The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 7, 1933, Page 1

| Have You Been Reading? Have you been reading the ediiorial ap- peals during the last few days, : i concretely the role of the Daily in a number of great working clas gles? Haye you read Tom Mooney’s stir ring call to save the “Daily”? Act at once! Use the coupon on the opposite corner of hi. page. Dail Central Party U.S.A. (Section vf the Communist International) — Vol. X, No. 32 SER. Now York, Katerod uz second-clave matter ai the Fest Office a1 ander the Act of March 8, 187%, gape yen I Am Answering J am answering the call to save the Daily Worker, most necessary weapon of the working class. Name ...cceess eee deceprerernreees AddreSS ceccecccrccccccccvecsccccs AMOUNE .essoserstovsverssonscren Tear off, mail immediately to Daily 13th .» New York City. Worker, 50 E. ALBANY CONFERENCE IS GAINING NEW SUPPORT Solid Against Socialist Party Splitting Tactics; Huntington S. P. Branch Stays Up-State Unions Rally to. to ‘Support of State Conference for Labor Legislation NEW YORK.—tThe provisional committee for the State Conference on Unemployment Insurance and labor legislation | held its meeting at Irving Plaza Sunday. In spite of the concerted drive by the top leadership of the A. F. of L. and the Suclalist Party calculated to Sicuny the RENT STRIKE WON Landlord Advises His Fellows to Yield NEW YORK. —The 1041 Bryant| Ave., Bronx, rent strike ended yes- | terdey with a complete victory for the tenants falling in line with the number of victories rent strikers are winning all over the city. The land- lord, after conceding defeat, said that after being a landlord for the last 20 years and therefore quite ex- perienced, he advised all landlords to stop fighting and settle with striking tenants. He said, “It does not pay to have a rent strike.” The strikers won a ten per cent reduction in rent, recognition of their house committee, no evictions of un- employed workers, and general re- Pairs to be made in the house. At a meeting of the tenants and the East Bronx Unemployed Council the chairman of the house committee, Carl Coleman, and the chairman of the block committee, Harry Golden, hailed the Daily. Worker.and the} Freiheit for their capable backing of. the strike and the workers voted their | sional committee. no withdraivals were reported, but instead a gro ing support from ail parts of the on Feb. 25, and. 27 in Albany. The provisional Committee ¥ formed at the preliminary conf month, where delegates of 60 organ- A. F. of L. rank and file committee | for the building of the Albany Con- ference. Committee Reports The provisional committee opened the Chairman on the work of the executive. Since the preliminary conference out around 5,000 invitations to take part to A. F. of L. locals, fraternal and political organizations and cen- | tral labor bodies. This amount is but a@ part of thousands of additional | calls to be sent out. Response has already reached the committee from upstate towns, in- cluding Schenectady, Albany and | Yonkers, where A. F. of L. locals and other organizations, ‘Tax...Payers..Associations, haye en- dorsed the Albany Conference. ‘The report that the Socialist Par- sincere thanks. ty has scheduled a city copference more rent strike news on Page Pa « a (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) j and to compel ‘Seale to with- + | draw delegates to the provi- state for the Conference scheduled | ence held in New York City last} izations responded to the call of the its meeting Sunday with a report by the executive has sent} including (TOPAZ JOBBER | STRIKE IS WON 200 Get Wage Raise, and 40-Hour Week NEW YORK.—The strike involv- ing about 200 workers of contractors of the Topaz Dress Co. was settled by the Needle Trades Workers In- dustrial Union yesterday after a four weeks’ strike. The workers of all crafts won increases in prices, the 40- hour week, the right to the job, and other union conditions. This strike was conducted on a united front basis involving International shops as 1 as open shops. The partial gains won in this strike will only serye to stimulate the workers to fight for} further improvements in their con- ditions, and will encourage the work- ers from other shops. { Ha ae eee Party. Five other shops involving about| ‘he call? 300 workers also settled with wage increases and better conditions. The FASaORyS: ne und are st, Fug Karl Liebknecht House, Berlin, Tataauaciers of the Communist Besides the pictures of Lenin, Liebknecht and Luxemburg is “Forward in the struggle, in their spirit, against the war danger, fascism, hunger and cold and for work, bread and freedom!” (MUTINY SPRE ADS IN DUTCH NAVY [Cruiser Still Held By) Native Rebels THE HAGUE, Feb. 6.—The entire} Dutch naval forces in the East In- dies have been ordered out in pursuit of the Dutch cruiser “De Zayen Prov-| incien” which was seized several ago by its native crew of 400 men in @ mutiny which began a week among the European seamen of eral Dutch warships. The mutiny is spreading. The mutineers in control of the “De Zayen Provincien’ are re- ported steaming toward the Dutch; ARBEIT BROT A Dutch squadron which| | left the base several days ago because} | of a mutiny on several of its aiies | following are among the important | Shops settled: G. and F., 114 West 26th St.; F. and F., 282 Seventh Ave.; | Goldberg and Schneck, 253 W. 26th | St. With the advancement of the sea- | Son, the drive of the Unity Committee | is spreading out on a broader scale.! | The workers of open shops are urged not to delay action but to immed- jately bring their complaints to the office of the Unity Committee, 140 W. 36th St. or to the office of the Industrial Union in order to get help and advice for organizing their shops. , j Active workers are called upon to report to the office of the union every morning in order to support the strikers on the picket line. Many of the workers or «.rike have never had | any such er_csience before and must |have the assistance of the active | workers in the trade. strike which still ties up the Briggs Mack Avenue Plant of 4,000 workers. The speakers answered the propa- ganda of the bosses and their agents who have been trying to split the strike on the slogan of driving out the Communists. Phil Raymond, secretary of the Auto Workers Union, received a tremendous ovation whee he appealed for the complete unii 60 PRIESTS FACE DEATH ISTANBUL, Feb. 6.—Sixty priests and ringleaders, of-what-is-deseribed as @ religious uprising in the ancient city of Broussa in opposition to the reform policies of the Turkish gov- ernment, have been arrested by the Police, and may be execuied today. regard to political affiliations, race, creed or color, Speeches were made by leading 3,000 AUTO STRIKERS VOTE: TO CONTINUE THE STRUGGLE DETROIT, Feb. @-Lruree Uipeannd auto. thousand auto strikers, Briggs plants gathered in Danceland Aud-torium at 2 afternoon at the call of the Auto Workers Union. from shops now on strike, as well as those which have already won their | demands and returned to work, the meeting was turned into an enthusi- | astic demonstration for building the ¢——-—~ .-— Auto Workers Union and winning the | Avenue, Briegs Hi of ail workers in the strike without | onstration requested Bar] Browder, | has been ordered back to Surabaya, Hundreds Face Court Martial. | Several European seamen and 425 nativ ys ago and threatened with court- larhal The disaffection in its armed forces is greatly alarming Dutch Gov- err ent, and other’ imperialists hav- seamen were arrested several e CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents 6 DEAD, SCORES INJURED AS WORKERS BATTLE FASCISTS | Dictatorship Extends Grip on Grip on Prussia, Orders Dissolution of Diet Hit at Workers’ Press, Meets; U. S. Toilers Must Aid Fight on German Fascist Rule BERLIN, Feb. 6 (By Radio).—Acting under Article 48 of the Weimar constitution, President Hindenburg today issued a decree depriving the Prussian cabinet, headed by Braun and | Severing of the last remnants of the slender rights concurred in by the decision of the Supreme Court in the judgment | handed down in the case of® = | ia versus the Reich, when | &Mergency decree. zoes much ft pen decree ther tha: ie von | Braun appealed against the “ oe pe son dissolution decree of von Papen last} a summer. Following this, the Prussian Diet was dissolved and new elections 2 Ongered or Perat | (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) The Fascist Dictatorship. | The Hindenburg decree of to gives all por to Reich's er Van Papen — whieh | means that the actual authority is in| the hands of the fascist acting Com-' missioner Goering. The reason give 17 SHOPS STRUCK BY CLOAKMAKERS for the decree es- | | ing “possessions” in the East Indies.| tablishing the fascist dictatorship is| . mostiy from the | O*iAls accuse native Communists of] that the present double authority in| United Action Comm, organizing the naval revolt. Fears) Prussia—the authority of the Re “TV, 7A) 3 ( o'clock yesterday | are openly expressed here that the| and that of the Prussian cabinet Drive Sweeps On Addressed by strikers | mutiny will be the prelue for an R brutal oppression of imperialism and . Briggs | suffering unemployment Waterloo, ray Body and Motor} orders y to civil and Products piants. military authorities in the islands to The representative of the Motor! be “on the alert” to crush apy up- Products plant aroused tremendous | rising of the masses. enthusiasm by his description of how | ‘ ‘ute. their strike was won through com. | Pies Sat Bey Che. plete organization of all workers in| The naval mutiny followed the an- the plant in the Auto Workers Union. | nouncement of a wage cut of 10 Unanimous Invitation to Browder. | cent against the white seamen, and 17 The meeting in. a.unanimous dem- | per. cent against the native seamen. The government's attempt to split the Secretary of the Conimunist Party, | native and white seamen by ordering to address them. After his brief | a greater wage cut for the native sea-| speech the entire ty eugene roared its ; men has served only to direct the re- }sentment of both white and native and Pa auto workers from the Briggs Mack! (CONTINUED ON E PAGE THREE)! seamen against the government, | juprising of the toiling masses of| threatens to undermine all authority. | the East Indies, groaning under the | ation wh created an impossible si NEW YORK of the drive of t Appealing from Beles Drunk to Peter of the drive of The Braun Cabinet (Social-Demo- | With the Needl crat) has decided to appeal again to| dustrial Union, 1 the Supreme Court asserting that the | down on strike |decree violates the court judgment|, The news is spre and the constitution | through the district The decree indirectly made it pos-| Yesterday the offi sible to dissolve the Prussian Diet.| 36th St., from which th Yon Papen replaced Braun in the ing conducted, was packed « Committee of Three which has power) makers coming up to re to dissolye the Diet even without con~| shops and get direction in sent of the Diet itself. The commit-| cle, tee previously consisted of Braun| ; (soclalist), Adenauer (Catholic) and| 72°, Unemployed Council | Keri, (fascist). 36th St. today at 10 a.m. to organize All Power to the Pofice. for mass picketing in cloak mar- The Cabinet today issued its first ket at noon, urges pend geey to report at 140 “WHAT OF A “NEGRO” NEWSPAPER THAT HELPS WHITE ee ea CLASS LYNCHERS? (AN EDITORIAL) One of the chief reasons why it is necessary to support the Daily Worker is: AMONG the agencies that the white rul- ing class use AGAINST THE NE- GROES is a whole string of so-called “Ne- gro” nswspapers. We do not mean that all Negro newspapers are agents of the white capitalist class. But many of them are. For instance the Pittsburgh Courier, a so- called “Negro” newspaper, has just published an editorial in which it says: “If Herndon dies, the responsibility for his death will rest not only upon the planter- manufacturer dictatorship lof Georgia, but upon the Communist Party, which persists in callously sending these youngsters to certain imprisonmement and death.” Thus the Pittsburgh Courier, mouthpiece of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, seizes upon the brutal chain-gang verdict of the Georgia courts against Angelo Herndon to exoner- ate the white rulers from their barbarous crime. The Courier’s statement has a familiar ring. We have heard this slander before, both from the white ruling class and from the Pittsburgh Courier and other organs of its kind. In fact, it is part of the whole campaign of calumny of the Negro reformists against the program of _the Communist Party for Negro national liberation, a ‘program which has met’ with the widest response among the Negro masses in this country. It is designed to stifle the growing militancy of the Negro ‘oilers, to check their trend towards revolutionary leadership. It is but a servile echo of the attacl:s of the white rulers against the Negro masses, who are increasingly rallying to Communist lead- ership in their struggle against growing terror ana misery. Why does the Pittsburgh Courier object to the pres- ence of Herndon in Georgia? Wh) was Herndon in Geergia? As a Communist he went to Georgia precisely for the purpose of organizing the fight of the Negro mas- ses against the riendish slave-oppression inflicted upon these masses by the “planter-marufacturer dictatorship 07 Georgia.” Thus it cannot be the presence of Herndon to which the Pittsburgh Courier objects, but the fight which Herndon led against the hunger-murder regime of the white ruling class. Behind the hypocritical concern for the life of Herndon lurks the real anxiety of the Pitts- LAYS UPRISING | 10 pale! HLeade rf Negto Uprising Jai ailed nft_ By Officials) aes tial Of Luskegee Institute! TUSKEGEE, ALA. Dec. 22—(Spe-| \clal)—OUft James, the negro at whose | home the Tallapoosa County disorder | last Monday originated. is being held in it | | Headline In Pittsburgh Courier calling on the Tuskegee (Above) Institute to carry out the drive of the Southern lynch bosses. (Below, left) Headline in a Southern paper showing how Tuskegee answered the call of the Pittsburgh Courier. Cliff James, refused medical aid was allowed to die from his wounds in jail. (Below, right) A typical lynching by the Southern boss class, burgh Courier, that is, anxiety for the rule of its masters, the white slave-drivers, When the Southern ruling-class lynchers were mobi- lizing all their forces to carry through the vicious lynch- verdicts against the nine innocent Scottsboro boys, the Pittsburgh Courier was found on the side of the lynchers. It d'rected its fire not against the Alabama ruling class seeking to burn the boys in the electric chair, but against the mass defense movement and its leader, the Communist Party. It directly justified the lynch-action against the boys with the provocative declaration: “It is more likely, however, that if mobs break out in Alabama and these eight boys are taken from the jail and lynched it would probably be due to the nonsensical activities of the Communists, who, by their misguided energies, are finally driving the citizens of Alabama to the point of desperation.” The poor Iynchers whose aim is not to lynch the boys, -—-Oh, no!—but whose intentions were noble and humane —are being driven to “desperation” by the vicious Com- munists! The Pittsburgh Courier is persistent in the defense of its white ruling-class masters, What was the attitude _ of the Pittsburgh Courier during the bloody events of De- cember 19, in ‘Tallapoosa County, Alabama? When the Alabama landlords and their sheriffs, aided by their “Un- cle Toms,” the Negro lackeys of Tuskegee Institute, were trying to smash the growing struggles of the Negro share- croppers and exploited farmers against starvation and oppression, when the press was doing every power to incite lynch violence against the the Courier again intervened on the side of “lynch law and order.” It cairied a headline reading: “Tuskegee Must Fight Reds.” According to the Pittsburgh Courier and those it re- presents, the present vicious terror against the Negro masses ‘in the South is not an integra. part of the whole system of national oppression and its inevitable sharpen- ing in the present crisis, but is due to the vicious Com- munists who are inciting the “ignorant” Negroes to rebel against their good masters! What is the éssence of this hypocritical swindle of th: Negro reformists ard social-fascists? It is that the eap- italisis are to maintain their wholesale violence against the ses without the ~esistane: of these masses. Not against. the increasing, daily violence or the Bourbon dic- tatorship, but against the resistance of the masses to this violence: this,is the core of Negro reformism in the pre- sent period of rising class and Negro liberation struggles. This it has in common with social-fascism. Is it not crystal clear that this is but a method of support of the ruling-class, designed to disarm the resist- ance of the masses in the face of the growing terror? It should be clear to every worker that the professed “indignation” of the Pittsburgh Courier against the “planter-manufacturer dictatorship” of Georgia, their “be- lief” that “all American citizens who love their liberty will rally to the support” of Herndon, is a cloak behind which jurks the aszass‘n’s knife, hired by the ruling class mur- derers to behead the rising mass movement of the Negro and white toilers. The praise of Herndon as a “fine, up- standing youth,” is a “Judas kiss” from the mouth of slimy traitors. In striking contrast to the cowardly, belly-crawling attitude of the “Uncle Tom” Negro misleaders, typefied by the editors of the Pittsburgh Courier, the leaders of tke N.A.A.C.P., ete., is the ringing call of Angelo Herndon, who, with the menace of death in the electric chair threatening his young life, stood up in the Georgia court- room, boldly called for a struggle for Negro zights, ex- posed the lords of starvation and Jim-Crowism, and un- compromisingly denounced those who would betray this struggle. In a ringing call, Herndon hurled his heroic de- fiance inthe face of the murderous white ruling claies \ “You may do what you will with Angelo Herndon. You may indict him. You may put him in jail. But there will come other thousands of Angelo Herndons.” Angelo Herndon’s voice is the voice of th» new Ne- gro leadership, the Negro working-class, which, in close solidarity with the revolutionary white workers, under the leadership of the Communist Party, is the only force cap- able of leading the oppressed Negro people to freedom. I r now why a newspaper that betrays the Negro masses such as the Pittsburgh Courier receives the sup- port of the white ruling cla Even the whit- landlords and the bloody handed governors of Georgia and Alabama are now smiling upon the Pittsburgh Courier, tas they welcome Mr. Pickens and Mr. White whenever these gentlemen come into a Southern State where the ruling class is preparing to shoot down Negro sharecroppers. The Pittsburgl Courier will prosper as long ‘as slavery pro- spers. But the Daily Worker t the same t most sav- agely attacked by the capitalist landlord ruling class of Alabama and Georgia. " who organize and fight as the Daily Worker organiz id ee for the liberation a the Negro people from ry are not receiving any support—no advertisements and no money contributions from the ruling class who enslave the Negro people. But this fight must be won. Today in a: thousand sharecroppers cabins in the South, the Daily Worker, de- spite the efforts of the ruling class to outlaw it and pre- vent its being brought into the southern states, is their most treasured possession, The Daily Worker has to depend upon not the rich, but the poor to support it. Not the capitalists and the landlords who incite lynching and frame up innccent Ne- gro boys in order to perpetuate a system of slavery—but the slaves themselves are depended upon to support the Daily Worker. The Daily Worker is in desperate danger of extine- tion. The truth is that the $35,000 drive to save the life of the Daily Worker is lagging dangerously behina, due to the extreme poverty of the masses. Therefore it is ne- cessary to issue a sharp word of warning that the contri. butions must come quicker and in larger amounts. * * 0° LY $329, 96 was received Sunday and yesterday, a drop to a little more than half of the $636.46 that came in last Sunday and Monday. delay! Readers, the Daily Worker is in a critical condition. Don’t Collect among your friends, visit organizations, arrange affairs, contribute every cent you can! Hurry funds immediately to the Daily Worker 50 E. 13th St., New York City, Received Sunday and yesterday .. Total to date * $329.96 o20eecoeeecs: