The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 9, 1933, Page 1

| EDITORIALS Green Rushes to the Aid of the Bankers (0 MATTER how vicious any capitalist drive against work- ers becomes they can always rely upon William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, doing every- thing in his power to break up the resistance of the masses. At this moment when the mailed fist of the Roosevelt hunger government equipped with war-time emergency decrees is being more openly used to supplement the economic attempts of the bankers to place the burdens of the financial collapse upon ever wider strata of the masses, Green comes forth and urges the workers to practice “self-im~- posed restraint and discipline”, and adds: “No good purpose will be served but in- stead great injury may be done if, at the moment, labor would substitute feeling for common sense and ill-advised action for sound judgment.” ‘This is followed by advice to workers to look to the president for leadership and “constructive advice”. This is the same Green whose fake unemploy- ment insurance proposal was hailed by Norman Thomas and the Socialist Party leaders as a move to the left. Now Green is doing all he can to help in the further fierce offensive against the toiling masses by urging workers to view the actions of Roosevelt in behalf of the bankers in a calm and dispassionate manner. Yes, Green is correct when he says “great injury may be done” if labor refuses to be calm. But the injury will be done to the piratical gang in control of the banks and the government that is trying to place all the burdens of this crash of the financial structure of American im- perialism upon the backs of the masses. On the other hand if there is not the most decisive mass struggles against the attempt to further beat down wages, to impose greater mass hunger upon unemployed workers and impoverished farmers and their families, to pillage millions of small depositors, the capitalist pirates and their new hunger administration at Washington will be able to spread destitution and misery wider and @eeper than ever before. As against Green and the whole social-fascist crew that always tries to disrupt and disintegrate any organized fight against the bosses and their government there must be mobilized the widest united action to compel immediate emergency relief for unemployed and part-time workers and farmers, for full immediate payment in money of the small depositors, and to compel the establishment of a system of unemployment insurance and social insurance at the expense of the capitalists and the Fight for Negro Rights in the Black Belt W bee mass fight for the Scottsboro boys achieved another important partial victory on Monday. Judge A. E. Hawkins was forced, under pressure of the world-wide thunder of protest against the lynch verdicts, to grant the motion of the International Labor Defense attorneys for a change of venue from the town of Scottsboro, Alabama, scene of the original mock trials over which Judge Hawkins himself presided. Judge Hawkins at that time denied a change of venue. Thus, step by step in the grim world-wide fight against the lynch verdicts, against the brutal system of national oppression, economic rob- bery and persecution of the Negro people, mass pressure on the lynch courts has forced the white ruling class of this country to retreat from one position to another. The fight, however, is not yet won. With typical hypocrisy the ruling class and its courts attempt to utilize even the partial victories wrested from them by the mass fight to bolster up the lying pretext that the capitalist courts are “fair” and “ impartial’. In this way, they at- tempt a monstrous deception of the toiling masses, aimed at disarming the vigilance of the workers, while preparing to carry through the legal lynchings under the camouflage of careful “deliberation”, of “conceding” to the demands of the defense. But the fundamental demands of the defense and of the Negro people and white and Negro workers they reject. It is no accident that the U. S. Supreme Court in its decision, wrested from it by the mass fight, ordering new trials for the boys brushed aside as of no significance the fundamental issue raised by the defense, of the deliberate and habitual exclusion of Negroes from the grand and petit juries in Jackson County, in which Scottsboro is situated. So, too, Judge Hawkins, acting on this broad hint given the lower lynch courts by the U. 8. Supreme Court on Monday refused to rule on the defense motion to quash the indictments against the Scottsboro boys, yased on the exclusion of Negroes from the grand jury which indicted them and from the petit juries which rushed through the death sentences against eight of the nine boys. His refusal to rule on the motion was in itself a decision against the motion, against the most elementary rights of the Negro people. This exclusion of Negroes from juries is one of the fundamental issues in the fight for the Scottsboro boys. It involves an open violation of the constitutional rights of the defendants and of the Negro people. That it is a fundamental issue is recognized by the organ of the Scotts- boro lynchers, the Jackson County Sentinel, which on April 23, 1931, openly called for the lynching of any Negro who would dare to serve on a jury, declaring: “A Negro juror in Jackson County would be a curiosity—and some curiosities are embalmed, you know.” It is also no accident that Judge Hawkins in granting a change of venue, selected the little town of Decatur for the new trials, rejecting the proposal of the defense that the trials be held in Birmingham, an industrial center with a large Negro and white proletariat. Thus, the ruling class continues its attempts to legally murder these nine innocent working-class children, despite the overwhelming proof of their innocence, despite the letter written to her sweetheart by Ruby Bates, one of the state’s two star witnesses, repudiating her lying testi- mony that the nine boys had raped her and her companion, Victoria Price. The Negro and white workers and all sincere intellectuals must answer this brazen attempt to carry out the legal lynchings with a new thunder of protest, with the strengthening of the mass fight which alone can free the boys. On with the mass fight for the unconditional freedom of the Scotts- boro boys! Organize protest meetings and demonstrations! Rush tele- grams and resolutions to Governor B. M. Miller, Montgomery, Ala., to Judge A. E. Hawkins, Scottsboro, Ala., demanding the release of these innocent victims of capitalist justice. Roosevelt Gov’t Keeps the Navy Ready N every hend, and with express-train speed, there is accumulating evidence that the so-called “New Deal” of the Roosevelt Democratic administration is nothing but a further development of every imperialist, anti-working class policy of the Hoover Republican administration. This > confirmed with the greatest clearness by the statement just made by the new Democrati¢ Secretary of the Navy, Claude A, Swanson, his first statement since he assumed office. According to the Herald Tribune: “Secretary Swanson declared that the United States either should build up to treaty limits or induce the other signatories of the pact to decrease their tonnage. The secretary announced that the United States fleet would remain on the Pacific Coast. The continued mainten- ance of the fleet in California waters had been projected by the previous administration in view of the necessity for economy as well as the un- rest in the Far East ....I think every effort should be made to keep the raties of the Lendon treaty. My opinion is that the fleet be built up as quick’'v as rees'bie to the retics prescribed in that treaty.” Thus the reeovt eyconeive monevvers of the navy in the Pacific were not cniv the “chow” they were advertised to be, but grim and seri- cus prenaration for war in the Far East. It must not be forgotten that tae present financial crisis is a result not only of internal domestic crisis, but of sharpening imperialist antagonisms, particularly between Great Britain and America, And this financial crisis, in turn, aggravates and eharpens these antagonisms. It is significant that the greatest drain upon the American gold supply is coming at present through London banks and the Bank of England. Under a cover of “liberalism”, the Roosevelt administration is making every preparation to protect the financial interests of American imperial~ ism all over the world. Uncover Secret Arms Shipment by Britain GLASCOW, March 8. — Secret ernment’s “peace” policy. nunition shipments carried by the| The Tuscania left the Clyde for ip Tuscania, reported by a worker} Liverpool late in February to take correspondent, and discovered only) on board 2,000 troops, and sail dir- ynen one of the packing cases burst, | ectly to Bombay. Much discontent veyealing a complete machine gun) developed among the crew when they veady for assembling, shed light on| found the ship was carrying @ cargo ‘be true meaning of the British Gov-| of machine guns, WM. GREEN ail Central Orga (Section of the Com Vol. X, No. 58 Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at GQBP® New York, N. ¥., under tha Act of March 8, 1879. NEW YORK, THURSDAY XS munist International) FIGHT FOR NEGROES ON JURY IN ALA. Scottsboro Case Is| Before Judge Horton | of Athens, Ala. —e | CREATE LYNCH SPIRIT | | | | | | Need for Increase of | Mass Protest SCOTTSBORO, Ala., March 8. — The new trials of the Scotisboro boys have been set for March 17 in Decatur, the seat of Morgan County, Ala- bama, under the decision of Judge A. E. Hawkins granting the motion of the International Labor Defense for a change of venue from Scottsboro. Forced to grant a change of venue by reason of the world-wide mass fight for the Scotts- boro boys, Judge Hawkins at the same time rejected the defense pro- posal that the trials be moved to Birmingham, an industrial center! with a large white and Negro prole-| } tarian poulation, The new trials are} | to be hell before Judge Horton, of | Athens, #ia. Fight for Negroes on Jury. Judge Hawkins, refused to rule on a motion by the defense for the quashing of the indictments against the boys. The defense based its mo- tion on the ground that the gonsti- tutional rights of the boys and of | the Negro People had been violated | by the exclusion of Negroes from the grand jury which indicted the boys and from the petit jury which de- creed their electrocution. The de- fense proved that exclusion of Ne~- groes from juries was habitual. The I, L. D. attorneys will demand a rul- ing from Judge Horton, the new trial judge, on this motion. Create Lynch Spirit. As at the original trials, the town of Scottsboro was filled with a lynch crowd for the hearing, following a veiled invitation issued by the Jack- son Sentinel, organ of the Scotts- boro lynchers. Many shot guns were in evidence. Negroes were intimi- dated from attending the hearing. A reporter from an Atlanta newspaper was driven out of town because he asked too many questions of Negroes. The jury of 12 bewiskered, backward mountaineers, their minds filled with boss poison of race hatred, glared at the defense attorneys and the re- porters and visitors from New York. ‘The boys were represented by Gen. George W. Chamlee of Chattanooga, Tenn., Irving Schwab and Carol King of New York City. 800 MORE SHOE WORKERS JOIN HAVERHILL STRIKE HAVERHILL, Mass., March 8.—~ Eight hundred shoe workers are re- ported to have Joined the strike to- day in the shoe and wood heel in- dustries in this city involving about 75 large and small plants and bring- ing the total number of strikers here to 6,300. The misleaders of the Shoe Workers Protective Association under whose leadership the strike in Haver- hill is being conducted are now call- ing for a strike in the Boston shoe shops although no organizational pre- Situation Critical! The tremendous drop in contributions, plus the new difficulties created by the bank- ing crisis, are threateni! Worker out of existence. tributions declined to only $155, the lowest | figure since the very fi Because of the acute Worker will not be able to publish on Satur- day the special Marx ment announced in Tuesday’s ng to crush the Daily Yesterday’s con- rst days of the drive. emergency, the Daily Anniversary supple- sue. Unless funds in large amounts come in =t once, the Daily Worker will not be able to publish even the preser ‘ four-page p: Contributions in the drive have declined greatly during the past aper. ten days. In addition, $1,000 has been received in checks which can- -.ot be cashed. There is not e~.ugh money to r.eet current publishing expenses and to pay off the big deficit accumulated from the past. You must act before it is too late. Collect at once. today and send Help organize and participate in in every cent the Tag Days this Saturday and Sunday. Rush MONEY ORDERS to the Daily Worker, 50 East 13th Street, New York City. DAILY WORKER MAN. \GEMENT COMMITTEE. * * RECEIVED YESTE TOTAL TO DATE RDAY . . $155.09 + « $16,774.91 COMMUNIST PARTY CALLS MEETS TO PLAN FIGHTS AGAINST BANKERS | Small Depositors, Workers, Professionals and | Small Business Men Urged to Come All small depositors: Workers, em- ployees, professional people and smal! businessmen of the midtown Manhat- tan Section, are called by Section 2 of the Communist Party to two mass meetings this Sunday, March 12th at 3 p.m. East Side depositors will meet at Irving Plaza Hall, 15th St. and Irving Place, West Side depos- itors at the Spartacus Hall, 269 West 25th St. In its call for these important mass meetings, Section 2 of the Commu- nist Party urges “Workers to fight for your wages, demand full wages in cash. Refuse the robber scrip money. , Depositors—iefend your life savings.” The call further points aut the cut- ting of relief, and the danger of work- ers on emergency relief jobs not get- ting paid. It calls attention to the already mounting cost of living, espe- cially on food stuffs. Turn out to the meeting in large numbers. Answer the Wall Street- Roosevelt conspiracy on our wages, relief and life savings! Workers or- ganize committees in the shops. Pro- tect your wages. Small depositors: Organize committees of depositors in every neighborhood. full cash return on all small deposits. Prominent speakers will address both meetings. Admission is free. ROOSEVELT WON'T SEE FARMERS By JOHN D. DAVIS WASHINGTON, D. C., March 8.—} President Roosevelt refused to see a delegation of farmers representing the Farmers National Relief Con- ference because the national banking crisis “takes precedence over every- thing else,” according to his secretary. ‘The delegation left with the secretary a statement addressed to the Presi- dent, which put before him squarely the issue of immediate emergency action for the relief of destitute farmers. ‘The demands presented to Roose- velt were the same demands drawn up by the farmers at the Washington Conference and presented at that time to Congress and President Hoover. The delegation~pointed out parations have thus far been made. (Statement of Central Committee, Communist Party, U. S. A.) TH present nation-wide growing financi2! collapse brings into the clearest relief all the features of the downward swing of capitalism, and the steady deepening of the economic |crisis. Entering the fourth year of the crisis, capitalism sinks deeper into the maze of its own contradic- tions. The measures undertaken by the ruling class since the outbreak of the crisis, as the firing of millions of workers, staggering of the employed workers, continuous wage cuts, the whole system of tariff walls, growth of armament expenditures, all these have only deepened the crisis and in- creased the misery of the workers. Big Production Drop. The drop in production has been catastrophic. In the basic industries production has sunk to the 19 cen- tury level. The present financial crisis has already resulted in an even further curtailment of production. The present army of unemployed, al- ready over 16,000,000 workers, is daily growing larger. The currency crisis, growing out of the crisis development since the outbreak of the stock ex- change crash, is shaking the entire social structure of American capitel- ism to its very foundations. The crisis in the government fin- ances is being aggravated by the pre- sent financial situation. The deficit created by the ie of dollars of the government, pumping of president or Congress to do anything nad put the question before Roose- velt, The statement to the President Roosevelt included an attack on the President's pet farm “relief” scheme, the Domestic Allotment Plan. It denounced the Frazier and Robinson bills as “plans to foist deflated farm mortgages, held by Big Business, upon the government through ‘re- financing legislation.’” The crop production credit policy of the past administration providing credit only for well-to-do farmers with collateral, was rejected in the statement. FOR UNEMPLOYMENT and social in- surance, against sedition and eviction laws, for the defense of the Soviet that the failure of either the former through the Reconstruction Finance Corporation into the shaky credit structure and the huge expenditure of money for armaments, becomes daily more difficult to overcome, The present financial situation raises in the sharpest form the question of the very existence of capitalism. Workers! Small Depositors Fight for These Demands 1.) No reduction in unemploy- ment relief, Relief payments in cash, Enactment of Unemployment Insurance at the expense of the bosses and government. Immediate reopening of the banks with 100 per cent Gov- ernment guarantee of cash payment to small depositors. Payment of wages in cash, not checks, 2) 3) 6) 1) Fight rise in living costs caused by inflation. Moratoriam on workers’ debts to banks, corporations and Joan companies. 8) Arrest and indictment of Mitchell and bankers respon- sible for robbing the small de- positors, Union, against imperialist wart ALBANY MEET Fight for the! | IN . MARCH 9, 1933 , Worker unist Party U.S.A. f CITY EDITION 3 Cents Price FLATION, RISE IN LIVING COST IS CERTAIN AS GOV'T PRINTS 2 BILLION MORE DOLLARS INSTEAD OF SCRIP WIRES PROTEST |Conference Demands Action on 9 Bills ALBANY, N. Y¥., March 8. — The Workers Conference on Labor Legis- lation, which has just concluded its three-day session here, at its final session yesterday sent a telegram to Governor Lehman, Lieutenant-Gov- ernor Bray and Speaker McGuiness of the state legislature, vigorously protesting against the refusal to give the delegates a hearing on their de- mands, as had been promised. The} the Treasury telegram also protested against the} mobilization of armed police who) refused to let the worker delegates | enter the capitol building. i The statement to the legislature, } drawn up just before the march on} the capitol, demanded the enact-) ference for state unemployment in- surance and immediate relief, a} minimum wage and maximum hours | bill, bills against evictions and fore- closures, against infunctions andj; child labor, for maternity benefits to working women, for a public works construction program, and a bill to protect deposits of workers and small depositors. The bill for immediate relief de- mands $10 a week for each unem ployed couple, with $3 weekly for each dependent, $1 a day for single workers, and cash payment on re- lief jobs at prevailing trade union rates. The statement to the legislature pledges the delegates to return to their organizations and to mobilize broad mass support that will compel the legislature to enact the bills. Marx Memorial : Meet March 12th A memorial meeting on, | the 50th Anniversary of | | Karl Marx, founder of scien-| | tific Communism, will be) |held under the auspices of the Communist Party, Dis-; trict 2, on Sunday, March} 12, at 7:30 p.m., in the St.} || Nicholas Arena, 66th St. {and Columbus Ave. Speakers will be Earl | Browder, Secrefary of the Cemmunist Party, U. S. A.) land Clarence Hathaway, No Guarantees for Deposit Hit the Toilers ment of bills adopted by the con-/ Ng Funds for Jobless, | Inflation Chief William H. Woodin, secretary of | who will put the | printing presses to work to turn | out 2 billion dollars of inflated currency causing a sharp rise in the living cost for the masses. BUG, bore Millions of dollars for their new- | est warship, the U. S. S. Portland, | N. Y. District Organizer and member of the Central Com-| | mittee. | 1 add'ng another murder weapon to | | the United States Navy now con- | centrated in the Pacific for. war in | the Far East and against the Soviet | Union. i What is the program of American; mulated small savings will be wiped able of running the industries, and| capitalism in the present crisis sit- uation? The growth of unemploy- ment, the wage cuts, the misery of the workers in the past years of the crisis will pale in comparison with the present attacks on the whole front against the standard of living of the masses. The present financial crisis means the sharpening of all imperialist contradictions, and the speeding up of war preparations. In face of the growing unemploy- ment, Ro-sevelt declared to the Gov- ernors Conference that he does not even contemplate in any shape Fed- eral relief, let alone the direct grant- ing of Unemployment Insurance. The staggered workers who received num- erous wage cuts will not even receive their wages in regular currency, but in devaluated currency, or paper scrip. The charity rations for the starving unemployed will be handed out in the same way. The employed workers in addition to indirect wage cuts through the devaluated currency or paper scrip will get additional dir- ect wage cuts. Unemployed workers, while being denied unemployment in- surance will even have their meager charity relief rations cut. Inflation will raise the cost of living, still fur- ther cutting the wages of the stag- gered workers and the starvation ra- tions of charity. The veterans are being denied their pensions and bon- | us. The attack on the working class | | out of their meager funds. Affects All Toilers. The crisis has reached a state af~ fecting all the toiling sections of the population. The present financial| | crisis more than ever before places | the very existence and life of the} whole toiling population in the hands | of a small financial oligarchy on the| | top. The measures undertaken by | | the Federal and State Governments, | | dramatize more than ever before the | complete integration of the finan- | cial oligarchy with the state apparat- us. In order to carry through this mur- derous offensive on the toiling mas- ses as a means of getiing out of the crisis, the state apparatus is sharpen- ing its terror weapons, to force the toilers of the land into submission, ‘The financial oligarchy is mobiliz- ing also its agents within the work- ing class to disarm the workers and deliver them into the murderous hands of the capitalist class, Presi- dent Green ,of the American Feder- ation of Labor, who was recently hailed by the Socialist Party as moy- ing towards socialism, in a brazen declaration calls upon the toilers to support President Roosevelt in his declaration of war on their living standards. The Revolutionary Way Out. Today capitalism Stage in its crisis where there is only | is all along the whole front. Workers, the petty-bourgeols, intellectuals, who hove after years-of hand toll accu one way out of it for the working class, the revolutionary way out. The | setting up’ of the rile’o has reached a’ j stands convicted before society the destruction of ¢: Only | the} which alone can ma |Immediate Step Against New Drive on Teiling Masses, Workers and farmers, employed and unemployéd, small depositors —the widest possible movement of the toiling masses is necessary to combat and defeat the growing new attacks of the bourgeoisie | against. the standards of living.| | 1, Hold meet ngs at the fac-| | tories, develop actions inside the| | factories against non-payment of wages or payment in scrip. Build factory committees. 2. Hold meetings in the neigh- borhoods for the payment of un- employment relief in cash and against increases in the cost of living (high prices). Build special women's committees against ris- ing prices. Strengthen and or- ganize block committees. 3.—Hold mass meetings of small depositors in neighborhoods, de- manding full payment of deposits in cash. Line up with the em- ployed and unemployed workers in fighting against the attack of the bourgeoisi ) ‘ Sma!l Depositors Must Cents on Dollar in Cash Roosevelt Is Aiding Big Bankers to Swallow Up Small Bankers and Demand 100 TRY NEW TRICKS T0 FOOL THE PEOPLE OF U. They Should Rely Only on Their Own Mass Fight BULLETIN NEW YORK.—Tonight, at the St. Nicholas Arena, 66th St. and Columbus Ave., meet- ing to hear the reports of the Albany Workers’ Confer- ence Delegates, action will be started to rally workers. and small depositors in a fight against the bankers gold grabbing onslaught. Mass to the meeting! ' « . WASHINGTON, March 8.— There is going on a conflict between the smaller banking combines of the “interior” and the hig combines dominated by Wall Street in New York and LaSalle S$ cago over the question of issuin The smaller banks fear that their clearing hou at p) will be beaten di di nted and that the scrip of the in the financial centers w e the dominant means of ci It is that feared by the this device of big rob quickly wipe them out! the To and at th the most rapid cc ancial power in t is e issuance one dollars in new jeral Such an issue would the same inflationary results as scrip and would result in further destifu~ tion among the unemployed and part time workers and impoverished farm~ ers, as a result of price raises at the pproach wing addi« currency. same time that indus ing a standstill and ¢ tional masses out of w Unification of System ‘The Roosevelt administration proceeding to aid the big bi swallow up the little ones by propos= ing a unified banking system that will do away with the 48 state sys- tems and the one national s This can be realized only through placing all banking power in the hands of the Wall Street and La Salle Street gangs, with Roose president act: moves in that direction COMMUNIST PARTY CALLS TOILERS TO ORGANIZE, REPULSE NEW ATTACK BY BANKERS ON THEIR LIVING STANDARD minate the period ism, only this can s of capital+ ave society from ‘apitalism dooms c peopl The entire toiling populz country under the leade working class must be in gigantic struggles ism, and the present murderous of~ fensive, which is manifested, in the bank holiday which tied up billions off money paid in by small depositors: inflation of cur which beats down real wages and tcreases the cost of living at the same time ad- ditional millions of part-time work+ ers are thrown into the ranks of the completely unemployed as production approaches zero: in further de- gradation of the poverty of the small farm in the invoking of a wars time ‘ading with the enemy” act against the toiling ma s at home, On the basis of their experiences in the struggles for Unemployment Insurance, against wage cuts, against a rise in the living cost, against the whole criminal gang of bankers, will the masses learn that the revolue tionary way out of the crisis is the only way out from hunger and war. The Communist Party calls upon the toilers to repulse the offensive of the rulers of the land. Workers, farmers, impoverished petty-bour- geoisie, unite into one mighty army for the struggle for the right to live, for the struggle for bread, for the struggle against imperialist war—tf the revolutionary way o! i no ages in, Oxmngieg f0r Be 8 he :