The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 26, 1934, Page 1

4 i i enn Workers! Vote Communist on Election Day and Join the Party of Your Class! la the present election campaign, as in every daily struggle of the workers, the Communist Party has proved itself to be the sole force leading the fight against the capitalist policies of the Roosevelt New Deal. The Communist Party alone has boldly proclaimed that the im- mediate welfare and needs of the masses, of the workers and toiling farmers, must come before amy profit claims of the Wall Street banks and monopolies. The Communist Party fights not only to raise the living standards of the masses, but leads the fight for the revolutionary overthrow of the whole hideous capitalist system which dooms the majority of the people to a life of misery and insecurity. To all who support the Communist Party candidates, Committee urges that they immediately the Central join the Communist Party! In the ranks of the Communist Party are the class-conscieus militant fighters of the working class. It is in the ranks of the Party of Lenin and Stalin that those workers belong, who are eager to strike blows for a better life, and for an end to the chains of capitalist wage slavery. Vote Communist and join the Party. of your class, The ec of the Com side of your class comrades. your place in the ranks capitalism. CENTRAL Fight by the lass struggle is sharpening. Take nmunist Party in the figat against COMMITTEE, C. P., U. S. A DRIVE ACTIVITY REPORTS WANTED FROM DISTRICTS, SECTIONS, UNITS! Yesterday's Receipts . Total to Date . : «. $ 507.16 . $25,007. 68 Press Run Vetetbay- adi 400 Vol. XI, No. 256 SS * Daily .<QWorker CENTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL ) Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at Mew York, N. ¥., under the Act of March 8 1879. NEW YORK, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1934 NATIONAL ELECTI (Eight Pages) ON EDITION Price 3 Cents 30, 000 DYERS STRIKE IN 3 STATES oir ae Emphasizes Importance of Voting Communist RED VOTE IS VITAL PART OF STRUGGLE Only Communist Vote Is Blow at System Of Oppression MUST USE BALLOT Can Elect Candidates if Workers Understand Issues By Earl Browder (General Secretary, Communist Party of the U. S. A.) There is many a worker who per- | haps feels that it is of no use to| vete for the Communists in the * “they have no chance to And there is many 83 mpathizer of the Party and a here and there even a Communist who says: “Why all the effort and work in the elections? The situation of the masses will not be improy @ by elections and Com- munism Will not come to power through the ballot.” Only one of all these opinions is correct: that Communism will not come to power through the ballot. First of all, the bourgeoisie has thou- sands of means to prevent the will of the masses from finding expres- sion in the elections. But aside from this, the bourgeoisie will never let power be taken from it by the ballot. This happens only in the dreams of many a Socialist leader or pacifist. Whoever believes that he will defeat the steel trust, the oil trust, the textile magnates, the railroad kings, the Fords, the bank- ers and Wall Street with the ballot, is necessarily either a conscious mis- leader of the masses or a man who still has to learn very much—in fact, everything. Significance of Elections Tf it is, therefore, corect to say that Communism will not. come to power through the ballot, it is nevertheless absolutely wrong not to understand the whole significance of the election campaign as part of the revolutionary struggle as a whole. Every additional vote cast for the Communists, every additional Com- munist representative who is elected, is of tremendous importance for the revolutionary struggle. Why the fight betwren the cap- italist parties, between the Repub- licans and the Democrats, between the Farmer-Labor Party and the so- called Progressives? All these par- ties are fighting for the preserva- tion of the present system. All these parties are based on the capitalist order of society, All these parties are, therefor, in favor of a system which condemns tento fifteen million to permanent unemployment, which (Continued on Page 4) Paterson Dye Strike Hailed By Thousands PATERSON, N. J., Oct. 25—- Fifteen thousands dye strikers filled the Hinchcliff Stadium this after- noon in one of the most enthusiastic strike demonstrations ever seen in this city. Workers cheered as the orchestra played the International. A parade of 200 shop chairmen and delegates through the center of the stadium was greeted with great applause. Each shop chairman reported on the status of the strike in his shop. Reports showed practically 100 per cent shut-down of all the mills. A strike solidarity rally has been called by the Communist Party for Sunday, 2 p.m., at Washington Hall, 14 Godwin Street. Clarence Hath- away, editor of the Daily Worker, will be the principal speaker. Other speakers will be Moe Brown, Com- munist candidate for Governor; Martin Russak, candidate for Con- gress in the 8th Congressional Dis- BALTIMORE trict, and H. O, Klein, candidate for Assembly. Davis in Pamphlet Exposes Leibowitz, Negro Misleaders A pamphlet by Ben J. Davis, Jr., editor of the Negro Liber- ator,@exposing the line-up of Negro misleaders and Samuel S. Leibowitz, New York criminal lawyer, with Alabama lynch of- ficials in the attempt to disrupt the Scottsboro defense, will be off the press in a few days. Davis has just returned from the South where he talked with the Scottsboro boys in jail, and with their parents. All districts are directed to place orders immediately with the International Labor Defense, 80 East 11th St., New York, for copies of the pamphlet. SEAMEN WIN FREEDOM BALTIMORE, Md., Oct. 25.— Five leaders of Baltimore unem- ployed seamen, arrested on Sept. 30, for leading a demonstration against relief cuts, were found guilty on the charge of inciting to riot, and disorderly conduct, and sentenced to two years in the peni- tentiary. Sentence was then sus- pended. W. C. McCuistion, one of | the leaders in the recent strike, was in addition charged with as- saulting an officer, and his sus- pended sentence was of four years. Brought before the labor hating Judge Stanton, the five, Yates, Wagner, Davis, McCuistion and Allen, demanded a jury trial, and | announced that they will defend | themselves with the assistance of | Bernard Ades, Communist can- | didate for governor. A parade of police officers was} placed on the stand, but they squirmed under the cross examina- tion of the defendants who ably exposed the frame-up and police brutality. The same followed for @ long list of relief fakers. Seamen brought in as witnesses were subject to sarcastic remarks by the judge. “My father sailed around the horn on Sailing ships, and got along quite well on salt pork,” he said. McCuistion, making the closing speech for the defense stated, “It is true that sailors sailing around the Horn on sailing ships lived on salt pork, but they had no union in those days. Today we are or- ganized in a union, have bettered our conditions already and will do still more in the future.” It was clearly shown that the standard of relief had decreased while the expenditures had in- creased since control of relief on the Baitimore waterfront was taken away from the seamen and placed in the hands of “social workers.” In fifteen minutes the jury brought in a verdict of guilty. Stanton sentenced each of the five to two years in the penitentiary, with an additional two years for McCuistion. He then suspended the sentences, specifying that all five would be sent to the house of correction if they stayed on the waterfront and were again ar- rested. When the sentences were pronounced, the entire packed court room walked out behind the five workers, whom they helped Keep out of prison THERE IS ONLY ONE ROAD TO THE SOCIALIST SOCIETY IORMAN THOMAS, chief mouthpiece of the So- cialist Party, who believed that the New Deal would offer an easy path to Socialism, now tells us how the Socialist Party expects to achieve So- cialism in the United States, In a speech at James Madison High School Wednesday night he outlined the methods that would be pursued by the So- cialist Party, and asked the workers to vote for his party. An examination of the Socialist Party objec- tives, as put forward in this election campaign by its foremost spokesman, will show that the Socialist Party's first consideration is not of Socialism, but the protection of the stock and bondholders of the big corporations. “The principle of Here is what Thomas said; [MPERIALISTS IN RIFT ON OIL IN MANCHURIA |U.S. and British Envoys} Protest Monopoly Order of Japan TOKYO, Oct. 25—A conflict of rival imperialist oil interests cenier- ing on the Manchurian scene today flared into open public hostility, after smouldering in the foreign embassies here for months. Mili- tary and naval officials, following a ruthless line of war preparations, | are forcing the Japanese civil au- thorities to declare oil a state mo- nopoly in Manchuria, although American and British oil trusts, represented by the Standard Oil Company and British Asiatic Petro- leum, Ltd., control and distribute eighty per cent of Manchuria’s oil and petroleum. With much talk of “friendliness and informality” the British and American Embassies here are si- multaneously attempting to fore- stall any further development of a state oil monopoly. At the Japanese Foreign Office here British, American and Dutch representatives pointed out the farce of Manchukuo’s independence, stating that forty per cent of the stock of the Manchuria Oil Com- pany is owned by the South Man- churia Railway, and the govern- ment owns fifty per cent of the railway’s stock. Further, they de- clared, the president of the Man- churia Oil Company, Keizaburo Hashimoto, is also president of the Nippon Oil Company (Japanese oil | trust), and finally is the brother- |in-law of General Takashi Hishi- kari, the Japanese Ambassador at | Hsingking and commander-in-chief {of the Japanese Army in Manchu- ria. That the Japanese war-lords are not only relying on Manchuria as a war oil-reserve for the approaching imperialist conflict, may be gath- ered from the new oil control law which demands that foreign corpo- rations store in Japan oi] supplies equal to a half year’s sales. Thus far British and American imperial- ists have refused. Foreign spokesmen here remain silent on the obvious reason for set- ting aside Manchuria as a war base and pose the controversy as a mere business squabble easily smoothed over, but it is clear that the regu- lation and unification of the war industries of Manchuria are antici- pations of a sudden imperialist ma~- neuvre against the Soviet Union led by Japan, Communist Candidate For Congress Speaks In Richmond School RICHMOND, Va., Oct. 24—The Richmond Unemployment Council has sent invitations to Congress- man Montague and Dr. Miller, chairman of the school board, to address a mass mecting called by the council for tonight at 8 p.m., at the Armstrong High School. This meeting is for free shoes, clothes and hot lunches for the children of the unemployed. Speaker at this meeting will be Wm. H. Friend, organizer of the council and Communist candidate for Congress. the achievement 18 Defendants Ask Inquiry Into Reign Of Terror on Coast SACRAMENTO, Caiif., 24—Demand for a public vestigation cf the reign of terror in California, of the corporations which organized it, of the judicial machinery which supported it, and of their own frame-up, is demanded in a letter sent today to State’s At- torney-General U. S. Webb, here by the eighteen criminal syn- dicalism defendants now in jail here awaiting trial which has been set for Nov. 8th. The defendants include Mar- tin Wilson, secretary of the In- ternational Labor Defense, Pat Chambers and Caroline Decker of the Cannery and Agricultural Workers’ Industrial Union, and Al Hougardy, section organizer of the Communist Party. At the same time, even the capitalist press has been forced to explode a story concocted by District Attorney Neal McAl- lister and William Hanks that he was “kidnapped” to prevent ois testimony from being given at the trial. UNIONS WAR ON FASCISM Oct, in- IN FRANCE PARIS, Oct. 25.—With the French Chamber of Deputies hourly ex- pected to act on fascist measures, centering around the strengthening of dictatorial powers to be held by the Premier, proposed yesterday by Premier Doumergue,‘ the develop- | ment of the united front movement in the trade-unions is hastening forward with great momentum. Although the united front of the | Socialist and Communist parties, in force now for many months, has matured into a well-organized and powerful anti-fascist force capable of arousing the French masses against fascism, the formation of the trade-union united front be- tween the Socialist “Confederation General du Travail” and the Com- munist “Confederation General du Travail Unitaire’ now signifies the spreading of the counter-fascist movement to every section of the industrial workers in France. In Lille, St. Etienne, Bourges and Toulon, the state employees and the railway workers, whom Doumergue has attacked by proposing to de- prive them of the vote and other rights of citizens, a working united front between Socialist and Com- munist Trade Unionists is already in operation, The leaders of the Communist and Socialist Trade Union organ- izations covering the whole of the Eastern railways of France, have met in a joint conference, and agreed to form a joint organization. At a railway conference in Lille, the Communist C. G. T. U., cover- ing the whole of the northern rail- ways, has written a formal invita- tion to the leadership of the corre- sponding C. G. T. organization, suggesting a joint meeting to dis- cuss the question of unity. In Evreaux, Beauvais, Albi, Lon- dun and Boulogne-sur-Mer united front organizations of all Trade Union railway workers are already in force. AN According to Norman EDITORIAL taking over the banks, railroads, public utilities, etc., that seems most desirable, would be moderate com- pensation plus taxation.” The Socialist leader here proposes an easy, gradual development towards Socialism without dis- turbing any of the fundamental relations of the present society which keep the worker enslaved. The government, which is the main instrument for the protection of the private property of the big trusts, would remain intact, according to the So- cialist Party’s program. The Socialists, if “voted into power,” would not set up any revolutionary government, would not proceed to end capitalist rule at its very roots, would not immediately transform the productive forces into Socialist property, 4 SCOTTSBORO MOTHERS T0 Meeting at Rockland Palace Tonight Four Scottsboro mothers, have come all the way from the South to expose the criminal plot, | engineered by Samuel S. Leibowitz, New York criminal law: group of Harlem Negro misleade: to disrupt the fight for the lives and freedom of the Scottsboro bays, will speak at the giant city-wide Sco tsboro-Herndon defense 155th Street and Eighth Avenue. The mothers are Mrs. Ada Wright | and Mrs. Ida Norris, who arrived | in New York on Tuesday with Ben J. Davis, Jr., Liberator, and Mrs, and Mrs. Powell, who arrived yes- terday from Georgia. How the a‘tempt by Leibowitz | and the Negro misleaders to oust the International Labor Defense | from the Scottsboro case has in- | evitably led them into the camp of the lynch rulers is clearly shown in the affidavit of Mo‘her Ada | | Wright, published in yesterday's Daily Worker. In that affidavit, Mother Wright indignantly tells of the conferences between Leibowitz’s secretary, John Terry, and Alabama Attorney - General Thomas Knight, Jr, at which the plot,| originated by William H. cd publisher of the New York age as ee boys was further developed. Mrs. Wright and_ the night of the treacherous activities of the Negro misleaders and Leibo- | witz in open collaboration with the Alabama lynch rulers, who framed burn in the electric chair. They will tell of the lies and deceptions spread by William H. Davis, Rev. Lorenzo H. King, Rev. Richard Bolden, in open alliance with the lynchers. Ben Davis, Ford, Herndon to Speak Ben Davis, who has just returned from Alabama, where he talked with the boys in jail, before he was barred by the prison authorities following the effecting of a working agreement between Knight and other lynch officials with Leibo- witz and his agents, will supple- ment his exposure of these maneu- vers, as published in Wednesday’s Daily Worker, with full details of the trickery, torture and threats used by Alabama officials to force Leibowitz “repudia’ ing” the I. L. D. James W. Ford, Communist can- didate in the 2ist Congressional District, and Angelo Herndon, hero of the Atlanta “insurrection” trial, and Herman McKawain of the League of Struggle for Negro Rights, will speak on the world-wide fight for ihe lives and freedom of ments in this fight as indignant workers and intellectuals, Negro and white, are rallying to smash this latest attack on the Scottsboro defense, an attack fraught with the greatest danger to the lives of Hay- wood Patterson and Clarence Nor- ris, for whom legal lynching has (Continued on page 8) workers “socialism in our time.” the house of lors. SPEAK IN N.Y. Will Talk at Defense | | the name — was made today by the boys to sign statements for) lop- | the boys, of the newest develo’ lof the United Textile Workers (A. and a! rally | tonight at the Rockland Palace, | | | dam News, and a group of Harlem | ministers, to disrupt the defense of | President |minded National other | Relations Board, working overtime | mothers will give a full report to-|to end the Paterson dyers’ the boys and sentenced them to | Thomas, they would pay the exploiters. The own- ers of the wealth of this country, under a Socialist regime, would continue to receive profit wrung from the sweat and blood of the workers, though they would be taxed a little more heavily. In this respect, the Socialist Party follows the program of the British Labor Party. British Labor Party was in power, promising the the chief function of the Labor Party was to strengthen British imperialism and its domination over the workers. Now the British Labor Party proposes “buying out the capitalists,” ing intact the capitalist parliament, the king, and Norman Thomas proposes the same thing for Economic Security Program Admitted a Fake by Perkins By Marguerite Young (Daily Worker Washinston Buresu) | WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 25.—| A direct declaration that President | Roosevelt's Committee on Economic Security “never promised” real eco- nomic security—despi‘e the use of Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins, a member of the committee. Miss Perkins was explaining the who committee’s work and plans to a general press conference, when | suddenly a reporter for capitalist papers broke in: “Miss Perkins, have the committee s udies given you any reason to think we can ever have real economic security with- | out a complete political change — without an entirely new control of industry?” The Secretary paused, said she couldn't “qui‘e follow” that, and, after the correspondent explained further, said: “Complete economic security has editor of the Negro never been promised or expected by | Montgomery | the committee, if you underscore . we are working toward for the complete . . | some security indi- | vidual against the major, recog- j Rized social hazards.” | This suggestion that the indi- vidual must forever face economic insecurity to a certain extent, ap- parently is based upon Miss Per- kins’ thinking exclusively within the framework of capitalism’s per- manen* exploitation of the working class and its inevitable crises. Miss Perkins declared that the committee is considering “all sug- gestions” for relieving economic in- security—but that naturally, does not include the suggestions of rev- olutionary workers. She also poin'ed out that the committee is giving attention specifically to the | hazards of sickness and old age, and has called together a special committee of experts to advise on | this point. The general committee needs this, she explained, because so lit'le research, compara’ has been done in this field. Perkins apparently forgot that sev- eral important committees, includ- ing eminent bourgeois medical ex- perts, have found that the only real solution to the medical ne2ds of the masses is socialized medicine. U.S. BOARD ACTS AGAINST DYE STRIKE (Daily Worker Washington Bureau) WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. =| employer- | Labor Roosevelt's Textile trike and to stop the spread of strikes in other textile areas, announced to- day with Paterson mill owners and rep- resentatives of the Federation of Silk and Rayon Dyers and Finish- ers of America. Dr. B. M. Squires, executive di- rector of the Roosevelt board, said the union leaders agreed to this by telephone today. “The conference is purely an ef- fort to get the two sides together,” Squires said. Asked whether any settlement is to be proposed, he te- plied, “Of course, getting the two sides together means getting at a settlement.” The board wired the Paterson workers last night, urging them to postpone the strike, but received a telegraphic answer this morning, saying the board was “‘too late.” With eight agents in the South, working to stave off strike-spread- ing, the board held conferences all day with mill owners and others, seeking to avert the development of another major textile struggle by the week end. Squires declared the board is getting a number of satisfactory settlements,” but declined to specify where. Francis J. Gorman, vice-president F. of L.), meanwhile called his emergency committee to meet to- morrow in New York to “handle” far-flung demands for strike ac- tion. Pursuing the same “trust the President” policy that led to the) general textile strike sell-out, which (Continued on Page 2) nation and their Twice the | Army, the Navy, But each time | the Socialist lea Socialism within state. while keep- it will confer here tomor:ow | LODI PLANT IS PARALYZED BY WALKOUT | LODI, N. J., Oct. Oct. 25.—The largest dye house in the world, the Lodi plant of the United Piece Works, struck this morning. Hun- dreds of workers were on the mass} lines, and of the three thou- sand workers, less than two hun- | ar misled workers walked into work. There was a heavy police con- cent: ion around the plant |. This is the first time in the his- tory of the industry that the work- ers of Lodi themselves, without out- side aid, have struck the Lodi plant In the strike last year, the Lodi |plant was struck after a march of thousands of dye strikers from Pat- erson. Last night nearly one thousand workers attended the meeting of the Lodi workers, held by the United picket 1983, which unanimously voted for the strike. Rank and file speakers included S. Saller, former organizer in Lodi of the National Textile Workers Union. George Baldanzi, heed of the Dyers Federation, was another speaker. The Lodi workers marched to Paterson this afternoon to Hinchcliff Stadium meeting. Communist Election Rally to Open Fight On Jim-Crow Edict RICHMOND, Vi Va., a, Oct. 25—The final Communist election campaign rally here will be held Monday, Nov. 5, 8 p.m. at the John Marshall High School Auditorium. The main speaker of the evening will be Ella (Mother) Bloor, as well as the can- didates of the Party, Wm. H. Friend for Congress, and A. Wright for U. S. Senate. This will be the first time that the Communist Party will have a meeting in a high school here. the United States, with the exception that in place of a kiig, and the house of lords, the Schate and the President would still function as of old. Ail of the oppressive forces, which insure and guarentee the capitalists’ stranglehold on the wealth of the domination over the workers, the the Courts, the militia, the police, would not be changed. Can Socialism be achieved this way? has and it never will. It never In Germany and Austria, ders proceeded gradually to build the frame-work of the capitalist They looked forward to the day when they would “buy out” the big trusts. But what hap- (Continued on Page 2) Dye | Textile Workers Union, Dye Local) the | WALKOUT 100 PER CENT EFFECTIVE Mass Picket anes Close Millsin N.J., N.Y., and Pennsylvania BOSSES’ MOVES FAIL Owners Cite Roosevelt ‘Truce’ in Refusing Union Demands By Carl Reeve N. J. Oct. 25— ik end rayon dye wo saic Valley, on s 99.900 are striking Valicy. At 6 o'elo first pickets began to ga a front of the Paterson mills. It soon apparent that every dye i ahh in Paterson Rad struck. In front of thé Expert dye works | mass picket lines of a thousand workers had formed by 7:30, and | began marching on other dye | houses. Roving picket lines of several hundred workers formed |and marched from mill to mill to cement the solidarity of the strikers, | Flying auto squadrons were formed, | At the Weidemann plant, storm jcenter of the 1933 dye and silk strike, the picket line gradually grew until several hundreds were on the line. Across the Passaic | River bridge from the Expert d: e shop, the big Textile Dye Co. wa being picketed under the eyes of ae the he: police gui The sirike was solid in the Passaic Vellev. The Grtet Lodi dye plant walked out | solid, The employers boasted that “sixty per cent of the workers will return to the mills this morning.” The picket lines of the militant dye | workers soon proved this an empty | boast, No one went in to work. The strike was one hundred per | cent. | Teamsters Vote to Join The dye house teamsters, meme bers of the International Brother= hood of Teamsters, A. F. of L, voted to strike tomorrow morning. | William Green sent a represen tative, General Organizer, William Murphy, into Paterson. The Emergency Committee of the United Textile Workers Union, headed by Francis Gorman, meets | in New York City tomorrow. The strikers, organized into the Federation of Silk and Rayon Dyers and Finishers of America (affiliated with the United Textile Workers Union) are demanding | higher wages, thirty-hour week, end of the stretch-out and speed-up, jand one hundred per cent union recognition. At 2 o'clock the thousands of | striking dye workers began their march from 203 Paterson Street, to the Hinchcliffe Stadium, where @ | huge mass meeting was held. The speakers were to include Joseph Yanerelli, George Baldanzi, and Anthony Ammirato of the dye lo- cals and the dyers federation of the union; the socialist Jacob Pane ken; Arturo Giovanitti and others, rank and file workers were in favor of having Morris Brown as one of the speakers, in the interest of achieving unity. Brown, the Communist Party candidate for governor of New Jersey, was one of the leaders of last year’s dye and silk strike and is popular with the strikers, The New York City dye houses are out 100 per cent. Last minute efforts were made by the employers and by the Roose= velt government agents to prevent the strike. P. W. Chappell, federal government representative, who is operating in Paterson as “mediator” for the U. S. Department of Labor, held conferences with the employers | and the dye union officials until | the last minute. The employers ree fused to give any concession, pro~ posing an extension of the present. agreement for six months. Such an extension would give the employers | (Continued on Page 2)