The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 17, 1934, Page 1

Districts: Organize Delegated Mass Meetings to Aid Drive Yesterday's Receipts ...... i Total to Date .. . $ 219,53 318,825.29 Pre Run Vistielesiath: 400 Daily .QWorker CENTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL) NATIONAL EDITION Vol. XI, No. 249 SS * New York, N. ¥., under the Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at Act of March 8 1879. NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1934 ix Pages) Price 3 Cents SCOTTSBORO CONFERENCE CALLED Thaelmann Defense Plans Mapped QUICK N MASS Labor Spy System Flourishes Under Roosevelt’s New Deal, ‘Daily’ Investigation Reveals ACTIONS ARE CALLED FOR Conviction Would Doom Thousands of Others, Says Committee LISTS DIRECTIVES Immediate Steps Urged As Secret ‘Trial’ May Have Begun Declaring that the fate of Ernst Thaelmann, workers, now facing trial in fascist Germany, is the concern of “ey- ery individual and organization op- Posed to the Hitler regime, its atrocities and persecutions,” a call of the Naticnal Committee to Aid Victims of German fascism 5 Out specific means of widen- the fight for Thaelmann’s lib- must be broadly popu- Jarized. the letter declares, that “if Er aclmann is convicted, then there will immediately follow the trials of ‘other outstanding indi- viduals now in Hitler's concentra- tion camps who are not of Thael- mann’s political convictions. We can expect that following the trial of Thae} mann before the ‘People’s Court’ . leading pacifists, trade- unionists, inteliectuals, Socialists, Jews and Christians will meet the same fate.” Because of the urgency of the sits uation (Thaelmann’s trial behind closed deors, king place at occur any day), all orga: niza sions Opposing fascism and Hitlerism as well as all city committees ef thé National Com- mittee to Aid the Victims of Hitler Fascism are requested to raise to a much higher level the movement to save Thaelmann’s life. The letter adds, “We have very little time in which to act, and immediate mo- bilization of all committees and groups must be undertaken today. We request you to carry out the following activities: “I, Renew and increase the com- mittees to visit the German con- sulates. “2. Renew and increase the tele- phoning of the consulates by hun- dreds and thousands of individuals in your city. “3. Flood the ‘People’s Court,’ Berlin, Germany, with resolutions demanding the freedom of Ernst Thaelmann. “4, Request that groups, organ- izations and hundreds of individ- uals at once write a registered Jet- ter, return .receipt demanded, to Ernst Thaelmann, ‘People’s Court,’ Berlin, Germany, assuring Thael- mann of their support in the de- mand for his liberation. “5, Renew picketing at the Ger- man consulates. “6. Broaden the campaign for a million signatures to free Ernst Thaelmann. “7, Assist in initiating mass dem- onstrations before the German con- sulate in your city. Such mass -dem- onstration should occur within the next few days. “8. Induce all sympathetic organ- izations and groups to name a Lib- eration Committee of Three, this committee to be in daily contact with your center to help in the above tasks. “9, Hold special meetings of at- torneys so that they may launch an effective protest. Call special meetings of other professionals. Se- cure protests from outstanding peo- ple in the public life of your city. “These are the tasks which will mobilize masses of sympathizers and which will effectively notify the Hitler regime that Thaelmann jas the support of hundreds of thousands of friends in all parts of the United States. Get into action immediately. Demonstration in Chicago Loop (Daily Worker Midwest Bureau) CHICAGO. Oct. 15.—State Street and Madison Avenue, the heart of Chicago’s teeming Loop, was the scene of & militant noon-day de- monstration today demanding the freedom of Ernst Thaelmann. More than 300 workers who flocked to the meeting, which iasted only a short time, heard Dave Brown of the Communist Party condemn Brown-Shirt terror Pickets Released After Arrest. leader of the German | | (Special to the Daily Worker) PITTSBURGH, Pa., Oct. 15. — Eight workers who were arrested here today for picketing the Ger- an Vice-Consulate in protes: ast the “trial” of Ernst Thael- 2) (Continued on Page Strikers On Basis of Reports Of Undercover Mer. In the recent heroic strike struggles of the workers, thou- sands upon thousands were black- listed after the strikes were over. A large precentage of this black- listing was a result of the under- cover work of spy agencies oper- ating on a large scale all over the country, in almost every im- portant industry, in the course of a series of articles, of which this is the first, the Daily Worker will present documentary evidence to prove this beyond vestige of a doubt, and outline ways and means of how to combat these rats, how to expose them, how to make their Subversive work ineffective. By Edward Newhouse Article I | The N. R. A. has forbidden the setting cf spies by one company on another, but it has repeatedly re- fused to include labor spying among its list of “unfair practices.” Given | this free hand, manipulators of the | network have assumed sinister | power. Increasingly, espionage con- trol is concentrating into agencies | which, instead of working directly With individual concerns, deal with Manufacturers’ Associations and are. often owned outright by them. A previous canvas has shown that the Pinkerton, Burns Thiel agencies alone listed 135,000 men on their combined rolls, main- tained over 10,000 local branches, with 75 per cent of their operatives under cover in various labor organizations and an annual income of $55,000,000. | Today these agencies haye en- larged their scope, perfected their | methods and legalized them as far) as effective execution of their pur- | pose will allow. Garrulous old Peter Bergoff's boast that he knows about strikes! before 98 per cent of the workers involved, and that within 48 hours he can get 10,000 strike-breakers |into action is being made gocd. He has an organization of stools among the taxi drivers who spread word | within the hour around the lower Broadway hotels, most of which! house scores of strike-breakers. At the height of the textile strike Bergoff was receiving spy reports! from the Ainsley Hotel in Atlanta, the Dempsey Hotel in Macon, and the Deshler-Wallick Hotel, Colum- | bus, Ohio, Strike-breakers for Textile The same day, according to Paterson’s Chief of Police John Murphy, Newark’s Tim Manning shipped 500 men to textile areas. Lawyer Cole of Chief Murphy's town can peep into his files and tell you exactly when and under) what circumstances a_ certain striker’s naturalization papers were denied by Judge Delaney of the Common Pleas Court. And while the Railway Audit and Inspection | Co. received its pay reports under | the name of W. A. Schraisen, P. O. Box 793, Philadelphia, its Vice- President Harry Preston personally attended to the hiring of operatives (Continued on Page 2) Blacklisted, anc | 100 offices and over) ORGANIZATION CHART SHERMAN SERVICE ma “Stir up as much feeling as you possibly can between the Serbians and the Italians,” wrote the Sherman industrial spy outfit to one of its operatives during a strike. the chart the Sherman company “Call up every question you can in reference to racial hatred between these two nationalities.” Here is draws of its organization whose threads converge at 22 East 49th Street, New York. PECS MINERS, VICTORIOUS, LEAVE. SHAFT PECS, Hongary, Oct, 16.—Afier 110 hours in the deep mine gallezies | where the Pecs mine:s lay in black- ness, starvation and torture, thc Austrian Creditanstalt, controlled by the Austrian Government, grudg- ingly yielded to the pressure of the aroused and _ seething Hungarian | toiling masses, granting the self- entombed miners wage concessions ;and unemployment relief. Thus, despite the efforts of the fascist Gomboes government forcibly |to remove the men from the pits and the attempts of Social-Demo- |cratic leaders to win the miners to | the surface by promises of fu‘ure arbitration, they emerged this after- noon victorious in their desperate strike. This last resort means of fight- jing for a living wage has taken a | tragic toll in madness and exhaus- | tion. Cazried from the mine-! ane: [many were unconscious and nea |death; others were so ill that it was impossible to bring them aloft and they remained in the pits for emergency treatment. Although |wives and children joyously ex- | plained the demands they had won, the miners were too exhausted io |listen and most of them were un- |able to speak, In addi‘ion to the weekly increase of $1.50 there was granted a col- lective relief payment of about $17.- | 217 now and a similar one at Chzist- |mas. Further: 1. No prosecution for sabotage, | provided no damage was done to the mines, 2. No cancellations of vacations because of the strike. 3. A government commission to see that justice is done them. The workers agreed to await fur- (Coniuued on Page 2) KING'S DEATH SPEEDS PERIL OF NEW WAR PARIS. Oct: 16.—Foverish activi- ties of the French and British for- egn offices prove that the danger of war over the assassination of the tyrant King Alexander of Jugo- Slavia is greater now, after his | merits of the present industrial and burial, than at any time since he was shot down in Marseiiles last week. The Jugoslavian fascist govern- ment. is threatening to send an ul- timatum to Hungary, deman satisfaction for having conspire w.th the assassins for the death of King Alexander. The Hungarian government has been moving closer to Hitler fascism, and it is now es- tablished that the assassins had connections with the Nazi support- ers in Hungary, hoping to precipi- tate war in order to advance the cause of German fas Mor the seizure of new territory. The French foreign office met to- day with representatives of Czecho- slovakia to decide what action to take to strengthen the French al- liance with the Little Entente, Ru- mania, Jugoslavia and Czechoslo- vakia. President Albert Lebrun of Prance, Eduard Benes, Foreign Minister of Czechoslovakia, and Nicholas Titulescu, Rumanian For- eign Minister, are expected to leave for Belgrade, Jugoslavia, to decide on future war alliances and on the question of immediate diplomatic action towards Hungary on the question of responsibility for the death of King Alexander. The British envoys at Rome and Belgrade also took a hand in the rising storm, which may break out into war at any moment. It was announced in London that the British Foreign Office moderation.” BUTTE MINE LOCAL DEFIES GREEN'S EDICT Everett (W aa ) Council Rejects Order for A.F.L. ““Red Hunt” ‘FIGHT SPLIT MOVE! Montana Miners Solid in Stand Against Anti-““Red”’ Drive ; tral Labor Council in the port of Everett, Washington. and the large, |copper mines of the International ; Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers at Butte, Mont. rejected William Green's order tor | a “red hunt” in the A. F. of Ly unions. The Butte Miners Union No. 1 is the largest in Silv Bow county and has a membership of 4,000. Their letter in answer to Green fol- lows in full: “William Green, “President American Federation of Labor, “San Francisco, California. “Dear Sir and Brother: “We are in receipt of your com- munication of recent date relative to the alleged ‘boring. from within’ tactics of Communists ahd Commu- nistic groups and in which you urze the elimination from the ranks of, organized labor of all these so-called ‘disruntive’ elements. In reply wey beg leave to state that in our opinion the success of the labor movement, devends on the coopera- tion within its ranks of all mem- bers of the woi i@ class regard- less of their political opinions or their ideas in regard to the relative s economic chaos commonly called Capitalism as compared with the proposed cooperative commonwealth envisioned by Socialists, Commu- ists and others. is our opinion also that should organized labor initiate such a policy as you recommend, it would find itself limited to a very small mem- bership, entirely inadequate to cope (Continued on Page 2) 25,900 Silk Dyers Near Strike as Lopsatente| On New Contract Fails PATERSON, N. J., Oct. 16.—A conference between leaders of the United Textile Workers’ Dye Union here and employers failed to reaci an agreement on a new contract, | bringing nearer a strike of 25,000! silk dyers. The present con’ract expires on Oct. 24. The workers demand a. thirty- hour week, six-hour day; a mini- mum wage of $1 an hour, and the closed shop. The employers de- mand the continuation of the pres- | ent contract. One thousand silk workers, also in the U, T. W., are already strik- ing against wage cuts and discrim- ina ion growing out of the general textile strike betrayal by the Gor- man-Keller leadership of the U.T.W. Rank and file workers ere urging a simultaneous strike of the silk contract expires. | FIGHTING GOES :army planes, calling on the workers , that this money was taken to con- Save New ‘Daily’ Philadelphia pledges itself to complete its full quota Friday night! In answer to the appeal of the Central Com- mittee of the Communist Party immediately to save the to rush funds new Daily Worker, the following telegram was received yesterday from A. W. Mills, Communist Philadelphia district: “RECOGNIZE URG Party organizer of the ENT NEED OF ‘DAILY’ STOP RALLYING ALL FORCES STOP PLEDGE TO REACH FULL STOP PHILADELPH ‘OTHER DISTRICTS TO FOLLOW nave) STOP THE DAILY WORKER MUST LIVE AND ;GROW!” ON IN SPAIN, REPORTS SAYS LONDON, Oct. 16.—Severe armed fighting of the wo! ‘S against the Lerroux-Rovjes fascist government continues to go on in various parts of Spain, short news bulletins: ar- riving from that country deciaze. The Ministry of the Treasury has announced that a special fund of 5,000,000 pesetas ($700,000) had been alloted to the Ministry of War. to carry on military operations in As- turias against the workers. Details were not given on the fighting, but the fact that this large j sum has been alloted is proof that the workers still hold many cities. Leaflets are being dropped from to stop their struggles and to submit to. the government. In Gijon, 12 workers were condemned to death for their part in the armed upris- ing. The government also reported that when the workers were dviven out of Oviedo, in Asturias, they had taken 16,000,000 pesectas from the Oviedo branch of the Bank of Spain (about $2,000,000). But the govern- ment dispatch does not point out tinue the armed struggles and to help in the revolutionary struggles against the fascist regime. Anti-Fascist F ighters Will Face Boston Court BOSTON, Oct. 16.—Hearinz on the appeal agains: the vicious sen- tences imposed on nine young work- ers and students for participation ,in the anti-Nazi demonstration last ‘June against Hitler’s propaganda “Putzy” agent, Hanfstaenzi. is set for Oc:. 19 in the Cambridge Su- perior Court, Criminal Sessions, East Cambridge, near Lechmere. { Only the Communist Election ‘counseled | workers and dyers when the dye Platform Proposes Real Unemploy- ment Insurance. | $3,500 FRIDAY NIGHT’S BUTTE, Mont., Oct. 16.—The cen-' MEETING (OCT. 19) AT BROADWAY ARENA ITA CALLS UPON ALL EXAMPLE SEAMEN RAP. [SU LEADERS’ SECRET MOVE! their job, officials of the International Seamen’s Union are to be closeted tomorrow with representatives of a number of. shipowners at the Re- gional labor Board headquarters at 45 Broadway. strike| Completing b-eaking A statement issued by the Na- tional Committee of the Marine Workers Industrial Union yesterday wazned the seamen that they could expect nothing from the confab at the N. R. A. offices but a betrayal of their interests and that it is the aim of Victor Olander and Silas Axtell to hamstring the I. S. U. members with a no-strike agree- ment. Meanwhile, paralleling the treach- erous acts of the I. S. U- officials Joseph P, Ryan, President of the International Longshoremen’s Asso- ciation, conferring with the ship- owne stated that an arbitration award would be perfectly agreeable with him, He said that the refusal of. the I. L. A. leaders to call a strike when the agreement expired on Oct. 1 showed “good judgment.” The Rank and File Committee of the International Longshoremen’s Association, in a leaflet issued yes- terday, assailed. Ryan's statement that he would abide with the deci- sion of the West Coast Longshore- men’s Arbitration Board. The com- mittee pointed out that although the decision of the board granted significant concessions, which were forced by the militant s‘rike of the mazitime workers on the Pacific Coast, a strike that Ryan fought herd against, the central demand or union-controlled hiring halls was not granted. The statement cf. the Ma Workers Industrial Union on situation on the ships and docks, follows: Forwa:d with the fight! Prepa-e to strike all Atlantic and Gulf ship: by organizing ship committees on (Continued on Page 2) LEADERS BACK CONFERENCE FOR SUNDAY Two Parades in Harlem To Be Addressed by Red Candidates MARCHES PLANNED Lawyer’s Agents Try To Prevent Mass Defense Rally The call of the International Lae bor Defense and the League of Struggle for Negro Rights to save the Scottsboro boys from legal murder Dec. 7 has been answered by the Negro people and white workers of New York with plans for an Emergency Scottsboro Con- ference, Sunday, Oct. 21. The cons ference, end d by many promi- nent persons, Negro and white, will take place in St. Luke’s Hall, 127 West 130th St. in Harlem and will open at 2 o'clock. Other actions in the fight for the lives and freedom of the boys inciude a Scottsboro parade and demonstration in Harlem this af- ternoon. with starting points at 27 West 115th St. and “131st St. and Lenox Aye. The two parades will converge at 110th St. where the workers will be addressed by I. Amter, Communist candidate for governor of New York, and James W. Ford, Communist candidate for Congress in the 21st District, lead- ers in the fight for the Scottsboro boys Another mass march through the streets of Harlem will be held Saturday afternoon, with a demon- stration at. 126th St. and Lenox Ave. and a torchlight parade in the evening. Speakers at the demon- stration. will include Merle Work, Business Manager of the Negro Liberator and Communist candi date for Assemblyman in the 21 Assembly District, and Harry Hay wood, Communist candidate in the 19th “Assembly District, and Na- tional Sweretary of the League of Struggle for Negro Rig! Piot To Be Exposed Sunday's: conference will set the pace for others throughout the United States. The sensational story of the trickery and underhanded methods employed by Samuel 8S. Leibowitz, former Scottsboro attorney, but now a traitor to the Scottsboro boys, to knife the defense in the back, will be toid in detail by Ben J. Davis, dJr., editor of the Negro Liberator. The slimy methods employed by Leibowitz took a new form this week, when his agents in Harlem tried to throw difficulties in the way of the conference by instruct- ing hall owners not to rent halls to the authorized Scottsboro de- fense. The Harlem Young Wom- en’s Christian Association’ refused a hall for the conference on the ground that “there is another group in this Scottsboro case.” The Hare (Continued on Page 2) Scottsboro Defense Conference Called In Detroit Friday DETROIT, Oct. 16—An Emer- “Revised New Deal’? Gives Wall Street Direct Control of NRA Roosevelt Wants Voters To Approve Attacks on the Masses By MILTON HOWARD S the elections approach, and Roosevelt's Democratic spokes- men call upon the workers and im- poverished farmers to approve the “New Deal” by returning a Demo- cratic Congress, new developments are taking place in the revision of the N.R.A. which can only mean greater misery for these millions who are supposed to approve a con- tinuation of this N.R.A-New Deal program. Donald Richberg, chief N.R.A. spokesman, has already made clear what the new course of the “re- vised” N.R.A. will be. It will be toward giving the biggest Wall Street monopolies more direct con- | trol of the N.R.A, agencies which were originey sst up to “contro!” non-monopoly production, small business, Naturally, Roosevelt's | spokesmen do not state their pur- pose in this blunt way. Richberg spoke the other day of “restoring the balance” in industry, and for “a policy neither the extreme right nor the extreme left.” The Republican critic of the Roosevelt government, Mark Sulli- van, defines this policy as “facing left, but. moving right.” Roosevelt, of course, has never done anything els2. But these latest steps toward “restoring bal- ance” and “free competition” are nothing but the phrascology which conctal new moves toward strength- ening the grip of Wall Sireet_ mo- nopoly, not only on the economic life of the country, but on the gov- ernment power. Direct Control Whereas the big moncpolies re- quired in the beginning that the N. R. A. codes “police industry” throuza an elaborate set-up of N. R, A. codes and boards, present business conditions make it neces- sary that Roosevelt simplify certain parts at the N.R.A. machinery which stand in the way of the em- ployers running the N.R.A. threugh their own direct agents, And the policy announced by Roosevelt yesterday morning, per- mitting the “‘self-policing of indus- try,” to use the term employed by the Roosevelt spokesmen them- selyes, gives the Well Street em- Pployers just this new direct control over the Government apparatus which they need in their new plans for driving the wages and living standards of the American working class down still further. The penctrating words spoken by Stalin the other day to the American working class are being confirmed with extraordinary speed. “It is not the State which is getting control over the economy. On the contrary, it is the cap- italist economy which is getting entre] of the State.” It is not the Roosevelt govern- ment. which is “controlling” the Wall Street trusts, but the Wall Street trusts which are tightening their grip on the Rooscveit govern- ment, making it a more and more open tool of their wage-sm2shing interests. N.R.A. Capitalist Pregram This is the meaning of the latest development in the N.R.A. as out lined by Richberg and Roosevelt in the past few days, as they opencd the election drive. The class cbiectives of the Reoosvelt ‘New Deal’ every day loom more harshly as the canital- ist class objective of a handful of multi-millionaire parasites who control the country’s economic life. In the elections for Congress, as in the every day struggle between the working class and the employ- ers, there is the clash of opposing class interests, the interests of the millions of Workers and small farmers, against the interests of a Wall Street ruling class which plunders and degrades the masses to a life of misery and insecurity. The fight of the Communi Party in the elections is part of its! fight against the whole rotten wage | slavery which the Roosevelt ‘New, Deal’ not -only perpetuai but | makes more brutal, more ruthle: every day so that the moncpolies | can-crawl out of the crisis on the} backs of the workers. | Roosevelt's latest N.R.A. are wage-cuts, new infl of prices so that Roosevelt’s mas- ters, the Wall Street b'lion-dollar corporrtions, can protect their pre its and their dividends, Roo: election campaigning is only of his whole technique— facing left but moving right,” talking about a} “middle road,” but preparing for new wage-cuts and terrorism.azainst the workers to protect Wall Strect.| The working class necds Com- | munis‘s in the legislative halls of the capitalists. ‘It needs Commvu- | nists in Congress, not that cap- Only Communist Party Candidates Expose Growing Reaction italism can ever be smashed in any other way ‘than by revoiu- tionary struggle, but because Communisis in Congress and in the municips! halls would carry the fight for the needs of the ma‘ses right into the ranks of the enemy. Communist ate neeied in the capitalist government bodies to challenge the who're Roosevelt ‘New Deal’ Wal! Street program, to demand that the in- terests of the working class bo made paramount over the in- terests of the handful of banke-s and parasites in whose interests Rooscvelt executes his whole pro- gram. Roosevelt's “New Deal” is their way to solve the probiems of the (Continued on Page 2) , ed geney Stottsboro Defense Confer- ;cnce will be held here next Friday evening at 8 o'clock at 5310 Russell S'reet. The call for the confer- jence, issued jointly by the Interna- jtional Labor Defense and the {League of Struggle for Negro | Rights, points out that Dec. 7 has {been the” Jegal_murder of a Claresc% two of the defendan‘s, and d of intensifying the safety and freedom, Norri | stresses the ne Seven Are Convicted For Participation in Jobless Demonstration May 26 dem nstration at 50 Lafay= ette Street. where police and detec= tives brutally attacked a demon-" of the unemploved, were i on charges of “unlawful cecial Sessions Court will be sentenced on Oct, 30. Three others, arrested at the same time, were found not yesterday. seven convicted workers are? Alexander, Michael Poliski, Carl Sam Miller, David Jenkins, Jerry Lynch, Chartes Williams, and Hare eld Keithline,