The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 16, 1933, Page 1

clea. MOBILIZE! For Daily Worker Tag Days Nov. 24th, 25th and 26th! Daily Central (Section of the Communist International) orker ist Party U.S.A. ectegeetet America’s Only Working | Class Daily Newspaper { | | WEATHER: Pair, continued co 7 Vol. X, No. 275 _>* Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., under the Act of March 8, 1879, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1933 (Six Pages) Price 3 Cents HATHAWAY EXPOSURE PUTS CAPITAL NAZI QUIZ IN FUROR PLAN MURDER OF SCOTTSBORO BOYS ON EVE OF TRIAL co) KNIGHT LEADS ORGANIZING LYNCH MOB; JUDGE IN CASE DENIES ALL PROTECTION Birmingham kgs Herald” Admit Admits in Editorial | Lynch Danger Great in Decatur Lynchers Fear Organization of Defense by 6,000 Organized Negro Share-Croppers (Special Correspondence to ike Daily Worker.) DECATUR, Ala., Nov. 15.—Alabama seems to have set the stage here for the blosdiest massacre in recent American history when the Scottsboro boys and International Labor De fense Attorneys Samuel. Leibowitz and Joseph Brodsky aDpenE in this little town for the ar-?>—————-— raignment and the trial of the) Her ae: = internationally famous case on November 20 and 27 respec- tively. So tense is the situation | which would make it possible slaughter the defendants and the’ attorneys that a number of civic Jeaders of the state, fully aware of ihe danger, have been trying des- perately to persuade Attorne, etel Thomas-B. Knight: Jr. and Cir- suit Judgze W. W. Callahan to pest- pons th-: trial until 24 tension is at least somewhat alleviated. The At- torney-Genzral says that he “see no reason for a postponement.” Saye® BATES And | the judge who will preside has no comment to make. When one corsicers the line-up which faces the defendants and their attorneys at the coming trial it is difficult to see how trouble can be avoided. Officials Seck “Quick End” of Case 1—Leibowitz and the I.L.D. are hated with a fervency bordering on fanaticism by a great many Morgan County citizens not on!y because Lei- bowitz and Brodsky are “northern Jews defending niggers,” wozking for an alleged Communistic defense or- ganization, but because Leibowitz had figuratively slapped their faces at the conclusion of the last trial by a state~ ment attributed to him which re- ferred to them in uncomplimentary phrases. 2—Decatur and Alabama are heari- ily sick of the Scottsboro cases. Ne- groes as a result of this famous case are becoming “cocky,” to employ the exprocsion used by one of Alabama's leading white citizens, and “too damned uppity,” to use the phrase of Morgan County citizens. Alabama wants to see this case ended and the sooner the better. Lynchings Prepare Trial Atmosphere 3—Intense feeling exists here since this spring, when the conviction of Heywood Patterson, one of the nine defendants, was set aside by Judge Horton. Since that trial one Negro boy was shot down in Decatur by a mob of hoodlums whose identity was neyer investigated; feeling runs rife that “northern Jews and the Inter- naticnal Labor Defense” by defend- ing the Scottsboro boys are “encour- aging niggers and trying to put them on juries.” To put Negroes on juries would mean that the black man would get a finger into the operation of the law. Sooner or later the white South, which now zealously contro!s the op- erations of the law, would have to face a showdown on this question of allowing Negroes to participate in the legal life of the county and state and the general sentiment is that if Alabama Lynchers Make Threats On Life of Ruby Bates Threats Also Sent to Family of Leading Scottsboro Witness been made directly to Ruby Bates, Scottsboro defense witness, and to her mother and the other members of her family. This was revealed today when Wil- liam L. Patterson, national secretary of the International Labor Defense, made public a letter from Ruby Bates to his office, in which she refers to these threats and expresses her fear of going back. “You remember last time how they tried to kill me and I just got away,” Ruby's letter said. “I hear that the Scottsboro boys are going to have to go back for a new trial,” she said. “I hear the law- yers. and everybody are going down there again, and I want to go too. Last time I ‘old how those innocent boys were framed up by the deputy sheriffs and Victoria Price and it made me feel better after I told the truth. I want the world to know them boys is innucent and that they did not touch Victoria Price or me. I want everybody to know that the story I told to Reverend Fosdick is the true story of Scottsboro. “But since I was in Decatur almost every day now I get letters from the South calling me a ‘nigger-lover’ and saying that I should be lynched too. Some of the letters said that if I come back they will lynch me with the boys and that they are going to lynch the boys and their lawyers. They have even threatened my mother and the other children, sim- ply because I told the truth and would not let those innocent boys go e the electric chair for doing noth- ing. “Now Mr. Patterson, I am willing to tell the story here again to any ministers or lawyers or anybody you want me to talk Ea ut I won't go back to Decatur becxuse I really am afraid this time that something will happen. You remember last time how they tried to kill me and I just got away.” Every legal step is being taken to make it unnecessary for Ruby Bates to have to return to face the or- ganized lynch gangs in Decatur, Pat- terson said in making this letter pub- lic. Only the voices of the millions of Negro and white workers raised in the demand for the protection of the Scottsboro boys, the defense witnesses and lawyers in the case, however, can make this certain, he said, and noth- ing else can save the boys, (Continued on Page 6) Tannery Strikers ‘Disarm Guards of Burns Scab Agency “GLOVERSVILLE, N. Y., Nov. 15. — Burns detective guards sent here to break the strike of the 2,00 tannery workers, were disarmed by the strik- ers today. Special deputies have been sworn in-against the leather workers. The Mayor of Gloversville asked the Gov- ernor for state troopers. Meanwhile, the tannery bosses are preparing to open the mills Thurs- day and are mobilizing scabs. The strikers are mobilizing for struggle. | They enthusiastically support their militant leader Solomon. Strikers have warned the police and city of- ficials that they will hold them re- sponsible for the safety of their lead- ere, - NEW YORK—Lynch threats have | Anthracite Miners Vote to Tear Down All NRA Signs in City EYNON, Pa., Nov. — The miners in regular meeting of their local union of the anthracite miners here voted unanimously to see that all N. R. A. signs were taken down from all business places, and from all homes. This was followed up by the miners going to business places and tearing down the signs. The action was taken because N. R. A. promises had beon broken by rep~ resentatives of the N. R. A. about the workers having the risht to join their own union, and then being beaten up on the picket lines because they were striking for recognition of the union. There is real resen‘ment agains: the N. R. A. and all that it rep- resents in this mining town, and they are expressing this in a more and more militant form every day. USSR Recognition Talks Progressing, Says White House Washington Liberals Protest Fish Red- Baiting By MARGUERITE YOUNG (Daily Worker Washington Bureau) WASHINGTON, Nov. 15.—Over real difficulties in the Sovie!-Ameri- can conversations Maxim Litvinoff and Franklin D. Roosevelt talked twice today secking a solution which everyene fully expects will bring formal recognition of the Soviet Union, but only after prolonged de- liberation. The President carefully advised the press not to anticipate a breakdown | in the negotiations even if nothing is signed, sealed and delivered by Fri- day or even next Monday. He said that the talks ave progressing nor- mally, but clearly indicated that what he mans by progress may be carrying over while he suns himself in his Georgia retreat for about ten days following Friday. The Soviet Commissar had just | spent about 45 minutes with Roose- velt. Litvinoff returned in the after- noon “or a 50-minute talk. He eluded the thronging co:respondents with the astute comment: “The President says we are making progress. I cor- roborate the President.” It is evident that the precious pack of enem‘es of the Soviet Government and of peace, from professional red- balters such as Hamilton Fish to ex- treme militarists, such as Amezican Legion leaders, are organizing to take advantage of the delay—so much so that friends of the U. S. S. R. and of peace cannot escape the neces- sity for raising their voices anew.! Liberal bourgeois elements here re- | sponded to news of Fish’s “American Alliance’s” new trouble making ef- forts with the announcement that they, too, would get busy. Anti-Soviet Meet Is Called by Assailants of Soviet Consul FS.U and “GP. Urge Strong Turnout Saturday NEW YORK.—The White Ciuard demon stration against recogr.ition of j cil: Farm Conference Opens at Chicago With 750 Delegates Hathaway, Bloor and Amter to Address Mass Meeting CHICAGO, Noy. 15.—The Second National Farm Conference, with 150 farmer delegates, opens here today. Delegates ard farm organizations from over 40 states are present to decide on a program of action against mass farm ruin. Clarence Hathaway, editor of the Daily Worker, will represent the Communist Party at the tremendous worker-farmer solidarity mass meet- ing, which will be held at the Coli- seum in Chicago on Friday evening, Nov. 17. . This meeting will climax the his- toric Farm Conference which opened here today with over 700 delegates from 40 states, Among the speakers will be Mother Bloor, known to hundreds of thou- sands of farmers all over the coun- sry as a militant organizer of farm struggles; Lem Harris, Executive Secretary of the National Committee of Action; Joe Weber, of the Trade Union Unity League; Israel Amter, National Secretary of the Unemployed Counce'ls; John Marshall, of the Ohio Farm League; Harry Lux, and many farmers and workers, including farm- ers who have driven here from the farm strike picket lines. sae PAGE 3 FOR MORE FARM Pittsburgh Packing Strike Solid; Only ‘me Shop Has Scabs Strikers Demand City Council Withdraw Deputies PITTSBURGH. Pa., Nov. 15.—The general strike of the packing house workers here continues solid, except- ing in one shop, where some scabs are working under the heaviest police mobilization. Today the boss press came out with a headline, “Reds Linked With Meat Strike,” claiming that officials of the Trade Union Unity League National Office in New York, said that the Packing House Workers Industrial Union in Pittsburgh was affilated to the T.U.U.L, This is denied in an Official statement by the union today, while no denial was made that some of the leaders of the strike are Com- munists and actively participating in all picket lines and in the leadership of the union. Today, a delegation of 200 strikers, headed by Harry Rich, peesnted the following demands to the City Coun- 1. The release of all arrested strikers; 2, The removal of all dep- uties; 3. Right to picket without the interference of the police; 4, Cessa- tion of all terror. Rich, speaking for the delegation, said: “We take no responsibility for any violence, which is most likely the acts of alien elements of the strike. In spite of the fact that we make these demands to you, and regardless of your decisions, the strikers will in- sist and carry out the right to picket at all times.” Demands to Council The strikers voted at the Council to summons Chief Inspector of Po- lice to the hearings where he at- tempted to deny that the police were intimidating the strikers. One of the Council Democrats, McCardle, stated, (Continued on Page 6) Dimitroff Demands Right to Defend Himself in Trial | Nazi Court § Says Coun-| sel Is Compulsory for) Dimitroff AT GERMAN FRONTIER | (via Zurich, Switzerland), Nov. | 15.—Dimitroff’s 70-year old} mother was present in court | today and heard her son demand the | right to defend himself despite the order of the court that he must have | compulsory counsel. Dimitroff in- sisted on the right to the stenographic | copy of all testimony and all the records in the case, so he could con- duct his own defense. ‘The Communist Deputy, Kerff, held | in the Sonnenburg Nazi concentra- tion camp,’ was brought to the stand today on the thirty-ninth day of the} Reichstag fire trial. Korff, asserted | the. Nazi witness Kunzack, partici- pated in a secret conference in Dues- seldorf with Van der Lubbe and Heinz Noumenn, Communist leader. | Kerft stated he ‘met. foreigners | repeatedly in 1924 and 1925, among | whom were the Dutch Communist | ; Deputy Devisser, and the Englishman | Gallagher. } The prosecutor interjected that the Communist Party frequently tolerated (Continued on Page 2) Communist Party Urges Thousands | to Protest Monday Workers Throughout Nation Mass in Protest NEW YORK.—An urgent call to/ all workers, to all enemies of Fascism | and anti-Semitism to rally in mighty numbers in a demonstration against the Nazi murder regim2, Monday, | Noy, 20, at 11 a.m., has been issued) by the Communist Party, New York) district. The Reichstag fire trial judge has announced that all evidence in the! “trial” of the four Communist de- fendants, Torgler, Dimitroff, Ponoff and Taneff, must be in by Tuesday. Immediately thereafter, the long-de- cided death verdict is to be an- nounced. Only the rallying of thousands upon thousands of workers in all citles in protest against this mest monstrous of all frame-uns in history can save these heroic Communists. The death which the Nazis have prepared for them is the most brazen challenge, directed at the whole civil- ized world. The most conclusive evidence proves | that the Nazis themsclyves set the fire | for which they have prepared death for these four Communists. * * ° Brooklyn Ant-iHitler Meeting An anti-Hitler mass meeting will be held tomorrow night at the Brook- lyn Academy of Music, Lafayette St. and Hanson Pl,, Brooklyn, near the LRT. Atantic Ave., station, under (Continued on Page 2) the Soviet Union, saree for Sat- urday at 10 am. ‘ashington Square, is actually called by the or- ganization responsible for the shoot- ing of Majlo, secretary of the Soviet Consulate in Lemberg a month ago, it was revealed yesterday, The “United Ukrainian Society,” which called the anti-Soviet demon- stration, is controlled by the “Organ- ization of Resurrection of Ukrainian States,” the American branch of the *nt~rnational Carnivalist Ukratn'on Nationalist group financed by the German Nazis. The United Ukrainian Society has asked the New York branch of the German Stahlhelm society to supply 500 stront-arm men to protect Sat- urday’s demonstration. The Communist Party yesterday called on all its members, and all enemies of Fascism to support the counter-demonstration called by the Friends of the Soviet Union, to be held at the same time and place— Washington Square, 10 a.m., Satur- day. Boston Goes Over the Top! OSTON is the first to raise its quota in the Daily Worker $40,000 Drive. Boston rushed an additional $27.26 yesterday to save our Daliy Worker and passed its quota. Bos~- ton now challenges all other districts to beat it by raising the largest sum over their quotas. What do you say, comrades of New York, Chica7o, Detroit, Seatt'e, Phila- delph‘a, and of the other districts? Which will be the next to raise its full quota? Which will accept Bos~ ton’s challenge to pass the quota? Rush your acceptance of the chal- lenge. HILLIP LIRA and Faustino Gon- za'es, both of New York, were the first to answer Angelo Herndon’s ap- peal to save our “Daily.” Each one of them brought a dollar to the Daily Worker office yesterday to equal | Comirade Herndon’s contribution, They said, in substance: “If Com- rade Herndon sacrifices a dollar! | given him to buy glasses so he can read in his rrison cell, we can do at/ least as much. ti S is the spirit that will save. our Daily Worker. A dollar from every reader of the “Datly” w'll put the $40,000 Drive over the top and give life to our fighting paper. Fo!- low Comrade Herndon's examole. Add to the dollars given by the two New York workers. Your dollar will mean life to our Daily Worker, It will mean that it can go on mob-/ lilizing the workers in the fight for bread and freedom. DON’T DELAY, | RUSH YOUR DOLLAR TODAY! | Wednesday's receipts = $ 257.06 Previous total ... e+ 24,353.71 Total to date...sseesee++ $24,610.77 | the United States gov Reveals U. S.-Nazi Link By MORRIS J. KALLEM CLARENCE HATHAWAY Nazi Murder Accomplices Daily Wor': identified by a f scist agent, and read into the official records of crnment, that tore away from the faces of the capitalist And it is just press the mac: For not a single one of these capitalist sheets so fond of holily con- trasting their rotten “impartiality” with the “propaganda” of the Com- munist press, dared to print the damning Nazi document in full! And even mere than that, the New York Times, rich, powerful, famed throughout the world as the prototype of everything that is supposed to be so honest, accurate and impartial in reporting events, del:berately, and purposefully LYED about the Nazi letter; distorted and diluted its herrible centents! The New York es, and the capitalist press, deliberately faked the Nazi letter, printing it in a censcred form, without telling its readers that it was ripping out of the letter the damning evidence that van der Lubbe is a Nazi spy and tool and that the Fascist savages intend to inoculate the heroic Communist leaders, Dimitreff and Torgler, with syphilis germs! * . . paragraph that the New York Times did not dare to print reads as follows: “I cannot find a place for van der Lubbe here; it is best if you throw him ovezboard into the ocean while en route to another coun- try. Whem do you in‘end to hang in his place in Germany? I agree with you ent’; that it woutd be a good thing to give the damned Communis‘s in Leipzig an infecticn of syphilis. Then it can be said that Communism comes frem syphilis of the brain.” The New York Times and the capitalist press, faithful tools of Wall Street capitalism, are already beginning to emphasize the “Virtues” of Hitler and Fascism, at the same time that American capitalism is be- ginning to emulate their savagery. How can the capitalist press and the Times find it in its heart to expose the Reichstag fire frame-up and the gruesome plots of the Fascists when they are conscious participants in the preparations for the Scotts- boro lynchings, y themselves are past masters in the art of frame-up? It s because American capitalism begins to resemble more and more the Fascist reaction of Germany that its journalist servants strive to con- ceal the similarity in their countenances. There is good reason for the Times’ eagerness to shield the Fascists and their unspeakable barbarities. It is because the Daily Worker has proof that the Fascists have the assistance ard co-operation of the most powerful sections of American capitaliom, from the Reckefeller banks to Ham Fish, Grover Whaien, Well, Ecstey and the National Civic Federation! It is bocau: rican capitalism is financing and abetting the Hitler murder regime, that the New York Times, as well as the Dickstein Com- mittee, are detezmined thet the Nazi investigation shall not go further than the mere surface. Neither Dicks‘ein nor the American press is interested in really exposing the true ex‘cnt of Nazi plotting in America. For to expose that would be to Iay bare the capitalist kinship that binds Hitler to Roosevelt and Wall Street. The Daily Wo:ker charges that the New York Times, by its deliberate concea!ment of the evidence most damaging to the Fascists, is aiding the Fascists in their hideons Re'chstag trial frame-up at Leipzig, and is a party to the pions to murder our heroic Comrades, Diraltroff, Torgter, Taneff and Popoff! Fight against Fascism! Fight for the lives and freedom of our Com-~ munist comrades in the hands of the Fascist murderers! All over the United States workers, farmers, intellectuals, haters of oppression, must demonstrate against the frame-up Reichsteg trial! Free our working- class heroes! when th Bankers, Congressmen Aid Nazi Plots in U.S., Charges Daily Worker Editor Dickstein . Shuts Off Hearing When It “Gets Too Hot” Considers Fish “High Class, Valuable Citizen” By SEYMOUR WALDMAN (Daily Worker Washington Burcan) WASHINGTON, Nov. 15. — Official and journalistic Wash- ington today was startled out | of its. well-known apathy to in- vestigations and melodramatie revelations by the forceful and precise testimony of Clarence A, Hathaway, youthful-looking editor of the Daily Worker who appeared as an invited and the sole witness be- fore the second day’s public hearings of the House Immigration and Na- |turalization Sub-Committee sup- | posedly meeting to probe Nazi propa- | ganda ‘ectivity in the United Sistas. As phrased by one of the spon- | ‘anecouslv. enthrs’asti ce reporters, “It was Hathaway's day.” | “The Datiy Worker editor held the | rapt attention of a large assemblage of newspapermen, private and uni- formed police. A dozen photog- | Taphers, and mere spectators, as he carefully and brilliantly linked up Nazi activities in the United States with such notoriously prominent re- actionarics as the millionaire Con eressman Hamilton Fis Jr.; Ralph Easley, head of the recently exposed Nazi ally, the National Civic Federa- tion; Matthew Woll, prosperous vice- president of the American Federa~- tion of Labor and acting president of the Easley outfit; and the reactionary clown, Grover Whalen, infamous among workers as a clubber and the distributor of fake anti-Soviet Rus- sian “documents.” U. S. Nazi Ties “While this committee is directly concerned with the question of im- migration and the importation of Nazi propaganda material, etc.”, Hathaway frankly told the Commit- tee consisting of Representatives Dickstein, Crowe, of Maryland, and Focht, of Pennsylvania. “Unless it ferrets out the American tie-ups with | these Nazis, it will not be successful, with the large number of propa- gandists that have been permitted to enter the port of New York and with the bales of propaganda material | which have been shipped in. It is | obvious that this could not have been done without the collaboration of Americans holding authoritative po- litical positions. As far as our Party and our paper is concerned we intend to uncover Nazi-American assistants in the highest places.” This tying-up by Hathaway of American Nazidom with such well known “patriots” significantly coin- cided with the firing last night of the opening gun by Ham Fish’s “American Alliance” self-confessed (Continued on Page 6) | i ‘Woodin Leaves; See Financial Crisis As US. Bonds Decline | WASHINGTON, Noy. 15. — Secre= tary Woodin, whose intimate connec- | tion with the house of J. P, Morgan, | did not prevent him from being chos- | en by Roosevelt to head the Cabinet as Secretary of the Treasury, today left “on long leave of absence,” it was announced teday. This is practically | an announcement of resignation, | Henry Morgenthau, Jr., will take his place. | The announcement confirms ru~ mors that Woodin represented @ | sroup opposed to the head!ong infla- tionary measures that RWsevelt ts now taking. | The dollar dropped sharply agaist, the pound making a new high of $5.42: The shadow of financial inflation | loomed larger as United States gov- | ernment bonds continued to be weak, and Wall Street capital continued to fle2 to safer places. | ‘The svectre of financial crisis also grew as it became evident that Roose yelt’s present sharp inflation is no | longer sending prices upward. —— | banks are weakening as their holdings are depreciating in value. The cost of living is rising as a ré~ sult of the cheapening of the dollar. . ' ' ( ' =