The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 25, 1933, Page 1

All Out on the Streets Today and Sunday for Tag Days to Save “Daily”! Over th | | | $1 From Every Reader Will Put the $40, 000 Drive e Top! Dail (Section of the Communist International) Vol. X, N 283 * > Entered as second-class matter st the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., under the Act of March 8, 1879, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER %, 1933 orker | ist Party USA. | America’s Only Working | Class Daily Newspaper WEATHER—Pair. (Eight Pages) Price 3 Cents DECATUR JUDGE SPEEDS RAILROADING OF NEGRO BOYS ? RELIEF BURO TURNS AWAY 5,000 AFTER PROMISING JOBS AT FORCED LABOR While LaGuardia Indo rses Roosevelt Forced Labor Program and Promises 200,000 Work, | New York Jobless Are Turned Down Coal Miners Vote Down Co. Union in Pa. Elections Rank, File Now Has: Task of Kicking Out UMWA Misleaders PITTSBURGH, Pa., “Nov. 24.—By a | vote of 6,014 to 387, the coal miners! of the Western Pennsylvania fietds decisively rejected the company unions (the Brotherhoods) and elect- ed the U.M.W.A. slate in the 14 cap- Huge Mass Meeting Tomorrow Night to Hit Nazi Frame-Up Thousands to Protest! Reich Fire Trial at Bronx Coliseum NEW YORK.—A huge mass meet- ing of all groups and workers in this city who have been aroused to vigor- ous protest by the Nazi fire frame-up trial of Dimitroff, Torgler, Taneff Popoff in Germany, will be held to- Workers from Every | “3 Days for Each’ Trial, = ” Judge Rules; Dejense Charges Forgery in Jury List Harlem Protest at 1 P. M. Today for Scottsboro Youths ! } Save Heywood Patterson NLY three swift days—and then the lynch verdict! Such is the latest decision of Judge Callahan down in Decatur who has just ruled that the life of Heywood Patterson, first of the nine Scotts- boro boys to be re-tried in Decatur, must be decided in not more than ? Norris Arraigned: Trials To Be ‘Quick ‘Job; Says the Judge |Jury in One Trial to NEW YORK, N. Y., Nov. 24.—While Fiorello La Guardia | tye mines where elections were held. SnabetOw; evening 86.7 o'clock AS, three days. 2 LR was in Washington, endorsing President Roosevelt’s program of forced labor and making big promises of 200,000 jobs, five thousand jobless workers were turned away from the state em- ployment bureau here without jobs, after they had been promised work. The jobless workers@— crowded to the employment agency | after it was announced by officials in | the capitalist press that under Roose- | velt’s forced labor program they would | | be given jobs. While the 5,000 workers were clam- oring outside the State Employment Bureau, Frederick Daniels, Executive Director of the State Temporary Re- lief Administration, told a delegation from the City Unemployed Councils, that 41e number of forced labor jobs} availcole “is only a driblet” in com- parison to the number of unemployed. Two mounted cops were stationed at the Bureau on 28th Street; scores of cops and dicks were mobilized at} all the other agencies where applica- tions are being received, to prevent demonstrations from the|? ions will “be kept on | file.” According to the Washington} statement of Maycr-elect LaGuardia, those now on relief will be taken off relief and put-on forced labor first. Tn his statement, LaGuardia endorsed the Roosevelt Forced Labor prosram, with its 50 cents an hour for skilled and unskilled workers. He said he “sees eye to eye,” with the Federal Public Works Administration, LaGuardia is following Roosevelt's example of wild unfounded state- ments of the number, 200,000, who will be put to work on forced labor} building a subway, etc., at non-union wages. Many applications will be ac- cepted, but few will be put to work at even the starvation N.R.A. wages. Daniels was visited by a delegation from. the Unemployed Councils to! demand that single unemployed workers be employed at union wages on the projects. He would make no promise to this effect. Now all single unemployed are treated as “tran- sients.” The City Unemployed Coun- ceils urged all single workers to crowd the Home Relief Bureaus demanding they be registered and be given jobs the same as those who registered be- for Nov. 7. Richard Sullivan, secretary of the City Unemployed Councils, in a state- ment issued today, urged all yorkers organizations, trade unions, block committees, to elect their delegates to the Unemployed Conference to fight Forced Labor, demanding union wages on all relief jobs. The Con- ference will be held Sunday, Decem- br 10, at Irving Plaza. Roosevelt Sets. $9 Weekly Wage for Jobless Women By MARGUERITE YOUNG (Daily Worker, Washington Bureau) WASHINGTON, D. C., Noy. 24.— Unemployment relief a la Roosevelt means, among other things, a nine dollar a week wage for women white- collar workers. This was disclosed today by none other than Harry L. Hopkins, director of both the Federal Relief and the new Civil Works Ad- ministration, In charge of the Roosevelt project to improve the morale of the despairing unemployed by letting them work for what they get (coolie wages), Hopkins tossed off a “hunch” that 4,000,000 will get this dose by Dec. 7, Hopkins Doesn't Care He confirmed also that foremen on the civil works projects may hire and fire at will. And when he was asked, “Fired back to relief?” he replied innocently, “I don’t care where they're fired to. I just don’t want anybody working on one of these projects because somebody feels sorry for him.” It was Hopkins’ regular press con- ference, He began it proudly by an- nouncing that he had sent out a memorandum announcing that women on fancy projects under federal relief funds will receive “prevailing wage rates.” And then came the joker: “and in no case less than 30 cents an hour.” “Mr. Hopkins, that means nine dollars a week,” a capitalist woman reporter put in, “because you have already provided a limit of 30 hours work s week. Do you mean that professional women will get $9, when (Continued on Page 8) cease NN oie upton banana 'DouglasWarnsBond Payments Make ‘NewTaxesImminent To Drive Down Living Standards of Masses; World Money Fight WASHINGTON, N Nov, 24. — The | danger of new, heavy taxes upon the working class and lower middle class grew greater today as Budget Direc- tor Douglas openly warned the popu- tation that it must be “willing to subject itself to taxes.” He hinted at more government “economies” similar to the recent $900,000,000 salary and compensation slash. The government is determined to continue paying: and Payments on its $23,000,000,000 debt, most of which is held by Wall Street banks and investors. Aggravating the Crisis Secretary of the Treasury Morgen- thau continued his buying of U. 8. Government bonds in the open mar- ket as the banks sold these bonds in anticipation of deeper inflationary measures, It is conceded, however, that this policy of government sup- port for the U. 8. bonds cannot con- tinue very long, without aggravating |the budget crisis even more. It is expected that Roosevelt, in | anticipation of the coming govern- ment financing, will maneuver for @ while to permit this to go through, and then will drive ahead toward deeper inflation. Smith Criticizes Alfred E. Smith today, criticizing Roosevelt’s inflation policy, came out in favor of “a certain amount of de- flation” if necessary. In this state- ment he expresses his difference with Roosevelt in the exact way to protect capitalist profits, Roosevelt favoring indirect as well as direct wage cuts, while Smith openly approves only the direct method, because he is fearful of the risks to the capitalist class involved in inflation. Rivalries Grow The Roosevelt inflation is aggravat- ing international imperialist rivalries. Britain today declared itself ready to take the necessary measures to com- bat the Roosevelt inflationary attack, since Canada and Australia are be- ginning to feel the effects of the cheap dollar to the detriment of Brit- ish exports. France is losing gold steadily, hav- ing lost over $750.000,000 werth in the last few weeks. The danger of going of the gold standard is looming very close. Henri Barbusse Departs Today Following Tour Visit Here Spurred Anti-War, Anti-Fascist | further betrayals by the U.M.W.A. | purpose. The rank and file must or- tonaet Seamen Join Strike ‘The miners by decisively defeating the company union in this election, have again registered their determi-| nation to struggle against the at- tacks of the coal operators and the N.R.A, The miners are determined to build a union of their own, and to win union recognition. This is the chief significance of their vote in the} elections. Now the task is to build rank and file opposition groups in- side the U.M.W.A. and guard against misleaders, It is well known that the miners accepted the U.M.W.A. so as to be in @ position to fight against and re- move Lewis ard his kind from the U.M.W.A. after the union would be | Tecognized. All this means fight. It means strike, if necessary, even for this ganize strong opposition groups in) every local union. They must see to} it that the check-off is fought against) and defeated. What dues are paid, whether voluntarily or by check-off, must be kept in local unions and used to win the ultimate, victory for the rank and file. Only by defeating Lewis can victory be won. Of Longshoremen, AgainstMunsonLine BALTIMORE, Md., Nov. 24. — A united mass picket line of striking seamen and longshoremen led jointly by the Marine Workers’ Industrial Union and the International Long- shoremen’s Association stormed the docks of the Munson Line here yes- terday and drove out the scabs, One hundred and fifty coastwise longshoremen members of the I. L. A. struck this week on the Munson Line Docks for an increase in their wage scale to 75 cents an hour. Pledging active support to the strike, the Marine Workers’ Industrial Union succeeded in calling on strike the crew of the freighter Munloyal, owned by ‘the Munson Line. crew has raised the demand for a $10 monthly wage increase. Rank and file longshoremen, tn- spired by the recent strikes led by the Marine Workers’ Industrial Union, compelled the officials to agree to a a strike and to united action. Through thetr pressure the officials were forced to supply a launch by means of which contact was made with the crew of the Munloyal. Local LL.A. officials Were also reported as seeking the aid of the International Labor Defense. Latest reports indicate that the of- ficials may decide to settle the strike for the longshoremen and leave the seamen to battle alone with the ship- owners’ announcement of willingness to negotiate the demands of the long- n. Activities; Addressed Many Meetings NEW YORK.—After a vigorous speaking tour for the League Against War and Fascism, which took him to leading cities of the East and Midwest, Henri Barbusse will leave for France today. He will sail at noon on the Ie de France, Barbusse’s participation im the great U. 8, Congress Against War in New York in September gave a great: impetus to anti-war and anti-fascist work in this country. Following the congress, he ad- dressed large and enthusiastic meet- ings in Philadelphia, Washington, Baltimore, Pittsburgh, Erie, Cleveland, Detroit, Chicago, Boston, New Haven and New York. His speeches on war and fascism, as well as his address on the role of literature in the class struggle, are now being prepared for publication, Barbusse returns to France to con- tinue the work of the World League Against War and Fascism, to edit Monde, and to write two books, one of them a biography of Joseph Stalin. The other will be « novel. . Bronx Goliseum, 177th St. and West Farms, Bronx. ‘The American Commities to Aid Victims of German Fascism, under whose auspices the meeting has been called, has urged the most widespread preparations for this protest meet. “Everyone must be notified about this event,” the Committee stated yes- terday. “Notify all families in your apartment house. Build the meeting. Distribute all leaflets in your posses- sion. Every Saturday's street and hall meeting, every Sunday afternoon meeting, should be used to popularize the Coliseum meeting.” Speakers at the Coliseum meeting will be Clarence Hathaway, editor of the Daily Worker, who recently ex- posed Nazi activities in this country at the Dickstein investigation in Washington; Pauline Rogers of the! N. Y. Committee to Ald Victims of | German Fascism; Richard B. Moore, national secretary of the League of Struggle for Negro Rights; Arthur Garfield Hays, who was present at the Reichstag trial; Fritz Schlesinger of the German American Societies; Margaret Schlauch, professor at New York University and Chris Blohm, representing the Arbeiter Kranken und Sterbe Kasse,.an orgeniration of 60,000 Germans. William L. Nuun of Dana College, will be chairman. (See news of Reichstag Fire Trial on Page 8.) Tannery Strikers Defy NRA; Imorison Boss, Scabs 8 Hours GLOVERSVILLE, N. Y., Nov. 24.— The National Labor Board of the NR.A., mediating in the leather strike here, ordered the strikers to go back to work without union recognition, threatening to employ state troopers to break the sirike if they refused. ‘The strikers defied his orders and decided to continue the strike. Three hundred strike deputies have been sworn in including city relief workers. Over 1,000 leather strikers sur- rounded the tannery of Richard Young, imprisoning the bosses and scabs inside the plant for eight hours. The boss was forced to wave the white fag and sign a truce declaring that the factory would be closed for the duration of the strike. The strikers smashed factory win- dows at the Young mill and the no- lice did not attempt to attack the large number. Every striker now Tealizes the purpose of the N.R.A. is to smash strikes in favor of the boss, Mass picketing of men and women is going on all around the mills With workers militantly defying a gas at- tack by the police. One of the strike leaders, Taylor, stated he could now understand that the Communist al analysis of the N.R.A. is cor- The union has issued a challenge to the tanner bosses to appear before the public at a mass hearing and defend their actions. Senator Wagner has injected himself into the strike for the purpose of smashing it, with the promise of a conference. Roosevelt Recalls Wells from Cuba WARM SPRINGS, Ga, Nov. %4— Roosevelt announced today that Sumner Welles, American Ambassa- dor to Cuba, will be replaced by Jef- ferson Caffery, now serving as As- sistant Secretary of State. ‘Welles has been the subject of con- tinuous attack by the Cuban masses, who see in him the tool of American imperialism. Roosevelt and Grau hope that the appointment of Caffery will give the masses the illusion of a change in policy and will succeed in establishing some kind of unity among the various bourgeois groups in order the better to proceed) against the Cuban masses whose re- sistance to the present Grau govern- ment grows daily. It was pointed out that the ap- pointment of Caffery will not mean any change in the Roosevelt impe- rialist policy in Cuba, but rather an intensified effort to crush the Cuban revolution. (More Cuben News on Page 8) | Today; Speaks Over ‘Radio in New York: Section of the City to Demonstrate NEW YORK.—Thousands of work- ers will mobilize at 7 concentration | points at 1 p. m. today to join in a} mighty protest against lynch terror and for the freedom of the Scottsboro boys. White workers will join with their Negro fellow-workers at the| starting points near 125th St. and Lenox Ave. and march through Har- Jem to 131st St. and Lenox Ave. where a huge protest meeting will be held. Time of March The protest parade will proceed up Lenox Ave. from 118th St. to 136th Scottsboro Defense Drive Endangered! The Scottsboro defense cam- paign is endangered! Ruby Bates, defense witness, les in a hospital hovering be- tween life and death. Alabama has forged its jury rolls, to try to break down the LLD. charge of exclusion of Wegrhes irom grand and-—peti> juries, Handwriting experts must be sent down to Alabama im- mediately to prove these for- geries and safeguard the rights of the Scottsboro boys. Hundreds of lynch statements contained in the LL.D. affidavits show that the danger of lynch- ing is greater than ever before. The ELD. calls on all these to show their solidarity with the Scottsboro defense by contribu- ting to the defense fund. Rush money TODAY. Organize affairs, parties, canvass your friends to raise money for Scottsboro. Send money immediately to Room 430, 80 E. lth St, New York City. St., thence east to Fifth Ave., north to 137th St., west to Seventh Ave., down to 125th St. and then to 131st St. and Lenox Ave. where a huge pro- test meeting will be held, with Negro and white leaders of the revolution- ary movement addressing the crowd.| Mobilization Points Unorganized worker mass at 126th St. and Lenox Ave. the following streets at 1 p.m. sharp today, ready to march: Women’s Council, Section 1 and 2 of the Communist Party: 118th St. and Lenox Ave. 1.0.W., 118th St. and Lenox Ave. F. 8. U., all I. L. D. sections, W. E. 5. L, 119th St. and Lenox Ave. All trade unions, 120th St. and Lenox Ave. City Clubs, Jewish and English, Section 5 and 15, Communist Party, 121st St. and Lenox Ave. Section 4, Communist Party; Fin- nish Federation and L. 8, N. BR, 126th St, and Lenox Ave. This is nothing more nor less than = gruesome attempt of this lynch judge to railroad Heywood Patterson swiftly to his execution without any delay! The “impartial” judge can hardly restrain his impatience! It is the attempt of the whole judicial lynch machinery of the Southern masters to send Heywood Patterson to his doom before the world protest that has kept him from the lynch executioners can be sufficently mo- bilized to save him. Only three days! In this time, every moment, every hour, must be filled with unceasing feverish activity to arouse the masses of the country and the world to the danger that faces Patterson and the Scottsboro boys. If we fail to leap to the defense of Patterson and the other Scotts- boro boys, they will go quickly to the lynch execution! Meetings, demonstrations, protests must be immediately organized! In every locality, in every working-class group, wherever haters of oppression gather, telegrams of anger and protest must pour like a storm upon the ruling class lynchers of Decatur! Only three days! Workers, toiling masses of the world! nine innocent Scottsboro boys! ‘Today's demonstration in Harlem must be the signal for the widest mobilization to save the Scottsboro boys! Save the ‘Ruby Bates, Near Death, Says “Save Negro Boys” NEW YORK.—Wiby Bates, Scottsboro Witness Iles today on » hospital cot, fighting for life following a critical operation, imperatively ordered by phy. ‘ans, Ruby Bates, who was waiting near New York for her deposition to be taken by a New York lawyer for use in the Decatur trials, Thursday notified ¢the International Labor Defense that her physical condition had become such that she had been obliged to go to a hospital. There an examination made it evident that an immediate operation was a life and death matter. She was operated on early Friday morning. Physicians in charge could not pronounce her out of danger Inst night. & representative of the International Lebor Defense, Ruby Bates told a Daily Worker reporter of her arrival | in the hospital, and the operation! she expected. “I knew about my condition, but I didn’t tell anybody just how bad it against the boys in.the first trial. I told the truth at the last trial in Decaur, because I didn’ want those boys to die on account of a lie I told. I have received threats that I will be lynched if I return, But, in spite of that, if it were necessary, and if 4 were able, I would go back and testify in Decatur. I would be afraid, because I know they are after me. | But tf I could, I would go. “I have just heard that Knight put Orville Gilley on the stand against the Scottsboro boys, trial. I know they have filled of lies, They kept him in us in Clarence Norris, Scottsboro Ne- gto defendant, who was arraigned in Morgan County court yesterday as part of the prosecution plan te railroad all the framed-up boys to the electric chair. Unemployed Workers Die of Starvation BOSTON, Mass., Nov. 23.—John B. Murphy, unemployed worker who worked for 14 years in Lever Broth- ers, soap makers, died of heart fatl- ure brought about by starvation and exposure during the recent cold wave Brooklyn Meet Nov. 29 Next Wednesday in Brooklyn another mass demonstration to de- mand the release of the Scottsboro boys will be held. It is called by the Brownsville section of the In- ternational Labor Defense and the League of Struggle for Negro Rights Three columns of marchers will converge on the Brooklyn Palace at Fulton and Rockaway for a mass Indoor meeting at 7 p. m. The marchers will rally at the’following places: Fulton and Lewis Ave.; Hopkinson and Pitkin Ave.; and at Marcy and DeKalb Ave. Litvinoff to Sail NEW YORK, N. Y.—Maxim Lit- vinoff, Soviet Commissar of Foreign | Affairs, sails for home, via Italy, to- day. Litvinoff was to speak last night at a dinner given in his honor at the | | Waldorf Astoria by the American-| Russian Chamber of Commerce. The talk was to be broadcast at 10 a.m. by the National Broadcasting Co. Litvinoff spent a secluded day in New York, refusing interviews and visiting friends and viewing points of nt ti eo stn smabestines in New England. Patrick Martin, unemployed and homeless laborer, froze to death in a brickyard where he had sought shelter. The body of George Pro- yost, unemployed laborer, was found lying across a grave in Worcester during a recent snowstorm. Trade Unions Call for Daily Worker Tag Days Support T was able.” ‘Thursday night, in the presence of | Bmpr STACHEL, Acting National Secretary of the Trade Union Unity League, issued an appeal yes- terday to all union members to par- ticipate in the Daily Work tag days | today and Sunday. ee ow “The Daily Worker has shown members of the T.U.U.L, of the A. F. o:f L., of independent unions, and unorganized workers that it can always be counted on in their struggles. It counteracts the lies of the capitalist press about our strikes, It aids us in every way to fight boss and government ter- | ror. Without the Daily Worker the struggles of the American workers would be seriously crippled, The | saved!” must DL. . SPECIAL call is issued by the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Daily Worker be states the T.U. * interest in New York City. Union and by the Food Workers In- dustrial Union to ell workers, regard- less of party affiliations, to contribute, to approach workers in the shops, on the streets, in the homes with col- lection boxes to raise funds for the Join the “Daily” Tag Day volun- teers! Out in the streets with Tag | Day boxes today and Sunday! bers and close sympathizers, Phil- adelphia pledges to raise $500 over its quota of $2,000. We challenge Chicago to raise its quota. SAM MILLS, District Organizer. | Friday's receipts . $ 284.46 Previous total .. 27,102.27 TOTAL TO DATE..... $27,386.73 |‘Deliberate’ While New Trial Is On By JOHN L. SPIVAK (Special Correspondent of the Dafly Worker,) DECATUR, Ala., Nov. 24. — So great is Alabama’s hurry to convict the seven Scottsboro | boys that it arraigned Clarence | Norris late this afternoon over the objections of Samuel Leibo- witz, International Labor Defense Counsel, that he would not have time to defend Heywood Patterson proper- ly. The defense is allowed only three days for the Patterson case, Norris” trial was set for Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 30, “Now It’s get moving,” the judge sald, as soon as the arraignment was over. “Let's resume where we left off, on the Jackson County Jury Roll.” Judge Callahan explained to newspapermen that he would lock up the Patterson jury in one of the | court witness rooms and Jet them deliberate while Norris is being tried in the same court room. Circuit Judge W. W. Onlishan in- Yerrupted the taking of testimony in the Morgan County Court in the de- fense motion to quash the Jackson County indictments by announcing he | wanted to arraign Norris. He had | changed his mind, for some inexpli- cable reason, about arraigning Char- Me Weems as he had announced on Wednesday. Norris, charged with the same crime that Heywood Patterson and the other boys are charged with, thus has his date for trial set even before a verdict is reached in the Patterson case, Defense Protests When Judge Callahan started to Pick a venire of 100 Morgan County citizens from which the jury to try | Norris will be picked, he announced jthat he would set the trial date for Thanksgiving Day. | “If the court please,” Leibowits protested, “that gives the defense only three days to try Heywood Patterson.” | “That's right,” the judge smiled amiably, “we're going to make speed.” “Judge,” Leibowitz insisted earnest- ly, “I've been through this case be- . |fore. It can’t be done in three days and defend the accused properly.” “We'll see, I'll wind the Patterson case up Wednesday night, if not, Thursday morning, God be “I say tt can't be done,” Leibowits repeated. | “Sure it can. How many witnesses you got?” “About fifty.” “Well, that ought to take about a day.” (At the trial this Spring it took | three days to examine and cross exe amine the witnesses. It took almost & whole day to pick the jury alone). Spectators Laugh Approval ‘The two-score spectators in the audience laughed approvingly at the Judge’s insistence that the cases be tushed through. Norris had been arraigned before, jon the joint indictment applicable to all the Scottsboro boys. Separate trials had been granted them, as is their right. Norris, dressed in a blue shirt an@ blue overalls, was called before the bench to hear himself arraigned. He stood there, twisting a worn and fray- fed cap nervously in his hands. As |soon as the arraignment was over, he was taken back to the Morgan | County fafl, where he and the other | boys have been kent since they were Srought here last Sunday. |, George W. Chamlee, associate de- fense counsel, resumed examination of Hamlin Caldwell, Jackson County (Continu: on Page 2) Writers’ Group to Go to Decatur Trial NEW YORK—The first group of a delegation of writers will leave New *| York tomorrow for Decatur as “un- official observers” of the trial of Hay- wood Patterson which begins on Mon- day, the National Committee for the Defense of Political Prisoners an- nounced today. Included in the delegation will be Erskine Caldwell, author of “God's Little Acre,” and Edward Dahlberg, author of “From Flushing to Calvary.” The National Committee is inviting all writers, professionals and others to join the delegation.