The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 18, 1932, Page 1

\ ' Albert Einstein, In the Day’s News | JOBLESS GIRL TAKES POISON | NEW YORK, Oct. 17—Made des- | perate by her inability to get a job,| Katherine Gordon, 20 years old, took poison in a room she had rented. She is now in @ critical condition in | St. Vincent's Hospital. Katherine. who was brought up in an orphanage after being found abandoned on a doorstep, had been working as a ser- | vant, but recently lost her job. MASSES STILL CAN’T VOTE EL PASO, Texas, Oct. 17—Dr. L. A. Nixon, local Negro physician, has been awarded damages of $1 and costs in a suit he brought against election officials who refused to let him vote in the 1928 democratic pri- mary. Dr, Nixon has also previously won a suit for his right to vote in a case which was decided by the U. S. Supreme Court; Despite this de- cision, only a small number of Ne- groes were allowed to vote in the Democratic primaries in August, | nearly all of these being well-to-do bourgeois Negroes. Both major boss parties are united in their determin- ation to keep the Negro toilers from voting in the Nov. 8 elections, FORD WORKERS TOLD TO BACK} HOOVER DEARBORN, Mich., Oct., 17.—The Ford Motor Co. sent a massage to its workers urging them to vote for Hoo- yer. The message was posted on bul- letin boards at the River Rouge plant. It is thought that Henry Ford may use his notorious spy ystem to force the workers to vote for the man who} he knows will carry out on a national scale the policy of wage-cuts, speed-up and terror which he himself has in- stituted in his factories. Hundreds of Ford workers declare, however,| that they will vote for the Communist candidates, Willlam Z. Foster and James W. Ford. ATTACK AMERICAN PLAY | STOCXHOLM, Sweden, Oct. 17.—A barrage of rotten eggs, decayed toma- toes, stink bombs and» other missles last night greeted the performance of “The Green Pastures,” Pulitzer prize- winning play, which was a great suc- cess in the United States and is now being produced here in translation: The attack was said to have been the work of Naticnal Socialists (fas- cists), who claimed that the play made fun of religion. As a matter of fact, the play is a glorification of religious hokum. BOOSTS EARTH'S AGE BERLIN, Oct. 17—The earth is about 7,900,000,000 years older than| scientists generally believe it Dr. renowned physicist, declared today in a lecture on the conceniion of space. Dr. Einstein, who fs leaving for the United States shortly, put the earth's age at 10,000,- 900,009 vere SILAS BURGE IN JAN, AT HARLAN Deputies Raid, Seize Election Leaflets MIDDLESBORO, Ky., Oct. 17.— ‘Harlan County deputies and Middles- boro police raided the home of Silas Burge, a miner here active in the Bell County strike earlier this year. The raid was Saturday. They seized a quantity of Communist election campaign leaflets and pamphlets, ar- rested Burge, and took him to Har- lan County jail. After they had Burge in Harlan jail, they made out a warrant against him for murder, charging him with shooting a deputy at Evarts, in the Harlan County strike in May, 1931. This is a plain frame-up, intended to hold Burge out of the present struggles, and, if possible, to railroad him to the electric chair as a means | munist Parts 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- ers without restrictions oy the govern. exemption of poor and no forced ment and banks; farmers from taxes, collection of rent or debts Dail Central Orga Come eal Equa! Yorker fumict Party U.S.A. 6. fense (Section of the Communist oe “Vol. IX, No. 249° 2% Enterod as second-class matter at New York, N under the Act of Mareb disfranchi. from a serious illness. alone 500,000 voters have been cut off the list for inability to pay poll tax. These are primarily the unemployed workers and bankrupt farmers, who canhot even provide their children with a crust of bread, not to speak of paying cas hfor the right to vote. Millions of unemployed, driven from their homes, are deprived of voting rights by ail kinds of special resi- | dential qualifications. “A whole nation, the Negro people, are disfranehised in the South, in open and flagrant violation of the supposed ‘sacred’ fundamental law, the Constitution, by all sorts of legal fakery as well as by cynical violence, Ku Klux Klanism, and lynching. Exposes American Democracy “Precisely those sections of the population,” continued the Commu- nist candidate, “most opressed and exploited, who suffer most from the isis, who most demand measures of relief, who are turning to the Com- in largest numbers— these are deprived of even the op- portunity of registering their politi- cal convictions in the November elec- tions. “Therefore, it would be foolish for the Communist. Party...to. tell .these disfranchised and starving millions that they can find a way out of the crisis through the elections, through the machinery of the so-called ‘Amer- ican democracy.’ “The American democracy {s false, rotten, thoroughly corrupt; it is the thinnest of masks to cover the most brutal,-relentless capitalist dictator- ship in the world. “The Communist Party participates to the fullest possible extent in the elections. We know that, even though only a small fraction of our mass support can be registered in votes, yet this fraction is the only force in the elections which represent the re- sistance of the masses to the capital- iststarvation program; it is the Com- munist vote alone which can serve to win concessions from the capital- of terrorizing other miners. (CONTINUED ON PAGE 'THREE) | CITES THE PENNSYLVANIA POLL TAX AND BANS PUT ON NEGROES IN ELECTIONS Calls for Protest Actions sand Fight for Rights, Emphasizes the Right of Se Self-Determination For the Black Belt “Millions of the most exploited workers and farmers are systematically d, deprived of the right to vote in the coming elections,” clared William Z. Foster, presidential candidate of the Communist Party in an interview given from his' home here yesterday, where he is recovering “News of the registration in Pennsylvania just com- pleted disclosing that in that state ARREST LEADER OF CHINESE PARTY Chen, Seized by For- eign Police SHANGHAI, Oct. 17—Imperial police in the International Settle- ment yesterday arrested Chen Tuh- siu, alleged Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party, and six other rev- olutionary workers in a series of raids on the headquarters of workers’ or- ganizations. Chen was arrested on warrants issued by the Nanking butcher government. He will be turned over to these imperialist lack- eys and hangmen of the Chinese masses. Together with the six other work- ing class leaders seized, Chen is fac- ing summary execution unless the workers of the whole world imme- diately thunder their angry protests against the White Terror which is raging in Kuomintang China. fostered by the imperialist powers and their Nanking tools. e The arrest of Chen by the imper- ialist police, following similar action in regard to Paul and Gertrude Rueggs who were recently sentenced to life imprisonment by the Nanking courts, affords a vivid exposure of the role of the imperialists in dir- ecting and supporting Nanking's tionary Chinese workers. It must be answered by thunderous protests of the masses in every imperialist coun- try! 4 DIE IN FIRE NEW CASTLE, Pa.,.Oct. 17—Four children were burned to death early | this morning in a fire which de- stroyed their home near Volant, about 15 miles north of New Castle. Tammany-Republican Board Launches Attack on Relief Carry Out Masters’ Orders; Bankers-Order Cut in New York Budget At Expense of City Employes and Unemployed Tamamny tore off its hypocritical mask of benevolence yesterday and gan a program of slashing the pudget for 1933, which will mean wage-cuts for all city employees, 0-cent fare and an attempt to cut unemployment relief to a further) starvation level. The first formal] step of the Tammany-Republican Board of Estimate was to pass Con- troller Charles W. Berry's fifty-year subway bond plan, which Tammany } spokesmen themselves pointed out) just a week ago would definitely | mean 2 ten-cent subway fare. City | securities, held mainly by the bank- ers, immediately went up. The plan| ~-was adopted after Charles E. Mit~- chell, head of the National City Bank, spegking for his bank, the Chase Na- tional Bank, and J. P. Morgan & Co., Be had addressed the Board of Estimate | in order to give Tammany the flimsy excuse, to be used in the election campaign, that the bankers had) “forced” the Democrats and Repub-, licans to slash the welfare and re! appropriations in the budget. Fur- ther cuts will be announced today, which were being decided upon at a conference held yesterday afternoon jat the offices of J. P. Morgan & Co. Just before carrying through the bankers’ orders to their full satis- faction, Controller Berry made a grand-stand play of refusing to dis- cuss the budget cuts “in secret” at a conference between Mitchell, other bankers, and the Board of Estimate members. ‘Bhis gave Mitchell an op- portunity to give a public perform- ance of his “threat” not to advance further funds until Tammany puts through the cuts. Both Plans Mean 10-Cent Fare. ‘There was a much publicized di greement, between Berry and Mc! (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) ‘COPS HELP SHARK TO GYP WORKER XG Grievance C Committee | Members Arrested The Carl Muller Employment Agency, 1173 Sixth Ave. not only gyped a worker out of $11.50, by re- fusing to return that amount when he got only $5 after paying them $12 for a job and conspired with the cops to arrest the committee that | came to demand the worker's money. Seven members of the Sixth Ave. | Job Agency Grievance Committee, which has its headquarters at 58 W. 38th ‘St. were arrested in this plot of Carl Muller shark and the police. At the court, six of the workers had their cases dismissed, but the boss white chauvinist judge picked out O'Gara, a Negro worker, and sen- tenced him to the workhouse, The grievance committee, on the same day won the return of two other fees to two other workers, and will not let the Carl Muller gyp shark get away with the worker's $11.50 EIGHT KILLED IN SAN PAUL RIO DE JANEIRO, Oct. 17—A “disturbance” occurred in San Paul on Oct. 12, it was revealed here yes- terday. As a result eight are re- ported killed. The nature of the “dis-! .| turbance” is not specified. San Paul is tho center of the re- cent military revolt against the Fed- eral Goyernment of Getulio Vargas. DEFEAT ATTEMPT TO WRECK UNITY Plan Marek in Chicago Against Relief Cut CHICAGO, Tll., Oct. 17.—The unit- ed front conference called upon the initiative of the Unemployed Coun- cils and attended by the Borders Committee, and the Workers League here Friday developed a sharp strug- gle with the Socialist Borders and his faction. Borders again attempted to reduce the demands and tactics of the united front struecle °° ‘he unemployed to a less mma tion, and when outvoted by the rank and file delegates present, he adopt- ed for a time a dangerous splitting tendency. The conference {s on record, by a substantial majority, for militant struggle, for the Cook County Hun- ger March of October 31, and for such a broad united front in the demonstrations as will permit the carrying of political slogans in the demonstration. This means that in the hunger march workers will dis- play banners against the city and state government responsible for the cuts and will feature the names of Communist candidates,.the Commu- nist demands for unemployment in- surance, struggle against wage cuts, etc, 200 Delegates The united front conference met (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) Post Office at VOTE Against capitalist forms rights Against imperialist i COMMUNIST FOR: 1 rights for the Negroes and seif~ determination for the Black Belt, terror; against all of suppression of the poli of workers. teal war: for the de- of the Chinese people and of the Soviet Union, 3, 187. NEW YORK, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1932 CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents Foster Charges Wide Denial of Votes to Unemployed and Negroes; Bosses Fear Rising Revolutionary Mood of Toilers workers’ leader, to six months. who fought back. were arrested. | Seeebeeeue: for Release of Negro Worker | Part of crowd of thousands of workers demonstrating at home of Magistrate Aurelio in New York, who sentenced Sam Brown, Negro Police attacked the demonstrators, Scores were injured, including some police, and 22 WHY? “The Bohemia”, his European trip. | front (Roumanian-Soviet | Continent. Staff worthwhile.” the Soviet Union be given? gas Why Is Gen. MacArthur In Europe? Gen. Douglas MacArthur, Chief of Staff of the U. Army, who distinguished himself by driving the veterans out of Washington with bayonets and tear gas, is traveling through all the Border States on the Western frontier of the Soviet Union, and is now in Rumania. Prague, Czechoslovakia, daily, recently discussed MacArthur’s trip and admitted a true motive for “The commander-in-chief of the United States Army can learn all there is to know on the Dniester boundary), thus fulfilling the orders he got from Washington: to study the con- | ditions in the border states around Russia in order to provide the basis for the establishment of an anti- | Soviet front in Europe by America. For it is no longer | a. secret that this is why MacArthur was sent to the murderous onslaught on the reyolu- | “The American Chief of Staff came at the right | i time to get information on the possibility for setting | up an anti-Soviet front... The United States is the | | only great power that has not made diplomatic peace with Moscow, and Washington realizes that an event- ual rapproachment between Russia and Japan would endanger American interests in the Far East enor- mously. A joint front of the Border States (Finland, | Esthonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, and Roumania—Ed, Daily Worker) against Russia would be a valuable counterweight and attaining this goal would make a European voyage of the Chief of Czechoslovakia, The charge of “rapprochement” between the Soviet Union and Japan is a bluff designed to. distract the workers from the imperialist plot against the Soviet Union. | Need better proof of the imminent danger of war against | General MacArthur, the tear s “hero” of the B. E. F. evacuation from Washington, makes a special trip to Europe to inspect the military prep- arations of the vassal states along ‘the Soviet. Union’s front- iers, and the object of his voyage is cynically admitted.by a leading Czech daily. This is a resounding answer to the So- cialists’ shameless cries of “Wolf, wolf! There is no danger of war against the Soyiet Union.” To persist in their denial is incontrovertible proof of socialist aid to the imperialists in lulling the masses to sleep. Stronger than ever our call must | go forth—DEFEND THE SOVIET UNION! : Belfast Workers | Says Hoover’s |No Handouts for Him ‘PATTERSON WILL BE ON BALLOT “Sun” Hints Hillquit | | May Be Only One | NEW YORK.—The capitalist press in New York City is deliberately try- | ing to suppress the fact that the Communist Party has placed William L. Patterson on the ballot as its can- didate for Mayor of New York Cit; it was charged today by the New York State United Front Communist Election Campaign Committee. In an early edition of the New York Sun yesterday it was stated | that if Supreme Court Justice Albert Cohen allows a claim made by a Mrs, Katherine Rogers, the Board of | | HERBERT (HUNGER) HOOVER Elections would have to strike the} names of the Republican and gee me wig tocs ac" HOOVER CALLS ON leaving Morris Hillqit, the Socialist, WORKERS TO PAY as the only candidate on the ballot for Mayor. Mrs. Rogers’ claim is |that the names of the Republican | jand Democratic candidates were filod | Speech Urges Charity, after the time limti set by the law . Not Relief had elapsed. | WASHINGTON, Oct. 17.—Deliber- “Mrs. Rogers’ suit does not affect | ately dodging the issue of federal un- | |the candidacy of William L. Patter- | |son, and the editor of the Sun knows | gmpioyment insurance and ifmediate relief, President Hoover, carrying out jit,” the United Front Election Com- Wall Street's policy of making the mittee stated yesterday, “The Sun |deliberately stated that Morris Hill-| workers pay for the crisis, last night | called on every community to toss a | quit would be the only candidate left | fon the allot, so as to make ts! tew. bones.of; charity, to.the 16,000,000 unemployed and their fam- | worker-readers ‘believe “they will not |be able to vote for William L. Pat- | terson, Communist candidate, whose |name was filed in time and whose | petition was signed by more than the | jrequired number of names. William L. Patterson is on the ballot and workers should vote for hi Mayor of New York City on Nov. 8. Hoover's appeal, similar to many he had made before, was contained in a speech broadcast from the White Hou Short tal along the same nes were also made by the demo- | crat, Newton D. Baker, former secre- * | tary of war, showing how completely united the two chief boss parties are “relief” programs, and by | Gifford, president of the | pusly anti-labor Ainerican Tele- phone and Telegraph Company, who was chairman of Hoover's organiza- tion for unemployment relief. Win More Relief | In the face of the fact that in every city of the country the most |Report Shipy: ard Strik- missrable and inadequate relief has =) rk | been handed out official relief ers Returned to Work bodies and private charities, Hoover mY declared that this “is the only way Workers striking in Belfast to meet it (mass s tion—Ed.) ef- turned to wor acco fectively—in the neighborhood itself, to a capitalist pre atch inform- | where the need is known.” The Hun- jing that the martial law virtually en-| gor President, deaf to the demands forced there would be suspended to- | of the hur pointed to the fact day. that “tho National Association of | The workers of the shipyards were | Community s has taken the re- striking in connection with thi s ty of organizing the work of Jonstration of ten thousand in every commu- |ployed and employed for mor Chest is |quate relief. It is reported t known only too well ta the workers | through stem Jof “volur whereby the A ha works | working mostly only two or three days When the demonstration took place |* Week are tore aster in Belfast more than 3,000 policemen | Contribute trom : concentrated in the city, viciously at- . : are tacked the 10,000 workers participat-| Only the Communist Party fights ve cars ‘i # against the efforts of the bosses to ing in it, firing on them and killing make further raids on #4 pockets of |the face of the workers’ militancy the Sister Government was forced to nt more relief to the starving job- | joao. tne. Worsets. foent | lack vg | the workers. Only the Communist Logan REV Gann ec | Party raises and fights for the de- jeihab bak ind |mand for federal unemployment. in- | sistance to the unprovoked attacks. ance, to be paid by the bosses and For two days they battled the Irish | the government, and for immediate |policemen, erecting barricades in the | cash relief. . Answer Hoover's charity streets and paralyzing traffic. They | schemes by voting Communist Nov. stopped train and car services. 8th! silver which he had mana dictatorship, kee imperialism has forced one dic- tator after another out of office. Da- vila, like his present successors, was put into office by the Yankee rulers, with the use of revolutionary phrases. The Socialist Party organ, “The Forward,” following out the role of the Socialist Party in every country as the agent of its own bourgeoisie, hailed the Davila coup as inaugur- ating “socialism” in Chile. The Daily Worker at that time pointed out that this coup was prepared in the Buffalo home of the vice-president of the Curtis Airplane and Motor Co. Now this “socialist” of the Social- ist Party has run away from Chile, with his loot of five cases of gold and silver and with the curses of the Chilean people at Valparaiso harbor ringing in his ears, “Thief” and “murderer” were the words shouted after him as he rushed through the pier at Valparaiso, The mass revolt in Chile against the the Guggenheim interests of Yan- #~ Davila Comes Here with Loot Stolen from Chilean Masses Carlos Davilla, former fascist dictator of Chile, arrived yesterday in New York on the S. §. Santa Barbara. With him were five cases of gold and ged to steal from the Chilean people in his brief intolerable burdens imposed by Forgery As Basis for Ruling Communist Off Ballot; Trick Fails SCHENECTADY, N. Y,, Oct., 17— Staggered by the fact that about 1000 workers in this city signed the peti- tion for placing Jack Rand, Commu- nist candidate in the First Assembly| District, on the ballot, authorities here | failed to challenge the validity of the! petition on_which the name of J.! Ward White, local ®ayor, was forgec after the petition has been filed a: a trick for giving the bosses a reason to throw out the entire petition, Yes-j terday was the last day for filing a challenge to the petition, but no such challenge was made though the cap- 4 bye v italist newspapers intimated that such i challenge would be made, The Daily Needed $40,000.00 It Received Only $18,380.81 It can easily be seen that the Daily not only failed to pay, its old debts, but in addition accumulated new ones. The situation has become so critical that it re- quires immediate action! You can help the Daily by: 1. Sending in all money collected without delay. This includes Tag Day and other funds. 2. Getting greetings for the Fifteenth Soviet Anniversary edition, to be published November 7 3. Getting subscriptions now! After November 1 the subscription rates will be raised. You must get busy now if you want the Daily to survive its prolonged crisis. DO NOT DELAY! . Daily Worker-Management Comunittee, heme | rs—those | “PRAVDA,” SOVIET DAILY, REPLIES T0 HOOVER’S SPEECH IN CLEVELAND ; Demagagic Ars anal Besomine ng Exhausted; Now Forced to Revive Anti-Soviet Slander Campaign CRISIS IS DUE T0 HOOVER'S: SYSTEM “Soviet Dumping” Is | Red Her: ring | ‘The following tary from Moscow is the Soviet ion to Hoo ver’s speech made land last Saturday evenin; ¢ demagogicall, battle-cry of the Republican Party that the | crisis is not due to the system witich | they maintain. He d | what critics of his administ ignore is “the effect upon us of the | revolution among 300,000,000 people China or the agitations among 300,- | 000,000 people in India or the Bol- shevist revolution ar 160,000, | people in Russia. They have ig! the effect of Russia's dumpi the world comme | its necessitous people in effort to secure money ¥ to carry on—shall I call it—a deal. “The democratic leaders apparently have never heard th ere has beer a gigantic overproduction of rubber | in the Indies, of Sugar in Cuba, of | coffee in Brazil, of cocoa in Ecuador, | of copper in the Congo, of lead in Burma, overproductién of zinc | Australia, overproduction of oil from new discoveries in the» U Russia, | Sumatra, and Venezuela; and ise the effect of the ductior into the world of gigantic ar new Wheatlands in the Argentine and in Oanada; new cotton lands in Egypt “In each and every , ormous overproductions, consumption even in boom t have crashed into the immutable of supply and demand and bre inevitable collapse in prices an it a train of bankr a truction of buying p: ican goods.” new des- Amet ower for By MYRA PAGE (European Correspondent Worker.) | MOSCOW, Oct. 17 (By Ca jIn commenting on H |campaign speech in Cl da” writes as follow “In his respon: speech, the United followed the acct |Fish and Comr “The American president is 1 jly placed in a difficult know that Mr, Hoo’ hard election campaign internal as well as the forei ation of the United Si ing ever less favorable | most heavy economic c rise in unemploymer tubborn facts deprive fine election speccl jeffect. Hoove: becoming e American presid |recourse to ordinar ments. “Hoover sees jterrible crisis in in the Russian tions. The elec tively deprived the Daily State! ed road u: and that th the pre has American yf dent of the capacity of distinguishing {causes from consequences and vice versa. The economic crisis is part Jof the very nature of Hoover's capi list system. But Hoover is not fir attempi to declare that the ex« jistence of the U. S. S. R. and the |Chinese Revolution are the reasons for the present crisis. This statement is by no means original. Revises Old “Dumping” Argument, | “The American president's state. |ments contain one more argument: Soviet “dumping”, but the campaign against alleged Soviet dumping failed shamefully a long time ago and the jmore judicious representatives of |capitalism have stopped using this worthless slogan, “The hopes placed in the Stock Exchange boom in America have clearly failed (of realization). The president who strove in every way to organize this tremendous deceit is now searching for other ways to obtain the sympathies of the petty bourgeois electors.” Communist Gains * In Local Elections In East Prussia KOENIGSBERG, (By. Mail). — On Sunday, Oct. 2, municipal eleo. tions took place in Stallupoenen Fast Prussia, .The fascists lost al- most 50 per cent, the socialist lost 60 per cent, while the Communits GAINED 20 per cent. Even in East Prussia, long a nationalist and Nazi stronghold, the Nazi power is rapidly vanishing, while the so= cialist workers are coming over im ever-larger numbers to the Com-