The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 8, 1933, Page 1

i Philadelphia Air-mailed $85, Cleveland $67, to Help Save Vol. X, No. 268 the Daily Worker! , _* ‘Entered se second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, ¥. ¥., under the Act of Merck 8, 1873, Daily ‘(Section of the Communist International) orker Party U.S.A. ~ America’s Only Working | g i Class Daily Newspaper NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1933 (Six Pages) Price 3 Cents LITVINOV, SOVIET FOREIGN COMMISSAR, ARRIVES IN U. S. = f | “LIVES OF REICHSTAG ‘TRI “TAKE STEPS NOW,” URGES PARIS CABLE Nazi Perjurers Caught In Tangle of Own Contradictions NEW YORK.—“The lives of Dimitroff and Torgler are in the greatest danger,” declares a cable from Paris, France, sent by the Interna- tional Committee to Aid Victims of Hitler Fascism, received today by Alfred Wagenknecht, chairman of the committee in New York at 870 Broadway. “We fear the death sen- tences for them in three days,” continues the cable. | “Take steps at once. Have influential sympathizers in- tervene should this happen. “At the same time, also begin preparing immense mass demonstrations in all cities.” AT GERMAN FRONTIER, | Nov. 7 (Via Zurich, Switzer-| land). -—- On this thirty-third | day of the Reichstag fire trial, | an endless series of witnesses | took the stand, mostly Nazi| storm trooners, who had obviously no | other occupation for the whole of | 1932 except to observe passersby, and | declare they saw the defendant Popoff | thirty or forty times that summer. | ‘These nebulous depositions were | ** sonfronted by the simple, straight- | forward statements of the Russian | witnesses giving the exact dates) Popoff was in Moscow and the Cri-) mea. | Popoff. it was testified was in Mos- | cow from’May until October, 1932. | He worked there. Later he took ill) and.recuperated in the Crimea. | The first Russian witness, Mrs. Iskrova, said she knows Popoff and joined him on family holidays. The Russian witness Mrs. Weiss protested the false interpretation of the German press of her last week’s testimony, and demanded the pre- siding judge ensure a’ correction. The circumstances of the arrest of the three Bulgarian defendants was | gone into. Detective Holzhaeuser | stated that a waiter, Hellmer, at the Bayernhof, phoned him twice. Hell- mer, admittedly a Nazi, thus was ob- viously a secret police spy. Holz- haeuser drove to the Bayernhof and arrested the three Bulgarian Com- munists. He took them immediately | to the Reichstag, where the inquir- | ing magistrates were sitting. In this way they sought to con-) nect the Bulgarian Communists with the fire before there was the slight- est evidence adduced. Hellmer declared he noticed the conspicuous Bulgarians in the restau- (Continued on Page 3) Lynch Investigating Committee Met With Threats of Attack “PUSCALOOSA, Ala., Nov. 7. — As the delegation of eight Southerners, representing the National Committee for the Defense of Political Prisoners, ercssed the boundary line of Alabama today, to begin an investigation of the lynch terror sweeping over the South, they were met with veiled and obvious threats from the leading newspapers of the town, the Age Herald. “At the risk of seeming inhospit- able,” the paper states editorially, “the visitors should be guided by the | Jogic of events and return to their homes.” | Among the delegation are Grace Lumpkin, Hollace Ransdall, Barbara Alexander, Bruce Crawford, Prof. Vann Woodward and Howard Kester, of Southern birth. ialist Is Elected Mayor of Bridgeport, BRIDGEPORT, Conn., Nov. 7} Jasper McLevy, Socialist’ candidate | for Mayor, was elected today, the first Socialist to be elected Mayor in New England. McLevy, a roofer, won by a plural- ite of 6,000 The NaziAxels Poised to Strike! EATS of lynching and execution of the heroic Reichstag fire-trial defendants were uttered in hysterical rage and in a moment of mental frenzy by the Nazi firebrand, Goering. The Nazi butchers are planning to carry them out in cold blood: and with the most monstrous stage play. Pierced to the quick by the Bolshevik and brilliant questioning of the brave Dimitroff, Goering blurted out the venomous, revengeful hatred of the Nazis against the Communist defendants. He forecast the heinous plans of these fiendish criminals, caught in their own legal trap, in their own court-room, before the eyes of the whole world. Reliable cable reports from Germany received today by the Daily Worker declare alarmingly that the Nazis are preparing to make a Roman Holiday of the November 12th farcical elections, at the expense of the lives of our comrades. The Nazis are preparing to whip their blood-lust to a frenzy by ex- ecuting Dimitroff, Torgler, Popoff, and Taneff, as a high point of the Hitlerites’ election farce. The shadow of the executioner’s ax hangs ominously over our comrades. With mechanical monotony, the Nazi hounds are calling for the blood of their accusers, the Reichstag fire-trial defendants. On the defensive, unmasked throughout the whole trial; resorting to the lowest trickery to avoid the piercing, searching, gruelling questioning and exposes of Comrade Dimitroff, the “brave” Nazis are now going to take the offensive by a quick termination of the trial. They will answer for their crimes by the execution of their accusers and judges before the whole world, the Communist defendants. {| pee is calling for the blood of our innocent and heroic comrades who tower like a mountain over the pigmy figures of the Nazis sput- tering with houndish rage. their lives. Goering, like a mad dog at bay, yelps for Heines, the self-admitted Nazi butcher, the real incendiary, echoes the death-knell sounded by his masters against the Communists who have made such fools and exposed the knavery of the highest lords of Hitlerdom. This warning of imminent execution which our comrades face must shoot like an electric shock through the working class of the entire world. We must prevent these Nazi scoundrels, these criminals exposed in their own courts as guilty of the most contemptible crimes against the work~- ing class, from sinking their axes into the necks of Dimitroff, Torgler, Popoff and Taneff. ° NLY the workers throughout the world, acting immediately against this horrible danger, can snatch our comrades from the Nari axmen. The lives of our comrades, of these gigantic figures in the ranks of the working class, which the Nazié plan to hack out as the high-point of a mad election stunt, now depend on the action that can be aroused by the revolutionary working class. Rally your forces against the Nazis’ plan of execution. Workers! Raise your voice in protest! From every meéting and oreganization must come the pitter protest against this brutal slaughter! Send your resolutions and protests to the German embassy in Washington! Make the wires burn with the protests of millions! against the Nazi butchers! Rally your forces Our comrades can be saved orily by your immediate action! ‘The American League: Against War and Fascism should immediately mobilize its forces to stop the ax now poised in the air from striking its death-dealing blow. ‘The militant trade unions and the districts and sections of the Com~ munist Party should immediately hold huge protest meetings against the murder of our heroic workers. Workers! Snatch our comrades from the hands of the Nazi butchers! indict Necdle -Likion Leaders for Fight ‘On Fur Racketeers, NEW YORK.—To sidetrack a real campaign against racketeering and revive the drive against the Needle ‘Trades Workers Industrial Union, the United States Attorney General’s of- fice included the Industrial Union in indictments returned to the Federal Grand Jury yesterday charging two fur trade associations involving 75 firms and the International Fur Workers Union and its Locals 2 and 3 with “obstructing interstate com- merce through acts of violence and terorism.” What the specific charges against the Industrial Union are were not Tevealed as yet, since the indittments have not been handed to the union officials. Reports in the capitalist press are confusing and point to a clear cut attempt to reopen the drive against the fur section of the Indus- trial Union which was ushered in with the murder of Morris Langer. Re-~ ports state that the union is charged on one count with “conspiracy.” Four counts are returned against the fur bosses and the A. F. of L. union. ‘The investigation which resulted in the indictments was started after the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union submitted charges of racket- eering, terror and crime against the Fur Factors, Inc., which has since dissolved, and the Protective Rabbit Dressers’ Association and the A. F. of L. Fur Union officials. The charges were published in full in the Daily Worker of August 3. In these charges the union listed |a series of outrages perpetrated by the racketeers against union leaders and workers, including bombings, murders, and assaults. The Indus- trial Union made these charges after two of its organizers had been mur- dered, its offices raided and threats lof violence against its leaders had een received. ‘The charges were forwarded to As- int District Attorney Kane in New York, to Donald Richberg and General Johnson of the N.R.A. and to Sen- ator Copeland, secretary of the Sen- ate Committee investigating racket- eering. Copeland replied that an in- vestigation would be undertaken. Not @ single hearing was called to obtain ! | Gallup Militia Arrest 18; Send Six to Hospital GALLUP, New Mexico, Nov. 7— | Eighteen striking miners, members of the National Miners’ Union, were ar- rested here today by the militia and are being held incommunicado in the military stockyards. Six miners have been taken to the hospital after be- ing manhandled by the militia. ‘The national guard troops have in- tensified their terror against the strikers to such an extent that the National Miners’ Union, leading the strike, declared here today that a wholesale massacre of strikers by the militia threatens unless the mass protest of the workers of the United States is intensified. They warn that without the aid of the workers throughout the country, a second Ludlow, Colorado, where soldiers murdered many strikers, faces the Gallup miners. Relief is urgently needed, Herbert Benjamin, unem- ployed leader, is due to be trans- ferred to the Santa Fe prison today. He was framed up and sentenced to @ year by a military court martial for speaking at a meeting in Gallup for the Unemployed Insurance Bill. . . ° Unemployed Council Protests NEW YORK.—The national com- mittee of the Unemployed Councils sent a strong protest to Governor Hockenhull, Santa Fe, New Mexico, against the imptisonment of Herbert Benjamin for a year while on a na- tional speaking tour. The Unem- ployed Councils demand the immedi- ate removal of the national guard and the end of the terror against the striking Gallup miners, the evidence substantiating the charges made by the union. In order to contuse the real issue in the situation and to weaken the union’s case against the fur bosses, the Department of Justice has drag- ged the Industrial Union into the sit- ‘uation. Simultaneously with the move against the Industrial Union, the trial on the injunction to outlaw the union which the Joint Board of the Fur Union and the fur manufacturers jointly conspired to obtain, will be heard today at the Supreme Court, Part 4, Room 208, No Final Returns at “Daily’s” Press Time NEW YORK.— As the Daily Worker goes to press, no final re- turns of the New York Mayoralty elections have yet been received. Other news of the election is given on another part of this page. ALL ROADS TIED UP BY FARM STRIKE Pickets Break Away From Milo Reno Leadership DES MOINES, Nov. 7.—So tightly have the striking farm- ers drawn the picket lines on the roads that delivery of grain and dairy products is practi- cally at a standstill, it was reported today. The farm pickets are continuing their day and night picketing despite the efforts of the officials of the Holiday Association to prevent it. The entire countryside is dotted with the flares of kerosene fires of burning scab cheese factories. tight despite the attacks of deputies using clubs, rifles, tear gas bombs, and sub-machine guns. . Milwaukee is receiving only 25 per cent of its normal farm supply. The roads to Sioux City are blocked by felled trees and telegraph Poles. It is reported that rifles have been stolen from the armories of the Na~ tional Guard, but these rumors are laid to the activities of provocateurs. The 50,000 National Guard and 20,- 000 deputies stand ready for instant call by the Iowa Governor Herring. | Milo Reno, leader of the National |Farm Holiday association, seeing |the rank and file farmers openly issued a deliberately v'olent state- ment to reinforce his waning auth- ority among the strikers. Reno attacked Roosevelt for “de- finitely and deliberately breaking his | pre-election pledge, when he refused | the program of the five mid-Western |Governors for fixed agricultural | prices.” | But, militant leaders of the United | Farm League, a left-wing farm group taking @ leading part in the strike in Wisconsin, declared that Reno’s statement betrays the fraudulent character of his program, since the | price-fixing program would not solve jany of the farmers problems. It would only succeed in still further reducing the purchasing power of the city workers, upon whom the farm- ers depend for their market, they drastic reductions of the profits of the monopolies by raising the price the farmers get, and at the same time reducing the price that the city workers must pay. Elect Farm Delegates Delegates to the coming National Farm Conference are being sent from the strike areas. Wisconsin, Iowa, and Minnesota have already elected delegates. Antonoff, NEW YORK.—Todor Antonoff, na- | tive peasant boy of Bulgaria, who is | being deported today on the steam- | ship Manhattan for leading strikes | of Detroit auto workers, visited the Daily Worker office yesterday to say | good-bye to the American workers | through the columns of the “Daily.”) He leaves at noon from the West | 2ist St. pier for the Soviet Union. Protests by thousands of workers; prevented the Labor Department from deporting him to fascist Bul- garia. ‘The last thoughts of Comrade An- tonoff before his deportation were of the AmeiNan revolutionary move- ment. About six feet in height, brown eyed, and broadly built, he spoke slowly but with driving power. + “The deportation campaign of Sec- retary of Labor Perkins shows she is the chief strikebreaker for the bosses,” he said. “Under her veil of | Hberalism, she is a real fascist.” An- | tonoff urges all workers to protest | her order of deportation of Frank Borich, National Secretary of the Na- tional Miners’ Union, as part of the hstruggle against the N. R. A. The Daily Worker, he said, is the best means for uniting foreign and native- Twenty-four counties are closed} | | the presidium, The defendants of | the: Leipzig -trial—Torgler, Dmitroff..| Popog and Tanneff—as well as Ernst | | denying his “no picket” order, today | | and $25 for organizational work, it | AL’ DEFENDANTS C4 | | | MARCH IN RED SQUARE | Fatherland Against War Attack By VERN SMITH Special to the Daily Worker. MOSCOW, Nov. 7 (By Wire- |Molotov’s speech last night, jwith its refcrences to the of the October Revolution. Molotov spoke before a huge audience crowding the | Bolshoi Opera House, with Stalin, | Kalinin, Orjonikidze and Kagano- vitch on the platform as members of |Thaelman were included in the honorary presidium. “Not a single country in the whole world,” Molotov said, “does construc- | tion such as ours. Only the Soviet | Union is investing millions of capital | during the crisis abroad. More and | more, the fascists gain control of the | bourgeois countries. The fascists are |the corrupt force of bourgeois reac- tion; they rouse the worst passions of nationalism Since they cannot | find the way out of the crisis, they rely more and more on force and | feverishly prepare armaments. Rallies Forces Against War | “The Soviet Union pursues a peace | policy of normalizing relations with | all countries. It is rallying all forces jagainst war. The Soviet Union’s un- | precedented victories in the fields of j construction, agriculture and culture jare strengthening its position inter- onally. Even its enemies are to acknowledge this. Roose- | velt’s proposal to send representa- | tives to a discussion is of very far- ance not only to these }and assumes international ficance. | results of the Washington negotia- |tions. Our position was stated in Kalinin’s answer to Roosevelt. But. | I am sure that the meeting between | the representatives of both countries pelnd ext. in the interests of international The real fight of the farmers, these | %,n0 01? MleTests U. F. L, leaders pointed out, is for the |“ ty ‘front. of the Bolshol Theatre where Molotov spoke there stood 4 | gigantic reproduction of a White Sea Canal lock with a ship model over 100 feet long. An illuminated relief map showed the enormous distance saved by this canal. Back of this, in the theatre itself, was the huge meeting of the Moscow Soviet with | thousands of invited guests. The en- (Continued on Page 2) mn workers against deportation and especially against the Dies com- ing up before Congress for adoption. “By use of the Daily Worker,” he stated, “we defeated the Michigan’ came to Cenada anti-alien registration bill ilized against it over 400 organiza- We mob- Victors In Rent | Strike Aid ‘Daily’ NEW YORK. — Following their victory yester?ay in their ten- week rent strike at 812 Suburban | | Place, the tenants at a Victory | meeting voted to us? part of the, $100 which the landlord was forced to pay them as compensa- tion in the support of the Red | The strikers voted to give $25 to the $40,000 Daily Worker Drive, | $25 to the Morning Frethcit, Jew- ish Communist daily newspaper, | | $25 to the Charlotte Street Center was announced yesterday by) Kleinman, chairman of the howse | MILLIONS. Vow to Defend Toilers’ | jess). —- Premier Vyacheslav | in- | ternational situation, was the high | spot of Moscow's gigantic celebration | <teenth anniversary of the | but to many others, | signi- | “We make no forecasts as to the Deported, Aids ‘Daily’ committee. | | ING Wholesale Arrests ‘In Cuba Fail to Stop USSR Meets 7—The HAVANA | Soviet Union forcible interference by the Gra Martin government directed against the Communis | ing, “We will show them who is who. In a last-minute drive b e to- day’s celebration, arrested more tha addition, 43 wor! Santa Clara. Meantime, the workers ling their int |the Grau gove | garbage workers have gone on stri rorkers. In re continu- | tions, among them A. F. through the e | Leaving his f | Bulgaria at the In 1 | the United State: He | worker in Ohio then an |He joined the Communist Party in | 1924. He took a leading role in the | strike of 5,000 Fisher Body workers |and in the ¢ of auto workers |For this he wi sted last July in Detroit ed by to be depor | “Lam len | sands of friends and comrades, | the best friend is the Daily Wor jhe sold. “The Daily Worker is giant, fighting not only for the Amer- ican workers but for the workers of lthe whole world. If our comrades | realized the significance of the Daily | Worker, the $49,000 Drive would be a by LT rogret T can lonve Ss ruppert. Coe ho ths 5 ct America,” onty comrades. On ary battle for a 5 $ 506.63 19,643.91 Tuesdey'’s receipts .. Previous total .. ‘Total to date.. Bolshevik Diplomat Arrives In U. § as he arrived in New York Harbor on board the 8S. | throughou' Perkins | | +oees $20,150.54 | f the Soyict Union, S. Berengaria, Bosses’ Parties Use Violence to Steal Red Votes ions YORK intim: of brutal as- rioting and crooked voting were reported yester- day to the Da Worker, as filth- infested y Hall and its capi- talist rival ete reper- ig tactics and bru- to conceal the large vote for the Commu- In poling city, especially ‘ous the lower East places on a milled around, threatening voters, insulting watch- ers and voting twice, three times, and in some cases four times each. In proportion to the number of fla- grant violations, very few arrests were yaade by the police. P. S. 130, Hester and Baxter anhattan, more than fifty crowded into the voting ing and shoving, pulling curtains of voting boot bribing voters, and nullifying the rare, half-hearted attempts of the police to apprehend crooked voters. When news of the situation reached obert Minor, Communist mayoralty e hurried into the polling through the gang of demanded to see the books. Communist watch: ining the condition as brotally attacked and kicked in the groin. The gangsters then formed a flying wedge and hurled Minor back past the roped-off area, but the latter rushed forward again and’ managed ing books. But the 2 had wanted the Com- to examine had al- ed O'Brien and LaGuardia men. vith about. 59 thurs, were col- laborating in bringing In people who signed names which appeared to be questionable,” charged Minor later. In reference to this voting ‘arl Bri P) c “Tt was the dirtiest deal banded eut to the working class in the his- tory of New York. Almost 100 rangsters filled the polling place, many of them toting guns. Com- munist Party watohers were threat- (Continued on Page 2) ide and in Harlem, } REATEST DANGER!” Soviet Workers Hail Socialist Victories on 16th An niversary e SAYS USSR. ‘ISBUILDING SOCIALISM Meets Roosevelt to Discuss Soviet | Relations By SEYMOUR WALDMAN ON BOARD THE LITVI- NOV SPECIAL TRAIN TO WASHINGTON, Nov. 7.—Max- jim Litvinov, the smiling and | jovial people’s Commissar for foreign | affairs of the Soviet Union, today |made the first breach in that “arti- | ficial barrier which. has for 16 years | prevented normal intercourse between | the peoples of our two countries, } In officially accepted President | Roosevelt's invitation to engage i | personal discussions he delivered a | formal speech, as the S.S. Berengaria lolled - at quarantine, in which he declared that “our countries have | always felt and continue to feel, that they are united by common aspira- | tions for peace.” | “How do you think ‘recognition will aid in building Socialism in the | Soviet Union?” I asked him. | “We shall build Socialism anyway. We shall build it anyhow,” he shot back. “How do you think recognition will aid you in the second Five-Year Plan?” I inquired. The plan has already been made,” | he calmly replied. | “Mr Litvinov,” another corres- | Pondent Mterjected, “You have been | quoted as saying that you could finish | your conversations with President Roosevelt in thirty minutes. Is that correct?” “Yes, as far as I am concemed,” | Foreign observers and correspond- | ents were quick to characterize his reference to the effect of the Roose- velt-Kalinin letters on “the friends of peace, and the fears felt by the adverasries of peace,” as an unmis- takable aside to the militarists of | Japan and the brutal Hitler fascists, He said: | “The opinions expressed all over | the world on the messages which passed between our Presidents ha) | shown the hopes raised among a the friends of peace, and the fears felt by the adversaries of ed the very thought of the establishment | of solid friendly relations between | | (Continued on Page 2) ‘Japan Speeds Troop Movements to USSR Border; Plans War TOKIO, Nov. 7—Heavy concen- tration of Japanese troops in North |Manchukuo, near the Soviet border, |preparatory to an attack against the Soviet Union, took place simultane- ously with an insulting demand ef Japanese Foreign Minister Hirota that the Soviet Union withdraw its troops from its own territory, Minister Hirota made the provo- jeative statement yesterday in an in- jterview with the Soviet Ambassador Passa Yuraneff called on the Foreign | Minister to protest against the prove lcative flight of Japanese bombing [planes from Korea and Manchukuo jover Soviet territory. | Hirota denied the fact that Jap- anes? ny planes had flown over i border. He produced self- ‘serving telegrams from puppet com- jmandera of the Japanese army in Korea, and Manchukuo to bolster up |nis weak clain, | Dispatches received here from Muky den, Manchukuo, state: “The changed jtone of statements emanating from co the belief that ‘Te and probal to position along the Northern border: Manchurin® All indications are that Japanese imperialism is rapidly sveeding its war moves against the Soviet Union (preparing for the actual attack, © Soviet.; os MS RH oe ES