The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 12, 1933, Page 1

. bole — Se —— See i t \ Rain Blows on Fascism by Raising Funds for the “Daily.” Do Your Share Today! “Vol. X,No 245 s ‘Entered as second-class matter at the Post Offices Mew York, M. Y., under the Act ef Marck 8, 1678, Daily.<Wo (Section of the Communist International) orker Party U.S.A. | America’s Only W orking | Class Daily THE WEATHER Eastern New York: Probably Sho’ t Newspaper artly Cloudy, wers Thursday ay STRIKES TO BE OUTLAWED, GEN. JOHNSON THREATEN MEN REVOLT AS WARSHIP LEAVES PORT Same Crew Took Part in Invergordon Mutiny in 1931 LONDON, Oct. 11.—The en- listed men’ on the battle-cruiser Hood, ‘most powerful warship in the world and pride of the Brit- ish Navy, revolted while the WHood was steaming out to sea to take part in the fall naval maneu- yers in the North Sea. ‘The mutinous sailors were taken off by destroyers, it is reported, and the giant warship was ordered to re- turn to the Portsmouth naval base. Mutiny and insubordination among the rank-and-file personnel has also been reported from Portsmouth itself, on.the south coast, and the revolt is said to have spread rapidly to the other naval bases. : Sir Bolton Eyres-Monsell, First, Lord of the Admiralty, refused to deny the report of the Hood mutiny, claiming he had heard nothing of it. The officer on watch at the Admir- alty refused any information. . The Invergordon Mutiny ~ The-men-on the Hood took an ac- tive pert in the famous naval mutiny at Invergordon,-Scotlend, in_ Sep- tember, 1911, when the entire British battle fleet was unable to put out to sea because the ‘sailors revolted as one man against pay cuts ordered by the Cabinet. The Invergordon mutiny was fol- lowed by the dismissal of 24 sailors for “subversive conduct,” but the Ad- miralty did not dare to bring any of the. mutiny’s leaders up for court, martial. Two Communist Leaders Imprisoned Three weeks later, George Alli- son, member of the Central Com- mittee of the British Communist Party, and William Shepard, mem- ber of the editorial staff of the London Daily Worker, organ of the Communist Party, were convicted in London on charges of inciting a mutiny in the navy. Allison was sentenced to three years at hard labor and Shepard to 20 month’ The militant spirit of the sailors of the British fleet, revealed at In- vergordon, has served as a spur to enlisted men in the fleets of other nations. ‘The Hood, 46,100 tons, with a com~ plement of 1,341 men and mounting pight 15-inch guns, is the fastest and most powerful battle-cruiser in the world, and heads the hattle-cruiser squadron of the British Battle Fleet. LL. D. Organizer, Held by Troops, Now in Hospital GALLUP, N. M., Oct. 11—C. Kap- Jan, district organizer of the LLD., hhad to be removed from the military stockade today to a hospital, suf- fering from starvation and exposure. Kaplan, along with seven of the leaders of the National Miners Union strike here, and Clarence Lynch, LL. D. attorney, has been held since Thursday in the stockade without charges. They have been put on a diet. of much water and little bread because they refused to dig ditches for the militia. 4 Harry Allender, youth organizer of we union, is very sick in the stock- ade. Among the others held are Bart, relief organizer, Correa, Mexican leader and sub-district secretary of the N.M.U., Walker, a Negro strike leader, and Mentmore, Jocal union president. General Wood, in charge of the militia, has threatened to arrest more workers if the truth about his holding | « of the strike relief and defense lead- ers is published. Protest. telegrams demanding the n release of the workers’ Jeaders in Gallup, and the withdrawal of the militia, should be sent to Governor A. FE. Hockenhull, at Santa Fe, and to General Wood at Gallup. San Francisco Seamen Strike; Tie Up Port SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., Oct. 11.— A strike of longshoremen here today tied up all shipping on the Frisco waterfront. Tied-up ships and in- coming steamers were unable to move oargo. o Attack on Struggles Reuben Suny. Is Only Declares Daily By BILL Johnson’s speech. Like the General, sands of strikes who are fighting for higher wages and better working con- ditions was unequivocal and its mean- ing did not escape the Washington Press. The Post headline says: “La- bor Will Be Destroyed Unless Strikes Are Halted, Johnson Warns A. F. L.” Strikes are “economic sabotage,” said Johnson. Labor Secretary Fran- ces Perkins, Postmaster General James Farley, Senator Robert F. Wagner, and President Roosevelt himself have all spoken to this con- vention in the same key, but it was left to Johnson to put the question of the abandonment of the strike weapon and the sacred duty of of- ficialdom to increase their strike breaking activity in the clearest and most cynical masner. Johnson's speech, eliciting not one single pro- officialdom, stamps this convention as the most disgraceful in its history. Not one official in this convention has so much as mentioned the heroic strike struggles of the steel, coal tex- tile and agricultural workers, al- though the press every day carries the news of the extension of martial law, armed assaults on and murder of strikers. Only in the resolution of Reuben Suny, delegate from the Cleaners, Dyers, Spotters and Pressers Union, No. 18233, of Philadelphia, is there a call for support of the mine and steel strikers. Only in the resolution of Reuben Suny, calling for support of mine and steel strikers, has this vital issue come before the conven- tion, and the consent for dbating it was refused. Wagner's “Strong Counsel” ‘The official leadership of this con- vention is determined to uphold the N.R.A. in suppressing strikers. It has not decided on how best to do this because of the tremendous rank and file revolt, but in addition to John- son’s demand upon it, there is the tacit acceptance of the formula of Senator Wagner who in his speech said, “Those who tend to destroy the opportunities for fruitful industrial relations by quick and fanciful re- sorts to strikes and other forms of warfare must be given strong coun- sel.” This strong counsel is now be- ing given and registered in the rattle of machine guns, the hiss of tear gas and murder of workers at the rate of four per day as in California, to cite only one example. Each day the growing crisis of N. R. A. forces more open demands by the administration leaders for in- creased strikebreaking by the A. F. of L. officialdom. It becomes clearer that this labor wing of the govern- ment’s general staff is preparing new attacks on the elementary rights of the workers. All other measures, such test from the assembled A. F. of ra Heroic Is Made at A.F.L. Confab Militant Voice; “Most Disgraceful Convention in Its History,” Correspondent DUNNE. WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 11.—The high point of the government drive to force subjugation of the working class and its organizations as the guar- antee of national recovery, was reached here Tuesday night in General many of the labor chieftains in the Commerce Department Auditorium were in evening dress. The threat of the N.R.A. to the hundreds of thou- © as the reiteration of the call for shorter hours, without wage reduc- tions are window dressing to conceal this main line of policy. As predicted, the brewery workers were defeated yesterday in their at- tempt to maintain their industrial form of organization. Japan Threatens Break With Soviet Union Over Charges Move to Deport Tass Correspondent for Secret Reports TOKYO, Oct. 11—The Japanese government today moved for an open break with the Soviet Union, as official Foreign Office spokesmen denounced publication of the docu- ments disclosing Japanese govern- mental responsibility for plots against the Soviet-owned Chinese Eastern Railway in Manchuria. The government has ordered Ambassador Tamekichi Ota in Moscow to submit a full report, which will be submitted to a spe- cial Cabinet meeting to consider aggressive action. Threaten to Deport Soviet Correspondent The Foreign Office likewise called the Tokyo correspondent of Tass, So- viet news agency, to account for handing copies of the documents to Tokyo newspapers. If the corre- spondent’s reply is considered unsat- isfactory, the Foreign Office threat- ens to expel him from Japan, The irritation in Japanese official circles over the exposure of their machinations for the seizure of the Chinese Eastern is extremely in- tense, and all the jingoistic papers here aré screaming for war, demand- ing that “Japan take a firm stand.” The situation is extraordinarily tense, with the army and the navy pressing for aggressiveness on the part of the Foreign Office. Billings, Framed With Mooney, Applies to Board for Parole FOLSOM PRISON, Cal.,, Oct. 11.— Warren K. Billings, serving a life sen- tence with Tom Mooney on the framed-up charge of connection with the bombing of ‘the 1915 San Fran- NEW YORK, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1933 (Six Pages) BRITISH SAILORS MUTINY ON “HOOD”, BATTLE-CRUISER — STEELSTRIKES SPREAD; EGAN GETS 1 YEAR Chippers in Republic Plants in Buffalo and Youngstown Out Washington Delegates Sent from Ambridge and Greensburg PITTSBURGH, Pa., Oct. 11.— James Egan, leader of the Am- bridge steel strike and Communist mayoralty candidate, was sentenced today to one year in the Alle- gheny county jail by Judge Swee- rey. The sentence grows of an eld charge of “inciting to riot,” because of Egan’s arrest at au un- employed demonstration on March 4th. Just before the attack of the steel strikers, where 2 were killed, Egan was arrested by Ambridge authorities. In order to rob the strikers of their outstanding lead- er, the steel company’s authorities turred him over to the Pittsburga police. The charge against Egan was made for leading an unemployed demonstration on March 4th, in- auguration day. That day huge demonstrations took place through- out the country, where demands were made for immediate unem- ployment relief and the enactment of unemployment insurance by the Roosevelt, administration which had just been inaugurated. The Pittsburgh demonstration of 5,000 workers took place at the Federal Building and was brutally attacked. Egan and a number of other workers were arrested. Steel strikers from Ambridge and Greensburg who are being forced back to work with an un- surpassed terror have sent a dele- gation to Washington today. They will present facts of the brutal attacks on them and demand the right to organize. Pat Cush and John Meldon, president and sec- retary of the Steel and Metal Workers Industrial Union, head the delegation. The International Labor Defense together with the steel union is launching a campaign for the re- lease of Egan. Protests should flood the office of Judge Snee in criminal court, Pittsburgh, with the demand that the militant strike leader be immediately released. 8 e YOUNGSTOWN, O., Oct. 11,— Hailing the walkout of chippers in the Republic steel mill in sutfalo, striking chippers of the company’s plant in this city increased their Picket lines here today despite the mobilization of city police and coun- ty deputies, the latter armed with new clubs. A ruling has been made, however, that the mass picketing will not be permitted. A delegation of strikers visited the offices of Mayor Moore and Police cisco Preparedness Day Parade, ap- plied for a parole today. Chief Goodwin to lodge a protest against interference with rights of Dimitroff Expelled Again from Court in Nazi Frame-up Trial Judge Tries in Vain to Muzzle Fiery Talk of Communist Leader AT THE GERMAN FRONTIER, Oct. 11 (Via Zurich, Switzerland.)— George Dimitroff, intrepid Bulgarian Communist leader on trial for his life with Ernst Torgler, Blagoi Popoff and Vasil Taneff on the framed-up Nazi charge that they conspired to burn the Reichstag, was expelled from the courtroom for an indefinite period by Presiding Judge Buenger when he insisted on conducting his own defense. Dimitroff was seized by Nazi po- lice and hustled from the temporary courtroom, the former Budget Com- building in Berlin. A violent clash occurred immedi- ately after today’s proceedings opened when Judge Buenger called new witnesses and Dimitroff tried cross-examine them. The judge re- fused him. permission to do so. Dimi- troff, however, began to question the witnesses. Judge Buenger quiet.” Dimitroff protested, saying: am here not only as a defendant, but as my own defense counsel.” Courtroom In Tumult ‘The courtroom was in an uproar with Judge Buenger trying to shout down the courageous Bulgarian Com- shouted: munist. The full bench of judges hastily arose and filed from the courtroom. After a long interval they re- turned and Buenger announced the bench’s decision to exclude Dimi- troff from the courtroom for the time being “for repeated offenses against court procedure.” Before he was taken out of the courtroom, Dimitroff spoke urgently and in low tones with Dr. Teichert, his Nazi-appointed official attorney. The Burning Building The first witness was Police Ser- geant Lapeit, who was notified of the Reichstag fire by Police Ser- (Continued on Page 2) the strikers. They found the usual excuse, that both were “out.” The acting police chief had to concede that they were within their right to picket the plant A telegram was sent to Hugh John- gon, the N.R.A. chief, but no reply was received. The strikers are militant and de- termined to clean out the depart- ment and stay out solid. Five thou- sand calls were issued to men of other departments to support the strike, decide on department de- mands, and elect committees to fight for their own demands. ‘An Ambridge delegation was in- yited to a mass meeting on Thurs- day night at German Hill. COMRADES: District Quota 1 (Boston) $1,200 2 (New York) 20,000 3 (Philadelphia) 3,000 4 (Buffalo) 750 5 (Pittsburgh) 1,000 6 (Cleveland) 2,000 7 (Detroit) 2,000 8 (Chicago) 5,000 9 (Minneapolis) 150 10 (Omaha) 350 11 (Minot, N. D.) 350 12 (Seattle) 500 13 (San Francisco) 1,000 14 (Newark, N, J.) 650 15 (New Haven, Conn.) 500 i 16 (No. & So. Carolina) 150 17 (Birmingham, Ala.) 150 | 18 Nebraska) 750 19 (Denver) 250 Miscellaneous 1,350 Iw. o. 8,000 GRAND TOTAL — 340,000 FIGURES below speak to every district. A helf over, each district should have raised 50 per cent of its quota. Study these figures and see for yourself what your district has done to SAVE THE “DAILY” from the bosses’ auction block. STANDING BY DISTRICTS ON OCTOBER 9th By now, with the drive Am't Re‘dtoDate % of Quote $276.73 3030.00 418.44 24.86 105.36 180.03 531.16 525.73 105 32.98 43 33.10 24 5.50 16 121.28 4.2 110.82 11.08 161.28 48 79.70 15.9 450 3.0, 22.00 14.6 61.25 a1 98.98 30.6 51.00 3.7 308.11 38 96,177.81 15.20 A Message to Every Party District! 4 b Quick Action Imperative! DO NOT want to become panicky in our appeals to you, Comrades. But the situation is grave. YOUR DISTRICT IS LAGGING. There is false confidence that because the “Daily” has been enlarged and im- proved that the treasury is full. Li already slim finances of the “Daily.” enlarged and improved “Daily” is necessary to reach the broad masses the workers. This revolutionary venture strained to the limit the ” You have praised the new “Daily.” You realize that its existence is absolutely necessary for the revolutionary movement. You do not want it to go back to four pages; to see the new featurte.which have attracted so many ne off the pages of the “Daliy” because you co not want Ww readers forced of lack of support. 2 Have You Done Your Bit? EVERY Party member will do his bit, no matter how small, the col- lective result will SAVE THE NEW “DAILY.” HELP YOUR DISTRICT GO OVER THE TOP! Rush every cent available to the “Daily” TODAY! Worker, 50 T. 13th St., New York, N.Y. Wednesday received Previous Total ...... KOTAL TO DATE ...... Address: Daily mittee room in the gutted Reichstag | to| i “Keep “J } geant Buwert at 9:15 p.m. on Feb. 27.) ‘Join Nazi Union! W: KAUYMAENNISCHER 136 Liberty 5t. orkers Here Ordered VEREIN VOW 1888 Yew York, ¥.Y. Wortes Mitglied:~ desselben von der Handlungsgehilfen Ver ‘an Freitag, den worden gebeten Lexington Ave. & George Washingto’ abends einzufinden, gefueliten Karten, verbleiben wir, | ig | tglioder, denon w Mit der Bitte um unverzuegliches Binsenden der aus- Der den 16. September 1933, befliegender t wird, F tdungen die vom Vorstand aufgeklaert. ns cezahlte Beitracge on den laufenden e 22, 23rd bt. Kew September 195: York, N.Y, um 8 Uhr mit kollegialem Gruss, AUFWAENNISCHER VEREIN VON 1868. Vorstand | NEW YOR | | minutes when angry seamen demonst | was co-operating with the Nazis in the States. The “Daily” had printed a repro- | duction of a letter sent by Joachim were nm to put t restaurant, near the No & Lloyd pier in Brooklyn, under sur- veillance. “According to word I have received from the Lloyd,” said the letter, “the crews of their shins have been ordered to avoid this place.” A red flag, demanding “Down With Hitler,” was hoisted to the flagstaff in front of the company’s office dur- ing the protest meeting which lasted, | in all, three minutes. | the only red flags y and Exchange Place. front of the North German Lloyd of- fices, were those flying over an open sewer job. Exactly one minute later about ten red banners were waving, held high in the air by workers; de- manding the release of Torgler, Dim- itroff, Popoff and Taneff, and call- ing for struggle aaginst the fascist} regime in | A seaman spoke | ‘Fellow work: in the name of the seamen of A ica, we call thi meeting to protest against Hitler bru- talities in Germany. We demand the freedom of the imprisoned heroic German working class leaders, Torg- ler, Dimitroff, Popoff and Taneff. thousands of office workers, out for | their lunch, blocked his way and the speaker continued, while a red banner 5 was hoisted to th taff outside the office of the s' ip company. Fiuttering in the breeze, it read “Down With EF ow IL point h the crowd |The banners c and all but three of the workers meited into the crowd. Angry dicks held the other three and rted taking them into the company’s offices, to wail for the Seamen Demonstrate at Office of German Line ‘Plate Glass Window Broken, Traffic Tied Up| in Protest Against Aid to Nazis —A plate glass window in the offices of the North German | | Lloyd Lines, 67 Broadway, was smashed and traffic was tied up for several | rated against the company following the expose in the Daily Worker yesterday which revealed that the company latter's spying activities in the United patrol wagon A crock was heard, and the magi- ficent plate glass window of the ship- ping concern broke, with a big hole gaping across, its face Thousands of leaflets, exposing the Nazi plot against the German Com- munist leaders, as exposed in the Daily Worker, were dropped on the sidewalks and were eagerly picked up by the crowd. Nazi Court Condemns 2 Young Communists to Death in Berlin’ BERLIN, Oct. 11.—Two young Communists, Otto Woythe, 19, and Willy Rochow, 18, were sentenced to death erday by a spe- cial court on the unsupported Nazi allegation that they had killed a Hitlerite in a Berlin suburb on March 16. This place (Lloyd’s,—Ed.), is one of the headqua 's for the brown | 4: hb shirt murderers this country. ...” in the Brooklyn Labor ag Wlies [Lyceum Tonight at 8 Taken + by surpri he} cop across the corner raced t the speaker, who stood in the open} NEW YORK.—A_ united front space in front of the building. But| meeting against the Hitler terror, and for the defense of Torgler, Dimi- troff, Popoff and Taneff, will be held in Labor Lyceum, Willoughby and Myrtle Ave., Brooklyn, tonight at 8 o'clock. The meeting is called by the Brooklyn Anti-Fascist League. Speakers will include Alfred Wag- enknecht, secretary of the National Committee to Aid the Victims of German Fascisin; A. J. Muste, chair- man of the Committee for Progres- sive Labor Action; Max Bedacht, member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party, and Otto Sat- tler, editor of “Solidarity” Nazis Order German Workers in N. Y. to Join Hitler Unions’ ‘Letter Contains _ Threat; Follows ~ Spy Disclosures DailyWorker Publishes Full Text of Nazi | Order Here NEW YORK.—How the Hit ler dictatorship, which - has temporarily crushed: and \out lawed the German trade unions, is carrying on a campaign to enroll German citizens working In America into the Nazi slave “unions” has just been learned by the Daily Worker. | In @ letter sent out by “Commer- | cial Union of 1858”—now under. the complete control of the Nazis—mem- bers are threatened with loss of Ger- man citizenship and “union rights” unless they at once join “a trade | union group recognized by the Labor | Front,” the organization assigned by the murderous Hitler regime to | strdightjacket the German workers into the slave unions of the Nazis. | “Daily” Publishes Letter ' A reproduction of the complete or- | der to enroll in the Fascist “union” | is published by the Daily Worker in adjoining columns on this page. The publication of this letter fol- lows the expose by the Daily Worker | of murder and espionage plots by the | “Friends of New Germany,” central | organization in America of the Nazis. | On Saturday the “Daily” published | an intercepted letter from Werner | Haag, chief of the Nazi organization | here to his chiefs. in Berlin in which plans were cussed for infecting Torgler and the other Communist: now on trial in Leipzig with syphilis germs. The proposal was made in the same letter that Van der Lubbe, imbecile Hollander tool of the Nazis in the Reichstag fire plot, be dumped over- board “into the Ocean wi enroute to another country,” and that some- one else te hanged in his place. While the Nazi agents in this coun- were trying to conceal their ac- les with feeble, unsubstantiated tr charges that the Haag letter was a “forgery,” the Daily Worker in Wed- NEW YORK. — As the Daily | Worker went to press, the meeting at New Star Casino, 107th St. and Park Ave., called to denounce the Nazi murder regime and to demand the immediate release of Torgler, Dimitroff, Popoff and Taneff, was still in progress, A detailed report of the meeting will appear in tomorrow's issue of the Daily Worker. nesday’s isue followed up its first expose With the publication of. an order from the Nazi secret | here, instructing their age 3 illance the Ma, “Vigilante” Groups Active Meanwhile, conscious of the storm of indignation which the Daily Wdérk- | er has aroused by its exposures, pre- fessional patriotic organizations mar+ shalled their forces in an effort ty | minimize the charges of Nazi plot- nee Alliance, described Communist organiza- Pee sent telegrams to their friend, Hamilton Fish, Inc., and to Samuel Dickstein, chairman of the House Committee on immigration. Following the “Daily” expose, Dick~ stein announced plans for an inves~ tigation into illegal entry of Nazis into the U. 8. in violation of imml- gration laws. nee in its tele- grams m terous charge “inet c was “engineer- ed by Soviet sympathizers in high position in the American govern- ment to divert attention from their efforts te obtain recognition, The full translation of the order calling for enrollment of German workers residing here into the Nazi unions follows: Commer 136 Liber Union of 1858 St New York, N.Y, Sept. 16, 1933 Dear Member As a result of the co-ordination of the Gewerkschyft der Angestellten (Continued ‘on Page ‘Twe), Price 3 Cents ;