The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 27, 1933, Page 1

te Demand Release of Our Heroic Comrades in Leipzi. Get Your Unit, Union Local, Branch or Club to Challenge Another Group in Raising Subs for the Daily Worker! Daily (Section of the Communist International) orker ist Party U.S.A. America’s Only Working Class Daily Newspaper WEATHER Eastern New York: Showers Wed- nes@t/, Vol. X, No. 232 -_* Wntered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., under the Act of March 8, 1879, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1933 (Six Pages) Price 3 Cents 000 MINERS MARCH TO URGE STEEL MEN TO JOIN STRIKE trike Shuts Ford’s Chester ster Plant; Detroit Tool ol Makers C Out Torgler, Dimitroff, Popoff! They Are Ours! Free Them! By BILL DUNNE. Teens the lips of Dimitroff, Torgler and Popoff, prisoners of Hitler fascism, the whole world hears the voice of the working class; a class robbed and oppressed, but the class that creates the wealth of the world, the class by whose labors all society lives, the only revolutionary class in the world, the class which bears in its bosom the germ of the new class- less society, the only class that can and will put an end to the Dantesque hell which socjety has become under the rule of the capitalist class. Torgler—fearless, chosen as their leader and spokesman of hundreds of thousands German workers in Reichstag elections, facing torture and death by delivering himself to the Nazi murderers so that by Chis act the world-wide exposure of Hitlerism and Reichstag arson plot could be made. Dimitroff—veteran of a hundred proletarian struggles in the Balkans, leader of mass battles against the government by massacre of Zankoff jin Bulgaria, a trade union fighter since he was fourteen years of age, coming straight from the ranks of the working class in Bulgaria, the cockpit of imperialist intrigue in Southeastern Europe, to leadership in the globe- girdling struggle og the working class, exploited farmers and colonial peoples headed by the Communist Internctional. Popoff—devote” and capable fighter for the working class, straight and hard as a bayonet, his dlife at the service of the class ‘o which he belongs. . . * MERICAN Communists today should gaze with hot eyes straight into the sneering faces of the ruling class, proud, cold and determined, that these leaders shall not die. ~ They are ours! “Nashi,” the Russian workers say. But more than this. Only the revolutionary working class gives birth to such men. They are the living embodiment of the mass misery, the hunger, the oppression, of the stunted lives, of the ever present, fear of poverty and a paupet’s death that haunts the working class in every country but one—the Soviet Union—where, it was with the help of such men, that our class fought its way to power. Torgler, Dimitroff, Popoff—from their bodies soaked in the stinking smell of Nazi jails, from their bodies on which are the marks left by the Fascist torturers, from their lips, from their fearless eyes, comes the ex- pression of the will of their class to fight. To fight and die if need be, to suffer anything that its class enemies may devise, that, the whole working class may free itself, and thereby free all society, from the domi- nation of the capitalist class, whose sadistic excesses foreshadow and speed up its defeat by the working class it robs, persecutes and tries to drive to the mass butchery of each other in a new imperialist war. * * * we COMMUNISTS are proud today! These are the flower of our class, these are the fighters that make up our ranks, these are the leaders that make up our general staff. In our ranks throughout the world, in the capitalist and colonial countries, in every country on this globe, organized under the ¢rimson revolutionary banner of the world party founded by Lenin—the Communist International and its sections—are five million Torglers, Dimitroffs and Popoffs. We can organize and lead our class. We are the most ex- perienced, capable and disciplined section of the working class. We are glad this is so. Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin have given us the knowledge, which we give to the whole working class. We know the history of capitalism and its rulers, We do not fear them, neither do we underestimate them. ; ‘We know the strategy and tactics of the class struggle. We know that the way to power for our class lies straight down the road of or- ganization and mass struggle in every effective form against capitalism and its government power. * * . IRGLER, DIMITROFF and POPOFF, standing calm and erect before the murder court of their class enemies, in the name of the working class of the whole world, have challenged Fascism behind which stand the German capitalists. Behind whom again stands the Wall Street lism, whose huge loans have helped Hitler Fascism—yes and Italian Fascis—to seize and hold power. ‘Torgler, Dimitroff and Popoff, whose immigrant brothers helped to build the wondrous industrial system of America, speak and fight, therefore, against the oppressors and robbers of the American masses. We American Communists, we workers and organizers, whom American workers see in the forefront of every class battle, call upon you to de- mand, and enforce the demand, from Wall Street government and the Hitler fascist government it supports, that Torgler, Dimitroff and Popoff shall not die. We call upon you to demand and enforce the demand that they shall be free to step out from the shadow of the fascist guillotine; that they shall be restored to the working class from whose ranks they were seized by fraud and force to make a Fascist holiday. * . * ‘ DRGLER, DIMETROFF, POPOFF—as workers they have shown their unshakable devotion to their class. As Communists their shining should bring the glad light of battle to the eyes of every Party member, make him stop and salute and say: “These men are ours!” ‘We call upon American workers to render their verdict: — with the blood of a million acts of murderous terrors against work- be Gzip ews, whose jackal brains plan endless pogroms! Bring Torgler, Dimitroff and Popoff back to our elass! They Shall Not Die! But—if they die in spite of all we can do, then their names will soon be a battlecry before whieh will advance the nerolumonary. battles pesca Paecism. i~ 5,000STRIKE "IN FORD C0. Detroit Tool Makers| Join Flint Strikers, Start Walk Out CHESTER, Pa., Sept. 26. — Five thousand workers in the Ford Motor Co. plant in this city went on strike today against a wage cut when the company ordered a 32-hour week with a reduction in the weekly pay. The workers were getiing 50 cents an hour for a 40-hour week, and when the hours were reduced to 32 they got a corresponding cut in pay. The strike was a complete surprise to the company as they thought the men were completely unprepared and unorganized. The men whispered the demand for strike from bench to bench, and it spread throughout the entire plant, the workers walking out spontaneously as one man, This is the first time in the his- tory of the Chester plant that any walkout has taken place. ‘The workers marched from the building, marching around the entire plant in a picket line. “They then marched through the streets of Ches- ter. They then, met at the Ukrainian Hall, An Ai F, of L. leader, E. A. Rinehart, attempted to take leader- ship of the strike, addressing the workers, te . DETROIT, Mich., Sept. 26.—Several thousand tool and die makers in three large automobile body plants walked out in sympathy with the strikers in the General Motors plants in Flint. The strike affects Murray Body, Fisher Body and Briggs Manu- facturing company. It was called by the Mechanics Educational Society comprised mostly of skilled workers. It has the support of the Auto Work- ers Union in this city, which is aiding to win the strike. The American Federation of Labor through its Flint representative has disassociated itself from this movement and condemned the workers.for the walk out. According to Jay J. Griffen, chair- man of the strike committee, the re- sponse to the strike was overwhelm- ing. Of 400 votes cast, there was twenty to twenty+five to one in favor of the walkout. as the strike gains momentum at least 30,000 will be directly affected. The strike chairman maintains that several months ago a code was pro- posed for the tool and die makers to the National Recovery Administra- tion. In the code the men asked for $1. an hour minimum with a maxi- mum of $1.50. The request of the strikers was ignored. In Flint the strikers ranks are solid, Picketing is in progress at Buick, Chevrolet and A. C. Spark Plug plants, all of them subsidiaries of the General Motors. The company has made threats that a new crew has been hired, but of all of these intimi- dations met with failure, U. S. Senator McAdoa in Moscow for Visit MOSCOW, Sept. 26.—Insisting that his brief visit would be “entirely un- official,” U. S. Senator William G. McAdoo arrived here by airplane. His visit follows persistent etn that the U. 8. is preparing to recog’ nize the Seviet Government. BASIS OF ELECTION OF DELE- GATES TO ANTI-WAR CONGRESS. NEW YORK, Sept. 26.—All local and national organizations or groups of workers of a shop meet- ing for the purpose of electing del- egates to the are entitled to one delegate to the United States Congress Against War, convenin, in New York City on Sept. 29, their membership is below 125; two delegates if the membership is from 126 to 250, and one delegate for every additional 250 members or major fraction thereof, Donald Henderson, Secretary of the Con- gress, stated today. All delegates and alternates, must register personally on Wednesday or Thursday at 104 Fifth Avenue, Room 1610, or on Friday at St. Nicholas Arena, 69 West 66th St, from 9 a. m. to 6 p. m. local which have AUTO PLANT It is expected that he Leipzig Trial Judge Dr. Wilhelm Buenger, presiding judge at the Reichstag frame-up trial, who has taken over the role of prosecuting attorney in railroad- ing Torgler and the Bulgarian Communists to the gallows. Cops Fight Workers in Court as Minor Exposes Injunction Communist Candidate to Be Tried in Spe- cial Sessions ‘NEW YORK.—Three hundred and fifty workers fought off police in the courtroom and demonstrated for the release of Robert Minor, Commu~- nist candidate for Mayor, after the latter ringingly defended himself against the charge of “violating an injunction” yesterday before Magis- trate Mark Rudich in Brooklyn. Minor turned the Tammany court-/ room into a forum to expose and| denounce the vicious use of the in-| junction against workers before the| police attack. Minor and Jack Rosenberg, who was arrested with him, were held for! Special Sessions Court by the Tam-} many Judge who allowed the lawyer | for the Progressive Table Co., who| are bringing the charges against Minor, to reopen their side of the case after they had already rested.) A riot squad was unable to dis-| rse_the demonstrators. { One minute after police had car-| ried out the judges’ order to “clear the court,” following Minor’s able cross-examination of the arresting policeman, “Free Bob Minor,” came like thunder through the court-room windows. The workers had imme- diately formed a picket-line around the court-house. Court attendants closed the windows, but the demand that Robert Minor be freed increased in volume, and the judge asked for the riot squad. Rudich, obviously under instruc- tions mot to dismiss the charge) against Minor, granted the prosecu- | tion the unheard of right to reopen) their case and to introduce a $250) bond which makes the injunction | legal. | The cross-examination of the po-| liceman by Minor, which started the cheering for the Communist candi- ‘I Have No Real Counsel,’ He S He Says When Court) Tells Him to Speak ' Through Lawyer (Special Cable to t LEIPZIG, Sept. 26.—Threa George Dimitroff, defendent with Ernst Torgler the Reichstag frame-up arson red-robed presiding judges. The action followed Dimitroff’s declaration that his deposition, made | at the time of his arrest in Berlin, | was being completely distorted by | the Nazi press. Angered, presiding Judge Wilhelm Buenger bellowed: “You have no right to speak! Apply to your counsel!” To this Dimitroff, who on Saturday stunned the Nazi judges with his bold declarations of his innocence and of fascist provocations replied: “{ have already told you that 1 have no real counsel, and am there- fore compelled to defend myself.” At this point the judge warned Dimitroff that he would exclude him | from the court in which he is on trial | (Continued on Page Two) Soviet Government. Expels Reporters for Hitler Press MOSCOW, Sept. 26—In retalia- tion for the arrest of two Soviet correspondents at the Leipzig trial of Ernst Torgler and three Bulgar- ian Communists, the Soviet Gov- ernment today ordered all German newspaper correspondents to leave the U.S.S.R. within three days. All Russian newspapermen wil be re- called from Germany, it was an- nounced. The Soviet correspondents had been barred from the Leipzig su- preme court where Torgler and the other Communists are on trial. Commenting on the action of the Soviet Government in ordering the expulsion of the German corres- | pondents after the arrest and per- secution of Soviet reporters by the Nazi authorities, an official of the Soviet Foreign Office said: “We regard their treatment (of Soviet correspondents—Editor) as oe he Daily Ww orker.) ts to expel from the court room veteran Bulgarian revolutionist, and co- | and two other Communists in trial, were made today by the} Western Union Rejects Cable to Nazi Court | Won't Transmit Wire} lof Protest Adopted by | 5,000 at Meet NEW YORK.—“Our German con- jmaction refuses to forward your} |cable message dated Sept. 23 and ad- dressed to Dr. Wilhelm Buenger, Su- | preme Court, Leipzig.” This note, together with the cable message unanimously adopted by |5,000 workers at an Election xatifica- | tion rally and celebration of the 14th | anniversary of the Communist Part: | held last Friday evening at St. Nicho- | jlas Arena, was yesterday returned to | {the Communist Party, 50 East 13th | by the Western Union ‘1elegraph Go, “Explaining” its action in return- | |ing the cable message, the Western |Union pointed out that: “Under Article 7 of the interna- tional telegraph regulations it reads that ‘the high contracting parties re- serve to themselves the mgnt to stop | the transmission of any private telg- | ‘gram which appears dangerous to the | 4 security of the state’.” The cable message which the Nazi officials felt was “dangerous to the security” of the Hitlerite murder re- gime follows: “We, 5,000 New York workers, in mass meeting assembled protest with, all our might against moi strous frame-up trial and determ nation your bloody fascist govern- ment to legally murder the inno- | cent accused. All civilized world knows Nazi leaders themselves guil- ty of the fiendish arson. We de- mand immediate release Torgler, Dimitroff, Taneff, Popoff, Thael- man and all anti-fascist victims.” discrimination, which, added to many ‘unjustified arrests of our cor- respondents and searches of their homes in Germany in_ recent months, creates conditions under which it is no longer possible for them to carry on their journalistic work.” The Russian reporters, Lili Keith, Berlin correspondent of “Izvestia,” and Ivan Bezpalow, representative of “Tass,” official Soviet news agen- cy, were early Saturday morning dragged out of their beds and placed under arrest. They were later | released 'with official apologies. The four Germans affected by the Soviet order represent the (Continued on Page Two) Wolff Agency, the Koelnische Zei- | charging that the action of the tung and the e Tageblatt and Lokal- anzeiger of Berlin. Nazis Protest BERLIN, Sept. 26.—The Nazi government today formally pro- tested the expulsion of German correspondents from Moscow, Soviet Government “is in violation of existing treaties.” At the same time it was revealed that the German Foreign Office had “requested” all German news- papers to refrain from publishing the news that the Nazi correspond- ents had been ordered to leave Mos- cow. Dr. Alfons Sack, prominent Nazi attorney, who was assigned by the German Supreme Court to “defend” Ernest Torgler, German Communist leader, on trial for his life in the Reichstag trial at Leipzig. Tom Mann Coming to Speak Against War Thruout U. 8. | Visa Delay Prevents His Attending U. S. Anti-War Congress NEW YORK, Sept. 26—The U. S. | Department of Labor deliberately de- layed its decision to admit Tom Mann, veteran British labor leader, into the United States in order to mate it impossible fot Mann to reach New York in time for the session of | |the United States Congress Against | it was charged here today by | War, the Congress organizing committee. Mann will | States in time to address the ban- uet held for Henri Barbusse, noted French novelist and anti-war advo- cate, in New York City on October |4. He will later speak in New York and several other cities under the auspices of the Anti-War Congress. Needle Trades Union Elects Delegates | The General Executive Board of the Needle Trades Workers Industfial Union today pledged fullest support to the ‘Anti-War Congress and elected Ben Gold, Louis Hyman and A. Za-| | more, Negro worker, as delegates. It called upon all shops in the clothing trades to elect delegates to the Con- gress and urged the union member- ship to attend the opening session of the Congress Friday, September 29, in Mecca Temple, 133 West 55th St., and the St. Nicholas Arena, 66th Street and Columbus Avenue, New York City, Boston and Hartford Coming A mass meeting of delegates repre- senting 35 organizations held in the historic Old South Meeting House, Boston, endorsed the sending of dele- gates to the Congress and pledged “unqualified support.” Forty-three delegates have been elected to the Congress in Hartford, Connecticut. A send-off meeting will be held Thursday night in the Y. W. C. A., with prominent speakers repre- senting various organizations backing the Congress. Enthusiasm for the Drive Grows AY we received two letters which indicate that real devotion and loyalty to the “Daily” which we know exists is slowly but surely gather- ing speed and gojng into real action. The first is from Philadelphia. For the past two weeks, during which it had been lagging behind, this district sent in only $35. Yesterday, with true revolutionary energy, Philadelphia flung into action, and sent the “Daily” $135 in Comrades, that is what can be done by combining organization with Tevolutionary zeal, And we are confident that Philadelphia has only begun. other inspiring letter comes from Detroit, us that the comrades have decided to place the Daily Worker Drive as the first matter on the agenda of every meeting in Detroit. ‘They tell us that the Hungarian groups enthusiastically costings their Daily Worker quota from $60 to $100. ‘They have set up a special committee to check up on all the day-to- dey activities of the Daily Worker Drive. And finally, they are mobilizing all the hundreds of children in the “But Many District s Still ba Behind one day! * There the letter tells Woung Pioneers and mass orgenisations.to.go out. with subsoription lists and Daily Workers. They art organizing meetings, entertainments, affairs with the children, etc. of the “Daily” were sold with record This, comrades, breathes energy, enthusiasm can break down any obstacles. And they conclude by proudly informing us that the Friday's issues speed. life, revolutionary devotion. Such And it jis evident that the Drive is slowly beginning to catch fire, Bo the fact remains that these two fine examples from Philadelphia and Detroit are still isolated examples. Many of the other districts are still lax, and slow in their activity for the “Daily.” Let us shake off all indifference, without making our $40,000 drive a success. “Daily” if we fail. And if we fail in comrades, The “Daily” cannot live We cannot keep our improved the Drive, it will be a tragic, incal- culable loss to the American working class. Yesterday's receipts Previous Total aan) TOTAL ..... $380.94 arrive in the United/ | JUDGE THREATENS 10 EXPEL", reotnord CALL MEET DIMITROFF FROM NAZICOURT ad | FOR HIS MILITANT STAND 3 TO ACT FOR DEMANDS Strike Spreads Despite Orders of UMWA Officials By FRANK BORICH. | Secretar~, National Miners Union. | (By Telegraph.) PITTSBURGH, Pa., Sept. 26 Five thousand striking miners, |marching to Clairton, Pa., in an effort to call on the stee} workers at the Carnegie Steel Co. to join the miners’ strike, were stopped today by a heavy mobiliza- tion of police, deputies and armed company gunmen, The Carnegie Steel Co. is a sub- sidiary of the U. 9. Steel Corpora- tion, and the miners are on strike at the H. C. Frick Coke Co., another | subsidiary of the U. S. Steel. The miners’ strik? is soreadine with 3,000 in Indian County, Central Penn- sylvania, joining yesterday. As the result of mass picketing 5,000 struck im Kisky Valley. Miners +> electing delegates to joint conference of the various dis- tricts scheduled to be held in Union- town on Saturday to discuss the next steps of the strike. Propose Action The National Miners Union and | left wing forces in the United Mine Workers of America are proposing to the conference definite action te spread the strike and te remain out until the coal companies are come pelled to grant wage increases up | to the $5 scale, six-hour-day, full rec- ognition of the U.M.W.A., full rights of the mine committees to be elec- ted by the miners, against the ap- pointment by the U.M.W.A. of top officials, for the right to strike, against compulsory arbitration, against the check-off in any form, including union dues. These forces also are calling on the miners to elect their own rank and file leadership and to drive out the U.M.W.A. leaders Lewis, Fagan, Murray, Feeny & Co. It is new clear that the U.M.W.A officials, the N.R.A., and Roosevelt | attempted to put over another big swindle on the miners, but the min- ers are resisting splendidly <Jespite the lack of organization. Tremendous Initiative The initiative of the miners is tre- mendous. The whole code and agree- ment signed by Roosevelt is blown to (Continued on Page Two) Dye Strikers Spurn BetrayalAgreement Negotiated by UTW Shameful Terms Pro- vide No Pay Raises . PATERSON, N. J., Sept. 26—One of the’ worst sell-out agreements in the long history of A. F. of L. be- trayals was defeated by rank and file members of the U.T.W. Dyers’ Local No. 1733 today, when the shop committees of the local rejected the settlement terms agreed to by the Union’s Negotiating Committee im conference with John Moffit, U. 8. labor conciliator, and the dye manu- facturers. The shop committees rejected the settlement terms, fired the Negotiate ing Committee and elected a new one. This action of the‘rank and file dyers shows that the policies of the National Textile Union are well un- derstood and are being, followed. This was also demonstrated on the picket lines this morning when A. F. of L. and U.T.W. picket lines merged in many places in defiance of the in- structions of the officials of the Dyers’ Union. John Moffit, U. 8. Labor Concillae tor, declared, on learning of the strikers’ action, that “it’s incredible,” Unaware of the strikers’ action, he had attended a meting of the com- pany union of the Textile Dye Co, to present the settlement terms and urged the strikers to join the U.-T.W. Only 300 of the 1,800 workers in the plant appeared at the company (Continued on Page Pwo) —