The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 2, 1933, Page 1

FRE Pp | College Students Contribute “Enclosed you will find a list of names of comrades. who have contributed the $4 that was mailed to you this morning,” writes Alex. Mann, of Ithaca, New York. “Most of them are working students at Cornell University, their last pennies to that the working class has. You will hear from not ended, again!” Vol. X, No. 52 who have donated save the only paper Our aid has us Dail Central Org Eaiered as second-class walter al the Fost Offiee os G2 Kew York, N.Y, under tho Act of March & 197 orker the-Co ipynist Party U.S.A. (Section of the Communist International) One Way to Do It The Fitchburg of the Communist Party, t I he Finnish Federation, held an entertain- ment and dance last week that raised $19.30 for the Daily Worker. This method of raising money for ot r should be used IMMEDIATELY units and workers’ organizations throug! out the country. NEW YORK, THURSDAY, MARCH 2, 1933 CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents DEMAND UNEMPLOYED RELIEF, INSURANCE MARCH 4! ) FAILURE OF GERMAN Nas P MURDER DRIVE PREDICTED ; BY ZVESTIA’, USSR. DAILY QUOCG 5 Reichstag Fire in Berlin Branded As a Fascist} Provocation German Toilers Too Strong and Too Great a: Force to Be Crushed By N. BUCHWALD. (European Correspondent of the Daily Worker.) MOSCOW, March 1 (By Radiogram). — Branding the: Reichstag fire as a fascist provocation to prepare the ground for a decisive blow against the German working class, the Soviet | newspaper “Izvestia” predicts the failure of the fascist murder drive, declaring the German working class represents too great i s. force, has too much experience and@—- — ———--- i already res shown too great a ca- pacity for heroic struggles to permit itself to be crushed. | Crude Counterfeit. | The National Socialist provocation is so conspicuous, declares “Izvestia”, that no attentive person can help | noticing this crude counterfeit. No- | body will understand why the Ger-/ man ‘Communist Party should re- quire an alleged organized upris- ing to set fire to public buildings. It 4s also incomprehensible why the | | German Communists should require for this work the importation from Holland of a man expelled from the Dutch Communist Party two years ago as a police provocateur. As a matter of fact, continues “Izvestia”, | the provocation was undertaken be- cause the fascists decided to smash the Communist Party. Those who required this provocation expressed | too openly their joy over this “good pretext.” | Fight for Bread, Freedom. The German working class will not allow this provocation and the pres- ent violent terror to shut its mouth or stop its struggles for bread and freedom, declares “Izvestia”, further pointing out that for the broad mas- ses outside the Communist movement the setting fire to the Reichstag building will serve as a warning against the sinister surprises hiding behind the scenes of the National Socialist policy. . | NAZIS REPEATING ‘GORGULOV CASE” Fascists Required the) End of Reichstag By N. BUCHWALD. (European Correspondent of the Daily Worker) | MOSCOW, March 1., (By Radio- gram).—Comparing the Reichstag tire provocation with Gorgulov af- fair in Fri the Soviet newspaper “Prayda” pillories the utter stupidity of the German fascist and police as shown in their self-contradictory statements alleging responsibility of the German Communists for the fire. ‘The article is headed “The Gorgulov Affair of the German Fascists,” and points out that according to the statements of the fascist provocators the firing of the Reichstag Building should have served as a signal for terrorist lc acts on the part of the German Communist Party. The il- literacy and police stupidity shown in these provocational statements are more than conspicuous, “Prayda’’ de- clares. Gorguloy Affair Repeated. |. Ernst Thaelmann, | fascist regime. outstanding leader of the Communist Party of Germany, which has just issued a call to the Socialist organizations for joint action against the fascist murder drive. No answer has been received. ittsburgh Raises 86 P.C. of Follow Its Example! Another $50 from Pittsburgh yesterday, boosting this district to first place in percentage in the Daily Worker drive! Here is a district that knows what it means when the Daily Worker is in danger of being wiped out of existence. 30 per cent of its qu Last Thursday the Pittsburgh district had raised in nearly six weeks $104.68, or only ota. But in the week that has passed it has nearly tripled its total, sending in | $197.66, which means that 86 per cent of its quotahas been fulfilled. of the country if this work is organized properly. The splendid showing made by the Pittsburgh district is the best proof that, despite mass unem- | ployment and wage-cuts, funds to save the Daily Worker—immediate funds—can be raised in every part | There are few districts that have been as hard hit by the crisis as Pittsburgh. Tens of thousands of miners and steel workers in the Pittsburgh area are unemployed and starving. whittled down so that there is barely enough to existon. If these miner: alive, if they can ful: likewise. They must Two kinds of activity are needed: activity that will produce funds immediately, and activity that will raise money during the next few days. Those who are working are mostly on part time and their wages have been | 's and steel workers can raise nearly $200 in six days to keep their fighting paper fill 86 per cent of their quota, the workers everywhere else in the country can do if the Daily Worker is to live. { | Contribute today, collect today, see to it that appeals for the “Daily” are made at meetings being held today; and call together your friends for a house party within the next few your locality. This is the critical week. The weekly deficit of $1,200 has mounted up till it threatens to crush out the life of the “Daily.” etc., demand that the promises we made to them at the beginning of the drive be kept. ee Readers, it’s u RECEIVED YESTERDAY.......+-..8652.72 All workers’ organizations, all workers in New York, who want to see the Daily Worker live and help them fight their “We Must Stop Murder of Negro People!” Says Widow of Levon Carlock in Memphis. Young GERMAN COMMUNISTS DENOUNCE | | NAZI LIES AND PROVOCATIONS | Wave of Wild Slanders Spread by Fascists ; | Hindenburg Uses to Decree Death Penalty BULLETIN BERLIN, March 1—President | Hindenberg, choice of the Socialist Party leaders in the last presiden- | tial election, signed a decree today providing for the death penaity against Communist and Socialist workers opposing the murderous All Germany has | been put under police martial law, with attacks on the workers daily growmg more vicious and openly provocative. The fascist leader, Goering, Minister of Interior for Prussia, already has ordered the police to shoot down workers on any pretext. The fascist regime also placed a ban on reports by foreign pre: correspondents on the terror, threatening with imprisonment any correspondent who sends out cor- rect reports on conditions in Ger- many, * (Cable By Inprecor) BERLIN, March 1.—The German Communist Party issued a declara- | Reichstag building and declaring that |the German workers are well ac- Who does not know that the mat-/quainted with Communist methods ter of the assassination of the French President Doumer by the white guard terrorist Gorgulov was concocted in a similar manner, the Soviet paper asks. Ten months later the Gorgu-| The lov affair is repeated by the German fascists stupidly and in a different waanner. It is absolutely incompre- hensible how police carefully watch- ing the Relchstag Building failed to discover people setting fire at 24 points as reported officially. Van Der Lueben Police Spy. ‘The whole world press, says “Prav- da,” and a number of irrefutable proofs establish the Dutch Gorgulov, ‘Van Der Lueben, as an agent provoc- ateur. Not the Communists, but the fascists required the doing away with the Reichstag. Everybedy, even thc reactit mdon Times, expected this provocation. fs 7 of the wor! wil acay ee -conclusion from this provocation. It will certainly fail and will eventually reveal the inspir- ers of this new edition of the Gor- gulov Affair. COAL CONFERENCE DEADLOCK ‘WASHINGTON, March 1. — The wage cut conference between anthra- cite coal mine officials: of the U.M. W.A. and operators remained dead- locked tonight. A crime against the working class jand will realize the intent of this fascist provocation. Fight for Rights. \ declaration states that the Communists have no interest in the destruction of the Reichstag, but on the contrary are fighting to main- tain the last vestige of “democratic freedom.” The Communist Party sternly rejects all forms of individual terror, including naturally, arson. The. press reports declaring that a Communist conference occurred in the Reichstag immediately prior to the outrage are false, as is also the tion today, emphatically denying any | |connection with the firing of the! report that the arsonist is a member | | of the Communist Party of Holland. |. The Communist Party appeals to} | the workers to answer these attacks | | with measures already specified, and | |announces that it has again ap-| | proached the Socialist Party, the A.) |D. G. B. (reformist trade unions), the Reichsbanner, etc., with a pro- | posal for joint action agsinst the murderous fascist terror. No answer | has been received. Capitalist press dispatches from Germany report that the fascist re-| gime issued a statement yesterday de- claring that documents seized by the | police when they occupied Karl Lieb- | | knecht House, headquarters of the Communist Party, “clearly revealed” that the Communists are preparing | for revolution in Germany. This. “discovery” is followed by a series of wild fabrications of Communist “in- structions” for the poisoning of food, ! the use of women and children as} | “living shields” in the civil war and | the inclusion of “knives, forks, hot / | water and hand grenades” in \ie| | armed struggle. Wilhelm Goering, fascist head of | the police who recent&y ordered his | men to aid the fascist terror against | | the working class, declared that oth- | er “evidence” was found “so sensa- tional that publication was impos-j} | sible.” He made the stupid allega- | tion that Feb, 22 had been set for a | proletarian uprising, and Feb. 27 for | | the firing of the Reichstag Building, | | contradicting previous fascist state- | | ments that the Reichstag outrage was to have been the signal for an up- rising. He admitted that there was no attempt at an uprising on Feb. 22, but repeated the Ne that the Com- munists fired the Reichstag Building, although in his next statement he revealed the fascist interest inthe firing of the building, NEW YORK.—In a cable to Presi- dent Hindenburg of Germany, the International Labor Defense, voices the indignation of the toiling masses of the U. S. against the monstrous | fascist provocations and bloody ter- ror against the German working class. The cable is the first step in aseries of activities to be undertaken by the I. L, D. to mobilize the Amer- can working class for the support of | their heroic German brother workers in the struggle against fascism. The to sus- forker cable demands a stop to the terror, and the release of all working class US. Toilers Cable Protests Against Nazis Terror Drive prisoners. A similar telegram was sent to the German Embassy in Washington, In a statement issued today, Wil- liam L. Patterson, national secretary of the I. L. D., denounces the burn- ing of the Reichstag Building as a deliberate and crude provocation by the fascists to provide an excuse far increased terror against the workers, the first step following being the suppression of the whole Communist press and the outlawing of the Com- munist Party through the order for | the arrest of 100 Communist members | of the Reichstag iM days, have your organization arrange a series of affairs, help organize tag days in | The people who supply us with paper, ink, composition, press work, engraving, ip to you. You alone can save the Daily Worker. TOTAL TO DATE... seeeees SIF AIT SY struggles, mobilize for the tag days Saturday and Sunday, March 11 and March 12! {meet at Whitehall jat 10 am, called to meet at the Jane Street DEMONSTRATE SATURDAY FOR REAL JOBLESS AID, BACK STATE CONFERENCE All Out at Union Square at 11 te Demand! ne oo Roosevelt Keep Promise to “Forgotten Man” Marine Workers Announce Mobilization Meet Prior to Main NEW YORK.—The Unemployed Council of Greater Ne huge demonstration of tens of thousand MARCH 4, around the following cent York is calling a this SATURDAY, issues Demonstration i Make Roosevelt fulfill his promises to the “forgotten man.”, Force Congress to make unemployment insurance and rém i. lief its first order of business. Increase local couples and $3 additional for relief to a minimum of $10 a each dependent. week "| Full relief to single workers and young workers All relief to be in cash instead of checks. Stopping of all evic The Communis this demonstratio work to take Unjon Unity ganizations The latest to send end ® of the Bank of U. S. Ir meetings demonst. men, lor are calle nd South sti nployed seamen ar urday prior to the ma tion at Union Squar: shoremen and othe Uni missi at the same tim ket meetings will be short and wi | stration in Union Square at 11 am. BANK CRISIS FLASHES Negro Lad Shot by Cops on Basis of Vile | i Fe Philadelphi: bank: an- | Frame-Up : | nounced stlicirewrask wield be ce " e stricted, and withdrawals were lim- Jobless Join Protest; Raise Issue in March 4th, Hie a pays me aes in Bet Demonstrations ‘The moratorium on the banks of Maryland is expected to continue at least till Monday, while the dif- ferent interests of the bosses are smoothed out in the special legis- lation being prepared. | | The movement to use checks and | letters of credit and other forms | of scrip instead of money is spread- ing in Arkansas and Tennessee. Seven banks in Washington, D. C., have restricted withdrawals. East St. Louis, Til, banks an- nounced only five per cent of de- posits covld be withdrawn, NEW YORK.—An urgent appeal to workers and their organizations to rally immediately against the attempts of the while ruling class to legally lynch Euel Lee, aged Negro farmhand, and Will Sanders, 16-year- old Negro youth, was issued by the International Labor Defense yesterday. The appeal points out that the bosses of South Carolina are rushing the Negro youth, Will Sanders, to the electric chair this Friday. The LL.D. also reported that the appeal of Euel Lee comes up this ‘Thursday at Annapolis, Md. Ae OF . MEMPHIS, Tenn., March 1.—‘We're depending on you,” Eula May Carlock, sixteen year old widow of Levon Carlock, young Negro worker murdered here by police, said to an In-| "the United P: cia that ternational Labor Defense representative today. “We won't | “European. aires of tne peal ved do a thing unless vou sav so. Levon can’t be brought back, but! financial position” has resulted in) “yn heavy withdrawals of gold from the | maybe we can stop this raurdering of Negro people. “I'll do anything you la ~ : say. ‘They can't seare mie.” | United States within the past few days. The Federal Reserve Bank re- PREPARE WHITEWASH. ported w'thdrawa's yesterday of $12,-| This statement was made from the sick bed where Mrs. Carlock has | 372,000 gold, of witich $9,849,900 went been ill for days since the cruel torture and bioody murder of her innocent | to France. In addition, $26,940,000 in young husband by six Memphis patrolmen out for a good time. It followed gold was “earmarked” for foreign ac- a visit by @ coroner who threatened ler and claimed that police don't kill! counts, briuving ihe net loss for the | people in Memphis without good reason. He clearly indicated that an | day to $36,827,000 as European alarm) attempt will be made to whitewash the murderers when the coroner's | grew over the rapidly deepening fin-| inquest is called. He refused to divulge the time or place of the inquest, | ancial crisis in the United States. hoping to hold it secretly. | large mass meeting in Leader of Jobless 1. Amfer, National Secretary of the Unemployed Councils yesterday urged that at all the March Fourth demonstrations telegrams to Roose- yelt should be adopted demanding that he grant a hearing to the job less delegates, The six policemen who mercilessly beat Carlock last Saturday morn- ing after accusing him of the “rape” of a practicing prostitute, then put ave bullets into his head and body, are still active on the police force, | no explanations having been required of them other than the lie that | Carlock made an “attempt to escape”. They have not even explained the | bullet wounds in the front of Carlock’s body, nor in the top of his head, | ae that he was shot from the front and after he Had fallen to the ground. “Yeah, I can’t fake all the credit, but I was one of them that shot the nigger,” one of the lynchers is reported to have joked since then. In an attempt to avoid an investigation, they have told Ruby Morris, the prostitute who js supposed to have made the identification, not to talk. | Nw YORK.—Pennies were being | “The law told me to keep my mouth shut and that’s just what I’m cojlected by members and sympa- | going to do”, she screamed at the attoxzzey for the International Labor De- | thizers of the 8th Avenue Neighbor- | fense who questioned her. |hdod Committee, who are sending NEGRO PEOPLE AROUSED. | Mrs Martha Johnson and Mr. Joseph The Negro people of Memphis are thoroughly aroused and are form- | Nichols, two Negro workers, as their ing Levon Carlock Committees of Action in the neighborhoods, churches, | representatives to the Albany State | lodges, etc., in answer to a call by tie International Labor Defense to rally | Conference for Unemployment In- about the slogan “Levon Carlock Must Be the Last!” to back the de-| surance, relief and labor legislation. | mands for immediate removal and punishment of the six murderers, in-| At the same time, it was expected | demnities by the city government to Carlock’s widow, immediate cessa~-| that the Mass Meeting on the Har- tion of the continued police brutality against the Negro people. Indigna- | lem Hospital situation, held at Laf- | tion is also expressed by an increasing number of white workers. | COPS REMAIN FREE. | | |ayette Hall last night, would also Lobert Keebler, prominent attorney, has already become active™on ne elect # delegate. : case aiding the LL.D, in the prosecution preparations. | As final arrangements for the | Representatives of the Unemployed have also announced that thos eoteertcene ee tee aeiobas | would join in the protest and pointed out that about a thousand workers, | of re Provisional Committee for the mainly Neero, had been thrown off the relief work lists two days a‘ter | Gonference pointed to the selection | Carlock’s vile murder, and called upon all employed and unemployed | or these delegates as characteristic workers to fight against the common oppressor and the terror of the boss | 5+ the widespread response which agents instituted in an attempt to stem the rising struggles against sterva-| (n. call for united labor action for tion. It will be an important issue in the demonstration this Saturday.| treir common demands, has found March 4th. | among Workers and their organiza- tions. One of the most pressing jobs of Atlantis Steel StrikersWin Demands lag SAGA OGRE SE tbs | j in ii D i y the | NEW YORK.—The workers of the} 2. To pay $40 in cash every Sat-| Present time is to carry through urday on back wages. numerous practical tasks connected Beebe Sic Deteer OM ADASy, | i nti Meaeeday is pay day,| With the Conference urrangements. after 5'2 days of struggle won all of | ..4 the pay must be paid in cash, Take Part on March 4 their demands. The bosses of the) 4. The union is recognized. Many of the Albany Conference company were forced to sign a con-| The Metal Workers Industrial delegates are expected to take part | tract with the union in which they | Union is utilizing this victory to m in the March 4 Unemployment De- | agreed: | ilize all the other steel partition work-| monstration and parade. ee cae | 1. To pay the wages for, the lasi|ers into the Union and unionize the gates are asked to drop out o} e two weeks 13 cash, iver sho) ‘ When thay -xadeh Madigan | mee + Re poses Hl i. wt ng 8 Two Negro Workers to Represent Eighth Ave. | Powers’ Case Attempt Committee at State Conference Jobless Gather Pennies to Send Dele Avenue. Tt will be at this point, on Madi- son Ayenue, between East 24th 25th streets, that busses will be w ing on Saturday, at 1:30 pm busses are scheduled to leave for Al- bany between 2 and 2:30 p.n The same directions apply to all delegates from flop-houses, bread~ Unes, Block Committees and all de- | legates connected with the Unem- ployed Council of Greater New York. | These delegates are urged to bring their credentials and $3 expense money to the Unemployed Council headquarters, 10 East 17th St., be- fore 10:30 a.m, Saturday. All other delegates are urged to send their credentials immediately to the Provisional Committee head- quarters, Room 224, 799 Broadway, in order to enable the committee to make adequate arrangements. These delegates must come to the headquarters to get their bus, meal and sleeping tickets not later than 5 pm. Friday. Send OfY Meet The last of a series of mass meet- ings arranged for the send-off of the | delegates to the Albany Conference will take place tonight at 8 p.m., at Manhattan Lyceum, 66 E, 4th St, Louis Weinstock, John Masso, Sam. Nessin and Joe Moore, are among the outstanding issues to be raised | at the Conference, pa ner te The demonstration will start with | Committees, Union | 8roups and unorga: pond: bet. 4th. Street, bet. Broa Queens and ranks” on 19th DR | forces to go io the main demon-| and 3rd Ave. | All Needle Unemployed shop form 4th Ave. Trades bet j ranks on East 19th |and 3rd Ave. All workers of trad groups, etc., in all other |form ranks on East 18th Street, bet. | 4th and Srd Avenues All other organizations mobilize | their locals by Boro as above cut- lined. In the Cc announce the names of the g | and their support of the centrai mands. Silk banners and | displays will not be carried ; Slogans other than the above, ex- cept for slogans denouncing the im- | perialist war plots, will not be dis- de- namental played. | The Unemployed Councils instruct | every organization participating, to | assign responsible ca | group of 50. These c jday at 7 pm. at M to get final instructions A captain should be assigned in | each house committee, block commit- tee, club or shop organization, ete., to mobilize the full membership and jell sympathizers at the appointed {place on Union Square. Printed leailets are to be had for distribu-~ | tion at the rate of $1 a thousand, at 10 East 17th St. (Sco additional news on page 3) JOBLESS LEADER ains over each ptains meet to- ttan Lyceum ates to Albany (ALLED TO TRIAL to Scare Unemployed NEW YORK.—On the eve of Marc! 4th, when hundreds of thousands workers throughout the country will - | demonstrate for immediate relief and unemployment and social insurance. | the bosses of New York, through their | Tammany henchmen of the Supreme Court, are attempting to railroad to | jail on framed-up charges, George B. Powers, leader of the April 21st, 1932 « y Hall Unemployed Demonstra- tion. Two dave after the demonstration jat which Powers was arrested and j brutally beaten together with other | workers, the Board of Estimate yoted five million dollars for the re-opening | of the Hom Relief Bureaus, the clos- jing of which was one of the main | reasons for the demonstration, Powers, who, when attacked by the police, exposed their provocation, is now being charged by lying police witnesses with “riot, inciting to riot and assaultmg the police.” The case was called for trial yesterday, just three days prior to March 4th. Pow- ers having been out on bail of $3,500 |for the previous eleven months. An }adjournment has been obtained to Thursday, March 9th, when the trial will take place before Judge Allen Part 8, General Sessions Court, Crim- inal Courts Building, Center and Franklin Sts. The International Labor Defense, (CONTINUED ON PAGE KWO), «