The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 27, 1932, Page 3

PALLY WURKER, NuW YORK, DUOMSDAY, Sir ieunwen 27, lyol Page Three SCOTTSBORO MOTHER CALLS FOR UNITED FRONT TO SAVE BOYS! “VETERANS BONUS IS INTERNATIONAL. |Workers Prepare Demonstra- tions Thruout World Oct. 8th QUESTION,” STATES GERMAN WOUNDED SOLDIERS’ LEADER AT CONVENTION | Graef Pledges Solidarity to U. S. Rank and File Vets; Invites Them to| ‘Send Delegates to International Congress of Ex-Soldiers PAPEN HAS CUT COMPENSATION Washington March Got Notice in Europe By HARRY RAYMOND CLEVELAND, Ohio, Sept. 26—In the month of July, 1918, Hugo Graef and I were fighting against one an- other. Graef was a machine gunner in the Imperial German Army. I was a machine gunner in the U. S. Air Service. We were pitted against ach other in the second battle of fhe Marne. But that was in 1918. Last Sunday svaef and I found ourselves in the same trench. We met for the first time at the National Rank and File Veterans’ Conference in Cleveland. Brings Greetings. Comrade Graef, who is the secre- tary of the International War Vet- erans dnd War Victims, came here to bring greetings of the war veter- ans of Germany to the war veter- ans in America in their struggle for the bonus and to invite the Amer- ican veterans’ organizations to send delegates to the International Con- gress of Veterans which. will be held in Europe next spring. Besides being a leader of the in- ternational revolutionary war veter- ans’ movement and a disabled vet- eran himself, Comrade Graef has also been a Communist Deputy in; the German Reichstag from the province of Saxony continuously since 1928 and participated in the last proceedings of the Reich which was dissolved by the tyrannical Von Papen. “What was the reaction of the masses to the recent bonus larch of the American war veter- 8?” I d Comrade Graef. “The bot press in Germany wrote a lot about the bonus march and Hoover's Bloody Thursday,” said Comrade Graef. The newspapers carried pictures of every phase of the gitantic struggle. This was done to create the impression on the star- ving German masses that everything was beautiful in Germany. “But just at that time the Ger- man government under Bruening re- duced the compensation of the Ger- man war veterans. Against Capitalist Government. “The German government imme- diately grasped the idea that the march to Washington was not a pa- triotic march; the veterans massed at the capital were fight against the capitalist ment. “The disabled veterans and veter- ans throughout Germany at once discussed the question of the march; they were glad to see developments re indicated that the American on a govern- «]-servicemen desire to fight against « [pitalism, “The workers and veterans studied the workers’ press and in all mass meetings discussed the question of the bonus and stood behind the marchers at all times. Sympathy resolutions were adopted at all meet- ings and cables of protest were sent to Herbert Hoover against his brutal treatment of the veterans.” “What is the chief struggle of the German war veterans at the present time?” was the next question that I asked Comrade Graef. “The German war veterans are fighting against a special decree is- sued by the, government which re- duced their compensation and is an attack on their standard of living,” declared Comrade Graef. “The vet- erans in Germany are fighting along with the workers against the whole social reaction. That is the agénda of the German war veterans. In: addition, they are involved in the: tremendous struggle against imperial- ist war. The veterans are also closely linked up with the workers in fights against wage-cuts and for unemploy- ment relief.” r Given Great Ovation. le Graef was given ity ovation when he got up to ss the conference. Through a - cheering crowd he was carried to the | platform on the shoulders of the delegates where he greeted the American veterans and urged them to break down nattonal barriers and make, their fight an international st le. a bonus is not a national ques- tion,” said Comrade Graef. “It is in- Led tasty Your next march to hington will be aided by veter- ans in all lands.” Comrade Graef Said he was pleased to see the large number of Negro veterans at the conference and urged the vets to bring great masses of women and gold star mothers into the movement. } nm) 4 Crew Led by Marine orkers Unicn Wins t+ of Its Demands FRANCISCO, Cal, Sept. 26.— oint Gorda crew has struck er the leadership of the Marine Norkers’ Industrial Union, to which the men now belong, and won for new buckets, linen, bet- i _ er food, a slop chest and no vic- imization of strike leaders. The rew will continue the fight for fur- her demands. Equal rights for the Negroes and + pineal in the Black ‘Belt, Workers in U.S. S. R. Sing on Way to Work TACOMA, Wash.—Following is a letter received by a worker in Ta~ coma from a friend now living and working in the U, S. 8, R. Dear R.—— 5 How is everything in Tacoma and the shop; and how is all the nut- splitters? Have they come to their senses yet? Zou know what I mean. Have they cfanged their minds yet? You should see how different the workers are here. They sing when they go to work, Who the hell ever heard of any workers ever singing when they went to work for the N. P.? I got my vacation today and to- morrow I am going on a trip to Sara- tov on the Volga River, Today I got two pays; I got my regular pay and then I got my vacation pay too in advance. What do you think of that? " Rest Homes Well, John, Iam perfectly satisfied. When I am sick, I get my full pay {f it-is only one day; and when a fellow gets old and don’t feel like working any more, you get your full pay as long as you live, So you see nobody cares to save any mone, I work sometimes on my rest day, and then I get double time. I worked one rest day not long ago only three and one- half hours—and I got paid for the whole day—20 rubles, And if a fellow is sick or tired, you can go to a rest home in the Crimea or Caucausus and get board and room and your full wages as long as you have to be there. I guess you wonder how T get along with the language. I can talk fairly good Rusian already, It comes easy when you hear it every day, We are turning out about 100 trac- tors a day and abunch of motors for some other machines besides. We are making a lot of war machinery. So you see we have plenty to do. The only thing we are short of is workers. It sounds crazy, but it’s true, Well, John, I haven’t any more to write about this time, Show this letter to the boys and tell them to hurry up Worker Correspondence ———, ;and join the Communist Party. That's the only hope, The Communist Party is sweeping the world, so why not become an active member and to hell with the bosses, They have fooled you long enough. (Signed) CARL BERGSTROM Kharkov Tractorstroi, ARREST REYNOLDS AT MASS MEETING Attempt to Censor Communist Message FARMINGTON, Mich., Sept. 26.— William Reynolds, Communist acn- didate for governor, was arrested in Vandyke, Mich., on direct orders of Governor Brucker transmitted to the county prosecutor, French. Raymond was arrested while ad- dressing 200 workers at a regular Communist election rally, Saturday night. With Reynolds were arrested two other workers: One of them was Henry Bresseau, Communist candid- ate for treasurer of MacComb County. This deliberate attempt to prevent the Communist Party from bring- ing to the wage cut and unemployed workers of Michican a message of united front struggle has aroused in- tense indignation. The situation is intensified by the fact, that French is the center of a state-wide scandal because of his failure to prosecute a millionaire in- dicted by the coroner's jury for kill- ing 4 man-with a car. French is also responsible for 2 farcical trial, in which ten workers, including a pregnant woman, were railroaded to ninety days imprison- ment because they fought against forced labor. The deputy sheriff first ordered Reynolds to stop mentioning either President Hoover or Governor Bruck- er. Reynolds refused, and was then arrested, along with the other two workers. They were released after being held half an hour. i CONGRESS TICKET. FILED IN MINN. MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Sept, 26— Nominating petitions for three Com- munist candidates for Congress were filed today, accompanied by the $150 filing fees and nearly double the number of signatures required. Four. more state candidates remain to be filled next week, for which $200 must be raised. The Party is already on the ballot in regard to candidates for president and vice-president of the United tea and for Governor of Miine- sota. va Intensify Drive for Huge Foster Meeting, Philadelphia, Oct. 22 PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Sept. 26— All secretaries of workers’ organiza- tions are called to a meeting 8 p. m., Sept. 30, at 1331 North Franklin St., for a check-up an new plans for mo- bilizing thousands of workers to the mass -~meeting- at which William Z. Foster, Communist candidate for president, will speak, Oct. 22. Over 6,000 tickets have been ais- tributed already and there is ‘still a |great demand for tickets. The Young |Pioneers and John Reed Club are preparing a program for the Foster meeting. It is expected that Foster will be sufficiently recovered from his illness to speak on Oct. 22nd. 6 4 Mrs. Wright, in Stirring Address, Calls for Fight Against Persecu- tion of Negroes and Imperialist War Preparations Fight for Boys Grows As U.S. Supreme Court ‘Prepares to Go Thru Form of Reviewing Lynch Verdicts should support these demonstrations, front mass defense fight! Comrades: I want to greet thes World Congress Against Imperialist War not only on behalf of the Ne- gro masses in the United States, but on behalf of the workers and poor {farmers of all races and nationalities jin America. Our fight for the lives | not only of my two sons, but of all the Scottsboro boys, is also a strug- gle against imperialist war, because the Scottsboro persecution grows out of the war preparations of the Am-| erican boss class. Thus the International Red Aid, that is mobilizing the workers in all countries to save the Scottsboro boys from the electric chair, also carries | on its struggle against the growing drive of the boss class. Didn’t Know Red Aid a Year Ago One year ago I didn’t know any- thing about the International Red Aid. When the comrades of the Red Aid came to me in Chattanooga, Ten- | nessee, my neighbors said, “Ada, have nething to do with the reds. Stay away from the reds.” But, I see today again, as I have seen through the many months in the /United States, and through the Scottsboro tour in Europe, that it is the broad masses of the militant workers that lead inthe growing campaign against the judicial lynch- ing of our children in Scottsboro, The International Red Aid, that All out October 8! the unconditional release of these innocent victims of capitalist justice! We publish today the address of the Scottsboro Mother, Mrs. Ada Wright, Against War, recently held in Amsterdam, Holland. Mrs. Wright's stirring appeal is timely. The International Red Aid, which is leading the fight for the| freedom of the Scottsboro boys, has designated October 8th as World Scottsboro-Mooney Day. hundreds of thousands of workers will demonstrate thr oughout the world in protest against the lynch verdicts, in the démand for the unconditional release of the Scottsboro boys. and should help in preparing them. before the World Congress On that day, All workers and honest intellectuals | | In the short space of another 14 days, on October 10, the United States Supreme Court will go through | preparation for it. The 1 the form of reviewing the lynch verdicts. That review will be a mere gesture aimed at facilitating the legal lynching of these children unless the toiling masses, white and black, continue to build the united front fight employed cox to rescue these working-class children from the bloody claws of the murderous ruling class, Build the united | ou for 65. cc Deron strate for the freedom of the Scottsboro Boys! Demand Gejoaring y; fights against the persecution of the oppressed toiling masses in the capi- alist, colonial and semi-colonial Aeuniiie therefore not only gree! this World Congress, but is an ac part of the Congress and of the struggle against war. Large numbers of delegates from Red Aid organizations sit as delegates | in this Congress, But the Red Aid invites and urges all delegates here, when they go back to their various countries, to join in the mobilization for the World Congress of the Inter- national Red Aid to be held in Mos- cow in November. This World Con- gress, I assure you, will be not only a mobilization against the growing persecutions of workers everywr in all boss class countries, in the colonies and semicolonies, not on the raising of a ,greater strugg! against the growing terror, not only an intensification of the fight against fascism, but is also a world-wide mo- bilization of the masses against the imperialist war and for the defense of the Soviet Union. In the center of this struggle we see the fight for the lives of our Scotts- | boro children, for the freeing of} Mooney and Billings and against the | deportation terror in America; | against the bestial murder of Sallai and Fuerst in Hungary, for the f ing of Karikas and the other pr! oners, for the unconditional libera-¢ jour China, | When you fight against the terror and for the release of the class-war prisoners you also fight against the} imperialist war. It is the Scottsboro campaign in Europe especially that forced the United States Supreme Court, that refused to hear the appeal in the Sacco-Vanzetti persecution, to agre: to review the brutal death senten against our Scottsboro boys in Ala- | bama, This appeal will be heard on Oct. 10. This is not far off. I am sure this congress will mark a new high point in our struggle to force | the judicial lynchers in America to loosen their grip upon the lives of} children. Join the Scottsboro- | Mooney campaign countries, I make this appeal to all the delegates here, build Scottsboro- Mooney Committees, join the Inter- national Red Aid anq help prepare for its world congress in November. I want to extend my own apprecia- tion to all those here who helped} build the Scottsboro struggle in the | thirteen countries that I have already | visited, But the struggle must con- | tinue and grow. I appeal to you! Fight for the lives | of the Scottsboro children! I assure | you it is the fight for all our com- rades in prison, I assure you, also, it is the fight against fascism, against the war! Negro Family Gets Relief After Short Struggle in Buffalo BUFFALO, N. Y., Sept. 26—On the top of a general cut in city relief, ranging from 10 per cent to 50 per cent on grocery orders, the City Welfare is using every possible trick to get out of paying the rent for needy families There is a drive on now to force two and three families into one apartment. Families are told to get rid of their furniture and move into one and two rooms with other families. If the family refuses. to be herded in like cattle, it is evicted: Evictions are taking place every day in Buffalo, and it is always the Negro families who get the worst treatment and are the first to be evicted. Yesterday, 2 Negro family with four small children and a sick baby in the mother’s arms were evicted at 178 Pratt St. The welfare visitor, a vicious Negro baiting white woman, had persistently refused the family any relief or rent, since the husband got @“job” at $6 a week. As soon as the Unemployed Council heard of the eviction, a meeting was called to rally the neighbors and fight the case.. In the middle of the meet- ing a special investigator of the City Welfare appeared in a big auto- RED VICTORY IN SOFIA, BULGARIA Communists’ Majority in City Council Won SOFIA, Bulgaria, Sept. 26—An out- standing victory was scored by the Communists in yesterday’s election of the city council. The Communists won a clear majority and if the elec- tion ‘will not be declared “void” they | will rule the city council. The Governmnet’s Premier, Mouch- anoff, stated, however, that the new city council would be dissolved in order not to allow the Commut to dictate the policy of the c ernment. The Communist: elected on a clear-cut platform of | workers’ demands. Six more city governments thru- out Bulgaria are in the hands of the Communists. Baran m3 mobile and told her that she would |”! be moved into a suitable place at} once. The Unemployed Council con- tinued the meeting until the family | was placed in another house by the} Welfare, after one place had been rejected ay unfit. Youngstown Prepares | Giant Scottsboro | Meets and Parades | YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, Sept. 26.— |The International Labor Defense is| organizing a great mass meeting and torchlight parad2 through the streets of the working-class sections on Oct. 8, International Scottsboro-Mooney Day. Two also be held. One on the West Side at West Lake Crossing and the other on the Sheron Line at Stop 28. Dele- gations will be elected at the meeting to place demands on the bourgeois politicians that they endorse the fight for the release of the Scottsboro Ne- gro boys. Wilmington Council Stops an Eviction | Capitalist in your various |_ neighborhood meetings will) WILMINGTON, Del., Sept. 26.—On y the Unemployed Council mob- | d 1,500 workers to stop an ev tion at 1192 Linden St. The fur ture was put back into the house. | Three days earlier a demon: tion for relief for single workers was broken up by the police of this Du- Pont controlled town. Washington Government it Pushes Through Jail Sentence — Against 9 Working Class Fighters on Imperialist War U.S. AIDS JAP AN’S Nanking Starts tts ATTACK ON CHINA ,| Tries Crush Anti-War Protests of Workers Latest “Communist Suppression” Drive SHANGHAI, Sept, 26—Gen. Liu | Chen-nien, war lord of the Chefoo region, has been defeated in his armed struggle with Gen, Han Fu- BALTIMORE, Mr., Sept. 26,—The ; chu, war lord of Shantung Province, Washington courts have denizd the North China. |The fruits of Han’s appeal of 9 of the workers sentenced, victory, however, have been gathered for participating in an anti-war dem- onstration before the Japanese Em- bassy in Washington several months ago. They have be2n ordered to be- gin serving sentences of from 30 to 60 days in the Aquan Prison, Vir- ginia. : The jailed workers were among those brutally beaten up by the Washington police in a vicious attack on the anti-war demonstration which wes held to protest against the rob- ry war of Japanese imperialism against the Chinese people. Through the co-operation of the U. S, State Departracnt with the Japanese im- perialists, Washington police were concealed in the basement of the Japanese Embassy, from which they launched their attack on the dem- onstration. Joan Hardy, a member of the Young Communist League, was knocked down by a policeman and savagely beaten up by several of the police thugs. She is among those now sentenced to prison, Others in- clude Marie Grossman, young needle worker, and Kennedy, a marine worker, % The boss papers are maintaining| silence about the sentences ‘$2cause of the political ificanc2 of this at- tack by the Washington government on American workers and intellec- ,up by Marshal Chang Hsueh- : lipng, who betrayed his ally, Gen. Liu, and occupied the, latter's cities while Liu’s forces were ‘busy trying to block the invasion by Gen, Han’s army. The Nanking Government has of- fered Liu a chance to recoup his fortune by moving his defeated army to “an undetermined province” to fight against the workers’ and peas- ants. Red Armies. The new “Communist Suppression” campaign, which has been organized by Chiang Kaishek at the orders of he United States and other imperial- ist powers, reported to be under way in Hupeh Province. Ce ennai cae aS seizure of Manchuria and destruction of the Chapei proletarian district in | Shanghai, South China, and mass Youth Election at the Tom Mooney Hall, 20 Lloyd St. (1100 block E. Baltimore St.). anti-imperialist masses and will rally the workers to the support of the Communist President‘al candi- (uals protesting against the Japaness| dates, Comrades Foster and Ford. f U.S, HIDES WAR. LOANS TO BOLIVIA Priests Help _ Whiy Up War Fever . The undeclared war between Bo- livia and Paraguay entered its sev- enteeth day yesterday with the church and religious orders in both countries valiantly helping to whip up the war fever in the drive to obtain fresh cannon fodder for replacements made necessary by the huge casualties in the battle for the possession of Fort Boqueron in the disputed Gran Cha- co region.» In the meantime, League of Na- tions circles report that the Wall St. Government has made a formal de- nial of the accuracy of League fig- ures showing Wall Street as financing the Bolivian war preparations, At the same time U.\S. Consul Gen= | eral Prentiss Gilbert at Geneva ad- mitted that Bolivia might have used for arms funds drawn from the gold its central bank accumulated through loans floated much earlier in the United States.” TIE-UP PASSENGERS NEW YORK.—About 10,000 passen- gers are estimated to have been held on the Eighth Ave. subway and the Long Island Railroad when an en- ‘gine jumped the tracks outside the Pennsylvania station, halting trains coming into Manhattan through the Sunnyside yards. “The labor movement will gain the upper hand and show the way to peace and socialism.” . LENIN, Celebrate 40 Years of Literary Work of | Gorky During Week NEW YORK.—The fortieth anni- versary of the literary activity of Maxim Gorky, the foremost living Russian writer, is being cclebrayed this week on an international scdfe, according to information received by the Amkniga Corporation, represen- tatives in this country of all Soviet ‘publishing houses and distributors of Gorky’s works in Russian. In Mos- cow the Soviet Government has ap- pointed a special commission for the jubilee celebration, which has worked out a nation-wide series of meetings and observances. The Moscow cele- bration was to be held on Sept. 25, in the Trade Union Hall, formerly th2 House of the Nobles, the city's largest meeting place, where great congresses, state trials, etc. are held. Gorky’s literary work is being especially honored by the organiza- tion of an advanced literary institute which will bear his name, the crea- tion of many new universities, tech- nical schools, etc. A special fund is being established in his name, from which an annual prize will be awarded for the best literary work of the year. A special Gorky film is also to be made. New editions of his works are to be published for mass distribution. Various cultural organizations, theatres, ete., will pro- duce his vlays in honor of the anni- versary. “The Negro Reds of Chicago,” by Michael Gold, begins in the Daily Worker on Wednesday, Sept. 28. Be sure to order your copy in advance! \ 'Mussolini Award Is | Develop More Deadly Weapons Under Veil of | “Disarmament” Parly | GENEVA, Sept. 25.—The Interna- | tional Peace Bureau in a statement issued here that war production and | warlike inventions are proceeding at | a feverish pace, The report shows that the im- perialists are devoting great thought and effort to the development of more powerful armaments for in- fantry troops, The French General Staff is experimenting with small caliber cannon for infantry pe ‘The Madsen Arms factory at ' Copen- hagen, known alréady for its light machine gun and its 20mm, auto- matic canno, has perfected a new grenade discharged by the bullet from regulation rifles, In Germany, proj- ectives with super-speed are being developed. German engineers report successful tests with rifle ammuni- tion of high velocity. Given to Henry Ford DETROIT, Sept, have won him the Royal Order of the Iron Crown of Italy on the recom- mendation of the fascist chief, Mus- solini and the Italian king. As the Italian vice-consul of De- troit pined the fivepointed star on Ford’s lapel the Ford henchmen, Cameron and Sorenson stood by, They had helped win the award with 25.—Starvation | ahd murder tactics of Henry Ford | UNITED FRONT SOLID IN MINNEAPOLIS POST OFFICE JOB STRUGGLE ‘A. F. of L. Business Try to Dissovdle It In Order to Cut Wages; Trick Fails z T Press in Campaign Tries to Have Mi t office job itself has not y clearing of Block 20 in tee, formed with represen- s unions rank and file, of the un- Trades Industrial League is holding MINNEAPOLIS, started here, an d wo building tatives of the A. F. of L. nittee have company i ead, the cents an ho i engthened by mass picket c The work t United which n the A. F. tractors x0 s will not get A new company t OL out on wages. tract there, nd of t 5 e United cents. The i tee refused. A. F, of L. € are discussed e A. F. of L. rank and Now F, L. building t offic tic. The lo- are offering th n at tremendous wage cut.” busir ve cam- ¢ several weeks, Communists are rites Com. demanding that qd evel be Lovestone’s lieutenant, (arrow points to group of preachers during a Paterson “The hes stand for a living wage”, “The churches are for unionism”. ey don't mean militant union- ism!) and “Peaceful ing” what the A.F.L, leaders always say, and the b top the s z”. t s to—Den't try to si 9 Held in Decatu Ill., Fight at R Station; Cop h nd Doolen. The workers a and were met with bs of the two cops. before these were dis- cops thrown aside. ey charges that rg was beaten and it the body and scratched fa charges officers, i as a result of th cil attempt Following the fight at the reliet tation which is situated at the Sal- quarters police picked kers on the streets of nd held them on the same iting “to riot ail is bei LB ng gotten for those held. ig of the case will not be 1 Unemployment Su uadenplon Amines opera war; for the defense ot the Chinese people Sof the Soviet Union: This Post Card should be in every wor farmer’s home -~50 cents a hundred — $4.50 a thousand. It can be ordered at your district or direct from the Communist National Election Campaign Committee P. O. Box 87, Station D, New York, N. Y. % the Dearborn massacre, /