The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 27, 1933, Page 1

— ee ———— RUSH GREETINGS To the Daily Worker on Its Tenth Anniversary Vol. X, No. 310 > New York, N. ¥., under the Entered as second-class matter at the Post Offies a¢ Act of Mareh 8, 1979, ANNOUNCE ACTIONS TO U.S. Offers Roads FORCE SAFE RELEASE OF NAZI FIRE TRIAL VICTIMS Two Bi llions to Pay Off Bankers Antifascist Committee, Calls for City-wide | Mass Meetings | Alive! Protests ‘Being Sent from Far Sections | of United States | ss | NEW YORK—A program of | action to procure the imme- diate safe release of the Reich- | stag fire trial defendants who | ere still in prison, though the Nazi) “eipzig court declared not guilty, was | | announced yesterday by the National | | Committee to Aid the Victims of Ger- man Fascism of 870 Broadway. The Committee, declaring that the four Communists are still in great | danger, called for the following im- | mediate action: | 2,.All_ workers’ organizations and | professional groups are to send cable~ grams at once to the German Min- | ister of the Interior, Frick at Berlin, demanding the safe release of the | defendants and that they be placed | in the hands of the International | Committee to Aid the Victims of Ger- men Fascism for safe conduct to the border. 2, Committees are to visit German consulates in all cities with the same demands. 3. A delegation to go to. Washing- ton to place these demands before Hans Luther, German Ambassador. .4. Professionals and other groups such as the Amcrtean Civil Liberties Union, to issue statements to the press. 5. That all city Commitiees to Aid the Victims of German Fascism hold city-wide mass meetings under the slogans: 1.O0RMAN THIBODEAUX Who was saved by two white werkers from a Louisiana lynch mob, His story, on page three of this issue, tells how he was tor- tured, then rescued while. hanging from a tree, 8 Jobless Leagues Indorse Unity With Pittsburg Councils Socialist Leaders Bar Them from County Committee “We demand the immediate and safe release of Dimitroff, Torgler, Taneff and Popoff into the hands of the International Committee now in Letpzig. World-wide pressure, the mass. action of the international’ ‘anti- fascist movement, has smashed the Nazi Reichstaz fire trial frame-up. “Tne Leipzig court was forced to | declare Dimitrofi, Torgler, Taneff and Popoff not guiliy. “This is 2 victory for our forces and a defeat for the Nazis.” 6. Theat immediate meetings be called of the city committees to plan PITTSBURGH, Pa., Dec. 26,—Fight locals of the Unemployed Citizens’ ‘League, that have been denied rep- resentation in their own County Central Committee, have decided to elect delegates to the Western Penn- Sylvania Conference Against Unem- ployment, which takes place Friday, Dec. 29, at 7 p.m. in the former La- bor Lyceum, 35 Miller St. These eight locals were denied rep- resentation in their own county com- mittee, which is dominated by So- cialist leaders, because of their mili- tant actions and their united front activities with the Unemployed Coun- cils. These eight locals had endorsed and engaged in the Hunger March (Continued on Page 2) Texas Unemployed On Half Rations as | on Nov. 28, and succzeded in mo- bilizing hundreds of U. C. L. mem-{ Dawes Gave Insull Bonds for R.F.C. Loan WASHINGTON, Dec. 26.—Secur- ities of the bankrupt Insull Utility Companies and badly depreciated German bonds are part of the col- lateral that was offered by the Charles Dawes bank in Chicago for @ $90,000,000 R.F.C, loan, it was re- vealed today in a Senate Committee, Bond PaymentsRise $11,000,000 Over October Last Year Under Roosevelt N.R.A. Codes NEW YORK, Dec. 26—Huge in- terest payments, reflecting extra: ‘ ainary increases in profits, as a re- {sult of reduced operating costs un- der the N.R.A. codes, and rising prices, were revealed today in the latess report of the U. S. Depart- ment of Commerce. The government report, based on figures gathered by the New York Journal of Commerce, shows that for the month cf October the stockhold- ers received $11,000,000 more in divi- dends than last year. | The same report also discloses that | Wall Street investors received $1,013,- 764,000 in bond interest during the; last three months, ending October. That is to say, Wall Street stock- | holders have been receiving inter- est payments at the rate of over $10,000,000 a day since Roosevelt | began to apply the N.R.A. codes and to raise prices. In the face of growing hunger and declining’ wages, dividends paid out to Wall Street stockholders have been tincreasing steadily ever since 1929, ithe first year of the crisis, the amounts paid out each year being greater than the last, During this Roosevelt period of rising profits and dividends, the real wages of the entire American work- ing class as measured in terms of buying power dropped 10 per cent ac- cording to the figures of the National Industrial Conference Board. ‘To Put US. Marine Corps on War Basis ‘Dividends Also Leap) bers to participate in the Hunger RFC to Provide Funds; R.R. Wages Slashed, Workers Fired WASHINGTON, Dec. 26. — Another huge subsidy of | $2,300,000,000 is being pre- |pared for the railroad stock- | holders, in the form of R. F. C. loans, | it was disclosed today by Jesse Jones, | Roosevelt's appointed Chairman of the R. F. C, In making the announcement of the new extraordinary subsidy to the rialroads, Jones apologized to the stockholders for the fact that the government is not able to pay off the entire amount of railroad bonds and bank loans, stating: “We must find some way to help the railroads to meet their matur- ing securities. Some plan of gov- ernment assistance will have to be worked out, but I do not think that we can do more than a small part.” These huge funds will be turned over to the railroads to permit them to pay off their loans to the Wall Street banks and to protect the bondholders whose loans amounting to billions fall due in the coming year. Pay Bankers The Illinois Central, for example, will have to meet bond maturities amounting to $40,000,000 in the next few months, and has already applied to the R. F. C. for funds with which to pay off the Wall Street bondhold- ers. Other large roads have also made plans for getting R. F. C. aid to pay off their bonds and loans. The roads have already received close to a billion dollars from the government, most of which has gone to meet Wall Sirect bank pay- ments. The Missouri Pacific, for example, got $14,000,000 from the R. F, C. to meet a loan due to Kuhn, Loeb and J. P. Morgan, Wall Street bankers, Despite declining traffic, the rail- rgads have reported phenomenal in~ (creases of 25 to 250 percent in profit as j® Tesult of the Roosevelt Co-ordina- tor Act, which has permitted them to reduce the number of railroad em- ployees to the minimum, with conse- quent increase in speed-up of the men, 5 Many roads are Increasing their dividend payments, some, as for ex- jamie, the Alabama Great Southern, paying dividends for the first time in 30 years. Fire Workers The number of employed workers on the roads is now near the lowest levels in @ generation, hovering about the one million mark, compared with over two million about ten years ago. Wages have been ‘sharply reduced through the 10 per cent wage cut agreement agreed to by the Rail-! (Section of the Communist International) Class Daily | America’s Only Working | | Newspaper | WEATHER; cLouDY (Six Pages) Price 3 Cents NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1933 Truckers’ Locals on Strike as General Walkout Is Killed, Phila. S. P. Leaders Rejected United Front Proposal PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 26—After the defeat of the proposal to con- tinue the general strike of all trans- PROVOCATIVE LIES AGAINST portation workers here, the mlik} drivers, laundry drivers and cne! teamsters’ locals continued their strike along with the taxi drivers.! The strike began as a sympathy walkout with the taxi drivers, whose strike was betrayed by N. R. A. of-, ficials working with the Philadelphia Rapid Transit Co. and A. F. of L.! officials, ‘ At a meeting of the milk drivers, the A. F. of L. officials were striving to send the men back to work. Many demonstrations are being held against scab milk drivers. The taxi drivers met and voted to continue their strike. | An appeal addressed by the Com- | munist Party of the Philadelphia j District to the local Socialist Party Ser for a united front was rejected by the Socialist leaders with a flippant and lying telegram. A. W. Mills, i the Communist Party, i to Morris Fe! local secret Socialist Pa proposed mass united nt movement to de- feat the attempt of the bosses and the N. R. A. to attack the workers’ conditions. “We propose,” wired Mills, “to you to organize a broad united front and invite y committee (which was taking part in the taxi drivers’ strike) to a meeting which will be held to-} morrow either in your office or in our office to discuss plans to mo- bilize mess support for the Taxi, Budd and Ford strikers against the strikebreaking decisions of the R. A.” | Replying for Felix, Paul Porter, or- ganizer of the Socialist Party—con- | trary to the usual official declara- tions of the Sccialist leaders—admit- ted that the N. R. A. indulged in! “striebreaking tactics’ through the National Labor Board,’ but rejected |all proposals for. united front, helping the A. F. of L. leaders divide the workers. and-smash the efforts. of & general transportationStrike. ! A leaflet was issued to all taxi drivers, telling them of the Com-/ munist proposals to the Socialist Party for a united front and urging} them to support proposals made. The | proposals are as follows: | Call immediately a mass workers’ conference to develop a mass move- ment for:the support of the taxi drivers and against the strikebreak- ing N. R. A. To organize a mass demonstration in front of the P. R. T. offices. To demand to put all locked-out taxi drivers on the county relief list to get immediate relief, as the Read- ing strikers did during the mess strike, To organize 2 mass signature drive i Above is section of the cartridge case shop in the Washing- ion, D. C., navy yard gun factory which is working at greater speed now than during the last world war turning out shells, guns and ammunitions for a new imperialist slaughter. Nanking Planes Bomb Cities; ‘ TokioDiet to AdoptW ar Budget SHANGHAI, Dec. 26.—At least 55! ulations of the Chinese Soviet Dis- s and three soldiers were tricts. during vy aerial bombing! Sharp fighting ,the results of which sien Province cities by Nan- are not yet known, is proceeding on king planes the Chekiang-Fukien front, where The Nanking planes bombed Foo- j the Chinese Red Army won an im- chow Saturday, Sunday and Monday, portant victory- over the Nanking completely wrecxing four houses and/ forces a few days ago. killing 25 civilians. ‘They also! Nanking gunbo#ts are reported to arépped bombs on Changchow Fri- have seized the forts protecting the day, destroying 40 homes, killing 30 entrance to the seaport of Foochow. civilians and three soldiers and in- * . . juring over 100 persons. Taking a] TOKIO, Dee. 26.—The 65th session leaf out of the Japanese bombing of of the Imperial Diet was opencd today Shanghai in January, 1932, the Nan- by Emperor Hirohito, “Son of Heaven” king planes flew low over the cities and absolute monarch of the Japan- and raked pedestrians with a mur- ese Emvire. derous machine gun fire. Hirohito rode to the temporary Diet Eugene Chen, ofrmer Nanking For- building under heavy guard, over eign Minister, now allied with the streets that had been especially swept Fukien secessionist regime, yesterday 2 zinkled with fine sand for the accused the Nanking government of ‘on. ‘Plainclothes police mingled a mass massacre of civilians. He bystand ong the route and declared, in part: ‘ested all spicious characters.” “While Chiang Kai-shek hasn't His address to the Diet was stereo- nerve enough to use the planes typed and of little importance. The Diet is expected to do little he did not against the Japanese, hesitate to use them in the massacre more than give rubber-stamp ap- March. Some of the locals, which are among the largest of the U. C. L, in Allegheny County, are now con- sidering the question of electing dele- gates to the Unemployment Conven- Weeks’ Supply Must Last Forever ion in Washington, D. C., on Jan, 13, pc PR Already local ‘unions’ of the A. F, DALLAS, Texas, Dec, 26.—Between of L. have elected delegates to this 35,000 and 40,000 unemployed per-, Western Pennsylvania Conference. sons, mostly women and children,’ Efforts are being made to get local Banks Stop Money Unemployed Told Two hhere were placed on half rations yes- terday, according to Relief Admin- istvator J. C. Capt, it may be the dast they will receive. | unions of the United Mine Workers 1 of America to elect delegates to this convention, It is expected that this Confer- Maj. Gen. Fuller Asks 1,800 More Men WASHINGTON, Dec. 26—A move to put the U. S. Marine Corps on a@ war footing was launched today {by Major Gen. Ben. H. Fuller, corps commandant, who demanded an ad- | ditional 1,800 men to increase the present strength of the corps to 17,000 i men. He declared the increase was nec- essary in order that the corps could properly carry out its “missions,” meaning armed intervention in neigh- boring countries as well as readiness be|for any eventuality in the sharpen- road Brotherhood Chiefs at Chicago, ®s@inst the P. R. T. lock-out and for and extended to next year. In addi- , the demands of the taxi drivers. tion, part-time has reduced the avy-|_ To demand from the Central La- erage rialroad workers’ earnings to bor Union and the T. U. U. C. to less than $1,000 a year. Terrific ‘declare a half-day strike of all work- speed-up has also been instituted qn ¢Fs in support of the demands of the all the large roads. taxi drivers, ‘The latest R. F. C. subsidy was! Organize a mass march to Wash- preached in advance by the Brother- ington of the taxi drivers, Budd and hood Chiefs as being of benefit to the Ford workers, who have been locked ; Tailroad workers, who are now prom- out, to present demands to President | ised benefits in increased “improve-' Roosevelt and the N. R. A. Board. ment” jobs, a hollow promise that| has been made to the workers ever since Hoover began his subsidies to the railroads’ stockholders. In addition to this, to organize im- mediately a joint action mobilize the street car men and drivers of the buses for joint action. of his countrymen.” Chen, who shares with Chiang the a record-| infamy of betray’ i |proval to the budget, which includes ing appropriation for regime against the emancipated pop-!army and $150,970,000 for the navy. Vets on C. W. A. Jobs Will Lose Pensions Snow and Cold Wave RALEIGH, N. C., Dec. 26, — Veterans getting jobs on C. W. A. projects which bring them in $50.00 a month will automatically have thcir pensions reduced to six Cause Suffering Among Unemployed ing antagonisms between the U. S. Send your to the u4- dollars a month, it was announced the state advanced $3,000,000 for re- lief, the Federal government would advance no more money for that ‘Purpose. Texas relief bonds offered last Alteration Painters To Demand C.W.A. Jobs for Unemployed conference of Oct. 15, J delegates attending. and Japan, on one hand, and Britain and the U. S. on the other. greetings page Tenth Anniversary edition of the Daily Worker. Rush them to us before Dec. 30. Collective Farmers Tell Stalin of Great Advances They Show Rise in Income; Cultural Needs Expand US Farmers Get Low Prices; Consumers Pay 3°5 Times More NEW YORK.—The following are some of the prices of what the farmers receive for their products, and what the ccnsumer pays for the same products in the cities: The farmer geia 4 to 6 cents a ers. The city consumer pays 24 cents a pound for the same meats, ® 400 per cent spread. The farmer gets 16-18 cents a dozen for best fresh eggs. The city consumer pays 44 cents, a 350 per cent spread, The farmers get 17 cents a pound for butter fat, The city consumer Pays 35 cents for the same quality, & 200 per cent spread. quart for milk. The city consumer pays 12 to 16 cents for the same quality, a 600 per cent spread. Have Made have huge supplies of products, and our country will become the rich- est in the world.” Report High Wages The delegation of collective farm- ers came to report to Stalin and Ka~- ganovich that their three collective farms received ten, twelve and even twenty kilograms of grain a day, in addition to 7 roubles in pay for every work day. The delegates remarked on the suc- cess of the collective farm cattle breeding projects, with the majority of the collective farmers having each their own milk cow. Cultural Growth The delezates related the growth in the building of new houses, schools, electro-siations, clubs and secondary schools. Electric cultivation of the Jand has already been arranged among certain farms. The delegates reported to Stalin that there is a great striving in the countryside toward culture, and shat more movies, theatres, books, radios, etc, are necessary, Stalin showed particular interest in the reports of the part that the wo- men peasants were playing on the collective farms, asking whether they were being promoted to public econo- mic posts. The women delegates re- lated the activities of the women on the farms, emphas!sing thir equality with the men in lj the activities and fe of the farms, Oust Corrupt AFL Heads in Kenosha Simmons Bed Workers Elect Militant Officials KENOSHA, Wisc,—The long re- pressed, resentment of the rank and file of Simmons Bed Co. workers, be- longing to the A. F. of L. Federal Union No. 18456 (recently organized with over 1,500 members) broke out last Friday, Dec. 15, at the election of officers for the new term. Every member of the corrupt group that had been running the union for the past four months was decisively defeated and militants who had fought vigorously against the class collaboration policies of the official- dom were swevt to victory in spite of the treacherous stool pigeon ac- ivity of the clique. Some of these rank and Mle can- didates had been reported to the company as Communists, and strong suspicion of haying committed this contemptible deed rests on Henry Liegler, defeated candidate for Presi- dent, his henchmen, or their agents. Resentment Great The resentment of the workers was so great when news of this action spread through the plant that the clique did not dare vo raise this at the elections. The company, accord- ing to accurate reports, was forced to admit that it had no - evidence against those accused of being Com- munists other than the uncorro- borated word of the stool pigeon. Tt was openly stated in the shop, however, by the workers, that what the union needed was some radicals in the leadershiy by Canus M. Waynick, state re- employment director. This is an explenation of the fact that veterans get the first Cc. W. A. jobs. Morgan Bank Urges More Concentration Of Money Control, NEW YORK, Dec. 26.— Further centralization of bankixg control, and further “co-operation” between the ‘Wall Street banks and the Roosevelt government were urged today by the Guaranty Trust Company, the repre- sentative bank of the house of J. P. Morgan. The proposals made by the bank appeared in the current issue of the bank’s Monthly letter. The proposal for the further centralization of the country’s bank- ing system into the hands of the largest Wall Street banks was made in the form of a demand for the ex- tension of branch banking, by which the largest Wall Street banks will supplant the small banks with their own branches. The Morgan bank recommended especially that the big Wall Street banks be permitted to take the places of the thousands of small banks which have been forced into bankruptcy by the crisis, thus accelerating the centralization of the country’s financial power still further. The bank's desire for more “co- operation” between the government and the banks is somewhat ironic, since the Roosevelt government has already poured billions of doliars as subsidies to the banks in one form or another, Most Cities Employ Only Few Men to Clear Streets NEW YORK.—Snow covered the entire Middle-Western and Eastern States yesterday, causing untold misery and suffering to the home- less and unemployed. In New York about 10,000 were given temporary jobs by the city clearing snow from the city streets in freezing weather at wages of 50 cents an hour. In Detroit, as the weather rapidly dropped to sub-zero, the relief agen- cies rapidly scanned relief lists and succeeded in getting together 1,761 men who were forced to work clear- ing the streets of snow. A news bul- letin states that an additional 800 men will be employed tonight. Various other cities solved their problems in a similar manner. Al- bany will have employed 200 men for night work at the usual rates of pay. Bridgeport, Conn. which has a newly elected Socialist mayor, could find employment for only 300 men who will be employed by the super- intendent of charities. Similarly, the Socialist city officials of Milwaukee could find employment for only 200 jobless men. Work: on local Civil Works projects, aow- ever, were given a holiday without pay. Only 2,000 unemployed were able to get work clearing snow in Uhicago. Most of these were employed by bus and street car companies. Alicady three persons have been reported killed here as a result of the storm. One man died of exposure; another was killed while crossing an vnpro- JAPANESE NEWS AGENCY, PRESS SPREAL SOVIET UNION ‘Pravda’ Scores Canarc About U.S.S.R., China, U. S. Actions Rumors Bought oi White Guards in Har- bin, Says ‘Pravda’ | __ (Special to Daily Worker) MOSCOW, Dec. 26.—Provo cative rumors are being cir culated by the official Japanes: news agency, Shimbun Rengo | alleging that the U. S. S. R. | the United States and Chin economic préssuir forming “Soviet yol ” to be sent to Man: nchurian correspondent o aper Asahi, reports tha S. R. is about to rent Sak halin to the United States. Commenting on these Japanese in. viet newspape: ions in arms, Jap: Manchuria, i the Japane | “Who ma; | ment of the me ible rapproach- S of the U. & d States and Chine mn of Far Easverr those elements who art n attempting tc y fear real noz~ en the U.S. 8. R. s and China. Only he adventurists whe have lost their heads invent absurd ‘reports.’ “In this hakneyed, provocative song only the names of the ‘dreadful institutions’ are changed which’ are | Supposed to be capable of repeating the great earthquake of 1923, or cause ‘unprecedented seastorms,’ as well as tire Japanese islands. “According to the requirements |‘he ‘Tientsin branch of the Third International’ is replaced by the “Tientsin Branch of the G. P. U.,” cr the ‘chief headquarters,’ and by othe: absurdities. “The ‘authentic report’ of the Jar; Japanese newspa) Asahi stands the same footing with the ‘authey report of Shumbun Rer Tokyy 4 ping into the greedy hands of Harbin white- guards provocateurs is turning into falsely sounding anti-Soviet proyoca- tions. “Less political ignorance, messieurs adventurers!” Seamen on Greek Ship in Bridzeport Plen To Strike for Back Pay BRIDGEPORT, Conn., Dec. 26.— The crew of the Greek cargo ship, S. S. Kalins Overgoty, has decided to strike here if the captain does not pay them b: wages due. Becides they will present other de- mands including an increase in pay; 2 full experienced crew, including at least nine firemen, four sailors and ) a wireless operator; better food, and tocognition of the ship's committee, — The captain is trying to obtain scab crew in New York. ! ‘Soviet Ambassador on MOSCOW, Dec. 26.—Alexander -A. Troyanovsky, first Soviet to the United States, left for 11 p.m. on the first leg of his to Washington, Troyanovsky plans to sail from Be Havre, France, on the liner Wi: ton, Friday, with William Cc. Bullitt, New U.S. envoy to Moscow. Spanish Cruiser Will Proceed Soon to , EL FERROL, Spain, Dec. 26. cial circles reported today that Spanish cruiser Jaime I has receiy orders to proceed to Cuba, to “pro- tect Spanish interests.” —_—_—_—_—_—_—_—— In Today’s “Daily Worker” BRIAN Page 2—Sports, by Phil Wolfe. Page 3—C.W.A. workers fight wage-cuts, discrimination. “They Were Lynching Me,” by Norman Thibodeaux, Page 4—Letters from Textile, Needle, Shoe and other work- ers. Party Life. In the Home, by Helen Luke, Dr. Luttinger Advises, Paze 5—“What a World,” by Mike Gold We “From Moscow to Siberia,” by. Walt Carmon. “Two Out of a Million,” by Esther Lowell. Page C—Editerials: Japan's War. Moves; Our Celebration; Report on U. M, W. A. Confab; Our Readers and the C. P.; For tected grade-crossing. So widespread is the cold wave that all but the Southernmost states have been effected by the cold that Schools and For War. The Soviet Factory, by Verm Smith, Foreign News. being capable of destroying the en- , ¥ 4 4 is sweeping doWN {100 the NOt0VE TEE Qe gSReRRTT Vine rsh onradewe ee = owe HOR ET TAR Oe Way to United States; | Bs