The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 1, 1932, Page 1

2,400 More Workers Back September 10th City Relief March «ter» VOTE COMMUNIST FOR 1. Unemployment and Social Insurance at the ex- pense of the state and employers. Against Hoover’s wage-cutting policy. 3. Emergency relief for the poor farmers without restrictions by the government and banks; ex- Central emption of poor farmers from taxes, and no forced collection of rent or debts. Vol. EX, No. 209 Dail %, (Section of the Communist International) Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., under the act of March 3, 1879. orker —ESRhunict Porty U.S.A. VOTE COM Against capitalist t suppression of the 3. Against imperialist the Chinese people Equal rights for the Negroes and ination for the Black Belt. MUNIST FOR self-determ- error; against all forms of political rights of workers war; for the defense of and of the Soviet Union NEW YORK, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1932 CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents FARM STRIKE) ¢¢ SPREADS TO NEW STATES 21 Workers’ Papers Heroic Pickets Battle Deputies Armed With Clubs, Gas, Guns 400 JOIN IN INDIANA Khaki Shirts Leave the Picket Line OMAHA, Neb., Aug. 31—The farm ‘strike for a price on produce which at least equals the cost of produc- ‘tion moved into two new states today, while the ferocity of attacks on the farm pickets in the original tri-state area increased. Fourteen farmers were shot by armed farm scabs near Des Moines, Four hundred Hamilton County }, Yarmers in Indiana met yesterday and agreed to feed their milk to hhogs before they would sell it at tha ruinous prices offered by the milk comparties. Cumberland and Salem County, N. J., potato growers met and agreed to hold back the potato harvest until ‘higher prices came, All Toads into Omaha, Council Blutts, Sioux City and Des Moines [Bre solidly picketed, except where “armed gangs of deputies crash ‘through and let a few trucks by. \ Shoot 14 Farmers | Wourteen farmers on the picket line Cherokee County, Iowa, were by shot guns fired from an i full of thugs of deputies - County authorities are shield- ‘the names and official status of 4 gunmen, One of the victims ‘may die. Sheriff Tilton of Cherokee County ‘has formally requested that the mili- tia be sent. Before the shots were fired, tear gas bombs were thrown from the car, which indicates rather that it had deputies in it. . Pickets Fight Deputies Sheriff Keeling in Des Moines took 30 deputies armed with guns and clubs and joined forces with a dozen club-swinging farm scabs on trucks loaded with milk, A terrific struggle wiht ‘the pickets took place before enough heads were cracked to’ let the trucks by. All others were stopped. Governor Bryan of Nebraska has called for clearing of all roads. The Omaha mayor has ordered police to attack all picketing farmers within three miles of the city. ’ The 1,400 rank and file members of the Co-operative Dairy Marketing Association of Des Moines ,whose officers sent a wrecking crew of club wielders yesterday to attack pickets, are meeting today in an effort to depose the officers. Thirteen pickets were arrested in Towa yesterday, and are held on $2,200 bonds. Khaki Shirts Flee The Khaki Shirt detachments who joined in the picket line a couple of days ago, and whose local command- er is Milo Reno, who speaks for the conservative leadership of the Farm- ers Holiday Association, nominally calling the strike, have left the Des Moines picket line and established themselves in a camp near by, ready to be deputized by the sheriff for strike-breaking purposes, ‘The rank and file recently forced the officials to let them go on the picket line, but their numbers sent there were hand-picked, and gave out a sttaement that they came to “preserve order” and “prevent vio- lence.” They became unpopular with the farm pickets, and have been shoved out. BLOCK BERKMAN DEPORTATION Intensify Effort toWin Her Release WORCESTER, Mass. Aug. 31.— Edith Berkman, through the mass tampaign conducted by the Interna- tional Labor Defense, was’saved from vweing shipped off to fascist Poland m Saturday, August 28, Due to the constant activity carried be by the International Labor De- this plan of the Department of it was frustrated, and Berkman 8 still at the sanatorium in Rutland. Her status ,however, is not changed. The immigration authorities are Nanning to send their doctor up gain for the purpose of finding her ible to be shipped off to Poland. The torkers must guard against this dan- er. They must intensify their pro- ‘st and demand from Doak that terkman be immediately released for poovery. (Signed) EDITORS OF: WE PLEDGE OUR SUPPORT” Appeal for Funds to Save the “Daily”; Post Office Refused to Mail National Edition We, editors of the foreign language Communist papers, are hereby pledging our wholehearted support to -the Daily Worker campaign for $40,000. We ap- peal not only to the native American workers but to workers of every na- . tionality in the United States to rush aid to save the Daily Worker. The Daily Worker is the leading revolutionary organ of the entire work- ing class, of all its sections and sub- divisions. The Daily Worker as the cen- tral organ of the Communist Party is the embodiment of the essential unity of the working class. The Daily Worker occupies the front lines of the class struggle of all the workers against their exploiters, no matter what their birth- place, nationality or race. The Daily Worker, therefore, is of particular im- portance especially for the foreign-born workers, The foreign-born workers are a sec- tion of the working class even more op- pressed and more exploited than the rest of the working class. The foreign-born workers are discriminated against both when they are employed and when the mis- erable boss relief is given them when they are unemployed. The foreign-born work- ers have been subjected to a reign of terror culminating in arrests and deportations which not only have ruined the lives of scores of thousands, but also have thrown numerous militant workers into the clutches of fascist governments in Europe. The struggle for equality of foreign born and native, Negro and white workers, is being led by the Communist Party, with the aid of the Daily Worker, which has become one of the most effective instru- ments for bringing about class unity and class action of all the workers. The Daily Worker is the only English language daily newspaper which | fights consistently against nationalism, against race preju- dices, against the oppression of other peo- ples, iThe existence of the Daily Worker is of the utmost importance for the working class. At the present moment, when the crisis is sharpening the class struggle, when the attacks of the capitalists on the working class are becoming more frantic than ever, when the capitalists are engag- ing the broadest possible aid of the mis- leaders, the officials of the A. F. of L., the Socialist Party and other “radical” agencies of betrayal, when it is a matter of life and death for the working class to broaden its fighting base, to tighten its lines, to sharpen its attack on the capi- talist class and its government in order to frustrate their attempts to shift on the shoulders of the workers all the bur- den of the crisis; at the present moment when the election campaign calls for the most, vigorous class action while war is being waged by the imperialists against the Chinese people and being prepared against the Soviet Union. It is of truly historical importance to continue the publication of the Daily Worker. It 18 a task which every worker to action. It is a task which must become the foremost con- cern of every working-class organiza- tion in every part of the country. must stimulate The papers under our mangement will carry the call of the Daily Worker to hundreds of thousands of foreign- born workers. At the same time we ap- peal to ALL the workers to realize all the vastness of the task ahead—that of keep- ing the Daily Worker alive. More than ever do we need at present our Daily, which is, in the words of Lenin, a mighty propagandist, a mighty agitator and the most powerful organizer. The Daily Worker must live! The Daily Worker will live! Comrades and fellow-workers! Mob- ilize every effort, every ingenuity, every ounce of your militancy to save the Daily Worker. ; We cannot fight without the Daily Worker. Long live the Daily Worker! Eteenpain, Finnish Daily, N. Y. Laisve, Lithuanian Daily, N. Y. Uj Elore, Hungarian Daily, Cleveland. Ukrainian Daily News, N. Y. Tyomies, Finnish Daily, Superior, Wisc, Vilnis, Lithuanian Daily, Chicago. Morning Freiheit, Jewish Daily, N. Y. Rovonst Lud, Slovak Daily, Chicago. Arbeiter, German Weekly, N. Y. Empros, Greek Weekly, N. Y. Radnik, Jugo Slovak Weekly, Chicago. Tribuna Robotnieza, Polish W’kly, Detroit. Panvir, Armenian Weekly, N.Y. Obrana, Checko-Slovak Weekly, N. Y. Saznanie, Bulgarian Weekly, Detroit. Us Ilm, Estonian Weekly, N. Y. Destepterea, Rumanian Weekly, Detroit. American vihna, Lettish Bi-Monthly, N.Y. Vanguard, Chinese Bi-Monthly, N. Y. Unita, Italian Monthly, N. Y. Novy Mir, Russian Weekly, N. Y. For the entire week-end—Friday, Saturday and Monday— the Daily Worker received the sum of .only$274.61 in donations. On Tuesday, only $152.78 came in. Yesterday, following the publication of the appeal of the Central Committee of the Communist Party on page one of the Daily Worker, the units throughout New York Ciy responded by donating the sum of $418.27 bringing Wednesday’s total receipts, until the noon mail, to $578.82. This brings the total amount received in the drive to date to $7,647.50. This is pitifully small compared to the $40,000 which is absolutely essential to the continued life of the paper! Comrades! This must be a real beginning of the campaign to save the Daily Worker. Spare no effort today or tomorrow! With or without a collection list, visit your neighbors, your fellow our paper! workers in shops, your comrades in mass organizations, and get them to contribute ALL THAT YOU CAN. Yesterday the Post Office refused to mail the National Edi- tion of the Daily Worker because they were not paid the $75 necessary for this service. Comrades—the next few days will be decisive in the life of WIRE, MAIL FUNDS WITHOUT DELAY TO THE DAILY , WORKER, 50 EAST 13th STREET, NEW YORK CITY. ing on Union Square yesterday, This was one of a series of mass be addressed by Pace, who is now servicemen for a renewed strugg] for the bonus, Pace, since he was released from jait in Washington where he was held for leading a picket demonstra- tion to the White House, has ad- dressed a large number of meetings in the vicinity of New York City. Over 1500 veterans and workers stood in the rain last Saturda: Columbus Circle where Pace related the story of the bonus march to Washington and outlined the plans for the National Conference of the Workers Ex-Servicemen’s League to be held in Cleveland Sept., 23-24-25, |The vet leader was given a tremen- dous ovation when he spoke with Mooney at the Internation! Labor Defense Picnic. On Monday Pace spoke to 800 vet- erans and workers at Military Park in Newark. A police officer tried to break up the meeting by shouting at the speaker. But he was howled down by ths ..:s and forced to leave the meeting. All posts of- the W. E. 8. L, an- th elt mobilizations of veterans which will touring the country to rally all ex- £¢6—$ $$ $< nounced today that in connection with the drive for the National Con- ference the campaign to force the veterans relief bureau to give re- lief to the veterans will be intensi- fied throughout the city, Veterans reported to the Daily Worker today that they had been ”lrefused all forms of relief by the bureau. One veteran, Frank Gorskie, who served overseas during the war in the 19th Engineers, reported that he was denied relief because he was not a member of the American Legion. Since Friday he was chased from office to office by Veterans Bu- reau heads and Legion officials but was given no aid. The needs for members of the Legion, Veterans of Foreign Wars, etc., to unite with the other vets to fight for relief and the bonus becomes obvious. The W. E. S. L. will mobilize the veterans to demand that immediate city and state relief be given regard- less of their organizational or polit- : ee Mw All Vets Must Unite in |POSTPONE 5 STAR Bonus Fight, Says Pace Vets from All Organizations Must Form United Front to Force Payment NEW YORK, Aug., 31.—Over a thousand veterans and workers heard John Pace, leader of the Workers Ex-Servicemen’s Leagua, at a mass meet- INJUNCTION TRIAL Shoe Workers Will Be In Bread Parade JAMAICA, N. Y—The hearing of the injunction of 5 star boss against the workers of the shop, who/are on strike for the past seven weeks, was postponed yesterday until Tuesday, Sept. 6th, The attorney for the boss insisted that he wanted another judge to try the case. (the same who last week demonstrated by his statements spe- cial hatred towards the workers.) At the same time the boss is trying to frame the strikers on charges of assault, The organization of Unemployed Shoe Workers for immediate Relief and Insurance is being developed. The Unemployment Committee, which was elected at a meeting of unemployed and employed Workers, is going ahead in preparing the shoe workers for the Bread Parade before City Hall on September 10th. A meeting of Unemployed Shoe Workers wil be held on Tuesday, 1 pm. All unemployed Shoe and Slipper Workers are invited. Foster's “Toward Soviet America” is given free with a yearly subscription to the Daily Worker ae ~ Move to Bar Jobless From Voting in Maine Republican Party Controlled Boards Order Names On Relief List Taken Off Register LEWISTON, Me., Aug. 31—A move by the Republican Party controlled board of registration to invoke an old law dead for a hundred years, to bar from the polls in this election every man who has received unem- ployement relief however small is rousing intense indignation, ‘The danger for the workers is real and immediate. Over 200 signatures to put the Communist candidate on@- the ballot in this state came from workers and jobless workers in Lewis- ton. If one of these has so much as received a bowl of soup from the stingy public relief handed out here, he may, under this ruling, be pre- vented from voting, and furthermore, the authorities may be able to throw enough off the lists to prevent the placing of the Communists on the ballot at all. There are 1,000 unemployed in Lewiston whose right to vote is now being attacked. The Board of Regis- tration has ordered the Lewiston city Poor Department to furnish it with a list of the names of all those who received relief during the last 90 days. Nation-Wide Policy ‘The corporation counsel of Lewis- ton in a public telegram to President Hoover States that he has informa- tion from Republican Party sources here and in New York that this at- tack on the right to vote in Lewiston is only the first step in a nation-wide campaign by the same paign committee to bar all jobless from voting wherever possible, in any state. ‘ Hoover knows that these victims of Hoover prosperity will not vote for him. The Communist Party in Maine has sounded the alarm to all workers. Wire protests to the Lewiston city administration, and to Mrs. E. F. Wellman, chairman of the Board of Registration. Protest and demon- strate for the right to get to vote strate for the right to get relief and to vote for the workers’ candidates who fight for unemployment insnr- ance at the expense of the employers and the state. SUPPORT BONUS FIGHT WILKES BARRE, Pa, Aug. 31.— The Lithuanian Workers Literary Society at a recent meeting held here ini the Potliune Hall, 53 Bank St, unanimously voted for a resolu- tion to support the war veterans in thelr struggle for the bonus, aa co Se DETROIT AND CHICAGO _ WORKERS RALLY TO AID | Mass Meeting Sept. 7 Unite Strike to SPRINGFIELD. Ill. Aug., 31. —While miners of Ilinais, In-| | diana and Kentueky look to the | tri-state conference tomorrow in Gillespie to unite the strug-| gle against wage cuts in all three states, they call on the} workers everywhere for relief. | In the midst of their bitter) struggle for the right to live, | for the right to strike against the i8 per cent wage cut and to picket, | they are much encouraged by news | that the workers of the big cities are | rallying to their support, Particu- larly it is necessary for the workers | of Chicago, Cleveland, and Detroit, | near by cities to aid this heroic fight of the miners. Hold city conferences in all cities, elect united front committees, col- | lect by tag days and house to house canvasses, and in mass mee‘ings called to protest. the terror in Tiinois. Work through local office ‘of the Workers International Relicf! oa ow | Chicago In Action. CHICAGO, Ill, Aug. 31,—Ener- getic preparations are going ahead here to mobilize the city workers for mass welief support of the ‘striking| |miners of Southern Illinois, under the leadership of the Workers’ In- ternational Relief and its United Front Miners’ Relief Committee- Closely following up the emergency conference for the relief support of the Illinois miners, organizers of the Workers’ Internationa] Relief are now busy in and around Chicago or- ganizing relief committees for collec- tions and distribution of relief among the miners. Everything should be j Sent to the W. I. R. at 2457 West Chicago Ave. A csntral relief committee of sev- enteen members is now working, in full charge of the relief campaign. Among the important actions planned to mobilize the Chicago workers for the support. of the strik- ing miners are a series of tag days tentatively set for September 3 and | 4 ,or September 10 and 11. A huge protest meeting against) terror in Illinois is to be held here September 7 at the Peoples Audito- rium, at which striking Illinois min- ers will speak- A truckload of food for the miners has already been dispatched by the | central relief committee of the Work- | ers’ International Relief. ea Detroit Organizes for Miners. DETROIT, Mich., Aug. 31—Though | not so well attended as expected, the | Striking Miners’ Relief Conference, j held here on Aug. 17, prepared to to organize Miners’ Relief Committees in workers’ organizations throughout the city. The first fruit of the work of the conference was shown when a truckload of food and clothing was announced to leave here Sept. 1 for the Illinois strike area. Special effort is being made by the conference and the Workers’ Inter- national Relief to make the tag days to be held Sept. 10 and 11 a success. Sectional conferences will be held to mobilize the workers of all sections for these tag days. .o* Fight Wage Cut. Illinois miners are fighting an 18 per cent cut which they twice voted down, but which their United Mine Worker officials agreed to behind their backs. They have marched in numbers up to 25,000 to close down mines, and they have been clubbed and shot up- Two of their number have been murdered. They are fight- ing all the harder, preparing new picket demonstrations. ‘The Indiana miners have picketed with rifles when attacked by armed mine guards, and in a two days’ bat- tle recently at the Dixie Bee Mine, fought and defeated the company gunmen, until militia came to the aid of the thugs. They fight against a wage-cut from $6.10 a day to $4 a day, which the U.M.W.A. officials agreed to, but which the scale com- mittee does not dare to approve. Treasury Holding Up Construction Funds WASHINGTON, D. C., August 31. —Delay by the Treasury is holding up $322,000,000 which the Reconstruction Finance Corporation had promised to lend the various states for the const- ruction of “self-liquidating” projects. The “self-liquidating” projects are those which must guarantee a profit ILLINOIS MINE STRIKE in Chicago; Tag Days Help in Diggers’ Fight on Wage Cut Tri-State Conference in Gillespie Today to Win the Demands About the Eclipse On Wednesday, at York time) a total eclipse took place, Many millions of une: ployed and part-tin watched the moon's shad over the face of the sun e the beauty of the event, and scientific lessons of the event w were studied by 51 astronom peditions, there are social le be drawn by the work from the ich The prediction of sents a great Scientists by me: measurements accurately fo: time when the moon wi make “contact” with t error in the frediction faults in the scientific ir and measurements. The accuracy of eclipse predictions illustrates the nature and function of science. Scientists describe and pre- dict natural happenings, and th leads to the control and exploitation of nature by man. ruments Science Conquers Supers‘ The explanation of na‘ social phenomena, by sci away with the necessi Priests and religion once attemr to present a picture.of the universe to man. Their inaccurate and fa tastic accounts have been made use- Jess by the advance of science. “Religion is one of the forms of spiritual oppression which where weigh upon the m are crushed by continuous r others, by poverty and deprivation The helplessness of all the exploited in their struggle against the exploit- ers inevitably generates a belief in a better life after death, even as the helplessness of the savage in his struggle with nature gives rise to a belief in gods, devils, miracles, etc.”— Lenin on Religion. Religion is still fostered and tained by the capitalist clas: means of keeping the trut science from the workers and keeping them enslaved. Capitalism Steps Back. This attitude of the capitalist toward feligion is indicative of decay of the bourgeoisie. When were a young and rising s they employed science as an ment against the church and the fe nobility. Bourgeois thinkers demon- strated that the sun and not god was the center of the solar system After the bourgeoisie came into power, however, they no longer used science in a seafch for knowledge and truth. Profits were made the basis of scientific value and more profits and war the goal of scientific research. Science has made tremen- daus development, but the nature of capitalism is glaringly revealed by the fact that this advance has only resulted in making labor a greater curse and added untold misery and poverty for the masses. The advance of science has now become an obstacle to the rule and profits of the bourgeois class. The capitalists have started a great cam- paign against science and the ma~ chine. And even when it does em- ploy a new scientific method, capi- talism does so only at the expense of the workers in the way of speed- ups and unemployment. Marxian Science Frees Workers. ‘The revolutionary working class, on the other hand, does not, however, attack science or “the machine, It fights the capitalist exploitation of science and machinery. In the So- viet Union the workers are using science to build socialism. In conclusion the lessons of eclipse for the workers are: 1. That science, as used by workers (Marxian science), and religion, furnishes an adequate planation of nature and society. 2. That under capitalism science {s used to exploit the working class and to increase the horrors of imperialist war, 3. That under socialism sclencé ts free from its capitalist chains, is it- self given unlimited opportunities for advance and, in the hands of a free working class, is one of the principle means for building socialism. By taking over the industries, the means of production, through the overthrow of capitalism and the for- mation of a Workers’ and Farmers’ government, the powerful American the the not ex~ it to the states which contract them, the profit, of course, coming from | proletariat, under the leadership of the Communist Party, will use seience to destroy all slavery and build up a new and free society, fe eypeitlieenahon ree A