The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 22, 1933, Page 1

SPRY e-rerapsearemee —S> SESE NE REE ‘NRA Calls Se amt, “ failure to starve the workers back to| BE ACTIVE IN The Daily Worker Tag. Days Friday, Saturday and Sunday ‘(Section of the Communist International) America’s Only Working Class Daily Newspaper Vol. X, No. 280 > ™ NEW YORK, WEDNESD AY, NOVEMBER 2 22, 1933 Price 3 Cents DENY DECATUR VENUE CHANGE DESPITE LYNCH THREATS in Nat'l Board to Break Strike of Shipyard Workers Steel and Metal Workers Workers Industrial Union Urges Strikers to Elect Own Strike Leadership, Start Mass Picketing NEW YORK.—After their usual “do nothing” policy had failed to discourage the 4,000 Brocklyn shipyards workers, the local N.R.A. announced yesterday that it will take a “drastic” step and turn the matter over to the National Labor Board. Mrs. Herrick of the N.R.A. Regional Board, after weeks of pussy-footing declared that “the case?— is important enough for the Presi- dent." Two Shops Settle The shipyards workers are now in 4 ee the eighth week of their strike against the United Dry Dock moe, HN Packing Strike; and the Todd Shipbuilding’ Corpora- | tion. During this period the officials | of the nine craft unions of the A. F. Others Stay Closed of L. claiming control in the strike have repeatedly stifled any militant | Press Strives. to Trick Workers Back by Fake Re tend conferences with the A. F. of D orts L. through the N.R.A. have failed to} PITTSBURGH, Pa., Nov. 21.—Two put in an appearance. |independent shops and the Meat strike action to prevent scabs from The NRA. action taken at this| 77@nsportation Company signed an entering the shipyards. “Leave it to the N.R.A.” was the policy of the 4 i it of their | 28’eement with the Packing House | Sime; ie, plainly she, resale o! ir Workers Industrial Union last night, officials. Employers notified to at- work and their fear that the strikers | will follow the advice of the Steel and Metal Workers’ Indusirial Union to take the strike in their own hands. ‘Thus far officials have succeeded in |Which, besides granting other de- mands, includes a provision for “no | distribution of meat prepared in orenint! plants.” The press here is attempting to stampede the strikers back, printing intimidating the workers by threats of deportation and of terror should) they decide on a militant policy. Im-| patience of the workers with these| “news” that the strikers are return- ing. They hope in this way to bring about demoralization. | Officials of the N\R.A,; federal and methods and growing revolt in the | local, have been holding secret meet- ranks compels the N. R. A. to offer lines with small groups of drivers. The another fraudulent promise that the Pittsburgh Provision Co. especially is Maxim Litvinoff (right) being congratulated on the successful con- clusion of his mission here for Soviet recognition by Boris Skvitsky, new U.S. S. R. charge d’ affaires. Trade Tricks Will Not Fool USSR, Expert Warns U. S. Official Tells Americans Usual Graft Will Be Futile in Soviet Trade By MARGUERITE YOUNG (Daily Worker Washington Bureau.) ‘WASHINGTON, Nov. 21—Piain warning by an American official that the Socialist State of the U.S.S.R. won’t tolerate any of the graft and shady practices customary in trade between two capitalist nations turned a great many of their officials here very red in the face today—and J. Anthony THOUSANDS ALREADY PUT) eeu || Committee of the Soviet Govern- | Roosevelt Plan Gives ment, who arrived yesterday. i No Guarantee on “Wages” NEW YORK, N. Y.—Eighteen thousand are to be taken off the relief rolls and placed on forced labor in Westchester County, it was estimated by West- chester County Engineer Jay Wowner. New Jersey already has removed 12,-| 000 from relief rolls and the New| A York state government is concluding Questions plans to take thousands off relief and} — put them at road building. Several| By SEYMO WALDMAN hundred thousand are already off re-| (Daily Worker Washington Bureau) Nef rolls throughout the’ country, it; WASHINGTON, Nov. 21—The De- is estimated. | partment of Labor today admitted) Those removed from relief rolis eae that there’s a distinct difference be- put on forced labor have been given| tween deporting a Nazi propagandist | no guarantee as to how long this work| jand a militant labor leader like will last. The Roosevelt plan, as it| Frank Borich, National Secretary of is being put into operation, makes no| the National Miners’ Union. He is provision for placing these workers|now facing imminent deportation as back on relief. In addition, the pub-|a result of the recent rejection of lic works fund which is supposed| his appeal from the Federal District to pay the unemployed put on forced| Court by the Circult Court of Ap-| labor, is rapidly being used up not| peals in Pittsburgh. only for the meagre “wages” but for| Colonel Daniel W. MacCormack, material, equipment, etc. Commissioner General of Immigra~ The fact that the Roosevelt prom- | tion of the Labor Department, offi- ises are already being broken is seen| cially admitted that no affidavits in the announcement from Washing-| were presented to him before the ton that one half million will be put| issuance of the deportation order to work directly under federal gov-| against Borich. His statement, made ernment control on federal projects.| today while he was assisting Secre- The original plan of Roosevelt and|tary Frances Perkins through her Hopkins called for one million to be| weekly press conference, recalled the employed. The extravagant figures| recent request of Congressman Sdm- given by Roosevelt are also seen in} uel Dickstein, chairman of the House the United Press dispatches of yes-| Immigration and Naturalization, for Soviet Flag Flies Over N. Y. Hotel NEW YORK.—The Red Flag of the Soviet Union, bearing golden’ sickle and hammer, and surmount- ed by the Communist star, waved over the Park Ave. entrance of the Ritz Tower yesterday. It was | Perkins Sidesteps | Borich Deportation and Strike Figures Doesn’t Seem to Have! Facts on Major Judge Ignores All Affidavits Proving Violent Prejudice |Brodsky, Chief Labor Defense Attorney, Shows Impossibility | of Fair Trial in Decatur Deputies Refuse ‘to Jail ‘Spectator With Gun; Court Atmosphere Grows More Menacing By JOHN L. SPIVAK (Special Correspondent of the Daily Worker.) DECATUR, Ala, Nov. 21.—In a 34 minute address from the bench in which he stated that there was no evidence to show that either the defendants or their attorneys were in danger of their lives, Circuit Judge W. W. Callahan late this after- noon refused to grant a change a venue from Morgan County to Birmingham to the Scotts- AY | boro boys. ee Ss Honor Memory Tod aca While the Judge was con- ro ee | e nies ‘ tending in his address that there was no danger. deputy sheriff stood at the of the court room and “ ked very person who entered for |At the same time | with revolvers patr |of the courtroom. concealed weapons. riff's armed ted the corridor government ‘vill withdraw its R.F.C. contract should the shipowners refuse to appear at the conferences, ‘The Steel and Metal Workers’ In- dustrial Union in a statement on the; Jatest action of the N.R.A. and the A. F. of L, officials, declares the fol- lowing: “The shipyards strikers have nothing to expect from the N.R.A., the Labor Board or the President. All of them are serving the interests of the employers of the United Dry- docks and of the Shipbuilding Corp. The Industrial Union emphasizes again that the strike can be won only if militant mass action is ap- plied against the wishes of the A. F. of L, leaders, This will clean the yards of scabs and will force the demands of the strikers upon the bankers of Wall Street, owners of these two shipyards. Strikes were never won through politicians, sen- ators and labor boards, but only through militant action.” ‘The Industrial Union urges the strikers to elect their own rank and file strike committce, organize strike activities and demand strike relief from the huge treasuries of the Metal and Building Trades department of the A. F. of L. to keep themselves and families from starving. Explosion of Charity Coal Kills Girl, 14 NOTHINMHAM, Ohio.—-A mass meeting Friday, Nov. 24, to protest the death of Sussie Cipriano, 14, killed by an explosion of coal given the family by the charities, will take place in the Slovanian Hall, Lindberg Ave., off 200 Street. FORD MAY VISIT ROOSEVELT WARM SPRINGS. Nov. 21. — It ‘woud cause no surprise if Henry Ford would pay a visit to Roosevelt here, the secretary to the President said here today. attempting to break them from the |strike. This was exposed and con- |demnea at a meeting of which more than 200 workers of the plant were present. They unanimously decided to stop all strike breaking. Many workers who were tricked into scabbing, have been pulled out jo some of the small jobs and joined |the union. Intensive preparations are being made to bring out all small |shops of strikebreakers which have been neglected up till now. Most likely under the guidance of the N.R.A. officials and some A. F. of L. leaders, some tools amongst the strikers are being used to disrupt the ranks on the “Communist” issue. Lena Davis, representative of the Communist Party, spoke at a mass meeting Sunday and this is being used as an excuse by these people to confuse the strikers. This is being combatted by the strike leadership, The Communist Party is helping to mobilize the workers throughout the city to help win the strike. Some shops are meeting today to act on proposals offered by some of the large independent farms. Armour Workers in East Liberty de- cided almost unanimously to continue the strike and defeat a maneuver of the company through a secret meet- ing to get a group of the strikers back to work. The same action took |place in the Pittsburgh Provision Co. |and Wilson. Over 200 police were at Armours in East Liberty today guarding 20 scabs. Arrests continue but the mili- tancy of the strikers is high, stopping many meat trucks and stores from selling scab meat. The hearing on granting a per- manent injunction is still going on. The court room today was packed with strikers. Strikers are in need of relief and finances to continue the strike and urge all workers’ organizations to rush funds to the General Strike Committee, 400 East Ohio St., Pitts- burgh, Pa. Strike A Blow for the Daily Worker! 'H the Daily Worker $40, 000 Drive still $14,000 behind, receipts yesterday fell to $177.97, one of the very lowest points reached in the campaign. This, comrades, spells the gravest sort of danger to the continued existence of our Daily Worker. IHE Daily Worker National Tag Days, this Friday, Satur- day and Sunday, afford you the opportunity to strike a powerful blow for the Daily Worker. Thousands of workers will be glad to give their pennies, nickels and dimes to help save our “Daily” if they are approached. Join the revolutionary Daily Worker Tag Day Army which will march into the factories, streets, into workers’ homes to mobilize the masses of American workers to the support of our fighting paper. Tuesday’s receipts ............0000086. $177.97 Previous total ...........eeeee eee ee 126,144.23 TOTAL TO DATE ............++.-..$26,322.20 Marcus who started everything, told the Daily Worker, “I stand behind every Litvinoff Expects Debt Negotiations Cleared byThursday (Daily Worker Washington Burean) | WASHINGTON, Nov. 21—Toward definite agreement to wipe the Soviet- American slate clear of debts, claims and counter claims, officials negotia- ted today, hopeful thet something decisive may be announced before Maxim Litvinoff leaves here Thurs- day. Observers claiming inside informa- tion said a plan for settlement is near, though it is not certain agree- ment can be reached in the short time left for the final Russian-Amer- ican conversations. That definite trade commitments probably will be handled later was indicated when the State Department announced the formation of a new central executive committee to handle foreign trade policies, coordinating all the work of Many government agencies dealing with matters related directly or in- directly with foreign trade. Major Talk on Claims. ‘There was a general impression today that the conversations are de- voted almost entirely to debts, claims and counter claims. ‘These include a total of around $800,000,- 000 claimed by the United States for the Kerensky debt and private property claims and an amount yet unnamed counter-claimed by Rus- sia for damages for American mili- tary intervention against the Soviet Government in 1918. It is believed by well-informed (Continued on Page 2) Crew Win Demands. After 6-Hr. Strike BALTIMORE, Md., Noy. 21—On cae Noy. 17th, the crew of the Munindies struck solid under the lead- ership of the Marine Workers In- dustrial Union and won their strike. The demands were: 1, Immediate pay-off. 2. Sign ar- ticles before a Shipping Commission- er. 3, No one to be fired. After striking 6 hours, all demands were won. Eleven members of the crew joined the Marine Workers In- dustrial Union, two of them, mem- bers of the I.W.W., turned in their books and said they always had a hunch the I.W.W. was phoney. ‘The crew shut off the steam when longshoremen attempted to work cargo. This had a lot of effect be- cause the payroll came aboard short- Ag thereafter. The crew has pledged themselves stronger and ta up a fight for higher wages, This is the third strike within @ short period on the Munson Line here in Baltimore, and Baltimore is becoming known as the pay-off port for Mun- son ships, ®word I said.” Among his words, given to the press yesterday as a warning to Amer- icans now planning to trade with the newly recognized Soviet Union, were these: “If your experience in other coun- tries has taught you that you must figure on paying graft directly or in- directly in order to secure business, please exclude the Soviet, Union from the list of those countries.” Marcus is a foreign trade expert of the Roosevelt Agricultural Adjust- ment Administration. Interviewed by the Daily Worker, he explained “I ran away from the czars in 1910 and came to America but I have been back as a trade representative many times since the revolution, and I know whereof I speak.” “And you mean,” he was asked, “that graft and bribery to which you refer is customary in trade between other countries?” he was asked. “Why, of course,” he replied unhesi- tatingly. During the Woodrow Wil- son administrations Marcus became a foreign trade adviser of the De- partment of Commerce. He retired to private business during the strongly anti-Soviet Republican regime and came back into the Roosevelt govern- ment, he said, feeling confident that it was ready to employ “sympathetic and well-informed advisers”—on Rus- sian effairs. Once Marcus was em- ployed by Amtorg, the Soviet Trad- ing Company. His statement yester- day appalled other officials. They blushed at his frankness and honesty in baring the differences between private trade capitalist countries and the Soviet Union, where the masses abolished private export trade when | terday that 400,000 women will be given jobs under the plan and on the same day the Associated press re- port for the same conference with Mrs, Roosevelt, that 250,000 women would be given work. The paring down of figures has thus already be- gun, and the unemployed workers cut off relief will be left high and dry, without relief and without work, faced with starvation, In New York City the J. P. Morgan company, representing the bankers | of New York City, took up the en- tire 70 million dollar city “relief” bond issue. Although these bonds were issued on the pretext of giving “re- lief” to the unemployed, it is already announced that only thirty-one mil- lion will be used for relief and the rest for the city sinking fund, etc.| CR aaa | British King Heckled on Jobless Hunger) LONDON, Nov. 21.—In the midst of | the speech of the English King, George V, at the opening of Parlia- ment today, a Labor representative | from Glasgow shouted: “You are a gang of lazy, idle para- sites, living on the wealth other people | create.” John McGovern, the Labor member, has led unemployed demonstrations against the Means Test. The Means Test was passed with the assistance of the Labor Party, and provides for the reduction of all jobless relief unless the workers swear to being paupers without any traces| of any support. It has cut thousands of English workers off the relief lists. The sudden reminder that there | were starving workers outside the | palatial buildings of the lords and | ladies, sent astonishment and con- | sternation through the assembly of the ermine-cloaked aristocracy that they took power. The official publicity ‘(Continued on Page 2) THE LAST few days Socialist leaders in the United States have heatedly concerned themselves with the task of “explaining” to their followers the meaning of recognition of the Soviet Union, testations of approval are too flimsy to conceal their rancour and hatred against the victorious proletarian revolution, They, therefore, stoop to the most pro- vocative intrigues, outstripping their capitalist. masters, While the capitalist press went to extremes to hide the significant facts which led to recognition (the advance of socialism as against of capitalism in crisis and the victory of the Soviet peace policy), the Socialist leaders go them one bet- ter by deliberately instigating war provocations. On the one hand we have Algernon Lee, socialist leader, insisting that the Soviet Government, despite its pledges, will carry on propaganda in the United States, implying that the Soviet Union and the Com- munist International are one. Lee rushes in at this point of tl peace policy of the Sovict Union and serves his mas- ters by declaring: “I do not take very seriously Mr. Litvinoff’s as- surances that there will be no propaganda in this country, directly or indirectly promoted by the Soviet Government.” Not one capitalist newspaper in the United States ‘was so openly provocative! had come to pay their respects to Gov't Credit Crisis the deportation of certain specified Nazi propagandists, Dickstein was told to first furnish the department with affidavits, “Miss Perkins, were any affidavits presented in the deportation case of Frank Borich, National Secretary of (Continued on 1 on Page 2) U. S. Budget Deficit Grows, Pointing to WASHINGTON, Noy. 21.—A series of financial events in the last few |days heralds an approaching fin- | ancial and inflationary crisis. The latest report of the Treasury | caused dismay in financial quarters | |when it showed that despite the| | drastic slashing by the Roosevelt gov- ernment of Federal employee wages and veterans’ compensation, the bud- lget deficit has grown so that it is now overrunning at the rate of over | $1,500,800,000 a year. Paper Money This is causing open predictions that the Roosevelt government will soon have to issue inflated paper money under the provisions of the recent Bank Act. As a result of the Roosevelt infla- tionary purchases of gold, there has been a tremendous flight of Amer- ican capital to what the Wall Street investors consider a safer place. En- gland. This exchange of dollars into British sterling is still continuing at a rapid pace, evidencing the fear on the part of high financial circles of even more Roosevelt inflation. In this connection, it is pointed out that Roosevelt has actually exhausted the King. USSR Recognition and Socialist Party AN EDITORIAL ‘Their false pro- integral part. Socialist Jewish “ the further decay “This (the nothing else but IN THE UNITE! STITUTIONS.” he victory of the Only desperat The Socialist The Socialist leaders seek to vilify the Soviet Government and its history of international rela~- tions, Not all their slanders will hide the fact that the Soviet Government keeps its pledges in all re- spects, unlike the imperialist powers with all their intrigues and secret maneuvers of which the Socialist MacDonalds, Hendersons, Boncours, Blooms are an * But not content with this dastardly slander, the | ative, lying spy of American capitalism, declaring in its editorial of November 21: a solemn pledge that IT WILL NOT SUPPORT ANY MORE FINANCIALLY THE COMMUNIST PARTY | wits, end to read out of existence the basic factors forcing recognition, leys and Fishes by asserting the vicious lie that in the pasi the Soviet Government financed the Commu- nist Party in the United States. (Continued on Page 2) ‘Forward” offers itself as the provoc- conditions of recognition) means that the Soviet Government gave 1D STATES OR ANY OF ITS IN- e Socialist leaders, at their extreme n, could stoop to such tactics, | leaders serve the Fascist Wolls, Eas- Chiming in with (Continued on Page 6) J. Louis Engdahl, former National Secretary of the International La- bor Defense, who died in Moscow, U.S.S.R., on Nov. 21, 1932. A mem- orial meeting in his honor will be held tonight in Irving Plaza, 15th St. and Irving Place, New York. ‘Times’ Turns Down Paid Ad on Scottsboro And Editor o: of Seripps- Howard Chain Asks for Obituary NEW YORK.—A committee con- sisting of Allen Taub, lawyer, Arnold Sawyer, and David Hall, of the Na- tional Committee for the Defense of Political Prisoners, called on the ad- vertising department of the New York Times last Sunday. They attempted to insert an ad- vertisement which read, “Scottskoro boys in immient danger. Protest. Communicate with the National Committee for the Defense of Poli- tical Prisoners, 156 Fifth Ave. New York City.” Every official of the advertising de- partment refused to accept the ad, Finally Allen Taub asked, “Will the Times accept an obituary notice after the lynchings?” The Times editor replied that he would be glad to accept this. CmCobCom-oeftrhorn Ki On Friday J. W. Foster of the na- tional editorial board of the “liberal” Scripps-Howard chain was visited by @ committee consisting of Alfred H. Hirsch, secretary of the N. C. D. P. P., Grace Lumpkin, novelist, author of “To Make My Bread,” and Allen Taub, who have just returned from an investigation into the Tuscaloosa lynchings, This committee presented affidavits and documents which gave conclusive proof that plans have been made to lynch the Scottsboor boys and their attorneys. Mr, Foster was asked to accept a story by Grace Lumpkin describing the lynch-danger that faces the de- fendants. Foster said, “I won't take your story. But send me their obituary notice, We'll publish them.” Industrial Union Wins $500 in Back Pay for Fur Worker NEW YORK. — Back pay of $500 was won by the Needle Trades Work- ers’ Industrial Union for Louis Perl- man, a fur finisher. The Industrial Union compelled the Premier Fur Co, to pay this amount when it was dis- covered that the employer had been | chiselling on the wage scale. ‘The Dubinskys, Hillmans, Zaritskys and Zimmermans cannot produce a single case in which the interests of the workers in their unions have been }so safeguarded, although they can readily show how their own clique of machine supporters have been pro- tected at the expense of the workers. The judge’s leng' address ree viewed the application made by |Brodsky, Interna \fense Attorn: jmade by At opposing F tion for” change of venue from Decatur to Birmingham. The courtroom listen silence while Judg nan, diss claiming any criticism of prep vious judges who had presided ov¢¥ two Scottsboro trials, stated that h saw no reason why troops had beet * ordered out for the first Scottsborc trial nor for the second one thi spring when He was tried, conv quently had his sen d in a stony justice. The court’s decision came after two days or argument by both defense and pros: ‘When Brodsky arose to argue for |@ change of venue the court room |which had been somewhat disturbed |by whispering in the back among the scattered hushed. “Going back to 1: April,” Brodsky |began quietly, “The judge who pre- sided then decided that the situation jin Morgan County was too tense, |too dangerous to permit the re- {sumption of the trials. There was hope that with the passage of time, the seething emotions in the com- jmunity would calm down. Unfor- tunately that is not the fact, Those |Who are trained to translate public |opinion, who have their pulse on |public sentiment, the newspapers in this very area, have written and commented editorially about the danger that faces the defendants jand their attorneys in this county.” “The state of mind, the situation that existed when Judge Horton pre- sided last April, has not subsided. We have presented some 500 names jand addresses of persons who have voiced open threats. In four cases the state has shown that those per- | sons are deceased. I can understand | that is not strange or inexplicable. A man dies, his household continues. The investigator goes to the house of the person who made the state- ment to him and finds his name on the doorbell and writes down that name, That is how the four names happen to be among the 500 we have presented.” Argues for Venue Change “The Attorney General answers our motion by a few stereotyped affida- vits, but if one weighs the language used one is forced to the conclusion that it is a prepared thing given at the request of some local citizen to bolster up a local reputation. I think justice demands a change of venue. In Birmingham, for example, thri/ case would not engender such in tense feelings as to make it impos. |sible for them to secure a fair and | impartial trial.” Attorney General Knight, in an- swer, blamed the postponement of the trial in April upon the state- ments attributed in newspapers “to one of the defense counsel” and the answer made by himself. Knight did not mention Leibowitz by name. Knight in his plea stressed the | four dead persons named in the de- | fense affidavits and insisted that it | discredited the rest. “The apnlica- tion is very lengthy,” Judge Callahan | began in his clear, cold voice staring | at the defense counsel through his tortoise shell eyeglasses. “The sen- tences are somewhat embellished with well rounded phrases, but after you reduce it to the last analysis, it only sets forth that the defendants cannot have a fair and impartial trial im this county. Justifies Decision On Venue Charge Judge Callahan then went into a | lengthy analysis of the weight of | the evidence offered by the defense in the form of affidavits and con- cluded that it offered “insufficient evidence” to order a change of venue. He, too, emphasized the four dead (Continued on Page 2) by Judge Horton, the then presiding §