The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 21, 1933, Page 1

Go Above nations” is giving way to open talk of war. doubling what you The Annalist, the weekly financial and economic review | have already done! published by the New York Times company joins the in- | ——W— ——W__ 2 ath creasing number of capitalist journals ir leclaring that a 68 Entered as second-clses matier at the Fost Office at \ new world war is near. In its issue of day, March 17, i >_> 187%. organizations doing te keep the ‘Daily’ alive? 4 Week-Ol . . a x 7 ~ Editorials Your, Quotas & Group Help | Workers’ organiza- yroup reips }— - = tions that have al- The Plainfield, ™. | ready reached your v ancl ef a o é comes j Do not cease activities Union sends $17, say» in the “Daily” drive ry ing that “our branch N the foremost publications of the capitalist world the | now. Make up for the ( : ral O ot ee ™m DP, Uu S. yo ar onle 3 -veesice aie deceptive talk about “enduring peace,” the “security of | slowness of others by ent 43 fo gaynist arty said he piashireg peed | | (Section of the Communist International) *, CITY EDITION BRITISH CABINET ANNOUNCES BREAKING OF TRADE NEGOTIATIONS WITH U.S. S. R. MACDONALD DEFENDS THE SABOTAGERS AS HE PLOTS IN ROME WITH MUSSOLINI Price 3 Cents New York, N. ~» Tnder the Act of Mi NEW YORK, TUESDAY, MARCH 21, 1933: The Annalist says: “That there is a large possibility of a European war im the very near future can hardly be denied recognition. ...We were lifted from a business depression in 1914 by the outbreak of a great war. It would be a curious repetition of function if another European war should again come to our industrial rescue.” The rabid ravings of the gutter press of Hearst and the tabloids now appear in the somber columns of the most eminent journals of capitalist respectability. The press un- animously hails the imperialist plunge toward a new world war as the harbinger of prosperity Drive, Raises Quota to $15,000 disarmament, in the above statement of The Annalist are put forth the real policies; the jubilation of capitalist Amer- The New York District raises its quota from $12,000 to $15,000! This is the answer of the i¢a at the prospect of an early outbreak of a war that will, at first, engulf all Europe, and then rapidly spread to the workers of New York to the danger threatening their paper. vest of the world. On Sunday night, at a Daily Worker banquet The Annalist hails the prospects of a war a blessing that will rescue industry. It welcomes the prospect of mil- attended by about 500 delegates ef working class organizations, over $1,000 was raised for the lions herded into the slaughter howe of imperialist war, sq that the bankers and industrialists can again realize billions “Daily.” This put the New York District over the top in the financial drive. It was then decided to that have fallen down in the drive. On the con- trary, we must say: the New York District will be the shock brigade for the rest of the country. “At this moment, when the question of the united front against the bankers’ hunger and ter- ror offensive, and against fascism is the burning issue of the day, to slacken our efforts and allow the ‘Daily’ to go under would be to deal a staggering blow to the entire working class. Made Threats of Present Action < McDONALD PLANS _ANTI-USSR FRONT ‘Mussolini. Boasts All distilled out of the very life blood of the flower of the youth and young manhood of the world. Another world war will be vastly move devastating than that of 1914-18. The twelve million killed on the field of battle will be multiplied many times, The division between the front and the rear will be wiped out and in addition eee to the combatants in the field whole cities will be devastated burying in their ruins men, women and children. They pro- pose to solve the unemployment problem by slaughtering the unemployed. This is what the. bankers and their spokesmen greet With delight as saviors, come “to our industrial rescue.” The tens of thousands of ex-soldiers, those who were hailed as ‘heroes of the last war, know only too well what war means. Today they, who were heroes of 1917, are held in contempt as outcasts. Hoover murdered them on Ana- eostia field with bullets; Roosevelt murders them by cutting off their relief, by cutting down appropriations for sick and wounded veterans, forces them onto breadlines by denying them their back pay—the so-called bonus. yee eee This drive toward war again vindicates the estimate of the Twelfth Plenary session of the Executive Committee of the Communist International, which declared this to be a period of transition to a new round of wars and revolutions, This drive toward a new world war, the fact that the entire capitalist press finds it difficult to conceal the fact that imperialism is carrying forward its conspiracies to plunge the world into another imperialist blood blath—is an alarm signal that should arouse to action every worker, every farmer, every ex-soldier. It is the duty of all class-conscious workers to do every- thing possible to build up the broadest possible ynited front action against war. Not one moment is to be lost if the hunger and war governments are to be defeated in this mon- strous conspiracy against the toiling masses of the whole world. The most persistent and ruthless fight must be waged against all those who try to cripple the mass struggle with pacifist deceptions, with sabotage and all the other tricks of social-fascist deception. Hillquit Praises Ronceuals R, HILLQUIT, National Chairman of the Socialist Party debated the other day with Senator Robinson, the ma- jority leader in the Senate. - Ostensibly Mr. Hillduit was attacking the Democratic Party. However his attack on the Democratic Party also contained praise for Roosevelt. The New York Times of March 20 reports “while he conceded that the Democratic Party under the leadership of President Roosevelt had a broader social vision and a more progressive outlook than the Republican Party had now or when under the leadership of Herbert Hoover. Mr. Hillquit denied that the Democrats hold out any substantial hope for the American people.” (Our emphasis). q First Mr. Hillquit places the Democratic Party as being less capitalist than the Republican Party. Here, he is help- ing the ruling class, to maintain the fiction of the two-party system. At the same time he praises highly the President for a “broader social vision and a more progressive outlook.” What does this broader social vision and progressive outlook consist of ?—Forced labor camps for the unemplyed; cuts in compensation for the Veterans; eviction of sick Veterans from Government hospitals; wage cuts for Federal employ- ees and the wiping out of life time savings of the small de- positors. It is this “social vision” which is highly com- mended by the “socialist” Hillquit. Of course, this approval is.covered by a layer of socialist phrases. * On March 15, Thomas and Hillquit paid a visit to the White House. Then they praised the President for “prompt action in averting a financial crisis and a disastrous increase im unemployment.” On March 19, Mr. Hillquit “forgets” Roosevelt’s economy hunger program and compliments him for his progressive outlook and broad social vision, The “socialism” of Hillquit and the progressivism of Roosevelt are the twins of the same capitalist offensive on the standard of living of the masses. ~ COMPROMISING ON BEER BILL WASHINGTON, March 20,—It is probable that the two houses of con- | gress Will agree on a compromise seer bill today. The house is de- manding-a bill permitting 3.2 per rent sleoholie content, while the Speaker of the House, ture, it will senate wants to cut it down to 3.05. Rainey, predicted final action sometime to- night or early tomorrow, when it will be ready for Roosevelt's signa- become operative 15 days after signing by the president, increase the New York quota to $15,000, this sum to be raised by April 1. New York thus follows the example set by the Pittsburgh District, which was the first to go over the top and increase its quota. The New York District of the Communist Party has issued an appeal, calling for speedy ac- tion in fulfilling the new quota. The appeal states: “The emergency great that we must no’ in the Daily Worker is so t stop at $12,000. This is not the time to point to other districts “We appeal to every ‘worker and every sym- pathetic organization to intensify their collection work so that an extra $3,000 is raised by April 1. We call on every Party member to take the lead. “COMMUNIST PARTY, NEW YORK DISTRICT. “District Organizer.” © * RECEIVED SUNDAY $1,414.03. TOTAL TO DATE $21,849.39. “C. A. Hathaway, . AND YESTERDAY ROOSEVELT SIGNS BILL 10 CUT THE VETS’ PAYMENTS WASHINGTON, March. 20.—Presi-~ dent Roosevelt today signed his Wall Street-dictated economy bill and thus set in motion the machinery that will rob the veterans and gov- ernment employes of nearly $600,- 000,000. ‘The bill gives Roosevelt dictatorial powers to reorganize veterans’ bene- fits by depriving about 400,000 dis- abled vets of all compensation and slashing the payments being made to the others. It also provides for cutting up to 15 per cent the wages of the 1,000,000 government employes, 350,000 of whom are earning only $1,000 a year or less. Under the leadership of the Vet- |erans’ National Liaison Committee and the Workers Ex-Servicemen’s League, veterans throughout the country are rallying their forces for a vigorous united front movement against the cuts. A mass march to Washington is being organized, the vets to assemble at the capital on | May 12 Full and immediate payment of the war veterans’ adjusted compen- sation certificates; no cut in the disability allowances; no discrimi- nation in hospitalization. New York District of NEW YORK.—The resignation of the members of the Emergency Work and Relief Administration follows di- rectly on the heels of the exposure of the Relief Administration pub- lished in the lost issue of the “Hun- ger Fighter,” official organ of the Unemployed Council of Greater New York. The full-page article in the “Hunger Fighter” proved that the administration of relief in New York is shot through with graft and cor- ruption. The “Hunger Fighter” cited individual instances of this corrup- tion, giving names, dates ‘and places. Not only are hundreds of Tam- many henchmen placed on relief lists to the exclusion of starving unem- ployed workers, the “Hunger Fight- er” showed, but these workers with their wives and children are allowed to die of starvation while thousands of dollars of relief money are spent to hire stool-pigeons and provocative agents among the unemployed. The Unemployed Council of Great- NEW YORK.—Answering the call of the Communist Party for a united front demonstration against the bloody fascist Hitler regime, the Needle Trades Workers Indus- trial Union in a statement today in the name of its thousands of members and sympathizers urges all needle trade unions, including Germans are forbidden to give in- formation to foreigners, so that no one dares to visit, telephane or write foreign correspondents. Telephones are tapped and the cafes and res- tuarants are full of spies and eaves- droppers. Barracks Everywhere Nazi barracks for storm detach- ment men have been established all over Berlin, to which those arrested are brought for torture. Seven Jews in the Frankfurter Allee district of the city were ordered to report to one of these barracks for question- ing. They were confronted with lev- eled revolvers and forced, under threats of death, to beat one an- other with clubs until several fell unconscious, The Paris “Liberte” prints the story of the American wife of a Ger- man Jew who has just fled to Paris with her baby. Five armed Nazis broke into their home at night, armed with clubs, and crying “Death to the Jews!” beat her hus- band unconscious, fracturing several of his ribs, She produced 2 pair ef - bloed- NAZI MURDER GANGS OPERATE BEHIND STRICT CENSORSHIP Fugitives Arrive in Paris With Stories of Torture, Clubbing, New Provocation Workers Union, the Amalgamated Clothing Workers Union, and all unorganized workers to join in the protest this Saturday, March 25, at 10:30 a.m, to mobilize at South and Whitehall streets at that time pre- paratory to marching on the Ger- man Consulate. | the International Ladies Garment PARIS, March 20.—Americans fleeing from Germany are arriving here every day. They state that the full truth about German terror and its im- plications cannot reach the outside world, except by stealth, because of the iron-clad Nazi censorship. All sources of information hostile to the Naris have been dried up by arrests, suppression of papers, and intimidation, © soaked pajamas and a blood-clotted club, which the Nazis left behind them, + One returning American has per- sonal knowledge of a Czech woman and her Jewish husband, who were attacked in the streets by the Nazis while returning to their home. The husband was dragged off a street- car, beaten and carried off. Nothing has been heard of him since. ‘The patrons of a Jewish restau- rant in Alexanderplatz were forced to run the gauntlet between two lines of Brown Shirts. They were smashed in the face and kicked with heavy boots; one of them having his face beaten into a pulp “until it looked like a beefsteak.” The Amer- ican said, “The brutes were evi- dently using brass knuckles.” LIEGNITZ, Germany, March 20—- Police made 337 arrests of Commu- nists “on suspicion of high treason” in extensive raids in Lower Silesia today. The raids followed the alleged discovery of Communist terroristic plans in the home of a Communist leader, Kuhnt, im the town of Sei- denberg. TAMMANY IN MOVE TO PLACE ALL RELIEF ON GRAFT BASIS Communist Party Ex- poses New Tactics of Tammany Govt. Members of Relief Committee Resign After Exposure in Last Issue of the “Hunger Fighter” er New York has issued a call to all the workers who have been fired from relief jobs, and to those who may be expected to be fired any day, to organize into committees of ac- tion to demand that the City govern- ment rehire every worker fired by the Emergency Work Bureau, and that |no city employees be discharged in order to make room for these relief workers, Ce gar NEW YORK.—The resignation of the members of the Emergency Work and Relief Administration was char- acterized last night by the New York District of the Communist Party as ® reflection of the corruption and graft prevalent in the administration of relief by the City Government, and as a move toward the placing of the entire relief apparatus in the hands of Tammany Hall, where the grait will be continued on an even larger scale. The statement of the Communist Party said, in part: “The resignation of the members of the Emergency Work and Relief Administration is further proof of the widespread corruption that char- acterizes the distribution of relief by the City government. The proposal by Mayor O’Brien that the relief apparatus be “centralized,” means that Tammany Hall will now be in complete control of the distribution of relief. Thus, instead of the re- signation of the members of the Emergency Work and Relief Admin- istration signifying that graft in the administration of relief will now be cut down, it means that graft will now exiend on 2 city-wide scale. “Tammany Hall now will do on s huge scale what it has been doing on a smaller scale. Instead of hun- dreds of Tatnmany henchmen and ward-heelers being placed on the “relief” lists, there will now be thou- sands. “Relief” will now be distrib- uted on the basis of loyalty to Tam- many Hall, not on the basis of need of the unemployed. The workers of New York must resist the move to place relief under the control of the corrupt Tammany Hall machine by organizing under the leadership of the Unemployed Councils. “In regards to the proposal of the Socialist City Affairs Committee that the administration of relief be put in the hands of a committee of five, to be comprised of two Democrats, one Republican, one Socialist and one Communist, the New York District of the Communist Party states that graft and corruption can be elimi- nated from the administration of re- lief only if the entire committee is comprised of workers elected by trade unions, block committees and neighborhood conventions, etc.” BOSS RACKETS OF ’33 A worker sent the ‘Daily’ the fol- lowing list of boss rackets of '33: ‘Technocracy, Inflation, Block Aid, I Have Shared, Popes’ Holy Year, Moratorium, Buy American, Beer for ‘Tax, Prosperity in 60 days (three years old), Stemp Out Want and Bank oo RED VOTE GROWS | IN WISCONSIN Triples Over) November in Kenosha MILWAUKEE, Wis., March 20.— The Communist vote in recent local elections in Kenosha and Oshkosh showed a decided increase over the number cast in the fall elections. In Kenosha the Communist candidates for Councilmen at large received three times as many votes as were cast last November for the Commun- ist ticket. In ‘the face of terror in- stigated by the Nash, American Brass Co. and Simmons Co. bosses and the denial of halls for meetings, Com- munist votes were cast in all pre- cincts. The highest number of votes received by a candidate was 3,300. Communists were on the ticket for the first time in Oshkosh. Fern Debbins, the Communist candidate for mayor, was a member of the So- cialist Party and its candidate for Mayor until recently when he left the Socialist Party, out of disgust with the tactics of sabotage against the struggles of the unemployed. Dobbins received 272 votes. The en- tire Communist vote in the city ; Showed an increase of 8 or 9 times over the presidential vote. Zangara Executed As Military Guards: Jail RAIFORD, Fia., March 20,—With the State Prison here guarded by squads of National Guardsmen, arm- ed with machine guns and stationed on building tops, Guiseppe Zangare, an enrolled Republican, who shot Mayor Cermak of Chicago in Miami, was electrocuted here this morning. ‘Zangara had attempted to shoot President Roosevelf and hit Cermak MACDONALD | WORKERS’ DUTY TO DEFEND USS Imperialists Prepare Their Attack LONDON, March 20.—The British Cabinet has decided to break off negotiations with the of a new trade treaty, Capt. Anthony Eden. Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs, declared in the House of Commons today. The Cabinet decision was moti- vated, he said, by the arrest of six British employees of the Metropoli- tan-Vickers Company in Moscow, charged with sabotage plots. Pre- liminary investigation in Moscow has already brought out evidence of the guilt of these British spies. But Eden didn’t mention that. Capt. Eden stated that Sir Es mond Oyey, British Ambassador in Moscow, had made “urgent repre- sentations, emphasizing that Anglo- Soviet relations would sufier unless the prisoners were liberated The Under-Secretary also said that the British Ambassador had been instructed to demand that the British prisoners be granted British legal advisors, which the Soviet government has refused. Don’t Want Trial Without waiting for the orderly charged with the destruction of tur- bines that the Soviet government was paying them to erect, the Tory Cabinet demands that the case be taken out of the hands of the regu lar Soviet judicial authorities. Die-hard members of the British Parliament are already renewing their cry for the complete rupture of ciplomatic relations with the So- viet Union. The British government is en- deavoring to make use of the Vick~ ers sabotage case to prepare domes-~- tic public opinion for an active an- ti-Soviet foreign policy. The cloud Jof war thickens over Europe. It is the highest duty of the workers of America to DEFEND THE SOVIET instead. | UNION! CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., March 20. —For the third time in a major case involving frame-up of Negroes, the International Labor Defense will go into gourt next week to challenge the right of the white ruling class of the south to exclude Negroes from juries. When the Scottsvoro case is called, whether on March 27 in the lynch town of Decatur, or in Birmingham, as the defense is demanding, wit- nesses will be called to support a motion to quash the indictment against the nine innocent Negro boys on the ground that Negroes were il- legally excluded from the grand jury which handed down the indictments, and are systematically excluded from all juries in Alabama, On similar grounds, the Euel Lee (Orphan Jones) lynch verdict was reversed by the State Supreme Court of Maryland, when the jury system of that state was challenged by the I. LD. Similar basis for dismissing the case of Angelo Herndon was brought forward in a writ of habeas corpus last December, and though defeated in a technicality, the raising of the issue forced the court to lower Hern- Scottsboro Defense to on Right of Negroes to jmitting his release pending trial. The LL.D. is goniinuing its fight to re- verse his conviction on this as weil as other grounds. No Negro Witnesses Twenty Negro residents of Ala- bama, qualified for service on the Grand Jury, will be subpoenaed by the ‘LL.D. to prove its contention in the Scottsboro case, and one white man, formeriy a resident of Jackson county, now living in Chattanooza, Tenn., will testify that to his know- ledge no Negroes have ever been call- ed to serve on any juries in Jackson county. Attorney General Thomas E. Knight, Jr., of Alabama, will fight to the bitter end against any move to force the calling of Negro jurors, he has announced. His contention will be, according to statements he has made to newspapermen, that Negroes are not excluded because of their col- or, but because they are not “persons of sound judgment.” eee: Responding to Plea NEW YORK.—Working class or- ganizations all over the country are responding to the call of William L. don’s bail from $26.000. to $2.50. ver- Patterson, national se@retery of the Soviet Union for the signing , ROME, March- 20. — Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald left for Paris today, after an- nouncing to the press that Great Britain and Italy had agreed on the formation of a Four Power Treaty including France, Ger many, Italy and Great Britain “te establish peace in Europe for at lea one generation.” The United States, I be invited to st perhaps join in an advi MacDonald added, omit any power we should lutely beaten.” It Premier Daladier Chancellor Adoloh Hitler will join Mac Donald and Mu in an extended conference in Hlutely beaten.” It is reported that ern. Italy. Mussolini told the Fascist Com | mercial Federation shortly before MacDonald left Rome that “Fascist wisdom was the only solution for al | present ills. All Europe would be | Fascist within a decade PARIS, Mar. 20.—Prime nister MacDonald is due in Paris tomorrow, jaccompanied by Sir John Simon, |British Foreign Minister, to confer with Premier Daladier and Foreign |Minister Paul-Boncour. | It is unofficialy indicated demand more ex' |France will \security pledges from in return for concessio1 and Germany. The pro |Power Bloc, they state, obviously in- volves revision of the Peace T of Versailles and Trianon |could only be done at the expense o France and its allies. which Capitalist Europe is sharply divided into two camps—the nations that gained territory or military import jance as a result of the Versailles and Trianon treaties, and those that were defeated in the war and lost terri- tory. The proposed Four-Power Pact represents an endeavor to set up an Anglo-Italian-German bloc opposing France and the Little Entente group. It is significant in this connection that the very instant that MacDonald announces his agreement with Mus- solint is chosen by the British Gov- jernment to break off trade negotia- tions with the Soviet Union. All these negotiations, including the proposed Pact, are paving the road for a Capitalist front against the Soviet Union. No better proof of this @an be offered than the inclu- | Sion of Adolf Hitler's terrorist gov- ernment in the new Holy Alliance. Call Witnesses Jury Service International Labor Defense, to rouse mass action of millions of workers in defense of the Scottsboro boys, and to demand a change of venue from the lynch-town of Decatur to Bir~ mingham. In response to his telegram of Sa- turday, dozens of organizations Sa turday night and Sunday sent wires to Governor B. M. Miller, at Mont- gomery, voicing this demand. Among those who reported sending wires and protests are the Workers’ Ex-Service- men’s League, the International Workers’ Order, the National Com- mittee for the Defense of Political Prisoners, and the John Reed Clubs of the country. Additional hundreds of wires were sent from the Paris- Commune-Scottsboro meetings held all over the country Saturday night, and from the branah meetings of the I. L. D, which have been held during the past week. Letters are pouring in to the offices of the Scottsboro New Trial Emer- gency Fund, in response to letters enclosing sheets of Scottsboro stamps, and asking for protest wires and let~ ters. Many of these come from indi~ viduals who have never before been involved in ane working class actividy,