The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 24, 1932, Page 1

50 INJURED IN INDIA SPINAGAR, India, Sept, 23,—Fifty were reported injured when police attacked a demonstration of Indian workers today protesting against the @pen flaunting of British imperialist terror which. was part of a Boy Scouts, exhibition week. geet iat GOLD STAR MOTHERS , NEW YORK,—Two hundred Gold Star Mothers will leave here for Washington Sunday to observe New York Gold Star Mothers Day at the tomb of the “Unknown Soldier” to- day, in ceremonies which the bosses tmake use of to hide the frantic pre- Parations for a new crop of millions of “unknown soldiers,” fn the pilgrimage to Europe, the American bosses brutally jim-crowed the Negro Gold Star mothers, ae OIL GRAFTERS CHANGE NAME DENVER, Col. — The $3,000,000 Midwest Refining Co,, which got the major slice of the Teapot Dome oil Scandal graft, will have its names changed under what its owner, the Standard Oil Co, of Indiana, calls a dissolution, to try to buy the mem- ory of the robbery enginereq by the former Republican cabinet, eames SOVIET EXPEDITION DELAYED MOSCOW, Sept. 23,—The icebreak- er Sibiriakov, with which Soviet scientisfs @re seeking ® northeast passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific, has been delayed by a broken Propellor and will be towed into the nearest harbor, Poa Nees | TAKING NO CHANCES SPOKAN, Wash.—The reactionary Spokane School Board, which at first wanted to prevent Norman Thomas from speaking in the high school auditorium, announced that after Studying the program of the Socialist Party the school board was quite willing to let Norman Thomas have the full use of the auditorium, » © SLAVERY IN UNITED STATES GENEVA, Sept, 23.—Natives in Ethopia are kidnapped and shipped to slave markets around the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf, says the re- Port of the League of Nations Slavery Committee today to the League Council. The report admits that actual slavery exists also in the United States, os oe COSGRAVE DOESN’T FEAR DE VALERA DUBLIN, Sept, 23,—Former Presi- dent Cosgrave today said that the hints that he would be arrested if his attacks on the government were continued did not mean much as De Valera did not have the courage to do such a thing, Cosgrave has been organizing a fascist army without any interference. cag eae CHIEF OF POLICE KEEPS LOOT SOMERVILLE, N, J., Sept, 23.— Chief of Police Smith of North Plain- field, N. J. was arrested today for keeping part of the goods stolen by two young fellows who are now in the .state. reformatory, “Smith has been indicted by the grand jury, eae wt MUTUAL ADMIRATION AGAINST WORKERS SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 23,—1 ram Johnson whose “progressivism” was praised by Roosevelt yesterday, today did the presidential candidate a return favor by praising him, John- son the “progressive” was the original sponsor of the bills attacking foreign born workers, ON THE BALLOT IN KENTUCKY Communists _ Up for State, Nat’l Office FRANKFORT Ky,, Sept. 23. — De- Spite all technical obstacles and court interference, as well as interference by coal company thugs, the Commu- nist Party is now on the ballot in this state with both local and national candidates. On Wednesday, also, petitions were filed with the secretary of state to place Frank Reynolds and George Conway on the ballot as Communist nominees for congress. Since all dis- tricts have been abolished by state law in this election, the candidates ‘will run as candidates for congress- men at large. _) JFORD DELAYED: - BUT 1,000 MEET Tucson Workers Score Arrest in Los Angeles TUCSON, Ariz., Sept. 23—James ‘W. Ford, Communist candidate for Vice-President, did not appear here, where a big mass meeting was arranged for him last night, because his arrest in Los Angeles has upset the schedule, and he had to proceed directly to Proenix, Ariz. A thousand workers gathered here last night just the same and were addressed by local speakers, who ex- plained the Communist program for 2 united front campaign of workers, unemployed workers, wat veterans and farmers against starvationfi for unemployment insurance and relief, against wage cuts, against imperial- ist war, for farm relief and payment of the soldiers’ bonus. The meeting adopted a resolution condemning the brutal police attack on Ford’s Los Angeles meeting, Tues- day night. It demanded the release of all workers arrested. It pointed out thas the arrest of Ford, even though he was later released in Los Angeles, and the smashing of the Communist election rally he was to address was an attempt to prevent the workers from getting the Com- munist message of unity and struggle against starvation. VOTE COMMUNIST Against Imperialist War; for the defense of the Chinese people and of the Soviet Union, \ ss RG ‘ me * VOTE COMMUNIST FOR: ‘Unemployment and Social Insurance at the expense of the state and em- ployers. Against Hoover’s wage-cutting policy. Emergency relief for the poor farm- ers without restrictions by the govern. ment and banks; exemption of poor farmers from taxes, and no forced collection of rent or debts Dail ‘(Section of the Communist International) VOTE COMMUNIST FOR: 4. Equal rights for the Negroe: and self= determination for th 1 all cal §. Against capitalist terror; a forms of suppression of the rights of workers 6. Against imperialist war; for the de- fense of the Chinese people and of the Soviet Union, Vol. IX, No. 229 Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at G26 New York, N.Y., under the Act of March 3, 1879. NEW YORK, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1932 CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents VETERAN’S CONFERENCE OPENS WITH DEMANDS FOR BONUS PAYMENTS Building Mass United Front; Delegates Plan immediate cash payment of the bo- nus, The conference will open tonight at 7:30 p, m. in the Ukrainian Labor Temple, The second and third ses- sion will be held at Bohemian Hall, 4941 Broadway, “We're here to organize a new mass march to the capitol in Washington, to force the bankers and rich men to pay us our back wages,” said the leader of a delegation from Balti- more. “Resolutions are all right, but mass action under rank and file leadership is what will win our back wages,” said a delegate who arrived yesterday from Superior, Wisc, It is the general opinion of the del- egates, just before the opening of the conference that a new bonus march must meet the opening of congress, Among the delegations which ar- tived today was one of 36 from New York, New England and New Jersey, This is not all of the delegations from towns in these states, other delegates having come on separately. The New York group of 36 came in a truck which had been on the road three days, and arrived here fol- Jowing a 36-hour drive without sleep, The program proposed by seyeral delegations of veterans includes fhe following demands: 1, Immediate payment of the bo- nus, 2. Increase in disability compen- sation, 3, Unemployment insurance at. the expense of the state and em- ployers, > 4, Against jim-crowism of Negroes, 5, Against imperialist war -|ENGLISH TEXTILE STRIKE BETRAYED Union Heads, Bosses Agree on Cut MANCHESTER, England, Sept, 23. —The sell-out of the 200,000 weavers on strike in Lancashire cotton mills seems to be about completed. It was announced here today that the union officials and the employers had | agreed on and 8 and one third per |cent wage cut, and had only to de- cide whetther 2,000 blacklisted men would be reinstated, It has been apparent from the beginning that the officials were will- ing to give their own union members a pay cut. Right at the start of the strike they offered a seven per cent cut, Now they have, in a conference called by the minister of labor, raised the amount of the cut. The British Minority Movement (eft wing movement) is gaining in- fluence among the strikéts, and there may be resistance to the sell out, DISCREDIT NAZI TRIAL WITNESSES (Cable by Inprecor) BERLIN, Sept. 23, — Yesterday's session of the political trial against the nine anti-fascist workers accused of murder, again saw the discrediting of the prosecution witnesses wife of a fascist tradesman testiied that she recognized the ac- cused Tobehn and Krueger as the men whose arrest she caused follow- ing the shooting, but even the prose- cution regretfully admitted that the men whom the witness had arrested wer totally different men and after- ward released as having no connec- tion with the collision, The creddi- bility of the witness was thus utterly destroyed, Further attempts of the fascist witnesses to identify the accused utterly failed, At today’s session the prosecution witness Engelhardt gave evidence completely corraborating the accused men’s statemnts. He des- cribed how a fascist began shooting immediately after the workers turned the corner, He complained that the Police did the utmost to influence his testimony and suggested the recogni- tion of the accused Sterdt, Latest Bulletin On Foster’s | Condition NEW YORK, Sept. 23.—The following bulletin was issued to- day on the condition of W. Z, Foster, Communist presidential candidate. “The pain in the region of the heart slightly diminished; sleep only possible with sedative; stringent restriction as to visitors and phone calls to be continued, | Dr, Solon Bernstein” had New March on Washington for Back Wages Representatives Still Coming In from All Parts | Of Country; Workers Show Solidarity CLEVELAND, Ohio, Sept. 23.—With delegates still coming in from ali | points of the compass, with greetings and pledges of solidarity starting to | pour in from all kinds of veterans’ and workers’ organizations throughout | the country, the National Rank and File Veterans Conference prepared | this afternoon to get down to business of building a mass united front for | WORKERS, FARM DELEGATES 10 VET CONFERENCE Served inWar and Now Demand Back Pay; Jobless Offers Aid By HARRY RAYMOND CLEVELAND, Ohio.—How differ- ent is the rank and file veterans’ conference here to a conference of the officer led American Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars. There are no secretaries of war, or republican, democratic, and socialist politicians among them to tell them like they told the Legion convention that to demand the bonus is “ungrateful.” No! All the delegates who have arrived are hard working men and women, farmers and workers and a few of the ruined petty bourgeoisie, fighters all. There is forming here united front for the bonus, unem- ployment insurance and against im- perialist war. i 2 The delegates are all talking an- other bonus march to Washington. “We must greet Congress the next time it meets with a real militant march, a better one than. the. last one, led by the rank and file.” That ir the way one of the delegates put it. ‘Women Delegates. The delegates began streaming in Wednesday night. The first delega- tion to arrive was the St. Paul and Minneapolis group. Albert Johnson, an unemployed electrician, and Mrs. Walter Peuschel were the delegates from the St. Paul post o f the Work- ers Ex-Servicemen’s League. Mrs. Peuschel came in place of her hus- band, who ha dgotten a job at the last moment, “I’m here to bring forward the idea of women’s auxiliaries of the Workers Ex-Servicemen’s League,” declared young Mrs. Peuschel. “We women belong in the ex-service- men’s fight just as much as the men do.” P. S. Green, still suffering from poison gas, and two other world war vets, Bob Bridich and Frank Rem- ackel, all of whom were in the bonus march to Washington, were delegates from Minnesota, elected at a mass meeting of 3,000 at Bridge Square last week. The Minnesota delegation came through in two days in Mrs. Marie’s |car, on money raised at mass meet- ings. From Superior. The second delegation to arrive, from the Superior; Wis. post of the W. E. S. If, were four days on the road in box cars, a gruelling journey of 800 miles. The represent the Su- perior post of 76 members. Big leathernecked types are these three vets, John Karling is a moulder, Ray McGill is a switchman and Paul Borchard is a lumberjack, all unem- ployed, They spoke of the import- ance of building a powerful united front working class movement in Superior, which is the biggest grain and iron ore shipping center in the country. Delegates from Pennsylvania, Min- nesota, Missouri, Michigan, Wiscon- sin, Michigan and Ohio following their arrival were treated to a steam- ing meal at the headquarters of the Central Avenue Unemployed Council. A committee of veterans and local workers have been assigned to the job of collecting food and feeding the delegates. ‘Two of the delegates from Kansas City, who arrived late Thursday night made the 740 mile journey on the tops of passenger trains. Arriving about the same time was a delegation of 12 from Milwaukee. Pace Arrives. John Pace, leader of the rank and file bonus march to Washington, came in town yesterday and regis- tered as a delegate from Lincoln Park, Mich. Pace has just completed with a place to stay. meet them and take them to their homes - ~~ & a in Cleveland at the present time a) Thousands at Rojek Mass Funeral Demand | BACK TO TWO PAGES? go back to two pages? since late July. questions :. ago? Have we responded with throttled it at every turn? If not, THEN JUST BEEN DONE? ing class struggles. * * * four pages. We took organization, NOT because PAGE PAPER! working class movement OMRADES: Shall the Daily Worker This question faces all of us. The time has come when we must take stock of our- selves and our work. The campaign to raise a fund of $40,000 has been going on Now, after more than two months, we MUST ask ourselves these Has the Daily been brought out of the danger of suspension which faced it at the beginning of the drive, and which forced it to drop to two pages not so long ts N THE light of this, we must ourselves measure the tasks which confront us Realizing the tremendous, all-im- portant need of a powerful, solid, func- tioning press, shortcomings in the Daily Worker drive and strength to the needs of the Daily? Have we succeeded in helping our Daily to pay off those bills which have Comrades, the three days when the Daily Worker was forced to appear in two pages is still fresh in our minds. remember the single sheet, issued at a time when our many struggles demanded | the entire strength of our press. Because |] of these growing struggles, the fight of | the courageous jobless workers for bread and unemployment relief in many cities throughout the country, the burning news of our election campaign—all of these fronts of our activity suffered. - physically impossible for a) Daily Worker —cut in half—to adequately treat and give guidance to the rising wave of work- HEN, after three days, we returned to must be taken by a revolutionary workers’ cient funds to return to four pages, but BECAUSE THE DAY-TO DAY NEEDS OF THE MASSES DEMANDED.A FOUR We returned to four pages because we needed our greatest strength to combat the hunger and terror of boss rule, and to establish that bond of | leadership and guidance without which no with its greatest strength. of paratus as press.” all our efforts now. WHAT HAS __ up till now, ACTIONS accordingly for the immediate future. We all organizations should arouse had received workers and It was the words of Comrade Stalin: “The press whose aid the Party is able to speak with the workers daily, hourly, in a language which meets the day-to-day needs of the struggle. other means at our disposal which are as powerful in the establishment ideological Party and the masses, no other ap- Comrades, the letters you have read on page one of the Daily in the past two days, from workers and workers’ groups and is the only weapon with There are no bonds between the flexible as the Party * * * we must recognize our and set our plans and throughout the country, you to a revolutionary un- derstanding of the needs of the Daily. IT IS AN INDISPENSABLE WEAPON IN OUR STRUGGLE! We must face the facts. day afternoon, all that the Daily Worker Until Thurs- from the districts, from mass organizations, was $14,542.56. This means that we have yet to raise $25,457.44 to achieve our quota, which is the MINIMUM amount necessary if the Daily is Collect all the campaign * a risk which we had suffi- to carry on! available funds. Speed up to raise 50,000 half-dollars. Raise the question of the Daily Worker at the next meeting of your club or group or organization. fellow-workers to ACT! funds to the Daily Worker, 50 East 13th St., New York City. Get your comrades and And rush all ee Comrades:—Here is my share toward raising the $40,000 Emergency Fund of the Daily Worker. PAVE: sce de sceescs P Address , can function Let us recall city ...... aha NEW YORK, N. Y,, Sept. 23,—Scott, Nearing, well known revolutionary writer and lecturer, announced today that he will support the Communist Party anq its candidates, Wm, Z. Foster and James W. Ford in the coming national elections because “the Communist Party alone has a clear line of policy, leading to an effective substitute for the chaos of the existing economic m,” ‘The former professor of the Uni- versity of Pennsylvania declared that the only issue in this campaign is the one of bread for the masses of people and not prohibition or cur- tency, “Mass starvation challenges us,” he said, “to reorganize our eco- nomic system in such a way that every one will be guaranteed the ne- cessities of life,” After pointing out the futility of even expecting anything of the two old parties, Mr. Nearing attacked the Socialist Party leadership as “defend- ing the bosses and their plunder against the attacks of the aroused workers, Wherever their leaders have gained power—in Germany, in Aus- tria, in Belgium, in Great Britain— they have proved to be little brothers of capitalism,” Scott Nearing’s statement in full reads: “Mass hunger is the chief question in this election. Prohibition is an incident; currency reform is a red herring, For millions, this is a cam- paign for bread and butter, “Men and women and children all ‘Millions of workers are jobless. Mil- lions of farmers cannot get cash for their crops, Even the professional man and the small business man are feeling the pinch of the worst period of hard times in the history of the counry, “This suffering is unnecessary’ Cotton and wheat, machinery, trained workers already exist in sufficient numbers to give every human being in the United States food, shelter, education and recreation, Mass star- vation challenges us to reorganize our economic system in such a way that every one will be guaranteed the ne- cessaries of life, “Will the Republicans do this? “The question answers itself. They will not and cannot, The present hard times after eight consecutive years of Republican rule. They are Republican hard times, “Will the Democrats rebuild Amer- ican economy? “There is not a chance, Read their platform, Listen to their speakers. ‘They stand shoulder to shoulder with their Republican fellow-profiteers, defending the very economic system which is tumbling to rack and ruin about our ears, “Can the Socialists meet the test? “Not for a moment, Wherever their methods have been tried; wher- ever their leaders have gained power —in Germany, in Austria, in Belgium, in Great Britain—they have proved to be little brothers of capitalism, ad- voeating minor reforms, and in each \ lover the United States are in want, crisis defending the bosses and their r . Scott Nearing for Communist Ticket; Calls Socialist Heads “Little Brothers of Capitalism” Says Only Communists in Forefront of Struggle to Build New Society Plunder against the attacks of the aroused workers. “One other party remains—the Communist Party, Internationally, it is the acknowledged leader of the op- presséd masses and peoples, It is directing the vastly important work of Socialist construction in the Soviet Union, In the United States it has been in the forefront of the struggle to organize and lead in the direction of a new social order. Of all the par- ties in the present campaign, the Communist Party alone has a clear line of policy, leading to an effective substitute for the chaos of the exist- ing economic system, “The United States, North America, the whole capitalist world must be rescued from starvation, war and fascism, The Soviet workers must be defended in their historic work of so- cialist construction, The Communist Party is the only Party that is even! pretending to shoulder this task, and I am therefore supporting that Party and its candidates, Wm. Z, Foster and James W, Ford, in the present campaign,” in, NEW YORK, N. Y.—James W. Ford, vice-presidential candidate of the Communist Party, will speak in St. Louis, Mo,, Oct. 5; Sparta, Ill, Oct, 7; Alton, Til, Oct, 8; Springfield, | Ill, Oct, 9; Davenport, Iowa, Oct. 11; La Crosse, Wisc., Oct. 12; Fon-du-Lac, Wisc,, Oct, 13; Sheboygan, Wisc., Oct, 15; and Kenosha, Wisc., Oct. 15, si» ? STRIKE GOES ON TO WIN Ousting of Mayor in South River, N. J. SHALL THE “DAILY” GO Troopers and Police; | who was slain whilt playing a game MILITIA BOMB MINERS’ PICKETS |Leads Seabs into Mine. Near Taylorville | TAYLORVILLE, Iil., Sept, 23.—One hundred and eighty militia armer with machine ° guns, rifles, bayonets | and tear gas bombs, formed around | the Langleyville mine of the Peabody | Coal Co, here yesterday and smashed | a picket line of miners fighting the 18 per cent wage cut, | | | | | The four Peabody Company mines | |here were closed shortly after the | United Mine Workers district and in- | ternational officials disregarded the | two votes of the miners, and agreed to the wage cut. The mines were {closed by a march of 15,000 men and women in the middle of August, | Several days ago the militia were brought in after two harmless bombs were set off by a provocateur.in Tay~ |lorville, Then“Superintendent W. C. |Argust of the company announced |that one of the four mines, No 9 at Langleyville near Taylerville, would | reopen yesterday morning A handful jof scabs appeared, the pickets massed jin hundreds to stop them, and the militia showered the picket’ line with tear gas bombs, breaking it up twice | when it reformed, and, allowing the | |scabs through, Adjutant ‘General | | Carlos E. Black has sent another full | |company of machine gunners to add | |to the force of national guardsmen | already here, He has ‘published an | order prohibiting all picketing, | | | ORGANIZEFOR | DOCK STRUGGLE Red Hook Longshore- | men Building Com- mittees wa | NEW YORK. — Over 75 longshore- men from the Red, Hook section of | Brooklyn met at the call of the Ma- | rine Workers Industrial Union in its} hall at 293 Columbia St., and made preparations to organize a struggle against the wage cut set for October First. The longshoremen spoke from the | floor and told how they are forced to pay graft to the International Long- |shoremen’s Association officials to get a day’s work. Now, in addition, Pres- ident Ryan of the I. L. A. has agreed | |to reduce the wages from 85 cents | per hour to 75, and to cut the over-| time from $1.20 per hour to $1.10. The | companies are asking overtime be cut to $1 flat per hour, and probably Ry-. jan will find some way to compro- mise that, or grant it altogether. ‘The longshoremen left the M. W. I. U. meeting pledged to organize dock committees and rank and file com- mittees in the I. L. A. locals, and de- mand public negotiations with the companies, and all agreements be submitted for vote to the longshore- men. A mass meeting is being plan- ned. Y. C. L. Scottsboro Demonstration In Harlem on Oct. 5 NEW YORK.—The Young Com~- munist League is organizing a protest demonstration for October 5 to de- | mand the release of the nine Scotts- |boro Negro boys, The demonstraion | will begin from 120th and Lenox Ave,, at 6 p, m, with a parade through | Harlem. | ‘See. 4 Membership . Meeting Postponed EW YORK.—The Section | Committee of Section Four | | (District Two) announces that the membership meeting called for this coming Monday night is postponed to Oct. 3. The post- ponement is made in order to permit the Commission to com- VICTORIES IN 14 SHOPS Two More Protest Strikes Make Third In Week | in Denunciation of Murder of Boy Seventy-Three More Workers Arrested by Total Now Over 90 SOUTH RIVER N. J., Sept. 23.—Aroused to a white-hot anger at the | murder last Monday of Walter Rojek by a police bullet, the entire worki class population of this tiny industrial center joined needle workers today in a mass funeral for the 9-year-old son of a striker, the 1,800 striking of marbles. A demand will be at the next Council me Mayor resign immediately Walter was killed while police ai company gunmen were firing h dreds of shots at the strikers i attempt to break their spirit prevent the spread of their rap’ growing victories. 90 Workers Arrested His death was followed by the en- raged strikers chasing the po! deputized gunmen six blocks throu the city to the Borough Hall and keeping them there for six hour until state troopers took over town. The troopers and police have sin arrested more than ninety workers, 73 of them yesterday, and charged them with “interfering” with thin while they were firing on the str! ers. Warrants are o ut for fifty more workers, including the two represen- tatives of the Workers International Relief, which has been supplying the strikers with food. Among the local workers arrested were the entir South River Strikers! Con- tinue your heroic Strike until you win! The Moffit lies will not give you wages! The workers of the whole country are aroused over this murderous attack on you and your children by company gunmen and state police!* Workers everywhere! De- mand withdrawal of the armed forces of the state and the companies! Collect relief, defense and bail money for the striker Send all funds directly to the Workers International Relief, at 11 Plum St., New Bruns- wick, or at 16 West 21st S New York City. local committee of the W |ternational Relief. One of the three others who were shot by the lice, 13-year-old John Wilcezki, is reported to be dying of blood poisoning. Admit Dick Shot Bullet The prosecutor's office is now ad- mitting that Walter was killed by a bullet fired by Kalire, o ne of the 40 Teputized company gunmen. Workers began to assemble at the Catholic church here today at an early hour for the funeral, which took place at 11 a.m. Two thousand filled the church to overfiowing, and ffrom four to five thousand waited outside until the police victim’s shattered body was borne out. The fiend who killed the boy had evident- ly used a soft-nosed or dum-dum | bullet, for it carried a mass of flesh | with it when it left his body. | Activity in South River was at a | standstill as all but a handful of |the town’s remaining eight thousand ;Tesidents lined the route of march of jthe funeral as it slowly wended its | Way to a cemetery two miles away. }Among tHe workers who marched behind Walter's body were delega- j tions from New Brunswick, Paterson, Newark, Perth Amboy, Trenton, Lin- den and Roselle, representing the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union, the, International Workers Order, the International Labor De< fense, the Workers International Re- |lief, the Communist Party and the | Young Communist League. Carry Strike to Victory After the body of the murdered boy was lowered into the grave, the work- ers were addressed by Walter Ko- lovsky, representing the assembled delegations. Kolovsky condemned the police for the brutal murder of the boy and the shooting and clubbing of others, and called on the strikers of South River to avenge the boy's death by organizing into the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union and carrying their strike to victory, Two More Protest Strikes Two more protest strikes, the third within a week, were called by South River workers in protest at the brutal murder. The 400 workers in the factory of the General Cigar Company dropped their tools for a half day to attend the funeral, and the workers in the four needle shops which went back to work last Mone (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) . pation if