The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 27, 1932, Page 1

at hospital; consultant in diseases of the ™~, ™ VOTE COMMUNIST FOR 4. © Unemployment and Social Insurance at the ex- pense of the state and employers. ) Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., under the act 2.° ‘Against Hoover’s wage-cutting policy. 3. Emergency relief for the poor farmers without restrictions by the government and banks; ex- emption of poor farmers from taxes, and no forced collection of rent or debts. Vol. IX, No. 205 Sx of STRIKERS IN Chit Ald of Hoover JAIL FREED BY FARMERS 1,000 Ready to Storm Council Bluffs Jail; ‘Authorities Yield 3,000 PICKET ROADS Militancy “Grows ‘Altho | Leaders Hinder It COUNCIL BLUFFS, Ia., Aug. 26— One thousand farmers massed near the jail forced the release last night of 55 of their pickets who had been arrested by deputies of Sheriff Lain- son of Pottawattomie County. The sheriff had 200 new deputies sworn in and armed with shot-guns, pick handles and machine guns, but the farmers were determined and warned that unless the men inside were out within a definite time the jail would be captured by force and the pickets released. Eight buses were lined up at Camp Todge to bring state m: now en- camped there to the strike area. Twelve of the 55 had been rail- roaded through the justice’s court and sentenced. All of those not yet tried were held on $500 bonds each Bail Provided After telephoning the governor and many negotiations, the court reduced bail to $100, property bail was ac- cepted, and all were released, those convicted coming out on appeal bonds. This ‘militant action, taken after the leaders of the Farmers Holiday Association had denounced militancy. shows what can be done by mass pressure, and is an example to work- ers in strikes. At the same time 88 pickets were released at Sioux City. * 3,000 Pickets ‘Today 3,000 pickets are stopping all farm produce headed for Council @luffs or Omaha, which is just over the river in Nebraska. All the Iowa roads are picketed along thé whole western part of the state, ftom Council Bluffs to Sioux City if the north, The blockade is tight. John L. Hemp, a local farmer, has proposed and got much newspaper publicity for a plan to have the sheriff put deputies in each group of pickets, “to keep order.” The Sheriff is still coyly refusing, but the trick may be put across. Today thousands of farmers of South Dakota are holding a mass meeting at Huron to wte on joir the strike. I. R. T. Declares Fake “Bankrupicy”; Made 3 Million on Subway NEW YORK. — The Interborough Rapid Transit, controlled by J. P. Morgan, went into receivership yes- | terday. Two moves were behind the “bank- ruptcy.” Firstly, by going through | the formality of a reorganization, the | IR,T. will get rid of millions in dol- | lars of debts which it would other- wise have to pay. Secondly, the ILR.T. will be en- abled to relinquish the elevated lines, which are losing money. The latest financial statement of the LR.T. admitted that the com- | coupled with ir | ting drive throug! Ogden Mills, director of Mergen- thaler Linotype, Shredded Wheat and many other corporations and Secretary of the Treasury who is directing the latest Hoover confer- ence of capitalist and labor mis- leaders on the crisis. This confer- ence is preparing new wage cuts and tax burdens for the masses. HOOVER PAY CUT COMMITTEE BUILT | Bankers to 0 Force Stag- gered Work WASHINGTON, D D. C., Aug: 26.—. Continuing his old policy of feed- Ing the 15,000,000 jobless in the U. S. with optimistic phrase the Hun- ger President Hoover again an- nounced the “end of the financial crisis.” His speech at the confer- ence of capitalist exploiters outlined his program of making the workers bear the full burdens of the pres- ent economic crisis, through new wage cuts, taxes and a higher cost ‘of living. «oe WASHINGTON, Aug. 26—The for- mation of a. “central committee. to take command of a fresh drive” against the workers’ already lowered Standard of living, was the first rec- jommendation of Hunger President Hoover at the conference .of business leaders opened here today. Although the 250 “business gen- erdis” summoned to take part in the conference were requested not to dis- cuss in advance the program, it was learned that Hoover’s plan is cen- tered upon the “further expansion of cfedit of business” and the “stimu- jation of relief to the unemployed,” by local agencies and the workers themselves. The “credits to busirys” are to be id wage cut- ne stagger system hich Hoover and Green want the ‘Kers to regard as “relieving the starving unemployed.” The conference is being attended uch men as Owen D. Young, in- ationally Knewn slave-driver, P. Lamont who is now planning further | | attacks upon the steel workers as the | Czar in the steel industry, Edsel Ford, son of the expert administrator of bullets to the workers demanding re- |lief, and many other industrial and financial magnates, republican as well as democrats. The Communist Party calls ‘upon the toffers to answer the Hunger Con- ference and join in the united front struggle against wage cuts and for so- pany. made $3,351,469 profit last year on the subway lines, cial insurance at the expense of the bosses and the government. Dail [(Section of the Communist International) NEW YORK, SATURDAY, AUGUST 27, 1932 Jobless Insist Mayor STATE POLICE WITH DRAWN PISTOLS Appear on Sept. 10th) ATTACK MARCHING MINERS WHEN THEY March 3, 1879, REVOLT IN LEGION ON VET BONUS Rank and File Jeer | Gen. O’Ryan’s Speech Against Payment LEADERS STAY SILENT Want Registration of Foreign-Born @ BROOKLYN, N. Y., Aug. 26.—Re- volt loomed in the New York State American Legion Convention today over the question of the payment of the ex-servicemen’s bonus. Catcalls and boos from the rank and file greeted a speech of Major General |John F. O’Ryan, who urged the vet- erans to give up the fight for their back wages. This was the first time that the bonus was either mentioned or re- ferred to in the open sessions of the convention, which are being held in the Grand Ball Room of the Elks Club, the leaders of the Legion hav- ing carefully kept this issue in the background, Moses G. Hubbard, department |commander, who is against the |bonus, admitted yy that it would be impossible to halt the bonus move- ment which has developed among the rank and file. Hubbard said, how- ever, that the resolutions committee would kill all resolutions denouncing Hoover's action in calling out troops against the bonus army in Wash- ington. Following this, resolutions were |presented and passed calling for universal military service, the imme- diate fingerprinting and registration of the foreign-born and condemning the Griffin Bill, which would admit the foreign-born to citizenship with- uot taking the oath requiring them to bear arms, It is clear that the convention will go on record “for the bonus,” following which the leadership will catry on a campaign against any ferm of mass struggle for the bonus. The line of the convention is the line of the hunger government: in- creased war preparations, against un- employment insurance, demagogic re- lief proposals, but no real relief. All the speeches urged an intense mili- tarization program, | W.E.S.L. Mass Bonus | Rally at Columbus Circle at 6 Tonight NEW YORK. of the Workers Ex-Sei League, ‘ank and file veterans of other or- ganizations and unaffiliated vetera: have arranged a mass bonus rally to |be held at Columbus Circle at 6 o'clock tonight. Among the speakers will be John| Pace, leader of the rank and file! bonus movement in Washington; Walter Eicker of the Workers Ex- Servicemen’s League, and Beckworth Johnson, ‘The meeting is part of a series in behalf of the National Conference of the rank and file veterans, which will take place in Cleveland Sept. 23-24- Doak Threatens to Deport Berkman Today; Doctor Says It Is Murder WORKERS! STOP THE KILLING OF THIS LEADER OF STRIK- | ING WORKERS! DEMAND SHE STAY HERE UNTIL CURED! BOSTON, Mass. August 26—With Secretary of Labor Doak threatening te send Edith Berkman to Poland lously ill, run- a temperature, with rapid pulse, from the distressing comp- are, of violent spasms of the “which would wear the person out, She is suffering an active tubercular infection.” His Palatarnent as to removal was “Made in answer to a question by a representative of the I. L. D. Massachusetts General lungs for the U.S. Veterans’ Bureau. He is author of three standard medi- cal works on tuberculosis, and many iat monographs on the sub- ject. Dr. Crane, head of the Central New . | England Sanatorium, to which Berk- man is now confined, recently gave Doak 2 statement to the effect that Edith Berkman wes fit to travel, reversing his previous pronounce- ment on request of the Department of Labor. Crane immediately left on a vacation, and Doak made pre~ parations to deport Berkman. Mass protest backing up the de- mand made by the I. L. D. forced Doak to permit a competent medical examination of Berkman, with the result mentioned above. Still Doak has announced no change in his stated policy, which calls for Berk- man’s immediate deportation. Must Be Saved The International Labor Defense has demanded from Doak that Berk- man’s departure be stayed until she is fully recovered from her illness, induced by the treatment she re- ceived while detained in the Boston Immigration barracks, and that she be permitted to choose the sana- torium to which she will go, and that the Department of Labor bear the expense of her recovery. Mass protest must be organized all | is over the country, to save Berkman from deportation, which will mean death, The T. L. D. calls on all workers anq all working-class organizations to jwite immediately protest, with the demands made for Berkman by the I. L- D. to Secretary of Labor Will- iam Nuckles Doak, at Washington, % 7 {See * PROTEST CUBAN Equal ri; ination for the Bla Against capitalist suppression of the Against imperialis for the Negroes the Chinese people and of the Soviet Unica and selfscdhebengaits ‘é terror; against all forage litical rights of wovk po! ck Belt for the defense of t war; ‘Walker was told that he will beé— held responsible by the workers of New York for any interference with the Relief Marchers. Police headquarters has also been informed of the determination of, tens of thousands of workers to march on City Hall in a determined demand for immediate cash relief for thes more than @ million workers in New York who have no jobs and are either starving or on the verge of starvation. Neighborhood demonstrations for immediate relief are being held all over the city to mobilize employed and unemployed workers for the huge demonstration on September 10. ‘At 2 demonstration held yesterday in front of the Home Relief Bureau at Ablemarle Road, Brooklyn, the workers won the demand that Cooper a stool pigeon employed by the Home Relief Bureau, be discharged imme~ diately, and that relief be immediate- ly distributed to a group of workers whose names were submitted by the Borough Park Unemployed Council. Cooper was largely responsible for the imprisonment of Schnapp, Un- employed Council organizer, for 20 days on 2 framed-up charge of felo- nious assault. The Unemployed Coun- cil will hold @ meeting at its head- quarters, 1373 W. 43rd St. tonight to hear a report on the demands won at the demonstration. At another neighborhood struggle preliminary to the Relief March, white and Negro workers prevented the eviction of a Negro widow, Mrs. M. Jones and her three children from a miserable shack at 2874 y- 25th ft Coney Island. In tempt to railroad Mrs: Jones ae up With the Unemployed the police have issued her @ summons to appear at the 8th St. Magistrate's Court in Coney: Island court on Monday morning. Final arrangements for the Relief March on the 10th will be proposed today at a special full meeting of the Unemployed Council of New York. The meeting will be held at Manhat- tan Lyceum, 66 East 4th Street at 130 p. m All central bodies of New York or- ganizations especially urged to send delegates to this meeting. ‘The Job Agency Committee of the Unemployed Council, which is lead- ing the fight for the elimination of the private job agencies and for the establishment of. free . city. employ- ment agencies to be controlled by the workers will open Tuesday a. head- quarters at 58 West 39th Street, at ;3 p. m. in order to facilitate the | struggle and also mobilize thousands |of unemployed workers for the Re- jlief March on September 10. The leading demands to be pre+ | sented to the city.government by the | Relief Marchers are: Immediate cash relief of $10 a week for every family | of two, with $3 a week additional for each dependent: one dollar a day cash relief for young and single workers; no evictions of the unem- ployed: the abolition of the private TERROR TODAY ' Parade in Harlem to Save Union Leader —— Thousands of workers will take part in a parade and demonstration in | Harlem today against the reign. of terror in the Yankee colony, Cuba. Today's demonstration, called by the Anti-Imperialist- League, is an answer. to the butcher Machado who has recently intensified the campaign of murder against workingclass lea- ders. A young girl leader of the Young Communist League, was turned over to army officers, raped and killed. A leader of the revolu- tionary trade unions, Armando xg has dissappeared and has not been ‘heard of for weeks. It is feared that | soon the bloody remnants of his will be found floating in the harbor of Havana as has happened in dozens of other cases. ‘The demonstration will start at 4 p.m. at 124th St and Lenox Ave. and proceed ‘along the following route: Down Lenox to 116th Street, east to Madison Ave., down Madison to 114th St., west through 114th St. past the Porto Rican Anti-Imperialist As- sociation Headquartres to Lenox Ave., down to 110th Sti.where a mass meet- ing will take place with the following i rs, Sanchez for Anti-Imperial- ague, Carl Hacker, for Inter- er Labor Re igen and Shepard for the Communist Party. ‘The parade will be led by the band of the International Club. A mass meeting will be held in the Camp Nitedaiget to protest against ‘the terror in Cuba on Sunday, Augus*. 28, A. Markoff, Director of the Work- ie jers School will speak. J Ei Sy Eas A" ay 4e CITY EDITION iia Price 3 Cents 300 Workers’ Organizations Back Fight of Un- employed Council for Cash Relief Borough Park Unemployed Branch Leads Job- less to Victory at Relief Bureau NEW YORK.—Mayor Walker has been informed by the Unemployed Council, which is leading the gigantic Relief March on City Hall on Sep- tember 10, that he will be expected to forego his usual week-end vacation | on that date and be present to receive the marchers and a delegation of 100 which will present their demands for immediate relief. agencies and the opening of free city employment agencies to be controlled by the workers: a $10,000,000 ap- propriation for winter relief; and*the endorsement by the city government of the Workers Unemployment In- surance Me ae SY. FORCE COPS 70 FREE STRIKERS Girls Battle Police In| Dress Strike BULLETIN SOUTH RIVER, N. J.—Hundreds of women garment strikers, in a most militant demonstration bat- tled the police, punching and scratching them, when they came into the meeting of the strike committee in South River. N. J., to arrest Jeannette Rubin and Ida Frank of the Needle Trades Work- ers Industrial Union and Pauline Rogers of the Trade Union Unity “We will not give up our leaders, get out of this hall!”, were the shouts which greeted the police when they tried to force their way into the hall to arrest the strike leaders. oe SOUTH RIVER, N. J., Aug. 26.— The strike at the South River Dress to new shops. Over 2,000 women are now Krlited militantly’ for an in- by apt tee formed by the mayor. oi break up the fight was told by the strike committee to get out of the strike hall. Workers in the South River Dress Co. were forced to work 10 hours a day for as low as $5 a week. ‘The strikers, who are being assist- Industrial Union, are demanding 2 minimum of 25 cents per dress and recognition of the shop committee. Yesterday the struggle spread to 11 new shops. The spirit of the strik- ers is great. The women demand that every shop séttle on the above basis. Co., which began Monday has spread \2 ed by the Needle Trades Workers | RALLY; FIGHT AGAINST CUTS GOES ON Thousands Meeting In Coulterville Pledge to Carry On Struggle Against 18 Per Cent Slash; Then Police Drive Them On SHERIFF ORDERS Foster Challenges Cox _ to Defend Program of His ‘‘ Jobless Party”’ LEADERS’ ARREST | Defense of Strikers! | COULTERVILLE, Ill, Aug. 26.—Over sixty state poli |with guns in their hands, | charged into the.mass meeting of thousands of the Illinois |mine strike marchers here yes- |terday noon and drove the |miners out of town. Men and |women still with open wound: from Sheriff Browning Robir son’s bullets and clubs, were harried out onto the open road by G Emerson's troopers The meetir nize and ma new pl t the mines of the lower pa state in the fight. ag: cent wage cut. Tw five thousand mine str! 2,000 cars and trucks all over the state to picket. ‘Wedr e day night they were ambushed deputy sheriffs just over the border of Franklin county, shot up, 100 wounded, and over 200 cars wrecked or seized To Carry On The men in the terday had just v to carry on the fight @ new march on and a policy comm: ing 2 report to ti the ‘nexé | tactics, assailed them © was prepar ss meeting on tersville, mest and to picket Sheriff Threatens Ail Leaders. threatens a regular pogrom against all strike leaders among the miners in Franklin county, He has an- nounced that all “radicals” will be arrested, jailed and his deputies say they will be flogged and lynched. He also has in mind the members the wage cut Workers Must Come to} | | | «\ Everybody was driven out of Coul- | in this second brutal at- | to exercise the right to picket. Sheriff Browning Robinson now/ e, States Communist Party Program in This Election Is Only Solution for Jobless Demands Cox Declare Himself on Insurance and Allegheny County Hunger March Pa., PITTSBURGH, Aug. Ww priest who heads the Blue Shirts for President on his “Jobless Party” him to defend his “Jobless Party” rgh. Foster proposes debate will be “Resolved, that the Progra of the Communist Party in this elec- tion presents the only solution to the problems of the unemployed and part time workers.” y letter to Cox: “I ‘ou to debate on the merits of the Workers Unemployment In- surance Bill and to state your po- sition on the August 31 Hunger March of the Unemployed Councils,” in Pittsburgh. the subject of the Ss also: ployment Is Issue qunist Party in its Elec- tion Campaign has made clear to the | workers that unemployment is the | angry than’ ever. They went to Franklin county, absolutely unarmed, teck on the mine strikers’ right to} have been shot at with everything from machine guns io shot guns and pistols and clubbed and slugged in the bargain. They have been menaced | | with death both by deputized oper- | ator’s gunmen and by Governor Emerson's state troopers. All La Salle Mines Shut. PERU, Ill., Aug 26. — Pickets have of the National Miners Union who|closed down all the mines in La Sal- are among the best fighters against | le county. Strikers from all over the northern coal field marched on them The masses of miners are moreyesterday tant. They have formed Party, shows the way. for the Negro toilers. _ Daily Worker. public. throughout the country can red banner: They are all being WARNING! By MOISSAYE J. OLGIN a fighting front. Worker shows them the way to victory. Twenty thousand bonus marchers in Washington. scrupulous politicians. They are ready to continue the fight. ganization and class-conscious leadership. The Daily Worker, organ of the Communist save the Daily Worker. INERS marching in Illinois, 20,000 stirred to action by But they need leadership. They Orly quick decisive action Get busy. Become, everyone of you, a builder of the Daily Worker. They are mili- The Daily wage cuts. have been led by un- They need a strong or- Steel workers in Pittsburgh. 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Foster, Com:nunist nominee President of the United States, has challenged James R. Cox, the Catho- and has just had himself nominated ticket, to a debate. Foster challenges program before the workers of Pitts- burning problems fa class today. Not only 15 million are jburning prob! facing the work- are also dependent on relief be- se of part-time work- Millions-are |starving especially in the Pittsburgh District where the basic industries of steel, coal and railroad are located “Thousands in this district have lost their homes, are being evicted and are dying of starvation. ing the working Communist Solution “In the face of this crisis, the Com- ty puts forward as the for the working class, the demand for Unemployment and Social Insurance at the expense: of the State and employers, which -is when the police | {reenter eee eM aroee Tr | the central demand of the Commus nist Platform in the Election Cam-= |peign. The demand for which we | have struggled béfore the National, |state and local governments,’ and tallied the workers, organized them for mass struggle. The bosses hold cut to the workers misery and. hin- | ger—death—starvation and war! Cox Doesn’t Help Jobless “While the county government of Allegh County and the State of |Pennsylvania admits its bankruptcy and gives relief to a maximum of sixteen thousand families of Alle- |gheny County, out of a total of 250 thousand unemployed, you, a5 the head of the Jobless Party which you jare now forming, and its candidate for president, have consistently re- fused to go before either the State, local governments to de- y the starving unem- you have attacked the “Father” Cox giving the same sa- lute that Mussolini gets. The Blue | Shirt uniform and the salute are | borrowed from the bloody fascist | movements of Europe: | Communist Party while it is carrying on the struggl: for unemployment in- surance, you bave openly stated that u are trying to { the workers it and revolu- | tionary. r jeral talk about “jobs for the jobless,” | you are trying to prevent the organ- | ization of the. workers -into the Un- employed Councils. “You are trying to prevent a real Struggle for relief, even though in |this struggle led by the Unemployed | Councils and Communist Party, miil- |lions of dollars of relief have been |won by the workers in every large | y in the country, The Unemployed | Councils here in Pittsburgh, support- jed by the Communuist Party, are in | their Allegheny County Hunuger |March on Auguust 31, again going |before the County Commission to | fight for more relief. Cox Cuts Standards didate for president of it Party, I challenge rately preventing the curing relief frémrthe governments of@Al~ and with cutting amount of relief they ob- Foster's the date when he will be speaking in. Pittsburgh on his national tour, as the time of the debate, and leaves arrangements of hall, etc, up te @ joint comn ‘ge letter suggests Sept. 21, ~4-