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The daily worker., 1932-12-17
GERMAN POLICE IN
D RIV E ON c. P.
A tt a cks Accompany
Schleicher Threats
(By Innrecorr Cahlel

BERLIN, Dec. l6.-The capitalist
Boersen zeitung has come out with
demands on Schleicler that he i'm
mediately make good yesterdays
broadcast threat to adopt, "draconic
measures against the Communist
Party"
These outbursts are being accom-
panied by continuing prosecutions of
the Communist Party throughout
Germany. Homes of rs Communists
were raided in Gotha yesterday, re-
sulting in 20 arrests. The police al
lege "treasonable" material has been
found Last night meeting of Com
munist officials in Cologne was
raided and 81 were arrested.
Prohibit Peasant Congress
A conference of rural leaders of
the Bavarian Communist Party was
raided yesterday. All material was
confiscated and the forthcoming
peasants congress prohibited.
Serious collisions developed today
when masses of unemployed DEM
onstrators clashed with the police,
while Communist Deputy Safarovski
argued in behalf of the unemployed
before the welfare authorities Many
were arrested.
JobIess Take Coal.
Today hundreds of unemployed
Il
and carts, raided stocks Of coal at
the Alvin Mine near Halle demand
ing permission to take coal. Under
mass pressure, the management
agreed, but withdrew permission inn
on the arrival Of large
force of police.
According to press reports, mem-
ployed groups raided food stores in
Dusseldorf yesterday.
The daily worker., 1932-12-17
ARGENTINE COPS
FIRE ON WORKERS
Gas Meet Protesting
Hunger and War

BUENOS AIRES, Dec. is. - Ar
gentine police attacked with machine
guns and gas bombs a meeting OF
workers held in private hall last
Tuesday night, seriously injuring
hundreds. The meeting was called
to protest against the increasing at
tacks on the living standards of the
already impoverished workers and
farmers and to organize resistance
against the governments drive to
plunge the people into the undeclared
war between Paraguay and Bolivia.
The police apened their attack
by arresting one of the speakers
on a charge of "inciting to rebel
lion" and then throwing gas bombs
among the audience. Many sharp
fights occurred in and out of the
hall as the workers militantly de-
Tended themselves. The bourgeois
papers report many police among
the injured, including a precinct
captain.
The authorities have ordered an
increase in the police ornaments in
fear of the rising mass resistance to
starvation and imperialist war. Rush
orders have been given for bullet
proof vests, gas masks, and new
supply of machine guns and gas
bombs for the police.
To establish basis for their ter
ror against the working class, as well
as for the drive for war as capital
ist way out" of the crisis, the police
yesterday reported the discovery"
of large quantities of arms and hand
grenades in homes of workers. They
also claimed the finding" of a score
of rifles "of the type used by the
Brazilian army" This is highly sig
nificant in view of recent emi-of-
fetal statements that the Argentine
government would not permit the
defeat of Paraguay by Bolivia. Be-
hind the undeclared war in the Chaco
is the fierce struggle of U. S. and
British imperialists for markets and
monopoly exploitation of the semi
colonial countries Of South America.
The present governments of Argen-
tine and Paraguay are influenced by
British imperialism. The Bolivian
government is puppet of Wall st.
The Brazilian government is expected
to be influenced by the U. s. and to
enter the Gran Chaco war on the
side of Bolivia, thereby coming into
armed conflict with Argentine.
The daily worker., 1932-12-17

cember Is instalments and
trade and colony concessions
in exchange for future revision
of the debts.
In the Senate, McKellar, democrat
Of Tennessee. introduced a resolution
providing a levy of a $5 900 passport
fee to countries in default to the U
S. The resolution is aimed at de-
stroying the French revenue from
the diminishing American tourist
trade, reported at $600,000,o00 annu-
ally. The resolution proposes the
voiding of all passports heretofore
issued to France and her allies in
default.
Representative Mansfield, democrat
of Texas, offered similar plan in
the House, with the fee at $500 and
the life of the passport only 60 days,
and fine of $4,000 for violation, or
five years imprisonment or both.
Senator Hiram johnson is preparing
a bill to prohibit loans to defaulting
countries. Proposals already have
been made for ban on the sale OF
their securities in this country.
These proposals are all of war
like character and were accompanied
by speeches deliberately aimed at
whipping up the most vicious ctauvi-
mist nationalism as a basis for fur
ther war appropriations and an in
tensiflcation of the already extensive
war preparations of U. S. imperial
ism.
Try Split Britain From France.
The Washington government at
the same time made an effort to split
Britain away from France by the Of
fer of probable favorable considera-
ton for the British demands for re-
vision, on the grounds that the Brit
ish had made the December Is pay
ment and had thereby earned more
favorable treatment.
The default by France and other
debtor states was viewed with grave
concern by administration officials,
who saw in it a danger to the capi-
taIist system. They fear that the
many bankrupt small states of
Europe and South America may
follow the French example and de-
fault on both the war debts and
the private debts to the bankers.
The Hoover government was at
tackled in the senate, several senators
declaring that Hoover, despite deni-
ais, had a secret understanding with
Macdonald and ex-Premier Laval OF
France to scale down the debts con-
tingent on formal admission OF the
inability of bankrupt Germany to
continue payments of the war trib-
utes. :
In the house, Representative Rank
lin of Mississippi stated that Ser
tain international bankers" were in
'treacherous conspiracy" with
France to default on the war debts
He hinted that they were trying to
protect their private debts at the ex-
pense of the intergovernmental war
debts.
The daily worker., 1932-12-17
MASS TODAY AT
POLISH CONSUL
Demonstrate Against
Pilsudski Terror

NEW YORK Workers of New York
City will show their solidarity today
with their brother victims of the
bloody Pilsudski government when
they join in mass demonstration
this morning at IL am. in front OF
the Polish consulate at 9th St., be-
tween Third and Lexington AYES.
s(lis demonstration will protest the
yime Of murder and terror directed
airst minor nationalities in Po-
land, including Ukrainian and jew
lsh workers, and will also protest the
vicious terror directed against mill
tant Polish workers
This demonstration today is called
by the united front committee which
includes, Jewish, Polish. Ukrainian
End Russian organizations, and the
International Labor Defense.
Workers are urged to come In
nass before the Polish consulate and
3oice their determination to fight
Polish fascism and Pilsudski's MUIR
ferrous bands, who are the sponsors
ind organizers of the present po-
IRONS.
The daily worker., 1932-12-17
CONGRESS PLOTS
BEER SALES TAX
Put Over New Attacks
Under Cover of Beer

WASHINGTON, Dec. 16. - The
sales tax is being brought before
Congress in connection with the beer
bill The House Ways and Means
Committee, by a vote Of II to IA
voreo the bill and will bring it be-
fore Congress for action Tuesday. It
is inferred from statements of Sec
retary of the Treasury Mills before
the committee Thursday that the bill
will be vetoed by Hoover if it con-
fines itself to taxes on beer alone.
There is now on foot move to
bring uo a combination beer tax bill
that will embody the general sales
tax. In this way the sales tax, which
will further beat down the standards
Of living Of the masses by increasing
the price of necessities of lie, will be
put over under cover of the beer bill.
Nothing for Hunrgy Masses
Every act of Congress is a further
blow against the unemployed and
part time workers and impoverished
farmers. In spite of additional hun
dreds of millions in taxes there is
nowhere in Congress a voice raised
for the demands Of the Hunger
Marchers for Federal Unemployment
Relief and Unemployment Insurance.
But greater tax burdens are placed
upon the poor SO that the govern
ment can maintain and strengthen
its forces of suppression that have
been used with increasing violence
against the bonus marchers, the
Hunger Marchers at Washington as
well as throughout the whole coun-
try.
The daily worker., 1932-12-17
Defies xxx.
and Hunger for
Daily Worker

A Negro worker in Birmingham,
Alabama, got a leaflet from the
Ku Klux Klan. 1t said: ''Negroes
Beware-Do Not Attend Commu-
mist Meetings"
This Negro workers answer to
the Klan threat is a letter to the
Daily Worker:
Dear Sir:-I am writing to you
to send one Daily Worker every
day. 1 owe 80 cents to the Daily
Worker and have had no jack
to pay. am making a dollar
week and i will send the Daily
Worker 25 cents week"
This worker, faced with fIogging,
lynehing, torture by the xxx.
isn't terrorized.
The daily worker., 1932-12-17
SHAM DISPUTE
ON R.R. PAY CUT
Unions, Bosses Quibble
on Extension of Cut

CHICAGO, Dec. 16.-The represen-
tatives of the railway companies
headed by F. w. Thiehoff yester-
day rejected the proposal of the Rail-
way Labor Executives Association,
headed by A. F. Whitney, to extend
the present 10 per cent wage reduc-
ton for year, standing upon their
demand for an extension for six
months with the right to move for
further reductions under the Watson
Parker railway labor act.
Depend Upon Anti-Labor Measure
The Railway Labor Executives AS
sociation, composed Of the officials of
81 unions, has, so far in the nego-
tiations, devoted attention solely to
maneuvers within the existing agree
nnents and the legal aspects of the
Watson Parker laW-the mainten-
ance Of which at the time Of its en-
actn1ent was and remains the preven-
ton of strikes in the railway indus
try and the facilitating of wage cuts.
Deny Facts of Wage Reductions
The union officials have maneuVer-
ed to prevent the companies serving
formal notice of their intentions to
initiate further wage cuts and reduc-
tions Of working rules. To carry out
this maneuver, they have placed
themselves in the position Of ratify-
ing the present 10 per. cent cut for
another year. They continue to de-
scribe this cut as a deduction" and
to contend, for the consumption Of
the rank and file, that the basic
rates" of pay still continue in force.
This legal fiction, needless to say,
finds no expression in the pay checks
of the rail workers and will never
be found there in terms of dollars
and cents without organization for
militant strike struggle.
Assaults Continue
In the meantime the railway COM
panies and their associated organiza-
tions of railway investors are contin-
uing their propaganda assaults upon
wages and working conditions. There
is already so per cent unemployment
on the railroad with corresponding
reductions in the total wage income
Of the workers, additionally increased
by the 10 per cent cut and changes
in working rules which amount to
further wage cuts.
Shippers Want Wage Cuts
A recent example of the mobiliza-
ton of the public" which is being
carried out against the railwaywork-
ers, under the auspices of the Natl
onal Transportation c o m m t t e,
headed by Calvin Coolidge and Al
fred E. Smith, working in the inter
cts of the Wall Street banks and
insurance companies holding 10 per-
cent of the outstanding railway Sec
urities, is the appeal for wage cuts
filed with this committee by the
American Fruit and Vegetable As
sociation Of Chicago.
The fear of strike on the part
of the union officials and their DIS
courayement of any strike action by
the rank and file is being effectively
used by the employers. The employ
ers are preparing to secure the cut
thru existing agreements but they
are preparing to carry it thru des-
pite the agreements.
The war upon the living standards
of the railwork ers goes on but the
railway union officials refuse to re-
cognize this basic fact. The prepara-
ton of the rank and file for struggle
against further reductions is being
made by the Brotherhood Unity
Committee against the resistance Of
the railway union bureaucrats.
The daily worker., 1932-12-17
TO BUILD LOCAL,
VETS STRUGGLE
Ford Pays Tribute to
Soldier Victims

WASHINGTON, Dec. Is. -
About 200 bonus marchers,
gathered at an enthusiastic
conference here at 905 '1' ST.,
N. W. last night, made plans to
build a powerful united front
movement of the veterans of
the country to force the Wall
Street government to pay the bonus
and to stop the attempts to cut the
disability allowances.
The conference decided that the
immediate task would be to organize
struggles for veterans relief in each
community and to connect these up
with the national struggle for i'm
mediate payment of the bonus.
Establish Center.
1t was decided that the center for
organizing the struggles OF the vets
should be established in Washington.
and committee of five was elected
to carry on this work. The commit
SOO NOAAo2obo Va ACklll dIlQ
James w. Ford, of the Workers Ex-
Servicemen's League, Harold Kicker
son Of the Veterans Rank and File
Committee, George Brady Of the B.
E. F., and Ell williams Of the Khaki
Shirts of New Jersey. Not all of
these will remain in Washington at
the same time. but will go on the
road to build the movement through
out the country.
The conference endorsed July %
Bloody Thursday, the day when the
first bonus nnarchers were murder
ouSly attacked and evicted by police
and troops, as q national memorial
day and day of struggle for the bo-
nus. 1t was also decided to raise
funds for a fitting monument to
William Hushka and Eric Carlson,
the two veterans killed on Bloody
Thursday.
Tribute to Unknown Soldier.
WASHINGTON, Dec. I6. - In his
speech yesterday at the grave OF the
Unknown Soldier, during the mem
orial for Hushka and Carlson in Ar
lington Cemetery, James w. Ford
declared that the Unknown Soldier.
who had been converted into a patri-
otic symbol by the capitalists and
war-makers, was no doubt a toiler
who fell victim in the capitalist
war for profits.
He exposed the preparations for q
new world slaughter and showed that
war is actually going on today in
number of countries.
The daily worker., 1932-12-17
SPEED FIGHT
FOR BOYS AT
MEMORIAL
Mrs. Wright, Minor,
Ford, Patterson
to Speak
DEFENSE PARADE TODAY
Workers GROUPS Back
Coliseum Meet

NEW YORk.-With the de-
termination of making the
Engdahl memorial meeting a
high-point in the worldwide
mass fight for the release of
the Scottsboro boys and the
liberation struggle of the Ne
gro people, New York workers
and their organizations continued
yesterday to mobilize their forces
for tremendous mass out-pouring
tomorrow night. The meeting will be
held in the Bronx Coliseum, 177th
ST. and West Farms Rd., starting at
pm.
Statements calling upon their
members and the working class gen
orally to participate in the meeting
were issued by the Trade Union
Unity Council, the Workers Ex-Ser-
vicemen's League, the Needle Trades
Workers Industrial Union, the League
Of Struggle for Negro Rights, the Nat
Turner Liberation Society and many
other organizations.
Parade This Afternoon
The members of these organiza-
tions will also participate IN the big
Scottsboro parade and demonStra-
tion at Q o'clock this afternoon in
Harlem. The parade will start from
the Spanish Workers Center, "a w.
115th ST., at 2 o'clock and Will con-
c1ude with mass meeting at the
Harlem Workers Center, $50 Lenox
Ave, at which Mrs. Ada Wright, the
ScottSboro Mother who has just re-
turned from a tour Of Is European
countries, will be the main speaker.
All workers and veterans should as
semble at 1 pm for the parade.
Mrs. Wright will also be one of
the main speakers at the great Coli
scum meeting tomorrow, at which
thousands of workers will pay their
tribute to j. Louis Engdahl, who was
national chairman of the Interna-
tional Labor Defense, and carry to
higher level the struggle for the
issues for which Engdahl died.
James w. Ford, Communist candi-
date for vice-president in the recent
elections, and member of the Ma
tional Executive Committee of the
Workers Ex-Servicenen's League,
will be one Of the speakers. Ford will
point out the connection of the
struggle for the Scottsboro boys with
the fight for the bonus and for un-
employment relief.
Robert Minor, veteran of the class
war, will speak for the Central Com
mittee of the Communist Party, the
leader of the Negro and white masses
in the fight against starvation, wage
cuts, imperialist war and the ma
tional oppression of the Negro peo-
pie.
Patterson Also to Speak
william L. Patterson, national Sec
retary of the International Labor
Defense, Carl Hacker, national Or
ganizer of the I. L. D., and Richard
B. Moore, national field organizer OF
the LID, will bring out the various
aspects Of Engdahrs long service to
the American working class. particu-
larly with reference to the mass
struggle to free the Scottsboro boys
The Workers International Relief
Band of 40 musicians will play the
new Revolutionary Funeral Dirge as
the urn bearing Engdahl's ashes is
brought in by the guard of honor.
A chorus of 500 voices will render
new revolutionary selections. 1t will
be composed of the Freiheit Gesangs
Verein, the Daily Worker Chorus,
the Lithuanian Workers Chorus and
a number of other organizations.
The daily worker., 1932-12-17
JamesW. Ford Writes
On Georgia Niger
in Mondays "Daily"

A critical analysis of GEORGIA
NIGER" the startling expose Of
chain gang condit ons in the South
Just concluded serially in the
Daily Worker, will appear In Mon
days issue Of the Daily
II is written by James w. Ford,
Communist candidate for vice.
president In the recent election;
The article evaiuates GEORGIA
NIGGGER" from a political view
point, and urges the utmost util-
ization of the facts revealed in the
book In the struggle against the
whole system of Negro oppression
under capitalism.
The daily worker., 1932-12-17
Young JobIess Get Jobs.

NORWOOD, Mass, Dec. l6. -
Marching in body from the Uner-
ployed Council headquarters on the
flats, proletarian section here, II
young workers and 4 adult workers
compelled the relief heads to listen
to their demands for jobs and relief
and won two days work week for
three of their number.
Led by Sulo Sadingkangas, Of the
Youth Committee of the Unemployed
Council, the young unemployed work
ers walked into the. Town Hall in a
body and elected g, committee to de-
mand Of the Town Selectmen that
they permit a delegation to go into
the relief Office. The Town Select
men refused.
The whole deleoation then marched
into the relief Office.
Although many had been refused
jobs when they had previously ap-
piled individually, the force of their
organized numbers won what is con-
sidered significant victory by the
young workers.
AL Of the young workers under 2f
were refused relief or jobs. Indig-
nation is running high among the
youth on the flats. A meeting has
been scheduled for Monday, Dec. 19,
to discuss steps to be taken to fight
this discrimination in relief and jobs
against young workers under 21.
The daily worker., 1932-12-17
First N. J. District
Defense Convention
in Newark, Dec.17.1S

NEWARK, N. j., Dec. 16.--The
first District Convention of the new
ly-formed New Jersey district OF the
International Labor Defense will be
held Saturday and Sunday, Dec. II
and 18. at 385 Springfield Ave-, New
ark. The first session will begin at
2 pm. Saturday afternoon, Sundays
session will begin at 10 am.
The daily worker., 1932-12-17
Watch for V. Smiths
A Article Monday on
Nearing Fish Debate

A critical report Of the debate
between Hamilton Fish and Scott
Nearing on Comm znism versus
Capitalism will be made by Vern
Smith, in Mondays issue of the
Daily Worker.
Order your copy now from the
newsdealer!
The daily worker., 1932-12-17
FRAUD CASE GoE sTo Jury

NEW YORK, Dec. i6.--Following
final speeches by the prosecution and
the defense, and instructions by
Judge r. P. Patterson, the case of
Patrick J. Commerford, A. r. OF l..
official on trial for fraud, was ready
for the jury today. Just before con-
clusion Of his case,
The daily worker., 1932-12-17
RALLY AT ENCDAHL- -SCOTTSBORO MEET TOMORROW
In the Days
Neuvs
TOXIC FIRE TRAPS 500

TOXIC, Dec. 16-Fourteen per
sons died as a result of fire which
broke out on the third floor of the
Shirokiya depar .ment store, and in
. few minutes spread throughout the
eight story structure. Those killed
> either leaped to their death or were
burned. At the time of the fire the
store was crowded with wealthy
foreignborn doing their Xmas shop
ping. 500 Mortified women and
children were trapped on the roof of
the building, while firemen battled
the flames.
STUDENT ANTI-WAR CONGRESS
CHICAGO, Ill.-More than 500
students from SO colleges and univer-
sites will answer the challenge,
"War against war!" when they meet
at the National Student Congress
Against War on the University of
Chicago campus Dec. q to 20.
GENERAL BOASTS MURDERS
WASHINGTON, Dec. 16.-Major
General B. H. Fuller Of the Marine
Corps, submitted his annual report in
which he claims 149 successful con-
tao S with Nicaragua revolutionaries
fighting the invasion of American
imperialism. One of the successes"
reported by the general is to the ef-
feet that total casualties among the
marines amour ed to 113 dead. No
mention is made as to casualties
lamong the marines amounted to 113
dead No mention is made as to cas-
ualties among the Nicaraguans.
CALLS FOR WHIPPING POST
SAN FRANCISCO, Calf, Dec. 16.
California is another place where
the capitalist Humanitarian" are
pushing legislation for a whipping
po1t. The champion of this measure
is Superior Judge r. E. Graham who
advocates it in place Of jail senten-
ces, for the purpose of keeping the
family altogether" All the bankers
and plutocrats agreed that this
scheme is more economical than
feeding or even failing workers whose
family life is being disrupted by
starvation.
LITVINOFF RETURNS TO UsSR
GENEVA, Dec. Following sue
cessful negotiations for the resump-
ton of relations between the Soviet
Union and China while attending the
disarmament conference here, Max
jim LitVinoff, Soviet Conmissar of
Foreign Affairs departed today for
MOSCOW.
80 VICTIMS OF TENEMENT FIRE
PROVIDENCE, Dec. 16.-Added
hardships were heaped on several
workers families when another of
the numerous tenement fires drove
30 from their homes. Three we're
overcome by smoke.
ARREST 1000 PROTESTING PAY
CUTS
PARIS, Dec. 16.-Extra Police were
mobilized and over 1000 arres ed
when civil employees staged power
full demonstrations in the central
district of Paris today, protesting re-
ouctlon OF salaries proposed in Par
lament.
SAVED BY SCOTTSBORO FIGHT
MACON, Ga, Dec. 16.-The life of
another Negro worker was saved as
q result Of the victory won by the
International Labor Defense in the
Scottsboro case, when Federal Judge
q - ~
% he would discharge John Downer.
John DoWner was the victim of
typical lynch terror of the southern
lling class. He was sen enced to
cath for an alleged attack on a
hite woman. His trial took one
day. The jury deliberated only six
minutes. Judge Deaver ruled the
trial was without due process of law
and in violation of the federal Con-
Stitusion.'
The daily worker., 1932-12-17
u. S. PLANS WARTIME
MEASURE OF PASSPORT
BAN AGAINST FRANCE
Resolution Offered in Senate to Set Prohibitive
Fee of $4,000 on Visas for Tourists
Reprisal Threats Accompanied by Sharp Drive
to Whip Up Capitalist Nationalist Hatreds

WASHINGTON, Dec. 16.-The imperialist struggle over
the war debts ragged still ercey today proposals
were made in Congress for reprsa against France
defaung European states France defied demands of the
Wall Street for unconditional payments of the De-
The daily worker., 1932-12-17
Meeting In Farrell.

FARRELL, Pa, Dec. is. - A mass
meeting to hear a report Of the dele
gates from the Shenango valley to
the National Hunger March to Wash
ington, will take place tonight al
Croatian Hall, here.
The meeting is called under the
auspices of the Provisional Commit
tee Of the local Unemployment Coun~
ellis, which is launching a movement
in this valley for immediate winter
relief Of $50 for each family Of two
and an additional $500 for each doe
pendent, and Tor social Insurance.