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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-07-04

Behold what was once upon time
known as Americas ''depression-proof
industry" Attendance at moviehouses
drops to six million daily from ten
million in 1928 Aylesworth, president
of the giant RCA trust that recently
swallowed RKO chat swallowed
PatheD predicts the bankruptcy Of
the whole industry within three
months. 1t is becoming increasingly
difficult to make the masses believe
that Chevalier's smile or Clara Bows
legs are of any vital Importance in
their lives. Mass unemployment and
wage cuts mean less movies for Amer
lean workers. Also mass desertion
from these palaces of dreams that
offer bedroom and gangland stories
in the midst of starvation and misery.
Will the ruling class permit the
Hollywood poison factories to close
down? Will it allow as valuable a
weapon as the film to collapse? Never.
The movies, like the press and the
radio, have value for the boss class
entirely apart from their value as
commodities. They are an unexcelIed
for influencing the workers
minds. The sound film especially,
having eliminated the printed title
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-07-04
MOVIE DOPE INDUSTRY HARD HIT BY CRISIS
Report May Take Valuable Agency Ipera Propaganda

THAT USE WILL BE RELOCATED
TO A POSITION OF INSIGNIFI-
CANOE IN COMPARISON WITH
THE TREMENDOUS PRODUCTION
OF MOTION PICTURES FOR Ed
UCATIONAL AND PEDAGOGICAL
PURPOSES. Our emphasis
"The tremendous production of mo-
ton pictures for educational purposes"
has already begunl Hollywood is be-
ing put at the service of the war
preparations against the Soviet Union.
A war industry indeed! Every i'm
portant studio lists so-called Russian
stories in its schedule. Have you
seen sample of these educational
Russian stories? Forgotten Com
mandments" is but one of them. 1t
is an open piece of war provocation
against the first Workers Republic.
THE World and the Flesh is an
other.
We will soon hear more about a
bill which has been pending in Con-
gress for about three years. This
bill proposes to turn the movie in
dustry into public utility
SO Americas great Hollywood is
safe. you see.
Us. B.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-07-04

the masses-and does. We know that
our capitalist government is prepar-
ing to take over the industry and
WELD 1t in the interest," of American
Imperialism. 1t did so in the last
war. Listen to Clark Louis Gregory,
bourgeois movie expert, spill the sec
ret beans: THE committee on public
Information, in conjunction with the
government, sent out thousands upon
thousands of feet of motion picture
film, showing the activities of the
government and of the army and
navy. All of the allied war char
tiles attribute their ability to raise
tremendous sums for philanthropic
purposes mainly TO the agency of mo-
ton pictures. THOUSANDS OF MEN
WERE ENGAGED IN MAKING
PROPAGANDA FILMS or ALL
KINDS. THE WAR LOAN COM
MITTEE. AIDED BY THE MOTION
PICTURE USTRY, MADE
THOUSANDS OF FEET OF FILM
TO STIMULATE LOAN DRIVES.
(Our emphasis). So remarkable have
been the results achieved in the train
ing of men by the use of motion pic
lures for amusement and entertain
ment purposes, IN A COMPARE
lively SHORT TIME TO COME
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-07-04
Will Remain i'm Field,
LID. Lawyer States,
Defying Attack ers

TAMPA, Fla, July 3. Defying
the armed mob and police which
brutally slugged him when he came
to the postoffice for his mail, Ber-
nard AIDES, International Labor
Defense attorney defending the
fraGied-up Tampa prisoners, today
declared that no amount of terror
would force him from the field.
The Ia Tampa prisoners, two of
them girls are serving prison
terms varying from one to ten
years on framed up charges grow
ing out of their fight to build the
Tobacco Workers Industrial Union.
Some are in the Raiford prison
and others in notorious southern
road camps.
AIDES missed death at the hands
of lynchers some time ago when
he, together with Helen Mays,
came TO defend Orphan Jones
tEuel Lee. facing electrocution
on framed-up murder charge.
As a result of the I. L. d. fight,
stay of execution until next fail
has been won in this case.
From its national office the L. L.
d. has vigorously denounced the
attack on AIDES in Tampa.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-07-04
SCH'DY JOBLESS
RALLY TUESDAY
Will Frame Demands
to City Council

SCHENECTADY, N. Y, July a.
The Schenectady Council of the I'm
employed recently organized by the
unemployed neighborhood committees
will hold an open-air mass meeting at
Crescent Park Tuesday at pm
Speakers will be Sadie Van Veen
Jack Rand and others.
This meeting will present the de-
mands of the Unemployed Council
through an elected delegation for
free gas and electricity, for more and
sufficient relief and one quart OF
milk for every child per day under
the age of 13 and at least one pint
for every child over that age. Ex-
pectant mothers and nursing mothers
shall receive extra food and milk.
The Unemployed Council demands
that the city pays rent for the I'M
employed and where the unemployed
owns his own home that he should
get from the city regular relief and
sufficient funds to met the interest
due on mortgages to prevent fore
closure.
A delegation of ten will be elected
who will proceed to the Common
Council meeting to present the de-
mands of the Schenectady unem-
ployed. A letter has been sent to
the clerk of the Common Council
notifying them of the delegation.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-07-04
VETS CHEER
GEORGE PACE
AT CAPITOL
Fo.ulkrod, Waters Man,
Exposed AS Ex-Burns
Agency Detective
VETS BALK AT DRILL
Veteran Delegation to
Question Green

WASHINGTON, d. c., July
3.-George Pace, leader of the
Workers EX- servicemen's
League, spoke from the Capt.
tol steps to 5000 veterans and
was cheered when he flayed
the High Command" and
called for rank and file control
and militant action to win the
bonus.
Pace forced his way to the front,
following speeches by Waters ard
Foulkrod hailing Roosevelt. Pace
was roundly applauded when he
called for the overthrow of the Wat
ers clique. to formulate definite
program of country wide demonstra-
tons with the aid of the unemployed
and hold real democratic elections.
Foulkrod Was Burns Man.
1t was disclosed yesterday that
Harold Foulkrod, Waters right hand
man, is a former office manager of
the Burns Detective Agency in Phila-
delphia. He was received cody by
the veterans yesterday when he
called on them to support Roosevelt,
notwithstanding the fact that the
Democratic convention almost unani-
mously defeated the bonus plank.
Meanwhile protests against the
hat-in-hand policy of the Waters
clique and demands for genuine rank
and file control were raised vigor-
ously throughout the ranks of the
Bonus Expeditionary Forces. Lead
ers of the Workers Ex-Servicemen's
League and rank and file veterans
were given big ovation at a mass
meeting of veterans Saturday night
at Pennsylvania Ave. and Eighth
st.
This was the second of series of
mass meetings organized by the
Workers Ex-Servicemens League
since the Waters gang strong armed
it's way back to power. The first
meeting was held on Pennsylvania
Ave. Friday night and was attended
by over 300 worker veterans.
The. mass meetings Friday and
Saturday nights were addressed by
George Pace, Joseph Gardner, Eman-
uel Levin, S. j. SLENDER, Reeds and
CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-07-04
FOSTER, FORD ON
ILLINOIS BALLOT
Need $4,000 Names to
Put Others On

CHICAGO, ILL.,, July 3.-The Com
munist Party is on the ballot in the
state of Illinois. The state conven-
ton held on June 26, which NOM
mated the electors for president and
vice-president, served the purpose of
putting national candidates on the
ballot.
A letter received from the Secre-
tary of State, VIM. J. Stratton, states:
THE names of candidates for presi-
dent and vice-president will be placed
upon the ballot in this state"
This is victory of the workers and
poor farmers in the state of Illinois.
The Communist Party is preparing
tour for the state candidates, par
ticularly Leonidis Mcdonald, Negro
worker and candidate for Governor,
through the mining and farming
communities, and is also sending a
group of the Blue Blouses in adj
vance, who will put on little theat-
rical sketches in connection with the
election campaign.
Intensive preparations for putting
the state candidates on the ballot
through the collection of $4,000 sigma
lures and bringing the election cam
paign to the workers in the factories,
particularly the stockyards and West
ern Electric, is now in full swing
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-07-04
Fought With JObless,
Framed AS Insane;
Student Now Freed

MADISON, Wis, July S.-Yigor-
GUS protests from workers, stu
dents and members of the faculty
of the University of Wisconsin has
forced the release of Elmer Iuch-
terland, former student, from the
state insane hospital to which he
had been sent because Of his lead
ership in a demonstration by the
Unemployed Council.
Affidavits from number of
professors stated that Luchter-
land was brilliant student. j..
His arrest for blocking traffic"
followed an attack by him upon
the county relief officials. Two
doctors. who were brought in to
frame Luchterland reported him
"insone", but after protests be-
gan to flood the local politicians,
two psychiatrists at the hospital
found the prisoner not insane, and
Superior Court Judge S. B. Shein,
who had ordered his commitment,
was compelled to sign a release.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-07-04
BRITISH SHAMNEW
ARMS CUT PLAN
Wall st. Uses Fourth"
to Whip Up War Fever

While utilizing the Fourth of July
celebrations to whip up patriotic fer
vor and war hysteria, the U. S. Hun
ger Government continues its pretense
of seeking a one-third reduction in
the huge imperialist ornaments thru
the sham Hoover farms CUT pro-
posals.
The proposals which aim to
strengthen American Imperialism al
the expense of its rivals have been
rejected outright by the Japanese
The British Government has come
forward with counter proposal for
an informal meeting of delegates OF
five naval powers. This conference
would give the Japanese delegates a
chance to officially state Japan's op-
position to the Hoover proposals. The
British would then "regretfully" move
to rule out further talk on the qucs-
ton of naval reductions on the
grounds that the powers were not
united on the question. In this they
would be supported by the japanese
and the French, and possibly by the
Italians. Sir John Simon, British
Foreign Minister, is already reported
in an attempt to line up the Italians
the Italian says vainly and the
British imply successfully"
Secret Sessions Against USSR
In the meantime the British
American and French delegates are
continuing their secret conferences
conferences which, behind the cam
outage of seeking solution on farms
cuts" are in reality aimed against the
Soviet Union which has been exluded
from these conferences although its
delegates are members of the dis
armament" conference. Maxim Lit
vinoff, head of the Soviet delegation
has sharply attacked these secret con-
ferences and the hypocrisy of imper-
ialiSt powers. In statement issued
a few days ago Litvinoff declared
that the Soviet Union could not share
responsibility for the failure of the
disarmament" conference to take any
steps whatever towards reducing the
burden of war ornaments imposed OH
the backs Of the toiling masses by
the imperialist war mongers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-07-04
USE CHILE FUNDS
TO SAVE COSACH
Davila Comes to Help
of u. S. Bankers

The Chilean faScist-militaris die
tatorship continued its efforts yester-
day to rescue the bankrupt $500, 000,-
900 American ontrollsd Cosach nj
trates monopoly. The dictatorship
proposed to surrender Chile's so per
cent interest in the monopoly under
the preteXt that it would establish
small independent" nitrate plants
to afford work for the thousands of
workers thrown out of employment
by the collapse of the nitrates indus
try. Previous reports said that the
government would pay substantial
sums to Cosach for the privilege of
establishing the independent
plants.
Morgado Resigns
The announcement OF this plan was
accompanied by the sudden resigna-
ton of Aurelio Nunez Morgado, Su-
pervisor of Nitrates and Mines, who
stated as his reason for resigning that
he had been defeated by the over
whelming interests of the Nitrate
Company of Chile"
New York bankers are reported to
have arranged for an extension for
one year Of acceptance credits of
Cosach, following their success in OBJ
tanning the withdrawal the claims
of Chile, through the Wall Street tool,
Carlos c. Davila, head Of the Chilean
fascist militarist dictatorship.
Admit Starvation
The financial pages of the Saturday
New York Times reported that unem-
ployment in Chile continues to cause
considerable concern" The report
declares "the wholesale and retail
turnover for June in larger cities
reached new low levels." The report
which dealt with financial reports for
June from eleven Latin American
countries, the Philippines, Japan and
China admitted that conditions
abroad were little improsak~' ste,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-07-04
Mobilization Meeting
of Shoe Strikers to Be
Held Tomorrow AM.

NEW YORK.-A special mobiliza-
ton of shoe strikers of the I. Miller
and Andrew Geller shops will take
place tomorrow morning, the Shoe
and Leather Workers Industrial
Union announced yesterday.
The meetings will be held Sepa-
rately, the Geller strikers meeting at
46 Ten Eyck ST. and the Miller strik-
ers at a new address to be announced
later.
The fight against the injunction
just issued is to be one of the main
tasks of the strikers, and an effort is
being made to draw all New York
workers into campaign against this
attempt to break the strike.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-07-04
AMTER ISSUES
CHALLENGE TO
S. P. NOMINEE
Communist Candidate
in Utica Tuesday

NEW YORK.-A challenge to the
gubernatorial candidate of the So
cialist Party in New York to meet
him on speakers platform and de-
bate with him in Utica tomorrow has
been issued by Israel Amter, Commu-
mist candidate.
A telegram containing the chal-
lenge was sent to the Socialist State
Nominating Convention now meeting
in Utica.
Amter's campaign speaking tour oil
the State will bring him to Utica on
Tuesday, the d ay following the three
day Socialist Party convention.
In his challenge Amter, on the
basis of the national platform of the
Socialist Party and its tactics, which
are described by the Communist can
didate as "vote-catching," charges a
complete betrayal of the working
class and the cause of the revolution
airy movement.
The text of Amter's telegram fol-
lows:
"State Nominating Convention,
Socialist Party,
Utica, N. Y.
GAS gubernatorial candidate Com
munist ticket charge Socialist Party
with being third capitalist party and
enemy of working class and hereby
challenge Socialist candidate for same
office to debate campaign issues and
platforms both parties. Debate to be
held Utica, Tuesday, July 5th.
81. AMTER."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-07-04
100000 IN BERLIN
in ANTI-FASCIST,
DEMONSTRATION
Hitlerites in Murder
Assaults Upon
Workers
icy Inprecorr CabIe)

BERLIN, July 3.-More than fo3,-
600 workers crowded the Lustgarten
today in giant anti-fascist demon
stration and listened to speakers
from IL platforms.
Despite the express prohibition by
leaders of their organizations, hun
dreds of social-democratic workers,
including uniformed Reichsbanner-
men, attended the demonstration.
fraternizing with the Communist
workers midst scenes of tremendous
enthusiasm.
Terror RACES.
The Soviet funeral song was sung
in honor of the nine work: Is muir
dered by fascists and police during
the past few days Police at the
Lustgarten demonstration made
number of arrests, but no serious in
cidents we're reported.
The Hitlerites are waging a system
attic revolver terror throughout Ger
many, making raids upon revolution
airy organizations. Two workers were
shot Saturday in Schoeneberg and
late Friday evening fascists in an
auto halted before workers hall in
Hochstrasse, North Berlin, firing a
volley of shots at workers, who
dropped to the ground, thus saving
themselves from injury or possible
death. Immediately afterwards the
fascists met group Of men, taken
BY them to be Communists, but who
were actualll Hitlerites, and fired a
further volley, killing one and wound
ing number of others.
Daily Raids.
Many similar raids occurred in
other sections. In Gottschedstrasse
Berlin, two women workers we're shot
in the thighs. Raids also were made
in Steglitz and Mariendorf, where a
number Of workers were wounded.
In Hamburg last night fascists
ambushed a graup of Communists re-
turning from Party meeting and
killed one and seriously wounded two
others.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-07-04

An open call 20 "crush the
Soviet Union" was made yes
terday by the japanese war
mongers. The call urges the
imperialist powers and the
Marking butchers of the Chi
nese masses to "join issue to
crush the Hideous Soviet am
bitipn." 1t was issued through
the puppet Manchukuo govern
ment set up by japanese bayonets
in Manchuria over the mangled
bodies of tens of thousands of MUIR
dered Manchurian workers and peas
ants.
War Move Admitted.
The sinister significance of the call
as revealing Japan on the brink of
trarslating her criminal war provo
cations against the Soviet Union into
active armed intervention against
workers Russia is admitted in
Manchurian dispatch to the New
York Times, which etates:
Extreme tensity between the Jap
anese and Russians in Manchuria is
indicated in this report. Its view of
events may be taken as that OF the
Japanese, since the new state Is Com
mated by more than TOO japanese
officials"
Revive War Lies
In their call for joint armed inter-
vention against the Soviet Union, the
Japanese militarists revive with in
creased venom all the slanderous. stu
pid, lying Interpretations against
the Soviet Union. Workers Russia is
directly accused of inspiring the he
roic resistance of the Manchurian
masses to the brutal japanese inva-
sion of their country. The USSR is
charged with "fomenting and incit-
ing" this resistance which is nat
ural outcome Of the japanese adven-
ture and the brutal attacks on the
Manchurian people. Admitting the
existence of a powerful anti-Japanese
and anti-Manchukuo puppet state)
movement. the Japanese accuse the
Soviet Union with "conspiring to dis
turb the peace in North Manchuria
by making use of all anti-Japanese
or i-Manchukuo organizations"
The Soviet Union is even charged
with "fomenting" the Shanghai war
forced upon the Chinese people by
the Japanese naval attack on Shang-
hal and the later landing of huge
CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-07-04
DOAK AGENTS
PUSH STEEL
MILL RAIDS
Lackawanna, N. Y. Is
Scene of Latest
Attack
PICK WAR INDUSTRIES
Dies Protest in Fifty
Wisconsin Towns

LACKAWANA, N. Y, July 3.-Ter-
rorized by U. S. immigration officials
for weeks in the mills and homes of
the Bethlehem Steel Company, a
group of steel workers threw out a
half dozen plain clothes federal
agents from a pool hall on Ridge
Road when Doak's agents attempted
to arrest and hold them "for investi-
cation on illegal entry" Scores of
steel workers have been arrested in
this manner in the past month. Off
Gals of the Bethlehem Company have
been cooperating with the immigra-
ton officials not only here, but also
in the Sparrows Point (Md0 plant
and others. Workers are called in to
the company office and are being
arrested, held incommunicado for
days and placed under heavy bail.
Many intimidated workers paid as
much as $25 "for investigation" to
these government racketeers.
In War Industry.
1t is significant that these attacks
on the workers are made especially
at this time of war preparations in
such vital war industries as steel,
etc.
Inasmuch as only about 200 of 1000
Bethlehem workers are employed in
the mills since last month with the
city welfare department completely
discontinuing any relief, the workers
now cannot afford to pay the fed
eral agents. Protests were raised by
workers at several mass meetings and
in the Polish Catholic and Presby-
terrain churches against the terror.
LackawanaN workers have also sent
CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-07-04
Expect Hoover to Sign
Fake "Relief" Measure

WASHINGTON, July "a firm
conviction that President Hoover
would sign the s2,loo 100000 fake re-
lief bill was expressed today by adj
vocates of the measure.
The bill, among other things. would
authorize the Reconstruction Finance
Corporation to hand out 100000 900
for a so-called public works program
at its discretion.
Assuming the bill is passed, it will
provide relief" chiefly to grating
contractors, with the 100000 I'M
employed workers being practically
non-existent factor in the legislation.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-07-04
Taxicab Drivers Go On
Strike in BuenOs Aires

BUENOS AIRES, July 3.-Taxicah
service in the city was paralyzed to-
day as a result of a general strike
declared by the Argentine Regional
Laborers Federation under Commu-
mist leadership.
The strike was called to protest
against recent arrests Of large num-
bers Of the Federation's members
charged with "subversive activities"
Port activities and bakeries are af-
fected by the strike. Drivers not
affiliated with the Federation we're
prevented from scabbing.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-07-04

Friday.
Foster showed these workers how
by organizing, they can fight the
wave Of wage-cuts, by organizing
they can compel the granting OF
some relief to the masses of unem-
ployed.
Foster took up the six main plankS
of the Communist Party platform
the fight for unemployment insur-
ance, the fight against the Hoove,
wage-cutting policy, the fight fol
emergency relief to the poor farmers
the fight for equal rights for Ne
groes, the fight against capitalist
terror and the fight against imperial
list war.
Who Is for Workers.
The crowd was especially enthusiast
tic as Foster compared the gains I'M
der Communist leadership in tbs
Soviet Union with the increasing
misery in America under capitals!
1cdUclolllp.
A. F. L. Expulsion Policy.
Speaking with Foster was M. P
Bales known as labor cartoonist
under the name of Hay" Bales), and
former president of the BARRIERS
Union and former president of the
Utah State Federation of Labor
Bales exposed the A. F. of L. Officials
and their tactic of expulsion of ever5
one who fights for rank and file
control or to improve the conditions
of the workers. Bales has recently
joined the Communist Party, and fol-
this, M. Thompson, president of the
A. F. of L. State Federation of Labor
and leader of the fake Salt Lake
Citizens Party" united with George
A. wager, president of the Salt Lake
CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-07-04
JAPAN PEASANTS DROWNED

Many Japanese peasants have been
drowned and the crops and homes
of others ruined following torrential
rains at the end of the rainy season
with widespread floods throughout
Western and Southern Japan.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-07-04
CLASH OVER GREENLAND

GODTHAAB, Greenland, July s.
The Hague Court of Arbitration is
soon expected to decide whether Den
mark or Norway has sovereignty over
Greenland
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-07-04

as the last barrier in the way of Gre
ating the most popular propaganda
medium in history, can now reach
even the most backward sections of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-07-04
1000 IN SALT LAKE
HEAR FOSTER ON THE
FIGHT TO END HUNGER
Jobless Crowds Cheer AS Communist Candi-
date Shows How Russian Workers
Gained Victory
Local Speakers Score ALL Expulsion Plan
and Fake "Citizens Party Led by ALL.
IF. p. Pictures)

SALT CITY, Utah. 3Wiiam candi
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