The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 2, 1932, Page 3

re DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WED: DAY, NOVEMBER 2, 19 ‘Page Three Leningrad Industry, Under Communist Party Leadership, _ in Three Years International _ | By PETER HENRY THE HILLMANS AND DUBINSKYS OF GERMANY BERLIN.—Roehm, Hitler's Chief of Staff, states that Major von Mayr, official of the Social-Democratic Reichsbanner, negotiated with him secretly regarding a truce between the Hitler storm troops and Reichs- | banner and the establishment of a/ united anti-Bolshevist front. Mayr | also discussed his eventual collabora- tion with the Fascists in case poli-| tieal conditions should change as expected (i.e. in case the influence of the Communist Party should continue to grow). The Social-Democratic leader of | the German Federation of Labor, Furtwangler, negotiated secretly with Gregor Strasser, Nazi leader, on the position of the Socialist “free” trade unions in the Fascist corporate state. | ‘These negotiations had to be admit-| ted by the Berlin Socialist news-| paper “Vorwaerts.” The “Vorwaerts” conceals, however, that Leipart, the President of the German Federation of Labor, (also a noted Socialist) negotiated secretly with Strasser to make sure that the trade union bu- | reaucrats are not neglected by a Fas- cist Germany. | These last two items do much to} elucidate and define the term “Social- | Fascist,” mention of which makes the Amercian socialists go wild. What else is this but Socialist aid to Fascism— and also compare Norman Thomas’ statements before the Congressional Committee on his aiding a future war. WHITE GUARDS REVEAL THEIR HAND SOFIA, Bulgaria—The Left bour-| geois paper, “Zarya,’ publishes re- ports “from White Guard circles” on | the plans of warmongers against the Soviet Union. It says: “Prancé and its allies (Czecho- | slovakia and Roumania, together with Poland, Esthonia, Finland and fLithuania will organize an army of | |87 infantry regiments with the neces- sary auxiliary arms, “This army is to be reinforced by 100,000 White Guards. If 100,000 sol- diers cannot be recruited among the Russian emigres, volunteers will be accepted from other countries. “The advance against the Soviet Union is planned from four points simultaneously: 1. From Finland against Lenin- grad; 2. From Poland against Smo- Jensk and Moscow; 3. Against Kiev; 4, From Roumania against Odessa. “General Sekretov has been sent to the United States on a mission con- nected with preparations for inter- vention. General Avramoff, General Miller's representative in Sofia, was recalled to Paris recently. Four of- ficers have been appointed to mob- ilize the White Guard divisions in three of the countries to participate in_the intervention campaign.” This is another warning—the Am- erioan working-elass must never be off guard; the plans for attacking the Soviet Union are going on day and night, we must always be pre- ‘rer to defend the workers father- ind, REVOLUTIONARY RADIO BOMBAY.—The Indian secret po- lice has searched in vain during the yast few days for a powerful secret Yroadeasting station which sends out utirring propaganda against the Brit. {sh in three languages every di English, Hindustani, and Tamil. It seems that the transmitter is mounted | on a truck, so that it cannot be| leated by direction finders. A num-| ber of Hindu radio experts have been | arrested, but the broadcasting sta- | tion has not been found. | The anti-imperialist peoples of the World are beginning to use all the Weapons in the modern arsenal of engineering to combat imperialism, This means of propaganda might well be imitated by the working-class in other countries much nearer home. “ON TO CAPITAL,” | 9 | . SAYS VET CALL \ as rges All Workers to} Support March NEW YORK, Nov. 1, — The Na- tional Rank and File Veterans Com- mittee with headquarters at Union Square, New York, issued a call to- day for the organization of a Seeond Bonus March on Washington De- cember 5. The statement said in part: “With more than 2,500,000 veterans une! or disabled in the Uni- ted States, the veterans have no way out except to organize and demand that Congress pay the bonus and unemployment insurance, “While the unernployed will con- duct @ National Hunger March, the veterans will conduct at the same time a Second Bonus March from all sections of the United States. From points in the south, west and east, the Bonus Marchers will pro- ceed in trucks and other means to Washington. Each bonus marcher will be equipped with the necessary clothing and shoes for winter use come to Ws present the war answer to Bloody Thursday. On With the fight for the bonus! On to Washington!’” VOTE COMMUNIST Completed the First Five- NO FILTHY CAGE FOR HIM—The system of chain gang camps is administered by wardens who rule their little torture islands with all the ruthlessness of ancient feudal monarchs. Their word is law; they are past-masters ofthe art of torture and experts at faking official re- ports, especially when prisoners are murdered. Photo shows the warden of the Seminole County, Ga., prison camp, standing in front of the house which the county supplies him. jote the garden around the house. (Copyright by John L. Spivak, author of “Georgia Nigger”.) eae NEGRO SLAVERY TODAY: (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) a beam and its yellow light glints off the six greasy, wooden benches at the greasier tables on each side of the hall. The place recks with the hot smell of soap anq coffee. A swarm of flies buzz angrily. They rise from tables and benches, from the and the walls and They circle about nois and strike aginst you in th efforts te.reach the open door. White conficts sit 2t the tables to the left and the blacks at the right. There is little talk. You gulp the unsavory coffze from a tin cup the floor ceiling. and with a tin spoon scoop mouth- | fuls of flour gravy, bits of salt pork and grits that is your portion be- | fore being led to the day's work. The guard leans easily against the wooden cmpss, watching you. ONVICTS finished their break- fast and left the mess hall, wait- ing for the truck that would take them to work. Caleb followed Da- vid out of the hall, stuffing a mouthful of the chewing tobacco the county rations each prisoner every week. “DON'T COME BACK!” “Doan you come back David,” he grinned cheerfully. The boy smiled, “Doan you come back yere,” the old man repeated earnestly, spitting a mouthful of tobacco juice. “T'll sho try not tuh,” David said simply. “You won’ jez’ ez long ez you won’ Jet the debbil git inter you ’n’ ruin- ation yo’ soul lak he done did wid me.” Sam Gates approached, walking awkwardly, his shoulders hunched as though to ward a blow. a Wo yere, \N the day a convict goes home those who remain crowd about to wish him well and the guard watched tolerantly the small group gathering about David. “Yes, suh, Caleb,” Sam Gates said good-naturedly, “I reck’n David kin git hisse’f a bath in a ribber now.” ‘The old man’s shoulders drooped, “I had a bath in a ribber once,” he began eagerly, scratching him- self in excitement. “We wuz wuk- kin’ a road down near de Flint an’ de road, he tu’ned right aroun’ fum de swamps an’ run a-tween de ribber an’ de swamps, an’ it wuz hot. Yes, suh, dat wuz a hot day sho an’ de boss-man, he says we kin bathe in de ribber——” “Hey, you—Caleb an’ Wesley,” Charlie Counts interrupted. “Y'all better wash that pan.” The two convicis carried the tub under the cage to the swamp be- yond the stockade to dump the night’s contents. THE DAY’S TOIL BEGINS A white trusty lit two pine torch- es that sputtered and cracked. He gave one to the guard and holding the flares high they took their places at the stockade gate, their shadows wavering over the ground. The headlights of the work truck appeared and with a great sound of brakes halted at the en- trance. The driver and the day guard got out and sat on the run- ning board. “Cap'n up yet?” they asked. “There he is comin’ yonder,” Charlie Counts said a 8 AY ALTON moved loosely across the wide lawn separating his rambling house from the stockade. Tall and thin he seemed to be a bony framework covered by wrin- kled trousers and a soiled, white shirt open at the throat. “Line up!” the guard called. ‘The convicts formed an irregular li ‘Come by me!” the warden or- dered sharply. Fach convict called his name as he passed through the gate and clambered on the truck. When the boy’s turn came he called: ‘David Jackson.” “You work out this mawnin’, eh, Dave?” Alton asked good-natured- he replied suh, Cap'n,” “Step out.” “Keep yo’ eyes open fo’ de debbil doan git in you,” Caleb admonished as he passed “Oh, he'll be a good nigger now, Caleb,” the warden smiled. “The devil ain’t specially keen on him I reck’n, eh, Dave?” A NEW OUTFIT The loaded truck thundered down the road. The flares were extin- guished, “Well, it's yore day, ain’t it, Dave?” Alton remarked pleasantly. “Yes, suh, Cap'n.” The boy's white teeth could be seen: in the expansive smile. “Didn't have much __ o'clothes when you come here, did you?” The warden stared at David's un- chained feet and the striped con- vict suit, “But you'll git some now.” The eight dollar outfit the state insists the county give you when your time is up was brought from the commissary: a pair of brogans two sizes too large, overalls, a jack- et and a cap. It is supposed to cost eight dollars but you could buy it in any town store for much less. * 8 HE boy stripped the convict suit and donned the county’s gift. The light from the lanterns on the cross grew sickly. The deep pur- ple of the southern sky turned wan in the east. The lamps were re- moved from the rusty nails and ex- tinguished, ‘The cross was bare and forlorn in the cold, morning light, The warden brought his Ford MOVES TO CLASSLESS SOCIETY | Workers’ Gov’t in U.S. Can Bring Same Great Results Will Abolish Poverty | Vote for Communist | Party Nov. 8th | MOSCOW, U. 8. 8. R., Nov. 1— !The capitalists prophesied many | times that the proletarian govern- | ment of the Soviet Union, which na- | tionalized the factories and plants, }ean not do anything but “squander” |and “ruin” these plants. What ac- tually happened is the reverse of these prophesies, While industry in the Soyiet Union is undergoing stormy growth and development— capitalist industry, struck by the crisis, is actually falling into an abyss. | Socialist industry, owned by the working class of the Soviet Union, is not experiencing any orisis, but is on the contrary advancing at rapid tempo from one achievement to a@ other, The Soviet Union has almost trebled the basic capital invested in its industry, having increased the same from 5,000,000,000 roubles to) | 14,000,000,000 roubles. | Leningrad Typical of Soviet Union. Giving -Leningrad ‘industry as a practical example of the tremendous |rise of industrial development, and pointing out that Leningrad is typical for the entire Union, the Pravda writes: ‘The victories of Leningrad indus- try were won in the midst of hard | struggle with class enemies and their opportunist agents. The Leningrad party organization is a solid main- stay of the Leninist Central Com- mittee of the Communist Party, headed by Comrade Stalin, and is) jone of the most advanced detach- ments of the Party in the struggle for \ its general line. The most remark- | ; able result of this struggle is the | fulfillment, by Leningrad industry, of |its Five-Year Plan In Three Years. The victory of Leningrad industry is | vivid: proof of the triumph of the | general line of the Party.” | Towards a Classless Society. | After stating that the Leningrad proletariat was always in the van- guard of the revolutionary struggle, ; the Pravda concludes: | “Lenin’s town is assisting in many | ways the fulfillment of the first Five- | Year Plan in four years, through the | Production of its plants and the rey- olutionary initiative of the workers. There is no “)ubt that Lenin’s town | Will again be in the vanguard of the | struggle for the fulfillment of the Second Five-Year Plan, which is a five-year plan of construction of a | class less Socialist society.” James W. Ford Calls Negro Masses to Vote Communist | CLEVELAND, O.—James W. Ford, |Communist candidate for vice-pres- | jident, issued here today the follow- | | ing statement : “To vote for the Republican, Dem- | ocratic, or Socialist Parties is to vote | for exactly what we have been getting | the past four years. To vote for any of these three parties is like saying: ‘Yes, we like starvation, lynching, bread lines, Scottsboro.’ No Negro can afford to ignore this outstanding fact—the Communis’ Party is uniting the Negro and white worker in a common struggle against the white ruling class and their age-long pro- gram of lynching, jim-crow, and dis- crimination. The Communist Party is fighting for economic, political, and social equality for the Negro, and self determination for the Black Belt. I call upon the Negro voter to support that party which fights for a free Negro peopl BEDACHT IN NEW ORLEANS NEW ORLEANS.—At a meeting called by the International Workers’, Order, with 200 workers present, Comrade Max Bedacht spoke on the ‘economic crisis and about the neces- sity of struggling for unemployment insurance. The police tried to prevent the sale of literature at the meeting, but workers bought $2 worth of it. Workers will be elected to the Na- tional Hunger March next month, Build a workers correspondence group in your factory, shop or neighborhood. Send regular letters to the Dafly Worker. from the blacksmith’s barn. “Tl take you home myself,” he announced as he pulled up at the gate. ‘I have to go to town any- way.” He opened the door of the bat- tered old car. “Get in, boy,” he invited. “You're a free man now.” (CONTINUED TOMORROW) coe IS DAVID REALLY FREE? OR IS THE WARDEN LEADING HIM INTO AN EVEN WORSE SLA- VERY, THE SLAVERY WHICH TODAY, IN THE YEAR 1932, IS THE ONLY LIFE THAT THOU- SANDS OF NEGROES IN THE SOUTH KNOW? READ TOMOR- | ROWS INSTALLMENT AND FIND OUT, —o Year Plan With equare miles. the villages!” Hail Soviet Electric Giant The militant workers throughout the world joined their Soviet brothers recently in acclaiming the completion ahead of schedule of the greatest’ hydro-electric plant in the world—Dneprostroy. partial picture of the huge dam which will make the Dnieper River navigable for 300 miles and produce electricity for an area of 16,000 Though the capitalists howled: “It can’t be done!” the Soviet workers gave this brilliant answer to Lenin's slogan: “Electrify Here is a PREPARING NATIONAL HUNGER MARCH S.M.W.LU. Pledges | Support toMarchers Will Participate In Preparation In a letter addressed to H. Benja- | min, secretary of the National Com-/| mittee of the Unemployed Councils, the Steel and Metal Workers Indus- | trial Union with headquarters at 611 | Penn Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pa., fully | endorsed the National Hunger March to Washington on December 5th. The Union calls upon all districts to mobilize their entire strength be- hind the Hunger March, | ‘The letter reveals that in Ambridge, Pa., 500 workers who had been re- called to work by the A. M. Byers Company were laid off after a few days when the shop was shut down. ‘The American Sheet and Tinplate Co. which also had called back to work 1500 men closes after 20 days. This is characteristic for the industry as a whole. NOV. 4TH CONFERENCE IN WEST. As one of the steps for a great delegation from the West for the Hunger March, throughout Califor- nia, Nevada and Arizona, conferences on @ county and section basis will take place on November 4th, repre- senting workers’ organizations, unem- ployed groups and councils, shops, Hoovervilles and camps. ‘These | marchers will leave the west coast points about the middle of Novem- | ber and join the Rocky Mountain | and Arizona delegation en route. ALABAMA WORKERS ACTIVE. An executive committee of the Un- | employed Councils, in preparation for | the Hunger March, was elected in| Birmingham, Alabama, at a meeting where 32 Negro and white workers | were present, Demonstrations are in preparation, planned to break thru the jim-crow lines of the police and | | March. | Klan, as a landmark for the Hunger | For Anniversary, Moscow Prepares iCity Squares Show Feverish Activity | (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE), tives and the state farms, employees of all kinds of institutions have pledged the fulfillment of special tasks as an anniversary gift to the country. Factories in various cities | are challenging factories. in other Cities, cities are vieing with factories, | departments competing with depart. ments for an earlier and better ful- fillment of anniversary tasks. Socialist Competition The challenge of the Moscow Sp- | viet to the Soviets of other cities call- | ing for special accomplishments to) mark the anniversary has had a gal- | vanizing effect. Leningrad, Gorky-| grad (Nijni) and other centers have immediately responded announcing impressive programs of city improve- | ments. Iter-city competition is a conspicuous feature of the anniver- | sary enthusiasm, | Numerous new factories and other | economic establishments and railway | lines will begin operation on or be-| fore the anniversary. These include | the Sulphate Cellulus Plant, the} Sverdlovsk Aluminum Plant, the Za-| porozhsky combine, the Novosibirsk- Leninsk Railway, 300 kilometers long, | which will greatly increase the coal| supply from Kunsnetsk to the Ural plants. | Lenin’s vision has already come | true with the opening of the giant | Dnieprostroi power plant and is again | confirmed by the figures of the trac- | tor output. The production of trac- | tors has already reached the impos- ing number of 100,000 in the fifteenth year of proletarian rule. While only | 538 tractors were turned out last year, the first ten months of this year show | @ production of nearly 40,000. | About 19,000 co-operatives and| state farms th 1927 compare with over | 211,000 today, covering 78 per cent | of the total sowing area of 134 mil-| lion hectares. 100 New Cities | The rapid growth of socialist con- | struction is further illustrated by the rise of new towns and cities. One hundred new cities are rising in con- nection with the building of many new giant industrial establishments all over the USSR. Many of the new Socialist cities are larger than the provincial capitals under the Czar. ‘The population of Magnitogorsk, one of the new cities, is over 140,000. Za- Porojte and Dnieprostroi, the thew capital of the Turkmenian Socialist | Soviet Republic have a population of | 150,000 each. The Kuzbas area alone has 15 new Socialist towns. Stalinsk, | the largest of these towns, will have @ population of over 150,000, | The enlarged Plenum and Organ- ization Committee of the writers of | the USSR is now meeting to consol- idate the organization of all writers, for greater support of the spirit of Socialist construction, Inspiring summaries of the achieve- | ments of the fifteen years of pro- letarian dictatorship fill the entire Soviet press. The .workers of the United States can learn much from these achievements which are made Possible only by the taking over of power by the working class. Stop the billion-dollar subsidies to the trusts and banks. Immediate unemployment insurance at the ex- pense of the government and em- Dloyers. LOSANGELES LOS ANGELES.—Here the factories are operating at 20 percent capa- Toilers in Many Towns Los Angeles Shops at 20 P.C.. Capacity; 140,000 Unemployed CMFWUY SHRDLU ETAOIN BRITISH MARCH IS EXAMPLE HERE W.ILR. Managed Feed- ing of Marchers NEW YORK.—The British Workers International Relief which mobilized thousands of workers for support of the Hunger March on London, suc- ceeded in bringing together many la- bor organizations of Greater London to aid the marchers while in the city, the international office of the organ- ization informed the national office here by radiogram yesterday. By creating a solid :/.ited front of many working class organizations the Workers International Relief organ- ized the feeding of the 4,000 hunger marchers and aided the 100,000 Lon- din unemployed who took part in the several days demonstration against the Means Act, At the demonstration at the Marble Arch the Workers International Re- lief distributed twenty-two thousand food parcels. “The example of working class sol- idarity shown by the mass support given the British Hunger Marchers through the Workers International Relief should serve to inspire the greatest mass support of the Nation al Hunger March on Washington on December 5th, the Workers Interna- tional Relief declared in commenting on the action of its brother section in Great Britain. Only Work in New Haven Is in Sweat Shops $6-$8 per Week NEW HAVEN.—The only work that is being carried on here is by the sweatshops, of which there is a large number. The poor girls are speeded up to the highest pitch. They are worked from 9 to 13 hours a day. Their wages run from $6.00 to $8.00 a week, Any unemployed worker is posi- city and wages are one-third “normal”, The fruits and vegetables in the (tively forbidden to rido on any surrounding countryside are rotting on the ground because the thousands | freight car or to walk on the track of unemployed and part-time workers cannot buy them. Most of the un-|0f any railroad leading in or out of any kind at all. Make Workers’ Pay. } The community chest levied about two and a half million dollars last winter upon employed workers and worker taxpayers for “relief”. A | drive is on now to double this amount Only the most desti- | for this winter. tute received relief which amounted to $2.15 a week during the winter for five months at the most. Fruit growers and other farmers are abandoning their orchards and farms because they can’t sell their products. Wages of 30c an hour is considered high for unskilled workers. Restau- rant workers get a dollar a day and meals for 12-14 hours work. Clerks are paid about $8 or $9 a week, Of course the police, etc. are still on their normal ration: In fact they are going to increase the police force in anticipation of “unrest”. The workers are becoming more radicalized and talk of “doing as Russia did” but not fully understand- ing the necessary organization to ac- complish this yet.—C. M. Roosevelt's Program For Jobless Differs Little from Hoover’s | employed here, numbering about 140,000 have had no work for two years, of Chats with Our Worcorrs The New York Times of October} 22 reports that the problems of home- | | less men will be serious this winter. | | According to a study made by the {Emergency Unemployment Relief, | Committee, more than 500 men al- ready have been forced to find shel- ter in temporary shacks. The Gibson Committee stated that municipal and private charitable organizations have facilities to house | 12,000 men and that beds for anj additional 20,000 are available in the} |cheapest type of commercial hotels| at 15 to 20 cents a night. | Even these are not sufficient to} meet the needs of the homeless men, the survey indicated, and many are forced to fing shelter in parks, door- ways, subways and rudely constructed | | shanties. | This condition of homelessness is jmade more serious than is reported by the capitalist press. It is a situa-| tion prevailing not only in New York, | | but all over the country, as the work- | Jers’ letters in this section show. | In connection with the organization |the city. The railroad police enforce | the law, which means imprisonment, |On the state highway means about the same thing. If you ask for a ride, it means jail sentence. | If I take an early morning walk through the city parks, I will see |hundreds of newspapers on the parte benches or the wooded sections. Each paper tells a tale that some unemployed worker has slept there the night before. The capitalist class and its press had succeeded in arousing a hostile. feeling against the Soviet Union but that 1s departing now and the word Soviet Union is becoming more popu+ lar every day. In spite of their op- position, the true story of the Soviet Union ‘is being told in halls and on the street corners every day. —W. iL. 20 to 40 P. C. Pay Cuts; 20,000 Jobless; Trick Negroes in San Diego SAN DIEGO, Cal.—There isn't an individual in San Diego fortunate enough to still be working who hasn't taken a minimum 20 per cent wage cut. Many have taken up to 40 per | cent. Upwards of 20,000 workers are to- | tally unemployed. How do they ex- jist? First the county government BOSTON, Mass., Nov. 1 LRogee. | of the National Hunger March on|and the private charities pretend to velt in a speech here yesterda; what, amplified, without really chang- | Correspondents should take upon some- | Washington, the worker and farmer | support a portion of them, about 5,000 |by paying an average of $4 a week ing his relief speech made the day| themselves the task to report to the| per family in groceries in returtt-for. before at Groton. To his first an- nouncement, laying the whole burden of relief entirely on the local chari- ties, which are now slashing relief and in some cities ending it alto- gether, he now proposes two more things. “If” local charity fails, the state and federal governments should “step into the breach.” And, the federal government should provide temporary work on r canals, etc., and should actually start the public works already provided for but not even begun yet. The program does not differ from the Hoover plan, which has left 16,000,000 jobless to starve. Bonus MarcherReports Seattle Conditions SEATTLE, Wash.—While I was re- turning from the bonus march I seen a terrific amount of suffering, but Seattle furnished the height of it— an old man gouging meat from @ dirty old stale rib and back bone in front of the Volunteers of America, 70 and 72 Washington St., Seattle. We workers protested last Sunday against Hunger Hoover and starva- tion. Police attacked me but never arrested me after after one and one- half hour meet. I am a member and organizer of the Workers Ex-Service- men's League, Post No, 1, New York City, Times are plenty ss = —B. Daily Worker as many as possible tacts with them, and to the initiative to organize and fight, and not to depend on the fake relief committees. On the job, worker cor- a give them Japan Plans the Largest Navy Fund Ever Reached Before ‘The Jaq nese Government is plan- ning a Wh ge war appropriation of 542,000,000\ en for new warship con- | struction, At the present low rate of the yen (21.1 cents as compared | with the normal of 49.85 cents) the| proposed appropriation amounts to} $114,362,000, It will bring the total| naval appropriation for the next fis. | cal year to a figure never reached | before. | Other clear indications that the Japanese imperialists are preparing for a major war, at the same time that they are pushing their robber war against China, are to be seen in the frantic production of war ma- terial, wit hthe Japanese munition factories working day and night to rush out material, Against capitalist terror; against au forms of suppression of te political rights of workers. eases of “homelessness,” to make con- | forced labor. ‘The balance of the unemployed glean their food by now and then |securing small jobs at almost infine tisimal wages, by running up grocery | bills with small storekeepers or where this is impossible by foraging through the garbage heaps or by house to house begging. The bulk of the Negroes here are segregated in the poorest section of town. A short time ago San Diego. voted to build a dam for the dual purpose of providing water and énie ployment for its people. Local polis ticlans reminded the Negroes of desperate plight and urged them to. vote for this project. The election carried and now the city officials ar- rogantly refuse to hire a single Negro” on this work. —S. B. A.” Gary Bank Withholds Workers’ Savings: GARY, Ind.—All of the steel mills are operating on practically a shut- down basis. Working conditions are deplorable for the few employed, who. are subjected to rationalization, one or two days per week, at $3.00 per day for many. If any savings were made by the workers in the banks of