The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 5, 1933, Page 1

$9,000 MORE Will Put $40,000 Drive Over | the Top. Send a Dollar! seeieteedas ake Aa entrained Dail Central ‘(Section of the Conemunist International) orker Party U.S.A. | | America’s Only Working | “ i Class Daily Newspaper ‘Weather: Partly cloudy, no change in temperature, Vol. X, No. 291 = ™ Wntered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, M. Y., under the Ast of Merch 8, 1878, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1933 ae (Six Pages) Price 3 Cents 3,000 C.W.A. WORKERS IN STRIKE WIN PARTIAL VICTORY ” CONGRESSMEN _— ——e___~ HELP NAZI PROPAGANDA Ham Fish Refuses to Face Daily Worker Proofs on Nazis By SEYMOUR WALDMAN (Dally Worker Washington Burean.) WASHINGTON, Dec. 4. — The prediction that Hitler’s Nazi propaganda campaign in the United States may collect a few Congressmen was made today by Emile Gavreau, man- aging editor of the New York Daily Mirror, before the House Immi- gration and Naturalization Com- mittee’s investigation of Nazi ac~ tivities in America. “We have a few now,” blurted out Chairman Dickstein of the eommitite, referring to reaction- ary politicians already publicly ut- tering Nazi doctrines. Then Dick- stein hastily collected himself and added, “That's off the record.” Reswaing the inquiry suddenly shut off last Nov. 15, when Clarence Hathaway, editor of the dence that Dickstein called a halt, saying, “It got too hot,” the com- mittee heard further warm facts. Gavreau made the following asser- tions: 1—That he personally was threat- ened by telephone on five separate occasions by individuals seeking to stop’ his newspaper articles on Hit- lerism in America. 2—That . German~American: » resi~ dents. of thé United States are be- ing forced into the Nazi movement here “under the threat of harm to their relatives in Germany.” 3+That Nazi propaganda here attacks non-conforming German- Americans irrespective. of American citizenship. 4—That on every German steam- er coming into American ports “there is a Nazi leader who super- sess. the ¢>ntain.” famous German sea-raider, “is con~- ducting. propaganda here under the guise of selling wine.” 6—That the same people who con- ducted German propaganda here during the war are conducting Nazi propagsnda here now.” Fish Shouts Denial Representative Hamilton Fish, Jr., rich and fashionable red-baiter, was summoned by Dickstein by phone to testify. He hurried from his of- fice, rushed to the hearing table to enter a blanket denial of all charges . levelled against him by Bsthoway, and took the opportu- nity to issue a thinly veiled threat | has repeatedly of a concerted campaign against or- ganized Communism in the United States. Hathaway has charged Fish with attending a Nazi meeting in the George Washington Hotel in New York. Gavreau also identified for the Committee’s record a Nazi propa- ganda book entitled, “Jews Are Looking at You.” It was written by (Continued on Page 2) Start Talk of New Public Works Plan Already Has Hints of Subsidies to Big Railroads WASHINGTON, Dec. 4.—To con- ceal the fact that. the present Public Works Fund has already been prac- tically all allocated without having any effect on the army of 17,000,000 jobless, @ new announcement of a projected $14,000,000 public works was made public. today. No provisions for financing or any other details were made public, ex- cept that it provides large. subsidies tor railroads, industrial monopolies, all cloaked with the same talk of hous- ing improvement that preceded the present Public Works program, which in practice has been mainly a war building program. Federal Gov't Holds Hunger March Leader OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla.—J. I. Whidden, who led a hunger march on city hall here last week, has been arrested and is held for fed- eral investigation. Herbert K. Hyde, U. 8. District Attorney, has announced a drive against all workers who join in protest against Starvation and unemployment. The taternational Labor Defense is or- ganiz'ng mass and legal defense for Whidden, and against the at- tacks of the federal agents. | Leading Giant Protest Parade in Harlem Daily | Worker, set forth such damning evi- | Group of Negro and white working class women carrying letters spe! Lynching,” marching in the vanguard of the demonstration of 8,000 Negro and white young workers | and adults held in Harlem last Saturday under the auspices of the Young Communist League. ig out the slogan of “Stop ‘Ty po Union No. 6 [Arrest 2 seg | 1 | of Lloyd Warner Votes for Strike If. ST. JOSEPH, Mo., Dec. 3.—Police Demands Not Met A.F. of L. Members Ask | ’29 Seale, 30-Hr. Week, | Jobless Insurance | NEW YORK—Members of Typo- mob which took Lloyd Warner, Ne- him last week. Police refused to divulge the names of the arrested lynchers. The arrests followed wide pro- tests after Assistant Attorney-Gen- eral W. O. Sawyer, detailed to “in- vestigate” the lynching, had re- ported “no progress.” | today arrested ‘two leaders of the | gto youth, out of jail and lynched | 4,000 Cheer Call for Fight on Lynchers at Harlem Meeting | Adopt Resolution De- nouncing Decatur Verdict NEW YORK—For the third time in 5—That Count von Luckner, war-'| |graphical Union 6 of the A. F. of L.| | voted unanimously to strike, if the} | publishers fail to meet their demands, | |at a svecial.membershiv meeting Sun- | day, December 3 at Stuyvesant High | School. | The printers are calling for a 30, hour week at the 1929 wage scale and | the levying of a 5 per cent assessment | on the publishers’ pay rolls for un- employment relief. ‘The strike vote was taken following | the rejection of the publishers’! counter proposal for a 35 hour week | and an hourly wage of $1.3612 by an} overwhelming vote of 601 to 4. The; Union's Scale Conference Committee, | which had met with the publishers | in 13 daily sessions, unanimously urged | the rejection of the publishers’ offer) in its report to the membership and! was upheld without a dissenting vote. | “If we are to take care of our un-| employed as well as our employed | members,” said one of the speakers, | “we must vigorously insist on ow three basic demands. The sentiment | for strike here is a warning to the publishers and Mr. Howard that we are determined to get what we want.” Charles P. Howard, president of the International Typographical Union refused to sanction a strike when asked by the local. His famous slogan is “The International | is committed to arbitration.” At a union meeting recently when | the scale committee was elected, the | membership instructed the committee to refuse arbitration of any part of the proposed scale. ‘The speakers at the Sunday meet-| ing stressed the importance of a slid-| ing scale to overcome the Roosevelt inflation policy and the committee: was instructed to negotiate on this New Lynch Orgy Negro ‘Missing’ After Longsheremen Win Strike for More Pay |}two days thousands of Nero and white workers assembled in a Scotts- | boro protest demonstration in Har'em Threatened In Princess Anne 4,000 -aniti-iynchine | packed the “hugé Rockland Palace, 155th St. and 8th Ave. A few hours before, there had been 22 overflow meeting in front of the 14V7.0. Hall, 415 Lenox Ave., in sup- Rel Suid ioe ies an peal Scottsboro anti- a ¢. Y lynching conference in which. despite . pase as urder {the brief notice, 149 delegates cna Suspect | senting 46 organizations took part. ee | Sunday’s meeting was militant. The PRINCESS ANNE, Md. Dec. 4~ | assembled workers responded with The stage was sot here for another | thunderous applause as Richard B, brutal lynch orey with the discovery [Tear General. Secretary of the of the body of a murdered white | League for Negro Rights, taised the girl. demands of the recent Baltimore ‘The body of the girl was discovered | anti-lynching conference, by two Negro workers about 100 yards from their shack. They at | Moore Calls For Militant Struggle once reported the discovery to the ‘We are seeing the rise of fascism police and were heid for “question- |!" the United States,” Moore declared. ing.” The two workers were later | “The Negro people must rise to the released, but it is reported that one |°Ccasion. With correct leadership, of them is m'ssing. | they will answer the brutal chalienge The girl’s father, Edward Morris, |0f the lynch lords”, And they will not a farmer, said she had been missing | have to fight alone. The white toilers since last Friday. On that day and | Will fight by their side. fer several days precediny Eastern | Jack Stachel, Assistant National Shore Iynchers were holding wild Secretary of the Trade Union Unity celebrations over the release by Judges Duer and Pattison of four known lynchers of George Armwood, ‘revolutionary unicns and the opposi- | tion groups in the A. F. of L. in mob- ilizing the workers for the Scottsboro | mass defense. The white workers, he declared, must be as much concerned as any Negro worker over the Decatur j verdict. The T.U.U.L. looks on the question not only as a challenge to the Negro masses’ but to the whole a working class. He drew a parallel BALTIMORE, Md., Dec. 4.—After| with the rise of Hitlerism in Ger- basis. The Union turned down sug- gested changes by the publishers in certain shop practices which they have tried to put over for years at the expense of the printers. ‘The old newspaper scale expired yesterday and the union is rallying for militant decisive action. UTW Strikers’ Vote Rejects Sell-out Union Head Threatens Charter Suspension PAWTUCKET, R. I.—The rank and file of the United Textile Workers Union heve haye rejected the pro- posal to accept the silk and rayon Sellout plan, it is reported. The local union is now being charged with sfuffing the ballot box by Vice-President Francis Gorman, in order to enforce acceptance of the agreement, Gorman is not only a leader of the U.T.W. but also one of the officials on the state N.R.A. board, is at- tempting intimidation of the local by threatening to suspend its charter. In Paterson, 244 of the 400 silk mills reopened Monday, following the 15 per cent wage increase agreement signed Saturday, About 3,000 throw- a brief but militant strike, longshore- men on the coastwise docks here won their demands for an increase in wages to 75 cents an hour and rec- ognition of the International Long- shoremen’s Union (A. F. of L.). ‘The strike settlement came after the longshoremen had twice rushed the pier in the face of a strong de- tail of police and had faced tear gas and riot squads in their effort to vrevent the Commercial Alabaman, a freighter, from unlcading. During the picketing on Friday, 17 strikers were arrested when they arrived at the pier by means of a scow brought across the river from Locust Point after battling 350 police. ‘The Marine Workers’ Industrial Union was active in rallying the sea- men in support of the strike, and the strike settlement was undoubtedly hastened by ‘fear that the strike would spread to the crews of the five ships in port. The union raised the Slogan of a general strike in a leaf- let distributed to the seamen. The crew of the Texmar notified the union of its willingness to support the struggle and asked for guidance. ‘The Industrial Union is calling a North Atlantic Conference in Balti- more on Dec. 9 and 10 to discuss the recent strikes of the seamen and longshoremen and plan a program for immediate action. The National Bureau of the union will meet there at that time also, | many, pointing out how the ruling class and the Sotial Democratic lead- ers paved the way for fascism. Lynch | terror will be used not only against the Negroes, but against the white workers, Already, under the N.R.A., (Continued on Page 2) K the previous Daily Worker drive, you workers of New York voluntarily Increased your quota and went over the top. You set a splendid revolutionary example to workers throughout the country. In the present campaign for $40,000, however, when the Daily Worker is needed by all of us more than ever before, when our paper is in graver danger than ever before, your activity so far sets anything but a good example to workers in other cities. ® (eens 8 FTER 11 weeks, you have raised only 688 per cent on your quota. Will workers give to the “Daily”? Yes. Section 2 has al- Teady raised 98.6 per cent on its quota of $700. Section 1, 88.1 per cent on its pledge of $700. In Sec- sters are still out on strike. 800 Produce Handlers Reported on Strike NEW YORK-—Wight hundred driv- ers, chouffers, helpors. and porters of the lower Washington Street ‘roduce section went on strike yester- day, it 1s reported, Booze Flows to N.Y. As Prohibition Ends NEW YORK, tion 1, Unit 5, located in one of the poorest downtown areas, in- creased its quota of $50 to $200 and is within a smail amount of going over the top. Unit 5, in ad- dition, obtained new subs and es- tablished 14 new cartier routes. If action is taken, comrades, if workers are approached for con- tributions, if affairs are held, as Sections 1 and 2 are doing, the Daily Worker can be saved. Nov. 4.—Thou- sands of gallons of wine and whis- key were being rushed here today in preparation for the official end- ing of the 18th Amendment. Wine and whiskey will be perfectly le~ \ val after midnight. | hurled back their answer to the De~- leatur Iynch verdict against. Haywood Patterson when last Sunday night over fichters | League, pledged the support of the| TO NEW YORK WORKERS! Decatur Judge Openly Assists State | Prosecution As Second Trial Closes'$400,000,000 A fter Marching On i] Callahan Rushes Norris Trial for 2nd Lynch Verdict | Faith and Loyalty to ILD Reaffirmed by Scottsboro Boys BULLETIN NEW YORK.—Judge W. W. Callahan was charging the jury as this issue of the Daily Worker went to press, according to a wire received from Decatur, Ala. The case of Clarence Norris was al- most ready for the jury after a trial that was even more speedily rushed than that of Heywood Patterson. State’s Attorney Knight concluded his summation at 4:45 p.m. DECATUR, Ala., Dec. 4. — With defense evidence cut to a minimum by rulings from Judge W. W. Callahan, the case of Clarence Norris, second Scottsboro .boy to face re-trial here, was'ready to go to the jury to. night, umless closing arguments by counsel, and the judge’s lynch-charge are put over until morning. The defense scored in forcing into the record the testimony of Ruby Bates, who again repudiated her original charge of rape in a deposition taken last week in a New York hos- pital where she is recovering from a major operation. Judge Callahan had refused to recess the trial of Heywood Patterson for a few hours, last. week, to permit introduction of this deposition. Joszph Brodsky, International La~ bor Defense lawyer, read the deposi- tion into the record. Limits Defense. 2 e The state rested its case at 10:04, and before two o'clock Judge Calla- han had forced the defense to con- clude its presentation, by cutting short-all questions of witnesses by de- cense counsel. Callahan ruled that each side must be limited to three-quarters of an hour in its arguments, though if his charge to the jury is anything like the one he made in the Patterson case, this will add an hour and a quarter of instruction and incitement to # lynch verdict from the bench, | to the prosecution's allotted time. It appeared late this afternoon that (Continued on Page 2) Spivak’s Article on Decatur Trial, News of Protests on P.3 Information regarding mass Scottsboro protests and demonsira- tions throughout the country as well as John L. Spivak’s special article on the Decatur trial will be found on page 3 of today’s issue. (E Women’s Council show that they are determined to do their utmost. They sent in $99 yester- day, proving that they are in the drive actively. But what about the Friends of the Soviet Union, the International Workers Order, the trade unions, the Icor, all of whom have done very poorly so far? What about the remaining sections and units who are lagging and lagging badly? Wake Pe a Tt management of the Daily Worker calls upon you work- ers of New York City to answer these questions not only to it but to the workers of Scattle, Phila- delphia and Boston, who have raised their quotas. Prove that you are with them, not against them, in the battle to save our Daily Worker. There can be no delay, The “Daily” is in imme- diate danger. New York Workers, rally to its support at once. Hold affairs, contribute, get donations from your organizations, from your fellow workers and rush the funds. at once and do your revo- lutionary share to save our Daily Worker, ° ‘Today's receipts Previous total .. $628.32 + 30,375.34 TOTAL TO DATE ... .$31,008.66 GOVT PLANS Win 20 P.C. Increase NEW TAXES State Headquarters Heaviest Burden Will Wopaniraeinee = ie | Fall on Masses to Aid Workers Taking Steps to Set Up Permanent ‘ Organization Following Strike Struggle Wall Street Loans Against Roosevelt’s C. W. A. | WASHINGTON, Dec. 4. — That the next Congress’ will! NEW YORK, Dec. 4.—Three thousand New York workers |impose new taxes on the masses | employed on the Bear Mountain project struck against a Roose- | amounting to over $400,000,000 | velt wage cut under the Civil Works Administration, twas admitted today by the on the State Civil Works office at 124 E. 28th St., and 4 |members of the House Ways) Considerable concessions. and Means Committee. This first strike on C. W. A. job proves that Roosevelt At the same time, the Roosevelt | government is permitting the sur- taxes on large incomes, and certain | taxes on corporations and dividends, | jto expire at the end of this year,/ | without making any attempt to re-/ | new them. | In addition, the Roosevelt govern- ment has extended the Hoover excise | taxes, which take over $600,000,000 | every year from the mass of small | consumers Wail Street Loans. | While levying these huge taxes on} the masses, the Roosevelt government | | has persistently refused to levy any/ | kind of heavy surtax on large in-| }comes or corporations. It has re-/ fused to consider any capital levy on/ | Wall Street fortunes. | | ‘The occas!zn for new, heavy taxes | | comes from the fact that the Roose- velt government is granting such) jenormous subsidies to Wall Street | | — ~——°has broken his promise of min- News Flash mum and union wage scales, and further proves that concessions |can be won on ©. W, A. jobs fl Siege | the organized strength of the Police Attack Youth * dncruiey Work Pellet admitted March for Jobs and Relief in Detroit tion, the workers had received $48. month for 96 hours; under the posed C. W. A., arbitrarily meted: oft to them, they would have recélved DETROIT, Mich. Dec. 5.—More than a thousand young workers, Ne-| gro and white, fought back against a vicious police attack on: a demonstra~ $60 for 120 hours, minus $10 Af tion before the City Hall for jobs| transportation charges, or $50 month. As a result of the strike the workers won an increase to $72 months for 120 hours, minus $8 16 and immediate unemployment ~elief. The demonstration was organ by | the Youth Section of the Unerr 7ed | Council. transportation charges, leaving them Six young workers were arrested ip with a net monthly wage of $64. One group of Bear Mountain ers who had been working on Hon Work Relief during the past year were informed last Saturday it they would go on Civil Works’ | Monday, with a shorter working week and a correspondingly smaller pay. In the past the yhad received $24 per 48 hour-week wth two weeks’ work, fhonth>. Under‘the ©. W. Av? were told that they would throughout the month for $15 per 30 hour wesk. With transportation charges deducted this would -haye rotually meant a 25 per cent wage re- duction, when one take into consid- |monopolies through the R.F.C. and| NRA. agencies. Temporarily dispersed by the brutal | A typical government expense is|POlice attack, the demonstration re- |the $700,000,000 Joan, which is held formed quickly, and moved forward | Jlargely by Wall Street banks, which ‘carrying banners and shouting slo- | falling due on Dec. 17. It 4s | Sir for relief and unemployment in- | eet such bank loans that the Roose- | Surance. elt government is resorting to new} Ten thousand spectators were drawn | taxes on the masses, |to the struggle with the police, and/| Over $4,000,000,000 has been set many workers arrested by the police jaside by Roosevelt, for example, to| Were torn out of their hands by the jguarantee mortgages held by banks jand investors. The total subsidy to} | monopoly capital by the Roosevelt }government has been estimated to |reach $11,000,000,000, This must be |paid for by taxes. It is significant that the govern- ment is raising new taxes to pay the loans of the very same Wall Street interests who have been receiving the government subsidies. War Program In addition, the Roosevelt govern- ment has launched the largest war} building program in the history of |the country, having spent already (more than $1,000,000,000 for war ma-j{ terials in the last six months alone. That the main burden of the gov- ernment tax program is laid on the masses was revealed by the recent Senate investigations into the in-| come taxes of the country’s richest | bankers, most of whom paid no in-| |come taxes at all. | The Committee of the House is making a pretense of tackling this {problem, but the fundamental profit jand loss exemptions, which permit {wholesale evasion, will probably be | retained. Indirect Sales Tax | The Roosevelt government has suc- | ceeded mm putting into effect a vir- |tual Sales Tax through its various | processing taxes, and through its sub- |sidies for the deduction of hogs, cot- jton, wheat, and corn, This takes a |toll from the masses amounting to |hundreds of millions of dollars, the |cotton processing tax alone amount~- ling to $350,000,000 a year, | U.S. Keeps Gold Bid ‘Steady as Big Gov't ‘Financing Due Soon To Continue Inflation | Drive, Officials Declare | NEW YORK, Dec. 5.—Following | \the same tactics that it pursued} ‘earlier in the year, the Roosevelt gov- | ernment is soft-pedalling for a time| |its aggressive inflationary moves to} |prepare for the $70,000,000 govern- ment loan refunding that is coming | jin the middle of next week. | Then, it will again resume its price- | raising program through further pur- chases of gold abroad. | The present price for gold has} been maintained at $34.01 an ounce, | so that the dollar rose to 65 cents for the day, after having touched a low of 59 cents last week. Govern- ment bonds also rose in response to this temporary halting of the Roose- yelt inflation drive. abroad, It was made clear by Treasury of- flicals that the temporary stop in gold bidding has in no way affected Roosevelt's resolve to continue cheap- ening the dollar in his fight to drive @ wedge into foreign markets to permit United States monopolies to enter with their product, =, ;surances that Negroes and single) and 3 of the Workers Committee on eration the increase in hours from 96 to 120. Strike Meeting on Train This group called a strike meeting on the train on the return trip from work Saturday and voted to calla strike. It was decided to deputize the entire group to pull out on strike the cther group, when they reported at Weehawken ferry for the trip to Bear Mountain on Monday. At 5:30 the workers assembled on the ferry dock at 42nd St. Word was sent around that « strike was in pro= ress. The police in thelr usual strike-breaking role, broke up groups of more than three workers and ended | — up by herding the entire crowd on ame " ~,, |to the Weehawken ferry. Assembled |Hunger Hearings Go):t ‘the railroad. terminal tn Woes Forward Prevaring ae the workers refused to board | the train. for Dee a | After milling about the depot for for Dee. 10 Meet over an hour, the workers returned NEW YORK—“The money 4s to|' New York and joined the second | provide jobs until Feb. 15; after that, | demonstrating workers. The workers then marched through | the ss secsion of the city to | Grand Circus Park where a commit~ | | tee was elected to protest to the Bi Bureau against the attack, and demand relief for the youth ‘After Feb. 15, Who ‘Knows?’ Says CWA Delegates Head to (Continued on Page 2) who knows?” was the brutally callous feet answer mrde by k Daniels, g Fxecutive Director of the State Civil Works Administration to a United Front workers delegation last Friday.| The de‘evation which demanded as- | $80,000,000 “Loan”? workers would not be discriminated | against by the C.W.A., consisted of | representatives from the Steel ond |S Now in Defau Metal Workers Industrial Union, | ‘e League of Struggle for Negro Richts,| Furniture Workers Industrial Union, United Women’s Covmcil and the Unemployed Council. WASHINGTON, Dec. 4—A) loan of $80,000,000 made to the | Central Republic Bank of Wants Proof |the R. F. C. is now in defi Daniels, who had attemoted to evade | Tecords of the R. F, O. disc day ae the delegation, airily denied all of the This loan, the largest of the Hi charges of discrimination and de-| Sester oreo: jadministration to any bank, was Mass Hunger Hearings to secure the | Mede to the Dawes bank two ¥ open discrimination proof Daniels re- | 2fter Dawes resigned as the head quested and to prepare for the Dec.| ‘he R. F. C. He resigned, ifs) 10 Conference Against Unemployment S#d, to avoid having to at Irving Plaza, are going on through- | loan to his own bank. After out the city. ‘The 200 workers who| ins from the R. F. ©. hee attended such a hearing at the st,| ead of his bank again. : Georges Church Sunday, called by the Collateral Depreciates West Side Council, unanimously en-| dorsed a demonstration to be held Friday at the Home Relief Bureau The workers will mobilize first at the ‘Turkish Workers Club, 402 W. 40th Street, at 11 o'clock. Workers Speak ‘Workers: arose spontaneously from} that the collateral is now v the audience at the Hunger Hearing | far below this figure, so that “ to tell of their plight in the fifth) fault means the likelihood that winter of the depression. Mrs. Da| greater part of the loan will never Vigo, an Italian mother with a family | repaid. The Dawes bank is now; of eight, told how she was forced to| bankruptcy. en, beg in the street because the Home Roosevelt Follows Relief Bureau denied her aid whe} ‘The policy of lending huge st she refused to send her son to the ernment funds to big explain, collateral, veals tha paper slightly was Examination, howe tain worker spoke of the hardships he had to pass through on this forced labor job, A similar Hunger Hearing will be held Thursday, Dec, 7, by Locals 2 It is a fact given but little licity that Roosevelt's present man of the R. F. C., Jesse H. arranged and approved a 000 Joan to Oklahoma Unemployment together with the| which he is interested. Downtown Committee of Action at! 5 the East Side Workers Club, 165 East, 000 to banks, railroads, trust Broadway at 8:30 p.m. panies, etc. More than two an ‘The hearing to be held by the East half billion dollars is still out Side Unemployed Council will be pre-|ing as unpaid. Large p ceded by a demonstration at the 78th | these government loans which Street Relief Bureau, demanding more | reality, subsidies, have gone relief and opposing all rent cuts. The| payment of interest p workers will meet at 347 E. 72nd St.,/ bondholders, dividends, rents at ll am bankers and Wall Street