The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 31, 1933, Page 1

| tionality, in the distribution of em- | ple it and reli Stalin on the Press “The press is the only the Party is able to speak weapon with whose aid with the workers daily, hourly, in a Janguage which meets the day-to-day needs of the struggle. There are no other means at our disposal which are as powerful in the estab- lishment of ideological bonds between the Party and the masses, no other the Party press.” —JOSEPH STALIN. apparatus as flexible as Support the Drive to Save the “Daily”. Central Vol. X, No. 26 Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N.¥., under the Act of Mareh 3, 1872. il ~d unit (Section of the Communist Interetiona Norker Party U.S.A. “Our Answer to Dreiser” “Enclosed you will find money order of $50 for the Daily Worker. That is our answer to Theodore Dreiser’s appeal from the working class of Springfield. We will support our press, which is the only one that fights our battes.” JAMES KRASNOFF, Springfield, Mass, _NEW YORK, TUESDAY, JA NUARY 31, 1933 CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents CALL FOR GENERAL STRIKE AGAINST HITLER RULE Briggs Strikers in Biggest est Picket Demonstration of 15,000 RENT STRIKE PICKETS| BAITLE MASSED POLICE; PICKET AGAIN TODAY! Some Evictions Carried Out But Many Stopped; Struggle In Bronx, Brownsville, Hast Side Unemployed Council Leaders Singled Out and} : Slugged; Furniture Carriéd Back NEW YORK.—The landlords’ as-| so¢iation call to Mayor O'Brien and the police department for clubs with which to crack the heads of unem- ployed tenants bore fruit yesterday, but did not break the rent strikes. Great mobilizations of police, 50 in Brownsville, 75 in the Lower East Side, and about 100 at Bronx Park east, with whole streets blocked off, and riot wagons, mounted police and ciub swinging, managed some evic- tions, over the stiff resistance of the workers. At other points, mass picket lines stopped evictions. Even where the police were thi CONFERENCE HITS ELY’S PROPOSALS Mass. Toilers Unite ;| For Real Labor Laws .NEW YORK.—The movement for Unemployment Insurance and Labor legislation initiated by the A. F. of 1, rank and file committee and en- dorsed by the savant confer- ence of 69 organizations in Irving Plaza Hall, Sunday, Jan, 22, has been given powerful impetus by similar ac- tion of working class organizations in Massachusetts. While a conference in Boston issued the call for a State- wide conference in Massachusetts for Jabor legislation, preparations are peing intensified in the state of New York for the New York state-wide conference to take place Feb, 25, 26 and 27 in Albany. The. Metal.. Workers. Industrial Union. announces that at their quar- terly meeting on Friday, Feb. 3, 8 pam. at Manhattan Lyceum, 66 E. 4th) St., elections will be held for dele- gates to the Albany conference. rica gaa) BOSTON, Mass., Jan. 29.—Meeting in United Front Conference against, Governor Ely’s proposals for a “mor- atorium” on labor laws, delegates of 63 working class organizations voiced their determined opposition to the proposed attack on labor and at the same time worked out a program of action calculated to force better con- ditions for the workers. ‘This Conference Is part of ‘similar actions now taking place throughout the State as . vesult of a broad cam- paign against Kly’s proposals which ould suspend all existing labor leg- Nation and would open the way for new, unrestrained attacks on wages, limitation of working hours and other living standards of the workers. s Conference Delegation. ‘The delegation to tne: Conference included ten representatives from | four A. F. L. locals, ten from the ' ‘Trade Union Unity League, including tation of Shoe, Needle, Up- and Building Trades un- aes, Ten delegates from seven shops, | as well as representatives of the Un- employed Council, the International | Labor Defense, International Work- | ers Order, Communist Party, Young Communist League and other organi-| gations. | Jack McCarthy, building trades worker and secretary of the LL.D., was elected chairmen of the Confer- ence, Anna Bloch, now being threat- enéd by the deportation authorities she was one of the leaders New England National Seer was” secretary. Needle jrge Union be resentative, gave the main report. Th Confe ce ad tea unified e. Conferent opted a program on the basis of which it) appeals for the support and united action of all workers, organized and unorganized, and unem- i ‘The program provides as fol- be or to Governor Ely’s to suspend labor legislation. F equate, labor Jaws, and for the en- Protection actment of additional and improved labor legislation with the provision that violation of same be severely punished. i ‘3.—Unemployment insurance and inffhediate relief for unemployed and part-time workers. 4.--No discrimination against any ) worker because of color, race or na~ lief. introduction of night; women, ie abolition of | hour law the main- i nite 1714 Seneca Ave. Evictions are threat- est, at 2420 Bronx Park East, the mass pickets won the right to hold a street meeting, and at 418-420 East) Sixth St., they carried back into the| house furniture that had been thrown | out. At 502 Howard St., where a 60- year-old man was evicted the Unem- ployed Council rallied a crowd and put it all back in. At 1392 and 1377 Franklin Ave.,| evictions threatened were postponed | to today because the heaviest bat-| | talions of police were busy on Bronx! Park East. | Picketing went on yesterday at 556) Fox St. where H. Orthman, a Social- ist, is agent for the landlord and at ened here, called» for. Picketing blocked ‘evictions at 1484} Hoe Ave. Monterey Ave. Strike Nearly every house on the block | around 2027 Monterey Ave., is in-} volved in the strike there. The Cam- berling Unemployed Council and the house committee are leading it. Some reductions in rent in other houses have been won as a result of the struggle at 2027 Monterey, . The Tandlord has offered one tenant $20 to move out, but all show solidarity. There must be a mobilization of all the workers in the neighborhood there this morning. and mass picketing is At 451 Claremont Parkway yester- | day two were evicted by heavy brig- ades of police, on horse and on foot | and with riot wagons and more ev: tions are threatened soon. The police | drove back the picket line while the | evictions were going on, but the pickets won the right to hold a meet- ing afterward, and call for bigger mass picket lines today. Holland Ave. Strike Spreads | With the eviction of a family on} Holland Ave., two more hous: went | on strike for lower rents and against. evictions last, Wednesday. They are 3022 and 3026 Holland Ave., where picketing has been going on since. Tenants of the whole block are (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) CONGRESS BANS HUNGER HEARING 12 Hunger Marches Prepare March 4th | WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 30.—| The present “lame duck” session of Cougres will take no steps to relieve the misery of the millions of unem- ployed. The demands of the Na- tional Hunger March for immediate federal cash relief and unemployment insurance have been refused a hear- ing by the House Committee on Ways! and Means according to a letter signed by J. W. Collier, chairman and sent to the National Committee of the Unemployed Councils. Collier's letter states that “no further hear- ings will be held during the short session of Congress, with the excep- tion of one that had already been promised.” Jobless Answer ‘To this brazen indifference to the mass starvation of the unemployed millions, the National Unemployed Councils has answered with the de- mand that the plans presented by the unemployed at the opening of Congress receive priority over all) other issues which will come before} the U. S. Congress and that the House Committee inform the workers re- garding the nature of the hearing which is being treated as an “ex- ception.” Demonstrate March 4 The National Committee is de- manding that Congress hold an open hearing on the Hunger Marchers’ pe- tition and calls upon the employed and unemployed workers to back up this demand by more determined mass actions and by letters of pro- test and resolutions to Roosevelt and the House Committee on Ways end Means. State Hunger Marches back- ; the sphere of capitalist exploitation, ing up this demand and in support of mass demonstrations throughout the country on March 4th have already been held in Oregon, California, Utah, Colorado, Arizona, Washington, Orgeon, California, Connecticut, New ‘Mexico, Montana and Minnesota. Support Feb. 4 Demonstration Against War !|| The New York district of the Com-| munist Party greets the call issued a few days ago by the American Com- mittee of Struggle Against Imperial- ist War for an anti-war demonstra- tion on Saturday, Feb. 4, 12 noon, at Wall and South Sts., and calls upon the workers of New York to rally in thousands to this demonstration. The events of the past weeks prov- ed with the utmost clearness the in- tense, feverish preparations of world| imperialism for a new imperialist} slaughter. In Manchuria and Jehol| Province, Japanese imperialism, si ported by France and Great Britain,| continues its murderous drive against the Chinese masses, determined to convert Manchuria and Jehol into | colonies of the Japanese imperialist | bandits, at the same time perfecting} the jumping-off ground for an at-; tack on the Soviet Union. At the same time, while American imperiali: supports Japanese impe- rialism’s drive on the Soviet Union, it sees in Japan’s robber war on China, a danger to its own imperial- ist interests. This factor sharpens the antagonisms between the ‘United States and Japan, and accelerates th< danger of war between these two im- perialist countries. Already, exten- sive war maneuvers of American im- perialism are taking place in the Pa- cific. Simultaneously, and part of the conflict among the imperialists in the Far East, are the wars now rag- ing in Latin-America, between Bo- livia and Paraguay, and Colombia and Peru, which are the direct results of the intensification of the sharpen- ing. rivalries -between -British~-and American imperialisms for the dom- ination of Latin-American markets. | Defend Soviet Union! The danger of war against the So- | viet Union grows greater daily. The determination of world imperialism | to solve its contradictions by destroy- | ing the Soviet Union, thereby bringing | back the proietarian fatherland into looms greater daily, Through these | wars of plunder, American and world} imperialisms aim to effect the capi- talist way out of the crisis, by slaugh- tering millions of workers, crushing | the colonial peoples and enslaving the workers at home. These war pians of world imperial-j| ism are supported by International Social Democracy, including its American section, the Socialist Party officialdom of the United States. The | Socialist Party leadership, while spit-| ting phrases about fight against war, tacitly .upports every war move of American imperialism. Together with | the A, F. of L. bureaucracy, it exerts every effort to prevent any effective struggle of the masses against war, thereby objectively aiding the war plans of the American imperialist bandits. Rally Now! The New York district of the Com- munist Party appeals to all New York workers, Negro and white, to demon- stra‘e on Feb. 4, at South and Wall Sts. and to rally NOW in a deter-| mined and relentless struggle against American imperialism’s war prepa- rations, against the Japanese robber war on the Chinese peoples, and in defense of the Latin-American mass- es, and the Soviet Union. The strug- gle against imperialist war must be conducted as an integral part of tue struggle against unemployment, hu2- ger, evictions and capitalist terror. Only the united mighty struggles of the toilers can stay the hands of the imperialist brigands, defeat the war) mongers and achieve the victory of the working class Workers, rally to the fight against | imperialist war! Demonstrate Feb. 4 at 12 noon! STUDENTS JOIN ANTI-WAR DRIVE NEW YORK.—Heeding the urgent appeal for mass anti-war protest, Saturday, the New York District of the National Students League noti- fied the American Committee for Struggle Against War it would par- ticipate in a body. The student body in its decision will temporarily ad- journ its own convention Saturday 50 that it may participate, at the sched- uled hour—12 noon. The demonstra- tors will meet at South and Wall Sts. Similarly answering the appeal for strong protest against the imperialist butchery in the Far East and Latin America by the American and Jap- anese and British imperialists, prom- inent artists and writers, professional workers and other intellectuals, have notified the American Committee for Struggle Against War they would join in the demonstration. Margaret Schlauch, professor of English at New York University, who was a delegate to the Amsterdam ‘World Congress Against War, will be (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) HITLER IN | pointment | mendous |sSharpening class | Schleicher POWER; PLAN NEW TERROR German Masses in Furious Protest Meetings ANSWER WITH STRIKE BS | | Socialist Leaders Try! to Block Resistance BULLETIN NEW YORK, Jan, 30.—It was de- cided to conduct the fifth annual festival of the German Communist paper, “Der Arbeiter,” on Saturday, Feb, 4, in the Labor Temple, 243 E. 84th St., as a mass demonstration against the fascist Hitler govern- ment in Germany. Speaker: Max Bedacht of the Central Committee of the Communist Party. All work- ers are called to come to this meet- ing to voice their protest against | the bloody Hitler government and i their solidarity with the fighting working class of Germany. ape ee BERLIN, Jan. 30.— Adolph Hitler, fascist leader, was ap- pointed chancellor of Germany by. President yon Hindenburg | today. Hitler’s cabinet was) immediately sworn in by the | Junkers president. The ap-| has caused tre-| excitement among the| working-class masses. The first pro-| test strike resolutions are reported | from Hamburg, where workers of} three docks of the Hamburg-Ameri-| can Line went on strike against the | Hitler Cabinet. The appoint- ment of Hitler re- flects the extreme contradictions and the complete fail~ ure of the von social maneuvers to al- leviate the acute- ness of the class antagonisms. Hit- ler will undoubt- edly proceed ruth- lessly against the revolutionary movement, and particu- larly its leader, the Communist Party. | At the first session of the Hitler Cabinet, called for 5 p.m. today, the first point on the agenda will be the consideration of repressive measures against the working class, including suppression of the Communist Party. An edict for the suppression of the Communist Party is expected within | the next 24 hours. | The attitude of the Catholics is in- dicated by the Center Party, which is prepared to tolerate Hitler, who) apparently desires a parliamentary | cleak, at least at the outset, in order not unduly to provoke the resistance | The socialist leaders are adapting themselves to this tactic. This eve- | ning’s “Vorwaerts” uses a variety of radical phrases, but indicated the) intention of the socialist party to do nothing, by writing “any drive ow the | part of a single workers’ organiza-| tion might easily result in exactly the | opposite aimed at.” “DOWN HITLER” CALL OF MASSES General Strike Call Issued by C. P.° BERLIN, Jan. 30.—The Cen- tral Committee of the German Communist Party issued au appeal to the German working class today, declaring the Hit- ler Cabinet represents open fascism and a brutal declara- tion of war against the work- ing class. The intensifaction of the crisis and the increasing revolution- ary resistance to the working class compelled the German bourgeoisie to open an open fascist dictatorship, the appeal declares. The new gov- ernment is based on the bayonets of the Reichswehr and the revolvers of | Hitler’s fascist gangs, aiming wage} cuts, terror and destruction against; the organizations of the workers, and particularly against the Commu- nist Party, the revolutionary van- guard of tle toiling masses. General Political Strike. Hitler Mass Picketing—Answer of Briggs Nita Women workers leading the pic Detroit. The women, whose workii ket line in the Briggs auto strike, in ing cOnditions were even worse than the men’s, are playing an important part in the struggle and are among the most militant fighters. N.Y. Dist. By C. A. H (Organizer of New York Distric Can We Afford t Let ‘Daily’ Sink? Challenges 6 Combined RAISED IN N. Y. ATHAWAY. t, Communist Party of U. S. A.) HE DAILY WORKER is in danger. Heavy deficits piled up steadily during the election campaign and since. The slow response of the masses and the Party organizations in the present drive for-funds increases the danger. Can we, the workers, get Can we afford to let it sink along without our Daily? ?these are urgent questions now before every worker and every workers’ organization. * ° . HE DAILY WORKER is » not merely our newspaper. It means much more than that to the toilers ef the United States. It unifies the struggl seale. The workers of California, have one common line of struggle. The Hunger Marchers rally fr fighting for one common set of de surance. Herndon is jailed in Atlanta, protest meetings demanding his rele: Japan advances in the Far East; aggressive, and in city after city against these sharpening war manife les of the workers on a national of Maine, of Georgia, of New York ‘As one body they go into action. ‘om the four corners of the nation, mands—unemployment relief and in- Ga., and every city carries through ase U. S. imperialism becomes more demonstrations are carried through stations. The Scottsboro case, originating in a previously unheard of town in Alabar..a, becon « ‘HIS illustrates the achievements" of the Daily more than any other medium, actions of the masses. action; it expleined and argued for the enemies of these proposals; it the struggles, on how to lead them. Can we get along without such at a time 1° by the basses? When\a new war is The ~orkers of New York will national and even international. Worker. The Daily, made these movements nation-wide It brought the news; it advised a course of its pronosals; it exposed and fought gave directives on how Ww organize This is the Daily Worker in action! a leader and orvanizer? Esvecially the present, when we are being assailed from every side pending? answer with an emnhetic NO! We have been asked to raise $12.000 of the needed $35,090. We will ra‘se our full quota, More than that! We will raise our pleds id $12,000 before any group of Distriets—let us say, Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, Philadel- phia, California and Buffalo also quotas. New. York workers: Extend the Daily's circulation! can. . HE campaign contributions took however, Into Action! Let the other districts keep up if they for two days, Sunday and yesterday. totalling $12,000—can complete their Speed uv the drive for funds! s . a rise, with $636.46 sent in. This is, Nevertheless, it shows that a great deal more money can be raised, not once in a while, but every day if work for the drive is carried through properly. is necessary that the leadership in the districts, and every Party member For this it every reader, every member of a mass organization realize that the danger is real and uniess they act immediately, the Daily Worker will be wiped out. This means that TODAY, YORK CITY. u NOW, COLLECT, RUSH EVERY CENL TO THE DAILY WORKER, 50 E. CONTRIBUTE AND 13th ST., NEW DEMONSTRATION AT UNION SQUARE FOR SCOTTSBORO RELEASE; MARCH NEW YORK.Nearly 1,000 workers responded to the call of the Inter- national Labor Defense and partici- pe in the demonstration last night Union Sq. to arouse support and exert the utmost pressure on the in- famous southern court for an ac- quittal of the nine innocent Negro Scotisboro boys. Despite the cold winds enthusiastic audience listened to ten speakers in- cluding three Pioneers who told the story of the frame-up and the win- ning of a new trial, and the meaning of the case to both Negro and white workers in the South as well as throughout the country. Led by the Red Front Band playing revolutionary songs the workers marched four abreast. In the proces~ sion was & wagon carrying an electric chair in which sat a Negro boy. Above him was a sign declaring the world-| famous slogan, “The Scottsboro Boys! Shall Not Die!” Massed along the sidewalks and marching on the streets with the column were hun-' dreds of other workers. Echoing through ‘the streets was heard the ‘The Appeai calls upon the workers (Continued on Page Three) above slogan and ‘Free Tom Moo- ney.” ‘ 4s the procemion woud die way, through the proletarian district its ranks were. increased by workers from The final destination was Henningy ton Hall for a general indoor mass meeting where already many workers were present to greet the marchers. The hall was jammed with many standing on the sides and aisles. Workers’ Meeting and Take Two to Deport NEW YORK.—A meeting of Hoov- erville workers Friday night at 192 President St., Brooklyn, Red Hook district, was illegally broken into by a gang of plainciothes men who, af- | ter questioning those present, arrest- ed Aveitst Misigoy and A. Pasnic! Italian workers, on a charge of ille- | gal entry into this country. The two were not allowed to see their attorney and were taken to Ellis Island Saturday morning for deportation. Abraham Dranow, law- yer for the N. Y. District, Interna- tional Labor Defense, is fighting their ee preliminary street-corner meetings. Dicks Raid Red Hock. COPS FAIL 10 SMASH LINES =} AS WORKERS ANSWER THE | EFFORTS TO BREAK STRIKE 'Ten Jailed; Call on Hin Poea Men to Join Fight | Against Wage-Cut Slave Conditions | Win Concessions at Fisher Body in Cleveland: Advances of Soviet Auto Workers BULLETIN Jan. 30.—Over 15,000 Briggs ctrikers, ers and unemployed participated in the mass picketing today effectively kept the Briggs Plants closed. Strikers wives and | participated. 150 delegates from Ford's met yesterday and yoted full | support to Briggs strikers. Father Coughlin has joined strikebreaking | forces, calling men to return to work, { | DETROIT, Mich., Jan. 30.—The biggest mass picketing | demonstration since the strike started was the answer of the | more than 10,000 strikers at the four Briggs Bedy plants this | morning to the attempts to smash their struggle for higher |. wages, against “dead time” (unpaid time) and other demands. a % ® Workers throughout. the city, CRY OF “LYNCH! DETROIT, Mich., Ford | rallying at the call of the Vorkers, Union, leading the strike men in a mighty their determination to fight on till victory. ‘AGAINST TOILERS 02 mstratior NEW YORK.—"Lyn ‘Lynch the nigger”! | were mobilized by the —infamous call of the bosses. Not|Murphy to break it up. only in the South, but in the North, m men and thre in the “civilized” city of New York! | @rrested. Mounted po rged into Lloyd Price, 22-year-old Negro,| the picket-lines and firemen threat- victim of capitalism, is 3rd degreed,|ened to turn hose-lines on tHe : and charged with murdering a white | €TS; inside the Pats large stor’ Auto |child. Headlines in the bosses’| |papers particularly the gutter sheets, jthe “News” and “Mirror”, shriek “Mob Storms Jail to Get Child Slay- er” etc.—direct incentives to lynch} terror. Southern landlords poison | forced down the throats of the} white workers of the North to kill their increasing sympathy and unity with the Negro mas In yesterday's “Mirror” the story of | Price’s ar is repeated in an ace| @ count of the arrest of a white laborer, | Harry Hampton, who is charged with! a crime similar to that Price is sup-j posed to have committed. With the} cA Si 3 jarticle goes a photograph of not WAGE cCUTT’ ERS—Henry Hampton, but Price, smoking a@ cigar; who is trying te force the ers and looking keen-eyed. The vicious} workers into worse misery by | description of the supposed attack| breaking their present strike, is |does not ment’on that Hampton is, shown patting his pal, Herbert | white but craftily leaves the im- | pression that again the “rapist” is a Negro, | What happened to Lloyd Price in tear gas were kept in readiness. The | those hours between 8 in the eyen- Militancy of the picketing, however, |ing and 3 in the morning when he | %feated all efforts to break it up. |was being “grilled” by the police?!, Today's demonstrat:on was particu- When his aged mother was made to) /@tl¥ significant in view of the fact kit that the Briggs company had an- confess” the ownership of a Pencil | nounced that it woulc ye eat oe jused as proof of the crime? Orphan | ers {ill hoon’ to: return:.40- aveme Jones was also h paialadiier tr 3rd_degreed into! hough the par e | “confessing.” Willie Brown of Phil-| otic wore pombany’s employment | adelphia # | (called a half-wit by the! terday, the ma a police) was likewise 3rd degreed. The! mit that not a single wor! sheriff at Scottsboro also issued lies!for a job. This is a wond Hoover, chief of the wage-cutters, on the shoulder, | to the capitalist: press that “the boys|onstration not only of th had ‘confessed.’” ‘ spirit of the Briggs workers, but of It is not unlikely that the Brook- the solidarity of employed and un- jlyn police were trying to cover up, @mployed. their own inability to get the real| , The strikers in firm in their yers by pinning it o1 a Negro,| demand that tlement offers be ;made through their elec and are now trying to cove lGbas Somsmnittes “ot : mitte 25, deed with lynch hysteria their victim to the: chair, ‘up their to rush {CONTINUED ON MASS MEETING AGAINST HAITIAN TERROR Mass meeting to protest Haitian terror, St. Luke’s Hall, Feb, 3, at | 8 p.m. Speakers: James W. Ford, Robert Dunn, John Bailam and m& Glassford. | DEMONSTRATE AGAINST IMPERIALIST WARt- American Committee for Struggle Against War calls all to m7ss anti- war demonstration at noon, Feb. 4, on Wall St., then to march to South and Whitehall Sts. where a big mass meeting will be held. . ° . MASS PROTEST MEETING FEB. 5 AGAINST TERROR IN JAvAN I. Amter and Fred Biedenkapp, principal speakers at mage protest meeting against wholesale arrests, torture and murder of Japanese workers’ leaders, Meeting at Stuyvesant Casino, 2 p.m., Feb. 5, Sarre) 8 ELECT DELEGATES TO LABOR DEFENDER CONFERENCE, FEB. 5. All workers’ organizations are urged to elect delegates to the “Labor Defender District Conference” on Feb. 5, 10 a.m., in Manhattan Lyceum, 66 East Fourth Street, to help devise means for enabling this revolutionary pictorial publication to continue in existence. Robert Minor, Frank Spector and William Patterson will address the Conference, - en vs DEMONSTRATE FOR RELEASE OF TOM MOONEY Mass demonstration Feb. 10 in Union Square at 5 p.m. to demand ‘that the Mooney case be reopened on the remaining indictment when i comes before Indge Ward Feb, 11. Speakers: Ben Gold, Louis B. Scott personal representative of Tom Mooney; William L. Patterson and John Ballam of the LL.D. ame ee GEORGE POWERS ON TRIAL TOMORROW Workers are urged to attend the trial of George Powers, charged with “inciting to riot” for acting as spokesman for 20,000 demonstrating ee at City Hall for relief, Trial ts in General Sessions court, Center and Franklin Streets, tomorrow, oe