The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 20, 1933, Page 1

BB eS se SRR RETIN A Oe Can’t Do Without Ii “THIS IS THE FIRST DOLLAR WE COULD SPARE AND IT IS BADLY NEEDED HER WITHOUT B GER, MINN MOST . OUR PAPER.”—C. M. MASON, PILLA- UT WE CAN DO ANYTHING BUT JOIN THE DRIVE FOR $35,000. Vol. X, No. ‘17 Dail Central if Party U.S.A. (Section of the Communist International) Entered as second-class mati BE 2, New York. N.Y. under the Act of March 3, 1878. ter at the Post Office at NEW YORK, FRIDAY, JANUARY 20, 1933 y, Worker : Vet Shows the Way “HAVE JUST RECEIVED MY JAN- UARY 14TH ‘DAILY’ WITH YOUR AP- PEAL FOR SUPPORT. AM SENDING DOLLAR AS MY BIT TOWARDS THE SUPPORT OF THE ONE PAPER 1 KNOW OF THAT I WOULD HATE TO DO WITHOUT.”—VETERAN, U VETERANS’ HOME, OTEEN, N. C. HAVE YOU DONE YOUR BIT FOR THE “DAILY?” CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents MEMORIAL MEETINGS AT 7:30 TOMORROW NIGHT! SEND NEGRO ORGANIZER TO DEATH ON CHAIN GANG GA. VERDICT STIRS DEEP MASS ANGER LL.D. Calls for Nation- | Wide Protest Against Vicious Verdict TO APPEAL SENTENCE A. Herndon Denounces Capitalist Slavery By R. H. HART ATLANTA, Ga., Jan. 19.— An all-white jury yesterday) brought in a verdict of guilty against 19-year old Angelo} Herndon, Negro organizer. | charged “incite to insurrection” for his| activities in organizing Negro | and white workers for joint struggle against starvation, boss terror and lynching. Herndon was tried under an old statute dug up by the Georgia bosses to support their attempts to crush the rising | struggles of the toiling masses. Six} other organizers, two Negro men,} two white men and two write wo-| men, are facing trial under the same musty statue, which provides for the | death .penalty. | Fearful of the growing thunder ot | protests. of the aroused workers,.Ne-} gYo“and white, the all-white jury| recommended a sentence of 18 to 20 years on the Georgia chain gangs for Herndon. The sentence is prac- tically a death sentence. | Aimed at Negro Liberation. That this vicious sentence is clearly a class verdict aimed at the suppression of the struggles of the] white and Negro masses against starvation and for Negro liberation (CONTINUED ON PAGE 3) COPS FIRESHOT GUNS ON UNARMED | CHICAGO JOBLESS Workers Demand That Committee on Relief Be Recognized CHICAGO, IL, Jan. 19.— Two thou..-d workers, gath- ered in front of the Lawndale relief station at 3123 South Kedzie Avenue, demanding that the relief committee be recognized and demanding the removal of Mrs. Betty Hoff, supervisor of station and Harold Carlson, assistant, because of their harsh, treatment of the unemployed, were victims of. a vicious police at- tack. The workers defended them- selves with determination and beat off the first attack, six. policemen were injured and the others forced to retreat inside the relief station and send out an alarm for reinforce- ments. Within a short time the place was swarming with police armed with machine guns and shot guns and second attack was launched with a blast from the shot guns against unarmed hungry workers. Four workers fell before the gun fire, one Was shot in the head and is in a very serious condition. While the attack was still going (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) Hitlerites Plan Big Provocation on C. P. BERLIN, Germany, Jan. 19 (By Radio).—The National Socialist (Fas- cist) press announces a demonstra- tion Sunday in front of and facing the Karl Liebknecht House, head- quarters of the Communist Party and the Rote Fahne. The Rote Fahne calls all workers irrespective of party. affiliation to mass at, the «ime time and place to repulse fascist attacks. | Even the Socialist Press has to call) the fascist declaration a “great pro-| voestion.” MAY REFUSE TAX PAYMENTS. NORTH BERGEN, N. J., Jan. 19— \ tax strike was threatened here ss nh means of securing the demands made upon the township commission oy a group of North Bergen taxpay- | Th with attempting to)! Mills, who will participate in the secret war plot conference between Hoover and Roosevelt. WASHINGTON USES SINGER PLANT TO. PUSH WAR PLANS Workers in Factory on Strike Against Cut; Denounce War Plots WAR NEWS FLASHES 1,—The Japanese adyance. into Jehol Province was held up again yesterday by the heroic resistance of Chinese Red Arn volunteers. / north and east of Manchuria, 2.—The Japanese began a new | maneuver in the League of Nations offering to withdraw their objec- tions to participation of the U. S. and Soviet Union in exchange for official recognition by the League of the puppet state set up in Man- churia by Japanese bayonet 3.—Hachiro Ari of foreign affa the Japanese government, tried to utilize the publication orrespondence be- tween the U.S.S.R. and Japan as a new basis for anti-Soviet provoca- tion, 4—Three hundred and eighty Chinese soldiers, clad only in sum- mer uniforms by the Nanking Gov- ernment, were found frozen to death, after having been trapped by the Japanese on a small hill from which they were resisting the Japanese advance into Jehol Prov- ince, vice-minister Latest dispatches from Tokio re- veal that Wednesday's demonstra- | tion at the Tokio offices of the U. S.| Singer Sewing Machine Company | Was a strike action by Singer em- | Ployees “‘ghting a 10 per cent cut in Wages. In dealing with the meager news from Tokio yesterday, the Daily Worker inadvertently reflected! the interpretation of this event contained in the capitalist press dispatches: Admit Nation Wide Strike. The latest dispatches admit. that a nation-wide strike has existed since last. summer against a 10 per cent’ wage ent declared by the Sin- ger Company's plants in Japan. ‘This is the same company that has sev- cral times cut the wages of. workers in its. plants in New Jersey. By their militant actions, the Japanese workers have forced the complete closing down of the Singer plants in Tokio, Osaka, Kobe, Nagoys. and Kyoto. The Yokohoma plant is also Practically at a standstill although still continuing an attempt to operate under heavy police protection, Both the U. 8. Government and the Japanese Government are at- tempting to exploit the struggles of the Japanese workers against the wage cut for ehauvinistic in- citement to prepare the masses for the sharpening war situation. In connection with the present ex- tremely tense relations between the two bandit imperialist powers in rivalry for sumremacy in the Pacific and control over China, the Japanese workers are mg e and more emerging as an inde/ :ndent force against all imperia/.sts. In this connection, Jap2nese papers on Wednesday reported the ar- rests of 7,000 persons during 1932 en charges ef Communist activi- tics or sympathies, Despite the mass arreits and savage white terror, the Japanese workers are working for the defeat of their own imperialists in the war now raging in the Far East. They are heroically carrying on this strug- gle in the factories and correctly linking it up with the fight against wage cuts and the growing impov- erishment of the workers and peas- ants, TO THE MEMBERS OF THE TI. W. 0. COMRADES:— HE DAILY WORKER is in danger! This signal must awaken every member of the International Workers Order to action. Our most im- portant organ in danger! That means that every city Committee, every, branch, every member of the I.W.O. must at once make plans to mobilize the workers among whom they move, for the rescue. Without our press our Order cannot grow. Without our press our struggles. lack that collective teacher and guide which is necessary for our success, Fights Our Battles. The Daily Worker fights our battles. It is our duty and to our interest that we fight the battles of the Daily Worker. Our Daily Worker has only the working class and its sympa- thizers to rely on. No capitalist advertising can be expected to finance its anti-capitalist activities. On the contrary. Wherever its production requires resort to private or public capitalist institu- tions, the “Daily” is sure to be squeezed and harassed. This is especially evident now. As a resuit, the crisis increases the financial difficulties of the Daily Worker. All efforts are made, at all times, to postpone or avoid a crisis. But when the inevitable can not any longer be avoided, when the crisis becomes acute, the Daily Worker must submit its emergency to us, to the masses of workers, for a sclution. Such an emergency has arisen now. The alarm had to. be Internationai Workers Order Calls for Mass Support of “Daily” Drive “We Must Answer 100 Per Cent.” We of the I. W. O. must answer this call. We must answer | it 100 per cent. We must answer it at once, ! Comrades of the I. W. O., form at once “Saye the Daily” Committees, Set yourself a task commensurate with your max- imum capacity. And then work—work like blazes, to fulfill this task. | Take it up in leading committees and in me’ hip meeting so that our International Workers Order will raise at least $8,000 to save our “Daily.” All money collected by the branches of the I. W. O. are to be sent to the I. W. O., 80 Fifth Ave., New York Fraternally, | NATIONAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTE) INTERNATIONAL WORKERS ORDE NLY $95.85 received yesterday! This makes a total of only $4 since the drive started Saturday. In the successful financial campaign of 1931, which raised $44,000, the first six days resulted in contributions of $1,860—far ahead of the present figure. It is true that this is the fourth winter of the crisis and the workers are suffer- ing even more than in 1931 from unemployment and wage-cuts. BUT THE NEED FOR THE DAILY WORKER AND THE OPPOR- TUNITIES FOR REACHING BROADER M. S OF WORKERS ARE GREATER NOW TOO. It is necessary to organize the cam- paign on a much broader basis than in the past, to mak: up for the smaller contributions by increasing the number of contributors. The districts throughout the country have been slow to get into ac- tion. The New York District, which in 1931 raised nearly half of the total, has so far failed to respond in amounts that can in any way compare with what it raised during the 1931 campaign within this period. The first full collection list was sent in not from New York, but from Cleveland. New York workers, get om-the job for the Daily”! Workers throughout the country, the danger is real: act before it is too late! Make every sacrifice! Contribute, get yo: friends and shopmates to contribute, and speed every cent by wire sounded: THE DAILY WORKER Is IN DANGER! or air mail to the Daily Worker, 50 E. 13th St., New York City. | | | its last LOCALS RUSH APPROVAL OF UNITED CONFERENCE Huntington Socialist Branch Members Vote Unanimous Approval; Against Split Ranks Preliminary Conference Sunday to Plan State Sessions on Insurance, Labor Legislation NEW YORK.— More and more local unions, including A. F. of L. unions, and workers’ organizations, are endorsing | and electing delegates to the Preliminary Conference on Unem- ployment Insurance and Labor Legislation. This preliminary conference meets Sunday at 2 p.m. in Irving Plaza Hall, and will work out plans for a huge®- conference of delegates from | every sort of workers’ organi-| zation, to meet in Albany next month | and, representing the workers of the | entire state, make up bills to submit | to the state legislature. | 3 BARBER SHOPS IN HARLEM NOW alist Party Branch of a = tong ‘island, ‘whieh «| Bosses Ask for Terms; Union Refuses to Socialist Branch Endorses | la Among the that of the S Huntington, meeting voted unanimously to approve the purpose of the con-| ference and to elect two delegates to 97 Ivica Irving Plaza Hall Sunday Raise Prices The Huntington Alinta YOK |) (pa aos tre this action, although the state com-!, NEW YORK.—In addition to the * shops declared on strike nish barbers of Harlem, struck today making 75 shops o1 of a total of 98 in this section on strike, with the movement extend- mittee of the S. P. has called its own| state conference an attempt to} split the ranks of the workers . The A. F, of L. Trade Union Committee for Unemployment Insurance and} Organizations: Order Anti-War Manifesto Mass organizations are urged to put in their orders at once for the “Manifesto of the Central Com- mittee of the Communist Party of the U. S. “Against Imperialist War,” which has just been pub- ished in leaflet form. Bundles at $1 per thousand should be ordered direct from the National Office of the Communist. Party, Box 87, Station D, New York, N. Y. RATL WORKERS REJECT CUT. LONDON, Jan. 19.—With the re- jection of the proposed wage reduc- tion by the membership of the Na- tional Union of Railwaymen, strike which would ti¢ up major British Tailroad lines became an immediate possibility, Worker Organizations Call All to Honor Lenin, Rally for Struggle NEW YORK.—Three more workers’ mass organizations have endorsed the two Lenin Memorial Meetings to be held Saturday in Bronx Coliseum and Arcadia Hall. Each issues:state- menis pointing out that Lenin is the guide to the workers’ struggle for better wages, for relief. against im- berialist war, cgainst discrintination of every sort and for the overthrow of the capitalist system. They call all their members and all workers. to. attend the meetings tomorrow in honor of Lenin, and as part of the continued struggle of the working class. The Executive Committee of the CITY EVENTS LENIN MEMORIAL MEETINGS, JANUARY 21 Huge Mass Memorial Meetings at 7:30 p.m., Saturday, for Bronx and Manhattan workers at Bronx Coliseum, for Brooklyn and Long Island workers at Arcadia Hall. To Bronx Coliseum, take Lexington Aye. subway, off at 177th St. and walk east. For Arcadia Hall, from Brownsville, take Reckaway Ave. trolley or Ralph Ave. trolley to Halsey St.; from Boro Hall take Lexington Aye. Elevated to Halsey St.; from Coney Island, Brighton oe Bicol Park, take B.M.T. to Canal and change for Jamaica line to lalsey St. ) MASS MEETING AT HOME RELIEF BURO Indoor mass meeting to demand more relief. Meeting to be held Jan. 23, at 2:30 p.m. at Public School 230, Albemarle and Dahill Road, Toro Park. ; ’ . ‘ INTERNATIONAL CONCERT AND BALL, BENEFIT OF C. P. Fourteen workers mass organizations co-operate to give a concert and ball with splendid program Sunday night at Manhatian Lyceum for the benefit of Section 1 of the Communist Party, New York District, e . SAM WEINSTEIN DEFENSE CONFERENCE Weinstein Defense Committee meets at 6 p.m. Saturday at 799 Bread- way and asks all workers’ organizations to send delegates to the meeting. . * ° NEEDLE TRADES SCOTTSBORO DEFENSE MEETING N.T.W.LU. calls mass meeting of all needle workers, today at 8 pem., at Felicitas Hall, 104 West 130th St. for Scottsboro defense and to unite Negro and white workers in shop struggle for better conditions. ° . * LOUISE THOMPSON SPEAKS SUNDAY IN HARLEM FORUM Louise Thompson, organizer of the Negro film group “Black and »” speaks Sunday at 4 p.m. at Harlem Forum, 650 Lenox Aye. At this forum, Harlem workers will answer the slanders against the Soviet Union by Ted Poston in the Amsterdam News, and other slanders. CHORUS REHEARSALS FOR LENIN MEETINGS Rehearsal for Lenin Memorial chorus will be at Arcadia Hall, 918 Halsey St., Brooklyn, tomorrow at 5 p.m. sharp. Lithuanian and Ukrain- ian choruses of Brooklyn and Chorus groups of Jewish Workers Clubs of Bronx, Brownsville and Coney Island should be at this rehearsal. Mala- mutt will conduct. Rehearsal of all down town choruses at Coliseum tomorrow at 6:30 pm. Sheafer will conduct, . . . PATTERSON TO LECTURE AT WORKERS SCHOOL FroRUM William Patterson, nat’onal sceretary of the International Labor De- fense, will Jecture on “The Supreme Court Decision in the Scettsboro Case” at Workers School Forum, 8 p.m. Sunday, second floor, 35 E. 12th St, padi wean DRESSMAKERS SHOP CONFERENCE TOMORROW United Council of Workingelass Wo- men states: “The . Executive Committee calls upon all members of the United Council of Working’ Class Women, and. also all unorganized workin: women to attend the memorial meet ings of our comrade, V. I. Lenin, to be heid in New York, Saturday, Jan- uary 21. “Comrade SLAVE LABOR IN MARINE EMPLOY Lenin indefatigably |Seamen Demand Full Wages, No Workaways NEW YORK.—The S.S. “Cariago” after being laid up out of commis- sion for a long time, was taken out of the “boneyard” and fitted out for a trip to the west coast to be oper- ated there by the States S.S. Com- pany on the Far East run. Usually when a ship is taken out of the laid-up ‘fleet it is first taken to a ship yard and dry dock to be put in condition for service again. In the case of the “Cartago,” however, the company conceived a plan to put the ship in condition without cost to the company. The I.M.M, acting as agents for the States $.8. Company, shipped a skeleton crew aboard the ship and then hired fourteen “w aways” to make the trip to the West Coast for their board. As soon as the free labor was sec- ured the company announeed a $5 wage cut and started hiring more “workaways.”’ The purpose of this was to do all the necessary work of putting the ship in condition with- out having to hire shore labor to do it in a dry dock and without having to carry a full sige paid crew. As soon as information of this was secured, the Marine Workers Indus- trial] Union held a series of short dis- cussions with seamen in the shipping offices, Institute, Y.M.C.A., missions, and other places. Delegates of the Union were sent aboard the ship and a leaflet of demands was issued. Passed Armed Guards Despite armed guards at the gang- way of the ship, the delegates got aboard with the leaflets and held a meeting calling upon the crew to take action against the practice of shipping workaways. A committee of unemployed sea- men made the same demands upon the I.M.M. officials and the LMM. officials frightened at the solidarity of the employed and unemployed sent several of their executives to assure the committee that the ILM. M, was not responsible. Aboard the ship the crew began taking action against the workaways with the result that most of the Shop chairmen and representatives of dressmakers’ shop organizations and groups, of whatever union or open shops, in tomorrow at 1 p.m. Irving Plaza Hall to take up struggle for conditions and against new racketeering schemes : , workaways on deck were put ashore. The result was that the ship sailed with only three workaways instead of the 14 to 20 they intended to hire. t | worked ‘to | from ceniuries discrimination. j cannot achieve complete freedom,” ; | said Lenin, “if it does not complete freedom f wome | “The working women | Union today fully enjoy pol | cial and eccnomic frecdom, ing women and wives of workers in| | the United States should teachings of Lenin. We | organize and actively all the struggles of the working We must fight in defense of the Sov- | let Union. “We must especially rally in de- | fense of our class against the new} | World butchery that is in the making by American and Japanese and all | other imperialist nations; that is| hourly growing more threatening | than ever; that threatens the land where working men and women rule —the Soviet Union. | “Working women. heed Lenin! Re- | | sist the plans of the United States | government to drown your sons and | husbands and brothers in blood for | imperialist profits! Rally in thou- | | sands to the Lenin Memorial meet- | ings Saturday! Call Ex-Service Men The City Committee of the Work- jers Ex-Servicemen’s League of Ne: York calls upon all yeterans and ex- | | servicemen, Negro and white, and aj! the Posts of the Ex-Servicemen’s | League to mobilize the veterans in| New York and Brooklyn to attend | en masse the Lenin memorial meet- |ings Saturday. It says: | | “In view of the threatening war | danger, the Workers Ex-Servicemen’s | League considers it particularly ap- propriate to honor the memory of | Lenin, who taught the workers of the | (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) | Relief which called, both ‘the confer- | ence next Sunday and proposed the Albany united front conference, an- swered the Socialist leaders’ split- ting attempt with a ringing call for olida ers .#nd no di- vided 1) this terrific unem- The Huntington S.P. nch makes the first response to the call for united front AFL Among the rank, ployment ci Carpenters atest unions to endorse the t lect dele- 9 conferences and for Sur meeting 7 and 1164 of the Unite hood of Carpenters and Joiner: America (AFL) and Local 78 of t AFL stonemasons union, In addition to this, the Bill Hanni- gan Association of Nessau County, an organization of about 850 laborers. .| interested in labor legislatton, voted at its last meeting purpose of the conferences and to elect delegates to meet with the oth- to endorse the! ing and embracing the Negro barber shop workers. Several of the shops have offered to settle with the strikers who are being ied by the iependent Local 101 and are supported by the Bar. bers and Hairdr s League affil- jated by the Trade Union Unit; League. The Union will today ta’ up settlement with the shops agree- ing to accept union demands. The police again exposed themsely as agents of the bosses by withdr: ing permit for a parade of the strik- crs which was originally granted. But the strike is growing nger 3 y. Picketing of all shops is being d | veloped, and already the Unemployed Councils and workers of other orga: izations have declared their inten- | tion to help on the picket line, Refuse Price Boost The Spanish Barbers (Bosses) As- , Sociation has approached the strikers | with the proposal to raise the wages adi | Providing the union would agree to ers Sunday. |a boost in prices. The striking bar- Call to All Others | bers rejected this proposal which Most of the locals endorsing the {| Would increase the cosi of living for conference issue statements calling on | the other workers. all other workers’ organizations to do| The strikers likewise rejected the likewise, and to clect delegates to the! boss request for a sample agreement, Preliminary Conference. | but demand instead an official con- The Albany State Conference, for| ference of the union representatives which the preliminary conference will| With the employers. make all arrangements, will discuss} The union demands a regular work- for at least three days tha problems| ing day to begin at 8 a. m. and end affecting the workers, and then will| at 8 p. m. on week days and 8 a.m. draw up actual bills; in a form to| to 10 p.m. on Saturdays. The other lay before the legislature. Subjects | demand is for a wage increase which of the bills will surely be unemploy-| Would give the workers 60 per cent ment insurance, anti-eviction bilis,| Of the proceeds on week days and anti-injunction bills, anti-child sla-| 70 per cent on Saturdays, and a guar- very bills, and other demands of the| antee of $10 a week. workers, At the present time the workers Cy are compelled to slave 17 and 18 hours a day, with many workers re- | Porting at the strike meeting wages of $6.50 a week and some as low as $2.50. Effective efforts are reported as be- ing made to draw in the Negro bar- bers who have just received a cut from 60 to 50 per cent of the pro- ceeds. The Daily Worker is being sold among the strikers and is said to be the only newspaper supporting the | NEW YORK.—AN watchers who have participated during the last | | Election Campaign are urgently | | requested to report to the District | | office, Room 500, at 50 E. 13th St.,| | | between today and Tuesday. VERY | | | IMPORTANT. (Signed) Communist Party District Org-Department. NEW YORK —Huge posters of which a picture is printed alongside this article, have been put up at transfer points on the Fourth and Madison Ave, line and 86th St. Cross- town line of street cars, notjfying of the new charge of two cents for transferring on and off of these lines. This charge is in addition to the 5 cent fare already paid by the work- er going to or coming from work, and mean that step by st\p, by means of “phoney” sales of the lines, since the same stockholders control | both, the 7 cent care is being in- stalled! | DS MENIAL BES 5 | COLBY, Wis. — The farmers of three counties in the United Farm- | ers’ League and the Farmers’ Holi- | day Association sent telegrams of protest to the state of| Alabama| against the attack on the share- croppers in Tallanoosa county last month, Slipping Over the Seven Cent Fare on New York Workers at ee Eee ee ea GREEN AFL. MEMBERS Rank and File Can’t Express Opinions WASHINGTON, Jan. 19.—Com- pletely ignoring unemployment. in- Surance, and anti-wage-cut guar- antees in shorter hours’ legislation, Phillip Murray, the strike-breaking vice-president of the U. M. W. urged an amendment to the Black Bill, banning goods produced un- der “yellow dog” contracts, ATTACKS Notice to the Public EXfective at 1201 A.M, December 17, 1932, the Furth ‘and Madisoo Avenue line and the 86th Street Crosstown line were acquired by the New York Railways Comperntion will be operated as « part of the Green Lines System. Appearing before the Labor Com- mittee of the House of Representa- tives Thursday, William Green, pre- sident of the American Federation of Labor, again took up the defense of Federation policies made by legis- lative agent Hushing last week fol- lowing on the extensive exposure of the Black bill as a legal extension of } (oowneruED on PAGE - ay