The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 20, 1933, Page 1

MK “IS EXPOSED | \ Lie That Zangara Was | if ARRANG house parties and ii range one NOW! E ONE! If you look through these pages, you will see many announcements of small intimate gatherings which individual readers and friends of the “Daily” have arranged to help keep the paper from suspending. Have YOU held a house party as yet? If not, ar- Dail Org Central ANSWERING A CHALLENGE Answering the challenge of Unity 15, Section 15 (Communist Party), New York, which donated $42.92 to the Daily Worker several days ago, Unit 16, in the same section, has sent in $45! At the same time it extends the challenge to all other units in Section 15. What's your answer, units in Section 15? orker eC inynist Party U.S.A. (Section of the Communist International ) Vol. X, No. 43 20 Entered as second-elars matter at the Post Office at New York, N.Y., ander the Act ef Mareh %, 1278. NEW YORK, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1933 CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents HEARSTS NE “RED PLOT” | Agent of Left Wing Painters | PRESENT NO FACTS Enquirer Got Tale from A.F.L. Heads NEW YORK. — Belching forth another lie in the attempt of the capitalist press to make use of the attempted as: nation of Roosevelt to rush through new repressive meas- ures against the workers and farmers, ‘New York Enquirer’, a Hearst-Tammany yellow Sunday weekly, in streaming headlines tries to link the arrested Zangara with the militant Alteration Painters Union. The lie is presented in the most fla- grant manner without even using concocted “facts” and names. “Three union leaders of the build- Ing trades of Brooklyn have identified the pjcture of Giuseppe Zangara, the man who attempted to shoot Presi- dent-elect Roosevelt at Miami as be- ing one of the Communist union pickets active in the labor troubles at Schulman’s Baths, Coney Island, be- tween Jan. 15 and 20 this year,” lies the Enquirer. Zangara has never had any connection with the Alteration Painters Union. The New York Times last Friday, Feb, 17, states in writing about Zan- gara from police records that: “He told of having made a trip to California two yerrs ago end seem- ingly has had funds DURING THE THREE MONTHS HE HAS BEEN IN MIAMI.” (Our emphasis.Ed.) This means that on Jan. 15 and 20 Zan- gara was in Miami and could not have been at the same time in Coney | Island. The. “secret” agents of. Williaw | Green in the Painters Union who are | alleged to have supplied the Enquirer | with this outrageous tale are well | aware of the above statement in New | York Times. But they are now en- | gaged in a frantic expulsion drive of | Louis Weinstock and his fellow A-F.L. | members who oppose the bureaucrats | |) and no frame-up is too low for them. They join Hearst and Tammany in trying to connect Zangara with the radical movement though they know that even the reactionary New York | ‘Times states in the Saturday Feb. 18 | issue that: | “Jt became increasingly apparent | to Secret Service and Department of Justice agents who are continu- | ing the investigation of the shoot- | ing that Zangara was operating | alone and was not connected with any radical organization. ...” | Assassination Boss Method | The Daily Worker, official organ of | the Communist Party repeats that | the method of essassination is a) method of the reactionary ruling | Butchers Communists by Pres, Cerro of Peru (in felt hat) who ordered the execution of the secretary of the Communist Party and the forced conseripti political pri jalist war on Page 3 N.Y: Workers Mass Against Hitler Terror NEW YORK- row taking p the est inst Colombia, (Story ‘The events that are in Germany have significance. — These 2 ignificant for the future of Germany, these events | can well determine the whole course | ately send in the credentials of their of the development of the world | revolution and the tempo of that de-| covering the transportation, lodging velopmer These were the opening words of Clarence Hathaway. ict Organ- izer of the Communist Party in New York, before hundreds of enthusi- astic workers who came to the mass meeting at the Central Opera House Sunday to protest against the bloody Hitler regime in Germany and to support the fight of the German workers against Fascism. The meeting at Central Opera House was one of five held in Great- er New York yesterday. A tremend- ous ovation greeted Hathaway as he ‘ose speak, and for over an hour workers listened with the closest at- tention as he pictured the present situation in Germany ~Hathaway was preceded by Ben Gold and a Negro worker, both of whom called to raliy for united strug- gle for the interests of the workers and the overthrow of the capitalist system. ‘The hall was decorated with num- erous slogans proclaiming solidarity of the American workers with the workers of German; At the con- clusion of Hathaway's speech, a resolution pledging full support to the German workers. One of the central questions, Hath- away declared, is whether Fascism jin Germany will be able to consoli-, date itself. In answering this qu tion he drew a comparison between the situation e ing in Italy at the time Fascism came into power there, and the circumstances under which Hitler came into power. At that time capitalism was stabi- | lizing itself. At the present time capitalist stabilization is at an end, and the forces of working class revo- lution are on the upgrade. In Ger- many there exists a powerful revolu- | 7,000 JOBLESS WIN MANY DEMANDS IN CLEVELAND "ALBANY GROUP | SEND-OFF AT 3 MASS MEETS Unempoyed Leaders Meet Today to Plan March 4 Action NEW YORK.—Important special meeting of all functionaries, and full bureau of each local unemployed council, together with active members of House and Block Committees, will be held today at 2:30 P.M. at Irving Plaza Hall. This conference will work out plans for March 4 demonstration and tasks of house and block com- mittees, etc., in preparing the Al- | bany Conference. | NEW YORK.—Three mass meet- ings, one in Brooklyn, one in the | Bronx and one in Manhattan, were | arranged as send offs for the dele- gates going to the New York State | Conference for Labor Legislation in | Albany March 5, 6, and 7, when the Provisional Committee of the confer- | ence met yesterday morning at Irving | Plaza Hall. The committee also issued a call urging all organizations to immedi- delegates together with the $10 fee and food for each delegate during the three days. A flat rate of $5 to provide lodging and food for upstate delegates and those who expect to | make the trip to Albany independent- ly was also announced as was a $5 | rate jncluding transportation for all | youth delegates. | ‘The Brooklyn send-off meeting will be held Wednesday evening, March 1, at the Brooklyn Labor Lyceum, 949 | Willoughby Ave., in the Bronx at | Ambassador Hall, 3875 Third Ave., | Fridey, March 3, and in Manhattan | at the Manhattan Lyceum, 66 E. 4th | St., on March 1, TENANTS RESPOND. | TO STRIKE CALL 15 Houses Ready for Organization | NEW YORK.—Responding to the | display of working class solidarity 'and rent strike militancy and suc- | cesses in the “spread the rent strike” parade in demonstration in Bronx, about 15 houses haye announced their willingness to strike and have requested organizers. Several calls | are from Longfellow, Hoe and Vyse | Avenues, Crotona Park E. and E. 170th St. In all cases leadership has been furnished by the Unemployed | Councils, | The breaking of the promise made | by the Lovestonite renegade, J. Kudrenetzky, at 1690 Vyse Ave., that the landlord would not evict any tenants, has exposed the Loveston- ities treacherous intentions from the } | as ae \SEATTLE JOBLESS DEFY MAYOR BAN Why the Crisis in the ‘Daily’? 'ON MEETS TODAY Emergency Committee Calls — for Widest Possible Aid Active United Front for March Fourth Demonstrations CLEVELAND, Feb. 19.— Seven thousand workers par- | ticipated in ten neighborhood HE financial crisis of the Daily Worker is so serious that it may cause the suspension reece ae Beret ey, of the paper. The Emergency Committee to Save the Daily Worker, appointed by the | Be Meo toa Gnas pti 2 Gentral Committee of the Communist Party, therefore feels it essential to explain the sae ‘ ; exact, situation as clearly as possible to all workers and friends of the working class Why the crisis in the Daily Worker? As many of you already know, the capitalist newspapers support themselves, not from the pennies they get from the sale of their papers, but from the tremendous revenue they obtain from advertisements, most of them provided by the big open-shop corpora- tions. They could not exist one day without these ads. The Daily Worker, which is ha- ted and feared by these very open-shop corporations that support the capitalist press, also cannot live on the income it gets from the sale of the paper, while its revenue from ad- vertising is very limited. Only the unstinied support of the working class has enabled the “Daily” to exist for the past nine years; only the same unstinted support will enable it to survive the present financial crisis and continue to be the valiant fighter and leader of the exploited masses in their daily struggles against the bosses’ hunger and war program. 4 of stratio! were jin places where no ious were 2viOU, held . stration: were carried statin quart of mil Study the following figures so that you may understand the situation and be | a cas Over 950 ey. ROOSEVERA able to explain it to your friends and fellow- wor! gear aes Will get Jobless De Each week the “Daily” receives on the average the following money: subscriptions, | Soung Wo and “The Dail $475; bundle order's, $875; advertising, $275; miscellaneous, $25; total, $1,650. | Suhriscauh? eee Oe Six hundred single men were lock- Each week the “Daily” must pay out the following: paper, composition, press ee Oe ea nie nena work and engraving, $1,700; postoffice ex pense for mailing paper to subscribers, $225; ched to where they were wages, $625; rent, $50; telephone $231.25; miscellaneous, $55; total, § The income is. $1,650. So the weekly loss or deficit is over $1,200. This is already a rédtction of $600 from what’ the deficit used to be, a reduction made possible by re-~ organizing the business office and the distribution of the paper, and by cutting expenses to the bone. Workers, turn over in your minds what this figure. 200: means, because here is the key to the understanding of the great emergency in which your paper finds itself. telegrams, office postage, magazines and pictures, wide cut. ‘Tt being mobili demonstrations for jobless re insurance on March 4. Indignation of Seattle Tojlers SEATTLE, Feb. 19.—The entire working class of Seattle and through- out most of the state is seething with indignation at the vicious attack of sheriff's deputies, cops and firemen. who with clubs, black-jacks and streams from high-power hose, drove the 6,000 unemployed workers from the cijty-county building. After driving the workers out the ‘ cops tried to victimize some of the most active and arrested four work- ers, but were forced to release them. Fill Seattle Streets Following the eviction from the city-county building the unemployed joined by part-time and employed workers, staged a parade through the streets which ended at the Unem- ployed Citizens’ League headquar- ters. There more than 10,000 demon- straved, pledged to support prepara-~ 'T must be clear to every worker that with $1,200 a week short of the sum needed, there comes a time when no more money can be borrowed: when the electric company refuses power, when the paper companies will not deliver paper, when the post office refuses to mail the papers without the actual money. There comes the time when, unless the Daily Worker receives help from the outside, it must be forced out of existence. And it is this situation that the “Daily” is in today. Future money that will come in from affairs will not help to publish the “Daily” during the next few days, during the present week. There is one thing that can be done. If this frank*statement convinced you of the seri- ousness of the crisis: if every reader becomes an actual part of the “ ly”, the workers’ fighting paper will be saved. The crisis will be overcome if every reader of this statement ACTS, whether it is to send $2 or 2 cents, whether it is to ask two friends for funds today or to call together a dozen friends for a Daily Worker House Party tonight. 1a jed. the lack of 310 to pay for some indis- If every reader of the Daily Worker moves, Remember, though $35,000 is the full amount nee pensable expense may cause the suspension of the “Daily class, and not of the revolutionary | tianary organization, the Communist workers’ and farmers’ movement. In| Party supported by millions of wor insisting upon this, the Communist | ers. Party is insistivz upon keeping the| Whereas, in Italy, fascism had) skirts of the revolutionary movement | crushed the working class long be- clear of tl> ‘nud and filth of the| fore it actually took state power, in capitalist class <d the capitalist ide-| Germany the Communist Party is ology—capitalist methods which are | developing growing resistance against entirely futile and self-defeating if the Fascist rule. undertaken by the revolutionary | Without underestimating the) movement. danger of Fascism, Hathaway em- NAVY YARD WAGE CUT counter-revolutionary position of the Trotzkyite and expressed confidence NEW YORK.—There ie a rumor} jn the ability of the German work- at the Brooklyn Navy Yard that a ing class, under the leadership of the wage cut is coming next March for |Communist Party to smash the con- the entire naval force. This wilt solidation of Fascism and establish make the second cut. |a Soviet Government. } phatically rejected the defeatist and/ very beginning. The Lovestonites is- sued the promise on their own ini- tiative to prevent organization. Three tenants were evicted Friday with a few more scheduled. When the tenants began to organize against evictions and for lower rents, Kud- renetzky started a counter organiza~ tion of tenants opposed to striking by misleading them with the promise which has been broken. Kudrenetzky also collected rent for the landlord. An enlarged meeting of the Strike Committee of 50 will be held Monday night at the headquarters, 1400 Bos- ton Rd. together with the represen- tatives of those houses that were registered on Feb. 15. The meeting will discuss the spreading of the strikes and consolidation of we houses involved. Support will be pledged to the elected delegation of 15 that will go to Albany to present live! Smuggled Letter Tells How Hunger Caused Jail Revolt Raymond St. Prison Fed Rotten Stew; Many the petition to Gov. Lehman de- manding that he enact legislation re- pealing the eviction law. Waiter Dies as Hoover and Capitalists Are ‘Fight Rent Increase; B’klyn Tenants Strike NEW YORK.—A “sub-rosa” letter smuggled out by a prisoner in the Raymond Street jail telling of the rotten conditions there which caused a serious riot in that jail recently, resulting in the clubbing of prisoners, was received today by the N. Y. Dis- trict, International Labor Defense, which is concealing the name of the writer so as to prevent prison autho- rities from taking action against him, In writing about the riot, the ca- pitalist press tried to make it appear as the work of hardened criminals, The letter flatly contradicts this. The letter is as follows: February 13, 1933. = ii Hf i 3 i z z : i fe eg as flooding the place the sinks and letting ru. we went to sleep the single cells ringleaders, and FE i of them, Jimmy Cahill is in critical condition in the hospital next to | the jail. “Now we get up at 6 a, m., and they don’t put the lights on till 9 a.m, They stop our mail for one day, no newspapers were allowed in. There are a number of class war prisoners in this jail, among them Edward Griffin, 17 year old Negro boy, framed on a murder charge. The N. Y. District, International Labor Defense, which will hold a bazaar on Feb. 22nd to 26th, in- clusive, to raise funds for de“ending all class-war prisoners has carried on an independent investigation of conditions in the Raymond Street jail, which even before the riot oc- cured proved that conditions in that jail are intolerable. A campaign consisting of open-air demonstrations and mass meetings ‘in protest against the miserable con- ditions prevailing in this jail, against | the brutal treatment of the prisoners | after’ the riot, and demanding that (all class war prisoners be accorded the full rights of political prisoners | will be initiated by the N. Y. District, | International Labor Defense on a |large scale NEW YORK.—After a three weeks | fight, the tenants of 170 Bay 31 St., Brooklyn, declared a rent strike Sat- urday at 11 p.m. because it seemed down a rent increase of 35 per cent. | Strike signs have been placed in all the windows. The landiord, Brill, refuses to re- cognize the house committee of five | and said, “I am determined to evict | the committee even if it costs me, $10,000.” The workers of the house, under the leadership of the unem- ployed Councils, are not to be fright- ened by the threats of this landlord. ‘They ask the support of all workers living in the neighborhood. Student League Scores Suppression of Paper NEW YORK.—The National Stu- dent League has issued a call for all | it students and organizations to protest the action of the Student Senate of New York University. The Senate is suspending publication of the Daily News, the University publication. ‘The Student League is protesting | against the autocratic method of the Student Senate The danger is great. Dining at the Waldor‘| NEW YORK.-—As President Hoover and his capitalist friends were gorg- | to be the only method for taking ing themselves at the Waldorf As- | toria dinner recently, one of the walters, Barney Briggs, died of star- vation. Barney had been unem- ployed for a year and was weak from undernourishment, but the manage~ ment kept him going hard beyond the point of endurance. Of course, Barney was just an extra man for that evening, so the management was out to get the full value of its money, The capitalist press gave the cause for Barney’s death as “the excite- ment of seeing Hoover.” However, considering the condition of Barney and the fact that he and other wait- ers had to rush up and down two long flights of stairs to the balcony, is quite obvious that he did not die from the pleasure or excitement of the appearance of Hoover. 12 CENTS AN HOUR FOR WOMEN # and prepare the strike for week work PONTIAC, Mich., Feb. 17.—The Bald- win Rubber factory is hiring women to work for 12 to 15 cents an hour. mands of the fur workers, and en- Let us ali act together and quickly. EMERGENCY COMMITTEE OF THE CENTRALCOMMITTEE TO SAVE THE DAILY WORKER, NOTE TO FINANCIAL SECRETARIES AND WORKERS WHO HAVE COLLECTION LIST; It is a grave underestimation of the situation in the Daily Worker to hold money already collected even for one hour in the present emergency. or sent by air mail or wire to the Daily Worker, 50 E. 13th St.. New York City. organization \will receive credit for it if so requested. if all money collected, no matter how little, is sent in immediately, the Daily Worker will survive the next few critical days. The Daily Worker must and will ’ ROBERT MINOR, WILLIAM WEINER, C. A. HATHAWAY. Money collected should be either brought to the office Your unit, shop or Received Saturday ......... Total to date .. Landlord Family Quar- Dress Drive; Broaden Out Meeting of All Shop Delegates Approves Re- port on Fur Contract Negotiations NEW YORK.—The workers are moving in the needle trades. A meet- ing of shop chairmen and delegates of all shops held Saturday at Webster Hall heard full reports from Irving Potash, secretary of the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union, on the progress of cloak, dress and fur strike activities and settlements, and heard Ben Gold report on the negotiations with the large association of fur@ manufacturers. ' The conference found that in spite of the slack season in some of the trades, many concrete gains have been made. ‘The shop delegates council formal- ly resolved to greet the developments and support fully the struggle led by the Cloakmakers Committee of 100, the Dressmakers Unity Committee and the Industrial Union, on a real united front basis. The council pledged to mobilize all its forces to extend the united front dorsed the action of thei conference committee. 35 Dress Strikes In spite of the fact that last week production slackened in the dress trade, the Dressmakers Unity com- mittee was successful in stopping of 35 additional open shops involving 750 workers. Of these 35 shops 20 | have settled. The Industrial Union has also declared stoppages in about 20 union shops for the purpose of re-settling the prices and improving the conditions. In the shop of Maimen and Sanger, 27 West 24th Street, in which there are 150 workers on strike, the firm in the cloak trade, and a mass strike for union standards in the dress trade. It also reaffirmed the de- (CONTINUED ON PAGE 'TWQ) ‘ rel Result in Eviction of Janitor, Sick Child (CONTINUED ON PAGE 3) Torture Herndon in A Tiny Georgia Cell Framed by Lying, Brutal Guards ATLANTA, Ga., Feb. 19. — Fearfui that the growing mass fight for the freedom of Angelo Herndon will rob them of their prey, the Georgia lynch bosses are deliberately attempting to wreck the health and mind of Hern- don by transferring him to a tiny padlocked cell, such as lunatics are confined in, The transfer w: ing a lying charge by guards at t Fulton Tower jail, Fulton County, Ga., that Herndon had attempted to effect an escape. Expose Frame-Up. The I. L. D. attorneys J. Davis, Jr., and John H. Geer, took steps yester= | day to force Herndon’s removal from NEW YORK—A family squabble | the padded cell. They forced the i .| Fulton County Council to hold a between! a landlord and ‘his wits Te | hearing on their protests. Herndon ‘sulted in a worker becoming the | at the hearing categorically denied | scapegoat. The landlady, securing | having made any attempt to escape ; control of the house at 2132 Daly | and branded as a lie the statements ‘Ave., Bronx, from her husband | °f the guards. Three armed guards | we t in the room during the | through divorce proceedings, prompt- | fee ee ly ordered the eviction of the jani- hearing, but this effort to intimal | Herndon, like other similar efforts, tor, John Werner, though his con- tract does not expire until next failed completely. June. Protests Urged. Despite the fact that Werner's | ‘The Southern District of the 1. L. little girl had the measles, and | Hoan abd’ aiauaitiee een | Werner showed a doctor's letter that | the country da ace > ih teat nt ‘i she must not be moved, Police Officer | Vicious attem horas y Bis healt! No. 1179 tore up the contract and id mind of the one d te cas doctor's letter and guarded the dis- font in jail. sarong bars possessors from the enraged tenants. +, An ambulance had to be called to| ,tqie’ maress to Gov. Eugene Tal- remove the sick child. i : a ag ‘At the insistence of the tenants,|D- Thomas, Pulton County Supreme | Court, Atlanta, Ga. the landlady was compelled to pay | A 4 the janitor’s back pay of $60, which | Demand the immediate release of she had previously refused. The | “#8 young organizer sentenced to 18 | tenants are aroused by this action, jer Danas the pel of and in order to avoid evictions called , Scottsboro boys! an immediate meeting. The Un- employed Council began to canvass SCOTTSBORO CASE? the house for signatures for a rent strike, and in a half hour collected 22. ! See Story om Page Three a A th the 2 Sma: eit oe hee