The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 18, 1932, Page 1

st Fur Worke¥ Bosses Trump Up Murder Charge Again VOTE COMMUNIST FOR 1, Unemployment and Social Insurance at the ex- pense of the state and employers. 2. Against Hoover’s wage-cutting policy. 3. Emergency relief for the poor farmers without restrictions by the government and banks; ex- emption of poor farmer: forced collection of rents 3s from taxes, and no or debts. Dailt Central Org =, 4 NO ‘(Section of the Communist International) orker uniet Party U.S.A. Equal rights for the ation for the Black suppression of the 6. Against imperialist the Chinese people VOTE COMMUNIST FOR bs) Negroes and self-determin- Belt. Against capitalist terror; against all forms of political rights of workers. war; for the defense of and of the Soviet Union. ‘Entered as second-class matter at the Post GE Office at New York, N. ¥., under the act Vol. IX, No. 197 CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents JOB SHARKS MUST 60! MARCH, DEMONSTRATE AT LICENSE BUREAU Fight for Return of Efficency Agency’s Victims’ Money Demand Free Employment Agency to Be Run by Workers a’ t Cost of City NEW YORK.—The fight against the job racketeers, begun by the Daily Mass Anti-War Actions Will Wipe the Smile| Off His Face! SLANDERS .|Partisan Troops Seize JAPAN IN NEW. ANTI-SOVIET Use Puppet State} To Speed Drive for War On USSR MASS FIGHT GROWS LAUNCH DEFENSE DRIVE TO FREE VETS JAILED FOR DEMANDING BONUS Workers Ex-Servicemen’s League Takes Up Fight for Release of War Boston Veterans to Hold Mass Protest Meet Saturday; Meetings Being Organized in Many Cities Worker two days ago with an exposure of the Efficiency Employment Bu- reau, was continued here yesterday by a demonstration of more than 1,500 unemployed workers at 44th Street and Sixth Avenue, in the heart of the Train job market. More and more unemployed work- ers are being drawn into the strug- gle to eradicate the job agencies Job Racketeers Must Go. The Daily Worker raised the slogan “the job racketeers must go”, after a group of workers came to its edi- torial office with proof that they had been defrauded of sums ranging from $5 to $50 by the Efficiency Employ- ment Bureau. This racketeering agency is but one of hundreds in,the job market which coins fortunes out of the wor- ry and despair of the thousands of impoverished unemployed men and women workers who fill their offices to overflowing in the desperate but usually unavailing hunt for jobs. The demonstration yesterday un- animously approved the proposal of the Job Agency Committee of the Unemployed Council, under whose auspices the demonstration was held, to parade today to the License Bu- reau at 6 Reade St., where a commit- tee of unemployed workers will make the following demands on the license commissioner: 1. immediate forfeiture of the bond of the Efficiency Employ- ment Bureau, the defrauded workers to be reinbursed for the amounts stolen from them; 2. cancellation of the agency's dicense; 3. opening of a free agency in the job market to be run by the workers at the cost of the city. Capitalist Press Condemned. The capitalist press was condemned at the demonstration for its silence on the exposure of the Efficiency Agency and the Daily Worker was cheered for its call to struggle. In answer to a worker's question as to the relation of the Communist Party to the sufferings and struggles of the unemployed, the election planks of the Party were read. It received a tremendous ovation. ‘Thee workers defrauded by the Ef- ficiency agency, at a meeting yester- day with the Job Agency Committee of the Unemployed Council, voted to endorse the Relief March of the Un- employed Council to be held on Sep- tember 10 and urge: all workers to participate in it. The Relief March Will be a determined demand on the part of New York’s unemployed and starving workers for immediate re- lief from the city. The route of march of today’s par- ade to the License Bureau is 49th St. and Sixth Ave. to 23rd St. and Sixth Ave., over to Madison Square, down to Union Square and ‘then along Fourth Ave. to Reade St. The parade will start at 9 0. m. Open air meetings preparatory to the parade will be held at 9 a. m. at 49th St. and Sixth Ave., 25th St. and Sixth Ave., and at 11th St. and Fourth Ave. Workers who attend the downtown meetings will swing into the parade as it passes their concentration point. Levin to Speak on National Conference of W.E.S.L. Tonight NEW YORI} — Emanuel Levin, National Chairman of the Workers Ex-Servicemen’s League, will speak on the National Ex-Servicemen’s Con- ference to be held in Cleveland next month, at Post 1 of the W.E.S.L., 131 W. 21st St., tonight at 8 p m VOTE COMMUNIST Against capitalist terror; against all forms of suppression of te political rights of workers. © POLICE FRAME UP FUR STRIKERS ON MURDER CHARGE Strike Spreads A s Union Calls for Mass Protest NEW YORK. — All attempts of the police, socialists and A. F. of L. officials having failed to halt the victorious furriers strike, agents of the bosses yesterday resorted te the vicious scheme of framing on a charge of murder Morris Larber, a fur worker who played an active role jin the strike. The frame-up follows an organized attack against the strikers by gang- sters sent out last Friday by Mc- Grady, Shore and other officials of the A.F, of L. union. Swooping down into the market armed with knives and irons the thugs attacked the strikers, In the scuffle a thug was reported injured and taken to the hospital. The thug died yesterday morning and Morris Larber, who was arrested on the picket line last Fri- day, was thereupon hailed into court to face a trumped-up charge of murder. The case came up before Judge Dodge, who working in behalf of the AF. of L. union attempted to involve the leaders of the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union. Call Protest Meets, To answer the trumped-up murder charge and to force the release of Larber the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union announced today that a series of protest and defense meetings were being arranged thru- out the city. Larber will be defended by attor- neys of the International Labor De- fense. Trimming Shops Settle. All during the day yesterday the furriers strike continued to spread. More shops came out on strike and 35 bosses were forced to settle with the union, the workers winning in- creases in pay and union conditions. Keep Scabs Out of Yager Paint Shop NEW YORK.—The strike of the painters in the Yager shop has now ‘| reached its third day with no scabs working due to the vigilance of the strikers. So effective had the strike been that the boss has stated that he ‘4as ready to negotiate with the strike committee. The morale and enthu- siasm of the strikers is high. Work- ers throughout Williamsburg are supporting the struggle. It is ex- pected that two more shops in Will- jamsburgh will come out on strike within a few days under the leader- | ship of the Alteration Painters Union. All Broklyn painters are urged to participate in the strike. The strike headquarters is located at 285 Rod- ney St. JOB SHARKS AT WORK Unemployed Repo In response to the request of vt to Daily Worker the Daily Worker that unemployed workers report on their experiences with job sharks, a number of workers came to the editorial office today. Here are some of the stories: The Interstate Job Agency, 46th Street and Sixth Avenue, is charg- ing 60 girls 50 cents each for one day’s work at Bear Mountain, which is a state park, They are supposed to go to work Friday noon from the agency, and are to receive $2 for the day’s work. Carl Muller, 1173 Sixth Ave., pay as fee for a job. A woman worker reported that Sixth Ave., and charged her $5 for “services.” demanded of a worker one month’s the Efficiency Agency, 44th St. and had sent her to a $40-a-month job which she did not get, She was promised her money back at 4 p.m. yesterday. She will report this morning to the Job Agency Committee, and if she did not get her money back, her case will be pre- sented with the others today to the License Commissioner. The “Eff- ciency” is the same agency which robbed 50 workers of over $800. | BY THE WORKERS! DOWN WITH THE JOB RACKETEERS! " FOR GOVERNMENT EMPLOYMENT AGENCIES CONTROLLED } DEMONSTRATE TODAY AT THE LICENSE BUREAU, 6 READE M. | STREET, 11 A. Katsuji Debuji (left), Japanese Ambassador, representative of the J Japanese imperialist butchers of the Chinese People to the Wall Street Hunger and War Government, mur- derer of war veterans and their babies. Debuchi sails this week for Japan for conference with ‘his gov- ernment. His complaisant smile will } be wipped off by mass actions against imperialist war. (Right) ech actions can be seen in this unusual view of the Giant Anti-War Demonstration at, Union Square, New York, on August First— part of the world-wide mass fight against imperialist war and for the defense of the Chinese People and the Soviet Union. This photograph was taken from one of the high bul- §| chokuo territory near Manchili, letins bordering the Square. will be held starting August 27. Dana, Joseph Roth, a machinist and member of the Socialist Party of Ithaca, N. Y., Burchess, a stecl work- er from Gary, Stember, member of the Workers Ex-Servicemen’s League, Sonia Kaross, textile worker, Joseph Cohen, of the National Students League, who will also attend the In- ternational Students Congress, Josenh Brodsky, of the International Work- ers Order, Joe Gardner, a Negro war veteran, and Westlake, a car- penter, member of the A. F. of L. Another part of the delegation is already in Europe. The list of delegates shows that this is a movement of all honest op- ponents of war. The inclusion of the socialist delegates was a direct slap in the face to the leaders of the Second International and the Amer- ican Socialist Party, who warned the rank and file not to participate in this world movement which wsa call- ed by Romain Rolland, Barbusse, Gorky, and other European intle- lectuals. Joseph Roth, when con- fronted with this attitude on the part of the leaders of his party, answered: “As a Socialist I have only con- tempt for the leaders of my party who do not come out unequivocally for the defense of the Soviet Union, and contempt for those who did their utmost to prevent Socialist organi- zations from participating in the World Congress Against War.” Although there are included in the delegation and in the Committee that organized the delegation repre- sentatives of various political shades, it was evident in meetings where the delegates were picked and at the final interview given by some of the delegates yesterday that the pacifism of the Socialist Party and the “con- scientious objector” type of the last war is frowned upon. “We must not fall for the Ghandi type of pacifism which teaches workers to lie down in the street while their oppressors use machine guns on them,” said Joe Gardner, the Negro delegate and his words were approved by Sher- wood Anderson, who said that “I don’t believe in lying down in the street and letting anything run over me,” and by Prof. Dana, who em- phasized the significance of having a large group of labor representatives at the Congress. Prof. Dana added that the “intellectuals have been par- ticularly anxious that the working class should be adequately represent- ed realizing that these will bear the brunt of the next war. Iwould pro- test against the Congre® standing on pious wishes and the attitude of ‘4f and when war comes’. The only war-makers are afraid of is American Delegation to World Congress Against War Leaves for Europe Include Socialist Worker, Sherwood Anderson | Workers of Basic Industries Prof. Dana Against “Pious Wishes, for Milit- ant Struggle Against War” NEW YORK.—The American delegation to the World Con gress Against War left last night on the Berengaria for Amsterdam where the Frasca The delegates, elected at meetings throughout the country by unions, fraternal and cultural organizations, included the famous writer Sherwood Anderson, the educator Harry W. L.? TO SCORE TERROR IN GERMANY, U. S. Anti-Fascist Meet Fri. in New York NEW YORK. — A vigorous pro- | test against the threatening fascist dictatorship of Adolf Hitler in Ger- many and the’ increasing wave of fascist terror in this country, will be The open war provocation against the Soviet Union was intensified yesterday by the Japanese puppet state in Man- churia which issued a lying statement through the Rengo (Japanese) News Agency ac- cusing the Soviet Union of sta- tioning Soviet troops on Man- western terminus of the Chinese| Eastern Railway. Cover Up Troop Movements. This lying accusation occurs sig- nificantly at the very time when a class ally of the Soviet Union. The | Tibetan troops are armed and in- spired by the British imperialists, who are now engaged in an attempt to throw a veil of secrecy around the movements of these troops through western Inner Mongolia toward the borders of Soviet Mongolia. Peasant partisan troops fighting the Japanese invaders yesterday dis- rupted train service on the Mukden- Kirin railway, seizing a train and capturing several Japanese anda number of botirgeois Chinese sup- porters of the Japanese imperialists. The captives were taken to Chao- yangchen, one of the many impor- the hands of the insurgent forces. Japan Lauds New Troops. Japanese reinforcements wer e) landed yesterday at Yingkow, on the | Liatung Peninsula, where the par- tisan troops have been engaging the | Japanese in sharp fighting for the | past three weeks. The partisans are holding the suburbs of the city of | Yingkow against the most terrific at- | tacks by the combined naval, air and land forces of the Japanese. | CALL MEET TO PROTEST SOCIALIST DISRUPTERS | NEW YORK.—A protest meeting | is called for tomcrrow night at 8:30 | at 187th St. and Cambrelling Ave., | Bronx, by the Int. Labor Defense | against the Socialist Party, which }last week called police and gangsters to break up an election rally of the Farmers Picket Sioux City in a Desperate Struggle Against Rui NEW YORK, Aug. 17.—The launching of the nation-wide defense campaign in connection with the fight for the bonus to demand the release of the |three war veterans held by the |Hoover government in Wash jington on trumped up charges lof felonious assault, was United Farmers League Calls for Widening of | 2ounced today by Emmanuel the Struggle, Against Bankers, Packers Communists Demand Relief for Poor Farmers | Without Restrictions by Government SIOUX CITY, Towa, Aug. 17. persed after a sharp fight sticks and bricks against th clubs. Bar the Roads | | Hundreds of farmers continue picket the roads leading to the iit In many cases they are accompanied by their wives and children. Fre-| quently roads have been blocked by the farmers’ old Fords, and trucks loaded with hogs or milk turned bac! Tt is estimated here, at the be- ginning of the second week of the strike, that-milk sales have fallen off | 90 per cent. The farmers have distributed | thousands of gallons of milk free to | tant Manchurian towns already in|the unemployed workers in the city} since the strike started. | Spreading Strike | The strike is led by the Farmers | Holiday Association” and hundreds of | speakers have been sent out to try; and spread it through neighboring | states. At present it centers in this) part of Iowa. | The farmers are fighting ruin and the loss of their land. They have been crushed by high taxes, by high| prices of everything they buy, and) by such low prices for farm produce | that it does not pay to raise stack) or harvest. Call To Wider Struggle The United Farmers League has persistently urged the farmers to| organize, to conduct tax strike, to) resist by mass action any dispos-| session of farmers through forced} sales or foreclosures, and to demand | Italian Workers Club. free seed and direct aid from the Nearly 500 farmers stormed the stock- | Japanese and Tibetan troops are | Yards here today and battled a swarm of police and special deputies. They | ; if capeiee out a rapid concentration | fought to turn out and drive away several truckloads of hogs that had been |puven enna pos trcides in on the borders of Soviet Mongolia, | slipped through thier picket lines around the town, They were only dis- which the farmers defended themselves with ne policee government for harvesting for poor farmers not the fake relief of the Farm Board, which only piles up mortgages on the farmer. ‘The present farmer strike confines its demands to higher prices of farm products: milk, $2.17 per hundred pounds; wheat, $1.36; corn, 92 cents; oats, 49 cents; barley, 73 cents; hogs, $11.25 per hundredweight; chickens, 24 cents a pound; eggs 35 cents. a dozen. The United Farmers League, while supporting this strike, calls on the farmers to enlarge the struggle, and turn it against the banks and the brutal taxation as well as the grasp- ing commission merchants and pack- ing house barons. Emergency Relief The Communist Party in its na- tional election platform calls for: “Emergency farmers without restrictions by the government and banks; exemption of poor farmers from taxes, and no forced collection of rents or debts.” STUDENTS RELEASED IN MINE STRIKE CHICAGO, IL, Aug. 17.—All the Student Delegation but Sivert have been released and driven from Franklin and — Jefferson County. Sivert is in Mt. Vernon jail. The delegation is sending 2 committee with formal protest to the governor, and the National Student League calls a mass meet- ing of protest here Friday. raised at the mass meeting to be held Friday night in the Central Opera House, 67th Street and 3rd Avenue. | The rally will be under the auspices of the Communist Party. The role of social-democracy as an agency of the bosses and land- owners in bringing about a fascist dictatorship in Germany will be ex- posed at the meeting by William W. Weinstone, editor of the Daily Worker and candidate for the U. S. Senate on the Communist ticket. Max Bedacht who will speak in German will present a picture of the Present situation in Germmany. Both speakers will stress the necessity of international solidarity with the Ger- man workers fighting under the leadership of the Communist Party against fascist reaction. All workers are urged to attend this important mass meeting which will also be a mobilization for strug- gle against the fascist wave of ter- ror in this country. economic advantage over nother. And Mr. Anderson added that he would be entirely for the World Con- gress, passing a resolution appealing for the stopping of munition ship- ments and for other militant strug- gle against war. This was also the statement of McFarland, a seaman delegate. The World Congress promises to develop into a big movement against imperialist war. Whole municipal- ities in France, Germany, Czecho- Slovakia, many of them Social-De- mocratic, have endorsed the Con- gress and are sending delegates. A Belgian Ex-Servicemen’s League un- der the influence of socialists is send- ing delegates. As Prof. Dana said, the “purpose of the Congress is to crystallize public sentiment everv- where against war.” That the senti- ment exists is evidenced by the scorn that these socialist workers are show- ing their leaders in the struggle for protest. one that seeks to make war impos- sible in advance. One that seeks to abolish the system that makes war.” In discussing the causes of war, Sherwood Anderson said that he thought the root of it lay in “the attempt of one nation to get the the defense of the Soviet Union. VOTE COMMUNIST FOR Equal rights for the Negroes and self-determination in the Black - Belt, Milwaukee, Washington and Rochester Intensify $40,000 Drive for “Daily” What are Chicago and Detroit Doing? sas City? “Daily.” St. N. ¥. C. Name Street City, noc cemercs seserees And Detroit? eee reese ene wee And Pittsburgh? More than 150 delegates from workers’ organizations in and near Milwaukee at an Emergency Daily Worker Conference held the other day, heard Clarence Hathaway, Na- tional Campaign Manager of the Communist Party, say that the Daily Worker is the chief weapon of the working class in the present election campaign and that if the “Daily” suspends it will be a crushing blow to the workers throughout the country. The Milwaukee workers answered Hathaway's appeal for a more intense mobilization behind the “Daily’s” drive by pledging the full support of their organizations in the fight to keep the “Daily” from suspending. This report is a report of action, a reort that shows the determination of the Mil- waukee workers to save their fighting “Daily.” Rochester and Washington, D. C. also report that the workers in these cities have been galvanized into action for the $40,000 Save the “Daily” drive by Emergency Daily Worker Conferences in their cities. What is Chicago doing in the drive? And Kan- What are the workers doing to help save the “Daily” from suspension in the 1,800 cities and towns that the “Daily” reaches? Action, and still more action, is needed today. Prevent the suspension of YOUR Rush every possible penny by wire and airmail to the Daily Worker, 50 East 13th 1 contribute $............... to the $40,000 Save the “Daily” Drive. Pmemareceeesere. oe relief for the poor) |Levin, National Chairman of Workers’ Ex-Servicemen’s Leag' the national headquarters, 1 Square. The three veterans held in |Bernard McCoy, John O. Ol: |Broadus Faulkner. All were bers of the bonus army whi driven out of the capital at th |bullets and gas. Besides these tt John Pace, Walter Eicker and fo’ others are also held in the Wi ington jail for their activities in t fight for the ex-servicemen’s back wages. “Every veteran and every worker throughout the country should rise at once in a mighty protest against the holding of these ex-service- men in jail and against the at- tempt to send them to prison for long terms because they demanded that the government give them their back wages,” said Emanuel Levin. : “The arrest of these men is part of the general attack of the gov- ernment against the veterans and the workers and is an attempt to relegate them to greater misery and starvation. These veterans are in jail for figthing against star- vation. The combined forces of the working class can and must force the government to release them.” | Following the announcement of the national defense drive it was reported that mass protest meetings are being arranged throughout the counfy, where delegates will be elected the Workers’ Ex-Servicemen’s Leag) Conference, to be held in Clevelan Sept. 23, 24 and 25. Whitewash Hoover. WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. | the so-called grand jury inv jof the murderous police and t jattack against the bonus mar {called to whitewash the Hoover Jernment, no notice was taken of the brutal, cold-blooded murder of three veterans and two children ) ythe po- lice and soldiers. The jury made no report on the real responsibility for the shooting, which lays directly at the door of the White House. In an attempt to clear Hoover tl grand jury has trumped up cha: against three veterans, two of whom served in France and one in the |navy during the war. John Olson, one of the framed vets, received the | Distinguished Service Cross for “ex traordinary heroism in action near Bois de Fontaine, May 11, 1918.” . . BOSTON, Mass., Aug. 17.—A mass protest meeting against the holding |of three war veterans on trumped-up [charges in the Washington jail and |to prepare for the National Confer- {ence, which will be held in Cleve- jland next month, will be held Sat- |urday night at 825 Boylston St., un- |der the auspices of the Hushka Post of the Workers’ Ex-Servicemen’s League. 5,000 PICKETS * IN MINNEAPOLIS Stop All Scabs on Pay Cut Post Office Job MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Aug. 17.—A picket line of 5,000 forced all crews of scabs to leave the post office job here today at noon. Contractors are attempting to pay 40 cents an hour on this construction work instead of the going wage of 65 cents. Police were out in force today, but the mili- tancy and huge size of the picket line swept them aside. Tuesday, however, police attacked a smaller number and beat up two pickets, and arrested them, making five arrests so far, Trial is set for next Wednesday. There is great indignation among the workers over the police action. The International Labor Defense is ore ganizing a mass protest campaign. The strike is led by a United Front Committee, representing the Unem- ployed Council, the Trade Union Unity League unions and the rank and file of the A. F, of Ly