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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-06-03

Of steel and iron would.
This lower middle class, however.
these teachers, these lawyers, thess
doctors, these artists, these creators
of the American psychology, are be-
ginning to suffer themselves Theirs
has been very definitely 2. left turn
in the intellectual world of America,
in the past two years. Many Of us
must have noticed evidence Of that
in the several visits Of the students
and writer's like Theodore Dresser,
Edmund Wilson, etc. who went downs
IN Kentucky interested in the H4rS
Ian miners and made very serious
efforts to bring them supplies. That
was one symptom Of the change. Tha
best known writers in America todays
tuals world is orientated today TOD
the cream Of the American inteIecs
wards the revolution and towards thA
Soviet Union. Many OF them are
hay Many Of them are unclear.
John Reed Clubs. 7
Many Of us are unclear, but q
drift of this kind has an irnrensa
value for the future, and for today.
I haven't very much time, but I
will only inform you that in order to
organize the new currents that ara
moving in this necessary middle class
group, there has sprung UP almost
spontaneously in the past five years,
John Reed Clubs, named after onS
of the first organizers of the Cons
munist International and one Of ths
first organizers of the Communist
Party of the y. S. A, that great
American writer who lies under the
Kremlin wall The flrst one began
in New York over a year ago and it
has grown to Thirteen clubs.
Groups of this kind have withiri
1t the elements Of a mass movement.
1t has within it the elements that
in such time as this, In such z cri-
sis, can become very powerful and a
powerful ally of the Communist
Party in all its campaigns, and q
Party in its immediate struggle, the
powerful ally of the Communist
election of Foster and Ford"
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"SoViet Union Not An Enemy;
Our Bosses Feed Us Garbage"

CHICAGO, Ill by Mail I'm a
convention hall in which one fifth
Of the delegates we're Negro workers;
and where for the first time in the
history of the United States a Negro
worker was nominated as vice
presidential candidate; Laura Crosby
Chicago Negro worker spoke of the
struggle which white and Negro
workers must carry on together.
She said, at the National Nomi-
mating Convention of the Communist
Election Campaign
Comrades and fellow workers
I represent Chicago. a great big
beautiful city of starvation. Here in
Chicago. when the workers come out
in demonstration, we are lined up
against the walls at the point of ma
chine guns and that isn't low and
dirty enough to do to the working
class. The dicks took baseball bats
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and whips to use against our com
rades
First of all l want to speak to
the Negro people most especially be-
cause we have been the most OPP
pressed nationality in the world We
get the lowest pay the worst jobs
Never before in history can any OF
us look back and see where a Negro
had the privilege and the opportunity
to run for vice-president. CTremen-
dous applause.
you Coloroed Comrades most
specially, we were in the South be-
fore. colored people there we're not
allowed to vote. If the bosses wanted
our votes as Republicans or Demo-
Gratis, they took our names to the
polls and cast the votes. But since
we have been here in Chicago we
have a little privilege to go and vote
for who we want to vote for, Bear
this in your mind, there is no diff
ference between the Democrats and
Republicans but one. The Demo-
Gratis will set the trap and the Re-
publican will knock the trigger.
"You, Colored People, you have not
realized what you have been doing.
When you go TO the polls and there
is little square, when you cross that
square you have shown that you do
not want starvation and JimCrowism.
say Fellow Workers, if we are tired
of being Jim Crowed, if we are tired
of being lynched, when we go to the
voting poll, remember, Comrade Fos-
ter and Comrade Ford.
THE bosses Of Chicago are trying
to solve this crisis with machine
guns, but never will solve this cri-
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International
Notes

Chile Saves Nitrate Company.
SANTIAGO, Chila.-The Govern
trent dfcided to reorganize the Ma
tional Nitrate Company. and enable
II to Moduce $4,000 tons of nitrate
per mcnth.
Mira he is war chemical and its
narkst is widening as result OF
the fev irish preparations for new
imperialist slaughter.
How the Soviet Union Deals With
Grafters
NoVOSIBIRSK, USSR.-A local
Court sentenced four employees OF
the Consumers Cooperative Compa-
ny to be shot to death for stealing
1900 bushels of grain and other food
stuffs.
This is how the proletarian justice
neals with grafters and sabotagers
who attempt to destroy the food dis
tribution TO the people
Corguloy'S Identity Proved by TSar-
list Document.
( PARASITIC police in Monaco
have found amongst Goruglov's pos
sessions his old student card bear
ing photo stamped with old Czarist
arms This definitely settles the YER
sion according to which Gorguloy is
not Gorgulov at all, but an agent of
the Tcheka bearing paper Of the
murdered Gorgulov.
New Arrests for Communist Propa-
ganda.
BELGRADE.-During the last few
weeks many illegal leaflets were dis
tributed in Belgrade calling on the
masses of the people to change the
existing social and political condi-
tons of the country. The police ar
rested university professor Dragolpub
munist deputy Dr. Sima Markoyitch
on charges of having written the
leaflets and organized their printing
and distribution A number of other
persons we're also arrested.
Drive Against Ambassador Masaryk.
PRAGUE.--The Communist frac-
ton in the Czechoslovokian parlia-
nent pounced on the lie uttered by
the Czechoslovokian ambassador in
London, Yam Mararyk, when he de-
clared that the assassin Gorguloy
was a member of the Russian Boil
shevist Party The fraction declares
that such statement in the mouth
of q high official of the Czechoslov-
adan State is hostile act toward
the Soviet unioA
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SfSeeH AO1lUNS LII HdTLs
Karl Marx said somewhere that
you couldn't have revolutionary
movement without wining at least
10 per cent of the middle class. Up
till few years ago, that would have
sounded like hopeless statement in
America During the period of the
boom, the middle class in this couh-
try was living high and fat and
sasBy.
Writers Place in Capitalism.
There have been many suicides
among the middle class and the up
per middle class. | know how you
feel about il, Most of us would be
happy if the whole capitalist system
committed suicide. The fact of The
matter is-into this demorslized mid
die class there has cerpt very defin-
itely a wind from the Soviet Union,
wind of revolution, And it is q
very important element in q revolu-
tionary movement to consider these
elements, because if you anslyze the
situation today, the objective situs-
ton all over the world is rotten ripe
for q revolutionary change"
The subjective conditions, how
ever are quite different You go on
the bread lines and you actually find
men starving who will vote for
Hoover in the next campaign. why?
1t is because Of the newspaper the
moving pictures, all this theological
Structure that has been built up in
the minds of the workers that con-
vinces them that though they may
have no clothes on their back or any
thing in their stomach. still they are
as good as j. P. Morgan and that
Herbert Hoover is their represent
tative. You have got D break down
this psychology. Who creates this
psychology? The men who write
for the newspapers, the men who
write the scenarios sfor the moving
pictures All the intellectual en-
ployees of the rich are the people
who create and fashion this bour-
geois culture which definitely holds
them inslavery as much as bracelets
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| sis. There is not but one way and
that is our social insurance. Fellow
Workers you understand We are not
only fighting for that little lousy
amount of SIS a week. We are fight
ing for equal rights and social equal
ity for all Negroes. Fellow Workers.
we have Party by the name of tbs
Communist Party, which is the only
Party in the world that fights for
the working class, the only Party
that organizes the Negro workers
with the white workers. Fellow
Workers, the Communist Party has
got the world of workers stirred I'D
and don't forget it,
Have the Democrat and Republic
can Party ever formed q Hunger
March to the Capitol? No. But
the Communist Party has. I know
damn well what l am talking about.
Loud applause) I do not like to talk
SO much, but when begin TO think
about my own existence and see how
the Negroes are oppressed, I can't
thelp talking. loud applause.
Boss Is Our Enemy.
Fellow Workers. you do not hare
to go to the Soviet Union TO light.
The Soviet Union did us no bad
things. The Soviet Union workers
did not make us eat out of the garb-
age cans. 1t is the bosses here In
America. And when we are given
guns, fellow workers, take them. we
must take them-we made them But
when you shoot, know whom you
shoot.
Fellow Workers, today in America,
why have she bosses kept the Negro
workers from the white workers.
Simply because the bosses know that
the day when the Negro and white
workers get acquainted, they would
have to take off their collars and ties
and get a pick and shovel and dig
for themselves. cloud applause
Fellow Workers, the white women
do not forget are fighting side By
side with the Negro women This
white women have the same hard
ships as the Negro women. And to-
day. fellow workers, we find there Ia
no discrimination and Jim Crowisrn
between the white and Negro workers
because, fellow workers, IL am
hungry and you are hungry, what
difference is there in an empty stori-
ach? loud Applause.
Smash the System.
When you return back home, 90
back home and do not rest contented.
Fight on fellow workers, until we will
be able to smash this rotten system
and establish our own workers and
farmers government. Go back to
your own homes and tell the workers
there TO vote for Comrade Foster and
Ford, men who have known what
hunger and misery means.
In my last remarks, / want to
point out that some people might
say what is the use of electing Com
munists? When they are elected, the
bosses, who are so we'll organized,
would not let them get into once
anyway, All We ask you to do is to
cast your vote ana when we get in
we are not going to ask for the seat.
We are going TO take. ..... We are
going TO throw them all out and take
our places where we belongs Cloud
and long applausel,
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Paul Bohus, Miner. Ohio.

The District oBard Of the National
Miners Union has endorsed the Com
.munist Party presidential campaign
Among the miners, the most im-
portant question is bread and butter
There we see also the role OF the
charities, handing out a little here
and little tyre. At the present
time in the cambridge district, we
see miners or. strike, and the govern
ment thugs coming TO the picket
lines and asking a miner--"What are
you doing here, what are you going
down to the picket line for? He
answers that he is hungry. They
buy him food for a day Then If
he goes back. they throw him in JILL.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-06-03
LyncherS Planning
Hasty Disposal Of
ScottSboro Case
Ala. Paper Throws
Light On Week End
Action in Court

sCoTTsBoRo, Ala, June r.
The latest issue Of the Jackson
County Sentinel, organ of the
scottsboro Iynchers, throws an in
terestingl and sinister light on the
haste displayed by the United
States Supreme Court in handling
tkhe appeal Of the International
Labor Defense attorneys for a re-
view of the scottsboro lynch YER
diets.
The usual practice Of the court in
all appeal cases brought during the
last few days before its summer re-
cess is TO withhold until October its
decision as TO whether it would re-
view the yerdiets Had tbs court
followed this practice in the Scots
boro case, the l. L, D. attorneys could
have secured an order from one Of
the Justices to stay the execution OF
the boys which was set for June "a
But this would have meant that the
Court could not have speeded up the
cate for the oral hearings of argu-
ments on the appeal
Ii its haste to dispose Of the
scottsboro case the court made its
decision q mere weekend affair
While mass pressure forced it to de
eide in favor OF reviewing the lynch
vordicts It Immediately set October
10 for the oral argument on the
appeal This clearly shows that the
lynch courts are trying to rush
through the lynch yerdicGs as quick
~ as possible. Because of the world
wide mass fight and its exposure OF
the lynch character of the courts, the
Scottsboro case has proved tremen-
dcuGly embarrassing to the white
ruling class and its white and Negro
re9ornlist lackeys.
The sinister purpose behind the
hessy action of the court is clearly
revealed in the following statement
i'll the Jackson County Sentinel.
IT had been the intention of coun-
sci for the Negroes to file petitions in
June, and then seek stay order
from one of the justices of the Su-
creme Court, The proceedings Mon
Gay will bring a decision from the
entire court" Emphasis ours
Daily Workers.
The organ of the Scottsboro lynch
els knew several days beforehand
that decision would be given last
Menday-knew, in other words, that
the Supreme Court justices would CO.
operate in making as quick disposal
as possible of the Scottsboro case.
This is further convincing proof that
the working class must continue its
vigilance, must not permit illusions
in the "rainess" and Justice" of the
lynch courts t odisarm it. These
illusions will be peddled now more
than ever by the N. A. A. C. P. mis-
leaders and other assistant hangmen
of the lynchers. We must intensity
one hundredfold the agitation against
the lynch verdicts and our activities
in building the mass defense move
Y1ant
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VETS DENOUNCE
GOVT TERROR;
MARCH SMELLS
Mass Pressure Forces
Congressman to Act
On Demand
ucoNr,NusD FROM PAGE ONE,

secret orders large supplies of tear
gs1 bombs, tear gas shells and hand
grenades to The Washington Barracks.
the Munitions Building and Fort
Myer.
A machine. gun equipped armored
car, according TO the dispatch, was
brought to Washington from Aber-
deem, Nd
But the bonus marchet5 have shown
that they will not be terrorized. The
masses of veterans who are now OIL
the march under the leadership Of
The Provisional Bonus March Conf
n1ittee arc the Workers Ex-Service-
mems League 'ns:st that Jher So
called constitutional rights be OBJ
served They as workers. war vet
Grams and citizens will demand tie
right of free speech and assembly
without police and army supervision.
Against Police Supervision
n DutlItlsl l5ouSQ llCiC Ny GI4C W VI n
ers Ex-Servicemen's League and the
Bonus March Committee declared
that veterans delegations arc coming
to Washington to make demands on
Congress and not the Metropolitan
police. The statement says:
1--WE do not want the police to tell
lis what to think or threaten LIS with
we've got the Marine Barracks here,
the Navy Yard and Fort Myers to
call ONT We refuse to be dominated
by the police. We must not allow
them to shape our policies. We are
coming here to demand immediate
cash payment of the bonus"
March Instructions
That National Provisional Bonus
March Commiteet. and the Workers
Ex-Servicemen's League today issued
their march instruction to Bonus
Marchers now in Washington and
those either on the way or about to
go to Washington for the June 9th
demonstration.
The statement said III pa~t::
Enemies Of the bonus bill will use
all means 10 prevent us from accom-
plishing our task-getting the inmed-
late cash payment of The bonus and
unemployment insurance for all the
workers.
81. When you get into Washing
ton, get in touch WITH the National
Provisional Bonus Ma.UI Commit
tee at sos l St., N. w
"2. Insist on your right 10 COM
munica;e with your own commit
tees. This warning is important
and necessary because local author
tiles have already segregated one
group and at the same time called
upon all states to hinder our dele
cations.
e, Demand to be centrally To-
Gated in the main part of Washing
ton. All groups must be located
near each other as possible 50 We
can work out our United Front
Plans for the June Sth demonstra-
ton.
a. Registration and identified
ton card will be issued to all vet
Grams in our delegations and those
who are 10 join the demonstration
on June 9Th.
"5. Pay no attention to rumOis.
and itsmpts TO brighten you. insist
on your right TO speak, and demand
immediate payment of the bonus
All press rep..ts will be issued by
the committee. and no individual
must issue a statement TO news
papers who will attempt to get
statements, refer them to the Ma
tiOnal Committee.
IS. All veterans Negro and white
must demand that they stay in the
same quarters with the other vet
Grams, and that Negro veterans be
included in the United Front Com
mittee."
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| lars 2 week The miners in the
Anthracite know what struggle is
and the enthusiastic strike in the
soft coal mines have proved that they
have got TO fight and build up the
opposition groups in the U.M.W.A.
We have certain cases where miners
that are married get preference ON
jobs In the mines. AS one of our
comrades reported, when 9 miner
asks for a job, they ask him have
you got children" One said yes "
They asked him how old is the child
He said, III" They said you can
not. get Job here" They refused to
hire him. After working all his life
making profits for the coal company,
they refuse dhim job because he
has q child II years old The mine
owners are afraid that if he goes
down and gets killed, they will have
to pay compensation.
Max Bedaeht.
The platform now before this con-
vention for adoption is program Of
work of our Party between now and
the election campaign. l want to
emphasize this in answer to some
tendencies to add to that platform
the complete program of the Com
munist Party-in working out this
platform of the workers and TO for
mulate slogans for those problems Of
the workers which this presen eco
nomic and political condition raises
for them. In doing this we came
to the conclusion that the issue CT
social insurance is the paramount
issue of this campaign.
Sometimes we find some doubts
among our comrades as to whether
the raising Of such demands. such
immediate demands will really drive
home to the workers the necessity
of our revolutionary solution of the
crisis. If we want 10 carry through
our election campaign with the
greatest measure of success we must
understand that the revolutionary
solution of the crisis is not separate
and apart from the struggle for the
solution of the immediate problems
of the workers and that the strug-
gle for the solution of these problems
is part of the revolutionary way out
of the crisis We must learn and
understand that the struggle for
social insurance hits the capitalist
system, especially the ruling class in
the United States. directly between
the eyes. The demand for social in
surance firc OF all the demand for
unemployment insurance shows up
to t. sses of workers the eco
nomic condition created by the rul-
ing capitalism. Secc oily it gives the
workers a base for united action ir-
respective of their political relations
or their political beliefs. We must
understand that comrades otherwise
we will not be able to utilize the
struggle for social insurance for our
campaign. That through the strug-
gle for social insurance is the base
for mass united front of the Ameri-
can workers-is the, base from which
we can approach even the most back
ward workers in the u S.
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Discussion on Communist
Election Platform

to
mating Convention Election
discussed the platform the Communist
to
Their the attitude
against relief farmers equality
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1.-The struggl against militarism
IS an extreme form of the class
struggle against war and against
the political power Of capitalism"
--LIEBKNECHr.
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600 workers vino fought for Wall st
in past imperialist wars will suffer
the drastic slash.
The economy bill leaves unaltered
the wages of the enlisted personnel
which is to be the backbone of the
United States Army and Navy in
the next slaughter, the preparation
for which is going on at full speed.
The Job of balancing the budget is
in itself part of the financial pre-
paration for the imperialist war.
Sham Opposition
In the meantime a sham opposition
to the economy bill is announced by
some Senators, whose aim is to pre-
vent or attempt to prevent a real
mass extra parliamentary opposition
by the workers and ex-servlcennen !,
through new wave of -demagogy.
This sham opposition is partially
Intended tc vindicate the "auton-
omy" of the Cnited States Solons.
Some of the Democratic Senators
pretended TO resent" Hoover's big
stick" Senator Harrison disliked the
press version of the adoption of the
revenue bill as an answer to Hoo
vers menace" contained in the
phrase: On your hands at this mo-
ment is the answer TO the question
whether democracy has the capacity
TO act speedily enough TO save itself
in emergency"
In order to show that they did nto
give up their legislative autonomy"
these senators are now putting up
the pretense of an opposition, which
will not be maintained in the face of
the necessity for the United States
imperialists (of whom the Senators
and Representatives are the ser-)
wants to accomplish the patriotic"
job Of balancing the budget.
The Budget Deficit Increases
On May 18th the budget deficit
amounted to $2,6S2, 337 ,O64 as a re-
suit of an increase in expenditure for
$5OOO0O,OO0 given to the Reconstruc-
tion Finance Corporation to help the
big induStrialists and bankers, and a
decrease in revenues of S669,000, 900,
due partially to the non-payment Of
other countries obligations and par
TALLY to the non-payment of other
countries obligations and partially to
the reduced income tax receipts.
1t is clear that the budget viii con-
tinue to increase and that not only
the present economy bill. together
with the revenue bill, will be finally
adopted, but that new steps will be
taken to unload additional burdens
on the workers.
A dispatch from the Capital to the
Journal of Commerce states that the
taxes will force the deficit downward
for a short time, but il vii lresume
the upward swing before the end of
the month, in AL probability
This is an indication of the re-
motcness of an economic recovery"
1t is an indication Of further stagna-
ton, with Nthe attendant intensified
campaign against the. workers.
Struggle is the only way open to
the workers in the face of this per-
spective
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VOTE COMMUNIST FOR

J. Emergency relief for the poor
farmers without restrictions by
the government and banks; ex-
emption of poor farmers from
taxes, and NO forced collec-
ton Of rents or debts.
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MIKE GOLD DECLARES |
WIND OF REVOLUTION
BLOWS OVER WRITER'S
Cream of American Intellectual World Is
Oriented Today Toward Soviet Union" -

CHICAGO Ill, by Mai"The best known writers America tbs
Of the American intellectual world Oiend today toward tbs
Revolution the declared Michael Gold rrsa
tartan writer the Nominating Of ths
Party speaking delegate the Club Colds
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RELIEF FOUGHT
IN MILWAUKEE
BY SOCIALISTS

disrupt the march and are now in
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-06-03
Budget Deficit Up;
Senate to Hit Vets
and Civil Employees
Economy Bill Calls for
10 Per Cent Wage-Cut

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