The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 18, 1933, Page 1

| 0) What About Minnesota? Last week we printed a letter from the Minnesota Daily Worker representa- tive in which he said, “I really believe we shall make our quota ($750) this time.” Our records show, however, that NOT A CENT has come from Minnesota for five full days! Where is the activity that Minnesota promised? Vol. X, No. 42 Rutered ac sovend-cines matter ot EP? New York. HY. under the Act ail Central Org Comiaynist Party U.S.A. (Section of the Communist International) the Post Office at of March & 157 NEW YORK, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1933 orker ($5). the near future. Jobless 10 Months, Sends $5 / “I am without any job since April! of last year and I am sorry that my contri- bution cannot be many times this amount Will try to send you some more in Our ‘Daily’ must go ahead despite everything!” —H. G., Los Angeles, Cal. Have YOU done as much for the Daily Worker? CITY EDITION \ ——Y Price 3 Cents Communists Call N. Y. Workers to Anti-Hitler Mass Meeting Sunday EMERGENCY COMMITTEE FORMED BY CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY TO SAVE THE DAILY WORKER Crisis More Severe Now Than Ever, Campaign Must Be Successfully Carried Through COMRADES: A point has been reached in the Daily Worker financial drive where the Central Committee of the Communist Party must speak directly and openly to the Party mem- bers ard to all workers sympathetic to our movement. The Daily Worker drive has now been on for five weeks. The response has not, and if it continues at the present rate, will not _ solve the problems of our paper. Until now, about $8,000 has been raised—$8,000 out of the needed $35,000. This means, comrades, that the crisis of the Daily Worker is even more severe at this moment than it was at the beginning of the drive. It means that the very life of the “Daily” is in danger. We know that many workers and even Party members have not real- ized the seriozsness of the situation with which the Daily Worker is confronted. Many comrades thought that this was just “an- other drive.” They thought that, well, if the funds are not raised somehow or other the Daily Worker would continue. But unfortunately, comrades, this is not the situation. This is not just “another drive.” The outcome of this drive will determine whether or not we are to have the Daily Worker. There is no other way by which the publication of the paper can be continued except through the suc- cessful conclusion of the present drive for funds, and this drive must be concluded quickly. The need for funds is urgent. It cannot be postponed while long preparations are made. It must really be a drive that reaches every sympathetic worker in the shortest possible time. Old debts had piled up to tremendous figures. New deficits mount up daily. The response so far in this drive has but little exceeded the current deficit of the “Daily” of about $1,200 a week. It is necessary, therefore, that we secure the money at once, to meet the extremely pressing demands of the many cred- itors of the paper. * * 'E KNOW that the workers will respond to our appeal if they only know the facts, if they realize the seriousness of this situation. There are many examples in the ten years’ history of the Daily Worker when the workers have come to its rescue with many thousands of dollars. We know they will do it again. We have no lack of confidence in the workers. But now the urgent question is to make the workers realize the seriousness of the position of the “Daily.” E The Central Committee of the Party has decided to directly take hold of the campaign for funds. A special emergency committee representing the Cen- tral Committee has been appointed. This committee, composed of Comrades Robert Minor, William Weiner and C. A. Hathaway, has been appointed to take direct charge of the drive. This committee must raise the Miami Shooting and the New - Drive of Reaction effort which we predicted, yesterday, to make use of the assassinar h babe attempt at.Miami as the basis for a savage reactionary drive against the working class, has already begun. F 5 ‘The latest information fully confirms that the man accused df the attempted murder has never had anything to do with the revolutionary labor movement, but is among the most orthodox of members of the Repifblican Party, a supporter and foMower of none other than: Herbert Hoover. Zangara not only was registered in the election lists of Hackensack, N. J. rege member of the Republican Party, but in the fall of 1931 he was also registered at an elvction in Los Angeles as a Republican who had become a naturalized citizen at Paterson, N. J. It has also been ad- mitted by the police and capitalist press that in 1931 Zangara voted ac Hackensack, N. J., as a Republican in the Republican primaries. But the capitalist prostitute press does not hesitate, tor all that, to publish scare headlines about “red fired at Roosevelt,” and “Roosevelt death planned by reds.” This sort of prostitute journalism and lying, circulating in tens of millions of copies of the gutter press, is intended to saturate the minds of the working class with the supposedly ineradi- cable association of political assassination with the revolutionary move- ment, as the method by which revolution is supposed to be accomplished. Of course, if the capitalist press could succeed in establishing ig the mind of the working class that such is the method of revolution—then the en- ergies which must be given to the building up of a revolutionary mass movement, the winning of the majority of the working class, supported by the decisive masses of the population for the liberation of the Amer- ican people from Wall Street dictatorship, would be diverted and frittered away in morbid and essentially petty-bourgeois non-revolutionary dreams and futile gestures. ‘The effort to establish such policies in the minds of the masses, as the policies of “revolution” and of the “reds,” is consistently pursued by the police and the capitalist press. When it appears screamingly incon- sistent, as in the case of the alleged assassination attempt by the Repub- lican Zangara, the gutter press attempts to explain away the inconsistency with such nonsense as the following: “But Zancara admitted, if he had thought about: it at all he probably would have espoused the red cause even though he insisted he was not affiliated with any radical or anarchist organization, and that he planned the killing by himself.”!!! * ° UT the ugly teeth of reaction are shown in a whole series of actions that are now beginning. 1. Efforts to revive the Dies Bill for the deportation of foreign born workers, which had already passed the House of Representatives, but had been held up in the Senate because of a flood of protests against this gavage fascist project, has been undertaken. The unspeakable Ham~ ilton Fish and other reactionists are now foaming at the mouth in the effort to put through this bill before the end of the lame duck congress. A bill against which Vice-President Curtis has admitted he nas received 1 tremendous flood of protests from all over the country. 2. The House Committee has reported out, by a vote of 9 to 4, the Eslick Bill—by which heavy penalties as high as $10,000 fines and ten year sentences in prison, would be dealt out to any worker—native or foreign born ‘holding revolutionary political opinions, or advocating the rejection of the Wall Street form of capitalist dictatorship. . * . is for the purpose of helping to put over such reactionary measures, in connection, as we said yesterday, with the drive for cutting wages in American industry and defeating the movement for Unemployment In- (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) CITY EVENTS ‘WEINSTOCK SPEAKS; PRES. GREEN CHALLENGED Louis Weinstock, national secretary and Rob Robbins, secretary of the New York A.F.L. Trade Union Committee for Unemployment Insurance and Relief, speak at symposium on A.F.L. Insurance Scheme as against Workers Unemployment Insurance Bill. Green, Sullivan, and Senators Byrne and Mastick are challenged to appear and defend their today, at 2 p.m., at Stuyvesant High School, 15th Street and First Avenue. . MINOR ON TECHNOCRACY AT WORKERS SCHOOL FORUM Robert Minor, of the Central Committee of the Communist ' will speak on Technocracy, Fascism and Revolution, at Workers School Forum, 35 East 12th Street, second floor, Sunday, at 8 p.m. General admission, 25 cents. Workers school students, 20 cents with student card. i . 8 8 CONFERENCES ON PLANS TO SAVE DAILY WORKER * District Office of Communist Party urges workers’ organizations not yet electing delegates to Daily Worker Conferences to send their secre- taries. Conference of all Brooklyn organizations tomorrow at 10:30 a.m. at Manhattan Lyceum. All Manhattan organizations, 7:30 p.m. Monday. Bronx organizations, 7:30 p.m., Tuesday, at 801 Prospect Avenue. Weinstein Case To | Jury Monday; Fill | Bronx Courtroom! | Defense Blasts Hired. Liar Used by the Prosecution NEW. YORK.—The fate of Sam | Weinstein, militant strike leader and | ex-serviceman framed on charges of second degree assault and man- | slaughter, goes into the hands of the jury Monday morning after the de-| fense and prosecutions rested their | cases yesterday at the close of the fourth day of the trial in the Bronx County Court. Murder of Seamen by Dutch Imperialists urgently needed $35,000. * * # E APPEAL to the leading Party comrades, in the first place, to strengthen every phase of their work, to reach the masses of workers with the appeal of the Daily Worker. We appeal to the individual Party members to immediately raise the need of the “Daily” for funds in their units, trade unions, clubs, fraternal organiza- tions, etc. We appeal to all workers to personally send in their contributions to collect donations from their friends and neighbors, to arrange house parties in their homes for the benefit of the Daily Worker. The next week must see a complete change in the situation. The drive must be speeded up. All the energies of the working class must be developed to save their paper. The struggles of the present moment make this necessary. We know the workers will respond. EMERGENCY COMMITTEE OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE TO SAVE THE DAILY WORKER ~~ Hathaway to Speak; Fight Fascist Rule NEW YORK- jew York workers! Show your solidarity with the Ger- man werkers united mass fighting, front against the fascist government} of the bloody assassin Hitler.” Fight the Hitler fascist terror! Hail the united mass fighting of the German workers against fascism and capi-| talism, led by the heroie Communist Party,” reads.the call of Sections 2 | and 4 of the Communist Party ral | ing all workers to the huge mi | meeting on the German situation to- morrow, Sunday, 2 p. m. at the Cen- tral Opera House, 67th St. between 2nd and 3rd Aves. ! ' | organizer of the Communist Party, will be the principal speaker, He will analyse the signif;cance of the Ger- man events, the role of the Hitler regime, and the Social Democratic leaders, the chief reserve of Fascism, and the rising revolutionary tide of united mass struggle of the social democrat free trade union and | Communist workers against Fascism, hunger, war and capitalism under the leadership of the German Com- munist Party. | Ben Gold, leader of the fighting Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union, now engaged in a sweeping wave of militant strikes, will be ROBERT MINOR WILLIAM WEINER C. A. HATHAWAY. * * * * Received yesterday ..............$ 366.80 Total to date .... . 7,995.03 Send all contributions immediately to the Daily Worker, 50 East 13th Street, New York City. |Defend American Shoe \Strikers from Raids land Terror Attempts | NEW YORK.— The, Shoe and | Leather Workers Industrial Union calls all to help picket and to support the strike at American Shoe Co., 176 | Livingston St., Brooklyn. The bosses have agents in the ranks of the strikers trying to create confusion, and also are applying di- rect terror. Thursday four detectives raided the strike headquarters. roduction th the shop is crippled and with mass support the strike can be won. All picket Monday morning at 6:30. The strike is near Boro Hall subway station. The Italian department of the chairman. All workers, irrespective | of political opinion or affiliation, are | ursed to come early as the meeting | will start promptly at 2:30 p. m. | NEW YORK.—In addition to the main mass meeting at the Central Opera House, there will be three other Antj-Hitler mass meetings tomorrow. One is at Brownsville | Workers Center, 1813 Pitkin Ave., at | 8 p. m., Amter speaker. Another is at |2 p. m. Sunday, in Union Workers Center, 801 Prospect Ave. Bronx. The third is at 15 E. Third St., at 8 |p. m. | « | LONDON, Feb. 17.—Adolph Hit- | ler, German Chancellor and leader of the bloody bands of Fascism, plans to visit Benito Mussolini, Fascist Premier of Italy, after the German elections March 5, it was learned today. They will secretly | discuss the possibility of a Europ- ean war alliance between Italy, Germany and Hungary. | . . | BERLIN, Feb. 17.—The police sup- pressed the bourgeois detnocratic evening newspaper “Tempo” yester- day for 7 days, alleging unfounded alarmism respecting the state of the stock exchange, The Communist daily “Klassen- |kampf’ of Halle was suppressed to- gether with various other Communist and Socialist dailies, including the C. A. Hathaway, New York district union invites all, Italian speaking organ of the Socialist Workers Party. | ‘ATTACK 6,000 JOBLESS IN SEATTLE, WN. Sheriffs, ~ Police Use Fire Hose, Clubs, Revolver Butts DEMONSTRATORS RALLY Hunger March on State Capitol, March 1 NEW YORK.—All functionaries of local unemployed councils are called to meet Monday at 2:30 p. m. at Irving Plaza Hall, to work out details for the March 4 demonstration here, and for the participation of house and block committees and other un- employed groups in the preparations for the State Conference on Unem- mployment. Insurance. and. Relief. Certain other organization matters will be taken up. The full bureau of each council and all active members of house and block committees are expected to be present. The meeting is called by the Unemployed Council of Greater New York. The place was ! originally announced for another | hall, but has been changed to Irving | Plaza Hall. SEATTLE, Feb. 11—A gang ot | deputy sheriffs, hundreds af city | Policemen and the ‘e department made a vicious assault with eiubs | blackjacks, revolver butts and streams | of water from high-pressure hos: | upon the more than 6,000 unemployed workers who for two days had oc- | cupied the City-County building and drove them into the street, When it was seen that.it was im- possible to stay in the building Will- |iam Dobbins, president of the Cen- | tral Federation of Unemployed Citi- | Zens’ Leagues, announced that head- quarters be established in a nearby building. In spite of the violence of the authorities the ranks of the un- employed held solidly and the mass | strueslé will fo on to defeat the hun- | ger drive of the bosses and their poli- | tical lackeys. | Dobbins is the newly elected presi- |‘dent of the Central Federation, tak- ing the place of Phil Pearl, who re- signed, along with Hulett M. Wells | who also resigned as member of | executive board. These weak-knee | individuals had tried to prevent any effective mass struggles by pursuing a-passive policy and of e ndless nego- tiations with the authorities, while | the masses. starved. The rank and | file revolt led these people to resign | and in place of passivity there is now @ definite upsurge of militant action. | | In @ fiery and dramatic summa- | tion, Joseph Brodsky, International | _ Labor Defense Attorney, proved to the! court and the workers present that the witnesses for the police and bosses did not identify Sam Wein- stein as the man who committed the attack which they try to pin on Wein- stein, that Weinstein was in Brooklyn when the assault occurred, ahd fhat Weinstein was being railroaded to jail because of his militant leadership of the strike against the Muskin Manu- facturing Co. Brodsky. shattered the testimony of Harry Weisglass, scab in the Muskin strike, who together with his wife were attacked at. 6:30 a, m. last July 19th, his wife dying a short time later. “Wiesglass feels somebody should (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) PAINTERS. WIN 2 MORE STRKES Alteration Union Gives Fact on Disputed Job NEW YORK.—Local 2 and Local 4.of the Alteration Painters led short strikes against Phil Forman of Brownsville and Wunch of Manhat- tan, and have just won two more strikes. The bosses agree to all de- mands, including recognition of the shop committee. Bronx local of the Alteration Painters calls attention of all paint- ers to the fact that the job at 1465 Townsend Ave. is done by a boss, Steinberg and Freichstag, who has settled with the Alteration Painters. Attempts of the Brotherhood officials to claim this as their job and to persuade Brotherhood members to attack members of the Alteration Painters are attempts to mislead the Brotherhood members. The fact that previously a contractor signed with the Brotherhood had this job and then gave it up, does not alter the situation. An Offer of Solidarity ‘The Alteration Painters repeats to the Brotherhood workers who were on the job previously that they can work on the job if they want to, and will not be forced to join the Altera~ tion Painters. A shop committee will ‘be elected consisting of Brotherhood and Alteration Painters Union mem- bers, working for Steinberg and Freichstag. The Alteration Painters is not interested in driving Broth- erhood men out of work, but in mainiaining conditions on the job. t Radio Picture Showing Aerial Bombing of Native and European Seamen of the Dutch warship “De Zeven Provincien” as Dutch Gov- ernment tries to drown in blood the struggles of the seamen against a wage cut of ten per cent for European seamen and 17 per cent for native seamen, Twenty-two men were killed and scores badly wounded by the bombing. The government is now threatening to murder the remaining mutineers through court martial. This picture was telephoned by new process from Batay'a, Java, to Amsterdam, or otherwise, to an affair tonight at 6:30 p. m. at 31 Second Street, Man- The Communist dailies in the Ruhr, the “Scho” of Essen and “Freiheit” of Duesseldorf, which were suppressed | for the whole of February, were, how- lever, allowed to appear again today. | hattan. The Italian dramatic civh will give a play, Admission 25 cents, for strike support, | relief. The whole working class of Seattle and surrounding towns is thoroughly aroused. The workers had assembled and occupied the building and threatened to remain until the court authorities granted their demands for Many workers from other parts of the state are still pouring then re-telephoned to London when it was transmitted by radio to New York. ® Demonstrate Today! at 11 A. M. to Save | the Dutch Sailors! NEW YORK.—AIl demonstrate today at 11 a. m, before the Dutch consulate at 17 Battery Place to save the lives of over a hundred Javanese and Dutch sailors of the cruiser De Zeven Provincien. These seamen revolted against the op-| ; pression of imperialist officers and intollerable treatment and put up a gallant struggle until a score of them were killed by attack from the air, against which they had no defense. They may be courtmar- | tialed and executed. The Anti-Imperialist League has received back a registered letter to the Dutch consul, announcing that a delegation would see him from the demonstration. The consul shied away frem the letter and refused to receive it when he saw the return address. But the com- mittee will go in, Besides the Anti-Imperialist League, the Marine Workers In- dustrial Union, and the Workers Ex-Servicemen’s League are prom~- inent in rallying support for the endangered Dutch sailors. All militant workers’ organiza- tions endorse the demonstration. Radio City Ballet Girls Block Wage Cut NEW YORK. — The Radio City Music Hall cut the salary of thirty ballet girls $5 each, Wednesday. They refused to go on with the perform- ance and rehearsals, and forced the management to withdraw the wage cut. In the same theatre forty Roxy- ettes, dancers, received a $10 wage cut and made no united protest. The wage cut stood. ‘The company advertises they take in’ $171,000 weekly and have expenses of $100,000, a profit big enough to pay wages. SPIRIT OF REVOLT SWEEPS E. INDIES Dutch Workers Hail News of Mutiny MONTREAL, Canada, Feb. 17.— A spirit of revolt is sweeping the East Indies, R. J. Fleming, rubber broker of Singapore, warned Canadian cap- italists today, on the basis of “grow- ing nationalism, together with grow- ing despair at the economic de- pression.” The mutiny in the Dutch East Indies squadron is a manifesta- tion of the mass upsurge, which is occurring not only in the Dutch¥col- enies, but also in the British East Indies and French Indo-China, he said. Workers Welcome Mutiny AMSTERDAM, Holland, (By Maii). —The revolutionary workers of Hol- land have welcomed the news of the mutiny on board the Dutch warship “De Zeven Provincien” with great enthusiasm. The Communist daily newspaper “Tribune” was the first on the streets with the news, and is- sued a special edition which sold like hot cakes. The news was hailed by many spontaneous meetings and the blocking of traffic. The “Tribune” compared the ac- tion of the Indonesian sailors with the glorious example of the men of the Russian (Tsarist) cruiser “Potem- kin” and declared that the period of the partial stabilization of capitalism is now passed and that the Indonesian People are again moving forward into action against Dutch imperialist op- pression. It called for a joint struggle of the Dutch working-class and the Indonesian masses and appealed in particular to the Dutch sailors and soldiers to join with their fellow workers against the. capitalist ex~- ploiters. BELGIAN CABINET OUT BRUSSELS, Belgium, Feb. 15.— The Government of Premier De Bro- queville resigned today, US. Ripe for. Fascism” /Only “The Damn Communists” Interfere With | | NEW YORK.—Tronble is brewing at 309 East 92nd Street—headquar- ters of the German Fascists. One can feel it in the atmosphere of the headquarters. The hum of | activity is pregnant with the terrorism for which Hitler stands. zealots rush in and out, tending to their business so briskly it is impossible | to catch their words, to observe their@—-.-———-- —- —~——_—.. -__- —_ actions carefully. Rarely does anyone | Carry on his activity; sure, the Unitea | speak aloud, Conversation is carried| States authorities knew he was a jon almost entirely in whispers. A| Fascist propagandist, but they saw no stranger who enters the headquarters | Teason to hold that against him. |is viewed with great suspicion until he| | Eyen a capitalist press reporter— | ties I could carry on propaganda on a | which I pretended to be so as to gain| vast scale throughout this country! admission—is not entirely free to go|And if it weren’t for those damn about and do as he chooses while} Communists I would have been able within the headauarters. I4vas under | to get thousands of more followers in constant surveillance. I received |New York City.” blunt stares in answer to my per-| Who. Pays? tinent questions. At the best I would) Manger virtually vomitted these be told, after asking something par-| words at me with a German accent ticularly embarassing that I “ought| and Fascist manner that made me to know better than to ask such ques-| think that I was listening to Hitler tions.” On interviewing some of the| himself at his notorious “Brown Hitlerites standing in front of the} House” headquarters in Munich or his Hitler Agent Here Boasts |Program of New York’s Brown House Gang Fascist | “You know,” I was told by Manger, | {convinces everyone that he’s “al “the United States is a fertile field| | friend.” |for Fascism. Things are just ripe | “Ought Not To Ask” for it. If only I had better facili- headquarters as though on guard, I was informed that I “had better not make “unhealthy” inquiries. Only when I asked harmless questions, just as a capitalist reporter does, did I get | quarters in the Vosstrasse of Berlin. | For not only did Manger seem the embodiment of Hitler, but the head- | quarters in which he talked was not | unlike th» Berlin headquarters of the Nazis. | any answers. | While the New York headquarters | In fact, I was deluged with verbal) propaganda. The Hitlerites were} are not as impressive as that in Ber- generous enough with that. I was!}in both have much in common. A expected to believe that Hitler was @| black swastika and the cabalistic let- twentieth century Messiah, that all) tering N. S. D. A. P., symols of the Jews should be wiped off the face f| Hitler movement, are boldly painted the earth, that Hitler was not res-| on the door and windows. Inside are ponsible for the terrorization of Ger-| more swastikas and black eagles. Pic- man workers, that Fascism would} tures of Hitler, with his Charlie bring the United States out of the! Chaplin mustache, are pasted all over crisis. | the walls. isundles of propaganda lie Would Fascize U. 8. | around, ‘The stilted, officious man- In charge was Paul Manger, who| ners of Manger and the other Fas- fanatically declared that he believed | cists suggest Hitler's lackeys. Ap- “in everything that Hitler believes! parently no expense has been shared in,” especially “loyalty to all things | to fit it out, though where the money} German.” He minced no words so|came from Manger hesitated to tell far as that was concerned. And he| me. was quick to inform me that he ‘pen Demonstrate Sunday against these taken out first American naturaliza-| Fascist plots! All at Central Opera tion papers; he had every right to House, 2.30 p. m into Seattle. Reports from all over the state indicate that tens of thous- ands will converge on the capitol, Olympia, on March 1st, to present demands to the state legislature and the governor. March 4th, inauguration day, when (CONTINUED ON. PAGE FIVE) SEVENTH FOLTIS- FISCHER PLACE IS ON STRIKE NEW YORK.—The Foltis-Fischer strike sweeps on, the latest store to come out being the one at Courtland jand Church St., yesterday. There are now seven cafeterias of this chain on strike. All seven places are picketed daily, and the strikers and Food Workers Industrial Union urge all workers to show solidarity. The strike committee met again Thursday night, and added, on sug- gestion of the workers, certain new demands. They are for free laundry of the -girls’ uniforms, eight hours work within nine hours (one hour for meals and rest) for the girls, and sanitary lockers and rest rooms for all workers. These demands add to the previous demands for; reinstatement of all laid off; flat 25 per cent wage in- crease; return of money taken from the workers for Foltis-Fischer stock, no discrimination for union member- ship; recognition of shop committees and ten hour day. General Strike Nears, All these demands are proposed to all Foltis-Fischer workers as the basis for discussion, and for a general Strike in the whole chain. The union leaflets also urge further? spreading of the strike. Police attacks continue, F. W. I. U. Organizer Sam Kramburg was arrest- ed yesterday for demanding that police not interfere with the right to picket at Courtland and Churen. He was released. Picketing went on. Pete Petro, a picket, was arrested at the 43rd and Sixth Ave. place, charged with “obstructing traffic,” The union attorney defends him, %