The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 11, 1933, Page 1

A th | A 4. Demonstrate at Noon Today Against Imperialist War; All Out to Colu | New York OrganiZations! Send | Delegates to Daily Worker | | Banquet This Sunday! | ke as ast Daily, (Section of the Communist International) orker nist Party U.S.A. mbus Circle! America’s Only Working Class Daily Newspaper “Vol. X, No. 271 -_* Entered as second-class matter at the Post Offies wt New York, N. Y., under the Act of March 8, 1878, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1933 (Ei "Price 3 Cents ght Pages) USSR WARNS JAPAN ON WAR PLANES OVER ITS TERRITORY MARINE WORKERS’ GROUP IN WASHINGTON SCORES LOW PAY, SHIPPERS’ WAR CODE Bosses’ Code Not In Interest of Seamen, Longshoremen and Harbor Workers,” Says Roy Hudson, Union Leader By SEYMOUR WALDMAN (Washington Bureau) WASHINGTON, Noy. 10.—“The code proposed by the American Ship Owners Association is not in the interest of seamen, longshoremen, a. ‘harbor workers, but in the interest of the shipowners,” Roy Hudson, Na- tional Secretary of the Marine Workers Industrial Union, last night told some two hundred well-fed, cigar-smoking shipowners and their lawyers attending open hearing” of the code? before William H. Davis, N. R. A. 1 7 Deputy Administrator. | Hits Marine Code An M.V/.I.U. delegation of 85 white| ¢ and Negro elected representatives of | 12,009 seamen, longshoremen, tow- boatmen, bargemen, lightermen and | scowmen, . enthus: ally applauded | riticism of the} Hudson’s clear-cut proposed code. Hudson attacked the| proposed $40 a month “minimum” for | able bodied seamen and demanded | @ minimum of $62.50. j ~ “Despite the fact that the United | States Government has been able to| t §ubsidize American ship owners to} the extent of $28,000,000 a year for} uhnécessary ships it has not spent ‘One cent for unemployment relicf for) | ‘Beamen,” said Hudson. “One of the} most insidious methods of intimidat- | ing workers is the use of the Moore | McCormack Line application, asking | (are you a member of the U. S. Mer- | ehant Marine Naval Reserve, if not, ‘will you immediately enroll), which | has to be filled out to secure em-/ ployment. It is part of the prepara- | ‘tions for a new war, part of the prepatations to make the merchant | Sore “HUDSON ty ( marine a naval reserve. We demand that the code shall siate that non~- membership in the United States Naval Reserve shall not be a bar to a worker's employment.” Fight Arbitration Hudson also objected to an amend- ment proposed yesterday by one of the’ ship owners which would place arbitration authority in the hands of a U. S. district judge, pointing out that it was a federal judge in New Orleans who recently granied an in- junction against a marine workers’ strike. “The workers should be guar- anteed the right to strike and join any organization they desire,” he de- | clared. “Workers are being forced to join unions which have no existence among seamen and which are being given official recognition, as evi- denced by the so-called labor advisor (Victor Olander, of the International | Seamen's Union), who at this mo- ment sits on the platform. We hope | National Secretary of the Marine Workers Industrial Union. Philadelphia Docks Shut By Strike of _ Coastwise Dockers | |\Dockers Demand a | Rise In Rates; 7 Are Arrested PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 10.—A gen- eral strike of longshoremen on all coast shipping is now on here, when several more cock workers walked out joining the 800 who struck yesterday. The dockers are demanding 175 cents an hour and $1.10 for overtime. | Seven strikers were arrested today | after a battle with scabs, in which scabs were driven away from the (Continued on Page 3) f é a _ Taxi Union Protests. Perce Court to Rule 5-Cent Tax Illegal Union to Fight for Return of Taxes : Collected 1 to Men » NEW YORK.—The 5 cent taxicab tare tax was ruled illegal yesterday by a-New York Supreme Court decision ‘The tax which was enacted into law by Mayor O’Brien was one of Samuel Untermyer’s proposals for new revenue for and fares the tax was Albert Cohen who rendered against the tax declared of the state vehicle and The tax was actually ee. planned by the ‘Workers Union compelled the Tule against the tax. Workers’ Union is calling drivers to demand the re- ofthe half million dollars col- the hackmen by the taxi Tt is demanding cents put on the the taxi workers’ tion are being or- hackmen in every to. this fight and force companies to grant their demands. * GIVES FOUND MONEY TO “DAILY” LONG ISLAND CITY, N. Y.—A ‘worker who found $2 on the street here contributed it to the #40990 Daily Worker Drive. Previously he I a i docks. The police have been mobilized in full force to keep the men away from the docks. The workers are doing everything to keep scabs and scab trucks hired in Chester from unloading. Officials of the International Long- shoremen's Association are doing all they can to break the strike and to refuse the election of a rank and file strike committee, leavinz all nevotia~ tions in the hands of Polly Baker, long known as a faker on the water- front. The I. L. A. officials are trying to dampen the militancy of the workers using gangsters against the dockers, and members of the Marine Workers Industrial Union. 3 The M.W.LU. issud leaflets to the strikers urging the longshoremen to form broad strike committees to work out demands against speed-up, for larger gangs, and to spread the strike. A mass meeting has been arranzed for Friday to hear the revort of the marine delegation to the Washington code hearings. Metal Convention Opens Sunday NEW YORK. — A program for mobilizing the unemployed metal workers for the struggle for unem- ployment relief and insurance will be a main point of the discussion at the New York District Convention of the Steel and Metal Workers’ Industrial Union, to be held on Sunday, Nov. 12, at Irving Plaza. Lay-offs of thousands of workers in the light and heavy sections of the metal industry since the failure of the N. R. A. makes it more tm- perative to organize the unemployed workers. The convention ovens at 10 8. m. Reports will be given by J. Matles, district secretary, James Lustig, dis~ trict organizer and Geo Powers, Brooklyn organizer or the Union. The reports will be followed by discus- sion, the adoption of resolutions and made a personal contribution for the @upnort of the “Worker.” the election cf a new Executive Board, 200 Strike as Pay Is| | Cut in Nash Auto Co.; | 3,000 Are Locked Out KENOSHA, Wis., Nov. 10.—Wher: 200 workers at the Nash automobile plant here walked out on strike against a 10 to 15 per cent. wage cut, handed out under the N.R.A., the company closed down, locking out 3,000. ‘The plant was working on 1934 models, when the wage cut was put into effect. Mass picket lines surrounded the | | plant and the workers are showing great militancy. ‘Warships Go to Aid ‘Welles, Banker Plot’ ‘AgainstCubaMasses 150 Dead In Civil War Engineered by U.S. ; Ambassador HAVANA, Cuba, Nov. 10.—Amer- ican warships are steaming to Cuba preparing ‘for wholesale armed in- tervention as the ABC coynter-revolt against the Grau San Martin regime appeared to have its back broken today with the surrender of 2,000 of the Welles-supported group in Atares Fortress. With around 30 American warships already in or near Cuban waters, the battleship Wyoming was ordered to proceed immediately to Havana bay. The Wyoming was sent to Tampa some’ time before the uprising. in Havana, indicating Roosevelt's know- ledge of the impending coup. The pretext for sending the Wyoming to Tampa was to “celebrate Armistice Day.” During the fighting, the battleship Richmond was stripped for action. Its guns were uncovered and every preparation made for bombardment and war against the Cuban people. Hundreds Killed and Wounded Over 150 are dead and 200 are wounded as a result of the: two-days fighting in an attempt to overthrow the Grau San Martin regime and | replace it by a dictatorship directly | chosen in consultation with Wall Street Ambassador Sumner P. Welles. The Yankee imperialists here con- sidered the Grau regime too weak to hold back the rising struggles of the workers. and peasants. Backed by Machado army officers, and receiving the direct aid of the American Embassy and bankers, the ABC began the armed uprising for the overthrow of the Grau govern- ment. They hoped even if they were not successful in ‘directly establishing a regime immediately more acceptable to Roosevelt, they would give the United States bankers an excuse for more direct intervention and the landing of marines. During the course of the fighting, leaders of the ABC inadvertently Their Lives in Danger! | | ERNEST TORGLER GEORGE DIMITROFF Hitler Prepares to | Execute Dimitroff. on Day of ‘Election’ New York German Consul Refuses to Admit Union Delegates, Professionals, Who Come to Protest Reichstag Frame-Up Danger Signal! At press time yesterday, no word had arrived from Germany or the frontier about the Reichstag fire trial. Bourgeois newspapers and press agencies also had no news. This ominous silence may mean that Dimitroff, Torgler, Popoff and Taneff are in immediate danger of con- Action must be taken at once. There is not a moment to lose. Wire protests! Send delegations to the German con~ Organize mass demonstrations immediately to save the lives of Dimitroff, Torgler, Popoff and Taneff! . * viction and execution! sulates! NEW YORK.- Confidential information received by the anti-fascist committee in Paris warns that the Nazis plan to execute Dimitroff, Torgler, Popoff and Taneff tomorrow as The brief time left in which to raise a mighty protest for the liberation of the four men has im- @pelied organizations of work- an “election” rally cry. Professionals Will Protest Reichstag . ers and intellectuals in this city to act energetically. A delegation visited the German consulate yesterday morning and numerous protests were wired to| Germany and to the German em-| | was ahead of the patade in predict- Talk USSR Relations at WhiteHouse WASHINGTON, Nov. 10.—Maxim Litvinoff was invited to the White House tonight for a second chat | within a few hours with President Roosevelt. The White House an- nounced that another assurance of | progress, but not final, could be ex~- | pected afterwards. Thus speculation | afose that official recognition of Sov- fet Russia will come early next week. The Soviet Foreign Commissar was | with Roosevelt and several -other Americans throughout the noon hour. Assumptions that this would be a critical meeting was shattered, how- ever, by a say-nothing joint com- | munique: The President and Mr. Litvinoff reviewed the questions be-| tween the two countries which have | previously been discussed between the | Secretary of State and Mr. Roosevelt. These conversations with the Presi- dent and with the State Department will continue in normal course. Experienced observers here believe that the agreement between the two | government’s representatives stand | and that indications of delay are | Terely political gestures, or the result of small technicalities. The White House was asked today | to comment on press reports that| Litvinoff has communicated to Mos- | cow concerning draft note outlining | United States’ terms for recognition, | but no information was given. | Observers point out that Roosevelt | may be averse to allowing the im-| pression that final agreement is Teached without a politic protraction of bickering to satisfy certain ele- ments. ‘This« impression was en-| hanced when Amzrican correspon-| dents were tipped off unofficially) early this morning, that the press| ing recognition this weck. It was said that much remained to be done} before a definite agreement is/ reached. | The fact remained, however, that (Continued on Page 2) | Negro Communist | Murdered by Stool “CRUDE INFRINGEMENT OF SOVIET BORDERS” MUST END SAYS SHARP NOTE TO TOKIO \Yuraneff, Soviet Ambassador, Declares Such Action Must Not Occur Again and Demands Investigation “By VERN SMITH _ (Special to the Daily Worker) MOSCOW, Nov. 9 (By Wireless).—M. Yureneff, Soviet ambassador to Tokyo, has handed the following sharp note of protest to Foreign Minister | Hiroto of Japan: “On November 3 Japanese airplanes flew over Southwest Vladivostok. These planes crossed varons points, and flew far into Soviet territory, 25 2 = to 30 kilometers. Hitler Calls Upon |zs"sisese Sit St te (ermanWorkers to Be Ready for War | flights. | “I am authorized by the Govern- | ment of the U. S. S. R. to declare @ resolute protest against this crude in- fringement of Soviet borders, unpre~ | cedented in character and scale, and |to insist that such actions be un | permitted in the future and that | there be an immediate investigation jand prosecution of those responsible | for the said flights. | “I express the firm conviction that | the Japanese government will not fail | to take effective measures to satisty | this statement.” Knight Threatens to Jail Witnesses In Lynching Probe Ku Klux Klan Parades In Effort to Scare | | Workers Forced to| Listen to Jingo Negroes “Election” Speech Y sacs : ay BIRMINGHAM, Ala Nov 10.— BERLIN, Nov. 10——In a deliberate | Prosecution in the courts of “any effort to fan -Jingoistic chauvinism | Person” who alds the Nationa’ Com to fever pitch for this Sunday’s “elec- | prisoners de tion,” Hitler, German Fascist ruler,/tion of called upon the German workers in| threatened e by Attorney his last campaign speech, to be pre~ | General Knight. ght not only has pared for war against the workers | refused permission to the delegation of other countries. }to examine Grand Jury proceedings tion Tuscalo: in its inve: lynchings was | said, because ‘the international clique | is setting one people against an- Police Fail to Make | other.” Arrest; Workers Plan | _™ this utterance, the call to the . ye: erman workers to be ready to Protest Meetings |staughter their fellow workers of Pigeon in Charlotte “Workers solidatity is a sham, he | against the murdered Negroes, but | declared yesterday | “If any person allows you to see | these records or gives any informa~- | tion concerning them, it will be my duty to prosecute them.” The threat foll Knight’s brazen | approval of lynchings contained in his Fire “Trial” Today NEW YORK—A delegation of prominent American writers, lawyers bassy in Washington, N. ¥. Consul Calls Police The German Consul here today re- fysed to face twenty delegates re~ CHARLOTTE, N. C., Nov. 10.—Allen | Benjamin Charley, Negro Communist | leader, active in the struggles of the| Negro and white toilers against ter- | j other countries is clearly heard. ‘The election is being held on the| anniversary of the Armistice, in order | that the Hitler government can get | a mandate from the German people | See Page 4 for second install- ment by Bill Dunne on lynch Preparations against Scottsboro boys permitted some of their plans with (Continued on Page 8) Hathaway to Speak at Daily Worker Banquet Sunday NEW YORK.—Clarence C. Hath- away, editor-in-chief of the Daily Worker, will speak on the N.R.A. and on the Role of the Red Press at the Daily Worker Banquet here in the main hall of Irving Plaza, 15th Street and Irving Place, this Sunday, Noy. 12, at 8 pm. Carl Brodsky will be master of cere- T tive voice of the working class. the greed, the lust of power and the ruling class are ruthlessly exposed in It portrays the working class. concrete relation of the struggles of the Negroes for full equality for the struggles of the working class in the Dally Worker.’ The relation’ of imperialist war and fascism and for are building Socialism : imperialism are shown poses the “leading towards Socialism.” I. L. D. CALLS DAILY WORKER is the eye of the working class. It is the collec- It mirrors the life’ of every section of the American people. ‘The wealth, the arrogance, the inhumanity, the meaness, the brutality, misery and poverty, the nobility and heroism of the Soviet pages enemies within the working class, the maneuvers and betrayals of the social fascists and the Negro reformists who find the N. R. A. It fights deportation, Jim-Crowism, for unemployment insurance, for the workers’ right to striki and other intefectuals will visit the German Consulate in New York this) morning to protest against the threatened execution of Dimitroff, Torgler, Taneff and Popoff. ‘The delegation includes Arthur Garfield Hays, liberal lawyer, just returned from the fire trial in Ber- lin; Carlton Beals, author of “The Crime of Cuba;” Kyle Crichton, as- sociate editor of Scribner’s magazine; Malcolm Cowley, associate editor of the New Republic; Amos Pinchot; John Chamberlain, book editor of the New York Times; Waldo Frank, novelist; Horace Gregory, poet and critic; Mrs. Horace Gregory, poet; William Patterson, secretary of the I.LD.; Joseph Brodsky, attorney; Dr. Bernard Stern, anthropologist; Philip Wittenberg, lawyer; Isidore Schnel- der, poet and critic; Edward Dahl- berg, novelist; Melvin P, Levy, author; Robert Gessner, poet and novelist; Sherwood Anderson, writer. presenting trade union, student and professional groups who appeared to demand the immediate release of Dimitroff, Torzler, Tanev and Popoff. When the delegation entered the outer office and asked to see the (Continued on Page 2) News Flash MILWAUKEE. — Deputies fired shots, hurled tear gas bombs, and charged with clubs and fire hose in @ futile effort to. break the farm strike picket lines here today. The ~ striking farmers scattered when the tear gas bombs were thrown, but quickly re-assembled and dumped the scab milk truck trying to get through. Despite roving gangs of armed ror and starvation, was murdered by) to continue its preparations for war. 8 Negro stool pigeon, Benny Williams, while riding on a street car a few nights ago. Comrade Charley fell under three shots fired into his body at close quarters. He died an hour later in the hospital. | Benny Williams, who had close con- nections with the police and with a group of renegades expelled from the Communist Party, is still at large. The police have made no efforts to arrest him. ‘The white and Negro workers of this city, aroused by the brutal mur- der’ of one of their most militant fighters, are planning a series of pro- test demonstrations to demand the arrest and punishment of the mur- derer and of those who instigated his bestial act. Comrade Charley was one of the first workers in this section to join the Communist Party and has been active ever since in the fight against Negro oppression, against starvation deputies, the picket lines remained unbroken, and for unemployment relief and so- cial insurance. FOR DEFENSE OF “DAILY WORKER” By WILLIAM L. PATTERSON (National Secretary International Labor Defense) ruthless use of terror of America’s its pages. for bread and work are expressed these struggles to the fight against defense of our heroic brothers who Union’ in the very teeth of world f the “Daily.” It ruthlessly ex- 2 Friday's receipts OW great a help the Daily Worker Defense! another front, bringing strength and LL MUST COME TO THE DEFENSE OF THE DAILY WORKER IN ITS FINANCIAL CRISIS! Rally the masses of the Internat All I. L. D. Branches in New York Worker Banquet this Sunday in Irving Plaza. NEGRO AND WHITE, FOREIGN WORKERS, PROFESSIONALS AND SAVE THE DAILY WORKER! TOTAL TO DATE Scottsboro, Mooney, Tallapoosa, ico, California and New England are linked together in its pages. lessons of our struggles are being carried by it to those who fight on has been to the International Labor Kentucky, Utah, New Mex~- The guidance. tional Labor Defense for its relief! should be represented at the Dally BORN AND NATIVE BORN INTELLECTUALS, RUSH FUNDS! 182.20 » 21,395.75 | The German masses are expected to} | (Continued on Page 2) Huge Youth Rally Today Will Fight NEW YORK.—In the face of the usual Armistice Day military parades, the young workess and students of mittee of the American League Against War and Fascism will hold |a huge meeting and parade to dem-_ onstrate their opposition to war pre- parations. The protest meeting will be held at noon today at Columbus Circle, 59th St. and Broadway. From there the demonstrators will march to the Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Monument, 88th St and Riverside Drive. ‘The demonstration has been en- dorsed by Henri Barbusse who per~ sonally urged all young workers and students to “raise their voices in a mighty protest against the twin evils of the capitalist sysem—war and fascism.” Several more organizations have lent their support to the demonstra- tion. The complete list is: Young Communist League, War-Resisters League, Conference for Progressive Labor Action, National Student Lea- gue, Labor Sports Union, Interna- tional Workers Order (Youth Sec- tion), Workers Sx-Servicemen’s Lea- gue, Youth Section of Trade Union Unity Council, International Labor Defense, ‘League for Industrial De- mocracy. ‘The United Front Committee today urged the members of all these or- ganizations, the Y. P. S. L. members and all unaffiliated workers and $21,577.95 students to join in this mighty pro- test against imperialist war, War and Fascism, this city, united in the Youth Com-/ and defense attorneys. statement that the lynchings of Pip- |pen and Harden were justified be- cause Knight is “thoroughly con- vinced the defendants were guilty.” Knight is leading the prosecution of the Scottsboro boys who face a new lynch trial on Nov. 27 in the lynch- infested town of Decatur. While Knight issued his threats against the investigating committees pand its witnesses in an attempt to | stifle an expose of lynch condiions, |terror, fed by the Alabama press | continued to grow in Tuscaloosa. In that city the arrival of the Na~ tional Committee inevstigators was preveded by a Ku Klu Klan parade th Negro districts. One hundred of these terrorists, masked and in full regalia, rode through the streets of Tuscaloosa as a “warning” to Negroes. The American Legion in Alabama, meeting at Florence, passed an in- flammory resolution ‘condemning the | practice of organizations from oute | side the State sending foreign lawyers into the State of Alabama.” Lynched in Florida ARCADIA, Fla., Nov. 3. (By mail.) The total of reported lynchs ings for this year soared to 39 yesterday with the discovery of the bullet-riddled bodies of four Negro workers—three women and @ man—in a palmetto thicket five miles east of here, The position of the bodies indi. cated they had been flung from an automobile which had been run into the thicket. T'e workers were identified as Jack Johnson, his sister, Lessie May and ‘Therese Morgan and Jessie Strawman. They had beet) active in this section in a terror campaign in support of the NRA | plough-under - program, missing since Saturday. The Ku}* Klux Klan has been extremely |. t 8 oe ester