The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 10, 1933, Page 1

Get Your Unit. .» Union Local, Branch or Club to Challenge Another Group in Raising Subs for the Daily Worker! Vol. X, No. 243 <> * Entered 2 scoond-class matter at the Post Office at New York, K. Y., under the Act of March , 1072, orker Party U.S.A. ‘(Section of. the: Communist International ) America’s Only Working | Class Daily Newspaper Eastern New York: THE WEATHER Partly cloudy, possibly showers Tuesday. ‘NEW YORK, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1933 (Six Pages) Price 3 Cents LAUNCH MURDEROUS TERROR TO BREAK STEEL STRIKE errata: — eee oe lh SRST TS: “se Rally at New Star Casino to Demand PUSH FIGHT Release of Leipzig Frame-Up Defendants Baldwin, Others Score| Murder Plans of Hitlerites Congressman Dickstein “Promises” Quiz NEW YORK. — Although the metropolitan press con- tinues to maintain complete silence regarding the drama- tic. exposures by the Daily Worker of Nazi spy activities and murder -plans, public indignation is so high that Congressman Samuel Dickstein, chairman of the House _ Committee on immigration, yester- day “promised” an investigation, “perhaps within a week.” An intercepted letter from W. Haag, Adjutant of the National leader of the Friends of New Ger- many.and known to be chief of Nazi spy activities in the U. S., re- yealed plans to hang someone else in, the place of Marinus van der Lubbe, half-witted Nazi tool in the Reichstag frame-up case, together with a plot to infect the Communists on trial with syphilis germs. The letter at the same time disclosed es- pionage activities in Amtorg, Soviet Trading Corporation in the United States. Mass Protest Meet Tomorrow Congressman Dickstein made his 2nnouncement after he had read the expose, in Saturday's Daily Worker. of “The Friends of New Germany,” the Hitlerite organization operating in‘ New York. Meanwhile workingclass organiza- tions and liberal and student groups are mobilizing their membership and sympathizers for the mass meeting of protest tomorrow night against the murderous Nazi group in New York and against the Leipzig frame- up of Torgler, Dimitroff, Popoff and ‘Tanev. The meeting, arranged by the New York District of the Com- munist Party, is being held in New Star Casino, 107th St. and Park Ave., at 8 o'clock. Speakers will include Robert Minor, Communist candidate for iayor of New York City; J. B. Matthews, leading member of the Socialist Party and active im the National Committee to Aid Victims of German Fascism; David Levin- on, Philadelphia I. L. D. attorney, who was barred from defending the Communists on trial in Leipzig; Erna Stams, one time leader of the Ruhr workers and now chairman of the German Anti-Fascist United Front; William L. Patterson, na- tiona secretary of the I, L. D.; and Clarence Hathaway, Editor of the Daily Worker, which originally pub- lished the sensational revelations of Nazi murder plans. Charles Krumbein, N. Y. district organizer (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) Cleveland Red Vote Increases in Year CLEVELAND, Ohio, Oct. 9—The Communist Mayoralty candidate, I. O. Ferd; polled 3,455 votes in the pri- mary election last Tuesday. This is an incréase of 1,400 as compared to last year. The Socialist candidate polled 1,824, as compared to 5,164 in the previous year. ‘The old parties manipulated fake oppositions through the demagogue ry Syreqn ney, who ran third on the bal- ot. \ Ford came out fourth in a feild of even, candidates. The six united front councilman candidates polled a vote twice the size as that of Ford’s, Greenfield, secretary of the Small Home and Land Owners’ Association, running in the 29th Ward, received 1,040 votes. He was eliminated as candi- date for the final election in Novem- ber by only 211 votes. The Communist Party will continue with a sticker campaign for its Mayoralty candidate, I. O. Ford. POLICE FAIL TO STOP DAILY SELLER NEW YORK.—-Walter Stein, Daily ‘Worker agent, was chased by a traf- tic cop when he tried to sell the Daily Worker containing the expose of the secret Nazi letter to crowds going into Carnegie Hell yesterday morning to hear Rabbi Stephen Wise speak against the Nazis. Stein argued with the policeman and refused to go away. He had one hundred copies of the “Daily” with him and sold everyone. Those who bought the “Daily” were mostiy lib- erals, who usue'v attend Rabbi Wise's Sunday foruny ‘ Fi 4 Hitler’s Nazi Storm. Troopers Gathered in: New York Photo shows recent gathering of New York Hitlerites in their brown-shirt uniforms. Program of Action Against Nazis In U.S. Put. Forward National Committee to Aid Victims Praises Daily Worker NEW YORK.—Congratulating the Daily Worker for the exposure of Hitler agents in the United States, Alfred Wagenknecht, secretary of the National Committee to Aid Vic- tims of German Fascism, yesterday put forward “a concrete program ‘of action for all workers, farmers, in- tellectuals and all organizations to which they are attached.” Speaking for his organization, Wagenknecht asserted that “the best proof of the actual operation of the murder and persecution program of the Hitler secret intelligence service outside of Germany is shown (1) by the assassination of Prof, Lessing in Prague; (2, by the price set by the Nazis on the head of Prof. Eeinstein, honorary chairman of the Interna- tional Committee to Aid Victims of German Fascism, and (3) by the bulletin posted in Nazi headquarters in London at the time of the counter- trial to the Leipzig frame-up proceed- ings. This bulletin rea ‘Kill every anti-fascist, and, if he is a Jew, break every bone in his body.’” The concrete actions for the struggle against the Hitler brown terror proposed by the National Com- mittee to Aid Victims of German Fascism follows: 1. Crowd every consulate with delegations protesting the. trame- up of Torgler, Dimitroff,, Popoff and Taneff. 2, Send a flood of protest reso- lutions to Chief Justice Wilhelm Buenger, now presiding at the Leip- zig trial. Hak 3. Organize protest meetings in neighborhoods and place this issue on the agenda of every organtza- , tion. 4. At every meeting enroll work- ers and sympathizers into rank and file committees against fascism in Germany for aid of victims, and thus establish a broad united front Collect funds conscientiously and regularly everywhere, at all. meetings, by special campaigns, \to aid the Hitler victims and to help the | anti-fascist united front ‘in Germany ‘defeat Hitler. MORRISONVILLE, Va.,, Oct. 9— Little Carroll Crim, 12, had heard his elders describe with cynical glee the growing man-hunts and lynch- ings of Negroes on charges of at- tacking white children. Perhaps a stray word here and there gave Carroll his clue to the trumped-up nature of these charges. Little Car- roll decided it would be wonderful fun to emulate his elders and start a man-hunt on his own account. Then, too, he could play hookey and get away, with it. So Carroll stayed away from school-one day last week. He spent the day in the woods. near . here. Late in the afternoon he emerged from the woods, ‘his clothing torn ATTENTION! N. ¥. Unit Organizers The serious financial crisis con- fronting the DAILY WORKER de- mands immediate action from ev- ery Party member. All units are urged voluntarily to take up collec- tions for the “Daily” at-tonight’s meetings. Every unit should Copier put the DAILY WOR! as the first on the order of business, to arrange open air meetings this week’ at which collections ‘for the DAILY WORKER are to be made. Every unit is instructed to visit other workers’ organizations in its territory with appeals for the paper. ALL FUNDS COLLECTED’ ARE TO BE RUSHED IMMEDIATELY TO THE DAILY WORKER OF- FICE, 50 E. 13th St. New York City. INTO ACTION! DAILY WORKER! Is TOO LATE! CHARLES KRUMBEIN, District Organizer, - Communist Party. 3 Billion In Cash Handed Out By RFC To Banks, Railroads Huge Loans to Protect Rich Profits; Meagre Relief Payments WASHINGTON, Oct. 9.—The::Re- construction Finance Corporation has handed out $3,096,691,789 since it started last Feb; reported’ today. ‘ Of. this amount, °$1,293,114,420° went to’ banks: and trust. companies, $382,000,000 to- railroads, mortgage loan conipanies . $186,000,000,. byild- ing and Joan corporations $111,000,- 000, insurance companies $86,000,- 000, and ‘the -rest for other credit corporations “and government burr - About..$300,000,000 ‘went. for state relief appropriations,’ or < about” 10 per cent of the tota] handed out’ to the banks, ‘ete. ' . hdr SAVE THE BEFORE IT Child’s Story of Fake ‘Attack’ Sets Lynch Dogs on Negroes his eye and a ghastly tale of being attacked by. two Negroes, beaten, hound and gasged. Officials . a leading business men of Morrisonville » instantly seized upon the lynch incitement. Posses. were oganized to hunt the surrounding. countryside ‘for Ne- groes, Scores of innocent Negroes Were arrested “on suspicion” and given the third . degree’ to. extort confessions. But Carroll’s father kept questioning him for details, and finally Carroll broke down and told the truth. He just wanted some excitement. and, in addition, he didn’t want to go to school. And he had already learned how easily:a man-hunt and lynching ‘bee could be organized against’ inno- in shreds, with a terrified look in cent Negroes” x tt Fae |, Representatives of Textile Strikers March in Capital Ann Burlak in Fiery Speech Attacks Slave Conditions of Workers By Marguerite ‘Young (Dafly. Worker Washington Bureau) WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 9. — More than 200. representatives of the~sixty-five thousand workers out in! the National Textile strike marched through the capital’s streets today, shouting “We'll make our code on the picket line,” and carrying pro- tests, against the NRA Textile and Cotton codes to'the highest officials. Their spokesman hurled the ringing challenge, “We won't go back to work unti] we get a living wage,” over and over into the faces of government of- ficials and bosses gathered in a formal hearing by the N.R.A., on proposed ‘extension of cotton textile code. Burlak . held approximately five hundred attendants with dramatic denunciations of the N.R.A. codes working in general and special in- justices under cotton code. “Let me tell you manufacturers,” Burlak said, “the only reason you are here today is that 65,000 workers are on strike, and you are here looking for a way out—you are paying starv- ation wages where workers are tak- ine-their lives in: thelr hands to. work —the workers come here today in masses. to protest.” The N.T.W.U. pledges to continue and: spread the. strike unless radical changes are made immediately. Half'a dozen other militant spokes- men endorsed Burlak’s statement and -(Centinued ‘on Page Two) Cigarette Prices Due for Rise Soon | _NEW: YORK, October ®.—Retail prices of leading brands of cigar- ettes will be raised’‘one and two gents a’ package, it’ was announced recently ‘in’ financial ‘circles. » Exegutives. of leading. cigarette cornpariies declared that they “have been expecting a price rise in ci- garettes for some Weeks. Brands’ now selling for. 11, and 12\cents.:a package will be raised to.13 cents, it i was. said. ““ SECOND DAY OF REG- ISTRATION.. NEW YORK.—Today is the second day in which workers can register. Registration hours are from 5 p.m. to 10.30 p. m. until Friday, and 7 a. m. to 10.80 p. m., Saturday. Only those’ who ‘register this week can vote in the city elections Nov. 7. Keep the workers’ Party, the Communist Party on the ballot. Register Com- munist! Enroll Communist! Keep Your Party om the Ballot. ister Communist October 9 to 14. ® ON ATTACKS ON NEGROES Workers Demand Boss} Candidates State Position NEW YORK.—Members of the de- legation which visited Mayor O’Brien last Tuesday to protest the growing police terror and’ lynch-incitement against Negroes, held a meeting yes- terday at the office of the Harlem Liberator, 2162 Seventh Ave., at which plans were formulated to draw other | organizations into the protest cam-| paign. The meeting decided to launch a wide-spread exposure of the increas- | ing cases of terrorism against Negro| and white workers in all parts of the| city, to draft a list of special demands} to be made’ Gpon La Guardia, Solo-| man and McKee and to demand that) they state their position on the police| terror and the lynch-murder of| James Matthews on Welfare Island.| The League of Struggle for Negro| Rights, which is leading the cam- paign, called for the active participa- tion of all its members. Another) meeting will be held next Wednesday | morning at the Liberator office. The organizations represented so far are the Nat Turner Liberation Society, ie Harlem Section of the Interna- tional Labor Defense, the Willing Workers Club, the Young Communist League, the Sunday Afternoon Fo- rum, the Harlem: Youth Club, the Harlem Young Women’s Council, the Frederick Douglas Liberation Asso- ciation, the Bronx Section of the L. 8. N. R., the Harlem Liberator, the Harlem Unemployed Council. Par- ticipating in the campaign are also members of the St. John’s Baptist that without borrowing even a four- Confidence In You! EVENTY-FOUR thousand copies of | the ten-page Saturday’s Daily Worker were run off the press and sold among the workers. To do this meant to strain every resource, and to resort to additional borrowing. If you will look at the figures below you will see that the response to the “Daily’s” appeal for $40,000 is dangerously slow; so slow Meetings, Send Your Roosevelt and G Workers! Protest Government and Steel Trust Attacks Adopt Resolutions at Union, Lodge and Mass Protests to President overnor Pinchot page “Daily” would be impossible. | HEN the secret Nazi letter reached the editorial office, an emergency meeting was held. What | was to be done? Limit the run of The strikers of Spang-Chalfant the “Daily” exposing the fiendish | Wycoff Steel are still out, although a Nazi plots against our comrades | — ae Torgler, Popoff, Taneff and Dimi-| JX troff? Risk the lives of our Ger-| Egan Issues Call From Jail Cell to “Continue Strike” man comrades by “economizing”? [Twas only after very serious dis- cussion that the larger run and larger issue was decided upon. AS | MANY WORKERS AS POSSIBLE | HAD TO BE REACHED WITH| THIS EXPOSE. THE CAPTALIST | PRESS, WHCH WAS GIVEN AC- CESS TO THIS INFAMOUS LET- TER, WITHOUT EXCEPTION SUPPRESSED IT. 7 ; | the Steel Companies with directly Nor could we “economize” by | instigating the murders. We charge cutting down on the news of the| Sheriff O’Laughlin, Burgess’ Caul brutal slaughter of steel workers on| and District Attorney DeCastriques strike by hired American fascist| With actually leading the oad th in ‘ +s | OUS gang Ol e steel trust ant the news of oar heroic lection cam-| Participating jn, the blondy ssseult paign against the Tammany officials ry and struggle we will be able to whose uniformed thugs club unem-| break the murderous terror against ployed and striking workers in New us and march to victory.” York City. You will look in vain in| PITTSBURGH, Pa., Oct. 9. From his cell in Allegheny county jail Jimmie Egan, Ambridge steel strike leader and candidate of the Communist Party for Mayor, issued the following statement today: “Regardless whether I am in jail or not, the strike must be continued “and won. We charge By HARRY GANNES AMBRIDGE, Pa. Oct. 9.—After two days house-to-house solicitation by company stools with threats that continuation of the strike meant death to striking workers of the National Electric Co., the men went back today, Co., Central Tube, A. M. Byers and heavy concentration of gunmen made ® picketing impossible today. Notices are put on all plants telling workers that the strike is over and all should return to work. Deputies go to strikers’ homes and tell them if they meet other strikers they will be shot down. Burgess Caul has: is- sued an order “to shoot to kill” to break up the smallest meetings or picketing. A local sheet declares that martial rule has broken the strike. Dozens are being arrested daily. f When the strikers heard that 5,000 had attempted to get in yesterday for the mass funeral of Adam Petru- saki and were turned away only after bitter fight, they were. greatly eén- couraged and shouted the news through the streets. The Jones and Laughlin mill in Alliquippa is stocking up withoma- chine guns and freight ear loads of ammunition fearing the spread of the strike. A murderous attack is being made against the steel and mine strikers. siccion camanen, vonty “owe Mines Fail To Open Despite Roosevelt’s: “DAILY” GIVES WORKERS THE NEWS OF THE CLASS STRUG- Church, Shiloh. Baptist Church,| Workers Ex-Servicemen’s League,| and the Workers Co-Operative So-| ciety. | The James Matthews Branch of} the L. S. N. R. will hold a discussion on the campaign at its regular meet- ing Wednesday night, 8 o'clock at the) Lafayette Hall, 165 W. 131st St. | Mass Pressure Stops Deportation — Of Frank Borich I. L. D. Victory Hits Attempt to Outlaw Militan Unions PITTSBURGH, Pa., Oct. 9.—The | deportation case against Frank Borich, secretary of the National Miners’ Union, was dismissed by the federal court of appeals today, fol- lowing a 16 months’ mass fight by the International. Labor Defense to prevent his deportation to Yugo- Slavia, The Borich prosécution was an at- tempt by the Department of Labor to illegalize the revolutionary unions in the United States.. The only charge against him was that he was a member and leader of the militant National Miners’ Union. His. defense was mace the ‘spear- head of the fight by the I. L. D. and the. Council for the Protection of Foreign Born to smash the deporta- tion drive of the Department of La- bor, directed against foreign-born workers engaged in the struggle for bread and wages. . ee NEW. YORK.—The forcing of the federal government. to drop its at- tempt to deport Frank Borich was charactérized as a major victory in the fight against deportations, by William L. Patterson, national secre- tary of the International Labor De- fense, today. “This victory does not mean, how- ever, that the fight against deporta- tions is ended,” he said. “The militant workers of the United States, under the leadership of the International Labor Defense, must now proceed with redoubled vigor to force the federal government to cancel the deportation warrants against Todor Antonoff, William Za- zullak and Bob Wald, leaders of the Automobile Workers, aga‘nst Vincent Kemenovitch and the other leaders of the miners, against Barney Cree- gan and Sam Paul, union leaders of Boston, and for full and uncondi- tional freedom for Edith Berkman, leader of the textile workers of Massachusetts, GLE ABROAD AND IN THE, UNITED STATES IN ITS EN-| yy y+ | TIRETY. ‘Edict To Workers: THE decision to further strain the | sorely slim finances of the| “Daily” was reached BECAUSE OF SONFIDENCE IN YOUR LOYAL- Attempts to Disrupt Strikers’ Ranks Y TO THE “DAILY.” CONFI- Frustrated DENCE THAT YOU REALIZE| eee THE TREMENDOUS NEED FOR)! prItTTSBURGH, Pa., Oct. 9.—Every SPREADING THE “DAILY” TO |effort to split the miners’ ranks and) THE WORKERS! CONFIDENCE |end the strike of 100,000 today, THAT YOU WILL REALIZE THAT | served only to strengthen the deter- | THE SLOWNESS OF THE PRES-|™ination of the men to keep the > DRIVE HAS PLACED A |StTike solid against all Roosevelt's ef- DAGGER AT THE THROAT oF | 227s send them back to work.| THE “DAILY.” _ : Bold headlines in Pittsburgh capital- x e i jist papers admit that the miners are We appeal to you to rouse your- defying Roosevelt and are remaining self, your organization, your club, | Sttike solid. your friends, your fellow workers |™iners are defying Roosevelt and are in your shop to ANSWER THE |Temaining on strike solid. “pAILY’S” CRY FOR HELP!| The “Pittsburgh Sun _ Telegraph” HURL YOUR PROLETARIAN | Stteamer reads: “Coal strikers fail to CHALLENGE TO FIENDISH FAS- | obey Roosevelt's call to work. Pick- CISM BY RUSHING FUNDS. AND ets block mines despite President's | f SHING FUNDS, AND | peace negotiations. President Roose- SAVE THE “DAILY | velt’s call to striking miners of West- Monday’s Receipts Previous Total 404.75 | tions while he attempted to settle 3.06 | their trouble, was a hollow echo.” Total to Date «$6,177.81 |ceeded in voting to return to their v’"" | jobs today, but when picketing started |they joined the strikers by voting to ern Pennsylvania to resume opera-| ‘A few locals of the U.M.W.A. suc- | Every resource at. the disposal of the steel trust is being used against the strikers in an effort to stop the organization of this bulwark of the open shop slave trusts in the United States. Resolution of protests should be sent by trade unions, workers or- ganizations, mass meetings and in- dividuals to President Roosevelt, White House, Washington, D. C. Governor Gifford Pichot, Harris burg, Pa.; Burgess Caul, Ambridge, Pa. The strikers must be given the utmost support in this crucial period. All aid should be sent to: Steel and Metal Workers Industrial Union, Room 202, 929 Fifth Ave. Pittsburgh, Pa. Martial Law Set Up In Indiana As Militia Arrives Striking Coal Miners Resist Importation of Scabs SULLIVAN, Ind. Oct. 9—Two companies of the national guard are rived here today in an effort to break the coal miners’ strike, following the remain out until victory. This smashes the U. M. W. A officials’ jrepeated attempt to make a rift in Deadly New Poison the strike. Montour No. 10, and Pittsburgh Terminal No. 8 voted Sat- Gas, Erglish Charge atari) urday to return to day if no pickets LONDON, Oct. 8.—Preparations for) or deputies are at the pits. When poison gas warfare on an unpre-|they found both today they joined cedented scale are being pushed bythe picket line one thousand strong, Nazi Germany, it was charged here | swelling it to 2,000. today by Arthur Gillian, Secretary of . rf Mass meetings were held after the Chemical Workers’ Union. | pipetting stopped, where the rank Gillian asserted that the Hitlerites | and file spoke, denouncing Lewis, are experimenting with an arsenic) Fagan and Feeney for trying to start gas which burns the body and which|worksin the key mines. Local lead- Hitler Germany Has penetrates through any gas mask | known. He said that a Hamburg | factory has started 24-hour operation turning out over 200 cylinders of the gas a week, and added that there “is enough poison gas in Germany to cover the principal cities of Eu- rope with a blanket of death.” ers from mines of the Bethlehem Steel, Republic Steel and other key points spoke, declaring that they will stay out until the union is recognized. Frank Gilmore, local U. M W. A. leader, declared, “I defy my district officers to tell me to go back to work under the present conditions.” PITTSBURGH, Pa.——It was all a mistake, it seems. Hungry Pittsburgh workers read the papers that Roose- velt and his new farm board were | buying and slaughtering hundreds of | thousands of pigs to give to the un- employed. In Pittsburgh the Zoller | packing firm was doing the slaught- | ering. So the hungry unemployed des- cended on Zoller’s plant on moon- light nights, armed with lassoes, Butchered Pigs Not for Food, Pittsburgh Workers Warned lother hungry unemployed were told: \ceny of government property.” clubs, flashlights and knives. Zoller’s called the cops, who chased away a crowd of 75 and arrested Joseph Haas and Andreas Klemens, Brought before the magistrate, they and the “Anyone caught stealing pigs will be held for court charged with lar- Yes, it seems, | declaration of martial law over a two | mile area by Gov. Paul McNutt, | ‘With bayonets glistening on. their rifles, the militia marched into Sul- | livan this morning—their arrival jus- tified by the state authorities by con- | tinued clashes between the striking miners and company deputies. Tension has run high here for | many days as a result of the mili- tancy of the local miners in repelling the importation of scabs from the Kentucky non-union mines. With two companies of militia on | han dhere to aid in the terrorization jof the miners, state officials ane nounced that two addjtional come panies, one at Martinsville and the other at Attica, had been orderéd’to stand by. A fifth company was ep route from Evansville. U S. Supreme Court Upholds Euel Lee Lynch Verdict WASHINGTON, Oct. 9—The UV. S. Supreme Court refused today to review the appeal against the lynch verdict imposed upon Yuel Tee, aged Negro farmhand, by the Mary- land lynch court. Appeal for a-re- view of the death sentence s new trial for Leo was filed the court last week by Ades, International Labor Defense attorney. Yuel Lee was twice convicted and sentenced to death in Maryland) for the murder of a white farmer the unemployed, were mistaken, These pigs are being slaughtered for fertilizer. and his family, despite overwheleme: ing proof of his innocencq. =|)"