The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 20, 1933, Page 1

NETS —— a eh OE RALLY FORCES For Daily Worker Tag Days | Nov. 24, 25, 26th! _New York Workers to Mass on Union Sq. at 11 A. M. Today to Hit Nazi Terror orker Class Daily Newspaper America’s Only Working ist Party U.S.A. WEATHER:—Fair and Colder Vol. X, No. 278 ~~ Entered as second-ciass matter at the Post Office at Mew York, M. Y., under the Act of March $, 187, (Section of the Communist International) NEW YORK, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1933 (Six Pages) Price 3 Cents U. S. WORKERS HAIL SOVIET RECOGNITION VICTORY SCOTTSBORO BOYS, 9 BOYS ARRIVE IN DECATUR TODAY: LYNCHERS OPENLY CALL FOR BLOODY ORGY Attorneys Wire Demand to Roosevelt to Intervene to Prevent Massacre; Protests Pouring Into Decatur By JOHN L. SPIVAK DECATUR, Ala., Noy. 19.—While this town waited tensely | for the arrival of the nine Scottsboro boys and their In‘erna- | tional Labor Defense Attorneys, Samuel Leibowitz and Joseph Brodsky, against whom open threats of death have been made, | the Defense Counsel maze a final plea to President Reosevelt | for his intervention to prevent “a massacre of both defendants and their Attorneys,” Roosevelt Asked to Intervene. This plea was made after Governor Benjamin M. Miller had refused. to order out troops provide adequate protection. 1 telegram to the President follows: “We earnesily osk you to persuade | of Alabama to order | 4 out sufficient: Notional. -Guardsrigit | | | | Spring, Cir- residing, vious trials this “In pr cuit Court action to torneys by ICHARD B MOORE neral Secretary of the League © truggle for Negro Rights and appl leader in the Public Inquiry and metion b e of the tem-| Kagtern Anti-Lynching Confer- | per of the citizens t| enco held yesterday and Saturday | of| in Baitimore. | trial. tvo N: the Sheriff the Tuscaloos Royall, was 1 of Decatui visited t Negro pr roes in ‘Public Inquiry Gets named Brox Om Prot of Ritchie's ented his as-| | sr Guilt in Lynching the mod ar sassination. finitely mo 4 Capitalist Press Distorts Litvinoff ‘Daily’ BureauShows “The Document Doesn’t Mention the Third International,” Litvinoff Says; N.Y. Times Falsifies Interview Statement on C.P. By MARGUERITE YOUNG } (Daily Worker Washington Bureau.) | WASHINGTON, Nov. 19.—Even.the provocative pecking of a “Socialist” couldn’t nettle Maxim Litvinoff. The Soviet Commissar met the questions of reporters representing virtually every organized political, economic and sectarian viewpoint in the United States, in a press conference se “jest Friday night--and when |Benjamin Meiman of the “So- New York Workers| ero wc Daily Forward |} 2ut in hostile remarks, *Litvinoff | -mswered affably. e it Naz Terror ee one ri so in Mass Meet Today : “Moscow,” Meiman said at one point, Litvinoff looked agound at him, obvi- | ously surprised at the lack of sub- dety in advancing a false position, and_ dir omatics"' reproved, “I must ignorence! ia here Will Demonstrate on Union Sa.:.Parade. to German Consulate — “How will recognition affect the propaganda of the Communist Bao | Party?” someone else asked. NEW YORK —Voicing their pro- | “The Communist Party, which fasts avainst the murder tria! of the four Commun'st defendants— UDimitroff, Torgier, Povoff and Tan- off — and against the ent'-e Nazi texror dictatorship, tons of thon | sor, ks berg ido ida pre paar Sialic pre | doesn’t concern America and the} ‘ — ‘emonstravion (communist Party of the United| ake part in a mass demonstration | Communist Party of the | United) # Qe 4 waite Hdarity ps the oppressed | Vinoff replied, according to the notes | ymin: neato 88 jmade at the time by this reporter. | The demonstration will form eee ot ee ee dso the answer | line and march to the German con- | Ici wae heard by the Washington | sulate, 17 Batte-y Place, where @ | post, the Baltimore Sun and the As-| delegation will sharply protest the | ciated Press, although the New| Reichstes fite frame-up and de- | vork Times wrote, “The Communist | mand the immediate relc-se of |Party of America is not concerned Dimitroff, Tovgier, Popoig and | with the Communist Party of Russia, Taneff. The demonstration 's 2r- | and the Communist Party of Russia canged by the N. ¥. district of the jis not conzerned with the Communist | “ommunist Party, with the supr-~t | Party of America.” ! the New York Committee to 4’ | _he Viet’ms of German Fascism, the | ,, velther these nov apy ter of the lational Stuclents League and other | organizations, Communist Party?” “The Communist Party of the Unit- ed States.” diplomat any discernible concern. He | Seer Say sat there in the corner of the Na-| Recognition of the USSR and “ U SSR Recognition AN EDITORIAL AFTER sixteen years of stubborn refusal to recognize the Soviet Union, American imperialism is now forced to reverse its traditional non-recognition policy and grant full diplomatic recognition to the victorious workers’ and peas- the American Toiling Masses| Great Vie tory” Says “Pravda” Editorial | ants of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. | American capitalism, in the throes of the deepest crisis | in its entire history, was moved at this juncture to extend recognition to the land of rising Socialism. Every American worker will joyously hail this victory of the Workers’ Fatherland. No wonder now that the American capitalist press and all the bitterest enemies of the Dictators 1ip of the Proletariat, are forced to resort to the most fantastic distortions to cover up this victory of the Soviet Union and its growing imporance as a world power. No matter how hard they try to hide the real basis for this step, t':2 workers will instinctively see in it the growing victories of the Soviet Union, the victory of Socialism on one sixth of the globe. They will see in it the successful advance of Socialist construction and the Soviet policy of (Special to the “Recognition of the USSR by Roosevelt Admin- istration is a Big Indication of Power and Importance of the Soviet Union” “5-Year Plan Not Only Tremendous Economic Success, But Strengthened Inter- | national Position of Soviet Union” Daily Worker.) MOSCOW, Noy. 19 (By Wireless).—Commenting on the | significance of American recognition of the Soviet Union, | “Pravda,” Central Organ of the Communist Party of the Soviet | Union, in its leading editorial declares in part: “November 16th will become a noteworthy date in the peace. They will contrast these gains of the workers and peasants in the U.S.S.R. with their own intolerable conditions of unemployment, starvation and suffering in this crisis- ridden land of capitalist decay. [uy NeR, A. Failure and Triumph of Socialism Ambassador to U. S. Y did American capitalism recognize the Soviet Union at this time? All the attempts of the Roosevelt regime to stem the | deepening economic and financial crisis have failed. The N. R. A., as a means of solving the crisis, is collapsing. The N. R. A. is now inaugurating the fifth year of crisis. At the same time the American workers, farmers and great sections of the petty-bourgeoisie could see that the Soviet Union, through the Five-Year Plan, through its policy of peaceful and rapid construction of Socialism, was strength- ening itself precisely in the period when capitalist countries Coe Fy te aspetied, ta, at) were going deeper into crisis. a athe TR evaded oy ths In an effort to get out of the crisis through new world | united States held his post in Tokio slaughters, the imperialist countries were rushing to war and | for five years. greater armaments. The Soviet Union was forcing non- | He Tel ae Pople eae aggression pacts, demonstratively striving for peace before | chairman of the State Planning Big Cues CE aHeTW BOI Wate . eee ® Tropanbveky, besiden Helle’ sss ah” In the very midst of the World Economic Conference, | pert in Far Eastern affairs, is thor- while the imperialists were haggling over world markets v and colonial plunder, the Soviet Union was able to stress its _Exnected to Arrive for Duties in Capital in December WASHINGTON, Nov. 19.—Former Soviet Ambassador to Japan Alexan- der Troyanovsky, was proposed as Soviet ambassador to the United States and accepted today as per- sona grata by the State Department today Troyanovsky is expected to arrive | oughly rsed in commercial and ‘inancial theory. It was announced here that Boris Troyanovsky is ‘Appointed U. §. §. R. | stacles in his path, and victori- *history of international rela- | toms in our epoch. Under the |leadership of Comrade Stalin jour Party overthrew all ob- ously leads the working class and | collective farm peasants to its great j historic aim. A new stage in the competition of the two world sys- | tems is completed. The Soviet | Union becomes a force of tremen- | ocus economic and political power | with which even the biggest capi- | talist countries have to reckon. The | toilers of the U. S. S. R. warmly | welcome the new victory in the | cause of peace. | Behind the “Impossible” “What seemed ‘impossible’ for six | teen years was carried out in a fer days. This is explained because th | causes determining a change in thr | American foreign policy towards the Sovici Union made themselves fi | recently more insistently and im- | peratively. | “The United States of America |cou'd not longer continue in its old position. In establishing normal | diplomatic relations with the Soviet | Union, leading circles in the U.S.A were above all guided by the real interests of American capitalism. “But, on the other hand, the very |fact of the abandonment of its posi- |tion of “non-recognition” by the naming many per- and ni boring y voiced their iggers’ and “Have affidavits sons in D towns who intention of the ey ciation of an and urging the se Is to call the milié Despite this extremely grave situation, the ted ti 1.500 Persons Attend the Hearing in Baltimore By LOUIS COLMAN | BALTIMORE, Md., Nov. 19.—More | than 1.500 persons, one-third of them | | . tional Press Club auditorium appar- | | Washington Group Ejected ently hugely enjoying himself. Be-| fore him on the first row of chairs| sat the chubby representative of the | “co-ordinated” Wolff Telegr: hic | News Age of Nazi Germany.'The | Teligicus pz-.",t > b'-: canitalist press | WASHINGTON, Nov. 15.—A dele- | gation of 11 which visited the Ger- man Embassy here today to protest the frame-up of the four Communist leaders for the burning of the Reich- | stag building, was not permitted to present its protests and demands to Dr, Hans Luther, Nazi envoy to the United States. ee 8 |associations and the most powerful) organs of the Dcmoczatic and Re-| publican parties, as well as the Daily Wo-ker, Tass, the Soviet news. agency | were Governer hes rej white, in the New Albert Hall, heard | and the women’s magazines, NEW YORK. — Arthur Garfield State Troops to guard prisoners : F The probability of a of both defendants and t The telegram wes sicned by Samuel S. Liebowitz, orge W,. Stanley end Joseph R. Brodsky. Nears DECATUR, Ala, Nov. 19,—This town is tense as the hour approaches ior the appearance of the nine Scotts- boro boys for their arraignment in the Morgan County Court here to- morrow morning and the arrival of \the International Labor Defense At- jworneys Samuel Leibowitz and Joseph Brodsky, against whom open threats of death have been repeatedly made. Rumors that the Scottsboro boys will never reach the court house alive are all over town. tional Guard in trouble. Protesis From Workers Pouring In Photographers from the Birming- 4 ham newspapers and one from the New York Daily News, are keepin vigil outside the Birmingham ©: Jail to follow Sheriff J. FP. Hawitins and his deputies, when he transports the boys to Decatur late tonight or tomorrow morning. Telegraph cond>mnaticn of the State's refusal to provide the mili- anticipation of their attorneys, is flcoding this town, They are coming trom alt over the country and abroad. * Simultaneously, the Birminghar newspapers have written strong ed torlals condemning the stete officia ‘for their refusal to supply adequate (Continued on Page 2) Decatur Tense as Hour of Hearing | a State officials are still standing pat | in their refusal to call out the Na-/| tary to nrotect the nine boys and | evidence presented Saturday night completely proving the guilt of Gov. Albert C. Ritchie of Maryland, State's | Attorney Robins, and Eastern Shore- | men named in the “Daily Worker” | affidavit, in the fiendish lynching of George Armvood, Negro worker, on ‘he Eastern Shore on Oct. 18. | The evidence was presented before tribunal headed by Harry F. Ward, of the Union Theological Seminary, New York City, and composed. of lib- erals and intellectuals from Washing- ton, Philadelphia, Baltimore and New York, with worker members from Chester, Pa., and New Jersey cities in addition to the cities named above. In addition to the 450 delegates here for the anti-lynching Conference which opens today, the audience was composed of steel and marine work- ers, Negro and white, their wives, and hundreds from the broad toiling masses and the petty-bourgeoiste, biack and white, of this city, Ades Tells Of Lynch Preparations Among the delegates were a dozen | Negroes from the Eastern Shore | oyster dredges, canneries and farms. Bernard Ades, International Labor Defense attorney, made the main pres- entation of the evidence in the Arm- wood lynching, pointing out the poli- cal purposes of the Ritchie machine 1 throwing Armwood to the Eastern Shore lynchers, and re‘atiny in yivid detail the monstrous story of the prep- arations for the lynching and of the process of buck-passing now go- ing on between State’s Attorney Robins, Attorney General Lane and | Goy, Ritchie. He called attention to | the fact that only on the eve of the Public Inquiry did Attorney General Lane act to order the arrest of the ) Iynchers whose names were ecl several weeks ago by the Worker.” He -eommented protection, and urging a reconsider- | caustically on the refusal of State's | 'e (Continued on Page 2) represented by men and women who) hunched forward to catch every word. Kleig lights from a circle of news| cameras beat on the ruddy brow of Litvinoff. Above him on the Press| Club wall hung a lush ofl portrait of | @ volusin... wo use of the smoking rooms of the Gibson Girl era, Directly beside the Commissar stood Constantine Umansky, head of the press section of the Soviet For- eign Office, and, at Litvinoff's other Hays, American attorney who has just returned from the Reichstag trial, will make a report at a protest meeting at the Bronx Coliseum, 177th St., Bronx, on Sunday, Noy. 26, at 7 p.m. Other prominent speakers will address the meeting. A giand concert and dance to raise funds for the relief and deZense of Nazi victims will be held at Webster Hall, E. 1ith St., between Fourth and Third Aves.. Yew York City, on Fri- day, Noy. 24, (Continued on Page 6) Dollars to Save the “ Daily!” BLESS workers, to whom a dollar means the difference between eat- | ing or going hungry, are scraping up jall they can to help save the Daily Worker, “I have had no work for a year,” writes Fred B., of Lima, Ohio, “and have a large family to support, but we can’t get along without the ‘Daily’ I am enclosing a dollar,” parr yee FROM THE COAL FIELDS In Pennsylvania, the scene of bru- tal terror against miners and other workers, the Daily Worker is consid- ered as much of a necessity by work~ ers as food, J. W. writes in his letter in which was enclosed a dollar: “The new deal has made things worse than ever. I was laid off a long while ago. We need the Daily Worker, I send a dolJar, would send more but I haven't got more, I hope my dollar helps.” . peal telling how he sent # dollar given him for reading glasses to help save the Daily Worker, I 2m 4 enclosing another dollar to help | save our paper.” see E are only a few of the letters coming in with dollars from work~- ers. These workers set true Bolshevik examples, Pinched by hunger, they know that by helping to save our Daily Worker they are hastening the destruction of the capitalist system which starves them, The Drive must go over the top to assure the existence of the Daily Worker. A dollar from every reader of the “Daily” will make the Drive a 100 per cent Bolshevik success, Par- ticipate in this successful achieve- ment! Don’t delay! RUSH YOUR DOLLAR TODAY to the Daily Work- er, 50 E. 13th St,, New York City, and be among those who are saving our fighting paper. ° . . FOLLOWS ANGELO HERNDON | Friday’s receipts . $315.75 A New York worker, signing his | Saturday's receipts , 375.09 ter, “From a Friend,” writes: Previous total ... 25,096.64 | | “IT have contributed before, but after reading Angelo Herndon’s ap- TOTAL TO DATE.....,..$25,787.48 policy of peace and make diplomatic gains that drove back the anti-Soviet war front. HE failure of the disarmament and economic conferences, at which the imperialists strove to build their united front for war against the Soviet Union, through which the Soviet Union forced non-aggression pacts, led the Roosevelt regime to take steps for recognition. The Soviet Union through the Five Year Plan and its | Skvirs who for many years UN~/ present tdministration is a big indi- officially represented the Soviet | cation of the power and importance Union in Washington, has been ap-| of the Soviet Union | pointed counsellor for the Soviet Em-| eal hassy, and charge @atfaires, pending| scnieved successes on a tremendous the arrival in Washington of Ambas- | --a1¢ and significance, despite the ag 8 ‘Troyanovsky. fact that some countries of the cap- in a formal notice, Mr. Phillips of | italist world, above all the United the State Department yesterday ad-| stotc. “aia not want to recognize land Ministers “to assume the most | that great changes were taking place friendly relations with the newly rec- | by the will of the victorious prole- dressed to all American ambassadors | policy of peace was able tremendously to strengthen its in- | ognized Soviet rezime.” He added: ternational position and defeat the repeated imperialist anti- | Soviet. war moves. Despite all the poisonous lies and villanous pronaganda of the Greens, Wolls, Easleys, Fishes and their white guard lackeys, the great mass of American people, viewing the eco- nomic and diplomatic successes of the Soviet Union, became more and more sympathetic towards the Workers’ Father- land. | American Masses for Recognition The pressure for recognition among the widest sections | of the American toiling masses, as well as among the greatest strata of the petty-bourgebdisie became impelling. For these reasons, American imperialism took steps to reverse its policy and establish full relations with the Union | “Soviet passports should be treat- ed henceforth as passports of other recognized governments.” ‘Nazis Employ New Tactics to Speed Defendants’ Death Arson Charge Shat- tered, They PlanAttack ‘on Opposition to Hitler (Special to the Daily Worker.) AT GERMAN FRONTIER (via In what sense is this a further gain for the policy of jestablish even the sembiance of a peace of the Soviet Union? wae imperialism is driving to a new war as a way out of the crisis. American capitalism especially is feverishly preparing for this war. In this drive to war as a way out of | plausible case against the Communist defendants in the Reichstag fire | “trial” —Gcorge Dimitroff, Ernst Torg- ler, Blagoi Popoff and Vassil Taneff— has forced the prosecution to change its plans, which were to rush the case threugh to its conclusion by the crisis, the greatest intagonism, the sharpest division is | Tvesday, Nov, 21. between the world of capitalism and the world of sccia'sm. The recognition of the Soviet Union by the United States creates difficulties for American imverial'sm and world capi- talism in declaring war against the Soviet Union. — In this respect, we must emphatically point out that the policy of continued war-baiting and of vicious lying and provo- cations against the Soviet Union by the Fishes, Wolls, and Greens is not opposed to the reneral policy of American im- (Continued on Page &) Imperialism Driving to New War. At the close of the hearing of “factual” Nazi witnesses yesterday, the evidence against the courazcous and innocent Communist defendants was £0 false and flimsy that the Nazis decided to reonen the frame-up pro- ceedings in Leivaig on Thursday, call- ing in political witnesses, Thus, with the prosecution's case against the defendants completely | shattered, with the creditability of \ its factual witnesses utterly destroyed, | the continuation of the trial in Leip- zig will atterhpt to establish an ideo- | logical case against the Communists calling on 36 new witnesses to con- (Continued on Page 6) ~ smitten sas | tarlat on one-sixth of the globe. “Relations” With Bayonets “The biggest capitalist powers at | various times attempted to disdain | the workers’ and peasants’ country, jand, moreover, to maintain ‘rela- tions’ with it by bayonets, But this | was defeated and they were forced | to establish normal relations with | the Soviet Union. | “There is only one explanation | comoletely disviaying the cause of our foreign poli*sal successes, causes why the Soviet Union became a tre- | mendous factor for peace among the | nations. This is above all due to j our streneth—economic, political and | military strength. | “While our country exists in eapi- talist surroundings, these three fac- tors are of primary importance. “The first Five-Year Plan not only | produced tremendous economic. suc~ | cesses, but also marked the strength- | en‘ng of the international position | of the great republic of workers and | peasants. Parriers Overthrown “Now after the establishment of normal relations with the United States everybody must realize that the peovles of the Soviet Union have overthrown all barriers standing, in | the pth of their péaceful construc- jffon. ‘They have defeated interven- tionists, smashed the ohains of block- ate, and hove driven the white guard serm fromthe Soviet lend. “Our most ‘orincip'ed’ ovponents ere unable to stand against the st-en7th of the Soviet Union. “The toilers of our country greeted with sat'sfaction the successful com~- metion of the mission of Comrade Litvinoff in Washington. | “We do not doubt that the broad masses of foilers in the United States welcome the new big victory of the | Soviet peace policy. | “The A. F. of L. bureaucrat, Green, (Continued on Page ences,