The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 8, 1933, Page 1

ry | \ | ) DEMONSTRATE FOR NEW TRIAL AND RELEASE OF TOM MOONEY, FRIDAY, 5 P. M., UNION SQUARE And Other Language Groups? “Enclosed you will find a money order of $5. We Yugoslavian workers have read in our workingclass paper, “Radnik”, that the Daily Worker is in a critical condition, and for that reason we are sending you the enclosed check. “Yugoslavian Workers Educational Club, Eureka, Cal.” (Section of the Communist International) They Answer Tom Mooney The Prospect Workers Center of New York has answered Tom Mooney’s appeal with a contribution to the Worker raising its total in the drive to $100. T organization, which sometime ago challenged all the clubs, wants to know 1 € no answer. Aren’t the other clubs aware of the danger threatening the very life of the “Daily”? Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N.¥., under the Aet of Marsh %, 187%. Vol. X, No. 33 <2 NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1933 CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents 3,000 HUDSON- AUTO WORKERS IN DETROIT STRIKE GERMAN FASCISTS THREAT TO PREVENT | FURTHER SESSIONS OF REICHSTAG Discover Nazi Plot to Exclude Com munist Lists in the Election Cam- paign. After They Are Filed (By INPRECORR CABLE) | BERLIN, Feb. 7.—Fascist spokesmen have announced their intention of preventing | all further sessions of the Reichstag by force if necessary. The pretext is adyanced that Loebe is unacceptable as chairman because he is alleged to have insulted Hitler in a recent speech. The Reichstag Control Committee met today. In order to prevent further discussion 226 BARRETT: ST. tatu!" FORCED TO DROP RENT STRIKE WON BRIDGEMAN CASE and their allies among the Prussian Junkers are implicated, the . : i Defeated Socialist Leader of Landlords | Fascist deputies disturbed the session, making it impossible for the chair- man to make him- self heard. He therefore ad- journed the meet- | ing. NEW YORK.—The 226 Barrett St.,! Communists Revea! Brownsville rent strike was won Mon- slot! niga day night. The gains received by eae os the tenants as a result of a well or- pier the I aaah " ption organized ganized and fierce struggle of the} yesterday for the workers in this vicinity against the ( landlord serve as an example to all others. After many clashes with the land- lord police and mashalls the 26 ten- ants got: 1. No evictions and the return- ing of previously evicted tenants. ST. JOSEPH, Mich., Feb. 7—The International Labor Defense won a major victory with the dismissal of the Michigan criminal syndicalism charges in the Circuit Court against William Z. Foster, Bill Dunne and) other outstanding leaders of the| Communist Reich-. PeMding for more than ten years, stag fraction, Dep- uty Torgler wel- Altogether 19 defendants were in- za volved in the case. Charles E. Ruth- coe oe ee enberg, one of the founders of the tee od pes aes Communist Party, arrested with the| tatives that text | others in the Bridgman raid on hel Week Minister of the Interior Frick | fOuvention of the party, was the ah Von Papen (CONTINUED ON PAGE ‘[WO) (CONTINUED ON-PAGE THREE) appealed, Albany Conference Plan NEW YORK.—The enlarged Buro meeting Monday of the Trade Union | Unity Council took up the question of delegates and preparation of bills for | the State Conference on Unemployment Insurance and labor legislation | scheduled to take place in Albany on The measures adopted by the Buro indicate not only the determination | of the Trade Union Unity Council tow help build the Albany Conference , into a most powerful weapon in the struggle, to force adopt immediate relief and labor legislation from the legislature but also to balk all at- tempts to defeat the purpose of the conference and the fight of the workers for better conditions. The Buro decided to call upon each affiliated union, league and opposi- tion grovp to get out leaflets in sup- port of the Albany Conference, and February 25, 26 and 27. to send speakers to every sympathe: tic organization to urge the election of delegates and immediate financial support. Organizations and indivi- duals will be urged to send names of delegates and contributions to the Provisional Commiitee for the Alban‘ Conference, Room 336, 799 Broadw Hit Disrupters Although the Albany Conference (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) CITY EVENTS ATTEND TRIAL OF SAM WEINSTEIN TODAY Workers should gather at the court room where they are trying to and Arthur, Bronx. | frame Weinstein to a ten year sentence. Trial is 10 a.m. today at Tremont * STUDENTS PICKET CITY COLLEGE TODAY 7 | Assemble at Convent Ave. and 139th St. at 9 a. m. today Communist Party. The case has been| N. Y. Students’ Committee for Struggle Against War to demonstrate against military preparations in college. * Es at call of * U. S. BANK DEPOSITORS REPORT ON LEHMAN Depositors who saw governor will report results cf at mass meeting tonight at 8 p. m, * at Stuyvesant High School. * * p to BRODSKY SPEAKS FOR SCOTTSBORO BOYS TONIGHT Scottsboro mass meeting at 132 West 138th St., 8 p. m. tonight. died in 1927 while the case was being | Speakers: Joseph R, Brodsky, Countee Cullen, Louise Thompson, Roger N, Baldwin, William Kelley, James Hubert. \higher wages, against ‘‘dead & T.U.U.C. Actively Aids [WORKERS AT BODY PLANT JOIN BRIGGS "STRUGGLE; DEMAND 20 P. C. INCREASE Elect Strike Committee; Activity of “Auto Workers Union Paved the Way for New Walkout News Flash—One Shot and three stabbed in a riot among from DETROIT, Feb. scabs returning riggs plant last nig f j DETROIT, Feb. 7.—The strike of 3.900 workers in the Hudson bedy plant has proved so effective that all the Hudson and Essex factories here, employing 6,00) men, were today compelled to shat down, This is the first strike in the Hudson plants in 25 years, DETROIT, Feb. 7.—Threc thousand workers of the body plant of the Hudson Moto: Company struck today for a 20 percent increase in wages and time and a half for overtime The news of this new revolt ef the auto slaves spread with lightning speed among by the auto workers of Detroit and was received with particular enthusiasm the 10,000 Briggs Body strikers, who for more than two weeks h | | work” (unpaid work), for rec-;§ | ognition of their shop commit- | tees and other demand : The Hudson body t reopened yesterday after a wer shutdown, | but today the 3,000 workers decided to follow the example of the Bri {men and put up a fight against WORLD WIDE : | PROTEST FREES the iggs V ;Slave conditions. The strike | Jan. 11 and re: direct result of the organizationa’ a few . tivities of the militant Auto Wori PI have decided ers’ Union and of the enthusiastic t I | | at Briggs in a fi {meeting Sunday at Danceland Audi- |and other improvements. torium, where 3,000 Briggs strikers) voted to continue their struggle in! the face of the greatest mobilization of police, state trodpers and com- pany servicemen in the history of, Detroit. A rank and file sirike committee | was elected, which presented a list jof demands to the company shortly after the men walked out.. The Hud- | (By Inprecorr Cable.) | | BERLIN, Feb. 7—The Chinese} | delegation to Geneva reports offi- | clally that Huan Ping, Chinese Communist leader, \ras released on Jan. 24. His arrest, continual tor- ture and threatened exceution have been the occasion of world-| | Wide protests by workers and in- | tellectuals against the Nanking Briggs Strikers Strengthen DETROIT, Fe' the four jto reinforce the ¢ compel the committee, who picketing, to res | | Sovernment (See story on page 3.) | (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE | (SEE EDITORIAL ON PAGE 3) DAILY WORKER IN FARMERS’ FIGHT ACTION STOPS $1,692,423,000 FO (AN EDITORIAL.) E must speak sharply in warning today that the - DAILY WORKER IS IN REAL DANGER. The drive for funds TO SAVE THE LIFE of the Daily Worker is SO FAR NOT SUCCESSFUL. It will be. But only when you, the workers who read it, and the workers mass organizations together with the farmers who also need it, come to the rescue on » much larger scale. pais space on the first page of the Daily Worker ought to be devoted exclusively to the direct Jtruggle for the daily economic needs of the work- dag class and farmers, and the whole series of great class battles in the U. S. and throughout the capitalist world teday. It is for acquainting the workers with this struggle and giving revolutionary leadership in it that the Daily Worker exists. It is impossible for the Daily Worker to continue pub- lication at all, except by asking and obtaining the quick completion of the collection of the $35,000 fund for the saving of the life of the Daily Worker and bringing about certaia improvements in it. For this reason, from day to day we have been obliged to give over the greater part of the first page to hese pleas to the working class for money —a thing that we do nct like to do and which we shall stop as soon as it becomes physically possible to continue the Daily Worker without such pleas. rer oa DAY we want to explain to you further the material usefulness of the Daily Worker to the great masses of American laboring farmers. Millions of farmers have been literally driven from their farms, losing everything they had and compelled to go to the city to beg for jobs that could not be obtained. The working farmers contracted debts at a time when farm products were priced at more than five times what they will now bring. Mortgages were given on the farms. A tremendous total of debt towered above the head of American agriculture—estimated at about ten thousand millions ($10,000,000,000) of dollars. * * % | eae came the rapid development of the agrarian crisis. It became necessary for the “dirt” farmers to pay back four times the amount of the original debt, measured in units of farm produce. That is, where a farmer had bor- rowed the money value of 100 bushels of wheat or potatoes or corn, or the equivalent of one bale of cotton, he has now to pay back 400 bushels of wheat or potatoes or corn for the 100, or four bales of cotton for one that he borrowed in the first place. But it is even worse than this in many cases. Because under some conditions the unpaid interest is compounded tweleve times in each year. There is, for instance, the case of the farmer Cecil Kistner near Deshler, Ohio, who borrowed $350, and had paid $324 in interest, but still owed $390 when his farm was put up for sale on the mort- ‘gage. That means that Kistner was obliged to pay back $714 for an original debt of $350—but this $714 is worth five times as much farm produce as it would have been worth at the time the debt was made. So this actually means that Cecil Kistner, the “dirt” farmer, was required by law to return $3620 worth of farm produce in repay- ment to an insurance company Shylock for an original debt of $350, less than one-tenth, in farm produce, of what the law now demands of him! * * * Ts explains the desperate plight of the American labor- ing farmers! What should they do about it? Ten per cent of all the farmers of the United States lost their homes in two years. The law of capitalism de- manded this. The farmer who had labored a life-time to feed the American people was told to get out with his wife and children as empty-handed paupers to wander to the city. In the city the farmer could go to beg for jobs that did not exist. His boys could go to the alleys and pool- halls, his daughters were invited to find a way to live on the pavements of the city streets. * * = But there was also a voice which told the farmers not to submit to this. What voice was it that told the farmers not to starve, but to fight? It was, of course, the voice of the Communist Party. A great wave of resistance swept thru the country. You all know it now: beginning with the Iowa farmers’ strike, resistance was raised, especially by the Farmers’ National Conference at Washington at the time of the openig of Congress. Consistency and a program were given, and the struggle rose to the level of the famous “Sears-Roebuck sales”! In Towa, Minnesota, Missouri, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska and Kansas—this new “prairie fire” of what the bankers call “bolshevism on the farms” spread! Great gatherings of farmers ral- lied to the support of every one whose farm was put up for mortgage sales. Cows and horses, plows and harvesters were sold for one to eleven cents apiece. A hundred acres brought $1.20. Hundreds of thousands of farmers who had never yet so much as heard of the Communist Party and who do not today know anything about it, joined in this mass movement. The movement leaped from the northwest to the southwest—to Texas, Arkansas and Oklahoma ; to the east, to Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Ohio, Michigan and Indiana—and is still spreading. In the South (Georgia and Alabama) the struggle took on the most terrific fierceness. Negro farmers, faced with sheriff's gangs trying to seize their farming imple- ments, their mules and cows, resisted courageously at the cost of their blood! Still the movement spreads! Further and further, until nearly the whole of the ugrarian United States is in the grip of rebellion against the looting of the farmers by the bankers and insurance companies. * * * Ww have now learned that from such a mass movement a certain degree of victory can be obtained. Just a few days ago.the. great. insurance companies, suddenly realizing that they were about to lose their »loodsucking hold upon the American farming masses, began to retreat (a sly, swindling, manoeuvering retreat, but nevertheless a retreat). * * IHE New York Life Insurance Company suddenly au- nounced that it would not insist upon foreclosing mortgages in the state of Iowa under certain conditions. The Prudential Insurance Company, che biggest holder of farm mortgages in the country and having $209,248,000 invested in 37,000 farms, trembling for fear that this enormous sum would vanish in the “eleven cent farm sales,” announced that it would not press any more for foreclosures. Other big insurance companies followed suit, the Met- ropolitan Life, the Equitable Life, the Mutual Beneft Life, the Hancock Mutual Life, the National life Insurance Company, ete., ete. What does this mean to the American farmer? The Association of Life Insurance Presidents indicates that the farm mortgages in the hands of life insurance companies are about as follows: ‘Actna Bankers’ Life ... Connecticut Mutual . Connecticut General Equitable (Ne ¥.) Equitable (Iowa) John Hancock . Metropolitan . Mutual Benefit National Life ... New York Life Northwestern Mutuat Pennsylvania Mutual . Phoenix Mutual. Provident Mutual rrudentiat Travelers : Union Central $53,408,000 66,341,900 39,890,000 21,747, 196,862,000 54,178,000 WORAL HIS enormous sum of nearly one billion, seven hundred million dollars is ‘at stake in the struggle between the insurance company leeches and the American “dirt” farmers. Every effort is being made to swindle, trick and de- ceive the farmers back into submission. Governors, state legislators and U. S. Senators are tumbling over each other to rush “to the rescue of the farmer!” But they don’t mean the rescue of the farmer. ‘What they mean is that they are beginning to see that the ten billions of farm mortgages in the United States will, for the most part, NEVER BE PAID. They are trying to rescue their billions—not the farmers! That is, this enormous debt load will never be paid by the American farmers provided the farmers are given correct revolutionary leadership by the revolutionary movement under the Communist Party. Notice what measures the capitalist and “Socialist” politicians are putting forth. For instance, Senator Rob- inson’s proposal is for:$1,500,000,000, ostensibly, “for the ee a ¢ J MASS RCED SALES - farmers” but really for the joint stock banks and other mortgage holders out of the public treasury. But the bulk of this ten billion dollars in farm mort- gages will never be paid. Because the revolutionary lead- ership will be active. Various agents of the banks are in the field all over the country in the guise of “farm leaders.” Among them are Simpson, Milo Reno, O’Neill, etc., and while foaming at the mouth whenever the farmers are looking these men all offer, not to repudiate this hideous load of swindlers’ claims, but to find a way to pay the banks, i. e., a way to perpetuate the farmers’ slavery to the mortgage holders, But the Communist Party comes forward with the demand for the CANCELLATION of the farm mort- gages! The Communist Party demands the confiscation of the land of the rich white landlords in the Black Beit tor the benefit of the Negro and white working farmers HE next step for the farmers struggles must be to rafse the great wave of demand of the whole laboring farmer masses for the complete cancellation of all of these Shylock claims. The Communist Party, through its great voice, the Daily Worker, must stir up the farm- to defeat the efforts of these swindling leaders who wish to tie them up to new mortgages, who wish to trick them into stopping the eleven cent sales, who wish to make them leave the bankers’ claims intact, who wish to prepare them to accept the Roosevelt administration’s form of so-called re-financing schemes which refinance the banks and re-enslave the farmers. The great strug. gle will go forward in a thousands forms. The direct ac- tion of the farmers has already brought a tremendous partial victory. The local elections in the near future will be another important step in which the Communist can- didates will show the revolutionary way out of the crisis, throwing off of the parasite system which makes inevit- able the enslavement not only of the working class of in- dustry but also of the toiling farmers of the country. r iS , . is clear that the voice of the Communist Party—the Daily Worker—must not be silenced in this struggle. The stakes are too great; the Daily Worker must not and cannot be allowed to die. The Daily Worker must become bigger and stronger, Yet the Daily Worker is in a really desperate situa- tion for want of the comparatively small amount of $35,000 we are attempting to raise. We are confident that the workers and the dirt farm- ers will respond. © * * (NONTRIBUTIONS, which totalled $351.99, improved yesterday, but NO? ENOUGH. Of this sum, $269.07 came from the New York district, which shows that the other districts have not yet awakened to acti i A flood of contributions from every district is necessary immediately to keep the “Daily” alive. Rush funds to the Daily Worker, 50 E. 13th St, New York City. Received yesterday .. $351.99 Total to date » $4,861.42 Yn Saturday's paper an error appeared in the total to date, which made it 13 cents greater than it should have been, This error was rex peated in Monday's and yesterday's jasues; it 15 corrected taday.2 ~~