The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 11, 1933, Page 1

Se Michael Gold Returns to His Column, “Wh On Page at a World!” 5 Today! all .cWorker Central OrganSf ist Party U.S.A. (Section of the Communist International) America’s Only Working | Class Daily Newspaper WEATHER—Fair and Colder. Vol. X, No. 296 "= * Entered as second-class matter at the Post New York, ¥. N.-Y. JOBLESS TO FIGHT FOR RELIEF BILL 500 Delegates from 182 Groups at Convention NEW YORK.—Five hundred delegates from 182 organiza- tions representing more than 58,000 workers heard Herbert Benjamin, National Organizer of the Unemployed Council, open a Conven- tion Against Unemployment yester- day at Irving Plaza. A full report of the convention pro- seedings will be made in tomorrow's “Daily.” The final resolutions were hot available when the “Daily” went te press. “The Workers Relief Ordinance embodies most of the immediate cen- tral demands of the Unemployed in New York City,” Benjamin said, “and every alderman in the city must be made to take his stand on the Ordinance; through canvassing in every Aldermanic District based on the Ordinance the way will be pre- pared for another city-wide dem- onstration on Jan. 15.” Eighteen T.U.U.L. Unions Eighteen unions affiliated with the ‘Trade Union Unity League were re- presented at the Convention, together with three independent unions, the Amalgamated Food Workers Union Local 1 and 3, the Alteration Paint~- ers Union of Brooklyn, and two American Federation of Labor Unions: the Iron and Bronze and Architec- tural Union, Local 52, and Local 87 of the International Moulders Union. ‘Fifty-two unemployed organizations participated together with delegates from three Civil Works projects. The Program and Organizational Committee proposed County Conven- Mions to be held Jan. 6 in each of the ‘five counties, which shall elect dele- gates to the National Convention on Jan. 13. The first task, the Program Committee proposed, of the County Councils shall be to organize for the mass city-wide demo The Comniittes’ further nope refer- endum to be signed by workers in every. Aldermanic District, asking the workers to endorse the Relief Or- dinance, and that as soon as a block has been canvassed a permanent bleck assembly be formed of all work- ers who have signed the referendum. Ovly Fraction Get Jobs Stating that, “only a small fraction of the unemployed can expect to get relief through the Civil Works proj- ects,” the Program Committee went on to report, “the C. W. A. will be ™Tmade the excuse for depriving large numbers of the unemployed of even the miserable pittance that is now their sole means of existence.” The Committee proposed committees of action to be formed on all C. W. A. Projects and that the Unemployed Council will fight for employment or relief for all who have registered for C. W. A. projects. Speaking in the name of unity, ‘Mary Fox of the Central Committee of the Workers Committee of Unem- ployment objected to the use of the name of the Workers Committee by the expelled Locals 2 and 3. Jack Anyon, chairman of the locals ac- cepted the correction stating the full name should be “Locals 2 and 3 Ex- pelled for United Front Actions.” When leaving the convention hall at 3:30, Mary Fox was offered ex- officio representation on the Program Commitiee, and her high-handed an- | swer that she is “not willing to do that for this type of conference,” was roundly booed by the workers present. Jail 3 Pickets in N. Haven Foundry - Strike; 2 Beaten -Many Workers’ Groups Aid Strikers on Picket Lines tenza, moulder, were arrested ‘Thurs- tiay, afternoon on a picket line in ‘front of Krischner’s Foundry in this city. Workers of this foundry have been out on strike some several weeks under the leadership of the Steel and Metal Workers’ Industrial Union. . Many working class organizations ce, have responded to the call of Slain in Mob Battle Dec. 10.—Dominic’ an aide of the late slain in a gang yesterday, P Read Second Article By C.A.Hathaway in, Tomorrow’s “Daily” The second part of ©. A. Hatha- way’s article on “Why the Com- munist Party Cails on the Work- | | ers te Join Its Ranks”—the first | section of which appeared in Saturday's eight-page edition of the Daily Worker—will appear in tomorrow’s issue of our paper. Readers are urged to call this important article to the attention | |} of their fellow workers, to those | | who are in sympathy with the | Communist Party but have not yet joined its ranks, and to those who in the past have been delnded by the false promises and statements of reformist and liberal dema- sogues, Spread this series by C.A.Hatha- way far and wide! 2,000 PAINTERS — DEMAND OUSTING OF ALF.L. HEAD Demand P.W.A, Give | Jobs and Union Pay to Unemployed NEW YORK, Dec. i ..—Over 2,000 rank and file painters, members of the Brotherhood of Painters, Paperhangers and Decorators affiliated with the District Council No. 9 of the American Fed-~ eration of Labor, assembled at the Central Opera House, 205 E. 67th St, Saturday, unanimously passed a reso- lution demanding the ousting of Phil- lip Zausner, secretary-treasurer of the council, and the resignation of all the officers of District Council No. A resotution demanding that all | empioyed painters in New York be employed on Public Works Admin- istration jobs nt union wages or be provided with immediate cash re- lief was also passed. Immediately after Frank Wedl, secretary of local 499, had warned the meeting that organized disruptors were present, the District Council yeWung-into action in-an-atiempt to disrupt the rheeting. In order that the membership not be permitted to hear of the actual conditions exist~ ing in the corrupt A. F. of L. lead2r- ship, the Zausner machine attempted’ (Continued on Page 2) 3,000 Printers at Mass Meet Reject Bosses’ Proposals Howard, “ Arbitration King,” Is Called in To Mediate NEW YORK.—More than 3,000 members of Typographical Union No. | 6 filled .iew Star Casino, 107th St. and Park Ave., yesterday afternoon and once again rejected the publish- ers’ “new” offer, which is the same as offered a week ago with minor con~ cessions. The Union's Scale Committee rec- ommended to the membership the re- | jection of the 35-hour week proposal with an hourly wage of $1.36. It was backed up by a unanimous vote, The vote on the secret ballot shows 1,501 against the publishers’ proposals and four in favor. The union’s scale proposal is for a 30-hour week, at 1929 weekly wages, and 5 per cent from the employers’ payrolls toward an unemployment re- Hef fund. and precluded obtaining further in~ formation and discussion on the re+ newed negotiations with the publish- ere, President Rouse, in answer to a question by a member whether the meeting could not continue for this purpose, arbitrarily ruled that the meeting would adjourn after voting. “Those seeking further information,” he said, “can see me in private.” Rouse is once again adopting the attitude of “leave it to me,” and re- fuses to take the membership into his confidence. His maneuvering would indicate a desire on his part to see the scale negotiations settled in the publishers’ favor. The mem~ bership, however, is aware that their “offer” would not take care of the ore than 3,000 unemployed in Big An ever-present danger has arisen few weeks ago that arbitration not be considered by the mem- on any phase of the proposed ‘ions which were settied in this man- er, the result of which was a wage cut of 10 per cent and the stagger system in the newspaper composing| the rooms, ler the Act of March 8, 1679, coe vole witnout debate comcea)’ Ignored Hitler Offices at NEW YORK, MONDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1933 _ (Si Vt] New, Up-to-Date Printing Press Bought by Daily Worker The aboye is a photographic reproduction of the new, modern printing press purchased by the management of the Daily Worker, jointly with the Morning Freiheit. The press is now being installed in the Daily Worker plant. It is ex- pected that the new press will be in operation in time to run the twenty-four page, 10th anniversary edition of the “Daily” on January 6th. The new press is capable of running 36,000 copies of both the Daily Worker and Freiheit per hour. Our present press runs only 10,000 copies of one paper per hour. A Letter from the Ed Dear Comrades: } are sure our readers will be glad to know that the Daily Worker, acting jeintly with the Morning Freheit, the Jewish Communist daily, has purchased a modern, up-to-date printing press, It is now being installed in our plant at 50 E, 13th, with every prospect that our 10th anniversary edition, to be issued in 24 pages on January 6th, will already be run on our new press. The installation of the new press, together with new sterotyping equipment, give us a bright, « -an paper, particularly making it pos- sible to use more photographs with full confidence that they will come out sharply and clearly. i ° * © OME comrades quite naturally will ask: “Why does the Daily Worker management buy a new press when very obviously its financial situation does not warrant such a purchase?” There is merit in such a question. Our financial position certainly does not justify any unecessary expenditures. But this, comrades, was the situation: Our old press had been in use for forty-five years; it was already a wreck; only one side of the press worked and that side badly. Endless delays were the rule with break-downs occuring at most inopportune times, causing us to miss trains, disrupting our distribution system, demoralizing local comrades who patiently waited for papers that arrived hours late, and which resulted in repair bills that in the long run were a bigger drain on our resources than the purchase of a new press. In short, we could not really afford to buy 2 new press, but we could afford even less to keep the old press. It was the course of economy to serap the old and buy the new. t As already stated we will have a neat, clean, attractive paper. But still more important we will be out on the streets and in the cities of the country on time. The old press ran 10000 papers an hour (when it worked!); the new press runs 36,000 papers an hour. On the old press, any delay in running the Freiheit (the national edition of which was printed before the “Daily”) caused the Daily Worker to be late; any delay in running the “Daily” cause the city edition of the Freiheit to be late. As a result, due to the condition of the press, one paper was constantly delaying the other. With the new press, both papers—the Daily Worker and the Freiheit— will run simultanecusly. The one press will print two papers at the same time, and at the rate of 36,000 of each paper per hour. ‘This will once and for all end the fruitless waiting by our comrades at hundreds of post-offices and railroad stations for papers that did not arrive. Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit, and all cities in between, will then receive the Daily Worker on the date of publication. . ° * addition the advantages of the new press will be great, UT to return to our financial problems. As I have already stated, the | purchase of the new press is the course of economy. Not to speak of the other advantages, the new press in the long run will cost us Jess than the old. But immediately the new press will cost us more. ‘There are the itor on the New Press initial payments to be made and there is the installation cost ‘The total cost of the press, installed in our plant, will be about $22,000. A good portion of this cost must be met now. This raises anew the progress of the $40,000 drive to maintain the Daily Worker. In three months (September 9th to December 9th) our readers have done excellently. Already $34,048.49 has been raised. Tens of thousands of workers have contributed pennies, nickles, dimes and dol- lars to maintain and build the only English Communist daily newspaper. This is a tribute to the wonde:ful devotion and self-sacrifice of the American workers in their struggle against exploitation and for Com~- munism. It is this spirit, comrades, that assures the victory of our cause. We are sure that this spirit, which has enabled our paper to live for ten years, which has resulted in contributions of over $34,000 in the past three months, will carry on until every district of the Communist Party, until every workers’ organization has fulfilled and surpassed its quota in the $40,000 drive. This will enable us to meet the costs of the new press. ° * . ANY districts and workers’ bodies havealready greatly exceeded thet’. quota. Boston, for example, has serit in $315 above its quota; Seattle has done even better, sending in $599 above the quota, in fact more than doubling its quota; Philadelphia has exceeded its quota by $194 and San Prancisco by $31. These districts are still on the job. Now, comrades, what do we ask? Simply this; that every other dis- trict, particularly New York, Chicago, Detroit and Cleveland, do as well as Boston, Seattle, Philadelphia and San Francisco. We want every district to not only go over the top, but to add enough extra for good measure to cover the unexpected expense of the Daily Worker's share in the cost of the new press. With a little additional effort this can be done. It means only the voluntary adding of a small percentage to the quota already accepted by the districts and the workers’ organizations. It means only a few more collections, a few more house parties, a little more effort. We would like to hear from you. What can we expect? we expect the fulfillment of your quota? When can How much above the quota can munism to the American workers. It will improve the fighting appeal of cur paper. We ask you to speed up the drive to put the $40,000 fund over the top. ‘We ask you voluntarily to exceed your quota to cover the immediate out- lay necessary for the new press. We are confident you will respond now as you have in the past. ‘With comradely greetings, CLARENCE A. H?:THAWAY, Editor-in-Chief. Saturday's receipts . Previous Total .... TOTAL TO DATE soeeceeesee + $84,048.49 Litvinoff Home; $200,000,0 While in Berlin MOSCOW, Dec. 10.—Maxim Lit- “There are no rich men left.in America any more.” ‘That was a recent wise crack of He Had When He Died OO Is All Japan udlies Huge Fleet to Fukien, China SHANGHAI, Dec. 10—The Japan- light and gas companies, the rail- roads. ‘Two hundred million dollars—one ‘Trials at Decatur x Pages) INTERNATIONAL PROTEST DAY AGAINST NAZI FIRE FRAME-UP SET FOR DEC. 19 «4, Every City in America 3,000 Brave Bitter Must Rally Workers Coldto Hit Frameup "Price 3 Cents oO in Demonstrations NEW YORK.—December 19 has been set as the day of in- ternational protest against the N. Y. Workers Also frame-up in Leipzig of the four Protest Reichstag Communist defendants in the ed | Reichstag fire “trial”—George Fire Frame-up Dimitroff, Ernst ‘Torgler, Blagoi Popoff and Vassil Taneff. NEW YORK.—Y*or nearly two hours; This was announced yesterday |more than 3,000 men,- women and/|by the International Committee for | children—many of them without coats| the Relief of Victims of German and rubbers—stood in the bitter cold| Fascism, and immediately taken Up at a demonstration in Union Square|by the American Committee, which | on Saturday, called by the League of | Plans to relay the news of this day Struvzle for Negro Rights and the| 0! international solidarity with the we expect? How much will you, the individual ‘reader of the Daily | character labeled “Speed” Callahan. Worker, contribue towards the new press? How much will your organiza- Snowflakes covered the banners tion give? and placards carried by the dem~ onstrators. One declared, “Down Comrades, the new press will greatly improve your paper. It will be | With Wall Street Imperialism in able to carry more effectively the message of class struggle and of Com- | Cuba,” another, “Down with the vinoff, Soviet Foreign Commissar, ar- rived home yesterday after an ab- Sence of several weeks during which he negotiated recognition of the So- viet Union by the United States. Litvinoff returned to Moscow by way of Berlin where he rebuffed the advances of the Hitler murder regime, which with the recent diplomatic vic- tories of the Soviet Unfon, has made @ complete about-face in its provoca- tive attitude towards the Soviet Gov- ernment. A few hours before Litvinoff’s ar- rival in Berlin, Dr. Alfred Rosenberg. head of the Nazi foreign political division and a bitter foe of the U. 8. S. R., released an editorial to the Nazi press calling, in effect, for a cessation of the vicious slanders against the Soviet Union. Litvinoff ignored this wooing by the Nazi regime and left Berlin without seeing either Hitler or Foreign Minister von Neurath. On his arrival in Moscow he was met at the station by Mrs. Litvinoft and their two children, Mischa and Tanya, and a group of Soviet officials. that comical, witty and devoted ser- vant of capitalism, Will Rogers. The idea behind that crack was to make the jobless worker feel that he had company in his misery. And yesterday, down at Pittsburgh, one of the Mellon financial left a fortune of $200,000,000, Richard B. Mellon, brother of An- drew Mellon, former Secretary of the ‘Treasury, was the man who left that behind him, Tt came out of the Aluminum ‘Trust (girls working for $6 a week). It came out of the Gulf Oil Co., the Koppers Coke, the Pittsburgh National Bank, the scores of electric man “earned” that under capitalism. At the average wages under the Roosevelt codes—$12 a week—it would take 1,000 textile and aluminum work- ers two hundred years to get that huge fortune in wages. ‘The fortune of the entire Mellon family has been estimated at being over $3,000,000,000—one of the largest fortunes in the world. It is founded on the labor of mil- Hons of wage workers Mellon’s thugs have shot down striking pickets and their families. While he was Secretary of the Treasury, Andrew Mellon returned income taxes to the big corporations of over $15,000,000, U.S. to Increase Naval Reserve With) P.W.A. Relief Fun NEW YORK.—Captain assistant chief of the Bureau of Navi- le “any figures,” but stated that the spects are such that “the reserve will feel that things are beginning to come back.” The Navy Department, he disclosed, was considering acquisition of funds from the Public Works Administra- tion to push U. S, War preparations. Chairman Vinson of the House Na~- val Committee declared in Washing- @ bil in the coming for the ese Government yesterday ordered the entire Japanese Third Flect to proceed td Fukien Province, where events of the last few days have aroused alarm among the imperialists [that the toiling poulation, resenting the traitorous negotiations with the | Nanking regime and harassed by the war levies of the “independent” se- cessionist government, will join the narby Chinse Soviet Republic. The Japanese fleet will be based on west- ern Formosa, awaiting a pretext for armed intervention against the revo~ lutionary workers and peasants, The principal cities of the province are reported to be placarded with protests against the imperialist-dir- ected sixth campaign of the Nanking butchers against the emancipated workers and peasants in the Soviet districts. More anti-Japanese posters te also in evidence, demanding the tightening of the boycott against Japanese goods, Nanking Finance Minister Kung yesterday announced that Shanghai bankers had subscribed s new loan of $15,000,000 to finance the anti-Soviet John Downs,|ton yesterday that he will introduce |offensive in Kiangs! province. New taxes are projected against the toil- gation in Washington, adressing a The Amalgamation Party, Opposi- meeting of the Naval Reserve Officers ‘ton within No. 6, is rousing the mem- ' Association last night at the Wal- ‘ership for strike action ani is warn- dorf Astoria, revealed that a move ‘ng against the marking of time and would be made in the coming Con- maneuvering of Rouse. Quick ac~ | gress to increase the naval reserves. tion ts tts slogan. He declared he could not divulge 1 enlistment of an additional 5,000 men |ing masses and small shop-keepers to man the new warships the govern- | to repay the bankers’ loan. U.S. im- ment ts putting into commission. He perialists have signed s contract to N. ¥. District of the International | | Labor Defense to protest the mur-)| derous Scottsboro convictions and the! Leipzig frame-up trial. | The demonstration was one of scores held simultaneously in various parts of the United States. | Assail Lynchers | | Passionate denunciation of the De-| | catur verdicts and the furious lynch) wave sweeping the country charac- terized the speeches of Richard B. Moore, national secretary of the League of Struggle for Negro Rights; William L. Patterson, national sec- retary of the I. L. D.; Max Bedacht, representing the Central Committee) of the Communist Party and other | speakers, A policeman on duty at the square had apparently learned something of the spirit of the workers. “Why don’t they postpone this demonstration, it’s cold as hell!” a revorter asked a cop whose job consisted of telling workers | to get off the sidewalk and into the; gutters on the principle of “keeping things moving.” ‘The cop, whose shield number was 11703, replied sadly: “They never postpone anvthing. When they start somethiny they go through with it, rain or shine!’ Contingents from various trade union and fraternal organizations be~ gan moving into the square about noon. About 400 members of the} | downtown section of the I. L. D. and the Young Pionee:: of America gath-| | ed at a rally at Seventh St. and Avenue “A” marched in just before the demonstration began. Preceding the marchers, was a truck on which was erected an improvised gallows j and rope, bearing a sign, “Lynchings Must Stop!” Nine young Negroes,| symbolizing the Scottsboro boys, stood {on the truck, and facing them was a Gomez Terror in Venezuela.” Besides Moore and Bedacht, other | speakers at the Union Sq. dem-| } (Continued on Page 2) Anti-Lynch Meets In Many Cities Are | Attacked by Police Philadelphia Workers Burn Callahan in Effigy DETROIT, Dec. 10.—The ruling class of D-troit openly joined hands ; With the Decatur lynch courts by ordering & police attack on a Scotts- {boro protest meeting held here last iMonday. Three women and three men were brutally beaten . « PITTSBURGH, Dec. 10. — Mass pressure forced the police department | to grant a perm't to the International | Labor Defense for a Scottsboro pro- test parade Dec. 16. The demonstra~ tion will begin at the Center Ave. YM.C.A., and after a march through the Hill District, will terminate at Bedford Park, where a huge mass meeting will be held. oe up. * . Newark Police Ban Meeting NEWARK, N. J., Dec. 10.—Police Chief McRell denied a permit for a Scottsboro protest meeting called in this city at the corner of Somerset and Spruce Streets. “What do you want to hold a Scottsboro meeting for? Newark isn’t interested in Ala~ bamsa,” the police chief told the worker who applied for the permit, In protest against this support to the Alabama lynchers, a delegation of a dozen workers, representing 6,000 organized workers, went to City Hall yesterday. Their demand to see the mayor and the police commissioner was three times refused. On the in- sistence of the workers, an aid of the mayor called in McRell to “handle” the situation, The workers told him they would hold the protest demonstration with or without a per- will also seek an increase of 2,000 men| build # $5,000.000 airplane plant to| mit, whereup on the chief in an apo- for the Marine Corps, the spearhead furnish the heer RP pre wl of U. 8. armed intervention in ~~ to attack nel ao ok ue Sock dita rage told them, “Go ahead, but (Continued on Page 2) oppressed German working class to every corner of the United States. “The fact that the American capitalist press has been suppress~ ing the news of the Reichstag fire trial for a long time, the fact that there is a temporary Iall im the trial until it opens again in Leiptig on Wednesday -~ these things should not blind the friends of the tortured and sup- pressed German people to the increasing danger of death which faces the four brave Commounists on trial for their lives,” said Al- fred Wagenknecht, secretary of the American Committee for the Relief of Victims of German Fas- cism, yesterday. “That the Nazis plan to mug der these Communist leaders is @ certainty,” he continued, “and this must be brought home to every worker, every sincere person. in America, “Organize gigantic demonstrations for December 19, mobilize the work- ers of your city or town to pro- test the Nazi terror and murder plans against these four defend- ants, send telegrams, cables! Only international protest can save their lives now!” Rally to Protest . Luther Speech at Columbia Tuesday Daily Worker to Ex- pose Nazi Activities at “Liberal” College | NEW YORK—To protest the ap- vearance of the Nazi Ambassador, Hans Luther, at the “liberal” Colum- bia University Tuesday, at 7:30, the | National Student Leavue and the New York Commfttee to Aid the Victims of German Fascism called upon the workers and students of this city to rally in a mass demonstration at the | place and time scheduled for Luther's specch. The workers and students will mass jon the corner of 120th St. and Broad- way, outside of the Horace Auditor- ium where Luther will speak on “Ger~ many and the United States.” Luther was originally scheduled to speak on Nov. 15, but due to the bar- rage of protest telegrams and letters and the threat of a demonstration, the lecture was postponed to Dec. 12. Last week the lecture place was changed from McMillin Hall to the Horace Mann Auditorium. : Workers and students were asked yesterday by the two organizations arranging the demonstration to turn out in large numbers against the Nazi agent Tuesday. The N. Y. Allied Professional Com- mittee to Aid the Victims of Ger~ man Fascism hes organized a pick~ eting demonstration’ of lawyers, doc- tors, teachers and other profession= als at Columbia University today and tomorrow in protest against the ap~ pearance of Luther on Dec, 12 ®t Horace Mann Hall. In eye ee of protest were sent a delegation will visit President Butler today to demand that Luther shal) not be permitted to appear, pba te Columbia University ~ nest Nazi propaganda! Disclosures revealing Hitlerite propaganda, fostered I members of the faculty of Columbia University, will be pub-. lished by the Dally Worker im te= morrow’s issue. Watch for it! Lynch Mob Forms In Wichita, Kansas WICHITA, Kansas, Dec. 10, —» mob of several thousands Was Of ganizing here today to lynch @ man arrested by pe‘ice on suspicion of kidnapping and murder. More 400 automobiles were held in ness here as the mob, equipped with = newly rope, sought to learn the wi of an automobile containing two tectives and Jack Wisdom, in connection with the Witchita, and the murder of ‘Emory we ee 134