The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 8, 1932, Page 1

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PLANES BOMB TOWN MEXICO CITY, Dec. 7—The Mex. ican government has sent a mil protest to its Wall Street masters against the ruthless bombing of the Mexican border town of Tijuana,| Lower California, by American army | Planes during maneuvers on Nov. 22. | A number of houses were set on fire by. the bombing. FORCE ARREST OF K.K.K. THUGS LONG BEACH, Cal—Mass pres-| sure and _ widespread indignation have caused the re-arrest of five Ku Klux Klan raiders who participated in a cowardly and brutal invasion of a workers’ home on Nov. 16. These men were previously released by the | Long Beach police but were re-ar- rested following a prolonged fight by | workers and liberal organizations which compelled the County Grand Jury to order the arrests. PREPARE 2.135 BEER BILL WASHINGTON, Dec. 7.—The for- | mulation of a 2.75 per cent beer bill, which Democratic House Leaders ex- pect te submit for action next week, js in progress before the Ways and Means Committee. A majority in either house is sufficient to secure | beer legislation, as compared with a two-thtrds majority necessary fo1 adoption of a See A ete amend: ment. Ce ae WORKERS KILLED BY BLAST RATHENOW, Germany, Dec. 7.—A terrific explosion at the I. G. Farbin artificial silk works at Premnitz, wrecked a section of the plant killing ten workers and covering a number of others under the debris, making it impossible to establish the total loss of life Sen +e BRAZIL PREPARES INTERVEN- ION RIO DE JANEIRO, Dec. 7.—Two battalions of Brazilian troops have been ordered to the Peru frontier op- posite the Amazon River port of Lrticia. It was stated that the move & preparatory to ‘intervention by Brazil in the event of a conflict be- tween Columbia and Peru as to the ownership of the port. PERSIA DEFIES ANGLOOIL KINGS Warns Britain Not to) Land Troops on Its Soil | LONDON, Dec. 7—The British war mongers are frothing at the mouth and threatening an armed at- tack on Persia, following receipt here yesterday of a note from the Persian government defying the British ulti- matum denying Persia the right of control over its own natural re- sources. Insist On Persia’s Right. The Persian note insists on Per- sia’s right to annul the British oil grab concession held by the Anglo- Persian Oil Co. Notification a few days ago by the Persian government of annulment of the concession Kearney Plant Works Overtime on War Orders Worker Correspondents are al- ready beginning to respond to the appeal in the Worker Corres- pondence Section of Dec. 2, for information concerning War preparations in factories. We just received the following: . 8 8 ‘ KEARNEY, N. J.—I am working in a small manufacturing plant here, owned by the Pollack Mfg. Co. They have received an order for 7,000 powder containers from the Navy. We are working over- time on the order. There is also an order coming in next week for 22,000 more. If you want to publish this go ahead. Iam a constant reader of the Daily Worker, the paper of the exploit~ ed masses. —A Worker, brought fierce protests from the Brit- ish imperialists, who hinted at the use of force. It was reported at the same time that U. S. imperialist in- terests had grabbed several conces- sions from the Persian government over teh heads of their British rival and that Persia was receiving ship- ments of arms, munitions and planes from the United States. Warns Britain. The Persian note is reported to have warned the British that the landing of a single soldier on Per- sian soil will bring retaliatory mea- sures and stern defense of its terri- tory: by Persia. It reflects the rising rebellion of the Persian people against imperialism. It points out, in effect, that a few well placed shells or a single well-aimed bomb dropped into the vast refinery at Abadanto FARM RELIEF)" CONFERENCE IN SESSION | Overall Clad Delegates | Enthusiastic, Demand | Moratorium on Debts) | NEGROES “FROM SOUTH \24 States "Represented jand More on the Way; WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. | 7.—The tional Farm Relief | Conference was ready to open | |here this morning at 11 o’clock. | lTt will hold sessions until the. levening of Dec. 10, and will} work out a statement to con- |gress and to the workers and | farmers of the whole country on the exploitation of both by ‘the food | trust. Prices to the farmers for) farm products are so low that wide- | spread ruin, thousands of bankrupt | ‘arms, has already been the result, | vtih foreclosures on a mass scale | and eviction through seizure of the | \jand for taxes just as bad. |that prices of farm produce which } city workers have to pay are as high | | as ever, and the amount of the sale jis limited, forcing down farm prices still more. | The conference will certainly |declaring a moratorium on farm| | debts and taxes, and for real farm relief from the government, with- out the present restrictions. Wide Representation. The conference is made up of del- egates from all parts of the country, | all elected, either at mass meetings | in the communities or by organiza- | tions. The United Farmers League is the only mass organization of farmers which officially endorses the conference, but the lower branches of the Farmers Union, Grange, Farm Holiday Association, and “Producers’ dorsed it and sent delegates. ‘The call to the conference was is- | farm strike this summer. of land and organization of the farmers’ struggle, by Ella Reeve Many delegations to the confer- ence had not arrived as the hour of assembly drew near, but were re- ported coming from all points of the compass and due to arrive before it | | ends. Last night, the committee in charge sas, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Texas, Oklahoma Pennsyl- | vania, Washington, Massachusetts, New Jedsey, New York, Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine, Rhode Is- land, Michigan, Illinois, Iowa, Neb- raska, South Dakota, North Dakota, Montana, Idaho and Oregon; 24 states. Negro Delegates. The delegates here are all enthu- siastic. They came clad in their working clothes, overalls and coats. Yhey are Negro farmers from the South. There are women farmers present also, (Two boys, aged 15 and 19, sons of a disposessed Washington farmer are among the delegates. The conference will start with re- ports from each state delegation on the situation ta home, and with the election of a permanent chairman and resolutions committee of seven. After the reports and elections, the conference will take up the resolutions submitted by regional groups. There are four of such groups. Group 1 is: New England, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York and the Middle West. Group 2 is the South. Group 3 is the Great Plains west of the Mississippi River and east of the Rocky Mountains. Group 4 is the Far West, Idaho, Wyoming, Wash- ington, Oregon and Montana, Hospitals Refuse Aid to Sick Mother of 8 BROOKLYN, N. Y.—Mrs. Madnick, of 61 Taylor St., appealed to the Mount Sinai Hospital for treatment last week, but when she came there they wouldn't treat her unless she had $15, including $5 for a blood test and $5 for an ex-ray. Since her husband is unemployed and she has eight children, she could not pay, so the hospital referred her to the Jew- ish Hospital, which in turn passed the buck to the Kings County Hos- pital. The Home Relief has refused ald to the family. While nurses are being fired by the city, sick workers like Mrs. Mad- refused | nick are turned away by the hospi- | adopt demands on congress for a law | organizations, have en-| Bloor, of the United Farmers League. | reported delegates here from Arkan- | | various | ington. jand file of the Khaki shirts are ac- | | the Washington police are attempt- | sued by a united front committee | formed nationally of representatives | return with the hunger marchers, |of all organizations and was sug-| the veteraps will stay on, it is an- gested by unanimous yote of thous-| nounced by the Veterans’ | ands of farmers demonstrating in| Rank Sioux City, Ia., at the height of the | headquarters at 905 The dem- | | onstration’ had been addressed OM | come here since Sund the subject of resistance to seizure | groups are arriving daily. | ington for The Fight for Bread in Wall Street’s 2 ae _ The mighty demonstration of 3, the 16,000,000 unemployed of this country, through the streets of bhe capital of Wall Street's government Tuesday, was supported by a demonstration in New York at City Hall, Wall Street itself, of 8,000 workers demanding winter relief. 000 hunger marchers, representing right under the shadow of Photo shows sections of the two great demonstrations, above, the parade in Washington and below, the thousands massed at City Hall, New York. Third Truck of Newark Veterans Leaves Today 'Bonus Marchers Start Ex-Servicemen Alrea for Wa shington; 1,000 dy There, to Stay On At the same time, the farmers see} Plan Conference of Vets; Bill Introduced in| House to Split Fight for Bonus NEWARK, N. J., Dec. 7.—A third truck filled with Newark bonus marchers -will leave for Washington tomorrow (Thursday). trucks left Tuesday with a contingent of 50 Newark veterans who have | already joined the 1,000 ex-servicemen from all parts of the country now | The first two in the capital to demand immediate payment of the bonus and no cuts in | the compensation to disabled vet-® erans, ‘Today a meeting was held in Mil- itary Park to recruit vets for the bo- nus march. Another meeting will be held in the park tomorrow noon. |The Rank and File Committee for the Second Bonus March, a united front movement in which the rank | tively participating, is leading the | work of rallying the Newark ex- servicemen for the march to Wash- Bonus Marchers Stay On. | WASHINGTON, Dec. 7. — Though | ing to force the bonus marchers to} National | Committee, with | “I” St., N. W. About 1,000 bonus marchers have y amd new and File In addi+ tion to these, the Rank and File} Committee is rallying the 3,000 vets | who have drifted in here since the first bonus march and 3,000 more who | are permanent residents of Wash- | a determined struggle to wrest from Congress payment of the | bonus now. Plans are being made to hold a bonus marchers’ conference and a memorial for Hushka and Carlson, ex-servicemen killed on Bloody ‘Thursday, July 28, by Hoover's police and troops when they attacked the first army of bonus marchers. , The Rank and File Committee calls on veterans and sympathizers throughout the country to help main- tain the bonus marchers here by raising funds and sending them to the Veterans’ National Rank and File Committee, Box 38, Station D, New York City. eet 38 Bill Aims To Divide Vets WASHINGTON, Dec. 7.—In an effort to divide the veterans and to throw some of them a few crumbs in order to smash the fight for imme- diate payment of the full bonus, Representative Thomas Jenkins, Re- publican, of Ohio, today introduced a bill which would give a little money to a limited number of ex-service- men. This bill provides: 1. Only those who have borrowed to the full amount allowed by law on their bonus—50 per cent—would be eligible to the new payment. 2. This payment would not be in full now, but one-helf in 1933 and the other half in 1934. 3. Payment would-be denied to all federal state county and city gov- ernment employes and to all vets who paid income fares in 1932, Asks Cuts in Payments WASHINGTON, Dec. 7.—Backing Hoover's demand for slashing reduc-' el tions in the payments being made to disabled war veterans the Vet- erans’ Administration in its annual report issued yesterday, asked that Congress appoint a committee to make specific recommendations as to how the attack on the veterans is to be put over. The report also opposed immediate payment of the ex-service- men’s back wages known be the bonus, PIONEER TROOPS NOTE The new December issue of the New Pioneer is out, containing re- ports, drawings and stories of the Children’s Hunger March to Wash- ington. All New York troops are urged to call at the national office of the New Pioneer to get their bundles re the magazine immediately. TALKS IN THE LEAGUE HIDE WAR PLOTS | Spouts Pacifist | Phrases While Guns Roar SHAM ATTACK ON JAPAN} | Small Powers “De- nounce”; Big Pow- ers Silent GENEVA, Dec. 7. The League of Nations Assembly | continued its discussion on the Manchurian situation today. While throughout Manchuria and other regions of the crisis- | torn capitalist world the big guns are thundering their ghastly prelude to a, new world | slaughter, the imperialist powers are here engaged in sham “peace” moves. This pacifist demagogy ranges from | open “condemnation” of the Japan-! |ese robber war in Manchuria by the puppet states of the big powers to | discreet silence on the part of the big powers themselves. U. S. im- perialism is represented by Hoover's plenipotentiary John H. Davis, and U.S. Minister Hugh Wilson as mere | |“observers” in the open ut active | Participants behind the scenes. | Follow Lytton Report. Czechoslovakia, French . vassal | State, and the British vassal states GREET MARCHERS TODAY AT 6 P. M. Delegation to Demand “Daily News” Retract BULLETIN NEW YORK.—Send funds to aid the marchers to return home and make their report. Send money to National Hunger March Commit- tee, 146 Fifth Ave. Word has just been received that the New York marchers are having much trouble because of sickness, due to police persecution, also because of truck breakdowns and lack of funds, se « NEW YORK.—Four hundred and fifty National Hunger Marchers sent {to Washington from New York will} be back here today. They will enter the city ready to report directly to those who elected them, and will dis- j;mount from their trucks at Union Square at 6 p.m. They did a good job; come down | to meet them and tell them so! The crowd at Union Square will proceed to Cooper Union, to hold a mass meeting and hear further re- ports from the marchers, and to make plans for carrying on the struggle for winter reliéf, for un- employment insurance, and for local demands: cash relief, free coal for the unemployed, no evictions, hot | lunches for school children, no wage | cuts for city workers, etc. Call “News” To Account A committee will be elected at Cooper‘Union to go to the New York Daily News, which published the filthiest possible lies about the Na~- tional Hungay March in its Washing- ton correspondence. The News weiii. so far as to fake a speech which they described Benjamin, secretary of the National Committee of the Unem- ployed Councils, as delivering to the interned marchers. The News said falsely that Benjamin, called for bloodshed, that the marchers wanted violence, etc. This story was pub- lished at the time Washington police were trying in every possible way, by jeering, by wrecking the tires and machinery of the marchers’ trucks, to provoke bloodshed, and the story it- self was designed to afford an excuse for the police with their gas and machine guns to simply slaughter the marchers right in the camp. ‘The committee to the Daily News will demand a retraction of these slanders, and admission that their story of Benjamin's speech was faked, and will report back to the Cooper Union meeting the answer of the Daily News editor, or whether he will answer at all. After that, proper steps will be considered to expose the liars on the News to the masses of workers. Bronx Delegates to Report This Sunday Hunger March delegates will re- port at a public meeting of the Cam- berling Avenue Unemployed Council at 7 p. m. this Sunday at 595 East 184th eon the Bronx. Other ent- ertainment will be provided by the John Reed Club, the Italian Workers’ Chorus and the Workers Laboratory Th Adenesion free, |} of Norway, Sweden and the Irish | Free State lead the sham attack on | Japan. The hypocrisy of this at- tack is apparent as it is well-known | | that France and England are se ‘retly supporting Japan's robber acts | jin Manchuria. representatives of these puppet states for “reconciliation of China and Japan.” This is the line laid |down by the Lytton Report which | openly advises Japan to seek to coi Solidate its position in Manchuria by jan agreement with the Nanking }lackeys of world imperialism. They | want Nanking’s co-operation in pa- | cifying Manchuria, therby facilitat- | ing the plans of world imperialism |for armed intervention against the | Soviet Union. | League—Organizer of War. | While the big powers kept out of , the discussion, the smal) powers flayed Japan. They exposed her pre- | tenses that Manchoukuo was not | puppet state set up and maintained by Japanese bayonets. At the same time, they viciously attacked the right of the Chinese people to in- stitute a trade boycott against the imperialist enemy, thus further show- jing the sham nature of the attack !on Japan, This is clearly a man- | ouver to bolster up the shatterd pres- tige of the League of Nations and | conceal its role as the organizer of armed intervetnion against the Chin- | | ese Revolution and the Soviet Union. The manouver is an attempt to | | conceal from the world toilers the growing war situation in the strug- gle over the war debts, the increas- ingly ditter trade war, the unde- jared war in Manchuria, Central | and South China, and in the Gran | Chaco and Putumayo regions of | South America, While the League was disctssing its sham “peace” moves, Britain was threatening | armed intervention against Persia | over the annulment of the Brit- ish oil grab in that country, while the U. S. was forcing the Spanish Republic to guard the interests of | the International Telgraph and | Telpnone Company, an American concern in Spain. Report 90 Killed in | Coal Mine Disaster; Company Hides Facts | | 1 ALBUQUERQUE, N. M., Dec. 1— | With reports placing the number of | | killed as high as 90, the Albuquerque Cerrillos Coal Company today issued a statement that nine men were killed in an explosion at its mine at Madrid, 40 miles north of here. ‘The company's report is very vague and is quite different from reports given by. passengers on a train that passed through Madrid. These de- clared that while eight or nine bodies had been recovered, at least 60 had been trapped inside, of whom many were undcubtedly dead. The mine, | which is non-union, had been closed and reopened only this morning. Company negligence is believed Te- sponsible for the disaster. It is made all the | ing | more clear by the pleas made by the | Whole neighborhood to come in and| | Auto. Takes Life of Wright, Montana Communist Organizer POCATELLO, Idaho, Dec. 6—) Comrade Willis L. Wright, Commu-| nist Party unit organizer of Great Falls, Montana, was instantly killed Jast night when he was hit by an automobile driven, by Joseph Mc- Graw Nat’?! Marchers on Way to Lead Loca All Columns March Out of Washin gton, to Report Back to Mas Reynolds Chairman, Amter f 25; Two Delegates Killed by Police Terr Dec. 7.—The 3,000 WASHINGTON, D. C., N tic and disciplined’ march through Washington streets yesterd mands on Congress, returned to camp resume d their Nationa elected officers, and are nows —— re on their way back to make re- Elected Jobless Head ports to those who sent them. Their reports will describe the Tocious treatment meted out to e! ed delegates of the unemployed b Washington authorities, and the suc- cessful crashing through arbi regulations against parading—a vic | tory won by aid of the mass pressure | of the workers throughout the coun- try, shown in mass demonstrations and telegraphed resolutions, | New Siruggles, Their reports will rouse nev, more powerful struggles in every dustrial center. The Northeastern delegations, Col- umns 7 and 8, left last night, stopped | over in Baltimore, and will be wel-| comed tomor: night by a mass} 2 meeting at Union Square, New York) 3 City, at 6 p.m. Those at the meeting| will march then to Cooper Union and hold a mass’ meeting there. 50 Meetings In Chicago. ‘acl A , Communist candi- In Chicago the returning Israel “Amter, Co! 1 : na!) date this year for Governor of New Marchers will be met at Gary, In-| york, was elected by 3,060 National | diana, by bic delegations of local and’ Hunger Ma , delegates to the Chicago wor! who will~march| National Conference of the Unem- be ae age Give Biya >| ployed councils in Washington. as Dec. 12. Fifty meetings in member of their Natienal Com- | of town have been arranged for that | night, in which National Marchers| {will report. Every Unemployed| Council braricliin Chicago is mect- that night, and inviting the mittee of the Unemployed. He was then elected secretary of the Na- tional Committee, MRS. MONTGOMERY AT ALA. MEETS Takes Fight aoe Negro Lads Into Lynch Area hear the reports Washington. Elect Leadership. A National Committee of the Un- employed Councils was elecied by of the delegates to the 3,000 marchers in the Natio’ Conference meeting after the ma has yesterday. Th committe members, and w elected from the whole conference. I tually has representation, Se from all parts of the country. | one-third of its members ¢ Gi MO MLARS Ewer RET anh ae groes, and there are several uncm-, of meetings of Mrs. Viola Montgom~- ployed women mgmbe: It er me r of Olen Montgomery, one maintain national offices both in are 2 Scottsboro boys, in Bir- id New York ‘ am and y, under the aus- e held its! pices of the It ional Labor De- first and re chairman ithusiastic from the Negro w jamin, former ational, Despite obposition from organizer, and ele Aimter § of the Birmingha of Ne the new secretary of | St del the Ni ttze 3 n Meth About 100 erence, and 300 worke’ Pretest Amter's first act ‘ovecat’on, s to go with a present. (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) Bishop Shaw bitterly opposed permitting Mother Montgomery to speak, and attacked her and the whole Scottsboro defense from the platform of the conference. This attack was embiazoned in the local capitalist press. But pressure from the rank and file Negro workers and delegates to the conference had forced him to yield, to the extent even of turning about completely and speaking for the Scottsboro de- n introducing Mother Mont- Shadow of the Hune-er Marchers Over Capitol Mother same night Montgomery spoke the to fifty workers in a at several neighborhood meetings. | The next night to a larse group of Negro liberals, on December 4 in a church in the coal-mining town of Sayreton. Sunday at St. John’s and Metropolitan Churches, the. two larg- jest Negro churches in Birmingham. advancing silhouette of the great army of hunger marchers parade along’ Pennsylvania, Avenue toward tho one ~ ‘Rackgrompale “4 The as they ing, seen in Secretary of New | Woodlawn neighborhood church, and | Struggles "Sinicitas Shouting Slogans; s Who Se nt Them; Elect Leadership National Committee or; Woman. Flogged ationa] Hunger Marchers, after their drama- y, and presentation of de~ 1 Conference on Hnemploy mene: BANKERS BEHIND HOOVER SPEECH Budget Message Con- tinues Attack on Toilers Hoover's message to the 72nd bankers’ congress which called for further atta upon e standards of life of the toiling 1 vorably received both and democrats. Yesterday the Con- gress was awaiting the Hoover: bud- get message which would contain the same bankers’ program in the terms of dollars and cents. The outstanding points of Hoover's message are: 1. The sales tax which adds to the price of commodities. It takes the burden of maintaining their own bandit government off the big capi talists and pl it upon the poor. 2. Another wage slash for federa! employees, which is the signal for further general wage cuts in all in- dustries. | 3. Extension of the “spread worl or stagger system, which also eee the wages of employees, 4. Cutting down*of appropriations for veterans’ relief. Thus the mes- sage not only refrains from men- tioning the bonus demands of the ex- soldiers, but proposes to cut down the already miserable relief. 5. The maintenance of the war debts to forward the imperialist policy of Wall Street. No suggestion of can- cellation, or wiping out of these debts which are squeezed out of the toiling masses, 6. Further building of armaments under the hypocritical plea of “in- creasing defense powers” of the country. 7. Further concentration of fin- ancial power under a system permit- re, | ting the establishment of branches of | big banks throughout the country. 8. Cuts in public works which promised jobs to a few workers in the future. False Statistics Given Again Hoover fépeated his decep- | tive campaign lie that recovery from the economic “depression” had al- | Teady set in as @ result of the activity of the Reconstruction Finance Cor- | poration which placed billions at the | disposal of the banks and industries while denying relief to the workers | and farmers. | In the face of mass starvation, un- | dernourishment, with its accompany- ing disease and death, and the great | drop in the birth rate, Hoover tried | to make it appear that public health {was advancing and that the infant | death rate was declining. j Democrats Play Game | While the republican politicians praised the speech, some democratic members of congress pretended to be dissatisfied because it was not speci- fic enough and made no concrete proposals for recovery, However, none of them assailed it on any fun- damental point for the simple reason that their own program is no differ- | ent from Hoover's. They endeavor to help Wall Street put over its pro- gram and try to defeat the mass movement against hunger and war by fostering the illusion that Roose- velt will be different from Hoover when in office. Democrats in Senate Plan Fake Move for “Broadened Relief” WASHINGTON, Dec. 7—Forcea by the demonstration of the 3,000 representatives of the 16,000,000 un- employed to make some gesture at