The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 9, 1933, Page 1

i Protest Nazi Muraer Plot; Come to New Star Casino, Wednesday at 8:00 P. M. * Cuban Communi: Read the Stirring Appeal of the st Party Dele- gate at the Anti-War Congress | on Page 6 Today | | (Section of the Communist International) | America’s Only Working | Class Daily Newspaper | _ WEAT HER Bastern New York—Fair Monday Vol. X, No. 242 ‘Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., under the Aet of March 8, 1879, NEW YORK, MONDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1933 (Six Pages) Price 3 Cents DAILY WORKER EXPOSE OF NAZI MURDER PLANS SEMEN HAR NEE | i i Hp ROUSES STORM OF ANGER AMONG N. Y. Miners Stand Firm Against Roosevelt Maneuvre; Thugs Attack Steel Victim’s Funeral MANY BEATEN AS POLICEMEN GUARD ROADS 15,000 Attend Funeral Despite Terrific Terror ; By HARRY GANNES. (Special to the Daily Worker.) ‘AMBRIDGE, Pa., Oct. 8. —| Men and women were brutally | beaten and threatened with | death, to prevent them from} centering. Ambridge today to} participate.in the funeral of Adam Petrusaki, murdered strike sympathizer. Hundreds of deputies, armed with, machine guns, rifles, teat gas, guns, ‘revolvers and clubs, guarded every entrance and byway leading into Ambridge. Fire engines and trucks blocked all approaches to the city in an effort to keep thou- sands ef steel and coal workers from participating in the parade. Street cars were stopped*from entering Am- bridge. Despite the vicious terror and at- tacks on visiting workers, and de- spite the fact that the streets were swarming with gunmen, 10,000 to 15,000 people massed at Petrusaki’s home to participate in the funeral; protested against the vicious murder and or- ganized to go back on the ‘picket lines. When a worker got up to speak before the funeral cortege started, he was beaten and arrested. Twenty- two men and women were beaten and shoved into jail. Mother Bloor and Pat Cush, chair- man of the Steel and Metal Workers’ | Union, despite the heavy mobiliza-| tion of gunmen, succeeded in enter- ing Ambridge and weré scheduled to speak. Whether they were arrested could not be learned. i Only a few workers were able to get by the heavy armed cordon of the steel trust gunmen and joined with the thousands of workers of the City of Ambridge despite the gun- men, and marched as near as they could to the funeral procession on to the cemetery, where they buried: the victim of the Steel Trust’s fascist on- slaught on the picket line Thursday afternoon. Attack Truck On the road from Pittsburgh, one truck was savagely attacked by an assorted collection of gunmen, .com- prising company guards, local police, state troopers, deputy sheriffs and American Legion members. Further along the gunmen stalled a truck in the middle of the road and called out the fire engines. To avert a bloody ‘battle, and in the face rh. "Martial Law Spreads “We managed to get into Am- ge age 2 up an ven away from Ambridge. “It's a hell of a situation,” they muttered, “when they don’t allow workers to attend a funeral of a . Murdered striker” e. ‘ aaa James Egan Jail Red Nominee - for Leading Strike, of Steel Workers PITTSBURGH; .Pa., Oct. 8.—Am- bridge authorities, working hand in glove with officials here to break the steel strike, have turned over James Egan, militant steel strike leader and Communist candidate for Mayor of this city, to the police on an old charge of “inciting to riot.” He now faces a long term in jail. Egan is organizer of the Steel and Metal Workers’ Industrial Union and an active participant to win the Am- bridge strike. Failing to place any charges against him in Ambridge, he was given in custody to Allegheny County detectives William Black and Philip Goldberg to be returned to Pitts- burgh. It was on the petition of As- sistant District Atiorney John F. Haggerty, in co-operation with the Ambridge chief ‘of police, John W. Flocker,’ that a bench warrant was issued hy Judge Sylvester J. Snee for him. The charge against Egan grows out of a huge unemployed demon- stration on March 4 at the federal puilaing: which was attacked by po- oe. 5 Egan has been out on bail since then, pending a motion for a new trial, and was re-arrested for his ac- tivities in the steel strike. He is de- fended by the International Labor De- fense, Soaring Prices Cut Deeply into Wages, Report Discloses NEW YORK, Oct. 6—That the Roosevelt N.R.A. codes are driving the living standards of the workers lower through the process of rising prices wages, was reve: @ report made public yesterday by the National In- dustrial Conference Board, Since July, the Board reported, the cost of living index has risen 5.5 per cent, while wages have remained Practically stationary, ‘having risen about half of 1 per cent, and only in certain industries, at that. The net result has been sharp degradation in the living standards of the work- ing masses, Painting a picture of steadily wors- ening conditions, the Board concludes its oar as follows: 5 “Briefly, what has happened individual a : ® if | DETERMINED ON UNION RECOGNITION ‘Try to Split Strikers’ |Ranks; Ontario Local Urges Fight on Code (Special to the Daily Worker.) PITTSBURGH, Pa., Oct. 8—Power- ful resistance is expressing itself throughout the coal fields against the efforts of Roosevelt and the United Mine Workers’ officials to send 100,- 000 striking miners back to work. The main tactic is to split the miners’ ranks and to isolate the Frick Co. men. Strategic locals are being picked~for *vote to return: The determination of the miners to stick is shown on many fronts. Martin Ryan, insurgent leader of the Fayette County miners: declared his answer to Roosevelt’s order for miners to return to work. “Tt is unfair and every effort will said he tanshrid shrdlu shrdl shrdls be made to continue the strike.” Ryan said he was not a rebel or radical, but was utterly opposed to Roosevelt’s efforts to return miners without full union recognition. Thousands of miners at the Curtis- ville U.M.W.A. local meeting came armed with clubs. When officials suggested a consideration to return to work, the miners passed a resolu- tion making it impossible to edapt: the motion to return to work until the union is recognized. The striker: stated that anyone putting the re- turn to work motion, wouldn't live to hear the results. P. T. Fagan, District No. 5. Presi- dent, U.M.W.A., rushed through a vote to return to work at Montour No. 10 local on Saturday afternoon. He mobilized all his agents to use this in effort to split the ranks, Min- ers declare that picketing will keep them out, National Miners’ Union opposition forces were mobilizing huge picket lines tomorrow morning to defeat U. M.W.A. leaders’ efforts. A conference of the opposition forces in 12 mines was held Saturday to bolster up the forces and spread the discussion on Wage agreement. A resolution was passed by the Ontario local against the code and for the miners’ own de- mands. This is being sent to all U.M.W.A. locals, Hillquit, Leader S. P., Dies of Heart Attack at Age of 63 NEW YORK, Oct. 8—Morris Hill- quit, long considered the leader of the American Socialist Party, died to- a of heart attack at the age of Hillquit was the leader of the So- cialist leadership fight against the “left wing” group that wished to af- fillate with the Communist Inter- national in the days following the Russian Revolution. His bitter hatred of the Communist movement grew more bitter with the years. One of his most famous utterances was the statement that the “Russian Revolution fs the great- est misfortunes that ever could have happened to the international Socialist movement.” A few years ago, he gained prom- inence as the attorney for a group of former owners of ofl wells now in the hands of the Russian work- ers. In his brief before the Amer- ican Supreme Court, Hillquit stated that the Russian workers had seized the wells “illegally.” Early this year, together with Nor- man Thomas, Hillquit visited Roose- velt at the White House to commend him upon his efforts to relieve the ‘sufferings of the unemployed. William Green, president of the A. ¥. of L., declared last night that the “labor movement has lost in his death & devoted and sincere friend.” the A dex Danger! ‘THE Daily Worker is threatened! So serious is the situation. that the Central Committee of the Com- munist Party, U.S.A., found it nec- essary to publish a special appeal on the editorial nage of Saturday’s ten-page Daily Worker for IMME- DIATE FUNDS. We quote from this appeal: “Never was the need of our paper so great. Never before has our paper been performing its duty so successfully... Because our appeals for the Daily Worker Fund have not been couched in the lancuage of desperation and panic. there has heen an impres- sion that the Daily Worker cam- vaien covld be nevlected for other things for which sharner de- mands have been made.” baa ais FUNDS NOT COMING IN NLY 12 per cent of the total auota of the $40.000, which the “Dailv? MUST WAVE WITHIN ANOTHER MONTH. has been col- ected. Some Districts. among them 9, 11 and 16, have collected less than 4 ver cent of their auotas. District 19, the beet so far, has a percentage of onlv 27.9 ner cent at a time when all Districts should rate 50 ner cent. New York, the largest District, has collected only 12 per cent of its $20,000 quota. The drive is already half over. STUDY THESE FIGURES. Pi ie WE QUOTE, AGAIN: “SITE must say, 6penly and frankly, What the present Jag in the campaign has created a threat against the existence of the Daily Worker.” The Central Committee has the facts. Possible profits from the Red Press Bazaar were morteaged in advance to put out the Daily Worker. Additional money had to be borrowed to put out the splendid ten-page Issue of the “Dally,” ex- vosing the fleniish schemes of the Nazis. BID. CO'LECTORS FAVE THE “DAILY” NOW BY THE THROAT! wi ge AGAIN WE QUOTE “THE Central Committee has no desire to exavgerate the prob- ‘sm, Our ‘Daily’ is in its tenth ear of existence, and we know the workers will not let it die. But the Daily Worker has always been able to live because, and only because. the workers have always resnonded the money that was needed. Any carried through fully, that time the whole existence of our paper is threatened.” . oe NO TIME TO BE LOST! IOMRADES! We repeat the ap- peal of the Central Committee to every comrade, to every class conscious worker, to every trade union, to every unemployed or- vanization, clubs, fraternal bodies, Party units and committees, to “get into most energetic action to send 2 flood of dollars into the DAI.Y WORKER TO MEET THE PRESENT EMERGENCY! . . DONT WAIT! ON’T wait until your collection Hist is full, RUSH EVERY OENT TO THE “DALY” TODAY! RUSH YOUR OWN DONATION! GET YOUR SHOPMATES TO DO- NATE! GET YOUR ORGANIZA- TION TO CONTRIBUTE! COMRADES! HELP SMASH FASCISM IN THE UNITED STATES; HELP IN THE STRUG- GLE AGAINST ROOSEVELT’S “NEW DEAL,” BY SUPPORTING YOUR ‘DAILY’! ITS LIFE IS IN JEOPARDY! Friday’s Receipts .. Saturday's Receipts Previous Total .... Total to date Van der Lubbe Foul Play Made by “D. W.” ‘The charges made in Saturday's Daily Worker, on the basis of the secret Nazi document revelations, that the Hitlerites are plotting to spirit away or murder their Dutch tool van der Lubbe are substanti- ated by dispatches from Leyden, Holland, his home town. A prominent resident of Leyden has wired the German Supreme Court in Leipzig that the young Dutchman's acquaintances in Ley- den strongly suspect the Dutch de- fendant on trial in the Leipzig courtroom is not the real van der Lubbe. He demands that the Leip- zig defendant be confronted with Lubbe in Leyden, . -to its financial appeals and raised | t time that the financi>l drive is not | | porter. | the place of our agent in the Am- ‘of New Germany,” a Nazi propa- Register This Week! % NAZI PLOT DENOUNCED BY LIBERALS ‘Daily’ Revelations Stir Interest of Samuel Untermyer NEW YORK.—Indignant condem- nation of the murder-inciting acti-} vities of the Nazis in the United States, as revealed in the sensational letter sent by officials of the “Friends of New Germany” to their chiefs in Berlin — published in Saturday's Daily Worker—was expressed by a number of prominent men yesterday. These included John Haynes Holmes, pastor of the Community Church; Kyle Crichton, associate editor of Scribners Magazine, and Bruce Bliven, Editor of the New Re- public. Untermyer Impressed Samuel Untermyer, New York at- torney, while obviously impressed by the sinister character of the letter sent to the Nazis by their represen- tatives here, declined to comment for publication until he had satisfied himself “personally as to the auth- enticity of the document.” Uniermyer, who was. mentioned twice in the letter, when interviewed by @ Daily Worker reporter at his home at Graystone, in Yonkers, con- fined himself to saying that “it is generally known that the Depart- ment of Labor has received many complaints about the activities of these people.” Asks About “Daily” At one point, Untermyer, the lead- ing legal member of the famous Tam- many Board of Strategy, turned abruptly to the Daily Worker re- porter and demanded to know: “Why does your paper hammer at me, the way it does?” “Because,” replied the ‘Daily’ re- porter with an amused smile, “you are considered an able defender of Things as They Are!” Untermyer grunted unintelligibiy in reply. “I can assure you, Mr. Untermyer, it’s nothing personal,” said the re- “It wouldn’t make any difference if it were,” snapped the millionaire lawyer, who has played a leading | role in some of the biggest corpora- tion mergers in the history of Amer- ican finance. Untermyer Mentioned Twice In the sensational letter published in Saturday's “Daily,” Untermyer's name was mentioned in relation to a request that the Berlin Nazi send over “a young lady of good appear- ance who is very reliable .. . to take torg.” Haag, the writer of the letter, assured his Nazi chiefs that he would arrange to “send another person back to Germany on the ship, thus evading the immigration authorities and avoid a check-up by Untermyer.” At another point in the letter, Haag wrote: “Send us a new code; we believe that the old code can be read by Untermyer.” There is no doubt that the “Friends gandist agency, is being manned with Hitlerites who gained entrance to the (Continued on page 2) i WO Answer the Navi Challenge! The excerpts of the damnable s are awakening the workers of Ameri Hitlerite machinations. This vicious web of espionage, poisoning and murder is being spun by the Nazi secret agents right here, in the city of New York. The revelation of these Hitlerite intrigues must spur the masses of | America to a life-and-death struggle with the foul pest of Nazi Fascism, which is reaching out across the ocean to enmesh the population of the United States in the bloody nets of Hitlerism. This secret document is a challenge to the workers of America—it must become a clarion call to The highlights of the secret Nazi letter are: “I cannot find a place for Van der Lubbe here; it is best if you throw him overboard into the ocean while en route to another coun- try. Whom do you intend to hang in his place in Germany? I agree with you entirely that it would be good to give the damned Com- counter-action! munists in Leipzig an injection of Communism comes from syphilis of the brain in a few fools.” . * . “Send us a young lady of good appearance, who is very reliable; it is best if her father and brothers are S. A. men (storm troopers). She should speak some English and Russian fluently and must take the place of our agent in the Amtorg. She should come over on the Europe or Bremen as a hairdresser, then vae'll send another person back to Germany on the ship, thus evading the immigration authori- ties and avoid a check-up by Unt “Send us a new code; we believe that the old code can be read by Untermeyer.” “Let us know how things stand with the Hitler Book. We must distribute many of them free; we'll have considerable success with it. It is child’s play to make good anti-Semites ont of the Ameri- cans.” . Workers, farmers, students and intellectuals! Call meetings and demonstrations of protest everywhere! Flood every agency of Germany, every consulate, every embassy, with telegrams and resolutions of protest! Crowd every consulate, tions protesting the foul frame-up of the Communists in Leipzig! Demand the immediate ° Popoff, Taneff, and every prisoner of the Nazi murderers! DRIVE THE NAZI MURDER PLOTTERS OUT OF AMERICA! ry ecret Nazi document, printed below, ica to the menace of the network of | | syphilis. Then it can be said that ermeyer.” . . every embassy, with delega- release of Torgler, Dimitroff, NoSwastika,German AmbassadorRefuses to Address Meeting Anti-Nazi Feeling of) Phila. Crowd Barred Group Having Flag PHILADELPHIA, Oct.) 6.—Indicat- ing that the official diplomatic rep- resentatives of the Hitler government are part and parcel of the organized movement to spread Fascism in this country. Hans Luther, German Am- bassador to the United States, yester- day refused to address a crowd of 15,000 who had come to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the founding of Germantown, because the city of- ficials could not find a swastika flag to fly over the speakers stand. The only flag available was in the hands of the group of Fascist secret agents and propagandists who form the Fascist-subsidized “Friends of the New Germany,” the organization which was exposed in the “Daily Worker” as being part of a plot in which Van der Lubbe is being used as a Nazi tool to murder and torture the German Communists in the frame-up Leipzig trial on the burn- ing of the Reichstag. This group, however, had been barred from the demonstration by the arrangements committee because of the fear of the anti-Fascist sen- timents of the audience. Many up- State German societies had an- nounced that they would refuse to Enroll Communist! NEW YORK.—Beginning today, Oct. 9, and continuing through to Saturday, Oct. 14, workers must regis- ter in order to vote in the municipal elections Nov. 7. Today until Friday the registra- tion places will be open from 5 p.m. until 10:30 p.m. and on Saturday from 7 am, until 10:30 pm. The qualifications for voters include resi- dence of one year in the state, six months in the county (Borough), and thirty days in the election district. First voters must take a literacy test. Register and Enroll Communist “The Communist Party has re- ceived enough votes in the last elec- tion to remain on the ballot as a mine the Party's elect the Party's election machinery,” read part of a statement by the Com- munist Election Campaign Commit- participate if the Nazis were per- mitted to join the celebration, Upon Luther’s request for a swas- tika flag, the Mayor, J. Hampton Moore, and State Representative Fred C. Gartner, rushed about look- ing for the flag. It was only because they were unsuccessful in their search that the swastika flag did not fly in Germantown yesterday. To make up for their failure to provide the swastika for the Fascist Ambassador, the City officials per- mitted cablegrams from Hindenburg and Hitler to be read to the audi- ence by representatives of the bloody Hitler Government, Barbusse and Mann to Speak in Baltimore Next Tuesday, Oct. 10 BALTIMORE, Oct. 8.—Henrl Bar- busse and Tom Mann, noted Euro- pean leaders in the fight against war and fascism, will feature the mass to be held here Tuesday, Oc- Dimitroff Riddles Nazi Charges, Calls Them “Fairy Tales” Foreign Lawyers Hit Expulsion from Leipzig AT THE GERMAN FRONTIER, | Oct. 8 (Via Zurich, Switzerland). —| The German Supreme Court was) forced yesterday to withdraw its ex- pulsion of George Dimittroff, Bul- garian Communist defendant, from the Leipzig courtroom where the four Communists are on trial for their| lives, The full bench of judges withdrew for a lengthy consultation on a pro- test letter signed by Leo Gallagher, Arthur Garfield Hays, American at- torneys, Grigoroff and Detcheff, Bul-| garian lawyers, and Villars, Paris at- torney, which emphasized Dimitroff's| right as a defendant to criticize the, police as a necessary cart of his de-| fense, I Need Neither Sympathy Nor Mercy Dimitroff was then brought into the courtroom together with the other defendants. He made a formal statement, saying, “I only want to speak freely on the accusations against me, I need neither sym- pathy nor mercy from the court. I will defend myself as a Communist and an innocent defendant.” ‘The court didn’t dare mention the protest letter of the five foreign law- yers attending the trial as observers for world public opinion, under whose pressure the court withdrew Dimi- troff’s expulsion, Judge Buenger then dealt in detail with the Bulgarians’ previous convic- tions, probably nitending to give the impression that “such Bulgariats were capable of anything.” He stressed Dimitroff’s member- ship in the Central Committee of the Bulgarian Communist. Party and in the Executive Committee of the Communist International. Buenger stated that further evid- ence in Berlin will confirm “details” of the contact between the Bulgarian Communist Party. and the Commu- nist Party of Germany. ‘On the stand, Dimitroff repudiated the prosecution’s assertions that code phone numbers in Dimitroff's note- RKERS CITY SHIELDS NAZI GROUP, MINOR SAYS Mass Protest Called at New Star. Casino Wednesday, 8 P.M All workers, students and intel- lectuals are called to a mass meet~ ing of protest against the murder- ous Nazi group in New York and against the Leipzig frame-up, to be held in the New Star Casino, 107th St. and Park Ave., Wednes- day, Oct. 11, at 8 pm ©. A Hathaway, editor of the Daily Worker, will be one of the speak- ers at this mass meeting, which is being arranged by the New York district of the Communist Party. NEW YORK, Oct. 8.—A tre- mendous wave of horror and indignation gained power and momentum today as the news of Nazi spy activities in the United States, and of the vicious plans to inject the Communist de- fendants at Leipzig with syphilis was spread by word of mouth among the thousands of workers here anc in other parts of the country. The first exposure of the Nazi plo! and of thef espionage organization in the United States appeared in th Daily Worker of Saturday, and im- mediately created a furore in Madi. son Square Garden Friday night wher the edition containing the story wa: placed on sale. From 50,000 to 60,000 workers, at tending the Red Press Bazaar fo the benefit of the Daily Worker, thi Freiheit and the Young Worke Friday, yesterday and today, bough up every available copy of the paper When the.supply had been exhaustec word of the Nazi plot spread excited]; through the gigantic hall, fron worker to worker, from group t& group. When no copies remainec the papers were passed from hant to hand. This reporter saw one cop: read in turn by 22 different worker: But not a word on the secret letter which contained the hideous plans appeared in the boss press today! As the news of the atrocious Na? letter was circulated among ever-in creasing groups of workers, demand that telegrams of protest be sent t all German government representa tives in the United States gaine headway. These telegrams, it wa pointed out by Charles Krumbeir district organizer of the Communi: Party, should attack the harborin and protection of the criminals b the authorities, and should be for warded to the City Hall, the Pres! dent at Washington, etc. Meanwhile, specific charges tht the New York police, under instric tions from above, are shielding tk Nazi criminals in New York, wei made by Robert Minor, Communi: candidate for mayor. “The abominable machinations | the Nazi agents in New York, di | closed by the official Hitlerite doc! ment published in the Daily Work {on Saturday, are a clarion call | the workers of New York City,” sai | Minor last night. “The murder and poison plots the German fascists here in Ni York could not be hatched with the protection of the Tamman; bossed police force,” he declare} “Police protection for the Naai raj lies in Yorkville, and Luther ay | Weidemann, the Hitlerite agents, | their arrival in New York, show city government working hand hand with the bloodstained Hitl; terrorists.” i Williana Burroughs, Co | candidate for Comptroller, said | “the exposure of secret espionage murder activities of the Nazis New York must rouse the workers this city to greater anti-fascist | tion against the Hitler terror.’ » | “We can help to do our share smashing the head of Fascism f here in our city, and that also smashing the corrupt municii regime which shelters these sins and spies in New York,” Burroughs added, Sunday's issue of the “Jewish Da’ Bulletin,” which carries mastheé&d the words, “The only Je’ ish daily published in English Int United States,” contained a page-o book included the number of Stocker ~ story reprinting in full the text. jig ceoeet letter first ‘Worker op published i+ i