The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 17, 1933, Page 1

ms ROOSEVELT IN HIS SO-CALLED “PEACE” MESSAGE SAYS: “SEND NO ARMED FORCES OF WHATSOEVER NATURE ACROSS THEIR FRONTIERS”; | IF ROOSEVELT MEANS THIS, WHAT ARE UNITED STATES ARMED FORCES DOING IN CHINA, HAITL, AND THE PHILIPPINES? A Peace Message That Smells of Powder With all of Europe a smoking powder barrel, and with the flames of war lighting up South America and the Far East, President Roosevelt’ id message to the nations of the world is a bold challenge for supremacy, a determined effort to obtain dominating advantages for American im- perialism in the coming world war. f : In his message, Roosevelt calls on the imperialist powers to “indi- vidualy agree that they will send no armed force of whatsoever nature across their frontiers.” Well, what about the American infantry and marines in China? What about the American military occupation of Haiti? What about the American fortifications and troops in the Philip- pines? Roosevelt makes no move to withdraw America’s armies within the borders of the United States, but he hypocritically calls upon the a to do 60. cage epi tonh has reached such a pass that Roosevelt must speak of “economic chaos” prevailing throughout the capitalist world. After admitting that the Disarmament Conference “has been unable to reach satisfactory conclusions,” Roosevelt cleverly tries to place the blame for the coming world conflict upon America’s major rivals. Hix message states: “If any strong nation refuses to join with gena- ime sincerity in these concerted efforts for political and economic peace, the one at Geneva and the other at London, progress can be @ structed and. ultimately blocked. In such event the civilized world, sen botb forms of peace, will know where the responsibility for failure lies.’ a In other words, Roosevelt says, “We have done our part. America is not to blame if the Disarmament Conference and the Worid Economic Conference both go to smash. The responsibility for the ensuing world war will lie upon America’s rivals and not upon the United States.’ Roosevelt says this at a time when the United States is ready to spend $230,000,000 for additional warships, Secretary of the Navy Swan~- son is pushing a program for building another 119 warships at a cost of half a billion dollars, to be paid for under the mask of “public works, and foisted upon the American people as “unemployment relief.” Over 260,000 young men are being given. military training in the reforestation | camps and Fechner, National Director of these forced labor camps, proud- ly states that “men are being processed and equipped ai a higher rate than at any time during the late World War.” Within 30 days time, these quarter of a million men can be turned imto a Arst-class fighting machine, armed and equipped with the latest ‘weapons of modern warfare. The army plant in Philadelphia is working om a %M-hour schedule with over 2,000 employed. And with these facts im mind, Roosevelt is bold enough to tell the rest of the world, “We have disermed—you Will be the agressors when war breaks out.” How similar all ibis is to Wilson's hypocritical messages issued on fixe eve of America’s entrance into the World War, when he ran on the platform: “He kept us out of war.” Then too the United States gov- ernment tried to lay the biame for the approaching conflict on imperial- ist America’s rivals, Then too all these pacific phrases were merely a ‘vet for the most intense preparations for war. Roosevelt's “peace message” must not deceive the workers of America. ‘Fae thunderclouds of war are gathering overhead, and one of the chief Mstigators of the coming world conflict is that able agent of American imperiaiien, Ma Franklin D. Roosevelt. Roosevelt Breaks Another Election Promise ‘Roosevelt: has let Congress know thai he will not veto a Sales Tax. Speaker of the House Rainey, leading Democratic representative, has in- formed the country that Roosevelt’s public works program will include @ Sales Tax. Rooseveli; proposes through 2 Seles Tax that the Federal Govern- ‘ment reach. out onto the meagre tables of every working cless family of a gigantic publie works program that wes to end unemployment, now ‘his real program—a niggardiy and restricted program to be same starving masses whom it is designed to help! the workers to work on a public works program— if the workers will themselves. supply the money to pay their wages! Such is the character of the “liberal” Rooseveltian generosity! Roosevelt; in his brief term already showed how he can trample upon promises and pre-election hints of promised blessings. He curried favor with the veterans—and slashed iheir compensation. He promised the end of ‘hunger—and raised the price of food. He asked for higher wages—and slashed the wages of the federal employees. « But his withdrawal of opposition to the Sales Tax is a betrayal of one of his most solemniy-proclaimed election promises. On one occasion Roosevelt, told the American workers that the idea of a sales tax “hor- rifled” him. On another occasion over a nation-wide hook-up he said: “Our party says clearly that...This is a declaration in favor of giduated income, inheritance and profit taxes, and against taxes on ford and clothing, whose burden is actually shifted to the consumers of these necessities of life on a per capita basis rather than on the basis «4 relative size of personal Incomes.” Roosevelt’s new tax proposals reveal how rotten were the intentions, ow trustworthy was the sincerity of these pre-election utterances. Roosevelt will make the working class pay for the public works gift whivh he offers them. And what a public works program it is! It turns out to be a program to strengthen the fighting equipment ot the Navy! The highest officials of the Navy have recounted with sa- tisfaction how they have been confidentially promised from $35,000,000,000 to $45,000,000,000 from the public works funds for the building of battle- ships and bombing planes. It is no secret, even in the columns of the capitalist press, that the Big Navy clique expects generous helpings from the public works funds, Thus Roosevelt's Sales Tax, which will actually restrict the daily food rations of the American workers and their families, will go to finance the construction of more powerful destroyers, more powerful cannon! These are the grim realities that lie behind the sugared Rooseveltian speeches about a “re-employment tax.” |DEVELOP ACTIONS AND PROTESTS AGAINST THE FEDERAL SALES TAX The sales tax means a rise in the cost of living. The sales tax means a new indirect wage-cut. The sales tax means a smaller loaf of bread. The sales tax means tess milk for your baby. The sales tax means that the poor support the unemployed while the bosses pay little or nothing. The sales tax-inflation—this is the Roosevelt new deal—a policy of taxing the poor to guarantee the profits «f the rich. ! Demand that the rich be taxed to pay for public works and to sup- | port the unemployed. | The Roosevelt Public Works Program is to carry through a large navy construction program under the guise of helping the unempioyed. De- \mand a Public Works Program to build workers’ homes, recreation halls, _ hospitals, etc, Demand immediate relief and Federal Unemployment Insurance at ihe expense of the bosses. Workers, employed and unemployed, organized and unorganized, Negro and white, call mass meetings in every locality to protest against the sales tax and adopt resolutions to be forwarded to the congressmen of your congressional district. Hold meetings of your organization and forward your protest im- mediately! | Call meetings in your neighborhoods to demand increased relief and_ _ wnemployment insurance. | Workers in the factory—raise your voices against the sales tax which | will drive down your living conditions, ‘ Only immediate mass protests and actions of the (oiling masses will | flefeat the proposed sales tax. i i Send copies of all protest resolutions to the pres. | Central Da iy Org | Vol. X, No. 118 MG New York, N.Y. (Section of the Communist International ) Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office der the Act of March 3, 1878. NEW YORK ,WEDNESDAY, MAY 17, 1933 NET EE ATTRA AILERON LCE Bring the Daily Worker to the Masses, With 20,000 New Readers! rker t Party U.S.A. THE WEATRER:—Todes: Baie: moderate tonmper- ature; fresh casterty winds, CITY EDITION Price 3 Cenis ROOSEVELT MESSAGE IS VEILED WAR THREAT American Imperialism we a NATIONAL Y.P.S.L SECTARY OUSTED \Backed Mooney and | May 1 United Front i CHICAGO, Tll—George Smerkin, | | National Secretary of the Young | | People’s Socialist League has been , j ousted from this position and from the national committee because he participated in the national Free! ‘Tom Mooney Congress and in the) united front May Day demonstration. He has held this office for a year. | In his place the national committee appointed Winston Dancis who is secretary of the New York organi- zation. The Socialist Party leadership per- sonally directed the attack on the Chicago Y. P. S. L. because the or- ganization participated in a united | front movement to free Tom Mooney. | This coincides with the speech of i Clarence Senior, national secretary of the Socialist Party who accuses | Mooney on a frame-up charge as a/ } bomber just as the San Francisco | Prosecuting attorney did. {| ATTENTION! | Y.C.L. AND Y.P.S.L. MEMBERS | i } a | NEW YORK.—C. A. Hath-! | away, District Organizer of the Calls on Rivals to Disarm; Japanese Warned on Far East - French General Demands Longer Military Service; Nazis Yield in Danzig | WASHINGTON, May 16.—President Roosevelt today sent a widely- heratied message to the heads gf fifty-four different nations, for the first time including the Soviet Union, in which he outlined the aims of capital- ist America in the present grave world crisis. Roosevelt as much as admtted the complete faiture advertised tariff truce when he re-@— i of the much- FARM STRIKERS HURL - BACK DEPUTIES’ TEAR GAS BOMBS; STOP TRUCKS | British Imperialism Irate Farmers Burn Effigy of Milo Reno, Drive Away Representative Who Tried to Call Off National Strike MILWAUKEE, Wi , May 16.—When attacked by dep ferred to the present state of affairs —a week after the truce—as chaotic. He said: “Tge world economic con- ference will nteet soon and must come to its ccgclusions quickly. The world cannot await deliberations tong crawn @ut. The conference must establish order in place of the pre- sent chaos.” Disarmament Conference Failure. The total failure of the Geneva parley was reflected in his words: “The disarmament conference has labored for more than a year and, as yet, has been unable to reach satis- factory conclusions. Confused pur- Poses still clash dangerously.” Roosevelt then laid down the three major points in America’s arms pro- gram: “First, to take at once the first definite step toward this ob-| that they will respect the Danzigireferred to as a “brain tri that the term of militar be | increased from 12 to 18 months at a session of the Supreme Defense Council yesterday | He advocated this to compensate for to the birth-rate drop during the World War, which will make tiself ‘felt in 1934 and Jate:. This proposal jis highly significant in view of the | present strained relations between the various capitalist powers in Eu- rope. BERLIN, May 16.—The Nazis to- Cay backed down from thelr threat. ening stand in Danzig under pre: | sure from France and Poland, their leaders telling the League of Nations’ High Commissioner for the Free City , SALES TAX PLA ties yesterday at Bonduel, Wiscon of farm strikers routed them and in the course of the fight smashed all the ‘LEFT TO CONGRESS windows in the Badger Cooperative Milk plant. The attack 7 of the deputies was particula bombs were - Wee . re ried into the ranks ) e Roosevelt “Porcedcinto nus, but tee cekne New Twists and Turns picked up and threw! the fell in annual recruits due | | WASHING’ sales tax m asure in the so-ca ic works industrial regu k, pulled osal of the Roosevelt admin! 1 the truck t, {tion will go to co: ss Wednesday and tt du In_ his ge Roosevelt will leav he truck. A group to congress the means to amor were driven to seek the projected $3,300,000,000 prograr _ | for aiding bankers and industry Fears Wide Indicnation At Tax em bac S$ of their this counter- @ away the ‘om a hail of rocks in a nearby eavily Armed Trucks Stopped. When it became known that od a BN ae i Ao Roosevelt's gang of Wall Street hire- : ergs die ised lings, constituting what is jot i paliae} pyle ce ; clubs, | : jective, as broadly outlined in the! Constitution if they should win the | recommended a sales tax to raise a MacDonald plan. “Second to agree upon time and pro- cedure for taking the following steps. “Third, to agree that while the first and the following steps are being | taken, no nation shall increase its ex- isting armaments over and above the limitations of treaty obligations.” Roosevelt followed his cabled mes- sage with a 600-word message to congress, in which he repeated the points outlined in his cable. The message was aimed at Ameri- ca’s rivals, both in Europe and in the Far East. leading Republican, who said: “Un less heroic steps are taken the Gen- This was underscored by) Representative Britten of Mlinois, | coming May 28 Danzig elections. The semi-official Warsaw press, however, warned that if the Nazis win in Danzig, “Danzig will end its independence as regards its relations {with Poland. The word for peace or for a fight with Paland myst henceforth come from Berlin.” | ‘Horton Sets June 23 | |forArgument onNew | Scottsboro Trial | DECATUR, Ala. May 16. — Judge James E. Horton today set June 22 for hearing on the motion farmers bilizatior {fund of $220,000,000 for cover interest | Setting been distrib this str ting the orde and amortization of the loan, many supporters of the administration be- J@5t “eats sizik inst the strike gan to get nervous. They remem- Pd ceputits wer done it will be the si bered that the democratic campaign ‘8- Now the farm fiercest fighting eve was partly waged in opposition to | termination and ‘ther¢ Burn Reno i of Ay . w about it ' 1. Gilbert C just such a tax. .They also recalled Aa sic le Arnold. Gilbex that Roosevelt, himself, had branded| The seputies, although armed. are ie Farm Holiday Association, who an identical proposition of tie Hoo- | 2f@id to shoot into the ranks of the | nelned Milo Reno in St. Paul call off r farmers bec; they are afraid they tiye national strike, was booed off the ver administration “horrible” thing | There is developing such indigna- ion against the sales tax against the poor to help the rich that Roosevelt has to make another maneuver. So, as a would be torn to pieces. Smach Cheese Factory Doors. At Waldo, in Sheboygan county, strikers battered in the doors of three cheese factories and drained the vats. | platform in Kaukauna by 1,500 farm- ers of his own organization The farmers then proceeded to burn in effigy Milo Reno. Communist Party, will speak 9on/| | eva Conference wil go up in smoke the question of: “The United / like its predecessors. The President| for a new trial for Haywood Pat- Front of the Youth in Struggle | Against War and the Prepara-| | tions for National Youth Day,” | jat a special discussion meeting | | to which all members of the_| | |Young Peoples’ Socialist League | | and Young Communist League | | jare invited. This meeting will be| | held tomorrow, May 18th at 8| | P.M. at the Stuyvesant Casino, | | 9th St. and 2nd Ave. Following the | | speaker there will be a discussion | | | from the floor. All members of the | YPSL and YCL are to come to | this meeting. | Admission to the meeting will be on the basis of presenting | | | |a membership card from either | | |the Young Peoples Socialist | | League or the Young Communist! | | | League. \} Strengthens Defense;, Rich Men on Jury | jis calling upon Japan, particularly, to | terson, Scottsboro boy, who is fac- he fierce battle fought at Wal- aed “ ji instead of recommending it as was Lone Te rsa sora toe Suspends Sherif. dress Blogpire nny Mec cre ea aden There the 'SCBD- ery “G. Schmedermann, the Re9- simply refers it to congre tired aie iclekacthat. Heavily en Ramen i maaren erry e Seat tried to run the picket line administration. n erected barricad opped the truc cease deliberate and unjustified of- fensive warfare against China.” Chairman McSwain of the House Military Affairs Committee voiced American imperialism’s demand for world domination, saying: “Unless the good sense of the world prevails and the nations cooperate with the United States in restricting arma- ments, then the future of the world is dark indeed.” Here the real pur- pose ofthe message is revealed, forcing America’s European rivals to disarm while Roosevelt spends hun- dreds of millions for new warships and arms. PARIS, May 16.—General Maxime | | which has resulted in the boys| | Weygand, Inspector General of the French Army and highest ranking of- ficer in France, yesterday demanded ing electrocution on framed-up rape charges. NEW YORK.—Setting of the date for the argument exacily two days before the date set for the lexecution of Haywood Patterson, | the International Labor Defense charged, is a move calculated to | |break the morale of the Scotts- boro boys. At the same time the! | |LL.D. announced that it had in- jstructed Gen. Chamlee, chief | Scottsboro defense counsel, to pro- | |ceed at once to Birmingham to see the Negro boys and to protest against the barring of all visitors | | being held yirtually incommuni- | | cado. | Members of Workers DROP 4 MITCHELL CHICAGO UNEMPLOYED CONVENTION __ CASE JURYMEN LAYS BASE FOR UNITED MOVEMENT Leagues, Unemployed MILK PRICES UP TO HELP TRUST ALBANY, May 16.—Milk prices were raised one cent a quart vester- day on orders of the Milk C | Board set up by the Tamma’ | ministration at Albany. This goes to the milk trust. The price paid to farmers for Class I milk is four cents ‘a quart, while the prices charged to consumers is 14 cents. | In order to aid in maintaining the monopoly of the concerns in the milk combine in New York state the Con- trol Board has moved to guard | against importation of milk from out- side states that might be sold at a price lower than that fixed by the board to rob consumers. 50,000 Jews Have Fled Germany. NEW YORK, May 16.—Announce- ment was made yesterday by the gen- eral manager of the Hebrew Shel- tering and Immigrant Society that Dr. James Bernstein, the soci European commissioner, had notified him that 50,000 Jews had fled Ger- many and were refugees in neighbor- nt in’ whieh clu s bomb, pital. bullet through the windshield went of the truck he was operating First injunction Against Strike. The first injunction in the s was served on Walter Singler, milk pool head and members of the milk pool restraining them from interfer- ing with milk shipments to the Badg- er Cooberative Creamery at Shaw- ano, Singler has been told by the governor and the edjutant general that he will be pe y responsi- ble for any further lence”? ne strike. The farmers scorn such threats and point out that every vio- lent scene was started by the devu- ties and gun-thugs trying to break the strike. Holiday Association to Act. The executive Committee of the Wisconsin division of the Farmers’ National Holiday Association, an- nounces that local units will be asked to vote on supporting the milk strike and on instituting a general farm strike, This move is in direct repu- diation of the treachery of Milo Reno and his gang at the head of the national organization known as 's at Bonduel ation to sheriffs to murder farm strikers. Raise Milk Prices in Chicago, CHICAGO, M 16. — The milk trust has. raised prices again one cent @ quart under the pretext that they have to pay additional to the farmers, There is growing a movement, em- bracing housewives, to boycott and picket stores where milk prices have been raised. for Farmers, a in the farm ie area it is imperative that the rt in the towns and cities be mobilized in strongest’ possible num- bers to aid in the fight against the milk trust. Every district, section. unit and fraction of the Communist Party should get into action to come bat the agitation of the capitalist press which tries to arouse the work- ers against the farmers. The lie that the farmers are fighting to starve the city population must be answered in propaganda, agitation and de- finite united front action of the broadest possible masses of workers | ‘Councils and I. W. W. on National Committee NEW YORK, May 16.—Working in complete co-operation and friend- _liness, Federal Judge Henry God- (dard, Prosecuting Attorney George | |Z. Medalie, and Max Steuer, defense | attorney in the trial of Charless | eel, jak ta eh gots | Mitchell, former chairman of the| , CHICAGO, Mil, May 16.—By a yote of 71 to 18 the national cc <ntien | National City Bank, agreed today | of the Federation of Unemployed Workers Leagues meeting in this city went |“by consent” to drop four of the on record for united front action. Karl Borders Refuses to Support the United Action of tire Convention _|income tax payments in 1929 and income previously chosen jurors. One of the dropped jurors “had | been burned” in the crash of the| Bank of the United States. | Mitchell is on trial for evading 1930 on an of $4,000,000 He was involved in the recent scan- dals connected with the national eity bank. But the government has not preferred any charges against him on that account. _ The present composition of the jury is highly favorable to the de- fendant, consisting mainly wealthy building contractors, man- agers and merchants, There are no workers on the jury The prosecuting attorney Medalie, a short time ago dropped the charges against a leading Wall Street broker, who was involved in criminal abuse of money intrusted to his care, on the grounds that he “did not hone! for a conviction.” CHILD LEADERS’ BULLETIN | NEW YORK.—The May-June issue of the “Workers’ Child,” the monthly bulletin of the Young Pioneers of America for those active in working class and farm children’s work, is now ready. Copies can be procurred from P.O. Box 36, N.Y. ©, ab Sea copy, This action is based on a letter sent by the National Committce of the Unemployed Councils, which was Worker. * The line endorsed was stated in the opening of the letter thus: “The National Committee of the Unem- ployed Councils . . . hopes that you will take steps that will result in greater and more successful strug- gles of the unemployed against mass starvation, for immediate relief and for federal unemployment insurance.” The Federation has been led by Karl Borders and other Socialist leaders. The Socialist Party has bent all efforts towards dominating this organization to carry out its pol- icies. Elect Officers Karl Borders, who called this con- vention, when nominated for chair- man declined. He, as well as the Socialist Party leaders are opposed to uniting the ranks of the working class, The convention elected its officers by @ large majority. They are: As of Unemployed Workers Leagues, vice-presiden!, Guss of the Unem- ployed Councils, Leach of the Chi- cago Workers Committee was elected secretary and Stanton of the Unem- ployed Union connected witn the I. W. W. as treasurer, Besides the officers an enermtive printed in last Saturday’s issue of the Daily | [committee of 11 wa: elected. On this committee is also Lamson, a ee of the Unemployed Coun- cils, Socialists Sal After the election of officers the right wing socialists and some oth- ers refused to acept any nomina- tion. Headquarters of the organ- ization wil be in Chicago. As already reported in yesterday's Dally, the constitution provides for a federation of all unemployed or- ganizations in cities, counties, states and nationally. A resolution was _adopted to confer with the con- vention of Unemployed Citizens Leagues scheduled for July 4 in Col- umbus, Ohio. The League is under the influence of Muste. This pro- |posal is for the purpose of bring- ing about one organization of un- employed nationally, At the meeting of the national combined | president, Dixon of the Federation committee, Sol Larks of the Young Peoples Socialist League was elected lassistant secretary. The vote {or seating the Unem- | ployed Council at the opening of jthe convention was 49 for and 26 | against. On Monday the ‘first re- port incorrectly recorded the vote as 26 for and-@-agninst. ‘ ’ ing countries. Veterans’ Convention Opens With Discussion on the Bonus Payment ance; (3) adequate relief for the un- the Holiday Association who called off with the farmers. WAHINGTON, May 16.—The con- Many delegates ridiculed the thing vention of veterans went into session and, one of them said it was not up employed and the farmers. this morning at the Washington Au-| to the veterans to find out how con- But in spite of all this, in spite of | ditorium, with George D. Brady, as! gress would pay it; this was up to the fact that the rank and file are |permanent chairman. Brady was/ congress itself because it was money; coming together on the basis of a | chairman of the committee on ar-| that the government plainly owed;common platform of struggle, the | rangements for the convention and, the veterans. | leaders of the “right wing” are meet- | when it convened was made per-| Announcement was made that ing at the headquarters of the Re- manent chairman. | Roosevelt assured the vets that the| Serve Officers’ Training Camp, where ‘The morning session was taken up| committee would be received by the| they formulate their plans and try | with the election of committees and) proper committees of both houses of | set their men to work as a group, the adoption of rules. | congress. Word was also sent to the! Government Forgot the Flag. Open Discussion on Bonus. | convention that Mrs. Roosevelt would! At the camp yesterday the govern- In the -afternoon a discussion on speak at the camp tonight. She cer- ment forgot to furnish an American the bonus opened up. When the re-| tainly will not be able to explain why | flag. A motion was made when the solutions committee explained that ths veterans’ pensions and compen-| thing was noted to “get the flag that it was not yet ready to bring in @/sation has been slashed by the) Was burned when Hushka was killed” report on the resolutions that had “economy act” put over by Roosevelt.| (referring to the Anacostia buichery | been submitted the bonus discussion 2 ‘last year). The convention went into started. Still Trying Split Tactics, a demonstration wild with applause, | The government is still trying in Woods, who had previously proved At 2:30 adjournment was voted to | himself a disruptor in trying to pre-, every way to manipulate the conven-/ allow the Legislative Committee to j vent unity of the veterans raised the} tion. Government men down at the get in touch with the White House | question of “how the bonus can be| camp ask the new men coming inj to arange for its continuation at least paid without costing the government which camp they want to go to. The) unifl Satu y. Tt ig nevessary that ‘oue penny.’’ He proposed negotiable former dissenting group still main-| the convention be continued due to eurities on which the vot ns | tai if intact and have not taken, the fact that the grouns had diffi- would secure funds from the bankers, their places in the tenis along the culty in getting together after the j using the adjusted certificates as street. arrangelr could not be carried out as originally planned Although ready to fight for all the Nevertheless, unity wes achieved at yesterday’s session at Fort Hunt where pfactically the same program demands the convention has not yet was adopted. The three points ave’ got down to the main order of the Turned Down. | (1) Payment of the adjusted com-jday, This will probably be achieved This ridiculous proposal was re-)| pensation certificates (the bonus);|as soon as the resolutions commit~ ferret 40 the resolutions committee. | (2) no reduction in disability allow- | tee is ready te report. }curity, The bankers would pay the | government 345 per cent interest and |then, in 1943, the government would pay it back in full,