The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 14, 1933, Page 6

ae - “America’s Only Working Class Deily Newspaper” ; FOUNDED - “Published detty, exewpt Sunday, by Genter, so'kash tics Diceck’ Mew work, ‘Telephons: Algoneuin 47968. Cable Address: “Natwork,” New York, W. ¥. “Wweshington Burean: Room O84, Wetionsi Frees ith and ¥, S., Washington, BD. 0. Subscription Rates: : Mell: (enespt Manhattan and Brosz), 1 yser, © months, $2.60; 2 months, 62.00; 1 month, 75 cents, “‘Mankettan, Bronx, Foreign and Oanade: 1 yout, 90.08: months, $5.00; $ months $3.00. By Cartier: Weekly, 18 cents; monthly, 76 cents, shing Dabeee, ee ‘THURSDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1933 The Enemy Lies in Wait PE toa act tn the gruesome drama of the colossal Nazi fire-trial frame-up is drawing near. In this ‘finel act the most powerful figure, the most over- “whelming force, will be the world proletariat expressed in ‘the’ huge demonstrations which are mobilized, in the fervor with which a ringing world protest can stop the Nazi murder ax from falling. December 19 has been set aside as an interna- tional day of protest to rally millions of workers and anti-fascist fighters in every corner of the globe to preverit the fascist hangmen from slaughtering the brave Communists Dimitroff, Torgler, Taneff and "Popofi. “Thus far, world-wide protest has been instru- Mental in forcing the Nazi butchers to hesitate and to delay the slaughter. Twice they were prepared to bring down the ax on the necks of these frame-up Yictims. Like. beasts disturbed in hunt for prey, the Nazi slayers are waiting for a favorable opportunity to pounce on the defendants. “*fhe ‘whole trial was such s farce, the brilliant and historic defense of Dimitroff so overwhelmingly put the Nazis on the defensive, that there is the danger thatcmany workers and others sympathetic with the ‘defendants will lull themselves into the belief that ‘cven.these vilest butchers of Hitler will not dare to put the four defendants to death, fs oe ee ‘AINST this passive attitude we must raise the loudest alarm, The Nazi butchers are bent on murdering the four defendants swiftly at the first con- venient opportunity, and the time for protest is short. ‘The power of mass world protest has already been “demonstrated, and the Nazi executioners are nervous ‘and disturbed by the prospects of even greater and ‘more verful demonstrations throughout the world. _ “For-example, Goering, who himself felt the lash of Dimitroff’s gruelling questioning and expose of the Mazi_frame-up, just yesterday declared that despite the.fact that the defendants were not proved guilty of setting fire to the Reichstag, they deserve death for -Goering’s own words wets: “The Reichstag arson trial has shown that abstract reason cannot be ap- spied, in judging the base for political crimes.” » “TA sHort, proof iz lacking of the guilt of the de- _texidants—Iin fact, proof is overwhelming that the Nazis committed the atrocity. To make up for “this, to ‘Justify the slaughter of the defendants some “Bpecial-Nazt reasoning must be applied. 4 ‘Goering added some telling words about the mass Spesntment and discontent against the frame-up, about ‘ihe seething protest within Germany itself. “The trial had disappointed the entire German people,” he said. s * s s eH Deed to eriee What are the Nazis waiting for now? They are waiting for the slightest weak in the vigilance of the world proletariat. “The danger is tremendous. But the great power protest of millions of workers throughout the world mow is the only force that stands between the four defendants and a gruesome death on the Nazi slaughter Block. ‘The immediate task in the United States is to wally the widest, deepest, most widespread protest in “every. nook and corner of the country, in every or- ganization and on every occasion leading up to the greatest protest demonstration ever seen in this coun- t#y.on December. 19, <> “Thus far the situation in this country is alarming. Few preliminary meetings and demonstrations are re- ported throughout the country. The campaign is not developing with even a part of the vigor it requires to be effective in staying the Nazi executioners. The Dally Worker is receiving but little news from the settee. Bey organizations on what role they play im leading and organizing such demonstrations. ‘We cannot too strongly raise the alarm that from now until December 19 the greatest energy and effort Hiei Os. teveted by every worker wino dove not want SiR alld cc Peace aol ohcscio to develop in the United States a power- st demonstration that will tell the Nazi that the American workers demand the free- "Roosevelt has already spent about 500,000,000 for of crops, in order to raise prices, ‘This raise prices for the starving, exploited work- ers in the cities (18 per cent food rise in six months). But does it benefit the small farmer? The small farmer cannot afford to hold on to his crops, and so he lets it go to the Wall Street speculators, who cash in on the Roosevelt rise in prices. Secondly, the small farmer, because forced to reduce his crop under the Roosevelt program, has 2 smaller crop to sell under the higher prices, thus leaving him, at best, no better off than before. And finally, his cost of production, his cost of fertilizer, gasoline, seed, feed, machinery, etc, rise faster than the prices he is supposed to get for his products. The net result being that he is worss off than before, even after Roosevelt has raised farm prices! In addition, the small, impoverished farmers, un- der the Roosevelt acreage-reducing program, is driven off their land, because they cannot meet the Roose- vel acreage-reducing program and still produce enough crops to pay even the cost of their produc- tion. The rich farmers, who can afford to destroy part of their large crops, alone get some benefit. But im Texas alone already 200,000 small farmers have been driven off their farms by the Roosevelt farm program, ° 8 2 *# POSITION TWO: This money is paying bills; 4é is putting men back to work in the cities pro- ducing the things that farmers buy, and enabling these men to buy things that the farmers produce. ‘This is a deliberate falsification of the actual facts given out by the U. S. Department of Agriculture, which reveal that the prices of the things the farmer buys from the manufacturers in the cities have risen under the Roosevelt program much faster than the farm prices, thus actually making the position of the small farmer even worse than before. Who pays the higher Roosevelt prices? The work- ets in the cities. But the Roosevelt program has raised the price of food so fast that they have been forced to ent down on their food purchases by at least ten per cent, according to the reports of the U. 8. Depart- ment of Labor statistics on retail buying. And this cuts down the farmers’ market even still further, thus aggravating the basic came of the agrarian crisis—lack of markeis. Only the big Wall Street monopolies in between, the milk companies who sell milk that they buy from the farmer for 2 cents a quart, for 11 to 16 a quart in the cities, under the Roosevelt milk codes. Roosevelt's farm program is the program of the Wall Street mortgage-holders and the rich farmers. For the impoverished farmers and city workera it means more exploitation and hardship. “Gone Practical” INE PRACTICAL”—this was how Norman Thomas characterized Paul Blanshard’s decision to join forces with LaGuardia’s Fusion ticket jast September. And from the “practical” viewpoint it appears that Blanshard guessed right in the election campaign. ‘This former Socialist leader, close associate of Norman Thomas, a leader of Thomas's “militant” wing of the SP., has been appointed a member of Mayor LaGuardia’s “Cabinet.” This is his reward for using his prestige as a Socialist “militant” to line up work- ers’ votes for the disguised Republican Party. “t am supporting Fusion,” said Blanshard in his statement of resignation from the S.P., “because I want to see something done.” Surely something has been done, Mr. Blanshard! Blanshard will hold down the Commissioner of Accounts Job at the fat salary of $15,000 per year. Very practical, we would say, for Mr. Blanshard. A handsome reward! Judas Iscariot in his time could only rake up thirty pieces of silver! This Socialist leader, “gone practical,” ‘s now sit- ting openly right out in the center of bourgeois po- litics, ee © ¢ @ W what will Mr. Blanshard do in this new job? The Commissioner of Accounts, according to the press, has much power, “he examines the books of other city departments and at the mayor's request makes special reports on the conduct of other city offi- cials.” Blanshard, in his new position, it would seem, has an opportunity to star as s real city reformer. He can ferret out graft and corruption, bureaucracy in the city administration, and what not. Along with LaGuardia, he will war against Tammany. They will try to drive the Tammanyites out of office to make room for Repiblicans, For # tims the Fusion broom will sweep clean, saving money for the big capitalists, cutting down on their tax rate, regaining the shattered credit of the city with the bankers—all preparatory to the replacement of Democratic racketeers by Republican racketeers, In this process, Paul Blanshard, coming fresh from the Socialist Party and the Civic Affairs Committee, will make fine window dressing. But what will Blanshard, or the LaGuardia ad- ministration do for the workers of New York City? For the city employees who have suffered wage cuts? For the teachers? For the unemployed? Absolutely nothing! Events during the coming months will show that ‘be another tool in their hands. ec hene Le Some: eaters, yall very frequently, condemn Blanshard in the weeks to corhe as they begin to develop demagogically their differences with LaGuar- dia. But there is but little difference between the only difference is in their field of operations. both worked together from the offices for Industrial Democracy as the So- Henceforth one of them will work NLR. A ‘They will both support inflation. In short, each in their own way, and from their own workshop will continue to support the starvation-war-fascism Program of the Wall Street bankers being carried out nationally by Roosevelt and in New York City by La Guardia, Paul Blanshard has “gone practical” in support of capitalism. Norman Thomas still prefers to serve capitalist institutions behind the screen of the “peace- ful road to socialism.” Join the Communist Party 35 EAST 12TH STREET, NEW YORK, N. Y. Please send me more information on the Commu- nist Party. ADDRESS... ........5c00000% Huge Increase in Soviet Coal and — Other Production Further Rise i in Living| Standards of Masses | Assured } j i ~—— | By VERN SMITH | (European Correspondent, Daily | Worker.) | MOSCOW, Dec. 13.—The November coal output was 31.8 per cent higher than that of November last year. Coke production was 34.4 per cent higher; pig iron, 27.6 per cent; steel 34.9 per cent, rolled iron and steel 25.4 per cent higher. Despite these tremendous increases, | the Soviet workers are determined on still greater efforts, because the plan is not quite fulfilled; coal production was fulfilled 94.2 per cent of the No- vember plan; pig iron 87.8 per cent; coke, 88.1, steel, 89.4 per cent. Increases Daily Outpnit. ‘The average November daily output | of coal was 229,040 tons; pig iron, 22,980 tons; steel, 22,060 tons. The rate of production is increasing, for example; the coal output for Decem- ber 7th was 243,700 tons. Nationwide efforts have begun to fulfill the yearly Plan in the remaining days of De- cember and to present figures of new victories to the 17th Congress of the Communist Party, meeting in January. Intense interest has been aroused in this drive to put on the Red List all those plants fulfilling or over-fulfil- ling the plan. Thousands of workers have signed collective challenges to other plants, also challenging compe- tition between departments in the same~plants. Numerous factories al- ready on the Red List have now chal- lenged each other to produce millions of rubles worth of goods in excess of the plan as a present to the country. Workers to Lower Cost of Production. Challenges have also been made in|’ regard to the lowering of production costs, improvement of technique, utilization of the working day, etc. In Moscow Province alone there are al- ready forty such factories. Outstand- ing examples in other cities are, the Red Triangle Rubber Factory, Lenin- grad; Gomel Glass Factory, Krifoi; the Rog Iron Mines in the Ukraine, with already finished production of 200,000 tons of ore, and the Red Oc- tober Metal Plant in Stalingrad. The Red Putilov Works, Leningrad, pledges seven turbines by January Ist and a twelve thousand kilowatt tur- bine by the beginning of the District | Party Conference, also five new farm- all type.tractors and six hundred thousand rubles worth of tractor spare parts. Scientists Pledge Increased Research. This is typical of the attitude of the workers throughout the country toward the approaching Party Con- gress. Competition pervades all fields. For example, Moscow University scientists have pledged enlarged cour- ses for the scientific lectures in the factories, increased research work, next year. Thus at the Donbas Udar- niks’ second meeting, just finished pledges were made for sixty million tons of coal for next year, contrasting with fifty million tons for this year. To Increase Consumers’ Goods. Statements of the People’s Commis- sars in the light industry, supplies, forestry, promise greatly increased production and improved quality in consumers’ goods next year, particu~ larly textiles, clothing, furniture, canned goods, dairy products, sugar products, soap. The Commissar of Heavy Industry promises special at- tention to the production of machin- ery for the light industry and is work- ing out plans to insure ordering within proper time, selection of the right machines, proper supply, spare parts, adequate transportation, etc. These plans insure s further huge rise in the living standards of the So- viet masses for the next year. ‘Thus far nine provinces and five re- publics have settled all grain accounts, including state deliveries for payment tor stations, reserve supplies, stock, food and have been given permission for all Kilkhozniks to sell as Individ~ uals the surplus grain distributed to individual Kilhozniks and amounting frequently to over a ton per person. Every effort 1s being made to flood villages with consumers’ manufac- tured goods which the peasants or- der when they sell the grain not needed for their own consumption. ‘The Repubics which have settled their grain amounts are Crimea, Tar- tary, Bashkiria, Moldavia and Ar- ete. Some pledges are arriving for | - in Kind for the use of machine, trac- |. DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1938 Police Attack Anti azi Protest U. S. Is Strongly Mass Arrests in | Phillipines, As the Protest Here Nears Conference Sunday, to Expose VU. S, | Terror | NEW YORK. mi the wind-up of prepar: Conference on Wall the Philippines, to be held in B of an inc! Tevoluti nar. pines. Manahan, workers’ and peasants’ revolutio! movement. Manahan has formed his ganization in an effort to di workers and peasants stru against American imperiall: sicn. Acting in concert he has engineered the f Scores of militant charges of ar: of large cattl maximum faders as a rr Manahan which brings | Many militant forced into hidi ing denounced by police, ‘The Filipino confererce in Brocl lyn is called by the Filipino / Imperialist League and the Int tional Labor Defense. I at 132 Myrtle Ave., menia, The Provinces include Dn petrovsk, Kharkov, Vinnitsia, Cher- nigov, Leningrad, Moscow and Gor! New deposits of a high grade coal have been discovered at Voronesh, in the Central Black Soil Region, at a depth of 380 feet. The sessions of the ail Union Cen- ainittee will. begin ber 25th, surveying the gi- \ gantic accomplishments for this year, | adopting the plan for next year, and |. confirming decisions of the presidium between sessions. Intervening inCuba, ‘Says Grau Delegate |Welles Leaving But Wall St. Policy Re- mains With Caffery, MONTEVIDEO, Dec. 13.—Protest- ing American interyention-in Cuba |against the Grau regime, Dr. Angel | Giraudy, chief delegate trom Cuba to the Pan-American Conference, today caused a sensation when “hé* charged Wall Ambassador Welles with th counter-revolutionary | | eclare deliberately,” said Dr. that the United States is in Cuba, strongly inter- not been left free to reign rightsp that the s been engaged in the Grau governs 1 Ambagsador Welles. the United State: Reported Leaving 3 t is reported leave for the after the-breake tions for a con- seers. persefal» r pres sentative replace I plotting from Wash- has been ful Rooseve afid’ repre- amof the big Amer- Cuba end ‘the United xho ¢contrel most of the 1,000,000 American investments in’ Cuba * Declare Martial Law In Chinese Towns as Red Ar my Advances tudents at inst the N her, speak Scores were beaten in fashion shown in pictur dor, Hans niversity e brutal left, Students Hit Luther ‘inAnti-Fascist Rally. cat Columbia College | lies’ Letter on |\Cuba Shows Wall St. Murderous Plotting | Yanking of< ficlals yesterday that the Kwangsl warlords: would support the fonist regime and its in Cuba. now show Wall ambassador ew cour of the g | Canton alli Chiang Kal-shek ‘yesterday wired |@ demand to Shanghai bankers for additional $1,800,000 to finance the th Campaign against the Chinese ‘ker will d out by a cop and|§ sh two letters (one written by Luther cleared his throat and! Soviet Republic, we Welles hin one by the n again, | bd e ° ABC |} s), to be ob- “The National Student Le: SHANGHAI, Dec. 13.—Martial lew » Showing the ist role of the me in Cuba, the Cohunbia gent!” | was ordered in Wahsien, Chungking and Changtu, Szechwan provitite cit- ies, yesterday, as workers threatened a sympathetic sitike in support of he advancing Chinesé Ref"Arthies. The Nanking militarists, who have been driven out of large sections of the province, also ordered an. ec6- nomic boycott against the Soviet re= | gions. | The rift T | the South fe) ‘d. Luther tried t reading | t found s imposs until -the | L, member had been ejected. in he was interrupted | lumbia woman teacher who between. Nanking and. ina> militarists. widened ‘-Kai-shek, Nan- d his j cones man peopie.” | , he said, and | a proof that newly belligerent attitude les. with the action of Japan ching its-entire Third Fleet n where the toiling masses expressing their sympathy by Chinese Soviet Re- | public. Chiang rsonal command of y of 400,000 men in nor ince, while’ on_ tk troops of the the west 45,- ani | Canton regime, the | 000 Hunan p ide, | Route Ar my of | has been ineapacitated rank and file for the power. The riff between Nen- nd the Southérn. militarists has engdes cooperation sterty anid southern fronts. ‘i = |¥ se armies are admittedly he Ot Oe acans end Dr. tt much of a factor, invartably re- | Columbia professor. (treating before the Red Armies. sf , of the Allied Pro- | 5: fession Groups, and Addison T. Cut- i ing r spoke. A few among the de! 2- | temporarily along the regi ter of 1933 same period of 19 The Nazis ‘Exposed i in 1 Leipzig, But Still. Hold the Noose 4 Cotiicouniate Can Bel Saved Only Through Greater Protest By WILLY TROSTEL (Zurich) ‘The article in the Nazi Angriff, ac- cording to which the question of guilt in connection with the Reich- stag fire “cannot yet be clearly and definitely answered,” and which therefore leaves the Supreme Court at Leipzig free, so to speak, “to de- cide according to the law and to pro- nounce..its. verdict according to what has been actually proved,” must cer- tainly be regarded as a retreat on the part of German fascism. We re- member with what bestial lust for murder Goebbels’ organ, the Ansriff, demanded the gallows for ‘Torgler, Dimitroff, Tane/f and Popoff, and further, how, after Goerine’s ovt- burst of rage before the court, the whole of the Nazi press unanimously declared that there could no longer be any doubt regarding the guilt of Torgler, Dimitroff and their fellow necuses. ‘The above cuotatfons from the Anvriff are therefore in strikine contradiction to the attitude hitherto adonted by the fascist oress, What: is the explanaion for this “change of front”? It Js undoubtedly « result of the international protest campeign. This TR ne ‘Hitler, Goering and Goebbels. who in Merch and Avril last snoke only of a nvublic exerntion. but not of a public trial, nevertheless to allow the trial to be held in public; to permit foreign journalists to at-) tend the proceedings, and finally to} permit the court to preserve to a cer- tain extent the appearance of con-} ducting a proper trial. Thanks to} this success of the protest movement, the accused Communists were assured a certain amount of protection by the international public, and German fascism ssutained a defeat by its ex- posure in the court. The attitude of the Angriff means, therefore, in the first place that German. fascism is trying to meke the best of a bad business, in that its chief organ dis- sociates itself from iis. own witnosses, no longer declares with certainty that | the accused—and tn particular the three Buigariens — are guilty, and contents itself with recording that the only crime proved against the aceused Communists is that “of re- volutionary undermining “work.” Tt would be if we presu the part of the Nazi danger threatenng the. accused Communists is nov The Angriff article is far from meah- |* ing that German fascism, which is thirsting for the blood of our leading | ® comrades, has abandoned its criminal plans to have them “shot while at- tempting to escape,” “comit suicide” in prison, or simply to tourture them to death. In fact it does not evon mean that it has abandoned its tention to pronounce death sentences intensification of the campaign for pecemben 19 Wilt-See ce a ee World - Wide Protest the rescue of our ete weet Millions in Huge Reichstag Frame-Up i the sc Demonstrations Trial on December 19 THERE. that 18 ‘being t by the In- ety the nee of of the: accused itis | intended to give the death stroke to thé fight for freedom of the workers ist exploitation and fas- {justice ts being red for this pur- final proceedings. of the being devoted to the polit- . 8 the cas¢. The: last the factories, se e trial confronts us more house-to-house| th ever with thé Titiportant ‘task of to draw the whole | ¢Plaining to all oppressed and ex- into the campaign on | Ploited, and particularly to the social- d. Sympathetic | democratic workers, the political sig- on elarge | Mificance of this trial. ‘The Commu- | nists ero fighting fer tte ‘socialist ls of Ernst Torgter, , Blagoi Popoff r to compel th The most important th ing hw es! tions to demand the r inumediate freedom. Tn this cat ipaign it is much mo | than a qi of saving the four ¢ judi- | cial enslavement, and are’-therefore She world campaign resorting to judielat murder which fe & breach in the system, Very much is thereforé at stake’ in of fascist will not fail to rescue | this campaign. Save the innocent ac- ne cther imprisoned comrades, Com- | cused in the Leipzig’ trial. Rescue » Thaelmatin and the tens Comri is; hundreds of thousands of piole- sand: to | tarians and anti-fescist. intellectuals! Let uc fight for’ the "sonialist way out im- | incarcerated in the prisons and con-| of the ist “Tatas “exert all our | centration camps. A powerful blow | foress and Geveloy ‘a powerful, irre verdict and >» death | innocent cial murd 2 Thacltana, snd the thou- of im) enti-fascists! against them. “The depositions made by witnesses for and against Torgler balance each other, and it will be the task of the judges to decide, accord- ing to law, the question of “guilty” in Leipaig is also a blow in Sonnen- | sistible world movenient! . We shall burg, in Oranienburg, in ciple a thereby not only achieve ottr. immedi- are in no less danger than before.| Hamburg, in Essen, in all pai For this reason our only answer to! the “Third Reich,” and in fact in the “change of front” must be an all fascist countries, ‘The lives of our comrades t fore ity. ate aims, but ceteris ine amanation Of RUAN SX