The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 7, 1933, Page 1

1 A acne tern NMA “terms, accepting the old orkers / e | Hold Affairs for “Daily”; Unit | 414, Chicago, Raised $33 at House Part | Vol. X, No. 267 -- Vote Every Hammer and Sickle -- Vote Row ° bd ‘(Section of the Communist International) orker ist Party USA | | | America’s Only Working Class Daily Newspaper Entered as second-class matter at the Poot Office at New York, N. ¥., under the Act of March 3, 1878, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1933 (Six Pages) Price 3 Cents REJECT BOSSES’ CANDIDATES; VOTE COMMUNIST TODAY! TROOPS OUT TO CRUSH FARM STRIKE 50,000 National Guard Mobilized as Pickets Stop Trains DES MOINES, Nov. 6.—Fifty thousand National Guard Troops and 20,000 armed depu- ties are ready to be called into instant action by Governor Herring as it became evident that the latest sweep of the striking farm~ ers onto. the road picket lines is break- ing the treacherous leadership of the Holiday Association leaders, it was Teported today. One farm picket was killed and many were injured today as pickets clashed with armed deputies. dead farmer, Frank Fletcher, of Ne- braska, was killed as 4 truck crashed into a group of farm pickets stationed on the road leading to Dakota City, Nebraska. Eight carloads of cattle on the Chi- cago Northwestern R. R. were stopped by the striking farmers at Lawton, Towa. In Wisconsin, the United Farm- ers’ League is taking increasing leadership in the strike, and is al- ready looked upon by the farmers as the backbone of the strike. Scores of towns baye been completely closed up by the strikers. Afternoon papers repotted that the strike is “getting into the hands of Sioux City radicals.” the fact that the farmers are turn- Shoe Strikers Vote | to End Strike When, Their Terms Are Met. NEW YORK.—At Arcadia Hall, yesterday, 7,000 shoe strikers, ani- mated by the spirit of solidarity which has characterized the strike during 14 weeks of militant struggle, | unanimously voied to accept the recommendation of the Executive | Board and the general sirike com-/| mittee of the Shoe and Leather | Workers Industriel Union on the Na- | tional Labor Board's decision. | The strikers voted to return to} their jobs on the condition that the shoe manufacturers sign an agree-| ment with the shop commiitees of | every shop on the basis of the terms conteded to the Union by the Na- tional Labor Board’s decision. | | enkapp, the union's general secre- tary, warned. “It is not terminated until every strikebreaker is out of the shops and every striker is rein- Leaders Give Final Death Blow to Tool, Die Makers’ Strike DETROIT, Mich., Noy. 6. — The tool and diemakers’ strike involving 17,000 men Was definitely broken by the leaders of the Mechanics’ Edu- cational Society. These officials to- day negotiated secret settlements wth the Fisher Body Co., Hudson @nd Packard plants on the bosses’ wage rates. same and recognition Conditions remain the there is no union granted. Simultaneously, the Flint strike was called off by Matthew Smith, Mechanics Educational Society leader. In addition to the three big plants, similar agreements were reached with 29 jobbing shops. The N.R.A. Labor Board helped to break the strike. The men were not consulted and are bitter over the settlements, A statement Fisher, head of the Fisher Body Co.. declared that a maximum of 150 men are to be re-hired, which indi- cates drastic victimization. Smith and Griffen are now re- vealed as oven sirixe-breakers. Mass layoffs took place today in various auto plants. yots have been continuing here for some time, Employment in Detroit has dropp below last year. Cotober 31st empl mént index was 37.3: last year it was 42; on September 3ist of 1953, the employment index was at 59.6, The Auto Workers’ Union is w ing to build up shop groups especia! in the Ford plant on the united front for strike struggles, a The | This refers to) o Washington Will Greet Litvinov By MARGUERITE YOUNG (Washington Bureau) WASHINGTON, Nov. 6.—Every of- ficial welcoming courtesy proffered to @ visiting head of a foreign govern- | ment already recognized by the United | States, except a band playing the guest’s national anthem, will be ac- | corded here tomorrow to Maxim Lit- | vinov, People’s Commissar for Foreign Affairs of the Soviet government. | With arresting significance, Lit- | vinov will receive the personal greet~- ings of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Presi- dent of the world’s most powerful | capitalist government, exactly on the | Sixteenth anniversary of the world- | Shaking seizure of power by the work- |ers, farmers and soldiers of Russia. | And such is the world prestige of | |the regime established by the reso- | | lute fists of the Russian proletariat | | that the American government is ex~- tending itself to facilitate every de- tail of the conversations initiated by | Roosevelt: to “end the abnormal rela- | tions” between his government and the Russian workers. To emphasize this it was stressed today at the State Department that the only rea- | son for omitting to play the stirring “Internationale” when Litvinov steps | off the train in Union Station is| that he is not the head of his gov- {ernment and Russia is technically unrecognized. The official added that if Russia is officially recognized now and President Mikhail Kaiinin should come to the United States, an Amer- ican, cavalry band will salute him with the “Internationale.” Litvinoy will begin actual recog- nition negotiations .on Wednesday | with Secretary of State Cordell Hull, OVER 50,000 ON STRIKE IN ANTHRACITE WILKES-BARRE, Pa. Nov. 6— Between 50,000 and 70,000 anthracite coal miners came out today on @ general strike call voted Sunday by delegates of the United Anthracite Miners of Pennsylvania, demanding recognition of their newly formed union, higher wages and no discrim- ination. The capitalist press here says that over 50,000 are on strike, while union leaders say fully 70,000 walked out. Members of the United Mine Workers of America in the anthra- cite field who were specifically or- dered by their union leader8 to re- main on the job and scab, walked out together with the miners in the United Anthracite Union. Mass picketing took place through- out Luzerne and Lackawanna Coun- ties, hen and women marching to- gether. In several places fighting took place. Pickets were attacked at the Marvine mine. At other mines, over 100 shots were fired at strikers, ‘Thomas Maloney, leader of the U. A. M. P., immediately got in touch with John D. Moore, “technical ad- viser” of the N. R. A. Labor Board, who was sent into the field to break the strike. Maloney is working with the N. R. A. representative to bring the strike to a quick close at the expense of the miners. One of his “demands” is recognition by the N. R. A. Labor Board and “mediation.” Granted this condition, he will work to break the strike just as the Lewis-Feeney- Hynes machine broke the. strike of Robert Mino Against Bank Rally Communist Vote; Watchers Must Guard Count Boss Parties Will Do All They Can to Slash Red Vote ‘YEW YORK.—As voting in | the city elections begin, all of the capitalist parties, to keep the workers from voting for the only workingclass political party, the Communist Party, will unite at the polls to cut down or count out as many Communist votes as they can. ROBERT MINOR WORKERS’ CANDIDATES IN TO DAY’S ELECTION WILLIANA BURROUGHS BEN GOLD They realize that this city election is of the greatest national importance because of the particularly sharp turfi in the economic crisis and the | increase in struggles of the workers and farmers. Above all, they do not want a large C’mmunist vote and they will fight tooth and nail to keep | Communist candidates from being elected. There are excellent chances to elect Communist candidates for some of the offices, and only the greatest vigilance of all the workers who vote NEW YORK.—Robert Minor, | into the teeth of Gov. Albert C. Minor’s letter, legally lynched in Maryland on Oct. 27, which follows, is in answer to Ritchie’s reply to a pro’ Communist candida te for Mayor of New York City, yesterday threw * Ritchie, the lies of the Maryland executive that Euel Lee, Negro worker had had a “fair trial” and that there was “no doubt” of his guilt. test by the Communist candidate against will insure their vote being registered and counted. It is of the greatest importance that the whole Party in New York N.Y. S ocialist E ® the legal murder of Euel Lee: To Governor Albert C. Ritchie, Annapolis, Maryland. | Dear Governor: mployer MINOR ASSAILS RITCHIE’S LETTER TO HIM ON EUEL LEE “FAIR TRIAL” r, Communist Nominee, Calls for Fight ers’ Candidates in Final Election Appeal ‘Only Communists | Fight for Relief, Defend Nickel Fare NRA Carries Seeds of Fascism, Red Mayor Nominee Declares NEW YORK.—Hammering away with that remarkable revolutionary energy that has characterized his campaign for Mayor, Robert Minor today issued a final statement on today’s election. “As the election campaign draws | to a close, it becomes amazingly clear | that there exists a conspiracy among candidates to put over the same pro- | | | | | i | | | | | | | gram, dictated by the bankers, re- | gardless of which candidate may be | elected,” Minor declared. | Bankers’ Progrant | “This agreed-upon program, a= | cepted by solemn and formal agree~ }ment by LaGuardia, McKee and | O'Brien,” Minor said, “and virtually | adhered to by Solomon, although his ; agreement formally was unnecessary | because of the insignificance of the | vote he will get, is an agreement lit- | erally to starve the more than a | million unemployed workers of New | York and to raise the transit fare’on jall subway, elevated and surface lines to not less than seven cents, “The understanding between the strike is not terminated,” Fred Bied- | issued by Edward | | the miners in the bituminous captive (Continued on Page 3) field. BEFORE DEATH Coatesville. Pa. Comrades: My wife, who all her lifetime was devoted to the cause of the oppressed, | passed away suddenly last Saturday. It was almost on the very day of her death that she reminded me to send something toward the Daily Worker Fund. So, thereffre, out of the ten dollars enclosed please apply two dollars as a contribution in my wife’s name, and the rest for the extension of my Daily Worker subscription. A, PHILIP BLECHMAN, 'UNDREDS of letters come to the Daily Worker showing how devoted the workers are to our fighting paper. Yet the $40,000 Drive, the success of which is imperative for the life of our Dai.y Worker, lags criminally. when we necd a minimum of $1,000 per day, Pittsburgh sent in $26; De- | troit, $15; San Francisco, $17. Nothing from Cleveland, Boston, Phila- delphia, Chicago. $130 from New York District, Creditors are not going to continue giving us grace. Bills must be paid. WHAT IS YOUR ANSWER TO YOUR DAILY WORKER'S AP- PEAL? There is not a day to be lost. Hold affairs, contribute, raise funds and airmail them to your Daily Worker, 50 E. 13th St., New York City, » «$324.23 19,319.68 Monday’s receipts Previous Total TOTAL TO DATE ......cccceceseseeeceeeees- «$19,643.91 Only $324.23 came in yesterday, | | be mobilized for the polls—to get out the vote, to see that workers are not intimidated, and to watch when the votes are counted. “The polls open at 6 a.m. and close at 6 pm. sharp. Watchers should be at their nearest election head- quarters one hour before the polls) | open. | Fight Intimidation Workers who seek to vote for the} Communist ticket and are intimi-| | dated or interfered with. shou!d pro-| | test to the Communist Party watch-| | ers, who will either wear badges, orf lacking these, will wear a red tie! and carry a copy of the Daily Work- | er in their pocket. All protests and cases of attempts to prevent a Com-/} munist vote from being recorded | should immediately be televhoned to the Daily Worker or to the Com- munist Election Campaign Commit-/} tee, 799 Broadway, telephone Stuy-| | vesant 9-5557. | The greatest responsibility rests) | with the Communist watchers at the| Binds Hitlerite Books Goldsmith & Altman Now Doing J ob for Easley, Daily Worker Investigation Reveals By SENDER GARLIN NEW YORK.—.he Nazi propaganda book, printed in Germany, which is being secretly circulated in the U. S, by Ralph M. Easicy and Congress- man Hamilton Fich, Jr., of the National Civic Federation (as exposed in the Daily Worker on Oct. 30), is being bound by a Socialist who uses the | A. F. of L. label, and who flaunts the Blue Eagle. This Socialist happens to be a Jew who apparently has no objection to doing work for the Nazi government. “Business is business,” said Alex- ander Geldsmith, of Goldsmith and Altman, bookbinders, whose plant is located on the seventh floor of the Holland Tunnel Building, 75 Varick St. f I didn Iron Mining Town Doubles Communist Vote in One Year EVELETH, Minn.—In this iron} mining town on the Masaba Range | the Communist Party received al- | | | | | | | take their m he Your letter, dated Oct. 27, post-/| three leading capitalist candidates marked as mailed at Annapolis, Nov. | centers upon the promise not to re- 13, was received today. Euel Lee, you) sort to any of the extraordinary forms | say, was hanged on the night before | you wrote the letter. | Unlike the candidates of all other | parties, one of the chief reasons for | my running for the office of Mayor | has to do precisely with such mat-| | ters in New York and elsewhere as/ the frame-up and murder of Euel Lee. | Your arguments are evasions of the | only points at issue. | My telegram to you did not dispute | that Euel Lee was convicted, nor} that the reason given for the con-/ viction was the claim that he had “murdered four innocent people} while they slept peacefully in their | beds.” My complaint is precisely | that such hideous crimes against the | | Negro people are habitually covered | up, in order to blind the eyes of the | white masses, by the hideousness of the real or the alleged crimes, for | which nominally they are victimized, | and the putting through of the lynch- | |ing in the form of a more or less of taxation that would tap the treas- uries o fthe wealthiest classes on the ground of the existence of a crisis,’ continued the Communist candidate. “It is time to remember,” continued Minor, “that F. H. LaGuardia was selected as the Fusion candidate by William Jay Schieffelin, founder of the Fusion movement and himself connected with some of the biggest (Gentinued on Page 2) Katayama, Veteran Japanese Bolshevik, Is Dead In Moscow | polls to see that the Communist vote | Ba tg sas regularly doth | is recorded and counted. most 600 votes (596), in the pri a epg tng oS es conducted conviction snd) | They must watch to see that the|| mary elections. This is an im- || png ; ~' “"| Your allegation that “there was | workers are not interfered with when) | crease of 100 per cent over the vote| | Following the exclusive publication | not the slightest prejudice against) | they are in the booth, and that they| | jas year, |}in the Daily Worker on Oct, 30 of| him” I do not doubt will be pre- |are given sufficient time to vote. | f \the secret distribution by Fish and| served in the future histories of this| Each voter is entitled to 3 minutes. The total population of the| |p, .0y of “Communism in Germany: | country, written after the overthrow | All attempts at fraud should be ex- posed. If a worker, for some reason, Is} denied the right to vote, this should) be challenged. Have the worker swear to. his right to vote. His vote should) then be recorded on a special ballot. town, including women and chil- dren, is 7,484. Since there is a large non-voting population of | foreign-born workers, the Com-| munist vote is extraordinarily | ‘arge, reaching about 20 per cent | of the total vote. (Continued on Page 2) | |The Truth About | Conspiracy on the | tional Revolution,” a vicious anti Semitic book publis 1 and imported into the U. S., the) against Negroes in Maryland? Not | Daily Worker investigation revealed|to you, but over your head to the} | that the firm of Goldsmith an (Continued on Page 2) (Continued on Page 3) Manifesto Celebrating Sixteenth Year of Pro- letarian Power Contrasts Socialist Growth and Capitalist Decay Special to the Daily Worker MOSCOW, Nov. 6 (By Cable).—The Executive Committee of the Communist International yesterday issued a manifesto addressed to the workers and toilers of the world on the occasion of the sixteenth anni- versary of the October Revolution (November 7, modern calendar), The complete text of the manifesto follows: . MANIFESTO OF E. C. C. L ORKERS of the world; collective farmers of the Soviet Union, toilers and oppressed of the capitalist world! ‘ Sixteen years have passed since the former Russian proletariat, in ‘October 1917, under the leadership of Lenin and his party, and with the support of the toiling peasants, threw off the yoke of capitalist slavery, and took power in order to forge their own fate with their own hands, to win a better life for all toilers, The capitalist world meets this anniversary In a condition of excep- tionally great confusion, The tremendous gains of the October revolu- | tion, the great victories of socialism in the U.S.S.R., are rousing the whole | world of workers against their exploiters and oppressors, Chaos, devas- tation and decay dominate the capitalist countries, while the Soviet Union stands an unshackled rock amidst them. The bourgeoisie is using the weapon of fascism and bloody imperialist war to save its power. DECISIVE BATTLES ARE NEAR We are at the threshold of a new world war. In the East, Japanese imperialism plays the role of initiator of an | Communist International Calls al Toilers to Take anti-Soviet war; the role of provoker of a new imperialist war. In the West, Fascist Germany offers its counter-revolutionary service to the im- perialist world. British imperialism is the chief organizer of the counter- revolutionary war against the Soviet Union. French imperialism builds its forces for the defense of the bandit Versailles treaty. The frantic armaments race of the United States, Japan, Great Britain, France and Germany is leading toward the attempt to solve their intense imperialist contradictions through war. This new war danger arrives from the “disarmament” conference in Geneva itself, The bourgeoisie trembles before the coming Communist revolution. The world is facing tremendous convulsions in the near future, new wars, and great revolutionary strug- gles, Decisive battles are approaching. ® a . E sixteen years of the proletarian dictatorship in the Soviet Union were sixteen years of struggle for socialism by the millions of workers and peasants. The results now stand before the judgment of history. “All power to the soviets!” was Lenin’s stogan, the Bolshevik slogan. Under this slogan, the proletarian revolution conquered in October, 1917, and converted backward Russia into the invincible Union of So- clalist Soviet Republics, The Soviet power realized the teachings of Marx, Engels and Lenin on the proletarian dictatorship. The October revolution expropriated the expropriators, gave the proletariat the factories, workshops, banks; gave the peasants the land; Uberated hundreds of peoples from national oppression; ended woman’s enslavement. In the civil war the Soviets crushed the resistance of the landlords and bourgeoisie, and organized the world’s first proletarian state. The Soviets overcame the post-war crisis; converted an agragrian to aff indus- trial country; created socialized agriculture; carried out the greatest cultural revolution toward a victorious classless socialist society in the U.S.8.R., built by scores of millions, The October revolution became the banner of struggle and victory for the exploited and oppressed of the world. * J ' Path to World October “Decisive Battles Near,” Says Comintern, Call- ing for Defense of Soviet Union, Support of Anti-Fascist Fighters The international Social Democracy promised « peaceful, s path through democracy to socialism. In the name of democ- | racy it helped the bourgeoisie with blood and iron to defeat the workers’ | revolutionary struggle for the proletarian dictatorship. The Social Dem~ ocracy of Germany, Italy, Poland, Austria, Hungary, Finland wreaked dictatorships, delivered hundreds of thousands of workers and peasants to the Fascist executioners, The workers and toiling peasants of the U.SS.R., firmly hoiding power, have no unemployment, no anxiety for the morrow. The workers and collective farmers have no terror of joblessness, homelessness, of evictions into the street. In the unceasing construction of new industrial giants, the number o rs of the Soviet Union has increased seven- fold since the civil war. Unemployment has been abolished forever in the country of the proletarian dictatorship. ‘Tens of millions are unemployed in the capitalist world; tens of millions are working part-time; millions of youth have never had a job. In the Soviet Union the well-being of the workers is continually growing, the wage level r s, social insurance improves year by year. In all capitalist countries without exception wages and social insurance are plundered in the most cynical ways. In the Soviet Union, as the basis of the widest Soviet democracy, thousends of prominent government leaders, talented organizers, tens of thousands of inventors, engineers, economists, scientists, artists, are rising Continued on Page 6) R \ the Communist | of the callous, reactionary, blind and | Ive of the Na-|deaf ruling class, which you repre-/ | sent. Are you indeed so cynical as to hed in Germany| pretend that there is no prejudice d Alt-| people of Maryland, I will say that vengeance on the revolutionary workers, cleared the path for Fascist | | | SEN KATAYAMA Special to the Daily Worker. MOSCOW, Nov. 6 (By Wireless).— |The body of Sen Katayama lay in | state in the Hall of Columns, Palace jof the Trade Unions, from seven |o'clock today, while thousands of | workers passed by and took leave of | the veteran Japanese Bolshevik. | The body will be cremated at mid- |night tonight, and a@ funeral cefe- mony will take place in Red Square on_ Thursday. The Moscow newspapers last night | Tecelved the following announcement: | “The Executive Committee of the | Communist International announces | with deep sorrow the death of an old member of the presidium of the Executive Committee of the Comin- the founder of the proletarian nent of Japan, the organizer and leader of the Communist Party of Japan, a firm Bolshevik and val- 4ant fighter for the cause of the in- ternational proletarian revolution and the victery of Socialism—Comrade Sen Katayama, which occurred No- | vember 5th at 1:50 p. m. in Moscow, after a s illness.” 43 Years a Workers’ Leader. |; Sen 5 yama was 74 years old, |the son cf a poor Japanese peasant. in a Tokio printing 80, he came to America and carried on revolutionary | work while studying in an American | university, | He became a socialist in 1890, and (Continued on Page 3)