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The daily worker., 1932-06-04
SWOPE WAGE CUT
PLAN ADOPTED

The "Swope Plan" has been
adopted by the National Association
of electrical Manufacturers.
The plan, announced first by
Gerard Swope, president of the Gen
eral Electrical Company, is a scheme
to tax 100000 employees at work, one
per cent of it to provide mot more
than half his former pay and in no
case not more than $40 a week" for
ten weeks for those who have been
able to starve along on Swope pay for
six months.
Three hundred companies have
joined in the plan, which is Off
cially known as the ''Nema Mutual
Unemployment Benefit Plan
On June l, delegation Of tinem-
ployed General Electric workers came
down on Burton Delack, manager OF
the Schenectady G.. E. plant, with
demands for SO a week relief plus 81
per dependant for all fired workers,
and also demand ''for a minimum
wage of SIS week in the plant"
In view OF this, the Swope dec
laration for relief to amount to half
pay and in no case more than $40 a
week" is sheer irony. The great
majority of workers in the electrical
manufacturing plants are drawing
$40 week or less None of them
are going to get anywhere near $40
full wages, and under the Swope-
'Nema" plan, their relief would be
about S. week, for ten weeks only
and even then, only after q wage cut
for the six months preceding.
The daily worker., 1932-06-04


increase of 1000 in the last week, and
this increase is part of the answer of
the workers here to Attempts of the
Socialist Party, particularly, one of
whose officials holding county office
has launched a vicious campaign to
disregard these signatures of the
workers, and arbitrarily keep the
Communist Party off-the ballot.
The election officials in San Fran
cisco admitted yesterday that the
prime mover in their plan announced
May IS, to bar the Communist can
didates from the ballot there is the
old time Socialist Party leader,
Cameron King.
Socialist Bars from Ballot
King Is chief clerk of San Fran
cisco county, and as such is chief
registrar of voters. His office must
approve of the signature lists before
they are sent to the Secretary of
State, and this King refuses to do.
Not only that, he has also visited the
Alameda county officials and asked
them to do the same thing, but these
capitalist Republican and Democratic
Party officials have too much politi-
cal sense to adopt a brazen, self
exposing openly labor hating plan as
is proposed by the Socialist Party
leader. They are willing to let the
Socialists" do it. They have refused
to nullify Alameda county petitions.
Demonstrate June Is!
The Communist Party calls for
mass demonstrations throughout the
state Of June 18 against this out
rageous attempt in San Francisco to
keep the workers candidates off the
ballot.
The daily worker., 1932-06-04
III. S. Govt to Attend
World Farley AS a
Move Toward the War

The United States Government
agreed to participate in a world con-
ference to be called by the British
government after the Lausanne Con-
ference, scheduled to take place on
the 1th of this month.
This world economic conference, in
which, according TO the capitalist
papers, all the most important States
will be represented, will discuss the
world economic conditions and the
possibilities for amehorating them
through international cooperation"
War obligations and reparations, as
we'll as initiation Of silver currenCies
and tariffs, will not be discussed.
Only on this condition, the United
States government agreed to partici-
pate in the conference.
Barring all these questions, the
economic and political importance Of
which is not irrelevant, the Confer
ence will evidently confne itself to
discussions on the Red Menace" and
the Russian dumping" of commodi-
ties sa the barriers standing on the
road to recovery" which requires
"stabilizing" Jthat is raising prices.
The Conference will undoubtedly
attempt to realize a certain measure
of international cooperation" for
for speeding up the mobilization for
war against the Soviet Union.
The daily worker., 1932-06-04
DRESSER Calls for a
Relentless Struggle e
Against War on USSR

Theodore Dresser, writing In the
June issue of Soviet Russia Today,
on the newsstands today, says:
There is widespread feeling that war
is imminent. This is reflected in
the press Of Europe, Asia and AM
erica.
1.-THE Japanese received a setback
in Shanghai, due to the heroic resist
ance of the Chinese people, to the
opposition of Japanese workers to the
plans of their afscist ruling class, and
to the unwillingness of Japan's i'm
perialist rivals to allow the Japan
ese to grab the monopoly Of the rich
Yangtze Valley. The dominant cir
Gle of American finance capital sup
ports Japan in the attack upon the
Chinese revolution and in the pro-
posed war against Soviet Russia. But
the quarrel comes over the spoils--
the resources and the markets of
China. a...
"The attack upon the Soviet Union,
planned for years, has been delayed
by various forces, chief among which
are the worldwide opposition to war;
the capitalist fear that imperialist
war would be followed by civil war
revolution; and the contradictions
and rivalries between nations, inher-
ent in capitalism. Since Japanese
invasion of Manchuria and China,
these rivalries have been intensified.
Unquestionably Japan would have al
ready launched her troops into Sow
let Siberia, had she been given the
undivided support of all western I'M
perialist nations. But now the time
is approaching when this unity
against the US.S.R. may be achieved,
to some degree at least, by Japan,
France, Great Britain, and the United
States.
Friends of the Soviet Union can
and should postpone or prevent the
threatened war. Every day means
more factories for the Soviet Union.
The revolutionary activity of the pro-
letariat is the most powerful force
against the program of the imper-
ialists to save civilization from Boil
shevism"-or, in plain words, to save
capitalism from ruin.
"Humbug pacifism will not help.
Militant opposition to war plans,
mass pressure, mobilization of the
masses against the transport of mu-
nitions, economic boycott of imper-
ialist Japan, demand for recognition
and free trade relations with Soviet
Russia-this is the program for
friends of the Soviet Union and So
Wet China in this critical period. !
appeal to all intellectuals to lend
their support to the workers on this
program of resistance to war"
other articles in the June issue
of Soviet Russia Today include an
appeal for the defense of the Soviet
Union and opposition to fascist i'm
perialism from Fomain ROLAND; a
story, Abdul and Pavel sign up for
Socialist Competition, by Ivan Kata-
ger; Stain, the Man and the Leader,
by George Bertram; Socialist Cities,
by A. A. Heller; and an article on
Why Recognition, by the editors, A..
A. Heller and Liston M. Oak.
The daily worker., 1932-06-04
FOSTER SPEAKS MINNEAPOLIS
MONDAY

Foster will speak Monday, June s,
in the evening, at A. Q. U. W. Hall,
10 South Seventh St., and at Dania
Hail. 427 Cedar Ave-, both in Min
neapolis.
Foster will speak June Z at p. m,
in Central Ball Rooms. st. Paul, Min
nesota. He will speak Wednesday,
June 8, at Woodman Hall at 7 p. M,
in Duluth, Mimi, and at p. m. at
Camels' Hall, also in Duluth.
The daily worker., 1932-06-04
"GIad to Get Daily" Writes
Negro Worker; Fosters
Book With 1 Year Sub

every line and page. We down here
need Communism and what you all
are doing for our race up there"
Workers! The Daily Worker is the
guiding spirit of your class struggles
Read it and pass it along to your
fellow workers and subscribe for a
month, six months or year. With
a yearly subscription you are entitled
to a free copy Of William z. Fosters
latest book, Toward Soviet Amer
ica." Write to the Daily Worker, Sc
E. 18th ST., N.Y.C., today for sub
scription and a copy of this splendid
book by Comrade Foster.
The daily worker., 1932-06-04

Party depends upon to what extent
we are able to take up the grievances
with these workers in the depart
ments, with the workers in the mines,
with the workers in the mills and to
that extent we can show that our
platform has as the immediate aim,
the struggle against wage cuts, for
higher living standard, to that ex-
tent will we succeed to place our cam
didates successfully before the work
ers in this country.
So let us say that we will go back
into the districts with one determin-
alton, that out of this convention
there must increase local struggles
for unemployment relief; not one
hunger march in one city, but thou.
sands of hunger marches before tbs
welfare stations, before the city hal
against the politicians, together with
our shop activity, making as a part
OF the workers inside the factory
building the necessary bound between
these workers who are responsible for
giving proper leadership and organ
ization.
The daily worker., 1932-06-04
n. Y. VETS OFF
FOR CAPITOL
TODAY AT 8
1000 March to N. Y.
City Hall; Mayor
Denies Aid -
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pass a resolution in favor of cash
payment OF the bonus, that immediate
relief be supplied to the iobless war
vets and unemployed workers in New
York and that transportation be
supplied today to carry a thousand
bonus marehers from New York to
Washington: @
Walker Refused Demands
All Of the demands we're refused by
Walker who. said that he had taken
up all matters of relief in the recent
mayors conference in Detroit where
% mayors went on record from a vast
forced labor army under War Depart
ment leadership as a relief" meas
ure for the jobless.
Vets March Today
The committee reported back 10 the
marchers informing them that the
mayor had refused their demands.
The vets, with their ranks increased,
then marched back to Union Square
where a meeting was held and pre-
parations were made for the march
to Washington which will begin at
the square today at 9 a. m.
Over 1000 Marching
WASHINGTON, D. Delegations
of veterans. numbering over 1i,o0e
are converging on the Capitol from
all sections Of the country. Troops are
marching from Tennessee, Alabama,
Louisiana, Arkansas, Texas, Okla
hon1a, Missouri and Georgia.
Over thousand prepared to march
from Philadelphia under the leader
ship of the Workers Ex-Servicemen's
League.
Large delegations are now on their
way to the Capitol from Michigan,
illinois, Iowa, New Jersey, Maryland
and Colorado.
The thousands Of veterans win as
semble at the capitol June 8. when
rank and file committee viii present
demands for payment Of the bonus to
Congress All veterans coming to
Washington are urged to register at
once at the headquarters Of the Ma
tiona1 Provisional Bonus March Com
mittee, 90f 1St Street. Il rlJi
The daily worker., 1932-06-04
Schnies, Detroit

We must raise in this convention
the immediate demands and go back
to the districts and begin to- build
up struggles first of all for this real
ization.
This will be the main basic guar
antee for the success of the Commu-
mist Party in the election campaign.
Comrades, unemployment insurance
is one of the central demands effect
ing not only the 100000 workers
who are unemployed, Comrades. the
building UP of shop organization, the
building up and carrying into the
shop the platform Of the Communist
The daily worker., 1932-06-04

Negro and white workers alike are
beginning to realize that the Daily
Worker, leader and organizer Of the
American masses, points the only way
out of their nlisery-Athe revolution
airy way. The following letter from
Negro worker in Jacksonville, Flor
ida. hotbet Of reaction, proves this:
"As a friend to my race and the
cause you and your paper espouse,
am writing" begins the letter "a
few days ago, someone, a white man,
stopped in my place, as had stepped
out for minute end left me copy
Of the Daily Worker. was glad to
get it. l read it, am reading it yet,
The daily worker., 1932-06-04
Berman, Melrose Park

represent the so-called historical
town of Melrose Park. I guess you ali
read just few weeks ago about how
our fellow workers were standing up
against machine guns there. / want
to tell you fellow workers that ma
chine guns cannot and will not stop
our struggles. / want to tell you
fellow workers throughout the entire
world are gathering their strength to
overthrow this system. The bosses
answer is machine guns. What !
want to tell you is that few of us
might be victims, but thousands and
thousands of other workers will take
our places in struggles for the work
ing class.
The main reason for the fight in
Melrose Park is the fight for unem-
ployment relief. The workers are
ready for relief. They are starving
now. The bosses, instead of giving
them relief and unemployment in
surance. are giving them machine
guns.
The workers are ready to come out
with the Communist Party because
they know that it is the only Party
fighting for the working class today
Therefore, the two main points in
the platform that must be stressed
is unemployment insurance and de-
tense of the Soviet Union. The work
ers are looking for some way out,
and they know that they cannot get
it from the capitalists. The most i'm
portant point is the question of de-
fense of the Soviet Union and the
Chinese masses.
The daily worker., 1932-06-04
Leona johnson, Indiana.

Leona Johnson, Indiana.
I want to speak about a suggestion
that was made by one Of the workers
Of Hammond, Ind. He is not a
Party member, but he suggested that
No 3 of the Party platform where it
says Emergency @elief for poor
farmers and exemption from taxes y
should also include the word work
ers." We know today under the
capitalist system that the workers are
being evicted from their homes in
the cities as we'll as on the farms.
All the comrades have spoken
about the different sections of the
working class that are oppressed.
One section has not been stressed
and that is the women.
In Hammond, we have one candy
factory. Most Of the girls are worked
like slaves, and when they get checks
at the end of the week, they hardly
get enough to buy shoes and stock
1ngs which they wear out IN the fac
tory.
The Young Communist League in
tends to fight and show these young
workers that they are oppressed and
help them eliminate these conditions.
Women go back to your towns, your
state, your neighbor, tell the other
women that we must struggle against
the war. War is no longer posi-
bility. It is an actual fact today.
And we must struggle today. You
must go to your neighbor and every
time you hear her say any of these
bourgeois stories about the war that
will bring back prosperity, just pune
ture that little ballon for them right
quick.
The daily worker., 1932-06-04
Urges Shop Fight.
JONES -FERRARI MEETING AT
MANHATTAN LYCEUM

An error occurred in the issue of
June in the story relating to the
protest meeting called by the Inter-
national Labor Defense and the
Marine Workers Industrial Union
protesting against the arrest of Jones
and Ferrari. This meeting is sched-
uled to take place at Manhattan
Lyceum, sc East 4th Street and not
Stuyvesant Casino as stated in
Thursdays issue OF the Daily Worker.
The daily worker., 1932-06-04
$500 TERMINAL
COAL MINERS
ARE ON STRIKE
Defy UMWA Leaders
And Come Out Against
Cut to 35 Cents
CONTINUED FROM PAGE oNEl

fact that the men voted unanimously
for strike by walking out Of the
mines, the U. M w. A. is today taking
secret ballot" in all Pittsburgh
Terminal mines, as to whether there
shall be strikel
Expose Strike breakers
The National Miners Union is call
ing meetings and exposing this trick,
pointing out there is no way to pre-
vent the U. M. w. A. officials stuffing
the ballot boxes and declaring the
men have voted against strike even
while they are on strike.
Five hundred miners attended the
mass meeting called by the National
Miners Union last night in Coverdale,
and heard Frank Borich, national
secretary Of the N. M. U. call on
the strikers to take over the leader
ship Of their struggle themselves
through the election of broad united
front strike committees at each
mine, and excluding from the COM
mittees all paid officials of the U
M. w. A. and those who in the past
have advocated the u M w. A
policies Of retreat.
Challenge Pagan
The mass meeting voted unanim-
ously for the policy of the National
Miners Union and against the U. M
w. A., and issued challenge to Pat
Pagan, U. M. w. A. district president
here to debate Borich at the great
mass meeting scheduled for Cover
dale on Sunday.
The daily worker., 1932-06-04
Discussion on Communist
Election Platform

We print extracts
delegates at the National Nominating
in Chicago The convention
of struggle Wic
the of the
sible give the this limited the
general
mt
The daily worker., 1932-06-04
HiIda Kaugman, Arizona

I wish to give my revolutionary
greetings and will say that while
in the last presidential election we
were on the ballot, our Party was
very small and we did not even have
an organizer. But this year, while
we have only had an organizer for
three months, to show the tremendous
progress that we have had, we have
representatives here not only from
the capitol but from all other cities
of Arizona.
There is a great deal of starvation
right there and especially among the
Mexican workers. These Mexican
workers are being deported to Old
Mexico. When times were good and
they needed workers on the railroads
the Southern Pacific Railroad and
other companies we're only too glad
to go down to Mexico and bring them
into the country. The A. F. of L.
didn't organize them into unions and
these people were unorganized and
their wages were miserable, but they
had no voice. They we're brought
there illegally and they did this so
that when they became radical they
could use the deportation laws against
them, especially now, during the crisis
and this is one of the things we
must fight.
The daily worker., 1932-06-04
BRIGGS HUNGER
MARCH MONDAY
Demand Relief and 10
Per Cent Raise

DETROIT, Mich, June "a pow
erful hunger march of unemployed
workers and workers still employed
in the Briggs auto plant here will
take place Monday. The men Briggs
turned out to starve in the streets
will march down those streets to the
gates of the plant and demand from
the Briggs company that 1t provide
them with unemployed relief equal
to half their wages when they were
working, and in no case less than SIS
a week.
The marchers demand that there
be no discrimination against Negro.
young or women workers, and no
paying back for the welfare.
They demand 10 per cent increase
in the present starvation wages of
the Briggs plant. They demand that
the line slow down in the plant, and
that workers have the right to or
gani5e.
Starts at 10 A. M.
The hunger marchers will meet
rst at 10 am at the employment
Office at Warren and Connors Streets
The march will start at 11:15 am.
The Auto Workers Union and the
Unemployed Council, which issued
the call for the march, urged the
workers inside the plant to elect
grievance committee by departments
and mobilize for the march. The
unemployed we're urged to build
block committees to mobilize for this
march,
Slave Drivers
The Auto Workers Union declared
today that one Of the effective ways
of fighting against the Briggs COM
pany, that piles up millions of dollars
in profit, all at the expense of the
exploited employed workers and the
misery of the unemployed Briggs
workers. is by organizing a powerful
hunger march"
The daily worker., 1932-06-04
MOONEY LAUDS
SPORT MEETS
Writes of the Counter
Olympic Committee

High praise for the work Of the
National Counter Olympic Commit
tee, of which he is honorary chair
man, is contained in a letter to the
committee from Tom Mooney, IA
nous class-war prisoner.
Writing from his cell in San Quen-
tin prison, California, Mooney tells
of the reports that have reached
me of the FREE TOM MOONEY
STREET RUNS that have been sue
cessfully held in New York, Pitts
burgh, Baltimore, Youngstown, Cleve-
land, Chicago, San Francisco and
many other cities" and says that he
knows of mo other movement which
has on a national scale used more
effective means of dramatizing my
case"
The daily worker., 1932-06-04
Praises Work.

The Counter Olympic Committee is
waging a sharp fight against the i'm
perialist Los Angeles Olyrnpics as a
protest against the frame-up of
Mooney.
1T touches me deeply" Mooney
writes to the committee. "to hear
that every athlete in the Counter
Olympic Meet is proud of the fact
that Tom Mooney is chairman Of
the Counter Olympic Committee,
and I wish to state in turn that am
honored at being the honorary chair
man Of your militant sports organiza-
ton"
Sport and Play the official or
gan of the Labor Sports Union, is
praised by Mooney in his letter, which
says that the magazine 'is informa-
tive and indicates the splendid work
being accomplished by your organ
ization."
Urges Shop Fight.
Mooney, in conclusion, urges the
Counter olympic Committee to re-
double their efforts Ito boycott the
bosses Olympics in Los Angeles and
to further the success of the Inter-
national Workers Meet in Chicago"
The daily worker., 1932-06-04
SOCIALIST. BARS
COMMUNIST OFF
BALLOT NFRISCO

,.oNTlNuEp rRon PAGE ONE,
Evening star., 1932-04-12
LOOPHOLE IS GIVEN
CAPONE BY RULING
Court UphoIds Limitation in
Tax Cases, but Gangster
Loses Chance.

The United States Supreme Court,
through decision handed down yes
terday in Boston income tax case,
has inadvertently supplied AL Capone
with a slim-very Slin-legal loophole
through which he may escape imprison-
ment at Leavenworth Penitentiary.
The loophole would have been large
and effective as a means of avoiding
prison had not Capones attorneys over
looked a minor legal step in carrying
the gangster's appeal to higher courts.
BY falling to plead the statute of
limitations before the Circuit Court Of
Appeals, Capone's counsel have made it
almost impossible for him to take ad-
vantage of decision by the Supreme
Court that the three-year limitation ap-
pies TO income tax evasions.
Three Counts Old.
The three major counts on which
Capone was convicted were based on
otfenses committed in 1925, 1925 and
!S27-each more than three years be-
lore Capone'S indictment in Chicago.
The other two counts which the court
sustained were within the three-year
limit, but were only misdemeanors.
HAD Capone's lawyers raised the
question OF the three-year limitation
Delore the Circuit Court, it was said in
nlgh legal quarters here today, he could
nave obtained freedom on the felony
counts of 1925, 1925 and 1927.
Having failed to do this, Capone must
rest his plea now-and he undoubtedly
Will make one-on the ruling that the
courts have certain discretionary pow-
ers regarding rehearing of criminal
cases.
The Supreme Court in the past has
Continued on Page 2, Column ~
Evening star., 1932-04-12
WOMAN is KILLED
IN FOUR FLOOR FALL
Plunges Over Staircase Railing
at Stanhope Apartments.
Sight Was Failing.

Mrs Lula Dodd, Sc. who suffered from
failing sight, was instantly killed early
this afternoon when she plunged over
the staircase railing from the fourth
floor Of the Stanhope Apartments, 735
New Jersey avenue, and fell to the
ground floor of the building.
Mrs. Dodd was pronounced dead by a
physician from Casualty Hospital.
Mrs. John Dodd. a daughter-in-law
tainted and was given first aid by first
precinct police.
Police expressed the belief that Mrs
Dodd had stumbled and fallen over the
railing.
Mrs. Dodd was the wife OF James
Dodd Besides the husband, there are
two daughters, Miss Myrtle Dodd and
Mrs. Grade Piper, and three sons, John
Dodd, soldier in the Regular Army
detailed as sergeant instructor in the
National Guard, and James Dodd and
William Dodd, living in Virginia.
Reggie Lewis, colored janitor, told
police of hearing a thud when Mrs.
Dodd hit the first floor landing.