The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 15, 1933, Page 1

New York Council 23, of the United Councils of Working Class Women, has contributed $40 to the Daily Workers’ drive for $35,000. These women workers urge other councils to get down to work and raise funds for the “Daily.” Let’s have every working-class group get into the drive with full force! (Section of the Communist a ) dispensable value to paper America the tremen Hudson auto worke day, just as it was consistently support the Daily Worker al now! The Dally Worker again proved its in« working-class strug- gles by being the only English language to make known to the workers of ndous victory of the rs in Detroit yester- the only paper that ed the strikers. Keep ive by rushing funds Vol. X, No. 39 Entered az cecond-elaes matter at the Per! Offies wt ei New York, N.Y., under the Act of Maresh 8, 187%, Congratulations, Detroit ‘ALL BANKS Auto Workers! » ONGRATULATIONS to the workers of the Hudson Motor Car Company of Detroit for the splendid victory that they have won! Congratulations to all workers in all industries inside and outside of Detroit—for this splendid victory which will strengthen the determination of the American working class to beat back the savage attack which is being made in every industry, in every city and town and: mining camp to drive he American workers’ standard of living down to unbearable starvation! * UT—consolidate this victory, fellow workers! Don’t lie down to sleep on your laurels! Realize that you will yet be tricked and robbed of the fruits of your ganization and the struggle for further gains in this and all other auto- mobile shops in the country. Bulld the Auto Workers Union! Break down now once and for all the proud boast of bile millionaires of Detroit that “this is open shop territory! utmost fighting ability and courage to bring about a solid organization of the workers which will mean a permanent breach in the steel clad slave system of the auto industry. he automo- ‘HE Detroit victory shows again a great object lesson to the workers of the whole United States. The experience of the Detroit workers brings the American confirmation of the great lesson that is being learned by workers in Poland, Czecho-Slovakia and other countries—the lesson that it is possible to win strikes and to force out of the hands of greedy employers, material needs of the working class. he bosses yes-men say: “You cannot win strikes in this economic depression.” So say the well-paid officials of the A. F. of L. trade unions who live on the bosses bounty through victimizing the all-too trusting union mem- bers. The same thing is said by Norman Thomas, misleader of honest workers who are members of the Socialist Party. The same thing is said by A. J. Muste, who tries to fool the workers by pretending to be a “revo- lutionary” leader, but who acts as an agent of the bosses in breaking headed by. Lovestone, Gitlow, Cannon and other adventurers who call themselves “Communists” but make their living solely out of fightin: against the Communist Party for the benefit of the bosses. “Don’t strike they say, “the boss cannot raise your pay, he has not got the money these hard times!” The victory of the Hudson Motor Car Company workers, coming after a series of victories which have brought a considerable material advance in the wages and conditions oi many thousands of auto workers in many different companies in Detroit—shows that the workers CAN wring from the unwilling hands of the automobile millionaires very substantial ma- terial gains (far more than have already been won!) right now in the midst of this economic crisis. 7: " ND this is the deepest, the greatest and most far reaching crisis in all the history of the capitalist system—the deepest-going economic crisis Jn the history of all times. Only yesterday Governor Comstock of Michigan declared a “bank holiday” by which every bank in the State of Michigan was temporarily closed. This drastic action was explained on the grourd that it is ne~ cessary to prevent the complete collapse of the banking system of the whole state of Michigan. It is now known that before Comstock acted, he consulted with President Hoover and the Reconstruction Finance r tion at Washington. Yes, the economic crisis is serious—but the Detroit workers have, with magnificent courage, refused te allow the parasite bankers and stock holders to continue further to salvage their 9 : ef the children of the workers in the factories. Yes, the economic crisis is grave. But it is the inevitable result of the capitalist parasite system of exploitation by which the whole of the American people are compelled to be slaves to a millionaire owning class, subject to have their wages cut whenever’ these gamblers strike a snag in their competitive system and compelled to starve by the millions through unemployment. © ‘Hoover's speech yesterday in New York, “delivered in a tired mono- tone,” enumerates “three roads” out of the crisis: “The first is the highway of cooperation among nations,”—"the second road is to rely upon our high degree of national self containment,”—and “the third road is that we inflate our currency...” etc. Hoover, in effect, says that the first road is desirable but showed it fs impossible, that the second road is undesirable AND impossible, and that the third-rovd is undesirable BUT possible! And Hoover then pro- es to travel on the impossible but “desirable” road! Hoover speaks of “world economic war” and declares the only way to stop it is to get England anc ‘orty other countries back on to the gold standard! Hoover's speech is a specch of despair. But it is the despair of a decaying capital~ dot system—a despair which must not and will not be shared by the work- ing class. * * wr does Hoover’s “despair,” the panic in Hoover's speech, mean in terms of real action in life? Hoover’s speech is a warning of further ceueeis attacks by capital- fst employers of the whole country against the standard of living of the orking class. All of these standards of living are already below the point of endurance. Hoover's attack upon the working class, however, will not be confined to Hoover. It is a program not of one political party but of all capitalist political parties, and Roosevelt will be but a new instru- ‘méut.to. lend full the support of the Federal Government to a highly inten- sified: drive of wage cutting and mass dismissals of American workers in am effort to save the capitalist class from the cost of their own criminal system. of capitalist exploitation. And this attack upon the working class | take the form, and Hoover's panic is a warning, that the capitalist m. of the U. S. will resort to world war in the effort to salvage its ) system of robbery and plunder at the expense of other capitalist countries, and especially with plans of warfare against the Soviet Union. Experience shows that the capitalist system in its moments of despair over the saving of its private ownership and exploitation of the world, resorts, not merely to closing down banks, but also to imperialist war such as that of 1914-18, which took 10,000,000 lives. : ® * * 'T against the sayage attack of the Detroit automobile millionaires stands out the brilliant victory of the Hudson workers—and this vic~ tory is only the of a glorious advance of the American workers in.elaiming contro} of their own lives! This will help to build the workers strength to resist all wage cuts and to combat all “open shop” conditions; to be prepared to give heroic American proletarian resistance to the Wall Street war makers and to setae ae ee the. Lanta of the American people. must not be overlooked that the advance made by the Detroit auto workers ives the best orportunity to establish now on a solid bacis the pnity of the employed and unemployed workers at.d the struggle of both the workers in the shops and workers out of jobs for the victory for ‘Unemployment Insurance. nie i new President wil) be inaugurated on March 4, and on March 6 will take place the Conference of the Governors of 48 States together with the new President Roosevelt, where questions affecting the most vital interests of the American workers, questions of unemployment relief, bch inary Sh 4 of cuts and war, farm relief and taxes, will be considered on the: first of the opening of the Roosevelt administration. The working class of the United States will make its demands to this con- ference dealing with questions concerning its most vital interest. The De- troit workers, flushed with the victory of the Hudson strike, will turn out in full force to see that the laboring masses of the great automobile indus- try of this country are fully and militantly represented by workers know- ing what they want and determined to put up a stubborn fight to compel the keeping of the promises that Roosevelt made for unemployment re- lief, ete. Let the splendid victory at the Hudson plant be consolidated by a united front of all the workers of Detroit of whatever social or political iow to stand ay one man for: these life and death. needs of our class! strikes; just as the same thing is said by the little gangs of strike-breakers | own bankrupt system of plunder by taking the bread out of the mouths | } | | | i vietory if you do not at once thoroughly organize the Auto Workers Union, | solidly grounding your organization in every shop—end spread the or- | Shows IN MICHIGAN ARE CLOSED Bankruptcy ; Small Depositors to Hold Bag ‘DAILY’ WARNED OF THIS |Boss Plot to Blame Reds Fell Through BULLETIN Use your | | NEW YORK —Here is what fil- tered in to the financial district today (February 14) rgarding Gov- ernor Comstock’s moratorium in Michigan: Henry Ford, Walter Chrysler and General Motors haye large balan- ces in the Union Guardian Trust Company of Detroit, a unit of the Guardian Detroit Union Group. The aforementioned trio, realizing the insolvency of the bank, which has hocked its best collateral with the R. F. C., as well as the poor condition of the holding company, stock of which has been in a pre- cipitous state of decline, sought to ities and the Detroit bankers were able to win the consent of Chrysler and General Motors to at least re- tard their withdrawals, but Ford sharply refused. The deadlock re- | sulted in the moratorium. Basically the situation resolves itself down to the paralytic crisis in the auto- mobile industry, and the gigan- tically competitive struggle now going on between Ford and Gen- eral Motors, with Henry's downfall imminent, DETROIT, Feb. 14. order issued by the democratic | pay | bank operations throughout | the state are suspended by an| {h¢,2bnormal barriers to trade, the | governor, Comstock, who de-| clared an eight day moratori- | um. This is hailed by the kept | = press as an attempt to seit | EEE vipeions ath nia bankruptcy and the closing of | the biggest bank in Detroit and} throughout the state. In reality the | DEBT BARGAINS withdraw their funds. The author- | | Pressure on Brtiish| NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1933 Needle Union Calls to Aid “Daily ] Salute to Death Tamon of the Lieut.- Gen. Jiro Japanese imperialist army, who led the 18-month slaughter of the Chinese people in Manchuria, HOOVER FOR WAR Rivals on Gold Issue NEW YORK, Feb. 14.— President Hoover, in his farewell address here | yesterday at the Lincoln Day Din- ner of the National Republican Club, | put forth the proposal that war debt | payments be set aside “temporarily” to restore the world currencies to a | gold basis. “If the major natioMs will enter | the road leading to the early re- establishment of the gold standard,” he said, “then and then only can | quotas, the preferences, the discri- minatory agreements and tariffs, which exceed the costs of produc- tion between nations, be removed, uniform trade privileges among all nations be established and the ‘Weapon In Imperialist Conslict While Hoover, as well as all the capitalist political agents, realizes action shows that they are bankrupt | (CONTINUED ON PAGE THRES®) and that the eight day “moratorium” is for the purpose of enabling the stock holders and bankers to get all they can and leave the small depo- sitors holding the bag. Bankers, Politicians Confer The decision was reached at a con- ference in the Guardian Trust Com- | COLOMBIA, PERU ‘RESUME WARFARE pany on Griswold Street, in the tin-| Brazil and d Other States | ancial heart of Detroit. Besides Goy- | ernor Comstock, there were present the secretary of commerce in the Hoover cabinet, Roy D. Chapin, hur- riedly or’s legal advisor, (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE 27 MORE CLOAK SHOPS ON STRIKE Cooper Union Mass Meet This Evening NEW YORK.—About 27 more cloak shops yesterday answered the strike call of the Committee of 100 and the Neecle Trades Workers Industrial Union,-and a number of settlements were made on the basis of partial improvement of conditions, The strike movement among the cloak- makers is spreading out. The work- ers are looking forward to the Cooper Union mass meeting called by the Committee of 100 for this evening at 5 p. m. as a mobilization for spread- ing the strikes still further. All cloakmakers, irrespective of their views and opinions, are called to this meeting. A full report of the strikes, settlements and plans for further work will be given at this meeting. The speakers will be the leaders of the Committee of 100 and the Industrial Union. eDaily Improve Conditions In Union Dress Shops NEW YORK.—With the expiration of the agreement of the Dress De- partment of the Industrial Union, a campaign was started to raise the standards in the union shops, simul- taneously with the campaign to or- ganize the open shops. Yesterday a jarge number of union shops were stopped off for re-signing of the agreement. In every instance some improvements were made in the con- ditions of the workers, increases in prices for operators, pressers, fin- ishers, as well as for week workers. The campaign for improving the conditions in the union shops is pro- ceeding alongside with the broaden- ing and development of the cam- paign to organize the unorganized. A meeting of the Unity Committee will take place tomorrow (Thursday) at 8 p. m. at 140 West 36th Street to plan the work for next week. . ° . Fur Trade Roard Pledges Support At a special meeting of the fur- riers’ trade board on Monday night, a committee of 15 was elected to cooperate with the cloakmakers.in their drive | | sieging Bolivians. to Join War Fighting was resumed yesterday ) summoned from Washington,) between Colombia and Peru, with Judge Arthur D, Lacey, the govern-, a battle’ between opposing naval and a score of| and air forces which have been | bankers, industrialists and business | Senvenraene: in the Leticia region for the past two months, The gov- ernments of Brazil and Ecuador also have large forces concentrated in the region and are expected to enter the conflict, s @ Paraguayan troops defending Fort Nowa yesterday made a counter- attack on the trenches of the be- Fighting occurred all along the line. The Paraguayans penetrated the first. lines, but were repulsed with terriffic losses. Disaffection is reported among the workers and peasants in the Para- guayan forces, who are realizing that members of the ruling class-are not serving in the front line trenches nor in the shock troops, but are as-) signed to safe posts in the retr. 5,000. pacifist Mennonites are re-| ported migratiig from farms in the Chaco region to Uruguay and Brazil) in an attempt to escape the havoc! of war. The migration is being) hampered by the Paraguayan gov- | ernment. ‘The Mennonites comprise | a sixth of the population of the, Chaco. | Argentina and Brazil are receiv- | jug huge shipments of arms from France in preparation for partici- | pation in the Chaco war as well | as in the other undeclared war be- | tween Colombia and Peru. Throughout South America the! anti-war sentiment is growing, with many workers’ organizations and in- tellectuals actively supporting the call for the South American «nti- | War Congress to be held in Monti- | vedeo, Uruguay, beginning Feb. 28. Schaaf, Heavyweight Fighter, Dies from, Blow in Carnera, Bout NEW YORK.—Ernie Schaaf, Bos- ton heavywheight boxer, who was knocked out by Primo Carnera, Ital- ian boxer, in the 11th round of their bout at Madison Square Garden last Friday night, died at 4:10 a, m. yes- terday from a hemorrhage in the brain, The serious injury to Schaaf came as a surprise as the whole bout was of such a phoney character that when Schaaf went down in the 13th, the spectators yelled: ‘Fake!’ Car- nera has risen to fame as a result of a long series of fake bouts which have been arranged by the under- world ring that manages him. The bout with Schaaf seemed to be just another one, but Carnera’s aim was evidently bad and tid hit. Schaaf in ‘Each Cent to Paper Just As Important As to Strike Fund’ | Rotten | were injured as the inmates resisted | Preve HE DAILY WORKER, the mouthpiece of the fighting working class of t his country has issued a call for financial help. It is our duty to answer this call. Never before in the history of the workers was it so necessary to have a fighting paper that will voice the de- mands of the workers than it is today. We, the needle trades workers, during years of struggle, have learned to appreciate what it means to have the Daily Worker. In the strike of the furriers the Daily Worker was the only paper in English that championed and fought for the cause of the workers and cxposed the lies and pois- onous provagands of the bosses and the A. F. of L. officials, With the aid of the “Daily” Worker, the furriers have been able to defeat their class enemies, have gained control ot the trade, built up their militant union and won increases in Wages and an unemployment insurance fund. CANNOT DEVELOP STRUGGLE WITHOUT “DAILY”. Now when the Industrial Union is carrying on a drive in the fur dyeing trade, we, must have the Daily Worker The cloak and dressmakers, who after years of suffering under sweat shop conditions, are now rising in revolt against the bos- ses and the A. F. of L. misleaders, cannot hope to successfully spread the struggle without the active assistance of the Daily Worker. Just as we must have a fighting union to lead the struggle of the workers, so must we have our workers’ press that will. expose the bosses’ lies and help to organize and mobilize the workers in struggle for better conditions. HELPING YOUR FIGHTING UNION. Needle Trades Workers: You have responded to the cali ot the Industrial Union, you have united your ranks in all fights ‘The Industrial Union now calls on you to rally to the support otf your fighting Dailv Worker. We know that the attacks of the bosses on your working conditions have reduced your earnings. bu’ every penny that you give to the Daily Worker is just as im- portant as every penny you give to a strike fund Needle Trades Workers, members of the Industrial U members of the Reformist Unions and workers of the unorga- nized shops: Support the drive of the Dail Worker, which to build your fighting union and to improve yo succe on elping you working con- ditions. NEEDLE TRADES WORKERS INDUSTRIAL UNION, LOUIS HYMAN, chairman. BEN GOLD, secretary $265.40 22.12 Received yesterday Total to date . ° Send funds at once to the Daily Worker, 50 East 13th Stree New York City. Socialist Heads Won’t Defend Reichstag Body © 2 500 FIGHT ‘DIET’ IN REFUSE T9 FIGHTS ss BROOKLYN PRISON HITLER'S THUGS Food Breaks Nazis Murder a 62-Yr. Inmates’ Endurance | Old Woman ae avatna ot ee NEW YORK.—A mass meeting of Brooklyn's Raymond Stree! ; J braved the customary consequences | will be held this aca at 7 p.m. of brutal disciplinary repression, and | to protest against \’ascism in Ger- registered, in no uncertain terms,| many at the Central Opera House their protest against the deadly mon- on 67th St. near Third Ave. Com- oiony of the food diet and other un-| rade Ben Gold will be the chair- hearaple fons anys man and Clarence Hathaway, dis- The third successive meal of hash trict organizer of the Communist and prunes, served the prisoners yeS-| party, will he the speaker. terrday, was never touched, but was/ hurled through the bars. as: oN (Cable By Inprecorr) peered i the Chores eei”| BERLIN, Feb, 14—The Control Every availabl receptacle was hurled Committee of the Reichstag met to- through the | irs, cell furnishings! day under the chairmanship of the smashed and | natresses torn apart) socialist Deupty Loebe, whereupon as the pent up misery of the prison-} ae repeate: si the fascist deputies repeated their nly turned loose, ee det and three guards tactics of howling down Loebe and beat nting a session of the Commit- which | te. Loebe, therefore, again declared | the session adjourned, whereupon tl fascists pushed him from the ch: man’s table. The Communists, brutal repressive measures may lead to the death of one of the prisoners. ‘Warden Honeck ‘has ordered 4 ciwlet censorship on all matters Con-/ hor; then left the room. While nected with the protest action. No|jeaving the room, Deputy Morath of attempts were made to break out Of tne people's Party was attacked by dal ithe fascists, receiving blows in the, DEMAND DUTCH ct 2st SEAMEN BE FREED years hard labor for persons delib- |erately preventing a parliamentary Demonstration on Sat. in New York City body from meeting, but, of course, the fascist government will take no THE HAGUE, Feb. 14—The bour- geois political parties of Holland yes- terday So- clalists and other oppositional mem- | | Communists Propose Selt- Defense the oppositional parties met to dis- (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) | steps to punish its deputies. used the occasion of the . ; emergency return of Queen Wilhelm- Furniture Workers | | | In the afternoon, the members of} ina from Switzerland to stage a loy- alty demonstration designed to cover up the admitted “growing unrest here and in the colonies.” Specially selected units of the ar-| my and navy are being kept under) arms in fear of a mutiny among the seamen at the fortified naval base! of Helder, North Holland. The sea- men on many warships have ex- pressed great indignation against the ‘bombing of the panne on the “De A united front open shop confer- jence of all union and unorganized upholsterers, springers, cutters, oper- ators, varnishers and cushion maker has been called by Workers Industrial Union to be held | tomorrow (Thursday) night at 8 p. m at the union headquarters at 818 Broadway, up the campaign to organize shop committees and stop wage cuts and "| CONTINUED’ OF -8 man THRED | lyons Unity Meet Tomorrow ; the Furniture | , New York City, to take | CITY EDITION Price : 3 Cents d9 Doak Victim | a i Because her mother, now dead, tailed to pay an $8 head tax after a visit to Canada, Beverly Arnold, 12, faces deportation to Canada, Stop this vicious boss class deportation drive! MASS PICKETING TODAY ON RENTS strike Successes urs Movement 20 § Spur BULLETIN NbkW YUKK—A mass demon- stration has been called by Needle Trades Unemployed Coun- cil for 10 a. m. this morning at 1690 Vyse Ave., the Bronx, to pre- vent the eviction of Comra Lupin, The mass solidarity of the workers yesterday kept the marshall off and an even greater demonstration has been called to prevent the eviction threat from being carried out today. NEW YORK.— suc es of twenty tracted by the rent strikes al- ready won and the benefits and rent | ed, a new element | oft worker: y of them socialists, responded to the call of the Com- | mittee of 50, composed of members various working class organiza- reductio of ms and house committees for a | mass rent strike. The provocative statement issued |by the Bronx Landlords Protective | Association to break all rent strike’ |has clearly exposed the class anta- | gonisms and additional work rs have declared their willingness to strug- } ele ee lowe ents. Many of then came to the meetin s the Prospect Worki Amter ition eak on the “Com- will Eas’ Council, 616 Tinton ave. at the Uni- on Workers’ Center, 801 Prospec Fulton Ave. UIndign landlords’ intro- (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) CHALLENGE A.F.L. ‘HEAD FOR DEBATE Prepare for Albany) Conference Mar. 5th NEW YORK.—National and state | officials of the American Federation | of Labor as well as two Senators of |New York have been challenged to | face the rank and file of the A. F. of L. and defend their Unempl ment Insurance proposals at posium, mass meetir the A. F. of L. ra mittee for mploymer tions for the at Conferenc ym- ged by Com insurane of the pre- Jobless In- cn 5, 6, 7, heduled for Saturds st 2 pm., at Stuy- yesant High School, 15th Street and Ist Avenue. The A. F. of L k and file Committee will here present its own Workers Unemployment In- surance Bill at the expense of the government and employers and will contrast this measure with the vari- {ous other schemes, which, | clare, “would mean less present charity relie Challenge Green than the | symposium are Senators W. T. Byrne | of Albany, S. C. Mastick of West- chester, both of whom have bills be- fore the State legislature, and Wil- liam Green, president of the A. F. of L. and John Sullivan, president of the New York State Federation of Labor, (5 Young Girl Pickets Up for Sentence Today NEW YORK.—Five young girls, ar- rested Monday on the picketline in front of Maymen & Sanger dress 27 W. 24th St., will be up for ce today. The following workers arrested Monday morning on the picketline ary Antanella, Frances Liger, Lena Vilarai, Anna Santamassino, Bella Berger. Three arrests took place in front of |Oldman Bros. fur shop, in connection | peigh So the strike against the contrac | eld | Try the | they de- | Those challenged to appear at the | WEINSTEIN - CASE LIKE SACCO TRIAL Assault Charge in Preparation for Manslaughter |TRIAL CONTINUES TODAY i\Brodsky Forces Court | to Admit Workers a convi and f | demand of the d | spite the bail bond. From the very beginning of thi | trial at 10.30 a. m. when the jury y picked, the prosecuting attorr Martin Frank, tried to prejudice jurymen agair and to hide the man. ns court ion, to ope outside. Contradictory Testimony isglass, 980 Belm hief witness for nt times | Weinstein is under Weisglass during kin Manufact} cwred in the Br eter in Bro % the at the (CONTINUED ON, PAGE TWO) PASS NEW BILL TC CONSCRIPT YOUTH To Train 88, 000 Boys: Mia GF L. Pr ‘otest shelter f homel to inte war prepa wes embodied in an \fered by Senator Cot gan, tool of the auto ba | War Department approp! pri ng for an additi ona | young workers | betw 15 21 at T:aining Camps one year. Besides unds were a C for periods up this, the training raised from Not including these , the Senate voted appropris tions of $370,000,000 for the War De partment. Not cent in immediate relief for the starving 16,000,000 un employed was voted. Will Double Army As a result of the Couzens amend ment, which is also expected to past new THREE) SET SCOTTSBORO TRIAL FOR MAR. I. LDS to 0 Demand : Change of Venue {CONTINUED ON PAGE BIRMINGHAM, Aia Feb. 14- The new trial of the nine Scottshore boys has been set for March 6, i Scottsboro, before Judge Alfred E Hawkins, who presided over the or inal lynch trials which resulted ir | death-penalties for eight of them, it was learned today. | On that day General George W. Chamleee, Samuel 5. Leibowitz, Jos- eph Brodsky, and Irving Schwab, In+ ternational Labor Defense attorneys. will appear in the court to demand a ; change of venue from the town in which the local band played “There'll be a Hot Time” while the jury sanded down its hideous lynch verdicts otf | death against the innocent boys in April, 1931, to Jefferson County, which is ths city of Birmingham, Ala. Harlem Single Jobless \to Demenstrate Today NEW YORK.—Single unemployed workers will gather today at 2 p.m at 125th St. and Fifth Avenue, from where they will march to the Home Relief Bureau and demonstrate against the discrimination against single men in the distribution of re- lief. The demonstration is being sup- ported by Post 2 of the Workers Ex- Servicemen’s League. All unem- paved workers and veterans of Hat« Jom ane urged ta