The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 31, 1932, Page 1

\ " VOTE COMMUNIST FOR 1. Unemployment and Social Insurance at the ex- pense of the state and employers. 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. Dail Central Orga Co 4 isereee of the Communist International) orker unist Party U.S.A. suppression of the VOTE COMMUNIST FOR Equal rights for the Negroes and self-determ« ination for the Black Belt, Against capitalist terror; against all forms of political rights of worker Against imperialist war; for the defense of the Chinese people and of the Soviet Union Vol. IX, No. 208 Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N, ¥., under the act of: March 3, 1879. NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, ‘AUGUST 31, 1932 . vamp ~CITY EDITION Price 3 Cent; UNITE MINE STRIKERS OF 3 STATES Meeting at Gillespie Tomorrow from IIl., Indiana, Kentucky AGAINST WAGE Must Build District Strike Committee GILLESPIE, Ul., ‘Aug. 30.—An _ in- terstate conference of miners from Illinois, Indiana and Kentucky will be held here Thursday. It is called to prepare a policy of united struggle against the wage-cut of $1.10 in Illi- nois, the $2.10 wage-cut in Indiana and wage-cuts in Kentucky. The conference is also to prepare ® unified struggle in the three states against the leadership of Interna- tional President Lewis of the United Mine Workers and his district offi- cials in Indiana, Ilinois and Ken- tucky. All these U.M.W.A. officials have agreed to the wage-cuts. In Indiana the rank and file oppo- sition to the cut is so firm that the U. M. W. A. scale committee has not dared to approve it. In Illinois, two referendums three weeks apart were taken and the Wage-cut voted down both times. But District President Walker's gang, using the car of the vide-president of the district tor that purpose, stole the tally sheets, then Lewis and Walker declared the referendum void and signed the wage-cut contract with the operators, The strike sterted next day. ~ District Strike Committee,” The rank and file opposition will raise at the Gillespie conference the question of electing a district strike committee, which alone* will have: puthority to negotiate agreements with the operators, and which, with CUTS the| strike committees elected in each) | local by the miners tl Se tatiana subi ree TEXTILE STRIKE senting thé local “Son lead mass picketing an¢ mass march- ing to close down the mines. Elect Committee In Franklin. At Buckner mine, in Franklin County, in the heart of the terror zone, the miners have elected a strike What Are You Doing? Did you read the appeal of the Central Committee in yesterday’s Daily Worker point- ing out the grave situation of the paper and appealing for financial aid? What have you done to save the Daily Worker? Have you contributed? Have you approached the workers who live in your neighborhood? Have you spoken to your shopmates at the noon lunch hour? Have you taken a collection list around your block? Have you sent in all the money you have already collected? Are you holding any money that might save the Daily Worker? Have you arranged a house party for the Daily Worker? Has there been a Save the Daily Worker committee elected in your organization? What has it done? Has every member of your organization been approached to donate money for the Daily Worker? Is your organization arranging an affair to help the Daily Worker? Has your organization donated money from its treasury to aid the Daily Worker? Are you visiting other organizations in your neighborhoods for support for the Daily ‘Worker? Has your organization challenged other organizations to equal you in raising funds for the Daily Worker? URGE KING BREAK Lancashire Struggle Is Spreading MANCHESTER, England, Aug. 30. committee of ten. A march from lo-;—The National government has made cals around Zeigler, Franklin County, organized a march on the Bell and Zoller mines at Zeigler, and this march was attacked by gunmen deputized by Sheriff Browning Rob- inson. The attack was made by the same crowd which just before had ambushed and shot up the unarmed march of 25,000 pickets on Franklin County. Terror is increasing, with carloads of professional gun thugs from, West Virginia and Kentucky coming/in to enlist in the sheriff's forces. Boys 15 years old are also being deputized. Many of the deputies are constantly drunk, and make attacks on the pickets while in that condition. Protest Terror. A truckload of relief collected by the Workers’ International Relief, Chicago District, is on the way to the strikers. A mass meeting with miners from the strike area as speakers has been arranged to meet in Chicago, Sept. at People’s Auditorium, 15th St. and ‘Wabash Ave., to rally support for the strikers and rouse the workers against the armed terror in Illinois coal fields, especially against the brutal attacks by deputies first, and then by state police, on the march- ing miners in Franklin and Perry Counties. UNION HITS FIVE STAR INJUNCTON Masses of Workers Ex- pected in Court JAMAICA, N. Y.—The hearing for an injunction against the Five Star shoe strikers who have now been striking for over seven weeks will be held today in the Queens County Court in Jamaica, The strike committee of the Five Star !n a statement issued today de- nounced the injunction move of the bosses as an attempt to halt thru court acticn all attempts of workers to strike against starvation condi- (i in the shops and factories, Leaders of the Shoe and Leather Workers Union urged all workers to rally with the Five Star workers to break the injunction terror. It is ex- pected that a large number of workers will be in the court this morning to protest against this latest attempt to break their strike, The union announced yesterday, that a mass meeting of all members will be held Thursday, Sept. 8, at Irving Plaza Hall, 15th St. and Irving Place to elect new officers, At a mass meeting of unemployed shoe workers held Mondev in the office of the union, 96 Fifth Ave., x. Shoe Workers Unemployed Coun- oil was formed. The council will 1,| poses as “liberal”, a new move toward intervention and strike breaking in the walkout of 250,000 cotton mill weavers in Lan- cashire. A hanger-on of MacDonald, the former Laborite, Joseph Compton, and member of Parliament, wired King George: “All classes of Lancashire people look to the ministers to attempt a settlement of this ruinous upheaval.” He calls the strike against the 13 per cent wage cut a “ruinous up- heaval.” Prime Minister MacDonald and J. H. Thomas, Dominions Secretary, arrived at Balmoral as guests of the King and it is generally admitted that they will discuss the govern- ment’s “intervention in the strike” for the purpose of breaking it. Thomas and MacDonald are ex- perienced _strike-breakers, having doome@ the general strike of 1926, “Liberal” Strikebreaking The Manchester Guardian, which entitles its story on the strike: “But to What End?” and says: “The demonstration of union strength is of no use unless it leads somewhere. There is no sign that the employers are disposed to surrender to force. There seems nothing to look forward to except an indefinite continuance of the stoppage until some one makes.a move to settle it.” Admit Mass Character. Even capitalist newspapers, which tried at first to represent the gigan- tic strike of the cotton mill workers in Lancashire as “half hearted”, now (age that there are about 200,000 out. Only weavers are striking now. | When the spinners, who are in a separate union, finally break through the treachery of their officials, there will be about 400,000 striking. Picketing is going on. A struggle took place today at Barnoldwick, where police charged the picket line of 2,000. The police waved clubs and the strikers fought back. Heavy po- lice reinforcements finally set up a patrol of the streets but picketing continued. Have you raised the question of support for the Daily Worker in your revolutionary trade union local? Did you approach other members of the A. F. L. local of which you may be a member? Is there a functioning emergency cam- paign committee in your Communist Party dis- trict? Is your district making loans to save the Daily Worker to be repaid with the first money that comes in in'the Daily Campaign? Has your district called an emergency conference of the fraternal organizations? Has your district sent reports on the cam- paign to the Daily Worker? Have you called mass meetings of Daily Work- er readers and sympathizers to plan methods of saving the Daily Worker? Has the district secretariat in your dis- trict given guidance and directives to all sec- tions to save the Daily Worker? Is your district issuing a regular bulletin on the progress of the campaign? Have you one section Daily Worker di- rector to take care of the campaign? Has your unit pledged itself to send im- mediately $1 per member? Are all your members taking Daily Work- r lists while working in the election cam- $s ign? Is there to be a collection for the Daily Worker at your next unit meeting and will the money be wired directly to the Daily Worker? What are you doing? Mass Action by 1,000 Farm Strikers Frees Another Jailed Picket 50 Woodbury County Deputies Attack Farmers With Clubs; 11 Deputies Put In Hospital Fake Co-op Sends Out “Wrecking Crew” to Break Strike; Results In Sharp Battle _ DES MOINES, Ia., Aug. 30.—A thousand striking farmers marched on the court house of Cherokee County yesterday and demanded the authorities release I. A. J. Birch, a farm picket, and dismiss charges of blocking the highways, which had been placed against him. The county officials yielded. This¢— is the third time in Iowa since the farm strike started thut mo’ ation of farmers forced release of arrested pickets. The other cases were in Council Bluffs, where 1,000 farmers forced release of 55 pickets, and in Sioux City, where workers helped the farmers, and 88 pickets were turned out of jail. The picket lines were drawn still tighter around Omaha, Council Bluffs, Sioux City and Des Moines yesterday. A truckload of grain was dumped by pickets at the entrance to Des Moines, Cripple 11 Deputies. Fifty deputies attacked a picket line of 300 farmers on one of the roads through Woodbury County to Sioux City last night in an attempt to rush through six truckloads of hogs. Many farmers were clubbed, but they put up such a fight that 11 deputies had to be sent to the hospital. Packers, the milk companies and business men in the cities are calling for sharper terror against the strik- ers. The Sioux City business men called on the governor to send troops. Governor Bryan of Nebraska de- clares he will keep the roads open to Sioux City and Omaha. Fake Co-Op. Strikebreaking ‘The Des Moines Co-Operative Dairy Association, one of the numerous co- operative movements which have fallen into the hands of the rich landowners and small business men and bankers, not only refuses to join the strike, but has hired a gang of 50 which it calls “the wrecking crew,” WHITEWASH FLEENOR Murderer of Miners Freed in Harlan HARLAN, Ky., Aug. Sheriff Lee Fleenor was acquitted of the murder of Baldwin and Joe Moore, striking miners, by a hand- picked operators’ jury here yester- day, Fieenor pleaded self-defense. The Workers’ International Relief, in an appeal today, calls on all work- ers to express their class anger against this whitewashing of an op- erators’ hired assassin by rallying to the support of the miners now on strike, in Illinois, Indiana, and East »pen a mass fight ofthe jobless shoe | Ohio, The Kentucky miners are now vorkers for relief perenne ; and 7 i |} sending a delegation to Gillespie to oe See na gp lpi 30.—Deputy | strike. Deliberate Assassination. Baldwin is survived by a widow and three children, He and Joe Moore were shot without warning by Flee- nor. Now Bell County Officer. Fleenor has not been in jail, he has been out clubbing and shooting up mine strikers and National Miners’ Union members ever since the mur- der of Baldwin and Moore. He has just moved to Bell County, where Sheriff Broughton, who likes to pose as a “friend of the Sony has made has armed them and ,sent them out to break up picket lines around Des Moines. Co-operating with Sheriff Keeling, they engaged in a fierce battle with clubs agains ta picket line on High- way 63, near Four Mile Creek Bridge. The “wrecking crew” was consider- ably wrecked, itself. Railroad Brotherhoods. Twe heads of two Railroad Brother- hoods have sent messages of sym- pathy to the farm strikers. The strikers should ask these two: A. F. Whitney, president of the Trainmen, and D. B, Robertson, president of the Engineers, why, if they are in favor of the strike, they let the trains carry scab farm produce through the picket lines. LEWIS DECLARES ANSBURY PUT OUT Miners* Oppose Edict, But Criticize Leader SPRINGFIELD, Ill., Aug. 30.—The rank and file opposition in Illinois calls on all miners to protect the re- moval from the office of president of Local Union 4173, New Orient Local, the largest in the United Mine Work- ers, of Pat Ansbury, Ansbury {s one of the leaders of the march on Franklin County. His removal was by Edmunson, Interna- tional President Lewis’ henchman in Southern Illinois, and by Lewis him- self. A notice of his removal appears in the last issue of the United Mine Workers’ Journal, which gives as the reason that Ansbury “took a part in Tilinois and Indiana in meetings -op- posing International President John L. Lewis and fought the new wage scale proposals, While the rank and file opposition points out to the miners of Illinois Ansbury’s failure to fight continu- ously for the policy of strike leader- ship through rank and file commit- tees elected in each local, and that he has flirted with the Musteite idea of a new referendum on the wage-cut which District President Walker and Lewis would again miscount, still Ansbury has fought the new wage- cut. He was elected to the office of eel president by the miners of that local. His removal is a coarse ylola- tion of-trade unlom democrsey. CHINA RED ARMIES ARE IN BIG’ DRIVE’ Boycott ‘Agairist the Japanese Grows Threatening a new blood bath against the anti-imperialist masses of Shanghai, Japan is pouring plain clothes men and gunmen into the South China city. Japanese marines are being used in daily provocative incursions into the Chapei proleta- rian district in which over 10,000 Chinese civilians were slaughtered during the Japanese bombardment of the unfortified district last Spring. The workers, defying the Japanese threats are rapidly tightening up on the anti-Japanese boycott The strike movement which has taken on large proportions in the past few months is spreading again, with the strike of the drivers and conductors of the Shanghai motor- bus company. The company is main- taining a skeleton service with white guardist scabs. The strikers have pre- sented an ultimatum demanding the immediate dismissal of these scabs and threatening “draconic measures” against them and their buses unless the demand is complied with. A few days ago, a number of the white guardist scabs were caught by the strikers and roughly punished. Celebrate Red Victories. Working class celebrations over the smashing victories of the Chinese Red Armies continue in both the Chinese city and foreign concessions. ‘The Shanghai papers have been forced to report thecomplete col- lapse of the Fifth “Communist Sup- pression” campaign against the Chi- nese Soviet districts, with smashing victories by the Chinese Red Army on all fronts. The First Kwangtung Army Corps (three divisions) has been almost completely annihilated. Eight district towns have been taken by the Red Army operating in Kwangtung Province against the Canton clique of the Kuomintang. The Red Army is now attacking Shaochow, terminus of the Southern line of the Canton-Hankow railway. Red Army Now Has Planes. The Third Red Army has defeated the Szechuan Army on the Yangtze River and is proceeding to attack the treaty port of Shasi. The 16th Red Army {s about to undertake an attack on the Wu- chang-Changcha railway in South Hupeh. The 10th Red Army has pen- etrated into North Fukien and West. Chekiang. The Shanghai papers further re- port that the Red Armies have over- come their sh in the air. It is reported that both fighting and observation planes of the Red Army have been seen at the centers of the struggle. The “Sin Wan Pao” states that three Red bombing planes were operating within the range of the Second Red Army in the districts of Liuyang and Wantsai, This same paper reports that a squad of Red COMMUNIST OPENS REICHSTAG; CALLS FOR OUSTER OF HINDENBURG, CABINET; URGES ANTI-FASCIST UNITED FRONT Clara Zetkin, veteran Communist leader, occupies presidential chair by virtue of her seniority, despite fascist threats. FOSTER TO SPEAK IN HOTTEST PART OF MINE STRIKE (Clara: Zetkin Declares | ministers as she convened th | Reichstag this afternoon. “Political power,” she said, | “has been seized by a cabinet | formed by elimination of the Reichstag. This cabinet is the cab- inet of big industrialists and land- owners. It is moved by generals.” United Front, Need of the Hour After pointing out that, despite its all powerful character, this cab- inet has failed miserably to solve the jeconomic crisis, Clara Zetkin said that to “take impeachment to the Supreme Court is like indicting the devil by his grandmother. To over- throw the cabinet by parliamentary methods can only be the signal for mobilizing the toilers outside par- Will Urge e Election Of | Hament.” ane and File Committees CHICAGO, Ill, Aug. 30.—William Z. Foster, Communist candidate for president of the United States, is scheduled to speak September 1, 7 p.m, the day of the Gillespie tri- state “conference of striking miners. Foster’s September 1 speech is slated for Liberty Hall, Zeigler, Ill, in Franklin County, right in the heart of . the. terror, created by Sheriff eocaee *5 son and his thousand jess -anen.. and « dal company gun men. At Zeigler, Robinson's thugs shot up a picket line last week and killed one striking miner and wounded two others, then attacked and shot and clubbed five other strikers right in the streets of the town. In Mining Area- Foster is scheduled to speak in Gillespie, headquarters of the strik- ers, two days after the tri-state con- ference meets there. He will speak at City Park, September 3, in Gillespie. He will speak at Reservoir Park, Sep- tember 4, in Springfield, Ill, the state} capital and center of one of the Illi- nois coal fields. The Communist candidate will} pledge the full support of the Com- munist Party to the strikers of Illi- nois. He will urge adoption of the plan of strike leadership through the elected strike committees, local, sub- district anq district, which the Rank and File Opposition proposes to the Illinois miners. Rallies Support. As general secretary of the Trade Union Unity League, Foster will take up with the miners practical methods of rallying the militant workers of| the whole country behind their fight Foster will speak in Rock Island, Ill, September 6; in, Des Moines, Ia., September 7; In Kenosha, Wis., Sep- tember 8, and in Chicago, Ill, at the Coliseum, 15th and Wabash Ave., at 7:30 p.m., September 10. Mobilize In Chicago. All workers’ organizations are ac- tive and tens of thousands of leaf- lets are being distributed to rally the Chicego workers to the Coliseum meeting. Foster will at this meeting also an- swer the demagogic arguments made here Saturday in meetings addressed by, Norman Thomas, Socialist Party candidate for president. Thomas was challenged to debate Foster but re~ ‘used. Worker Killed for Trying to Get Coal LORAIN, Ohio, Aug. 30.—Four bullets from the gun of a Baltimore and Ohio Railroad diek ended the life of Anthony Seraphinos, 41. The crime he, a jobless worker with 7 children, had committed was to try to take a few pieces of coal from the company, Predicts Workers, Peasants’ Gov't “The need of the hour,” Zetkin continued, “is a united front of all toilers to throw back fascism and re- turn to the workers the power of their organizations.” Clara Zetkin, pointed out that the Reichstag is now meeting in a situ- ation of extreme crisis and collaps- ing capitalism, and that “The millions of the workers and peasants are en- during extreme privation while the small business men are experiencing @ rapid process of becoming prole- tarians.” Tells of War She told of the threatening world war which flames up in the Far East, but is fanned from the capitalist nations of the West. “They make this war in order to swallow up the Socialist construction now going on in the Soviet Union,” she stated, and went on to show how the war would involve Germany and how its hor- rors would place the last world war in the shade. Zetkin accused Capitalism of plung- ing whole peoples into the present terrible crisis. “The impotence of the Reichstag and the ‘all-powerful’ presidential cabinet,” said Zekin, “reflects the collapse of bourgeois liberalism, and accompanies the collapse of the capi- talist productive system. The So- cial Democracy based on the bour- geois order of society is also collaps- ing.” She attacked the Socialist leaders for their treachery to the workers, and appealed to the workers to fight the capitalist crisis by fight- ing for a Socialist solution. The veteran Communist compared the hopeless situation of industry in capitalist Germany with the rapid socialist progress of the Soviet Union. In ending her 45 minutes speech, Zetkin declared: “I open the Reichs- tag in fulfillment of my duty as se- nior president. I hope to live to see the happy day when as senior pre- sident I can open the first workers and peasants’ Congress of Soviet Germany.” When the speech was over, crowds in the galleries burst into unrestrain- ed applause which was not only an endorsement of the political impli- cations of the speech but a tribute to the physical courage of the old re- volutionist. Gets Red Front Salute The Nazi (National Socialists) who had threatened to forcibly prevent Clara Zetkin from opening the Reich- stag, did not dare to carry out their threats. As Zetkin entered the rostrum, vis- ibly not yet recovered from her re- cent illness, the Communist deputies in the Reichstak arose and shouted the Red Front Salute. Fascist Elected Permanent President Hitler's national socialists, who in @ preliminary caucus had taken the oath implying the pledge not to take orders from anybody but the Nazi chief, hastened to elect Wilhelm Goering as permanent president of THOMAS SHUNS DEBATE Foster Will Answer at Coliseum Meet CHICAGO, Ul., Aug., 30.—A dis- tribution of 25,000 leaflets, in which scores of workers organizations took park, challenged Norman Thomas, presidential candidate of the Socialist Party, to debate William Z, Foster, candidate for president on the Com- munist Party ticket. The leaflet dared the Rey. Thomas to explain to the workers his ¢om- pliments paid Secretary of War Pat Hurely, for “demonstrating social- planes was frequently to be seen in North Kwangtung. The bourgeois La heig admits that the planes have 3] Belt, and why jt makes no fight for Negro-equallty, wy, the Soclalist of« ism” in the last world slaughter, to explain why the Socialist Party op- poses self-determination in the Black ficials in Milwaukee propose forced labor instead of relief for the jobless, why they club unemployed demon- strations and jail their leaders. ‘Thomas spoke on the South Side at Eagle's Hall, and on the North Side, with workers asking these questions —and very little in the way of an- ‘swer from the Socialist candidate. Thomas also spoke to the millionairs in Noak Park, without any embarras- sing questions from that audience. Thomas has refused to debate with Foster, but he will be answered by Foster at a huge mass 7:30 aad Sept. 10, at the End Misery of Workers and Farmers Goering, Fascist Chieftain, Is Picked As Permanent President “Only Revolution Can 99 BERLIN, Aug. 30.—“Only the proletarian revolution can | put an end to the misery and starvation of the toilers,” Clara | Zetkin, veteran Communist leader, declared today in demand- |ing the impeachment of President Hindenburg and: all Cabinet the Reichstag. Goering Hitler's lieutenant and participated with him in the Beer Cellar Putch of 1923 The nominee of the Social De- mocrats was Paul Loebe, and of the Communists, Ernst Torgler. ANTI-WAR MEET ENDS WITH MASS DEMONSTRATION Delegates Pledge to Rally All Against Imperialist Plots (Inprecorr Cable) AMSTERDAM, Holland, Aug. 30—- A mass meeting of 15,000 workers took the place of an evening session of the World Anti-War Congress yes- terday. At the final session, todi over 30 speakers, including Hen: Barbusse, Marcel Cachin, French Communist; Patel of the Indian Na- tional Congresss, and Sen Katayama, the old Japanese workers’ leader and Communist, spoke. Ruessbuelt exposed the and> colossal profits -of the international war industry. General von Schoenaich described as a military expert the horrors of the coming imperialist war. Smeral, of Czechcoslovakia, ex-\ Posed the sabotage of the Socialist \ leaders and appealed for a united front of Socialist and Communist workers against war. A sensation was caused when a uniformed Italian sailor addressed the Congress. The credentials report now shows over 22,000 delegates present, from 29 countries. Barbusse read the Congress mani- festo against imperialist war, which the delegates have signed an agree- ment to carry through their own countries and bring to the attention of the workers there. The Congress elected a sieges seers anti-war commission to maintain the campaign nationally and inte: tionally. The closing speech was made by Barbusse, amidst great enthusiasm, NEW UNION WINS METAL STRIKE New York Merchandise Co. Boss Surrenders is NEW YORK—The strike of Metal workers in one of the departments of the New York Merchandise Co., which began Monday afernoon, was ended yesterday evening at 5 p.m. when the boss gave in to the demands put forward by the workers. The demands were wage increases for all the workers in that depart- ment, and no discrimination against any workers for organization or strike activity. The strike was led by the Steel and Metal Workers Industrial Union. At the meeting yesterday eve- ning at which the workers ratified the* settlement between the Strike Committee and the boss the erstwhile strikers pledged to continue their ef- forts to establish a solid organization in the shop and to join the Union in a body, as their best protection against any future attacks on their working conditions. The workers feel that the success of their strike was due the policies of the Steel and Metal Workers Indust- rial Union which calls for militant mass picketing during strikes, Throughout the day the workers maintained spirited picketlines, es- pecially at noon, when the strikers turned out and were greeted with pledes of workers in some of other departments that they were getting ready to join them. ‘The boss was especially angered when he saw how many of the work- ers who were not on strike greeted, fraternized with, and encouraged the strikers. Apparently he realized he had to settle this strike less it spread through the whole shop, MUSSOLINI USES HIS TROOPS ON MUTINEERS NAPLES, Aug. 30. — In solidarity with British imperialism, fascist troops were ordered to smash a mute iny of 26 Chinese sailors aboard the at | English oil tanker Haliotis,