The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 23, 1932, Page 1

VOTE COMMUNIST FOR VOTE COMMUNIST FOR 1. Unemployment and Social Insurance at the ex- Equal rights for the Negroes and self-determe pense of the state and employers. ination for the Black Belt. 0 aan OGY ers WARE-CULENE HOUCN, Against capitalist terror; against all forms of 3. Emergency relief for the poor farmers without suppression of the political rights of worke restrictions by the government and banks; ex- emption of poor farmers from taxes, and no forced collection of rent or debts, of Union Against imperialist war; for the defense the Chinese Hoople and of the Soviet | | \ \ } Vol. IX, No. 201 Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N, ¥., under the act of March 8, 1879, ‘NEW ‘YORK, “TUESDAY, AUGUST 23, 1932 JAPANESE RAIN DEATH ON CIVILIANS IN BLOODY INVASION OF JEHOL PROVINCE Seek to-Extend Military Base for Armed Intervention Against So- 8 INVADERS SEIZE | NANLIANG, PRESS ‘ON TO CHAOYANG Nanking Traitors Con- tinue Their Policy of Non-Resistance ‘Spreading death by aerial bom- bardments against the civilian popu- lations of several Jehol Province towns, the Japanese yesterday began their long-threateneq invasion of the North China border province. Japanese troops, using armoréd trains, tanks and heavy artillery, dis- Yodged Chinese regulars from the town of Nanliang after a four-hour battle in which thousands of civilians were killed and wounded. The Japa- nese are continuing their advance into Jehol with the town of Chao- yang as their immediate objective. Japanese planes dropped leaflets on Chaoyang, containing a three-hour ultimatum for the evacuation of the town by the Chinese forces under threat of a bombardment against the tivilian population. u General Tung Fu-ting, Chinese brigade commander in Jehol, has ap- pealed to the Nanking government for aid against the Japanese inva- ‘sion. While the Nanking govern- ment has taken no_ precautions against the long-threatened Japanese invasion, Chiang Kai-shek has an- nounced his intentions of starting a new sixth “Communist Suppression” campaign following the recent col- lapse of the fifth campaign. iil ‘The new Japanese aggressions have aroused a new wave of mass anger throughout China, directed against both the Japanese invaders and the Kuomintang betrayers of China. ‘The anti-Japanese boycott movement. is taking on huge proportions in Shanghai, Canton and other Chinese cities- In their invasion of Jehol Province, the Japanese are seeking to widen their military base against Soviet Mongolia and the Soviet Union. Japanese troops are continuing their concentration on the eastern bor- ders of Soviet Mongolia, while the British-armed and inspired Tibetan Army continues its progress through Western Inner Mongolia in its 91 announced drive to attack Soviet Mongolia. HITLER LIKELY TO RULE PRUSSIA With ‘Center’ Support; Socialists Maneuver BEUTHEN, Germany, Aug. 22.— Five Nazis who had murdered a Communist worker, Pietzruch, were sentenced to death by the government’s “emergency court” to- day. It is believed here that the sentence of the fascists is merely to lay the basis for further repres- sion of workers. The Nazis can be pardoned or their sentence com- muted by government order. Brown Shirt. storm troops in Beuthen mobilized outside courtroom and when barred from entering, raged through the town, attacking Jewish stores, the plant of the local Socialist paper and the Negotiations between the Catholic “Genter” and the National Socialists (fascists) for the formation of a coalition cabinet in Prussia when the Diet will convene are going on unin- terruptedly, dispatches from Berlin indicated yesterday. ‘The Catholics are said to be work- ifig hard in order to draw the Na~ tionalists in the coalition cabinet, but the Fascists are not inclined to let the Catholics and Nationalists have more than a 33 per cent influ- ence in the government. ‘The social-democrats in the mean- time are resorting to a fresh maneu- ver designated to prevent the work- ers from definitely rejecting their treacherous leadership while they try to help the Von Papen government unload the burdens of the deepening economic crisis upon the workers. ‘They are demanding the nation- alization of the banks and other such ry which they praise as paving Eosey for “socialization.” These de- the | viet Mongolia and the Soviet Union frauded defrauded. WORKER EXPOSES MORE AGENCIES Calls on “Unemployed to Boycott Them NEW YORK. — “With great in- terest I have noticed the campaign of the Unemployed Councils and the Daily Worker against the worst ene- mies of the working class, the em- ployment agency sharks, It is about time something is being done to wipe out these robbers. You can go from Sixth ‘Ave. downtown, from San Francisco to New York, and find the Same conditions”, writes a worker in response to the call of the Daily Worker for exposures of the racketeer job_agencies. “There are several agencies I can mention who rob the workers either by sending them to jobs that do not. exist or that are impossible to keep. One of the biggest racketeers is Hans Reuber, at 12th St. between 3rd and 4th Ave., the Majestic at 89 E. 10th St., and his partner, the Claremont Agency, on Sixth Ave. and 40th St., the Yorkville Agency on 3rd Ave. and 88th St., Hugo Lenzer on Sixth Ave., the Central Employment Agency on 4th Ave. and 12th St. “I could name dozens of others, in fact they are all crooked, and it does not pay to do business with any of them. Workers must organize and boycott them, and not give them an- other nickel for fake jobs. Work- ers must expose them. “A free employment agency will not be successful until the last shark is wiped out because as soon as it is opened the bosses and managers will continue calling on him in order to collect their commissions. “Three cheers for the Daily Worker Keep up the good work until the final victory is won.” Shapp, Communnist Candidate Jailed Leading Unemployed NEW YORK. *- Max Schapp, Com- |munist candidate for Alderman in tbe Ninth Assembly District, Brook- lyn, was arrested Friday for leading a demonstration of the unemployed at the Home Relief Bureau at Gravesend Ave., and Albermarle Rd. Hundreds took part in the demand protest against cutting on the home relief already given to them. The food tickets for families have been cut from $5 to $3, The supervisors told Schapp, that i cents is enough to live on. The workers shouted their demands and a’ riot: squad attacked them, ar- resting Schapp, his wife and four year old child. Organization of the unemployed continues and thé struggle goes for- ward, Boro Park jobless will have a part in the Sept. 10 demonstration at city hall to demand cash relief, EDLECTION CONFERENCE a NEW YORK. — A United Front Conference for the Communist Elec- tion Campaign in Brownsville will take place Thursday, August 25 at 8:30 p. m. at 1813 Pitkin Ave. All worker organizations in Brownsville aye says to send ede i Two Paint Shops Win Strike; Workers in Third Shop Walk Out , mands are however mainly intended to nationalize the burdens of banks thd unload them upon the workers. e Fritz Tarnov in the BROOKLYN, N. Y.—The Alteration Painters Union chalked up two more victories to area" credit bee! and for immediate relief to all and to) down | Jobless Workers Win New Victories Against Racketeering Agencies \Foree Two Gyp Agencies to Refund Fees to De- Workers Hold Open Air Meeting in Job Agency Area Despite Police Ban NEW YORK.—Jobless workers, led by the Unemployed Council, won further victories here yesterday in their fight against the gyp job agencies, | when they forced two of them to return fees to workers whom they had | A committee of 25 workers, elected at a mass meeting, forced | ‘the Chrysler agency, Sixth Avenue, between 49th and 50th Streets to return ~®$3 to a worker who had just paid | the agency $5 for a job that was to pay $12 a week. The job lasted only |two weeks and paid only $10. The |committee permitted the agency to keep $2 of the $5 fee that the worker had paid. The committee of 25 then went to the Radio agency on Sixth Avenue, between 25th and 26th streets, where a young worker had paid $4 for a job that was to pay $10 a week but that lasted for one-half day, and forced the owner to return $3.95 to the worker. The agency was per- mitted to keep only five cents, Workers Attacked by Racketeer Several hundred workers who had mobilized in support of the commit- tee then proceeded to the Sherman agency at 1183 Sixth Avenue to de- mand that it refund $15 to a worker who had paid that sum for a job that lasted Only a day. When the workers entered the agency to demand the $15 for the victimized worker, the owner of the agency picked-up_a chair and was about to throw it at them when it was wrested from his grip. In the course of the struggle for the chair, most of the furniture of the agency was wrecked, The police arrived shortly after- ward, but the militancy of the work- ers prevented any arrests. Hold Meeting Despite Police Ban The determination of the workers to maintain their right to meet in the streets prevented the breaking up of an open air meeting at Sixth Avenue and 40th Street, in the heart of the job market, a short time before, after the police had ordered no meetings to be held. The police, who are working in collusion with the rocketeering agencies, broke up three open-air meetings in the job market on Saturday, which had been called to demand the elimination of all the the opening of free city employment buredus to be controlled by the workers, The Daily Worker on Mon- day urged all workers to support the for the right to meet in the streets, and hundreds of workers responded. FASCIST WAR MANEUVER: PERUGIA, Italy, Aug. 22.—As part of Mussolini's preparations for im- perialist war, a large army maneuver is taking place here with 50,000 par- ticipating in it. private employment agencies and |: call of the Job Agency Committee of |: the Unemployed Council for struggle | ° Part of the crowd of 15,000 who marched on the Taylorville mines. turning back two cars of would-be scabs, while masses of men statnd in solid ranks across the road to the tipple. Hingis Strike Pickets cei. Taylorville Mines P. Pictures) See in the center where they are New York Vets Speed Drive for W.E.S. L. National Conference | Waters Gang, Led By Police Spy, Attempt to. Break Up Meetings Hold Series of Mass Meetings Throughout | City During Week End NEW YORK, Aufi. 22.—The campaign of the Workers Ex-Servicemen’s | League to elect a mass delegation of veterans to the National Convention | to be held in Cleveland, Sept. 23, 24, 25 was intensified here over the | week-end. All posts of the W.E.S.L. held mass meetings where large crowds of workers and vets gathered to hear the story of Hoover’s “Bloody Thurs- day” related by members of the bo- nus army. Workers cheered the call for the conference in meetings held in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Bronx and Harlem. Small groups of Walter W. Waters’ agents, under. the leadership of Fred GSomers, a police spy and “intel- ligence chief” of the BEF, who is lavish in his praise for General Glass- ford and the Washington police, have been busy throughout the city doing their utmost to break up meetings held under the auspices of the WESL. During the past week the Waters gang has worked hand in handwith the Harlem police. Saturday night police were called by the Waters group to attack a meeting at 125th St. and Fifth Ave. Workers, how- ever, demanded that the meeting con_ tinue and it was promptly started on the opposite corner. Death Demanded for Leader of Spanish Monarchist Revolt MADRID, Aug. 22.—In an effort to allay the anger of the workers and peasants at the leniency of the re- publican govern- ment toward the aristocrats en gi- neering one mon- archist revolt after the other, the State prosecu- tor demanded the death penalty for General San Ju- ee tio, leader of the San Jurio recent monarchist insurrection. He demanded the same penalty for the General's son and for Lieutneant Colonel Emilio Enfante, the general's aid de camp. The trial will begin today or tomorrow. It is doubted whether the death penalty will really be inflicted upon’ San Jurio. a MORE MILLIONS TO THE BANKS 47,711,056 Given Out by RFC In 10 Days WASHINGTON, Aug. 22.—While consistently refusing any relief to the) starving masses, the Hoover Hunger Goyernment ‘handed during ‘the ten days from July 21 to July 31 $46,711,-|— 056 to banks, building and loan asso- ciations, railroads and other finan-| ¢ial corporations, the first report of the Reconstruction Finance Corpora- tion indicated. The report further shows that of the total amount $32,990,180 had been given to banks and trust companies, $104,309 to agriculture credit corpora- tions, $3,088,650 to building and loan associations, $2,247,500 to insurance | companies, $6,862,700 to railroads, etc. | It is rumored here that Hoover was against having the Reconstruction Finance Corporation publish its re-| port. The Hunger President did not} want the masses to know that while | they are given bullets the banks and big financial corporations get mil- lions. 5,500,000 MEMBERS IN ATHEIST) SOCIETY MOSCOW, Aug. 22.—Comrade Ya- roslavsky told a group of American tourists today that the Atheist So- ciety of the Soviet Union has reach-}| ed a membership of 5,500,000. This huge number, according to Yaro-| slavsky, “represents only a fraction of the actual millions of atheists in | Russia. Untold thousands are aban- doning their religion without joining the society.” 6,000 New York Workers at Daily Worker Picnic Set Example for Other Districts $40,000. drive. WORKERS AND WORKERS’ ORGANIZATIONS, ORGANIZE SUCH AFFAIRS FOR THE BENEFIT OF YOUR NEWSPAPER, THE FIGHT- ING VOICE OF THE AMERICAN WORKING CLASS. Remove the danger of suspension from YOUR paper. SEND YOUR CON- Six thousand New York workers attended a Daily Worker picnic on Sun- day, at which more than $1,000 was collected for the “Daily’s” campaign for The six ‘housad workers who attended the picnic did so because they knew they were supporting the struggle for existence of the only daily working- class newspaper in the United States. They were supporting the only newspaper which fights for the immediate needs of the working class as well as for the overthrow of the bankrupt system of capitalism and the establishment of a workers’ and farmers’ government. Scores of thousands of workers in the 1,800 cities and towns in which the “Daily” is read will support picnics and similar affairs for the “Daily’s” $40,000 TERROR SAT |dered in these jails [ATTACK MEETING | AND KILL WORKER, Murderoys 5 Assault As Communist Speaks NEW YORK.—Michel Semen, a 22- year-old worker of 431 E. h St. was killed by a brick thrown from an upper story window or roof top at a Communist meeting at 7th St. and | Avenue A, Saturday night. The first meeting here was started by Trotzkyites.. They had a small strong arm gang with them around their platform, and when workers gathered in a ring outside this gang and began to shoot questions at the speaker, the gang of his supporters |started a fight. There were torn coats and black eyes on each side, but | Trotskyites speedily got the worst of it, and fled the scene. Communist Speaks. A new platform was then erected, a Communist speaker was sent for and the crowd grew larger as soon as he began to talk. jof the Trotskyites were gathering on |the roof top overlooking the meeting place, and suddenly a shower of bricks and bottles came down either from the roof or upper windows of |the building alongside. Michael Semen was hit on the head by a brick. He was taken to Bellevue Hospital at once, but died at 2 am. Sunday morning. Section 1 of the Communist Party in whose territory the slain worker |neral. The exact date and place will be announced shortly. Michael Semen is survived by a father, 66 years old. Michael worked as a laborer. In this same attack, another work- Jer, Kxcwak, was hit by a misile also, and is in the hospital, seriously in- Society. He was merely at the meeting. He has a fractured j skull. | Some of the worker | saw part of the Trot: present also gang driving |bricks at the Communist meeting at the time the attack from the build- ing was made. ‘TO PROTEST CUBA yAY, Workers “to Demon- strate in Harlem NEW YORK—A mass demonstra- tion against the bloody reign of | terror being conducted against Cuban working class by the Machado regime will be held here on Saturday, August 27, at 4 p.m., at 124th Street and Lenox Avenue, under the au- spicés of the Anti-Imperialist League of the United States. The workers will then parade to 110th Street, and | Fifth Avenue. In endorsing the demonstration, the New York District of the Communist Party calls upon the workers of New York to demonstrate in thousands next Saturday afternoon, A statement issued by the New York District yesterday said in part: “The workers of Cuba today are sub- jected to the most frightful and bar- barous terror. Working-class organ- izations have been driven into ille- gality, meetings and demonstrations have been smashed, and raids are cintinually being made against work- ers’ homes. Within recent weeks many workingclass leaders have been ambushed and brutally murdered in cold blood by the Machado police. The jails in Havana have become slaughter houses, Workers are mur- id their bodies are thrown to the sharks in Havana harbor. “The Machado government is mere- Just as American imperialism mur- ders, lynches and starves the Negro and white workers in the United States, so it insiructs its agent, Butcher Machado, to increase the |bloody attacks on the Cuban masses. The struggle of the Cuban workers Word was passed around that some/ liveq and within which the meeting| jtook place, is arranging a mass fu- | jured. He is a member of Branch 65) of the Russian National Mutual Aid |® a bystander | ~ = Price 3 Cents _ PICKETS CLOSE 3 MINES IN FRANKLIN COUNTY; SHERIFF at World’s Biggest Mir Struggle Now Enters It was reported late yesterday that working on the reduced wage scale. } Sheriff Robinson at West Frankfo1 come they will be prevented from sheriffs, . WEST FRANKFORT, IL, production in Southern Mlinois. It w county which had most to do with thi }1 and 2 at Zeigler, and Saturday® |morning the men at Peabody Coal Co. Mine 19, near West Frankfort, struck. Both these towns are in Franklin County. Firing was heard at Bell and Zoller No,/1 last night and today Dominick Lauranti was found shot to death. | The operators, the United Mine} Workers’ officials, who agreed to the| cut, and Sheriff Browning Robinson of Franklin County are making the most desperate efforts to prevent the strike developing here. The sheriff, who has 250 deputized business men and coal company thugs, led them} to club miners and smash a mass meeting at Benton, ten miles north| of West Frankfort, yesterday, then rushed his force against the picket | line of local miners at Orient No. 1,| ,/the biggest mine in the world. Machine Gun Fire. The deputies cut loose a volley of machine gun bullets as they neared the Orient picket line, but did not hit anybody. Then they broke up a mass meeting in West Frankfort. Now the sheriff has issued a‘ procla- mation prohibiting all meetings of miners anywhere in the county. For the last week the sheriff has| been raiding houses and arresting foreign-born: miners to be held for deportation. | New Taylorville Picketing. At Taylorville, Christian County | deputies are drawn up around the} four Peabody mines this morning, and the company says it will try to! |re-open. The Rank and File Oppo-| sition leaders are rallying 1,500 pick-| lets to go on duty at noon at these mines. The Rank and File Opposition | again calls for election of rank and | file strike committees at all locals, to| lead the strike against the wage-cut, | and to organize marches against | mines still working, and to direct | mass picketing. past in an automobile and throwing|, The Musteites are still agitating) giso a speaker at Ford’s m for a district convention, with Lewis | jand Walker in it, of course, and for | react? referendum, in which Walker |will miscount the votes or steal the | tally sheets, as he did in the last one. The rank and file Opposition em- phasizes winning the strike, then the | convention can come, without Walker | and Lewis. |More Troops Sent to Indiana Coal Fields INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Aug. 22.—| Alarmed at the growth of the Rank| and File movement here against the |General Tombaugh today sent 132) | additional militia into the coal fields. | |The number of national guardsmen | there now is 300. Center; Miners Deter Aug. 22.- cut is sweeping into Franklin County, Seventeen hundred miners are striking at the | their life-blood,” jand arrested C. Berman OPENS FIRE Blast from Machine Guns Against Picket Line BULLETIN 25,000 miners on Franklin County Wednesday morning to picket mines ine; Meetings Barred Key Coal Producing mined Stop Pay Cut t attempts would be made to march rt has announced that if the miners picketing by 30,000 armed deputy —The strike against the $1.10 wage coal the strategic center of h as failure to strike the e failure of the 1929 stri Bell and Zoller FORD TELLS 2,08 HOW TOILERS € END THE ¢ W. Communist. and Auto Union Leade: Speak UU CA > 4 4 4 TH } Cand ( JACKSON Kp Y, “A workers’ and f: | with all indust | workers and no is the onl: for unemployment, Jam: Communist candidate fc dent of the United people assembled in Lo Friday night. Ford contr millions of ‘V America, and in the towns of Michigan es the Sovie; Union, wh ers’ rule,.there is no une industry is expending rate and wages const: Ford pointed to th: Communist election ple demands “Equal rights and self-determination in Belt” and roused both N white workers to enthusiasr This is the fifth consect | weekly Communist election ca meeting in Loomis Park, each dot the size of the one befor t sti |day Hutlin will speak onth | Union. William Reynolds, Icader of | auto workers and Comm |date for Governor of M ing for organization against the wage-cuts, tinued struggle for un E. A. Moross was ch: and for c nplo, Cops Smash Protest at City Relief Burez NEW YORK. — Police st demonstration here Monday the Downtown Unempl a wor worker. The demonstration t place to protest against the refusal ¢f the Home Relief Bureau to grant immediate relief to a grou the |wage-cut from $610 to $4, Adjutant | ing workers. is tharged ‘The arrested worker with disorderly conduct ing defended by the International bor Defense. City Council March of 200 Une In Stee Every Is Forced to Endorse Jobless Bill Eveleth, Minn., Unemployed Council Leads mployed Workers 1 Town ait Workers Also Win Demand That City Council Meet With Unemployed Council Week EVELETH, Minn., Aug. 20 (By Mail).—Unemployed workers here under the leadership of the Unemployed Council have forced the City Council, | which is controlled by the steel trust, to endorse the demand of the Un- employed Council for unemployment and social.insurance at the expense ly the tool of American imperialism. | of the government and the employers. its endorsement of the Unemploy- |ment Insurance Bill to the state and federal governments after more than |200 workers marched on the City | Council yesterday while it was in ses- |sion and placed their demands be- fore it. The City Council agreed to send@———————_________ going to the starving unemployed). 4. The city, county and school boards to meet together with the Un- employed Council at least once a week! 5. No business men to be allowed on the city payroll.