The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 8, 1933, Page 1

TE Capitalism Plunges Further Into the Abyss Diss economic crisis that began in 1929 has had a profound effect upon the historical decline of capitalism. It is leading to a new phase in the general post-war decline of capitalism. Developments of today again confirm the Communist estimate of the course of this, the greatest economic crisis of all time. In 1928, at a time the capitalist economists and “business forecasters” of the whole world were predicting an era of unlimited prosperity, the Sixth World Congress of the Communist International declared that the much vaunted stabilization of capitalism was resting upon a most shaky and precari- ous foundation. This analysis was denied at the time by the Lovestone- ites and other renegades. In less than a year there had definitely begun thet rapid slackening of industry that was climaxed by tue Wall Street crash of October, 1929, signalizing the crisis. Likewise the Communists of the world, as can be seen from the records of the Communist International, had correctly estimated every stage of this crisis. It was quite clear already at the Twelfth Plenary session of the Executive Committee of the Communist International, that the eco- nomic crisis, interwoven with the terrific agrarian crisis, was smashing the currency systems of the world. Comrade Kuusinen, in his report on the international situation said last September: “In England, the classic land of capitalism—and not only in England, but in 40 other countries as well—the gold standard has had to be abandoned. The uniformity of the world’s currency has collapsed. There is not a single country where the question of the depreciation of money has not been raised. In America this has become a question of the day . . . Who is prepared to wager today that in a year’s time France or America will still have a stable currency, that these countries will not have abandoned the gold standard? (And if anyone is prepared to wager, he will be at once faced with the question, in what currency to make the bet. For no currency is now wholly stable.” On the basis of the analysis of the course of the crisis of the capital- ist world Comrade Kuusinen further declared that there is, no purely economic way out of the crisis. Capitalism seeks to get out of its crisis by the use of the iron fist of the capitalist government in making war upon the toiling masses at home, conducting camp-igns of pillage and terror against the colonial and semi-colonial mas: carrying on tariff wars, commercial wars, leading to armed conflict against competitor states, instigating provocations toward war and intervention against the Soviet Union. All these facts further confirm the Communist Interna- tional analysis of ‘this—the end of capitalist stabilization. At this moment we have in the United States a new stage in the war against the masses at home—a clear example of how the power of government—federal, state and local—is uniformly mobilized to help the biggest bankers in a concerted bandit raid to gather together more power into their own hands. Under Hoover the big bankers mobilized the resources of the gov- ernment, through the Reconstruction Finance Corporation to pump hun- dreds of millions of dollars into the tottering banks, while butchering veterans of the world war who were demanding that the government pay them what it owed them—the bonus—and while treating with contempt the demands of the unemployed workers and the impoverished farmers. Already, before the financial crash signalized by the moratorium on deposit withdrawals from the banks, more than half of all the wage work- efs.in the country were existing on hunger rations. The income of the working class fell 70 per cent from 1929 while wholesale prices fell but 34 percent and retail prices only 22 per cent. ‘The closing of the banks hit additional large sections of the popula- tion—the small depositors. At the same time prices of food products are beginning to rise which means further starvation for the masses. Un- employed relief is being slashed. Thus we have this increase in the mass of misery, poverty, suffering, disease and death for the working class and all the toiling population—if the capitalists have their way. But they must not have their way. Mass struggle against hunger has already forced the ruling class in many parts of the country to come through with relief. The reply to this latest phase of the war against the toiling masses must be intensified struggle for immediate emergency velief, for unemployment insurance, against wage cuts. The small depos- itors should be mobilized in the most decisive mass fights to demand immeditte full cash payment of their deposits in the banks. The federal governmert that is using its power to carry out the bankers’ offensive must be compelled to guarantee small deposits, and cash payments to the workers. This situation demands the raising of the struggle against hunger to a higher stage along the whole front. This conflict can never be re- conciled. It must rise to ever higher stages until the toiling masses un- fer the leadership of the revolutionary party of the working class, the Communist Party, advances to end the crisis in the only way it will benefit the immense majority of society—the revolutionary way out. They Havé"No Mercy ‘for Women or Children “The bourgeois claptrap about the family and education, aboul the hallowed co-relation of parent and child, becomes all the more disgust- ing, the more, by the action of modern industry all family tics among the proletarians are torn asunder and their children transformed into simple articles of commerce and instruments of labor.” (Marx in the Communist Manifesto.) Four million women are in the ranks of the unemployed. These vomen workers are denied even the crumbs of relief allowed to the un- tmployed male workers. ‘They stand on breadlines, they sleep on park benches. More and more women are found travelling the highways, in box cars or afoot. The streets of the great American cities are again crowded with prostitutes. Some women are still émployed in industry. But they have been forced back into sweatshops of such horror as has not been seen since the primitive days o f capitalism, or at coolie wages in such industries as metal and electricity. Everywhere the mortality rate among children rises, f rickets, pellagra and other starvation diseases. Child labor is on the increase; some three and a half million children now work for a few dollars per week, keeping their fathers and mothers out of jobs. Hundreds of thousands of homeless boys have become an American problem. These miserable young victims of the crisis are torn from home and family to rove America like yellow dogs, to die of despair or to harden into criminaiism. How many thousands of fathers today desert their families in despair! ‘How many, crazed by the horrors of today, commit suicide! We are witnessing the most enormous break-up of the traditional tamily that history has ever recorded. Under the hammer of the crisis, millions of proletarian families are being crushed and scattered to the winds of the world. Today, March 8, millions of proletarian women in every land will demonstrate under the banners of the Communist Party, in defense of their homes. It is Iniermsttonel Woman’s Day. These women have begun to learn who it is that starves their pabies, conscripts their young sons for the slaughter house of war, and their young daughters for prostitution. Today the mothers and working women of the world make their special protest against Capitalism. Join them ,white and Negro women of America! They perish Dail —I rker Central OrganSf the-Cominynist Party U.S.A. (Section of the Communist International) | Vol. X, No. 57 «qpatee Batered as cveend-cines matter a1 the Poot Offies at March & UF. Yeort, W.¥., under tke Act of CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents ROOSEVELT'S COPS CLUB ~ UNEMPLOYED | Parade Smashed in Capital by Shotguns, Gas and Clubs EVADE DELEGATES | Roosevelt Busy Aiding | Bankers, Not Jobless | WASHINGTON, D. C., Mar. |7.—The delegation of the Job- ‘less Councils elected by the conference here on March 4 | and 5 is insisting that a special } | session of Congress be called | to take up unemployment in- ;Surance and the protection of the small depositors caught in the | bank crisis, and against any inflation | proposals. In the meantime the new | ‘“deal regime” of Roosevelt made a | brutal attack upon a local jobless | demonstration. Roosevelt Ignores Jobless. Roosevelt is trying to ignore the | demands of millions of unemployed {and part-time workers. He proposes to consider only aid to the bankers. I. Amter, national secretary of the Unemployed Councils and Benjamin, national organizer, are trying to ar- range a conference of the delegation of 15 workers with Roosevelt. Roose- | velt’s secretary, Howe, is evading sthemy ease ctiaas sail 1 Attack Demonstration. Members of the National Commit- tee, representatives of Unions also of the American Federation of Labor discussed all the problems of a poli- | tical and organizational united front and are showing complete agreement. | Today thirteen organizations of the local united front including Unem- | ployed Council, Tenants’ League, yank and file veterans of the Work- ers’ Ex-Servicemen’s League, Inter- national Labor Defense, National Students’ League, League for Indus- trial Democracy, John Reed Club, ete., conducted a demonstration | which was brutally attacked by police using shotguns, gas and clubs. Demand Hearing. Last night there was a_ splendid meeting of 400 workers who answered Roosevelt's inaugural speech threats against the workers. The speakers were H. Benjamin, Ann Burlak, I. Amter, J. W. Ford, Spencer, local or- ganizer Young, and W. L. Patterson. The delegation of 15 is going to the | White House tomorrow to demand a | conference with Roosevelt which he refused on account of the Governor's Conference considering only banking. It is clear that Roosevelt's program gives full aid to the bankers and nothing but words for the workers. LAW ENCOURAGES FORE- CLOSURES PHOENIX, Ariz.—Arizona bankers can well profit through mortgage foreclosures, All property under jur- | isdiction of the banks exempt from | all taxation of the City, State, and | County governments. Even if the | property lies idle after the worker or | farmer has been evicted the banks have nothing to worry about on ..is | Score of taxation. i NEW YORK, WE DNESDAY, MARCH ANSWER THE BANKERS’ ATTACK; SAVE “DAILY READERS AND FRIENDS OF THE DAILY WORKER: — E ADDRESS this call to all those who want the Daily Worker to live. A new blow has struck the Daily Worker—the struck the working masses of the entire country. millions in advance; it is the workers, farmers, sma sank closings. This blow has The bankers withdrew their 1 business and professional people who are being robbed of the largest portion of their deposits. And it is your paper, the Daily Worker, not t ne capitalist sheets, that has been hit by the bank “holiday.” Neariy $1,000 has been received in checks that can not be cashed. The “Daily” has not sufficient cash on hand t¢ press work and other expenses during the next few ¢ Fellow-workers and friends, RECEIVED YESTERDAY $400.74 you + CHINESE FIGHTING AT GREAT WALL Seek to Hold Last Pass From Japan With the occupation of Jehol City being completed by the main body of Lieut.-Gen. Nishi’s Japanese division, a battle was at the same time said to be in progress for the possession of the Great Wall passage of Kou- peikow. - Reports of the battle for Koupel- kow were coming in despite previous reports in Japanese newspapers that it had been taken. Stubborn resist- ance was being offered by Chinese troops, and the Japanese Sixteenth Brigade was receiving airplane rein- forcements from Chinchow, Man- churia. With the Kuomintang government headed by Chiang Kai-shek taking every measure to disrupt the fight- ing capacity of the Chinese troops | from the rear, there can be no doubt | o? the capture of Koupeikow, which is the last pass through the Great Wall to be taken by the invaders. All others are in the hands of the Japa- nese troops, who are now converting | the Great Wall of China info a southern military outpost of Man- chukuo, the Japanese puppet state, | to which Jehol is to be annexed. ! A crime against the working class| to permit the Daily Worker to sus- pend. Rush funds today. ays. ) pay for paper, composition, cannot carry on the struggle against this latest attack of the bankers and their government without the Daily Worker. The situation is extremely critical. Answer the bank “holiday” and the scrip proposals by rushing to the aid of your best weapon in the fight against the bankers’ hunger drive—the Daily Worker. Make the Tag Days this Saturday and Sunday an overwhelming success. Speed cash and money orders at once to the Daily Worker, 50 E. 18th St., New York City. The “Daily” must live! DAILY WORKER MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE TOTAL TO DATE $16,619.82 “Forgotten Man” Evicted As Roosevelt Moves | se after an eviction. in New York. Into White Here is how the Tammany government of New York City government of F. D. Roosevelt) treats the “Forgotten Man”. Battles against such evictions are taking place daily House | (the | Seenes | VENUE CHANGE IN TRIAL OF 9 BOYS But Judge Refuses to Quash Frame-up BULLETIN SCOTTSBORO, Ala., March 7.— | | The motion to quash the indict- ments in the Scottsboro case has not been overruled, but has been changed to Decatur, where it will be considered before the case is docketed for trial. SCOTTSBORO, Ala., March 7.— Judge Hawkins, who presided over the original lynch-trial of the nine Scottsboro Negro boys in March, 1931, today refused to quash the framed-up rape charges against the joys, on motion filed by the attor- neys of the International Labor De- fense, General George W. Chamlee, Carol Weiss King and Irving Schwab. Under pressure of the world-wide protest against the Scottsboro frame- up, Judge Hawkins was forced to 1 Id] e| STATE HEADS BREAK PROMISE: CAPITAL ARMED CAMP; REFUSE TO ADMIT WORKER DELEGATES Conference Adjourns, Elects Permanent Com- mittee to Continue Struggle for Relief and Against Banks {grant the demand of the attorneys |for a change of venue. The attor- |meys asked for a venue change to |but the judge ordered the new trial to be held in Decatur, a little town {of 20,000 in Morgan Couniy, which | is only two counties away from Jack~- }son County, where Scottsboro is lo- | cated. Ruby Bates, one of the two pros- | titutes who were the star prosecution | witnesses in the first trial, is reported | Birmingham, a large industrial city, | GOV'T HELPS BANKERS TO HOLD GOLD AND DOLLARS WHILE MASSES GET PAPER SCRIP FOOD PRICES FOR TOILERS ARE RAISED Roosevelt Program Threatens Big Cur- reney Inflation POOR ARE HIT Move Starts Agains Hunger Policy WASHINGTON, Mareh 7.— The new Wall Street govern- ment took further drastic steps today to enable the big bank- ers to hold on to the gold and dollar currency in the banks of the country and to pay out de- positors in clearing house c tificates or scrip. Announ ti made on behalf of secretary of the ; Woodin, the banke and Remington Arr {the scrip will be bas f assets. As these asse | quid or otherwise are s j based upon gold it means ad fissuing of currency h gold basis—y oe. |Workers! Small Depositors Fight | ||. for These Demands | / == }1.) No reduction in unemploy-| |" ment relief. Relief payments | in cash. | |2.) Enactment of Unemployment Insurance at the expense of |. the bosses and government. 3.) Immediate reopening of the] | banks with 100 per cent Gov- | ernment guarantee of cash! || payment to small depositors. | 4.) Payment of wages in cash, not | checks. |5.) Enactment of laws against | evictions. Immediate mora torium on rents | |6) Fight rise in living costs | caused by inflation. || 7.) Moratorium on workers’ debts | to banks, corporations and} || loan companies. ||8) Arrest and indictment of |} °° Mitchel! and bankers respon- || sible for robbing the small de- | __ positors. flatton. Depositors are to get this whieh is not redeemable in sound currency; payrolls will be made up with this scrip and other payments will be made in it. Already food prices are the retail markets, ch means the cost of living will soar even farther above the buying power of the mil- lions of impoverished workers and farmers whose ranks are now swelled by masses of small depositors. State Scrip Also Sanctioned. Some states, particularly New | York, have permission to issue state | scrip in addition to the clearing house certificates that are being is- sued by groups of banks. The result will be that the dollar | bills circulating until last Friday will | rapidly drop out of circulation and | the prevailing medium of circulation | and means of payment will become With the printing presses rising on TOM MOONEY WIRES N. Y. WORKERS What Is This “New Deal” HAT may the American workers and iarmers expect of President Roosevelt? Certainly in the election campaign great words of hope flowed from the busy fountain. It was this bubbling, Pollyanna candidate who revived Sumner’s old sociological symbol of the “forgotten man”. The hearts of millions of unemployed workers and bankrupt farmers leaped to that phrase. ‘They were the forgotten men, and they elected Roosevelt to be their president and saviour, Roosevelt was to give them a new deal. Only a few days in office, however, and he has uttered certain ominous hints of what is to come. At the conference of governors in Washington yesterday, the Presi- dent used the following significant words in connection with the financial crisis: “The old war statute of 1917 has not been repealed and we are using it to prevent further withdrawal of gold and currency. It was an ex- ceedingly useful instrument.” As to the unemployed, President Roosevelt at the same conference indicated that he will follow the vicious, heartless, hypocritical line of Hoover. “The Federal Government of course, does have to prevent anybody from starving,” he said, “but the Federal Government should not be called upon to exercise that duty until other agencies fail.” ‘What cant! What mockery of the sixteen million unfortunate Ameri- cans who have suffered and starved these years! Roosevelt means to do exactly nothing for them, No unemployment insurance—no federal re- lief! It is plain that President Roosevelt represents Wall Street as faith- fully as did Hoover. He will pursue the same basic policies, masked by some rather slick demagogy. He will even dare’to go beyond Hoover, using, as he hints, “war statutes” to protect Wall Street against the hunger and despair of the American masses, Yes, the “new deal” may well prove to be fascisin. This smiling in- dia-rubber “liberal” in the White House is destined to destroy all re- maining American liberties, The workers and farmers must not wait, TO ATTEND SUNDAY CONFERENCE Says “Let It Not Be Said That N. Y. Workers | Failed to Rally B NEW YORK, March 7.—The Tom Mooney Molder’s Defense Committee relays a message received yesterday | by wire from Tom Mooney at San Quentin Prison, which calls upon all workingclass organizations to imme- diately respond to the call of the Mooney Committee by electing dele- gates to the Free Tom Mooney Con- ference at Irving Plaza Hall, 15th Street and Irving Place, Sunday, March 12, 10 a.m. Mooney’s telegram reads: * Stronkl;‘ urge workingclass or- ganizations which have failed so far respond congress call immedi- ately send credentials to Mooney Committee for March 12th Confer- ence. Let it not be said that workers’ organizations of New York failed to rally behind my fight this ertical time. My case and that of the working class. (Signed) “TOM MOONEY.” From its office at 104 Fifth Avenue, the Mooney Committee today sent out a call asking all workingclass organizations to immediately notify this committee at the above address of the names of their delegates to the New York conference. ehind My Fight” Prison, forced by the pressure of the workers’ protest, has lifted his incom~ municado threat, but is trying to victtmize Mooney by limiting his visits to those of his immediate com- mittee and closest relatives. This action aims at disrupting the legal defense in connection with the hear- ing for the new trial and the mass | defense mobilizetion for the em ~" and the conferences. The Mooney Committee calls for procesis a S this action of Warden Holohan, tool of California big business, demanding all visitors the right of interview with Mooney. Workingclass and student organi- zations are urged to follow the ex- ample of the Student Forum of City College, which is holding a Mooney Meeting on the campus of the college, March 9, at noon. All workers are urged to rally to the mass meeting under the auspices of the Mooney Committce, to be held March 10, at 8 p.m., in Brownsville Labor Lyceum, 219 Sackman Sireet. | Speakers will be Israel Amter, na- tional secretary Unemployed Coun- cils; J. B. Mathews, Fellowship of Reconciliation; Corliss Lamont, for- mor professor Columbia, University, ond Louls..B. Seat, ALBANY, March 7.—Police massed ive deep in front of all entrances |to the Capitol Building, while hun- | dreds of additional police surrounded the parade of the delegates and sup- porters of the Workers Siate Confer- jence for Unemployment Insurance, Telief and labor legislation. At no time were the marchers al- lowed to stop, and the elected dele- gation to present demands and bills, worked out by the Conference, to the State Legislature, was not allow- ed to leave the ranks of the parade, Even following the parade, no one was allowed to enier the capitol with- out a pass. The administration com- ~abvely broke its promise to allow pre- sentation of bills and evaded the is- sue even with regards to the legisla- tive committees. Clubs were dispiayed by the police who hustled and shoved the delegates. The police authorities were absent and Schwarzbart was given no an- swer by the police along the line of march, when he demanded the right of the Committee to enter the Capitol building. Instead, Schwartzbart was mauled around and shoved into line of march. The parade swung past one side of the Capitol building, uphill seven blocks, then across and down past the other side of the Capitol and re- turned to the hall Thousands of Albany residents had lined the sidewalks viewing the pa- rade. junctions,” “We Want Relief,” “No}| Work—No Rent.” These slogans were | also carried on four large banners, | Still determined and enthusiastic, | the marchers filled the hall for the last session of the Conference.| | Spokesmen for the delegation reported |that in view of starvation conditions, | | bank crisis and rising tide of work-| ers struggle, the city and state au- thorities dared not permit arguing of | the Conference bills before the legis-| lature, but preferred to openly fiout; the efforts to save the lives of work-| Jers made by this Conference. i The delegates will continue organ- | izing a united front struggle along| the lines and program which char-| acterized the work of the Conference. | |The Conference interpreted the use of armed forces aainst the delegates, as evidence of the attitude of the state administration toward the work- ers. | Following concluding speech made ;by Alexander, the conference ad- journed, with the delegates showing |great enthusiasm and determination. | Gall at the time of adjourn- ment, filled with residents of! the city, and hundreds of others sicod | | outside the hall The former Provisional Committee was elected to continue in office as the executive committee | Before adjournment the Conference | |passed a resolution condemning fas- | | cist terror in Germany and express- | (More News of Albany Conference | ing slogans We Want Unemploy |as missing from her home near | scrip. On Page 2). ment Insurance,” “Pay All Small De-| Huntsville since Friday night Ruby | working to turn out the stuff as fast | positors,” “No Evictions,” “No In-|Bates subsequently repudiated her| as it is needed ther probably testimony, and it is feared she may flation of have been kidnapped. Jensue all the evils of | currency. | received by | (early 5,000,000) despite the merci- MANY GERMAN TOILERS MADE TO VOTE FASCIST BY ARMED GUARDS London Press Surprised at Communist Vote: Fascist Terror Continues LONDON, March 7. (By Radio- gram),—Persistent rumors are circu- lating in London that the German election results were manipulated by the government and it is believed that the National Socialists exten- sively utilized non-existent persons in the balloting. Reports have been received from Eastern Prussia, say- ing that workers and peasants were forced to go to the polls under an armed convoy of landowners’ guards. Eastern Prussia is the great agrarian district of Germany, dominated by the reactionary landowners and junkers. The English press expresses sur- prise at the large number of votes the Communist Party less terror for weeks before the elec- tions. The Manchester Guardian writes that, contrary to expectations, Solid ranks were kept throughout | ing solidarity with the German work-| the number of Communist votes was samy, igh $8-qn9-anpalct: tetas | ay am Party was practically outlawed. Workets Loyal to Marxism, The correspondent of the News Chronicle writes that the polling showed that now, as in the past, t! organized workers of Germany reso- lutely refuse to support Hitler and re- main loyal to Marxism. Pee Ue Continue Terror, BERLIN, March 7, (By Radio gram).—The National Socialists cel ebrated the first day after their elec- tion victory with a continuation of the bloody terror against the working class. The brief, but eloquent police report states that the Communists Krassen and Delongeville, who had been under arrest, were shot at 6 o'- clock yesterday morning “while at- | tempting to escape.” This is the time-worn lie used by ese capitalist police the world over “