The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 28, 1933, Page 1

Rally Tomorrow, Bronx Coliseum, Ha Daily TAG DAY FUNDS! Every Cent Is Needed to Pay Bills. Rush Funds! ee j | | | Central il USS ion! R Recognit er U.S.A. ist Party ‘(Section of the Communist International) Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office af New York, N. ¥., under the Act of March 8, 1879, NEW YORK, TUESDAY NOVEMBER 28, 1933 Vol. X, No. 285 = * 20,000 JOBLESS STORM N. Y. EMPL GALLUP MILITIA HOLD 9 LEADERS, | BREAK NRA PACT Refuse to Release Benjamin, Roberts PATTERSON FACES HOSTILE | ALL-WHITE JURY AS TRIAL OPENS IN DECATUR, ALA. = Def oni | and Others Judge Callahan Hampers Defense Questioning tine na wa of Victoria Price; Refuses Plea for Time | 57" General Woods backed by to Get Affidavit of Ruby: Bates his militia, has violated the aon agreement signed by Major Moore of | By JOHN L. SPIVAK the N.R.A., that all prisoners ar- (Special Correspondent to the Daily Worker) rested during the Gallup coal miners strike would be released. Wcods, with | N.Y. Workers To Hold | Victory Celebration a ee ek Of Soviet Recognition |A.F.L, Officials Permit Robert Minor Leads List of Prominent pia a pg cing Speakers; Mass Dance Pageant With | g Mg Soviet Music to Be Presented | CHICAGO, Ill, Nov. 27—A 2 | strike of six thousand cattle NEW YORK, Nov. 27.—In the first large victory celebration of the acki 2 recognition of the Soviet Union by fhe United States, thousands of New |Paudlers and _packinghouse York workers will gather here tomorrow night to greet the Soviet Govern- | Workers, members of two A. F. of L. ment in its firm peace policy and the building of Socialism. | sffiliate unio! ed Sunday at This historic mass greeting and center in the ‘STRIKE OF 6,000 OYMENT OFF | America’s Only Working Class Daily Newspaper WEATHER: Cloudy and warmer (Six Pages) Price 3 Cents ROOSEVELT’S CIVIL WORKS REFUSES JOBS 10 20,000 WHO STORM N.Y. OFFICES Jobless Wait in Line All Night; Some Faint of Hunger, Told to Come Back; Admit No Jobs for Most NEW YORK, N. Y.—More than 20,000 workers stormed the five borough offices of the State Employment Service here eRe tec Teer DECATUR, Ala., Nov. 27.—For the third time in his 22 years, Haywood Patterson today faced a lily-white jury in the Morgan County court house here in another desperate struggle waged by the International Labor Defense, seeking to save his life and the lives of the eigt “God be wi Til fi this case by Wednesday night,” | Judge W. W. Callahan an-| nounced, as the case got un-/| fier way in the stifling court room trowded with jury parel and th friends and relative: For the fi time since the preliminary hearings began last Monday, the section re-| served for Negroes was filled. At the foot of stairs leading to the court toom, two deputies kept scores of | wpectators away by stretching a rope across the stairs. The atmosphere is | so far, peaceful, although armed dep- uties patrol the corridor and frisk | everyone entering the court. | Immediately after court opened, Leibowitz asked Judge Callahan to sllow his two “assistants, Harold Fox | and. ‘Tiney» Daiey,” “Leibowit’s body~| guards to sit at the defense table. | Callahan looked at the two “man; mountains” and announced his re- tusal. Permission for them to sit in the front row was also refused. } Sheriff Davis then called the list | of the prosecution witnesses. Hardly | any answered to the call. Judge Cal-| lahan irritably comments on the lack | of State witnesses. Sheriff Davis de- | elares that many defense witnesses called are not to be found. Leibowitz | asks the court to issue a body attach. ment for Mrs. Jack Tiller, who re- fused to appear to testify, “Mrs. Callie Broochi” is called by defense as witness. “Couldn't be| found,” declares Sheriff Davis. Callie Breochi is a fiction character of Oc- tavus Roy Cohen’s Saturday Evening | Post stories. At the last trial Victoria | Price swore that she and Ruby Bates | | han in Decatur, Ala., for the third | time yesterda; the silent consent of the N.R.A., now domands that nine of\the organizers sign an agreement to eave the state and not return for a year, before they are released. These leaders include Charles Guynn, National Miners Union organizer, Clarence Lynch, ILD. attorney, Henry Sumid, Carl | Howe, Frank Georges, Martha Rob- erts, Herbert Benjamin, Robert Rob- lerts, and George Kaplan, of the | L.L.D., the Jast three at Albuquerque, | and already sentenced. The other) | strike leaders have been released, it is| | reported. The strikers refuse to ac-| cept such a statement, and all work- | ers throughout the country are urged | to demand the release of the nine | Workers still held. The nine organ- izers have refused to consent to mili- tary deportation. It had already been printed In the Gallup papers that Herbert Benjamin | was released. Benjamin was sen- tenced to a year in prispn as a result ht other Scottsboro boys. | | Faces Lynch “Court ers and the unemployed in Gallup. | The agreement seftling the strike, signed by’ Moore of the N.R.A, was blazoned in the headlines of the New | Mexico papers and stated specifically | as a part of the agreement that all leaders be released, including the nine mentioned above. To this agreement, the governor of the state was re- one of the Ported to have agreed. Protests de- Heywood Patterson, nine innocent Scottsboro boys, who | wert on tial hetore. Jadge Caite. | nce A.W. Hockenhull, at Santa Fe, |New Mexico, Gen. Woods at Gallup, _.|and Senator Wagner of the N.R.A. labor board at Washington, D. ©, The five strike leaders held in the | military stockade at Gallup, Lynch, | Guynn, Sumid, Howe, Georges, have issued a joint statement that they} Birmingham Meet Demands Release of ‘ifs soy at a Sco t t § b 0 r 0 Boys. the state, and calling on all workers | to send protests. | show their pride of speaking at a meeting of the strik- | manding the immediate reelase of the | nine still held should be sent to Gov- | Coliseum, 177th St. and West Farms Road, Robert Minor heads the list of pro- minent speakers who will hail the Soviet Union and its powerful ad- vance toward Socialism. The Coliseum meeting tomorrow night will be the first opportunity of the New York workers, sympathizers, intellectuals, students, professionals, and friends of the Soviet Union to gather in celebration of the recent Litvinoff recognition pact, and to in the recent achievements of the Soviet Union. Preparations have been made by the Friends of the Soviet Union and the ICOR, under whose joint aus- nesday evening at the large Bronxé— celebration will take place this Wed- | the largest li ia RTs be 5 | Worlds bringing all operations to a ices the as been arranged, | qq alt for outstanding speakers and per-| ee nh formers to take part in the celebra-| The st bigs The meeting will begin promp-| hension by ly at 8 p. m. of the yard An outstanding array of talent will) any Gos present a “Recognition Cycle,” to} Soviet music, by the New Duncan|, Tt is Dancers, assisted by group has De twenty. Countee Cullen, famous Negro| Union officials poet, Corliss Lamont, Louis Weinstock, | °"4 sale of th Dr. Harry F, Ward, M. J. Olgin and| Wich are in Herbert Goldfrank will speak on| 7B" Is © “What Recogniticn Means.” | The City Ceatral Committee of the | I.W.O., fraterns! order, issued a call | to all its branches to appear at the} Coliseum with the banners of their | locals, was viewed with appre- the “Big Three’ packers Armour, Swift and Cud- ported that an agreement ith A. F. of L. permit clearance 000 head of c ds, 1 to be for one di rounding plant, urging Senator W National 5 Jailed Als Boston: Anti-Nazi Meet temoted to s the strike. the yard: Cops Attack Anti- Imperialist | | peace, and “sauntering and loitering” | 5,000 Take Part in Mass Demonstration Called By John Reed Club Against Nazi Professor BOSTON, Nov. 27.—The trial of five workers arrested at the anti-Nazi demonstration here last night on charges of inciting to riot, disturbing the Delegation Lands At Havana, Cuba Receive Enthusiastic Mass Welcome Despite was set today for Wednesday, Dec. 6, in Room 105, Pemberton Square Court. All five—Harry White, George Peters, Fred Sousa, Moshe Friedberg Dimitroff Damages Evidence of Nazi and David Walba—were released on bond put up by the International | Labor Defense. The LL.O., in a call issued today, | urged all workers who witnessed fhe arrests to report to the LL.D. office this Saturday afternoon. Police, Soldiers (Special to the Daily Worker) thre nts, the to out ed Harry Gannes, chairman of the Americen workers’ delegation in Cuba, and member of the Daily Worker staff, was greeted by Cu- ban workers on his arrival yester- day day to apply for the civil works jobs promised by Roosevelt under his forced labor program, but not a single Some. were “registered” but were told jobs will not start ~~ job was given “before December 15.” | Despite the fact that officials at the State Office had two weeks to prepare for such an emergency, many | workers who had waited throughout |the night were told that they must come again later and were not even | registered “because facilities were not adequate” for handling such a crowd. Assembled Night Before At the Manhattan office on 28th St. the crowd had begun to assemble before 10 p.m. the previous night. At 4 am. the line was already a block | long. ‘When the office opened at 9 am. many of the workers after waiting |all night were told that new offices had been opened in the various bor- oughs today and that they must again | apply for registration. | From 120,000 to 130,000 of, those |now on. city relief will be transferred |to civil works jobs, the Manhattan [office announced. By this means | many now receiving relief will be cut loff and given temporary jobs at forced labor under non-union con- ditions. | Faints from Hunger | Emil, Jacono, an unemployed work- er, after standing in line for several | hours, collapsed from hunger and cold. He told the Daily Worker that he had been cut of work for two years and thet his wife and two-months- old child were at home hungry. When questioned at his home, his wife said that she had several times applied for home relief. spent the night at Callie Broochi’s BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Nov. 27—| i | | | BOSTON, Nev., 27—Five workers house in Chattanooga before boarding | the freight train from which the} Scottsboro boys were taken. The regular venire panel is then ee | ed on Page 2) | (Cont “Good Work,” Says — Governor Rolnh, Praising Lynchers 27.—“They SACRAMENTO, Nov. did a good ‘ob.” s7i7 Rolph of California as he reviewed the brutal lynching of two accused, kidnappers who were lynched by a mob last night. | “The two men who were murdered} were accused of kidnaping and kill- ing Brooke Hart, son of a millionaire merchant. The pr‘soners, Thomas H. Thurmond and John M. Holmes, were dragged from the jail by less than a hundred men. It took but a few minutes to brush past the 50 armed guards, who laid asite their guns as the mob approached, seized the keys and opened the cells. The prisoners were beaten and kicked, pulled outside and strung up from a tree. Then their bodies were satu-~ rated with gasoline and burned, while hysterical men, women and children looked on. “J don’t think anyone will be ar-" rested, but if they are I'll pardon them,” said Governor Rolph, citing the lynching as a fine lesson to the nation. Refused to Send Troops Local officials had requested troops to defend the prisoners. Rolph re- fused to send any. He had planned to leave for Idaho last night, but decided to stay in Sacramento to) mre sure that no troops were sent. | “T didn't dare to leave the state| because someone mizht have exiled out the troops,” he said. “As it was, | there was no loss of life with the ex- | ception of the two men hanged, I) am thinking of paroling any kid-| nepers to those fine, patriotic citizens of San Jose who know how to handle | the situation.” The International Labor Defense | demanded the death penalty for the | lynchers in @ message to Governor| Rolph today. A wire was sent to; President Roosevelt demanding “the | repudiation of this officiel ine't, nit | to mc® violence, especially exleulited | to bring about” a spirit of lynching} In this country, ‘ Raising high the banner of strug- | gle against lynching, 500 Negroes, | supported by a number of white | workers, attended the Scottsboro | Anti-Lynching Conference here yes- | terday, on the eve of the Decatur trials of the innocent Scottsboro | joys. | The meeting was one of the most | militant and determined gatherings ever held In this city, and was un- molested by the police who confined their activities to propagandizing white workers “not to mix with nig- ~ers.” Despite this propaganda quite a number of white workers attended. Ben Davis, Jr., one of the Inter- national Labor Defense Negro at- ‘orneys defending Angelo Herndon, and Jane Speed, southern white woman active in the Scottsboro de- fense, gave a graphic exposure of Seamen’s Institute Tricks Jobless Off Relief by Fake Job PHILADELPHIA. —The Seamen’s Church Institute works a racket here where seamen are thrown off relief under the r-etext of sending them out on “jobs.” Eight men were recently coed to take a stand-by job on the 8. S. Ore- tania, The Institute always picks for these jobs men who aze on relief. The men work 10 hours on empty stomachs for 30 cents an hour, with the boss speeding them all the time. The work finished, the men return to the Institute to get relief and rest, where they are notified they're off relief since they have a job. Back the men return to the ship and they are told they wouid have to wait a (Continued on Page 2) couple of days for their money. Cannery Workers Call For Help to “Daily” Seattle, Wash. | this amount if we go into action. Daily Worker, New York City. | “The first National Convention of | the Fishermen and Cannery Work- — ers Industrial Union, representing | 8,400 fishermen and fisheries work- | ers from Alaska to Mexico, sends its heartiest greetings to the Daily | Worker, which we recognize as the | only American daily newspaper of Never before have workers been so enthusiastic about our “Daily” and ready to support it as now. BUT THEY MUST BE APPROACHED, An example of what can be done is set by the United Front Support- ers of New York, a group of teach- ers, Social workers, professionals and intellectuals, who raised $238.64 for the Daily Worker by holding an the working class. “We send $5.15, collected at our first convention, The sum is small affair, . Every reader of the Daily Worker ee) & because starvation are paid | can help by sending in $1. 5S. Kiwast, in our industry. We continue Boston, unemployed for three years, to support the Daily Worker contributed before, but sent in an- through .our locals and call on all trade unions to do likewise. “Ferward to the solidarity and victory of the working class. Fraternally, EMIL LINDEN, National ‘Secretary. . oe other $1, to celebrate the recognition of the Soviet Union. Henry Gilson, Philadelphia, also joined those cele- in a dollar. RUSH TAG DAY FUNDS! RAISE YOUR ORGANIZATION’S, DIS- ‘TRICT'S QUOTA. Every reader send in a dolar! ALL TOGETHER! PUT THE DRIVE OVER THE TOP! SAVE OUR “DAILY”! . Monday’s receipts . Previous total ..... Comrades! ‘E quota of $40,000 was set in the drive as the. minimum, not maxi- mum amount necessary to keep the Daily Worker alive, to enable it to lead the workers in t struggles to brating the recognition, by sending 1933, | Police Spy Witness ‘Prosecution Now to _ Devend Solely on | “Political Guilt” (Special to the Daily Worker) AT THE GERMAN BORDER, Nov. /27 (via Zurich, Switzerland). — The |forty-fifth day of the Reichstag fire trial of the four Communist defend- |ants—Dimitroff, Torgler, Popoff and , Taneff—opened here today with the |prosecution, its case against the four defendants completely discredited, at- tempting to prove that the defendants were “politically” guilty of the Reich- stag arson, Nazi Spy Testifies thority Heller, a known specialist in Ccmmunist persecution, gave a de- tailed “expert report” aiming at re- presenting thé individual terror of the Reichstag fire as the culmination of Communist activities, and the Reich- stag fire as typical of Communist Party tactics. He read a comprehen- sive history of the Communist Party, quoting from resolutions of the Ex- jecutive Committee of the Communist International especially concocted for the occasion, He went on to describe the Com- munist Party's preparations for ille- gality, and read for hours from of- ficial Communist Party documents, alternating his readings of these doc- uments with quotations from the re- ports of spies. “ Dimitroff Rises In the midst of this reading Dimit- roff rose to his feet, demanding that Heller state where the document quotations cease and the police com- ment begins. Although Dimitroff was reprimanded by the presiding judge, Heller was forced to agree to this. Heller insisted that the tone of the Communist Party leaficts had been iucreasingly sharp until February, Nazi Lawyer Tactics Sack, Nazi-appointed attorney for Torgler, begged that the court “ac~ solerat= the cas2.” Immediately after- ward, he withdrew his request to cite witnesses who were to have refuted the framed testimony of the Nazi witnesses, Zimmermann, Grothe, Kun- zack and Lebermann. He signified thereby that he con- victory, We are still $12,000 behind | this minimum amount, We can raise TOTAL TO DATE. .....$28,541.97 ‘ sidered these Nazi witnesses convicted liars, ‘The first witness, the detective au-| arrived here brothers their Cuban today. Led the editc the were arretsed, three others injured and scores trampled when police last night attempted to break up a dem- onstration of over 5,000 people out- | side of Ford Hall, where Dr. Friedrich Schoenemann, Nazi professor at the University of Berlin, accompanied by of Cuban p an i | Baron Kurt von Tippelskirch, Ger- d down to the pier |man consul here, was speaking on by 1 government, | “Why I Believe in the Hitler Gov- which has |ernment.” The demonstration had | been arranged by the Boston John | Reed Club. ‘When attacked by the police, the| panded gir a Chea ai | masses gathered at each side of the | CO" Cee ee sicial bo vient |hall and held mestings for over an) “i#lly rreate ft" oficial reception hour, denouncing Rabbi Levi, liberal, | COm™itie: and David Niles, manacver of Ford| The Anti erjalist delezation was | Hall, for having invited the Nazi pro-| authorized by the welcoming masses fessor to speak in Boston. The crowd/| to convey to the workers of America continually shouted anti-Nazi solgans. | the pledze of the Cuban masses for Although repeatedly driven awey-by| common struc7le of both countries the police, the demonstrators kept | against imperialism. A'so. it was in~ parading through the streets, in the| structed by the Cuban Anti-Imperial- ist League to convey its greetings to the American masses. tanks for s to the (Continued on Page 2) © Indep quantities | ving been preg- nant at the time she said that she could not continue to apply at the Home Relief Bureau and be sent from one to the other of the city bureaus. At the State Temporary Emergency 3,000 Victorious Tanners Mare GLOVERSVILLE, N. Y., Noy. 27.— Three thousand leather workers and | Relief Administration offices at 124 celebrated the strike | 8st 28th St, it was admitted thet 3 no new projects were under way to tory of the 2,000 members of the| provide jobs for all those registered, Leather Workers Union | and in no case would those registered here today in a victory parade, Carr,| be provided w before Dec. 1s. mon and other militant leaders| When questioned by a Daily Worker reporter, Mr. Norris, in charge of 2 carried on the shoulders of the| publicity for the bureau said that ing workers, who this week won| work contemplated would be “in the glove workers, Ss ke settlement. Many | nature of sewer construction and land glove workers marched together with | /mprovement./ Alt phage “— the leather workers. The Needle | OWevel, muss ave’ ® ‘ ing of the New York City Board of n, to 5, ? ate, id, in order that proy which Solomon belonged, was hailed | Estimate, he sa PI Trades Workers Industrial Unio | vision might be made for supplies for its successful guidance of the| since the Federal fund allows money odie only for wages. Solomon, in his speech declared These 20,000 workers who assem that the Communist Party unites all | bled at the five registration bureaus of the experiences of the workers’ | were not only given no jobs, but they struggles, and leads the workers to| were not even given promises of jobs victory in the class struggle. The| that will definitely mature. Roose~ workers voted that they will strike velt’s demagogic promises that these against any discrimnation in case the | employers try to break their agrec- | | ment. | Fifteen A. F. of L. U nions in Illinois — | men would be given jobs in Noyem- ber have been flagrantly broken. The jobless were given only another vague promise that they “may be informed” of future jobs At the Bronx Regisization Bureau, after waiting in line for hours and in many instances for the entire night, 1,500 men were turned away and told that “enrolling facilities were inadequate.” At the Queens office, when 2,500 men lined up to apply for jobs, about 1,000 were given application blanks and the remainder were told to return tomorrow. Many | police were on hand, including the | mounted police. | Indorse Unemployment Insurance Bill =e ‘Will Send Delegates to | State Unemployed \ Convention |Congress and the President of the Miners Take Up Relief and Insurance With ° City Governments | City Council Forced To Indorse Jobless Insurance in Allis Speed-up on New DANVILLE, Ill, Nov. 27.—Fifteen local unions of the A. F. of L. of Danville and of Vermillion County unanimously endorsed in their re- spective meetings, the Workers Un- employment and Social Insurance WEST ALL isconsin, Nov. 27.—The Unemployed Councils of Wisconsin, throuyh their mass campaign, have forced the West Allis City Council to vote in faver cf the Workers’ Unemployment and Social Insurance Bill. Bill, The following are the locals The City Council further re- which went on record for the Work- |] ferred their endorsement of the ers Unemployment Insurance Bill: |] bill to the to the Unit Congress. The City was further forced to Ind the County Workers’ Relief Ordinance. United Mine Workers of America No. 5509 with 1800 members; Local No, 1358 with 125 members; Local No. 4252 with 137 members; Local No. 2467 with 112 members, Other locals outside of the miners are Carpenters and Joiners, Plumbers, Boilermakers, Electricians, Teamsters, Chauffeurs and Stablemen; Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers Union No. 209; Sheet and Metal, Railroad Car- men, Machinists, and Teamsters, ot en is and Stablemen of West- le. This is 15 locals of the A. F. of L. out of the total of 17 in the c J Not only have these locals d the Workers Unomployment and So- cial Insurance Bill, but now they are prepared to pre’ various cliy go | governments, der of this bill and iso a petition to Uncmployment and Social Insurance Bill, | Many of these local unions will | |sond official delegates to the TWlinois/ | State Convention of the Unemployed | Co in Decatur, Decatur Hish| {School Auditorium, on December 30 fand 31 } | The fee States to pass the Workers | E Workers Unemployment Bill, indorsed by these In- A. |F. of L, al unions, provid average wage 7 | minimum of $10 a week for each) $3 additional for exch de~ jaduit and pendent, for all unemployed. ‘the | funds are to be obtained by taxing; | incom: of individuals and corpora- ch are over $5,000 a y sing all war funds of tt q fund is to he ad-| organiza- the i tions, Federal Building Kills 2 Workers By a Workr Correspondent. St. Louis, Mo. Doar Comrade: ‘At the new Federal Building here. the slaughter has commenced. Two iron workers were killed last Tues- day, Not a word mentioned in st newspapers on the ese workers caused by speed-up, These two workers, named Frank Karmala and Joe Berga were puting bolts in the beams and the boss would not give them time to put four bolts in and with only two bolts the channel berm bolts broke, (wo men killed and two sent to the hospital. The workers on the job had their wages cut 25 cents an hour on a 40 hour week job government contract. ... -