The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 4, 1933, Page 4

Published by the Comprodaily Publishing Us., 13th Mt, New York Cty, N. ¥. Address and mail checks to the Daily Worker, Page Four Ine, dally except Sunday, at 86 E. Telephone ALgenquin 4-7956, Cable “DAIWORK.” , 50 E. 13th St., New York, N. ¥. DATLY WORKER, NEW: YORK, THURSDAY, MAY 4, 1933 Dail Workers! Demand Release of Thael 14 Years of Treachery FARLEY MAY BE NEXT! Bear Fascist Fruit What was started by the Social-Democratic leaders in Germany in 919 has been brought to a conclusion by the Hitler fascist dictatorship of 19: Fo n years ago, the reformist trade union leaders signed “Arbe he gr nt for c collaboration betweer German labor and capita nunciation of the class struggle, this Social-Democratic lie of the ‘common interests of emplo and workers paved the way for what has happened to the German trade unions during the past few day In setting up to rule the German trade unions, tran rongholds of nized labor into corporations on the Italian fascist model, with employers and workers members of the same “vertical” orgahizations, the Nazis are merely carrying but a few steps further the policy of class collaboration proclaimed by Legien, Leipart and Tarnow, the Socia chiefs of the German Federation of Labor During the pa ‘ew months, the Soci trade union leaders made every effort to incorporate the Free Trade Unions into the fascist state, to convince the Nazi chieftans that they, the Socialists, were “reliable supporters.of the present regime.” The working class betrayal of the re- formist union officials is shamelessly expressed in the statement of the Socialist trade union secretary, Kummerau, quoted in the letter from a Hamburg worker correspondent printed in today’s Daily Worker. Speak- ing in the union meeting of the warehouse workers, Kummerau declared “It is ali the same to me whether the red flag or the swastika flag Mes over trade union headquarters.” But the fascists were unkind enough as to reject the proferred So: @ial-Democratic service as lackeys. They know that the exploitation of the German working class can be more effectively carried out under the fascist knout than under the mantle of reformist hypocris} the Ger- man workers now see through the betrayal of the Socialist leaders and will no longer foliow their lead The Nazis know that trade unions—even under a reforntist leader ship which has surrendered to the Pascists—are a potential bulwark of Working class struggle. The “New Leader,” official organ of the American Socialist” fries to explain’ away the shameful offer of cooperation to Hitler by the German Socialist trade union leaders by saying: “It is obvious that with the rule of the Nazis a genuine unionism can no more exist in Ger- Many than it could in Italy.” It continues: “Real unions have to func fon in the open and this is impossible under a dictatorship.” Aside from the fact that the “New Leader’ thus defends the Socialists’ €apitulation to Hitler and calmly accepts the transformation of the Ger- man trade unions into corporations on the Italian fascist pattern, its editors knowingly lie when they say that “real unions have to function in the open.” The history of the Russian revolutionary movement befor the overthrow of Czarism is full of the heroic struggles that the Ru: workers carried out under conditions of the s' y by ers’ trade unions, while today in Poland and othe ies mass strug- gles are being fought to successful conclusions by trade unions, most of whose work has to be done secretly. Trotzky joins in the social-fascist chorus of the “tragedy’of the Ger- man proletariat.” But the heroic, effective struggle of the German work- ing class, as portrayed by our Hamburg worker-correspondent as well as in numerous dispatches that have been smuggled through the Nazi cen: sorship and printed in the Daily Worker, clearly show that this ‘tragedy’ of Trotzky’s and the Socialist class traitors is rather their pious wish than the actual truth. The German working class is undismayed. It is continuing and ex- panding its indomitable struggle against the Nazi dictatorship. The Communist Party of Germany is fighting for the mobilization of all the toilers of Germany, in city and country, for the final overthrow of the bloody fascist regime. Re eS | ictest the work- Foster Urges Aid to Nazi Victims ¥ aN Aes) NEW YORK.—The Trade Union Unity League calls upon all of its affiliated organizations, upon all workers, farmers, in- tellectuals, all enemies of Fascism to support the campaign undertaken by the National Committee to Aid the Victims of German Fascism, which is undertaking the collection of funds to assist the victims of the brutal Hitler Fascist terror. Hitlerism is making war? i ilin f against the toiling ma (of peel "They do beh Germany. It is robbing the| They are reforming their battle lines masses of their rights. It is letting hey knew that they will be the vic- loose the worst campaign of anti-| tors tomorrow. Bloody Fascism will Semitism. It is taking steps to wipe | not be able to solve the needs of the out all cultural achievements of the | masses. It will crumble in the face German masses especially of the pro-| of the gathering strength and actions letariat and to replace it by a bar-| of the masses. It fs up to us to help baric and medeiaval reactionary Fas-| them in this work. It is up to us to cist cult, The fight is of course dir-| accelerate the downfall of Hitlerism. ected in the first place against the; We are asked to sacrifice little in They e the right to count on our defeated. workers and their organizations, es- pecially against the revolutionary or- ganizations and the Communist Party. The toiling masses and al] others who hate Fascism must come to the support of the victims of Hitlerism comparison with the sacrifices of the | German masses. We must not fail our brothers in Germany. We must act, We must act quickly. The call of the Workers Interna- tional Relief to form broad commit- tees in every city must be heeded Immediate collection of funds should ath First Action of Nazi an od rn ae Perty USA seviertotiens —Buy BURCK | Oversids Was > | Cut Wages; Anti-Fascist Feeling Rises | (Workers? Correspondence) | Hamburg, April 22, 1933, | mewspapers with it.” pa We are doing that. Illegal news- I want to write you about some) PeP* Prear daily in the Port of Cot ear k janes tava cent Hamburg for the seamen and dock bis 4 Pies Be geet here. The| Workers, such as “‘Hafen-Tele- ice 3 gramm (“Port Telegramm”) and litlerites keep on sayin will not allow any wag | although they have not yet made a general attack on Wages in order not to enrage the indignant work- | ing class any further, we have | examples enough of the worst ort) of payeuts by the Nazi Commis-} sars. At the Hamburg State Docks the social-democratic and red shop} | councillors were fired at the be- ginning of April by government or- der, just as they were all through Germany. Nazis were brought in f g from outside to take their posi-| You its name), a worker organized | tions. The first action of these| in the’ Social-Democratic Party | Nazi overlords was to reduce the| Writes the newspaper of “The pay for the second shift, for which| Fighting Alliance Against Fas- up to now the dock workers re-| cism”, also taking care of mimeo- ceived 8 Marks (even if no ship) Sraphing. arrived, while they were on duty)! Feeling in the working class diz- to 1.50 Marks. This is a wage-cut, tricts is so high that the storm) of more than 6 Marks. troopers only dare enter them in At the same time, the Nazi Com missars are depriving the unskilled | wérkers—who up to now had three | or four days vacation a year (which is little enough)—of their vacation gether. i-Nazi Leaflets Everywhere. We can assure you that the Hamburg workers are and will re- main anti-fascist in spite of the wild tei There is not a single working class district, there is not} a single big factory, nor a single! ship where illegal anti-fascist leaf- | lets are not being distributed. The workers actually thirst for anti-fas- | cist newspapers. | At the beginning April, the | lets are not being distributed. The | | police and storm troops blockaded | all the streets in the Hammerbrook district of Hamburg and made a four-hour search for revolutionary literature, anti-fascist. house-to- house agitation was under way less than half an hour after the police got out. We call upon the trade unions, and the other workers’ organizations to take the lead in gathering this sup- begin and forwarded to the National Committee to Aid Victims of Ger- man Fascism, 75 Fifth Avenue, Room port. The workers of Germany de- ‘ spite the most vicious terror are car- 5, New York, N. ¥ rving on the fight against Hitler, (Signed) WILLIAM ¥, FOSTRPR Montevideo Anti-War Congress Roused Masses of Workers, Says Returning Marine Worker Delegate NEW YORK, May 3.—John_ Jones Marine Workers’ Industrial delegate to the Latin-American Con- gress Against War, who has just ar- rived here, gave a short description of the congress to the Daily Worker. Reports and decisions of the congress Union | them before. Police constantly harassed | Delegates from Argentina were ar- | rested at the border, but finally were | able to force the Uruguayan police to |free them. Argentine delegates told | how native revolutionary workers who fell into the hands of the police were sent to Bolivia and Paraguay and Fellow-workers often paid 50 Pfennigs 2nd 1 Mark for No. 4 of the “Anti-Fascist Front”, and when we told them that the newspaper | didn’t cost that much, they answer faction numbering 35 in all. Rank and file Anarchist) delegates stayed despite their leaders’ orders after they understood the meaning of op- position to imperialist wars as pointed out by the Communist delegates. They took the floor and flayed their leaders for deserting and sabotaging are on their way from South America ‘ | pushed into the front lines during The congress was held in Monte-| battl Foreign-born revolutionary | video, capital of Uruguay, with dele-| workers are exiled to Tierra del gates from all the South American| Fuego, a rocky island at the south- countries, three from North America| ern tip of S. A., constantly swept by and one from Mexico, a total of 465.) storms and free of any vegetation. The congress was postponed from} Gaucho or cowboy delegates from sufficient time to the delegates from)in their native dress. Many dele- Feb. 28 to March 11, in order to give | the Argentine were at the congress the west coast of South America to arrive. These delegates, nitrate work- | gress, ers from Chile, Indians, German across the mountains. Jones jumped|the owners forced to recognize their slaughterhouse workers and farm a ship he was w ng on in order demands and orders. ‘The biggest delegates, had t6 make a long trek to be present. Mor Lega river boat company had to settle and | over the Andes Mountains and come cheap pajama suit now the revolutionary marine union into Uruguay on small river boats of the impoverisht is the dominant union in the Uru- They held meetings on the way in| Delegates of the Anarchisis wasted guayan field villages and towns that had never two of the five days of the congress, Jones reported that the Red trade heard of the revolutionary movement and finally left the congress, their union is the largest and most influ- gates worked their way to the con- Many walked barefooted |the congress. | Fishermen Strike. | Over two thousand workers were | | constant visitors during the congress. The police did not dare enter the congress at any time. While the con- gress was on, & strike of fishermen under the leadership of the Marine Workers’ Industrial Union spread to the dock workers and river boatmen. Most of the docks were put under control of a workers’ committee and unksp che”. (“Radiograms”). A new newspaper, “Der Sturm”, has appeared now, not to mention all the diffetent leaflets including many of the Anti-Fascist Congress. We do not exaggerate when we say that the illegal house, factory, seamen and port newspapers far exceed the circulation of the former legal press. In a certain distriet of Hamburg (you understand that I can’t give large companies. The walls and fences are covered with slogans of the Anti-Fascist Congress and for the Red First of May Against Fas- cism. In the unemployment ex- changes lively discussions against fascism take place in spite of the sharp-eyed Nazi check-up. Here and there anti-fascist speakers sud- denly pop up, well-protected by a] group of workers, and make. short '9,300 Join Czecho- Slovak Communist | Party During Mar. | PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia, May 3.—More than 9,300 new members) joined the Communist Party of) Czechoslovakia during the month) of March, while 149 new local or-) ganizations of -the Party were founded. Over 1500 new members joined the Party in the dist. of Ko-_ motau alone, while 1678 new mem-| bers were won in the district of Bratislava, Forty new organiza- tions were founded in the Prague area, ry ential among the packing-house workers of the Swift, Armour and Morris plants. Hailing the revolutionary workers of North America, delegates took the floor and demanded that Jones ac- count for the slight anti-war activ- ity in the U. S. Jones promised that the American workers would take more energetic steps in the struggle. Hundreds Demonstrate, On April 5th Montevideo police broke up a demonstration of hun- dreds of Anarchist and Communist students in front of the city hall. The decrees students protested against aimed at the revolutionary press. United front activities are growing throughout South America aceording to the delegates at the congress. The daily and weekly workers’ | ; ed, “Keep the money and print new, speeches which meet. with tremend- | ous applause, IT don’t have to’ say very much | about the social-democratic lead- | ers. They behave here just as dis- gracefully as in the rest of the Reich. The well-known Social-Dem- ocratic trade union secretary, Kum- merau, said at the last meeting of warehouse workers: “It is all the same to me whether the red flag or the swastika flies over trade union headquarters.” But the ware- house workers soon told him where | to get off. In general, feeling among’ the workers is getting very lively. Shop meetings are taking place very often. One factory in. the port has already been able to hold two delegates’ conferences. Only a few days ago, a Nazi threatened the fac- tory council with’a revolver in the Kupfer-Raffinerie, a plant. with 1500 workers, and: the entire force }avent. out on strike saying they | would not begin work again until the brown rat was fired. The. work- ers won and the Nazi was bounced. The boycott of the Jews was a big flop here. Although a Nazi. and a policeman stood in front of each Jewish store, working class women flooded the stores of: the ‘small Jewish shop keepers (which were packed to the doors) in protest against anti-Semitic pogrom agita- tion. | Look to World Congress. Hundreds of thousands of Ham- burg workers already know of the call for ‘the Anti-Fascist Workers Congress. They expect much of the program to be. drawn up there. A number of delegates have al- ready been elected in Hamburg. In this letter we cannot name the factories that elected them, of course, but comrades, you can bet on. it that we are not giving ‘up, we are continuing to work, They can’t keep us anti-fascists down, and new workers jump in to take the places of the thousands in the jails and concentration camps ‘We will prove’ that the German workers are stronger than Hitler’s ‘MURDER RUNS > WILD IN CUBA Worker Shot Down for Anti-Imperialism i cuted by regard for human life. A few days ago, the illegal Com~ munist Party organized a demonstra- tion in Manzanillo on the atrival of Horatio Rubens, American millionaire [stories of how | Ramsay mann and Others in Nazi Prisons "The press car- | ries admiring MacDon- ald is exercising on a. bicycle on the upper decks of the Berengaria to the admiring applause of the upper-class ladies. Upper-class ap- plause should not distract Ramsay. He should be used. to it by this time. HEN the fake bombing took piace | at Chicago the other day, the po-| lice issued a round-up call for all) Communists. Now that it turned out that the whole job is connected with Chicago gangsters, (if it isn’t a put- up job altogether), have you noticed that the police sent a round-up call for gangsters? | ‘You have not. 'DWIN MARKHAM, author of “The | Man with the Hoe,,” a poem long | considered in radical circles as a good | Piece of revolutionary verse (al-| though we never thought so), has| written for the Hearst papers a piece of versification called “A prayer for) the President. Prosperity seems to be returning to the poetry market, too. HE Socialists of Milwaukee did not hold a demonstration on May Day because it rained. This did not pre- j including whole branches of the | Workmen’s Circle from marching in | the United Front May Day demon- stration with ten thousand other | workers, Apparently the Socialist leaders of Milwaukee are aware that the red in their banner fades easily. ee aw, rate is declining. Like a true son of a dying capitalism, he finds that there are too many people now in like to get rid of the millions of pesky unemployed who are a constant men- ace to the rule of his masters, the Junkers and landlords. Are you thinking of a nice little war, Adolph? reg ees capitalist press is full of heart- rending appeals for contributions to the Socialist Rand School. Gilbert Seldes, one of the higher paid of our Croton bright boys, who writes for the Hearst papers, makes a singularly illuminating appeal. “he Rand School has served. the community too well to be allowed to fail. It has served the community not by making us Socialists and not by making us more friendly to radi- calism generally, but by keeping alive | @ group of ideas which slowly became familiar to us, although we disliked. them, and so, very slowly, prepared ‘ which we are going today. Mr, Roo- sevelt, in particular, owes much to all have laid the groundwork for liber- alism and social change. sense, as well as of gratitude, for the Democratic Party to subscribe heav- ily to the funds of the Socialist Party, or to the Rand School for that mat- ter.” , “Has slowly prepared us for the vast upheaval!” This is exactly what Otto Wels was boasting about a few days ago in the German Reichstag before the Fascists. Apparently, it is not, only the Com- munists who understand the part that the Socialist Party is playing in America today. | ear ean '‘ATHER JOHN P. MANLEY, of North Carolina writes us as fol- LOWS: \ “We too are still. on the gold standard, but unlike our good Pres- | ident, we canhold the fort with the ordinary currency. However, we | would like to be sure of receiving your | favor and kindly suggest that you use | your-check beok or get a money or- der.” | a major step in Britain’s vent hundreds of Socialist workers, | ITLER is worried that the death) the world for comfort. He would] us for the vast upheaval through} raditals who by their propaganda} “It would be a gesture of sound; #, oa mr PaRD horny, SUBSCRIPTION RATES: six months, $8.56; 3 months, 9; 1 memth, %s,, Bronx, New York City. Foreign and "Y By Mall everywhere: One year, 36; exeepting Borough of Manhattan ; One year, ! ca Britain “Corners” Argentine Market; Is Blow at U.S.A. Trade Treaty Signed Just Before Economic Conference Gives Wall Street’s Rival the Control of Peso Foreign Exchange LONDON, May 3.—The text of the Anglo-Argentine trade treaty issued last night confirms our recent dispatches to the Daily’ Worker, in which we stated that this agreement marks economic offensive against American foreign trade in South America. , The treaty provides for a British loan of 10,000,000 pounds sterling (fo. Argentina. to-thaw ¢” <7 saayertoeatr’, Sou gk r iti its i 1 » May 3.—Last nig! frozen British credits in that) cordel Hull, Secretary of State, told country in return for which Ar-|the American ‘section of the: Inter- gentina agrees that the full proceeds| National Chamber of Commerce, that of sales of Argentine products in| “the world faces bankruptcy if ‘the ‘Great Britain shall be used to buy|POlicy of high tariffs and economic goods in Britain. agrees to buy most of its coal in Eng-| land, ‘Argentina also| isolation {s continued.” | He*outlined the Roosevelt; admin- > |istration’s plans for breaking down Since Argentina sells almost all its| international trade barriers, which chilled beef to England, as well as|Would give American capitalism a over 90 per cent of its mutton, two| tangible advantage, since American of Argentina’s major exports, this| industry is more highly organiied means that Britain will have a “cor-|than that of most other countrles ner” of all peso forcign exchange,|@nd can smash foreign competition in making it virtually impossible for the| the foreign markets. United States.or Germany to sell any| Hull admitted the gravity of. the goods to Argentina, | world crisis, saying that all nations Great Britain in turn agrees not to| “continue to slide further towards in» diminish its purchases of Argentine | Solvency and economic ruin. The. lime |beef below the Ottawa Conference) tations of human suffering caimot |figures without consulting the Ar-|much longer tolerate this suieddal gentine Government. Business circles | leadership in any country.” over here regard this treaty as an| While the American Secretary of important weapon in Britain’s hands| State says this, the Roosevelt admin- | to force through its own point of view| istration plans a large-scale offensive at the coming World Economic Con-|of inflation and active imperialist ference in London on June 12, to}penetration, providing hundreds of which all the capitalist powers lave/ millions for war ships and increased been invited, armaments. ISHII, JUST BEFORE CONFERENCE WITH ROOSEVELT, ASKS BIG NAVY Foreshadows Papific Ocean Conflict by Urging Japanese Equality in Ships With U.S. A. TOKYO, May 3.—On the eve of his departure for the United States to confer with President Roosevelt, Viscount Ishii, Japanese diplomat, said that Japan was opposed to any arms cut, and would demand a higher naval ratio at the coming naval conference. Ishii said that Japan would demand parity with the American and British narles. This was supplementede.- by a spokesman for the Foreign Of- | fice, who said: “There is no reason’ DOLICE CLOSE why Japan, which never has been defeated in war, should accept a po- sition of naval inferiority.” This is a| MONTRE AL HAL] direct retors to Roosevelt's $382,000,- | 4 000 bill fow building new warships. | The “Osaka Mainichi,” prominent| MONTREAL, May =.—Charges of Japanese paper, said yesterday that “operating a meeting hall without a {Japan will oppose a consultative | license” is the latest seheme em- world pact unless the world powers! pioved by the police to block orgen- recognize, or at least acquiesce in the) < " Rob. Manchukuo government.” | izations from holding meetings. A . * Py ert Weir, secretary of the Central GENEVA, May 3.—Now that the Committee of isto St aad Disarmament Conference has voted|°! eer hii bia i tes to consider 34,000 of the German po-| °° mL : lice force as “effective troops,” thus | Charse- limiting Germany's claim to further re-armament, the German delegate, Nadolny, has moved that the armies of other powers be ham-strung by the limitation of heavy artillery and tanks, which the Versailles Treaty forbids Germany to own, Announce Austrian Communist Party to Be Suppressed Several weeks ago, a member of the Bulgarian Literary Society, who had signed the lease for the prem- ises which his organization occupied, received a similar sentence on the same charge. Similar charges were laid at the same time against three language cultural and mass organ- izations in this city. While the Jat- ter organizations defeated’ the at- tempt of ae police - Lig meetings, they were fines in connection with sp sponsoring dances in their headquarters. Today’s judgment against the sec~ retary of the unemployed organiza- VIENNA, Austria, May 3.—The | |semi-official government news | |agency announced yesterday that | |the Austriag Government would | |shortly suppress the Communist | | Party of Austria, The official pre- | text | | the energetic workers’ defense ac- | tion in Altheim on May Day, when | | jone Nazi storm trooper was, shot. | + tion is the latest maneuver on the part of the police to halt the unem~ lems. The blunt weer ae br i 's dissofut | |used against six unemplo: leaders, chariots deg yon aered | are now serving one year hard | | who | labor in Bordeaux jail, did not prove | very effective in stemming the re- \ sistance of the unemployed. ‘Roosevelt Refuses Any Gold to British WASHINGTON, May 3.—Roosevelt, today issued instruc- Bondholders; French Gold Basis Weakening ——— | take any measures to regain ot cap= | ture foreign markets from Britain: Meanwhile, French industrialists ployed workers in this city from as~ 9 sembling and discussing their prob- | tions that the Treasury shall not make any payments in gold | to foreign holders of United States bonds. This applies with particular force to Great Britain where large amounts of Amer- ican bonds are held. Roosevelt’s instructions violate the “gold clause” in U. S. securities which guarantee payment in gold. Violent protests are being®-~ ay, Cont which is being made by British, French, and ria 15 be held! tn Lodlaci eonstn Japanese bondholders who now must accept interest payments in dollars which depreciated over 18 per i cent in value. Britain, especially, is loud in ite Protest. This is, of course, part of the world battle now going on be- tween Britain and the United States spirit of the congress delegates and the difficulties they underwent to get there and return are indicative of the widening resistance of the workers to being cannon fodder in the fights of the British and American imperialists, server by the chauvinist Latin-Amer- jean rulers, The Havana offices of the Mella Review, organ of the Tnternational Labor Defense. were raided by the poliee and 5,000 copies of the Review demanding the release of Vivo, Vilar,| bonds, are but phases of the battle! violation of the gold clause is a blunt | of the royal now going on, as preparations! announcement on the part of Ameri- | are being made for the World Eeo-' can imperialism that it is ready to, be kept, ‘ and Ordoqui, arrested leaders Communist Party, were seized. for advantageous position in world polttics and world commerce. Batile for Markets. Britain’s refusal to pay the war time in June. Britain will have to make gold pay- ments on the 5 1-2 per cent bonds which fall due on August 1. These bonds are held largely in New York. more and more about the budget ficit of 1,277,000,000 france ($58,000,- 000), which it is proposed to meet by inflationary measures. ois Minister et, who was quoted last week as being “in favor of sound now being in favor than gold standard. juoted before of money, even if inflated,” is q being still less | Germany Getting Ready for Inflation Fascist is greater conflicts and to continue the present moratorium debts she owes to the United States, snd Roosevelt's refusal to pay out. gold to British holders of American of debt payments, but will maintain the fiction of being on the gold standard by promising to pay in gold when the moratorium is lifted. This is obviously, a promise that can never measures of retaliation, The United States has more than sufficient gold to meet these payments, Roosevelt's ic ON ALL PRODUCTION AND SHIPMENTS OF AMMUNITION Us