The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 24, 1933, Page 1

cal To Your Stations Today for the Daily Worker Tag Days! Put the $40,000 Drive | $1 From Every Reader Will Over the Top! (Section of the Communist International) Vol. X, No. 282 => * Entered ng second-class matter at the Post Office af New York, N. ¥., under the Act of March &, 1079, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1933 : Save the 99 | “Daily | America’s Only Working | Class Daily Newspaper | NEW TAX BURDEN FOR MASSES AS BUDGET CRISIS GROWS Roosevelt Bonds With Postal Saving, Relief Funds Great Britain to Meet Roosevelt Attack—Gets | Ready for Reprisals in Inflation Fight for Foreign Markets WASHINGTON, Nov.:23.—The Roosevelt government to- day threw Treasury funds into Street’ government bond market developing credit crisis. The funds which the Roo: protect the investments of the bh tt of th i ideni if | Dockers’ Strike Is (322k ate en Wall Street. banks comes from the savings in Postal Savings banks, the Farm Credit Administration | funds which were to go to aid the| mortgaged farmers, and the Federal | Deposit Insurance Fund. About| $700,000,000 of such funds are avail- | able for the purpose of preventing | ‘Wall Street banks from losses in their | pond investments. | More Taxes Following this announcement, Bud- get Director Douglas today warned the country that new, heavier taxes | must be levied in order to “preserve | the credit of the government.” The “eredit of the government” is a phrase which means the soundness and safety of the Wall Street bank in- vestments in government bonds. The Roosevelt proposal for new taxes to “preserve the government credit” are, therefore, a demand for more sacrifices from the masses to. protect ‘Wall Street bond investments. Pays Bond Interest ‘The Roosevelt government has segregated about $15,000,000,000 al- ready for the support of Wall Street bonds, mortgages and loan payments. It slashed the federal employes’ sal- aries and veterans’ compensation by $90,000,000 to heln pay bond interest to the Wall Street bond holders. The government is now faced with the necessity of raising more funds to continue these subsidies to the bond- holders. "The Roosevelt government, how- ever, is faced with the necessity of keeping the gold price high, while at the same time keeping the bon market from collapsing, @ process which is economically impossible. Britain Prepares Fight Roosevelt’s inflation policy aroused more open threats of reprisal today than have been heard for some time. A group of British business men has petitioned the Bank of England for more aggressive financial reprisals against the Roosevelt government. ‘As the Roosevelt government drives ahead toward an inflationary attack against its imperialist rivals, it is a certainty that the international cur- rency war will flare to heights. nl ‘Daily’ Campaign Success Depends On Tag . Days! INDER. the leadership of the Na- U tional Miners’ Union, the New Mexico miners marched to a smash- ing victory against the coal barons, Despite brutal terror they triumphed in their demands for better working conditions, for the release of Herbert Benjamin and other working-class leaders from the capitalist prisons. WY exposing the terror against the miners, by rallying working-class aid for them, by pointing out correct strike tactics, by supporting whole- heartedly their militant union, the Daily Worker played a leading role in the miners’ victorious struggle. . wee, are you doing to provide the Daily Worker with the financial sinews for continuing to deliver smashing blows against capitalist op- pression? The Daily Worker National Tag Days start today. Here is your chance to march with the Daily Worker in the vanguard of the mili- tant working class to further vic- tories in the strike struggles, to vic- tory in the battle to save the Scotts- |, oro Boys, to victory in the fight to crush fascism. March shoulder to shoulder with the Daily Worker National Tag Day Army. Contribute! Take an active part in the three tag days, today, tomorrow and Sunday! March to victories with the Daily Worker! ee eae ‘Thursday’s receipts .......$ 463.57 Previous total ........+++++ 26,638.70 TOTAL TO DATE. 102.27 iii Supports | the market to support the Wall in an effort to stem the swiftly sevelt government is using to Stronger as Mass Picketing Starts Brooklyn ‘Navy Yard| Workers Aid Relief Fund of Strikers NEW YORK.—Mass picketing was | organized by the strikers at the) Tietjen-Lang and Fletcher Dry-! docks in Hoboken. yesterday, for the | first time since the shipyards strike | started six weeks ago. “We'll show) them there's a strike,” was the senti- | ment expressed by the shipyards) workers when they read the state- ment of the Todd Shipbuilding Co. and the . United Drydocks that they | knew of no strike at the shipyards.) Denial of the strike was made by | the powerful shipyards companies | after the N. R. A. had failed to break | the strike and turned it over to the National Labor Board for this pur- | pose. | The workers met at their strike) hall yesterday and their anger against the A. F. of L. policy of preventing mass action reached a high pitch. They were stirred to action when they read the leaflet. of the Steel and Metal Workers’ Industrial Union, en- titled “Why Stand Pat?” exposing the strikebreaking character of the National Labor Board and urging mass picketing to clean out the scabs. With great enthusiasm the strikers voted to form mass picket lines at the docks at 4 o’clock that same day. The A. F. of L. officials were obliged to go along, unable to check the aroused workers. ‘The action of the shipyards strik- ers marks a turning point in the strike, and it is expected that sim- ilar steps will be taken in the Brook- lyn yards. It is the result of the continued hammering of the Indus- trial Union that only by this policy will the strike be won. The Indus- trial Union is winning greater pres- tige among the workers here, as is evidenced in the action of the strik- ers in posting the leaflet of the In- dustrial Union on the board and pro- tecting it from being torn down. Another significant development in the shipyards strike yesterday was the action of the Brooklyn Navy Yard workers in contributing to the strike reef fund of the shipyards —% | will be turned over to his family, | | instead of the relief which he former- | | Osborne arinounced that this cheap | |labor supply, which gives the unem- New York iaina | | to Get $1 a Day at Compulsory Labor | 30,000 Come Off Relief to Provide Cheap Labor Supply | ALBANY, N. Y., Noy. 23.—Thirty | thousand unemployed men, to be} taken from the relief rolls, will be} forced to go into 47 forced labor State Conservation Camps and work | in these’ camps during this winter at wages of only $25 a month, it was announced today by State Conserva- tion Commissioner Lithgow Osborne. Taking these men off relief and put- | ting them on forced labor is in line with Roosevelt's forced labor program | now being effected. The announce- ployed into forced labor camps is proof that the wage rate announced |by Roosevelt of 50 cents an hour, | |will be ignored. The $25 will not} |be given direct to the worker but/ ly received. The program goes into} effect at once and winter work, out | |in the cold, is demanded of the un- employed. | ployed no choice as to wages, hours and working conditions, “has already advanced the department program by several years.” The government work is thus to be carried on not on the | (Continued on Page 2) Litvinoff ArrivesIn New York; Speaks — at Waldorf Tonight e } Party Sails Saturday; Guest of Amtorg | Officials | —_— | NEW YORK.—Maxim Litvinoff, | Soviet Union Commissar for Foreign Affairs, arrived in New York City late yesterday afternoon and went direct to the home of Peter Bogdanov, of the Amtorg Trading Co., after a mo- tor trip from Washington. Litvinoff travelled with Ivan Divilkovsky, his aid; Boris Skvirsky, Soviet charge d’affaires and Skvirsky’s wife. They left Washington at 8 o’clock in the morning. A U. 8. state department employe accompanied Litvinoff’s party. The party went via Valley Forge. Litvinoff will appear at a banquet tonight at the ballroom of the Wal- dorf Astoria Hotel, given in his honor by the American Russian Chamber of Commerce, together with the American Russian Institute. Litvinoff will sail from New York Saturday. His complete schedule while in New York City has not as yet been an- nounced, The Soviet flag was raised over the principal building of Radio City late yesterday afternoon, it was reported, in honor of the Soviet officials. A large crowd watched the raising of (Continued om Page 2) the flag. Thousands to Protest Reichstag Frame-Up Trial at Coliseum NEW YORK.— Thousands of workers will gather at a mass protest meeting to be held Sun- day, Nov. 26, at 7 p.m., in the Bronx Coliseum. The lafest news from the Reichstag trial witl be flashed to the meeting. Funds collected will go to aid the vic- tims of German Fascism. Swift Employes In St. Paul Expected to Join” Strikers Farmers Send Armour Strikers Food; Jobless Aid Pickets SOUTH ST. PAUL, Minn., Nov. 23. —A mass meeting of over 1,000 Swift | doesn’t the court pass sentence? I workers voted unanimously to present | have said that I have set fire to the the same demands as the Armour strikers to the Swift manageemnt, and elected a committee with au- thority to call a strike within 24 hours if the demands are rejected. Ir the Swift workers walk out, it is expected that the Cudahy workers will walk out, too. Farmers are sending food for strike relief, unemployed workers are join- ing with the strikers on the picket lines, and employed workers are tak- ling up collections for strike relief. Picket lines continue to bar all en- trances to the Armour plarit on the fifth day of the strike. Day and night patrols are on duty all the time. ‘Two Armour trucks dam- aged when trying to get through the lines, but did not succeed. Thugs Raid Packing Strikers’ Offices In Pittsburgh Terror Police and A. F. of L. Unite to Drive Men Back to Work PITTSBURGH, Pa., Nov. 23—The offices of the Packing House Workers of packing house workers here, were raided by about twenty gangsters last | night, in a continuation of the ter- ror against the strikers. This terror has been whipped up by the capital- ist press for several days, using the “red scare” as a pretext for the strikebreaking attacks. The disrup- tion of the A. F. of L. leaders and the terror, has resulted in some work- ers being driven back to work today. Negotiations are now going on be- tween a committee elected by the workers and the Oswald Hess and the Zoller packing companies. ‘Fhe A. F. of L. leaders are working with the employers and the N.R.A. officials to break the strike. Strike leaders have been arrested and other leaders are being sought by the police. The sentiment for the union is very strong, however, and the strike oon- tinues, Innocent of Arson, | Van der Lubbe Says, “Why Doesn't the Trial | End?” He Exclaims In Court —— | (Special Cable to the Daily Worker) AT THE GERMAN FRONTIER (via Burich, Switzerland), Nov, 23.— Suddenly coming to life, Marinus van der Lubbe, Nazi tool in the Reichstag fire, made an impassioned speech today when the trial moved back from Berlin to Leipzig and declared that the Communist defendants were absolutely innocent. A sensation was caused in court |when Van der Lubbe arose suddenly and made a long speech to the pre- jsiding judge, in which he asked: | “How long is this trial to last? First in Leipzig, then in Berlin, again in | Leipzig. I have been in prison for jeight months. I demand a verdict. | Everything has been explained; why | | | | | | Reichstag alone.” Van der Lubbe spoke rapidly, sometimes almost pas- sionately. Buenger, presiding judge, declared that if Van der Lubbe wants a rapid verdict, he must name ac- complices. Speaks in Dutch ‘Van der Lubbe replied that nobody can possibly believe the guilt of Tor- gler or the Bulgarians. He spoke in Dutch and the interpreting was ob- viously faulty and incomplete. Thus it is evident that the statements made by detectives that Van der Lubbe made @ confession in fluent German on, the night of the fire, was abso- lutely untrue, Van der Lubbe cried: “Sentence me to death, or 20 years imprisonment, but finish the trial. Neither Torgler nor the Bulgarians had anything to do with the fire, Why insist on experts? It is not | difficult to set fire alone in 10 or 15 jminutes. It is perfectly clear that | I set the fire alone, but the fire is) not the sole question, it seems, be- cause attempts are being made to) drag in other considerations.” Replying to a question, Lubbe said that he consulted nobody before the | \fire, Four times he repeated “Give | {me my sentence!” ‘The presiding| judge insisted that Lubbe should name accomplices, but the latter re- | peated that he has told the truth and has no accomplices. Lubbe’s re- plies are clear and suffer only from bad interpreting. Quizzed by Dimitroff i Dimitroff, Bulgarian Communist, de- |Lubbe could set the fire alone. Lubbe fire is not complicated. Why shouldn't | I manage it alone. The guilt ques-| tion is a different one. I can only} repeat that Dimitroff and the others are not involved.” | Presiding Judge asked Lubbe why he acted as an incendiary. Lubbe declared that he cannot explain in| a few words, but there are many pri- vate reasons. When Dimitroff asked Lubbe if he set fire in cooperation with the Communists, Lubbe denied | it, but said that he set the firt, but} not with the Communists. “all assertions against the Commu- nists and Nazis are wrong. Setting it, but said that he set the fire, but attended circumstances are compli- cated.” Lubbe evaded the question as to "(Continued on Page 6) Dimitroff, Others, ‘DECATUR J UDGE UPH NEGRO JURORS; KEE | eS See ee Scottsboro Boys Unguarded Three of the Scottsboro boys leaving the fiimsy Jail in Decatur, Als., on their way to the Morgan County court. Entering Court Notice that only one deputy acoompanies the boys, facing lynch danger while on trial for their lives on framed-up charges. Harlem Demonstration To Score Lynch Danger H NEW YORK.—Thousands of New York workers, Negro and white, will Industrial Union, leading the strike | clared that he cannot understand how pour into the streets of Harlem tomorrow noon at one o'clock to take part in OLDS BARRING Of PS ALL-WHITE PANE] Entry of Defense Lawyer Signal for Mob Rush to Cour Judge Callahan Shield Jury Commissioner on Negro Issue | By JOHN L. SPIVAK wre nt of the Dat | 5 orker) DECATUR, Ala., Nov. 22- Cireuit Judge W. W. Callaha of Moran County, who has bee practicing law for 42 years an never saw a Negro on a soutt eam jury, today ruled that there wi no evidence before him that Negro: were discriminated against for jw services. The ruling came after hearing te timony in support of the motion mac by Joseph Brodsky, Internation Labor Defense Attorney, to quash tl pope County venire from whic jury to try Heywood Pattei is to be chosen. ee The defense contended that Ne groes were deliberately discriminate against and consequently the veni was illegal. Court reconvened this morning wii fewer than a score of blue overall |farmers in the spectator’s seats. T) | courthouse grounds were deserted. J. A, Tidwell, Morgan County Jw Commissioner, took stand to ar swer the one question that Jud; Horton had refused to let him answi at the trial this Spring Why the name of J. J. Sykes. Decatur Negro) was not on the Mo {gan County Jury Roll | “He was badly crippled,” the Jw {Commissioner sdid, “in addition ¥ |had information reflecting on h character.” Joseph R. Brodsky, Internation. | Labor Defense attorney, asked ju what is was about Syices ract: that made him unfit for jury dut but Judge Callahan refused to perm el defense attorney-to probe ini hat. Excepis from Ruling Brodsky took an exception to ti a mass demonstration of protest against the threat of imminent death to| judge's ruling. According to Jud “This must be a demonstration, interrupts with the remark: “Setting i146 gcottsboro boys and their attorneys. ” the International Labor Defense stated | SU>Sequent labored Havana Workers Demand Release of Scottsboro Boys HAVANA, Nov. 23.—Young work- ers and students massed im a demonstration for the release of the Scottsboro boys here last night. They broke plate glass windows of the American-owned Grace and Ward shipping lines and threw pa- pers on which they had printed: “WE DEMAND IMMEDIATE FREEDOM FOR THE SCOTTS- BORO NEGROES!” yesterday, “which will prove to every | terrorist group the growing solidar- | ity of all workers, whatever their Peoire | “The line of march will be up Lenox Ave., from 118th St. to 136th St., east to Fifth Ave.; north to 137th St., then we turn west to Seventh Ave., go down to 125th St. and finally re-| turn to 13ist St. and Lenox Ave., where Negro and white leaders of the revolutionary movement will ad- dress the demonstrators.” Young Pioneers on roller skates, with placards on their backs de- manding the immediate release of the Scottsboro boys, are organizing (Continued on Page 2) U. SS. R. By VERN SMITH (Special to the Daily Worker) MOSCOW, Nov. 22 (By Wireless). — The Soviet press has published the following preliminary figures on work in heavy industry of the U. 8. S. R. for the past ten months of the ad year of the Second Five-Year lan. ‘The output for heavy industry in the U. 8. S. R. is increasing every month, production is growing at a speed exceeding last year’s speed. Output of iron increased from 15,000 tons daily in January and February to 22,000 tons in September and Oc- tober. The daily output of iron in November is approaching 24,000 tons. record increase is shown in the mining of iron ore and production of coke. The output in electric power shows a considerable advance over last year. Machine construc- tion is ahead of all branches of heavy industry. The Soviet automobile and tractor plants, with the best equipment in | the world, systematically surpass | plans. In general, ten months’ vol- ume of production in all heavy in- dustry has increased 10.4 per cent, compared with ten months of last year; moreover, the third quarter output has increased 15.1 per cent, compared with the third quarter of 1932, and October has increased 15.9 ® Production During First Nine Months Far Exceeds STALIN, OTHER LEADERS RECEIVE DELEGATIONS FROM UKRAINE; 900,000 JOIN COLLECTIVES IN FIRST 9 MONTHS OF 1933 Plans Told of Farm Progress a Joseph Stalin, Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, who was told of the great progress on the collectives. per cent, compared to October last year. The average monthly effi- ciency of labor, owing to the intro- duction and mastery of new equip- ment in gigantic factories and the ’ steady improvement of organization labor, has increased 14.6 per cent, compared to the ten months of 1932. Thus, the present year expressed special features of the second Five- Year Plan mastery of modern tech- nique and the systematic improve- ment of the organization of labor. This has resulted in various decisive branches of industry showing con- siderable growth. Thus, the coal in- dustry has increased its output in the ten months of 1933 16.5 per cent, compared with the same period of last year. During ten months of this year, 5,815,000 tons of iron were pro- duced, in other words, 14.1 per cent, compared with the same period of last year. Steel, 5,532,000 tons or 13.3 per cent excess in the ten months of 1932, During the ten months of 1933, the output of iron ore increased 186 per cent over the same period last year; production of coke has in- creased 19.1 per cent; October showed an increase in the output of coke, compared to October, 1932, by 25.4 per cent. Pall In Production Costs There has been a considerable fall in the cost of production this year, reaching 6.7 per cent for the third quarter for all industry, compared to the same period of last year. Greatest economy is seen in machine construction, whieh reduced produc- tion costs 14.6 per cent during nine months. It is characteristic of Soviet con- ditions that increased production in industry and the lowering of produc- tion costs was steadily accompanied by a growth in wages, reaching 5.7 per cent, compared to 1932, in all in- dustry for three quarters. eee. 900,000 Join Collectives During the nine months of the present year about 800,000 new mem- bers joined ‘he collective farms. Thus, the percentage of peasant farms of the U.S.S.R. in the col- lectives has already reached 65 per cent by Sept. 1, compared with 61.5 per cent at the beginning of the present year. A delegation of collective farmers arrived in Moscow from Odessa re- gion (Ukraine). They were elected at | |the Second Regional Congress of |the Collective Farmers. The delega~ tion visited Comrades Stalin, Molo- | tov, Kalinin, Kaganovich, and had | a three-hour talk with them. .The |delegation informed Stalin of the successes achieved on their collec- tive farms, how income increased this year, etc, Among the delegates are shock brigaders like ter Chernousov, whose income in the collective farms Receives Delegation V. Molotov, chairman of People’s Commissars of the U. 8. 8. R., who was among the officials to receive a delegation of collective farmers this year Tonsists of 1,180 poods of grain alone, not counting other products, and money. Comrades Sta- lin, Molotov, Kalinin and Kagano- vich inquired in.detail regarding the development of cattle breeding on the collective farm. The collective farmers replied that besides the de- velopment of co-operative collec- tive farm herds, there would not be a single homestead without a cow for individual use of the collective farmers. The collective farmers remarked upon the tremendous growth of de- mands of the villages, thus increas- ling the need for commodities. Comrade Stalin indicated a plan ldustry, stating that production of |widely used articles will henceforth double and treble. Comrade Stalin inquired on the rele of women on the collective farms, their growth jand social activity. The women |members of the delegation stated that women have become a big force in the collective farms. In reply to the question of the |delegation, “What immediate task do \the collective farmers have?" Com~- rade Stalin replied that the imme- |diate task was work, honesty in col- lective farming and the guarding of | the collective farm property. Com- |rade Stalin expressed the fullest jconfidence that all collective farm- ers who work honestly will have abundance of products and in & short period they will be prosperous, industrious people, for the development of light in- la Callahan's view, as expressed in h decision on tt | motion te quash the venire ¢ | Srounds that Negroes were systen | atically excluded from jury rolls | Morgan County, when an offici stated that he has considered a Neg: | and for various reasons found hi | unfit for jury duty, that is sufficte: |so far as Alabama is concerned, That Judge Callahan was ful jaware that his decision on the m | tion to quash the venire was watch: jby the whole county, was evide |from his carefully chosen, thoug |forced words. Callahan began deli lery of his decision slowly, watchiz |his words carefully, fully aware th: |it was a record that would go to tl |v. S. Supreme Court, and that bh words would be carefully weighed, The judge decided that the defen had proven to his satisfaction by evidence presented, that. Negroes hi been excluded = from -the Morge County Jury Roll, and the fact th \Negroes had nob beén seen to sit ¢ | juries, received weighty consideratic from him. “Tt tHat were all,” he said, “4 would deem it sufficient proof th |Negroes were systematically exclude from jury service.” However, he continued, it was b opinion that the State had overcon the defense testimony by proving th responsible officials had taken in consideration qualified Negro citize: when they made: their ‘selections f the Jury Rolls. Tries to Justify Decision “The United States Supreme Cou has said in one decision,” he cor tinued, “that if officers fairly ar honestly endeavored to dischar their duty, then the Constitution the United States has not been viv ited. “In view of the evidence before 1 I am not prepared to say that tl officers of Morgan County, in selec | ing the jury list, have so administer: the law as to violate the Constitutic of the United States. Therefore over-rule the action to quash t | venire.” | This means that whenever a jur commissioner says that he consid ered a Negro for jury duty, bu found something about his charac ter that made him unfit, that Negr was eliminated and the jury com missioner did not have to explai what it was about the Negro’s char acter that was discreditable, In other words, a jury commi sioner’s statement that he consider « a Negro and discovered a reason wi \ (Continued on Page Oy