The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 1, 1934, Page 1

FA _ Dyers R HARLEM SCO Mass in M AT ELECTIO: AFFAIRS, CALL Yesterday's Receipts . Total to date Press Run Yest ALLIE! FOR FUNDS! $224.12 erday—43,800 Ly } aeligon Square Garden Sunday, 2 P. M., at Communist Party Election ally Daily QA Worker CENTRAL ORGAN COM MUNIST PARTY U.S - (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL) NEW YORK CITY EDITION Vol. XI, No. 261 < * PATTERSON WANTS ILD. FOR DEFENSE Scottsboro Boy’s Letter Blasts Disruptive Move of Lawyer As workers’ organizations through- out New York pushed their plan yesterday for the giant mass march and demonstration in Harlem this Saturday noon for the Scottsboro boys, Joseph Brodsky, chief counsel of the International Labor Defense, received a letter from Haywood Pat- terson expressing his unshaken faith in the L L. D. and its selection of attorneys to prosecute the appeals to the U. S. Supreme Court, and declaring his complete repudiation | of the Russian Federation — the, Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., under the Act of March 8, 1879. HUNGER MARCHERS ENTER ALBANY IT MOSCOW, Oct. 31 (By Cable- gram).—With the death of Nicholas Hourwich here yesterday there |passed away a champion of the cause of the international working- class as well-known in Europe as in America, where he had spent |many years of an active life. | The son of Professor Isaac A. Hourwich, a noted authority on | immigration and economics gen- erally, he was a member of the} | Bolshevik Party founded by Lenin jin 1903. After some years of revo- |lutionary work in Czarist Russia, | Hourowitz came to America in 1916, |where he immediately buried him- jself in activity in the Socialist |Party and rapidly assumed a lead- ing position among the left-wing- lers. | Not only was he concerned in the |fight against the reformist leader- jship of the party but as the head Nicholas Hourwich Russian language division within the S. P.—and as the editor of the then daily “Novy Mir” he com- manded broad respect and admira- |tion for his militancy an consistent ‘Marxism, As one of the organizers {of the Left-Wing which split away |from the treacherous leadership of |the Socialist Party in 1919, he was | lone of the founders of the Com- raunist Party f the United States. | |The following year he visited the | |Soviet Union, where he remained jto teach Marxism at the Ukraine | University, later holding a profes- isorship at the Military School at | Moscow. Old party members in America remember him as a forceful speaker ‘and a brilliant agitator. Himself a staunch Bolshevik, it will be the ;“Society of Old Bolsheviks” which jwill take upon itself the conduct of his funeral. He was 52 years | old. NEW YORK, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1934 anks Strengthened as WEATHER: Probably rain (Eight Pages) 2,000 More Walk Out Price 3 Cents SBORO MARCH SATURDAY PICKET LINE STOPS SCABS: IN PATERSON Strike Now Embraces Bleachery Workers | and Is Spreading By GEORGE MORRIS PATERSON, N. J., Oct. 31.—The end of the first week of the great dyers’ strike finds lines completely solid and augmented by at least 2,000 more as the decision to spread the struggle takes effect. Yester- day, the only large dye plant in the Passaic Valley which was still working, the Passaic Piece Works with 500 workers, was closed. Now the strike is spreading to ® oe RRS SS |Answer Lehman’ Picket Today, HE hungry workers of New York need bread. But Governor Lehman gives them élubs, A delegation of jobless dared to portals of Albany to demand adequate relief. planned ambush of Police which smashed into the delegation with a | ferocity which Hitler's storm troop gangs would Lehman's answer was a envy and admire. Brute violence is the answer of banker who has learned from his Roosevelt, how tc sugar-coat with liberal hypocrisy the brutal realities of his capitalist Every club that smashed into the faces of the 400 delegates from the unemployed the consent and: approyal of this banker in whose camp the Socialist gentlemen who lead the LL.G.W.U., and the labor traitors of the A. F. of L. have already found their proper places. AN EDITORIAL | York. Lehman Deal in New Yor! cies are identical enter the sacred capitalist govern this Wall Street political leader, bullets. In Cleveland, children before has announced mitted to demon: In Michigan, for the outlawin altogether. policies. was swung with Lehman, this Through Lekman speaks Roosevelt, is Roosevelt's leading agent and supporter in New It is not onls s Bloody Ambush! | ! Vote Communist! Lehman is the leading agent of the New ‘k. Lehman’s brutal capitalist pol- with Rooseveli’s policies. ly Lehman who smashes the faces of jobless workers who demand relief. The whole mental machinery is going into action all over the country in the same way. In Denver, Colorado, the jobless were met with police clubbed men, women and the relief bureaus. Mayor Davis that the hungry will not be per- strate in the city. Attorney-General O'Brien calls g of the working class movement INJURED LIE ON HILLSIDE ALL NIGHT Marchers To Appear at Garden C. P. Election Rally BULLETIN All the Albany Hunger March- ers who will be out of the Albany hospitals and jails by Sunday, will report details of the murder- ous attack against them on Tues- day night at the gigantic final election rally in Madison Square Garden, the State Communist Election Campaign Committee announced last night. An appeal to workers to fill the stadium in solidarity with the heroic marchers and in protect against the brutal at‘ack was made by the State Campaign | the cotton-bleacheries, which until | |mow remained unorganized. “But | they will be now,” the dyers union announced. The strike now em- But it is not only Lehman whose hands are wet with the blood that streamed from the faces of the men and women who dared to demand bread and shelter for themselves and their children. In Bridgeport, the police, with the direct en- couragement cf the Socialst Mayor, Jasper McLevy, of Samuel S. Leibowitz, renegade | defense attorney, Patterson, who,| with Clarence Norris, is slated for| the electric chair on Dec. 7 by the/| (Continued on Page 2) recent decision of the Alabama} Supreme Court, sharply condemns the disruptive tactics of Leibowitz and Chamlee at this critical period in the ‘fight for the lives and free- dom of the nine boys. His letter, certified by a notary public, is printed in full in today’s Daily Worker. ret Among the organizations which have already endorsed the march and called on their members to par- ticipate in a body with their ban ners, slogans and bands are the Trade Union Unity Council, Needle) Trades Workers Industrial Union, Workers Ex-Servicemen’s League, the New York Districts of the Com- muniSt Party and the Young Com- munist League, the League of Strug- gle for Negro Rights, the National Scottsboro-Herndon Action Commit- tee, the Associated Workers Clubs, Inc., Women’s Councils, and scores of other groups. Four Mothers to Speak The plans for the demonstration call for a mobilization of all friends of the Scottsboro boys and the op- pressed Negro people at 1:30 o'clock promptly this Saturday noon at 126th St. and Lenox Ave. A meet- ing which will precede the march ‘will be addressed by James W. Ford, Communist candidate in the 2Ist Congressional District; the four Scottsboro mothers who are here to mobilize mass support for the boys and to expose the conspiracy of Samuel L. Leibowitz, renegade de- fense at#erney, and a group of Ne- gro-misleaders acting in close alli- ance with Alabama lynch officials, to wreck the Scottsboro defense. The mothers, who were barred by the Negro misleaders from two confer- ences of Harlem Negro ministers last Monday, are Mrs. Ada Wright, mother of Andy and Roy Wright; Mrs. Ida Norris, mother of Clarence Norris; Mrs. Viola Montgomery, mother of Olin Montgomery; and Mrs. Josephine Powell, mother of Ozie Powell. Many Other Protests Actions Planned At its last meeting, the National Scottsboro-Herndon Action Com- mitee accepted an invitation to send a speaker to the Communist election rally at Madison Square Garden, Nov. 4, and endorsed the following protest actions planned by various groups: Protest parade in Williamsburgh, Oct. 31; Scottsboro Provisional Conference in midtown Manhattan, Oct. 31; Scottsboro Conference Nov. 6 in Crown Heights, Brook- lyn; Scottsboro Mass Trial, Nov. 8 in the West End, Boro Park Sec- tion, Coney Island; and confer- ences, Nov. 9 and 18 in South Brooklyn and Queens, respectively. Y. C. L, Calls on Youth to Rally To Fight In endorsing the Mass March this Saturday, the Y. C. L. called upon its membership and the en- tire working and student youth to give every ounce of energy to the work of mobilizing the youth or- ganizations in their neighborhoods for Saturday's demonstration and to make every school and college ring with the battle-cry, “The Scottsboro Boys Shall Not Die!” The City Committee of the Workers Ex-Servicemen’s yesterday called upon all sincere rank and file veterans to partic- ipate in the demonstration, point- | ing out that “only the united pro- tests of the working class and the veterans can save the boys from (Continued on Page 2) League | THAELMANN ‘DELEGATES ~ AREINBERLIN | SAARBRUCKEN, Oct. 31—Dele- | gated by hundreds of thousands of ; |German speaking workers o f; |Czechoslovakia, Switzerland, Bel- igium and Alsace-Lorraine, four workers’ delegations are now in |Berlin. There they will join the Saar delegation and the 18 mem- }bers of the International Thael- }mann delegation organized by the International Labor Defense, who |will visit Thaelmann in the prison jat Moabit and demand his release jof the fascist authorities. The delegation includes represen- itatives of workers’ organizations of jevery description, irrespective of party and creed: delegates from the various trade-unions, such as the Miners’ and Metal Workers’ Union of the Saar, the Christian Social Youth, the Socialist Defense Corps, and the International Labor |Defense. There are several women jin the delegation, who have set themselves the task of visiting Frau Steinfurth, lying dangerously ill in the womens’ prisan in Berlin. The joint delegation also intends visiting Mierendorf, Dr. Litten and Carl Ossietsky, three anti-fascists held in different concentration camps. The delegation appeals to the toiling masses of all countries to support it by protest telegrams, registered letters, cables, etc., ad- dressed to the officials of fascist Germanp. Workers Tell Priests to Go From Mexico MEXICO CITY, Oct. 31—Mexi- |can workers and peasants have sub- |scribed with completé approval to the government's program of break- ing the power of the feudalistic Catholic Church by attending in scores of thousands what was de- clared to be one of the greatest demonstrations ever held in Mexico. For four hours the parade poured by, government employees, women and workers of trades carrying ban- ners on many of which was in- scribed, “We seck the return of all priests to their home, which is the Vatican.” An attempt of Catholic and fas- cist elements to form a counier- demonstration was squelched by the police, who allowed them to gather in groups no larger than fifteen. The Mexican Government, which entirely serves the interests of American imperialism, but which is at the same time an enemy of conspiracy of “sending fanatical the corrupt and autocratic Church, through the mouthpiece of the Na- tional Revolutionary Party, El Na- cional, made the fiat statement that Mexican Bishops had formed a, agents to the United States and Canada to agitate Ca‘nolic ceuires and organizaions and to solicit as- + sistance, political and economic.” | Y.P.S.L BID TO MEETING OF NY. Y.CL | Clarence Hathaway, editor of the Daily Worker, and Communist can- didate for Congress in the Seventh District, will address an open mem- bership meeting of the Young Com- munist League at 8 p. m. today at Irving Plaza, Fifteenth Street and Irving Place. All members of the Young Communist League are ex- cused from all other activities and instructed to come to this meeting. Members of the National Student League and the Student League for Industrial Democracy are par- ticularly invited to take part in | this meeting which will discuss the | united front, The following letter was sent to the Executive Committee of the New York Young People’s Social- ist League: “The New York District of the Young Communist League is hold- ing an open membership meeting, at which the United Front will be discussed, and at which all mem- bers of the Young People’s Social- ist League are invited. We par- ticularly invite all members of the City Central Committee to come to this meeting. Although we asked to be allowed to present our views to the last city-wide membership meeting of the Y.P.S.L., we were refused. For our part, we do not fear to have you come to our mem- bership meeting and state your position on the united front to Y.C.L, membership. We believe that only with the clarification of the issues involved to the membership of both organizations can the bar- riers that still keep the two or- ganizations apart finally be swept away and a real united front begun, The general admission for the meeting will be 10 cents, Members of the Y.P.S.L. are admitted free upon presentation of their mem- bership books. Court Rules Against Negro Right to Picket Aping the southern lynch courts in their new drive of legal terror against workers’ organizations in Alabama and Georgia, New York County Supreme Court Justice Rosenman ruled today that Negroes had no right to picket business or industrial establishments which dis- criminate against members of their race, The ruling was made when Jus- tice Rosenman handed down an in- junction against Negro workers Picketing the A. S. Beck Shoe store at 264 W. 125th Street, which, al- though it is in the heart of the large Negro settlement of Harlem, employs only white workers. Justice Rosenman found support for his denial of Negro rights in the braces bleacheries in which more than 1,500 are employed. The union reports that steps for strik- ing plants in Pennsylvania and New England continues. 3,000 Picket This morning a huge picket line, | estimated at over 3,000, was on hand when it was reported that several scabs were in the Trio Dye Works. The workers received an example of the kind of police “co- operation” that Ammirato, presi- dent of the union, promised them, | The large squad of police which | was at the Trio plant are now equipped with riot guns and tear gas bombs. In addition, Ammirato personally directed the police to Communists in the picket line and asked that they be taken out. | Among those the police ordered away were four workers who were selling the Daily Worker. Ammirato Aids Police Yesterday, at a meeting of strik- | ers, Ammira‘o praised the Pater- | son police and told the workers that “they are your friends and will co-operate with you.” Today | these police were at the Trio with guns and gas bombs. Francis J. Gorman at Washing- ton again indicated that he is still linked with the negotiations, pre- dicting that a settlement will be reached “by this week-end.” In the meantime, it is reported that the National Textile Labor Re- lations Board, through its Secretary Squires, will request that the original proposals made in Wash- ington for a thirty-six hour week | at $23 be accepted. There are like- | wise indications that proposals for compulsory arbitration will be, made. But there seems little like- lihood that the workers will accept either, as there is a common under- standing that placing their de- mands in the hands of any branch of the N. R. A. or any Roosevelt “impartial” board, would be the | | | | (Continued on Page 2) F.D.R. SAYS LIVING COSTS | WILL GROW By Seymour Waldman (Daily Worker Washington Bureau) WASHINGTON, D, C., Oct. 31— In revealing that he has rejected the Federal Government Em-! ployees’ request to restore the re- | maining five per cent pay cut on January 1, 1935, and instead listed July 1 as the restoration date in the budget estimates now being Prepared for the fiscal year com- | mencing July 1, 1935, President ' Roosevelt told the press today that between now and July 1 the cost | of living will continue to increase. He gave the expected continued in- crease in the cost of living, which will more than eat up the restora- tion, as the justification for return- ing the full salaries in number of dollars to federal employees. He} added that at the same time there | will be an increase in values, | thereby lessening the difficulty of paying debts, The President refused to com-) ment on the present lynching pic- nics being staged in the South; an- nounced the merging of the Execu- tive Council into the National Emergency Council, with Donald Richberg at the head, a move which emphasizes the National coordina- tion of government mechanisms whose main purpose is to act more quickly in behalf of big business and banking; refused to comment on (Continued on Page 2) Workers Save 2 Deportees With Writ at Sailing Time Fifteen minutes before the S. S. President Harding was due to sail for Europe from its West 18th Street pier two militant workers were snatched from the boat as a result of prompt action by the Committee for the Protection of the Foreign Born. The victims of Roosevelt's inten- sified deportation program were Oscar Mannisto, militant Finnish leader of Astoria, Oregon and Paul Kattunen, 24-year-old Finnish worker of Duluth, Minn. Both workers arrived at Ellis Island Monday night on the deportation train, which left Seattle last week gathering up victims in industrial cities across the entire length of the eountry. Mannisto and Kattunen were among a large number of non-po- litical deportees being sent to vari- ous countries in Europe when the captain of the President Harding was served with a writ of habeas corpus obtained by Fanny Horwitz, attorney for the Council for the utterances of Negro reform‘st lead- ers whom he quoted as being op- posed to the picketing. district Federal judge, at 11 o'clock, Protection of the Foreign Born. The writ was signed by Judge Knox, one hour before the President Hard- ing was due to sail. Knox was at first reluctant to is- sue the writ of habeas corpus on the ground that there was “insuf- ficient evidence to warrant it.” A hearing on the cases of Mannisto and Kattunen will be held before Judge Knox in the Federal Court, Old Post Office building, Room 235, Friday morning ate 19:30. The deportation of Ray Carlson, arrested in Spokane, was halted Monday by the issuance of a writ. Carlson, an active leader of the In- ternational Labor Defense in the Northwest prior to his arrest, is slated for deportation to Sweden if present plans of the Department of Labor go through. Plans for strengthening the fight for Mannisto, Kattunen, Carlson, Popoff, Ujick and other. militant workers now held in Ellis Island, will be made at a delegated meet- ing to be held in Room 611, 80 East | Eleventh Street, New York, next | Monday, Nov. 5, at 8 o'clock. All workers’ organizations are urged to send delegates, C.P. Candidates See Lehman at Home Today on Attacks NEW YORK, Oct. 31. A dele- gation of Communist candidates, including the candidate for Gov- ernor, Lieutenant-Governor and State Comtroller, will lodge a protest with Governor Lehman at his home at 10 a.m. tomorrow against the vicious and unpro- voked attack on the Albany Hun- ger Marchers. The delegation will also demand the jailed march- ers be freed at once and that the Albany police be instructed not to interfere with the conference which the marchers are sched- uled to hold. Among the Communist can- didates who will form the ueie- gation are: I. Amter, Williana Burroughs, M. Olgin, Ben Gold, Margaret Cowl, Carl Brodsky, Rose Wortis, Fred Biedenkap, Max Bedacht, Paul P. Crosbie, Isidor Begun, Nathan Schaeffer and James Ford. U.S. FRAMES NO-STRIKE A&P DEAL (Daily Worker Washington Bureau) WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 31— Owner representatives beamed and union delegates kept significantly mum as they started home today to submit a typical Roosevelt sell- out proposal to end the A. & P. grocery workers’ strike in Clev land and other cities without ognition of the union, prime mand of the strikers, and with arbitration of discrimination cases. The National Labor Relations Board engineered the agreement of conferees, representing employers and employees here early this morning to put the proposal up to those they represent. The text of the proposal was not given out, but it was announced that its chief provisions are: 1, All strikes and strike calls called off. 2. The company would “affirm willingness” to engage in “collec- tive bargaining.” (Without outright recognition of the unions.) No closed shop. The company would issue a formal statement declaring this willingness to enter “coliective bargaining” negotiations, but the ancient anti-union provision chat unions must not “coerce” employées into joining would be included. 3. Disputes during the length of the agreement, to next June 16, would be settled by arbitration. Socialist workers — workers in the A. F. of L—we must unite eur ranks. The Roosevelt New Deal Show your color—stand with your class. Vote Communist! Join the Communist Party! is hunger and war deal. | PROTESTS TO LEHMAN SET FOR TODAY NEW YORK, Oct. 31—The United Action Conference on Work, Relief and Unemployment, the sponsors of the State Hunger March to Al- bany, yesterday called upon the workers of New York to mobilize in thousands at four protest actions today. At the scene of each of these actions Governor Lehman, on whom the United Action Conerence places the entire responsibility for the attack upon the marchers, is scheduled to speak at election | meetings. In cases where workezs pactici- stration, the United Action Con- ference urged attendance at others. It urged, however, all workers to at- tend each. At 10 o'clock this morning, a inass Lehman’s Park Avenue home, 820 Park Avenue, near 73rd Street. At 12 noon, a mass picket line will be |thrown azound the State Office Building, the New York City office of Lehman, at 80 Center Street. Following these two actions, mass picket lines will be established at each election meeting at which Lehman will spea* tonight. Workers have been asked to report directly at the scene of each of these meet- ings, coming with placards and banners, and set up mass picket lines. The first meeting will be held at 9 p.m. at 183rd Street and St. Nicholas Avenue. At 10 p.m., work- |ers will picket Hunts Point Palace, 163rd Street and Southe:n Boule- vard. The police of New York yesterday |followed the example of the Police in the Capitol area and, des- jcending upon pickets who paced before the Hotel Pennsylvania, where Governor Lehman was scheduled to speak, savagely clubbed Scores and jailed three workers. All three, Henry Forbes, Communist candidate for Congressman in the Thirteenth District and secretary of the Downtown Unemployment Council; Celia Balogh, Communist candidate for Assembly in the Sec- }ond Queens District, and James | Frost, were held on charges of dis- orderly conduct. All three were released yesterday jin the custody of their a torney, | Edward Kuntz, of the International | Labor Defense. They will be tried today at 10,a. m. at Jefferson Market Court, Tenth Street and Sixth Avenue. | Following the attack, the work- jers retreated to 36th Street and Seventh Avenue, |meeting of several thousand wo: lers was held. Moissaye Olgin, Com- munist candidate for Congress in the 23rd Dstret, was among the speakers. A flood of protests from workers and liberals’ grou « throughout the city swept into Alvany yesterday, (Continued on Page 2) patng cannot attend each demon- | Picket line will be placed before | where a mass | Committee. | | | | (Special to the Daily Worker) Albany, Oct, 31-—Under. the mass pressure developed throughout the icity, state and country, all the State hunger marchers who had been forced to camp on the read outside this city since last night, marched into Albany late today on subpoenas forced from the court through the I. L. D. attorney, Joseph Tauber, Both the New York and the Buf- falo contingents were brutally at- tacked by police as they reached Albany last night. More than 50 were injured, several severely, 100 were arrested, and the others, in- cluding the injured, were forced to camp by a roadsid> outside of the city, without blankets, food or equip- ment, which the police and troop- ers had taken away from them. Surrounded by heavily-armed State Troopers, the heroic litile army of marchers camped last night on a hillside close by the Albany- New York highway, six miles from the capital. Farmers from nearby and workers from Albany and near- by towns brought them food. Today, before the marchers finally forced permission to enter the city, a gang of the Ku Klux Klan, sup- ported by the State Troopers, at- tempted to provoke an attack on the marchers’ camps. | As the workers marched into Al- | bany, 80 girls of the shirt factory, |who had just conciuded a strike, |stopped work and cheered lustily |and called on the hunger march- ers to carry the fight forward. When the marchers reached the city line, the captain of the city | police wanted to admit only 20. They called the chief of police, who agreed that all should enter the city. At the court, the captain on call wanted to admit only six. This was rejected, and finally all were admitted. Among the marchers are 21 badly injured, The newspapers announce that hundreds of telegrams are flowing into Albany to the State capitol from all over the city and country, This should be continued and ins tensified. In Albany, a second contingent of workevs, representatives of New York City relief wo:kers, who oad arrived in the Albany night boat, | found the convention hell under jheavy police guard. All the dele- | gates on the second contingent were | placed under arrest. One of the delegates encamped | on the Onderdonk farm, before they |entered Albany, when queried about the statement of the Albany offi- cicls, who called them “rifi-raff,” said: “We are sponsored by the United Action Confezence on Work, Relief and Unempl coms posed of forty organizations, em- ployed and unemployed. We are mechanics, once worthy of our hire, clerks, needle workers, actors, at= | chitects, housewives with children, | Negro and white, all creeds and na- tionaiities, “If we are riff-raff because we come to fulfill our constitutional jright to petition fo: such action as | the calling of a special session of jthe State Legislature to enact the | Workers Unemployment and Social Fes peecaesey Bill and for rdequate | winter relief on the eve of the sixth |hunger year, then 119,900,000 of the (Continued on Page 2)