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

| } Reber a) New York—Metropolis of Hunger Starts in “Daily” Wednesday THE WEATHER Today—Fair; stightty warmer: fresh westerly winds. Retered Vol. X, No. 134 <g>» secomd-lass matter a¢ the Post Offtes at New York, M. %., umder the Act of March 3, 167%, respondence and Special nist Party U.S.A. Central Org (Section of the Communist International) NEW YORK, MONDAY, JUNE 5, 1933 Cal 3 Articles Are on Page 3 CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents DEATH SENTENCE FOR COMMUNISTS IN GERMANY To the present crushing burdens of reduced wages, rising prices, un- employment, and part-time work, the Roosevelt, Federal government, and the local State and City governments are now preparing to add the burdens of new enormous taxes. In whose interest is the Roosevelt government acting when it levies new taxes? Who pays the taxes? Who pockets them? Every year, the United States government pays cut the enormous sum of $673,193,000 as interest payments on the outstanding government bonds. The overwhelming majority of these bonds are held by the Wall Street. groups headed by the Morgans. The Rooseyelt government col- lects this annual tribute of bond interest in the form of taxes and hands it over to the Morgan-Wall Street bondholders. The Roosevelt government has extended the infamous Hoover ex- cise taxes which cost the people $500,000,000 every year. The 3 per cent tax on all electric current is part of the Roosevelt tax program, The pub- Ke utilities of the United States, controlled by the Morgan financial groups, do not have to pay any taxes on electricity. The tax is passed on to the small consumer, The Federal Government protecis the Morgan electric companies. ‘The Roosevelt tax program will take $93,000,000 in additional gaso- fine taxes and over $80,000,000 in additional taxes on small incomes. Out of every dollar spent for gasoline, 50 cents will go for taxes under the Roosevelt tax program, A family with an income of over $4,000 a year will haye to pay a tax of $120 a year to the Federal government. This is part of the tribute which the Roosevelt government collects for the Morgans and the Wall Street bondholders, ‘The demand of the Roosevelt, government is to “balance the budget.” ‘What does this mean? It means that the Roosevelt government is de- termined to guarantee the interest payments to the Wall Street bankers who hold the government loans. In order to balance the budget, the Roosevelt, government has slashed 467,000,000 from the compensation of disabled veterans and has cut the wages of federal employees another $50,000,000. The Roosevelt government has set itself against the program de- manded by the workers—Federal Unemployment Insurance at full wages, because Roosevelt claims that this will “unbalance the budget.” He is determined to keep 17 million jobless workers in starvation in order not to endanger the interest payments to the Morgans. Through the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, the United States government has handed over over two and a half billion dollars to rail- roads and banks which are dominated or controlled by the Wall Street finance groups headed by the Morgans. The Missouri-Pacific Railroad, which grabbed $23,000,000 from the R.F.C. to pay bond interest and loans to the banks and then went bankrupt, is a Morgan road. The United States government has refunded $120,000,000 to the United States Steel Corporation. This industrial giant is controlled by the Morgans, During the last three years of the crisis, the Morgans did not pay any income taxes. But the Roosevelt government fights against any at- tempt to tax capital, or to increase the surtaxes on large incomes and corporations, At the same moment, the Roosevelt government continues enormous tax refunds. to the capitalist class, The Wall Street bankers evade government taxes, But they demand that the wages of govern- ment employees be slashed, and that taxes to be paid for by the masses be increased—in order to guarantee the payments on their loans. The Roosevelt government is preparing to levy enormous taxes on the workers, small farmers and consumers to finance a public works program. But the “public works program” turns out to be a naval con- struction program. Over $230,000,000 of the public works program which will be paid for by taxes on the poorest section of the population, will go to build battleships and bombing planes. In New York City, the Tammany section of the Democratic Party is cutting relief to the bone. Over 60,000 workers’ families face imme- diate eviction because of stoppage of relief rent payments. New taxes on water, subway fares, bridges, etc., are being levied to meet the. de- mands of the bankers. And the New York bankers’ delegation, which demands more wage- cuts and reduced welfare expenditures, is headed by a Morgan agent, Frank Polk, one of the Morgan “selected” stock beneficiaries. Every “economy” move of the Roosevelt government and the local governments is made directly and specifically in order to guarantee in- terest payments and loans to the financial groups headed by the Morgans. The Roosevelt. government is the tax collector for the big Wall Street money groups headed by the House of J. P. Morgan. Deportation Drive Continues Under Perkins Regime ILLIAM NUCKLES DOAK stepped out as Secretary of Labor and Presi- dent Roosevelt's “liberar’ lady, Frances Perkins, stepped in. But the wave of deportations directed against foreign-born workers continues. While the publicity agents of the Roosevelt administration grind out press releases about the humanitarian features of the “new deal’, federal agenis—working under direct orders of Mrs. Perkin’s Department of Labor—continue to arrest workers, holding them for deportation.. Not only has Mrs. Perkins not called off a single deportation case originating under Doak, but her department has instituted new ones. A case in point is the recent arrest of June Croll, organizer for the Na- tional Textile Workers Union. On page 2 of this issue of the Daily Worker is a dramatic description of the persecution of George Stalker and his family. Stalker's deporta- tion on Saturday is characteristic of the venomous intensity of the drive against militant workers throughout the U. S. © re Pittsburgh, where the drive of the Department of Labor is especially aimed at the National Miners Union, practically all the leaders and a number of active rank and file workers face deportation—many of them to fascist countries. 2 ‘ Hundreds of other workers are dragged from jobs, raids are made upon the hungry unemployed at flophouses. Charged with “illegal entry”. they are hustled to Ellis Island in prison trains and shipped off to their native countries. With the brutality characteristic of a bourgeois demo- cracy under a “new deal” regime, these workers are torn from their ac- tivity, their homes and personal associations and exiled to countries which they may have left as children. Not content with deporting militant workers, the Roosevelt govern- ment is seeking to. railroad them to prison for long prison terms. The ‘Thomas case in Pittsburgh is an illustration. Here a steel worker was convicted and sentenced to 15 years on the charge that when he applied for U. 8. Citizenship he was a member of a Communist organization, and thus swore falsely to support the constitution of the United States. The deportation campaign—brought to its finest flower under the regime of Doak—coniinues under the reign of Mrs. Perkins, Deportations have not slackened—they have increased! _ ICTORIES have been won in the past by mass campaigns against this form of terror against the American working class, and they can be won again, It is imperative that the International Labor Defense which in past years has conductes such effective struggles against deportations, should take @ more energetic stand in defense of these victims of the Roosevelt-Wall Street, hunger government. e, President’s Sec’y, and Farley in Labor Camp Graft ‘Over-Paid $60,000 Because 2 Spoois of Thread tf) and 3 Needles Were Added to Kit WASHINGTON, June 4.—Because 2 spools of thread and 3 needles | were placed in the toilet kits, an additional $60,000 was charged for the 200 | kits ordered for the forced labor camps. This has been disclosed in the so-called investigation before the Senate Military Affairs Committee. Robert B. Bevier, head of Bevier & Co., who has the order to supply the 200,000 ~® toilet kits for the forest camps stated DEMAND MILK FOR « THEIR CHILDREN | be charged. By adding the 2 spools of thread and 3 needles the price was | Gate | \Use Milk Bottles As | Defense from Police, Win Demand | LOS ANGELES, Calif, June 4.— Carrying banners “We want milk” and brandishing milk bottles to pro- tect themselves against the “red squad,” one hundred and fifty moth- which adds $60,000 to the price. secretary to Presi- dent Roosevelt, he had a letter of in- troduction from s D.B. O'Connor, a former law part- ttle es ner of Roosevelt. He had also visited Postmaster Gen- eral James A. Farley. The post- increased to $1.40, | the When Brevier | went to see L. M.| Howe, confidential | | 12% P. C. RAISE ers and their undernourished chil- dren forced the County Board of Supervisors to furnish milk for their babies. The delegation of mothers” and children, all members of the left wing Unemployed Cooperative Relief As- sociation units paraded down Broad- way street to the Hall of Records in trucks with banners and shouting of slogans in protest of the dumping-of over 40,000 gallons of milk daily while their children are denied this neces- sity. As the trucks stopped in front of the building the “red squad” tried \to prevent them from entering and arrested four of the leaders. The women protested and forced the cops to release those arrested and to admit |@ committee to see the supervisors “The question is are we going to get milk or not,” Mrs. Virginia Rhea, |secretary of the organization asked the board of supervisors when her \turn came. If you are not going to igive us milk we are going to go out jand get it. Dogs and cats get milk, |30 why can’t we? We want your an- swer—today.” Supervisor Shaw, the master is in charge of patronage, handing out the fat graft jobs in the Roosevelt administration. Made Own Price. During the investigation Senator Logan asked, “Who made the price?” “We made the price”, replied Bevier. “and this was accepted without any modification?” he was queried. “Yes, ation that the price from other concerns and the lowest bidder gets the order. But here Be- vier decided by himself that his “price was fair”. Fechner Interested. According to Robert Fechner, the higher price was agreed to so as to rated high in the circles of the Amer- ers in the camps. Here he seems to lack the desire to get better quality. | | ican Federation of Labor is not in-| struggle for the full 25 per cent in-|2nd Winkler death sentences has | ~ | | | show a high rate of sickness as a re- sult of the bad food. our represent : was fair.” Ordinarily bids are taken | | Ernst Thaelmann ry] Secretary of the Communist Party | of Germany wearing Red Front | Fighters Uniform. 1,000 MILL STRIKE WIN \Force Cut in Hours from 54 to 48 A Week DOVER, N. H., June 4.—One thou- sand textile workers in the Pacific Mills here ended their strike lasting | more than two weeks when the com- | pany granted a 12 and a half per | cent increase in wages. | The Doffers Union, an independent organization organized and led the strike. ‘The demends of the strikers were fora 25 per Sent increase and |a 48-hour week instead of a 54-hour week which they have at present. | The strikers by a three fourths vote decided to accept the company’s of- fer. The news of the Amoskeag set- | tlement which was maneouvred by Riviere the UTW official and enemies of the workers had its effect on the | | | get better kits. But Fechner who is| qecision of the workers here who) | were ‘preparing to continue the terested in better food for the work-/| crease and to organize relief and forced the Fascist | picketing. The militant strikers returned de- |prepare for future struggles AMERICAN WORKERS MUST BUILD POWERFUL ANTI-FASCIST MOVEMENT TO SAVE GERMAN WORKERS’ LEADERS Armed Attack by 5,000 Section of Hamburg Four Ser-tenced to Death for Resistance to Storm Troopers on Altona, Workers’ IN PACIFIC |\Torgler Frame-Up Trial on Charge of Burning Reichstag Building to Begin Any Day Without Further Notice BERLIN, June 4.—Four Communists were sentenced to death in Altona yesterday for defending the workers’ districts against the invasion of 5,000 armed Nazis on July 17th last year, Six other Communists were sentenced to prison terms ranging from three and a half | to #m years at hard labor. Fifteen were killed and 150 injured in this pitched battle, with the police bringing up two armored cars and machine guns to aid tl Mounted police threw hand grenades and gase bombs at the massed workers who refused to allow the Nazi | | hordes to ravage the proletarian dis- triets of the city. When the work- | ers fought back, the police emptied their rifles into the crowds until the streets were covered with the dead | and wounded. This was the biggest street battle in Germany since the famous berricade battle of May 1, 1929, described in “Barricades in Ber- | | tin”. | The Nazi press also reports that the | | Chemnitz Trial Court has sentenced | two Communists, Bart! and Winkler, to death. Winkler and Bartl had | been sentenced to death under the | von Papen regime, although the judge | had to admit that there was no proof | that they had fired the shot that! killed. the Nazi’ Krebeck. The von Papen regime did not dare execute jthem because this infamous sentence jcame at the same time as the Nazi butchery of Potempa, where a group of Nazis killed a Communist worker | |in his bed in cold blood. Later the | Potempa murderers’ sentences were jcommuted to imprisonment for life, | }and after the Reichstag elections they were released unconditionally. The extraordinary resentment | among the workers at the new Baril government to abandon its plan to execute them | immediately. That does not mean, | though reports from labor camps| termined to build their union and| however that they are not in imme- | diate danger of death, since only the | | greatest vigilance and the broadest mass campaign will save them, as Tammany and Bankers Levy New Heavy Taxes Increased Building Taxes Wii! Cause Rise in Rents of $30,000,000 a Year; Bridge Tolls Will Cost People Equal Amount ‘ Morgan Bankers, Led by Frank Polk, Morgan Stock Favorite, Demand Reduced Relief Payments and Wage Cuts NEW YORK, June 4.—The Board of Estimate has decided to levy new taxes on automobiles, ‘the use of bridges, and on building operations in order to meet tie conditions of the Wall Street bankers who hold the short- term loans which are falling due on June 10, All cars crossing East River Bridges will have to pay a toll of 25 cents, It is expected that the bridge tolls will cost the automobile own-@—————_———— a - ers $25,000,000 a year bankers for any length of time. Higher Water Rates Planned. | In a short while, they state, rides will be taxed 5 cents | lt will have to levy a 2 cent tax ‘Auto owners will have to #ll subway rides in addition to y license tax ‘equal to the| Present taxes. This will. co; tax. The total tax per | PeoPle another $30,000,000 a ye estimated as $57 per | y car owner. ion to in water rates has temporar' action on this part of tt Mayor's plan. But it is still a pos: the te Tammany Plunders Millions. During the investigation no men- well as the Altona Communists, from | bility that these rates will be in- lions of dolla demogogue who is running for mayor against Porter, seeing the determina- | tion of the workers to fight for their |starving childrett was shivering from fright and declared that the board tion was made of the conditions of the workers in the factories where | the kits are made. Fechner, the A. | F. of L. leader, does not care about | the conditions of the workers in fac- | death. Torgier Trial to Start. The records in the frame-up case | against Ernst Torgl Communist | creased also, The Tammany administration hs also decided to raise the fees of the Building Department. These inciude It was recently ated that Tam- many officials who serve no real f tion in the city adm ‘er $200,000,000 a y will order sufficient milk to give to tories where the government order the children. | will be filled. Recruits in Mitchell _ Camp Replace Workers 'Work at $1 a Day Replaces Regular Wages; | Food So Bad, Doctor Says “Wouldn’t Eat It” MITCHELL FIELD, L. I, June 4.—A number of complaints of sickness | caused by rotten food was made to a Daily Worker reporter in an inter- | view with the recruits at Mitchell Field camp. One recruit said: “We got some apple sauce for desert, and as soon as we tasted, most of the fellows | doubled up. Two fellows were taken to the hospital. The mess sergeant remarked in the kitchen that daye % | that the acid of the apple mixed with| now while awaiting to be sent to the | the tin of the cans had formed a) forests, the answer was, “We are sent poison and was the cause of the ill-| to work, about 15 men to each de- | ness.” | tail, We take care of lawns of offi- Reichstag leader, and Dimitrov, Po- | filing, and alteration fees, as well as Mee pov and Taneff, the Bulgarian Com- | inspection fees. Many Innocent, Says opens apa ane te saat with | Higher Rents to Meet New Taxes. ‘ Swi | burning the Reichstag building last| This action will undoubtedly have Director of Elmira | February, nave been submitted now| an immediate effect on rents that |to the German Supreme Court in| workers willl have to pay, since the | BOSTON, Mass., June 4.—Speaking | Leipzig. The trial may start any day | added costs to the landlord will be before the American Psychiatric As-| now, though no German attorney can | passed on the tenant. sociation, Dr. James L. McCartney | be found to take up the defense be-| The amount estimated that will pointed out that a majority of those | cause of the death threats facing any | be collected under this provision is |sent to jail were because of “third| defense attorney. about $30,000,000. This will be the | | degree confessions.” | The international working class, |added rent burden for the lower sec- | The doctor who is director of the | aided by all sympathizing intellectuals | tions of the tenants. | jclassification clinic at Elmira ‘Re-|and professional people, must come| The total effect of the Tammany | | formatory in New York said, “In a| at once. to the aid of Torgler, Dimit- | tax proposals will be to increase the |great many cases, the inmate Was | Tov, Popoy and Taneff, as well as the | cost of living for the poorer sections |indicted for a much greater offense | six Communists already sentenced to | of the population. |than he actually committed, while | death in Chem=.itz and Altona. Only| A general Sales Tax quite a number were apparently in-| the most act‘ e, widespread Interna- | suggested by Borough Pr mt Har- nocent of their charge.” tional mas: campaign for their re-| vey, who thinks that the should | | “There ‘is little doubt, he continued, | lease can prevent the Hitler butcher | stop giving free education beyond the | |that fear of the third degree, co- | 80vernment from killing these leaders | high schools. He suggests that the Jercion of the authorities, of bargain. |0f the German and Bulgarian work- | free City College be stopped also been | is jing with the District Attorney. caused ing class. The workers must mob- Heavy as these taxes it many to enter a plea of guilty.” lize at once all over the world tojopenly stated by Tammany officia are <2 saye Torgler, Dimitrov and the others. | that even these taxes will not be ns of th There is no time to lo: jenough to meet the cond is to protect this tren dering that Tamm creased taxes on the people. The present budget crisis is being used by Tammany Hall to cut down relief and yent payments for unem- ployed families. Over 60,000 workers families face immediate eviction be- cause of stoppage of relief rent pay- ments. The Tammany officials of the Board of Education are talking more and more openly of another wage cut for the school teachers, who rec- ently had their wages cut 10 per cent. Led By Morgan Bankers. The delegation of bankers who will demand heavier taxes and reduced and more wage.cuts from city employees is headed by Frank Polk, former Under-Secretary of State, and one of the Morgan favorites in stock market deals. The banks which hold the city loans are mainly Morgan banks. They are co-operating with e the wo den of the er Frankfurters 3 Times a Day To the question whether betier food was given on Decoration Day. They answered. “We were supposed to get extra rations. All military camps get extra food on holidays. But here we got frankfurters for breakfast, frankfurters and sauer- kraut for lunch and for a change frankfurters for supper.” But all is not well in the camp as one of the recruits stated. “The fel- lows got together and marched to- wards the mess kitchen, holding their mess kits as a protest against the food. The mess sergeant told us to report to the hospital where the food was approved.” When they asked the doctor he replied, “I don't blame you for fighting it. I wouldn’t eat it myself.” As a result Captain Post ordered better food according to the men in the camp. When asked as to the work done 2,925 Leave Camp Dix for Forests in Idaho; Replaced by. Others CAMP DIX, N. J., June 4.—Two thousand nine hundreds and twenty- five recruits who have been training cers houses, we even put up poles to Support power lines and do work jaround the camp, Ordinarily this | work would be done by workers at | regular wages.” They will be sent to a forest project within a week. Probably some place in the southwestern part of New Jer- sey. There to clear marshes to be used for a state forest. WAR DEP’T SENDS Are Ordered to Rockies and Pacifie Coast WASHINGTON, June 4.—The War Department has ordered 53,000 re- cruits now in the camps to be sent to forests in the Rockies and the | Pacific coast. The second New York contingent leaves by June 26. | Robert Fechner. director of the |foreed labor camps expects 274.000 men in the foresis by July 1, And |in the second week in July to increase it to 300,000, 2,000 TO FORESTS TILLINGHAST IS REPLACED ON JOB BOSTON, June 4.—Mrs. Anna C. M. Tillinghast, U. 8. Commissioner of Immigration for the New Eng- land district, and part of the Doak machine under the Hoover adminis- tration, is to be replaced, according to an order by Frances Perkins, Roosevelt's Secretary of Labor. | The growing protest against her | ectivities was undoubtedly a large factor which hastened her replace- ment. She had singled out militant workers for persecution, including Edith Berkman, whom she jailed and hounded. As a result of her confine- ment in the Boston detention pen, Edith Berkman, a leader of the Na- tional Textile Workers Union, con- tracted tuberculosis. The activities of the immigration commissioner came in for sharp de- cunciation when representatives of he Trade Union Unity League pre- “nted a series of demands to Miss ‘orkins on March 31. Seamen to Be at Demonstration 299 ORGANIZATIONS MOBILIZE FOR. JOBLESS DEMONSTRATION TUESDAY United Front Conference Will Orgrganize City Wide Support for Workers Ordinance, Demanding Cash Relief for All Unemployed NEW YORK.—Four hundred and sixty-nine delegates at a united front conference last Saturday in Irving Plaza voted to mobilize the membership of their orgaanizations as well as the unorganized workers in the city for the demonstration at City Hall tomorrow. The demonstration which is called for 11 a.m., will elect a delegation to present demands against evictions and for increased relief to the Board of Estimate which meets that day. Represented at the conference were the trade unions affiliated with the Trade Union Unity League, the Workingmen’s Sick and Death Benefit Fund with a membership of 60,000, thirty-five block committees, Unemployed Councils and numerous other organizations. I. Amter, national secretary of the Unemployed Councils, as chairman of the resolutions committee, re+ ported on a program to organize a® _ city-wide campaign for a Workers’ |Sociation of the Unemployed led by Ordinance. The ordinance calls for|the Lovestonites (renegades of the cash relief to the unemployed as fol- |Communist Party), refused to par- lows: for each couple $10 a week | ticipate in the conference. However, and $3 for each dependent; for sin-| they sent delegations to state their gle people $7; wherever 350 people position. Three spokesmen from these in a community demand a Home Re- | Organizations were permitted to state lief Bureau office that this be set | their views. In unison they all ar- up and all relief be in the hands of |gued against permitting the trade committees elected by workers; any | Unions and other workers’ organiza- worker who looses his job be given | tions to join the demonstration under four weeks pay to live on. the banners of their organizations. ever, did not mention that they ser lected as their representative before the Board of Estimate on Tuesday none other than Norman Thomagy Their rejection to organize a unite ed demonstration will not stop the Unemployed Councils and all work- ing class organizations to mobilize their forces for the struggle for in- creased Yelief and to put a stop to evictions. here, were sent to forests in Idaho yesterday. They left in six trains at} While a number of forest projects intervals at a railroad siding here, j|are started in the East, the recruits They are being replaced by 2,500}are sent to western regions in order others that, are forced to join|to stop the wholesale quitting that the camps because of starvation in jis taking place as a result of the in- their femnities tolerable conditions. NEW YORK.—The Marine Work- Socialist-Lovestonite Misleaders ‘They want to dictate to every work- Building Workers Join ers Industrial Union and the Water- front Unemployed Council issued a call Saturday to seamen and harbor workers urging them to jom demonstration tomernegy the | ployed Unite The Workers Committee on Un- employment and the Workers Unem- , both led by the So- ‘ogetner with the As “iii iii ers’ organization, which was rejected| NEW YORK.—The Building Main- unanimously by the delegates. Their | tenance Workers Union, 799 Broad- excuse was that this will make it a|way, has called on its membership political demonstration and will keep|to take part in the demonstration meny sway from joing, They, how-'tomomaw, and to being dats baanees, ’ (