The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 14, 1933, Page 1

A Good Way At a house party, held Sunday night in New York City, a group of sympathizers raised $50 for the Daily Worker. This is a good way of raising funds. Why can’t such parties be arranged in every city of the country? Entered as seve Ee? Now York, ¥. Vol. X, No. 38 clams matter st the Post Offies at » under the Act of Marek 8, 187%, (Section of the Communist International) NEW YORK, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1933 city From stration before the We went without brea! Daily Worker, our America! EDITION Jail “Dear Comrades: This collection of $4 was made in the Chicago jail that housed the 64 comrades arrested at the demon- Japanese consulate kfast. Long live the guide to Soviet Price 3 Cents HUDSON AUTO STRIKE ENDS IN TREMENDOUS VICTORY ) Defend German “Masses Against Hitler Rule! “and why, when the Nazi movement was obviously on the down- grade and slipping fast, should the whole forces of Nationalism now come to the aid of a declining National Socialism and be bending all their energies to establish Herr Hitler, their recently bitter and vituperative enemy, in the role of chief administrator of the Reich with a solid par- Hamentary majority of his own party or a coalition of the two parties behind him?” question is asked by Frederick T. Birchall, special correspondent of the New York Times in a telegram from Berlin published yesterday. Why? F Why did the forces of the German bourgeoisie and Junkers place Hitder in the Chancellorship just at the moment when he was “on the downgrade and slipping fast?” Precisely BECAUSE he was “on the downgrade and slipping fas' All of the great machine of bourgeois propaganda tries to make the forces of bourgeois “democracy” appear as something essentially differ- ent from the bourgeois-Junker dictatorship (the dictatorship of the same class or classes). The bourgeois-Liberals, the bourgeois Social-Democratic Yeutenants—all of the forces through which the capitalist dictatorship rules behind the “democratic” mask, are put forward as the “mortal enemies” to fascism which is the dictatorship of the same bourgeois and of the same landlord junkers with no essential difference except the ab- sence of the “democratic” mask! - Today every force of bourgeois influence within the working | class ranks is trying to make it appear that the German working class is de- feated, that the Social-Democratic agents of the bourgeoisie are the “bul- warks of democracy” against fascism, that the outright bourgeois political parties are engaged in fighting to preserve democracy for the benefit also of the working class, and that the way to prevent the naked dictator- ship of Hitlerism is to support the capitalist junker dictatorship in its “republican,” “democratic” form. Everything from the New York Times | to the rottenest little groups of police-agents adhering to the doctrine of Trotskyism and living as professional agents against the Communist Party are now trying to make it appear that the calling of Hitler into office by General von Hindenburg is against the will of that “good old man,” “a true friend of the Republic’! The Social-Democrat Party organ, the “Vorwaerts” of Berlin, which has been one of the most powerful agencies for paving the way to the introduction of fascism in Germany, has even said, on January 28, 1933: “Dishonorable people want to mislead the venerable president, that honorable man”! No, these “democratic” agencies of the dictatorship of the capitalists and landlords of Germany have given way to the naked form of the same dictatorship—because this was the logical step in the desperate effort to preserve the dictatorship of the landlords and capitalists of Germany, the logical next step in the effort to defeat the’ proletarian revolution of the German working. class and peasants. This. transition. from the | masked “democratic” form of capitalist junker dictatorship to the naked form which operates openly through the murder-gangs of Hitler—is an evidence not of the weakness of the working class revolution, but of the strength of the working class revolution! Hitler is put into power as the gun-thug of the bourgeoisie and junkers noi because, as the Social-Demo- crat misleaders and their Trotskyite jackal retainers say, not because of “victories” of counter revolution and “defeats” of the working class and of its Communist vanguard. No! Hitler is called into the Chancellorship precisely because of the grow- ing strength of the German proletarian revolution! What are the “victories” of the fascists among the masses in the past few months? On the contrary, a whole series of defeats furnish the almost unbroken record of Hitlerism among the masses of Germany for the past many months. In the last elections, alone, we see that Hitler Jost strength in every place where his party had been in power—Hitler lost in Chemitz, in Dusseldorf East, in Westphalia, in Dresden, in Coburg, in Braunschweig, in Thuringia, in Anhalt, in Bremen. Neither the von Papen Government, itself a fascist dictatorship, nor the mass movement of Hitler, nor the Social-Democrat Party, which is | the main social bulwark of the ruling German bourgeoisie—none of these has been able to prevent the increasing speed of radicalization of the German masses. Both the party of the bloody Hitler and the party of the bloody Noske (by means of the swindling demagogy by which the great masses of German workers are held back from revolutionary strug- gle) lost heavily in the last elections and the Communist Party of Ger- many was the one and only Party which consolidated itself with the masses. * The German junkers, bankers and trust-heads were compelled to move more rapidly because of the failure of Hitler's filthy demagogy of anti-semitism and pseudo-“revolutionary” reaction to increase its hold upon the masses, With the “slipping downgrade” of the Nazi move~ ment—while at the same time the social-fascist movement of the Social- Democratic Party was exposed dangerously in the eyes of the honest so~ ¢elalist workers who have been deceived by it—the German ruling class was forced to expose itself more quickly. * * * 5 ket magnificent Communist Patty of Germany, which already deserves the name of the German Bolshevik Party, under the leadership of the Communist International and of the sturdy warrior, Ernst Thael- mann, is advancing and not losing ground. The gain of 700,000 in the past election under the conditions of terror and violence, the defeat by | the Communist Party of both the fascist and social-fascist instruments &f the bourgeoisie—let these be belittled by agents of the bourgeoisie! But the German Bolshevik Party will proceed in this crisis in the Lenin- ist way and will mobilize the German working class for the overthrow and downfall of the murder-regime of Hitler together with the dictator- ship of the German bankers which it represents and together with the defeat of the foul pack of jackals, the so-called “socialist” misleaders who have held the great mass of German workers back from struggle against Fascism and have thereby paved an open road for Hitler to power. Only the Communist Pariy of Germany has been able to block this otherwise open road, and the German working class are more and more coming to see this. Already many thousands of honest Social-Democratic workers are fighting shoulder to shoulder with the fighting Communist workers and non-party workers as well as honest Christian workers to defeat the Hitler terror. The strategic task is that of drawing the decisive German working masses into the struggle over the heads and in spite of the Social-Demo- cratic agents of the. bourgeoisie! ‘ Let us remember that the Social-Democratic leadership in the last presidential election called upon the German workers to vote for Hin- denburg! Let us remember that it is these scoundrels who are answerable to the working class of the world, for the action of Hindenburg in ap- pointing the gun-thug Hitler as Chancelior of Germany! And we, American workers, let us unite our ranks in defense of the German masses against the fascist dictatorship of the bloody Hitler! Socialist workers! A. F. of L. workers! Unorganized workers! Join with the vanguard of the working class, the Communist Party, to defend the German masses in this crisis! CITY EVENTS DEMAND RELIEF AND RELEASE OF JANE WILLIAMS West Side and Upper West Side Unemployed Councils call all to de- menstrate at 11 a.m. today 519 West 44th St. Home Relief Bureau. % ® MASS MEETING RECOGNITION OF SOVIET UNION Under auspices of ids of Soviet Union, Corliss Lamont and Maarice Sugar (who defended Jesse Crawford) will speak on personal oxperiences in Soviet Union and campaign in America for its recognition, Meeting at 8 p.m. tonight in Irving Plaza Hal’ % BRONX MASS | DRIVE HITS HIGH RENTS Fight Evictions and Injunction Scheme of Landlords |PLAN BIG RENT STRIKE Torch Light. Parades, Demonstration, Wed. | YORK.—Bronx workers are | rallying against hieh rents, aeainst | |the injunction which the Bronx Landlords Association is trying to get against rent strikes, against the whole | barbarous system of driving: unem- ployed workers out of their homes | to freeze in the winter cold. They | are rallying for support of the New! | York State Conference for Unem- |} | ployment Insurance and Labor Legis- | | lation, to be held in Albany March 5 | ;to 7, They are rapidly mobilizing | for a mass rent strike. Jobless Councils Active Five Unemployed Council branches |in the Bronx: Boston Road Council | at 1,400 Boston Road; Middle Bronx | Council at 459 East 171st St., Cam- | breling Ave. Council at 658 East 188th St., East Bronx Council at 616 Tin- ; ton Ave.; and Lower Bronx Unem- | ployed Council, are backing the rent ; strike movement and rallying the jobless for picketing. A score of block and neighborr--d committees work- |ing close with the Unemployed | Councils are rallying whole neigh- |borhoods in support of the rent | Strikers. | There are now seven separate rent strikes in progress in the Bronx, and it-is expected that this number™ | of the preparations for mass rent | strike. The strikes now in progress are at 2027 Monterey Ave.; 451 Claremont | Parkway, 2420 Bronx Park East; 556 Fox St.; 3022 and 3026 and 3031 Hol- |land Ave.; 1788 Arnow Ave.; 3039 (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) DEMAND RELEASE! DUTCH SAILORS, |Marine Workers Union and Others Cable NEW YORK.—The Marine Work- ers Industrial Union, 140 Broad St.. | has cabled the Governor General of Netherlands India, at Batavia, de-| |manding the release of the sailors lof the cruiser De Zeven Provincien | and denouncing the cowardly murder of a number of them. Five hundred Bronx workers, gath- ered Saturday night at an affair | sponsored by Section 15 of the Com- munist Party, District 2, took similar action, sending their cablegram to the Dutch government. These work- ers voted to take part in any mass demonstration of protest that may | be arranged before the Dutch con- | sulate here. | The Jugo-Slav Workers Club of 108 West 24th St., has sent a similar telegram to the Dutch consul general at. Washington. The Anti-Imperialist League urges other workers’ organizations to also protest. ae a THE HAGUE, Holland, Feb. 13.~ The government is faced with a mut- tiny amon gthe seamen on its war- |Ships at the strongly fortified naval base of Helder, North Holland, as a result of growing indignation against | the aerial bombing of the native and European crew of the Dutch warship “De Zeven: Provincien” of the Far East Squadron. The crew mutinied on Feb, 5, against a new wage cut ordered by the government, They seized the warship and steamed out to sea. 22 were killed and many wounded when government planes bombed the vessel. The government yesterday started @ round-up of seamen, suspected of being Communists. Seventeen were detained. All guards have been doubled. A destroyer manned largely by officers and a few stool pigeon seamen kept up full steam at the wae of Helder today, teady to open The crews of many destroyers are under suspicion by the government. The most trusted army units are also being kept in readiness. 28 European members of the mut~ inous crew of the “De Zeven” have been landed at Batavia where they were at once imprisoned. 184 of the native mutineers have been landed on the island of Onrust. The Communist Party of Holland has held a number of demonstra- tions in various cities, rallying the toiling masses and many seamen to vigorous protests against the govern- ment’s wage-slashing and terror drive against the mutinous seamen in the Far-East. be multiplied by Wednesday, the peak Hit Boss Wars in Wall St. 4000 workers parade into the heart of U. S. imperialist ruje at Broad and Wall streets, N. ¥., in a demonstration against imperialist wars now raging in the Far East and South America. On one side is the ote of J. P. Morgan and Co, (left) and on the other, the stock ex- change. Chicago Sends $200; Emergency Great! TY? hundrds dollars yesterday, with a promise of $200 more by Thursday, was the Chicago district’s answer to a special emergency telegram sent by the Daily Worker te Districts 3 (Philadel- phia), 6 (Cleveland), 7 (Detroit) and 8 (Chicago). The telegrams were sent because there is an EMERGENCY, be- cause the Daily Worker is fighting for its life and ONLY IMMEDIATE AID CAN KEEP IT ALIVE. The $200 from Chicago was more than the entire sum this district has contributed since the drive to save the Daily Worker started Jan. 14. This shows that the money can be raised. But not a single one of the other districts that got these emergency wires replied. Where are Philadelphia, Cleveland and Detroit? If the Daily Worker should go un- der, it would be a terrific blow to the entire working class. Act before it is too late! Speed funds by wire or air mail to the Daily Worker, 50 E. 18th St., New York City. * * Received Sunday and Yesterday... Total to date ...... . $596.84 - $6,656.72 United Front of Worker Organizations to Save the Daily Worker Among the many organizations in New York whose creden- tials have been received for the SAVE, THE DAILY WORKER CONFERENCES TO BE HELD FEB. 19, 20 and 21, are Alter- ation Painters, Decorators and Paper Hangers Union of Greater New York Local 4; Local 3 Amalgamated Clothing Workers of N. ¥.; Fancy Leather Goods of the T.U.U.L., and many ‘other Unions. Credentia}s are also in for many Clubs, Women’s Coun- cils, Unemployment Councils and Shops. There are hundreds of organizations still not heard fron and the absence of these from the Conferences will badly crip- ple the work to avoid the suspension of the Daily Worker. % mk two delegates of each Branch of an organization or nion. One deiegate from each Shop Group, ysiti * Block and House Committee. : Rarer re ll organizations in Brooklyn send their dele; 5, S - Feb. 19, at 10:30 a.m., to Manhattan i Biaiah 66 rain All organizations in Manhattan send their delegates on Be pence, ne ee Panera Lyceum, 66 E. 4th St. orga ns island send their Manhattan Conference. : aaa All organizations in Staten Islan* send their delegates to the Manhattan Conference. All organizations in the Bronx shall send their delegates Tuesday, Feb. 21, to 801 Prospect Ave., Bronx, N. ¥. Racketeers Bet ray Members of Electricians Local 3 By ALEC NEW YORK.—Two or three months to the members of Local 3 of the International Brachechooa of mci Werke were literally bombarded with a series of leaflets signed The leaflets said, “the time for acting istration must go” and “others must be elected in its place.” program of the “New Deal Group” »—. concerned itself with electing indi- viduals to this or that office, and not! with the problems of the membership of Local 3. One outstanding feature of. the “New Deal Group” is the fact that these “leaders” were not willing to divulge their names to the members “New Deal Group.” “the present admin- The entire has come” and to expulsion” . .. .. so that to the present period the members as a whole are ignorant as to who is who in the “New Deal Group,’ though we shall list a couple of this group. Such a policy of secrecy is both cowardly and inconsistent at a time « HITLER GANG Shoot 13-Year Old Boy in Stomach; Hack | Off Hand SORES OF COLLISIONS {Ban “Rote Fahne” for Fourteen Days BULLETIN ST. LOUIS, Mo. Feb. 13.—Two hundred and fifty workers demon- strated against the bloody fascist | mule of Hitler. The speakers were defended by the workers for fully | ten minutes before the police finally broke through and | workers. \ arrested two (Cable by Inprecorr.) | BERLIN, Feb. 13.—A series jof bloody collisions occurred | during the week-end through- out Germany, resulting in 11 dead and _ scores seriously wounded. At Eisleben, Thu- ringia, the fascists held a procession past the local offices of the Commu- nist Party, despite a supposed police prohibition. The police refrained from interference with the fascists. Bloody Fascist Attack. Alleging that shots were the procession, the fas armed with revolvers, clubs, knives and entrenching tools, stormed the premises, including the neighboring gymnasium where workers’ children were exercising. Only a few workers Gloecke, a Communist worker, w also killed in the fight. The Commu- nist Deputy Bernard Koenen is among the many wounded, with one of his hands hacked off by a spade and an eye knocked out. A 13-; old boy was shot in the stomach, while other workers’ children were brutally thrashed by the fascist gangs. The premises were demolished by the fascists. Eye witness reports show that the fascists themselves fired the first shot The restraint in the official reports of the fighting indicates confirmation of the eye witness report. Many Workers Shot Piainclothes police in Bochum shot @ worker dead, on the pretext of | “self-defense”. At Staafurt an un- | known number of persons were shot | At Dortmund, marching fascists k: led a worker wearing an anti-fas badge. At Benzheim, fascis wild fusilade of shots killed a | less pedestrian. | Brunswick police shot a worker | dead for failure to close his window quickly enough when ordered by the police. Two women were also shot |on the same account, but not killed. In Cologne, fascists killed a Catholic | leaving a dairy carrying a jug of | milk during a wild shoting affray. Striegay, leader of the fascist storm detachments, was killed. , Scores of other collisions occurred in various parts of, Germany, with many injured. H “Rote Fahne” Suppressed. Duesseldorf police arrested fifty {Demand His Release! | | Sam Weinstei®, on trial today in Bronx County Court on framed-up | charges of manslaughter and as- ; sault, carrying a 20-year penalty. | Veterans will be present to de- | mand his release. Workers should fill the court room, Tremond and Arthur Streets, Bronx to protest the frame-up on manslaughter charges of this innocent worker. Be there at 9:4 ! . im. | | | 60 NEEDLE SHOPS STRUCK: 50 ARE ALREADY SETTLED ILGWU and Forward! Yelp With Rage But Struggle Broadens were present, bit these offered a des-|) NEW YOR! he drive in perate resistance against the ove cloak and dress trade conducted by} whelming weight of numbers. A u the .Cloakmakers Committee of 100, | formed fascist was killed. Ervi akers Unity Committee > Needle Trades Wo Jnion has res! d in the struggle in 90 shop strikes. victories have been won n 50 shops. instance the workers re- al improvement in their Among the outstanding faymen and Sanger, This shop employs | workers, mainly The workers who bf been under miserable conditions ant and determined to carry pai 0 young y in the | e created enthusiasm in the ranks of the cloakmakers. The leadership of the ILGW, just as in all is onthe job in an effort to interfere with this cam- paign. For the past couple of days the “Forward” has been issuing print- ed statements in the name of the officials of the ILGWU warning them against the “Communist menace” and | rl to remain slaving under sweatshop conditions. The an-| |swer of the rank and file workers | will be to intensify the drive The committee of 100 has arranged | a Cooper Union mass meeting Wed- at 5 p.m. previous strugs BAPTISTS HELP | SCOTTSBORO CASE NEW YORK ganizations are increasi - Communist wor! alleging a plot | ing the Scottsboro U Defense to endauger “law and security”. The | Committee as a result of the growing |“Rote Fahne”, official organ of the | indignation of the Negro masses has been suppres- | 8éainst the lynch verdicts. The Bap- 14 days until Febru- | tist Ministers Conference has set , with the result that the Com- | #Side Feb. 19 Scottsboro Day. On munist Party is deprived of its d that dé osure of the facts in Jorgan during the greater part of the | the hi ame-up of the nine election campaign. inndtent Negro ct will be pre- iS e sented from the 5 i nearly 150 | Baptist churches of Greater New (RAID HOLLYWOOD York and vicinity. A Scottsboro mass | meeting Abyssinian Baptist | Church last Wednesday was attended by 1,000 persons. An appeal for ‘JOHN REED CLU LOS ANGELES, Feb. 13.—A Japan- | ese Night party of the John Reed | Club of Hollywood was broken up| Saturday night by Captain Hynes | notorious Red Squad and a gang of | | Legionnaires. The attackers ran wild, ‘demolishing the place and destroving valuable art works, including a revo- | lutionary fresco. Doors were ripped |from their hinges, signs broken, and Nterature confiscated. Three hun- ered people were present at the time After the Red Squad and Legion- naires had finished their wrecking work, a Legionnaire threatened to \drive the John Reed Club, which is an organization of revolutionary writ~ ers and artists, from Hollywood. A} schoolhouse was used to hide the | attackers. | ic Me N. ¥. Club Wires Protest NEW YORK.—A telegram vigor- | ously protesting against the attack on the John Reed Club of Hollywood was sent to Mayor Porter of Los An~ geles yesterday by the John Reed funds to support the mass and legal | | defense activities of the International | | Labor Defense will be made at the} same time. Funds are urgently needed. Rush/ contributions to the Scottsboro New | Trial Emergency Fund of the Inter- | tional Labor Defense, 80 East 11th| Street, Room 430, New York, N. Y. otra Club, Jail Negro Longshoreman. NORFOLK, Va., Feb. 13.—Joe Goodman, unemployed Negro long-| shoreman, was brutally mauled and} clubbed by police last Wednesday be- | cause he had no home and “lived inj a dug-out on the waterfront near} Upton’s Dock, where he had formerly slaved for years at hand-to-mouth wages The police beat him until he fell unconscious in a pool of blood and) then dragged him off to jail. At his) hearing he was fined $3 and costs— which means 26 days in jail for this impoverished, starving worker. The International Labor Defense is | appealing the case, mobilizing mass! protests,. and intends to bring suit, on Club of New York, signed by Harry ‘Alan, Potamkin, executive secretary. behalf of Goodman, police. Noo | mands won by th | defeat of a 20 percent wage cut i WAGE RAISE AND 8 OTHER POINTS WON Fourth Victory Under Militant Union Leadership STRIKERS ORGANIZED 100° Will Spur Struggle at Briggs, Feb. 19 Meet DETROIT, Feb. 13. — The of more an «4,000 | workers of the Hudson Motor Car Co. ended today with a tremendous victory for the mil- workers who we 1 itant Auto Worker striki 1) Increase in hourly wage-rates of from 10 to 20 percent. Increase in bonus rate from 10 to 25 percent. 2) 3) One hour's pay guaranteed if men are called to work and not put to work. 4) Adequate number of relief work- ers in production fines. 5) No victimization of workers ac- tive in the strike and in build~ ing the union. 6) New or improved tools for work~ ers. 7) Ne worker to lose job until ab sent ten days instead of five days as in past. 8) Improved yentilation, especially in the spraying department. 9) Physical examinations to be cut down to a minimum. Theworkers went back organized in the Auto Workers Union pra cally 100 percent and the strikers, r union. De- i shop dele- ’ being orga- son plant, nized in the Hi The Hudson strike started Tuesday in the body plant after men active in union work had been fired. Later it spread to the motor assembly workers and forced the closing of all the Hudson plants ir this city. It marks the fourth vic tory won by the Detroit auto workers under the leadership of the Aute Workers Union. The first was the the Briggs Vernor Highway 1 This was followed by the overwhelr ing victory of more than 1,200 wo: ers of the Motor Products Corpora- tion, who struck against a 15 percent cut. Shortly after this, the great Briggs strike, involving more than 10,000 men at all four Briggs body plants, started in a fight for wage- increases and other demands. After a bitter struggle, the workers in the Briggs Highland Park plant went back, winning an increased minimum wage-rate and the abolition of “dead time” (unpaid time). The strike at the other Brigg: (CONTINUED ON PAGE THRE) POLTIS FISHER WORKERS. STRIKE Fires 5 Employes NEW YORK.—A strike started yes t am. at the Foltis-Fisher ant on 43rd Street and Sixth The strike was decided or terday by the shop committees ‘of the F Fisher restaurant chain, Five members of the union were laid off last week at the 43rd Street restaurant after the company had promised that there would be no lay~ offs nor discrimination. This prom~ ise was forced from the Foltis- Fisher people after a mass demon~ stration last week. The company has now shown that their word is worth less. The police were at the restaurant yesterday and kept the workers and their sympathizers from standing near. Two workers picketed the res~ taurant and were not interfered with by the police. The Foltis-Fisher Company is now in the hands of the receiver, Prior to going into bankruptcy they forced their employees on pain of losing their jobs to purchase stock in the concern. Some workers were paying from $100 to $250 for stock on the instalment plan. This occurred at an early stage of the organization activity of the Food Workers Indus- trial Union, and the union was not then able to prevent it. However. since then the union has forced Foltis-Fisher to refund the money to some of the workers. Some of those now on strike have stock in the company and are among those laid off. A meeting will be called in the next few days to formulate demands against, the| for maintenance of the wage scaig «Abo 4 ANd Lhe bettering of eanditions, ™~ i