The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 31, 1933, Page 3

DAILY WORKER, NEW YO. RK, JAD TUESDAY, 31 » 1933 Page Three ALL PER REE, ARREST TEN IN Hold Biggest Picket Demonstration (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) all four Briggs plants, and that any settlement include recognition of their shop committees. They are bit- terly resentful of the efforts to break the strike on the part of Henry Ford, Mayor Murphy and his “investigation committee,” and the misleaders of the American Federation of Labor. They are solidly behind the Auto Wotkers- Union, under w, -se leader- ship strikes were won in days ago in the Briggs Vernor lI \shway plant and the Motor Products Corporation. Ford Workers, Join the Strike! The fact that the Briggs strike has forced Henry Ford to close down his plants throughout the country, throwing 150,000 workers out of jobs, shows how effective the strike has been. So far Ford’s attempts to rally his workers against the Briggs men have failed. Many of the Ford work- ers are in favor of joining with the Briggs strikers in a common fight for better conditions. Ford workers, the Briggs strikers have shown the way; organize your committees of action and prepare to strike against wage- cuts, long hours, speed-up and the whole system of slavery in the Ford plants! Win Concessions in Cleveland CLEVELAND, ©., Jan. 30.Spurred | on by the splendid struggle of the Briggs Body workérs in Detroit, the Fisher Body workers here are devel- oping organization which has already foreed the bosses to raise wage-rates twice in one departmént. After a miliitant shop meeting, at which members of three Unemployed Couns cils joined in fighting wage-euts, the wage-rates in the glue department were raised first to 60 cents per hun- dred, and then, after a little more work was added, to $1.06 per hundred. This enables these workers to make | 80 cents an hour. | Workers in other departments are also planning action against wage- cuts and for higher wages. The Auto Workers Union is playing the leading role in uniting the men. ee A Contrast; Auto Workers in U.3.5.R. NEW YORK.—While in November, 1932, about 60 per cent or nearly 400,- 000 American auto workers were un- employed and starving (this number has since been Increased), getting at best only the most miserable and in- adequate relief and not a cent in unemployment insurance, the situa- tion of the auto workers in Soviet Russia is entirely different. Under the Five-Year Plan an auto industry has been built up which is constantly ex- panding, so that there is actually a shortage of skilled atito workers. This is strikingly illustrated in the Jetter of an American worker who recently visited the Yaroslav auto truck fac- tory in the Soviet Union. “Before the revolution,” he writes, “there was a garage on this site which employed about 14 workers, Af- ter the revolution, the little garage grew rapidly and today there is an auto truck factory employing 4,000 workers and producing about 200 trucks per month. The trucks are powerful six and elght-ton machines of a very high quality. The demand for trucks is increasing so much that the factory is expanding now, and by the end of 1033, its annual capacity will be 8,000 trucks.” And in contrast to the starvation of tens of thousands of American auto workers, this description of the way the workers at this Soviet fac- tory eat, a fitting reply to the lies about ‘hunger” in the Soviet Union that have been spread by the capi- talist press: “I was invited to eat with them in their restaurant and I had a very weil prepared and delicious dinner, which could rival the dinner in any Ameri- can hotel. A vegetable soup, roast pork with mashed potatoes and a dessert, prepared of fruit juice and starch, All these were well prepared and delicious. “They have five restaurants in this factory. One is for the foundry, one for the blacksmith shop, one general for all other departments, one for the engineers and technical workers, and one for the dieticians.” Soviet auto workers are also pro- tected by social insurance against ac- cidents, sickness, old age, etc, and in the days when there was unem- ployment in the U.8.8.R. they re- ceived tinemployment insurance. PROTEST GOES TO TURKISH CONSUL NEW YORK.—A committee of the | | | BRIGGS STRIKE | SONS WHO HONESTLY SUPPORT MOONEY DESIRE T imized for Vict Pay Cut Fight es EDITH BERKMAN (in bed) textile strike leader, who has contracted tuberculosis in the immigration pens of the U. S. goyernment. MARIA C. CORREIA, fighter in the New Bedford textile siruggles, (Right) tells Edith of the growing movement for her release, “DOWN HITLER” CALL OF MASSES General Strike Call Issued by C. P. (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) to defend themselves against the erection of a bloody fascist counter- | revolution, and to pour into the streets, leave the factories, and de- clare @ general politiccl strike, organ- | izing mass protest demonstrations, | and electing united front committees. | The Appeal declares that before the | eyes of the entire working class, the| Communist Party again approaches | the German Trade Federation, the) Social Democratic Party and the) Christian Trade Unions with its pro-| posals for joint organization of a} general strike against the fascist dic-! tatorship. The Communist Party | appeals to the millions of the masses | of the Social Democratic and unor- ganized workers to join their Com-) ment of a bloody terror against the revolutionary German workers as part of the socialist effort to save | capitalism. He attempted to cover up the consistent betrayal of the working class since carried out | hy the Socialist leaders, their | support of Hindenberg under the sham slogan of “the lesser evil,” their support of Von Papen and his ruthless attacks on the rights and liying standards of the toiling masses, and their more recent toleration of the infamous Schlei- cher cabinet, a toleration openly | | Sexpressed by the socialist editor-in- chief of the “Hessiche Volks- freund,” who, in an editorial in that paper, declared: “Let Schleicher go to work! We are not interested in the overthrow of the Schleicher government. Schleicher has gotten in touch with the great socialist labor front, and | we should not hinder him in the making of this experience, specially | since this is the only road leading anywhere at the present time.” The revolutionary road out of the crisis was tabooed by the socialists then, as now. In an attempt to cover up the role munist fellow-workers in organizing|of the Social Democracy as the main! the; general strike. “Rally. to the| social bulwark of capitalism, Kuenst- Communist- Patty, the Yourig Com-|ler made an “appeal” in his Lust- Munist League, ‘the revolutionary) garten speech “to Socialists and trade union opposition! Stop the | Communists alike to forget old quar- blow at the Communist Party! The/rels and form a united front against attempt to suppress the Communist| their common foes on the Right.” Party 1s a blow at the whole work- ing class! Long live the proletarian united front against fascist dietator- ship! Down with Hitler, Papen and Hugenberg! On with the struggle for @ workers’ and peasants’ republic! vo Workers Demonstrate. BERLIN, Jan. 30.—-Dying capital- ism’s plans for a more brutal fascist dictatorship against the toiling Ger- man masses evoked a tremendous up-| ers with the Communist workers for} surge of fieree mass anger through- out Red Berlin yesterday. Huge anti- fascist demonstrations occurred in many sections of the city, with the workers fiercely protesting the move to appoint Adolph Hitler, fascist leader, as chancellor. Despite police prohibition against Communist meet- ings, many Communist rallies were held. Similar anti-fascist demonstra- tions are reported from scores of other German cities and especially from the industrial centers. In some sections, the workers already are re- sponding to the call of the Com- munist Party to prepare a general political strike in answer to the fas- cist dictatorship. Socialist Heads Maneuver. The mass upsurge is forcing the Social-democrat (socialist) leaders to new demagogic maneuyers in a move to head the anti-fascist_ movement in order to behead it. The line of the socialist leaders, who paved the way for the fascist dictatorship, was made clear last night when these traitors, addressing a huge demon- stration of over 100,000 socialist work- ers at the Lustgarten, advanced a program of “struggle” for the bour- geois democratic republic as against the Communist program of struggle for the overthrow of capitalism and the establishment of the workers’ and farmers’ government—the prole- tariat dictatorship. This new tactic of the socialist leaders was already Jaid down several months ago in the socialist press in Germany and other Turkish Workers Club and Interna- tional Labor Defense, endorsed by other worker organizations, went to the Turkish Consulate General on Broadway near 57th St. Saturday and lodged a message of protest against the jailing and torture in prison of Turkish Communists, The vice-consul tried to argue that the Turkish government 1s not a cap- italist government, and the comimit- tee retorted that it was a fascist dic- tatorship. The protest which the consulate agrees to forward to the government in Stamboul points out that Emin Shorer, Sadika Hanim, Mehmet Lufti and Surevya Beverle, now in prison, are leaders in a fight for better conditions on the state rail- ways whete the wages are 30 to 40 cents for an eight to twelve hour day, end in the struggle against the American, British and French to- heeeo companies’ similar exploitation. The newly formed Turkish Work- countries, and especially by the so- cialist leaders, Otto Bauer and Wels. “The Communists must understand,” said these social-fascists after the Communist victories in the Reich- stag elections, that they have now a tremendous responsibility, and that “it is not the Soviet dictatorship which stands on the order of the day, but *the struggle for the Republic.” The speeches of the socialist lead- ers at the Lustgarten meeting were liberally sprinkled with revolutionary phrases, Franz Kuensiler, a socialist member of the Reichstag, declared: “The day may come—indeed, it is perhaps not far distant—when the Berlin proletariat can decide the fate of Germany. Woe to the working class if that day finds it disunited! The day is coming when the reac- tionary forces of today will be swept away as by a storm, just as they were i November, 1918, and then we will make good the sins of omission which we committed at that other cvs Club will have a meeting Sun- day at 2 pm. at 36 Rivington St., and on Feb. 5 there will be a mass votest meeting at 1 p.m. at 269 W. 5th St. against the terror in Tur- ‘ time.” This social-fasctst nba ne- glected to state that those “sins of omissions” consisted of the delib- erate betrayal of the German Rev- olution of 1918 and the establish- For Unity of Toilers. But the united front the socialist jleaders have in mind is a bloc of jleaders, the abandonment of the | Struggle for Communism by the Com- |munists, the salvation of capitalism ynder the flag of “saving the Re- public.” Such a bloc of leaders, the | Communists rightly reject and call jinstead for a united front from be- |low, of rank and file Socialist work- the revolutionary way out of the blind |alley of capitalism, for the establish- |ment of the proletariat dictatorship, | To conceal their role of lackeys of the fascist dictatorship, the role of the instrument which leads the masses of the German proletariat be- |neath the axe of the fascist dictator- | ship, the socialist leaders for the |past month have been busy sowing illusions among the German workers that “the ballot box has defeated German fascism.” In this, the Ger- |man_social-fascists have been ably | tries. Otto Bauer, Austrian social- |fascist leader, exclaimed after the recent Reichstag elections, “One thing is now clear. Germany will not be fascist!” Warned Against Deceptions, | The German social-fascist press, ‘while admitting its own losses in the elections, utilized the Communist victory to declaim with great energy of the “victory of the proletarian Marxist front,” of the successes of the “working-class as a whole.” The German Communist Party correctly warned the masses against these de- ceptions practiced by the social-fas- cist leaders, and exposed these decep- | tions as a move to disarm the vigl- |lance of the masses against the im- | Pending strengthening of the fascist dictatorship, If any further evidence is needed |of the shameless treachery practiced by the social-democratic leaders it is contained in their support of the anti-Soviet war preparations of the German bourgeoisie in alliance with the imperialist powers which bene- fitted from the war tributes exacted from Germany under the vicious Ver- sailles System. Supported Boss War This support is openly admitted in the testimony of Otto Wels, national chairman of the German Socialist Party, in defense of charges raised by the bourgeoisie that he was traitor to the bourgeois gvernment during the World War. The Berlin Socialist daily “Vorwaerts” quotes from Wels’ testimony: “In reality nobody did more to carry out the slogan: “The Father- land stands above the party’ For the Soolalist Party sacrifced every- thing for the Fatherland, even unity of the party, as it had to suf- fer a split of the party because of its attitude towards the Father- land.” Indeed, the Socialist Party leaders did “sacrifice everything” for the bourgeois Fatherland. They sacri- ficed millions of workers to the shambles and butchery of imperialist war. They sacrificed the German Revolution of 1918 to the task of say~ salldhataeirhiad aided by their fellows in other coun- | ™ ‘DAILY’CAM Saturday's contributions dropped fore. hundreds of dollars in contributions should be flooding the “Daily” office every day. Unless a quick and sharp movement takes place, the paper will not be able to go on. | Districts in the South have re- sponded very feebly so far. Scotts- boro, Sharecroppers, Angelo Hern- |don—these words are symbols of South today, struggles in which the leadership of the Daily Worker is ab- He Gets His | American Federation of Labor, | Who is supporting the Black 30- | hour week bill, a “share-the-work” | scheme, which will mean a | cuts for hundreds of thousands of | workers. Green believes im starting | wage-cutting from the bottom; as | for himself, he is still soaking the | A. F. of L. membership $12,000 a year, plus “expenses” (not to men- tion little “gifts” from the bosses), | for selling them out. Green hates the Daily Worker because it is con- to $170.93 from $197.23 the day be-| At this point of the drive,| mighty struggles taking place in the | | _ Bill Green, chief misleader of the | { H Pieldbers PAIGN FUND a mete DONATIONS DROP |% 0. 8. Lois Schwart J. Patevk . A. H. Anonymous | F. E. Bremn r Blam Morris Weisler -10) 5. tin John Greco .15| 8. H. | Eliza William 10) T. Mott | H. Roloft .25| M. Cowen ‘H. Rosenblatt y. Fernandes EK. Mellos Mabik 8. Con Konich ¥. Zeitman . Blanar ‘ty | Anonymous Fred Penniek |x. Moses 15| Anonymous ‘Mingel “10| U. Fiseher Proxressive Wkrs. A Sustek Cultoral Club 92 | Anonymous | Fanny Stein ioe | MoH. | Claire Dinitr M. Hyfer &, Friedman | Matushek | Kleinman Risenberg | Korm Anna Robinson | Jack Eisenbaum .15, Tom Puleo I. Kravits Je5| Jennie Cohen Jos. Nemick 5 o ‘a5, Total 10| Tél to date $1,445. Afanypous jos} “DISTRICT ‘3 Anonymous 10] Sidney Berne | Anonymous 10) Total to date $97.64) | Anonsmous a DISTRICT 6 | | Clata Sokofon . 0. Mason 1.20] Cart ©, Molte 10] J, Fromholr, 10} 10} 2.00 | Therman Thyman M. Gundelman 3 1.30 Hyman Perlman —! Total | Totul to date $45.10 DISTRICT 8 | H. Sehwarte 10) 5, B. Blich, Sam Fishgabe 25 collection M. Petorsky 25) 4. Friend Tony Anonzo Veni¢e Brink Louis Marsi Vernin Hall J. Cleary a0 Nloeter 95) Total D, Lubin 10) Total to date 515.61) M. Smith 19 DISTRICT 9 | Bam Shack 10| Ed, Richter 2.00 | Anonsmous 10] Nui. Pesarek ; Cox's Cake | Joe Michter 1.00, Driver 10) —| Jas. MacKenzie 10 Total $5.50) Anonymous 95| Total to date $16.55) Metre pb. Co. 10} DISTRICT 12 | 5.00 | 9 Louls Olsen Total to date $7.50) a 10 K. 10) DISTRICT 13 Anonymons 10] W. Urdany 8.00| N. Frink 20 no F. Hove I8| Total to date $5.00! W. Stern 15 DISTRICT 14 | Farm Crest :05| R. Thomas 1.00} Gussie Bell 95 — Anonymous 10] "Total to date $11.24) G. Buchin 28) DISTRICT 15 Malovnay “1G| Joseph Fritz 3.00 R. Schelte 35 | | Jullo 23) Total te date $5.75) |. Meade 10) L.0, Branches 3.00 J. Bankan 25. TH. to date $127.64 | ‘Through an error Wednesday's contribu- | tion Ist waa omitted from Friday's elty | editjon. They follow: stantly exposing him and his fel- | Totst received Wednesday low betrayers. Keep the “Daily” | Previously received on this exposing job, keep it fight- Total réeeived to date ing against wage-cuts, for unem- DISTRICT 1 ployment relief and insurance! | 4 Friend ‘ita > ee Save the Daily Worker! | Hartman 25) § Evansks 25} | © pashinger Sec. 15, Unit 27 |uox ELU solutely essential. Southern work-) Z Baute est ea ers, even though it means great sac- | WU Dire | Henry Mark | rifles, you must not fail in the @tive| x Weinstein 45 Anonymous to save your “Daily!” J Mivercheck 10) G Bole District 8 (Chicago) has again| M Golabere Mae roused itself sufficiently to send in| jy omen, TN ON $6.80, bringing its total to $15.61. At|® ormsxy 10 this rate, Chicago will) take all year | See. 4, Unit 401 30.00 and more to raise its quota of $4,000.) S*f,f; Xarmrille 1.00 | But the danger which threatens the| sec. 4, Untt 409 125) Unit 13 Affair 7.90) | “Daily” will not wait all year. Un-| Group of friends iy Geney onl less the workers of all cities, all dis-| ,°%,? ae | Joe | tricts, act at once, there will be no! xep 199| 3. Depaunt Daily Worker. Milspolsy wale eetenet “4 Nine districts, 4, 5, 7, 10, 11, 16, 17,| Bees M Friedman \05| 18 and 19, failed to contribute a cent! J EIkin “25| Pinet dl Saturday. Districts 17 (Alabama) | ® 5 Be shire | and 19 (Denver) have not sent in|? Pelacios | Mi. Barman | thing sinee the campaign started. | pesssnare ar “ol anything paign started. | Fernandex |i Bartoetti 601 | How much longer will these two dis-| J Pititon | F Mauren 23 tricts wait? |B Adetburg | A Bolsheyque a) § © Plaspia | © Jamie 23 iene wt x | 'T Masqnera er ‘otat seine ene e 150.93 2. 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Kalesnik (25! A Gurevich DRIVEN LIKE SLAVES IN BROOKLYN CITY PARK | BROOKLYN, N. Y—I am one of 400 city workers at Oak Park in Bay Ridge in Brooklyn. work is ing capitalism! ‘They brutally sup- pressed the revolutionary struggles of have to keep on digging all day, | while another bunch cio all the wheel- ing all day without a stop. To every ten of us they have three foremen | watehing us. They see to it that | we don't stop for a minyte on the job. They're always warning us, “Get going, or you'll be fired.” Every half hour we get a new fore- man, who drives us in a different way. They check us up like dogs every hour. If we come in a few minutes late, they dock us for two or three hours. And we only get four days every two weeks; $10 a week to take care of all owr expenses. “This is why Wm. Green wants the 30-hour, | the German toilers “for a proletariat dictatorship! They have since con- sistently sacrificed the interests of the toilers to the fascist dictatorship, for which they paved the way. And today, they are attempting to behead the mass upsurge against the Hitler fascist dictatorship, and to again be- tray the revolutionary struggles of Germany. Yesterday they covered up their support of the fascization of the era ae ae 5 te n jer 4i Pat ioe A x 5-day week. The toilet in the park accommo- dates only five or six men, and others are forced to wait in line in the cold. ‘The other day one of the foremen (who are always drunk) began to beat up a worker waiting in line to check out. When the worker at- tempted to defend himself, Stokes himself beat him up and called the police. ‘The workers in the park are as sore as hell and ready to fight. I wish some organization like the Unem- ployed Council would interest them- selves and put up a fight against these slave conditions. A Worker in Oak Park. Editors Note.—This worker can get in touch with the loca] Unem| Branch at 316 57th Street, Brooklyn. | Robert Smith (collection) | Bruee M Taylor 1.00) W Despo 23) Cares .25|D Kantes .50| & Brotsky 16] Mr. Comet La_Comparne | 5 M Casaringe SEE TOM MOONEY — CONGRESS APRIL 30 IN CHICAGO ZAll Set for Successful |W Rinkeins 20/0 Grewrmen 0 is gree’ = @ Struggle, Says ILD Call P Meyers 30) ¥ Tat ‘=| Conterence Will Draw in New Forces, on Broad Benius 05) D 8 08) . Tost re Me re camer a] 7 Smt | Irresistable United Front, Patterson States Anionitals es Bs | Declares No Diff $112.78 r, R. Frestog, Phila., Ps. TOTAL DISTRICT 4 Armand Andria (celleetton) John Charow TOTAL ous market prices are deepening the enslavement of those remaining on the land. The last pennies of the| OFAN eke %95! nest egg laid aside by the middle | ping 10.0; Class for the rainy day have been | DISTRICT 18 reached. War again is in the air. Spopatindg St EP mt Struggle Grows Sharper. | A Friend 2.3¢| As illusions fade the mass strug- | L Singer 28 | Ble against unemployment and star- | vation grows with increasing sharp- By WILLIAM L. National Secretary of International Labor Defense. The Tom Mooney Defense Committee has issued a call for a gigantic Free Tom Mooney Congress. This historic meeting jas they 'Pen & Hammer Raises | | er sustaining fund. ness. Hunger marchers, bonus | Branen marchers, farmers demonstrating | Branch | against foreclosures, city dwellers or- | Branch ganizing in mass struggles against | bade evictions and for food supplies for| aed | the starving unemployed, simultan- Branch 9' | eously Negro liberation struggles de- | Branch veloping among the debt-enslaved Sranee | blaék sharecroppers and toiling mas- TOTAL sios.eq, 565 at Once supporting and streng' ne | ening the struggles of the working class; forejgn-born workers fighting | against deportation, colonial people | in Tampa, Florida, and elsewhere, | miljtantly struggling against ruling | class white nationalism—these are the | acts now crowded upon the American | stage. | The stage is set for the successful struggle for the freedom of Tom Mooney, by this rising tide of work- ing class struggle, Negro liberation | struggles, the struggles of the colonial | peoples in America for the freedom | of their home land. The coordina~- tion of these strugles, their unit: around the struggle to free Tom Moo- ney, is the ony guarantee of its suc- cess. Preliminary conferences—local conferences—house-to-house canvas-| $20.54 for the Daily NEW YORK.—At a meeting ad- dressed b> Samuel Ornitz, author of | « “Haunch, Paunch and Jowl,” at the | Pen and Hammer Club, 114 W. 2ist St., a collection of $20.54 was taken for the Daily Worker. The club also | pledged $1 a week to the Daily Work- | Ornitz who has just come back | from California, spoke of the ruth- less repressive tactise of the Los Angeles “Red Squad” and of the pro- | gress of the International Labor De- | fense in defending militant workers | there | ‘Finnish Workers Federation Calls to Support “The Daily” The Executive Committee of the nnish Workers’ Federation has is- sued the following appeal to its mem- bers: “The Finnish workers’ organiza~- tions have always sided and gupport- ed the central organ of the Com- munist Party, the Daily Worker. Now that the Daily Worker has again turned to us for sasistanes, it isn’t doing this without cause. . “Our papers have published the appeal of the Party leadership to aid the Daily Worker, and now the Ex- ecutive Committee of the Finnish Workers Federation makes a special appeal to the Finnish friends of the Daily Worker to give their support to the Daily Worker campaigns con- | ducted by the district committees of the Party. “Executive Committee of the Fin- nish Workers Federation, “Hans Johnson, Secretary. =| Donate $10 in Honor of Departing Comrade NEW YORK.—The folowing letter, received by the Daily Worker yester- day, is from the members of the New York City “Icor” Committee: “On the occasion of Comrade A. Maurice's departure to the Soviet Union, we express through the Daily Worker our appreciation for his de- | voted work in the Icor, and instead of a bouquet of flowers, contribute the collected sum of $10 to the Daily’s campaign.” CORRECTION In the semi-weekly analysis printed in Saturday’s issue, the total under the column: “Received in past half week,” was given as $5,435.74. This should have read 3535.74. | Yonkers Workers Win Demands for Jobless Carpenter and Family YONKERS, N. Y., Jan, 27—~Imme- diate results were won for Carl Petér- son, an unemployed carpenter, when a committee of workers under the leadership of Yonkers Unemployed Council. called on Relief Commission- er Ebbitt. Demands for more food for Peterson's family of eight, for an increased milk allowance, shoes, and payment of gas and light bills were ‘won. Peterson had pleaded in vain for many weeks for adequate relief, His children had beén without shoes and unable to leave the house, Only two quarts of milk daily had been given for a nursing mother, ten weeks old infant, and children of 2, 4 and 7 years, besides four older ones. A meager food allowance, without fuel or gas for or warmth, had been their miserable portion. All the family were ill as a result of these okay ask 4S bendy old is now in danger tyubercu- lar after @ severe case of palais, vassing—this is a part of the pre- paratory work to be done, Tom Mooney can be freed. This victory jean be won. But only by relentless | | struggle, This united front must be | created to crown the Congress with success. The success in the mobiliza- | tion of an irresistable mass move- | | ment can free Tom Mooney. What Victory Means. Who can measure the value of such | @ victory? Tom Mooney—the sym- bol of working class oppression—free! The struggles of the working class| would be raised to the highest politi- ca) level yet attained. New impetus, now driving forces, new will to strug- gle will be developed. It will assure |} an indefinitely greater mobilization for the struggle for all class war pri- soners, all working class issues. Even the struggle for the Congress itself assures this and more, it strengthens | the other struggles. For seventeen years Tom Mooney, a | | Valiant fighter in the class struggle, has been kept behind the prison bars. His “crime” was that he sought through the organization of the working class to better prepare it for the struggles against just such mass unemployment and mass starvation as now mock it on every side—indes- cribable poverty in the face of inde- seribablé wealth. For that “crime” he never could have been convicted. |A murder charge was, therefore, framed around him. The cynical hypocrisy of those in power—they staged a World War Preparedness Day parade in San Francisco to dupe the workers (whose wages they were cutting, whose lives they were distorting) into an active acceptance of mass murder—the im- perialist war—launched to patriotic tunes. | With unsurpassable viciousness | | they instigated the murder of inno- | | cent workers in their Preparedness parade. They utilized this murder to strengthen their hold upon the} | masses and to induce the workers to | accept their “holy” war. They pre | pared this Preparedness parade mur- | | der as a basis for framing those who ‘opposed their savage attacks upon the working class. Tom Mooney was one of the foremost opposers, in San | Francisco, of the most dangerous ob- jectors to their entire murderous pro- gram. They arrested him. Tom) Mooney innocent was condemned to | death by the guilty. | Protest of Russian Workers. | ‘Tom Mooney was saved from death by the protest demonstrations of | Russian workers before the American | embassy in Petrograd. The temper of these demonstrations forced the! American government to move. | In the introduction to the Mooney-) Billings Report suppressed by the} | Scottsboro. | rences on Politics or Religion Must Stand in Way of Fight to Liberate Mooney ATTERSON. TOTAL . * whee * ads DISTRICT 4 | is to take place in Chicago from April 30 to May 2, 1933, The Ty Balk call comes at a most timely monent. The savage imprisonment ‘amen | of Mooney is an inseparable part of the oppression of the mas- A Friend ses by th ling class of U. a Ss ee as D Adler | ie \ y the ruling class of U.¢ > ram “Commission it ie ania » A in part TOTAL ~ : . . 1 DISTRICT + The impoverishment of the| “In 1918, following the nauseous Karl Malinstrom ae is oeeabas | jury disclosures of the State's masses was never greater.| Perjury disci as 5H Roberts i ‘ Misery and starvation stalk the work- | cut bogs i seene Mee. ant sg ing class. Mortgage debts and ruin- Weg’ unthince eC ee our allies’ soldiers. President Wil- son intervened to save Tom Mooney from death on the gallows.” This disaffection for the greater part came from the workers and 5ol- diers of Russia. Tom Mooney in- nocent was “saved” from murder for a living death. Wilson “saved” him in order that in Europe members. of the working class would continue to murder each other, until such times believed the Wali Street's dollars were assured. There was no other reason. Today the struggle to free Tom Mooney becomes as well: a | struggle against imperialist war qnda | @ defense of the homeland built: by those Russian ved hii Mass pressure saved Tom Mooney’s life; the pressure of the masses ean force apart the gates of Oslifornia’s prison. President-elect Roosevelt knows the Mooney case. Who is so naive’ es to believe he will act unless under pressure? Governor Rolfe of Cafi- jornia s the Mooney case is now closed. Governor Rolfe is more than mistaken. Time without number Mooney’s innocence has been proven. Even the political specialist of the ruling class Jimmy Walker agreed upon this fact for his own political purposes. The Wickersham Com. ap- pointed by Mr. Hoover could not hide the corruption of the Mooney case. in the attempt to save capitalist “dem- workers who once The call of the “Free Tom Mooney Congress” must follow the trail his 84 year old mother took in the inter- est of her innocent son’s freedom and in appeal for world support of the nine innocent Negro boys in It must go farther. Every human being honestly willing to fight to free Tom Mooney must know the | call is directed personally to him or her. On Feb. 11 a motion will be made for a trial for Mooney-on the in- dictment remaining. Even those who cannot reach the Congress can sérd resolutions and telegrams demanding | the granting of this motion. The full weight of the ILD must be thrown behind the Congress. Proof | of the correctness of the policy <f the ILD in the Mooney case will be demonstrated not by words but by deeds. Members of the ILD mitust everywhere regard the success of the Mooney Congress as a task of major importance. But the Mooney Con- gress must be a united front. Within that united front the ILD will be only a small part in quantity. In quality it must excel all other sections, The issue is clear. All who ate hon- estly willing to fight for the freedom of Tom Mooney would be false to | themselves, false to their trust if they fail now to enlist actively in the Struggle. There can be no question of differences of politics or religion. These are issues that can only con- fuse the Mooney Congress. There is | only the question of rugged honesty. ‘Tom Mooney can be freed, Tom Moo- ney must be freed. Long live the “Free Tom Mooney Congres: Immediate and unconditional freedom for Tom Mooney! ay Mass : Demonstration. Forces Release of 7 Arrested Unemployed PHOENIX, Arizona. (By Mail).— Following a large mass demonstration of protesting workers and farmers at the city court, the city authorities re- leased seven militant workers whe were arrested in a demonstration for adequate relief before the Recom« ction Finance Corporation. ‘The arrested workers included Wil- burn Risley, state organizer of the Unemployed Councils, and Charles Latall, of the Workers Ex-Service- men's League, both candidates on th Communist ticket for city sioners in the municipal elections set for March 4. The others were Wil- liam Brooma, Ralph Duncan, Henry Brown, Ray Wilson and David l- lace, all unemployed workers, International Labor Defense defended them, tenance, 07 21 SURUNP a Seo prey 1 recognize the necessity of the Daily Worker as a mighty weapon in the day-to-day struggles of the working class and wish to contribute to its main- I contribute $........ lo the Daily Worker Fund. 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