The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 27, 1933, Page 1

| s ii ate some | | Your Donation to the Daily | Worker Helps It Fight | Lynch Terror New York, N. ¥., under the Act of Maren Vol. X, No. 258 > ” Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at oa (Section of the Communist International) ist Party U.S.A. — | America’s Only Working | orker Class Daily Newspaper Cotter, possibly rein. 8, 197, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1933 (Six Pages) Price 3 Cents EVEL LEE DOOMED; ROOSEVELT, RITCHIE REFUSE TO ACT Senators Hide Murder Link of Wall U.S. Agents NO BAN ON NAZI MEETING: WORKERS PLAN GIGANTIC COUNTER-DEMONSTRATION O’Brien “Ban” Covers Armory Only; Nazis to Hold Rally In Some Other Hall Negroes Demand Harlem Hospital Oust Nazi Doctor; Minor Protest Broadcast BULLETIN NEW YORK.—Hearst’s New York Journal late last night published the seeret Nazi letter which appeared in the Daily Worker Oct. 7, without crediting this paper. NEW YORK.—While the New York Nazis were preparing to hold their “German Day” rally next Sunday in some hall other than a city armory, following Mayor O’Brien’s ban on _ the use of an armory, workers’ organizations representing more than 200,000 people intensified preparations for a gigantic counter-demonstration. “The demonstration will be held wherever the Nazis call their meet- ing)’ seid a statement issued by the New York Committee to Aid Victims of Germen Fascism, which issued the call for the demonstra~ tion, which is supported by the Trade Read “How Untermyer Asked For and Got Nazi Letter from ‘Daily’,” by Sender Garlin, on page _ Three. Union Unity Council, the Communist Party, and many other organizations. The place where the Nazis will meet had not been learned at the time ther Daily Worker wert to press. Workers were called to watch the press, and to keep in touch with the headquarters of their or~ ganizations for word as te where the counter-demonstration is to be held. The time remains the same—:30 p. m.Sunday, in time te have such a mass of workers present that the meeting cannot take place. The committee pointed out that Mayor O'Brien's “ban” is merely a refusal to allow a pubticly-owned building to be used, and is in no sense a ban onthe Nazi meeting itself. “The Mayor's meeting on Wednes- day was’ merely a contest between 100 per cent fascists and 90 per cent aid a statement issued by ional Committee to Aid Vic- tims of German Fascism. The fa tion of Ridder, of the Staats Zeitung, which was heard, has announced that they could support Hitlerism 90 per cent. The 90 per centers apparently won. They will now arrange their German Day celebration.” Negroes Protest Nazi Doctor The Nazi forces who control the United German Societies are busy) consolidating their forces again. Pind~ ing that Heinz Spanknoebel, Hitler’s accredited agent in America, been so exposed as to interfere with their plans, they brought forward another i, Dr. az T. Griebl of Harlem Hospital, president of the “Friends of New Germany,” the of- ficial Nazi organization in America. A delegation of the League of Struggle for Negro Rights yesterday called at Harlem Hospital, and de- manded of Drs. Wright and Connors, directors of the hospital, that Dr. Griebl be thrown out. They also sent a telegram to Mayor O’Brien and to afl the mayoralty can- didates of the capitalist parties, in- cluding Charles Solomon of the So- cialisi Party, declaring that “the people of Harlem demand the re~ moval of Dr. Griebl. No_ Hitlerite shall be allowed to cut up Negroes in Harlem Hospital.” The wire also demanded that they wire to Governor Ritchie of Maryland demanding that he halt the legal lynching of Buel tee, Maryland Negro whose execu- ton was set to take place early today. Workers Barted from Hearing The delegation of representatives of labor organizations was barred for two hours from Mayor O’brien’s hearing Wednesday, and then only five members were allowed into the hearing. They were not alowed to approach the speaker's table, and were not allowed to voice their opin- ‘on. By an ironic turn, however, work- ers ail over New York hoard Robert Minor’s fiery attack on the Nazis and on Tammany. The hearing was broadcast over station WMCA. The officials in the hall did not think Minor’s voice could be heard, as b did not speak into the microphones His powerful voice reached the m phone nevertheless, and boome: from thousands of receivers throu out the city. Unemployment Insurance Cash Relief — Voir For tmmediate (eomeenicth ~ had | N.Y. Vets Called — to Demonstrate for Relief This Friday |W. E. S. L. Issues Call, | Citing Relief Law _ Vielations. . jerans and peace-time ex-servi war nurses and dependents are called by the Workers’ demonstration this morning which | will go to City Hall to demand that the laws providing for cash relief for | the veterans be enforced. The march | starts at Union Square at 10 a.m. | Despite the existence of laws which | make it mandatory for the city to | provide cash relief for veterans and | dependents, the W.E.S.L, points out that only $585,000 has been given by the Tammany city government in the past six months to 22,000 veterans. There are estimated to be 350,000 veterans in New York City, including peace-time and war ex-servicemen, of whom 150,000 are estimated to be in need. The call includes peace-time | ex-servicemen who are also supposec | to benefit by the law. Admissions of Euel Lee’s Judge Shows His Rights Violated ‘The testimony of Judge Duncan of Maryland in regard to the ex- | clusion of Negroes from Eastern Shore juries, shows clearly the fla- grant violation of Evel Lee’s con- stitutional rights by the lynch courts: David Levinson (LL.D. attorney): May I ask your honor whether in all the years (25) in which you have made selections for jury service you have ever selected for such jury service a Negro? Judge Duncan: I have not. Levinson: May I ask your honor, whether in the panel which you here selected with a view to pros- pective service in the case at bar, your honor excluded from consider- ation Negroes? Duncan: Whether I excinded from consideration? Levinson: From your considera- tion? Duncan: I didn’t consider them at all, Levinson: them at all? Duncan: No, Levinson: And does your honor say you never have in any other case? | i | j You didn’t consider Border Patrol Defends US. Against Bean Bags By a Worker Correspondent EL PASO, Tex.—In the early part of July, the newspapers of El Paso printed the fact that the U. 8S. border setrol captured a Mexican smuggling sacks of beans across the Rio Srande. So the story ran, In the latter part of July, I at- nded an auction sale held by the vder patrol of confiscated contra- nd. At the close of the auction, 2 beans were offered for sale. ragine my surprise, when, instead t the 10 sacks confiscated, only 3 ere on display and sold. ‘The local papers are always boast- 2¢ of the -border patrol as honest ‘en of the first water, What be- Knew of Big Gov't Graft WASHINGTON, Oct. 26—So sen- sational were the contents of letters from the files of the Chase National Bank, that Ferdinand Pecora, attor- ney for the Senate Investigating Committee, yesterday afternoon stop- ped reading it right in the middle, after a hasty whispered conference with Winthrop Aldrich, head of the Rockefeller controlled Wall Street bank, The letter was suppressed by the Committee. Its contents, said Pecora, might came “acts of violence in Cuba.” Because the recent letters made public by the Committee have been of so glaring a nature, it is open- ly conjectured that the contents of the suppressed letter can refer to nothing less than open proof that the United States Government and the Chase Bank had part in the wholesale murders, executions, and assassinations of revolutionary leaders and workers in Cuba, in support of the bicody Machado regime. Earlier in the day, in was revealed that the Machado officials had per- sonally filched over $18,000,000 from the Chase Bank loans. Over $40,+ 000,000 more was lent to the Ma- chado government by the bank. It was shown that the United States. Government's State Department knew all along of these enormous loans and the huge graft of the Machado government, 4 It was shown that NEW YORK —All New York vet-| diverted into his own pockets $9,000,- 000 of a.twelve-million dollar trust Negro and white, Gold Star mothers, | fund, It was revealed that the United Ex-Servicemen’s States Ambassador had personal League to join the relief march and; knowledge of all this graft, and was in constant consultation with repre- sentatives of the Rockefeller bank in Havana. A letter was introduced in which it was shown that the Machado government promised to repay all these huge Wall Street loans through heavy. taxes on the Cuban workers and peasants. Gov't Pushes War Plans On Navy Day By SEYMOUR WALDMAN (Daily Worker Washington Bureau) WASHINGTON, Oct. 25.—Tomorrow is Navy Day, the twelfth annual official field day of the armament and ship- building divisions of the steel cor- porations of America, This celebra~ tion is held on the anniversary of the birth of the late Jingo, President Theodore Roosevelt. A Navy Day letter from President Franklin D. Roosevelt to acting Sec- retary of the Navy Henry L. yelt, assuring the latter that “along with a lessening of naval armament there comes greater reason for main- taining the highest efficiency, fitness and morale in this branch of the national defense,” was made public tonight by the Navy Department. In it nothing was said about the admin- istration’s repeated announcements that it will build a navy “second to none” nor of the huge sums allotted for naval construction under the fic- tion of “public works.” Tomorrow afternoon N. M. Hub- bard, Jr., president of the Navy League of the United States (the propaganda screen for the steel cor- porations) will present Admiral Wil- liam H. Standley, chief of naval op- erations. and acting Secretary Roose- veJt to listeners over a national radio hook-up. According to the February 1904 Is- sue of.the Navy League Journal, the “official organ of the Navy League.” the Navy Leagues’ founders included: J. Plerpont Morgan, the Midvale Steel Company and Robert M. Thompson, then chairman of the board of the International Nickel Compayy, and John Jacob Astor. Secretary of the Navy Swanson, who has just completed his inspec- tion of the U. 8. war armada station- ed in the Pacific, sent “a message to the fleet’ in which he declared: the helm—also a former Assistant Secretary of the Navy. That he thoroughly understands the present naval needs and that he has the courage to meet them ts evidenced by his immediate building program.” lessening of naval armament, Another Expose Saturday Tomorrow's Daily Worker will carry an expose of the reactionary forces which are now trying to pre- vent the recognition of the Soviet Union, Order the paper at your | -ame of the other 7 bags of beans. newsstant ” 4 Street With M GREEN AIDS N.R.A., BOSSES TO SMASH N. Y. SHOE STRIKE, Urges Workers to Go Back to Shops and Vote on Union In January; Biedenkapp Barred from Session NEW YORK.—William Green, President of the American Federation of Labor, was put forward by the National Labor Board of the N.R.A. as chief lieutenant to smash the strike of | the 8,000 shoe workers at hearings held Tuesday and Wednes- day. Green met with the strikers after the National Labor Board had insisted that the strikerse—H+———— be separated from their chosen rep- * resentatives and leaders, and barred Set $20 O00 Bail to Fred Biedenkapp and I. Rosenberg, + secretary and organizer of the In- dustrial Union, from the special con- ference, ‘The pretext given was that the & PITTSBURGH, Pe. Oct. 26—| Keep Borich Jailed | N.R.A. wished to refrain from enter- ing a “jurisdictional dispute” between the Boot and Shoe Union, which has had no connection with the strike, and the Industrial Union, but it be- came clear that this was a trick in- tended to get the strikers on record as accepting their strike-breaking proposals. “Why don’t you go back to work?” Green asked the seven strikers at the meeting. “We'll take a referen- dum in January. Of course we can’t take back all the strikers at once time as it is slack now.” Point by point the strikers answered every treacher- ous proposal Green made. They de- clared their readiness to return to work if thir demands were met. “But,” said they, “what assurance have we returning to work that the bosses ii not fire all® our active “Amién members? What protection have we without our union?” They scorned Green’s suggestion that they could Invoke Section 7a, answering that they had no faith that their interests would be protected by the N.R.A. Senator Wagner was finally forced to step in when the strikers could not be made to yield an inch, and ex- pressed the unshaken determination that they would rather starve than accept the Boot and Shoe Union in | the shops. “Ts this all you have to offer us?” the shoe striker asked. 1 “They thought that because we were common workers that they could pu‘ over this treacherous trick of getting us to consent to go back to work under the Boot and Shoe. We told them we would make ho de- cision until all the strikers could pass on it.” So a striker reported the interview with Mr. Green at a mass meeting of shoe strikers, at Manhattan Lyceum yesterday, at which a report of the hearings were given, The strikers’ delegation, which will confer with the National Labor sume the hearings on the settlement, of shoe strikers. Tammany lynch terror on Negroes—Vote Communist! Board today at 45 Broadway to re-| will be accompanied by thousands | | tional Miners Union, was surren- dered to the immigzation authori ties and is now in jail. The immi- gration authorities are demanding Frank Borich, secretary of the Na-| # $20,000 bail, pending the appeal of Borich. | This outrageous demand for $20,-/ 000 is an effort to keep Borich in} jail at a time when the miners face the iast attempt to smash} their strike on the part of the| Roosevelt admniistration, of which | Labor Secretary Perkins is a part. Martin Ryan and William Hyne: appointed lackeys of Lewis in Dis-) trict 4, are now in Washington, and| will, no doubt, help carry out the maneuvers of Roosevelt and the N.R.A. administration. | a the .N.M.U..ix sanding a protest wire to Secretary» Perkins. demand ing a lower bail. The National Miners Union sends greetings to the meeting in New York, Thurs- day, calling on the workers to} struggle against deportation as a/ means of intimidating the foreign born workers for varticipating in struggles under militant leadership against the starvation program of the Roosgevelt administration. At the same time many miners Jare being arrested on framed-up {charges for ho!$-* guns and the framed-up charges of bombing, in order to further @emoralize the} strike. | Use of Machine-Guns' In Strikes Is Legal,| Says Dept. of Justice} | WASHINGTON, Oct. 26.—Use | of machine guns to shoot down) | strikers is regarded as legitimate, according to the Roosevelt De- partment of Justice, Assistant Attorney General Joseph B. Kee- nan declared yesterday that to keep gangsters from obtaining machine guns, a federal listing | | would be made. | Legitimate possessors of ma-| | | | chine guns, he said, were mine | opers‘ors, steel corporations, rail- roads, banks and peace officers. COMRADES: Daily Worker is in danger. existence. These deficits have increa: Worker to six and eight pages. page paper, which was inadequate f proved our Daily Worker in the an’ concretely. This week a minimum of $10,000 is end of the week. of yourself. porting it financialiy. Without a daily newspaper we ¢: the class struggle. Without the Dai! American workers to the defense of . Immediate Action! Deficits without which a revolutionary daily newspaper like our “Daily” cannot be published threaten its very No friend of the Daily Worker would advise returning to the old four masses and for building up a mass circulation. But the slow response of the Districts and mass organizations in the present $40,000 Drive increases the danger to our Daily Worker every day. rate funds are coming in, we will not be able to meet these bills at the . we afford to let the “Daily” sink? ‘his is a question you must ask ‘You will answer, “No!” organize the workers for action against the ruling class. ‘The Daily Worker is our principal instrument for preparing forces for the overthrow of the capitalist system. It is our principal instrument for “We now have another Roosevelt at! organizing the workers to win their immediate demands for bread, for building up powerful resistance to the growth of Fascism, for rallying the « sed since we have enlarged the Daily for meeting the need of the working We enlarged and im~- ticipation that you would support it needed to pay pressing bills. At the But you must answer it by sup- annot give the workers leadership in ly Worker it would be impossible to | set’ County, who is named by Cap-| |tain Spencer in his affidavit giving| cluded in Sp: 's affidavit, re- | jurisdiction as weil as national uni- fused an 2 by the Governor.|Yormed and secret forces, greeted | The Gove: The Governor|the seyen workers in and around | refused to see Patterson and the|the big executive offices of the delegation. |President. Nevertheless, th work- the Socialist Fatherland. UT your concrete support, comrades, the creditors cannot be pre- yented from closing our Daily Worker down. Your support must be xe secretary said nothing about a| forthcoming in a much larger measure than heretofore in this Drive. The Districts especially which have fallen down in the Drive must take it upon themselves to get into immediate and decisive acifon to save our Daily ‘Worker, EARL BROWDER, Goneral Secretary of the Communist Party, U.S. A. ‘ Tharsday's Receipts Previous Total .... ) ¢ | Doomed to Die | | } 1 PRESIDENT REFUSES T | SEE DELEGATION; FRAMED ~ NEGRO LOSES LONG FIGHT | Baltimore Post Publishes Daily Worker Expose q of Armwood Lynching; City Roused 1 Howe Admits Roosevelt Has Authority to | Call Maryland Lynch Quiz chado ¥& 0 snatching Enel Lee from the legal ot if NEW YORK.—As the Daily Worker went to press, the last hope of | lynchers of Maryland appeared to have failed. Euel Lee appeared doomed to burn in the clectrle chair | Friday morning, at one minute after midnight. | John L. Spivak, special correspondent of the Daily Worker, wil wit- | ness the legal murder of the framed Negro. His eye-witness account | will appear in Saturday's Daity Worker. | BULLETIN WASHINGTON, D. ©., Oct. %. — Chief Justice Hnghes denied last ap- peal for Enel Lee this afternoon. . | By MARGUERITE YOUNG. (Daily Worker Washington Bureau) Euel Lee at the time of his ar- test, shortly before an armed mob attempted to lynch him in Snow Hill, Maryland. | icmiest e | Louis McHenry Howe, Secre- Robbins, Ritchie Try Block Lynch Probe State’s Attorney Hunts Eye Witness BALTIMORE, Md., Oct. 26—State Attorney John B. Rebbins of Somer- before a workers’ delegation in |the White House today and | stated that the President does have |authority to launch a federal in- Armwood lynch atrocity in Mary- ‘land. | Demands for federal investiga~ tion of the hideous lynching of | Armwood, and for immediate in- tervention by Roosevelt to stay the Jexecution of Euel Lee, scheduled for tomorrow in Baltimore, were registered by three Negro ani four white spokesmen for mass organ- | izations representing millions of workers, students and militant unions. | “Tl admit that the President can jeall upon the Attorney-General to carry on an investigation in the | Armwood case if he believes that 7 & |the constitutional rights of the peo- ernoon I was conferring with one} ple of the State of Maryland have group on the lynching when theSe/}been violated,” Howe told the dele- Communists came to my office. Later | gation, : I sent out to get the leader, a man|~ William L. Patterson, secretary | named Patterson, but he and the|of the International Labor Defense ee d that/and leader of the delegation, then a list of the mob leaders, today scoured the Eastern Shore and Balti- more in ap effort to locate Srencer before his publi cappearance at a hearing. ‘The Daily Worker yes lished a compl Governor rday p of the lynch who tried responsibility to in Yesterday aft~ ene Sy they| marshalled evidence that constitu- vs |tional rights have been ruthlessly “Then I informed that the|trampled in Marylani. However, he names had t printed. I shall get|said, afterward, “I don’t think @ copy of the paper and turn it over) Roosevelt will act. As we told to the Attorney-c 1” |Howe, Roosevelt represents one| s. at the Govern-|class and we another.” | y trying to pre-| At least 40 armed police, includ- | sent to him t of names in-|ing strong-arm men under local | jers made a spectacular presenta~ jtion in an hour’s conference shot . . Roosevelt Ritchie | with sharp exchanges. ‘5 | They named members of the mob who lynched Armwood, as published Get Protest Flood by the Daily Worker, and later sent N) Roosevelt a copy of the affidavit of | ans jan. eye-witness who supplied the NEW YORK. ll day ysterday, the |information, They warned that mil- | eve of the day set by Governor|lions of Negroes now demanding | Ritchie of Maryland for the ghastly |their rights through missions like legal. murder of Euel Lee, framed|today’s “will seek other methods’ WASHINGTON, Oct. 26. =| | tary to President Roosevelt, sat | vestigation <inte the: recent, George.) By JOHN L. SPIVAK BALTIMORE, Md., Oct. 26 —All persons named by the Daily Worker today as leaders of the mob that brutally lynched Bob Armwood in Prin- cess Ann a week ago Wednesday, wil! be summoned for questioning by Goy- ernor Albert C. Ritchie and State At~- |torney John B. Robbins of Somerset, | County (where the lynching took | place) it was announced today, | The Datly Worker story was | brought to their attention by the Bai- timore Post, which reprinted it with | an eight column streamer this after- |noon on page one and, thomgh orit- | ting the names of the lynchers in their story, quoted Captain Frank Spencer's affidavit in full. Publication by the Baltimore Post, with full credit to the Daily Worker, caused 2 sensation In the city. Bince the State’s Attorney himself is involved in Captain Spencer’s af- fidavit, people are left wondering whether the whole thing will not be whitewashed since the Governor has shown no tendency to supplant the County Attorney, who, according to Spencer, said to the mob leaders: “You won't find any opposition to- night when you go after him.” Governor Ritchie, irritable because of the state and nation-wide criti- cism of his handling of the Arm- wood lynching, said angrily today that the news given by the Daily Worker will be submitted to Attor- ney-General Lane for investigation. ere “Tired,” Says Euel Lee BALTIMORE, Md. Oct. 26, Warden Brady, fully realizing the intense interest in the Euel Lee case, spent the whole of the day hanging cement bags from the newly pur- | chased rope with which Lee is to be hanged, to make sure it will hold his body. Once, during an execution, the rope broke and several witnesses fainted. During his last agonizing hours, the elderly Nagro has borne up with heroic fortitude. “I am ready to die,” he told Warden Patrick Brady of the penitentiary, where he is to be (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) Telegraph Concerns Stop Lee Protests Negro worker, Negro and white work-|if denied them too long. ers and their organizations, and many| “Sometimes the laboring class intellectuals, joined in a flood of pro-|becomes the ruling class,” Howe| test tele; 1s to Gov, Ritchie and| observed provocatively at one point. | President Roosevelt, in rate; “They did it in Russia”—Patter- | last-minute effort to Buel Lee,|son took the challenge easily—“and Protest. tel: S nt by the| We hope they'll do the same thing} League of Stri ro Rights, }here.” H the International Labor Defense and| Pleading for ten days in which | hundreds of organizations in this |an appeal may be carried to the| city. The Daily Worker received/U. S. Supreme Court on behalf of word that similar protests were pour-|Euel Lee, the delegation cited evi- ing in on Ritchie and Roosevelt from | dence that this Negro was framed other centers throughout the coun-|UP, and asserted that Maryland try. ‘Telegrams were also sent in this| authorities’ demagogic declarations city to the Der io, Republican |that they are hastening the hang- and Socialist candidates for Mayor,|ing to avert another lynching is demanding they state their position |actually a gesture of moral sup~ and join in the protest against the|Pport to the Scottsboro boys’ prose-| legal ching of the aged Negro Piiiae ee (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) worker. Robert Minor, Communist candi- best isowp Litvinov Starts On | Trip to Washington date for Mayor, sent the following elegram to President Roosevelt: Soviet Envoy Takes Express to Paris “On behalf of the Negro and white masses of New York as ex- vressed in many mass meetings, E demand you stop execution of Eucl Lee, innocent framed Negro work- r, condemned to die in Baltimore Friday, and influence Democratic yfficials in Maryland to grant him MOSCOW, Oct, 26—Maxim_ Litvi- ‘nov, People’s Commissar for Foreign | Affairs, left Moscow tonight with his of Hitler regime.” | party on his way to, Washington, Throughout the day protest mass | where he will discuss with President yeetings were held in Harlem with | Roosevelt the establishment of dip- ve workers voting unanimously for | lomatic relations between the United igorous protests against the jegal| States and the Soviet Union. He lynching. tor his legal lynching comparable only to those of Alabama Iynchers ‘n Tuscaloosa and Scottsboro and ‘all unconditional pardon. Moves . jtook the Moscow-Paris express. NEW YORK—The Postal Tele- graph Company, through its chief counsel, Kean, yesterday refused to accept the following telegram to Gov. Ritchie, and President Roosevelt, pro~ testing the legal lynching of Euel Lee: “We demand immediate and un- conditional release of Euel Lee. Hold you personally responsible for his life. (Signed) “Trade Union Unity Leagne, “William Z. Foster, Sec’y.* The same company a short tims ago refused to accept a protest tele- gram to the Nazi court, in Germany, denouncing the vile frame-up and farcical trial of Ernst Torgler and three other Communist leaders. The Western Union refused to ac- cept a telegram to Roosevelt and Ritchie from the Trade Union Unity Council unless the line “hold you per- sonally responsible for life of Euel Lee” was deleted. The telegram as originally offered, read: “In the name of 50,000 organized workers, members of our affiliated organizations, we demand immediate commutation sentence of Euel Lee, We protest. your denial to see dele gation. We are convinced of the absolute innocence of Lee, victim of: bigotry, perjury, mob and lynch spirit, Hold you personally responsible for life of Euel Lee.” Bigned) Bec'y, Trade Union Unity