The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 9, 1934, Page 1

Rally to the Meeting in Support of the German Communist Party! TH assassination of John Scheer, member of the Political Buro of our brother German Party, and of three other responsible functionaries, as well as the appalling danger which threatens Thaelmann, Dimitroff. Torgler and thousands of other workers in the concentration camps and prisons of German Fascism, makes necessary the broadest mobilization munist Party. for immediately undertaking tremendous actions to rescue these comrades who are so heroically fighting in the vanguard of the world proletariat. tion with these actions the call is sent out to the American working class to support the fund created by our Party to assist the work of the German Com- The campaign to raise this fund will In connec- open with a big meeting on Sunday, February 11th, at the Bronx Coliseum. At of detailed reports given by at the 13th Plenum of the this meeting, on the basis leading German comrades Executive Committee of the Communist International, I will give a full report of the work of the German Party. 1 call upon the workers of New York to come to this meeting, to show your support of the revolutionary struggle of the Ger- man working class, and to make this meeting a great financial success for the sake of our heroic, struggling German Communist Party. EARL BROWDER, General Secretary, Communist Party, U.S.A. HELP FIGHT WAR PLOTS By Getting Subs for “‘Daily’” Vol. XI, No. 35 =_* Doumergue Forming Cabinet Supported by Reactionary Parties “Political Truce” is New Premier’s Condition in Heading Gov’t DEMANDS OBEDIENCE Communist Party Calls For Fight on Fascism PARIS, Feb. 8.—Fascist-re- actionary elements, explo‘ting the deep discontent of the French masses, have put the hard-bitten “non-partisan” re- actionary Gaston Doumergue, into the saddle in France. He is still in process of forming his cabinet, but he is reported to have assurance of support from party lead- ers commanding 450 out of 605 dep- uties’ votes for a semi-dictatorial re- gime. He received this support on the basis of demands that he be given broad powers and unquestioning suvport from former premiers; that a “political truce” be agreed to un- til the end of this year, and that the Chamber approve all his de- mands, His cabinet is certain to be com- posed of leaders of the right-wing parties, including former premiers in the kind of “national concentration administration” which the French ruling class uses in time of emer- gency threateuing its intevesis. The deep-goiny crisis, which has inert d unemployment, cut wages, crushed the workers, middle classes and farmers with taxes, and reduced the social service, leaves the French (Continued from Page 1) Secret Trials Given’ Prison Graft Heads By Fusion Gang NEW YORK.—Neither the public nor the press were permitted en- trance to the departmental trial yes- terday of Deputy Warden Daniel Sheehan, who worked hand-in-hand with the gangster and politician-con- trolled Welfare Island penitentiary. David Marcus, deputy Correction Coramissioner, announced’ that visi- tors wou'd be excluded from similar trials of Warden J: hh A. McCann and Dr. Abraham Norman, to take place next Thursday. Both McCann and Norman were involved in the filth and graft at Wel- fare Island—only a small part of which was uncovered by MacCor- mick’s publicity raid. All three officials, who were bla- tantly attacked by the Fusion ma- chine in the early days following the prison raid, are to be questioned secretly, in order that whatever in- formation they divulge concerning higher-ups both in the Tammany and Fusion machines may not reach the ears of the public. This entire secret procedure is a reversal of the policy previously an- nounced in connection with these cases. The reason given for the change is that the grand jury inves- tigating the Welfare prison scandal demanded secrecy. The entire “investigation,” which began with so great a campaign of ballyhoo, has now dwindled to almost nothing. The metropolitan news- papers are devoting only brief items in hidden corners to the matter. SEE ERC AT SPE SN In the Daily Worker Today Page 2 Sports, by Jerry are, Chicago Groups aa United Fight on Lynching Unemployed Convention Gives Ovation to Fighting Speech of Ohio Negro Woman Page 4 Letiers from Transportation Workers Party Life “Dr. Luttinger Advises” In the Home. Page 5 “Chanze the Wofld,” by Michael “Gold. “In Those Days,” by Karl Radek “Enficence of th> Crisis on Broadway,” *y Barold Edgar “Below 200 Meters,” I. Milman Page 6 Editorials Foreign News ALEXANDER STAVISKY The French financier whose sui- cide laid open the tremendous gov- ernment corruption and provided the spark which set off the recent tremendous mass action in Paris against the Daladier government. Sterilization of All Negroes in Reich Demanded by Nazis Similar Moves Now Be- ing Made by Southern White Ruling Class BERLIN, Feb. 8.—Immediate ster- ilization of all Nevroes in Germany and the children of Negro and Ger- man parents wos demanded today by Heinz Schroeder, fascist eugenics “authority,” writing in the Nazi newspaper “Deutsche Zeitune.” Schroeder declared there were in Germany at least 600 children of Ne- fro and German narentage. These children are German citizens and could marry later with “additional raciel mixtures resultiny,” he dec- lared adding “we have enough non- Ayrans in Germany at present.” Schroeder's proposal further ex- poses the glaring chauvinist and aimed at wreaking venveance on the Nazi sterilization law. Passed under the pretense of sterilizing the weak- minded and incurables, it is actusy aifed at wreaking vengeance on the opponents of the bloody fascist re- gime end on Negroes, Jews and other minority groups. * * ¢@ NEW YORK.—With the increasing fascization of American democrecy various proposals are being made fer. the use of sterilization as a weapon against the workine-class. and esne- cially the Negro masses. Sterilization laws are already on the statutes of 27 states. Last week, the women’s advisory board to the mayor and aldermen of Savann2h, Georeta, ed- vocated the passage of:a sterilization Jaw in that city. The committee plans to Jaunch a campaign for a State sterilization law. It is clear that such a law would be vsed azainst the Negro masses and white workers rallying to their defense against the increasing fascist lynch terror. Croton Camn Contributes to the Support of the Communist Party of Germany For the past 5 years the Croton Avenue Camp has helped in all the struggles of the revolutionary move- ment led by the Communist Party. At the last banquet $25 was raised of which half went to the Morning Frel- heit and half to the support of the Cemmunist Party of Germany. Daily ,.QWorker CENTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL) Entered a2 second-class matter at the Post Office at few York, N. Y., under the Act of March 8, Tories Demand Britain Prepare For New War Baldwin Puts Armament Responsibility on Role of U. S. LONDON, Feb. 8.—Stanley Baldwin, conservative leader and former pre- mier, threw the blame for the war danger in Europe on the United States, and both he and Winston Churchill called for immediate pow- erful increases in British armaments, in a debate on armaments in the House of Commons yesterday. Baldwin declared that British dis- cussions of arms agreements were at an end, and that “it will be our duty to make ourselves as competent as we may,” for the time “when sanc- tions (armed compulsion) may have to be enforced.” He said the chief reason for armament in Europe was that the U. S. Congress refused to support Wilson. Churchill made four demands of the government: to denounce the London naval treaty and build up the navy; to create an air force at least as powerful as that of any other country; to mobilize industry for war; and work out plans to coordi- nate the whole state and national economy for war. Austrian Socialist Buildings, Paper, Raided by Police Communist Party, Long Underground, Fights Fascist Tide VIENNA, Feb. 8.— The Austrian fascist government of Dollfuss, active- ly suvported in Vienna by the Social- ist Party as a “lesser evil” than the Nazis, took a further step.toward complete fascism by takine over the buildings of the Socialist Party, and the plent of their newspaper, “Ar- beiter Zeitung.” The Communist Party and press have been illegal for many months, and has carried on an underground strugele against both fascist groups and the Socialist supporters of Aus- trian fascism. Meanwhile, Dollfuss is withholding his appeal to the League of Nations against the Nazi efforts to capture Austria until the British and French governments have studied his case and advised him what attitude they will take in the League. A 200-page document on Nazi activities was pre- sented today to the British foreign office. Steel-helmeted police, with fixed bayonets, occupied the main Socialist centers in Vienna today, assisted by soldiers. The work was carried out by orders of Emil Fey, leader in the Heimwehr, who is vice-chancel'or, and in control in the absence of Dollfuss in Budapest. Tomorrow’s ‘Daily’ to Stir Workers Against Roosevelt’s Jingoism NEW YORK. — Class conscious workers throughout the country are preparing for mass sales of tomorrow’s special ten page anti- war edition of the Daily Worker as a counter attack to Roosevelt's jingo drive starting on Feb. 12th. Special features in the illustrated anti-war edition will expose to the American masses the war-pre- paredness character of Roosevelt’s “National Defense Week,” and will call for concrete action by the American workers to defeat Roose- velt’s most recent war plots. \Red Press Builders Gain New “Daily” Readers in Factories ST. LOUIS, Mo., Feb. 7—A newly organized Red Press Builders group is obtaining good results in the drive to increas: the circulation of the Daily Worker among workers in the industrial plants located in South St. “| Louis. These workers have been previously, nevlested end the Daily Worker is something new to most of them. The sales in South St. Louis now reach 50 and 70 for the daily and Satur- day edition, respectively. While this number is still small, the increase is steady, and by March Ist, the mini- mum sale of the daily edition is ex- pected to reach 100, Workers on the C. W. A. projects with the “Daily,” and a number of them have been drawn closer to the Communist Party through the paper. Packing house plants are also can- vassed with the “Daily.” Detectives in the railroad yards chase away workers canvassing with our paper, but the work goes on, and more railroad workers are now Teading the The Daily Worker is also being sold to Post Office clerks, whose dis- content with the Roosevelt adminis- tration is constantly increasing. By May Ist, the end of the Daily Worker circulation drive, St. Louis pledges to obtain 300 new subs for the daily edition and 500 new subs for the Saturday edition of the Daily in South St. Louis have been reached Worker, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1934. Brockton, City of Shoes, Dazed By Heavy Blows Of Five Years of Crisis Wages of Workers Have Fallen Below Barest Living Costs; Homes and Savings Lost By JOHN L, SPIVAK “The city of shoes,” which John L, Spivak visited first in his tour throughout the entire country describing “Life in America” for the Daily Worker. Similar series on farming as well as mining and other important sections will follow the present series. . . BROCKTON, Mass.—Once this city hummed to the tune of factories turning out shoes for a world. Trains thundered out of here with heavily loaded cars; workers manner, ‘John L. Spivak | earned “good money” —fifty and sixty dol- lars a week for some of the skilled ones; stores were stocked with goods. Today most of the factories are still humming to the tune of busy machines; most of the stores are still open though not so heavily stocked; work- ers still buy though not as much, yet over factory and shop, over worker and manufacturer, hangs a dazed atmosphere. This city, a typical New England industrial town, is functioning, but ir 2 dazed, bewildered I have talked with workers and clerks, small business men and manufacturers, educators, bankers, union officials—and the one outstanding impression that was left with me is that they are all walking around in circles, They know that a great calamity has come over the city and its industries, a calamity known as the depression. But what brought it about or what it means or how they will eat tomo:row no one knows. Perhaps there are people in Brockton who understand what it is all about but if so they are rare, for I did not meet any. Certainly the banker and the manufacturer, the “industrial leader” as he is called; Who run the city, haye no more idea of what it is all about than a new-born babe, Just what these “industrial leaders” think will be told in a subsequent article. Wages Below Living Costs This city simply does not understand how it all happened. Wages dropped to below living costs. Small stores are going out of business because workers cannot afford to buy; real estate values have dropped until banks are tired of being saddled with more homes which are not bringing in rent; almost 2,000 homes have been taken away in the past few years from those who slaved life-times to build them; savings (Continued on Page 3) Jobless Seamen Stop Seabs from Boarding Struck Munsen Liner Inflation Certain In Roosevelt Plan, Sen. Thomas States Inflationist Finds Roose- velt’s Policy Is “Satisfactory” WASHINGTON, Feb. 8.—Inflation is surely on the way, and Roosevelt's money policies are on the’ road by which it will arrive, Senator Thomas of Oklahoma, author of the famous amendment to the Agriculture Emer- gency Bill, which gives Roosevelt the power to expand the currency, de- clared today. Every dollar of the currency has been cheapened, he declared, although he admitted that there had hardly been any increase in the amount of money in the hands of the masses. This has resulted in a cut in the real wages of the entire working class. “Roosevelt has the power to go ahead, and J am sure he will, as fast as it is desirable,” Thomas said, referring to further depreciation of the buying power of the dollar. He admitted that wages will lag far behind rising prices, thus effect- ing further wage slashes and desrad- ation of the living standards of the masses, but he he!d forth the promise that this condition “would not last long.” though how it would be ended he did not say. Hill, Marine Worker, Up for Trial Today NEW YORK—Oscar Hill, marine worker, arrested during the telegraph workers strike on a framed-up charge of “felonious assautt,” will be up on trial this morning before the labor- hating Judge Rosalsky in General | 1U. Sessions Court, Part 8, Franklin and Center Streets, Hill's arrest was part of the police attempt to break the T100 Police 1 Unable To Get Strikebreakers on Ship in Baltimore BULLETIN BALTIMORE, Md., Feb. 8—The seamen’s strike, which held the S. S. Munsomo from sailing, spread today to another ship, the S. S. Greylock. A large detail of police were calied out as seamen massed along the waterfront under the leadership of the Marine Workers Industrial Union, which is leading the strike. Bite te BALTIMORE, Md., Feb. 8—Two hundred seamen frustrated an at- tempt of the company to bring scabs aboard the struck steamship Mun- somo, One hundred police were mobilized at the dock and attempted to bring scabs through the picket line at 4 a.m. this morning. An emergency call was sent out by the Marine Workers Industrial Union which is leading the strike and in two minutes two hundred seamen were at the dock and stopped the scabs from going aboard. Later police were used to let go the lines and the ship was towed out ne the stream with no scabs aboard er, Try to Break Strike The Munson Line, with the help of the government, is now making des- perate efforts to check the struggle already started on the Munsomo from spreading to other ships of the company. The crew of the Munsomo came out four days ago in Baltimore demanding their back wages. This demand has been won and in addi- tion the men forced the company to pay them for three days at double rates for delaying their wages. After winning these demands, the men voted te continue the strike in support of the demands which were presented at the company office in New York. Since then the ship has been tied up solid, and twenty men from the Munsomo joined the M.W. “The demands that the Munsomo crew are now fighting for have also (Continued on Page 3) WEATHER: Fair continued cold. Taxi Strikers’ Betrayal Laid ToM -Panken| |Men Stampeded; Many | | Refuse to Return Without Union NEW YORK.— With Mayor La- Guardia spouting threats against hackmen who refused to return to before an agreement was rati- fied by a vote of all the strikers, a large number of taxi drivers massed | around the strike headquarters onj| 4ist Street near Ninth Avenue, to| sign up in the Taxi Drivers Union, determined not to return to work without an organization. The strike, | however, is over, betrayed by Morris | Ernst, Judge Panken and other so- cialists and liberals. The committee of thirteen had re- fused to sign an agreement to return to work before the proposition was taken before the drivers. The mavor then let it be known that if the agreement was net sizned bv 4 in the afternoon he would p! ed to nego- tiate with other srovns — grouns which do not represent the men who were on strike. Along with this the mavor tossed out threats of blacklist. The union men said. however, that throuth their organization they would smech Ta Guardia's blacklist rlans and urged all drivers to set behind the drive for wnion ergenization at once. “We must go back organized,” said the Manhattan organizer for the union, upon learning ‘thet a large number of ver? had been stam- peded back to work. At a meetine of the committee of 13 Tuesday night, J. Buitenkant, at- (Continued on Page 2) Three Thousand In Oklahoma Demand Social Insurance Nebraska County Heads Indorse Jobless Insurance Bill OKLAHOMA CTIY, Okla., Feb. 8. —Three thousand workers demon- strated here on Feb. 5, at Rock Island | Park, demanding an extension of| CWA jobs, adequate relief, and en- | actment of the Workers Unemploy- (ment Insurance Bill Fight hw workers marched three miles to the capitol. A mass meeting on the steps of the capitol | was he'd, and a committee elected which took twelve demands of the unemployed to the governor, “Alfalfa Bill” Murray. | The governor passed the buck and| made flimsy excuses. The demon- stration was militant and the work- ers were encouraged. Workers Bill Endorsed OMAHA, Neb., Feb. 8—The Doug- Jas county commissioners, after dodg- | ing the unemployed workers demon- stration on Feb. 5, saw a committee the following day and endorsed all) but one of the demands of the Un- emvloyed Councils. They signed and indorsed the Workers Unemployment Insurance (Continued on Page 2) AMERICA’S ONLY WORKING CLASS DAILY NEWSPAPER (Six Pages) Price 3 Cents House Committee Takes Up Jobless Insurance Bill ROBERT WAGNER N. ¥. Senator who opposes the Workers’ Unemployment Insurance Bill and substitutes a “watered- down” one of his own. Dies Bill Passes House Committee aie Trade} Organizations, Unions Protest NEW YORK.—The National Com- mittee for. the Protection of Foreizn Born “issued “a ‘ca'l yesterday to mass organizations and trade thions to protest the threatened passage of the Dies Bill, aimed at foreign born workers, which passed the House of Representative Immigration Commit- | tee and comes up before the body today. Immediate action must be taken to defeet this bill which provides for the deportation of any “w aliens. Telegrams of peotest should | |be sent at cence to President oore- | velt, the loca Congressmen at Wash- ington and Senetors. Cories should be sent to the National Committee, A.F.L. Union Staten Is. Endorses Jobless Bill : NEW chinists and Mechanics, has added its name to the growing list of A. F. of L. and indenendent trade unions that have endorsed the Workers Un- emvloyment Insurance Bill. In a resolution that states that private and public charities have} proven complete failures in caring | j for the mi of unemployed. the union members have peti the Workers Insurance Bi 6 C.W.A. Workers Frozen, 1 Dies NEW YORK.—One C.W.A. worker died, and five others were taken to the hospital after working in the ex- treme cold at Marine The workers are not permitted build any fires, and spics have ob en| placed on the tower of the old Wwhit-| ney mansion in the park, to see that 2 |Deane Bill, Employers’ able” | | Room 430, 80 East 11th Street. N. y.| | YORK—Staten Island local | w 417, International Association of Ma- |i ned for Substitute, Gets Long Hearing BOSSES’ PLAN HEARD Will Diseuss Workers’ Bill “Later” By MARGUERITE YOUNG (Daily Werker Washington Bureau) WASHINGTON, Feb. 8.— | The House Labor Committee, | which has before it the Work- ers Unemployment and Social Insurance Bill, heard testimony today on the emoloyers’ sub- stitute designed by Albert L. Deane, President of the General Motors Holding Corporation. Asked specifically, “are you con- sidering the Workers Unemployment Bill"? Chairman Conney (Mass., Dem.) of the Labor Committee, told this correspondent, “Yes, that bill is before us.” W'll Hear Testimony on Workers Bill Asked when he would hear spokes- men for the Workers’ Bill, Connery said he didn’t know. He gave as- urance, however, that he would hear testimony on the bill. bd Boasting that he appeared as an industrialist and that he proposed “job insurance—not unemployment insurance,” Deane made gn elaborate and involved presentation today of his “Deane Plan"—a big business |“unemployment reserve” plan which would deny practicslly every one of ‘he fundamental features of the Workers’ Deane himself said {it would avply only to 65 per cent of the wor! population. Jobless Barred The Deane program, it developed, is not insurance at all. It would | require the few workers receiving enything under it to work for what y received, on public works proj- of just half of the wages. “wares” would be loyer contributions system of exact- ‘om emplovers who d-the-work. It would make no euarantee of any amount to anv jobless worker. As Deane proudly explained: “It does not set wo rules or regulations as to production, wages, terms of employer, etc., the effect would be nsurance in contrast to unem- (Continued on Page 2) ‘Mass Pressure for cia tes | CWA Jobs Felt in to} Senate Amendment the warkers do not leave the Job But Rosesvale: Drives for in order to warm themselves. NEW YORK.—Direct support of the struggles of the Communist Party of Germany, is the only way & real effort can be made to fight Hitler, This was the keynote of a state- ment of Max Bedacht, general sec- retary of the International Work- ers Order, which has over 10,000 members in New York City, calling all members of that organization to participate in the “Support the Ger- man Workers’ Revolution” meeting Sunday night, Feb.. 11, 7 P. M. at the Bronx Coliseum. His statement reads in part: “Hitlerism in Germany is a last attempt of tottering cap‘talist rule to save itself from the rising tide of revolutionary workers. Hitter’s methods of accomplishing his task is terrorization and murder against the working class, pogroms against the Jews, and creation of a na- tionalistic hysteria in favor of im- perialistic war. The only force within Germany defying this terror and continuing to develop and to organize the forces of the pro‘etar- ian revolution is the Communist Party of Germany. Any real effort to fight Hitler and his fascist rule must therefore take the form of direct support to the activities, ef- forts, and strugeles of the Com- munist Party of Germany, n Party Work “The principles of the I:W.O. call for service of this organization to the working-class. All members of the Order should come themselves, and work for a mass participation of workers in the anti-Hitler meeting at the Bronx Coliseum, Sunday night, Feb. 11, 7 P. M., which will be at the same time a demonstration of the mass indignation of New York workers against Hitler terror and for the release of Thaelmann, Dimitrotf, Torgler, as well as a method of gath- ering financial support for the Com- munist Party of Germany, since all proceeds of this meeting will be given in full to the German Party for its work.” A very exceptional program is in the last stage of preparation. One num- ber will he a “poem-dance” called “Underground” by John Bovingdon. The program committee states that since the purpose of the meeting is to raise funds for the Communist Party of Germany, there will be no free admissions to anyone at this particular meeting. The Workers Book Shop, 50 E. 13th Street an- nounces that tickets are going very rapidly. Workers who have not yet ‘bought tickets, are asked to make themselves available of the 10 cent reduction by buying tickets in ad- vance. Prices are $1.00, and 40 cents in advance. 50 cents at the door. LW.O. Head Calls on Members To Aid Germa Liquidation of | Projects (Daily Worker Washington Burean) WASHINGTON, Feb. 8—A pro= posal to increase the $950,000,000 ap- | propriation by the House for CWA and Federal Relief to $2,500,000,000 Was launched in the Senate today— and immediately it struck a stone wall of opposition by the Roosevelt Leadership. Senator Wagner, New York Demo- crat, argued for the larger appropri ation on the basis that it is impera- | tive to avoid “catastrophe.” On the basis of the most optimistic predic~ tions, Wagner said, “no more than 3,000,000 of the unemployed will be absorbed in private industry by the end of the year... if we aban- dan the CWA (as planned in the $950,000,003 appropriation) we will still have at least 10,000,000 unem- Ployed at the end of the year.” Senate Passes Hayden Amendment Senators Cutting of New Mexico, and LaFollette of Wisconsin, both Progressive Republicans, are backing the additional appropriations. They were joined by only a few other Sen« ators. The Senate was held in ses= sion late, but indications were that the vote might be held over until tomorrow. Earlier today the Senate adopted the Hayden amendment to continue compensation to CWA workers and their families for injuries and deaths suffered in line of duty. Senate approval was given, how+ ever, at a moment when very few (Continued on Page 8),