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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 (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) 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 (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) 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 (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) 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-