The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 13, 1933, Page 1

— 2 ‘ » A et meno Every Dollar for the “Daily” Is a Smashing Blow at the Fascist N. R. A. Vol X, No. 246 = * ‘Entered 24 secomd-class matter at the Post Office at New York, MW. ¥, under the Act of March 8, 1879, \(Section of the Communist International) rker Party U.S.A. | | | | | is | America’s Only Working | Class Daily Newspaper | THE WEATHER Probably showers Friday. NEW YORK, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1933 (Six Pages) Price 3 Cents MANCHUKUO, JAPAN TOOL, JAILS SOVIET RAILROAD MEN ‘Withdraw L Union n Officials from N NRA,’ ? ALF. des . Confab Told MINERS TO PICKET STEEL PLANT IN CLAIRTON; 7,000 IN DETROIT Ambridge “Workers Held Incommunicado ; Trial Takes PlaceToday PITTSBURGH, Pa., Oct. 12. —With the men in the Car- negie steel mill in Clairton, Pa.,} allowed to go home for the first time in two weeks, after being kept virtual prisoners in the plant by the company in order to avoid a strike; the miners decided to | use this strategic moment to march on the Clairton mill and draw these workers into the strike. With this move the. striking miners will tie up the key plant of the Carnegie Steel Corporation, a subsidiary 0 U. S. Steel, whose terror is being waged against the organization of both miners and steel workers. No less than five Ambridge work- ers are still held incommunicado in the Ambridge jail without charges. Many were released within the past 24 hours due to mass pressure and a demand for the release of the prisoners. Take Out Writs A writ of habeas corpus was granted last night demanding the presence of the arrested workers in Beaver Common Pleas Court at 9 o’clock tomorrow morning, When cause will be shown why the work- ers are-being-held without charges. Demands for the release of the workers held should be Wired at once to Judge Reader, Common Pleas Court, Beaver, Pennsylvania. Those known in jail are: Edith Briscoe, Cy. Ecker, Mae Ecker, Frank Hill, and John Bozecevich. Application was made today to the Superior Court for an appeal in the case of James Eagan, Commu- nist candidate for Mayor of Pitts- burgh, jailed during the attack on the Ambridge picket line. Applica- tion was also made for his release on bond. Mine Strike Intact The strike of the miners remains intact. Although a week has nearly passed since the latest maneuver was made by President Roosevelt to get the man back into the pits, these efforts have met the same fate as | all previous attempts. A few thou- sand miners returned to work, but rejoined the strikers’ ranks when pickets appeared at the pits. Thomas Moses, president of the ck G. Frick Coke Co., and Philip ray, international vice-president ae United’ Mine Workers, have nally agreed to calling off the vn on the basis of the company granting the check-off. The miners Tecognize this step as merely ad- vanltageous to the labor bureaucrats, who would thereby be assured of the dues income which Will be collected the company. Py ahe men insist that full union rec- @gnition must be granted by the company before they return to their jobs, this to include recognition of the mine committees at the pits, thereby assuring that their grievances will be dealt by their own repre- sentatives. Last night a tremendous mass meeting was held in Turtle Creek, Pa., to protest against the murder- ous attacks on the Ambridge steel strikers last week, where Adam Petrusak was murdered and many others wounded. Miners and steel workers from the surrounding ter- ritory attended. Mother Bloor, whose speeches aroused workers and farm- ers in every part of the country, ad- dressed the meeting and was greeted by the audience. A meeting of min- ers’, wives is being held in Browns- ville, heart of the coke region, where the strike was begun. Mother Bloor ‘and Agnes Snear, head of the Wo- ‘men’s Auxiliary of the National Min- ers’ Union, are the speakers. Starve Strikers on Bread and Water in Gallup Prison GALLUP, New Mexico.—Six mine atrike leaders, C. Kaplan, organizer of the International Labor Defense, and an attorney for the LL.D., are being starved in the military stock- ade here on a diet of bread and water because they refused to dig ditches for the national guardsmen. ‘These troopers are spreading a reign of terror through the mine area. The LL.D. calls on all organiza- tions and individuals to send imme- diate protests to Goy. Ho-'enhull, Santa Fe, New Mexico, and Gen- ‘Wood, Gallup, N. M,, demanding the re'eace of the eight ‘strike leaders. Ed 'Tittman, attorney for American Civil Liberties Union is getting out a writ of habeus corpus. The prisoners are in danger of actual starvation, AUTO MARCH | Rank and File Program of Auto Union Well Received By A. B. MAGIL DETROIT, Mich., Oct. 12— Seven thousand striking tool and diemakers joined by many production workers paraded to- day through Detroit streets in militant demonstration for strike victory. Led by Fisher Body strikers, they marched from Arena Gardens, down Woodward Avenue to City Hall, then West to Clark Park where a meeting was held. The spirit of strug- f|gle and determination to win, per- meated the march. The parade would have been much bigger if not for the sabotage amounting to strike-break- ing by the leaders of the Mechanics Educational Society, J. Griffen and A. Smith. These misleaders overruled the de- cision forced through the strike com- mittee by the demand of the militant rank and file for the parade and the spreading of the strike to the pro- duction workers. However, at the last minute, the rank and file group forced Griffen and Smith to retreat. The Clark Park meeting was ad- dressed by Griffen, Smith and An- derson, the latter a rank and file member of the Strike Committee from the Ternstdet Plant. The latter stressed the necesity to pull out the production workers. The leaflets distributed by the Auto Workers Union supporting the rank and file program, was eagerly read. The strikers are demanding the spreading of the strike to the Ford Plant and all Production workers. The misleaders are trying to stifle the struggle, relying on negotiations with the NRA in Washington. CAPITAL TOLD OF MURDERS IN AMBRIDGE Roosevelt Hides From Steel and Coal Strike Delegation (Washington ‘Bureau sureau Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, Oct. 12.—Charg- ing that at least seven steel workers —instead of one or two—were mur- dered by armed, deputized thugs in the Ambridge, Pennsylvania, strike last week, a delegation of 18 Steel and Metal Workers Industrial Union men today presented to high Washington officials a story of “unparalleled ter- ror,” still extending in the strike area. The workers’ delegation, led by Pat Cush and John Meldon, National Chairman and Secretary of the Union, won one audience with Rev. Francis J. Haas of the National Labor Board and another with Hugh Ker- win, Director of Conciliation of the U. S. Department of Labor. They sought an audience with President Roosevelt, but were shunted aside by lSieny Flays Burocrats’ Treachery “Let's Hear Him,” Say Delegates at Convention By SEYMOUR WALDMAN (Washington Bureau Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, Oct, 12.— Reuben Suny, an official delegate from the Philadelphia Cleaners, Spotters and Pressers Union, today argued on the floor of the A. F. of L. Convention his militant resolution calling for the withdrawal of all Federation officials from executive and advisory posts in the strike-breaking N.R.A. organiza~ tion. He was deftated by the well- oiled convention steamroller, but only after being vigorously applauded by many delegates. “Without the right to the strike Weapon, which is being forbidden un- der the N.R.A., Labor is helpless,” Suny declared from the convention platform in the Willard Hotel. He was called on the platform after pre- senting his resolution, a move which brought instant calls, “Let’s hear it.” Suny also called the attention of the convention to the fact that Labor chiefains, particularly the John L. Lewis contingent, prevented a dis- cussion of his motion, last Friday, to support the striking steel and coal workers who on the same day were being murdered and terrorized by “citizen deputies” and columns of private thugs, Chairman Green attempted to counteract the effect of Suny’s speech upon the reports by impugning the record of Suny’s union, Local: No. 18233 of Philadelphia. “Didn’t your union send represen- tatives to the N.R.A. code hearings?” Green asked Suny. For Worker's Interests “Yes,” Suny retorted, “We know that the A. F, of L. officials would be there so we thought it wise to go down and look out for the interests of the workers.” Green, vexed and befuddled, responded with a ‘feeble defense of the code hearing: “Even the Union represented by Suny sent delegates to the code hearings.” Attacking government officials who are asking us to surrender the strike weapon, Suny named Senator Wag- ner, N.R.A. Administrator Johnson, Labor Secretary Perkins and “even the President himself,” and warned that such demands hint “that our (Continued on page 2) Register Today So You Can Vote; Only Two Days Left —- —— Té you want to vote in the city election, Nov. 7, you must register this week before 10:30 Saturday evening. This is true whether or not you have ever registered before. Booths are open from 5 to 10:30 today, and from 7 a.m. to 10:30 p.m. tomorrow, Saturday. f you do not know Where to register, call the Board of Elections: Manhattan—Worth 2-1307. Bronx-—-Ludlow 4-6464. Brooklyn+—Triangle 5-7100. 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Tf you have lived in the state one year, the county four months, and will have lived in the election dis- trict one month by Nov..7, you may vote. ‘ Tf you were born in the United States before November 7, 1912, or Were born abroad but were natural- ized before Aug. 7, 1933, you may (Continued on Page Two) Register and enroll Communist. vote, Find Arms As Planned March to Capital)" PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 12—Remin- iscences of the “beer-hall putsch” of Adolf Hitler in 1923 in Germany is found in the abortive attempt of a small army of Khaki Shirts of Amer- ica to march on Washington yester- day with the announced intention of making President Roosevelt “dictator of the United States.” Local police raids on the organiza- tion’s headquarters in a former hos- pital resulted in the arrest of 21, four of them for carrying concealed weapons, the seizure of a virtual ar- senal consisting of ammunition, re- volvers, daggers, and other weapons, and the fleeing of the Commander-in- Chief of the Khaki Shirt organiza- tion in America, Art J. Smith, It was at a meeting in Brooklyn at which Smith was a prinicipal speaker, that Anthony Fierro, an anti-fascist, was killed by a mem- ber of the Khaki Shirts, Athos Khaki Shirts Terzani, a young anti-fascist stu- dent, is now awaiting trial in New York on framed-up murder charges in connection with the slaying of beta who was a close friend of nis. The raid on the miniature fascist army followed information that sev- eral hundreds of the Khaki Shirts, mobilized at three “forts,” planned to seize control of at least one national guard arsenal, the Central telephone exchange, two of the local banks, and the Philadelphia Electric Company plant before starting the march to the capital. It is reported that plans included @ plan to smash the generators of the Philadelphia Electric Co., and darken the city. During the night shock troops were to scour the workingclass sections of the city, shooting Com- munists, and seeking to recruit hun- dreds of men for the Washington march, € I.W.O. Calls for Help to The International Workers Order, a fraternal organization of work- ers for sick and death benefits, has $40,000 drive of the Daily Worker: APPEAL OF THE INTERNATIONAL WORKERS ORDER MEMBERS OF THE I. W. 0. WORKERS! A winter of black hunger and suffering will soon be upon us. It is a literal fact that millions families will feel the cold and hunger without one cent of relief to sustain them. It is a fact that the Roosevelt government is not making the slight- est preparations to take care of these workers. Sickness, disease, starvation, and death—that is what millions of jobless workers face in the coming months. And the only daily English newspaper that has fought, and is still fighting, day in and day out for Unemployment Insurance, for immediate relief for the jobless workers is the Daily Worker—the paper of the working class, The Daily Worker is one of the main weapons of the American workers in their fight for government relief daily miseries of the capitalist curse of unemployment. Only the Daily Worker fights for full wages to all workers whom the capitalist bosses throw into the streets. Only the Daily Worker fights for will not be able to strike workers down for lack af proper medical care. But the “Daily” cannot carry on its fight withoué our help. The “Daily” does not have the millions of the Wall Street bankers to support it. It depends on the support of the weapon it is. The Daily Worker must raise $40,000 if it is to carry on its work of fighting against the curse of capitalist insecurity, joblessness, hunger. It is up to us! We cannot fail to do our duty! The fight to support the Daily Worker is part of our fight against capitalist insecurity. Pennies , nickels, dimes, dollars! They must pour in! Circulate the subscription lists! ‘Daily’! issued the following appeal for the upon millions of workers and their i and social insurance against all the government insurance so that disease workers themselves, whose voice and Organize to raise funds! (Signed) MAX BEDACHT National Secretary I. W. O. Shoe Workers Will Demonstrate Today at N. R. A. Offices Protest at Hotel Penn. Whalen’s Move to Smash Strike NEW YORK.—Aroused by reports of the latest’ maneuvre to smash the heroic shoe strike of 12,000 workers waged against starvation conditions and determined to express their pro- tests against the scheme of Grover Whalen and the shoe manufacturers jointly to drive the shoe workers into the reactionary A. F. of L. Boot and Shoe Union, thousands of workers in the militant industrial unions in New York demonstrate at the Hotel Penn- sylvania, 7th Ave. and 3rd St., the headquarters of the N.R.A. today at noon. Among the demonstrators will be the 2,000 striking cleaners and dyers and several thousand Altera- tion Painters who are battling police and gangsters sent by the A. F. of L. machine to break their strike daily. While on the one hand, Whalen has declared that he is holding con- ferences with the Boot and Shoe Union, a union which has no mem- bership and no connection with the present strike, in order to settle the strike, he has at the same time is- sued hypocritical statements to the Press denying that he is coercing the shoe workers into joining the A. F. of L. These attempts to cover up a union smashing, strike breaking Program directed against the militant industrial unions with the purpose of aiding the employers to intensify their exploitation of the workers by foisting on them the yoke of the cor- rupt A. F. of L. bureaucracy is not deceiving the strikers. Whalen’s de- nials have been exposed in the in- junctions, arrests and police terror instigated against. the strikers. ie demonstration today at noon 5 il ce the demands of thousands of striking workers who have suffered during the four years of crisis, that the N.R.A. and Grover Whalen keep hands off their militant unions and put a stop to the scheme to defeat their struggle for better conditions. Anti-War Congress Delegates to Speak Today in Haverhill HAVERHILL, Mass., Oct. 12—Del- egates to the recent United States Congress Against War will speak at & public mass meeting sponsored by the Haverhill Anti-war Committee at Gratton Hall, 81 Winter St., tonight, Friday, at 8 pm; The speakers will include Delegates Ernest Mazman- nian, C. A. White, and Ruby Plavin- sky, in addition to John Weber, Dis- Pate Secretary cf the Communist vy Seamen Face Trial Today; Arrested at North German Lloyd Workers Urged to Fill Tombs Courtroom at 2 p.m. NEW YORK.—Three seamen, ar- rested at the demonstration yester- | day before the offices of the North | German Lloyd, 61 Broadway, will come up for trial in First Magistrate's | Court, Tombs Building, Franklin and Center Sts., today at 2 o'clock. | The defendants, James MacFar- land, H. Lord and H. Curry, face} charges of “malicious mischief,” aris- ing out of the protest against a Ger- man steamship line which the Daily Worker had exposed as working with the Nazi espionage organization in New York, “The Friends of New Ger- many.” MacFarland is charged with throw- ing the brick which crashed through the heavy plate glass window of the North German Lloyd offices, and the other two seamen are charged with being accomplices. Wednesday, immediately after their arrest, the seamen faced a Jewish judge, Magistrate Dryer, who loudly asserted his hostility to the Nazi regime, while ousting from the court- room the seamen’s lawyer, Joseph Tauber of the International Labor Defense. The judge and Tauber clashed when the latter protested against the $250 set for the defendants, and asked that they be released on his recognizance. _ “I do not want to appear biased in this case, since I am against Hit- Jer myself,” the judge said, in refus- ing to accede to Tauber’s request. When the I. L, D. lawyer exposed the judge’s suave hypocrisy, the lat- ter angrily ordered Tauber from the courtroom. and postponed the case until this afternoon, The Marine Workers’ Industrial Union calls upon all workers to crowd the courtroom today at 2 o'clock. “N R.A. Last Straw” So Young Man Tries to Commit Suicide NEW YORK.—John FitzPatrick, aged 26, an unemployed steam fit- | ter, attempted suicide by drinking iodine, and is now recovering in Flower Hospital. He left a note, “The N. R. A. was the last straw. I am disgusted. Haye been unemployed for four | years, and this seems to be the only way out for me,” his message read, Young Fitzpatrick lived on East 65th Street. \ | Front, who was one of the speak ‘Sec’y Hull Won't ‘Comment on ‘Daily’ 3000 AT MEET VOW FIGHT ON FASCIST RULE Cable Hitlerite Court! Demanding Release of} Torgler, Others By SENDER GARL IN NEW YORK.—‘No ist swastika | fiags will fly in New York—the work- | ers will see to that!” This was the confident declaration of Erna Stams, one-time leader of the Ruhr workers and now chairman of the German Anti-Fascist United at a meeting of 3,000 work: Star Casino, 107th St. and Park Ave., Wednesday night. Warns of Nazi Meet Speaking in German, she warned of the mobilization of Nazis an-| nounced for Oct. 29 in New York, when Hans Luther, Hitler ambassador in the U. S., is sc! i to Speak, | together ‘vith Hans S| | of the leaders of the Germany,” central Nazi agency America. “They announce that 75 swastika| flags will be fiying that night Stamm told the assembled wo! “and we must see to it that thes flags do not fly!” Other speakers at the me under the auspices of District 2 of] the Communist Party, included Lorenz of the Marine Workers Indus trial Union; David Levinson, Phila- | delphia 1.L.D. attorney; who-was bar- red from defending the Communists on trial in Leipzig; Robert Minor, | Communist candidate for Mayor of New York; Pauline Rogers, represent~ ing the National Committee to Aid Victims of German Fascism; J. B. Matthews, leading member of the So- cialist Party, who spoke on behalf} of the newly formed United League | Against War and Fascism; Meilach | Epstein, secretary of the National | Committee for Struggle Against Fa- scism; and Clarence Hathaway, | tor of the Daily Worker, which has} been publishing dramatic exposures | of Nazi activities in the U.S. Charles) Krumbein, organizer of Dist. 2 of the| Communist Par was chairman. ‘The first speaker, Lorenz, told of the militant demonstration of marine workers before the offices of the} North German Lloyd in New York (Continued on Page 2) Exposures of Nazis, AdmitsHeReadCharge, | in Conference With Newspapermen ( From Washington Bureau, Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, Oct. 12.—Secre- tary of State Cordell Hull today de- clined to comment on the Daily Worker’s expose of Nazi terror and | espionage activities in the United | States. Copies of the exposures were presented to the secretary ysterday. In his general press conference today, Hull declared that he read the exposures at request of the “Daily” ent, but that he Was “not commient- | ing at this time.” | When asked whether the State Department was not concerned with espionage activities of a foreign government in this country, Hall re- peated that he was not aking up the matter for comment “at this| time.” | Concerning the recent deliberate | and unprovoked attack upon Roland | Velz, native-born American resid- | ing in Germany, the State Depart- ment still is not prepared to discuss issuing a declaration warning Amer- had | | U. S. to 15 days by the Immigration | Edi- | | Daily Worker, Frank Olmstead of Oust 300 Soviet Rail Employees in Manchuria’ Japan’s Blustering Bluff to Evade Blame for * Railway Seizure Plot Called by “Pravda,” Communist Organ MUKDEN, Manchuria, Oct. citizens who had been employed tion of a new railroad hav being hired to take their place. e been discharged, "12. — Over 300 Soviet Union at Peianchang in the construc- White Russians Forcible arrests of Soviet officials of the Chinese Eastern Tom Mann Speaks at Send-Off Meet in N. Y. Sunday Night - Returned Delegates to Paris Congress to Make Reports | | NEW YORK.—Tom Mann, 17- year-old British militant laborite, whose stay has been limited in the Department because of his militant | activities, will be given a mass send- | | off this Sunday night at St. Nicholas Arena, 69 West 66th St., where the | veteran fighter will be the principal | speaker. Although Mann was prevented by | the government from attending the U. S. Congress Against War, work- | ng class protest forced the author- ities to permit him entry to the country. The meeting will also be the occa- sion of greetings to the youth dele- gation, just returned from the World Congress Against War and Fascism at Paris. Thomas Joyce, marine worker, and Lonny Williams, Ford plant worker, will speak for the youth delegation. Other speakers at the Arena will be C. A. HathaWay, editor of the the New York University Y. M. C. A., who was in ‘the Soviet Union during the Bolshevik Revolution, and Donald Henderson of the Amer- ican League Against War and Fas- cism, who will act. will act as _as chairman. La. Negro Seized In Jail; Lynched By Armed Mob Worker Was Arrested for Questioning in Murder Case LABADIEVILLE, La., Oct. 12—A lynch gang, which found easy access to his cell, last night lynched a Ne- gro plantation worker, arrested yes- terday for questioning in connection with the slaying of Louisiana Larose, 15-year old white girl. The victim, whose name was not disclosed at the time of his arrest, was taken out of the jail and strung up to a girder of the bridge over Bayou Lafourche. | The lynching makes the 33rd_re- ported lynching for the year. Only| two days ago, a similar lynching oc-/| curred in the town of Ninety-Six, 8. C., with one of the self-confessed | lynchers admitting that local Chief of Police Rush had conveniently left | the prison doors open for the lynch | gang. seat The Labadieville authorities pro-| fess to be “mystified” over the man-| ner in which the lynchers entered} icans that they travel in Germany at their own peril. the local jail. 90 Per Cent of Childbirth ° Deaths N eedless, U.S. Admits. WASHINGTON, Oct. 12,—The lives of the thousands of workingclass mothers who die every year in chile- birth could be easily saved by proper medical care, a report of the ya dren’s Bureau of the U Government revealed yesterda, Over ninety per cent of these wo-} men die of diseases “due largely to | controllable diseases” the Ren pE stated. Of the approximately eight thou- sand women whose cases were stud- ied, almost one thousand had no med. ical care whatever, except when they | were already dying. | The maternity death rate of the | | United States is the highest of any civilized country in the world. The last session of Congress Te- | duced or abolished whatever mater- | nity care was provided for in the budget. \ »Railway and searches of their of- |fices and h Ss are arousing bitter resentment among Soviet officials | throughout Northern Manchuria. “Pravda” Condemns Japan’s Bluff (Special Cable to the Daily Worker) OSCOW, Oct. 12—The endeav- ors of the Japanese government to er and bluff its way out of the aging evidence exposing official plots for the seizure of t-owned Chinese Eastern in Manchuria were roundly condemned by “Pravda,” official or- gan of the Communist Party of’the Soviet Union. “Pravda” writes: “The comments of the Japanese press and the statements of For- eign Office spokesmen show how great is the confusion of the usurpers who have been caught red-handed. “The official Japanese docu- ments, only part of which were published by Tass (Soviet News agency), irrefutably establish the full responsibility of the Japan- ese government for the prepara- tions to seize the C.E.R., for the lawless acts of the Japanese au- thorities on the railway line, and for the molestation of Soviet em- ployees. “The clumsy attempts of the Japanese imperialists to shirk res- ponsibility, therefore, by means of subterfuges and the noisy threats which fill the Japanese press.in accordance with orders from above cannot be regarded otherwise than as ridiculous. “Immediately ‘after the publi- cation of these secret documents, the Japanese press—refiecting the confusion in the minds of leading governmental circles—attempted to cast doubt on the authenticity of the documents. These laughable efforts, however, didn’t make any impression on even bourgeois pub- lic opinion outside Japan. the beginning the Jap- resorted to noisy because they realize ly the full extent to which se documents reveal to the whole their real plans and inten- d. ‘ 2 mpse of the real visage of ve Japanese im- perialism. A confused mind is & bad counsellor, since the subsequent statements of the Japanese Fore eign Office show that the circles involved are seeking new argue ments. They are now forced to re- sort to complicated maneuvers, in their search some way of escap- ing the responsibility resting on the Japanese government. “But the Japanese will not succeed in evading this responsibility. The Soviet Union gave Japan full warning on two occasions before these Gocunieaie were published.” imperialists Strike of Silk Workers Spreads to New England One Thousand Out in ¢ Pawtucket Mills, Ig- noring UTW Orders PROVIDENCE, R. IL, Oct. 12.— | One thousand silk workers in seven |mills went on strike in Pawtucket ee y, in violation of the instruc- of the national leaders of the United Textile Workers Union, defi- jnitely spreading the national silk | strike into the New England area, fea workers, members of the Unit- d Textile Union, struck in spite of the instructions to the contrary of Francis Gorman, vice-president of the U.T.W. Gorman and_ other U.T.W. officials, tried to delay the strike by holding a conference city offizials, but the Workers walked out The silk st ‘s are demanding $30 for w and warpers, $20 for qu nd winders and inspec- tors working ends, 30 hours a week for all crafts. The strike will undovbtedly spread throughout: the New England silk area. ; le rReny a or)