The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 2, 1932, Page 1

VOTE COMMUNIST FOR VOTE COMMUNIST FOR 28 Unemploymeng and Social Insurance at the ex- 4. Equal rights for the Negroes and self-determ- pense of the state and employers. ination for the Black Belt. ‘Against Hoover’s wage-cutting policy. Z ent e ; ; 5. Against capitalist terror; against all f Emergency relief for the poor farmers without suppression of the political rights of restrictions by the government and banks; ex- emption of poor farmers from taxes, and no 3. Against imperialist war; for the defense of forced collection of rent or debts. the Chinese people and of the Soviet Unio * Mol, BX,.No, 210 (Section of the Communist International) Price 3 Cents Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., ander the act of March 3, 1879. NEW YORK, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1932 CITY EDITION 9 PACE OPENS BONUS TOUR I pressMass Met Rally In Baltimore | Walt Rally Weterans| For'€onference | WASHINGTON, "D.;C:, Sept, 1 | Speaking before a mass meeting; of | World War veterans at*the “Pythian | Temple only a.few blocks from the scenes of Hoover’s Bloody Thursday, John Pace, outstanding leader of the rank and*file bonus marchers,‘ will open the cam- paign) tonight' to rally ‘masses of veterans to the National Work ~ ers Ex~service = men's League Conference which will be held in Cleve~ Jang) September 23, slong. wit h paice wil be Herbert Benja ~ n leader of @reat hun- get, march to t last i er, Ben » pdamin will-speak ‘om the national i of the we 1 oyed PACE {guncils for unemployment insur- ‘ence and>relief for the jobless, | ‘This ‘will“be the first of a series | iimeetings which will be addressed by’ Pace before the National Con- ference convenes, Friday night Pace will speak in Baltimore and on Saturday he will address a huge meeting at Princess Hall at Reed and Miller Sts. Sunday the vet leader will speak in Youngs- town, O. eel 2 Plan Big Pittsburgh Rally PITTSBURGH, Pa. Sept. 1— “John Pace, chairman of the Rank and File Bonus Committee, will re- ceive a big reception when he ar- rived here to speak Saturday night at Princess Hall,” predicted Sylvester McKinney, representative of . the Workers’ Ex-servicemen’s League, here last night. The veterans of Pittsburgh are | looking forward eagerly to this meet- ing. For the past few weeks Pitts- burgh ang the surrounding vicinity has been a concentration point for | all shades of bonus fakers: Father Cox and his Blue Shirts, Waters, Mc- Closkey & Company and their Khaki Shirts, All of these have been busy trying to mislead the veterans away from a real fight for the bonus. It is obvious that the veterans are tired of the bally-hoo of the bonus fakers and are looking forward to a real militant leadership which will force the .government to pay the back wages. GOV'T EMPLOYES DENIED RIGHT TO SAY WHAT THEY THINK Washington, Sept. 1—Government employes and their close relatives are not allowed to express their views on such problems as the veterans’ bonus or even the furlough plan cutting their salaries, according to a ruling of the Civil Service Commission, $5,000 Needed Immediately to Save the Daily Worker The International Workers Order Pledges Prompt Support to the Appeal IMPORTANT! Due to the extreme crisis in the Daily Worker $5,000 must be obtained within the next few days to ward off suspension. Following $578.82 receipts Wednesday the total receipts Thursday (from noon Wednesday until noon Thursday) dropped to $290.58. This is a great misfortune with the crisis in the Daily Worker so desperate. In this intense situation we urge workers who have started to collect money to send all they have on hand without delay to the Daily Worker, 50 East 13th St. aeatiae DAILY WORKER The National Executive Committee of the International Workers Order issued the following appeal: TO ALL MEMBERS AND BRANCHES OF THE INTERNA- TIONAL WORKERS ORDER— Comrades : The Daily Worker is in a grave financial crisis. Its very exist- ence is endangered. It has issued a call for $40,000. It has appealed to all the workers and workers’ organizations who realize the neces- sity of fighting hunger and starvation. We, as a workers’ organiza- tion, must give quick and broad response to the Daily Worker’s call. We are a comparatively young organization. We have been in existence a little over two years. We are only beginning our work of expansion. There will soon come a time when the I, W. O. will inelude hundreds of thousands of workers. Remember, however, that without the aid of the Daily Worker, the organ of thé Communist Party of the U.S. A., the work of organizing and consolidating our Order would have been much more difficult if not entirely impossible. organized in the Workers Ex-servicemen’s League to fight for the bonus. We must be organized politicall talism as represented by the capitalist state. All of us must be organ- ized in hunger marches and other mass movements to force the capi- as to be able to fight capi- talists to yield in favor of the workers at least part of the huge profits made for them by the working class. In all of these activities we need the Daily Worker. These are stormy times. The crisis is eating at the very vitals of the American capitalist system. damnedest to put all the burden of the crisis on the shoulders of the The capitalists are doing their workers. The capitalists have done nothing to alleviate the sufferings of millions, many of them are actually dying of starvation. The capi- talists must be forced to disgorge part of the wealth they have robbed from us workers. This can be achieved only through a bread united front of all the workers of this country. THE DAILY WORKER IS PERFECTING SUCH A UNITED FRONT. The Daily Worker is the leader and organizer of the working class as a whole. It is therefore in our own interests as an organization to see to it that the Daily Worker is rescued from its perilous crisis. It is in our interests, also, as members of the working class generally to help the Daily Worker. We must be organized not only fraternally. We must be organized in powerful industrial unions to fight wage-cuts and to force the bosses to pay us a higher wage. We must be organ- ized in Unemployed Councils to fight for immediate cash relief for the unemployed and for social insurance. We must be organized in block committees to resist evictions and to secure immediate relief for the unemployed of the neighborhood. The former soldiers must be a We appeal to you, comrades, to hurry with your support. every branch of the I. W. O. take up the question of sending a sub- stantial contribution to the Daily Worker. busy collecting funds for the Daily Worker. All aid to the Daily Worker! LONG LIVE THE DAILY WORKER! om Let Let every member get ‘ INTERNATIONAL WORKERS’ ORDER. Farmers Picket; Won't Recognize Reno’s Truce 200 Marching to Punish Deputies Who Shot 14 Strikers; Fight Scabs; Stop Trucks Farm Holiday Head Tried to Use Sheriff’s Ter- ror to End Strike Against Hunger DES MOINES, Iowa, Sept. 1—The farm pickets are holding the roads into this city, Council Bluffs, Omaha, and Sioux City, in the face of the flagrant treachery of their nominal leader, Milo Reno, President of the Farmers Holiday Association. Reno sent telegrams to all his connections last night virtually calling 4 off the strike for farm produce prices’ The Communist Party, which has high enough for the farmers to live on, Reno made an excuse for this act, the gassing and shooting of a crowd of pickets in Cherokee County by deputies yesterday, and also the governor's conference, announced for Sioux City, Sept. 9. steadily exposed Reno’s instructions as strike-breaking commands, urges the farmers to disregard this mis- leader, to elect their own leaders, and in cooperation with the militant United Farmers League, to turn their fight against the big packers and milk trust, and to declare a tax strike and Truck loads of ‘farm pickets assembling in Council Bluffs to force n the cfowd of farmers grew to a release of 55 arrested pickets. Whe thousand and threatened to take the jail by force, the sheriff and his 200 deputized Farm Strikers Mobilizing to Storm Jail machine gunners surrendered and the arrested pickets resist foreclosure and sheriff's sales. William Z. Foster, Communist can- didate for president will speak in Des Moines, Sept. 7, at the East Side High School at 7:30 p. m. The farmers are not yet terrorized by the attacks on them. Instead of obeying Reno’s order, 200 farmers were late yesterday reported march- ing on the town of Cherokee to se- cure the punishment of the deputies who gassed and shot 14 of them yes- terday while they were listening to a speaker on the county road. ‘There is considerable probability that the conference of 15 governors set for Sious City Sept. 9th, will never meet. PIONEERS FIGHT EVICTION A family with four children, all under ten years of age, living at 722 East 180th Street, was evicted today and their furniture left on the street. Pioneers of Bob Minor troop started mobilizing workers to return the fur- niture of this family at the time of going to press. MAY CLOSE BEDFORD SCHOOL CLEVELAND. — Bedford schools may be forced to close this fall un- less money can be raised to keep them functioning properly, is the ing issued by Clerk-Treasurer Ralph Orchard. Bedford is a suburb of Cleveland. 2,000 IN HUNGER MARCH IN ALLEGHENY COUNTY FORM COMMITTEE TO WIDEN FIGHT Demands Presented to Commissioners PITTSBURGH, Pa., Sept. 1—One thousand marchers from all parts of Allegheny County, augmented by a thousand more at West Park march- ed yesterday through the city to day to present demands to the County Commissioners for immediate unem- ployment relief. Beginning at 5 in the, morning, delegations of miners began to gather in Coverdale and surrounding mining sections, for the long march of 20 miles to. Pittsburgh. By 10 o’clock marchers began converging on Pittsburgh. From McKeesport and surrounding sthel towns large dele- gations were on the road and many were kept back unable to walk the distance. In Coverdale, many miners were told to come to work for the first time in many months in order to keep them away from the Hun- ger March, Gather In West Park. At 1 o'clock all delegations con- verged on West Park and after a short meeting a delegation of 25 was elected to present the following de- mands to the County Commissioners: Five dollars for man and wife, with $1.50 for each additional dependent. Four dollars per week for single men and women. Stcpping of all evictions and foreclosure of homes and farms. Endorsement of Unemployment In- surance bill, When Pete Chapa, chairman of the delegation and district secretary of the Steel and Metal Workers In- dustrial Union, read the demands, the commissioners interrupted de- manding to know “How will you raise the money?” They were immediately informed that this money will be raised by special taxation on all in- comes over $5,000, an immediate loan. to be floated by the country of $4,000,000 and lowering all salaries to the maximum of $2,500 per year, The Forced Labor on the Roads of Tennessee Overseer Warns and Autocratically Orders Farmers to Come and Slave; No Pay Here is forced labor, in America, in Tennessee. The farmers have to pay a high poll tax, a school tax and a road tax to maintain the roads. Their right to vote is denied them if they do not pay taxes. The crisis has cut their income to less than the cost of planting and harvesting NOTICE OF WARNING re__Name of Werke R ERASED You are hereby notified and warned to work the roao on Section No____. of Be You will meet at ri op 2. day of. and you are further warned to send your team or teams if @ one, at said time and place. This day o! er 198 be oC. ihe —. Overseer the crops. The Federal Farm Board, Hoover's bluff at “relieving” the farmers, gives them nothing. But in addition (see picture of the notice of warning sent to them), the farmers and workers of Tennessee are in addition forced, in the most arbitrary and tyrannical manner, to work for nothing on the roads, One farmer writes from Luttrell, Tenn., as follows: “We don’t have any cars to drive over these roads, but we have to pay for them just the same, and alse to werk so mony days ereh year on them for nothing, This is called “Free Labor.” We would like to know what goes with, our road tax? If we work the roads free, who gets the rake-off? county has the right to carry out the government bodies that distrib- these measures. It has the right to| ute the relief. loan up to 15 million dollars. Form Committee. Committee Reports. ‘The marchers than elected a com-| After the march, all returned to| mittee of 90 from all parts of the} West Park to hear the report. There| country. This Allegheny County Un- many speakers geve the report of the| employed Committe: which was in-| refusal to recognize the demands of/ structed to meet immediately has as the unemployed. Wally from Cover-|its task to develop struggles for im~- dale, pointed out that in Snowden,| mediate demands in all parts of the Bethel and Jefferson townships the| county and to prepare greater strug- miners have won many demands, in-|gles in the fight for relief and Un- cluding the right to participating in' employment Insurance. | WARREN, Ohio, Sept., 1.—Great masses of Republic St | Co. workers are striking agains thorized by the Amalgamated | Workers in accordance with its !the company’s Trumbull. mill here. ®into effect today. MINER DELEGATES ARRIVE TO BUILD ‘TRI-STATE. UNITY 'Philadelphia Joins In Collecting Relief More Is Needed GILLESPIE, Ill, Sept. 1—Del-| jegates from the miners struggling | |against wege cuts that were endorsed | | by the United Mine Workers officials, began to gather here this morning jfor the Tri-State Conference. The | conference was called through the pressure of the rank and file miners, | demanding unity in the three states. It will take up the question of mass | picketing, united campaign to march and close down all mines, etc. | It will call on the workers, every- | where. to send relief to, the striking | miners of Illinois, Indiana and Ken- tucky. PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Sept. 1—A | mass meeting will be held at Girard | |Manoh Hall, 911 W. Girard Avenue, | }on September 16, at 7 p. m. for the | purpose of creating organized relief from all workers’ organizations of Philadelphia, for the striking miners, their wives and children. Alfred Wagenknecht, National Sec- |retary of the Workers International Relief, who has just returned from | the Soviet Union and from Germany, will be the main speaker. : BERLIN W. LR. | OFFICE RAIDED Report Delegated from| Anti-War Meet Held | BERLIN, Germany, Sept 1—Terror | ran rampant throughout the work- | ing-class sections of Berlin today as police raided the offices of the Work- ers International Relief and arrested | | n foreigners who were reported | to be returning delegates from the |Anti-War Congrss in Amsterdam, | Holland | Police surrounded he building and | permited no one to leave or enter the building during a three hour search. | Ten files of printed material re- ferring exclusively to the Anti-War Congress was confiscated by the police. The files contained per- fectly legal correspondence, circulars and press cuttings. A picture show- ing a soldier crucified, which was exhibited without objection by the German painter for several months in Berlin, was also seized by the of- ficers. Prisoners On Strike | BERLIN, Germany, Sept. 1—Two | hundred political prisoners in the | prisons at Spandau, Tegel, Ploetzen- | see, Hamburg, Dubeck, etc., went on | a hunger strike today against the | new regulations against the inten- sifying severity of the prison routine against proletarian politicals. ‘The new regulations deprive work- | ing class prisoners of various rights, stop bo oks and prohibit proletarian newspapers, while the fascist press enters the prison unhindered. Poli- ticals have also put forward demands for better food. Mrs Wright in Czechoslovakia Mrs. Ada Wright, mother of one of the Scotsboro boys, and J, Louis Eng- dahl left for Czechoslovakia where they will continue the Scottsboro tour following the Anti-War Congress. JAIL VET SELLING PENCILS. CLEVELAND. — Sentenced to jail for selling pencils on the street de- spite the fact that he had a license issued by. the Ohio Soldiers’ Com- mission, Joseph Hackney, 55, a home- less war veteran who lost a leg in over-seas servicey has been released after serving 13 days longer than the) four days originally imposed. VOTE COMMUNIST Against Imperialist War; for the defense of the Chinese people and of the Soviet Union ~~ ra jat the courthouse st | Wednesday night and |new union preceded and preparec |partmental organiz ARREN, OHIO STEEL WORKERS VOTE TO STRI PICKETS STOP HOT MILLS: COMPANY UNOFFICIALLY OFFERS TO END PAY CUT Movement Started Through New Steel Union; A.F.L. Officials Approve Cut, Aid Company Negro Workers Beat Up Boss Who Asks Them to Scab; Strikers Forming United Front eel t the six percent wage cut a Association of Iron 1 Tin sliding scale. The st s in The wage cut wa go to > exact number on strike can not be ascertained until the is a check-up. After the picketing s there was an un a ment by the com the wage’ cut would be This still has to be off firmed. 3,000 Call Strike Three thousand steel wo Today the picket li absolutely 15 out of erating in the Repub partment at the Tru The mass mecting house was calleq by t and Metal Workers Ind Organization of this uni penetrating the iL Niles and Youngstown partmental meetings c the strike. Officials of the A. F of the Amalgamated Associa’ Steel and Tin Workers, not or to the wage cut but are c openly with the company in at strike breaking, trying alize the strikers, and scabs to Negroes Won't Scab The A. A. officials are m cial efforts to get Negro st: ers, with little success so fa workers beat up one of the Ri superintendents yesterday for them to scab. tion with S, M W. LU the unorganized ‘The strike is still growi téday, and the men will st they come off The mill w ing with four shifts on tt Ployed about 2,500 Stagger plan just before the str Murderous Speed-up Today another man, a 11 hot mill, died in the the effects of his work The. weakness of the is the lack of enough zation, lack of relief and, of publicity to rally all othe: its support. Next Tasks It is necessary to at onc all strikers and recruit then ranks of the Steel and Me ers Industrial Uni The connection bi ior enough, and that between and forei; strengthefed. Broaden Strike Committee | Close relations must be established | between the S. M W. I, U. members |and the rank and file of the Amal- |gamated The strike committee must be built up into a real broad united front committee At present it has only 15 members, all from the S. M, Ww I. U. Immediate steps are being taken at a mass meeting of all strik- ers this afternoon to increase the must be born workers jcommittee to 75, with representa- tion of all departments, of the S M, W. I U. the Amalgamated, and the unorganized and unemployed gieel workers Twenty-five per cent of the strik- ers are young workers and they must receive representation on the com- mittee To Present Demands The strike leadership faces the following tasks: To strengthen mass picketing, to elect a working strike executive, to work out strike demands in detail and secure the widest mass endorsement of them, to elect a spe- cial committee to present the de- mands to the company, to completely expose and defeat the Amalamated and Musteite leaders who are now very active, to organize relief and publicity, to register all strikers and recruit them into the Steel and Me- tal Workers Industrial Union. The women of strikers’ families are playing an important part in the strike already, but are not well or- ganized yet The strike committee is now con~ centrating on strengthening its base in the Trumbull plant, but will take up the task of spreading the strike to other Republic mills soon, ) re | nase ph gh a3