The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 10, 1933, Page 1

“I call upon all workers to respond wholeheart- edly to the call of the Daily Worker for funds and for greater circulation. Strengthen the voice of the Daily Worker.”—TOM MOONEY. y Dail Central “Vol. X, No. 35 Orga 4 ~?) (Section of the Communist International) orker unist Party U.S.A. “I am out of work for the last straight, without any other means of income have in my possession today $1 (the only one) to add to the Daily Worker Fand. 7 / 22 months 1 I would go on the tiet, ‘Dry Bread Softened in Water for a Week’, Ind. in order to save the Daily Worker, our strength in this time of struggle.” greatest —G. T Gary, Entered ac vecond-clasr matter at the Post Office at SEE 2. Now York, M.Y., under the Act of Mareb 8, 187% NEW YORK, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1933 CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents ALL OUT AT 5 TODAY IN UNION SQ. FOR MOONEY RELEASE | | ] | ] eas Working Class! (AN EDITORIAL) the gigantic class struggles now proceeding in Germany, the key problem is to bring about the unity of action of the German working class including ‘he great mass of workers under the influence of the Social Democratic Party, against the bloody regime which the German capi- talist and Junker rulers are establishing through the naked dictatorship of the professional organizer of mass murder, Adolph Hitler. The key problem, from the revolutionary point of view, is to bring the eight million German workers who yoied for the Social Democratic Party, and the Christian workers as well, into this united front of action. And precisely so, the key problem, from the point of view of the capitalist reaction, is to prevent these masses of German workers frqm entering into struggle in a united front together with the six million workers led by the Communist Party for actual struggle agai the bour- seois dictatorship. This is the ceniral point in a struggle which has today reached the stage where the German capitalist and Junker rulers, through the treach- ery of the social-fascist leaders, haye so far succeeded in holding back trom the struggle the great mass of social democratic workers. The great mass of social democratic workers was even induced, through the agency of the leaders of the Social Democratic Parties, to give its support di- rectly to the German monarchist Field Marshall Von Hindenburg. And while the German social democratic leaders continued to hold the great mass of German workers back from struggle, the maturing revolutionary crisis has advanced to the point where Hindenburg has appointed the bloody assassin Hitler as Chancellor. This is precisely the historic role of the Social Democratic Party in the present period—the role of prepar- ing the way for the introduction of open, naked fascism in place of the forms of pretended capitalist “democracy”. The role of the Social Democratic Pariy is to provide the social support to the bourgeois dictatorship in this period. That the leaders of the “socialist” parties are correctly described as fascists”. main * * ¥ ND now that monarchist General Hindenburg, with the aid of the German “socialist” leaders, has ushered the bloody Hitler into power which is precisely what the Communist Party fought against and pre- dicted—what do the “Socialist” Party leaders do in order to cover up this naked exposure by history of their crimes against the great mass of work- ers who mistakenly support these misleaders in their belief that they are supporting socialism? With the criminal Hitler in the saddle in Germany—we hear the Rey, Norman Thomas, the American equivalent sf the social democratic | agents of the capitalist’ class in Germany, exclaim sorrowiully: “To vote for Hindenburg, te block Hitler, and then get both— that is a' tragedy!” (From the NEW LEADER, February 4, 1933.) SA) ere UT who urged the German workers to vote for Hindenburg? Who told the German workers that voting for the “lesser evil”—Hindenburg— would block the “greater evil”—Hitler? Precisely the German brother “Socialisi” “Socialist” Party! And precisely the American Socialist Party, precisely through the mouth of Norman Thomas, Algernon Lee and all of its leaders, supported the German social traitors in this act of treason! What did Norman Thomas and other socialist leaders write directly after the election of Hindenburg? Norman Thomas piously sighed and then blessed Hindenburg. On March 19, 1932, Norman Thomas wrote in the New Leader: “It was @ bitter dose for socialists all around the world to con- template the necessity the German s0cial democracy felt to vote for Hindenburg in order to beat Hitler. NEVERTHELESS HINDEN- BURG HAS AT LEAST BEEN HONEST AND LOYAL TO THE RE- PUBLIC.” (Our emphasis.) In the same issue of the New Leader, Algernon Lee writing on the results of the German presidential elections, said: “The fascists, the Communists and the monarchists made three distinct though simultaneous attacks upon the republic. It was no honorable scruple that preyented them from joining their forces. No one suspects either Hitler or Hugenberg of being too honest to bargain in such a case and the Communists showed their willingness to enter ‘** dirtiest of deals in the Prussian referendum last Sep- tember.” In this way Norman Thomas and Algernon Lee echoed the treach- erous deeds of their social fascist brothers of Germany. The German social democratic workers ore surging forward in the desire to struggle against fascism. Their growing determination for working class unity with the Communists and the common ficht against fascism is making rapid headway. To stop this growing united front movement, to stop the exodus of the social democratic workers from the Social Fasc'st Party, the social fascist leaders are compelled to maneuver. The only party, the only force which called upon the German toilers to unite against fascism, to vote against Hindenburg who is responsible for the “Hitler tragedy”, was the Communist Party of Germany. Hin- denburg, the Prussian Junker, the monarchist, has been pictured to the German working class by the German and the American Norman Thom- ases and Algernon Lees, as being “honest and loyal to the republic”! Yet in the face of the endless chain of treacheries to the German working class, to the German revolution, Algernon Lee is contemptible enough to tell the workers that “it was no honorable scruple that prevented them (the Communists, together with fascists and mon- archists) from joining their forces”! Those who paved the way for fas- cism, those who supported Hindenburg, have the effrontery to tell the workers that the fascists, Communists and monarchists have joined forces! UT to expose such lies it is only necessary to refer back'to the written words of the social-fascist swindlers of honest socialist workers. For instance, before the German presidential elections, the New Leader of March 12 carried an article by Adolph Dreyfus, whom it described as “a veteran German socialist and has been a member of the American So- cialist Party for more than thirty years.” This article defends the policy of the German social-fascists in supporting the Bruening Government, in voting for Hindenburg. Dreyfus wrote: “The socialists feel that their efforts to frustrate a fascist regime ds to the best interests of the working class, and CAN ONLY (!) BE AC- COMPLISFED BY THEIR TACTIC OF TOLERATION OF THE BRUENING GOVERNMENT.” (Our emphasis). German workers were to'd: tolerate Bruening, tolerate Hinden- burg (it. would be too dangerous to call for open support) and you will not get Fitler, you will not have fascism. Under the slogan of “fighting fascism” by. “tolerating” Bruening and Hindenburg, the German social fascist leaders paved the way for fascism and once more “chained or- ganized Iahor to the bourgeois state machinery and by doiny so parz!tyzed the revolutionary enerey of their rank ard file.” (From the statement of the German manufacturers on the role of Gorman social democracy). But this paralysis of the working-class forces was described by these hypocrites as a “united front”! For, Dreyfus wrote: “The social democrats offered such a united front,” (tolerating the government, voting for Hindenburg) “to the Communists.” Yes, a “united front” for the introduction of Hitler and fascism! UT, ¢-spite the treacherous actions of the social fascist agents of the German Junkers and bankers, the German working class is already beginning to unite and they will be won, even under the fiercest terror of the murder-organizer Hitler, to an invincible class unity and the oyer- throw of the capitalist dictatorship together with its social fascist agents. The American working class must fix its eyes clearly upon the events in Germany! The cause of the German workers is the cause of the work- ers of the wold! Every sincere worker inthis country, including those who adhere to Party, must join in a. united front of support to the German ° Party of the American \ Unite to Support German DEMAND NEW TRIAL; FORCE HIS RELEASE NEW YORK.—The attempt by the capitalist class te close the Tom Mooney case by refusing him trial on | the one indictment standing against | him, and the vicious threat by warden Holohan of San Quentin to rob Mooney of all rights to see visitors will be fought vigorously by the en- tire workingclass of the United States in a series of mass demonstrations, the first of which will be held in Union Square today at 5 p.m. All militant unions and scores of | workers’ mass organizations endorse this demonstration and cal} all their members and all workers to Union Square today. Tom Mooney’s personal represent- ative, Louis B. Scott, who presented a petition on the Mooney case to president-elect Roosevelt recently, will be one of the main speakers at the demonstration. Additional speak- ers will include John D, Masso, Glass Bevellers Union, A. F. of L.; John | J. Ballam, District Secretary. Inter- }mational Labor Defense; Ben Gold, | Louis Hyman, Needle Trades Work- ers Union; James W. Ford, Trade | Union Unity League, and Sam Wein- stein, whom the capitalist class is trying to railroad to prison because | of his militancy in a strike against wage-cuts, speed-up program of the furniture bosses of New York City. ‘NEW HITLER LAW RAISES PRICES OF PROVISIONS DANGER SIGNAL! READER DURING the past few days we have been point- ing out to you the indispensable role of the Daily Worker in various great struggles of the American workers and poor farmers. The Detroit auto strikes, the fight to free Tom Mooney, the struggles of the unemployed for immediate ré- lief and unemployment insurance, the fight to free the Scottsboro boys and Angelo Herndon, involy- ing the whole struggle for Negro rights and libera- tion, the growing mass movement of the farmers against forced sales, the exposure of Roosevelt and the fight against his hunger program—these are only a few of the struggles we have discussed with you, and shown you the burning need of the leader- ship, the fighting, organizing role of the Daily Worker in all these great But— YOU WILL NOT class battles. HAVE THE DAILY WORKER TO LEAD THESE AND OTHER MIGHTY STRUGGLES UNLESS $35,000 IS RAISED TO SAVE IT FROM SUSPENSION. We must state frankly: so far the campaign for funds has failed to produce the needed response —only about $5,500 raised in almost four weeks. Textile Barons Plan Syndicalism Bill for Jobless Council Prepare: This isa DANGER signal. This is a call to ACTION. The American masses cannot and will not let their fighting paper die! Can the $35,000 be raised? iT MUST! In the summer of 1931, at a time when millions were al- ready unemployed, the American workers, farmers and friends of the working class raised not $35,000 but $44,000 to save the Daily Worker. * * N the presidential elections, 103,000 people, according to official figur voted Communist. This does not in- clude the thousands of votes that were stolen, the thou- sands of workers who were prevented from voting Com- munist because the Party was ruled off the ballot in certain states, the thousands of others (foreign-born and Negroes) who were disfranchised. But even on the basis of the official figures, if these 103,000 contributed only 50 cents e, the $35,000 would be more than fulfilled. This eans: broaden the drive! Collect among work- ers, sympathizers and organizations never reached before. And remember: action must be quick, immediate! The goa! is $35,000 but EVERY DAY CARRI A NEW THREAT TO THE LIFE OF THE DAILY WORKER. Answer the call today! Rush contributions at once to the Dailp Worker 50 E. 13th St., New York City. 3394.40 3969.24 Received yesterday .. Total to date ......... | ‘AUTO STRIKE SPREADS INTO MOTOR PLANT Hudson Co. Forced te Receive Committee; Boss Pi Lies FEB. PREPARE 19 MEET Strikers Ranks Firm ; Ford Still Closed BULLETIN DETROIT, Feb. 9.—The strike at the Hudson body plant is spreading to the motor a mbly plant, the first time that a strike has been organized at a motor sembly plant. The Briggs Company has announced an increase in wages and better working conditions, but continues to refuse to negotiate with the strikers’ committee. DETROIT, Feb. 9.— Witi more than 4,000 workers on strike ‘in the Hudson Motor as INSULTS NEGROES Company’s body plant, with | thousands still on strike at all Wage-Cutting Attack HAYS, N. C,, Feb. 9.—An “anti- | syndicalist” law is now f sing drafted | by textile manufacturers at Charlotte, _N. C., to be used against the etrug-| lation scheduled to meet in Albany. gles expected to result from the ex-| State Conjerence Support BACKS NAACP { NEW. YORK.—At a full delegate meeting, the Unemployed Council of Greater New York heard the report of Carl Winters, secretary, on the State | Conference for Unemployment Insurance, immediate relief and Jabor legis- Delegates present unanimously voted public endorsement of the Al- 'Greef Denies Charges Against Harlem Hosp. NEW YORK.—Commissioner of e| the auto workers thr’ Fascist Cabinet Puts , tensive wage cutting campaign now Import Duties on | going on. This attack also aims a direct blow at the leader of militant © bany Conierence, and to call on all (LO AK AND DRESS |ssise" organizations to rally Meat, Lard BERLIN, Feb. 9.—The first |economic act of the fascist | Hitler cabinet favors the re- ‘actionary junkers and hits the| |masses. The cabinet has is-| ;sued a decree imposing im-} | port duties on various food-| stuffs, including meat and} lard. Since the crisis, lard has be-| come a staple food of the workers; | the new import duties, therefore, by | raising the price of this staple, will further increase starvation and suf- fering among the masses. | The bourgeois press is trying to} squeeze some consolation out of the} official figures on unemployment, which gives the ‘number of unem- ployed on Jan. 31 as a few thousand tess than at the same time last year. However, the figure given, a little aver 6,000,000, does not include the | “invisible” unemployed, totalling at | least 1,000,000, These are the jobless who have been cut off from unem- ployment benefit as a result of the successive emergency decrees of the ‘CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE: 400 in Parade for Cafeteria Strikers: Burst Thru Barriers | Set by Police NEW YORK.—Disregarding police | discrimination in favor of the bosses’ association, 800 strikers and sympa-! thizers rallied at Sutter and Stone in support of the locked out members | of the Cooks and Countermens Local No. 325 in Brownsville Wednesday night. Around 400 formed the solid kernel of a torchlight parade which march- ed along Pitkin Avenue, the prin- cipal center of the cafeteria strike. The police permit expressly excluded this street from the parade route, but when the workers reached Sut-| ter and Stone, they disregarded the strike-breaking action of the police and paraded on Pitkin. The parade and mass rallies at the beginning and the finish, marked by tremendous enthusiasm of the work- ers in spite of rain and cold, created consternation among thé bosses and the A. F, of L, officials, Leading the parade were the Strike Committee of Local 325, Beal of the Food Workers Industrial Union and Horwatt of the Brownsville mass or- ganizations. support of the cafeteria workers was made possible through the constant guidance and support of the Food Workers Industrial Union and the mass organizations behind the strike commitice- and the members -of 325, strugles, the Communist Party. The proposed law will be intro-| duced at the present session of the | state legislature, scheduled to adjourn | March 4th. | Mass protests of the workers are necessary to defeat this new move of the textile barons. WIN STRATEGIC GOODMAN SHOP. Fur Dyers Get Gains from Labor Hater NEW YORK —The strike starting Monday at Goodman & George, 139 St., Bronx, was won yesterday. This is one of the largest fur dy- ing shops. For the last ten years, since smashing a 14-week’s strike by | use of armed thugs, this firm has | heen bitterly hostile to organized la- | Sor. The strike of 120 workers was led by the Fur Fin‘shers and Dyers De- vartment of the Needle Trades Work- ers Industrial Union. Fur workers generally in the manufacturing shops of New York showed excellent soli- darity and refused to work on skins that had gone through the struck shop. Though the company had again hired gunmen, it had to surrender. | The strikers win: $3 a week increase in wages; reduction of hours with- out reduction in pay from 50 per week to 44; unemployment insurance fund payments by the boss of 3 per cent of the payroll and no payments | by the workers, but, managed by the workers; no discrimination and equal | distribution of the work. | The N.T.W.1LU, has already organ- | ized, on similar terms, about 1,000 | workers and practically all the fur | dying shops in Brooklyn. tional shops striking yesterday. STRIKES SPREAD Jobless Vote Their Full Support NEW YORK.—The campaign of | bany Conference, elected by a cor shop strikes in the cloak and dress | trade continues to spread, with addi- | In both trades the settlement committee continues to sign up shops on the basis of improvements in conditions. Over a thousand struck Wednesday, adding to large numbers already out. A huge meeting of unemployed cloakmakers in Bryant Hall yester- day heard J. Boruchowitz on the pro- gress of the strike, and voted enthu- siastic support of it. Ben Gold and Louis Hyman of the Industrial Union were cheered when they greeted the cloakmakers’ struggle. Nathan Leventhal, of Local 9 of the IL.G.W.U. reported that the local, in which a left wing adminis- ration was recently placed in office, is preparing a demonstration aeainst Saturday work. The unemployed voted to take part in masses in the demonstration. WilliamsThuss Menace “The Daily” | Newsboys NEW YORK. stand guard over the workers at Wil- Ave. from 25th to 26th streets. The workers: were on @ short sirike last week, and were sold out by pigeon types who got on their coia- mittee. Armed gangsters | stool | detachments of jobless representa- tives to come to Albany. The city Unemployed Council plans to organ- ize a truck parade or a mass march of its delegation to Albany. Change of Date Winters, who is a member of the Provisional Committee for the ference of 69 organization ing to the call of the rank and file committee last. month, | announced that the date of the Al- bany Conference was changed to March 5, 6 and 7, instead of in Feb- ruary as previously announced The opening session of the Albany Conference will take place at Odd Fellows Temple, 4648 Beaver Street, Albany, N. Y., March 5, at 10 a.m. On March 4, Winters exvlained, a nation wide movement of jobless will develop to exert mass pressure upon the new Democratic administration for immediate relief to the unem- nloyed. Postponement of the Albany Sonference to March 5 was made for the purrose of tak.1¢ full advantage of the March 4 campaign. Expose Splitters Splitting tactics of the Socialist Party officials were expesed and con- demned by Winters and the other delevates to the Council. Winte~s related how the Socialist Party offi- cials issued a call for_their city con- ference, after they heard that the _ | Stateme: Hospitals Greef supported the “in-| | vestigation” committee of the Nation-| al Association for the Advancement | ot Colored People, insulted the Ne- | gro People, and refused to accept the! |demands the Peoples Committee| Against Discrimination in Harlem! Hospital, which demand the Harlem, | peop: investigate it and control it, | pia before him yesterday morn- | The commissioner, in answer to the nt by one of the delegation that Negro doctors were not permit-| ted to practice in all hospitals thru- jout the < pued forth with the] | “white superiority” lie. This is noj |time to experiment with Negro doc- tors distributed throughout the city.” Greef, referring to the N.A.A.CP.| committee said, “I went along with| them with pleasure” and “until that | committee reports nothing can be! done.” | The Tammany commissioner car-| ried his insults still further and ‘in| | answer to the fact that the majority |of the staff at Harlem Hospital are white asked with all the venom of his class: “Have you any civil service Ne- groes who are on the list?” He completely ignored the firing | and forced resignations of Negro doc- | tors and nurses and inferred that this is as it should be. Speakers of the League of Struggle | for Negro rights, Wm. Fitzgerald, and four the Briggs body plants, and witt ughout the city preparing for their conference Sun- | day, Feb. 19, called by the Autc , Workers Union and the ‘Unemployed (CONTINUED ON PAGE’ THREE) STRIKEBREAKER Labor Doak, who is Secretary of tempting to Smash the Detroit auto strikers’ ranks by victimizing the foreign born. DUTCH TOILERS — BACK UP SAILORS Demonstration for | Navy Mutineers THE HAGUE, Feb. 9.—Demonstra- | tions in support of the naval mutiny jin the Dutch East Indies and in pro- j test against the bloody measures or- dered by the government against the mutineers were held today through- |out Holland. Similar demonstrations have occurred in the Dutch East In- | dies and Dutch Guiana. Demonstrations in this city were viciously attacked by the police, sup- A. F. of L. rank and file committee | ety Shepard, of the Peoples Com-| ported by the bourgeois and socialist had called for the State-wide con- jst | ference in Albany. liams Co. grocery warehouse on Tenth | The Socialist call specifically bars the Unemployed Council from their conference, thereby deliberately cluding the most militant organized section of the unemployed which has Now the boss is desperately atraid | been at the forefront of mass demon- that they will revolt again. two Daily Worker sellers and Red} Builders appeared with papers be- | * fore the place a couple of days ago, three thugs posted in a bar room) across the When | Strations for relief, rent strikes and innumerable struggles, including the National Hunger March in December 1932. To the splitting tactics of the So- street dashed out and|Cialist Party officialdom which are threatened the newsboys with lead | calculated to disrupt effective action pipes and guns. CITY EVENTS This powerful, united action in} BROWDER SPEAKS ON TECHNOCRACY TONIGHT Earl Browder, Sccretary of the Communist Party, lectures on “Tech- neeracy and Communism” at 8:30 p.m. today at New School Auditorium, 66 W. 12th St. " « PAINTERS DEMONSTRATE TOMORROW AGAINST EXPULSIONS All members of the Brotherhood of Painters urged to meet in front of District Council headquarters, 14 St. and Eighth Ave., at 9:30 a.m. Saturday, to protest frame up of rank and file members by crooked clique. Me STACHEL DEBATES MUSTE SUNDAY | Jack Stachel, assistant secretary of T.U.U.L., debates A. J. Muste, | leader of Conference for Progressive Labor Action, on the policies of the two organizations. Debate is at 1 pam. Sunday at New Star Casino, Ad- mission 35 cents, * 2 | ape, et ae PATTERSON DEBATES HAYS TONIGHT William UL. Patterson, secretary of International Labor Defense, de- bates Arthur Garfield Hays of the American Civil Liberties Union, at 8: Pm, today at Stuyvesant Casino, on the subject: “Legalism ys. Mass Ac- Hon; Which Will Save the Scottsboro Boys?” * i senting hundreds of workers assem- for relief, the Council voted to issue ® call to the workers in all unem- ployed organizations, block and house committees, jobless groups, in flop- houses, breadlines and others, to or- sanize a single, united front action in support of the Albany Confe-ence. The Council decided to urge all or- sanizations which have already elec- ted delezates to the Socialist Con- |mitiee, Dorothy Wilkes of the Med- |ical Workers League poin'ed out time and again to th i er that the AAC P. were made up of e! gro péople, but that the “investigation” i 1” and that those vitally concerned, the peo- ple of Harlem and the Negro doc- tors and nurses ousted, had no sa: Admitting that committee pmies of the Ne- the conditions inj the city hospitals are undermining the lth of the workers, and with his own chart hanging on the wall before him, listing the bed spade in| Harlem Hospital on Feb. 7th as 325 and the number of patients as 420, and in the face of the facts by the| Peoples Committee citing the dis-| crimination, segregation and but- chery, the commissioner stated “You }ean't tell us here how department.” An ex-patient of the Harlem Hos-/| | pital cited the abominable treatment | to run the| ‘erence, to instruct these to call upon | accorded him, the committee cited he workers in that conference to/ Other cases, but Greed pooh poohed | unite with the Albany Conference. them down as though they didn’t Rally All Honest Forces matter. That the Albany Conference will} The Peoples Committee reported rally behind it all honest and consci- | the result of their visit to Greef last ons sections. of the working class,| night at St. Luke's Hall and pre- | pared new steps in the fight against the conditions in Harlem Hospital, (CONTINUED ON PAGE 3) OFFICE WORKERS PROTEST | WIN FOOD FOR NEGRO WOMAN NEW YORK.—A protest resolution | Committee, at 297 Fourth Ave., who | Harlem Unemployed Council did she refused to see their delegation repre- | get rent money and a food ticket. | Many other victories have been won NEW YORK.—Only when the case | was passed by the membership of the | of an unemployed Negro worker, Ce- | Unemployed Office Workers Associa- | lia Millano, was taken up with the | tion, against the Emergency Relief | Home Relief Buro at 125th St. by the | press. The socialist leaders have called upon their followers to sabot- Despite this, ge the demonstratior many socialis demonstrators. Soc the State General a pporting the drastic measures ordered oy the gov- ernment to drown the mutiny and upporting strike movement in blood. while hypocritically declaring that they favor “moderate measures” against the mutinous seamen and strikers ‘The combined air fleets and Dutch East. Indies squadron are pursuing |the mutinous crew of the warship |“De Zeven Provincien.” The battle- ship is now reported in the Indian Ocean, southeast of Benkulen, Sum- atra, The crew was forced to aban- don its intentions to enter the naval base and arsenal at Sonubaya, Java, as a result of the mobilization of oth- jer warships at the base and the ment’s terms of unconditional sur- render with court martial for the leaders of the revolt, and have strip- per their guns for action, FOUR FREED IN EVICTION CASE NEW YORK.—Charges of disord ly conduct, holding a meeting with- out a permit and inciting a crowd to unlawful acts placed by Tammany police against Helen Lynch, organ izer of the West Side Unemployed Council, Daniel O'Connell, Fred Seid- ler and Peter Morton, unemployed workers, were thrown out of court by Judge Greenspan for lack of suffi cient evidence in night court session Wednesday. The four workers were arrested while holding an open-air meeting in protest against the evic- bled in front of the building demand- | by: the Brooklyn and Manhsttan | tion of a family from 424 West 4étn ing the reopening of registration, A oun i