The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 27, 1933, Page 1

{ EDITORIALS | A Victory--Continued Fight Alone Can Free Tom Mooney SECOND TRIAL for Tom Mooney! This is a victory for the working class of the United States and of the whole world that should spur on to action the fight everywhere against capitalist terror and capital- ist class justice. | It was the world-wide roar of working class indignation and the militant action of the working class of old Russia when the proletarian revolution was coproaching with tem- | pestuous speed, that rescued Tom Mooney from death on the gallows to which he was sentenced by the agents of the public utilities trust of California. | Now, after seventeen years of struggle to set Mooney free, the ruling class has been compelled to reopen the case —to grant a second trial. This decision has been precipitated by the united front movement which is preparing the gigantic “Free Tom Mooney Congress” which meets in Chicago on_ April 30 te May 2. At no time since this frame-up in 1916 was perpetrated has the struggle to free Tom Mooney been relaxed for a sin- gle day. But the latest phases of the struggle during the past few years has seen this case become a part of all the mass | struggles against hunger and wage-cuts, for Negro libera- tion, for the fight against deportation of foreign-born work- ers. Tom Mooney has become the symbol of working class martyrdom. All over the world the agents of American im- perialism have been pilloried as the murderers of Sacco and Vanzetti, as the jailers of Tom Mooney, as the lynch con- spirators of the Scottsboro boys. f bas prosecutors of the state of California will enter this second trial without the faintest hope of beiug able to secure a conviction for the simple reason t their per- jured evidence of the first trial is known all the world. | This is indicated by the action of the San F -ancisco district | attorney, Matthew A. Brady, who demonstratively an- nounced that he would not handle the prosecution on the | ground that the second Mooney trial would be a “make- believe affair.” Yet, in spite of this, the laws of California decree that this second trial will have no legal bearing upon the life sentence Mooney is now serving. This partial victory consists in the fact that again, this time in one of California’s own courts, the innocence of Mooney will be proved, However, we must never forget that no greater harm could come to Mooney and the cause of the working class than to yield to legalistic illusions that Cali- fornia’s ruling class will release Mooney when he is proved innocent in court. HE final action in the Mooney case rests with the working class. It was mass action that saved Mooney from the gallows. It was mass action that forced a second trial. This partial victory must spur on to more determined action the working class of this country and the world to force open the doors ef'San Quentin and place Tom Mooney again in the fighting ranks of the proletariat from which he was snatched as the victim of capitalist vengeance. In every working class organization this issue should again be raised. The call for the Tom Mooney conference at Chicago must meet with such response that the California frame-up gang and the whole ruling clase will know that they must free Tom Mooney. Socialist Chiefs Declare for Peace With Hitler ‘The editor of the Central Organ of the German Social- Democratic Party, the Vorwaerts, declared after the Reichs- tag elections: “We recognire i has tao Deal cod demeammtie HUE be vile ts Germany. "Wo hove xt expect that he will rule im accordance with the laws of democratic SS cectaryeums concn ae aoa Sore Wik seamnae the Povlunt the yood mame of Germany shall not bo harmed im foreign countries.” Hitler has the democratic right to rule in Germany! This from the mouth of German Social-Democracy! Those who called upon the workers to vote for Hindenburg as the great democrat, are telling the workers now that in the name of democracy they must support Hitler. What cynical treachery! Why, even the liberal capitalist paper, the “Ber- liner Tageblatt” on the day before the Reichstag election de- clared that “millions of the German electorate, a great part of the nation, is in this election campaign, doomed to silence”. But the editor of the leading socialist paper in Germany wives his democratic blessing to the fascist rule of Hitler. The socialist editor pledges to Hitler that “he will do nothing to harm abroad the good name of Hitler”. Let the workers throughout the world stand by in silence at the news of the fascist terror in Germany. Such is the “inter- nationalism of the social-fascist leaders. Goehring is aroused over the fact that the “honor” of Germany, the honor of fascism is stained in Europe. And Mr. Stampfer joins him in that. The treachery of the responsible editor of the Vor- waerts does not stand alone. Eight of the 17 socialist leaders of the Brunswick State Diet resigned from it as well as from the Socialist Party. The reason for it is that “they had no desire to stand in the way of the National Revolu- tion” A National Revolution of the Fascist brand which consolidated the open rule of thé capitalist dictatorship in Germany. Only a few months ago the German Vorwaerts, and the leaders of the German social-democracy, were shouting “general strike” in case Hitler came into power. They even called for a united front with the Communists in the event Free Class-War Prisoners! The Daily Worker is of vital importance in rallying the masses of America to the defense of Tom Mooney, the Scotits- boro boys and all elass-wer prisoners. Keep it alive Dail Central Org — te ee or e-Cominynist Party U.S.A. (Section of the Commennist International) “Vol. X, No. 78 qgpatnt eso matter at the Port Office. jer the Act of Marck 3, 1879. ‘EW YORK, MONDAY, “MARCH 2, 1933 _ Fight; CITY EDITION No Time Must Be Lost! The “Daily” press is on the verge of col« lapse! Only your im- mediate financial aupport can save itl Contribute dollars, half dollars, today! Let’s not miaz a single issue! Price 3 Cents Second Malas Trial Is Won by Mass Scottsboro Boys’ Case Opens Today GREEN APPROVES LABOR CAMP BILL, $1A DAY PAY AFL Chief Stipulates It Must Be Called “Cash Allowance” McARTHUR IN CHARGE Army Will Recruit and “Train” Jobless Part of the speech of Herbert Benjamin, national organizer of the Unemployed Councils is printed on | Page 3. Benjamin addressed the icint committee of both houses of congress and spoke against the Roosevelt forced labor plan. He was not allowed to finish his remarks. WASHINGTON, March 26. — Wil- liam Green, president of the Ameri- can Federation of Labor, has approv- ed the Roosevelt-Robinson-Wagner forced labor bill, which is designed to herd into tent colonies, under a prison-military regime, 250,000 unem- ployed workers under the pretense of a relief measure. Green’s approval followed an am- endment to the bill as originally pro- posed, striking out that clause speci- fying that one dollar a day shall be paid, and substituting a statement organize and ray tne men as he sees fit. Roose: 2it can now declare the $1 a day wage, with Green’s approval. Roosevelt. has already stated he “is not impressed with” any arguments against the $1 a day wage. Green, Aids Forced Labor Pint. This comes after the gesture of Green and the Executive Council of the A.F.L. at the Cincinnati Conven- tion in favor of what they called— “State Unemployment Insurance.” The testimony of Green before the joint senate and house labor commit- tees, was only for the purpcese of try- ing to deceive the workers into be- lieving that the amendments to the bill eliminated labor's principle objec- tions. Green “opposed” the $1 a day wage in his testimony before the joint legislative committees, but now de- | clares $1 a day is all right if called “cash allowance” instead of wages. General McArthar in Charge General Douglas McArthur, chief of staff of the United States army, told the committee that, under the plan, the army would recruit the workers, examine them physically, provide them with clothing (uniform prison garb) and give them preliminary training. Demand Relief and Insurance The growing numbers of workers that are being involved in the strug- gle against the bill are more insist- ently demanding that the whole pro- ject be definitely stopped and that the government, instead of such vici- ous conspiracies against the working class in its efforts to keep from granting immediate relief and unem- ployment insurance, be compelled to grant the demands of the National Unemployed Councils as expressed in the bill presented last December by the hunger marchers. Socialist Leaders Refuse to Unite Against Pogroms Call Own Conference to Split Fight on Terror NEW YORK.—The answer of the leaders of the Socialist Party and organizations around it to the invi- tation of the Provisional Committee Against Jewish Pogroms and Against Fascism in Germany to a/preliminary broad united front discussion con- ference tomorrow, has been to hur- riedly call a separate conference. The Provisional Committee sent the invitation Thursday, on Friday their appeared in the Jewish Forward, a socialist paper, an announcement. that after a hurried parley among “labor leaders” a conference had been called on the question of Ger- Hitler would come into power. But is it not clear that these were phrases, gestures to prevent the growing united strug- gles on the part of the Communist and social-democratic workers against fascism? We ask Norman Thomas, Hillquit, O’Neil and the other leaders of the American Socialist Party, where do you stand on the cooperation and agreement of the social-democratic leaders of Germany with the fascist dictatorship? many. Reports coming in from all over the country disclose that in every case where a united front pro- gram was presented to put up a mili- tant mass against the progroms in Germany and the instigator fascism, the leaders of the Socialist sided with the Jewish bourgeoisie leaders of the Jewish Congress against these proposals. that the president is authorized to} | | present situation. as follows: the need of the hour. is to be saved. Rally all forces. and send contributions without delay. 1 (Boston), $100; 2 (New York), $1,500; $200; 4 (Buffalo), $100; 5 (Pittsburgh), $100; 6 (Cleveland), $300: 7 (Detroit), $400; 8 (Chicago), $400; 14 (New Jersey), $200; (New Haven), $100. These quotas must be raised during the next few days if the press Collect from every available source Action from every $321.07; Emergency Quotas Set to Save “Daily” Press, TRE Emergency Committee of the Bdten! Committee to Save the Daily Worker has told you of the dangerous condition of the “Daily's” press, which may collapse at any moment. Since the first appeal to save the press was i ceived the following amounts: Thursday, Saturday, $280.20, These sums are dangerously inadequate in have re- $416.31; the ssued we Friday, 1 order to raise $3,500 during the next few days to repair the press, we have established emergency quotas for the ten leading districts, By oO (Philadelphia), 15 reader is DAILY WORKER MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE. RECEIVED SATURDAY $280.20 Rush funds to the Daily Worker, 50 E. 13th St., New York shade TOTAL TO DATE $24,504.17 Massed Against Fascism Part of the thousands of workers, veterans, professional people and small business men of New York be- fore the German Consulate raising their slogans demanding an end to pogroms and fascism in Germany. | placards with slogans such as “Down: with Fascism!” _ “Hitler is the Ex- ecutioner of Militant Workers, Intel- Jectuals and Jews,” “Long Live the Revolutionary Struggle of the Ger- man Proletariat!” waved through the air, A delegation of 24 representatives of various organizations went in to see the German consul, Dr. Paul Schwartz, and compelled him to listen to a resolution which.asked categori- cal questions concerning the fate of the leaders of the German working- class who have been imprisoned by the Hitler regime. Fred Biedenkapp, chairman of the delegation, read the resolution, and speeches were also made by R. Saltzman, secretary of the International Workers Order, and James W. Ford, who spoke in the name of the Negro masses. While their delegation was thrust- ing a police guard aside and the frightened envoy of the murderous Hitler, General Consul Schwartz, shouted at them through a locked door, 20,000 New York workers. thin- dered their protest against the Hin- denburg-Hitler regime. ‘Thousands of the demonstrators too impoverished to pay fare, went through the subway turnstiles with- out paying. One Brooklyn group made a state trooper retreat when he tried to drive them off the train. ‘The motorman and conductors of the train refused to side with the trooper in the company's defense. The group were mostly Negro women workers. Denounce Fascism The demonstrators assembled at (Continued on Page Three) 20,000 in Demonstration Against German Fascism, Great Protest Meet Scores Nazi Terror; Thou- sands March to Union Square NEW YORK.—In one of the most impressive demonstrations ever held here, thousands of workers, intellectuals, veterans, and small businessmen demonstrated Saturday at the Germsn consulate and through the streets of New York against the Hitler terror and demanded the immediate re- lease of all the victims of the fascist regime. sully 10,000 roared their protest at the German consulate. A forest the Minor, In Wire, Calls | for Greater Efforts for ‘Mooney Congress’ | A telegram hailing the victory in| winning ® second trial for Tom Moo- ney and calling for wider efforts to build the “Free Mooney Congress” by greater united front activity, has been received from Robert Minor, now on tour. Minor, who plunged into the Moo- ney defense fight back in 1916, spoke last Sunday in San Francisco at a united front meet for Mooney at- tended by 15,000 workers. Minor's wire follows: “The forced re-opening of the Mooney case is the biggest, most sensational victory of the mass movement and a direct result of the hunger marches, wage struggles plus the present widening movement arainst political repressions, esveci- ally the preparations for the ‘Free Mooney Congress’, and the Scotts- boro campaign. Ten times greater and bolder efforts must be made now. The Chicago Mooney Con- gress must develop into a bigger, broader united front movement in the syirit of the manifesto of the Communist International. ‘Free Mooney’ groups must be built in every union and workingclass or- ganization. The fight to free Moo- ney is the fight for bread and free- dom for the working class. ROBERT MINOR.” SUBSCRIBE yourself fellow workers \to rea Worker. get your the Daily | | | |ry @ complete LANGER DEAD AS RESULT OF BOMB. Murdered Communist’s | Funeral Tuesday NEWARK, March 26.—Morris Lan- ger died here last night as a result| of the bomb attack on him by strike- breaking thugs of the A. H. Hollan- Ger, J. Hollander and Philip Singer fur shops last Wednesday morning. ‘The militant strike leader died after the amputation of his leg and after desperate attempts by two professors| and workers standing in line for | blood transfusions to save his life. ‘The death of Langer comes as the} fourth brutal murder, with a num-| ber of workers crippled, instigated by the fur bosses of Newark under the | leadership of the Hollander firms. Chatham, New Jersey, police ar. rested Jack Schulman, scab agent of | | Phillip Singer and A. H. Hollander} factories, late Saturday on informa~ tion from Langer and his wife. Lan- ger also identified another of his three assailants just before he died. After a protest demonstration in Military Park here at 5 p.m. tomor- row, workers will march to the New~ ark Strike Headquarters, 347 Spring- field Ave., to view the body. At 8 p. m. tdfiight the dead leader will lie in state at the headquarters) of the Needle Trades Workers’ In- dustrial Union, 131 W. 28th St., ih New York, until Tuesday morning. Strikers of the Hollander and Singer shop, members of the Needle Trades Workers’ Industrial Union and_ of revolutionary organizations, the Communist Party, will stand as a guard of honor around their mur- dered leader. A mass funeral and demonstration will leave the N, T. W. I. U. head~ quarters at 12 noon Tuesday and march through the garment district. Langer was a member of the Com- munist Party for 11 years. He was the Party's candidate for Congress from Newark in the last election. Tomorrow's Daily Worker will car- story of the militant Morris Langer in the working truggles 0} “ranks of the luding |). ‘UNITED FRONT MOONEY CONGRESS | | By United IN CHICAGO, APRIL 30, IS VITAL TO RELEASE OF LABOR PRISONER | Trial Date Set for April 26; ‘Second bX | ction of W orkers Courtroom Ficrht Made by io, A. Gallagher, California LL.D. Attorney SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., M Defense and the Tom bor The legal victory follows | Seventeen years of ceasele activity and mass protest, the most recent actions being a huge | united front mass conference in thi city as part of the scores of me ing held throughout the United | States in preparation for the Mooney Conaress, to be held in Chi- cavo Anril 30. The San Francisco meeting, held last Sunday in Civic Auditorium, was the support of a I |F. of L. local unic nizations and other workers’ groups. to Mooney was made by Superior udge Louis H. Ward, who set the ¢ April 26 when the famous prisor will be tried on the indictments 1916 frame-up. indict: i resulted in h and sentence to death, later com- muted to life imprisonment as a re- sult of international workingelass pro- | test. | Will Expose Perjuries Again The defense had demanded trial | on the second untried indictment in order to provide an opportunity to expose the perjuries in the original trial, and at the same time to pre- sent a mass of new evidence which has torn to shreds the frameup case against Mooney and Billings. While the granting of the new trial is a victory and a vindication of the | mass pressure tactics of the defense, acquittal of Mooney at the forthcom- ing trial will not automatically free him. Under the California Inw his status remains the same even upon acquittal, and only the widest and | most intenstve mass protest will make it possible to foree Governor Rolph to free him. Last May Gov. Rolph declared that labor second of two from the onviction | | International Labor Defense and the Tom Mooney Molders Defense Com- mittee proceeded to intensify its mass activities, never for one moment yielding its demand for the complete and unconditional release of Mooney | and Billings. District Attorney Matthew A. Brady objected violently to the move for a new trial and after the decision in favor of the defense he announced his withdrawal from the case. Judge Ward stated that he would ask.the State Atiorney General's office to | take over the prosecution. 100 Defense Witnesses. Gallagher, I.L.D. attorney, said that he is ordering 100 subpoenas for the defense and challenged the Attorney General to appoint Matt L. Sullivan, prosecutors. Sullivan, a former justice of state Supreme Court hi long time an “advisor” to Gov. Rolph and took a leadin) last year in preparing the which | the governor ir jtefusing the 4 the Pickert wes “thi district San Fra: saad who conducted erests of California time and agajn j during the past seventeen years. Perjurers Have Confessed. | In fighting the move for the new | trial, Brady based himself on the plea | that all of the prosecution witnesses | are either dead or missing, and that |it would be a “make-believe” trial Other considerations which undoubt- edly moved Brady were, of course, the fact that practi y all of the pro- have either com- d their testimeny or nd that jor nrors in jthe original fr D trial have gone on record as stating that Moo- ney is innocent. Long hated by the California bos- ses and particularly the utility inter- ests for his militant activities and his incorruptibility as a fighting trade unionist, Mooney framed up and charged with having set the bomb which killed 10 people and injured 40, Warren K. Billings arrested at the same time, was sent to Folsom prison for life He was ' | sentenced to be hanged, arch 26,— Mooney through its Attorney Leo A. Gallagher, nd for a new trial for Tom Mooney, Quentin prison, the victim of a frame-up, since Tom | attended by 15,000 workers and nad | rge number of A. | fraternal orga- | The decision to grant the new trial | “the Mooney case is closed,” but the | Charles Fickert and Edwin Cunna as | as been for a} Molder serving life in San 1916 a : ‘SCOTTSBORO CASE ASE OPENS TODAY IN DECATUR “| Defense Lawyers First Private Interview Tn | _ BIRMINGHAM, Ala. With hundreds turned than 1,000 jammed the F gregational Church ing here today ; Committee on the Scottsboro Case. | DECATUR,:Ala., 1 mand that the Scc will be moved from ham will be the f fense attorneys when here tomorrow, attor: ternational Labor De today. The defense will then make a tion to quash the in ground that Negroe: gible for jury ser on the grand j the indictments | Negro boys. ‘This will be in the f liminary heari trial begins—w jury and the taking The boys will not be bi from the jail until th tion of the jury be; Just how long the in bringing to De widespread Negroes from Jackson Ci are being called by the testify. Some of these wit |take the stand and swea spite the fact that t | holders and property o' sess other qualifications r om law, the Alabama |nmever been c |the grand or pi | Negtoee comp! populat: that e “third of “the ion ot. "yackson County, | BIRMINGHAM Ala., March 26— | Lawyers for the International Labor | Defense today held their first pri- vate interview with the Scottsboro boys, exactly two years—to a day— after they were arrested on a framed~ “rape” charge } up | The boys, peaked and thin from |the long months of imprisonment, filed into the b. lon nt- ing, etc.) room repared e interview. For four whole rs, in the presence of the writer, each their boy in i up and knife stabs and Scalp inflicted wi ments. The Negro boy detafied ‘descript: | Scottsboro, Adrsden jo . | th ‘that we would burn in the electric chair in ninety days if we didn’t drop the I. L. D, and take up with the N. A. A. C. P. (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People), but w innocent, and the I friend. and fourth Continuous eff to get them to turn sta against each other, torneys were told. but tremend test_of the of President Wil n to mobilize or- ganized labor behind the imperialist war and keep Russia in the conflict, vrompted Wilson to “urge upon” the then governor of California to com- mute Mooney'’s death sentence to life imprisonment SHALL 250,000 JOBLESS BE DRIVEN INTO LABOR CAMPS UNDER GENERAL McARTHUR WHO ORDERED THE SABERING AND SHOOTING OF THE WAR VETERANS ASKING BACK PAY? —aaaaAtaA iNet AL