The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 29, 1933, Page 1

; Hail U.S. S. R. Recognition at Bronx Coliseum To WE NEED Cent Possible to Pay Bills! | RUSH TAG DAY FUNDS! | EVERY ‘(Section of the Communist International) ist Party U.S.A. Entered sa second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., under the Act of March 8, 1879, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1933 DIMITROFF DEMANDS THAT THAELMANN BE CALLED TO TESTIFY IN NAZI COURT PLEO THIS 18 Political Trial, If This Is War, Then Fight It Out to the Real End!” Says Dimitroff, Calling for More Witnesses (Special to the Daily Worker.) AT THE GERMAN BORDER, Nov. 28 (via Zurich, | Switzerland).—Slashing the witnesses of the Nazi prosecution throughout the duration of today’s forty-sixth Reichstag fire- trial session, both Dimitroff and Torgler, (who together with Popoff and Taneff face death by the Hitl tinually pinned the guilt for® the fire on the Nazis’ own; shoulders. Dimitroff, in attacking his | accusers, specifically demanded that Thaelmann be called to testify before | g the court. In the face of repeated | warnings and reprimands by the pre- siding judge, the two cours <eous Com-| munists showed up in the hostile} court, the real nature of the trial pro- | ceedings against them. | Communist Quotations Garbied ‘The session opened with Heller, the | Nazi “expert” on Communist activi-| ties, continuing his apparently end- less reading of quotations from Com- munist books, papers and leaflets. He | cited exclusively passages “proving” | preparations for armed insurrection| # and alleged Communist Party terror) plans, Helter Witevspersed his” own} comments and quotations of ‘ ques-| tionable origin throughout his read- ing, with the Communist defendants given no opportunity to investigate | the authenticity of .the material he presented. ‘At one point, however, Dimitroff as- | certained by a single question to the | court that many of the leaflets quoted | were written since the Reichstag fire. | Heller was forced to admit that the} main contents of ali the material} written recently end before the fire | referred to the question of the estab- | lishment of the united front Full Text Demanded Both Torgler and Dimitroff de- manded the full wording of quota- tions torn by Heller from their} original context. When Heller quoted | a bloodthirsty sentence allegedly from a Communist Party paper, Torgler in- | terrupted: | “Do you really believe that is Com-| munist?” he demanded. | ‘The presiding judge reprimanded} Torgler for “insulting” Heller, an of- ficial on oath. But Torgler immedi- ately answered by repeating that the | quotation attributed to him was false, Demands More Witnesses Dimitroff reminded the public pro- | | a | (Continuéd on Page 2) | Nazis Sentence Ten Communists To Die; Another Beheaded 2,300 Workers Jailed; 1,000 Face Trial for Treason BERLIN, Nov. 28—Ten Commu- BERLIN, Nov. 28.—The Nazi police yesterday announced the arrest of 2,300 workers, suspected of Commu- nist activities, and the seizure of 2,500 tons of illegal Communist lit- erature. More than 1,000 of the ar- rested workers are slated for trial Nazi Under-Secretary Hierl of the Labor Ministry today issued orders barring all “peddlers, book agents and similar elements” from entering the Nazi concentra~ tion camp following Nazi charges that Communists were entering the ¢amps under various disguises to $pread revolutionary propaganda and prisoners fee in sharp contrast to Nazi claims that they had the Communist Party of . Even the Nazi butchers now forced to admit that the jan Communist Party still lives arrests and new Naz er government) con- German Red Leader _ Ernst Thaelmann, leader of the German Communist Party, now in a Nazi concentration camp, whose presence and testimony in court at the Reichstag fire trial was de- manded by Dimitroff at yesterday's session. Herbert Beniamin Unconditionally Freed from Jail Status of Other Gallup Jailed Strikers Unknown GALLUP, New Mexico, Noy. 28.— Herbert Benjamin, organizer of the National Committee of the Unem- ployed Councils, has been uncondi- tionally released from the peniten- tiary at Albuquerque, New Mexico, it was learned here today. Mass pressure of the workers in New Mexico and throughout the country forced General Woods, militia head, to release Benjamin. In con- Junction with the agreement signed at the conclusion of the victorious coal strike here, Benjamin was to have been released, but Woods had until this time violated the agree- ment. Word has not yet been re- ceived here regarding the status of the other imprisoned strike leaders who refused to leave the state im- mediately upon their release from jail. General Woods is using this as an excuse to keep them in prison. Benjamin also refused to sign this statement, and has now been uncon- ditionally released, following the workers’ protests, STEEL WORKERS AND COAL MINERS MARCH FOR RELIEF, First Workers’ Parade} Thru Center of City | Watched by 50,000 PITTSBURGH, Pa., Nov. 28.—Five | thousand workers were in the line of march of the Allegheny County Hunger March, which went thru the downtown business and bank sections | of Pittsburgh, past the Mellon bank today. Fifty thousand workers lined the side-walks reviewing the parade. ‘The parade was headed by the vet-j} erans in uniform and the sailors also| in uniform, followed by the Women’s | Auxiliaries of the Unemployed Coun- cils, who marched with red scarfs. the Unemployed Councils, with ban- ners, representing various sections of the country, and the Trade Union division. Steel Workers March Outstanding in the Trade Union division was the steel workers sec- tion, members of the Steel and Metal Workers Industrial Union. This was followed by floats and trucks. It took 45 minutes for the parade to pass a | given point. | ‘The line of march proceeded to West, Park, Pittsburgh, where the de~ | monstration was held. District Presi- | dent of the Steel Union, James Eagen, |was the chairman. The speakers were: Fred Correno, leader of the Veterans National Rank and File Committee, H. Carrcathurs, Negro Wemployed Council leader, G. Grif- fith, of the Unemployed Citizens League, Mrs. Grubbs, of the Unem- ployed Councils, Bill Scarville, a Ne- gro speaker of the International La- bor Defense, McKinney of the Unem- | ployed Citizens League, also a Negro | sveaker. | Frankfeld Speaks Despite Warrant The high point of the demonstra- | tion was reached when Phil Frank- feld, City Secretary of the Unem- | ployed Councils, for whom there has been a warrant out on a framed up | charge of inciting to riot, for the past | two weeks, dramatically appeared at'| | the demonstration with a powerful defense corps and took the platform as the main speaker. He received a | tremendous ovation. He rode away lin a car before the police could get | him. This made a tremendous effect | on the whole demonstration. The last speaker was Lena Davis, representing the District Committee of the Com- | munist Party. | Condemns Socialist Treachery | During the course of the meeting | Frankfeld condemned Lieberman, So- | cialist leader of the Unemployed Cit- | izen’s League, who has been carrying @ splitting tactic opposing the United Front between the Unemployed Councils and the Citizen’s League. The crowd booed Lieberman and the Socialist Party. They called for a united front of the Citizen’s League and the Unemployed Councils, Resolutions presented were for the release of the Scottsboro defendants, against the Public Works Program, demanding union wages and union conditions on forced labor jobs, in~ creased relief, unemployment insur- ance, for the frecdom of Tom Mooney and Dimitroff, Taneff, Popoff, whose trial is now going on in Leipzig. STRIKER IN COURT TODAY NEW YORK. — Charles Williams, militant Negro worker, arrested for distributing leaflets before the Mu- nicipal Shoe Co., Bogard and Boerum streets, whose workers are on strike, is up for trial this morning in the and Schermerhorn streets, Brooklyn. There followed various contingents of | Shows Way to Help Our ‘Daily’ JHILADELPHIA workers show how our Daily Worker can be saved. At a previous Daily Worker affair they raised $600. Now another $500 in answer to the “Daily’s” appeal for immediate help. Why has Chicago failed to respond te Philadelnhia’s revolutionary chal- lenge to fulfill its quota? An imme- dinte answer must come from Chi. cago. ee, wee | JHILADELPHIA’S achievement is 2 chatenge also to New York, De- troit, Cleveland and other Districts who have so far failed to raise their cuotas in the drive. Creditors are Eastern Shore Mob Fights Arrest of | Armwood Lynchers | Five Higher-Ups Got Tip of Raids and The Cops Mingle With th | ing in? demanding that their overdue bills be | What are you doing to he’ the | “Daily” to meet these pressing bills? | Why are tag day receipts not com-| “Disappeared” SALISBURY, Nov. pai Ce Kat | THERE is no time to be lost, com-| with the state militia today redes, The financial situation of the Daily Worker is crit'ca’. R- your anotas. Rush tex day receint and all other funds to the “Daily” at once. DO NOT DELAY, COMRADES! Show your devotion to the “Daily” by giving it your financisl support. Every cent received now means life to on fichting n-n-r, SPEED YOUR DOLLARS TODAY! se9$ 258.73 +» 28,531.97 ‘Tuesday’s receipts .. Previous total Rie Railroads Reap Yuge Profits Under Roosevelt Program NEW YORK, Nov. 28.—Reports now coming in from the country’s largest railroads give a picture of huge in- creases in profits as a result of the | Roosevelt railroad co-ordinating pro~ eram, desvite declines in actual traf- fic carried. ‘The New York Central, a Morgan- controlled road, reported profits for the first ten months of the year) equal to $29,222,000, compared with $16,693,000 last year. crease in profit took place in the face of @ decrease in gross traffic from $246,000,000 to $237,000,000, The following roads are typical of similar huge increases in vrofit un- der the Roosevelt railroad program in the face of slicht increases in traf- fic or actual declines in traffic. Alabama Great Southern for the first ten months ini 1933 showed prof- its of $491,000 against a deficit of| $232,000 last year. Baltimore and Ohio showed profits of $25,683,000 against $18,528,000 last year. Chicago, Burlington and Quincy showed profits of $4,069,000 as against $1,576,000 last year. Chicago & Eastern Mlinols showed profits of $96.000 after a deficit of; $1,151,000 last year. Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul showed @ huge increase in profit to $7,675,000 as against a loss of $935,000 last year. Most of these roads are directly controlled by Wall Street banking houses, As a result of these huge profits, the payments of dividends and bond interest to Wall Street investors has increased. ‘The Roosevelt; railroad co-ordina tor program, as administered by the co-ordinator, Eastman, has reduced the number of railroad employees to @ minimum, so that now there are about 1,000,000 railroad workers com~- Special Sessions Court, Part 4, Smith| pared with about 2,000,000 before the ‘This large in- | | Eastern Shore lynchers clashed \in an attempt to carry out the promise of State's Attorney | Robins that mobs would prevent the arrest of any leaders of the mob which on October 18 lynched George | Armwood, Negro worker. | The mob attempted to free four | of the lynchers arrested by state | militiamen on the order of Governor | | Albert C. Ritchie, as a result of the | pressure brought to bear for the ar- | rest and punishment of the lynchers jby the recent Public Inquiry and | | Anti-Lynching Conference held in | | Baltimore under the auspices of the | League of Struggle for Negro Rig! | | with the co-operation of the Interna- | ‘tonal Labor Defense. ive Lynckers “Disappear.” | ‘The four lynch leaders were: seized |in their beds early this morning. Five other leaders, named in the arrest | warrants, are said to have “disap- neared” from the Eastern Shore. These are prominent politicians who were evidentiy tipped off on the com- is part of the well-dr of the 2 r old son of Notice the with the in San J armed poli HE bestial, orgs and the su calling it from man} form, direct nm to the nation’ ers. T 1 no’ ing arrests. Those arrested are: openly justify, enco nd extend |_ William H. Thompson, a druggist | attacks on the working class |of Princess Anne, where Armwood | The lynehthe* ostered by CG | was lynched. i ieee hace in i : a by Gor | Irving Adkins, a special officer of | Job after it took pla Princess Anne. Governor Rolph’s stand in favor the wiping out of two m government officials, and law, particularly nst the William P. Hearn, of Shad Point, | a trucker. | William S. McQuay of Pocomoke and the Princess Anne Commander | | of the American Legion. | None of these were arrested, nor) |was Judge Duer, also named in) __ | Spencer's affidavit as encouraging the | | lynchers. | | The state militiamen broke through | the infuriated “best citizens” of the | Another 10,000 in Eastern Shore and fled with their, e e Sren ras ocmn: Vall Wait for Jobs |fusal of State’s Attorney Robins to | carry out the orders of Lane for the arrest of the known lynch leaders.) NEW Lane was forced to act following the | Jine wide mass suvvort given the Public |{ration offices for Roosevelt's forced | Inquiry and Anti-Lynching Confer- |jabor jobs, making a total of 35,000/ ence in Baltimore, and subsequent | turned away in three days without a| eetions organized by the League of | single job being given out. | Struggle for Negro Rights and the/ | I. Instead of registering these work- | a great many of them are receiv- } YORK.—Another 10,000 on| .L. dD. A delegation elected the Anti- Lynching Conference wili appear to- ing n checks,” telling them to morrow (Wedne:day) before the |come back on Deo, 1, The ticket es Maryland State Legislature to de-|plicitly states: “This does not mean) mand the arrest of the other known | there is a job for you.” lynchers and the punishment of all | i abag iis | the lynchers of Armwood. It will de- | ‘Twelve new registration places have | mand the arrest and removal of been opened up throughout the five | State’s Attorney Robins, Judge Duer, |boroughs, but officials declared there and the impeachment of Governor | was no rush “since the men will not Ritchie for his refusal to order out be placed according to priority but ac- troops to protect Armwood on the | cording to their record.” will demand’ that the Lepiiature re- | Those who, do. get jobs will, be| +urn indictments against the lynch forced to work at non-union condi-} leaders. |tions under forced Jabor. essed crowd that lynched the two kid- z of tw 2ment of this lynch (Continued on Page night! ly Working | Class Daily Newspaper | | | | America’s On | WEATHER-Cloudy and colder. (Six Pages) Scottsboro Defense Attorneys Rid Stories of Gilley and Victoria Price e Lynch baby Mob oi i a wealthy dopartment store owner presence of many uniformed fully- crowd. It is sign'ficant that none of the printed photos of the scene show any indication of the alleged police resistance that was reported in the press. Rolph’s Lynch Program Is Aimed at, Negro and White Toilers AN EDITOXIAL ‘0 kidnappers in San Jose, California, ing by Governor Rolph ” has called forth the highest praise he lynching has been made a plat- st the degenerate crime of kidnapping, but to the lynching of Negroes and lynch vernor Rolph, and praised as a good of the lynching lies far deeper than y seen from the statements of s, his stand is a call to lynch against whom iynching is mainly VeSties ate nati is Capt,| aNd most often directed workers who are struggling for Frank Spencer's affidavit, published | etter conditions October 26 by the “Daily Worker” “The time has come when states should do away with parole boards are: and tolerate lynching,” says former Judge H. G. Kyle of Kansas City. State’s Attorney John B. Robins, | Could any plainer call be made to the mill owners’ mobs and cotton James Morrison, Carl Henderson, | ranchers, ngs of the South to increase lynching of oppressed Southern Negroes in order to keep them in industrial, political and social slavery. 6) Seamen Win Strike AgainstMunsonLine BALTIMORE, Md., Nov. 28, Although A. F. of L. officials broke the seamen and the longshoremen in the strike.on the Munson Liner here, the crew of the Munloyal, led by the Marine Workers’ Industrial Union, won their strike. The demands won by the seamen included recognition of the ship committee, immediate payment of all back wages, better food, no discrim- ination and the richt to draw money in every port. The demand for a wage increas: of $10 monthly was postponed with a warning by the crew that unless the increase was forthcoming on the next trip action would be taken. The Munloyal crew struck in sup- nort of the longshoremen who had ‘orced officials of the International “ongshoremen’s Association into ' a strike for more pay. By EARL BROWDER : abe mass organizations that have been conducting for many years a campaign of en- lightenment among the Amer- ican people concerning the building of Socialism in the Soviet Union, and that have been mobilizing the toiling masses and the intellectuals to struggle for the recognition of the Soviet Union, the Friends of the Sov- ies Union and the Icor, are calling a mass rally for Wednesday, Nov. 29, in the Bronx Coliseum to celebrate the recognition of the Soviet Union ‘Sy the American government, It is the duty of every Communist, very worker and every intellectual sympathizing with the revolutionary working-class movement to attend id is actively crystalizing and ding the growing mass resistance the Hitler regime workers, especially members of the Socialist Party and the A, F. of L. workers of America, as the en- tire world proletariat, have every reason to be proud of the victory of the proletariat of the Soviet Union and its leader, the Communist Party of the U.S.S.R. The recognition sig- nifies on the one hand the growing strength of the Soviet Union as a result of the unprecedented growth of industry and agriculture through the efforts of the toiling masses and their Party and as a result of the ironclad unity of the Soviet workers and kolhozniks with their govern. fArmy, on the other hand the grow: , On o © grow~ ing discontent of the broad strata of the toiling masses with their and starvation under the present so- cial and political system, In celebrating the victory of the “his rally. It is a special duty of all vevolutionary workers to bring to this gteat gathering non-Communist Soviet workers and of the world pro- letariat through recognition, the workers lAmerion must realise the [iom, Hail Recogni tonight at the Bronx Coliseum, 177th the Friends of the Soviet Union and New Duncan Dancers. city will have a chance to hail the Soviet workers and peasants. striking historical contrast between the giant of Socialism and the giant of capitalism and find in this victory an added source of strength and de- termination to fight against American capitalism, for the overthrow of capi- talism in the United States and for the establishment of a Soviet Amer- NEW YORK.—Robert Minor, Louis Weinstock, Corliss Lamont, Dr. Harry F. Ward, M. J. Olgin, Countee Cullen and Herbert Goldfrank will speak on “The Meaning of Soviet Recognition” at a celebration meeting ‘The mass meeting, which is expected to be attended by sands, will be featured by a program of choral singing and dances by the This is the first time that workers, students and intellectuals of this the broad masses the idea that recog- | nition signifies a change of heart on | the part of American imperialism in | relation to the proletarian father- land. On the other hand they try to persuade the masses that the terms of the recognition mean an outlawing of the Communist Interna- | tional within the territory of the Soviet Union and a separation be- tween the Communist International and the Communist Party of the U.S.A. The aim of this propaganda is on the one hand to lull the masses into believing that the Soviet U tion Tonight! St. and West Farms’ Road, called by the ICOR, thou- tremendous victory attained by the ig secure against imperialist ati on the other hand to confuse the is- sues and to slander and malign a great victory of the world proletariat it anvear as a defeat of the id revolution, and struggle against unemployment, hunger and war is inseparable | making Generai Staff of the wo! the Communist ernational, its section in this country munist Party of the U. 5. | aim here as elsewhere is to break or undermine the fighting power of the toiling masses in this country agains’ from the struggle against capitalism and the imperialist policies of the American government and against its participation in the imperialist front against the Soviet Union. The capi- talist and social-fascist propagandists try their best to disseminate among Earl Browder Sounds Call for Recognition Rally At Coliseum Tonight their capitalist rulers. ° Rally for Defense of U.S.5.R. \ aes rally in the Bronx Coliseum has as its alm the mobilization of the masses of New York for further struggle in defense of the Soviet Union, This struggle is now just as urgent as ever. American imperialism remains one of the bitterest enemies of Socialism and of the Union of So. cialist Soviet Republics. American imperialism is arming to the tecth. In every circumstance American im- pverialism will find renewed pretexts for chicanery and attacks against the Soviet Union. The workers and all other friends of the Soviet Union must be prepared. They must redouble their vigilance. They must increase their organized strength. Such a mobilization must The Wednesday rally must be a | powerful mass demonstration of teys of thousands of workers, Price 3 Cents dle Ala. Press Flaunts Rolph’s Defense of the Calif. Lynchers ‘Callahan | Blocks the Questioning of State Witnesses BULLETIN DECATUR, Nov. 28.—The tension iy Decatur. which had died down snewhat, firmed un again today as a result of the bic screaming headlines, of Iocal and Birmingham papers playing up the statement of Gov. Rolfe of California approving the double California lynchings. Papers carrying these headlines were much in evidence in the | crowded courtroom. Comments and | whispering were frequent. By JOHN L. SPIVAK Correspondent of the Daily Worker) DECATUR, Ala., Noy. 28.— \|A parade of state’s witnesses |were saved today from open lee>*->~ ton of lying by Circuit Judge W. W. Callahan, presid- ing over Heywood Patterson’s third | trial for his life. | Reneatedly, as Samuel Leibowitz, chief International Labor Defense at- torney, defending the first of the | Scottsboro cases, pressed witness af~ | ter witness, showing they told differ- ent stories today than they told at former Scottsboro trials, “Speed” Cal- Jahan ordered him not to question them anv more along the line defense counsel followed. On one occasion when Leibowitz | pressed for an answer from an har- rassed and floundering witness, Cal- lahan banged furiously on the bench and warned him that “something will happen if you don’t stop.” Defense Relentlessly Exposes Lies of Witnesses | Among the state witnesses whose | stories were exposed as absurd in their incredibility was Luther Morris, |who “saw the Negroes pulling girls back in the freight car and heard their screams.” Leibowitz showed Morris was near sighted, needing glasses even to look at pictures, as well as hard of hearing. It was while he was on the stand and Leibowitz was showing up the witness physical ailments which made it impossible for him to have seen and heard whai \he testified to, that Callahan ordered (Special yesterday in front of the regis-|the united front established between | Leibowitz to stop that line of ques- tioning. | Gilley Admits Coaching By Knight | The much sought after and mys- | teriously missing Orville Gilley, phan- | tastic knight of the road, was finally produced as the State's chief corro- borative witness. Under a battering cross-examination by Leibowitz, he admitted holding conferences with Attorney-General Knicht, and Vic- toria Price in Huntsville two weeks (Continued on Page 2) N. Y. Workers to ‘Mass for Release of Scottsboro Boys | NEW YORK.—Answering the call of the International Labor Defense |to save the lives of the Scottsbore boys, the Negro and white workers of |this city will rally in four demon- | strations here this week. | In the Brownsville section of Brook- |lyn, workers and working cliss or- zanizations will mass at Hopkinson | and Pitkin Ave. at 7 p.m. tonight and jmarch to Saratoga, to Deatt, to Ralph, |to Herkimer, to Schenectady, to Ful- ton, to the Brooklyn Palace, Rocka- way Ave. and Fulton St., where 9 protest. meeting will be held. Also tonight, the delegates to the Baltimore Anti-Lynch Conference j will meet at Irving Plaza at 8 p. m., |*o render s report of the work of the | Conference. | Tomorrow morning at 11 a. mt. will see hundreds of Negro and white workers massed before the Liberator ‘Difice, 2162 Seventh Ave.. to nrenare ‘or & huge meeting scheduled for to. |orrow night at St. Luke’s Hall, 125 |W. 130th St. This meeting, which jil demand the immediate release Ibe the mas: iy 2 ef Ubvtlete mass rally in the Bronx Colt- | “+ the Scottsboro hoys and hear the atest revorts of the trial, is under | he auspices of the Harlem Unem- vloyed Councils, the I, L. D, the L. 8. N. BR, i ates ia a lel og ll. ”