The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 19, 1934, Page 1

Hear Hathaway Speak Tomorrow Night on the United Front at St. Nicholas Arena! CIRCULATION DRIVE New Subs Received eure 15th: Dally . Total to date Vol. XI, No. 43 -_* few York, N. ¥., under the Daily .<AWorker CENTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL) Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at Act of March 8, 1879 NEW YORK, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1934 WEATHER: Snow, colder. AMERICA’S ONLY WORKING CLASS DAILY NEWSPAPER (Six Pages) Price 3 Cents” ROOSEVELT ORDERS 572,900 CWA WORKERS FIRED FRIDAY | ‘ata Government Demands the Nazis Free Its Ci Citizens, Dim Dimitroff, Popoff and Taneff Hanging of Austrian [ The Brutal Attack aes Clarence Hathaway by AF L and SP Leaders Workers to Continue, Dollfuss Tells Press Otte Bauer Admits He Agreed to Dollfuss Fascism, Tried to Disarm Workers, Urged Them | to Submit DOLLFUSS PROMISE Censorship Conceals Extent of Known Resistance | Which Continues at Many Points : BULLETIN VIENNA, Feb. 18.—Five workers were killed by bayonets of Heimwehr men in Simmering, working class district of Vienna, this afternoon, after the machine gun with which they continued to fight had run out of ammunition. Shooting continued at the Karl Marx Hof all day, as work- ers sniped at the troopers on guard there. Another clash was reported from the Reumann Hof, another working class tene- ment. A group of Schutzbund men led by Koloman Wallisch was captured in the forests near Bruck. It was said Wallisch would surely be sentenced to hang. WARSAW,, Feb. 18.—Polish ‘aii here have decided to go out on a half-hour strike revolutionary Austrian workers. VIENNA, Feb. 18.—Groups' of workers in many parts of Austria continued their desperate resistance to the fascist. gov- ernment today, while Dollfuss of revenge on the captured workers and their organization. In the heart of Vienna, workers continue their fight in many points. Two were killed and several fascist Heimwehr and state police men were re- Ported wounded today. No reports were available of casualties among the workers. Five more prisohers were hanged in Vienna yesterday, and seven in Steyr. At Graz. Joseph Stanek, sec- reterv of the Chomber of Workers and Employees, was hanged. Six others condemned to be hanged were reprieved by President Miklas. Me Thousands Held for Revenge More than 3,000 workers are con- centrated in the jails of Vienna, and in barracks taken for this purpose when the city prisons: were over- crowded. Hundreds more are in prison in other parts of the country, held for hanging or long terms in prison. No reports were received of the official terror in Linz and other cities of Austria where the workers fcught herotealiy all last week. Chancellor Dolifuss announced that to Fascists S MANY HANGINGS Monday in solidarity with the carried out his savage program All Workers Invited to Open MembershipMeet Tuesday, February 20 A special emergency meeting of all Party members and sympathe- tic workers from union; and mass organizations is called by the New York District Secretariat this Tuesday, Feb. 20th, at 7 p. m. at the St. Nicholas Arena, 69 West 66th Street. Clarence A. Hathaway will be the speaker on the united front relations between Socalist and Communist workers in the struggle against fascism. All units are instructed by the Secretariat to ostpone unit meetings to Wednesday. District Secretariat. Communist Party, (Continued on Page 2) New York iDstrict. New $ 22, 000 “Daily” Press Succeeds One 35 Years Old The printshop where the Daily Worker, Freiheit, and other revolu- “onary papers are printed is noisy these days with an additional ham- meriny and shrieking. The reason? The 35-year-old, aged and over- worked press that has printed the Daily Worker and Freiheit for so many years has climaxed its eventful life with an almost complete break- down. A shiny, smoothly running giant of a $22,000 press is being in- stalled. It ls an ‘uneasy career that the old press is ending. Breakdown after breakdown, necessitating repairs and more repairs time and again, get- ting the papers out in time to make train schedules some days, and miss- ing them many others, with a result- ant loss of circulation; last year it Jost the use of an entire unit. It was, under the added difficulty of the issue of an increased number of revo- lutionary papers that the old press collapsed entirely. It has come to the point where to repair this ven-: erable wreckage would be a gross ex- travagance Better Printing In view of the growing needs and demands of the workers throughout the country for the revolutionary. press in this period of growin strus- gle, wars, revolutions, the Central Committee of the Communist Party has decided to install a new press which, running smoothly, will meet! train schedules, which with its clear print and modern type will attract manv more workers to the revolu- tionary press, and which will not need the tre sums spent period- ically for repairs of the old press. Pes order to help carry through Central Committee | Red Press Certificates to | pebiopreny 4 — individua's who | Daily Worker Staff Photo The upper left photo shows the Socialist leaders hold- ing Clarence Hathaway, editor of the Daily Worker, just before other Social- ist leaders rained blows on his body, tore clothing from his body, and crashed chairs over his head. The upper right photo shows Hathaway being supported by workers as he left Hadison Square Gar- den, his coat was torn from his body. Despite the ter- tible beating which he re- ceived at the hands of the A. F. of L. and Socialist ?arty leaders, Hath- way, with blood treaming down his ‘ace from an ugly xalp wound, called spon the workers yutside the Garden 0 continue to fight ‘or a united front wainst fascism. Algernon Lee, one £ the officials of the Socialist Party, and hairman of the Ma- ison Square Gorden vas one of those who brutally as- saulted Hathaway. of the meeting at the Garc speaker against Fascism! IN GERMANY, they called upon the By General, Von Hindenburg to save them from Fascism. And Hinderburg gave them Hitler and the Storm Troops. In Austria, they grovelled before Dollfuss to save them from Fascism. And Dolifuss gave them Pzince Von Starhemberg, the Heimwehr, and Fascist massacre finest flower of the Austrian working-class, Now in the United States they are taking the same toad. At Madison Square Garden on Friday at the head of the Socialist and trade union wo:kers, gathered together in one mighty protest against Austrian Kas- cist murder, they sought to place—whom? Matthew Woll, N.R.A. strikebreaker, trade union ganzster and racketeer, professional “Red baiter,” organizer of Anti- Soviet intervention, companion and colleague of the Fascists in the National Civic Club, advance-guard of | American Fascism, and LaGuardia, tool of the Wall Street banks as Mayor of New York, fake “liberal” who conceals his reaction behind this “liberalism.” Behind this fake liberalism, LaGuardia only two days before the meeting had his police thugs charge in brutal assault on the 10,000 Socialist and Communist | workers demonstrating in solidarity with their Aus- trian comrades before the Austrian Cansulate. the Socialist leaders invited him to the anti-Fascist Only two or three weeks ago, Matthew Woll, in a secret letter to Roosevelt, called for the formation of a Federal secret service police to be used as stool-pigeons and provocateurs in the American labor movement. And the Socialist leaders honor him as a leading It is to Roosevelt that they go, arch tool of Wall Street monopoly capitalism, “Big Navy” jingo and cun- ning militarist, author of the N.R.A.-New Deal, with its wage-cutting slavery of the codes, with its seeds of resolut: ing,” United Front. Hindenburg testing. And den. No Provocation Can Halt the March of Working Class Unity Against Fascism American Fascism already sprouting quickly in the strike-breeking Labor Boards, in the militarized C.C.C. camps, in the sinister war hysteria of the present “Na- tional Preparedness Week.” Heze are the words of their Madison Square Garden n, the resolution to which the assembled thou- sands of workers would noj listen: “The Communists were not invited to this meet- the resolution states, which was arranzed to protest and “to call upon the President of the United States to stzy the bloody hand of the Do.!fuss rezime.” Here is the hard-bitten hatred of the working-class | Here is the identical strategy of Euro- pean Social-Democracy, the appeal to the most vicious agents of capitalist-Fascist reaction to become the leade:s of the fight against Fascism! « Dollfuss . . And now Woll, Green, LaGuardia and Roosevelt, 'T WAS against this insult to the heroic workers of Austria, and the entire American working-class, that the thousands of workers in the Garden It was not in a spirit of “disruption,” it was, on the contrary, in a spirit of common united hatred for the enemies of the working class that the thou- sands of Socialist and Commun‘si workers met. But from the vicious journalist prostitutes of the yellow press, through the official statements of the So- cialist Parity committee and the renegade grounlets of the Lovestoneites, the same cry of defense of Woll is raised against the Communist workers at the C>7- They should accept the poisoned syllables of the Socialist leaders’ the common cry of the Woll-defenders. What happened at the meeting? The capitalist ere pro- guest, Matthew Woll—this is (Continued on Page 6) will help to nay for the new press. | Hundreds of letters have been sent — to organizations today throuzhout New York City and the country, calling on the organizations to buy these certificates, which are docu- | mentary proof that the or~aniza- tion has shared in the project to | make the Red Press 2 more pow- , erfal weapon in revolutionary | struggle. The Certificates will be issued to organizations which contribute $5 or more. A smaller certficate will be issued to individuals who contribute | $1 or more. They are ready to be: sent out at once. In New York, the certificates will be presented at a Red Press Banquet at the New Star Casino on March 4, to which are invited to | send delegates. Tickets for this ban- quet will be $1 and reservations must be in no later than March 1. Dona-! tions and reservations can be mailed to PRESS COMMITTEE, P. O. Box 136, Station D, New York City. To the many hundreds of out of New York organizations that will be in- volved in this campaicn, the certifi- cates, which are signed by William Z. Foster and Earl Browder, and which are highly attractive and suitable for framing, will be mailed. The pro- gram of the banquet will be an- nounced later. Orvanizations are called upon doin prompily and whibisheatedly E which is on the certificate, says: “We can start establishing real contacts— which will stimulate our people to march forward untiringly along all the innumerable paths which lead to the revolution.” Non-Party Workers Who Saw Hathaway Hit Pledge to Back Party NEW YORK—A group of non-Party workers in Brook- lyn who witnessed the de- spicable and brutal attack on Clarence Hathaway, edi- tor of the Daily Worker, by Socialist Party leaders at Madison Square Garden meeting Friday, yesterday sent a wire to Hathaway vedging “to support your Party forever.” The telegram, signed “Resolution Committee B. J. H.,” follows in full: “Revolutionary greet- ings for your heroic stand amidst the social bandits. We hope you recover quickly. Our heads, oven- ed politically, are now aware who represent the workers. We have no more in common with labor- and soc al-fakers, Our group of non-Party workers has. decided to support your Party forever. Socialist Brands Action of S.P. Leaders at Madison Sq. Garden They Formed United Front With A.F.L. Betrayers, He Says; Unity of Workers Must Be Forged NEW YORK.—Blaming the So- cialist Party leaders for attempt- ing to disrupt the united front of Socialist and Communist workers at the Madison Square Garden meeting, Bernard Mishkin, Young Peoples Socialist League and So- ciaiist Party member, has dizected the following letter to the Daily Worker and New Leader, ca!ling for the building of a united front of struggie of all workers fascism, “Letter to the Daily Worker and New Leader: “The scene at Madison Square Gar- den, late Friday afternoon, proved various things to various people. To ‘Comrade Crosswaith, it proved that Communists are pigs. To the cap- italist press, it proved that the “reds” and socialists have “plenty of fight, but no unity.” To American capital, it proved that there is nothing to fear from the American workers as yet. To the Old Guard of the So- cialist Party, who are gloating over what amounts to a catastrophe for the working class, it proves that united front is impossible, was im- possible and always will be impos- sible, But to all Communist and Socialist workers, this incident proves that the need of United Front be- tween Communists and Socialists is more crying than ever, proves conr clusively that unity can be the only great wedge which will break cap- italism to bits. Unity, and unity alone will prevent the repetition of &@ performance such as Madison Square Garden provided last Friday. S. P. Leaders Lie “Many of us have blamed the Communists for the whole affair. After the capitalist press, our So- cialist leaders repeat: ‘The Commu- nists attacked us, They came here to break up our meeting.’ But even so absurd a Mountebank as Jacob) Panken knows that this is a lie; even so vicious a right winger as Alger- non Lee cannot believe it. Anyone who attended the Communist meet- ing at the Bronx Coliseum and saw the Socialist and Communist work- ers fraternizing, talking to each other about the huge success of the united | front demonstration at the Austrian Consulate Wednesday afternoon, any- one who heard the Communist lead- ers exhort the workers to go to the; Madison Square Garden meeting to fraternize with the Socialist workers, to do all in their power to make an- other success of united front,—any- one who knows these things, knows that the capitalist press and our So- (Continued en Page 6) |Soviet I Envoy) \Claims Three ‘As Citizens | Nazis Trying to Delay| Freeing Acquitted | Communists Special to the Daily Worker MOSCOW, Feb. 18 (By Ra-} dio).—Moscow papers publish | a dispatch from Berlin an-! nouncine that the Soviet Em- bassy in Berlin has insisted that the German Foreign office take ranid measures for the immediate liberation | of George Dimitroff, Vassil Taneff. and Blagoi Popoff, soviet citizens. The Soviet Embassy informed the German government that the Soviet government bas granted citizenship to the three Bulzarian Commun acquitted at the Reichstag fire tria’ at the request of their relatives, in Bulgarian authorities had refused to recognize them as Bulgarian citizens The Soviet embassy has arranzed for their immediate departure for the Soviet Union, and has already pre- paved their passports. D'mitroff’s mother is ill as the re- jSult of the long anxiety about the | fate of her son. Dimitroft’s sister and Teneff’s wife visited the three Bul- garians in the prison of the secret police, and informed them that they {had been granted Sovict citizenship, The examining judge and a number of officials of the Nazi s2cret police jWere present at the interview. os e¢ BERLIN, Feb. 18.—B. Hirshfeld, Secretary of the Soviet embassy, cal'ed at the foreign office here yes- terd-y with passvorts already mace out for Dimitroff, Tanot. pnd Pao”, and demanded to see them and pre~ sent the passports to them. joffice is reported to have seid that |the three Bulgarian Communists will |be released “os soon as formalities |haye been completed.” He added, however. that the “for- malitics” mivht take “some time.” Meanwhile, they remcin in the con- trol of Goering’s secret police. No official reply by the German government has yet been made to the| | Soviet embassy’s demand for their} release, GETS SIX NEW SUBS | BINHAMTON, N. Y—S. F., a wo- man workér here, secured six new {subs for the Daily Worker, showing that new readers for our revolution- ary newspaper can be gotten if workers are approached, ist> | view of the fact that the competent A spokesman of the German foreign} | have Patterson Ousted, ‘from Canada to Gag Smith Trial Protest; Seize ILD Head at Line; Canada Defense Head Faces Court Today TORONTO, Canada, Feb. 18.— Willam L. Patterson, natonal secre- tary of the International Labor De- fense, was deported from Canada to- day and prevented from speaking at mass meeting here in against the indictment on sedition charges against A. E. Smith, general secretary of the Canadian Labor De- fense League. Patterson was seized on the train, just across the border, taken off and questioned by a special “board of inquiry” of the Canadian imm ‘zra- tion authorities, who pu him on a train headed back to Buffalo, From Buffalo, Patterson wired the | following message to the mass meet- ing in Massey Hall here: “Ordered deported from Canada. Greet meeting in name of Inter- national Labor Defense and Execu- tive Committee of International Red Aid. I. L. D. rallying Amer- ican masses against indictment of Smith, continued imprisonment of the Eight,growing fascism of Ben- nett Government, Deportation pre- vents personnel expression of our solidarity with Canadian working- class. Call upon Canadian workers to rally around the Canadian Labor Defense League and force revoca- tion of Section 98 and release all class war prisoners.” Smith, whose indictment is an at- | tempt by the Bonnett government to outlaw he C.L.DL., siser organiza- tion of the American I.L.D., is out on $10,000 bail and is scheduled to its first court hearing here “fonday. Protests against the indictment, | demanding Smith’s unconditional re- | lease, the release of the eight Cana- dian leaders sentenced to long prison | terms, and revocation of Section 98, under which the Communist Party of Canada has been outlawed, should be sent to Premier Bennett, Ottawa, Canada, and to AttorneyGeneral W. Wages Cut to 30 c. An Hour; Most Firing Takes Place in South Keep Stagger System; Abolish Skilled Wage Rate WORKERS PROTEST Negroes Feel Brunt of New Attacks NEW YORK. — President Roosevelt has ordered the fir- ing of another 572,500 C.W.A workers on Friday. Roosevelt is rushing through the firing of the C. W. A. workers and liquidation of all C. W. A. projects. Federal Re- Nef Director Hopkins, on Roose- velt’s instructions, ordered, at the same time, that C.W.A. wages are to be cut to 30 cents an hour, making the wages of C.W.A. workers $4.50 a week in smaller communities on the 15-hour-a-week schedule and $7.20 for those in industrial centers who are on a 24-hour-a-week schedule. President Roosevelt stands back of Hopkins’ firing, wage cut orders, Hopkins further ordered that the scale for skilled workers be abolished, making the wage for C. W. A. skilled workers “not less than 30 cents an hour” and not more than the “ore~ vailing rate” in the community. This order virtually reduces the pay of skilled C."W. A. workers to the un- skilled rate. Firing Heaviest In South ‘The firing of 572.500 C. W. A. work- ers on Friday is in addition to those to be fired who are working on direct feral projects. The heaviest firing takes place in the South, where every Southern state has been ordered to fire at least 20 per cent of all its C. W. A, work- | ers, with 34.8 per cent fired in Flor- | ida, are to be fired Friday, and in New In Pennsylvania 5.5 per cent York state 7 per cent; New Jersey {10.1 per cent; Tilinois fires 10.1 per cent’ Ohio 84 per cent; Michigan 10.1 per cent; Massachusetts 8.5 ver cent, and Rhode Island 17.6 per cent. The White House has made no secret of the fact that this second major wage cut given C. W. A. work- ers is carried through at the reauest jo* fhe emniovers in order to keep down wages of those now in industry helow the starvation scale of even the N. R. A. wages in the codes. ‘The New York Tribune of yester- day, in » Washington story reporting H. Price, Queen’s Park, Toronto, Canada, (Continued om Page 2) BOSTON, Mass, Feb, 18. —Thel, striking crews of the Glenn White, "|Iseac Mann and Lemuel Burrows, |who wa'ked out Friday under the leadership of the Marine Workers’ Industrial Union for the 1929 wage scale, wore joined with the crew of the S. S. Thurlo. All coal carriers arriving in this port are joinin the struggle. Roy Hudson, National Chairman of the Marine Workers’ Industrial Union. said today that the union will spread lantic Coast. The crew of the Thomas P. Beal, which arrived in port shortly after | the first three shins struck, packed up and were ready to wa'k off, when | the officers cut the lines and had the ship towed to the middle of the stream. The ship is still lying there allowed to avproach it. Delegate Arrested When the S. S. Pierce arrived the crew sent word ashore to send a union delegate at once to pull the |shiv, Delegate Montell was arrested | while coin¢ aboavd her. The ship was rushed away from the dock. Yesterday the crew of the S. 8S. Hampton sent a delegation of three seamen ashore who returned with a union delevate, who was not allowed aboard. This shin wes also vushed out into the stream. The crew was angered at this maneuver of the sh‘n- owners. When the ship sailed the sailors sent word ashore that they would strike in Norfolk. ‘The strike is led by a central strike committee composed of two represen- tatives from each striking ship. Jack Lambert, secretary of the local of the Marine Workers’ Indus- trial Union, is chairman of the com- mittee. Strikers have already forced the federal relief agency to supply relief the strike to all coal boats on the At- | and no seamen from shore are/ Another Crew Joins Seamen’s Strike In Boston for 1929 Wage Scale to the strikers. It is absolutely im- possible for the shipowners to get scabs to go aboard the struck ships. Although the first two ships to strike did not come out 100 per cent, none of the ships are able to sail. | Police are trying to get men with criminal records to go aboard the strong, and the strikers have been so vigilant, that the police failed in all | thelr attempts to get the ships out. | For Unity With Dockers At a strike meeting Friday night the seamen delegated Roy Hudson, ’| who was leading speaker, to appeal to the coal trimmers, members of the International Longshoremen’s Asso- ciation, in Norfolk, Va., to come out Seamen Win 3 Hour Strike In N. Y.; Get Wages; May Restrike NEW YORK.—The Western World, @ passenger ship, was struck for three hours before sailing time Saturday, | the crew, under the leadership of the | Marine Workers Industrial Union, ‘forcing the company to pay them back wages which had been due for some time. The men continued the strike until a few minutes before sailing time, when the captain conceded to the seamen's demands. Half of the back pay was given at once. The men received vouchers signed by the U. S. Shipping Commissioner, for the other half of the money. A statement issued by the ship committee just as the Western World sailed pointed out that if the voucher money is not forthcoming in Buenos Aires, the next port of call, the crew. will strike agaip ships, but the picket lines are so/ in joint strike action with the sea- men. | One of the central demands of the | Strike is that no seaman shall trim | cargo coal, which is longshore work. It was pointed out at the meeting that the I. L. A. longshoremen’s agreement on several of the Norfolk docks has expired. The longshore- |men have been called te come out in joint action with the seamen sup- porting the demand against seamen trimming coal and for a new gree- ment for longshoremen. Fighting for M. W. I. U. Code The strikers are demanding the 1929 wage scale, which is included in the code presented by Roy Hudson and # delegation of seamen at the N. R. A. code hearings in Washing- ton. In fact the men are fighting for the whole code cof the Marine Workers’ Industrial Union. The 1929 wage scale would give able seamen $62.50 and $70 for coal- burning firemen. Able seamen are now getting $46 on the coal boats. The strikers are also demanding an increase in the size of the crews. Many Join Union The union has been prepared for the strike for about two months, sea- men on the ships being mobilized around the union’s code, which con- tains the basic demands of the strik- ers. For a iong time the shipowners have forced the sailors to trim coal and paid them nothing for this work. Two weeks ago a crew on @ Mystic Line ship strick. The company thereupon offered to pay the men. Strikers declare that this work is longshore work and should be done by longshoremen. This company was forced to increase the sailors’ pay by $10. The men, however, state that they will continue the fight against doing this extre work,