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

'2,000.N. Y. WORKERS DEMONSTRATE BEFORE NAZI CONSULATE Tomorrow’s “Daily,” the 14th Cc. P. Anniversary Issue, will contain many stirring articles on Party History (Section of the Communist International ) Vol. X, No. 228 —C Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., under the Act of March 8, 1879, America’s Only Working Class Daily Newspaper WEATHER Eastern New York: Generally fair, continued cool, Friday. NEW YORK, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1933 _ Pages) Price 3 Cents NAZIS ASK DEATH FOR COMMUNISTS IN REICHSTAG TRIAL United Front Group Sees : Roosevelt, Brands NRA A Slavery Ac Act’ Geneva and New York 'VERY time the robber powers increase their armies and navies, the stage props of the Geneva “Disarmament” Conference are dragged out. During the past few months all of the bandit imperialist nations have taken tremendous strides towards war. Just yesterday, the N.R.A. granted the United States Army over $125,000,000 for war purposes. The $238,000,000 warship building program of Roosevelt has opened one of the | bitterest three-sided naval race in history. The conflict between the United States and Britain has reached a sharp point, coming out into the open. Wall Street and Japan are in a furious naval arms race in pre- paration for a war to decide the control of the Pacific markets. Germany is arming for war—with a definite program of intervention [ against the Soviet Union. Wone of the other imperialist powers are idle. In the United States, the N.R.A. is being exposed daily as a war measure. On the one hand it smashes down wages, cuts relief, attacks the workers’ rights through fascist onslaughts; on the other hand, huri- dreds of millions are spent for war. : ‘AR, is in the offing. Geneva has always been a convenient clearing house for arranging war alliances under the disguise of discussing “disarmament.” After each discussion the armaments of the war-making capitalist powers grow. “Disarmament” Conferences are always preliminary maneuvres to war, when the conflicts of the imperialists reach an especially acute point. In contrast to the war armament drives of the imperialist powers, the peace policy of the Soviet Union stands old boldly. While the imperialist war preparations are surrounded wtih intrigues Preparing war alliances, the Soviet Union has countered by making a series of non-aggression pacts in no way savoring of alliances, but made to carry out its peace policy, At Geneva in previous conferences, the Soviet Union’s proposal for complete disarmament which was rejected served to expose the war plans of the imperialists. * saa acute danger of a new imperialist: war powerfully stresses the im- portafice of the Anti-War Congress to open in New York on Sep- tember 29. Hundreds of delegates, representing diversified organizations willing to discuss united front action against war, have already been elected. The best guarantée that the Congress will result in a program that will be effective against the growing war danger will rest with the size of the workers’ delegation. In this respect, the trade unions, engaged in a battle against the slave codes, the starvation wages and fascist at- tacks of the N.R.A., have the greatest responsibility. Every union local interested in fighting against the bosses’ war measures, intimately con- nected with the bosses’ drive against the workers living standard, should elect delegates now, if they have not already done so. The Geneva maneuvre for war should be answered by a mighty Anti-War Congress in the United States. The fight against imperialist war is one of the major tasks now of * * all workers. Every worker should learn of the peace role of the Soviet Union in a world surrounded by war-mad capitalists. In fighting against imperialist war, we must, at the same ‘time, mo- bilize all anti-war forces for the defense of the Soviet Union. Our Party, 1919---1933 URTEEN years of fighting, revolutionary activity! Fourteen years of struggle as leader of the American workers in scores of class battles on every front in the United States! Fourteen years in which it has shown itself the staunch fighter for the rights of the exploited and persecuted Negro people! This is the proud record of the Communist Party of the United States, section of the Communist International. Our Party, born in struggle, was formed in 1919—a period of revo- lutions and uprisings in a number of capitalist countries and colonial possessions. The organizing convention of our Party was held less than two years after the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia, which fired the imagination of millions of workers the world over. It was launched in the year of the formation of the Third (Communist) International, of which it is the American section. we do we celebrate the anniversary of our Party? We celebrate not as a ritual, but to draw the lessons of our Party's. history for the better carrying out of our present tasks, We celebrate in order to deepen the familiarity of those workers— new members of the Party—with traditions of our Party. We celebrate the 14th Anniversary of our Party in a spirit of self- criticism; in a spirit of Bolshevik earnestness, We: study the lessons of the Party’s history in its strezgles to come ever closer to the masses, to speed the process of Bolshevization of our Party so that we may become a living force among the toilers in every section of the United States, Our Party has -organized and led militant strike struggles—struggies of unemployed, farmers, defense campaigns, struggles of the Negro masses. During the four years of the capitalist crisis the Party alone has shown the way out for the millions of workers condemned to starvation and death. Our Party today leads the fight against the ravenous Blue Eagle and the icanvely Way Street nayery prcerae of = NRA, - K SURVEYING the history of our Party, we must agit an ever-keener realization of the tremendous duties we owe to the American working class, To avoid our past mistakes we must at’all cost root our Party in the shops and factories—amiong the decisive sections of the working class. We must once and for all rid ourselves of our sectarian habits, with its right and left opportunist deviations, Only when we accomplish this shall we be on the highroad to r. mass Communist Party, The guide for this action is found in tl Open Letter—an historic document addressc .. to every Party member. “The working class,” says the Open Letter, “will be in a position to fulfil its role as the most decisive class in the struggles against finance capital, as the leader of all toiling masses, onyl if it is headed by a Communist Party, which is closely bound up with the decisi; strata of workers.” It is in the spirit of the Open Letter, with the keen recognition of the role of the Party in the present poried of wars and revolutions—at a time when the American wer" ng ciass is ‘ure'ng forward—that it becomes our firm, revolutionary duty to czrry oat (he Open Letter and to build “a Com- munist rey which is closely bound up with the decisive strata of the Ne New York workers will have an opportunity to celebrate the four= teenth anniversary our own Party tonight at St. Nicholas Arena, 68 West 66th Streetir Dunne opt I UUL Tells of NRA Crimes on Toilers Musgte Hits Growing Use of Injunctions; Lynching, Jim-Crowing of Negroes Growing, Dunne Shows WASHINGTON, Sept. 21.—President Roosevelt today was 1U.S. MARINES FOIL POLICE MASS TO ATTACK AT INVADE CUBA CONSULATE Warships Near Land| Hitlerite ~ Official Is Frame-Up Court That He Torgler Faces Nazi told by William F. Dunne, member of the joint delegation that saw him in the White House today, that the N.R.A. was being used to lower wages and living standards, smash down the workers’ rights and shoot strike pickets. “Not in a decade has there®= been such a widespread use of force against workers and farmers as there is today under the N.R.A.,’ said Dunne, representing the Trade Union Unity League. The com- mittee, in addition to Dunne, that saw the President, consisted of A. J. Muste, chairman; F. E. Brown, of ‘Typographical Union No. 6, and Wil- liam B. Svofford, of the American j Civil Liberties Union. To the mass of evidence of sup- |Pression of workers’ rights under the N.R.A., cutting of relief and lowering | of wages, Roosevelt replied with the | cheap gesture of a police magistrate, | saying that at the conclusion of sign- |ing of the codes his intention “is to | select some outstanding violation and jhold up the employer and spank him.” BILL DUNNE STORE SALES “How is it,” Dunne asked, “that the whole force of N-R.A, coneiliators so far has been directed against strik- With Troops Massed For Landing HAVANA, Sept. 21.—Ready for momentary landing, rines and sailors were drawn | up in formation on the deck of | the United States destroyer No. 240 in Havana Harbor for dis- | embarking to invade Cuba in order | to shoot down workers and peasants | to preserve Wall Street domination. | Alongside was the ammunition |, ship Nitro filled with explosives, air- | Plane bombs, machine guns, thou- | sands of rounds of bullets, and other | deadly weapons to use against the | revolutionary Cuban masses. Other warships steamed near the harbor with heavy troop concentra- tions, ready for landing, but kept out of sight of the shore, The reason for the, preparations for immfnent armed intervention by the landing of troops was the grow- ma- | “Out” as Delegation Calls on Him By DAN DAVIS NEW YORK.—As four Com- munist leaders went to trial | \in Leipzig, Germany, on fram- | ed-up charges in connection | with the Reichstag fire, 2,000 || American workers fought police, de- spite a drizzling rain, and demon-| strated against the Hitler terror be- fore the German Consulate here yes- terday. Meanwhile Warden Schleth of Cor- ‘sul found that he had fled just be- fore the workers arrived at 12 noon. A police captain explained with unconscious irony tnat “the Con- sulate office is closed because of the Jewish holidays.” Repulse Police Workers sent flying wedges of po- | licemen hurtling out of their midst | when an attack with clubs fqllowed | the refusal of the demonstrators to | move their speakers’ stand to the op- | posite side of the street. A mounted | cleared Ernst Torgler and the plicity in the Reichstag fire on | trial before the Supreme Court ph [Nazis Shift Tactics As Is Shattered | Van Der Lubbe, Hitlerite Agent, Denies In Is A Communist Judges; C. P. Leader Unbroken by Months of Prison Torture LEIPZIG, Germany, Sept. 21—With world opinion having three Bulgarian Communists— Basil Taneff, George Dimitroff and Blagoi Popoff—of com- February 27 last, the German | Na i government today, on the opening day of the frame-up here, hastened to shift the em- s of the.indictment against the defendants from arson | to charges of “attempting forcibly to overthrow the consti- Ray: ABE —* tution.” Obviously reeling from the |blow struck Nazi “prestige” by the formal findings of the International Commission of distinguished jurists which just ended its sessions in Lon- don, the Hitler government hurriedly | changed its strategy. The London | commission, after carefully sifting all available evidence and after hearing a large number of eye-witnesses, not only absolved the Communists of all guilt, but on the contrary charged the Nazis with responsibility for the Reichstag fire as part of a plot te “discredit their opponents.” The sensation of the morning ers? Roosevelt. “Your own pronouncement,” Dunne ; said, “on the suspension of strikes, | employers.” | Dunne cited the killing of two Phil- |adelphia hosiery strikers for de- |manding higher wages when the N.R.A. code was signed. He told of | the shooting of Pennsylvania miners. | “Organized terror and hundreds of | arrests and raids on miners’ homes | goes on in Utah,” he said. “Martial |law and drumhead trials are handed | to the striking miners in New Mexi- | |co,” Dunne said. “The destruction of the Tampa Cigarmakers Union was |accomplished by organized murder (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) Rumor Soviet Union Will Be Recognized Before November 1 WASHINGTON, Sept. 21.—Within the next ten weeks, the United States Government will recognize the Soviet Union, it was predicted today by very high officials in the Roosevelt administration. November Ist is the date mentioned as the approximate time, when the announcement will be made. These rumors have grown in the last few weeks since the head of the Amtorg Trading Corporation, Peter Bogdanov, had been holding conver- sations with Jesse Jones, Roosevelt's appointed chairman of the Recon- struction Finance Corporation, #e- garding large commercial credits to the Soviet Union. The Soviet Uhion ts ready to buy enormous quantities of American machinery, cotton, etc, if the proper credit arrangements can be arrived at. Arrangements for credits haye been practically completed, officials | Said, “That is true,” brazenly admitted | places a weapon in the hands of the | DROP BELOW LAST YEAR veal Falling Business, Prices Rising NEW YORK, Sept. 21.— Vividly reflecting the reduced | purchasing power of the con- suming masses in the face of steadily rising prices, depart- ment store sales in the metropoli- tan area for the first two weeks | in September showed a decline of 6.5 | per cent from last year’s figures, the New York Federal Reserve Bank re- vealed today. This announcement followed the report made by leading chain grocery stores of similar declines in food buy- ing. It was during this week that the N.R.A. officials were making the most urgent.appeals to the public for increased buying. The figures indicate the complete failure of the NRA “buy now” campaign, ‘The figures of decline made public by the Federal Reserve Bank do not {indicate the full extent of the de- cline, since they are based on higher Price levels. Actually, the decline in the purchase of goods is much great- of than the 6 per cent figure quoted above, because it has taken place while prices in department stores ad- vanced from 10 to 50 per cent. At the same time that these re- ports of sharply reduced” buying are made public, the Government re- port of the Bureau of Labor Statis- ties indicates that wholesale prices are still rising, the index for the week ending September 16 reaching 70.5, compared with 56 on March 14, hwhen Roosevelt took office. Department Stores Re- | ing strikes and insurrectionary move- | COP, horse and all, were thrown back | ments developing throughout the is- |0n the steps of the Consulate build- | land. ing. A barrel, which was the im-/ promptu speaking platform, came | At the same time Grau San Mar- tin concentrated troops in Cuba, par- ticularly cavalry and machine gun units around the presidential palace, in order to shoot down demonstra- tions against his government, now | | receiving the favorable attention of Wall Street. Revolutionists are being shot down and arrested by the Grau govern- ment. Prisoners were brought in today from Camaguey and lodged in the same Cabana Fortress used by Machado for his murderous deeds. Four workers were kilied at San- tiago de Cuba when soldiers fired into a Communist demonstration. In Havana, when a group of work- ers and students attempted to seize | Machado supporters in the home of ex-President Machado’s son-in-law, Jose Emilio Obregon, the government guards fired into the lad killing tar sarin oemmen,| Lend to Inflation emboldened by the presence of the | Grows Stronger As | Prices Move Higher | against the same policeman. A veteran in army uniform used an successfully stave off the attack of another mounted cop. Sam Stein, Communist candidate for Alderman in the Second Assem- bly District, was pulled down by the police when he attempted to speak. He was raised to the shoulders of the workers, who formed a defense corps around him, and spoke again. William L. Patterson, national sec- retary of the International Labor | Defense, started to speak from a mi- crophone carried in an automobile. The police, bewildered and very defi- nitely repulsed, retired. Patterson continued (Continued on Page 2) marines and American armed forces, | is resorting openly to reactionary | deeds in an attempt to crush the rising revolutionary forces of the workers and peasants. The strike movement is still spreading throughout the island, and} _ WASHINGTON, Sept. 21—That Grau San Martin has offered a few| Rooseevtl will have to announce concessions in an attempt to break| some form of currency inflation |the back of the strike. Thus far he | soon, unless he is willing to let the has not succeeded, artifically stimulated price level crash downward, is being openly predicted by government officials. The persistent, marked weakness in the dollar exchange is being of- fered as strong confirmation of this opinion. The dollar struck a new low of 63 cents yesterday as American millionaires who no longer consider the dollar, safe are exchanging their investments into foreign currencies, especially the English sterling. Meanwhile, Rooseevlt fs confer- ring with his confidential advisers The food shortage is becoming | | more serigqus every day. The rich landowners and capital- ists are hoarding and storing up food, preparing for armed struggles against the toiling population. El Mundo, one of the leading pa- pers here, printed the headline: “We are in open civil war!” Meanwhile, the 300 officers who are in a hotel, are permitted to arm themselves and join in the attempt to establish a counter-revolutionary government, as to what step to take next in “T am staying right where I am,”| order to keep prices moving up- Grau told American newspapermen. | ward. 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We workers must raise these $40,000. We must maintain our Daily Worker. ® Our I.W.O. must undertake to raise at least $8,000 of these $40,000. the Daily Worker, A Stirring Example Our branches must collect aia contribute to this sustaining fund of the Daily Worker at least an equivalent of 25 cents per member, Comrades, The economic crisis is sharpening. The NIRA is only a blind to cover the sufferings of millions of victims of the crisis. It is an effort to withdraw the attention of the workers from the need of social insurance. Yet the struggle for social insurance becomes daily more a question of the very existence of millions of workers. The need to struggle for social insurance therefore increases. To continue our struggle, we must have our Daily Worker. We need it to organize the workers; we need it to teach the workers; we need it to lead the workers, The efforts we must make to maintain our Daily Worker are a necessary part of our efforts to solve the problems of our class. They are part of our efforts to build our Order into a mass organization. They are part of our efforts to build fighting unions. They are part of our efforts to organize and direct the struggles of the working class. Comrades, To work! Collect among your fellow workers in the shop. Contribute yourself. Help us raise our share of the required $40,000 for National Executive Committee, International Workers Order. hurtling through the air and landed | American flag he was carrying to/ Frick Gunmen Shoot ‘Negro Mine Striker; Plan Strike Parade speaking, | | West Va. Miners Com-| ing to Pennsylvania Strike Field PITTSBURGH, Pa. Sept. 21.—A Negro miner, Earl Batch, was severe- ly cut and injured by mine guards | picketing. Reports were issued that the H. C.| Frick Coke Co., a subsidiary of the U. S. Steel Corporation, was import- ing scabs. | State deputies arrived to terrorize the men. Mass picketing began early this |morning at the Frick mines. MASS MARCH MORGANTOWN, West Va., Sept 21—A mass march of thousands of sylvania to join the strike ranks of the Pennsylvania miners was decided on today. Authorities refused a permit for a | 200-automobile caravan of Pennsyl- |vania strikers seeking to come to | West Virginia. Instead, the West Virginia miners will go to the Penn- sylvania coal fields and join the strik- ers there. The meeting at which this | was decided was not called officially by the UMWA, although all but one UMWA local participated. eee Arkansas Miners Strike GREENWOOD, Ark., Sept. 18 (By Mail).—Several thousand Arkansas- Oklahoma coal miners declared a strike here today in protest against the proposed NRA coal code. A mass meeting is to be held at the Labor Temple at Ft. Smith, Arkansas, tomorrow to plan further action. A) meeting was held Sunday, Sept. 17, | at Jenny Lind. September 9th a meeting of repre- sentatives from UMWA locals all over | District 21 met and sent in a formal protest against the code which was first submitted. This protest was sent | to General Johnson and David Fow- |ler, district president, then in Wash-| ington. Form Communist Class. PROVIDENCE, R. I—A report is- sued from C. P. Headquarters here states that a weekly class in the fundamentals of Communism has been formed and will be held every Wednesday, under the instruction of Nat Kaplan, in Room 2 of the Party headquarters, 447 Westminster Street. jat the H. ©. Frick Footdale mine| |today when miners massed here for | Scotts Run District mifters into Penn- | session was the declaration by Ma- rinus van der Lubbe, 24-year-old imbecile Hollander accused by the Nazis as the actual incendiary, that he was not a Communist. Van der Lubbe was the first to be led into the courtroom, handcuffed between two guards, followed by Ernst | Torgler, for many years chairman of | the Communist deputies in the Ger- |man Reichstag. Torgler looked worn and emaci- ated from his six months of con- finement in chains in Moabit Prison, Berlin. His eyes, however, blazed as he faced the fascist judges named to perform the job of Nazi executioners, Among the spectators in the court- room was Torgler's wife. Their 1- year-old son had been a witness last week before the International Com- mission of jurists sitting in London. All eyes were upon Torgler as he | Was brought into the courtroom. Im- mediately behind Torgler were George Dimitroff, 51, a leader of the Com- munist Party of Bulgaria, who took part in the 1923 uprising of the Bul- |garian working class; Blagoi Popoff, 31, and Vassil Teineff, 36, both Bul- | garian workers, Demand Death Sentence A demand that Torgler and the | Bulgarian Communists be beheaded will be made by the prosecution, it » (CONTINUED ON PAGE 3) $124,000,000 From Public Works Fund Goes to U.S. Army WASHINGTON, Sept. 21.— Following the recent statement |of Public Works Administra- | tor Ickes, deploring the slow- ness in spending the $3,300,- 5 000,000 set aside in the public works fund, the Government today allotted $54,709,000 in immediate grants to the United States Army. The money is to be used to equip and modernize 63 Army |throughout the country. Such con= | struction includes the building of ma- chine gun ranges, training barracks, etc. Several weeks ago $10,000,000 was granted to the Army for rifles and bullets. In addition, the War Department has been granted $70,000,000 to make river and harbor improvements nec- cessary for more efficient military movements. This is in addition to the regular $250,000,000 budget ap- propriation. Already $238,000,000 has been grant- ed by the Public Works administra- tion to the Navy Department for the construction of bombing planes, bat- tleships, etc. Roosevelt's Secretary of the Navy, Swanson, has put in requests, for another appropriation of $153,000,000 for further Naval construction. ‘The total Army and Navy SS priations to date from the Works Fund totals at least ‘pa. 000.000.