The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 30, 1932, Page 1

‘ lot for these elections. It is the first VOTE COMMUNIST FOR ~ 1. Unemployment and Social pense of the state and employers. 2. ‘Against Hoover’s wage-cutting policy. 3. Emergency relief for the restrictions by the government and banks; ex- emption of poor farmers Insurance at the ex- poor farmers without Central from taxes, and no forced collection of rent or debts. Daily Orga 4 (Section of the Communist International) Vol. XI, No. 207 bol Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, of March 3, 1879, N. ¥., under the act orker 2 Eowimunict Porty U.S.A. VOTE COMMUNIST FOR Equal rights for the Negroes and self-determe ination for the Black Belt. Against capitalist terror; against all fornts of suppression of the political rights of workers. Against imperialist the Chinese people war; for the defense of and of the Soviet Union CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents COMMUNISTS ON BALLOT INVIRGINIA Foster, Ford Electors Named and Candidate for Congress OHIO STATUS CRITICAL Last Minute Drive to Get 8,000 More Names RICHMOND, Va., Aug. 29.—The Corhmunist candidates are on the ballot. in’ Virginia. The signatures were filed along with names of can- didates and Presidential electors with the Secretary of the Commonwealth of’ Virginia on Friday, and the Com- munist Party is officially on the bal- party to file in this state. In addition to the electors for Fos- ter_and Ford, S. W. Milligan is down for Congressman from the second district. There are ten daye left during which all forces will be mob- ilizeqd to place candidates from the other congressional districts. ‘There are no elections this year for state officers here, they come two years later. 4 8 le Last Round In Ohio. CLEVELAND, Ohio, Aug. 29.—To- Central Committee Analyzes Statement by Central Committee Communist Party U.S.A. Campaign Comrades and friends: The Daily Worker, central organ of the Com- munist Party of the U.S.A., finds itself ina grave financial crisis. A cail was issued for a $40,000 fund, to save the paper, but the response so far has been very slow, total con- tributions to date amounting to only $6,600. This creates a situation which may be fatal for the paper. The Daily Worker is a working class paper, As such it has no mon- eyed persons to back it. It has no advertisements to fill its treasury, as is the case with the caitalist and A “socialist” papers. It has to rely on the sales of its copies only. These sales, however, donot cover the ex- penses. The paper is working on a deficit amounting to $80,000-$90,- 000 yearly. WORKERS KEPT “DAILY” v ALIVE FOR EIGHT YEARS 4 Socialist Republics. In all these fights the Daily Worker is indispensable. DAILY IS VITAL TO ELECTION CAMPAIGN At the present moment, when the election campaign re- quires a strongér mobilization of the working class, when it is necessary to draw millions of workers to the battlefront of the working class and to deal capitalism a new severe blow by securing a substantial mass vote for the Communist Party at the polls—the importance of the Daily Worker is doubly great. It is for these reasons that the campaign to secure $40,000 for the Daily Worker must find the widest response among the working masses. Highlights at Anti-War Meet in Amsterdam Marcel Cachin, secretary of the Communist Party of France, out- lined the Bolshevik program of the revolutionary struggle against war. * . Leaders of the Ivergordon mutiny in the British navy were cheered by the delegates when they addressed the Congress. | te Workers from the Krupp arms factory in Germany were hailed by the 2,000 delegates when they rose to demand the united front of all workers against imperialist war. pa Tae A resolution demanding the re- lease of the Scottsboro boys was adopted by the Congress, after hearing an address by Mrs. Ada Wright urging the delegates to help fight American imperialism by fighting against the legal lynching of the Negro boys in Alabama. Re os Great enthusiasm roused by a Chinese seaman who called for a fight against imperialist oppressors of the Chinese people. ee a Four hundred Socialist worker- delegates present a resolution con- demning the leaders of the Social- ist International for their pro-war Policy. |repealed. Every unemploy | shall 400 SOCIALIST WORKER-DELEGATES AT ANTI-WAR CONGRESS CONDEMN SOCIALIST LEADERS’ PRO-WAR POLICY Marcel Cachin, French Communist Leader, Presents Bolshevik Pro- gram of Struggle Against Imperialist War Dana of U. S. Declares Overthrow of Capitalism Is Only Way to of the talk delivered at the The conference of delegates to ar- | ranged a parade for the relief of the | unemployed addressed a letter to the mayor of New York City informing him that a delegation will ent their demands on September 10.| These demands call for immediate payment of relief to every man, woman and child in distress. It demands that an end be put to evictions and that the eviction law have shelter. Every worker opening sessions of the jobless nd employed workers. Re} en es of the police who with the Unemployed s that it is useiess to march because the mayor will not be on hand. Where then will the mayor of the y of New York be? It is true that he is busy at the present time trying to conceal the plunder, graft and corruption of which the city admin- istration is notorious. It is true that along with his fellow democrats, he World Anti-War Congr ——*here in the i |The Right to the Streets} Uproot War; Patel, Indian Speaker, Assails Imperialism (Cable by Inprecorr) : AMSTERDAM, Aug., 29.—The revolutionary struggle against imperialist war and the condemnation of the reformist Second Socialist International and the yellow International of Trade Unions for their sabotage of the fight against imperialist war, wre the themes meeting bile Hall. That the sentiments of the speakers were shared by all the delegates was clearly mani- fested by the wild applause that greeted the addresses. A basis for a united front struggle against imperialist war was laid by the presentation of a resolution adopted by i delegates condemning leadership and support to the anti-w At the opening sessior former chairman cf the |shall have food and clothing. It de- |mands that provision be made for For the over eight years of the Daily Worker’s existence it has had tional Congress, declared th ish imperialism is wa less war again<i the peo day. starts a concentrated drive of all workers who want to vote for their. own candidates in this elec- is trying to divert the masses from understanding the real cause of the graft and corruption which is to be * WORKING CLASS SHOULD MAINTAIN DAILY tion. The Communist Election Cam- paign Committee has urged all sym- pathizers to the greatest effort within the next few days to collect signa- tures. ‘The state law requires 20,000 signa- tures to put candidates on the bal- lot. There are 27,000 collected al- ready and in the office of the state election, campaign committee. But technicalities revived by state offi- cials for use against the Communist Party make it necessary to get, not just 20,000 by 35,000 signatures. Reports to the committee Saturday indicated that an additional 5,000 were almost certain. from Toledo, Cincinnati, Dayton, Youngstown and parts of Cleveland. But this still Jeaves ‘3,000 short, and they must be obtained at once 250,000 ENGLISH “MILL HANDS OUT Workers International Relief Sends Aid only one source to cover its deficits —contributions from the workers. The working class must fight hun- ger and starvation. The working class must offer resistance to the policy of the capitalists who shift the burden of the crisis onto the shoulders of the working class. The workers must fight the wage cuts and secure higher wages and toler- able working conditions. The work- ers must secure unemployment in- surance and immediate cash. relief for the unemployed... The workers must secure the bonus, which is only back wages, for the ex-service- ment, most of whom are unemploy- ed. The workers must fight Negro lynchings, frame-ups against inno- cent Negro workers and all the boss terror against the Negro masses. The workers must fight against de- The crisis is great, but the working class of America is still able to maintain its only daily paper in the English lan- guage, if organized mass effort is made to save the Daily now. The capitalists wish to crush your paper. “You must save it by the enthusiastic support of great numbers. The capitalists of America have thousands of dailies. You have only one single daily. You must not allow it to be crushed by your enemies. To save the Daily is a task worthy of every effort on the part of every worker wishing to fight the ex- ploiters. Rush funds, . comrades! The (Cable By Inprecorr-) MANCHESTER, Englanc, Aug. 29. -—The great majority of the 250,000 Laneshire cotton weavers struck to- day in spite of efforts of the reform- ist union leaders to carry out a treacherous “compromise” agreement at the last minute and stop the strike. In a few towns at a distance from Manchester, the center of the strike area, there were decisions not to strike because the employers with- drew the wage cuts, All the most important mill centers are struck solid, The Bolton workers decided to walk out in spite of the last minute offer of the employers to continue the old wage scale, without a cut. In Leith, there was a similar de- cision to join the strike, although the owners offered compromises. Strong picket lines are already guarding the mills against scabs, Misleaders Active The officials of the Weavers’ Union have appealed to the govern- ment to intervene, and in the capi- talist press and the Daily Herald, the Organ of the Labor Party, supports this strike breaking appeal. But the masses of strikers are de- termined to go on with the fight against a wage cut of two shillings nine pence in the pound a cut from Beer now running on the average, shillings a wek, (Editor’s note— ‘The pound is now worth $3.46. The shilling nine pence cut on each pound is a cut of $1.14 cents on each week's wage of about $6.74). ‘The strikers also demand the re- instatement of those discharged as a/result of the fight against com- pelling a worker to run more looms. (Editor—What is called in textile milles here, the “stretch-out”) ‘The Workers International Relief is actively organizing strike aid. The first three truck loads of food ar- rived in Burnley today. The food was collected by London workers. Five New Gigantic . Tanks Built by U.S. «+ (By a Worker Correspondent:) .. KANSAS CITY, Kan—Five air- Eapacity of 4000" GRU valve. fe of 4, gallons, ive just been built here. monstrous _six-wheel tanks are painted yellow while the remainder of the body is a deep ‘will be handy in a country that has no gas stations, or only a asin Manchuria or per- hi Eastern Siberia. tanks are to be used by the ed States air service. — ‘ portations and against all other ter- roristic attacks of the boss govern- ment against the foreign-born work- The workers must fight the boss war that is now being hatched by the American capitalists and that is to be directed primarily against ers. the only country where are in power, the Union of Soviet Comrades of District the workers . . . Two: working class of America, we are confident, will do its duty in making it possible for the Daily Worker to continue its struggle in the first lines of the class front. All support to the Daily Worker! CENTRAL COMMITTEE, COMMUNIST PARTY, U.S. A. Upon the funds raised at the unit meetings tonight depénds the appear- ance of the Daily Worker Wednesday and Thursday. All units are instructed One comrade in each unit must be elected to take the money received directly to the Daily Worker office after the unit meet- ing: In this emergency the Daily Worker office, 5th floor, 50 E. 13th St., will be open until 2 A. M. Wednesday morning. ISRAEL AMTER. District Organizer. to make collections. 100 CRASH INTO THE HOME RELIEF Police Club Children Who Fight Back NEW YORK. — Over 100 men, women and children of the East 12th Street Block Committee which is af- filiated with the Downtown Unem- ployed Council again smashed thru the Home Relief Bureau's policy not to deal with committees of the Un- employed Council at Spring and Eli- zabeth Sts. “ Mrs. Goldman of the Home Relief Bureau tried to use soft soap on the workers but they. told her that they did not come for sympathy but for |’ relief. While Mrs. Goldman was frantical- ly making new promises, the cops outside had a tough time controlling the crowd which had now grown to ‘Airplane Refueling over 1,000 and were soreaming for relief. i The cops viciously used black-jacks and clubs against the workers’ychil- dren and when the kids fought back, they arrested two of them, The two children were thrown into a po- lice car and speeded away while the crowd of workers shouted their re- sentment. A meeting was held at which all workers pledged to carry on the struggle by marching for milk on Sep- tember First and then by turning out in large masses and calling on all workers to com out to Union Square on Septc-.. 19th in the City-wide march on C.y Hall for immediate relief, x United Cigar Stores Declare Bankruptcy NEW YORK:—The United Cigar Stores Company went bankrupt yes- terday with liabilities of $9,502,029 and assets of $8,341,634. According to a statement issued by the company, the bankruptcy was not due to losses involved in its gigantic chain store business, but to its real estate interests, which, under the blows of the crisis, have depreciated enormously in value. SHANGHAI KILLER COMING TO U.S. The Japanese fascist government is sending Vice-Admiral _ Kochisaburo Nomura, butcher of the Shanghai masses, to this country next month on a “good-wijl” mission to the Wall Street imperial The mission of Nomura is officially connected up with the sharpening antagonisms be- tween American and Japanese im- perialists in the sharpening rivalry for the control of China and the su- premacy in the Pacific. The <apanese imperialists are greatly concerned over the recent concentration of the entire American battle fleet in the Pacific. Vice-Admiral Nomura is one of the high Japanese officials who directed the hideous aerial and artillery bom- bardment of the unfortified, densely populated Chapei proletarian section during the Japanese attack on Shanghai, last spring, in’ which over 10,000 unarmed Chinese civilions were slaughtered, 2 See, 4 PAINTERS WIN 2 SHOP STRIKES Workers in Minkoff Shop Walk Out NEW YORK.—The Alteration Painters Union won another strike victory \yesterday when the T. & T. Painting Co. signed an agreement granting the workers the following demands: 1—15 per cent increase in wages. 2—Recognition of the Union, 3—Recognition of the shop com- mittee. 48-hour day 5 day week. 5—All hiring to be done thru the office of the union. 6—All firing to be taken up with the shop committee, 7—Equal distribution ,of work. The Metric Painting Co. of Browns- ville has also settled for the same demands. One Negro worker who was receiving $2 per day was given the same pay as the other mechanics, $6.00. Now the wages in the shop are $7 a day. % ‘The Painters of Minkoff Bros. went out on strike yesterday under the leadership of the Alteration Painters Union for a 15 per cent increase in wages and recognition of the Alter- ation Painters Union. Painters of the Lubinsky Real Estate Co., who were locked out last Friday have turned the lock-out into a@ strike demanding that. the boss put up a bond as a guarantee that he does not break the agreement in the | sheet show a drop of 80 workers in future. + . | winter relief. It demands $10 to every v |family of two and $3 for each de- MUKDEN ARSENAL Destroy Japanese Hangars, Bombers Partisan troops Sunday night set fire to the great Mukden arsenal and the wireless station in a successful surprise attack on the Japanese milit- ary stronghold in the South Man-| churian city of Mukden, They also fired the air base, des- stroying several hangars and bomb- ing planes and endagering the ex’ tensive airplanes concentration in Mukden. Many of the Japanese- armed Manchoukuo police joined the partisan forces in the fierce clashes which followed in the streets of the city. The combined forces carried out a series of well concerted at- tacks on vital points in the Japanese lines in the city, afterward retiring in perfect order before superior Jap- anese forces. The Japanese are pro- ceeding to disarm the remaining Manchouko police. The attack followed closely upon the arrival in Mukden of General Nobuyoshi Muto, newly appointed by the Japanese government as military dictator in Manchuria. A heavy Japanese guard was thrown around the mansion in which he has set up his headquarters, Report Attack On Muto It is reported that the fighting on Sunday night was followed by an at- tempt the next day to assassinate Gen. Muto. The Japanese authori- ties allege that the attempt was fos- Communists. The daring attack on Mukden, in which the great forces of Japan- ese troops are stationed, shows clearly the tremendous upsurge “which is occuring in the anti-Jap- anese national revolutionary war in Manchuria, On Saturday a similar atttack was carried out at San Kiang-kow, where 1,000 partisan troops battled a Japanese detachment, killing two Japanese, and capturing five Man- churian officials in the Japanese puppet state of Manchouko, Fighting is still proceeding between Chinese volunteers and Japanese troops invading Jehol province, where the Japanese are attempting to ex- tend their military base for the seiz~ ure of North China and armed in- tervention against Soviet Mongolia and the Soviet Union. Millions Missing In Winipeg; Capitalist _ Graft Everywhere WINNIPEG, Manitoba, Aug. 29.— Day after tomorrow John A, Mach- ray, governor of the University of Manitoba and Chancellor of the Church of England comes up in court for,a hearing on charges of exten- sive graft of the funds under his con- trol. Meanwhile, a survey of the books shows: $1,500,000 missing from uni- versity treasury and only $100,000 left; total disappearance of the Rockefeller Institute Trust Fund of $500,000; same for the $130,000 Is- bester fund; and “depletion to an alarming extent” of the $1,500,000 treasury of the Church here and also of the pension fund for ministers. MASSILLON DISMISSALS (By a Worker Correspondent.) MASSILLON, O hio—Employment Ithe 24 industria) plants of Massillon. figures last, week in the bosses’ local \Foree City Bureau to | tered by Manchurian and Japanese | pendent. $1 a day cash relief for single workers and youth. It demands. that the Boadr of Alde: n go on record in favor of unemployment in- surance. It calls for ‘an end to the job sharks and the establishment of free city employment agencies ad- ministered by the unemployed. In all of these demands it calls for no dis- crimination in relief to the Negro masses. According to information received from the Unemployed Councils of Greater New York, the police are jug- gling with the question cf a nit. They are expressing doubts w/! the workers have a right to march. They are making teehnical objec- tions. In this way the police are attempting to throw confusion into the minds of the workers and to pre- vent a maximum mobilization .to back up these demands. These are the methods the capitalist police, whose job it is to enforce hunger and to carry through evictions, try to demoralize the workers. If they keep silent the permit will not be granted, because they fear the march- ing of the unemployed. They fear the masses facing the Board of Al- derman and shaking their fist of proletarian unity into the faces of the sleek and fat bellied politicians. They fear the united,action of the! rj assert their organized strength. The found in capitalism and its political parties. The mayor of the city of Nev York has had time to meet princes, mil- itarjsts, bankers, actresses and the parasites of one sort or another, but police agents say he will not have time to meet the delegation of the great majority representing the will and desires of the masses of New York Cit; Where will Mayor Walked be on September 10th? ‘The permit must be granted. The mayor will be there, if the masses masses have the right to the streets. No interference with this right! The masses have the right to meet the mayor to answer their demands. He has power to grant relief to the un- employed. He has power to vote these demands. He must be there to answer! Workers, assert yourselves! De- mand your right to parade, no inter- ference, no juggling with the permit. Demand that the police grant the permit immediately. Demand that the mayor be on hand, that your de- mands be heard and granted. Vote resolutions. Send them to the mayor and to the Unemployed Councils of Greater New York, 5 East 19th Street, New York City. JOBLESS MOBILIZE FOR RELIEF MARCH Pay Workers’ Rent NEW YORK. — Despite the tempts of the police to throw con- fusion into the ranks of workers here by saying that City Hall will be closed on September 10. The day of the N. Y. Relief March, the Unemployed Council js continuing to mobilize the workers at neighborhood demonstra- tions in preparation for the day when tens of thousands of New York work- ers will demand immediate relief from the city government. At a demonstration held in front of the City Relief Bureau at 153rd St. and Morris Ave. yesterday, work- ers forced the Bureau to reverse its policy of no longer giving rent checks to unemployed workers. After the Bureau had refused to give him his Tent check, a worker reported the fact to the East Bronx Unemployed Council. The Unemployed Council sent a delegation of workers to the Bureau to demand that the worker be given his rent check immediately. Under the mass pressure of a large number of determined workers, the Bureau granted the demand. At a demonstration in front of the Relief Bureau, at P S. 39 on E, 125th St. for immediate relief for several families, workers who were attacked by police defended themselves vigor- ously. ‘ Two leaders of the - unemployed, Eleanor Henderson and Samuel Brown, a Negro worker, were arrested and are being charged with “assault- ing” the Tammany uniformed thugs. at- RAISING RELIEF CHICAGO, Ill, Aug. 29. — The Workers International Relief district office here is leading in collection of relief for the mine strikers of In- diana and Tilinois, It has sent out a call for mobilization of Workers in factories and mass organizations to collect food, clothing and money. Send all relief to the W. I R. at Chicago, 1) 2457 West Chicago Ave., Room si STRIKE IN METAL SHOP, NEW YORK Picket Today at 12 West 24th Street NEW YORK.—An entire depart- ment of the Nev York, Electrical Merchandise Co. ot 12 West 24th St. went on strike yesterday. The strike was the answer the workers gave the boss when he fired a committee elect- ed by the department to demand an increase in their piece work rates. Many of them now make as low as $5 and $6 a week, after the cuts they have received in the past few months. A week ago the workers of that department won a small increase when they sent a committee to the boss’ office. The increase at that time left out many workers, espe- cially the girls due to a certain man- ouevers of the boss and the inex- perience of the committee, At a meeting of the whole department held a few days later it was decided to again make demands upon the boss and see to it that everyone in that department got a raise. At a strike meeting yesterday the Norkers elected a strike committee. They voted to accept the guidance of the Steel and Metal Workers Indus- trial Union, and elected two members of the union on the strike committee. To Spread Strike The New York Merchandise em- ploys 200 workers. Every effort is being made to spread the strike to the other departments. The boss has many orders piled up which he must rush out. 's effort to have the police break the strike failed. The boss also tried to call individual workers into his office “to straighten matters out.” The workers answered, “If you want to speak to us we'll send you our committee.” All workers are urged to assist these strikers on the picketline this morn- ing at 7:30 a.m. The New York District of the Steel and Metal Workers Industrial Union appeals to all its unemployed mem- bers to report to the office at 80 E. 11 St. for activities in the New York Marchandise strike. What Is Your Section Doing for the Daily Worker's Circulation Drive? e — ~ ers ‘Party. of Germany, followed, killing thouctinds dreds of thousan against war, he said struggle against imr oppresses the colon: threatens the Soviet Union. Japanese Delegate Speaks. Special anti-war tasks for teachers, and the need for a) propaganda in the schools of al countries were stressed by the next Speaker; Karin Michael: The most important speech of the Saturday evening se: n was de! ered by Sen Katay: tended the Interna Congress at Amsterda as representative of workers during the Russo-Japanese war. Katayama showed the tasks facing the anti-war movement in Japan in order to prevent an at- tack on the Socialist Fatherland and in order to fight against the war on China. Katayama received enthusi- astic applause. Professor Dana, American delegate to the World Anti-War Congress, de- livered a strong anti-war speech, and declared that capitalism is the root of wars, This won unanimous ap- plause. Says Soviet Workers Point Way. At the Sunday morning session was the Danish authors Nexoe, who de- clared that the only way to ve humanity was already shown by the workers and peasants of Russia Marcel Cachin, secretar; Communist Party of France, spoke in the name of the Communists, re- the ago minding the delegates of the strug- against ary gle the Bolshevists waged war, showing the measures nece! to carry on the present against imperialist war Bolshevik Program. Marcel Cachin, speaking Bolshevists' struggle against imper- jalist war, showed that only by revo- lutionary mass actions, mass mob- ilization meetings and demonstra- tions, mass actions to stop produc. tion of ammunitions and shipment of arms, by exposing the role of the imperialist governments, by mobil- izing in each country against their own imperialists, building anti-war committees particularly in the fac- tories, intensifying the fight against the attacks of the capitalists by all possible means, can war be postponed. He pointed out that only by the over- throw of capitalism, which breeds war, can an end be put to imperialist wars. He said that this cannot be accomplished without a fight against pacifism, which disarms the prole- tariat in its struggle against im- perialist war. He showeq that the Socialist In- ternational, while talking about peace, were aiding the bourgeoisie to carry through their maneuvers and their war plans, In the afternoon session Heckert greeted the delegates to the Congress in the name of the Red International of Labor Unions He’ spoke of the Amsterdam International, whose de- cision for a general strike against fascism and imperialism, he pointed out, proved to be a scrap of paper. The socialist Nicol from Switzer- land condemned the attitude of the Second International toward the An- ti-War Congress. Nicol himself is a member of the Socialist Party Muenzenburg referred to the reso- lution adopted by 400 socialist dele- gates condemning the socialist lead- ership and demanding a united front against war. He declareq that the resolution reflected the opinion of the the world’s workers. A united front, he said, is necessary, and needs, not words, are needed. He quoted Len- in’s instructions for the Russian del- egates to the Hague Congress con~ cerning the struggle against war. The delegates rose singing the Interna- tionale. Other speakers, jncluding Rosen- feld, representing the Socialist Worke’ Fi Vand nia e ck.