The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 24, 1933, Page 4

f Page tour N.Y jo the Da Comprodaily Publishing Co. Telephone ALgon Sunday vin 4-7956 “‘DAIWORK 0 E, 18th St., New York, N. X Inc, daily except at a Cable iy Worker, THE FARMEI STORY OF MILITANCY OF TOILERS ON nL WE GET BETWEEN THE HANDLES and passe ese food federal tion comp: mic ¢ trolled. by producers, elected to re and raise products sold must be made by the swollen profi men who 1 family. 5. The defeat of based on the theory of production. 6. The enactm to provide easier x for all farm famili 7. A debt holiday cons @ moratorium on mortgages, terest, and re for middle fa vers. Cancellation of back farm taxes, interest and seed loans and debts for supplies and furnish ings for marginal farmer croppers, etc. 8. During this national crisis con- gress must declare all ysures seizures of property Ulegal. ‘The farmers’ next step is to pre- sent these demands and resolutio1 to their congres: u Garner and Hoover WE MARCH ON THE Friday m ten farmers go to Capitol are provided with “How Ow tives Answ secretary of each is advised not m answers but also cussion “and impre the visits. To either or both houses will their demands, the farmers advised to go to the galleries of the House and Sena Some of the delegation to jot down ners had be with the hunger marchers. They had seen the police use the foule language, spit on the trapped me and women. ared for he wed their new way the stupid vicious snouts s the farm. ers moved up C: Hill, down swarmed the ordered nd the farmers to close a lieutenant ru them. Had right closed parading. technically v bellied captain ste to the lieutenant’s fed, “Good work, men spector with a moustache chevron slapped under hi: clicked up also. ‘The big shots surround gersoll, associated with search, wt lyn. The li farmers in the | let young fellows that fro the city lead you around by the mose. You don't w what they are up to.” A farmer answers hot- ly, “We'll chose any ‘The inspector, wi jally dne of the f he is a member of onds the lieuter farmers be kept w n for “disobeyi the law With drawn nighisticks and big badge kin like the boys “Chicken live gua good. lor finally allo flee building YPICAL is York ele- gation's Th ee Senator Copeland f Royal S Copeland shakes ery delegates hand. Picture of Abraham Lineoin On a wall. Copeland with ¢ fion in buttonhole and hair puffed high like a drum-inajor's hat. He reads aloud a copy of the demands He says he thinks some action is mecessary. Copeland believes the demands ask for some things that can't be done. No, Copeland won't move the suspension of rule f the Senate. So that farmers read their program from the of the senate. Copeland will vo! it if someone else proposes to r it. Copeland will be glad to these resolutions into the Cong: sional Record. Copeland won't support all of these demands be- cause they aren’t legal. Finished with questions, Copeland paces the floor, swings his arms, and shoots off oratory. He, too, “was born and raised on a farm.” Dexter, Michigan. He, Copeland, has had to renew a note, a note every three months like the poorest of farmers. He can appreciate the farme ferings. Surely, the farmer ha. been having any of the Here Copelond announce distributcd. He fecls that we should may flood e for all get on our knee i pray that the Democrats su dor just as sure as daylight there will be an 4 2 By MOE BRAGIN £ S +E } YHE LAND LOTS OF HAND-SHAKING Wag le will study When one ion of A farmer re- t Red Cross and ncies have been dis- certain grot orkers. To show it is that relief in given, the farmer tells the the Arkansas farmer whose child was dying. He rushed down to the relief office in town to beg ne. The rel had only flour and him off. Wagner has nothing ay to this. He announces sw York farmers t for money for mes agent said he drov to at though 2 YO out Into the ere in the Capitol Hous gallery pit the to the open their boxes ur s come around with floc of women and point to the star w indicates the spot under nich Betsy Ross was to have been puried. The farmers eat and talk And from the shadows and corners is $s and stoolpigeons ‘oaches Our Forces Are Strong i Hill, Typo- be their ‘onference. ‘They and resume third day of the Con- have had to look around, flex and gauge their find themselves the leaders on the platform to the floorja sitting silently in r of the hall. They find rong, for no matter or piece c jum for coltar, < HARRIS is Execu y of the Conference. ve Secre- A Har- vard graduate, Pennsylvania farm- er, he has worked on Soviet farms and in Soviet factories. He has been all over the country talking to dirt mers, and knows conditions the y even in the most re- no’ He is tall, lean as a ndpike, with clean-cut features. othing fi Just as the he had a bout of the De- Ss offi- picke @ opene former off tmen was out- city ickets. Tis trom 1elp the dup the farm pi when official f it was inadvisable he continue king to the group. He called Harris jacka Harris showed him. visitors’ see: tion the Confer- work every everybody looks filthy, hollow-eyed. Big George Keith faints on the platform; so an Alabama cropper; wiry Rosenberg has to take to Only Lem seems to grow stronger and fresher the Con- progresses a rock z sharper out of the ground more pressure there is forced down around it (To Be Continued.) | Mooney Defense 1.—Immediately send resolutions addressed to Judge Ward, Superior Court, Hall of Justice, San Fran- cisco, with copis to Matthew! i ’ Kearny St., nia, de- ‘om Moo: to new trial at the hearing before Judge Ward on March 25th. | mes Rolph, | | | Why ‘Daily’ Exposes the | S.P. Leaders By M. A. CHILDS Milwaukee District Organizer, Communist Party in there rous enem ers of the Socialist Party, power in Milwaukee, and other citi v n, Metcalfe misleader capitalist 2 di of capita of the S, P. in the budget for unem- ent relief; he strengthens the department and sends cops stations to club tt nployed. The Socialist supervis- ors support the infamous outdoor relief system of Milwaukee; vote military appropriations; bo: ‘Buy American’ In the unions, the S. P. it strikes—like for port the sup- t leaders are helped r their betrayal of the 's. ‘The columns of the big bourgeois papers are open to them, as well as of the La Follette “oppo- sitionist” press, The Socialist press | is supported by the bosses through ads and donations, and a constant am of poison flows from these 's into the workers’ minds. Milwaukee Leader | there are four other Wisconsin Socialist papers. One of these— the Socialist Campaigner—is given away to the tune of 140,000 copies weekly. Who provides the money? The workers are beginning to com- ain of the anti-workingclass na« ire of these pape ven the | prepay the members of the Socialist Party are The beginning to refuse support “Vorwaer't German to suspend be- the workers wouldn't support any more Why do open shop conc vertise in the “Leade the public utilities, A. O. ation, the Chicago ne of the worst tabo. rms ad- Thy do Smith ‘Trib- Mayor Hoan of Milwaukee who rries out the program of the cap- does the run ads for services to be sold “To White People Only”—Jim Crow ads? These questions, asked by the rank and file, are replied to by the leaders in the way that Benson replied at a ounty Com- mittee meeting: “The workers are no good. They don't support the Socialist papers. We must get help from somewhere.” From some- where? The bosses don’t support @ paper unless jit serves them. ery HIS boss fought must be ‘The H poison and destroyed. best weapon for the Wisconsin | workers has been the Daily Worker. | The exposures printed in the Daily | Worker of concrete incidents of | betrayal of the rank and file by ¢ Socialist leaders have reached into the Socialist branches in Milwau- kee. Though the circulation of the “Daily” in our state is far too small—yet its influence is great For instance, the statement of the Socialist candidate in Pennsylvania repudiating the S. P. and support- ing the Communist candidat created a tremendous stir am the Milwaukee Socialist work through their reading the Dail Worker. The Daily Worker alone reflects the life and struggles of the work- ers of Wisconsin and the rest of the country. Their demands are printed; their conditions are re- corded; their struggles are helped by the “Daily.” If the “Daily” were suspended now—it would be @ great victory for the Wisconsin bosses. Then their bought-and- paid-for Socialist press could poison the workers’ minds unchallenged. ‘The Daily Worker needs $35,000 to keep it going. We cal! on the Wisconsin workers — particularly the Milwaukee workers—to contrib- ute their share! Rank and file Socialist workers, the Daily Worker is your paper! You have fought side by side with us—the Commu- nist workers—in Milwaukee for better relief, against forced labor, scrip, etc. Only the Daily Worker has told of these struggles, and helped them in its pages! Negro workers of Wisconsin, the Daily Worker is the foremost fight- er for equal rights for the Negroes and self-determination for the Black Belt Poor farmers of Wisconsin, the Daily Wo is your best n your fight for relief orvlostres and sheriff's sale All toilers, raily to the support of your paper—the Daily Worker Unite to secure the existence of | our fighting “Daily.” Collect and Contribute to the. $35,000 fund, \ of the Wisconsi 2 Mayor H puts through | money and tremendous and manufacturers | i By Burch | | | | | | | | he Fourth Hunger Winter --Detroit in Strike Wave- By HERBERT BENJAMIN (Herbert Benjamin, National Organizer of the Unemployed Councils, is making a tour of a number of principal mid-west cities. He will write short articles summarizing the situation of the unemployed in the cities he visits. This is the first of these articles.) IN rapid succession other of the gre; plants of Detroit a1 by a spreading mas the hunger offen one after an- automobile being tied up revolt against ve of the pow- | | i} erful automobile manufacturers who rule this city. Strike fever is | Even the American of Labor misleaders, ve done their utmost to convince the masses that “strikes in periods of economic crisis are impossible,” are now talking strike. Of cou their purpose in pretend- ing to favor strikes is the same as their previous attempts to discour- age strikes, WAVE OF STRIKES But the masses are not only talk- ing strike. They are si One day it is the Murray Body; then Motor Products; Briggs, and then the Hudson plant. Nor is the strike fever confined to the auto industry. reports of two strikes come over the phone of the office of the iking! | Within fifteen minutes | Trade Union Unity League; first | it is a stove factory; two depart- | ment stores! SAS he TE th those workers want leadership for r struggles. ‘They turn to ho have been urging, or- ganizing and conducting the fight in resistance to hunger relief doles and starvation wages. The most bitter and skillful enemies of the workers are called in to defeat tnese struggles. The: succeed for a time in creating confusion in the | ranks of the strikers: the strike for a time; to divide the unemployed from the employed to behead | But even with the help of the A. | F. of L., Socialist Party, I. W. W., Proletarian Party combined, the | employers are unable for long to | dam the tidal wave of struggle against wage-cuts. Reluctantly, step by step, the employers re- treat. One after another, they post notices of wage increases not only in the plants that have already been strack, but in all other plants, HOW ABOUT THE UNEMPLOYED? Are they clamoring at the fac- | tory gates for an opportunity to scab? No, indeed! They their banners and placards, They are there to stand shoulder to shoulder with the strikers in de- are at | the gates; but they are there with | termined action to keep scabs out | of the plant! Even when, for the | moment, company agents combined. with I. W. W. leaders succeed in taking over leadership of the strike, and even when these decide that, “no outsider shall be allowed to picket,” the Jobless workers under the leadership of the Unemployed. Councils persist in staying on the line, At all hours of the day and throughout the night; in sub-zero weather they continue on guard, ‘HE unemployed, led by their Councils, realize that these strikes are part of the general war against hunger. They are ready to participate in that war no mat~ ter on what front it’'may be con~- ducted at the given moment. They are there to give encourage- ment, not only to the striking auto workers, but to workers of all in- dustries. They are there to de- clare “Organize and Fight* Against Wage-Cuts! The Unemployed Will Not Scab—They'll Help You Fight and Win!” HIGH TIME FOR THE FIGHT IN DETROIT The fight has nat begun too soon in Detroit. In fact we've been a little slow there for awhile. Consider! The welfare (racket) experts testified before the LaFol- lette Costigi Committee that only “1 r cent of the unemployed relief rolls of the various principal cities.” But in Detroit conditions are even worse Ballenger, the Welfare Director of | Detroit, boasts that only, 19 per | | | nosr}y four times what was previously | on the ieland -of cent of the admitted employed of Detroit welfare rolis. The welfare that the most relief duri of 1932 was $8.93 per capita, But in Detroit, the same testimony shows that only $3.53 was spent. -Further, the state of Michigan is among those states that have not yet appropriated a single cent for relief. While the city of Chicago h received about $30,000,000 for relief from the Reconstruction Fi- nance Corporation, Detroit received only a& little over $2,000,000. JAIL SENTENCES FOR REFUSING TO FREEZE During five days, according to the Detroit News of February 7, an average of 200 workers have come individually to the City Hall to complain that they are being denied coal. The city is supposed to be providing coal through its welfare.” But coal is given ac- tording to calendar; so much per month on a given day of the month, regardless of needs. Mean- time, the same paper reports, “15 men were found guilty today of stealing coal belonging to the wel- fare department and sentenced to 15 days in the workhouse. Three other men, convicted of stealing coal from the Michigan Central 000 un- are on the experts admitted y spent for Railroad, were given thirty-day sentences,” The same paper r¢ how an unemployed father of three chil- dren, w job in a@ year, was ¢: hed by a truck. After describing the manner in which this worker was injured, it concludes with the following sig- nificant passage: “Physicians at. Young workers picketing in Briggs auto strike x months | the hospital said that undernour-. ishment still further lessens the slight chances for recovery.” 'HESE few facts, selected at ran- dom, characterize the situation in Detroit. They also serve to in- dicate why the workers of Detroit are beginning to fight with such bitterness and determination. POLICE TERROR, MURPHY’S SOLUTION Mayor Murphy is well aware of this situation. This, as well as his program for meeting the rising revolt of the unemployed and em- ployed workers is strikingly indi- cated by another news item. This reports a discussion on the budget. The Director of the Budget pro- posed to cut $408,000, an item cover- ing 162 extra policemen. This was protested by the head of the police department, who is quoted as stat- ing that “These are very serious times, and the problem of industrial un- employment is beceming increas- ingly serious. It is not sound policy a to skeletonize the police department at this time.” Then the report continues: “The Mayor (Murphy) cencurred and the item stayed in.” The workers of Detroit, employed and unemployed, are now giving their stern answer to the hunger and terror program of Murphy and the auto manufacturers. Out of their present struggles, they are mobilizing the forces that will rally in gigantic demonstrations on March 4 and, in a mass hunger march on the Ford plant on March 7 to fling their answer into the teeth of Murphy and _ his master, the murderous Henry Ford. | No Minerals in the Soviet Union, Mr. Hoover? By ROBERT HAMILTON In an interview with Christopher Morley, noted. writer, President Hoover, when asked about the po- tential strength of the Soviet Union as an industrial factor of world im- portance replied: “There are more minerals in the state of Montana than in all Russia.” And-Morley be- lieved it, and so did the American “man in the street.” Isn't Hoover a mining engineer, with world-wide experience? Wouldn't he be specially qualified to know? Well, here are some facts, not spe- culation or idle wishes, Mr. Hoover! Acording to Professor I. M. Gubkin, internationally known geologist and member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, the Soviet Union has 65 per cent of all the manganese ore in the world, indispensable in steel manufacture. The manganese de- posits already known are three and a half times as big as known before the Revolution. ‘The known copper reserves are now ten times as big as before the Five Year Plan. ‘The lead ores found are assumed. Over four times the amount, of zine ores has been discovered. Al} in five years, Mr. Hoover. ‘The pres- ent copper reserves of the Soviet Union are 14,000,000 tons, with 2,300,- 000 tons of lead, and over 5,000,000 tons of zine. Before the Revolution the total coal reserves of Imperial Russia were es-)| timated at 230 billion tons. Today, with only part of the Soviet Union fully explored, it ranks third in the world in coal reserves with 1,113 bil- lion tons of coal, while Canada has 1,200 billion tons. But 75 per cent of Canada’s coal is low-grade brown il, whereas only 15 per cent of So- t deposits are brown coal. Thus in reality the Soviet Union is exceeded only by the Soviet States jn coal re- sources. Now for oil, Mr. Hoover! Conser- yative estimates now place the oil re- serves in Baku alone at 1,200 million tons. The North Caucasus fields including Grosny, have proven re- serves totaling 140,000,000 tons. Wheir these fields are added to the known reserves, as yet unexploited in part, Sakhalin. | ° SUBSCRIPTION Os 01 year, |ESCAPE from the | GALLOWS: OW the “captain” and the Warden appeared at the top of | the stairs to watch the @ensfer of | the prisoners. “Are they troublesome?” asked the “captain.” “Some of them are inclined to | make trouble.” | “Ivanov!” | The “sergeant’ | tion. “Five men inside the van, two on the box, you and two others | behind.” “Yes, your honour.” The “policemen” took their places as commanded. The “sergeant” awaited further orders, “I shall go ahead and wait for you at the gate of the Citadel.” “Yes, sir!” “Move on now!” The gate opened again and the van rolled slowly into the street. The “captain” condescended to shake hands with the Warden and followed the van. Soy os stood at atten~ IT was 1:30'a.m. when he came up to our rendezvous to tell us the good news. The janitor, a Party member, had been warned that we expected visitors during the night. He im- mediately opened the gate and “Yur” burst into the room, his voice ringing with joy as he shout- ed: “It’s done!” We rushed up to embrace him, to give vent to our emotion. He slipped off his uniform and Was gone again in five minutes. One of the officers was to call | next day for his uniform, especially | his weapons. | “It's done, but not quite,” sighed “Anna.” “What about the others?” IN THE PRISON VAN ILENT, with clenched teeth, the convicts sat in the van. Silent, struggling to hold their feelings in rein, sat the “police- men” alongside of them. Now the van was rolling over some cobble-stone pavement. The rattle of the wheels drowned almost every other sound. “Suddenly “Baldy” tore the cap of his head and shouted exultingly to. the prisoners: “Don’t you recognize me, com- rades? I am ‘Baldy. We have kidnapped you, and are taking you to freedom.” The rescued men were dumb- founded with surprise; it took them several minutes to realize fully the sudden turn of fortune and that their. was a reality, not an empty dréam. “It is all true,” the other “police- men” assured our rescued com- rades hastily, telling them snatches ofthe whole plot. The scene of joy, of gratitude to their rescuers cannot be ade- quately portrayed in words. The prison van resembled anything but the austere repository of prisoners | brought to retribution. Men em- | braced and kissed each other, shook hands, forgetting for the moment that the exploit was not yet at an end, and that serious and | unexpected obstacles may yet have to be surmounted. CALLS A HALT One of the “policemen” cailed a halt to this exultation, and summoned everyone back to busi- ness. “Friends, you have forgotten about the revolvers.” In a moment, everyone of the rescued men was armed with a “Browning.” “For use in case of emergency,” | explained “Baldy.” “There are | twenty of us. If anything goes | Wrong we will shoot our way out. | But such an eventuality is very unlikely,” he added, allaying his own misgivings, and thtse of the others. Suddenly the crowded came to a stop. 6 vehicle . SJHAT'S the matter?” the pas- sengers anxiously enquired, as each one reached for his re- volver resting in its holster. “What's happened?” “Baldy” rushed up to the little window in the door serving as a peep-hole. “Shut up, inside there,” shouted “Marcel” from the other side of the door. He was too buy to pay atten- tion to “Baldy’s” pleas for an ex- planation. It was he who had stopped the van, with a peremp- — Caspia, in Central Asia (Turkmenian Soviet Republic and Usbekistan), as well as the Lake Baikal district and the tremendous zone between the Western Urals and the Volga, we find that previous estimates have to be tripled; the present known reserves of the Soviet Union total three billion tons of oil, making it the richest oll country in the world. And lastly, iron! Before the war the total Russian iron ore reserves were estimated at two billion tons, ‘Today this figure has peen more than quafrupled: geological explorations during 1932 raised she iron ore re- serves of the Soviet Union to more than eight and a half billion tons, not including the iron quartzites of the Kursk Magnetic anomaly or the quartzites of Krivoi Rog. ‘These are just a few samples of the Soviet Union’s mineral riches. How about the state of Montana and your sneer, Mr. Hoover? Your information (or your truthfulness) doesn’t seer to be so well-founded, does it? “SOUTHERN JUSTICE — Sen- tence of Negro worker to living death for leading fight for bread— American Workers must save Hern- don and other Atlanta, defendants _ftom elutshes of pisiows ehain tene> ae © By FELIX KOHN. RATES: By Mail everywhere: One year, $6; six months, $3.60; 8 months, $2; 1 month, Ie, excepting Borough of Manhattan and Bronx, New York City. 6 months, $5; 7 mont! Foreign tory order to come to @ halt. The driver climbed down from the box and walked over to one of the wheels, over which two “police men” were bending as if engrossed. in doing something. He, too, stooped over. At that moment two muscular hands seized him by i the throat, and before he could utter a word, a handkerchief was stuffed down his throat and he/ was bundled inside the van. “Now drive like blazes!” As the van picked up speed agein, it quickly dawned upon the men inside why this stop had made. They immediately knew the, role they were to play. “Be quiet, or we'll kill you,” they, threatened the driver who was lying on the floor scared to death, ‘The van sped on to complete its mission of liberation, rolling fur- ther and further out of town towards the suburban vegetable gardens. A few more minutes, and the gate of the garden agreed upon opened, the van swerved off into a cucumber patch and the gate was closed behind it. The process of transforming the “policemen” back into civilians again was accomplished in double: quick time. In rapid succession, they leaped to the ground, di- vested themselves of their uni. forms, which they left scattered ail. over the place. “Stephan” went over to everybody, took away their revolvers and put them into a bag. “Wait, here is a coat and a cap for everybody. There is an ad~ dress in the inside pocket where you are to call for further in- structions.” “Anna” had arranged all this of her own accord. “The driver is'to be left locked inside the van.” These are “Mar-~ cel's” orders. Leave the yard singly. and let everyone go at once to his ren: dezyous.”” The yard, filled but a few min- utes ago with men squirming in and out of their clothes for dear life, was soon emptied of its mid- night visitors, Only “Stephan” and “Marcel” remained. “Well, ‘Murcel,” you might as well go, and I will lock the gate.” “Lock it now. I will climb over the fence.” “What for?” “When you are on the other side of the fence, I will throw the bag with the revolvers over to you, that will be safer. Otherwise, someone may suddenly turn up.” Having locked the gate, “Step» han” climbed the fence and sat astride. “Nobody over.” So this last detail was settled. They, too, were gone. At last “Marcel” came to us to report. in sight. Hand her 'HIS time even he was touched, We gave him a rousing recep= tion. At any other time he would. have refrained from such a display of sentimentality, but this time he kissed each one of us with tender emotion. It was four o’clock in the morn- ing and quite light. “Anna” made some tea, and “Marcel” recounted to us all the details of the adven- ture. Suddenly we heard the counters sign on the door. “Who can it be?” We looked ai each other perplexed. Nobody was to call on us except “Yur” and | “Marcel.” i One of the “policemen” entered—~ “Bartek.” He was pale as a sheet, “What has happened?” “In my hurry I lett the address , in the pocket of my uniform.” Hi Our spirits sank at once. “Do you remember the name?” “I do—Payloysky, but the ade dress.” “Anna” knew the address. She resolved what to do in @ flash. “Go at once with “Marcel” to the Pavlovskys and take them away immediately to some other district. If we will have time—in about three hours, nothing can be done before—we will take their bes lJongings away, too, if not—the deuce take them, as long as the owners are safe. Go, and be quick.” ‘They left. ‘We were not worried about the “Pavloyskys.” ‘Before the addresy could be found and deci and @ search ordered, seyeral hours must elapse. Meanwhile there was ample time to conyey them to safety. r Nevertheless, the exuberance with which we were filled on “Marcel’s arrival now subsided, A ee A. seven o'clock we were to rec. ceive at a different apartment information about the despatch the rescued men by train to frontier. “Stephan” was also notify us there whether the had been raised by the police, were compelled to remain in present apartment until oc] with nothing to do. This extremely irksome. LH ‘bRes talk, was pracile cally over, she felt di q tired. She lay down for a but every minute consulted her watch. At six we went over to the other quarters. Later on we learned that at that very moment, the owner of the vegetable garden drove up in front of his property on a cart, stopped. his horse, opened the wicket door, and drew back, as if stung by @ vines shouting “Police!” {hn Be omit 4 | (4 ( \ Ne \l> verybody. ready?” "q \ i) j | !