The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 3, 1932, Page 1

BROWN SHIRTS IN POTSDAM POTSDAM, Germany, Oct, 2.— Adolf Hitler addressed about 30,000 brown shirted boys and girls in the Potsdam Stadium yesterday These young people came from all over Ger- many deluded by the bosses’ lies that Hitler will lead them out of the crisis, at the same time that Hitler is used by the Von Papen government in its further attacks on wages and ypem- ployment insurance, Pai eae REVIVE SACCO SCARES WESTON, Mass. Oct, 2.—More Stories are being circulated about mysterious “attacks” on officials who participated in the murder of Sacco and Vanzetti, Dudley R. Ranney, for- mer Assistant District Attorney of Norfolk County, who asked for the death sentence for the two workers, said a “special officer” told him he “saw a man with a gun prowling around the district attorney’s house. ‘This old maid's tale is featured in the local press. om uae CLOUDBURST KILLS 40 BAKERSFIELD, Cal, Oct, 2— About 40 are said to have been drowned when a coludburst swept the ‘Techachapi Mountains Friday night, PUERTO RICAN BANKS WANT » THEIRS q WASHINGTON, Oct. 2—Bankers. { in Puerto Rico are asking for some ‘ of the pickings in the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, according to an official communication here, This Tequest comes coupled with a request for relief funds to take care of the victoms of the storm, but the bankers’ needs take the prominent place. oe Se JOIN DECEIT TO FORCE MANAGUA, Oct. 2.—Accompanying the armed marines of the U. S. Gov- ernment is Admiral C H. Woodward, who calls himself the “chairman of the United States electoral mission in Nicaragua,” and who is trying to kid the Nicaraguan people into voting in ‘the coming election on the ground that despite the presence of American soldiers the election will be “fair”. eee SUICIDES INCREASE NEW YORK, Oct. 2—Pointing out that the suicide rate in the United States thas steadily increased during the past seven years until it now ap- proximates 20,000 a year, Dr. Louis I. Dublin admitted that the “depression ) had some effect” Saath the figures. \ 4 TAKES SHOT AT LEAGUE ¥ GENEVA, Oct. 2—A young Hun- garian fired @ revolver at the League of Nations building here from the Quai Wilson nearby, the bullet hit- ting a frame window in the room where the Assembly Budgetary Com- anittee was meeting. He was arrested immediately, and refused to explain is action. Communists are opposed to individual acts of terror. CHILE HEAD FORCED OUT. General Bartolomeo Blanche, suc- ceeder of Carlos Davilla, latest Chil- ean militarist dictator, was forced out yesterday, following an uprising in Antafagasta in which the Northern Army and part of the population par- ticipated. LEAGUE'S REPORT _\ SUPPORTS JAPAN /-G.-S. Imperialism to Speed War Plans GENEVA, Oct. 2—The League of Nations report on Manchuria pub- lished today supports the Japanese seizure of Manchuria in the interests of establishing a war base against the Soviet Union, Yet the report openly admits that Japan’s military action “cannot be regarded as measures for legitimate self defense.” The report calls for the recognition of Japan's interests in Manchuria on the basis of the present situation. At the same time the report opens the way for joint action of Japan, the European powers and U. S. im- perialism against the Soviet Union by insisting that the Kellogg Pact and ‘Nine-Power Treaty be adhered Despite the fact that the U. R. has signed the Kellogg Pact, U. S. has been using this pact to uild up an anti-soviet front Thus way nag left open for the U. S. to eontinue its anti-soviet maneuvers while at the same time it strives to | strengthen itself at the expense of oe its rival Japanese imperialism, ‘The report makes a bluff at treat- fing Japan and China as equal parties while at the same time it supports the Japanese position for an “auton- omous” Manchuria under Japanese control. Hence the report stands for the dismemberment of China and the apportioning of the various territories to the big imperialist powers. ‘The Japanese Government is re- ported highly pleased with the report, while at the same time determined to ignore the mild criticism of its mili- tary aggressions in China and to the puppet Manchoukuo government it has set up in Man- ‘For the U. S, workers it means “that the war danger has grown more | acute, In the first place the danger "| of an attack against the Soviet Union and in the second place the danger of.an inner-imperialist war; particu- Jarly between the United States and japan. “SUCCESS STORY” 7 "Success Story,” by John Howard “ Lawson, being shown at the Maxine Elliot Theatre by the Group Theatre, _4s distinguished by acting of a uni- form excellence. The play is a poor | choice. Tt is of the Eugene O'Neill i bourgeois reactionary variety, in | which the audience is asked to weep over the sexual problems of a finance-capitalist swindler. .. ATTENTION Y. C. L, All comrades who have not as yet turned in their articles to their unit can bring them to the Young r dance at St. Luke's Hall he for the Young Worker booth at the| Daily VOTE COMMUNIST at the’ expenie of’ the”s ployers. ment and banks; exemption collection of rent or debts Vol. IX, No. 236 1. Ynemployment and. Soc’ Ins 4. Against Hoover's wage-cutting policy. 5. Emergency relief for the poor farm- ers without restrictions by the govern. farmers from taxes, and no forced FOR: and em- of poor ed 94 second-class matier at the Pest Office at ander the Act of March 3, 1879, Enter Ga New York, N. Fear the Rising The committee consists of a large group of reactionary capitalist poli- ticians and bankers who have estab- lished this organization, with na- tional headquarters in New York, and who have announced, in a public statement, that they will fight the ex-servicemen. Oswald Garrison Villard, the sup- porter of Norman Thomas, has joined the organizing committee of this group, which includes Jules’S. Bachs, one of Wall Street’s outstanding financiers. S. Stanwood Mencken, the moving spirit behind this organization, fathered the National Security League, one of the earliest of the anti-labor organizations in this coun- try, and was its first president. “The fact that this outstanding supporter of the Socialist Party has openly lined up with the big bank- ers and capitalists against the fight of the veterans proves conclusively the correctness of our statements that the Socialists, like the Repub- licans and Democrats, are against the payment of the vets’ back wages,” said Emanuel Levin, National Chair- man of the Workers’ Ex-Service- men’s League. “The only poltical party sup- porting and orgenizing the veter- ans for this fight is the Commu- nist Party,” declared the vet leader. In connection with the prepara- tions that are now being made by the National Veterans’ Rank and File Committee for the nation-wide march to Washington Dec. 5 to de- mand full and immediate cash pay- ment of the so-called bonus, a vigor- ous fight will be lausched by the committee in every section of the country for real veterans relief. Legion Forced Labor American Legion officials working hand in hand with the starvation city governments throughout the land have established a policy of forced labor for the unemployed ex- servicemen. Veterans in many cities, and especially in the city of Buffalo, are forced to do a day’s hard labor for the few miserable pennies worth of so-called relief that is dealt out to them under the direction of the le- gion leaders. For every cent of this “relief”? that the veterans receive they are forced to sign papers agree- ing to pay back twofold the amount in cash “when they get a fob”. S. J. Stember, one of the leaders of the recent vets march to Washington §. | and member of the National Veterans Rank and File Committee, said today that the Rank and File Committee, which will lead the march to the capital in December, will fight against this forced labor policy until it is abolished. N. ¥. Vets Busy The New York delegation of 35 veterans which returned from the Cleveland conference Friday will get down to the business of organizing the New York veterans for the march to Washingign at once. The entire delegation wMl meet in the headquar- ters of the W.ES.L., 154 W. 20th St,, bonus. © LIBERAL SUPPORTER OF SOCIALISTS IN BANKERS’ ANTI-VET BONUS GROUP Oswald Garrison Villiard Enters Anti-Labor Group Sponsored by V Wall Street Vets Rank and File Committee Opens Attack on Legion Forced Labor Plan NEW YORK, Oct. 2.—S. Stanwood Mencken, corporation lawyer, super patriot and notorious labor baiter, announced today that Oswald Garrison Villard, one of Norman Thomas's, Socialist candidate for President, ardent supporters, has joined his Committee to fight against the payment of the Lame Duck Rescued Georgia voters rejected Charles R. Crisp for re-election to Congress in the primaries, The mere fact that the voters don’t want Crisp meant nothing to Hoover. He ap- pointed Crisp at once to the tariff commission. WAGNER MAY RUN FOR GOVERNOR Voted to Give Billions to Bankers ALBANY, Oct. 2—U. S. Senator Robert F. Wagner, of New York City, will be the “keynote” speaker at the Democratic state convention opening tomorrow noon here, it was an- nounced by party leaders The choice of Wagner, who in the Senate voted to give billions to the bankers, while his bill for “relief” to the unemployed provided only forced labor and star- vation, shows that the Democratic state machine has nothing to offer the workers of New York State that differs not one whit from the Hoover hunger program. It is rumored that Wagner may also be nominated for Governor at this convention, and that Lieutenant Governor Lehman, notorious for his strike-breaking plots with the labor fakers of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers Union, will take ‘Wagner's place in the Senate to carry on the Hoover hunger program on a national scale, Equal rights for the Negroes and self-determination in the Black Belt. . at 8 p.m. Wednesday to discuss the immediate steps to be taken to spread the united front for the bonus into every veterans’ organization. Fol- lowing this meeting general meetings will be held in the headquarters of every post of the WESL Thursday night. All veterans are urged to at~ tend these meetings where a full re- port of the Cleveland conference will be given. ecutive committee of that association, sent 2 letter Saturday to Secretary of Labor Doak, urging him to push his reign of terror further into the colleges to destroy “subversive doc- trines,” and to send stool-pigeons to yank out professors or foreign stu- dents. International House, adjoining Co- lumbia_ University, was mentioned particularly by Easley as a “hotbed of radicalism.” Meanwhile the movement against Doak’s ruling that no foreign sae could get a job is spreading. Princetonian, a Princeton on versity campus paper, charged that z Doak is making this gesture in the Ralph Easley, chairman of the ex- % Easley Wants Doak Hounds Loosed Against Students National Civic Federation Urges Action Against “Subversive Doctrines” The rapid growth of the student movement in the United States against the bosses’ attacks on educational facilities, and the students’ trend to join with the working class in the fight against starvation and war, have: alarmed the National Civic Federation, which is a group consisting of capitalists and labor fakers such as Matthew Woll. can unemployed will starve in a better frame of mind.” ‘Daily’ Fund Campaign / Letters P. 3 «Worker | fruit Perty USA. '(Section of the Communist International) VOTE Equal forms rights Again: fense the S determination COMMU! rights for the and self for t ck Be Against capitalist terror; against all of suppression of the poliitcal of workers. st imperialist war; for the de- of the Chinese people and of joviet Union, NEW YORK, MONDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1932 CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents (Tells Reasons for Press Publicity for Socialist Party Both Hoover-Roosevelt Stand for Program of Robbing Masses; Rift in Democratic Ranks Aimed to Aid Hoover Program of U disguised Oppression \ Only Communist Party Fights Capitalist Parties; Favors United Struggles with Socialist Workers for Winter Relief; for Revo- ulitionary Way Out of Crisis “The announcement of the Tam- many-Republican coalition in Thurs- day’s papers is a political development directly and vitally affecting the na- tional elections”, declared William Z. Foster yesterday to a representative of the DAILY WORKER. “It repre- sents another step in the direction of a split in the Democratic Party, pri- marily designed to secure the re-elec- tion of Hoover as the most tried and trusted executive of Wall Street.” Foster’s interview was the first which the doctors have allowed him to give since an at- tack of heart trouble on Septem- ber 7th forced him to discontinue his national Presiden- tial campaign speaking trip, dur- ing. which he ad- dressed 75 meet- ings and travelled 17,000 miles. Drive to Put Over Hoover. “A gigantic campaign is being or- ganized,” said Foster, “that already begins to take shape, to place again at the head of the American gov- ernment the most discredited and popularly-hated figure that American political life has seen in several gen- erations. The move towards a split of the Democratic Party which is be- ing engineered by the Smith-Young- Baker-Raskob-Shouse-Tammany com- bination and which if successfully completed will probably re-elect Hoo- ver, is certainly not based upon any fear of Roosevelt’s program. If there were any doubts anywhere that Roosevelt’s program is the same as Hoover’s on all essential questions, these doubts must have been dispel- led by Roosevelt’s speeches in the last weeks. They fight most bitterly, but only over the di- vision of the loot provided by a com- mon bandit program. It is precisely this absence of even any serious dif- ference betwen the main capitalist groups on these questions which has made it possible for the projected bolt of the Smith Democrats to make as much progress as it has.” Bosses Don’t Fear Roosevelt. “The motive for this move is not fear of Roosevelt’s program: but a fear of the anger of the hungry, disillu- sioned masses who have been led to hope for a new heaven on earth as a result of Roosevelt’s election and who would be immediately faced with a complete reproduction of the Hoover program if Roosevelt should occupy the White House on March 4th.” “Not the least important phase of this high political maneuvering in- volves the Socialist Party. Both Re- publican and Democratic Parties have agreed upon and are carrying through a campaign to build up the Socialist Party and Norman Thomas in this election. This is assuming enormous proportions. The amount of favorable publicity being given to Norman Tho- mas by the Republican and Democratic Parties throughout the country is un- precedented. The Socialist Party, which is almost completely without any press of its own, has been. pre- sented free of charge with millions of dollars’ worth of publicity by the cap- italist press. Norman Thomas is FOSTER * openly praised by the most. conserva- tive journals as the peer of Hoover and Roosevelt, “While reassuring the capitalists as to the safe and sane character of Thomas and the Socialist Party, the capitalist press at the same time spreads before the masses the most alluring demagogy of Thomas, as to how gradually and painless without any conflict and with the consent of the capitalists, he is going to trans- form capitalism into a socialist tem.” Use Thomas As Catch-Basin. “The main purpose of this elaborate campaign is to provide a sure catch- basin to hold the hundreds of thou- sands of voters who are daily turning away from the Republican and Demo- cratic Parties in disgust and to pre- vent them from supporting the Com- munist Party, which alone offers a program of real struggle against the capitalist system and proposes meas- ures which would really alleviate the suffering of the masses.” “Within this joint Repubdlican-Dem- ocratic building up of the Socialist Party there is also a sharp rivalry be- tween the two, in which the Repub- lican Party is definitely attempting to use the Socialist Party as an addition- al means for re-electing Hoover. Espe- cially in those strategic states in which the voting is expected to be very close. the Republican Party is making special efforts to build up Norman Thomas at the expense of Roosevelt, hoping that his vote will be big enough to throw the election to Hoover even with a minority. Norman Thome consciously exploiting this politi maneuver and is adjusting all political speeches to play into the hands of Hoover and the Republican Party.” “This also explains the unprece- dented financial support which is be- ing poured into the Socialist Party campaign, especially in these states— a support which certainly does not come from the working class or any section of the exploited masses, but di- rectly from the capitalists them- selves.” If Debs Were Alive. “The Socialist Party is cashing in on . this situation to build up a large vote. In payment for this it is selling the last shreds of its working class and revolutionary traditoins, especially as- sociated with it through the name of Eugene V. Debs. It requires no vivid imagination to know that if the flam- ing, revolutionary spirit of Debs were alive today, he would blast this un- principled political chicanery in the most burning terms. But in the hands of Norman Thomas and Morris Hill- quit, the tradition of Debs is made the merchandise for most unprincipled political commerce with the Repub- lican Party, the party of starvation and war, the party of Herbert Hoover.” “Let the working class study these developments very closely and under- stand their significance. They furnish additional proof of the fact which the Communist Party has __ tirelessly pointed out—that the Republican. Democratic and Socialist Parties are equally the parties of capitalism. They furnish proof that the working class must find a revolutionary way out of the crisis and that only the Communist Party is leading the ex- ploited and starving masses along this wal at Bosses Consciously Building Up Norman Thomas; Struggles of Workers, Says Foster NOW IS TIME Workers Should Rally on the other, is, either way it goes, tion companies. both factions are indulging in, proves starvation for the jobless, and institut! are certainties whichever group wins. “Save Money” for Bankers The main program of each group| is “saving money for the city”. They | differ only in what they claim is the best way to make the workers and jobless pay for this saving—and nei- ther even promise they will not} “save money” by both schemes—10 cent fare and wage cuts. Both fac- tions are serving the biggest bus- iness in New York, and their budget- ary “reforms” are at the orders of the banks and traction companies. Now Is the Time. Now is the time, the Communist Party points out, while the thieves) are quarreling over the best methods of looting the workers, and over who shall do the looting, for all employed and unemployed workers to, rally to the call of the Communist Party, for a united front struggle for relief, against wage cuts, against evictions, and to the support of Communist candidates. Now the organization of | anti-wage cut committees in the} shops, on a united front basis, should | be hastened. Now is the time when united front committees of the un-/} employed, and group organizations in every neighborhood, -in the flop houses, in the crowds registered at the relief agencies and the employ- ment agencies, must be rushed for- ward. Now is the time to demonstrate | for relief, to strike against wage cuts. | McKee and Walker The factional split in Tammany which will, if the Court of Appeals rules for a special election for mayor | this year, throw Acting Mayor McKee into the campaign as an “in- |dependent”, opposed most likely by ex-Mayor "Walker as the official choice of the Tammany majority, is serving at least as a warning to the | workers. Wage Cuts Comptroller Berry, backed by the Tammany majority led by Curry,} point out that McKee is carrying on| a vigorous wage cutting cempaign | for city workers. He is reviving in an even sharper form Walker's demands that city employes, particularly fire- men and school teachers, take a one month’s “voluntary wage cut.” Berry, | Curry and Tammany generally, are making an election campaign against McKee on the basis of pretending to save the city workers’ wages. 10 Cent Fare On the other hand, McKee has al- ready charged in the Board of Esti- mates squabble, and will again charge in his radio campaign this week, that Berry and Curry and the Tammany majority is willing to slaughter the five cent fare on sub- ways, “Els” and street railways to meke a profit for these lines. There are all kinds of grand stand; stunts being arranged, one was for Walker to arrive on the eve of the Democratic Party city convention} | wards setting up for a formal a FOR REAL MASS STRUGGLE FOR RELIEF, NO WAGE CUTS | While Tammany Factions Reveal Each Others’ | Plans to Slash Pay. , and 5-cent Fares to Communist Call for United Struggle Against Starvation NEW YORK.—The Communist Party points out to New York employed and unemployed workers that the present factional fight inside Tammany, led by McKee on the one hand, and Curry and Berry, probably for ker, a pre-election squabble in which the workers are going to be bled white for the benefit of the bankers ana trac- The campaign slogans and demagogic exposures of each other which that wage cuts of city employees, new jon of the 10 cent street railway fare | hung up the ship two days at ¢ braltar seem to have spoiled th Meanwhile the Republicans, having made their deal with Tammany, a slap in the face for Roosevelt, to di- vide the judgeships, are moving to- d half-hearted opposition candidate to McKee and (probably) Walker, and the Socialist Party Candidate Hill- quit assures the capitalists that his election will “not make much of a change”. His job is to be a cond ing cable to draw away the curr of workers’ resentment to starvat into safe channels harmless to the capitalist system. SHOE STRIKERS WIN DEMANDS 80 In Best Ever Shop Now Fight Pay Cut NEW YORK.—As a result of the drive started by the bench-made workers, the shop of the Lipp Co. was settled with a 10 pe ~ wage increase, no discrimination, no firing and full recognition of the shop committee. The Slipper Workers mass meeting Friday in Manhattan Lyceum had an attendance o f several hundred work- ers. It was decided to start a dr for improvement in their condi and for recognition of the Shoe Leather. Workers Union. As a r of this the Best-Ever Slipper Co. Front Street, Brooklyn, which -e ploys 80 workers, went out on s Saturday morning against a 20 per jcent wage cut and for full recogni tion. At the mass meeting a large or ie ization committee was elected. It will have its first meeting today at the union headquarters, 96 Fifth Ave- nue. All elected are urged to come at 6:30 p.m. “Young Worker” to Be Out in Y. Nov. 7th The Young Communist League of District 2 announces that the New York City Edition of the Young Worker will definitely appear on Nov, 7th on the occassion of the an- niversay of the Russian Revolution. The statement points with alarm to the fact that the drive for the New York edition is proceeding very slowly. All organizations are called to rush to the support of this weekly youth paper, to arrange affairs, and by other means raise funds for the drive, October 6, and make a triumphant entry into it. But the rotten machin- ery of the fascist ship “Rex” which All funds are to be sent to: Young Worker Committee, District 2, 335 East 12th Street, New York City. McKee Opens Stagger P. cuts in relief at the Welfare Bureaus s the bankers, has issued a manifesto posed to begin today. to concentrate this week on pushing workers, under the mask of this stag-@- ger plan by which more workers are | supposed to be given jobs, though the | total amount of wages paid remains the same. As in the past, this “sharing” of jobs means no increase in relief for the jobless workers, but instead forced labor for them and for the workers who at present have jobs. Only the solidarity of the unem- ployed workers in the ranks of the fone Councils and their unity with the employed workers under psi see See ca a ana Ac te Drive For lan Starvation Calls for Throwing Mere Burdens on Workers With “Share-the-Work” Week Mayor Mckee of New York, who is pushing salary reduction and drastic 0 he can share the city’s money with for “Share the Work Week,” sup- Under this slogan, McKee is calling on employers still lower the low wages given to front committees will beat back the |McKee “share-the-work” hunger pro= |gram, Seottskoro Meet In Monticello Oct. 7 MONTICELLO, N. Y.—The Tom Mooney branch of Monticello is hold- ing an indoor mass protest meeting for the Scottsboro boys on Octgger 7. The meeting will be held at 8: p.m, at the Workers’ Center, Clinton Ave. across from the railroad station, _ isa 3