The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 6, 1933, Page 1

SHE eS ) 1000 ARMED THUGS KILL 2 STEEL PICKETS, WOUND MANY ! Torgler, Bulgarians, Pro Tom Mann Speaks at Red Press See Article on Page 6 Exposing Connection of Hitler with American Fascists Daily Central Org (Section of the Communist International) Party U.S.A. | America’s Only Working | Class Daily Newspaper Bazaar in Garden Tonite at 8 orker { WEATHER \ Eastern New York: Friday fair Vol. X, No. 240 > * Wntered ae second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, M. ¥., under the Act of March 8, 1879, ( NEW YORK, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1933 (Six Pages) Price 3 Cents | ALFL. CONVENTION HEARS REACTIONARY APPEALS eee SERENE i ‘ nee WRI ANN STS OEM! EPS ITILE TITE s a 2 —_s SSRN ASRS LEI GE EERE AISI PLONE III! PTET LL AEE ERE SL IEE FROM TWO CONTINENTS British Delegate In At-\See’y Perkins Flaps tack on Soviet By BILL DUNNE (Special to the Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, D. ©., Oct. 5.— James Rowan, member of the Elec- trical Trades Union, fraternal dele- gate of the British Trades Union Con- gress to the A. F. of L, convention, made false and ,misleading state- ments, attacking the Soviet Union and the Communist International, under cover of his speech against German fascism. Rowan ignored the fact that the Soviet Union has been able to pre- vent an attack on. the part of the Hitler fascist government, only through its peace policy of preventing war with imperialist. countries. He did not refer to the well-known fact that the Hitler government has fol- lowed a rabid anti-Soviet policy, as seen in the fact that the Hitler gov- ernment and the fascist storm troops have made constant raids on Soviet trade buildings and has only recently arrested the reporters’ of the Soviet official press, forcing the Soviet gov- ernment, to. retaliate: by withdrawing, all its press representatives from Ger- many, f Rowan said on this question: _ “The Communist’ Parties in various European countries avow themselves in active opposition to Fascism, but I have seen no evidence that the Russian ‘Communist Government or the Third Communist International has done anything to try to stop the abominable atrocities of Hitlerism or has made any representations to the Hitler Government such as other governments has made, including even the Mussolini Government, along with the French and British Govern~- ments.” Rowan pursued this line of mis- representation still further, making it appear that all was serene between the two governments. He not only Jeft out mention of the sharp notes that the Soviet Union sent the Hitler government regarding raids and the arrests of the Soviet reporters, but more important left out of account the “Hugenburg memorandum” of the Hitler regime to the world econ- omic conference which contained the proposal for the dismemberment of the Soviet Union (partition of the Ukraine, etc.) Rowan said in this respect: “Having. in view the policy these governments haye pursued in relation to Soviet Russia, one would have ex- pected some protest against the ex- cesses of the Hitler dictatorship in Germany, some threat that unless these atrocities ceased, Germany would be expelled from the comity of nations, as Russia was expelled. (Continued on page 2) Barbusse and Mann in Phila. Tonight; Mann in Newark on Sunday PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 5.—A capacity audience is expected at the meeting Friday night in Turngemeinde Hall, Broad and Columbia Ave., which will be ad- dressed by Henri Barbusse, noted French writer; Tom Mann, vet- eran British ]aborite, and Clar- ence Hatharvay, editor of the Daily Work r. The meeting, called to hear a report on the recent U. S, Con- gress Against War, will also hear Rabbi William H. Fine- shriber and Davir.H. H. Felix leading Philadelphia Socialist. Both were delegates to the anti- war Congress. Leopold Stokowski, leader of the Philadelphia orchestra, will be one of the reception commit- tee to greet Barbusse and Mann. Mann In Newark Sunday NEWARK, Oct. 5.—Tom Mann will be the chief speaker at a meeting to hear the report of the U. S. Congress Against War, to be held this Sunday e gs, Oc- | tober 8 at the Y.M.H.A, andi torium, Hight and Kinney Sts. fee ee | | | | | | Through an. error in the Daily Worker financiel appeal in yester- fay’s issuc, Tom Mann was an- Wings of NRA By BILL DUNNE WASHINGTON, D. C.—Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins gave a convincing demoristration in . her speech Wednesday to the A. F. of L. Convention of the truth of the Com- munist contention that the N, R. A. has as a central point of policy the subjugation of workers and their or- ganizations to the needs of the finance-capitalist government’ ma- chine. The liberal wings of Miss Perkins are now unmistakably re- vealed as the pinions of the N. R. A. buzzard. Miss. Perkins, leaving her. office hurriedly for the convention, had just said to a delegation of wives and children of steel workers in the Rethlehem Company's Baltimore plant, members of the Steel and Metal Workers’ Industrial Union, protesting hunger wages and whole- sale discharges: “What can I do?” The well advertised social welfare and liberal background of the best’ Secretary of Labor since William Nuckles Doak serves both the Roose- velt administration and the Green- Lewis A. F. of L. regime excellently as a source from which to supply the theory of the incorporation of the A. F. of L. unions into the govern- ment apparatus. “Wage earners are to be permitted,” according to the Perkins Formula, “to make construc- tive contributions to solving the economic problems that confront the United States of America on the industrial front.” In other words, workers are to work when they get the chance— (CONTINUED ON PAGE 3) Striking Diemakers Urge March on Ford Ford Men Hail News of Coming Caravans BULLETIN EDGEWATER, N, J., Oct. 5.—Clear- ly seeking to break the strike of the Ford workers here, the A. F. of L. organizers this morning reduced the picket line to barely 100. At the mass meeting this morning two local min- isters spoke, “cautioning” the men that they would be blacklisted, etc., thus ‘seeking to create a pessimistic atmosphere athong thé strikers. . DETROIT, Mich., Oct. 5.—With many striking tool diemakers raising a demand for a march on Ford’s River Rouge plant and with Ford workers talking strike, a march to pull out Ford workers looms within a@ few days, Ford workers today welcomed the news that Edgewater, N. J., and Ches- ter, Pa., strikers, plan to march to the River Rouge plant. Discontent is growing as a result of a mass. layoff of 19,000 and in- tensified speed-up. Many of the vets hired recently have been fired, The Auto Workers Union is issuing leaflets to Ford workers and striking tool diemakers calling for a march on Ford’s and spreading strike to production workers, Detroit auto manufacturers and 38 job shops ‘today moved to break strike by issuing a statement that'men who fail to return by Friday are fired. The hole-in-the-corner tactics of the leadership of the Mechanics Educa- tional Society. and ,the failure to set up real rank and fite) ‘ontrol is creat- ing great dissatisfaction, Landlord Removes Windows to Evict Workers’ Family EMAUS, Pa.-In Kis attempt to dis- ledge’ Llewellyn Moyer, an unem- p'oved tenant, the landlord of Emaus | Rd. No. 1, removed the windows, leav- ing Mayer, his wife ‘and their two, children exposed to the wind and rats oo) * The landlord, Victor Keirnert, sent a number of desperadoes. to: terrorize jounced to speak in Washington lay nisht, instead of Philadelphia. the poor family threatening to re- move the reof‘and the water tank. $a NaziCourt, Bars Truth, Say Jurists Permanent Bureau Set Up as Check on Leipzig Trial PARIS, Oct. 5——The innocence of Torgler and the three Bulgarian Com~- munist defendants has been proved in spite of the lack of a free defense, according to the conclusions of the Paris counter-trial commission in ses- sion here. The, commission added ‘that the overwhelming mass of material will force the German court to investigate the real perpetrators or international public opinion will realize that the truth has been perverted deliberately. The counter-trial commission re- solved to establish a permanent bu- eau authorized to follow the Leipzig Damning Document of Nazi Frame-Up Will Be Published Tomorrow One of the most damning docu- | ments ever written will be pub- lished in tomorrow's Daily Worker. It reveals in a startling fashion the truth about the Nazi frame-up of Torgler, “Dimitroff, Taneff, and Popoff. It reveals some of the most carefully guarded secrets of the Nazi murderers. Watch tomorrow’s Daily Worker for this document, which has never before been published anywhere. trial, to compile new material and to convene the international commis- sion of jurists in session if necessary. Sia Cary PARIS, Oct. 5 (Special to the Daily Worker.)—Yesterday morning the Paris legal commission of the London counter-trial met, with Branting of Sweden, Arthur Garfield Hays of New York, Vermeylen of Brussels, Bakkernort of Amsterdam, Lawson, and de Moro-Giafferi and Bergery of Paris, present. Moro-Giafferi, in his opening speech stressed the fact that there is no guarantee of justice in Leipzig, compared to civilized countries. Bergery demanded that than jan investigation be made_ into van der Lubbe’s apathy to find out whether it is normal, artificially in- duced by drugs or simulated. He pointed out that the Leipzig court proceedings confirm the con- clusion reached at the London coun- ter-trial that van der Lubbe is not a Communist, thus annulling the arson accusation against the Communist Party. A telegram from five ex-ministers of the Bulgarian government refuted the charge that the Bulgarian de- fendants were involved in the Sofia Cathedral explosion. U. 8. Correspondent Proves Lubbe Was Not Unaided. The impossibility of van der Lubbe having fired the Reichstag alone is proved by new facts: the Berlin cor- respondent of a great American press service inspected the Reichstag at 11 a, m., on the night of the fire and saw unburned combustible materials lying around. Furthermore, Examin- ing Magistrate Vogt declared on the seventh day of the trial that it was (Continued on Page Two) ved Innocent, Says BANKER URGES U. S. AID TO BRUTAL HITLER REGIME Wiggin, Rockefeller Financial Agent, Warns Secret Conference That Hitler’s Fall Means Triumph of Communism NEW YORK, Oct. 5.—The Daily Worker has learned of a recent secret conference in Wall Street which throws a revealing spotlight:on the organic connection between international finance and Hitler. Leading bankers, financiers, and Wall Street officials were gathered Albert H. Wiggin, Chairman of the American Bankers’ Committee Pa Yon German Loans, together. Albert H, Wiggin Nazis Decree Death Penalty for Anti- Fascist Propaganda Fascists Admit Flood} of Communist Activity Throughout Germany BERLIN, Oct. 5—The death pen- alty was decreed by the Nazi govern- ment today in an effort to dam the tremendous flood of anti-Fascist propaganda spread by illegal op- ponents of the Nazi regime or boot- legged into Germany from ab->>d. ‘The decree provides death or 1..cen years’ imprisonment for anyone found distributing treasonable _ literature. ‘The decree is an official admission by the Nazi government of the peristent anti-Nazi campaign being waged by the Communists throughout the coun- try. Smuggle in Photostats and Records. Anti-Nazi papers, published in Basle, Prague, Amsterdam and Paris are being photostated, reduced in size to a sheet of letter paper and smuggled into Germany in private letters. Phonograph records are also being smuggled in: The first part of the records are pro-Nazi talks or harm- Jess music, which is followed by the anti-Nazi propaganda concealed in the body of the record. Another decree, muzzling the Ger- man press still further, provides that all editorial workers on German news- papers must be of Aryan origin, as well as their wives, | tecting of the $4,000,000,000 of German and recently Chairman of the Rockefeller-con- trolled Chase National Bank, ad- dressed them in solemn warning: They must support Hitler to the full as a bulwark against the world sweep of Communism. From unquestionable sources, the Daily Worker is able to quote Wig- gin’s language. “The greatest danger to the world today,” he enid, “Is the possible overthrow ef Hitler, since that | would mean the sweep of Commu- nism over Europe.” He then went on to say that which- ever newspapers are creating hostil- ity to Hitler are unconsciously helping Bolshevism, and the working class revolution. Continuing his appeéaf to the clique of ruling class financiets, Wiggin de- clared that Atrierican™ bankers must increase their financial support of ‘the Hitler regime, and start &n attive campaign to play down the Fascist terrorism and murders in the Amer- ican newspapers. Wiggin is generally considered a Rockefeller agent in banking circles. He recently returned ftom extended conferences in Europe with leading British, German and French bankers, with particular reference to the pro- investment that Wall Street has in Germany. It has been long known that lead- ing international financiers and bank- ing houses of England, France and the United States, have been giving the Hitler government support of one kind or another. Confirmation of this is indicated in the charges yester- day by James Rowan, delegate from the British Trades Union Congress, to the convention of the American | Federation of Labor that a group of international financiers had been formed to support the Hitler regime in its bloody attempt to exterminate the revolutionary movement. } 'Textile Prices Soar 10 to 15 Per Cent in Last Eight Weeks WASHINGTON, October 5.—_ Retail prices of four typical. tex- tile products, as a result of the Roosevelt price-raising program, | have jumped 10 to 15 per cent \ since in the last eight weeks, Dr. Fred €. Howe of the Federal Farm Administration announced yesterday. } The changes are as follows: sheets from $1.06 to $1.25; work shirts from 74 cents. to 85 cents; ‘overalls, $1.18 to $1.42,-and un- bleached muslin, per yard, 10 to 18 cents. Red Bazaar Starts Today in “Garden” Tom Mann to Speak! There at 8 P.M. | Sharp NEW YORK.—Arrangements have been made by the Red Press Bazaar Committee to take care of thousands of workers who are expected at the} opening of the Bazaar in Madison Square Garden today to greet Tom Mann, veteran British laborite, who will make his first mass appearance at the Bazaar on his present visit to this country. ‘Tom Mann will speak at 8 p. m., sharp. At 9 p. m., he will leave for Philadelphia. ‘The Bazaar will open at 4 p. m. All workers are urged to come with their friends and families early and have their supper at the cafeteria which has been especially installed in the Garden for the Bazaar. Delicious food will be served at reasonable cost. Besides Tom Mann, the workers will hear Clarence Hathaway, editor of the Daily Worker, Moissaye J. Olgin, noted Communist writer, with James W. Ford, Communist candidate for Vice-President in the last elec- tions acting as chairman, i "Fhe main hall of the Garden in which the Bazaar will be held has a.capacity of 18,000. It is expected to be jammed on the opening day. ‘The Bazaar will continue on Satur- day and Sunday, with the funds going for the support of the Daily Worker, Morning Fretheit, and the Young Worker. Splendid features have been ar- ranged for each day. On Friday, the International Chorus of 1,000 work- ers, under the direction of J. Schaef- fer, and all the Workers’ Dance Groups will stage mass entertainment spectacles, ‘There will be a larger number of booths than at any such affair previ- ously, with a variety of valuable arti- cles, such as clothing, furs, jewelry, | books, radios, children’s wear, hats, | etc., which will sell at low prices, Robins Dry Dock Workers On Strike NEW YORK.—Workers of all crafts except machinists and machinists’ helpers, at Robins Drydock, at Erie Basin, owned by the Todd Shipbuild- ing Co., came out on strike yesterday The machinists are expected to walk out today. The strike was precipitated by the lay-off of a few men on the excuse that there were no tools available for them. The, workers sensed this step as @ move to eliminate all men engaged in union activity at the dry- docks. Representatives of the A. F. of L. Boilermakers Union were on the scene yesterday, The strikers did not yet know what demands were. being raised. Leaflets of the Steel and Metal Workers Industrial Union have circu- lated regularly among the workers here urging them to follow the example of the workers of Fletcher's Drydock and strike for better condi- tions. COMRADES :— Our enemy recognizes that the | for the workers. the last few weeks. more significant,” ing mass opposition to the “Daily.” * ceived less than $5,000. h Daily Worker is a powerful weapon “The Daily Worker, central organ of the Communist Party of 1 the U. 8. (and acknowledged Section of the 3rd International of Moscow, Russia) has raised over (an earlier amount stated) within Each day since the new drive started, a list of contributors and the amount contributed has been published in the red periodical. The fact that the contributions have been in small amounts from 50c to $25 makes the success of the Communist Drive The above quotation is taken from the “Kourier,” organ of the Ku Klux Klen, published in Atlanta, Georgia. The “Kourier” appeals to its readers not to contribute to the Daily Worker. . * Previously the K.K.K. has claimed that “Moscow Gold” has supported the Daily Worker and the Communist Party. Now the K.K.K. becomes more truthful, Yes, it has been the nickels, dimes, fifty cent pieces and. the dollars of the workers that has kept the “Daily” alive. The K.K.K. admits that the American masses support the “Daily” in the hope of rous~ BUT THE PRESENT DRIVE, comrades, is lagging behind. By now | we should have collected about $20,000 of the $40,000 quota; we, have re~ Why? Is it because the workers are not willing to give? It was the \ The K.K.K. Fears the “Daily” workers’ nickels, dimes and fifty cent pieces that made our last drives successful, The reason our present drive is far behind is because the nickels and dimes of the workers have not been coming in. They have not been coming in, because’ you, comrades, members of the Party, mem-~- bers of mass organizations, units, sections, sympathizers, have not gone after these nickels and dimes. . Our enemy is wide awake. It will do everything in its power to destroy the Daily Worker and other revolutionary publications as a step to impose more bitter, more devastating slavery upon our class. ONLY BY REACHING THE SWASTIKA IN THE UNITED [ASSES CAN WE SMASH THE K.K.K. TATES! Only with the support of the masses can the revolutionary movement triumph. - . . . ‘The “Daily”. can continue doing this ONLY if the nickels, dimes and fifty cent pieces of the workers keep it on its feet. DONATE YOURSELF! WORKERS TO DONATE! TRIBUTE! froth; let it fear us. ANSWER IT’S Thursday’s Total Previous Total ... TOTAL TO DATE ........ GET YOUR FRIENDS, YOUR FELLOW GET YOUR ORGANIZATION TO CON-~ RUN AFFAIRS TO RAISE FUNDS! Let the Ku Klux Klan ATTACK NOW! cS 23149 | 4644.50 yeeneew dove wen vanes $4876.08 cy | Paris Commission RUSHED T0 Militancy to All along the anti-N.R.A. ror apparatus of the capitalist line before the Spang-Chalfant In the Allegheny Valley o Steel Mill Owners Send Prostitutes Into Clairton Plant PITTSBURGH, Pa., Oct. 5—With thousands of miners continuing to picket the Clairton mill of Carnegie Steel, the company has smuggled nearly 100 prostitutes into the plant. Virtually imprisoned, 1,000 steel workers are kept in the mill 24 hours a day. More than 200 armed thugs guard the plant day and night. The workers are sleeping in improvised bunks, and food is brought in. to them. Nearly half the pickets outside the mill are women—wives of the steel workers who are being forcibly prevented from responding to the call of the mine and steel pickets to join the big strike. Fifteen Are Shot as Sheriffs Fire Nat'l Guard is Called Out as P. M. of A. Sur- rounds Peabody Pit HARRISBURG, Ill, Oct. 5.—Fif- teen were shot in a clash here at the Peabody No. 43 mine last night after sheriffs started firing on a mass picket line of the Progressive Miners of America. The district is under martial law. Two miners here re- ported the trouble started after the Peabody Coal Co. refused recognition of the P. M. A. and had sheriffs mobilized to re-open the mine this morning with the United Mine Work- ers of America leaders trying to bring in miners, to work the mine. The P. M. of A. rank and file held a meeting yesterday and decided to run a mass picket Jine and defend their jobs, All roads were barricaded around the mine. One thousand P. M. A. miners came with rifles to picket. The shooting was started by the sheriffs. Included in the five | homes bombed last night was the | home of the president of the local | union of the P. M. A. A railroad bridge was also blown up. Governor Henry Horner has called a meeting of the coal operators and the officials of both unions at Spring- | field aiming to defeat the struggle of the miners for a union agreement. National Guard troops were called | out, Legion Committees Fight Recognition of USSR; Kill Bonus CHICAGO, Oct. 5—The American Legion officials in the leading com- mittees today voted against the im- mediate cash payment of the bonus, against the recognition of the Soviet Union, and for a bigger nationalistic war preparedness program. In addition they voted for the be- \ginning of a campaign to fight the \“spread of Communism in the United States” as well as the deportation of all Communist aliens. ‘These decisions will come up be- fore the entire convention tomorrow for ratification. Into Picket Line CARLOADS OF VICTIMS HOSPITALS; ALL MINES SHUT TIGHT Miners’ Meeting Hears Steel Union Speaker Flay Betrayers, Cheer; Women Add Picket Lines strike front, workers were met yesterday with guns, clubs, tear-gas bombs and the whole ter- state. In Ambridge, Pa., yesterday, two strikers were killed and scores wounded when armed company thugs attacked a picket steel mill. Over 130,000 coal and steel workers are now on strike in the industrial heart of America. f Pennsylvania, 10,000 striking miners voted overwhelmingly to stay out until they win a com- ® plete victory. By HARRY GANNES Special to Daily Worker AMBRIDGE, Pa. Oct. 5—A gang of over 1,000 deputy sheriffs and thugs recruited from miles around, armed to the teeth, de- scended on the picket line at the Spang-Chalfant Mill this afternoon, murdering two strikers and wound- ing scores. One of the killed work- jers was Adam Pietrusaki, 50, of |Ambridge. Over 100 shots Were fired, into the strikers ranks by deputies, who were organized and led Fy Sheriff O’Laughlin and Bur- lgess Caul. Carloads of wounded are being taken to the hospitals from the |picket line. First they shot tear |gas, then they clubbed the strikers land finally started shooting indis- jcriminately. At the time of going to press, it is impossible to check up the number of dead and wound- Jed. It is quite likely that more jhave died. The attack began immediately after the arrest of James Eagan, ‘one of the strike leaders, following ja conference with Burgess Caul, |wko deliberately, held the strike |Jeaders at the headquarters, where |the armed gangs had an oppor- |tunity to rush the picket lines, |Leaders of the strikers steadfastly lrefused to withdraw the picket lines from the plant. Last night 9,000 Ambridge steel workers and their wives surround- ed the Spang-Chalfant Mill to pro- |test the shooting of a striker and jclubbing of many others the pre- vious day. Men, women and children gath- Jered around the huge bonfires to |hea: the speakers and cheered them |When they called for increased \picketing and continuation of mili- |tant action, which has thus far {drawn 5,000 into the strike, clos- ling down six steel mills. This morning a number of work- jers walked out of the Spang- |Chalfant Mills, where picketing |Was in progress all night. The |bosses at the mill attempted to run in four boxcar loads of scabs. The railway men at Conway yards, sec- {ond largest in the country, tipped joff the leaders of the Steel and Metal Workers Industrial Union heeding the strike. Immediately |pickets were rushed to the railroad entrance of the plant. They clam- |bered aboard the locomotive, com: |mandeered it and backed it out of the company yards. They then spiked the switch, making it im» possible to direct any more cars into the grounds. Amongst the most militant on the picket Jines, are the wives of the steel workers, They: come armed with clubs and iron rods. One wo- mar carried as a defense a potato masher filled with lead. At Weirton, W. Va. following the example of Ambridge strikers, 14,000 steel workers ate conduct» ing mass picketing against the or- ders of the Amalgamated Associa« tion officials. Five thousand miners and steel workers marched on Clairton, Pa, this morning, fighting with scabs. “We need action like they had in Ambridge,” stated many of the (Continued om Page ™