The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 29, 1932, Page 1

DAILY WORKER TO PUBLISH ‘GEORGIA NIGGER’, STARTING TUESDAY VOTE COMMUNIST FOR: 4 Equal rights for the Negroes and self- determination for the Black Belt. VOTE COMMUNIST FOR: Unemployment and Social Insurance » at the expense of the vtate and em- Against capitalist terror; against all forms of- suppression of the poliiteal rights of workers. Against Hoover's wage-cutting policy. 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 THE POPE IN WARLIKE PEACE TALK ROME, Italy, Oct. 28.—The Holy Pope of Rome, infallible prince of the chureh, declared sanctimoniously today that he expressed hope that the “martyrize Russian people may return to peace and pros- perity.” The pur- gre of his prince- ly holiness is ob- vious. Through the fine phrases about:a “spiritual crusade” the pope is attempting to mobilize an’ arm- ed crusade against the Sovi- et Union. 6. Against imperialist war; for tne de- fense of the Chinese people and of the Soviet Union. NC ‘(Section of the Communist International ) NEW YORK, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1932 Price 3 Cents Chicago March Monday Daily Worker to Print MADISON SQUARE GARDEN : ; “GEORGIA. NIGGER”) COMMUNIST RALLY NOV. 6 Against 50 P.C. Relief Cut GIA NIGGER”| WIL BACK HUNGER MARCH Final Election Campaign Mobilization and 15th Anniversary of Bolshevik Revolution Central Vol. IX, N 0. 259 Entered as second-class matter ai the Post Office at New York, N.Y., under the Aet of March 3, 1879. CITY EDITION TO TIGHTEN PAPEN DECREE _ BERLIN, Oct. 28.—To further tighten up the tyrannical Von Pa- decree, the aim of which is to e Prussia and the Reich admin- istered, as in the days of Bismark, by. one man without the slightest semblance of so-called democracy, President Von Hindenburg has is- sued a call to both Von Papen and ‘Otto: Braun to come to his offices to discuss the situation. | Begining Tuesday, Book Exposing the Chain! Mayor Yields to Mass Pressure, Reverses His Decision aNd Grants GaNg Torture of Negroes to Appear Serially Permit; Columns Start at 10 A. M., Largest From Negro Section Official Documents, Photos and Prisoners’ Letters to Be Published “Georgia Nigger,” the remarkable book by John L. Spivak which exposes the system of chain gang torture of Negroes in the Black Belt, will be published serially in the Daily Worker, beginning Tuesday Nov. 1. + The “Daily Worke: r = et eke | An the-U.:S. Congo Nig - Communist Election Candidates in Front Ranks of Workers; Help Prepare National Hunger March Foster Main Speaker at Garden; Patterson and Olgin at Children’s Week Meet Sunday NEW YORK.—A sharp warning to the capitalists and their police that the masses of American workers are back of the National Hunger March to Washington, will be served when | | EDUCATION IN CAPITALIST U. Ss. | CHICAGO, Ill., Oct. 283—Mayor Cermak and the chief of police yielded yesterday af- One child in seven (142 per | ternoon to the mass demand and issued a permit for the Chicago city and Cook County cent) does not reach the seventh | Hunger March to take place Monday, against the 50 per cent relief cut. The delegations of a ie ae oon the United Front Conference to Cermak rejected all attempts of the mayor to persuade them child in five (23.2 per cent) does | | ‘ Unions an d_ Jobless not reach the eighth grade. Only one child in four (26 per cent) completes a high school course. (U. S. Bureau of Education, Bulle- tin, 1930, No. 3). Throughout the South, separate Jim Crow schools are maintained for Negro children. CHALLENGE. M'KEE TO APPEAR AT RELIEF MEETING Councils in Sunday Conference Telegrams were sent yesterday to Acting Mayor McKee, Comptroller Berry, and Commissioner of Public Welfare Taylor asking them,to de- fend the present inadequate relief program of the City before a confer- ence of hundreds of labor organiza- tions. scheduled for this Sunday, at 10:30;a: m. in New Sta? Casino, Eats 107th Street and Park Avenue. The wirés were sent by a provisional com- mittee sponsoring the conference for the’ purpose of launching a campain in the City for: (1) Immediate cash relief to all unemployed (2) Shelter for. the homeless and stopping of evictions (3) Combatting the “Share- the-Work” Plan and wage cuts. Iden- tical ecpies of the following message Were addresseq to all three City offi- | cials, “Previsional Commilitee comprising sixty loce! unions connected with the | A. F. of L. Committee for Unemploy- ment insurance and relief, fifty so- cieties in Federation of Fraternal Or- ders for Social insurance and forty affiliates of Unemployed Council of Greater New York invites you to pre- gent to conference for winter relief Sunday, October 30, at 10:30 a, m. New Star Casino Bast 107th St. and Park Aye. Defense of your unemploy- ment relief pregram which we charge is totally inndequate and leaves tens of thousands of men, women and children exposed to eyictions, cold, hunger, 6) and starvation,” “(Signed) Betty Alien, Secretary. , Avether message was telegraphed at the same time to Joseph P. Ryan, Secretary of the Central Trades and Labor Council, inviting him to ap- pear in defense of the A. F. of L. policy with regard to unemployment relief and insurance. The message reads in part: “In our opinion the Central Trades and Labor Council has taken no stand in the interests of ohe and a half million New York unemployed. conference will include many A. F. of L. locals and hundreds of other labor and frat- ernal organiations.” _ Permanent organiation will be es- tablished by this conference in every borough of New York, to carry on the movement for relief from the city government at the same time that State and National Campaigns ‘will be pursued. ! RALLY 10 FREE FASCIST VICTIMS Protest at Italian Consulate Today - A last minute call to participate in demonstration POSTPONE ANTI-WHITE GUARD ‘ MARCH | Because two other impriant dem- tions are being held on Satur- , the Anti-White Guardist Demon- originally arganged to start Tth- Street and Avenue A, will be two weeks later, on Saturday, 12, at 2 p.m. to give up or limit the march, and to keep it out of the “Loop,” the main business district. The city government now grants @ permit for the march, according to the plan of the United Front Conference. All columns of the march will start Monday morning at 10 o'clock. North Side workers will start their march at Union Park, Ogden and Randolph. Both employed and un- employed are called to the march, Negro and white, without regard to what organiation, and without regard to political opinion. The Chicago and Cook County march was endorsed a week ago by a united front conference of organ- iations, raging in attitude from the Socialist Party rank and file to the Communist Party, and including un- <iuployed councils, Borders Commit- tee, Workers League, A. F. of L. and T. U. U. L. unions, Veterans’ organ- iations, anq others. The United Front Conference ag- reed on presenting demands that there be no 50 per cent relief cut, against evictions, for milk and food for children, ete. The Unemployed Councils are now drawing up additional demands for ‘use of public buildings to ‘house the jobless, for unemployed and social imsurance, etc. Other organiations in the united front movement will be inviteq to endorse these additional demands. Communist Slogans ‘There are indications that 100,000 or more may participate in this gig- antic march and demonstration against the relief cut. The Communist Party in the line of march will carry banners giving the six main election planks, feat- uring the fight against wage cuts and) for unemployment insurance at the expense of the employers and gov- ernment, an dthe demands for com- plete Negro equality. On the line of march the Daily Worker, the Com- munist election platform, and Fosters’ call for united front action of the unemployed forming block and other local committees of action, will be sold and distributed. The United Front Conference del- egation has placed a demand before the city council for the use of Grant Park for a mass meeting and de-|- monstration at the height of the/ march, and the city council is to) give its answer today. Prepare National March The whole hunger march and all its preparations, including hundreds of thousands of leaflets, scores of local demonstrations and rapid for- mation of united front committees of action, serves to lead the way for Chicago masses taking part in the preparations of the National Hunger March. Chicago national hunger marchers will be elected and endorsed next month, will leave here Nov, 22. Cermack Maneuvers Mayor Cermak and the Democratic Party city adminstration are already at work, with the bankers and others, to try and take the punch out of the demonstration by turning the jobless workers’ attention towards other things. The mayor is calling for to- day a meeting of bankers and big business men, members of the state legislature, members of the city coun- cil, and representatives of the Unem- & Support of Foster and Ford in Fight for Negro Rights |Denounce Betrayals of Negro People by Re- publicaNs and Democrats, Aided by Socialist Party! “Vote Communist!” Includes George B-Murphy, Jr.,Eugene Gordon, Countee Cullen, Dr. Kelly Miller, Jr.; Others BALTIMORE, Md., Oct. 28.~Vigorously denouncing the Republican, Democratic and Socialist Parties for their stand on the Negro question, the “Ford-Foster Committee for Equal Negro Rights” issued a statement today signed by Dr. Kelly Miller, Jr... William N. Jones, managing editor Intellectual Group Urges Committee Headed by Jones of Afro-American, | trial Secretary Y. W. C. A.,.Balti. J. Wheatley, Eugene Gordon, Bern- ard Ades, white attorney, Samuel L. Finley of South Carolina, William Porter, formerly part *of the regular Republican organization of South Carolina, and others, calling upon all Negroes to support William Z. Foster and James W. Ford, Commupnist candidate for President and Vive President. The commitee points to the relentless fight lead by the Com- munist Party for unconstitutional rights for the Negro people. “Not since the Civil War,” said the statement, “have colored voters faced making their votes count in a na- | tional election as at, the present time. The Negro will continue to suffer from inctstrial exploitation, from lynching, jim-crowism, and the other consequences of racial segregation, as jong as he accepts, without a definite struggle, a segregated status in Am- erican life. The fact is this country was born in a revolutionary struggle + » no people or nation which does ployed Council, the Borders Commit- tee, the Chicago Federation of Tabor aud many others to “consider the cuestion of raising money to meet the relief situation.” It is very plain that Cermak hopes to discourage the representatives of the jobless by presenting claims of “bankruptcy,” and that he hopes to divide or trick them some show of “doing all we can” and “probably in- creasing relief soon,” etc. But a large delegation of the unem- ployed councils, Communist Party candidates, Trade Union Unity League unions, International Workers Order and Workers Ex-Servicemen’s League will be there. They will bring before the conference evidence of the ter- tific misery and hunger among Chi- cago's 750,000 jobless, and will pro- pose means of raising money by tax- ing the fortunes of the millidnaires of Chicago, etc. such a serious and urgent duty of| | | | of the Baltimore Afro-American, Countee Cullen, Mrs. Vivian Allen, indus- more, George B, Murphy, Jr., Dr. BE.) not have the will or courage to make some kind of telling struggle for its place in the sun will get a place there. There must be an uncompromising movement towards a status of com- plete equality of rights for the Negro and aimed directly at every form of racial segregation and white chauvin- ism. This movement must have be- hind it not the feeble whinings of comprising leaders, but the firm and uncomprising stand of men and wo- men who understand what the cost of this freedom may be, but until we obtain this status « Wwe will con- tinue to be push 0 the bottom of the industrial pyramid where we die faster, have more juvenile and adult crime and biggest factors in keeping the thorny crown of capitalism pres- sed down on the bleeding head of mankind.” Republican, Democratic Parties Lynchers This co~*vttee ef outstanding Negro and was <sentatives, of which William N, Jones is chairman, attacked and exposed in uncompris- jing terms the two ma‘cr parties of capitalism as people. mies of the Negro “The lil vhitism of Herbert ” they said, “the Republican itration’s cpen policy of using the color bar against citizens of our group is unmistakable evidence that this party has no intentions of ac- cording equal rights to the Negro... it is the party of special privileges to the industrial exploiters who are re- sponsible for this depression in which babies are starving in the wombs of hungry mothers; in whcih the coun- try is filled with bread lines and the shadow o fdesperation is haunting the working masses, If the party of Abraham Lincoln has faileq for three quarters of a century to give the Negro a square deal in American life, certainly we cannot expect that a party born in the womb of chattel slavery and rocked in the cradle of racial prejudice can be raised to a (Continued on Page Three) 4,000 Marchers and London Unemployed Demonstrate Sunday FORCE COMMONS DEBATE ON DOLE Present Demands On Tuesday; Million Signatures LONDON, England, Oct. 28—Na- tional Hunger are patroll- Marchers |ing the city in small groups, display- ing their placards demanding repeal of the cut in unemployed insurance payments. Payments are cut and a million of the more than 3,000,000 Jobless in England have been put off the dole altogether by the Means Test, a Labor Party invention, though applied by the MacDonald National government. The National Hunger March of 4,000 supported by a Lon- don demonstration of 100,000 de- mands repea] of the Means Test. U. 8. Hunger March Soon The British Hunger March was thus for relief of jobless and against cutting off of relief, as are the many demonstrations in America. In Uni- ted States also, local struggles lead to a National Hunger March, which will concentrate many columns of marchers in the capital city Decem- ber 4, and present demands for in- surance and winter relief to the na- tional government on Dec. 5. The British Hunger Marchers and London jobless plan another great demonstration Sunday in Trafalgar Square. Com:ons Will Discuss Meanwhile their militant. struggle so far has forced the house of com- mons to vote to cut off two days de- hate on the Ottawa Conference, and give three days, beginning Friday, to consideration of the question of un- employed relief. ' A motion has been made in the house for admission of a delegation of six, Tuesday to the “bar” in the House of commons, to argue for the By hunger march demands at the time the marchers present a list of about one million names calling for repeal of the Means Test. This motion to admit the delega- tion will be presented Monday and will be followed Tuesday by a motion to discuss it. Police Doubled The government is trying to split the ranks of the demonstrators by a statement to the house of commons this morning by Home Secretary Gil- more, that “the hunger marchers are innocent of the rioting yesterday but London hoodlums attacked the po- lice.” At the same time stories are being circulated that truck loads of spiked clubs were captured by the police as they were being unloaded at the Hyde Park demonstration, A heavy police guard is maintained around the king’s palace, at the Downing Street offices of MacDonald, and around various other public buildings. London police are afraid to go singly about town today. They travel in squads and couples, , including docu- No other paper in the country has so far dared to terial. A BLOW AT EN- TIRE SYSTEM story form, but is based entireiy on fact. The author, John L. Spivak went down South two succes: years to collect his material, beyond a doubt the existence of a system of legalizd slavery and tor- rarely equalled anywhere in the world. The book is a crushing indict- ment of the entire system that is robbing, torturing and - murdering thousands of Negroes in the Black Belt, that concocts Scottsboro frame- chain gangs and slave plantations. The “Daily Worker” is the only Newspaper in-the country that has given full publicity to the facts in “Georgia Nigger’. The whole capi- NOTE.—“Georgia Nigger” 1s name of a book. The white ruling the Daily Worker. We are unfortun- ately compelled to use this term be- cause of copyright requirements, The the term, but used it in order to bring forth the degrading system which op- erates againSt the Negroes—Editor. PANAMA MASSES BATTLE POLICE Storm Législature in Rent Fight | PANAMA CITY, Oct. 28—Angry rent strikers stormed the National Assembly yesterday morning, beat up the chairman and others and ousied the bourgeois chambers, followig the defeat in its second reading of a bill to reduce all rents from 10 to 30 per cent, ac- cording to a graduated rental sched- ule. Demand Bread, Rent Cuts The demonstrators then proceeded to the presidential mansin and booed the president and shouted demands for bread and rent reductions. On the way, they encountred the luxurious limousine of Nelson Rouns- evell, publisher of the Daily Amer- ican, an American paper notorious for its vicious attacks on the masses of the windows of the car anq threw Rounsevel out of the car, together with his local lackey, Abilio Bellidio, editor of the Spanish section of the paper. Both Rounsevell and Bellido took to their heels. The incident oc- curred outside of the presidential ‘mansion in the presence of an enor- off the police. Thousands Surround Parliament News that the legislators had de- feated the proposed rent reduction bill spread like wildfire throughout the city, and thousands of laborers surrounded the parliament building. The legislators re-assembled this afternoon under the protection of large numbers of mounted police and machine gun corps. The police fired several times into the crowd without being able to disperse the angry workers. This evening huge crowds of work- ers gathered on corners and patrolled the streets in defiance of police pa- trols with bayoneted rifles. Police reinforcements is being rusheq from other parts of the country. The United States authorities in the Canal Zone have ordered American soldiers and war ships to stand ready. The workers of Panama City have carried on a heroic struggle for un- employment relief and rent reduc- tions for the past several months and a won a number important vic- ies. publish this ma-| JOHNL.SPIVAK “Georgia Nig-| ger” is written in| the evidence he has presented proves | ture on chain gangs and plantations | ups and coins huge profits out of| («CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) | the | class term, “nigger”, is not used by | author himself is not sympathetic to | legislators from the, Panama. The demonstrators smashed | mous crowd which successfully held | A CONTRAST—The Negro pris- | oner ed to the | roads until prisoner | on the Geor: Below him liams, warden of the in Early County, Ga. in charge of these pris: hardened indivi groes, mzsters of th and experts at faking Wit- mp is J 'PROTEST TODAY AT JUDGE'S HOME Demand Release of | James A. Ford | A great outpo white and Negro is expected demonstration arranged by the Section of the International Labor Defense in front of the home of Judge DeLuca at 674 E. 220th Street at 1 p.m. The demo ‘ation has been arranged in pyote ainst a verdict handed down by this Negro- hating judge in the case of a young militant Negro workers, James A. Ford, furnishing an excuse to tho Parole Board of the House of Re- fuge at Randall Island to take James Ford into custody for a year. James Ford was arrested in connection with race discrimination at the Bronxdale Pool. Come to the demonstration today. Vote Communist November 8th against race disctimination, National Hunger Mareh Directions In Daily Worker receive no mimeographed tions in re- gard to the National Hnuger March, They will receive all di- rections, instructions, etc.. in the columns of the Daily We. .cr. See Page 3, Vote Communist! thousands jam Madison Square Garden November 6 in the | Final Election Rally and Celebration of the Fifteenth Anniver- | sary of the Soviet Union. | The capitalist class through- |out the world has been eyeing with fear and hatred the splen- \did militancy of the British Hunger March. They will get an- other jolt when the huge mass meet- ling Nov, 7 thunders its approval of the demands of the American mar- |chers, who will | December 4. | “Every sea 'be occupied Nov. 6, when William Z. Foster, Communist candidate for | President, voices the determination jof the workers to fight tooth and |nail unemployment relief and against, wage cuts,” says the N. Y. State Uni- ;ted Front Communist Election Cam- jpaign Committee, announcing the great meeting. Foster Will Be There will be Foster's first appear- ance since he was stricken ill by the burdens of a life time fight for work- ers’ rights, and the strain of a na- |tion wide tour in this election cam- paign. In’ addition to Foster, speakers’ at the rally will include: Israel Amter, jeandidate for Governor, William L. | Patterson, candidate ‘for Mayor of |New York City, Earl Browder, candi- 'date in the 20th Congressional Dis- | trict, and Clarence Hathaway, candi- date in the 3rd Congressional Dis- trict. 1,500 seats have been reserved at |$1 each, and can be secured on the 5th floor, 50 East 13th Street. Gen- eral admission is 40 cents. | T.U.U.C. Endorses Meeting | In backing up its endorsement of | the Election platform and candidates \of the Communist Party, the Trade | Union Unity Council of New York | This and factories, all revolutionary un- ions, leagues and opposition groups to rally their entire membership to come in masses with their banners to the Madison Square Garden rally on November 6. “It must be a roaring and power- ul demonstration of the unity of orking class, Negro and white. d and unemployed in support nly party which organizes and workers in a struggle a- jon and low wages, a- a system which causes wa: hters and brings constantly misery for the working ays the T.U.U.C. | Children’s Week Celebration | William L. Patterson, Communist candidate for Mayor of New York City and Moisaye Olgin, candidate in the 24th Congressional District will be the main speakers at the celebra- |tion of the 12th International Chii- dren's Week, which the Young Pion- jeers will hold in the Central Opera | House, 67th St. and Third Avenue, | this Sunday at 2 p.m. Tickets for this celebration are on- y 25 pennies in advance, and 35 cents the door. Children will be admit- ted por a penny each, and six for a nickel. Shoe Workers Cheer Amter Amter spoke to a packed hall of shoe workers who twice rose to their feet and cheered him, Thursday night. The Shoe and Leather Work- ers Industrial Union had invited re- |Presentatives of all four parties to address them. Amter only responded. “Your yote is not lost only if you vote Communist,” «aid Amter. “Vote Communist and show the bosses you | Will fight wage cuts, and demand un- employment insurance and relief.” W. W. Weinstone will represent the Communist Party at the Food ae upon all workers in the shops | the gains' get to Washington | t in the Garden should | HOOVER SPEAKS "MON, PROTEST! |Meet Him! Madison Sq. Garden, 8 p. m. Herbert Hoover, president of the | United States Hunger government, is coming to New York on Monday and | will speak at Madison Square Garden lat 8 p. m. Hoover and the National | Republican Committee pretend:to be convinced that the unemployed work- |ers of this country and the millions |of part-time workers and impover- \ished farmers will support him for re-election. Roosevelt did not dare to face the workers of New York last Thursday, but sneaked into town on Wednes- |day and left again the same day. | Hoover will be shown on Monday | night at Madison Square Garden that |the 1,150,000 unemployeq of New |'York, the hundreds of thousands of | veterans and especially the Negro workers not only have no reason to vote for him or for his. rival, Mr. Roosevelt, but will bring forward all |their bitterness and hatred of - the Wall St. Government of starvation ‘and war. | Workers of New York, let Hoover |know on Monday where you stand. Let him know that the billions given |to the bankers and corporations are | not filling your stomachs or feeding your hungry children. Let him know that the lynch campaign inaugurated and supported by the Republican | government, not only in the south, but in the north, will not be tolerated. | Foreign-born workers, let Hoover know that Doak’s deportation policy will not be tolerated by the New Yoric | workers, Workers of New York, do what the Detroit workers did just a week ago when they threw into Hoovers face the starvation and misery that he and the Wall Street government have |forced upon the American workers and farmers All out at Madison Square Garden, 49th Street and 8th Avenue, Main entrance, Monday, 8 p. m.; | Workers mass meeting Nov. 2 at 8p. m. in Irving Plaza Hall. Candidates {repmeeuteeives of all parties are in- vited to state their position, Admis- sion is free. Red Sunday Drive Volunteers for the Red Sunday |drive should apply irom 10 o'clock on |in the morning at 96 Avenue G,:in Section 1 18 W. 53rd St., In Sec- tion 2° at 3882 Third Ave. im Sec- tion 15; at 2700 Bronx Park Bast, |in the 6th Assembly District, at-2075 |Clinton Ave. in the 7th Assembly | District; at 569 Prospect Ave. and |at 1400 Boston Road, in Section 5. Greek Workers To Hear Hathaway | The first of a series of election ral- |lies for mobilizing the Greek Worke jers in New York City to Vote Com- |munist on November 8 will be held by the Greek Workers Create jon Saturday, October 29 in Irving Place |Plaza, 15th Street and Irving at 8 p.m. | Clarence Hathaway, Communist ;candidate in the 3rd Congressional ‘District, will present the Communist election program, porter,” on the East Side covering votes cast for William 2. Foster. A St, Paul newspaper carried the MINERS GO COMMUNIST “Big Red Vote Due”, Say Boss Papers ST. PAUL, Minn.—A straw vote being taken by the “East St. Paul Re- mainly the Second Ward, shows 580 following editorial comment recently: “In the last week or two reports have beer coming in to the effect that the Communists are going to get the largest vote in Minnesota this year that has ever been cast for their ticket. Hitherto, this Party's vote has been cons fined almost entirely to Minneapolis and St. Paul, wih scattering votes else- where in the state. “Recent reports, however, have been to the effect that the Communists: are going to get a heavy vote up in the iron range country—even candi- dates of other parties have reported that the ‘reds’ were getting the biggest crowds out for their political rallies. One condidate told me about a week the average Republican, Democratic, or Farmer-Labor rally would bring out only from 100 to 400 people, a Communist meeting 1 be attended by from 600 to 1,200 and that these crowds showed much’ enthusiasm than did those present a party rallies.” ~ Pe, J