The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 15, 1933, Page 1

ra Weirton Steel Co. Unmolested by NRA in Denying Men Vote | ORDER Tenth Anniversary Issue of the “Daily.” | NOW! 24 Pages! | Dai vouy, (Section of the Communist International) Vol. X, No. 300 ® * Entered as second-clacs matter at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., under the Act of March 8, 187%, NAZI FRAME-UP PROSECUTION DEMANDS DEATH FOR TORGLER; | FORCED TO ADMIT INNOCENCE OF DIMITROFF, POPOFF, America’s Only Working | Class Daily Newspaper | snow. WEATHER—Cloudy, rain or NEW YORK, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1933 Price 3 Cents (Six Pages) National Labor Board Drops Case Like Hot Coal By MARGUERITE YOUNG (Daily Worker, Wash. Bureau) WASHINGTON, Dec. 14.— The National Labor Board to- day dropped the live coal that is the Weirton Steel Case into the cold waters of the Depart- ment of Justice and there At- torney-General Homer 5. Cummings announced flatly that whether they will act “depends on whether there develops any interference with the siection tomorrow.” Chairman Wagner of the National Labor Board said that Weirton’s flagrantly open and absolute refusal to allow its workers to select union representatives under labor board su- pervision is “in my opinion a clear violation of the National Industrial Recovery Act,” but instead of acting Wagner merely passed the back to the Department of Justice. One Hope—Strike It is now abundantly clear that the Weirton workers haye but one hope another strike. Almost every one of the group of press representatives to whom Wag- ner announced his program today, gasped: “Why aren’t you seeking an indictment of Weirton since you say it has openly: violated NIRA?” Promise Jobs to 3,520 at This Date; 390 Get Them, in Cleveland, O. CLEVELAND, Ohio.—Out of the promise to employ 3,520 workers on C.W.A. projects by this time, comes the almost complicte collapse of the IX CUBA JAIL Grau Answers Work- ers on the Rights of Their Organizations HAVANA, Dec. 14.—Henry Shepard and Alfred Runge, | two of the Anti-Imperialist} delegates arrested by soldiers} $22,000,000 C.W.A. program here with only 390 men employed to date. The state has the money with the workers holding the empty promise. APL Officials Act To Keep Weirton Co. Men from Striking | Workers ‘Urge Strike to Win Their Demands WEIRTON, W. Va., Dec. 14—For the time being, A. F. of L. leaders in the Amalgamated Association of Iron Steel and Tin Workers succeeded in rejecting s proposal on the part of rank and filers for a strike to force the Weirton Steel Co. to grant elec- tions for workers’ representatives. A special meeting was called, but not all the workers were present. of the Grau reg re still in Prin-| cipe fortress. Today President answer to organizations, Gr lute freedom has b: labor organizations, not true. ‘They have ognition, he of labor with all problems fare. Free To Choose Quarters On the question of a able quarters to all ganizations, he an: are free to choo: quarters as the: formity with the for Replying to the freedom of the wor! plied that it now exists and will co tinue to exist as long as th ment is in office. Regarding .the. ffecting their wel- “We want an injunction so we can hold an election,” Wagner said. He sent his legal counsel to confer with Cummings and said that he would consider the election which the com- pany is holding tomorrow “null.” “Why is it,’ I asked, “that you have to go through all the red tape of the Justice Department when everybody knows that department always means interminable negotiation, and yet em- ployers go straight to court for in- junctions against workers without any ado whatsoever?” “Orderly Process” ‘The chairman merely murmured: “we've got to follow orderly process- es.” Wagner professed great annoyance at the situation that has resulted (Continued on Page 2) Pittsburgh C.W.A. Men Demonstrate, Demand Back Pay PITTSBURGH, Pa., Dec. 14.— The calling of police failed to quiet the spontaneous demonstration of 1,350 C.W.A. workers in the County Build- ing here Saturday, who were de- manding one, two and three weeks back wages, not yet paid them. The workers were forced to wait in line from nine am. until two pm, and then, growing impatient, stamped their feet, and shouted for thoir money. Police were called. The C. W. A. authorities grew alarmed and sent for the money. Several hun- dred of the C.W.A. workers then ee ted oie pay, we some ‘were pay the following ‘Wednesday on the job. ‘The Unemployed Couneils of Alleg- demands of the C.W.A. kers will be taken up Friday, Dec. at the Western Pa., Conference Unemployment at 7 pm., at Labor Lyceum, 35 Miller 8t., Pittsburgh, Pa. The conference will take the question of dele- t the National Convention Unemployment in Washing- D. C., Jan, 13, 14, 15. Marchers Ask for CWA Jobs or Relief CHARLESTON, W. Va.—A Hunger March of 1,000 workers ted by the .| by the president, the miners repu- The proposal was made that a , Strike be called of the 14,000 Weirton steel workers to protest against the fake action of the N.R.A, in prom- ising elections and the action of Pres- jident Weir in refusing to permit Te law which provid must employ 50 per effort to split the ranks of the w ers, Grau said that the goal of the government is the protection of Cu- ban citizens against foreign compsti- tion, He said the question is under consideration of raising this to 80 per cent. . elections, | A Bal Roa id Dena Cee 5,000 West Virgini é a aa Coal Miners Strike; , 9 for dependants, free ¢ 1 O evictions, the fu Vy a Eject UMWA Leader capital levy on all foreign corpora- Sai . foreign concerns doing business in More Threaten to Join Cubs Grau answered If Miners Demands _ | workers nad demande be administered by a committee of Are Not Granted workers and peasants. He said the whole matter was not LOGAN, W. Va. (By mail)—On under consideration, Dec. 9 around 5,00) coal miners The Anti-Imperialist League were on strike here. Thousands of the Cuban National Confederation of other miners declared if the com~ yabor declared they should be given pany does not grant the miners’ the right to arrange for the elections demands, they will join the strike. and the setting up of the commissions The miners of Holden and Whit- to administer the unemployment fund, man picketed Mine No, 7 on Dec. since the Confederation represents the 7 because these miners were not majority of the organized workers in notified that the four locals went Cuba. oa bia ae pales went in Not Considered A ahaha serie 3,000 miners} Grau answered that this was not marched into Holden to picket Mine ynder consideration. enh ines the miners came out * * ere at the entrance of the Dema mine, removed the leadership of rea sca the local and elected new ones in’. NEW YORK. — The International Labor Defense cabled protests to Pres- their places. | ‘di On Dec. 8 @ big meeting was ident Grau demanding immediate re- lease of the two delegates. A similar called at Mine No. 7 where a U.M. wire was sent to the Cuban embassy W.A. organizer wanted to speak in i in Washington demanding their free- the name of District President Van Gorm Bittner, but the miners kicked him " off the platform and stoned him| A mass meeting to hear the re- until he could only run away after| Port of the five delesates who went pleading for his life. to Cuba will be held at New Star President Van Bittner sent a wire Casino, 107th St. and Park Ave., to the president of Loval 14 in~| Sunday, Dec. 17th, at 8 P, M. structing them to go back to work. After the reading of the telegram Send your greetings to the 24- page Tenth Anniversary edition of diated it and rejected the leader-| the Daily Worker. ship of the U.M.W.A us before Dec. 30. | Acts to Get New Press | NEw. YORK, which has already Pee eee ae commie raised over $17.500, pledges to ful- Gar edt eeie Ronpbreat| more we we rai ie re- Ail its $20,000 quota within two weeks!) Gairea $40,000, If every reader of New York District makes this pledge} the Daily Worker sends in only 25 as an assurance to the Daily Worker} cents we will be OVER THE TOP! that everything possible will be done gt race be sare, mates to help us get the new press. At the gird ese! TON same time New York workers are on| NOW, COMRADES! Rush what- is job mobilizing forces for the ! ever amount you can afford. No matter how small it may be, added tenth anniversary of the Daily Work- er, and for a mass sale of the 100,000 lg Ade! other ae will send in, help Us get our new pre: copies of the 24-page, tenth anniver- : a Ch sary edition J. Hoffman, a worker from Chi- 6th, which F “Daily,” of Jan.) cago, sent a dollar yesterday for the new press. “Would send more if I could,” he writes. Who will equal his contribution? If you cannot contribute ask your fellow worker to do so, have your or- | ganization make a contribution, ONE (ORE EFFORT, COMRADES, WILL THE DRIVE OVER THE TOP! ENABLE US TO INSTALL UR NEW PRESS! a B58 i FA Hi z aEe £ $148.41 35,311.11 Total to date os+...++0+. $35,459.52! 4 2 PEE i i and eats HOLD 2U.S. German Com DELEGATES Mass for International Protest on December 19th! Shons Vote to Stop Work in Defense of German Defendants Two More Shops Voted | Yesterday, More Expected NEW YORK.—Two more| shops voted yesterday for aj | 15 minute stoppage of all work | the Leip- | and many, g today. rkers of the Durable | the 25 workers of | v Co., are those | lay, under the} Steel and Metal | al Union, as a protes tion of six upon t German | ncral in New York to} frame-up, the Nazi | lly declared that five | viity, and that the Germany cs re g court in S lied a special ‘ting Monday at the ers, 17 5th Ave., it against the Reich- i -up and to mobilize rs for the demonstration The shoe workers plan delegation to the New York consulate on Monday. The National Committee to Aid the Victims of German Fascism has just received word that the Inter- national Committee of Inquiry into . the burning of the Reichstag will meet again in London between the fifteenth and twentieth of Decem- ber. For the purpose of defraying the cxponses of the calling of wit- nesces, ete., more funds are ur- gently needed. Funds should be sent at once to the National Com~, mittee, at 870 Broadway, New York,'* care of Alfred Wagenknecht. ‘MoreTaxes Com’ng; Workers to Pay for U.S. Aid to Wall St. WASHINGTON, Dec. 14. — With Government revenues estimated at $3,500,000,000 for the coming year, with government expenditure running at the rate of more than twice that amount, the question of new, heavy taxes loom azain as a certain question for the coming Congress in January. ‘The Roosevelt government, to con- ceal the growing budget crisis as a result of the huge war expenditures and the enormous subsides to Wall Street monopoties, publishes its bud- get in two sections, the “normal” and the “emergency.” The “emergency” section includes the billion-dollar loans of the R. F. C., the $4,000,000,- 000 mortgage refinancing program for the mortgage holders, hundreds of millions for the crop destruction pro- gram, etc. The House Committee on Ways and Means has already rumored the ad- dition of $400,000,000 of new taxes, mostly to fall on the small business sections and the consumers. The Roosevelt government has just repealed the emergency surtaxes on lJarge incomes and corporations. It has, however, extended the Hoover excise taxes on gasoline, radios, medi- cines, etc., which take $600,000,000 out of the consumers, $10,000,000 More For U.S. Army to Be Spent by Gov’t WASHINGTON, Dec. 14—As part of the rapid increase of the mili- tary forces, the Roosevelt govern- ment, through the War Depart- ment, will spend another $10,000.- 000 for the motorization of the U. S. Army, it was announced today. Mcss than 7,776 miltary auto- mobiles and trucks are provided for. Motor trucks are considered the latest development in rapid mili- tary advance technique. Recently the U. 8. Army per- fected a method of moving troops across deserts by means of auto trucks, The U.S.S.R.. boundaries pass through several large deserts. ® ‘ r o 3 f t TANEFF munist Leader Faces Executioner’s Axe; |, Death Demand Intended as Threat Against | Growing Influence of German C. P, | Faces Death at Hands of Nazi Butchers Not a Bit of Valid Evidence Produced Against Torgler During Two-Month “Trial” (Special to the Daily Worker) } AT THE GERMAN BORDER, Dee. 14.— oe s ed oH Ernst Torgler, German Communist leader who is in danger of im- minent murder by the Fascist executioners, following the d th demand made by the Nazi frame-up prosecution at Leipzig yesterday A. Sinister “HE fascist murderers are out for German Communist Party and They are playing a sinister game, proposing Popoff and Taneff—to send them to the fasc that all of thi defendants are innocent of the slightest connec’ But the whole world knows fire. The whole world knows that By this new move the fascists think tha quiet the world protest of the masses agains . E workers of the world, whose Nazi Move the blood of Tor; the German work: to der of the e Dimitr ‘derers of B e heroic Comm with the eichstag S are gui will confuse the frame-up, the Nazis thems: and mass anger has forced the fa to make this retreat, must leap at once to meet the new sinister danger! Torgler! Demand safe release for Save the heroic defendants, all of whom are innocent! Save Dimitroff and his comrades! Prepare for December 19, international day of working class struggle for the freedom of the Reichstag defendants! Organize enormous mass actions, flood the German consulates with mass delegations, protests! The four defendants are innocent! Stop the Bloody Hitler! Stop the murder of our working class brothers! Another Printers’ Chapel | for Strike World-Telegram Men Vote for Demands NEW YORK.—The regular meeting of the World-Telegram Chapel, Wed-~ nesday, unanimously endorsed a reso- lution calling for strike action if the three basic demands, 30-hour week, 1929 weekly wage scale, and 5 per cent levy on payroll for unemploy- ment relief, are not obtained by the International president, Charles P. Howard, who has been called in by, Big 6 to mediate the points in con- troversy. ‘The Evening Journal, American and the Mirror have adopted similar reso~ lutions. Other newspaper workers are expected to follow suit. Unpaid Bronx CWA Men to Hold Mass Meet NEW YORK.—Bronx relief work- ers who have not received pay for many weeks will hold a meeting Friday, Dec. 15, at 8 p.m. at the Herman Ridder Junior High School, 173rd St, and Boston Rd., to discuss their grievances. An organization will be set up to help all relief workers to safeguard their jobs not only until Feb. 15, but all year round. Notices of the meeting have, been distributed on most of the jobs. \CWA Men Force 10¢. Per Hour Wage Rise Led by Lincoln Jobless Federation LINCOLN, Neb.—C. W. A. workers under the leadership of the Lincoln Unemployed Federation, won a ten- cent wage increase, from 40c to 50c an hour, and back pay for time worked the last three weeks. When & committee from the Fed- eration appeared before the Governor protesting the 40c an hour wage Scale, he answered: “The reason for the 40c when the C.W.A. rules called for 50¢ was because the contractors on P.W.A. were on 40c basis and to pay C.W.A. workers 50c would cause strikes. among P.W.A. workers and force the contractors to pay 50c and bankrupt them all.” The C.W.A. workers, however, got the 50c an hour. Anyone Employed in Previous 30 Days Not to Get CWA Job NEW HAVEN, Conn.—Fearful that they are losing their abundant sup- ply of cheap labor working part time by their desertion to C.W.A. rolls, manufacturers here complained to Miss Wood, head of the local ©.W.A. ‘The result was a quick decision to |bar anybody from ©.W.A, jobs who had work within a period of 30 days. death to lynchers. (Via Zurich, Switzerland). manded today for th leader, Ernst Torgler, 4 fraction in the Reichstag: TUUL Calls Workers To Demand Release Of Four Defendants Urges Mass Protest to Sa the T.U.UL , and m “Thru this e ing class le; we with the growing violence (Continued on Page 2) Communist Party | UrgesWide Protest To Save Torgler Plans Mass Meetings in All Sections of Greater New York NEW YORK.—Following the news of the death sentence demanded against Erhst Torgler, German Com- munist leader, yesterday, the New York District of the Communist Par- ty, in an urgent call to all its mem- bers and to all revolutionary workers, stressed the life and death im- portance of turning out ef masse in protest actions throughout the city The call urged especially the call- ing of immediate mobilizations for a mass protest before the German con- sulate at 17 Battery Place, and for mass meetings in all parts of the city. Scores of such meetings have been arranged for Monday night, Dec. 18. The list appears on page 2 of this issue. The statement of the Communist Party District reads, in part: To All Members of the Communist Party and Young Communist League; To All Revolutionary Workers; To All Anti-Fascist Elements: Flood the bloody Nazi Consulate with protest telegrams, Adopt protest resolutions in your shops, trade unions! Send delegations to the Ger- man Consulate from each organiza- tion, from every meeting! Turn out in mighty numbers to the mass protest meetings throughout the city on Monday night, Dec. 18. Pre- pare for the mighty mass demonstra- tion on the International Day of Struggle against the Nazi murder plot of the working class heroes, Dimitroff, Torgler, Popoff and Tanev. Tuesday, Dec, 19, at 12:30 p. m., at the German Consulate, 17 Battery Pl. “All Party members are urged to report at their respective section headquarters tonight, Saturday and ny,” con**nuss the statement, fiet distribution, for active : ton for te Monday nivht and Tuesday mass protests against the Nazi executioners of the work- “s end J--7'sh neon!s. for the free- dom of the Scotisboro boys, for "| there a singie bi Death was de- e German Communist head of the Communist , by the bloody Nazi me-up court at Leipzig. Tor, now stands in the hadow the fascist execu- i rs’ axe, with the only hope left in the s of all lands rnational pro- power, without fr: | of time acquittal was ne three other Com- efendants, George Dimitroff, i Popoff and Vassil Taneff. cquittal proposals for the tian Communists was tan- nission of the complete the prosecution’s case. In was “strong sus- but no definite proof of their in the Reichstag arson, n der Lubbe, Nazi tool, ke Reichstag, was ve had an accom- one who had “easy as Torgler, nee during the entire trial of a.most two months, however, was of evidence pro- y the Nazis to show that ler was in any way involved in the arson. of death for Torgler apse of the Nazi case ff, Popoff and Tanefi, accordance with demands he real incendiary, Goeri This death demand is tndleatete |the compulsion of the inner politi in Germar By it the empt to regain the numbers of fas- which has y shaken by the trial. ntence is hoped by the S a deterrent against | increasing infiuence of the Com- munist Party of Germany. The public prosecutor's demands to- day concluded a long speech which had taken up most of yesterday's seston, in wnich he had. asserted that not the Red Front Fighters, but the Communist Party leaders had prepared for an armed uprising by jobtaining arms, The German Com- jmunist Party, he claimed, had feared , complete annihilation by being driven derground, and -had therefore ‘isked this desperate game.” The Reichstag fire was therefore, he claimed, “a desperation signal” for uprising. = He was followed by vice-prosecutor Parisius, who dealt chiefly with the case of Van der Lubbe, who sat mo-= tionless throughout his speech, deep= ly bowed. Parisius repeated the un- proved assertion that Van der Lubbe had connections with Central Com- mittee of the Communist Party, al- though the trial proved the contrary, He repeated the He that Van der Lubbe was a Communist, although the trial had completely disproved this Nazi fiction. In repeating this charge, he referred to Van der Lubbe'’s alleged confessions at previous examinations, although Van der Lubbe had refused | to repeat these at the trial itself, ‘ All this attention te Van der Lubbe, however, was but an elabor- _ ate preparation for bigger game that the Nazis had in mind. They were trying to create a plausible case against Torgler, the weakness of v yrevoa.cd ‘tself as Parisias continued to speak. te Van der Lubbe alone could not hav set fire to the building, he c He must have had an accomplice, who “pulled wires in advance.” he went on to state that the proved he had had accomplices, | spite Van der Lubbe’s denials, he sa expert opinions proved otherwise. — Incendiaries had easy access to tl Reichstag, he said, “especially de like Torgier.” He conveniently fi to mention a word of the m Brown Book charges, which s that there wes a direct unde passage from the home of to the Reichstag building,