Open forum, vol. 9, no. 30 (July, 1932)

Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.-Milton

Vol. 9

JULY 23, LOS ANGELES, CALIF.

No. 30

IL eyes watched with interest. the

fA nareh of the bonus boys on Wash-

ington, and all minds now are react-

io the treatment the marchers received

hands of the national legislature.

the bonus boys now know, and the people

} juld now know, just what the political

7 gents of the rotten rich think of the form-

la fighters who crossed the sea to sacrifice

ioit health and their lives in order that

Jie wealth of this country might be made

wfe for plutocracy. If ever men were

teated with contempt by any ruling class

inthe history of nations, this Washington

wrformance is the most outstanding ex-

}mple. The only reason why the author-

iesrefused to sanction the massacre of the

narching men was because of their disin-

ination to dirty the streets of the national

wpitol with blood.

This insult by no means is confined to the

jngged and hungry thousands who went

) Washington from all quarters of the

ition. These men merely were the living

npresentatives of that vast army which

inght and suffered in France. They were

| iho the unofficial spokesmen of ten million

ii America's unemployed. When the po-

iieal agents of American capitalism

wimed the petition of the bonus boys,

iat insult should have registered in the

minds and hearts of every worker in this

imtry; and the workers everywhere

would unite to revenge the insult.

low? By turning to politics and reelect-

if tepublicans whose president and vice

iesident, admitted agents of the money

wer, refused them decent treatment? By

j `keting democrats whose principal legis-

tins, including John Garner, advocated

le ejection of the bonus boys from the

tipttol city by force ?

Any member of that bonus army who

old now vote either a democrat or a

"hiblican into office this fall should not

lily have his head bored for the simples,

lithe should be compelled to work like a

tog in chains and live_on bread and water

`temainder of his life. Any man or

ihn of the working class whose interests

i, mmon with those who marched to

net who now would rely upon'a

pialist political party for relief, should

` `en similar punishment. If the work-

: a Workless workers of this nation are

a ible and so cowardly that they will

' ae their political enemies to public

tay en, In their recreancy to their own

`sts, they have sunk beneath the level

"Coolie Chinese.

Pee Hoover care how much.the

itgep piers for Wall Street suffered in

cam Ith and disease in their miserable

Then ae on Anacostia Flats? Just

te his Governor Roosevelt of New York

bey i Volce in protest at the treatment

nd ved, and when did he speak a

lt their behalf?

if a Shaky politicians, with the money

tintive toSeetS In their pockets, always

lo basy wee wants of plutocracy, were

Mic cold te ening to the jingle of capital-

Mesentat eed the cries of the assembled

lr only reply to the petition of

bon

U :

tenaes were policemen's clubs and

Ng presence of gas and machine

Mill Am

BW An.

T Whe, "0x00B0"C8n workers continue to stand

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sults and these threats? Will

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Will The Bonus Boys Become Radicals?

By GEORGE H. SHOAF

workers continue to believe in the courage

or respect the valor of men who refuse to

resent or strike back? These men fought

like lions when driven to the charge against

foreign foe. Are they going to lie down

like curs in the presence: of political and

capitalistic enemies at home?

Hard thinking and resolute action by

the workless and working workers are

earnestly needed. If they expect to get out

of the ditch of the present depression, they

will have to do the digging. The political

agents of the ruling class-democratic and

republican alike-are their demonstrated

enemies. They must abandon old parties

and old methods of procedure, and turn to

the new. They must organize to take the

power now held and used against them by

their political and capitalistic enemies. Un-

less they do, they are lost.

These are lean days for the Civil

Liberties Union, Southern California

Branch. It is always difficult to fin-

ance our work in the summer-doubly

so this summer, with the depression

deepening day by day. Some of you

still have money, however-and a job.

So we look to you to help us. Please

send us some generous donations right

away.

We have reduced salaries and cut

our overhead in every possible way.

But we cannot keep going long unless

you support us more adequately. It

has been a long, long time since some

of you have contributed anything to-

ward the cause we represent. You

have meant to help but have just ne-

glected it. Get busy today; surprise

us with a check.

The fight for freedom in Los An-

geles and Southern California is far

from won. But we are on the firing-

line for you. If you want us to stay

there keep us supplied with the sinews

of war. "Eternal vigilance is the

price of liberty."'

Six Months for Being Beat Up

.(NOTE-The following story, which

could no doubt be duplicated many times,

indicates that the United States is not the

only country where workers may be fram-

ed and railroaded to the pen. The victim

in this case was personally known to the

Federated Press correspondent. )

BERLIN-(FP)-Erich Lerbs was walk-

ing towards a theater in Berlin, where a

girl was waiting for him with tickets. He

was wearing a Communist emblem on his

coat. Suddenly a crowd of Nazis (Fascists)

pounced upon him and beat him half to

death, crying, "Er hat geschossen" (He

shot). .

A policeman finally rescued him and

brought him to the police station. With

Communist literature in his pocket, he was

immediately looked upon as a dangerous

person. He was not allowed to telephone

or write to anyone and only by chance did

a friend of the family witness the event

and therefore was able to tell the family.

For three days he was investigated. No

lawyer or any member of the family were

allowed to see him-he was given little op-

portunity to sleep and he was continually

being examined and confronted with this

and that Nazi witness. During these few

(Continued on Page 2)

Preacher Tells of Harlan Ride'

By LEO GRULIOW

CHICAGO-(FP)-How he spent forty-

eight hours in the coal strike area of Ken-

tucky, with two other students, one a girl,

and was ``taken for a ride" out of the state

after he preached a sermon in Evarts was

told exclusively to Federated Press by

Aron 8. Gilmartin, twenty-two, Meadville

Theologocal student, on his return to Chi-

cago. Gilmartin is one of those who was

arrested recently for picketing Samuel In-

sull's home in Chicago.

With Forrest Keller, twenty-nine, gradu-

ate student of economics at the University

of Chicago, and Ina White, twenty-eight,

University of Chicago student, Gilmartin

arrived in Harlan without publicity. Be-

fore they reached their destination, how-

ever, they found a Pineville police car fol-

lowing them. Despite constant surveil-

lance, the three students talked to miners,

officials and citizens of the area before they

were ejected.

C. E. Vogel, Methodist minister and

member of the distribution committee of

the Harlan County Relief Assn., told of his

fight to prevent Samuel Insull from acquir-

ing Cumberland Falls for a power site.

The fight was finally won by building a

timber road at private expense in order to

have the state declare the falls part of a

state park which could not be sold to a

power company. In jest, Vogel told Sher-

iff John H. Blair to give Gilmartin a "Fresh

Air Taxi" card such as was presented to

students previously ejected from the area.

Twelve hours later Gilmartin was kidnap-

ped and sent into Tennessee.

Gilmartin had preached a sermon in the

public square in Evarts, near the site of the

battle of Evarts between gunmen and strik-

ing miners. After reading the eighth

Psalm, telling of the beauties of the earth

and man's dominion over them, he began

to tell his audience of Sam Insull's domin-

ion. He described the home of Insull in

Chicago, and then described his visit to the

grave of a miner shot by Deputy Sheriff

Dillard Middleton. Suddenly some one

shouted, ``There they are!'' Deputy Mid-

dleton stepped forward, gun in hand.

In the silence which followed, the crowd

of miners quietly formed a circle about

Gilmartin's companions. ``Don't move-

we want the speaker," cried Middleton's

fellow-gunmen, turning a rifle on the

crowd. Bible in hand, Gilmartin was

searched by Middleton and his companion.

He was placed in a car manned by four

armed guards and driven toward Harlan.

Through back streets, Gilmartin was

driven to what appeared to be the home of

one of his captors. One of the gunmen was

sent inside "`to get a rope."

The abductors drove on to Pineville, put-

ting Gilmartin through a third degree en

route. Whenever they neared another car,

their hands went to their guns. They

charged Gilmartin with using the Bible as

a subterfuge for an Industrial Workers of

the World meeting and accused him of

holding two other meetings. `Don't you

know we been runnin' out students here ?"'

they asked him. "What do you think you

can getaway with? Do you know what we

do to them ?"'

Twice they stopped at roads leading

up mountain sides, doused their lights-

Gilmartin says they had no license plate

on the front of their car-and went into

conference. They discovered their victim

was a member of a Masonic lodge, and this,

(Continued on Page 4)

--_[ssue of "American Freeman"

- GIRARD, Kans.-(FP)-The July 15

issue of the American Freeman has been

seized by order of the solicitor-general of

the Post Office Department and the entire

issue will doubtless be destroyed as were

25,000 copies.of the issue of June 25, ac-

cording to E. Haldeman-Julius, publisher.

The June 25 issue was largely taken up

with an expose of the activities of Herbert

Hoover, a candidate for president of the

United States. The issue of July 15 was

largely taken up with the story of the con-

fiscation of the other edition and a chal-

lenge to the Hoover forces to do their

worst. The paper was changed from a

weekly to a bi-weekly because of the loss

sustained in the confiscation of the June

25 edition.

~ No legal action has been taken through |

the courts to charge Haldeman-Julius with -

libel and the American Freeman charges

that a meeting of Hoover supporters in

Washington definitely decided that they

would not risk such court action. The

hrottling of the American Freeman was

sft to the action of the Post Office Depart-

ment, it is charged, because that depart-

ment has such autocratic power over publi-

eations. In both these cases the action of

one man was the sole basis on which the

e

issues were barred from the subscribers.

_ Fred D. Warren, for years editor of the

old Appeal to Reason and now editor of

the American Freeman, reminds Postmast-

er-General Brown of the fact that the Ap-

peal won a long fight in the federal courts

`on a similar case while the officials it was

fighting were thrown out of office.

~ Tom Mooney Protests Police

= Breakup of Flint Meeting

Mooney has wired Governor Bruck-

lichigan and Mayor McKeighan of

yrotesting the action of the Flint

ho violently threatened "Mother"

[ary oney when she tried to address a

ooney-Scottsboro meeting, which was

_ broken up by the Flint police of Michigan

on the evening of July 11th.

_ Labor and fraternal organiaztions are

organizing immediate protest meetings con-

demning the unwarranted action of the

Flint authorities.

_ Since starting on a national tour on be-

half of. her son's pardon, ``Mother'' Mooney

has addressed meetings in more than 35

cities. This is the first time she has been

forbidden the right to plead that the fight

to help her son continue.

Telegrams of protest are pouring into the

office of the Michigan State Executive, ac-

- cording to advice received by the Mooney

_ Defense Committee. (c) :

Tom Mooney stated in his telegram:

"JT emphatically protest against action of

Flint police aided by Michigan state police,

who, on July 11th, broke up meeting of

_ workers demanding my freedom and that

_ of the framed up Scottsboro boys. I also

- denounce brutal action of police who, it is

_ reported, violently threatened my eighty-

_ four-year old Mother when she and Rich-

_ ard Moore, who was scheduled to speak,

tried to enter the hall. I demand that police

- lawlessness be curbed. Your responsibility

_ is unescapable."

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(Contined from Page 1)

days he lost twelve pounds in weight (he

was weighed in prison).

He had been arrested on Thursday. On

Monday he was brought before the

"Schnellgericht" (literally `"quick-court,"'

a place where workers are sentenced very

soon after their arrest and are given hardly

any opportunity to defend themselves). His

brother had been running around trying to

find out exactly when his trial would be

held, so that the Red Aid (Intl. Labor De-

fense) should be able to send a lawyer.

Finally at one o'clock Monday, he was in-

formed that the trial would be held at two

o'clock Monday-in other words, one

hour's notice was given.

It was impossible to get a lawyer so soon.

At the trial he was alone, with no lawyer

and no chance to get witnesses. The charge

of his shooting was evidently too much and

that was dropped, but he was sentenced on

the charge of breaking the peace to nine

months' imprisonment.

In three months' time the Red Aid was

able to bring about a retrial. At this trial

the prosecuting attorney recognized the

Nazi witnesses as having testified in similar

cases before-yet, despite the fact that the

prosecutor was disgusted with his witnesses

and did not believe them, still the prisoner

was not declared innocent but his term of

nine months was reduced to six.

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A Chance For The Leste

Pasadena has been chosen the

where the World Council of Youth ;

meet. This is an organization of yo

sters with decided pacifist views, and m

of its delegates are also taking part in

Olympiad. If Red Hynes and the Am

can Legion are not neglecting their dy

they will break up these meetings and say

the country from the machinations of fy

cow. 7

The Naive Wets

The enthusiasm displayed by the booreae

advocates for the dripping wet platfom |

of the Democrats is almost pitful. Theycent

not seem to realize the difficulties confyon

ing them before they can attain the desir

legalization of liquor and the saloon. tk | :

not a majority of the voters which wil]

cide the matter, but action by states "

such. The constitutional method of py

cedure demands: First, a two-thirds fay.

orable vote by Congress, which means 29

to 145 in the House and 64 to 82 in th

Senate, a complete reversal of present sen

timent; Second, a three-fourths yea vot

the states through conventions elected fo

that specific purpose, meaning thirty-s

`out of the forty-eight states. Thirtee

states only can prevent this ratificatior

The idea that "light wines and beer" 0

3 to 4 per cent alcoholic content can

obtained at once, pending the repeal of

18th Amendment, is futile, as the Supr

Court is the final arbiter, and it has repea

edly said that more than 1% of 1 percent o

alcohol is "intoxicating in fact" and con

trary to the Constitution.

Another Coxey :

Father Cox of Pittsburgh is the mos

ence. He evidently thinks a crisis is ap

proaching, judging by this: -

"If within a year at the most the Unite

States does not have an economic revolt

tion there will be a bloody revolution al

Communism will assume power."

Getting Out Of Bounds

Last week I spent about an hour dum

the evening listening to various groups!

Pershing Square. Some 0

so large that they obstructed traillccent i

the police.would have been jus ified in al

persing them, but not an officer was Ot 1!

ent. Most of the talk was not along t

stract lines, as in the past, but ope)

favorable to Russia as a concrete examp:

of what can be done. It looks as thoug

the authorities realize that radical se

ment it too general to suppress.

Birth Control

The city of Plymouth in England ae

the National Birth Control Council t oe

use of one of the city's welfare clinics. h

usual, the only opposition came rom

Catholics. : 2

In California the figures for 1

months indicate a falling off of brill iv

the year of 3,600. Toa great exten (c)

is owing to so many thousands of ie thi

icans returning to their native jan oa

is the element which needs pirth cent

the most, but which breeds the fastest. 4

Leb

Margaret Sanger's eleventh ae

ter is most encouraging regaren'(R) | ag

0x00B0C. bill before committees in_both hous

of Congress. The supposed

in the lower house turns out 10 ee

victory: the bill was reported advers

a technicality of "no jurisdiction.

tariff feature was only a minor P

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A Protest Against "Twaddle"

} itor The Open Forum :

" 1) yes, Mr. Shoaf has been at it again.

. J jhen Speech and Presss Will Be Free."

; nly the Socialists and Communists have

(c)}, clearly defined objective towards which

"J jey are moving with decision and de-

gach. . = in the co-operative common-

alth only will it be possible for men and

wmen. . - to Plainly express their

} ought." ke |

iis true, of course, that `Socialists' in

nerica and Western Europe have spoken

|nerally for free speech and that some

} them have done the most splendid work

Jjrit, But I assert that quite often if not

| qerally it was not because they were "So-

} jalists" but because they belonged to the

_ iesern civilization, and that it was some-

ines because being a minority they needed

1; There is nothing in the "`So-

lie speech. Many of its best known ex-

Tpments quite plainly consider that the

- | yandate of the majority would entitle them

suppress any awkward opponents if

tey wanted to.

The younger people among them, it is

Tine, usually recognize that a clearer po-

Jin must be taken on freedom and de-

| nocracy if "Socialism'' is not to be regard-

ilasmerely a pale edition of Communism,

ivinding away in leadership value before

jiiemore decided new movement; but evi-

intly at the Milwaukee convention these

_ | joger people were beaten by a great ma-

} pity. The Russian despotism was con-

immed. No expostulation was made to the

yanish Socialist Party about its leaders'

| sipport of a government which has been

inesting thousands because of their opin-

1 ins only and exiling some of them to West

ditiea without any trial whatsoever. No

ipostulation will be made, we may be

ile, about the rigorous censorship Social-

i Davila has established in Chile.

This last year I have eased up a bit in my

_ | tiers about prison horrors for political

j ttsoners under Communism in Russia.

} it not, alas, because they have been in

jy degree abated. The tales sent by the

} Steties for the relief of the poor wretches

) "just heart rending, and the depression

tis diminished greatly such little help as

| Yas being sent to them. .The new Nep

Wiley will indeed be a considerable relief

0 the Peasants; their stubborn resistance

#8 at last won them substantial conces-

iis from the Communist gangsters; but

. umber of sufferers in polit-isolators,

Herter Swamps and Turkestan deserts

ee to be as great as ever, in spite of

in Heh death rate through hunger and

pet The mere suspicion of a willing-

a to criticize the Communist regime

. Satest in the night and exile without

ry man in Russia can indeed "plainly

Mss his thought," provided it is exactly

Mut the Communists tell him to think.

| a Motest again against the columns of

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Defends Judge White

Editor The Open Forum:

Many lawyers who have defended per-

sons accused of crime have privately and

publicly objected to persons being elevated

to the bench who have been previously

employed as prosecutors. It appears that

their former experience is reflected in their

attitude as a judge. It was hoped that

some day a lawyer having defense experi-

ence would become a `judge in the inter-

ests of fairness.

Thomas P. White was appointed judge

of the Superior Court by Gov. Rolph and

has had the experience required. Now

comes Mr. Noel in the May 21st issue of the

Forum and criticises Judge White severely,

and, no doubt, unfairly "in allowing pro-

bation to a sexual pervert who has been

molesting many children;' also, because

Judge White was an appointee of Gov.

Rolph, he says further: `But, why should

anything else be expected from an ap-

pointee of a Rolph or from a lawyer who

has been the attorney for Marco and many

other criminals of the lowest order? His

whole career has been that of a defender

of the criminal element."'

This experience, in my opinion, is neces-

sary to make a judge of understanding.

And, as a matter of fact, if I had anything

to do with the appointment I would require

a judge to serve a sentence in prison in ad-

vance so that he would know more about

what he was doing. I think the Governor

made a good appointment in the selection

of a well-seasoned defense attorney for

judge. Mr. Noel's information that Wex-

man was granted probation is incorrect, as

he recived a three-year jail sentence. But,

why the demand for more punishment,

especially by a liberal writer? If the de-

fendant is.a sexual pervert he needs med-

ical treatment and not punishment. I am

mailing Mr. Noel Judge White's statement

in answer to a published criticisrn in one

of our morning papers in the hope that Mr.

Noel will note his error and make due cor-

rection thereof.-Saul S. Klein.

Wants Real Socialism

Editor The Open Forum:

The Socialist Party proposes to com-

pound a felony by "buying out" Capitalism

with four per cent bonds, and establishing

or perpetuating a bond-holding dynasty

over a pauperized nation.

One of the public utilities which has suf-

fered most from this "depression," and

whose broken-down equipment and rusty

right of way is becoming dangerous to

transportation, unwilling to await Socialist

Party "socialism,'"' is about ready to un-

load its unPROFITable properities on its

government.

This is what is meant by ``public owner-

ship,' demonstrated by foreclosure of mort-

gages held by the Reconstruction Finance

Corporation, which will give us a taste 'of

state capitalism, administered by capitalist

politicians such as we get in "our" postal

system.

No ``public ownership" plan of public

FROM VARIED VIEWPOINTS

Public Benefactors-O Yeah!

Editor The Open Forum:

The public is informed through the

column of B. C. Forbes, financial writer

for Mr. Hearst's papers, that prosperity is

assured because the Union Trust Co. of

Cleveland is willing to sacrifice itself to the

extent of loaning $5000 for mortgages to

build residences! In reply to the happy

announcement we could not restrain our-

selves and sent the following letter to Mr.

Forbes, just to show him that the suckers

are at last waking up:

"Oh! Such liberality of a million dol-

lar (or is it a billion dollar?) bank-offer-

ing to loan a poor devil $5000, to build a

shack, taking a motgage on his life in re-

turn! Now, such high minded bankers

will surely bring back the prosperity they

themselves chased around the corner. But

the poor devil who wants a $5000 roof over

his head knows about the taxes, the as-

sessments, the harrassments by building in-

spectors, the expenses for sewers, street

lights, the usurious mortgage rates, the

fees and the bonus for renewal of the loan;

also the poor devil knows about spot zon-

ing and how his $5000 residence will not

be protected against auto service stations,

hot dog stands or other noisy business with

enough political or financial pull to get

what they want from those who sell privi-

leges. Such public benefactors as this

Union Trust Co. of Cleveland are now

known for what they are-leeches and

blood-suckers-even by the poor fish who

might want to mortgage his shirt to the

bankers for a home for his family. And

they are all alike-these public benefact-

ors." -James Jones.

Banks Blast Faith

Los Angeles Examiner,

Los Angeles, Calif.

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for July 13 about ``False Rumor Plot Again-

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need be no other propaganda against banks

and financial institutions than their own

failures by the thousand (but none in Can-

ada.)

The fact is, whether you like it or not,

the banking system must be taken over by

the government and all deposits and sav-

ings guaranteed, as no one is ever going to

trust banks again since we have learned

that in them is no security. So you cannot

stop these rumors, as everybody is talking

about the matter from the ground up and

the top down. There must be a change

and we are in the midst of it now. Not

only must the banks be changed, but every-

thing else that has brought misery to the

whole world-not only to the masses this

time, but to the classes.-K. C.-G.

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_ JULY 23, LOS ANGELES, CALIF.

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_~ Whitewash Fords and Cops

- DETROIT- (FP)-Dearborn police and

he Fords were whitewashed of blame in

the killing of four hunger marchers at the

Ford Rouge River plant, March 7, by the

Wayne County grand jury.

Although mildly criticizing the use of

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march entered Dearborn, the report placed

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