The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 12, 1933, Page 2

Page Two DAILY WORKER, NEj\, © Building Soviet Canal Regenerates Prisoners Convicts Become Shock Brigaders On Far North Socialist Construction MOSCOW.—Thousands of criminals and counter-revolutionaries, were transported to: the far north of Russia by the Soviet O. G. P. U. (political police), and put to work on the construction of the gigantic canal to join “ne Baltic sea to the arctic White Sea. The bourgeos press of the world faise stories of the rigors to which these people were sup- ed many | SouiwbaY, vULY 12, 19388 of Public Welfare. Chicago Officials Cut Relief 10 p.c. As Prices Rise “We'll Give You Less Food for Greater Money Value,” Says Letter of Public Welfare CHICAGO, Ill, July 11.—Grocery allowances for families on relief has been cut 10 per cent by the Cook County Bureau The sky rocketting of food prices has ibjected. ona —____- aa sgantic can: com- th its completion, in achievement, the revealed to the nh and work on 2g job, KU KLUX JUDGE = I.L.D. Learns Callahan Likely to Preside NEW YORK, July 11—If Judge James E. Horton refuses further to consider the Scottsboro case, the re- trial of Heywood Patterson will be thrown into the court of Judge W. W. Callahan, of Morgan County, one of the most notorious Negro-baiters and Ku Klux Klansmen in Alabama, it was learned today by the Interna- tional Labor Defense. Judge Horton’s decision was seen by William L. Patterson, national sec- retary of the ILD, as a maneuver to accomplish more skillfully the lynch ;|purposes of the white landlords of Alabama, led by Ex-Senator Tom letter out of the thou- d which have mer criminals 1 en by the Not Threats, Nor Terror’ ar letter is from Valda, pers Of the White Sea himself a prison been released bec: who S Now Canal, Moscow Auto Workers Plan Production in Huge Meeting A deceription of an inspiring meeting of the workers of the Stalin Auto | Workers (formerly Amo) near Moscow, held recently in the famous Park | od services in the camp. Heflin and Attorney General Thomas of ‘Culture and Rest, is contained in a letter sent to an American worker | taken out a good portion from the food baskets of families who get relief in the ofrm of food checks which are exchanged in the grocery stores. The county public @- = welfare is now using the rise in prices|COunty Bureau for Public Welfare. he excuse to carry through the re-| “This enables us to secure greater "eg aie i value for you,” say the officials in ‘i e the letter. Although “your grocery | Families applying for relief get a) lteter from the Public Welfare inform- °'der is reduced somewhat, hed actual Jing them that relief was cut because|™oney vale of the food furnished Ag of the increase in prices. The letter|'8 increased.” In other words the work- jin full is: jer will get a cut in food, though the i amount received may be worth as much % NORGE So Cow jas that issued before the price rise. Tt is necessary, due to rapidly|with prices of food having jumped changing retail food prices, to increase | from 90 to 30 per cent this will amount ; | |the quantity of food purchased at/to an equivalent cut in the relief dis- wholesale in the form of monthly Ta-| tributed. | tions. The officials believe that they can | More Value—Less Food |cover up the relief cut by saying “the “This enables us to secure greater/actual money value of the food fur- value for you. Although your grocery |nished you is increased.” This ridicul- order is reduced somewhat, the actual | ous argument has not fooled the unem- money value of the food furnished! you! ployed who find that the relief which is increased.” they receive has diminished. “It is necessary, due or was it ter- work as they -White Sea Canal. was the full ensity of our ousands of men d never had the 1 constructive r were a to new social} consciousness through the opportunity to learn a trade. “Neither the magnitude of the| cliffs, nor the hardness of the dia- base, nor the severe climate of the North, could retard us,” he continued. “We became shock brigaders who astonished the world by breaking all known records. Usually one is called an udarnik if he exceeds his assign- On the one hand, it realization of the im job. On the other, t. and women who h E. Knight. Judge Horton’s decision to grant a new trial, and his statement that the “evidence preponderates in favor of the defendant” is seen by William L. Patterson, national secretary of the Intérnational Labor Defense as a means to lull the masses into a sense of security, halt the mass protest, and create the illusion that the Ala- bama courts can be relied upon. At the same time, Judge Horton is) day for the meeting to discuss the} fulfillment of the current quarter |hozes are written, the plants and kol- | the |hozes that have fulfilled and over- | scheduled to plead that this same de- cision disqualifies him from further by a woman worker of the Soviet plant. the purpose of discussing “the fulfillment of the current quarterly pro- | which fol- 6——. gram,” says the letter. | lows Moscow, U.S.8.R. Dear Comrades Proletarian greetings from workers of Amo-2 plant. Amo plant has a day off today. Our Trade | Union Committee has selected this program and working up of The gathering was arranged for filled with rows of green chairs. Just opposite the door there is a stage. Portraits of the proletarian leaders the |are hung on the walls, On the front wall there are two large boards. One of them is red and the word “Vic- tory” is writen on the top of it. Here the number of plants and kol- participation in the case, throwing it| counter plan for the third quarter |fulfilled their plan. Another board is into the hands of Judge Callahan, |who has no such statement of the innocence of Heywood Patterson to support, and who will proceed more of 1933, the first year of the Second Five-Year Plan. | black, The word “Alarm” is written on it, It warns those plants who are Since the weather is good it.has 1M danger of unfulfillment of the pro- ruthlessly with the legal lynching. Under these circumstances, the ILD pointed out, intensification of mass pressure in meetings, telegrams, resolutions and letters of protest, de- manding the immediate, uncondition- al release of the boys, is imperative. Protests should be addressed to “But what I saw in the forests of| Governor B. M. Miller, at Montgom- ‘The strange/ery, Ala.; Attorney-General Thomas convicts I found there felt and be-|E. Knight, also at Montgomery, and haved as if they had been working|to Judge James E. Horton, Athens, * on Dnieprostroi or some other big| Ala. construction job. There was dignity | about th They had their own ad-| minist They lived in clean} warm barracks. Their food was nour-| ishing and plentiful. They took pride| in the be orkers, printed their pic- tures in the papers, and even painted them with cil colors. “Can vou imagine a ‘prison’ whose inmates are free to go to the woods? Can you conceive a murderer or no- torious burglar of yesterday, a dan- gerous man, speaking at a meeting of | his fellowmen of the crying need to ect public property? y some five or 10 per cent. But what would you call a criminal rday, transformed into a new y and courage, who day in end day out, exceeds his task by 100 and 150 per cent! Prisoners Choose to Stay TRIAL TOMORROW OF FRAMED NEGRO [Thrown Into Jail for Resisting Eviction NEW YORK.—At the trial of Wil- |liam Bryan, Negro worker, which If you can, then you understand|takes place tomorrow morning in camp life of convicts out in| Special Sessions ieee Smith and Karelia: is like. Schermerhorn Sts., Brooklyn, the N. “The OGPU which supervises this|¥. District International Labor De- amazing camp world is so sure of|fense will fight for the right of work- its corrective methods that it fur-|ers to resist being thrown out of nishes rifles to reformed gunmen who | their homes. guard pera Saline, and I cp: | Sever cir tin Pete " known of a single instance of| lat- us infringement of this trust be-|iron at a policeman while resisting stowed in them. |the eviction of himself and his wife I, one of the ‘prisoners’ recently | from their Brooklyn home on April 20. set free to leave the camp, have vol-| The defense will also bring out that untarily remained to see the job fin-|Tace discrimination was a factor in ished. Whatever the cticnsomtanises | the eviction of Bryan and his wife. that brought me out here, I can say| The Bryans lost a child which died that only the Soviet Government|in the Kings County Hospital from could use camps as a methof of correc- | ee ae i iahanet ae oe long tion. The lies of the bourgeois press | peri of undernourishment. ryan cannot alter the facts.” has et unemployed for a long | period. & + 4. *% At a mass meeting held by the | Brownsville Section I. L. D. and the | Brownsville Unemployed Council last night, Negro and white workers pro- tested Bryan’s arrest and demanded \his release and an end to race dis- | crimination. of a Negro and white workers are called |upon by the I. L. D. to attend Bry- is] 2 gram. On the walls of this hall you Rest Soviet plants and collective farms. Inside the Park Our meeting was very inspiring. All! We all gathered at 11 a, m. at the ‘he workers spoke their opinions and/ a ‘made valuable suggestions while dis- Amo plant and together went to the, cussing the working out of a “coun: | park, Just as you enter the park you ter-plan.” (The suggestions from} see a very pleasant picture. From the| tne workers on the plans proposed—| jmain pavilion of the park the ser-'naitory, ‘The second question on the! penilike pathways lead in all direc-| order of business of the meeting was | tions. They are crossed here and| the awarding of premiums to the best | there by gay colored flower bed8, shock workers in the past quarter. The | sport grounds, tennis courts, grounds | pest shock worker got an honorary | for mass dancing and games. smalljydarnick diploma and yaiuable music halls, etc. awards. The meeting is over. It was! There are many buildings intended decided then to examine the Hall of | for the cultural use of the masses, |Udarniks and go to dinner. The Hall of | There are libraries, exhibitions, tech- Udarniks is a long row Of busts of nical and scientific halls, movies, the best shock workers of the Sotial- | theatres, circus, dining rooms, child- ist construction. They are done by ren’s villages and so on. our best sculptors. There is an in- The plan of how to spend this day scription under each one of these| was arranged beforehand by our fac- | Statues. We reAd: { tory culture propaganda section. “A, P. Salov, a worker of Amo | y "5 Vil plant, rewarded with the Order of | hong union citi = Labor. W. N. Dobrovolsky, a skilled | | The first thing we had to do was to worker of the turners workshop of | carry all the workers children to the the electrical plant. Under his | |children’s village where they could leadership the program was overful- | also have a good time while their fijtea 110 per cent. Rewarded with | parents rested. Now children are ay order as well. Mitushinfa, work- | given to the care of nursemaids. er, A number of rationalization | |Children here receive their lunch din-| proposals were presented by him. | ner and supper. Rewarded with an Order of Lenin But what is the children’s village? and was presented with a trip | \It is a large territory enclosed on one! round the Soviet Union.” \side by a number of buildings where| passing from one bust to another| children can play in rainy weather. we take pride in the heroes of our On the other side there is a fence. | country. All measures have been undertaken r dinner we wes | to provide this Children’s Villge with |‘ gitetonc “tne wectint tas none | all conveniences. Here you can see|/now and we cduld take part in the Play grounds, a pond with small boats amusements and have a good time for children, a bathing pool, a theatre, in the park, a cinema. children’s workshops and special rooms for dramatic and musi- cal circles and a brass band as well. Leaving the children we went to bathe. Nearly all of us went into the |. Pi ? $" water. Cool water was so pleasant for 4 i. We shall gladly answer you. Jour hot bodies. Clean, with wet hair,|__ ‘Signed pee jcovered with bright drops of water Moscow, U.S.8.R., 12 Erchaff St., Apt.| and awfully hungry, we entered the | “’ dining room. By preliminary arrange- H |ments the special hall was held for us. 1 YEAR SENTENCE | | It is impossible to tell in one letter ell about our Park of Culture and| | Rest. | Please write what you are interest- |quickly made away with a tasty and square meal. | Photo (top) shows women engaged in work in connection with the Workers’ and Peasants’ pre: rehing during..a rec it parade in Moscow. At right, men and women in a sport demonstration before the Stalin (formerly Amo) auto plant, near Moscow, in which they are employed. Millions of Soviet workers belong to sport clubs and take an active part in gymnastics. The Soviet Government apprepriates huge sums each year for its health program, and places special emphasis cn the development of the youth. DELEGATES ARRIVING FOR MARINE UNION CONVENTION SATURDAY NIGHT NEW YORK.—Delegates are ar ond National Convertion of the Ma: begins Sunday, Juiy 16, and rurs thr- tien opens with a banguet on Satur Lyceum, to which all organiz. greet the delezates. Earl are on the list of speakers to creet the convention in the names of their respective crganizatiens. With the arrival of delegates in- |, creasing interest in tke conver n jis being shown among the marine workers who live and work along the port of New York. The first delegates to arrive are the ones who had the farthest to travel —tfrom Seattle and other North West ts. One of these delegates, Tom Browder, > Jack Stechel, M. Olgin, and Ben Gold [Negro and White Representatives Coming enry Bonitia, Felix Morrero and From Many American S hipping Ports ng ports for the Sec- ‘3 Industrial Union, which week, The conven- to send representatives, to Accomedations will be needed begin- All comrades can put up men comrades for nights should immediately get in teuch with the Marine Workers Industrial Union at 140 Broad Street, er call, at any time, Whitshall 4-6563. Saturday, July 15, week, at Manhattan | to rapidly) Itis necessary, due to rapidly changing of food purchased at wholesale in the form July 1, 1933. | [Form Lotter No. 53} One family with two little babies re- changing foced prices, to increase the|ported to the Unemployed Councils |quantity of food purchased at whole-|that their meagre food allowance of |sale in the form of monthly rations.” |$6.94 has now been cut to $6.28. |In this way the county will buy up} All relief in Cook County which in- |large quantities of food at lower prices,/cludes mainly the city of Chicago is f but workers who are on the relief lists now being cut while the prices of food will get less, making the saving for the mount higher each day. NOTICE TO CLIENTS retail food prices, to increase the quantity of monthly rations. | This enables us to secure greater value for you. Although your grocery order it reduced somewhat, the actual money vehie of the food furnished you is increased. COOK COUNTY BUREAU OF PUBLIC WELFARE TAMPA WORKERS FREED; POLICE RE- ARREST THEM TAMPA, Fila., July 11—The* four remaining Tampa prisoners were re- leased here yesterday on writs of | habeas corpus enforcing the reversal} of convictions against them by the Florida Supreme Court. They were immediately re-arrested by Sheriff Spencer, of Hillsboro County, and held without warrant |for “investigttion.” | The four are J. E. McDonald,| Mario Lopez. | No charge has been laid against ees | All four had served eighteen |months of long terms, in the county ‘jail and on the chain-gang, for working-class activity on behalf of the Tobacco Workers’ Industrial Union. The International Labor Defense, organizing mass protest against this |action of the Tampa authorities, has called on all workers and sympa- thizers to send immediate wires to | Sheriff Spencer, Tampa, Fla., and to! Governor Dave Sholtz, Tallahassee, Fla., demanding the immediate re- lease of the four Tampa prisoners. On the same day and in the same! ‘The Workers Speak court, Loretta Tarmon, arrested June} The meeting itself was to be held |2 at a home relief bureau demon-|in a large room “Workers and Kol- | stration, will be tried on a charge|Khozniks” (Workers and Peasants) |of disorderly conduct. She will be| Yall was written on the door. It is hase Reminiscences of an old | defended by the LL.D. large pavilion including a long hall Bolshevik are a thrifling and instructive glance backward aaron" ! Mattern Camped by Frozen River Until Natives Saw Signal Soviet and American Relief Expeditions on | Way to Fetch Marooned Flier Bolshevik "Sem Tel ome Tarmon Trial Same Day By 0. PIATNITSKY | | FOR SIX The Book .. The Sub... Total .. You can have Both for $4.00 Tear This Out and Mail! MOSCOW, July 11.—Cables today;no sign of life for nine days and told the full story of Jimmie Mat-/ decided to build a hut on the river tern’s mishap over the frozen voleanie| bank, He lived there for six more country of northeastern Siberia. Tak-| days, subsisting on the wild birds ing off from Khabarovsk after fin-|which he shot with the rifle present- | ishing more than half of his round-|ed to him by the Russian airmen at the-world -flight, he had flown for| Khabarovsk. | fourteen hours over the treacherous) And on the night of the fifteenth sea and icy tundra when he noticed day two more boats passed. This time that his motor was overheated. |his signals were observed. Native Land or crash was his choice. For|Chukchis, took him to their camp | more than two hours he sought a fifty miles from Anadyr and there jlikely landing place and finally/he rested several days. Then the | brought down the plane on a hillock} Chukchis accompanied him to a fish- | more than sixty miles from Anadyr,| ing settlement where the Soviet Coast | the nearest settlement. He found the|/ Guards met them and took Mattern | propeller bent, the right wing and/to Anadyr in their motor launch. one side of the landing gear broken | and the fuselage smashed. message, telling of his safety. Looking over his stores, he found/relief expeditions, a Russian one | biscuits and chocolate sufficient for 3| from Khabarovsk and a group of DAILY WORKER 50 East 18 the Street, New York, N. Y. Please send me, at a saving of a half dollar, MEMOIRS OF A BOL- SHEVIK and the DAILY WORKER for six months. I enclose $4.00, NAME DDRESS Orr .— | and eventually came upon the Anadyr| taking off to bring back the maroon- | River where he saw two boats which | ed flier whose plane is wrecked be- missed his signals, After that he saw yond repair, § 5 STATE ~— Last Friday Mattern sent the first | Two) to collect 100,000 signatures protest- aa FOR UNEMPLOYED |seated at the small white tables and Jail and Fines for in Eviction Arrest LANCASTER, Pa.—Seven members. cf the Unemployed Council have been convicted on charges of ‘inciting to | riot, conspiraey and obstructing the | service of a legal process” as the re- | sult of an eviction demonstration on June 8th. Joseph Smithreidinger, Fred Tru- biana and Arthur Walters were sen- tenced to one year in the county | jail and fined $100 apiece. Luther | Henderson, a Negro worker, Richard Sturgis, Harvey Gerlach and Roy Ur- ban were jailed for nine months. Six other workers were freed. | The workers were arrested when attempting to prevent the eviction ot Jacob Lefever of 1411 N. West End Ave. The workers were only driven away with the aid of a large force of city police. To Appeal Three-Year Term Given Worker Framed for “Perjury” TRENTON, N. J—An appeal in the case of Tom Scott, sentenced to from two to three years in Rahway peni- tentiary on a charge of “suborina- tion of perjury” because he organized the defense of the workers arrested in the South River needle trades strike last year, has been filed with the State Supreme Court, it was an- nounced today by the International | Labor Defense. The LL.D. announced a campaign ing the railroading of Tom Scott, and the reign of terror in Middlesex Coun- | days’ subsistence. He roamed about| New York aviators from Nome are|ty inaugurated by the industrialists and ammunition manufacturers of Perth Amboy, New Brunswick, and South River, Ray, artived in time to speak at a street meeting in New York Sunday. | The mesting was attended by several | hundred marine workers. Longshoremen are beginning to see thet the convention will lay the ground work of organization for « real struggle against the betrayal they expect when Joseph P. Ryan opens “negotiations” with the boss stevedores next September. Delegates from New Orleans, San) Francisco and San Pedro (the port of Los Angeles) are already on the) road to attend the convention. From) When the victorious strikers at Lef- closer ports the delegates are ready |kowitz Leather factory, N. Brunswick, to start, having been elected during|N. J., sent the news of their victory the last few few days by the local|to the Daily Worker, they also sent unions, among them many ship and|a request for fifty extra copies of the dock delegates, ‘Daily’ in which their story appeared. From the pott of Savannah a let- | Then they had these copies on sale DAY B With the “Daily” Victorious Leather Strikers Order Extra Bundle of Fifty ter announced that the Negro long- shoremen of that city are sending a delegate to the convention. News of the convention and the call to send @ delegate were brought to them by seamen aboard ships putting in at Savannah. ‘The unemployed seamen will be re- presented at the convention by many fraternal delegates. These delegates, elected by the unemployed councils on the beach of a degen ports will be present to help work out the pro- blems of the marine workers hooking up the struggle for unemployment insurance with the demand for shorter hours, more pay and more men on the job. The workaway (forced labor at sea) problem will also be of keen importance to the unemployed representatives. The revolutionary dock workers of Mexico, report they hope to be able to send a delegate to the convention. pi wee The Marine Workers Industrial Union must secure sleeping accom- odations for a large number of out of town delegates to its Convention. among the leather workers, who, aft- er their strike had been won, formed an indystrial union. That's the way the papers circula- tion should be strengthened, Every struggle in the industrial field should be closely followed up by a popularization of the Dally! 8 An unemployed worker in Detroit writes us about the difficulties he had in selling the Daily in Dearborn, |Mich., Ford-owned town. But, de- |spite the difficulties, as revealed in the following letter, he is still on the job: | “I went out to Dearborn, Mich.,” he writes, “on the fourth of July to sell the Daily, and about as son as |I got out there, before I had time to sell very many, the police at the station on Salina Ave., near Dix Ave., saw me and called me inside to ask me what I was selling. Two cops {wanted to sec what I had, and they asked me whether I knew what I was selling. They asked a lot of oth- {er questions, most everything else that they could think of. They told me to get out of town and stay out and not be caught back there again. Y DAY “Since I was already there, I tried to sell a few more papers. Soon the police came along in a car, ahd took me down to the station, again asking me more questions. “This time they searched me, slapped me, and hit me about as hard as they could in the ribs with their fists. They kicked me, and when they finally let me go, they threatened me with worse treat- ment if they ever saw me in Dear- born again.’ he . “DAILY” HAS IMPROVED GREATLY IN EVERY WAY From Nelson Dewey, Edgewater, Colorado: “Having been a Daily Worker sub- scriber for ten years, I had to drop my subscription for one year on ac- count of lack of funds and sickness, I finally got enough money for a| months sub. I appreciate it more) than ever now as it has improved! greatly in every way. “Your article on Ellis and Minor | was fine. I used to buy the St. Louis Post-Dispatch especially for Minor’s cartoons, as they appealed to me above all others. I am en- closing $3.50 for a six-month sub, and hope I will never have to be without the Daily Worker again. “If the workers of this country had back-bone instead of a wish-bone, they would dump the whole damned works pronto,” NAP THREE FOR RANSOM IN: TWENTY HOURS Within twenty hours three victims of kidnappers are held for ransom in the United States. John J. O'Connell Jr., 24-year-old member of the poli- tically powerful O'Connell family of Albany is held for $250,000, the high- est amount ever demanded by ab- ductors. August Luer, 77 years old, a semi-invalid retired banker of Alton, Illinois, is held by kidnappers who have not yet made requests for ran- som. In Wilmington, Ohio, Marian Buckley, 18-year-old daughter of a Cleveland school official, has disap- peared and two young men have been arrested on suspicion of knowing something of her kidnapping. Albany Brewery Racket The Albank kidnapping grows out of the corruption incidental to Tam- many manipulation of the brewery Tacket. Young O'Connell is a nephew of the notorious up-state Tammany political bosses, Edward J, O’Connell and Daniel P. O'Connell, and is a graduate of Manlius Military Academy and a captain in the Albany batallion of the New York State militia. He had recently taken charge of the distribution of 3.2 beer brewed at Hen-~ drick’s brewery in which his uncles are stockholders, His kidnapping 1s attributed to rival beer gangs who are being dis- criminated against by the Tammany controlled beer board of which for- mer New York police commissioner, Edward P. Mulrooney, is head, The democratic political machine at Albany, dominated by the O’Con- nells, has long been in control of the bootlegging and vice racket in that part of the state. In Albany and Hudson huge red light districts, protected by the O'Connell machine, which started the “boom” for Frank- lin D. Roosevelt that enabled him to get the democratic nomination for president of the United States, are permitted to operate wide open. Hence the kidnpping of young O'Connell is a part of the warfare between rival beer and vice gangs. It is an example of the decay of the capitalist system as reflected in . corrupt politics based upon the unity of the upper world of finance capital and the underworld. Woman Helps in Luer Kidnapping The Alton case in Illinois has to do with the kidnapping of August Luer, an aged banker whose interests Hye meat packing. His abduce ion was effected by a young woman who lured him away from his home, Two men were waiting in an autos es and forced him to accompany em, : Kidnapping has become one of the most effective rackets in the United States. In less than five months de- mands were made for ransom of $650,000 in eight kidnapping cases. Among the most noted of these up to the present Albany case were those involving the Factor family of Chi- cago, Jerome Factor, a noted crook and confidence man, wanted in a number of foreign countries » for swindling, was held by kidna) un- til $50,000 was paid for his re! . A few weeks ago his son, John Fac- tor, was kidnapped from a notorious road house night club and joint on the North Shore Michigan. He is still missing.