The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 28, 1932, Page 1

) _ JOIN IN MASS TRIBUTE TO DAILY WORKER AT THE NINTH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION SATURDAY! Ss Another \ file will be held at 8 p.m. on Jan. 4 at _ dren ranging from 14 months to 7 » Worked bosses; accepted graft from them and ‘sult, the conditions were becoming American. the United States. Insull, whose huge midwest. utilities trust crashed to the tune of $2,000,000,000, declared the hearing that he had no pro- ONLY 3 DAYS OFF! The Ninth Anniversary Celebration of the Daily Worker is only three days off— New Year’s Eve, Dec. 31. concert and ball ha Make this a powerful demonstration for the fighting champion, leader and organ- izer of the American workers. a demonstration for all the struggles that the Daily is leading. A meeting, ve been arranged. Make this Bronx Coliseum, Dec, 31. Dail Central Envy S a7 unist (Section of the Communist Intcrnational) Vol. IX, No. 310 pa Entered as second-class matter at the Poot Office at “GLS> New York, N.¥., under the Act of March 5, 1879, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1932 SEN Fi sympathetic greetings D GREETINGS FOR THE ANNIVERSARY EDITION! Send greetings for the special Ninth Anniversary-Lenin Memorial edition of the Daily Worker, Jan. . Get your friends and shopmates organizations All greetings must not later than Jan: 8, 14. and send be in to CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents ALABAMA BOSSES MURDER THE LEADER OF CROPPERS In the Day’s | News PROPOSES “NIGHTRIDERS” NEW YORK, Dec. 27.—The organ- ization 6f a body 10,000 strong and composed of “respectable citizens” with police powers under the pre- text of “fighting gangsters,” has been | proposed by former State Attorney General, Albert Ottinger. This force according to the proposal, would ride at night, and: would in reality be used | to unlease a reign of terror against militant workers. . i Dr. YEN AMBASSADOR TO USSR | NANKING, Dec. 27——The Nan- | king Government of China today ap- pointed Dr. W.W. Yen, former min- ister to the United States, to fill the post of Ambassador: to the Soviet Union. Dr. Yen figured in the suc- cessful . negotiations with Soviet Foreign Commissar, M. Litvinoff for the resumption of relations between the two countries. CHILDREN DIE IN FIRE ‘WESTFORD, Mass., Dec. 27.—Two children were burned to death, and three were regarded as in a serious condition as a result of the fire which destroyed the home Mr. and Mrs. Raoul Cote. oe Le FLU EPIDEMIC SWEEPS LINER GLASGOW, Dec, 27—A_ warning signal of sickness and epidemics as a result of hunger and destitution in capitalist countries, was sounded on Board the liner Camerona, arriving from New York here today. 400 out of 900 passengers aboard the vessel were striken with influ-} enza. , PARENTS LEAVE 4 CHILDREN NORRISTOWN, Pa—Whtn food and fuel were exhausted in their ten- | ant. Home on a farm near North Wales,, Mr, and Mrs. E. T. Blake took their two-months old baby with them and abandoned the other four chil- years, as the only means of obtain- ing relief and saving their children from starvation. When the landlord called at the Blake house Christmas morning he found the four destitute children who were placed in the headquarters of the Children’s Aid Society. WAITERS MEET TO OUST RACKETEERS Driven From Hall By Cops; Meet Anyway NEW YORK.—Rank and file mem- bers of Waiters’ Local Union No. 1 met last night in Irving Plaza, Ir- ving: Place and 15th St., after Wil- Mam Lehman, secretary of the local, called the police and had about 300 of the members put out of their headquarters at 290 Seventh Ave. About 40 police forced the mem- bers from their hall, where they had assembled at the call of some of their number to rid the union of its racketeering leadership. Feeling against the racketeers in control of the union reached a high pitch after the shooting last week of two busi- ness agents by Benny Glas, a job- less member. Condemn Secretary. The heads of the union have been charging from $100 to $300 cash for jobs to unemployed members. Speakers at the meeting last night pointed out that Secretary Lehman had used the funds of the union to bring the police to kick the mem- bers out of their own hall. Officials in control of the local hand in hand with the. at the same time levied more graft on members of the union for jobs, according to the speakers. As a re- steadily worse for all, they said. called upon the rank and file out the racketeering leader- id to take control in their own the meeting continued, when “Daily” went to press, it was ex- pected that proposals would be of- fered to condemn Lehman for call- ing the police, Proposals also were made to elect ay of 25 to protect the rank file against discrimination by grafting officials; to elect a commit- i meeting of the rank and at Stuyvesant Casino. Greek Courts Refuse to Extradite Insull ATHENS, Greece, Dec. 27.—The Greek couris today refused to ex- tradite Samuel Insull, millionaire exploiter and swindler, to GREAT CELEBRATIONS IN SOVIET UNION END Shock Brigaders of All Moscow Factories to Meet; Discuss Increase of Production Quotas First Hundred. Million Killowatt Hours Made At Dneiper Plant Answers Capitalist Lies By N. BUI ‘CHWALD (European Correspondent, Daily Worker.) MC OW, U.S.S.R., Dec. 27 (By Radio).—Moscow workers are energetically preparing for Shock-Brigade Day. On the initiative of many workers’ organizations, the successful com- pletion of the First Five-Year the Second Five Year Plan wi | great mass meetings. Also, as part of the celebra- tion, there will be meetings of of shock brigades of all factories in Moscow, on December 3ist and Jan- uary ist. Preparations are pro- ceeding rapidly to make these meet- ings a great event. The workers will sum up at the meetings the’ results of their struggle to fulfill the First Five-Year Plan in four years, and discuss .the basis of the “counter- plan” for the coming year. At these meetings also, the best workers in the shock brigades will have their names announced. The winners of the competition to be best worker will receive rewards at another Mos- cow shock brigaders’ meeting in the middle of January. Portraits Displayed The workers are determined that the whole country shall know the names and recognize the faces of these winners, and the Moscow Trade Union are organizing a big art gal- lery to display their portraits. Prom- inent artists have expressed a desire to take part in the arrangement of the gallery. In the competition all the leading professions, including 120 trades in Moscow, with 80,000 proletarians in the Workers’ Capital City, actively took part. The special Winter Fete, greeting the beginning of the Second Five- Year Plan will be held Dec, 30 and 31, in Central Park of Culture and Rest, in Moscow, NOTE—Shock brigades are groups ef workers who voluntarily give ex- tra work and time and set an ex- ample of efficiency in the building of socialized indusiry in the So- viet Union. The Counter Plan is a plan made by the workers in the factories, after they have seen and discussed the official plan as it relates to their tasks. Based on the official plan, they offer amendments and set new quotas, invariably an in- crease on those offered in the of- ficial plan. Dneiper Station in Full Swing KHARKOV, U.S.S.R., Dec. 27 (By Radio) —The workers on duty at the Lenin Hydro-electric Plant oh the Dneiper River wrote in their diary for Dec. 20: “The meters show to- day that our Dneiper station pro- duced 100,423,700 Kilowatt Hours of energy.” This is the first hundred million Kilowatt Hours produced at this great plant, which manufactures elec- tric power cheaper than anywhere else in the world. It is the answer by facts to the capitalist slanders in the press of the whole western world, that the Dneiper station is built but not working because Russian workers and the Soviet system are not able to manage it. 8 The Dneiper electrical workers state: “Entering the Second Five Year Plan we undertake to fulfill and surpass the plan to produce one bil- we ,llowatt Hours of energy in Communist Candidate, Tony Bezich, Dies As Result of Jail Abuse HOBOKEN, N. J., Dec. 27.—Tony _| Bezich is dead. He was candidate for state legislator on the Communist Party ticket in the election this year. The hospital claims he died of pneumonia, but he had just finished ® 90-day sentence given him for dis- tribution of National Hunger March leaflets, and it is a certainty that his prison experiences-are the cause of his death. While Bezich was in jail, his wife and two children were left without support. Worry over their fate drove Mrs. Bezich frantic, and she died three days later in the insane asylum. Bezich died this morning, A mass funeral will be held. Preparations are being made, and the date will Plan and the commencement of il be celebrated January 1 with ~ ABANDON BODIES OF TEN MINERS State Officer Refuses to Search for Therh MOWEAQUA, Ill, Dec. 27.—Last night John Millhouse, state mine in- troopers, ordered all efforts stopped to raise the bodies of ten miners buried in the north end’ of the tun- nel of the Shafer mine. He order2d the burning section where these men were killed to be sealed off, | He is still pretending that there ts some hope for the last five of the 54 trapped underground when the gas explosion took place the day before Christmas. These five are in the south end of the tunnel. But no one who saw the 39 charred bodies so far brought to the surface has any hope. Among the five whose bodies the res- cue crews will try to reach today are three young workers, mule drivers. The other two are older men, timber men. Christmas Present A Christmas tree has been raised by the authorities here, right opposite the morgue where 39 bodies lie. The local government was “too poor” to give them relief, and sent them tn- stead to work in the abandoned, burn- ing, gas-filled Shafer mine, to earn a few cents a day instead of relief, and to prepare the mine for work soon, under the new starvation wage scale established. The United Mine Work- ers of America officials agreed dur- ing the summer of an 18 per cent wage cut and worse conditions. The Illinois miners. voted it down twice, then struck against it. The strike was smashed wth gunmen and militia. Most of them split off and formed the Progressive Miners of America, but its officials now are making con- tracts at the cut rate. For Center Banquet NEW YORK, Dec. 27.—William Gropper and Yosel Dotler, both members of the John Reed Club, are preparing a special set of drawings for the Workers’ Center benefit ban- quet which is taking place on Sun- day, Jan. 8, at 7 p.m. at the Workers’ Center, 35 E. 12th St. Special Art Program) Soviet Workers Finish First Five-Year Plan, Sta | which fuel for the plant comes. UPPER LEFT: Huge Kuznetsk steel mills, which, like the still larger Magnitogorsk plants will manu- e | facture iron and steel from enormous deposits of ore, recently opened, and lying near coal mines from spector, backed by 35 Illinois state | rt Second Plan ca me i } 4 UPPER RIGHT: Lenin, who first foresaw the need of these tremendous industrialization plans, and led the workers steadily toward them, as he led them to the overthrow of capitalism the banner of Leninism the workers of all countries fight for the establishment of Sovie! LOWER. LEFT: Dnieprostroy, the largest power dam in the world, whose water power provided the Production just announced, of the first hundred million Kilowatt Hours of. electricity at the Lenin plant. LOWER RIGHT; Stalin, secretary of the central committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Tt was the iron detsrmination and Leninist policies of Stalin and the Communist Party menrbers “that drove through the First Five-Year Plan to success, in four years, and guarantees even greater victories in the Second Five-Year Plan, starting Jan. 1, 1933. all Russia. Under 4 Republics. J obless and. SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Dec. | sent to the legislature there, Jan. 10, ployed workers, and small farmers. Salt Lake issued the call for the march, declaring: “The last legislature held out hopes that the crisis would scon be over, and refused to do anything to re- lieve distress. Now even the most stubborn must confess that pros- perity is far from being just around the corner. “A united front of the workers and poor farmers is the only way to bring pressure that will force the authorities to act.” Included in the demands of the marchers, as proposed by the Salt Lake City conference, are: Demands. 1, Immediate unemployment fe- ‘lief and adequate relief for poor farmers. 2. Cancellation of taxes, debts and back interest. on mortgages on homes of unemployed workers and on farmers and smaql property to March | to Salt Lake ‘Colorado State Hunger March On Jan. 23; Expect 1,000 Delegates in California every part of the state to march on the capitol in Salt Lake C | for relief to the impoverished farmers, The workers’ and farmers’ united front conference held recently in ‘|employed in Caifornia. Farmers | 27.—Committees are being elected in | y and pre- | demands for unemployment relief and | The marchers will be both unem- | own! { 3. Repeal of all laws limiting the right of counties to raise funds for relief. The State Hunger March Commit- | tee is at 217 Ness Bldg. Salt Lake City, Utah. | 1,000 to March. | SAN FRANCISCO, Caiif., Dec. 27. | The State Hunger March Committee | reports a delegation of 1,000 repre- | senting thousands of jobless vet- | jerans, workers and farmers will march on the state capitol at Sacra- mento, Jan. 10, when the legislature opens. At least ten times that num- ber will be on hand to support the delegation. There are now over 1,000,000 un- | ‘The State Hunger March will be a mighty mass protest: of these workers, farmers ard veterans to their miserable con- (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) | PUSH FIGHT ON BOSS WAR Anti - War Meet Paris Adopt Plans in (Cable by Inprecorr) BERLIN, Dec, 27—The conference { th * cad | . The» I. L, D. attorneys are pe- of the anti-war committee ended yes- | titioning tomorrow for writs of habe- terday in Pi following important} as corpus demanding recognition of | speeches by Shvernik and Stassova,| the civil rights of the defendants to | from the Soviet Union. Both exposed | COP: the hypocrisy of the 's of the Second (Socialist) International who are actually suporting imperialist_war | preparations’ while peddling dema- gogic pacifist phrases. Re entatives of ten countries were present at the conference. All resolutions were unanimou: adopt- ed. Amongst the decisi the formation of a control commit- tee to study the question of Ger- many’s claims for equality of arma- ments and of the maneuvers of the other imperialist countries in this connection; the sending of a delega- tion this February to the Far East to help organize an Asiatic anti-war congress.on the lines of the anti-war congress recently held in Amsterdam, participation in the South American anti-war congress called for February 28 at Montivedeo, Uruguay; organiza- tion of a national anti-war congress in London, England, and an anti-war congress in the Balkans. | when they sought medical at-| | tention at the Tuskegee Insti-| de are | CLIFF J | AMES DEAD | OF INFECTED WOUNDS; DENIED MEDICAL AID He Was Forced to Lie on Cold Cell Floor; Was Turned in by Reformist Officials of Tuskegee Montgomery Sheriff Wont’ Let I.L.D. Attor- neys Visit Dying Men in County Jail BULLETIN MONTGOMERY, Ala., Dec. 27- —Cliff James, Negre cropper leader, died today in the Montgomery County Jail after being refused medical attention for the wounds received in the battle at Notasulga when 150 croppers heroically defended themsely gangs. James was turned over'to the when he sought medi I aid at the Tuskegee hospital. es against the landlord-police lynch police by Tuskegee Institute officials His death is an out and out murder cartied out jointly by the landlords and their police and the Negro reformist heads of Tuskegee Institute, which is under the control of Rockefeller, BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Dec. 27—Held incommunicado in the Montgomery County jail and denied medical aid Clifford James and Milo Bentley, two of the croppers wounded by land- lord-police lynch gangs in the battle on Dec. 19 at Notasulga, are dying of infected wounds. Clifford James is one of the Tuskegee’s posses by officials| tute hospital. With Bentley, he has | been forced to lie on the cold floor | of a cell and denied medical care | {and is now in a delirious state. | | .The authorities have refused to \send them to a private hospital on | the pretext that lynch threats have | been made against them. This, de- |spite the fact that the only lynch threats have been made by the sher- | iffs and deputies, and the admission in the boss press of the growing sym- |pathy among the poor white crop- pers and masses with the struggles ot the Negro croppers against starv- ation, robbery of their crops and ex- propriation of their mules and cows for “debts” to the landlords. The two dying croppers and three other croppers held in the Montgo- |mery county jail have also been re- | fused permission to confer with their | attorneys. Deputy Sheriff Scoggins! yestex | lay denied the I. L. D. attor-| |neys the right to visit the men. fer with their attorneys and de- |manding that the State of Alabam |show cause why the defendants are | held All workers and their organiza- | tions, and all other elements op- | posed to lynching and the brutal | national opprevsion of the Negro people, are urged to rush protests to Sheriff Scroggins of Montgomery Ala, demanding medical care for the wounded croppers, their right to see their attorneys and imme- diate and unconditional release of the 13 or more jailed croppers. | _The Montgomery Journal yester- day printed the full statement of the Montgomery liberal committee which visited Goy. Miller in behalf of the imprisoned croppers and to protest against the bloody landlord-police terror now raging throughout Talla- poosa and adjoining communities. The statement created a sensation. | The liberal committee is now orga- nizing a citizens’ investigation of the bloody events in Tallapoosa County. South American Anti-War Congress at Montivedeo, Uruguay, beginning Feb, 28, 1933, has met with the wacm- est response from workers and in- tellectuals in both of the American continents. In the United States, whose bankers and imperialist en- terprises (Standard Oil, Mellon and Guggenheim interests, etc.) are the main instigators of the two unde- clared wars now raging in South America, a*beginnng has been made for the mobilization of mass support for the anti-War Congress. Foster Wires Support. From Montivedgo, B. Michelena, secretary of the organizational com- mittee of the congress, Magallanes, 2016, Montevideo, Uruguay, reports receipt of the following cable from William Z, Foster, outstanding leader of the revolutionary trade union movement in the U. S.: “Executive Trade Union Unity League in name of revolutionary workers of U. 8. A. heartily greets Congress consolidating continental anti-war front. Hail continental proletarian solidarity in struggle against imperialist war and defense of Soviet Union.” Response to the call have also been received from different bodies of the revolutionary trade union and peasant movements in South Amer- ica, voicing the anti-war sentiments of the vast masses of Indian, Negro and white workers and. peasants. Leading student organizations and individual prominent ‘intellectuals have also pledged support. The or- ganizational committee reports: Ford Plant Rushing War Order of Trucks For the U. 8. Army DETROIT, Dec. 27.—The Ford plant here has just completed part of a war order of 361 Ford units for the U. 8. Army. The order in- cludes 263 cargo trucks, 60 am- bulances, 30 sedans and eight truck chassis with cabs. Labor Unions Fight War. “Among the organizations that have already resolved to participate directly in the preparatory activities of the Congress we find in the fore- front the battle-scarred Labor Fed- eration of Chile, the General Con- federation of Labor of-Peru, the Red Trade » Union Unity Committee of Argéntina and Paraguay and the Bolivian trade union organizations. “The most noted figures of the Argentinian intellectual word (pro- fessors, artists, writers, journalists, teachers) have issued a. statement offering their support to the anti- war meet. In like manner have re- sponded such outstanding elements of the revolutionary and anti-im- Pperialist struggle in Latin America as Quispe, leader of various Indian uprisings in Peru, the former lead- ers of the insurrections of the sailors | of the Chilean and Peruvian fleets which took place in 1931; they have offered to attend the Congress, Be- sides the foregoing responses further adhesions are expected from num- erous organizations including the various students’ federations, the so- clalist. youth organizations, anarchist MASS RESPONSE FOR ANTI-WAR CONGRESS Many Unions, Intellectual Bodies Support South American Meet NEW YORK.—The call. for a toward and fraternal bodies.” Enlarge Organization Committee. In view of the significant mass response to the call for the Anti- War Congress, the three organiza- tions who have initiated the move- ment have resolved to embody in the Organizational Committee the na- tional trade union federations and centers of 13 different Latin-Amer- ican countries, as well as the Oil Workers Federation and Meat Pack- ing Workers Federation of Argen- tina and other important mass trade unions. In the Organizational Committee will also be incorporated outstanding intellectuals and leaders of the anti-imperialist movement in Latin America, including Augusto Cesar Sandino of Nicaragua, the In- dian leader Quispe of Peru, Sergeant Pacheco, one of the leaders of the Chilean naval revolt. The Organizational Committee ap- peals to the toiling masses and in- tellectuals of the U. S. to support the anti-War Congress by mobilizing mass sentiment behind it, adoption of resolutions of solidarity with the Congress and the South American masses and the election of delegates | 46 Ten Eyck Street, Brooklyn, where le 528 Be sroyos, trade unions, s9-oneratiyes 0 the Congess, = *\~. Big March of Workers’ | Groups Will Feature) ‘Daily’ Affair Dec. 31 A grand march of workers’ organ- izations, carrying their organization banners, throughout the entire length of the Bronx Coliseum will be one of the features of the big celebration of the Ninth Anniversary of the Daily Worker this Saturday night, Dec. 31. The program for the celebration includes an elaborate concert and ball, including songs by Soviet com- posers, sung by Sergei Radamsky, the International Workers Order Symphony Orchestra, the Nety Dance Group, the International Choruses, and the Freiheit Singing Society. Dancing will continue till 3 a.m. with music furnished by a double brass band of Negro and white musicians, Tickets are selling fast. They can be bought at the Daily Worker office, 50 E. 13th St. at 40 cents, plus 20 cents for press fund. VOLUNTEERS FOR LENIN PAGEANT. ‘Will all Brooklyn workers who de- sire to participate in the Lenin Memorial pageant report this Thurs- day, Dec. 29th, at the Laisve hall, | unempl fhe Srst "BhRARAD i Negro croppers turned over to POLICE ATTACK MASS FUNERAL | Workers in Tribute to Skippy Baritone NEW YORK.—Thr workers of New York buried Skippy Baritone yesterday. Mounted cops charged in- to them, threatened them, tried to break up their funeral procession. but their lines held fast, steeled by the bonds that made them and the homeless Negro worker, Skippy Bar- itone, comrades. Baritone—no one knows his real name—-was killed by starvation. To- gether with about other home- less Negro and white workers he lived in an empty slaughter house at 639 W. 39th St. The cops raided the place and kicked out its jobless occupants, arresting 15. Cops Attack Procession At noon yesterday a crowd of workers gathered at the West Side Unemployed Council, 428 Tenth Ave. to pay a revolutionary tribute to their dead comrade. A meeting was held, at wHich Gil, organizer of the Unemployed Council, spoke. Then the funeral procession started, the hearse and two private cars in front, with a guard of honor consisting of ten workers. Leading all was the Workers International Relief Band. The procession marched up Tenth Avenue to 45th St., turned east to Eighth Ave. and then south. At 42nd St. five mounted cops tried to break it up. At 39th St. again the police charged. But the workers’ lines held solid. A worker correspondent re- ported the scene to the Daily Worker in the following words: “This time the workers tn the procession, together with the work- ers on the sidewalk, showed such fighting spirit that the cops did not dare to break it up altogether, but forced the procession to turn back to Tenth 4ve., marching down 18th St. to Union Square. The police gave tickets to the private car drivers that were in the parade. They also told the driver of the hearse to hurry away or they will throw the coffin out.” Mass Meet in Union Square At Union Square a mass meeting was held, attended by about 1,000 workers despite the rain. The meet- ing was addressed by Sam Wiseman, organizer of the Unemployed Coun- cils of Greater New York, and by Morris Taft, of the International La- bor Defense. They called on thé workers to keep alive the memory of Skippy Baritone by intensifying the struggle for winter relief, shelter for the homeless, against evictions, ete. The meeting elected a delegation of six homeless workers, two of them Negroes and one a woman, to go to Mayor McKee and demand: 1. That the city actually turn over the empty buildings that the Board of Estimate had promised to the homeless; 2, That the city pay the funeral ex- penses, The committee went to City Hall, where they were told that McKee was sick. His secretary tried to put them off, but they insisted on pre= senting their demands. The secret- ary told them that a survey was be- ing made of the buildings, after which something—maybe—would be done. He refused to have the city pay the funeral expenses. Skippy Baritone is dead.