The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 12, 1934, Page 1

banks of the city, made public yes- SUBSCRIBERS: LAR WITH YOUR SEND AN Vol. XI, No. 270 <> EXTRA DOL- RENEWAL FOR THE “DAILY” DRIVE Yesterday's receipts $ 293.26 Total to date . 34,700.70 Press Run Saturday— 60, 500 26 Entered as second-class matter aily Q Worker CENTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERWATIONAL ) mt the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., under the Act of March 8, 1879. NEW YORK, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1934. WEATHER: Fair and NEW YORK CITY EDITION Colder, (Eight Pages) F.D.R. SPURS ANTI-INSURANCE PLAN Price 3 Cents 1,000 Arrested 1 As Austrian in. Workers Score Fascism LAGUARDIA AIDS BANKS ON 7-CENT FARE WALL STREET ORDERS TAX PLAN TO PRECEDE NEW LOAN Jobless Gird To Fight| Scheme To Place Load on Workers By Si Gerson Unemployed organizations throughout the city were busy yes- terday planning action against the new attack of the LaGuardia ad- ministration and the Morgan- Rockefeller banks on the jobless of the city, the Daily Worker learned. A letter from the most powerful \terday, was the cause for alarm in hundreds of thousands of homes where relief is the sole means of maintenance. Fear clutched the hearts of fam- ilies on the relief rolls as the news broke that another “relief crisis” has been announced, Controller Joseph D. McGoldrick made a loan of $1,000,000 from a bankers’ group in order to pay relief this week. In advancing this paltry sum the bankers’ group categorically de- clared they were not prepared to| Joan any further money to the city for relief until their tax pro- posals and relief slashing program had been put into effect. Chief among their proposals is a tax on sales and jobs and a two- cent transit tax—the 7-cent fare— which the LaGuardia administra- tion is obviously preparing to put into effect now that the elections are over. The Bankers’ Ultimatum What is seen as a virtual ulti- matum by the bankers and the city government to the masses of New York was made known by the Con- troller when he issued to the press copies of the letter to him from the banking group which had loaned the million dollars earlier in the day. The letter declares that no further funds for relief will be forthcoming unless an “adequate” tax program will be adopted by the city. The letter follows: “Dear Mr. Controller: “At the conference which we had with you this morning you Jaid before us the fact that the City of New York will require additional funds for the purpose of meeting the expenses of unem- ployment relief within the next few days. “On September 25, 1934, we ad- dressed a letter to the Mayor, a copy of which is attached, in which we reviewed the various proposals which were then being considered by the Joint Commit- tee of the Board of Estimate and the Board of Aldermen to meet the unemployment relief needs of the city. Since that date the Municipal Assembly has passed certain tax bills which you realize are entirely inadequate to meet the situation, and as a conse- quence another crisis has arisen with respect to emergency relief funds. “We are confident that the bank- ing community will be prepared to advance funds against taxes which are adequate to meet the SFOR RELIEF KOCH FUNDS NOT FOR ILD, PAPER SAYS ‘Scot faloba Benefit’ Said To Be for the Leibowitz Forces Although the manager of Koch‘s Department Store on West 125th Street had informed three of the Scottsboro mothers that he had “not decided” to whom funds raised by the store in the name of the Socottsboro boys would be turned | over, the Amsterdam News last week announced that the store had en- tered an agreement to turn over these funds to the “American | Scottsboro Committee.” This means that the funds will be | turned over to forces of Samuel S. | Leibowitz, renegade defense attor- ney, his Harlem henchmen, who have no connection with the de- fense, and are accused by the Scottsboro mothers of trying to! scuttle the defense, and not to the International Labor Defense which has complete charge of the Scotts- | boro cases and is the only organ- ization, with the National Scotts- ‘SECRET ORDER SHOWS BANKS INSOLVENT Government Hiding Real Condition of Banks, O’Connor Reveals LINCOLN, Neb., Nov. | vealing that many banks now con- | sidered solvent are really bankrupt, | jand that the Roosevelt government | structure, J. F. T. O'Connor, Con- | troller of the Currency for the | Roosevelt government, made pub- ,|lic for the first time the text o secret. orders which the Roosevelt Government had been sending to Federal bank examiners to “go has been cooperating secretly with | jthe banks to preserve their capital | posals to our Party organizers and # Browder A Calls on Party To Lead By Earl sks FE blade At Once for Two Boys Organizations in Actions To Save Patterson and Norris From Legal Lynching on Dee. 7 Browder General Secretary, Communist Party, U.S.A. I do not think it is necessary to agitate any member of 11.—Re- | our Party on the necessity for the most immediate action to save Haywood Patterson and Clarence Norris, Scottsboro | boys, from the legal lynching that has set for December 7. jmembers on this campaign. At this moment, the mass pro- | Gen must be raised to unprece- | dented heights. The Party must give not only| every possible assistance directly to the International Labor Defense | easy” on the banks. |and the Scottsbor-Herndon Action This information was made pub-| Committees, which are conducting lic in an address before the Ne-| this fight; the Party must come for- braska State Bankers Association. | jward everywhere, calling meetings, The text of the Roosevelt govern- | collecting funds, and preparing ac- ment orders to the bank examiners | tions around this issue, The Com- was for these examiners to evalu-/munists must take the lead in or- ate bank assets with a “sympathe-|ganizing the participation in ‘all tic attitude” and not to be “too | Seottsboro actions of every trade critical and harsh in their examina- | inion and other organizations. In tion.” “This was conclusive proof,” O'Connor said, “of the understand- for Negro liberation. ing and sympathetic attitude of the! gaving the lives of the Scottsboro |administration toward the banks. ” boys is not only a task of the I. L. Indicating that the Roosevelt gov- |p. and the League of Struggle for ernment was cooperating with the | Negro Rights. It is an immediate | Wall Street banks in hiding their |and urgent task of the entire revo- |true conditions, O’Connor read the lutionary movement. jfollowing instructions which had| jt jg particularly urgent at this been sent out to the bank ex- aminers: lapts Sib .|Set himself resolutely to the task “It is the administration’s desire | of helping to collect the $6,000 fund |that credit channels be opened | which it is necessary for the I.L.D. ; through licensed banks and this to obtain at once to safeguard the policy cannot be accomplished if p _ 2 | campaign. jexaminers follow a deflation policy| Rush all funds for Scottsboro- in examinations. We are all con- the Communist program of struggle ij ,|this fight we must carry forward | time for every Party comrade to| It is necessary, however, to make some concrete pro-| Earl Browder | Herndon, by telegraph, airmail, and special delivery to the national of- fice of the International Labor De- |fense, Room 610, 80 East 11th Street, |New York City. |there is a wide distinction between the potential and intrinsic value of boro-Herndon Action Committee, |assets of a going institution, and which is authorized by the boys | and their mothers to collect funds | for their defense. | Mothers Turned Away The store management, while re- | fusing to permit the Beottsbote | mothers to speak at the store dur- | jing a widely advertised three-day | “Scottsboro sale,” had several mem- | bers of the so-called “American | Scottsboro Committee” appear at | the store on the opening day of the sale to “endorse the sale.” In advertisements of the sale, the management makes a vague prom- ise of an indefinite “generous per- centage” from the sale for the Scottsboro defense, The sale, which ended last Sat- urday night, was endorsed by | Mayor LaGuardia, Stanley D.| Pearce of the City Farmers Trust Company, and others who have | never raised their voice to protest the outrageous frame-' -up of the nine Scottsboro boys which the I. L. D. exposed, or lifted a finger to oppose the lynch verdicts of the Alabama courts. The three Scottsboro mothers who were refused permission to ap- pear at the store during the “Scottsboro sale” are Mrs. Ida Nor- ris, mother of Clarence Norris, who with Haywood Patterson, is facing the electric chair on Dec. 7; Mrs. full requirements of the city for unemployment relief, and in the meantime, in order to be help- Ida Wright, mother of Andy and Roy Wright, and Mrs. iola Mont- gomery, mother of Olen Montgo- liquidating values, “Examiners in appraising and | classifying assets of licensed banks will not apply liquidating values but will appraise on the basis of fair values on a recovery basis.” Thus the Roosevelt government | is aware that many banks are ac- tually insolvent on the basis of their assets, and deliberately co- | operates with the banks in infla- |tionary evaluation of their assets. This close tie-up with the banks | was openly cemented at the recent Bankers Convention at Washington, where Roosevelt openly agreed to continue his policies in the inter- ests of the banks. 100% Increase In Red Vote In Ohio County COLUMBUS, O., Nov. 11.—The Communist vote in Franklin Coun- ty increased by 100 per cent over the last state election, with 456 votes being cast as against 225 last election. In Marion Township, where the Communist Party has been active in organizing the unemployed, the Communist vote was 25 compared | with 88 for the Republican. | cerned in having solvent banks, but Many Rallies Mussolini Aids Largest Monopolies In France Assail War (Special to the Daily Worker) PARIS, Nov. 11 (By Wireless.) — The armistice anniversary of the ROME, Noy. |government formally established what the Fascists call the “corporate 10.—The Mussolini | | imperialist world war found Com- }munists and Socialists preparing monster mass meetings not only against the illusion that following the turning out of the reactionary | lin cabinet will inaugurate anything but fascist measures. Fascists and royalists totalling 20,000 paraded down the boulevards under police protection and shouted against the “betrayal” of the pro-fascist former premier, Doumergue. Analysing the political situation, | “L'Humanite,” |munist Party of France, writes: “Flandin’s future policy essen-| tially will be the same as Dou- mergue’s was. Flandin’s cabinet composes the same parties as the former premier’s, except for the Neo-Socialists. Tardieu declined to offer his participation, obviously be- cist cabinet later. Mandel repre- sents the darkest tradition of the Clemenceau policy. Flandin himself is compromised by the scandal of Doumergue government the Flan- | organ of the Com- | eee See iene toy bure tase | ward changes in order to continue | state,” when the economic life of the country was officially placed under the control of 22 economic | councils consisting mainly of leading Italian capitalists or their agents. These councils have full control over every detail of economic life regarding wages and profits. Their objective is to guarantee the profits of Italian capitalism at the expense | of the Italian working class through an iron rule over.all workers groups |and the forbidding of any working class protest. The Fascist press nails this formal |granting of dominance to economic councils and declares that Roose- | velt's N. R. A. program is really a | copy of the Italian fascist model. The “corporate state,” despite its | high-sounding names and ‘set-up, is really nothing but the capitalist | state taking on some superficial out- | capitalists and big landlords against | the workers and peasants. in to act as the agent of the Italian’) jthe French Air Post Company.| Unemployment and_ poverty | tory for the anti-fascist movement, | crisis hits Italian capitalism with ;Doumergue’s fall represents a vic- | Italy are steadily increasing, as the | ful, we are prepared to advance $1,000,000 additional against the business tax so as to give time for the passage of a tax bill which will be adequate. “The following gentlemen have authorized me to sign this letter to you on behalf of all of us: “Mr. George Whitney, J. P. Morgan & Co.; Mr. B. A. Tomp- kins, Bankers Trust Company; Mr. Samuel A, Welldon, First National Bank; Mr. William C. Potter, Guaranty Trust Company; Mr. Gordon S. Rentschler, Na- tional City Bank. “Yours very truly, | “WINTHROP W. ALDRICH, “Chairman of the Board of Direc- tors Chase National Bank of the City of New York.” Funds totalling $6,000,000 bor- rowed from the bankers at 234 per cent interest on Oct. 2 and carefully estimated to last until just after | election day, have run out. A Well-Planned Crisis Bearing all the earmazks of aav- Ang been well planned and coolly calculated, the “relief crisis” is seen by many observers as the means by which the big bankers and the (Continued on Page 2) t mery. At its last meeting, Thursday night, the National Scottsboro- Herndon Action Committee elected a sub-committee to co-operate with the I. L. D. to force the manage- ment of Koch’s to turn over its Promised “generous percentage” to the real defenders of the boys. The Action Committee declared that in event of refusal by the store, it would appeal to the workers of New York, Negro and white, to Picket the store in protest. Workers Greet Russian Revolution in the Saar (Special to the Daily Worker) ZURICH, Nov. 11. (By Wireless). —On the 17th Anniversary of the October Revolution huge street demonstrations took place in Saar- bruck, Saalouis, and Neunkirchen, in the Saar, despite strict prohibi- ree decrees. The meetings took lace in a blaze of red flags, cheers da revolutionary songs. louis and Neunkirchen, where in- door meetings were also held, all the hells were overcrowded. Not ay fascist was to be seen on the Streets. ‘ At Saar-| The Communist Party was denied the use of the schools in this elec-~ tion, it was omitted in the various straw ballots conducted locally, and employers here instructed their workers how to vote, threatening them with loss of their jobs. De- spite all these obstacles the Com- munist vote shows a large increase over the last elections. | but Flandin will, without a doubt, (Continued on Page 2) Workers! C, P. Records Big Gain MASURY, Ohio, Nov. 11.—The| Communist Party polled 27 votes} |in the fourth precinct of Trumbull | County here, compared with 6 for | the Sccialist candidate and a Com- | munist vote of 5 two years ago. The winning candidate received 755 votes, Ex-Mayor Will Write Wise -Cracks Column paper faces. be raised by Dee. 1. paper out of danger. reached. LONDON, England, Nov. 11—The dashing James J. Walker, who made prodigious but unsuccessful efforts to cover up Tammany crookedness while he was Mayor of |New York by wise-cracks, has signed a contract with “The Sun- day Dispatch” to become a pro- fessional wise-cracker. Act Now! ‘ was slackened. share. jall the force that it strikes other |countries without the “corporate istate officialdom. Act Now! The readers and all other sympathizers of the Daily Worker still seem to be unaware of the grave danger the The second half of the $60,000 fund must Less than three weeks remain in which to pull your Last week, despite the urgency of the situation, less than $3,500 was raised, instead of the $7,500 actually required each week if the goal is to be Instead of increasing the tempo in response to the appeal that all quotas be filled by Dec. 1, the pace The money must be raised, and it can be raised, if only every friend and reader of the “Daily All Party members and members of mass organi- zations must mobilize to put the drive over the top. ”* does his full NEW CLASHES REPORTED IN MANY TOWNS | Unity of Socialist and | Communist Toilers Grows Daily VIENNA, Nov. 11—Following fiery united front demonstrations of So- cialist and Communist workers in Vienna and other Austrian cities, | Police today jailed nearly 1,000 workers. At the same time reports arrived here of clashes between workers | | and police in many cities and towns, | including Parasol Mountain, Leo- | poldsdorf and Tullnebach, Vienna. The mass arrests which took place | today was based on the fear on the part of the government that larger meetings were to be held tomorrow. | Newspapers which sought to check today was based on the fear of the reports of arrests in various Aus- trian cities were unable to get long- distance telephone connections. The Communist Party has grown into a mass party since the crush- ing of the February revolt. Thou- sands of former social-democrats |have joined the Communist Party. A recent party congress of the C.P. revealed the fact that 48 per cent of the delegates had joined since | February. The Communist Party | now has a working united front | with large sections of the Austrian Social-Democratis party and the | Schutzbund, the armed organization of the Austrian So- | cialist party. Hearing a Set for PITTSBURGH, Pa., Nov. 11. — A hearing for parole in the case of Phil Frankfeld, unemployed leader railroaded to a sentence of two to four years in the Alleghany County | Workhouse, has been set for Nov. |13 before Judge R. R. Lewis, Frank- feld was charged with “inciting to riot” for leading the struggles of | unemployed workers for relief. The Frankfeld-Egan Liberation |Committee, with the active aid of the International Labor Defense, is conducting a mass campaign for the release of Frankfeld Emma Brletic, Dan Benning and Frank Egan, con- victed on “rioting” charges in con- nection with the Ambridge steel strike last year. Are Convicted, In B ridgeport BRIDGEPORT, Conn., Nov. 11— demonstrators who were beaten up} by police and arrested at the Oct.! |General of New York, the acquital of four of the defend- |ants and the conviction of three. | Sam Krieger, Section organizer |of the Communist Party and one lof the defendants, acted as spokes- man for the group and conducted |the defense along clear-cut class lines. He admitted that the work- ers had deliberately decided to | Stand on their constitutional rights of free speech and assembly, the police chief and the Socialist Mayor McLevy. Krieger pointed out that the onl; curred was when the police tacked the demonstrators ene clubs. _He placed ‘esponsibility I tt |McLevy, who had dehied a pel for the demonstzation, whica v called to protest Nazi brutalities | jagainst the German working class/ mand the frecdom of Ernst Thael- mann and other German anti-Fas- cists. The four acquitted are Kaplan, Kieve Liskofsky, ine Zematis and Emily Mureii Those convicted are Sam Kri Jean Mureika, a member of the Young Communist League who David the demonstration, and Ray Cohen, @ member of the American League | Against War and Fascism. They were fined $25 each, and costs, An} appeal was taken ~~ enema defense | Frankfeld Parole; 3 Anti-Fascists The trial of the seven anti-Nazi | 26 protest meeting against the visit | |to the city of the German Consu!-| resulted in | despite denial of a police permit by | disorder that oc- | at- S\iith Anniver and the Jewish people and to de-}| UNITED MII ROOSEVELT DYERS SPURN NO-STRIKE AGREEMENT Mass Meetings Act In all near | Paterson, Union City, } Lodi, New York By George Morris (Daily Worker Special Correspondent) PATERSON, Noy. 11.—Striking dye workers unanimously rejected the settlement terms presented to | them by the officials of the union jand decided for a stronger picket line than ever on Monday morning at a meeting in Roseland baliroom here yesterday. A similar decision was made by dye strikers at mass meetings in Union | City, Lodi and New York. | Prior to the Roseland ballroom mass meetings, when the terms were made known at a meeting of | shop chairmen and delegates, the Officials were simply booed out. The new contract if adopted | would have meant a two-year no- | strike agreement, and all disputes left to an arbitration committee of two workers, two employers and an “impartial chairman.” The wages would be 66 cents per hour, 36 hours per week, which would be 8% cents per hour increase but only 76 cents above the present scale $32 per above the present $23 per week rate for 40 hours. There was to be an open shop, with employers only | Promising not to interfere with the union's effort to organize the work- ers. There were likewise speed-up provisions which would increase | dye boxes of six feet and under to | two per man. | In reviewing the proposed con- | tract point by point at the Rose- }land Auditorium the workers ex- | pressed determination to stay out for a 100 per cent union shop, a contract for no longer than one year, and the right to strike if the employer does not live up to the agreement. Sixty-six cents was quirements standard. | maximum work week for a decent living They decided that the should not exceed 35 hours, and speed-up pro- | ae wtre rejected, Likewise in {a very enthusiastic manner the workers decided that May First | should be a holiday and all shops must remain closed on that day. Ammirato is Booed Anthony Ammirato, president of | the Paterson local, in presenting the | contract told the workers that it was the very best agreement that they could get. But he was greeted with a storm of boos. Seeing that | the workers were indignant at his | proposal, he tried to convince them | that it be voted on by secret ballot in each shop. But it was a hopeless for him. The workers decisively rejected this scheme designed to crack their solid front. Almost in a |chorus at least 3,000 refused to (Continued on Page 2) (600 Paterson Workers Celebrate Revolution, PATERSON, vy. 11—Six hundred workers jammed Carpen-| ters Hall yesterday to celebrate ae of the Rv ution. |Proletarian Rev: { The principal speaker of the | eveni: was Max Bedacht of the Ce! Committee of the Com- |munist Party, who reviewed the 17 years’ progress since the revolution. | Rog {viewed the developments ir he! | dy ye strike, and upon his appeal V6 |was contfibuted for the Daily of the Part Vaigo, ue and file leader in considered below the minimum re- | Contribute to ‘Daily’ | NE UNION SECRETARY TO HELP COMMITTEE Bu siness Men Joined by Kennedy in Fight Against Insurance By Marguerite Young (Daily Worker Washington Burean) WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 11.— Thomas Kennedy, secretary-treas- urer of the United Mine Workers of America, will join business men and their “scientific salesmen” from many colleges in discussing a Roose- | velt concoction to substitute for genuine unemployment insurance at |a national conference which opens | here Wednesday under the auspices of the President's Committee on Economic Security. The Department of Labor today listed Kennedy as one of the dis- cussion leaders for a round table on unemployment insurance.” ‘There was nothing in the announcement to minimize the most enlightening | statement yet given out by any member of the Committee—Secre- tary Perkins’ recent declaration that the group “never expected” and “never promised” to propose measures for complete economic security. President Roosevelt will receive ‘the delegates to the conference and possibly speak to them. A recently appointed advisory council of the Committee on Economic Security will join in the conference and, | later, hold separate meetings. Sub- jects on the conference program are “Unemployment Insurance, child welfare, provision of employment, old age security and medical care.” Prof. Joseph H. Willits, of the University of Pennsylvan: which is headed by a former partner of the J. P. Morgan affiliate, Drexel and Company, will preside at the round-table at which Kennedy will speak. Others leading in this dis- cussion will be John B. Andrews, secretary for the American Associa- tion for Labor Legislation, reaction- ary advocate of unemployment re- serves frankly as a defense for the capitalists against Unemployment Insurance; H. W. Story, Milwaukee manufacturer, and Prof. Paul H. Douglas, University of Chicago pro- | fessor who has supported both So- cialist Party candidates and the Wagner-Lewis principle of unem- | ployment reserves. The conference will pile up a mass of verbiage for the national congress for unemployment insur= jence to analyze and expose when it assembles here on Jan. 5, with | representatives of thousands of un- employed workers, professional men and women, smal home owners, A, | F. of L. rank and filers, etc., par- ticipating. The national unemploy- ment councils will lay before this conference a proposal for a mass ‘}march upon Washington next Spring in case Congress has not enacted by that time an unemploy- ance program embodying | the principles of the Workers’ Un- employment and Social Insurance Bill. It was in response to the wide mass movement for such legislation that the President created his com- | mittee to provide a substitute. |. Among the many reactionary | bourgeois outfits which will be rep- resented by discussion leaders .in Roosevelt conference are the tional League of Women Voters, National Council of Parents and Teachers, State Charities Aid | Associations and the American As- fines for Social Security. ment i the 'Dublin Police Charge ) Anti- imperialist Raily DUBLIN, Nov. 11.—An anti-im- perialist meeting held here was. | charged by police squadrons, which sent two workers to the hos- Kather-|Among the speakers was George pital and injured scores of others. xa, Morris of the Daily Worker, who re- | Speak kers were addressing huge c2owds, citing the imperialist rec- ord of slaughter and disaster “in |the last w when without warn- chained herself to a pole during | Worker and for the strike activity | ine the police began to swing their clubs in a series of furious charges. |Members of the crowd, in answer the Silk Weavers Union, spoke in| to this unwarranted brutality, con- Italian for the benefit of the many |fiscated the red poppies worn by \Ttalian dye strikers who were there. | nationalist groups.