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

nore ARRANGE AFFAIRS TO RAISE FUNDS FOR THE DAILY WORKER DRIVE Press Run Saturday—73,200 Vol. XI, No. 264 <> 10,000 CHEER C. P. CANDI Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., under the Act of March 8, 1879. to Polls Tomorrow! NEW YORK, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1934. WEATHER: Fair, warmer. (Eight Pages) Vote Communist! aily <Q Worker CENTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL ) NEW YORK CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents ATES Communist Leader of Pees Miners Murdered By Police '10,000 MARCH IN SCOTTSBORO PROTEST 3 MOTHERS, | C.P. NOMINEES LEAD PARADE Mrs. Norris ris’ Assails the| Treacherous Plan of Leibowitz By Cyril Briggs The insistent demand “Free the | Scottsboro Boys!” rang out storm- ily in Harlem Saturday afternoon as 10,000 persons in march forma- tion and other thousands swinging | along on the sidewalks demon- s'rated their hatred of the ruling class lynchers and their determina- tion to prevent the legal murder of Haywood Patterson and Clarence Norris, two of the Scottsboro boys, set by the Alabama Supreme Court for Dec. 7. The mighty mass march was} headed by three of the Scottsboro | mo'hers, four leading Communist | candidates in Tuesday’s elections and other veterans-in the fight for the rights of the Negro people. The candidates of the other political parties were conspicuous by their absence, as in every real struggle for the rights of the Negro people and the working class. While ihe 1 platforms of those parties ent on the demands of the people, the Communists have Negro made these demands a part of the election struggle and, in the fifth demand of the Party’s election plat- form, call for a mass fight “against Jim-Crowism and lynching; for equal rights for the Negroes and | — self-de‘ermination for the Black | Belt; for the Negro Bill of Rights.” Ford, Haywood, Mothers Head March Marching directly behind an auto- Mobile containing the Scotisboro mothers were the following Com- munist ‘candidates for election: James W. Ford in the 2Ist Con- gressional District; Harry Hay- wood, National Secre‘ary of the League of Struggle for Negro Rights and candidate in the 19th A. D.; Peter Uffri, leader of the tobacco workers and candidate in the 19th Congressional District, and: Merrill C. Work, in the Ist A. D. Others heading the march in- cluded Angelo Herndon, heroic Ne- gro leader of the working class; Samuel Patterson, secretary of the National Scottsboro-Herndon Ac- tion Committee, of which William N. Jones of the Baltimore Afro- American staff is chairman; Aaron Douglas and Dr. Donawa of the Committee; Charles Krumbein, Dis- trict Organizer of the Communist Party; Richard B. Moore, National Field Organizer of the In‘ernational Labor Defense; Nat Stevens, Dis- trict Organizer of the I. L. D.; Louis Campbell, leader of the Upper Har- lem Unemployment Council, and Steve Kingston of the New York District of the Communist Party. Not only did no candidate of the Republican, Democratic and Social- (Continued on Page 2) Amter, Gold To Lead March | ot NeedleUnion I. Amter, Communist candidate for Governor, and Ben Gold, can- didate for Assembly, will be the main speakers at the final election rally and parade to be held today under the ausvices of the Needle Traces Workers Industrial Union and the Amalgamated Rank and File. The parade, led by the Workers Ex-Servicemen’s band, and two loud speakers, will start at the head- quarters of the Needle Union at 131 W. 28th Street, march up Seventh Avenue to 38th Street, and then west and south to Eighth Avenue and 37th Street. Workers are urged to fall in line not later than 12.15. Amter will also be the main Speaker at two election rallies to be held tonight under the auspices of the Downtown Section. He will Speak at Rutger’s Square at 8 p.m. Make Nov. 7 Rallying Point In Recruiting Drive Statement of Central Committee, C.P. U.S.A—— Comrades, Fellow Workers: The recruiting drive, launched at the beginning of Oc‘ober, with the Letter of the Central Committee to Every Party Member, is only at its start. A month of intensive preparation has mobilized the basic organiza‘ions, units, fractions and individual Party members. Novem- ber Seventh, the day of celebration of the victorious October Revolution, will be the rallying point for a forward drive to build our Party to a mass Party. The anniversary celebrations must resound with the Bol- shevik determination of the tens of thousands of Party members and militant workers to build our Party to a mighty Party, rooted in the masses of toiling white and Negro workers and farmers. This will be the best guarantee for a vigorous step forward in the drive that will end with Lenin Memorial Day. Party members: turn to your fellow workers in the shops, trade unions and mass organizations! In these anniversary celebrations that mark the victory of our Russian brothers, under the leadership of the Leninist Party, following the Bolshevik path, let us pledge that each of us will bring to our ranks two or three of the best fighters from the shops, from the trade unions and mass organizations. Workers, poor farmers, unemployed, white and Negro, men and women: forward to double the membership of the Party of Lenin, the Communist Parity, leader and organizer of the struggles of the toiling masses against war and fascism, for better working and living condi- tions, and for the final solution—the establishment of a Soviet America. Party members, forward in the-drive to root our Party deeper among the toiling masses. Forward to better equip our Party to lead and or- ganize the coming striiggles for Winter relief, for unemployment and social insurance, agains: Roosevelt's “New Deal” attacks on the living standards of the toilers, for higher wages and shorter hours, against capitalist terror and the growing trend toward fascism; against Jim- Crowism and lynching, for equal rights for the Negroes, for emergency relief to the impoverished and drought-stricken farmers, for the re- peal of the Agricul ural Adjustment Act and for the passage of the Farmers’ Emergency Relief Bill, for the immediate vayment of the veterans’ back wages, and the struggle against imperialist war. Comrades, forward to strengthen our ranks! Forward to a Mass Communist Party. CENTRAL COMMITTEE, C. P. U.S. A. INSTRUCTIONS 5 MEETINGS TO WATCHERS TU CELEBRATE GIVEN BY C.P. NOVEMBER 7 Final instructions to all Commu-| The New York District of the nist watchers were issued yesterday ;Communist Party yesterday an- by the State Election Campaign | nounced special measures to ac- Campaign Committee. The instruc- | Commodate tens of thousands of tions as issued by the State Com-| Workers, professionals and _intel- mittee follow: sed in the Lael temas 5 of ‘ e continued victories of socialist ERLE spelt kepatere Se construction in the Soviet Union banks “otis ~ chi i 46 qe on the 17th anniversary of the the A totes Haye already heen reste. | Bolshevik Revolution Nov. 7. no votes have peneed been regis-| “Instead of one central meeting tered-on the machine. in the city, five huge rallies have Watchers should at all times jbeen prepared. The outstanding carry the credential issued to them |leaders of the Communist Parity will address each meeting. A spe- cial program befitting the occasion has been arranged for each cele- bration. The workers of the Bronx will by the State Campaign Commit- tee. Watchers should try to establish unity of action with the Socialist watchers. Watchers should keep note of in- cidents, in writing, and names and addresses of persons involved in these incidents, so that they can be accurately reported on the tally sheets, Watchers should file results with East 177th Street and West Farms Road. Earl Browder, General Sec- retary of the Communist Party, U. S. A, and Williana Burroughs, Communist candidate for Attorney General, will be the speakers. Carl ‘Brodsky, election campaign manager celebrate at the Bronx Coliseum, | SOVIETS HAIL GREAT GAINS Elections Take Place as Workers and Farmers Celebrate Victories By Vern Smith By Wireless to the Daily Worker MOSCOW, Nov. 5—On November 7 the workers of the world will jcelebrate the seventeenth anniver- sary of the October proletarian rey- olution and the founding of the workers’ fatherland, Union of t Soviet Repul Ss. The anniversary of the first So- viet Republic is celebrated as the most importent historical event and | the greatest achievement in the history of the working class towards the establishment of world-wide Socialism. | The record of tremendous growth ; and progress achieved under the |most difficult conditions by the workers and farmers of the Soviet Union, is known to all the world and is recognized by friends and enemies alike. At a time when in all other countries, under capitalism, millions of workers and peasants are doomed to hunger and poverty, | to unemployment, to the ruin of creps, the laboring workers and | peasants of the Soviet Union have |been freed from unemployment and | poverty, the evils of exploitation jand profit. Through collectivisa- oon they are solving the problems production for the needs of all | Siceace: and are on oo road to an |era of plenty. Communists Express will of Masses The Moscow Pravda, central or- gan of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, in an article on the approaching celebraticn of the veven teen anniversary of the October revolution, reviewing the daily work cf Socialist construction in the So- viet Union, writes: “The slogans of the Seventeenth Anniversary of the October Revolu- tion express the frame cf mind and the expectations of the workers, peasants and all toilers of the So- viet Union under the leadership of the Communist Party. These slo- gans express the broad interests embracing the masses of 170 million workers living within the Soviet Union. From the leading slogan, ‘Long live Socialist Revolution throughout the world’ to the slogan, a cattle breeding farm’ is expressed one continuous idea of a struggle for Socialism, for the freedom of laboring humanity from the yoke of capitalism. The fraternal greetings | to the proletariat of Spain, leading a heroic fight against fascism and against capitalism, contained in these siogans, are in harmony with greetings to the men and women farmers on the collective farms who struggled to accomplish their task in the setting up of the work- AT 17TH YEAR ‘No single collective farm without} and 10th Street and Second Avenue at 8.30. the State Campaign Office immedi- ately so that the results can be (Continued on Page 2) chairman, of the Communist Party, will act as A special mass pageant (Continued on Page 2) ers’ and peasants’ state. “The entire Soviet country is| unceasing and steadfast in its duily (Continued on Page 2) TWO OTHERS | TORTURED IN BUDAPEST Veteran of Hungarian) Soviets Thrown Out of Station Window (Special to the Daily Worker) Workers! Vote Communist! Back These Eight Demands In the Election Tomorrow The Communist Party fights for the following burn- ing demands of the American workers and farmers in the election tomorrow. These are the central issues raised by the arty in the present campaign. Vote Communist on the Party in the present campaign. Vote Communist on BUDAPEST, Nov. 5 (By Wire- less) —Otto Hoffman, Communist | |thirsted and leader of the 1,500 miners who en- tombed themselves three weeks ago in a desperate underground hunger strike at Pecs, which attracted the| sympathy of workers over the cn- tire world, was brutally murdered at police headquarters here by being thrown from the third floor and dashed to pieces on the ground| below, The murder of Hoffman has brought to light a great many new aspects of the conduct of the ter- rible Pecs strike and of the relent- less hatred of the thine-owners and the fascist Hungarian Government against. the courageous strike leaders. Hoffman was not the only strike | leader arrested by the police. An! electrical engineer, Horvath, and Streger, a mechanic, both veterans of the Hungarian Soviet in 1920 with Bela Kun, as was Hoffman, were seized and are still being tor-| tured in an attempt to gain in-| formation concerning the Pecs | mine strike. | From Oct. 12 to 17, for more than| 110 hours, Hoffman, Horvath and Streger nursed the spirit of struggle with the miners, who starved, suffocated to the} point of death in pitchy darkness | at the bottom of the flooded mine| galleries. For all that troops were| called to break the strike through a forcible rescue, in spite of the! intervention of Social-Democratic! leaders in behalf of the fascist gov- ernment and the British mine own-| ers, Hoffman led them in their des-| perate attempt to wring out of the adamant and brutalized owners a bare $1.50 wage increase over their miserable two-dollar weekly wages. Realizing that to capitulate to the compromises of the Socialist inter- mediaries would have meant a re- turn to the old unbearable life, Hoffman had encouraged the en- tombled miners to refuse every of- fer except the granting of t*eir de- (Continued on Page 2) Schaefer Repudiates Democratic Enrollment as Unauihorized Move Jacob Schaefer, director of the | Freiheit Gesangs Verein, informed | the Daily Worker yesterday that he has discovered himself to be en- Tuesday: Following are the eight demands on which the National Congres- sional Election platform of the Communist Party is base 1—Against Roosevelt's “New Deal” attacks on the ards of the toilers, against rising living costs resulting from monopoly and inflation, for higher wages, shorter hours, a shorter work-week, and improved living standards. 2.—Against capitalist terror and the growing trend toward fas- cism; against deportations and oppression of the fcereign-born; against compulsory arbitration and company unions; against the use of troops in strikes; for the workers’ right to join unions of their own choice, to strike) to picket, to demonstrate without restrictions; for the maintenance of all the civil and political rights of the masses. 3.—For unemployment and socia} Insurance at the expense of the employers and the state; for the Workers Unemployment JInsur- ance Bill (H. R. 7598). 4.—For the repeal of the Agricultural Adjustment Act; for emer- gency relief-4o the impoverished and drought-stricken farmers with- out restriction by the government or banks; exemption of impov- erished farmers from taxation; canccliation of the debts of poor farmers; for the Farmers’ Emergency Relief Biil. 5.—Against Jim-Crowism and lynching; for equal rights for the Negroes and self-determination for the Black Belt; for the Negro Bill of Rights. 6—For the immediate payment of the veterans’ (bonus) . 7.—Against the sales tax; no taxes on persons, or their property, earning less than $3,000 per year; steeply graduated and greatly increased taxation on the rich. 8—Against Roosevelt’s war preparedness program; against im- perialist war; for the defense of the Soviet Union and Soviet China. back wages ELEVATORDYE STRIKERS — WORKERS WIN REJECT NRA. STRIKE GAIN ARBITRATION By Al Steele The strike of the building serv- ice employes which tied up most of the buildings in the New York garment center for two days re- sulted in a victory for the men when the conference with the owners, wihch came to an end at 2 a. m. Saturday, brought agree- ments with Local 32 B of the Build- PATERSON, Nov. 4.—After hear- ing the report of their negotiations committee, which returned here \from Washington, the striking dye workers, at a well attended meet-ng Saturday morning, unanimously de cided to reject the gove: 2 , that the demands of the be placed before an arbi- tration board. The dye plant em- |ing Service Employes International| ployers refused to offer anything Union by individual cwners of close to 400 buildings in the territory eee The strikers won the closed shop, beyond the original proposal $23.00 a week for 36 hours. of Dyers Federation, reporting before @ $20 minimum weekly wage and a/the workers, stated that, “This flat increase of $1 for all those who|strike will not be settled be an| get $20 or more, with the exception | arbitration board: tine worke: Si pieces of liter George Baldanzi, president of the j|have his name expurged from the |month of Democratic enrolment list. “I have |owners and always voted Communist,” Schaeier said,” and I enrolled as such twice,” negotiations the Regional (Continued on che 2) 1 <. |as a Democrat in Bronx County. | J, Bambrick, president of the Nae We Hebaalh isouss direc 3 Pet This enrolment, Schaefer, said,| ynion, ee was made without his knowledge or| The strike was careiuiiy prepared; It is expected that further at- consent. “He has taken steps to/in advance, It was called after ajtempts for a settlement will be with the|made in Paterson with a con: Labor |ence, possibly on Monday. (Continued on Page 8) Class Against Class! Against the ‘New Deal’! Vote Communist! | Pee is election day, fraught with tremen- dous significance for the whoie working class. | Not since the Civil War have elections such as take Place tomorrow assumed such importance and meaning for the whole future class struggles in the United States. It is estimated that 48,000,000 people have reg- istered. The majority of those who will cast their ballots are workers and impoverished farmezs. ‘They are the millions who have been pauperized and driven to starvation levels by the New Deal in the present crisis of capitalism. And the New Deal is the major issue in the campaign. In addition, to those who have the right to vote, there are 10,000,000 oppressed Negroes of the South, jobless, deprived of all democratic rights, lynched and terrorized, who do net have the vote, The ruling class of this couniry, the finance capitalists, the big industrialists, the trusts, who have in their hands every avenue of infor n, the press, the radio, know that whichorer of the eap‘talist partics win, the dictatorship of the rich will be maintained, But they also know that the working class has developed tremendous siruggles against the New Deal, against the capitalist efforts to get out of the sina at the expense of the toilers. They look with foar to the tremendous strike struggles developing, despite the A. F. of L. offcialdom, the growing rank and file opposition, the great mass movement of the unemployed for unemployment relief, led by the Communist Party. * . . bbe Communist Party, following the teachings of Marx, Engels and Lenin, plunges with the great- est possible energy into the mobilizing of a working class vote in this election campaign, for the elect'on of working class candidates. For the naticnal elections to be held tomorrow, if utilized property, can be made into a powerful weapon with which to foree real conecszions from the capitatisis and their Roosevelt government, Every Communist vote has more than common significence for the empioyer; and their goyern- ment. They watch these Cemi-unist votes with AN EDITORIAL—~— means. They know that every Communist vote is. a vote of defiance, a vote of demand, for better wages, cash relief and unemployment insurance, a vote which~prociaims that one more worker has found the road of revolutionary class struggic against capii2liim and the hunger which it is bringing the masses. The basic reason for this is that the elections tomorrow are not’ isolated from the every day strug- gles of the masses. és * * * , OOSEVELT and his agenis seek to appear be- fore the masses as leaders of the “whole people,” of the “forgotten man” as pursuing policies cal- culated to increase the welfare of the majority of the people. This is a swindle wh'ch every one of Roosevelt's actions reveals to be a colossal lic. The actual experiences of the past year, of the past months and weeks, have confirmed to the full the analysis which the Communist Party alone, of all groups in Ar n folitical life, made of the hawk eyes, They know what every Communist yote 4 Roosevelt's “New Deal.” Roosevelt's “New Deal” stands exposed in deeds as the ruthless program of a handful of Wall Street monopolies and banks —the program, in short, of the most reaciic sections of American capitalism for the plunder of the majority of the people, the workers and i poverished farmers. In the very midst of Rooséveli’s election baliy- hoo, the harsh ruling class realities of his pro- gram have broken rudely through all the sweet phrases of Roosevelt and his agents. Only last Tuesday, a delegation of hu marchers, elected by thousands of jobless wor was ambushed and brutally attacked by the po of Governor Lehman, Roosevelt's person2l repre- of the “New Deal” in New York. t of the election campsizn, Ro: could not dicgu’ for long the y with wich it will co e to of the Wall Strest ruling cless. The police ambush of Lehman is ony the sign2l whch the (Continued on Page 2) But the si AMTER TELLS OF ISSUES AT GARDEN RALLY Huge Crowd Stirred as Bandaged Hunger Marchers Enter By Sender Garlin militant, energetic election ien of the Communist Party ched a dramatic crescendo yes- lav afternoon when 15,000 work- ers filled Madison e Garden to hear leading car cisely why Comm | polls tomo | The need for immediate relief for | the milli Jond fan was the keynote of the meet ting, | which reached a high pitch of en- | thu with the entrance of groups of retu unger march- ers from Albany. ted, hunery,-most .of. them ed from sleenless nights fcl- preceded Band, nd as the | ers were | Liberato: | te red the rose and cheered in demonst |of their solidarity with the heroic | hunger delegates. Hunger Marchers Enter | Men and women, Negro and | White, workers who once worked in shops, factories, and offices, the ners returned from Al- aling on their faces tt putting | ae tt for adequate relief— the fight against hunger, war and | fascism—this was the keynote of |the Garden election meeting. The parties of the capitalist class are fortunate when they succeed in inveigling workers to their cam- | paign, at the meeting yesterday |more than 15,000 workers paid ad- issions of 25 cents each. More, | they contributed $1,116.15 in re- {sponse to an appeal for support of the Communist Party. And before the meeting was over, hundreds of . including 1,000 “Foundations of 1 pamnhlet form, hed The leading candidates of the ; Communist Party in the present election spoke—men and women {who have reached hundreds of |thousands of wor! during the weeks of the campaign. Carl Brod- | chairman of the State Cams ttee. was chairman. in Stirring Speech rom Albany where he demand for immediate winter re- lief, I. Amier, Communist candidate gcvernor, made a_ passionate, ‘ing speech in which he shoved treatment accorred the workers in Albany attitude of all the boss- controlled parties toward the | (Continued on Page 5) ee Court Is Forced wpe? Free All Marchers, | Destroy Fingerprints 4—Hunger lay, declaring d not leave until all ‘st the arrested members ed, won a smashing vic- ing the discharge of all d the destruction of the t records. ice report, intended to white- |wesh the police department for all |bleme in the ambush and attack on : Marchers on Tuesday completed Saturday by Pelice Protective Asso- ctt “ter O'Brien, ation, said 1 police document de- ent police judg- tt from the fad e fied or gas , although the detail carried gas guns, shotguns and ma chine-gur- “ | wore ne | tery in wi arlesced a