The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 27, 1934, Page 1

| ] ] ‘OCIALIST workers! Ask yourselves this question— why does not the New Leader print the text of Otto Bauer’s statement on the uprising of the Austrian work- ers? This week’s issue of the New Leader is devoted to Austria. It is filled with slander and distortions against the Communists. But, there is not one, single solitary word of Otto Bauer’s statements made public to the | whole world after he reached Czecho-Slovakia! And not | one word of comment on these statements! Bauer told the world press: “I sent a message urging them to sub- CIRCULATION DRIVE NEW SUBS RECEIVED FEB. 23-24: mit patient’g to a search for Minister dent Miklas at all costs to arms... asked our Finance our Vice-Governor to get Dollfuss or Presi- stop the imminent fighting.” On these crucial statements by the Socialist leader of Austria, by the outstanding leader of the Second So- cialist International, the Thomas maintain complete New Leader and Norman and utter silence! Why? Socialist workers! Raise the question in your locals— has not the Socialist policy of the “lesser evil” paved the way for Fascism in Germany and Austria? Is not Nor- Socialist Workers! Why Is the “New Leader” Silent on Otto man Thomas advocating the same policy here? Why does not the New Leader discuss the way the Austrian Socialist leaders supported Dolifuss in a “United Front” against Fascism? Or the way the So- cialist leaders supported E*ndenburg in Germany? Raise the question—is not the united front with Woll and Green, leading to the same end that the united front with Hindenburg and Dollfuss led? Is it by appealing to Roosevelt and LaGuardia, agents of capitalism, that we can fight Fascism? Wha # conclusions does Norman Daily <QWorke Bauer’s Statement? Thomas draw from Bauer’s st Austrian leaders supported Dollfuss? ers! Discuss these questions in the question—shall we have a italist agents and tools, the Hindenburgs, the Dollfusses, the Wolls and the Greens, the LzGuardia’s and Roose- velt’s, or shall we have a working class united front based on class strugale against these capitalist agents? Socialist workers! answers! Discuss t atements and the way the Socialist work- your organizations. Raise united front with the cap- hese questions! Demand 4MERICA’S ONLY WORKING cari antes ow oa) er CLASS DAILY NEWSPAPER CENTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL) eLearn Vol. XI, No. 50 as | tage pga atea gp empprapmel ict ageing NEW YORK, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1934 WEATHER: Snow and Colder (Six Pages) Price 3 Cents USSR Workers Offer Homes io Children cf Victims of Austria Collect Gigantic Sums in Mass Meetings of Solidarity SOVIET FARMS GIVE YCL Membership Meet At Manhattan Lyceum Tonight at 7:30 p. m. NEW YORK.—An open district membership meeting of the Young Communist League will be held tonight at :30 p.m., at Manhattan Lyceum, 66 Eact Fcurth St. Charles Krumbein, district or- ganizer of the Communist Party, and J. Little, district organizer of the Young Communist League, will report. The Austrian si‘ua- tion and the tactics of the united front will be dealth with in the veports. Young workers, students and particularly members of the Young |] Peoples Socialist League, are in- Moscow Workers Plan to Build Refuge Home Special to the Daily Worker = | MOSCOW, . Feb. 26 (By Radio).—From all the ends of the Soviet Union, the factories, mills, collective farms and} Soviet farms continue to react | with proletzrian energy to the Aus- ere the workers and farm- organized the collection of n aid the victims of the rror. Places in eries and kinder- gartens have already been set aside for the children of the murdered Austrian workers. 150,000 Roubles in Kharkov. According to the incomplete cal- culations of the Kharkov Regional Trade Union Council, the factories of Kharkov contributed about 150, || vited to be present. | | LEW ons of ‘Plot to Rush 9 Boys to Chair CWA Will Fire 377,000 This Week—Hopkins “No News Today,” He Glibly Tells Reporter By SEYMOUR WALDMAN (Daily Worker Washington Bureau) WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb, 26.— “No news today; when we're ready we'll give it ou’,” was the cryptic an- nouncement with which Harry L. Hopkins, C. W. A. and Federal relief head, smilingly greeted the queries of a host of correspondents who }came to hear him expound the mys- | terious “long-range plan,” the details of which were promised for today. This is the plan, understood to be a sort of work relief project, which the Administration, it is believed, will of fer to som? of the C. W. A. workers now being “demobilized” into starva- tion. | Hopkins, however, knew exactly how many C, W. A, workers are to be tossed into the street by the end of ‘his week—377,000. This will make a total of 1.097,000, or a little over 25 per cent of the officially estimated 4,000,000 C. W. A. workers who were announced to be on the work lists on Feb. 15, the date when the demo- bilization process began. At the offices of the C. W. A. it was explained, a few hours before the press conference, that the “plan,” which Hopkins himself declared last Friday will not take care of the C. W. A. workers now being “demo- NRA Hearings Open Today; Screen Secret Big Business Confab | Minor, Representing the Communist Party, to Score N. R. A. By MARGUERITE YOUNG (Daily Worker Washington Burean.) WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 26. — As preparations for the N. ‘A “Critics’ Field Day” were comp!eted |‘oday, Administrator General Hugh |3. Johnson announced that the jcrities revistered so far are “fewer shan I’d thought they would be.” f | nothing to do with it.” He went over, | | without elucidating, the recent an-/| f |xouncement that the N. R. A. Com- } GEN. HUGH S. JOHNSON Slave master of the N.R.A. codes. | Anether Craw * there were any developments in 'the Weirton case, asserted, “I have | nliance Board provos2s a poll of Budd | Auto Body workers to determine |-vhether th “he Complicnce Board. “But that’s been under ‘investiga- tion’ for quite a while,” a corres- pondent commented. The trouble is,” Johnson retu-ned Fe Se ee Sbe, eed | The United Press reports that Green is “considering” taking a hand | Beware of | | | i} In Toledo 5.000 auto workers are port of over 2,000 auto parts workers Racine auto workers are out on sti | the workers. in this strike. want him to do now, as the official: centers want him to do? Remembe: Unite Ranks! POWERFUL, deep-going strike wave is gripping the auto industry. demending a gencral strike in sup- already on strike. In Milwaukee and What does it mean when Willizm Green enters a strike, as the bosses is of the A. F. of L. in these strike ry Ford and Budd. The A. F. of L. Officials, working cn the Neticnal Lebor Board, smashed these strikes and In Detroit, Lansing, Jackson, | | Kenosha and other auto centers, there is a surge of strike sentiment among | ‘se conditions than before and with the most vicious discr and company unions. Immediate action on the these lackeys of the auto bi now on. The existing sti ted, strengthened by rank and file lead ip and mass picketing. The auto strike mu be spread. Now is the time to win better conditions and union recognition. Every dey lost in waiting for Green to maneuver with the N. R. A. officials will be a set-back to the br: » undertaken by the auto workers. A united front of all worl: belong: auto industry is nec This united front must be formed in the es from betray the militant struggles t of all auto workers is necessary to keep ing to the various unions in the | 5,000 Toledo Auto Workers Press Leaders to Call Strike; 1,400 Walk Out in Milwaukee —* | Betrayals of Green | In Auto Strike! AN EDITORIAL Rank and File for Action In Support of 2,000 In Toledo Walkout LEADERS CALL GREEN | Milwaukee Workers Urge | Complete Tie-Up of Nash TOLEDO, Ohio, Feb. 26.— On the demand of 5,000 auto j | workers in various A. F, of L. | junions here for # general | . : |strike in support of the 2,000 strikers in auto parts plants, a meet- ing will be called to take a vote on the strike today The A. F. of L. officials of the Auto Union, the Machinists Union and the iths and Drop Forgers Union ing to Willlam Green to step into the strike. In conversations |here they admit that they have asked , and if he gives will conform to the demand for a strike. | bilized,” is at the White House await- Somehedy asked whether Johnson| shops, around the de: s of the workers, and on the basis of immediate roubles in three days for the of the heroic Austrian in- The collections are con- meetings of protest against for Victims. At eting of 4,350 workers of the Moscow Medel Printing Plant, addition to subscribing a day's made a proposal ict Trade Union house in the dis- of one shift of the Moscow i Plant yielded if hour, The wi n tl mo plant and in a num- ber of other plants decided to work on their next free day and give the fund to the victims of terror. e farm in the village ©, collected. 1,000 Aus- families of Dolliuss Smashes AllCr sanizations of Austrian ' Workers 40,000 HeimwehrTroops Mobilized Outside of Vienna VIENNA, Feb. 26.—While 40,000 the | | Protesis All Over | Country NEW YORK- ie Internatione’ hen T)-tense vessercay called on al! its districts, sections and branches, and on all sympathe ic mass organ- ations, for the most intensified ac- tivity around the demand for the un- jconditional, safe release of the | Scottsboro boys, reversal of the lynch | verdic's against Haywood Patterson |and Clarence Norris. and removal of | Judge Callthan and Attorney-Gen- eral Knight. | The organization charged that | Callahan’s action in denying a hear- jing on the I. L, D. motion for a new |trial for Patterson and Norris was | the result of a plot by Alabama in- | dustriolis’s and lard!ords to rob the | boys of their apveal rights a'together. It peinted out that had the hearing date been set for later than Feb. 24, Cal'shan’s ruling would have nulli- fied entirely the right of appeal. and he wou'd, under ‘he statutes he | quotes in reversing his own decisions call in the boys for re-sentencine on the day the appeal was defaulted, and ordered them to die the next day. The huge legal task of preparing the narrative bill of exceptions for filine with *he state supreme court, which, by Callahan's decision, must | be comoleted and filed by next Sat- | urday, is under way, the I. L, D. an- nounced. At the same time, legal steps are being taken to appeal against the ruling of Judge Callahan, outlawing the I. L. D: motion for reversal of the verdicts, in his court, on the basis of his deliberate trickery in granting extensions of time, then ruling he |had no right to do so. Calls for Vigorous Mass) for postoonement, have been eble to| ” ing the President’s approval. Hold United Front Conference on CWA ‘Sunday, March 4th TUUC Declares Need of Exposing Socialist Jobless Leaders NEW YORK.—To plan a unified | action against C.W.A. lay-offs and wage cu's, the Unemployment Coun- cil, the Relief Workers League and the Trade Union Unity League have issued a call to all workers’ organi- zations to elect delegates to the Em- ergency United Front Con’esnce, to be held at Irving Plaza, Sunday, March 4th, at 1 p. m. Despite splitting tactics on the vart of the Socialist and Lovestonite flouting the desire of the nip for unity of all workers’ tions, invitations have been sent to every local of the Workers Committee on Unemployment and the Workers Unemployed League, asking them to elect delegates on the | basis of three delegates from each local or branch and three from the city or central bodies. Invitations have been sent to the A. F. of L, locals in particular, and to inde- pendent and T.U.U.L. unions. Unor- ganized workers in neighborhoods and flovhouses, and wo:kers of C. W. A. jobs have been urzed to send de!- esates. Because of the urgent need of money with which to carry through (Continued on Page 2) Heimwehr troops are massing near German border for a purpose which has net yet been made clear, the Dollfuss sovernment is carrying to @ conclusion the destruction of all the orzanizations which the Austrian workers built un in the period of the Socialist regime. The workers are learning with a vengeance the program of the gov- ernment to which their leaders have admitted they were willing to give fascist powers to rule by decree, after having allowed the disarming of their followers. While 1,200 political prisoners have (Continued on Page 2) In the Daily Worker Today Page 2 Sports, by Sam Ross 3 Page Unemployed News Pre-Conyvention Discussion Page 4 Letters from Workers * “Party Life” | In the “Home” Dy. Luttinger Advises Pare 5 “Change ihe World!” by Sender Gerlin “Mill Owners Do Not Live Near CHICAGO, Ilil—The Chicago Dis- trict of the Communist Party has or- dered 400 Red Press Certificates, which they state they can dispose of with Chicago District to organizations and individuals who donate towards the new printing press for the papers of the revolutionary movement. Response to the call for support of tke drive to pay for the new $22,000 printing press has come from all parts of the country. At a press confer- ence held in Detroit, Sunday, a drive was made among the organizations participating. Donations were made from the floor. From an I.W.O. branch in Cleve- land, Ohio, somes a donation. A Chi- cago, Ill, L.W.O. South Side Branch, No. 59 has donated $10. From So. Fallsburg, N. Y., there has come a prompt response. The Scandinavian Workers Club of Brcoklyn has do- nated $5. In other sections also, work- ers’ organizations are he!ping to solve Mills,” by John Spivak Page 6 Editorials Foreign News this important technical problem of our press. The Press Committee stated yes- Chicago C.P. District Orders 400 Red Press Certificatse New York Banquet on March 4th Will Issue the Red Press Certificates in New York City, Sunday night, March 4, 7 p.m., at New Star Ca- sino, 107th St. and Park Ave. To be assured of a place send your $1 res- ervation immediately to Press Com- mittee, Box 136, Station D, N.Y.C. The list of leading speakers, includ- ing Earl Browder, who will return for the Press banquet from a tour during which he has lectured on the Austrian situation, in addition to the unusually fine musical program will undoubtedly attract masses of New York supperters of the revo'u- tionary press. The menu committee towards the new printing press? It is your job to take this question up at once at your organization meeting, and arrange for your organization to own one of the Red Press Certifi- cates by sending a donation of $5 or more to the Press Committee. Pay- ment for the new press cannot be made over a long period of time, but must be paid in short order! Forward to a greater press for our revolution- terday that an overflow crowd is ary movement. Send your persona” SS «(ected at the Red Press banquet | donation today) Joins Boston Ship Strike Flying Picket Squads Patrol Docks; AFL | Sends Scabs BOSTON, Mass., Feb. 26. — The crew of the S, S. Everett has joined the general coal boat strike, bringing the number of struck vessels up to fouvteen, In an attempt to break the strike the shipowners are shipping young boys still wearing C. C. C, clothes and high school students as firemen and seamen on tne Glena White where the shooting occured yesterday. No bona fide seamen, aowever, are scabding. Following the shooting by police ahd the mate of the Glenn White erday, one scab was sent to the hospital and the mate was g.ven a gcsd beating. The seamen thought missing were accounted for today. Some of the ships are still running with scab crews, but are away out of schedu.e due to deiays caused by uninitiated strikebreakers who are disgusted, many of them being driven off the ships by the strikers. The officers are forced to do all the dirty work aboard the ships that are try- ing to move. Flying Picket Squads ‘The strikers are mobilizing flying squads of pickets to look out for the struck ships and keep the scabs oft of them. One of the missing men of the Glenn White was found today after he had been released from jail where he was fingerprinted. It is reported that the mate, who led the attack, was hit by a stray bullet from a police gun. Protest Shooting At a meeting conducted by the Marine Workers industrial Union and the International Labor Defense the seamen vigorousiy protested the action of the police and ship’s of- (Continued on Page 2) London Cops Pian Attack on Jobless Gathering Today Promise to Smash Up Trafalgar Square Demonstration LONDON, Feb. 26.—All the forces f the Metropolitan police, assisted by 3.000 uniformed civilian volunteers. are being mobilized to attack a rally of jobless in Trafalgar Square tomor- ow, This meeting is to support a dele- ation of 40 elected by the National ‘nity Congress of unemployed, to vhich more than 2,000 jobless have ome on a Hunger March from all over Great Britain, who will attempt 9 address the House of Commons. The police, on orders from the overnment of J, Ramsay MacDonald. ‘ave promised to smash up this dem- vnstration, which is within the one- sile “deadline” around Parliament in ‘hich the government refuses to al- intended to “crack down”—a favorite oxpression of his—on Ford. “Now there's no question of hold- ng off on Mr. ord because any- thundered. head.” Johnson said 180 anpearances have been scheduled for the “critinism”- fest beginning tomorrow. A list of those appearing, given out by N.R.A. to the press, contains a preponder- ance of small business, trade people ond others, decidedly not a majority “f labor spokesmen. The code-conferences of big busi- ness administrators of codes — for which the public-criticism period is ‘ntended as a screen — is beinz “lanned care“ully. ys this, a total “f 2,122 dele~>tes representinz 382 in- dustries had been registered by last veck-end, it was announced today. Asked whether he exnected sub- tential changes to result from the “wo sevies of conferences, Johnson veplie’: “As far as N. R. A. is con- rerned. no. But I hope to get sub- vtantial changes in some of the s0des.” . “Get that out of your ee : Minor Speaks Today. WASHINGTON. — Robert Minor, resenting the Communist Party, U.S. A., will soeak here this morning ot 10 a. m. at the Willard Hotel, N. R.A. headquarters. Minor will pre- sent the Communist position against the N.R.A, slave codes, Georgia Prepares Sterilization Bill Against Negro Masses MACON, Ga., Feb. 26.—Supoprt for ‘he proposed _ sterilization measure aimed primarily at the Negro messes, was announced to- day by Dr. C. H. Richardson, president of the all-white Georgia Medical Society. The measure is to be proposed at the next session of the Georgia Legislature. body’s afraid of him,” the rctsre!’) | struggle. Bread m: k and file to take matters in their own hands a’ help lead the strike to victory. Auto workers! Do not wait for to you what they did to the Budd an and take action yourselves, together around your demands, the struggle established and a real union won in strike committees should be elected nd fight all delays. Delays now help the bosses. The Auto Workers Union, whith has led the struggle among the aulo workers, should take the leading part in forging the united front, exerting every ounce of energy to expose the A. F. of L. officials and to Green and the National Board to do a Ford workers! Organize for strike with your fellow workers, regardless of union affiliation. By fighting together, all out of the shops together, can be won and better conditions the auto industry. Roosevelt Move Communist Party Urges Workers Mass at German Consulate NEW YORK.—The New York Dis- trict Committee of the Communist Party, in a statement issued yester- | day, urged all units of the Commu-| nist Party, all workers in trade | junions and mass organiza’ions to| support the German Consvlate March 3, at 1:30 p.m. ‘The statement reads, in part: “The| on Saturday, | leader of the German working class, is in danger. “Organize for this demonstration | in your shops, ‘rade unions and} | nei~borhoods, in all mass organiza- | tions. “NEW YORK DISTRICT OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY.” - s to Control All Radio, Wires, Cables for War | Proposal for Federal Grip on Radio, Wires and| Cables, Gives Government Huge Censorship Powers WASHINGTON, Feb. 26.—Creation of a Federal Communications Com- mission, which would have control over all radio, wire and cable service in the United States, and would be a powerful means of censorship and war preparations, is asked in a spe- cial message sent to Congress today by President Roosevelt. “T have long felt,” says Roosevelt's message, “that for the sake of clarity | and effectiveness the relationshiv of the Federal Government to certain services known as utilities should be tion, power and communications.” He points out that in transporta- tion there is the Interstate Com-| life of Comrade Tha>mann, heroic | merce Commission, and in power, the | Federal Power Commission. He then proposes the new commission for control over all means of communi-| cations. ‘That the new body be given power to “investigate and study” the com- munications system and report at the next session of Congress for legisla- tion is also recommended. in Detroit, Lansing, Jackson nt were inf-rmed of the pro- |cosed act:cn in Toledo. Besides the auto strike here and ‘in | Milwaukee and Racine, 1,000 workers the J. I. Case Co, plant at Racine | are out on s| n four auto parts plants n shut by strike. The anding increased pay {and recognition of their union. The strike at the Spicer Manufacturing | Co. is one of the most strategit walk- | outs as this company manufactures universal joints for a majority of the | automobile manufacturers. | The general auto strike In Toledo | would invo‘ve over 400 factories. The | workers are demanding a minimum wage of 65 to 70 cents an hour, as against the 40 to 46 cents an hour provided by the auto code signed by the A. F. of L, officials. Besides, they are demancing recognition of their union, which is also against the “merit clause” conditions agreed to | by William Green, John L. Lewis, 8°11. |ney Hillman and other A. F, of L, officials. | . . | 1,400 Strike in Milwaukee | MILWAUKEE, Feb. 26.—Over 1,400 workers in the Seaman Body Corpo- ration, makers of auto bodies for the Nash Motors Co., went on strike to- |day demanding increased wages and | union recognition. | The strikers are demanding an in- jerease of 20 per cent in pay, and nition of the demands of 1,200 ikers of the Racine division of the demonstration at the | divided into three fields—transporta-| Nash Motors Co. It is expected that the Kenosha division of the Nash Motors will also be closed by a strike, as the workers there have already voted to walkout. ike was averted at the Fred A. Shoe Co. and the B. B, Shoe | Company when the bosses agreed to negotiate with the union committees, The Mayer Co. officials offered the workers a 5 per cen’ increase in | wages and adjustment of piece work rates, | The Belgian Catholic-conserva‘ive paper, “Libre Belgique,” publishes an interview of its Berlin correspondent with Paul Loebe, one of the leaders of the Social-Democratic Party of Germany and former president of the Reichstag, in associa ion with Otto Wells and Frederick Stampfer. Loebe, who is now enjoying full freedom in Nazi-Germany, in his statement proclaims himself a fol- lower of bloody Hitler. The old Social-Fascist and new- made Nazi, Loebe, told the corre- spondent: “T am of the opinion that my polit- ical activity and that of my friends has definitely come to an end. Ger- many’s fate will from now on take its Over to Side @ BRUSSELS, Feb, 13 (By Mail).— German Socialist Leader of Reichstag Goes of Hitler, Interview Reveals ‘The past never returns.’ “I would be considered a con-| temptible traitor if I, after having | MOSCOW, Feb. 26.—Following the statement of Loebe, one of the most| prominent of the leaders of German | Social-Democracy, that he has be-; come “en admirer of the National Socialism of Hitler,” the “Pravda,” central organ of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, declares in an) editorial headed, “The Leader of Ger-| man Social-Democracy, Paul Loebe,| at the feet of the Fascist Leaders”: | course on a different plane. In this sow workers to gather. | connection I endorse Hitler's saying: “A worthy eencirsion to the po- Utical road of the Second Inter- “Drive Social- Pravda Says on Loebe Action a long time, would in one day turn into an en-husiastic follower of Fascists Out” national. So much the better. The disgusting spectacle of th’s Social- Fascist discarding kis rebes for the uniform of a Nazi official enly cm- phasizes the necessity for the Ger- man working class the speedier tu drive from its ranks with ali hatred and fury the Social-Fascists of the | Social International. May the mad dogs of Fascism bark in unison with their new-found Nazi colleague, Paul Loebe, The revolution triumphs,” | worked for @ different idea for such ; national-socialism, | “But I am objective enough to ad- | mit that Germany’s new leaders, with. beautiful en’ m, undertook to | solve problems whieh we were unable (to so've. I am thinking of the << form cf the Reich, the procuring: iwork for the unemployed and |winter aid, a work which ts filled [with great socistist spirit. The agra- | rian problem also seems to have been (attacked with much aggressiveness. Ti the new gevermment succeeds re-employing 6,009400 unemployed, this would heroic deed that be “would command my admiration.” This statement of the Social-Demo- cratic leader Loebe was not made |under pressure, although even the | worst terror could not be an excuse. Mr. Loebe is enjoying full free- dom in Germany at the present time,