The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 25, 1933, Page 1

rer nes ——$—<—$—$— OE TET ~ holidays, READ GREETING From the German Communist Party in Jan. 6th “Daily” Da i Vol. X, No. 308 aE" Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., under the Act of March 8, 1879, (Section of the Communist International ) es NEW YORK, MONDAY, DECEMBER 25, 1933 i COURT IS FORCED TO ADMIT TH ~ AFL HEADS AID NRA MOVE[Free 2 U.S. \GOVT SPENDS | TO BREAK STRIKE OF 20,000| Delegates \) TRUCKERS IN PHILADELPHIA), Transport | Workers in Move for 100 P. C. Traffic Tie-Up Crowd Jeers § Scab Milk Driver in Workers’ Neighborhood By HARRY GANNES PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 24, -—The strike action of the transportation workers here is challenging the National Labor Board. Milk, meat, bakery, laundry deliveries are being stopped. The heavy trucks that make long- distance deliveries stand idle in the garages. Subjected to tremendous pressure from many sides over the Christmas 20,000 Philadelphia truck drivers and other transportation workers remained on strike. Their walk-out is in support of the vic- timized taxi-drivers of the Philadel- . phia Rapid Transit Co. Their strike, aiso, is a move to force action by the bosses and NRA on their own separate wage and union recogni- ticn demands. The NRA strike- breaking methods in Weirton Steel, Budd Auto and in the Philade'phia Rapid Transit is being met here i effective tie-up of trucking the city. begen Friday appeals of NRA offic ‘ain from strike. commiti Sportation workers’ liated to the Amer- ', except the affiliated to the League. 2 aad Angry. h pitch of anger y . Te= tusal to rei te the striking taxi r and permit, them to vote sntatives of their own members of the clean- laundry, milk, ex- bekery and teamsters’ locals voted for a gen transportation strike. All of these workers had been on strike themselves previously. They had been betrayed by prom- ises of the NRA, supported by high officials of the American Federa- tion of Labor, to “arbitrate.” Fearing that the transportation strike would spread to the street cars and subways, and even to a general strike of all workers in Philadelphia, the employers began ® heavy barrage against the work- ers which had some effect Saturday. Three Locals Withdraw. At a meeting of thé general strike commitice on that day, five locals voted to continue the strike and three to withdraw. The American Railway Express local, with 250 members, voted to leave the strike; the Bakery Wagon Drivers Union, with 1,100 workers, withdrew be- cause the workers had heavy loads for Christmas deliveries which they had to pay for. The Laundry Driv- ers’ representative also voted to withdraw, but the rank and file have not yet taken that step. It is expected that after the holi- days, the strikers’ ranks will be despite _ (Continued on Page 2) Celebrate Tenth Anniversary of the “Daily.” Send greetings to the Daily Worker for its Tenth Anni- versary 24-page edition of Jan. 8. Get ads. Speed your ordets for this historic edition. | ix Today’s “Daily | Worker” Page ~-Sports by Mac Gordon. Socialist Cheer Minor, De- Page 3—Shop Paper Roosevelt Billions for War Action. “The Factory as a Socialist Unit in the U. S. S. R.,” by Vern Smith. | Gnemployed, Starving Youth Kills Mother of Seven and Himself | having been unemployed for several months, George Dolak, 23 years old, | the sole support of a killed his sick mother and himself, because there was no food or money in | the house. Mass Funeral for ‘Marchuk, Victim 0 ‘Ford Gang, Dee. 2 | AutoUnionlLeaderWas Murdered in Cold Blood by Thugs DETROIT, Mich., Dec, 24—George Marchuk, murdered by Ford gangsters |Jast Thursday will be buried Wedne: day, December 27th. A mass fune: will take place in Lincoln Park at 4 P. M. on that date. Comrade Marchuk, an active mem- ber of the Communist Party and sec- retary of the Lincoln Park branch of dered in cold blood by Ford Co. gang- | fhe murder 0% -Comzade Marchuk <n attempt by Ford and other auto es to terrorize the Auto Workers Uzien which is now undertaking an active unionization drive, the forging of a united front. in preparation for struggles against the ¢N.R.A. slave codes. Comrade Marchuk was kidnapped while on his way to a union meeting at about 6 P. M. Thursday. His body was thrown from a car. He leaves a wife and 5-year-old girl. “George Marchuk was murdered because he was a loyal fighter of the working class, especially among the auto workers,” says a statement is- sued by the Ford Section Committee of the Communist Party. “Ford Co. thugs carried out their previously expressed threats. Acting with the K-K-K. and the American Legion they threatened to ‘get’ leaders {of the workers movement when 200 of these gangsters entered a Board of , Education meeting at Goddell School and brutally slugged a workers’ com- mittee.” Thi were hired by Ford to attack the Ford Hunger March. “Marchuk devoted himself to or- | Sanizing the Ford workers,” says the | Statement, “to fight for better condi- | tions. He was best known for his fight | for unemployment insurance and adequate relief. “The Lincoln Park officials are try- ing to shield his murderers by arrest- ing workers who were the most loyal | co-fighters of George Marchuk for the interests of the workers. “The murder of George Marchuk is not an isolated act,” declared the Ford Section Committee of the Communist Party. “It is part of the vicious at- tacks of Ford’s gangs, using fascist ; methods, to attempt to stem the rising workers’ movement. “we must answer this murder. We must show the Ford gangsters that the workers will not allow Ford to continue to murder our active fighters. “Our best. answer will be the build- ing of the Auto Workers Union in every department of the Ford plant to fight for better conditions and a strong and powerful organization of the Ford workers to defeat all of these murder attempts. “Drive the Ford fascist thugs out of Lincoln Park and other Ford-con- trolled communities. Crush the rising head of fascism by organized action of the workers.” Central Executive of U.S. S. R.G By VERN SMITH Daily Worker Moscow Correspondent MOSCOW, Dec, 24 (By Radio).— the Auto Workers Union, was mur-! sters, working with K.K.K. members. ra in Havana ‘ear of Hunger Strike forces Grau to Release Them HAVANA, Dec. 24. ,declaring a hunger After strike, PASSAIC, N. J., Dec. 22—After]Henry Shepard, Negro leader} of the Trade Union Unity family of cight,| League and Alfred Runge, pant WASHINGTON, Dec. 24.—| ish-American war vet and member of the League of Struggle Against War and Fascism, were relea: today from Principe Fortress the Grau Government. The two members of the Anti- Imperialist League Delegation were held in this torture den for 12 days with no charges placed against them. They were arrested along with 20 Cub: at the home of a worker preparing for an_ anti- impe i demonstration, The the de! yankee m,’ the Wall St. representative: re by flinczing the two delegates into one of the vilest of Machado’s dungeons. That the Grau-Batista regime is rapidly moving in the direction j; that Wall Street wants it to is shown by its frequent shooting of workers and students, and the jailing of hundreds of strikers. The students who heretofore supported the Gran government are now openly. becoming hostile it. Pesident, gireu yesterday held a secret confcrence with the New Wall Street ambassador, Jef- ferson Caffery. Under the lead- ership of Col. Batista, who is a member of the Grau-Guiteras re- gime, the armed and violent at- tacks on all revolutionary forces are increasing. ® - HAVANA, Dec. 24—Four hundred counter-revolutionary army officers, who were connected with the over- thrown bloody Machado dictatorship and with the National Hotel upris- by the Grau regime, The govern- ment at the same time ordered the Telease of Jose R. Barcelo, governor of Oriente Province under the hated ado’s “labor” minister, The Grau regime, which is hold- ing hundreds of revolutionary work- ers and students in prison and has murdered several student leaders, by releasing these counter-revolution- aries makes a bid for their support @ same gangsters, says Schmies, against the agrarian-anti-imperialist! j¥evolution Ied by the Cuban. Party and actively supported by wide Stratas of workers, peasants and | students, 1 the ing on Nov. 8, were released today! Machado, and Jose Arebalo, Mach-| BILLION FOR WAR WORKS Expend Big War Fund Under Guise of ‘ “Public Works” By SEYMOUR WALDMAN (Daily Worker Washington Bureau) | , Tha Roosevelt Administration’s | ‘conception of “public works” is | “by to allot nearly a billion dollars | of funds earmarked for that purpose to war preparations. Out of ‘the $2,413,234,727 which was allotted for federal projects by the Federal Emergency Adminstration of Public Works, $364,726,498 went for absolute war preparations and $349,- 004,131 went for indirect war prep- arations. In add‘tion, a substantial part of the $50,000,000 allotted for Muscle Shoals Development (Tennessee Valley Authority), in case of war, would go for the manufac- ture of nitrogen for ammunition, For Battleships Public Works Administrator Harold L. Ickes, in announcing this virtual} Public Works Administration war budget Friday, managed to see in the construction of $238,000.000 worth of battleships and in hundreds of mil- lions for bombing planes, machine guns and powder “useful public projects” and “a higher standard of living” as “one of the inevitable re- sults of the program,” Said Mr. Ickes: wages for work on useful public projects in every section of the coun- | try. An examination of the projects already approved reveals that a higher standard of living will be one (Continued on Page 3) ‘Aungry?’ Asks Pope; “Pray, Pray, Pray” VATICAN CITY, Dec. 24—In his Christmas message to the faithful, Pope Pius thanks god for the “good-will’ and gracious mani- festations of “generosity,” espe- cially towards his “poor vicar,” in the midst of “so much uncertainty and distrust,” of “so many con- trasts, negotiations and refusals of negotiations, conflicts and contra- dictions.” { Brushing aside with a few con- ; tradictory sentences the effects of the crisis on the toiling masses, mass unemployment, hunger, fas- cism and war, the Pope gives the following program to his follow- ers: “Firstly, pray; secondly, pray; and thirdly, pray.” “Xmas Meal Need Only Cost $6.50”--N.Y. Dept. of Health NEW YORK.—A Christmas dinner, Providing all the elements demanded by health, need cost no more than $6.50, according to Dr. C, H. Bolduan, Director of Bureau of Health Educa- tion, New York, Wines, of course, will add extra cost to the meal. As a special importance to the un- employed who are constantly har- rassed by worries about such trivial matters such as rent, heat, gas, light, yes, and food too, the good doctor warns them that: “Happiness and laughter should be the first items on the Christmas menu. The gen- eral nervous state of a person is quickly reflected in the stomach. Excitement, worry, chill, fatigue (victims of factory speed-up should take notice—editor) all tend to re- tard the digestive processes. “The golden brown turkey with | dressing, represents the protein of jthe menu. Protein or meat foods \are the building materials of our body, Cheese, eggs, and milk also ‘contain protein, but meat is the most tasty and should therefore be served at least once daily. EIR INNOCENCE NEW YORK. — The mass| IN 5 | America’s Only Working Class Daily Newspaper WEATHER: Cloudy and (Six Pages) Price 3 Cents _ NAZIS REFUSE TO FREE DIMITROFF, TORGLER, POPOFF, TANEFF AS REICHSTAG FIRE “The list. compiled , today .sheams! public works dollars are going into] y, fascist movement forced the Nazi Supreme Court to de- clare Dimitroff, Torgler, Popoff and Taneff not guilty,” declares a state- ment of the National Commitiee to Aid Victims of German Fascism, 870 Broadway. “This verdict is conclusive proof that the Nazis are guilty of burning the Reichsiag, for which they attempted to execute our four heroic working class leaders.” for immediate action and to continue the fight for the release of these four leaders and of all victims of German fascism. The steps to be taken, the National Committee declares, ar 1) Mobilize all organizations and in- dividuals or a big city wide meeting, on the broadest united front basis, 2) Ask all organizations to place on their order of business at their next meeting this victory of the world wide anti-fascist movement to fight for the release of Dimitroff, Torgler, Tanefft and Popoff and strengthen the move- ment to defeat fascism; 3) Flood the ‘German antbassador, “Hans Luther, at . D. C., with resolutions demanding the safe release of all four defendants. Where possible, send cablegrams to Von Hindenburg at Berlin, Germany. 4) Broaden the committees organizationelly; 5) plan city wide collection of funds for relief and defense of the victims of fascism. “In every city,” the statement de- clares, “we must at once gather our forces to proclaim the. world victory of. our anti-fascist movement con- tained in the verdict of NOT GUILTY, forced from the Nazi court by our in- ternational movement to free Torgler, Dimitroff, Popoff and Taneff, and to continue the fight for their iomplete | Telease, ‘Internat’ Group in Leipzig to Protect Bulgar Defendants Seeks to Escort Com- munists from Ger- many, If Freed LEIPZIG, Germany, Dec.24—A com- mittee of four members of the Inter- national Committee to Aid the Vic- tims of German Fascism arrived here yesterday to accompany the Reich- stag trial defendants, George Dimi- troff, Vassil Taneff, Blagoi Popoff, Dimitroff’s mother and Taneff’s finacee out of Germany if they are released from Nazi custody. The committee consisted of Ivor Montagu; Dorothy Woodman, secre- tary of Lord Marley; Douglas Bena- bue, @ British lawyer, and Dr. Tse- “More milk and cream in the diet by the use of cream sauces, add minerals to our diet. Starches and sugar give heat to the body.” If that park bench is too cold on Christmas night, remember this. “Last of all,” the statement con- tinues, “raisins and nuts are on the table, Eat sparingly of them, “Dry red wine may be served with the dinner. They supply heat and serve as an appetite builder. A cor: dial may be served after the m but make it a small one.” delegates from the factories and vil- Beginning Dec, 19, the Central:tablishment of the Ural kanina, Czech attorney. The Leipzig political police told them that the matter was in the hands of the German Minister of the Interior, ‘The committee said they understood that the Czech authorities had ar- ranged an entry and visas for the ac- quitted defnedants. Send your greetings to the page Tenth Anniversary edition the Daily Worker. them us +7 of . Rush to before Dec, 30. pressure of the world anti-| The Anti-Fascist Committee calls) ee GEORGE DIMITROFF VASSIL TANEFF 4 foe? 4. sah oe BLAGOI POPOFF —Drawings by Morris J. Kailem Dimit off's Mo ther Brings His Message to World’s Proletariat | e all the ell them y all this enough PARIS comrad that althoug! tormenting, I (By Mail)—“ have stili strength to defend my rights and the rights of the Communist Party to the very end.” I These were the words of George Dimitroff, spoken to his mother when she visited him in Berlin, according to Koltzov, sp: 1 correspondent in Paris of “Pravda,” who interviewed her on her return here. Dimitroff asked his mother to pass on his words. Dimitroff's sister Magdalena told Koltzov the following: “We wrote to our brother often from Bulgaria, but he has not received any of these letters. While we were visit- ing my brother, a police official ‘handed him an anonymous letter inj German, stating: ‘If you are not ‘polite in court we shall force you |to eternal silence’.” | Dimitroff receives large quantities of post daily. The letters are, however, not given to him. But it was thought {neceesety: to remit this threatening letter to him. The lawyer Teichert said to Dim- (itroff's mother: “Influence your son so that he will be quieter in court. That will give him a better chance with the sentence.” Dimitroff’s mother and sister state that in the street in Berlin everyone was extremely polite. Where the streets were empty people came up and shook the mother’s hands, then vanishing quickly before the police noticed them. Dimitroff’s mother stated further: “I saw him aagin in Leipzig. He looked very ill, had a high tempera- ture, His lungs are not sound. He said: ‘I shall scarcely get out of here, and I advise you to go with my sisters to ;the Soviet Union; there you will see much that is new and joyful in the lives of the workers. Tell them there that there is nothing so dear to me as the Soviet workers and their coun- t when Dimitroff’s At mother was in Berlin, a delegation of bourgeois Bulgarian journalists hap- the time pened to be visiting the German capital. These guests were given a brilliant reception, and received high praise for the campaign in the Sofia press against the three Bulgarian de- fendants. But an incident occured which spoilt the pleasure of the visitors. The Bulgarian journalists were pres- ent at a reception in honor of the representatives of the foreign press in Berlin. A well known American journalist turned to the Bulgarians and loudly proclaimed the following toast: “I weleome you as the rep- resentatives of the small but cour- ageous Bulgarian people, which has given the world such heroes as George Dimitroff, who has aroused the en- i thusiasm of the whole world today!” The Bulgarian fascist guests were speechless with shocked amazement. “Free Torgler” Says Red Flag Over Los Angeles City Hall LOS ANGELES, Dec. 24.—A red flag reading “Down With Fascism —Free Torgler”—was found flying over the City Hall here early last Wednesday morning. Thousands saw it before the police managed to haul it down. overnment Meets Today on Plan for 1934 DELEGATES FROM FACTORY TO PLAN BUDGET, TAKE UP NEW BUILDING AND LIGHT INDUSTRY Kumetz:tion, which means a great increase; which has hitherto been almost un- lage take part, but also “udarniks,”| Executive Committee of each Re- Metallurgical and coal base, includ-jin the standard of living of the public has been in session, The ses-,ing the Ural Mash; the Ghellabinsk | the shock brigaders, who participate With the workers and farmers of the|in the control of the country and whole country watching with full/of production, confidence and with an excellent harvest giving the basis for a plunge forward in the plan to develop light industry and extend the new basic industrial construction, the meeting of the Soviet Union’s Central Ex- <img Committee, begins here on Dec, 25. Four Point Agenda The ©. E. C. of the Soviet Union,’ sessions of the CO. E. OC, of the R. 8./S. R. increased by 115,000 sion of the O. E, C. of the Russian and Magnitogorsk plants. Socialist Federated Soviet Republic, attracted the most attention, The meeting on Dec, 25, has a four point|F, 8. R. were opened by president agenda: (1) the plan for the eco-/Kalinin, its chairman, The main nomic development of the es were made by Sulimov, coming | speech: year; (2) the state budget; (3) thejpresident of the Peoples Commissars agricultural results this year and thejof the R. 8. F. plan for the spring sowing next year; chairman of the mission Meanwhile the meetings of the ©.| (4) ratification (or vetoing) of all E. C. of. the Soviet Republics have/decrees of the presidium of the C.|speakers been taking the|ment this place, In all of these sessions, not only E. ©. since the last session of aEO 8. R., and Rogov, state planning com- of the R, 5. F. 8. R. The workers and farmers. The ap- propriations in the budzet for light industry next year have been almost doubled. Rogov, in his report, pointed out that eighty per cent of the ap- propriations for next year are to finish or remodel existing construc- tion, and the rest goes for new con- struction, Construction emphasized included road building, extension of the number of livestock, the develop- ment of areas inhabited by the na- ‘tional minorities, of new regions, such as the ra River Valley, inhabited, but which has rich min- World Action Compelled “Not Guilty” Verdict; Only More Protest WillSaveT hem ‘Release ‘of Leipzig ‘Defendants: Call of Anti-Fascist Group Not Guilty VerdictWas | Forced by Pressure | of Masses | ‘Fascist Judge Aims 'to Whitewash Hitler ‘in Reichstag Arson | Slanders Communists jas He Heaps Praise on | Fascist Thugs ZURICH, Dec. 24.—George | Dimitreff, Ernst Torgler, Bla- | goi Popoff, and Vassill Taneff, |the four Communist defend- | ants in the Reichstag trial have been acquitted by the Nazi | Court at Leipzig. |. The Dutch brick-mason, Van der Lubbe, has been convicted, and con- } demned to die, for taking part in the {burning of the Reichstag during Feb- | ruary. ‘dict, unwillingly wrung from court by the complete breakdown, under the hammer blows of Dimitroff's defense, of the per- jured testimony and falsified evidence presented by the Nazis, as well as by the power of the world protests, now leaves the case with one aspect domi- jnant—htat the Nazis themselves are guilty of having set fire to the Reich~ stag building on the night of Feb- ruary 27, in order to provide the pro- vocative occasion for the unleashing of an enormous wave of murder and terrorism against the German Com- munist Party and the working clast Call for Lynching It is this which provides the basis for the latest outburts of lynch fury in the columns of the Nazi press, call- ing for summary vengeance against the Communist defendants, partic- ularly against Torgler, the former head of the Communist Party in the German Reichstag. On all sides is recalled the out- burst of General Hermann Goering, head of the Nazi Storm Troopers, against Dimitroff, when, goaded to fury by the questionings of the Bul- garian Communist leader, he screemed in the Leipzig Court: “Wait till you get into my hands, out of the jurisdiction of the Court. Then you will have reason to be afraid.” It is obvious that with the Nazi press calling for a “spontaneous” lynching of the defendants, as well as the danger of another trial on charges of “treason,” that the lives of all the Communist defendants are now in greater danger than ever be- fore. Judge Praises Hitler The defendants were led into the court room, at 9 A. M., on Saturday morning. Dimitroff was in high spir- its, laughing gaily, and talking ani- matedly to his sister. Torgler main- tained the same sober, composed, serious mien that has characterized (Continued on Page 2) ‘Socialist Workers Join Fight on Nazis Meets Demand Release of Defendants NEW YORK.—An audience which heard Robert Minor for the Com- munist Party debate against Norman Thomas, Socialist Party leader, at the Bronx Labor Center. 809 West- chester Ave., last Friday, adopted resolutions demanding unconditional and safe release for the four Com- munist defendants in the Reichstag arson trial, whose innocence the Nazi court has been forced to admit, and of the nine Scottsboro boys in Alabama. The following telegram wos adopted to be sent to Judge Buenger, of the Nazi Supreme Court: “Hundreds of Socialist and Com~ munist workers assembled in the | Bronx Center, Bronx, N, ¥. U.S. A. pretest against the frame-up of Torg- ler, Dimitroff, Popoff and Taneff and demand their immediate and uncon- ditional release as well as the release of all class-war prisoners and a stop to all frame-ups of workers and in- tellectuals.” eral and coal deposits. The meet- ings of the C. E. C. of the R. S. F. S. R. were attended by many shock brigaders, who came not as outsiders, but to participate in the control of the country and of production, Workers Are Delegates This democratic element in the meetings characterises not only the Cc. E. C. of the R. 8. F. S, R., but of the All Union C. E..C. These bodies themselves contain numerous workers elected from the factories (Continued. on Pago 2) NEW YORK.—At a protest meeting at the Brighton Beach Workers Cen- ter, 3,200 Coney Island Ave. under the auspices of the Women’s Council No. 17, a resolution was adopted de- manding the immediate release of the four Reichstag defendants, eee Ce WYOMING, Pa., Dec. 24.~Wyoming workers yesterday adopted a resolu- tion denouncing the Nazi murderers and adventurers and demanding the safe and unconditional release of the r BoLSRUSeSe Ilo? ASEN TERETE Vite resonant we se