The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 24, 1933, Page 1

a= <a NON-PARTY WORKERS INVITE D TO PARTY MEMBERSHIP MEET TONIGHT TO MAP N.R.A. FIGHT Shall the Daily Worker Live? Say “YES” by Rushing Your Contribution Today! Vol. X, No. 255 “= ” Dail (Section of the Communist International) orker Party U.S.A. ea Class Daily Newspaper & ; | America’s Only Working | | WEATHER FAIR AND COOLER Wnterod as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., under the Act of March 8, 1070, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1933 ( Six Pages) Price 3 Conts ROOSEVELT GOLD ORDER SENDS ALL PRICES SOARING LYNCHERS PROTECTED, IS CHARGE Officials Anxious as Anger of Negro, White Workers Grows BALTIMORE, Md., Oct. 23—State and Somerset County officials joined yesterday in an hysterical attempt to pass the buck for responsibility tor the fiendish lynching of George Armwood, as indignatnt protests from white and Negro workers and intel- lectuals developed into a nation-wide thunder of denunciation of the lynch-murder and the officials res- ponsible for the convenient removal of Armwood from Baltimore to Prin- cess Anne a few hours before the lydching. They likewise blocked all attempts at investigation and punish- ment of the known leaders of the mob. Workers Electing Delegations ‘The uneasiness of the State and County lynch governments was fur- ther increased by reports that work- ers and intellectuals in Maryland, New England, Pennsylvania, New York and New Jersey cities were electing delegations to visit Governor Ritchie this Wednesday with de- mands for the remova! and prosecu~ tion for murder of the guilty officials and the death penalty to the known members of the,mob. The delega- tions, which will arrive in Baltimore Wednesday to join a local delega- tion, will go on to Washington to place the demands of an aroused working-class on President Roosevelt. They will demand the impeachment of Governor Ritchie, and a halt to the plans for the legal lynching of Euel Lee this Friday. Negroes of Baltimore, boiling with resentment, are militantly supporting the organization of the local delega- tion, despite the attempts of the re- formist misleaders to disrupt the growing struggle of Negro and white workers against. the violent suppres- sion of the oppressed Negro Nation. Resentment is almost universal in the Negro district against the belly- crawling tactics of Rev. C. Y. Trigg, local leader of the National Associa- tion for the Advancement of Colored People who, as a member of a united front delegation which visited Ritchie last Friday told the lynch governor that when he heard his “Excellency was from Richmond I knew that everything was all right.” With this (Continued on Page Three) Rush Protests to Ritchie, Roosevelt NEW YORK.—AIl workers’ or- ganizations and sympathetic groups, mass meetings and street meetings, are urged to rush tele- grams to Governor Albert C. Ritchie, Annapolis, Md., and Pres- ident Roosevelt, White House, Washington, D. C., demanding the immediate release of Euel Lee, sentenced to die on Friday, and the arrest and punishment of the known members of the mob which ynched George Armwood last Wednesday, and the removal, pro- secution and punishment of the officials responsible for the lynch- ing. Vet Brutally Beaten When Thugs Attack Philadelphia Meet » PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Oct. 23— Harry Davis, a disabled war vet- eran, was brutally beaten and ser- iously injured together with several other workers when the remnants of Art Smith’s Khaki Shirts, work- ing with Mussolini Black Shirts, attacked an anti-fascist meeting at Bighth and Christian Streets here today. The meeting had been called by the Communist. Party. Davis was so severely injured that. he had to be removed to a hospital. The entire attack was carried on by private policemen leading the fascist gang. The South Philadelphia section committee of the Communist Party calls on all workers to parti- cipate in a mass demonstration against fascism and Iynchings to be held Saturday, Oct. 28, 1 p. m. at Reyburn Plaza. Workers’ or- ganizations were urged at the same time to send resolutions to Mayor Moore and Police Chief Le Strange, protesting against the “encouraging the organization of murderous dnacist gangs.” gathering of the mob. John Armwood, being taken to cell in Princess Anne jail, following his conyenient remoyal from Baltimore city jail to the lynch-infested Maryland Eastern Shore town. Responsibility for his prescnce in Princess Anne on the day of the lynching rests with Judge Duer, State’s Attorney Robins, and Governor Ritchie, all of whom had ample notice of the ;members to support the coming Na- tional Farm Conference, to be held at Chicago, November 15-18. The Nebraska Holiday Association has gone even further and joins the United Farmers’ League in the de- mand for cancellation of all mortgage debts. The Chicago Conference will house 1,000 farm delegates from all over the country. It will base itself on the demand for rising prices for the farmers and lower food costs for the consumers in the cities. Instead of the Holiday Association of a new NR.A. code for farming, it will demand cancellation of all mortgage debts and taxes. Fact Is, We Didn’t Know He Had One! WASHINGTON, Oct. 23—William N. Doak, Deportation Secretary of Labor in the Hoover administration, died of heart disease today. With training as a grafting official in the railroad unions, Doak worked his way up into the Hoover cabinet. He did all he could to hélp slash Marg during the Hoover years of the crisis. Farmers Support Fight For Debt Cancellation NEW YORK, Oct. 23.—Indicating the spread of resentment among the dirt farmers at the temporizing leadership of Miles Reno, head of the Na- tional Farmers’ Holiday Association, and self-appointed leader of the present national farm strike, two State branches of the Holiday Association, the | Nebraska and Montana branches broke away from the present strike leader- ship today and issued a call to their © Whalen’s Suit Made in Sweatshop, Striker Charges, NEW YORK—“I made that suit!” exclaimed a striking custom. tailor to Grover Whalen yesterday, point- ing to his exclusively tailored $150 suit during an N, R. A. hearing on the custom tailors’ strike. “My fellow strikers made the vest and pants. It was tailored in a tene- ment overrun with vermin, in a dirty, miserable sweatshop.” Wha- len wriggled uncomfortably. The sweatshops had not been abolished under the N. R. A, the strikers told him, as they demanded more pay and the right to bargain col- lectively with representatives of their own choice. 500 DYE DRIVERS STRIKE NEW YORK.—Five hundred Clean- ing and Dye House Drivers, Local 185 A. F. of L., came out on strike late today over the head of their officials, in sympathy with the strik- ing cleaners and dyers. NEW YORK.—Robert Minor, Com- munist candidate for Mayor, will de- mand a jury trial when he appears before the Court of Special Sessions, 120 Schermerhorn 8t., corner of | Smith (Brooklyn) tomorrow morning. He was arrested Sept. 6 for leading a picket line in defiance of an in- junction issued against striking furni- ture workers by the Progressive Table Co., 93th St. and Ditmas Ave., an N.R.A, firm. Jack Rosenberg, who was arrested Minor to Demand Jury Trial in Brooklyn Court Tomorrow with Minor, will also be heard. Both Minor and Rosenberg jailed when they called on scabs not to be fooled by the N.R.A. prom- ises. When the case came up for hearing on Sept. 25, Minor used the courtroom as a forum against the N.R.A. administration and urged mass violations of injunctions, The Trade Union Unity Council calls on New York workers to fill the courtroom tomorrow morning as an expression of their demand for the right to strike and pick ~ Membership Meeting 7:30 p. m. Tonight at St. Nicholas Arena NEW ¥YORK.—Tonight at 7:30 p.m., at St. Nicholas Arena, 66th St. east of Broadway, a meeting of all Party members will be held to dis- cuss the “N.R.A. and the Growing Class Battles.” Comrade C. A. Hathaway will speak, Comrade Earl Browder will deal with the “Role of the Press” at the meeting. Besides Party members, all work- ets active in trade unions and other working-class organizations are in- vited to be present. Dickstein to Ignore Nazi Terror in U. S. in Washington Quiz Denies That He Voted for Dies Bill to Deport Militant Workers (Washington Bureau, Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, D. ©. Oct. 23 — Congressman Samuel Dickstein, chairman of the House Committee on Inmigration, admitted to your correspondent in an interview that the proposed investigation by his committee on Nazi activities in the U, 8. will not- cover acts of terrer and direct threats of murder. “We'te only interested in the movement of alien Nazi propaganda,” Dickstein said. “Will the Daily Worker’s exposure of Nazi terror and espionage be in- troduced in evidence?” he was asked. “I think so,” replied Dickstein. “Will Clarence Hathaway, editor of the Daily Worker be invited to testify before the committee?” “Yes, he'll be invited and anyone | who wants to appear may do 50.” “will Albert H. Wiggin, former , chairman of the Chase National Bank, who, according to one of the Daily Worker's Nazi exposures, con- siders the overthrow of Hitler as the greatest danger to the world ‘since that would mean the sweep of Com- munism over Europe’ — will he be asked to appear before the com- mittee?” “T couldn’t say just now.” In discussing the Dies Bill Chouse resolution 4412), which provides “for the exclusion and expulsion of alien Communists,” Dickstein maintained that he had been falsely accused of ; having voted favorably upon it.* “I didn’t even vote upon it. As chairman of the committee to which the bill was referred by the house, I merely presented the bill to the house for the committee. I didn’t vote for or against it. I was prob- ably out of the room.” “If the bill should be introduced | in the next session of Congress, as is extremely likely, will you continue to abstain from voting?” “I can’t say. The whole thing is _ distasteful to me. I’m more or less neutral.” When informed that President Roosevelt recently was host to the fourth son of the former German Kaiser, reputed to be one of the lead- ing financial: agents of the Nazis working with Henry Ford, Dickstein replied: “All is possible.” ory betes (See article by Sender Garlin on page 5, today’s issue.—Editor’s note.) ‘Hands Off Cuba’ Flag Flies from Courthouse Pole in Superior, Wis SUPERIOR, Wis.—A large red flag bearing the words “Hands Off Cuba” was floating from the county court- house flagpole here on the morning of Oct. 17. Someone had raised the flag to the top of the 80-foot pole, and cut the rope. Firemen had to work until 2:30 in the afternoon to get it down. ‘To “rebuke the Reds,” Judge Haily called for a public flag-raising cere- mony two days later, Only 200 showed up, including American Le- gion members, Boy Scouts, members of the D.AR. and city firemen, SCHOOL FOR “MANNERS” PITTSBURGH, Pa.—The main pur- pose of students going to the Uni- versity of Pittsburgh, Mellon institu- tion, is to “get good manners,” says Chancellor Bowman, For Unemployment Insurance, Immediate Cash Relief — Vote Communist! Vote Communist—for Minor, Bur- roughs and Gold, | RAISE $600 FOR “DAILY” Philadelphia Answers Seab Attack of Boss -League PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Oct. 23. — More than 900 workers, rallying at a Concert and mass meeting Friday night at Turngemeinde Hall, hurled League on the revolutionary move- ment by raising over $600, the largest lump sum raised so far in the $50,- 000 drive to save the Daily Worker. The League, a reactionary organ- ization, spread leaflets among strik- ing custom tailors with a re-print of a cartoon of a miner’s family, which had appeared in the “Daily,” with the caption, “They’ve cut off our water and turned off our gas, we can’t let them stop our Daily.” Di torting the meaning of this cartoon, the leaflet stated to the effect that they, the Communists and the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union, want you to give up your food and rent, to have your gas and water shut off. but to make your contribu- tion to the Daily Worker.” Workers replicd by sending dele- gations to the Concert with pledges from shops, docks, ships, factories, Party units, mass organizations, in- cluding the I.W.O., Gesang Verein Clubs and others. A ship committee, whose members earn no more than $39 monthly, gave $10. The Freiheit Gesangs Verein contributed $65. terson, National Secretary of the I. L. D., who came from Baltimore, Phil Bart, member of the Daily Worker staff, and A. W. Mills, Com- munist Party District Organizer, con- tributions began to pour in, The workers further pledged to raise the District's quota of $1,000 in the Drive on all workers throughout the coun- try to follow their example. Resolutions were passed against the NRA, against the Pinchot regime. The murder of striking steel workers sent to the officials of steel and silk centers. . * ‘ today by the Management of the Daily Worker: example of the Philadelphia com~ | bosses on the workers by RAISING FUNDS TO SAVE THE DAILY WORKER. A minimum of $10,000 must be received this week to as- sure the immediate existence of the “Daily.". HOLD AFFAIRS FOR THE “DAILY,” link them up with the struggles of the workers against our | class enemies as was done in Phil- adelphia. Contribute yourself. Take collections from your friends, neigh- bors and shop-mates. Speed all funds to the Daily Worker, 50 E. 13th St., | New York City. ! Monday's receipts .. | Previous total ...... $1,024.15 12,640.68 Total to date ... Over 100 Workers Arrested in Ruhr on “Artisans’ Day” BERLIN, Oct. 23—More than 100 militant workers fighting fascist op- pression and terror, were arrested by Hitlerite police in various parts of Germany over the week-end, while in Berlin the so-called Day of the German hand-worker was being cele- brated by official decree with claptrap floats, banners, and jingoistic oratory. Indication of the increasing anti- fascist fight being carried on under- ground in the heavy industrial dis- trlets, was the announcement that 23 had been arrested in Bottrop, seven in Buer, and ten at Gelsenkrichen— all in the Ruhr District over which rules the will of the steel baron, Fritz Thyssen, Hitler's financial back- ar.and the power behind the fasvist throne in Germany. Near Gotha, in Waltershausen, the »olice searched 100 houses and seizo¢ 80, “believed to be members of a secre; Communist society.” 900 WORKERS back an attack by the Constitutional | Following speeches by William Pat-) in the shortest possible time and call} and silk workers was condemned and} special resolutions to this effect were) | today’s se THE following statement was issued | “We urge all workers to follow the | | rades. Answer the attack by the| MINOR FOR MAYOR ».? Picket ‘nes Close Dye, Silk Mills UTW Leaders Desert Workers in Face of Terror PATERSON, N. J., Oct. 23.—Thou- sands of strikers in mass picketing over a six-mile strike front, between Paterson this morning kept the s and dye strilre completely solid. Not one mill or dye shop opened. Undaunted, the strikers picketed in face of mobilization of police and hired gun thugs, which made the big dye rlants look like armed camps. ment of the work: 1 union of the dyers, proposed by the N. T. W. U,, ts growing. The employers postponed their elaborately prepared opening of the dye shops until tomozrow, but news of this did not reach the w until they were on the picket lin The U. T. W. leaders sabotaged picketing this morning. Hundreds of A. F. of L. st reporting at their hall: ket duty were told by U. T. c S not to go on the picket line, but the work ers went in spite of this treachery. | Meanwhile the N. T. W. U. lead Moe Brown and Ann Burlak and others in Paterson, and Fisher and Saller in Lodi, were leading united picket lines of N. T. W. U. and U. T. W. workers. The Newark Ledger, in a sensational story this morning, discloses that the employers have been hiring hundreds of gangsters and underworld elements in Newark (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) ubbe Had Help In Setting Reichstag Fire, Says Expert At Least 80 Pounds of Liquid Fuel Required AT THE GERMAN FRONTIER, Oct. 23 (Via Zurich—Expert testi- mony that at least 80 pounds of liquid fuel must have been used to set the Reichstag fire was given at ion of the tri s being held in the Re! tag build ing. Professor Josse of the Charlotten- burg Technical College, who gave this evidence, dec d that it would have been impossible for van der Lubbe, the Dutch tool of the Nazis, to have set the fire alone “That. is the only thing in the whole case with which I agree,” de- clared George Dimitroff, Bulgarian Commun: who, with Ernst Torg- ler, Vassil Taneff and Blagoi Povoff, is on trial for his life. “In my oni ion, van der Lubbe is the Favé: in this drama. Faust standine the bar, but the Reichstag Mephisto is not present.” Josse gave as his opinion that the thickness of soct and the signs of intense heat proved that large quan- tities of volatile combustibles, such as gasoline, paraffine or benzol, had | been used, and that the burst of flame « 13,664.83 | which filled the session hall came from the explosion of gases formed by the liquid. He said the fire preparations must have taken some time, and were car~ ried out by experts. Judge Buenger cross-examined him, trying to make him admit that van der Lubbe might have worked alone, but Josse insisted this was impossible. He created a sensation by declar- ing that benzol had been found in one of the svitoons in the Reichstag after the fire. & Ritchie NEW IN "NRA Murder Drive; which | FLATION SLASHES REAL WAGES; PROVIDES WEAPON FOR CURRENCY WAR \Daily Living Costs Rise As Government \ Prepares for New World Money Clash ‘Speculators Reap Harvest As Inflation Sends | Commodity, Stock Prices Upward | WASHINGTON, Oct. 28.—Continuing the policy of aggres- sive cheapening of the dollar, Roosevelt today announced a new step toward raising prices by a mechanism of governmental | buying and selling of gold. Roosevelt Ignores | Quibbles About 7-4 Gives Contradictory, | Opinion on “Merit” | | Clause in Codes | By SEYMOUR WALDMAN | (Washington Bureau, Daily Worker) | | WASHINGTON, Oct. 23,—Presi- dent Roosevelt today pointedly’ ig- nored the recent murder activities of the coal, steel and other kaisers of | loodstained American slave zones. | In a letter to N.R.A. Administrator | Johnson he takes a “position” on the “various -misunderstandings and misinterpretations of Section 7 (a) of the National Recovery Act” by dis- cussing, in contradictory phrases, the open shop merit clause. The presidential announcement, | con solely With the so-called | merit clause, already in the automo- { bile code, states absolutely nothing about auto “merit” clause, al- though it was approved by General Johnson and William Green of the | American Federation of Labor count~ ing house, | ‘ailing to say anything about the ndreds of employees blacklisted for | rming their own unions, of those | fired for a suddenly-appearing ab~ sence of “merit,” and even in spite of General Johnson‘s hypocritical ad- mission some time ago, that the “merit” clause in the automobile code was passed “in an unguarded mo-j| ment,” Roosevelt virtually gives the} right of way to the geniuses who in- | vented the “merit” clause: “Because it is evident that the in-| sertion of any interpretation, of Sec- | |tion 7 (a) in a code of fair competi- | tion leads only to further controversy and confusion, no such mterpretation should be incorporated in any code. } While there is nothing in the provi-/| | sion of Section 7 (a) to interfere with | | the bona fide exercise of the right of jan employer to select, retain or ad-| | vance employees on the basis of ind: | vidual merit, Section 7 (a) does} clearly prohibit the pretended exer- cise of this right by an empioyet | simply as a device for compelling em- | | ployees to refrain from exercising the | |rights of self-organization, designa- | |tion of representatives and collective | bargaining, which are: guaranteed to | all employees in said Section 7 (a).” Indubitabiy, it is a clear warning of further repressive measures to those misled workers who still believe that Section 7 (a) guaranteed their right 'to form their own unions and to bar- gain collectively. It is an answer to the steel delega- |tion, headed by John Meldon, execu~ |tive secretary of the Stecl and Metal Workers Union, which came to | Washington less than two weeks aro from Ambridge, Pa. at the risk of |their lives and told N.R.A. officials lof the incredibly bloody terror exe- cuted by paid and volunteer depu- tized assassins. The fascist program of “integration | |of labor with the modern state,” an- nounced so bluntly by Secretary of Labor Perkins to the recent conven- tion of the A. F. of L, bureaucrats, is gradually getting into its stride. Shoe NEW YORK.—Arcadia Hall, scene f the biggest shoe strike meeting thus far held, promised to be jammed to the doors long before the sched~- uled hour for the meeting as the shoe workers from shops and from picket lines massed to hear the latest reports on the strike situation, As we go to oress the meeting has not yet started but thousands of workers are already in their seats to hear Fred Bieden- app, the union’s secretary, report on the Washington hearings, The meet- ‘ng is also scheduled for an election Strikers Meet, Hear Report on N.R.A. Hearing | Symposium and candidates of the various political parties running for office have been invited to tell what | support they offer the shoe strikers \in their heroic fight against starva- | tion conditions and for the right to | strike and to organize into the union | of their own choize. | Fred Biedenkapp, general secretary of the Shoe’ and Leather Workers’ | Industrial Union, and also Commu- | nist candidate for president of the jon | ing taken care of at the home, (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) Ges The net result of the proposed operations will be to give the United States government a financial machinery very similar to the Equalization Fund of the Bank of England. This machinery is used by both govern- ments in the fight to cheapen their own currencies as they battle for ad= vantage in the field of international markets. Roosevelt will, from now on, set-an artificial price that the United States government will pay for gold. In this way it will attempt to keep prices rising, and to keep American exports to flow outward. At home, the Roosevelt plan. will send prices soaring upward, causing another slash in the real income of the American workers and farmers. Speculators Profit The Roosevelt announcement sent the prices on the Stock Exchange leaping. The stocks of gold companies were in especial demand. Insiders like Rooseveii’s friend, Bernard Ba- tuch, reaped a speculative fortune, it Was rumored, That. the imperialist rivals of the United Sta.es will reply to this aviack their markets was openly pre- dicted by Senator Thomas of Okla- homa, who declared that “this will cause foreign nations to attempt to check the President’s program.” It seems unlikely that France will be able to maintain itself on the gold standard, in the face of the Roose- velt move. Despite his ‘assurances of “sound money,” Rooseyelt’s plan is admitted to carry the inevitability of further inflationary measures. That the pres-* ent move was necessitated by ie failure of the N.R.A. to keep prices rising in the face of declining con~ sumer demand is*offered as proofthat Roosevelt, in order to maintain ris- ing prices, will soon be forced to in= stitute still further inflation. The net effect will be to cut the real wages of the workers still ; further, US.-Anti-Fascists Asked to Care for: Paris Child Refuge. NEW YORK.—The National Com mittee to Aid the Victims of Ger man Fascism has been asked to @S- sume responsibility for the Children’s » Home which has been established on the outskirts of Paris by the Inter- national Relief Committee with which the National Committee ts af- filiated. The headquarters of the In- ternational Committee are in Paris, Twenty-two children are already be- ‘The appeal came in a letter received } by Alfred Wagenknecht, secretary of ? the National Committee from Isabel | Brown and Dorothy Woodman, joint ' secretaries of the British Committee. * The writers state that they had just * returned from France where they * made a tour of the relief work. They > report: 4 1—There is a Children’s Home-and | relief work being carried on in. Saat’; brucken. The British Committee is , responsible for the upkeep of the, home. 2—A Children's Home has been @ tablished on the outskirts of ‘ at Maison Laffitte. Your National ’ Committee is being asked to undore - take the responsibility for this homé © When I was there I found the hots | and gardens ideal for the purpose.” Twenty-two children were elieady$ there, but the biggest culty was, lack of material resources. \q 3—We also know of relief work; that has been done in Germany ‘if- self, which is of such a character, that we cannot give details, but we; can assure you that the work is De, ing done well. iat The National Committee is now plannin ‘ities to be held in the, near future in connection with their, relief werk. The performance of the, “Reichstag Trial” to be given at the” Central Opera House, Oct. 25, and_ the farewell meeting for Baxbusse will be used as special appeals for Re-_ lief funda,