The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 7, 1932, Page 3

| Schleicher || Takes Helm | in Germany By PETER HENRY. AST Sunday General von Schlei- cher changed into civilian clothes and moved from the Ger- man war ministry to the chancel- lery to try his hand at the job of reconsolidating capitalism in Ger- ‘many, at which Col. von Papen was a failure. ‘With two exceptions, the new ca- binet is exactlyethe same as that headed by von Papen. The only major change is the appointment of Dr. Bracht, the Reich Commis- sioner for Prussia who wielded the iron rod of dictatorship over that state under the former cabinet, as the Reich Minister of the Interior. Now the police forces of the Reich and of Prussia are concentrated in one hand, binding still closer the extra legal bonds between Prussia and the Reich. TO PUSH SAME POLICIES. The von Schleicher cabinet is pledged to the prosecution of the same policies as the von Papen re- | wime, the only difference being | that the new chancellor is more likely to come to @ working ar- rangement with the fascists for tacit Nazi support of his cabinet. amet F the personnel and policies of the von Schleicher regime are so little different from von Papén’s, it may be asked: why the change? | The major reason is that Germany | is entering an extremely critical winter, with unemployment worse than ever before, with dozens of cities facing bankruptcy, and with tax income falling far behind the outlays needed for the barest un- employment and hunger relief. | Moreover, the continuous growth eof Communist strength, as mani- | infested in the Reichstag elections, ‘lin the huge strikes fought against (the sabotage of trade union officials and under express Communist leadership, and lastly in the Thu- ringian municipal elections last Sunday, December 4th, makes it imperative that German capital- ism provide itself with a strong, energetic government, with all the armed and political forces of the state concentrated in the hands of a mailed fist. % PICKED BY CAPITALISTS. And yon Schleicher's past record has madg German capitalism feel that, he's the man for the job. He is much more than the typical pro- fessional army man. He has rec- ently been revealed as the man who engineered the overthrow of the Socialist Coalition Cabinet headed by Herman Mueller in 1930, and then brought about Hin- denburg’s appointment of Bruen- ing and then von Papen. During the past twelve years he has been » Promoted from the rank of captain to lieutenant-general over the heads- of hundreds of his seniors in the Reichswehr. He was gen- erally acknowledged to be the “strong man” in the von Papen government and his appointment by Hindenburg to practically dic- tatorial power in Germany signi- fies that German capitalism feels fairly desperate. Nazis are willing to play ball with von Schleicher. ‘Their huge army of supporters is melt- ing away like snow in the sun, and without the prospect of gov- ernment jobs for his followers, Hitler is faced bythe complete de- moralization of his forces. LOSS IN NAZI VOTE. The Nazis control the Thurin- gian government, with all the op- portunities for paying Hitlerites out of the state purse through gov- ernment jobs. Yet Sunday's elec- tions showed an average loss of 25 percent in the Nazi vote, compared. with November 6th. This confirms our predictions of rapid Nazi decline, due to their im- when faced by the wave of dustrial discontent and strikes ig over the country as well ' the bankruptcy of all relief themes. Their bourgeois followers are deserting to the old-estab- lished reactionary parties, while JUVER OF SOCIAL-DEMOCRATS. The German Socialists are no longer numerous enough the Rei to threaten the Cabinet's stability, and therefore they are lowing themselves the luxury of ‘undying hostility” to the Schlei- cher regime. This transparent ar 1,000 VETS JOIN CAPITOL PARADE 2 More Trucks Leave from Newark (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) vets are speeding on their way and expect tq arrive in the capitol to- morrow night or Thursday morning to join the contingents from allover the country who are now there to demand immediate payment of the bonus and no. cuts in disability al- lowances. The bonus marchers were recruited | and the trucks secured as the re- sult of a campaign by the Rank and File Committee for the Second Bonus March, which included members of | the Khaki Shirts in a united front | movement. Efforts are being made to send’ additional truckloads to} Washington. Preceding the send-off of the trucks, a big parade was held yesterday afternoon and a demon- stration in Military Park. At a meeting of veterans in Cen- tral High School here last night, General Pelham D. Glassford, who led the armed attack on the first bonus march, spoke. Not daring im the face of the veterans . pyesent openly to oppose the bonus march, Glassford dodged this question én- tirely and instead spilled oily phrases about the need for organization. Though he personally led the attack of Bloody Thursday, Glassford had the nerve tg shift complete respon- sibility on the federal government, neglecting to mention that he worked hand in hand with the gov- ernment. Glassford was heckled throughout his speech and after he |had finished, a number of workers arose and proposed that the meet- ing endorse the second bonus march and send protest resolutions to Presi- dent Hoover and Congress against the internment of the marchers. These proposals were adopted unanimously. . Cincinnati Vets Arrive. WASHINGTON, Dec. 6.—The Cin- cinnati contingent of the National Bonus March which left Cincinnati Nov. 28, arrived here Sunday. The contingent was led by W. F. Doughty. One shell-shocked and gassed vet- erans, who receives only $12 a month from the government, had_to be left behind along the route due to in- juries received during the war. DEMONSTRATE AT N.Y. ITY HALL (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) 8000 Form Solid Ranks | Back Nat’l March Side Unemployed Council added to the column. Ring Closes In, More and more detachments joined in until by 12:15 the column stretched along three sides of the city hall square. Then at 12:25 marching under the elevated superstructure at the end of Brooklyn Bridge, and making a tremendous noise with their shouted femands for relief, ¢ame over @ thousand behind the banner of the Down Town Unemployed Council. | They had marched down through cheeering crowds along the “slum” streets of the East Side, and they took the center of the street down Park Row to the corner of Mail St. Here they halted, and found a place in the line. The Down Town Coun- cil marchers, with other union dele- gations, and thousands of merely un- employed, not marching behind any special baner, filled in the columns until it made a nearly solid ring around the Tammany government buildings. Mass in Park Row. At 12:45 the head of the column was just approaching the corner of Park Row and Mail St., across from the Federal Building. Police. worked frantically, routing All on the sidewalk on the city hall side of the four streets around Local Struggles of Unemployed Hunger Marchers in Washington Win Many Demands. Two hundred unemployed wo “Home Sweet Home”. fighting for these men. These Homeless Workers Need Winter Relief They are exposed at both ends to the cold wintry air. Ra | Rie eed rkers in Oakland, Cal., are forced by capitalism to call these sewer pipes The Hunger Marchers are PROVOCATION BY | CAPITAL POLICE, | Backed by Thousands, of Guns, Cops Jeer | WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec, 6—All | around the interned marchers, Na- tional Hunger Marchers camp yester- | day really unusual tactics of provo- catian were carried out by the Wash- ington police. | When the marchers formed in the | columns in which they had marched all the way to Washington, and par- | aded back and forth within the cor- don of thousands of police armed with machine guns, tear gas, the/| war department’s new nauseating gas, clubs, shot guns and revolvers, | with the detachment of police in gas masks on the heights above them armed with more gas guns, with 4,000 infantry, cavalry, artillery and tanks of the regular army within a few minutes march of them, the police were very courageous, “Come and Fight.” Each time the 3,000 totally un- armed delegates of the unemployed workers approached the line of guns held by the police, the heroic cops screamed challenges to them to “Come and fighti” The Washington police their cour- age bolstered by overwhelming num- bers and such a panapoly of war armament as would naturally be used only aganist an armed corps, “booed” the representatives of the jobless,. jeered at half starved un- employed women and children and ragged men,’ called them “cowards” for not rushing the line of deadly guns and trying to whip the entire U, S. army and Washington police force combined. Police Swagger. Later at night, Police Superin- tendent Brown swaggered, and told the reporters: ‘They're practically licked now; if they don’t rush us within the next twelve hours, we’ve won!” Nor did the police rely only on words for provocation. While the | National Conference of the Unem- ployed, to which all 3,000 marchers are elected delegates, was in ses- sion last night in the camp, thugs were passed through the police lines, placed on the hillside above the marchers, and from that van- | tage point hurled stones at the meeting. Police protected the pro- vocateurs when groups of marchers went up to stop the stone throwing. Lords and Priests. . A variation of this open police provocation was the subtler attempt of state and church to discourage the marchers. None other than Lady Astor of the British nobility was drafted into this sickening task. She moved, with a police guard through the camp, had herself photographed a number of times, and then took her trembling Viscount husband in tow, and led him outside, saying as she went, to the marchers: “I don’t blame them for not wanting you people to come to Washington.” The church appeared in the per- son of a Greek Catholic priest, robed in scarlet and gold. The cops shoved him in to read a manuscript, all about how the capitalists and work- ers “need each other.” ‘The Marchers were very explicit in their answers. They finally con- vinced him that they didn’t thing they needed any capitalists, nor any of their agents, and the priest tucked up his trailing robes and departed. eRe EN Newspaper Lies. Capitalist editors are chagrined at the retreat their government finally had to make, For the last week the capitalist newspapers’ line has been to describe the march as an “in- vading army,” which the “citizen forces” are valiantly ready to repulse and ‘pravent the capture of the city.’ They hailed the internment of the marchers as a marvelous victory. Now when the tens of thousands of workers, liberals, professional men, from all parts of the country start @ wave of denunciation of the high handed and tyrannical imprisonment, of the jobless delegates, and the Washington authorities after all their threats and swagger, have to grant a permit for the parade through Washington and the presen- tation to congress of the demands of the marchers, capitalist editors fum~ ble. Some of them, like the Hearst papers in New York, keep up the heroic note: “The marchers will | against the Japanese invaders. The Japanese advance was greatly facili- Japanese Troops Moving’ on Manchuli Directly on Borders of Soviet Union Chinese General Su Ping-wen Abandons a Strategic Railway Tunnel Without Struggle | Crosses Soviet Frontiers in Flight; USSR Dis-| arming, Interning Insurgents Crossing Border | Japanese troops yesterday entered Hailar, 78 miles from the Sovieti border, following the suspicious rout of Gen, Su Ping-wen's campaign tated by the failure of Gen. Su to defend or destroy the railway tunnel | through the Khingan Mountains, the key to the district west of the range. | o GREAT MASSES ON STREET CHEERING Join Singing, Applaud? | Menaced by Police (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) the streets leading to it were choked with solid masses of people. A line of uniformed police along the curb, a cop every few feet, denser and denser until they were shoulder to shoulder near the capitol building held the crowd back from fraterniz- ing with the marchers. But as the long column of National Hunger Marchers swept by, singing “Solidarity,” singing “The Interna- tional,” and shouting the slogans of the march, for relief and insurance, at many places the watching crowds broke into applause and at some place the crowds sang with the marchers. Delegations Go In At two blocks’ distance from the Capitol building the march was halt- ed, and the marchers rested while two delegation of 25 each, one led by Chairman Reynolds of the National Committee of the Unemployed Coun- cils, the other led by Secretary Ben- jamin of the National Committee by Ann Burlak, went up Capitol hill. The delegation led by Reynolds was halted by police at the steps into the Senate wing of the capitol. The whole building was garrisoned by po- lice from the city, in addition to the fyce of Capitol patrolmen, Curtis had promised Attorney Lew- isohn of Phjladelphia that he would see the whole committee of 25. He sent word out at this point, however, that he would see only ten. After an argument with the police, ten went in, led by Reynolds. Curtis met them outside the door to his office, and Reynolds immedi- ately taxed him with breaking his word about seeing the whole delega~- tion! Curtis lied, and denied making any’ promises. BA . Search Negro He drew Reynolds a few feet aside, Reynolds meanwhile protesting, and the police came up and searched a Negro member of the delegation. They found no arms. Reynolds was refused the right to read the statement of the National Conference of the Unemployed, con- taining the demands, and had to pass it unread to Curtis. Curtis promised to_lay it before the U. S, Senate. Before this, however, Reynolds told Curtis that the workers and un- employed workers rely not on what Curtis would do, but on their grow- ing organization and struggle to get relief. Curtis claimed this was “insulting him” and threatened to have the del- egation “thrown out of the building.” He did not, though, and the delega- tion went back to the waiting march- ers, The delegation to Garner was met by the Vice-President elect and speaker of the House, outside his of- fice, and they also laid the demands in his hands. He promised to “see what I'll do about it.” Fight Must Go On The eyasive promises of Curtis and Garner clearly indicate that these of- front page, suddenly thrusts the story of the granting of the permit on Page 46, and puts it under a flagrantly misleading headline at never capture Washington!” like the New York Times, which has kept the news of the in- ternment of the marchers on the that. Most of the editors, shocked, try to hide the news some- where in the middle of their papers. Foreign military experts in Man- churia agree that had the tunnel been destroyed, “the Japanese would | have encountered elmost insuperable obstacles to an advance on Manchuli | this winter, as the range is almost insurmountable and ordinarily is held in the grip of temperatures of 30 to 40 degrees below zero.” The sudden collapse of Gen. Su’s campaign recalls the activities last winter of the notorious Gen. Ma Chen-shan who, pretending re- sistance to the Japanese, acted as their agent to afford them the pre- text for an advance on the Soviet frontiers. Japanese troops are re- ported advancing from Hailar to Manchuli, a North Manchurian town directly across the border from the Soviet Union. Gen. Su has crossed the Soviet border by train. His forces are re- | ported fleeing over the border. In} line with its firm peace policy, the Soviet government is rounding up and interning Gen. Su’s army as it enters Soviet territory. The League of Nations which has deliberately postponed discussion on Manchuria in order to allow the Japanese time to further consolidate their military position, yesterday suggested that it was now ready to put the Manchurian question on the agenda, at the special assembly of the League this Wednesday. ficials are as remorseless in their de- | termination that no relief shall be given the jobless, will make no def-| inite promises ,and that the struggle | of the jobless must go on to force} action. ‘The two delegations placed them- selves at the head of the long proces- sion of marchers 4nd paraded back through Washington streets to the camping grotjed on the outskirst. Po- lice continued to prevent the Wash- ington crowds from coming into the camp. Shortly after the marchers re- turned to camp, the National Con- ference of the Unemployed was re- sumed, with the report of the dele- gations and suggestions for future action being made by Benjamin. The conference will elect a Na- tional Committee of the Unemployed to direct and co-ordinate the or- ganization into Unemployed Coun~ cils of all jobless, to work out plans for united front with all employed workers and ruined farmers, and to rouse the workers of every city to struggle stimulated by the reports of the returning delegates. The plan is now for the North- eastern raarchers, Columns 7 and 8, to leave tonight after the confer- ence, each delegation stopping off in the city from which it came, and making its report. New York delegates, 450 of them, will be greeted by a mass meeting when they arrive. The Western and Southern Col- umns, two from the South and five from the West, will leave Gamp to- morrow morning. Mich. Workers Club Expells Two Caught ‘Scabbing on Strikers REPUBLIC, Mich. Dec. 6.—The Republic Workers Club expelled Tu- isku and Arvid Solo from member- ship in the Club for scabbing during the strike at the Charles Erickson Camp, and for taking every oppor- tunity to abuse the workers on strike. The membership of the Club also ‘Up N ational = |Fight for $50 Winter Relief, Insurance Goes on Presence of National Hunger Ma rchers in Capital Stimulates Wave JOBLESS WIN IN PA. COUNTY Westmoreland Raises Relief; Wires Protest GREENSBURG, Pa., Dec. 6—Two thousand Westmoreland County un- employed miners and steel workers forced the county commissioners to protest to Hoover, Curtis and Garner at the imprisonment of the National Hunger Marchers and to support the demands of the marchers for winter relief of $50 and unemployment in- surance. The marchers forced the commis- sioners to raise the relief rates from $1.25 per person per month to $1.50 and to go to Harrisburg, the state capital, to get more relief funds from the state. The commissioners were forceq to furnish transportation to the march- ers, many of whom had walked as far as 20 miles to come to the dem- onstration. Another immediate result of the militan; Westmoreland County dem- onstration was the rushing of $1,531,- 090 to Penna. for relief by the Re- construction Finance Corporation late yesterday. TRIUMPHANT JOBLESS MARCH Bob Minor Gives Eye- Witness Account (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) me of any sort.” | Garner No Better. The delegation that. went to Gar- ner was treated no better. Garner soon seemed to be infuriated by the presence of Negroes as members of the delegation. He was unwilling to give the committee any time. He said, “You can control the 3,000 out there, but I control the 425 in here.” Anna Burlak, said “We will carry that message back to the unem- ployed.” The delegation returned with the report to the waiting parade. The committee of 29 seamen was split up and sent with the special de- mands of the Seamen which was pre- sented to the U. S. Government. The parade returned to the camp and is preparing to leave. The Eastern Column will leave tonight. Last of the Retreats. ‘The final granting of the permit representing the last of the wyple series of retreats, introduced by as many threats, demands and provoca- % tion on the part of the police. Dur- ing all of Sunday and Monday, the police resorted to the foulest meth- | ods of provocation. They tore the | backs of trucks, destroyed the trucks | and automobile tires, punctured the | autémobile tires, and held back the | water trucks, For fully, 24 hours the police | shouted insults at the Marchers, such | as, “Get out of here, you god-damned | agitators, you lousy white trash trif- | ling with niggers.” They slugged a| man named Krieter. Only the most iron-clad discipline prevented the outbreak of a bloody clash. At one time, the police threw tear gas at the workers in the camp and then stood with cocked guns intend- ing to turn it into a wholesale blood bath if the workers tried any de- fense in reply. The workers stood | their ground and forced the g0V- 5999 Newark workers met today in| ernment to retreat on its “no parade” edict. The Ex-Servicemen were |pouring into Washington all day Monday and Tuesday. Farmer delegates for the farm| conference are already here in large | numbers, of Local Struggles Kansas City Police KANSAS CITY, Mo., Dec. 6. rhe entire police force of Kansas City| was mobilized t to prevent a demonstration of the unemployed | workers at the city hall here. Pas-| sers by and workers were te rorized throughout the day, and leaders ir the workers’ struggles were arr last night and held in jail w any pretext except that it the| city’s definite policy to break up every move of the unemployed | CHARLOTTE COPS | ATTACK JOBLESS Arrest 2 in Big Hunger} March Demonstration | hout CHARLOTTE, N. C., Dec. 6.—Five Negro and white workers demonstrated here for the National Hunger March. Even though | the city manager was forced to agree to the holding of this demonstration. the police after tr z all sorts of tricks to create disturbance, finally charged into the crowd, swinging blackjacks and billies. They arrested the speaker, Lydia Rottger, and her husband, Kenneth, both of these white workers. The Negro workers, who were the majority of the demonstrators, jumped forward to defend their white comrades. A battle lasting ten min- utes took place, in which a few workers and some cops were hurt. At a preliminary hearing, held in Recorders Court, the local Ku Klux Klan judge sustained the charge of “inciting to riot” and “resisting ar- rest”. The inciting to riot charge carries a sentence up to 15 years in| the state penitentiary. All the wit- nesses ‘that appeared in court against the workers were officials of the Sal- vation Army, who have been forced to give some relief to Negro work- | ers by the workers of Charlotte, led by the Unemployed Council. They have also been forced to agree to/ the feeding and housing of Column Five of the National Hunger March | when they came through. This ex- plains their anxious desire to do away with these leaders of the un- employed. These comrades are be- ing held under the outrageous bail of $5,000 each. New Haven Jobless Start Drive to Win Free Food for Kids NEW HAVEN, Conn., Dec. 6.—The local Unemployed Council has begun the organization of a movement of | parents and school children to force | the city authorities to establish a system of providing breakfasts and hot lunches to all children of unem- ployed and part-time workers. Al- ready organization along these lines has been started in two schools The council has issued a statement in which it declares that this action has been made necessary in part by the decision of the Community Chest not to provide food to children until they became “proper charges” as a result of malnutrition. 2,000 Back Hunger March in Nevada NEWARK, N. Dec, 6—Over Military Park in support of the de- mands of the National Hunger March. Cireulate the pamphlet: “Why We Are Marching” among your shopmates and neighbors. Mass to Fight Jobless ‘SEATTLE JOBLESS WIN MAIN DEMAND Force Relief From the County Commissioners SEATTLE, W: Dec. 6—The King County Hunger March on Mon- a s main demand that every unemployed worker receive the amount of relief specified in the county schedule of October, 1932 for food distribution, without discrimin- ation of any kind. Up to now unem- ployed workers have only received about 60 per cent of this relief. Mil- itant workers have been penalized and Negroes discriminated against. 900 in March Nine hundred workers participated in the march, with banners and groups from the Unemployed Coun- cils, locals of Unemployed Citizens League, several locals of the AFL. including the machinists, steamfitters and plumbers, United Producers League, and the Communist Party in a real united front. The County Commissioners chose the hour of the arrival of the Hun- ger Marchers to go out for lunch, leaving word they would not return before two hours. The purpose of this move was to discourage the work- ers who had trudged for miles in the cold and wet. The entire demonstra- tion invaded the building, overflow- ing the assembly room and the cor- ridors and stairways in their deter- mination to await the return of the commissioners ahd force them to lis- ten to their demands. Most Militant Demonstration The demonstration was the most militant Seattle has ever seen. The Red Flag was hoisted in the assembly |room during the hearing. After win- ning their main demand, the workers sang the “Internationale” and “Sol- | idarity.” Before leaving the assembly room they drew up telegrams to Hoo- ver and the mayor of Minneapolis protesting against the attacks on the National Hunger March. They also voted unanimously for the organiza- tion of a State Hunger March in Jan- uary. Other demands on the County Commissioners for which the workers |are determined to continue to fight | include, union wages with a minimum | of $4.50 a day for common labor; no evictions, no water or light shut-offs: free hot lunches, including milk and ee transportation for school chil- ren. won ‘Appeal Verdict | Against Jobless Whe | Turned On Water. PORTLAND, Ore., Dec. 6.—Three | Workers were convicted by a bosses’ | jury for turning on water of an un- | employed worker. They were given a thirty-day suspended sentence, provided they do not turn on any more water. These three workers, Keller, Hansen and Benedict, mem- bers of the Errol Heights Unemploy- ed Council, participated in the turn- ing on of water in Benedict’s home. Benedict, seventy-one years old, and his wife live in a small shack | just outside the city limits, where the water is obtained from the city of Portland by a private company, the Darlington Water Company and | sold to the workers of Errol Heights | at three and four times the rates for | which the water is gotten from the city. Benedict, being unemployed, was unable to pay the high water rates and the private water company. turned the water off. The I. L. D. is appealing the case a GREET THE DAILY WORKER To All Workers & Organizations! Dear Comrades: SUNDAY, JAN. 8, 1933, MARKS THE NINTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE DAILY These were nine years of WORKER. Onward More Po hard struggle in the life of our paper. 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