The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 10, 1932, Page 1

| Wm. Z. Foster Issues Statement on Results of U.S. Election William Z. Foster, Communist candidate for president, last night issued the following statement on the results of the election: A storm of protest and discontent has swept the coun- try and defeated Herbert Hoo cies of the bankers and trusts which has ruled under Hoover, workers and farmers voted to oust this hunger president and have put Roosevelt into power. one of persons. masses only by practising the tion, by offering vague promises of relief, by demagogicly exploiting the discontent with the policies of big capital, by Only in this way has the cap- outright lying to the masses. The same class continues to rule. of industry, the bankers, still sit enthroned in Washington, Roosevelt and the Democratic Party was able to win the Tired of the brutal poli- The shift, however, has been The kings most brazen policy of decep- victory of Roosevelt is a shaky and unstable victory. workers who today have been deceived by Roosevelt will to- The education which they have received as a result of the crisis and capitalist attacks will only be hastened by the treachery of Roosevelt. INCREASE IN COMMUN The outstanding fact in the election result is the mani- fold increase in the Communist vote. ever before voted for the Communist Par only Communism represents a real effective fight against the miseries of capitalism, and a revolutionary way out of The increased Communist vote was won on the basis of a clear cut fight against the bankers and trusts in the interests of the white and Negro work in the face of the violence of the bourgeoisie and their deli- morrow turn against him. the crisis. The ST VOTE Larger masses than y realizing that s. It was gained italist class been able to keep the discontent of the masses within the framework of the two capitalist party system. Because the support of Roosevelt rests upon promises which he will be unable to fulfill, because the crisis con- tinues to deepen, because Roosevelt and the Democratic Party will continue to pursue the policy of Hoover of attack- ing violently the conditions of the workers, because the workers and farmers are fighting with increasing vigor, the berate attempts to disfranchise workers, remove the Party from the ballot and terrorize the work: This vote in- dicates that among the workers there is a growing revolu- tionary determination to fight back the capitalist offensive and fundamentally change the present situation. The Socialist Party increased its vote, drawing a large section from the middle class. Nothwithstanding the most systematic and unprecedented support on the part of the s, capitalist class, the Socialist Party was not only unable realize its large predicted vote but its increase tr the proportion of increase in Communist votes and failed to mobilize under its banner a real break away from the italist parties. This was due to the fact that in the paign as well as in the daily practices of the Socialist Party, which has been pursuing a reformist program, it failed stantially to distinguish itself from the demagoguery Franklin D. Roosevelt. The decline in the vote of Louis Waldman from 88,000 in 1930 to 71,000 was du to behind cap. cam- act to the f that the program of Waldman ran along the same lines that of the Tammany politician, Lehman. The workers want a class policy. This they did not see in the policy of mas and Waldman and the Socialist Party. A revolutionary class policy of struggle they can and will receive only from the Jommunist. Party. Where empty phrases of the Socialists against capital- ism was exposed to the masses, the workers turned their becks upon them and moved in the direction of Communism. The capitalist class, however, will continue to build up the socialists as a catch basin for the discontent of the masses and as a barrier to the advance of the workers towards the revolutionary cause. The capitalist class is pursuing Euro- is FIGHT AGAINST HUNGER! 1. Organize struggles in every city and and town! 2. Demand $50 winter Federal Relief and Unemployment Insurance! 3. On to Washington, December 5! Dail Orga Central ~Comr Nork (Section of the Communist taterational) frunict Party U.S.A. third learning too pean methods of building up the Socialist Par s the but the American workers are capitalist party, the way of their class brothers in Europe, the way of ad- vance under the leadership of the Communist Party out of the present 1 and poverty. CAN E NOTHING FROM ROOSEVELT From Roosevelt the masses can expect nothing better than they did at the hands of Hoover. On the contrary, the deepening crisis will drive the capitalists towards more bit- ter attacks against the workers. The Communist Party will mobilize the workingclass and farming masses through the policy of the United Front to defeat the attacks of the cap- italists and to develop a counter offensive. The Commun- ists will intensify the fight against wage cuts, for unem- ployed relief and insurance, for equal rights and self deter mination for the Negroes, for relief to the farmers, and for the defense of the Soviet Union. In this they will have the support not only of the advance elements that have voted on election day, but will gain growing strength from the workers who have been deceived by the Socialists and by, Roosevelt. Forward to the overthrow of capitalism! Forw: ard t to the revolutionary way out of the cri FOR NATIONAL HUNGER MARCH! 1. Elect Delegates to go to Washington December 5! 2. Collect Funds, Food and Clothing! 3. Every working class organization get into action! Vol. IX, No. 269 Entered ax second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N.¥., under the Act of Marek 3, 1879, = NEW YORK, THURSD AY, NOVEMBER 10, 1932 CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents In the Day’s News GOY. LEHMAN BANKER NEW YORK.—The southern lynch bosses will share with New York bankers their satisfaction at the elec- tion of Herbert Henry Lehman as |’ Governor of the state of New York. Lehman’s father had a prosperous cotton business in Montgomery, Ala., } and was an ardent supporter of chat- | tel slavery and the Confederacy. Lehman himself is a retired invest- ment banker “with a very comfort- able fortune made in banking.” Dur- ing the World War he had a com- fortable berth in the Navy Depart- ment, in which Frankini D. Roose- velt, president-elect, was then As- sistant Secretary of the Navy. After the Armistice, he was rewarded for his war-mongering activities, by ap- pointment as special assistant to the Secretary of War, member of the Beard of Contract Adjustment and member of the War Department Claim ward. He thus had ample &,portunity to add to his already “very comfortable fortune.” Bier BANKER PALS WALL TAKE CARE OF HOOVER PALO ALTO, Calif. Nov. 9. — Hoover, replaced by Roosevelt as the main spokesman for Wall Street, to- day announced his intention to re- turn to private life to “recoup” his oe fortune. Unlike the 15,000,- 000 starving unemployed workers and their families, Hoover will find no difficulty in making rich connections with the big banks, railroads and other financial interests which he so capably defended as preaident. 2 8 JAPAN WAR MONGERS HAVE HOPES IN ROOSEVELT TOKIO, Nov. 9.—A temporary rise of Japanese stocks today reflected the confidence of Japanese imperialism that the election of Roosevelt will not affect the yayy ase oe pina in the ive for aeiead teryention against the Soviet Union. Japanese financial interests are hopeful of a more favorable Uni- policy ae the Japan- BOSS VARE REPUDIATED PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 9—William ‘BS. Vare, head of the republican ma- chine in this city was repudiated by the voters in nis yn ward, the 26th. ILL. MINERS TO MARCH ON WASHINGTON Part of Huse National Hunger March Comes From Taylorville FIGHT FORCED LABOR Relief Jobs in Omaha Pay No Wages. SPRINGFIELD, Ill, Nov. 9—A strong delegation of unemployed coal miners }from central Lllinois, led by “Big Frank” Gushes, will join Col- umn 4 of the National.Hunger March when, it comes through here. Tie column will go through Springfield Noy. 25 and move directly into the militia ridden Taylorville region. Some special miners’ demands that are rousing mass support for the Na- tional Hunger March here are: With- drawal of troops from Taylorville, no discrimination against strikers in re- lief, free coal, no forced labor, union wages for all work, miners’ represen- tatives on relief boards. Fight to Enter Peoria Two-thirds of the working popula- tion of Peoria, highly industrialized and mining towns in Illinois, are to- tally unemployed. Last year the po- lice and compariy gunmen forced the hunger march to go around the town. The Unemployed Council is rousing the jobless to a struggle for the right of this National Hunger March to en- ter Peoria, Nov. 24. Tri-Cities Forced Labor ‘The National Hunger March will reach the “Tri-Cities” of Davenport, Ia.; Rock Island and Moline, Ill., on Noy. 23, and will run right into a struggle against forced labor. ‘The Unemployed Councils led the struggle, and have just kicked out George Papcun, a Trotskyite with a record of treachery in the unemploy- ed movement at Council Bluffs. He tried to worm his way into the Da- yenport Council. A delegation of 25 from the “Tri- Cities” will join the march. Supreme Court decision which the United States. greatest of a-whole series “of victories that have been achieved by mass protest and mass mobilization in the United States and throughout the world ever since the Communist Party and the Interna- tional Labor Defense took up the bat- tle for the Scottsboro boys. This victory is a complete vindication of the Communist tactics of raking this case a political case, involving the broadest masses, and constitutes the condemnation of the N.A.A.C.P. and the Socialist Party, which de- mands that this case be handled en- tirely in the courts, relying upon the “fairness and justice” of the Ameri- can judicial system and which de- clared that an appeal to the masses would prevent instead of gain a fav- orable decision, Again in the Scotts- boro case has been proven, that only mass struggle and mass organization can win even the slight measures of “justice” for the workers, especially for the Negroes. In hailing this most significant vic- Communist Party Urges Follow-up Scottsboro Victory Central Committee Calls On Workers for Ten- fold Efforts to Secure Unconditional . Release of Innocent Negro Lads Decision of Supreme Court a Tremendous Vic- tory for the Workers, Negro and White, of the United States (Statement of the Central Committee, C.P.U.S.A.) | The decision rendered by the Supreme Court of the United | States setting aside the verdict of death against the Scottsboro boys of the Alabama court, and setting aside the Alabama is a tremendous victory for the workers, Negro and white, of Tt is the + had upheld the death sentence, mass.murders on which. they are. still determined. Make this great victory of the Sup- reme Court decision the starting point for a new struggle twords the com- plete and final victory. Rally to the support of the International Labor Defense. Make generous donations to the I.L.D, Scottsboro Defense Fund. Rush in your contributions at once. Organize mass meetings and send speakers to the meetings of all the Negro and white workers’ organiza- tions to e~plain the significance of the Scottsboro victory ang the tasks ahead. Forward to the unconditional freedom of he Scottsboro boys as a part of the whole struggle for Negro rights. CENTRAL COMMIITTEE, COMMUNIST PARTY of the U.S.A. #pudiation of Hoover, N ew Work er Engineers DEMOCRATS tory, the Communist Party especially warns against any idea that the fight is over, or that a-final victory has been won. Public admission by the Supreme Court of the Uniteq States that the most elementary rights of the Scottsboro boys had been denied to them, is a blow against this mon- strous frame-up, but is not yet its fina] defeat. The case has been sent back for a new trial to the same courts which carried through the original legal lynching. These courts Hunger March News LED ATTACK ON WORKERS Vicious Anti-Labor Record in Last Congress THOMAS VOTE LOW Roosevelt Carried Out | Wall St. Policies BULLETIN As the Daily Worker goes to press, latest returns reveal that out of a total of 28,847,024 votes se far~ tabulated, Roosevelt received 16,- 539,346, Hoover 11,947,979 and Nor- man ‘homas, socialist candidate, 359,699. Though the total vote is not yet in, the returns so far indi- cate that the vote for Thomas is far below preliminary estimates and will probably be less than | 1,000,000, London jobless demonstrators turn to the British Daily Worker for latest news of the British Na- tional Hunger March. Read the Daily Worker here for news of the March on Washington, (See Page . ‘ 3). Governor Roosevelt captured 42 cutoff males aod 2 ot] COMMUNIST GAIN HUGE IN CHICAGO eye The Roosevelt majority totals about 7,000,000 votes. Incomplete returns also indicated a clear majority for | the democrats in both houses of | = : congress. | eS gee 20g. The victory, while a smashing re- Already Count 9,639 is actually Got 1,000 in 1¢ victory for Wall Street, which suc- | ceeded in fooling millions of Amer- | ican workers and poor farmers into! 9 ti ffici: believing that Roosevelt and. the | oer, vos, by orite democrats are essentially different | Cook County from their republican rivals, ill toe bepartad: oe Use Fake Radical Phrases. includes the city of Chicago a But in order to do this Wall Street | U*bs. s ; had to: use extraordinary measures,| _AN indication of the growth of the Not since the days of Wilson have | Communist influence is seen by the the democrats been compelled to re- | fact that in 1928, Foster, sort to such a wide use of fake rad-| President on the Communist ical phrases in order to lure work-| ers into believing that Roosevelt rep- resented something fundamentally opposed to Hoover and offered some relief from starvation ang mass mis- | ery. But. the records of Roosevelt as CHICAGO, Ill. 7s. ticket and 3,000 in the state of Illinois. There are as yet no| reports on Communist votes from election. returns Incomplete give running for the mining region down state for this | and injuries to scores of others in this state. was done by a deputy sheriff with the murder of Wilbur Dees at the River ‘Hill Holiness Church in Laurel County Late intexqurrendered and was jailed at London. ‘Twenty-five voters were injured, two County court house from which the election returns were being an- nounced. Unemployed Needle ELECTION EILINGS IN Forced Labor in Omaha KENTUCKY Jobless workers here get no relief LOUISVILLE, Ky., Nov. 9.—Blec-| unless they work for it, and they get terror and brazen robbery of votes | NO cash pay for working. An unem- ployed man has to work two days for a ton of coal a month, three days for @ months’ rent, and six days for gro- ceries—a total of 11 days on puvlic toads, etc., for the Emergency Work Committee. The Unemployed Councils here fought this so furiously that the city authorities are sponsoring a moye- ment intended to split the jobless’ ranks. They call it the “Unemployed Married Men’s Council.” It is a Jim Crow body, Negroes barred from meetings of the whites. It sends members to work free except for food, on private jobs. If the boss nevertheless pays something, that crowd | goes into the hands of ‘the leaders of the organization, the worker gets nothing of it. Many of the 700 mem- bers of this UMMC attended the mass meeting called by the Unem- ployed Council Friday, at which Stalker and Field Organizer Krieger spoke. A United Front Conference to pre- pare the National Hunger March sup- port will take place Sunday. Correction Column 4 starts at Sioux City Nov. 19, instead of, as first intended and printed on the hunger march map, on Nov. 20. NEW WORKERS’ CENTER A banquet and dance will mark the official opening on the evening of Nov. 1gth of a new workers’ center at 501 West 161 St., Washington Heights. The center is already opened for work. Prominent speakers will address the gathering. A HARTY ORD RETURN ity RD, Conn., Nov. 9.—At sone, in aes ne voted the Communist i gangsters of the capitalist parties ras in the. Killing oF five voters At least one of the killings Sheriff Peter Thompson . 2 VOTERS JAILED ST. CLAIRSVILLE, O., Nov. 9.— , when deputy sher- Workers Preparing Nat'l Hunger March have been further forewarned that to carry out their intended murder of the Scottsboro boys, they will have the support of the Supreme Court of the United States, provided that they do it according to the legal forms which they deliberately violated, in the first proceedings. More than ever, it is the absolute duty of the workers, white and Ne- gro, to rally solidly to the support of the International Labor Defense in defense of the Scottsboro case. We must rally the masses in such large numbers and with such militancy and determination as to render it impos- sible for them to carry through the Boss Press Reports Death of Wife of Comrade Jos. Stalin According to capitalist press re- ports, the spirit of celebration fol- Paling 4 the 15th Anniversary was clouded as the workers of the U. 8. S. R. received the news of the death of Nadezhda Allelueva, wife of Joseph Stalin, General of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. As we went to press, the Daily Worker had not as yet received confirmation of this report by cable from its Moscow correspondent. The reports in the capitalist Press stated that Allelueva was 32, years of age. She was the daugh- ter of a locksmith who had been an old ae ey PJ Stalin's, and had been various’ fields of ipaachert, ipo sie saan che Attn dois MEP MEER] SPECIAL SCOTTSBORO WORK All comrades who are able are urged by the International Labor De- fense to report at 650 Lenox Avenue, at any time after 9 a. m. today to do special work in connection with the Group of boys in the Spviet Union studying to be engineers in the oil industry. They are work- ers’ children, from the Baku re- gion, They don’t haye to worry about jobs. They are sure of work under Socialist conditions. Diana Shoe Strikers Fight on; Bosses workers of the above A vite, Use Frame-Up Regardless of the injunction is- sued against the workers of the Diana Shoe Co., 70 Wycoff Avenue, Brooklyn, the strike continues. The workers of the Diana are active around the shop. The bosses are terrorizing the workers by framing up strikers on all kind of charges. Two were ar- rested Nov. 9. The strikebreakers, armed with guns, with the coopera- tion of the police, are attempting to intimidate the workers. The strikers ¢all shoe workers to come on the picket line and assist financially. Send contributions to the Union office, 96 5th Ave., Room 314, New York City. FURNITURE WORKERS MEET TODAY A meeting of the Mattress, Box, and Bed Workers will be held today at 7:30 p. m. at the new juarters: on 818 Broadway (near 12th St.). All trade are in- | . governor of New York state and of the Democratic Party in the last congress prove conclusively that the Policies of the democrats are the policies of Wall Street just as much as are the republican policies. Governor Roosevelt has consist- ently opposed and fought against federal unemployment insurance and real relief. His appropriation of $20,000,000 for the relief of the un- employed in New York state last year gave the 2,000,000 workers, who were jobless in the state at that time, only $10 apiece for themselves and their families, even assuming that every cent of the $20,000,000 went for ac- tual relief. With the New York state unemployed now increased to 2,500,000, Roosevelt's sole new pro- posal is for an appropriation of $30,- 000,000—about $12 per unemployed family. Instead of federal unem- ployment insurance, he has tried to fool the workers with an unemploy- ment insurance scheme, operating through each individual employer, which would roll up big profits for the insurance companies, take money out of the pockets of the employed workers and not give a cent to those now unemployed. Attacked Needle Workers, Roosevelt has played an outstand- ing anti-labor role in the struggles of the New York needle trades work- ers, joining in 1929 in the conspiracy with the bosses and the reactionary “socialist” officials of the Interna- (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) VOLUNTEERS WANTED TO PREPARE HUNGER MARCH! NEW YORK.—Volunteers are needed for technical work in prep- aration for the National Hunger March. Come to 80 E. 11th St., Room 436, er, 2,530 votes for assemblyman the Fifth District, Chicago. Many Votes Stolen The real Communist vote is much higher than the vote counted, as proved by the fact that where Com- munist election watchers were main- tained at the polls, the Communist vote counted was much higher than in precisely similar side where Communist watchers were not present, or were driven out by force early in the day. Many attempts were made by cap- Communist watchers away, especially onthe South Side where stock yards wotkers live, and where the Negroes live. The Communist Election Campaign Committee fought this terrorism, ‘and later in the day forced the election board to allow Communist watchers at the polls. statement today declaring the vote shows that big masses of workers are turning to support of the Communist program, and calling for full support now in the next struggles, the dele- gation to demand relief of the legis- lature in Springfield, Nov. 15, and the National Hunger March. E. Harlem Unemployed NEW YORK~—The East Harlem Unemployed Council has moved tts headquarters from the Italian Work- ers' Center on 104th St. to the Rus- | slan Workers’ Center, at 1538 Madi- son Ave., corner of 104th St. All unemployed workers in the section are urged to get in touch with the Council, which is actively leading the fight against starvation and organ- izing the unemployed and employed workers in that section for the Na- tional Hunger March to Washington lp... Str Claude Lightfoot, young Negro work- | in| italist authorities at the polls to drive | | figures | there were only borough elec- officers. |the New York t tween is probably not indicative of the great District Organizer Gebert issued a} Council at NewAddress | Jand to take the strike leadership New York local conditions, the expert | Tammany machine, tration of their chief demagogs here parts | greater n fold 250,249 vote in New York this year on COMMUNIST VOTE IN NEW YORK CITY: 24,018 FOR FOSTER; | AMTER 23,092 Nearly 3-Fold Increase Over 1928 Figure; Last Election Gave 15,500 Ree Red Votes Great Gain in Communist It Influence Lays Basis for Next Task, National Hunger March BULLETIN NEW YORK.—The Bronx Home News reports that William Z. Foster received 10,100 votes in the Bronx. * * * NEW YORK.—William Z. Foster, Communist candidate for president got 24,018 votes in New York City. Complete, official figures from the election board were secured yester- day. Fester’s vote in 1928 was 9,232 in New York, and in 1950, when he ran for governor, the Communist vote was 15.- 500. Last year there are no? to compare with, as got 23,092 votes in New York ¢ City, while the Socialist Waldman got ‘71,528. Powers, Communist for Chief Jus- tice, has 17,859 votes and the So- cialist Panken, has 150,315 votes. The vote for congress and legisla- jture is not tabulated yet. Strongest in Brooklyn. The vote in the various boroughs for Foster is as follows: Manhattan, 3,619; Bronx, Brooklyn, 9,340; Queens 1,146 Richmond, 110. It is evident jworking class Brooklyn ga largest vote to the Communis' The vote shows magnificent creases for the Communist Party, If 2,000 votes in New York can b2se- cured up state the Communist Party |goes on the ticket next year without collection of signatures. Waldman Loses Votes. tions and elections for other loca] This nearly three-fold increase in Communist vote be- she two presidential elections elsewhere, gains made because of | 8,802; the and the concer unting out of Red votes by the three capitalist parties. Re- ns so far coming in from other | of the country show much gains for the Communists New York—Chicago with its increase, for instance. Thomas Vote Falls. Although Morris Hillquit n in got a 11930. got about 1,000 votes in ; whole | the socialist ticket for mayor. Thomas, Socialist running for president got 120,936 votes in New York, lower | han his 175,676 vote for Mayor in As usual, certain of the local can- didates, well known to the workers in their territory as leading struggles right there, or opposed to capitalist candidates who are well exposed, ran ahead of the presidential candidates. But the returns show also that the Socialists are still able to fool large jnumbers of workers, though not nearly as many as they thought they would. In many cases in New York, the Socialist vote actually fell in comparison with previous votes. For | example in the state as a whole, the Socialist Waldman, candidate for governor, got 71,000 votes, approxi- mately as against his vote of 85,000 in round numbers, for the same of- Highest Red Vote 26,228. fice in 1928. ‘districts along. |\U;, 5: Senator, got. 25,439 votes in the | | fighting wage cuts there was a failure. Louis Engdahi, running on the Communist ticket for State Attorney General got 26,228 votes, while his Socialist opponent Carlin got 119,939. Rose Wortis, running for Comp-| troller, got 25,850 votes as against 118,452 for Roth, Socialist. W. W. Weinstone, Communist for city, as against 109,883 for the So- cialist lawyer, Solomon. Patterson and Shepard. The two Negro candidates on the Communist ticket polled good votes. Patterson, running for mayor, got 24,222 votes. Henry Shepard, Com- munist for lieutenant governor got 25,381 votes, as against 74,452 for the Socialist. Amter, Communist for governor, Striking Painters Throw Out “Pickets” Sent by A.F.L. Clique NEW YORK.—Officials of Local 261 of the Brotherhood of Painters and Paperhangers (AFL) sent pickets with signs into the strike conducted by the Alteration Painters Union against Steinberg and Preistar, 1084 College Ave., Bronx. This attempt to confuse the issue, away from the nine men who are now The strikers chased the A.F.L pickets away. The tenants of 900 Home St. held a meeting for the support of these striking painters, and decided not to let any painters into their apartments until the strike is settled. ‘The strikers call all painters to sup- port them on the picket line, but they ‘don't want agents of the officials of esd atl 2 a nl Y Greater activity, vigilance to @x- pose the Socialist anti-labor activities where they have office, is needed to lead to Communism and real workers’ struggle, the hundreds of thousands of workers who think now they vote against Capitalism when they vote Socialist! The increased Communist vote, not only here but throughout the country shows a basis is laid for the gigantic struggles ahead, the National Hunger March first, ROOSEVELT MAN HAS BARTER PLAN Forced Labor “Angles Profits for Bosses SIOUX CITY, Ia, Nov. 9.—Lester P. Barlow, Roosevelt's campaigner here, has outlined what may be one of the next president's schemes to make the farmer and the city worker pay for what jobless relief there is. He met with 600 members of an or- Sanization led by business men cal- led, “Modern 76ers", and persuaded them to send him as a delegate to manufacturers in the East. The “Modern T6ers” offer to send farm produce to be bartered for manufactured goods. Details of the scheme are not an- nounced but if seems that some mid- dileman corporation will take the farm products and the manufactured goods, and exchange them on a value ation basis worked out by itself. The possibility of big profits for the middlemen who control the ex~ change, and for the factories which will Gang pay workers in the farm goods obtained, are easy to see,