The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 3, 1934, Page 1

COUNTERACT THE WAR DEPARTMENT’S: JINGO WEEK FEBRUARY 12 to 22! 'OMRADES, WORKERS, this is a call for immediate etc., to whip up a frenzied war patriotism in support of period from February 12 to 22 must be a period of gigan- sections, and districts of the Communist Party mus? take action! The War Depariment, working through all the war program of the Roosevelt regime. They have tie anti-war activity. Every workers’ organization must the lead. They must endeavor to activize all other or- | jingoistic bodies, has set aside the period from February completed the steps needed to build up the greatest war be drawn into this anti-war campaign. The broadest ganizations, particularly the American Committee 42 to 22 as a so-called “National Defense Week.” During machine in history. Now they would dope the workers’ acca the i shia dad ple 2 sible car prinaibari Against War and Fascism. Comrades, the time is short! this period they will attempt to poison the minds of the minds with war poison to prepare them to serve as the Cranes rie aieeket aathear ‘edition of the Daily All energy and speed into the preparations of powerful masses with a spirit of imperialist jingoism. They will cannon fodder in the war they are preparing. Worker, to be put out on February 10, must be circulated anti-war actions to counteract the war poison of the try, in the name of “defense,” “peace,” “preparedness,” We must counteract their chauvinist poison. The in at least 150,000 copies. In all this activity the units, jingoists. : AMERICA’S ONLY WORKING CLASS DAILY NEWSPAPER CENTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL) HELP FIGHT WAR By Getting Subs for “Daily” Entered as second-class matter at the Post Omice at New York, N. ¥., under the Act of March 8, 1879 -_* 15,000 TAXICAB DRIVERS ON STRIKE IN NEW YORK CITY Thaelmann Trial } Nears; Nazis Murder Four Nati Nazi Cops Kill Japan Fears Paralyze Cab Thaelman Trial Build Liberation Fund in Tag Days, Today and Sunday! TOMORROW: Fair and Warmer Vol. XI, No. 30 NEW YORK, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1934 (Eight Pages) Price 3 Cents Witnesses National Jobless Convention Opens in Washington Today Service; Demand | Five Cent Tax Go to Drivers SaysHayashi Taxi Workers Union Calls for Election of United Front Strike Committee Introduce Workers Insurance Bill in Congress They Stopped the Scabs! Enlists 80,000 Farmers for 25e. a Day, Work in Munitions Plants | Unemployment Insurance Bill As Introduced Into Congress Build the liberation fund for the HEARING NEXT WEEK ‘Government Prepares Fake Moves to Kill Bill BULLETIN On Feb. 5, at the time when the workers’ delegates at the Washing- ten National Jobless Convention present the workers’ demands to the Roosevelt administration, work- ers in many cities will demonstrate for endersement of the Workers Unemptoyment Insurance Bill, and against the Rooseyelt abandonment of the C.W.A. New York workers will mobilize at various points which their or- ganizations decide upon and con- verge on City Ha'l at 12 noon. see By MARGUERITE YOUNG (Daily Worker Washington Bureau) WASHINGTON, Feb. 2,—Dele- gates to the National Convention Against Unemployment began to register tolay and by nightfall the variety of occupations and sections represented indicated that the three- day meeting will bring together a real cross section of the American working class. They will be called to order for- mally at 10 a.m., tomorrow by Bud Reynolds of Detroit, national chair- man of the Unemployed Councils of America. Before the delegates leave Washington they will adopt a pro- gram of action and a constitution. The convention marks a consolidation of the forces united in the famous national hunger marches for more intense struggle for genuine unem- ployment insurance. As the delegates were signing the roll -in Masonic Auditorium in a working class district, events in two other quarters of the capital reflect- ed the portent of the convention. Introduces Social Insurance Bill In the capitol, representative Ern- est Lundeen, Farmer-Labor, of Minnesota, was introducing the (Continued on Page 2) ee In the Daily Worker Today Page 2 Interview with Emma Goldman, by Sender Garlin. Page 3 “Oregon Workers Fight Lynch Verdict” A. F. of L. Collaborates with Edi- son Co, Page 4 “Open Letter to All Workers of United Gas Co.” forkers” “Small but Militant Fight on Lewis at U.M.W.A. Convention (Daily Worker Washington Bureau) WASHINGTON, Feb, 2.—The text of the Workers Unemployment and Social Insurance Bill, as it was for- mally introduced in Congress today by Representative Lundeen of Min- nesota, follows: SEVENTY-THIRD CONGRESS Second Session Feb, 2, 1934. Mr. Lundeen introduced the fol- lowing bill; which was referred to the Committee on Labor and ordered to be printed. A BILL To provide for the establishment of unemployment and social insur- ance and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States in Congress assembled, that this act shall be known by the title, “The Workers Unemployment and Social Insurance Act.” Sec. 2. The Secretary of Labor is hereby authorized and directed to provide for the immediate establish- ment of a system of unemployment and social insurance for the purpose of providing insurance for all work- ers and farmers unemployed through no fault,of their own in amounts equal to average local wages, Such insuranceshall be administered by workers and farmers and controlled by them under rules and regulations prescribed by the Secretary of Labor in conformity with the purpose and provisions of this act, through yn- employment insurance commissions composed of the rank and file mem- bers of workers’ and farmers’ or- ganizations. Funds for such insur- ance shall hereafter be provided at the expense of the government and of employers, and it is the sense of KCongress that funds to be raised by the government shall be secured by taxing inheritance and gifts, and by taxing individual and corporation in- comes of $5,000 per year and over. No tax or contribution in any form shall be levied on workers for the purpose of this act, In no case shall the unemployment insurance be less than $10.00 per week plus $3.00 for each dependent. \ Sec. 3. The Secretary of Labor is further authorized and directed to provide for the establishment of other fozms of social insurance in like amounts and governed by the conditions set forth in Sec. 1 of this act for the purpose of paying work- ers and farmers insurance for loss of wages because of part-time work, sickness, accident, old-age or ma- ternity. Sec. 4. The benefits of this act shall be extended to workers without discrimination because of age, sex, race or color, religious or polit'cal opinion or affiliation, whether they be industrial, azricultural, domestic, or professional workers, for all time lost. No worker shall be disqualified for the benefits of this act because of refusal to work in place of strik- ers, at 1é8s: than trade-union»rates, under unsafe or unsanitary condi- tions, or where hours are longer than the prevailing union standards at the particular trade and locality, or at any unreasonable distance from home. Detroit Delegates Leave for Nat'l Jobless Meet DETROIT, Mich.—The twenty-five Michigan delegates to the National Convention left Detroit on Friday at midnight, en route for Washington. The delegates from nine Michigan cities, represent Unemployed Coun- cils, Auto Workers Union, the Inter-} Germany’s most national Labor Defense, Nat Turner Club, Working Men's Club, and other | fighters for world Communism, into working class organizations. C.W.A. jobs are also represented on the Michigan delegation. Hathaway Is Speaker at Workers School Forum NEW YORK.—Clarence Hathaway, editor of the Daily Worker, will speak on “The Dictatorship of the Prole- tariat” at the Workers School Forum, 35 E, 12th St., on Sunday, Feb. 3, at 8 p.m., in the special series of lec- tures commemorating the tenth an- niversary of the death of Lenin. “Stop Attacking Us,” Strike Breaking Agency Begs ‘Daily’ By ROBERT KENT NEW YORK. — Joseph Dictrow, operator of the Academy Employ. ment Agency, 1251 Sixth Ave., plead- proof showing agency helped break a strike of food workers 5 Friday’s issue as conclusive proof of that agency’s strikebreaking activity, following a statement Mr. Dictrow made to striking food wozkers who y | demonstrated against his agency that he had not sent no strikebreakers anywhere. The Worker also published a photostatic copy of Dic- trow’s statement as it appeared in the New York Herald-Tribune only five days after the general manager of Hotel Montclair had sent him the letter, thanking him for sending strikebreakers, Mr. Dictrow continued. pleading that the “Daily” stop exposing his agency.to the workers, but his plea was refused point-blank, the city editor pointing out to him that the Daily Worker was solely interested in fighting for the worke:s and against tools | the complete exposure which the he- heroic German Communist Pris- oners! Help the New York city- | wide tag days, today and Sunday. | Report at New York Committee to Aid Victims of German Fascism, 870 Broadway. | * . . | BERLIN, Feb. 2.—The police mur- der of four Communists near Pots- dam today revealed the hastened preparations of the Nazis to put Emst Thaelmann, leadér.of the Ger- man Communist Party, on trial for his life. The four Communists, John Scheer, Erich Steinfurth, Eugen Schoenhaar and Rudolf Schwarz, were being taken from a Berlin pris- on to be examined at Potsdam in Preparation for Thaclmann’s trial when they were murdered by their police escort. The volice report was that they hed -‘sitempted- to- escape to the: woods.” . Renegade Dead Alfred Kattner, renegade who had agreed to help the state case aga-nst ‘Thaeimann, was killed by an un- known person in his home in No- wawes yesterday. The police said they were taking the four Commu- nists to Potsdam for examination in this connection, although they had been in prison a iong time when Katiner was killed. ‘The Nazis, determined not to face roic defendants and the world-wide indignation at the Reichstag fire trial earned them, are attempting to build up a complete frame-up case before they risk bringing Thaclmann, beloved working class leader and one of the greatest open court. Need Redoubled Mass Fight The murder of four Communists because of their possible testimony for Thaelmann emphaszes in the sharpest way the danger facing the Communist leader, as well as George Dimitroff, Ernst Torgler, Vassil Ta- neff and Blagoi Popoff, the heroic Reichstag fire defendants, who are "being kept imprisoned indefinitely despite having been acquitted. A redoubled campaign of mass pro- test throughout the world, louder than ever before, is the only force which can save the lives of the heroic Communist leaders in the hands of murderous Nazis. Big Rise in Bonds | Gives Wall Street MoreLarge Profits 59 Cent Dollar Drains France of 490,000,000 Gold Franes NEW YORK, Feb. 2.—Many stocks contirued the upward move on the New York Stock Exchange which started as a result of the Roosevelt formal devaluation of the dollar, though the movement today was irregular, Mining, railroad, and chemicals lei the lists, giving fur- ther large profits to the speculators. Bonds were very strong in res- ponse to the low of the re-d's count rates by the Federal bank, a move which is in harmony with the Roosevelt program of higher prices. Nearly $18,000,000 in bonds were traded in during the first few hour? of trading on the New York Stock Exchange, giving big profits to banks and investors. Many stocl:s are now close to the highest. paint in two years, some javing shown phenomenal rises in the last few days. Such stocks as General Motors, Wright Aeronaut- ical, Allied Chemical, and many railroad stocks are now from 50 to 300 per cent higher than last year. Com- modities, such as sugar, cotton are now at record highs, while others, such as wheat, are tending upward, All these developments are giving (Continued on Page 2) TOKYO, Feb. 2.—“Fear of | Communism in Javan’? on the} part of officers of the Japanese | army is the reason the army jhas taken control of Japanese public life, General Senjuro Hayashi, Minister of War, declared in the Diet yesterday. (es! rable conditions of Japan's starving farm population was the war minister's second explanation of the army’s disregard of political parties, which has been the subject of criti- cism by the politicians assembled in she Dict. This statement was to forestall an attack by Diet members on the gov- ernment’s military budget which has made farm reiief impossible, and to prepare for a War and Navy De- parement announcement thet they were preparing to enlist 80,090 young farm workers for work in ‘munition factories. To Get 30 Cents a Day The munitions workers are to be chosan by assemblies in the villages. They will be paid 25 to 30 cents a! day for a period of apprenticeship, after which they are promised a wag:: of $18 to $21 a month. War Minister Hayashi took a fur- ther step in the Japanese maneuvers to reach a closer agieement with the United States as it increases its pro- vocation against the Soviet Union, and its preparations for an attack, when in an interview with press cor- respondents he said he was “in- capable of conceiving of any Jap- anese-American differences justify- ing a belief in a Japanese-American war.” He likewise declared there would be no war. with the Soviet Union “unless the war is carried to us from the other side.” * ‘Troops Nearer Soviet Line TOKYO, Feb. 2—The three col- umns of Japanese and Manchukuo troops which recently began moving toward the Soviet border in Eastern Manchuria, have entered the town of Hulin, close to the Siberian frontier, according to a Rengo (Jap- anese) dispatch from Harbin. ‘The Japanese war office says this troop movement is aimed at “ban- dits,” by which they mean the anti- Japanese partisan bands. It also ex- plains that it wishes to test the resistance of its troops to cold weither conditions. Has your organization elected a delegate to the National Conven- _tion Against Unemployment, in Washington, D. C., Feb. 3? where militant cab drivers way, ) “ a work while the rest were on strike. RFC Making Plans to Finance ‘Trade | With Soviet Union Jesse Jones At the Press Conference Tells Means Considered (Daily Worker Washington Bureau) WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. “We're trying to find e which we can assist fin: exports and possibly impor sia and some other coun Chai: today, immediat Roosevelt, during ence, had referred queries on Ameri-| can-Russian trale to Jones, The administration may finance trade with Russia through a single or several corporations which may take form of trading banks. Jones pointedly declared that the tra: actions will be substantial ones. “This will not be a white chip game,” he said, It is understood that the admin- istration doesn’t regard the financial arrangements as straight credit. The general theory of the admi i is that the American e: take some of the risk himself and that the kind of bank which will be formed is a type in which the R.F.C. itself can take stock. d| York today. This was dis: Fusion in Attempt to Pile $82,000,000 : More on N Y. Masses) Berle Cites “New Debis” at Albany; La Guardia “Appeals to People” ALBANY, N. Y., Feb. 2—The pros-|. pect of being fleeced of $82,000,000 | “ in addition to the $31,000,000 which the Fusion administration is trying | to take out of the wages of city em- ployees, faced tho people of New ed when A. A. Berle, City Chamb« in, ap- peared before the State Senate Citie: Committee to plead for recons: tion o fthe L2Guevdia Economy . Berle announced that the new ad- ministration hed suddenly discovered debts owed by the city to the amount of $82,000,000, “bequeathed” by the Tammany gang which controlled the city's affairs before the Fusion ma- chine was swept into office by the solid backing and support of the Mor- gan-Rockefeller financial interests. The character of this additional indebtedness, which is supposed to contribute to the “budget deficit,” can easily be seen by an examina- tion of the various items which Berle (who happens to be one of Roose- ill. (Continued on Page 2) HIT AT BLACKLIST Nessin, Leader i late yesters ent of Prb- is under the Mayor he strikebreak- sent from the Emer- lief Buro, 201 loyed workers gency | NEW YORK. — A taxicab \drivers strike to force the em- ivleyers to give the five cent es to the drivers arose spontaneously yesterday jmornring, and spread like wild- | still in s return to In attacked by police and compelled to retire ter ily from the Grand ‘al Terminal zone. This trans~ h the utmost militancy. v TS were arrested by police as a grou ef pi ts attempted to stop a ding taxi. Taxi Union Started Strugsie Taxi Workers Union, affiliated 1e Trade Union Unity League, vith headouarters at 80 E. 11th St., which was the first to raise the ques- tion of strike for the five cent tax in a series of meetings held through- out the city, threw its full force into the struggle and urged the drivers to carry on the struggle under the leadership of a united front. strike committee, made up of strikers elect- ed from each garage. Demands put fo-ward by the Taxi Workers Union are: 100 per cent payment of the five cents tax to the drivers, aboliiton of the blacklist, a minimum wage of 45 cents an hour, a minimum of 40 hours a week and a maximum of 48 hours, no discrimination against | (Continued on Page 2) All U.S. S. R. Exults in 17th Bolshevik Party Party Leaders Met At Lenin’s Tomb by Immense Throng By VERN SMITH (Special to the Daily Worker) MOSCOW, Feb. 2 (By Radio).— ‘The extraordinary unity of the toil- ing masses in their confidence in the policies of the Seventeenth Parity Consress and the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the So- viet Union, received striking von- firmation today in the remarkab!e out-pouring of hundreds of thou- sands of Moscow workers today around the tomb cf Lenin, where the leaders of the Party gathered this afternoon to veview the immense, jubilant, parade, At four o’clocs in the afternoon the speakers’ stand on both sides of the Lenin Tomb began to fill up with delegates from the Congress. At twenty past four, Stalin, Kaganovich, Molotov, Voroshilov, Orjinikidze, Pledges of Unity At “Congress of Victories” of the Presidium of the Party Con- gress, appeared on the stand, wel- comed by immense waves of applause and cheers. The first speakers wer two workers, Strukoff, a leadin; shock brigader from the Moscow fac-| tories, and Kursk, chosen as one of| the best locomctive drivers on the Soviet railway system, * Workers Pledge Support Speaking through the microphone to the immense gathering, bovh of these workers greeted the Scven- tenth Party Congress and the lead- ers of the Communist Party on be- half of all. th toilers of the Red Capitol. Strukof declared, “The Communist Party Congress unites the ranks of all the toilers on the basis of the enormous victories of Socialist con- struction. We, the Moscow prole- tariat, are prepared to fulfil the task of building a classless Socialist so- ciety. We are convinced that the Second Five-Year Plan, with all its historically important tasks, will be} successfully solved by us under the Kuibishev, Postishev, Shvernik, Inuk- idze, Khrudschey, and other members. leadership of the Leninist Central Committee of the Communist Party. All hail the Seventeenth Party Con- gress! Long live Stalin, greatest shock brigader of the Soviet Union and the world proletariat!” These last words of the Moscow worker vere engulfed in a torrent of deafen- ing cheers. After him, two women speakers, representing other Moscow factories, spoke. They assured the Congress! and Stalin that the tens of millions of workers in the factories and co!- lective farms will resolutely carry out the decisions of the Con realize them in the daily life of the people. Congress Answers Greetings Kirov, one of the delegates, speaking on behalf of the Congress, deciared to the huge throng, “The Congress of our Party sums up the great accomp:ishments of the work- ing class in alliance with the toil- ing peasantry under the leadership ef the Communist Party for a period of more than three years. The Congress, again and again, has demonstrated how correct, chow creative, was the general line of iS and} |Workers Pledge Solid Support in Fight for | Socialism | | our Party for the building of So- cialism in our country.” . “Representatives of our Leninist- | Communist Party, who have come to | the Congress from the farthest ends of our great Sovict country, tell us that there is no corner of our So- viet land wheze the new Commu- nist-Bolshevik work of creating a new | ist life does not throb. Not ho in the leading towns ‘of our country, but in towns whose names were known only to a few, the im- mense leyors of Socia‘ist construe- tion are being created. Giants of industry are now growing, where yes- terday were oniy waste lands and unhabitable plates. F “On the basis of the gigantic ¢on- quests of our socialist industry, giv- | ing us new, enormous technical equip- ment, we were able during this time to turn our villages onto the rails (Continued on Page 8)” s \