The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 13, 1933, Page 1

| wnammtsaasen Tie ll | Editorials Provocations IODAY’S Daily Worker carries a special dispatch from its Moscow Correspondent on the bloody fascist terror in Germany, directed against the German workers, and with special ferocity against the German Communists. It must be stated that up to date we in the U. S. have not with full force succeeded in developing united front fascist terror in Germany and for the defense of th tured Communist workers and leaders. The spirit for united action on the part of socialist workers with the Communists in the struggle against German fascism is growing— this in spite of the social fascist leaders. To prevent this growing unity, the socialist leaders in the United States, who hailed Hindenburg as a great democrat, and who urged the workers to elect Hindenburg as presi- dent, have no scruples in using the phrase “United Front”. With the phrase of “United Front” they hope to stop the growing movement for a united struggle, against fascism. A most despicable example of what the social fascist lead mean by the United Front is to be found in the March 11th the “New Leader”, in the correspondence from Germany b Mr. Herman Kobbe. At a fime when thousands of Communi tortured in the Hindenburg-Hitler jails of Germany, at ions against the ed and tor- - @ certain are being a time when Mussolini’s fascist terror pales in comparison with the terror developed by the “democratic” Hindenburg and Hitler, Mr. Kobbe can refer to the tortured Communists as people who are “.... placing themselves in the pay of Moscow,” and further that the “leaders (Communists) re- sponsible for the impending debacle can save their skins anc go to Rus- sia or France to live (this has already begun.—Edit ors)”, At a time when the leader of the German Communist Party, Com- rade Thaelmann, is in jail, at a time when the whole weight of the fas- cist terror is placed upon the shoulders of the Communists, this social fascist scoundrel can point the finger of accusation to the only revolu- tionary leaé--s of the working class in Germany, as running ‘away in order “to save their ski ‘ The Editors of the “New Leader” hailed the statement of Mr. Kobbe with the greatest satisfaction. They wanted to leave no doubt that it is not merely the expression of an individual opinion, but that it is the deliberate editorial policy of the “New Leader” and the Socialist Party leaders. So they inserted the note in the story of their correspondent, that the “running away to save their skins”, on the part of the German Communists, “has already begun”. A roar of indignation must rise from the workers throughout the country against these provocations on the part of the social fascist lead- ers, who in 1918 drowned the German revolution in blood, who are re- sponsible fer the murder of Liebknecht and Luxemburg and who paved the way for Hitler in Germany. Every day we have new evidence of the growing working class unity in this country for the defense of the German workers. These movements toward unity which are still isolated must be brought together into one powerful united front movement. This will be the best answer to the deliberate provocations of the social fascist leaders. Veterans Get a Taste the “New Deal” HE whirlwind speed and efficiency ef Roosevelt's section of the population, the war veterans, miration from all those who are eager to see that veterans bear the full burden of the present crisis in the finances, The openly reactionary papers are exultant. The “liberal” World- ‘Telegram (Scripps-Howard) is delighted that “at last we have a presi- dent with courage enough to ask congress for power to do what congress has failed to do.” The “socialist” editor of the “Forward” consoles the workers with the thought that “throughout the country everybody is convinced that the present tonfusion (the bank crisis—ed.) will bring much good.” Hoover, of “Bloody Thursday” fame, asked that $170,000,000 be taken from the veteran’s compensation. Roosevelt, whom the financial masters of America “sold” to the American people as being so much more “liberal” than the hated Hoover, shows his real attitude toward the workers and veterans by demanding a reduction in veterans’ compensation of close to $500,000,000. ‘The immediate occasion of the budget crisis is the necessity for meet- ing next Wednesday a payment of $700,000,000 to holders of government bonds. Who holds these bonds? They are held in the vaults of Wall Street bankers and multi-millionaire investors. And at their command the Roosevelt government leaps to obey. In his inaugural address, Roosevelt strutied as a bold and bragging fighter of the “money changers”. But in deeds we can see only too clearly that Roosevelt listens with the greatest meekness and willingness to serve when the Wall Street “money changers” crack the whip. It never occurs to this doughty “fighter” of the “money changers”, to say to the bondholders, “The government is facing a larger deficit. The people are suffering. We cannot cut their living standards by wage cuts or re- duction in veterans compensation. You must show your patriotism by accepting a ‘holiday’ on interest payments on your bonds.” It never occurs to Roosevelt to say to that 1 percent of the popula- tion which owns more than 60 percent of the country’s wealth, “You will have to pay heavier income taxes in order to meet the budget deficit.” It never occurs to Roosevelt, former assistant secretary of the navy, to say to the navy, “all expenditures for bombing planes, poison gas, big can- non and torpedoes must be sharply reduced in order to meet the defi- cit.” Oh no! All these are sacred to the hypocritical prophet of the “New Deal”, It is the “glorious heroes,” the veterans, who must pay the bitter price. Not Forced Labor Camps- But Jobless Insurance! N March 4th the workers demonstrated all over the coun. try in the demand for Unemployment Insurance. Demon- strations were held in towns and cities that had not before been drawn into the organized unemployed movement. The closing of the banks not only mean the loss of life savings, but closing up many factories, which means greater unemployment. The “forgotten man” demanded the “new deal”. Roosevelt was told on March 4th that there are other sections of the population besides the bankers. The workers, veterans, farmers facing continued misery, came out in the streets to remind Roosevelt of his election promises—unemploy~ nent insurance as the central demand. In spite of the bitter cold, and in some places snow storms more than 200,000 workers, thus far recorded, demonstrated on March 4th. These dem- onstrations occurred in all sections of the country, also down in the South. Thousands of workers demonstrated in the South—in Richmond, Norfolk, Houston—but all of them were brutally attacked by the police. Battles with the police occurred in Pittsburgh, Los Angeles, Gary, Indiana Harbor, Canton. In New Britain, Conn., practically the entire town turned out—7000 strong—and put up a stiff fight against the police as- sault, ‘The best demonstration of the “new deal” was in the city of Wash~- ington itself on March 6. The 300 marchers, presumably having permission from Roosevelt himself, were met with clubs, tear gas and riot guns and savagely attacked. Roosevelt had no time to see the delezation of the Unemployed Coun- cils, which called on aim on March 7, He was busy consulting with the bankers and formulating the Wall Street bankers’ program of HUNGER for the masses. The ban!: cvisis is being used as an excuse by Roosevelt and the gov- ernment to “forget” the situation of the unemployed and part-time work- ers, which daily grows worse. One of Roosevelt's greatest deceptions during the elections was his playing with the phrase of Unemployment Insurance, The Democratic National Platform carries the phrase in favor of State Onemployment Insurance. Hardly a few days in office, and Roosevelt's phrase of Un- employment Insurance has turned into the proposal for forced labor camps for the unemployed. Before November 8 phrases on Unemploy~ ment Insurance. After the elections forced labor camps for the Un- employed. The struggles conducted by ithe workers under the leadership of the Unemployed Councils ravst be intensified. The drive against the working class as a whole, on the basis of Roosevelt’s hunger program can be stop- sed only by the United Front of the working masses, ‘The Communist Party supporis these struggles and calls on the work- ers to rally in their millions to force Roosevelt and the government to grant immediate relief and Unemployment and Social Tnsurance. Only goass struggle will bring actior, ack on another real ad- ers and war government | GUARANTEE of | No Limit to Social-Fascist ee Dail ——] orker Central Organs the-Cominynist Party U.S.A. (Section of ihe Communist International) _Vol. X, No. 61 ap Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office ut New York, N. ¥., under the Act of March 8, 1879. ROOSEVELT § DRIVE TO PREVENT GOV'T | OF D.POSTIS ENATORS IN joees Workers, Widows Can't n't Get Their Life Savings from Bank | Depositors Organizing i n Many Areas to Demand Full Funds i NEW YORK.—Section 1 of the € will explain the import of inflation Second Avenue, Seventh Street and Streets, and Rutgers Square. day, Thursday and Friday nights. four open air mass meetings on the financial crisis. Communist Party has arranged for Prominent speakers to the workers at 10th Street and Avenue A, Orchard and Rivington These meetings will take place on Wednes- Tonight prominent speakers will address a mass meeting on the same topic at Hennington Hall, Second Street near Avenue 3. Cai) in the Senate are busy aidiag . ——All the Democyatic Jeaders the Roosevelt administration carry out its policy of helping the biggest bankers take from the small depositors throughout the United States billions of dollars they have placed in the banks. | | | WASHINGTON, March **. | In the Senate a prolonged | debate occurred over the effect | |of the recent banking legisla- j tion, in which the seca | floor leader, Senator Robinson | Arkansas, and Senator Glass of ie | the ad- ni nistration’s | foremost author- ity in the Senate Jon banking, | strongly opposed | the government | taking any steps whatsoever to |guarantee bank deposits. Act on Slashing Wage Cuts At the same time thi: vas |going on, all the + D+ Roosevelt machinery of | government was In action to carry | through as quickly as possible drastic slashes in wages of federal employees and to wipe out compensation te tens of thousands of war veterans. | Rubin—Sunday Banks Not To Reopen The anfounced “progressive re- opening of the banks is to start to- day. The state superintendents of banks announce that they are ready to grant permission for state banks to reopen as soon as the banks in the states that are affiliated with the Be aa | | Friday POWERS CASE PUT : OFF; NO DATE SET NEW YORK—The trial of George| Powers, militant leader of the unem- | ployed, scheduled to definitely start morning in General Ses- | sions Court, was not on the calendar when Powers and Jiseph Tauber, | attorney of the New York District, | International Labor Defense appeared | in court. Information why the trial was not | listed on the calendar and when it! for a flanking movement througt | would actually start was refused by the court clerk to Powers and to his | attorney, . Powers was arrested in a demon- stration of 20,000 unemployed, April, 1932. He was charged with rioting and incitement to riot. His case lay| dormant until the eve of the March 4th demonstration this year when it was suddenly revi.2d for terror- istic effect—terror that didn’t work. Leaves for South Joseph Brodsky, LL.D. attorney, who has left for the South to | handle the preliminary moves in | the new Sesttsboro tr’al, tocether | | with Samuel S. Leibowitz and Gen. | George W. Chamlee. (See story on | page 3). U.S. THREATENS JAPAN IN EAST "nvasion Moves to US.| Spheres in N. China | The tension between the U. 5. and Japan increased yesterday as the| Japanese Army in conquered Jeho! | Province prepared to push on into} the Peiping-Tientsin area, one of the} largest U. S. spheres of investments | in China, in defiance of the threat | contained in the concentration by} | the Washington Government of its) entire Battle Flect in the Pacific. News of the movement of the Ja-} papese toward the Peiping-Tientsin) area was followed in this country by| a Ohauvinist incitement in the capi-| talist press, the New York Tribune, for instance, interpreting the Japan- ese move as a threat to “the friendly | relations” between the two imperial-} } ist bandit powers. “The Japanese military agitation | | Shanhaikwan and Chinese territor: y| | against the Chinese line of communt- | cations between Peiping and K | kou is a menace to such friendly Soe lations as still exist between Japan| | and the Occident. Thus U. S. imperialism, driving for | war with Japan over the division of | the loot in China, continues’ its ef-) alist powers against; Japan oe Force Relief for 150 Seamen | At Central Registration Buro , NEW YORK, MO DAY, MARCH 13, 1933 forts to mobilize the other -impsri—+ot-days; CITY EAU Prive 3 Cents WALL STREET-ROOSEVELT BILL, PASSED BY HOUSE, ROBS TENS OF THOUSANDS OF VETS AND MEMBERS OF ARMED FORCES | | | Misleaders on Bill Today WASHINGTON, March 12—The Wall goal of balancing the budget i increasing | the House yesterday, by a vote of 266 to powers in slashing $500,000,000 from veterans’ ployees. ears Slashes Disability Payments and Deprives Thousands of Ex- Servicemen of Their A Allowances s of Veterans Back Plun der of Rank and File; Senate to Act ‘Street “plunder gi gang took another step toward its the hunger and suffering of the masses when 138, passed Roosevelt’s bil' giving him dictatorial benefits and the wages of government em- The Senate Finance Committee tes favorably reported vee bill and it will be brought up in the Senate tomorrow. The bill at one blov robs tens | of thousands of disabled vet-| erans and their dependents of a large portion of the meager payments they are getting from the government, nd cuts many thousands more com- pletely off the payment list. The present system of compensations and allowances will be done away with | and in its place a em. of pensions completely controlle vy v (that-is, by Wall Street), will be sub- | | stituted. This will give him the er to make drastic cuts in bene- | fi ions for the group known disabilities” | m those casi where the disabilities are classed permanent”, which means that the | big maj y of this group of vet- jerans will be cut off without a ec | This class of vets, numbering about 400.000, has been under constant at- | tack by the bankers’ spite the f; Ves in mo: ses contr cted ot result their ste et wars lected money. service in Wall the Daily Worker.” This me sent to the who withdrew the No pension will be paid to widows end children of veterans of the world war. Pensions will be given ‘only to thore Oo served a certain number -the president having the power to determine the number of { | days necessary. Pensions and allow- ances to veterans and dependents of | all wars before the Spanish War wil! be cut 10 percent, To Cut Pay of Armed Forces. The men in the armed forces of he country, who are getting only $1 4 day and less, will also be cut on | tim their personal security. One hundred dollars—their us e workers know that the matnten- ance of the Daily Worker is more imr the Daily Worker means to save the un leader of the fight agaizct the banke 2 Workers Send $100;Rush Tag Day Receipts! Do not Pos Tag nee itoxes with col- Turn them in at once to your stations and see to it that the money is rushed to the Daily Worker. s nearly got it. To hell with them, e Daily Worker get it. Long live age, accompanied by $100, was by two Bost ir money from the ban! n workers n savings of a life- They know that 3’ efforts to hurl millions of the toiling population still deeper into the pit of starvation and suffering. These two workers have answered the blow federal reserve system receive their | the basis of the decrease in commo- licenses from Washington to open up again, | However, none of the banks will open in the sense that they resume business before. And thousands of them will never open again, thus ruining all their depositors, who did not know the game of the bankers. The new federal reserve banknotes | | 8re out and in circulation. That is} | the inflation issue that is estimated at approximately two billion dollars. | These notes have no sound backing) of any kind. In addition to this sort} of money many places are operating | with local clearing house scrip, which is already being discounted. Lay-Offs Continue | At the same time prices are soar- | ing as a result of the first effects of | inflation, many workers formerly em- | ployed part-time were laid off dur- ing the week-end, which swells en-j ormously the ranks of the unem-| ployed. This is true of steel, mining, | auto and the transportation industry. ! The impoverishment of the farmers is also proceeding at a faster pace. Particularly tragic is the fate of t™many aged workers and the widows and orphans who survived workers who accumulated a little money in the banks for a “rainy day,” and are now unable to get anything because | of the crash of the financial struc- ture of the country and the vicious campaign of the Roosevelt adnis- tration to help the big bankers. Continue Str’ uggle : at it Finnish Consulate for Re- lief to Unemployed Finnish Marine Workers Ceuncil and the Marine Workers Industrial Union, conducted two demon- | strations Saturday, one of which won housing for 150 men. The victory was won at the Cel Battery. sleeping quarters. tered about town, but 150 stuck to- gether and, with Jackson of the M. W. I. U. as spokesman, pushed two police aside and went in and made | their demands so effectively that ali the 150 were found places 1n the city flophouse and other institutions. Finnish Consulate The other demonstration was an attempt to get relief for Finnish sea- men from the Finnish consulate. Some, a year ago, had received sleep- ing quarters at 318 Pearl Street, and relief through the consulate. Some of these went on the National Hun- ger March. The consul had their velief cut off, because they refused to turn stool pigeon on each other and tell who marched to Washington. The Roosevelt Hospital, which ts the owner of the building at 318 Pear) Street, then got ean evetion order against the seamen, Which is to go into effect today. The seamen held a protest meeting Saturday in front of the Finnish con- sulate at 5 State Street. They sent up a delegation of five to demand ivom the consul that since they had ntral Recistration Department at the This outfit suddenly ousted 300 jobless who had been getting Half of them scat-& ) definite information that he was re- ceiving money from various sources to be used in their behalf, that the | consul immediately stop the eviction of the seamen by paying their rent | and that their food allowance be re- | sumed. These things the consul re-} fused to do, and ordered the com- |} mittee out. | The “Workaway” Evil | Since it was too cold to continue an open air demonstration, the sea- | men returned to their meeting room | at 140 Broad Street, where they dis- cussed their plans for future action. Among other things brought out at this meeting was the fact that many seamen, finding themselves on the} verge of siarvation, were signing on to steamers as “workaways,” to work for just food and a place to sleep. To make it legal and proper they get a salary—the princely sum of one | cent per month! Many of the unemployed seamen are ill; most of them have insuffi- cient clothing. The Home Relief Bureaus refuse them help on the grounds that they are not citizens. | National Li |dity prices between the six-month riod ending Tune 30, 1928, and the The bill carries out the demands | made by the National Economy Lea- gue, an organization dominated by big bankers and their republican and democratic flunkeys, including Al Smith and the late Calving Coolids It is being backed’ by various mis. leaders of the vets, including some | who are now coming out openly for the first time. Veteran Misleaders Back Roosevelt. The leaders of the American Le gion, who were forced by pressure the rank and file at the Portland | Ore., convention last fall to come out for the bonus and against cui: disability payments, have man: to keep their “opposition” to the bill toned down to than a whisper Louis A. Johnson, national by reporters in Elizabeth, N. fused to take a stand and said he wanted time to “study” the bill. The only real opposition to the slashing of veterans’ benefits is being voiced by the rank and file move- ment represented by the Veterans’ ison Committee, which is demanding immediate payment of the bonus, no cuts in disability pay. ments and allowances, measures for workers and farmers: pares vemunens aw six-month ped beginning Jan. 1, NEW YORK.—Unemployed seamen, led by the Waterfront Unemployed | 1932 | com- | mander of the Lezion, when cornered | and relief struck at the “Daily” by the banking crisis. Where is YOUR enswer? only $288. the “D: that it cannot cash. tions of T To Receipts in the financial d Saturday, includiag this $100 contribution, ¥ Donations have dropped sharply and 1 stuck with over $1,200 in checks Only ag Day funds by the New York district bled the “Daily” to appear today. ssure the publication of the Daily Worker last-minute contr tomorrow and the succeeding days, Tag Day and all other funds must be sent in at once. And now that the Tag Days are over, intensify the daily collections, arrange more house parties and affe so that every district may raise its quota in the ible time. hunger drive struction. York Ci COULD NOT CASH H 817 NEW YORK.—Frank Abramaitis, who was found dying of starvation on a sidewalk at Jamaica Ave. and | 85th St., with an uncashed check for $17 in his pocket, related that he had gone without food for four days be- cause bankers would not cash | check. The bankers remained free Abramaitis was shipped to jail while against the new Wall ea Bring cash or ceed UR eenaee DAY to the Daily Worker, | his | 50 E. 18th St, Bevinning in Wednesday's Daily Worker: “Negro Children of Harlem in the Bloody Jaws of Capitalism.” An amazing expose of child misery in th: heart of the richest city in the world. Hundreds of thousands of work- ingelass children murdered and maimed. Don’t miss this series! GERMAN WORKERS IN MANY INDUSTRIES BEGIN PROTEST STRIKES DESPITE THE SABOTAGE BY SOCIALIST LEADERS BULLETIN BERLIN, March 12 (By Cable).— Despite the continued sabotage by the Socialist leaders of the anti- fascist front, the workers in many factories have begun protest strikes against the fascist regime and its suppressive measures against the working-class. The situation in Dresden is partigularly tense with increasing numbers of Socialist workers joining the anti-fascist front over the heads of their re- formist leaders, who are still mouthing demagogic “threats” against the fascist regime but in practice striving to block the de- velopment of the revolutionary fight on fascism. Cee ae Report On Nazis Horrors By N. BUCHWALD (European Correspondent of The Daily Worker) MOSCOW, March 12 (By Radio- gram).—Authentic reports of horrible ill-treatment and torture of arrested Communist workers in Germany have | been received in London, the London correspondent of “Izvestia” cables. Most of the English papers are hesi- tating to publish information on the subject for fear that the fascist re- gime will take repressive measures against their correspondents. Prac~ tically all thé English correspondents | in Germany have sent this informa- tion through special channels with requests not to disciose source of in- formation when publishing. Torture Victims The Daily Herald within the past few days gave a few details of the monstrous mistreatment of the ar- rested thousands of workers, stating that the information was received from extremely reliable and very res- ponsible circles with constant con- tadts in Germany. The reports tell of organized, savage man-hunts for Communist workers and other “un- desirable” elements, Many persons _ Feports. the publication: by tha-"Ber= ‘vere marked for kidnapping at night, and brought to a special room where; they were subjected to terrible tor-! tures, for example, compelled to drink huge doses of castor oil and flogged | with steel strands until unconscious. | After these tortures, the victims of the fascist terror are usually sent to prison followed, in some: cases, with an announcement of their arrest. Ac- cording to the Daily Herald, three such torture chambers exist in vari- ous parts of Berlin. Three days ago 89 persons were brought to one such terture room, bound hand and foot, and Hitler’s “auxiliary police” flog- ged them until they collapsed. Thaelman In Danger In addition, at least 12 leaders of the German Communist Party have been murdered by the fascist “auxi- lary police” on the familiar pretext of “attempting to escape.” Ernst ‘Thaelman, secretary of the party, and hundreds of other Communist lead- ers of the working-class are facing similar police assassinations unless | the toiling masses of the whole world thunder their protests against the murderous fascist terror and demand the release of working-class prisoners of the fascist regime. 600 Jailed A telephone message rom Berlin liner Volkszeitung” of news of the) arrest of 600 persons, mostly revolu- tionary workers, in Limbach during the course of a single day. All of the prisoners were taken to the Hit- |lerite barracks where it is expected they were tortured. All are held in- communicado, One of the prisoners, | the cynical excuse that he was “at-, | tempting to escape.” Two other Com- munist workers were murdered by the fascists, and their bodies left ly- ing in the streets of Limbach. A gang of fascists raided the of- | fices of the newspaper “Volksteimme” Walter Grass, a Communist printer| in Chemnitz and shot the publisher, U.S. Workers! Protest the Nazi Terror in Germany The savage fascist onslaught on the German working class must) evoke the blazing indignation of the toiling masses of the U. S. and thru- out the world. Every blow struck against the German toilers is a blow against the international working-class! We must rally in a solid inter- national proletarian front to the support of the heroic German working class in its increasing struggles against the fascist reaction of dying capi- talism. Organize protest demonstrations! Raise the question of the fight against fascism in your organizations, in your shops, in your neighbor- hoods! Rush protest resolutions te the German Embassy in Washington! Send protests to the Wall Street government which is supporting the Hitler reaction by financial credits and other means! Rush protest cables to the German government in Berlin. Demand a halt to the fas- cist attacks on the working class! Demand the release of Ernst Thaelman and other Communist leaders, of the thousands of revolutionary workers thrown into the fascist dungeons and subjected to the most hideous tor- | resting workers who were huriying vol Me Sales sols fuses and i+ | Braunschweig, was murdered by the fascists with George Landgraf, All Communist and Socialist de~- puties in the Chemnitz Rathaus were arrested yesterday while attending a meeting of the Rathaus. A fascist censorship was put into effect in the Chemnitz public library, All books of an “aggressive and pacifist char acter” were removed from the library for a public burning. Fascist storm troops raided and ac cupied the trade union building in shooting down two workers and throwing all books, ban- ners and documents into the street waere lev Were pI iicay ol neg ta Plaum, (Fochtland) martial law has been declared in the workers’ section only. In Dresden, the Communist Deputies to the Saxon Landtag were arrested. The premises of all work- ers’ organizations were seized by fas- cist storm troops who destroyed all contents of the buildings. The work- ers’ co-operative societies haye been suppressed and their goods looted by the fascist storm troops. The police, under the direction o! the newly appointed Government Police Commissar, the National Soci- alist Killinger (one of the participa- j tors in the murder of Erzberger) helped the fascist storm troops in ar- Rn. u