The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 20, 1934, Page 1

er Lenin’s Letter to the American Workers, Page 6, Today Vol. XI, No. 18 <&”* Entered as second-class matter af Daily,QWorker CENTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL) it the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., under the Act of March 8 1879. NEW YORK, SATURDAY, JANUARY 20, 1934 WEATHER: Cloudy and ns AMERICA’S ONLY WORKING f CLASS DAILY NEWSPAPER — se Price 3 Cents Cold. (Ten Pages) ROOSEVELT TO FIRE ONE MILLION FROM CWA JOBS FEB. 15 |G ommunist Party ty Sounds Is Call for 10,0 000 New Re Readers in “Daily” Cire Cirealation Drive She ’ Wholesale Inflation, Senator Predicts As | Result of Gold Plan Wane Peace to Build| Terrific Slashes in the Buying Power of Wages Predicted GOVT ASKS HASTE Roosevelt Speeds Plan for Use Against Trade Rivals By MARGUERITE YOUNG (Daily Worker, Washington Bureau) WASHINGTON, Jan. 19.— “We are going to increase the currency by some millions of dollars,” Senator Tom Con- nally, Texas Democrat, today bluntly declared before the House Coinage Committee. It was one of several in- dications that many see the rolling of money printing presses as one of the results of the Roosevelt dollar- devaluation bills as it is now being hurried through Congress. Benjamin M. Anderson, Jr, a Chase National Bank economist, gave the Senate Banking and Currency Gommittee some suggestions for mending the Roosevelt measure which would mean, he said, “the dif- ference between blowing this coun- try sky-high in the next two years, and leaving it within the power of the President to control inflation.” Continuing their frenzied drive to upon it early next week. The reason for the pell-mell haste, Exchange. ete dollar has been forced up the Exchange. This, far more aia the official that some government refinancing must be done next week, is responsible for the speed at which Congress is moving. An administration amendment to the bill, introduced late yesterday by Chairman Fletcher of the Senate Banking Committee, would permit an increase of $2,500,000,000 in notes which the Treasury could issue. No labor spokesman has been heard, nor any scheduled to be heard on the effects the measure will have upon the masses of the population. ‘Witnesses today were almost all bank- ers. In their testimony, however, some baneful provisions cf the bill were developed. Roy Young, governor of the Federal (Continued on Page 2) — In the Daily Worker Today Page 2 Sports, by BS oan Steel Union ‘ae iS Stop Lay- Offs. Page 4 Lenin’s Influence on Trade Unions in U.S., by Jack Stachel. The Fight for Social Insurance, by I. Amter. U.T.W. Officials Aid Wage Cuts, by Nat Kaplan. Page 5 “Lenin, the ‘Mountain Eagle’ Genius of Revolution,” by ~ Joseph Stalin. Events in Lenin’s Life. “With Leninism in Struggle Against Opportunism,” by Alex Bittleman. Page 6. “Lenin’s Letter to the American Working Class.” “When Leniix Snoke to Ameri- can Working Class,” by Alex- pnder Teschterhorg. . Pace 7. “Wall Street’s Capitol,” by Sey- mour Waldman. Lenin to the Youth, by Mac Weiss. Capitalists Build Navy for Huge Profits, by James Casey, Lenin’s Room Preserved, Vern Smith. by Page 8. Letters from Mine Workers. “Party Life” “With Our Young Readers.” “D-, Luttinger Advises” “Ys tha Heme.” bv Helen Luke. “Chenge the World,” by Michael Gold. Tuning In; Stage and Screca. x Page Lenin on Culture. Page 10, Foreign News,—Editoriais. What's On: Ron Gold Ben Gold Sent to Jail for 40 Dayson Order ': of Edward MeGrady A.F.L., Fur Bosses Be- hind McGrady’s Move to Jail Gold WILMINGTON, Del., Jan. 19—Ben Gold, national secretary of the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union, was sentenced to 40 days in jail today by Judge Rodney in the Wilmington Criminal Court for his activity for the unemployed workers as one of the leaders of the National Hunger March in December, 1932. The decision to sentence Gold to jail is directly due to Edward Mc- Grady, A. F. of L .misleader and now assistant secretary of the U. S. De- partment of Labor, who is notorious for his instigation of repeated at- tacks on the left wing in the A. F. on|of L. unions. It seemed evident that the judge had decided to suspend sentence in Gold’s case on request of Attorney Buitenkant, who represented him, when a letter was introduced at the hearing from McGrady, declared Gold to be a menace to American society and institutions, a trouble- maker and a slacker during the war. McGrady hysterically appealed to the patriotism of the judge in a jingoistic attack on Gold and virtually ordered the judge to sentence Gold to jail, McGrady Old Labor Foe McGrady is well known to the tur workers as a provocateur for the bosses, whose chief task as govern- ment agent is to break strikes and push forward the fascist domination of the government over the workers. His letter puts the stamp of govern- ment approval on the drive to crush} the left wing unions. Needle trades members, surging with resentment against McGrady’s entrance into the case recognize the hand of the Fur Joint Council and the fur bosses behind McGrady’s move. The fur workers, in Gold’s ab- sence will intensify their union ac- tivity and are prepared to continue | Gold’s work. Czech Arms Factories Guarded Against Spies As War Danger Grows 19.—In the ‘arma- pecially the Skoda are being taken e as the tension in} mai situation increases. afes are being provided in various departments for important docu- ments, charts, calculations, etc. All employees are forbidden to take home any material. PRAGUE, ments f Jan. fact ‘Peace Is Deep, Desire of USSR, Says Bullitt Great, New Life for } Its Workers | PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 19. —‘The Soviet Union does not} | intend to engage in any war except in self-defense. If war} comes between the Soviet Union and/ any of its neighbors it is not likely| that the initiative will have been taken by or he attributed to it,” Wil-| |liam C. Bullitt, the first American | | Ambassador to the Soviet Union | declared tonight at a banquet given | in his honor by the Chamber of Com- | merce of Philadelphia at the Belle- | vue-Stratford Hotel. | In the course of his remarks, in- | terpreted generally to be directed in the direction of Japanese militarists, | Bullitt said: | “The government of the Soviet Union has gone as far or even fur- ther than we have gone in showing} its desire for peace. It has offered | non-aggression pacts to all neigh- boring nations and has signed such pacts with many of its neighbors. It| | there is one impression among the many with which I returned from Moscow that stands out above the others, it is the impression that the Soviet government today desires peace with the deepest sincerity. “The Soviet Union is just begin- ning the great task of internal recon- struction. Industry and agriculture have been reorganized. Life is going ahead. But the new Russian eco- nomic life is a young tree. It is strong and vigorous. It will grow straight into immense statyre unless it is stunted and twisted by war, The primary object of the Soviet govern- ment today is to see to it that the growth of its new life shall not be distorted by war.” British Weigh Plan to Renew ‘Tokyo Alliance Begin Negotiations for Workers Enthusiasm Shows That Goal Can Be Reached a ice Beginning with Lenin Memorial Day, Jan. 21st, and continui: until May ist, the Daily Worker will carry through the broadest circu- lation campaign, with the objective of securing 10,000 new readers for the daily edition, and 20,000 new readers for the Saturday edition. The need for increasing the influence of our Daily Worker among the toiling masses was never so pressing and imperative as it is now comrades. We want 10,000 new readers of the everyday edition, and 20,000 new readers of the Saturday edition. And we give ourselves three months —12 weeks—in which to achieve this goal. We are confident that it can be done. Revolutionary enthusiasm organized and directed can do it. Comrades, it must be done. The new, enlarged Daily Worker must reach the ever growing number of workers. That is the only way it can continue to improve. That is the only way it can fulfill its function as the weapon of the Party, as the weapon of the American masses in their fight against the misery, hunger and exploitation which is their lot under the capitalist dictatorship of the Roosevelt government, : * : TT: objective of 10,000 new daily readers and 20,000 new readers of the Saturday edition can be easily reached, provided effort is made. Similar effort resulted in the triumph of our $40,000 campaign in face of difficult conditions confronting the workers. With little organized effort, the circulation of our Daily Worker has already increased by more than 10,000 daily, and by more than 15,000 for the Saturday edition since August Ist. The sale of a quarter mil- lion copies of our tenth anniversary issue is still further proof that the workers want the Daily Worker, and their praise shows that they welcome it. The whole Party, every member in the sections and units, must feel that every day, from now until May Ist, must find us in a concen- | ¢ trated drive to show our paper to new workers, discussing it with them, comparing it with the capitalist press, ete. The circulation is an imme- diate task of the entire Party. How else will we be able to meet with Bolshevik resistance the grow- ing offensive of the Roosevelt Wall Street government? How else will | we be able to mobilize the masses for struggle against the N.R.A., against the menace of war and fascism, for the overthrow of capitalism, if we do not constantly carry our paper to new readers? Thousands of workers await us! Let us go forward to meet them! For immediate preparations for a 12 week drive for 10,000 new readers! In every unit, mass organization, workers club, we must begin to plan the concrete steps for the circulation drtve! To the next victory for our own revolutionary paper. Comrades! For 10,000 daily new readers by May Ist! For 20,000 new Saturday readers by May Ist! —CENTRAL COMMITTEE, C. P. U. 8. A. Nazi Storm-Troopers Drill In Uniform in Los Angeles WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 19— His own recent “investigation” of Nazi activities in the U.S. having resulted in a dud, Congressman Samuel Dickstein and the House Storm Troopers in fascist Germany, | the witness testified. It consisted of | high black boots, black trousers,! white shirt and black tie. (Mendieta Plans! Bloodbath for ‘Cuban Workers Will Get Wall Street Aid | for Batista’s Terror Reign in Cuba | | | HAVANA, Cuba, Jan. 19.—| Carlos Mendieta has been in-| |stalled as President of Cuba, | |by the direct intervention of | mn Caffery, Wall Street’s am- r to Cuba. All night, cars filled with landlords end native capitalists, as well as disgruntled and displaced Machado office employees visited and con- \sratulated Mendieta. The Spanish} bourgeois and the American capital- ists here particularly, are celebrating | the advent of the new regime and its Wall Street alliance. appeal to the workers, the declares that the actionary concen- k of Mendieta, Col. Bae | of the army, and the re- | | Workers Oppose Mendieta The working class is opposed to the| hew government and demonstrates | this by sabotaging all of the celebra- class sections, place repeatedly with "The new government began its ac- breaking the ike of the al workers’ in American public utility. Fifty street car work- | ers were arrested for taking control | of their union and driving out the reactionary leadership. Discontent in the army and navy \is growing. ‘The soldiers are sullen, realizing the sell-out. The students’ strike for forty-eight | hours against the Caffery-installed | Mendieta government, led by the Ala | zquierda, a leit students organiza-"| iton, continues only in one university, \because it is rrisled by reformists jand reactionaries | The program of the new gov ern- | ment has not yet been published, yet deliberations are going on in the (Continued on Page 2) Packing Men Show Hatred of Company To Fire Million More Every 2 Weeks Till All Are Unemployed | “Show Closing” Says Hopkins, No Provision Has Been Made for Jobless Workerss Unemployment Increases BULLETIN; WASHINGTON, Jan. 19.—President Roosevelt late thi corroborated Federal Emergency and Civil Works head, Harry L, Hop- kins’ morning announcement, by informing the press that he has no plans for extending the C.W.A. beyond May 1. * . By SEYMOUR WALDMAN (Daily Worker, Washington Bureau) WASHINGTON, Jan. 19.—“Beginning February 15, the Civil Works Administration will drop one million men every Local Unions Decide to Defy Injunctions, State Police By DAN SLINGER WILKES BARRE, Pa., Jan. 19.— you going to do with en two weeks from its roils,’ Harry L. Hopkins, C.W.A. and Federal Emergency Relief head, announced this morning, at his regular press conference. In ‘short, the “recovery” axe 2 = *is being sharpened to fall on S trik Dem d the necks of the struggling Assuming that Hopkins is correct ty hd in estimating that there are four ass FICKe Ing OT | mation now on the C.W.A. rolis, it means that the $350,000,000 which C.W.A. no doubt will get from Con- gress on February 15, will last until | postpone the period when the Spring | weather will be offered as food, is as Hopkins declared, that “on a stag- gering basis, ie. on a gradual de- | mobilization basis, the $350,000.000 may be stretched to May 1,” to close on May 1,” Hopkins statea | fety. The*rank and file anthracite miner: ‘What are on strike are pushing forward the de-| all these millions on May 1,” a cor- mands of the miners in such a mili-| respondent ed bisa tant wey that they are forcing the | “Well, God predi local unions of the United Anthracite} eyagon and vagueness, “it depends Miners Union. | upon what you think about this situ- The demand of the miners to} ation. It’s a. matter of opinion, I smash the injunction by mass viola-| think there’s going to be a ste p-up. tion and picketing, is being talked| your guess as to what effect the |of in all of the meetings of the min-| whole Tecovery program will hay Maxwell Colliery miners the local} res . junion decided to organize stronger | He hi oh a weiss ged . picket lines, and to ignore and smash|, He had nothing to say about the victous injunction. ee eh soe The miners favored. a march on| euinepiaene ras segs y the county court house. “Let them 1933, as compared with the ‘Union in 1 Election, Seeking to justify the actions ot | Recognition of Manchukuo LONDON, Jan. 19.—Imme- diate renewal of the Anglo-| Japanese alliance was advo- cated by Sir Bolton Eyres- | timony of C. A, Hathaway, editor Committee on Immigration of which he is chairman yesterday moved to seek authority for a“full Congressional investigation.” Dickstein, who at one poini in the investigation—during the tes- of the Daily Worker—adjourned the hearings on the ground that the “Friends of New German; which German officials have insisted has been liquidated, Dr. Konrad Bur- chardi testified that he made a speech “advocating that the Ameri- can people take advantage of the ex- perience the new German govern-| ment has had with Communism.” One of the attorneys objected to) 1,200 Stay Aw Away; Others | | Turn Out Company’s | | Official Slate | SOUTH ST. PAUL, Minn—The company union “elections” in the testimony was “too hot,” has often complained that his own commit- tee had mo funds and no power to subpoena, | Monsell, head of the British Ad-| |miralty, at a meeting of the Cabinet | which considered the growing war tension in the Far East and reprisal |@ witness and charged that it was a|Conference Board, and the loyalty the manner in which the witness held|Armour Co. plant show the hatred up his hand when being sworn in as|that the workers have toward the Nazi salute, but Judge Bush blandly | shown to the Packinghouse Workers further cheapen the dollar in the in- creasingly fierce fight for markets. | Several of the Cabinet members are jsaid to have opposed the proposed lalliance as “premature” and certain to strengthen Japan’s hands in China, whre Japanese aggressions are threatening British and U. S. im- perialist interests alike. vee The proposal will come up again for discussion at the British Empire) j, naval conference at Singapore next Tuesday, it is reported. Harbin dispatches report that the | British Consul at Darien is negoti- ating with the Japanese puppet Man- chukuo State for the opening of a British Consulate in the Manchukuo capital. The Chinese press in Man- churia is said to be greatly excited over the report, and interprets such @ move as equivalent to British rec- ognition of Manchukuo, Has your organization made a donation to the fund to finance the National Convention Against Unemployment, Feb. 3, in Washk- ington, D. C.2 Send funds to Na- tional Committee, Unemployed Council, 80 E. llth St., New York City. measures aaginst Roosevelt’s move to} Svs overruled the objection. Nazis Jail Gallagher, LL.D. Attorney; Order || Him to Leave Germany LOS ANGELES, Cal,, Jan. 19~In this much-publicized sunshine “par- | adise” where radical and even liberal gatherings have been brutally smash- ed by Lieut. Hynes’ notorious Red Squad, uniformed Nazi, storm-troop- ers have been permitted to drill un- molested. This stariling fact was inadvert- ently revealed here at a trial before Judge Guy F. Bush where an order was sought to remove officers of the German-American Alliance on the ground that they were illegaliy put over by Nazis and their sympathizers of the “Friends of New Germany” (exposed in recent issues of the Daily Worker—Ed. Note). Captain John H. Schmidt, former German army officer and later a lieutenant and captain in the Ameri- can army during the World War, tes- tified that he distinctly heard the | BERLIN, Jan. 19—Leo Galla- gher, attorney for the Interna- tional Labor Defense, was arrested here this morning by the Nazi police. He was released later in the day, only after he had been grilled for several hours, and was ordered to leave Germany within three days. This incident, viewed in relation to the Paris cable on DimitrofY yesterday, again emphasizes the secret plans of the Nazi butchers to do away with the life of George Dimitroff, heroic Bulgarian Com- munsit, who exposed the Nazi sounds of marching men and sharp|| frame-up prosecution against commands in German in an adjoin-}} yin. 'f, Torgier, Popo and ing room as delegates to the Ger-|| Taneff at the Reichstag arson man-American Alliance met in caucus to select officers in an effort to seize control of the organization. The uniforms of the Nazis were the same as those worn by Hitler's trial. No news has been heard of Dimitroff for several days, and grave fears for his safety are wide- spread. |Industrial Union. Out of 1,600 work- jers in the plant, it was reported that |only about 400 took part in the “elec-) | tions,” and even then the slate of) \strikebreaking Conference Board {members was defeated and new work- {ers were elected in their places. This lis a big victory for the Packinghouse |Workers Industrial Union, which jurged the workers to boycott the | elections. |. A two-day public hearing was held | \by the local N.R.A. Conference Board, | |before a crowd of packinghouse work- Jers, on strikers belonging to the Industrial | Union were blacklisted by Armour |& Co, Worker after worker took the| stand and re-affirmed his loyalty to the Industrial Union. Due to the mass pressure of the workers, and the sympathy of many small busi- nessmen, the N.R.A. Board was forced |to hand down a decision that Armour é& Co. was violating Section 7a, and! that all blacklisted strikers should be re-employed within one week’s time. Proof that the N.R.A. “gives the right to organize” is nothing but a sham, was given when General Manager Sheehy, of Armour & Co., openly the complaints that active| jers, “We might just as well be in jail as working for nothing.” This sentiment prevailed throughout the meeting. A committee was elected to go to the Burgess and demand that he stop} the state troopers from coming into the boroughs and causing trouble. The state troopers were the ones that were responsible for the trouble, said the strikers. Provocateurs at Work Just as in every strike the coal op- erators are employing provocateurs. Last night the Kahol-Berg Coal Co. office was dynamited. It is the opin- jon of every one that this act was committed by someone hired elther by the U. M. W. of A. officials or the coal company. ‘The miners especially are interest- ed for the reason that the coal com-! panies at this time are asking for injunctions, and the miners see in this bombing the means which the | coal companies use in order to secure the injunction to suppress the work- As one miner s' leaders enforce this injunction, it means that not only the miners but every worker becomes slave.” would continue with their same pol- icy, and recognize only their “com- pany union.” It is evident that the N.R.A. decision is but an idle ges-| ture to try and hide the vicious anti- working class character of the N.R.A., and that it will mean nothing unless | the workers themselves can force the re-instatement of blacklisted strikers by organizing mass action. Some of| declared that no matter what the Board would decide, Armour & Co. the workers in the plants are already wearing their union buttons openly. Racketeering C. W.A. and A.F.L. Officials Rob Weekly Pay of Workers C..W. A. WORKERS JAILED, FIRED IN KICK-BACK THIEVERY; “ INVESTIGATIONS” WHITEW ASH ROOSEVELT C. W. A. MACHINE By CARL REEVE NEW YORK.—Sale of C.W.A. jobs to destitute unemployed workers, by both A. F. of L. union officials and by O.W.A. officials, and political favor- itism in giving out of jobs, is now being whitewashed in “investigations” of the Roosevelt government. These “investigations” of itself by the Roosevelt C.W.A. apparatus, now taking place in Los Angeles, Detroit, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, New York and elsewhere, while covering up seething graft and robbery of the unem- ey Ga ee Gee rected towards increasing the tacks on the already destitute GWA. workers, t The “investigation” launched in|paratus of the city and state seethes County Administrator of the {Service men, backed by the capital-| officials is widespread also in Cleve- ted, “If the coal | joperators and the U. M. W. of A.| an abject | Detroit by the Roosevelt administra-|With corruption and graft. Seventy-five cases have already tion shows this sharpened attack on been taken up by the various “inves- the C.W.A. workers. There are N0|tigators” of sale of jobs and payroll | less than five corps of “investigators” | frauds in Detroit and Wayne County. now at work on graft charges in|M. V. Bates, C.W.A. disbursing off- C.W.A. in Detroit, including the U.S. |cer, said, “There have been plenty of | Department of Justice, U. 8. Depart-|such complaints, not only from | ment of Labor, ©.W.A. Board and| Wayne County residents but from | Regional Labor Board, and the U. S.|others from all over Michigan.” The Secret Service. It was established by|timekeepers have been found to the flood of complaints from 0.W.A.|charge the starving unemployed workers from the entire stute of|C.W.A. workers for holding their jobs, Michigan that not only have A. F. of have been padded. These -|L. officials “assessed” the union |“irregularities” were admitted to ex- members’ fees before they could get|{st by County-Treasurer Jacob Su- Jobe, but that the emkige C.W.A. ap-|merackt, 3 C.W.A. in Detroit John F, Ballen- ger admitted, “In five instances men who had been given C.W.A, jobs and taken off relief rolls came back and reapplied for welfare. They asserted that foremen had asked them to ‘contribute’ two or three dollars a week to hold their jobs.” Cases involving sale of C.W.A. jobs, sales of C.W.A. materials, use of C.W.A. men on private enterprises, have also been disclosed in the city of Detroit. Say C.W.A. Workers “Get Too Much” But how is the Roosevelt. govern- ment “investigating” itself, that is, igs own O,W.A. apparatus. The Secret list press, are toning down these evi-|land. The C.W.A. decrees of the fed- |dences of. the rottenness and thievery|eral government include the state- in the C.W.A. apparatus, and concen-|ment that “organized labor shall be |trating the “investigation” on an at-|/hired through the recognized local tack on the C.W.A. workers, claiming | union.” that C.W.A. workers who are un- A. F. of L, Officials Charge $25 skilled have registered for skilled! Thus the lucrative sale of jobs, and |Jobs, and claiming that the C.W.A.|“assessment” for holding jobs, has | Workers are getting paid for too much} been turned over by the federal ad- |time. The Roosevelt apparatus tries! ministration itself to these corrupt to cover up the fact that a corrupt|A. F. of L. officials. C.W.A. machine is sucking the blood In Cleveland, the Relief Workers of the unemployed workers, by rob-| Union of C.W.A. workers has in its bing these destitute workers and) possession information of the case their families still further. of 2 C.W.A. worker who was beaten This racketeering, carried on sos eo teienson eae NGendimaged on, Bogs au t C.W.A. workers. Anthracite Mi iad e = mes | April 15. The only thing which may In any event, “this show is going officials to take up these issues in the thing,” igi feted with noti ers, Last night at a meeting of the| employment.” arrest us ail,” shouted the miners. |month, showed an appr crease—that the payroll tot: jcember, 1933, is only 49.8 per Be on the 1926 basis to which ee Roosevelt administration is trying to jack up prices, In explaining the recently an- nounced C.W.A. cut in total hours worked, so that the C.W.A. wages would coincide with the low-geared N.R.A. wage scale, such as the South- ern Lumber code, providing 24 cents an hour for a 48-hour week, Hopkins informed the press that hereafter C.W.A. would permit a maximum ‘of 24 hours of work in the cities and 15 hours in all rural areas. “There's no significance in this action, other than mine,” he hastened to add. He estimated the average C.W.A. wage to have been around $12 a week. In the South, however, he himself is the authority for the statement that the average has been about $f a week, Cut Wages On C.W.A. The fact of the matter, however, is that it is not a matter of money. | Congress would give Roosevelt @ bil- (Continued on Page 2) Nat'l Committee of ‘Unemployed Council Denounces es Lay-Offs | Urges C.W.A. Workers: to Send Delegates te Jobless Meet NEW YORK — The Washington Convention Against Unemployment will serve to mobilize pressure to force the extension of C.W.A, jobs beyond Feb. 15, the National Com- | mittee of the Unemployed Councils declares in a statement issued today in reply to the announcement from the federal administration of the C.W.A. that such jobs will probably close down on Feb. 10. The state- ment in part reads: “The National Committee of the Unemployed Councils denounces the action of the government of ceasing to hire workers and begi to | demobilize those now on C.W.A. jobs as an action which will result in rob- bing the unemployed of even the small relief afforded them through the C.W.A. “This action proves that the sole purpose of the C.W.A. was to attempt workers into believing to fool the that the government was takin 2. - Gontiened on Rage 38)