The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 31, 1934, Page 1

nn NO MATTER HOW SMALL! Order a Daily Worker Bundle for Sale To Those You Know Vol. XI, No. 130 = Daily .QWorker Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., under the Act of March 8, 1879 N W YORK, THURSDAY, MAY 31, 1934 CENTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL) WEATHER: Showers and slightl: AMERICA’S ONLY WORKIN CLASS DAILY NEWSPAPER G (Six Pages) yw Price 3 Cenis EDISON ELECTRIC MEN TO JOIN TOLEDO STRIKE TODAY ) 15,000 Young N LY. Workers March Against War, Hail National : Youth DayWith Many Workers on Sidewalks Cheer N. Y. Youth Demonstrators 25,000 IN PARK 500 in Separate YPSL Parade in Harlem By JEROME ARNOLD NEW YORK.—“The great- est youth demonstration against war and fascism ever held in the United States.” That was the sweeping description given to the Na- tional Youth Day demonstra- tion and parade held yesterday af- ternoon, when 12,000 young workers and students marched through the streets of the lower East Side while thousands more lined the lewalks cheering them on. At Tompkins Square Park, where the parade ended, 25,000 people list- ened to the speakers from the Amer- iean League Against War and Fas- cism, the Young Communist League, Young Circle League, National Student League and other parti- cipating organizations speak against imperialist war and fascism. The entire East Side rang with the slogans of struggle against im- perialist war and fascism; with slogans calling for the freedom of Ernst Thaelmann, the Scottsboro boys, Angelo Herndon, Tom Mooney and others, with demands for un- employment insurance and relief as the slogans of the marchers were answered by cheers from the side- walks and house windows. Undoubtedly, the youth parade on the lower East Side roused more interest, enthusiasm and support from the workers than the jingo march on Riverside Drive held yes- terday morning. From 9 am., when the American Legion, the GAR. the D.AR., the National Guard and other such organiza- tions began their parade to the Soldiers and Sailors Monument on 110th St., the gleam of guns and the waving of the U. S. flags dom- inated the scene. At 11 a.m. the parade was over and so were the preparedness speeches of LaGuardia and the army generals. The National Youth Day parade, however, told an entirely different story—a story of militant struggle against imperialist war and fas- cism, a tale of active fight for the working-class emancipation from the horrors of a capitalist society. (Continued on Page 2) SovietUnionGuards Forced to Fire At Manchu Spy Ship USSR to Probe Visits of Ships Carrying Photographers (Special to the Daily Worker) MOSCOW, May 30. (By cable)— Reports of new violations of Soviet frontiers along the Amur River, by steamers flying Manchukuo colors, are published in the newspapers here. On May 27 the frontier guard of the region of West Krestovosdvi at the village of Jensky, noticed a tow- ing steamer bearing a Manchukuo flag, accompanied by a barge, ad- vance upstream on the Amur River at a distance of about 8 yards from the Soviet shores. Parades nounced Wednesday a new treaty 176 Hospitals in U. S. Were Closed During Past Year NEW YORK.—No less than 176 hospitals in the United States have closed for lack of funds during the past year, and many others are near the point of clos- ing. This was admitted by Homer Wickenden, general director of the United Hospital Fund in New York, who stated that “the de- pression has multiplied greatly the number of people who must have free care.” But “gifts” are no longer forthcoming, he de- clared, and the government has done little to meet the hospital needs of the crisis-stricken popu- lation. Wall St. Holds Cuba War Base In New T realy Anti-Imperialists Show Wall St. Sticks to Armed Intervention NEW YORK.—With great fanfare mixed with the noise of war prepa- rations, President Roosevelt an- between the United States Govern- ment and the Cuban Government, which purports to “annul” the Platt Amendment, forced on the Cubans in 1903, One of the main features of the Platt Amendment, the leasing of a naval base in Cuba, remains un- touched in the new treaty, still to be ratified by the U. S. Senate, with the result that the Guantanamo base “shall have the territorial area that it now has.” The tremendous graft that took place during the occupa- tion period is again sancified in the new treaty, as in the old. The 1934 treaty appears to aban-| don the “right to intervene for the preservation of Cuban independ- ence, the maintenance of a govern- ment adequate for the protection of life, property and individual liberty, and for discharging the obligations with respect to Cuba imposed by the treaty of Paris on the United States.” Forced by Mass Struggles The heroic struggles of the Cuban workers under the leadership of the Communist Party of Cuba and the revolutionary trade unions is one of the chief reasons for this newest “non-interventionist” tack of Wall Street. The difficulties of American imperialism in maintaining ts com- Nazis Seal Frame-up of Thaelmann ;the Communist leader. Paris Capitalist Paper Disclosed Certain Death Sentence PARIS, May 30.—The Nazi death i sentence case against Ernst Thael- mann, imprisoned leader of the German revolutionary working class, has been framed 100 per cent by agents of Hitler's Secret State Police, according to a sensational disclosure in the “Pariser Tageb- latt,” capitalist German daily pub- lished here. The “Tageblatt,” which is a bitter enemy of Communism, re- | ports that: “The man who is building up the ‘evidence’ against Thaelmann is the same one who ‘discovered’ the Trotzky affair. the German Newspaper Publishers Association itself admits. Going under the name of Korody, and sometimes writing anonymously, he is actually the foreign spc cialist of the Political Police. Hence the present campaign against Thaelmann is being fab- | ricated in the forgery shops of | the Secret State Police.” Although even bourgeois news- papers such as the “Tageblatt” have to admit that the case against Ernst Thaelmann is a pure frame-up, the social-democrats continue to act as police stool-pigeons, assisting the Nazis in their campaign of slander against the German working class leader. The socialist paper Deutsche Freheit of Saarbruecken writes that: ” “There is much to be said against Especially this: He possesses neither the in- tellectual nor the character qualities demanded of a man who wants to lead so highly-developed a working class as the German. The hypo- critical indignation (!) of Com- munist journalists will not prevent us from pointing this out.” iin ae At a iime when a gigantic char- acter assassination campaign against Ernst Thaelmann is being carried on by the Nazis in every newspaper in Germany, the Social- ists lend their aid to the Hitler hangmen with a stab in Thael- mann’s back when his very life is in danger. Norman Thomas and his fellow socialist leaders reject and sabo- tage every united front effort against German fascism — they save their strength for knifing the heroic anti-fascists fighting inside Germany to smash the Nazi regime. New Utilities Tax in N. Y. May Raise Rates of Gas, Electricity NEW YORK.—The municipal as- sembly yesterday passed the amend- ed tax bill requiring all New York City utility companies to pay a city tax of 1!2 per cent of their gross monthly income, raising it from the (Continued on Page 2) 1 per cent of gross income previously levied. "MOT A CE BOSSES ALL WAR FUNDS THE UNENPLOD Thousands of young workers and students bearing these slogans were supported by other thousands in the working class district of New York yesterday when they marched and demonstrated against | war preparations and jingoism. Above is scene at the National Youth Day demonstration in Passaic, N. J., May 30, 1931. NTS WARS! FUN bet Police Slug and Terrorize Ten Jailed in Jobless Demonstration Saturday Mass at Trial Friday; NEW YORK. — Police thugs in the Tombs are torturing the ten workers jailed after the demonstra- tion at 50 Lafayette St., Saturday. When seized, they were slugged and blackjacked. While chained between between cops, detectives beat them with lead-loaded blackjacks. When they fell under the rain of blows, vicious kicks were lunged at their prostrate bodies. Today they are being thiatened with continued Sluggings. They are still in jail because of the excessive bail set by Magistrate McGee. Magistrate Dreyer, playing the same game as his fellow on the Undaunted by the brutal police attack upon the demonstration of unemployed at 50 Lafayette St. last Saturday, the workers of New York are preparing for a gigantic demonstration on Saturday, June 2, at 10 a.m., at the Welfare De- partment, 50 Lafayette St., in pro- test against police terror and de- manding increased relief, pay- ment of rents of all unemployed, and an end to the proposed cut- ting off of relief. —— bench, has refused to lower the bail. One of the workers, David Jen- kins, now released from the hands of these blue-coated sadists with bail raised by his friends, tells of the brutal treatment accorded these prisoners at the hands of LaGuar- dia’s police—a story that is iden- tical with the treatment given Ger- man workers by the brown-shirted Hitler mad-dogs. Jenkins’ Statement “I was taken into the hallway at 50 Lafayette St. There the police fixed chains around my wrists and bulged and the skin broke. Four buldged and the skin broken. Four policemen got behind me and hit Organize Defense Funds; Demand Release of Arrested Workers PS | Youngstown 21 Anti-Nazis Given Savage Sentences By Boston Court Judge Ignores Evidence, Sets High Bail On Notice of Appeal (Special to the Daily Worker) BOSTON, May 30.—Sentences up | to eight months in jail were im- posed today by Judge Sullivan on the 21 anti-Nazi workers and stu- dents arrested and beaten up by police on May 18 at the demonstra~ tion against the presence and of- ficial welcome to the officers of the | Nazi warship “Karlsruhe.” Thirteen were sentenced to six months in jail, one to seven months, one to eight months, while two were given suspended sentences of six months, two fined $100 each, and one fined $20. Attorney Warner summed up for the defense, and will continue the struggle for the release of the framed-up workers and students. He volunteered his services when Donald Burke, secretary of the Boston International Labor De- fense, was ejected from court for drawing an admission from a police captain that the attack on the dem- onstration was deliberately planned. The I. L. D. has appealed to all organizations of workers and in- tellectuals, to all anti-fascist groups, to send protests to Governor Ely and Mayor Mansfield. The proletarian revolution can not take place without the forcible . destruction of the bourgeois State machine and its replacement by Number of Refuse to Shoot Strikers; Steel Mills Union Men Force No-Strike Pledges |MEN ARE INDIGNANT | Mayor Promi: tion for Scabs (Special to the Daily Worker) YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, May | s Protec- | Company Comn : : | Meeting in Baltimore Disciplined for Refusal |To Support Steel Men Guardsmen Prepare Terror; munist Party Calls | Some Troops Believed To Shoot Workers PACKERS STRIKE BALTIMORE, May 30—A mass meeting in support of the coming steel worker: ike has been called for Frida 8 p. m., nl b) | in the Workers’ Center, 209 s| | Muste, A. F. L. Leaders > Eun St., by the Communist | Try To Demoralize ; | “The strike will mean the General Strike | biggest labor struggle that has yet taken place,” | f a leafle ; sued by the Party stated. “The BULLETIN 30.— Company union repre-| Communist Party is calling TOLEDO, May 30.— Governm * sentatives here are going| this mass meeting to rally the | White was prepariny tonight to 2 ‘ ae support of the workers of Bal- | send more National Guard troops A from man to man, urging e area tonight as a ; them to sign a petition against the forthcoming strike, with a thinly-veiled threat of dis- timore for this steel strike.” Admission to the meeting is | became apparent, F frfee. All workers are invited. | The Governor is also mancuver- t | ing with Sccretary of Labor Frances Perkins and the Roose< charge if they don’t sign. The e velt administration in a last min- rs are raging, but signi R d S 1} ute effort to delay the gencral : while the strike sentiment ri evise Le tee | walk-out. rapidly. . is By ROBERT MINOR Mayor Moore yesterday the Communists with full responsi- bility for the strike situation and| promised the Youngstown Sheet and Tube Co. police protection for scabs. Halls for which rent had been paid were closed to the Steel and Metal Workers Industrial Union yesterday in Struthers and Newton Falls. All the companies are hiring out-of-town thugs, and the Carne- gie Steel Corp. is reported to have imported a professional gang from New York, Strike Feeling Rises Sentiment for united action is ris- ing. The Buckeye Lodge of the Amalgamated Association of the Carnegie Steel Company's McDon- ald (Pa.) plant has endorsed the S.M.W.LU.'s united front proposals. The Blue Eagle Lodge of the Sheet and Tube Oo, is also on record for unity. Dallet of the S.M.W.1.U. spoke in the Bessemer Lodge of the Amalga- mated Association of the Republic} plant in Youngstown, receiving a splendid response. The rank and file at the A. A. Sixth District Confer- ence forced the admission and a hearing for an SM.W.LU. repre- sentative, whom they accorded rous- | ing applause and an almost unani- mous standing vote of thanks. The S.M.W.I.U. is preparing a truck and auto parade through Youngstown on Saturday. “Daily” Staff Joins N. Y. Newspaper Guild NEW YORK.—At a regular rep- resentative assembly meeting of the New York Newspaper Guild, held Tuesday night at’the Times Square Hotel, 21 staff members and editorial workers of the Daily Worker were admitted to member- ship in the Guild and formed a Daily Worker Chapter. The Daily Worker chapter is rep- resented in the assembly by one del- (Continued on Page 2) @ new machine.—Lenin, egate of the staff, Harry Raymond. « CodeApproved In Washington (Special to the Daily Worker) TOLEDO, May 30.—Pros- pect of a general strike and one of the most signal victor- ious advances by the workers is a living reality in Toledo today. The Auto-Lite plant jis closed, and the governor announced yesterday it would not opett Thursday, despite the owners’ prediction. It is evident that the fear of re-establishment of the mass pi line and precipitation of a gen strike has influenced this policy, With Auto-Lite, Bingham Stamps ing and Logan Gear Companies out, and the workers establishing mass picketing tomorrow at the Bingham plant while the Toledo Edison Com- pany and Swift and Armour plants are involved in the strike situation, with the electrical workers coming out tomorrow, and 68 unions com- mitted to the general strike, the strategy of the bosses centers on “postponement” while concentrating all instruments to break the work- ers' morale and cajole them into arbitration. An unknown number of National Guard members are known to have refused to fire on the picketers, and are now believed to be under dis- Union Recognition Is Evaded; Fear Sellout | As in Auto Strike By MARGUERITE YOUNG | (Daily Worker Washington Bureau) WASHINGTON, May 30.— With- out a single change in collective bargaining provisions, the revised N.R.A. steel code was approved to- day by President Roosevelt. Despite the budding national steel strike and the begging of Mike Tighe, presi-| dent of the Amalgamated Associa- tion (A. F. of L.), for at least some promise of union recognition to use| to head off the strike, Roosevelt stood pat with the owners’ Iron and Steel Institute, merely suggest- ing once more the threadbare “elec- tion” maneuver. He said: “I will undertake promptly to provide, as the occasion may de- mand, for the election by em- ployees in each industrial unit, of representatives of their own choosing for the purpose of col- lective bargaining and other mu- tual aid and protection, under the supervision of an appropriate government agency.” Tighe and rank and file leaders of the A. A., who have joined in strike conferences with N.R.A. offi- cials in the past couple of days, could not be reached for comment. It was obvious, howeyer, that the revised steel code will only increase strike sentiment. The President announced the re- visions after stating significantly, in his press conference, that he hopes (Continued on Page 2) Litvinoff Gives New Soviet Peace Proposals at ‘Disarmament’ Conference (Special to the Daily Worker) GENEVA, May 30. (By Radio) —The speech of Maxim Litvinoff, Soviet Commisar of foreign affairs, at the disarm- ament conference here yes- terday, lasted forty minutes, and was heard in intense silence and great attention in the overfilled hall. Upon the conclusion of the speech it was greeted with prolonged ap- Plause on the part of a number of | Practically all remaining delega- tions. The Soviet delegation did not wish to regard disarmament as an independent, self-sufficient prob- lem, serving merely economic, bud- get, agitational and other aims. “We desired to see disarmament as a real means of abolishing war as such. We considered and con- Sider, that the real rejection of war cannot be effective withoht the com- plete rejection of war and cannot be effected without the complete re- jection of armaments; that so long as armaments exist there cannot be a real guarantee of peace, and that only one form of peace is pos- sible, namely, disarmed peace; that armed peace is only a respite, an interval between wars, sanctioning wars in principle and practice. Full, General Disarmaments “The Soviet delegation started with the proposal of full general disarmament, which, if accepted, would have done away with any dis- sentions arising in the conference, regarding the division of arma- ments as defensive or offensive means, etc. Again, this would have avoided many grievious political occurrences, taking place since then in many countries, intensification of nationalism, chauvinism and! militarism, which would also have reflected upon the international economic situation. “TI believe that if peoples formerly having more influence upon the} Policy of their government than at present, would equally clearly have seen the beginning of the develop- ment of international political life they would never have allowed the conference to make so light of the Soviet proposal of complete disar- mament. | “Unfortunately, all other delega- | tions, with the exception of the Turkish, I believe, opposed our | proposal. | “We still more than ever are as- | sured that were nations once more | to return to the idea of seeking international means of averting war by means of disarmament they | could best remember the Soviet pro- | ciplinary restraint. nist League | posal concerning complete disar- | |mament and study it closely, be- Young Commu- members, men and girls, immediately after the first shooting on Thursday, made speeches to the National Guard at the plant, appealing to them to come over to the side of the strik- ers. The Guardsmen replied, ex- their fear of imprisonment s, one declaring, “I wish This, and later a Y.C.L. leaflet have apparently been not without effect. At yesterday’s inquest, Joe Wal- ton, for a Trade Union paper, he saw a man in civilian clothes suddenly assume command of the soldiers prior to the shooting, and shout: “Come on, let's get the Communists! Don’t retreat!” At the inquest all guard officers, although admitting they knew the names of the soliders who fired, openly sabotaged the weak efforts of the authorities to bring out any facts of the massacre. Major Can- nan, a prominent business man, and commander of the troops at the massacre, today led a division of the Memorial Day parade, which is being used to the utmost as propa- ganda against the strikers. All agencies of the business world are working night and day to pre- vent the uniting of all labor in (Continued on Page 2) Detroit Delegation Leaves for Toledo nw eee wee ssN Ow 3 e a Soviet Peace Proposals Are Blow at I mperialist War On May 28, a steamer flying | delegations occupying the press | cause so long as the present social- Manchukuo colors, together with a barge, approached the estuary of the Zeia River near the town of Blagoveschensk. It followed the di- rection of the Soviet shores for Seats, and also among the public, | The iron lovic of Litvinoff’s reasoninp prodhced a strony impres- sion dpon all present. In the lobbies about 335 yards then, after entering the estuary of the Zeia River, which is an internal Soviet River, ad- vanced nearly a mile upstream, keeping always at a distance of 40 to 49 yards from shores. Meanwhile a photographer on the captain’s bridge took many pictures of the Soviet shores, while the steamer proceeded at an extremely slow peace. Frontier guards, discovering this violation, fired two shots of warning into the air. The steamer, not tak- ing any notice of the warning con- tinued its course along Soviet shores. The froniter guard fired one shot at the steamer, and the steamer im- mediately and abruptly changed its course, A detailed investigation of this ‘ecurrence is being undertaken. it was emphasized that Litvinoff had. already shown the issue of the deadlock and the countries really seeking and desiring to find the issues should seize his proposal. Soviet Diplomat Central Figure Litvinoff himself, present in the lobbies, proved the center of atten- tion and was continually being pho- tographed. Numerous diplomats and journalists addressed them- selves to him, congratulating him upon the witty, successful speech and the brilliant analysis of the present situation. The following speech: is Litvinoff’s (Yeu whole world, sitting on a powder magazine of imperialist conflicts, was again electrified by the overpowering revolutionary peace proposals hurled into the critical sessions of the Geneva dis- armament conference by the U. S. S. R. through its Commissar of For- eign Affairs, Maxim Litvinoff. It recalled the dramatic and his- torical disarmament proposals made by Litvinoff on behalf of the Soviet Union at the last sessions of the Disarmament Conference in Geneva on February 11, 1933. At that time the Soviet Union Proposed complete and universal disarmament, But the present Soviet proposals for peace are of a different nature, “From the very beginning two! due to the fact that since the last radically different tendencies were| conference on “disarmament” the disclosed, one representing the | imperialist countries have fully Soviet delegation, and the other! armed to the teeth. The whole capi- talist world is bristling with the most modern machines of slaugh- ter. Their conflicts have heightened to the point where the war explo- sion is a matter of any moment. It is not now a question solely of speaking about a process of disarm- ament as a means of warding off or delaying imperialist war. Imperialist War Preparations Instead of adopting the Soviet disarmament proposals at the last conference, the imperialist powers, all of whom hypocritically mouthed phrases about “disarmament,” and especially the United States, which was loudest in its lip service to dis- armament, strained the entire re- sources and finances of their coun- tries to rush their war preparations. In this situation Litvinoff, at the very beginning of his speech Tues- day, sharply distinguishes the revo- lutionary peace policy of the Soviet By HARRY GANNES Union, and the hypocritical “paci- fist” mask behind which the impe- rialist powers have lunged closer to war than at any period in history, since the outbreak of the last world war. Where Capitalism Rules He pointed out that in non-Soviet social-economic systems (that is, where capitalism rules) there exist No guarantees for peace, but in the rapid development towards war the contradictions of the imperialists are not only intensified, but grow unevenly with greater disparity. And it is these contradictions that the Soviet Union utilizes to expose the imperialist powers to the working masses of the world; and at their disarmament conferences to propose measures of peace that actually throw a monkey wrench into the war machinery of world capitalism. The growing strength of Socialism in the Soviet Union becomes a tre- mendous factor for world peace. What is the basis of the Soviet peace proposals? Here we must sharply distinguish every peace move of the Soviet Union from the peusdo-pacifist maneuvers of the imperialist powers which really screen their development toward war. In the raging sea of imperial- ist contradictions only the Soviet Union is the firm rock of peace ef- forts. The reason for this was clear- ly explained by Comrade Kuusinen at the 13th Plenum of the Executive Committee of the Communist In- ternational. “The determined peace policy pursued by the Soviet Union on the basis ef the victorious con- struction of Socialism has brought the Jand of the proletarian dicta- economic system in the non-Soviet states ekists there can be no other} guarantee of peace. Not an Ultimatum “The Soviet delegation does not put its proposal forward ultima- | tively. It expressed its readiness to| cooperate with the remaining del-| egations in the elaboration of a system of partial reduction of ar- maments. It declared itself ready to consider reduction by any means} and forms of armaments which} might be applied to it. So far there | has been no accord regarding the | means and the principle criterion | regarding the reduction of arma- | ments. There has been no unified established opinion as to whether reduction should apply to all forms of armaments—land, sea and air.| Without enumerating the numer- ous dissentions, it is sufficient to say | | (Continued on Page 6) (Continued on Page 6) Lara SRNEN a To Protest Terror (Special to the Daily Worker) DETROIT, May 30.—Workers’ del« egations, representing various or- ganizations, left for Toledo last night to take greetings to the heroic Toledo strikers and to investigate the terror against the strike. The delegations were elected at a stirring conference Monday night, which was attended by 145 regis- tered delegates and many other workers. The conference was ad« dressed by William Weinstone, Dis- trict Organizer of the Communist Party, and others, who urged sup- port for the Toledo strike, demanded withdrawal of the militia and sup- ported the demands for a general strike. wos A Committee of 17 was elected-as @ provisional committee to call furs ther conferences and set up a-pers manent body to be known as the Detroit Conference in Defense of Workers’ Rights.