The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 29, 1933, Page 1

SPEED YOUR America’s Only Working Orders and Greetings for the . January 6th “Daily”! Class Daily Newspaper WEATHER: Colder. (Section of the Communist International) NEW YORK, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1933 Entered as second-class matter at the Post Oftice st Mew York, N. ¥., under the Act of March 8, 1870, NOL Ry NO. ln NAZIS FLOUT VERDICT HOLD (Six Pages) Price 3 Cents S ate trees C.W.A. LAW “AMENDED” TO eat ChrisStrke (UTLAW STRIKES, INCREASE in Philadelphia In L.D. Starts Protest | Leaflets Expose A.F.L. NRABoosts Packers | Profits at Expense ofWorkers,Farmers Wilson & Co. ’33 Gains Persecutors of Scottsboro Boy Order Death for 9 other Negroes Alabama Orders Death | Bee murder of Daisy Montgomery, in DEFENDANTS Mass Fight Must Be! Intensified to Save Four Communists Lives of Defendants in Grave Danger, Committee Warns BERLIN, Dec. 28,—Al- though it will be a week to- morrow since the world-wide protests forced the Nazi Su- preme Court to admit the innocence of the four Communist defendants in the Reichstag arson trial, George Dimitroff, Ernst Torgler, Blagoi Popoff and Vassil Taneff are still eid in the Nazi dungeons. The Nazi authorities have not yet decided what they will do with these four heroic representatives of the world working class. It is evident that the Nazi camp is split, with one section led by Goering, whom Dimitroff brilliantly exposed, de- manding that the planned murder of the four Communist leaders be car- ried out “by other means,” while another section is wavering before | the world-wide indignation against this bestial crime. Only an inten- sification of the world-wide mass fight can save the four comrades and the hundreds of thousands of other revolutionaries in the Nazi prisons end concentration camps. oe NEW YORK.—The National Com- mittee to Aid the Victims of Ger- man Fascism renewed its plea today for increased protest actions, includ- ing the sending of delegations to the German Consuls and the German Embassy in Weshington, protest ings, and the cabling of demands to the German Minister of the Interior, Frick, at Berlin, for the safe, imme- diate and unconditional release of the four Communist defendants, whose innocence the Nazi court has aye to admit, tions are also urged to issue statements to the American press, and to hold mass meetings throughout the United States to rally new sections of the toiling popula- tion to the world-wide fight for the release of the four defendants. Hull Aids Bolivia To Resume Chaco War ‘Armies Use Truce for New Concentration BUENOS AYRES, Dec. 28.—Behind the 10-day truce in the Chaco war, the bourgeois-landlord governments of Bolivia and Paraguay, pawns re- spectively of U. S. and British imperialism, in an increasingly bitter fight for control of South American resources and trade, are rapidly mo- pilizing their troops for an early re- sumption of hostilities in the two- year war. A proposal for an extension of the | truce scheduled to expire Dec. 31 to Jan. 14 has been accepted by Bolivia, whose troops suffered a severe re~ verse in the fighting which immedi- ately preceded the armistice, and will need more time to re-organize. | The was made by U. 8. of State Hull. Although the British-controlled League of Nations “peace” commis- sion “investigating” the conflict has been forced to accept the U. S. pro- up appearences, the 60 Times Higher Than Previous Year CHICAGO, Dec. 28.—Huge profits| | have ben wrung out of workers and | farmers by the dominant meat trusts | through the N. R. A., exposures here show following sharp verbal passages between the leading meat packers and Speaker of the House Rainey. Replying to charges that they were not living up to the N. R. A. the packers replied: ‘We are ope! ating 100 per cent under the N.R.A.’ ‘Their huge increase in profits are startling examples of how the N. R. A. has been able to boost profits at the expense of both farmers and workers, ‘When the hog processing tax was passed, the packers declared: “We are not in business just for fun.” ‘They lowered the price of hogs paid to the farmers, passing on part of the tax to them. Then they raised the price of meat, passing another portion of the tax to the workers. ‘Through higher prices, lower wages and greater speed-up they have) raised their profits in some instances from a deficit. of $5,000,000 to a net profit of $10,000,000. How the N, R. A. has resulted in hiking the profits of the meat pack~- | | |framed them, s'apped them into jail, for Eight Men, One Woman on Frame-up By JIM MALLORY BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Dec.) 28.—The nine Scottsboro boys wrested from their hands so far by the toiling masses of | the world, the state of Ala-} bama, the landlords and indus- trialists, have set themselves a holo- caust of nine other Negroes for Feb. | 9, 1934. The official lynchers have caught | nine Negroes, one of them a woman, and sentenced them to die. In a sin- jgle day, the State Supreme Court of Alabama, before whom the Scotts- boro-case is to come for review, af- firmed the sentences of nine Negroes, and set the same day for the execu- tion of all nine. They are all in Kilby prison, and on Feb. 9 they'll be strapped in the hot-seat, one after the other, to make a holiday for the lynchers. The horrible story of how one of them, Ben Foster, from Selma, Ala., was tortured and framed was r ers is shown by a comparison of their) vealed today when his sister, A demonstrations before these build-| latest reports with profits made be- fore the N. R. A, was passed. | Swift & Co., which in 1931 made a profit af $697,000 and recorded a deficit of $5,000,000 in 1932, after the N. R. A, was passed in 1933, reported! a net profit of $10,149,582. In 1931, Cudahy packing made $2,000,000 profit. In 1932 profit stood at $985,000, but in the reign of the |N. R. A. profits went up to $1,813,766, | more than double the previous year. ‘Wilson & Co., which had a deficit | of $2,000,000 in 1931, and the low, profit of $51,000 in 1932, increased its profits 60 times, thanks to the N. R. A. and the processing tax on hogs. Central Executive Committee of USSR in Moscow Session, Molotov Gives. Report on Domestic and Foreign Affairs MOSCOW, Dec. 28.—The Central Executive Committee of the Soviet | Union met at the new Kremlin: The- atre today and 2 detailed report on domestic and foreign affairs was giv- jen by Viacheslav Molotov, chairman of the Council of Commissars. Molotov also indicated the econom- ic plans for 1934 at the meeting which will last from a week to ten days. Josef V, Stalin, secretary of the Communist. Party of the Soviet Union, was on the rostrum with L. M. Kaganovitch, secretary of the Moscow District of the Communist Party and |member of the Party's political bu- Teau. Four hundred men and women del- | egates are at the meeting. They come | from all corners of the great Soviet Republics and constitute a pictur- esque gathering. There are Esqui- maux from the far north, representa- tives of Siberian clans and Caucasian hill people, as well as delegates from many other nationalities in Euro- pean and Asiatic Russia. Shock bri- gaders of Moscow workers’ organiza- tions were also | | | | Foster, came to Birmingham “to see those LL.D. folks,” to tell them about it and to ask them to let all the tolling masses of the world | police. Ben was at my home et the} know about it. Ben Foster was | time, and it was just obout the tt | McCain was ki framed on a charge of murdering Clarence McCain. The story his sis- ter Adie told, a story of horror that exposes the full brutality of the lynchers is told below. The eight other Necroes sentenced to die Feb. 9, whcse cases, followin the white ruling-class tradition which governs the courts, are probably no different from Ben Foster's, are: Teaner Autrey, a Negro woman charged with the murder of Rosa Mae McKnight, her white mistress, in | Monroz County. Hardie White, charged in Mobile County with the murder of Luther Williams, a. street-car conductor. John Thompson’ and Lewis Cum- mings, charged with the murder of Henry Blom in Mobile. Selma. Solomon Roper, charged with mur- dering Page Brazier with an axe, in Selma. Fred Kinney, charged in Perry County with the murder of Jim Phil- lips. Leo Fountain, charged in Monroe County with the murder of Robert Martin. Three of these, it is to be noted, are from Selma, in Dallas County, the same place where Bennie Foster was framed and tortured as told below. Adie Foster id me about that to- day. She is a slight pretty woman in her twenties. “Ben is just 20 years old,” she said. “Here's everytiing that happened. Ben went out on the Summerville road near Selma, and he got into an argument with a white boy they call Junior We'sh. The white boy shot Ben and broke his arm. Then Ben hit back, but he didn’t do much dam- age because he was hurt so bad him- self. “Ben was in bad pain with the arm tan Hospital. The dector bound un his arm. But by this t'me the sheriff had heard about it and he got peopl: together, and blocdhounds, and trailed Ben from the snot where they had the fight, to the hospital. They took Ben to the Sema County jail. “It happened that nine days before McCain, had been kill No one knew who did it. Neither did the e d that Ben was iIpot Ave. to play starting down P! dominoes at his friend Eddie Mitch- ell’s house. “When they got Ben in jail, with his arm en and all, they tortured him to say he kitled McCain. I reck- eon they just naturally had to have a goat. They had to blame it on somebody and the police didn’t know who did it. They put him in the sveat-box but he wouldn't say he killed McCain. “Then they took him out late hours and carried him across the Alabama River, and beat him with a pistol. But he wou'dn't say he. killed McCain, because he didn’t do it, “Then they took him back to jail Ernest Waller, charged with the (Continued on Page 2) and so he went to the Good Samari-| that, a white man they call M. C./i Against New Legal | Murder NEW YORK.—Nation-wide i mass protest against the execu- | | tion of nine Nevroes in Ala- | bama, February 9, 1934, is he- | jing o: d by the International | Labor Defense, it was announced to-| | | | day by William L. Patterson, national | s | secretary. | In dire to every district, | | sect'on, and bi well as to all} affiliated org: | | | | ov gang murder of t' ine Scott7boro boys, is called for, Pa! Copies of the st: | Foster has be nt to Prosident Roosevelt, to U, S. Attorney-General | Homery S. Cummings, and to Goy- ernor B. M. Miller of Alabama, the | demand that the execution of all nit frame-up vict: federal intervention planned lynching of the: by the conditions,” for to boar the huge financial burden for j legal exnenscs. | “Yet new and latest challenge jto the gro and whi |aga'nst this bloody | by the | “Tete | tions must |ler demai juled murde: ; be based on {it is imposs: | ceive a and resolu-| sent to Governor Mil-| ja halt to this sched- These demands must the undeniable fact that le for any Negro to re- trial in any court in the South, no matter what the crime charged.” ) aldboral jzations,; and. every. friend of the Scoxtsoro boys and the Negro people, must be drawn into the struggle against this holocaust, the directives stated. UnemployedWomen Soviet Education Head Pays March on N.Y. CWA. rribute to A. I.unacharsky Demand Jobs or Cash for All Jobless NEW YORK.—A mass delegation of homeless and unemployed women marched on the State Civil Works of- fice. at 124 E. 28th St., yesterday and demand that they be given jobs or immediate cash relief. I. F. Daniels, state director of the C.W.A. made them many promises, but offered them nothing. The delegation formed at 29 E. 20th St., and marched, with banners de- manding that jobs be given them, to the C.W.A. offices. During the conference with the women Daniels, when. questioned by the women, admitted that during the six weeks that the C.W.A. has been in force practically nothing had been accomplished. The women demand: Immediate jobs or cash relief of $7 weekly; no discrimination against Negro, mar- present. The diplomatic corps and tied or foreign born; decent shelter spondents of almost all countries at-| for homeless women; wages equal to tended, hanging. on every word for|}men at union scales; and workers’ @ pronouncement of Soviet foreign| control of registration and distribu- policy. tion of jobs. ———————————— . In the Daily Worker _ Today Page 2 Sports, by Si Gerson. NRA. Menaces Gloversville Leather Workers’ Union. ‘Stadents March on White House im Anti-War Protest Page 3 Over 800 Organizations Will. Rally at “Daily” Celebration' Tenth Anniversary Event at Bronx Coliseum Tomorrow Night Stirs Enthusiasm NEW YORK—A high tide of mass Oe ae : i i E Central Organ of the Communist Party, U. 8. A. Labor Defense, Workers’ Clubs, unions affiliated with the Trade Union Unity League, Pen and Hammer, John Reed Club, branches of the In- bral cy Workers Order, Unem- Councils, Women’s Councils, reach Workers International Relief and others, (Special to the Daily Worker) MOSCOW, U. 8. S. R., Dec. 28. — A. Bubnov, member of the Soviet Academy of Science and present People’s Commissar of Education, paid tribute today to Anatol Luna- charsky, his predecessor, “Lunachar- sky was,” Bubnov stated, “the first organizer and collector’ of the Sovict arts. The Bolshevik Party and the working class of the entire world have lost in his death one of their out- standing personages: a speaker of ex- ceptional force and brilliance, a gifted scientist and a brilliant writer.” Anatol Lunacharsky, was born in 1875, and first became familiar with Marxist thought and struggle at the age of 14. He soon became a leader of an illegal organization of students embracing all the educational insti- tutions in ‘Kiev. At the age of 17, Lunacharsky joined the Social Democratic organ- ization, and did both organizational and educational work among the Kiev railwaymen, Because of these ac- tivities, he fell under the suspicion of Czarist authorities, and entrance to metropolitan universities was closed to him. At this time he left for Switzerland, where he made the acquaintance of Zasulitch and Plechanoff, and where he also met Rosa Luxemburg, He re- turned to Moccow in 1899, where he collaborated in organizational end agitational work with Elizarova, the sister of Lenin. ‘He was twice arrested and exiled to the north. During all this time, in addition to his other activities, he -| was intensively busy with literary work. Arriving in Geneva in 1904, he be- came one of the most active Bolshe- viks. He joined the editorial staff of the “Forward,” and then the staff of “Proletarian,” working under the guidance of Lenin. It was Lunachar- ANATOL LUNACHARSKY (LEFT) WITH MAXIM GORK revolt at the third congress of the Party in London. Arriving in St. Petersburg in 1905, he conducted, in the midst of the revolutionary events, extensive agita- tion and revolutionary literary work. As a representative of the Bolsheviks, he participated in the 1907 Stutgart Congress. Shortly afterward he organized a group together with Bogdanov, the “Forward.” It was in this period that he committed grave political errors, advocating ideas that would unify the Marxist conception with religion. This was severely and dras- tically criticized by Lenin. At the outset of the World War Lunacharsky adhered strictly to an internationalist attitude. Returning to Russia in 1917, he immediately be- gan to work with the Bolsheviks, He was arrested by the Kerensky gov- ernment in the July days, and’ he re- turned decidedly to the Bolshevik ranks. From 1917 to 1929 Lunacharsky was Peoples Commissar of Education in the Soviet Union, and participated as @ representative of the U. 8S. 8, R. in many international conferences. He was appointed chairman of the Seion- tific Committee under the Central xecutive Committee of the U. 5S. . R. in 1920, Lunachzrsky was a member of the Communist Academy and the Aca- demy of Sciencies of the U. 8. S. R., director of scientific research at th> Institute of Literature and Arts, He wrote scores of great literary and theoretical works, was a brilliant the | ces ‘Strike Spreats as y | subsidiary of the International Mer. Heads’ Strikebreaking in Truckers Walkout PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 28—Twelve hundred grocery and meat store clerks went on strike here today demanding increased wages and union recogni- tion. Thi of tk er the breaking n 's’ strike by the R.A. and A. F. of L. officiaidom that the betrayers are failing in their ‘efforts to stem the strike wave in t The drivers of the Philadelphia Company, and the are still out for higher ir ion. The drivers are fizh g against the | lock-out of the bosses, demanding | arbitration on wages and union rec- ment of Adie | ognition. | Cali For Action | Two leafiets have been tssued to the | taxi drivers and truckers by the Com- | munist Party. The leaflet to the taxi drivers de- clare: t sunday, the bureaucrats of the | voted to call off | | the genera. | ing ag: }egates of t Cleaners and Dyers | Drivers Central Labor Union di nelp your strike. | The | ne Central Labor) who mb: tt | as me: 2a 2 for the strike-breaking decision | voted cainst you. “The Communist Party has ap- (Continued on Page 2) i} Radio Men Fail To | Get Back Pay Cut | Protest byOperators on ‘ 7) “Amorican Trader tins Crew NEW YO! —Wireless operators {about to be hired by the “American Trader” joined the strike of the radio operators of the American Merchant \Lines yesterday, on learning that the company did not intend to restore the 25 per cent wage cut. When the men were asked to sign |on yesterday morning, in the salon jof the ship, they d d them- |selves before all the rest of as being on strike against and created a sens2 boa: men hed been led to company would restore the cut. The dramatic acti of the wir less operators in decl: | enraged the steamship officials who ordered the strikers off the ship at once. But sentiment for the strikers is high on the ship as a result of the protest of the operators. |” Officials are still claiming that they |must reduce the level of wages to |that of wages on foreign ships be- |cause of competition notwithstanding |the fact thet even before the slash the wireless men on their ships were being paid far less than the wages current on foreign vassels of the same class, The American Merchant Line, & s_cut| The} |cantile Marine or U, 8. Mail Lines, ‘also known as one of the “Roosevelt | Lines” has in the past enjoyed enor- mous publicity because of thrilling radio rescues at sea as a result of the vigilance and efficiency of its radio operators. The last such rescue was the saving of 38 of the crew of the sinking “City of Exeter” by the SS “American Merchant” of this same line. The appreciation of the com- pany for this work of its wireless men is expresseed in this wage slash so that they are now expected to work 12 hours a day for $65 a month, | HOURS, WORSEN CONDITIONS Pope Pius Fires 500, Vatican Employées VATICAN CITY, Dec. 28.—Pope Pius, who has issued a number of | encyclicals on the need for cap- ital and labor working to; A fired 600 workers today. All had been employed on the gardens and s of the papal state, The mass scharge was part of his New Year's economy program. The Pope recently delivered a | Drastic Decline in Jobs Admits Green; 580,000 in a Month Green Casts Lot with Employers; Praises Roosevelt’s C.W.A. | “Daily” Secures New | Rulings Kept From Public by C.W.A. Non -Citizens Fired, CWA Sets Up Board To Keep Out Unions By CARL REEVE NEW YORK.—The original Civil Works Administration law, decreed by the speeches jof President Roosevelt and ef Director Hopkins, have een amended without publicity and changed in a s of “Rules and through the and which have not been qT tration: made pu! of wi tions an soon as W. thus do not know hey are working. s and Regula- * changes and | “Unempicyment is increasing faster) am By MARGUERITE YOUNG —_[ieen issued b (Daly Worker Washington Bureau) | C.W.A. WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 28—| , have so far the New York state “Amends” C.W.A. Rules a | The Daily Worker, however, is in now than at any time since January, | possession of the two most important William Green, President of th/of these bulletins, No. 10 and No.. 5, American Federation of Labor, ad-/ and has seen all of thom. Bulletin No. | mitted today in making public his!10 is accompanied by an instruction { | | men now that Civil Works are prov’ | ing jobs for several million.” | trade union report snowing what about | from Alfred H, | 50,000 were laid off from October to of the New Yor' November, yyed in December was estimaccd av 2.6, compared to 42 in November and 21.7 in October. The telitale figures followed a White House session last night, in which President Roosevelt and some of his aids joined John J. Raskob, munitions and motor king and former democratic party chair- man, and Alberb L. Deane, President of tae General Motors Holding Cor- poration, in muiling over @ plan which would head oif even discussion of un- employment insurance in Congress by suggesting a still unexplained pseudo insurance plan that would suit em- ployers. Grecn, instead of talking for un- employment insurance, threw his lot with employers, saying, “We cannot hope to pull the ship of business out of depression by slacking hold on the tow-rope just as she begins to move.” ded “some” employers for less responsibility for their id- In manufacturing alone, 330,000 lost their jobs during Novembe! report said, These lay-offs “are much larger than in any other normal year for which we have records, larger also than in any year since depression.” Striking Contrast Still, Green figured there are only “more than six million” still unem- ployed and without normal income. He said industrial unemployment in- creased from 10,122,000 in October, to 10,702,000 in November, but that “the relief administration (of the Federal government) estimate that 4 million were at work under C.W.A.” “Developments in November and December are in striking contrast to the steady employment gains from April to. September when men went back to work by the millions, even though business was declining from July forward... . Apparently some employers feel less responsibility for their men now that Civil Works are providing jobs for several million. If they deliberately drop their men from payrolls now to let the government care for them (by means of C.W.A.). will they ever again have the right to protest against so-called govern- ment interference in business?” Cops Invade Workers’ Homes ‘The percentage of members unem- | | he Green | Seeking Frame-Up Victim Try To Frame Unempl in the Wei: NEW YORK.—Invading workers’ homes without warrant, city detec- tives are desperately trying to find a victim in their hunt to solve the Christmas eve murder of Sarah Weiss, 15-year old East Side girl. The po- ‘lee, unable to arrive at anything near @ solution, are utilizing the mur- ‘er to terrorize workers, members of “he Unemployed Council, Daily Worker investigators have ‘seovered thet at least two members f the Unemployed Council have been ‘ragged to the potice station where ‘tempts were made to build some imsy connection betwezn the slaying +4 the Unemployed Council. Detectives, posing as Edison nployees, gained entrance to a num- er of flats in the shabby tenement t 251 West 7th St. late Wednesday journalist, an outstanding expert in the arts and an erudite historian and creative writer in literature and the drama, Early in 1933 he was appointed Soviet Ambassador to Spain, the posi- tion which he held at the time of yesterday, sky who made the report on armed|his death ight. Four tenants were taken to ‘\e Sheriff St. station house as part of the police drive to find a goat, Ed- cyard Luciano, an unemployed elec- triclan of that address, was grilled at the precinct headquarters for four ‘yours. Threats to use the rubber aose on him failing to break oyed Council Members iss Murder denials of innocence, the detectives tried to use the fact that Luciano had been an active member of the local Unemployed Council and had once heckled a Socialist speaker at a Sixth Street meeting that had broken up in a fight. Cry Robert Kelly, an Un2mployed Council member living in the same building, was also brought to the sta tion house for questioning. When a few Sovict coins were found on him, his questioners tried to force the ad- mission out of rim that he was a Soviet agent, he informed the Deily Worker roporter. The police kept his bership Throughout the whole investigation, workers’ homes are being invaded without warrant, houses ransacked and occupants treated in a brutal fashion. Mrs. Luciano, 20, mother of three children and just out of the hospital with her 13-day old infant in her arms would have been dragged off to the station house along with her husband were it not for the pro- tests “¢ her husband end neighbors, oellkoff, chairman } state C.W.A,, which | says: “These rules and regulations No. 10 from the Federal Civil Wo: Administration supplant all vious rules concerning wages and hours, They become effective im- mediately upon receipt.” The document itsel | “Federal Civil Wor! | Rules and Regula‘ To. Rus. and Regulat/o:ts Issued” and then, in can: “OURS, WAGE RATES CONDITIONS OF EMPLOY. regulations from the sever ju culers of the Public Wo: tration, Where that Adm’ has no rule.... made that are consistent others.” Note the word in the heading of the bu x Exceptions to 30 Hour Week This bulletin m limitation of not mor n 130 hours work in any one calendar month to |be substituted for the requirement of not more than 39 hours in any one week on projects in localities where a sufficient amount of labor is not available in the immediate vicinity of the work . . . to permit up to 8 hours or up to forty hours a week on projects located at points so remote and inaccessible that camps or float- ing plants are necessary for all the labor employed and to permit clerical employes to work 39 hours a wo2k,” Most of the C.W.A. projects can be (Continued on Page 2) Mayor Asks NRA to Cut Milliners’ Pay Elizabeth Official De- sires Lowest Rates for All of North N. J. ELIZABETH, N. J., Dec, 28—An appeal by Mayor Thomas Williams to slash wages in the millinery code for all North Jersey towns was sent today to General Johnson, chief N, R. A. administrator. ‘The El'zabeth Mayor requested the |General to put the New Jersey mil- |linery workers in the lowest paid class of the code at 60 cents an hour instead of $1 an hour, now provided in_the code. Working with the Mayor are the millinery bosses, who have declared a lockout in eight factories in order to force through lower wage rates. Over 2,500, mostly women, have been thrown out of their jobs in the ef- fort of the bosses, with the help of the Mayor, to put these workers in the lowest waze zone of the code. With the Christmas rush over, the bosses closed their factorles, using ;the Mayor to make the appeal for starvation pay. Toyo Envoy Ordered to Speed to U.S. A. LONDON, Dec. 23.—Hirosi Saito, new Japanese Ambassador to the U. S., was ordered today to pro- ceed at once to Washington, He had intended to visit Tokyo before assuming his Vani & Japanese plans for an early tack on the Soviet Union, making it necessary to attempt to patch up the greatly strained U. S.-Japanese relations, was believed to have 4