The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 13, 1933, Page 1

t (A a) Rush Funds to Help It Fight Scottsboro Boys! ; the “Daily” to | for the Nine Daily (Section of the Communist International) oO ke America’s Only Working | nist Party U.S.A. Class Daily Newspaper | _>* ‘Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., under the Act of March %, 1878, Vol. X, No. 272 NEW YORK, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1933 (Six Pages) FP ice 3 Cents MOBILIZE TROOPS TO OUST STRIKERS FROM MEAT PLANT RECOGNITION DISCUSSIONS PROGRESSING Litvinoff Spends Day in Jaunt to the Country By MARGUERITE YOUNG (Daily Worker Washington Bureau.) WASHINGTON, Nov. 12—| The imperturbable little Sov- | jet Commissar for Foreign Af-} fairs serenely drove out to the} countryside for some fresh air today, leaving behind an American | capital humming with glorified guess- ing about the outcome of the Soviet | Tecognition conversations. | Amid conflicting gossip, much of it Officially inspired, two points remain | Uke beacons: | 1. The resumption of government @iplomatic relations, to remove six- teen years artificial barriers between the always friendly American and Russian peoples, stands agreed upon by both sides; 2. the drawing out of negotiations by the Americans troub- Jes few of the spokesmen, least’ of all Maxim Litvinoff. | To be sure, the lengthening of the conversations was an unpleasant sur- prise, for Litvinoff himself said that he could finish his side of them in half an hour. Before he.arrived here, Americans recalled that this govern- ment had indicated in advance that | it wishes to discuss the “difficulties | which hed created the anomalous sttuation” (Roosevelt) Apparently | they have stubbornly insisted upon it, and the Russians have gracefully as- sented despite the fact that formal tecognitien came first from the gov- ermments of Great Britain, France, | Litvinoff will find profitable uses for | his time between “conversations” jusi | as he cid while the London Economic | Con‘sronte was dawdling to its death. | He has followed up the Soviet rap- proach: t vith France and its} friendship ing diplomatic amer of social contacts with diplomats here. He is: hoving dinner tonight with orgenthau, Jr., Governor of in the form And no doubt the Commmissar is content to Iet the Americans talk as long as they like about Russian-Amer- ican problems. Which of these is ‘causing extended discussion is some- thing about which conjectures fly like ~ith Turkey, by exchang- | Two Armistice Day Speeches for War RMISTICE DAY was brazenly utilized by Roosevelt's Secretary of War, Dern, to justify preparations for a new imperialist blood bath. Dern sought to cast off the miserable “peace and democracy” shibboleths by means of which the American workers and farmers were driven into the last world slanghter to spill their blood as fertilizer for the wealth of the Morgan’s and Rockefellers. Now, on the threshhold of a new world war, Dern tells the American workers: “WE MUST BE PRACTICAL ENOUGH TO REMEMBER THAT ECONOMIC RELATIONS ARE ACTUALLY AT THE BOTTOM OF WAR | AND IF ECONOMIC CONDITIONS CANNOT BE STABILIZED, PEACE | CANNOT BE STABILIZED, EITHER.” | So! With the crisis entering decper phases, Roosevelt's war spokes- man declares “peace cannot be stabilized,” war must come! | “The lofty aims that Woodrow Wilson thought had been accomplished, were, after ail, not rezlized,” gloomily stated the Secretary for War. “Victory came in 1918, but peace did not come.” Roosevelt, now, so Dern would have the workers believe, is ordained by a new world imperialist slaughter to achieve what Wilson failed to get. On the same day, standing over the unidentifiable body of a worker or farmer in the grave of the “Unknown Soldier,” Edward A. Hayes, National Commander of the American Legion, seized on the occasion of Armistice Day to stir up war hatred against the Soviet Union. Unable to meet the issues of the last imperialist war and to justify the slaughter of the tens of miilions symbolized by the “Unknown Soldier, Hayes vented his hatred against the Soviet Union and “the official recognition of strange tenets,” which “through violence and revo- lution would destroy the American government.” THE TWO SPEECHES FIT LIKE TWO COGS IN THE ROOSEVELT WAR MACHINE. . E ° ERN pleads for a new imperialist war, based on imperialist economic rivalries, in the name of the peace Wilson failed to achieve. Hayes vents his venom against the Soviet Union, where the werkers and peas- ants turned the imperialist war into a civil war and « victorious pro- letarian revolution. Nor do these gentlemen merely speak and propagandize. Behind their speeches, like behind a heavily masked curtain, the Roosevelt regime speeds war preparations at a feverish peace. In the past six months, $950,000,000 were spent for this new war for plunder declared inevitable by War Secretary Dern. Six hundred million of this war fund came from the regular war budget. To speed war still more rapidly, Roosevelt added $350,- 000,600 more from the N.R.A. Public Works fund. Still more is asked for—S125,000,000 by the army and $77,000,000 by the navy. For the siarving unemployed there are only charity and governmént driblets coupled with forced labor. American imperialism is rushing to war. Tis Spokesmen are stirring up hatred a gainst the Soviet Union, precisely at the time Roosevelt seeks to give the impression of conciliation and diplomatic relations. Against these war thrusts, the workers must answer with the sternest mobilization and struggle, Down with imperialist war! Defend the Soviet Union! Nazis Plot Death For All Fire Trial locusts here, but one thing is agreed | upen: none can constitute a serious obstacle. tioned is the vre-revolutionary Ker- ensky debt of less than $200,000,000 | to the United States—and the slight- hess of this, beside the incalculable damages suffered by the Soviet gov- | ernment both in lives and loss of property as the result of American intervention, is obvious. Among other Possibilities suggested as the nub of the parleying is the formulation of @ non-aggression pact between the two governments. More plausible, "5s Defendants Nov. 21 |Limitroff Pillories More Nazi Perjurers Despite Judge’s Threats, and Exposes Brutal Jail Treatment | AT THE GERMAN FRONTIER (via Zurich, Switzerland), Nov. 12.—The | Nazi plans to end the Reichstag arson trial abruptly and throw the four | framed Communist Jeaders to the executioner’s axe as part of the jingo Farm Heads Aid Strikebrea Delegates on Road to Farm Conference king Groups ; FARMERS SUPPORT Official Admits Aid of Deputy Thugs in lowaFarmersStrike. bed 100 Delegates March | Through Ohio Today on Way to Chicago (By Special Daily Worker Correspondent) SIOUX CITY, Iowa.—Under the persistent questionings Sam Mosher, a rank and file farmer, I. W. Reck, president of the local group of strik- | ing farmers, was forced to admit} that he had joined the newly-formed | strikebreaking Law and Order League | which is sending armed gangs against | the stziking farm pickets. | This admission of strikebreaking, | coming from the man who is sup-| posed to be leading the farmers in their strike against the big milk and | grain monopolies, was the highlight | of a meeting in which the steam-| rolling officialdom of the Sioux City | Milk Producers’ Association, aided by | deputized sheriffs and scores of po- | lice, railroad through a resoiluuon| calling for the cessation of all pick- | eting at a stormy meeting at the/| Armory. Steam Roll Meeting The Association is com osed of nearly 1,000 farmers from South Dakota, Iowa and Nebraska, but only 300 of them were in attendance at the meeting. The steam-roller character of the meeting is indicated by the form in which the question on picketing was| put by I, W. Reck president of the association, who'was on numerous ¢c~ casions denounced as a “dictator” by the rank-and-file farmers at the meeting. | “Do you favor sending milk to the Sioux City market or are you willing | to keep milk at home and let miik| come in from Omaha? | Put in this demagogic form, the vote was 127 to 22. Raise “Red Scare” DES MOINES, Ia., Nov. 12.—Clez: | velt Ad from Merrill, Hinton and other farm centers were barred from the Armory | meeting by the police. Later Sioux) | City cops arzested Ray Martin, 30,| of Kingsley, at 820 Pearl St., near |inston, add: these striking farm pickets at Shenandoah, Towa, let | By SENDER istration in face of the growing revolt, of the Western fs More than 50 farmers who Came’ Secretary of Agriculture Wallace, presented his cornkog loan pror embattled Towa farmers, and cunningi to silence you farmers, it is a plan to save the nation. Wallace, who flew here from Wash-@ —————— however, is the guess that what they | incitement featuring the German “referendum” today were abandoned un- | der the pressure of the world-wide thunder of protests evoked by the ex- are looking for is a single “formula” to cover the cancellation of claims in addition to opening the way for acceptable ercdit ngements. Litvinoff's jaunt in the country lasted more than five hours. drove with Boris E. Skvirsky, Soviet “epresentative here, and several other Russians, Needle Union Plans a Counter-Drive on BossesSharp Attack NEW YORK.—In one of the most enthusiastic meetings in its history, a plan for a counter-offensive against the attacks of the bosses and local government authorities was adopted by the Needle Trades Industrial Union at an emergency meeting held Sat- urday by the tre’e executive and the Executive Council. More than 150 leaders and active workers met at 131 West 28th Street and diacussed plans for resistance to the recent sharpened attack on the militant union, typified by the in- dictment against 28 union leaders and active workers. ‘The meeting discussed the injunc- tion against the union now being heard in the Superior Court, directed against the furriers’ division of the union, It was decided to call a protest meeting of all needle trades workers on Thursday at St. Nicholas Arena, 66th Street and Broadway, imme- diately after work to rally the mem- bership azainst the bosses’ assaults. When the proposal fer an assess- ment was taken up ancl adopied to! ve the union” the daleget nt volun- contributed heavily for the Tt was decided to assess the ship 50 cents each for this| raise fund ‘ $10,009 for a mer purps:2. It was also decided to send a del-| egation to the German Consul Mon- Reichstag fire trial defendants, | of the Nazi intentions. | The Nazi court, however, is now | concentrating its efforts to end the |farcical trial by Nov. 21 which, con- trary to Nazi expectations of indict- ing the German Communist Party | and world Communism, has served to |turther unmask the Nazi chieftains as the real incendaries. | Yesterday the Nazi court again | @ied to block the withering cross- examination by the heroic defendent, | Georgi Dimitroff. Dimitroff’s pene~ | trating quizzing has thrown con usion linto the Nazi camp. Dimitroff has | pilloried the leading Nazi officials, in- cluding General Wilhelm Goering, exposed in the “Brown Book of Hit- ler Terror,” and at the London coun- ter-trial as the chief instigator of the Reichstag arson. To avoid further such exposes and embarrassing questioning by Dimi- troff and other defendants, the court. is quite clearly rushing the trial | through. Dimitroff Threatened. The thirty-sixth day of the trial yesterday was featured by another sensational clash between Dimitroff and Nazi witnesses. Again the court came to the aid of the Fascist perjurets. Dimitroff was threatened with removal from the court room. One Reichstag elevator operator testified that he recognized Dimitroft as @ man he had seen in the Reichs- tag several days before the fire. Dimitroff rose and declared he had not been in the Reichstag building since 1921, Moreover, he stated, he did not look the same as he did be- fore his arrest. He asked how the witness could be so certain in his “Identification” despite the fact that he (Dimitroff) “hed lost twenty pounds, thanks to an excellent dieting cure in prison.” Dimitroff’s sarcasm brought a reprimand from the presid- ing judge. The Nazi witness also claimed that he saw Popoff, another of the three Bulserian Communists on trial with Ernst Torgler, in the Reichstag two weeks before the trial, This Popoff | posure in the world Communist press¢ denied. Previous testimony had brought out the close likeness be- tween Popoff and a member of the Communist fraction in the Reichstag. Don’t Investigate Lubbe Detective Gast, who on Oct. 31 “investigated” the Hennin7:dorf police station and the shelter house for cestitutes in that town where the Nazi tool, under Lubbe, had stayed on the night before the fire, stated he had found no traces of Lubbe in Henningsdorf. Dimitroff here declared that he calls to the attention of the whole world the fact that no immediate in- (Continued on Page 2) the Armory, on a charce of carrying @ gun and several cartridges. Ac- cording to Sheriff Ralph Rippey of Plymouth County, an effort will also be made to imp'icate Martin in the shooting of R. D. Markell, a milk trucker, during the picketing last February. “The red hand of Communism | rests upon the peaceful farm lands of middle western agriculture,” Reck declared at the heated climax of the meeting. He quoted from a recent issue of “The Communist,” theoret- ical organ of the Communist Party, | in which the progress among the | middle western farmers was noted. Scotch Maneuvers Reck’s attempt to bring in the Communist issue for the purpose of disrupting the farm strike scotched by farmc-s in the hall who frequently shouted, “Get back to the milk strike question!” As the arguments became more heated, Sheriff W. H. Tice, Commts- sioner Thomas H. McBride, Police Chief Gordon Hollar and a small army of unifo-med policemen and detectives stood mehacingly at stra- tegic places among the farmers. Hammered at by Sam Mosher, rank and file member of the Farm- ers’ Holiday Association and Execu- tive Member of the Milk Producers’ Association of Plymovth County, (Continued on Page 2) was | Reck, president of the association, | |spite reams of | state-wide Iowa press r |to fill the Coliseum h which seats 8,000, was re: hed to Wallace for the occ Aimee Semple McPherson, prayer Jopened the Towa state legislature here | |the other day. Wielding the “big stick,” Wallace} {opened his speech by biuntly declar- |ing that “The President means busi- |ness.” Seated beside the Agricultura | Secretary was Governor Huber | Herring of Iowa who ordered out mil- itia with fixed bayonets against farm |strikers last Sprin and who now |holds troops in rea ess once more. No Biue Eagies In the rear of Wallace, on the| | platform, were 100 leading corn and/| hog producers, “kul: farmers, es- | | pecially invited by officials, as well as} |a large delegation from the 352 farm- jer grain dealers in the state. | No blue eagies decorated the Coli-| }seum interior, only huge American | and Iowa state flags. Potted ferns! were banked at the rear of the tiers | of platform seats, where the kulak farmers and officials sat. The Four- teenth Cavalry Band from Fort Des} Moines, played the Netional Anthem | and military marches, as Secretary | Wallace, dressed in sombze black, | strode to the platform, and fingered | his blue necktie. Earlier George Hamilton, of the | (Continued on Page 2) | FILL THE WAR CHEST OF THE “DAILY” By BILL DUNNE be Daily Worker asks for funds to finance the class war. ‘The Daily Worker is in a critical financial condition. The campaign for the $40,000 security fund is show- ing results slowly—far too slowly. ‘The Daily Worker is in danger. This is not news. We read it every day. ‘The Scotisboro boys are In danger. The leaders of the Share Croppers’ Union are in danger. N, R. A. means danger for every white and Negro worker in America. ‘The Daily Worker {s carrying on now one of the most searching, de- tailed and appealing exposures of the lynch and murder terror against the Negro masses in the South ever made and published. The Daily Worker is stripping the grave clothes from the ghoulish soul of American lynchdom. This is news—and news of the high- est political importance! In this task, of vital significance for every man and woman in the United States, Negro and white, who OWN WELFARE. Saturday's receipts .. Previous Total ... We Must Face ‘This Issue! TH the life of our Daily Worker depending on the success of the $40,000 Drive, receipts on Friday flopped to $182.20, the lowest point recorded in the entire campaign, Saturday's receipts were better but sti’l far below the required daily minimum of $1,000. over by now must be prolonged because of the poor response. Desperate struggles face us and our entire class this win‘ our Daily Worker more than ever before to org: ARE YOU DOING TO HELP OUR FIGHTING PAPER? WHAT IS YOUR ORGANIZATION DOING? WE MUST FACE THIS ISSUE FOR OUR YOUR ANSWER MUST BE CONCRETE, FUNDS AND RUSH THEM TO HELP SAVE OUR “DAILY.” TOTAL TO DATE .....ccccceseccoseeesenevee sess 822,152.68 | The Drive which should have been | | Comrades! We need ze and to lead us. WHAT | RAISE +2 8974.68 | 21,577.95 | grading charity relief, the Daliy Worker is furnishing one of the finest examples of the united front, of col- lives by labor or who hungérs be- cause of mass unemployment and de~ lective work and leadership, ever seen in this country, The Daily Worker strikes straight at the heart of American imperialism in its organization and defense of seas aa ss MR eS % Beating Secretary of Agriculture Wallace in effizy, | the world know what they think of Rooseyelt’s farm | program. Wallace Silent on Debt ‘Alabama Paper in Burdens in Iowa Tal 'Roosevelt’s Farm Head Presents Program, | Another Futile Acreage-Reducing Plan rly revealing apprehension of Roose- told them: “This is not a bribe| 150 Negro Dockers in Cairo Strike As) |” Boss Ends Contract CAIRO. Mo. Noy. 12. hundred and twenty fi 1 members of 's Industrial Union went on strike here again to en- force the contract won by their recent s: reaking the ag- | ment, Mooney, Ca‘ro Sup- encent, Federal Barge Li did not re-employ all str: workers first, fired a shop com- for his militancy, and o discuss this with the shop committee. The workers walked off the job leaders were ar- '¢ picketing, fined over $260, and he'd on further charg- es. These frame-ups, and the use | of heodlum white deputies and scabs, are steps to break the union, and to get ready for a wage cut through breaking the strike and setting aside the agreement. The barge line men are forci a return to the contract throu better picketing, Negro and white solidarity, through de- manding an_ investigation, and through the fight to release the arrested men. lynch terror—legal and extra-legal— and by organized gang murders of Negzo workers and farmers fighting | for the right to live like human be- | ings, el a a E investigation carried through | by the Daily Worker, the Interna- | tional Labor Defense and the Leag | of Struggle for Negro Rights, the ex- posure of the conspiracy to murder the Scottsboro boys now beginning— | forcing even the New York Times to| take cognizance of it—was made pos- | sible only by the dimes and quarters | of thousands of workers. It was) made possible only by collective lead~ ership and a united front of struggle that stayed the hands of the Ala- | bama executioners and lynchers. | The Communist Party and its offi- | cial organ the Daily Worker organ~ ized this mighty movement, The Daily Worker is going to prove | beyond a shadow of a doubt that| with the knowledge and aid of gov-| ernment, state and national, there| | the Negro people against the system ot double oppression maintained by| _.. AContinued on Page 8), k Giving Roosevelt's Farm Bead " Drubbing ies ( WORKERS | |Minnesota Governor | and General Act | to Break Strike AUSTIN, Minn., Nov. 12. — |Farmer-Labor Governor Floyd |B. Olsen of Minnesota, accom- | | panied by Adjutant-General El- \lard A. Walsh, arrived here in an effort to break the strike of | packing house workers were aided by }farmers of the National Holiday As- sociation, entered the George A, |Hormel Packing Co. plant Saturday. | While ordering four companies of National Guard to stand ready for |strikebreaking duty, Governor Olsen, jexperienced demagogue, will attempt |to repeat his usual speeches filled with left phrases in an effort to jdrive the workers back, | The strikers, under militant lead- jership, demanded a 10 cent an hour increase in pay. This was refused and they formed mass picket lines |outside of the plant. When deputy sheriffs, police and company guards attempted to smash the picket lines, the strikers ousted the guards and officials and occupied the plant. to insure its complete shutdown. | The Hormel Packing Go. plant, jthe seventh largest in the world, is |surrounded by a high wire fence. |After a brief fight, in which the | strikers were forced to withdraw. Farmers from nearby farm regions |joined the picket lines and aided jthe workers in their fight. The fighting started when police \and deputy sheriffs tried to drive |away over 500 pickets, supported by | farmers, during negotiations between |strike leaders and company officials, | The strikers fought their way LL.D. Attorneys ui. i"2ct a" weet onpeoensnne jand entered the building, telling the HUNTSVILLE, Ala., Nov, 12.—Two| Janitors to leave. The workers then t threats against the Interna-|Massed in the administrative offices Labor Defense atto:neys in|0f Jay ©. Hormel, president of the cottsboro Case, are contained in |Company, who was meeting with the ‘Community Builder,” a paper |Strike leaders along with other offl- shed in the interests of the Ala-|°@rs of the company, ma landlords, whose preparations; When the officials refused to dis- ch the Scottsboro boys, the|CUSS strike demands, they were e attorneys and witnesses, have | Pustled out of the building without been exposed in the Daily Worker. |RY Violence. In an editorial featured on its front |, In & statement immediately after the Builder” for | this, event Hormel declared that “the Threats Against | attorney | intell ‘Community v. 3, declires “In the face of the feeling that exists at Decatur, as well as throughout the Tennesee Valley, against any lawyer claiming to represent the International Labor Defense, we suggest that it will not be well for these lawyers to again show up on any soil at any point within this valley. We do not need that type of cattle down here, and their further appearance is wholly unnecessary. There are plenty of able lawyers here in the North Ala- bama, who, if employed or ap- pointed by the court, will see to it that the negroes to be tried at De- catur are given the proper represen- tation.” imilarly featured a warned the I. L. D. ‘to stay at home.” Baltimore Conference, Noy. 19 NEW YORK. — A mass send-off mecting for the New York delegates P | to the Baltimore Anti-Lynch Con- ference will be held Wednesday, Nov. 15, at 8 p. m. in St. Luke's Hall, 125 West 130th St., 1t was announced to- day. The Baltimore conference is to open with hearings on the Armwood nd other lynchings, by a commission of trade n and mass organiza- tion representatives, and well-known tuals, Nov. 18. The conference itself will be held Nov. 19, seven days before the opening of the new Scotts- boro lynch trials, Noy. 27, in Decatur, Ala. Speakers at the send-off will be Richard B. Moore, National Secretary of the League of Struggle for Negro Rights; Bill Dunne, for the Central Committee of the Communist Party; William L. Patterson, national sec- retary of the International Labor De- fense; Dr. Reuben 8. Young, national treasurer of the L.S.N.R., and Andrew Overgaard, of the Trade Union Unity Council, New York. Herman McWain, assistant secretary of the L. S. N. R., will be chairman. ‘Third Article on Scottsboro Lynch Plans Tomorrow NEW YORK.—The third arti- cie by Bill Dunne, exposing the spiracy of Alabainaa wisi. ¢.- ficials with Ku Klux and other terrorist gangs, te. lynch the | Scottsboro boys, the defense at- \torneys and witnesses, will ap- | | pear in tomorrow's “Daily Work~ er.” Order your copy today. Don’t miss any article in this smashing exposure of the State~ inspired lynch preparations, company now did not consider that it had any employees to whom I |could address a communication.” | The workers are organized in an independent industrial union. | Hormel appealed to Governor Ol- sen by long distant telephone, Frank Starkey, State Industrial Commissioner, was s to the strike area in an effort to reak the strike, Pittsburgh Packing Workers Vote Call for General Strike | PITTSBURGH, Pa. Nov. 12.6 ; With over 1,000 Packing House | workers filling Moose Temple to ca~ |Pacity, a unanimous decision was ; made to present demands to all the | bosses to be acted upon within 24 | hours, and the general strike calito be issued following the rejection!of | the demands. r |. The American Federation of Labor |4s working fast to split the rafks | through the Teamsters Local No. 249 bes the A. FP. of L., attempting to take the drivers into their union and ree turn them to work in the striking |Shops. By distributing tens of thous jSands of gallons of booze amongst the men, they succeeded in getting |a group of drivers there under the influence of liquor to sign the appli+ jcation cards. The meeting unani- mously condemned this action. | The drivers present at the meete jing, who were approached by thé A. F. of L. to join the outfit, pledged | to stand united in the strike, together | with the rest of the workers. | The 700 Packing House workers |now on strike in three shops, are | solid. Picketing has been going on 24 hours a day, since the strike was jcalled. Action committees have been formed in all shops and the strikers are militant. Many trucks, |by scabs, have been stopped ch | Friday night a squad of detectives, | police and the Chief Inspector of -ttsburgh, raided the union hee with the intention of intimidating union members, The Chief 4 “Why don’t you join the A. F. of Li! Saturday, six strikers were ed, picked up on the charge of oor aoe persons, and held qa ail, Pat Fagen is actively Regal disrupt the strike. He first hold back, but now is trying to | the ranks The meeting was ad Frank Kracik, Harry Rich, of the Food Workers Industrial Union; Sam Wiseman of the United Trade Union Committee of Western Pennsylvania, and Phil Prankfeld, 3 er ee er i nn eee renal aa a #1 Lae eS 4