The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 3, 1933, Page 1

4 Danger Faces Daily Worker as Receipts in $50,000 Drive Decline! Vol. X, No. 264 ‘Entered as second-clem matter et the Post Office at Kew York, M. ¥., under the Act of Mareh 8, 1879, (Section of the Communist International) sy | America’s Only Worki Class Daily Newspaper ng NEW YORK, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1933 (Six Pages) Price 3 Cents Celebrate 16 Years of USSR; Rally for Red Candidates 40 Meetings, Many In Steel and Other Indus- trial Centers, Planned In Chicago District New York Workers Will Combine Final Red Election Rally With Anniversary Meet NEW YORK.—With Maxim Litvinoff, Soviet Commis- New NRA Dictator U.S. DRIVING FRANCE OFF GOLD BASIS France and Britain To Retaliate; Roosevelt inflation Grows WASHINGTON, Nov. 2.— The Roosevelt government to- day took more aggressive steps to drive the dollar down by AFL. CHIEFS | BEAT DRUMS. FOR FUSION Needle Union Leaders | Also Linked With Tammany, S. P. By CARL REEVE | NEW YORK.—Leading of- ficials of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers and the In-} Chides Leibowitz LEIBOWITZ MISUSES ROLE IN SCOTTSBORO CASE TO AID ENEMY OF NEGRO PEOPLE \Brodsky Charges McKee Represents Party of Lynchers | Only Communists Fight For Equality , Says Lawyer for Int’] Labor Defense NEW YORK.—“I profoundly regret that Mr. Samuel | Leibowitz, who did do excellent work as an attorney for the pe: ‘ irs, ‘unard liner Berengaria, ordering the first purchases of gold & | 3 2 3 for Foreign Affairs aboard the Ci nar garla, in the French money markets. ternational Ladies Garment Workers | International Labor Defense in the trial of the Scottsboro bound for this country to discuss recognition of the U.S.S.R., Though the initial amount | Unions, in endorsing the Republican- § ie ; . 7 Fusion candidate for Mayor of New SOSEPH iE GHODEKY ! | boys, permits the impression to go out that McKee had any- workers of New York City will rally to two large halls this Sunday evening, Nov. 5, to? celebrate the sixteen years which have made the Soviet Union a mighty proletarian repub- Uc. The meetings—one in the Bronx Coliseum, East 177th St. and West Varms Square, the Bronx, and the other at Arcadia Hall, 198 Halsey St., near Broadway, Brooklyn—will at the same time be the final rallies of the Communist Party in the city election campaign. Frank Borich, Head of National Miners’ Union, Out on Bail Faces Deportation to Fascist Jugo-Slavia Myron §. Taylor, of the U. S. Steel Corporation, was put on the N.R.A. administration along with other officials of powerful corporations. Roosevelt Muffles Open Talk of Fascist purchased was small, it cannot be hidden even by the most reac- tionary press that this step of Roosevelt is aimed at driving France off the gold standard. Meanwhile, the currency war be- tween Britain and the United States is gaining in intensity. As Roose- velt raised the U. S. gold bid again to $32.36, London replied by jack- ing up its bid 69 cents to $31.11. It is no secret, even in official quarters, that it is the failure of the recent inflationary measures to achieve any kind of sustained York at Cooper Union Wednesday night, again demonstrated their close tie with all capitalist parties. ‘The officialdom of these two A. F, of L. unions are closely linked with Tammany, even while support- ing the Fusion-Republican candidate, Fiorello LaGuardia. This working together with the Democratic Party is seen in the support of Governor Lehman in his 132 campaign and in the agreements consummated in re- cent months for selling out the strikes of their members to the manufac- | turers. This latter was engineered | Dies Sure His Bitt Will Pass Scottsboro Record To Put Over McKee | Masses By Talk Of Seeks to ‘Betray Negro| | thing to do with that case or that he (McKee) is a friend of 2 Leibowitz Exploits | the Scottsboro boys or of the Negro masses,” yesterday de- clared Joseph R. Brodsky, chief counsel for the International Labor Defense and co-attorney in the Scottsboro defense fight. Brodsky’s comment followed the publication in the “Amsterdam News” of a paid advertisement inserted by the McKee forces, in which there appeared an appeal by Leibowitz to support McKee for Mayor. " Md & improvement in prices or pro- | pad ee iinet tocar gareeal cree PITTSBURGH, Pa., Nov. 2.—Frank Drive Against Labor duction, and the desperate situa- | together with the Tammanyite Gro- BES SEX NOUR WALDMAN! «| “My Fight” | “The fact remains that McKee as tary of the Communist Party of the|Borich, secretary of the National tion in the winter prospects of | ver Whalen and the N.R.A. A num- (Washington Bureau) | | well as all of the other candidates United States; Robert Minor, Com-| Miners Union, facing deportation to ail American industry, that is driy- | ber of these officials are also members} WASHINGTON, D. C., Noy. 2.—| |in the election campaign, outside of ing the Roosevelt government |of the Socialist Party. | Representative Dies of Texas, the| By CYRIL BE BRIGGS | the Communist candidate, have never miunist candidate for Mayor; Willi- ana J, Burroughs, Communist can- didate for Comptroller; Ben Gold, The meeting at Arcadia Hall, fascist Jugo-slavia, was released late Wednesday night on bonds furnished by the Pittsburgh International Labor Borich had been in jail since last Tries to Cover Purpose of Adding Heads of C., Nor. along tne road of ever-growing inflation. Speakers at Cooper Union included Hyman Blumberg, vice-president of proponent of the bill to exclu expel foreign born Communists, to- about the prospects of his bill get- and} NEW YORK.—Samuel Leibowitz, shamelessly .exploiting his record as day denied that he would amend his| 8M attorney in the Scottsboro Case, lief system of Tammany into sup- raised their voice on behalf of the | Scottsboro victims. sident es Defense. 2 France to Repl: the Amalgamated and right hand | dete i aaa 7 Fonping for President of ‘the Board | “viorous protests. sent. to the im- Biggest Trusts The Roosevelt drive _against|man of Sidney Hillman, member -of| bill to include Nazis. He states, how- | Was the main spell-binder at a Mc-| | “After all, Leibowitz would have Siesigitadiaais i wancar att migration department in Pittsburgh ee France is arousing French impe-| Roosevelt's Labor Advisory Board in| ever, that the committee on immi-| Kee election rally in Harlech Wed-| Shown Murr Mere Repprese Herman of the Young Communist|#"d Washington were instrumental] By MARGUERITE YOUNG |ialism to immediate measures of | Washington; Joseph Catalanotti, co-| gration may amend it to include|Nesday night, which sought to ex-| iit E A OU Ni nis experience Es i e y foes, " he re Hit! S. ploit the anger of the Negro masses | er League. in forcing a reduction of Borich’s (Washington Bureau) retaliation. A former French| manager of the New York Joint lerites. s against che dnunger kes gim-crow ve- | i, Che Oden, bond from $5,000 to $1,000. WASHINGTON, D. 2—|finance minister, Paul Renaud, de-| Board of the Amalgamated, and| Dies was exceedingly optimistic a ng |to McKes as a fi | Brooklyn, will hear. Robert Minor, Williana Burroughs, Ben Gold and I. Amter, Communist candidate for President of the Borough of Man- hattan. - Both meetings, which are to begin at 7:30 p.m., will enjoy programs of entertainment that include the New Dance Group, the W. I. R. and Red Front bands and the Federation of Wednesday, having been ordered seized by the Federal Circuit Court in Philadelphia, which refused to grant an appeal from the decision of the District Court. An appeal is being prepared to the U. 8. Supreme Court. Boriclt was arrested when the Roosevelt government decided to take drastic steps to smash the strike The White House today abruptly shifted into the background the Swope plan for naked fascization of American labor and industry after reactions here revealed unmistakably that the drive to execute the pro- ject must await a more propitious day. indubitably the move discloses that President Roosevelt is aware that in Spite of the illusions the N. R. A. (Continued on Page 2) Section of Answering the American (Continued on Page 2) | the Nazis! | sion of Congr ting through early in the next ses- 5s. ect Congressman Dick- York City to support “So you ex) of New “Yes, Dickstein will support it. He spoke for it and voted for it the house passed it last session by an overwhelming majority.” (Dick- stein recently told the Daily Worker: | port for the McKee wing of Tam- tiany Hall. Working on their sympathies for | the Scottsboro boys, and covering up |the leadership of the Intermtonal | Labor Defense in the fight to! eve the boys, Leibowitz appealed #,° the audience to show its gratitude \to Kee. himself by voting for his friend, Mc- | masses, he had pointed out that the Democratic Party, of which McKee claims to be the true standard bearer and as a party of Roosevelt, whose representative McKee claims to be in this campaign, is the same Demo- cratic Party that is the historic lynch party in the South.” Concluding, Brodsky said: | “Leibowitz would have proven him- ; Workers Choruses. 4 ‘ ya ae Payette ‘county miners fn the has instilled in unwary. workers, they New York, N. Y. “I did not even vote upon it. I did} “I am for Joséph McKee, and it} self afriend..of.the Negro if he had 4 2 ptive mines owned by the big steel . ators bs i . cae a ‘oy | called upon McKee to state his | 1 * are: not yet ready to swallow ¢o1 Editor, Daily Worker. not vote for or against it. I was|you want to make me happy, if you | | CHICAGO, Iil—Forty meetings are | trusts. plete and brutal subjections, especi- 7 : probably out of the room.”) feel I have fought for the down-| Pinion on the question of segrega- De Pee eee aoe aeons ally in the face of the courageous) 50 E. 13th St., Dies declared that “if the Nazis| trodden, the low and the heipless,| t!on right here in our city. { - 7 celebrations of the fignt which militant labor is waging New York City. are guilty of propagandizing as| then vote for Joseph McKee. ene ieee se ne ‘yoke tn Pee anniversary of the Russian Revolu- tion, it was announced here yesterday. ‘The majority of these meetings. will be heid in steel and mining sections and in tine industrial communities of the district. ‘The. central meeting in the city of Chicago will be held on Tuesday, Nov. 7,8 p.m. at the Coliseum, 15th a A Other speakers Steuben Society Takes Over Plans For N.Y. Nazi Rally NEW YORK.—The “German Day” rally to glorify Hitlerism will be held throughout the country. The Swope Plan is still aloft, how- ever, as a trial balloon sent up by the admitted powers behind the N. R, A, who are fully aware that N. R. A. has crumpled and who feel that this situation soon may allow them to take command. openly. General Hugh §. Johnson, who yesterday heartily endorsed the Swope Plan and bluntly acknow- Branch 500 of the International Workers Order takes up the threat of the friends of Hitler—Fish, Eas- ley and Company—against our Daily Worker with a pledge to the American working class to raise $100 for the “Worker” as part of its assigned quota, and to go over the top for another $100. . * charged by Dickstein, they will come under the classification of my bill] and be subject to expulsion and ex- clusion.” APPEALS FOR “DAILY” “But how can you bracket Com- munism and Fascism, which are diametrically opposed to each other?” the Texan was asked. “My definition of Fascism Communism is that they. both one underlying principle in con | I go back down South in a few weeks I want to take one memory with me | |—a straight vote by Harlem for the Recovery ticket.” ‘This appeal for gratitude by a man never before connected with the lib- eration struggles of the Negro Peo- ple, and entering the Scottsboro case only portunity for wide publicity as a re- sult of the more than two years’ after it afforded him the op-/} | against lynching now rampant in the South and not have used the in- | fluence gained for demagogic pur- poses.” Against Tammany lynch terror on Negroes—Vote Communist! ‘Geo. L. Berry Orders will be John Lawson, organizational| in Madison Square Garden on Dec. | ledged that it would “absolutel \- K STRIKE LEADER : gecretary of the Communist Part 6, the Steuben Soclety. announced |}irer ctsres AALAOMKEUEL" tote ike SILK STR namely, State collectivism, as opposed | struggle for the boys of millions of | oe? i sterday. Papa igen anaes apie Ml DAILY WORKER. is proving itself indispensible in the strike of | to the American principle of in-|Negro and white workers under the r men ir 7 Young Commun With the injection of this par-|'rhe statement said, “Nothi ill the 65,000 silk workers,” states John J. Ballam, National Organizer | dividualism leadership of the I. L. D., backed by} 18 SS Be teak ot ticular society, which is composed at ia ee “In all these countries, such as Italy| the Communist Party, was accom- e speake> e League. Cieude Light well known only of American citizens of German origin, an effort was made by the disturb the present balanced organi- zation of the N. R. A, with indus- for the National Textile Workers Union. “With the leadership of the Daily Worker, the silk strikers have and Germany, the State is supreme and the inyidual exists for the State, panied by a deliberate attempt to sow illusions among the masses of faith | Pressmen’s Czar Stifles leader cf TO Pee ae work- H . trial, labor and consumers represent- sell-o o ers in American Nazis and their sympa- ing in every hearing, in ever) discus- been able to see clearly the meaning of each sell-out proposal ‘a the | whereas under the Americs concep- | in the capitalist lynch courts, and in the meciing. thizers to. cover up the Hitlerite| sion of policy, and in respect ef every | American Federation of Labor, the bosses, the N.R.A. and other govern- | tion of government, the individual is | Leibowitz’s abilities as an individual, Demand of Rank and In Gary, Indiana. the steel workers | Character of the meeting which is | action,” ment strike-breaking agencies. The Daily Worker has mobilized the silk | the sovereign and the ate was| He all but called for an abandon- File at Herald Tribune are exoccted to pack Turner Hell, the| 12 ie poate ae of the one called | ‘’he White House pointed out that| and dye strikers to unite for the winning of the strike. merely created for his benefit |ment of the mass defense campaign largest hall in the ‘The principal Gute bon pane ee wien Mayor | President Roosevelt knows nothing “Workers in the silk centers, in all shops, mines, icctories and offices, | “You know, do you not, tha Hitter | | which alone has saved the boys so| tee } organizer of the Communist Party.| "rp r a rec ve SS y3 | 1 ickels, dimes, dollars and rush these ‘No, I am not a it je Bene le 5 in ¢ Herald-Tribune pret | The Gary meciing will also be held Han the tnt Pocisty Subaunced significantly, however, no statement ates Libera "sal, Lie ating working ainas ase: | But I see no difference beiveen I am returning to the South in| were fired on instructions from ] on Tuesday, Nov. 7 at 8 p.m. pep pene tman Societies, | was forthcoming that the President | SUMS, no matter how smal Sit sti Stalin and Mussolini.” a few weeks,” he declared. “Before| George L. Berry, president and czar i Joe Weke ict secretary of the|®2¢ “all other German-American | disapproved the plan or that he | “Mr. Dies, does the State exist for the end of this month I will bring} of the Printing | Treda Union Unity League, will speak are sai ee, ne would not consider it later. WORKERS! CO. MRADES! READERS! the Pennsy cap! oh Scottsboro boys back to Harlem vessmen’s Union the steel workers in South Chicago s ans Luther is in- 7 yee the United States el| with me.” | esterday for de- te Nov. 7. , vited, which means that the bloody eth Eeaiietd bea kicuin eh oH THE slackening of the $40,000 drive in the last few days spells the gravest alah bine a He took complete credit for him- Branding tM ce eh Res astika flag of Hitler will be raised. | such discussion, came discussion here danger to the Daily Worker. The breakdown of our press forces us “Well, I am not justifying any of |2¢lf for the partial victories won b; meeting of Local iikes Barre Celebration ‘The German-American Conference, | of the resolution cf the National As-| to extra expense to continue publication. Your support is more necessary | those conditions. © object of our| the I. L. D. and the mass defense “a Union 2, of which in forcing several Souther states to | [i they were mem- Air mail all funds | wit BARRE. Pa.—The six-| the leading body of German organi- | sociation of Manufacturers, asserting} mow than ever before, There is no time to be lest, uid be to teenth anniversary celebration of the| zations in America, which assigned |that “Industrial Codes, the uncer-| you possibly can at once! exploitation of labor. You SbenAcn (their (ppliey Sot: eecloding | aa bers, be called. In Russian Revolution will be held here) {9 the steuben Society the task of | tainty of monetary policies, the dif- . - . no objection to what Russians or Negroes from petit and grand juries. sheir places, eight at the Workers Center, 325 E. Market) preparing the Nazi celebration, also | ficulty of securing capital under th . 291.82 | Germans do, but I do not believe in 5 Street on Tuecday, Nov. 7. at 8 p. m.| passed resolutions condemning the |National Securities Act, and the dis. Thursday's receipts a ee | Guy ‘system, thé underlying princio!” |'® the legal system of the South, o work under the | dre Sie peee a ie pointed ages Lo Maser and ap-|Tuption of present relations of em- bi) tae eee | of which is government ownership.” | isht we p ai . pointed a committee to “onerate mage, ele LLG against all anti-German attacks.” (Continued on Page 2) Total to date ..cccccccccccccscccoccursseceees $18,319.27 MINOR FOR MAYOR (Continued on Page were stationed in- Other Soviet anniversary meetings, full detaits of which have already appeared in yesterday's and Wed- nesday’s icsues of the Daily Worker, will be held in Providence, R. I.; Detr Pittsburgh, Rockford, Ill.; Philade‘phia, Milwaukee, Waterbury, Conn.; Camden, N. J.; Akron, Ohio; He gaye as the reason for this change | | others were put side the press- jroom. The eight workers, obviously terrorized, were not permitted to talk to one/ an- other. Berry, corrupt head of the print GEO. L. BERRY and in many other smaller cities 6 ets theeughout he country. the country. Five weeks ago, on Sept. 25, the SARTRE TMI WLS SRT ES Te ing pressmen, has held his office of | Daliy Worker printed Photostatic | astounded by them. One entire Socialist branch local has; ently denied that the Daily Worker ania st ges against the So- jon lee i ea speci era | president of the national organiza- A k iy U, S. T jcoples of documents proving two se~| If to Solomon such charges are not | declared that, if these charges can be| has any evidence to substantiats its | clalist Pa andidate, rom corrupt. Tammany | President of the national organi rious charges which it made against | worth: .. | proved, it will go over to the Commu-| charges. pai (eRe isihg: ‘ He is an owner and operator of séy- al N) or roops the Socialist Party candidate for Lea Masada dba nist Party, For example, last Sunday at a HAT is the evidence for the Daily | The pictures show that, In Janu- eral farms, a national vice-com- As Havana Seethes Mayor, Charles Solomon. Up to the present moment, Solo- mon has not seen fit to offer any re- ers, who feel the whip of capitalist exploitation and wage slavery, want very much to know the truth about ers have, naturally produced bewil- Tt 1s to answer the astonished ques- tioning of these Socialist workers them, meeting at the Irving Plaza, Gus Ty- ler, leader of the Young Peoples So- | cialist League, flatly denied the truth | of these charges. | Worker charge that ‘ammany connections? It is as follows: The “Dally” repro- dures in adjoining columns photo- Te Solomon has | i ary and May of 1930, Solomon re- ceived from Tammany judges the refereeship privilege in two fore- closure actions against small home- | mander of the American Legion and | notorious for aiding the newspapers | men in 1926. |to break a strike of printing press- He is now a member HAYANA, Nov. 2.—Agents of Am- ates: thence) Saute AG SPREE pt theo: Solomon has not replied to the These denials of the Socialist lead- | static copies tal from the court -owners. of the National Labor Board of the erica. firms and Cuban capitalists Two things! i, Daily Worker charges. His official [that the Daily Worker reprints the | records tt Solomon, the Socialist | This business of farming out ref- | NLR.A, ang landlord ; weve exerting all their %°/ ‘They do not know whom to believe.' supporters have openly and persist- | evidence upon which it makes the! Party candidate, actually received | ereoships 1s an especially notorious | TELE OMe n Ne iro today to bring about an oeaie fer the landing of troops from were indicated by hese photostatic veprints of origin- The Evidence Which Solomon Cannot Answer! | ils hangers-on, A refereeship invol | practically no wort. ethod used by Tammany to rewar All the lawyer | Hatteeo To Speak the 30 Amer'can warshi which ring the Gland. m ae aa — - does is to sign his name to an offi- In Hariem Tonight, Intense unrest, with frequent ) Soteweu te cial document. For doing this Solo- | A rifle and pistol rifling, with bomb definite connec- | mon got $125 as a fee in each referee- | New yORK.—Henri Barbusse, the 3 explos'ens, ‘and troops speeding tions with the | ship. noted French writer, will speak to- through the street, presaged an im- corrupt, capital- wat ‘The pretice Is so notorious that | night in Harlem at the Dunbar Pal- minent political crisis, | ist, Tammany 1 Ati Brooklyn, City of ken York on |even the Bar Associations have con-/ ace. 139:h Street and Seventh Ave. Police headquarters were fired on Dottie: sae the 489 hy 5 Wan demned it. The Seabury invectize..on| “When Barbusse arrived inthe denounced it, from a speeding automobile, and chine, that robs | PaRSE United States he expresse ra et tat pressed a desire soldiers fired into a crowd Aceh and oppresses ARON. JOHN B. JOHNSTON | The judge who gave Solomon | to speak to the Negro people of Hat+ | gathered around an Amer‘ican- SOLOMON the workers of 14086 Sustios these favors is a notorious 2am- | jem, He will speak on Negro oppress | owned shoe store that had been New York. ede many-Republican politician, James | sion and the struggles of the African bombed. No estimate of casuaiiies can be made, but it is known that some persons have been killed and many injured. The other is that Solomon, who asks for the votes of the workers as a fighter against injunctions, has himself used injunctions to break BatiqgaL TITLE ooanasty CopanY, Pleinsitt, Lem $ Te Th te ee } As wastosay tivux ovanasty COMPAL, Hisinsi tf ©. Cropsey. He has fought workers all his life. He has issued a stream of injunctions against strikers. The other judge who favored Sol- masses against French imperialism, James W. Ford, Communist can= didate for alderman in the 21st dis- trict; William Patterson, candidate for (See Story on Paze 6) the strikes of workers, Ma ORDERED t, omon, Judge Johnson, is a notori- ah healed Thales aie. BEGUE SRO. Me / ES hebeven, at tte ao gatign te ous tool of the Tammany boss, Me- | alderman in the 19th district, and INFIRMARY FIRE TRAP “Daily” doesn't make them lightly, Tt 10 Sompute the « Covey. | Ds Reuben Young will be sa RIVERHEAD, L. I, Nov. 2—In a) 3 ready to produce tie originals of tthe Why do these Tammany judges | Speakers. Herman McKwain, chairs _orecentment handed up by the Oc-!the documents which are reproduced ie So favor the Socialist candidate for | ian of the James Matthews Branch ober Grand Jury before Supreme | here, i|4 M4 Mayor? | of the League of Struggle for Negro Court Justice Harry FE. Lowis, today, the infirmary building of the County Home at Yaphank was condemned as If Solomon disdained to take any notice of these charges, thousands of “g fire trap for the helpless persons on the second floor.” e _/ rades in the shops Socialist workers, who labor side by side with their working class com- and factories, were | Se pleintit? er any ether party ‘So lew and the course ané practies of this Coart; Vo this ectien may become the ' The order issued by the Republican-injunction Judge Cropsey ap- DOR Coens Sevan ne tate Tammany-judge John B. Johnston favored Solomon with the above refereeship on May 28, 1850, Why do they let him in on these profitable legal rackets? Can Solomon or his supporters (Continued on Page 3). | Rights and candidate for assembly- man in the 21st district, will be mas | ter of ceremonies, MINOR FOR MAYoR: