The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 5, 1932, Page 1

| \ | MICHIGAN AUTHORITIES ORDER COURT TO BRING FOSTER TO TRIAL In the Day’s News Democrats Nominate} Strikebreaker Lehman} ALBANY, N. Y,, Oct,, 4.—Herbert | H. Lehman, banker ,and notorious | supporter of Needle \Trades bosses against the workers, was nominated for governor on the Democartic ticket here yesterday. FARMERS RIP HOOVER B=NNERS | DES MOINES, Oct. 4—Cops were | rushed to the Fair Grounds this af-| ternoon to stop the farmers from} tearing Hooyer banners off of passing automobiles. Hoover was booed by farmers when | he tried to fool them about the “ac- complishments” of .the republican politicians. . | | CONTINUES MASS | | Y-OFFS The Brooklyn Edison Co. in Brock- | lyn laid off 300 more workers yester- | day. Five hundred were laid off last week. The dismissals included labor- ers, cable layers and office help, The | workers when they came to work| yesterday morning were told they} were fired and were given no reason | for the action. VOTE COMMUNIST FOR: Unemployment and Social Insuranee at the expense of the state and em- ployers. Against Hoover's wage-cutting policy. Emcrgency relief for the poor farm- ers without restrictions by the govern. ment and banks; exemption of poor farmers from taxes, and no forced collection of rent or debts Dail Central A total of 2,800 men have "been laid off by the Brooklyn Edison within a} year or so. 7 ee | MILITANT PAINTERS UNION | WINS 5 SHOPS | The Alteration Painters Union, giving the only fighting leadership to the painters of New York continued its series of victories for the workers with the signin gof agreements yes- | terday with five new shops. In the Zuckerman Paint Shop in Brooklyn, the workers gained a 15 per cent wage increase; in the Land Paint Co. a 15 per cent increase was gained; in the Lerner shop the increase was from 15 to 40 per cent; in the Mosh- ‘off shop 40 per cent; and in the Man- jster shop 15 per cent. Recognition of the union and shop committees; all hiring through the union office, all firing to be taken up with the shop committee. The 8 hour day, 5 day week and equal distribution of work were also won. CHARLES KLIN“ FREE NEW YORK.—Charles Kline, who was arrested last Friday for trying to get back the money from the Wal- dorf Employment Agency for two robbed workers, was discharged in the 54th Street Magistrate's Court yesterday. After the job shark had ygiven his case, and two paid actres- {ses had perjured themselves in court, ‘the outburst from the militant work- ers in the courtroom forced the mag- istrate to dismiss the. case without putting on any witnesses for the ‘worker. ‘The militancy, of the workers had previously forced the magistrate to have the shark return the money in open court. MRS. MOONEY TO SAIL ON OCT. 17 | win Spread ad Fight for Mooney’s Release Despite her frail condition, Mother Mooney will sail for Europe on Oc- tober 17, to spead the fight for Tom Mooney’s release among the workers of France, Germany, England and Russia. On October 8th, she and Richard B. Moore will participate in the Scottsboro-Mooney demonstration on Union Square, and on October 16th a mass farewell party will be held in her honor at the Stuyvesant Casino, 142-2nd Ave. The Young Communist League and the International Labor Defense have arranged a parade and demon- stration to take place in Harlem, on Wednesday, October 5th in defense of the Scottsboro boys and Tom Mooney. All workers have been urged to mobilize at 120th Sureet and Lenox Avenue on Wednesday 6:30 p. m. for the ‘Harlem Scottsboro-Mooney par- ade and demonstration. From there workers will march over to 8th Ave., and then up 8th Ave. to 145th Street. Le (Section of the Communist Ee VOTE Worker : ist Party U. S.A. COMMUNIST FOR: Equal rights for the Negroes and self~ tietermination for the Black Belt, Against capitalist terror; against all qfcrms of suppression of the politcal rights of workers for the dee of Against imperialist war; fense of the Chinese people and the Soviet Union. Vol. IX, No. 238 er Entered as-second-elays matter at the Post Office at New York, N.Y., under Ge Act of March 8, 1879, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1932 CITY EDITION ; Price 3 Cents Bankers, Trusts Responsible for Ruin. of Farmers; Boss Parties Their Tools; Socialists Smother Fight on Monopolists, ays Foster FORD WORKERS, LACKING ORGANIZATION, TRICKED INTO TAKING WAGE CUT 200 Still Out Have Quit; 1,300 In Plant Are} Dissatisfied | But Need Leadership Four Metal Workers Union Organizers Ar- rested at Gates; Union Builds Basis for S EDGEWATER, N. Struggle _ J., Oct. 4.—Intense dissatisfaction continues among the "ord Motor ‘Co. workers in the Edgewater plant. The workers realize that the cut from $6 to 4 for the approximately three full days’ a week work they get (four part days) condemns the vast majority of the men| to a $12 wage. Iowa Farmers March, Protest Hoover Program DES MOINES, Iowa, Oct. 4— Thousands of farmers, marching in a procession a mile long carried plac- ards denouncing thé Hoover admin- istration for the raid of the zeceral farm banks on. the farmers’ land, for the refusal to give unemployment relief or farm relief, and demanding moratorium on taxes and debts. ‘The parade marched toward the station where Hoover was atriving, and Hoover “hid behind state militia, who threw a cordon around an srea of 20 blocks. The paraders shouted denouncia- tion of the Hoover administration. Many of them went to the meeting addressed by James W. Ford, Com- munist candidate for vice-president. Meanwhile, Hoover, still hiding be- hind swarms of militia, read in pon- derous accents a prepared speech to a crowd of Republican stalwarts from all over the state, admitted by invitation card only. He admitted the crisis is bad, but claimed without evidence that he had ended it. The crisis, he said, was made in Europe and came to America, and might have been worse if it had not been for Hoover. Hoover insisted that in secret ways he could not reveal, his administration has saved the country and saved the world. At the end of his speech he got down to the Republican farm pro- gram, which he stated in twelve points, including: protective tariff, bureau, conferences for land use, in- land waterways, not to press debt payments (in spite of the farm bank foreclosures, which he falsely stated were very few); lower taxes, which he said the federal government could not do anything about more short term loans, more land bank schemes, payment of foreign debts, gold stand- ard, and finally he declared t hat since the Republicans have ended the crisis, the farmers have nothing to fear. Hoover boasted that he per- sonally smashed the veterans’ bonus. Very few are getting the $5 a day wage which the company .* promises skilled workers and these higher paid men are hand picked by the management. Memories of the shooting to death of four workers at the Dearborn plant last May and present experi- ence of man-killing speed-up and po- ventilation do not make the men like the company any better. 200 Quit Yesterday over a thousand of the 1,500 working here walked out when the wage cut was announced, depart- ment by department. Over 200 men quit outright, and these are still out, of course. But the men’s inexperi- ence with strikes or organizations of a strike, plus the arrest at the mill gates “this morning of four’ organ- izers of the Metal Workers Indus- trial Union, who were calling the men to mass picket the plant and meet and elect their strike commit- tees, has left the Ford workers tem- porarily without effective means to struggle. Rally To Metal Union Today 1,300 men are back working in the plant. The Metal Workers Industrial Union, the same organ- ization that led the victorious Warren steel strike last month, will continue its organization. Building of depart- mental groups should go on inside the mill, Groups ‘should meet wherever they can outside the mill, draw up demands, and get in touch with the union organizers. at 80 E. llth St. New York. Edgewater workers should pay no attention to the flood of boss pro- paganda that will come against “out- siders,” “Reds,” etc. Only by build- ing organization and getting solidar- ity of all other militant workers can they overcome the weakness which smashed for the moment their at- tempt to block the terrific wage cut the Ford Motors Co. has given them. WEINSTONE SPEAKS TONIGHT NEW YORK.—William Weinstone, editor of the Daily Worker and Com- munist candidate for the U. S. Sen- ate from New York, will be the main speaker at an election mass meeting of needle trades workers this even- ing at 6:30 p. m., at Bryant Hall, 6th Avenue and 42nd Street. “Daily” Their Weapon in Strikes; Here's $21.” They Rally to It “We kept our pledge to support the Daily Worker. Whree workers, representing 51 contributors of the Paris Shoe Shop, Brooklyn, N. Y., called at the “Daily” office to turn in their third contribution since the opening of the financial campaign. the ‘Daily’ was our guide—it helped us and now we are glad to help the ‘Daily’. We sell it inside the shop, and have 25 regular we were on strike last April, May and June, “When readers now.” STRIKING ITALIAN BAKERS CONTRIBUTE $13. From an Italian baker, member of the Bakery Workers Industrial Union: “I am pleased to enclose a check of $13 that the union handed me for the fighting ‘Daily’. A strike is in progress at the Angonoa Bakery, 214 Thompson Street, a sweatshop where many of our fellow workers spent the best of their lives for the boss now kicking us out and breaking a contract. The strike during which two comrades are on constant picket duty, is led by the Bakery Workers Industrial Union, On with the struggle against starvation, wage cuts, and all misleading betrayers of our class.” ° * * “ONLY ENGLISH DAILY THAT FIGHTS A, F. OF L. GRArTERS.” To a recent donation of $50, painters of the Workers’ Co-operative, Bronx, N. Y. add $10 more, along with the following message: ‘HEN the workers of all industries go on strike _ against their starvation conditions they find in the Daily Worker a staunch supporter ~ and weapon. : ‘The Paris and other shoe workers were en- raged in Jong, bitter struggles against the attacks on their conditions. The capitalist papers voice in the strike, The Daily Worker was indispensable to the shoe strikers. The shoe workers recognize a want to have thelr Daily, Wopker.on the scene breathed poison against them—but the Daily Worker was their in all their coming struggles. ers too find the Daily their weapon, ‘That's why they contribute to the Daily Worker fin@mcial campaign. “We, a group of painters from the Workers’ Cooperative, give $10 to the Daily Worker. We call - upon other painters in the trade to help save the ‘Daily Worker’ because it is the only English » ers’ daily that fights against Zausner and other grattors: of, the A. F, of L.” work. ‘The bakery strik- In their struggles against the A. F. of L, this fact and misleaders the rank and file of the A. F. of L. unions also find the Daily an invaluable weapon. And they too rally to the support of the Daily. Make possible the continuation of the Daily's role as guide-and fighter of the workingclass. Put your force behind the 50,000 half-dollar campaign—half-dollars farms and homes. save the Daily Worker! inside page and rush it into the Daly, Worker, 50 E, 13th Street, i from shops, unions, Your fifty cents will help Use the coupon on the aes Workers, Jobless, Back Up Strike Demands for Higher Prices to Farmers, Lower to the Workers | “The farmers’ strike movement, | which is sweeping through the mid- dle west and spreading to all parts of the country, has the complete support of the Communist Party and revolutionary workers,” declared William Z. Foster, in an interview. given to the press yesterday, “The Communist Party alone of all the political parties operating in America | today supports the struggles of the |farmers to relieve their catastrophic situation which is rapidly destroy- ing the every possibility of life for them. “The policy of the Hoover govern- ment openly proclaims the necessity of driving hundreds of thousands of farmers off the land and into the bread-lines of the cities. It pro- claims the necessity of the deliberate destruction of one-third of the crops, ‘while millions ‘are starving and go- ing tase ‘agged for want of the food and. lothing that is being destroyed. The Roosevelt Democratic Party program differs in no essential respect. The vague hints of Roosevelt in the di- rection of the so-called allotment plan, even if carried out, would as: sist only the rich farmers at the ex- pense of the poor, but even this pro- mise is nullified by his simultaneous statement that any plan must be self- supporting, i. e., taken directly out of the hides of the farmers them- selves, Only Communists Support Farmers’ Fight, “Norman Thomas for the Socialist Party openly proclaims that the farmers movement is doomed to de- feat. The Socialist Party has no pro- gram on the agrarian question, This means that the Socialist Party sup- ports the various fake nostrums brought forward by the capitalist agrarian experts. Only the Commu- nist Party supports the present strug- gles of the farmers, and at the same time brings forward a comprehensive program of real relief, namely: re- lieve the impoverished farmers of the terrific burdens of debts and taxes, to secure for them the undisturbed No Foreclosures ‘Communist Candidate Urges Unemployed to Help Farmers Picket, and Farm Strikers to Aid Jobless With Food; Calls for Farmers’ Hunger Marches to Cities, Backed by Unemployed Demonstrations Build United Front Movement of Poor and Middle Farmers With Workers Against Alliance of Bankers, Rich Farmers and Produce | Trusts, Broaden Strike Demands to Include “No Taxes”, W. Z. FoPrae en of their land and to set up a fighting united front between the farmers and workers. “All threa capitalist parties are trying to prevent the unity of the workers and farmers by the most shameless demagogy. They tell the workers that the demand of the farmers for higher prices will in- crease the cost of living. They tell the farmers that their plight is largely caused by the high wages of the workers in the cities. Both these statements are bare-faced lies. The prices which the farmers receive for their products have declined to less than one-third what they were a few years ago. But the decline in the cost of living has been a miserable 17 percent. The tremendous dispro- portion between the low prices for farming products established by the robber banks and trusts on the one hand, and the, artificial high level of retail prices maintained by the same monopolist corporations for the pur- pose of robbing the workers and the consuming masses in general on the other hand, calls for united struggle of the workers and farmers to force jup the prices to the farmers and to force down the cost of living in the cities. The workers and farmers must make a united attack against monopoly capital which is merciless- ly exploiting both these main groups | of the toiling population, At Same Time Fight for Lower Retail Prices. situation must energetically support the farmers movement and their de- mands for increased prices for farm products. At the same time, we call | upon the workers and unemployed to} fight for the lowering of the retail prices. “All unemployed _ organizations everywhere should establish connec- tions with the farmers’ movement and together with them organize wide participation in the road picketing by the farmers. At the same time, they should call-upon the farmers to support the unemployed with the un- marketable food-stuffs instead of al- lowing them to be destroyed. Joint. united front organizations and picket lines of the farmers and unemployed should be formed. Rich Farmers Scabbing. “The impoverished and middle farmers are more and more learn- ing from their practical struggles the necessity of forming a united move- ment together with the working class against the alliance of bankers, cor- porations and rich farmers. The im- poverished farmers are learning in bitter struggle today the lessons of | the class differences between the! selves and the rich farmers. Ev where the rich farmers are scab! on the farmers’ strike and organiz- ing squads of gunmen imported from the city underworld to smash the picket lines and break the heads of the striking farmers, Joint Worker-Farmer Hunger Marches. oe “While supporting the immediate demands brought forward by the (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) 2 Members of Negro Film Group Align Themselves With U.S. Imperialism in Slanderous Attack on Soviet Union Were Repudiated by Overwhelming Majority of Film Group, Includ- | ing Langston Hughes, Loren Miller and Louise Thompson Using the postponement, for tech- nical reasons, of the production of. the Soviet film on Negro life “Black and White,” as a pretext, two mem- bers of the Negro Film Group which recently went to the Soviet Union engaged yesterday in a vicious, slan- derous attack on the Soviet Union and the Communist International. ‘The two members, T, R. Poston and Henry Lee Moon, revive the lies of the American imperialist press that production of the film has been abandoned by orders of the Soviet Government for “fear of offending” American imperialism, bitter enemy of the emancipated toilers of the Soviet Union. This slander was crushingly repudiated several weeks ago in a signed statement by the majority of the Film Group, includ- ing Langston Hughes and Loren Mil- ler, prominent Negro writers and Louise Thompson the organizer of the Film Group. The statement of Pos- ton and Moon says: “Once again the forces of American race prejudice have triumphed and this time in a land where it would be least expected—the Union of So- cialist Soviet Republics.” Part of Anti-Soviet Drive While tacitly admitting the friend- ship of the Soviet Union for the Negro masses and other oppressed ‘peoples, and the role of American im- the statement in effect is a treach- erous support of American imperial- ism, which is organizing armed in- tervention against the Soviet Union while carrying out its brutal oppres- sion and ‘terror against the Negro masses and the whole American working-class as part of its war preprations. The slanders of minority ing spread by Posten and Moon: LANGSTON HUGHES: are absolutely untrue.” LOREN MILLER: perialism in promoting race pfejudice in the short space of 15 years,” 4 li SMASH ANTI-SOVIET LIES ON NEGRO FILM Following are the statements recently issued by members of, the Negro Film Group which completely refute the anti-Soviet slanders be- Make Treacherous Attacks Upon Only Land Which Liberated Oppres- sed Peoples; Film “Black and Whit2” Postponed for Technical Reason of two in the Negro Film Group against the Soviet Union thus be- come a part of the general im- Perialist campaign of slandgr against the Soviet Union, the only country which has successfully solved the na- tional question and liberated the (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) “The film, ‘Black and White,’ posttponed an account of scenario dif- ficulties, will be made in the Spring. Newspaper reports that I and other members of the Negro Film Group are adrift in Moscow without funds “The film, ‘Black and White,’ postponed an account of scenario dif. as the-news dispatches asserted, because of difficulties growing out of the scenario that had been prepared for the film. “Old Russia “had also its lynching bees. They were called pogroms and were directed with special venom at the Jews. riots” could compare with them in ferocity and wholesale murder. all traces of discrimination are disappearing. insoluble as America’s Negro problems have disappeared in the U. S. 8, R. Only American “race Today Problems once thought as art Rank and Filers Shou and Militant Resi GILLESPIE, OL. | convention, of the Progressive Mine! | and continues today. A delegation secretary of the National Mjners’ Union, and Tony Minerich, scough, board members and organizers of the N. M. U., ar- Thomas My: Bridgeman Case Revived as Blow jat Communists “The trade unions in the present | | LANSING, Mich., Oct. 4. State asked the Michigan Supreme Court today to set the trial date for William Z. Foster, Communist can- didate for president, and eighteen | others, including many of the leaders | of the Communist Party and militant trade union movement, on charges of | criminal syndicalism brought against | them in 1922. This is the famous “Bridgeman | case” which followed the raiding and arrests at a convention of the Com- munist Party. Foster was the first tried at that time and the jury dis- agreed. Later, Charles E. Ruthen- berg, secretary of the Communist Party was tried and convicted. He died before serving any of his sen- tence. The case has been repeatedly | postponed since then. All the ar- rested are out on high bonds. Bringing up this old case in the midst of the election campaign when the Communist Party is rallying mas- | ses of workers and farmers in the united front struggle against starva- tion and wage cuts, is intended by the Hoover Government and the Re- | publican Party state administration in Michigan as an act of terror) against the workers’ candidate. It is Ford from the ballot. Workers! Protest this attempt of ihe capitalist government to deprive you of your candidate for president! Denounce this scheme to strike down your leaders in the struggle! The} | intended as a scheme to lay the ba-} ; sis for court action to bar Foster ang | NATIONAL MINER UNION GROUP IS AT GILLESPIE; | URGES UNITED STRUGGLE | Progressive Miners Constitutional Convention Has No Word from Its Leaders On Strike Id Fight for Solidarity stance to Wage Cut Oct, 4—The first ¢ first convention, and the constitutional rs of America opened here yesterday composed of Frank Borich, national Wilson and ~Yrived to offer a program of united |front for a fight again 18 per jcent wage-cut in Tilinoi: means |of mass picketing S marche jing, and the solidarity of all miligaat | miners. | The partial repo:t of the creden- |tials committee did not mention the N. M. U. delegation. Motion to Seat N.M.U. Delegation Delegat2 Steel of Gillespie pro- posed that the NMU delegation be |seated and given the floor, the same {as the delegation from Frank Keen- ey’s Musteite “West V: ia Miners Union.” Some deleg: spoke - for Steel's motion and some spoke jagainst and the whole q |then postponed by a mot jelare an “executive session” to c sider the report of the scale mittee, with only P. M. A. dei |present-”” That was yesterday, and the executive session is continuing today. Rank and File Program. * Rank and file delegates will | the slogan for militant strike. aga: the wage’ cut, led by the elected strike committees at each their federated sub-dis' |rict strike committees. The and filers will propose that the |A. constitution declare for soli with all militant miners’ or tions, including the NMU. Tr jcall for an immediate relief paign to win the strike, and r | be controlled by rank and jmittees. They will call fc marching on mines not ye |strike, particularly the Franklin county “The labor movement will gain the apper hand and show the way peace and socialism.” LENIN. to City College eos Secretary of Oakley Johnson, college teacher of English in the College of the Ci se of his activities in support of Johnson, executive secretary of | ective in connection with the Anti-@ |war Congress to which he sieceel| considerable time and energy. supported the Kentucky miners ae was an advisor to the Social Prob- Jems Club, a group of revolutionary | students. In a statement issued by Johnson, he charges that, “I have been dis- missed from tue staff of the Evening Session of C. C. N. Y. for political reasons which will be acknowledged I think, by all who examine the facts.” ‘ he administration of City College jattempted to conceal the political motives behind the dismissal by giv- ing the pretext “that inisufficient funds necessiated Johnson's dismis- sal.” He exposes this pretext by point- ing out that a new teacher has just been appointed in the Bronx Center jof C. C. N.Y. | Johnson, in his statement, charges that the basis for his dismissal or- iginated with his activities in con- nection with the Liberal Club of the | college of which he was advisor dur- ing 1931-32. Proof of this is found in the fact that had been openly warned to discontinne Ms connection with the club by Dr. Paul H. Line- ham, director of the Evening Ses- sion. Denouncing the arbitrary action of the College officials who are virtually appointees of the Tammany city ad- ministration, Johnson declares: “The Oakley Johnson Dismissed as Teacher for Revolutionary Activities Active in Anti-War Struggle; Backed Fight of Kentucky Coal Miners John Reed Club; Work- ers Called on to Demand Reinstatement of twelve years’ standing instructor ity of New York, which is under the Iministration of the McKee government, was summarily dismissed be- the revolutionary movement. the John Reed Club, was especially dom for both teachers and ‘students. |Can College teachers openly choose |their own political belief? That is |the issue. But equally important is |the issue of student freedom, Can |College students organize in clubs and publicize their opinions on so- cial political question...” “Students and teachers should fight ‘the growing fascist dictator- ship in all phases of American life, of which my case is but one single instance.” Workers! defend the revolutionary teachers, Adopt resolutions demand. ing reinstatement of Oakley Johne son. Students of City College—de- fend the right of freedom of political opinion! Demand reinstatement of Oakley Johnson. Doak Hounds Break Into Workers’ Center | BROOKLYN, NY. Y.—Two immigra> | tion officers and two cops invaded the Workers’ Center at 31 Atlantic Ave, and with drawn blackjacks quag= tioned workers and robbed the Works ers’ Center of books, leaflets, and ap= peals to the Japanese seamen. They arrested two South American work- ers, A protest meeting will be held this ~ Saturday at 8 p.m. at the