The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 20, 1932, Page 1

——, “VOTE COMMUNIST FOR 1. Unemployment and Social pense of the state and employer 2. ‘Against Hoover’s wage-cutting policy. 8. Emergency relief for the restrictions by the government and banks; ex- emption of poor farmer: forced ‘collection of rent ] Insurance at the ex- poor farmers without s from taxes, and no or debts. (Section of the Communist’ International) VOTE- COMMUNIST FOR Equal rights: for the Negros Black Belt -determe ination for the all fo zainst capitalist terror inst wo suppression of the political rights of defense ‘of Union Against imperialist war; for the the: Chinese people and of the Soviet mS Vol. IX, No. 199 eo Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N, ¥., under the act of March 3, 187% NEW YORK, SATURDAY, AUGUST 20, 1932 2 3,000 FUR WORKERS HAIL STRIKE VICTORY IN TWO OVERFLOW MEETINGS Force Bosses to Place One Jobless Worker In| Each Association Shop Agreement for Restriction of Overtime, Agree- ment Will Abolish Work-Card System, Establish Week-Work, 40-Hr. Week NEW YORK.—An overwhelming victory. was concluded by the striking fur workers yesterday when over 3,000 furriers enthusiastically and unani- mously ratified the settlement wrung from the Fur Trimmers Association. Furriers packed both the Cooper where reports of the settlement were® given by Ben Gold, secretary_of the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union. The Cooper Union Hall, which was vented for the meeting, small to hold the great gathering of | workers. Masses were outside the hall-unable to get in shortly before the meeting started at 5 o’clock. The Manhattan Lyceum wes rented to accommodate the overflow. Many shops marcched to the halls in a body, Winogratsky, of the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union, was chair- man of. the meeting. A big ovation was given to M. J. Olgin, editor of the Morning Freiheit, who was the first. speaker, “Six years ago you fought one of the most militant batties and won,” said Olgin. “Then came the traitors, McGrady, Matthew Woll and company. Through their dis- ruptive tactics, they destroyed union conditions in the trade. Now JOBLESS PUSH FIGHT AGAINST GYP AGENCIES Daily Worker Exposes Three More NEW YORK, N. Y. — Continuing the fight initiated by the Daily Worker against the racketeering job agencies here, more than 500 unem- ployed workers demonstrated yester- day before the Efficiency Bureau on Sixth Ave. to enforce the decision made by the License Bureau that the agency return more than $800 that {t had stolen from 50 workers. demonstration was led by the Job Agency Committee of the Unemploy- *d Council. The Efficiency agency had sent the | workers to jobs that didn’t exist after | taking from $5 to $40 from each of | them. When the defrauded workers reported the robbery to the Daily Worker, it started a struggle which Jobless! Join the Struggle for Free City Job Agencies || The fight initiated last Monday, | by the Daily Worker against the} parasites who own the job agen-/ ‘cies, must go on to victory. rb racketeering job agencies must be driven from the job market and} the city must be forced to open free job agencies under the con- trol of the. workers | Workers, bring your experiences with the parasites who own these | ‘egenciés to the Daily Worker. Or- | “struggle will bring victory, as the case of the Efficiency agen- cy shows. Sndéd’on Thursday with the de- frauded workers forcing the Tam- many License Commissioner, barri- caded. behind 100 cops, to order the gyp .agenty to return the money within 48 hours. Several hundred copies of the Daily Worker were sold at the demonstra~ tion. Unemployed workers have answered the:.call of. the Daily Worker for further exposures of ratketeering job agencies by bringing in proof against three more’ of them. Crystel Em~ ployment Agency, 1289 Sixth Avenue, the Radio Agency, 25th St. and Sixth Ave., and the Academy Agency, 49th St..and Sixth Ave. All three agencies charged workers high fees for Jobs which lasted only for a3 day or two The Academy agency, most vicious of the three, ac- tually tore up the receipt of a worker who demanded his money be returned tohim. . ~ The Job Agency Committee of the Unemployed Council and the Daily Worker are continuing to mobilize workers in the fight to eliminate the job sharks and: to force the city gov- ernment to open free employment bureaus to be controlled by the work- ers. GORKI TO ATTEND ANTI-WAR | CONGRESS NEW YORK, N. Y\—Maxim Gorki, internationally famous Russian writ- er, will attend the International Congress Against War to be held in Europe next week, according to a gable received yesterday by the Am- erican committee for the World proved too | ‘The | through hard and determined struggle Union and Manhattan Lyceum halls, you have won again. What policy the revolutionary press and unions advocated proved to be correct.” } Boo Socialist Press ‘The Socialist paper, the Forward, | came in for a prolonged booing when | Olgin read a quotation from it which |said that “the Communist serpent |has again raised its ugly head in the fur market.” Telegrams and greetings poured in from workers organizations from’ all over the country. Two huge wreaths of flowers were brought up to the platform by groups of shop workers. Gold Reports Ben Gold, who made the report for the settlement committee, got a tremendous ovation. The workers cheered for several minutes when he stepped up to report. “The bosses association swore they would never negotiate with a red union,” said Gold. “They have changed their policy, however. They spoke like gentlemen to us. It is a pleasure to deal with manufacturers who are licked.” Gold then outlined the points of the settlement, which included week | work, the 40-hour five-day week,’ restricted overtime, no discrimina- | tion, pay for legal holidays, aboli- tion of the work card system, and a clause which demands that an unemployed worker be put to work in each shop. Call for Unity “No longer will the right wing and “left wing workers fight among themselves. We will all fight to- gether against the manufacturers,” said Gold. This remark brought down tumultuous applpause. Following the report a worker from a shop made a motion that the set- tlement be ratified. The workers unanimously voted to accept the agreement and hailed it as the great- est strike victory for the New York furriers. During the course of the meeting, members of the Lovestone group, renegades from the Communist Party, ‘ied to disrupt the proceedings. ‘They were soon silenced: by the workers. | Latest reports showed 54 additional dependent shops settled, bringing he number of settled shops up to 217. The agreement with the Fur Trimmers Association affects around 300 shops. OTTAWA PARLEY HITS U. 8. TRADE Intensive Rivalries Between U. S.- Britain OTTAWA, Aug. 19—In a move to strengthen the position of British im~ sm in the prepaartion for 2 new world war, the Brjtish delegates to the Imperial Economic Conference being held here agreed to grant al- most all the demands of the Domin- ions, it was learned last night. It is generally admitted here that British Imperialism gave more than it received from the Dominions. A heavy food tax which will ultimately fall on the British workers, ‘was agreed to by the delegates of the British Government. A measure against Soviet goods was also agreed to in return for some preferences which are obviously directed seiaiste United States trade. There are “indications ‘ here that British imperialism got a secret pledge that its imperialist aspirations and war preparations will be supported for its concessions to the Dominions. What seems to have guided the British delegates during the whole conference-is the warning contained in the famous memorandum of the Federation of British Industries, namely that. “If the Dominions de- cide, instead of cooperation, to stand alone, each of them must eventually fall under the domination of some foreign economic group.” There is no doubt that the “econo- mic group” referred to’ is American imperialism against which the British delegates teled to. reglize the “closer unity” of the British Empire. Before the conference the editor of the British paper “The Times” de~ clared: “The feeling that we are moving to a new world war may drive | the Dominions to enter into an agree- ment with the British Government on economical and political questions.” That the contradictions within, the British Empire itself are only tem- porarily allayed but not eliminated is shown by the fact that the Irish and Australisn delegates to the confer- ence refused to give their approval to the proposal for an Empire Trade Raard which was thus defeated. |erans, | Workers MARCHERS STOP TAYLORY LLE MINES 3 DEMAND THEIR RELEASE ‘Three World War veterans held in jail in Washington, D. C. on a framed-up charge of felonious assault as part of the Wall Street gov- ernment’s campaign to whitewash Herbert Hoover of the responsibility for the murder of three ex-servicemen and two children who came to the capitol to demand immediate payment of the bonus. The veterans are, left to right, Brodus Faulkner of Kentucky, John Olson of Valpar- aiso, Nebr. and Bernard McCloy of Chicago. To Speed Bonus Fight at Vets Conference to Be Held in Chicago New York Ex-Servicemen In Fight for Release of Vets In Jail Large Number of Negro Delegates Expected at Conference In Cleveland CHICAGO, Ill, Aug. 19.—To speed the fight for the ex-servicemen’s back pay and unemployment insurance the League and the Veterans’ Rank and Workers Ex-Servicemen’s File Committee of this city issued a call for a United Front Veterans’ Conference to be held at Sokol Hall, 1062 North Ashland Ave., Sunday, Au; All war veterans, posts of American Legion, Veterans of . Fo:- eign Wars, Disabled American Vet- Polish Americ: Legion, Ex-Servicemen’s League, | groups of veterans in the Unem- ployed Councils, Trade Union Unity League, A. F. of L. Unions, and all working) class organizations, as well as umaffiliated groups of veterans were urged today to elect delegates to the Conference. The conference will elect-delegates to the National Conferenc eto be held in Cleveland EBeRt es * NEW .YORK,. Aug. 19—Over. 200 war veterans at a meeting held last night by Post 2 of the Workers Ex- Servicemen’s League at the Herlem Labor Center demanded the imme- diate release of John Pace, Walter Eicher, Broadus Faulkner, Olson and McCloy, veterans held in jail in Washington for their. activities in the fight for the bonus. Negro and White Unity. The post in demanding the release of the veterans pointed out that a large number of Negro delegates are expected to attend’the National Con- ference in Cleveland» Sept.23. The following telegram was sent to President Hoover: “Post 2 of the Workers Ex-Ser- vicemen’s League, composed of Negro and white veterans, assem- bled at its regular meeting protest against the arrest of war veterans in Washington and demand the telease ef John Pace and others held.” The post is preparing to send rep- resentatives to Negro ‘fraternal - or- ganizations, posts of the American Legion, Veterans of Foreign Wars, etc. to call for the election of dele- gates to the National Conference. It was pointed out at the meeting that the Negro veteran and the two white veterans held with Pace and Eichner are being defended by the International Labor Defense. The League urged all veterans to sup- port the demonstrations called in Harlem next Monday on the anni- versary of the death of Sacco and Vanzettt, e Build New Post. BUFFALO, N. Y., Aug. 19-—A new post of the Workers Ex-Servicemen’s League was organized here Wednes- day night at 476 William St. Joseph Kissell .was elected chairman of the » Frank McCoy, secretary and est Hobbs treasurer. The new post has planned a series 4 gust 28th at 10 a. m. the? of meetings to elect <ciegates to the Nationa] Convention to be held next month in Cleveland | 2 ANOTHER EXPOSURE OF DIS- ARMAMENT SWINDLE NEW YORK.—The . disarmament swindle enacted by the imperialist | powers at Geneva was further ex- posed yesterday with the call by Senator Hiram Bingham for an “un- organized reserve’ ‘of Army Air Corps pilots numbering at least 100,000 competent fliers “ready for an emer- | gency. cent shoe workers’ strike: ing our bitter strike. place. votion and self-sacrifice. Let ps not only save financial cris Name Street Fee ee ceenseeeeed TOYS vicaaic tise ors c bine a | applying to the government under ‘Over 10,000 Picket All Four Peabody Coal Company Pits $1.10 Wage Many Working Vote to Join Strike; Mass Marching to Spread Strugel Cut Will Now Center On Southern Illinois Coa! Fields GOVERNOR CALIS Ford Leads Hunger STATE TE MILITIA, March on Uniontown Sends 4 Companies to! Nearby Towns | 2,000 Starving Miners, Taine and Steel ae Workers Demand Cash Relief SPRINGFIELD, Ill., Aug. 19.—Gov-| 3 ernor Emerson (Republican Party) man) of Illinois yesterday orderea| COmMunist Candidate Is Spokesman: County two companies ‘of infantw andi? Officials Evade; More Demonstrations Soon Grant to Springfield and Decanter. | These two towns are much closed to| © UNIONTOWN, P2., August 12—James W. the Taylorville strike area than Camp | for vice-president led hunger march on the Fayette County court house Grant, where 9,000 ‘state militia are| here Wednesday. Two thousand unemployed stood outside while now. having maneuvers. their elected committee, Ford, Vincent Kemenovich of the national board of ‘The day before the governor sent| the National Miners Union; James Evans, and Wilson, a Negro miner, went | il Brigadier General Hammond and|in to the county commissione: Th closed "daw at 7 vig 1 y the rank and file oppo- ion to the wage cut and the treach« erous UMWA officials. The number of pickets grew stead- ce the first 10,000 arrived, half gfield section and the rest rd, Communist candidate Major Mann with six airplanes equipe | committee demanded $10 per |from as far away as Gillespiefi Pa- ped with tear gas and machine guns,|relief for each family and |nama, Nokomis, Staun Mount | Olive, Benld, Livingston and Herrin to. Taylorville” The. planes soared |single men, no sale of w over the 10,000 marching miners en- tering Taylorville, but the ‘miners were not intimidated. nation SeAiaae e The governor admitted in a siate-|Cash relief checks ar ment issued yesterday that the mil-|00d, clothing and medic itia sent into the strike area “world | Choo! children remain under arms” ready to inter-| Meney For Tear Gas vene at Taylorville. He called the| The commissioners denied they troop movement “precautionary.” The |the power to appropriate money mines are also on strike all around|this, and Ford and the commi Springfield. reminded them th 25 PERCENT CUT | which in the southern part of thé | state Fight Wage Cut They camped all night around the Id mass meetings, and on against the $1.10 he operators and the forkers Uni m aft dum against wage ~ th: \un | put | voted on refer This morning at 7 they w ed around the mihes:* Taylorville No. lee Kinkaid, Langley and Tovey,-all owned by the Peabody Coq! Co. and Peabody is the pbiggest Company’ in Tlinois, and. in | 1926 bribed the UMWA district prées- jident, Farrington with $75,000. When the committee came out and ‘reported this, every miner could see |how the..Republican and Democratic rarties’ offitials fight and starve the werkers, while the Communist Party all near each other. leads their. daily struggles for the | “Yesterday the 1,000 men in Tovey 4 Picuanss tight to live. mine struck before the march reach: .GHICAGO, Ill, Aug. 19.—Ex- jit This morning none of the men ‘When the committee reported, from the court house steps,.to th: cutside that the commissioners jin’ any'of the mines. went to work, |and the marching miners made plans |to also, organize @ march in tHe {Southern part of, the, state, into the 1 este! counties ot ecutives of all important eastern, met here yesterday to continue plans for the general wage-cut. For a the first time it was brought out ferred them to the county Poor if Board, the miners voted to go to the that the preliminary meeting held |p.0, Board, but not to stop there last week in New York of eastern ‘i is 4 managers had considered formally ae A age Sern orice i cathe nunfbers and stay until the county commissioners grant the demands Troopers Jam Courthouse The miners and the miners simp feet and to them. the Watson-Parker law for a 20 to 25 per cent wage cut, and that this was being considered by the meet- ing in Chicago. ling t eho . jtwo by two, ‘ jclothes and jacketless NEW YORK—Confirmation of |.) as William Z. "Foster's statement in| Slam menittong tional ges The procession was led b; and under-nour' jing pasteboard, nailed to branches of marchers assembled at and then paraded to the court house. which they found looking like a Bas- | tile with officials state troo) jamming all windows and |their. necks to hear Ford's spee h he stood on the steps Many of the crowd came in ram-} shackle cars from Masontown, Re-| public, Brownsville, and mining camps around this hunger pped area.| Many more were ready to come, but transportation could not be provided. | The court; house meeting voted | unanimously to endorse and prepare for a state hunger march on Harris- TRY TO DISRUPT WASH. DEFENSE election tour speeches that the rail- roads would ask for a big wage cut, expecting tie government arbitra- | tion machinery to scale it down and | give them what they really wanted, | was confirmed by an article in yes- terday’s “Times” which declares the 25 pet cent cut the roads ask is for bargaining purposes, and that they expect somewhat less. trees Baum BOLIVIANS KILLED IN CLASH ASUNCION, Paraguay, Aug., 19—/; A Bolivian Lieutenant and six men were killed “in several clashes be- tween Bolivian and Paraguayan forces at the observation. post .of Caraya in the distute Grand Chaco (above), Na- tion Campaign Manager munist Party, and Hen- ry Sheppard, (below), who is the Commun + candidate fer Lieute Governor of New re at the Daily | against death sentences ;Case on charges Paris Shoe Co. Strikers Urge Support of “Daily” . The Daily Worker has received the following letter from the fichters in the re- “Daily Worker: Dear comrades: We the undersigned workers of the Pari Co., have not forgotten the splendid support and leadership the ‘Dai! We workers cannot afford to lose the Daily’ for a single day is forced to suspend publication no other newspaper in’ the United States can take its We therefore are sending $14 to the $40,000 Save the ‘Daily’ drive as our share of the ammunition in the battle to keep our newspaper_from suspension. We call upon all workers to support’ the ‘Daily’ in its desperate financial crisis. Fellow-workers, we myst apswer the appeal of the ‘Daily’ with the utmost de- Gorelick, Max Poniak, A. Corin. Max Loeb, Martin Duehan, John Barotta, Harry Bou. I contribute $...........2... to the $40,000 Save the “Daily” Drive. SO Ono fiction Soin i i rt i reread PO eee eee eee anes ee Cees n esse essere rseueresseeeereceesoeewene | Park! regions, it was announced here by the War Minister. bure | DAILY WORKER | PICNIC SUNDAY housands Expected is Shoe gave us dur- The I. L. D. di manding from commissioners that these disrupt- ll stop. “The attorneys the dismisal of Peak. eferting charges of seainst him ent in'defense of Tf the ‘Daily’ slander The miass |the prisoners and of the. arrested Clarence oo marehers is growing. on cam- perd. thes Bronx Un- and candidate of gz t Convention. 1. .D. to Be Held the ‘Daily’ frem suspension but guarantee it against future red Councils Contribute today to the $40,000 Save the ‘Daily’ Drive.” | An matiod pron bg abla Today at Lyeeam (Signed) Jack Friedman, Max Staller. Isy Silverberg, M. Ketter, A. Rosin, A ey the Draatotenee aie Aug. 18—Due to at yy the ‘publicity bureau dramatic groups; bi 1 Labor Defénse, S and mass drill man, Benny Bromberg, Sam Gold. bers of the Labor Sports Us announced yester= r oi |“Russian Echoes,” directed by Convention. of |Birsanoff; a mass chorus by the Russian Workers Singing Group, and |many other outstanding features. A lrecruiting station for the Workers + | Ex-Servicemen’s League will be ie et Manhattan Lyceu up on the picnic grounds SEEK TO HOLD NEGROES All out tomorrow at Pleasant Bay| PRINCETON, N. Y.—The* Demo- Make the Picnic a mass dem- | jerate are making a hard drive for onstration to save the Daily Worker | the Negro vote here. They.call’ and to rally the workers of New|Negro workers together and seeeee* | York to-vote Communist. on.Nov, oi about “beer and praesperity,” Core reeset Neto agg nem accaervseai eames eter