The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 10, 1934, Page 1

{ } | | | || oa FOSTER APPEALS By WILLIAM Z. FOSTER Scottsboro case has again reached the critical period of appeal to the Supreme Court of the United States—the court of last illusions, If further evidence were need of the tremendous importance of the Scottsboro case and the whole fight for Negro rights, it is supplied by the concerted at- } | | | The FOR I. L. D. tack upon the working class and the Negro people which has swept like a wa the signal given by Samue upon the Scottsboro defense. ve through the South, upon 1 S. Leibowitz, in his attack Thinking this defense weakened, the bourbons have taken heart, and are ‘launching fiercely into an offensive which had been in part held back by the tremendous pressure of the movement aroused by the Communist Party and the SCOTTSBORO DEFENSE FUND International Labor Defense around the Scottsboro case. The attacks of Leibowitz and company have been intended to cripple the campaign to save the boys, financially as well as morally. They cannot be permitied to do so. allow the enemy to win. in its campaign to carry the U. be raised. We cannot S. Supreme Court and for A $6,000 fund is immediately needed by the 1.L.D. Scottsboro case to the ce a reversal. It must Rush contributions by telegraph, airmail, to the International Labor Defense, Room 610, 80 East 11th Street, New York City. WORKERS’ SCHOOL STUDENTS: YOUR QUOTAS BY DEC. Yesterday’s receipts . Total to date .... FULFILL z « «$802.39 - $34,403.94 Press Run Yesterday—43,400 Vol. XI, No. 269 <> * New York, N. ¥., Daily,.Q Worker CENTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL ) Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at under the Aet of March 8, 1879. NEW YORK, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1934 NEW YORK CITY EDIT ION WEATHER: Fair, warmer. (Eight Pages) Price 3 Cents FOES OF WAR WILL MARCH TODAY Record Vote SOVIETS ACT FOR FREEDOM OF RAKOS| | ANTI-FASCIST LEADER TO BE GIVEN ASYLUM Prisoner’s Exchange Is} Now Being Negotiated in Budapest (Special to the Daily Worker) PRAGUE, Nov. 9 (By Wireless)— Matthics Rakosi, heroic anti-Fas- cist and leader of the Hungarian ins-class, who for more than years has been tortured in the dungeons of the Goemboes dic- ip and for whose release the ers ail over the world agitated oners, according to a Buda- pest dispatch published in the Prague “Tageblatt” today. The workers in all countries, who organized demonstrations demand- ing the release of Rakosi from Ar- gentina to Canada, from China, United States to England, rightfully consider his rescue from certain death as a direct consequence of thei: world-wide militant protest. Rakosi is to be exchanged for a certain Professor Kameney, a no- toricus sabotageur and counter-re Qlutionist now living in one of the model towns for social reformation. now under way between the Soviet and Hungarian embassies in Buda- pest. Upon finishing an eight-and-a- half-year term of nerve and body- ‘wra imprisonment for the “crime” of leading the Hungarian workers in their struggle against fascism, Rakosi, the Communist leader, had not only been refused his freedom but the secret tribunals of the dictatorship had already be- gun to hint of “further crimes” as a@ prelude to the legal murder of the world-famous anti-fascist. 8 Jute Miil Strikers Held In Ludlow LUDLOW, Mass., Nov. 9—Kight workers are under arrest charged with assault and inciting to riot, and the scores of police are patrol- ling the streets to terrorize 1,200 strikers of the Ludlow Manufactur- ing Associates jute mill, following a police attack on mass picket lines. Thirty-five state police have been sent into Ludlow. Two clashes occurred yesterday, when the noon and night shift of strikebreakers came out, and police and guards attacked picket lines. Thousands of workers surrounded the jail after the arrests, and re- newed assaults by police occurred at the police station last night. Thousands of workers are choking the streets last night in support of the strikers. Police were called from Springfield and Holyoke. The strikers went out against the blacklist and discrimination which followed the sell-out of the Sep- tember general textile strike. by Francis Gorman, leader of the United Textile Workers Union. Since then there has been aimost con- tinuous struggle at the mill. The present strike began Monday. The strikers are demanding shorter hours and higher wages, abolition of stretchout and recognition, George Haas, one of the mill company officials, is also justice of the peace. Unable to get away with handling the cases of the arrested workers himself, because of the pro- test of the workers, Haas appointed ‘Thomas Kirkland, an attorney and friend of the mill owners, to sit on the cases, ntly, is now to be sent to the | Union through an exchange | Peddler Convicted Because Food Stirs Hunger of Children NEW YORK.—It is unwise to let half-starved school children get the smell of food while they are in classrooms. So Magistrate Mark Rudich (Democrat) ruled yesterday in giving a suspended sentence to Abe Goldman, aged 69, con- victed of selling hot sweet po- tatoes in front of Public School 141, Brooklyn. Sternly reprimanding the aged food vendor, Magistrate Rudich said: “The aroma from sweet po- tatoes may enter the classrooms and make the children hungry, causing them to think of their stomachs instead of their studies. So keep away from schools.” NEW FASCIST Negotiations for the exchange are | STEPS ASKED BY BOSSES By Marguerite Young (Daily Worker Washington Bureau) WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 9.— The N.R.A. would take a new marked step toward fascism—with government-sanctioned control oi industry ‘and labor, with prohibition |against “coercion” by trade unions land with specific authority to make and unmake price-fixing agreements at will—under legislation proposed today by leading magnates of the oil, lumber, coal and other im- portant industries. A special committee of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States, the industrialists in- cluded a special plea for legislation to insure “individual” as well as collective bargaining in a report which is now being submitted to a referendum vote of the hundreds of big business men who constitute the powerful organization, It was legislative proposals by this Chaniber of Commerce that formed Toonteueh on Page 2) IN THE SOVIET UNION ROFOSALS | Conference | week at | ize in the | interference. For Communist Is Polled in California DYE STRIKERS TO DISCUSS Committee Will Bring Proposals | to Workers Today cee | PATERSON, N. J., Nov. 9:—Today negotiations between striking dyers | and bosses are reported complet-d | as far as the basic number of work- ers are concerned. Propvsals from the conference committee will be placed before a mass meeting of strikers to be held at 10 a. m. to- | morrow, where a vote will be taken. | George Baldanzi, president of the ! Dyers Federation had no statement | to make this morning when ap-| proached by a Daily Worker re- |} porter; nor did he disclose any of | the features of the reported agree- | ment. Despite the secrecy which | surrounded the negotiations, the following are some of the features of the new agreement which will be placed before the workers, as reported to the Daily Worker cor- respondent by a number of shop chairmen: There is to be a thirty-si: cts an hour. The | the nt to organ- shop, end the bosses that there will be no union is gir: promise No Strike Clause But the most dangerous feature in the proposed agreement is that it holds for two years, and the workers have no right to strike; and all disputed questions are to come up before an arbitration com- mittee composed of an equal num- ber of employers and workers, with an “impertial” chairman. While details are not yet avail- | able, it is likewise reported that the employers have succeeded in in- cluding a provision which will in many cases give workers more dye tubs to tend to. Such an agree- ment, although providing an in-| crease from the former 57 cents per hour, will bind the workers to’ the | N.R.A. machinery and make strikes illegal for two years, While it is impossible to learn if the officials of the union will recommend to the workers the adoption of the agreement, from the sentiment having been ex- pressed by many workers, there will be strong opposition to it. Recently when one of the officials tried to explain that the workers have nu chance for the $1 an hour and a thirty-hour week, a mass meeting | threatened to throw him out of the window, As there were for several days strong hints on what may go into (Continued on Page 2) ; Sroups, California Responds In Drive for ‘Daily’ Sending $252, California re- sponded yesterday to the appeal of the Central Committee for all quotas to be filled by Dec. 1. “Further proceeds will be air- mailed this week,” the District Buro announced. With this contribution Califor- nia reaches 30 per cent of its quota—and almost ties Seattle, with whom it is in Socialist com- petition. Both districts must push themselves to the limit, if they hope to finish on time. The “Daily” expects to hear from them next week! GROUP PLANS SCOTTSBORO A series of vigorous actions in support of the International Labor Defense in its conduct of the Scotts- boro defense were planned at the third meeting of the National Scottsboro-Herndon Action Com- mittee, held last Thursday night at 118 W. 11lth Stree:. An intensive car tests against t Alabema lynch offcials to legally |murder two of the boys, Haywood Patterson and Clarence Norris, on Dec. 7, and for the collection of funds to help defray expenses of the appeals of the two lads to the United States Supreme Court, was unanimously decided upon. The committee set itself a quota of $2,000 to be raised in the immedi- ate period, and adopted proposals to hold a huge benefit in Harlem, , Supplemented by numerous small {parties to be sponsored by individ- ual members and sympathetic and to involve women’s jclubs and other organizations. It decided to organize flying squadrons to visit affairs and parties to raise the question of the fight for the Scottsboro boys and to collect funds. Sponsors Delegation to Roosevelt The Committee set itself the im- mediate task of organizing a broad united front national delegation of prominent Negro and white liberals and labor leaders to visit President Roosevelt on Noy. 15 to demand his intervention for the release of the nine innocent boys. This delegation will also protest the refusal of the Federal’ Government to prosecute, under the Lindbergh kidnapping law, the kidnappers and lychers of Claude Neal, Negro youth. It will raise with the president the ques- tion of the general increase of lynching and terror against the Ne- gro people throughout the country, (Continued on Page 2) 5 lent ca: 180,000 CAST BALLOTS FOR COMMUNIST Three Times C. P.’s Previous Total Large gains which swept one | Communist candidate in California \toa peak yote of 80,000, giving the Party @ place on the ballot as one of the recognized major political parties, and a heavy increase in a New England textile strike center where the Communist Party took |an active part in the recent strike, urs. | In California, the Communist candidate for Governor Sam Darcy, polled three times as many votes as Milen Dempster, the Socialist Party candidate. Record California Red Vote SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 9.—Over- coming terrorism and the most vio- ign of “red baiting” in imany yea: the Communist Party |here swept forward to the highest | vote ever recorded in the State, jfor Anita Whitney, running for munist Party a legal place on all future ballots as a recognized ma- jor political party. In Los Angeles and San Francisco Whitney polled 36,000 and 20,000 votes compared with the Communist vote of 13,000 in 1931, Whitney, the Communist Party candidate conducted a fight against Ray Riley, her opponent, who was the author of the State sales tax. Other Communist Party candi- dates received the following yotes: Harold Ashe, a former leading So- cialist Party member who recently joined the Communist Party, for Secretary of State, 24,750; Archie Brown, 17,856; Sam Darcy, running for Governor, received 8,799 against the Socialist Party vote of 3,491. Indicative of the widespread hatred of the masses for the more conspiciuous anti-labor officials, is the vote which swept Neil McAl- lister, “red baiting” prosecutor of eighteen Sacramento workers on “criminal syndicalism” charges, out of office. The Communist Party is now ap- for the Epic plan to unite on a program of immediate demand for unemployment relief and insurance (Continued on Page 2) |New Bedford Figure Is/ jare shown by the latest election re- | AID ACTIONS reaching the figure of 80,000 votes | Controller, and assuring the Com- | pealing to all workers who voted | Gti . Untied Front Group To Visit Thaelmann Ts Expelled by Nazis "FACES EXECUTION - Internsiionall Delegation ' of Workers Jailed and Quizzed PARIS, Nov. 9—The Interna- | tional Delegation to Ernst Thael- |mann, composed of Social-Demo- crats, Communists, trade unionists, . organized workers, including a Cath-| |, clic representative of the Saar and) two women, has just returned, hav~ ing been expelled from Germany. Following a vain attempt to see the German workers’ leader at Moabit Prison, tlie delegation nex |the chancellory of Brenner, public prosecutor of the Court,” where its members rested and taken to the Prefecture of Police, where they underwent a searching cross-examination. After being detained for eight hours on the premises of the secret police, the delegation were taken under es- cort to the frontier On their arrival here the dele- gates issued the following report: | “We were in Berlin from Oct. 19 to) 22, We first endeavored to obtain to sce Thaelmann from Mini. for Home Af- This office stated it was os "Ve then went to t og ERNST THAELMANN NEW FRENCH PREMIER IS PRO-FASCIST PARIS, Nov. 9.—Into the midst fairs. | competent. | remand prison in Moabit, and tri: a {to see the examining magistrate in charge of Thaelmann’s case,! | Braune, but he refused to see us. A lawyer named Dr. Walther informed (Continued on Page 8) Hitler Agents Found in Saar Terror Plot this morning under the premier- GENEVA, Nov. 9—That a secret | shin of the pro-fascist’ Etienne police force of 10,000 Nazi agents | mandin. is terrorizing the Saar into voting} ay > for annexation to Hitler fascism on| This move to continue and to Jan. 13, and that these agents are Strengthen the conservative steel supported by incalculable resources | 4nd-coal-magnate government has of money, newspaper propaganda and wireleess equipment, has been} reported by the Saar Territory Gov- esaliitbc's cea: erning Commission to the League of s Nations today, | Cheated Pees Miners By personal brutality and intimi- | dation as well as through public} persecution Hitler is seeking to gain] control over the valuable coal and| PECS, Hungary, Nov. iron deposits of the Saar Basin in| series of strikes was fore divided between the reactionary groups maneuvering for the pass- age of fascist “reforms” united front of Socialists and Com- munists now leading the struggle } against impending fascism, a servile | Ministry, camouflaged as another “coalition” Cabinet, (Continued on page 8) here in all) bittered thet the mine-owners re-| ‘om| to raise their wages in ac-| the Paris “Temps” to the Si holm | cordance with the promise wrung “Dagens Nyheter,” were Hitler's | from their exploiters after the five | preparations for a fascist putsch | day desperate hunger-strike in the| the Saar region. mine-galleries last month, servers declare. Featured European newspapers toda’ AN ESTIMATE OF THE ELECTION RETURNS AND OUR TASKS thee DEMOCRATIC landslide just registered in the off-year elections indicates one tremendously sig- nificant political fact—that the masses have made a definite break with the traditional policy of swing- ing from one capitalist party to another to register their discontent. The millions who voted for the Democratic can- didates are not content with their present way of life nor with the effect which the “New Deal” has had on their living standards. But these discontented millions would not act this time in what has been the traditional way of registering discontent, turning the “ins” out and | bringing the “outs” in, changing Democratic for Republican, and vice-versa, This time the masses, still under the influence of “New Deal” illusions, definitely decided that they would, under no circumstances, return to the “rugged individualism” of si a The masses recognize in | 4 | from it, that the mandate. “New Deal” than would not do. masses to In addition to Support the “New Deal,” be masses are lookin; for something “radical the tremendous demagogy of the Democratic Party, the hypocritical promises of social insurance, hous- masses gave Roosevelt his popular In this election, the masses, under the mistaken idea that they were practicing “practical politics,” Saw no alternative to register discontent with the to vote Republican, And this they | ‘The vary aitacks of the Republican “Old Guard” against the “New Deal’ as “radical” turned the these primary factors, there was AN EDITORIAL this “rugged individualism” the open policy of Wall Street, while they still believe that the “New Deal” is in the direction of an anti-Wall Street policy. It is not in support of what they have received from the “New Deal,” but what they still expect States as Minnesota, Wisconsin such as LaFollette, Sinclair, Olson, merman, running on an nevertheless serious security. The Democratic Pa “+ has been iii LL TT LRT TE A a ing, unemployment relief, jobs, as well as the not negligible effect of the immense government relief and loan machinery in the hands of the Democrats. Proof of the leftward trend of the masses is found in the strongly confirming evidence from such where the masses had some other way to register their resentment with their present position. they voted for “opposition” parties and candidates, Wall Street” candidates. In Oregon, one Peter 7, “independent,” cialist” platform, polled over 109,000 votes. votes are votes directed, mistakenly, against the policies of tne | Wall Street monopolists as the masses experience | them every day in their struggle for bread and | | ened. At the moment it is in the saddle. | be incorrect, however, to believe Party is “dead.” The Repul 12,000,000 votes and elected three ne What emerges defini! the growth of a large opposition among the masses to openly recognized capitalist policies. It is this anti-capitalist sentiment which explains the large victory for the Farmer-Laborites in Minnesota, the victory of the Progressives in Wisconsin, and the large vote for Upton Sinclair, as w as the passoge of many such “referms” as m2r iy for smal] herce-owners and tax-pryers in Florida and Louisiana. and California, Here and other “anti- | | on a “s0- All these | it is true, bu . . N THIS rise of mass discon’ Party, as indicated by partial . text, the Communist ms available, greatly strength- } (Continued on Page 2) of the tense alignment of forces, | and the | was organized | Begin New Walkout | Al order the betier to be prepared for| today when 289 coal miners refused | the onrushing European conflict, ob-| to enter the pits at Stefans, em-| | muni CITY-WIDE MASS RALLY TOMORROW Parade Today to Start From Columbus Circle at 2 P.M. New Arr tice Day today by two militant mass demonst: tions of their resistance to the growing threat of a new world war, } Under the auspices of the Ameri- can League Against War and Fas- cism thousands of workers, stu- dents, and youth group membe , the Central Opera bere at 67th Street and Third | Avenue, will be the scene of an |anti-war mass meeting under the jauspices of the Youth Section of the American League Against War ‘and Fascism. | Reecgnizing the growing ance among the threat of a ne we el ed into a solid front to tite war, At a recent strike in Brook- lyn, the activities of the young students at Brooklyn College, in allying themselves with a labor Protest, established a line which, if followed to its ultimate conclu- sion, spells success to the movement against war and fascism. Satur= |day’s demonstration. will be proof of the militancy of young workers and students towards the growing |menace of war. Among the speakers at tomor- |row’s meeting will be Clarence Hathawa editor of The Daily Worker; Dr. Harry F. Ward, chair- man of the American League Against War and Fascism; Rev. Wm. Lioyd Imes of Harlem, Rabbi Israel Goldstein, Winifred Chappell, Edwin Alexander and Pauline Rogers. Louis Perigaud, Secretary jof the World League Against War and Fascism, will make his final |appeal urging united action, before leaving this country. CHICAGO, Til, the leacership of Nov. 8—While the Americap (Continued on Page 2) Chinese Red Army Seizes | Another City HONG KONG, Noy. 9—A Com- S army of 40,000 troops, afver smashing through superior Kuom- tang forces, seizing Yanfa, and uring the Canton-Hankow Rail- is now riding the transport is toward the province of Sze- chwan Other Red divisions, storming the | defenses at Shiuchow, have forced the retreat of the 30,000 Cantonese |troops garrisoning the city to sec- |ond-line trenches. Around Kang- chow four Nanking divisions totall- ing 20.000 men are guarding the property of the imperialist powers jand tio Ica} bourgeoisie before the ladvancing working-class armies, | The gz, rumbder of desertions the perialist controled s of Chiang Kai-shek end the support -of the peasants are fazil- itating the rapid movement of all divisions of the Red troops,