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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-12
LEBANON MAYOR
BARS MEETINGS
Simply Abolishes the
Right Of Assemblage

LEBANON, Pa, Aug. 11.-"Posi-
lively no Soviet Union, Communist
Russian or any other meetings will
be allowed in the city of Lebanon
That's final. Legal action or no legal
action. (signe0 Mayor John K. R.
schropp."
This is a telegram sent August o
by the mayor of this steel town as
a result of attempts of the Friends
Of the Soviet Union to hold meetings
in a hall here The mayor thus off
hand abolishes the supposed consti-
tutional rights of free speech, free
dom Of assemblage, etc, for the
workers.
The FS.U. had advertised by
handbins and in the press a speech
by Norman Tanentire, its national
organizer, to be held in Redmen's
Hall, Aug 3.
Chief Locks Hail.
The chief of police had the hall
locked on the day Of the meeting.
Tallentire and two members of the
local committee preparing the meet
ing saw the chief, who said that the
better class Of people here don't
want to hear anything about Rus
STA" He refused to open the hall. The
chief said the mayor was in near
by summer resort, but even if the
mayor should grant permission for
the meeting, that wouldn't mean a
thing to the chief of police.
Citizen Apologies.
The chief then took a swarm of
police and a choice assortment of
hoodlums with blackjacks and drove
away from the hall all workers who
came to hear Tallentire. The F.S.U.
speaker and committee stood his
ground in front of the hall for two
hours, but the cops kept the crowd
away.
This is the town of Charlie
Schwab. One angered citizen of Leb-
anon has written a letter apologize
ing for the shame the police have
brought on the town, and declaring
that while the police protect and en-
courage bootlegging and vice, they
prohibit public meetings of workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-12
Washington Police Arrest
II Negroes in Attempt to
Frame Them TOR Cop Death
international Labor Defense Sends Patterson
To Take Charge of Defense
Dead Cop Had Attacked Negro Workers In
Wave of Terror Following Bonus Battle

the head.
Ever since the eviction of the
bonus marchers, the police of Wash
ington had been terrorizing the Ne
groes in Washington, driving them
off the streets, and clubbing, beating
and dispensing them whenever two
or three stood together. Since the
death of Kennedy, this terror had
ben intensified, and Negroes have
been thrown into jail indiscrimin-
ately, as police sought to find a group
on whom they could in any way fas-
ten murder charge.
The Washington papers have been
publishing scare headlines, stories
about Negro hoodlums,'' and other
obvious preparations for an attack or
the Negro workers here, who, form
ing 80 per cent of the working class
population, are in desperate circum-
sances as a result of the crisis. The
whole affair is an attempt to ter
rorize the starving Negroes, who
would undoubtedly be forced into
militant action during the coming
winter to obtain food and shelter, and
to smash the growing unity of Ne
gro and white workers which In
creased tremendously during the stay
of the bonus marcher here, anc
as result of their eviction.
ut is to be expected" statement
by Carl Hacker, acting national Sec
rotary of the LID, yesterday said
THAT following the attack on the
bonus marchers, and the wave OF
mass resentment which swept the
country as a result of it, the Hoover
| administration and the Washington
police should seek by attacking the
most oppressed section of the pop
ulation to promote discord among
the workers Since the Negroes con
stitute this oppressed section, being
deprived of all political, social, anc
economic rights, the drive has beer
especially directed against them"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-12
Camp Gretna Food
Rotten, Hours Long,
for Natl Gsuardsmen
(By a Worker Correspondent

10y worker correspondent
PHILADELPHIA, Pa.-The follow
ing letter is from national guards
man at Camp Gretna where the gov
eminent is training the young work.
ers for a new imperialist war, to use
these Guardsman in case of trouble
(read workers demonstrations or
strikes:
when meal time comes we sit
down to a meal that is not My dis
tastful but actually repulsive to one
who is accustomed to eating decent
food. Why only yesterday I had a
terrific pain in the gut from the
dinner we had. My pal here was so
sick that he threw up and had to get
some pills from the medicals. Sew
eral other complained of improving
1t makes a fellow sore when he
thinks of what the officers are get
ting and what slop he is fed. With
all this going on the officers do not
even breach the subject of food with
their men. They are contented and
they leave us holding the bag.
ION this sickening food we are
forced to toll necessarily under a
burning sun day in and out, Very
little regard is given to the health
of the men.
I'm speaking to some of the Ma
tional Guardsmen last week they told
me, that the only reason they join
the National Guards Is to make a
dollar a week."
The way for these National Guards
men to stop this rotten food and
dirty handling is to organize into
regimental committees of rank and
file gurdsmen. Demand decent food
Demand use of uniforms or parts of
uniforms for unemployed Guardsmen
when not drilling.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-12
PICKET HOOVER'S
PAY CUTTING JOB
Tie Up Minneapolis
Post Office Work

MINNEAPOLIS, MINI, Aug H.
A hundred pickets stopped all work
on the government post Office job
here today when 30 men hired at
40 cents an hour answered the ap-
peal of the United Front Commit
tee of Action.
The Committee called on these at
work on this government job not to
cut the wages Of Minneapolis hllild-
ing workers. The official scale here
is IS cents an hour.
The contractors appealed for po-
lice to break the picket line but it
still holds firmly.
Hundreds of pickets and those who
gathered to watch the picketing
signed petitions to place Communist
candidates on the ballot, after they
had been shown that plank in the
Communist Party election platform
which calls for fight against Hoover's
wage cuttjrg policy.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-12
Mother in Penna. Is
Jailed for killing
Bird to Feed Family

UNIONToWN, Pa, Aug. lin
this coal domain where thousands
of miners and their families are
starving, Mrs. Anna Chess, of Fair
chance, is now serving a 20-day
Jail sentence because she was
hungry.
Because she killed flicker, a
species of woodpecker, to feed her
large family, Mrs. Chess was ar
rested and sent to Jail. Since the
statute books of Andrew Melons
state do not yet specify that hun
ger is punishable by prison terms,
Mrs. Chess was convicted on the
charge that she was violating the
state game laws.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-12
100 Delegates Attend
Minneapolis Meeting
for "Daily" Campaign

MINNEAPOLIS, Mimi, Aug. IL
One hundred and sixty-eight dollars
was raised for the $4,000 Save the
Daily" drive at an emergency con-
ference held here last night.
More than 100 delegates from re-
evolutionary workingclass organiza-
tons in Minneapolis, st. Paul, Du-
luth and Superior pledged to raise
their full quotas for the Daily Work
er drive and for the national election
campaign fund OF the Communist
Party.
Mass, meetings, neighborhood COL
lections, picnics and concerts are be-
ing planned in District nine to sup
port the $4,000 appeal of the Daily
Worker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-12
STEEL WORKERS
CONVENTION SAT
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CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE
al Workers Industrial Union, which
thousands of workers have been con-
sistently struggling to build in the
face of the terror Of the bosses and
the deportation policy of the Govern
ment, will be born from this historic
convention and will go forward to
lead the coming strikes of the steel
and metal workers in all important
centers.
Doubles Membership
The M.WI.L. in its pre- convention
campaign has made excellent prog
ress especially in the Mahoning Val
ley in the strategic mills of the Re-
public Steel Corporations, taking III
several thousand new workers, the
ma ority American born, and many
high-skilled workers who are also
now receiving the savage attacks Of
the bosses. The national member
ship of the MWIL has doubled dur
ing the past six months, with strong
organization growing up in part Of
the Calumet steel section and in the
Mahoning Valley, one Of the largest
steel territories in the country. Tht
recent Hunger March Of the MWII
and the Unemployed Council of S
Chicago involved 5000 steel workers
in the march with and additions
$4,000 participating.
The first National Convention viii
have the task of founding the new
union on the basis of a sharp turr
away from the past weaknesses Of
the MWIL and with an immediate
view towards organizing and leading
the strikes and struggles of the en-
ployed and jobless steel workers
against wage cuts, part-time work
unemployment, deportation, and tht
war program of the Steel Trust anc
the metal manufacturers and the
government.
The Convention will start at moor
Saturday and continue to Monday
evening. Food and housing have
been arranged by the convention
preparations committee, and at Least
100 elected delegates are expected
from all parts of the country.
NEW YORK.-The following tele-
gram was sent today to the conven-
ton of steel and metal workers tc
be held in Pittsburgh:
National Office International La
Dor Defense greets national conVen-
tionaI metal workers, creator of the
Steel and Metal Workers Industrial
Union. In this period of desperate
crisis and mass starvation, the re-
sistance of the workers meets in
creasing terror. Bosses seek to smash
the will of the workers to struggle
and the CROWN gsolidarity Negro and
white workers. Only mass defense
and organization breaks boss terror
Only the LID leads the defense Of
the working class. Steel workers
must organize steel band of de-
Tense for the impending struggles
(Signed) CARL HACKER,
Acting Natl. Secretary.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-12
Anti-LabOr Group
B &C k s Waters
Key Men, Finance
Tour to Defeat Bonus
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long ana notorious record Of strike
breaking and spying activities. 1t
was first organized in 1923, with the
advent of Fred R. Marvin, news
paperman formerly with the Noun
tain States Banker" Of Denver. Mar
win ran a column in the New York
Commercial Cater merged with the
journal of Commarce") attacking
all movements of the working class
at the same time selling a daily
sheet service" to manufacturers adj
vising them how to smash up labor
organization in their factories.
All those who read Marvin's col
umn we're invited to become "Key
Men of America" who agreed to pre-
serve and file all developments in
the labor movement with the aim
of using this information to break
strikes and any form of working
class political organization.
Aim to Defeat Communism
Mr.. Marvin claimed that the chief
aim of the Key Men was TO de
feat Communism and Socialism in
America"
1t is into this vicious anti-labor or
ganization that General Waters
has been welcomed with open arms
Not only is he welcomed, but he is
subsidized from the Golfers of the or
ganization to defeat the ex-service-
mems fight for the bonus.
Standing behind Waters these
Key Men" are aiming not only to
smash the fight for the bonus but
to form the vets into a fascist organ
ization to be utilized against the
struggle of the workers for unem-
ployment insurance and against war
Waters thus stands dOubly cx-
posed as an enemy of the bonus
and unemployment insurance and
an upholder of the imperisllst war
preparations now being made by
the U. S. Government.
Waters further revealed his reac-
tionary role in statement vh'c
he made to newspapermen admitting
that he knew of Hoovers plans t.
use troops against the veterans, but
did not disclose the information tc
the ex-servicemen.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-12
BULLETIN

NEW YORK.-Word was received
from Washington. this afternoon
by the National Office of the In
ternationaI Labor Defense, that
William Patterson, well-knOwn Ne
gro labor-leader, and member of
the executive committee of the /.
L. D., who went down to Washing
ton yesterday afternoon, had dis
appeared. 1t is feared that he has
been arrested. Patterson went to
Washington to represent the IL.
d. in arranging for the defense of
the eleven Negro workers held
there on frame-up charges of muir
der.
WASHINGTON, D. c., Aug, IL
Fourteen Negroes have been arrested
here, and a score more arrests are
predicted by TIL police, in prepare
ton for frame-up charges for the
death of Policeman M. j. Kennedy
who died last Sunday of a fractured
skull after attacking a group of Ne
gro workers on the street. One ar
rest was made near Hamilton, Va.
Police, to lay the basis for a frame-up
claim that Negro, Irving Murray
had Kennedy's gun in his possession
Brigadier General Pelham Glassford
who engineered the eviction of tn:
veterans, and the army attack or
them for President Hoover, has APP
parently ordered reign of terror
against the Negroes, and a terrori-
cation frame-up at all costs.
NEW YORK, Aug. 11.-Willian
Patterson, prominent Negro labol
leader, and a member of the ma.
tional executive committee of thu
International Labor Defense, left TO
Washington wednesday night to takt
of the defense Of the fourteen Ne
groes held there in the death o
Policeman M. j. Kennedy. Kenned.
died last Sunday, and his death ha.
been made the excuse for unleashine
of veritable reign of terror agains
the Negroes in the capital. Distric
officials, and the police department
it is understood, are preparing tt
frame these fourteen on murde.
charges.
With Patterson will be associated
in the Washington defense, Bernard
AIDES, I. L. D. attorney, and c. Lippa
Philadelphia organizer of the lid.
Kennedy died as result of blow
from his own night stick when h,
charged on group of Negroes OF
the street and attacked them tryini
to take one Of them to jail on charge
trumped up on the spur of the mo
ment. The Negroes, smarting unde,
this and previous similar attacks
tried to rescue their comrade. II
the scuffle,. someone took Kennedy
club from him and hit him owe
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-12
FORD MAY HAVE ANOTHER
SHUTDOWN

DETROIT, Aug. 9-The much her
aided revival in the production of
automobiles has received jolt with
Ford considering the closing of his
plants supposedly for inventory The
real meaning of this closing is seen
in the so per cent drop in Ford AL
gust shipping releases. In the entire
auto industry a Is per cent drop
is expected for the past month.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-12
SEPT. Sd FOR DAILY, AFFAIR

The Bath Beach Workers Club,
which is arranging an affair for the
Daily Worker on September 3, re-
quests all workers organizations not
to arrange any conflicting affairs for
this date.
All proceeds Of the event will be
given to aid the $4,000 Emergency
Fund Drive of the Daily Worker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-12
BRITISH PLAN FOR INDIAN
MINORITIES TO BE PUBLISHED

SIMLA, India.-The British Com
munal Award will be published in
India and in England on August IT.,
the Indian Government announced.
The Communal Award is the "im-
posed plan" of the British Govern
ment for settling the issue of rights"
of Indian minorities under the pro-
posed new Indian Constitution.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-12
FIFTH VETERAN
VICTIM DIES
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number of three war veterans and
two children on bloody Thursday,
refused yesterday to see group of
writer's led by Sherwood Anderson
who came here under the auspices of
the Committee for the Defense of
Political Prisoners to protest the
armed attack against the ex-service-
men.
Hoover, fearing to face the au-
thors, sent word out that he was
too busy. The group read their state
ment to Theodore Joslin, Hoover's
press relations secretary.
The statement of the writer's, which
Mr.. Anderson was not permitted to
finish reading said in part:
when you stand up to ask the Am
erican people to reflect you to the
high office you hold, large masses of
American citizens will listen to you
with one feeling in their hearts.
THAT feeling, we must report to
you, as honest editors and writers
whose job it is to be sensitive to
human feelings and to record them
truly, is one of bitterness against
your conduct of your office; and
qs9IJ uu9Q4 o. smoo no1 noG 4suIsSe
from an official act which they wit
messed and read about with the
deepest horror and indignation
During the past week destitute, IN
armed men were shot down by the
armed men we're shot down by the
police, and by your personal order
defenSeleSs men and women were
harried through the streets of Wash
ington by soldiers, with bayonet,
saber and gas, smoked out of their
novels, and driven forcibly out of the
capital to roam and starve on the
bare highways of America.
1.-TWO veterans were killed and
uS!9I " 'pspunoM GlJII ueu4 9Iou
of terror was instituted in Washing
ton, in which these destitute men,
who had performed the most exact
ing duty the State demands from
its citizens, found themselves strip
ped of their rights as citizens, and
at the mercy of every indignity and
brutally the military and the police
could subject them to.
Numbers of these men were ar
rested and held in Jail as criminals
and Communists, while you, and
your subordinates, tried to shift the
responsibility of the governmental
ruthlessness to them. Decent work
ing men we're libelled by the Presi-
dent as criminals. The words Com
munist and criminal were dema-
gogically coupled. Granted some OF
the veterans were Communists;
81. Do you accept the full re-
sponsibility for your Official act OF
Thursday, July %?
20. Do you still stand by the ex-
PLANTATION you made of your extraor-
binary act, and by the defenses made
by your Secretary of War and his
subordinates of their actionP
"3. Do you intend to pursue the
policy of rule by the use of lawless
violence and military force?
"a. While millions of people are
starving, and bands of destitute and
homeless men and women roam the
country, will you persist in refusing
to provide measures for adequate
relief? Will you continue to deny
these men and women, whose misery
has afforded and still affords the
pretext for official violence in
Washington and elsewhere, their ele-
mentary rights to food and shelter,
and justice?'
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-12

"The struggle against militarism
Is an extreme form Of the class
struggle against war and against
the political power of capitalism"
--LIEBKNECHT
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-12

What Is Your Section Doing for
the Daily Workers Circulation
Driver
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-12
Two in Hospital

DETROIT, Mich, Aug. 1.-Two
members of the bonus army who
were driven from the capital collapsed
here and had to be taken to the Re-
ceiving Hospital. The veterans are
Frank Cooney of Detroit and John
Gray of Port Hutton. They are both
suffering from injuries received from
troops who drove them from Camp
Anacostia.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-12
International
Notes
GREET CLASS WAR PRISONERS

GREET CLASS WAR PRISONERS
BENALTO ALTA.-The Conference
for the Alberta District of the Youth
Section Of the Farmers Unity League
held here in the last days Of July
sent its greetings to the eight Com
munist leaders in Kingston, and to
all class war prisoners.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-12
500 ARRESTS IN BULGARIA.


VIENNA. Five hundred workers
were arrested when the police broke
up a demonstration called to mobil-
ize the workers for the August LIST
Anti-war protest, reports from Sofia
indicate
Runors that the Communists were
preparing an instruction in Bulgaria
for August 1st are reported to have
been spread to create a progrom
tendency against the Communists.
TO DRAFT HARVEST WORKERS
CALGARY, Alta.-The Govern
ment of the Alberta District in
Canada is planning to draft harvest
workers.
If Shortage" of harvesters will
result in the district, it is announced,
married men without children may
be drafted.
This announcement comes right at
a time when the cry is being raised
by the Canadian Federal Govern
nent against Soviet forced labor. -
La gaceta., 1932-07-16
Ell TERMINARA
HOY SUS LABORES

Washington, julio 16.-El
congreso terminara hoy sus la
bores, luego de Z meses de Sc
sion, ell mas largo periodic en-
los 1ltimos 10 amos.
Durante los primeros meses,
a partir de diciembre, Sc con-
cedi6 muy POGO interes a la
polftica, aprobandose leyes
creando la corporation de re-
construction financiera, libe :
ralizando las restricciones ban
carias, creando nuevos impues
tos y dando ayuda federal a los
necesitados
Ell presidente Hoover veto
hace pocos dfas la ley conce-
diendo 2,10O, 900, 900 para a
livio de la crisis y la semana
pr6xima aprobara una ley de
compromise que sera pasada
por ambas camaras.
La gaceta., 1932-07-16

'tonees a gritar "nosotros que
remos a Waters" V Glasford les
contest6 diciendo: go le die
al vice presidente que manten-
drfa limpia esta plaza y cuando
20 prometo una cosa la hago.
No quiero disgustos, pero 10 ten
dremos 81 ustedes no retroce-'
den. Tengo a Waters preso y 10
pondre en- libertad tan pronto
ustedes Sc marchen.
No hicieron case los eX-solda
dos y entonces otros leaders fue-
ron detenidos, mientras Sc da-
ban 6rdenes a las reservas de la
policia para acudir a los alrede-
dores del Capitolio.
A petici6n de Roy w. Robin
son, jefe de los veteranos de Ca
lifornia, la policfa militar crea-
Ida por los veteranos Sc uni6 a
los grupos en- la manana de hoy,
quitandose cada Official la Gin
ia que al brazo llevaba.
Waters, ell comandante, habia
Itratado de yer al presidente
Hoover, pero sus esfuerzos fra
casarOn.
La gaceta., 1932-07-16
Sc INCENDIO UN VAPOF
TANJUE

New Orleans, Julio 16.-Cin
co hombres murieron como re-
,sultado de la explosion de los
tanques de gasolina del vapor
Raleigh Warner, anclado en- ell
rio Mississippi.
Sc han recogido los cadave-
res de B. Haakon, Clarence Nc
Mahon, ]. J. DuBose, William
Dawson y Walter Wright. Han
desaparecido y creese que mu-
rieron en- la bodega del buQu2,
Jose Barrello, w. Anderson,
w. Haney y Harry Merryman.
La gaceta., 1932-07-16

MURfERON CUATRO RE
BELDE

Rio de Janeiro, Julio 16.-Fuer
zas del gobierno y grupos rebel
des sostuvieron aver I'm encuen-
tro, pereciendo cuatro hombres.
Aunque Sc habla de I'm acerca
miento entire el p~residente Var
gas y los revolucionarios, dicese
que los aeroplanos han bombar
deado las posiciones de los in
surgentes en- ell norte de Sac
Paulo.
Los gobernadores de los es-
tados de Matte Crosse y Minas
Geraes estan tratando de per-
suadir q los rebeldes para que
depongan las armas.
La gaceta., 1932-07-16
~RESCATADO UN AVIADOR
AMERICANA QUE CAVE
RIA EN- LAS SELVAS

Ciudad de MEXICO, julio 10
Recobrando POGO a POGO SUI fuer-
"a Sc encuentra aqui ell aviador
americana Clarence No Elroy,
a quien Sc rescatara de las sell
vas, luego de vivir en- elias II
dias de horror.
McElroy fue llevado aver al
pueblo de San Jeronimo, medic
muerto de hambre y de sed, y
con una pierna lesionada por un
grupo que lie estuviera buscan-
do desde ell II de JUNO, cuando
sali6 de Veracruz en- vuelo ha-
cia Honduras.
La gaceta., 1932-07-16
LOS E~X-SOLDADOS TUVIE-
RON E~NCUENTROS CON
LA POLICIA

Washington, julio 16.-Des-
6rdenes ocurrieron hoy frente
al Capitolio POGO despues de que
ell congreso empezo la session del
dia, cuando ell ejercito de los
ex-soldados avanz6 hacia ell edi-
ficio.
Pocos minutes antes Walter
w. Walters, ell comandante de
los bonistas, habia sido deteni-
do.
Ell superintendent de policia
P. D. Glasford inform6 a los ex-
soldados que Walters permane-
cerla bajo arresto hasta que
los hombres Sc retiraran fuera
de la plaza.
Los hombres empezaron en-
La gaceta., 1932-07-16
MURIERON DOS MUJERES
EN- UN CHOQUE CON LA
POLICIA

Berlin, julio 16.-En Lagen-
sebold, ocurri6 anoche un motin
entire los hombres 81 ntrabajo y
la policia. Dos mujeres perecie-
ron y dos hombres recibieror
muy graves heridas.
Els grande el numero de heri-
dos leves.