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The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-12-03
Richmond
BY MARTHA BOSSERT

Sunday visitors at the Gottfried
Bossert home were Mr.. and Mrs. Will
liam Witt and daughter, Esther, Mr..
and Mrs. Henry Rath and son. Alvin,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-07
HOOVER SIGNALS
FOR MORE WAGE
CUTS IN MESSAGE
Launches Campaign in
Budget Talk

WASHINGTON, May 6.-Hoover
began his presidential campaign yes
terday in a message to Congress ac-
cusing the democratic majority and
the republican insurgents of delay
ing the balancing the budget" The
Washington press says the demo-
cratic majority was stunned.
Representative Henry T. Rainey,
of Illinois, democratic floor leader,
finally arose and declared the presi-
dent had failed to cooperate on the
economy program of the House.
Rainey described the document as
the presidents first campaign speech
for 1882.
The Hoover message and the DEM
ocratic insurgent republican reaction
to it is merely a smoke screen under
which both republican and demo-
cratic political leaders in the admin
istratiye and legislative branches of
the government are preparing for
more drastic direct. wage cuts and
indirect wage cuts through the
'stagger system" against the lower
paid federal employees. This will also
be the signal for another attack on
workers in industry. The imperiaist
government tries to balance its
budget only at. the expense Of the
toiling masses.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-07
SEVERE BATTLES
MARK MAY FIRST
THRUOUT SPAIN
Socialists" Test Their
Democracy With
Bullets
Gable BY Inprecorrl

BERLIN, May Sowing to strict
government censorship details Of the
Spanish May First demonstrations
were delayed: The Socialists declared
May Day holiday" and appealed to
the workers not to demonstrate but
to make trips into the country. The
Communist Party organized demon
strations everywhere. The Madrid
demonstration reformed itself five
times after repeated police attacks.
Eight police we're injured and 60
workers arrested. Cordova police
fired on the demonstration killing
two and wounding eight demonstra-
tors. In Seville two hour fight with
police took place with many wounded
and arrested.
Salvaleon police fired killing two,
including woman. Lebonillo police
killed one whilst the workers killed a
policeman.
A Communist protest strike was
called in Seville on the second of
May despite Socialist and anarchist
sabotage. The authorities closed the
revolutionary union headquarters.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-07

1t was in pursuit Of this policy that
the United States government, itself
a lynch government, gave every aid
to the Hawaiian naval lynchers, and
tried to make the world believ ethat
Massie waited for months after the
allegedalleged attack and then, In ca
boots with his mother-in-law and two
sailors, became violently insane and
lynched Joseph Kahawakai. We are
asked to believe that the securing
days before the crime was committed
Of a piece of canvass and rope, with
which the body Of the young Ha-
wsiian was wrapped was not a part
Of the murder plot. The eloquence
and cunning of Darrow, who had
previously distinguished himself as an
apostle of lynching by traducing the
International Labor Defense because
it dared wage a worldwide campaign
against the attempt to lefally lynch
the Scottsboro boys, did not convince
the jury in the case. 1t did not con-
vince anyone who is able to think
and who knows to what lengths i'm
perialism and its armed forces will
go to increase its bloody grip upon
the colonies and semi-colonies and
carry on preparations for a new world
war.
Against this attempt 70 push for
ward its war preparations in the Pa
cific and the attempt to whitewash
the deprsved official caste of the
United States Navy we shall place
the facts before the working class OF
this country, the exploited masses Of
the colonial world and extend to the
exploited and oppressed Hawaiian
workers and peasants our revolution
airy aid in fight to compel the lack
eys Of the lynch government TO get
out of Hawaii and stay out. The peo-
pie who live in those islands must be
given the right TO establish and main
tain their own government, make and
enforce their own laws and deal with
as they see fit any and all Iynchers
who dare lay their hands upon any
of them.
(Tomorrow:-Demoeracy and Co
lonial Frightfulness with Further
Observations Upon the Massie Case.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-07

should take the initiative, in attack
ing them. A clever capitalist denla-
gogue can utilize for his own. pur-
pose workers who may not have the
Silvery tongue that he has. Young
Bioneers and Y. C. l.. members
should be careful not to act at these
bourgeois meetings in a maner that
will antagonize the workers present.
They should support their older COM
rades, but not take the lead without
advice from the older comrades.
Lately, those comrades who are
unemployed should not wait for
nightfall to hold meetings, Unem-
ployed workers walk the streets dur
ing the daytime. Why not reach
them with our programsat this time,
when the fact that they are unem-
ployed .stares them most sharply in
the face. Another shortcoming last
year was the tendency of some COM
rades to slacken their task as soon
as the socialists, democrats and re-
publicans began to get busy. This
must not happen again.
I have spoken directly because it
is mechanical points like these which
cut down sol argely ON the Com
munist vote. Our taks must be to
bring our voting strength more
nearly on level with our wide So
cial influence. Especially during
prediction days must the slogan
be: Every comrade ON the job, no
slackening until the Lection is over
Comradely yours,
american YOUTH
Brownsville
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-07
To Nominate C.P. Candidates
at Phoenix, Arizona, May Is

PHOENIX, Ariz--Thef State Nom
mating Conference OF the Communist
Party will be held here May IS. At
this conference the workers OF Ariz-
ona will nominate the state and ma
tionai candidates and elect delegates
to the National Nominating Con-
vention which will be held in Chicago
May 20.
The drive for signatures TO put the
party on the ballot has begun.
Thirteen hundred signatures Of quail
flied voters are required by the state
and must be filed with the Secretary
Of State. Every preparation is being
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-07
Means, Fish Vol Red Hunter,
Arrested in Lindbergh Fraud

Charged with murder, spying for
the Kaiser during the war, agent for
Harding in the notorious Ohio gang,
Department Of Justice agent in the
post war Red drive and Fish Com
mittee expert against Communists,
CASTOR Means is now held on the
charge of having mulcted friend
Of Lindbergh for 10000 ON a promise
of returning the kidnapped baby,
The baby, J6f course, has not beer
returned and the saviour of the
country from the red menace can
now add to his boast OF having been
Charged with every crime under the
sum-" that Of fraud and robbery.
After years Of activity during which
his business Means told the Senate
consisted was being indicted" Means
conducted raid on Communist
headquarters in Baltimore in 1890
He had just been released from At
lanta penitentiary for non-payment
of income taxes and for obstructing
justice when his truck rolled up to
the Party headquarters and aided
Fish in starting the nationwide pub
Lefty campaign against the Reds
The dangerous maerial found was q
crate OF lettuce.
Means had proven his worth as q
red hunter under the leadership Of
Detective Burns in the U. S. De-
partment OF Justice. With this brave
lettuce expedition added to his laurelS
Matthew Vol took him on for more
"inyestigatioin' for the National
Civic League. But Means has not
been able to even find an onion for
Mstty Vol.
With no new murders, failure in
the vegetable business and political
eclipse due to the stink raised by
the suicide of Harding and the ex-
posre of the graft and corruption
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-07

that bould blow the lid off the navy
with defamation as lour and stencil
as foul as that which followed the
removal of an admiral from the fleet
at San Francisco during the Worlds
Fair in 1915 on a charge Of abusing
young boys who had joined the navy.
Not a few adnirals (rear and other
wise), heutenants and lesser officers
are addicted to such Sacratic prac-
tices. 1t is not beyond possibility
that the memorandum which Mrs
Massie destroyed contained refer
ences to some such traditions OF ma
val officers. That would, Of course
be an added reason why the act was
greeted with applause by the rest OF
the navy gang, who dislike such rev.
alations.
The vile and lying accusation
against the five young Hawaiians
and the lynching of one Of them by
Massie, his mother-in-law and two
enlisted men was concocted to cover
up the degenerate conditions existing
among the official caste. It fitted in
nicely with the war preparations OF
Yankee imperialism in the Pacific
inasmuch as 1t was the signal for the
beginning Of the campaign to place
the islands under martial law. And
American imperialism took full ad-
vantage of it.
Hawaii Is regarded as the chief
naval and military outpost of the
Pacific forces of the United states
ruling class. Every precaution must
be taken to guarantee the Islands
against disturbances on the part OF
the Asiatic workers on the sugar and
coffee plantations, 1t was by nc
means accidental that ON January
18th, the Wall Street puppet governor,
Judd (who freed the foud lynchexs)
appointed as warden OF Oahu Prison
the notorious Major Gordon Ross
who in 1925 commanded a guard de-
tachment sent to the Island of Kauai
to break strikes on the plantations
there. This strike breaker can be re-
lied upon to make the prison q place
Of terror for victims OF American I'M
periaist vengeance as a part Of the
program of suppression carried out
against the Hawaiian masses.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-07

which ruled from the White House
during that presidents administration
Means sought other channels for his
versatile ability. Last November
Means wa sarrested for beating
Means was arrested for beating his
wife. He beat hte cop who tried TO
arrest him.
Although Means has committed
more crimes than all of Capone's
gang put together including the
forging.of Senator Brookhart'S sigma
ture he ha sonly served one term in
Jail.
In the Lindbergh case Castor B.
Means took the large sum Of $l06, 900
from Mrs. Mclean, the wife OF a
Washington editor. He sent the
woman out to Texas to get the child.
She discovered she had been handed
a lemon.
The U. S. government and Matthew
Vol have certainly been seYerIy hit
by this loss.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-07
KENTUCKY MINERS
KIDNAPPED AND
BEATEN BY THUGS
Told to Leave Home
Or Die; Sheriff
Aid Thugs

M1DDLEsBORO, Ky.-John Haes-
Ter, a member of the National Min
ers Union in Wallins Greek, was kid
mapped last week by Harlan gun
thugs and severely beaten. The kid
mapping was instituted by the sheriff
who arrested him for carrying con-
cealed weapon although Haesler had
no weapon with him. In the night
the Jail was broken into, Haesler
taken for a ride into the mountains
and beaten with heavy tree branches.
When barely able to move he was
ordered to run and shots were fired
after him.
The Harlan gun thugs told Haesler
to leave his family or else be killed.
They have also threatened TO kill his
son who has been active in the Ma
tional Miners Union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-07
Suggests Debates
With Leaders of
Capitalist Groups

Comrades: L Sri. go
. In sending my letter of suggestion
for the election campaign, will say
that I have devoted more than 30
years in a hard and continuous battle
against the quack of capitalism.
During my long experience, I find
that the best way to meet these
charletons is to keep them perpetuaily
terrified With challenge to debate
the issue in public.
s suggest that you challenge all
party office holders and candidates
from the justice of the peace TO the
president. Keep this challenge be-
fore the public in bold headlines with
an insistent demandt to defend
themselves or admit that they are
takers, which they are Their failure
to meet your challenge will surely
open the peoples eyes, I know.
suggest that you make an IRON
clad guarantee to make jobs for
every man and woman within AZ
hours after the Communists take
charge of the government, with SAL
aries and working conditions beyond
the dreams of the world. Unlike
Russia, we already have the factories
to start with.
am winning the old people by
pointing out to them that Commu-
nism would pension them at once and
you know that short hours and high
pay is slogan hard to beat. En-
phasize 1t. I suggest that you pro-
mise to do away with gangsters and,
through adjustment of crime incen-
tive and through vigiliant wedding of
criminals, bring crime to minimum.
Comrades, the future and the very
life of the people now depend upon
the success of the Communist Party.
Tiff this farce is allowed to continue
much longer, it will mean the exter-
nination of humanity. Men are
dropping dead like flies. One In eight
are victims of cancer. The present
rate Of increase in insanity will soon
sweep the entire human family into
the insane asylum. Without Com
munisn, there is no hope.
Comradely yours,
RAY AWHILE
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-07
What orr Readers Say on the Election Campaign

HIS IS the second series of discussion letters on the cleo
ton platform and campaign of the Communist Party
sent IN By readers Of the Daily Worker.
ALL READERS ARE URGED TO AGAIN READ THE
PLATFORM AS PUBLISHED IN THE DAILY WORKER
OF APRIL 18TH AND SEND IN THEIR OPINIONS AND
PROPOSALS.
All districts should send IN their orders at once for
bundles of the special supplement containnq the election
PLATFORM The second edition of the supplement- ecu be off
the press Monday, My g.. The cost is $3.50 thousand
copies.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-07

Dor and the San Francisco Examiner
of Hearst, on Wednesday, April az,
was yelling in big headlines that the
Japanese government oil tanker "Ka-
moi had followed the U. S. Waslips
along the coast and in San Fran
cisco harbor as a spy ship to OBJ
serve the technical secrets Of the u
S. Navy. ,.,-
This charge of spying by Japanese.
naval forces was, so the Examiner
said, made by u S. naval officers.
And these anonymous officers re-.
iterated the charge, even after the
Japanese Consul General met Admiral
Cole, and Cole issued a statement
saying the visit of the "Kanoi" was.
"a confidence" IL.
Consul General Wakatsugi issued
a separate statement, stressing that
these reports would injure the busi-
ness of purchasing oil here"
The Hoover Stimson policy OF
blockade against Soviet purchases Of
industrial equipment from America,
is matched by O. policy of arming
Japan with all manner Of war sup
plies and aiding Japanese recruitment,
of Russian White Guards for war on
the Soviet Union.
Unquestionably imperialist Japan
intends to attack the Soviet Union.
But no worker should be so naive
that he should think the Japanese
aim to stop there. There is truth in
the stor yof Japanese spy ships"
and Japan fully intends and is pre-
pairing to fight the United stateS
too.
Thus, some OF the explosives nov
being sold with Washington's pernis-
sion to Japan, may very well come
back home" in the form OF Shells
that will blow American sailors and
soldierS-and ciyilians-to pieces. This
Is nothing new, as the same thing
was done with war materials america
sold TO Germany (by way Of Scan
dinavial in i9l4-I5-16.
Hoover knows this, stimson Knows
it. The dozens of U. S. admirats now
in San Francisco Bay know it But
none Of these bourgeois officialE stop
the flow of war supplies to Japan,
because they know that Japan Is go
ing to attack the Soviet Nnion I'M
mediately. .,,.
1t is up to the workers Of America
to stop these war supplies. And to
get 1.-The help Of the sailors Of the U.
s. Fleets AND the merchant marine.
who must be shown that they, too,
will be engulfed in the blood bath
world imperialism is starting by an
attayk on the Soviet Union. .
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-07
WHAT DID THE NAVY TRY TO
COVER UP IN HAWAII!

their favors upon drunken specimen
Of their own "Set" who may blab
about it In some speakeasy. If the
unfortunate Negro, who may have
been intimidated into the alliance is
caught the elegant lady and her fam
lily Immediately raise the cry OF
rape" and the lynch gang gets into
action. (This writer is personally
familiar with a case where a young
Negro chauffeur in Tennessee was
compelled to leave his job because he
would not enter into such an alliance
with the wife Of his employer. The
same conditions prevail in every col
ony on the face of the earth,
These observations nave special
bearing upon the Massie case in Hon
olulu. Consider the piece of paper
from the doctors office handed to
Mrs. Massie, the alleged victim OF
an attack by five Hawaiian young
men, when she was on the witness
stand during the trial. In q violent
outburst the lady tore it to bits and
threw it on the floor. An act which
drew applause from the naval lynch
gang that made up the audience as
a part of Darrow'S plan of intim-
idating the jury.
What was written on that piece OF
paper that the naval officers feared
to have revealed Questioning by
the prosecutor brought out some OF
its contents. In the first place II
established the fact that Mrs. Massie
imagining she was suffering from 6
nervous disorder, visited some sort OF
doctor to have herself ''psycho-an-
alyzed." In true Freudian fashion
the doctor delved into the facts OF
the lady's intimate life with her hus-
band and discovered that the pair
were incompatible" that her hus-
band neglected her.
Oother questions revealed some
thing Of the actual occurrences on
the night Mrs. Massie and her fam
ily,. including her hatchet- faced, Ian
tern-jawed bag Of a mother, the So
ciety matron Of Washington, D. O.,
Mrs. Granville Fortescue, claimed she
was attacked by the Hawaiian young
men. Mrs. Msssie got q broken jaw
that night. The prosecutor asked
the lady whether or not her husband
Lieutenant MaSsie, did not break her
jaw when he discovered her in COM
promising circumstances with another
naval officer. Regardless OF her de-
NAL we can draw our own conclu-
sions that such were the circun1-
stances under which she obtained the
jolt in the jaw.
No one denied, or could have de-
MED, that the gentlemen and ladies
of the navy staged drunken party
the night Mrs. Massie'S Jaw was
broken. The lady In question left
the party because she was bored.
She claimed she was alone when she
left the drunken orgy. 1t Is quite ir
keeping with the Freudian system Of
overcoming nervous disorders caused
by neglectfm husbands that the lady
stimulated by booze, should seek tc
unleash some Of her suppressed de-
sires."
But such a story, told as IL actually
occurred, would involve too many
naval heroes" and their families. II
might be the beginning Of a process
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-07

employing "machln1sts."
when went there was the sub
stance of this White Guards story,
they asked a lot OF questions that
didn't amount to anything for a
while; but finally wanted to know If
could handle a machine gun"
The worker, rightly suspicious, him
self went to the Japanese Consul
Generals office the next afternoon
He found two big San Francisco po-
lice guarding the door--a precaution
that had not been taken even during
the recent demonstration before the
Consulate General,
The cops halted the worker, want
ing to know what he wanted. II
heard there were mechanics being
hired here" he replied, and want q
job"
Nothing doing today" the cops
said. Come back tomorrow"
The next day, Thursday, April 81,
the worker went. The cops were still
there. Evidently the White Guards
are being picked by the japanese
through the White Guard organiza-
ton, as the Japanese clerk in the
Consul Generals office denied want
ing to hire anyone, but exhibited ex-
element at the inquiry of this work
er, who vast seems-not on the
list sent for. Indeed, all Of the sew
eral Japanese in the office stopped
their work and clustered around the
desk in their anxiety at the simple
questio of the worker for a job. All
denied wishing to hire anyone.
The worker went out, but hung
around the building entrance for a
time. Finally, another White Guard,
named Maximoff, with whom the
worker also was acquainted came out.
This White Guard had been hidden
In an inner room Of the Consulate
General while the worker was there.
But he made no bones about what he
was there fore, or what the Japanese
wanted.
Machine gunners" But, he added
in contenptuous tone: Don't try
to work for that outfit. The Boil
sheviks are bad, but the Japanese are
worse" just why he had this opin-
ion, the White Guard did not elabo-
rate. But there 1t is.
And there is the Japanese Consul
General, recruiting CSarist White
Guards, under the protection of
President Hoover. Governor Rolph
and Mayor Rossi, with San Francisco
police detailed TO give these murder
ers protection.
All this happened while the CON-
bined Atlantic and Pacific fleets OF
the U.S.A, rode at anchor in the har-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-07
By II. NJ. WICKS.

ONE of the chief character
" istics of military officers
of imperialist forces imposing
their tyranny upon colonial
and semi-colonial peoples is
their excuses of depravity.
This is equally true of the fe-
male members of such families.
Bourgeois society, as a whole,
revels in every form of de-
bauchery and, as Marx and En-
gels observed in the Commu-
mist Manifesto the nabobs of
the capitalist ruling class take
the greatest delight in seduc-
ing each others wives"
There is no more colossal
hypocricy than the pretense Of
capitalist America to be con-
cerned about the protection
of womanhood" or eolored.
Daughters Of workers are regarded as
throughout the world have since the
legitimate prey by the gentlemen Of
the ruling class. Colonial peoples
first conquest by Europeans, been
forced by military might to see their
daughters subjected to the most at
rocious and revolving sex crimes at
the hands of their conquerors. The
Spanish in South America, the Eng
fish in India, Egypt, the Sudan, in
South Africa; the French in Morocco,
in other African colonies, in Indo-
China, in Tahiti; the Belgians on the
Congo, the Americans in Hawaii, the
Philippines, Cuba, Haiti, Santo-Do-
mingo-all, alike, have committed
the most monstrous excuses against
the wives and daughters of the vie
Tins Of the rapacity Of their irnper-
ialiSt masters.
The invading armed forces and the
puppet rulers, usually called govern
ors, live in idleness for long periods
of time. They are busy only when
they are called upon to crush some
rising or some movement which they
fear may lead to rising, or when
they have a job of strike breaking
on hand. Aside from a minimum of
military routine in normal times"
these elements devote their time to
what they regard as pleasure seek
ing. Orgies of drinking and sex de-
bauchery consume much of their
time. In these performances the
ladies Of the army and navy officers
play a conspicuous part.
Not infrequently the ladies try a
little experimenting Of their own
sometimes their partners are other
womens husbands, sometimes they
get thrill in the arms of young
native whose virility makes ridicu-
lous, by comparison, the feeble reac-
tlons of their jaded and rum-soaked
husbands who no longer. Eespana to
their charms. The gorgeous ladies Of
the slave oyning aristocracy of the
South, and their modern descendants
who are wives Of the present lynch
rulers, long ago learned that it is
vastly mode safe to philander with a
Negro youth or young man who dare
not talk about it, than to bestow