The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 8, 1932, Page 1

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- emption of poor farmers from taxes, and no forced collection of rent or debts. Ce ntral “* (Section of the Communist International) §8* VOTE COMMUNIST FOR Equal rights for the Negroes and self-determ> ination for the Black Belt. age = 5. Against capitalist terror; against all forms of suppression of the political rights of workers. Against imperialist war; for the defense of the Chinese people and of the Soviet Union Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., under the act Vol. IX, No. 215 Sr2 of March 3, 1879, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1932 CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents In the Day’s News BRITONS GET WASHINGTON’S STRUGGLES between British and Amercan im- perialism, the lower denture of| George Washington's false teeth has Active in Two Unions; Fought to Release Seottboro Boys just been presented to the London! Hosvitel. The teeth are still white DEFENDED WAR VETS and show the signature of the den- tist. Washington, who in addition to having been the first president of | the. United States was a land-shark) and slave-owner, paid $60 for them) on Feb, 20, 1795. | FARM STRIKE IN POLAND WARSAW.—Peasants in Poland hhave begun a farm strike, refusing to deliver their products to the towns| until they get enough for their prod- | ucts to live on. Cee Se MORGAN IS 65; HAPPY? NEW YORK.—The metropolitan | capitalist press engaged in violent | genuflexions and universal fawning today on the occasion of the 65th birthday of “Pirate” J. P. Morgan, Jeading inperialist-financier. Caer tran HIRD-DEGREE COPS IN SECOND ACT NEW YORK.—The second trial of) three cops charged with beating al prisoner, Hyman Stark, to death by third-degree methods is expected to be under way tonight. In the first trial the picked jury was “unable to agree.” ae ae POPE GETS 9 FANCY CARS ROME, Sept. 7—Pope Pius XI has| just received four Cadillacs and five Buicks to be used “for official duty.” ‘The cars were made by General Motors and the work was done by a special crew of Catholic workers, un- der the usual speed-up conditions. eee EPIDEMIC POSTPONES SCHOOL OPENING CAMDEN, N. J., Sept. 7—Fearing an epidemic of infantile paralysis, as a_ result of malnutrition, which is now spreading in Phila- delphia and adjoining suburbs, school officials 6§ Audubon and Pennsgrove townships have postponed the open- ing of public schools. ries FIRE INJURES AGED WOMAN NEW YORK.—Fire which broke out ldst night in a tenement house at 85 Columbia St. caused serious in- juries to Mrs. Becky Schloss, a 63- year-old woman. Her two daughters escaped unhurt. Syne Pai: JOBLESS SEAMEN POISONED BY BOOTLEG NEW YORK.—Three jobless sca- men “on the beach” at the foot of Henry St., Brooklyn, are today in the Kings County Hospital, suffering from wood alcohol poisoning as a result of drinking the same bootleg Hquor which killed three of their companions last night. ee ae CABLE BREAK KILLS 3 WORKERS CHICAGO, Ill—Three workers were killed and 8 severely injured when the cable of a large hoisting bucket broke and they fell 50 feet down a water tunnel shaft. Pe eee PREHISTORIC FORTS BERLIN.—About 400 prehistoric fortress or castle walls, many of them well preserved, have been found in the province of Brandenburg. The oldest of these walls date from the Bronze Age (900 to 600 B.C.). rahi Ser PREACHER IN BARREL ACT; JAILED BLACKPOOL, Eng., Sept. 7.—The Rev. Harold Davidson, rector of Stiffkey, was pinched by British cop- pers today. He was charged with “aiding and abetting the obstruction of a footpath” by sitting in a barrel at the County Fair on exhibition at three cents a look. Recently, the divine was convicted’ of immorality by a church tribunal. Pair see OPEN TRIAL OF FASCIST ‘The trial of Domenico Trombetta, #@ member of an Italian fascist group, ‘accused of the murder of Salvatore Arena, another fascist, who was shot in St. George, Staten Island, on July 4, opened yesterday at the Richmond County Court , Communist Candidates On Ballot In Maine; Try Now for Vermont chising of unemployed. The demand the right of the jobless to vote and to also get relief. ‘The Brunswick authorities tried to have ba bapa? petitions disqualified, but they failed. ‘The petitions have been filed at the state capitol. | Winning it * /Runs Against Those Who Represent Bosses NEW YORK. — William L. Patter- son, a leading Negro resident of Har- lem, was nominated yesterday by the Communist Party of New York as its candidate for Mayor of New York City, in the election of November 8th, to fill the vacancy left by the forced resignation of James Walker. A native of California, William L. Patterson has been in Harlem over @ period of years. He has been actively engaged as a member of the Execu- tive Board of the International La- bor Defense in the Scottsboro case. He is now in Washington, represent- ing the International Labor Defense in its struggle to release the Negro war veterans arrested after the use of armed force 2@ainst the Bonus Ex- peditionary Force, and charged with murder, which Patterson character- ized as a sheer frame-up. Patterson spent several years in the Soviet Union studying conditions there, especially in relation to the question of national minorities. On his return to the United States, he stated, “The Soviet Union is the only country in the world where there is no discrimination, the only country where there is equality for all races and nationalities.” Subsequently to his return from the Soviet Union, Patterson was ac- tive in the Metal Workers Industrial Union and in the National Miners In nominating, William L. Patter- son to run for Mayor of New York City, the Communist Party of New York issued a denunciation of a pro- posal made by Norman Thomas in a recent issue of the Jewish Daily Forward that the Republican, Demo- cratic and Socialist Parties should nominate Morris Hillquit as a fusion candidate aganist ex-Mayor Walker, who at that time maintained that he would run for re-election. William L. Patterson will have the support of the workers of New York rather than Morris Hillquit, accord- ing to the statement issued by the Communist Party of New York. The statement added, that the proposal by Thomas was only another attempt by the Socialist Party to misguide the workers into voting for a candidate whose private wealth and past activ- ities prove that he in no way repre- sents the workers. In his campaign for mayor, Pat- terson will carry on a militant fight against prevalent discrimination against the Negroes in all fields of endeavor. Well known for his struggle in behalf of the Negro peo- ple, Patterson will rally huge numbers of Negroes in behalf of the Platform of the Communist Party which is fighting the struggles of Negro as well as white workers “The Communist Party puts for- ward its best members as candidates, and the brave fight put up by Pat- terson for all workers, Negro and whites, makes him the logical can- didate of the workers for the office,” the announcement of the Communist Party stated Ryan and Henchmen Meeting on Next Cut for the Longshoremen NEW YORK — The officials of the International Longshoremen’s Asso- ciation and 100 delegates from all Ports are conferring today and Friday in the association headquarters, 164 Eleventh Ave. They will meet the employers next Monday at 80 Broad St. and discuss the next wage cut in the industry. The mere holding of such a con- ference phows the officials realize their workers are growing restless and rebellious. Last time, President Joseph Ryan simply signed a wage cut contract without saying anything to anybody, and it resulted in a strike that tied up several ports. The Marine Workers Industrial Union urges longshoremen to strike against the new wage cut being cooked up at these conferences, and pledges full support. Longshoremen should elect their own rank and file united front strike committee at each pier, and unite with the unemploed for strike action. FOUR KILLED IN BUILDING ACCIDENTS CHICAGO, Sept. 7.—‘Two building accidents took the lives of four work- ers and injured sixteen others last night. Three were killed when they were going down a 185 foot shaft in a bucket. The cable holding the bucket snapped. The other death oc- curred when a condemned building being torn down collapsed. to put the Com inist candidates on the ballot in Vermont. Blanks for signatures are being circulated, and Eight in Vermon' ee. Vt., Sept. i so fariby. the end of the week, it is hoped to accomplish the task bidet Worker Friday. guidance. day. But our paper supply is gone. | charges must be met. The Daily Worker has no million- aire owners, as capitalist newspapers have, te subsidize it from profits wrung out of the exploitation of workers and farmers. The Daily Worker treasury is in your pockets It is the dollars of the workers! stronger, fiercer. Patterson, Negro Worker, for Mayor NO PAPER FOR TOMORROW'S ISSUE! All our print paper is gone. Without immediate pay- / ment of our paper bill we can get no more. There may be no Daily Worker tomorrow! Unless a last-minute response to our appeal for funds reaches us before 8 p. m, tonight, there will be no Daily The Daily Worker you are reading was made possible only by the response of various branches of the Interna- tional Workers Order, which brought in a total of $215.59 to pay the minimum expenses late last night. Donations received by mail and in person added $316.01 to this sum, bringing the total donations from last Tuesday to Wednes- day noon up to $531.60. Trucking and postal Turn them in! Upon your answer depends the success of scores of class battles, where workers look to your Daily Worker for The wave of class struggle daily grows The ‘Daily’ must not stop even for a But the decision lies with you! You can keep it! You MUST keep it. Rush all funds by air, by wire or in person, today, now! To the Daily Worker, 50 East 13th Street, New York City. It is within your power, and your power alone, to keep the ‘Daily’ alive. what you have done. ’ STEEL WORKERS BACK YOUTH DAY Many Anti-War Meets in Chicago CHICAGO, Sept. 7.—A presidential election straw vote taken at an out- ing of the Young Peoples Socialist League held at the Workmen's Circle Colony on August 27th resulted in Foster and Ford, the Communist candidates, getting the overwhelming majority, according to the Special Chicago Edition of the Young Worker. Horrified at the result of the vote the old bureaucrats demanded that those who had shown their disgust with the antics of Thomas and the Socialist Party announce themselves. For a while there was silence. Then |one young person got up and gave his reasons. Following him all the jyoung people who had voted Red stood up. They were threatened with expulsion by the terrified misleaders. \ This Chicago action shows that the young workers in the ranks of the Ypsels realize that only the candi- dates of the Communist Party are fighting for the special needs of the youth and against imperialist war. ‘The young socialist wagkers are cal- led to participate in the Interna- tional Youth Day Demonstrations Sept. 9th. Victory in Homewood. » The fight for unemployed relief in which the Yor Commun- ist Léague and Young Pioneers has been pushing the demands of the young workers forced a victory in Homewood, Pa. last week’ where a Hunger March was held. The major- ity of the children have received shoes and clothes, This demand was raised at the March, ‘The next: step is to force free food for the children of the unemployed. And this will be one of the demands raised by the International Youth Day on Friday. CLEVELAND, Sept. 7.— Over 500 workers who had come to the Am-~- erican Steel and Wire plant in an- swer to a fake job adertisement last Tuesday promised to participate in the demonstration at 46: and Out- waithe on International Youth Day. ‘The ad had called for 500 men. The bosses told the assembled unemploy- ed workers, many of them young: “Well, it was put into the papers, but Wo have n0 jokey ” a ll Tomorrow will tell the story of DAILY WORKER MANAGEMENT. § Yipsels in Chicago Vote Red in Straw \Poll;, Youth Win Relief in Penna,-=="""" | New Plans Murders a % ? ‘ie content with the r “Vashington massacre, sewn hiding beh s and Communists’ ¢ a new wave of terror ex-ervicemen who demand bonus. the REVIVE DYNAMITE ATTACK ON. VETS Bonus Conference In Cleveland Will | Answer i} WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 7— Although stories about dynamite be-| fing found in the veterans’ camp at Avocostia, during the bon’ march, hie > been completely disproved time time again, a new move to make fake stories a basis for new r against ex-servicemen who de- ond the bonus was begun today th the announcement that three 1 grand jury Friday to testify they dynamite, guns and pistols in he bonus army camps. The Department of Justice, which admitted it had filled the veterans’ camps with thugs and stool-pigeons to stir up trouble, announced it had three affidavits that dynamite had been found. The three “witnesses,” the Department of Justice said, will ‘be ‘asked to identify ~ photographs of Discovery of dynamite and ammu- nition conveniently placed by gov- ernment stool-pigeons is an old trick that precedes a campaign of police terror. Only a wide mass movement | will break this new terror drive. The| National Veterans’ Conference at} Cleveland on Sept. 23, 24 and 25 will rally great masses of veterans from all over the United States for a united front for the immediate pay- ment of the bonus, and in support Fusion Socialists (Editorial) IR. Norman Thomas, presidential candidate of the Socialist Party, offers Mr. Morris Hillquit as fusion candidate for mayor of the city of New York. What is a fusion candidate? It is a candidate on whom all shades of political opinion agree as an “honest” man. A fusion candidate is to oppose corruption. He is to head an “honest” government for the people by the people. This is how the capitalists speak of “fusion,” and this is how Mr. Norman Thomas seconds his capitalist colleagues. The socialists want Hillquit for a fusion candidate. If he were elected he would be pledged to serve “all the people.” But since the people are divided Into exploiters and exploited, and since power is in the hands of the exploiters, Morris Hillquit would naturally be their servant and tool. The chief purpose of a city administration under capitalism is to maintain “law and order.” Norman Thomas offers a socialist candidate to maintain “law and order.” Norman Thomas believes firmly that Morris Hillquit is the proper man for the proper job. Perhaps he would appoint Mr. Waldman or Mr. Panken or Mr. Abe Cahan as chief of police, Mr. Hillquit and his “socialist” chief of police would club pickets, slug workers’ demonstrations and pack into jail dissatisfied proletarians fighting for higher wages or unemployment insurance. Mr. Hillquit is ready to serve the capitalist masters in evicting unemployed who are in- capable of paying their rent. * * * LL other functions of the city administration under capitalism that equally exist to protect the property of the rich and to keep the ex- ploited down, city taxation, city education, housing laws, city sanitation— to be a “good” mayor of a capitalist city, the mayor must do his utmost to help the wealthy squeeze out more wealth of the workers, and to make the workers—in the present crisis—bear all the burdens of an insane economic situation not of their making. ‘The socialists of America are ready to assume responsibility for cap- italism in New York, They are thereby showing that they are ready to support and advance capitalism as such. They have manifested this in the few cities where they had power like Milwaukee, Wisconsin and Read- ing, Pa. They manifested this throughout the world wherever they were allowed by the capitalists to share in the capitalist government on behaif of the capitalist system. Norman Thomas throws out a life belt to big business in New York— and not only in New York. The Tammany administration is utterly discredited, A stench is rising from the very little digging that was done only on the surface of capitalist graft and corruption. The masses are disgusted. Their disgust is fuel on the fire of their revolt against wage cuts, unemployment, lack of relief, capitalist terror and imperialist war preparations. ‘The masses are beginning to declare their dissatisfaction in unmistakable terms. Their upsurge may actually harm the capitalists of New York and the capitalists of the country. Along comes Mr. Norman ‘Thomas and offers a ready remedy. . Let us unite—Hoover, Republicans, Roosevelt, Democrats and the So- cialist Party—-we socialists offer you exploiters our hand. We are ready to head the alliance. Unite for what? Fuse for what? For what other purpose will the exploiters join hands with the socialists? Of course, to effectively carry through the program of the capitalists. Give us power, say the socialists, and we will create a fiction of “honest? government to fool the masses. Give us power and we will keep the onrushing workers in check. Is it not clear that the socialists are assistants to the two major cap- italist parties and as lackeys are serving capitalism in the crisis? Socialist workers, what do you say to this servility of your leadgrs? WORKERS STRIKE Led by New Union; Fight Wage Cut ° NEW YORK —The workers of the Rex Product Corp. went on strike yesterday under the leadership of the New York Local of the Steel and Metal Workers Industrial Union. Over 150 are employed by this firm. The wages of these workers have been cut continually. The bh pt on making promises that as soon as things got busy again he’d return the cut, The workers realize now how much a boss’s promise is worth. The shop got very busy, orders piling up, and instead of returning the previo! again. With the help of the union a com- mittee was organized inside the shop which rallied the workers behind it 1, The return of the last wage-cut. 2. 20% increase in wages of those hired since the last cut. 3. No forced overitme. Time and time, 4. Recognition of the shop com- mittee, 5. Reinstatement of those who were fired for union activity. Yesterday evening the strikers turned out in a body to speak to those workers who have been tricked by the boss to remain at work. After hearing the arguments of the strik- ers, these workers promised they would join the strike today. ‘The Union calls upon its members’ to participate in the picketing and help to win this strike. The shop is located on University Street between 11th and 12th Sts. Metal Strike Pickets Fraternize With Those of Doll, Toy Strike NEW YORK. - ickets of the Rex Novelty Shop at University Place and 11th St., where a strike ts led by the Steel and Metal Workers Industrial Union, fraternize freely with the pickets of a doll and toy shop on strike near by. strike is led by socialist and Love- stoneite officials, who are trying to keep their members from learning Union Unity League Unions. This fraternization should continue, and tage piace in otkaer aUKeS: MAYOR MOVES TO SPLIT RANKS OF RELIEF MARCH; TIME ADVANCED 2 HOURS McKee Says He Will See Delegation of 100 But | Won’t See Main Body of Marchers All Workers Must Be at Union Square at 10 A. M.Sharp Saturday to Defeat Move NEW YORK.—Hiding behind a smoke-screen of demagogy in which he wes supported by all the capitalist newspapers in the city and the Civil iberties Union, Mayor McKee yesterday tried to divide the ranks of the ving unemployed by announcing that he would receive the delegation of 100 workers elected by the jobless to present their demands, but that he | woula have to receive them before PLOT FOR NEW; the Department's intended victims. | the tens of thousands of Relief archers would arrive at the City all McKee's announcement that he would receive the delegation of 100 was hailed by all the capitalist press far as to admit—for the first time in its anti-workingclass history—that police have beey in the habit of breaking un workineclass demon- strations. Hitherto the Times has described the murderous attacks on workers’ demonstrations as “Red shich have been “quelled” by ivil Liberties Praises McKee The “new” policy of McKee, which was hailed by the Civil Liberties Un- ion as a move “to restore faith in de- institutions,” is precisely that: a move to delude the workers into thinking that the Ci govern- ment will of its own volition taxe care of the more than a million ‘un- employed workersin the city and that the workers will not have to exert their united pressure to force relief from the City. ‘The “new” policy of the Tammany Mayor is the other half of the nor- mal capitalist policy of deceit plus terror, using one or the other when it best suits the purposes of the bosses. The granting of the permit for the. Relief March and McKee’s the result of the mass pressure ex- erted on scores of thousands of New York workers in more than 300 organiza- tions: it is not the result of a change of heart towards the work- ers in New York by the Tammany government and the bankers and landlords it supports. Start Advanced Two Weeks As a result of McKee’s statement that he would receive the delega- tion at 12 noon on Saturday, al- theuch the Relief Marchers are scheduled to arrive at City Hall at 2, all workers are notified that the time of the start of the March has been advanced two hours so that the Marchers will be outside of City Hall while the delegation is inside presenting the demands‘to McKee. This will necessitate workers mobilizing at Union Square at 10 a.m. sharp instead of at their local headquarters at 10 a.m. It is advisable that this issue of the Daily Worker be posted in all workers’ organizations in the City so that directions for the March will a “change” in the policy of the City government towards working- ass demonstrations, The New York mes, vicious Red baiter, went so; agreeing to receive the delegation is|miners and of National Miner, the City government by | thousands ‘MINERS TO FCHT _ ANTHRACITE CUT | |Lewis Plotting With Companies Now BULLETIN NEW. YORK.—Capitalist press agencies report the United Mine Workers’ officials yesterday de- clared they would accept a wage- It is intimated that they will | cut. seek to cover this betrayal of the miners by asking some promise to hire more men. This is the exact formula by which the Railroad | Brotherhood officia's put over the 10 per cent cut on tire railroad men in February, and 100,000 were dis- charged after the promise to hire more was made. The National Miners U the Rank and File Opposition in t | UMWA have pointed out for m now that the wage cut was cc and have urged formation of ra and file strike committees in ea local of the UMWA, to lead a jagainst the cut. The con | should proceed on a united front: bes- is, being. composed of miners belong- ‘ing to. the UMWA, of unorgan! ployed area members. The unem in the Anthracite | should have representation. | fon ‘Unemployed Council | Calls for Bicycles for the Relief March The Unemployed Councils | whose auspices the tens of th | of New York’s unemployed will mare’ | Saturday, made the followin | nouncements and requests All workers owning mot undet | headquarters of Council |19th St. if they can serve as messen- |gers during the Relief March; the | meeting of the delegation of 100, and of the marshalls and captains that | was scheduled for Saturday morning {has been changed to Friday night at |8 p. m. at 4 West 18th St., the head- quarters of the Food Workers In- dustrial Union; and finally, workers are urged to distribute the remain- |ing 100,000 leafle that remain in the offive of the Unemployed Council cuts, the boss slashed their wages | to strike for the following demands: | a half for those willing to work over- | |not be confused. All workers must | at 5 East 19th St. Although almost be on Union Square at “10 sharp so three-quarters of a million leaflets that the March will reach City Hall| have already been distributed, it is at noon! urgent that the last 100,000 be dis- ‘The Delegation of 100 who will | ‘buted. | present the demands of the «starving unemployed for immediate relief will VOTE COMMUNIST FOR report back to the Relief Marchers " as soon a8 McKee tells them his an-| Unemployment and Social In- swer and that of the City govern-| surance at the expense of the state ment. and employers. Foster Chicago Speech | of Special Importance |To Discuss Vital Program for Toilers; Comes | Directly from Mine and Farm Strikes Speaks in Large Hall of Coliseum, Saturday at | 7:30 p. m.; Workers Parade to Meeting CHICAGO, IL, Sept. 7.—William Z. Foster, Presidential candidate of the Communist Party, will deliver the message of the Communist Party to the workers of Chicago on the mass revolt of the Southern Illinois miners against their leaders and betrayers of the A. F. of L., against the coal | operators and against their police, thugs and gangsters, who are all trying to break the strike against an 18 pe! The Doll and Toy | cent wage-cut. Foster is speaking now in Illinois, miners in Gillespie and Springfield and to the striking farmers at Des Moines, Iowa. | The workers of Chicago will hear |the Presidential candidate of the |Communist Party on Saturday, Sept. |10, at 8 p.m., at the large hall of the Chicago Coliseum, 15th ang Wabash. He will take up the heroic struggles of the unemployed workers and ex- servicemen all over the country for | Unemployment Insurance and for the full payment of the bonus, Saturday the police terrorized all \the meetings of the Communist jon the northwest side. The workers jof Chicago will come in masses the | Missouri and Towa; he spoke to the| oP a a fai aca a ; against this terror of the police and to ‘demand the right of the Com- jmunist Party to carry on an open }mass election campaign, the right | for our candidates to speak, not only be Chicago, but throughout the state of Illinois. Two Parades. All workers of the South Side gather at 35th St. and Wabash Ave on Saturday at 6 p.m., from w! they will parade and dem e |the Coliseum. All workers of the | West and Northwest Side will gather at 1:30 p.m. at Peoples Auditorium, 2457 W. Chicago Ave., from where a truck and machine parade will start, to go through the working-class neighborhoods in preparation for the the militant tactics of the Trade | Party and Young Communist League | Foster meeting at night. Foster’s speech well be of special to|importance for the workers and Coliseum meaiinn a panies % throughout the country. un