The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 24, 1932, Page 1

VOTE COMMUNIST FOR 1, Unemployment and Social Insurance at the ex- pense of the state and employers. . Against Hoover’s wage-cutting policy. 3. Emergency relief for the restrictions by the gover: emption of poor farmer forced collection of rent poor farmers without mment and banks; ex- s from taxes, and no or debts. Dail Central Orga Worker om amunist Party U.S.A. (Section of the Commurdst International) VOTE COM = suppression of the Against imperialist the Chinese people Against capitalist terror; against all MUNIST FOR Equal rights for the Negroes and self-determ- ination for the Black Belt. | f forms of political rights of workers. war; for the defense and of the Soviet Union Vol. IX, No. 202 WHOLE POPULATIONS FLEE JEHOL TOWNS, JAPANESE PLANES RAIN DEATH ON PEOPLE Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., under the act of March 3, 1879, 26 NEW YORK, WEDWESDAY, AUGUST 24, 1932 CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents Invaders Threaten Death “Without Mercy” to Any One Joining Chi- nese Volunteers. for Defense of Cai Belgian Police Arrest Scottsboro Mother Mrs. Ada Wright Held for Deportation On Charge of Speaki ng at Scottsboro Protest Meeting Attempt to Disrupt Wor ‘Jd-Wide Mass Defense of Innocent Negro Lads Engineered by U. S. Imperialists BRUSSELS, Belgium, Aug. mother was again arrested yesterday 23.—Mrs. Ada Wright, Scottsboro Negro by Belgian police in an attempt to disrupt the world-wide mass defense for the nine innocent Negro boys fac- ing death in Alabama, The police attack on Mrs. Wright's tour was carried out at the instigation of the diplomatic representatives of U. S, imperialism. This is the second time Mrs. Wright® has been arrested by the Belgian po- | lice. On the first occasion, several | weeks ago, she was taken across the | border and deported. She is now charged with address- | ing a meeting of Belgian workers at Gilly, near Charleroi, one of the cen- ters of the big Belgian strike. It has been intimated in American ,im- Pperialist circles here that the Bel- gian government will again order her to leave the country. The Belgian women workers de- fending Mrs. Wright against arrest were also arrested by the police. They ere charged with resisting police of- | ficers “in the performance of their | duty.” Mass meetings are being arranged by the International Red Aid sections in Belgium and France to demand the unconditional release of Mrs Wright and the three Belgian work. ers. The mectings will demand the right of Mrs. Wright to address the Belgian toiling masses in behalf of the world wide fight to save and free the Scottsboro Negro boys. MRS, ADA WRIGHT W.E.S.L. BLOCKS AIMS TO HALT BONUS FIGHT Reveals Waters’ Plan to Isclate Veterans from Struggle of Workers New Posts of League Forming Throughout State of Oregon 2 ’ BULLETIN. WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. 23.—Three’ war veterans, Broadus Faul- kner, John Olson and Bernard Mct ‘oy, held on trumped up chazges of assault as part of the government's attempt to whitewash Hoover of the responsibility for the murder of three yeterans and two children, pleaded not guilty in court’ here today. * * * PORTLAND, Ore., Aug. 23.—Although “Captain” Art Wilson, “officer” of the Waters B.E.F. staff has just returned here from Was blatant bombast and headlines in the ned ington amid capitalist press announcing his aims to organize the veterans into the fascist Khaki-Shirt movement, the Waters crowd has made very little headway in recruiting. It is the Workers Ex- NAZIS THREAT MORE TERROR Five Murderers Likely to Be Pardoned (Cable by Inprecorr) BERLIN, August 23.—The fascist press raises a hysterical howl at the death sentences on the five brutal murderers of the seer cae worker Pietezuch, declaring itself absolutely in agreement with the murderers.- Hitler sent a personal telegram to the murderers stating: “Comrades, in view of the most terrible and bloody sentences I feel myself at one with you in unlimited fidelity. Your freedom is a matter of our honor. Our duty is to struggle against the Government under which such sen- tences are possible.” The fascist paper “Angriff” de- clares, “If one hair of the condem- ned men is touched, much in Ger- many will not only be damaged, but utterly destroyed.” The “Angriff” praises the murder as an attempt of brave men to “end bloody bolshevist terror’ where the authorities failed. The national lead- ‘\ers of the Fascist Party sent a telegram to Von Papen demanding J the immediate squashing of the sen- tences; “if security and order is to be maintained.” Hitler publishes an hysterical appeal to the German people abusing Von Papen. ‘The Nationalist press also con- demns the sentences while the semi- official press offers the hope of re- prieves. The Centre, Democratic, and Socialist press declares that the sentences are just in accordance with the law. ‘The Rote Fahne states that the murderers will undoubtly be re- prieved and declares that the sen- were necessary unless the real ‘%Servicemen’s League which is getting the’ results in Portland. The WESL here has launched a merciless and fearless campaign against the Waters scheme designed to isolate the veterans and hinder them from participating in the gen- eral struggle of the working class. New Posts Forming Reports show that the campaign has born considerable fruit. Already "|many new posts of the WESL are springing up throughout the state like mushrooms. Posts will soon be established in Astoria, Salem, Eu- gene, Benld and Klemath Falls. Ore- gon will be well represented in the National Conference of the Workers Ex-Servicemen’s League in Cleveland on September 23, 24, 25, Capitalists Back Wilson ‘The only ones to receive “Captain” Wilson “with open arms” (as the bourgeois press so neatly puts it) were representatives of big business— members of the Chamber of Com- merce, etc, His reception by the Chamber of Commerce was assured when he made ‘a public statement stating that the trouble started in Washington when “some Communist threw a brick at Glassford.” Wilson was thereupon banqueted by the Chamber of Commerce where he was promoted from the rank of “Cap- | tain” to that of “Colonel.” “Colonel” Wilson petitioned the millionaire department store owner, Governor Meier, for a tract of land, preferably near Portland, “where the boys can wait for Congress to act on the bonus.” WESL Reveals Aims The Workers Ex-Servicemen’s Lea- gue has revealed the real purpose be. hind these concentration camps, ex- posing them as but another means of segregating and isolating the vet- erans to prevent a militant march to the national capital this coming fall along with other sections of the work- ing class, el Mab h NB Nae eT ANOTEER FOUNDRY CLOSING (By 2 Worker Correspondent) SAGINAW, Mich—The Chevrolet Foundry here, which for three weeks operated for only three 4-hour days per week, will now close down com- pletely on Tuesday, Aug. 23, for: eg or four-weeks-op-morey ., -iga nese Territory U.S. IS BEHIND NANKING NON- RESISTANCE PLOT) Wall Street Tacitly| Supports Japan On Anti-Soviet Basis into Jehol The Japanese drive Province continued yesterday, with Japanese planes preceding the in- vading army in bombing expeditions | against the civilian. populations of many Jehol Province towns. The populations of whole districts are re- ported in flight into the open coun- try in a frantic attempt to escape the fate of the tens of thousands of Shanghai workers who were. savagely butchered or maimed for life during | the Japanese attack on that South) China city several months ago. Leaflet Threats- In addition to dropping incendiary bombs on the towns, the Japanese} planes dropped thousands of leaflets | threatening death “without mercy” to| any one joining the Chinese volun-| teers. This is a clear indication that the Japanese militarists do not ex- pect any great resistance from the} troops of the traitor Nanking gov-| ernment, but fear only the rising re- sistance of the angry Chinese masses. The Nanking government has| joined with the Japanese propaganda artists in attempting to minimize the invasion of Jehol Province, officials yesterday declared that they “do not believe that the present) clash presages a Japanese invasion of | the North China province on a large} scale.” They pretend that the Japa-| nese will wait for the fall to carry} out their repeated threats of seizing} Jehol Province. The Nanking statement signifi- cantly reflects the present attitude of the United States imperialists, who, while protesting against Japan’s threats to American hegemony in the Peiping-Tientsin area and South China are tacitly supporting the Japanese plans to seize Jehol Prov- ince, as a further extension of the Japanese military base in Manchuria) for armed intervention against Soviet | Mongolia, and the Soviet Union. It will be remembered that the United States government, together with the League of Nations, supported the Japanese invasion and seizure of Manchuria last September. That sup- port was based on the tacit under- standing that Japan would use Man- churia as a jumping-off board for the attack on the Sovyet Union. When Japan hesitated to“launch the attack, the Wall Street government began to challenge Japan's position in Manchuria, in various notes by Secretary of State Stimson to the Japanese government and in Stim- son’s radio speech of a few weeks ago. The United States imperialists are now trying to egg Japan on to the attack against the U. S. S. R. and to divert the Japanese from their threat of challenging United States loot in China. Huge quanti- ties of munitions and war supplies for the anti-Soviet attack are being daily shipped by the American bosses to Japan. 3,500 Toy Makers on Strike Against $8 Wage and Long Hrs. NEW YORK.—A strike of 3,500 doll and toy makers in 35 shops in New York started yesterday at the begin- ning of the season. New York is the center of the industry, ‘Wages are low as $8 a week, with no limit to hours worked. The strikers demand 35 per cent wage increase, 40-hour week, aboli- tion of night work. There is a union, the Doll and Toy Workers in the industry, which has asked for affiliation with the A. F. of L. ‘4 tea HURLEY WELCOMES ENVOY OF New Japanese Military Attache te Washington being greeted by Secretary of War Hurley, representative of U. S. imperialism which through the shipment of huge quantities of war material to Japan is supporting the Japanese militarists in their slaughter of the Chi- nese masses and their war provocations against the Soviet Union, ers at Camp Nitgedaiget near here, Washington Workers Rush Aid to “Daily” A. W. Mills Urges Support of $40,000 Drive As Part of Fight Against Terror WASHINGTON, PD. C., August 23.—Addressing a large group of work- A. W. Mills, leader of the last na- tional hunger march, urged Washington workers to rally behind the drive erans, and against the working class matter how great the sacrifice. save it.” of the Daily Worker for $40,000 and help remove the danger of suspension | from the only daily working class paper in the United States. “Support of the Daily Worker,” Mills said, “means support of all | the workers’ struggles, It means support of the struggles against the frameup of the nine Washington Negro workers on charges of killing a Nanking | Park policeman, it means support of the fight against the frame-up of | another Negro worker in Washington who is being held for the shooting | of the cop who murdered Hushka, the slain war veteran. “Support of the struggle to keep the ‘Daily’ alive means support of the entire struggle against the terror which invoking against the Washington workers, government is ice his massacre of the yet- in ral. “The Daily Worker is the fighting voice of the American workers. It ds _and-inspires the struggles of the -workers'in every one ofthe 1,800 cities_and towns in which it is read. It is the duty of every class-con- seleus worker to support the drive of the Daily Worker for $40,000, no The Daily Worker cannot and will not suspend publication, but only the united effort of the working class will The workers responded by collecting $100 for the Daily Worker on the spot and by pledging to collect funds for the $40,000 campaign in all the working class neighborhoods in Washington as well as in workers’ fraternal orders, trade unions, cultural groups, etc, The Washington workers are preparing material for a special edition of the Daily Worker which will expose the frame-up of the ten Negro workers who haye been jailed by the police on trumped-up charges, 2,000 Participate in Demonstration NEW YORK.—Two thousand work- ers, under the leadership of the Bronx section of the International Labor Defense, joined in a demonstration Monday at Wilkins and Intervale Ave. to commemorate the murder of Sacco and Vanzetti. The Workers Ex- Servicemen’s League the Interna- tional Workers’ Order, the Young Communist League and other work- ers’ organizations were represented. PRESS BAZAAR CONFERENCE ‘THURSDAY. NEW YORK.—The first mass con- ference for the Daily Worker, Morn- ing Freiheit and Young Worker ba- zaar will be held on Thursday, Au- gust 25, at 8 pm., at the Workers Center, 50 East 13th Street, Organizations which have not yet elected delegates to the conference should be represented through their officials, Holland Authorities Bar Soviet Anti- SACCO-VANZETTI MEET IN BRONX: War Delegates MOSCOW, U. S. S. R., Aug: 23.— Soviet Union newspapers have re- geived word that the Anti-War conference delegates from the U. 8. S. R-, with Maxim Gorky at their head, have been refused by the Dutch authorities the right to en- ter Holland. They have called on Romain Rolland to protest for them. Steel Workers Report Fri. on Pittsburgh Metal Convention NEW YORK.—The New York de- legation to the First National Con- tvention of the Steel and Metal Workers Industrial Union, held re- cently in Pittsburgh, will report on the proceedings of the convention Friday, August 26, at 8 p.m., at Irv- ing Plaza, Irving Place and East 15th Street. Already the New Yerk District has made some beginning along the line of applying the decisions of the Pittsburgh Conveniton to build the union in the large shops and mills. This is shown in the improved func- tioning of some of the shop-groups. The group in one of the most im- portant metal plants in this district reported at its last meeting that it has made many new recruits in the last two weeks, PICKETS CLOSE ALL | _ FULTON COUNTY MINES |Report 25,000 Illinois Strikers Ready to March at Noon Today On Franklin County; Sheriff Threatens More Bloodshed inic Lauranti, Picketing at Zeigler Against $1.10 Wage Cut Is Shot In Back and Killed; Six Others, One Boy of 10, Wounded | Dom —All the miners in Fulton |County, northwest of Spring- field, joined the strike agains the $1.10 wage cut when 200 Springfield miners marched on them yesterday. The Truax- Traer strip mine at Desota in Jackson County is on strike; this is in the southern coal fields of the state. 25,000 to March ‘Tremendous interest centres on the ering from the north and central parts of the state to march on Frank- lin County tomorrow. The march is planned to start at noon. Sheriff Browning Robinson is re- cruiting and deputizing as fast as he can huge numbers of armed busi- ness men, and operators’ thugs, and yesterday issued a threatening state- |ment that the strikers’ march into the county would be met “with guns if necessary” and by “25,000 deputies.” The Franklin County fields are in a ferment over the killing of Dominic Lauranti, shot in the back by mine guards as he was picketing the Bell- Zoller Mine No. 1 at Zeigler, Frank- lin County early Monday morning. Mine guards opened fired with shot- fleeing from the shots, Lauranti fell dead, and two other pickets were shot in the back and wounded. When Lauranti’s corpse was picked up in the morning, lying in a small weed patch near the mine, it was found that the gunmen had also broken his neck, evidently by a heavy blow, Lauranti was 32 years old and had labored 11 years in this mine. Four Shot After this shooting, a group of deputised operatofs’ thugs caught a group of miners, at 5 a. m. in the streets of Zeigler, and fired at them with a machine gun, with shot guns, rifles and pistols. Three striking miners and a ten-year old boy were wounded by the shooting, and. an- other man had his head broken by a rifle wielded as a club by a deputy. . © « TALYORVILLE, Ill, Aug. 23.—The Peabody Coal Co. Langley mine was re-opened yesterday morning, with a huge force of deputies with machine guns and tear gas around it. In spite of this, hundreds picketed it, and only a few (the company claims 48) of its regular crew of 1,500 en- tered to work. ASK INJUNCTION N5 STAR STRIKE \Socialist Thugs Fail to Stop Fight NEW YORK.—Not being able to \break the strike of the 5-Star work- jers through scabbery and terror, the |bosses resorted to the method of breaking the strike through an in- junction. Yesterday summons were served to the strikers of the 5-Star to appear before the Supreme Court | of the State of New York, Queens | County for a hearing on August 24. The strike which has now entered | {the seventh week has halted all pro- | duction in the shop. Although the |bosses who are members of the Jew- ish Forward Association have hired gangsters, members of the socialist Workmen's Circle, to terrorize the workers, they have failed to dampen the militancy of the strike. The strikers are in great financial distress, the Shoe and Leather Work- ers Industrial Union, which leads the struggle of the Shoe workers, ap- peals to the shoe workers in the city to assist financially the strikers. | | | | 1 CANTON, Ohio, Aug. 23.—Amidst tremendous enthusiasm, Foster, Com- munist candidate for President, spoke to over 7,000 workers yester- day in Nimisila Park, where Debs was arrested for his anti-war talk in 1918, Foster evoked intense interest by his sharp contrast of the heroic cam- paign of Eugene Debs against the last world slaughter with the activi- ties of the Socialist Party of today. The workers showed their scorn for t he Socialist Party candidate, Thomas, who assured Secretary of War Hurley that “if we were on the eve of another war I should proba- bly be for it,” who also at the same time stated that the war was 7,000 CHEER FOSTER’S CALL Speaks in Park Where Debs Was Arrested for Anti-War Struggle in 1918; Shows Socialists Now Actually Aid War Plans; Urges Steel Union their principles. The Socialists, Foster pointed out, never slacken in their slander of the Soviet Union, thus laying the basis for the war of imperialism against the Workers’ Fatherland. Sacco-Vanzetti Day. Speaking on Sacco-Vanzetti day, Foster told the story of those mar- tyrs of labor and urged all present to continue the fight against new legal lynchings, the attempt of Ala- bama business men and landlords to electrocute seven Negro boys. Foster called on the 2,000 steel workers at his meeting to meet the wage-cuts in the steel industry by steel strike of over a quarter of a million workers in 1919, and how it was broken by the A, F. of L. Now they should build a fighting union under revolutionary leadership to stop the wage-cuts. Defend Soviet Union. Reminding them that Debs fought against war, Foster told of the new war plans of the U. 8. government and the big businessmen, and a tre- mendous ovation from the 7,000 pres- ent answered his demands for de- fense of the Soviet Union and no imperialist war. Canton, a steel town, is a center of war industry. Seated on the presiding committee organizing firmly in the new Metal Workers’ Industrial Union.}grandson of Daniel Boone, and Mrs. Steel|of the meeting were Jacob Boone,| But this was the largest workers’ sy speek eH same: pmo TO DEFEND U.S.S.R. Betsy Ross, who made the first Am- erican flag. Both Boone and Mrs. Garzoni spoke and called on all to vote Communist, for the six demands of the Party platform (Editor’s Note: They are printed at the top of Page 1 of the Daily Worker.) Canton Struggle Sharp. against the workers here, in which eight arrested at a meeting in the Public Square recently, were rail-| roaded to the county workhouse, the | local. newspapers tried to cripple Foster’s meeting by a policy of ab- Solute silence about it. | BELLEVILLE, Ill, Aug. 23.| reports that 25,000 miners are gath- | guns at the pickets, and as they were | Following a campaign of terror) Rody | | | Mass Protest Today at 2 P.M. Against Murder of Semen and Kruziuk Come to Funeral at 134 East Seventh Street! Join Struggle Ag: Sunday morning. ¢ ‘The Communist Party, Section 1 of | |New York, and the Unemployed Council have issued thousands of leaf- lets calling for a mass struggle for) | the right to meet anq demand relief, no wage cuts and support for Com-| munist candidates and for a mass! struggle against terror and disrupters. | The leaflets summon New York work- ers to the funeral of Semon. (The |leaflets were issued before Kruziuk died). Semon’s body will lie in state jat the Unemployed Council headquar- | ters, 134 East Seventh St., until 2) |p. m., Wednesday. At that hour and| |place a short open air meeting will be held, then the fellow workers of the two murdered men will follow the hearse to Union Square, where another meeting will take place at the 17th St. end of the Square. _ | Section 1 ofthe Communist Party has issued the following statement: Workers, Comrades: Closely on the heels of the police and thugs attack upon the Negro worker, Joie Ray, in Hester Park; following the stabbing of a member of the Unemployed |Council at 7th St. and Ave- 8, two} | Weeks ago; comes the latest attack upon the workers, the murder of Michael Semon, Saturday evening, | Aug. 20th, at 7th St. and Ave A. “The growing struggles of the East | Side workers, led by the Communist} |Party, for immediate relief, against | | hunger and war, is meeting with in-| | tensified reaction, terror and dema-| | gogy by the bosses and their agents, | in an attempt to disrupt this grow- ing unity of the native and foreign- born, Negro and white workers. “Because of this growing influence of the Communist Party, we have seen | many attacks by the police. We| remember that “Bloody Friday,” | ainst Disrupters Two Workers Killed by Bricks Thrown at Meet- ing After Trotzkyites Started Fight NEW YORK.—Nick Kruziuk, of 212 East 10th St., died in the hospital at 1:58 yesterday morning, as a result of a fractured skull he received when the meeting at Seventh St. and Ave. B was attacked Saturday night. He is the second worker killed by that attack. Michael Semon diced pe JOBLESS WORKERS JOIN FIGHT FOR FREE JOB AGENCY ManyJoin Unemployed Council As Result of Victories NEW YORK, N. Y. — Une’ workers here, imbued with n fidence ai; @ result of their successf struggles with the racketeer: job agencies, are joining the Uner ed Council, which is leading the fight, in scores, the Daily Worker learned. So many workers who ordina haunt the job agencies in the usu fruitless but always desperate sear for jobs are joining the Unempl Council, that it is opening a he quarters in the heart of the j market. The address will be nounced in the Daily Worker in a day or two. Yesterday the workers who defrauded by the Efficiency A; received checks for the money the agency stole from them. Victo’ came as a result of a four day f against the agency led by the Dai Worker, in the course of which th workers held several demonstrat in front of the agency and marched on the office of the City cense Commissioner with their mands, wer e the Li- | April 13th, when the workers demon- strated for relief, and were clubbed} savagely. We have seen the Socialist | misleaders, cooperating with the police | to bar Communist meetings from| many proletarian corners. And now | the Trotskyists, agents of the bosses | jand counter-revolution, step in to} fulfill their important mission, to dis- | rupt working-class unity. “Saturday night, Aug. 20th, the} Trotskyists attempted to hold aj meeting at 7th St. and Avenue A, in |the heart of the proletarian East | Side, where the influence of the| |Communist Party and revolutionary | movement is great. When questions| were asked of the Trotskyist speaker, | Trotsky the “strong-arm” squad re-| sponded with threats. The workers] then answered by putting the Trot-| skyites to rout, and began their own| |meeting to expose the counter-! reyolutionists. Stones and bottles then | Though barricaded behind a h dred cops, and shouting that “C munist violence” was behind their money, the Tammany L Commissioner was forced to an order to the Efficiency to the ef fect that if it didn’t reimburse tt $800 to the workers whom it had d frauded he would pay them himself out of the agency’s $1,000 bond with the city. The agency paid the vic- timized workers yesterday. Two more of the gyp agencies were forced to return fees that were in effect stolen from workers by mises of jobs that didn’t that lasted only for a day. the Radio Agency on Sixth Ave., 25th and 26th, and the Chrysl Agency on Sixth Ave., bet. 49th and 50th. The power of united struggle of or- ganized workers was clearly evidenced pro- came hurtling through the air. The worker, Kruziuk, fell mortally injured; | the worker, Micheal Semen, fell, a victim of the bosses’ agents and died | the next morning. | “The Communist Party calls upon | jall workers to close ranks, and fight | |against the disrupters, against the| tion, “The Communist Party calls upon all ‘workers to intensify the fight against the bosses, for unemployment insurance, for defense of the poiltical jTights ot the workers, for defense of the Soviet Union. “Long live the revolutionary mass | struggle against provocations, against boss terror. “Demonstrate at the Mass Red Fu-| neral Wednesday, Aug. 24, at the | Unemployed Council, 134 East 7th Street, 2 p. m.” |Painters Win 2 More Strikes in Brooklyn BROOKLYN.—Two more strikes were settled yesterday by the Local 3 of the Alteration Painters Union win- ning a 40 per cent increase in wages, the 8 hour day and recognition of the union. The following shops were settled: Nesselsohn, 285 South 4th St., Shoefield Shop, 122 Hooper Ave. ‘Two more shops will come out on strike today under the leadership of the union. Workers are urged to come to the. srike. Read Trotskyist agents of counter-revolu- | he ‘aga agp goin a, ae in the fight against the agencies when a woman worker reported to the Job Agency Committee of the Un- employed Council that she went alone to the office of the License | Commissioner with proof that she had been defrauded by three dif- ferent agencies but was told that the Commissioner would do nothing for er. ‘The Daily Worker and the Unem- ployed Council will continue the struggle they initiated last week to eliminate the racketeering job agen- cies and force the city to open free employment bureaus to be controlled by the workers. More than 250 Daily Workers and 300 copies of the Hunger Fighter were sold at the open air meeting held by the Unemployed Council in the job market yesterday. Judge Admits Big Eviction Increase NEW YORK. — Municipal Court Justice Jacob S. Strahl, in a radio address, over WINS, stated that 150,- 292 workers were evicted during the first six months of 1932, compared with 98,868 during the same period of 1931, He farther stated that 1,200 workers face eviction every court day. This winter more workers will be faced with direct starvation. We must organize and demand the re# peal of the Eviction Laws and Un-