The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 8, 1934, Page 1

joa aegis tan | HELP FIGHT WAR PLOTS By Getting Subs for “Daily” Vol. XI, No. 34 ee Daily ,,QWorker CENTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL) Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., under the Act of March 8, 1879 NEW YORK, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1934 Report of Extension, Not True, He Tells | Newspapers (Daily Worker Washington Bureau) | WASHINGTON, Feb. 7.— President Roosevelt repeated today in his regular press con-| ference that he has made no change in his plans to completely ndon the C, W. A. program by} Reporters, who cannot seem to un- derstand the President's repeated lain statements that he will not re- nt, asked about a story published lly today, saying that the Presi- t’s emergency council has ap- proved extension of the C. W. A. Roosevelt replied that the story was news to him. Later someone asked whether the President would say any- thing about a report that Senator Wagner was advocating application of some of the profit from dollar-deva- luation to the C. W. A. program. For the present, the President said, he is resting on his message to Congress (which provided for scrapping the C. W. A. by May 1). 142 Dead; 14,000 Injured—Toll of Roosevelt Government Opvoses Compensation to Workers By MARGUERITE YOUNG (Daily Werker Washincton Bureau) WASHINGTON, Feb. 7.—Civil Works Administration workers have suf- fe accidents resulting in 142 deaths and 14000 injuries while work- iny—but the House recently revoked all compensation for accidents, and Roosevelt leaders in the Senate to- day fell in line against providing compensation. The figures were given on the floor of the Senate by Senator Hayden of Ar jone, who propesed to furnish | pensation. Senator McKellar of Tennessee, Roocevelt spckesman, im- mediately oppo: compensation on the ground that C.W.A. workers “are receiving a gratu and therefore do not deserve compensation when injured. The ‘discussion rose as the Senate gave consideration to the proposed limitation of funds for all C.W.A, and Federal relief to $950,000,000. A vote on thé question of compensation and on the appropriation was postnoned until tomorrow. The $950,000,000 ap- propriation proposal contemplates abandonmen; of the C.W.A, program on May 1. Co. Denies Demands; Seamen Plan Militant Actien on Munson Line NEW YORK. Feb. 7.—The Munson Line steamship company today re- fused to see a committee of seven representing crews of the Munson Line. The committee, lead by R. B. Hudson, National Secretary of the Marine Workers Industrial Union, was authorized to speak for and present the demands for an increase in wages to the 1929 scale, for three watches and overtime pay, for a draw in every port, 33 per cent increase in manning and other demands, 2 ESAT UPR NORGE SRS ACAD C.W.A. Accidents 1. AMTER Militant Leader of the Unemployed Councils. Convention Spreads Jobless Struggles AsDelegatesLeave 1,000 Delegates Present Represent 2,000,000 Workers By CARL REEVE WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb, 7.—The delegates to the National Conven- tion Against Unemployment left for their homes in trucks, autos and buses after a concluding session which de- oe i go back and put into ac- on the decisions of the thre of deliberation, ee The concluding speech of Amter, National Secretary of the Unem- polyed Counci's, summed up the achisvements of the convention. The great militancy of the delegates was shown everywhere, in the speeches, the enthusiasm and the fighting spirit 4 the effices of the heeds of the Roosevelt government and the A. F. of L. The convention, Amter con- tinued, took a forward step in the campa‘gn for the Workers Unemploy- ment Insurance Bill, in the stens to achieve unity of the unemployed and workers’ organizations, and in the fight for C.W.A. jobs and relief. The C.W.A. conference, Amter said, where the del-g-tes snoke for the organ‘za- tion of a national organization of C.W.A. workers, showed that the un- employed mean to fight. Now the delegates must return home and work to carry out the convention’s de- cisions. Form National Committee A National Committee of the Na- tional Unemployment Counci!s was organized inc!uding 54 members from all sections of the country. Amter| was e’ected national secretary and Herbert Benjamin national organizer. _The partial report of the creden- tials committee showed 1,000 delegates representing more than 2,000,000 workers. Five hundred of the dele- gates were C.W.A. workers, 300 from unions, including 100 from A. F. of L. local unions. There were approxi- mately 200 Negro delegates and 150 women delegates, Amter pointed out that one of the shortcomings of the (Continued on Page 2) President Roosevelt Japan Must Insists That the CWA > Will End on May Ist ® Fight USSR Says Officer ‘Unalterable Plan,’ Says High Official of War Department |laration of Japan’s war plans against the Soviet Union was made by Major-General Eiki Tojo, chief of the war department’s bureau of investigations, in an in- ‘erview published here today. “Javan should maintain. strong pressure on the Asiatic continent. Only thus can sxe keep at bay the Soviets’ attempts to advance into the Orient,” he declared, “Japan's desire for expansion on she eastern Asiatic continent, mani- fested in her Manchurian policy, has | been her unalterable policy since her “oundation,” he said. “We must work out our program without giving other nations a chance to thwart us.” Roosevelt Claims Ignorance of War Nature of the CCC Evades Assertions of Seeretary of War Woodring Daily Worker Washington Bureau WASHINGTON, Feb. 7.—President Roosevelt revealed today that he has been very careful not to read the Liberty Magazine article in which Assistant Secretary of War Wood- ring declared that the War Dopart- ment is ready to take complete con- trol of C. C. C. camns and to or- ganize the boys with World War | veterans into “a system of economic | storm troops.” | The confession was Roosevelt's | way of making a light response to ® conservative news corresnondent’'s question as to whether the Executive had any comment to make on the fact that certain “radical elements have adovted the Woodring article as proof that the C. C, C. is a kind of fascist army.” The President said he hadn’t read the article—that he had been very careful not to read it. Most of the correspondents loughed ‘as though this were a good joke. Then the President explained that one of his Secretaries has reccived many peti- tions regarding the Woodring article, end probably was conferring about it with Woodring. Roosevelt added that of course the Cc. C. C. camps obviously are not militaristic and that anybody who has seen one knows that. He did not refer to the fact that many C, iC. C. camp boys just this week per- }Sonally came to the National Con- vention Against Unemployment and went in a special delegation to C. C. | ©. headquarters to protest just that the military atmosphere of the camps, COLUMBUS CAB DRIVERS STRIKE COLUMBUS, Ohio, Feb. 7.—Non- union taxis weve stodned by pickets here today and told to get off the streets. Three non-union cars were over- turned in a struggle between scabs and union men attempting to organ- ize the drivers into the Taxi Drivers Union, Saturday’s “Daily” to Propose Concrete Action Against War NEW YORK—‘“The Communist Answer to the War Danger,” a special feature article by Harry Gannes, in this’ Saturday’s special ten-page anti- war edition of the Daily Worker, will sound a sharp and concrete call for action by American workers against Roosevelt's “National Defense Week,” In the Daily Worker Today Page 2 Sports, by Jerry Arnold. Page 3 A. F. of L, Rank and File Con- vention Delegates Demand Green’s Stand On Workers’ Bill. . Letters From Farmers. Party Life “Dr. Luttinger Advises” In the Home. 5 “Change the World,” by Michael “Partisan Review,” by Isidor “To Demonstrate for Jobless Re- Hef,” by Sender Garlin. Tuning In, Page 6 Editorials Foreign News — EEE | masses to a high pitch of patriotism imperialist which aims to excite the American in preparation for a new wen, ‘The article by Gannes, who is a veteran staff member of the Daily Worker, will be only one of the out- standing anti-war features in Sat- States into a new imperialist ture, calling for the slaughter of tens of thousands of American work- ers to protect the financial interests of American The profits which American im- perialists made in the world war and the profits they are making now as Roosevelt's war plans skyrocket munition stocks on the New York Stock Exchange will be revealed in an article by Robert Dunn, Feature editor of the “Daily,” Sen- der Garlin, will bring to light the Propaganda used by Roosevelt in Preparation for the new war and will show that Roosevelt is applying the lessons learned by the war mongers during Wilson’s administration for priming the minds of the masses of the 5 Re | | TOKYO, Feb. 7.—Open dec- nto Tore th Hackmen Ignore Plan35 European of Mayor; Strike Goes on; Pickets Halt Cabs 74°87 /a¢s Panken, Thomas Ai¢ Back to Work Movement NEW YORK.—The great strike of | 20,000 tari drivers, the most milite | struggle in the transport industry in recent years, was not broken yester- day despite the combined efforts of | Mayor LaGuardia, the Socialist lead- | ers and a sprinkling of liberals who} were attempting to get the men back | to work. ‘The men in Manhattan all during} the day fouzht stubbornly on for the | nickel. Those who were stampeded | back to the gerages fol'owing two meetin7s in the Bronx and Brooklyn, | where the Socialist Judze Panken | spoke, telling the strikers thet thev)| had won a victory, have been called} ovt to continue the struggle. The Mevhattan drivers fought in a splendid manner. Throuthout the day pickets patrolled garage en- trances and stonned cabs throughout | the downtown district. Committee Tells Men to Stay Out The backbone of the strike was not bro*en, as renorted. The committee of 13 voted 10 to 3 to accept La~ Guardia’s agreement, thinking that it would be a partial victory, that the men would win 50 per cent of the nickels collected to date and 40 ner cent of the 5-cent levy collected in the future and recognition of the Taxi Drivers’ Union, but, on learning that the demands of the s‘rilors were not forthcoming, decided to continue the strike. Joseph Gilbert, Harry Cantor and Adgnh Rabin, representative of the Taxi Drivers’ Union, who voted against the agreement, pointed out at the time that the agreement stipu- lated no guarantee for collection of (Continued on Page 2) Fusion Plays Ball With Tammany To Pass Wage-Cut Bill Lehman Asks Democrats to Withdraw Their Opposition ALBANY, Feb. 7.—The prospect of widespread and immediate wage cuts, as well as extended and payless fur- loughs, faced civil employees of New York today as Tammany and Fusion cohorts in the state capital arrived at some sort of secret agreement and understanding yesterday. These attacks on the living stand- ards of city workers were imminent as both Democratic and Republican members of the State Legislature re- aligned their forces yesterday, after @ conference with Governor Lehman, im regard to the LaGuardia Economy Bill. Last time the bill came up be- fore the legislature, it failed fo muster the two-thirds majority necessary for its passage. In his conference with the Demo- cratic assemblymen, Lehman reiter- ated his position that, outside of two or three slight amendments which might be found necessary, he favored the passage of the bill virtually “as written.” These amendments he re- ferred to, broadly and vaguely, as Possible safeguards against the con- tinuation of wage cuts and forced furloughs after the “emergency period,” which according te the La- Guardia Bill should end on Oct, 1. Political Dog-Fight The nature of the fight on the bill, led here by the Democrats under the leadership of Assemblyman Irwin Steingut, was again proved to be a Political dog-fight to safeguard splits in city graft when Steingut continued to oppose the wide powers which the bill would bestow on LaGuardia’s Board of Estimate in “placing the county offices within the Board’s control.” Steingut was not opposed to salary cuts for teachers and other civil employees, but he insisted that they should be made by the Lezis- lature rather than by the Board of Estimate, “since education was a state function.” “We want to help the Mayor out,” Steingut said, “and if he will cooperate with us, I am convinced we can get tosether.” The new realignment, which is ex- pected to pass the bill by a safe when it comes up next be- the state legislature, is but a leaders, & Mayoralty defeat, made a last-minute deal with Fusion to split its ticket so that a solid group of its henchmen, par- ,000 | ticularly the New York County dis- -war | trick attorney’s office, could get into| York the lucrative and Political offices, Greater Taxes for WEATHER: Fair, | Second Five-Year Plan || Unamimously Ratified || by 17th C.P. Congress MOSCOW, Feb. 7 (By Radio).— Amid tremendous enthusiasm and || confidence, the 1,400 delegates of || the 17th Party Congress of the |) All-Union Communist (Bolshevik) || Party of the Soviet Union today || ratified the program of the Second ' Five-Year Plan as outlined by Premier Molotov. The vote was unanimous. | The plan provides for an im- || mense advance in the economic and cultural life of the country along the road of Socialist Con- || struction. (For further details see the | | story on page 6.) N. Y. Masses Urged in New Charter Plan Foke ‘Public Ownership’ | Means Huge Profits | to Subway Owners NEW YORK.—Proposals to further | ‘Isece the taxnaying masses of New| York workers are contained in a plan| submitted to Mayor LaGirdia on| Tues“qy by 18 members of the New York University faculty. | The proposals, which LaGuardia claims were “unsolicited,” are re- \markably similar to sugzestions which have been made recently by Alfred | E. Smith Joseph V, McKee, Samuel | Seabury, and Assemblyman Abbott | Low Moffat. The plan, a 74-pare | document, urges that “Rezulation of | all privately-owned and operated utilities should be definitely trans- | ferred to the city. Its administrative features should be p'aced within aj} sneciol huresu of the Department of | | Public Works. The council should} have eomnicte rower to determine the policies, standards and machin- ery of control.” Th» report added that “the city should have the rizht to institrts municipal ownershin and operation with respect to any utility.” “Soak the Poor” Ureing higher taxes and revenues for the city administration, the re- rort—far from proposing levies on| the wealthy business and bankine in-| terests—pronoses that “a part of the permanent additional revenue should | be obtained by the enlargement of | the city’s taxing powers,” and that | these newer and bigger taxes he) levied on rents, pushcart stalls, etc. | The similarity of the “public own- | ership of utilities” section of this plan to that of Alfred E. Smith's} proposals brought to the fore the fact that Smith has intimate con- nections with the Brady family, which controls Consolidated Gas, Brooklyn Edison and Queens Electric Power | and Light companies. But the possibility was seen that LaGuardia might attempt to take over the subways at the huge price of $409,000,000. The present p-ivate subway owners expended only $125, 000,000 for their holdings and have since taken out over $250,000,000. US. Plane Con‘racts ¢ Writers Aid Hit Scottsboro Lynch Verdicts; Protests Rising | Over World | NEW YORK.—Thirty-five famous European writers and scientists, in-| cluding Henri Barbusse, noted French author recently in the United States, have joined in a stirring appeal in| behalf of the Scottsboro boys and | the Reichstag defendants. | eal, issued on the eve of ay hearing (Feb. 24) of | motion by the International Labor} Defense for reversal of the recent Decatur lynch verdicts, stresses the danger facing the nine innocent Ne- gro lads, points to the overwhelming proof of their innocence and the forced admission of Judge Horton (presiding at the first Decatur trial of Haywood Patterson) that “the evidence greatly preponderates in favor of the defendant.” It enumer- ates the increasing number of gang~ lynchings, the growing use of the courts for legal lyn g of Negroes. It points to the effectiveness of the, world-wide mass protest in three! times saving the bovs from the elsc-} tric chair, in wresting a verdict of} not guilty from the German fascist court in the frame-up of Dimitroff, | Torgler, Popoff and Taneff, and calls | for an intensification of the mass| fight to save the Scottsboro and) Reichstag defendants: | “The judicial murder of the | Scottsboro boys must be prevented! | An aroused public opinion, world- | wide in scope, can save their lives! Aroused public opinion must com- pel the immediate, unconditional nnd safe release of the Scottsboro boys.” ‘The appeal, addressed to “all intel- lectuals, all humanitarians, all oppo- | (Continued on Page 2) | $5,000,000 Profit on $954 Investment in | | Govt War Program) Gives Morgan Co. Huge Profits SHINGTON, Feb. 0 on an inv 259 in ion stocks connected with he war prozram of the U. S. gov- ernment was revealed today in the tastimony of William E. EB Aheirmen of the Board of the United Aircraft and Transport Company, be- fore the Senate Committee inves- tigating profits in the government irmail and ocean contracts. Through a five-year contract with | ‘he Army and Navy, Bocing admitted that his company had made profits of $12,000,000. It was shown that the United Air- evaft paid $25,000 a year and “ex- nenses” to many Army and Navy officers who retired from the govern- ment service to work for the company ‘n getting government contracts. Many questions revarding profits nd expenses, Boeing refused to an- ower, The United Aircraft is controlled ‘hrough holding and investment com- yanics by Wall Street firms connected with the house of J. P, Morgan. upport Revolution of German Workers! Mass Sunday Night at Bronx Coliseum 4MERICA’S O} CLASS DAILY NEWSPAPER Y WORKING colder. (Six Pages) Price 3 Cents STREET BATTLES RAGE IN PARIS, SPREAD T0 COUNTRY Cabinet Resigns; Doumergue New “NRA Failed,” Spivak Told by N.E. Chamber of Commerce Official An admission by a New Eng- land Chamber of Commerce of- ficial that the N. R. A. failed to improve conditions will be pub- lished in John L. Spivak’s “Por- trait of America” series, starting in the Daily Worker tomorrow. Spivak also obtained facts show- ing that the Chamber of Com- merce is urging manufacturers to move their plants into Brockton, Mass., because “labor is cheap, skilled labor is abundant, female labor is plentiful.” Don’t miss the start of this re- vealing series in the “Dally” this Friday. Get your friends and tellow workers to subscribe to the “Daily.” Technical Buying Sends Franc Up; No End to Gold Drain |Dollar Forces British| Pound Up to $5.03 NEW YORK, Feb. 7.—The franc, 4 Government Head Communists Rally Fight Against Fascists Who Seek Control 24-HR. STRIKE CALL | Workers in Street Fights With Police, Fascists PARIS, Feb. 7.—Heavy shooting began again tonight here, and four more were killed. as the mass upsurge of the workers and middle classes, of all political colors, continued in Paris and spread to many other cities. Premier Edouard Daladier, who or- | dered the shooting yesterday, resigned | today, and 70-year old Gaston Dou- | mergue agreed to form a government, Doumergue, former president, rock- ribbed reactionary, has the support | of all the parties of the right-center, |including the “neo-Socialists” who |} split from the Socialist Party last summer. The Socialists, who sup-~ ported Daladier, but want to head the government themselves, refused { their support. His being called presages the for- } mation of a “national concentration” | cabinet of “strong men” | The National Federation of Labor, despite the still raging actions in the equivatent of the American Federa- Paris streets, rose 6 points to 67! tion of Labor, is reported to have is- cents. This strength, however, is not/ syed ga call for a 24-hour general due to any change in the drain of} political strike next Monday. gold from the Bank of France, but! The official list of dead in, last rather to sudden covering by shorts/ night’s fithting was 16, with more with the fear of short sellers of|than 1,500 in hospitals, indicating the announcement of Doumergue’s|that many thousands were inived. acceptance of the Premiership. There is still a large short position on the merket, as the future of the frane is still very c'ouded. The flow of gold continued despite the 48 hour notice required by the Bank of France, with 240,000,009 “ranes ($15 009,009) being shipped cut. The dollar sank as the British pound rose to $5.03 at one time, thus giving the British imperia‘ists some- thing to worry about, as this mvkes dollar trade more attractive to for- cign buyers of goods, Why Can’t Tamman y Men Be Honest?” Asks Dodge, Answers ItHimself | : NEW YORK. — District Attorney Dodge, elected on the Tammany ticket after a pre-election division- of-spoils agreement between Tam- many and the Fusion forces, became very emotional and selfrighteous in @ speech Tuesday at the annual dinner of the Greater New York Federation of Churches, held at the Riverside Church, “I have only been in office five weeks,” complained Dodge. “What right has anybody to say to this town that because I was elected on the Ta: any ticket I can’t be honest? ll show the day after to- morrow whether I can be,” he threatened, “when I place on trial |'Todey’s four brings the death toll | to 20. The Communist Party, which has m the lead in recent weeks in ex- ng the deep ramifications cf the sy scandal, led the workers in \2 stru77le both avainst the corrupt jcapitalist governments and against the various fascist and the royalist ; groups. Workers Fighting Fascists Workers domonstrating in many | Darts of the city clashed with fascist and semi-fascist groups, which have made their most active appearance ’ |on the scene in France in the pres- jont situation, calling for “purifica- nm” of the government, and for a ‘ong hand. Massed formations of iddle-class youths appeared on the | streets, giving the fascist salute. The extreme sharpening of the is, the widespread wage cuts, the rushing taxes, and as a climax the avisky scandal have unloosed 2 | deep-going mass turmoil in which the | demands of the workers for jobs, re~ | (Continued on Page 2) | cere | |@ man of my own party because I | believe he is a crook!” |. He answered his own question later, when a naive person asked who the “crook in his own party” was. Shocked and startled, he answered that he did not want the man’s name mentioned, By MORRIS PITMAN NEW YORK.—"It is a race between | the Nazis and mass opinion in the United States whether Ernst Thael- mann, Ernst Torgler, George Dimi. troff, Vassil Taneff and Blagoi Popoff will remain alive.” It was Lord Marley, deputy chair- man of the British House of Lords, and chairman of the International Committee to Aid Victims of German Fascism, speaking to reporters on his arrival in America for a tour of 13 cities to build support for the fight against Hitler. It was his committee which assembled and prepared the indictment of teh Nazi terror and Reichstag fire guilt made famous in the “Brown Book of Hitler Terror.” “When I left Europe, we no longer knew what had become of Torgler,” he continued. “After he disappeared from Leipzig, our committee there brought all the foreign correspon- dents together, and only thus forced the chief of police to admit Torgler had been taken to Berlin, “Our committee went to the min- ister of justice in Berlin. They were told that the whereabouts of Torgler was none of their business,” While word and Taneff had Underground Resistance to Nazis Grows Constantly. Says Chairman of International Anti-Fascist Aid Committee—To Speak in 13 Cities the hands of the Political Police, no word of the fate of Torgler has been received, Lord Marley revealed that his com- mittee had received word directly from Dimitroff regarding the photo- graphs of the three Bulgarians, show- ing them sitting comfortably smoking and playing chess, which the Nazi authorities gave out to the press, and which have been widely published in the United States in the past few days. Photographs Are Forgeries “Dimitroff sent word that those photographs were dastardly forgeries,” he said. “They have no comforts in the Nazi prison. They live in condi. tions of constant brutality. “The German government is very susceptible to public opinion in the United States and Great Britain. That is why they gaye out those forged pictures. , “The survival of the Bulgarians depends more than anything else on mass opinion in the United States and Great Britain, I want | fee, arrives in America te speak Only Mass Protest Will Save Thaelmann, Says Marley eRIS F if | to see the German embassy and | consulates besieged by committees, I want to see thousands of tele grams sent to ermany, “The protest of aroused opinion in America ought to be a lighted torch throughout the country. That is the only way those men can be saved.” The world committee which he heads, with branches in 22 countries, | keeps up a constant, close under= | ground contact with all parts of Ger- jmany, he said. It sends cash and (Continued on Page 8) HER AUDIENCE IDIOTS, AIMEE | SAYS | MEMPHIS, Tenn, Feb, 7.—Aimee | Semple McPherson, Los Angeles Evangelist, today advocates surgical | sterilization to protest “America’s health and mental soundness.” “T have seen three generations of idiots in my temple and there is nothing to protect us from the } fourth,” she said. | Send to the Daily Worker, 56 EB, 13th St. New York City, names of those you know who are net read~