The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 6, 1933, Page 1

MINERS / “We, the National Miners’ Union and the Women’s Auxiliary of Local 126,” writes N. H., of Coverdale, Pa., “are send- ing $5 to the Daily Worker. We would like to send plenty more, but the condi- tions in the mine fields make it impos sible just now.” ENLIST MORE SYMPATHIZERS! “I am a sympathizer of the Daily Worker,” writes M. Miskulin, of Hoboken, N. J., “and have gathered this small it | | amount of $3 among my friends—also t Dail orker Central OrganSt the-Cominynist Party U.S.A. (Section of the Communist International) ‘Daily’ sympathizers.” CITY EDITION NEW YORK, MONDAY, MARCH 6, 1933. Entered as second-siaee matter at the Post Office at law York, N.Y., under the Act of Mareh &, 2978, 9,000,000 GERMAN RED VOTES DESPITE FASCIST TERROR 40,000 DEMONSTRATE IN NEW YORK T0 [Bank ‘Holiday’. S. 10 60 OFF GOLD STANDARD; = | MAKE ROOSEVELT GOV'T GIVE RELIEF TO le Nie Th A SMALL BEPOSITORS HIT AS BANKS THE “FORGOTTEN MAN”; 15,000 PARADES he “D yt THROUGHOUT THE NATION CLOSE e al y «Paper Certificates Issued by the Bankers in Place of Dollars Will Depreciate in Value As They Did In 1807 Vol. X, No. 55 Price 3 Cents Be. Workers From Every Part of City, Negro and White, Join in Militant to t Demonstration for Unemployed Relief and Insurance Must Organize to Demand Return of 100 Cents Small Depositors on the Dollar in Real Money HE nation-wide banking crisis has brought a new threat against the life of the Daily Worker. Checks that the “Daily” has received in the financia! drive cannot be Many Organizations Participate; Solidarity With German Toilers : Against Nazis Terror The United States will go off the Gold Standard today. according to ¢: vs cashed. Funds on hand are not sufficient to meet the cur- list press NEW YORK.—Forty thousand workers, overflowing Union Square yesterday, at the rent expenses of publishing the paper. Extra expense was | reports. This will mean a greate: increase in the cost of living for the already starving very moment when Wall Street was ushering into office its new hunger president thunder- involved in issuing today’s paper because telegrams to | masses. earte est Ot the, sorentios mien ot New, York ina. mighty demonstration of strug PRE Vu ener Mee moray CeemousHyations allover | NEW YORK, March 5.—Banks wili not open in New York state Tuestay as the moratorium is to be the couwutry had to be paid for. It was only by the ut- most exertions that the “Daily” was able to appear at all today. gle against the starvation and misery into which the capitalist crisis plunged them. rs.” Coming from every section of the city, Negro and white workers, native and foreign- — born, massed in the square at extended. The decision came in a conference between Governor Lehman and his banker “advise it is said the extension awaits official approval from the White House at Washington, where a group of Wall Street bankers are initiating the Roosevelt cainet in their jobs. Nazis Say: “Will Keep Power Despite Election” Boss Press Reports Thaelman Communist | Leader U.S. Workers Send Embassy in Wa: BULLETIN With the fascist terror raging, preventing a big furn out at the Polls and Hitler counting tion in Germany, the government was forced to admit that 4,850,000 yoted Communist with the ballot incomplete. The Socialist Party was declared to Fascists gave as their incomplete Capitalist press dispatches from the arrest of Ernest Thaelman, leader of the German Communist Party. Mass arrests and collisions between workers and the fascists continued yes- from Essen, Hamburg. Cologne and and scores seriously iujured. Can’t Keep Power lerday, with fierce collisions reported Dusseldorf, Seven persons were killed To Ignore Election Results In a final-pre-election speech, ¥E-} nest Ob..iohren, fascist floor leader in the Reichstag, declared that the “election will not decide whether the | national government remains. It will| continue in any case.” This con-| temptuous flouting of the will of the’ electorate was followed with a threat that there would be “fateful days in the life of the people,” if the fascists | were not given the necessary 51 per cent of th evote. In the event that the terroristic methods and suppres- sion of the press and election cam- paigns of the opposing parties suc- | ceed in effecting a 51 per cent of the} vote for the fascists, the fascists, he| declared, would adjourn the Reichs- tag after that body had empowered the government to continue to power for several years. Police Ra‘ds as Voting Starts Police raids and restrictions were intensifie. ihroughout the country on Sunday as voting began in the Reichstag and Prussian Parliament- ary elections. Even the Catholic Cen- trist newspapers have been prohibited tor a period of from three to seven days. The Communist press is en- tirely suppressed. The Thuringian Government ordered all Socialist newspapers still appearing to publish the fuli text of Hitler's speech on) “Adolph Hitler on Marxism.’ The Dessau Government and the State of Anhalt introduced a sweeping cen-| sorship of the Socialist press. | ‘The government newspaper “Voelk- isher Reobachter,’. published a stupid lie that Communist workers in the! town of Eisleben were deserting the working-class party and joining the! fascist storm troops. It claimed that | 130 of them had destroyed the party | membership cards, but offered no/ proof of its claim. ‘The Socialist leaders remain silent on the invitation of the Communist Party for 3 united front fight against fascism. COLLEGE CLUBS DEFEND WORKERS NEW YORK—The Campus Work- ers Group of the Food Workers In- dustrial Union together with the Problems Club, and m:mbers of the Socialist Club on the Colum- University Campus, have organ- ized a demonstration at the Teach- ers College Dining Room on 120th Street between Broadway and Am-~ sterdam Avenue op Tuesday, March 7, at 12:15 noon sharp. At the same time, a conte ee representing these three organiza- tions together with workers who have been fired for being members of the Union will appear and present the iollowing demands to Miss Elizabeth fteed, manager of the Dining Room. 1, Reinstatement of ihe fired work- vrs. 2 No further firing for reasons of economy. 3. No discrimination against union members. The right to organize. 4, The immediate abolition of the system being used by 7 Jailed \ Protests to German | shington, D. C. | he ballots in yesterday’s elec- have received 7,190,000. The returns 17,260,000. . Berl'n carry unconfirmed reports of Hitler, Nazi Leader (right), who threatens to remain in power de- spite the election result, with the full support of Von Hindenburg, who was elected president with the aid of the Sovial’st leaders. But the masses of hungry toilers are determined that Hitler shall be | overthrown, The masses will win. | News Briefs | WHY A BANK HOLIDAY?. SMALL DEPOSITORS ASK AT MEET TONIGHT NEW YORK.—An immediately or- ganized “Small Depositors Group” have called a mass meeting for to- night at 8 p. m. at 1813 Pitkin Ave- nue in Brooklyn for an open discus- sion on “Why the Bank Holiday and ‘What is the Small Depositor to do?” A prominent speaker will address the} gathering. Admission 1s free. SINGLE WORKERS WIN RELIEF NEW YORK.—Twenty-two single workers, of East 15th and 16th Sts., under the leadership of the East Side Unemployed Council, wonea decided} victory against the single worker discrimination system of the relief stations when they forced the Home Relief Bureau at 5Sist Street and First Avenue to register them for relief last Friday morning. A childless couple also registered that morning through the united action 0: the Council and the work- ers were investigated at 3 o'clock ti.at afternoon and given relief at 5 o'clock. TRENTON FEAMS ATTACK NEGROES TRENTON, N. J.—In a vicious at- tack against Nceroes, the Board of Education of this city Saturday ap- pealed the Supreme Court ruling that Negro students of the local high school be allowed swimming instruc- tion with the rest of their class. Lo- cal Negro and white workers are be- sinning to realize that only their united actions can put an end to this flagrant discrimination by the city authorities. POLICE STOP SOVIET FILM; ARREST 3 AT’ BRONX CLUB | NEW YORK—Police, with the ri- | diculous reason that there were more than 75 people watching the picture, stopped the showing last night of the famous film, “Ten Days that Shook the World,” and arrested 3 workers Sunday night at the Laun- dry Workers Industrial Union Hall, 260 East 138 Street, Bronx, | Forgotten Men,” the call of the "Inemployed Councils, and demanded that} Roosevelt keep the election promises he made to them, demanded im- mediate cash relief and unemploy- ment insurance from the federal government, and increased relief from the state and city governments. Militant Slogans The square seethed with militant slogans, carried on placards and shouted by workers. “Force Roose- velt to Keep His Promises to the “235,000 Families | Are Dying of Hunger in New York” “The Bosses and Their Government Are Responsible for Our Misery—Let | Them Pay!” “Unemplovment. In- | surance at the Expense of the: Gov- ernment,” “Life and Freedom for the Scotisbero Boys,” “Free Tom Mooney. and All Other Class. War Prisoners” these and other slogans flashed through the air, Participating in the demonstration were Unemployed Councils, block committees, trade unions, workers’ clubs and other organizations. As Sam Weisman, organizer of the New York Unemployed Councils and chairman of the demonstration, stepped up to the microphone, a huge placard was raised directly behind him: “Answer the Bank Holiday with a Rent Holiday.” A roar of approval went up from the crowd. Other speakers were Charles Alex~ ander, Negro worker, speaking in the name of the New York District of the Communist Party; Carl Win- ters, secretary of the Unemployed Councils; John J. Ballam, secretary of the New York District of the In- ternational Labor Defense; and Sol Harper, Negro veteran. 15,000 In Parade After the meeting in the square, the workers formed into marching ranks and paraded from 17th St. west to Eighth Ave., then north to 28th St and east to 128 EF. 28th St., headquarters of the State Emergency Relief Bureau. The parade was an imposing spec- tacle, 15,000 workers marching in solid ranks, while thousands more looked on from crowded sidewalks and windows of buildings. A delegation of 28 had been chosen to present the demands of the un- employed to Harry Hopkins, director of the bureau, who had promised to be present. Police guarding the building said Hopkins was and refused to allow the del to enter. Albany Delegates Leave The marchers swung back to Union Square, dropping off emid cheers the delegates to the Workers’ Conference for Labor Legislation, who were leay- ing for Albany in buses. Back in the square. Winters again | addressed the crowd. A huge red} banner waves in the air, in the hush- ed silence, Winters accepts this sym- bol of solidarity sent by the Unem- ployed Councils of Ramburg, Ger- many. The huge demonstration then adopted a thunderous protest against the Nazis terror drive in Germany. Winters calls on the workers to continue the struggle against hunger, the struggle to force the Roosevelt government to grant unemployed re- lief and insurance so that not a man. woman or child would go without foed, shelter and clothing. Force Aldermen in St. Louis to Meet With Jobless Body ST. LOUIS, Mo. March 5—Two thousand workers, demonstrating here yesterday for immediate relief and unemployment insurance, forced the Board of Aldermen to agree to elect special committees which will meet with the committee of the Unem- ployed Council tomorrow to act on the demands for the abolition of forced labor, a standard relief budget and recognition of unemployed com- mittees. More ro are expected to Se ; The drive itself has fallen down badly during the past half week. Had it not $376 from the International the total tor the day would have again bee Collect at once and rusk for the National Daily Worker Tag Days this Saturday and Sunday, March 11 and 12. Throw all efforts into the drive. Don’t let the “Daily” go under! Received Saturday $660.03. 12,000 Battle Police in Big Pittsburgh Meeting Negro and White Join Demonstration | | The Journal of Commerce reported | 28 Workers Jailed, Many Beaten; to Hold Pro- test Meet March 10 been for a contribution of Workers Order on Saturday, money orde: Total to Date $15,735.77 | in Militant March 4th/ PITTSBURGH, March 5.—Twelve battled police for over an hour in one thousand workers, Negro and white, of the most militant demonstrations ever held here. With thousands more looking on, the workers, streaming from every part of the city, gathered manded immediate federal relief and 339 DELEGATES IN ALBANY MEET) Build United Front for. Workers Bills | BULLETIN NEW YORK—Iit was reported to- day that the Workers Conference on Unemployment Insurance and | Labor Legislation now taking place in Albany will take up the present banking situation as it affects work- | ers, and will formulate demands to be presented to the Legislature, A line of action will be taken to pro- tect workers and small depositors from losses of wages, deposits and other effects of the banking crisis. A mass meeting to hear reports by the returning delegation from Albany scheduled for Thursday, March 9th, 7:30 p. m., at St. Nich- olas Arena, 66th Street and Colum- bus Avenue, will, no doubt, be large- ly devoted to this question. Piet gee ALBANY, N. Y., March 5.—Num- bering 339 delegates from 246 organ- izations, the Albany State Confer- ence for Unemployment Insurance and labor legislation was called to order at 11 am. by Edward Guber- nick, Chairman of the Provisional} Committee, Included in the delegation were 154 from 170 unemployed organizations, 24 from 12 Trade Union Unity League unions and leagues, four delegates from as many shops, eight from 7| A. F. of L. unions, and delegates of | 5 A. F. of L, opposition groups, fraternal organizations, 4 independent unions, 7 political groyps and 7 mis- cellaneous organizations. In his opening remarks, Gubernick said: “That tXis conference should have been called, was inevitable, but we owe deepest gratitude to those members of the A. F. of L. who re- volted against the policy of the offi- cials and conceived the idea of call- ing a preliminary conference in New York City to consider the advisability of this conference.” He appealed to teh delegates to forget fancied differences and to form a solid front in their organiza- tions around the purposes of this con- ference. Gubernick assailed “Rugged individualism” and other capitalist slogans as @ deadening influence cal- culated to prevent organizations of workers, Delegate Rivers, member of the Provisional Committee from Schenec- tady, greeted the conference in the name of up-state workers and de- scribed conditions in Schenectady. The General Electric Company has 18,000 unemployed. Those remaining endure wage-cuts and speed-up, the company at the same time resorting to numerous tricks to shoulder the burden on the workers. He further | oper the condition a wastars at the city county building and de- unemployment insurance, the aboli- tion of Governor Pinchot’s new com- misary starvation scheme for the un- employed, and other demands for re- ef action by the federal, state and city governments. The entire police force of the city was mobilized to stop the demo: stration, for which a permit had been refused. ‘Trucks carrying workers from outlying districts were stopped, | but most of the workers managed to | slip through on foot. The police swung clubs and fists | right and left and many workers, i cluding women, were badly beaten. Three were slugged unconscious and six had to be taken to the hos pital. Three cops were also taken to the hospital. Twenty-eight work- ers were arrested. James Egan, leader of the Pitts- burgh unemployed and an A. F. of L, rank and file leader, was severely | beaten. Pat Cush and Doyle, two of| the speakers, were rescued from the! police only by the militant action of | the workers. A protest meeting against the police teror will be held Friday evening, March 10. TODAY JORLESS SEE ROOSEVELY Negro Rights Group to Presert Demands WASHINGTON, March 5.— proposed amendment to the con- stitution of the United States, to make effective the 13th, 14th and | 15th amendments, relative to the rights of Negroes, will be presented Monday afternoon te President Franklin D. Roosevelt and the conference of governors which he has called, by the Negro Rights Delegation, composed of Negro men and women representative of 500,~ 000 Negroes and whites, A | WASHINGTON, D. C., March 5.— The National Conference called by the Unemployed Councils, U. S. A. meeting here will elect a delegation to meet President Roosevelt on Mon- day. The National Committee of Unemployed Councils sent a letter to Mr. Roosevelt informing him of this fact. The matter was discussed at the National Conference today and it was emphasized that in view of the sharpened situation caused by devel- opments in the last days undoubtedly efforts will be made to use the bank crisis as an excuse to evade respon- sibility in the matter of direct relief to the unemployed and unemploy- ment insurance as promised in the Democratic National platform. ‘The conference supports the demands of the small depositors for full pay- ments and urge them to support ite |type of action (holiday action) they | | stated vesterday.” | dispose of them at big discounts. | amount of their deposits even in this | HAVANA, Cuba, March 5.—A bank “holiday has been declared here on orders of Wall Street's butcher president, Machado, It is announced to last three days, but that is only the beginning. NEW YORK, March 5. day night announcemen —The banking crisis plunged lower over the week-end engulfing every bank in the United States, tying up all deposits. Wall Street closed Saturday a nor }<hman of New York announced a “two day holiday”. Up until the last mome in the capitalist press, especially the financial papers, quoted Gov« ernor Lehman and prominent Wall Street bankers as saying that no bank holiday is con- templated. At that very time the bank-| ers were preparing for the holi-| day, getting their own money safely} in Weposit boxes and preparing to! place the burden upon the Reeostiere: Deception of Kept Press, Early editions of all New York! morning papers on March 4th car-| ried stories that there would be no} bank holiday and that New York was j the “banking stronghold” and was} in no danger of going on a, “holiday”. | on Saturday morning when the banks | were already closed and depositors | } /o Bank Holido for New York Contemplated By Lehman, Who Cancels Inaugural Trip vik #)1933. i a ue ne Fit to Print.” My. Pome’ Maa-4t, 1933 TWO-DAY HOLIDAY ! FOR BANKS HERE, ; ORDER | | | i | 1 How the New York Times kepi up the deception that the banks would not be closed up to the last minute on March 4th. | ere being driven away by police, that: “The New York Commercial } bankers are strongly opposed to this; Clearing House Certificates. During the “holiday” there is be- ing printed clearing house certifi-| cates which wil! be issued when the banks open. Announcements are made that these payments will be- gin on Tuesday morning, but some Wall Street observers report that they will not be ready until Friday. | These clearing house loan certifi- cates are paper based on bank depo- sits and issued by a group of banks. Most of the deposits are “frozen”. These clearing house certificates mean dual currency. Such measures have not been taken since 1907 when these certificates were issued to the amount of $238,000,000. When liqui- dated their holders were forced to Limit New Certificates. While this money will be issued for use as currency, depositors will | not be permitted to draw the full) ighly fictitious currency. With- drawals are regulated by various states, most of them permitting but five per cent withdrawals. At ten o'clock this morning Joseph A. Bro- derick, Tammany superintendent of | banks for New York state, will meet with the state banking board to limit the amount depositors may withdraw when the banks do open. Hundreds of thousands of depo- sitors, like those in Michigan, where the “holiday” movement first began will lose the major part of their sav- ines—in Ford’s Michigan banks depo- sits have been cut down to 30 cents on a dollar, thus wiping out 70 per cent of deposits. Carpenters Solid in First Fixture Strike NEW YORK.—In the first strike in the last twelve years affecting the butcher fixture line, carpenters of the Wasserstein shop are carrying on @ militant struggle. On strike since Thursday, March | 2, against the lay-off of three work- | ers and the 60c a day wage cut, are ignoring the bosses promises and re- fuse to come back to work until he| recognizes the union, All workers are requested to come to 47th St., and First. Ave., Monday morning to help win the strike hy ptoketing lL LL Roosevelt Calls for War Powers Against Workers Not A Word of the “Forgotten an” and Jobless Insurance Pledge Call Special Congress Session to Shield the Bankers WASHINGTON.—Waill Street imperialism placed in the white house Saturday Franklin D. Roosevelt as thirty-second president of the United States. The city was the scene of a vast array of armed forces on land and air; military forces marched to martial band music for hours, while the navy dirigible Akron with flocks of aircraft flew over the Capitol. It is estimated that 100,000 watched the lavish display. uaciee remade Defends Negro Lads Peay General George W. Chamilee, law- yer in Chattanooga, Tenn., retained by the I. L. D., who together with S. 8. Leibowitz and Joseph Brod- sky of New York appear in the Scottsboro court today in behalf of the nine innocent Negro lads, HOLD SCOT!SEORO HEARING TODAY NEW YORK.—Four popular or- chestras and a group of famous Negro artists will enliven the pro- gram Wednesday night, March 8, at a Scottsboro Benefit at the Savoy Ballrooin, Lenox Avenue and 140th Street. Tickets are 50 cents, and should be obtained in advance at the Workers Book Store, 50 E. 13th Street, John Reed Club, and Room 611, 80 East ith Street. 6 fe. SCOTTSBORO, March 5—Interna- tional Labor Defense attorneys, sup- ported by the world-wide mass fight for the Scottsboro boys, will; press for a change of venue for the | new trials of these innocent framed- up Negro children in a hearing be- fore Judge Hawkins in Scottsboro, Ala. on Monday morning at the original mock trial in Scottsboro in April, 1931, which resulted in death verdicts against eight of the boys and a mistrial in the case of the ninth 14-year old Roy Wright. Present Five Motions Five motions, petitions, and pleas will be presented to Judge Hawkins, by General George W. Chamlee, of Chattanooga, and Irving Schwab, L L. D. attorneys. The first motion will cali for a change of venue to Birmingham from Scottsboro, the lynch-town where & hand played “There'll be a Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight” while the horrible death verdicts were ground out against eight of the boys. The second motion will demend quashing of the indictments against all nine boys on the ground that/| Negroes were not called to serve on} the Grand Jury which handed them down. ! A motion will be introduced to} \ i 10} o'clock. Judge Hawkins presided at} Continue Wall Stret Program Roosevelt's inaugural address, though couched in demogogic te: clearly showed that Wall Street is determined to try to meet the new Stage of the crisis by a fiercer drive jagainst the standards masses and by an acce toward imperialist war Roosevelt’s camp: the “forgotten ma his speeci, In pl that in the event of a further he would demand “bro: power to wage a war a ergency as great as ving aside of all constitutional pretexts, the at~ | tempt forcible to suppress the grows jing revolt of worxers and farmers | avainst the hunger program of United States imperialism. It was quite clear that this indicates the desperation of the ruling class as it is increasingly chalienge’ by the growing mass up- surge in the industrial centers snd on the land. Not one word was uttered about unemployment relief and insurance~ |things he referred to continually in | his campaign speeches, The “Money Changers” Joke Roosevelt's open threats to inyoke ; War time measures, which can in- clude martial law, conscription of labor at hunger rations, suppression of working class organizations and most cynical tricks of speech when | Publications, were woven in with the jhe made the statement that “unscru+ |pulous money changers” have ade | mittted their failure and “abdicated.” | William H. Woodin, secretary of | the treasury, the successor of Andrew ‘W. Mellon and Ogden Mills, himsel? | directly connected with the biggest | Wal Street bandits, listened to these | hypocritical words without batting an | eye. Special Congress Session Tt ts probable that on Wednesday | Roosevelt wili summon a special ses« sion of congress to jam through lags lisiation to shield the bankers and industrialists and try to smash down stil! further the <tandards of life of the toiling masses, | and Roy Wright, youngest.of tha boys, to probate court on the ground that they are juveniles, and the cir- jcuit court has no jurisdiction over | them. For Dism’ssing Indictments Pleas in bar will be entered in the cases of the same boys to dismiss the indictments against them on the ground that the state, in its failure to bring the cases to trial has aban- doned prosecution. Eugene Williams has been held in jail since April, 1931, when the original lynch-hear- ings resulted in a mistrial for him, Roy Wright has been illegally held in the death cell since March, 1932, when the Alabama state Supreme Court set aside the death verdict in his acse. Briefs have been filed by ¥. L. attorneys to support the first ) Hy