The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 7, 1932, Page 1

VOTE COMMUNIST FOR Unemployment and Social Insurance at the ex- pense of the state and e forced collection of rent ‘Against Hoover’s wage-cutting policy. Emergency relief for the poor farmers without restrictions by the government and banks; ex- emption of poor farmers from taxes, and no mployers. or debts. Daily. Central Ong 4 NOD (Section of the Communist International ) orker unist Porty U.S.A. VOTE COMMUNIST FOR Equal rights for the Negroes and self-determ- Against capitalist terror; against all forms of political rights of workers. 4. ination for the Black Belt. 5. suppression of the 5. Against imperialist war; for the defense of the Chinese people and of the Soviet Union Vol. TX, No. 214 Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., under the act of March 3, 1879. >> NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1932 CITY EDITION 9 o Price 3 Cents In the Day’s News COMMUNIST DAILIES SUPPRES- SED IN GERMANY (Cable By Inprecorr) BERLIN, Sept., 6—Two more Com- munist newspapers, the Thuringia Volksblatt and the Frankfort Main Arbeiter Zeitung, have been sup- pressed for fourteen days for alleged abuse of Von Papen Government. 4,000 CANADIAN MAND SCOTTSBORO RELEASE WINDSOR, Can., Spet. 6—Four thousand Canadian workey in & mass, meeting against deportation nd government terror in Lanspeary Park unanimously adopted a resolu- tion demanding the release of the 9 imnocent Scottsboro Negro boys and Pledging militant support for the ‘world-wide defense fight. The resolu- tion was ordered forwarded to the United States Supreme Court. % INJURED IN B’KLYN THEATRES Seven persons were injured when phosphorus thrown in two Brooklyn theatres exploded. The theatres, one ‘at Kings Highway and Flatbush Ave., the other at Flatbush Ave. and Far- Tagut Rd, are being picketed by mo- tion picture operators of Local 306. HUNDREDS HOMELESS IN FLOOD BROWNSVILLE, Tex., Sept. 6.— The flood of the Rio Grande has left hundreds homeless and killed an un- kmown number of people At present it seems as if the lands of the rich @itrus growers has remained un- téuched. The water is flowing to- wards the Gulf of Mexico. «GIBBONS NEAREST TO MAN YORK, England, Sept. 6.—Scien- fists gathered at the annual session of the British Assn. were told by Dr. .T Regan that the gibbon, small fiffmkey of the Indo-Malay region wis the nearest species to man He baSed his theory on a study of fish, fogsils and apes. Regan said that the bones in the naval cavity of the gib- bons were short and broad like those of men, while in the larger apes the bones were long and narrow. ADVANCE IN MEDICINE SEEN IN DISCOVERY COLUMBIA, Mo..-Sept. 6.—Studies being made by R. Carl Vinson of the ‘niversity_of Missouri have led him to believe that certain infectious dis- eases are not caused by microbes but by chemical compounds ‘He says that in these diseases im~- munity cannot be gotten by injection of @ serum as a certain arrangement of atoms within the living tissue a the illness. If this is so, the ery will mark a great advance ‘science. MORE KIDNAPPING CLEARFIELD, Pa.—Police officials there say they are looking for a priv- fite detective, J. Devine, who did bome kidnapping of his own while he sought fame and fortune in hunt- 4mg the kidnappers of the Lindbergh baby. Devine had kidnapped Garrent jchenck, a fish peddler of Hopewell, . J., and the authorities aided and ted. ‘this kidnapper by holding for him until last Saturday ig’ the county jail. & £. D. FOLLOWED BY TERROR IN WARSAW. WARSAW, Sept. 6. — Following e International Youth Day qemon- ation which was shot up, the police are «pizing many workers suspected of Communists Raids are be- earried out throughout the city to find the places where leaflets and ature calling for the dem- @stration was printed. In the demonstration a four year- child and a woman were killed by police. BRITISH JOBLESS AT NEW HIGH. LONDON. — Unemployment in Great Britain passed all previous lev- when official figures showed 2,- ,828 unemployed on August 22, as d with the previous high rec- of 2,825,772 in September, 1931. STRIKERS TAKE SHIP 10 HOLLAND Marines Arrest 10 But Ship Is Tied Up AM, Holland, Sept. 6— Dutch liner Rotterdam of the ‘Holland-American line came into port today, under the guns of the mine sweeper Meerlandt. Naval ma- rines immediately boarded the Rot- terdam and arrested nine foreign seamen and one Dutch seaman. The remainder of the crew went home, with the captain threatening their prosecution later. ‘When this ship was in the French of Boulogne, the general strike all Dutch seamen was declared. crew forced the captain to re- to Rotterdam. The strike is still solid. rer Rk NEW YORK.—Only one Dutch ship fe in New York, the 8.5. Staatenham. is scheduled to sail for Roterdam oon unless the crew prevent it by striking in port here in solidarity with their comrades at home. “During the German seamen’s strike 1a8t year, the crews of several ships struck in solidarity with them while Marine WORKERS DE-| WORKERS TO SATURDAY |Mass Pressure Forces NEW YORK.—Mass pressure of backing the Relief March next Saturd: The city government also reverse MOBILIZE AT 10 A.M. FOR CITY RELIEF MARCH Delegation of 100 Workers to Present Demands for Relief to Mayor Police Department to Give Permit for March the scores of thousands of workers lay forced the police department yes- terday to grant the permit for the march which it had previously refused. d its previous position when Mayor McKee told a delegation of workers from the Unemployed Council ,which is leading the Relief March, that he® would receive the delegation of work- ers who will be elected by the March- ers to present their demands. The delegation will represent breadlines, flophouses, block committees, neigh- berhood committees, unemployed branches, workers’ clubs, trade unions, the Workers Ex-servicemen’s League, the Women’s Councils, the fraternal orders and the workers who sleep in the city parks. Telegrams to McKee. Although McKee will receive the delegation, he has told the Unem- ployed Council that “previous ap- pointments” will prevent him from recefving it at 2 p.m., at which time the Relief Marchers will arrive at City Hall..The Workers Bx-service- men’s League, the Women’s Councils and other working class organiza- tions with thousands of members have already dispatched telegrams to McKee demanding that he re- ceive the delegation while the Marchers are in front of City Hall- Will Mobilize at 10:30 ‘The tens of thousands of workers who will mobilize on Saturday in the biggest and most determined dem- onstration ever held by the workers of New York, will concentrate first on the side streets adjoining Union Sq. at 10:30 a.m. All traffic will be side-tracked for the duration of the march on those streets through which the Marchers will pass. The line of march will be Union Sq. down 17th St. to Avenue C, south on Avenue ¢ to Pitt St., down Pitt to East Broadway, past Rutgers Sq. to Park Row and from there to City Hall. After the delegation of 100. presents the demands to McKee it will report back to the workers immediately. Masses Can Win Relief. The reversal of the city govern- ment in the question of the permit indicates that the capitalist politi- cians “guiding” the destiny of the city are realizing that the million unemployed workers in New York are refusing to starve quietly and that mass pressure can win relief. While workers fall dead of starva- tion in the streets, while their chil- dren go hungry and ragged and while unemployment is steadily in- creasing, the amount of relief dis- tributed by the Relief Bureaus is actually decreasing, in most cases being cut in half. Refuse to Starve Quietly. As expressed in resolutions passed in recent weeks by more than 300 workers organizations in New York, the determination of the starving workers in New York to get immedi- ate relief from the city will not be brushed aside by promises of “pros- perity” to come. Nor, the resolutions have made clear, will they permit their children who demand free milk from the city to be jailed or be “ex- amined” for their sanity, as happened in Children’s Court last week to three workers’ children At a meeting of the Executive Committee of Unemployed Councils of Greater New York last night, it was voted to include in the demands to be presented to the city govern- ment the demand that all the work- ers and their children who have been jailed in demonstrations for relief be freed unconditionally. The ¢om- mittee points out that this march is a united front action of all New York workers employed and unem- ployed and that they should join in their march on September 10, i mother, Mrs. Ada Wright, was last reports that both were arrested at the had exposed the Scottsboro frame-up they would be deported on the® charge of “interference with the in- ternal affairs of the State, and thus endangering public security.” This is naturally a bare-faced lie. Under pressure of a protest cam- paign instantly organized) and the support of numerous newspapers, the deportation was delayed pending an appeal to President Masaryk. Eng- dahl was subsequently released but his ,passport detained. Mrg. Wright was held in prison in the meantime. The police action is believed to have been taken at the instance of the United States consul. NEW YORK.—Bourgeois press dis- patches reaching New York yesterday reported that Mrs. Wright and Eng- dahl were taken to the German fron- tier and expelled at the orders of the Czech Minister of the Interior who refused to delay action pending the appeal to President Masaryk. . * As NEW YORK.—The Wright-Eng- dahl tour has roused the toiling masses of Europe and many intellec- tuals to a storm of furious protest against the attempt ‘of American capitalism to legally murder the nine |Scottsboro boys, Under pressure of American impe- rialism, a number of European gov- ernments have been persecuting Mrs. Wright and Engdahl and breaking up the Scottsboro protest meeting. ‘The world-wide mass protest of white and Negro workers has several times forced the American lynchers to postpone the date of execution for seven of the boys. It has forced a reversal of sentence in the case of the eighth boy. In the case of the ninth boy, there was a mistrial at the original farc'c1) trial at Scotts- boro, Ale (Cable by Inprecorr) BERLIN, Sept. 6—J. Louis Engdahl who together with the Scottsboro Czech Authorities Deport Scottsboro Mother At Instigation of U.S. Gov’t Mrs. Ada Wright Arrested With Engdahl in Mining Center, Jailed Then Taken to Frontier Czech Minister of Interior Refuses to Delay Action Pending Appeal night expelled from Czechoslovakia, mining center of Kladno, where they to a meeting of miners. They were transported under police escort to Prague where they were informed that SENTENCE NEGRO PIONEER LEADER TO YEAR IN JAIL Framed for Fighting Jim Crowism in Pool NEW YORK.—In line with the vi- cious discrimination policy initiated by a Tammany judge in the case of Sam Brown and Henderson last week, the magistrate of the 8th district court this morning sentenced James A. Ford, Negro Pioneer Yeader, to one year in the reformatory while dis- missing the charge against Elizabeth Laffere, white Pioneer leader, arrest- ed with him on the same charge. The case was a frame-up arising directly out of the fight of the Bronx workers against jim crowism at the Bronx Swimming Pool. The two leaders and a group of Always Ready News Reporters, had gone to the front of the pool to take pictures for the press to be used in calling a demonstration against the pool. The cop on duty s)faked up be- hind the kids and black-jacked Ford. Then he started attacking the kids, hurting several of them. He then arrested Ford and Laffer. Ford was released on $50 bail, thus showing that the police had no case him. Laffer was freed on her own recognizance, ‘Today the court rushed Ford's trial without allowing him a postponement until a lawyer from the ILD could arrive to defend him. The ILD is immediately taking up Ford’s case to force an appeal’ from the frame-up decision, Green Opposes Strikes Now Over WORKERS! COMRADES! Five thousand dollars--over $1,500 a day--was needed over the week-end to keep the “Daily” go- ing. Yesterday, up until noon, only $217.65 was received. These figures, speaking for themselves, put our paper in a far more shaky condition than ever before. They cry “SUSPENSION!” louder than a dozen written appeals. Today's edition appeared only because we were granted credit for a two day supply of paper. The paper ‘used to print today’s Daily Worker leaves us barely enough for tomorrow’s issue. Comrades, this is no longer a warning. You must increase your donations fourfold to avert the collapse ot our paper. Workers! It’s up to you! Rush every possible penny by wire, airmail, or in person to the Daily Worker, 50 E. 13th St., New York City. DAILY WORKER MANAGEMENT SEEK T0 FRAME YOUNG CHICAGO NEGRO ON RAPE Youth Day Meeting to Fight Terror On South Side CHICAGO, Ill, Sept. 6—Willie Molden, 23-year-old Negro worker is being framed by the white bosses of Chicago on traditional charge of rape. Upon investigation by the Young Communist League is was found that Willie Molden was not in the city on July 13, the day he was supposed to have attacked Jerinie Weber, age 12. The home of the family is a beer joint. ‘The mother appeared con- fused when she told the story of rape. The cause behing the charge is part of the general terror that is be- ing used against Negroes on the South Side. The American Legion and its youth sections are starting a wide campaign to terrorize Negroes around Wentworth Ave., because they are moving “beyond the boundary line” set by the fascists as Went- worth Ave. Recently the clothes of two Negro. boys were burned by Le- gionaires. The Young Communist League is mobilizing the Negro and white work- ers to defend Willie Molden and to put a stop to the terror in general. The first meeting will be held on September 7th, at 36 and Wells St., at 7:00 p.m. ‘This will be used as a preliminary for the International Youth Day de- monstration against war, which is to take place on the South Sde in the heart of the Stckyards, 46th and Gross, on September 9th at 4 p.m. Three other International Youth Day meetings will be held in Chicago. ‘These will be at: West Side 16th St. and Washtenau, at 7:30 p.m.; North West-Side Lake and Woods St., at 7:30 p.m.; Burnside-93 and Burley at 6:30 p.m. "4 S. L. P.Backs Out of Debate CINCINNATTI, Sept., 6—On_ his tour for the Young Communist Lea- Communist Party, Toney Minerich, challenged the Socialist Labor Party to debate the issues of the campaign. ‘The latter, although they have often expressed themselves as ready to de- bate, backed out. About 100, half Negro, listened to Minerich expose the Socialist Labor Party and the other parties fighting the working class program represent- ed by Foster and Ford. AUTOMOBILE PRODUCTION REACHES NEW LOW The index of automobile production for the week ended Sept. 3rd, deliv- ers a new blow to Hoover's ballyhvo about the turn toward “prosperity.” It fell to 25.5 from 27.2 in the pre- vious week and 46.7 on the corres- ponding week of last year. ‘Total production amounted to 22,- 963 cars and trucks, as against 2'- 265 in the preceding week and 42,- 486 in the corresponding week of 1931. VOTE COMMUNIST Against Imperialist War; for the defense of the Chinese people and of the Soviet Union, gue on the election program of the |. le Franklin County, TIL, again. Gun Thugs That Ambushed Tlinois Miners These gunmen are again being gathered by the coal operators in to shoot down miners who are preparing to march (FP. Pictures) Afternoon Conference NEW YORK.—All posts of the Workers Ex-servicemen’s League will elect delegates for the Cleve- land Conference which wil} take Place September 23, 24 and 25. Spe- cial committees have been organ- ized to get delegates of veterans from all veteran organizations and groups of veterans in shops, facto- ries, unions, ete, This is part of a campaign to carry on a nation-wide fight for the bonus. All members of the Workers Ex-servicemen’s League should be sure to attend their post meetings, Thusrday evening, Sep- tember 8. ne MINNEAPOLIS, Minn.—John Pace, one of the rank and file leaders of the bonus forces in Washington, is scheduled to speak on Sunday, Sep- tember 11, at Elliot Park. The meet- ing is called for 6:30 in the evening. A big turnout is expected to hear Pace. been held at Elliot Park by the rank and file veterans. Numerous other metings in preparations are sched- uled until September 11. Waters’ Agent in Minneapolis, Dus- tin (former bootlegger), has encamp- ed in an empty lot in North Minnea- polis about 50 homeless veterans and tries to keep them out of the spread- ing movement for the bonus struggle. However, a large group of them are expected to come and hear Pace, Afternoon Conference. John Pace will also be.present at the Veterans Conference on Sunday, September 11, 2:00 p. m., at 19 So, 7th St. The Conference is called to mob- ilize support for the National Vet- erans Conference at Cleveland on Pace to Rally Vets of Minneapolis Sept. 11 National Convention in Cleveland Evening Open Air Meeting to Mobilize Work- ers for Fight for Bonus and Insurance Two meetings have already | to Lay Plans for Big September 23-25 and also to elect delegates to that conference. On Monday, September 12, Pace will speak in St. Paul. EAST SIDE WEST. POST ORGANIZED To Elect Delegates to Cleveland A new post of the Workers’ Ex-Ser- vicemen’s League, to be known as the East Side Post, has been organized on the lower East Side. The next meeting of the East Side Post will be held this Friday, Sept. 9 at 122 | Second Ave. at 8 p. m, All ex-servicemen are urged to at- tend this meeting, as delegates will be elected to th National Veterans’ Conference to be held Sept. 23, 24, and 25 at Cleveland. Von Papen Wage Cut Decree In Effect BERLIN, Sept. 6. —. Von Papen’s wage-cutting program was made of- ficially operative today when Presi- dent Hindenburg signed an “emerg- ency” decree to that effect. The program calls for a wide stag- gering of employment and provides Wage-Cuts WARREN STRIKE SHOWS A.F.L. CHIEF IS WRONG; STRIKES CAN BE WON PITTSBU. tion in wages 3H, Pa., Sept. 6- posed through force away.” This is the keynote of the Labor Day speech of President William Green of the American Federation of Labor, delivered here yesterday. 59 Per Cent Wage Cut Green admitted that wage cuts since the crisis started amount to 59 per cent on the average, while the cost of living has fallen only 23 per cent. He admitted that there were 11,400,000 jobless (Editor's note:— There are really 15,000,000). reen admitted that “The which the government has extended to business, banks and corporations has not had any perceptible effect upon the unemployment situation.” Green declared, “We know with fat- 3 ic certianty that the nation is acing its worst winter of unemploy- ment.” He spoke feelingly of all his efforts to kid the workers into be- lieving the crisis is past, efforts which started three ars ago and lasted until now. le said: “Strive as we may to interpret every hopeful sign in the most favorable way and to stress the importance of human psy- chole; in the revival of business, a persistent and disappointing increase in unemployment continues.” He spoke of the “suffering and distress which millions have been forced to undergo “because they were denied the opportunity to work and earn a living.” Green, made these admissions vithout apology for the fact that he argued right up to the end of 1931 that employers were -keeping their bargains made at the 1929 Hoover conference not to cut wages, as Green was keeping his bargain to op- pose all strikes during the crisis. No Struggle Against Wage Cuts. Then, he issued a declaration that the A. F. of L. was always against wage cuts. And then in the care- fully chosen words first quoted above, he postvoned es far as he was able any action of the workers against the admitted campaign of the employers to cut wages, “We refuse to accept” wage cuts, as final said Green, mean- ing we do accept them now. And he said, “If forced to yield we will bide our time.” Green proposes no aid unemployment, He resisted any ad- mission that there were wage cuts for two long years of nothing but vage cuts, and now, when the facts are so plain that he is forced to ad- mit them, because all can see them, far off future time when “the first favorable opportunity comes.” At the same time experience in many strikes (Lawrence textile 1931 etc.) shows that these same A. F. of L- officials if they can't prevent the outbreak of a strike will take over its lead- ership in order to betray it. For Stagger System. For the unemployed, Green pro- poses the stagger system and unem- ployment insurance paid for by the workers. His proposal of the stagger system is contained in the slogan, “the five day week and six hour day” without one word about retaining a full week’s pay. He speaks very care- fully, in the attempt to gloss over the fact that this sort of five day week is struggle now against wage cuts or} he proposes no struggle, until some | Green, In Speech of Radical Phrases, Praised Hoover Stagger Plan As “Shorter Work Week” Labor Day Address Admits Jobless Increase, and Next Winter Will Be Hardest of All ‘We refuse to accept as final any reduc- and as a result of economic pressure If forced to yield to superior strength, we will bide our time and when the first favorable opportunity comes, we will strike back and fight with all our strength to restore the wage rates and conditions whi: ich have been taken King of Wage Cuts J. Pierpont Morgan, biggest fin- ance capitalist in the werld, is not | frightened by Green’s “radical” an- | mouncement that the A. F. of 1. will fight wage cuts—when condi- tions are more favorable His U. | Steel Corporation leads in wa cutting, and his General. Motors Co. is not far behind. Morgan is the chief beneficiary of Hoover's wage cutting policy, and Green's no strike -program, the stagger plan of Hoover. Fo: stance, he did not remind the wo: ers who heard him that when t Hoover conference which ended called on all industri: plain words to take on more m divide the work among th hourly rates or day reducing wages all around formally approved of the plan. But, careful as he was, himself away by his op in the Labor Day speech ger plan as it is now bei Green said: “A large n dustries have applied have found it satisfactory of the National Ind ence Board tovering executives in variow country showed tha’ x cent of those who answered duced working hours to ployment.” he A. F. L. Wage Cut. | Green spoke in Pitt jof the steel mill |did not say one wor steel mill stagger plan, a say one word about th lga- mated Association of Iron Steel and Tin Workers approving of a six per cent cut in nearby Ohio, a cut the workers struck against and defeated. He spoke in District 5 of the Unt- ted Mine Workers, where the U-M. W.A. broke a strike last year of 40,000 miners against a wage cut, by making a wage cut agreement right during the strike with the second largest coal company. Can Win Strikes Now. Against Green's proposal to post- pone all action against wage cuts until some future date, the Trade }Union Unity League calls for strikes now, and points to the Warren Steel strike as proof such strikes can be won. d did not What is the real record of the AFL, officialdom on the question of wage cuts? We recount part of this record: The United Mine Workers officials made a contract with the Pittsburgh Terminal Coal Co, last July in the midst of a strike of 40,000 miners. The contract broke the strike. It was for a wage of 40 cents when the min- ers were striking for 55 cents, and had been getting 45 cents. Contracts made in unorganized West Virginia mines where the men were getting 40 cents and more, cut the wages to 22 cents. This year the U-M.W.A. officialdom defied two referendums against wage cuts by 50,000 Illinois miners and made a contract cutting their wages 18 per cent. U.M.W.A- officials agreed to a wage cut in In- diana from $6.10 to $4 a day, and the miners are in revolt against it. The Amalgamated Association of Tron, Steel and Tin Workers approved a wage cut of 6 per cent in the Re- public Steel mill at Warren, O., to go into effect September 1, These premiums in tax-refunds for all in- dustrialists who employ more work- ers, ‘4 officials called for violence. against the strikers, but the men df strike and abolished the:eut, Partial Record of A. F. L. Officials on Wage Cuts In March, 1931, the American Fed- eration of Full Fashioned Hosiery Workers made a general contract covering thousands of workers, who were not consulted, and reducing their wages 35 to 50 per cent. All these unions belong to the A. P. of L. These are only a few recent outstanding examples of A.F.L. wage cutting. SOCIALISTS ALSO OPPOSE STRIKES MILWAUKEE, Wisc., Sept. 6.—The principal Labor Day editorial in the Milwaukee Leader, Socialist Party organ, appealing for socialist votes, declares it does so “at a time when industrial strikes are not very prac- ticable on account of the large num- ber of possible strike breakers.” This is plain aid to Hoover's wag cutting plans, and is in line with the Labor Day speech of President Green of the A.F.L. when he proposes to push off all struggles against wage oute until “conditions are favorable.” a