The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 9, 1934, Page 1

LANGUAGE GROUPS: PORT IN THE $60,000 DRIVE Yesterday's receipts . Total to date SHOW YOUR SUP- «8 262.31 +++» - $33,601.55 Press Run Yesterday—45,500 N.Y. Gl EXECUTION | DATE IS ONLY 28 DAYS OFF Leibowitz Maneuvers Hamper Fund Raising, Says Statement Six thousand dollars must be raéSed within the next few days to safeguard the legal and mass cam- paign to stop the execution of Clarence Norris and Haywood Pat- terson, which it is conducting, the National Executive Committee of the International Labor Defense announced yesterday. In a statement making clear its position as the legal defender of the Scottsboro boys, and pointing out the necessity for the broad- est campaign, the I. L. D. con- demned the splitting tactics of Samuel Leibowitz and his support- ers, showing how these attacks were designed to cripple the defense both financially and legally. The statement urgently calls on all organizations and individuals who are fighting sincerely for the lives of the Scottsboro boys to make immediate contributions to safeguard the defense. The text of the I, L. D, statement follows: Only 28 Days Left “Only 28 days remain in which to defeat the decree of the Alabama rulers to burn Haywood Patterson and Clarence Norris in the electric chair. “All sincere lovers of justice, all honest defenders of human rights, all class-conscious workers must join in the fight to stop the hand of the executioner, reaching daily nearer to the fatal switch, “In spite of any statements that have been issued in the past or may be issued in the future, by Lei- bowitz and his cohorts, the I. L. D. is in this case to carry it through until the Scottsboro boys are un- conditionally freed. We will fight every inch of the way to prevent the case from falling into the hands of the betrayers. The let- ters of the boys, the report of Benjamin J. Davis, Jr., show clearly that any papers the boys may have signed, excluding the I. L. D., were obtained by deception and coercion. I. L. D. in Full Charge “The International Labor De- fense is in full charge of both the legal and mass phases of the de- fense. Application for review by the U. S, Supreme Court has been filed by our attorneys, Joseph Brodsky, Osmond K. Fraenkel, and Walter H. Pollak, Printing of the briefs is now going on. We must speed up the appeals to the U. S. Supreme Court, and organize the broadest mass movement in the short period left in order to stop the hideous legal lynching of the Scottsboro boys. “The dastardly betrayal of the Scottsboro boys, and the attacks made upon their defense by the Jawyer, Samuel S. Leibowitz and a@ group of Negro and white trai- tors, have been exposed. The ap- peal of the four Scottsboro moth- ers, and the new retainers signed November 1 by Patterson and Nor- ris, together with their letters, reiterating their faith in the I. L. D, make it clear that the I. L. D. , must not only continue, but must intensfiy, the fight to save the lives of these innocent Negro boys. “At this most critical moment of this supremely important struggle the defense is seriously endangered by lack of funds. A tremendous burden of additional expense has Brooklyn Demonstration Saturday (Continued on Page 2) SeamenThreaten Parade In the Nude Unless FERA Issues Clothing eT Sd i NEW ORLEANS, La., Nov. 8—) 14 2laring that unemployed seamen must be naked before the F. E. R. A. will give them needed clothing, the Beach Lookout, publication of the ‘Waterfront Unemployment Council, here today stated that 200 unem- ployed seamen would parade in the nude to the relief headquarters un- less clothing were granted them. Unemployed seamen here and in other ports, under the leadership of the Marine Workers Industrial Union and the Waterfront Unem- ployment Councils are fighting for a decent relief standard, seamen control of their own relief projects, and a rotating system of all jobs Vel. XI, No. 268 <> Entered as second-cless matter at the Daily Q Worker CENTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL ) Post Office at New York, N. Y., under the Aet of Merch 8, 1979. NEW YORK, FRIDAY, TY OPENS NEW NOVEMBER 9, 1934 European Rail Men Engage in Struggle To Free Thaelmann PARIS, Nov, 8—The railway- men and transport workers of a number of countries, France, Switzerland, Belgium, Holland and the Saar, organized a Thaelmann protest action on the same day. Stickers with 12 different slogans of anti-fascist struggle and for the release of Thaelmann were pasted on the trains and on the freight goods going to Germany. Some of these slogans wore: “Heil Hitler means the execu- tioner’s ax!” “Fight for Thael- mann’s release!”, and “Free Thaelmann! Down with Hitler, Goring, Ley!’ The Barcelona branch ‘of the National Trade Union Federation of the Rail- waymen of Spain has resolved to take part in the Thaelmann re- lease campaign. The railway- men of Liege, Belgium, con- cealed leaflets with Thaelmann’s photo in luggage going to Ger- many. PARIS MASSES ACT 10 HALT FASCIST COUP (BULLETIN) PARIS, Nov. 8. — According to an unofficial report received shortly before midnight, Pierre Ettiene-Flandin, newly designated premier, had definitely succeeded in forming a new cabinet. PARIS, Nov. 8.—Shouts of “Down with the assassins! Soviets every- where!” resounded in the Chamber of Deputies here from the Com- munist benches as the brief ses- sion of that body adjourned today. Thousands of workers are already on the streets, prepared to battle to the death against armed fascist patrols who are marching around, virtually under government protec- tion. The united front between the Communist and Socialist workers, effected last Summer, is every- where in evidence, as workers of both parties maintain the utmost vigilance against a possible fascist coup, A huge demonstration smashed through the police lines at the opera this afternoon, shouting “Down with the Deputies!” The Mobile Garde, government cavalry militia, were in force on the® Place de l'Opera, carbines slung across their shoulders. (Special to % Daily Worker) PARIS, Nov. 8 (By Wireless) — Thousands of fascists, smashing through police lines tonight, massed in support of a fascist dictatorship, crying, “Down with the Deputies!” With the resignation of Premier Doumergue and a second successive failure to form a Cabinet, the con- servative and reactionary forces in the government are seeking to dis- solve the Chamber of Deputies, while fascist gangs and royalist ele- ments patrol the streets. In answer to the provocation of the fascists, a declaration of the united front of Socialists and Communists an- (Continued on Page 2) What the Election Results in New York City Show now we can estimate the results of Tuesday’s elec- DYERS CLOSE. “BLEACH MILL IN JERSEY Arbitration Proposal of Labor Board Is Jeered by Strikers By George Morris PATERSON, N. J.—Nov. 8—A | telegram which called upon dye |strikers to return to work and leave their demands in the hands of the arbitration board, was answered with the closing of the Standard Bleachery at East Rutherford, and @ unanimous determination to fight until a victorious end. The tele- gram was greeted with jeers at the strike meetings in Paterson, Pas- |saic and Lodi, and denounced as a jstrike breaking move. 1,000 Picket The closing of the Standard took effect this morning. Yesterday a picket line of 1,000 served notice on |the owners who wisely heeded the |Warning. This followed the closing |of the Millbank Bleachery at Lodi | yesterday. Both plants, it was | found, were dyeing silk. | | Today, another conference opened here at the call of the National | Textile Labor Board, with Benjamin the Board present. The union made it clear that unless a better offer |than twenty-three dollars a week |for thirty-six hours is made, there |is no sense in a conference. With the tie-up complete, the strikers began their third week out with spirits higher than at any time before, and they feel that victory is near. George Baldanzi, President of the Dyers Federation, speaking before | the Passaic strikers last night, again | | told the workers that if there is a | better offer by the workers, it will | be placed before them. “There will |be no Gorman,” he said. He ex- ;Plained that the workers can never | |get any advantages out of arbitra- tion and stated that he would rather | support return to work on the | present terms than trust an arbitra- | jion board. The workers respon-led | with very enthusiastic applause. | Stresses Need of Vigilance Benti, President of the Passaic | local, followed and alarmed the workers to the need of greater | vigilance in picketing. He explained that now that elections are over, the bosses will bring in hired thugs and police and will get into more action. He pointed out that the purpose of the Labor Board telegram is only to open up a strike- breaking effort and every work- er can expect a letter from his employer asking him to return to work on the basis of the telegram. He showed that mass picketing closed the Millbank Plant; and at the meeting plans were made for picketing at the Standard, One of the speakers at the Pas- saic meeting was Jack Rubinstein, the Lovestoneite now joining the Socialist Party, and an organizer of the Federation. As in Lodi, he con- jfined himself to general statements, but did not have a word to say of. Gorman’s sell-out policy or of his. Tecent proposals for cooperation with the textile manufacturers. Rubinstein, who, during the | Squires and Nathan Shefferman of | Detroit Makes Pledge! (Special to the Daily Worker) DETROIT, Mich., Nov. 8.—In response to the de- cision of the Central Committee that all quotas in the 60,000 drive be filled by Dee. 1, the Detroit District will at once redouble its efforts. We are determined to pass Cleveland, with whom we are in Socialist competition. The District wishes to point out, however, the weak response so far from Sections 1-2-7 (Dearborn), the concentration sections, which are below the general av- erage—and Section 5, which is lagging badly, though it took first place last year. It wishes to express dissatisfaction also with the Polish, Jewish and Armenian groups. All Party units, Party functionaries and, especially, language fractions, are instructed to work out ways and means at once for a big leap forward. The District calls for real fighting determination and enthusiasm. Detroit will go over the top before Dec. 1! WILLIAM WEINSTONE, C. P. District Organizer, Detroit. UNITED FRONT AGAINST WAR IN MILWAUKEE MILWAUKEE, Wis. Nov. 8—A conference composed of represen- tatives of many labor, veteran, un- employed, liberal and religious or- ganizations and from the Socialist and Communist Parties, met in Mayor Hoan’s office yesterday, and issued a call for an anti-war and} anti-fascist parade and demonstra- tion on Armistice Day, Nov. 11, at 2 p.m. in front of the new Court House. All the organizations are to parade with anti-fascist and anti- war slogans, The Federated Trade Council has} endorsed this call. It will partici- pate and has called on all unions to march in the parade. The Communist Party and the Young Communist League took part in the conference. They call on all workers’ organizations to mo- bilize their full strength for the demonstration. The demonstration is limited to the anti-war and anti-fascist issue, and the slogans in the parade will deal with these issues. Spanish Bankers Give Big Bonus to Fascist MADRID, Nov. 8—The following notice has appeared in the news- Papers “A, B. C.” (Royalist) here: “The Administrative Council of the Bank of Spain visited M. Ler- roux (Premier who ordered the ter- ror against the rebels), to express its complete support of the govern- ment, and to congratulate it at the same time on the complete success it has obtained against the in- surgents. “The Council of the Bank of Spain then gave to M, Lerroux the sum of one million pesetas, to be given, as bonuses, to the members of the armed forces who have dis- tinguished themselves most in the (Continued on Page 2) repression of the revolutionaries.” AN EDI to reach the greatest sections of the working class, SYNDICALISTS FIGHT POLICE IN MADRID (Special to the Daily Worker) MADRID, Nov. 8. (By Wireless). —Fighting broke out in Madrid to- day, and in the clashes between Syndicalists and the police several were wounded. Resurgence of powerful general strikes, which broke out yesterday and this after- noon in such widely separated re- gions as Barcelona, Madrid and Murcia, gives abundant proof that despite the recent defeats inflicted on the revolutionary front of the Spanish masses the unstable fascist |administration is unable to con- | Solidate its power in the face of |the heavy blows now being directed | against it. | The Syndicalists, who had been | prevented by their leaders from en- | tering with full force the struggle | against fascism led by the united | front of Communists and Socialists, now are throwing themselves every- where into united action for the ul- timate victory of the Spanish pro- letariat. In Murcia 300 workers of various political groupings battled against troops and police in a furious pro’g st against the fascist execution of fel- |low workers who had participated |in the recent revolt. A joint strike call was issued by the Syndicalists and Anarchists in order to prevent the execution of two anti-fascists in Barcelona, Jose Naredo and Guerra Pardo, were later mercilessly murdered. While the Communist and Socialist workers joined in action in the gen- eral walk-out, Socialist leaders were reported as having refused to sup- port the strike. By this afternoon the strike had spread to the two vital industries of the city, textile and metallurgy. Meanwhile numerous rebel strongholds in northern Spain, and especially in Asturias Province, are successfully resisting every attempt of the mercenary troops to crush them. TORIAL who | WEATHER: Fair, colder FESTIVAL TO RAISE FUNDS FOR 3 PAPERS Special Big Program of Entertainment Is Arranged The National Red Press Bazaar for the benefit of the Daily Worker, Morning Freiheit and Young Worker will open this afternoon at 5 p.m. at St. Nicholas Palace, West 66th Street, near Broadway. The feature attraction of the opening night will be the National Negro Theatre, headlining Mariana Panchita in her sensational Cuban Rumba, James Boxwill, operatic baritone, Eleanor Blum, famous singer of blues songs, and many others who will provide a continu- ous source of entertainment to the thousands present. The widely- heralded female escape artist, Pa- | tient. Kish, will present Enigma | “Black Houdini.” | Gymnastic performances and py- ramids by the Labor Sports Union | will take place early in the evening, | ; while Clarence Hathaway, editor of ' the Daily Worker; M. Olgin, editor of the Morning Freiheit, and Mac Weiss, editor of the Young Worker, | will greet the Bazaar. | A special feature of the second day of the Bazaar will be the great International Chorus of 1,000 voices. of the finest in the country. Bazaar will open its doors for the second day at 1 p.m. sharp, formers during the Saturday events will be the noted dramatic tenor, Ernest Grayson. The F.S.U. Balalaika Orchestra will entertain in the dining room in specially prepared programs dur- ing the entire three days of the Bazaar. A Modern Moscow Cafe- teria has been installed especially choice foods and drinks, Deacon Johnson and his national Negro jazz orchestra of twelve pieces | will play every night for the danc- jing, which will last till dawn. Cold, Youth Takes Coat; Is Shot by Policeman Charles Strunsky, 24 years old, was cold. He stood shivering before the windows of the Crawford Cloth- ing Store, 12th St. and Broadway, yesterday morning, eyeing the warm coats. Then he went to work with a glass cutter. The glass fell to the |ground with a tinkle heard by Pat- rolman William J. Donlon, Donlon saw the boy rounding the jcorner with his coat, pulled his re- volver and fired. Strunsky fell with |a@ bullet in his abdomen. At Bellevue Hospital, where he is held in the prison ward, it was not expected that the boy would live. CHILDREN ORDERED TO READ HITLER BERLIN, Nov. 8—Adolph Hitler's book, “My Struggle” has been made required reading for all German Rosenberg’s “Myth of the Twentieth Century,” Houston Stewart Cham- |berlain’s “Race and Personality” | and the infamous forgeries circu- | | lated under the title of the “Proto- | cols of Zion.” This chorus is considered to be one | The | One of the many interesting per- | for the bazaar, with a variety of | school children, along with Alfred | (Eight Pages) WAR ON JOBLES > New Achievements Mark 17th Birthday Of Land of Soviets MOSCOW, Nov. 8—Little known to American workers are these achievements of the Soviet Union which have placed the proletarian dictatorship in the forefront of science and culture Many of them were revealed for the first time during the celebra- || tion of the 17th year of the Octo- |] ber Revolution: | ‘The largest radio broadcasting || station in the world is about to || be opened in Moscow. At Mag- nitogorsk the largest steel rolling mill in Europe has begun opera- || tion. This is the first year in which, because of collectivization, there has been an increase in the number of cattle. Soviet films were awarded the first prize in the International Cinema _ Exhibition at Genoa, || | Italy. The Academy of Sciences || |] is drawing up a new “List of the |] New Nationalities in the Soviet || || Union.” ‘The last list appeared || | in 1927. According to the data || compiled, the number of nation- || alities in the Soviet Union is 159. |} COMMUNISTS RECORD NEW VOTE GAINS Large gains, in many cases doubling last year’s vote, continue |to be recorded for the Communist Party candidates as the latest elec- tion returns arrive. In many districts, Communist candidates polled twice and three times as many votes as the Socialist |Party candidates. | In Illinois, where the Socialist} }and Communist votes were com-| bined in a Workers Ticket, prac-| tically the entire slate was elected. | CLEVELAND, Ohio, Noy. 8—Im-/ mense gains for the Communist Party were recorded here today in the latest returns of the State and local elections. I. O. Ford, running for Governor polled 7,653 votes in Cuyahoga | County alone, which compares with the entire State vote for Foster cf 7,231 in 1932, and 6.349 for Marshall | (Continued on Page 8) ‘Workers of Haverhill Protest Aid to Bosses | HAVERHILL, Mass., Nov. 8.— More than 100 shoe workers in a | | delegation went to City Hall in | protest against the city officials |giving aid to shoe manufacturers |in moving shops to avoid paying |the union wage scale. Yesterday Alfred Porro, Com- munist Party member and Work- ers’ candidate for Mayor and agent jof the Lasters Local of the United |Shoe and Leather Workers Union, defended in court a young truck | driver who was arrested at a picket |line in front of Dancett* Co.. City officials admitted today to the delegation that they helped scabs move out of town. Leave a copy of the Daily , Worker with your street car con- ductor. Get him interested: then ask him for a contribution to the Daily Worker $60,000 driv ree, i under the centralized seamen’s ship- tions in New York City, Two significant facts stand out from an analysis of the vote: the Demo- cratic sweep which gave them control of the State Legislature for the first time since 1913, and the sharp increase in the Communist vote. The conclusion to be drawn from the Demo- cratic landslide is not that it represents the con- tinued faith of the masses in the New Deal as the capitalist press maintains. That the faith of the masses in the New Deal is being shaken is evident from the mounting wave of struggles, but the masses cling to the possibility that Roosevelt will still do something for them. They still hope to be able to obtain concessions from the capitalists through Roosevelt. They hope that some of his promises may yet be realized. In voting for Lehman they were voting to give Roose- velt more time. They were clinging to shreds of hope that his promises would be fulfilled. The masses support Roosevelt because the Com- munist Party, which has led the workers’ counter- attack against the New Deal, has not yet been able and to convince them of the correctness of the Com- munist program, Nevertheless, the great increase in the Communist vote is a reflection of the left- ward movement of the toilers, and shows the great Possibilities for the growth of the Communist move- ment. It shows that the influence of the Communist Party is growing, and that the Party is develop- ing new methods of work which are attracting the best and most militant workers to the banner of Communism. Of importance to Party members is the proof that the situation is favorable to obtain support and votes for the Party’s program, if this work is taken seriously and pushed energetically. The Communist vote in New York City rose from 23,000 in 1932 to 45,000 in‘ 1934. The greatest significance of the increase almost 100 percent in the Communist vote is not so much the actual increase as is the rise in the percentage of gain. The growth of the Party's influence has been of a constant | creased steadily and has not shown the up and down fluctuations of the Socialist vote. It is this fact that shows the true significance of the increase of 15 per cent in the Socialist vote. The gain is really slim, especially if we contrast the vote this year with the larger vote in 1930. We must not forget that in 1932 Hillquit received almost a quarter of a miltion votes when he ran for Mayor. Thus the increase in the Socialist vote does not represent a real growth of influence or prestige among the masses. In contrast to the steady growth of the Com- munist vote, the Socialist vote has fluctuated up and down, a sign that they are making no great headway among the workers, The main lesson that the Party and the New York working class must learn from the Communist vote is that the highest votes were recorded in those sections of New York where the Party or- ganized and led mass struggles in defense of the daily needs of the masses. The workers who fol- character. Its prestfy with the masses has in- lowed the Party in fighting for relief and higher wages, for the immediate payment of the bonus, and | other immediate issues, supported the Party at the polls. It is significant that the candidates who received the highest vote were those who had led | important mass struggles. To increase our in- | fluence and to get more votes, we must intensify | our leadership of mass struggles. This is the best way to win the workers for Communism and our | Party. The main lesson for the working class is that the Democratic victory will not lead to a “left” turn on the part of the administration. Instead of being a mandate to give further concessions, it will be used by the administration as a mandate to in- crease the bosses’ attacks against the working class, to continue and sharpen the whole New Deal pro- | gram that is leading to war and fascism. Already the victorious New Deal is preparing | new inflationary moves to increase profits and | lower wages even below their present low and in- | adequate level. The terror against strikens will be | (Continued on page 8) NEW YORK CITY | EDITION Price 3 Centa | Red Press Bazaar Opens Tonight at St. Nicholas Palace .L.D. NEEDS $6,000 FOR BOYS’ APPEAL PLANS POLICE PHOTO FILE OF ALON RELIEF New ‘Crisis’ Aimed to Pave Way for 7-Cent Fare, New Taxes By Howard Boldt The LaGuardia relief administra- tion ordered single unempl workers dropped from the rolis un- less they accept forced labor at a dollar a week in the former prison camp at Greystone. It has begun a widespread investigation of all work relief clients, and put for- ward the proposal of photographing all relief workers for police files. Meanwh driving headlong f another “crisis” in relief financing, City Hall is opening the door for the seven cent fare, for wage and sales taxes, and is tightening the entire relief machinery for a vast program of forced labor on relief. Drive Under Way Relief investigators have been told to close at least one case a ‘Gay: Winter clothing is not being given except in most unusual cases; “adjustments” are being made on insurance policies which are in- tended to-pauperize the entire re- lief clientele; relief workers who have managed to saye even twenty or thirty dollars are fired; a gag law prohibiting investigators from even discussing their work outside the confines of the relief offices has been ordered; rents go unpaid; cases are closed on merest “suspi- cion”; case workers who dare raise their voices in protest against po- lice clubbings and racial discrimi« nation are fired. Photographers have been asked to submit bids of photographs of all telief workers—photographs two by one and seven-eighths inches in size, to be filed with the Police De- partment, the Home Relief Bureau and the Works Division of the De- partment of Public Welfare. Nor have the unemployed on direct re- lief been overlooked. Case workers in at least two sections of the city have been asked to register those on Home Relief, who will be pho- tographed and their pictures filed with the Department of Sanitation for snow-shoyelling at forced labor jobs this Winter. Discharge Slips Ready The “pink slips,” discharge no- tices which are euphemistically called “transfers,” are being mimeo- graphed by the thousands by the Works Department. All relief workers eazning in ex- cess of sixteen dollars a week are being investigated, subjected to the Same endless list of questions of the infamous “paupers’ oath” which was |circulated among all C.W.A. work= ers last April. Orders have al- ready been sent out for the firing of workers earning two dollars more than would be their budgets on di- rect relief. _The 500 special investigators as- signed to review all relief cases, and on the basis of whose findings and |snoopings five hundred relief cases are being pared from the rolls daily and another thousand relief cases are being cut, continue at work in all boroughs. Pauperization Plans A memorandum sent out by Ed- ward Corsi, director of the Home Relief Bureau, stated: “Will you kindly inform the Precinct offices that they are to make full investigations in all work relief cases, including bank inquiries, wherever there appears to be an indication that there may be an account cither in the name of the person who is em- ployed or some immediate mem- beryof the family. “Wherever bank accounts are found in the sum of $100 or more, dismissais are to be sent through in the same manner as is done in other work relief cases where re- sources are discovered. “Where there is a bank ac- count in the sum of $400 or over, kindly submit the application to the Department of Special Inves- tigations for transmission to the Corporation Councils Office for action. Also certified transcript of the bank account from the re- port covering interview with the family, showing that the bank account is in his name or in the name of an immediate member of his family. “If the account is in the name of the husband or wife of the per- son who is or who has been on work relief, may we have a state- (Gontinued on Page 2)