The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 13, 1934, Page 1

———_} _Pecnscan sree ate a a RN ANHI-WAR GROUPS: DAILY WORKER Yesterday's receipis Total to date . Press Run yeste: SUPPORT THE $60,000 FUND rday—42,300 Vol. XI, No. 271 <&* Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office New York, N. ¥., under the Act of March 8, 1879. Daily Q& Worker CHNTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUDHST INTERNATIONAL ) NEW YORK, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1934 WEATHER: Cold, probal NEW YO (Eight bly snow EDITION RK CITY Price 3 Cents Pages) AOONEY WINS WRIT IN U.S. COURT HUGE ANTI-WAR RALLIES STIR ‘Detroit Sends Challenge to Cleveland; 10,000 JOIN UNITED FRONT IN MILWAUKEE Perigand’s Call for Unity Stirs Big N. Y. Meeting Militant, anti-war actions took place in various cities throughout the U. S. yesterday as the war preparations machine of the Roose- vent government was flooding the country with imperialist propa- | ganda on the occasion of the 1ith | anniversary of the signing of the | armistice. Press, radio and churches | Joined in this jingoist campaign. Outstanding among the united front anti-war demonstrations was the one held in Milwaukee. Here Socialist and Communist workers joined in a parade and mass meet- ing. More than 10,000 are estimated to have participated in this dem- onstration. In New York, under, the leader- ship of the Ameritan League Against War and Fascism, a series of anti-war actions began Friday night and reached a climax with an enthusiastic meeting in Central Op- era House on ney, night. A stirring plea ‘for Communist and Socialist unity in the mounting ruggles against war and fascism, by Louis Perigaud, French Socialist, brought more than 1,000 persons to their feet in a war of unbridled enthusiasm at the anti-war Armis- | tice Day meeting held on Sunday night at the Central Opera House. The mecting was held under the auspices of the American League | Against War and Fascism. “Incisively and militantly, half a dozen speakers stressed the deadly international unity between fascism and war preparations and called for the welding of the united front led by the American League Against War and Fascism among the broad- @st possible masses of the workers and the middle-class. War Plans Increased .Clarence A. Hathaway, editor of the Daily Worke:, speaking in the teame of the Communist Party, pointed out that the sixteenth ob- servance of Armistice Day was characterized by intensified war preparations and by the open ad- missions of all capitalist govern- ments that the world moves closer &nd faster towards a new war. “Armistice Day,” said Hathaway, “is being used deliberatély to stimu- late the war spirit. It must be admitted that the preparations cf the imperialists for another war have far outstripped our prepara- tions for preventing it. Our job now is to catch up. “No one group can do the joo itself,” Hathaway declared. “The Socialist Party must be brought :nto the united front. Only a real fight- ing united front can transform the whole working class into an uctive anti-war force.” Cheer Communist Party “Not even the combined number of Communists and Socialists are a guarantee of a sufficient force to fight war,” Hathaway said. “But the combined influence of these two groups in the van of a broad united front movement will be effective. ‘This combined influence can pene- trate and permeate the trade unions, the other organizations to organize mililions of workers, farmers and intellectuals for resistance to the next war,” the Communist editor asserted. Noteworthy in an audience which included many white collar workers and students who are new to con- cepts of militant struggle was the deafening applause which greeted Hathaway's introduction and the mention of the Communist Party. Perigaud, formerly editor of the Parisian Socialist newspaper “Pop- | (Continued on Page 2) 1,000 Strikers Picket Union City Dye Plant UNION CITY, N. J., Nov. 12— One thousand dye strikers mass picketed the Warren Piece Dye Works here today in the face of scores of” police with clos and guns. The company tried to open up today but only a few went to work and the plant is almost one hundred per cent out. White and colored were on the picket line together. The seis included squadrons from Lodi, Passaic and Paterson. One was ' ‘Daily’ Asks Quick Aid From Districts Daily Worker 50 East 13th Street, New York, N. Y. Detroit is on the march, Herewith we send you three hundred dollars | raised at banquet tonight; expect three hundred more by Thursday. What} about Cleveland? Nov. 12th, 1934 DAILY WORKER COMMITTEE, WILLIAM WEINSTONE | The above telegram was received yesterday by the Daily Worker, as Detroit | speeded to carry out the decision of the Central Committee for all quotas to be filled This sum puts Detroit at 55 per cent of its quota—2 per cent above Cleve- | by Dee. 1. land. But with the returns from the districts, as a whole, only slightly above half of the $60,000 quota, not only Cleveland but ALL districts must respond AT ONCE if the future of the Daily Worker is to be assured. Chicago is still below the 50 per cent mark and New York is only at 60 per cent. The Daily Worker calls for a substantial sum from every district THIS WEEK! MAYOR SAYS ‘TAXES TO BE HIGH’ SERVING NOTICE THAT MASSES, MUST CARRY RELIEF BURDEN UNIONS AID UNEMPLOYED PARADE PLAN (Specizl to the Daily Worker) CHICAGO, Ill, Nov. 12.—Grow- ing mass support is daily swinging behind the united front demon- stration and march to be held here on Saturday, Nov. 24. Within the past few days, unions of the Amer- ican Federation of Labor, social and professional workers have en- dorsed the united front. conference to be held Saturday at Mirror Hall, 1136 Worthington Avenue, for mo- bilizing this city’ sworkers for the mass march. These endorsements include the Federation of Jewish Trade Unions of the A. F. of L. which represents approximately 100 locals, District Council of the Bakers and Con- fectionary Workers International Union, American Consolidated Trades Council, Organization of Negro Trade Unionists, Painters Local 637, Metal Polishers Local 6, Federation of Social Service Em- Ployes, and the Federation of Archi- tects, Engineers, Chemists and Technicians, The Chicago Workers Committee on Unemployment has pledged to bring representatives from every local of their organizations and to work with other organizations to mbilize for representatives at the conference. The six organizations signing the original draft call to the con- ference include: A. F. of L. Trade Union Committee for Unemploy- ment Insurance, Chicago Workers Committee on Unemployment, Fed- eration of Fraternal Organizations for Unemployment Insurance, In- (Continued on Page 2) at Nae sciecama To Raise Prices. for Workers, Starve Unemployed Foreshadowing the new tax bur- dens to be imposed on the masses of New York City, Mayor LaGuardia yesterday stated that “taxes will not only be high; they will be very high.” His remarks on new taxes—con- sidered especially significant be- cause they came twenty-four hours before the mecting with aldermanic leaders on new taxes, scheduled for today—were made in the course of a public discussion under the aus- pices of the Citizens Family Wel- fare Committee at City Hall. Broadcast over stations WMCA and WNYC, the discussion was the first public step in the drive of the Committee to collect $2,000,000 for private relief agencies. Others par- ticipating in the discussion were Welfare Commissioner Wllam Hod- son, Alfred H. Schoelkopf, chair- man of the State Temporary Emer- gency Relief Administration, Doug- les P. Falconer. general secretary of the Brooklyn Burau of Charities. and Eleanor Neustadter, of the Charity Organization Society. James G. Blaine, chairman of the Citizens Family Welfare Committee, presided. Burden on Masses Evading the question of taxing of the Wall Street bankers and the large ‘utilities, Mayor LaGuardia indicated that relief will have to be borne by the masses of the city. The new burdens must not be termed taxes, he warned. “I want to take this opportunity to state that additional calls for additional revenue cannot and must not be analyzed as taxes. The call for additional revenue to meet the requirements of re- lief is a call which the State or agency of the State makes upon its citizens as a duty. It is more than a task; it is a contribution (Continued on Page 2) CAMP GUARDS CHARGED WITH KIDNAPING By Marguerite Young (Daily Worker Washington Buresu) WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 12. A charge that official guards kid- naped workers in a campaign to force them into a transients’ camp was made today as spontaneous mass protest against local relief conditions developed under the noses of Roosevelt officials who are now industriously seeking ways to cut relief and stave off genuine un- employment insurance throughout the country. Representatives of nearly 400 on transient relief presented demands to local officials here today. At the same time the veterans’ national rank and file committee protested to President Roosevelt and de- manded prosecution of authorities under the Lindbergh kidnaping law for the kidnapings. They reported that an unemployed veteran, Paul Pendergast, was evicted, ridden out- side the District of Columbia by of- ficial guards and robbed on Noy, 9. They cited other cases. Practiced In Other Cities “This has become the practice of the Bureau of Transients not only in Washington, D. C., but in other cities,” the national committee wrote Attorney General Cummings. Local leaders told the Daily Worker that a number of tran- sients, including crippied veterans and non-yeterans, have been ridden into nearby Virginia and deprived of their shoes in the course of al determined campaign to force tran- | sients into an unemployed concen- tration camp in Virginia, Camp (Continued on page 8) PEASANTS IN MOUNTAINS Troops Retire in Face of Resistance of Mounted Peasants (Special to the Daily Worker) HAVANA, Nov. 12 (By Cable).— | The heroic defiance of four hun- ; dred Communist-led peasants, or- ganized in local Soviets, and a | nation-wide working class protest have forced a momentary halt in| Col. Batista’s plan to dislodge wy force 5,000 families from Realengo 18 in Oriente Province in the in- terests of the Royal Bank of Can- ada, At a conference with government emissaries last night held at the nearby village of La Lima one hun- dred mounted peasants reiterated their determination to resist at all during the conference, mistzusting the government's assurances of security. On orders from Havana troops began to retire last night | without:the peasants having yielded ; to the government in thealtimatum demanding the surrender of arms and the giving up of their Com- munist leaders as the conditions fur not being attacked. More than two thousand in- | fantrymen, cavalry, two airplanes, | and special mountain artillery were concentrated in the hills neighbor- ing Realengo, all in preparation for attack, while the peasants are para- | tions in the Monte Rouge Moun- tains and are counting on the sup- port of the adjacent peasants of Caugeri and on the sugar workers of the surrounding centrals. this moment the government forces | | engo. The government ultimatum an immediate general strike in San- (Continued on Page 2) Secret Nazi Court Dooms Many To Die BERLIN, Noy. 12.—An announce- ment of the Berlin judicial press office today, declaring that several defendants have just been sentenced to death by the fascist tribunal of the “People’s Court” and that their names will be made known only after they have been executed, shows the danger of secret trial and. execution which confronts Ernst Thaelmann, anti - fascist leader of the German masses. Since the “People’s Court” holds its sessions in rigid court-martial manner, with notoriotS executioners for judges, and with all lawyers, witnesses, press representatives, ex- cept those “approved”, excluded from the trial-room, it is certain that Thaelmann could easily have been railroaded to a death sen- tence without this knowledge reach- ing the outside world. It is a mat- ter of extreme emergency, that everywhere throughout the world all workers and anti-fascists de- mand proof of Thaelmann’s safety and his immediate release. eto INTRENCHED costs any attempt at expropriation. The peasants refused to dismount | peted in magnificent strategic posi- T0 ROOSEVELT | Up to | will arrive in Washington, D. C., on have not ventured to enter Real- | Friday gave rise to preparations for irelease of the nine innocent Scotts- tiago de Cuba, demonstrations in iion and punishment of Alabama Havana, Santiago and Guantanamo, | ang Florida officials and cthez$ in- where the offices of the Royal Bank jvolved in the lynching of Claude By Union Norris, which still ci This mass action must take sev Dec. Stachel Asks Action Members For Scottsboro Boys By JACK STACHEL Acting National Secretary, T.U.U.L. At this crucial moment in the Scottsboro Defense it is imperative that all trade union members realize the immediate need for action— action to halt the execution of Haywood Patterson and Clarence Be (3 eral definite forms. First, an un- precedented wave of mass protests from locals, executive boards, shops, to converge upon the justices of the U. President Roosevelt in Washington. ticipation in the Scottsboro-Herndon Action Committees locally nationally. S. Supreme Court and to Second, active support and par- and Third, whole-hearted and concrete support to the Inter- national Labor Defense which is conducting the daily relentless battle that has saved the lives of the nin | the three and a half years since to die in Scottsboro, Alabama. | This support must take the fo e innocent Scottsboro boys during they were framed and sentenced rm of aiding in the collection of the $6,000 Scottsboro-Herndon fund needed immediately for printing | and filing the briefs and appeals with the U. S. Supreme Court. The Scotsboro case has become a challenge to the entire working class. It is our responsibility, Scottsboro boys. Pass resolutions boards, collect funds and rush thi air mail to the National Office of Street, New York City. It is not the responsibility of any one group or any one organization. our duty to do all that we can to save the and protests in your locals and em by telegraph, special delivery the LL.D., Room 610, 80 East 11th SCOTTSBORO FIGHT TO GO A national delegation, |thzee of the Scottsboro motters, including Wednesday afternoon to place be- |fore President Roosevelt a demand jthat he intervene to secure tne boro boys, and the arrest, prosccu- | Neal, 24-year-old Negro youth, on Oct. 27. The demand is backed by tens of thousands of signatures and protest resolutions from all parts of the country. The New York contingent of the delegation will leave New York City at 4 o'clock Wednesday morning, it was announced yesterday by the National Scottsboro-Herndon Action Committee, which is sponsoring the delegation of noted Negro and white liberals and labor leaders to protest the frame-up and lynch death ver- dicts against the Scottsboro boys and the rise of lynching under the “New Deal.” At Philadelphia, Bal- timore, Wilmington and Washing- ton, the New York contingent will be joined by delegates from those cities. The Scottsboro mothers who will accompany the delegation are Mrs. Ida Norzis, Mrs. Ada Wright and Mrs. Viola Montgomery. Mrs. Norris is the mother of Clarence Norris, for whom, with Haywood Pattersou, the Alabama Supreme Court has set Dec. 7 as the date fo- their legal murder. The delegation will be headed by William F. Jones, of ihe staff of the Baltimore Afro-Ameri- | ean, and chairman of the National Scottsboro-Herndon Action Coin- mittee. The Action Committee yesterday called on all organizations and friends of the Sccttsboro boys, and (Continued on Page 8) } Squires DYERS AGAIN | VOTE DOWN NRA SCHEME By George. Morris (Special to the Daily Worker) PATERSON, N. J., Nov. 12.— The meeting of shop chairmen and delegates of striking dyers, still in| session, after hearing Dr. Benjamin and Schefferman of the Textile Labor Relations Board e: plain the contract rejected Squires proposals. Dr, Squires started to take up each point. The first. in which the employers merely give the union freedom to organize, was unani-| mously rejected and the workers | insist on 100 per cent union shop. The second point, on relations with the employers, was rejected and the workers inisted that the present form of dealing with the shop chairman remain. The third point, which provided | for an arbitration committee of five, | with an impartial chairman to settle all disputes, was rejected by a vir- | tually unanimous show of hands. Since the contract was already} killed on the fundamental points, | Dr. Squires deemed it advisable to drop further consideration. Many took the floor and showed by actual experience that the workers could get nothing out of the Labor Board settlement plan. As a result, Dr. Squires announced that another effort would be made for a confer- ence with the employers, where it | is expected that anew contract will be considered. (Special to the Daily W PATERSO! J., Nov. With full de yy their decision day not to accept the two y sirike settlement proposed by th officials, large numbers of dye strikers turned out this morning to picket every shop. . Tomorrow (Continued on Page 2) Nation-Wide Hunger and the Fight for 4dequate Relief y hmanee are now 18,000,000 people whose very bread Mililons more are in depends upon relief. “desperate need.” There are at least 1,500,000 young people who enter the labor market every years with no hope of finding work. Even during times of “prosperity” hundreds of thousands. of American workers “to supply them with only the bare necessities of ilfe.” These are the brutal admissions taken literally from the speech made two nights ago by Harry LL. Hopkins, Roosevelt’s special spokesmen on relief questions. No mere damning picture of what capitalism, typified by the Roosevelt government, has to offer the millions of jobless and working American work- AN EDI ers, can be found than this picture which Hopkins drew in his speech delivered before the charity groups of New York. ‘This speech biuris out the tremendous fact that unemployment, starvation and misery on a seale never seen in this country, are now chronic had incomes able factors in the life of the American working class. This speech reluctantly faces the fact that Ameri- can capitalism, under Roesevclt, has not, and, it will ¥earn, cannot sclve the crisis and the horrors of unemployment and inscexrity which it brings to every working class home. It is, in short, the desperate recognition of the truth which the Communist Party has heen proclaiming every day, every hour, to the Ameri- can masses—-that American cxpitalism, as far as Providing a secure, sound, and adequate life for TORIAL lution can finally solve. ican life, * * . and miser; Spokesman, propose to do? the working class and its children is concerned, stands reveaied as rotten and bankrupt, torn by chronic crisis which only the working class revo- Unemployment, hunger, misery, insecurity, starvation are all that American capitelism, with the Roosevelt, government as its spokesman, have to offer the majority of the American people. These are now chronic, permanent aspects of Amer- J” BT in the face of this nation-wide desol, on what dees Hopkins, He warns against making relief a “permanent part” of the “American system”! He warns against any attempts to provide unemployment relief and ernment! “I warn you and lief to our Am Yes, millicns pre Roosevelt go But the Roos ka ¢ worse. Roosevelt's 2 to a. Feder and insurance. | manent unemployment. dcoming these millions to misery, Threugh When ‘the me: insurance as part of the duty of the Federal gov- as solemniy as I can,” he says, “that the danger of attaching public outdocr re- rican system is very real.” will starve. Millions face per- All this is admitted by vernment. evelt government is deliberately di: if not Roosevelt pr Hopkins, cyment Y ‘al pian for (Continued on Page 2) 7 © SHOW- CAUSE ORDER GIVEN FOR REVIEW | Arguments for Hearing | Allowed in Habeas Corpus Action WASHINGTON, Noy. 12.—Un- able to ignore the rising demand for the liberation of Tom Mooney, the United States Supreme Court today agreed to consider arguments why Mooney’s lawyers should not be permitted to file a writ of habeas corpus. This opens the w Supreme Court to consider the case on its-merits. Today's decision or- dered Warden Holohan of San Quentin penitenti to show cause within “forty day why Mooney’s | lawyers should not be allowed to file | the writ: | Warden Holohan Oo permit the is named only in a technical sense, for the opposi- tion to this latest defense move will ‘be organized by the S officials. headed t y-General, w rnor Frank Merriam. | In his plea to the U. S. Supreme | Court, Mooney, through his attor- \neys, | asked that he be brought to | Washington in an effort to convince |the court theatre was convicted on |Perjured evidence. The latest move to force Mooney’s laa into the U. S. Supreme Court based on the defense content! on that, while the highe: | California hay famous labor leade on perjured evidence, was unable to order a new trial be=- cause, no “errors” of a legal char- acter were committed during the trial itself. Despite the partial legal victory which Mooney made today as a re- © | sult of the Supreme Court decision, there is no strong likelihood that the legal moves will bring about his the court release un! it is accompanied by ja new nands for his imi | up ona “bombi ng charge follow |the death of ten persons in a Pre= paredness Day parade in San Fran- jcisco on June 22, 1916. Although | described as a “preparedness. day” | parade, labor organizations recog- nized it as the opening gun in a drive to destroy unionism in San Francisco, for it was an open secret that the Chamber of Commerce |had contributed $1,000,000 to a | union-busting fund. Mooney was originally sentenced |to be hanged, but world protest, which first started in Petrograd 1917 under. the leadership of Lenin, forced President Wilson to bring | about the commutation of Mooney’s sentence to life imprisonment. Since 1916, numerous governors have refused to pardon Mooney, de= spite the fact that every impor- tant prosecution witness in the case has been discredited as a perjurer, jand ten of the jurors still living have expressed the conviction that Mooney was framed up. |. During the 18 years that Mooney has been in prison millions of work- ers throughout the world have demonstrated for his freedom. Profits Hit Record High Under NRA NEW YORK —Banks, stockhoid- , bond investcrs and corporations will gather in the tremendous har- vest of $8,300,000,000 in dividends and bond payments this year if the |trend established during the first eight months of the year continues to December, a survey by the Jour= nal of Commerce, Wall Street organ, indicates. These tke ler: rofits of capitalism will be largest in the history of the | country ept for the peak year of 1929, the survey shows, and will be more than three times the payments handed out the capitalist class in 1913. | Thus the Roosevelt N.R.A. is pere g the Wall Street corporations mopolics to skim off a larger percentage of the naticnal income before, The efiects of the N.R.A. cau be 2 in tho figures for dividend paye ei . ents which this year promise to = vital ee for 5 the huge figure of $2,000.000,- as compared with $1,800,000,000 Jast year, \ i