PROTEST DETROIT MASSACRE TONIGHT AT CENTRAL OPERA HOUSE

WORKERS AllOut for “Daily”Tag Days OF THE WORLD* March 11, 12. 13.—Watch y For Address of Your UNITE! Da i1 Central Qnfayyfci-etewerl..«sVbrkerParty U.S.A. Nearest Station (Section of the Communist International) u^g£»u26 Entered an aeeoad-clas* matter at the Post Office Vol. IX, No. 60 at Blew York, Bf. Y.. aader the act of March S, 187J» NEW YORK, FRIDAY, MARCH 11, 1932. CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents MURPHY FORCED TO ADIT FORD GUILTY OF MASSACRE The Ford Massacre---“ The RESPONSIBLE! DETROIT MAYOR * JAPAN HITS TRIES TO / " Internal Side of Imperialist |if ’ Ford Workers Discuss Aggression” EVADE RESPONSIBILITY f. . / | AT SOVIET drive against the American working class takes on new ferocity with it THBthe Ford Maes acre Strike to Attend Funeral Paris Commune Day, March 18, International Day of mass struggle FOR MURDER OF WORKERS 5-YEAR PLAN against terror and suppression of the working class and colonial peoples, * v „ MV' approaches this year with imperial reaction, riding hard and fast over Stops Sale of Copper the mangled bodies of workers fighting the Wall Street program of hunger DETROIT, Mich.—Mayor Murpfiy has drawn up a form and war. telegram, which he has sent out in answer to the mass of for Growing Indus- ol Massacre and Victims The crisis has tightened Its grip on American capitalism in spite angry protest telegrams pouring in from all over the country tries of USSR because of the frantic measures of coalition of capitalist parties to put against the Ford-Murphy murder of four unemployed workers. over the Well Street-Hoover program of hunger, wage-cutting, suppression Force Release of 44 Workers Jailed After Mas- and war. The telegram says: Chicago Workers sacre; Bodies The capitalists and their government proceed against the working DETROIT MICH 1033A MAR 10 1932 Henry Ford whose police Lie In State At Workers Hall dlass on an wider scale and with more brutality as measure after To Demonstrate ever YOUNG COMMUNIST LEAGUE murdered 4 workers demand- measure fail to halt the downward trend. Before Japanese Murphy’s Police Arrest Workers Collect- The official optimism of the capitalist party politicians is sharply 50 EAST 13 ST NEW YORK N Y ing jobs or relief fast Monday For discounted by conclusions of the more outspoken capitalist economists. IN DETROIT THE MARCHERS HAD POLICE PERMISSION AND and wounded over 30 others in Consulate Sat. ing Funds For Funeral Expenses The basic fact is that productoin continues to decline as markets con- POLICE PROTECTION AND WERE ORDERLY STOP IN SHORT NO the massacre. Haney, University Bureau Os CHICAGO, AU„ March 10. BULLETIN. tinue to shrink. Lewis director of New York DIFFICULTIES OF ANY KIND TOOK PLACE WITHIN THE CITY Business Research, writing in the New York American of March 8, said: Chicago workers will demonstrate NEW of determined LIMITSSTOP THE PRESENT DEPLORABLE TRAGEDY GREW OUT 10 P. C. Wag Y'ORK.—Thousands workers and “The volume of industrial production and business shows no gain eCut Is at the Japanese consulate on Sat- poung A IN THE CITY OF DEARBORN FOR WHICH IT AP- workers of Greater New York will mass tonight in despite the early Easter season and weekly business indices have fallen OF MARCH PEARS NO PERMIT WAS ISSUED STOP THE DEARBORN POLICE Announced For All | urday, March 12, at 12 noon, Tri- mighty protest against the Detroit massacre and against ?o new lows. Automobile production is very disappointing and sales of THE PASSAGE OF THE AND WITH THIS ! bone Tower, 435 North Michigan. the bosses’ cars are so small as to make many skeptical about this year’s prospects. OPPOSED MARCHERS Workers in Macy’s campaign of terror, hunger, and war. OPPOSITION THE TROUBLE BEGAN STOP THE ENTIRE CON- omm This Railway traffic is below seasonal expectations and January net income NEW YORK.—A wage cut of 10 demonstration will take place tonight at the Cen- FLICT WAS BETWEEN THE DEARBORN POLICE, THE FORD PO- Yesterday workers of Rotterdam, was 60 per cent below a year ago. Retail trade shows no improvement per cent for thousands of workers tral Opera House at 7:30 p.m. sharp at 67th Street and LICE AND THE DEMONSTRATORS STOP AN APPEAL WAS MADE Holland, demonstrated before the and mail order sales are down/’ In R. H. Macy’s department store 3rd Avenue. Clarence Hathaway, TO THE SUPERINTENDENT OF POLICE IN DETROIT FOR HELP Japanese Consulate in that city in of the Communist Par- Under pressure of the deepening crisis and the rising militancy of here will take effect next March ty, Himoff, IN THE RIOT AND HE DIRECTED A NUMBER OF MEN angry protest against the robber M. of the Young Communist League, and I. the working class the veil of humanitarianlsm is stripped from Ford and QUELLING 24. The announcement was made TO THE SCENE WHO ARRIVED AFTER IT WAS OVER STOP war on China and the Japanese Amter, willbe amongst the speakers. his demagogic schemes. He and they appear in their true character as last Wednesday in the ppy DETROIT POLICE HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH THE TROUBLE enve- | war moves against the Soviet an integral part of American capitalism—characteristically cruel and lopes, the bosses using the example AND THE WITHIN WAS j Union. ruthless, fit companions in arms of the other multi-millionaire capital- DEMONSTRATION DETROIT ORDERLY of the United States Steel Corpo- DETROIT.—In a whole series of mass meetings marked STOP THE RIOT HAPPENED IN DEARBORN AND AT THE FORD The aroused workers smashed ists, with their mercenary bands of police, thugs and spies, in the mining, ration and other wage slashers as by the insignation and militancy of huge crowds of workers PLANT STOP NO INVESTIGATION IS BEING MADE BY THIS OF- several windows in the Japanese i steel and textile industries, etc. an excuse for wage cuts in Macy’s. FICE SINCE IT IS OUTSIDE OUR JURISDICTION STOP THE Consulate building with stones | atending, and which are preparing the mass funeral of the Ford, the murderer of unemployed workers and their leaders In Michi- In Department 13. house fur- COUNTY PROSECUTOR HAS ANNOUNCED AN INVESTIGATION wrapped in leaflets carrying the murdered victims of Ford’s police and gunmen gan, is the same Ford who maintains hired killers who murder striking nishings. the workers who previ- ¦ set for Sat- AND STATES HE WILL PRESENT THE TO THE demands of the international pro- the following miners in Kentucky. ENTIRE MATTER ously got J 3 week overtime urday, demands have been proposed and ap- GRAND NOW IN SESSION THE a for letariat that the Japanese with- Ford, whose prosecutors and police carry out wholesale arrests of JURY TO DETERMINE FACTS have already proved had this cut. They draw their armed forces from amid the greatest enthusiasm. They have been given Communists under the criminal syndicalism law in Michigan to cover up FRANK MURPHY work overtime pay. without Manchuria and other parts of wide circulation in Detroit, Dearborn and throughout Wayne his own guilt and check the rising mass struggle. Is the same Ford who, China and stop their war provoc- County. with Rockefeller, Insull, Morgan and the local coal operators, organizes a ations against the Soviet Union- i-eign in Kentucky of striking of terror and carries out wholesale arrests The workers, lustily cheering 1. No suppression of the rights of workers, the right organizers, criminal syndicalism law In order to Some for Mayor for miners and under ..the Questions Ford’s Murphy! the Soviet and Soviet China, to free speech, the right to demonstrate, the right to or- strangle the struggle against starvation. Union stood their ground against the at- ganize in unions. Ford, with his fellow capitalists and their government, and more more Under the mass pressure of workers’ and tacks of the police. liEcarding the democratic phylacteries and taking on more and more the meetings resolutions adopted, pouring into 2. Not bullets but unemployment relief! Immediate Murphy’s office, the • * • •haracter of rule by open force, are responsible for the Dearborn massacre. mayor of Detroit, Frank Murphy, has been forced to admit the guilt jobs and unemployment insurance furnished free by the Reaction rises as the myth of permanent American prosperity and of Ford and the Dearborn police for the massacre which occurred on Monday, March 7. Mur- The Japanese are government to all workers! phy with it the Ford myth are pushed into .the background by the decay of attempts to evade the responsibiity and conceal the following damning facts: 3. Immediate and unconditional release of all workers capitalism and the increasing misery and militancy of the working class now trying to veil their arrested in connection with the Ford Hunger with the Communist Party at its head. —His administration is part and parcel of the Ford machine. war moves against March. More and more the ruling class turns to war as their way out of the J the 4. Punishment for those guilty of the massacre. crisis—war against the Soviet Union and the Chinese revolution, war Murphy denies that his police took part. his district inspector of police, William Soviet Union behind 5. Abolition of all Ford factory police and spies and against the working class at home. 2—Black, proves Murphy is a liar and says: Yet' the pretext that these immediate discharge of all factory police and spies. ' Political reaction as a system of administration has uninterruptedly “Inspector Stevens and I both warned the disperse war moves are causing concern 6. Indemnity to be paid to the families of all mur- increased in all capitalist countries in proportion to the development of crowd to or move on, and when they imperialism,” said Comrade Manuilsky in his report to the Eleventh refused, our officers charged with their night sticks. You know the rest.” in the Soviet Union only be- dered workers by Ford and the cities of Detroit and Dear- Plenum of the Executive Committee of the Communist International, cause of “the Soviet Govern- born. Murphy’s police are co-operating with the Wayne County prosecutor, Toy, in the whole- "and represents the other or internal side of imperialist aggression.” ment’s old obsession of the im- Workers Committees are being elected to carry through 3—sale arrests in a reign of terror. Why does Mayor Murphy keep silent about the con- The Communist Party calls upon the working class to organize and minence of an attack by capi- the arrangements for the mass funeral and to head the struggle fight growing every point. It calls upon carry spiracy to deport foreign born unemployed workers? the reaction at workers to talist powers.” for the above demands. The protest meetings are under forward the mass struggles for unemployment insurance, to secure mil- Every the Detroit newspaper on the day of the massacre stated that police were at Thus joint auspices lions of signatures for the Unemployment Insurance Bill of the Unem- Detroit crudely does Japanese impe- of the Unemployed Councils and the Auto Work- the scene and took part in the breaking up ployed Councils, to build the militant unions of the Trade Union Unity 4— of the hunger march. rialism try to dispose of the cold- ers Union. league Dearborn massacre followed precedent set by Murphy blooded facts of the advance of Jap- Preparations are being made for huge on K—The the in forcibly breaking up forces toward fron- demonstrations The members of the Young Communist League, the members of the O anese the Soviet a recent unemployed meeting, clubbing workers wholesale and arresting John Schmies, tier, of the of Japanese Paris Commune Day, March 18—international day of organ- Unemployed Councils and the Auto Workers’ Union, the unemployed construction William Reynodls and thirty other workers. on the very of the ization and struggle against all forms of capitalist terror workers who fell before the fire of Ford’s police, were fighting for un- air bases frontiers and Soviet Union, of seizure employment relief and insurance, for work, against suppression of the /•—Murphy conceals the the Japanese suppression. fact that in the intesrests of the auto and bankers • ? ? " manufacturers of a section of the Chinese Eastern elementary rights of workers, against war on the Chinese workers and has he cut unemployment relief, discharged workers and cut wages; that his city ad- Railway, owned China and peasants, against war on tho Soviet Union. jointly by ministration accepted a five million dollar from Ford the Soviet Union, of the mobilization- Mich., The Communist Party calls upon workers to join its ranks—to loan with the provision that an attack DETROIT, March 10. —Ford workers Join be made on unemployed relief, arming by the Japanese of anti- the only revolutionary political party of the working thereby and class —and White Guard troops in are boiling- over withresentment, blaming Hen- strengthen the whole struggle against imperialist reaction. Soviet Man- H—He tries to conceal the fact that his city administration is part and parcel of the of high of and launched by Ford, the Wayne churia, of the declarations ry Ford for the murder of the four unemployed Defeat the drive terror suppression capl- • County Murphy-Toy-Martel-Ford lalist class and their government. machine with its underworld gangster base, utilized Japanese officials of Japan’s Inten- for attacks on workers. tions to seize the Soviet Far East workers who were shot down in cold blood by All out for March 18—international day of mass struggle against ter - ror and suppression! region, of the notorious Tanaka Ford’s hired gunmen at the demonstration SOME QUESTIONS FOR FORD’S MAYOR MURPHY. Document of 1927 which outlined the robber aims which Japanese impe- Monday at the River Rouge plant. They are In the circular telegram sent to the Young Communist League. 50 E. 13th St., and other rialism is new carrying out tn its discussing strike to attend the funeral and are 1—organizations, New York City, Mayor Murphy states: “An appeal was made to the contributing Superintendent of Police in Detroit for help in quelling the riot and he directed a number to the burial fund. Three-Day Battle ICOMHItbD 051 TARE THREE* of men to the scene who arrived after it was over. Detroit police had nothing to do with the Mass meetings of the International Labor trouble.” AU Party members are Instructed to return their collection boxes no Defense secured the released of the 44 arrested QUESTION: The Detroit Free Press of March 8, says: later than Sunday to their assigned through the mounting mass' “District Inspector William Black, who was in charge of the Detroit police detail when station and present their receipt to pressure of the workers as afternoon has been issued. The the marchers left S. Fort St. and moved out Oakwood, scented trouble, the next unit meeting. funeral begins at 2 o'clock on Satur- TO and ordered his men hundreds crowded the County day at 1343 East Ferry proceeds SAVE District Org. Department. and to get to the Ford plant as quickly' as possible.” Building after Judge Dinge- west on Ferry to Woodward and WHO IS LYING? man refused the habeus corpus South on Woodward to Grand Circus DAILY WORKER Foster Brands proceedings. Four more were held, Park, from where the hearses will —Why did Mayor Murphy’s police arrest the funeral committee? and the leaders of the militant work- proceed to the cemetery. Murphy-Ford ers are being sought. A workers' funeral committee have informed Commissioner In the telegram Mayor Murphy says: “No investigation is being made by this office Investigation disclosed that there Watkins and Massacre of 4 Mayor Murphy of the route and Opens This Morning it is outside of our jurisdiction” and that “the county prosecutor has a weapon will 3—since announced was not single on the work- not discuss change to NEW Z. ros- and that not single side streets or an investigation to determine the facts”. Why does Mayor Murphy try to cover up the fact YORK..—William ers, a policeman alleys. ter, national secretary of the or any private gunmen This morning at 10 o'clock is the beginning of that this investigation is to lay the basis ior the frameup of Communists and other unem- of Ford’s were An mass meeting Trade Union Unity League, who shot. ovrt'flow is ex- the three-day Tag Day fight to save Daily Arena the ployed workers? . spoke at Danccland at a mass pected Friday at Gardens. A Worker. Today, The bodies of the four dead work- delegation meeting tomorrow and Sunday, workers QUESTION: Is not County Prosecutor Toy part of the bi-partisan Murphy-Toy-Martel meeting in Detroit the day before from the mass ers are now lying in state at the present a all over the United States will go out to canvass machine, supported by Ford? If Murphy disapproves of the investigation and its intentions, the Ford Hunger March took will resolution and de- workers' hall and thousands file past mands to Murphy and City heir fellow workers for funds to save paper. police Jury? place, and for whom the Ford- the Coun- I their why did his arrest workers and hold them for the Grand while the first bloody models of the cil Monday Murphy police say they are "look- at 11 o'clock in the morn- new Ford roll off at the River Rouge ing at City All class conscious workers are called upon to —Murphy states that the demonstration was orderly in Detroit. Why does he say nothing ing," arrived here yesterday after the Hall and also at the plant where the workers were shot City t ake the lead in this fight to save the workers’ about the attempt to frameup on a charge of criminal syndicalism, Foster, Schmies, Rey- completing a speaking tour. Council in Learborn. down. The murdered workers are to A star chamber grand jury “inves- paper. All class conscious workers are called nolds, Pace and other leaders of the unemployed, for speaking in Detroit in favor of unem- The Trade Union Unity League by upon be burled side side at Woodmere tigation,” headed by Prosecutor Toy, to report this morning at one of lifted ployment insurance and relief for the hungry workers? has prepared a Statement brand- Cemetery, directly overlooking the the stations deliberate and vicious is looking into “the shooting and *!' below, and draw in the wide ing the scene of the massacre. The cemetery masses of their fellow —The massacre of the Detroit workers occurred because the workers marched to demand murder of the four workers in Communist activities.” is located on the boundary line of Murphy's police workers to the support of the only nation-wide relief, jobs and unemployment | Dearborn by the Ford-Murphy have swung fate immediate insurance. Question: Did not the Murphy Detroit and Bloody Dearborn. action paper that leads the workers’ struggles. gunmen, and exposing the attempt and are arresting workers. administration cut down the relief to the unemployed workers, economize at the expense Funeral to frame-up Foster and other preparations are on in full Steve Bednarsky, collecting funds for of the workers and worsen the of the Detroit workers? Did and Enroll early. The success of the three-day conditions not the Murphy ad-1 leaders o! the militant working- swing. All halls headquarters funeral expenses for the four mur- ministration accept loan of five million dollars from are jammed with workers. A was battle depends upon yOUR support. Give your a Ford on condition that unemployed i class organizations in an effort to special dered workers, arrested. Mur- answer relief be cut down ? whitewash Ford's bloodsbeddlng. leaflet to the Dearborn, Ecorse, Lin- phy’s police are provoking new blood- decisive to the bosses’ terror wave. Here Park and This statement will be published coln Melvindale Ford shed by forecasting an “uprising” at are the stations. Pick the one that is more con Thousands of Detroit workers are starving! Why does not Murphy increase the workers to at Wood- the relief! in full in tomorrow's Daily Worker. demonstrate the funeral at which scores of thou- venient to you. 6—to the unemployed by taxing the rich auto manufacturers? mere Cemetery at 5 o’clock Saturday sands are expected. WORKERS! 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