The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 9, 1933, Page 1

" WALL ST. UTILITY IN CUBA $6,220 MORE Will Put $40,000 Drive Over the Top. Send a Dollar! Entered as second-class matter at the Post New York, N. ¥., under the Act of March ~ Vol. X, No. 295 = * Office at 8, 1079, ‘EW YORK, SATURDAY, DEC EMBER 9, 1933 (Eight Pages) America’s Only Working Party U.S.A. Class Daily Newspaper WEATHER :—Colder Price 3 Cents PROTEST SCOTTSBORO, LEI MURDER PLOTS TODAY! CALLS FOR U.S. TROOPS TO SHOOT DOWN CUBAN MASSES Asks Roosevelt State Dept. for Marines to Pro- tect Huge Profits Against Demands of Masses and Utility Unions HAVANA, Dec. 8.—A request to the U. S. State Depart- ment for immediate intervention of American troops to save the huge profits of the Cuban Electric Co., a Morgan corpora- tion, was made today by officials of the company. The request for armed intervention, supported by Am- bassador Welles, followed the® announcement by the Grau government, through Secretary of the Interior and War, Guiteras, that electric rates would be lowered from around 20 cents per kilowatt-hour to 99 for the cities and 10 cents for rural districts. Huge profits have been made by the Morgan utilities in Cuba. Recently 4 mass movement has been developed ‘mong the Cuban people for refusel to pay light, gas, water and telephone pills, All of Havana is plastered with posters reading: “Refuse to pay light, gas, water and telephone bills.” Under this mass pressure, the Grau-Batista government took a step which lowers rates, but which at the same time guarantees to these com- panies their private ownership and high profits. At the same time, Guiteras spoke of seizing the utility plants if the companies shut down, refusing to ac- cept the new rates. Seven thousand members of the power house unions, at the same time, put demands to the American com- panies for higher wages and better conditions. It is now openly proposed by Welles, ». #ud the. huge power trusts in Cuba, “\to ‘call in“American. troops to enforce heavy rates. on the Cuban. masses, Today, the Grau regime, in an ef- fort to break the anti-impérialist wave of the masses is provoking a chauvinist demonstration among the unemployed in support of its Fascist labor laws. The unemployed are stirred into action in support of the slogan “50 to 80 per cent Cubans,” which means that this percentage of Cubans ould be employed in all enterpri This slogan is directed especially against the Spanish-born Haitian and Jamaican. workers.- Instead of sup- plying work or relief of the unem- ployed, the Grau-Batista regime is arousing the Cuban unemployed ageinst foreign-born workers. Aj the same time, the Spanish merchants and the craft unions composed mainly of Spanish workers, have declared they would call a general strike to- day. Bloodshed is expected in Havana, as the unemployed have declared they would storm the Spanish stores and smash them if the 50 and 80 per cent Cuban quotas are not enforced. In this situation, Guiteras has or- dered a heavy concentration of troops into Havana to shoot down the work- ers and to smash efforts of the Com- munist Party and the Cuban National Confederation of Labor to forge a united front of all workers against the Grau regime and for the relief by government funds of the workers regardless of nationality. Strikes are increasing throughout the island. The workers in Oriente province were reported to have again Seized several sugar centrals. In Manzarillo on the 6th, masses League delegation. The delegation was not permitted to proceed to Oriente province. The workers gathered in the streets nevertheless. ‘Troops fired at the workers in an ef- fort to disperse the workers. Budget CrisisGrows _ Despite Financing -) Of New Govt. Bonds WASHINGTON, Dec. 8—The Roo- wevelt: government is obviously mak- ing efforts to bolster the credit of the government in the face of the steadily growing budget deficit. Johnson’s speech yesterday declar- fag the U. S. dollar “the soundest in the world,” significantly followed the government announcement of an- other government loan. ‘The government has Lt prepar- tng for this 5 issue to- of $950,000,000 was oversubscribed the Wall Street banks, Despite all this however, \the gov- it is. spending at rate of $9,- Gelvcaeig. oF the budanererite: tom of Geepening ee il New York Workers To Honor Memory of Katayama Sunday i|Hathaway and Others to Speak at Meet in Harlem \ NEW YORK.—Workers throughout the city will gather tomorrow to pay tribute to one of the outstanding workingclass leaders of modern times, at the memorial meeting for Sen Katayama, noted leader of the Jap- anese workers and one of the found- ers of the American Communist Party. The memorial meeting will be held tomorrow, at 7 p. m. at the New Star Casino, 107th St. and Park Avenue. Among the speakers will be Steve Kingston, Negro worker and member of the Distrigt Committee of the Communist. Party, Clarence Hatha- way, editor of the Daily Worker, Al- exander Trachtenberg, and Japanese and Chinese speakers. There will be a musical program and sketches by the Workers Laboratory Theatre. Sen Katayama, for 43 years a a leader in the revolutionary move- ment was a member of the Presid- jum of the Communist International. His work was chiefly concerned with the revolutionary movement among the oppressed nationals and colonial peoples. In, this connection he was especially interested in the fight for the freedom of the Scottsboro boys, and raised the question of their re- lease at the Amsterdam Anti-War Congress. 10 Injured When Cops Charge HRB Meet for More Aid. To Score Police Terr or) at Sunday Jobless | Convention NEW YORK—Brutally attacking, injuring 10 workers in a demonstra- tion led by the West Side Unem- ployed Council, 40 cops, five on horse- back, charged into 70 workers de- manding increased relief and rent checks outside the West 44th Street ae Relief Bureau yesterday morn- This demonstration was part of the work of mobilizing the workers for the Convention Against Unem- ployment to be held tomorrow at Irving Plaza at 10 in the morning. The attack was deliberately pre- arranged, for hardly had the workers marched a few paces past the Bureau when the cops started shoving them off the sidewalk. One of the cops, Gottlieb, walked up to Mrs. Boyd, a Negro worker, and attempted to pull a placard out of her hands, She re- sisted him and he started pummeling her around. A group of workers springing to her defense, was the signal for the cops and horsecops to charge directly into the crowd and start slugging the workers. Mrs. Boyd was arrested and brought into the 54th Street Court all charged with disorderly conduct and Kicking the cop in the stomach. She was tried by Judge Reneaud, the same judge who sentenced the young workers to jail this week for protest~ ing the Scottsboro verdict in Times Square. The testimony of 20 mili- tant white workers on the stand compelled this vicious judge to dis- miss the charges against the Negro woman, The fight of jobless and starving against police terror and a brogram of action forthe winter wil occupy the cent the Convention agaites Dnemmuege ment to be held this Sunday, at 10 a. m. at Irving Plaza. Five hundred oragnization are sending delegates to the Convention. Two additional aig groups will be represented, one jn_Cotons. and another’ at’ Bellevue Hospital where 80 men are working for $2.30 a day. 3,000 Protest Police! Clubbing and Arrest; Of Evicted Worker Cop Flourishes Gun as Workers Try to Free Evicted Man NEW YORK.- rousands of work- ers assembled at : st 12th St. terday and p: ed against the ar- rest and beating of Mr. and Mrs. Williams, evi unemployed work- ers. In the fight with the police, one of the police wHo was drunk, flour- ished a gun on the workers and held them at bay. Mr. and Mrs, Williams were evicted from their homes at 330 E. 12th Si yesterday after the landlord had re- | fused to accept a city rent check for $10. in payment of the rent of $30. The Home Relief Bureau had issued the check for t; maller amount in keeping with i olicy of not paying rent in wife. Mr. Williams 1 ed workers to elect a committee to de- mand of the landlord that he accept the check for the smaller amount S until the committee had met with the relie? officia: u mainder of the rent mone Police squad cars which this time stopped the m . Williams was pulled from the plat- form by the police. Mrs. Williams mounted the platform. Police pulled the platform from under her and she was knocked to the lewalk. The workers attempted to free Mr. and Mrs. Williams from the police. Aj} drunken cop pulled out a gun and threatened to shoot the workers if they advanced. Meanwhile the po- lice took Williams into a hallway and clubbed him. Seven squad cars, two emergency trucks and four Buick sedans filled with police gunmen arrived and dis- persed the crowd .of workexs.which. had now swollen to over 3,000. Mr. and Mrs’ Williams were jailed for resisting arrest, inciting to riot and other charges. They will be de-| fended by the International Labor Defense. Leader of Ami of Ambridge Steel Strikers To Be Tried By State 14 Others Indicted for ‘Inciting to Riot’ By Jury PITTSBURGH. Pa—The first case on the docket before the Pennsyl- vania State Suverior Court. which opens session in Philadelphia Monday} | morning, Dec. 11, will be the case jof the Steel Trust vs. Jim: |Teader of the famous Ambri | and leader of the unemployed. Egan was convicted and sentenced to one year in the Alleghany County jail for leading a tremendous mass demonstration of unemployed to the Alleghany County Court House last March 4. During the demonstration Egan was clubbed along with dozens of other workers, but the militant demonstration defeated the attempt to establish the “Commissary Plan” While out on bail, Jimmy Egan took an active part in building up the S.M.W.LU. in the Pittsburgh district. Assigned to Ambridge, he organized 3,000 steel workers into six strong locals and led them into strike. Along with Egan’s arrest, dozens of Am- bridge workers have been framed un, with 14 being indicted by the Grand Jury on Wednesday, Dec. 6, for “in- citing to riot.” All workers organizations are re- quested to forward funds for the de- fense of these class war prisoners to 929 5th Ave., Room 202, Pittsburgh. Feiheit Ball To Be Held at Armory Tonight The Morning Freiheit Ball. which, was to have been held tonight at the St. Nicholas Arena, will b> held instead at the 165th Regiment Ar~ mory at Lexington Ave, and 25th Street. »| schedule e Starving Child Dies From Gasoline Burns NEW YORK.—Three year old Cecelia Kelly died yesterday in Cumberland Hospital from the combined effects of undernourish~| | ment and burning she received when gasoline exploded in a truck in which the family was hauling | their evicted furniture, | 1,000 CWA Workers ‘March on Capitol) of R. L, Demand Pay, Got Only $3.00 A Week| Under Roosevelt \ Scheme PROVIDENCE, R. I, Dec. 8 (Wed- | nesday). — One thousand unema | Ployed workers threw down their tools Jon some of the Civil Works Admin- istration projects and marched to the State House to demand their wage These workers had reported | for work daily, and because it rained | during some of the days, they were | ent home — that meant that they | i | is $15 a week for a five day week or $3 a day. The work are | docked for any time off, with the result that last week most of the men got only $3, because it had been raining most of the week. The Right to Live Club, an un- employed organization in this state! | led this march of unemployed to call upon the governor and the state head of the C. W. A. Mr. Cody. When they reached the state house, there} was a large mobilization of police around the state house, and the ; Workers’ committee was not per- mitted to enter the state house. (The Bight. toJ.iveyOlub 49 -oalWeig | @ Mass meeting for tonight to plan! organized action on all the projects. | | After county officers shot and | gory, a Negro, last night, a mob | ithe Negro population in this little |Brookman, the wife of a farmer, whose |body was found on a highway near All New York Workers Called to Demonstrate at Union Square at 1 Texas Negro Killed By Officers; Body Mutilated By Mob Mass. Negro in Jail on “Rape” Charge in Lynch Danger KOUNTZE, Texas, Dec. 8— mortally wounded David Gr of more than 300 mutilated his body and then burned it to. @ crisp. Members of the mob cut out the Negro’s heart and sexual organs and cast them into the flames. To strike terror into the hearts of town the mob had dragged the body of the slain Negro to a pyre in the Negro section of Kountze. Without a shred of evidence to prove Gregory guilty of the crime, an armed posse seized the Negro on a charge of killing Mrs. Nellie Williams here last Saturday. Last night the posse trailed Gregory to the belfry of a Negro church at Voth, where he was hiding, and shot and wounded him. Later they ex- plained that the Negro had “resisted arrest.” Wounded and unconscious, Gregory was taken to 2 hospital at Beaumont. Ae died a-shprt time afterward. "Tne body was taken to Silsbee, a small town near here, When the mob, which had been ‘Number Put to Work ‘By CW. AL Declines WASHINGTON, D. D. C., Dec. These employed on the C. | jobs have decreased and the C W. A. is “behind its schedule” in putting men to work, it was admitted in the + of H. L. Hopkins, Roosevelt’s | ‘Federal Relief Director. The head of the C. W. A. blamed the | ability to purchase shovels, picks and! other tools” for the fact that the Cc. W. A, program has not put the promised number at work. Hopkins claims 2.500,000 at work on C. W. A. projects, but placed the figure of thos: paid + | 30, at 1,431,748. Roosevelt promised four million av J Dec. 15. Hopkins admitted that this y not be reached.” | Those on C. W. A. work, in some} states, this week, total even less than those working the pr us week, it was admitted by Hopkins. | had PPROXIMATELY $6,000 will put | the Daily Worker $40,000 drive over the top. Victory is within our reach, Comrades. This victory is being hammered out by workers and farmers whe are helping the “Daily” because it fights with them for betier condi- tions in the shop, factory, office, in the mills, mines ari on the farms. Jobless workers are sending in their last pennies, “Without the Daily Worker,” they write, “our struggles for the right to live would be hope- less.” Bapie oe E $40,000 campaign has deve- Icped a Bolshevik tempo which has prevented our Daily Worker from going under during a most critical financial crisis. But the danger is not over, Comrades, We Hammer Out A Victory! $6,000 Will Put Drive Over the Top! slowly increasing in size heard of this, they made their way to Silsbee where the sheriff obligingly turned the Ne- |sro’s body over to them. Rewards totalling $700 offered tor the spprerenaica of the slayer of Mrs. Brockman undoubtedly did much to | stimulate the “nigger hunt.” Danger of further mob action is *|great in view of the fact that two other Negroes are being held by the , Police on the charge that they “aided” | Gregory escape immediately after the | body of Mrs. Brockman was dis- eee Kountze is a small town near Beau- mount, with only a few hundred res- idents. It was at one time an active saw-mill town. The Negroes live far | apart from the white section. ‘The International Labor Defense of Houston as well as a mass meeting of unemployed sent vigorous tele- grams to Sheriff Miles Jordan, de- nouncing the wanton killing and mu- tilation of Gregory. * BOSTON, Dec, 8—Declaring that the “victim” had denied that she was (Continued on Page 2) appeal to every reader, to every worker, to every workingclass or- ganization to make the final effort to raise the remaining $6,000. Victory is within our reach! Be one of those to hammer out this Bolshevik triumph. Send your dol- lar, If you can afford it, send two dollars, one for a fellow worker who is so poverty-stricken that he can- not contribute though he would like to. Organizations, speed your contributions, ALL TOGETHER, COMRADES! Put the drive over the top. RUSH YOUR CONTRIBUTIONS, NO MATTER HOW SMALL! + $355.60 33,424.88 + $33,780.48 Friday's receipts . TOTAL TO DATE ... A Talk With the Mother of George Dimitroff “George Is Is the ‘Fourth or the gigantic stream of humans, of They Want to Kill,” Mother Reveals By MICHAEL KOLZOFF The mother of Dimitroff travelled from Bulgaria through Paris to Berlin to see her heroic son in court, Michael Kolzoff, special correcpond- ent of the “Pravda,” puts at our disposal the following talk with the proletarian mother: sw 8 Tn the midst of the confusing noises of the Northern Railway Station in Paris (Gare du Nord), on the rim b baggage and engines, in a tight cor- ner between a news stand, a train platform gate, and a mountain of trunks, sits, hidden away, a small, Weazened being. The great black £ awl wraps the whole figure from Ed to foot. Only a pair of large lively eyes are visible and a mouth framed by wrinkles. Exactly such eyes and precisely such a mouth can be seen daily upon the first. page of millions of copies of the entire world press. The same eyes and the same mouth, for fifty | go days now, really for nine months, confront a closed ring of the antag- onists, the enemies, the hangmen, “Are you tired, Comrade Paraskeva. Such a difficult trip from Bulgaria to Paris, and now again to Berlin?” The black and sleepless eyes look ahead silently. Used to Class Fight “Yes, I am somewhat tired. But it 1925. My little grandson, too, he is only 18 years old, sits in prison in Sofia as a revolutionist. And my 4 EIPZIG and SCOTTSBORO! Two hideous capitalist frame-ups of the ruling class against the exploited and oppressed, against the rising revolutionary actions of the toiling masses! In Fascist Germany, Scottsboro-- Leipzig! it is the heads of our heroic com- rades, Dimitroff, Torgler, Taneff and Popoff, that are in danger of the Fascist axe. In capitalist America, it is the bodies of nine innocent Negro boys, which are in danger of the lynch rope, the legal daughters are in no ways behind the boys. Here are two of them.” the mother. They smile and receive encouraging pats on the back from her. and still love George best, haps because I had to suffer most murder of the electric chair. Brutality, violence, and savage murder—these are the challenge flung into the faces of the rising masses by the reactionary ruling class oppressors everywhere. . . . E MUST answer! We against whom this violence, against whom this murder and brutality are aimed,—we cannot bow our heads meekly! Workers of New York! Negro and white, brothers and comrades in the common fight against the Wall Street masters! Into the streets! Demonstrate fighting solidarity! Fight for the release of the condemned Scottsboro boys! Save Patterson and Norris! By the thousands, by the hundreds of thousands, into Union Square today at noon! Let us raise hundreds of thou- sands of fists, Negro and white, that the Scottsboro boys SHALL NOT DIE! THAT DIMITROFF, TORGLER and their comrades SHALL NOT DIE! Today! At Union Square! Rally Against Lynching and ete! Terror! Connturiist Party Calls For Sharpening of Fight For Nine Scottsboro Boys Hathaway, Reporting at Membership Meet-| ing, Declares Case Is Interwoven with General Trend to Fascism NEW YORK.—A clarion call for the greatest mobilization of workers this city has ever seen for the Seottsbore protest demonstration this noon in Union Square was made to all members of the Gommunist Payty, revolu- tionary unions and sympathetic mass organizations at a membership meet- ing of the Communist Party of District 2 in the St. Nicholas Arena Thurs- day night. @ Reporting for the Central Com- mittee of the Communist Party on the rising wave of lynchings and| the fascist trend of Roosevelt’s “New Deal” government, Clarence Hath~ away, editor of the Daily Worker, declared that the struggle for the) release of the Scottsboro boys and against the monstrous national op-| pression of the Negro People must) become a central point in the strug- gles of the working class against fas- cism here and abroad. Fight Assumes Greatest Importance The fight to fro> *>- boys is more important at this period than ever before, ..av....., out. This case is today interwoven, with the general trend toward fas- | cism, with the new wave of lynch- ings, with the shooting, gasing and clubbing of workers, with general re- sort to terror, It has become ot} only a part of the broader fight for national liberation of the Nero People, but an essential part of the struggles of the whole working class against the growing attacks on their living standards, against wage cuts and worsening conditions for the ployed, against the drastic cuts in relief for the unemployed and against the impoverishment of the farming masses against the destruction of workers’ rights. It is the fight of | the whole working class against the fascist trends of the N. R. A. and the American bourgeoisie and their reformist allies in the leadership of the Socialist Party and the bureau- 700 Farm Delegates Demand Nazis Free Communists on Trial CHICAGO, Til. — Placing the guilt for the Reichstag fire direct- ly at the door of the Nazis, 700 delegates at the recent Second National Farm Conference here demanded the release of the four Communist defendants — Dimi- troff, Torgler, Popoff and Taneff —in a resolution sent to Justice Wilhelm Buenger, Hans Luther, Hitler ambassador at Washington, Chicago. The resolution, signed by Char- les E. Taylor, chairman, and Lem Harvis, secretary, reads: “We, seven hundred delegates of various farmers’ groups and organizations, assembled at a Farmers’ Second National Con- ference, Nov. 15 to Noy. 18, Chi- cago, Hl, are thoroughly con- vinced of the innocence of Torg- ler, Dimitroff, Taneff, and Popoff, who are charged with the burn- ing of the Reichstag. It has been proven that the Nazis have com- mitted this arson in order to start the terror against the Workers’ and Farmers who are opposed to the Hitler Regime. We demand their immediate safe release.” Nygard Defeated in Election in Crosby CROSBY, Minn., Dec. 8.—Emil C. Nygard, only Communist Mayor, was dfeated in the elections here, final tabulations show, N. Wladimiroff, the only opposing candidate for Mayor, was elected by a vote of 750 against a vote of 277 for Nygard. Last year in a field of three candidates, Nygard was elected on a plurality vote of 200 out of 1,200 votes cast. The election results ate an outcome of a heavy campaign of slander and attacks in the capitalist press. One of the many rumors circulated was that the mines remain closed because of a Communist Mayor. 1,029 votes were cast this year, as against 1,200 last yeas, (Continued on Page 2) Three Other her Sons Lost Lives in Struggles of Working Class ‘The daughters are twice as big as Talways loved Perhaps because he was my first child, per- “Now, between us, (Continued on Pags &) Workers W Will Also Protest Nazi Trial | Of 4 Communists [ibs deaere Branches and | Pioneers to March | from 7th St., Ave. A | NEW YORK.—In grim de- jtermination to smash the new lynch death verdicts against |fleywood Patterson and Clar- jence Norris, two of the Scotts- |boro boys sentenced to die on Feb- |ruary 2nd by the Decatur lynch court, tens of thousands of indignant work- jers and sympathizers will pour inte | Union Square at 1 o’clock today from all sections of the city. Members of scores of organizations and unions will participate in fhe mighty protest with their banners and slogans against the lynchers and the fascist trends of the Roosevelt “New Deal” N.R.A. program of wage cuts and attacks on the employed and {unemployed masses, sharpened par- ticularly against the Negro People. | They will protest the infamous Reich~ stag arson trial in Germany and the | Preparations of the Nazi court to im- pose death sentences upon Dimitroff, Torgler, Popoff and Taneff. Needle Trades Union Issues Call | The Needle Trades Industrial Union | last night issued a call to all needle trades workers- to ther .at the rig fe 131 W. aot St A810 this mi \to march in a body to Union Square. The Alteration Paint- ers of Brooklyn yesterday called upon jall its members and sympathetic workers to attend the demonstration. All International Labor Defense branches and the Young Pioneers will mobilize their forces at 12 noon at Avenue A and 7th Street, from which point they will march to the Square. The demonsiration will be ad- | dressed by Joseph Brodsky, I. L.D. | Scottsboro attorney, who returned on | Thursday from the Decatur trials. | The extent of the mass support for | the demonstration is indicated both | by the call of the Trade Union Unity | League and scores of unions and or- | ganizations for participation by their members and in the list of speakers, representing various organizations. This list includes: Mrs. Patience Williams, of the Garvey Club of the Universal Negro (Continued om Page 2) ‘Pickets Stone Cops In Strike of 3,000 Chicago Meat Men Mass Picketing Follows Lead of Livestock Strikers CHICAGO, Ill, Dec. 8—Following the example of the livestock hand- lers, the strike of the 3,000 sausage and other workers developed unoffi- cial mass picketing around the more important independent meat plants for increases in wages and for the 40-hour week. They demand wages “rom $28 to $40 a week. Yesterday morning, over 200 pickets in front of the Mid-City Packing Co., 922 Fulton Street, attempted to pre~ vent strikebreakers from entering the plant. When the police interfered, the strikers threw bricks and stones on the police and also smashed the windows of the meat plant, Six strikers were severely beaten up, among them, Adolph James, Peter Nichols and Martin Galli, The Packing House Workers’ In- dustrial Union supports the strike ang calls upon the workers to elect strike committees and not to the union bureaucrats to betray the strikes by means of arbitration, and depending upon the NRA. The strikers should draw a lesson from the strike of the livestock handlers, where the union bureaucrats decided to turn over all matters to an arbitration committee, and only through the mil- itancy of the workers, who refused this, did they force the company to give a 10 per ‘gent ‘ineteane in wages, CHICAGO, “ni—about 18,000 oni cago Stockyard workers received the miserable wage increase of four cents ‘an hour for unskilled workers and 10 per cent for skilled men workers. This follows the recent livestock handlers’ strike. The women workers were not given increases. Only those working in Armours, Swift and Wilson were given the increases and in the yards the men are openly discussing strikes ang organization,