The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 12, 1934, Page 1

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( Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at under the Act of March 8, 1879 NEW YORK, MONDAY, ailg <QWorker (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL) FEBRUARY 12, 1934 WEATHER—Fair probably —— AMERICA’S ONLY WORKING, CLASS DAILY NEWSPAPER snow (Six Pages) Price 3 Cents GENERAL STRIKE AGAINST FASCISM IN FRANCE TODAY Congress of USSR Communist Party rty Closes With Huge Demonstration in Red Square “Red Army in Solidarity With ‘Unemployed World Toilers”-Voroshilov. “Fights Under Banner of Class War,” Red Commander Cries | FIRM FOR PRACE, But Will Defend USSR) Against All Attack (Special to the Daily Worker) MOSCOW, Feb. 11 (By Ra- dio)—With his voice roaring through the microphone over the immense historic Red Square, which was packed with a tremendous throng of workers and soldiers, Voroshiloyv, Commander of the Red Army, declared today: “The Red Army is the only army in the world which is not intended for annexation, for the conouer'ng of other lands. Together with the entire country, together with the entire Party, the Red Army strives for peace. “But our sword is sharp, and is ready to defend and defeat all who seek to violate the peaceful Social- ist lebor ef our country. Anyone who dares to pass over our borders, will be wtterly destroyed! “We shall fulfill this task under our fichting Bolshevik banner, under the banner of class war and brotherhood with all toilers of the world!” Pledge of Red Army For an hour and a half the troops of, the Moscow garrison tedav marched through the historic Red Sauare, while on the ramnerts around the tomb of Lenin stood Stslin, al’ the Jeaders of the Political Brro of tite Commur'st: Partv of the Soviet Tmion, the Presidium of the 17th Party Coneress, and all the 1.450 delevates of the historic Party Con- grees. The demonstration was a : pledge not onlv of the neace nolicy of the Sovict. Union, but an affirmation of the determination of the toiling es of the Soviet Union to de- fend their Socialist construction from imnerialist attack. This was remarkably symbolized by the fact that the greet majority of the marchers were not regular sol- diers, hut armed factory workers, not in soldiers’ uniform, as well as by the fect that the Red Army is itse’f 2 workers’ and farmers’ army, with all its commanders coming from the toiliny nooulation, even to the high- esi commander, Voroshilov himself. Promnt!v at noon, Voroshilov rode into the Red Souare from the Stras- skv gate of the Kremlin, and he was met midnoint by the commander | of the Moscow Gar him with drawn sword, and dselavst j of the Moscow Garrison re fe in honor of the 17th ss of the Soviet Union.” Modern Equipment full hour, as thousands s plaved the “Interna- and artillery suns saluted from within the Kremlin, infantry, armed workers, cavalry, artillery, the latest motorized. models of tanks and | guns swept by without a sinele fal- | ing, all preserving the most rigid square. The most modern equio- ment, such as airplane detectors and (Continued on Page 6) C.W.S. Fires 150 as Workers Start Union NEW YORK —About 150 C.W.A. white collar workers, employed at Public Schoo] 79, Second St. and Second Ave., were laid off yesterday. A short while ago, these workers ‘ud started to take steps to form a union, Mr. Switzer, a federal em- ploye was. sent in, and interviewed all the workers. Yesterday, the workers who had taken the lead in starting the or- ganization were first fired, and later the remaining were laid off. The first meeting for the purpose of forming the union was to have been held after work yesterday. 2 a In the Daily Worker Today Page 5 “Change the World,” by Michael “The Conversion of Bobbie Raw- ~~ ae Editorials Foreign News Cultural Progress (Special to the Daily Worker) MOSCOW (By Radio).—The 17th Party Congress today, after sixteen days, finished its session, having accomplished monumental tasks for the planning of the future of the largest country in the world. Communist Party, the vanguard of all the toilers of the country are now deliberately directed towards the building of a Com- , munist society and are of overwhelming importance to the toiling masses of the entire world. are along the following main lines: gress their present accord with the line. The successes of the first Five program of the Second Five Year technical reorgan: and agricuitu appaietus, all directed towards a It gave a practical example to the working class can do when it the leading industrial countries of The Congress proceeds on this but are building for their own use C.P, Congress Marks Triumph of Socialism in Soviet Union| Opens Up Unlimited Perspective ‘of Material and The accomplishments of the Congress The complete unity of the Party was demonstrated, with the leaders of all the former oppositions piedging to their Con- Plan were criticized and analyzed, and the with its goal two and a half times greater than the first, providing for the complete ion of both industry re, and for the doubling or } tripling of the living standard of all toil- ers was adopted. This provides for the abolition of the last vestiges of capitalist forms of production, which were perma- nently defeated in the first pian, and the ise, of all remnants of capi- It adopted organizational measures suitable to carry out the great tasks of the Second Plan, measures affecting the” Party and goverament decisions and fur a beiter disposal of forces, and stimulation ot initiative. It demonstfated in the midst of a hostile capitalist world and the constant presence of the danger of war that the Soviet Union can and will defend the victories of its toilers. the correct program of the Communist Party. The Congress recognizes that the carrying out of the first Five Year Plan establishes a technical base for making the Soviet Union one of the world with a large scale collectivized, mechanized agriculture, four years of the second plan the complete collectivization of agriculture. Another essential feature of the plan now adopted is a relatively greater emphasis on articles of general consumption, which means, in contradiction to the theories of the bourgeois economists abroad, that the workers of the Soviet Union are not building “Ezyptian pyramids,” teil, because they have abolished the capitalist-landiord classes who in (Continued on Page 2) | | for Soviet Toilers The decisions of the ruling | Party Year Plan, JOSEPH STALIN better control of she {fulfilment of the toilers of the whole world what takes power, and when it is led by the world, and the only country in basis to complete during the next ard are reaping the fruits of their U. s, SR. Party Meet) ‘Alects Leading Body At Close of Session (Special to the Daily Worker) the 17th Party Congress, the Central Committee met and elected the fol- lowing Polburo — Stalin, Molo- tov, Kaganovitch, Voroshilov, Kalinin, * | Orjinikcize, Kuibishev, Kirov, Andre- yev and Kosior, The following were elected as can- didates to the Polburo -- Mikoyon, ies Petrovsky, Postishev, Rutzu- a The following were elected as the Secretariat of the Central Committee: Stalin, Kaganovitch, Kirov (remain- ing Secretary of the Leningrad Re- gional Committee), and Udanov (re- Meved of duty as Secretary of the Gorki District Commitize). The Organizational Bureau of the Central Committee were elected as folows: Stalin, Kaganovich, Kirov, Udanov, Yejov, Shvernik, Kosarev, Stetsky, Garmarnik, Kuibishev, with candidates, Elrinitsky and M. Kaga- novich, i Z pe Ze : = | MOSCOW, Feb. 11 (By Radio). —} military nes: across the immense) today at the concluding session of| Dimitroff Plans Hunger Strike To Force Liberation BERLIN, Feb. 11—George Dimi- | troff, Bulgarian Communist leader held in a Berlin dungeon of the Nazi secret police, after his acquittal in the Reichstay five trial, will begin aunger strike to force his release, according to a British newspaperman here who has just interviewed him in prison. Simultaneously, the Nazi govern- ment has threatened to expel Dimi- trofi's mother and sister, and the in Capitol ‘Demand the House Act | Jobless Canicils Call for Enactment of the Workers’ Bill pate j WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 11—| A delegation of the National Unem- ployment Councils, htaded by Her-j bert Benjamin, has arrived in Wash- | ington, to demand a hearing before | the House of Representatives Labor | ployment and Social Insurance Bill. The Labor Committee is holding public hearings on the various “labor” bills now in Congress, but has so far refused to take up the Workers was introduced by Congressman Lun- | mittee. Lundeen himself was present at the hearings Friday, but iailed to not even mention it when "he spoke. The Unem| ary of Labor ¥erkins’ com. “W. ch. Pe repre. tives of Ge 4| ernors and with the Legislative Con- ference of the American Association of Social Workers, ‘The National Unemployment Coun- ciis calls on all workers and work- ers organizations, mass meetings, etc., to immediately rush telegrams, reso- lutions and letters to their Congress- men and to Chairman Connery of the House Labor Committee, de- manding the enactment of the Wozikx- ers Bill. The Wor! ment Insurance Bill will be kiled jin the* committee ahd no? reported to the House unless a campaign oz mass pressure is exerted on Congress at once, the National Unemployment Councils stated. Those organizations which have al- ready indorsed the bill should in- form Congress at once of this in- dor: ont, the Unemployment Coun- cils said, The Workers Unemployment In- surance Bill is the only bill now be- fore Congress calling for unemploy- ment and social insurance for all of the sixteen million jobless workers. The Workers Bill provides a mi mum of $10 a week, with no dis: crimination, and calls for the funds to come from the government and the employers and for the workers toed * the funds. ‘The Wagner Bill, now being boosted by the Roosevelt government, does not apply to any of those sixteen million now totally unemployed, does not provide for any funds for un- employment insurance from the fed- eral government, but merely calls for exemotion of employers from taxa- tion from the federal government if they are contributing to state job “reserve” funds. These “reserves” are administered by the employers, and do not go to active union men. 9 Negroes Killed InLegal Lynch Orgy By Southern Rulers 5 in Ala, Mass Execution Go To Death Singing “Let My People Go” wife of Vassil Taneff, from Germany, unless they stop speaking to the for- eign correspondents in Berlin. “The public must forget Dimitroff. Taneff, and Ponoff,” they were told by the Nazi authorities. It has been only the fear of publicity in the world press that has forced the Nazis to reveal the whereabouts of the three Bulgarians, Dimitroff is kept in a cell without light, and Taneff is now in a ous condition from the nervous of the conditions under which he is kept imprisoned. WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 8—The National Convention Against Unem- ployment, recently adjourned here, passed the following resolution of support for the Daily Worker: “The National Convention Against Unemployment the splen- did work carried on by the this convention, but also in carrying on propaganda for the aims of the unemployed movement and_ partic ularly the Unemployed Councils. The Daily Worker is the only newspaper Support the Daily Worker, Urges Jobless Convention in the English language that sup- ports all the struggles of the workers, “The convention therefore calls upon all workers to read and sub- seribe to the Daily Worker, and above all, to use the Daily Worker as a means of carrying the news of the Daily | struggle to all sections of the work- ‘Worker, not only in preparation of| ing class. The convention partic- ularly calls *.0n the Unemployed Councils to carry on a real campaign among the unemployed and part- time workers to iy full support to the Daily Worker. | By CYRIL BRIGGS NEW YORK.—The Southern white Tuling class carried throvzth a bloody orgy of mass legal murders azainst the Neero masses last lav. morn- ing, with five ms in Alabama. three in Texas and one for good measure in Arkansas. At Kilby Prison, Montgomery, Ala- bama, where for months the nine Scottsboro hovs had been subjected | to the most hideous torture, five of nine Negroes selected by the Alabama Supreme Court for a new St. Bartho- Jomew massacre, were swiftly electro- cuted. The first entered the death cell at 12:05, ard the fifth victim 33 minutes later. Inside of 35 minutes, five horriblv tortured, charred hodies were flung into the face of the Necro masses as a bloody warning “to stay in their vlace,” to meekly submit to erowing huncer. mass misery, brazen discrimination ard the war plans of the “New Deal.” The macs execution was deNherstelv orsanized as a sub- stityte for the Scottshoro hoys. saved so far by the world-rride nrotest Movement of white and Necro toilers. I. L. D. Exnosed Frame-Up Bennie Foster, of Selma, Ala., whose frame-up and torture were ex- nosed by the International Labor De- fense in complste detail, was the first of the legal lynch victims to die. Foster faced his murderers bravely, his last words a reiteration of his (Continued on Page 2) jgndoreed in the vote. ‘On Other Lines) Committee, on the Workers Unem-| Unemployment Insurance Bill, which | deen and which is before the com- | demand action on his bill, and did} ir eyed Council delega- | tion will also Gemand a hearing at) ;{ 21 standard railway unions are in-/} Roosevelt Gives Air Big Electrical Local Gives 3,500 Votes for Social Insurance Bill Ss atic oeris. | NEW YORK. — Local 3, Interna- tional Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, (A. F. L.), with 3,500 present out of the membership of} 900, Thursday night indorsed the} Workers Unemployment Insurance| Bill. The Workers Unemployment | insurance Bill was read to the A. F.} iu, members through the microphone | by the chairman and unanimously | C.&N.W. Strike! ‘Demand Raised. 32,000 Workers and All R.R. Brotherhoods Are Becoming Involved WASHINGTON, Feb. 11. — Sitart- ing with the strike ballot sent to 26,000 Chicago & Northwestern, sen- timent for a strike is rapidly spread. ays, reports to gov- Is here show. Oiher roads involved, totalling 32,- 009 railway workers, are Delaware é&} Hudson, Kansas City Southern, Mo- bile & Ohio, Louisville & Arkansas, | Louisiana, Arkansas & Texas and the | Chicago & Northwestern. The strike ballot on the Chicago | and Northwestern was forced through | on hundreds of grievances by the | rank and file. The officialdom, how- | ever, so worded the ballot as to give | them absolute power of seitlement without consultation of the rank and | file. On the Mobile & Ohio railway the | ,voived, bringing «the whole:.st question before every railway work: ; in the country. The railway officials are rapidly maneuvering with the government} end railway authorities to avoid a/ real strike by March Ist. They are} calling on President Roosevelt to in-| tervene. In fact, they are doing| everything but prepare the rank and file for areal struzgle, which in the resent cOnditions is the only wey to force action and win the demands of the railway workers. | | | MailRoutestoArmy; Huge Graft Shown WASHINGTON, Feb. 11. — Under »ressure of the exposures of enormous vrofiteering and ccrruvtion in the Government mail contracts of tho| aviation industry, Roosevelt yesterday in @ sweeping order cancelled all the existing mail contracts and ordered | Army filers to carry the government’s mail. Thus, under the guise of an anti- corruption act, Roosevelt is taking a long step forward toward furbishing Government for instant use. That this latest move of Roosevelt has immediate war, implications was revealed in the statement of Gen- | drive by decia: | representing 7,054 NEW YORK.—From thousands of) destroyer Hull, | movie screens throughout the county | fastest ship built in America, was | esterday, Geor; velt’s war secret: the “National Defense Week” jingo g that “The price of peace is preparedness.” Like Woodrow Wilson, he is drum- ming up support for the govern- ment’s war preparations by appeal- ing to the deep will for peace of the masses. Today “National Defense Week” officially, on the birthday of anam Lincoln. From thousands of platforms, from millions of radio speakers, the jingo poison of “pre- paredne: ll be poured forti hool children throughout the land il be urged to write essays on why ¢ United States must be armed to the teeth. | fense Weck’ is nt to whip to a |high pitch, must be met with the most determined exposur sistance by w expose the war shops, in the ers, intellec- Ss S gaths or, Raisi mines, Keel Laid for Destroyer » NEY’ YORK.—The ways from the} meetings, build anti- | Workers! Organize Against Jingo Poison Flood of “National Defense Week’’! | planned to be the H. Dern, Roose-| launched Jan. 31 already carry the| plays his roe in| keel of a sister ship, the destroyer Dale. The keel was laid Saturday, at the Brooklyn navy yard. The new | ship will cost between $4,000,000 and $5,000,000. ROME, Feb. 11.—Italy has begun building up its navy by starting work to recondition four battleships, two of 21,500 tons, two of 22,700. Oe oe 10,000 More to Work on Japanese Naval Munitions TOKYO, Feb. 11,—Maneuvers of | the Japanese navy will be held yearly, instead of once in three years, Admiral Mineo Osumi, minister of; the Navy, announced yesterday, “in view of the extraordinary situation.” Osumi announced that work in naval arsenals would involve adding 10,000 workers this year. Sea ae LONDON, Feb. 11—The _ prop- aganda campaign to popularize thé strengthening of the British naval base at Singapore, the strategic point for naval control of the East, is being | carried on with great intensity here. “Our job is to look after our pos- sessions in those seas, and we can not do it with a weak navy,” declared Admiral Sir Roger Keyes, comman- | der in chief of the fleet, in a speech } demanding that the gevernment greatly fortify the Singapore base. First Furniture Convention Faces Furniture Workers in Large Centers By HARRY RAYMOND NEW YORK.—The First National Convention of the Furniture Work- ers, which opened here at Irving Plaza Hell, Friday night, got down to brass tacks over the week end, and launched into the big job of unit- j ing all furniture wor! into a big national fighting union, rooted in the large factories of the main furniture centers of the country. Delegates from 197 union shops, workers, have turned in their credentials. Eight locals, including Los Angeles, Rock- ford, Ill, Baltimore and Grand Rapids, were not represented, but sent the war aviation apparatus of the} grectings to the convention, pledging to build up the union to become a mighty power in the furniture in- dustry. Jack Statchel, acting General Sec- (Continued on Page 2) (Continued on Page 2) | Roosevelt Promises ToSteel Men Turn to The Big Factories' \Calls for Unity of All| Ashes of Co. Union Big Steel Trusts Behind Weirton Attack on De- mand for Union PITTSBURGH, Pa., Feb. 11.—Echos| of the great steel strike of last Oc- tober are being heard in the action of President Roosevelt, the National | Labor Board, and the Weirton Steel Co. officials to defeat efforts of steel workers to organize into unions of | their own choosing. Roosevelt's promises to the 12,000 Weirton Steel Co. workers that they would have new elections are turning to ashes. Having broken the strike through the intervention of the National La- bor Board, headed by Senator Wag- ner, William Green, John L, Lewis. Sidney Hillman and Major Berry, Mr. Weir, president of the Company now flatly refuses to permit even a pretense at a new poll. He declares the company union is firmly estab- lished (thanks to the N.R.A, and the (Continued on Page 6) So Bankers Chip in To Pay Back Wages to School Employes (NOTE: This is the third of a series of six articles on Brockton, Mass,, big shoe industry center, by John L. Spivak, well-known author and labor journalist. Spivak is now on tour of the United States, writ- ing on “Life in America” for the Daily Worker.) By JOHN L, SPIVAK BROCKTON, Mass. --Brock- fear was first ex- pressen publicly by John F. Scully, superintendent of _jthe city’s schools. The same fear is held by the presi- dent of the school “|board and several _jof the wealthier residents of the | shoe center. The attitude of the 3 Meeicommunity lead- ers towards the neces sie teachers who have the moulding of the 11,000 school chil- dren in their hands, is much like that of a government which depends for its control upon the army. The army “s needed to support the regime. A discontented army is dangerous to a toa Years that the hunger and pove.ty seen in scheol children antl the inability that the city ‘ad for a while to pay its teachers “will sow the seeds of discontent in their (the teachers’) minds so that, consciously or unconsciously... it will be passed on to the children.” vegime. Here, satisfaction with the vresent system depends a great deal upon those who mould the thought of ‘he next generation. Hence tt is interesting to note the warning issued by Scully last year to the business, industrial and profes- sional leaders of Brockton. The warn- ing was plain, frank and gives a clear picture of what is actually going on, in the thousands of homes sending Ry Brockton Fears Discontent of Underpaid Teachers WillPass on to School Children This eivied $0 Massachusetts Towns Have Cut Budgets for Education children to school and in the minds of the teachers in whose care is the next generation. Fear Teachers’ Discontent “Whole families are dependent on their more fortunate fellows for sup- port, and the spectre of want has stalked boldly up and down the land,” said the school superintendent. “Taxes are delinquent and the sources of taxes are reduced. There is a spirit of discontent abroad, and there are loud protests against heavy taxation. “In some places (in Massachusetts) the school term has been shortened, salaries have been reduced unreason- ably, and money for school books, equipment, and supplies cut off to of school work has been seriously hampered. “The spectre of disaster must be re- moved from the minds of teachers. (Continued on Page 8) “ch an extent that the effectiveness|| Re j | Workers Throughout France to Walk Out in 24-Hour Protest Dern, Secretary of War, Calls For Arms in Name _of ‘Peace’ a — | Socialists Stab Walkout in Back With Order Against Militancy /ARMY IS CALLED ry Communists Demon‘ é ‘ strate; Many Injured PARIS, Feb. 11.— At mid- night tonight, the workers of France go out on a 24-hour political strike, against fascism and “in defense of political lib- erties.” The strike, called by the Nation? ‘abor Federation urder pressure «< | ‘he indignation of the rank and fild »t the growing fascist movement -of Fran*e, was immediately taken up by the revolutionary Unified Labor Fed- oration, and the Communist The executive committee of the 800,- 200 civil servants have also voted, to join. Stabbed in the back already by the Socialist Party, which controls the National Labor Federation, and joinet> by the labor misleaders to forlid \picketing and parades, the strike will jnevertheless demonstrate the anti- fascist will of the workers of France. Party Calls for Militancy The Communist Party and the rev- olutionary unions, in joining in the strike call, declared that it must be made a militant demonstration against the Doumergue government as well. Premier Gaston Doumergue’s inet of war and reaction, in wi premio-s and four high 3 it, has mobilized infantryt cavalry, and tank units to patrol the streets of Paris and other large in- dustrial centers. Army, Navy to Scab | Army and navy men will man the | public utilities. The railway men ave decided to limit their strike to 15 minutes. Under Socialist influ- ence, other concessions are promised by some of the 800,000 civil servants striking against the drastic wage- (Continued on Page 2) France To Organize War Front To Keep ‘Nazis from Austria Austria Moves Toward Fascism with Support | of Socialists | PARIS, Feb, 11—Energetic steps | to organize a war front against Nag: aggression in Austria is announs as the main international task itself by the Gaston Doumergue Cab#., inet of war and reaction. ‘ A “directorate” of four, consisting of Doumergue himself, Louis Bar- thou, foreign minister, Andre Tar- dieu, leading jingo, and Edouard Herriot was formed by the Cabinet to act swiftly against Germany. | They are reported to intend to seek at once a new agreement with wussolini, and the Little Entente of French vassal states, Jugoslavia, Ru- ; mania, and Czechoslovakia, for strong support of Austria against the Nazi campaign to capture it from within. ee ee More Steps Toward Fascism VIENNA, Feb. 11—Fascization of Austria under the leadership of Chancellor Dollfuss, who still has the support of the Socialist Party as a “lesser evil” than the Nazis, ad- vanced by several steps over the weekend. With the fascist Heimwehr as its storm troops, the government has completed the fascisation of the Tyrol and of other provincial parts of Austria, carrying out the Dollfuss plan announced Sept. 11 to estab- lish a “corporative state” without parliament of elected state and municipal councils. The police powers of the Socialist mayor of Vienna, Karl Sietz, were taken from him yesterday by order baal Major Emil Fey, Sat ie ee though the Socialist leaders under th uum ted tne ates to the government, the fascists do not believe they can succeed unless the workers’ organizations are — ‘up. French Consul in N. Y. jects Protest of French Workers’ Club YORK.—"’ French consul There is grave danger that too deeo| in Now York vehwed perio a cut in salaries may sow seeds of| transmit to his government a discontent in their minds so that,| test by Clarte, my