The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 25, 1932, Page 4

Yorker: Porty US.A. Published by the Comprodaily Publishing Co., Inc., daily excxept Sunday, at 8 E. 13th St., New York City, N. ¥. Telephone ALronquin 4-7956. Cable “DATWORK.” Address and mail checks to the Daily Worker, 50 E. 13th St., New York, N. Y. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: a By mail everywhere: One yesr, $6; six months, $3; two months, $1; exeepting Borough of Manhattan snd Bronx, New York City. Foreign: one year, $8; six months, $4.50, The Fight Against Jim Crow Practices eadership of HE workers of Denver, Colorado, under the the Young Communist League, passed from words to deeds when on August 18 they attempted to smash the hidee- ous Jim Crow practices in the city parks and bathing beaches against the Negro masses. Workers throughout the country will hail the action of over two hundred Negro and white young workers who participated in this militant action which was severely attacked by the police. | The Jim Crow practices against the Negro workers, who are so sorely in need of health facilities, means the de- struction of the physical health of the Negro masses already worn down by malnutrition, poverty and misery arising out of their meager pay when employed, from the extensive un- employment and from the general attacks of the capitalists of which they are especially victimized. .The ruling class, in its national and state governments, are bent upon retaining these Jim Crow practices intact as part of their program of isolating the Negro masses for greater exploitation and more savage oppression. The Denver police attack on the anti- Jim Crow demonstration is but one of many examples of the increasing terror against the Negro masses. In the eyes of the white ruling class the Negroes have “no rights which the white man is bound to respect.” The | manager of the Denver parks, Lowry, who while admitting that “there is no law to keep you citizens from using this beach,” directed the following threat against the Negro workers in the demonstration: “You are here at the instigation of the Communists and | no good can come of this. You never before tried to use this beach. You know the white people are not going to stond | for this. If you go into the water you are asking for trouble and I fear you will get it.” This is the language which these capitalist henchmen use against the Negro masses fighting for their rights. The workers must not only violate these Jim-Crow prac- tices in mass action in the struggle for Negro Rights, but must see that these mass actions involve large numbers of both, white and Negro workers.’ The idea imbued in the workers by the boss:: that Jim Crow practices are fixed and | permanent and cannot be broken down is one of the forces operating for their maintenance. The workers, Negro and white, must militantly challenge these practices, must smash into them with militant mass action in a fighting alliance of white and Negro workers in the struggle against national oppression, for liberation of the Negro people, including full rights in every part of the country and self-determination for the Negro in the “Black Belt.” In this election struggle, the workers must t&ke up the fight for unconditional equal rights for the Negro masses, including a relentless struggle against the denial of the fran- chise to the Negro masses in various Southern states. The development of mass actions in the fight for Negro rights will be a tremendous force in smashing these Jim Crow practices. Navi Assassinations- Hitler’s Way to Power ° By B S£TNINEMANN The bomb throwing of the Na- tional Socialist Party has indeed BIR Vern, its own special aims in view, as 0* tue «atiumg after the July 31 | follows: election, Storm Detcahment Nazis 1, To overcome the disappoint- pushed their way into the house of the Communist town councillor Sauff in Koenigsberg, and mur- dered him by several shots in the ment of the Storm Detachments, who had already imagined the power to be in their hands, and to distract their attention from the head. A second troop shot the | coalition bargaining. Communist cooperative _ society 2. To induce the government to functionary Zirpius. Other divi- | take sharper measures, to appoint sions swindled their way into the home of a social democratic editor, shooting him and injuring him severely, and into the home of a Communist Reichstag member, whom they did not find, but shot @ young woman comrade instead. During the first few days of this the Nazi Party maintained an at- titude of innocence and ignorance, But as the number of assassina- tions continued to increase, the Hitler party pushed aside its mask slightly. Hitler’s “Volkischer Be- obachter” wrote on August 6: NAZI TRY TO JUSTIFY MURDER “The desperate outbreaks of the anger of the people against the moral originators of the Red mur- der actions myst surely haye made it clear to the present respon- sible bearers of state power that in times of emergency it is no Jonger possible to deal out ‘equal’ treatment...” With this the National Socialist Party attempts to justify its as- sassinations as “outbreaks of the anger of the people,” thereby giv- ing its recognition to the murder- ous terror being exercised, But two days later the Nazi par- emergency courts, to impose mar- tial Jaw (measures to be used solely against the anti-fascists, especially when the National Socialist Par- ty is the government party), and especially to prohibit the Com- munist Party of Germany. 3. To exercise pressure on the governmental negotiations in order to ensure the carrying out of the National Socialist demands with regard to ministerial positions. HITLER SEEKS SOLE POWER Schleicher and Hitler are agreed in principle that the fascist dicta- torship is to thrust all burdens upon the workers. and to hold the masses in subjection. Schleicher is willing to rule with Hitler, but the Hitler party is to be co-ordinated, “channelled.” Hitler is willing to rule with Schleicher, but with the aim of exercising sole power sooner or later. The Centre Party is ready for a coalition with Schleicher and Hit- ler, The Centre Party leaders held @ meeting on August 4 in Co- logne, but the report published gave no information, merely stat- ing that no decisions had been ar- rived at. In reality the announce- ment made by the “Deutschen All- ? | IW LORK, THUNSDAY, AUGUST 25, 1932 By BURCK RECONSTRUCTION! FINANCE | | CORPORATION | “Say A Good Word for Evansville” By L. LEWIS 'VANSVILLE, Indiana lies on the border of Kentucky. At the en- trance to the city, on,Governor St. near the C. E. & I. Railroad sta- | tion, is a billboard with the sign gemeinen Zeitung (August 8) is t in attempted a clumsy fal- fay ‘a clalist. | Derfectly correct in stating that the sification. The “Nationalsocialist- ische Parteikorrespondenz” pub- | Center Party is ready for positive lishes “sensational secret instruc- | Collaboration. | tions of the Red Front Central | Social Democracy, in accordance Committee,” according to which Red Front members are command- ed to attack their own buildings and assassinate their own leaders. Apart from the fact that no Red Front central committee exists at all, and every line of the “secret instructions” bears the stamp of a clumsy forgery, the governmental authorities politically allied with the National Socialist Party have meanwhile ascertained themsel that the Nazis were the assassi ‘The assassinations are not only the work of the National Socialist Barty, but are systematically or- manized and carried out by. it - tale, " with its old and disastrous policy | of the “lesser evil” is entirely in favor of the Nazi-Center coalition. It need not be said that the §.P.G. paves this path of contfnued policy of toleration and capitulation to fascism, this path preparing the way for Hitler. The weakening of the fascism of Schleicher and Hitler, and the utilization of the differences be- tween them, is of _course possible only by means of the assemblying of the forces of the workers in the factories, labor exchanges and workers quarters. This is_the. policy of the OC. P.G@~ _ i ¥ in yellow and red letters, “Say a Good Word for Evansville!” It is signed “Evansville Chamber of | Commerce.” Here is the “good word” that I haye for Evansville. It has a pop- ulation of about 110,000, and out of these 20,000 are out of work; practically the whole working population is jobless. Misery, star- “Optimism” of Chamber of Commerce Fails to Hide Conditions in Indiana Town youngest four years old, I was working down in Surwil, at the refrigerating plant and I also know | how to paint. I have been out of work for fourteen months. I got these miserable groceries for $1.50 a week and was forced to work for it cleaning up alleys, on the high- way and on the county farm. My children and wife starved most of the time and were without clothes. I came ¢o Jennings and got some vation reigns supreme on every| Tags from him. He told me he had street and in all the houses of | @ job for me ang I sure was very workers of Evansville. I have | glad. The next morning I went to: walked at night through the streets of shabby shanty houses lighted with small kerosené lamps because the electricity in the workers’ homes had been turned off, “GOOD WORDS” FOR JOBLESS Not only electricity and gas, but even the water supply was shut off in more than 1,000 homes, and on these hot days the workers are forced to dig ditches to get water. Of the 20,000 jobless, about 3,000 are getting some kind of misemible relief. It consists of $1.25 to $1.50 @ week in grocery orders. On this they expect a family of from five to eight to live for a week. In pay- ment, the jobless are forced to work a day or two a week without pay, taking away the job of a man who is earning from $275 to $3 a day. * 28 8 'HE same Chamber of Commerce which requests us to Good Word for Evansville,” has eve fired the part-time workers from their jobs, such as workers in the parks and on the highway, and even street-cleaners, and has forced the unemployed workers to take “their jobs for nothing. The city government has de- ducted 3 per cent from the wages of the street-cleaners for three months in advance, in a lump sum; following this piracy they fired the street-cleaners, and unemployed and forced-labor chain gangs have been put in their places. The distribution of the so-called “relief” is controlled by a flunkey of the republican administration, a Mr. Jennings, on the orders of the Chamber of Commerce, Jennings has made a contract for forced labor, not only for the city govern- ment but also for private slave- drivers. So that when an unem- ployed worker asks for a pair of torn shoes, shabby pants, or a coat, which may be worth from 25 cents to 50 cents at a junk shop, he is forced to work for it a day or more at the home of some well-fixed “local citizen.” A worker told me: “You see, “I have a Fite and four kids, the “Say a the place where I was sent. It was the home of a rich man, He told me to do some painting on the garage and the house. I asked him what he would pay. The man looked at me in surprise. “Why,” he said, “Aren’t you one of Jennings’ men?” ‘Well,’ I said, ‘I am my own | man. This painting job will take | two days, for which I expect at Geo. Baget’s two kids, least $3 a day.’ But got angry and said, ‘No, no, Jennings said that he would send one of his men to do the job. I do not intend to pay money nowadays, but I'll give you food if you like.” I left the place in disgust. ae nae i! Evansville I saw children sitting around, with torn clothes,. bare- footed, starved faces; neighborhoods breeding misery, misery, starvation There are whole sections where the workers were driven out of their homes and were forced to live in stables, in dug-outs made of tinh and on junk-heaps. At the same time, private police were put to guard the whole section of empty houses on ‘Reed Street so that workers could not break into their homes again. George Baget with his wife and two children, one nine, the other five, live in a stable at 1015 Kellef Street, Evansville. No floors, broken ceiling, no windows; their belong- ings consisted of some few broken benches, paper and rags; rates scurrying, looking for crumbs just like the children. But Evansville is not the only Indiana town where there situation exists. In Wanderburg, Sullivan and St. Joseph counties the workers are starving. In West Terre Haute, the miners have shown that they are not ready to starve like sheep, but fight for the right to live! WIN DESPITE TERROR In Kokomo the Unemployed Council succeeded in abolishing the city ordinance of forced labor; in Vincennes the Unemployed Coun- cil conducted a successful struggle against evictions. Despite the vicious terror against the Unemployed Councils in South Unemployed Citizens League of Detroit O.K.’d by Bosses “Olympics” In A Cotton Mill In Utica, N.Y. By Labor Research Association. WORKER in the Utica Steam and Mohawk Valley Cotton Mills reports that a clock-like pe- dometer (correct) was recently at- tached to the legs of speedy spin- ners in‘that plant. The purpose to measure the distance covered on the job, and to increase the stretch if possible. The youngest girls were the pace-makers, A spinner in thts plant is now teabing an average of 20 sides with 2,760, spindles. In addition to her regular tasks, the spinner puts in about three-fourths of the roving. Full time wages of spinners were recently cut from $27 to $21 a week, with creelers now receiving about yw. $18 and doffers from $16 to $18, | Formed by | By H. A. ba Unemployed Citizens League has just made its debut in De- troit. It makes its bow to the quarter million unemployed of the city—with the hearty cooperation of the capitalist press, Mayor Frank Murphy, Controller Hall Roosevelt, Welfare Department Chief Ballen- ger, the city police and their swarms of “dicks.” The Unemployed Citizens League is the Socialist Party in disguise. Its slogan is “Out of the dole thru cooperation.” Its program is that of organizing the unemployed to glean the po- tatoes left behind in the furrows by the farmers, to collect the leftovers from the grocers’ shelves, to gather castaway clothing, to rehabilitate for the profit of the landlords, all deserted shacks in lieu of rent, | MEETING REVEALS | REAL NATURE Its purpose is to draw a red her- ring across the path of the unem- ployed of Detroit hoping thereby to divert them from the direct struggle for more relief and for unemploy- ment insurance at the expense of the capitalists. The secretary-treasurer of the League is a member of the Socialist Party. Another member of the ex- ecutive committee, Sheldon, is a member also of the Socialist Party, of the I. W. W. and was expelled from the Communist Party years ago. Most of the executive com- mittee is made up of Socialist Party members, ep ‘The first open meeting held in , Socialists, It is New Trap for City’s 250,000 Jobless Workers # small movie house in the West Side revealed immediately the nature of the organization. ‘The hall and the stage plastered with Democrat Party signs, the speakers non-connection with any political organization, were @ proper fitting to the ob- scene comedy that is being at- tempted. Harry Slavin of the Mayor’s Unemployment Committee, and a representative of the Muste’s Confrence for Progressive Labor Action, made keynote speeches, LANDLORD SPEAKS A landlord who is also running for some job on the Democratic ticket was also allowed to express his approvel of this scheme of making the “unemployed further starve for the glory and benefit of the capitalists, but when the work- ers present demanded the right to express opinions, that right was | denied, The summing up of the answers to our questions revealed this: That the League will be run by @ closed committee. That it is op- posed to unemployment insurance; that it is closed to non-citizens: that. it intends to cater to the cap- italist class by leading the unem- ployed workers away from any at- tack against the bosses; that the Socialist Party, which is the active organizer of the League is trying its utmost to hide behind a mask; benders Serius Detroit must fight organization, at same time sharpening the cam- the | Bend, led by the Studebaker in- terests, the Unemployed Councils have stopped forced labor. The state government, as well as | the local governments in Indiana, | is preparing a new wave of terror against the workers who are fight- ing for bread. In Richmond the American Legion, together with government aegnts, made an attack on the Unemployed Council and are caus- ing the arrests of militant, jobless | workers. But this terror will not stop the workers. They have proven this in | the fight in Evansville, West Terre Haute, St- Louis as well as in the hunger march on the state capitol in_ Indianapolis. The fourth winter of the crisis is coming and with it sharpened Struggles! You will hear every- where workers saying, “Well, what's going to happen? We can’t starve any longer.” “Hell, something has to be done.” “We are going to fight.” And they will sharpen the fight for unemployment insurance at the expense of the bosses! Farmers Told to “Rest and Pray” In a news letter addressed to busi- ness men, Roger Babson (the doctor for sick business) tells them to “go into the woods, rest, think and pray.” Farm News Letter is addressed to farmers and it will not advise them to “rest, think and pray.” When farmers are losing their homes to the sheriff and tax collector, when their year's crop is being swallowed by the banker and the food industries, it is | no time to talk about resting and |praying. It is time for thinking, of course, but especially it is time for action. Here is a situation which is making |farmers think and which calls for | action: Farm Prices have fallen below 50 per cent of pre-war levels. Farm Taxes are 266 per cent of pre-war levels. Mississippi sold. 40,000 homes for delinquent taxes in one day, and the same proeess goes ahead piecemeal in other states. Freight Rates have risen 153 per cent since 1914. | Farm Mortgages have jumped from _ $7,857,700,000 in 1929 to $9,- 241,390,000 in 1930. Tenantry increased from $8,7 per cent of all farms in 1925 to 424 per cent in 1930. (The majority of the 40,000 tax delinquent farm- owners in Mississippi were in a single day transformed into ten- ants; others become migratory farm workers.) Wages for farm workers have declined 31.6 per cent from 1929 to 1931, and wages have completely disappeared in many places this year with ‘workers receiving only board and keep. The U. S. Dept. of culture “Outlook” for 1932. says “farm labor may be obtained in some places with little or no Payment other than subsistence.” Unemployed workers total 15,000,- 000. If each of the unemployed averages three dependents, we have approximately one-fourth of our “domestic marxet” for farm products cut off. Yet we find Secretary of Agriculture Hyde contending that there is no basic “domestic collapse.” For him the agricultural depression is solely the result of shrinking fo- reign markets for export crops, Like Hoover, he must place the blame for depression on the other side of the ocean, far from where it actually be- longs. This is the situation which calls for action. Effective action, however, requires information, and it is this function which the Farm News Let- ter proposes to fill: information concerning the crisis, how it is af- fecting the farmers in every section of the country and what the farmers are doing about it. Farm leaders, and farm relief bills, and the reme- dies of farm “experts” must be ex- amined critically so that the farmer ds not again betrayed as he has se many times in the pas ih | with bells and sounds like faint CAN YOU HEAR (COURTESY OF INTERNATIONAL | THEIR — VOICES? PAMPHLETS) By WHITTAKER CHAMBERS Installment 4 “How can I get two miles through this snow?” asked old Dr. Jesper- son, the bank president, who for some reason was up alone at that hour, with a bottle of whiskey on the table. “You can make it in the car. You must try to save her, Doctor, you must.” ““Oh, don’t plead, don’t plead, I know I've got to go! God damned Hippocratic oath!” et “Of course, it’s dead,” said the old man, standing well back from the drawer, which smelt of wet as he of whiskey, “Been dead a couple of hours! What do you mean bringing a baby into this world when you can’t take care of it! What do you get married for? I don’t suppose there’s a crumb of bread in the house,” he said, look- ing at the walls. “Damndest pro- fession in the world! Damndest, profession in the world! Now there'll be an epidemic of dying. There ought to be.” Hilda watched him drive. away. Frank was sobbing with his head on the table. Suddenly he straight- ened up. “Wardell killed her.” he shouted. “He stopped the milk on her, I know he did. The dirty lousy Red. He did it. He killed her, God curse him!” “Don't be a. fool,” said Hilda quietly. “I killed her myself. Do you think I wanted to see her tor- tured to death by inches? I killed her with the blanket—God?” He sprang at her, but she ran away from him and out the door, slamming it. She ran farther, thinking he would follow, but he stopped beside the baby. MILK! MILK! { She saw the big square outlines of Purcell’s house and barns against the white snow. Milk! She had barely passed it when it see™-d to her as if an army were pursuing her, crunching through the snow, horns snorting. She was over- wrought. Vengeance is mine, saith the Lord. Might He find pleasure in taking vengeance on a mother who had smothered her baby? Was He after her? She ran, wilder and wilder, mad with a desire to scream, but terrified to silence. Finally she just began to laugh. It was much simpler, and it was all funny, and she just laughed and laughed and laughed. What she had taken for God was Purcell's blooded Holsteins. He was removing the whole herd, in the dead of night, to the livery stable in Paris where there was law and order. There would be no more free milk. a ame ‘When the snow fell, they moved the Mexicans into the upstairs room. The Wardell boys slept in the remnants of hay in the barn loft. It was bitter cold, and they were grateful for the meetings that postponed till late the necessity of trying to sleep. ‘Wardell and his wife, Davis, and the two-boys would sit around the table, with the five sheets of paper and pens before them, and the bottle of ink in the middle. Carrilo, the Mexican, sat to one side. He spoke only broken English, but his black eyes gazed fixedly from either side of his nose, with its coarse pores, in an undefeated effort to thing next. Anyway, the Red | Cross is going to help us, ain't it? The paper says so.” “You'll find out what a whole lot of good the Red Cross is going to do you, when they get here—if they get here.” “I guess I'll be there,” Wiggens, a heavy-set farmer, who had just begun to feel the pinch, told Drdla. Drdla objected to tacking up the handbill, so the men simply came to his house and read it. Wiggens stood reading it with his wife, a tall, spare woman, whose black eyes looked in a perfectly level line out. of the bones of her face. “Yll be there,” she said. “Look at them!” The five children sat in the back of the Ford. They made no effort to get out. “But I see the Red Cross {s going to help us,” her husband objected. “They won't like this.” He rapped? the handbill with the back of his hand. “We may need them both,” said his wife. a tee. Purcell’s frantic wires to the Governor, and Senator Bagheot in Washington, described the seizures of milk at a local farm by one hundred armed farmers, led by loafers. A supplementary wire de- serfbed the leader, one Wardell, a chronic troublbe-maker. The Senator was handed both wires. at breakfast by his young wife, who continued to act as his secretary. “I did not want to disturb you with them last night, Senator,” sh said. ~ Bagheot read them through with a concentration that was partly the difficulty that he had in seeing; at seventy he would not hear of glasses. “A cheap demagogue,” the old man exploded when he ha@ finished the characterization of ,Wardell, “A cheap demagogue! Trading on the suffering of those poor farm- ers! They always come to the front in times like these.” He acted with promptness and efficiency. Talking over long dis« tance with the Governor of the State, he made sure that the Red Cross would be operating in Paris the next day. “Even a very little relief . . .” “TI can’t hear you,” said the Gove ernor. “Well, why the devil can’t you hear me! _ What's the matter with your connection? J said even a very little relief will quiet the mob, Unless you take some such meas- ures, the merchants must either put their stocks in the streets, or machine-guns in their windows.” “Yes, yes. Everything of that sort will be seen to. How is it in Washington, as cold as it is here?” “Well, we've had a little snow,” the voice quavered, Senator Bagheot then dictated to his wife his statement to the press. “Conditions in my State, brought to my attention today by the news- papers, show extreme suffering in the country districts. I shall move for Federal aid tomorrow. Congress has not treated the suffering re- sulting from this winter sympa- thetically, but I believe that when the members of Congress return, after facing their constituents, their action will be a little different.” “That's good, eh, huh?” he chuckled to his wife. “I guess that will show them who lives in a glass house, politically speaking!” “Remember, Dr. Styres said you grasp by chance word and gesture what the others were discussing. There was no.hectograph, no mimeograph, no typewriter. Every- thing had to be written by hand. There were five right hands. At the top of their first handbill they printed: “YOUR MILK GIVES OUT TODAY! WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO Now?” The bills were tacked to the front porches of houses on each of the four roads into Paris, east and west, north and south. Drdla had one, and Doscher, Davis and War- dell. One of the boys took one to Ryder's, a farmer who lived ten miles farther to the south, where the men seldom came to town, “OF COURSE I'M GOING.” “Are you going to the meeting at Wardell’s?” Doscher asker Shays, ee was reading the tacked up “Of course, I'm going. Who got us the milk?” ‘ “He got it for us all right last time, it might not be so easy now. es @ queer bird. He's a Social- “Well, what of it? Anyway, I hear he ain’t a Socialist.” “Ain't a Socialist?” “No, they've got some other name for it. They call it a Communeist.” “What's that make him?” “It makes him for us, I guess. That's all I know about it. I'll see you at Wardell’s.” “Why should I go to Wardell’s?” Frances answered Davis. “Don’t you think I know what Wardell’s sup.to? He'll be running for some~ were to have no undue excitement,” “BONA FIDE SUFFERING” ‘The State organization of the Red Cross proved itself equal to the situation which it was called upon by the Governor to control, Over night, it completed plans for immediate relief for all who could furnish evidence of bona fide suf- fering. * In this work it was planned to cooperate with local community leaders, since they were assumed to be better informed as to local persons, cases and needs, rather than to “foist an alien organize tion on the town from without.” ° They simply sent a supervisor, who sat beside Lily Purcell, the local head of the Red Cross, in the little relief station they had rented in her brother's empty store. “. Back of the counter, at which they sat, were cans of milk, bags of flour( sugar, etc, . “We ought to spread some bags of flour on the counter. There's nothing like it for psychological effect, for raising the spirits of hungry people,” said the Red Crass supervisor, who, like Miss wore glasses. “It’s unfortunate, though, that you had this thaw last, night. It's opened the roads, of course it would have been if we had had a few days to get, things firmly in hand. It will probe ably let more of them through to that mesting at Wardell’s, too, But I calculate that our opening at’ the same hour as the meeting will also have-its psychological effect. I guess they'll here, rather than f rea didhiix, (To Be Continued), ‘