The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 22, 1933, Page 1

Editorials | A Military Starvation Program for Jobless “Forgetting” his pledges to the unemployed, Roosevelt comes forward in support of proposals of the so-called “‘pro- gressives” in the United States senate—Wagner, Costigan, LaFollette, and of the “liberal” lady secretary of labor, Perkins. With this “front”, Roosevelt hopes to hypnotize tine workers into believing that he has not forgotten the “forgotten man”. These proposals are: An appropriation of $500,000,000 for the establishment of military camps to institute forced labor on the part of men now receiving relief. These men will receive their board and Icdging and no more than $1 a day, which will be used for the maintenance of their families. That Roosevelt intends to establish forced labor camps on a military basis is frankly admitted by the capitalist press. For instance the March 12 issue of the Philadelphia Public Ledger states: “The broad scale Roosevelt plan which contem- plates jobs and not doles carries provision for a vast recruiting of the idle in the unemployed camps by the Army ... A separate set up for the administration of it may be arranged by the regrouping of involved agencies now in the Departments of War, Labor, Agri- culture and Interior.” (Our emphasis.) It is clear that the unemployment relief proposals of Roosevelt are in effect military proposals. The camps will be organized by the War Department and be directed by military officers. This process once begun will embrace a large section of the unemployed and furnish the government with a large, well organized, drilled army for war at short notice. A further appropriation of $500,000,000 to the Recon- struction Finance Corporation for “loans” to the states is proposed. The R.F.C. which received appropriations of $600,000,- 000, has released, last year, only $200,000,000 for relief. But it has “loaned” $1,700,000,000 to the big banks and railroads, in addition to the further appropriations made by congress since the bank holiday. This shows clearly that the workers will gain nothing from ,this proposal, but it will lessen the burdens on the rich taxpayers, who are de- manding tax reductions—which are being granted. This is in agreement with Wall Street. An appropriation of $1,000,000,000 for “useful and necessary public works’—which, however will be “ex- tended oyer a period of years”, is another scheme. This is a bait to make the unemployed “forget” their hunger and the starvation of their children—and will cost Wall Street not one penny. What kind of public works is the Roosevelt administra- tion planning? Are they to be public works to tear down the slums, build sanitary apartment houses for the workers, hospitals, playgrounds, etc? Certainly not! These are “public works” to be directed by army engineers for mili- tary war purposes. Senator Wagner proposes in addition the five day week —_of course with reduction in pay; and the “creation of systems of unemployment insurance and wage reserves.” This clearly is a result of the exposure of Roosevelt’s fake unemployment “insurance” schemes introduced in several states, which are nothing but unemployment “reserves” pro- posals. This bill is not intended to pass cong.vss. In the words of the “liberal-humanitarian” Governor Lehman, “further burdens to be placed on the employers till conditions improve” make it impossible to grant unemployment insur- ance. The 17,000,000 unemployed should remember that up to date no action has been taken in their behalf. All of Roosevelt’s steps have been in support of the big bankers, against the government employees and veterans. The demand for unemployment relief and unemploy- ment insurance NOW must be raised in every working class organization. The building of the United Front led by the militant Unemployed Councils must be effected at once. Sweep aside any who oppose this unity as enemies of the working class. In every neighborhood, union, club, fraternal lodge, church, lods,"..* house, form unemployed committees. The struggle against hunger, for bread, for the right to live must FORCE the Roosevelt-Wall Street government ‘to meet the demands of the workers. An Indirect Tribute to Marx HE fiftieth anniversary of the death of Marx finds Marxism a tremendous living reality in the Soviet Union, in the Soviets of China, and in the Communist Parties of the world. Under such circumstances, the capitalist press can not easily disregard this momentous anniversary. Therefore, all the little bourgeois “experts,” and Marxian revisionist experts with a radical label, are hunted up and the world is treated to a display of dense ignorance and learned’ cunning. An editorial in the New York Sun is typical. “Marx has attracted more followers who never read or understood him than any other writer who ever lived,” writes this learned Marxian scholar. ~ Marx is read and understood by hundreds of millions of workers all over the world. His works have been trans- lated into every civilized language. Marxism is not some difficult theory hatched out of an individual's head, which is intelligible only to bourgeois professcrs, Why is it that the masses, “who have never read Marx,” have understood him so well. It is because Marxism is the expression of the most vital everyday needs of the workers, needs which are a direct result of the position of the work- ers in capitalist society. “When an idea seizes the masses it becomes power,” wrote Marx. Marxism has become power. It will be hard to find a brighter gem of ignorance than the statement that Marx “understood nothing of joint-stock companies, labor unions, etc.” For it is Marx who set down in “Capital” once and for all the innermost workings of the entire capitalist system. Today mure than ever Marx’s analysis of'capitalism has been brilliantly confirmed in every single. respect... : Of course, it is easy to understand the source of these tirades. They are rooted in fear. “The proletarian ocean” of which Marx wrote, is rising. Surely and inevitably it is overwhelming the tottering structure of capitalism, and with it all such scribblers as the Marx “expert” of the N. Y. Sun. Do Your Share! Don’t delay! The working class needs the Daily Worker to lead its struggles, now more than ever before. Do YOUR share! ail Org Central (Section of the Communist International ) orker comypynist Party U.S.A. Vol. X_ No. 69 qup'ngee vealn far aoe ae NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 22, 1933 ROOSEVELTS MESSAGE FOR FORCED WORK Would Herd 250,000 Jobless Into the Military Camps | NO ACTUAL RELIEF | Says It’s “Good for Their Morals” WASHINGT March 21—Sen- ator Joseph T. Robinson, and Sen- ator Wagner, introduced today a bill along the lines of the Roosevelt message. They specifically propose forced labor camps under military rule, with barracks living snd a wage of $30 « month. In case the men have dependents the govern- ment will take any part of the $30 it sees fit and turn it over toe such dependents. . Soe WASHINGTON, March 21. In his message to congress to- day Roosevelt definitely came out advocating the herding of some 250,000 unemployed men and youth into forced labor camps under military regulations. He pro- posed a program that he called a “direct attack” on the unemployment problem. The program is as follows: (1) The establishment of the of- fice of federal relief administrators; (2) Enroliment of workers tor quigk public employment; (3.) Grants to states for work; (4.) Creation of a broad public works labor program. Speaker of the House Henry T. | Rainey referred the message to the |congress labor committee, where it will be ready for reporting back to the house in a short time. Doesn’t Touch Jobless Problem. ‘The bill calls specifically for a fed- eral “relief” dictator who shall sup- ervise the creation of what is called a “civilian conservation corps” com- posed of unemployed conscripted at hunger rations for work in the for- est preserves, on the river levees to “control floods” and similar projects. It also provides for grants to indi- vidual states for “public works,” un- der the control of the federal relief dictator who shall “scan requests for grants and check the wisdom and ef- ficiency of their use.” It is estimated that when the whole plan is in full operation it will result in taking into forced labor camps some 250,000 men and youth, many of whom will take j the places of federal employees who are being laid off. The balance of the tens of millions of toiling masses facing hunger will not be affected at all by the “plan.” Beat Down All Wages. This work is to be carried out un- der the control and direction of the existing machinery of the depart- ments of war, interior, ‘labor and ag- rieulture. It is certain that tens of thousands of federal employees who are now engaged in forestry, agri- culture and flood control work will be laid off and their places taken by unemployed workers driven to fc. labor. | Roosevelt adds insult to injury by; admitting that the material gains to’ |the unemployed will be slight, and! 4 res: “More important, how- than the material gains will be the moral and spiritual value of such work. We can eliminate to some ex- tent at least, the threat that enforced idleness brings te spiritual and moral stability.” relief Stalin on Collective Farms in U.S.S.R. in Daily’ on Saturday “Is the Way of the Collective Farms the Correct One?” This is the subject of the speech delivered in Moscow by Joseph Stalin, Secretary of the Commun- ist Party of the Soviet Union, on the last day of the Congress of the Collective Farm Shock-Brig- ades, on February 19. The speech in full as transmit~ ted by special correspondence from Moscow will appear in the Daily Worker this Saturday, March 25. It will be illustrated with recent, striking photographs showing the life and progress on the giant col- lective farms of the Soviet Union. The same issue of the “Daily” Worker drive. most of the districts. tricts. raised. about ten hours. drive. important. slumped in our section.” Daily Workev. orker Exposes Neglect of Drive; Need Action Now! HE New York and Pittsburgh districts have gone over the top in the Daily New York has also increased its quota $3,000 and Pittsburgh $150. This is an example for all districts to follow. the others are down in the rut? The Daily Worker has received a letter from J. A. Rinis, a worker in Wash- ington, D. C., that throws some light on the real reason for the poor work of He writes: “Our district, 3 (Philadelphia), has the lowest percentage of the large dis- Why is it? I want to explain here that money for the ‘Daily’ could be But why is it that most of “Three weeks ago Comrade Colodny, representative of the Daily Worker National Office, and I collected in Washington $120 for the ‘Daily’. Outside cf this, nothing was done in the city for the ‘Daily’ is tock us “Up to date not one letter has been received from the district or section. Section and city organizers, in their fiery speeches before the Party membership, never mentioned the ‘Daily’ drive. “When an elected committee started to do the work of collecting funds, the city organizer ordered the comrades to stop the ‘Daily’ drive and instead collect funds for city work. The organizer argued that funds for city work are more It seems that the leading comrades see the ‘Daily’ drive as compe- tition in their Party work. This explains the reason why the ‘Daily’ drive IHESE are serious charges. They show that even leading members of the Communist Party have greatly under-estimated the critical situation of the The Philadelphia district, with a quota of $2,500, has raised only 83.8 percent of its total. The Chicago district, whose quota is $4,000, has fulfil- led only 37.6 percent; the Detroit district ($2,000 quota), where so many big struggles have recently taken place, only 35.6 percent, while C; i quota of $1,000, has contributed a mere 30.5 percent. RECEIVED YESTERDAY . . $958.55 ifornie, with a TOTAL TO DATE .. . $22,807.94 CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., March 21. —The International Labor Defense has not for one moment relaxed its fight for a change of venue in the Scottsboro trial to Birmingham, Ala., attorneys for the workers’ defense or- ganization anounced today. The trial is s@heduled to open in Decatur, 50° miles from Scottsboro, next Monday, March 27, but the I. L.D. is pushing its detaand that a change of venue be granted to Bir- mingham, where the prese: industrial population would ensu possibility of a less viciously preju- diced, Negro-hating jury as will un- doubtedly be the case in Decatur. Mass protests from every part of the country are pouring in to Gov- ernor B. M. Miller, at Montgomery, demanding that the venue be changed to Birmingham, where, the I. L. D. has pointed out, it will be more diffidult to organize lynch- NEW YORK, down with Reorganizing a Third of Banks; a Tenth Closed Others Do Business on Partial Basis; Many Biggest Firms Closed March 21.—The first spurt of bank re-opening has died than 30 per cent of the banks of the country still in the pro- | the case, cess of liquidation and reorganization. The remaining 70 per cent are oper- ating on a partial basis, with drastic restrictions as to withdrawals. Many Big Banks Still Closed. Ten per cent of the actual number of banks in the United States are still ‘@ closed. But this does not present a Needle Workers Demonstrate at “Work” Bureau NEW YORK. —A protest demon- stration against the firing of workers of the Emergency Work Bureau, call- ed by the Needle Trades Unemployed Council, will be held on Thursday at 3 p.m. in front of the headquarters, 23rd St. and Fourth Ave. Members of all industrial councils and trade unions are urged to participate. The council is raising the demand that all workers be kept on the job and that the city be forced to pay their relief until transferred simultaneously to another form of equal relief. Porat weer NEW YORK.— Conclusive proof that relief wages paid on jobs fur- nished to unemployed workers thru will contain a large amount of farmers’ correspondence the Emergency Work and Relief Bu- reau are driving the wage standards correct picture, because among these ere some of the biggest banks in the larger cities of the country. The large banking institutions of Detroit, Cleveland, Baltimore and Portland, Me., are closed tight. It is now clear that depositors stand to lose much more than the six billion dollars estimated as the maximum last week. From present indications as the liquidation of some 4,000 closed banks proceeds, the losses will be nearer the ten billion mark—almost one-fourth of the en- tire banking deposits of the United States. of those employed to the same or lower levels is revealed today in a statement by Virginia Musselman, head of the bureau's sewing shops. Employers are hiring women work- ers through the relief bureaus at re- Hef rates paying often as low as $2.16 for a six-day week. As little as 12 cents is being offered for a complete dress including the finishing. The} Emergency Work Bureau works hand | and glove with the employers in beat-| ing down the workers wages. Scottsboro Defense Pushes the Fight to Move Trial to Birmingham, Alabama Now Due to Begin in Decatur on Monday; Jury Officials Will Be Called to Stand; Negro Lads Not Y et Taken from Death Cells gangs to murder the nine innocent Negro boys. Jury commissioners, the Secretary of State, and others of the white court officials of Alabama will be put on the witness stand by tite I. L. D. to prove that Negroes have been sys- tematically and illegally excluded from jury service, when the trial, opens, it was announced. The white officials will be called by the defense in support of a motion to quash: the indic.ments against the nine boys on the grounds of exclu- sion of Negroes from the grand jury that handed them down. Twenty Negroes from Jackson and Morgan counties, qualified to serve on grand and petit juries, will also be called. Rumors of a maneuver by Attorney General Thomas F. Knight, Jr., to call Negroes on the petit-jury to try then “excuse them from service,” are current here. This would be a repetition of the move made in Atlanta, Ga., in the Herndon case, when, after the LL.D., raised the is- sue of Negro exclusion from the jury three or four Negro business-men were called, but not permitted to serve. The LL.D. will expose this maneuver, as it did in Atlanta, if it is attempted, it was announced, and will continue its fight for the right of Negroes to actually sit and serve on grand and petit juries. Knight himself, however, an- CITY EDITION WORKERS! DEMAND TO KNOW WHAT NAZI MURDERERS HAVE DONE TO THAELMANN! Ja Answer Today! Five dollars the Yugoslav Work ers of Eureka, Cat.; another $5 from the Baltimore Greek Workers’ Club. What are the other foreign« born workers’ organs izations doing? from Price 3 Cents IREICHSTAG GIVES HITLER POWER 10 BE DICTATOR FOR NEXT FOUR YEARS |Communists Barred From Chamber While the | Socialist Deputies Are Present Hindenburg Declares Fascist Murderers of Worke Amnesty for All the BULLETIN. NEW YORK. — Rumors are afloat here that Ernst Thaelmann, leader of the Communist Party of Germany, has been murdered in the Nazi prison. Workers! mann Send committees to the German consu Send wires to the consiilates! Demand to know what was done to Th BERLIN, March 21. — The new Reichstag, with none of the Communist deputies present, met in the Garrison Church in Potsdam early today to hear Hitler and President von Hin- workers’ organizations, who || Whitehall Streets at 10:00 A |of the new government and to triotic Germany. Later, at 5 P. M., the Reichs- tag convened in the Kroll Opera House in. Berlin, the provisional Reichstag Building, to elect Capt. Goering, Reich Minister of the In- terior, as President of the Reichstag, |and to receive the draft of a bill em- powering Hitler's Cabinet to rule dic- tatorially until April 1, 1937. Ends Parliamentarism. | | The bill deprives the Reichstag of| ail legislative functions, while the Cabinet can promulgate laws and de- crees outside of the usual Constitu- tional procedure, even dispensing with the signature of the President, von Hindenburg. There are five sections in the bill, one empowering the Cabinet to make |loans, approve the budget, and make Jaws without the Reichstag. Other sections provide that Hitler |may promuigate laws himself, which {upon publication in the Reichsan-| zeiger (Official Gazette) become law.| Constitution Partly Voided. All the sections of the Constitu- | tion governing the lawmaking power) are voided in so far as they limit! the authority of the Cabinet. For-| eign treaties are to be concluded solely by the Government, without! the Reichstag’s approval. In his opening speech, Goering said: “Today is the dawn of a new! era and the spirit of Potsdam is our guide.” | The capitalist press reports that the first motion introduced in the} new Reichstag was a Socialist mo-/| tion for the release of the impris-| oned Socialist deputies. No mention is made in this Socialist motion of| the arrests and torture of Communist deputies. The Reichstag then adjourned un- denburg invoke the spirit of Frederick the Great on be saviors of the re-awakened pa-* NEW YORK.—A powerful demonstration voicing the protests of the workers of New York against the bloody ascist terror in Germany will be held before the German Consulate this Saturday morning, March 25, by workers and will mobilize at South and . M. exchange compliments as “the Nazi poster in German elections shows hook-up beiween Hindenburg and Hitler, even while many were trying to deny it. til Thursday, 23, when the dictatorship bill will be passed President von Hind oday signed two emergency decrees im- mediately effective throughout Ger~ many. One grants full amr cist murderers for thei: “committed in th tional awakening’ The second provide: for the unauthorize ty uniforms and emb The “democratic” Weimar con- tion, which has been usel by Eb Bruening, Von Papen, and yon Schle cher in the past tatorial mea, ures against rman masses, now enabling Eitler, under the, cover of democratic, } forms, to f: en his fascist dictatorship upon Ger- many. NEW YORK.—At a mass meeting called by the Defense Committee of Painters’ Local, No, 499, the rank and file of the Brotherhood continued its | fight against the expulsion of 24 members from various local unions and the disruptive and corrupt practices of the union officials, and particularly nounced that he would fight the case | 0 District Councils No. 9 and No. 28. out on the ground that Negroes were not “persons of sound judgment.” Although Knight has been forced to consent to the removal of the boys from the death cells of Kilby Prison where they are illegally held, to Bir- mingham County Jail, where the at- torneys will have the first opportu- nity to talk to the boys without the supervision of armed guards, {this move has not yet been made. The | order must be signed by the sheriff of Jackson County, Judge Alfred E. Hawkins, who was master of cere- monies at the lynch-hearing in April 1931, and Judge James E. Horton of Decatur who plans to fill the same role in Decatur. So far, all these signatures have not been obtained. The trial itself, if it is held in De- catur, will probably start with the picking of the jury on Wednesday, March. 29, as the hearing on the mo- tion to quash will occupy at least two days. The trial itself is expected to last from three to four weeks. The present wave of expulsions after Louis Weinstock, Secretary of the A. F. of L. rank and file commit~ tee for “unemployment insurance, testified before the Senate Judiciary Sub-Committee last January against the Black bill, as nothing else but the extension of the share-the-work scheme, and introduced an amend- ment providing for the lowering of wages and a minimum wage. Local 499 Threatened In addition to Louis Weinstock, not only 23 other members of the Brotherhood have been expelled to date, but District Council 9 has al- ready forwarded a letter to Local 499 threatening them with drastic measures, unless they recognize the expulsion of their member, Louis Weinstock. Fight Expulsions At its special meeting held March 8th, Local 499 not only rejected the Council's letter, but took measures of militant rank and file members from the brotherhood began short] y Qa nnn to fight the unconstitutional expul- sion policy put into effect by the officials, They called a mass painters at the Irvin, za on Satur= day, March 11th, wh a resolution protesting the expulsion of the 24 members and calling upon all locals to rally in @efense of local 499, de- cloves, in part: This unlawful act of the District Council 9 has not been ratified by the membership of all local unions; in some local unions a vote has been prevented by arbitrary action of the presiding local union officers through adjourning and breaking off meet- ings.” Local 499 will call upon all other local unions to join hands to put an end to the wrecking and splitting policies of the District Council poll- ticlans, meeting of ROOSEVELT! IS FORCED LABOR IN CONCENTRATION CAMPS WHAT YOU PROMISED UNEMPLOYED? ! a