The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 5, 1934, Page 1

CIRCULATION DRIVE NEW SUBS RECEIVED YESTERDAY: Daily ...-. 28 Saturday ee Total to date 2,980 Total 2,043 => 6 | Vol. XI, No. 82 Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., under the Act of March 8, 1879. Daily .<QWorker CENTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL) NEW YORK, THURSDAY, APRIL 5, 1934 WEATHER: Probably rain gainst War! Mass in St. Nicholas Arena Friday, 7:30 p.m. AMERICA’S ONLY WORKING CLASS DAILY NEWSPAPER (Six Pages) Price 3 Cents 900 DELEGATES AT CP. MEET CHEER CALL T0 STRUGGLE ' Housel Hails Jingo P lans for War Anniversary Army Ordered to Giye| All Aid to Glorify Entry Into War ARMY TO MARCH Covecsies,. Mayor Hail War Celebration By SEYMOUR WALDMAN (Daily Worker Washington Bureau) WASHINGTON, April 4. — Monster parades, reviews, military exhibitions and the} usual fervid patrioteering speeches will feature the} seventh annual celebration of Army] Day, which will be held throughcut the United States and its possessions on April 6, the 17th anniversary of America’s entry into the World War, according to the current is- sue of the National Bulletin of the Military Order of the World War, the official organizer cf the “cel bration” of the slaughte: of millio: of workers by rival imperialist powers. The leadership of “Army Day,” of course, is the War Department, the Adjutant General of which has already sent out instructions to commanders of corps areas and to commanding generals of overseas departments for the “celebration” of Army Day. These commanders are under der to give “cordial Army supp and are “authorized to provide for the celebration of the day.” President Roosevelt, Assistant Sec- retary of the Navy under Wilson and big navy man, wrote Lieut.-Col. George E. Ijams, the’ commander- in-chief of the Military Order of the World War, that “the celebra- tion of Army Day on April 6 each year, commemorating as it does our entrance into the World War, indi- cates, in part, the gratitude of our nation to our army which so val- jantly has served this country in its every emergency.” The letter is displayed prominently in the Bul- letin, Corporation lawyers, railroad pres- idents, industrialists, bankers, gen- erals, U. S. Senators, representa- tives, publishers, former ambassa- dors, judges, and other lights of the ruling class comprise the Citi- zens Committee, headed by Newton D. Baker, former Secretary of War and now prominent open shop pub- lic utilities and automobile lawyer. These worthies, says the Bulletin, have accepted their position “in the spirit of helpfulness and patriotism.” It is noteworthy that “national defense” is not the only listed pur- pose of the “commemoration.” It is also “an occasion when our citizens should stop and take stock ot what preparations are being made to meet ANY emergency that might arise.” (Capitals the Bulictin’s). The organizers of the “commem-} oration” of the “Day” that brought so many millions to the Schwabs, Morgans, Baruchs, Atterburys and their ilk, go out of their way to libel the memory of Lenin, the giant genius who led the workers to power in Russia. In their crude, stupid fashion, by way of commenting on the presence in this country of Emma Goldman, avowed enemy of the Soviet Union, we are told that “like many other revolutionists of the old order, she soon found the bureaucratic oppressiveness of Lenin intolerable.” And in the lead of his story, the ananymous scribe injects the anti-Semitic twist by character~ izing Emma as “the sensational Russian Jewish leader of American Anarchism.” Gevernors, Mayors, legislative bodies and other counci!s, George Dern, the Secretary of War and Chief of Stafi, General Douglas M c-Arthur have given their “en- ments” to the celebrations, the ional Bulletin anounces, Washington, Cincinnati, New York, Kansas City, Boston, Chicago, Wichita, Milwaukee, San Francisco and other prominent cities will hold “outstanding demonstrations.” Nothing is said, of course, in the Bulletin of Wilson’s St. Louis, Mis- souri, speech, in which the man “who kept us out of war” admitted (aiter it was over) that the war) “to make the world safe for democ- racy” was a “commercial war,” that is, a war for booty at the ¢ :pense of the workers, DILLINGER’S AID SHOT Su. PAUL, April 4—While U. S. Federal authorities search wildly tor John Dillinger, notorious gun- man who “miraculously” escaped from an Indiana prison a few weeks ago, aids of Dillinger and other fangster3 are being shct down, be- ing mistaken for Dillinger. One of his confederates, Eugene Green, was shot last night, —@ { i | | | HARRY F. WARD | _ National Chairman, American League Against War and Fascism, who speaks at anti-war rally in St. Nicholas Arena Friday night. Ward Speaks Friday at Big Anti-War Meet Browusvic Outdoor Demonsration 7 P.M. Today NEW YORK.—New York workers will give a ringing answer to the poisonous jingo glorification of war on Army Day, next Friday, April 6, at the 17th anniversary of America’s entry into the war, with a mass meeting in New York Friday, and an anti-war parade and demon- stration in Briwnsville today. The New York meeting, in St. Nicholas Arena, 69 West 66th St., Friday night, at 7:30, will be the war meetings which are being held in all sections of the city, under the auspices of the American League Against War and Fascism. The Brownsville demonstration, today, will be mobilized at two points at 7 p.m., Ralph Ave. and | Fulton St., and Hinsdale and Sutter Aves., and from both points the demonstrators will march to Hop- | kinson and Pitkin Aves. where an open-air mass meeting will be held. Friday’s Speakers At St. Nicholas Arena, Friday night, the speakers will include Harry F. Ward, national chairman of the American League Against War and Fasicsm; H. W. L. Dana cf Boston, representatives of trade unions, Negro organizations, the Workers Ex-Servicemen’s League, the Women's Peace Societies, the | Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, the Civil Liber- ties Union, and other organizations. | Admission to the St. Nicholas Arena meeting is 20 cents, 15 cents to bearers of a throw-away card, which is being broadcast by the 100 organizations affiliated to the League, and free to unemployed with membership cards. OME people Sherlock Holmes was a great detective. Some peovle think that Baron Munchhausen was the world’s greatest twister of the truth. But whoever shares these opinions has not yet become acquainted with the redoubtable editors of the Jew- ish Daily Forward, leading Sccialist Jewish daily paper in this country. From the inner sanctum of the edi‘orial offices, from some secret and eager huddle of the Forward editors, there has emerged the great “expose,” the great discovery of the greatest, most blood-curdling, most fiendish “crime of the century.” “Communists Caught In Miser- able Forgery,” screams eight-column headlines in the Forward. Look, ery the editors of the Forward, here are the pictures of the Com- munist paper, the Deutsche Volks- climax of a long series of anti-. | & think that New Strike Wave Throughout Country Sweeps Over the Barriers of N. R. A. Ce re Miners of Fai airmont, W Va., Reject Trickery of Code ete | STORM RAYON MILL | California Pea Pickers| Plan Strike in Face of Terror Reports from all over the coun- try indicate a new strike wave is rolling up in the most varied in- dustries, including auto plants, shipyards, and leather and rayon mills, These strikes show a marked increase in militancy and ten- acity, and a growing refusal of the workers to bind themselves by any agreements that contain N.R. A, arbitration clauses, The Fairmont, W. Va., miners, for example, have refused to be put off with a trick that has worked in the past, to have their demands granted for a few days, with their case to be taken up at the code hearing starting next Monday. The following are summary re- ports of the strikes: * 30,000 Miners Continue Strike FAIRMONT, W. Va., April 4— The 30,000 miners in the northern section of West Virginia, on strike for $5 for a seven-hour day are holding their lines solid, in the face of sabotage by United Mine Work- ers of America officials. Pickets are being maintained. The miners have rejected the op- erators’ offer to grant their de- mands until April 9, after which they would have to abide by the code hearings. They demand a set- tlement at once on their demands. max Storm Belamose Plant ROCKY HILL, Conn., April 4.—/| Four hundred workers stormed the | Goors of the Belamose Corporation, rayon manufacturers, here today | following the firing of 950 employes of the factory. Workers seeking to enter the plant were urged by their fellow workers with them in a protest strike. Groups picketed all around | the mill dissuading workers from going to work. Two workers were arrested by the police. fear Deke, ) Prepare Pickers’ Strike HAYWARD, Cal., April 4 (F. P.) —A mass meeting has been called by the Cannery and Agricultural Workers’ Union, to demand 30 cents a hamper, 30 cents an hour, or 1%4 cents a lb. for the 4,000 pea pickers in Alameda county, who are now receiving 17 cents a hamper, as in 1933. Alameda is among the coun- ties which have organized “vigilance committees” to terrorize the ex- ploited pickers. Wis. Socialist Mayor Defeated at Re-election BEAVER DAM, Wis., April 4—A woman who had never held polit- ical office before, Miss Mary Spell- man, a teacher here for nearly 50 years, defeated Rae Weaver, Social- ist Mayor, for re-election, The vote was 3,432 to 1,479. “New York United Front ‘Conference on C.W.A. to Reconvene Sun., April 8 ITo Plan Struggle On‘ Jobs Against Pay Cuts And Firings NEW YORK. — Eight hundred} C.W.A. workers, who Tuesday night heard the reports of the returned C.W.A. workers’ delegates to Wash- ington, enthusiastically greeted the call to the third session of the Greater New York United Front Conference on C.W.A. and Unem-| ployment, to be held at Stuyvesant Casino, 142 Second Avenue, Sunday, | April 8, at 1 p.m. Michael Davidow, president of the} Relief Workers’ League, in outlining the tasks of the conference, stressed the need of local actions to force the continuation of jobs without pay cuts, and for immediate cash relief to all fired C.W.A. workers equal at least to C.W.A. wages. Neighborhood Protest Meetings “Open air meetings must be held in every neighborhood,” Davidow said, “to rally the fired C. W. A. workers to mass at the Home Re- lief Bureaus in a body to demand cash relief. It is the duty of every worker here if he is still on the job to resist the firing of his fellow workers. Organize ‘stoppages — of work, strikes and demonstrations on the job. Marchjon the relief head- quarters in a body. Demand the (Continued on Page 2) Ask Stronger ‘Chains in Rail Slavery Act Roosev elt Emergency Board Proposes Mandatory Law WASHINGTON, D. C., April 4— To strengthen the chains of the Railway Labor Act, which the gov- ernment has used in the past to break strike movements, the emer- gency board, created by President Roosevelt last March, proposed in its report yesterday to have a law passed by which decisions of any adjustment board created under the Railway Labor Act would be man- datory, so that any railroad worker not accepting a government decision on the wages or hours would be fined or sent to jail. The reason given for this slavery proposal is, as is usual in such cases, that the railroad bosses, in this c the Delaware & Hudson Railr Corp., refuse to accept the arbitra- tion, strike-breaking proposals of the government and the treacher- ous officials of the Railroad Brother- hoods. This fake epposition of the railroad bosses to the present ar- bitration machinery, which has meant wage cuts for the workers in Zeitung, which “forged the das- tardly lie” that Karl Severing, former Socialist President of the Reichstag, is now writing a book praising the Hitler government. And what do the editors of the Jewish Fo show us in defense of Severing? A ludicrous, clumsy, journalistic attempt, in the best tabloid style, to creat by deliberate distortion, a cheap, journalistic “sensation.” They know that they are skating on the thinnest ice. They know that in discussing the relations of the German Socialist leaders to Fas- cism that they are defending an indefensible, politically criminal position, a position that led the German and Austrian working class into the trap of Fascism. That is why the editors of the Forward leaped so feverishly upon the item in the Communist Deutsche Volks-Zeitung reporting that Severing was writing a book Gen. Johnson Yearns |! r “Old War Days” || When He Ran Draft (Daily Worker Washington Buro) WASHINGTON, April 4.—N.R. |) A. Administrator General Hugh S. Johnson exhibits an increas- ing nostalgia for the good old war days when, as he said yes- terday in his long awaited press conference, “I got along beauti- fully with the press.” When asked yesterday about the probability of N.R.A. obtain- ing more space in the old Post Office building, Johnson said he would take all he could get, add- ing, “I operated the draft in the old Post Office building and there is a sentimental connection there.” Negro, White Demonstrate for CWA Jobs St. Lowi, Tease Haute Workers Fight CWA Layoffs ST. LOUIS, Mo., April 4—Four hundred Negro and white C.W. workers demonstrated at the City Hall here Monday, demanding C. W. A. jobs for all jobless workers, immediate cash relief, and no dis- crimination against Negroes and foreign born, A committee of ten, elected by the workers was refused audience with the mayor, the workers, however, forcing him to meet with a com- mittee of five. At the insistence of the commit- tee, Mayor Dickmann appeared be- fore the assembled workers, thor- oughly exposing himself and his program for unemployed relief, say- ing that he urged all business people to employ the workers at odd-jobs cleaning and painting, The workers demanded immediate reinstatement of all fired C.W.A. workers, the enlargement of C.W.A. to provide jobs for all the unem- ployed, immediate cash relief, and no discrimination against Negro and foreign born workers. Pech Demonstrate in Terre Haute, Ind. TERRE HAUTE, Ind.—Despite a | Ordon of armed police and detec- id | tives, which was thrown around the (Continued on Page 2) the past, is useful to the companies in getting such a slavery law passed pany, as is now proposed by the Roosevelt emergency board. Wheel Wockess Vote for Militant Demands Despite Misleaders ‘FIGHT A.F.L. HEADS Third Labor Mediator Sent Against Spicer Accessory Workers (Special to the Daily Worker) DETROIT, April 4—Over the bit- ter opposition of A. F. of L. offi- cials, Kelsey Hayes Wheel employes, members of Federal Union No. 18677, last Saturday unanimously passed a resolution calling on the local to take the necessary steps to win the following demands in two Kelsey Hayes plants employing 2,800 workers: Abolition of all piece-work and bonus systems, payment of st ht hourly rates and abolition of com- pulsory payment for group insur- ance of $2.20 a month. A committee, elected from the floor to draw up a wage scale, pro- poséd a minimum hourly wage of 80 cents for men and 60 cents for women, with those now getting 80 cents per hour or more to receive a minimum of 96 cents, or a 10 per cent increase, whichever proved most advantageous to the workers. When the scale committee re- ported, its members were viciously attacked by A. F. of L. officials. The president of the local and the chairman of the meeting argued,| “We don’t mind going to the com- pany with decent requests, but these demands are too radi If you want to be réal radical about it, why not demand a dollar an hour?” Despite the leaders’ efforts to create confusion, the proposals of the scale committee were passed unanimously, not even A. F. of L. officials daring to vote against them. The officers were instructed to nresent the demands to the com- The local is calling a mass meet- | (Continued on Page 2) State Senate Defeats Bill for Regulation of Employment Agencies | ALBANY, N. Y., April 4—The State Senate Tuesday defeated, by | 23 to 21, the bill passed by the As sembly to establish State regulation of private employment agencies. The wide resentment against the vicious sharks who fleece their victims cf commissions and then give them temporary jobs or no jobs at all, has forced the bill up so far, but Senator Dunnigan, Democratic lead- er, maneuvered to stop the passage of the bill by promising to introduce it later with amendments. ae a ‘One way in which employment agency sharks operate was told yes- terday to the Daily Worker by a worker correspondent, who reported that the Cameo Employment Agency at Sixth Avenue and 44th Street, run by Nat Stark, sends men to jobs at the Steuben Taverns, which is partly run by Jack Stark, a brother. A fee of $10 is charged. After work- ing a few months, such men are often fired, and new men sent to take their place, also after having to pay fees of $10. Socialist Editors Spin Fantastic Tale of “Forgery” In Feverish Efforts to Escape Deeds of German S.P. Leaders ‘SOCIALIST “FORWARD” SHRIEKS “FORGERY” BUT ALREADY ISSUES ADVANCE ALIBI FOR SEVERING > “Must Win Masses For Revolution,” Browder Declares “In Essence Roosevelt’s Program Is Hitler’s: The Tempo of Our Work is Decisive For Victory He Tells By MARGUERITE YOUNG Special to the Daily CLEVELAND, April 4.—Earl Browder, tary of the Communist Party of the United States, upon the Eighth National Convention in its opening session, “to win the majority of the working class to our program,” and set forth in simple, shining words the ways and means —eof accomplishing this. , | five-hour report for the Cen- Must Bring {tr tral Committee, 500 delegates ” | Standing By the Waters.” Or Defeat,” Party “apa The Mass This is Keynote That All Delegates Sound (Special to the Daily Worker) CLEVELAND, April 4—Those who live with and lead the toiling| masses of the United States in their daily struggles, especially in the basic industries, the floor of the Eighth Communist Party National Convention~here. This morning’s session was de- Earl Browder, General Secretary of the Party. When several steel workers had taken the floor, the announcement by the chairman of the day, Com-; rade Max Bedacht, that five Negro share croppers from the South had just arrived, being detained in | Springfield, Ohio, brought the con-| shouting their greetings. | The tremendous storm of applause | that met these Communists from the lynch and Black Belt of the | South as they stepped before the | Convention, lasted for many min- utes. They sang their stirring, fight- ling song of the Share Croppers voted to discussion on the masterly this capitalist world which is and historical report of Comrade} proaching a new explosion.” Taking | tribute wealth by Convention Worker.) General Secre called To his ponded in such a Tuggle veterans “We've never ntion; we never such a speech.” ying the surgeon’s scalpel of tan xian analysis to the world in which the convention met, particu- larly to the United States, Browder later turned it upon the Communist Party. He named the tasks ahead one by one. He said: “Our task is to win the major- from 41 states re | ity of the working class to our pro- | gram. We do not have unlimited time to accomplish this. Tempo, speed of development of our work, becomes the decisive factor in de- termining victory or defeat. For today dominated| Fascism is rearing its ugly head more beldly every day in the | United States.” Browder began with a survey of “ap- the line of the 13th Plenum of the Executive Committee of the Com- munist International, he specified: “The world stands on the brink of revolutions and wars. Even the United States, still strongest fort- ress of world capitalism, has been stripped of its last shred of ‘ex- ceptionalism,’ and stands fully ex- vention to its feet cheering and/|posed to the fury of the storms of is, and, relatively speaking, is ering its deepest effects.” And, in.these circumstances, the new deal of President Roosevelt: “Roosevelt promises to feed the hungry by reducing the production of food. He promises to redi billions of sul Union to the melody of “We Shall) dies to the banks and corporations. Not Be moved, Just Like a Tree} The whole convention joined in the chorus. The strains of this Negro}; song of struggle and the indomitable! will for victory of the Negro peo- ples blended with the hearty singing of the Internationale. Ovation to Cuban Communist When the 17th and last speaker of this morning session had finished his remarks, the delegates were| aroused again to a burst of new en- thusiasm when the representative of the Cuban brother Communist Party arrived and stepped onto the platform. The delegates stood and gave the spokesman for the fighting brother Party in the colonial do- main of Wall Street a rousing ova- tion that moved him greatly. He in Spanish, saying: “In the name of the Communist revolutionary proletariat and toil- ing masses of Cuba, I bring revolu- (Continued on Page 2) on the Hitler regime under the direct ‘ patronage of the Fascist Minister of Propaganda, Goebbels. But in doing so they over- reached themselves, as we shall show in a moment. Their eagerness to get the working class to forget certain indisputable historic facts, their eagerness to confuse and be- fog the fundamental political issues involved in Austria and Germany simply made them bite off more than they are now able to chew. For, what are the sources of the story that Severing is writing a book on the Nazis? Is it the “faked” story in the March 15 edition of the Deutsche Volks- Zeitung, as the Forward alleges? In printing the story of the reported book by Severing are the Communists guilty of “a miserable forgery,” as the So- cialist editors of the Jewish For- ward so gleefully proclaim? No! It is the editors of the Forward who are grossly guilty of a miserable attempt to pin the badge of “forgery” on the illegal Communist press in Ger- many, in their almost insane at- tempt to cloak the terrible treacheries of the German So- cialist leaders. ee AN R the fact is, and the editors of the Forward know it very well, that the story in the Com- munist Volks Zeitung, which the Forward reprints with such delib- erate distortion, and which, de- spite itself, blasts the very struc- ture that the Forward is trying to build up,—the fact is that this story about Severing and his new book on the Nazis appeared in at least two non-Communist separate sources, at least five days before the Communist papers in Ger- many printed it! The story in the Communist Yolks-Zeitung which the editors of the Forward seize upon as the original “miserable forgery” upon which the whole world was duped into jieving that Sever- ing was g a book on Hit- ler, this story had already ap- peared in’ non- Communist sourcces five days before the Communist Zeitung car- ried it! This story—allegedly the “mis- erable forgery” of the Commu- nist Volks Zeitung of March 15, according to the Socialist For- ward—had already appeared in the Parisian anti-fascist paper, Gegen-Angriff on March 10, and then was printed again in a bourgeois-liberal paper, appear- ing March 15 under the signa- ture of one of the leading bour- geois journalists of Germany, George Bernhard, known throughout Europe as the editor of the conservative “Vossische Zeitung” THIS FACT THEN IS CLEAR AS DAY—that the alleged forgery is not on the side of the Com- munist Volks Zeitung, which was only re-printing what had al- ready appeared in two European papers, but rather on the side of the editors of the Forward who ignore these facts which they have in their possession! The whole “forgery” the whole bugaboo of Communist forged papers, the whole lurid, sensational, of the editors of the Socialist For- ward collapses like a house of cards. In the light of the facts, the editors of the Socialist For- ward stand shivering in the na- | kedness of a cheap trick by which they hoped to inflame their read- jers so that their readers would not give too much thought to the serious political questions raised delivered his message of greetings) |ready own everything. He restores structure, | blood-curdling dream | j of government (Continued on Page 6) | He gives help to the ‘forgotten man’ by speeding up the process of mon- opoly and trustification. He would increase the purchasing power of | the masses through inflation, which gives them a dollar worth only 60 cents. He drives the Wall Street money changers out of the temple giving them com- plete power in the administration of the governmental machinery of the industrial codes. He gives the workers the right of organization by legalizing the company unions, He inaugurates a regime of econ- omy, by shifting the tax burden to the consuming masses, by cutting appropriations for wages, veterans and social services, while increas— ing the war budget a billion dollars and ten billions to those who al- the faith of the masses in democs Party of Cuba, vanguard of the}racy by beginning the introduction of fascism. He works for interna- tional peace by launching the sharpest trade and currency war in history. “Roosevelt's program is the same as that of finance capital the world over. It is a program of hunger, fascization and imperialist war. It differs chiefly in the form of un- precedented ballyhoo, of demagogic promises, for the creation of mass illusions of a savior who has found the way out. In political essence it jis also Hitler's program.” Listing the “main strategic tasks” of the Communist Party in this situation, Browder registered .sub- (Continued on Page 3) Browder’s Report to C. P. Convention in “Daily” on April 14 The complete report made by Earl Browder, General Secretary. of the Communist Party of the U. S., at the Eighth Convention of the C. P. U. S., now in ses- sion in Cleveland, will be pub- lished full in an enlarged issue of the Daily Worker on Saturday, April 14. This report contains a compre- hensive analysis of the present situation in the United States, the effects of the deepening economic crisis, and the immedi- ate tasks and objectives of the Communist Party. Do not miss this important po- litical document—to appear in the “Daily on April 14,