The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 25, 1933, Page 1

aay The First of a Series of Arti- cles by Earl Browder Appears Today on Page Four. Do Not Miss the First Installment! Vol. X, No. 230 --* ‘Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at Rew York, N. Y., under the Act of Mareh 8, 1879, (Section of the Communist International) NEW YORK, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER | 25, 1933 America’s Only Working Class Daily Newspaper WEATHER Eastern New York: Occasional showers; warmer Monday. (Six Pages) Price 3 Cents 48,000 MINERS AT PRICEDALE VOTE TO JOIN COAL STRIKE Dimitroff A Assails N azis in Reichstag 1g Frame-l Up Trial Farmers Threaten to Shoot If STRIKE 1S Strike Aid Trucks Are Stopped A Bolshevik Faces Nazis HE conduct of George Dimitroff, Bulgarian Communist, in the Nazi court in Leipzig on Saturday, affords an inspiring example of how a genuine Bolshevik defends himself in the court of the class enemy. Facing the executioner’s axe together with Ernst Torgler and two comrades from his native country, George Dimitroff acted in a manner to be expected from one who has for the past 23 years been a stalwart leader in the revolutionary movement of Bulgaria. Dimitroff, above all, showed courage of the highest order. He re- vealed the superb self-confidence and intellectual conviction which is the resuit of years of study an absorption of Marxist-Leninist theory, coupled with years of practical activity in the class struggle. * * * IMITROFF'S conduct in the court of the Nazi murderers is reminiscent of the heroic, self-sacrificing manner in which the Bolsheviks in the czarist days faced. the courts of the Black'Hundreds. It calls to mind the historic defense of Karl Liebknecht against the war-mad Kaiser’s government ani their social-democratic supporters when he flung de- fiance at the enemies as well as the traducers of the German working class. Dimitroff’s inspiring challenge to the Nazi murderers carries on the historic spirit of the Communards of 1871, who, after the Commune was drowned in blood, boldly defied their judges and hangmen, crying, as the.guns blazed, “Long Live the Commune!” * * * IMITROFF’S conduct in the Nazi court is truly an inspiration! It should act as a powerful stimulus to the workers of the United States to heighten their activity in defense of the framed-up German com- rades. Demand the freedom of Thaelmann, leader of the German pro- letariat! Demand the freedom of Torgler, Dimitroff, Popoff and Tanev! They Shall Not Starve cupboards in 30,000 homes in New York City which until now were not too full will be completely empty this morning. This is due to the closing of the Gibson Committee offices upon whom these families depended on for relief. To these, many more thousands can be added whose relief was stopped by the city controlled Home Relief Bureaus. This morning while the thousands of families will sit at empty tables, President Roosevelt will feel highly elated because more pigs were dumped in sewers in Chicago stock yards as part of his “recovery program.” The President will be happy that his wheat destroying plan is meeting with-success.: But what about the chiléren who will leave for school without any breakfast? An abhorrent picture of wanton destruction of the primary needs which would keep thousands of families sustained. But the vandal in the White House, representing the capitalist class is a “kind man.” He promises to save $75,000,000 worth of food stuffs from destruction. Yet the same week when the promise is made, 30,000 more families are cut from relief in the richest city in the United States, Shallow promises and pious wishes are made to keep the jobless content. But hungry people cannot eat wishes and promises. What is more, they will not accept these promises. They will organize and fight for the right to live. The task to organize them belongs to the organization of the un- employed—the Unemployed Councils. In every .block the initiative should be taken by the councils as well as individual workers to set up committees. These committees must demand from the city to immedi- ately distribute relief. But the present situation should bring a closer conviction that it is not merely a task for an emergency, but the need of forcing the government to definitely assure cash relief to every unemployed person. The Unemployed Council demands that the municipal assembly enact a “Workers Relief Ordinance” whereby every jobless person is assured “$7 a week payable in cash,” with an addition for every dependent. The unemployed must be given a definite income and not a pre- caricus existence by the present ‘relief agencies. Such an assurance would definitely be established with the adoption of unemployment in- surance. Not merely the distribution of relief separately by each com- munity, but a ccordinated system of federal unemployment igsurance which should take care of every unemployed person in tnis country. What’s “Fit to Print” ‘WO days before William Dunne, representing the Trade Union Unity League, in a united front delegation, exposed directiy to President Roosevelt the slavery nature of the NRA. Roosevelt received a bottom- less boat as a gift. A week before he was given a 20-pound fish. Every New York capitalist newspaper carried pictures of the fish and the bottomless boat. Long, detailed stories were printed, telling who caught ‘he fish, what rod was used, and how the President expressed his thanks and how much he would relish eating the fish. The bottomless boat received similar treatment. When Norman Thomas (“my friend,” according to Roosevelt) and Morris Hillquit, representing the Socialist Party, early in Roosevelt’s term visited the President, the capitalist press considered it capital news. But when a delegation of TUUL representatives, of the League for Progressive Labor Action and the Civil Liberties Union interviewed Roose- velt for over an hour, demanding that he express himself on the issue of workers rights, the capitalist press outside of Washington remained absolutely silent. * . UNNE'S attacks on the NRA, his exposure of the shooting down of strikers, of the smashing of the right to strike,-of starvation and hunger under the NRA, were too withering for the capitalist press to carry. News that the President is forced for the first time during his ad- ministration to hear the workers’ side of the NRA is not “news that's ‘Mt to print.” Columns can be devoted to gowns, the parties, the sports of debu- tantes Van Diddle and Morganfeller. Moviet actresses can strip themselves naked on any page of the capitalist press. This is “news fit to print” (New York Times). But news of the workers struggle, of martial law and gunmen rule under the NRA in Utah and New Mexico, the workers in the rest of the country must know nothing about. Not long ago Senator Schall of Minnesota said that the NRA would propose a newspaper censorship. So far as news of the workers strug- ste is concerned, that censorship is already in effect. Every effort is made to bury the news of the strike of 100,000 Penn- sylvania miners. Every attempt is made to isolate the strikes and other struggles of the workers. Above all, the capitalist press considered it dangerous to send the news of the TUUL representative's withering statemenis to the President. It is significant that the Daily Worker alone carried the complete news of this delegation’s visit to Washington, of the strikes and strug- gles taking place and of all phases of the workers’ struggle against the NRA. uloarian Defendant, Describing Tried With Torgler Makes Fiery Speech “I Am Deprived of Counsel of My Own Choice.” Charges Dimitroff, Defying Nazi Judge Was Shackled for Five Months LEIPZIG, Sept. 24—In tones of defiance which stunned Leader Jail Tortures, Says He his Nazi prosecutors, George Dimitroff, for nearly 25 years a leader in the Bulgarian revolutionary movement and now facing death with three other Communists on framed-up charges of setting fire to the Reichstag, placed on trial before the entire Surrounded by armed Nazi storm- troopers—hemmed in by those who have jailed and tortured him, Di- mitroff by his fearlessness gave a shining example of Bolshevik cour- age and audacity as he faced the class enemy. Other highlights in today’s ses- sion included: 1, Acharge by Dimitroff that he | had been kept in handcuffs dur- ing five of the six months he has been imprisoned; 2. An offer by Arthur Garfield Hays, American attorney, to pro- vide the defense with the findings of the International Committee of Jurists; 3. The arrival at the court of Ernst Torgler’s aged..and infirm mother from Berlin. A refugee from Bulgaria as a re- sult of his revolutionary activities and a prisoner in the dock of Nazi “jus- tice” which has murdered and tortured | the best fighters in the ranks of the |German working class, Dimitroff threw the Hitlerite executioners into| @ purple rage as he faced them in the Supreme Court here and accused their Brownshirt chiefs of being the real incendiaries of the Reichstag on February 27, last. Accuses Nazi tivity as a Communist, and ringingly expressing his hatred for the fascist regimes of both Germany and Bul- garia, the veteran revolutionist charged the Nazis with setting fire to the Reichstag building in order. to justify their bloody, sadistic reign of terror against the German working | class and particularly its vanguard, | the Communist Party of Germany At the same time Dimitroff bluntly | told the Hitlerite court that he was getting worse than no defense in the | assignment to him of the Nazi lawyer, Dr. Teichert. “I'll never have him,” Dimitroff said, pointing to Teichert.| “I am defending tnyself.” The Bulgarian revolutionist calmly accused Teichert of refusing to pro- cure evidence and documents of the! most vital character necessary to his| defense, 14 The presiding judge was partic- ularly enraged by Dimitroff’s con- stant and fearless use of the terms “trick” and “provocation” regarding Nazi police methods. At one point the Hitlerite judge threatened to call a halt to the frame-up trial | if Dimitroff did not cease these | telling characterizations, So pointed’ and daring were Dimit- roff’s declarations, whose echoes have world the fascist regime of Germany as well as Bulgaria. es weniiiracrise Proudly admitting his years of ac-| Soviet Reporter at Leipzig Fire Trial Jailed, Then Freed BERLIN, Sept. 23—Sharp protests from the Soviet Embassy here brought about the quick re- lease of Lili Keith, Berlin cor- respondent of the “Tzvestia,” offi- cial organ of the Soviet Govern- ment and Ivan Bezpalow, repre- sentative of “Tass,” Soviet offi- cial news agency. ‘Both had been dragged out of their beds early yesterday morning and arrested by police in Leipzig under an “emergency decree.” Following their release, the -pe~ lice president of Leipzig apolo- gized to them and to M. Hirsch- field, secretary of the Soviet Em- bassy. ‘Anti-War Congress Gets Endorsement of People’s Lobby Headed by JohnDewey; Barbusse, Browder Speak Friday NEW YORK. — The united front rcharacter of the United States Con-| gress Against War, whose three day session starts Friday evening, Sept. 29, | Mecca Temple and in St. Nicholas Arena with a mass meeting, was fur- ther broadened yesterday by the an-| nouncement of the Peoples Lobby, of | | which John Dewey is president, that it endorsed the Congress and will send a delegation to it, according to | @ report by Donald Henderson, Sec- retary of the Arrangements Commit- | tee of the Anti-War Congress, | The opening session of the Con- gress is Mecca Temple and in St./ U.S. WARSHIP SPEEDING T0 CUBAN MILLS Sugar Workers Seize Rockefeller Property; Demand 80¢c. a Day HAVANA, Sept. 2%4—Ready to bombard the sugar mills seized by revolutionary Cuban sugar workers, the United Ctates warship Hamilton, is speeding toward Tanamo, 500 miles east of Havana, ready to land marines if the Cuban workers refuse to surrender the mills. Owned By Rockefeller The mills are owned by Percy} Rockefeller, member of John D. Rockefeller’s family, and Vincent Astor, American multi-millionaire. The Cuban workers who have seized the mills demand minimum wages of 80 cents a day, the eight~ hour day, recognition of their unian, half pay for all unemployed workers, free housing and medical care. Before the revolution the Rocke- feller-Astor Co. was paying them 24 cents a day for 14 hours’ work. Mines controlled indirectly by the United States Steel which, in turn, is controlled by the Wall Street house of J. P. Morgan, have also been seized by the work- | ers at El Cristo. Elect Soviets From the sugar districts in the in- terior, reports have come that the workers who have seized the sugar mills insist on the right to elect their | own revolutionary factory commit- tees. The word “Soviet” is becom- ing increasingly popular with the Cuban workers as a description for their factory committees, Threatens Communist Party The Grau San Martin government, now in power, though meeting with | Gpposition from reactionary rebel bands of army officers, etc., as being too “radical,” is throwing off its “radical” cloak more and more. Yesterday Grau San, Martin} pledged to protect all of the Wall Street investments, declaring, how- ever, that he could endure neither | the “dictatorship of Washington or | Moscow.” Since he has promised to/| | protect the “lawful” interests of Wall Street, his apparent opposition to Washington means little. Actually, his statement is a threat against the | Communist Party. And, in fact,) United States Ambassador Welles is} co-operating with him more and more to put down the revolutionary ; uprising of the Cuban workers and | peasants. Shoe Workers to Hold) Demonstration Today NEW YORK,—In protest against Corporation, | CORTEZ, Colo., Sept. 24.—Seizing | their rifles, a group of farmers here who had gathered truckloads of | food for the New Mexico coal strik- | ers, escorted the trucks across the Colorado State line and threat- ened to kill anybody who attempted to interfere with shipment of re- lief to the miners. When the first National Miners Union truck arrived in Dove Creek, the sheriff and other reactionary groups had threatened to prevent the truck from leaving for Gallup, New Mexico, with the foodstuffs. They raise raised some technical grounds of violation of the Colorado truck- ing laws. The trucks passed through on their journey of 250 miles to the Strike area. The farmers of this district in the San Juan Basin of Colorado, organized in the Farmers Holiday Association and affiliated with the Farmers National Committee of Action in Washington, D. C., are sending many tons of food and farm products to the Gallup strikers, 8.000 Silk Strikers Scores Capitalism |Parade to Mass Meet, Demonstrating Solidarity By CARL REEVE | PATERSON, N. J., Sept. 24—The | demonstration of 8,000 dye and silk| | strikers at Sandy Hill Park Saturday was ‘le powerful answer of the Na-/| | tional Textile Workers Union to the | attempts of the employers to break the strike Monday by the double policy of opening the mills under heavy police protection and at the same time trying to negotiate a sell- | out settlement, with the A. F. of L. | The strikers and their families | cheered the strike leaders and the | General Secretary of the.-Communist |Party, Earl Browder, who declared that the only way out of the present | crisis is for the working class to place | a workers government in the seat of | power. “My papa is on strike for bread.” said an obviously home-made card- | | board sign carried by an eight-year) old striker’s son in the children’s sec- |tion of the parade of 4,000 strikers | which followed the mass meeting. | The parade, moré’than half a mile long, was headed by members of the | National Strike Committee, and then came strikers carrying three signs on poles reading: “One Strike Commit- | | tee, One United Front, One Settle- | ment,” “Join the National Tetxile; | Workers Union,” and “Read the Daily | Worker.” “We will fight the NRA $13 Mini- mum,” said another slogan. Mr. Mof- | fit, who on Monday again meets with | | the A. F. of L. dye union leaders and | employers to try to send the men) back to work beaten was greeted as/ follows: “Mr. Moffitt—we will accept no decision under secret conferences.” Other slogans showing the demand of | the strikers for unity and their con- | | fidence in victory read, “The National Textile Workers Union leads the dye workers”—“We want a united front.” | —"We demand rank and file settle- ment of the strike.” “We do our Part. | CheerWhenBrowder | To Try Utah NMU Heads on Criminal Syndicalist Charge Miners Wir ” ight to Hold Union «id Mass Meetings HELPER, Utah, Sept. 24—Hearings on the criminal syndicalist charges against Charles Guynn, Charles Whetherbee and Paul Crouch, lead- ers of the National Miners Union leading the coal strike here, opened Friday. The main evidence against the, defendants was that they ad- vised the miners to hold picket lines. All the defendants were bound over for trial to the District Court. Guynn and Whetherbee were held | én $10,000 bond eath. Crouch ap- peared in court on an arraignment. on the charge of rioting Wednesday and was arrested in*the court-room on the charge of criminal syndi-| calism. He was held in jail until late Saturday when he was released on $10,000 bond. Mass protests and the exhaustion of county funds forced the removal of the majority of gunmen and per- mission for the N.M.U. to hold mass | Meetings, local meetings and dances. Previously an order was issued pre- venting even ball games and dances. All organizers and strikers are now freed on bonds. Hundreds of cases are before the courts, and every effort is being made to railroad Guynn, Whetherbee and Crouch to| long sentences on criminal syndi- calist and riot charges. The trials will last weeks or months, and defense funds are urg- | ently needed. The position of the N.M.U. has | been greatly strengthened as a re-| sult of the strike. N. Y. Coal Truck Men’ and Helpers Strike NEW YORK—Coal truck drivers and helpers in all coal cenit went on strike Saturday. They are demanding higher eta and better conditions. Police were given orders to help the ; whose arrival on the Berengaria will already been heard by mililons throughout the world—that the per- siding justice of the Nazi court on several occasions threatened to take “disciplinary measures” against the defendant. Unawed by this threat, Dimitroff (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) 5 Cent Fare to Be Ended After Coming Hlection, Is Charge | NEW YORK, Sept. 24—Charges that the candidates of Fusion and Tammany are secretly pledged to raise the subway fare after the com- ing elections were made yesterday by Henry Klein, who has put himself forward as the candidate of the “Five Cent Fare Party.” Klein fs a former Tammany official. The conference which Prial, the supposed “opposition” candidate against the Brooklyn Tammany bosses’ candidate, Harman, had yesterday with the boss Curry, resulted in the statement of Curry that “Prial is a good Democrat.” It is clear that Prial will be used as a stalking horse to safeguard for Tam-nany the votes of the Civil Sery* employes whose wages are in immediate danger of further reductions, Nicholas Arena Friday evening will) poice brutality and frame-ups. the be a public mass meeting, with main Shoe and Leather Workers’ Indus- speakers including Henri Barbusse,| trial Union has mobilized its forces internationally known French author |for a mass demenstration in front of City Hall at 10 a.m. today. mark his first visit to the United! The decision to hold this demon- | States; Earl Browder, General Sec-| | stration was made following an at- retary, Communist Party, U. S. A.; | tempt to arrest Fred Biedenkapp, the general secretary of the union, on framed up charges, (Continued on Page 2) We fight for higher wages.” “The scabs deliver coal and to do every- cost of living is up 35 per cent, Wages thing in an effort to smash the strike. must go up’ The order given to the police on the Prominent in the parade was the | coal delivery strike read: mass delegation of Lodi strikers from | “Trouble anticipated by coal deli- the United Picce Dye Company near) veries throughout the city. Give Passaic which employs 4,000 workers. trucks of all deliveries attention while The workers warmly received the | they are going through your precinct jto prevent anticipated attacks and Possible crime. (Continued on Page Two) Still Better Work Needed in the $40 | aa the emergence in some quarters of the country of real pep and activity for the Daily Worker's drive for $40,000, the actual fund- collections continue to be woefully deficient. The spirit of socialist competition has taken hold of several groups in a few of the districts. But the situation will not, can not, be remedied until this spirit and its accompanying aetion pervades every group of Daily Worker friends and readers in the countty. Our total contributions for Saturday were $126.52, barely more than one-tenth of the amount needed daily to keep us in the running! At this snail’s pace the “Daily” drive will not succeed in achieving its national quota. And the mere thought of the possibility of failure should be sufficient to spur into action every individual and every group of workers who have come to look upon the “Daily” as the central unifying bond of every phase of the class struggle ni the United States. . * . A group of workers, members of the Amalgamated Clothing Work- ers Union employed in the J. Friedman shop, send in $5. They ac- company this donation with a challenge to the workers in all other shops to attempt to equal ‘or surpass them in the “Daily” drive. Such a challenge should surely meet immeciate answers in hun- dreds of shops, and should rally to the drive the members of all unions whose struggles have found guidance and reflection ‘1 these pages, to speed up collections among the work-rs in the shops. . * * ‘The Finnish Workers Clubs, through the National Executive Com- ‘mittee of the Finnish Federation, have sent in the sum of $50 as a con- tribution to the “Daily” drive. This makes somewhere around $200.00 sent in by the Finnish clubs, } ,000 Drive But where are the youth and workers clubs whi.h during the last drive sprang to the Daily Worker's support from the very beginning? Where are the fraternal and mass organizations, of all nationalities, whose help is now so urgently needed? What are they doing to keep our hard- won improvements and to ensure our advance? These questions must be answered immediately. and promises, because mere verbal support is no longer ar* never was— enough. The answer must come in the form of the dollars, half- dollars, quarters, nickels, dimes and pennies of workers who take this drive to heart, who realize its life and death importance. Unit 3, Section 5 of the Communist Party in New York has proved itself to be just such a group of workers. Aftre sending in its first $25 for the “Daily,” pledging at the same time to raise $100, it has come through again with an additional $17—a total of almost half of its quota. But this unit complains that “so far no other unit. in our section has taken up 1 challenge.” The example of this unit, and the challenge it has issued, should be followed and taken up not only in New York, but in every working class neighborhood in the United States. Our drive must not fail, It is up to every reader to see that we come through with greater effort and vigor than we ..ave up to the present. Not with words The total received for Sept. 23 is. Previous total GRAND TOTAL SPREADING RAPIDLY. Men Act Despite UMW. Officials’ Attempt to Stop Walkout PITTSBURGH. — At Price- dale, Pa., Saturday, mine dele- gates representing around 48,- 000 miners voted to join the strike. UMWA officials at- tempting to keep the men from striking were ordered to “stay out!” All sorts of tactics were used to keep the men from taking the strike vote, and the vote was delayed for two hours. But the miners rejected all orders of John L, Lewis and other UMWA officials were voted down. Reports from the mine fields throughout the country, which the capitalist press is for the most part suppressing, indicate that over 100,- 000 coal miners in the bituminous flelds will be on strike Monday in protest against the soft coal code and the slave wage agreement signed by John L. Lewis, the coal operators and President Roosevelt. Around -60,000 were on strike up to Saturday, but at dozens of meet- ings the miners voted to spread the strike. At the Pennsylvania, West Virginia state line 8,000 Pennsylvania miners met, while hundreds of West ‘Vir~ ginia miners crossed over to join the meeting. They voted unanimously to- join the strike call on Monday. More than 20,000 in this field will join the strike against the code, for higher wages, and for recognition of the miners’ union. A heavy mobilization of state po- lice, sheriffs, and company gunmen failed to terrorize the miners. The coal strike is spreading rapid- ly, despite all efforts of the UMWA Officials to stop it. It is evident, the strike movement is out of the hands of the UMWA higher officials, with the rank and file doing everything to spread the strike into a general coal strike. Roosevelt Confers : With Officials on Inflationary Plans Wants to . Raise Prices asSummer‘Boom’Turns Rapidly Downward WASHINGTON, Sept. 24—Forced by the pressure of the impending col- lapse of his whole price-raising pro- gram, President Roosevelt yesterday met in conference with his closest financial advisers to consider meth- ods of raising prices through more inflation. The Roosevelt industrial “boom” of the summer months is fast turning into an intensified industrial crisis. Production has turned sharply down- | Ward, while prices, though still way | above the March levels, are beginning to show signs of marked for lack of any real retail buying by the workers whose purchasing power has been cut by the Roosevelt pried prices program. Plans More Rising Prices Some form of devaluation, or in- flationary freeing of frozen bank as~ sets, seems inevitable in the very near future. This will mean even higher prices than prevailing at the present time, Minor to Make Test Case of Injunction ‘in Court Tomorrow NEW YORK. — Robert Minor, Communist candidate for Mayor of New York City, will be tried tomor. Tow 9:30 a. m. in the 10th Magis trates Court, Pensylvania and bib- erty Avenues, Brooklyn, for “violate ing an injunction” at the Progrées- sive Table Co. an NRA firm, on September 6th. The injunction will be made a test | case by Minor who will also demand a jury trial. mt Minor, who will defer by 7d goes to trial together with Jack Ros- enberg. Rosenberg will be by Joseph Tauber, Ini Labor Defense attorney. Reb oe are urged to attend tw ht