The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 10, 1932, Page 1

ae “now back in their-organizations win- TODAY -LA In the Day’s | News WAR MONGERS TO “PLAY” As part of the move the American forces tage, tomorrow and Wediesday, a “defense” of New York City against ical enemy fleet. The exer- cises will be controlled from Fort Hancock, Sandy Hook. RACE FOR GERMAN CASH WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 9—A| scramble for the ‘money sweated out of German workers, between the| United States -government and pri- vate investors here is foreseen in 2 new study of ‘Gefmany’s foreign “ob- ligations”,, just published by the/ Brookings Institute. | Loans made by private United States investors in Germany total $1,€50,000,000, . At was stated. TARIFF RAISES LIVING cost 5HENANDOAH, Ta, Oct. 9.—Sec- ure Hyde, who is aj} Say attacked the| Democratic having no| plans to _change the present tariff, 7] v so heavily on the) In this, of} Both capi-| protect” the y a “protective” h raises prices for workers} and forces them to bear} of Pgs crisis. AEREST CROAT NATIONALITIES BELGRADE, Jugoslavia, Oct. 9.— Eig! rominent ' Croatian Isaders, luding Dr. Pernar, former Secre- tary of State. were arrested today on charges of distributing leaflets advo- cating a Croatian revolution against the dictatorship of King Alexander. at eT NOMINATE COXEY ST. PAUL, Minn.—In another at-) tempt to stem the tide of the rad-/ icalized workers into channels harm- legs to capitalism, a Farmer-Laborite electoral tick2t- has been filed here, naming “General” J. 8. Coxey of Massillon, Ohio, for President, and Julius J. Reiter of Rochester, Minn., for Vice-President. CHYVETS PLAN FOR BONIS MARCH Kahki. Shirts rts Support) Democrats CHICAGO. IN. Oct. 9—Posing as the American Hi‘le and a would-be Musgolini, “Art J. Smith. self-styled der of the Khaki Shirts of | sprang into the news col- y and was reveeled as the demavog pretending to favor eis’ fight for the bonus, who in elity 's opposing the mass action of and file, which is the only ‘aat- will win the “veterans helix back pay. ‘ollowing the Mine of the Waters B. E, F. group, Smith asserted that his pien was to .“put our candidates into cffics.” Th? candidates, how- ev ‘hom Mr. Smith is supporting ere these running on the Democratic tickst who are opposed. to the bonus. Jossbh Gerdner, leader of the Rank and File veterans and member of the National Rank and File Veterans Committee, announced today that the Chicago vets were lining up be- hind the bonus merch to Washington under wiited front leadership, The Chicego veterans are preparing to hold a. conference the last week in October which will lay the basis for the march. “Tne Kheki Shirt jeaders stand thoroughly exvosed to the large mascés of veterans here as enemies of the bonus and the struggles of the yets in genefal,” said Gardner. “The rank and file are with the rank and file committee, which will lead the march next month. Despite the efforts of the leaders of the Khaki Shirts’ to sabotage the march to the ezpital which we. are preparing ,dele- gates respresenting: the rank ond nile of, the Khaki. Shirts attended our conference in Cleveland and they are ning _the vets to,our militant policy.” LAST. DAY OF _ PRESS BAZAAR John Reed Club. Art Booth: Popular “Last day today for doing your shopping at the Red Press’ Bazaar at Madison Sq. Garden, 49th St, and ath Ave. Last chance-to purchase, underwear,, hosiery, dresses, coats and suits; windbreakers, gloves, um- artists, and .at which” workers are treated to impromptu chalk draw. ings and caricatures of social and po- litical figures, Radios in various sizes and makes are available, to suit every purse. Other electrical-articles such as floor lamps, table lamps, coffee percolators, etc., are being sold out rapidly. And don’t. forget the dancing with mic by the Negro ‘and white orchestra. Turn out for the last day of the bazaar, and get your bargains be- fore they’re sold out! EAST BRONX MEET THURSDAY The East Bronx Unemployed Coun- cil is calling a conference of all or- ganizations, including block commit- tees and unemployed committees, for this Thursday at 8 pm., at 953. Leg- gett Ave. Sign up for National Daily Worker Tag Days, Oct. 14, 15, 16. Tag Days, Oct. 14, 15, 16. Tag Day Stations an- neunced later, junited front struggle of Negro and jcuts and for complete equality for UNIST FOR: VOTE COQ Unemployment and. Social Insu . at the expense of the state and ployers Against Hooyer’s wage-cutting policy. 3. Emergency relief for the poor farm- ers without restrictions py the govern. ment and banks; exemption of poor farmers from taxes, and no forced collection of rent or debts Dai Central - EU a Sumiet Party (Section of the Communist ie el ) orker | VOTE COMMUNIST FOR: US.A. . Against imperialist war fense of the Chinese peopl the Soviet Union. Vol. IX, No, 242 > New York, N.¥., under the Act of 1,200 BIRMINGHAM NEGRO AND WHITE WORKERS MEET; THUGS ATTACK AUDIENCE | Threatening Telegram Signed “Ku Klux Klan” Ordered Communist Speakers Not to Come Hathaway, Secretary of National Campaign Committee, Was to Speak for Foster BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Oct. 9.—C. A. Hathaway, secretary of the Na-| tional Communist, Election Campaign Committee, is missing in Birmingham. | In the opinion of local workers he is probrbly kidnapped. | Threats have been made. The National Election Campaign Committee | received a few days ago a telgram signed “Ku Klux Klan” and addressed | to William Z. Foster, Communist @. | candidate for President of the United 3 7 | His Cops Kill Jobless | States.. The wire reads: “Yonr presence in Birmingham, Alabama, Sunday. Oct. 9, is not wanted. Send Nigger Ford.” Foster is very ill, and for the last several weeks all his speaking dates |\ have been filled by other prominent Communist speakers, Foster's illness and his enforced abandonment of the | speaking tour took place some time before the Klan sent this threat, but the news seemed not to have reached the lynch lords of the South. There is no reason to suppose that they jlike Hathaway, coming to Birming- ham to speek today in place of Foster, any better than they do Fosver. Hathaway stands, like Foster, for the full Communist program of white against starvation and wage- the Negroes, an dself-determination in the Black Belt, which includes part of Alabama. 1,200 at Meeting Though Hathaway. was not at the Birmingham meeting, there were 1,200 Negro and white workers there, defying all threats of the Klan and of the local police, and composing the biggest solidarity meeting ever held in. Birmingham. Local workers\ addressed them. Thugs managed, after the meeting had been going on for some time, to break it up by throwing a number of stink bombs into it. Local workers say that the thugs were Klansmen. All efforts are being made to locate Hathaway. The organization of Negro and white workers, the Communist election campaign. and the campaign to free the Scottsboro, Ala., Negro boys is continuing here. . Mayor aa of Chicago, Dem- ocratic Party leader. The masses of Chicago workers demand he grant a permit for the huge Sbosob funeral march and demonstration against the relief ent, Oct. 12. MASS PROTEST FUNERAL IN CH Will Be Demonstration For Relief CHICAGO, Ill., Oct. 9—The gigan- tic funeral parade Wednesday and mass meetings for Joseph Shosob, the Unemployed Council member killed by police when they~fired on the crowd demonstrating at a relief sta- SPEED SALE OF PLATFORMS _ NEW YORK.—An appeal has been issued by the District Organization tered as second-class matter at the Post Office at Department. to intensify the sale of Election Platforms. Less than, 2 month remains, it is pointed out, for the election campaign. There are at the present time, in the District Of- fice o fthe Communist Party, 50,000 Election Plaforms. It is an under- estimation of the entire Campaign to allow a single Platform to remain in the office instead of in the hands of workers, at the end of the cam- paign. Will the units of the Party, therefore, each get platforms from their sections, and the branches of the mass organizations each get plat- forms direct from the District Office of the Communist Party tion here Thursday, will be made itself a demonstration against the 50 per cent cut in relief. Masses of unemployed workers and part time workers from the many industries here will assemble and march in militant protest against the Emmerson committees slash in relief which even now is only half rations for only 150,000 out of the 750,000 hungry jobless here. They will de- nounce by their presence in thou- sands at. Sbosob’s funeral, the mur- derous eagerness of the police here to kill those who demand the right to live through the winter, Dollar Line Tries to Enslave 95 Chinese Returning Home NEW .YORK.—The Chinese crew of the President Johnson has sent a letter to Marine Workers Industrial Union, the International Labor De- fense and Chinese Workers Club here which, by united action and through demonstrations in San Francisco and legal action here forced the Dollar line to prémise to send the seamen home. Nine-five Chinese were dis- ~ {covered several weeks ago held pri- soners, half starved, denied shore Saag in New York. As a result of the pressure exerted by the above three , they were ship- ped finally on the Dollar Line ship, “President McKinley” and started on the way to China. Cabled news showed several days ago, that they were being mistreated. At that time, it was stated, by mis- take, thas they were on the President, Johnson, at Havana, Cuba. Protests were-made again by the Marine work- ers Industrial Union and I. L. D., and cabled to Panama to catch the ship there. Mistreatment Brings Resistance The letter just received from the 95 Chinese seamen, and printed be- low shows the nature of the attack on them, and also clears up the facts in regard to the ship. They are the crew of the President Johnson, but are being shipped on the President McKinley, of the same line. Here is the letter. “Priends—Thanks to your help, we are returning to China on the Pres. McKinley. We all are very grateful and shall never forget it. “Now, however, what we aimed at is only partly fulfilled. Three days after we came abroad the Pres. Mc- Kinley, the steward tried to force us to paint the C. Deck—working as painters—this occurred on Oct. 1, 11 am. We all know that this is not our duty, This act on his part is maltreatment. Therefore, we all acted as one man, resisted. Because we were workers on President John- son, our duty is ended when we are transferred to China on the Pres. McKinley, and we are passengers, not the crew on board ship; furthermore, we did not sign up as painters, know nothing of this kind of work, and on these grounds we refused. “Later, the steward got the captain to act, The captain did not ask any question of us, and ordered the offi- cers, sailors—twenty in number to face us. At the very start, he tried to divide our ranks, ordered those from the Johnson to stand in one Place, those from Jackson in one, and those from the Pierce another. We all answered in one voice: ‘Now we are no longer the crews of those ships but the crew of the Johnson.’ We stood firm and did not separate as ordered. The cheif officer saw that we were determined anq solidly un- ited, suddenly changed to savage tactics, brandishing his black Jack and revolver, threatening to imprison us, “We are in every respect treated like prisoners. Six of us were force- fully taken before the captain who used all kinds of intimidations, to blacklist us, cancel our books, jailing, fine four days wages, etc. We all stood in iron solidarity and refused to yield on the same ground as men- tioned above. The passangers on board are with us. They are sym- |house was brazenly arbitrary, March 3, 1879. NEW YORK, MONDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1932 CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents it comes the circulation of at once, the present financial crisis. 50 East 13th Street, New e the paper is restricted. * * * 'T IS clear that the life of the paper is thereby in danger. is not only necessary to have a four-page paper, but the s struggles cry out for a six-page paper. Is it not possible for the workers to make greater efforts to main- tain the Daily Worker? We urge the workers that have already responded to the appeal to the extent of $17,000 to make an added spurt and bring the Daily out of York, They At the present time it SEND IN YOUR DONATION AT ONCE! Gather donations from your friends and fellow workers—half dollars and more, and rush them to the Dail; Worker, ACTION DIRECTED AGAINST FIGHT) FOR NEGRO RIGHTS | Follows N.C. Ruling; Workers, Protest! ‘TALLAHASSEE, Fla., Oct. 9,—De- spite the fact that the Communist Party conformed to all requirements, the Secretary of State of Florida has ruled the party off the ballot, thus giving the lead to other southern states to follow its own action. Ruling Arbitrary The ruling of the Florida bosses and their henchrnen in the state. the’ Communist Party having fulfilled the }egal requirements, which included the holding of 3 convention and the election of electors, which were reg- istered with the Secretary of State. Florida is the third state in which ithe Party has been ruled off the ballot—in each case technical excuses were affered to bar the workers’ party, thus hoping to cut down the vote for Foster and-Ford in those states where support forthe Commu- nist Party and its revolutionary pro- gram is gaining. increasing support among the workers and farmers. In North Carolina and California had previously ruled the Party off the ballot. Tampa Struggles Real Basis The sharp struggles of. the Tampa workers in recent years, led ‘by the Communist Party, is undoubtedly the basis for the action of the Florida bosses in keeping the Party off the ballot. In the 1928 election, the Party obtained 3,000 votes. : Workers are called upon to protest this high handed action at once, to adopt protest resolutions at mass meetings called for the purpose. All protest telegrams and ~ resolutions should be sent tothe Secretary” of State and Election Board, Talla- hassee, Fla, ‘ IWO YOUTH FRACTION TUESDAY NEW YORK.—The Youth Section of the International Workers Order, at 8p.m., this Tuesday, at, the’ Work- ers Center, 50 East 13th St.,.on the fifth floor, Be there on time. A strict, check up will be made. If you haven't the money, donate your time to raise funds during the BOSSES OF FLORIDA RULE PARTY OFF THE BALLOTG Big Wall St. Bank Busts S.W. Straus Is Bankrupt ' Shows Deepening of Financial Crisis; Bosses | Will Sharpen Attacks on Workers United Front Against Relief Must Be Intensified Wage Cuts, for Jobless | | |made her way through the throng, | | ovation when she left. The receivership conse for S. W. Straus and Co., Inc. Saturday, re- veals a new gigantic swindle, Rascuisity cf small investors, comparable to the Insull debacle, and one carried on for years by the outstanding and impeccably respectable mortgage investment concern in the United States. The crash involves hundreds of millions of dollars and affects investors. addition to Florida, the states ‘of | will hold a city wide fraction meeting | ° all over the United States. The firm directly involved is the New York resent company which con- tols S. W. Straus and Co., the Cali fornia branch of the investment trust racket; the Straus National Bank and Trust Company of Chica) Super | Corporation, a concern whose func- tions are of a mysterious nature, and the S, W. Straus oo Corpora- tion. Crash and “Hoover Market. is ‘The Straus. crash coincides with the petering out of the “Hoover | market”, a decline in Wall Street | stock -prices which has_ practically wiped out 50 per cent of the gains registered’ between July 8 and Sep. tember -8. In its comment on the Wall Street activities the New York Times of October 9 says that “it appeared to be well established that the week was a disastrous one for these moni- pulative undertakings that were born of the speculative enthusiasm of July and August.” In the ‘eight days of October, | stocks have declined $10.06. ‘The Straus crash gives point to this view of the “Hoover market.” The Straus method of fleecing the uel investor according the court. records on. which the order for a receivership is based, was’ simp- ly that.of the confidence man, made famous by the J.-Rufus Wallingford stories, employed ot? a huge scale. It consisted of selling the trusting in- vestor worthless securities by making him ‘believe he was getting a gilt- edged mortgage, bond or share. Regular Businers Proceedure. “Evidence produced before the court‘ which ordered the receivership fconvinced it. that ‘specific activities tanta mount to deception of investors were the selling of ‘Junior securities’ to customers, who were under the im- pression that they were obtaining bonds,: and the sell- National Daily Worker Tag Days, Oct. 14, 15, 16. fA ARE S10) ANAT ESSE CE pathetic. When the fight was in progress, they took many pictures. “Friends, we apeal to you hoping that you will get us away from im- prisonment and also see that our books are not taken away. This means for us the right to work in the marine industry. “Truly yours, —The Crew of the President Johnson” DAY FOR BARGAINS AT THE RED- PRESS. first ing of bonds not in gold standing be- cause the properties behind them had previously defaulted on taxes.” The proceedings against S. W. Straus and Co., Inc., were brought under the Martin act, a. measure which “purports to penalize’ all de- cejtful practices contrary to the plain rules of common honesty.” Nicholas Roberts, president of the Straus parent corporation has issued a statement claiming that other Stra concerns are not affected by {the ruling but admitting that the |brazen frauds cited were perpetrated | as part of the regular business pro- cedure of the company. He advises | |investors to hold on to their Straus | |paper. It is recalled that Martin In- | \sull gave the same advice the first |news of the pending crash was made | | public, There is little question but” that all | the Straus subsidiaries will be in- volved in the crack-up of this mam- moth “investment” concern since the tention to save something for the \big banks’ and big investors at the expense of the thousands of small mortgage holders has already been shown by the underhanded attempt to sell the bonds of the 502 Park |Avenue Corporation which financed the Hotel Delmonico. An injunction halting the sale of | these securities ,has been obtained | against the Continental Bank and| Trust Company, S. W. Straus and Co. and the 502 Park Avenue Cor- poration. Intensity of Economic Crisis. In Wall Street there is a general feeling that the Straus debacle not only marks the end of the “Hoover markets” but that it will probably be followed by the crash of othr im- | portant investment and brokerage firms. The new intensity of the economic crisis and the continued lack of de- cisive improvement in basic produc- tion is indicated by the fact that even the Reconstruction Finance Corpora- tion, in spite of its generosity to banks and railway companies, has not dared to come to the assistance of S. W. Straus and Co.,, Inc, SCHEHER WILL DEBATE NEW YORK.—Marcel Scherer, Communist candidate in the ‘th Senatorial District, will represent the Communist Party at an election sym- posium arranged by the Paperbag Makers Union, Local 107, A. F. of L., for Friday, October 14, 8 p. m., at Bushwick High School, Irving and Putnam Ave., Brooklyn. The Bush-| wick High School auditorium where the symposium will be held, psn 1,500 people. Candidates of all par-| ties have been invited by Local 107! HATHAWAY MISSING IN ALABAMA; MAY BE KIDNAPPED Big Protest Demonstrations Thruout the Country Call for F a of Scottsboro Boys THE ‘DAILY’ IS COMING OUT | THOUSANDS ; MOBILIZE IN LATE! WHY? s igpetah DAYS during the past week the national edition of the Daily Worker was several hours late in coming off the press. This was due to the slow response, at this time te our financial appeal and consequently to our lack of fynds on hand to meet the days’ obligations. What does the lateness of the paper mean? It means that in 1,500 cities work- er-distributors who come to the trains for the Daily Worker do not find it. have to wait around, uncertain of whether the paper is to appear and when finally Sometimes the paper does not arrive until a day after and the distributors are compelled to dispose of two issues CANADA 10,000 RALLY IN UNION SQUARE, N. Y. Demand Release of All Werking Class Prison- ers Great Welcome to Mother Mooney, Moore Enthusiastic Support for Communist Appeal for United Fight Aga Against Cz Capitalist Reaction MOTHER MOONEY’S CANADIANS WIRE HOPE IN MASSE s SUPREME COURT War Veterans Pledge | Mooney Makes Special Their Support | United Front Appeal NEW YORK.—Ten thousand New TORONTO, Canad: Oct. 9— York workers, demonstrating in| Thousands of workers throughout Union Square on Scottsboro-Mooney|Canada demonstrated in protest day, Saturday, greeted with tumul-| against the Scottsboro and Mooney tuous enthusiasm the frail form of|frame-ups, and pledged solidarity aged Mother Mooney as she slowly| with the International Labor Defense in its fight for the freedom of these escorted by Richard B. Moore. | and all other class war prisoners, Mrs. Mooney Telegrams adopted at demonstra- was too weak to| tions in each big Canadian city and speak through the | sent to the U.S. Supreme Court read: microphone, but| “In the name of thousands of Can- sat on the stand,| adian workers, we protest the outra- and asked other| geous frame up of the Negro boys at speakers 6 = as-| Scottsboro, and regard their death sure the crowd| sentence as an attack on the Negro that she was hap-| masses. We demand their immediate py to see these | release.” masses demand-| The Canadian Scottsboro demon- ing the release of | strations were on October 6, and were her innocent son, |lea by the Canadian Labor Defense who is serving the| League, A. E. Smith, secretary. “MRS. MOONEY sixteenth year of| : a life sentence as a result of the| pharoseel dae occ: Preparedness’ Day frame-up in San| Tens of thousands of workers dem- | onstrated Saturday in all major Francisco. She stated that she re- lied on the mass protest of the| American cities for the release of the workers not only to release Tom|nine Negro boys framed at Stetts- Mooney but to releate the innocent| boro, seven of them condemned to Negro boys framed at Scottsboro. | the electric chair, and for the release The crowd gave her as great an| of Mooney and all other working | class war prisoners. Details of the demonstrations in Moore made the main speech, de-| Chicago, Cleveland, Philadelphia, claring that the aroused workers| Buffalo, Pittsburgh, and other citi must “not permit a hair of the head | are lacking because of the non-d of even one of the Scotsboro boys to! livery of mail Sunday, but if the be touched,” and going on to tell the|New York demonstration of 10,000 history and the need of mass protest | is an indication, they were militant to free all other class war prisoners,| and spirited. came after from Edith Berkman in| _ Massachusetts to Gertrude and Paul | whole heartedly in support of the Ruegg in China. | campaign to save the | of the Veterans Join Protest Scottsboro boys and free them and Emanuel Levin, national chairman | all working class prisoners. of the Workers Ex-Servicemen’s| Henry Shepard. Negro worker and League told of the formation of the| Communist candidate for lieutenant Veterans’ National Rank and File| governor of New York state, gave the Committee in the recent rank and|Communist program for equal rights file national conference, and stated|for Negroes, and against capitalist that the Rank and File Committee is! terror. “Not 2 Hair of Their Heads.” | Incite More Terror Against Porto Rican Anti-Imperialists NEW YORK.—A wave of terror against Porto Rican workers who ate members of or who support the Porto Rican Anti-Imperialist Association has been set off by the leaders of the New York local of the Nationalist Party of Porto Rico, a bosses’ organization that supports Republican and Democratic candidates. Lorenzo Pineiro, one of these leaders, in his cam- paign of trying to break up workers’ «»———— ne meetings, on Oct. 6 led an attack on|on workers’ meetings, and on. ‘the an open air meeting and caused so|headquarters of the Porto Rican much fighting that in the confusion | Anti- Imperialist Association at 22 Angelo Felice. one of his own fol- West 114th Street lowers, was killed. | The meeting which Pineiro attacked |on Oct, 6 had been called to demand Pineiro now uses this to issue an| that adequate relief be given by the inflammatory leaflet full of slanders|Ameritan and Porto Rican govern- and provocation, such as that “our| ments to the cyclone victims through colony is in danger.” and that the |funds provided by the government “Anti-Imperialist League, a branch /|and by taxation of the Americanand of the Communist Party, has chal- | large native companies in Porto Rico, lenged the Porto Ricans,” and calling |and that workers be hired at union for a free hand to be given Pineiro | wages, instead of the forced labor of and his gangsters in further attacks prisoners for reconstruction work, Registration of Voters Begins Today; Register! NEW YORK.—Registration of New York City voters for the general election on Noy. 8 will start today. Registration places will be open froth 5 p.m. to 10.30 p.m. on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and from 7 a.m. to 10.30 p.m. on Saturday. Literary tests for new voters will be given at all schools used as registration places. Work~ ers are urged to register on any of the above days to be able to vote Communist on Nov. 8, : a