The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 24, 1932, Page 1

{ “ In the Day’s News MAY POSTPONE CHILE ELEC- TIONS SANTIAGO, Chile, Oct., 23.—THE posponement of the presidential elec- tion which is scheduled to take place on Oct. 30, is being considered here by the government. Such pospene- ment, it is stated, is “suggested” by a document issued by the rank and file of the army which attacks the government, Esa aye REPORT MILITARY PLOT IN EDUCATOR QUITO, Educator, Oct., 23—A plot. against the government was discov- ered and frustated here, governmental Officials announced, when several con- Spirators were arrested yesterday. The purpose of the plot was to overthrow the government and estab- lish a military power. Most of the conspirators are said to be army offi- cers and police officials. One of them is Colonel Borga, fromer chief of po- lice. . y 4 40,000 SOLDIERS TO GUARD MUS- i SOLINL TURIN, Ttaly. Oct., 23.—Forty thou- 1 soldiers were mobilized to pro- tect Mussolini, who is to arrive today | for a three day visit, from the wrath of the starving and oppressed work- ers, The workers of Turin are known for their anti-fascist mood. ace. 8 HITLERITES IN MANEUVER WITH | OLD GENERAL © | BERLIN, Oct., 23—To Bir Clara Zetkin, the veteran Commut st lead- er, from opening the next Reichstag, the National Socialist (Hitlerites) no- minated General Litzman, 82 years old, as candidate. If elected the Reichstag would be opened by Litz- man in virtue of his seniority. Clara Zetkin, who is 75 years old, } opened the Reichstag when it con- yened after the last election. She d livered a stirring speech denouncing | the government, and calling upon the | workers to carry on the struggle for its overthrow outside parliament. a * BERLIN PROTEST STRIKE BERLIN.—All the employees of the Negri cigarette factory in Berlin went out on a half-hour protest strike against the recent suppression of the Berlin “Rote Fahne, Com- munist daily, This is an example of how the workers of Germany regard their paper, and the lengths to which they will go to defend it. GENERAL STRIKE LOOMS IN SPAIN 60 Communis ts on’ Hunger Strike MADRID, Oct. 23.—Demonstrations of uvemployed workers are tereas- ing all over Spain, At Badajez, un- emoloyed workers stopped all traffic, end took food from restaurants, bak- cries and groceries. The Socialist- Republican government sent troops to villages throughout the country to shoot down the unemployed workers and the starving peasants. Treop movements throughout Spain show that the ‘Sogialist-Re- publican government is preparing to put down with force the general strike which the wide masses of workers are reported preparing in Seville under the leadership of the Communist Party. COMMUNISTS on HUNGER STRIKE BARCELONA, <Spain, Oct. 23.— Sixty Communists held here in pris- on for leading the workers in revo- lutionary struggle against the capi- talist government started on a hun- ger strike today. MINERS STRIKE MADRID, Spain, Oct. 23—Thou- sands of miners answered the gen- eral strike call and downed their tools today. SEAMEN DEMANDS GO T0 HOOVER Marine Workers To Be In National March NEW YORK.—A committee of ten elected by the seamen of east coast ports, and headed by George Mink, national chairman of the Marine Workers Industriel Union, is on its way to Washington to present de- mands tomorrow to President Hoo- ver. The meetings and the committee ‘eal for a special-march of unemploy- \ed seamen as part of the National _Hunger March on Washington, in December to back up the general de- mand for $50 unemployment relief and the specific demands of the mar- ine workers for: 1--Ail seamen unemployed for one month or longer to receive $1 a day during the, period of unemployment. The sum to be raised from funds now appropriated, through the Jones- White Act, for direct subsidies and loans to the shipowners. All funds appropriated to be distributeq under the si of committees elected by the seamen. Relief to be granted all seamen sailing on American ships regardless of nationality. 2—Unemployed seamen to be Jowed the right of admittance to a Marine Hospitals regardless of length of time ashore. All dental and optical work to be free. 3-Full enforcement of manning scale; 3 watches on all ships; no worvaways or forced labor on any ships. _4—Immediate abolition of the blacklist and deferred lists and log- ging systems. ion of elected committees of seamen. rl " 6—Laid up ships to be requisitioned and fitted BP. as lodging for unem- ‘ot the Workers Unem- it Insurance Bill. plorment era and _ establishment Mf trade relations with Soviet Russia. VOTE COMMUNIST FOR: t, Unemployment and Social Insurance - at the expense of the state and em- ployers. & Against Hoover's wage-cutting policy. 3. Emergency relief for the poor farm- ers without restrictions py the govern. Da Norker | VOTE COMMUNIST FOR: 4 Equal rights for the Negroes and self« determination for the Black Belt, Against capitalist terror; against all forms of suppression of the politcal rights of workers. 4 mat-and banks; exemption farmers from taxes, collection of rent or debts of poor and no forced Vol. IX, N 254° a New Enter ‘ork, N.Y., under the Act of March Central second-class matter at the Post Office at he-CDYMrunict Party U.S.A. , (Section of the Chemunit ia Re ‘“ fense Against imperialist war; for the de- of the Chinage people and of the Soviet Union. 8, 1871 NEW “YORK, MOND DAY, OCTOBER 24, 1932 t EDITION Price 3 Cents Bosses Towards this huge earlier in the evening, came parades and truck caravans of workers from all parts of the city. On the preceding night a torch light parade and a youth election rally had further payed the way-for the Market Arena meeting, | Jamés Watson, Negro worker and | Communist candidate for state rep- resentative in the 18th Representative District, was chairman of the meeting. Weinstone Speaks | William W. Weinstone, Communist candidate for U. S. Senate, was the main speaker, in place of William Z. Foster, presidential candidate of the Communist Party, who is now on the road to recovery from his illness, and is expected to appear at the Madison Square Garden election rally Nov. 6, in New York. Foster's greetings to the workers of Philadelphia, presented by Weinstone, brought forth an ovation from the large audience. Weinstone then pro- ceeded. with an appeal. for.a workers united front against the capitalist wage cut and hunger offensive. In this capitalist offensive, Weinstone pointed out, Hoover, Roosevelt and Thomas collaborate. Hoover's speech in Clevelanr, said Weinstone, showed Hoover was as bankrupt in his promise as the cap- italist system itself. While the crisis deepens Hoover comes forward with “share-the-work” and stagger schemes, and h more open wage cuts which increase the misery of the workers and only worsen the whole situation. Hoover's path is one of still further depression of the living standards of the masses and of pre- parations for imperialist war. j Roosevelt-Hoover Capitalist Zwins Weinstone ridiculed Roosevelt's pre- tended “liberalism.” He stands ex- posed by his record as governor of New York state, when he clubbed tmemployed workers demanding re- lief, and kept leaders of the working class in jail, and, as secretary of the navy, when he helped in the oppres- sion of the Haitian masses, The support thrown to Roosevelt by big business magnates such as Raskob and Owen D. Young, and by organ- izations like the Ku Klux Klan in the South, shows that Roosevelt's claims of any difference from Hoo- ver is only an attempt to create illu- sions for the workers. S, P. Helps Boss Offensive. The Socialist Party, Weinstone further points out, in all practical steps as well as in its policy, is help- ing the offensive of the capitalist class against the working class. This is amply proved, he showed, by unemployed workers suffer forced la- bor at $1.13 a week, evictions and clubbings when they protest, and in Reading, where, when the Socialists were in control, workers’ meetings were broken up and workers were arrested for collecting relief for the striking miners of Pennsylvania and West Virginia. The program announced by Nor- man Thomas of nationalization of public utilities, without destroying the’ one system, Weinstone de- the examples in Milwaukee, wherc | 8,000 At Foster Meet Hear Weinstone Call for| 3 United Fight on Wage and Relief Cuts “Communist Lead Daily Struggles and Show Revolutionary Way Out S. P.~Aids Drive!” PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Oct. 23.—The largest labor gather- ing in Philadelphia since the world war gave an impressive and enthusiastic endorsement of the Communist election platform Saturday night, when 8,000 workers practically filled the Mar- ket Arena for the election rally of the Communist Party. rally,*~ clared, was only an attempt to stifle the workers’ struggle against the capitalist offensive. « Communists For Revolutionary Way Ont. Only the Communist Party, Wein- | stone stated, stands for socialism and for a revolutionary way out. ~ Only through a workers’ and farmers’ gov- ernment, by taking over the big in- dustries, by the establishment of the seven-hour day and social insurance, by the establishment of equal rights for the Negroes and self-determina- tion in the Black Belt, and by end- ing the American imperialist policies in Latin America would it be pos- sible to provide work, overcome un- employment, do away with crises and give to the workers the fruits of in- dustry. Only the Communist Party, he said, stands for workers’ unity in the im- mediate struggles as well as in the entire revolutionary struggle against the capitalist system. Weinstone concluded by appealing for. support of the National Hunger March, and for a solidarity of work- ers with farmers in their struggles and in the Farmers’ National Relief Conference in Washington, and for | support of the veterans’ struggle for the bonus. Powers Scores Relief Cuts. M. H. Powers spoke on the local situation, and the cuts in relief, and the new attacks on the workers in the form of the occupational tax. He pointed out that the reactionary Central Trades and Labor Council, which has been instrumental in cut- ting wages, has endorsed Norman ‘Thomas, who has also been endorsed by Carl Reeves, notorious for the prominent part he played in putting through the 35 per cent we-> cut against the hosiery workers The John Reed Club p. a skit that satirized the capitalist pros- perity ballyhoo and showed the revo- inbonagy aye way out. BIG PARADE TO NEWARK RALLY Communist Election Mass Meet, Thus. NEWARK, N. J., Oct., 23.—Many preparations are being made in this city for the meeting Thursday, at Laurel Garden, 457 Springfield Ave., where William Z. Foster, Communist candidate for President of the Un- ited States, will speak if he is suf- ficiently recovered by that time from his illness. If Foster is still too ill, another prominent Communist leader will speak in his place. Arrangements are being made for a car and foot parade throughout the working class sections of the city, starting from the H. M. Tubes, where the speaker will be met by a group representing various workers’ organ- izations. Anticipatint an overflow meeting the committee in charge,has arranged for the instalation of @ loud-speaker with amplifiers extended Will Exceed Size of Dnieper Dam’ Which Is Engineer Winter to Head Project Largest in World; Soviet (Cable by Imprecorr.) MOSCOW, Oct. 23. With the Dieper Hydroelectric Power Station, the largest in the world, going at full speed, one hundred thirty-four of its best workers have already left for Yaroslay to take part in the erection of another gigantic power plant on the Volga which will exceed the size of the Dnieper dam, The Soviet engineer Winter who was in charge of the Dnieprostroi will head the Volgastroi construction. The dam site has been prepared, and an extensive plan of work for the next months has been laid out, Foreign Workers Pledge More Co-operation, Among the Soviet workers and farmers who are preparing for the enthusiastic celebration of the 15th anniversary of the October Revolu- tion by pledging to achieve additional successes in the socialist construction, are hundreds of American, German and other foreign workers who are taking an inereasingly active part in Soviet daily life, At a recent meeting of elght hun- dred foreign workers and specialists held in the hall of the Moscow Sov- iet, a resolution has been adopted Stating their intention to make before the November celebration of the 15th Anniversary 200 suggestions for the improvement of production, trans- portation and construction, “Although we foreign workers and specialists’—the resolution declares— “have successfully applied our tech- nical experience transferring it to our Soviet.fellow workers.and have seen hundreds of our valuable sug- gestions and inventions carried into effect, we have not cooperated active- 800 Foreign Workers, Specialists Pledge 200 Production Sug Before 15th Anniversary Russian Revolution =a | SOVIET ENGINEER WINTERS ly enough in the activity of the Soy- iets. We want to make good this omission.” Form Four Brigades. “We want to do our utmost. thru our Soviet deputies in the. factories to carry out and surpass the plans year of the first Five-Year Plan. At the same time we appeal to all for- eign workers and specialists to fol- dow, our example, become’ active work- ers in their Soviets and undertake certain obligations for the November | celebration of the 15th anniyersary for the 4th quarter of 1932, the final | restions of the Revolution.’ One hundred and ten foreign work- ers formed four brigades to aid in the ‘industrial and municipal work to improve the housing tions. Hold Harvest Festival. This year harvest fest{val which began on the 15th of October coincides with culture for intensified farming on land already under cultivation during which the attention of ail branches of the national economy is centered on the questions of socialist | agriculture. Whereas previously the major t was to sow the largest possible area, {now the chief task, especially ‘on | technical and deep plowing of crops, is intensive cultivation. Having at- tained an increase in the sown area of 74,000,000 acres, and hi ng fur- nished state and collective farms witl over 100,000 tractors, Soviet agricul- ture is taking up the fight for greater |harvests through intensive cultiva- cent of the year’s pro Fall sowing and plov m. g are | year’s program already sown at a rate jof sowing well over last year’s, The Ukraine which in the ear part of the season fell behind, is no’ ;than last year’s. The plan for cot ton deliveries is surpassing that 0! last year. Two Children Die of Hunger; Result of Hoover’s ‘Aid’ ROSEBURG, Ore., Oct., 23.—As a result of the Hoover Relief po- licy two children, Jullianne Phil- lips, aged 3, and her brother Harry, 2, are dead here and four other children of Mr. and Mrs. Julian Phillips are in the hospital and are not expected to live. The father of the family had béen unemployed for a long time and was forced to feed the children on a diet composed exclusively of corn meal and condensed milk. The ach resulted in intestinal trouble whic! caused the death. of the first two children, Police Dogs For Whom? Here are the bloodhounds Washington police have lately acquired. said, But whether a convicted felon like former Sec. of the Interior Albert B. Fall (a fellow cal with Hoover) or men charged with.a felony like U. 8. Senator James J, Davis of Pennsylvania or men guilty of being veterans of the World War or unemployed, it was not made clear. “To run down criminal: GOP, Democrats Hand Bosses A Billion Dollars WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct., 23.— The Reconstruction Finance Cor- poration, which is run by both De- mocrats and Republicans, reported | Saturday that it had en out $995,406,000 so far, Of this, $544,- 000,000 went to banks and trust and $218,670,000 to rail- Some of the rest was for mortgages on farms and $53,105,000 went to the “self-liquidating” city water and construction projects, on which alone a small number of workers get jobs. The other sums are entirely for capitalists. the campaign of Soviet agri- | The harvest festival lasts ten days | tion as the next stage of its develop- ape Img there, while » : Fall Sowing, Plowing Progressing. | ihe jobless masses i*- Grain deliveries by the middle of | fo with May- P. RAYMOND | the months are slightly behind those | or urphy’s po- Candidate for | of last year which by the same da > for the right Governor of |were forty-five and two tenths per| to the streets, the Michigan pro- | fa gressing well with seven eights of the | sowihg at a Tate Considerably higher | 8,000 Detroit Jobless and Veterans Jeer Hoover at Station, Shout “We Want Foster;” Demonstrate for Relief, Bonus CHEER COMMUNIST POLICY AT BIGGEST PHILADELPHIA MEETING SINCE THE WAR GROUND FOR 25 MINUTES Hooting of President Roar As He Nea “Murderer of DETROIT, Mich., Oct. Veterans”, Bankers s, Nothing to Jobless”, Yell Workers Libcelon Into Mighty rs Guarded Hall “Gave Millions to ght ihougand jobless workers with the world war veterans prominent in the front ranks, met Hoov | orously. They flaunted signs: “ ‘and not a cent to the jobless,” ployment insurance for all? worker “Down with Hoover, layer of veterans”, ‘“Immedi- payment of our back-wages diserimination against Negr veterans.” ‘The crowd shouted over and over : neain: “We want | Foster for Presi- | dent!” Bl Toover and his party immediately fled back to their private train, and |for 25° minutes y slunk in hid- right to bring their demands face to| with the chief magistrate of the can capitalist government. | n capitalist reporters describe the din of jeering and booing for the president as “terrific.” | Shout Demands for Relief The slogans on the plecards were -| shouted in roaring choruses by the {| whole crowd. Motorcycle police charged madly into the crowd, foot police shoved and punched and club- | bed, but the workers resisted. Veterans Mount Telephone Poles Even when they were somewhat pushed back, four workers’ leaders, who had mounted telephone poles, continued to speak, calling on the workers for mass united front action and organization in the shops and neighborhoods to win unemployment relief and insurance, to fight Hoover's wage cutting policy and stagger plan. These sp2akers were Philip Raymond head of the Auto Workers Union and Communist candidate for governor; J. T. Pace, prominent in the De- troit Workers’ Ex-Service men’s League, chairman of the Veterans National Rank and File Committee Jin charge of the next veterans’ |bonus march on Washington, and |Communist candidate for congress jfrom the Fourth District, Dearborn; Walter Eicker, one of the outstanding leaders of the last bonus march and jon the National Rank and File Com- mittee, Communist candidate for state senator, and W. Goetz and Sil- * the cops et member =. ES PICTURES. National Hunger March—See Page 3 outside so that those that can not get in may hear anyway. ‘Cars and trucks ate coming from South and West of New Jersey carrying workers to greet Comrade Foster. William Z. Foster Will Make First Public Appearance Since Illness, at Big Nov. 6th Rally NEW YORK.—William Z. Foster, candidate of the Communist Party for President of the United States, will make his first appearance on the platform since his illness at the final 5—Establishment of Central Ship-/ election rally of the Communist Party ping Bureaus in all ports under the|on Nov. 6 at Madison Square Gar- den, 50th St. and Eighth Ave. At this rally workers of New York City and vicinity will greet their candi- date, anq will hear his message for a united fight of all workers against. the capitalist yage-cut and hunger offensive. > The Madison Square Garden meet- ing on the evening of Nov. 6 will not Madison Sq. Garden Meet Also to Mark U.S.S.R. Anniversary only be the climax to the election campaign of the Communist Party, but will also be a celebration of the 15th anniversary of the workers’ and farmers’ seizure of power in the Soyiet Union. A mass pageant will be shown, depicting the struggles of the workers against the Czar and then against Kerensky, and showing the successes of Socialist construction in the U. S. S. R., as compared with the increasing starvation and misery in the capitalist countries. In addition to Foster there will be, other workers’ leaders, who will sum up the election fight of the Com- munist Party, and the stand of the Party on all vital issues confronting the workers, Tickets for this great rally are now jwvailable, and can be obtained on the Yifth floor, 50 FE. 13th St. To meet, the expenses of the rally, 1,500: seats Vhave been reserved at $1 each, ‘The general admission is 40. cents. ‘jon SAM BROWN MASS MEETING TONIGHT Mass Pressure Forced Short Terms for 18 Sentences of 10 days each in the workhouse were pronounced Satur- Gay in Essex Market Court by Judge Farrell upon 18 workers framed up “disorderly « conduct” charges arising out of the demonstration last week in front of the home of the judge who railroaded Sam Brown, jobless colored worker, to jail for six months for demanding unemployed relief. Only the mass protest of hun- dreds of workers stopped. Judge Far- rell from pronouncing more vicious sentences. The Sam Brown-Scottsboro United Front Defense Committee urges all workers to attend a giant protest meeting at ‘8 pm. tonight at Lido Ballroom, 160 W. 146th St,, to de- mand freedom for Sam Brown, for Sam Weinstein, for the Scottsboro boys and for ail class war prisoners. ; “This meeting must be even a \greater protest against the frame-up tactics of the bosses’ courts than was the demonstration in front of Judge Aurelio’s home, for which 19 of our icomrades haye just been sentenced {to ‘ail by the unscrupulous Tammany | Wwol, Judge Farrell,” the commitice Roosevelt Once Director of Slot CAMBRIDGE, Md., Oct. Democratic cancidate for presiden' ing slot machines, Senator meeting here. speeches Franklin D. Roosevelt ap- himself director and stockholder of a corporation which “typifies almos! | complains of.” The ‘Republican Senator |poration and even justifies him Machine Company 23,—The was director of a corporation inter- ested in manufacturing and _licens- Hastings of Delaware charged at a Republican After recalling that in one. of his pointed himself the guardian of the people's savings which, in his own|‘Here and there groups applauded words, “are made....the sport of the | the president.” American stock markets”, Hastings} Henry Ford Welcomes Hoover stated that in 1928 Roosevelt was| Hovoer entered the hall, to be in every particular the things he added however that he does not condemn Roosevelt for having been the larg- est stockholder of this kind .of cor- verman, leaders of the Young Com- munist League. Four Arrested Police finally puled them down and arrested them. The charges are so far unknown. When repeated police charges had opened .a way through the. crowd, Hoover and his party were escorted through and rushed toward the arena, where Hoover was to begin his speech with a declaration that “The measures and policies of the Repu- lican administration are winning the major battles for recovery. They are taking care of distress in the mean- time.” ‘ | Children Jeer Hoover The direct lie had been given this declaration already on the way to the hall, not only by the first mass dem- onstration of 8,000 at the railway ; | Station, demanding relief, but by swarms of children of the unem- ployed workers of Detroit who ran from the sidewalks to the Hoover cavaleade as it swept by, and run- ning beside the president's jeered and booed at him. Jeering and booing came from the crowds of workers along the sidewalks on the way to -|the Olympic Arena, The best the capitalist reporters could say is that, f| greeted by a picked delegation of * | reception committee of Henry Ford, Republican ward heelers, and by a Postmaster General Brown and some senators, etc. Ford has laid off all but a handful of his 120,00 employes. Praises Teapot Dome President In Marion, Ohio, Hoover lauded former President Harding, the Tea- pot Dome president, on whose “Ohio gang” cabinet Hover was Secretary of stated, jthe Scottsboro boys. must be freed. to think twice pefore they. slap us.” “Sam Brown, Weinstein and These challenges hurled at us by the tools of capitalism must be answered by mass protests, so tremendous and so militant, that these wretched lack- eys of a decadent system will begin Commerce. The jobless and Detroit employed workers are called by the Unem- ployed Council, the Workers Ex- servicemen’s League and the Com- munist Party to protest demonstra- er at the station last night, at 8:20. | Up on a charged of murder. They booed him vig- ‘He gave milliors to the banks “Immediate relief and unem- Expect Verdict On Scottsboro Frame-Up Today (Special to the Daily Worker.) WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 23.—With the U, S. Supreme Court scheduled to adjourn. unofficial reports in Washing- ton declare that a decision will be rendered in the Scottsbore ease on Monday. The probability that th« ‘ottsboro — decis will be forthcoming tomorrow is based on the knowledge that the Su- preme Curt plans to clear entire calendar before it journs. The case involving a framie- uv against seven young Negro boys facing electrocition was argued before the court on Oct. 10 by Walter H. Pollack, rep- resenting the International La- bor Defense which, since the original trial in Scottsboro, conducted the defense of the case, carrying on a world-wide campaign on behalf of the de- fendants. Pollack and other I. L. D. at- torneys proved’ conclusively that it was a hideous frame-up: that the boys were rushed thru a mock trial without any defense, and that one of the lawyers assigned to “defend” the boys himself aided the pro- secution, on its COURT DENIES EUEL LEE APPEAL I. L. D. to Push Fight On Lynch Verdict TOWSON, Md., Oct. 23—The Cir- cuit Court yesterday upheld its lynch verdict against Yuel Lee (Orphan Jones), over-ruling the motion of the International Labor Defense attor- neys for a new trial in the case of the aged Negro farm hand framed The I. L. D. has announced its intention of continuing the fight for Lee, im which are involved the constitutional rights of Negroes to sit on juries in the state of Maryland. The motion of the I. L. D. attor- neys for a new trial cited the ex- clusion of Negroes from the jury which tried Lee. It denounced as improper and illegal the methods used by the court in selecting the petit jury panel of 200 names, charg- ing that Negroes were excluded be- cause of their race and color. It de- clareq that the rights of the de- fendant had been violated by this and other procedure of the court and law officers, and that Negroes were Segregated in the court room during the trial. Lee was framed up in connection with the murder of a rich white farmer and his family of four. Ai rested on “suspicion” because he had once worked for the farmer and was known to have resented being gyped out of a day’s wages ($1), he was lynch atmos- Tushed to trial in a phere. crowds at the railway station Save Antoneff An emergency conference is meet- ing today to mobilize n: protest against the attemupt of Hoaver's Secretary of Labor Doak to murder tions in many points about the city Mayor Murphy's police attack on the} B WA oe ence the Detroit wofker, Antoneff, . by this afternoon, against the “liberal” pone him back to the bangmen of \