The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 26, 1932, Page 1

News * a EXILE 20 CHILE COMMUNISTS SANTIAGO, Chile—The capitalist press reports that Twenty members of the Communist Party, including Elias Lafférte, former Presidential candidate, have been taken from jail here by the fascist government and sent into exile at Easter Island, GEORGIA MILK STRIKE ATLANTA, Ga.—About 450 mem- bers of the Georgia Milk Producers’ | VETERANS’ CONFERENCE PLANS BONUS MARCH ON CAPITAL Association are on strike for a higher wholesale milk price. The tity’s supply is reported to have been cut more than 75 per cent by active picketing. ley FIVE WORKERS BURNED MT. PLEASANT, Mich.—Five work- | ers were burned, and two may die, in a fire caused by sparks from a derrick engine igniting an oil well in the Midland Fields. © ee COX SEEKS MORE MONEY PITTSBURGH. Pa—Father Cox, Presidential candidate on the fascist “Jobless Party” ticket, arrived here from Kansas City. He claimed that he had _no money, but immediately made feservations to ride by plane to San Francisco, where he intends to continue his demagogic campa‘gn. | SCHMELING PICKED TO WIN NEW YORK.—Max Schmeling is set to win over Mickey Walker, and the boxing promoters are all set for * % good harvest of the fight fan’ money, in the bout to be held to night in the Madison Square Gardez Bowl. ‘The winner is to meet Sharkey. Injured In Strike is Myrtle Carden, 21, striker, girl was so badly clubbed, gassed and kicked by southern chivalrous cops | during the textile strike at High Point, N, C., that she may not live, NEEDLE TRADES: ARE IN SESSION. Report Thousands ‘of | Dollars Wage Gains (See Page 2 for South River, N. J,, | Sinie. News) NEW areata of” dele gates to the New York District con- ‘vention of the Needle Trades Work- ers Industrial Union suspended other ‘pusiness and rose in a tumultous cheering demonstration Saturday when six delegates from the South | River strike marched into the hall. A woman delegate from South River greeted the union in the name of 1,800 striking dressmakers and thanked the needle trades workers of New York and all other workers for relief support. She called on them to strengthen the union as a fitting memorial for the murdered | Walter Rojek, 11 year old son of a striker. She appealed for funds to continue the strike to victory in 14 shops, and the delegates responded on the spot by raising over $200 in cash and pledges. Important Convention. The district convention of the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union opened here Saturday at the Manhattan Lyceum. Hundreds of enthusiastic worker delegates from the shops. Interna- tional and Amalgamated opposition groups heard Rose Wortis, make a report on the union’s activities for the past year. Wortis pointed out that the union Jed 1978 shop strikes involving 20,737 workers. In the dress section, gains of $1 to $3 and in some cases as high as $5 were made for over 8,000 workers. However one of the points to be discussed is the failure of the union to hold all of these gains. In the fur section in 1931 3,000 workers struck under the leadership of the Industrial Union. In 1932 gains amounting to $16,641 weekly ‘were made by the union for over 2,643 workers, She further reported that the union collected in back wages $10,958.53 for workers. Three thousand two hun- dred shops meetings were held. Or- ganizers visited 4,469 shops. Com- plaints handled numbered 2122. “Health” Politician Asks Park Eviction NEW YORK,—A drastic move to “wipe out” the shanty colony of unemployed workers in the bed of Central Park's old lower reservoir, officially named Hoover Valley, is called by Health Commissioner ‘Wynne, who stated .a inspection showed conditions were not “sani- _tary.” The only solution he recom- mended to remedy the sanitary con- ditions was to destroy completely the 17 shacks and drive the homeless men out into the streets again, Permanent structures had been re- centl built by the workers in pre- paration for the coming winter. \ _ ATTACK VETS, EA! (By a Worker Correspondent.) NEW YORK,—At the yegular out-' door meeting of the Workers Ex- Servicemen’s League at 39th Street, on September 20, while we were about to begin, a police care drove up and the police notified us we would hav to vacate that corner, On that par- ticular corner is a speakeasy, op while we talking with the cops two fellows cam eout from the spovk easy and handed the cops two ery) pes. You can draw your own con ‘elusiow GUARD SPEAK- SY VOTE COMMUNIST FOR: 1, Unemployment and Social Insurance at the expense of the state and em- ployers, Against Hoover's wage-cutting policy. 3. Emergency relief for the poor farm- ers without restrictions by the govern. ment and banks; exemption of poor ~ | ference of delegates from ten states, | farmers from taxes, and no collection of rent or debts Vol. IX, No. 230 QE 2.New York, N.’ forced (Section of the Communist International ) VOTE COMMUNIST FOR: 6. Equal rights for the determination for t §. Against capitalist terror forms of suppression of rights of workers $& Against imperialist war; for the de« fense of the Chinese people the Soviet Union. and of Entered as see under the Act of class matter at the Post Office at March 3, 1879. NEW YORK, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER. 26, 1932 CciTY EDITION Price 3 ‘Cents National Farm Strike \ March an and Conference i in Wash. Dec. FARMERS DEMAND TAX AND DEBT PAYMENT BE STOPPED; United Front of Rank and File of All Farm Or-| ganizations to to Sen Send d Delegates Will Lead Strikes and Der States; WwW. INGTON, | Mills Building here, with Lem Harris, | The committee, first set up by the middle western conference held September 9 in Sioux City, has announced that a national march of farmer | | delegates on Washington will lead up@ |to the national conference, which will | | meet here, December 7 to 10, and ‘hich will undoubtedly adopt a set: | f demands to lay before congress | | which will then be opening for its “short. session.” Farmers Adopt Demands. The demands will probably be those |adopted at the middle western con- | supported by 15,000 farmers massed | jin Sioux City atthe time and hold- ling a series of huge mass meetings and parades through the streets. | ‘These demands were laid before the governors’ conference then meet- ling in Sioux City, and were disre- garded by the governors, who had no | proposals for relief of the poor farm- \ers. | The farmers then issued their call |for a national march on Washington, ,and for a national conference there. | The demands unanimously adopted at the Sioux City conference are. for a moratorium (period ‘in *which no payments need by made) on farm debts, mortgages, and taxes; no fore- closures and no tax sales or evic- tions; higher prices for farm pro- ducts at the expenses of the merch- jants and middlemen and _ without \higher prices for the worker con- sumers, The farmers demand also emergency relief for the poor farm- ers without restrictions by the gov- ernment and banks. The masses of farmers in Sioux | City endorsed these demands, and voted to back them up by spreading the farm strike oyer the whole coun- try as far as possible. U. F. L. Surports Conference. “Mother” Ella Reeves Bloor, speak- ing to the mass meetings and the Sioux City Conference, in the name | of the United Farmers League, and} pledging the full support of the lea- | gue to the strike, the national march | and conference, was given a great ovation by the farmers. Since then, Harris stated yester- day, many groups of organized farm- ers in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and the Nebraska State Holiday Associ- ation have officially endorsed the march and national conference, de- nouncing the conservative leaders of the Farm Holiday, Farm Bureau, Grange and other organizations, for opposing militant action. Negro and White. y Harris stated that the conference would include Negro and white “own- ers, tenants, share croppers and those who have been dispossessed”. He pointed out that delegates would be elected by the rank and file of all farmers’ mass organizations, even if in some of them the officials do not support the plan. Accredited dele- gates will be elected by local mass meetings of farmers, at the rate of one delegate for every 25 farmers present. J The Welegates on their march across the country will hold mass meetings in all farm sections, and | draw new support for the conference. Demands on the way will be pre- sented to local and state govern- ments, Local Struggles. . The united front organization re- sulting locally from these elections for the national conference, will or- ganize mass resistance to evictions and foreclosures and tax sales, and will lead the farm strike. « “We proclaim the right to remain in our farm homes”, is a keynote in the call to the conference, A. O. Rosenberg, vice president of the Nebraska State Holiday Associ- ation has written the Washington committee: “Eviction and foreclos- jure are just around the corner for most of us. Since our leaders, both those elected by us to represent us in government and those who head our farm organizations, have shown that they cannot or will not help us, we, the farmers, must take matters into our own hands, You can count on a caravan of covered wagons from Nebraska, Spe Se on to Washing- ton.” “The Negro Reds of Chicago,” by Michael Gold, begins in the} Daily. ireee, on Wednesday.) Sept. 28. sure to order your copy in advance! Demand Real Relief TH C., Sept. 25.—The Washington arrangements com- | mittee of the National Farm Strike Conference has opened offices in the ‘CHEERS GREET | They are against it beceuse they are |poor farmers. |ty tells you to put the bonus first. / | fight. |nus. — NO EVICTIONS Demonstrations In All secretary, in charge, BROWDER AT VET CONFAB Communist Party In Fight for Bonus Payment CLEVELAND, Ohio, Sept. 25.—Loud | |cheering and applause greeted Earl | Browder when he appeared at the Veterans Rank and File Conference here today to bring greetings from | the Central Committee of the Com- munist Party. Following a prolonged ‘ovation, Browder“proceeded to explain to the veterans the role of the Communist Party, “It is a great pleasure”, said Browder to comegto this historic con- ference to tell you we are behind you in the struggle for the so-called bo- nus. “All other parties are against it. parties of capitalism. “The Communjst Party is the party of the workers, the oppressed, the The Communist Par- We are organizing millions of work- | ers and farmers to back you in his “You must understand that it is the combined forces of the democrats and the republicans defeated the bo- “If this was a workers’ government then the government would not be | |bankrupt. We would take away that | which the rich has taken away from | us. We would have homes and food then, “You must now go out and carry on the struggle for the bonus in every | town, 25,000 veterans on the capitol | steps at the opening of congress will | do more for the bonus than a mil- lion resolutions. “The veterans must support the | unemployed in their fight for relief | and Unemployment Insurance. Like- | wise the unemployed support the vet- | erans in their bey ent tor she. for the bonus.” DRIVE JAPANESE OUT OF TSITSIHAR eague to Give Japan Time to Recoup Chinese volunteer and_ partisan troops yesterday drove the Japanese invaders out of Tsitsihar, capturing the important North Manchuria city after fierce fighting. While the irregulars have driven the Japanese out of large sections of Manchuria and regained scores of town during the past month, Tsit- sihar is the first big city to be re- deemed in the present tremendous upsurge of the national revolutionary moyement in Manchuria. The irregulars are pushing their attacks in the area of the Antung- Mukden Railway in Southern Man- churia and along the South Man- churian Railway, Railway service in these areas is still disrupted. Raids on all Manchurian railways are daily increasing, The Japanese admit 148 such raids to have occurred between Aug. 1 and 20. Since then, the raids have greatly increased, This widespread resistance has given the lie to the Japanese claim of furthering the _ self-determination rights of the Manchurian masses through the puppet Manchoukuo state erected in Manchuria by Jap- anese bayonets. (This bit of specious hypocrisy was first advanced by the Japanese Socialists to justify the murderous war of Japanese im- perialism.) It has forced Japan and the League of Nations to postpone j discussion om the Manchurian ques- tion for six weeks in order to give Japan more time to “pacify” the country with its cannons, bayonets EATS SWAMP CARBAGE—BUT SENDS DOLLAR Fort Pierce, Fla. Comrades: Here's one dollar—all the money I have, Would send you $10 right away to help out the Daily Worker but I just aint got it. Have to live in the woods, eat swamp cabbage and corn bread and get me some traps and catch some ’coons and eat them. Every body is workless here. No jobs, and what few jobs there are they pay 75 and 65 cents a day—nine hours; and you can’t even get no job for this most of the time. ake the Daily Worker pulls through. We need —G. W. . A RED CHRISTENING Cleveland, Ohio. Dear Comrades: There are many. ways of helping the Daily Worker in this hour of need, so when a daughter was born to us, we held a Red christening. This was held last Sunday in the South Slav Hall, and many other workers and their fami- lies came. Comrade Sandburg of the W. I. R. was master of ceremonies. After the program was completed we found to our great-joy that we had raised $27.60 for the Daily. Yours, ‘Comrades TODOROVIC. “PLL FIGHT LIKE HELL” Portland, Oregon. Dear Comrades: Enclosed please find a $2 bill, $1.50 to save our Daily and 50 cents for a one-month ex- tension on my sub. I wish it were $200, but it is‘ as it is. I don’t know how soon I'll see any more money, but no matter. I'll fight like hell to save our Daily Worker Comradely yours, . EARNS $5.34 A WEEK; SENDS $1 Worcester, Mass. R. E. JENNINGS. * Dear Comrades: I make $5.34 a week. I have 3 children, my wife and myself to support. I am sending you a dol- lar out of my week's wages to save the Daily Worker. Comradely yours, J. 8. CHICAGO BAKERS CONTRIBUTE Chicago, Ill. Daily Worker District Office, 2019 W. Division Street, Chicago, Ill. Dear Comrades: Encltsed you will find an express money order for ten dollars from the Progressive Group Bak- ers U. L., No. 237. We hope you will rush same to New York and tell them we are very sorry that we can’t send a bigger sum at the present time. With revolulutionary greetings, PROG. GROUP BAKERS U. L. NO. 237. . . * CAMP WORKERS SEND $10 Hurleyville, N, H. Dear Comrade Editor: Enclosed you will find check for $10.00, donated to the Daily Worker from proceeds from an af- fair at Camp Harmony conducted by its social staff. This contribution is the result of a desire on the part of the social staff to emulate the ex- cellent work of the organized’ workers of the camp, who have participated organizationally and financially in other numerous affairs for : Oren nen both at this hotel.’ LETTERS SHOWSPIRIT IN \DRIVE TO SAVE ‘DAILY’ and in other places in the county. We have in the past contributed $20 to the Daily Worker, and $40 to other organizations. ‘We have a real Workers’ Committee, which we have forced the*boss to recognize. Comradely, W. W. MARTIN HARRY H. Workers’ Omeiraitver: BULGARIAN WORKERS SCHOOL SENDS $3.02 T. A. ERWIN r Detroit, Mich Dear Comredes: Alarmed by the financial crisis facing the organizer of the American working class, the Daily Worker, we, the 16 students attending the Bulgarian Workers School in Detroit, and repre- senting many important cities from all over the country, feel that we must sacrifice the few pennies left in our pockets in order that the Daily shall live. The sum collected by us, $3.02, is small, but we had no more. We call on all workers thru- out the country to do as we do—send every ny they can spare to save our own great Daily! ‘THE STUDENTS OF THE SCHOOL, eter iEvEN, Secretary. JAPANESE STUDENT SUB- . SCRIBERS Comrades: I am one of many foreigners who have taken much interest in the development of the Amer- ican workers’ paper, Daily Worker, as the sole revolutionary paper in the United States. As you may know, we Japanese students were com- pletely deprived of our jobs of any kind, any amount, any size, by the new regulations of U. S. Labor Department on the Ist of this month. I should like to subscribe for the Daily Worker for a year and also to respond to your S. O. S. Regretably enough, however, the only amount I can make out now is but $1 for two-month’s sub. I hope you will realize our situation. En- clesed you will find one dollar bill. Comradely, U. U. SICK FOR THREE MONTH SUBSCRIBES San Francisco, Calif. Dear Comrades: I have been laid up with sickness about three months. I am just getting on my feet. Times are awful hard but I managed to get a dollar to renew my subscription for two months more. Sorry that I let it run over-due. L, C. TRUE hi aioe Comrades, will you join in the ac- tions described above to save the Daily Worker? Speed up the campaign to raise 50,000 half dollars. Collect ail available funds and rush it to Daily Worker, 50 East 13th St., New York City. Comrades:—Here is my share toward raising the $40,000 Emergency Fund of the Daily Worker. Name City .. Address MAINE DEMOCRATIC GOVERNOR TRIES TO BREAK STRIKE OF 5, 000: Lives In Coke Oven . Pictures) \ John Schofield, jobless; and former record coal loader for the H, C. Frick interests in living in this coke oven near Pittsburgh, He is the fathe of 9 children. SHOE WORKERS on Wage Cut LEWISTON, “Maine, Sept. 25.— The Democratic Party governor elect of Maine, Brann, has inter- yened in the strike of over 5,000 Lewiston and Auburn shoe workers, with a scheme for them to go back to work, smash their strike, and await some sort of “conciliation” and “adjustment” later, (This strikebreaking action of the Maine Democrats forecasts what a demo- cratic administration in Washing- ton would do.—Ed, D, W.) The shoe workers met this with a vote to continue the strike against recent wage cuts and for reinstate- ment of men discharged for or- ganizing. Local strike committees are being and bombing planes. the League of Nations, presided over the report of its fake commission of | ex-captain. their united front with the Japanese imperialists against the toiling mass- es of China. — Dr, W. W. Yen, representative of the Nanking Government.which has not raised a finger to resist the Jap- ans. The Council of PHILLY VETS GO TO CLEVELAND PHILADELPHIA, Sept. by the puppet Irish president De-| delegates of various veteran organ- Valera, yesterday acceded to Japan's | izations left here on Friday for the demand for a postponement of dis-| United Front Convention in Cleve- | cussion in the League of Nations of land, Among the delegates was an | election of investigation, De Valera thus tomed | group took place at an enthusiastic|to all the British oppressors of Ireland in| mass meeting of workers and veter-| committees to send delegates to a endorses The formed and are hard at work, The strikers are asking what the Workers International Relief can do in this fight against starvation. 25,—Ten W. PHILA. JOBLESS TO MAP FIGHT PHILADELPHIA, Sept, 25,—A call workers’ organizations the | | conference on Oct, 2 at 1137 N. 4ist St. at 2 p.m,, has been issued by the The conference will map a plan winter, REJECT TRICKERY Vote to Continue Fight | and | [oe action for the jobless struggles tl 16 | | 248 RANK AND FILE DELEGATES FROM ALL | OVER U.S.A. AT SESSION Ford, Negro Chommieniat ' Cc naidite and Mar- ines Who Refused to Shoot Vets, Are Honored | Browder Greets Convention in Name of the | Communist Party mously voted for the new national bonus march on Washington It denounced the Hoover attack on the It gave a great ovation to A. W. Mills, of the National Comm of the Unemployed Councils, and his proposal to co-ordinate the hunger march in December with the veterans’ time Congress opens. march. CLEVELAND, Ohio, Sept. 25.—The Veterans’ Conference today unani- at the fir: national It adopted and march. sent to Secretary Doak resolutions demanding that deportation proceedings inst Mills be dropped. It received with tumulinous applause Hugo Graef, secretary of the International of Wounded World War Veterans, a deputy in the German Reichstag, and himself wounded fighting | American soldiers at the second battle of the Marne. of the conference was stricken ill during the proceedings as gassing received in Washington on Bloody Thursday. inst ry Radejack a result of The Marine Hospi Secre tal refused to accept him, and a delegation from the conference forced it to take Radejack in and give him treatment. By HARRY RAYMOND. | pt. 25. — The Veterans Nat'enal Rank and File Conference, which marks a new historic step forward in the bonus, is on at full swing here at tne Bohemian Hall. | forty- eight delegates representing over 18,000 veterans are | the method which the rank aud file shall adopt to force the Wall CLEVELAND, Ohio, S ernment to pay the ex service-@ en's bonus, * | Practically all the delegates |brought with them proposals for a gigantic bonus march to Washington when Congress opens, Although the proposals have not yet been voted \on, it is clear that the final session will take up the task of laying out |out plans for the organiaztion of the |march which will be led by demo- cratically elected rank and file com- | mittees. The first session of the conference was opened at 30 Saturday morn- Jing by S. J. Stember, outstanding leader of the bonus march to. Wash- ington. John Pace, who was jailed/ |for leading a mass picket demon- stration in front of the White House, was unanimously elected chairman, H,. Wood, Negro war veteran, was/ elected vice-chairman. A presidium of 17 members was elected which in- cluded veterans from all sections of the country. presidium (presiding committee) James W. Ford, war veveran and Communist candidate for vice-presi- elected an honorary member presidium (presiding committ jalong with Tom Mooney, the nine Scottsboro boys, Willie Peterson, the 2 narines who refused to attack the and Betsey Ross, r of the woman ade the first American flag, 1d supporter of the W.E.S.L. Program of Action. Emanuel Levin, national chairman the Workers’ Ex-Servicemen's jof | League, made the main report which | socia |laid down the line of the conference | elected by 175 members of fight for Two hundred delibe called for another marct ington and pledged t after the conferen veterans for Among the ans from the erans of For American Veterans and American War Veter: | Leroy Null, a s Mansfield, Ohio, and eran, was elected by Disabled American W; come to the conference “I came to get knowledge to learn how to fight,” said Null I'm back to my organization ar a or the boys for a real bonus,” Another vet elected post of the D, A. V. is Lerc One hundred and fifty of F 6 of the D. A. V. t @ | conference All Workers, There were delegates f 5 of the; miner: One of the delegates belonged to the Odd Fellows and wa member of the American Li is returning to his o organize the rank and fil | for the bonus. A Broklyn veteran Spanish-American Ws ion, come to the conference which is included in the following| His organization passed a resolution | nine points: 1, That the Cleveland Conierence | to march to Washington when Con- gress opens to demand the bi | issues a call to the veterans to march |and an increase in pensions for the | to Washington at | Congress, to demand the immediate | | payment of the Bonus. 2, That we start a mass campaign | | got up and said: the veterans’ organizations <Amer- | jican Legion, Veterans of Foreign} | Wars) to win the rank and file for le militant struggle for the Bonus, 3, the opening of | Spanish-American War Vets Mrs, Lynn, a gold star mother, was | given a tremendous ovation when she “Tl go with you to Washington.” Kentucky Miner. Jim Grace, a miner from Harlan | Ky., told the delegates that the ter- That Rank and File Veterans’|ror the veterans met in Washington | Committees shall be organized in all|on Hoover's Bloody Thursday was | the cities for the immediate payment | the same terror the Kentucky miners jof the Bonus, These committees | met every time they organized a fight shall be elected by masses of veter-| against starvation. Grace urged the jans and giveleadership to the da‘ly| vets to form a solid united front to struggle for the Bonus. 4. That the veterans in every lo- | cality carry on an active struggle for immediate relief, conduct marches | ence from all over the country, | Smash the terror and force the pay- ment of the bonus. Greetings poured into the confer- Mes- {and demonstrations to the various| Sages came from Posts of the W: E. city and state governments, demand- [hs immediate relicf and official en- jate Tash pay- t of the Bonus, as well as de- jmands to condemn the Hoover ad- jmintstration or the use of troops against the veterans. 5. That we start a real drive to organize the women who served dur- ing the last war,to organize the Gold |Star Mothers and dependents of the | veterans around the fight for the | Bonus. | 6, That we support the organiza- | tion of posts of the W.E.S.L. in every [te and locality. 7, That we endorse and co-oper- late with the international organiza- tion of ex-soldiers (I.A.C.) in the ef- fort to create a strong international movement of ex-servicemen, 8. That the Rank and File Veter- jans’ Committee elected at the con- | ference shall work out a plan for a |campaign among the soldiers and sailors to mobilize them for support of the veterans’ movement, 8, That the veterans’ conference unemployment insurance and co-operates with the unemployed ; and employed workers in the struggle anese aggressions in Manchuria and | West Philadelphia Unemployed Coun- | for uiemployment and social insur- other parts of China, weakly op- cil, posed postponement of the discussion the Commission's report. ance. Delegate after delegate who took the to discuess Teport, . S. L., groups of veterans, trade unions and fraternal organizations. Applause for Foster, A telegam from William Z. Foster. Communist candidate for President.of the United States, was received with enormous applause. Earl Browder brought greetings to the conference from the Central Committee of the Communist Party. He was given an ovation which lasted several Uy awa “L. A.” POLICE HAIL ROOSEVELT LOS ANGELES, Cal., Sept. 25.— Governor Roosevelt rode with a po- lice escort through Los Angeles streets and was greeted by delega- tions of city and corporation offi- cials yesterday. He spoke in the Hollywood Bowl, Less than a week befort, these same police had clubbed to pieces the meeting arranged in @ hall for James Ww. |, Communist candidate for vice-president, and arrested Ford and five other workers, In June the same thing happened to William Z, Foster, Communist candidate for president,