The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 23, 1933, Page 6

| i Page Six CUBAN PORT Welles Sends Troops WORKERS WIN RECOGNITION OF REVOLUTION Published by the Comprodatly Publishing 18th St., New York City, N. ¥ Co., Inc, dally exeept Sundsy, at se B Telephone ALgonquin 4-7955. Cable “DAIWOBK.” and mall chacks to the Daily Worker, 50 BE. 18th St., New York, N. Y- ARY UNION ainst Mill Strikers— ¢ ABC Murders Young Pioneers—Peasants HAVANA, Aug. 22.—Ha’ 000 port workers, whose strike played a decisive role in smashing the Machado regime, returned to work today, vic- torious. ‘They had forced acceptance of all their major demands, and particu- | larly recognition of the revolutionary union, the National Confederation of Labor of Cubs They also we rotation of v for higher wages are holding out of shop comm: Bakers and street workers in Santiago, ra. r Oriente and Camaguey provinces, and w the shoe industry in An’ Padre and other ports re n strike. An lil-year old Pioneer girl was Shot dead by members of the ABC, | the former capitalist: lord oppo- | Bition, during a C ist demon- | stration in Manianao. The ABC at- tacked the demon: ion and mur- dered the child when eatry 8 green ABC flag. Peasants Seize Land. ie refused to Peasants in Guines a Central Gomez Mena have seized large estates and begun to up the | Jand. Juan Bl Hernandez, leader as, has been refused admission to § Clara and Cama- | @uey because of his great influence ‘over the workers and peasants. It was reported that in Guines and | Central Gomez Mena armed workers @nd peasants had seized power and set up workers and peasants’ coun- eils, which they said were after the pattern of Soviets. Students Honor Mella. More than 1,000 st strated on the campu university ui the lead the Committee Left Wing, th to Reorganize the Ja Izquerda, revolu- tionary stude: organization op- posed to the ABC student groups The renegade leadership of Ala Iz- @ierda was denounced and the Re- | organization Committee approved by the studenis A plaque of Julio Antonia Mella Ohe of the found mist Party of the statue of / meeting resolved Where the Street”. In Regla we Named the r Mella street the Machado Ct also renamed af More Macha Louis de iceman, was s Soriano. A crowd i tempted to Hechevarria rested. Rafael Castro, a tovhave taken p: name the place stands “Mella fter he had been under the Tested by police and soldiers. Jose R Barcelo, for ror of Oriente province, r soldiers vhad surrounded his A majority of the an House of Representatives have handed in their Tesignations to President de Cespedes but no ann it of new elec- tions has been me W.E.S.L. Protests Attack on Vet Who Handed Out Leaflets The National Executive Committee Of the Workers Ex-Service Men's Teague sent a vigorous protest to the Federal Attorney General agains the persecution of William Hockstra, ® war veteran, who was beaten al- Most to death on August when distributing anti-war leaflets in Ar- lington Cemetery. “The assistant superintendent of | ‘Atlington Cemetery, according to the | i blotter at the station where | ‘a was brought, at first want- ed to swear out a warrant for thé of the cemetery guard Edward | rer who slugged Hockstra. When | assistant superintendent saw that | ra was near death, he decided the assault charge on Hock- | , in order to cover the criminal | of his subordinate. The In- al Labor Defense is fight- | for his release. Ban Expected Today ce . . _* for Irish Fascists DUBLIN, Aug. 22.—President ‘Bamonn de Valera was expected !gelare the Irish National Guard today, in aceordance with| " promise Sunday, when the| wshirted Fascists paraded in| cities without permission. Trish Fascists support British f ee class organizations. 4 muee Gandhi Weakening in DONA, India, Aug. 22.—In the h day of his “fast to death,’ Gandhi, Indian nationalist ler, was reported to be weakening his condition is not yet B was moved recently to a hos- from Yeroda jail, where he is & year for civil disobedience. | p his fast in protest against | onditions of his imprisonment. | [Ask R. F. C. Loans’ i, Aug. 22—Many ers of heavy ma- chinery goods are try- ing to get the R. C. to finance Soviet Union, it was . At least forty ons have already These manufacturers, who have kept their names secret, have pres- sed the argument that Soviet or- ders would take much of their sur- incentive to re-open many of their closed factories. manufacturer revealed that © the Soviet Union has already, ordered 1,000 trucks from him. At Washington, trade represen- tatives point out that the Soviet Union has established a flawless record of commercial payments, and that it has proven itself to be a first rate market for manufac. tured goods. A liberal R. F. C. program for Soviet exports, they point out, will do much to give employment to workers in the heavy industries. Wholesale Murder by Machado Agents Just Before His Overthrow NEW YORK. — News of bloody murder and repression by Machado’s troops and secret police in Santa Clara province prior to the present political strike against the Machado te and suspension of constitu- tional guarantees has just reached the International Labor Defense here by delayed mail. More than 100 peasants were mur- dered in this region by the Rural Guards, in the first three weeks of July, vas learned, on suspicion that were helping the insur- rec The huts of hundreds were burned down by the same ter- rorist bands. Young girls of 15 and 17 years were captured and subjected to be- stial torture. Gregorio Ramirez, a member of the Cuban section of the ILD. was taken by Rural Guards after a bat- tle between them and the rebels had resulted in the death of nine of the former. He was tortured with knives, id decapitated. His body 2 wounds. tk rested, and is now in a hospital in a dyii condition as a result of tor- tures by the Rural Guards. Nazis Plan Monster Festivai to Check Growing Discontent Aug. 21. — Drafted ed labor are busy iding temporary billets and a huge tent city here in preparation for a mass congress of Nazis on August 30, led by Chancellor Adolf Hitler in empt to counteract the growing illusion and resistance of the Ger- n masses. All the Nazi chiefs, from Hitler down and 400,000 selected Nazis, will attend. he reviewing stand will have space for 1,000 honorary guests and 50,000 preferred spectators. The whol government propaganda is at work, pumping up enthusiasm for the event. Hitler has chosen Nuremberg instead of Munich, the Nazi center, because this is a Protestant center, and the Catholic middle classes are said to be more op- | posed to Hitler than the Protestant. 6-page “Daily”! sds, and supply them with| One motor car| CAPITALISM—THE VANDAL! | | | %, ‘ | NEWS ITEM: “In addition to his campaign to plow under vast crops of cotton to increase its price, President Roose- velt now asks that 5,000,000 price of meat.” SUBSCRIPTION BATES: By Mall everywhere: One year, six months, $8.50; 8 months, $2; 1 month, 75 excepting Borough of Manhatian and Bronx, New York City. Foreign and Canada: One year, $9; 6 months, $5; 3 months, $8. 5 States to Hold Conventions for Jobless Insurance ! —By Burck hogs be killed to raise the Marines Called As Striking Bargemen Block French River One Blockade Broken’ After Three-Day Tie-Up |. PARIS, Aug. 22.—A blockade of:30 |barges strung across the Seine-river by striking bargemen at Conflans- Ste. Honorine, 15 miles north of here, was broken early today by three tug- loads of marines from Cherbourg and 200 armed policemen. ‘The strikers fought back with boat- hooks, encouraged by their wives and children. They were finally routed with streams from a fire hose, and thirty were arrested, charged . with rebellion. Another blockade, across the river Oise, remained solid. The Seine bargemen declared their intention of forming another block- ade, and a virtual state of siege was maintained along the river by the government forces. ‘The bargemen went on strike Sat- urday, blockading both rivers and tying up traffic for hundreds of miles. The bargemen struck for shorter hours. The strike was reported to have been precipitated by tne intro- duction of motorised river transport, which would drive many of them out of employment unless their hours are reduced. British Lost Heavily in Soviet Trade War LONDON, Aug. 20.—Great Britain | lost seriously from its trade war with the Soviet Union, in which it estab- lished a three months’ embargo in retaliation for the conviction of Brit- ish engineers in Moscow on charges of wrecking and spying. Trade figures given out yesterday showed that British exports to Russia fell 56 per cent below the exports for the same period last year, while British imports from the Soviet Union fell only 42 per cent. Contribute to the Daily Workel | Sustaining Fund! Help to keep up the Republic. in the Chinese Soviet Republic. The congress sent telegrams of greetings and solidarity to the Ja- Ppanese and German International Red Aid organizations. In a telegram to the headquarters of the International Red Aid, the Chinese workers declared, “The re- actionary kuomintang, with the help of imperiabsts, intends to Strangle China's revolution by op- pressing the revolutionary volunteers and other people who engage in anti- Japanese and anti-imperialist ac- tivities. It dissolves strikes, demon- strations, and boycott movements, and is mobilizing a million soldiers to attack the Red Armies, the only armed force of the Chinese national revolution, and the Soviet districts where the masses have obtained theit liberation. They have employed every savage means, including the use of poison gases, to murder the workers, peasants, and revolutionary fighters in the Soviet districts. “The Congress pays respect and sends hearty sympathy to the world revolutionary fighters, and those who have falien victims to the savage white terror. The Congress shall call upon all its members as well as the worker and peasant masses to carry on the struggle against white terrorism.” Icelandic Workers Tear Up Nazi Flag COPENHAGEN, Denmark.—When the German vice-consul at Signuf- jord, Iceland, flew the Nazi swastika flag for the first time, in honor of a group of visiting Nazis, the workers of Signufjord marched in a body to the consulate, tore down the flag, and destroyed it. Chinese Red Aid, 600,000 Strong, Holds Congress Cie Ace eg | Revolutionary Workers of Soviet Districts Send | Greetings to German and Japanese Fighters Against Fascism and Imperialism SHANGHAI—The Red Aid Society of the Soviet Districts of China, has held its first congress, in Juikin, the red capital of the Chinese Soviet The Chinese Red Aid Society is a branch of the International Red Aid, the parent body of the International Labor Defense. It has 600,000 members Students to Demand “Hands off Cuba” in DemonstrationToday NEW YORK. — Students and other members of youth organi- zations will demonstrate. against American domination in Cuba at 11:30 a.m. today, under the lead- ership of the National Student League. The demonstrators will meet at South and Whitehall Sts, |mear the Cuban consulate, and march to the Sub-treasury build- ing on Wall Street. Among the speakers will be J. B. Matthews, of the arrangements committee for the United States Congress Against War; Paul Bar- lit, a Philippine student; William Browder of the Communist Party; Frank Ibanez of the Julio Mella Club, Irving Dichter and Edmund Stevens of the National Student League. Philadelphia Mayor Greets Machado Kin. PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 22.—Mayor | Moore of Philadelphia, who said “It isn’t my funeral” when told patients in local hospitals were overcrowded, sent an official letter extending greetings and the hospitality of the city to the family of Gerardo Mach- ado, the Cuban butcher. This is the mayor who sent the police to attack the striking workers in the Cambrai mills, and who was responsible for the bloody attack on the workers of Philadelphia on May 1 of last year. Counter Trial for Reichstag Fire to tion Along With Defense AMSTERDAM, Aug. 22.—Every wit- ness, for the prosecution as well as for the defense, will be called to the | Counter Trial at The Hague, Holland, when Ernst Torgler, George Dimi- troff, Blagoi Popoff, Vassil Taneff, and other Communists go on trial at | Leipzig in September on the framed- up charge of setting the Reichstag fire, it was announced today by the | international committee in charge of the’ Reichstag fire investigation, Complete alibis for all the defend- ants, proof that the Nazis set the fire, and complete evidence as to who Marinus van der Lubbe, so-called “Communist” who was found at the scene of the fire, is, will be offered. The committee will also attempt to have all the prosecution witnesses at the Leipzig trial come and give their evidence. The counter trial at The Hague will | be conducted by, a group of distin- guished international lawyers, includ- ing Leo Gallagher, American lawyer, end others from England, France, Italy, Belgium, Sweden, Bulgaria, Spain and other countries. | Paris Fetes Sultan | of Morocco As Army | Wars on His People PARIS, Aug. 22.—While a , French army of 25,000 is batter- ing away at six tribes of Berbers in the Atlas mountains, Sidi Mahom- med puppet sultan of Morocco, is being dined and wined in Paris. ‘The French army was reported closing in on the anti-imperialist Berbers, who, immensely out num- bered by an army with.all modern equipment, have been fighting he- roically for their freedom. To keep up a six-page “Daily Work- er,” the circulation must be doubled. Call All Accusers| Seek to Hear Prosecu- | RELIEF WORKERS IN LOS ANGELES VOTE TO STRIKE 1700to Protest Against 30 p. ec. Cut in Wages and Food Orders LOS ANGELES, Calif., Aug. 22. — Over 1700 unemployed workers packed the headquarters of the Relief Work- ers Protective Union to voice their determination for a one-day strike and demonstration this week against the 30 percent cut in relief work and grocery orders. The mass meeting in preparation for the strike was cal- led by the County Council of the R. W.P.U, and the Unemployed United Front Conference. Earl C. Jensen, Superintendent of the County Welfare Bureau, who was invited to face the starving workers and to justify his actions, sent down his “personal contact” man, Rex Thompson, to tell the unemployed workers “to be patient” and to see how the “experiment” (30 percent cut) works out. He was told by the workers to go back and tell his boss that they will not allow any charity racketeers to experiment with human misery and that the fight for food for their children and wives will be car- ried on. Thunders of applause and cheers greeted the speakers who in- structed Thompson to bring back the militant demands of the unemployed workers. The demand of the R.W.P.U. are $4, for a 6-hour work day; a 7-day work order every 30 days for single men and women; a ten day work or- der for married men and 2 days ad- ditional for each dependent; aboli- tion of all forced labor, and against discrimination in the giving out of relief work because of race, creed, nationality, political belief or strike activities, and for full pay for the one day strike. Solidarity and support for the strike were expressed by delegates from units of Unemployed Co-opera- tive Association, Unemployed Coun- cil, Unemployed Voters’ Association; Veterans’ Non-Political League, rank and file members of the A. F. of L., and by the striking millinery workers of the Golden Brothers Millinery Shop, who have been out for the Jast ten weeks. Over 400 joined the R.W.P.U. at the mass meeting. The union now has 28 locals with a membership of about 5000 embracing every part of Los Angeles County. Toledo Relief Strike | Forces County to Ask State. for Cash Aid ‘TOLEDO, ‘Ohio.—Mass picketing in the Springfield and Swanton Town- ships, for cash work relief of 60 cents an hour, has forced county Officers to ask the State Relief Com- mission for a cash relief distribu- tion. The county commissioners have been compelled by the strikers’ mili- tancy to agree to furnish grocery orders to all striking families. Forced Labor Camp Boys Fight Forest Fire in Oregon FOREST GROVE, Ore., Aug. 22.Every forced labor camp boy in the district was mobilized today to fight a forest fire raging here. The fire has already destroyed a million. dollars worth of timber, and sweeps on unchecked despite the efforts of more than 1,000 men. Philly Jobless to Demonstrate Sept. 5. PHILADELPHIA, Pa.—Unemployed Councils here are mobilizing a dem- énstration for jobs at the State Em- ployment Bureau at 15th and Cherry Sireets Sept. 5, at 9 am. About 6 Do your share by getting new sub- seribers. million jobs were promised Philly unemployed through the N.R.A. Detailed Alibi Proves ® CompanionAccounts for Every Move of Accused from 6:30 P. M. to Midnight on Night When German Parliament Burned Editor’s Note:—We publish below the affidavit of Wilhelm Koenen, Communist member of the Ger- man Reichstag, which completely establishes the innocence of Ernst Torgler, leader of the Communist fraction in the Reichstag, who will be tried at Leipzig in September on a charge of setting the fire which gutted the Reichstag on Feb, 27. Along with Torgler, George Dimi- troff, Blagoi Popoff and Vassil Taneff, Bulgarian Communists, and probably other Communists whose names are not yet known, will have to stand trial. This fire, which evidence already published conclusively proves was set by the Nazis under the direction of Hermann Goering, Nazi premier of Prussia, was the signal for the reign of terror in which hundreds of Communists were murdered, and tens of thousands tortured and in- terned in concentration camps. This affidavit was obtained by the international Investigation com~ Hague, Holland, when the Com- munists go on trial at Leipzig. “8 8 AFFIDAVIT: “T affirm the following: “On the afternoon of Feb; 27, as or almost every day of the previous week, I met the detective commis- sioner, Dr. Braschwitz on Alexander- platz in order to continue. negotia- tions on the release of election ma- terial from Karl Liebknecht House. After three o'clock we went, together with several detectives, to the Karl | Liebknecht House, where then again | several small loads of placards, pasters, etc., which had ‘been re- leased for election propaganda, were packed and taken out. At six- twenty, after finishing this work, I said good-by to the detective com- missioner, spoke in a nearby restau- | rant with our workers on the further transport of material for the follow- ing day and then called up the sec- retariat of our Reichstag fraction about providing speakers for the last election week. Reichstag. I entered the building shortly before 6:30 pm, There I also met my colleague, Ernst Torgler, who, as director of the official elec- tion committee of our Party, parti- cipated in the assignment of the deputies for the scheduled meetings. About a quarter past seven o'clock, when my affairs were settled, my friend Ernst Torgler asked me to wait awhile, because he was expect- ing a telephone call, which ought to come in soon. Then we could to- gether go out to eat, “Since I had undertaken to send away an urgent postal money order, I had Ernst Torgler ask the Reich- stag switchboard if the post office of the Reichstag was still open. He got the answer that the post office of the Reichstag had closed at 7 pm. I then told him about the continuous difficulties which were made over re- leasing election material from the Karl Liebknecht House. We agreed that Torgler, as director of the cen- tral election committee of our Party, should again officially call up the chief.of the political department of the Berlin police, chief government inspector Dr. Diehls, and again pro- test to him against the keeping back of election placards of various kinds and of other election material. mittee on the Reichstag fire, which will conduct a counter-trial at The i “After this telephone call I went for the same purpose at once te the “At about half past eight o’clotk he had, this. telephone conversation Innocence of Ernst Torgler in with Dr. Diehls. Afterwards I had myself connected with the assessor, who, as Dr. Diehls’ right-hand man, ‘was responsible for the carrying through of the release, and talked to him about the difficulties and the matters which had to be settled the following day, for which I had again an appointment at Karl Liebknecht House with the detective commis- sioner. Cloak Room Attendant Calls “After these telephone calls with police headquarters, Deputy Ernst Torgler, at about a quarter to eight o'clock, telephoned with a lawyer, Dr. Rosenfeld. - As the telephone call of a Party friend, which he had been expecting since 7 o'clock, had not yet come in, he ca!led up the watchman of door number 5 and told him that if the watchman should get the call after 8 p.m, (after the switchboard would be closed) he should be called up in the fraction secretariat through the house telephone. Bs “In the meantim® the south cloak- room called up to ask if Torgler was|-ci going away now or.if, as usual, his clothes should bé brought into the fraction room. He requested to have the clothes brought up, which was done towards eight o'clock. At about this time the south cloakroom and door number 2 were closed. “A few minutes After 8 o'clock the - Ts Part of Evidence Holland When Reds Are Tried in Germany expected telephone call finally came in and had to be received at the watchman’s post of door number 5, the only exit. which was still open. For this purpose Deputy Torgler was called through the house telephone; he hurried very much, of course, since he came from the third floor and did not want to keep his friend waiting. After a few minutes Ernst Torgler came back into the fraction room from the watciaman’s room. A short time afterwards we dressed and at about a quarter past 8 o'clock we left. the Reichstag, together with the fraction secretary, through door number 5. Walked Out Slowly “Against the. statements about our supposed ‘ hurried leaying of the Reichstag, it must be stated that ac- identally on this particular evening we left the Reichstag building more slowly than ever before, because the fraction secretary, who left with us, was suffering from inflammation of a yein on the leg, which made walk- ing particularly hard for her, so that we could walk only very slowly. Reichstag Fire Affidavit Obtained by International Committee for Counter-Trial in Friedrichstrasse station, where the secretary left us to take the subway. Immediately, that is about 8:30 p.m., we went into the Aschinger restau- rant, near the Friedricistrasse sta- tion, where we ate supper. There we also met three Party friends, with whom we talked for awhile. Two of these Party friends left us after they had eaten, between 9:30 and 9:45 p.m. At 10 p.m. the new shift of waiters came in, so that we paid our bill shortly before. “After 10 p.m. the new waiter came to our table, talked to me by my name and said: “‘Mr. Koenen, do you know already that the Reichstag is burning?’ “Extremely surprised, I answered: ‘Man, are .you crazy? That's entirely impossible!’ “Very excitedly he answered: ‘No, really, all the chauffeurs are telling about it. You can ask in front at the bar. Thousands of people are already standing there.’ “This is how we heard about one of the most outrageous crimes in his- a | ment spy. Benjamin, Organizer of Nat’l Unemployed Councils, to Speak { NEW YORK.—Unemployment In- surance ‘conventions will be held in five states at the time Herbert Ben\- | jamin, National Organizer of the Un-\ employed Councils arrives on his September speaking tour. The states which so far have announced these conventions are‘ Montana, Washing- ton; Arizona, Idaho and Wisconsin. The Idaho Unemployed Councils will hold their convention on §ep- tember 17. The “Panhandle” section of the state will be toured with a truck for the purpose of arousing workers to send their delegates to the conyention. Arizona Unemployed Councils are preparing a county Hunger March to be held immediately after the con- vention (Oct. 9). This is to be fole lowed: by a state Hunger March in- volving all the organizations attend- , ing the convention. it 6 All of the states on Benjamin's tour will hold similar conventions but have not yet notified the National Office of the preparations they are making. The tour has for its purpose the drawing into the movement for unemployment insurance, through th; state conventions and mass meetings thousands of workers not yet. reached. Jobless Run Down Says Mission Head Physical Condition of Women and Children Worse NEW YORK.—The physical condi- tion of the increased number of job- less applying for aid is very bad, said Dr. L. E. Sunderland, head of the New York City Mission Society at 38 Bleeker St., yesterday. “The staff and board are facing the coming winter with the greatest apprehension,” he added. ‘The statement Issued was based on a report of three months activity of the, Mission. A considerable change for the worse has been noted in the physical condition of women and particularly of children. More destitution is found in the homes, the report continues, and evic- tions are increasing. Workers who are being evicted were formerly in the white collar class. Union CityOrganizes Unemployed League UNION CITY, N. J—The first Un- employed League to be organized here will hold it’s second meeting Friday, Aug. 25, at 45rd Street east of Bergenline Avenue, opposite the firehouse. Hudson County unem- ployed should join this organization. The first meeting was attended by 150 workers. Unemployed Hired to SpreadAttack on NTU NEW YORK.— Forty unemployed men and youths staying at the Bow- cry Y.M.C.A. flon-house. were given “jobs” recently to distribute leaflets attacking the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union as a “Red menace.” ‘As soon as they realized the full significance of this slanderous leaflet, almost all the men dumped them The mep were to be paid 75 cents for this work by the Peck Distribut- ing Co,, 503 Atlantic Ave., Brooklyn. Out of this, the vicious Mr. Rockwell, “unemployment secretary” of the “Y” takes 60 cents. 500 Join Demonstra- tion for Cleve. Relief CLEVELAND, Ohio.—A de- monstration of 2,500 workers took place recently at the Cuyahoga County Relief Agency demanding that jobless workers shall not have their electric light or gas shut off, abolishmént of forced labor and no discrimination against Negro workers. 3TRUGGLE AGAINST PROVOCATION Workers’ Enemies Exposed. All workers and workers’ organiza- tions are warned. against the follow- ing individual who has been found cut es a vicious enemy of the work- ing class. HARRY SCHULTZ (alias Matt Gerspacher), of Spokane, Wash. This man has been exposed and expelled by the Communist Party organization in Spokane and Seattle as a govern- He got into the Party by subter- fuge, seying that he had been @& member in Great. Falls. Mont., and beceme very active in the Interna- tional-Lebor Defense branch. Then, at the beginning of: July, five foreign= born workers were arrested for de- portation, and it was definitely es- tablished that they were betrayed by Schultz (Gerspacher). He led the immigration agents to the place where cne of the arrested workers wes stoying, and he was seen work- ing at a typewriter in the ‘mmigras ti eopera jaseriniion: Alou ebout.5 ft. 6 in, in } inwmeight; brewn heir padly shaped; hos a crippled right hand. He is cf German descent and talks with a heavy German accent; has a knack of making friends easily; vears of age; “At this very slow pace we went to tory. “ (Signed) WILHELM BOENEN.” claims to have been an officer in the United States Army, § “ =