The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 23, 1934, Page 1

CIRCULATION DRIVE New Subs Received Feb. 20th: Daily <QWorker | Daily .. «4: Sai se Total to Date 804 Total . ; CENTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL) Vol. XI, No. 47 > ee een een Se ren eee NEW YORK, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1934 WEATHER: Fair, colder. New York, N. ¥., under the Act of March 8, 1679. ————OO LY WORKING AMERICA’S ON CLASS DAILY NEWSPAPER (Eight Pages) Price 3 Cents QMMUNIST PARTY SPOKESMAN TO HIT NRA AT HEARING 3 Ships” Crews Strike Under the Leadership of the Marine Workers Industrial Union * Gallagher, Back From Germany, Warns of Peril to Thaelmann Scenes Leipzig Nazi Courtroom By SENDER GARLIN NEW YORK.—Ernst Thael- mann, To leaders Describes many are in the gravest danger, and the fate of George roff, Blagoi Popoff and Vassil still uncertain, reported by Leo Galla- r rnia ILD. attorney, who eturn y lay from Nazi Ger- jany Where he had gone to aid in ye defen! e of the four Communist | r held in connection with | ag frame-up trial. nn Tortured Imann was recently sceretly moved from the prison where he s confined in Berlin to the Colum- via, House, one of the numerous head- s of the Storm Troopers. Here s kept for 15 days at the tender nercies of the Nazi torturers. The most intense mobilization of | id protests is urgent if the im- i comrades are to be saved, warned, eneral faction with the fascist regime i even by Gallagher. Was Mooney’s Lawyer Nazi Germany at the risk legal fight for a new trial om Mooney in San Francisco, 2 xnelled from the Supreme in Leipzig because’ he, togther o Bulgarian and one French | counsel for Dimitroff, | Popoff—had entered a | the court against the ent of the defendants in ail to leave tomor- (Continued on Page: 6) arl ariem to Protest: Decatur Verdict, Fascism, Tonight Workers iaced by Nz Threat To Sterilize German Negroes y YORK. A protest meeting | g fascist terror in States, and the barbarous threat erm: Negro citizens of Germany held this evening at the 1.W.0. , 415 Lenox Ave., at 131 St. The meeting, which is under the of the League Against War) ill be addressed by} Assistant National | of the League of Struggle Rights; Aurel J. Leitner, of he Hungarian Anti-Fascist League, Eugene Wong, of the Chinese Anti- | Im»erialist Alliance and other speak- the meeting, occuring on the eve f the new: Scc\:sboro hearings this aturday, is of esepcial importance in the world-wide mass fight for the release of these innocent victims of capitalist justice, and should be sup- ported by every worker and intellec- tual, Negro and white. POLICE THUGS TO MATCH SKILL PHILADELPHIA, Pa—New York and Philadelphia mounted _ police staged a “riot” at the 103rd Cavalry Armory last night to match their skill in ability to beat workers and club demonstrators. Ta the Daily Worker Today Page 2 Sports, by Sam Ross. Page 3 International Longshoremen’s As- sociation Expose, by A. 8S. Pascual. Strike News. Page 4 Letters From Transportation Workers. “Party Lite.” “Dr. Luttinger Advises” “In the Home.” Page 5 Pages 5 and 6 Draft Resolution. Page 7 “It Depends On Who Holds the Gun,” by Sender Garlin, Werey’s Play On Scottsboro, by Harold Edgar. eee rgler, and the other | of the Communist Party | disillusionment and dis- | mong large numbers of Nazis | Gallagher, who last year | Germany, Gal-. | the Scottsboro | an fascist government to | aa | | LEO GALLAGHER Fraenkel To _ Argue Motion on Scottsboro Hearing on biked! Lynch Verdicts Set for Saturday NEW YORK.—Osmund K. Fraen- | | kel, well-known constitutional attor- |mey, left New Yrok yesterday for | Decatur, Ala., to argue the motion | for rsol of the derth verdicts jagainst Haywood Patterson and Clarence Norris, Scottsboro boys, be- ; fore Judge W. W. Callahan, it was | announced by the International La- | bor Defense, in charge of the case. eae arguments will be held tomor- ' le “The motion for reversal will be based on the illegality of the indict- | ments against the boys, on the basis of exclusion of Negroes from tie Grand Jury that handed them down; the tampering with the | Scottsboro County jury record which | was shown in the trial, and Judge | Callahan's refusal to recognize the evidence showing it; illegal exclu« sion of Negroes from the trial jury; denial of change of venue; exclusion by Callahan of vital defense’ evi- cence; the raising of the color is- sue and the prejudice of Judge Cal- | Jahan. CHICAGO LIBRARIES TO BE SHUT DOWN | CHICAGO, Feb. 22.—After March 1 [the high school libraries of this city |viams are supposed to be “returned | to the public library service.” out of work, will seriously affect the studies of the students. are to be shut down and the libra- It is openly admitted by school authorities that the closing of the libraries, beside putting the libarians Will Jim-Crow ‘Negroes In The ‘Senate Building Copeland Orders Setting Up of Separate Table in Restaurant | WASHINGTON, Feb. 22.— The character of white ruling class “friendship” for the | Negro People, was again dem- | onstrated yesterday when Sen- | ator Royal S Copeland, Democrat of | New York, thundered against the ex- | clusion of Negroes from the Senate | restaurant and forthwith substituted | jim-crowism for exclusion. Copeland is chairman of the Senate | Rules Committee which is responsi- ble for the restaurant, and as such responsible for the forcible ejection | from the restaurant on Tuesday of | Miss Mabel Byrd and other Negro} witnesses at the Senate hearing on the Costigan-Wagner “anti-lynching” Boats for General Strike BOSTON, Mass., Feb. 22.— gan here a week ago has now Spread to 13 ships. This is the seamen since the great marine strike in 1923. A number of ships have been pulled away from the docks in order to keen the strike from spreading fur- ther, but the sailors are striking in the middle of the stream. The docks are jinea with machine guns. Armed pelice end vucrts or | bill. Yesterday Copeland ordered the | | setting up of a special jim-crow table | for Negroes in the restaurant. Surrounding himself with an aura of heroism for this jim-crow “conzes- extol he declared that Negroes, like te ~. had to e-*. and co tong as he is chairman of the committee | he will (this staunch “friend” of the Negro people!) maintain the jim-crow table. Great care is being taken, however, to keep the issue out of public floor debate. This is in line with the House action, concurred in by the million- | aire Negro Congressman De Priest, | in soft-peddling the issue and tabling |a motion by De Priest, in which he | made the gesture of calling an in- vestigation of the refusal of the House | restaurant, to serve Negroes, Robert Minor in Court Today on Injunction Charge NEW YORK—To answer a charge of violating a court order against strike picketing, Robert Minor, mem- ber of the Central Committee of the Communist Party, and Jack Rosen- berg of the Young Communist League will appear in the Brooklyn County Court, Part 1, at Smith and Schermezhorn Streets today at 10 a.m. It is expected that a large num- ber of workers will be at the court to demand the immediate release of the two leaders. Minor dnd Rosenberg were arrest- ed during the recent election cam- vaign when Minor was the Commu- nist candidate for Mayor. They were held for leading a picket demonstra- tion in front of the struck Progres- sive Table Co. establishment which had secured a court injunction for- bidding picketing. Minor and Rosenberg will be re- quired to plead to the charges in court this morning. Minor will rep- resent himself and Rosenberg will be represented by an attorney of the IL. D. On Tuesday Robert Minor, repre- senting the Communist Party, will appear in Washington before the Na- tional Labor Board chairman, Gen- eral Johnson, in answer to an invi- everywhere on the waterfront, but | the strike continues to spread. gain the rentrel strike com- mittee and the Marine Workers’ In- ve? a call to all coal boats on. ue Atlantic Coast for a Attempts ‘of ‘officials of the Inter- | nati: Seamen’s Union to smash , the general strike failed when the) | striking seamen, full of fight and a! Greatest Seamen’s | Strike in 20 Years | Continues to Spread | U. fe - : | strike here a few years ago, the pres- | The seamen’s strike which be-| 2 Call All Atlantic Cc ° al determination to carry their s‘ruggle through to victory, showed by their | actions that they wanted absolutely | |mothing to do with the A. F. of L leaders. Remembering how the I. S. leaders sold out the seamen’s ent strikers, militant and determined, | | indicated to the agents of the ship | largest strike movement of} owners that the leadership of the | Marine Workers’ Indus‘rial Union was wholly satisfactory and that they were perfectly willing to follow it. I. S. U. officials made their cun- ning proposal only to such strikers} as they thought to be the weakest, showing that they feared to ap-| proach the most militant seamen with their sell-out scheme. It is clear that they hoped to use this “wes element as a wedge to split the ran‘:s of the M. W. I. U. Their proposal to these “weak” strikers was that the | seamen should let the International Seamen's Union take their troubles | to the bosses for them, because there | was no hope for them if they de- | pended on the Marine Workers’ In- | dustrial Union. The bosses, the I, S. | (Contixued on Page 2) The Central Committee of the Communist Party is making efforts this week to install a new press on which to print the Daily Worker, the Freiheit and other revolutionary papers. The press will be able to print a clearer, more readable paper. It will eliminate the technical dif- ficulties that have been a handicap to the getting out of our reyolution- ary papers for a long time. It is a powerful and adequate Weapon our press must be in times like these. Within the last few days, tens of ous of workers have been mobilized twice by our press, to dem- onstrate solidarity with the heroic Austrian workers. Two extra editions of the Daily Worker, in 50,000 copies each were put out on the streets hours before the usual\press time, to call these workers to demonstrate. The breakdown of a printing press in these moments is a paramount and deadly technical obstacle to our work, For years the Daily, Freiheit, and other revolutionary papers have been printed on an old, out-worn press. Many times it broke down under the pressure of the additional papers and magazines which our movement now publishes. Again and again money aad to be spent for repairs, in order to save the expense of a new press. But a few years ago, after 35 years, the old press completely broke down. The Red Press Certificates and tation extended in the press for citi- zens to come to the capital and criti- cize the N. R. A. reservations for the Red Press ban- quet to be held March 4th, at New Star Casino, New York, can be ob- Central Committee Arranges Banquet | In ‘Red Press’ Drive | } tained by sending donations and | money for tickets to Press Commit- ‘ee, P.O. Box 136 Sta. D, New York City. The New York banquet will | be a delegated affair, at which | time New York organizations will be awarded their certificates. To insure the continued publishing | of the Daily Worker and our other| papers, it is necessary that a new printing press, technically adequate, be installed for the papers of the revolutionary movement. To meet the needs of tha workers in the swiftly ‘developing events of this period, it is urgent that the instal- -ation of the printing press, which will cost $22,000, be immediately completed. | The Central Committee strongly : urges organizations and individuals whole-heartedly to support the ef-/ forts being made to complete the installation of this press. Money 1s needed at once, “Red Press Certi- ficates” are being issued by the Cen- tral Committee s'gnifyinz that the organizations and individuals pos- sessing them have helped the rev- olutionary press in these historic times. The certificates will be is- sued to organizations for $5 or more and to individuals for $1 or more. They are ready now. All organizations should mobilize their branches and unite to bring this problem into every meeting for prompt action. The Central Com- mittee calls upon the workers throughout the country to help our press with funds NOW! The prob- | Jem has never been such an urgent | which mai kes | according to Roosevelt's dec | were one, 1572,500 CWA Men Will Be Unemployed ( Councils Call for Protest for Jobs and Relief NEW YORK.—The Roosevelt gov- | ernment today fires 572,500 C.W.A. workers, by orders of the president. The firing of this half million C.W.A workers, brings the total of C.W.A. workers discharged by Recsevelt’s liquidation program to well over a million. The wages paid the C.W.A. work- ers have already been reduced to 30 cents an hour, on a curtailed week the wages in rural com- 1.59 in ¢c.ti $7.20 king a ‘15 and 24 hour week. How,- wor | ever in the south especially thousands of C.W.A. workers are working only T42 hours a week with a total income of $2.25. The miserable ges in the south were revealed in Washing ester- day at a national welf confer Conditions in South Carolina, said | Miss Florence Stevenson, a C.W.A. | administrator from South Carolina, where thousands work on the $2.25 a | Weck schedule, are typical of the | south, Another half million C.W.A. work- | ron. Tf ers are to be fired around M: The National Gnsiierment e immeaate cah- of emergency conferences, and immediate protests against the CWA firing, with dele- gations, demonstrations and march- es to ue C../.A. and roief offices, Demand an end to C.W.A, firing. Demand, Jobs or -— relief for all jeb comm‘t- tees. ‘aad, CWA. ‘onl s unieas on all C.W.A. projects Fight against discrimination against Negro work- ers by C.W.A. 0 Is . Fire 4,126 in Chicago CHICAGO, Ill., Feb. 22—The C.W.A | Administration suddenly fired 4,125 C.W.A. workers here yesterday on various projects throughout the city. Preparations are being made to fire | Illinois. OSes Sepa | New York C.W.A. Fires 25,000 NEW YORK.--The New York Siate | C. W. A., acting under the orders of | Roosevelt and Harry L. Hopkins, fed- | eral administrator, fired 25,000 work- ers throughout the state yesterday. Included in the layoff were 6,64 C. W. A. workers in the suburbs of New ; York City. Inclvded in the layoff | been State working in the Long Island Westchester County. As a reward for his faithful work | in carrying out Roossve't’s orders to cut wages and fire C. W. A. work- ers, Col. W. A. DeLamater, ac ing | Cc. W. A. administrator, was made} city C. W. A director. The Draft Resolution pro- posed for the Eighth Con- vention of the Communist Party is published in full in today’s issue on pages 5-6. more | also 2,542 workers who have| Parks, 401 in Suffolk County, | 1,420 in Nassau County, and 2,201 in| Bob Minor to Show Fired Today How NRA Lowers Living Standards > | ROBERT MINOR Strike Wave Hits Racine, | Wis. Plants | 1,200 Nash Auto Co. Men Walk Out for Increased Pay MILWAUKEE, Wis., Feb, 22.— A! wave of stril sweeping Racine! factories, with ‘kers in four shops out already. Chief among these are) | 18,000 C.W.A. workers in downstate | the strike at the Nash auto. plant,| | including 1,200 workers, and the | | strike at the Case Tractor Co. The Case Tractor strike is taking | form of a folded-arms strike, with the men going into the shop, punch- ing the clock, and refusing to put out| | any work, while remaining in the} | factory. | _ There are strikes also at the Eisen- rath Tannery and the Oster Com- ny ne Nash strike is under the lead-} ership of the A. F. of L. The offi- cials are trying to call off the strike | in the same manner they called of | the strike at Kenosha, Wis., without the main demands being granted. T. U. U. L. Aids Strikers The Auto Workers Union, and the Trade Union Unity League have is- sued a leaflet to the strikers urging | them to demand 35 per cent wage) increase, abolition of the group sys- | no victimization for strike ac- | ; no secret negotiations and arbitration. The Racine Nash strike is one of | | @ series affecting the Nash Co. during reecnt months. In Decem- | ber, 2,000 workers walked out in the Kenosha plant. Last week over 1,000 voted for strike at the Seaman Body, Milwaukee, Nash affiliate. Mass picketing is encircling the Nash plant, with unemployed work- ers showing their solidarity by aiding {on the picket line. Excerpt from letter from Tom McKenna, Secretary, Chicago Com- | mittee, American Leacue Against | War and Fascism to his National Committee. * On Saturday we held a demon- stration against Austrian Fascism, which was attended by more than 2,500 (actual count). We planned the demonstration Tuesday, wrote a letter immediately to the S. P. of Cook County asking them to cooper- ate, signed the letter fraternally Excerpt from letter dated Feb. 19, from Isadore Benesch, Secre- tary, Baltimore Committee, Ameri- can League Against War and Fas- cism: | “oe ‘You will find enclosed resolution which we are presenting to all or- ganizations, Yesterday we atempted to present this to a meeting called by the So- cialists, and the enclosed publicity will give you some idea of what oc- curred. Preceding the meeting we took up this matter with members of the So- jicalist Party and others connected with the meeting who are also mem- bers of the League, and it was de- cided that the resolution should first be presented to the chairman of the meeting for his presentation. Miss Gillman, Mr. Pollin and Dr. Neistadt, Baltimore Socialist Leaders Meet Unity Call With Blows the committee, rejected the proposal and raised the “red scare.” We then decided to attempt to have the pro- posal adopted from the floor. You will note from the publicity that Mr. Sparrow was scue'ched. Mr. E. F. Barker, an elderly gen- tleman, a member of the wecianct Party, an outstanding Baltimorean, a leader of the unemployed, also a member of the League, volunteered to present the proposal. Dr. Neistadt, the chairman, refused permission and then adjourned the meeting peremptorily, and Mr. Barker then attempted to walk towards t*e stage and hold the people's attention, As he reached the stage he was manhandled by the Socialist guards. The writer then attempted to reach Dr. Broadus Mitchell, member of the smash this unity, yours, phoned the S. P. office, were told they were haying a special ex- ecutive board meeting Wednesday night, offered full cooperation in any ~lans they might have, were turned town. Socialists called separate demon- stration. We wrote immediately ask- ing to exchange speakers, or if this did not fit in with their plans, to oxchange greetings, received no re- oly. On Saturday, the permits were not granted until almost 11 a. m. (Socialist demonstration scheduled ‘or 12). Socialists had a turn out of between 250 and 300, sat on park benches while singing the Interna- tienale. I asked to be allowed to vresent greetings, was refused per- vnission. I then wrote out the following and League and speaker at the meeting, and was roughhoused ‘anded it to Maynard Kreuger, the chairman: The letters which we publish herewith make clear that the gangster tactics which the Socialist Party leaders employed in Madison Square Garden last week are not peculiar to this particular crew. Throughout the whole Socialist Party the rank and file demand for unity with all revolutionary workers has received a tremendous impetus from the example of fighting working class unity on the barricades of Austria, and the earnest invitation of the Communist Party. Not only in New York, but in every part of the country the Socialist leadership is resort- ing to open gangsterism as a settled policy in its desperate efforts to “The American League Against War and Fascism extends greetings to this meeting of Cook County So- cialists in protest against the brutal massacre of Vienna workers and against Austrian fascism. Forward to the unity of all workers and anti- fascist fighters in the struggle against war and fascism.” I went on to the back of the plat- form as unobtrusively as I could and asked Kreuger to read the greeting. He pushed me off the platform in a highly provocative manner, saying: “Now we told you there was nothing doing. Don’t start any trouble.” There was no disturbance of any kind, fortunately. We had a good distribution of the Manifesto and Program and of our leaflet. Most of the Socialist demonstrators came to our meeting. At our meeting there were speak- ~ Chicago, Baltimore S.P. Leaders Attack Own Members Who Urge United Front ors from the Socialist controlled Workers’ Committee on Unemploy- | ment, the Womens’ International League for Peace and Freedom, the Communist Party, Workers’ Ex-Ser- vicemen’s League, T.U.U.L. Gebert, for the C. P., delivered the most splendid appeal for unify I have ever {heard. No Socialist worker would take offense when he regretted the | calling of the separate demonstra- | |tion and appealed for unity in the future. (Note: McKenna is also secretary of the Chicago Civil Liberties Com- | mittee.) | Calif. Ex-Secretary of S. P. Joins the Communist Party LOS ANGELES, Feb. 22.—Har- old Ashe, former state secretary of the Socialist Party of California, joined the’ Communist Party of District 13 before an assemblage of 400 cheering workers at Walker's Auditorium here last night. The meeting was called to protest against Austrian fascism and as an expression of solidarity with the heroic Austrian workers. Ashe vividly exposed the oppor- | tunistic activities of the official leadership of the Socialist Party of California, singling out out espe- cially J. Stitt Wilson, Busick and Dempster and Sinclzir, and called upon the rank and file Socialist workers to join the ranks of the | | Communist Party. Five responded | at once and filled out applications. | Other speakers at the meeting | include Lawrence Ross, for the Communist Party and Dorothy Zadow, of the Young Communist who is facing a prison sentence for her organizing activities among the orange pickers of San Ber- | nardino. A storm of protest which nearly | | wrecked the Socialist organizati in California followed tt tion by the Executive the Socialist Party of a united front proposal fo- conerete action made by the Communist Party. More than 300 twovkers resign’ > son Costalist, Party | as a result, many of them joining — the Commumst sx’arty. ‘ \nor, representing the jnist Party, | 27, called by General J | living standar« | have been {police in atti Johnson Plans To Call Bosses’ ‘Economic Meev After Hearing | “A F ST MOVE” lyiaihas Exploiters To Have Last Word on N.R.A. NEW YORK.— Robert Commu US.A., will appear at the N.R.A. public hearing: jon Tuesday morning, February The purpose of the ings, as announced by son, Wednes be given a chance orally and openly hering in Washin: fer privately or in same period.” The hearings for Feb. 27 to March 5. They are t be followed by a meeting of the le ing bosses who have fastened codes on their workers The Communist Party is tmobilixin, all its forces in the r trade unions, to b from the shops to expo: ner in which N.R.A. has fostered comp: unions and attacked the worker ganizations and their right to str on, or, In a telegram sent to Gens Johnson, the Communist Party clares: “Tusday morning, Feb. 27, Robert in Washington to a ey plaints against the N ceptance of your invitati ed yesterday (Feb, 21). half an hour to present our ca: The whole manner in which G eral Johnson has called the public Cae on Page 9) Cops Bar Road to Hunger Marchers On Way to London Police Mass in Capital as British Jobless Come To Protest LONDON, Feb. 2 Massed mounted and foot police barred the w: late today to 400 hunger marchers in the Scottish contingent as they reached the outskirts of Edmontor @ residential town a few miles north of Londo the hundr are converging on in 12 contingents of the provocation which is reserved for j them in the capital. There the state has made the most elaborate preparations to ter- rorize the marchers which have been seen since the general strike of 1926. Twenty thousand police reserves ed to duty, and every nolice machinery has part of been moh In addition, Fascists are Sir Oswald Moseley’s paring to assist the on the marchers. ‘They are marching on Parliament to protest against the new Unem- ployment Bill, a il be greeted ata neato mass meeting in Hyde Newsi Flash MANAGUA, Nicaragaa, Feb. 22. —Gen, Augustine Sandino, his brother Socrates, and two friends were kiled by members of the Nicaragua Nutional Guard yester- day, following a truce of a year's standing. The National Guard at- tackd the house where Sandino was staying in his visit to Ma- nagua. Sandine, whe conducted a guer- the efforts of vernment and 3. §. Ma 0 were sent by Hoover to dislodge him, signed a truce with the government after two years’ “war,” after the U. S. government was forced to with- draw troops,