The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 29, 1933, Page 6

Page § Published by the Compredsily PabNshing Co. ‘elephone ALgonauin 4- Address and mai! chacks to the Daily Worker, 50 E. 18th St. 13th %., New York ity, N.Y. Ine., dally except Sunday, at 50 & Cable WORK.” New York, N. ¥. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: By Matt everywhere: One year, $6; six months, $3.50; 8 months, $2; ¥ month, Be, excepting Borough of Manhattan and Bronx, New York City. Foreign and Canada: One yeer, $0: On Basic Issues, S. P. “Militants” Support Old Guard FORCES LAND Conference Leaders Praise NRA, Attack|Cuban Politician Asks “Soviet Union; Steam-Roll the Rank-and- ‘ File in the Discussion By J i { AST week, the group of socialist leaders who call themselves the “Militants” met at the Mohegan Country Club to discuss their platform of oppo- sition to the “Old Guard” leaders. And the note of the conference was set by the speech of Norman Thomas Which he sent to be read at the meeting. It was the “far- ited wisdom” of President Roosevelt that “mil- itatit” Norman Thomas nd the outstanding political development of | the current situation. And it was in this way that the Socialist “m: {tants” who like to think of them- selves as being close to real revolu- tionary policy, began ence—with exalted praise of the most cunning representative of the capit- ist-class that has been in the White louse for a long time. ‘That was the first note of the Con- ference. And the second was struck by #Amicus Most, one of the leaders of the Militants, who boasted that “One of the most important things the Militants have done is to keep the best revolutionary ele- merits from joining the Communist ‘And then the third, and final note of the “Militant” conference ton Hoopes, who attacked the Soviet Union’s Socialist victories in Agricul- ture by declaring, there has failed So between ful: sevelt as a. “far: satilts on the Communist Party, and slanders against the Soviet Union, the’ “Militant” conference leaders wavered back and forth deliberately, evading all attempts to make them define either their purpose or the alleged political differences that are supposed to separate them from the Sotialist “Old Guard” whom they presumably fight. Steam Roll Discussion One thing was particularly notice- able. That was the determined at- tempt on the part of the self-ap- ponted steering committee that con- trolled the meeting to steam-roll all the attempts on the parts of many of the rank and file Socialists to ar- rive at a definite stand on the fun- damental issues. Continually, throughout the meet- ing, rank and file Socialists who had come, many of them, a long way, called from the floor for some def- inite program on current issues. Their demands were either un- heeded, or else they were told to wait for the discussion period. And the ited to three mi In three minutes every rank and file Socialist was expected to analyse the political reasons for his opposition to the Hillquit “Old Guard,” and his Program for a more revolutionary action! Nothing could better illuminate the political insincerity of the “Militant” leaders than that (the question of the NRA and the ‘A. F. of L. burocracy, not once did the “Militant” leaders express the slightest opposition to the stand of the “Old Guard” that NRA was a glorious “opportun: to be seized by the workers, and that the A. F. of L. leadership w alright *Not-one single. ary word of at- ek On the NRA slav codes! Not vs was its capitalist-class character mposed. Not once was its strike- ing function made clear. Not their confer- | was | struek by the statement by Darling- | “Collectivization ‘AntiFascists | Score Milwaukee Police Attack Ask Socialist Mayor If “Free Speech Has Been Abolished?” NEW YORK.—The National Com- mittee to Aid Victims of German Fas- cism protested today against “the at- tack made by the Milwaukee police force upon the workers and other supporters of our movement who peacefully gathered at the Milwaukee position to the atrocities of the Hit- waukee. The telegram asks “whether the right of free speech and assemblage has been abrogated in Milwaukee, whether our movement for aid to the | victims of the Nazi government has | been outlawed, and whether the Mil- | waukee police are in Hitler’s service.” | ‘The National Committee, with an affiliated membership of over 400,000 }and supported by such well-known persons as Lord Marley of the Brit- jish Labor Party, Romain Rolland, | Sylvia Pankhurst, and Count Karolyi, and in this country by Lincoln Stef- | fens, Prof. Robert Morss Lovett, Gran- | ville Hicks, William Z. Foster and | others, calls upon all its affiliated lo- |cal committees to write and wire | Mayor Hoan in protest against this | unwarranted police attack. ‘Soviet Union Fights Restrictions on Its ‘Own Wheat Exports |United States Ready to “Dump” Wheat to | Raise Prices LONDON, Sept. 28—The Soviet | Union delegation today announced to | the Wheat. Advisory Commission that | the Soviet Union would not agree to the 37.000,000 bushel export quota | offered to it by the American dele- | gate. The Soviet Union is the only coun- | try in the world which is frying to | expand its wheat production instead | of destroying wheat. The Soviet del- | egation demands a quota of 75,000,000 bushels. The United States is preparing to “dump” wheat abroad. Secretary of Agriculture Wallace said. -This will cost the government. millions of dol- lars in losses. But the government is prepared to proceed in this way in order to raise wheat prices here. nee was it mentioned that the NRA} * i6'thé most brazen attempt in Amer- ) itan history to strengthen the grip of Finance Capital. Not once was it shown how the NRA is driving to- | Ward War, behind the most gigantic ©) ‘war construction ever seen. On the contrary! The NRA was 2 for the “opportunities” it sthe workers. gactly the same “Old Guard”! | Tasos: | Nothing was said about the danger }\ of Pascism and how to fight it. %) “G@iha and American imperialist in- Be were completely ignored ‘ | political line as vas not a word on the war questions do not interest the “Militant” leaders. Rather, their interest took a dif- } ferent slant. For, two “Militant” Jeaders, Paul Porter and McDowell, aéiually proposed a Pan-American International, to take the place of jond International! *Phe “Militants” are no longer in- ited in Germany, England, China, m, France, Soviet Union, etc.! ley are now interested in the ac- ities of their “own” country in South America. low remarkable an example of So- ist leaders adaypiing their tactics ‘to the needs of their own bourgeosie! how convenient a shield against any stand on the international ies of Social-Democracy. | the Militant Conference dis- having evaded the funda- questions of the United Front l@ against capitalist exploita- ) against the dictatorship of Wall finance capital. » latest “Militant” ConfeFence that the leaders of this move- ' within the Socialist workers pare coming to see more and more st Party is not a work- ist Party, but a party alist reformism, a party that against the dictatorship of the class, an attempt to mislead Socialist workers who are learn- hat the Communist Party alone for Socialism. Club Wednesday to voice their op-| ler fascist regime,” in a telegram to| Daniel Hoan, Socialist Mayor of Mil- | 6 months, $6; 3 mouths, $8. We Greet Our Fearless Bolshevik Heroes in Leipzig Trial! STRIKE WAVE IN CUBA; U.S. | | | |U. S. Aid Against the |Communist Movement | Ree | _ HAVANA, Cuba, Sept. 28—Over | 200 Negro workers’ wives and chil- dren massed in front of the Presi- dential Palace today clamoring for bread and demanding food cards. Havana was without ice today as ice-wagon drivers went on strike for higher wages. | | HAVANA, Cuba, Sept. 28—Sugar | mill workers in Hershey, a town on |the north coast of Matanzas Province, went out on genaral strike yester- | day, tying up the sugar central and! all its affiliates including the rail- road. Nearly 2,000 workers struck, although a guard of 40 soldiers had been sent to the mills to intimidate | them. | Workers in Cienfuegos, Santa | | Clara Province, defied the police and | military at a giant dempnstration | called by the Communist Party and | the Anti-Imperialist League. One| Communist was injured and several | workers were arrested when soldiers | were called out to break up the dem- | onstration. Soldiers, police and} armed students are patrolling the| streets to terrorize the workers. | Other Communist demonstrations | occurred in Santa Clara, Camaguey |and Oriente Province, with pdlice clashing with the workers everywhere. A Communist meeting at the Mata- hambre mines in Matanzas Province |was broken up by soldiers. Several | were arrested. Two hundred Communist workers seized the Parque Alto sugar mill in Santa Clara Province. Soldiers have been sent from Santa Clara City to suppress them. U. S. Marines Landed A party of U. 5S. marines was landed from the destroyer Hamilton close to a sugar mill in the hands of revolutionary workers. The marines were. sent ashore allegedly “to get supplies.” All United States warships now anchored in Cuban ports have been} authorized to land troops at any time | | without first getting permission from | Washington. Strikes Spreading Strikes are spreading rapidly all over the island, the railroad workers threatening to go out on a general strike if their demands for higher wages and better conditions are not immediately granted. Leading Cuban politicians of the Grau San Martin government are al- ready demanding American interven- tion to fight the steadily rising revo- lutionary activity of the Cuban work- ers. Antonio Mendoza, declared yes- terday: ~ “Cuba must have money 4nd in- telligent direction by a stronger power, or the Republic will disin- | tegrate wholly. Communist agita- tion is growing too strong to be | combated by any Cuban govern- ment. The United States will have to rescue us in the end.” Car ea ae Anti-Imperialist Delegation Saits tn| October | As a demonstration of solidarity | with the revolutionary Cuban masses, | the Anti-Imperialist League wiil send a delegation to Cuba early in October. This delegation will visit many cities, | sugar mills and plantations, bring- ing greetings and a pledge of sup- port to the Cuban masses in their struggle against U. S. imperialism. ' In carrying this message to the workers and farmers of Cuba, the delegation will make clear that the working population of the United KING CANUTE—1933 —By Burek Chinese Red Army Seizes Munitions in Fukien Raid 400,000 Mobilized by} Nanking for Ninth Anti-Red Drive SHANGHAT, Sept, 28.—The Chinese Red Armies captured huge quantities of munitions, food, salt, and other ‘heeded supplies in their raid into Western Fukien Province and made their escape successfully, according to dispatches received here today. General Chiang-Kai-Shek, Nan- king dictator, “is concentrating troops for his ninth giant anti- Communist drive, all the preceding eight having ended in dismal fail- ure, with thousands of Nanking sol- diers deserting to the Reds with artillery and other valuable muni- tions. Over 400,000 soldiers of Chiang’s own forces are now mobilized in Kiangsi Province for the impending campaign, Nanking keeping its hands off North China and allowing it to become a virtual Japanese protec- torate in return for assistance from Japan in his anti-Communist wars. States is solidly behind them and will do all in its power to force the immediate withdrawal of all U. S. warships and armed forces from the island. The Anti-Imperialist League asks all workers,’ inteHectuals’ and -stud- ents’ organizations to help make this delegation possible... It also asks that they immediately mail their greetings to the Anti-Imperialist League at 90. East 10th St. to be sent to Cuba with the delegation. Sweden Denounces Roosevelt Tariff Truce in Trade War STOCKHOLM, Sept. 28.—Another cf President Roosevelt's widely ad- vertised projects for “world recovery” | started to go up in smoke when | Sweden, following Holland’s lead, de- nounced the tariff truce set up at the London World Economic Con- ference last June. Sweden's action gives it full liberty | to raise tariff walls sky-high as its move in the world-wide trade war now on between the different powers. Nazi Minister Calls Off Jewish Boycott Fears “Disturbance in Economie Recovery” BERLIN, Sept. 28.—Acting at the behest of big business, the Nazi gov- ernment beat a disordered retreat| from its boycott policy against Jew-/ ish business yesterday, when Econ- omics Minister Schmitt issued an or- der forbidding the boycotting of Jew- ish concerns as it “would unquestion- ably cause serious disturbances in the progress of business recovery.” This, decree, issued “in complete agreement with Propazanda Minister Goebbels,” confirms the charge ad- vanced by anti-Fascists that the Hitler regime’s anti-Semitism is con- fined to Jewish workers and intel- lectuals, but that Jewish capitalists receive the protection due them from} a@ government that is the agent of the capitalist class. This decree will undoubtedly lead to) futher unrest among Hitler’s rink and file adherents, who were led to believe that Nazi anti-Jewish per- secutions were more than a blind to| capture misled millions for the ca- pitalist Hitler dictatorship, Hitler F ascism Linked to War Peril in Appeal Committee Against) Fascism to Coordinate) With Anti-War Forces) NEW YORK.—Hitler’s proclama- | tion that “Germany must win back its place in the sun by the vic- terious. sword” and the growing wish of French military circles to declare war on Germany at once “to save the expense of beating it later when it was well-armed” were called “oustanding signs of the approaching world war” by the Nationah, Committee to Aid the Victims of German Fascism, in a tement issued today. The National Committee adds that “The United States Congress Against War, which will convene in New York, Sept., 30 to Oct. 1, constitutes an event of world-wide importance; it will give to all who Want to fight war an understand- ing of the imminence of war, “The city united front commit- tees in Minneapolis, Chicago, Cleve- land, New York and other centers have coorlinated the struggle against War and have called for the election of delegates to the anti-war congress from all organ- izations and groups connected with the movement against the outrages | of the Hitler fascist regime.” | “HARD TIMES” TO CLOSE HOSPITALS PITTSBURGH, Pa—Due to hard} times, 36 hospitals in the Pittsburgh area are threatened with closing. ‘Communist defendants of Dimitroff Shatters Nazi Frame-Up in Leipzig Trial i tedge Vogt Flounders on Stand Under the Withering Barrage of Communist’s Cross-Examination Sept. 28 (Via Zurich, Switeeriand).— Fascist justice made a cruel attempt to intimidate the four Communist AT THE GERMAN FRONTIER, | defendants in the Leipzig Reichstag fire trial yesterday by having a criminal executed in the prison yard right underneath their cell windows. Detective Commissioner Heisig, 0! admit that when van der Lubbe,@ Dutch tool of the Nazis, was con- fronted with Ernst Torgler. Commu- nist Reichstag leader and one of the defendants accused of having burned the Reichstag, van der Lubbe did not recognize him. George Dimitroff, leader of the Bulgarian Communist Party and one of the three Bulgarian defendants, then arose and declared: “The whole preliminary examina- tion was falsified, biased and brutal!” Judge Buenger shouted in reply: “Dimitroff, my patience is exhaust- ed!” Unintimidated by the judge’s threat, Dimitroff related the Nazi | prosecution’s effort to involve him in Submerge Nazi Consulates in Protest F lood! The workers of America must back up the heroic fight that Torg- ler, Dimitroff, and their comrades are waging against Fascism in the Leipzig courtroom with immediate mass action in support of the work- ing-class leaders on trial for their lives. 1. Flood all German Consulates with resolutions demanding the re- lease of Torgler, Dimitroff, Popoff and Taneff. 2. Demand that the defendants have the right to defend them- selves. 4 oe 3. Notify the Consulates that th Nazi court will be held responsible for the defendants’ safety. 4. Protest against the Hitlerite terror in Germany. 5. All meetings of workers’ or- ganizations: unions, clubs, fraternal orders, should pass protest resolu- tions and forward them at once to the nearest German Consulate, ————_————————— —==—eeS the attempt to set the Berlin Palace on fire because he had a picture post- card of the palace in his possession. Prosecution Forced to Drop ‘Three The court had no choice but to drop the charge against the four having committed three arson attempts be- for the Reichstag fire. Supreme Court Judge Vogt, notori- ous examining magistrate in Com- munist cases, was then put on the stand. He is the main hope of the prosecution, which depends on Vogt to save the indictment from collaps- ing by maintaining that the whole fabric of lies really originated with van der Lubbe and not with the Fas- cist stage-managers of the trial. Vogt declared that van der Lubbe, when examined, gave clear answers, carefully thought out. He added that van der Lubbe had a splendid mem- ory. Vogt advances the fantastic theory that the “bridge” between van der Lubbe and the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Germany was the alleged conversations he had with unemployed workers in the streets of Neukoelln, Berlin working Gang, Under Fascist Swastika, Tortures Western Farm Organizer |Western Farm Leader Beaten by Fascist | Sheriff Mob | | Seattle, Wash a THE Yakima Valley of the State | of Washington, the sinister and jevil swastika already stalks as the | banner under which fascist gangs at- |tack working class meetings. The story of the brutal smashing of the United Front Farmers Con- | ference held at the Yakima State Fair Grounds on August 27 has just come in the personal account of Casey M. Boskaljon, Washington organizer of the United Farmers League. Boskaljon was singled out by Na- tional Guard troops and masked Fas- cist thugs for a savage beating for |his attempts to organize the desper- |ately oppressed farmers against their big monopoly oppressors. | After the United Farm organizers | arrived at the Fair Grounds, Boskal- | jon relates: * “Some of the comrades piled out, the others and myself went and got literature and papers. Later, I was introduced as a delegate to the Uni- ted Front spoke to a very interested crowd of about 700 people. My topic was “Uni- ted Action of Workers and Small Farmers.” I spoke of conditions in the United States and particularly the State of Washington, how the Unem- ployed Councils and the United Farmers League struggle together against starvation and eviction. “Half an hour later, without a.word of warning, the National Guard broke up the meeting. The city authorities were present. The T.L.D. representatives protested to them, but were ordered to get out of the way. We left before arrests were made. Later tear gas and stench bombs were used to spread more terror. , Farmers Conference and | to this corner from all four sides for several hours, were made, Had the National Guard stayed away, no trouble would have been developed as the crowd was or- derly and interested. “Saturday we learned that delegates were beaten up and sent back home. “We were under arrest. At the sheriff's office I counted fifteen of us, I was the first to be called and questioned. There were three policemen, I don’t remember if the sheriff was in the rodm, but there were lots of policemen in other rooms. “T was immediately beaten up. I felt dizzy. They yelled, “Are you satisfied? Are you going to talk now?” “Tl tell tt to the Judge’.” |. “Again T was beaten. “Are you go- | ing to talk now?” }and nose. The booking officer said, | “That's enough; we'll keep him for investigation.” “T was ordered to take off my coat, shirt, shoes and finally I was stripped. I thought they would give me a beat- ing on my naked back. Every stitch of clothing was examined. “Two fellows standing outside in the dark followed me when a car came speeding up. Fellows from two | sides came towards me. The .car)| “There were, I think, three cars. | “T did not answer. Again a beating. | The blood was flowing from my face | “By now the crowd was over 1,000They waited, there was very little; ...They took off my ; Strong. Automobiles were drawing up | talking. One of them pulled his mask) my hands, my shirt and underwear down and I could ‘see his face, It ;Sun-burned face, I was told that a |few more would arrive soon. I told | them they could kill me but it would (Rot change conditions in any way. ; They could tar and feather me or any other thing. It only would put | Yakima on the map.., “These were minutes of torture. | I would have chegen a bullet thru | | my brains and been | over with it. stopped and T was ordered by a mask- ed band to get in that car, a big sedan. At once my hands were grasped. They bound my feet and hands. They rammed my head down on the cushion, and they sat on it They told me to be quiet if I didn’t want to be clubbed. “When I was thrown into the car |I noticed an N.R.A. Blue Vulture sign pasted on the rear window. “In a rough place the car stopped. coat, untied | were taken off. Now I was sure and several arrests seemed he had blue eyes, and a rough, I was going to be tarred, feathered) | and horsewhipped. Clippers were | used. I had to sit up—“a free hair- ' cut”—as these hoodlums explained. : They tried to pull out the hair in the form of a swastika; the clip- | pers were dull, or the fellow was a | noviee in his work, | “T felt in the cold night the ter-| ible feelings of whe%’s next... | “We are going to make you talk, Beaten by American Fascist Gang These pictures show the brutal tortures inflicted on Casey Boskal- jon by the vigilantes in Washing- ton. All of the pictures show the welis which reduced his body to a bloody pulp. The hair on his head was torn out in the figure of a fas- cist swaztika cross by these Amer- ican Hitleri The picture at the right shows the letters U. S. S. R. painted on his back with the same - paint which covered his head. Each | of the dark lines on his arms and | body is a bloody welt, they said. Red paint will look good on you.” The letters ‘USSR’ were painted on my back, my head was! painted. ‘Don't be stingy’ and other remarks were made. I could feel the heavy cozt of paint. Well, if this would be all, I would be lucky con- sidering the gang of inhuman beasts these were. “When this was over, they carried me away from the other victims, “What's next? “ ‘Now you're going to talk’.” I was laid on my stomach. They; tried to make me talk, but I was silent. No matter what I would say these hoodlums would go thru with their plans. Beating and Still More Beating “The whipping began — one, two, three, perhaps a dozen or more lashes. I groaned from the pain. My skin was raw and bloody. They turn- ed me over on my side. “Are you going to talk?” The whipping was resumed. Every time they struck, it cut right through. The pain was tortuous, “At last they made ready to leave. I rubbed against the car smearing it with the paint on my head, making an identifying mark. I tried further to mark the car by ripping open the cushion, I had to be careful. 1 did not succeed in this. By Freight to Seattle “An hour later I was piled on the train behind the engine, and herded for Seattle. I was shivering most of the time at a high fever, traveling through tunnels, and breathing soot and impure air, About seven o'clock the train pulled in Seattle. I jumped off and reported at once to comrades at the LL.D. The Seattle papers were notified and asked to take pictures of me and write up the story. This they refused to do. Later the rep- resentative of the Seattle Post-Intel- ligencer explained it had no sex ap- peal. “A photographer was secured by) the I.L.D. Pictures were taken and a doctor was sent 7. I was taken to the home of a comrade and given a bath, cleaned and fed, and given a comfortable bed to rest. “I wish to thank everyone who has helped me to get well and wish to state again that I am ready as a new man to take up the class strug- gle and fight for the rights of the workers and small farmers, now, to- morrow, and always.” yn the stand yesterday, was forced te class section, in addition to “other convincing circumstantial evidence.” Dimitroff Shatters Vogt’s Composure Dimitorff, leading the cross-exam- ination of Judge Vogt, who furnished most of the “evidence” on which the prosecution’s shaky case rests, fired a barrage of-skillful questions at the examining magistrate, trapping him into making damaging admissions, contradictions and evasions. The Bulgarian Communist leader forced Vogt to admit that on April 1, long before he had even ques- tioned Dimitroff, Popoff or Taneff, he had issued a press statement im- plicating the Bulgarian Communists with van der Lubbe in the Reich- stag fire plot. Vogt tried to evade the question at first, and the indignant Bulgarian Communist shouted at him: “An- swer ‘Yes’ or ‘No!’” Presiding Judge Buenger tried to shiéld Vogt, saying: “This court is not the place to cross~ examine a judge.” He then asked Dimitroff what the object of his qustion was, and the Bulgarian lead~ er coolly answered: “It it my purpose to show that Vogt’s examination was prejudiced.” Buenger shouted: “Dimitroff, shut up!” but he was compelled to put Dimitroff’s ‘question to Vogt himself. and the latter, his face reddening, admitted Dimitroff’s charge. Vogt was also forced to admit that he had threatened the Bulgarian de- fendants with deportation to Bul- garia, where death sentences await them for Communist activity. in or- der to make them talk. Dimitroff then asked whether Vogt hadn’t sent a statement to the press that the three Bulgarian defendants were the ones who had burned the Cathedral in Sofia, Bulgaria, in 1925. Vogt admitted that such a notice had been issued but claimed that it hadn’t come from him, Dimitroff’s» further protesis were stopped by a policeman seizing him and forcing him down into his seat. A general tumult spread through the courtroom, and the five red-robed judges, totally unable to silence Di- mitroff’s accusations, filed out of the courtroom.” Vogt’s testimony, instead of bol- stering the Nazi case, resulted in damaging blows to the prosecution as a result of Dimitroff’s brilliant cross- examination, He left the’stand com- pletely flustered: after his widely ad- vertised “proofs” had been punctured miserably. Pp VVVVVS New York RED PRESS BAZAAR =—FoR— @ Daily Worker @ Morning Freikcit © Young Worker, Fridey, Saturday, Sunday OCT. 6, 7, 8 Ma iison Square Garden MAIN HALL ADMISSION Friday.and Sunday... .36¢ . 1c Saturday .. Lit. Fund ae Total for Sat. Advance ‘Ticket Obiainable Ab ty Organization, 10 Cents Less ata 1e Door, . Combination’ Tieket for All 60 CENTS | || 3 Days - i | | | ‘EVERY NIGHT To the Tune of- - VERNON. ANDRADE’S * ORCHESTRA . ONAL PRESS TAZAAR COMMITTES 50 Eact 12th Sirset (3th floor) ’ NAGE