The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 1, 1934, Page 1

on Page 3 of i , Noo 1> See Text of Speech by MAXIM LITVINOFF ; This Issue Watered ae second-class matter at the Post Office st New York, N. ¥., under the Act of March 3, 1879, Dail (Section of the Communist International) EW YORK, MONDAY, JANUARY 1, 1934 N orker Party USA America’s Only Working | Class Daily Newspaper | WEATHER: Snow. (Six Pages) Price 3 ).9.R. CONGRESS HAILS LITVINOFF ON PEACE VICTORIES | 5-YEAR PLAN TO BRING HUGE ADVANC OSITION NS IN ILL. NE VOTING elegates Elected’ 4WA Convention truggle Program| VILLE, Ill., Dec. 31.— ory was scored against} wis strikebreaking ma- here, when in one local; J.M.W.A. in the Danville Sub- 12 delegates were elected who at against Lewis at the Inter- a Convention to be held Jan- ird, aese 12, six are left-wing op- nists, and the others support position though not definitely ing all their policies, * * * tINGFIELD, Ill, Dec, 31.— z themselves on a fighting pro- rank and file opposition can- 9s were elected at Sangamon No. 2 local of the Progressive :s Association for all offices ex- ag president. president of the local barely his post by a vote of 58 to 56, opposition candidates being de- ad by only two votes. j iis was due to the fact that ten ars did not properly use their ots, otherwise all offices would be ae hands of the opposition, fight- the Pearcey-Kezk machine, it indications ar that in many er locals of the P.M. A. where i and file opposition groups put candidates, many votes were re- zed and candidates elected. adio Corporation roup Obtains Scab iperators for Ship ' NEW YORK.—The American Mer- aant Line ship, American Trader, ‘as held uv Friday until scab wireless gerators imported from Norfolk, Va., ere put on board under guard. The operators are striking against « 25 per cent wage cut. The scabs were supplied by the Radiomarine Corporation, 4 concern that makes a business of recruiting wireless men at starvation wages for the steamship owners. The Radio- marine Corporation is a part of the RCA, a section of the gigantic Rockefeller interests, builders of “Radio City.” It operates at 15 Varick Street, New York. where its ‘marine superintendent, James 8B. Duffy has for twenty years been bulldozing administrating wireless operators. Hardly any other man in the en- tire merine wireless field is so cor- dially hated and despised as this atrikbreaking chief Last Friday the same J. B. Duffy made a strong attempt to recruit an operator for the Greek freighter “Kalypso Verdotti” which is tied up at Bridgeport, Conn., as the result of a general strike led by the Marine Workers Industrial Union. Even the wireless operator deserted the shin, and the owners’ agents called on Mr, Duffyto supply a scab operator for the vessel. The Radiomarine official at once began offering the job to unem- ployed men in the waiting room and was dumbfounded and enraged when the discovered that the operators al- ready knew all about the strike con- ditions on the Greek ship. Co Se smena erm ana saree ma meee In the Daily Worker Today Page 2 Sports, by Si Gerson. Page 3 Fell Text of Litvinoff’s Speech. : Page 4 “In the Home,” by Helen Luke. L.W.O. Membership Drive. ‘Shop Paper Review. “Dr. Luttinger Advises.” Workers Correspondence. “Party Life.” Page 5 ‘Stage and Sczeen, Music, Tuning In, What’s On. “New Edition of Lenin’s ‘Impe- - am.” by Harry Gannes. “No sobs Under N.R.A.,” by Oak* . ley Johnson, “What a World!” by Michael Gold What's On. Page 6 | Editorials: New Year; Miliinois 1933—Strike Struggle; 1934—Ni Foreign es | Workers: were met by many police, | in their pay. » Happy New Year -- For Whom? | ' COMMUNSTS INT'L FIGHT GROWS FOR 4 Slander That Torgler “Turned Nazi” Is_ | Repudiated PARIS, Dec. 29—Protests demand- ing the freeing of the four framed Communists were made at rank and ; file meetings of railwaymen in Hael- ,|ing the report.of a representative of The bells of capitalism toll Happy New Year to the 17 million unemployed in the United States. Happy New Year to the two babies, Blanche and Barbara, who are not in the: above picture with their brother and sisters. The two, 15 months old, were smothered to death as they huddied beneath the blankets of their parent’s bed to eseape the cold. Above are Albert Jr., 3, the twins, Mildred and Marilyn, who are 6, and Lillian, 4, the remaining child of A‘bert Marshall, unemployed war veteran of Chicago, and his wife, Marie. Farmers Act to Aid Gov't to Destroy Philadelohia Strike 50,900,000 Acres ' of Milk Wagon Men of Smaller Farms Milk Trust Calls on Roosevelt Plan Will Health Board to Stop | Raise Prices; Ruin Free Milk Small Farmers DUBLIN, Pa., Dec, 31—Farmers| WASHINGTON, Dec. 31.—A new} here decided to mobilize their forces to aid the milk wagon drivers now on strike in Philadelphia, after hear- farm program to destroy at least 50,000,000 acres of farm land now j; being used for productive purposes has been approved by President Roosevelt, it was announced today.’ , The Roosevelt government will pay the owners of the land $350,000,000)$ the strikers Friday. Lewis C. Dentzley, a member of the Executive Committee of the Regional Committee, state} that “Milk drivers are fighting for a decent living wage Berlin yesterday reported an indig- againt the same milk trust forces which have kept the farmer on a starvation level. We believe the milk wagon drivers will win, and we are ready to support their strike one hun- dred per cent.” Farmer support of the drivers’ strike at this time will consist mainly of collections of milk in the country to be turned over to the milk drivers for free distribution to families with babies and invalids in the city. The Distributors have refused to purchase | milk from many farmers in an at- tempt to foster and coerce farmer an- imosity toward the strikers. All the milk that is being collected, however, comes from those farmers who have been deprived of a market. and then forbid all cultivation on it. In practice this will mean that the (Tich farmers. with large landholdings will be able to sell to the government their poorer lands, upon which now live the tenant farmers and share- croppers. The tenant farmers and small farmers will then be driven off the land. Actually this is what is already) happening as a result of the Roosevelt farm program. In Texas, for example, over 200,000 small farmers and share- croppers have already been driven off ,the land by the Roosevelt acreage-| reducing program of the A. A. A. In addition, this Roosevelt farm program raises the cost of bread and farm products for the workers in the) Farmers are now collecting milk in| cities, through reducing the supply,} three counties, and the area and/ and the low prices paid to small pro-| quantity collected is increasing daily. ducers. It intensifies the concentration | of the control of agriculture into the hands of rich farmers and banks, (Continued on Page 2) Eight Hundied C. W. A. Men March Through N.Y., Win Pay NEW YORK.—Eight bundred C.; who crowded them into the empty W. A, workers marched down Broad- store on the first floor. A committee Way on Saturday from the C. W. A. of three went up to demand the psy. offices at 79th St. and Riverside The C. W. A. officials finally agreed Drive, where they waited for three to pay off at the West 20th St., hours for their pay, to the main of-! police station, near 7th Ave. The fices at 16th St. and Eighth Ave. workers went over to the West 20th The workers shouted, “C. W. A— station. We Demand Our Pay,” as they| It was five o'clock before the first marched. pay was given out. At eight o’clock The 1,500 workers who were to be Saturday night the pay was still be- paid at Riverside Drive came at 11 ing given out. The checks were o'clock for pay and waited until two. dated Friday, showing that they had No one showed up, and then they been ready. A number of the C, W. marched to the main C, W. A. office. \A. officials were drunk while giving Some two hundred took the subway } out the checks at the police station. aoe main office and the rest went; Fifteen hundred work on the roads home, pat Central Park and at Riverside At the main C. W. A. office the ,Drive. They are two weeks | behind | lemmes, North France, by train staffs of the central station of Le Havre, at a building workers’ meeting in Brieve (Correza), at a mass meeting in Chartres, and at a public meeting in Hayange. . . 8 SOFIA, Bulgaria, Dec. 31.—Flying meetings were held at the pit-heads of the largest mines in Bulgaria on the International protest day de- manding the release of the four framed Communists. Workers balked police attempting to arrest speakers on improvised Platforms. Short protest meetings were held in the meeting rooms of the miners and in the market place at Pernik. NEW YORK. — Dispatches from nant denial by the wife of Ernst Torgler, one of the four heroic Com- munist defendants in the Reichstag arson trial, of the slanderous report published in a section of the im- perialiss press and immediately picked up by 'the Socialist .“Jewish Daily Forward” that Torgler had turned Nazi. The report is so ridiculous that it even brought a denial from Dr, Al- fons Sach, Nazi “defense” attorney for Torgler. The slanderous report is part of the efforts of world capitalism and its agents to demobilize the world wide mass fight which wrested from the Nazi Supreme Court the admis- sion of the innocence of the four, Rumania Is Put Under Martial Law Mass Arrests Follow Killing of Premier BUCHAREST, Dec. 31.— Rumania was put under martial law and a military censorship of the press last night as a result of the clash between the bourgeois political parties on the temipo of fascization of the state, cul- minating in the assassinatidn of Premier Duca by a member of the fascist anti-Semitic Iron Guard Party. One thousand four hundred leaders of the Iron Guard Party were ar- rested, including Gen. Cantacuzemu, who had demanded that the govern- ment accelerate the process toward an open fascist dictatorship and the adoption of an even more intolerant attitude to the Jewish minority. Can- tacuzemu had threatened Duca with the alternative of being shot “like a 10g. As the body of Duca was being taken to the capital yesterday, a bomb was exploded in the royal wait- ing room at the Sinaia station where the body was held awaiting a train. In addition to three persons ar- rested on a charge of direct connec- tion with the assassination, a fascist student is being sought by the gov- ernment, It is reported that several members of the Iron Guard were as- signed to the job to prevent failure , of the plot. Constantine Angelescu of the Lib- eral Party, to which Duca belonged, | 103,000,000,000 rubles by the end of Production at End . Plan Is to Be Nine Times Pre-War Leve. Plan Provides Annual| Industrial Output of 103 Billion HALF IN GOODS FOR USE To Increase 1 Railroads by 6,831 Miles By VERN SMITH (Moscow Correspondent of the Daily Worker) MOSCOW, Dec. 31 (By Ra- dio).—Nine times greater than the pre-war leyel of production and two and one-half to three times last year’s level are the features of the Second Five Year Plan approved yesterday by the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. The al- most unbelievable figures for the new plan are to be presented to the Seventeenth gress of the Com- munist Party iy Premier Viacheslav Molotov and V. V. Kuibyshev, Presi- dent of the State Planning Com- mission. ‘The industrial plan provides for the staggering annual output, in value of 1937 as compared to 43,000,000,000 rubles by the end of the first Five- Year Plan in 1932, More than half, | or 54,300,000,000 rubles worth, will be in goods of popular consumption. The total capital cost of 133,400,- 000,000 rubles contrasts with the 50,- 500,000,000 rubles of the first Five- Year Plan. The planned advance in the liv- ing, educational and cultural condi- tions would, if presented by a cap- italist country, be looked upon as a fairy tale. Real Wages to Double Real wages are to more than double, the general consumption of goods is to be increased threefold, retail prices ; Communist leaders of the framed-up are to be reduced thirty to forty per charge of having fired the Reichstag | | building. cent. The second Five-Year Plan will be completed with the liquidation of not only illiteracy and semi-illiteracy, but will bring with it the carrying out of the general compulsory political-tech- nical education in seven-year schools. Health funds will be tremendously increased and hundreds of new cul- tural and recreational centers opened. | Light industry will be increased | enormously compared with the first plan. Towards the end of the second plan the production of automobiles (Continued on Page 3) Jail 29 Seamen In Bridgeport Strike Immigration. Authori- ties Act on Order of Greek Consul BRIDGEPORT, Conn., Dee. 31.— On orders of the Greek Consul, 29 striking members of the crew of the Greek freighter S. S. Kalypso Ver- gotti were arrested by Immigration authorities yesterday. The seamen were on strike for a week demanding back pay, increased wages, improved conditions and rec- ognition of the Marine Workers In- dustridl Union, The Greek seamen struck when they arrived in Bridgeport and got in! touch with the Marine Workers In- dustrial Union because they had read of the victorious strike led by the} M. W. I. U. on the S.8. Mt. Drifus in the revolutionary press. of 2nd Soviet 5-Year Capitalism, (Special to the Daily Worker) MOSCOW, USSR, (By Radio) — The Central Executive Committee of the U.S.S.R. held its opening session ‘Thursday in a hall overcrowded with shock workers from Moscow plants and other industrial centers of the USS.R., collective farmers from the Ukraine and the National Republic: numerous Soviet and foreign corrr Ppondents and the Diplomatic Corp: The whole audience rose as Joseph Stalin, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, .appeared on the presidium, welcomed him with long applause. The cries of “Hurrah” seemed endless. In his address, Mikhail Kalinin, President of the Council of Peoples’ Commissars, said among other things: “The crisis which is raging in all countries means that over 50 million people on the earth has been ren- dered ‘unnecessary. The masters of capitalist society are seeking means to get ~id of them; their existence is very dangerous for bourgeois society.” Uncmployment Misery “Imagine yourselves unemployed in 50 Million Jobless Menace | | 1 | } Kalinin Says | i which has eliminated the unemploy- | rd Warns Fascism, Japan That USSR Will Not Yield Land GETS HUGE OVATION Molotov Shows 2nd Five Year Plan Leading | Greeted by Workers at to Classless Society Party Congress MOSCOW, Dec. 31.—Before ment with which the richest countries| the Soviet worker and farmer of the world are unable to grapple? | delegates, now ¢: t d < athered at the This force is the materialization of | CC*@Sates, ge ree | Sessions of the Central Execu- ; Premier V. Molotov, who was we! Lenin's policy. “Almost ten years have passed since Lenin died, and the banner of Communism was grasped by Stalin, his companion in arms and fighter for Communism through many years. Under this banner in the hands of Stalin, the ranks of our Party are| rallying ever closer and the Party is | materializing its ideals — Lenin’s ideals. “The interests of the Party are the interests of the proletariat. The tasks which are before all toilers, their col- lective will to struggle for complete } victory are concentrated in the per-} son of Stalin.” | U.S.S.R. Strengthened | President Kalinin was folloy by comed with stormy applause. He d livered the report on the National Economic Plan for 1934, the second year of the Second Five Year Plan. In the concluding part of his re- port, Molotov dwelt on. the interna- & capitalist country. You are un- wanted; everyone regards you as a pest. The hungry, homeless human being is unnoticed. A man of full physical strength, wanting to work at the most efficient age, is deprived of work, of home, of food. “The population of the capitalist countries, especially the children, is decreasing. The number of suicides due to want is increasing. Mean- while political swindlers are collect- ing, inviting them to make donations for ‘those starving’ in the Ukraine. And where are they collesting? In Vienna, where the Proletariat is liter- ally starving. Prepare for More War “Is the statement of the masters of those states which were defeated in th last war any better a statement than that of those which did not par- ticipate at all? Their philosophy is simple: In order to eliminte unem- ployment, it is necessary to seize the land of other states. In order that their capitalists may grow fat, it is necessary to commence imperialist war again. “The present population of the Sovict Union has increased no less titan 20 to 25 million. The present households have been socialized. The kulak class, as a capitalist user of land, has been completely liquidated. It would seem as if the countryside would be choked with a superfluity of people, a superfluity of labor, and the towns choked with an influx of peasants seeking work. However, a ‘miracle’ happened. We have no superfluous people. It Is a fact that we have no unem- ployment. This is not the result of a rise of production due to an ac- eidental economic situation. This is inherent in the Soviet system; this is the nature of the Soviet system. “Where do these forces come from in a country which quite recently had such a weak, backward industry, a country of such a low cultural level, tional situation of the U.S.S.R. “The year 1983 was a year of fur- ther consolidation of the interna- tional position of the US.S.R. The facts speak for themselves. The greatest achievement of the foreign policy of th U.S.S.R. is the establish- ment of relations with the United States of America. The initiative be- longed to President Roosevelt in this case. The government of the U.S.S.R. readily met it. The artifical obstacles existing through no fault of ours ip the relations between the world's twr greatest states were finally eliw inated. “To what extent the establishm2nt of relations answered the ripe de- mands and deep wishes not only of the USSR. but also of America is seen from the warm welcome of Lit- vinoff by wide circles of the American population, Peace Policy “The establishment of diplomatic relations between the US.S.R. and the U.S.A, occurred on the basis of an agreement wholly in keeping with the principles of Soviet foreign policy. ‘The establishment of relations creates favorable prerequisities for the de- velopment of trade and economic connections. “Under the present international situation, it is particularly important that the establishment of these rela- tions must have a great and favorable influence on the cause of stabiliza- tion of international relations as a whole, on the cause of the consolida- tion of universal peace. “We must see all this as an im- portant success of the forearm soicy which the Soviet government has steadily pursued. The problems of the struggle for the consolidation of universal peace are still in the center of our attention. We-don’t doubt that the struggle for peace, the struggle against fresh imperialist wars answer the deepest wishes and (Continued on Page 3) j relation to the ca tive Committee of the Soviét Union, Maxim Litvinov, Soviet Commissar for Foreign Affairs today delivered a sharp end brilliant an- (Text of the speech is printed on another part of the page.) alysis of the prese the first world S foreign policy of st Republic in ist powers of the world. Greeted by Workers Speaking to the accompaniment of tremendous appla' before the ses= sion crowded wi hundreds of worker delegates from the factory Soviets, from the collective farms, before Soviet heroes of\ labor, thy fatnous shock-brigaders who hay. won the Order of Lenin far heroi in Socialist construction, 7 nov eel] ebrated the ce victo * th Soviet Union in the fale... relations, and re-affirmed th: unshakable peace policy of the Union as the basis of its policy. Warns Attackers With a bluntness and frank: unknown in capitalishgovernm: Litvinov laid down the clear out of the Bolshevik foreign poli °. Soviet Union. “The guiding thread of our.” eign policy,” he said, “is contain in the short but expressive formula of Comrade Stalin—We do no want the land of others, but wi will not give up one inch of oo own.” “As we do not want foreign lar we do not want war. As for our la we have the complete possibjlity, defending it to the last inch, an, even the approaches to it, by op powerfully growing military fore These forces are capable of gi a lesson to any near or distan neighbor not to clinth outside it own frontiers for tens of years.” Turning to the U. S. 3. R. relati with the Hitler Fascist yovernment Germany, and the wa; provocat of Japanese imperir'xssm, Lit issued unmistakably warp war that the Soviet Unio erate any invasion war provocations. ( speech). On U. S. F To the accom; dous applause, Li the recent recognitio: United States, declan “In passing, I may present case we succ taining compicicly basic"ptinciples and we have consistently restoring Fetatioiy countries. This gircumst sence of any sacrifices on b —is in no small measure a m1 of the further strengthe’ Rueggs, Tortured in Nanking Jail 3 Years, On Hunger Strike ‘A week before, a crew of 25 walked! SHANGHAI, Dec. 31—Tortured and) their plight and to the heinous and} Communist Party lea, was named Premier last night by| off in Brooklyn on another ship of; ¥racked by three years of imprison- King Carol. The Liberal Party won an overwhelming victory in the recent elections by wholesale bribery and the use of troops to prevent peasant and munanty groups from voting in the election. Nazi Leaders Frantic As Radios Sell Well;| Workers Hear Moscow BERLIN, Dec. 31.—Nazi. officials are tearing their hair at the rapid and hitherto unexplained sale of 500,000 of the new “People's Receiv- ing Sets.” The new low-priced radio, built primarily to pick’ up Nazi pro- grams, haye become/a boomerang. Their unparalleled popularity, it is reported, is due—and this is the reason for the frantic fe in Reich radio circles—to the fact that they can pick up Moscow deasts. the same company, Sympson, Spen- cer and Young. OBrien Quits Office As Cops’ Band Plays, Puts Friends on Bench NEW YORK.—John O’Brien, re- cent Tammany Mayor of this city, left City Hall at 9 p.m. Saturday night to make way for his successor, F, LaGuardia. The Police Depart- ment Band, taking note of the oc- casion, played “Home Sweet Home” and “Auld Lang Syne” on the afternoon radio program of the municipal radio station, WNYC. Before he left, however, O'Brien appointed his secretary, Thomas F. McAndrews, Justice of the Court of Special Sessions. He also selected Alfred Lindau, son-in-law of Max Steuer, as magistrate c weil as Mrs. Anna Moscowitz Kross, one of his campaign managers. | ment in one of the vilest dungeons of the murderer General Chiang Kai Shek, Paul Ruegg, secretary of the and his wife have gone on a hunger| Rueggs by the Chiang Kai Shek/ang farm: butchers, the International Labor De-| mijiions o: strike in Nanking prison, Arrested by British imperialists early in 1931, the Rueggs were handed over to the Chinese Kuomintang butchers. They were held in prison for over & year without trial, Every effort was made to kill them. They were beaten with bamboo poles. They were exposed to disease. They were deprived of food. In 1932, threat- ened with further tortures by their fendal jailors, they went on a hunger strike. A world protest forced a trial, and they were sentenced to life im- prisonment on one of the crudest frame-ups. Reeentiy their treatment has be- come worsefl Reaiizing that the Nan- King butchers were attempting to tor- ture them to death, the Rueggs went on a hunger strike again to call at- tention of the workers everywhere to unbearable treatment they are sub- Jectd to. Organize Immediate Protest est governing b Union, and t is determined treme prole' Soviet Unior. Tr delegates m the » mines, from ‘he collective State farms, participate : NEW YORK.—Cailing for the wid-|the formation and passir Pan-Pacific Trade Union Secretariat,’ est protest against the torture of the| sions, Representatives of 5, Soviets ele Soviet wo fense today declared that it was] places of wrk, ate par sending cable to Dr. Alfred Sze, je Chinese Ambassador at Washington, eaeae demanding their immediate release. A similar cable was sent to Generai Chiang Kai Shek, head of the Nan- | king government. a national campaign to demand the release of the Rueggs. Similar action was taken by the Anti-Imperialist League, the Friends of the Chinese peopie and many other organizations. All workers’ and sympathetic or- ganizations are urged immediately to Send their tests to the Chinese ambassador ‘Washington. Only the most immediate protest wii save these comrades from fur- ther tortures in the dyageons of Chiang Kai Shek. ovation when hb Selvatio Poison SAC™ Poiss: pioye the the Che por