The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 18, 1933, Page 1

f orker America’s Only Working | Class Daily Newspaper | eae moet | WEATHER: Warmer, possibly rair ‘(Section of the Communist International) ee NEW YORK, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1933 py | Celebrate Recégnition of the US.S.R. With a Dollar to B Your Daily Worker! [ all Ce Price 3 ‘ents SOVIET UNION RECOGNIZED DECATUR SEETHING WITH LYNCH Reversal of U.S. Non-Recognition Policy THREATS AGAINST SCOTISBORO BOYS Is Victory for the Workers’ Fatherland AND ATTORNEYS, DENIED PROTECTION Alabama Officials In Open Invitation | For Lynching Orgy: } Only Quick Protest | | Action Can Save Boys | 3 | | 277 re Pr aan aban wenn (Eight Pages) Support the Paper That, Battles for The Soviet Union! ‘To give to you detailed news of the recognition the Soviet Union, last minute news of the Scottsboro Case and other workers’ struggles, the Daily Worker omits today’s appeal for funds, This de- spite the financial danger our paper is in. We rely upon you, comrades, to understand the neces- sity for omitting it. We call upon you to do your utmost Wane forker CUT 187,000 OFF CHICAGO RELIEF ROLL Roosevelt Aide Orders Jobless Off Relief, Beginning Mon. CHICAGO, Ill, Nov. 17. — | Removal of 187,000 unemployed workers from the relief roils of Illinois was ordered by tele- phone by Governor Horner today. Eighty thousand men will be at work on forced lebor by Monday, it was.announced by the state gov- ernment at Springfield. Th2 187,- Ts Proof -6f “Growing Strength of Union of Socialist Soviet Republics and a Success of Its Peace Policy Bullitt Appointed “U. S. Ambassador as Full | Diplomatic Relations Are Extended | by President Roosevelt Soviet Leaders Save the Scottsboro Boys ! HE air about Decatur, Alabama, is now sinister with lynch preparations. This Monday morning the nine Scottsboro boys will be taken from their jail cells and brought to Decatur for arraignment. | ie aR oe ORNS By MARGUERITE YOUNG | (Washington Bureau) | WASHINGTON, Noy. 17.—The United States agreed to establish normal -re’ations. with the Soviet Union just before Jast mignight, and today the recognition of the Workers’ and Farmers’ Government by the world’s most powerful capitalist government was a fact. An exchanze of letters between Franklin D. Roosevelt and Maxim Litvinoff, “agreeing to establish normal diplomatic re- lations, and to exchange ambassadors,” was handed to the press corps at the White House, leading up to the historic and sig- nificant moment. President Roosevelt read the communications Saar er Pa —*and immediately announced that William C. Bullitt, an old Litvinoff Talks personal friend of Litvinoff, had been chosen to be first toWife andSon' American Ambassador, if he ‘AcrossAtlantic| Foreign Commissar Litvinoff_pre- viously had arranged to talk to the | Capitor News correspondents tonithé is acceptable to Moscow. \in the National Press Club. He wilt Openl; ically, and with savage anticipation, the leading business- men, plantation masters, and: officials of Decatur are preparing to “put quick end” to the Scottsboro case. They are ready for the Monday arraignment! For more than two years, only the unrelenting vigilance and ceaseless | protests of the masses of the world has kept the nine Scottsboro boys alive, out of the hands of the Jim-Crow executioners. his | If in the next two days this vigilance relaxes but for one moment, - | it is a horribte certainty that the Scottsboro boys will be flung to hangmen and lynch torturers! Scores of affidavits have been produced by the Daily Worker proving that Decatur is ready for the lynching. The sheriff in whose custody they will be, has refused to give any assurance that he will fire into any lynch mob that attempts | the life of the boys. He thus promises the lynch mob full pro- tection in advance! Both, Judge Callahan and Governor Miller of Alabama, have refused ay the slightest attention to the International Labor Defense warnings equate protection must be gzanted in view of the obvious danger to the boys. | The situation is gruesomely like the recent state of affairs in Mary- land, where George Armwood was tortured to death and lynched, after the leading state officials had previous information 6f the lynch prepara- | tions and participated in the lynching! and Defenders i BULLETIN i DECATUR, | Yedgo W. V afternoon, ction for the Scottsbero boys i and the 1.L.D. attorneys be sup- | plied. The Judge said that deputies would be sufficient but declined to say how many would be as- signed. The Morgan County She iff has only five at the jail. Schriftman made a last plea that he hear evide: proving that the lives of the ttsboro boys and Liebowitz and Bredsky are im grave danger before he orders the boys brought to Decatur Mon- day morning. He refused to en- Litvinoff Will Speak to Press Joseph V. Stzlin, General Secretary of the Commun'st Party of the U.S.S.R. and Cha'rman of the Counc! of Peopie’s Commissars Mikhail Kalistin.at a May First demonstration in Moscow. By MARGUERITE YOUNG i 000 will be off the relief rolls with- and other benefits of recognition in- terta’n the plea. On Monday morning nothing will stand between the Scottsboro ve ee ten days, it was stated, “‘The cost | (Daily Worker Washington “Berean)’| remain ‘in Washington for a few ‘i boys and torture, agony, and death, but the might of your protest! | 1" * eas gt ea if By JOHN L. SPIVAK From every factory, every working class. strect,. neighborhood and or~ kif uo ee al a ei " Envoy to_U.S.S.R. Maxim. Litvinoff BP hoa cat s tall dD. G., Eble price nent ip ageceiae oF , (Special Correspondent of the! Daily Worker.) BIRMINGHAM, “Ala., Nov. 17. iti haye been sworn in to protect the Scottsboro boys and the In-| ternational Labor Defense. At-| torney Samuel Leibowitz and| Josepn Brodsky when they ar- rive in Decatur Monday morning for the arraignment, Sheriff “Bud” Davis of Morgan County ed today over and “two or three others ous in the county” the sheriff said, though he understands that Sheriff J. F.\Haw- kins of Jefferson County (Birming- ham) who will bring the Negroes Decatur, may be asked to remain with | y have twelve, maybe Sheriff Davis con- sheriff. “We fifteen deput: cluded. “I h about it, Attorney General Knight is handling the whole matter of pro- tection.” Officials Contradict Each Other All of the very strange arrange- ments which have been made for pro- | tecting the prisoners and the I. L. D. Jawyers seem even more strange when one considers the discrepancies in the statements between officials. Attorney General Thomas M Knight says that | he has-no authority to order out of the guard or to say whether the pris- oners are to remain in Decatur or be (Continued on Page 2) Arrest of Armwood Lynchers Ordered On Eve of Inquiry BALTIMORE, Noy. 17.—Alarmed at the preparations for the Anti-lynching Conference Public Inquiry on_the Armwood lynching, called by the Lea- gue of Struggle for Negro Rights, headlines in this morning's “Baltimore Sun” shows the Ritchie Machine ¢h- gaging in desperate manouvers to head off the exposure of complicity of State and County officials in the brutal lynching of Armwood, The Public Inquiry will take place tomor- row (Saturday) night at the New Albert Auditorium, at 1224 Pennsyl- vyania Ave., and will be followed by | ,, the Conference, which will be held in the same hall. Yesterday, the Arrangements Com- mittee served Gov. Ritchie ar Attor- | ney General Lane with demands they attend the Public Hearing Saturday night and defend their actions be‘cre the toiling masses. As a result of this pressure, Lane after weeks of in- activity during which ‘he adjourned the Grand Jury supposed to be in- yestigating the Armwood lynching, and practically abandoned the in- vestigation, yesterday asked State's Attorney Robbins, one of the lynchers exposed in Captain Spencer's affi-| { davit, to arrest and prosecute nino! known lynchers. Lane's letter to Rob- bins is referred to by the “Baltimore t anything to say} fraught with danger! boys! The Governor of Alabama must fanization, must pour an avalanche of mighty protest! Send your cry of anger to the lynch Governor Miller of Alabama, demanding protéction and release of the Scottsboro Every. hour is know that you hold him personally | responsible for the safety of the innocent Scottsboro boys! MA‘S IN UNION SQ. MONDAY NEW YORK.—The voices of tens The spcibureancose called for 11 Mentally Unfit _ Witness Is Used | In Nazi Frame-up | Evidence ‘s All Hear- | Say and Rehearsed Speeches AT GERMAN FRONTIER (via Zurich, Switzerland), Nov. 17.—The trial opened today by examination of the witness Grothe, who was originally intended as a leading wit-, ness for the prosecution. But since the publication of the indictment and documents abroad, Grothe is now of little use to the Nazis be- cause his evidence is admittedly not based on his own observation. It is mainly hearsay from conversations with the Communist Kampfer whom the indictment admits denies Grothe’s statements. Kemnfer has mysteri- ously disappeared. Grothe states he was a member of the Red Front Fighters’ League and the Communist Party until April, but he said he realized by March that the Communist leaders “were swindling the workers.” Grothe i: ane oe o i rothe in clakey a cotiey and wes at no time imprisoned. Grothe offered to explain how the Commu- nists prepared the armed insurrec- tion, and described an al'eged struc- ture of the Red Front Fighters’ League which he saii existed in March, 1933, despite its prohibition. He said the members met dailv in January and February. From Feb. 22 onwards, he said, the alarm was given for readiness. Grothe said he uld point out the real incendiar- les, At his preliminary examination in July, Grothe declared he did not Sun” as containing the names, ad- dresses and occupations of the lynch-! | (Continued on Page 2) know Torgler or the Bulgarian Com- | ™munists now on trial. “ AGAINST NAZI TERRORISM March on German Consulate to Demand the. Freedom of Dimitroff, Torgler, Taneff | and Popoff, Who Face Execution them to help out the Morgan County | of thousands of marching workers who wili demonstrate Mond2y morning in Union Square against Gorman Fascism must strike fear into the hearts of the murderous Nazis and lend courage and strength to the millions of oppressed workers in Germany. a. m., is arranged by the Communist —————-- Party, New York District, and is sup- | ported by the New York Committee to Aid Victims of German Fascism, the National Students League and others. .A parade to the German consulate, where a delegation will protest the Reichstag fire frame up and demand the release of Dimitroff, pi ag Popoff and Taneff, will fol- low. The Union Square meeting will be addressed by Max Bedacht; veteran Communist leader; James W. Ford, militant Negro worker; Charles Krumbein, N. Y. District Organizer of the Communist Party. /Alfred Wagentnecht will be chairman. 8 Stream of Protests NEW YORK.—A steady stream of ‘opresentatives from workers’ organi- fund,” it ‘was annoumeeds Meee “Take Them Off Relief,” Says » Hopkins WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov 17-~ That no money’ will be given to states or cities that do not remove unemployed workers from pore lists, was made clear today i statement of federal relief a ning istrator Hopkins, who is in charge of carrying through Roosevelt's forced labor program. “No civil works money will be allotted to any (Continued on Page 2) PITTSBURGH, Pa., Nov. 17. |The general strike of packing house | | workers is still solid as far as the| ranks of the strikers are concerned, | Very few scabs ate being recru from among the ranks ‘of str’ and what scabs have been rec-uited | have been imported.’ In all there are no more than 100 scabs_in all strike shops combined. Practically no deliveries are being made by any trucks, and the em~- ployers under heavy police guard, and deputies, radio cars and motorc"cles are giving protection to store keep; ers coming for their own meat in their own cars. The boss class press so far has refused to print the*expose printed | in today’s Daily Worker of the cons- | piracy to attack a woman strike) breaker, use stench boms as an excuse for more terror and extending the ‘mfunct'on. In this conferences between the (Continued on on Page 2) (Continued on on Page 3) Fail to Break Ranks Of Meat Strikers’ William C. Bullitt, State De- avtment adviscr, who was yester- | ‘ay chosen to be Unite? States Ambassador to the Soviet Union. Joint Statement by Roosevelt: ard Litvinojt | In \addition to the agreements which we have signed today: there has taken place an exchange of views with regard to methods of settling all outstanding questions of indebtedness and claims that permit to hope for a speedy and satisfactor¥ sclution of these questions which both our sovernments desire to have out of the way as soon as pos- sible. Mr. litvinoff will remain in Washington for several days for further discussions. The Farmers ; Conference is now the text of afighting call to action which it will issue to the farmers of the country. The full text of the document, and the delegates’ discussion will be printed in full in ‘Monday's Daily Worker. : * 8 «6 By SENDER GARLIN (Special to Daily Worker) CHICAGO, Nov. 17.—Four politica! parties today presented their farm programs to the 700 delegates from. 38 states at the afternoon session o! the Second National Farmers’ Con- fezence, now being held here in Peo- ple’s Auditorium. The Republican and Democratic parties, in response to an invi- tation extended them by the Ex- ecutive Committee of the National Farmers’ Committee of Action, failed to send representatives in person, but. instead mailed copies of their na- tional platform with the request that His testimony gives the impres- (Continued on Page 2), they be read to the assembled farm Farmers Cheer Cancellation Demand ® Acclaim Hathaway A As \s He Dec! Declares Only Unity and Of Workers, Farmers, Headed by Communist | Party Can Beat Wall Street Rule seh SNR aeeR ES. for the 0 natural urpose of s0-} ources as well 4 as banking nd credit D es Get Impatient Several minutes of this vague ex- | ly ignored the conference. Hathaway Follows Socialist The Socialist Party sent Roy E. Burt, their Illinois state’ secretary, while the Communist Party was rep- tesented by Clarence Hathaway, Member of the political of the Party and editor of the Daily Worker. Repeated jeers, catcalls and laugh- ter greeted the reading of the Demo- cratic and Republican platforms by Lem Harris,, executive secretary of the National Farmers’ Committee for Action and secretary of the present conference. The laughter of the farmer dele- gates was particularly raucous fa hee nestior tncladine ae larm qi mn, re-capital- ization of the Land Bank and the delegates. ‘The Farmer-Labor party complete- xrantin~ of “-“anle nds” to ti Federal Farm Board, The far: |hortation began to try the patience | fave the horse-laugh especially fo of the farmer delegates, who up to| the part of both the then had listened courteously, and | io *epablican parties me the Socialist representative found it | t army and navy for the | advisable to “some immediate | concessions,” at the ie time going | categorically on record thet “there is | {no golution for the it insane jehaotic state, except by a New social order,” The “immediate concessions” were nothing more nor less than the po- tional defense”—2t a time when “use of the military against the pores antl farmers is fresh in their ake when millions of ‘eine ee being used for battle- and munitions shou'd be utilixed as cash relief for the starv- ing farmers and workers of Amer- | litical catchwords of “progressive” Neca and “farmer-labor” parties for dec- | ‘Burt, the Socialist speaker, made a | ades—inc‘uding capital evs, ‘use- | d socialization, of | grandiose plea for the “complete ab- | title of land olition of this insane, chaotic system | course, of b of sotietyand the establishment in| The final its place of a new social order, based greeted the con on production for use and not for) of the Central Committec of nee in the name | the | profit,” Communist Party and said that “we He called for “an economic andj) | political organization of the farmers (Continued on Page 3) j | pany. | porters and a number of:capital resi- we? into @ telephone in an oval-shsped | parlor in the White House today. And from an apaftment in Mostow the yoite of :Mrs. Litvinoff came back | across the thousands of miles of land | det | and ocean ‘between them, “Hello, darling; hello, hello. I hear you beau- tifully. How are you?” This was. the first two-way con-| versation .between the United States and the Soviet Union. It was a three- | cornered talk for Mischa, the young | son of the Lityinoffs, came in on the) wire and took occasion to ask papa, | | “How. is your toothache?” And thus the world learned that | the Soviet Commissar for Foreign Affairs had been suffering physically | during the momentous recognition negotiations—something neither offi- cials nor anyone else guessed until the transcript of the telephone con- versation was made public afterwards by the National Broadcasting Com- The talk was broadcast; throughout the..United States, but little’ did Litvinoff seem aware of | it. He and his family spoke of purely S| personal things: ‘The Commissar did disclose, how- ever, that he expected to be “here” for another week, for casting further discussions with Americans on ways and means of translating into ac- tuality the benefits of recognition. It is expected that Litvinoff will re- main in Washington a few more days, then spend a short time in New York before sailing. He sat at a small table while talk- | ing today. He had been conferring with President Roosevelt when he ‘was called: to the previously_prepared | conversation: .Outside-a dozen re- dents were waiting to catch a glimpse | or perhaps a few words when he} emerged. Exhilirated, Litvinoff talked and laughed delizhtedly through the ten minutes connection with his fam- ily. M'scha remembered the toothache. Following is the complete record of the conversation: Commissar Litvinoff: Hello! Madam Litvinoff: Hello, darling; hello, hello;.I hear you beautifully. How are you? Commissar Litvinoff: Please, speak slowly, will you? Madam Litvinoff: Yes. Commissar. Litvinoff: I am now in| the White House. | Madam Litvinoft: Yes, I know. Commissar Litvinoff: I have just) been talking to the President, am his last words were td. give you his regards. { “Mtadam Litvinoff: ‘Thank you very much. I have them. Commissar Litvinoff: Mr. Skvirsky sends you his regards. Medam Litvinoff: Thank you very much, Commissar Litvinoff: Everybody here is sorry you did not come with me. Madam Litvinoff: Ohf Commis:ar Litvinoff: Also press their regrets that you did not accompany me. Madam Litvinoff: ‘That is v | of them. Commissar Litvinoff: T am sor too. Madam Litvinoff: Ah! I hepe to ve (Continued on Page 3), i He. burst. into laughter when; the| | Pres‘dent and Madam Roosevelt ex- | to actualities. Then he will go to New York to spend a few days be- fore sailing home, Using identical language, Lityinoff expressed the ‘hope that’ “ the relations now established between our peoples may forever re- main normal and friendly and thet our nations henceforth may cooper- Full text of letters passed be- ate for their mutual benefits and for | the preservation of the peace of th> world.” The words were interpreted unanimously by foreign observers a% a joint reminder to any nation con- sidering aggtession in the Far East. In addition to resumption of normal diplomatic relations, the communica- tions cover agreement in principle on outstanding questions between the two governments. No Backward Steps Despite multiple prediction of “con- sessions,” and the general conviction that the United States was driving towards actual bargains in the ten days’ ‘conversations, the long ex- changes of letters recited not one step backward from the line the So- viet Government has followed con- sistently on debts, claims, propa- ganda, etc, For more than an hour before the regular Roosevelt press conference, reporters were assembled inthe White House executive office, certain that the recognition would be forth- | coming. There was tension, followed by great exhilaration and enthusi- | ssm as they lined up to wait to be admitted to Roosevelt's private office. When the door was opened, they surged forward and surrounded ‘his desk. Smoking a cigarette, he greeted them with an announcement about last night—then suddenly began to describe a. resolution by the Ameri- can Iron and Steel Institute, in whose | affairs no one had any interest what- soever for the moment. A great | laugh resounded in the oval chamber. Everyone knew what was wanted and Roos2velt then complied. He asked the revorters to read everything in the long communication he was giy- | ing out before writing. In absolute silence, the roont full of | correspondents then listened while Roosevelt, recited the historic letters. | Commenting as he proceeded, the President three times mentioned that relations already were™ estab- ished shortly before the magic hour, { midnight, Mov. 16, 1933, Debt Question Settled Hats and coats were forgotten as ithe correspondents dashed wildly for televbones, taxis and .typewritets, to send the news world-wide. Ouistanding among the committe (Continued on Page 8) Much News Omitted | Due to Recognition ( thy unusual amoant of ¢ fed to the news of regbsriltion of the Soviet: Union, many of our regular Saturday | features, special articles and news | { In vi stories have been omitted.