The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 14, 1933, Page 1

\ “NAZI TRIAL PROSECUTION FEARS WORLDWIDE 24 PAGES! Jan. 6th Edition of the Daily | | | ees Worker. Order in Advance! Daily ‘Vol. X, No. 299 > * Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at Kew York, N. ¥., under the Aet of March 8, 1870, (Section of 1 the Communist International ) NEW YORK, THURSDAY, _ DECEMBER 14, 1933 orker ist Party U.S.A. 4,000 CWA WORKERS STORM NY. OFFICE New York Workers to Demonstrate Before GRAU GOVT NaziConsulate on Tuesday, Dec ember 19th JAILS 2 US. nee ESE MELONS DEP abe a Seas aes Sa N.Y. City-Wide Section Rallies Leipzig Prosecutor Repeats Old Lies in Summing UpatTrial Dimitroff Not Allowed | to Point Out False | Claims of Speech | (Special to the Daily Worker) | AT THE GERMAN BORDER, Dec. 13 (via Zurich, Switzerland).—The Nazi pros- scution felt the eyes of the entire world on it today as it began to sum up the false and sooked-up charges of setting fire to ‘the Reict.stag on the basis of which -& intends to send the four fearless Communist defendants George Dimitroff, Ernst Torgler, Blagoi Pop- off and Vassil Taneff—to their death at the hands of the Nazi executioners. Self conscious before the accusing massed protest of the workers and intellectuals of the entire world, forced into a defensive position by the brilliant court statements of the Communist, defendants and working- class witnesses, the prosecution, in its Jast blustering effort to justify its case, revealed to the entire world the complete bankruptcy of its charges. Despite this, however, its enraged de~ termination to kill Dimitroff, Torgler, Taneff and Popoff, together with the many workers who turned thelr court testimony against the Nazi hangmen, remains as strong as ever. Nazi Prosecution Sums Up The main event in today’s proceed- ings at the Leipzig trial was the ‘speech of the Nazi public prosecutor, Werner, who began with an attempt to prove the “fairness” of the frame- up proceedings by stating that “never im a supreme court had witnesses been given such an extensive trial.” Continuing his speech with smoke- Sereen words about the necessity of ‘conscientious investigation,” Werner unconsciously brought home the true cause of the lengthy proceedings: the fact that the frame-up which the Nazis had originally planned was so crude that it had been forced, by the vigorous and aggressive defense of the Communist leaders, to extend the trial in order to answer charges levelled against the Fascists, and to give the murder frame-up the sem- blance of legality. When Dimitroff, intrepid Com- maunist leader, attempted to inter- rapt Werner in the midst of his Yong-prepared speech of false charges and obvious lies, he was immediately silenced by the judge, whe ruled that the prosecution's | (Continued on Page 2) 300 More Children In Strike Against Scottsboro Verdict Meetings | Assailing . Verdict Held in Many C Cities PHILADELPHIA, } neg by the strike of 500 children the Reynolds and Jefferson schools the Scottsboro verdicts yes- , 300 00 pupils of the Auden Reid High School walked out today '@ similar protest, crippling most of classes. Police attacked the children, chas- age off the streets near the and searched active pickets. Walter Dengler was arrested. cops confiscated and destroyed District of the International Defense, other school children 0 struck. One class at the Southern ITHACA, N. ¥., Dec, 13.—A large ‘umber of workers and students (Continued on Poge 2) NEW YORK.—On Monday, Dec. mass protest meetings in all sections of the Communist Party will speak at these meetin: 18th, the Commun: of the city. The ou! Party is calling anding leaders The meeténg places and additional speakers in all sections of the city will be announced. Watch the press every day DOWNTOWN—MANHATTAN LYCEUM, 66 E. Fourth St.—Clarence M. Hathaway, Editor of the Daily Morning Freiheit. Worker, M, Katz, Editorial Staff, Jewish MIDTOWN—SPARTACUS HALL, 269 W. 25th Street—Herbert Benjamin, National Organizer, Workers Industrial Union. YORKVILLE—KREUTZER HALL, Patterson, National Secretary, Stams, Secretary, German Anti- HARLEM—James W. Ford, Harlem Minor, recent Candidate for Mayor of New Yor! BRONX—Charles Krumbein, District Organizer, Hyman, President, Needle Trades Industrial Union; Ric! National Secretary N. S. N. R. Unemployed Councils; 228 E. 86th Secretary National Commiitee for Aid of F Koretz, Needle Trades enknecht, Internati Pa: fe) Commu Robert Party. Louis i B. Moore, Communist Communist Party; WILLIAMSBURGH—Juliet Sturat Poyntz, Educational Director, T. U. U. C.; Youkelson, Editorial Staff, Jewish Morning Freheit. RED HOOK—Andrew Overgaard, Secretary, BROWNSVILLE—S' Trade Union Unity Council. Steve Kingston, District Committee, Communist Party; M. J, Olgin, Editor, Jewish Morning Freiheit. JAMAICA—George Siskind, District Committee, Communist Party. LONG ISLAND CITY—Williana Burroughs, recent Communist candidate for Comptroller; Pauline Rogers, BRIGHTON BEACH and CONEY I Director, Needle Trades Workers torial Staff, Daily Worker. YONKERS—Charles Alexander, Educational Director, for Negro Rights New York Commitee Against Fascism. ISLAND—Melech Epstein, Educational Industrial Union and Sam Don, Edi- , League of Struggle ‘Students Hit Luther ' inAnti-Fascist Rally at Columbia College Lecture of Nazi Envoy Halted by Cries of ‘Down With Hitler!’ NEW YORK.—The German fascist ambassador, Hans Luther, was greet- ed by a mass anti-fascist demonstra- tion when he spoke on “U. S. and Germany Today” at Columbia Uni- versity, Tuesday night. Anti-fascist student: mobilized by the National Student League and the New York Committee to Aid Victims of German Fascism Tuesday night at- tacked the “lecture” of Hans Luther on two fronts—from inside the Ho- race Mann Auditorium where he was speaking, and by @ mass meeting on the corner of 120th St. and Broadway. More than 500 students, gathered in front of the entrance, shouted “Down with Hitler!” and “Oust the Nazi agents from Columbia!” and heard Donald Henderson, speaking for the American League Against War and Fascism, and others denounce the fascist murder regime in Germany which is planning to kill Dimitroff, Torgler, Taneff and Popoff, the Com- munists on trial in Berlin, and Nazi propaganda in the United States. At one point, the demonstrators, who had been shunted off by the police to the corner diagonally across from Columbia, rushed across the street and proceeded to hold their meeting just outside the entrance to the hall. Police attacked, slugging a few, and after a short battle forced the students across the street. When the riot squad arrived they found the meeting going on peacefully, and tried to break it up by using various pretexts, such as the flag not being raised high enough. Joe Cohen of the N.S.L., who was chairman, began re- citing Lincoln’s Gettysburg address, The police were perplexed and after hanging around for a while, left. Several students who were handing out anti-fascist leaflets were driven away by the police. Ruth Rosenthal, an N.S.L. member and a student at Hunter College, was arrested. Her case was later dismissed in W. 54th St. court, as several hundred stu- dents who crowded the courtroom and lined the halls cheered. Within the auditorium where Lu- (Continued on Page 6) Salem Communist Vote Jumps from 60 to 586 Protest March to German Consul in Detroit Attacked Police Club Workers | Who Assail Decatur, Leipzig Trials DETROIT, Mich., Dec, 13.—Police this afternoon brutally attacked a! ing to the City Hall and the Ger- man Consulate to present resolutions demanding the release of the four Communists now on trial in Leipzig as well as the nine Scottsboro boys. Previously a mass meeting at Grand Circus Park, addressed by speakers from various organizations, elected two committees, one to go to the German Consulate and the other to go to the City Hall. demonstration of 500 workers march-‘ “Many Organizations: Respond to Call of. World Committee NEW YORK. — _ Hedponaing | ‘to the call of the International | |Committee for the Relief of | Victims of German Fascism, numerous workingclass organ- izations here are actively pre- paring for a mass demonstration to demand the release of Dimitroff, Tor- gler, Popoff and Taneff, before the German consulate, 17 Battery Place, next Tuesday, Dec. 19, at 12 noon. Headed by the Communist Party, which is mobilizing its entite mem- bership in New York City, as well as throughout the country, for the inter- national day of protest, numerous other workingclass fraternal organiza- tions have announced mobilizations of all their members for the German consulate demonstration. Among these organizations are the Trade Union Unity Council, the United Councils of Working Women, the In- ternational Labor De‘ense, the Inter- national Workers Order, Scandina- vian, Greek, Russian, Jewish and other workers clubs of different na- tionalities, and many other smaller groups. ‘Metal Workers Vote '15-Minute Strike Against Nazi Terror Hitlerite a Driven from Shop by Stoppage NEW YORK.—Seventy-five metal workers, employed at the silver plate shop of Lehman Brothers, 197 Grand St., voted yesterday to stop work for (15 ‘minutes at 3 p.m. of Tuesday, Dec. 19, in protest against the murder trials at Leipzig of the four Commu- nist defendants, Dimitroff, Torgler, Popoff and Taneff, Steel, Metal Stoppage NEW YORK.—The executive board of the Silver Local of the Steel and _ Metal Workers Industrial Union, rep- l resenting 500 workers in 14 different shops, decided unanimously at its last meeting to call a 15-minute stoppage The workers decided to march of work on Tuesday, Dec. 19, at 3 p.m. down with them, and when they ar- | The stoppage will be a protest against rived at the City Hall they found | the Nazi frame-up trial in Leipzig, squads of police with drawn clubs. ;and a demand for the safe release of The police immediately charged the! the defendants. workers, smashing placards and run-| The Executive Board also décided ning after the workers, clubbing sev-|to send protest telegrams to Hitler, eral severely. Hindenburg and to Ambassador Lu- Shortly before the demonstration, ther in Washington. two young girl workers chained them- > selves to posts on Woodward Ave., Drive Nazi from Shop a main thoroughfare, with placards! NEW YORK.—When workers at denouncing the German Nazi terror the Continental Silver Co., 347 Fifth and the Scottsboro verdicts. The two! girls were arrested. Despite the police terror, Detroit workers are determined to intensify their fight for the Scottsboro boys and the German and Bulgarian Communists now on trial in Leipzig. Plans are already under way for par- ticipating in the international day of protest set by the International Com- mittee for the Aid of Victims of Ger- man Fascism, set for Dec. 19, Ave., discovered that one of the work- ers ‘in the shop had brought Nazi literature to work in order to try to spread it among the 100 workers em- ployed there, they immediately stopped all work and sent the Shop Committee in to see the boss, inform- ing him that they would not start work again until the man was fired, The committee enforced the will of the shop workers in short order, and the Nazi was driven from the shop. DELEGATES 20 Cuban Workers Are pigs in Fortress r Demonstration | HAVANA, Dec. 13.—Henry Sheppard, Negro delegate of the Trade Union Unity League, veteran of the Spanish-American war, members of the Anti-Imperialis: |League delegation here, were arrested last night at a mass demonstration in favor of the free harvesting and |grinding of the sugar crop, and against the Wall Street Chadbourne plan. Police and soldiers attacked demonstration with sabres. Many hundreds of workers had gathered in the suburb of Luyano. More than 50 workers were arri Twenty were imprisoned in the Principe fortress. Two of the delegates, J. B. Mat- thews and Harry Gannes, have al ready returned to the Unite Walter Relis, another del in Havana, escaped arrest. When the police attacked the dem- onstration they tore down placards jTeading: “Down with the Pan- American Conference!” “Long Live Soviet Cuba!” “Down with the Gov-/ ernment Terror!” “Down with Yan- kee Imperialist Mediation and In- tervention!” All night long big protest delega- tions from trade unions, the Young Communist League, the Communist Party of Cubs, and student organi- zations visited the press and protested at the presidential palace. The movement demanding the re- (a of the delegation is developing. Yesterday delegates visited Presi- dent Grau San Martin and asked him to state the government position on the legality of trade unions and the Communist Party, and other rev- olutionary organizations, and the the right of the opening function of these organizations through head- quarters. He was asked to state his Position on unemployment insurance for the workers. | President Grau promised to answer in writing today at noon. the * and Alfred Runge, F (Six | | : | America’s On | | Class Daily Newspaper a ly Working | {Hs Al WEATRER—Snow, colee Pages) Price 3 Cents R BACK PAY MASS ACTIONS JURY FINDS. Unpaid Since Nov27. TERZANI Workers Smash in NOT GUILTY Doors Shallow Frameup Falls | Despite Judge’s Open “ Prejudice NEW YORK. — Athos Ter- | zani was acquitted aft y in Judge Thomas Dow! y ;' court which deliberated only thirty- | won | wo minutes. It was a victory against heavy odds, since the judge had been. openly hostile to the de- ni, who was Tro at a He age | meeting i mbus Hall, toria, last July i4, met with the ar Downs. alony with his paralleling the rail- roading speed of Judge Callahan i Decatur Scottsboro trials, forgot,” as did Callahan, to instruc: the jury correctly on an acquitta defense. Norman Thomas, Socialist as in- court with his wife, when ques- | “It was} charge to the jury, stated: certainly. fair.” After the verdict was delivered by the jury, Judge Downs flew into a frenzy when a newspaperman, Forta Veliona, cartoonist for the liberal Italian daily, La Stampa Libera, and @ defense witness, applauded the ver- dict. Downs ordered Vellona brought before hi a! have had enough lying in this court,” said the judge heatedly when Vellona explained that because he was in the rear of the room he had not heard the warning of the court against applause. Vellona said he had not heard the court’s admonition, and tried to ex- ; Plain that he was hard of hearing since he was beaten over the head by Khaki Shirts when Fierro was (Continued on Page 2) iE United Council of Working Class Women brought $70.95 yes- terday to the office of the Daily Worker in answer to Comrade Hatha- way’s appeal for immediate funds to help meet the down payment on our new press. This amount, the Coun- cil assures us, is only a beginning in its intensive drive to raise additional funds within a short period of time to help the “Daily” get its new press a ee F OTHER organizations showed the same revolutionary alertness and loyalty as the Council, we would not worry about the problem of install- ing the new press. But the fact is that the response on the whole so far is extremely poor. So poor that it is questionable if we will be in a position to make the initial payment on the press for its delivery to us. baa LREADY we have received numer- ous congratulations for purchas- ‘ing the new press. Workers realize it will mean economy in the long run, that it will mean a better and more powerful Daily Worker. But with con- gratulations alone, comrades, we will not be able to pay the first instalment due on the press which has not yet been delivered to us. Because of your splendid response in the $40,000 drive so far, because of our confidence in your loyalty and devotion to your Daily Worker, we have gone ahead to dig the excavation to build the foundation for the new press. HETHER we can have the new press and install it in the Daily Worker plant is up to you, comrades, Every moment counts. We appeal to you to respond immediately. Rush your contribution, no matter how small, today to the “Daily.” Raise funds from your friends and fellow shop workers. Hold affairs. We appeal to every workers’ organization to fol- low the example set by the Women’s Council, and HELP US GET THE NEW PRESS! +-$ 369.41 ++ 34,941.70 Wednesday's receipts Previous total $35,311.11 TOTAL TO DATE. yesterday | rnoon of killing his anti- | t friend Anthony Fierro, | fense during the two days of testi-| mony-¢' wi vious displeasure of Judge oe In his charge to the jury, Downs, | Silent on Insurance 0 | verdict until it was demanded by oe | | Women’s Council Aids New Press! }} | Unemployment 9 C.W.A. Workers Are Killed on Road Job GRAND JUNCTION, Col. Dec. 13.—Nine Civil Works Administra- tion workers were killed here in a landslide which took place on a scenic road being built under the C.W.A. The road was being carved out of a cliff side overhanging Monument canyon. The C.W.A. workers were dynamiting for the road when the landslide occurred. A tenth C.W.A. worker was re- ported missing in the blast. ‘Roosevelt toEnd All Civil Works May 1; ‘Tapering Off’ of Jobs by “Zones” Begins on March Ist tioned on his opinion of the judge’s| (Daily Worker Washington wae). BE WASHINGTON, D. C., Insurance was not. even mentioned at the White House today though it was announced that all civil works projects will end, at the ‘otest, by May 1. The present C. W. A. plan involves a tapering-off by climatic zones to begin on March 1, so that the works program will cease }somewhere between April 15 and | May 1, President Roosevelt will ask Con- gress for about $350,000,000 to carry his C. W. A. program between Feb- ruarv 15, the date when the $400,- 000,000 fund will be exhausted, until May 1. Nothing was said about what will be offered the many millions who will be permanently and tem- porarily unemployed on May 1, those mililons not given C. W. A. jobs before that time. Allotments from the $3,300,000,000 public works administration fund, a substantial part of which went for war preparations, will be dispersed by January 1, it was stated today at 7 P.W. A. omices,. '2500CWA Men Fired As 450 White Collar or; Battle Cops ‘Negro, White Workers Forced to Wait Hours in Cold NEW Y ORK—F ‘our thousand Civil) Works Administration workers, most of whom were Negroes, angered after being forced to wait for hours in the cold before receiving their pay, and after having been sent from city office to city office; yesterday broke their lines, overpowered the police-on duty, smashed in the doors of the C.W.A. branch office at Hubert aiid Collister Sts. and demanded that they be paid their back wages imme- diately. The men said that since Monday they had been sent to three different {places for their money, first at 90th St. and York Ave., again at 134 Madi- son St., and finally at Collister and | Hubert Sts. Some had paid out several subway fares in their attempts to get their money, others not having the fare, had been forced to tramp many miles, over the city to get the small wages due them, The amount due ranged from $4.50 to $10, the men said, and were the first pay checks they were to re- ceive under the C.W.A. Most of them have worked three days a week since Noy. 27 at $5 per day for which they have not yet been paid. This is ex- plained as being due to “some mils- understanding” as to whether the money due is to come from the city relief funds or from the C.W.A. For more than an hour the workers demanded their pay. While they were being paid scores of police, several de- The struggle finally quieted down only to break out again in the after- noon when another contingent of workers again stormed the offices de- manding their pay. Two police emergency cars were detailed by the police to remain at the scene throughout the day to awe the remaining workers into sub- mission. 20 Strikers Hurt ‘When Cops Attack Pawtucket Pickets Rank and File Wins Workers Get Jobs NEW YORK.—Twenty-five hun- All Str iker 8 dred Civil Works Administration ee workers in Nassau County were fired PAWTUCKET, R. I, Dec. 18. — yesterday, the Park Commission Over twenty strikers were injured stating the C. W. A. “lacked” the during a struggle with scabs and funds with which to buy materials armed deputies in front of the Ham- and equipment for the workers. let Silk mill in Pawtucket Monday. Without definitely saying that any One policeman, a state representative of those fired would be re-employed, 89d a number of scabs were sent to Lewis L. Delafield, C. W. A. admin- the hospital for treatment of injuries. istrator, said that it was “hoped” that! One of the scabs tried to run down Right of Vote for 700 would be again given work. “For the remaining 1,800, it is not known what can be done with them,” he said. Thousands Seek Jobs In New York City, 1,500 workers gathered at the city offices of the C. W. A. in the Port Authority Build- ing, 111 Eighth Ave., and another 1,200 stormed the 9th Regiment Ar- (Continued on Page 2) Biedenkapp Urges Class Struggle Line at Boston Shoe Meet Convention a at Boston Applauds Attack on Arbitration By CHARLOTTE TODES (Special to the Daily Worker) BOSTON, Mass. Dec. 13.—Fred Biedenkapp, general secretary of the Shoe and Leather Workers Industrial Union, addressed the Amalgamation Convention at its afternoon session and was vigorously applauded by the delegates after his speech outlining the Industrial Union's program for a New Shoe Union which the Amalga- mation Convention proposes to form. ‘The entire afternoon session was de- voted to speeches by the officials of the participating unions in the con- vention. Earlier in the day the convention heard the report of the Credentials A Jeon which announced that a tal of 184 delegates had been seated from the National Shoe Workers As- sociation, the Shoe Workers Protec- tive Union, the Shoe and Leather Workers Industrial Union, the Salem Shoe Workers and the Brotherhood of Shoe Workers. Disfranchise 3,000 Members Although members of the Provision- al Committee, sent to New York to check up on elections prior to the the Shoe and Leather Workers In- dustrial Union 9,000 members after convention, had individually conceded @ check up of shops on a list com- piled by the union enumerating work- ers per shop, the Credentials’ Com-| re} mittee conceded only 6,000 members to the Industrial Union, and per- mitted only 28 delegates to be seated. ‘The action of the Credentials Com- mittee resulted in disfranchising 3,000 members of the Industrial Union on the technicality of Jack of time to check up. The question of permitting the Shoe Repair Section of the union to be seated as delegates, remains to be settled. The Credentials Commit- tee also refused to seat delegates rep- resenting 1,000 members of the Phila- delphia Shoe and Leather Workers Industrial Union on the grounds that it had failed to comply with the rules of the. convention in time. Two dele- gates were seated as fraternal dele- gates from the Metropolitan Shoe Workers of New York, while the same request, made in behalf of Philadel- phia workers, was denied. The vote on the Credentials peers was 109 in fa~ rear 48 opposed to the Committee's The afternoon session opened with @ speech by William Mahan, official of the National Shoe Workers Asso- ciation, who declared that he was for amalgamation, equalization of hours ‘of labor, for recall of officials and for the establishment of a minimum , ‘ wage of $1.50 an hour, He declared that amalgamation would help double wages. Biedenkapp Denounces Arbitration Biedenkapp brought greetings of nearly 15,000 shoe workers in New York. He declared the intention of the delegates to participate with all their energies for the formation of one industrial union, and hoped that the convention would declare the union’s doors open to all workers in the in- dustry. He regretted the Creden- tials Committee action, which de- prived the union of a chance to con~ tribute by its full numerical strength struggies of the New York shoe work- ers, thelr recent strike, the N.R.A. sell-out, and declared that through struggles the workers had learned that industrial unionism on a class basis was the only form of organization which would protect them, He called for @ new union on re to the convention. He traced the! 3,000 Industrial Union Members Are Denied Representation the basis of admitting all shoe work- ers, regardless of skill, craft, color, race, nationality or political affilia- tion, on the shop basis of organiza- tion with full rank and file control. A big ovation greeted his declara~ and against affiliation with the A, F, of L. “The T.U.U.L.,” he declared, “unit- ed us with other militant industrial unions in a program of class strug- gle.” The program concluded with a call for the organization of the unem- ployed and unorganized workers, for unemployment fnsurance and the ed- ucation of the membership, \show that the majority voted to Istrikes, but settleemnt of all a striker who was in his way, so the strikers swarmed around the car, overturned it and then set it on fire, The owner of the car and his Sengers were somewhat manhant These battles are taking place despite the fact that the United 3 Workers leaders settled the strike’ for $1.90 for 100,000 picks—10c lower than Paterson. During the entire strike here, the organizer of the U.T.W. local, Mr. Powers, claims to have been impartial and he kept his men work wherever possible. The UL. leadership is carrying out the dirty work in Pawtucket that ity in Paterson arid elsewhere. L the first ballot vote on the proposi- tion of $1.90 was taken last Monday, the majority of the strikers voted. reject it. Then Gorman them of stuffing the ballot box: raised the cry that “Reds” the ballot box, and another vote i necessary; he said this despite | fact that only union members U.T.W. cards could vote. The strikers demanded that all should be permitted to vote. ay After some three days of basa tion against compulsory arbitration this issue in the Union meetings, rank and file won their point all strikers were permitted to vote, although the ballot boxes were 1 police supervision. Under these ¢ cumstances it is obvious this time the vote was doctored ‘ turn. The U.T.W. here wants same kind of agreement as recognition of union, no ences by arbitration board, ete, » ‘ ¢ ~— as 3 pole ee: