The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 3, 1933, Page 1

School Teachers Help Thirteen York learning of the great need of the Daily Worker, contributed their lunch ($8.75) the other day. Other professional workers should follow their and do their best to help the paper fights for all sections of the Pen & Hammer Donates An additional $8.85 was raised for the Daily Worker by the Pen & Hammer, 114 W. 21st St., N.Y.C., at a recent af- fair, This organization of professional 1 workers recently collected $20.54 for the “Daily” and has subscribed $1 a week to the sustaining fund, Neu teachers, upon money Dail Norker Central OrganS¢f the Oa Muynist Party U.S.A. (Section of the Communist Internatioual) NEW YORK, FRIDAY, MARCH 3, 1933 example, that working Price : 3 Cc ents BY an —- - ° rns ' { | I tives and the United States Senate are playing in the most cynical way with the mass hunger, the ravages of disease and | wholesale death that is the lot of the unemployed working class UNEMPLOYED COUNCILS CITY EDITION olan mater ot the Post “Office a EB. New York, Ly. ander the Act of March &, 187%. Vol. X, No. 53 EVEN FAKE JOBLESS AID BILLS SHELVED NAZIS FOR ART WAR ON USSR: LIES EXPOSED Seeks Confidence of} World Reaction | for Crimes | “NAZIS BIG DROP ENDANGERS ‘DA “Rally to the defense of the Daily Worker! “We must not let it go under! HE following letter, while addressed to the Daily Worker, es meant for every reader, for everyone who is determined that the only workers’ daily paper in English shall not be driven out of existence —“A G.E. WORKER.” IHE appeal of this General Electric worker comes at a critical hour: Yesterday’s receipts in the Daily Worker drive dropped to $281.62! This is a decline of about $370 from the previous day’s totals. This tremendous drop coming in the decisive week of the Daily Worker’s fight for life, is a staggering blow. It shows that the read - ers of the “Daily” and the apparatus in the districts, including New York, which contributed only $82.44 yesterday, are taking it for granted that the Daily Worker is out of danger. We must warn sharply against this false confidence. We ap- peal to all readers to redouble their efforts in order to make up for yesterday’s drop. Send in your contribution at once, an Out This Saturday for ‘Immediate Relief, Insurance Demand Congress Shall Adopt The Workers Unemployed Program Now Roosevelt’s gang in control of the House of Representa- Schenectady, N. Y. “Fellow Workers: “Tam sending as my bit ‘to help the Daily Worker tide the crisis it is now going through. The bosses and their henchmen must be just pleased to death to know that our ‘Daily’, the ‘Daily’ of every worker and poor farmer in the United States is in such danger. WILL LOSE” | Ex-Colonels, Kaiser’s | Sergeants in Move By N. BUCHWALD (European Correspondent of the Daily Worker.) “The Schenectady Gazette and Union Siar never print anything about our conditions, nor what we are going to do q . See two friends today and MOSCOW, March 2 ‘By Ra-| diogram).—Declaring that the | German fascist government is | seeking to justify its existence | before the imperialist world | by its bloody terror against th @erman working class and its | anti-Soviet incitement. the} Soviet newspaper “Pravda” writes: | Impudent Accusations. “We have no intention to refute) these impudent accusations and pro- voeationary literary exercises of the | er-Colonels’ and Kaiser's sergeants.} ‘These gentlemen are unworthy | being polemized with, The fa: | provocators having set fire to the) German Reichstag Building are evi-} dently not sure they will escape the unavoidable consequence of a com~- plete exposure. They therefore lay special stress on the ‘international importance’ of their undertaking, openly stating that the German} reaction is ready to take up the role of Advance: Guard in the struggle against the “whole Bolsheyist dan- ger.” "This musi be the explanation of the fact that word from Moscow is daily repeated by the German re- actionary press hundreds of times with infinite variations, “German fascism wishes to obtain the confidence of the whole interna- tional reaction and is therefore ready to commit any crime. It relies on the most reactionary imperialist cir- cles in the capitalist countries. It seeks to justify its existence before world im erialism, before all anti- Soviet provocators. “The new provocation by the Ger- man disciples of Gorguloy, which is far-reaching as to its objects but is still more unintelligent as regards. fulfilment, will be beaten and its or- ganizers exposed to public shame.” Arrest Eight Workers in Palace Sportwear) Strike on Seventh Ave. NEW YORK, N, Y.—EKight strikers have been arrested during the past week as a result of their militant ac- tivity in ths Palace Sportwear shop strike. Picketing is continuing at 225 Sev- enth Ave., local branch of the shop, snd at 1410 Broadway, showroom. The police are making every effort to break the strike, but the workers are determined to win their demands. The workers of Palace Sportwear were organized a few months ago by the Knitgoods Department of the Needle Workers Industrial Union. Improvement of shop conditions were brought about recently as a result of the workers’ demands. The firm opened up a shop in West New York, N. J., and planned to transfer its work. But eight alert strikers—the same eight who were arrested—interfered with their plans. WOMEN’S PAGE ON MONDAY Special back page for International Women’s Day will appear on March 6th. Rush orders at once, U.S.S.R Protests Berlin Raid on the Soviet Institutions Capitalist press dispatches: from Berlin report raids yesterday by po- lice and fascist storm troops on sev~ eral institutions of the Soviet Union in Berlin and on the correspondent of “! tia,” a Soviet newspaper. So- viet Foreign Minister Litvinoff, now in Berlin, and Soviet Ambassador Chuntchuk, are reported to have lodged a stern protest with Baron Konstantin von Neurath, the fascist Foreign Minis- ter. ‘The raid on she Igvestia corresponde n t s the first at- ack by the fascists on @ representative of a foreign Petabson ted Br lent . Shy Keith, had Von Neurath just time enough to kguaieiee the about it here in Schenectady. newspaper that daily exposes the schemes of the bosses and their agents. The only newspaper that shows us the way to The Daily Worker is get out of the hole we find ourselves in. “Fellow shop workers in the General Electric and all over the states, change the grin of the bosses to a scow) by back- ing the ‘Daily’ with everything you’re worth. the only York City. vet their donations. ganization arranges an affair for the “Daily”. Sunday banner days for the “Daily” KECEIVED YESTERDAY Arrange a house party. drive. $281.62 See to it that your or- Make tomorrow and TOTAL TO DATE $14,692.51 Speed every cent to the Daily Worker, 50 East 13th Street, New Coroner Whitewashes Cops’ Murder of Carlock, Young Memphis Negro; Labor Defense Demands Death to Lynchers 6th CHICAGO SHOE, SHOP ON STRIKE Boss: Man. vers Fail! as Struggle Spreads | CHICAGO, March 2.—Despite the maneuvers of the boss, Morris Mar- golin, to prevent a strike in the Mar- golin Shoe Shop, half of the workers struck at 9 o'clock yesterday morning under the leadership of the Shoe and Leather Workers Industrial Union. More workers in the shop have joined the strike since then. i This makes the sixth shop to join | the steadily growing struggle of the Chicago shoe workers. About 600) workers are now out in a fight for) higher wages, the 48-hour week, rec- ognition of their shop committees | and other demands. | In a frantic effort to stop the walk- | out, Margolin gave certain of the skilled workers, a 12 per cent wage increase. He also drove a group of} workers to police headquarters in or- der to show them the “criminal re- cord” of Joe Weber, secretary of the Trade Union Unity League, who has been active in the strike. Another device used by this boss | was to organize a company union last | week, known as the Margolin Work- ers Association. This was established under the slogan of fighting the “Red union” and the “criminal,” Weber. Mass picketing of the Margolin shop started today to pull all the workers out, The strikers in the other five shops are holding solid and picketing daily. H FIGHT FOR JEWISH JOBLESS GARFIELD HEIGHTS, O.—Twen- ty-five new supporters were regis- tered at a recent meeting of the Un- employed Council, only a few weeks old, in this Cleveland suburb. The Council is organizing Jewish and Gentile workers, alike to fight the| 5¢ per cent cut in relief to Jewish | unemployed, which the state velief cor~ission has ordered the Jewish Social Se-vice to put, over. storm troops broke into her home Earlier in the day, fascist storm troops raided a private school for the children of Soviet citizens in Ber- lin and confiscated its text books and other literature. At the same time de- tectives from police headquarters raided a boarding house where em- ployees of the Soviet trade delega- tion rive. U. S. Moves to Stop Nitrates for Japan NORFOLK, Va. March 2.—The Wall Street Government moyed to-~ day to stop shipments of nitrates to Japan as it speeded up its drive for war “th Japan. It has sent two customs agents h-.re to “investigate” tt. shipments and report back to the State Department. The custom. re- cords show that 104 ships cleared from Hopewell with whole or partial! fascist} cargoes of uitrates up to Jan, 17, 1933, ditions -e: “Levon Carlock Must Be the Last!” Leven wea 0 geed bo} end hed He hed aorer bees srrevtou « a Whe Weew Rin. “i ffiants aro poor end Lavo hove ever A0no a tiine to « FwOre upon thes Payther aft My, commivsion expires Jen, 17, 1997 $444 00 Wer been in uny trouble iu ’his life. the rospeot @n@ good will, of ell he neither they,n0r = nis tregouy tombe That is the determination of Mrs. Eula May Carlock, 16-year old widow of the Negro lad murdered signatures on affidavit authorizing proceed with the case, by the Memphis cops. Above are the International Labor Defense to Party Endors Mooney Conference Mar. 12 The New York District of day fully endorsed the call of fense Committee for a broad united front “Free Tom Mooney Conference” on March 12, 1933, at the Irving Plaza Hall, 15th Street and Irving Place, TOM MOONEY CONGRESS to be held in Chicago, Illinois, April 30 to May 2. The Chicago Congress will plan the final fight for the freedom of Tom The statement follows: “The New York District participate in this Conference by sending delegates accord- ing to the terms of the cal}. and calls upon the workers in all their organizations, unions, f cial, athletic, etc, to elect delegates to represent their or- ganizations and toe contribute, if at all possible, financially, in order to aid the Tom Mooney Molders’ Defense Committee defray the expenses of the conference. “There must be no delay, not the slightest hesitancy, on the part of the militant workers in bringing this vital ques- tion before the membership of their organizations. A mass delegate conference representing the widest masses of work- ers is now imperative for the proper preparation for the Chi- cago Congress und for the building of mass struggles which alone can force the freedom of Tom Mooney, as well as all other working class victims of capitalist class justice. Cc, A. HATHAWAY District Organizer, New York.” N. Y. District Communist es Free Tom the Communist Party yester- the Tom Mooney Molders’ De- in preparation for the FREE Mooney, of the Communist Party will raternal, defense, cultural, so- Tenants Demanding Lower Rent, Sanitary House, Face Eviction NEW YORK. After failing to dis. rupt and break up the organization of cenants at 6 West 116th St., who were demanding lower rents and san- itary conditions, the landlord, George F. Meyers Co., Inc,, decided the only way was through the courts. How- ever, even after securing eviction no- tices ‘for the house committee the landlord found himself confronted by the organized militancy of the ten~ ants who began to fight the issue in the court. . The conditions in the house are in open violation of the sanitary and safety laws upheld by the same court which granted the eviction orders. Many children in the house have, taken sick bgcause of the rotten con- there ay 360 Cases of War Material Shipped to Bolivia, U.S. Puppet A dispatch from the Chilean port of Aria reports that the German steamship Steigerwald is due there today with 360 cases of war material consigned to the Bolivian’ govern- ment. It does not reveal the source of the cargo, but most of the war shipments to Bolivia have been sent from the United States. The Chilean government, which is preparing to join Paraguay in the undeclared Gran Chaco war, has recently threaténed to |ban the transhipment of war mater- jal through its territory to Bolivia. Colombia forces cuptured the Peru- vian Jaunch “Estefita” yesterday in the urideclared war in the Teticia re- | seme mee come We Negro Reformists ree Silent; Toilers Build Action Committees MEMPHIS, Tenn., March 2. Complete whitewash. ef the-six “Memphis policemen who mur-! dered Leyon Carlock, nineteen} | year old Negro worker here,| | was the outcome of a secretly | railroaded ten-minute coron- er’s inquest on Tuesday, Feb. 28. In sharp contrast to the coro- ner’s whitewash of the police thugs is the sentence of 25 years handed out to Verda Joy, 19-year-old Negro youth, last Thursday on an unsup- ported charge of “rape.” Rushed Through “Hearing.” Completely unannounced and with the obvious effort to exclude anyone interested in seeing the murderers! punished, Coroner Charles Miller| Tushed through his hearing with only Ruby Morris, the prostitute, who was said to have made the “attack” ac- cusation, several of the murderers themselves and another woman who had seen no part of the alleged at- tack or the murder of Carlock, as witnesses. The verdict returned in this brazen whitewash of the hard- ened, criminal democratic political machine of Memphis was “justifiable homicide” on the grounds that Leven’ Carlock was “attempting to escape arrest.” Clearly Murdered. The wounds in Carlock’s body clearly indicate that bullets had en- tered from the front and from the side and top of the head, from angles which would have been impossible if the youth had been fleeing. Robert 8S. Keebler, prominent Memphis attorney already retained by the International Labor Defense as advisory counsel, characterized the coroner’s verdict as farcical. Mrs. Eula May Carlock, 16-year-old widow of the slain lad, was not called to appear at the coroner's inquest, although she had told Coroner James Miller on the day before that her husband had been home all night when the attack was supposed to have been taking place, and told him of other witnesses to this fact, Miller called none of these. Build United Front. Negro and white workers are aroused over the brutal murder of Carlock, part of a widespread police terror against the workers, and par- ticularly the Negroes. Neighborhood Carlock Committees of Action have already been set up. Adiitional thousands of Memphis Ne- gro and white ‘workers are being mobilized to put up an organized re- sistance to the police brutality and lynching which is a common prac- tice of the Memphis police. The In- ternational Labor Defense has al- ready taken charge of the legal and mass prosecution of the case under the slogans: LEVON CARLOCK MUST BE THE LAST! and DEATH PENALTY FOR THE UNIFORMED LYNCHERS! A proposal for a united front Levon Carlock Committee of Action with all who wish to enter the fight on this issue, has been made to many prom- inent Negroes and whites in Mem- phis, and the formation of the com- mittee is under way. Reformist Leaders Silent. Daisy Lampkin, representative of the national office of the N.A.A.C.P., {ference for who is now in Memphis organizing a membership drive for a thousand new members and a thousand dol- jars, has remained silen{on the en- tne -question-of pulling up a strug: ollee murderers of her biwbend, «eof the Wall Stregt beakery who ae “ SHOW UP WAGE CUT HOURS BILL Vern Smith in Albany Exposes It ALBANY, N, Y., March 2. Smith, speaking for the Communist Party, addressed the joint assembly of the State Senate Committee on Labor Legislation at an open hearing this afternoon, A large audience filled the Assembly chambers. Smith spoke in opposition to the form of the bill endorsed by the American Federation of Labor offi- cials, which proposes a six-day week in restaurants and hotels, allowing for simultaneous reduction in pay. He made it clear that he did not oppose limitation of working days, but denounced the stagger system as- pects of the bill and pointed out that| * only legislation framed by workers will represent their interests. Ex~ ses Procedure Smith objected to the whole pro- ceedure of the Legislature considering labor legislation before the actual workers’ bills had been drawn up and} presented by the Workers Conference scheduled here for March 5, 6 and 7. Having cited that the Albany Con- Unemployment Insur- ance, relief and labor legislation had been initiated by a preliminary meet- ing of over 60 trade union, mutual benefit, po' tical, and other labor or- ganizations, Smith declared that al- though the conference was composed of numerous organizations of vary- ing political opinions, the Communist Party supports it and demands that the Legislature accepts and adopts the Conference bills when presented. * Creates Sensation Testimony by the Communist Par- ty representative created a sensation in_the committee. It was announced by the chairman that no hearing would take place on the Byrne Bill today, that the bill is before the Ways and Means Commit- tee and the hearing would take place some time later. Debate Minimum Wage Hearing on a minimum wage and limited hours for women and chil- dren was debated between the A. F. | of L. Women’s Trade Union League and some employers for the bill, as against the National Women’s Party and other employers opposed. Ellenor Herrick, secretary for the Consumers League, representing also the International Ladies Garment Workers Union, the Amalgamated Clothing Workers, New York State Federation of Labor and a number of churches, gave as the main argument for the bill that honorable needle trades bosses were menaced by sweat) shops and are going bankrupt. The National Women’s Party (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) socr ISTS VOTE PAY CUT PAP’S, March 2.—One hundred and four Socialist Deputies voted yesterday with the Government for}: a reduction of salaries of the poorer paid government employees, gle on this burning issue. Many lo- cal N.A.A.C.P. members have de- clared that they will surely partici- pate, despite the attitude of the N.A.A.C.P, leaders. .... 4, «+ .-Carlock’s young widow has ‘made an affidavit of authorization for the I. L. D. to conduct an ei qeta and institute proceedings —Vern to engage in all sorts of decep- tive tricks, like passage in the | senate of the Wagner bill for $300,000,000 for public works, shows | that they fear the growing mas: movement of worker: E ished farmers again hunger are trying to head it off. There is no question that the incoming ad- | ministration is alarmed at the in- creasing challenge to the Wall Street | hunger and war program and are} | Watching closely the preparations for the nation-wide demonstrations for| immediate relief and unemployment | insurance on March 4th, inaugura- tion day. Shelve Warner Bill. The latest stunt of the Roosevelt |gang is to shelve for this term the| Wagner bill. In commenting on this | ployed Counc! “Roosevelt's in operation. | $300,000,000 for “relief” has been |shelved. Although passed about ten ‘days ago by the U. S. Senate, it will not be acted upon~by the House. Ac- | cording to Democratic leader, Henry ;T- Rainey, of Illinois, the “Wagner ‘relief bill passed by the Senate and pending in the House Banking Com- mittee, is dead for this session.” Be- cause of the drain it would cause on Federal finances, the measure, ac- cording to newspaper reports on Rainey’s statement, “will not be con- sidered by the present House.” is said today: “new deal” is already most of which would go to contrac- tors, has been turned down by the Democratic congress. The 17,000,000 unemployed are told that they may starve as far as the Democratic gov- ernment is concerned. The state of Illinois has been notified that it will eceive no further loans from the Re- construction Finance This means further starvation for the | workers. It means that the U. 5. government completely denies its re- sponsibility. Follow New York Example “This follows upon the throwing into the waste basket of the miser- able Byrne bill for “unemployment reserves” in the State of New York, this bill having the support of the leaders of the A. F. of L. and Social- ist Party. This bill, which was form- ulated by a commission established by Roosevelt when still governor of New York, met with the opposition of the bosses and of Governor Leh- man, Lehman accepts Roosevelt's policy, and stated that he is opposed to “putting further burdens on the employers till conditions improve.” “This is the ‘new deal’ in opera- tion! This is how the Democratic Party keeps its ‘pledges’ to the ‘for- fotten man!!’ We workers will not accept this condemnation to starva- tion. We will FORCE the Demor cratic government and keep its proniises. “All out on March 4th! Dem- onstrate in hundreds of thousands! Adopt resolutions demanding that Roosevelt immediately call congress together with the first order of business: Immediate adequate cash relief for each unemployed and part and unemployment insurance at the —— |the National Committee of Unem-| .The Wagner Bill for| “Even the pittance of $30,000,000, | Corporation. | congress to] time worker and their dependents; | |PREPARE MAR. 4 | BY STRUGGLES | Despite | white and | ing the A’ » Workers Block erville Committee, and Ho where ; unemployed workers live in rudely constructed shacks, marched to the Home Relief Bureau at Sprir Elizabeth Sts., to present mands for: their de- 1—Relief for unemployed workers. ree days after i ation. 2—Re~ |lief for single workers. 3 | Payment of rents for unemy workers. } Although approximate 60 had mobilized at the Home Relie Bureau, the workers marched inte the face of these uardians of law and order” and forced Mrs. Goldman | supervisor of the Home R 8 g a s a g 5 2 5 S 3 ey workers she promised to give. reliet checks to the families before inve: gation, which usually takes from two to three weeks. However, she told the delegation that relief to the single workers could not be given because of the rules of the Home Relief Bu- reau, which forbids it. All single unemployed work urged to organize and force the au thorities to grant relief | a eee The Building Maintenance Wo will participate in Saturday stration for unemploym y will assemble 18th St., tween Third and Fourth Aves, ce Painters belonging to the Bronx lo. jcal will meet at headquarters, 4215 | Third Ave. and go to Union Sq, in a body on March 4, | Austrian Rail Workers in 2-Hr. General Strike VIENNA, Mar 2—A general Strike of railway workers paralyzed all railroad traffic in Austria from 9 to 11 o'clock yesterday morning. The strike was a united front demonstra- tion against the State Railways’ de- cision to pay the current month’s wages in three instalments. Five hundred members of the strike commitiees have been arrested, and the government has announced thai all the workers will be deprived of two hours’ pay, The Communist Party was active in organizing the strike and in welding a united front of Communist workers with the rank and file of the unions controlled by | the social-democrats and fascists. The role of the “socialists” {s evi~ dent manding that mmediately | tion of y from the fact that they are de~ parliament to deal with assemble the ques~ | expense of the | government! “NATIONAL COMMITTEE UN- EMPLOYED COUNCILS, I. Amter, Natl. Secy.” Dead; Copper ROCKY MOUNT, N. C., March 2.— ; Senator Thomas J. Walsh, of Mon- tana, died suddenly today of a hi art | attack two days before he was sc uled to take his place as Attorney- General in Roosevelt's cabinet. His death came on board an Atlantic while en route to Washington with the widow of the millionaire Cuban sugar planter whom Walsh married in Ha- vana Saturday. Walsh was a member of the so-called progres- sive group in the Senate, whose role is to delude the masses by pretending to oppose e'the more openly reactionary polici Thomas J. Walsh Coast Line train! Walsh, New Cabinet Member Trust Lawyer = the government. Just how “pro- | gressive” Waish was is clear from the fact that he was at one time the attorney for the viciously anti-labor Anaconda Onpper Mining Co. of jMontana, the company which ; Stabbed control of the state govern. ment, enforced its domination over the workers with bullets and instle gated the lynching of Frank Little, LW.W. organizer, in 1917, Anaconda Copper is closely tied with the National City Bank, the sec- ond largest in the world, and has other links with the House of Mor= gan, SPEED-UP KING BLESSED VATIC..N CITY, March 2.—Pope Pious, blessed Joseph B, Grace and Mrs. Grace in audience here today Grace is the owner of the Grace steamship lines which have a two watch .speed-uo éystem for the soll . amen om