The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 22, 1933, Page 1

EDITORIAL The Clank of Arms Bursts Thru the Chatter of Peace that the official talk of peace is an ac- curate barometer of the approaching storm of war. The frank Junker militarist Bismark said that statesmen never tell more lies than on the eve of war. And only the other day, Jules Cambon, leading French diplomat, said: “There was never so much talk about peace as today, be admitted that it is more precarious than ever.” This statement tells the truth. The flames of world war are ready to burst forth at any moment, as the imperialist wolves prepare to leap at one another's throats in the struggle for world markets And as they set the cannon in place, one thought comes increas- ingly to the surface in their minds—perhaps they can settle their dif- ferences by turning all their guns against the land that is building Socialism, the Soylet. Union, the land whose success in abolishing unemployment and crisis, makes their own economic crisis more glaring. The Soviet Union, in the face of persistent provocations is the only country which pursues a constant policy of peace. As they prepare for war, the imperialist powers increase the loud chatter of pacifism ic drown the clank of arms. Pacifism is the favorite weapon of the capitalist, class as it prepares to send the workers of the world into another world slaughter. One of the vital iinks in the fight against imperialist war is the relentless exposure of the militarist preparations which go on day and night under the cover of official pacifism. We must tear away the pacifist mask from the capitalist war makers. In this fight which must go on daily, hourly, we must use the ideological weapon provided by the Resolution against Imperialist War of the VI World Congress of the Communist International In this resolution, we can find the fundamental revolutionary line for our struggle against imperialist war. This resolution which is easily available in popular form must be- come immediately the guide in our daily struggles against war. The following quotation from this resolution exposes the role of official pacifism Imperialism at the present time encounters serious obstacles in its ideological and organizational preparations for new imperialist coun- ter-revolutionary wars, .. the instinctive hostility to war aroused among the broad masses of the population, particularly among the workers, the peasants and the working women, since the last world war. For that reason, imperialism is compelled to make its prepara- tions for war under the cloak of pacifism. At the same time, pacifism te acquiring a new objective \significance as the ideology and the in- sirument in world imperialism’s struggle against the progressing world revolution and its stronghold, the U.S.S.R. Herein lie the objective significance and the fundamental aim of the disarmament proposals and conferences initiated by the imperialist States. ¢ A Nazi Agent Comes to America In three more days, the ship bearing Hans Wiedemann, Nazi en- voy to the Chicago World Fair, to the United States reaches New York, Wiedemann is one of the notorious Goebbels’ chief lieutenants and is personally responsible for much of the terror and barbarism of the fascist dictatorship. His coming to America as the official representa- tive of fascist Germany 1s @ direct affront to the working class of the United States and must be resisted with every means at the workers’ disposal. Demonstrations during the next three days, and especially on the day on which this Nazi agent reaches American soil, must show the entire world that the American working class is united with their Ger- man comrades in their fight against the Nazi murderers. The campaign for the release of Comrades Thaelmann, Torgler and Dimitroff must be made an integral part of the anti-Wiedemann demonstrations. Only by the continued mass pressure of the working class of the whole world can the heroic leaders of the German work- ing class be saved from the Nazi hangmen. And with this campaign against Nazi terror, there must be com- bined a sustained and extensive effort for organizing relief for the victims of German fascism, Funds must be rushed with as little delay as possible to the National Committee to Aid Victims of German Fas- cism at 75 Fifth Ave., New York City. There is no time to lose. Tens of thousands are starving in the Nazi concentration camps and hun- dreds of thousands of their dependents as well as political refugees from Germany have but one reliance left—the solidarity of the inter- national working class. It is an axiom of history but it must “You Are-.Convicting Us for Demanding Bre ‘Om Saturday, Megistrate Burke sent 15 workers to jail for participat- ing in the demonstration at the Bronx Home Relief Bureau. Singling out the active leaders for the longest terms, he meted out sentences ranging up to four months on minor charges. Even ‘The Home News,” mouthpiece of the Bronx real estate sharks, comments on the “heavy jail terms”. Judge Burke is contented because he has carried out the wishes of his masters—the landlords and bosses. Now evictions can proceed un- hampered. But he is mistaken. In his own court, George Chery, one of the un- employed who was sentenced, threw back the challenge. He said: “You are convicting me not because I am a criminal but because I had the courage to demand bread for my children and a roof over our heads. By convicting me, you are sentencing my children to starvation. Your action will prove to me who is the friend and who is the enemy of the working class.” This heavy sentence was foreseen when the judge promised to repeat a second “Gonshak case”. On May 5th, Judge Aurelio, similarly singled out Samuel Gonshak, leader of the Downtown Unemployed Council, for an indeterminate sentence up to two years in the workhouse. The char- acter of the sentence is shown by the fact that he was tried on a mis- demeanor for which at most a 30 day sentence is given. Workers are sent to jail up to two years for their activity while gang- sters ply their trade under the shield of these very judges. Tammany is snatching our leaders from our ranks. They hope in this way to weaken our forces in the struggle against starvation, The fight for the release of our leaders cannot be separated from the fight against relief © cuts and evictions. To stop the attack on the unemployed, we must at the same time stop this reign of terror. In every demonstration, raise the slogan to put a stop against this ter- ror and for the release of Samuel Gonshak and all those now in the work- house and other jails. Send protest resolutions from your organizations and meetings to Mayor O'Brien, Judges Burke and Aurelio and to the Home Relief Bureau. FOUR POWER PACT SIGNED BY ITALY, | Central 122 _* rol. XN Eniered as see New York, N. a of —1 (Section of the Communist International ) y. , under the Act of March 8, U.S.S.R. Reaffirms | Its Unshakable Stand for Peace “Pravda” and “Izyestia” Show Economic War Leading to Inevitable World War | U.S.S.R. Welcomes Any Effort, However Slight, of Postponing World Slaughter MOSCOW, May 21—Both to Roosevelt's recent message. non-aggression pacts is nothing new. “Pravda” “Prayda” writes: Roosevelt's proposal for and “Izvestia’” devote editorials It is our country which is the initiator of the exact definition of an aggressor accepted by the Security Commis- sion at Geneva. “Quite naturally, the Soviet Union, in Kalinin’s rej non-aggression ® — conclusion of a ;Pact embracing all the countries in | the world. This fully coincides with tS Policy of the US.S.R. “In Geneva, the representatives of | the Soviet Union are defending the | | most radical plan—for universal com- | Plete disarmament. It is therefore | natural for the Soviet Union to ex- | press its consent to the disarmament proposals contained in Roosevelt's message. “The imperialists did their utmost to aggravate the cruel economic crisis. Only the Soviet Union op- poses all forms of economic war. “Imperialist antagonisms haye reached threatening dimensions. War is raging in the Far East. The Ger- man counter-revolution, thirsting for | foreign political adventures, is get- ting ready in great haste for the new world slaughter. Hitler has repeated- ly declared that the only means for solving the international problems, in his opinion, is war. “Japanese imperialism hastens to make use of the moment to gain the maximum in territory. It is com- mon knowledge that the imperialists want to solve their controversies in the Far East and in Europe at the expense of the Soviet Union. Economie War Leading to World War “All this is going on against the (CONTINUED PAGE FOUR) consents to the JAPAN REPORTS “SOVIET RISINGS” TOPROVOKEWAR MOSCOW, May 21.—Reports of anti-Soviet uprisings in the Soviet Far Fast cireifated by the Japanese press were characterized by the Mos- cow papers as deliberate provocations. The newspaper Pravda writes: “The Soviet Far East and Trans- baikal are well protected—better pro- tected than the inspirers of the new anti-Soviet provocations suspect. Ad- | venturist elements of Japanese impe- rialism, excited by easy victories over the servile Chinese militarists, ap- parently over-estimate their capaci- ties. “Japanese provocateurs are sadly | miscalculating if they suppose the | Soviet Far Eas: or Transbaikal is Manchuria or Jehol.” Pravda also stresses the vigilance of the Workers’ and Peasants’ Gov-| ernment, and concludes by warning | the imperialists that “they shall | never catch us off our guard.” | | i 1 Demonstrate National Youth Day,| Union! class matter at the Post Office at 878, NEW YORK, MO Warden Takes Moone Photo shows Tom Moon waiting to be taken from San Qu county jail. Left to right: and Under-Sheriff Howard Bernha connection with his second trial on an unused indictment, due to start tomorrow and postpon y, framed up labor prisoner, NDAY, MAY 22, 1933 to San Franc co Jail as he was yentin prison to the San Francisco Warden James N. Holohan, Tom Mooney rd. Mooney’s transfer was made in originally ed until Tuesday, Supreme Court Used to Block Tria l for Mooney Mooney Denies Lying Press Story That He Opposed Militant Demonstrations SAN FRANCISCO, ay: 2. he. O'Gara, former San Francisco dis- trict attorney, agent of the Chamber of Commerce and spokesman for the Better Business Bureau—after bragging for a month that he “had the 3,000 Veterans End Convention: Map Program for United Action [Roosevelt Tells Delegation He Would Veto Bonus Even If Passed; Convention Thanks Levin and Hickerson for Activity (By Onr Correspondent) WASHINGTON, May 21.—An or- ganizational plan and a program of action for building up a united front | of all veterans’ organizations as well as unaffiliated ex-servicemen, was mapped out by the veterans’ conven- | tion which adjourned here yesterday. | More than 3,000 regularly accred- | | ited delegates coming from 47 states | attended the convention, in addition | to two delegates from Mexico and) one from Porto Rico. The only state not represented was Utah, About 25 per cent of the delegates wer2 Negro, and no reports of dis- crimination against them in camp were reported, The plan calls for the division of the state delegations into organiza- tion committees which, together with the committee of the United Front Conference which elected them in their home cities, will constitute the committee to get the support of posts of the American Legion, Veterans of | Foreign Wars, Disabled Veterans, etc., | for the three-point program. If this support is not forthcoming, efforts | are to be made to get minority groups! \to send delegates to city rank and | file committees. The plan also calls | for the organization of groups in the neighborhood, veterans hospitals and | homes, unions, shops, etc. State com- Mittees will be set up only when ac- | tive city committees are in opera- tion Approve National Committee The convention closed with the passing of a number of resolutions )and approval of the National Com-/ mittee. The parade yesterday was much | smaller than anticipated, owing to whe sabotage of the government in providing trucks, a larger number of which broke down. The veterans ~ | angrily lined up their men and began marching down the road from Fort | Hunt. The state troopers hankered to “get busy” but they had been their forces on the Plaza at the cap- | itol, this was refused. When the vel | arrived near the capitol and the del- | egation was called to go inside, they | learned that the House and Senate! Committees which were’ to receive} |them, had adjourned. This was a | direct slap in the face of the vets and | showed clearly that Congress had no | intention whatsoever of doing any- | thing regarding the three-point pro- When they passed the White | House, the marchers stopped while | the delegation went in to see Roose- velt. Although a delegation of eight | had been elected, the President would | see only three of them, Brady, Will-| jams and Sellers. | Would Veto Bonus Bill Roosevelt stated categorically that | “if Congress should pass the Bonus | Bill, I would veto it.” The veterans | now know what the position of) Roosevelt is as far as adjusted com-| pensation is concerned. Hoover, too, Was categorically against it. This shows clearly that the hopes the vet- erans had built up about the “new deal” were mere illusions. During the conversation, Sellers of the Commit- tee pointed out that there'are 14 mil- lion dollars of tax exempt secu S could be easily taxed in of ‘ide the bonus. Roosevelt re- ‘If you can solve this, I will make you Assi nt Seereiary of the Treasury,” Roosevelt, contended that it was impossible to pay the bonus because the United States Supreme Court would ‘undoubtedly declare it unconstitutional. Elect Leadership. The convention elected a National | Committee consisting of one. veteran from each state. The function of this committee wil the activities of the veterans groups and organizations throughout the country. The Convention went on (CONTINUED ON PAGE 3) TAMMANY COURTS CONTINUE, VETOHS SENTENCES OF JOBLESS, HIGH BAIL; 1) ARE GIV 7 DAYS TO 4 MONTHS Aurelio Again Gives § Sedentest Rerron Trial vigorous fight against the Tammany | been announced. It will start June 3) | East 15th St. and Irving bigs in Bronx Today BULLETIN, The time and place of the United Front Conference to plan a “no rent and cut relief” order has rd, 10 a.m. at the Irving Plaza Hall, NEW YORK.—Tammany at outdid themselves in viciousness Fri- day and Saturday in the open intention of the city government to jail | to murder the Scottsboro Negro boys recently. all workers who dare to refuse to starve quietly. May 30, for the defense of the Soviet | ear of the Supreme Court”—waited until Friday, 3 o'clock, to file a petition | | with the court to block the second trial for Tom Mooney due to open Mon- day. O'Gara filed the petition know- ing, naturally, that the court would not meet until Monday. With the Supreme Court expected to render a decision on O’Gara’s pe-| tition on Monday, poned the trial until Tuesday. court, petition, Mooney will at once be re- turned to San Quentin prison pend- ing a decision. the judge announced Protest Called The Tom Mooney Molders Defense Committee meanwhile arranged a protest meeting scheduled for tonight Judge Ward post- If the orker : the-Cominunist Party U.S.A. orders a hearing on O’Gara’s, ‘the full crews of each ship went to with the following speakers: Robert | Whitaker, Los Angeles liberal min ister; Sam Darey, California dist organizer of the Communist Pa Sam Goodwin, of the Tom Mooney Molders’ Defense, Committee; Eu- business f Union, 17; Earl Noldin, of the Brotr rhood of Locomotive Firemen emen, 2. A report on mey Congress recently held in Chicago will be made by the returned California delegates. Mooney Raps Press Lie A heated protest from Tom Mooney denying that he had said that he |“hoped no demonstrations would in- | corrections from the San Francisco press. Mooney declared. in his cell | in the San Francisco county jail: | “Seventeen yeats ago the Cham- ber of Commerce cried, Mconey. They wanted my life. | Today the workers cry ‘We Want Mooaey’—They want my | bera- tion, I hope the workers keew up the fight.” Mooney made a similar statemtnt for a news reel talkie. RIFLE OFFICE OF SOTTSBORO ATTY OOGA, Tenn.. Ms rifling of the office of fe W. Chamlee, chicf of International - Labor Defense Scoitsboro legal corps, and néw threats against the life of E. E. Lewis, 21 the Il be to coordinate | terfere” with his second trial, brought | Chattanooga Negro wh was an im-| portant defense witness in the re- trial of Haywood Patterson in Dec- atur, are the two latest moves of the |Ku Klux Klan in and terrorize the Negro and white its vicious fight! voluntary wage cut of ten per | 20 PER CENT CUT “We Want | ND Bring the Daily Worker to the Masses, With 20,000 New Readers! THE WEATHER—Comtineed Fair and Warmer Price 3 Cents poie® WORKERS STRIKE AGAINST | PAY CUTS; DEMAND RAISES ) TO MEET HIGHER PRICES ¥. Y.Seamen Win Strike Victory on Two Large Coastwise Ships; Win Back Pay Workers! Send In Reports of Real Conditions; Expose Roosevelt Prosper ity Talk! CITY The reports of new struggles by the workers all over the country against starvation wages are increasing in number every day. The reports of these strikes and the letters coming in from the workers themselves disclose that the workers have not experienced any of the widely-proclaimed Roosevelt prosperity The prosperity-ballyhoo of wage actual wage-cuts, speed-up and beating down of working conditions. The workers are showing determined resistance to the starvation to which Roosevelt’s wage cutting and inflationary program dooms them rises conceals BULLETIN MANCHESTER, N. H., May 21.—The Amoskear Manwfacturing Co. plant here, the biggest textile plant in the United States and probably in the world, was closed down last Friday when over 2,000 workers struck demanding a wage increase. In an attempt to head off the strike, the Amoskeag company had asked the workers to wait more than two months, until August, when the company officials said, the workers would get a wage increase of 15 per cent. This attempt to block the strike was played up in the capitalist press as part of its “prosperity” propaganda. To frighten the workers the company declared a lockout, and an- nounced the mill would be closed until August, but at the same time they stated they would operate any unit of the mill if they could find enough scabs to run it. * * . NEW YORK.—The crews of the S. 8. Munsoumnia and Mundolphin of the Munson 8. Line struck here Saturday and won their demand for 32 days pay due them and no victimization of the strike leaders, A delegate of the Marine Workers Industrial Union boarded both ships Friday night and a stool-pigeon Saptegs the captain he was on board. ‘3-HOUR STRIKE boarded: out the amount’ due ‘them. -Workers Call Bosses’ Of course the satiors didn’t care a to go eating the slop served on board Roosevelt Bluff |and wanted their pay. The rest of the crews also had the same amount NEW YORK.—A Three-hour strike at the R. C. Williams, gr and delivery concern, Tenth Ave. of pay due them. Strike Both Crews. leintuatbabtngs 26th St., won the 170 workers o! Saturday morning, in response to! plant a 10 per cent inc after the company had posted a no- leaflet ributed by the Union tice of a 5 per cent increase. The workers had received cuts amounting to 12 per cent during the past year and had been sold out by The captain called the police who were unsuccessful in trying to make the ship. peal ged by ti tain on various excuses and aeciad their pay. They were told that they | a the captains and informed them that they were on strike until they got their pay. The ten men hired to replace the , agents of the boss in a strike three discharged men joined in solidarity | months ago. with the strik After several at- | The notice of the 5 per ecnt in- tempts to beat the men down crease included a statement that port officials of the Munson the company was following Roose- came on board and velt’s appeal for wage increase, but This is the what the men thought about 3 was demands of the mer rips in the aptly expressed by the word “ regular p:actice| written on the notice. A few weeks charge the men on| before this the men were able to and rob th of stop overtime after 12:30 on a Sat- day by simply agreeing to quit at Many crew members joined the| *hat time and the :bosses getting Marine Workers Industrial Union,| Wind of this told them it was all right, they don’t have to work. This greatly strengthened the solidarity and confidence of the workers. A committee was sent up to the management for a conference to ask +|for an increase in wages. The offi- cials stalled until last week when all the workers gathered in the third floor of the building at noon time and declared they would not go back to work until the committee was heard and a satisfactory answer was given. They got the conference but the company tried to make the com- mittee agree to the 5 per cent. Mr. though there were no members on | board before the strike. | WORKERS RESIST A.F.L. Officials Con- demn Paper Bag Strike Williams was remizded that he made certain promises during the strike three months ago and no results came NEW YORK.—After two weeks of of it the workers of the Alfzed 5 ee i Bleyer Paper Bag Co., who are fight- ae - ing ageinst a 10 to 20 per cent cut in their wages are firm in their de- termination: to remain out have forced the boss to ¥ * cut, A request today to of the which sters and Chau to about per cent. This A. F. of L. by th on and end= that drivers and h ‘vers be taken off the job in a sy strike was angrily turned dow.: by the local of- ficials. The later condemned the local for fighting the cut and ad-| mitted that they had forced the members of the union to accept a, cent | hmothes St. Louis Food Factory Goes Following the teamsters action, tine! {1 masses of the South. local decided to send a delegation to; The rifling of General Chamiee’s| a meeting of the Central’Trades and office was the second occurence of| Labor Council to ask for assistance | tipped off to go easy. When the vets nad marched about one mile down the road, more trucks were promised Fifteen of sixteen unemployed arrested last Peieey when police at- | tacked their picket line at the 149th »— Out on Strike FRANCE, GERMANY AND ENGLAND by the officials. The trucks, how-| Street Home Relief Bureau were p< ad sing the sort since the beginning of the| and the cooperation of the Teamsters | rere! usso ower ever, arrived late and many vets re-| given sentences ranging from four Couns Pia Sanaa penruing) Scottsboro case. No valuable ma-| Union. The delegation was not ad-) Pe ahege Taal ieee: beat ROME, May 21--The Mussolini Four Fi Pact, which has had one | turned to the camp in disgust, months to seven days in the work- | Old Couple to the Wi orkhouses feria was stolen, since the thieves| mitted to the meeting of the Cen-| y d | Mercantile Company has gone out on strike. This makes the seventh factory | to go out on strike this week | were not able to open the safe. Chamlee discovered the raid when Nonetheless, about 1,000 veterans marched, The parade showed clearly house on charges of ‘disorderly con- | | tral Trades. The officials of the Cen-/| duct.” tral Trades condemned the strikers |» in the graye for some weeks, has made a sudden recovery. The “pact for calling the strike before the Cer en normanent perce” was accepted at Rome today by the representatives NEW YORK.—Mr. and Mrs. | ae ef Fromce, Italy, Germany and Great Britain. Captain Goering, for Ger- | the starved-nut condition of the vet- Aurelio Again Thomas Levy, two of the millon | he arrived in the morning and found ’ | Eleven hundred workers, the maf- m27y, 2nd Senator Henri de Jouvenel, for France, decided to accept the | evans. Remarks were passed that | Judge Aurelio one of the most) New York unempioyed, aged 50 and | desk drawers open ae hooks ene |tral Trades had a chance to inve: | ority of them: Negro women, are solids over tigate. When the delegation informed they looked even hungrier and more | | papers strewn hated of the anti-labor judges in| 52 respectiveiy, Mr. Levy a war vet, Creat Britain had made® ly on strike here for wage increases. . —— | impoverished than tie hunger march- pats tat ba m4 opel lelue as to the identity of the raiders them that their International had) : ; she was still actively} the interest or principal of the debt. ah "| the city stuck Tammany’s talons in- | week spent hope! jm is i Bight hundred workers of an allied : It is likely that England will also |°TS Of last vear. Although the gov-) tq a Negro worker, M. Snipe. les ses, were beset sant FOTO ae ee ea ca ie! food: factory have: jalied: these’ WOE + measure. ernment hed promised to furnish Heme Burned by Klan Trades misleaders then advised them ! i hie : > § Side Court Saiurda: The Fi a : an get-together of the/ fi to Rey. them with banners, the Veterans Bu- |p Say and held hip unde: $300 bail Me nt to the work, Lewis’ home was burned down by to come to an Executive Board mect-| cfs in their struggle. The Pood Work: ; morica’s creditors | ine Farcce Geatn ae eee, '2 | reau refused to do so, unless it could | poi roomiols assault. | Snipe we K. K. K, agenis while he was in Dec- ing on June 11. In the meanwhile) ers Industrial Union has grown great- the Fascist Grand Council, and/ censor the slogans. Nevertheless, | P@@ten vnconscious and arrested at atur, April 17, waiting to testify in| they are not concerned with what) ly in the last few days. 2 thvee we2ks before the <9 of the World Economie Con- ‘otae> at London (June 12) which s ilsolf, three days before the date ‘June 15) upon which the next in- sslments of the debt payments to fio United States fell due, It is ronvidered ceriain that the French -Parjiament will refuse to pay ¢} her MacDonald have siated that the pact must be accepted and initialled be- fore the opening of the Economic Conference, since this, they say, “will increase the chances of success of the conference.” Ii will undoubtedly inerease the bargaining strength of the group involved as against the United States, there were a few banners in the par- ade, while the men chanted along the march, “We want the bonus now, We want back pay, not a dollar-a-day.” 1 The paarde did not get under way| WO vers on “disorderly conduct until about 4:30 going past the White! Joe Clark and David Burnett were House and then to the capitol, Al-|held in $500 bail each in the 54th tion Friday. It was Aurelio who Sentenced Sam Gonshak to an in- determinate sentence of 6 months to ‘they wpuld be allowed to. marshall though a promise had b2en given that (CONTINUED oN PAGE TWO) the Harlem unemployed demonsira- | ee | | Magistrate Braudt, the kind con- victor, seeking to smooth over the stark misery the couple could not shake off, asked them why they bad not applied to the Home Relief Bu- rean, He was somewhat ruffled by their reply that they had applied hut that no investigator was ever nent, the trial of Charlies Weems. Appeal for Aid A special appeal for funds destroyed by Ku Kiux Klan Funds for |sent to George W, Chamlee, Hamilion National «Chattanooga, Tenn, for | Lewis, to help him rebuild the home Defense and the Workers’ this purpose should be legal assistance and relief. 1018 haye been sent to strike meetings by Benk Buiiding,| the Trade Union Unity Mass picketing is going on in front of all plants. The workers are show- ing great militancy. ‘Today, the workers prevented the police from breaking up the picket lines by smashing two police cars and taxi cabs carrying strike breakers One of the detectives in the cars car~ eying scabs was given a beating, happens to the strike The strikers have had the full co- operation of the International Labor | Interna- | tional Relief which have provided | Speakers League and! She Communist Party, * '