The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 30, 1933, Page 1

q / Answer Threat to Suppress the “Daily” by Rushing Your Daily orker hee America’s Only Working Class Daily Newspaper Contribution ‘ . : | Central O nist Party U.S.A. ace CLOUDY—PROBABLY RAIN (Section of the Communist International) _ ee Vol. X, No. - 260 Ae let we wig ee tiiterackar an te NEW YORK, MONDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1933 (Six Pages) Price 3 Cents New York, N. ¥., under the Act’ ot FISH, EASLEY REVEALED AS HITLER AIDES IN THE U.S ‘Benjamin, Jobless Leader, Sent to M ilitary GIVEN YEAR FOR ACIIVITY IN GALLUP Trial Conducted in War Fashion; Officers Acted as Judges GALLUP, New Mexico, Oct. 29.—For participating in the ers, Herbert Benjamin, tional organizer of the Unemployed Councils, was seized by the military authorities, and at a drum head court martial was sentenced to one year in the penitentiary. In the cotuwse of his tour for the Unemployed Councils, Benjamin stopped in Gallup and attemptec to speak on the picket lines. The miners have been on strike for nearly three | months under the ership of the National Miners Union. Benjamin was immediately arrested | the militia and .placed in the He escaped the same night | and was recaptured a few days later wear the Arizona border. Previously, Robert Roberts, strike leader, was) court, martialéd and given six months | in the penitentiary. Because he | pleaded for the pity of employed and unemployed ‘inthe struggle, and be-| cause of his attempted escape, Ben~- jamin was given a heavier sentence. | His trial ected in war) fashion, with. rs acting as the. judges. held in the} because they | doe the ogee tary with m an ne guns and drum head cour mart are the adminis- | t of the NRA and stri kebreakers | given Benjamin is part of the ahast| of the basa ities and coal operat and foi them to pearnale condi- ” dela National Sec- | ae ee Unemp! loyed Councils out yesterday. ut a number of otter active fighter Tested and imp: class organizations should immedi- ately adopt resolutions and telegra: of protest sending them to Governo: Hockenhuil, Senie Fe M., and to General Wood Gallup, N M. The immediat os? of Benjamin and the othe! s should be ema: Dirt farmers Defy of Farm Conference. B.R. Workers, Unions, Unemployed Councils, Pledge Unity J Oct. 29.—Indicat- d wave of re- mst the pol- ‘arm organ- s of the Loup A resolution of the offi- a Grange to dineiad the question of a delegate to the Second National Farm Con- ference to be held Chicago on November 15-18. “We deciare,” the farmers’ yeeclution states, “that this local Grange endorses the Second Na- elect a delegate to the conference, and we call upon all other locals in the State to do likewise, since this Conference will take up, questions of vital interest to the dirt farmer.” As part of the fight to establish anity between the small farmers and the city workers in their fight against the food monopolies, Unemployed Councils and the Union Unity League of Chicego will hold a mass meeting on Nov. 17 to greet the Karmers’ Confer- ence. The Railroad Bvotherhood Unity Movement has also announced its support of the Farmers’ Conference @ in a letter to Lem Harris. tive secretary of the Is | National Commitize of Action, which is o:ganizins the Conference, “You can rect azsured that railroad workers wil hail) your conference with delight. We wel- come you and will send a fra- ternal delegate,” strike of the Gallup coal min-| na- | Officials Sabotage tional Farm Conference and will | the | Ji ail No Safety | for Lynch | Witness Attempt to Bribe Capt. Spencer Revéaled By JOHN L. SPIVAK (Special to the Daily Worker) | BALTIMORE, Md. Oct. 29.— Somerset County, which almost two weeks ago brutally lynched George Armwood, a Negro, today bluntly told the Daily Worker that it would not guarantee that Capt. Frank Spéncer, World War veteran whose affidavit names the mob leaders, would leave Princess Anne alive if he goes there to testify. | The statement for the County was | made by State’s attorney John B. | Robins who is in charge of the be nching investigation. Robins added | that he would not undertake to pro- | tect the former army man who ac- | cuses him (the state’s attorney) of | Participating in the mob action. When'l informed him that Spencer | could not be expected ‘to appear if he knew it would be suicide, Robins shouted angrily: | “I don't care whether he comes or not. Tried To Bribe Spencer With Ralph Matthews, city editor of the Baltimore Afro-American, the largest Negro newspaper in the East, | listening in on an extension wire, |I telephoned the state’s attorney at | his homme in Christfield and read him |a statement Capt. Spencer gave | Clarence M. Mitchell, an Afro-Amer- ican staff reporter, but which the | Afro~American did not publish. This statement charges that when Spencer | appeared at the coroner’s inquest in Princess Anne last week Robins | would not. permit him to testify, and that later the state's attorney of- fered Spencer $100 to leave the East- ‘ern Shore. | This story, as written by Mitchell, follows: | “‘I was not permitted to make a statement at the Armwood inquest held in Princess Anne today,’ Frank | Spencer, eye-witness of the whole af- | fair, told an Afro-American © re- porter on Tuesday. “According to Spencer, he arrived in Princess Anne on Tuesday ‘morn- | ing and immediately reported to Dis- trict Attorney Robins. He was not cordially received and was asked by | the official why he was on the’ East- | en Shore. Gave Story To Local Paper “Spencer then informed Mr. Robins { his knowledge of the lynching and stated that he already had given a | Signed story of it to the Afro-Amer- |ican. He further pointed out that he felt the only right thing to do would be to appear at the investiga- | dion and tell what he knew. ° “At this juncivre Spencer. asserts that Rebins asked him how he would like to be strung up. His reply was that after experiences in the World War he was not afraid ‘of a pack of would-be-men like those on the Eastern Shore. “Robins is then alleged to have asked Spencer if he had any money | and what he expected to get out of | the affair. Spencer reports that ‘he | (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO), ‘Shoe Strikers Send ‘Delegation toWash.; Meet Plans March Charge NRA Officials ‘Hold Up Decision. in hygpeoy to Break Strike NEW YORK.—A committee of four, elected at a mass meeting of striking shoe workers yesterday, will | start for Washington this morning |to present the demands of the shoe workers and protest against the at- NRA to break their strike by holding up a decision on the issues involved in the struggle. ‘The committee is composed of Fred Biedenkapp, general Organizer of the | Shoe Workers Indi Union, Frank Costello, Marteo McGrath. | The mass meeting decided to organize |@ mass march of 1,000 shoe workers ,on Washington if the NRA officials | still refuse to make a decision. The |march would be begun on Wednes- 7, according to the plans adopted he meeting. Seven thousand s were present at the meeting. § -five thousand New England | shoe workers sent their greetings to the mass meeting through Zachrin, | wo: one of the main speakers at yester- 918 Halsey Street, | tempts of the National Board of the hy day's mass meeting at Arcadia Hall,| of Brooklyn, STATE BARS WORKERS AT LEE FUNERAL Judge Orders Police to “Shoot to Kill”; Denies Body to I. L. D. ‘BALTIMORE, Md., Oct. 39.—The lynch courts, which framed and rail- Toaded 60-year old Euel Lee to a hangman’s noose, yesterday denied @ decent burial to the body of the legally murdered Negro worker and issued orders to the. Sheriff to “shoot to kill” to prevent any protest demon- strations during the internment of Lee’s body in Potter's. Field. Over 10,000 Negro and white workers had viewed the body since last Friday while it lay in a local funeral estab- lishment, pledging themeselves to a relentless fight against the savage op- pression of the Negro masses, symbol- izcd in the legal lynching of Euel Lee as well as in the mob lynching ten days ago of George Armwood on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. Plans had been‘ made. for a protest mass funeral here,. after, which Lee's body was to’be shipped to Harlem where New York Negro and white workers were preparing another gigantic Protest demonstration. Perjury, Deceit Using the.same methods of. perjury and deceit with which they had pre- pared and carried through: the legal murder of Lee, the. courts conspired with the prison chaplain to ride rough-shod over Lee’s last wish that his strangled, tortured body be taken from the ruling class and their State which murdered him and turned over to Bernard. Ades, International Labor Defense attorney, for burial by the white and Negro toilers who had sup- ported. the heroic two-year fight waged by the I.L.D. to save him. ‘Ades had made application for the body soon after Lee was hung in Maryland penitentiary early last Fri- day morning,.in the presence of 44 witnesses (the law allows only 20), made up largely of hard-faced, gloat- ing representatives from the Eastern Shore lynch communities, where mobs had twice scoured the local jails in an attempt to lynch Lee and even at- tempted to lynch his attorney, when Ades went to Snow Hill‘in October, 1931, to file a motion for a change of venue in the case, Ignore Lee's Wishea. The prison authorities ignored the {last will and testament of Lee devis- ing his body to Ades. They refused be buried .in. Potter's Field. Judge Lands Lynchers At the hearing on the injunction before Judge O'Dunne, Ades took ex- ception to the police pretense that the burial was -being rushed because of consideration of public health. Ades remarked “The presence of the. police might be a menace >to the’ public health at the. funeral.” j “Not if they follow the exainple of 65 police at Princess Anne,” cynically declared Judge O'Dunne, referring to the fact that the police present at the Iynching | of George Armwood had made no effort to protect him. “They didn’t ‘do much damage there.” NRA Deepens Crisis US.FederalReserve Bank ReportAdmits Confirms Communist Analysis; Shows Down Trend in Industry WASHINGTON, Oct. 99:—That the ¢ crisis and have caused a further slowing down of industry pio admitted today by the official bulletin of the United States Federal Reserve Bank in its latest. monthly Creare ‘The report states: “The an i etre months has come tn large measure | in the industries in which sion previously had been’ most rapid. It has been marked in industries In “boom” ‘by pointing out’ that ‘this “boom” was not based:on aciual cof- sumer demand, but on fears of in- flation and stocking up of goods in anticipation of rising prices. The report, while it’ admits the ing effect of the NRA on the fails:'to mention the basic cause crisis, the private of production, to give up the body, declaring it would | ‘Victories as 16th EASLEY’S PLEA FOR HITLERISM ADVISORY COMMITTEE Warren C. Couz (Chairman, Coun- il of National Defense, Detroit Beard of Commerses) Detroit, Mich. Bass. Gro. Jon Ros Derarmis (Coramander-in-Chief, Military ‘Order of tha World Wer) New York. Raven M. Easter, (Politico Economic Writer) New York anuron Fut, Je. (Formedy Chairman, Congressional Coarnic- tee to Investigate Activities and Propagende of the Communists ‘in the U.S) Garrison, N. Yo Eom HumtmGron Hours (Chair- man, American Defense Society) New York. F. Q Jaunsow (President, Betver Americen Federation) Los An- pele, Cal, Ly. Cot. Onver Jounson (R.0.T.C Amociation of the United Seater) ‘Washington, D. C. Hasay A. Jue (American Vigi- lant Intelligence Federation) Chi- cago, Tl. Samver McRosears (Banker) New York. © G. Noaman (Chairman, Build- ing Trades Employers’ Associs- tion) New York. Buup Seances (Bditor, The United ‘Mine Worker) Indianapolis, Ind aire Ss Srezuz, (National Re- public) Washington, D. C. > ‘4 Aacumare E. Stevenson (For- merly Counsel, New York Stats Commibbge Investigating Seditious Activities) New Cantan, Conn. Carrane Jor B. Tazvon (Forres President, American Coalition of Patriotic Societies) New York. foun A. Van Onsort (President American’ Coslition of Patriotic Societies) Washington, D. C. >_>. Anniversary Looms Workers, Farmers Make Special Efforts to Speed 5-Yr. Plan ‘ By VERN SMITH (Special to the Daily Worker) (By Cable) MOSCOW, Oct. 29-Soviet work- ers and farmers are making special efforts to greet the Sixteenth Anni- versary with new victories. Izvestia today ran an editorial entitled “Vic- torles on Fields Greet November Sev- enth.” Fourteen Provinces and Republics have fulfilled their sowing programs. Eighty-two million, six hundred thou- sand acres of winter wheat have been sown in the Soviet Union up to Oct. 20th, which is 87 per cent of the plan. Every effort is being made to complete the winter sowing by Nov. th. The Winter sowing is substan- tially ahead of last year at this time. All-Union plowing plan is 46 per eent completed. The Soviet Press urges the concentration of all atten- tion on plowing as Factory workers are striving to in- crease in October the 9.6 per cent growth of. production in both heavy and light industry which character- ized the first nine months of this year. Gifts to sections of the country where production is above the plan or where {t 1s finished ahead of time characterize workers’ and peasants’ preparations for the Sixteenth Anni- versary. Examples: Tartar Miners Donbas agree to furnish twelve trains of coal, Kilkhoznicks Azerbaidjan agree to cotton delivery ahead of time, Kilkhozniks Tashkent is already delivering two trainloads cotton above the plan for the Fifteenth Anniver- sary of the founding of the Com- somols, Oct. 20th, which also pre- pares for the Sixteenth Anniversary. The Red Putilon factory of Leningrad is producing new machines, including a turbine of 12,000 kilowatts capacity. The Baltic shipyards, Leningrad, are (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) AMERICAN SECTION OF INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE TO COMBAT THE WORLD MENACE OF COMMUNISM RALPH M, EASLEY, Chairman Executive Committee MOTEL LEXINGTON, LEXINGTON AVENUE AT @TK STREET BEW TORK, ¥. T. October 27, 1933. To the Editor: ‘There is being sent you herewith 2 book which describes the long, hard fight Germany has been waging against interna- tional Communism. The American Section of the International Committee to Combat the World Menace of Communism, formed two years ago, has co-operated and kept in touch with the section already existing in Germany, 2s well as with the International Entente Against the Third Internationale, at Geneva, which covers France, Switzerland, Belgium and Italy. | The General League of German Anti-Communist Organi- zations, through its Chairman, Dr. Adolf Ehrt, the author of the book, has made it available for distribution in the United States in connection with our fight against Communism. Chairman Executive Committee Cepy of Ralph M. Easley’s letter to a “select number” of editors recom- mendir~ the Nazi poison book. GERMANY CIRCULATE HERE 3? |of New Germany, operation of Ralph Easley, country. British Mobilize in | | | | | Upsurge of Arabs Masses Rise Against) Imperialist-Landlord Oppression JERUSALEM, Oct. 29.—British of- ficials and military leaders of Pales- tine have mobilized all their forces to drown in blood the anti-imperialist upsurge of the oppressed Arab masses of the Near East. ‘The reported toll is 25 Arabs dead | and over two hundred wounded in Jaffa and the British naval port. of Haifa alone, while mass actions of Arabs were reported from all sec- tions of Palestine. Arab demonstrations in sympathy in all the principal cities of the Near | East, from Damascus, in Syria, to | Baghdad. |. Two squadrons of 18 British war- planes each were rushed to Pales- | tine from Egypt, and made flights | over Jerusalem, Jaffa and Haifa. | British residents of Jerusalem were THEY WILL FAIL! e i | i 1 | | } ational Recovery Administrator, | [ese Hugh E. Johnson, | Washington, D. C. | | Dear General Johnson: ‘. .. it would be well to ask Chairman Jones of the R.F.C. to stipu- late, as one of the conditions governing the proposed loan of $75,090,000 | CLUDE THE SQUELCHING OF THE “DAILY WORKER.” (Emphasis | ours—Editor.) . . (From Ralph Easley’s letter, a copy of which was sent to Grover Whalen and which was reprinted in full in the Daily Worker on Saturday, October 28th) ‘This is part of a letter sent to General Hugh J. Johnson by Ralph Easiey. This letter and the ore he sent to Grover Whalen were re~ Prodaced in full in the Daily Worker on Saturday, October 28. ROVER WHALEN and Ralph Easley have hatched a plot for suppressing the Daily Worker and for stopping the recognition of the Soviet Union by the Roosevelt, Administration. It is the same Whalen who directed the murder of Steve Katovis on the picket line in New York City, who directed the brutal clubbing of workers in Union Square, who caused the imprisonment on Welfare Island of William Z. Foster, Robert Minor, I. Amter, and Harry Raymond. He is the New York Director of the slave N.R.A. Ralph Easley, like Matthew Woll, is one of the leading officials of the National Civic Federation, friend of the open shop. Today's exposure shows that Easley work hand-in-hand with the Hitler thugs who murder our German comrades. Easley is working to spread fascist terror in the United States. HATE OUR DAILY WORKER BECAUSE IT ROUSES WORKERS 'TO MILITANT ACTION AGAINST THE N.R.A. They hate and fear our “Daily” because it brings into broad daylight the scab records of John L. Lewis and Willism Green, hand-imaidens of the Fascist National Re- covery Act. What is your answer to them? DELIVER A SMASHING BLOW TC SLUGGER WHALEN AND HIS GANG! ‘They want to squelch our paper. SQUELCH THEM. Saturday's receipts were only $325.26. Such a poor response only cheers them. WIPE THE CHEER OUT OF THEIR CRAVEN HEARTS. MAKE THEM FROTH AND FUME. Bring the present total of $16,649.91 up to $25,000 by the ends of this week. AIRMAIL FUNDS TO THE FIGHTING DAILY WORKER, 50 E. 13th St., New York City. Minor at Carnegie Hall Broadcast Robert Minor, Communist candi-| Election Symposium in Yorkville Sidney LeRoy, Communist Hall, | resent the Communist Party at | election symposium, night at Labor Temple, 243 84th St., 8 p. m. mass meeting in Carnegie ar 57th St, and 7th Ave. tomorrow night, 8 p. m. Mayorality candi- date from other political parties ‘4 | | to the Soviet Government, that Moscow should abandon its propaganda . Soviet Records New) | campaign in this country against the N.R.A., which, of course would IN- | can- date for Mayor, will speak at ajdidate for assemblyman, will rep-| tomorrow) East | Candidates from jee and deputized. A signal corps bas reported as having been dis- ched from Egypt to act with the; | British armed forces in Palestine. Hundreds of Arabs have been | placed under arrest. In Jerusalem, | | ten Communists were reported among those arrested. The Arab unsurge is directed against | the British imperialists, and their pol- | [fey of atilizine Zionist leadevs against | | |the masses of Arab tenant farmers. | With the active assistance of the British, the Zionist capitalists heve been buying up the most fertile lands. and driving the Arab tenants off. In the cities, the Arabs are driven from | }employment and subjected to all | | forms of discrimination. In order to suppress the resistance of the Arab | masses. the Zionist leaders have or- ganized a strong Fascist movement, with organized, armed bands of t rorists., This movement suppreste: the Jewish toilers in their struggle, well as Arabs. as Large Profits Cut by Middleman from By MARGUERITE YOUNG (Daily Worker, Wash'ngton Ana WASHINGTON, Oct. 29.—Check ling up on 14 commoiities, |Frederick C. Howe of. the jcultural Adjustment Administra- |tion found that the middlemen’s |margin on them was $11.33 on Sep tember 26, compared with $11.2 two weeks earlier, and $10.28 last February. For these products, the| |farmer received $6.62 on Septem- ber 26, while the worker-consumer paid $17.95 for the same goods. The Agricultural Adjustment Ad- | | minister: Federal agency | |whieh is of tax} |money for the destruction of food | crops. also announced today: “The spread between the price received by the farmer for his products and the price paid by the consumer has increased grad- ually but steadily since May of this year.” Howe gave the figures in a “Consumer's Guide.” He said: “‘Reduce the spread!’ is an appro- vriate sloran for the Recovery Program,” but that did not pre- vent his rationalizing the NRA’s e“fect. The Bureau of Labor Statistics announced simultaneously that “the general level of retail food prices” for October 10 showed a decline of one-tenth of one per cent unier two weeks, but was still 19 per cent above that of Jast April. Their n| breakdown showed, also that while have gone down considerably, sev- eral foods which workers must have will also speal The speeches are|other leading political parties will/to live—both fresh ani evaporated to be broadcast. Bach speaker is|also present their views on the|mi!'. bread, rice--are still shoot- limited to fifteen minutes, leading election issues. ing up- Palestine to Smash with the Arabs of Palestine were held | AGAINST JEWS, WORKERS | Civie Federation Gan; Gang Per Perfort ms Dirty Work of Spanknoebel and Haag By SENDER GARLIN | NEW YORK.—Heinz Spanknoebel and Werner Haag, Nazi | propagandists in the United States, and heads of the “Friends are getting the active assistance and co- Matthew Woll and Congressman Hamilton Fish in their anti-Semitic, anti-labor agitation in this Printing Plants: in Germany are spewing tons of Hitlerite © propaganda for distribution | throughout the world. | | Germany: 1 | ated and ker 4 Easley, Woll and Fish are acting as agents of the Nazi gov- ernment in distributing Hitler’s sin- ister propaganda. Clear-cut documentary evidence fully supporting this charge is in the possession of the Daily Worker. It is in the form of an expensive~ ly-printed, lavishly-illustrated 179- page book, called “Communism in The Truth About the Communist Conspiracy on the Eve of the National Revolution.” The | author is a Nazi named Adolf Ehrt, an aid of Paul Joseph Goebbels, Nazi Minister of Propaganda. The book, though printed in the English language for American consumption, was set up and _print- ed in Berlin. On the frontispiece of the book, reproduced on Page 3 of this issue of the Daily Worker, is the imprint of the printer who set up the book: Gebrudder Feyl. The illustrations for the book on the front page of the cover was de- signed by Hans Martin Tibor, Leip- zig, Germany. Distribution of this Nazi poison in the United States is in charge of Ralph Easley, chairman of the National Civic Federation, whose anti-labor activities in this country during the past 32 years were de- scribed in Saturday's issue of the Daily Worker. They designate themselves as the “American Section of International Committee to Combat the World | Menace of Communism. Easley, who is chairman of the Executive Council of the National Civic Federation—of which Matthew Woll of the American Federation of Labor—is acting president—is also chairman of the Executive Commit- tee of this Hitlerite American ap- | paratus. The American Section has close and continuous communication and relation with the head office of the Nazi murder and poison propaganda headquarters in B: The money for the printing and circulation of the Nazi filth comes directly from the Hitler treasury. Located starcely two blocks away from the palatial offices of the Na- tional Civic Federation in R. C. A. Building, 570 Lexington Ave., the new Easley Nazi group has its headquar- ters in the Hotel Lexington, Lexing- m Ave. and 48th St. - Easley thus finds it extremely con~ venient to combine his strikebreak- ing activities in the Civic Fedcera- tion with the job whi he has un- dertaken for the Hitlerites. Commenting on the new campaign |on behalf of international fascism, Food Price Advance Easley, Woll’s associate, addresses the “select list” of editors as follows: “There is being sent you herewith a book which describes the long, hard fight Germany has been waging |against international Communism. “The American Secticn of the In- ternational Committee to Combat the ‘orld Mcnace of Communism, formed two years ago, has co-oper- in touch with the sec- tion already ‘existing in Germany, as with the International Entente Against the Third Internationale, at Fe a, whic! Switzerland, Bei “The General League of German | A n t i-Communist rganizations, through its Chairman, Dr. Adolf Ehrt, the author of the book, has made it availiable for distribution in the United States in connection with jour fight against Communism.” Although formed two years ago, it was not until the blasting evidence of Nazi incendiarism, fiendish and sadistic torture and murder was re- vealed in “The Brown Book of the (Continued on Page Three) Bottle Crashes Thru Shop Window, Filled With Nazi Propaganda NEW YORK—tThe Ideal Importing Co., 1505 Third Ave, received last night a terse but specific note of instructions. The note was carefully rolled up inside a soda bottle, which |certain products like sirloin steak | came hurtling through the shop win- dow, filled with swastika emblems and Nazi propaganda. “Stop selling Nazi books,” it read, “and stay home Oct, 29,” the date of the Hitler demon- stration. poe