The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 9, 1934, Page 6

r Ww Daily U.S.A Ko COMMUMIST INTERNATIONAL) “America’s Only Working Class Daily Newspaper” FOUNDED 1924 PUBLISHED DAILY, EXCEPT SUNDAY, BY THE COMPRODAILY PUBLISHING CO., INC. 50 E. 13th Street, New York, N. Y Telephone Cable Wash! 34th an Midwest ALgonquin 4-795 4 Telephone Subscription Rat S— —_ Who Are the R Against Ai “The rich be lican countrie. bine their hyp al ph atrocities’ with the port of czarism of Russia through How well @ongress leade expressed th Hitler in the ‘ as fighters they thems system which and national Every one of anti-semitism is b nance and govern pogrom makers and And they offer ‘@gainst anti-se the lubbed the Austrian C “liberty.” And the “liberal whose financial conne cial masters about $70,000,000 in ernment, nice still drawing in government ship of forker Hol Fa to disarm the masses in their struggle by preaching the poison of pacifism, and Baldwin, who fights for the “right of free speech” for the Nazi murderers! . ARL MARX profoundly said: “The fight of the Jews for liberation from Semitism is part of the fight for the libera- humanity from the yoke of exploita- s is what the Jewish Congress leaders are t ceal from the Jewish masses that the nti-Semitism can only be an effecitve it is part of the fight for the revolutionary of capitalist exploitation and oppression. Congress. is the working class, and its the Communist Party. pectable speakers last night ined s a silence about the Fascist m against the German Communist Pariy d the revolutionary working class. Why they for- the Communist victory at the Reich- frame-up, why they did not mention Dimitroff, ss war prisoners in the con- centration camps. Because, essentially, they have no objection to this Fascist reactionary terrorism against the German working class and its revolu- ti vanguard, the Communsit Party. And it ie precisely because of this, that these gentiemen will alwzys betray the fight against anti-Semitism —they support capitalist proper- ty ich is the scource of all the anti-Semitic outrages of Fascism. = LEADERSHIP of the Jewish Congress and all e liberal witnesses who appeared Wednesday ¢ are not interested in @ real fight against Fas- , on the contrary, are interested in throt- growing mass hatred of the masses against ney see with alarm the growing hatred against all ruling class reaction, They out “boycotts” against Germany. But attempt to demonstrate against the g of German ships, or against the ship- goods to German capitalism, and all these ‘ascists” will raise their hands in horror and y to break the mass actions of the masses against Fascism. yy the act of the revoiutionary overthrow of he Communist Party of Lenin yed the roots of anti-Semi- all race and national chauvinisn ‘The f Lenin and Stalin, the road of revolutionary iggle against capitalism, that is the only real against Fascist-capitalist reaction and its mous anti-Semitic and nationalistic chauvinism, here there is capitalist-landlord exploitation e is anti-Semitism,” Lenin said. This shows he take to destroy all The Communists t anti- m. An Inspiring Example Te workers, one in a shoe factory in Haverhill, i another in a linoleum plant in Lan- | Shows Effect of iraprisonment | was the first occasion he has bee: | | Chicago DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, MARCH 9, 19 34 Demonstrati 4,000 Protest Smith Trial: Hail Tim Buck Court Rules Out Buck’s Testimony That He Was Shot at ia Jail BULLETIN TORONTO, Canads, March 1.— Four thousand Toronto workezs demonstrated at Queen's Park yes- | terday afternoon, carrying banners © reading “Defend A. E. Smith,” and cheering for Tim Brek and Smith. | Resolntions vigorously protesting | the exclusion of workers from Smith’s trial were adopted. An | attempted march to the Clty Hatt, | where the trial was in progress, | was blocked by an atmy of police. } Leo Gallagher, U. S. attorney here to aid the defense of Smith, | visited Tim Buck this morning and conveyed warm greetings | | from the International Labor De- | | fense and the workers of the | | United States. By OSCA (Special to the Datir % 7 TORONTO, Canada, Mar. 7: |Buck, famous land Secretary of | Communist Party, was the fi jfense witness yesterday morning |the trial of E. Smith, Gene! Secretary of the Canadian Labo: Defense League on # che dition for an allege i ing the government . 20, 1932, In Kingston Prison Tim Buck's s court n in to} Toronto since he was Kingston penitentiary working class |face, but he held himself erect and / the ci cheerfully greeted your correspond-! ent when he passed the press table. | “Do you remember October 20,/ 1932?” asked Chief Defense Counsel | MeMurray. “I remember it very well,” replied Buck. “What partic: ularly impressed it on your mind?”) Crown Frantic at Buck's Testimony | Buck's answer: “I was shot at,”) | brought the Crown prosecutor, Peter! tempi | White, K.C., to his feet In frantic | y- objection to the evidence. Vainly} did the defense attorney argue that if attempts were made to shoot an imprisoned man, this was a subject | | for discussion, for investigation and | w: for reforms. The objection was sus- | tained by the bench. | Frank Love, unemployed eleciri-| cian, was the second defense wit-| ness. Love is one of the authors ot | the banned play, “Eight Men Speak,” i » are setting examples of revolutionary devotion and alertness that must be inspiring to every class-conscious worker. strikel Tecruits element if it is not the Le of the American Li Peseist Brown Shi the Legion Comn "and anno hip? blood-br What is t American counterpart of Hitler's Fas ¢ n and reactionary haic against the working clas: d Matthew hypocritical lie. Street ruling class @ He refuted every perience of the working mz But what these hypocritical fighters against Wascism Wednesday night sought to hide from the ‘Workers at the Garden that race hati vinism, jingoistic nationalism, an are all inseparable from capi Ploitation—that this anti-semitism, vinistic barbarism is only the poisoncus fruit of ruling ¢lass oppression based on private property exploit- ation. What they sought to h Way to destroy this anti-s And the liberals, 500 Meet Hall in 8 like John Ha: 6 More Jailed by Order § “of Socialist Pariy | ent By J. J, SOLVENT BRIDGEPORT, Conn., March 6.—| Despite the warnings of the police) not to hold a demonstration with-| out @ per. repudiated. ers of McLevy, nst.the arrest of | pt i the first dem-| h 5. d the time there n the ci commits evy to protest | | | | unconditional release. Sam one of the leaders of the Shovelers who was beaten and Monday, spoke to the work- ssed the role of Mayor nd the police, ‘S were demanding their pay S overdue. the crowd requested that they Speak and severely criticized the alist administration upon whom placed the entire responsibility ' the delay in pay and the police ality and arrests, / at the first demonstration n the police attacked the work- Socialist rank and filers are cir- culating a petition denouncing the role of the Socialist Mayor Mc- | Levy and demanding that he be in the petition they place the responsibility of the po- ilee terror directly on the should- McLevy Throws Workers Out | Earlier in the day, the police ar- rested three more workers for dis- | tributing leaflets, hoping to break up the distribution of the leaflets, ub aS Soon as they were arrested ok their place immediately. | Both joined the Communist Party less than three months ago. They became regular readers of the Daily Worker. They realized the importance of bringing the “Daily” to their fellow-workers as one of the most effective means for rallying them to our revolutionary movement. ‘The Haverhill worker has already secured 92 new subscriptions to the Daily Worker in his shoe shop. , The lincleum worker has gotten 16 of his fellow workers to subscribe. both plants the conditions are bad, earnings w, yet the workers who had read copies of the “Daily” given them by the new Party com- rades, gave part of their meagre earnings for sub- scriptions to our Daily Worker. ‘These results are additional proof that wherever workers are reached with our Daily Worker, they realize that it fights for their interests, and they become subscribers, Yet the circulation of our Daily Worker, one of our most powerful weapons in our Struggle against hunger, fascism and war, is comparatively small. Why? Simply because there are tens of thousands workers who do not even know that such a work- ing class daily newspaper like our “Daily” ig in existence, If every Party member, every member of militant trade unions, mass organizations followed the splen- did examples set by the Haverhill and Lancaster comrades, our present circulation drive for 10,000 new daily and 20,000 new Saturday readers would 80 over the top easily. Every reader of the “Daily” getting only one new reader each would double our circulation, would double the strength of our reyo- lutionary movement, Follow the inspiring examples set by the Hayer- hill and Lancaster comrades, Help rally larger forces to our struggle against the rising tide of ao and imperialist war by asking your friends and fellow-workers to read o1 to subscribe to it, Re eis = : Every new reader and subscriber gotien for the “Daily” means another worker added to our fight- ing ranks. It means hastening the victory of our class against the capitalist robbers and murderers, arrests, McLevy first said he was too busy to look into the matter, and then lost his temper and sald, “You got yourselves into jail now try |to get om.” He followed up this en by slandering the Com- |Mmunist Party and thro workers’ delegation. ee When the workers lea) | action of McLevy, iy telsce ts pack the courtroom Saturday morn- ing when the trial of Sam Krieger and the other workers takes Place, The lccal press, together wit Socialist Mayor, Jasper Maen have begun # campaign of slander against the jobless workers. They are also attempting to drag the red The snow Other workers McLevy was | scare into the picture in the hope of keeping the unemployed “from organizing. “ The Unemployed Workers’ Asso- ¢lation, which was formed inimedi- ately after the first demonstration, had already over a hundred mem- bers, and is growing hourly as the workers come pouring into the headquarters of the Unemployed Council at 301 Fairfield Ave. in or- der to register. ‘They are co-operating with the Unemployed Council in the prep- aration for the Herbert Benjamin meeting, which is to he held at > went to Mayor Columbus School on Sunday, March he unwarranted! 11, at 8 pm e over 20 dis-| | i | | | | | | | | | | | employed electrician, and one of the | White, and sergeant of detectives | times, but as Smith’s testimony pro- | based on the imprisonment of the | jeight Communist Party leaders. | | Love denied that Smith had said} it was an order from Premier Ben-| neté to Guthrie and from Guthri bility for the shooting of Buck. | ‘Workers present at the Hygeia Sil protest meeting came forward | to deny the allegations in the) ctown’s indictment, all agreeing that | Smith had not uttered the words charged to him by the crown. The witnesses included Frank Love, un- authors of the banned play “Eight Men Speak,” John Cook and Chester Stokes, war veterans. Stokes de- | clared that had Smith uttered the words charged against him “they would have made an indelible im- pression on my mind if they had been spoken. I considered it my duty as a worker and a loyal citizen | to come to his aid against a wrong- ful indictment.” Smith Fearlessly Flays Government | Smith, the defendant, taking th witness stand from 2:30 to 5:30 p.m. | spoke clearly and impressively and bore himself throughout with quiet dignity. The crown prosecutor, Nursey, sitting together most of the time, grinned at each other several ceeded they seemed to become irri- tated. % Smith outlined his speech at the Hygeia Hall protest meeting. He referred to the statements he had made then, regarding the . great value of the Workers’ Theatre move- ment, the Progressive Arts Club, the political implications of the play. He had said, he declared, that the play was “an expression of the feel- tions that exhibit any militancy. He recalled his remarks regarding the demand for appointment of a popu- Jar commission to investigate the attempt on Buck's life, the refusals of the government to grant an in- vestigation, and that the fact that in February 1933, oter 200,000 sig- natu~es were obtained for the de- mand for an investigation, and on Nov. f7, 1933, we carried with us a petition of 459,000 signatures to the government demanding an invesii- gation. We asked for a popular corh- mission, not of professionals or par- Mamentarians: or officials of the institution or of the department of justice, whose chie? function would be to whitewash the affair. Places Responsibility for Shooting Government on “We had presented petitions and resolutions by the thousands,” Smith continued. have stoutly and fused the investigation.” Tells of Strike by “Had Smith to shoot Buck. . “Guthrie has authority and doesn’t need or- ders,” and further in another formulation of the same question: t “T said those men who did the shooting wouldn't dare, on their own, without orders to imitiate mech @ thing.” t | ,| War is in the offing because of the to| profit limitation brake, gnifying noth ing!” (Special to tire nillo, Guira de Mel tonio de } of the tion against N Several A sho' Canada and the the chief of nol irom the H headquarters ny headquart Negro Shops Wrecked Wes tormed,) in, t the; police force; who streets shouting ‘ groes!” They and down the m with Ne-| in the street. | This drive had been prepared for | by discharging three Negroes from) the police force. Later, 15 Negroes) were arrested for 72 hours by order | of the miilta: supervisor, Cabo| Pascual Perez, and they threatened with death by the mayor, Herman Patterson of the National ist Party, and abused by the judg Fabio Sanchez, of the ABC. i In spite of the fact thai specific accusations have been made against the men responsible for these out-| Tages, and in spite of the fact that) Negro committees have gone from! Trinidad to Havana to make pro-| tests, the government has not made any attempt to take any energetic) measures against the guilty, Communist Party Accuses | These systematic attacks on Ne- groes, which go completely unpun- ished, combined with a systematic chauvinistic propaganda carried out by the ABC, the Cuban Ku Klux! Klan, created by the ABC for this Purpose, actively protected by the Jefferson. Caffrey-Carlos Mendieta government, are a pari of the goy- ernment’s drive to smash the tinity; of Negro and white toilers which| bas reached a high Jeyel in the! many struggies in Cuba. The Central Committee of the! Communist Party of Cuba has pre-! were] | |have been dictment of the ce the punishment of the all Meet ‘Against War and Fascism in Chicago Sunday CAGO, M. Ave. and Lemoyne St. Many members of the Socialist, Party e takin, in preparing. the meeting. . The lanning to .follow the vith the building of neigh- tees of action against ¢ of the four halls. Manchuria Sold by Nanking for Help “Against Soviets SHANGHAI, March 8.—Orders t0| heen released, these being persons dissolve the Southwest Political Council in Canton have been issued yy General Chen Chia-tang, hench- man of Chiang Kai-shek, following the disclosure by Chow Lu, of the Southwest Council, of the terms of a deal between the Kuomintang and Japan over Manchuria. This deal, included in the Shang- hai armistice last year, gives the terms of the co-operation between the Kuomintang and Japan which in effect ever since. Among its provisions are the fol- lowing: China recognizes the de facto ex- istence of Manchukuo, and under- takes to suppress the anti-Japanese boycott, in return for equalization of certain treaties, and Japanese assistance in suppressing revolts | 88ainst Nanking—which means par- ticularly Japanese assis'ance in the campaigns against Soviet China, a separate youth! to Smash Negro, White Unity Pageist Unionism | | Enslavement for “Free” | 2 8.—The Chi-| ted in this “union.” All function- ion of the American League | aries are to be named by the fascist | War and Fascism will hold|tep command. No worker who has ; meeting against war and|the slightest record of struggle will is Sunday, March 11, at} be admitted to membership—which m. in the four halls of the| means automatically that he can- 1 of New Jerusalem at Cali-| not get a job. i | enthusiastic part|are taken in the name of “Chris- lany anti-fascist sympathies. n for Thaeimann, M By PHIL BARD ching ‘Dollfuss Decrees | rich Steigfurth, and calling for | as Terror Grows) Workers, Tortures for the Jailed VIENNA, March 8.—The doom of trade unionism in Austria is sealed in a decree which orders: all work- ers to be enrolled in a single fas- cist union, under the direction of Odo Neustadeter-Sturmer, minister of “social welfare,” a Heimwehr fascist, No election of leaders 1s permit- “Christian Robbery” The decree says: these fascist steps tianity, social justice and love of count: The vast property of the old unions is to be taken over by the fascist union. This new decree completes the legal enslavement of the Austrian working class. Another decree issued by Doll- fuss provides professional penalties for lawyers, doctors, pharmacists and other professionals who show Many More Arrests Conirary to the revorts circulat- ing abroad about the release of prisoners, in reality the police are making fresh arrests daily. Only a very small number of prisoners have who were arres‘ed at random in the streets or municipal tenements dur- ing the first days of the conflict, but not vlaving any political part either during or before the struggle. Now, however, Communist and Social-Democratic functionaries are being systematically arres‘ed. Among those arrested is the retired Colonel Hostovsky, who was an of- ficer on active service in the Fed- eral army till 1927, and later held the position of commander of the reserve artillery depot. Since being pensioned, Colonel Hostovsky was leader of the workers’ chasseur and rifle clubs. He was, however, not @ member of the Republican Guard. Among the others arrested is Karl Schneller, a retired general and former brigadier of the Federal army, who has not played any sole whatever, either in politics or mili- arch 17 Mobilize Fight ‘ForC.P. Leader I n Berli |\U. S. Aetions Lag | Behind Those of German Workers CHICAGO, March 8.—Workers. intellectuals and students of Chi- | cago will demonstrate in defense of Ernst Thaelmann, leader of the | German Communist Party, who goes on “trial” for his life this month ago demonstration wil! be -held Saturday, March 17, at 1 p. m., in Washington Square, 90¢ \ North Clark St.. under the auspices of the International Labor Defense jand the Chicago Committee to Aid | Victims of German Fascism. The assembled workers will eleci |a delezation to go to the Chicago {Nazi Consulate and present their ) protest. | * | Berlin Workers Fight for i Thaelmann | BERLIN, Feb. 20° (By Mail) — | Thousands: of copies of a Commu- | nist leaflet demanding the release jof Ernsh Thaelmann were dis- |tributed in Neukolin and Treptow. | Berlin, on Feb, 12. A few davs previouslv leaflets ex- posine the burder of the four Com- munists, John Scheer. Rudolf i Eugen Schoenbaar and ee the defense of Thaelmann, were tributed broadcast in the Wed- ¢ district of Berlin. An illegally distributed leaflet, ts- sued by the Berlin-Brandenbure district of the Communist Party. calls for the formation of defense committees. di U.S, Actions Lag NEW YORK.—While workers of Berlin, with a orice on the head of every leaflet distributor, and Nazi orders to shoot them on sight, are s‘ruggling by thousands to build up the mass defense of Ernst Thael- mann, their leader, the American workers are lagging behind. Reports of meetings, demonstra- tions, resolutions and committees demanding the release of Thael- mann are coming in very slowly. Undoubtedly many such actions are taken which are not reported to the Deily Worker. But the dearth of revorts shows an insvfficient will to fight against the death Hlans of the Nazis against. Comrade Thaelmann, a fight which Georre Dimitroff, in Moscow, de- clared to be “a question of the revo- lutionary honor of the world prole- tariat.” Hold demonstrations, mass meet- ings; raise the question of. 'Thael- mann in your union, In your mass organization; flood the Nazi em- bassy and consulates with commit- tees, telegrams, resolutions. Ernst Thaelmann and all class- war prisoners of the Nazis must be freed! tary affairs, in social democracy, but is known only as a writer and lyricist for social tendencies. The Social-Democratie provincial coun- cillor, Leichin, has been arrested on the Yugoslavian-Styrian frontier. Tt is stated that the government intends incarcerating in concentra~ tion camps those of the arrested persons against whom there is no evidence enabling leral proceeding to be taken against them. Both in the police s‘ation cells and in the emergency arrest sta- tions the prisoners are brutally tor- tured. Beatings with rubber batons are the order of the day, as also the so-called “ear-boxing machine,” in which the tortured prisoner is placed in the center of a circle of five or six robust policemen, who throw him from one to another by blows on the head. There is also another process popular for the extortion of con- fessions. If.the prisoner will not or cannot reveal dumps of arms, he is stood against the wall, and threatened that he will be shot and will disappear as “unknown victim” of the conflict. He is then fired at with blank cartridges. Gov't Profit Restrictions on Munitions A Fraud res .4 Can Be Easily Evaded _}in evading its own “laws.” Huge War Profits Reveal By SEYMOUR WALDMAN (Daily Worker Washington Bureau) WASHINGTON, March 8—The Senate amendment to the estimated billion dollar five-year Vinson- ‘Tramwell naval construction bill, Just passed by an overwheming ma- jority by the Roosevelt war ma- chine, which limits contractors to @ 10 per cent net profit on warships and war planes, is not only thin demagogy but also utterly ridiculous demogagy. The books and records of the pre- datory manufacturers, the legisia- tive lieutenants of American im-| perialism now declare, must be con- stantly open to the Budget Bureau |, 4 or authorized representatives of the Senate or the House of Representa- tives. In addition to being a sop to the faction who profess to believe that actions of insatiable munitions ing imperialisms for each others’ markets, the amendment is an at- tempt to grease the bill down the throd‘s of the workers as a, sort of| First, the official record of profi- teering up to hundreds of per cents by concerns whose heads were and still are great petriots (logical un- haustibility of capitalist ingenuity Second, the impossibility of probing the cost sheets of such concerns as the United States Steel Corporation and Du Pont de Nemours, the heads of both of which corporations adorn the wings of the carnivorous blue reagle. Third, the impossibility of unearthing the hundreds of meth- ods of padding cost accounts is thoroughly appreciated -by all -fa- miliar with the subject—of course, one of the reasons for. proposing the “examination” of books, No one knows this better than the War De- partment, where such demagogy is openly laughed at by responsible Officials, whose official profit zone, |has not yet reached beyond the 6 and miners will also appear, uprising. der capitalism) illustrates the inex- eek Anniversary Article By’ Minor to Appear Tomorrow Saturday’s 8 page issue of the Daily Worker will carry an article on the 15th anniversary of the Communist International: by Robert Minor in which he will trace the historical progress of the C. I. In addition, there will be a feature article by Harry Gannes on the Socialist Party's action at the N. R. A. “Field Day Criticism.” Articles on the situation among the auto workers, In Monday's issue, which will be 8 pages, the first public state- ment of the Austrian Communist Party will appear on ihe Austrian There will also be an article on Otto Bauer’s treachery and @ number of articles on the pre-convention discussion in preparation for the 8th National Convention of the Communist Party. per cent guarantee to business in war-time proposed in the Depart- ment’s industrial mobilization plan. Fraudulent Records . Representative John J. McSwain of South Carolina, one of the shrill- est jingoes of the Roosevelt war machine and author of a fascist bill to establish a junior naval reserve, himself reminded former Secretary of War Newton D. Baker of the well-known story of padded pay- rolls, thinly disguised bribery and out-and-out lying that brought blood-stained wealth to those who forced the world’s workers to slaughter each other in 1914-18, The following cross-examination took place during the War Policies Commission hearings in 1931, railroad workers e To Allay - Oppsition to the Record War Expenditures Mr. McSwain: Now, did you ever hear during the war of the name of the American Metal Company of New York? , Mr. Baker: No sir; not that T re- call. ‘“ Mr. McSwain: In that same re~ port Mr. Colyer [Chairman of the Federal Trade Commission during the World War and also 4 member of the price-fixing committee of the War Industries Board] reported that everybody in that corporation —itrom the chairman of the board Fe 4 eeeeieke 20 different officers the corporation that got a nearly $2,000,000 bonus for pose of hiding as overhead @ part of these very war profits... ! Tt is also significant that several of the heads of the most powerful U.S. corporations (especially United States Steel)—the very corporation that murders those workers who are bold enough to strike against slave and starvation conditions—are high - E 3 in the command of the N. R. A. the Roosevelt road ss ’