to a state convention to oust treacherous FORD URGES TIN PLATE WORKERS TO FIGHT CUTS “Oust Company Owned Mayor’, He Tells McKeesport Crowd McKEESPORT, Pa., Aug. 16.—Con- tinuing his Comunist election cam- paign, which is also a campaign here for organization of the Steel and Metal Workers Industrial Union and for the hunger march on Pittsburgh, Aug. 31, James W. Ford spoke to 600 steel workers at the river front here yesterday. McKeesport is the city where last year thousands of workers poured cut and broke a terror which had prohibited meetings for years. City of Jobless But. it is a town of wage cuts and unemployment. The Mckeesport Tin Plate Mill, the dargest in the world, has made a total of three cuts since Oct, 1, last year. The latest is 12 per cent. Each cut was followed by an inerease of terror inside the mill. Now the workers are not even allowed to talk to one another. The National Tube mill here also has cut wages, and inside it is like a prison. Also Negro and single un- employed are discriminated against when any relief is given. The National Tube is secretly man- ufacturing war munitions in Christy Park and Versailles, Pa. The stagger system is used gen- erally in,these miils. The companies cwn the town and Mayor Lysle. The National Tube sends machines to the workers homes to compel them to vote for Lysle. “If the steel workers want to live, they will have to struggle,” said Ford. He called on them to vote Communist, to turn out such admin- istrations as Lysle’s and Hoover's, for Hoover is back of the wage cuts. Those at the meeting eagerly bought the Communist election plat- form and pamphlets, spending their last penies for the min many cases. CONFERENCE FOR “DAILY” TONIGHT Weinstone to Give Report NEW YORK.—A city-wide corffer- ence to take steps to save the Daily Worker takes place tonight at the Manhattan Lyceum, 66 East Fourth Street. At this conference will be represen- tatives of the trade unions, all Com- munist Party units, mass organiza- tions and shop committees. The report Will be given by Comrade Weimstone, the editor of the Daily Worker. The Daily is at present in a very critical situation, with debts hinder- ing it, and’ therefore the campaigns of the Communist Party. Last Sat- urday the paper had to appear in only four pages. This, at a time when the exposures of the Socialist Party swindles and of the other cap- italist parties engaging in the elec- tion campaign demand the greatest attention, In a call to the Save the Daily Worker Conference, the New York District of the Communist Party enumerates the following immediate steps that must be taken: 1, Establish a large city committee to guide the $40,000 Save the Daily Worker Campaign. 2. See to it that this money is raised within four weeks. 3. Involve the greatest masses of workers for immediate Daily Worker collections in all mass organizations, factories and in neighborhoods. 4, Organize committees in your or- ganizations, shops and neighborhoods to spur the drive to save the Daily Worker. The conference will start at 8 pm. leaders and vote down the wage cut. Against A big mass meeting of miners at Bellville, called by the Rank and File Opposition, voted to strike all mines and to demand the ousting of Dist- rict President Walker and his admin- istration for agreeing to a wage cut over the two votes of the miners against the cut. This mass meeting elected commit- tees to lead a march to the Moffat mine in Sparta to call all on strike there. Taylorville Mines Barricaded. Fifteen hundred deputized opera- tors’ gunmen are in and around Tay- Jorville. They are led by Sheriff Charles Wieneke of Christian county. They have built barricades of trac- tors, trucks and wagons around the Peabody mines there, and have made practical prisoners of several hun- dred men working inside. WALKER ADMITS WOMAN GOT CASH Growing Sea ndal Shows He'll Be Sacrificed ALBANY, N. Y., Aug. 16.—Mayor Walker admitted today that he did give $7,500 of the $68,000 he is ac- cused of having squandered on a movie actress, whose name all con- cerned seem to be in a conspiracy to keep secret. The $7,000 was paid in a check out of a quarter of a mil- lion dollars the publisher Paul Block donated to Walker as a “beneficence.” Walker still denies that he kept this woman on graft money, handled by Sherwood. The Seabury investiga- tion records show that Sherwood turned over to her $68,000. Walker's affair with the woman has been common gossip in New York for the last three years. One of the reporters, during a recess, tried to get the mayor to admit it. “Is it Betty Compton?” he asked. “Who do you suppose it was?” was the retort of the wise-cracking mayor, And he repeated this when Governor Roosevelt asked in the open hearing whether Walker had admitted that it was Betty Compton. The fact that this much scandal had been allowed to come out indi-~ cates that Tammany is ready to play with Roosevelt and sacrifice Walker. The graft and scandal is a necessary accompaniment of the present rotten capitalist system, which both Walker and Roosevelt support. For Class Solidarity Negro Werker Holding Banner Calling for Working-Class Solidar- ity in Recent Demonstration Re- calls Washington, D. C:, Present Scene of Savage Government Ter- ror Against Negro Masses. WASH. TERROR DRIVE UNABATED Persecute Negroes, War Veterans WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. 16.—A tense situation exists here as the au- thorities continue {o push their frame-up of the nine arrested Negro workers charged with the killing of the park policeman, Kennedy, and of Bullock, another Negro worker picked up on “suspicion” in the kill- ing of Policeman Shindult, who bru- tally murdered the war veteran, Hushka. The capitalist press con- tinues its sinister attempts to work up a lynching atmosphere and mob i violence against the Negro masses. The Washington courts have de- nied the habeas corpus proceedings by the International Gabor Defense at- torneys for the release of Sanders, a war veteran, who was kidnapped in Virginia and is held in the District of Columbia as a fugitive from Flod- ida, despite the fact that there is no warrant for his extradition. Everything points to direct orders from the Hoover government for the terror against the -Negro workers here. The International Labor Defense, whose attorneys are defending the Negro workers and the war veteran, Sanders, is holding a mass protest meeting here tomorrow night (Wed- nesday). William L. Patterson, Ne- gro labor leader and member of the National Executive Committee of the International Labor Defense, will be one of the main speakers. 15 Die in Brazilian Revolt; 3-Week Old Battle Still Rages RIO DE JANEIRO, Aug. 16.— Fifteen were killed and many wound- ed in a clash between Federal troops loyal to President Getulic Vargas and rebel forces led by the San Paul gov- ernment, according to a report by General Lima, in charge of the milit- ary activities designated to suppress the six weeks old revolt. The clash occurred on the South- ern front, following closely upon the neels of another battle in which the rebel forces failed to recapture the Parana River port of Tabacco in CHINESE RED ARMY KEEPS UP PURSUIT Workers in City of Shasi Rise As Red Army Nears ATTACK __ JAPANESE Kiangsi Red Army} Drives on Nanchang | The Chinese Red Army in its pur- suit of the defeated main Nanking army in Hupeh Provirice yesterday arrived within two miles of the city of Shasi, important Yangtze River port midway between Hankow and Ichang. In several engagements with the rearguard of the retreating Nan- king army, the Red army was vic- torious. Many of the Nanking troops were disarmed. Desertions to the Red Army continue. Workers Take Up Arms In Shasi, the workers rose up in arms against the Nanking butchers and the Japanese imperialists as the Red Army neared the city. They at- tacked the Japanese Consulate and Japanese business places. Sharp fighting is occurring between the workers, on one hand, and the Nan- king and Japanese troops in the city. Nanking, American, British and Japanese gun boats are rushing to Shasi from other points on the Yang- tze in an attempt to drown the anti- Nanking, anti-imperialist struggle in blood and to prevent the. capture of the city by the Red Army. Nearing Nanchang. ‘The Red Army of the Central Chi- nese Soviet Government in Kiangsi Province is rapidly advancing on the important city of Nanchang, in the northeastern corner of Kiangsi, the only part of that province still con- trolled by the Nanking forces. Its objective is to clear out the Nanking forces from their last stronghold in Kiangsi. This would clear the road for its advance into Hupeh Province to join the victorious Red Army there in mopping up. the Nanking forces in that province. Nanchang is the ter- minus of a short railway connecting that city with Kukiang on the Yang- tze River. Another Red Army from the Cen- tral Chinese Soviet Government is operating in Kwangtung Province against the Canton clique of the Ku- omintang. In Fukien Province sharp fighting is occurring between the Red Army holding two-thirds of the pro- vince and the Nineteenth Route Army, which was recently reorgan- ized. Boycott Move Grows. Workers of Shanghai, Canton and Wuchow have resumed picketing of Japanese shops. The anti-Japanese boycott movement has been greatly strengthened during the past two weeks. The Nanking troops and po- lice are powerless to stem this grow- ing movement. Daily Worker Asks forExperiences! at Job Agencies We urge all unemployed work- ers who have tried to find work at the job agencies along Sixth Ave. to report their experiences to the Daily Worker editor either by letter or in person. The Daily Worker will con- tinue to ‘expose these police- protected agencies and will lead the fight of the unemployed to force the License Bureau to es- tablish a free job agency to be run by the workers at the cost of Western San Paul. Eleven were re- ported killed in this battle. the city. Only $4,215 Raised by Daily in First Third of Fund Drive Workers, only $4,215 has been raised in the first third of the one-month drive of the Daily Worker for $40,0) 00. Unless the workers redouble their efforts to remove the debts which are gagging the “Daily,” the danger of suspension to their paper will increase ten-fold. Philadelphia workers have already signified their determination to raise $6,000 for the “Daily.” for the $40,000 Save the “Daily” fund. What is YOUR organization doing to remove the threat of suspension from the “Daily.” Are YOU collecting among your shopmates, among your neighbors, ’n your trade union? Milwaukee workers have likewise pledged themselves to raise their quota Workers, the desperate financial situation of the Daily Worker bys not been ex- aggerated. The paper must raise the full sum of $40,000 if it is to conti «ue to exist. ‘ Strain every effort to save your paper! friends to contribute! Street, New York City. Contribute now, get your shopmates and Rush all funds immediately to the Daily Worker, 50 East 13th Equal rights for the ation for the Black VOTE COMMUNIST FOR Against capitalist terror; against all See Page Two Negroes and self-determin- ; Belt. form s of suppression of the political rights of workers Against imperialist the Chinese people war; for the defense of and of the Soviet Union. Price 3 Cents_ Grand J ury s Athans to Frame Vets; Move to Whitewash Hoover International lahore Delius Calls for Mass Defenese of Vets Now Held in Washington Jail \Series of Meetings Thruout Country to Push New Drive for Bonus and Campaign to Build W. E. S. L. 1,000 DEMONSTRATE AT GYP JOB AGENCY Another Demonstration to Be Held Today at Same Place Defrauded Workers Will Parade to License Bureau Tomorrow from Park NEW YORK, N. Y., ae. 16. More than 1,000 workers demonstrated here yesterday at 44th Street and Sixth Avenue, in the heart of the job- agency area, against the Efficiency Employment Bureau, a gyp agency which had on the day before defrauded more than fifty workers out of from $5 to $50 each on the promise After the workers, most of whom had been out of work for long per- jods and had borrowed-the money to pay the gyp agency, had handed over the money they were sent to jobs at addresses that didn’t exist or MEETING SPUR RELIEF MARCH Local. Demonstrations ---Preeede Parade NEW YORK.—The turn to a more determined struggle to get relief, was the keynote of the successful con- ference held Monday night at Man- hattan Lyceum to lay final plans for the Relief march to be made on City Hall on September 10th. Following are some of the decisions made at the conference. First, 500,000 leaflets announcing details of the Re- liet March are to be distributed in all the workingclass neighborhoods of the city- Second, all workers organizations in the city are called upon to send tele- grams to Mayor Jimmy Walker de- manding that he be in City Hall on the day the Relief March takes plac2 and that the police provite no inter- ference to the marchers. Third, a special meeting of the New York City Unemployed Council, with all its delegates, be held at Manhat- tan Lyceum on August 27th at 1:30 p.m., to check up on all arrangements | for the Relief March It was decided also that within the next ten days meeting of all the local unemployed groups be held to complete the arrangements for their tasks. A series of preliminary neighbor- hood relief demonstrations will pre- cede the gigantic Relief March on the 10th of September. These neigh- borhood demonstrations will take place before the various food trusts; —milk, meat, etc., and will demand that starving workers whom the city refuses to feed should be supplied with food by these multi-millionaire exploiters. Anti-Fascist Meet In N.Y. Friday Nite To Protest Terror in Germany and U.S NEW YORK. — As the establish- ment of a Hitler fascist dictatorship in Germany loomed ever nearer in dispatches today, an urgent call was issued to all workers to attend the protest meeting arranged by the Com- munist Party, New York District, for Friday night at the Central Opera House, 67th Street and Third Avenue. A Hitler dictatorship in Germany would mean sharper boss _ terror against the workers all over the world and immediate war, especially war against the Soviet Union. Friday's meeting will therefore be @ mass demonstration of solidarity with the German workers fighting under the leadership of the Commu- nist Party against the fascist of- fensive carried out by von Papen I contribute $............... to the $40,000 Save the “Daily” Drive. Name Street City, ... te eedeoeee eoee and the threatened Hitler fascist dic- tatorship. All workers are called upon to at- tend this important protest meeting which will also be a united front demonstration against capitalist re- action in the United States. William Weinstone, editor of the | Daily Worker and candidate for the United States Senate on the Commu- nist ticket, and Max Bedacht will of giving them jobs, to persons who had never heard of the agency. A group of the defrauded workers brought proof of the steal to the of- fice of the Daily Worker on Monday and were put in touch with the Job- Agency Committee of the Unem- ployed Council, 5 East 19th St. Yes- the auspices of the Job-Agency Com- | mittee. Workers Tell Experiences. Worker after worker mounted the platform at the demonstration and gave details of how they had been defrauded. Very often the job-sharks ;make an agreement with bosses and superintendants whereby workers who have bought a job are actually given a job for a few days, but the worker is then fired. R. Andrews, one cf the workers who had been defrauded by the Ef- ficiency Unemployment Bureau, told the workers at the demonstration that he had incurred the hatred of the job sharks when he was a super- jintendant by refusing to hire and fire workers in this way and split 50- 50 with the sharks. While the meeting was going on, |W. W. Waters, self-styled com- mander of the bonus army who is now forming a fascist corps, strolled | by in an expensive comic-opera out- fit and was heartily cursed by the workers, many ef whom are war vets, Police Try to Stop Meeting. Tammany police, who have refused | to interfere with the lucrative-suck- ng of the job-agencies, were “Johny- on-the-spot sterday in an attempt to disrupt the demonstration but thought better of it when they say the workers were determined to go through with their meeting. Demand Free Agencies Run By Workers. It was decided to hold another demonstration today at the same | place. All workers who have had experience with the job-sharks are called upon to participate. It was also voted to hold a parade tomor- row from 49th Strret and Sixth Ave., stopping for a short meeting at | Bryant Park and then continuing the march to the office of the License Bu- ‘au on 6 Reade St., where the work- ers will demand that the defrauded workers shall immediately get their fees returned and that the city open a free agency to be run by the work- ers at the expense of the city. The workers will also raise the demand trat no worker shall have to pay for a job until he checks up to see that jit exists. After the demonstration, many of the workers held a meeting with the Grienvance Committee of the Unemployed Council and laid plans for the picketing of the Efficiency agency today and the parade to the License Bureau tomorrow. ® | —In an attempt to whit BULLETIN WASHINGTON, D. Aug. 16. ‘ash the Hoover government for its brutal attack on the war yeterans on “Bloody Thursday” the grand jury today brought in indictments charging felonious assault against three ex-servicemen, members of the bonus army. The veterans are Broadus Faulk- ner, a Negro worker; John 0. Oi- son, an unempl carpenter, and Bernard McCoy, a bricklayer. The men are held in jail in default of a $3,000 bond, John Pace, Walter Kicker and four others who were arrested while picketing the White House are stifl held in the Washington jail, where they are serving a sentence for parading without a permit. The International Labor Defense and the Workers Ex-Servicemen’s League issued a joint call tod: all workers and workers orga tions to hold protest meeting raise funds for the defense cam- paign to force the release of jailed veterans. to * BUFFALO, N. Y., —A group of 10 war veterans survivors of Hoover's “B Thursday”, who are touring the country on a recruiting and organizational drive the Workers: Ex-servic: League, arrived here ye day. They will speak at a wide protest meeting to held jat the temporary headquar of the W.ES.L., 476 Williams August 17 at 8 p.m. Aug. 16 sloody The delegation of veterans that “the fight for th 2s just begun” ‘Now the r of day is to build the Workers servicemen’s League in every and corner of the United S' prepare for the National Confe in Cleveland and which will be ! September 23-24-25.” A permanent post of the W.ES., will be set up at Wednesday’s pro- test meeting. These men who sur- vived the fires of the last imperial- ist war and the fires of W: say that now more than realize that the fight for t |pay (the bonus) is part and ; ‘ jthe fight for unemployment insur jance. * Start Drive In Boston, 16.—A ma BOSTON, Mass., organizational and to build the Workers Aug. mass meeting to be “hel id evening at 664 Shawmet A for the election of delega National Convention and to permanent headquarters in will be discussed at the meetii Boston Carries Forward Fight CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., Aug. 16.— Carrying forward the fight for bonus and unemployment insurance a mass meeting of veterans and workers held at 815 Cherry St., took up the question of electing dele- gates to the National Convention of the Workers Ex-servicemen’s League to be held in Cle r 5 A call issued by the W.ES.L. Post here said: “We must answer ‘Bloody Thurs- day’ by rallying all the workers, white and biack, to protest against this terrorism and to renew the fight for the bonus and to demand immediate unemployment relief.” the FIGHT FOR 6 HELD IN “MOONEY RUN” LOS ANGELES, Cal, Aug. 15.— The International Labor Defense to- day opened a campaign to f1 six workers who are held on “s cion of criminal syndicalism” follow. ling their arrest at the Olympic Sta- dium yesterday where they ran around the track in running togs carrying signs demanding the free- dom of Tom Mooney. At the same time thousands of leaflets demanding the freedom of Moo! were thrown down upon the stadium by the workers on top and a huge nine foot sign with “Free Tom Moon: displayed in huge letters | across it was displayed on the field in front of where Governor Rolph and other dignitaries sat. The workers who threw the leaf- lets escaped without being arrested, while those holding the huge sign speak at the meeting. Comrade Be- dacht will speak in German. were “escorted” out of the stadium and released, "| vention | officials, |ANTI-JOBLESS COX MEET CONVENES ST. LOUIS, Mo, Aug. 16—The “Father Cox” blue shirt fascist con- is now approved by the health authorities here. The county learning to their disgust that the attendance was to be but a fraction of the 50,000 delegates first promised by Cox, and his doubtful ally, “Coin” Harvy, seem at first to have had the idea of pro- hibiting the gathering altogether, in order not to show up the fraud, The Blue Shirts then could have a good demagogic excuse for the flop here, and could have gone right ahead at- tacking workers’ meetings. But today, with a few hundred in the Cox detachments on the w: and about a hundred already here, the county gave its consent to the assemblage in Creve Coeur parts 15 miles west of St. Louis. ee