The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 31, 1932, Page 1

[In the Day’s News “SOCIALIST PARTY—NOT SO- CIALIST” ST. LOUIS, Oct., 30—The Star and Times has joined the growing number of capitalist papers which are boosting the Socialist Party as a party which hungry but still pat- riotic Americans can support without being charged with being opposed to “American ideass.” The Star and Times said recently in its editorial column: | . the Socialist Party is no longer Socialist, as the word is un- derstood by the revolutionary fol- lowers of Karl Marx, ... Thi8, to be} sure, strengthens Mr. Thomas in the eyes of all good sound Americans. | They can vote for him without feel- ing that they are marking the Con-| stitution with red ink. But it re-| duces the Socialist Party to the status | of a liberal party which may tinker with but never will destroy capital-| ism. The British Labor Party, So-! cialist in creed, never lifted a finger to establish socialism in Feb either time it was in power.” ‘There is no more socialism in Mil | waukee, under the Hoan ames, “than | tion, says The Star and Times, “than we have in the St. Louis water works” * THOMAS COVERS UP GRAFT IN GOVERNMENT BOSTON, Oct., 30—Norman Tho-| mas, Socialist Party candidate for| president, defended American gov-| ernment against the charges of “graft | and incompetency” in his address} here urging the Socialist party pro- gram of government ownership. “The | worst graft and incompetency in the United States is in business, not in government,” he stated. | The logic of the Socialist Party position was made clear here by Thomas since his advocacy of gov- ernment ownership as the way out of the crisis for the working class can be justified only by assuming that & government of capitalism as- suming the fuctions of “business” thereby becomes honest and compe- tent” and favorable to the interests of workers and farmers. Changing the name does not change the nat- ure of the beast. a he SHOWS BANCRUPTCY OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT BREWSTER, Mass., Oci., 30.— Evidence of the collapse of capital- ict party local government in the face of the growing unemployment, hunger and ruination of secions of the middle class is seen in the re- signation of Ralph Waldo Allen—a lineal descendant of Ralph Waldo Emerson—from the Board of Select- ment here, accompanied by the state- ment: 1—‘I know that some must go hungry this Winter and I am not hard-boiled eronugh to confront such a situation in Brewster. 2—“My Conscience will no longer permit me to asseSs taxes in caSes where I know there is no capacity to pay.” _ ‘ The conditions he describes are prevalent throughout the counry and in many places tax strikes are taking place. Added proof comes daily from these sources of the criminal charac- ter of the republican-democratic party unemployment relief campaign which forces the jobless to depend upon “local aid” from these ruined com- munities. ‘| + CAPITALISTS FILL PURSE OF THEIR PARTIES * WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. a *1,454,179 have been spent by the Re- | publican National Committee for the | re-clection of Herbert Hoover from | June 1 to Oct. 26, if was announced Saturday. The multi-millionaire families of the United States are well repre- sented by a list of contributors which includes such names as _ Mellon, Morrow, Carnegie, George F; Baker, Vanderbilt and Harkness. ‘The Democrat party campaign con- | tribution list is feature by the names of Raskob of General Motors and Young of the General Electric as evidence that its program is viewed without qualms by outstanding capi- talist leaders. «| 8 ye A BUSINESS MOTIVE MOSCOW, Oct. 30—A new cam- pagin of lies against the Soviet Union has been started in England, it has indicated here, in the reports re- iceived that English capitalist news- papers were charging that match yoxes importeq from the Soviet Union bore anti-religious propaganda. This was definitely denisd by the Soviet government, and it is poined out that the sponsors of this lie are less in- (area in religion than they are Aneresing in barring imports of Soviet «8 STOP SOVIET RADIO PROGRAM LONDON, Oct. 30.—Fear of the rising mass sentiment against the vicious capitalist starvation policy conducted by the MacDonald So- clalist-Tory governmen which mass sentiment has been heightened by ithe grea thunger march, caused au- * ngth as is sent out by the Moscow lo station. Noy. 3 Deadline for | Greetings to Soviet Union Thru “Daily” Workers and organizations have until Thursday, Nov, 1, to send heir gretings to the 15th Soviet Anniversary edition of the Daily Worker, Rush all greetings immediately! | Get your club or branch to send its organization greeting! Make the || November 7th edition of the Daily jan reseation. of your solidarity with the workers and peasants of the U. S. S. R.! that he had refused to work. | VOTE COMMUNIST ie ployers. ers without restrictions py the ment and banks; exemption farmers from taxes, and no collection of rent or debts Unemployment and Social Insurance at the expense of the state and em- Against Hoover’s wage-cutting policy. Emergency relief for the poor farm- FOR: govern. of pdor forced Vol. IX, No. 260 GBB 2, Entered as second-class matter at New York, N.Y., under Act : Dailt Central Rfaunist Party (Section of the Communist Ponee Oe ) Worker VOTE Rqual Ps forms rights U.S.A. Against fenes COMMUNIST FOR: rights for the Negroes and self- determination for the Black Belt, Against capitalist terror; against all of suppression of the pollitcal of workers, imperiglist war; for the de~ of the Chinese people and of the Soviet Union. the Post Office at Mareh 3 1879, NEW YORK, MONDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1932 CITY EDITION SENTENCES UP TO THREE YEARS FOR ASKING REI JEF IN SOCIALIST MILWAUKEE Communist Candidates Judge Confers With Socialist Leaders Many Rank and File Communist Against Hoan’s Terror Regime MILWAUKEE, Wisce., Oct. ist controlled city of Milwaukee gave vicious sentences Satur- day to a number of unemployed onstrations and struggles against evictions. | Judge George Shaughnessy sentenced Joe Hawkins to serve one’ to three years, and¢@-—————___—_—__—_ the sentence is on two charges, | and may run one after the|! other, so that the maximum possible | is six years. Hawkins is a married | man with a large family. In court | @ policeman testified that he had| struck Hawk- ins on the head four times when the de- fendant a p- peared at a re- lief station a short time ago as part of a delegation de- manding relief for a jobless worker who ink S 4 MAYOR HOAN was being dis- socialist Leader Re- criminated sponsible for Jailing against. The Jobless. policeman testified that he saw the blood spatter from under his club, but he kept on clubbing. Hawkins foungh back, and was charged with “assaulting a police- man.” Two Years On Frame-Up. Fred Burbach, a 55-year-old worker, was sentenced to two years in the house of correction on a framed-up charge of perjury. Burbach became sick after he had been put on a county forced labor job. He was then denied relief on the sro e (Continued on Page Three) ‘185 RED LEADERS: JAILED IN JAPAN Fascists and Police | Guard Court TOKIO, Oct. 30.—While police and fascists surrounded the court to pre- vent a working-clas demonstration, the Japanese Appeals Court confirmed the: brutal sentence of from ten years to life imprisonment against 185 lead- ers of the Japanese Comimunist Party. The death sentence against Comrade Mitamura was reduced to life im- prisonment as a result of mass press- ure on the court, and represents an effort to cover up as much as pos- sible the murderous nature of the conviction of these working-class, fighers against capitalists oppression and starvation of the masses. In passing sentence, the judge de- clared that it had ben proved that the Japanese Communist Party was car- rying on revolutionary struggles to establish a dictatorship of the Jap- anese proletarians. The action of the court and the statemen of the judge clearly expose the role of the cap- italist court as an instrument for the ‘perpetuation of the enslavement and oppression of the toiling masses. Stop the billion-dollar subsidies to the trusts and banks. Immediate unemployment insurance at the ex- pense of the government and em- ployers. City College Student Body Favors Strike for Rights fined Desperately Thre: “Reds,” as s Suppression of students rights by City College was advanced another step, when the Board of Higher Ed- ucation on Saturday threatened the expulsion of any student who mani- fested his opinion by striking against the tyrannical college administration. The spirit of the student body is rising in favor of a strike to meet the administration’s offensive of force and slander against their rights of free thought and expression, po- litical or otherwise. VOTE COMMUNIST FOR Unemployment and Social in- sarance at the expense of the state and employers. The board tried to justify its lat- est threats by the customary cry of “Reds”. It also attempted to prohibit ‘congratulations to the English hun- Also Sentenced After Socialists Will Vote! 30.—The courts of the Social- | workers arrested at relief dem- WNTER REEF FIGHT PLANNED City-Wide Confernce| Backs Hunger March Mobilization in preparation for the | National Hunger March to Washing- ton December 5; the intensification of | local relief struggles; the release of! the Scottsboro boys and Tom Moo- | ney; unemployed demonstrations at | City Hall; and a big reception for President Hoover at Madison Sq. Gar- den tonight, were among decisions made yesterday by the United Front Conference for Winter Relief in New Star Casino. The conference was attended by 487 delegates from 293 working class organizations with a total members ship’ of 62,000 workers. Eight A. F. of L. unions were represented. It was decided in the name of the confer- ence to immediately send a telegram to Mayor McKee demanding that he receive a delegation of rank and file veterans at City Hall on November 4 who will demand endorsement of the bonus, and immediate relief. Greets British Hunger Marchers ‘The conference likewisc wired its ger marchers, now heroically fighting at the doors of the British Parliament in London to force through the de- mands of the jobless in England. Herbert Benjamin, national secre- tary of the Unemployed Councils, Carl Winter, secretary of the Unem- ployed Council of Greater New York and others addressed the Winter Re- | lief conference. A whole program for | local relief was decided upon; this program to comprise struggles | against wage-cuts, against the vicious “Job-sharing’ system, against evic- | tions, for the soldiers’ bonus and for | Federal unemployment insurance at | j the expense of the employers and | government. It was decided to send a committee | of 15 to Mayor McKee tomorrow to | demand the right of having workers’ representatives present during con- | ferences between city officials and | bankers on the budget for 1933. i Mass preparations for the hunger | march are to include a big rally at Union Sq. November 30, to be followed | by a march to City Hall, Demonstra- | tions at City Hall on December 5, | the same day the marchers will pre- | | Sent their demands to Congress in Washington, also were agreed upon. Elect Committee. | A committee of 15 was clected to build a committee of 100 which will, represent all five boroughs in the! city. This committee of 100 is then| to begin preparations immediately | for the National Hunger March, in | connection with its local work. New York City and vicinity is to have at least 400 delegates, ,to be elected in neighborhoods, local unions and other organizations at the rate | of one delegate for every 100 workers. | Directives approved at the confer- | (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) atens Tis tainiohe: Cries | pirit Grows students from attending a public trial of President Robinson, who ordered Police to club a peaceful students’ meeting last week. Four of those beat- en and arrested in the attack will be tried on false charges tomorrow at 2 p.m. in Washington Heights Court, 151st St., near Amsterdam Aye, By this attack, Robinson aimed to smother completely any further de- mands by, students for the reinstate- ment of Oakley Johnson, English teacher dismissed for “radical views”, and for the right to have a liberal club, which was broken uy by the Puppet president. : Detroit Workers Jeer Hoover Part of the 8,000 workers (including many jobless and war veterans) who met Hoover at the station in a demonstration against the hunger pro- gram of the government, Photo sho’ biter back, Big Communist Gains in Belgian Elections ws Detroit police shoving the demon- PROTEST AGAINST HOOVER HUNGER PROGRAM! DEMONSTRATE TONIGHT ae MADISON SQ. GARDEN; Employed and imlesitared: Negro and White, Native and Foreign Born, Will Mass at Entrance of Hall in Protest Against Their Common Enemy Will Show What W rorkers Think of Murder. ‘of Vets, Terror Drive of Deportation gram, when Hoover yi: workers Madison bankers | 400% Increase in Charleroi Shows Results of THOUSANDS M ners’ Struggles; Total Vote Rises From 61,000 to 106,000 BRUSSELS, (By Mail) —In the October 9th municipal elections through- | | out Belgium, the Communist Party made notable gains. In Charleroi, the Communist vote rose 400 per cent over the last elec- tion in 1926, now totalling 18,300, or more than the Socialist Party vote. In Hennegau, the Communist vote rose from 11,000 to 31,000. In Liege, the Communist vote rose“ from 22,000 to 34,000. In the towns of Chatelet, Jumet, Marchienne, Montignies and Roux the Communists elected ten candi- dates as compared to two in 1926. Losses were recorded in Brussels and its suburbs. However, the total Communist yote rose from 61,000 to 106,000. Again we find that in the districts where industrial struggles took place recently, such as the miners’ strike, the Communists made huge gains due to their active leadership of the mil- itant workers. In regions where the Party manifested not enough ener- getic participation in tig» factory, mine and shop struggles the vote are recording devices in which the} correctness and energy of Communist activity in the preceeding period is evidenced. | ANOTHER VICTORY ih BULGARIA | SOFIA, (By Mail).—Blections were held on October 11th in the village of Marchevo for the village council. The Communists obtained 480 yotes, | the “Peoples” Block (Coalition Your government parties) 90 vyotes, and the Democratic Union 10 votes. The Socialists did not get a single vote. This tremendous election yic- tory is a further indication of the} shift to the left among the poor and middle peasantry in Bulgaria. dropped. For Communists, elections | JOBLESS FIGHT POLICE; PROTEST CUT IN DOLE | Enormous Demonstration 3 in ‘Trafalpas Square: Supports Demands of National Marchers | | Communist Banners an | Government; Hunge LONDON, England. | Surrounded the 4,000 nati | and cheered the speakers ar tl | endorsed with great enthusiasm the | of the Means Test. Oct. 30. This is a law matter on how low a s | When the great demonstration {came to an end, and the nation hunger marchers started to back by detachments to the halls, etc., where they sleep, public thou- EXPOSURE OF NEGRO TORTURE _ STARTS IN “DAILY” TOMORROW | A Record ne “y issn Vlodiet? a a fm of Torture Mtoe ob-chhe, on. a onl PeaF Ton shee «corvette we have be punished at sald Co fr ihe men wy These cold-blooded records, prepared by the prison camp wardens, give | “Re- | fusing to work,” for which one prisoner on this record was put in stocks for AME of a book, The white 40 minutes, often means that the prisoner is sick or is unable to keep up “l@ss term, only the bare outlines of the terrible with the exhausting pace of the road mm OM Uo eaade ios conditions on the chain gangs. work under the broiling sun, ‘Vote Communist! _ sn tstatss asainss the Negrose—Kaitos. ‘FLORIDA CHAIN GANG REVOLT iSimilar Conditions | ‘Georgia Nigger’ Tremendous interest he been aroused among thou- | sands of workers by the an- {nouncement in’ Saturde Daily Worker that the Daily would begin publishing “‘Geor- gia Nigger” tomorrow. “Georgia Nigger” is the book by | John L. Spivak which exposes the hor- rible system of chs ang torture |and slave plantatio nat has re- duced thousands of Negroes in the | Black Belt to conditions worse than ; under chattel slavery, In vivid story | form, but backed by a mass of evi- | dence including official documents. | photos of torture and ters, it not only reveals the workings jof one of the cruelest prison systems in history, but strikes a | blow at the entire structure of ¢ \talist lynch-law and Negro oppre sion is responsible for such eriin Jas the Scottsboro frame-up. | Chain Gang Revolt On the heels of the announcemen| that the Daily will publish “Gee | Nigger,” ‘comes news of a rev , chain gang prisoners in Florida. Un- {der the leadership of Angel Cabrera. Jone of the Tampa cigar strikers sen- | tenced to the chain gang, the prison- ers in the Indiana, Fla., State Pr Road Camp conducted a one- {strike against the use of sweathox ‘torture on prisoners who protested against the vile food. The prison refused to work and remained ir |their cages, shouting demands for a jolition of sweatbox; for decent fo: jend living conditions, while gu’ | trained machine-guns on them. in prison authorities were finally forced | to grant them a hearing on their | grievances, to be held Thursday. “Georgia Nigger” describes | (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE e| is the ruling “nigger”, is not used by the Daily Worker. We are unfortun- ately compelled to use this term be~ cause of copyright requirements, ‘The | author himself is not sympathetic to the term, but used it in order to bring forth the degrading system which op- NOTE. —“Georgia Nigge re The great demonstration of ted that city recently, and the previous demonstration of 6,000 in Cleveland, will be dupticated in New York when Hooyer speaks here tonight in Square Gardens to try to make the w orkers believe that his policy of billions for the JE au bullets for’ He workers An enormous crowd of London jobless ional hunger marchers at Trafalgar Square, shouted | bas¢ hich abolishes unemployment insurance of the) payments if the’jobless man or woman has any other means of living, no "| parliament is growing. in | 8,000 workers in Detroit a; “prosperity OF LONDON d ede Against Nat'l r J March inU. S. Soon of the Nelson monument, and of the marchers for repeal nds of the crowd attempted to fall) | in. step i accompany them, cheer- ing and waving red flags and caps. | Police Attack | d police, lurking in the sur- treets, charged them at Mount roundir battered down men, children with the great- The crowd fought back n some cases took the offensive. A swarm of 5,000 jobless d down the street toward the ment building and got part way lk police reinforcements suc- {ceeded in checking them. As in two demonstrations within the hunger marchers fought bs, parts of railing, and stones ving blocks, Fight Horse Guards The Imperial Horse Guards were lied out to add to the 10,000 regular id special police collected about the hborhood to crush the demon- tion. | veral officers were knocked from their horses and fell at the foot of | the Nelson’ monument. Among the many workers wounded | by the police was one old, emaciated | nan, who was carried to the hospital with a broken skull, concussion of the brain, and the doctors say he will probably die. The most intense indignation is ‘growing up among the masses of London workers at these repeated at- tacks by police on the jobless, who demand relief and no cutting of the dloe. Shouts of “Down with the Na- tional Government” are becoming more and more frequent. The de- termination to carry the demands to and Hunger March The British National Hunger March is led by a united front committee, preminent members of which are Wal Hannington and Tom Mann. It is a miovement against reduction of insur- ance, as the national hunger march eduled to reach Washington, in America |sacre of gainst the Hoover hunger pro- Workers of New York wil! this evening at 8 p. mY have an opportunity to show what | they think of Hoover’s mas- the veterans who marched to’ Washineton to demand their back pay. Workers of New York will be able to show what they think about the wage cuts engineered | by the Great Engineer. With the aid of William Green’s treachery and | William Doak’s deporaiion terror, Hoover smashed strikes and put over the greatest wave of wage reductions known in history. Negro workers know that Hoover plays a leading role in the bosses’ terror and discrimination against the Negro workers in the North and in the South. They know that Hoover as a leader of the bosses is bringine pressure to bear on the Supreme Court to decree death for the nine innocent Scottsboro boys, for did not Hoover, at the very time when the ‘Supreme Court is reviewing this lynch decision, say that the U. S. Supreme Court should not have the. right to review decisions of the State Supreme Courts? And all unemployed workers know that Hoover has fought with all his power against the slightest bit of re- lief to starving workers, and has fought especially against unemploy- ment insurance. Workers, show what you thing of Hoover's hunger program, show what you think of Hoover's wage cuts, show what you think of the Hoover- Doak terror, show what you think of Hoover's murders. Demonstrate to- night at 8 p.m. at the main entrance of Madison Square Garden, 49th St. |and 8th Ave. Alteration Painters Settle Four Shops The Weiner Shop of Brownsville, Fogelson and Silverman of the Bronx and the Addes shop and the Charles |Becker shop of downtown settled |with the Alteration Painters’ Union, all men to receive an increase in wages, union recognition, hiring through the union office, firiag through the shop committee, equal distribution of work and recognition of the shop committee. The union is conducting an organ- izational drive and calls upon all painters to report their shops to any of the locals of the Alteration Paint- ers’ Union. unemployment insurance. Like the British march, the American march will be ong of elected delegates of hundreds of thousands of jobless, meeting and sending them of with | demands and instructions to lay the demands before the government. The march on Washington will also de- mand $50 winter relief for each un- is a movement to establish employed worker. Foster to Speak at Madison | &q. Garden, “ Without Fail” Communist Candidate Sends Letter Smashing Rumor He Won’ t Speak; Health Improving will not be able to speak | Madison Sq. Garden Rally |! which the Communist Party will hold president, at the on Sunday, November 6, were de- | nounced today as deliberate lies com- | ing from enemies of the working class | who are trying to discourage workers from attending this rally in large as a revolutionary demonstra- t gainst the capitalist class and its political henchmen. The New York State United Front Election Campaign Committee which is arranging the Madison Sq. Gar- den Rally made public today the following letter from Foster: work in connection with the recon- period ip the field of nonferrous met- ‘ t % Ostover 23, 195% N -Dear Comrades: In reply to your inquiry, I can state that my health is now on the mend. I shall be at the Madison Square Garden Rally without fail. I am sure that this Communist Party meeting will be the greatest held by any party in the Garden during this campaign. (Signed) WM. ‘OSTER. In Schenectady, N. Y., the capi- talist press went as far as actually Publishing a news item that Scott Nearing, who was scheduled to speak there in support of the Communist candidates could not appear because of a nervous break-down, This was