The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 13, 1932, Page 1

In the Day’s News “ener er FARMERS FIGHT HOWARD LAKE, Minn., Oct. 12. ‘Three hundred fa: Strikers fought | deputies who attacked them today. A | dozen deputies participated in thi attack and one was injured by the strikers. FORD STOPS RELIEF DETROIT, Oct. 12—Acting on in- structions of Henry Ford, millionaire | auto magnate, the Dearborn City} Council has abandoned the propo- | sals for an extra tax to provide a| little wretched relief for the unem- ployed. The Ford Motor Company has announced that it will itself take care of the unemployed, which means either no relief at all or forced labor such as hasbeen instituted at Ford's | “model” village. Harry Bennett, | head of Ford's private gun thugs, | who led the attack on the demon- stration of unemployed workers sev- eral months ago that resulted in the | murder of four work issued the instructions to the mayo! of Ford in the name | eee REBEL MOVEMENT SPREADS BELGRADE, Oct. 12—The govern- | ment of Yu lavia is said to have sent 3000 additional soldiers to fight the ins rgent movement of the Cro: CROATIAN "s are equipped with Machine Two cruising ships have been sent on the Adriatic coast | to prevent the smuggling of arms| and ammunitions for the insurgents. | Several arrests have been made in| connection with the bombing of sol-| diers’ barracks 15 days ago in South-| west Croatia: | emer | PREPARE ATTACK ON PHILIP- PINE MCROS | JOLO, Philippine Islands, Oct. 12.| -Lieutenant Colonel Stevens, com-| mander of the Philippine Constab- ulary, announced that an attack) would be launched today at 11 o'clock on the Moro Village of Tayu- gan in retaliation fer the killing of| 12 soldiers of the constabulary The Moro tribesmen are entrench- | ed on a hill near the village ready) to resist the attack. Thirty Moros | were already killed in three encoun- | ters. MUSSOLINI SUPPLANTS KING | ROME, Oct. 12.—The King of Italy 1s no longer even a figurehead as far as members of the Fascist Party fre. concerned. According to the New constitution, which is to be ap- proved by the fascist Grand Council the king’s name is eliminated the oath that is administered members. stead, they swear ithout discussion the ” (Mussolini). Which of the big bankers ates whose agent and indu trial ma Mussolini i PAID HALF YEAR LATE CHIC! AGO, Oct. 12.—After being i xist on nothing for a hool teachers of this y. re today finally given their weg:s for the first half of last April. infornmation~ias beet given as to’ the teachers will receive the © of their money. Many of the ners have been driven close to arvation line and increasing bers are realizing that only ited struggle will force the pay- of back wages in full and reg- payment in the future. Oct. MacDonald, socialist” coh geatulations from capital- end imperialist politicians on Wor IX, N 245 MILITIA jissued by the organization 12.—Prime Minis- | VOTE COMMUNisT Ll. Unemployment and Social Insurance he expense of the state and em- at ployers 3, Emergency relief for the poo: ers without restrictions py the ment and banks; exemption farmers from taxes, collection of rent or debts gainst Hoover's wage-cutting policy. FOR: yr farm- govern. of poor and no forced ‘(Section of the Communist Bas Norker he-Co Rpunict Party U.S.A. . VOTE COMMUN Equal rights for t determination for Bl Against capitalist terror; forms of suppression of the pollitc rights of workers. agair Against imperialist war; for the de- fense of the Chinese people and of the Soviet Union, wee 2 Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, NY under the Act of March 3, 1879. NEW YORK, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1932 CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents MINE STRIKERS DURING TAYLORVI LLE MEETING Oct. 12 Is Aiavecaare: of ‘Great Victory and Has Been Celebrated Annually | Celebration Would Be Demonstration for the | Continued Strike BU LU Against Sell Out ETIN TAYLORVILLE, Ul, Oct, 12.-Workers of the town hooted and jeered the troops making the arrest, and afterwards about 2 thousand miners were released, and some were allowed to go to Belyew's grave in the ce~ metery. A preacher spol it refused to disperse immediate! Socialists O.K.,’ Says Leader of Khaki Shirts an organiza- tion of veterans with marked fascist tendencies, revealed at a meeting at their headquartrs at 95 Morgan St. that although they were bitterly op- posed to the Communist Party, they were not against the socialists. A worker reported this to the Daily Worker today. “They're all right, We don’t op- pose them. If they put up men who are not too radical we'll sup- port them,” said a leader of the Khaki Shirts wh__ ~“estioned about their stand in regard to the social- ists, Then he pointed to the Khaki | Shirt emblem (an eclipse in which the dark covers the red), “The Khaki Shirts are against the Communists,” he si “We'll fight the red menace because the Commu- nists ‘ate’ trying” to destroy the tradi- tions of our forefathers.” A worker asked th» Khaki Shirt of- ficial why it was that on the leaflet it w: stated that the Khaki Shirts was neither a Communist or socialist or- ganization and yet he claimed that he was not aaginst the socialists, ) “That was a mistake of the print- er,” replied the Khaki Shirt head. “Let me tell you something. The so- cialists are all right with u This episode in the Kha Shirt headquarters serves to show how the enemies of the bonus are aligning | themselves together on one front. The | socialists, through their spokesmen, the occasion of his 66th birthday. cDonald spent the afternoon hay- ‘a with the members of a sew- cle organized by his wife 28 ago. He expressed satisfac-| ton over a lifetime devoted to the cauce of labor bead ELECTION DINNER JAMS 2 BIG HALLS, HundredsTurnedAway | for Lack of Space Webster Hall and Manhattan Ly- *ccum were jammed with workers who gathered last night for the Foster- Ford election dinner. So many came to hear the Communist election pro- ge that hundreds hag to be turned laway at both places. Charles Rumford Walker was the chairman at Webster Hall and Felix Morrow presided at Manhattan Ly- ceum, The same brilliant program was given at both places. The speak- ers included Matthew Josephson, who gave a survey of the leftward swing of the intellectuals; Scott Nearing, who described the work of the World Congress against Imperialist War; Earl Browder, who spoke on “Hoover, Roosevelt, Thomas or Foster”; Coun- tee P. Allen, Negro poet Adelaide Walker, Michael Gold and Waldo Frank. 32 South River, N. J.., Strikers Will Get Hearing Tomorrow Thirty-two workers who were ar- rested on trumped-up charges for taking part in recent strike of South River N. J. needle workers will be brought before the South River court for a hearing tomorrow. A bitter fight is being waged by the nternational Labor Defense for the release of the victimized workers, The IL. D. attorney on the case met with extreme difficulty in bailing out 27 of the workers while five were kept in’ jail. ‘cnse Committee of eight which was organized in South River by re- presentatives of the New York Dis- trict of the I. L. D. has spread the fight for the freedom of the rail- roaded. workers throughout the entire distcist surrounding South River. This committee has established other Heywood Broun and Norman Thomas, |have continually declared themselves | against the struggle for the veterans’ back wages. Heywood Broun has de- |clared that the Workers Ex-Service- | men’s League in fighting for the vet- |erans’ back wages is aiding the devel- jopment of a fascist movement in | America. The Communist Party | porting and leading the veter the fight for the bonus is bending all efforts to help the National Veterans | Rank and File Committee build a \colid united front of the rank and \file veterans from all organizations, |the Khaki Shirts included, to march to Washington Dec, 5 to demand.the bonus and an increase in disability relief. It is with the leaders of fascism that the socialists form a united front. Communists form the united front with the rank and file of the- op- pressed, This is where the difference lies. ke, and then himseif dismissed the crowd. When militiz tegr gassed the crowd and broke it up. ae mt TAYLORVILLE, Ill, Oct. 12—Two thousand striking miners, celebrat- ing Virden Day here were rounded up by 300 militia armed with all the Weapons of war, and driven into the court house square for investigation and probably*for herding out of the county. The militia, commanded by Cap- tain C. J. Meacham, are under in- structions from Charles Weineke of Christian County to smash the Vir- den Day Parade today. The miltia, however, did not ar- res, Harry Robertson, who fired on the pickets, 4,000 Picket Four thousand strikers, fighting the 18 per cent wage cut, picketed Taylorville yesterday, and these same militia smashed the picket line with tear gas and bayonet charges. Strik- ers demonstrating before the house of Bob Moody, a scab in that mine were likewise gassed by the troops. Governor Eminerson, Republican Party leader, has sent these national guardsmen to Taylorville to try and smash the strike and enforce the $5 wage scale.in the Peabody Coal Co, mines. : Phone Wires Cut Telephone wires into Taylorville are cut. But it is known that thousands more miners are gathered in towns all around, holding Virden Memorial meetings for Frank Bilyen, the Tay- lorville miner murder2d in the bat- tle of Virden. Not satisfied with attacking picket lines in Christian County, Governor Emmerson’s militia now are trying to smash one of the most famous mili- tant traditions of these miners. That is the yearly celebration of Virden Day, on Oct. 12. On this day in 1898, a trainload of scabs coming to Virden, Ill, mines, was met by the miners and driven back in a sharp rifle and machine gun battle with the company’s armed guards on the train. From that day to the battle of Herrin, in 1922, there were no scabs in an Illinois mine strike. Five miners lost their lives in the battle of Virden, and an un- known number of scab herders were killed. Form Committees Such traditions of mass struggle the operators fear, now when they have the leaders of the Progressive Miners of America agreeing to the $5 wage cut. The miners who re- member and honor Virden Day, are urged by the rank and file opposi- tion and the National Miners Union not to surrender to the wage cut, but to form their own committees to lead the strike in’ each locality, and by mass picketing and mass marching bring all mines on strike and defeat the cut, AFL Committee and United Front Conference to Fight Stagger | Plan RELIEF DOWN TO 30 CENTS A WEEK Provisional Committee Is Organized NEW YORK.—Representatives of the Unemployed Council of Greater New York, the A. F. of L. Committee for Unemployment Insurance and the Fraternal Federation for Social In- surance met Tuesday and decided to set up a Provisional Committee to initiate a broad campaign for winter relief. The delegates represented 60 locals of the A. F’. of L., 260 fraternal organizations including branches of | the Workmens Circle and the Duetche Kranke Kasse. The Unemployed Council represents 25 neighborhood and industrial councils, besides affi- liated trade unions and fraternal or- ganizations, Sam Weissman, en organizer of the Unemployed Councils, in his opening remarks outlined the situation of the unemployed and part time workers Peabody Coal Co. Mine No. 58 near} Demand Freedom of Scottsboro Boys [DELEGATIONS SEE “OFFICIALS OF U.S. Over Europe units of the Communist Party, | and Unemployed Councils, | able resolutions of protests on the | Scottsboro case and demands for freedom for the nine framed-up Ne- | 8ro boys held in an Alabama jail are flooding the American embassy here. shops | by delegations of workers elected at huge meetings arranged by the In- ternational Red Aid. The workers have been especially active in the fight for the Negro lads, one of them having been killed in a dem- onstration at an American consulate some months ago. This sense of solidarity was intensified by the re- | U.S. and Mrs. Ada Wright, mother of two of the boys involved in the | case. Mrs. Wright is at present in | Berlin, The Berlin protests are only a small part of the huge protest move- ment which has swept Europe dur- ing the past few months, American es and embassi in daily re ‘ing similar are Negro children condemned to death of Mooney, Berkman and all other Film and Photo League, Part of New York demonstration of 10,000 workers for release of below, the mother of Tom Mooney and W. W. We Daily Worker and candidate for U. S. Senator in N. Y. Photo taken by In Paris special guards protests. have been posted to keep the dele- in the Scottsboro frame-up, release demonstre worker class war prisoners. Inset stone, editor of the gations away. tions. have countries of Europe Protest Similar Protests All Three BERLIN, Oct i2_—Coming from| Struggle Against tow Wages innumer- | Many of these protests azz brought} | cent tour of J. Louis Engdahl, of the | International Labor Defense of the } many | | fus en place in over 16] a] BARRICADE FIGHTING IN STREETS OF BELFAS ARREST 2,000 U. S. Embassy in Germany Flooded IRISH STRIKERS | AND with Scottsboro Freedom Demands JOBLESS STOP TRAIN AND BUS SERVICE Workers Killed; Scores Wounded By Police and British Troops and Starvation Relief AMERICAN WORKERS Protest against the murderous war of British imperial- ism upon the heroic Irish workers in Belfast! Demand the withdrawal of all troops! Organize mass meetings German} Of solidarity, support and defense of the Irish -workers— of the working class prisoners and their families! All sup- port to the Irish liberation struggle! perialism in Ireland and its agents—the Irish capitalists and landlords and their governments! Support the strug- | gle for unity of Ireland and the Irish masses of the North and South, under the leadership of the Irish Revolution- ary Workers Groups (Communists). aera Defeat British im- | BELFAST, Oct. 13.—For two days thousands of workers have been defending themselves here against the attacks of the three thousand armed police, stationed in the district to suppress a strike of shipyard workers and the demonstrations of unemployed workers for increased relief. Two regiments of British infantry, the Inskillen¢ : lliers and the King’s Roy- Settle Election Workers tr’ ing to register this is only a “straw vote,” In some sections workers about | from voting on Noy. 8, i “It is absolutely illegal and a which party you® will vote for,” the Campaign Committee stated yesterda: as | writing anything on it.” |to accept his registration. | You must register this week in Saturday from 7 a.m. to 10.30 p.m, Register to Vote; Do _ Not Fall for Trickery tricts boss politicians are doing their utmost to force workers to state which party they will vote for on November 8. are printed the names of the various parties, including the Communi: WORKERS DO NOT ACCEPT ANY OF THESE SLIPS. to find out if you favor the Communist Party so that they can stop you HAVE TO GIVE YOUR PARTY PREFERENCE. Take the paper which your party affiliation and DROP IT INTO THE BOX WITHOUT ‘The International Labor Defensé asks any worker who is not al- lowed to register to apply at once to its offices at 799 Broadway and he | Will be given legal advice and help in order to force the boss politiclans | week, report that in numerous dis- They are told that this to register are given slips on which It is a trick capitalist trick to make you state | N. Y. State United Front Election y. “When you register you DO NOT | | order to vote. Places of registra- tion will be open today and tomorrow from 5 p.m, to 10:30 p.m., and on | democratic party, | and NEW YORK.—The fighting spirit’ spirit, of the knitgoods workers was demon- strated yesterday at the Meyer Dorf- man shop, when gangsters and police attempted to bring up scabs to break the strike, The brutality of the police could | not intimidate the workers, MEYER DORFMAN STRIKE Is SOLD “other trad trade. All members of the ex-| ecutive council pledged their enthu- Siastic support. It was decided that all forces be} concentrated around this shop, so asj to compel the boss to give in to the demands of the workers. The Ex- | policy to conquer world markets and At a meeting of the Exeutive Coun- | ecutive Council realized that victory cil held Tuesday night the committee | in this strike will stimulate the or- | of the strikers of this shop appeared | ganization work in many of the other |suppression of huge unemployment | |de monstrations, in the first of which | | more than ten thousand workers took | | part, The troops and police are us- ing armored cars in the working class districts, | BORAH ASKS NEW DRIVE ON MASSES, The markets. siete’. aireee eke Speaks an Inflation, | themastves in the working class dis- War Py ogram | tricts. They dug trenches and strung | I barbed wire and were only driven —— after the most stubborn fighting. BURLEY, Idaho, Oct. 12—Speak- | ing before a local patriotic club, Sen- hile the struggle was going on in the streets and workers were be- ator William E. Borah, so-called pro- gressive Republican, came forward in ing shot down by troops and police, favor of a more essive imperialist | the officials of the British trade un- ions, to which most of the Belfast workers belong, were in conference | | with the Lord Mayor. There are more than one hundred thousand unemployed in the Belfast district, in which are located the | Harlan and Wolf shipyards, the sec- ond largest in the world, and the of inflationary measures to further reduce the living standards of the asses. Though hypocritically he criticized the plat- ee es eee *| principal section, of the Irish Uinen | Gen tar ered ae industry. The Irish Revolutionary Re tad oHeuaIe | Le |, Workers’ Groups (Communists) are aadtedtonea ’* aa 0 Le ing @ leading part in the struggle i The Communists have been active or- izing the unemployed in recent | The Belfast workers have a | long tradition of militancy strike | struggles and are known for their | j stubborn resistance to police attacks. ell as Roosevelt, mdidate of the thus paved |the way for open- ly jumping on the :, BORAH British imperialist sources blame | Hoover band- the Irish Republican army for the wagon. This would be in line with |resistance to the police and troops. | when he stumped the country for}There is no doubt but that Irish Re- Hoover and hailed him as the saviour of the American people. Borah, who is the darling of lib- berals and “socialists,” thus falls in line with the policies of Wall Street in both domestic and international publican army, which recently | |formed its own party, and are under | petty bourgeois nationalist leadership |have a large following in the Orange Protestant North. ‘The extreme measures taken by | aeratactch tak ae ptt, the lthe British authorities—the use of | session of Congress, which has al. |*¢8war troops and firearms for the first time in suppression of unem- r i currency to tt ready inflated the “gine oy ivae ployed demonstrations — show that extent of $1,000,000,000 through the riflers, have been rushed |here and have taken part in the with Dice, S.P. Nominee Urges GIRARD, Kan., Oct. 12.—“Why let the stupid workers vote? Let’s settle it by shooting craps.” This seems to be the latest wrinkle in the election platform of the so-called Socialist Party. None other than its candidate for the U. S. Senate, E, Haldeman-Julius, millionaire publisher, has made this Proposal to the candidates of the republican and democratic parties in a statement just issued. Haldeman-Julius is the racketeer and swindler who stole the accept- ance speech of William Z. Foster, Communist candidate for president, and printed it in distorted from as his own in his magazine, “The Am- erican Freeman,” in «an effort to lure working-class votes. In his crap-shooting proposal, which is in line with the corrupt traditions of the Socialist Party, he calls the workers “stupid” and declares: “By this economical and sensible throw of the dice the nitwit voters stand a chance of getting a real state- man like myself in Washington. Workers of Kansas, Vote Com- munist! [HONOR 9 NEGRO BOYS’ DEFENDEK | Tilford Funer 1 Held In Midst of Storm CHICAGO, Ill., Oct 12.—Jack Til- | ford, Negro worker and leader of the and requested assistance from the f, unemployed, even according to the estimate of the Welfare Department | with over 200,000 evictions of jobless | workers to date; with the miserable | velief given by the Home Relief Bu- | reaus to only 49,000 families amount- ing to 60 cents a week per individual and even this cut to 30 cents a week | for the Negro workers in Harlem, no |rent, gas or electricity; with the | “Share the Work” plan initiated ‘by Hoover aimeq to make those still em. ployed bear the burden of the crisis, it is imperative that as broad and as forceful a struggle as possible be undertaken to force the municipal, state and federal governments to give immediate relief and uneriployment. insurance to the unemployed and part-time workers,’ Organized Struggles The Provisional Committee decided to issue a call to the workers of New York to conduct organized united struggles for immediate relief, against evictions and against the Share the Work plan in every industry neigh- borhood, flop house and wherever workers gather. It was also decided to call a broad united front mass con- ference on October 30, At the next meeting of the Provi- sional Committee on Tuesday, Oct. 18 14th St., Room 43, where additional organizations will be represented, de- | tailed plans for reaching the broad- | est masses of employe dand unem- | ployed workers will be taken up. The committee elected Brown, re- | presentative of the Moulders Union of | the A. F. of L. as chairman and Betty | | Allen, secretary, | A special appeal is being made for | donations and subscriptions to carry on this campaign. All organizations are asked to respond by sending con- tributions immediately to Betty Allen, Secretary of Provisional Committee for Winter Relief 418 E, 6th Street, | New York City, ° Meeting Sunday The Unemployed Council of Great- | er New York calls all employed and! unemployed workers, organized and) unorganized, to a mass meeting Sun- day at 11 a. m, at 35 East 12th St., to hear the report of Carl Winters, secretary of the Unemployed Council, on the enlarged meeting of the Na- tional Executive Committee of the Councils just held in Chicago. The meeting will discuss and adopt steps to carry out in N. Y,'the na-| tional program of struggle against | relief cuts and for relief and unem- |} pected to gather at a mass meeting Brooklyn open knitting shops. Federal Reserve System, Borah now advocates further inflation to boost prices and reduce the real wages of the workers with a consquent in- crease in profits for the capitalists, NEED ACCOMODATIONS FOR NEEDLE TRADE DELEGATES Living quarters are needed for 100! delegates who are coming from out of town for the Needle Trades Work- ers Cnnvention which will open here tomorrow night. Comrades who can can accomodate one or more del-} WILL PUT DEM! ANT) cates are urged to call the Needle ‘Trade Industrial Union Room 20, 131 W. 28th St. at once, TO AFL. SESSION Mass Meetings Urge | Real Insurance NEW YORK.—Members of the Am- erican Federation of Labor are ex- the movement for real unemployment | insurance, Even this plan of Greens is not being abandoned by him in favor of the “share work” prdposi- tion which is nothing more.than a scheme to reduce all workers, unem- starvation level, This mass meeting of the New York | ployed and employed, to a general | tri the Belfast struggle, arising out of | 7 their sgle agains! the terrible destitution of the work- | Neeroes in their struggle against: dis- ers 4s definitely connected with the | PU Muy with ¢ mass funeral attended struggle for national liberation; that | 5."s99 workers in spite of the terrific there is a growing unity movement | 234. storm i : of the working class of the Protestant |" Over half these present were white Catholle and agrarian ‘south for|MORETS. Speakers pointed. out. thet | this demonstration is also a demand {complete separation from Great | for the release of the Scottsboro be Britain, | for whose freedom Tilford, in his p | of member of the district executi the International Labor Defense, labored tirelessly oe ee The militant struggle in Belfast is | bound up with the sharpening of the | {economic crisis throughout the whole jof Ireland, Belfast has been hard hit as a result of the unemployment emong shipyard workers and the| cutting down of the linen trade, es- pecially due to economic crisis in of had HOLD 2 FOR DEPORTATION DULUTH, Minn.— According to capitalist press reports, two workers have been arrested by Federal au- thoritiss and are now held for de- the United States which formed the | portation. They are JobnRosizh of jmain market for Irish linen. The | Duluth, who is to go to Jugo-Slavia, situation has been made even more! and Oscar Mannisto of Superior to intolerable by the separation of the'| fascist Italy. The char7s against ive Northern industrial counties!them are that they are Communist n the Southern agricultural dis- | sympathizers. s, the latter making up the Irish ga |Free State) employed. The Irish Republican army With the coming of De Valera into which made up an imnortant part of f at Labor Temple 243 East 84th St., tonight at 8 p. m. to demand geniune unemployment insurance and im- mediate relief and to protest against Green's fake insurance scheme and “share work’ stagger plan. The A. F. oi L. membership demand federal | government unemployment insurance at full average wages to be raised from taxation and contribution from the employers and to be administered by a workers committee, Green and the Executive Council abandoned their Vancouver position against all unemployment insurance and hurriedly adopted this makeshift unemployment plan under the press- ;{in the A. F, L. local unions to select proved. De Valera has been giving A. F. L, Rank and File Committee, fo Joffice, as a result of his promise to Unemployment Insurance is one of |Conduct a struggle for national liber- the series of such mectings now being | ation and his program of social de- held all over the country, Its pur-|mands of the workers and peasants, pose is to mobilize the membership |the situation in Ireland has not im- delegates from their unions to a mass {way steadily to the pressure of Brit- Ohio on Nov. 22 and 23 at the same|the workers and peasants of the time as the A. F. L. convention. This |Irish Free State has been severe as conference is being held for the pur-|a result of the agrarian crisis. The Pose of sending a rank and file del-jrestriction of immigration to the gation to the A. F. L. convention to | United States by American capital- demand that the convention go on/ism and by the cutting down of as- record adopting the Workers Unem-|sistance on the part of the Irish ployment Insurance Bill, |population in the United States as the revolutionary struggle against British imperialism during the Sinn Fein movement have recently formed their own political party dominated by petty bourgeois elements. The Revolutionary Workers Groups of Ireland are the only ones that are conducting a real revolutionary pol- icy fighting for the immediate de- mands and putting forward the slogan of the unity of Ireland uns Ger a United Irish Workers and Farmers Republic. The struggles in Belfast show the great possibility of the unification of the toilers of North and South into a common movement A similar meeting will be held Fri- |a result of the crisis here. De Valera |directed against British imperialism Aefense ‘irri among the workers in ure of the insistent demands of the|day, Oct. 14, Saengerbund Hall, 168- \eee, been using the reactionary state | and their agents, the Irish capitalists in New York. “With 1,150,000 totally at 7p, m. at Labor Temple, 242 East ployment insurance, A. F. L, rank and file only to hinder Cd 11 91st Aye, Jamaica, | Lt S against the strikers and un- and landlords, epg. RAL