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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-25
seven cities. The strike is expected
to spread TO other big cities.

seven cities. The strike is expected
to spread TO other big cities.
Ghe strikers charge the Nanlans
Kuomintang government with loot
ing the postal revenue and endangex~
ing the livelihood of The postal work
ers by wage slashes and failure TO pay
back wages.
Rapid disinLegration Of the Kuo-
mintang party and It's growing un~
popularity among all classes In China
outside of the militarists and bankers
is reported in Shanghai dispatch to
the New York Sun. The dispatch i'd
mts;
THE growth Of popular anti -Kue=
mintang sentiment has been steady
and unnistakable ever since tke
Mukden incident of last September.
when Japan began her "undeclarsd
war on China. AS the situation be-
came more involved, threatening the
disintegration and partitioning OF
China as well as the loss of Man
churis, public opinion turned corr
in attitude toward tbs
for its alleged 'pussi-
lanimity and apparent willingness to
follow a laissez-faire policy"
The dispatch admits the tremen.
dous growth of the Chinese Com.
munist Party and the spreading a.
its influence among ever broader
sections of the toiling masses, ARD
the Chinese ELECTROMAGNETIC As
a result of the growth of Commit
mist influence, the socialists ard
'reyolutionists arc particularly
busy attempting 10 divert The Chi-s
ness masses from the revolution
airy struggle for the over hrow u
the kuonintsng betrayers of China
and the driving cut Of the i,~per-
ialist brigands.
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n-- --a--a--Cz--z44--------
again his traditional stock in trade, -
saying: "I stand for the common
garden variety of socialism" defend
ing "Marxisrn" against attacks from
the right which does not want it to
be a working-class movement but a
movement of intellectuals and against
attacks from the left, by "militantS
who are we'll meaning, immature, eff
fervescent people :, Whosr Will settle
down in time, hui, who for the moment
are wild, untamed and, dangerous
Hillquit has never been a Marxist,
because the socialist party repudiates
Marxism and the class struggle.
Against Hillquit, the Thomas group
appeared under guise Of left" or
progressive" faction
The Forward for Hoan.
But one Of the staunchest support
ers of Thomas candidate, Hoan, was
B. Charney Vladeck, editor of the
Forward. New York workers know
well that the Forward is found
strike-breaking in every important
struggle for better wages or condi-
tons. They know the Forward pub
fishes the most sickening anti-SoYiet
forgeries and ISLANDERS. They know
the Forward as a close follower of
Stimson's pro-wsr peace maneu-
vers"
Hoan himself, as mayor of Mil
waukee for II years, has many a
time watched his police beat a tattoo
with their clubs on the skulls of
workers demonstrating for umemploy-
nent insurance. He runs a social
list" city administration that cannot
be distinguished, except for greater
anti-Worker activity, from any demo-
cratic or republican administration
His police have broken many strikes
Buying Out Capitalism"
Thomas, the most wordy and Slip
perry of the lot, was driven into a
corner by a resolution in this con-
vention for confiscation Of capital.
He rose, and with emotion, refused
to accept the nomination for presi-
dent if such resolution passed. OF
course the resolution was overwhelm-
ingly defeated.
No one should believe the socialist
party, right or sham left wing wants
the workers to actually have the in
dustries No one should believe there
is any real difference between the
4 right and sham left on the questions
Of most Importance, on the war dan
ger, on the Soviet Union, or on the
struggle Of the masses of unemployed
or employed workers
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-25
Learn from the Self
Criticism of the
German Communists

NEW 1Ork, ~ I.
Daily Worker:
I take much interest in the series
on the election campaign printed In
the Daily Worker. Let us learn from
the self-criticism of the mistakes as
pointed out by the Rote Fahne Cred
Flag, Central Organ Of the Commu-
mist Party of Germany, OH the re-
suits of the elections to the Prussian
Landtag In April.
The chief reasons for the loss in
Communist votes, Rote Fahne, points
out were: unheard Of terrorization in
the election agitation OF the Com
munist Party: the fact that In COM
parison to the bourgeois and other
categories of voters, ths number of
workers participating in the voting
was considerably smaller, the partial
success OF the uaneugers Of the bour-
P'ois and social democrats TO fool the
workers; unsatisfactory conducting
Of struggles against wage cuts and
etEef mass strugt, IS; So. US lsssing
behind in shop wort organization and
fnsmicfent wos.E OF opposition In the
FsserEtH srcT aYc alc ipgSsh-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-25

In making up the new files, We
we're working about 40 men and 20
girls. Most of the workers we're paid
by the Unemployment Working Re-
lief Committee. In other words, the
Salvation Army was getting the ben-
eft, for the money collected will go
in their Golfers. with less amounts of
overhead. You know who has been
maintaining this wealthy organiSa-
ton? The poor and the middle class,
for the rich people know them well
enough. They have in their files
thousands and thousands Of cards,
with the donations, all ranging from
one dollar to five dollars. And as /
said before, they keep track Of what
you do, By an efficient and expert
department. They know when you
move from one place to another;
what is your vacation retreat; when
some one in your family dies, etc.
With this new master file, they
will make the checking more thor
ough and accurate, because they in
tend to make a person to person
canvass, as well as employing the
mail.
Where does all this money go?
Commander Booth, this cunning
money getter, gets cut on the to-
tai business and SO all the way down
to the last funny looking girl pan
handling with a tambourine. Natur-
ally large part Of the funds go to
maintain the luxurious and expen-
sive building on 14th ST., while the
poor unemployed on the streets are
getting at the most thin bowl of
soup from the Salvation Army.
Your friends.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-25

/ This platform Of immediate de~
nlsnds as published or April 3sts
With the pictures Of Com Ford and
Foster, should appear in the daily
Worker in a smaller space daily, fer
not all the workers obtained tbs
April 28th issue. The Daily Wc-kas
can most effectively spread the Do
rands Of the Communist Party.
O. 1t would be well If special @S~
ticles would elaborate more on ths
six points raised by the G. p. and In
such a manner point out their sig
nificance and acquaint the workers
with them.
g. There is danger that the ina
mediate demands OF the c. p. viii
remain only the property of the f,nc-
tionaries within the Party. We must
stress the Importance OF d.scusxiou
within The Party units and mass O.
CARNATIONS. For If every Conimuniaf
and sympathtzer is to be an organizer
in the Party election campaign, be
must be equipped with the proper
knowledge OF thu Psrty's platform.
g. 1t seems it woald be mere COM
plete to mention in Article Five, O.
the platform, the rights Of foreign
born workers and lay special stress
on it,
= Comiadely yours. ~
-- LEsIpcv
- A.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-25
Frisco Judge Jails Jobless in
Communist Election Drive

SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, May "a
Eugene and Victor Petersen, two I'M
employed carpenters, who we're ac-
tive in collecting signatures for put
ting the Communist Party on the
ballot, we're stopped on Howard ST
by plain clothesnlen,. taken to the
Southern police station and. at the
suggestion of ore Of the dicks, s.
Cohen, were held on 81 1000 bail on
vasrsncy charges.
Although eight others had hsen
pulled In on vsgrancy charges, the
Petersen brothers we're tried first
and alone. They defended them
selves. Labor hating Judge Dunn
handed them a SO cay suspended
sentence declaring: II would respect
murderer or bank robber more than
I would anybody that advocates the
overthrow OF the government" Turn
to the second dick, Mino, he contir-
ued: NEXT time you catch these
boys with any radical organization,
bring them TO me. I'll take care OF
them" Both defendants were pho
tographed, finger printed, and taken
before the detective squad for scru-
tiny.
Judge Dunn then abused the eight
others held on vagrancy charges for
not acting as scsbs against the Fiji
Pine and Mexican pea strikers in
Half Noon Bay. Editors Note. The
strike is now ended, the strikers
were driven back to work by terror).
The Communist Party's proposed
national election platform, Of which
the main plank is, Unemployment
andSocia1 Insurance at the expense
Of the state and the employers" is
making a great impression on the
jcbless here, and likewise does the
Communist Party support Of the tea
pickers strike and all other struggle
Of the workers. n Is significant that
thu repub1tsn narty Judge fights
simultaneously aga4nst Ne Cournun-
- ysstH ~ uaG1vacgsd sn& ~
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you can sec how fat and contented
tie officers and oficisls of this bunk
organization look. using and abusing
of the money that rightfully belongs
10 the roor.
1 caa give "a lot Of informa-
ton. for l hag2 been woh.ing for
,:clnc,lll in th3 preparation Of Tie
recent drive. Eclieyc me, that they
reve an organ.aa ton for exploiting
Tie people.
How They DO 1t.
Enclosed herewith 1 am sending
you one of the new master file cards,
and III looking at it you will get an
idea Of the means they use for get
ting money from the suckers. They
arc making the DRIVE now, and, of
course, they will send thousands
upon thouaaI1Gs OF circulars written
in difTcrcn5 was They have file
cards Tor individuals for men and
women, professions and trades COM
panica and corporations, and SO forth.
They have a trained department for
taking names from newspapers and
putting them i'll their files, about the
various social manifestations Of
prominent people,
II you just happen to give q gift
to an education or religious orgari-
zat1ol, they put you down in their
large quicker list. Recently they made
new Glas as per copy, taking the
names from those who gave to tie
Unemployment Subscription; and
they check upon everything. They
scan the obituary notes and send
sobbing letters to the families OF the
deceased asking for money, taking
advantage Of the situation.
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of the tombstone bonus.
The veterans who fought in France,
who thought they we're fighting for
democracy, for the constitutional
right to assemble and proceed to the
seat of government to present petit
ton for redress of grievances" are
now confronted with the true role OF
the government.
Troops are called to shoot them
down because they are attempting to
act according to their constitutions
rights, because they are demanding
their back wages
over 800 veterans attempted to
board a freight train in the 3 & 9
wards in East st. Louis en- route for
washington. The train was halted
bv railroad officials. and despite the
fact that the cars were loaded with
psrishable goods, they refuged to
bulge the train.
War veterans Throughout the ccun-
try are on their way TO Washington
TO attend the gigantic bonus demon
stration which will be held there cn
June 9th under the leadership Of the
workers discretionary League.
The workers Ex-SerYicemer's
League, which supports the struggles
of the workers for unemployment in
surance and whose delegates appear
ed before the Ways and Means Com
nnittee In Washington, has issued a
call to all veterans regardless Of their
orranizational affiliation to elect mass
delegations from their ranks to Join
the National Bonus March.
The National Provisional Bonus
March Committee, Union Square
pointed out in a statement yesterday
that billions of dollars are being paid
to the bankers and the war indus
tries.
The statement OF the veterans said
"Cn June the 9th. the National
Provisional March Committee Will
conduct a National demonstration in
Washington. In the meantime, scores
of veterans are coming into Wash
ington under leadership other than
that OF The National Committees. We
must point out that the veterans and
their leaders must not permit their
strength to be destroyed by agents
Of the Veterans Bureau and the Hoo
yer government, spreading so-callod
independence ideas, namely tedilh,a
the veteFHns that they can gain tiaet
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-25
THE SALVATION ARMY
OPENS NEW RUNNING
CAMPAIGN IN n. 7.
Will Collect Million in Cash; Unemployed Will
Get Greasy Soup and Insults
Dear Comrade Editor:

Dear Comrade Editor: New York City
read the press of course in the capitalist press about
the new rodeo started by the old faithful Salvation Army
but this time they opened the drive for funds with
spurge of publicity and fanfare.
suppose will interest you to know something about the
best charity organization there is and the and
they employ order extract money not to feed the poor
and starving they claim but for their benefit and
maintenance their large staff The poor may sarve but
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-25

strikers.
Ninety days in the county jail was
the sentence given to Judge Lazarus
to j. Feingold, leader of the San
Francisco Unemployed Council, fol-
lowing hasty trial" in which Fein-
gold defended himself. Feingold i'm
r.ediately appealed He is out on
$500 cash bond furnished by the In
tsrrational Labor Defense. Not a
single worker was present on the
Jury.
Feingold was arrested on April i
with A. Haugardy and william Tan
forth when they appeared at the AS
ISOLATED Charities with IA families
and demand for food and relief
for them. A week later. Feingold
was taken for ride" viciously
beaten, and thrown out Of the car
The courtroom was filled with men
from the breadlines who were given
10 cents each Mt the city Registra-
ton Burea to pack the court, under
threat Of losing their "slop" II they
refused. Witnesses for the defense
were barred and hustled out OF ire
building. The men hired on the
breadline were supposed to be taught
a lesson by the trial.
Judge Lazarus, republican party
liberal" prohibited Feingold from
questioning or challenging the jurors
for cause. The Judge repeatedly cut
short the defendants :ross-examina-
ton and the Testimony Of the de-
fense witnesses.
Despite the Judges attempt to gag
Feingold, he spoke for ten minutes,
pointed out the contradictions in the
prosecutions testimony, exposed the
discrimination and abuse OF. the Az
ISOLATED Charities against individual
workers, and explained the role of
the Unemployed Councils in the fight
for relief of starving families. He
concluded his statement by dsnounc-
ing Ne wanss. sEaaeAAsra. htIGcaas 6fams
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-25
What Our Readers Say on the Election Campaign

The Party must make q decisive
turn in the methods of work in the
shops, factories, Offices mines, ships
and in. every place where the workers
are, The Party must bring order out
of chaos in the opposition work III
the A. F. of l.. unions. And above
all every Party member must carry
out the decisions made by the central
Committee Of the Party.
"A Worker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-25
(By a Worker Correspondent

NEW YORK.-An error was made
in the story carried in the Daily
Worker on the wage cut of the Third
Ave. Railway System. The cut was
is per cent instead of 10 per cent.
This cut involves thousands of work
cr1. The company bosses not only
cut the wages but changed the sys-
tom TO a one man car system be-
fore they cut the wages
l was talking to a conductor on the
Madison Ave. Line few days ago,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-25
Urges Third Avenue Streetcarmen to Organize

l asked him what he thousand Of
the Third Ave. cut
He said, well, I got my cut a
month ago"
I told him, This is just your first
one. You are next ON the list. You
must organize for better conditions. "
I explained to him that the Trade
Union Unity League, e. 10Th St.,
would help him and all the street
car men to organize to fight against
the cuts.
r.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-25
Need Discussion
and Articles on
Platform Demands

CnCdBo, III
Dear Comrades:
The remarkable work Of the Ger
trail Committee of the Communist
Party of the U.S.A. in crysCalizing
and expressing the needs and senti-
ments of the American toiling masses
in six brief points Of its election plat
form proves the ability &c tho Party
TO analyls the existing conditions
and to know the desires Of the masses,
and therefore TO lend effective lead
ership TO the workers.
There are a few suggestions that |
would hkc 10 cftex,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-25
Three Delegates from Luzerne


LU2ERNE, Pa, May pa con-
ference of delegates from miners
groups and from workers f:aternal
organizations elected three delegates
to Chicago at its meeting here, May
20. In spite of their poverty, the
200 miner delegates and visitors con-
tributed so Tor campaign expenses.
Marine Workers Send Four
NEW ORLEANS, La, May 24.--At
conference called by the Marine
Workers Industrial Union and held
here May D and May 20. thrCe sea-
men and one longshoreman were
elected as delegates to the National
Communist Nomination Convention in
Chicago
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-25
Wisconsin Communists
Propose Full State
Ticket in Election

Section Committee are as follows:
U. S. Senator, Raymon Hansbrougt1,
Negro unemployed molder; Governor.
Fred Bassett Blair, candidate for
Mayor in the last Milwaukee cleo
tons, leader of Milwaukee's unem-
ployed; Lieutenant Governor, w. A.
Harju, Superior, National Secretary
Of the Workers and Farmers Unity
Alliance; Secretary of State, Edward
Nehmer, ex-serviceman, unemployed
metal worker of Milwaukee; State
Treasurer, Otto Wallin, of Superior,
Manager of the Tyomies; Attorney
General, Magnus Nelson of Racine.
Besides the state ticket, our Party is
going to run as many candidates for
Congress, state senate, and assem-
bly, as possible.
The following candidates for Con-
gressinen have been decided upon SC
far: e. CARLOS, organizer of the
Communist Party, Wisconsin Sec
ton; George Brink, in the 5th and
TIL Districts respectively, Milwaukee
County; John Sikat, for Congress
man in the LIST district; Arvid Salo-
nen of Tripoh, active young worker
in the United Farmers Leagus, Con-
gresSional candidate in the 10th dis
trict.
Preparations are going ahead full
speed for the State Nominating Con-
vention TO take place on Sunday,
June rs, at South Side Turner Hall.
Strikers Send One
AMSTERDAM, Ohio, May 23.-one
hundred and fifty striking miners
here cheered Fred Bell, Communist
Party section organizer in East Ohio,
denounced United Mine Worker
henchnan who tried to tell them the
National Miners Union was breaking
their ranks, and elected delegate
to the National Nominating Conven-
ton called by the Communist Party
| to meet In Chicago.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-25

farmers and workers, although the
United Mine Worker officials state
they could not calIect any relief on
UM,W.A. credentials,
More food and clothing and money
Is needed Rush relief to Workers
International Relief, Fretter Bldg,
Ohio.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-25
100 Steel Mil and Mine Delegates
Leaving for Chicago TOMORROW

PITTSBURGH, Pa, May 2A.--Ap-
proximately 100 delegates, elected at
Conferences of Workers Organiza
lions, will leave Pittsburgh by trucks
early in the morning of Thursday,
May rs, for the National Nominating
Convention of the Communist Par
ty, to be held in Chicago on May
20, it was announced by Carl Price,
District Organizer of the Communist
Party, Pittsburgh District, sos James
Street, N. S.
These delegates are mostly miners
and steel workers, elected at United
Front Conferences, held in Charles
ton, Fairmont and Morgantown,
West Virginia; Bridgeport, Yorkville,
ETC., East Ohio; Johnstown, Portage,
etc., Central Pa; and in New Ken
sington, Washington, McKeesport,
Brownsville, Coverdale, Avella, tao,
Western Pa; as well as the city OF
Pittsburgh. The delegation will in
clude a large representation OF Ne
gro workers, some women and young
workers.
The delegation will participate in
the National Convention Of the Com
munist Party, called to ratify the
nomination of William z. Foster for
President and James W. Ford, Ne
gro worker, for Viee-President on the
Communist Party ticket, in the COM
ing Presidential Elections.
William z. Foster will speak at 1s
meetings in the Pittsburgh area in
the later part of August and in Sep
tember The exact date and places
Of the meetings will be announced
later. James w. Ford will also tour
| the District.
Wisconsin Candidates
MILWAUKEE,, Wise, May 24.-rhe
Section Committee of the Cornnun-
ist Party, Wisconsin Section is going
to propose o complete state ticket
for endorsement by the five confer
ences held for the election Of de-
legates to the National Nominating
Convention. These conferences are
being held in Milwaukee, Kenosha,
Racine, Shehoygan, and Madison.
The candidates proposed by the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-25
VOTE COMMUNIST FOR:

3. Emergency relief for the poor
farmers without restrictions by
the government and banks; ex-
emption Of poor farmers from
taxes, and from forced colIec-
tiou Of rents or debts.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-25
Call Troops to Halt
Vets Bonus Demands

SPRINGFIELD nl.-Six units of the Illinois National
Guard we're ordered Monday by LeuGov Fred Sterling
in an attempt halt World War veterans from proceeding to
Washington present their demands for full cash payment
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-25
Westchester Conference

YONKERS, N. Y, May 24.-Yester-
day IS delegates from is workers or
CARNATIONS, and with representatives
from Yonkers, White Plains, Hast
ings, Mt. Vernon, and Beacon met
here at Workers Center, ~ Hudson
st. and elected r. Gill, Negro work.
er as delegate to the Communist Ma
tionsl Nominating Convention in Chi
cago,
Among the delegates at the con-
ference were those of three Trade
Union Unity League local unions a
metal group in Otis Elevator Co.
plant, and groups in the Smith Car
pet Works, and Anaconda Wire and
Gable plant at Hastings on Hudson.
The meeting Sunday nominated
candidates for the local, county and
state elections. 1t elected q broad
election campaign committee to con-
duct, first of all, the drive to get TO-
600 signatures in the county to put
candidates on the ballot by July 10.
Resolutions were passed condemn
ing the Jim Grow practices, and de-
manding release of Edith Bernnan
and the Scottsboro Negro boys.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-25

WACO, Texas, May pa big mass
meeting of Negro, white and Mexican
workers here Friday hear A. w. Berry,
organization secretary of the Com
muniSt Party, Tenth District and DR..
John Greenberg, secretary of the In
ternational Labor Defense, on the is
sues of the election campaign, and
elected three delegates who start i'm
mediately for the National Nominal
ing Convention in Chicago.
One delegate is John Doughty, OF
University of Texas. A delegation of
students from the university, all of
them members of the National Stu
dents League, was at the conference.
The two other delegates to Chicago
are; Sylvester Watson, a Negro
worker and John Parras.