The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 9, 1933, Page 4

-™ py the Comprodaily Publishing Oo. daily except Sunday, at ¢ 8. 13th mt., New York City, N. X. Telephone ALgenquin 4-7936. Cable “DAIWORK.” Address and mail checks to the Daily Worker, 5¢ E. 13th St, New York, N, ¥. Page Four —— Dail ANKEN AT BANQUET WITH TAMMANY JUDGES P Mass Organizations, Rally for May 10) MarchA gainstNazis NEW YORK—The Jewish Workers and Peoples’ Committee Against Fascism and Pogroms in Germany has issued another urgent call to all working-class organizations to take part in the huge May 10th protest march against German fascism. | All workers are asked to quit work at 2 and to be at the mobili- int 16th and 17 p.m. arching We oluman 1, FE. 1th St DINNER 8 Gupeene Cage dusrice Timotay A. Leary RY His Foner Cotscanwes Kotex Cammonare BIC WORKMEN'S SICK AND BENEFIT SOCIETY URGES ALL TO S OF GERMAN FASCISM Rr uy dan. 2@ i), ‘A * H Ex-Judge Panken, socialist leader, (second from front), pays tribute to Tammany Hall at a dinner given to Tammany Tim O'Leary last January by his “former colleagues. At the Continental Congress Sun- day in Washington Panken fought against an amendment to a resolu- tion for recognition of the Soviet AID VICTIM ath Ben : r Union which proclaimed the USSR co-opers e National Comm: as a workers’ government building Fascism in aign to help F 's vetims. Otto Sattler, socialism. ‘ation, has issued the of “Solidaritaet”, official organ of this or ing call to action 3 “Relief for the victims and refugees of the Hitler fascist regime ww a paramount issue. is aid for these victims essential be- terial assistan needed, but also because this material definitely to the necessary expression of solidarity with the 16-Inch Guns for New Naval Base in the North Pacific orker Porty USA. HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS IN EUROPE|s p a R DEMONSTRATE AGAINST FASCISM: 50,000 MARCH IN | LONDON, May 8.—Hundreds of workers demonstrated in London and other big cities yester-| LONDON STREETS thousands of British day against Fascism, both in Nazi Germany and in all other | countries. More than 50,000 marched through the streets of London to Hyde Park where numerous speakers addressed the | mass meeting attacking fascism. They also denounced Lord |'Trenchard, Commissioner Police for advocating that po- lice officers be recruited ex- Of Oo oe crisis, Premier Hevia resigning in protest against official governmental patronage of the new Fascist corps. The public demonstration in force Angry workers attacked and beat) of the Fascist militia is a sequel to clusively from aristocratic private schools. | up British black-shirts who were | handing out leaflets in Piccadilly | Circus. Police rei the new dictatorial decree suspend- inforcements had ‘o| ing all civil liberties and empower rescue the fascists from the indig-/ ing President Alessandri to take ri- nant demonstrators. The fascist movement, headed by| Sir Oswald Mosley, is growing rapid- ly, the leaders claiming a member-| organizations in Chile. ship of 500,000 already. The fascists | have their Defense Troops, resembi- | ing the Nazi storm troopers, who are being prepared to suppress all Com-| munist activity. ANTWERP, Belgium, May 2 (By Mail).—The fascists of the “Associt tion of German National Socialists,”| thrashed by the of Antwerp, demonstration though repeatedly revolutionary workers again organized a RIGHT TO BUILD | which was answered with a counter-| demonstration by the Antwerp Com- nrunist and class-conscious workers. | The fascist meeting was broken premises where the meeting was held were demolished. The police, rein- | forced by special detachments, ar- |rest one Communist. A number of fascists and some workers were’ in- jured. . . SANTIAGO, Chile, May 8.—Eleven thousand uniformed Fascists, mem-| bers of the new National Milicia Re- publicana, paraded before President) Alessandri yesterday. The armed Fascist corps was sec- | retly organised as a counterweight | | to discontent in the regular army and to combat the rising tide of Commun- | ist activity in Chile. | ¢ class and sympathizing intellectuals, educators and prot y strengthens their battle against Hitler terror. i organizations and sympathizers should answer National Committee to Aid the Victims of German Fascism. n ¢ nds in every city to help the orphans and widows, \ secuted and oppressed, the refugees rom suffe olidar- \ the German workers ou heel of the Hitler terror } ot 1 slogan OTTO SATTLER. National Committee to Aid th German Fascist to that of Editor Sattler in urging ai io can to give gene and money to support its efforts to help those in need. mobilize for the National Tag Days to be held on May 19, 20, Send to our office at 75 Fifth Ave., N.¥.C., today for directions. PROGRAM OF The following is the main resolution overwhelmingly adopted by the more than 1,300 delegates at the “Free Tom Mooney Congress” concluded in Chicago after forming it- \ self into a permanent body for carrying on the fight for Tom Mooney’s liberation. The resolution calls for the for- mation of National Councils of Action in every city of the United States. It declares: “We propose a council of rep- i resentatives of various organizations with different views, but having the common desire to fight for the liberation of Tom Mooney and other victims of capitalist ‘justice’ and for the democratic rights of the working class and exploited masses. t ! | | * HE Free Tom Mooney Congress, assembled at Chicago April 30 to May 2, 1933, to decide on ways and means to obtain the liberty of that militant champion of the workers’ rights, Tom Mooney, 32 years a member in good standing of the International Molders’ Union, No. 164, and to combat the increasing wave of similar persecution of workers, farmers, and the op- pressed Negro masses, adopts the following declaration The brazen frame-up and condemnation of Tom Mi and later to life imprisonment, and of Warren Billings life imprison- ment in California in 1916, was nominally for a crime with which they had no conhection; and this frame-up had to do wholly with the fierce economic struggles between capital and labor. Framed up by private corporation detectives solely because of fearless Yeadership in the struggle for the improvement of the standards of living for the workers, the continued imprisonment of Mooney and Billings for seventeen years is an insult, a challenge—a declaration of ruthless class war against the workers of this country. In the course of his long martyrdom, courageously endured in San Quentin Prison, Tom Mooney has become the foremost living symbol of the American working class. As such, he is hated by all of the enemies of labor; and, as such, we fight for him, determined at all costs, in the | interests of the working class, to secure his liberation mey to death, The imprisonment of- Tom Mooney has become the keystone of a whole arch of criminal frame-yps, ruthless attacks and denials of the rights of workers, farmers, and the oppressed Negro masses. In the midst of the present economic crisis, which brings hunger and starvation millions of American workers, the imprisonment of Tom Mooney by to the ruling powers of California is continued by those sinister forces as part of the tactics of the American capitalist class to throw the whole burden of the depression upon the workers and fa: in lowered standards of iiving an mial of relief and to enforce the acceptance of this through a ruthless reign of terror ‘These persecutions are tonnected with violent breaking of strikes, the cutting of wages, the fall of the inembership of the trade unions from four millions in 1920 to two millions in 1932, a fall of total payrolls to 38 per cent of what it was in 1929, the suffering of millions left to starve without social insurance, with women and children dying of hunger in the cities, with tens of thousands of farmers dispossessed of their land and driven to the cities to join the unemployed in fruitless search for work or framed up and tried before military courts. Just as the frame-up and imprisonment of Tom Mooney was con- nected with the preparations for the entry of this country into the world war, so now the continued imprisonment of Mooney, and other victims of capitalist class justice, with the increasing sharp attacks upon all rights of the workers, are connected with the militarization of the jobless work- ers in forced labor camps on wages standardized at $1 per day while thou- sands of millions of dollars squeezed from small taxpayers are diverted to the treasuries of private bankers, and the spending of hundreds of millions in the preparation of a secend imperialist war by the capitalist nations and against the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics Just as Mooney was first saved from the gallows by international ac- tion and solidarity of labor on the part’ of the Russian workers, just so the struggle for the liberation of Mooney and other victims of capitalist class justice becomes more than ever an international cause in which the workers of all countries of the world muist be enlisted to fight In this situation, the world-wide demand for the liberation of labor's martyr, Tom Mooney, is taking on gigantic proportions. 'HE power of labor to release its imprisoned martyrs is increased in proportion to the successful strikes which are now beginning to dem- onstrate that the working class will not tolerate the lowering of the standard of living to a starvation level. The power of the laboring masses successfully to demand the liberation of Mooney is greatly increased at a time when hundreds of thousands of American workers in hunger marches are a living proof that the American people of all exploited classes have reached @ turning point at which they intend to resist aggression The joining of white and Negro workers together in defense against Se er Lege agg Prodi Milas iaheBad compel th - and race persecution. = | The new Fascist force has already | iP | spent over 6,000,000 pesos (over $350,- “Varga” recently left Boston, said| 999) for planes, tanks, fleld guns, to be loaded with twenty-five 16-| rifies, revolvers, field hospital equip-| inch guns for a new naval American | ment and trucks, including every-| base in the Aleutian Islands, off the| thing for defensive or offensive war-| BOSTON, Mass., May 8—The ship | Alaskan ‘coast ; : fare. A squadron of Fascist planes| The: .¢ cleats OF nts. MeN | flew overhead during the review. | miles from Japan, is a| One of the regimental commande: © indication of the growing im- | Of the Fascist army is Domingo Du- | perlalist tension and danger of war| an, Minister of- Education and Just-| between the United States and| ice. who marched in the parade. His Japan in the Far East participation has led to a Cabinet! | has demanded the right to build a} jup and all the furnishings on the| munists and all other revolutionary NAZIS DEMAND BIG BATTLESHIP GENEVA, May 8—The German delegation to the Disarmament Con- ference of the League of Nations giant 26,000-ton battleship to match the new French battle cruiser “Dun- kerque.” This is another step on the road to full re-armament tor Fascist | Germany. The London Times angrily accuses Germany of trying to wreck the Coa- ference, adding protest against the proposed military drill for the com- pulsory labor army planned by Hit- ler. It adds that if Germany is to train its whole population in arms “it may as well be admitted that the Disarmament Conference is doomed.” Germany’s new demands for naval re-armament caused Capt. Eden the ,British delegate to leave hastily for London, as any increase in European naval forces automatically entitles Britain to increase its navy under KS (OOD to the last drop obviously | doesn’t apply to the American dol- lar. | (HE JOURNAL OF COMMERCE | shows the way in making really clever headlines, One of their latest reads, “CHAIN STORE SALES| RISE”, And the news item under- neath reads, “The first eleven chains to report s showed a decline in turnover of 5.83 per cent compared with last year.” Quite a rise, eh? | WHE Roosevelt administration is go- ing to be very kind to the farm- ers who cannot pay their mortgages. Are they going to cancel them? | ts be silly. e going to their in- charges by per cent, and they are going to |give them a little jlonger time to |pay“up. When the steed gets too re- \bellious, give him a little more rein. The capitalist class will do every-| thing for the farmer, but get off his| back. | | reduce ter ,| gorous measures against the Com- 1 | VE see by the papers that the Ex- | Congressman, La Guardia is get- | ting ready for a fusion campaign | against Tammany Hall. And the same paper reports that |La Guardia is getting ready for a} | fusion campaign against Tammany Hall. | Would it be very wicked if we sug- gested that La Guardia is preparing to mop up some. socialist votes in the coming campaign? And do you really think that the socialist leaders are so innocent as not to suspect it? <n Le . B. of Washington, D. C., writes that a prominent banker in dis- cussing the advisability of investing in steel stocks said that they are a good investment now because the na- | | tions are preparing for war. Bankers ought to know. War means profits for the rich, and misery and death for the workers. ae wis be ales for the month of April |” | showed me marks of Nazi the “escalator clause” of the naval / treaty. In turn the United States, which has naval parity with Eng-! land, would add to its navy, so that/|t here again we see the race for arm ament and preparations for a new imperialist war on in full course. OME of these capitalist exploiters | are going to get the surprise of | heir lives when they try the stunt | f getting out of the crisis by plung~ ing the world into another world war | | by attacking the Soviet Union, Mj | The. bourgeoisie has torn away | 'THE workers of the world have not | from the family its sentimental forgotten the last war. veil, and has reduced the family And they have learned an awful relation te a mere money rela- | lot from the example of the workers tion.—Communist Manifesto. in the Soviet Union. | rades. SUBSCRIPTION BATES: Trade War Rages; British Fight U.S. J Tariff Truce Plan French Socialists ‘Split Over Payment of Debt to U. 8. A‘; Daladier Plays Safe LONDON, May 8.—The British Government is side-stepping American Ambassador-at-Large Norman Davis’ efforts to obtain a world tariff until the World Economic-Conference. The British counter with the pro- posal for » war-debt truce in exchange for the tariff truce, in other words a counter-offensive designed to compel the final annulment of the govern- mental debts owed the United States @ by the former Allied Powers. ‘They | of Deputies and the Senate is unwil- are going ahead with their’ aggres-|ling to approve the payment, and sive trade agreement policy, block- | Daladier refuses to risk his parli ing the United States out of foreign | mentary downfall by ~proposing the markets, payment of the debt to obtain trade Rg ee, concessions from the United States. PARIS, May 8.—The French Sogi- alist Party, which dominates the Daladier Cabinet, is split. over the payment of the December instalment owed the American government on| the war debts. The French Chamber Rumors are current of an American proposal for the settlement of the en- tire outstanding French debt on lump sum basis, at from $600,000,000 to. $700,000,000. TAGORE’S SON TELLS OF NAZI TORTURE OF WORKERS IN JAIL PARIS, May 8.—Soumyandranath Tagore, son of Rabindranath Tagore, | world-famous Hindu poet, told of his experiences in Nazi prisons after his arrest in Munich as an alleged Communist. Young Tagote has just arrived in Paris. “The room in which I was confined,” he writes, “was low, dark, and without ahy ventilation. Twemty—t WO @—————a—— nnn | other prisoners were in it already, lie on his back. ’ all members of Left parties, Hosts | Communists. Many of them had| BERLIN, May 8.—The daughter of | been confined in the cell for over|Philip Schneidermann, Socialist | a month without ever having been| leader, committed suicide with her questioned. | husband yesterday. Another prom- “Prom time to time one prisoner | nent suicide was Dr. Ernst Ober. {| | would be taken from the cell. Nerve-| fobren, formes, Reichstag begs WROOE See heard, | it with his chief, Hugenberg, on Pheast beck among aa Sobbing, he| the Policy of alliance with the Nazis. rota ts ep ee ae f the tk | ‘The wave of suicides sweeping over pes hia 71 aby Scie ates ne ure! Germany expresses the despondency | that had been inflicted on him. tr peti Upcaeais elawienta, ybortiae “A Communist Reichstag deputy) willing and unready to fight against blows.| the Fascist regime, and with their “That is what they call German na-| gemocratic illusions shattered by Na- tional culture,’ he said. | ai terror, resort to the weapon of The day after I was jailed a young | despair—ending it all by suicide. _ boy by the name of Rahm was called) ns Sahn out. He came back with his legs) BERLIN, May 8.—Professor Max cut and bleeding. He said Nazi storm) Liebermann, famous Berlin painter, troopers had beaten him with steel| dean of German artists, and Pres- rods because he refused to give false| ident of the Prussian Academy of testimony egainst one of his com- Arts, resigned today. With great difficulty we! Liebermann, a Jew, is 85 years old, placed him on his side on the evil-| and has been a member of the Aca- smelling straw serving as a bed, be-|demy for 30 years and president of caus> with his wounds he could not it for the last 12. * F ACTION | Resolution Adopted at the “Free Tom Mooney Congress” Held in Chicago April 30-May 2 no less than the joining of great masses of white and Negro workers to- gether in struggles against unemployment in the cities, testifies to a grow- ing solidarity which makes now for a greater strength in the struggle for the rights of the exploited. The joining of the two mighty currents of protest and demand for the freedom of Tom Mooney and for the freedom of the nine Negro boys framed up at Scottsboro, is the historic mark of the developing strength of the exploited masses against oppression, The fight for the liberation of Brother Tom Mooney as the greatest anding symbol of the American workers’ struggles for bread and free- dom can and must be made an inseparable part of all the struggles of | the whole working class, of the farmers and of the Negro people against suffering and oppression. Brother Tom Mooney, for 17 years the symbol of working class martyr- dom, must now become the living symbo} of the unity of the working class. The need of unity is a life and death question of the American work- ers today. Disunity In the Past IN 1916 the frame-up of Mooney was not answered by a united front of the workers. The labor movement remained divided and the corrupt use of the name of “Organized Labor” has at times served as an instrument in the hands of those who conspired to hang this labor organizer. The frame-up and sentence to death or imprisonment of Tom Mooney and Warren Billings would not have been possible if labor had been united for their defense. Their 17 years of imprisonment would not have been possible if at any time the whole of labor had been united in one firm demand for their release. For such disunity the trade unions and the working class have paid and are paying a terrible price. The legal murder of the innocent Sacco and Vanzetti was a part of the price of disunity of the workers. It could not have occurred if, prior to that time, the unity of the workers in defense of Tom Mooney had been established. Countless other acts of savage violence, frame-up, smash- ing picket lines, attacks on unemployed gatherings, such acts of violence as have become epidemic since the World War, were made easier for the reactionary forces because the workers had not successfully been united to resist this attack expressed in the frame-up of Mooney in 1916. Through this breach of unity has flowed a torrent of tyranny in tne form of in- junction autocracy and deprivation of legal righis. A Call for Unity i Tt Congress calls upon trade unions and all workers’ organizations, on the exploited farmers, and on all intellectuals and professional people to form now an agreement, of co-operation for those objects on which it is possible to obtain united action for the release of Tom Mooney and checking the persecutions of the working class, Difficulties stand in the way of securing united action which arise out of divisions'in the ranks of the working class. Yet at the present time, regardless of these differences, the needs of the working class call imperatively for united action to halt the encroachments on the’ rights and interests of the workers. i Therefore, even while sharp differences will continue to exist on many questions, between the various workers’ organizations, it is necessary to bring about concerted action of all workers and of their organizations for beets immediate objectives equally urgent for all workers and workers’ bodies, We proclaim the first af these to be united action of all for the free- dom of Tom Mooney and Warren K. Billings, Oe vie ich order that such unity of action be made possible under present difficult circumstances of division between workers’ organizations, it is the opin- ion-of this Congress that to obtain such united action, those organizations which enter into such a united front shall ‘in from attacks on other participating organizations on the issues and ptoposals of the united front during the period of common action and while such organizations are loyally carrying out this agreement. Differences of opinion on policies and tactics, of course, can and must be discussed in the course of working out, the proposals for common action in order to clarify the issuss. Criticism. of even the sharpest sort should be directed against any opposed to united action National Council of Action Rigtie ne! | People. In doing this we declare our purpose not to farm a body which will supercede any organization, but to bring about co-operation and united action of all existing organizations. We propose a council of representa- tives of various organizations with different views, but having the com- mon desire to fight for the liberation of Tom Mooney and other victims of capitalist “justice” and for the democratic rights of the working gass and exploited masses. Such a council, particularly, should not supersede the Tom ‘Mooney | Molders’ Defense Committee, the General Defense Committee of the I. W. | W., the International Labor Defense, or other workers’ defense bodies, but should strive to eliminate friction between these bodies and to unite | support of the fight for workers’ rights. The Tom Mooney’s Molders’ Defense Committee should continue to function as at present, assuming special charge of Tom Mooney’s defense under his personal direction. The Council of Action will support the Molders’ Defense Committee through financial assistance and by developing the widest possible mass move- | ment for the release of Mooney and Billings. The Free Mooney Congress calls upon all organizations of workers to join in setting up the National Tom Mooney Council of Action, composed of representatives of all workers’ org~nizations which now or after the Congress may be drawn into a united struggle for the freedom of Tom Mooney and, as inseparable activities, for a united front for workers’ rights and the rights of the Negro people. roe Conditions of Affiliation 'HE conditions for affiliation to this Council of Action shall be: 1, the acceptance of the proposals here outlined; 2, the readiness of each organization to enter actively into mass struggle as a necessary supplement to legal defense and parliamentary activity for workers’ rights; 3, the mob- ilization of local organizations for active participation in local councils of action to be set up throughout the country. This Congress calls for a nation-wide campaign to mobilize the work- ing class in the fight for workers’ rights and against all forms of discrim- ination against Negroes. Particularly this Congress determines to concen- * trate efforts on winning the support of the American Fede ‘ation of Labor | and of the International Unions affiliated with it, and 6° the Socialist Party. It instructs the Council of Action to address itself to and to con- fer with the leading committees of these organization in a continuous effort to break down their opposition. All negotiations with the A. F. of L., the International Unions and Socialist Party should be openly and frankly carried on with the knowl- edge of the masses. These organizations should be held strictly account- able to the masses for a continued failure to enter into energetic mass struggle for the release of Tom Mooney and for workers’. and Neero-9 rights. ft ’ In view of the urgency of the situation, this Congress calls upon all Jocal unions, all organizations of the unemployed and local branches of the Socialist Party and of other workers’ organizations, to affiltate them- selves at once with the local Tom Mooney Councils of Action. The need IN FIGHT FOR MOONEY ° for united action cannot be postponed. The independent action of local unions, Socialist Party branches, etc., can become # powerful force driv- | ing toward our goal of united wee. '6 ef \ * ms Mooney Petition National Council of Action is also authorized to proceed in co-opera- tion with all organizations which can be brought to co-operate, whether endorsing this Congress or not, with a nation-wide petition campaign tor the purpose of obtaining millions of signatures to the demand for the immediate and unconditional pardon of Tom Mooney. Such a. petitiony campaign, accompanying an active mass protest movement, can become @ powerful instrument for arousing larger masses of workers in the struggle for Mooney’s release and the struggle for workers’ and Negroes’ its, Local Councils of Action HIS Congress calls upon all organizations here represented and upon the individual delegates to take the lead at once upon their return home in preparing and carrying on local united front conferences with the broadest possible representation, particularly striving to draw in those or- ganizations like the A. F. of L. and Socialist Party heretofore insuffi- ciently represented. Mass meetings should be held where reports are made on the accomplishments of the Free Tom Mooney Congress as a preparation for forming the local conferences. These conferences should have as their task the setting up of local Tom Mooney Councils of Action and the inauguration of the local united front activity, | ‘The National Tom Mooney Council of Action in cooperation with the various organizations should take the lead in the development of the j nation-wide campaign. for the workers’ and Negroes’ rights—concentrat- ing now on the drive for the release of Tom Mooney and Warren Billings. . « 8 : Mooney Day and Another Congress HE NATIONAL COUNCIL OF ACTION upon the basis of the develop- Pott ment of a broad mass movement, through reports of feturning dele- ~ gates, local conferences, mass meetings, demonstrations gad the petition j campaign, will be able at an appropriate time to om > nettonal and in- ternational Mooney Day of struggle for the release of Tom Mooney and Warren Billings, This will also become a rallying point in the whole struggle for workers’ rights and equal rights for Negroes. The form of such action and its time should be determined by the National Council in accordance with the developments in the struggle for Mooney’s re- Jease. It should resist energetically any tendency to diminish the grow- ing mass movement by merely formally setting a “Mooney Day”. The Congress authorizes the National Tom Mooney Council of Action to call another Congress at such time as it may deem most proper. Related Issues Ww regard the struggle for Negroes’ rights as symbolized by the Scotts boro case aan inseparable part of the struggle for the complete unity of the working class, and as therefore an integral part of the struggle for the freedom of Tom Mooney. We urge the returning delegates in set- ting up local Councils of Action to secure the widest possible active sup- for the defense of the Scottsboro boys. : In addition, we urge the Councils of Action to develop united front support of the outstanding cases today involving workers’ and Negroes’ rizhts—the Kentucky miners sentenced to life for organizing a union; the Atlanta prosecutions for organizing unemployed black and white workers: the Centralia IWW prisoners; the Tlinois Progressive Miner: arrested and prosecuted for union activities; the Tampa Cigar workers; the devortations for working class activity; the 5 Negro share croppert convicted in Alabama; Matthew A. Schmidt and J. B. McNamara, A. F of L. organizers serving life sentences in San Quentin, and the Iowa an¢é Michjgan farmers prosecuted under the criminal 5} laws for organizing resistance to foreclosures. se . A Call to Mass Action ‘THE Free Tom Mooney Congress calls upon workers’ organizations to iy on thei guard against all illusions concerning the chances of Tor Mooney, Warren Billings, the Scottsboro boys or any other yietims of capitalist cless justice, obtaining thelr liberty through mere dependence upon the courts of lew, or to secure {heir ric! hrow3n constitutional and legal guarantees alone. They have too cfien been shown to be the insirumegts of class persecution, : Mass pressure, not the “justice of the couris, is responsible for such vietories as the working class hes won. This congress calls upon : masses to enlarge this weapon of mass precsure by quickly estab the united front of labor for the release of Tom Moon: lings and the other victims of capttalist class justice end for ihe of workers’ and Negroes’ web