The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 21, 1933, Page 1

| Demonstrate Before German Consulate Today at 12 Noonf ‘Have You Spoken to Your Neighbor About the Daily Worker? Have You Given Him Your Copy? Do So Today! Vol. X, No. 227 -_* Mastered 26 second-class matter at the Post Office at Yew Yort, MW. Y., under the Act of March 8, 1879, (Section of the Conemusist International) | America’s On ly Working Class Daily Newspaper | WEATHER Eastern New York:—Generall cooler he seciness:" lly fair, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1933 (Six pre: Price 3 Cents Stop the Axe-Blow! MPODAY at Leipzig, four of our leading revolutionary comrades face the executioner’s axe. The International Commission of Jurists at London, after examining every shred of evidence, has proclaimed to the world the innocence of these men, charged with the firing of the Reichstag. It has gone further. It has flung into the faces of the Hitler judges the direct charge that the Nazis themselves planned this hideous frame- , up to provide the pretext for the unleashing of the Fascist murder gangs. Our German comrades are not daunted by the insane cruelties of the | Fascist butchers. Through every prison-wall, through every Fascist frenzy, | our German comrades break with the message of Communism. ‘The Fascist cowards cannot conceal their deadly fear of our German Communist Party. That is why they lust for the blood of our heroic comrades. Today, throughout the world, the working class gathers in the streets to give its answer to the ferocity of the Fascist judges. Before the assembled strength of the workers of the world, the fas- cist executioners tremble. It is the fear of the anger of the workers that alone will force them to release our revolutionary comrades. Let them hear our challenge! Workers! Join the demonstration today at 12 noon before the German Consulate, 17 Battery Place! ' Discussion and Action VER two months have passed since the Open Letter was passed and sent to the Party membership. Since that time tremendous struggles have developed in the basic industries; the capitalists moved to sharper attack on the workers through the N-R.A. Every factor favorable to the carrying out of the Open Letter, to ‘the rooting of the Party in the basic industries has been magnified. But not sufficient attention has been paid to the execution of the correct policies laid down. There are two points in the Open Letter that need to be stressed at » this time. The Open Letter says: “Every Party member must now under- stand that it depends on correct policy and, above all, the execution of the correct policy whether we will be able to mobilize the masses -_ of workers for struggle and whether our Party, in this historically +. favorable situation, will become the decisive mass Party of the American proletariat, or whether the bourgeoisie with the help of ' He soctal-fascist and fascist agents will succeed.in disorganizing. the mass movement and keeping it down.” bith cmpigd yarpeclemnn: ere ah ea mii mae ngaborm Se Nahe activity of every Party member, through increasing the initiative of every Party member, to apply the Open Letter now. To do this, of course, the Open Letter must be studied and under- », stood. But the Open Letter itself provides how this shall be done in * connection with the execution of the correct policies in the day to day growing struggles. “The discussion of this letter must not take place merely in general wny. Every nucleus, every orgenization, every Party frac- tion must link this discussion up with concrete tasks, working out ways and means how to bring about immediately a real turn entire work of each individual organization, for the carrying out this turn.” i . . . itiotenenedaieeee for a generalized understanding of the Open Letter. The discussion of the Open Letter [must be carried out concretely, connected with the practical every day concrete tasks. In studying the Open Letter now the units must establish and de- termine how far the Open Letter has been carried out in strike struggles, in unemployed work, and in actually building and recruiting for the Party. Developing the initiative of every Party member means first of all building the Party units as mass leaders in the present strike struggles. ‘The Pope, Hitler and Trotsky every passing historic event the counter-revolutionary role of ‘Trotskyism becomes clearer. international class, rushed to cripple its vigilance, by declaring that no war danger existed. As the German Communist Party presents an unbreakable, indomit- able, incessant revolutionary resistance to Fascism, Trotsky hastens to spread panic and despair among the workers by hysterically proclaiming the “collapse” of the revolutionary movement in Germany. ‘And, now as the chorus of insane capitalist lies about the “famine” im the Soviet Union rises to a scream of hatred, who, if not the Trote- ite ana gins a Cae Soon saute Soe real onlee as being “true to the actual facts.” The “Militant” pro- 'TALIN’S description of Trotskyism as the “advance froops of revolution” is literally true. The Trotskyist echo of the “famine” qxiginating in the mind of the Catholic Pope at the Vatican is more nor less than preparation of intervention. > wm WIN GAINS IN 2 MINES; NEED RELIEF Strike of 200 School Children Helps Free Men SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Sept. 20. All of the strike leaders in jail were released and the cases against 500 striking miners dropped in Gallup, New Mexico, today. Outside of the court hundreds of miners were massed, Cavalry was used to drive them away. Martial law still remaits. Only mass pressure and a flood of protests will win another victory of forcing the troops out of the strike area. The New Mexico miners also won some victories in their strike de~ mands. The Mutual and South- western locals of the National Miners Union have signed a contract winning 15 of 16 demands. Among these are recognition of the mine committee, the right of the miners to belong to a union of their own choosing, time and a half for overtime, election. of their own. checkweighmen, and the right to select their own company doctor. Other concessions were won on wages and the hiring of workers. Guynn’ and Charles Whetherbee, leaders of the National Miners Union. Over 200 school children in Gal- lup, N. M., went on strike demand- ing release of the arrested strike leaders. The city authorities stated that if the children did not return to school on Monday they would be fined $5 for each day they stayed out on strike. But the children con- tinued their strike. Attorney Edward Tittman, of Hills- boro, N. M, defended the strike leaders. The picket lines are the greatest since the strike, women and children taking the lead in the absence of the men in jail. Attorney LaFollette, defending the strikers, obtained a Federal writ of habeas corpus returnable Wednesday morning at Santa Fe. The American Civil Liberties Union has filed an injunction suit to test martial law in the strike. The National Miners Union Board of the Western District wired Gover- nor Seligman, giving him 48 hours unconditionally to free leaders, or they would call a general strike in Raton, Dawson, Pecos and the Ma- arid field. The relief committee has declared the situation here is acute. Only one day’s supplies are available. All work- ers are urged to rush funds for food and defense to Box 218, Gallup, N. M. The Colorado and New Mexico Farmers’ Holiday movement has maintained strike relief to date by sending trucks four 400 to 800 miles up to Gallup, but they have no money for gas now. ‘The strikers’ ranks are unyielding, but the relief situation is desperate. Very little relief funds are coming should be no delay in send- the strikers. Send funds to 8, Gaflup, New Mexico. _ ternational Labor * Defense organizations and individu- to wire protests to Governor Se- demanding the release of the leaders and the withdrawal of bg REF eae i UMWA Heads Admit Miners Favor Strike toWin OwnDemands Sept. 20.— miners PITTSBURGH, Pa., Whether the 40,000 has been signed remains All U.M.W.A. officials admit there isa big sentiment among the men to stay out on strike until they win defi- nite agreements with the coal oper- ators for higher wages, union recog- nition and other demands. Though admitting that the senti- ment of the majority of the)men is remain out on Le until tio win fia Ore eS ee geet fhe ear Wl ghernamp hag hie 4 ae previous orders since the N.R.A. was passed, © Bn Matra fo. 5 said, the mer by ‘Thureday or Friday” t In Helper, Utah, a breliming hear- ize ings-were-held@in the ‘Charles ooo Hail 14 | Years of C.P.,U.S.A. NEW. YORK, N. Y.—Workers will rally to the St. Nicholas Arena, 69 W. 66th St., where the 14th Anni- versary of the Communist Party of U. 8. A. will be celebrated tomor- row night. Earl Browder, secretary of the Communist Party, U. S. A.; Robert Minor, Party candidate for Mayor; Williana Burroughs, Negro teacher ousted from the city’s school sys- tem because of her activities in be- half of the working class, and Com- munist candidate for Comptroller; Ben Gold, leader of the militant fur workers and candidate for Presi- dent of the Board of Aldermen, will speak at the anniversary. The New York District organizer of the Communist Party, Charles Krumbein, will act as chairman. Silk Strikers Mobilize to Smash Sell-Out Allentown Meet Urges Nat’l Strike Front PATERSON, N. ne Sept. 20.—The two outstanding developments on the silk strike front today were the deci- sion of the national strike committee at a meeting at Allentown to mobi- out and the decision of the silk manu- facturers of Paterson, following a stormy all night session to seek gov- ernment aid in breaking the silk strike. A picket line of more than 1,000 workers was massed at the gates of} the United Piece Dye Works this| morning to guarantee that the milis would not open up. Although police were there in good numbers, the workers held their parade through the streets of Lodi and wound up the picketing with a mass meeting on an empty lot off Main St. In Paterson several dye plants tried to open, including the Victory Plant on Bleeker St., but the N.T.W.U. picket line closed the mill and re- fused to leave until the picket com- mittee was allowed to go through the | mills and see that it was empty.| Nobody was working. The Trio mill, on East 5th St., which tried to open and to carry on some work during the night was also closed by a com- mittee. Philip Pegeria, a worker, was held today on $100 bail, charged with “malicious mischief.” Police claimed they found some rocks in his pocket. The police last night were harrassing | workers returning home from meet- ings, searching them and question- ing them. More than 500 silk manufacturers meeting at the Alexander Hamilton Hotel decided to leave the next move in the strike to. Washington and declared “that they are not going to yield at all.” They considered their offer of $22 a week minimum wage and the 40 hour week a “liberal of- fer.” The Silk Association of Amer- ica, meeting in New York City, ap- proved of the silk code providing $13 aor for the North and $12 for the The moves of the manufacturers became clear today when John Mof- (Continued on Page 2) Coal Will Rise $2 a Ton, NRA Admits ‘WASHINGTON, WN, Sept. 20.—The re- tail price of coal will be at least $2 a ton higher this winter, officials of the NRA admitted here yesterday. Prices in many New Engand cities have alréaty, sce vanced $1 a ton. Sim- ilar advances are expected in other cities. \Commission of Jurists ; Absolves Communists, Holds Nazi Responsible for Reichstag Fire GEORGE DIMITROFF BLAGOI POPOFF N.Y. Primary Upsets Reveal Rifts in Old Political Machines NEW YORK, Sept. 20—Two wide open cracks appeared today in the rock-ribbed Tammany and Koenig- Republican political machines, as the results of the election primaries rolled In Brooklyn, the old Tammany henchman, Comptroller Frank J. Prial, who went on an independent war path against his boss, McCooey, swept to an easy victory against the regular Tammany machine candidate, Harman. Prial, who has always been a faith- ful Tammany man, succeeded in get- ting thousands of civil service city employees to vote for him as a pro- tector of their salaries which they see are in danger of the bankers’ ax. Mayor O'Brien, without any serious opposition from his Tammany col- leagues was renominated for the coming elections. But the ease with which several of the “independent” Democrats won nominations has caused the Tammany boss, Curry, to change his mind about the simplic- ity of the task of re-electing O’Brien. The upsets in the primaries, includ- ing apparent defeat of the Repub- lican boss, Koenig, who has been reigning for 20 years, are indications of deep and widespread resentment against the’ present city administra- tion. Contribute to the Daily Worker Sustaining Fund! Help to keep up the 6-page “Daily”! ‘Legion Heads Silent ‘on Bonus; Plan to “Fight Communism” CHICAGO, Sept. 20,—Maintaining complete silence on the burning is-| sue of immediate’ payment of the| soldiers’ bonus, the American Legion Officials today announced that a resolution “to combat Communism” would be introduced at the coming Legion convention to be held at Chi- cago Oct. 2. After having refused to fight for the bonus, Legion officials have ac- tively begun to sidetrack this issue at the Convention by the proposal of “schools for Americanism.” 100 Workers in 24 Hour Strike Win $4 Increase in Wages NEW YORK.—A less than 24-hour strike here in the Lamport Manufac~ turing Supply Company at 507 Broad~- way resulted in a $4 increase and the recognition of the shop commit- tee. \ Tells New Citizens to Support Slavery Act NEW YORK—Judge G. M. Mos- cowitz yesterday, in Federal Court, Brooklyn, ordered 252 new citizens to support President Roosevelt and the National Slavery Act. He lauded the NRA and stated that it was their duty as naturalized citizens to help carry it into effect. Y. Workers Demonstrate Before REICHSTAG ARSON FRAME-UP TRIAL OPENS TODAY Release New Mexico Coal Strike Leaders German Consulate; Robert Minor Among Speakers Demonstr: New York at 17 Battery Place! | and his associates which begins toda: ate Tod ay Demonstrate today at 12 o'clock noon before the German consulate in Protest the frame-up trial of Torgler y in Leipzig! The demonstration is called by the New York Committee to Aid the | Victims of German Fascism, | German Anti-Fascist Committee. the International Labor Defense and the 4 LONDON, Sept. 20.—On the eve of the Nazi trial in Leipzig of four Communist leaders on framed-up charges of setting fire to the Reichstag b’ | ternational commission of d solved all four: defendants a uilding on February 27, an in- Ystinguished jurists today ab- nd charged that the fire had —— been set by the Nazis as part Roosevelt Speeds Armament Race With Great Britain Importance ce of U. S.| Anti-War Congress WASHINGTON, Sept. 20.—A race for naval armaments between Ameri- ca ‘and Britain is now definitely on, with President Roosevelt declaring today that the government would continue with its program of building warships with the $238,000,000 taken | from N.R.A. funds. In conversations with Norman H. Davis, American ambassador - at - large, the Roosevelt government notified the Roosevelt government | that it would consider this warship construction as a definite move to-| wards a naval arms race. This brings the antagonism between | the two foremost robber powers to a) higher stage. The conflict was great- jy sharpened when the London Eco- | |nomic Conference broke down. At that time a trade war resulted. Now American imperialism is rushing its naval program. The British govern- ment openly stated that it considered this as a threat against it. Behind the warship race, a sharp- er conflict is going on for the Latin- American markets. oe ee This .sharp armament rivalry stresses the importance of the Anti- ‘War Congress to open in New York City on September 29. The rapid war moves, already en- tering the stage of open clashes on armament between the two leading imperialist powers, stress the necessity for an anti-war united front in the United States. With the opening date of the Con- gress so close, and in the fire of the growing war tension, trade unions, unemployed councils and all other workers’ organizations should hasten with the election of representatives to this Congress to t@ke part in the anti-war action. Lindberghs Land in Finland on Way to Leningrad, Moscow HELSINGFORS, Finland.—Colonel Charles. Lindbergh and Mrs. Lind- bergh landed here today on™ their flight from Karlskrona, Sweden, to Leningrad, U. S. 8. R. - Reports from their starting place did not indicate that the Lindberghs intended to land on their 600 mile flight. The Lindberghs will visit Lenin- grad, Moscow and other Soviet cities and then sail for America from a British or French port, shipping their plane. HELP-AND AT ONCE ‘We must report that the drive to raise $40,000 for the “Daily” is lag- Something must be done soon. our enthusiasm, all our revolutionary do it without delay. We must rouse all our energies, all loyalty for our paper. And we must Yesterday, on the eleventh day of this drive, which is so vital to the en ee eee a ae "Pm the eleven days since the dive began only #1501 tas deen re- ceived. And, yet our paper, the working class paper, must have at least $1,000 every day if the drive is to succeed! Comrades! The drive must and will succeed! In our fight against the cruelties, the exploitation, the miseries of capitalism, it is unthink- able that we will permit our paper to fail in one of its decisive struggles! | 3 ‘The Daily Worker reaches deep down into the masses of exploited and (ppremed workers everywhere in the country. To thowands of woskers, toiling, organizing for the struggle against capitalist misery, the failure of the “Daily” drive would mean incalculable loss! Can we permit this to happen? now, when every day brings news of Can we permit ourselves to slacken new groups of workers surging into action, into strikes, against the capitalist employers? Every union, every organization, every group must elect a Daily Worker committee at once! In the shops, at every meeting, in the streets, collections for the “Daily” must go forward. Do not wait until your collection lists are filled. Rush every dollar you collect to the Daily Worker offi minute you have collected !t. * “* Wednesday Receipts neeeee ‘Previous Contributions seamen Me 1 et STAN LION ice, 50 E. 13th St., New York, the of a plot “to discredit their opponents.” The commission declared that Ernst Torgler, chairman of the Com- munist fraction of the German Reichstag, and the three Bulgarian Seana —Blagoi Popoff, Basil ‘aneff and George Dimitroff—were in th3 | ar innocent of complicity | crime. Accuse Nazis At the same time the Commission report..declared that “grave grounds exist for suspecting that the Reich- stag was set on fire by or on behalf of leading personalities of the Na- tional Socialist (Nazi) party.” | Simultaneously with the rendering of this report, word came from Leip- zig that the Nazis had barred the correspondent of the liberal newspa- per, “The Manchester Guardian,” from attendance at the trial, which begins tomorrow. This publication | was among the first to charge cate- gorically that the Nazi set fire to the | Reichstag as part of a plan to justify | the suppression of the Communist | Party of Germany. Provocateur Named Of the five defendants to go on trial torhorrow, four were declared | not guilty. The fifth, Marinus Van Der Lubbe, who the Nazi say “con- fessed” and who they claim is a Communist, was declared by the com- mission report to be an opponent of. the Communist Party, and certainly not a member of the organization. Moreover, the report stated that he had accomplices in the fire. “Examination of all possible means of ingress and egress to and from the Reichstag,” the report continued, “makes it most prob- | able that the incendiaries used a subterranean passage leading from the Reichstag to the house of the President of the Reichstag, Her- mann Wilhelm Goering (Minister of the Interior and Prussian Pre- mier). Such a fire at the period in question was of great advantage to the National Socialist (Nazi; Party.” The result of the Commission’s six- day inquiry was published in a six- page verdict. The “Manchester Guardian,” whose correspondent has been barred from the Leipzig trial, says that the father of the provocateur Van der Lubbe was visited by a representative of the Dutch government who stated that his son, Marinus, was a semi- imbecile and that he is being kept chained in a dark cell. Those London correspondents who have been admitted to the trial un- animously assert that they are be- ing subjected to constant espionage. Dr. Sack, German attorney as- signed by. the Nazi to “defend” Torgler and the others, has long been known as an official attorney for the Nazis — even before they assumed power. As a deputy for Goebbels, Nazi Minister of Propaganda, Dr. Sack utilized his stay in London for (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) Grace Line Withdraws Pay Cut When Men, Led by MWIU, Protest NEW YORK.—The Grace Line 8.8. Santa Barbara yesterday withdrew @ posted wage cut. The company backed down in the face of the men, who threatened to take action if the’ cut went through. The men were led by the Marine Worker trial Union members on board. was the cut reported in Wednesday's Daily Worker. GALVESTON, Texas (By Mail).— The crew of the S. S. Ulysses, oil, tanker of the Tanker Corp., struck here for an increase in pay and against prevailing conditions on board, Led by the Marine Workers’ Industrial Union, the men won all their demands, ue | :—