The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 4, 1933, Page 1

{ | i | | | EDITORIALS | Defending Surrender of German Social Democracy A leading American Socialist daily rushes to the defense of the German Socialist Party for breaking its relations with the Second International. The Jewish Daily Forward, in a full column leading edi- torial on April Ist, explains the reasons for the resignation of Otto Wels, National Chairman, from the Second Socialist International and the subsequent approval of this action by the Executive Committee of the German Social-Democratic Party. The Forward writes: “German Social Democracy is at the present time powerless against Hitlerism. . . Every street or mass action on the part of the Socialist znd Communist workers against the Hitler regime would at the present moment inevitably lead to a great defeat of the working class.” At first, the German Social Democracy, with the support of the Second Socialist International called upon the workers to support Hindenburg in order to defeat Fascism. Now that Fascism is in power the explanation for a surrender to Fas- cism is that the workers are powerless and that any struggle against Hitler would end in defeat. The official reason given for the surrender to the Fascist Dictatorship is the fact that the good name of Hitler is be- smirched abroad. It is with the greatest contempt and indig- nation that workers throughout the world must condemn this treachery of the German Social Democracy. At the very time when thousands upon thousands of Socialist, Catholic and Communist workers are tortured in the jails and concen- tration camps of the Fascist Dictatorship, Social Democracy issues a call-not to spread any “atrocity propaganda.” But the workers throughout the world are increasing their United Front actions against the raging Fascist terror in Germany. In spite of the orders of the official Socialist Party leadership, ever larger numbers of Socialist workers ave uniting with workers of other political opinions in joint united actions against the Fascist terror. Through the ironclad Fascist censorship the news breaks throuzh of the German workers’ growing struggles against wage cuts as well.as against the Fascist terror. The German working class will precisely select the method of mass struggles, the method of United Front ac- tions, which the Forward’ calls” “fated to efext,”* method which will bring victory to the working class and lead to the defeat of the Fascist Dictatorship. Mass Action to Halt the Bosses Strikebreaking Injunction An injunction. menaces the militant struggle against lay-offs being waged by cafeteria workers of the Foltis- Fischer chain, under the leadership of the Food Workers In- dustrial Union. Having thus far failed to prevent the spread of strikes in their cafeterias, the Irving Trust Co., receivers of the Foltis-Fischer cafeteria chain, has applied for an in- junction to obtain legal sanction and assistance of the capital- ist courts and the armed forces of the capitalist state to carry through its strike-breaking program. During the period of crisis, a flood of injunctions have been issued by the courts, especially against the militant unions of the Trade Union Unity League, to help the bosses in their attacks on the workers’ standard of living. The militancy and determination of the Unions in the Trade Union Unity League to organize the workers and lead them in struggle against the capitalist offensive has made them the special target of attack. By means of the injunctions the bosses and the govern- ment have not only robbed the workers of the right to strike, to meet, to speak, and to organize. They have also used this weapon to completely wipe out the militant unions estab- lished by the workers, as for example in the case of the cigar makers’ struggle in Tampa. The most infamous repressive measures against the workers have been ordered by means of the injunctions. Last year a so-called “federal anti-injunction” law was passed in Congress, through the efforts of the “progressive” Norris. But this has not covered up the class character of the courts, which have continued to issue injunctions in re- sponse to the bosses’ needs and interests. The struggle against injunctions, involying as it does the elementary rights of the workers and striking at the very life of the workers’ organizations, is a challenge to the working clags to rally its forces to defeat its purpose. Militant determination and a united fighting front of all the workers can stop the issuance of injunctions by the capitalist courts; it can force the bosses to concede the de- mands of the strikers. Mass action has rendered injunctions scraps of paper in the past. The call of the Trade Union Unity Council to come out . in mass protest and demonstrations today against the issu- ance of this strike-breaking instrument is the concern of all workers and must be answered by a mass turnout in support of the Foltis-Fischer strikers. WORKERS ASKED TO EXPRESS OPINION. The Central Committee invites the readers of the Daily Worker to express their opinions on the proposed united front actions. We will be glad to publish letters from workers and answer any point raised in these letters. Workers can also send in just one or two questions on points which may not be clear to them. ‘We especially appeal to members of the organizations to whom this letter is addressed to express their opinions on the United Front proposals, SAVE JEWISH SAILOR’S LIFE! DEMONSTRATE AT as’ the = “The members of the Italian Labor Club are sending $5 to the Daily Worker to help it continue its marvel- ous fight against the ruling class of this country and others.— Nelli Brown, Phila., Pa.” Dail Central OrganSof (Section of the Communist International) Entereé as second-class matter at the Post Office at NEW YORK, TUES DAY, APRIL 4, 1933 Vol. xX, No. 80 <a xew York, N, ¥., under the Act of March 8, 1879. orker e-Cominynist Party U.S.A. CITY EDITION “Enclosed pleage find $3.62, the pro- ceeds of a Daily Work- er affair held at Beld- en, N. D., by the Beld- en-Van Hook Farmers Club. Sorry it could not be more, but the farmers here are still fighting for relief.— A. F. Husa.” Price 3 Cents ANTI-FASCIST PROTEST TOMORROW NIGHT! RUSH PRESS GAG TO BAR BIG SCANDAL Roosevelt Gang in Panic to. Hide ividence DOCUMENTS ARE MISSING |Foreign Complications Are Threatened WASHINGTON, April 3.—Like a bolt out of the blue, the Democratic leadership in the House of Congress |today moved to suspend the rules and brought up a bill providing heavy fines and imprisonment for any one who gives official informa- tion to the public on acts contem- plated by the government. ‘This is a continuation of the war- \time emergency measures that the Roosevelt Hunger Administration has been carrying out. The bill came forward with a re- port from the judiciary committee secommending its passage as “highly \essential” and declaring that “the jexecutive branch of the government |has requested the enactment of this legislation at the earliest practicable date.” The House at once rushed the vicious thing to a vote and passed it by a vote of 299 to 29. Drastic Penalties Provided This bill to muzzle the press of the country, and to enable the govern- ment to imprison anyone who ex- poses the criminal plots of the gov- ernment against the workers, the |farmers, the war veterans and other sections of the oppressed population, carries the most drastic penalties. The bill reads that any government official, any. private individual or publication that reveals anything the government thinks might endanger the “safety of the United States” shall be fined $10,000 and sent to fed- eral prison for ten years, or both. | Publication of such facts shall be | regarded as prima facie evidence that the intent was to injure the govern- ment, hence ail former precedent that specifies that the prosecution must prove intent is set aside and anyone can be railroaded simply for com~- menting upon acts of the goyern- ment, Try To Head Of Big Scandal The Roosevelt gang are in a panic |because it ig generally known in Washington that startling secrets concerning another government are in hands of people who will reveal them. It is said that important secret documents of one foreign gov- ernment involving the Cabinet mem- bers of both the late Hoover admin- istration and the present Roosevelt administration have been taken from State Department archives and that their publication will cause an inter- | national: upheaval. It was to forestall the publication of these documents that incriminate prominent members of two United States Cabinets that the bill has been rushed through. Debate was short, only a few ob- jections being raised by Congressmen not in the confidence of the Repub- lican and Democratic machines. Members of the judiciary committee said sufficient evidence had been pre- sented by administration officials to make its immediate passage impera- tive without a moment's delay. Repre- sentative Hooper, Republican, of Michigan, told the House: “The cir- cumstances under which this bill | was drawn up were so serious that my lips are sealed.” It was because of such matters, involving the-most underhanded in- trigue and duplicity im the drive toward another world war that Cor- det! Hull confefred with Henry L { Stimson, Secretary of State in Hoo~ | ver's Cabinet, so thet the Wall Street government at Washington would have an uninterrupted policy of im- perialist war-mongering and colonial and semi-colonial pillage. various vet organizations in this-struggle, preparing to march to Washing- ton May 12 to demand the stopping of the cuts and immediate payment of their bonus. Help the Daily Worker fight for the veterans. Help it with half dollars. ¢ at Madison Square Garden tomorrow night at 7 p.m. Romain Rolland Calls Upon All, “Regardless of Party, To Unite NEW YORK.—The following call from the great international novelist Romain Rolland has been received in time for the great meeting against German fascist terror, to be held Here, at the Garden, for the first time all the forces opposed to the ghastly brown terror will united in effective protest. This meeting must be overwh elming in itself, the core of a struggle against fascism hat will sweep from sea to xenon sea “We lay open to the eyes of public FIGHT AGAINST THE | ‘: - } and the shameful crime—the usurpa- BROWN PLAGUE! tion of all the powers of government PARIS.—The ‘brown’ plague is} by a party of the bitterest reaction, a outdoing the black plague! Within! party that proclaims officially and four weeks the Hitler regime has on beforehand, that it will legalize al opinion throughout the world the lie | lence than his prototype and leader, of Italian fascism, has for the last ten years. The burning of the Reich- stag, which Hitlerism seeks without success to lay at the door of the Com~- petrated more dastardly acts of vio-/| presses all freedom of speech and thought and whose bestia] policy in- vades even the Academy, wherefrom acts of violence; a party that sup- | olutionary parties, but also among the | socialist and bourgeois liberals; a siege tl | “We oughout Germany MM upon all writers, all rep- resentatives of the public opinion in to Europe and America, no matter | which party they belong, upon eve! one who finds himself destruction of all principles of human dignity and is dominated by a feeling that unites him with all those who party that has proclaimed a state of Workers! Jam Madison Sq. Garden VICTORIA PRICE REPEATS Against the Nazi Brown Plague! - DISCREDITED TESTIMONY IN SCOTTSBORO TRIAL Tells Story of “Rape” Which Is Repudiated By Signed Statem Knight Defends Repu ent of Ruby Bates tation of His Witness on Ground ‘She Didn’t Live With Niggers’ DEC! y put Vic wood Patterson, fi From Our Special Correspondent R, Ala., April 8—Prosecutor Knight of Alabama toria Price on the witn st of the innocent Scottsboro boys to be tried, to repeat her lying story which resulted in convi stand in the trial of ion hast at the | and death sentences for the defendants at the original Scotts- boro trial. - qe YOR LT: ah Adora | courtroom was going on, it was am The courtroom open secret in the town that or- was cleared | it drives out the rare writers and | struggle against the beastly terror and artists who dare to have their own | shameful reaction, to join us in our munists in order to justify its own) opinions; a party that arrests the violent deeds, is an act of vile police’ more daring, not only among the rev- | protest ROMAIN ROLLAND. NOTED LEADERS OF MANY PAITHS AND POLITICAL, AFFILIATIONS T0 ‘SPEAK AT GARDEN MEET TOMORROW NEW YORK.—Sixteen speakers, representing the Communist Party, trade unions, intellectual groups anc the Jewish, German and Negro peoples, will present a solid and united front against fascist terror at the anti-Nazi demonstration at Madison Square Garden on Wednesday evening. The | and a reserved section at 25 cents. og ag erent Traber eh +6 e International Labor fense! M. Clarence Hathaway, scting secre-| 5 Oi,in, editor of the Freiheit; Roy tary of the Communist Party, will act | trudson, of the Marine Workers In- as chairman. Other speakers repre- | dustrial Union; Louis Hyman, of the senting trade unions and workingclass | Needle Trades Industrial Union. organizations are: Robert Minor, who|~ Ann Burlak, heroic leader of the has just returned from San Francisco | textile workers, who still faces a | meeting will open at 7 p.m, with a general admission charge of only 10 cents | and will bear a message from Tom Mooney; Jack Stachel, of the Trade Union - Unity League; Richard B. Moore, of the Negro Department of death sentence in Alabama courts for “inciting to rebellion,”—an incident in American capitalism’s own fascist terror—will make a trip into this NEW YORK.—A direct proposal for broad ynited action in the struggle against the German fascist regime and its terror against workers, Jews and intellectuals, was made yester- day to the Socialist Party and to the reformist workers’ organizations. ‘The proposal was made by both the New York District Committee of the Com- munist Party and the Provisional Committee for Struggle Against Fascism and Pogroms in Germany. When, in the middle of last week, it was revealed that the Socialist Party and the right wing Jewish workers organizations were calling a conference to organize a protest against fascism, the Communist Party and the Provisional Commit- tee, the latter elected at the united front conference against fascism and pogroms, held on March 21, sent delegations to the Socialist confer- ence with proposals for a united front of the whole labor movement. che matter of the united front pro- posals to the executive of their coa- COMMUNIST PARTY AND PROVISIONAL. ANTI-NAZI GROUP PROPOSE UNITED ACTION AT SOCIALIST CONFERENCE ized against the terror inflicted on Communists, Socialists and their or- ganizations, the trade unions, Jews and intellectuals; 2.—The protest movement shall be directed against the fascist regime, and shall aim to support the struggle for the destruction of fascism; 3—For a united front embracing the whole labor movement, expressing itself through protest meetings, street demonstrations, and other struggles; material support to the sufferers from fascist terror on workers’ organiza- tions, every means of expressing soli- darity with the struggle of the Ge man workers against fascism, etc.; 4——Turning the Madison Square Girden meeting into the broadest united front expression, with speakers of the various organizations, endorse- | ments, etc. | The Communist Party delegation ‘The Socialist conference accepted |{urther stated that these proposals | the credentials and decided to leave | form the minimum platform around | | which the entire labor movement can (oe to participate as a speaker. | Other speakers will be Edward | Dahlberg, member of the John Reed | Club, who was beaten on t }of Berlin by Nazi terrorist m Cowley, editor of the New Republic; Joseph Freeman, writer and editor of the New Mas: Roger Baldwin, head of the Ame: U nd Willi | the Amsterdam 2 he famous Jew writer, Hirshbein, has agreed to speal R. Breinen, Jewish w editor of Zionist publica Ss, will Send a message to say why he is | CO-operating with the working class | against Nazi terror, rather than with | the Zionists. r and former | of women spectators today as she took the stand, after a week during which the defense attorneys fought to dismiss the venire on the ground that it contained no Negroes. The Price woman, under the cod- jdling guidance of secutor— son of the chief ju e of the Ala- © wrote the 2d on a freight in the spring d clasping and uncl ds by the time the ci exam had ended, in the middle |of the afternoon Meanwhile, as the battle in the 1) that they expected the verdict to by the} ganized mobs were awaiting the | verdict of the jury in the trial of Haywood Patterson, in preparation for “action,” which they loudly | threaten in the event the Negro | boy is acquitted. A gang of fifty from Scottsboro had come here Friday, leaving soon after with the announcement that they would “re- turn about the middle of the week.” It was at that time, apparently, be bronght in. | Over loud, heated Prosecutor Knight, Leibowitz wore dowr relative to p ctions on |(CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) | SEAMAN ARRESTED AS A JEW: HELD (GERMAN WORKERS ‘ON GERMAN FREIGHTER AT NEW YORK) DEFEAT PAY CUT NEW YORK.—In view of thi tance of carrying on every activity Party end.-ses, for a demonstration lyn, not later than 11:30 am. | NEW YORK.—E. Pabst, Jewish ETIN serious danger to Pabst and the impor- y possible in his behalf, the Marine Workers Industrial Union issued a call last night, which the Communist at noon today at Pier 4, Army Base, 58th Street, Brooklyn. Workers should mobilize at 316 57th Street, Brook- Bring signs calling workers te the Madison Square Garden Anti-Fascist meeting this Wednesday night. messman, aboard the S. S. Chemnitz, | North-German Lloyd freighter, is under arrest aboard ship and faces death ed torture at the hands of Nazi thugs on board or back in Germany. Pabst, a regular member of the crew, was jailed since the ship has been in port for no other reason than that he is a Jewish worker. | The Mar‘ne Workers’ Industrial jterday. The Union sent a commit- ;tee with representatives of the Inter- national Labor Defense, W. E. S. L., the Pen and Hammer, Club, and other organizations to the German consul to demand his re- lease. Surprises Consul. | Dr, Schwartz, the consul, was sur- | prised by the delegation and had to receive it. He clai | was not on the ship's manifest and |was held under $1,000 bail by the | immigration: officials. He denied that) Pabst was a Jew, saying “his name proves that.” He refused the dele- gation a pass to go on board and |interview Pabst. He is the one man | who has the power to issue such a | pass. gation “not to believe all you hear John Reed! ; d that Pabst} Union was informed of his case yes- pant | Aske se about the arrest of Walters, y of the International of Sea rbor Workers, he d to nothing about it. Pabst, as a crew member, is not responsible for his being on the mar if this story is true. He is entitled to shore leave and since he has been singied out for this unusual treatment, there is no ques- tion that his life is in danger. The American Jewish Congvess was informed by the Union of the case. Despite the fact that they were told United Front Action | Stops Nazi Scabbing | BERLIN, April 3—A front of 800 Communist. Nazi furniture movers o! | March 3 against a wage in a significant partial vic’ | the workers according to | which are sweeping ough t censorship. The 5 again that the German |not backing down to the te of the Hitler fascist | against the wor | effectire was the the revolutiona j union that Na: prevented from b break the strike ani up their own scab pressure of the Nazi s, leader of storm troop 110, had the | scabs thrashed very severely | The strike was called under re- formist leadership, but when the un- ion official Ortmann had agreed to | accept the wage cut proposed by the solid united and The German consul asked the dele-/ the ship sails today at 3 p.m., they employers, members of the union met claimed not to be able to take up the | 4nd disapproved of Ortmann’s action case on such short notice. They| voting to continue the strike under asked that a union representative; the leadership of the revolutionary meet with them yesterday at 4 p.m.| opposition. The workers are deter- and then postponed it until this| mined to fight to prevent further afternoon. wage cuts. about these so-called atrocities.” | be united, and expressed the absolute | FIRE A BARRAGE! Te veterans are swinging into action against the vicious cuts in their benefits. They are not go- ing to take them lying down. The rank and file of ference, The Communist Party and | 800d faith of the Communist Inter- the Provisional Committee delega- | "tional and the Communist Party tions were “invited to yesterday's | Of the U. 8. A. in the unity offer. Meeting of the executive. | Melech Epstein and Louis Hyman, |_ The delegation of the Communist ; representing the Provisional Commit- Party, Alexander Trachtenberg and | tee, reminded the executive that most George Siskind, stated briefiy the | of the right wing organizations are urgent need for unity, and made con- | affiliated with the Jewish Congr crete proposals for developing broad | that conducted a narrow nationalist protest action embracing the entire | campaign. ‘The leaders of the Jewish labor movement. The following were | Con.ress keep on assuring the world the proposals made by the delegation: | that they have nothing against Hit- 1.—Protest actions shall be organ- | ler’s fascism; they only want an end . of pogroms. Now these leaders have executed a complete retreat, and are stifling the protest movement, in agreement with the State Depart- ment. Since the Socialist committee declared for a campaign against fas cism, and as fascism is insenerable and constitutes the root of anti- semitism in Germany today, the So- cialists are therefore invited and urged by the Provisional Committee to join in a united struggle against fascism and the persecution of Jews in Germany, Jacob Panken, chairman of the Ex- ecutive Committee of the Socialist Conference, declared, after the speeches of the delegations, that the are uniting their forces Brownshirts aid Soviet Offices : Torture Citizens of the U. §. S. j BULLETIN | _ MOSCOW, U.8.5.R., April 3.--The Moscow press announces that Lit- | vinoy today made a strong protest to the German Ambassador Von of the Soviet trade delegation and Sovict steamers, and robbery com- | mitted in Soviet economia organi- zations by raiders. MOSCOW, April 3.—Berlin corre- spondents of the Moscow newspapers report that on April Ist a detach- ment of National Socialist storm troops appeared on the premises of the Leipzig branch of the U. S. S. R. trade representation and started a search, | Later there appeared a detachment Dirksen against their cracl hand- | ling and illegal arrest. He protested _ also the raiding of various branches | of regular police and members of} Put power behind the ex-servicemen’s strug- gle by firing a barrage of half dollars at once into the “Daily” office, 50 East 13th St.. New York. Received Sunday and Yesterday $176.05. Total fo Date $26,108.66. proposals necessitate . consideration | larized emises, taking with them a radio set, a lamp and other articles they could carry away with ‘them. All tables, cupboards and ‘every other thing pillaged by the ine |vading vandals. Attacks On Soviet Citizens. On the same day eight Soviet citt- | zens were subjected to the most out- rageous treatment. The worst attack was on the Soviet citizen, Shaisk. The Nazis appeared at his house and starled to paste posters on the win- dows of his workshop where he makes boots, urging a boycott of Jews. Shaisk, as a foreigner, charged the | raiders with illegal conduct. He then attempted to take off posters. The Nazis broke into the workshop and | fiercely beat Shaisk. When they left the Seviet citizen went to the Soviet | consulate in Berlin and lodged a | complaint. Arrested and Fiercely Beaten. by a closed session of the executive, Among those present at the S cialist conference executive wi auxiliary police who, together with) | storm troops, continued the search.! when Shaisk returned to his house which Shaisk said he had police pers | mission to keep. Nevertheless he | was srrested and brought to the | Nazi berracks. Threatening him with |@ revolver they ordered him to un- | dress and then started beating him with steel rods. Afterwards he was thrown out Into the street and warned that if he | dared to complain he would be killed. ’ Strip and Flog Relief Worker LONDON, April 3.—The London Times publishes what it describes as “a fully authenticated case” of Nazi brutality. The report states that “Marie Janowski, aged 46, a relief worker, was taken from her dwelling in Coepenick by men in Nazi uni- form, to Nazi headquarters, where there were other men in uniform. | They asked her such questions 3s | ‘Why did you harbor and feed Com- | munists'? Then she was laid over Schlossberg, Panken, O'Neal, Gerber, Salutsky, Muste, Baskin, Chanin, Burglarized the Place. resentation branch were driven into Wander, Tuvim, Gillis, and Bonchik, ‘the corridor, while the raiders burg-| search an old revolver he met at his door a detachment of |a table, stripped and, while one man ‘The employees of the trade rep-, Nazis who declared they intended to| held her head, four others beat her | Search his premises. During the/ with canes. This process was re- was found) peated four or five times.” PIER 4 BROOKLYN (ARMY BASE) TODAY AT NOON!