The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 21, 1933, Page 1

WALDO FRANK SAYS “DAILY” MUST LIVE; ANSWER HERNDON MURDER SENTENCE: SPEED FUNDS" « “4 E disappearance of the Daily Worker would be a catastrophe and a disgrace”, writes Waldo Frank, famous American novelist and critic, enclosing a $10 contribution to the $35,000 fund. This is a call to thousands of workers and sym- pathizers of the working class movement to spring into immediate action to avert this catastrophe. In Your The Fate of the “Daily” lies in your hands, fellow-workers. port that established the Daily Worker and maintained it for nine years. your paper. You have responded in the past to appeals for aid. Hands! It was your sup- It is Are you going to fail now? Save the “Daily”! Vol. X, No. 18 Dal Central HE pennies of the workers he the p the present acute financial crisis ave maintained the “Daily” in pennies of the workers will save it in the Sacrifices? Yes. will and must make difficult sacrifices to keep their paper alive. J. M., a worker of Jersey City, denies himself milk to send a 50-cent donation. He writes: “This money I saved by | The workers | | | stopping my milk. Every worker and Party member must sacrifice, and soon our Daly Worker will be over the crisis. Have YOU made sacrifices to save the “Daily”? sent in your contribution, are you collecting among your f and fellow-workers, in the organizations you belong to? Have you { ds | OWN in Atlanta the Negro worker, Angelo Herndon has just | ‘been sentenced for organizing the joint struggle of Negro and white workers to from 18 to 20 years on the Georgia chain gangs —those very chain gangs whose horrible tortures the Daily Worker exposed when it published John L. Spivak’s “Georgia Nigger”, these struggles. To lose the Daily Worker at this time would b serious blow at the fight to free Herndon, a blow at every gle of the American workers in this period when the against hunger and against the new imperialis' } ready to-break at any moment calls for the voice of the Daily Worker as the organizer and leader war that is nighty clarion of all Answer the murder sentence against Angelo Herndon by | speeding contributions at once to the paper that is indis- pensable in the fight to free him! Strike a blow at the southern lynch courts by throwing all your enegies into the $35,000 drive and rus g funds TODAY to the Daily Worker, 50 E. 13th § New York. ESTERDAY’S contributions t the other days put together, $984.90. This shows that the @: sum is still far from what is needed daily. fotalled $538.78—more than all bringing the total thus far to rive is picking up, though thi Of this tetal $3 was contributed by the workérs in the Daily Worker printing plant, and most of the rest was from the New York district Where are Chicago, Cleveland, diate action from every part of the “Daily”! Detroit, Philadelphia? Imme- the country is needed to save Entered 2c second-class matier at the Post Office at es Now York, H.¥., under the Act cf Mavch 8, 157%, (Section of the Communist International) NEW YORK, SATURDAY, JANUARY 21, 1933 Lenin. on the struggles for w Daily Worker. of Leninism and brings of this great leader of the world’s oppres- sed to the American toilers. than ever the “Daily” Remember Lenin! Today the American workers observe the ninth Anniversary. of the death of The Daily Worker is the paper the teachings Today more is needed to carry hich Lenin lived and died. Join the $35,000 drive to save the Contribute, Collect! CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents ALL OUT TONIGHT TO THE LENIN MEMORIAL MEETINGS: } i MEET TOMORROW ON STATE DRIVE POR INSURANCE Printers, Local Nine of -ILGWU, Painters’ ~ Local Endorse NEW YORK.—Tomorrow at 2 p. m. in Irving Plaza Hall will meet del- egates {fo mmany workers’ organiza- tions ‘of all sorts, including A. F. of L. and independent and T. U. U. L. locals, and at least one branch of the Soeialist. Party, ‘Their is to plan all ar- rangements for the State Conference on. Unemployment Insurance and ‘Labor Legislation which is to be held next month in Albany. ‘The Albany conference will work out bills to present to the state legis- lature. AFL Locals Respond The latest to endorse the purpose of the two conferences the Albany conference and the preliminary con- terence meeting tomorrow are “The Brintérs Association of Big Six for the Benefit, of the: Unemployed,” with ae ees ‘Present’ and disenting vote; Local 9, cloakmakers, " Internation: and are A. F. L. workers, responding to the-call of the A. F. of L Trade Union Comniittee for Unemployment In- . Surancé‘and Relief Yesterday. also, in addition to the many independent and militant unions responding to the conference call, declarations for it and notifis of election of delegates to the pre- liminary conference tomorrow, came trom the Shoe and Leather Workers ‘Industrial. Union and from the Food ‘Workérs Unemployed Council, AFL. MEMBERS BACK WEINSTOCK ‘Green Hits Jobless ; Insurance Fighters NEW YORK.—'The drive to oust militant leaders of the struggle for compulsory unemployment insurance, v “inspired from the head- quarters of the American Federation Labor in Washington, was launched night in Painters District Council No, 9 by charges preferred against. and the. suspension of nine members. including. Louis Weinstock, National Secretary. of-the A. F. of L. Rank and File Committee for Unem- ployment Insurance and. Relief. The attack made by the bureau- gfat-officialdom of the Painters Dis- trict. Council’ came at the first. meet- id exposed both the purposes of the billes an extension of the vicious “share-the-work” plan, and A. F, of L. official support of it as a means {CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) Franklin Ave. House Owners: Hire Thugs ' To Menace Tenants NEW ‘YORK.—The agent of Klein- schmidt, the landlord of 1377 Franklin ‘the tenants Socialist Branch Supports Conference NEW YORK.—The following notification was recieved by the &. F. of L. Committee on Unem- ployment Insurance and Relief from the Huntington, L. I., Branch “At its regular meeting on the of the Socialist Party: lith of January, the Huntington Branch of the Socialist Party voted on a resolution that they be re~ presented by two delegates at the United Front Conference scheduled for the 22nd of this month in New York City, “The resolution received the un- animous and enthusiastic support of the entire membership and the branch elected Comrade Edward Gubernick and William Vander Menlen as the representatives to the convention. The Socialist Party of Huntington, L. L, is Pleased to place itself on record as championing the cause of the great unorganized and suffering masses— the farmer, the small home owner, unorganized labor and the unem- ployed. (Signed) MARIE D. RIELLY.” 1,000 STRIKE IN DETROIT MOTOR TRUCKS COMPANY DETROIT, Mich, Jan, 20.—Over 1,000 workers of the Motor Trucks Corporation, an auxiliary to the auto industry located next to the Briggs Mack Avenue plant, where a 20 per cent wage cut was just defeated by strike action, struck against a 15 per cent wage cut received two weeks ago. This strike is a result of activity in building up the Auto Workers Con- ference, to be held Sunday, 2 p. m., at Finnish Hall, 5969 14th Street. The Union and the Communist Party established contacts and or- ganized groups, grievance committees, committees against the wage cuts, etc, The strike was the direct r#ilt of shop work started by the Party sec- tion concentrating at these plants. The negotiations committee carried demands against the wage cut to the bosses in the shop, and after being turned down, all the workers (over a thousand) walked out. STRIKE DECISION LOOMS AT DRESS MEETING TODAY Shop Conference to Act on Metropolitan Lock- out, Racket Move NEW YORK.—The Dressmakers Shop Conference will be faced with decisions of temendous and im- mediate importance, it was indicated | today, as the Unity Committee issued. another urgent call to all shop chair- men and other active workers in the shop, as well as delegates to attend the Conference. As previously an- nounced, the Conference will take place at |the Irving Plaza, Irving Place and 15th Street at 1 p.m, With reports coming in that the racketeering activities of the Met- ropolitan Dress Contractors have tied up a considerable number of shops forcing a lock out of many dress- makers, it became clear that the Con- ference would consider decisive action Tangible evidence of close co-ope- ration between the Metropolitan racketeers and the officials of -the I. L. G. W. U., is becoming clearer with each day's developments: While at first maintaining a “neutral” and passive attitude towards the Metro- politan, in spite of their statements that workers in shops signed up by them would automatically become members of the International—the I. L. G. W. U., has announced that it will organize the truck men, which is the same kind of a move as that announced by the Metropolitan. The Unity Committee and the In- dustrial Union are the only forces now fighting the racket move of the Metropolitan in the effort to defend the interests of the workers on the job. During all of last week these organizations continued to warn the workers of the Metropolitan manue- ver which seems so far to meet with the tacit approval of the bosses and the International officials alike. It can not be doubted, however, that the time for decisive action has come and will receive the considera- tion of the Conference. Should the lockout stand or assume larger pro- Portions, it is very likely that to- day’s Conference will answer with the decision for a strike CITY EVENTS LENIN MEMORIAL MEETINGS TONIGHT Huge Mass Memorial Meetings at 7:30 p.m., tonight, for Bronx and Manhattan workers at Bronx Coliseum, for Brooklyn and Long Island workers at Arcadia Hall. To Bronx Coliseum, take Lexington Ave. subway, off at 177th St. and walk east. For Arcadia Hall, from Brownsville, take Rockaway Ave. trolley or Ralph Ave. trolley to Halsey St.; from Boro Hall take Lexington Ave. Elevated to Halsey St.; from Coney Island, Brighton and Boro Park, take B.M.T. to Canal and change for Jamaica line to Halsey St. Park. ee MASS MEETING AT HOME RELIEF BURO Indoor mass meeting to demand more relief. Meeting to be held Jan. 23, at 2:30 pm. at Public School 230, Albemarle and Dahili Road, Boro SAM WEINSTEIN DEFENSE CONFERENCE Weinstein Defense Committee meets at 6 p.m. today at 799 Broad- ‘way and asks all workers’ organizations to send delegates to the meeting. a * LOUISE THOMPSON SPEAKS SUNDAY IN HARLEM FORUM Louise Thompson, organizer of the Negro film group “Black and White,” speaks Sunday at 4 p.m. at Harlem Forum, 650 Lenox Ave. 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 Street, Brooklyn, today, 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. mutt will conduct. Mala~ Rehearsal of all downtown choruses at Coliseum today, at 6.30 p.m, . * * DRESSMAKERS SHOP CONFERENCE TODAY Shop chairmen and representatives of dressmakers’ shop organizations and groups, of whatever union or open shops, in conference today at 1 p.m. Irving Plaza Hail to take up struggle for conditions and against new racketeering schemes. MILLINERY WORKERS OPEN FORUM SUNDAY Millinery workers, capmakers and members of United Hatters invited to an open forum Sunday at 11 a.m. at 2700 Bronx Park East; discussion of merging of United Hatters and m chiae sana BANK OF U. 8S. DEPOSITORS MEET TUESDAY All of the Bank of U. S. meet at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, at 80 Center Street, to send a committee to Broderick and to register for the trip to Albany, Attack Japan Strikers on Washington’s Demand U.S. Workers Urgedito Support Japanese Pay Cut Victims for United Front on War Makers 1) report for military duty. The Japanese government has ordered the conscripts of 1933 to The majority will be dispatched to Manchuria immediately. The War. Office at the same time announced that the 1931 conscripts and veterans would not be released from active military service, despite the expiration of the two-year, conscript terms. 2) Three new Japanese armies are to be mobilized for the invasion of Jehol Province, which is still held up by the heroic resistance led by Chinese Red Army troops, supported by peasant partisan bands -gulars, and irre; “e Dispatches from China report 3) imperialist partition of China. As Nanking is reported cision coincides with the sharpening imperialists, 4) Far East, Acting on the demands of the Wall Street government, Japanese authorities yesterday assigned heavy police detach- ments for a fiercer offensive on the strike of the employees of ths U. 8. Singer Sewing Machine Com- pany against a ten per cent wage cut. Over 5,000 workers are involved in the strike( which has completely closed down the company’s plant in five cities. The strike is continuing to spread and is threatening the Yo- kohama plant with a complete shut- down. Militant Demonstration On Wednesday the strikers carried out @ militant demonstration against the Singer Company’s office in- To- kio, raiding and wrecking the office. Both the U. 8. Government and the Japanese Government at once at~ tempted to exploit the strike strug- gles of the Japanese workers for chauvinistic incitement in connegr- tion with the developing war situa- tion between the U. S. and Japanese imperialist bandits. Despite the murderous white terror conducted by the fascist Japanese government against the toiling mass- es, the strike movement. is rapidly growing in Japan, involving scores of Plants, both Japanese and’ foreign- owned. In all the industries, the (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) HUNDREDS PICKET DEFY COP TERROR Whole Day of Struggle growing threat in mass unrest and danger to Nanking government over its non-resistance policy to @ result of the rising mass anger sending troops to the Shanhaikwan area. This de- tension between U. 8. and Japanese Hoover-Roosevelt agree to have debt talks in March with Britain. Aim to bring pressure on Britain in favor of U. S. war policies in o ORGANIZATIONS DRIVE AGAINST IMPERIALISM Collecting 50,000 Greetings to the Montevideo Session NEW YORK.—A conference yester- day of representatives of the Anti- Imperialig, League, Trade Union Unity Cyuncil, International Workers Order, “Jewish Workers Clubs and others at the office of the League, initiated a campaign for an inten- sive campaign against imperialist war, throughout the city and for the in- dependence of colonial peoples. » At the next meetings of all these above named and other worker or- ganizations, reports will be given on the developing war. situation, par- ticularly the war in Manchuria and Latin America, and the drive by im- perialist powers toward war on the Soviet Union. After the report, a motion will be Made in each trade union, club, coun- cil and branch for the election of an Anti-War. Committee of five. The Daily Worker will publish within a few days a joint call by all the or- ganizations in this struggle and give the detailed tasks and functions of the Anti-War Committees. ‘The first step in the campaign will be the securing of at least 50,000 sign- atures in New York to greet the Latin ‘American Anti-War Congress to’ be held in Montevideo Feb: 28. ‘The signature lists ‘issued by the Anti-Imperialist League contain a pledge to support the movement for colonial independence. Lists can be at 2027 Monterey Ave. NEW YORK.—Late yesterday afternoon @ crowd of hundreds were holding a mass open air meeting in protest against evictions in 2027 Monterey Ave, They had brought to a victorious climax a struggle that lasted all day in which the police rode into the crowds, pushed and shoved, and drove the mass meetings repeatedly from block to block, The struggle started with the sud- den eviction of three tenants, the furniture of two of them being piled for hours on the sidewalk. A mass picket line formed, which police at- tacked and arrested seven. An at- torney going to the police station to inquire the names was simply thrown. out bodily. The police were extremely pro- Vocative, forcing even spectators standing on the lower steps of houses to move up one step because the lower step is on city property, Police officers on the spot dis- regarded the permit of the precinct captain for mass meetings. Nevertheless, mass meeting and mass picketing is going on with the whole neighborhood aroused and for the rent strikers, More evictions threaten today and Monday, the house committee, and Unemployed Councils call for big mass picket lines this morning and Monday, 2027 Monterey Ave., between. 178 and 179 streets. A crime against the working class to permit the Daily Worker to sus- pend, Rush funds today. secured in quantity from the Anti- Imperialist. League, 799 Broadway, Room 536, Terants of 4 Houses en Bryant Ave. Strike; Mass Meeting Tonight NEW YORK. — The rent strike movement has spread to four houses on Bryant Ave.’ At 1801 and 1821 Bryant Ave., a total of 75 tenants out of 110 have gone on strike for rent reduction and against evictions. They -have» elected>committees, and are holding mass picketing every day. ‘The Provisional Block Committee of Bryant | Ave. has ‘elected as Relief Block Captain, Canter of 1049 Bryant Ave, and-has in iri leer Ne eld organized. two more houses an 1041 Bryant. The tenants of these two houses .are now on. strike for lowér rents. The strike is led by the block committee and the East Bronx Unemployed Council of 616 Clinton Ave. ‘Tonight ‘an open air mass meeting will take place in the block ending with all.marching to the Lenin Me- morial Meeting in’ Bronx Coliseum. All picket today-.and Monday! Strikers at “Perfect” Shop Defy Attack NEW. YORK.—The strike at the Perfect, Negligee, a white goods shop, is still on, and the workers are pick- eting despite the police terror. , The boss has appplied for an injunction, ADMIT HERNDON VERDICT MENACES HUNGRY MASSES Answer Challenge of Slave Driver; Demand Release of Herndon! By R. N. HART ATLANTA, Ga., Jan. 20—The vi- cious class verdict sentencing Angelo Herndon, Negro organizer of the un~ employed, to 18 to 20 years on the murderous Georgia chain gangs has evoked a tremendous storm of protest from white and Negro workers of this city and many intellectuals. Hun- dreds of protests are pouring in on Judge Lee Wyatt and Asssistant Pro- secutor Hudson. Committees are being formed among workers and lib- erals to mobilize mass support for the appeal filed by John R, Geer and Benjamin J. Davis, Jr., prominent Negro attorneys for the International Labor Defense. Bondsmen have been secured to put up bail for Herndon, despite the threat of the court to fix exorbitant bail. Attack on Toilers. The workers, colored and white, are increasingly-realizing that. the prosécution and sentence of Herndon is an attack directed against the ris- ing struggles of the white and Negro workers and poor farmers against starvation, ruling-class terror and war. preparations. Assistant Prosecutor Walter Le Craw, a brother of the president of the local chamber of commerce, open- ly admitted in his arguments that it was not Herndon who was on trial, but the rising militancy and growing unity of the Negro and white toiling masses in their struggle against the misery and hopelessness of the capi- talist system. He admitted that it was not only Herndon whom the state of Georgia sought to remove, but the Communist Party which is (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) VICTORY WON BY HARLEM BARBER SHOP. STRIKERS 35 Bosses Agree to De- mands; Others Now Asks for Settlement NEW YORK.—The Spanish Bar- bers of Harlem won an overwhelming victory through a short but militant struggle which compelled 35 shops to settle today, accepting unconditionally all union demands, The remainder of the 75 shops struck have applied for settlement on the same conditions. In a struggle marked by unexample* solidarity displayed by the members of Independent Barbers Local 101 and supported by the Barbers and Hair- dresers League of the T. U. U. L., the barber shop workers won the shorten- ing of hours, increased pay, minimum wage and recognition of the union. The working day will now start at 8 a. m., and end at 8 p. m., instead of the former 17 to 18 hour day. Only on Saturdays the barbers will work until of the total proceeds which on week 10 p. m., but will receive 70 per cent days will be 60 per cent. There will be no more $6 or even $2 weekly wages, as the agreement provides for a $10 minimum wage. The settlement has been guaranteed with a security payment to the union by the bosses. The union also suc- cessfully resisted the efforts of the employers to meet ‘the strike demands Chain Gang Chief | Richard B. Russell, governor of | Georgia, shown swearing to main- ta’n the chain gang system of land- lord rule. He is behind the Hern- don sentence and the attack on the struggles of the toilers. | GEORGIA RE OLD SLAVE LAW TO KILL HERNDON Chain Gang Term Is Blow At All Workers; Rally Mass Protest By ELIZABETH LAWSON. A slave law, formulated by the white masters of Georgia before the Civil War was fought, has been used to send a young Negro organizer of the unemployed to his death on the chain-gang. In the year 1861, when Negroes were still held as chattel slaves in the South, the slave-m by the numerous up! who preferred possible death to slav- ery, and terrified also by the deter- mined agitation against slavery by the white workers and free Negroes, passed a law decreeing the’ penalty of death for inciting the slaves against their masters. Resurrect Forgotten. Law. From the end of the Civil War up to these times, that law has lain un- used and almost forgotten. Then the slaves of today—the white wage- slaves, and the Negroes who bear the double burden of wage-slavery and national oppression—began to organ- ize together to fight their common enemy, the white ruling class, and to struggle against misery ‘and starva- tion.. Once more the Slave Code was brought forward. Two days ago Angelo Herndon, 19-year-old organ- izer of the Unemployed Council in BROWDER, HATHAWAY SPEAK TONITE |Two Meetings at 7:30 P.M.; Bronx Coliseum and Arcadia Hall Jobless Join in Call Lenin Showed Way; Workers’ Leader NEW YORK.—All out to- | night at 7:30 p.m. to the Lenin Memorial Mass Meetings! Two huge meetings are arranged for New York, one at Bronx Coliseum and one at Arcadia Hall, Brooklyn. Choruses of hundreds of voices have be rehearsing for days. A colorful significant pageant, “Lenin and_th Masses,” will be presented at both meetings. Speakers will take up the present- day struggles of the workers, and Lenin’s method in dealing with such problems as war, unemployment. wage cuts and capitalist oppression of every sort, which are our prob- lems today. The speakers will-describe the Let- inist way, followed by the workers of Russia, for the overthrow of capital- ism, and show how the workers of America can place their feet on that road. C. A. Hathaway, district organizer of the Communist Party, and Leo Patterson of the Young Communist (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) Communist Votes Stolen; Split 60-40 For Boss Parties NEW YORK.—Democratic and Republican politicians combined to swipe every single one of the Com- munist and Socialist votes in the Twelfth Election District of the Second Asembly District, the De- mocrats taking 60 per cent and the Republicans 40 per cent, it was re~ vealed when the New York County Grand Jury, forced by the glaring nature of the election frauds at the ast election, handed in indictments ‘or 20 more election inspectors. Atlanta, was sentenced to 18'to 20 (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) Forty-four election inspectors | lave already been indicted. NAACP Tries to Hide Harlem Hospital Horror Meet Thursday, St. Lukes Hall, to Protest But- chery of Negro Patients, and. Oust. of Negro Doctors BULLETIN NEW YORK.—A Daily Worker investigation today disclosed that the National Association for the Advanc: ement or Colored People is carrying on a campaign to hide the terrors inflicted on Negro patients in Harlem Hospital and the discrimination against Negro doctors, nurses and workers in this hospital and others throughout the city. Monday's Daily Worker will carry a complete exposure. e NEW YORK. — A Mass Protest by boosting prices, which would in- crease living costs of the Harlem workers. ‘The union will use its victory to unionize the rest of the shops and to secure the co-operation of the Negro barbers, 60 Dressmakers Strike NEW YORK.—Sixty workers, many of them young boys and girls, struck Wednesday at Sef Dress Shop, 3876 Park Ave. Bronx, for better con- ditions, and against continuous wage cuts. This is the beginning of a drive but picketing will go on, despite any | by the Dressmakers Unity Committee injunction, in the Bronx, Meeting against the butchering of Negro workers in Harlem Hospital, and the vicious system of discrim- ination against Negro doctors, nurses, hospital workers and patients in all New York hospitals, will be held. at St. Lukes Hall,'125 West 130th Street, on Thursday, January 26th, at 8 p.m., under the auspices of the League of Struggle for Negro Riehts and the International Labor Defense. ‘The League of Struggle for Negro Rights, of 50 East 13th Street, yes- terday appealed to the Negro masses and the white workers to rally their forces for a broad campaign around the following demands: 1—An immediate investigation into the conditions in Harlem Hos- pital, and the hospital system in general as it affects Negroes, by a committee elected by the PEOPLI of Harlem. ‘ 2—Control of the Harlem Hospi= tal by a committee elected by the PEOPLE of Harlem. 3.—Adequate hospital facilities in Harlem, admission of Negro pa- tients to ALL hospitals in the city, without discrimination and without segregation. i 4.—Improvement in the treat~ ment of patients in Harlem Hospi- tal; better facilities at this hospital, and better food for the patients. 5.—For the full right of Negro doctors, nurses and all other med~ (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) RALLY SUPPORT FOR STATE CONFERENCE ON LABOR LEGISLATION: PRELIMINARY CONF. 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