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VOTE COMMUNIST FOR
1. Unemployment and Social Insurance at the ex
pense of the state and employers.
2. Against Hoover’s wage-cutting policy.
3. Emergency relief for the poor fanners without
restrictions by the government and banks; ex
emption of poor fanners from taxes, and no
forced collection of rents or debts.
Vo. IX, No. 166
Foster St Louis Meet to Demand Hands Off Jobless
A.W. MILLS
ARRESTED ON
DOAK ORDER
Was Leader of Hunger
March, Unemployed
Councils
HELD IN ELLIS ISLAND
Communist Party
Fights Invasion of
“Center”
NEW YORK.—A. W. Mills,
organizer of the National Hun
ger March to Washington last
December, and member of the
National Committee of the Un
employed Councils, was yester
day arrested in the Workers
Center, 35 E. 12th St., on a
deportation warrant issued by
the Department of Labor. He
is now held a prisoner in Ellis
island.
The arrest was made by im
migration inspector, George M.
Branwell and four plainclothes
men connected with the special
Radical Squad" established by for
mer police commissioner, Grover
Whalen, as part of his spying cam
paign upon militant workers of the
city.
Action Denounced.
The police brushed their way into
he Center and picked up Mills, at
the same time flashing a warrant is
sued by Doak's strikebreaking De
partment of Labor. The warrant
specified ? 1,000 as , >y- N
the amount of '
bail required to
effect Mills’ rel
case.
The Communist jjnff £
Party of the Uni- Wf. ~ M
ted States of Am- Wk * 1
erica, whose na- 1 *
tional office is loc- £L&
a ted in the Work
era* Center, yes-
let it be •
knoalii that it rMk ' •
would pot up a \
vigorous fight a
gainst the unlaw- H . „ hijl
ful invasion of the .
building by immi- ..
g ration officials •-
and police. -mfi
It will insist
upon all its rights in *
as a legal polit- A. W. MILLS
leal party and declares that it will
take the necessary measures to pro
tect these rights.
The arrest of Mills, a leader of the
Unemployed workers, is seen as part
of a national drive of the Hoover-
Doak government to halt the rising
; movement of the Jobless in their
; struggle for immediate relief and
! unemployment insurance. The at
■ tempt to dport Mills coincides with
.raids upon workers in steel mills in
(Sparrows Point, Maryland; Lacka
wanna, N. Y„ and on workers’ clubs
: in Chicago, and comes at a time
When the Fish-Dies deportation and
exclusion bill is being pushed in the
Senate.
Is a Prisoner,
Mills was first taken to the Mercer
St. station, where he was booked,
and later to Ellis Island. Allan Taub,
attorney for the International Labor
'Defense, accompanied Mills to Ellis
(island, but as the Daily Worker goes
jto press had not succeeded In effect
ing Mills’ release on ball.
IKeep Up Fight for
Children’s Relief
To mobilize masses of children and
.adults for the Woman’s and Chil-
Idren’s Demonstration, which are
I scheduled for July 12 but which was
postponed, the United New York
Children’s Committee announces that
around the Individual schools, and
b dividual playgrounds and in the
©rest neighborhoods, the light will
(continue for food for the needy chil
dren of unemployed, part-time and
underpaid workers.
iMakesTeachers Collect
Taxes for Back Pay
CHICAGO, 111., July 12. County
(treasurer McDonough hits on the
rnoney saving Idea of making the
teachers go out and become tax col
lectors in order that they can get
|Mr buck pay. i
Entered as second-class matter nt the Post Office
nt New York. N. Y„ nnder the net of March t, 187 P
Push Preparations
for Anti-War Meets
on August First
Workers Aroused By Huge Arms Shipments by
French Bosses to Japan for War on U.S.S.R.
Communist Candidate to Address Anti-War
Meet in Chicago; Other Cities Preparing
Huge Demonstrations
With the munition factories frantically turning out war material for
shipment to Japan, the W'orkers of the whole world are preparing tremen
dous, determined anti-war actions for August First, International Day of
Struggle Against Imperialist War.
In the United States and other capitalist countries while millions walk
the street starving and are denied.
relief, while capitalist industry is
generally paralyzed, the munition
factories are working over time turn
ing out material. The Atlanta Con
stiution reports:
“One hears a tremendous lot of
talking about war preparations. In
France munition factories arc
working three shifts a day. Long
trains loaded with al kinds of ma
terial are moving in southern dir- j
ection, then shipped to the Orient.
Japan is not through fighting. The
real objective of Japanese aims is
not Shanghai or Manchuria, the
real objective is to cut a slice from
the territory of the Soviet Union.”
Only determined anti-war actions
by the toiling masses can stop the
hands of the criminal war mongers
who are preparing to plunge the
world into a new and more frightful
slaughter. Every worker should be
on the streets on August Ltrst in mil
itant protest against the war-makers.
Demonstrate August First! Demand
all war funds for the unemployed!
Demands hands off China and the
Soviet Union!
* • •
Flan Lorain Demonstration
LORAIN, Ohio, July 12.—Plans are
being made here for a huge anti
war demonstration on August First.
The workers are strengthening their
counter-offensive against the bosses’
war and hunger drive on every field.
The Unemployed Council is increas
ing its membership by leaps and
bounds. A Hunger March to the
County seat at Elyria, Ohio, is being
organized for August 8. The young
workers whom the bosses home to
trap into the new slaughter they are
preparing are turning more and more
to the Young Communist League and
the fight against imperialist war.
• * *
Youth Demonstrate July 23.
CHICAGO, 111., July 12.—An anti
imperialist war Youth Demonstration
will be held here on July 23, as part
of extensive working class prepara
tions for August First, International
Day of Struggle Against Imperialist
War. The demonstration is being ar
ranged by the United Front Anti-War
Youth Committee of the West Side.
Isadore Tivin, a member of the
Young Communist League and Com
munist candidate for State Assembly
man in the 19th Senatorial District,
will be one of the main speakers.
In his election campaign, Comrade
Tivin will present the immediate de
mands of the young workers.
Trujillo In Ruitis
After Recapture by
Peru Government
Trujillo, the Peruvian city seized
by revolutionists, is now a desolate
ruin, a dispatch from Lima indica
ted yesterday in reporting its re
capture by government military de
tachments after a heavy bombard
ment by airplanes.
An official statement by the gov
ernment of Sanchez Cerro speaks of
the "destruction” accomplished by
the workes and peasants while in
control of the city, It refers also
to “untold” tortures inflicted upon
governmental officials and military
■officers.
This appears as an attempt to es
tablish a motive for unchaining a
terroristic drive against the workers
and peasants. As part of this drive,
airplanes sent by the government are
reported engaged in a savage pursuit
of the revolutionists who are being
killed as dogs while leaving the city
which they were forced to surrender.
500 Demand Mooney Release.
RENO Nevada, July 12.—About 500
workers attended a Tom Mooney
street meeting recently. Comrade
Kelso gave a splendid address. His
call for the unconditional release «of
Mooney and the Scottsboro boys met
with an enthusiastic approval by the
audience, ,
DailySWbrker
Central Party U.S.A.
Jailed In Ohio
MLine Fields
(Film-Photo League)
Donald Young, son of Art Young,
cartoonist, who was arrested yes
terday in the Ohio mine strike
zone.
THREAT TO CALL
TROOPS IN OHIO
Terror Wave Sweeps
Mine Fields
BELLAIRE, Ohio, July, 12.—Pros
! ecutor Paul V. Wadell threatened to
declare martial law in Belmont Coun
ty today following the shooting to
death of Steve Bowen, a mine picket,
here yesterday.
Donald Young, Landine Young, Ir
vin Lerner and James Burris, foud
young strike sympathizers who were
arrested by the National Guard yes
terday. are held in jail for violating
a federal injunction issued in 1929
against picketing.
35 in Court Tomorrow
All forces of the state are mobilized
in an attempt to smash the militant
strike of the Ohio coal miners. Thir
ty-five miners will be tried in Bel
mont County July 18 and twenty-two
more are held charged with violating
the Ohio mob law.
The Piney Fork Mine opened Mon
day, but only 12 men went to work.
The miners mass picketed the mine
throughout the day.
Miners in all sections of the strike
zone predict that the district confer
ence called by the UMWA here to
morrow will result in the officials
calling off the strike.
The rank and file of the miners
are putting up a struggle to carry on
the strike.
Force Miner Into Navy
One miner, Stanley Maraskifreed,
who was held in jail on a contempt
of court charge, was given a condi
tional release from jail today pro
viding he joined the navy.
State troopers were massed around
Powhattan Mine to protect scabs.
Mass picketing at the Provident mine
kept the scabs from working. The
"red scare” is being raised through
out the field.
Must Have Relief
Hunger is being felt everywhere.
The need of food has now become
urgent. Funds and food should be
sent at once to Room 4, Freter Build
ing, Bridgeport, Ohio.
To March Joly 15
Preparations for the Jefferson
County Hunger March are moving
along at full swing. At a mass meet
ing held yesterday scores of miners
pledged to rally to the march to de
nand immediate relief against star
vation.
VOTE COMMUNIST FOR:
4. Equal rights for the Negroes and
self-determination for the Black
Belt.
(Section of the Communist International)
NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, JULY 13, 1932
VETS CALL
A FIGHTING
CONFERENCE
All States Will Be
Represented at
Meet Today
LED BY RANK AND FILE
Waters Takes Hoover
Orders
WASHINGTON, D. C., June 12.
A mass conference of war veterans
called jy the rank and file committee
of the Bonus Expeditionary Forces
will open tomorrow at noon. Pace,
chairman of the rank and file com
mittee, announced today that the
conference would lay the base for a
rank and file organization of veterans.
The veterans will meet at 12th and
“B” Sts., before noon and march to
the conference hall in a body.
Delegates from All States
Delegates representing every state
from all sections of the B. E. F. are
c'uected at tomorrow’s conference.
rt leader of a large group of vet
erans from Pittsburgh stated today
that he was in favor of the rank and
file organization. He proposed that
the veterans in Camp Anacostla elect
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Bill Passed to Cut
Real Wages Through
Currency Inflation
WASHINGTON, July 12.—A further
step toward deliberate Inflation was
marked when the Senate adopted the
Glass Bill which Senator Borah urged
as a substitute to the Goldsborough
’’stabilization’’ bill.
If enaoted by Congress and signed
by the president, this bill will bring
about a billion dollar expansion of the
currency with a corresponding depre
ciation, Which will reduce the buying
power of workers’ wages.
The bill authorizes the utilization of
all government bonds bearing 3 3-8
per cent interest to back up the in
surance of paper money. It is es
timated that banks will thus be em
powered to issue close to one billion
dollars in new currency.
The author of th eblll made no at
tempt to deny that the bill calls for
monetary Inflation. On the contrary
he admitted this when he termed the
bill a step toward “diffusive infla
tion.’’
To the workers this inflation will
mean a substantial reduction of their
real wages, as measured in terms of
the commodities that they can buy.
PELLAGRA IS RAMPANT
IN REYNOLD’S FACTORY
Wages in Slain Tobacco Heir’s Camel
Plant Ten Cents an Hour
In the stifling tropical heat of mid-summer in the “Black Belt,”
thousands of Negro and white workers sweat profusely making Camel
cigarettes in the huge plant of the Reynolds Tobacco factory. Their pay
is as low ak ten cents an hour: their average wages are $9 a week.
The speed-up is heart-breaking. One man now does the work that
only recently was done by six machine-operators and their six girl
helpers. A wide-spread spying system helps the Reynolds to keep their
wage-slaves encased In steel bends. If a worker is caught smoking a
Lucky Strike he is fired immediately.
Pellagra—a starvation disease put* and simple—is rampant among
the workers in the Reynolds' factory.
Within view of the Reynolds’ factory is the 374-room castle of the
Reynolds’ family. The castle cost $5,080,000. Its' fixtures are made of
pure gold. Adjoining the mansion is the Reynolds' private lake with a
luxurious boathouse. The $5,000,000 that the Reynolds paid for the castle
is a drop in the bucket of the Reynolds’ fortune. In a period of five
years the Reynolds’ family took $127,000,000 in profits from the Camel
factory.
Smith Reynolds, 20-year-old heir to the Reyiv,ds' fortune, was bored
with life. His world was a tiny place inhabited by a few parasites like
himself. He was less conscious of the wage-slave who toil for him than
he was of the trees of his estate. He is finally killed or commits suicide.
Workers, support the only party that fights for the destruction of
such a system. Support the only party that fights for the unity of all
workers, Negro and white, native-born and foreign-born, in the struggle
for a workers' and farmers’ government such as .exists in the Soviet
Union.
Contribute to the $100,004 Fighting Fund for the Communist Elec
tion Campaign so the Communist program can be brought to the work
ers in. the Reynolds’ faetoVy, to all the oppressed toilers of city and
country. Help the Communist Party—the ONLY workingclass party—
distribute its literature to every nook and comer of the United States.
You can do this by contributing immediately and getting your
friends and shop-mates to contribute to the election campaign fund of
the Communist Party. Send your contribution to this paper, or to the
Communist National Election Campaign Committee, Box 87. Station D,
New York, N. Y., or to the District Office of the CT.V.S.A, In your
viclsfcr, or Jo any accmditqil npjurMfhMtTO of tjp C£,g,g-A* \
French Alarmed at
U. S. Hostility to
Debt “Agreement”
“Gentlemen’s Agreement” Nullifies Lausanne
Pact Unless U. S. Cancels Debts
Bosses Try to Rush Us Into War With Growing
Demand to Grab Colonies
"The hostile reaction in the U. S. Senate to the ‘’gentlemen's agree
ment” attached to the sham Lausanne “solution” of war debts and repar
ations payments Is causing grave apprehension in Trench imperialist ciro'es.
Publication of a summery of the “gentlemen's agreement” shows that
Germany has not been relieved of the payment of war tributes under the
i Lausanne agreement. The agreement
HOOVER RUSHES
TO STOP QUIZ ON
TREASURY RAIDS
Makes Bargain With
Democrats to Stop
Exposures
BULLETIN
Owen D. Young, who is a Demo
crat has been offered the place of
president of the Reconstruction
Finance Board by President Hoover.
This is part of the bargain
Hoover is making with the Demo
crats to hash up the exposure of
the raids by the financiers on the
U. S. Treasury and the Reconstruc
tion Finance Corporation.
• • •
President Hoover rushed forward
yesterday in frantic haste to cover
up the stink of the gigantic raids
on the U. S. Treasury by the big
bankers and financiers and to head
off the threatened investigation of
the Reconstruction Finance Corpora
tion by the Senate.
In a hastily pfepared message to
Congress, Hoovr offered to reorganize
the Reconstruction Finance Corpora
tion to permit joint control of its
funds by the Democratic and Repub
lican Parties. He sacrificed Eugene
Meyer, Governor of the Federal Re
serve Board and Paul Bester, Farm
Loan Commissioner in his efforts to
placate the democrats. He also moved
to Increase the corporation’s board
from 7 to 8 to permit the democrats
equal control with the republicans of
the corporation’s funds. He thus as
sured the democrats that all of the
corporation's funds will not be used
to push the republican election cam
paign, that the democrats will be per
mitted to share in the graft.
The Hoover maneuver was followed
by a move In Congress to forestall
exposure of the huge gifts made by
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CITY EDITION
merely postpones these payments and
sets up a new reparations plan. Un
der the new plan the United States
would in effect have to cancel the
war debts owed to it by France, Eng
land, Italy and other European pow
ers. It is this fact that has caused
a furious protest in the U. S. Senate
and in American financial circles.
The American bourgeois press yes
terday pointed out that the Euro
pean imperialist powers have already
collected the huge war tribute of
$17,500,000,000 from Germany, nearly
double what they owe the United
States and about ten times the
amount they have paid upon their
American war debts. These billions
of dollars arc squeezed out of the
hides of the workers.
Strong opposition to any cancella
tion is expressed by all sections of
the American bourgeoisie, with some
sections raising the demand that the
European powers surrender some of
their colonics to the United States
in payment of their debts. This de
mand can only be realized through
an imperialist war. This demand is
growing, as the American imperial
ists realize that it will be impossible
to collect any money from the Eu
ropean powers. Most of these powers
are on the verge of bankruptcy as a
result of the hammer blows of the
crisis and their huge expenditures
for armaments in competition with
each other and the United States,
but mainly in preparation for armed
intervention against the Soviet Union.
COPS THREATEN
MOTHER MOONEY
Break Up Meeting In
Flint, Mich.
FLINT, Mich., July 12.—A wave of
intimidation which has been sweeping
this region was climaxed last night
when a small army of policemen
smashed a Mooney-Scottsboro meet
ing and threatened eighty-four year
old Mother Mooney with violence.
When Mother Mooney and Richard
Moore. supported by assembled
workers, demanded the right to enter
the meeting hall. Police Chief Willis
warned them he would stop at noth-
MOTHER MOONEY
ing if they atempted to enter the
hall.
Mother Mooney shook her gnarled
first in Willis’ face and shouted: “I
just dare you!”
Terrorized by the police, the hall
keepers refused use of the hall de
spite arrangements.
Earlier in the week John Varga and
Mack Shoen were jailed for distribut
ing Mooney leaflets. Varga is now
being held for deportation—another
possible victim of the Dies Bill.
Another meeting was broken up
when workers attempted to gather in
the Women's Center. The workers
were driven away by state and city
police brandishing their weapons
fiercely. Tom Bakunin was jailed.
Todor Antonor, Communist Party
secretary for this district, is being
held for deportation as a resul tof his
XQIIitAQCIk **
wJU-i
VOTE COMMUNIST FOR
4. Equal rights for the Negroes and self-determin
ation for the Black Belt.
6. Against capitalist terror; against all forms of
suppression of the political rights of workers.
6. Against imperialist war; for the defense of
the Chinese people and of the Soviet Union.
WILL PROTEST
SHOOTING OF
FOUR WORKERS
Communist Presidential Candidate Will Speak
In St. Louis Thursday
Will Demand Immediate Feeding of Masses
of Starving Workers
ST. LOUIS, July 12.—Indignation ran high throughout the working class
sections of the city today following a brutal police attack on the demon
stration of unemployed at City Hall yesterday Which culminated in the
shooting of four workers.
The Unemployed Council and all workers’ organizations arc planning
a huge demonstration Thursday to;
protest against the bloody attack.
William Z. Foster, Communist can
didate for President of the United
States, will be the chief speaker at
this meeting.
The bloody attack of the police
was an answer of the city govern
ment to the masses of unemployed
workers who marched under the lead
ership of the Unemployed Council to
the City Hall Friday and forced the
Mayor to grant immediate relief to
thousands of hungry workers. The
workers in this demonstration com- j
pelled the city government to grant j
three demands.
Four men, one of them a TJegro
worker, now lie In hospi'lls in a
critical condition with bullets from
the police guns in their bodies;
scores more are suffering from lacer
ations and bruises and twenty-five
men and ten women are in the St.
Louis jail. This is the answer of the
“liberal” St. Louis city government
to the demands of the thousands of
| starving workers for food and relief
from hunger and evictions .
Although it was reported yesterday
that the demonstration numbered
around 2,000, later estimates show
that fifteen thousand workers par
ticipated in the mass meeting at
City Hall.
The demonstration yesterday fol
lowed a mass hunger march Friday
which forced the city government to
give immediate relief to al! present at
the City Hr.ll and to distribute seven
thousand sacks of flour held by the
Farm Board. Three thousand workers
were given immediate relief. The del
egation representing the workers yes
terday demanded that a stop be put
to all evictions, that a loan of $50,000.-
000 be secured from the Reconstruc
tion Finance Corporation to be used
for building workers’ homes and re
pairing streets and alleys in the
working class neighborhoods and that
$10,000,000 be immediately appropri
ated by the city for relief of the
unemployed.
The shooting started after a dele
gation of workers went into the City
Hall where a special meeting of the
Board of Aldemen were being held.
A group of women workers and ex
servicemen moved up to the City Hall
to find out what liad become of the
delegation. The police promptly
opened fire from the third floor of
the City Hall.
At once a tremendous encounter
began, the police useing their clubs,
tear gas, and black-jacks, the work
ers defending themselves with their
fists and stones. Nine policemen
were injured in the clash. Many of
the City Hall windows were smashed.
REPORTS BRAZIL
REVOLT SPREADS
British Imperialism
Backing Revolt
The military revolt against Pres
ident Getullo Vargas in Brazil is
more serious than is admitted in the
official statements issued by the gov
ernment, a dispatch from Buenos
Aires indicated yesterday.
The strict censorship established by
President Vargas did not prevent dis
patches from reaching Rivera, on the
Uruguayan side of the frontier, to
the effect that four states are al
ready Involved in the revolt.
The revolt originated in the state
of San Pualo and it seems that Brit
ish imperialism is backing It. A dis
patch from Buenos Aires stated that
the revolt Is a “long expected explo
sion” against the de facto regime of
Getulio Vargas who in October of
1930 led an armed attack upon the
pro-British government of Louls-
Prestes.
After a long-drawn struggle, Get
ulio Vargas, a petty-bourgeois "lib
eral” and a tool of American imper
ialism, seized power preventing the
president “elected” Glullo Preetes
from substituting Lotus at the eh
nlr f t l?i n "t Ml \ *
Price 3 Cents
FOSTER TO SPE AK
IN ST. LOUIS ON
THURSDAY EVE.
Workers to Defy Ban
By Police, Push
Relief Fight
ST. LOUIS. Mo., July 12
Defying the blustering threat
of the police that “all gather
ings of Communists are pro
hibited,” workers are prepar
ing to welcome William Z.
Foster, Communist candidate
for president, who speaks here
Thursday evening at Turner
Hall. 1508 Chouteau Avenue.
The police ban is an attempt to
evade responsibility for their
murderous assualt upon a dem
onstration of 3,000 hungry
workers under the leadership
of the Unemployed Councils which
yesterday stormed the City Hall Four
workers were shot, scores injured and
32 workers, seven of them women,
were arrested by the police after tear
gas bombs were thrown into the
crowd by them.
Demands to the Fore.
As in Los Angeles, where Foster
led a protest demonstration m—' \-,t
the shooting of an unemployed work,
er. the Communist presidential can
didate will bring to the fore the
demands of the jobless for immediate
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HOOVER IN NEW
HUNGER MOVE
‘■'Compromise” on Way
to Aid Bankers
WASHINGTON, July 13.
Senate Banking Committee ap
proved the new Wagner bill drafted
along Hoover’ suggestions as out
lined In his message.
• • •
WASHINGTON, July 12. Early
passage of a compromise “relief” bill
along Hoover's proposal was predicted
yesterday in the House of Representa
tives upon receipt of the presidential
message vetoing the Garner-Wagner
bill on account of its provision for
loans to "individuals.'’
Workers Will Get Nothing
The new bill will contain no pro
vision for aid of any kind to th#
starving jobless workers. The sec
tion of the Garner-Wagner Bill call
ing for a limited amount of public
works will be further modified ac
cording to Hoover’s \tarvaton policy.
It is clear therefore that not even
a "promise” of employment In the
distant future and for a few worker*
will be contained in the “relief” bill.
Garner and Wagner agree on Hoo
ver’s proposal.
All Aid to Bankers, Says Hoover
The fight over the best method of
providing relief to the bankers and
business men through the Finance
Reconstruction Corporation will be
ended by striking out of the new bill
the provision for loans to “indlvid
uals.'’
Fight for Social Insurance
In answer to Hoover's hunger and
war policy, the workers rally for
struggle demanding social insurance
at the expense of the government.
They show an ever firmer determina
tion to fight against Hoover's policy
of starving the. jobless,and their chil-