The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 8, 1933, Page 1

f | $6,575 MORE Will Put $40,000 Drive Over the Top. Send a Dollar! merica’s Only Working | r Class Daily Newspap WEATHER—Fair and Colder (Section of the Communist International) NEW YORK, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1933 (Six Pages) ‘Entered os sooond-class matter at the Post Office ew York, . Y., under the Aet of March 6, 1878. Vol. X, No. 294° ™ Roosevelt, Aide Applauds Nazi Salute Revolutionary Duty of U. 8. Communists to | Rally All Workers to Save Our Class Brothers from the Nazi Butchers 5,000 Applying for State Will Sum Up MOBILIZE TO SAVE LIVES TO DESTROY COMMUNIST LEIPZIG TRIAL HEROES FACE DEATH VERDICT WORKERS IN MANY CITIES {Dayton Potie Cub |GOVT PLANS Til 200Local CWA Jobs Next Wednesday; 1 o ao eeee ment Degen ngs itetele | _ Verdict to Follow workers who stormed the local Civil Works Administration of- WASHINGTON, D. C., Dee. (Special to the Daily Worker) ; NEW YORK.—Determined that Heywood Patterson, Clar- | ence Norris, and the other seven Scottsboro boys shall not die ean ek Riccest geting 7.—Another $350,000,000 tl | AT THE GERMAN BORDER, Dec. 7 (via Zurich, Switz- | in the electric chair, workers throughout the county have flung | (yj. jobs which were to be given|be spent in the next year,| | erland).—The pre-determined Nazi verdict of death against themselves into preparations for huge mass protest meetings} Long before dawn, hundreds of 1934, to subsidize the destruc- | | the four Communist defendants—George Dimitroff, Ernst Bs oo, in seores of cities. Answering the designation of Saturday, Dec. 9th, by the International Labor Defense as®———__—___ “Scottsboro Protest Day,” the N. Y. District of the Communist Party issued a call to the workers of New York to rally tomorrow at 1 pm., in Union Square, to protest the Decatur lynch verdict. ‘No less than fifteen speakers rep- resenting trade unions, Negro and white organizations, intellectuals, un- employed groups, etc., will be present to voice their demands for the free- dom of the Scottsboro boys. The list of speakers include: Joseph Brodsky, Scottsboro Protests NEW YORK. — Mass Scottsboro protest rally in Union Square to- morrow, 1 p. m. Protest meeting tomorrow, 12 noon, Seventh St. and Avenue A. March from there to Union Square. Demonstration today, auspices of ¥. C. L., Howard and Dean St., Crown Heights, Brooklyn, at 7 p. m. Mass meeting to follow at 1777 At~ lantic Aye, . aS Mass meeting, Italian Prolet Club, 3197 Hombcldt St. near Meserole, Brocklyn, Sunday at 3 p. m. Protest demonstration and parade tonight at 7 p. m. at Wilkins and Intervale Ave. Bronx. March to Weshington and Claremont Park~ way, thence to Ambassador Hall, Third Ave. and Claremont Park- way for a mass mecting. Scottsboro protest meeting, to- night, at 8:30 at Jackson Workers Club, 785 Westchester Ave., Bronx. Protest rally tonight, St. Philips Parish House 215 W. 133rd St., Har- lem. CHICAGO, — Scottsboro protest parade, Saturday, 4 P. M., begin- ning at 43rd and Indiana Ave. and march to Savoy Ballroom, 47th and . and Southpark Ave. for a mass meeting. PITTSBURGH.—Scottsboro pro- test parade Saturday, Dec. 16, Cen- tre Ave. ¥. M. C. A. to Bedford Park. BOSTON. — Demonstration Sun- day, 3 p. m. Douglass Square, Hammond and Tremont Sts., South End. LYNN. — Meeting Lasters Hall, Monday, Dec. 11. PHILADELPHIA—Special meet- ing of Cleaners and Dyers Local 18233, Sunday, Dec. 10, 2 p. m., at Garrick Hall, 507 South Eight St., to protest Scottsboro decision. chief defense counsel just returned from Decatur, W. Chappel, William L, Patterson, International Labor De~ fense Mrs. Patience Williams, Chris- (Continued on Page 2) ‘Nothing to Say’ Is Atty.-Gen.’s Reply On Lynch Inquiry By MARGUERITE YOUNG (Daily Worker Washington Bureau) WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec, 7— ‘Talk about lynchings is one thing, in the Roosevelt administration and action is altogether something else again. I asked Atforney General Homer 8. Cummings today what he would do about the demands he personally re- ceived months ago for federal inves- tigation of the mobbings of Negroes in Maryland and Alabama. “I haven't anything to say about it,” replied the attorney General. And he smiled. And his long fin- gers came to rest in a gesture of finality on the bright cigar-lighter on his desk in front of his high judge's chair. He said this, although Just about twelve hours earlier President Roose- velt had publicly branded lynching “collective murder,” and had said that the judicial function of government had fallen into “disrepair” and that “it must be a part of our program to re-establish. it.” This, although just a few moments before, Cummings hirsself had excoriated lynching in the abstract. “It is so reprehensible,’ Cummings (Continued on Page 2) Scottsboro Defense Lawyers Cheered on Return from Trial NEW YORK.—For fifteen minutes before the Chattanooga train bearing Samuel Leibowitz and Joseph D. Brodsky, I.L.D. attorneys, arrived in the Pennsylvania Station at 4.17 yes- terday afternoon, the terminal re- sounded with the cries of “The Scottsboro Boys Shall Not Die! The Scottsboro Boys Shall Not Die!” Nearly 500 Negro and white work~ ers—a large number of them from Harlem—cheered the Scottsboro law- yers as they came into sight of the crowd. Decatur Wednesday afternoon after Judge Callahan had sentenced Hey- wood Petterson and Clarence Nor- ris to die in the electric chair on Feb, 2. Elias Schwartzbard and Sol Cobn,” assistants” to- Brodsky * during en Decatur trials, arrived at the same ime. A large number of uniformed cops and plainclothesmen held the cheer- ing crowd back as it continued the chant, “The Scottsboro Boys Shall Not Die! The Scottsboro Bays Shall Not Die.” As soon as Leibowitz and Brodsky came into sight, they were lifted upon the shoulders of the crowd who car- ried them outside the terminal. Pushed backwards by the advancing crowd eager to catch a glimpse of the Scottsboro defense attorneys, a score of news photographers were forced to dash forward ahead of the pro- cession and awkwardly striving to get “shots” of the attorneys as the latter were surrounded by the surge of the welcoming crowd, A half a dozen cops, arms linked, marched Leibowitz out of the ter- minal. Close to Leibowitz was the towering figure of Harold Fox, his 250-pound personal bodyguard from the Brooklyn homicide squad. Cheering, “Long Live the Inter- national Labor Defense!” and “The Scottsboro Boys Shall Not Die!” the crowd poured out of the terminal, close at the heels of the Scottsboro attorneys. Traffic was momentarily halted at 34th St. and Seventh Ave., and thousands of workers leaving shops and offices were attracted to the demonstration. All the Scottsboro boys are now back in the Jefferson County Prison in Birmingham, Leibowitz reported. Asked whether Patterson and Norris would be sent to the Alabama State Prison in Kilby, Leibowitz said that “it was not likely.” Announcement of appeal by the defense had auto~ ™maticaily halted execution of sen- tence, and transfer of the boys to Kilby, where they had been beaten by guards, would be vigorously fought by the defense, the lawyer declared. Brodsky and Leibowitz left | workers lined up at the door to wait for the few jobs that were passed out. When the doors opened at 8 p.m., the street before the offices was filled with workers. The men and women were packed so solidly that several were able to walk over the shoulders of the crowd to secure a better position in the front of the line. : In the future, to hide from the workers the great numbers who are daily applying for the few jobs which are passed out, cards will be sent through the mails to those who have been selected, it was announced by the C.W.A, office here. Montgomery County, in which Day- 1,854 jobs under the C.W.A. to pro- vide work for the thousands of un- employed in and around Dayton. To provide work for workers, 150 projects have been pro- posed out of which only 20 proje State office at Columbus. Forgotten Single Women’ March for gates to Dec. 10 Job- less Convention NEW YORK, Dec, 7—Carrying banners, “We Are The Forgotten Women,” “Women Can Serve on Pub- lic Works Too,” 90 women from the Single Unemployed Women’s Asso- ciation marched to the headquarters of the state C.W.A. demanding $1 a day cash relief. The Association, which has Social- ist officials, has elected delegates to the united front Convention Against Unemployment which will be held Sunday, Dec. 10, 10 a. m. at Irving Plaza at the call of the Unemployed Councils. The delegates were elected over the protests of Mary Fox and other Socialist officials. ‘Nothing Definite’ When confronted by a delegation of the women, Miss Inez Ross, head of the women’s division of the C.W.A., stated that there is plenty of money. Asked when the single women would get the jobs and how many were available, she said, thing definite.” Later she issued the statement: “I hope that 3,000 of the jobs will be available for women by next week.” The City Unemployed Councils un- der whose auspices the Convention Against Unemployment is being held sent a letter Tuesday to Travis Whitney, newly appointed local C.W.A. head, inviting him to appear before the convention, to which 500 local or~ ganizations involving thousands of workers in unions, fraternal and job- less organizations, are sending del- egates. tion of corn and hogs, Roose- ton is located, has a quota of only | these few | ts | have been officially approved by the) Jobs to CWA Office Women Send Dele- | “I can't say any-| | velt’s Secretary of Agriculture, Henry A. Wallace, announced today. This year, the Roosevelt govern- ment has spent over $50,000,000 to subsidize rich farmers to destroy) wheat, cotton, corn crops and hogs. | The Roosevelt government is pur-/| suing this program in order to raise | the prices of these commodities in the cities. The Roosevelt plan is thus to make the consumers in the cities shoulder the cost of the food destroy- ing program, The cost of meat and corn have risen as a result of this food-destroying plan. | The latest plan provides for a fur- | ther 20 per cent destruction of corn | acreage, and a destruction of 25 per | cent of the country’s hog meat supply. Small farmers, unable to get any of the benefits of the acreage-reducing program, are being forced into bank- ruptcy, while rich farmers and the packing house monopolies are getting the benefits of the subsidies that are ultimately paid for by the consumers in the cities. Packers, in Fear of More S‘rikes, Give | Small Pay Increase Police Attack Sausage Strikers, Injuring One, in Chicago CHICAGO, Ml., Dec. 7—The police attacked picket lines of workers at the Fulton Sausage Market here, one man being injured, in the strike of the 3,000 sausage workers. The police claim to have been showered with rocks following their attack on the picket lines, Due to the recent strikes of the packing house workers, the present strike of the sausage workers, and the threat of further packing house strikes, the packing house companies announced 10 per cent increases in pay, it was reported today, to several thousand men. The Swift and Ar- mour companies announced an in- crease of four cents an hour for skilled and unskilled. Wilson and Co. announced a similar raise for un- skilled. Judge Jails Workers, Frees Lynch Hailers NEW YORK.—Two women who cheered the California double lynching as it was being re-en- acted on the sercen of the Globe Theatre, were freed Tuesday by Magistrate Renaud, who at the same time sentenced 63 homeless workers to two days in jail and returned a verdict of guilty against four young workers staging a Seottcboro protect action im the Secretary of Co’ arm in the Ni Square Gard~.. Workers celebration of is and the presence ‘trong-arm men, shouts of “Down with Hitler!” broke of many workers before the police from the Garden. were slugged and kicked out, torn and bloody from a side photographers, tinued throughout Luther's distracting the attention of the audi- ence from his vords of “German n tional unity, und Wille.” U. 8. Officials Applaud All the American speak Daniel C. Roper, Secretary of Com- rreree in Roos: 3 Cabinet. to Majoi General J, F. Preston and Rear Ad mirel Yates Stirling, applauded the Nazi greetings of the German am- itary prowess on land and sea. much ap) ers when, speaking on the N.R.A, and *he Roosevelt “legal. orderly and democratic revolution,” said: “Our purpose today is for economic unity and for a national social con- sciousness.” good will of the President of the United States” was hailed by the salute. Times Square je is sen (Continued on Page 2) ambassador in the United States, violent!y appla salute while speaking at the Fasc’ The Roescvelt Hunger administration pays homage to the butchers’ 2 the German workers. “Down With Hit at Nazi Meeting t ie alah NEW YORK.—Raised arms and criés of “Hi Hans Luther; Nazi ambassador, couldn't drown went up when he rose to speak Wednesday ni “German Day—Deutscher Tag” Garden. Despite the 350 police and plainclothes men who guarded every | section of the closely packed Garden,@ despite the open Nazi sympathies of | clearly and strongly from the throats | and Nazi guards charged in and bru-) tally dragged the anti-fascist workers | Some workers were arrested, a few| entrance | where they could not be seen by| revolt but the booing and }munist shouting of “Down with Hitler!” con- | speech, | | and “Deutsche Kraft qT bassador and hailed the German mil- | Morgan ba jin Wall Street. In fact, Secretary Roper evoked | r use from his Nazi listen-|higher all over the island, as the | nis home, out of which he was evicted, | at this session, but he failed to appear, Grau government an |Party a His statement that he “brings the | Nazis in the audience by the Hitler | An air of tenseness pervaded the | micrce Roper, standing behind Hans Luther, Hitler's | ther raises his in Madison as Li meet Hitler!” which greeted t the mighty “Boo!” that t at the Steuben Society at the Madison Square Strike Against Wall Street Companiesin Havana;C.P. in Lead HAVAN. utionar Cub: of Cu the Cuban Telephone Compa worth, the Cuban Electric Company, have issued a strike call, to become issued here after the ned to ings and the American Anti- ing greet~ ban mas the of anies are owned by and utility companies | Torgler, Blagoi Popoff and Vassil Taneff—will be passed next United week, | the last witness Jobless Worke Rushes Aid to ‘Daily’ 1 i ~SitKERS who are jobi to Wwhom pennies mean the dif- ference be.ween eating and going hungry, are making great sacrifices in order to hep the Daily Worker. “L have worked one month in | four years,” writes J. J, of Ash- | tabula, Ohio. “I am witaout any income wih ver, But 1 would rather go without that much food than to let our fighting organ go under. I send a dollar, I v t had a hundred to give. Your a Sovietized America and a cur plete world working-class regim oer r FHE above is only one of many letters received. fram snempleyed workers in response uw the appeals | of our Daily Worker for immediate | hetp. Philip G. of Philadelphia, Pa., | 65 years old, sent 75 cents. “This is | more than I have earned in three | years,” he writes. A husband and wife, C. S. of Camden, N. J., sent a dollar. “We are sending this to help the Daily Worker,” they write. “The ‘Daily’ is getting better all the time. Wish we could afford more, but have been unemployed for two years.” A dollar came from Edward H., of Tonganozia, Kansas. “This is all I have at present, writes. “You great work in the paper.” =D THE DAILY WORK- VEHY STRUGGLE OF THE DAILY WORKER ITS OURS. NEEDS EVERY CENT IN | PRESENT FINANCIAL CRISIS. 767.35 3 Thursday's receipts - $ Previous total ...- 32,65’ | ‘TOTAL TO DATE. «$33,424.83, |Chiid Near Death as | Truck Bearing Evicted Family Catches Fire | NEW YORK, Dec. 7—Cclia Kelly, |} aged 3 years, is in Cumberland Hos- | , in a critical condition | pital tod | from burns received when a truck on This was made certain at yesterday’s session, when 2s were heard in the monstrous “trial” at ww,” Leipzig. | The court set next Wednes- day as the date on which the pros- Jecution will sum up. The verdict ‘will be passed soon afterward. It will be remembered that the prosecution stated three days ago that Id insist on the death verdict. Defendants May Not Talk The Nazi court yesterday flatly re- fused to comp! with Dimitroff’s motions that n bers of the Execu- tive Committee of the Communist In- ternational be called to give their testimony on the politicial situation | that existed early in 1933. Dimitroff’s \req that he be permitted to speak with his three co-defendants, with |whom he has had no communication |for nine months, was also refused. | Professors Bonnhoefer and Zupp, |“mental experts,” declared at this |session that the Nazi tool, and Reich- |stag incendiary, Van der Lubbe, was | Sane. | | Sctanew itz, suddeniy declared that": © | Was not impossible” that he had seen | Popoff at the Reichstag. At any rate, jhe claimed that he saw a man ‘who | looked very much like him. “The first time I saw Scranewita in |this court,” Dimitroff said, “I took jhim for a Macedonian terrorist who |has the murders of ten Communists lon his conscience. There is a very at resemblance.” Dimitroff added astically, however, that “I learned afterwards that Scranewita was a worthy official.” | The trial continued with the exam- ination of Assessor Petri, who had jexamined the Communist workers, | Jessel, Hieske and Nickel in the pre- | liminary -inquiries and had extorted |false evidence from them. ‘Petri | naturally denied using pressure, stat- jing that he had only tried “to find out the truth.” | He betrayed himself, however, by |admitting that he had failed to change a passage in the minutes | where the workers had allegedly as- serted planning to blow up a power | station simultaneously with the out- | break of the Reichstag fire, although |the workers had protested that this | was untrue. He naturally “could not |remember” that the workers had |stated that they had been beaten. |The head of police who had con- | ducted the previous examination, at | which the extortions had taken place, A new wave of strikes is rising} which her father was. moving from|was supposed to be called to testify e attempting to con- ation and oppression hado government. ence of the Communist the revolutionary trade unions is growing rapidly. The workers demand the right to decide what workers shall be hired and fired; they demand the 45-hour eek, higher wages, the re-hiring of he workers who went on strike in and landlords ar tinue the expl of the } The 1930, d the capitalists | | caught fire | Her father, Cornelius Kelly, unem- | ployed, was evicted with his wife and | two children from a squalid tenement jin the Wallabout section of Brook- | lyn. | Kelly was offered a house on 442 | Warren St. He borrowed a’ truck | with which to move his furniture, and while pouring gasoline into the tank, the truck caught fire. The child was burned and the few sticks of } furniture destroyed. Behind “Radical” Talk, Fenner Brockway, I.L.P. Head, Sabotages United Struggles TRIES TO FORM “NEW INTERNATIONAL” TO HIDE TREACHERIES OF SOCIAL-DEMOCRACY AND I. L. P. LEADERS. By WILLIAM RUST ‘ENNER BROCKWAY, the Chair- man of the Independent Labor Party, has made it completely clear (“New Leader,” June 16th) that he intends to fight against the majority of his own members, who decided at the last annual conference to take steps to “assist in the work of the Communist International.” Instead of carrying out this resolution, Brock- way uses his position as Editor of the “New Leader” to make ridiculous ac- cusations against the Communist In- ternational, and to advocate the idea of a new “international” of a special brand. Although the article is entitled “Workers Prepare,” Brockway is so enraptured with his “case” against the Comintern and the Soviet Union that he only mentions the united front of struggle against capitalism in passing, in order to convey the im- pression that the Communist Inter- national is pursuing an ill-intentioned “exceptional” policy in Britain and that the Communist Party of Great Britain omitted to split the trade unions only because it was too weak! | ° “Tf is clear that an exceptional pol- icy (with an exceptional purpose: be- hind it) is being pursued in Britain by the Communist International. Elsewhere the old disastrous tactics are being maintained.” It is unlikely that the members of the I. L, P. will take this twaddle about the united front vo.y s. , y but it would be, perhaps, necessary to repeat that the entire’ Communist International is fighting for the building of the workers’ united front of struggle against capitalism, and the C. P. of Great Britein will -~>- tinue with this work unswervingly shoulder to shoulder with the me.n~ bers of the Indepeident Labor Party. Who Is Responsible for Victory of Fascism? Already at the time of the Derby Conference, leaders of the I. L. P. were darkly hinting that both the Second International and the Third International were responsible for the victory of Fascism in Germany and now, with an impartial wringing of his lily-white hands, Brockway, who only left the Second International Editor’s Note H Hand article by William Rust, a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of Great Britain, has particular significance for On Brockway | | two months ago, explains why this is so American workers im view of the present activities of Fenner Brockway in the United States. Fenner Brockway now poses as a “revolutionist.”. During the pros- perity period he supported the right wing policies of the British Labor Party and of Ramsey MacDonald. With the coming of the crisis, accom- | panied by the radicalization of the workers, he moved to the “left”—in | phrases only! He talked of the “united front,” of “international unity,” ete., only to hinder and sabotage the realization of such unity. Like “our own” Musteites, “Left” Socialists, and renegades, radical phrases and talk of unity became maneuvers to prevent united struggle for the workers’ needs and the means of keeping workers tied to reformist policies and leadership. Brockway’s visit to the United States is for the purpose of extending internationally the fight he has waged (behind “left” phrases) against united struggle and against Communism in Great Britain, He even goes so far as to make} gard for facts, this renowned pacifist the astounding accusation that the| cites, as his proofs, the two recent policy of the Soviet Union, the land | outstanding examples of the Soviet of Socialist construction, is helping| Union's peace policy, namely, the pro- capitalism! With a splendid disre-!longation of the treaty with Ger- | many and the offer to sell the Chi nese-Eastern Railway. According to Brockway, “We have reached a further serious stage in international Communist policy. Its policy in the past has been one of the factors which have brought Fas- cism rather than the socialist revo- lution in Germany and other parts of Europe she Communist In- ternational suing the disastrous logic of this Bec e there hes bo { revolution in Germar viet Rus ist count munist Internati has become so concentrated upon what it regards as the interests of Soviet Russia that it is seriously compromising revolutton- policy in other parts of the ary munist polic tory of Hitler. triumphed, th Treaty completing the financial and economic agreement. |although the workers stated |the name of the police officer Who | personally conducted the tortures, |__The next witness, a policeman from |Henningsdorf, stated that he saw Van der Lubbe at the police shelter there on February 26 and that he had exchanged “a few meaningless words with him.” The policemen admitted, | after being questioned by Dimitroff, that other inmates spending the night lat the police shelter were not sought | by the police. Dimitroff's motion that | the court read a verdict on the Hitler- | Munich Putsch 1923 was refused. The presiding judge then declared that the examination of witnesses was over. At the next session, Wednesday, | Dec. 13, the prosecution speeches wil? | begin. Anotiscr of the Nazi witnesses. § | ternational has opposed an interna- sia and Same, the Communist In- | REC. Official Cot Loans for Bank That tional working-class economic boy-~/| cott of Germany, the one possible method of overthrowing Hitlerism | , when Hitler Goverameat which made a treaty with Hitler was the Soviet Government—the Berlin Because of this! economic co-operation between Rus-! weakness.” | Standering the U. S. 5. R. Unfortunately for Brockway's “case,” his long-delayed attack on the Treaty of Berlin is made just at | the moment when the German Fas- | cists have proclaimed their interven- | tionist plans in the infamous Huger - | berg Memorandum. Are they not striving to provoke the Soviet Union into a false step by every means, and brand her as an aggressor, and oppo~ nent of peace? And if, for the time being, the maniacal rulers of Ger- many are still compelled to continus friendly relations with the Soviet ] Union—this is no victory for them, {but an enforced recogniti of tite strength of the Socialist. Repub and the success of its peace polic But if the Soviet Union should not conclude economic treaties and non- aggression pacts with capitalist coun- (Continued on Page 6) during its early period of eeonomte| Loaned Him Money | WASHINGTON, Dec. 7.—Extraor= dinary evidence of how the R, F. 0. acts as a huge reservoir of funds to arantee the payments of large loons to the Wall Street banks, was revealed here today in the testimony given by Charles S, McMain before | the Senate Stock Investigating Com- mittee. MeMain, an old friend of Harvey Couch, told the committee how | Couch, while. he was a Director of |the R. F. ©. engineered loans ‘to various railroads amounting to-$10,- | 000,¢ which were immediately | turned over to the Chase National Bank a8 pa) 3 on loans, 2 9e8 ‘The significant tact was that while | Couch was engineering these Mes | for the bank's roads, he owed the bank several hundred thousand dol- jlars, He still owes the bank $159,000.