The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 30, 1933, Page 1

STALIN’S SPEECH On Lenin’s Death Will Appear in January 6th “Daily”! Vol. X, No. 313 Batered as second-class matter at the Post Office af New York, M. ¥., under the Act of March 8, 187%, Dail orker ist Party U.S.A. (Section of -the Communist International) America’s Only Working Class Daily Newspaper WEATHER: Fair, not quite so cold NEW YORK, SATURDAY, | DECEMBER 30, 1933 (Eight Pages) Price 3 Centa ROOSEVELT SOUNDS WAR NOTE IN PEACE TALK ON WILSON Jobless Prepare for Nat’l Co nvention; In Washington Feb.3 Convention on Postponed| To Allow Better Preparations NEW YORK.—The national} Unemployed Convention, scheduled to take place in Washington, D. C., Jan. 13, has been postponed until Feb. 3 to 5,| at the request of state organizations, to allow time for more adequate prep- arations, the National Committee of the Unemployed Councils announces, ‘The statement of the national com- mittee, issued by I. Amter, National Secretary, follows: STATEMENT OF “NATIONAL cOM- TEE, UNEMPLOYED COUNCILS “Complying’with che request of sev- eral state committees, whith have not made adequate preparations for rais- ing funds to finance their delegations ‘ and from the Washington Conven- tion Against Unemployment, the Na- tional Committee, Unemployed Coun- ceils, has decided to postpone the con- vention till Feb. 3 to 5. “In many. cities and states conven- | tions have already been held and del- egations have been elected. These del- | egates should be used to reach more organizations —opponent and Loar ‘tached unemployed organizations, A. oF. of 1, unions, independent unions, mass organizations, Negro, veterans’ organizalions, ete., in ‘otder to get them to elect delegates to the national convention. “Above all, the three weeks’ post- ponement must %e used for intensifi- cation of struggle for jobs or adequate relief, against evictions, etc. The hun- dreds of thousands of workers on the civil works jobs must be organized and struggles be initiated. The re- cent exposure in the Daily Worker of secret instruction revealing discrim- ination against Negro and foreign- porn workers, efforts to give the A. F. of L. strikebreaking officials control of giving out C. W. A. jobs, and low- ering of pay, should be used to build organization on the C. W. A. jobs. “The National Committee, Unem- ployed Councils, particularly appeals to all liberals and sympathizers of the unemployed movement to raise funds to enable the National Com- mittee to intensify the struggle against. the fake unemployment in- surance bills that are cropping up in all sections of the country, and which will be presented not only to Congress but to the state legislatures. The purpose of these bills is to hamper the struggle for the Workers Bill. Funds are badly needed to carry on the fight for jobs or relief for every worker, to organize the workers on the C. W. A. jobs. Send all contributions to Na- tional Committee, Unemployed Coun- cils, 80 East 11th St., Room 437, New York City. “All shoulders to the wheel! The National Convention in Washington must sound the voice of the millions of unemployed who do not intend to starve in a country where profits of the big corporations are mounting while food is being destroyed. “NATIONAL COMMITTEE, UNEMPLOYED COUNCIL. I. AMTER, National Secretary.” In the Daily Worker Today Page 3 Negro Cropper Facing Death for Self-Defense. Communist Party Leads Struggle for Jobless Insurance. Raw Deal for C.W.A. Workers. Page 4 Negro Reformists Help Cover N. BR. A. Attacks. an ade U.M.W.A. Convention Face Experienced Strike- eoslier Page 5 “Lenin and N.B.A.,” by Sam Don. “American Third Party,” by J. Strachey. “Wall Street’s Capitol,” by S. Waldman, 6 Workers’ Correspondence on Ne- gro Struggles. ‘With Our Young Readers. “Party Life.” Page 7 “What a World!” by Michael Gold What's On. Page 8 Editorials: The Unemployed Con- vention; Hail 5th Anniversary of Needle Trades Union; An Apt War Pupil; Green’s Boy- cott Swindle. Report Achievements at Soviet Conference. National Labor Board Orders Massachusetts Truckers End Strike WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 29.— Striking Massachusetts truck drivers were ordered to stop their strike im- mediately by the National Labor Board, regardles of the action of the bosses. ‘The usual formulas were used which broke the Weirton, Budd, Ford and Philadelphia truckers’ strike, offering the workers no guarantees that they will even be taken back without dis- | crimination. ‘Philly Shipyards | Take Strike Vote; Drivers Stay Out Strikers and Farmers | Distribute Milk to Workers PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 29.— Nearly the New: Yort Ship Co. and in the Wilmington shipyards are voting today on strike | to force through their demands for a ; 32-hour week and the 1929 wage scale, The strike move is being led by the Shipyards Workers Industrial Union, an independent organization. More clerks joined the strike of the grocery and meat store workers. Twenty-four of the largest chain) stores are closed down, with efforts all chain stores. All the truck driv- ers, mémbers of the transportation workers’ unions, are striking along | with the clerks. | ‘The milk drivers who stayed out on strike after the general truckers’ strike was broken by the N.R.A. and A. F. of L. officials, are continuing their walkout. One large company was forced to settle with the drivers. Distribute Free Milk The milk drivers union, together with the united farmers’ organization, | has established the first of 500 milk stations to distribute milk in workers’ neighborhoods free. ing Women’s Councils of West Philadelphia, Strawberry Mansion, South Philadelphia, pledged support | to the strike. They are mobilizing picketing demonstrations in. ail neighborhoods t»-force out all scabs. After the Socialist leaders had rejected the united front proposed by the Communist Party, the rank and file opposition of the taxi drivers’ union. forced through the proposal for a united front conference of all oe sins organizations on Sun- ay. Socialist Leader Retreats A. Daniels, Socialist leader, after the united front was adopted by the workers, ate the words of rejection, and declared he was always for the united front. The next day he de- clared that only the Communists can mobilize their forces in such a short space of time, and therefore it would only be a Communist conference. Friday night a special meeting: calied by the General Labor Union will be held of all executives, or- ganizers and business agents of A. of L, locals to consider sending a “telegram of greetings to President lung and arm by a policeman during a scab, Sam Resnick, on a Browns- ville Street last Thursday night while on his way home from a mass meet- ing of shoe workers called by the In- dustrial Union. Details of the shoot- ing are not yet available. Strauss was removed to Kings County Hos- pital in a critical condition. At 5 a.m., yesterday morning, the homes of five active union members were raided end the workers were dregged from thei beds to police headquarters “for questioning. The five thousand shipyards workers in, ‘Shipyatt -Oy;, the an: Side SMALL BOSSES AGAINST NRA Mane uver. to Calm Restlessness Made By Roosevelt By Marguerite Young (Daily Worker Washington Bureau) WASHINGTON, Dec. 29.— In a political maneuver de- signed to calm the restlessness of the lower middle class as a result of the New Deal's solidification of big business, the Roosevelt Gov- ernment today launched a plan to draw “little business” closer to the N.R.A, machine and to bring Congress nearer to the White Houee. ference with N.R.A. Administrators, Senate, William Borah of Idaho, and Gerald Nye of North Dakota, Later the President and Johnson were rep- resented at the White House as agree- ing with the Senators that the N.R.A. in operation has raised two grave possibilities: 1. That apparently some codes may work in such a way that big business is favored to the detriment of little business; 2. That certain developments tend to show that the Sherman Anti-Trust Law principle (against trustification poronollection) “Has mysterious way been abolihed. Roosevelt was represented further as being eager to remedy any such jevils as might arise. It was sugzested that perhaps leg- | station would be necessary to clarify the Anti-Trust principle, making it being made to spread the strike to; Delegations representing the Work- | clear that this has,not been scuttled |Under the N.R.A., and that an ad- ministrative board similar to the Na- tional Labor Board may solve the problem of righting any wrongs to small business under the codes. It is obvious that if the board is to small business as the strike-break- ing National Labor Board has been and still is to labor, the result will be an actual further attack on small | business, but under a slicker cloak of demagogy, It was also said today at the White House that Senator Robert F. Wagner of New York has asked to be relicved |of the chairmanship of the National Labor Board, in order to fulfill his duties in the Senate, but has agreed |to retain the chairmanship until a |successor is selected. It is understood that Wagner is trying to get out from under the N.R.A, criticism expected with the opening of Congress. It would not be surprising if he himself will complain of certain adminis- | trative obstructions. A drive in Congress for protection of “little business” is widely antic- ipated. The administration’s new maneuver undoubtedly was planned |in anticipation of it. It was explained jthat the President is eager to have Congress more completely informed of the working of the administrative branch which is dominated by the White House, and that there is some possibility that this may be accom- plished by establishing closer contact ‘between certain Congressional Com- mittees and the N.R.A. birthday.” The Trade Union Unity League is rallying all its forces for its mass! meeting Tuesday, January 2nd, at Girard Manor Hall, 911 West Girard Ave. to protest against the strike- F.| breaking moves of the National Labor an altercation about the union with | Board, and to mobilize support for all strikes in Philadelphia. Shoe Worker Shot By Cop; Five Union Members Held By Police Wm. Straus Shot While Arguing With Scab; Frame-Up Plot Seen in Arrest. of Union Men NEW YORK—William Strauss, ) workers arrested are Jack Newman, union shoe worker, was shot in the Ben Sitessiean, Sol Goldbund, Mor- nis Stern and Vin*ent Salminci, Not any of these workers were at the spot at the time of the shooting, but police are obviously holding them ag active union members with the in- tention of planning a frame-up, They were put through the third degree and are now in Raymond Street Jail on order of Magistrate Kozetti of the 10th District Magistrate's Court. They are being held on $10,000 bail for further investigation. Jacques Buitenkant, attorney for the International Labor Defense is handling the case, REVOLTING President Roosevelt held a long con- | General Hugh S. Johnson and two; leaders of the Progressive bloc of the | Roosevelt on the occasion of his: Miners’ Union Wires Order for 5,000 of Anniversary “Daily” NEW YORK. — The National Miners Union wired yesterday an order from its headquarters in Pittsburgh for 5,000 copies of the 26-page, tenth anniversary edition of the Daily Worker, coming off the press on Jan. 6. This is the largest single order received from any union, How about the textile and needle trades organizations? Which will be the first to equal or beat the order from the miners? NY. Workers rat P| ‘10th Year of ‘Daily’ In Coliseum Tonight 1,000 Organizations Mobilize Members for Celebration NEW YORK.—Revolutionary work- \ers of all the boroughs of this city will celebrate tonight in the Bronx Coliseum a decade that the Daily Worker, Central Organ of the Com- munist Party, U. S. A. has carried on uncompromising struggle for the liberation of the American working- class from the oppressive capitalist system. So deep and wide-spread is the realization among class conscious workers of the significance of the tenth triumphant year of our “Daily” that numerous organizations, including Workers’ Clubs. have can- celled previously arranged affairs and are, closing the celebration in the Coliseum. ‘The tenth celebration of the Daily Worker promises to be most colorful end gay, with close to a thousand workers’ organizations having mobil- ized their memberships to enter the Coliseum in solid marching groups. The program arranged for the cele- bration includes such features as New Soviet songs by the noted tenor. Ser- gel Radamsky, recently returned from his successful musical tour in the Soviet Union; new dances, dramatic numbers, choruses by cultural groups including the Workers’ Dance League, Theatre of Action and the Daily Worker Chorus. C. A. Hathaway editor of the Daily | | Worker and Moissaye J. Olgin, editor of the Morning Freiheit, Jewish Com- munist daily newspaper, will deliver short addresses. Michael Gold will act as chairman of the evening. Class-conscious worsers of Greater New York, mass in your full prole- tarian strength at the Bronx Coli- seum tonight! Bring the banners of your organizations. Bring your friends and fellow-workers. Come and cele- brate the tenth victorious year of our only American workingclass daily newspaper, our Daily Worker. 300 Coal Drivers Strike in Detroit Demand Union Recog- nition, Pay Increase DETROIT, Mich., Dec. 29.—About 300 coal wagon drivers and yqardmen are on strike in nine yards of four companies here. The strike started yesterday under | the leadership of the A. F. of L. Coal Drivers and Helpers Union, The eleaders are refusing to call a |strike of all workers in this trade, following the usual policy of keeping groups of workers in while others are out on strike. There are about 325 coal dealers in the city, but only a handful are affected, giving the bosses an op- portunity of crushing the strike. The demands put forward are: Union recognition, wage increases’ to 5 cents a nhour minimum for drivers, and 55 cents an hour for helpers. Cold Wave Brings Death and Misery NEW YORK.—Increased misery and suffcring for the unemployed workers followed the wake of the cold wave that is sweeping the country. Early reports show that at least 150 throuzhout the coun- try have died from cold, exposure and starvation. In New York City, where the temperature reached 3 degrees be- low zero, many of the unemployed who had succeeded in getting jobs shovelling snow were forced to leave work because of the extreme cold. Many of the men were poorly clad in thin coats and had to either seek shelter in doorways or leave work, eet homeless and with- out a place to sleep, walked into police stations, threw themeelves on the floor, and went to slee>, their headouarters tonight: to allow their memberships to attend | SEEK PLANE FOR 3 BULGAR COMMUNISTS Ask U. Ss. W Workers to Raise $2,000 for Safe- | ty of Dimitroff BERLIN, Dec. 29. — Leo Gallagher, International Labor | Defense Attorney, is here seeking to charter an airplane to, rush George Dimitroff and his | three comrades, acquitted in the} Reichstag fire trial, out of Germany in the event that world mass pres- sure forces their release from the fas- cist dungeons. | With Gallagher on a committee here representing the International Committee to Aid the Victims of Ger- | man Fascism are Douglas Benabue, | of England and other British, French and Bulgarian representatives. Seo Nasi Officials Demanding «release of the four men into th: .ie-keeping of the in- ternation=] anti-fascist _ committee, Gallother and his colleagues saw the Nazi Interior Ministry today. There they were informed that they must} next week. Hitler, they were told, will decide whether or not the ac- quitted Communists will be tried for “high treason.” ‘The English physician Hastings and an English lawyer,lett for, Leipzig. to accompany the Reichstag triai de- tendants out of Germany and to pro- tect them against the threatened at- tack by Gozing. The f rect etendants are still con- fined ‘eipzig jail under “pro- tective &)j4;.0.” They have been per- mitted to see their relatives, bul are not allowed to speak to each other. Need Funds For Plane NEW YORK.—"The action of the International Committee in charter- ing a plane shows the great danger to Dimitroff,” said A, Wagenknecht, | Secretary of the U. 5. Committee to Aid the Victims of German Fasc'sm. | Our American quota—an immediate one—is $2,000. Rush dollars, nickle’ | and dimes at once to the National) Comreistee to Aid the Victims of Ger- | man Fascism, 870 Broadway, New| Civilians Battle Argentina Police Armed Uprising Oc-| curs in Several Cities f BUENOS AYRES, Dec. 29.—Fight-| ing between civilians and the police | or broke out last night in many sections of Argentine in what appears to be a wide-spread attempt to overthrow the government, Twenty persons were killed and hundreds wounded in Rosario, in Northern Argentina, in a pitched bat- tle between civilians and the police for control of the arsenal. The civil- jans are said to have been repulsed. At Santa Fe, police fired into a large crowd, which stormed the mounted police headquarters. Fifty persons, wearing red and white arm bands, said to be the insizni of the uprising, were arrested in Buenos Ayres, where the police claim to have thwarted plans for a city- wide uprising. The entire police force o: Buenos Ayres was held in readiness along with the first and second regiments of infantry here after reports of fight- ing in the interior reached the ca- pital. At Rosario, syndicalists held a con- vention and voted not to participate in the forthcoming elections shortly beforé the attempt was made to seize the arsenal, A state of siege has been de- elared. U. S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull planned to leave the city, but the situation caused him to change his plans indefinitely. eat will remain here for the pres- ont Sen. Wagner To Quit NRA Labor B’rd Soon WASITINGTON, Dec. 29 Senator ‘obert F. Wagner of New York will ‘sign as active Chairman of the National Labor Board some time next week, it was reported today. His successor has not yet been named. Wagner has been tnstru- ental in breaking hundreds of strikes under the N. R. A. codes. The name of Robert Scripps of the Seripps Howard newspapers has been -nentioned to take his place. | cepted, it was ann Bids Against Great Britain te Aten for Latin America | “Wilson Is ¥ Would heirere for a Deposits, Bala Withdrawal] NEW YORE Yerk will lev on all deposi : ed by 100 banks to the -ede will go into eff: oe prov witha their balance: 2 antin? to base if $2 per menth on all b |than $500. On ton of this be a fee cf 21% cents on every cl f deposit ttem over a cert mau to be y en the basis account, deposits or withdrawals will be} charged for. The larger the greater will be the number of free transactions pormitted, and the smatler the fees cherje In addition, the ccdo proposes to} s n| eiminaie all iate alence the | of 19 to 23 arsed to tk ne are for close thelr thrift three months will be charged 50 cen’ accounts By Bure k. Franklin Roosevelt ‘Heavy Fees Levied CWA, ‘Workers: To On Sinall Savings Get Cut in Spring,|, o:.-« In New Bank Code, I Is Hint of Hopkins Asks Limited Funds, ' Hopes for “Break” in April (Daily Worker Washington Bureau) HINGTON, D. C., Dec. 29— L. Hopkins, head of the Civil ori:s s Adr inistration, seems to think yed are going to eat some ther during April and During those months, he said bs ll get a pretty good break.” hat appropriations he would m Congr to continue C.W. eplied that present funds hem until April 1, and that ‘good breat” (meaning the ity to cut the program dur- ing the spring weather) they would about 100 million dollars through until July 1. ked whether anything is contem- to increase the announced goal 0,000 C.W.A. jobs, which ad- mittedly would still leave millions ¢ | out in the cold if and when the pres- ent program fully materialized, Hop- | kins sai “We've thought about it, but I wouldn't think it probable that any- thing would be done.” HACKER SPEAKS IN McKEESPORT TTSBURGH, Dec. 29. — Carl Hacker, ft the Internatio: on the subject of Expect in 1934," social of the Scottsboro IL, D., at the Workers Hall, McKeesport, Jan. 1, at 7 p. m. also speak on the terror in vania, at a mass meeting of | branch of the I. L. D. at s Jan. 5. The meeting will be ‘the ‘Unemployed Council hall, at LaGuardia Threatens “Major Operation” to Pay the Bankers Writes “Economy Bill” Authorizing City Wage| Cuts; Relief Slesh, for the pow: obolish jobs noe butsot and a major oncrstion will be ne- ecessary to do it,“ LaGuardia said yestorday. A hint of what these acts will be) was given in LaCuerdia’s that his “economy bill” will Roosevelt's recent emergency act, whereby the wages of Federal em- Ployees and veterans’ compensation 7-Cent Fare Loom were slashed by over $900,000,000.) TaGuardia thus uses Roosevelt wage | uts as the precedent for 1 slosh fae city em) school teachers, svital employees, etc. The LaCu: provram of “ccon- engin than the O’Brien administration to protect the Wall Street banks rs’ loans through reduc s expenditures for Civil S unemployment relief, and ‘nerensing the subway fare. LaGuardia hes aiways (Continued on Page 2) hinted Talks Peace as Huge War Preparations Increase Naval War r Machine To | Get Another Grant of $460,000,000 | WASHINGTON, Dec. 29.— | Deliberately donning the man- | tle of the late Woodrow Wilson, war president who led the |United States into imperialist r in 1917, Roosevelt yester- proclaimed his policies to be an extension of Wilson's, and promised a tow on the United States rvention” in ses in a oneness affect of the continent.” at this excent‘on es the effect of the Bringing the 5 it interns ational » situation into histo analogy with the war period of Wilson, Roosevelt declared: “It is, I believe, true that thes events of the past ten months hayp’ caused a greater intefest™in goy-" ernment, the problems of goyem=- ment, and the purpote of gove=n- } any” similar . period” yet this recent hension wold for the Amor- not had from ulus and the of which he spoke ago.” twenty years Trade War his remarks particu! nd South Ameri e trade Wall Sizeet st. the op- n, Roosevelt closer bonds 1 Wall Street impe: laiming any desire imperial ;Position of |sought to c ota Se al ared that through the jLeague of tions “the nations of jthe world have groped forward to find something er than the old ay of comp ion of the League of Nations than ever before.” He ver, that the U, S. doe! ate membership.” T: meaning of Roosevelt's non-intervention promise can be guaged by the reaction reported in the foreign press. London, for ex- jample, recognizes openly the trade ch er of Roosevelt's peace diplomacy, when a prominent goy-, ernment member stated, “The Pres- ident’s hands-off attitude in Latinj America aff renewed assurance] of Anglo-United States commercia, competition w 2 decidedly fait ve merits.” French imperialism, the most po; erful military machine in found the speech “gratifying,” Paul Boncour, French Foi Minister calling it “magnific This is because French imperial has nothing to lose from Roosevelt's hint that disarmament is now | possible be of the world’s pulation who go along with their leadership which seeks territorial expansion.” French imperialism sees in these words @ (Continued on nm Page 2) Gov't Issues Call For All Gold Coin Seen as Step Towar Dollar Devaluation” WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec, 29,” | new drastic order calling for they, n of all ie coins to the Weel \* ett ti dota off | ar earlier in the yea 3 maa) doiss