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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-20
PREPARE LARGE
DETROIT MAY LIST
DEMONSTRATION
Ford Instead of Hiring
is Laying Off Men

DETROIT, Mich.-In preparation
for the huge May Day demonstration
the Party units and other organiza-
tons are arranging tens Of open air
meetings and factory gate gatherings.
In the week between April II and 16
six open air meetings and two factory
gate meetings were held. The work
ers attending these meetings and lis
tened eagerly to the speakers. These
meetings are also auti-war meetings
and proteses against the Ford mas
sacre and against the attempt to
lynch the seven Negro boys in
Scottsboro, Ala.
The auto factories here are laying
off more workers every day. The
capitalist press announced that 10000
workers are working at present at
River Rouge Ford plant and that
Ford will take on more workers. The
fact is that instead of taking on
more workers hundreds Of those
working have been fired. Although
a month has passed since the new
Ford model was put on the market
none of them can be seen on the
streets. Some of the dealers are COM
planning opnly that they did not sell
one car of the new model.
The great unemployment and the
constant cutting off of the little re-
lief which was given to some OF the
unemployed workers is operating a
very tense situation among the hun
dreds OF thousands unemployed
workers and they are ready to fight
against this present situation. They
are realizing that only unemployment
insurance can bring to them some
relief.
This indicates that the May Day
demonstration which will be held
Sunday, May LIST al Grand Circus
Park at p. m. will be the greatest
demonstration ever held in Detroit.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-20
LEADERS OF MASS.
HUNGER MARCH TO
SERVE JAIL TERM

NEW BEDFORD, Mass, April 10.
R. Armstrong and Walter Peters
we're framed up last Friday. Arm
strong, who is captain of Column
No. I of the Massachusetts State
Hunger March, was charged with
"idltng disorderly" and disturbing
the peace" when he attempted to
speak to the workers who came to
see the home of an unemployed
worker being auctioned off.
The cops took him into Jail and
gave him such a beating that he
could hardly walk. Then they came
to the Unemployed Councils head
quarters, under the leadership of
Mendoza, the big bullying cop on the
Welfare Department who terrorizes
all the workers applying for city
aid" and arrested Walter Peters.
youth organizer of the Unemployed
Council. After beating him up they
tok him to the Central Police Jail.
The next morning in the court
room r. Armstrong defended him
self and exposed the frame-up, but
the judge who represents the mill
owners Of New Bedford gave him 80
days in the Correction" House and
a $40 fine. The same judge did not
allow Walter Peters to tell his story
and when our comrade, in spite Of
everything, exposed Mendoza the
judge sentenced him also to 30 days
in the same house on trumped up
charge OF "vagrancy."
Both cases will be appealed to a
higher court. Armstrong is out on
$500 bail and Peters on $500 bail
They are busy organizing the unem-
ployed workers for the State Hunger
March to Boston on May /.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-20
May Day "Daily" Goes
to Far West Fri. Night
Prepare to Spread the May Day Issue to Fac
tories, Mines, Ships, Farms

The MAY DAY DAILY WORKER
for the FAR WEST will be off the
press this Friday night, dated for
Saturday, April %, with greetings
and ads from workers and sympa-
thetic businessmen of the Far West
ern districts, including the important
centers along the Pacific Coast. This
edition also will contain stories, ar
ticles and workers correspondence
about teh basic industries of vital
Importance to the working class
struggle against war which is being
celebrated with mass demonstrations
this year on May Day.
The fight against hunger, unem-
ployment, evictions and the drive to
war-the angry roar Of the workers
of the world against the frame-up at
Scottsboro, all will be reflected ac-
curately in the NAL DAY DAILY
WORKER. 1t is the solemn duty Of
every worker with the necessary
class consciousness to get this issue
Of the workers newspaper into every
locality and situation where there are
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-20
GERMAN POLICE
R A Id WORKERS
SPORT GROUPS
Seek Pretext to Ban
Mass Organizations
Of Workers
tCabIe BY Inprecorr.)

BERLIN, April 1e. - Today Sever
ing minister Of the INTERIOR car
ried out big police action against
the revolutionary sport organizations,
the Anti-Fascist League and other
revolutionary mass organizations
The headquarters in Berlin as well
as forty branch offices were occu-
pied. The search was conducted
thruout the day and all persons met
with were detained. The authorities
announced that after an examina-
ton of the material confiscated they
sill decide whether to suppress these
examinations.
The police pretend that there are
grounds Of suspicion that the organ
izations represent continuation of
the prohibited Red Front Fighters
League. Regarding the sport organ
izations the contention is grotesque,
because many have existed for thirty
years. Actually the authorities are
seeking a pretext to suppress the
sport organizations in order to clear
the way for state "non-party" all
inclusive sport organization which
has been proposed by Groener (rnin-
lister Of defense). The bourgeois
evening press reports that nothing
important was discovered either in
Berlin or in the provinces.
Today was National Unemploy-
ment Day in Germany. At the
crowded mass meeting in the Lust
garten there were speeches from
thirty platforms. There were no COL
lisions ond few arrests. Collisions &C.
CURED in Bremen when police bat
oped the demonstration. Early in the
morning the Hamburg police arrest
ed all officials of the unemployed
movement who could be found hop
ing by this action to prevent any de-
monstrations.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-20
World Wide Demonstrations
on May z to Push Mass Fight
TOR the Seven ScottSboro Boys
international Red Aid Calls On Workers of
Whole World to Support Fight for
Framed-Up Negro Lads

NEW YORK, N. Y.-Milhons Of
workers all over the world will march
on May 7th, the date that has been
set as International Scottsboro Day
by the International Red Aid, with
which the International Labor De-
Tense is affiliated. On that day,
worldwide mass demands will be
made for the release Of the nine in
nocent Scottsboro Negro boys, the
International Labor Defense declared
today. The International mass pro-
test of workers against the lynch
verdicts against these Negro boys,
which resulted in the recent request
on the part of the United States
State Department for information
from Governor Miller about the
Scottsboro case, is only just begun.
Large committee under Interna-
tional Labor Defense and Interna-
tional Red Aid direction are to be
Immediately formed, and urgent mass
agitation developed. The entire gig
antic resources Of international
working class solidarity are being
modified in a supreme, determined
mass effort to force the release of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-20

these innocent Negro workers, whom
the capitalist courts of Alabama seek
to railroad to death nthe false
charges of "raping" two white girl
prostitutes.
A cable was received by the In
ternational Labor Defense at 799
Broadway, New York City with
contribution of over $21 given for the
defnse of the Scottsboro boys by the
American tractor mechanics now en-
route to the Soviet Union. The cable
was signed by Sam Gerber, Labor
Defender delegate to the Soviet Union
and by Philip Giambatista, Penn
sylyania coal miner and strike leader
of the National Miners Union, whose
deportation to Italy was fought by
the International Labor Defense. The
International Labor Defense secured
for Giambatista the right TO go to
the Soviet Union instead of to fascist
Italy.
The action of the tractor mechanics
delegation, with whom Giambatista
was travelling, in sending a defense
fund to the International Labor De-
Tense, shows keen realization of the
immediate need for financial sup
prt to save the Scottsboro boys.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-20
Lst Is the Workers Day Of Struggle Against Hunger
Hunger, War, Wage Cuts Jirn>C roevisr, Capitalism
Tie.Up of Govt Officials
With Stock Saunders Barred

WASHINGTON.-The intervening
of high government officials with
Wall St. Spectators was revealed at
the investigation conducted by the
Senate Banking and Currency Com
mittee yesterday.
So damaging we're some of the dis
coVeries made on the subject that the
Committee refused to publish the
names brought out in the investiga-
ton because as one of them stated:
1T would be playing with dynamite !"
The New York American admits
the close connection between the
White House and Wall st. gamblers:
'The impression prevailing there
was uneaSiness, If not alarm, in
Administration circles over the
names Of some of the short sell
lers." One committee attace ad-
mitted a cursory examination
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-20
TO PREPARE HUGE
INDIANA HUNGER
MARCH IN JUNE
Several Meetings In
Indianapolis AS
First Steps

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, April l6.--
AS preparatory steps toward State
Hunger March. to take place some
time in June, several mass meetings
will be held here in the near future.
On Monday, April 25, at II am, q
mass meeting called by the Interna-
tional Labor Defense will be held 70
demand the release Of Theodore
Leuse, jailed leader of the Indians
unemployed, now serving in the penal
farm since last May. The mass
pressure of ten workers of Indiap-
oils has forced a keen and state
wide interest in this case and the
struggle will go on until this young
leader is released.
On May Day, at 2 pm. the work
erS of Indianapolis will gather BY the
thousands to celebrate the Interna-
tional Day Of Struggle at Military
Park. From there they will parade
downtown and rally at the Workers
Center, 1921 S. Meridian St, at 3
p. m. j. Louis Engdahl will be tho
main speaker at this rally. Nat Ross,
section organizer Of the Communist
Party, will be the chairman.
A state conference viii be held at
the Workers Center on May s,
called by the Unemployed Councils Of
Indiana. The purpose of the con-
ference is TO speed up the prepare
tons for the State Hunger March and
formulate the demands TO be pre-
scented to the State Legislature in the
interest of the unemployed workers.
The Unemployed Councils are inYt-
ing TO the conference the Interna-
tional Labor Defense and the League
of Struggle for Negro Rights, in or
der to arrange for a mass demon
stration against the death sentence
hanging of the Scottsboro boys, to
be held on May II.
On May Is a united front confer
ence of mass organizations will be
held TO elect delegates to the his
toric National Nominating Conven-
ton Of the Communist Party sched-
uled to take place in Chicago on May
% and 20.
All these activities will be utilized
for building up a mighty revolution
airy movement among the Negro and
white workers in the mo mems city"
Of the HooSier state, in which, as the
bosses themselves admit, 10000 chill
dren go without milk.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-20

workers!
without the DAILY WORKER it
is impossible to imagine the chaos
among the workers, fighting without
their newspaper. To fight for his
class paper is the first and most I'M
portant duty of every revolutionary
worker. There is no better nor more
significant way Of doing so than to
help the May Day issue!
SPREAD THE MAY DAY DAILY
WORKERl
Get greetings from workers, see
that your organization has sent in a
greeting, get ads from local business
men, order a bundle-these are ways
to help the May Day issue. SEE
THAT YOU ARE PREPARED TO
GET THE MAY DAY DAILY
WORKER ABOARD SHIPS, INTO
FACTORIES AND MINES, INTO
THE FARMING AREAS.
IN THIS WAY SOW THE SEED
FOR A BIGGER AND BETTER
DAILY WORKER TO FIG H
AGAINST THE BOSSES WAR AND
the HOOVER HUNGER PLAN!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-20
THE PHILOSOPHY OF HUN.
GER AND WAR OR THE
PHILOSOPHY OF SOCIAL
ISM AND PEACE

Said Mr.. Wilbur, Secretary of
the Interior Of the Hoover Wall
Street administration: "One Of
the great people of the earth is
deliberately trying to work out
large social and economic pro-
blems for the mastery of its vast
territory along new and untried
lines. Our economic, social and
political philosophy must wage a
gigantic and fundamental strug-
gle with theirs"
Workers, which philosophy do
you prefer, the philosophy of
Wall Street. the philosophy Of
hunger, unemployment, wage
cuts, war terror, or the philoso-
ply Of the Soviet Union which is
building socialism, has liquidated
unemployment, and is raising the
standard Of living OF the masses.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-20
Landlord Confiscates Miners Relief

Mr.. Greenfield by mail and through
a committee that the clothing in the
storeroom was donated to the miners.
The agent of MIR. Greenfield prom
ised the committee that the clothing
would not be touched and that after
the constables sale we would be able
to remove it from the building.
AT the sale, whic occurred on April
ID, MIR. Greenfields agents and the
constable Unanswered so that the
w. I. r. committee could not come
in, and they sold the clothing, SO
they claim, per auction. This is an
other example of how the bosses
help the poor"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-20

showed several national figures
were included, but said he saw no
one close to Hoover"
The role Of American finance cap
ital in helping to grind down the
German masses was revealed by the
testimony of Whitney, leading Wall
st. Spectator. He brought out the
fact that the firm Of j. P. Morgan
had arti1cially "pegged" the price
of German bonds to prevent them
from crashing and dragging with
them the rest of the bankrupt Ger
man financial structure.
The whole investigation is a farce
based on the assumption that the
stock market crash of 1929 was re-
suit of bear raids" instead of a re-
Election Of the economic crisis Of
American capitalism which had at
that time reached its breaking point
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-20
(By a Worker Correspondent

PHILADELPHIA.--Mr. Albert M.
Greenfield, one Of the richest real
estate dealers in Philadelphia and
who claims that he is helping the
poor, confiscated and sold, through
his agents and constables, clothing
that was donated by workers to the
ragged and hungry Kentucky miners
and their families.
Mr.. Greenfield had some difficult
ties with the tenants where the
Workers International Relief had its
Storeroom and levied everything in
the building, The w. I. r. notified
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-20
(By a Worker Correspondent

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich.-The food
barrels placed in all the stores by
the Welfare are not being filled by
generous donors as City Manager
Welsh planned. So new scheme
was put into practice, to hang a milk
bottle on the barrel to catch the
pennies and nickels the store patrons
can spare, since they cannot afford
to give groceries any more. This is
just a racket to get every last cent
out of the workers pocketbooks to
save the rich from doing their share
of relief work.
The morning paper telsl Of ten
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-20
VICIOUS POLICE
TERROR AGAINST
PHILA. WORKERS
Workers Jailed for
Distributing May
Ist Leaflets
BY TOM HOLMES.

F1IhALElE MA, ia, - AS JIle
workers of Philadelphia are increas-
ing their activity to secure the I'M
conditional release of innocent Will
lie Brown, who has been framed on
a murder charge and sentenced to
the electric chair after farce trial
in a court filled with race hatred and
prejudice and without single Negro
on the jury, the police intensity
their campaign of vicious terror.
Workers have been jailed, while
carrying on their activity for the re-
lease of Willie Brown, for possession
OF Daily Workers, for speaking at
open-air meetings, for distribution of
leaflets, for being in working class
centers and Offices, for being in a
crowd listening to speakers.
Last Friday the police advanced a
step further in their terrorism
against the working class. In the
morning Z workers we're driving
horse and buggy; on the buggy were
posters announcing the coming May
Day demonstrations and urging the
Philadelphia workers to support the
same. These Z workers we're also
distributing leaflets, which also
called upon the workers to demon
strate on May Day. They we're ar
rested and charged with "Distribu-
ton of leaflets intended to incite to
riot" and held for court under high
bail.
The cops made themselves ridicu-
lous by holding the horse under $500
bail.
In the evening the Young Com
munist League, units / and 2 of No.
Philadelphia, held an open-air meet
ing at Girard and Marshall Streets.
In spite Of the fact that there was
permit for the meeting the cops tried
to break it up by harrassing the
crowd.
An indoor meeting was scheduled
Immediately after the open-air meet
ing. The locality of the indoor meet
ing was six blocks from the outdoor
The chairman announced that the
Supt. Of Police, Mills, had forbidden
the march to the hall but the young
workers were going to go down in
a body. The workers started going
down to the hall together, the cops
tried to split them up, the workers
refused to separate, the police ar
rested two of their number and
charged them with "disorderly con-
duct"
These two young workers, Sid
Greene of the Young Communist
League, and Tom Holmes, of the In
ternational Labor Defense, were SEN
fenced to 10 days by the labor hating
Magistrate Corners, who was the
one that held the aforementioned
workers for court.
Magistrate Corners said, after SEN
fencing Holmes and Greene, that he
would get rid of Communist agita-
ton in his section" CThis section is
the North Philadelphia section where
Willie Brown was framed for MUIR
der.) Corners has sentenced dozens
OF workers to Jail terms because OF
their activity in the Willie Brown
case.
Corners statement is direct
chcallenge to the working class of
Philadelphia. The workers. adult
and young, must answer him by or
ganization.
The International Labor Defense
calls upon tn eworking class to in
tensify its activity in behalf of Willie
Brown, Scottsboro boys, Tom Mooney
and all other class war prisoners.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-20
Sword Manufacturing Plant Cuts Pay

decided to quit working because they
could not stand the bosses wage-cuts.
These workers used to get $50 a week.
Now they are lucky to get $l4. Some
are only working two and three days
a week.
The only remedy for this is for
the workers to get united and join
the unions of their trade and fight
these starvation conditions under
the leadership of the Trade Union
Unity League. S. 81
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-20
Press Lies About
Jobs in Alaska
(By a Worker Correspond.un

(By a Worker Correspondent
SEATTLE, Wash.-The Seattle
Times stated in a rectnt news ar
ticle that 100000 workers will be
put to work in the Alaska GAMER
les. The truth of the matter, how
ever, is that the warehouses of the
canneries are overstocked. There
will be 5000 less workers employed
in the canneries this year than last
year.
The same paper also said that
Ford is going to hire hundreds of
more workers. But a check-up on
the factory shows that only 200 men
are employed there.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-20
New Relief Racket in Grand Rapids

evictions taking place and calls on
the public to give furniture, food,
clothing and so forth to help these
people. The paper also states that
only two OF these families have fur
niture.
Workers, when are you going to
stop the welfare stripping you of
your belongings before giving you
aid, then asking others more fortu-
nate to give you some Of their fur
niture. The welfare has become very
vicious and we must get more sigma
lures to the unemployed insurance
bill is we want to put an end to the
poverty and misery that abounds.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-20
(By a Worker Correspondent,

NEW YORK.-Don't think that
this letetr comes from a part Of the
world where there is no other light
but candle light. 1t comes from the
Bronx. And this writer is not the
only one in this apartment house
who had to step back to candle light.
Electric light fixtures adorn the
walls and ceilings, but there is no
light. And, no doubt, you guessed it
right. The light bills are not paid.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-20
Shut Off Electricity on Bronx Workers

Even teh rent out here at 754
Caldwell Ave. is not paid. Nor is
the butcher bill. The grocer refuses
to extend trust and the milhnan
knocks at the door no more.
Astronomers measure the distance
between stars by year lights or the
reverse. Are we to measure the life
OF the capitalist system by candle
light. 1t has not very long to live.
l.. Y.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-20
SUICIDE KREUGER
G A We MILLIONS
TO HITLERITES
Also Alfonso Given FL
nancial Aid By
Swedish SWindler
Gable by Inprecorr)

BERLIN, April 10. - Examination
of the papers of the suicide-swind-
led Kreuger reveals a receipt signed
by Hitler for one hundred thousand
marks and a receipt signed by AL
fonso, former king Of Spain, for 5
million pesetas. Documents show
that Kreuger financed Hitler with
huge sums directly or indirectly
through his German undertakings.
Alfonso's money was used to finance
a monarchist putsch against the
Spanish republic.
Worker Killed by Fascist
FLOERSHEIM. ~ At a collision
near here between fascists and Com
muniSts, a Communist worker, Noep-
pei, was stabbed to death. A severe
collision took place at Dusseldorf
in which three Communists and two
fascists we're sent to the hospital.
Poison Gas Tank Leaks While Be-
ing Shipped.
BERLIN. - Great nervousness was
felt by the population of Hamburg
because Of distinct traces of poison
gas noticeable in the harbor. Pas
sengers and the crew of the vessel
"Kurier" we're Particularly affected
with palpitation Of the heart, diff
ficult breathing, coughing and sneez-
ing. The brass and copper parts of
the vessel were discolored with
Whitish layer.
Police are investigating the mat
ter. Dockers declare that poison gas
was being loaded and that a con-
tainer spring a leak.
This incident recalls the Hamburg
poison-gas catastrophe when many
people lost their lives owing to the
accidental release of cloud of poi
son gas.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-20

In order to defend the Soviet
Union you must defend it also
against the propaganda attacks Of
the capitalists. For Ammunition"
read "Anti-Soviet Lies" by Max
Bedacht, ten cents.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-20
Help Build the
Central Comm. Library

Comrades can help a great deal In
building up the reference library Of
the Central Committee by bringing
pamphlets and books and back
numbers Of periodicals, particularly
the Inprccorr and the Communist
International. to Room 9o3, Work
ers Center. Pamphlets and books
which are out Of print arc psrtic-
uIarIy needed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-20
(By a Worker Correspondent

FRANKFORT, Pa.-Conditions in
frankfort, which is notorious for its
arsenal, are getting worse. Sheriff
sales and evictions take place every
day. Workers are thrown out of jobs
and are forced into the bread line.
Wages are being cut tremendously.
In the Disston Saw Mill, which
made big profits during the last war
through the manufacture OF swords,
the workers in three departments
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-20

History Of May Day" by A.
Trachtenberg VIII help you sgitsts
and mobilize the workers for in
ternational solidarity. Ten cent
pamphlet.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-20

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