The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 3, 1932, Page 1

VOTE COMMUNIST FOR VOTE .COM MUNIST FOR 1. Unemployment and Social Insurance at the ex- 4. Equal rights for the Negroes and self. rm- pense of the state and employers. ination for the Black Belt. See area MOONEE 8 Wade cttiniy Dolce 5. Against capitalist terror; against all forms of Emergency relief for the poor farmers without suppression of the political rights of w« restrictions by the government and banks; ex- emption of poor farmers from taxes, and no §. Against imperialist war; for the defense of forced collection of rent or debts. the Chinese people and of the Soviet Union Vol. Ix, 211 5 ae as second-class matter at biartite otis New York, N. ¥., wnder the act ; CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents WALKER QUIT S AS MAYOR; McKEE, ANOTHER TAMMANY STRIKE BREAKER ON JOB Roosevelt Permitted Mayor to Resign So He Could Run in N Action Helps Roosevel paign Pose As (See Editor: New York’s “Broadway butterfly” vember Election t in Presidential Cam- Anti-Tammany ‘ial Page 4) mayor, and tool of the capitalist class Jimmy Walker has resigned under fire of charges of graft and corruption. His resignation was accompained by an attack on governor Roosevelt where- in he charged the democratic presid: Roosevelt's conduct of hearings in his Walker-McKee Anti-Labor Heads Fought Strikers and Jobless Workers Mayor Walker’s record, which is identical with the program of his henchman, Joseph V. McKee, now mayor, has been written with the blood of workers who dared to stand up and fight against the bosses’ hun- ger program. One of the out~ standing chapters of Walker's rec- ord is the unpro- voked and savage attack on 110,000 unemployed workers demon - strating for relief on March 6, 1930. On April 21 of this year Walk- er’s policemen at- tacked several thousand workers. demanding im- mediate relief. Walker Strikebreaker As soon as he was installed as Mayor of New York, Walker showed. himself a strike-breaker. In 1926 he sent his, policemen to protect armed thugs and professional scabs hired to terroriz the IR.T. employees striking for better wages. Detectives sent by Walker to the strikers’ head- quarters fractured the skulls of sev- eral workers. In March, 1931, Jimmy Walker sent 3,000 patrolmen to protect the interests of the LR-T. and promised 14,000 more of them on call. This while IR.T. employees were being beaten up and terrorized by hired thugs . WALKER Gangster. In November, 1931, Walker used Scores of policemen and gangsters to beat up Communist watchers at the polls. After increasing his own salary by $15,000, Walker called for a “volun- tary” e-cut affecting 147 city em- Ployees. Under his regime the street eleaners and truck drivers had their meager salaries cyt down by fines, etc. The murder of the food worker, Steve Katovis, of Alfred Levi, the Negro worker in Harlem, and of many other workers was also the di- rect result of Mayor Walker’s policy of terror against strikers and unem- ployed workers who were fighting for better conditions. Civil War in Ecuador Not Over; Many Killed GUAYAQUIL, Ecuador, Sept. 2—A workers’ and peasants’ uprising was feared here as all available troops were sent to Quito to fight against the partisan forces of Neptali Boni- faz, disqualified president-elect. The federal-troops besieging Quito | [) began an offensive this morning in an effort to recapture the capital frony the rebel forces. After several hours © fierce fighting, the rebel orces displayed a white flag. ‘The exact number of casualties is hot known, but it is indicated that it is very high. ential candidate with bias, declaring case amounted to a lynching. Joseph V. McKee, who has shared with Walker responsibility for all the vicious and murderous attacks against the working class of New York, is in office as acting mayor until the election on November 4, Yesterday afternoon City Clerk Michael V. Cruise certified to the board of elections that the office of mayor was vacant and would be filled at the general elections in November. In spite of the overwhelming evi- dence that Walker, during his term in office had got hundreds of thou- sands of dollars in bribes from bus corporations, from Paul Block, the millionaire publisher, and from many other sources, Roosevelt deliberately refrained from taking action so as to give Walker a chance to resign. Thus the case is not brought to a con- clusion, but is suddenly stopped at a stage when doubt can be cast upon the actual guilt of the grafter, Walker, This wholesale grafting is a usual accompaniment of the pres- ent rotten capitalist system. The fact that Walker issued a statement calling Roosevelt names helps Roosevelt in his election cam- paign outside New York, inasmuch as it makes it appear that the New York Governor has broken with Tammany Hail, which elected him Governor. At the same time it saves Waiker, because it enables him to run again for Mayor in the coming election, Whereas if he had becn removed by Roosevelt he would have been dis- qualified from running. HOOVER GOV'T PLANS NEW CUTS Teagle Announces New Wage-Cut Slogan The new wave of wage cuts that the Dialy Worker prophesied would follow the conference last week bet- ween Hoover and the country’s lead- ing capitalists will be put into effect soon, an announcement by Walter Teagle, president of the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey indicates. The wage-cut will be put over un- der the.hypocritical slogan of a “shate of the worke movement.” Teagle ap- pointed by Hoover to organize the wage slashing drive, stated that 1,- 000,000 workers could be given jobs if these workers who still had jobs would be willing to work part-time. The Hoov er government and the capitalists hope to do two things with this latest move. Firstly, the wages of those still at work will be cut so that “the employer can put other men to work.” Secondly, the relief which is being distributed to unem- ployed workers, niggardly as it is, will be cut down on the pretext that relief is no longer necessary since everybody will_“soon _have_a job.” Workers must unite their” forces under the ledaership of the revolu- tionary trade unions and the Unem- ployed Councils to wage a relentless fight against the coming wage cuts and the further cutting of relief. Paraguay Rejects 30- ayGrand Chaco Truce BUENOS AIRES, Sept. 2. — The Government of Paragua refused to suspend the warfare in the Grand Chaco region unless the Government of Bolivia agrees to return the forts seized after June 15th, it was learn- ed here READERS! Unless the workers, especially those of New York and vicinity, can by unsparing self-sacrifice send $5,000 to the Daily Worker office over Saturday, Sunday and Monday, the publication of the Daily Worker will stop. Yesterday the Daily Worker got out only bya last minute effort. got out late because of our inability to pay the bills. »V It Ve eannot continue any longer unless our emergency call is met with revolutionary energy and decisiveness. Workers are urged to borrow money wherever possible. New York workers are asked not to use the mails. It will be too late. No matter how far you ride, bring the money yourself to the Daily Worker, 50 East 13th St., 5th floor. After 5 p. m. Saturday at 35 East 12th Street, 5th floor. FARMERS FIGHT ON IN IOWA 100 Per Cent Blockade At Sioux City DES MOINES, Sept. 2.—Farmers today continued picketing the high- ways at Sioux City and various points in Iowa, Nebraska and South Dakota, despite the fact that Milo Reno,.pres- ident of the Farmers Association, has attempted to smash the movement by calling a nine-day truce. At Sioux City the blockade con- tinues 100 per cent effective. All highways leading from Iowa, Ne- braska and South Dakota are block- aded against all farm products except milk. Pickets across the boundary in Nebraska turned back twenty trucks of live stock and continued to block- ade the roads from South Dakota. Picketing continued on the high- ways leading into Omaha from the West and at Fort Dodge, Iowa. John Chalmers, Iowa chairman o! the holiday association, in a desper- ate attempt to trick the embattled and starving farmers to give up the fight, said today that “the battle will go on,” only following the conference of the mid-Western Governors. To all appearances this conference will not take place as only four of the fif- teen Governors have stated that they will attend, At Clinton, where the farmers have been putting up a militant fight, sev- eral hundred mobilized and threat- ened to storm the jail when five pickets were held The County offi- cials were forced to release the arrrested farmers. Preparations are being speeded for a mass meeting of farmers which will be addressed by Willliam Z. Fostet, Communist candidate for President of the United States. Foster’s meet- ing will be held in the East Side High School. “The farmers must continue their struggle over the heads of Reno and Chalmers,” said a statement issued by the Communist Party today. “Elect your own committees and co- operate with the United Farmers League. Declare a tax strike Resist sheriff sales and foreclosure. Direct the struggle against the big meat packers and the milk trust.” 1 Long Branch Mooney I. L. D. Celebrates First Anniversary LONG BRANCH, N. J-—The Tom Mooney branch of the I.L.D. in Long Branch, New Jersey, celebrated its first anniversary recently This branch was organized one year ago by Comrades E. Davis, S. Davis, William Rich, Maimie Rich and their daughter, Mary, who later became the director of the first Pio- neers of Long Branch. During the year the branch grew to a member- ship of 135 and has made itself prominent in Long Branch by hold- ing protest demonstrations, almost nightly, against local, national and international persecutions of workers by the bosses and by fighting race discrimination. y Comrades D. ©, Morgan and Dora Batt were present at this celebration. Both spoke on the LL-D. fo of col VOTE COMMUNIST Against Imperialist War; for the defense of the Chinese people and of the Soviet Union Support the Warren active workers in the Homestead strike of 1892. oppositionist in the Amalgamated for years, and last but not least, as hon- orary chairman of the union has been elected the moulder, Tom Mooney. During these critical days, the office df the Daily Work- er will be open Saturday, Sunday and Monday until 12 o’clock midnight. Out of town workers are urged to wire in their contributions as sending it by mail may delay it until after Monday night. MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE—-DAILY WORKER SOUTH CHICAGO STEEL WORKERS IN HUNGER MARCH | Demonstrating for immediate relief before the Illinois Steel in Soi out the country are looking towards the heroic strike of the Warren-Ohio steel workers against a wage cut. | uth Chicago. Steel workers through- STRIKERS TIGHTEN LINES AT REPUBLIC STEEL MILLS Steel Worker Strike Trade' Unity Unity League Points Out the Significance of This Struggle NEW YORK.—A call to all workers for militant support of the strike of the steel workers in Warren has been issued by the National Executive Board of the Trade Union Unity League here. It says: “The strike of the steel workers in the Republic Steel of Warren, Ohio is of historic significance. It is the first big strike of steel workers since 919. Until today the rising tide of struggle against wage cuts has been mainly confined to the miners, textile workers, the building and needle workers. The steel workers have been attacked most sharply throughout the crisis but only now they are beginning to answer the attack . ‘T.U.U.L. UNION LEADS “And there are two significant facts that stand out in the struggle of the Ohio steel workers. First, it is the Steel and Meta! Workers Industrial Union, recently formed in Pittsburgh, that is leading the fight. Secondly, Wm. Z. Foster, who in spite of the sabotage of the A.F.L. officials, organ- | ized and led the 1919 steel strike, is the leader of the organization with which the Steel and Metal Workers Industrial Union has become the in-| heritor of all the fighting traditions of the steel and metal workers. no accident that on the National Committee of the new union aré to he | und, Wm. Z. Foster the leader of the 1919 strike. Pat Cush, one of the Bud England, militant Begins Wave of Struggle “This struggle is the beginning of new waves of strikes in the industries that have not as yet been included in the mass strikes that have been; mounting in the recent period. It means the biginning of mass actions | the employed and unemployed in the large scale basic industry of the untry. “It is therefore urgent that the whole-working class come to the support of the fighting steel workers. We must at once mobilize support to the | strikers. Relief must be organized. Solidarity messages should be sent | from all workers organizations. “WE MUST ACT QUICKLY. WE MUST SHOW THE STEEL WORK- ERS WE ARE BEHIND THEM; THAT THEY CAN COUNT ON OUR SUPPORT. “Hold mass meetings, organize collections of: relief; send donations to the Steel and Metal Workers Industrial Union, 331 Main Ave., Warren, 0.” vey @igned) . TRADE UNION‘ UNETY' LEAGUE, National‘ Executive Board. ing to or while at work will be pro« It is | STOP SCABS FROM ‘COMING TO AREA! Amalgamated Openly Threatens Strikers WARREN, Ohio, Sept 2—The strik- ing steel workers. of the Republic company’s Trumbull plant sweep into \the second and third night of their lrevolt against the six per cent wage cut with a general tightening of their jlines and with the officials of the A. F. of L. union here thoroughly exposed as wage-cutting and strike- breaking agents. A mass meeting. was held yesterday to broadeh the strike committee to |include all departments of the mill, ;and to represent members of| the Steel and Metal Workers Industrial Union, the striking rank and file of the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers (A. F. L.), the unorganized strikers and the thou- sands of } area. The scab, jobless pledge not to Stop Scab Shipments workers in Youngstown and other Ohio steel towns, to the workers and | junemployed in Pennsylvania steel | towns, to hold meeting anq perfect organization to stop scabs from being sent to Warren. The Amalgamated officials here, in | the Trumbull lodge No 73 of the! A. A., yesterday published statements | in the afternoon papers which estab- | lish their open unity with Republic | Steel in the wage cut, and. strike- breaking campaign, and in ‘he at- empt to recruit scabs. The A.A. officials say: “We want to assure men who work in the Warren works that we will see that any man either com- jrank and file strike committees in unemployed in this steel) The meeting issued a call to steel | FOSTER on Strike Against Wa: Edmundson, the Lewis agent in meeting here at which hundred: president. ' Foster was to have spoken | in Zeigler, on the tactics needed | to win the great Illinois miners strike against the 18 per cent | wage cut ordered by the operators | and agreed to by the United Mine Workers International and Illinois district officials. The contract for the cut was signed after the miners had twice voted it down on referen- dum, In breaking up the meeting at Zeigler, the deputies drove Foster out. and he went to St. Louis, from where he goes to speak at a great mass meetings of miners in Gillespie, Il, tomorrow. The Gillespie meeting will be at the City Park, at 7 p. m. Win the Strike Foster calls on the miners to form each local, federate them on a sub- district and district basis, and make the district strike committee the sole agency for negotiating with the em- ployers. He calls for mass picketing and mass marching, and for unity with the struggle against wage cuts in Indiana and Kentucky. Foster’s. speech in Zeigler might well have pulled the miners of Franklin County into the ranks of the strikers, and for this reason his meeting was attacked. After Foster's speech in Gillespie tomorrow, he speaks at Reservoir Park, Springfield (also a mine cen- ter) at 3 p. m., Sept. 4. Search for Foster After the smashing of the Zeigler meeting, Franklin County authorities announced that they were searching for Foster to arrest him. In order to trap Foster, the author- ities had given a permit for the Zeig- | ler meeting, and publicly announced they had done so. When the great | crowd of miners assembled at Liberty Hall, at 7 p. m., the local committee in charge started to open the doors, and just then the swarm of deputies launched their attack. Foster was just entering when for- ty or fifty headed him off and drove |him,from town by force. The miners of Zeigler are seething with indignation. After Foster was ejected from town, Sheriff Browning Robinson tried to} take advantage of the opportunity he jhad already missed, to seize the |Communist candidate, and issued or- ders to comb the county for Foster. Cea er Center of Struggle Zeigler, in Franklin county, is and |has been for years a center of coal |miners‘ struggle against wage cuts. | On August 22, when the miners of the |big Bell & Zoller mine here struck d threw a picket line around the |mine, deputies attacked them at night, shot one picket, Dominic Lau- vanti, in the back and killed him, shot two other pickets and wounded them, then early in the morning, opened fire on a group of strikers jin the street and wounded five of them, one a boy of ten years age. The Bell-Zoller mine resumed work. The miners of Franklin county have been prevented from picketing and |point of guns. | Sheriff Browning Robinson depu- | tised thousands local business men and others, and ambushed and shot up 25,000 marching miners at Mul- keytown, in the night of Aug. 24. Previously the sheriff menaced with machine guns and ran out of the county the committee of Mid-western College students coming to investi- gate terror and distribute relief. Franklin County Miners Roused to White Heat —Sheriff Granted Permit to Trap Foster ZEIGLER, Ill., Sept. 2.—Three hundred armed deputies commanded by Sheriff Browning Robinson and also led by night to hear William Z. Foster, Communist candidate for DRIVEN FROM ZIEGLER BY 300 GUNMEN Supporting Struggle of Thousands of Miners ge Cut; Speaks Today Southern Illinois, smashed the s of miners were gathered last Sheriff Continues | Attempt to Arrest Foster, Says Press NEW YORK.—Capitalist press reports yesterday from Zeigler, tell of the Franklin county au- | | thorities continuing their se: for Foster today and say: ‘The | thought was expressed that Fos- |ter might have been forcibly de- tained.” eae sae ST. LOUIS, Mo., Sept. ter gave an interview to th: in St. Louis today in w said that he had recognizea sev- eral mine guards and coal com- pany detectives in the ranks of the deputies. He said: “About 40 or 50 officers refused to allow me to enter and forced me to leave town.” I had already obtained permit to speak.” PICKETS CLOSE. MORE BRITISH COTTON MILLS Members ofParliament in Another Effort to Break Strike (By Inprecorr Cable) MANCHESTER, England —The strike of 250,00 textile is practically complete thri the mill area except in the to rit around Manchester. In outlying sections the mills were closed yesterday, by the dete Picketing of the strikers. Efforts of the operators, th formist~ union officials and of igus forces like the Labor Par throw the whole strike arbitration are continuing The Manchester Guar eral” paper reports that “National” Government awaiting a favorable opportunity to intervene in the strike. Capitalist press agencies York reported yesterday t members of Parliament fro: cashire have arrived at Manc and called a conference of mi ers and reactionary union offic The same reports state that British Trades Union (something like the A. F. L. con- vention here) will meet Monday in Neweastle and will make the settles ment of the strike its main order of business. ° Se the issue int in New st La ‘the Congress Nanking Continues to Murder Workers; 14 Communists Executed (Inprecorr Cable) SHANGHAI, China, Sept., 2—The official Nanking government “Kuo- min News Agency” reports that 14 Communists have been executed for mines kept running literally at the | what it calls “conspiracy” in Tsing- chow, in Shantung province. Thirteen others are awainting trial on the same charges, Czech Rulers Prohibit Scottsboro Meetings But HailMayorCermak (Inprecorr Cable) PRAGUE, Czech-Slovakia, Sept., 2. tected. We have the support of all | city, county and state authorities in this matter All Amalgamated As- sociation men employed in this plant will report for work in their regular turns, and we again assure them that they will be protected.” The A. A. officials are in this way aiding in recruiting non-union men |to take the places of their own | striking members. The Masteites are up to their ears in this attempt to sell out the Warren steel workers. The local papers yesterday began for the first time to play up Commu- nist participation in the strike, and are now using the old “Red Scare” tactics again. Both the Amalgamated and the company officials now claim that there is no wage cut, although ‘The Checo-Slovak government, which recently acclaimed the anti- labor Cermak of Chicago, new refuses to allow meetings for the freedom of the Scottsboro boys in any of the large cities of the country. Meetings at which J. Louis En- gdhal and Mrs. Ada Wright, mother of two of the framed Negro boys were to speak, had been scheduled for Prauge, Brunn, Olmutz and Os- trau. ATTACK I L. D. MEETING NEW YORK—Following a gang- ster attack on an open air meeting held by the Jim Connelly Branch of the International Labor Defense at 147th St. and Brook Ave., ‘Thursday night, police arrested Louis A. Baum, the speaker who was addressing the workers calling on them to rally to the defense of Tom Mooney, the Scottsboro boys and class war pris- Wednesday the local press big stories about the £4 pee ames. oners throughout the - ror yes later tla se '