The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 5, 1933, Page 1

EDITORIALS | « The German Workers | Do Not Surrender The Jeadership of the German Social Democracy has prostrated itself before the fascist dictatorship. It has sought to caver its collapse with such miserable consolida- tions as “the Hitler regime has a legal and moral right to govern,” or “we must adjust ourselves to the new condi- tions.” But the German workers, Communists and Socialists, are not downed by fascism. The German working class, led hy the heroic Communist Party of Germany, is in battle. The Socialist leaders, paralyzed with fear, mumble elabor- ate “theories” to justify their rotten betrayal of the Ger- man working class. But the Socialist workers are joining hands with their Communist brothers in proletarian soli- darity against fascism. On March 15th, when the fascist terror was raging through the streets of Germany, the German Communist Party sounded the call to counter-attack. Its manifesto, which appears on this page, stated: , “The Hitler Government, a Government of civil war against the toiling maases, can’ give to the workers neither bread nor work... . The concentration of Fascist forces is a serious warning to all workers to cement without delay the united front of struggie. The strikes and A4emonstrations of Lubeck, Brunswick, Dresden, Erfurt, Stassfurt, Duis- burg, Elmshorn, Harburg, etc., show the path of the united front of, | struggle. Everywhere it ought to be like this..... Organize every- | | where factory meetings and unemployed meetings in order to discuss | with trade unionists and Social-Democratic workers measures of com- 1 mop struggle for the liberation of Thaclmann and of all workers in | prison, for the rescinding of the decrees regarding the abolition of the Tights of meeting, of the Press, and of demonstrations, regarding the auxiliary police, regarding preventitive imprisonment, etc. By a wave of partial struggles, lead the working masses to the political general strike.” This revolutionary summons is bearing fruit. The forces of proletarian resistance, far from being dismayed, are concentrating and hardening in the daily struggles against fascism in preparation for the revolutionary over- throw of German capitalism. These daily strike struggies are the reply of the Ger- man workers, who will not meekly accept the onslaught of the fascist agents of German capitalism. More and more, as the Hitler dictatorship vainly attempts to buttress tottering German capitalism, the united front struggles of Commu- nist, Socialist, and Nazi workers will sweep over Germany. The working class of Germany is not “powerless” (Jew- ish Daily Forward), nor leaderless. The Communist Party of Germany stands unflinchingly at the head of the German masses. Comrade Torgler, a leading member of our broth- ec party, met face to face the fascist hangmen to expose their provocation in setting fire to the Reichstag. Only the other day the two Communist members of the Berlin Town Council appeared at this body to let the Hitler gov- ernment know that the German working class is prepared to meet the challenge of fascism. They were immediately arrested. They knew they would be arrested. Yet they did not hesitate to fulfill their duty as revolutionary leaders in the front ranks of the German working class. It is the duty of the American workers to support their fellow workers in Germany in their heroic struggle against the Hitler-Hindenburg regime. ‘ Tonight’s mecting at Mad- ison Square Garden must turn into a gigantic demonstra- tion against the fascist terror. The concentration of the forces of counter-revolution means the last stand of capitalism which is xpproaching its doom. The forces of counter-revolution steel the grow- ing forces of victorious proletarian revolution. Applauding “A Great Achievement” Roosevelt's executive order, robbing more than a million and a half war vaterans of pensions to the amount of $400,000,000 meets with the most enthusiastic approval of the parasitic coupon clippers, holders of government bonds and the whole capitalist class bent uson enforcing a hunger standard of life upon the toiling masses. The Ne:wYork Times, always alert to applaud any at- tack of the parasites against the useful members of society, in-it sleading editorial for March 2, hails the slash against the veterais as “a great achievement.” With uncontrollable glee the Times rhapsodizes: “There has been nothing like j it-in our political history.” | Continuing,’ this capitalist newspaper points out that Roosevelt is “carrying out his pledge to save 25 per cent of the government expenses.” But this is not enough, and the Times says: “Having at one stroke cut off more than 10 per cent, he (Roose- velt) is in.a fair way, with his other projected economies, to reach the full figure.” Yes, this'combined with 15 per cent cuts imposed upon federal employees, with’ the slashing down of wages of workers in the government forestry service to $1 a day as is decreed in the forced labor bill, will certainly go a long way toward making up the 25 per cent cut in yearly govern- ment expenses so that. the administration can go on build- ing new battleships, submarines, airships and in every way perfecting, the war machine of United States imperialism. without imposing new taxes upon the rich in which interest war preparations are made and wars carried out. - Hoover used fire and sword to drive from Washington the veterans demanding their back pay, the so-called bonus. Roosevelt uses the full power of government to further rob them—one continuous policy. . Against this attack the veterans would wage a deter- mined mass struggle by organizing rank and file commit- tees-of action in all veterans’ organizations along the lines suggested by the Workers’ Ex-Servicemen’s League to fight against this robbery. The veterans’ demands should be supported by the workers and farmers as an inseparable art of the fight against the capitalist offensive that must turned into a counter-offensive not merely to stop this attack against the war veterans but to force the govern- ment to pay the bonus. n Lo I Daily Worker Anti-War Edition Saturday The special anti-war edition pres Oi the Daily Worker on the anniver- | sary of United States’ entry into the World War appears on Satur- earn 8th, Many important Gomuntst Party units, trade union locals, unemployed councils, workers’ fraternal and cultural or- ganizations shonld rush orders ac- companied » Business ‘Street, New York, N. ¥. What Are You Doing? What are you doing to help the veterans in their fight against the cuts? One thing you can do: send a half dollar at once to the Daily Worker to keep it on the firing line for the vets. Dail Central Org iW Demonstrate! Demonstrate against the fascist terror Germany by spending in orker Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office st New York, N. ¥., ander the Act of Merch 5, 1879. Wal: Ke NeSlens your half dollar te keep alive the paper that exposes these COmmunist Party U. S. A. iio ond inane the fight against (Section of the Communist odie ee ota. NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 5 Oy , 1933 CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents NEW YORK.—Tonight, at 7 p. m., at Madison Square Garden, workers, intellectuals, and Negro, Jew ish and German people will come together for the great protest in which the forces aligned against fa- scism in Germany will stand shoulder to shoulder for struggle. Working class organizations here will rise to the defense of their fellow workers abroad: writers, artists and intellectuals will rise against the cultural barbar- ism of fascism. Two weeks ago at Madison Square Garden, Rabbi Stephen S. Wise declared that his “protest is not against the politica! program of Germany—but only against anti-Semitism” Tonight tens of thousands of workers and sym- pathizers will protest precisely against the political program of the fascist dictatorship. With the development of a policy of concealment of atrocities, carried on by the American State Depart- ment, and by bourgeois Jewish spokesmen, the import- ance of this meeting has grown. Ever since the be- ginning of the fascist atrocities, there has been a con- certed policy among those leaders to stifle the protest against anti-semitism. The American Jewish sila MASS AT GARDEN AGAINST NAZIS TONIGHT! which pretends to speak in the name of the Jewish people, has even withdrawn the weak protest it made against the anti-semitism in Germany—at the request of the State Department. They have tried to conceal the connection between German terror and the American terror against Ne- groes. They have suppressed news of the onslaught against workers, the destruction of their organizations, the arrest of Thaelman, Torgler and other Communist, socialist and worker leaders who are held in the prisons and concentration camps. WORKERS! WRITER: JEWS! THE MISLEADERS MUST NOT BE ALLOWED TO STIFLE THE STRUGGLE AGAINST FASCIST TERROR AND AGAINST ANTI-SEMITISM! THE MADISON SQUARE GARDEN MEETING TONIGHT IS A CALL TO A MIGHTY PROTEST WHICH WILL RESOUND FROM COAST TO COAST AND ACROSS THE WATERS, WHICH WILL STRIKE oe TELLIN - sas AT HITLERISM. ers Ss INTELLECTUALS! Speakers at Tonight's Meeting | NEW YORK.— Following are} speakers at the Madison Square Garden meeting tonighi: Robert Minor, just back from San Fran- nisco with a message from Tom Mooney; Jack Stachel, Richard B. Moore, M. J. Olgin, Roy Hudson, Louis Hyman, Ann Burlak, Ed- ward Dahlberg (just back from Germany), Malcolm Cowley, Jo- seph Freeman, Roger Baldwin, William Kelley, Peretz Hirschbein, and others. Chairman, C. A. Hath- away. REPORT GENER AL STRIKE OF SWEDE SEAMEN IS WON NEW YORK.—The captain of the S. S. Etna, Swedish ship here, reported to the crew yes- terday that the general strike of the Swedish sailors against a 15 percent pay cut had been won. The crew, however, are waiting for word from their union, fearing a trick to get them to bring the ship into her home port without taking ac- tion to protect themselves. News Flash VIENNA, April 4—Nazi gunmen trailed a “Dr. Bell,” German jour- nalist, across the Austrian frontier and shot him dead on Austrian ter- ritory, “Dr. Bell,” whose real mameo “~ George Bell, renegade Nazi general staff member, had fled from Ger- The following appeal of the Cen- tral Committee of the German Communist Party, issued on March 15, ten days after the elections of March 5, and at a time when the fascist terror already was in full swing, indicate the bold, heroic line set out hy the Communist Party in its work of organizing a mass | united front of all workers against Hitler's program of terror and hunger: Party Comrades! Our Party has fought in brilliant fashion ‘under conditions of pogrom and elections dominated by terror. The Fascist Goering has had to | burn the Reichstag as a beginning of the pogrom against the Com- munist Party and the revolutionary proletariat. This Government of civil war has cast into prison the leader of our Party, Comrade Thaelmann, whom it plots to assassinate. It has caused thousands of anti- Fascists to be arrested. The Fascist bands haye massacred workers and burnt their homes, in the interest of the millionaires, the big capitalists and of the Junkers. Our Party, compelled to carry on its policy of mobilizing the masses and waging workers’ battles under conditions of illegality, has rallied nearly five million voices to the ban- O2::<s' of the struggle of liberation against Fascism. unity with the Social-Democratic workers and. workers with no party | attachment, you have conducted po- village cist terror. The rhythmic beat of) brag (de eco hg ditearttua Mk ald workers’ demonstrations has re- automobiles, filled with Nadis, “sad-|echoed in many towns. .. . And. if Hitlerite Fascism has succeeded in strengthening the Nationalist stream and in. utilizing 14 years of Social- "Democratic politics in order to res- denly drew up te the inn where he was staying and one of the Nazi gunmen emptied his revolver at Bell. Bell is allege@ to have known too much about the real instigators the Reichstag fire and was killed to; shut him up. He had been a de- fendant in the noted 1928 trial of White Guard forgers of Soviet bank- notes in Berlin, Ee was a witness against oe ee, , Hitler Chief of Staff, in- his ‘Munich trisl. Re- cently he had selling war of Hitler against the toiling masses reveals none the less the feebleness of his Government. the position to m=ke safe the in- terests of vag mag eogees? and of the Junkers in the methods of used heretofore. ‘The Hitler Government, a Governi- ment of civil war against the toiling 2 GERMAN SAILORS ARRESTED IN heen “4nside stories” on Nasi affairs to varions the S. 8. Chemnitz at noon yesterday to demand the freedom of E. Pabsi, | Sturm Fahne, illegal Communist daily aed sailor, arrested by ihe Nazi! paper. cay night, Pabst was taken off the ship | care of the Not to an unknown place. U.S. Turns One Seaman Over to Captain; Police Stop Marine Worker Delegates | NEW YORK.—Five radio cars and) . The U. 8. government Nip aided policemen were used*to prevent a|the Nazi regime by seizing another delegation from the Marine Workers|member of the Chemnitz'’s crew at’ Industrial Union who tried to board | the gate and turning him over to the | |eaptain with some copies of the Rote | Workers’ organizations should send The union learned that late last | wires to the captain of the Chemnitz, German Lloyd lines, and transferred under a Nazi guard denanaing that this worker receive no mistreatment at thelr hands. ners of Communism and the slogans | Comrades! Boldly and fearlessly in | litical striks of protest against Fas-| of; cue capitalist domination, the civil} The bourgeoisie is no longer in | N. Y. PORT BY FASCIST GUARDS, masses, | neither bread nor work. All its activity is confined to burn- | ing the Reichstag, to shooting prole- | tarians, to raising customs tariffs in | to increase unemployment, wages and pile up armaments. Hitler Defends Big Capital. | | wage civil war against the toijlers. the working-class, Fascism. tensified agitation among them. victory for Fascism; it shows, on the struggle, boldly and courage- Hitler, a Plan of famine, Fascist ter- | #or, and exploitation. . | front of struggle. Strikes Show Path. uniied front of struggle. | Everywhere it ought to be like this. |On March 1, at the same time that | we launched the appeal to the work-j ing masses, we sent to the leadership | | of the Social-Democratic Party and |to that of the A.D.G.B. (German| Federation of Trade Unions) an of- | eral ‘strike and mass demonstrations. The two leaderships spurned this | united front action. | Comrades! The setting up of the | united front of struggle of the toil- ers is the task of the hour and is a vital question for the German work- ing class. Organize everywhere factory meet~ ings and unemployed meetings in or- der to discuss with trade unionists and Social-Democratic workers mea- sures of common struggie for the Uberation of Thaelmann and of all workers in prison, for the rescinding of the decrees regarding the aboli- tion of the rights of meeting, of the Press, and of demonstrations, regard- ing the auxiliary police, regarding preventive imprisonment, etc. Through Partial Struggles to Political Strike. By a wave of partial struggles, lead the working masses to the political general strike. Persuade your trade | | union comrades, persuade the Social- ‘Democratic workers and the mem- bers of the Reichsbanner of the) necessity of taking concrete methods | of struggle in these organizations, by strikes and demonstrations, in favor of the above claims. We call equally all the members of the Party to win every effort to set can giye to the workers Hitler can do nothing except de- |fend the interests of big capital and That is why we ought to succeed, and why we shall succeed in the struggle for the vital interests of in the struggle | against the capitalist policy of Hit- ler, in winning over those of the workers who have been deceived by the Nationalist frenzy of Hitlerite Despit the pompous declarations of the Government, March 5 is not a the contrary, that the masses of the toiling people are resolved to wage The concentration of Fascist forces | is a serious warning to all workers | to cement without delay the united The strikes and demonstrations of Lubeck, Brunswick, Dresden, Erfurt, | Stassfurt, Duisburg, Elmshorn, Har- | burg, etc, show the path of the fer of the united front for the gen-| the interest of the Junkers, in’ order) lower | This aim we shall attain despite Fascist terror, by a ruthless and un- wearying struggle for the daily in- terests of the masses, and by an in- ously, against the Four-Year Plan of | Growing Strike Movement Will Lead from Partial Struggles to Mass Political Strike Against the Terror Regime | ganizations. ‘ C.C. of German Communist Party PROSECUTION “RESTS”. Issues a Stirring Call Fearless United Front Actions Ag?inst Fascist Dictatorship by | Workers of Many Political Opinions ; IN FRAME-UP OF FIRST OF SCOTTSBORO BOYS Feeble, Contradictory “Evidence” Compels in motion the anti-Fascist forces of the trade unions to prevent the re- alization of the plans of Hugenberg. | In strengthening our fraternal work of enlightenment in the trade unions, | we should succeed in winning over) firmly and boldly lead the toiling! masses forward in the united front of struggle against Fascism, starver and oppressor of the working class. Let each Communist become revolutionary organizer and agita Let each Communist become the ganize and carry on propaganda for the anti-Fascist united front. Let us penetrate into the masses | the Fascist dictatorship. THE CENTRAL COMMIT rr GERMAN COMMU been endorsed by repre Negro boy. The motion was, of ae Well an by led | course, at once denied by Judge Hor- who see in the News Flash NEW YORK.—Donald Henderson, his ceedingly the Prosecution to Conclude Suddenly Leibowitz Threatened in Court: Calls for a Mistrial as Knight Applauds Witness When Prosecutor Knight “evidence,” a freight train between Stevenson) | and Paint Rock ground that the state had failed to make a prima facie case against the ton. Prosecutor Applauds In Court opinion among newspapermen was that he had made out an ex-@ feeble case against | 19-year-old Negro boy} Samuel S. Leibowitz, Internat tonal | Efforts to expel him have been | made since the fall of 1931, when Henderson became very active in the working-class movement. A sharp fight student organizations and workers has been going on against his removal and for “academic free- | dom.” clare a mistrial. The attorney's de- mand was based on the on of Knight in jumping up and clapping his hands with evident delight after a state witness replied to a question (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) | SOCIAL IST LEADERS REJECT UNITY CALL AGAINST NAZI TERROR Say They “Must Wait for Instructions from Second International” NEW YORK.—The leaders of the Socialist Party and of other orsan!- zations under Socialist Party influence haye rejected the proposal for uni- ted front action against the German fascist terror, made by the New York | gle Against Fascism and Pogroms in Germany. On Monday representatives of the Party and the Provisional Commit- tee appeared before the executive ¢ —< — elected by a conference of socialist | ist International and the Amsterdam and right-wing organizations, They | Trade Union International. proposed broad united front action With this statement the socialist against the terror against Commun- | leaders reveal themselves 4s opposed ist and social-democratic workers,|to any real united front action Jews and intellectuals in Germany, | against the Hitler terror. The Social- material aid for the victims of the | ist Party has never before waited for fascist terror and converting the | instructions from the Second Inter- Madison Square Garden mecting to- | national before taking action on night into the broadest united front | questions in this country. It is also expression, with speakers from all or- | significant that the socialist and jright-wing trade union leaders still Lame Pretext Yesterday the Jewish Daily For- | leaders of the / ward announced the snswer of the | | gress executive. The leaders of the Social- | the request of the U. S. State De- ist Party and its auxiliary organiza- | partment, they have suspended their | tions declared that they cannot con- | so-called protest campaign against sidey a united front until they get | the anti-Semitic outrages in Ger- ingtructions from the Second Soclal- | many. District of the Communist Party and the Provisional Committee for Strag- | maintain their connections with the | merican Jewish Con- | who have announced that, at | to the anti-Fascist united front the ; (By Special Correspondent.) meee of sympathizers and the DECATUR, Ala., April 4—With surprising suddenness, trade union organizations. s Comrades, you fought valiantly | the prosecution rested its case today in the trial of Hay wood during the terror-elections. Now,| Patterson, one of the nine Scottsboro boys. completed the presentetion of general Baldwin, Mathews, ganizer and the leader of the united| charged by thrice-married Victoria | front of struggle! Wherever the! Price that he had attacked her on) B E d masses are, let each Communist or- rainin ni orse Tonight's Meeting more deeply, let us be more firmly| Labor Defense attorney, once |} rooted in them! March bold) moved for the missal of the in-) NEW YORK.—' the united front of action, as dictment Pattrson on the|munist Party to th meeting to r on Sq | mass prote: night at M: prom : | fascism instructor of economics in Columbia A short time before the prosecu- Ficec (Baldo \ohaieen, of tie University, has been expelled for his) tion rested its c Leibowitz rose| american Civil Liberties Union, who working class activity. |to demand that Judge Horton de-| will speak tonight state- aid in a ment issued yesterday: “The Hitler dictat at every element opposed to its ruth- less program, but most of all at the Communist Party, its most uncom~- | promising enemy. As a non-Commu- |nist, I join with the Par its international protest against German fasci: all fascism. Every libe: ler he believes in liberty in principle lor for class purposes, should support | to the limit every effort to oppo: destroy this monster of reaction.” This manifestation, including the | participation of J. B. Mathews, secre- | tary of the Fellowship of Regoncilia- tion and Socialist Party member who | will speak tonight, and of Reuben | Brainin, noted Jewish intellectual and writer whose statement will be read | because of his illness, comes at a time | when the State Department is min- | tmizing the fascist terror and such | organizations as the American Jewish Congress sre withdrawing support | from anti-fascist demonstrations. | In contradiction to this attitude |is the attitude of thousands of intel lectuals—Jewish and Gentile—as ex- pressed by Reuben Brainin when he says: “The inhuman treatment dealt out by the Hitler regime to Jews for ng reason but their racial identity, to {Communists because they hold poli- tical and economic beliefs in oppos tion to its fascist policies, and to all others who have ventured to speak \out against its recklessly destructive ideas and actions must be denounced by every straight-thinking individual or group regardless of race, creed, or political affiliation.” Other speakers, representing work- ing class and intellectual organiza~ | tions, will be Ann Burlak, Edward. | Dahlberg, who was beaten by Nazia, i Perete Hirshbetn, end others. ‘ship has struck