The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 15, 1934, Page 1

See Central Committee State- ment on Lenin, P. 3 Today Daily .<QWorker CENTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL ) ne AMERICA’S ONLY WORKING CLASS DAILY N EWSPAPER —— Vol. XI, No. 13 =_* Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., under the Act of March 8, 1879. NEW YORK, MONDAY, JANU ARY 15, 1934. WEATHER: Fair (Six Pages) Price 3 Cents ANTHRACITE MINERS ON GENERAL STRIKE TODAY Japanese Openly Talk of Invasion of the Soviet Union; By Spring, Say U.S. Experts o¢ Cuban Exbor| \Ford Pledges Support of | Japanese War on Soviets Is “Imminent,” Declare Tokyo Officers BRITISH SPEED PLANS Japan Prepares Drive in North China YODAY’S WAR NEWS SUMMARY Japanese militarists talk of “im- minent war’ against the Soviet Union. U. S. experts see Japanese at- tacking Soviet Union by spring. Washington accuses Japan of building secret submarine base to challenge U. S. power in Pacific. Tokyo sees U. S. flight to Hono- Yalu as demonstrating wide reach of modern bombing planes. Rritish Government develops erewless motor boat, controlled by wireless, for use against “enemy” fleets. Japanese invasion of North China imminent as Tokyo pushes plans to crown puppet ruler of Manchukuo, Japanese military celebrate com- pletion of new strategic line to speed troops to Soviet frontiers. British rushing fortification of Singapore naval base in preparation tor impending events in the Paciife. pis age’ TOKYO, Jan. 14—“The In- evitability of a Russo-Japanese War” is the significant title of an article by Lieutenant Colonel Seiichi Acki, of the press bureau of the Japanese War Office, in the current issue of the magazine, “Hinode.” The same magazine carries an article “Chronicle of an_ Imminent Russo-Japanese War,” by Commander Shinsaku Hirata, well-known Japa- nese witter on military affairs and confident of high Japanese military and naval officials. Hirata’s article is prefaced by commendatory notes by Gen. Senjuro Hayashi, chief of the Military Education Board, and Gen. Jiro Minami, Minister of War at the time of the Japanese invasion of Manchuria in 1931. Thus, it has support in the highest military cir- cles. Japancse Attack By Spring NEW YORK.—A Japanese attack on the Soviet Union this Spring was} predicted yesterday from two sources close to the U. S. government. Dr. K. H. Donaldson, a professor of min- ing enginecring at Case School of Applied Science in Cleveland, and an authority on fi gn trade, declared | « that war was inevitable and that Ja-) Is to seize Eastern Siberia ation as well as exploita- Japan’s pan intend: for coloni tion of its mineral riches. army, he stated, was zation popu- rained against pos- ting ready to where her armi re DeNetiavss > she is stirring up the tribesmen,” while impert huge amounts of war supplics. He sees Japan as aiming “to get Russia out of the way” be- fore striking at the U. S. Mussolini Expetts World War ROME, Jan. 14—A new world war, inyolving the U. S., Britain, France, Italy and other powers is envisaged in a signed article by Benito Premier Mussolini, fascist Italian dictator, as 8 result of the tension in the Far East growing out of Japanese aggres- sions in China and increasingly bitter rivalry between Japanese and U. S. imperia®sms. a * NEW YORK.—An inspired Wash- ington dispatch yesterday accused Japan of building a secret “hidden- gun” submarine depot ship with a special deck to accomodate 20 or more swift pursuit planes, as a move to (Continued on Page 2) In the Daily Worker Today 7age 2 Sports, by 7i Gerson. Page 3 Central Committee Statement on Lenin Memoria! Negro Miners Jim-Crowed by Lewis Gang “Dr. Luttinger Advises” “In the Home.” by Helen Luke. Page 5 “What a World!” by Michael Gold. “Strengthen the Fight Against Pacifism!” by Earl Browder. “How Safe is Life Insurance?” by Charlotte Todes In; What's On Page 6. Editoriais: Communist Interna- @n the Road to Mass Expu'sions. Wages Drop, Micry Increases Under Nazis Foreign News. [in Wasmngivi:, ic: dent will be made. Harbingers of New World War British Draw Up Demands, On Gov't Against War Appropriations: Mass Meets To Demand! Use of War Funds for Relief NEW YORK.—The broad United} Front Committee going to Washing- ton, . will place. . before . President. Roosevelt and the Secretaries of the Army and Navy, the following de- mands aganst war appropriations and | for the use of all war funds for| relief: | 1. No more appropriations for war purposes; WE DEMAND PUBLIC WORKS, AND NOT WAR WORKS. Complete rejection of the current requests of the Army and Navy for additional funds for war prepara- tions. Instead of billions for war, we demand the use of these funds for the unemployed, and a national system of social insurance. 2, YMMEDIATE CANCELLATION OF ALL WAR CONTRACTS for the | building of battleships, airplanes, | submarines, ete., which have been | financed by grants from the Public | Works Fund during the past months, 3. Immediate abolition of the R. 0. T. C., the C. M. T. C., and the Cc. C. C. BUILD SCHOOLS, NOT BATTLESHIPS! 4. Immediate withdrawal of all armed forces from all foreign lands | and water. | “fter these demands are presented | mittee will fly to New York to address! the giant mass meeting that evening! at St. Nicholas Arena, where the re- port of the meeting with the Presi- The national ¢ffice of the League Against War and Fascism, was in- formed last night by its city commit- tees of San Prancisco, Cal. (Bay Region), Newark, N. J., Washington, D. C., and Yonkers, N. Y., that ar- rangements have been completed for large mass meetings on Jan. 29th. The San Francisco meeting will also be in the form of a conference to strengthen the organzation of the American League in that section. “WOLF OF WALL STREET” DIES NEW YORK, Jan. 14. — David! Lamar, one time “Wolf of Wall Strect,” whose unscrupulous stock Speculations amazed the financial world in years past, was found dead in a squalid rooming house here. He had been dead for two days. French Use 200 Tanks To “Pacify” Moroccans CASA BLANCA, Morocco, Jan. 14.— After twenty-five years of “pacifying” the Mcroccoan people with machine guns, the French General Staff is un- |detaking a new campaign to crush the people of this country. Five army columns proceeded to positions today. Two hundred tanks, airplanes, field artillery, cavalry, infantry and the French Foreign Legion, are being used in the encircling movement, by which the French military chiefs plan to drive the Moors from the Southern Atlas mountains, to. the Atlantic Ocean, NRA Fixes Prices, Aids Lumber Kings ‘Small Contractors Hit; Farley’s Old Co. Helped (Daily Worker Washington Bureau) WASHINGTON, Jan. 14.—General Hugh §S. Johnson, N.R.A. adminis- trator, has established minimum prices on lumber and other build- ing materials that will deprive all ‘ndependent mechanics and most of the workers employed by small con- |tractors of virtually all opportunity there remains to them to get work in remodelling, rehabilitating and altering homes and buildings. Boss contractors, architects and engineers are protesting bitterly— and are privately pointing out that among building supply concerns that. will henefit. fram Tahneen a ee uer, tne 1argest in the United States | is the General Builders Supply Cor- poration of New York City, of which James A. Farley was president until three days before he became Roose- velt’s Postmaster General. Johnson Becomes Price-Fixer N.R.A. codes gave authority for what is tantamount to outright price-fixing by Johnson: they pro- vided that he should set the mark- up which the retail dealers should add to mill prices, In accordance with this power, Johnson issued executive orders on Jan. 5 and 6, making it mandatory for all dealers in retail lumber to soak individual buyers not less than 51.54 per cent more than the mill price. Thus speculators who bought billions of feet of lumber during the speculative ‘boom early last summer are assured of from 100 to 300 per cent profit. Johnson also required a universal mark-up of 662-3 per cent on all building ma- terials sold in less than five-ton Powerful battleships of the Japanese fleet pictured in maneuvers off the Japanese coast, as talk of approaching World War increases throughout capitalist world. most powerful for their size in the world, Japan, like the U. S, and other imperialist powers, is rushing naval construction at a frantic pace. experts declare these warships the Nazi Trial of Renn, Noted Writer, Opens In Leipzig. Tuesday Charge of High Treason Made Against Foe of Fascists BERLIN, Jan. 14—Ludwig Renn, internationally known writer and novelist, author of “War” and “Af- ter War,” will go on trial in Leipzig Tuesday morning on charges of high treason. These charges claim that he con- ducted classes in military instruc- tion in Communist schools. Renn has denied these charges, stating that he lectured on military matters from material that was publicly available to anybody. In addition to the many volumes he has written, Renn was one of the editors of “Linkscurve,” leading theoretical-literary magazine pub- lished in Germany before the Nazi coup. He was German representa- tive to the Kharkov Congress of the International Union of Revo- lutionary Writers in 1930, His trial, the Nazis have an- nounced, is the first of a series against outstanding Communists and leaders of the anti-fascist struggles in Germany. Market Commissioner, Fish Dealer Himself, Starte Rac fi NEW YORK.—A fight on the fis hracket was promised Saturday by the New Commissioner of Mar- kets of this city, William F. Mor- gan, Jr. Morgan, an appcintee of the LaGuardia fusion administra- tion, was formerly head of the Brooklyn Bridge Freezing and Cold Storage Co., large fish dealers. He had a long struggle with Joseph “Socks” Lanza, gangster chief of the A. F. of L. United. Sea Food Workers Union. Observers state that the fight is not entirely an altruistic one on Morgan's part, since his interest in the fish business is probably still large. The fight takes on a poli- tical character also, it is noted, since Lanza is known to be a staunch supporter of Tammany, from which he received protection. lots. This will stop small building operations, further reducing the pro- spects of work among building tradesmen, | ready registered at the Congr | Batista, asked that the Congress be 10,000 Present! At 4th Congress | TUUL and U.S. Work- ers in Struggles BULLETIN HAWANA, Jan. 14.—All gas and electric workers from Havana as far east as Camaguey have gone on_ strike. The strikers turned down Col. Batista’s proposals after a short conference with him and company officials. Santiago public utility workers are expected to join the strike shortly. 1, ee, (Special to the Daily Worker) HAVANA, Cuba, Jan. 14.— In spite of repeated threats by the Grau San Martin govern-| ment, the Fourth Congress of | the National Labor Confederation of | Cuba opened last night at the Cristal Stadium, with 10,000 in attendance. More than 2,000 delegates repre-| senting over 300,000 workers, are al-/| s, and | more delegates are due to arrive. | The night before the Congress, word reached the organization com- mittee that U. S. Ambassador Jeffer- son Ceffery, dining wth President Grau San Martin and Col. Fulgencio smashed, on the ground that it was to lay plans for the organization of sugar strikes throughout the island. All evening and during the night, delegations vi..i2d the president, fi- nally forcing a permit for the Con- gress, although a sport demonstra- tion and races were banned. The Congress was opened by Cesar Vilar, national secretary of the Na- tinoal Labor Confederation, who gave & resume of the work since the Third Congress was held in 1925. Following the election of the pre-| sidium, James W. Ford, Negro worker | representing the Trade Union Unity League of the United States,.and a member of the executive committee of the Red International of Labor Unions, addressed the delegates and assembled workers and through them the Cuban working class. Tremendous Ovation Ford received a tremendous ova- tion, and even before he began to speak he was asked to rise again and again, so that all in the huge arena could see him. Ford promised the full support of the American | workers in the struggles of the Cuban toilers for liberation, and exposed the arguments of the reformists that the Cuban revolution was impossible with- out a revolution in the United States. He told of the demonstration or- ganized in New York against the Woolworth Company in support of the ten-cent-store strikes in Cuba, (Continued on Page 2) Kentucky Ordered 23 Cut 110.002 Mien Off C.W.A. WASHINGTON, Jan. 14—Ten thousand C. W. A. workers are to be dropped from the federal payroll in Kentucky, according to instructions received yesterday from Harry L. Hopkins, federal relief administrator. Michigan and Wisconsin have also been ordered to cut their quotas, by federal pronouncement, but the fig- ures have not been made public. The order states that no new projects are to be started when the present ones now under way are com- pleted, and that workers who are laid off are not to be rehired. Lay Off 80 CWA Men After 3 Weeks’ Work LANCASTER, Pa, Jan. 11— Eighty C. W. A. workers here were laid off after working only three weeks, When the workers refused to leave and demanded that they be given work the foreman beat up J. Dom- mel, one of the workers. | Greets Cuban Workers J. W. Ford American working-class leader, member of the National Board of the Trade Union Unity League, pledged the support of the mili- tant toilers of the United States to the Caben mosses. Ford is now attending the Congress of the Cuban Confederation of Labor (C.N.0.C.). Police Injure 75 in Imperial Valley Strike Strikers Resist Fierce Gas Attack; Continue Daily Picket Lines BRAWLEY, Cal., Jan. 14.— A sharp wave of terror is sweeping through the Imperial Valley lettuce fields, where 7,000 strikers have tied up the fields and have stopped all movement of produce. A police force of 150 swooped down en the Union hall yesterday where 2,000 strikers were meeting. Attack- ing with tear gas and clubs, the Police demolished the hall and in- jured about 75 women and children. It is rumored that one child is dead from the gas and a woman is criti- cally ill. ‘The strikers resisted the attack and returned the blows of police as well as the tear gas bombs. The chief of police was hit by tear gas hurled back by the strikers. At the same time, police completely destroyed the workers’ relief kitchen. Homes are being searched for strike leaders and union organizers. Open incitement to lynch violence was made by the police today with the offer of a reward of $500 for the capture of any of the Amers.s strike leaders. About striker were arrested ar“ “iv are still in Jail. on: packers in‘ this rich agricul- ural region have thus far refused to deal with the strikers and are in- stigating attacks. The strikers vali- antly resist brutal police terror, and reform their mass nicket lines daily. Although yesterday’s bloody attack is the worst thus far, picket lines were formed again today. - Attorney Johnson of the American Civil Liberties Union arrived here yesterday to take up the legal de- fense of the strikers. The strike was called last week under the leadership of the militant Cannery and Agricultural Workers’ Industrial Union. The workers are striking for wage increases to 35 cents an hour over the 10 to 22 cents an hour which the workers have been getting. Strike centers are now established in Elcentro, Calexico, Brawley and Calpatria. The strike depends for its success on the amount of relief available on the outside to sustain the strikers, who are on the verge of starvation. Relief kitchens having been smashed, cash ald is urgently necessary. All working class organizations are urged to answer the call for relief. Wire immediately cash relief to the Im- perial Valley strikers, Workers Center, 852 8th St., San Diego, Cal. ‘Plans of Nanking’ |30-50,000 to Go Out: Unity of All Miners Is Only Way to Win Maloney-Capellini Clique Strive To Use Strike for Own Ends and Defeat Miners’ Efforts To Achieve Unity Regardless of Union Affiliation LEWIS-BOYLAN ORDER MINERS TO SCAB Pinchot Mobilizes State Troopers and Deputies To Smash Mass Picketing, Terrorize Strikers By CARL "REEVE WILKES-BARRE, Pa., Jan. 14.—Battle lines were drawn for the general anthracite coal strike today in local union meet- ings of the United Anthracite Miners. miners are involved. Following the orders Mme. Sun Yat-Sen Hits Ruegg Murder Paul Ruegg Now in 25th Day of Hunger Strike; Condition Is Critical SHANGHAI, Jan. 14.—Charges of deliberately seeking to murder Paul and Gertrude Ruegg, sentenced to life imprisonment for their trade ‘on activities, were hurled at the Naicing Government today in vigorous protest telegrams from Mme. Sun Yat-Sen, head of the Rueggs Defense Com- mittee, and hundreds of trade unions and other workers’ organizations and mass . demonstrations throughout Chins? Paul Rueggs is now in the 25th day | of his hunger strike in protest against torture and other barbarities inflicted by the prison regime. Gertrude Ruegg is in the 17th day of her hun- ger strike. Twenty Chinese girls, po- litical prisoners, are in the 10th day of a sympathetic strike. ‘The nation-wide protests, together with protest cables from workers and intellectuals in the U. S. and Eu- ropean couztries today forced the government to promise to give medi- cal attention to the two prisoners. Doctors already declared that ** condition of the two prisoner<. <;urn out by torture and the Sayer strike to which thev iurced to resort + ateiust their treatment, is cilicai that they may die within sie next two or three days. It was stressed by the doctors that the Rueggs are in need of care and good food which cannot be obtained in the prison. Despite the warning of physicians, the Nanking government, acting under the orders of the Brit- ish imperialists who framed-up the Rueggs, has refused to heed demands for a new trial and the immediate release of the two prisoners. Proof of the power of the interna- tional protest is afforded in the re- treat of the Nanking regime as chown in their promise to afford medical attention to the two prison- ers. The international protest can force the release of the Rueggs if it is at once intensified with cabled protests to the Nanking Government and its consuls in every U. S. city. There is no time to be lost. The Rueggs are in danger! Only the in- ternational protest movement can wrest them from the hands of the Nanking murderer and their im- perialist masters. SIX KILLED IN COTTON OIL MILL BLAST HERTFORD, N. C., Jan. 14—The explosion of a boiler in the Eastern Cotton Oil Co.'s plant killed six men and injured seven others. Those who were not killed out- right were scalded to death by the boiling water which coursed through the debris under which they were imprisoned. By HARRY GANNES NEW YORK.—Today the Daily Worker publishes the story of racke- teering and grafting by A. F. of L. officials in locals of the Hotel, Res- taurant and Cafeteria Workers’ In- ternational Alliance, written by A. S. Pascual. This is the third of a series of articles on corruption, rottenness, racketeering and murder of rank and file members by the strikebreaking leadership of the A. F. of L. Preying on the membership like vultures, while the bosses slash wages, these supporters of the N. R. A. and the Roosevelt policy of attack, used their strategic positions as union leaders to mulct the workers by a thousand grafting schemes. All this was done with the protec- tion of high officials in the A. F. of L. who looked to the racketeers as a mainstay for their control and for suppression of the militant rank and file movement, particularly of the Communists working actively with the rank and file militants. ‘The Daily Worker will print more stories of graft and racketeering in many trades and industries. Workers who have information that exposes racketeering are urged to bring it to the Daily Worker per- sonally if they live in New York, or send it by mail, if they live out of the city. Along with the _ strikebreaking moves of the N. R. A. and the Na- tional Labor Board, the Roosevelt government, under the guise of at- tacking “racketeering,” is planning a whole series of anti-union laws. Attorney General Cummings is “in- vestigating” racketeering secretly, preparing fascist measures against the trade unions under the barrage of an attack against racketeers. The little game is being supported particularly by William Randolph Hearst, one of the most vicious ene- mies of labor. Through his Sena- torial collaborator, Royal S. Cope- land, Hearst is whipping up a dema- gogic frenzy over racketeering. Through crude, fake promises helping workers retrieve money they “kicked-back” to contractors, the New York Journal is getting some workers to tell them of racketeering. But their real stories are not printed. Grafting A. F. of L. officials are protected. The main objective of these capi- talist forces is not the rooting out of| Local No. 1 of the A. F. of L. was Waiters Forced to Pay Corrupt AFL Heads Local 302 Union Official Killed by Gangsters After His Clique Falls Out With Bosses’ Cafeteria Association of racketeering, which can be done only by the rank and file in the unions, together with their struggle for union democracy and to building up real fighting organizations. The purpose of these exploiters, and their propaganda agents, is to open a fas- cist attack on the unions, and cripple the fighting ability of the rank o4d file. ‘ . By A. S. PASCUAL NEW YORK—The meeting at Beethoven Hall on Dec. 22, 1932, of the Waiters’ and Waitresses’ Union ‘© getting tumultuous. Suddenly two shots were heard in rapid succession, Two men on the stage slumped for- ward, and a man jumped up on the stage with a smoking pistol in his hand, shouting: “I am_ sacrificing myself for you people. You fellows all know why I shot these grafting, $50 to $300 for Jobs Link of Higher Ups and Union Officials Shown; “Daily’’ Expose Reveals Need for Organized Opposition To Oust Racketeers racketeering officials who suck our blood and keep us without jobs.” Bennie Glast surrendered immedi- ately afterward. He had wounded Motel Turkel and Jack Lasher, offi- cials of the local. Glast, who has an unsavory past, could only use in- dividual terror to rid the union of its racketeer officials instead of depend- ing on rank and file mass action to oust them. Three hundred dollars for a Job had been demanded from Glast and other workers by the officials of the local. One hundred and eighty wait- ers paid the $300 and worked on the job six weeks. Seven men engaged in this racket forced on terrorized workers have since been indicted, but no effort has been made to bring these men to court. In previous installments it was shown how uncounted thousands of dollars was “kicked back” from the salaries of construction workers to contractors, and, indirectly, to union | officials. Similarly in the Waiters’ Local No. 1 the men had to pay from $50 to $300 for the right to work. The direct circumstances leading up to the shooting and incidentally to the indictment, started back in June, 1932, when Julius Malich, Presi- dent of the Restaurant Keepers’ As- sociation, decided to open a luxurious restaurant on Delancey St., between (Continued on Page 8) From 30,000 to 50,000 of the so-called liberal Governor Pinchot of Pennsylvania, the biggest police concentration in the history of the region was ef- fected today, with an additional hundred of state troopers brought in along with numerous deputies and other coal operators’ gunmen. Steps for a general anthracite strike followed the enthusiastic unanimous vote of approximately 500 delegates at the special United Anthracite Miners’ Union Conven- tion held yesterday at the Y. M. C. A. Auditorium which declared the gen- eral strike for District 1 in Luzerne and Lackawanna Counties, Rinaldo Capellini, state president of the union, and Thomas Maloney, istrict president, were severely de- feated in their first attempt to split the ranks of the miners. Both Maloney and Capellini pleaded with the delegates to pass the motion of the resolution com- mittee empowering the District Executive Board “to permit all coat operators to work their respective collieries if they are willing to rec- ognize the United Anthracite Miners’ district officers and local union offi- cers now and after the present strike.” Injunction Looms As steps for the strike get under way rapidly, the Penn Anthracite Ch has already filed a bill in equitr .e@ questing a stringent -ajanelon against all union ~*:xvers to pre vent picketine <ie injunction plea is beine -card tomorrow in the Iort>vanna County Court at Scran- oa, Pa. Captain Clark, Pinchot’s State Po- lice commander here, has issued a statement on behalf of the local army of State Police that mass pick- eting is not allowed, and that no marchers nor gatherings would be permitted. The only pickets to be permitted to appear at a mine are those directly employed at the mine. The biggest strikebreaking effort, however, comes from the U.M.W.A. officials, led by District President John Boylan of the UM.W.A. The U.M.W.A. Convention at Scranton yesterday was composed mostly of officials and Boylan hangers-on. They ordered the miners in the U, M. W. A. to return to work. Boylan declared today: “If the worker has a hard time getting to work on Monday, he will go the next day with a group. Our officers and men will be on hand Monday to urge the men to work.” N.R.A. and U.M.W.A. to Break Strike Boylan announced that U.M.W.A, officials and operators would meet the National Labor Board on Mon- day at Washington to discuss break- ing the strike. This U. M. W. A. official's trump card in calling for scabbing was ad- dressed also to the unemployed, and has the backing of the Labor Board. In the face of tremendous mob- ilization against the miners, Maloney and Capellini are showing great weakness in their statements. Maloney's statement today again emphasized his regrets for calling the strike, and pleaded for a “full inves- tigation by the National Labor Board Commission.” The only demands in his statement today were for the abolition of the check-off, for recog- nition, and for reinstatement of 900 blacklisted in the last strike. Maloney and Capellini throughout the Saturday convention emphasized getting Boylan out. The main de- mands of enforcement of wages, con- ditions and present agreement, which is now disregarded entirely, were not eyen mentioned. Spread the Strike, Says C. P. John Muldowney, section of the Communist Party here, issued. a statement to the miners on the main tasks confronting them. He called for a defiance of all in- §enctions and orders against mass picketing. Spread the strike to all (Continued on Page 2) Lenin to U.S. Workers In January 20 “Daily” Lenin's “Letter to the American Workers” written in 1918 will be published in full in next Satur- iay’s Daily Worker, which will be a special Lenin issue in comme- noration of the Tenth Anniver- sary of the death of Lenin.