The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 4, 1932, Page 1

In the Day’s | Ne ews 50,000 MARCH T0 HONOR DEGEYTER Composer of Famous} “Tnterationale” (Cable By Inprecorr.) PARIS, France, Oct. £—Fifty thou- sand workers followed the coffin of Pierre Degeyter, the composer of The International, as it moved in funeral procession through the streets yesterday, The Communist leaders, Cachin, Doriot and Racamonde spoke at the Pierre Degeyter was given a funeral at the expense of the of St. Denis, where Communist administra. tion. The local branch of the Socialist Party participated and brought a Wanner and a wreath to the funeral, in defiance of boventt en the funeral. s of workers lined the paying honor to Degeyter, : wrote the song before the it Party was formed, but he joined the Party in,1921 and was a} member to the day of his death. is the fighting ired millions of the world to struggle against capitalism,. Translated into every language—and sung in every country where there is an embatiled labor movement, the “Internationale” has stirred the pro- jJetarians of all lands and spurred them on in thoir struggles for the emancipation from the chains of slavery. Degeyter, the composed of the song, has ted the Soviet Union— 53 the of the “Internationale” have become a living feality for the millions of workers and peasants who are triumphantly building socialism under the leadership of the Commu- nity Party of the USSR. Degeyter was present at the Sixth World Con- ef the Communist Party hel scow, and received the gre2tings legates from the revolutionary arties of the world, The “Interna- tionale” is the battle cry of the revo- lutionary workers of the U, S. whose leader is the Communist Party. The words of the “Internationale” fcllow ‘THE INTERNATIONALE Ar’se you prisoners of starvation, wretched of the earth. * justice thunders condemnation, A betier world in birth. No more traditions chains shall bind us. Arise ye slaves no more in thrall! The earth shall rise on new founda- We have been naught, we shall be all. refrain *Tis: the final conflict, Let each stand-in his place! The International Soviet, Shall be the human race! 8 ’Tis the final conflict, Let each stand in his place! The International Soviet, Shall be the human race! VET REVOLT IN LEGION PROCEEDS Four Rich Members of Ruling Clique Resigns ! KENOSHA, Wis., Oct. 3. — Revolt of the rank and file members of the American Legion who are demanding full and immediate cash payment of the so-called bonus has forced the resignation of four members of the wealthy. officer clique here, three of them past commanders of the local post and all of them big capitalists. Jessell MacWhythe, official of the ‘MacWhythe company; Haskell Bliss, vice-president of the Nash Motors; Gilbert Lance, vice-president of Coo- .per’s Inc., and Bryon Hill, sales pro- motion executive of Cooper’s Inc., yielded to the pressure of the rank and file and handed in their resig- nations to the local post. It is reported that other Kenosha rich men, members of the Legion who are against the veterans’ bonus fight, will also resign within a few ‘days. °™'The fight which is now going on inside the legion against the leader- ship which is attempting to crush the bonus movement is being led by members of the bonus army who were evicted from Washington on Hoover's ploody Thursday, honest working- class elements, ruined musinessmen and farmers and veterans support- ing the rank and file committee which was formed at the National Veterans Rank and File Conference in’ Oleveland. Prepare New Bonus March. All the forces_which are fighting for the ex-soldiers’ bonus are now being mobilized fer the leadership of the rank and file veterans’ com- mittee for a new gigantic bonus march to the capital in December, ‘The rank and file committee, which will set up headquarters in Detroit within a few days is already work- ing out plans to establish finance, transportation, publicity, quarter- master and commissary committees to take care of the many problems of the march. The march to Washington will imence in the later part of No- vember and arrive in the capital December 5 at the opening of Con- Members of the rank and file ittee, which will lead the march, have already arrived in various con- centration points throughout the country where they will begin the work of organizing the veterans to fight for the bonus through local con- ferences which will be held during the third week in October. ELIMINATES 800 JOBS MAHANOY CITY, Pa—The St. Nickolas coal preparation plant pr ea today with a new system by are replacing 1,000 1! 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- crs without restrictions by the govern. Dail the official Socialist | Central EY, NO Party ment and banks; exemption of poor farmers from taxes, and no forced collection of rent or debts ba. (Becton of the Communist International ) | MeSH sh ¥7 Entered as second-clas: at the Post ice a v Vol. T » No. 2 237 GB New York, Nz unter tho Act of March a. cain ~~ NEW YORK, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1932 orker | U.S.A. 5. VOTE COMMUNIST FOR: Equal rights for the Negroes and selfs determination for the Black Belt, Against capitalist terror; against all forms of suppression of the poliitcal rights of workers. Against imperialist war; for the de fense of the Chinese people and of the Soviet Union. CITY EDITION Price : BEWARE OF BOSS’ SLANDER ABOUT, “THE CUTSIDERS"! Metal Workers Vien | Only Leadership That! Will Win EDGEWATER, N. J., Oct. 3.—A spontaneous protest strike against the Ford Motor Co. wage cub developed today in the company’s plant here The wage cut would have reduced most of the 1500 men here with their four short day's work, equivalent of three days’ to a wage of $12 a week, out of which the most of them have to pay from 30 to 60 cents car fare. S® Wage Cut The orders issued several days ago by the main office of the Ford Co., to cut $6 men, called the unskilled, to $4 a day, and to cut the skilled from $6 to $5 a day, were read to the Edgewater plant workers depart- ment by department, this forenoon. Foremen were to decide’ who was skilled and who unskilled. Most of the men were to get the $2 cut . The men went back to their work- ing places, but stood around, paid no attention to the bosses, and discussed the cut. Word was passed around, “Walk out at noon! Stgy out!” A thousand of them walked out, 200 more quit altogether, and only 300 stayed in. The superintendent, Stimpson, already had all the Edge- water police reserves and all the plant guards around the place. Lured Back; Refuse to Work Stimpson then spoke to the totally unorganized workers, giving them the usual line : “Th ecompany can’t af- ford to pay more--ycu have families to ‘support and the best thing you can do is to take what you can get etc. He then gave the workers five minutes to decide. One by one, and then in groups, they straggled back into the plant. But there, again, they did no work. They stood around and discussed the situation, trying to find some lead- ership. | When they came out, the plant was surrounded also by New Jersey state police. rope ke 5 Metal Union Arrives The Metal Workers Industrial Union is rushing organizers into Edgewater. It will call on the work- ers to form a picket line this (Tues- day) morning and stop all going to the plant, and call them to a mass meeting to elect their own rank and file strike committee. Edgewater workers, beware of the usual boss trick of trying to rouse you against outsiders!” The Metal Work- ers Industrial Union is no outsider to any metal worker. It is the militant union in the metal industry, the only real workers’ union. Follow its lead- ership! Elect your strike, picketing and relief committees. Elect them on a broad base, with representation from every department and includ- ing both skilled and unskilled work- ers! Mass picket the plant! Smash the Ford wage cut! Call on workers in other Ford plants to come out! SCOTTSBORO MEKT IN HARLEM OCT. 5 Prepare Cet. 8 Protest At Union Square NEW YORK.—Workers and their organizations have manifested their preparedness for the October 8th, Scottsboro-Mooney demonstration on Union Square, at the various meet- ings and affairs held by the New York District of the International Labor Defense. The Young Communist League and the International Labor Defense have announced a parade which will finish with a demonstration at 145th St. and 8th Ave,, Wednesday, October 5, at 6:30 p.m. to further mobilize the masses for October 8. The parade will start at 120th St. and 8th Ave. and over to 8th Ave, and then up to 145th St. This parade and demonstration will be the main Scpttsboro Defense event in Harlem prior to the October 8th demonstration on Union Square, it was reported today. The New York District of the LL. D. urges all workers to participate in this demonstration and to mobil- ize at 6.30 p.m. at 120th St. and Lenox Ave. for the parade. Equal rights {sc the Negroes and which 200 men] sat ition ea ee in the Black Norkers, Hark Elect Broad Strike Committee “EIGHT IN FAMILY, NOT ENOUGH FOOD;” AIDS ‘DAILY’ ter. thing we are without. the club has.” H’® others. bills. breadlines, in the mines. to pay our pressing debts. THOMPSON, Longmont, Colo., on the back of a letter sent all readers by the Editorial Board of the Daily Worker, writes: “I met with a few comrades that got together here and presented this let- “We are all victims of capitalism and as I sit here, can say that cash is a We are all without work and funds. I have eight in the * * . GENEVA, Oct., 3.—The League of Nations report on Manchuria, made public yesterday, clearly lays the ba- sis for the partition of China, for armed intervention against the Chi- nese Soviet Republic, and for the strengthening and extending of the united front of decaying capitalism against the Chinese Revolution and to afford a common ground for ac- tion against the new world of rising, oui ing Socialism in the Soviet inion. For Dividing Up China The report is directed against China, It favors dismem- berment of China behind its hypocritical phrases of unholding Chinese territorial integrity. It grants Japan’s case to special vested interests in Manchuria. It aims to establish an imperialist base in Man- churia, under the hegemony of Ja- pan, against the Soviet Union, and to drive a wedge between the Soviet Union and the Chinese Soviet dis- tricts. It concedes several verbal concessions to American imper- jalism, such as a paper recognition of the Kellogg Pact and the Amer- ican Open Door policy. Sharpen U.S.-Japan Rivalry These verbal concessions, with the material concessions to Japanese im- perialism will serve further to sharp- en the antagonisms between U. S. and Japanese imperialisms. These Japan's announced opposition to cer- tain proposals contained in the re- port, such as the proposal for an autonomous state under world imper- alist control with Japanese hege- mony, and in Wang Ching-Wel's Red Press Bazaar Opens October 6th SEE DETAILS ON PAGE 2 feport clearly shows that the grow- ing crisis of capitalism, and on the other hand, the successes of Socialist construction in the Soviet Union and the growth of the Soviet Power in China, are driving the imperialisst to seek common ground against the ris- ing Soviet world. In this drive, the report shows them seeking to strengthen the Nan- king Government as a real counter- revolutionary force of the imperial- ists in China. ‘The report, not only recognizes Ja- pan’s claims of vested paramount in- terests in Manchuria, but advises Ja- pan as to the best means of pro- tecting these robbers claims. ‘To make its meaning even clearer, the report says further: “She (Japan) ight even find it possible, with the sympathy and good will of the rest of the world and at no cost to herself, to obtain better security than she will obtain by the costly method she is at pres- nt adopting.” ‘The League thus shows its concern lest Japan by its present provocative methods will hamper world imperial- ism in its plans to use Manchuria as @ base against the Soviet Union. “Diverse Social Systems.” The goes on to blame the friendly attitude of the Soviet Union towards the aspirations of China’s masses for freedom for the growth antagonisms are already reflected in | of the national revolutionary strug- gle in China. According to the report, the action of the Soviet Government in scrap- ping the unfair Tsarist treaties im- posed upon China “shattered the basis of Russo-Japanese understand- ing and cooperation in Manchuria.” statement that China will not accept |The report refers also to the conflict social ‘his part of Uhe League report, The |““between diverse systems,” family and aside from two or three dollars two of the girls are earning: there is hardly enough to keep food on the table. | we cannot come to you and with a good donation. I am sending the last dollar We as a body greatly regret that DLY enough to keep food, but enough to send the “Daily”. Response like this makes possible the Daily Worker's forging ahead in workingclass struggles—on the farms, in factories, on the Spirit like this should stir every worker, every reader into’ participating in the drive for 50,000 half-dollars, sending fifty cent pieces themselves, or, if they are unemployed, collecting from We cannot wait for the National Tag Days (October 14, 15, 16) We depend upon the half-dollars sent today, tomorrow, EVERY day, to help lighten the weight of Daily Worker Saturday, only $106,55 came in, the. lowestamount of the week. Half-dollars—hundreds of half-dollars—will make up for this insignifi- cant sum. Make YOUR response today! League of Nations Report Paves Way for. Imperialist Attack on Soviet Union, Looting of China Proposes International Control of Manchuria Under Japanese Hegemony; Recognizes Japan’s Claims, Offers Her Way of Securing Them Seeks to Protect “Interests of White Guards and Strengthen Nan- king Butcher Regime as Real Counter-Revolutionary Force in China that is, between the rising world of Sovietism and the dying world of capitalism. The rapid spread of Communism in China and the growing favor in which the Chinese masses held the Soviet Union, while hating and de- spising the imperialists, take up a Jarge portion of the report. It calls for international (imperialist) co- operation in the “reconstruction” of China, meaning the strengthening of the Nanking butcher regime, as well as further imperialist control over China. It says: “In that country (China), Com- munism has become an actual rival of the national government.” The problem “is thus linked with the large problem of national recon- struction.” Protect White Guards. Under the heading of “minorities” the calls for the safeguarding of “the interests of the White Rus- sians and other minorities.” The clause on the White Guards further exposes the counter-revolutionary aim of thte report in organizing the war of intervention against the Sov- jet Union. The report seeks to dispose of the Soviet Power in China as a prerequi- site to the partition anq looting of China by the imperialist powers. This counter-revolutionary role is still further exposed in the proposal to turn the railway system of Man- churia over to Japanese control. It is precisely in the last few months that the Japanese imperial- ists have grabbed control of the rail- way system of Manchuria, seizing sections of the Chinese Eastern Rail- way, which was formerly jointly op- erated by China and the Soviet Union. Whole Sections Especia Sheer starvation faces the 16,000,000 | unemployed workers unless they or- ganize and by militant struggle for granting of enough food to maintain life through the winter. For city |after city is cutting off or cutting | down tremendously even the soup line rations they have been giving. Jobless Already Starving This is the fourth winter of unem- ployment. The number of jobless is} greater than ever before. Their lit- tle savings are exhausted. Their bodies are,weakened by long months of partial starvation. Hundreds of thousands and millions have lost their homes and what items of per- | sonal property they had. Their re! tives who still have jobs are work- ing two or three days a week on stagger system, and have had wage- cuts amounting to over 50 per cent. New York, 6 Cents a Day. Figures showing terrific, amazingly cynical slashes in the petty starva-| tion dole of relief given up to now, have been compiled by Grace Hutch- ins of the Labor Research Associa- tion. They show: New York, with its admitted 1,160,- 000 jobless, estimates relief needs at $75,000,000 for the next twelve months 30 a month for each unemployed worker's family, or 6 cents per per- son 4 day. The report states: “‘Relief is on a disaster basis’ in New York City, admits William Hod- son, executive director of the New) York Welfare Council 2,000 Dead, “‘It is impossible to estimate the number of deaths in the last year in which starvation was a contributing cause,’ declares Fortune, the rich man’s magazine, in analyzing the deaths directly from starvation in New York City hospitals. But cer- tainly they run into the thousands. One New York capitalist paper ad- mitted more than 2,000 deaths from starvation. Detroit, 7 Cents a Day. “Fifteen cents per person per day was the Detroit rate of relief in April, 1932, said to be the ‘lowest rate for years.’ But by September it is cut to about 7 cents per person per day. A family of nine now gets $4.50 a week, or 50 cents each, to last for| 7 days. The welfare agencies no| longer even pretend to pay rent, and from 50 to 150 families are evicted each day, according to city records. | lly, of } and Condemned to Starve to Death; Alarming Facts Ce fied Fight for Jobless Insur ance; 5 upport Communist Program! BUILD UNITED FRONT AGAINST RELIEF ‘CUTS! THOUSAND EDGEWATER FORD WORKERS WALK OUT PROTESTING WAGE CUT; MUST ORGANIZE STRIKE! »| Major ity Would Have Been Reduced to $12 a Week; Superintendent’s Threats Drive Them | Back But They Refuse to Work; Should Picket Plant This Morning and Noon; Hold Meeting; NewYork Jobless Slashed to 6 cents; Detroit 7; All Cut Jesro Jok a Workers Entirely Cut Off all for Int ensi FORD URGES UNITED FRONT FARM STRIKE Speaks Today in D2s Moines; Hoover There With | Guard Farmers to March; Communists Support Strike Against Tax and Debt Sales DES MOINES, Iowa, Oct. 3.—To- hunger marches and demons; ions, mortow James W. Ford, Communist | for united picketing on the #ads, for candidate for, Vice-President, andj united demands for relief to both Herbert Hoover, Republican candi-|farmers and jobless and for resist- date for President, will speak here|ance to eviction of both and mass on the farm question. resistance to tax sale: Ford speaks in the Community) ord will point to the alliance of Center, Eighth and Forest St.. and pankers, corporations and rich farm- demonstration in support of Hoover. Ford will proclaim to many of thes 10,000 parading farmers the Com- munist platform demand for “Emergency relief for the poor farmers without restriction by the government and bankers; exemp- tion of poor farmers from taxes and no forced collection of rent or | debts.” Ford will pledge to the farm strik- ers the full support of the Commu- nist Party, unlike the Socialist Party, whose spokesman, Norman Thomas, told them in Minnesota they couldn’t win. United Front. Ford will call on the city jobless to join forces with the farmers, for joint 10,000 leaflets have been distributed | erg ag the ensnilae of the farieel advertising his meeting: the rich parasites who take the farm- Farmers to Demonstrate. Jers’ food for less than it costs to Tens of thousands of farmers will | raise it, sell that same food for more parade in Des Moines tomorrow. to|than the worker can pay, and de- demand of the government that it do| stroy it if they can’t sell it at their something for the ruined fermers,| own price losing their land, striking against] qe will urge the farmers to vote jstarvation. The Republican PartY| Communist, and hold their neighbor- press is trying to represent this as a| | will urge the farmers to vote Com- munist, ang to hold hood mass meetings, ink and file strike co lead their struggle, and elect | delegates to the National Fa | lief Conference in Washington Dee. 1-10, to. lay demands before congress. BEMIDJI, Minn., Oct. 3.—Picket- ing is being resumed on a united front basis in Clearwater and Bel- trami Counties. WATERLOO, Iowa, Oct. 3—Seven- teen of the 21 farm pickets arrested here were dismissed on motion of the county attorney. Three were put on trial. Two were acquitted Sept. 23, and one, Ed Krueger, was convicted. Addressed to William Z. Evicted workers and their families live in floorless tents, in a park that} becomes a mud-hole when it rains.! Philadelphia Cuts All Off. | “Philadelphia cut down relief ex- penditures from $1,500,000 in the one month of March (1932) to a bare jpae aes in July—practically nothing at all for the 300,000 starving jobless | jand their families. Even before the jeutting off of relief, the average | \family was receiving (in May) only| $4.23 a week for all needs. This} amount allowed $3.93 a week for food, while the U. S. Children’s Bureau es- timates that the very minimum necessary for food in a family of three is $5.15 a week. Families on relief were said to average 4.8 per- sons in each, so the amount to feed a person for a day was only about 11% cents. Even this was cut off in July and 55,000 families were left almost wholly without relief, “Slow starvation and progressive disintegration of family life,” admits the Community Coun- cil. With at least 1,250,000 jobless in Pennsylvania it is officially esti- mated that 3,000,000 persons are wholly without income in the state. This is, of course, an under-state- ment. “Socialists” Cut 30 Per Cent. Milwaukee, Wisconsin, with a “so- cialist” administration, cut relief ex- penditures between March and July, 1932, by 30 per cent. Cut Half In Pittsburgh. In Pittsburgh, where last year the drive was for $6,000,000 for relief, this year it is for only $3,000,000, though no one even pretends that the need has been reduced by even a fraction of 1 per cent. They All Cut Down. Rochester proposes to give 13 cents | per day per person relief, if they make the proposed collections. The rate for Schenectady is 9 cents, for Syracuse, 9 cents, for Utica, 10 cents. Cities and city areas that have re- cently cut relief by 20 per cent or more include the following: Phila- delphia, 88 per cent; Los Angeles, 46.8 per cent; Mobile, Alabama, 43 per cent; St. Louis, Missouri, 35° per cent; Flint, Michigan, 30.9 per cent; Houston, Texas, 25.3 per cent; Sac- ramento, Calif, 24.6 per cent; Pon) tiac, Mich., 24.4 per cent; Knoxville, ‘Tonn., 24:2 per cent; Shreveport, La. 22 per cent; Winston-Salem, N ,C., 21.7 per cent. Negroes and Other Groups Cut oft Entirely. “Besides cutting the rate of aid | worker's Jife. YOUR PRESENCE IN GER FORD Lynch Threat From Klan! Foster, Communist candidate for President. the National Election Campaign Committee of the Party today received the following wire: BIRMINGHAM ALABAMA SUNDAY OCTOBER 9TH IS NOT WANTED SEND NIG- KU KLUX KLAN Defying this lynch threat, especially against James W. Ford, Vice-Presidential candidate who is now touring the West, the National Election Campaign Committee in a state- ment issued today announced that Clarence W. manager of the committee, will speak in Birmingham on October 9. Hathaway is campaigning in the South at the present time in place of Foster, who is ill. Hathaway, wea Uh Parade Friday Night A Torch Light Parade will be held Friday, Oct, 7, at 8 p, m., starting from Claremont Parkway and Wash- ington Avenue and passing through the Negro sections of 3rd Avenue, to demand the immediate and uncon- ditional release of James Ford, the For Class Prisoners Negro Pioneer Leader, arrested in front of the Bronxdale Swimming Pool, Bronx Park East, and sentenced to one year in the Reformatory for his participation in the fight against discrimination, Texas, for example, neither Mexicans nor Negroes are now given avy help whatsoever. In Jacksonville, Flor- ida, unemployed Negroes themselves must furnish 50 per cent of what- ever relief they get. Where is a job- less Negro worker to get 50 cents in order to get snother 50 cents trom a relief agency? New Orleans La., gives no relief at all to Negro work- ers and their families. Hoover Gives Nothing. ‘These figures spell death to the jobless, unless they do something. As \far as the federal government is con- |cerned, Houver and his national con- ferences of business and social ser- vice agents have definitely stated that the local agencies, just these same city and private bodies ‘that are slashing relief in this disastrous manner, are the sole source of food for the jcbless this year. Even in the cities there is money to feed the jobless. The relief slashes are at the orders of the bank- ers, who hold the city debts, and who refuse to give up one cent of their profits to save one jobless ‘The relief slashes are at the orders of tae owners of indus- try who propose, under direction of a committee appointed by Hoover and led by Teagle, president of Standard Oil, to substitute the stag- ger system wage-cutting scheme for relief Organi«: and Fizht. given to each family, many communi- ‘ies have abandoned whole sections ‘The Communist Party calls for mass struggle for relief and for. un~ ‘ j employment insurance at the expense of the employers and their govern- | ment. It calls on the jobless to or- ganize united front committees in every bread line, every flop house, at relief agencies and employment of- fices, among the jobless of each fac- jtory, in each block and street—to demonstrate and demand emergency winter relief. National Committee Meeting. The enlarged session of the Na- tional Committee of the Unemployed Councils is meeting Oct. 10-11 in Chicago, to plan nation-wide strug- gles, probably a new national hunger march, to lay demands before con~ gress. Vote Communist for Workers’ Ume employment Insurance! It’s do or die now for the jobless, |for the capitalists have decreed death by starvation this winter. The fig- ures prove it. « QUARREL OVER SPOILS MEXICO CITY, Oct. 3—President Rodriguez today indicated the in- dustrialists and American imperial= ist oppressors of the Mexican people would reserve to themselves the sole right of oppressing the Mexican peas= ants and not let the Catholic feudal hierarchcy get a large portion of the spoils, This attitude was indicated in Rodriguez's answer to the latest theyelteal of the Pope called “Acerba Anima,” wd ry a