The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 28, 1933, Page 1

«Vol. X, No. 311 Mass Fight Grows to! INCREASED To 26 Pages! Jan. Sth “Daily.” Rush Your Order! "Wrest 4 Communists Ee rom Naxi Killers California Delegation Makes Demands on Nazi Consul Workers, ‘Farmers All Over the Country Join Protest NEW YORK.—Demands for the immediate, unconditional and safe release of the Reich- stag defendants, whose lives are still in great danger, despite the forced admission of the Nazi Supreme Court of their innocence, were cabled to the German Minister of the In- » teror, Frick, at Berlin, by many or- ganizations in New York and other cities yesterday. In many cities del- egations visited the German consuls with similar demands. Rar | IRONWOOD, Mich., Dec. 27—The } National Co-operative, a workers’ | and farmers’ organization, adopted resolutions demanding the safe and * unconditional release of Torgler, Di- eres, Taneff and Popoff, Commu- defendants in the Reichstag ‘arson trial, admission of whose in- ‘mocence has been wrested from the ‘\Nazi Supreme Court by the world ‘wide protest movement. A cable de- manding their release was sent to the Nazi Judge Buenger. ae ae SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 27—A del- egation organized by the National Committee for the Defense of Poli- tical Prisoners called on the German Consul today to demand the imme- diate release of the four defendants. ‘The delegation consisted of Noel Sul- livan, Langston Hughes, Helen Meik- lejohn, Marion R. Roth, John Emer- Gidlow, Florence Erskine, Rich- Bransten, Florence Wyckoff, Jane | , Cayendish Moxon and pet 3 \ STEUBENVILLE, Ohio, Dec. 27— ‘The Youth Club of this city fore- ‘warded a resolution to the Nazi Am- bassador Iuther at Washington pro- testing the failure of the Nazi re- gime to release the four defendants whose innocence is proven before the whole world. Minnesota Organizations in Protest HIBBING, Minn., Dec. 27—Protest | resolutions against the plans of the Nazi regime to murder Dimitroff, | Torgler, Taneff and Popoff were sent to the Nazi Ambassador at Washing- ton by the Working Women’s Club of this city, the Finnish Workers and Farmers Club of Kettle River; the Argo-Wassa Working Women’s Club of Embarass; the Deep River, Farm- ers’ Club, the International Working People’s Co-operative of Gilbert, Minn. Protests were also forwarded by a meeting of workers and farmers in ‘Toivola, Minn,, who adopted a res- olution declaring, in part, “we promise to leave no stone unturned to arouse wide masses against the fascist mur- Ger plans.” “\Demonstrate Against | Minneapolis Ukrainian White Guard Actions hhave called a demonstration for Sun- a... eee N. E. ‘The leading Ukranian fascists, Alexander Gronovski, University of lessor, and Rey. K. allenged to ¥ Tn the Daily Worker |? 7 Anti-War Fighters Sentenced to Death By Bulgarian Court SUMEN, Bulgaria, Dec. 27—Seven young Communists were condemned to death yesterday for carrying on anti-war agitation in the Bulgarian army. Eighteen other young workers were given prison sentences of five to fifteen years. Lunacharsky,Soviet Envoy to Spain, Dies In South of France Was First Commissar of Education, Noted Author, Critic PARIS, Dec. 27.— Anatol Lunacharsky, Soviet Ambas- sador to Spain, and Commis- sar of Education of the U.S. S.R. during the most trying period of Soviet history, died today in the south of France. National Student Convention Opens N.Y. Delegates Refuse to Stay at Jim- Crow Hotel WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 26.— ‘Three hundred students, delegates of clubs and chapters in colleges rang- ing from Yale to the University of Southern California, were present as the third annual convention of the National Student League opened here this morning in the Andrew Rankin Memorial Chapel of Howard Univer- sity, the largest Negro college in the country. . The convention bids fair to be the most successful of its kind ever held, especially in winning the masses of Negro students to the N.S.L. program and in bringing about the unity of the student body as a whole on the basis of a militant program of action. Many Negro delegates and visitors were present. A Negro professor of oward, representing the faculty of that college, praised the program of the N.S.L. and extended the greetings of the university in the name of the faculty. Refuse to Stay In Jim Crow Hotel ‘The New York delegation of one hundred and fifty, upon their arrival at 3 A. M,, refused to register at a hotel which discriminated He “A remained buses until morning or slept private homes. at In Washington Dail 16-Inch Guns—Capitalism’s Road Out of Crisis EW YORK, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1933 | “farming out” the work to private c ompanits, At the cnd of the railway WASHINGTON, D. C.—American imperialism’s boast, the largest gun factory in the world, where 16-inch navy guns are being turned out at top speed today. So great is the demond that the factory is siding is one of the largest cranes in the world used in armament construction, Four thousand men are now at work—officials expect the full capacity of 10,000 men to be engaged soon, Cuban Gov't Will Not Pay Interest On Wall St. Loans But Outdoes Machado In Murdering Work- ers and Students HAVANA, Dec. 27.—Notice was served today by the Cuban secretary of the treasury that $3.950,009 in- terest due on Wall Street loans would not be paid. Col. Manuel Despaigne, secretary of the treasury of the Grau-Batista regime stated that the loans were legally contracted by ex-President Machado, The fact is that Machado, working with the United States Am- bassador Guggenheim; the Chase Na~ jtional Bank and the National City Bank of New York grafted huge sums. The banks also were able to pile up heavy profits through the floatation of the loans, the payment for which Machado wrung out of the masses through heavy taxation. The payments not being made are: $1,100,000 interest on $40,000,000 in blic works bonds issued angen, the auspices of the Chase National Bani of New York, most of which went to graft for Machado and his supporters jand to American contractors; $650,000 interest and commission on $20,000,- 000 short term notes of the same bank; $2,200,000 interest on bonds sponsored by the First National Bank of Boston. Col. Despaigne said the Grau re- gime was considering a moratorium on all foreign loans. At the same time, President Grau is carrying on negotiations with U. S. Ambassador Caffery for recognition of the new regime which is proving itself as murderous as Machado's government against the workers and students. Berlin Statistics Show MassMiseryIncreasing BERLIN, Dec. 27.—Increasing sta- tistical reports showing the growing impoverishment of the German toil- ing masses under the fascist regime continue from Berlin's registry of- fices. ‘The city’s head registry office states that in November, 1933, the number of deaths was 4,206, as com- pared with 3,834 in October, and 3,756 in November, 1922. Of the 4,206 deaths, 201 were infants under one year, whilst in November, 1932, this figure was “only” 184. number of marriages has dropped again, from 5,333 in October to 4,289 in November. The number of births has in- creased. In November these counted 3,242, as compared with 3,147 in Oc- tober and 2,629 in November, 1932. increased number of births is the expression of the hopes set on an improvement of their material “|-situation by the broad masses of the petty-bourgeois of national socialist tendencies at the beginning of the governme: the Southern California District the F, 8. U. has arrranged a mass erence for January 14, at 2 p. m, the Labor Temple, at 5th and iple Streets here. BPs Socialist Mayor Absents Self As Tax Rise Is Voted BRIDGEPORT, ‘The 1, Dec. 27-— Board of Apportion- by stating in the Bridgeport “Tele- gram” on Wednesday: “The matter money to run the affairs problem for the and Apportion- is not a prob- fe i] a ion an 3 cite : g f aS Fort Bliss Humming With War Activity (By a Worker Correspondent) FORT BLISS, Texas—Work at Fort Bliss calls for construction of six ordinance magazines. At present there is only one. If one magazine was formerly sufficient, there is every reason to believe that war preparations are going on at a terrific pace. Also the troops stationed there are undergoing intensive training, and high school boys are being drilled daily by regular army cor- porals and sergeants. They have also been supplied with Springfield rifles by the U. S. Army officials at Fort Bliss. War Preparations Speeded Up in U.S. And Great Britain YOUNGSTOWN, Dec. 27.—A project to set up anti-craft guns and huge searchlights at strategic points in this steel and war industry center was un- der way today, as part of the frantic preparations for a new World War. The movement, by the steel i€| bosses, is led by tke Mahoning Vailey war veterans’ organizations under their control. * . LONDON, Dec. 27—Lord Lioyd, former British Governor of Bombay and butcher of the Indian masses called for further war appropriations in a speech at Brighton. He de- manded that the government increase the huge funds already allotted for the building of new warships and air- planes, and visualized civil aircraft as @ potential war factor. Lynch Gangs F orm In Columbia, S. C. Mob Threats In Texas and Kentucky COLUMBIA, 8. C., Dec. 27.—Lynch gangs formed before the local jail today in a threat to lynch Robert H. Wiles, white 49-year old war veteran, arrested in connection with the kid- napping of Herbert H. Harris, Jr., 15- year old son of a wealthy chain store operator, Machine guns were mounted along the prison walls and State Troopers ordered held in readiness, NEW YORK—Organization of lynch gangs was also reported from arrested a Negro worker on a charge of beating Mrs. Tom Prestidge, a white woman, and from Mayfield, Ky., where Dave Freeman, a Negro worker, is also held on a framed charge of assault. sm7e| Unemployed Women Will Demonstrate For CWA Jobs Today NEW YORK —A mass delegation of working women will present their demands to the Civil Works author- ities today. All participants will meet at 29 E. 20th St., at 10 a. m., and march to the state C. W. A. offices at 124 E. 28th St. All unemployed women workers are urged to be present to support the mass delegation. Two Pages Added to Anniversary “Daily” NEW YORK.—The tenth anni- versary edition of the Daily Work- er, Jan. 6, will contain 26 pages instead of 24 as previously an- nounced. _ The additional two pages will al- low more space for the many rev- olutionary greetings that have come in from individual workers and workingclass organizations. Additional feature articles will also be_used. ‘Phere is still time to order this Issue and to send greetings to it. Rush your orders and greetings at Worker, 50 E. | (Daily Worker Wasri: Federal Insurance Of Unemnloyed Is Dodged by Green | |\Talks of “State” Bills But Doesn’t Say Who Will Pay By SEYMOUR WALDMAN gton Bureau) WASHINGTON, Dec, 27—William Green president of the American Federation of Labor, today officially side-stepped Federal Unemployment , Insurance in any form, in an an- nouncement concerning the Federa- tion’s federal legislation prevram. All | subordinate organizations of the A. F. of L, were “urged” to work only for the enactment of state unemploy- ment insurance delegation. Green announced a conference of national and international represen- tatives to meet the Executive Council of the A. F, of L. at its headquarters orker it Paty USA. (Section of the Communist International) Adoeriea’s Only Working | Class Daily Newspaper | WEATHER: Cloudy and probably rai n or si (Six Pages) CWA OFFICIALS DELAY N.Y. Philadelphia Milk | And Taxi Drivers | Continue on Strike, Farmers Pledge Aidto Strikers; Form a | Joint Committee | PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Dec. 27—The milk drivers here decided to con- tinue on strike along with the taxi drivers. Mr. Billikoff, of the local Labor Board has already interve with an arbitration scheme to focl the driver: At yesterday’s s legation of the spoke to the milk drivers pport their strike. mittee was elected, and P vi d out for joint me ings in the farm and city districts. Under the leadership of the Com- erhood meetings are being held to support the strikes. ! In each neighborhood members of the Women's Leagues are on the picket | lines. ‘“ Thomas P. O’Brien, local organizer of the Teamsters Union, is laying the basis for betrayal of the strikers } through arbitration. The Communist Party issued a leafiet warning the milk drivers of the danger of arbitration, The taxi driv at a meeting dis- cussed the pro] 1s of the Commu- nist Party program on means of win- ning the strike. The Socialist leaders raised the red scare and are thus! helping the Philadelphia Rapid Tran- sit Co. to sabotage action on the part |of the workers. ' The di ic comptroller, in a ve, started hearings to he charter of the P, R. T. the strike- breaking role of the government. Policcmen are receiving special gifts from the P. R. T. to club striking drivers. The Trade Union Unity League is calling a mass protest meeting Tues- dey, Jan. 2, at Girard Manor Hall, ;911 Girard Ave., in support of the jtaxi drivers, the Budd and. Ford workers. here on January 24, 1934, This meet- ing, he stated, will be held “for the purpose of giving consideration to federal legislation to be approved and_ ‘d by the” American Fédera-’ tion of Lebor at the next session of Congress.” To Brace N.R.A, The conference will also do its bit to disarm criticism of and buttress the crumpling National Recovery Act. “This conference will give considera- tion to the progress thus far made in the application of the National Re- covery Act, and will consider recom- mendations on legislative amend- ments in the Act, and improvements which time and experience have shown to be necessary.” No mention is made of the Roosevelt administra~ tion’s failure to enforce the collective bargaining provisions supposedly in the NRA. ‘The official circular sent to organ- ized units of the A. F. of L. repeats the usual vague and demagogic slogans, such as (social justice), “the social, economic and industrial in- terests of the workers of the nation.” The directions of the A. F. of L. chieftains for the enactment of state unemployment insurance contrasts sharply with the demand of the Un- employed Councils for unemployment and sozial insurance at the expense of the employers and the government. Just who will be proposed to pay for even state unemployment insurance Green neglects to say. Wazahachie, Texas, where police have | 88 Other legislative measures recom- mended by Green for states inclu workmen’s compensation laws; anti- injunction legislation; child labor laws; old age pensions; wage laws for women and convict labor laws; shorter work day and work week for workers in public and private employment, and safety legislation. Concluding his message, ‘S: “T hope that we will make great progress during the coming year in securing the enactment of social justice and economic legislation so much needed by the masses of the people, “The American Federation of Labor will cooperate with you in all of your efforts to secure the enactment, of the legislation referred to and will gladly {other demands of the Philadelphia ’ | workers lies Hand Local Board Task of Breaking Truckers’ Strike Wagner Says See. T-a Needs ‘Stren sthening’ —Against Workers By MARGUERITE YOUNG (Daily Worker Washington Bureau) WASHINGTON, Dec. 27.—Now that the National Labor Board has suc- ceded in breaking the Philadelphia geneval transperiation strike move- ment, Chairman Wagner announced today that the demands of the taxi, milk and bread truckers still out have been turned over to the Regional Labor Board of Philadelphia for “set- tlement.” At the same time Wagner stated that Section 7a of the N. I. R. A., supposedly guaranteed recognition of the employees’ right to collective bar- gaining, needs “clarification.” Wagner made a long explanation to the press of the legal philosophy involved, and promised that he’ would propose “strengthening” Section 7a in the next Congress, Now it is obvious that the only hope of insuring collective bargaining and in continuation and JOBS; THROW AWAY 10 NY Workers To Hail Tenth Year of ‘Daily’ in Coliseum, Sat’day NEW YORK.—The outstanding olutionary event of the year will place et the Bronx Coliseum vening, when thou- 7s will gather to cel- fh anniversary of the aily er, Central Organ of the Communist Party, U.S.A. Every class-conscious worker is urged to attend this event and to bring his friends and fellow work- ers. A program of unusual revolu- tionary entertainment has been r d. Details of this program 2 found on an inside page of this issue. Waiters Officials Working With NRA Halt Strike Action Rank and File Aroused Ageinst NRA Wage- Cutting Code NEW YORK—A. F. of L. officials of the Hotel and Restaurant Union joined with the N.R.A. to halt strike action by the waiters of New York against the nending restaurant code yesterday. The officials, who had made no vreparation for a strike among the members readily agreed to submit the demands for changes in the code to the employers for ne- the NUR-AL That the officials had no intention of going through with their an- nounced strike threat is evident from the willingness with which they sub- mitted to the N.R.A.’s request to call off any strike action. Their chief aim was to stifle the tremendous sentiment existing among the mem-~- bers for a strike by pretending to favor such action, and to bolster up faith in the N.R.A. It must be the task of the rank and prepare for a strike against the sell-out which the officials will nego- tiate with the N.R.A. The restaurant code, which is now before the President for signature, is overwhelmingly opposed by the restaurant and cafeteria workers. If enacted it would include tips in wages and establish the split shift, among other infamous conditions. Sickness Rate of Unemployed Up 55 Per Cent in U.S.A. PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 27.—The sickness rate of Americans who have been hit by the depression Is 55 per cent higher than it was in 1929, according to S. D. Collins, senior statistician of the U. 8. widening of the strike, when Wagner's only suggestion concerning the sit- uation today is a pious hope that the Public Service Commission of Penn- sylvania, well-known reactionary body, might step in on their behalf. A reliable source said tonizht that the National Labor Board is thinking (Continued on Page 2) request you make for respond to any help and co- advice, information, operation.” Pubs Health Service, and G. Perrot, vital statistics expert. “That group of Americans which was in ‘reasonab!y comfortable circumstances’ in 1929 but had dropped to poverty in 1932, showed the highest sickness rate this year,” Perrott told the American Statis- tical Association, The death rate in the Soviet Union has dropped 40 per cent since the revolution. Infant mor- tality which was 270 per thousand in Czarist Russia has been cut by more than half. Soviet Academy of Science Hails Party As World Cultural Leader (Special to the Daily Worker) MOSCOW, U.SS.R., Dec. 27.— Newspapers here today published the appeal of the Soviet Academy of Science addressed to all workers, engineers, collective farmers and scientists of the U.SS.R. In this appeal, the Academy of Science, jointly with other scientific institutions of the U.S.S.R., calls for the mobilization of the entire energy of the Soviet Union for a “still more stubborn and deeper struggle for the cs*nblishment of a classless Socialist c : soctety.’ The appeal is signed by the mem- bers of the Praesidium of the Acad- emy of Science—Academiclans Bu- charin, Deborin, Joffe, Vavilov and others, including the directors of the largest industrial plants and other workers in the fields of science and technology. “We are approaching the 17th Con- ress of the Communist Party—the victorious force in the world, which has become the embodiment of the idea of scientific and technical pro- gress on earth. The capitalist coun- tries at present are squirming in the spasms of @ hopeless crisis. The Vy ‘=-'jmer ideas of capitalism are ideas cf economical, technical end pouical recrogression, ideas of fa- scist racial fury.” “amid the clank of arms of the modern barbarians, the U. S. S, R. stands as the world stronghold of socialism, of technical and scientific development, the stronghold of the great culture of the future—Commu- nism.” 'The appeal stresses the gigantic de- velopment in the country in recent years of all branches of economic and cultural Nfe. It cites further the tre- mendous construction program of the second Five-Year Pian, on the agenda of the Communist Party Congress. For engineers and technicians, the appeal states, “the ideology of capi- talism is now a direct treachery to all technical progress, “The Academy of Science and other scientific institutions are proceeding on @ unified front for the carrying out of the Second Five-Year Plan. “We are well aware of the imperial- ist clique preparing its praetorian guard for a sudden attack on us; we are aware that German fascism is openly working for a seizure of Eu- ropean parts of the U.S.S.R., and that Japanese fascism is orientating itself for a seizure of an Asiatic part of the Soviet Union. But let them try it! “The Communist Party has iron leaders, backed by hundreds of mil- Mons of tollers. If the enemy at- tempts to encroach on any of the Red frontiers, the whole country will rise in unified force to complete the roui- ing of the enemy! “We meet the 17th Party Congress not as a parade but as a battle review of the leading fighters for technology, science, the happiness of the brother- hood of peoples for Communism!” gotiation under the supervision. of}. and file to demand that meetings of | the locals be called at once to Ciscuss | 3 Cents APPLICATIONS KEEP OWN JOBS Misplace Applications of Workers Seeking C.W.A. Jobs | Typists and Clerks Get Night Work, No Extra Pay NW YORK.—Applications jfor Civil Works jobs thrown |away or deliberately misplaced. Officials slowing down the employment of workers in or- der to keep their own jobs longer. Deliberate confusion at the city C.W.A, offices at 111 Eighth Ave. in order to slow down the tempo of employment. Stenographers and clerks worked 80 hours and more a , without additional pay for ov \ ‘These and other c! vere made to the Daily Wor! erday, by a tigation C.W.A. offic emplo: n are true in shows that the sta svery etait, pplicat ers for Civi ns of unemployed work- Works jobs are actu- jsily thrown away inorder to kesp them off the C. W. A. roll,” said the C. W. A. empl » “and the confusion at the C. W. A. city offices is a deliberate attempt on the part of the official to slow down the tempo of re-employment in order that their own jobs might last longer.” This was the statement by a worker employed at the C. W. A. of- tices. This worker further plications of unemployed w. that are supposed to have been “mis. placed” were actually put ‘aw: where they could not be found, or thrown out. “This farce of ‘being in the pryyces of organizing,’ as visitors te-ihe of- ~ fice are told, is the movt debernte lie that has even been thrust upon the workers,” she continued. “I 0. ex. heard a remark passed by a official to the effect that confy n was just what they wanted. If it kept up long enough, the money that was appropriated would be consumed by them, and their jobs woud ‘st longer. As for the workers waiting to be assigned to work, ‘They waited this long; let them wait longer.’ “Jobs are supposed to be given out without discrimination. But when an interviewer doesn’t like a wi jface (Jew face, I h or when a worker is shabbily d: ad, although he has the ability and ex- perience necessary, he is either re- ferred to somebody else a dozen dif- ferent times, or told, ‘We will let you know.’” The typists and clerks employed at the C. W. A. ofice are mb ReE to every sort of exploitation. About 500 were hired on Saturday, Dec. 2. They were supposed to work six hours a day, five days a week. They were told to come to work on Sunday, after having worked all day Sature day. At 5 p.m., when they were sup- posed to quit work, they were told to take one hour for supper, and to return “voluntarily” for night work. Since then they have worked seven days a week, 12 and 13 hours a day. After waiting two weeks for their pay they found that they were docked $3 for the first week “because C.W.A, pay starts from Friday.” For the past three weeks these workers have been forced to work seven days a week and 12 or 13 hours a day. Of this, Mr. Travis H. Whit- ney, executive director of the city C. W. A., exp’ained in the New York Times, that the payroll clerks had volunteered to work nivht end day ba order to bring the payroll up to late.” When one worker asked an official, “How about the N. RB. A.. oes". 16 apply to us?” he was told, “When you work for the Federal govern- ment, you're on duty 24 hours.” War Vets to Protest Cutting of Relief Meeting Called for This Evening NEW YORK—Post 1 of the Work- ers Ex-servicemen’s League has called @ mass meeting for Thursday evening, at 203 E. 15th St., to fitht the Citizens Budget Committee in its proposed move in Albany to cut off all state relief to veterans, just as the Na- tional Economy League forced through legislature cutting veterans ,compensation and disability allows ances, | This act on the part of the Citizens Budget C-mmi*+ze comes on the basis of President Roosevelt's statement that each state should take care of its own veterans. The veterans are fighting to keep jin foree a law wh: states that no veteran should be paupet doa law which the Citizens Budget Commit- tee is trying to annul. ‘The Mobilization Committee of the Workers Ex-servicemen’s League has called on all veterans, regardless of j affiliations, to attend the meeting on. ‘Thursday, Dec. 28, at 203 E. 15th St. 1