The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 6, 1933, Page 1

Dail (Section of the Communist International) ben asetnsi anyon ts eB SEERR EMO PR NEEL NRE ARR EN er Fe s Only \ Vorking | | Class Daily Newspaper aus | 3 WEATHER—Rain and colder, 38,500 MORE | Will Put $40,000 Drive Over the Top. Send a Dollar! Price 3 Cents DECATUR TRIALS 1,500 MORE Jury }in Norris Case C.W.A. MEN Out for Hours; LL.D. WIN STRIKES To Fight Convictions ig Six Pages) _NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1933 Bntered as second-class maticr at the Post Office af ‘Mew York, M. ¥., under the Ast of March 8, 1878, DEFENSE WINS DECAY IN REMAINING ) Workers’ Wages Buy 16 Per Cent Less of Food Than in March Survey Shows ‘Roosevelt Program Has Made a Deep Slash in Real Wages; Only Fight for Higher Pay Can Return Cut WASHINGTON, Dec. 5.—The dollar in the pay envelope of the American worker can now buy 16 per cent less in the way of food ihan it did in March when Roosevelt took office, a survey of the U. S. Daily News, a Washington paper, revealed today. Ogee ae ares ea The same survey also showed that compared with 1926 taken as 100, wholesalé prices are now at 71 while wages are at 57, indicating’ that the spread between these two is now far greater than even during Vol. X, No. 292 & * | Mass Action That Won the First C.W.A. Strike Win Same Pay as Bear Mountain Strikers; Form Union Y ONKERS, ~Y— Fifteen | | hundred Civil “sive employ- | ees employed at the New York | State project at Hook Moun- tain struck on the job yester-| Defense Gets Delay Despite Judge’ s Previous Threat to “Make Speed” on All Trials Callahan Denies Applica ion Fie Bail for Olen Montgomery and Willie Robertson DECATUR, Ala., Dec. 5.—Trials of the remaining Scotts- boro hoys were postponed indefinitely late today by Judge W. W. Callahan, while the jury which w vent out 1 night to con- day, demanding and winning | sider their verdict in the case of Clarence Norris was still out. wage increases of 10 cents per hour| ....Callahan called for the trial of Cc harles Weems, when court and a promise of better transporta- | opened this morning, but Samuel S. Leibowitz, attorney, re- ion facilities. A committee of seven | —— tained by the International La- was elected to meet with the local | bor Defense protested vigor Some of the 3000 Bear Mountain C.W.A. strikers who massed outside the office of Frederick Daniels, State Civil Works Administrator. As a result of the strike the men won a $14 a month increase in quick order. Nazis Demand the Death 3,000 CWA Workers 160 CWA Miners Strike for Pay for Transit Time Lyneh Judge ne 1926. TAYLORVILLE, Itl,— One hun- © |C. W. A. officials | 1 n the ground that it hi ‘These figures prove that the Roose-| | dred and sixty unemployed miners ey t 0 on ri Os. | ercoted or Beleae conditions on tndetetanding tnt (he, 4a ‘ : hes S 5 49 | Ss! 1s | unde: ndir that the remaining velt price-raising program ha a who secured jobs through the C. entence or ommunis 5 L |the job were made to the commitice. trials wane > be postponed pending fected a 10 to 16 per cent wage cut| |}w. 4. went on strike demanding | All Hook Mountain employees are | appeal of the Heywood Patterson case in the pay envelope of every Amer-| | nay for the time spent in trans- orm @ elie nion urged to come to a union meeting | jas well f Clarence Norris in the tean worker. rta ti to and from jobs. Get Less Food. coda debe | tonight at 5 p. m., immediately after Openly Reveal Murder Plans; Dimitroff uk }event of a guilty verdict against him. 2 lreturn f k, at 27 Hudson St lahcate ze The result, of this sharp clash in| That Marcel Cachin Testify at Fire Trial | Will Organize on Job xmas wrote Mt 27 Hudson — ne E. Knight, who waned the purchasing power of the wage Drive Started at a to Win Demands from |22m°.2 this meeting to work out a to go on with the trial, the LL.D, won workers’ dollar is reflected in the poeeree of future demands. point {Special to the Daily Worker.) latest report of the U. S. Department, : ) ture demands of Commerce which reveals that the Montevideo Meet AT THE GERMAN BORDER, Dec. 5 (Via Zurich, Switzerland) —The Government | nen Leibowitz demanded that largest groceries of the country have p en Lelbo demanded that pre-determined intention of the Hitler government to railroad through the trials of George Dimitroff, Ernst Torgler, Biagoi Popoff and Vzssil Taneff to the death verdicts and death sentences was revealed at today’s session of the Reichstag fire trial at Leipzig when the Public Prosecutor sent informa- ists to the ef-@ 30 CWA Union Men Prepare to Strike NEW YOR®.--Three thousand Civil | Callahan refused. Works Admir‘stration workers, em-| | proceedings to force will be taken, the law- sold 10 per cent less groceries than last year. As for department stores, the survey showed that the workers can now get on U. S. Policies ployed at Bear Mountain, who struck and marched on the state C.W.A. of- only 10 per cent less goods in these tion to foreign jou fice Monday were able by their or- sata Ia isan’ ek stores for the same money, compared Del eg ates Opp OSE j fect that “the ae a a aes s 4 in ganized ‘mass pressure to win ten| Cia Bl i Trad Padi an dey sexiest with last year. * . four Communist defendants hai en, it t cents an hour increase and other de- | Ca C rades | mo “Ps s gual If the Roosevelt government suc- Debt Collection, fully maintained by the trial pro- 00: eve e mands. | 2B. eee He ‘gave no reason for this ceedings.” The prosecution, he de- clared, will propose death sentences, ceeds in jacking up retail prices to the 1926 level, then the buying power Intervention Callahan's ch: erday in the to the jury yes- Norris cast, as he de=- — |Men Object to 50c. Hr.| Under the C.W.A. they were told| | Saturday that they would receiye a Member at Nazi 2 more despite the overwhelming mass of q —Thirty tee wen Wien oh eee MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, Dec. 8—| Sheree whioh has been, presented : oq, /ist rate of 50 cents per hour. After! CAMDEN, N. J, Dec. 6-—Thirty | i in only one or two f —- i i A drive to break cown the dominating] at the trial proving their undoubted ,their strike they have won an in-|* sight om P rt ch-inciting charge Big Profits, . position of United States imperialism |: noconce 5 ee Ing oni jerease, to. 60- cents per hour and the ee ‘i orks... Admini aaeactn - wade-in the Patterson eases ‘iae ane Sposeyalt. Ravernment 18-6 tag “tne “PancAmeltan Conference? ane cxaraination of . wittosses right to work four days per week in-| Sftt00l Projects are preparing | to) xd of forgetting completely to in- engaged in an attempt to raise Lae meeting here was begun today with | ¢ormer Communists taken from prison aanaary es stead Of Tive days, thus saving an| i“ according to Ernest R. Lowis| uct the jury on how to render a Punign Sis “Duron as eBoy AD line attoption, ofa proposal to invite|Crtindea tates Whe abier question |. NEW YORK—The New York Hit-|additional 50 cents in train fare. | Seales, accotting to Menest R Lewis) verdict of “not guilty” he paused after through other inflationary 2A codes |SPain and Portugal to sit in on the| was whether an armed uprising was | “ites, Whose meeting was forbidden| At the state C.W.A. office today, hi ie) Buating: es Gouncl'| -W. W. “SPEED” CALLAHAN jhe had presented what he himself a ene, ne cncine’ wenes [conference as “mother” countries of | intended for the end of February and |°7 Mayor O'Brien before election, are| statements were given to the capital. | 5°re- | termed “the state's side of the case.” The men are objecting to the 50 | cents, an hour they are being paid, | which is supposed to apply o1 unskilled labor. They are the scales set by the Federal Labor are for the purpose of keeping wages at a fixed level, the net result being an increase in profits for the employ- crs. The recent report of a 450 per cent nolding their meeting tonight in Medison Square Garden under the guise’ of the 250th anniversary of German immigration to America. It ist press that since this wage increase had #ready been authorized by Wash- ington, the workers had not won a Wage increase by striking. This is Then he addd just one sentence, to h the jaw, telling the jury the South American nations. A 60-page memorandum from the League of Nations asking that the conference endorse the League's pro- whether the Reichstag fire was meant to be a signal for this insurrection. Witness Felix, expelled from the Comr Party in 1929 fort em- conform w ©2000 in San Jose “2s ese", a A s ; ney fonda steal- {18 being held in the name of the|said in an effort to cover up’ this “iformbd that “under Alabama law rise in net profits for the 425 biggest Dore. for “peace” in the two: Year ‘hezzling Party funds, admitted steal- | teuberr Societ Paridbid really -acBally. Sebi aittaed Board be applied to them on the sales ier } corporations of the country is evi-|War between Bolivia and Paraguay, | ing explosives and buying arms. The cape pe eons? Buy Aral victory of the workers, who had been! Gwa projects, instead of the star- Denounce Lynchers,'s: a general exception to the judge's told Saturday that under the C.W.A.| their wages would be 50 cents per! hour. he made in the Patter- Ss not valid, Leibowitz in 3 specific exceptions. witness had obviously been maltreated either in troops. h whose puppet governments represent respectively United States and British {imperialism in their struggle for con- dence of the effect of the Roosevelt price-raising program and the N.R.A. wage-fixing codes. vation CWA minimum. A number of complaints had been | sent to Col. Joseph B. Sears, dey the U. 8. The Steuben Society, which has many Nazis in its ranks, invit- ed all German organizations to co- storm he prison or by the At frequent intervals =" Rolph in Mass Meet :: Se EE |trol of South American resources and| cried hysterically. He declared, how- pe After the strike, to consolidate the/| relief director, that skilled that he amend his charge jmarkets, was read. ever, that nobody had dreamed of Operate in tonight's meeting. Dr.|yictories won and to organize the| are being nied as cific points. In most cases The Haitian delegation, whose la-|@2 armed uprising, but onlv of de-|Hans Luther, representative of Hit-| peo” yrountain workers for struggle|then assigned to skill ed to do so, or re-for- ler’s regime in the U, S., is listed as 'a@ speaker, as well as Major General |Preston of the U. S, Army and Rear Admiral Stirling of the U. S. Navy. Secretary of Commerce Daniel Roper of Roosevelt's Cabinet, will speak, " Meeting,Called by ILD, Held on Spot Where ‘Spanish Fascists Ppt ay ence ‘Gain Cortes Control 48 203. cate. De. Tannery Striker Is Dying After Police Attack on Pickets fense against the Fascists. The pre- siding judge interrupted him to state that he had _ previously preparations for an _ uprising, Felix adhered to today’s si Dimitroff Accuses Nazis r ed the point in a manner scarce- y different from what he had used the first place, Callahan omitted from his charge the expression he had used in his instructions in the Patterson case, to for greater demands, a group of mal strikers met at Irving Plaza and| united under the Relief Workers Pro- | tective Union. An organization com-| mittee of five was elected to organize the workers on the job. bor member issued an appeal on the eve of the conference for the with- drawal of United States fiscal control of Haiti, hinted today that it would ask that France, its “mother” coun- try, be invited to the conference. A mass ‘i “The people who prepared an| The New York Committee to Aid ‘i SEN ac the effect that if a Negro was charged SPH eee armed uprising for the end of Janu-|Victims of German Fascism, in a dit ak weenie id al meeting et 2.000 RAE here Sunday| with rape the presumption must be i a Thugs Used in| by Britain against the moves of its hning of February |statement condemning the Nazil workers, the Relief Workers Protec. | MADRID, Dec. 5. ft-repub-| fternoon denounced the actions of lared Dimitroff, im-| meeting, with which the federal au- ing the reprimand of Felix, by this! the very spot of Thomas H. cred troops| Governor Rolph on ecree de-| where the lynchings m and| Thurmond and John Holmes, degen- tive Union is putting forward the| licaz A minimum wage| held in readiness under a no discrimination | claring a “state of preve |U. S. rivals to use the present con- | mediate y jo y ference to gain trade concessions at Khe reading horities are collaborating, calls on all workers and intellectuals to intensify Attack on Norwood Scottsboro Protest following prograi of $5 per day . the expense of the British, hinted | 4;.,. ise ivi J ™ Twi Strikers that the Washington government iad | eee eaters ante eee ae hs fed cen gsc pey is et against any worker for trade union| alarm” ; r swept|érate kidnapers, took place on Nov News on Page 0 blocked all moves for peace in the)” ‘The public prosecutor indicated that | from tie recta eat ey ‘ aes oetivities; workmen's compensation | the working-class districts ugh-| 26. | ~ NORWOOD, Dec. 5.—Truckloads | Bolivian-Paraguayan conflict. Enrique speed-ui & 4 gainst to apply on tne job and during the | out Spain as the results of Sunday's) ‘The mass meeting, held under the News of mass protest actions in he planned to speed-up the proceed-|the mass execution of German anti-| t iti of thugs, imported from New York |Buero, Secretary General of the Con- |; le period of transportation; free trans- | parliamena run-off _ elections| auspices of the Int ional Labor any cities throughout the coun- ings by dropping a number of prose-| fascist workers. | ot by the Bergoff Detective Agency, | ference, and former Uruguayan Min-| cuytion witnesses. The next wilness jPortation to and from the job; full| showed a sweeping victory for the re-| Defense, heard speakers representing inst the Decatur lynch ver- led the attack on the picket line|ister to various European countries, | ,., gub-distri er of the Com- |Pay for time lost during rainy weath- | actionary coalition, obtained by fraud} the Commu Party, the I. L. D 1 be found on page two of was a sub-district leader of the Com adequate medical attention on a and violence at the polls. jand the Trade Union Unity League the job for injured workers; and the The decree was endorsed by the/link the lynch provocation of - today’s issue. Turn to this page® to see what is being done in your 18th Amendment No © of the tannery strikers here, which is leading the British-inspired move sent eight to the hospital, one of munist Party in Freienwalde, named! to bring the conference under the in- reste Jessel. Testifying for the second| whom is dying. Most of these hired thugs have criminal records. The fluence of the League of Nations. He is supported by Foreign Minister Car- day, he declared that the theft of Longer Part of Law application of Roosevelt's promises of wages up to $1.20 per hour for skilled three Socialist Ministers in the pre-| fornia’s governor with the situation ent government who, with the So-|in Decatur, today, where the entire city. state police as well as Boston po- |ios Saavedra Lamas of Argentina, who| Gr ie Gadchanat nutes ee oome | Tae workers. Bidliste traptions initia coctans helped} proceedings of Judge Callahan and| lice were called out against thejhas proposad the calling of a Pan- Communists’ without. the. knowledge WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 5— | ‘The Relief Workers Protective | through their attacks on the revolu- jthe Alabama court are intended to that he was guilty. He emphasized this 7 picket lines today. One striker has suffered a fractured skull, The men who are on strike are members of the National Leather Workers Union. The strikers brought action in the Superior Civil Court in Boston against the company. Former Gov- ernor of Massazhusetts, Frank Allen, owns the factory, and Allen was responsible for the importation of the thugs who assaulted the picket line in front of the. Lithuanian Hall, headquarters of the strikers. American economic and commercial conference and the revival of the dead World Economic Conference. Othe attacks on U. S. imperialism were engineered by the Mexican and Cuban delegations, the former op- posing the Roosevelt ban against in- cluding economic questions on the agenda and demanding a 6 to 10 year moratorium on the $1,400,000,000 debts owed by the governments south of the Rio Grande to United States bankers, through loans forced on of the Communist Party leaders. Action for Seif Defense A long discussion followed on the planned storm troop march on Berlin, the united front, mass mobilization, Dimitroff asked Jessel if the Communists had pianned a protest strike of a certain length in February etc, (Continued on Puge 2) 3,000 French Miners By official proclamation, issued from Wa shington by the Acting Secretary of State, the 18th Amend- ment was officially repealed to- night. Union calls the attention of the wot ers that although the Bear Mountain workers won an increase of 10 cents per hour, the promises of Roosevelt | that skilled workers would be paid union wages has not been kept. Daily Worker Forces Wage Raise in Cleveland Shop! tionary workers and peasants to pave} rush the triais of the innocent N the wave for the Fascist reaction that| gro boys through to death verdic' is now setting in. | Governor Rolph’s praise for the S The run-off elections gave the com- | Jose lynchers was cited as open e bined right and centrist parties 376) couragement to the Southern rul seats in the Cortes. The “left” par-| class which intends to lynch, legally ties obtained 97 seats. The Socialists} or otherwise, the Scottsboro boys | carried Madrid and the province of} A local minister and John Bar: Huelva, winning 13 seats to the Cor-| a newspaper columnist, also addressed tes, as against four for the coalition,| the meeting. but were decisively beaten in the Speakers pointed out that the other districts. lynching here was the work of only Repcris from the city of Coria, 200/ 2 handful of drunken hoodlums, jand in with the comment that “I’m not drawing the color line either,” Dr. Bridges, who was the first wits ness yesterday, testified he found no bruises, cuts, or wounds on Victoria Price other than a scratch on wrist forearm, when the Negro boys an- ed a series of leading questions him by Prosecutor Knight. After Gove those countries with the cooperation miles’ from Madrid, declare that @| ganized by local bosses, The hu: absence of nearly three years, he & ies tronk Aggies euActuteter of native officials who, ie formien . eae strike We Lert called hacia prreceetll ed at this protest meeting es Re Cae ae be Mepis a i gee Ae id ee ine Hi P t t é i i ¥ i | bled ideas ndignant workers. also indicated this. The connivance slaon ie S 3 ict *) ¥ ’ | e| e' vere ; Bees Perea rasa) huge private fortunes out of the| IIL unger rotest Lag in Drive Shows Workers in Shops Are [hare cut fhe telephone. telegraph./of Governor Rolph with the Pollee bMS i transactions. Cuba joined the Haitians ; | electric and gas lines. ‘oops have} chers ¥ ex and car rege : in raising the question of U. S. armed Not Being Approached | been ordered to proceed to Coria. n to be the cause ‘ed the | tertainer tel lobbies, he could nob RFC Gives Subsidy intervention against neighboring Civil Employees Plan | The Martinez Barrios government} hotel where he recited, nar a 3 er bo! ES countries. , ; : is expected to be replaced with a cen-| G, alph, it was point 2 ester Carter CORE Of $50,000,000 to [cicaiats.2, Yous uacsuran| Strike on Cats Cie, San Rati feet tnt eine dare, bas | soni goverment Hende By| og WEN NY, Mane dept o Raby Rat a g : t) ’ eae eee pasties eee Stig PARIS, Dec. 4,—Three thousand | Worker drive as Detroit. Similar in-|Unit 336, Cleveland, had no trouble in| L@!7°UX- lati arkhetsco’ to Ban soe: Wi it never called as a Witieee Rane fe ° iin Caaninitin int tiie tering rire ‘memployed miners, one of the con- | dustrial conditions prevail in both of |raising its quota. | Parte Calla Speciale rt 1 ms : resistance on the pas of ke Morgan City Bank bourgeois-landiora overnments for| tingents of an army of 70,000 hunger | these’ territories, These are only a few of the nu-||Party Calls Special || san Francisco police. Rolph of Luther Manila debt and tariff cavipemaibiie from te marchers, which began moving on| Yet on December 1, Detroit hadjmerous examples proving that work- General Membership Lette! separ te d NEW YORK, Dec. 5.—A huge sub- sidy of $50,000,000 will be given to the National City Bank through the R.F.C., it was announced today. The R.F.C, has agreed to buy $50.000,000 worth of the bank’s preferred stock. ;|ance of the toiling masses to hunger, United States, warning the Washing- ton government that continued ‘in- sistence on its “pound of flesh” would have disastrous results to the capi- talist-landlord system in South Am- erica as a result of the rising resist- Paris a week ago, paraded today in St. Etienne, near here, in a vigorous demonstration against the govern- ment’s plans for new cuts in the so- cial services, relief, etc., wages of civil employees and increased ti As the Finance Commission of the raised 87.2 per cent on its pledge, and Cleveland only 59.1 per cent. Is it because workers in Ohio do not realize the importance of the Daily Worker in their struggles? Facts show this is not true, A worker who posted a strike story 11, with a xation. ers in Ohio are devoted to the Dail Worker, that they will support ouy paper if asked to do so, Yet Section large Negro population stirred by the Scottsboro case, realiz-| ing that the Daily Worker is their weapon against the lynchers, failed! | outcome for day | ings which h _Feeling against the lync nor Rolph is running Meet for Thursday To All Party Members! To All Revolutionary Workers! S and so high | groups are alres oart, of defense coun= when they took pic= iid not see into the Car, & At the same time, the Bank writes mber of Deputies studied the |ftom the Daily Worker on the bul-|to raise one penny for the “Daily” 3 \ical campaign against rror oe Fe of $56,000,000 of its esscts as hope-| Unemployment and the mounting cost | Con: of tha tiser Chautarape htintatre [letit’ board. of thn Cleveland. Byarling tn the two, wank, pevlod of Roveip oe ||. W YORK —The a0 . 8 8 {ee error and RA Used lessly lost. a le pointed to the des-)/.° "balancing the budget at the ex. |Press Company reports that this re-|Similar poor showings have been|| Seere‘ariat of the Communist eterans Expel Rolph 1s g ¢ perate situation of world capitali ‘or a set at Pact: % eect Veter: Pel P Laat Thus, the Roovevelt government, |" Ps capitalism, | nonse of the toiling masces, groups|sulted in an immediate increase of|made by Youngstown, Cincinnatt, azty calls you to a special and E through the R.F.C., steps in with and declared that “civilization is go- of civil employees renewed their pro-|10 per cent in wages, and following|Dayton and, East Ohio, The Jewish, | Utsent general membership || NEW YORK Governor Jame eat its $50,000,000 subsidy to toke care ing through a profound crisis which, tests against the pronosed pay cuts|this, ten of the workers contributed ]and Huvgar!an lanquar> “row, much meeting this Thursday evening, Rolph of California has been ex- A bees of the capital loss of the bank In | )Urne® Prolonged, will bring in-| ond called on thelr fellows ta prooare (a dollar each for the Dally Worker. |enailer, has done “wood work, Dee, 7, at 7:30 sharp at St. Nich- | | peiled from the National Advi 5 planning to refer the writing off of its assets. |e parti renee! to the social a nation-wide strike against the pro- |The Daily Worker agent in Erie re- . olas Arena, 69 W. 66th St. Clar- || Board of the National War Vet » str now in its second a and moral order.” He stressed the | rosals, ports that his customers, some of| MOMRADES of Cleveland! The| | ence Hathaway and Richard B. ation “for his actions ar reton if (t 4s unable tom Fe ‘the ‘National’ ‘Civ Bank Tea oor=| donk ot 2 DoUrseols clankee te Naz| ‘The bourgeoisie are making des- [fem new reeders, await impatiently |& $40,000 ne Tees ntl)| Seeere cn | Ritonee the: tanda~ i ie ant strike of the Sat * : BD Ob ie POUNBEOIS, CAME EO Eur re the arrival of the “Daily.” In Euclid] the Daily Wor con tal political meaning of tre oS mititan e of the t: wi By ‘ efforts to split nited e arrival of e ally.” In Eucl the Datly Wor 1 only mental pol al meaning o! fan abe with, the Morgans holding |ther emphasize his demands for con-| erate efforts to split ane farmers | Village, where no Daily Workers were |it cach district does not Tull shate,|| mew lynch wave. in rela y ; 1. / ha cod by gansters attaelie Es e collateral of the former president, |ccssions from the United States, } viously sold, a house to house can- . og ing fascist. mai ® meeting of the executive ing ving eabs and smashing & Mitchell, and yesterday succeeded in organiz- | Previously sold, Use Cal 2. the growing fascist. m: Sn ee e i tts a4 : Four drivers = ‘Rein eee eataie “|ing a counter-demonstration of 2,-|Vas in only four streets resulted in | Tuesday's receipts ++ 680.75/ | tions im the country and other | |committee of the associ.tcn, a) aia wee Its profits, after all expenses, sal-| of $6.900,000 a ‘The usual divi-|o00 farmers at which. a resolution (the sale of 100 Daily Workers. vious total . 003.76) | burning tasks before all revolu- || urged the citizens of California “to es ingur oe ee aries, ctc., amounted last year to/dend will be paid in the next two favoring the disfranchisement of civil A worker, J. B., from Lorain, Ohio. ——|| tionary workers. take immediate steps to impeach of cabs damaged ant sbout. $15,000,000, It pays dividends weeks, employees was adopted. oN Jobless for three years, living on city Total to date \their present nominal Governor.” ‘stolen in an effort to break the