The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 21, 1933, Page 1

SSK NTIS PERE ' ; i i eR nine RRR EES EE HRERT SE 8. RALLY FORCES Fer Daily Worker Tag Days Nov. 24, 25, 26th! Vol. X, No. 279 ™ ‘Bntered as sccond-clags matter ot the Post Office at ‘(Section of the Comnounist International) America’s Only Working Class Daily Newspaper afternoon WEATHER: Warmer, with rain in or night. ew York, N. Y., under the Ast of March 8, 107, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1933 (Six Pages) 10,000 Are Cut Off Relief in New Jersey; Put on Forced Labor Two Million Will Be Taken Off Relief Speedily; Unemployed Councils Call for Fight NEW YORK.—Ten thousand workers were removed from the relief lists ot New Jersey state yesterday and are on forced labor as a part of Presi- dent Roosevelt's plan to place two million unemployed workers on foreed jabor, removing them from relief lists. This follows the removal of many thousands of unempoyed workers from relief lists in several states. The Unemployed Councils have issued a® call to all workers to resist being taken off relief lists. Eighty thousand more workers in the state of New Jersey will be taken off relief in a short time, it was an- ate er gency relief administrator, In Tli- | nois 187,000, within a short period, | will be off the relief lists, | Mayor-elect LaGuardia, of New| York City, is en route to Washing- | ton, via Jama‘cs and to ask for federal funds. = are not to be uSed for the unem~ ployed workers, but for buildi: | costs for subways, buildings, etc. La | Guardia let it be known that a re- | quest for funds for housing preicc s| “is most tentative, and is 2 difficult problem.” In othef words, LaGuara.a | will not insist on funds that might | benefit the workers. The Roosevelt | plan caiis for removal of several | hundred thousand from the relief | rolis of New York State in the im-} mediate future. There are a million | and a quarter unemployed in New | York City alone, and no provision is proposed By LaGuardia for relief. On the contrary, he has agreed to | Roosevelt’s plan to remove: those al- | ready on relief from the relief rolls. | ‘The National Committee of the | Unetuployed Councils declared that the preparations for the national unemployed convention, to be held Jan, 13 in Washington, should center around the fight against Roosevelt's forced labor scheme and removal of workers from relief, The Unemployed Councils outlined the following steps for organizing the fight against forced labor: “1—Form an organiz- ing group on each job and through it draw all workers on the job into organization to fight for union wag- es and against all grievances; 2—At meeting of all the workers on the job, or as many as can be brought together, elect a grievance commit- tee; 3—Link up the organization on the different jobs through delegates; 4—Build up a Relief Workers Union, or association, representing all the | men on the job; 5—The Relief | Workers Union should be tied up) with the Unemployed Council of the neightorhood or city through dele- gates.* The Unemployed Council declared local and city united front confer- ences should be called at once to take up the fight against Roosevelt's relief cutting program, Workers Give $5 to “Daily” Following Victory in Strike NEW YORK.—The workers of the Gotham Sportswear, 205 W. Soviet Ambassador | | . ® & ALEXANDER TROYANOVSKY MOSCOW, Nov, 20.— Alexander Troyanovsky, whose appointment as Soviet Ambassador to the United States was announced yesterday, is an old Bolshevik. Born in 1882, he joined the revolutionary movement when he was 20, but was forced to | leave Russia because of Tsarist persecution. He returned after the February Revolution, and resumed his work occupying various state posts until his appointment in 1927 as Am- bassador to Tokyo, where he worked until 1933. When he returned to Russia Vote for Communist Party in Paterson Exceeds Socialists’ PATERSON, N. J., Nov. 20.— Communist 39th =St, who recently won a strike under the leadership of the Needle Trades Workers’ Industrial Union, contributed $5 to the Daily Shows How to Celebrate Recognition of U.S.S.R.! Hire following letter received yesterday from Celia Pintzick, Philadelphia, Pa, shows how American workers can celebrate-the Recognition of the Soviet Union in a Bolshevik way. “I am enclosing $1 to the Daily Worker as the best way to cele- brate the recognition of the Soviet Union. I appeal te all workers to celebrate the recognition by helping the “Dafly” with contribu- “Let's start a column, ‘Celebrating Soviet Recognition,’ and see if we can catch up to Michael Gold and the rest of the column- Socialist competition to raise funds for our ‘Daily’ ; . He many will join in celebrating the victory of our Socialist, Fathor- 1 Daily; |ficial relations between our KALININ ON RADIO GREETS U. S. PEOPLE Says Recognition Will! Benefit Both Countries MOSOOW, Nov. 20.—Michael Kalinin, president of the Coun- cil of Peoples’ Commissars of the U.S.S.R., today broadcasted a message of greetings to the Ameri- can people on the occasion of estab- lishment of diplomatic relations.| Speaking over the radio at the of- fice of Alexey Rykoff, Commissar of | Posts and Telegraphs, Kalinin said: “At this moment when normal of- two States are being established, I am) glad to transmit in the name of the peoples of the Union of Soviet So-/ | cialist Republics a hearty greeting to the people of the United States of | America. | strators arrested last Saturday by U. 8. 8. R. Advances “In the past sixteen years the toil- | ers of the cities and villages of the} Soviet Union showed to the whole| world examples of trémendous cre- ative work. With intense efforts they turned our country in a short} |time from a backward agrarian into | an advanced industrial country, and | it is precisely because of this that our workers and peasants look with the greatest interest and attention to the country of advanced technical) progress, the United States of Amer- ica. “The most important condition for | securing the technical progress and well-being of the people is the preser- yation and strengthening of peace between nations. Artificial Obstacles *T am convinced that now, when all artificial obstacles for a full and manifold contact between the peo- ples of our two great countries are removed it will greatly benefit not only their mutual interests but also the economic and cultural progress of mankind and the strengthening of universal peace, “{ strongly believe that now will begin an era of fruitful and mani- fold co-operation between our two nations. “I am convinced that the joy which we feel on this occasion is shared all over the world by every- body to whom is dear the progress of humanity and peace among na- tions.” USSR, U.S. Take of Representatives LitvinoffSees Harper’s Ferry, John Brown’s Last Stand By MARGUERITE YOUNG Daily Worker Washington Bureau WASHINGTON, Nov.» 20.—Defi- nite diplomatic action for a swift ex- change of Soviet and American dip- Jomatic and consular representatives were disctssed:today as Maxim Lit- vinoff and American officials met in the final phases of Soviet-American conversations. The Soviet Foreign Commissar talked with Under Secretary Phillips of the State Department for an hour and ten mifiites, and it was said afterward that they considered prac- tical matters in connection with the setting up of embassies and consul- ates both in the USSR. and the United States. Visits Harper’s Ferry Litvinoff began his last few days of talks refreshed by an automobile his famous stand in 1860, marched in with 18 men and cap- tured an arsenal in the hope that Negro slaves would come down from anging was one of the ings that precipitated the civil war) Litvinoff and a small group of Russians drove slowly, studying every marked spot. ‘The conversations this week are sian~. settling these vital matters and ob- servers disagreed as to the prospect for important decision. One element which may influence this is time. Tt was said by American officials or Satur- day. The latter seems more likely (Continued on Page 2) Steps for Exchange HOUSTON, Nov. 20.—With sen- timent running high for strike, 3,000 workers, members of the Big Four railroad Brotherhoods, were taking a strike vote today on the | Southern Pacific Lines, In an attempt to threaten the men, the Southern Pacific Rail- way officials placed advertise- ments in newspapers in Houston, El Paso and New Orleans, asking for scabs to work on the line un- der strike conditions. | 5,000Mass to Protest F ire Trial BULLETIN WASHINGTON, D. C. Nov. 20— Eight of the 5 anti-Hitler demon- police hidden in the German Em- bassy were sentenced today to $10 fin or ten days in jail, on charges of “disorderly conduct” and “parad- ing without a permit.” All were sent back to jail, Seven will be tried Tues- day. The marchers turned the court- room into a forum and stoutly at- tacked Hitler’s Fascism. Poe, Hes NEW YORK.—In a parade stretch- ing over fifteen blocks along lower Broadway, over 5,000 workers marched yesterday afternoon in protest against the Nazi plans to murder the four Communists on trial in Germany for the burning of the Reichstag. Many more thousands lined the sidewalks Some cheering and mircaing 6! with. the parade, si The demonstration, called by the N. Y, District of the Communist Party, started at Union Square where several thousand workers heard Charles Krumbein, James Ford, Max Bedacht and H. J. Farmer denounce Hitler and warn against the approach of Fascism in the United States, Alfred Wagenknecht of the National Committee to Aid Victims Against Fascism was the chairman, The parade of workers down Broad- Way carrying several hundred plac- ards was marked by the singing of revolutionary songs and the shouting of militant slogans: “Down with Nazi | Terror!” shotued the marchers. “Re- lease Dimitroff, Torgler, Tanoff and Popoff! . . . Down with Nazi prop- aganda in the U.S. . . . Down with Fascism!” At 17 Battery Place before the Ger- man Consulate the demonstrators massed to await the report of the del- egation they elected to see the Nazi consul, Johannes Borcher, Consul Closets Himself | The delegation of six workers, ac- | companied by police from the “radi- | cal squad” and reporters went up to the consul. They were received by the secretary who stated that the consul refused to see them, Pauline Rogers acting as spokesmen, de- manded the release of Dimitroff, Tor- gier, Popoff and Taneff. - ‘The secretary answered “You've been here before, (Continued on Page 2) Why | Advertise for Scabs |} As 3,000 on Southern Pacific Vote Strike |Baltimore Conference! Court, Lyn hers W ait ® Nation-wide Fight On Lynch Terror | | Hails Program of | L. 8. N. R. BALTIMORE, Nov. 20.—Seven hun- dred and seventy-three Negro and white delegates from 355 trade unions, clubs, churches, lodges and mass organizations, representing 194,- 000 members, attended the Anti- Lynching Conference held here on Sunday and united in a mighty pro- tert against the raging lynch terror » hideous plans of Alabama to hand over the Scottsboro boys and the International Labor De- fense to a lynci: “nob. Richard B. Moore, General Secre- tary of the League o1. Struggle for Negro Rights presented tixe program of that organization, advocating the right of Negroes and their white al- lies to arm themselves in seif-de- fense against the lynchers, partion- larly in communities where there is an organized lynch incitement cam- | paign, as today in Decatur, Ala., and | on the Eastern Shore of Maryland on the day of the fiendish lynching of } George Armwood, Negro worker, taken out of jail and murdered on October 18, The L. S. N. R. program calls for the setting up of self-defense bodies of Negroes and whites, the organiza- tion of L. 8, N. R. committees in all localities, the calling of regional anti- ‘lynching conferences, and the build- ing of the L. 8. N. R. into a mass or- ganization of struggle. It was grected | with the greatest enthusiasm by the hundreds of delegates and spectators. The Negro delegates represented a vast cross-section of the Negro popu- lation, with many professionals and petty-bourgeois elements as well as Workers from the oyster boats, the canneries, the longshoremen unions and a number of the basic industries. A large delegation of Negro workers Was present from the lynch-infested Eastern Shore, Plans were laid for a National Con- ference Against Lynching and Jim- Crowism to be held this Spring in Washington, D. C. The conference (Continued on Page 2) | pcan titan ek ater ache Detroit Workers to Protest Fire Trial) DETROIT.—A delegation of repre- sentatives of various organizations here will go to the German Consulate | at 2 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 22, and demand the immediate freeing of Dimitroff, Torgler, Popoff and Taneff, the four Communists who have been framed up on the charge of burning the Reichstag. The dele- gation is being organized by the De- troit Committee of the League Against War and Fascism, On Friday, Nov. 24, a mass protest | demonstration will be held at the German Consulate under the auspices of the Detroit Committee, explain away the unwilling tribute event. ‘This is to hide the fact that the the other. tional relation’s policies, “Soviet Government Gives Sweepifig self-consolation and deception. In a few words the “Pravda,” the Communist Party of the Soviet heart of the matter: fact that the \ ) J [7 HAS been exceedingly instructive to watch the capitalist press of this country desperately trying to of the Soviet Union, which is implicit in the Roose- velt recognition of the world’s first Soviet State. One central purpose has been only too clear in the reaction of the capitalist press to this momentous nition is basically determined by the victories of So- clalist construction, on the one hand, and the ad- vance of the capitalist crisis in the United States, on And the major method which the capitalist press uses to conceal the fact that it is the growing crisis in America that finally forced the American Govern- ment to recognize the Soviet Union, is to make it seem as if the Soviet Government has at last agreed to make certain fundamental changes in its interna- A quick glance over the headlines of capitalist papers all over the United States indicates the way in which this is being done. We see such typical head- lines as this: “Russia Pledges Religious Liberty,” or There is hardly a class conscious worker in America, or anywhere else, who will be taken in by this cold “What seemed ‘impossible’ for sixteen years was carried out in a few days. This is explained by the determining « change in Amer- jean foreign policy toward the Soviet Union made ,themselves recently more insistently and ‘impe- ratively, “The United to the triumphs of American cap! Roosevelt recog- fifteen years ago. dicating the polic: science,” Liivinoft lows: cbs pet tioned nulled.” And this was central organ of Union, states the x | 1 | Fight the Lynch Menace! T= Scottsboro boys are now in the very center of the Decatur lynch at- mosphere. There is not the slightest doubt that lynch torture and death menace them from every side. It would be criminal folly to imagine that the gesture of Judge Calie- han in appointing a handful of deputies as guard diminishes in the slightest | the terrible danger which hangs over the heads of the boys and their de- | fenders, ‘The very method with which Judge Callahan is speeding the trial, | ill-concealed anger at any attempt to give the trial world publicity, are ominous indications of the reactionary lynch hate which is concealed within the cloak of judicial “impartiality.” Now, more than ever, the only true defense of the Scottsboro boys Is the aroused anger and protest of the world, In every locality, meetings, protest demonstratons must be held! Flood the Judge, the Governor, of Alabama, and President Roosevelt with telegrams demanding the full protection and immediate release of the nine innocent Scottsboro boys! Save the Scottsboro boys! Ruby Bates Appeals for (Quick Action to Save Boys NEW YORK.—Ruby Bates, Scottsboro defense witness whose life is threatencd by the Alabama lynch lords preparing a blood bath for the Scottsboro boys and their defenders, yesterday made an appeal for quick and vigorous artion to defeat the plans of Alabama officials to turn the boys and the International Labor Defense attorneys ever to @ lynch mob. Ruby Bates is natutally not anxious ?- ing class. The white workers must remember that there are many of us. starving and without clothes. our position is not much better that: tue Negroes. We must struggle together. The Scottsboro Boys Must Not Die! Yours truly, RUBY BATES. Signal for Massacre . Silence Ominous as I. L. D. Attorneys | Boldly Enter Court |Rumored Plan to Shoot Attorneys to Set Off Explosion By JOHN L. SPIVAK | (Special Correspondent of the Daily Worker.) DECATUR, Ala., Noy. 20. — |In an ominously quiet court room where one man was ar- rested for trying te enter with ja loaded revolver, and where | deputies searched every person |who entered for concealed weapons, seven of the nine | Scottsboro boys were arraigned to- day before Circuit Judge W. W. Calla- BULLETIN DECATUR, Nov. 20.—Judge Cal- lahan today granted a motion by | the L L. D. attorneys to allow a | deposition of testimony by Ruby Bates, one of the chief Scottsboro defense witnesses. The defense at- torneys pointed out that her life would be in grave danger if she was forced to come to Decatur, as she has reecived many threatening letters from. Decetur.residents-wrho accuse her Wi betraying the South by her, semsutional exposure last | spring in the Decatur court of the frame-up of the boys by Alabama officials. At that time she publicly reiracted her original testimony that the boys had raped Victoria Price and herself. | | The court is being deluged with protest telegrams from all parts of the world denouncing the frame-up and demanding the safe, uncondi- tional release of the boys. Soviet Government in January 23, 1918! velt demanded religious liberty, he was asking for what the Soviet Government made part of its fundamental Jaw many years ago. The Soviet Government has destroyed all connec- tion between religion and the State. it has destroyed forever the State-supported organized Teligion, which has always been one of the weapons ' (Centinned on Pege @. to return to Decatur, but bravely declares her readiness to do so, if absolutely necessary. Her appeal follows: Ruby Bates’ Letter Dear Editor: ‘The Scottsboro case is coming up again soon, probably in the same; town as last April, unless the change er PIR ay ep wear of venue is granted. I understand ppe by reading in the “Daily” that the | P k t PAH A change of venue will be fought for} Ic € ours > by the International Labor Defense | attorneys. D t K p Sec b I though by writing this article to} ay 0 nee aps the “Daily” to be published, and still think, that this will help the Scotts- boro boys. At the present time I am not feel- ing well, and this is the only way that I can help the Scottsboro boys. As I said, the trial is coming up soon. My life is in greater danger than ever before. boys, the defense attorneys, are also in great danger. Therefore I am | afraid to go back down there to the trial. @f will testify before any other court and tell the same thing I told in April, or to anyone, whether it be minister, lawyer, judge or sheriff, But if I am forced to go back down there to Decatur, I will do so, I want to call on all workers, both Negro and white, to get be- hind this struggle stronger than ever before. Protest telegrams and resolutions have to be sent to De- catur, demanding safe release of the boys and safe return of the at- torneys, and also Lester Carter and myself if we are forced to go back. I appeal to all workers, and every one interested in the Scottsboro case, to support this fight and bring the boys back into the ranks of the work- Soviet Recognition and the Capitalist Press AN EDITORIAL States could no longer continue its old position. In establishing normal diplomatic rela- tions with the Soviet Union, leading circles in the U.S.A. were, above all, guided by the real interests jitalism.” Gk, ee N EXAMINATION of the official documents that passed between Litvinoff and Roosevelt makes it as clear as day that the principles of the recognition pact have been part and parcel of the foreign rela- tion policies of the Soviet Government ever since 1918, On the question of religion, for example, Litvinoff piled up numerous examples from the Soviet law in- y of the Soviet Government toward religion and religious practices. Replying to Roose- velt's for the “right to free exercise of liberty of con- quoted from the Soviet law as fol- “In the Soviet Union every person may profess any religion or none. All restrictions of rights con- nected with the profession of any belief whatsoever, or with the non-profession of any belief, are an- already part of the basic law of the ‘When Roose- In doing this The Scottsboro | Morgan County yur trial is scheduled to | Out of Meat Plant —— | SOUTH ST. PAUL, Minn., Nov, 20.| House —The Armour packing strike, involv- | break Nov. ing over 1,200 workers, is in its fourth| Despite the open-voice threats day and remains solid. liynch the boys and their Inte The workers struck for higher| tional Labor Defense attor | Wages and union recognition. | Samuel Leibowitz and Joseph Brod- | Mass picket lines, covering several|sky, the counsel for the defense miles, patrol the plants for 24 hours| startled the town and the courtroom a day. They cover all streets and|by walking in and calmly taking up | railroads leading into the packing| the boys’ cases. The change of venue | houses, preventing scabs and trucks | application made by the defense*wa | from entering. j completely overshadowed by the im- The plants are at a standstill, with | ™inence of a wholesale massacre. jonly a small crew on the inside to} The arraignment, which is nore maintain refrigeration and the boiler | mally a routine matter, was marked to | system. The Armour officials refuse to ne- gotiate with the strike committee. Workers’ and farmers’ organiza- tions are raising food and funds for strike relief. The Twin Cities Unemployed Coun- cils are helping on the Picket lines, as well as employed workers from other mills during their free hours. There is a great possibility that the strike will spread to Swifts and (Continued on Page 2) Scabs Held In Meat Plants to Prevent & few scabs who are virtually ke) prisoners in such plants as pee are the only ones working, as the general strike of packing house work- ers here remains solid, plant when the doors were opened and joined the union. They said that the police were cooperating in keep- ing them prisoners in the plant. The workers are on strike for high- er pay and recognition of their union, the Packing House Workers Industrial Union, The press here reports 200 scabs have been recruited from other cities, and are being held as a threat to force the workers to return. They jare also spreading rumors that the strike is about to be settled. No trucks are delivering meat, and many stores selling scab meat are reported to have been stoned. Friday night the A. F. of L. lead- ership again attempted its disruptive tactics by holding a meeting of some of the drivers of the Pittsburgh Pro- vision Co. The strikers stormed this meeting and left the hall empty, all the drivers leaving the meeting. Miss Pitt, N.R.A. mediotor, who said, “The streets of Ambridge ought to be cleared,” just before the steel thugs attacked the Ambridge picket Liven is hovering around the strike, attempting her strikebreaking tactics. \ Them from Leaving PITTSBUNGH, aP., Nov. 20—Only | Four of the scabs escaped from the | | by a tension that did not exist since the acute period of the Heywood Patterson trial this spring. The ten- sion became more pronounced when | Judge Callahan, apparently acting on a tip that an attempt would be made to kill Leibowitz this afternoon, or- dered Sheriff “Bud” Davis to have |deputies “watch Leibowitz at all | times while he is in Morgan County.” Everyone sits about expecting | Leibowitz to be shot down in open jcourt, which would be the signal for wholesale murder, The “ Scottsboro boys, though it is they who are to (Continued on Page 2) Leather Strikers - Defy Injunction |_ GLOVERSVILLE, N. Y., Nov. 20.— | Two thousand leather strikers faced | tear gas and clubbings on the picket |line today when they struggled to prevent police from breaking their ranks at the tannery plant of the G Levor Co., in defiance of the injunc- | tion prohibiting them from picketing. The entire working population of Gloversville is aroused against the brutality of police and sworn deputies and are demanding their removal. New recommendations proposed by ' Elmer F. Andrews, State Industrial Commissioner, who was called in by the National Labor Board to mediate the strike, now in its sixth week were considered by the general strike; committee of the Independent Leath- er Workers Union Friday. The com- mittee agreed to accept the proposals H as a basis for negotiating a settle- ;ment, The strikers were scheduled to meet the Tanners’ Association to- day. The recommendations for settle- ment cover the following points: Tha‘ the workers be permitted to return without discrimnation, but that prefe erence be given in jobs by seniorit when there is not enough work for all; that the workers shall have the right of collective bargaining through representatives of their own choosing. Disputes are to be arbitrated and wages are to be negotiated with each | i | tanner, on return to work. f