The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 15, 1934, Page 1

“4 Teng eeEeE———— perenne rane in eecmneenaw at tne EET TEACHERS’ ASSOCIATIONS: ACTIVIZE YOUR MEMBERSHIP IN THE 360,000 DRIVE Yesterday’s receipts ood - $RA433 Total to date . $36,301.85 Press Run Vesteeday 4) 800 ee od Vol. XI, No. 273 <> Entered a6 second-class matter st the Post Office at 26 New York, N. ¥., under the Act of March 8, 1878. CENTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S. NEW YORK, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1934 Daily QA Worker (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERMATIONAL ) WEATHER: Ciear, NEW YORK CITY EDITION (Eight Pages) Price 3 Cents F.D.R. PARLEY HEARS BENJAMIN Union City Police Fire on 500 Pickets at Dye Works ROOSEVELT BARS SCOTTSBORO MOTHERS PARIS SESSION! Unemployed Leader Detiende DELEGATION SEES ONLY SECRETARY ‘President Could Stop Executions,’ Mrs. Norris Declares By Seymour Waldman (Daily Worker Washington Bureau) WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 14.— ‘With tears in her eyes but with a firm voice, Mrs. Ida Norris, mother of Clarence, one of the two Scotts- boro boys sentenced to die on Dec. 7, told Marvin McIntyre, secretary to President Roosevelt, that the Pres- | ident “could put a stop to the exe- cutions and all this lynching if he wanted to.” President Roosevelt refused to re- ceive either part or the whole of a | Negro and white Scottsboro delega- tion that came to the capital to ask him personally to stay the exe- cutions. His refusal to receive the delegation is the third in a year, Answering the protests of a small delegation of six, including Mrs. Norris, Mrs. Viola Montgome: mother of Olin; Professor Broadus Mitchell of Johns Hopkins, the So- cialist Party candidate for Governor of Maryland; and Richard B. Moore, of the International Labor Defense, McIntyre declared: “You'll Never See President” “You've been here two times be- fore and you didn’t see the Presi- dens.” “Does this mean we'll never see him:” Samuel Patterson, represent- ing the National Scottsboro-Hern- don action committee, asked Mc- Intyre. “It looks like it, doesn’t it?” Mc- Intyre shot back, smiling. The seven spokesmen of the dele- gation of twenty-five gave Mcintyre a letter addressed to President Roosevelt, declaring: i “We come to you again, mothers suffering the most terri- ble pain, to see our sons facing the electric chair for something they never did. Our hearts bleed as we watch December 7 come closer and closer. The courts of Alabama have set that day for the death of our innocent boys. . . ‘Will you let our innocent boys be killed? We ask you to speak and to act quickly to free our inno- cent boys.” What Kind of President’s Is That? “My boy is in the death cell now,” Mrs. Norris declared firmly to Mc- Intyre, a crowd of newspapermen, secret service, “red squad” and uni- formed ‘police gathered in the White House lobby. “The President has the power to release them if he wants to. I know it. It’s no reason pust why they're Negro boys they should be framed. He could put a stop to the executions and all this lynching if he wanted to. What sort of a President is that? He's supposed to look out for the rights of the people. He has power to de- mand that cotton be plowed up. He could do something for the boys if he wanted to.” Mrs. Montgomery was just as de- termined as Mrs. Norris. “I've been waiting to hear and trust and pray that the boys will be freed. Presi- dent Roosevelt has been talking about the forgotten man. These boys are forgotten. I got sense enough to know that he can free the boys if he wants to. You tell him that I, Olie yeti Syhod he mother, said ‘that. 4 McIntyre said he would “guar- antee that the President sees the delegation’s letter snd petition | to- \FordU rges Quick Aid| In Scottsboro Fight Funds Needed Immediately, Negro Communist Leader Points Out, Calling for Mass Mobilization to Back Actions in Court By James W. Ford Communist Party Organizer, Harlem Section Today two of the Scottsboro mothers, Mrs. Ida Norris, mother of Clarence, and Mrs. Viola Montgomery, mother of MACHINE GUN IS MOUNTED TO AID SCABS Silk Weavers Call for Strike Vote Against Cuts Saturday By George Morris Olen Montgomery, together with a broad representative com-| | mittee brought together under the auspices of the National | Scottsboro-Herndon Action Committee, are in Washington | to demand that President Roosevelt ¢ | ; reversal of the verdict in the U. S.) jand lynching of Negroes, ‘OIL MONOPOLY 1S AFFIRMED take action to prevent the legal{ lynching of Haywood Patterson and | Clarence Norris on Dec. 7. At the same time, the Interna-| tional Labor Defense is taking every | legal step possible to bring about a/ Supreme Court. | These are necessary steps in the| fight to save the Scottsboro boys, in| the fight against the oppression in the} fight for their national liberation. | But without the mass fight which | must be conducted, these legal steps | will not avail. Millions must be or- ganized within the next few weeks, to raise a shout of protest that will stay thé hand of the lynchers. Every Negro worker, every white | worker, must put his shoulder to) this task. Meetings, demonstra- tions, parades, and every sort of demonstrative action must be or-| ganized. This is our immediate task in the fight for Negro liberation. Let us| immediately put our energies into} this campaign to make it a success. At the same time, we must de- | feat the attempts of the lynchers and their allies to cripple the de- fense financially. Six thousand dollars are needed immediately by I JAMES W. FORD the I. L. D. to carry on the legal and mass campaign. Rush funds by airmail, tele- graph, special delivery, for the Scottsboro-Herndon fund, to the national office of the Internation- al Labor Defense, Room 610, 80 East 1ith Street, New York City. IN MANCHURIA HSINKING, Manchuria, Noy. 14. —Preparing to take charge of all Manchuria ‘oil sales, imports and exports, the Ministry of Finance unofficially stated today that Man- chukuo’s oil monopoly will become effective Dec, 1. The oil monopoly —aciually owned and directed by Japan—is one of the basic prepara- tions for war against the Soviet Union, LONDON, Nov. 14.—The Japanese monopoly of oil sales to Manchu- kuo, having cut heavily into the business of Standard Oil, Dutch Shell, and the British Asiatic Pe- troleum, Ltd. “thas evoked a new protest ‘on. the part of the three imperialist powers concerned, it was reported here today. A CALL TO THE SOCIALIST PARTY FOR JOINT ACTION RALLY TODAY WILL PROTEST CONY OUSTER A city-wide mass open air rally at the City College flagpole at 139th St. and Convent Ave., will be held today. at 12 noon as the first step in the answer of New York stu- dents to the expulsion Tuesday of 21 and disciplining of .16 anti-fas- cist students. Delegations from all colleges of metropolitan New York and vicinity will pledge support. This action taken by the City Col- lege chapter of the National Student League will be conducted without cooperation of the Student League for ‘Industrial Democracy chapter, which propose a petition and a con- ference of C. C. N. Y. clubs to be held next week as the method of mobilizing student support. With this, the National Student League, headed by Edwin Alexander, leader (Continued on Page 2) "| out the “slightest *provocatiom, when (Special to the Daily Worker) PATERSON, N. J., Noy. 14.—Six workers were arrested and scores were brutally beaten as Union City police attacked a picket line of | more than 500 dye strikers of Union | City, Paterson, Lodi and Passaic at | the Warren. Piece Dye Works at | Union City. Revolvers were fired wildly by police. Tear gas was thrown. One worker had to be taken to hospital for treatment. The Warren Piece Dye Company’s effort is the first major attempt to operate with scabs. Picketing started at about six o'clock this morning. When police saw strikers being re- inforced with fresh truck loads, car loads of police were brought to the scene and a machine-gun was ; mounted in front of the plant. After organizing themselves within the gates of the plant, with- the officers in charge shouted “Go at 'em!” police charged into the picket line, clubbing mercilessly and discharging their revolvers wildly. Cases are reported, such as three police pounding with their clubs on one old worker. The workers at first thought that the revolver shots were blanks, but upon returning to the cars, they even found tires shot into. The police have now fssued a statement claiming that someone in the crowd did the shooting. But a few moments prior to the attack, a mounted policeman said to a striker: “It's too bad for you fel- lows from Paterson. We got orders to shoot you down-no matter how many of you there are.” Mass Protest Meeting When the pickets returned to Paterson, a large protest mass meet- ing took place at the Roseland Ballroom. Upon the proposal by John Lydig, a telegram was sent from the meeting to Governor Moore demanding the right to picket and protesting the outrageous ac- tion. It was reported that policemen were already preparing to frame several of the arrested strikers, bringing stones into court, claiming that they found them in the pockets of the arrested workers, The strikers unanimously agreed that not a single window was broken or brick was thrown prior to the attack. The workers merely marched around the plant peace- fully. The only glass broken was that of workers’ cars by police. Wounded Worker Urges Militancy Anthony Ammirato, president of the Paterson local, surprised the workers when he admitted that this was a frame-up and this should be expected from the police. In earlier stages of the strike, he told the workers that the police were their friends, and would co-operate with (Continued on Page 2) DISCUSSES UNITED FRONT Seeond International! Takes Up Appeal of Comintern |Overgaard Calls on Unions (Special to the Dally Worker) PARIS, Nov. 14 (By Wireless) — The Paris conference of the Execu-| tive Committee of the Second In- By Andrew ternational met early today to dis- To Back ‘Daily’ Campaign | Overgaard General Secretary of the Trade Union Unity Council The Trade Union Unity Council of Greater New York, after dis- Real Insurance for Workers; Assails Fake Social Schemes Insists That Bill Be Enacted By Congress at Next Session By Marguerite Young (Daily Worker Washington Bureau) WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 14= Herbert Benjamin of the National cuss “conditions and guarantees of | agreement with the Communist International.” | With the eyes of workers throughout the world as well as of France set on this conference, Marcel. Cachin, Chairman of the Communist Party of France, in today’s Humanite, organ of the Party, emphasizes its singular im-! portance and expresses the hope that no obstacles will be raised to the rallying of all proletarian forces, “We are resolute partisans,” he said, “for the extension to all coun- tries of the united front already realized -- by -“the~ proletariat. - of France, Spain, the Saar and Italy. The workers of. all countries im- Patiently await the results of to- day’s session.” Cachin quotes Vanderveld’s state- ment that “if any section of the Second International still is hostile to a reapproachement with the Third International, these sections can- not neglect the pacts already con- cluded or to be concluded.” This declaration of Vandervelde, Cachin proved, was in contradiction with the opinion of numerous Social- Democratic leaders in England,| Sweden, Holland, and Czecho-| slovakia. Strictly abstaining from commenting on the internal af- fairs of the Second International, | Cachin concluded the article ex- pressing the conviction that all the workers of France desire the im- mediate extension of the united front. Large Communist Vote Polled in Shoe Town Despite Red Scare (Special to the Daily Worker) HAVERHILL, Mass., Nov. 14.— Alfred Porro, workers’ candidate for Mayor here, received 686 votes in the primaries yesterday in the non- partisan elections, This is over 200 per cent increase | over last year’s vote for a workers’ | candidate who ran for Alderman. The local press tried to omit any- thing Porro said or did in the cam- paign, refused his statements, pro- Posals, and ignored his speeches, while keeping the other candidates on the front page. The capitalist press and other servants of the local capitalists tried hard to stir up a “red scare” and had predicted that Porro would not get over a hundred votes. | They were mistaken. cussing the role of the Daily Worker, and its support in strike strug- gles, sharply calls to the attention of our affiliated unions the need of some real financial assistance and urges them to finish their small quotas before December Ist. We wish to temind every trade unionist of the role of the Daily Worker on the side of the workers in strike struggles. While the entire capitalist press either completely falsifies the news, or spreads deliberate lies, and in every action lines up behind the employers and the N, R. A. strike-breaking machinery, the Daily Worker is with the strikers every day, stimulating their morale, re- porting the correct news to the rest of the working class, thus per- forming a real service for the winning of the strikes. We are, therefore, especially directing our appeal to the Furriers, as well as other sections of the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union, to the locals of the Metal Workers Industrial Union, Food Workers, Furniture, and our other unions to take up in all serious- ness the financial support of the “Daily.” We urge all our unions to partieipate-in-the-Daiiy.- ‘Worker ban- quet at St. Nicholas Arena on Thanksgiving Eve. We urge every union shop to bring in immediately substantial sums of money, and we urge every leading staff of our trade unions to take this question of preserving the Daily Worker in the utmost seriousness, not only in words, but in deeds, C.P. IN OHIO ALDERMANIC. SHOWS GAINS BODY AVOIDS IN BALLOTS TRANSIT TAX CLEVELAND, Ohio, Nov. 14.— Reflecting the city-wide opposi- from various cities through-| tion to any new taxes affecting the sigan da Communist vote | Masses of the city, the Local Laws put sasha alia pe “| Committee of the Board of Alder-| of 14,000, with important cities like|/men yesterday proposed a series of | Hamilton and Warren, and all the/| levies, not one of which included coal mining districts still to be|the much-discussed transit, sales or heard from, In Akron the Com- payroll imposts. This is consid- munist vote this year was 1,445 as compared with 526 two years ago. Lorain County gave the Commu- nist ticket 275 votes as compared with 139 two years ago, In Mansfield there were 145 votes; in Newark, 62 and in Co- shocton, the home town of William Green, there were 42 Communist votes. Wherever there were no Commu- nist watchers many Communist votes were stolen. In Cleveland alone there is record of more than 300 invalidated Communist ballots. Following the increases in the Communist vote, Mayor Davis of) Cleveland has come out openly for | smashing all Communist meetings. He has called upon the American | Legion to join him in this Red-| baiting campaign. ered by observers a direct expres- sion of the universal hatred with which the proposals for the latter measures were received by workers in all five boroughs of the metro- Polis, A new tax program is necessary if relief funds are to be forthcom-| ing, bankers informed city officials | last week. | Sentiment of the aldermen was. | it was announced at the close of the | two-hour session of the committee, | for the increase of the utility tax from 1% per cen: to 3 per cent; a/ bond transfer tax; an inheritance | tax; and a tax of 1 per cent on the| surplus and undivided earnings of | Savings banks. The raising of the utility tax to} 3 per cent would yield the city an additicnal $7,000,000, it is estimated, (Continued on Page 2) IN DEFENSE OF OUR CLASS BROTHERS IN SPAIN | STATEMENT OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE, C. P., U. S. A. Unemployment Council today tossed an unsolicited and em- phatic call for “genuine unemploy- ment insurance based upon the needs of all those now unemployed —and not a makeshift based on the convenience of those who will pay for it,” into the Roosevelt confer- | €nce on economic security. | Consternation and some applause |from the more progressive of the | 200 bourgeois “experts” greeted the | Working class declaration. Ben- | jamin joined the general discussion | with the remark. “It was quite j consistent from the viewpoint of | those running this conference that We. were not invited—and equally consistent from our point of view that we are here.” Then he lined the Workers Unempl and Social Insurance Bill sisted that its principles muct be enacted by the new Congress. Voices of reaction, emphasizing the need for “unemployment re- serves” — instead of unemployme: insurance—and bickering over de- tails of such schemes, dominated the conference. This served to ees that the purpose of the Pens of so many “experts,” | @S clearly indicated yesterday by | Secretary of Labor Frances Per- | Kins, is to lay a basis of scientific |approval for the corporation-re- serve-pian substitute for insurance, Such a plan probably will be rec- ommended by the cabinet members composing the Roosevelt committee on economic security. There was one striking excep- tion. Grace Abbott, former head jof the U. S. Children’s Bureau, declared on behalf of “social work jers”: “We don’t want any relent- lessly drawn lines between unem- Ployed on relief and others in need of public aid. We want decent Self-respecting security for every= one. We want benefits for widows, the sick, the handicapped—benefits that will give everyone a decent, self-respecting security.” Psuedo-Insurance Schemes In contrast, the overwhelming eed of the invited guests pro- sed reactionary psuedo-insurance ee schemes. Prof. Paul Doug- jas, prominent supporter of Social« ist Party candidates, unblushingly demanded a reserve plan which would not vouchsafe one penny to the millions now unemployed, re« strict the benefits to 20 to 26 weeks | per year, and exclude all agricule tural and public service workers, President to Meet Conferees The conference members were to be received late today by President Roosevelt. Secretary Perkins and Secretary of Commerce Roper were to address them at dinner. them today was President William Green of the A. F. of L., Gerard | Swope of the General Electric Comi= | pany and others of the special at- visory council, which, dominated by | big business, will do the real work | of selecting a corporation substitute for unemployment insurance, pri- vately, in the next few weeks. This | was signalled again today when the | chairman met a demand for put- . day.” : Mass rallies to protest the ver- - dict of the’ Alabama Supreme Court decreeing legal lynching for Hay- wood Patterson and -Clarence Nor- ris, two of the Scottsboro boys, on Dec, 7, and to demand the uncon- ditional freedom of the nine inno- cent Negro lads, will be held in Chi- cago, Pittsburgh, Detroit and other ‘cities during the next few days., ‘At the same time, preparations were launched yesterday for tre- mendous nation-wide protest activi- ties during the week of Nov. 26 to Dec. 2, designated as National - &cottsboro Week by the Interna- tional Labor Defense, the National Scoitsboro-Herndon Action Com- ‘mittee and other organizations sup- porting the mass fight for the live: - and freedom of. the boys and for the. rights of the sd aac Negro people, i Vashi brutal and frightful slaughters of work- ers in Ovieda, and executions throughout Spain, international support, the solidarity of action of the the Spanish proletariat, embraced front—the - Workers Alliance—including Commu- nists, Socialists, Syndicalists, is continuing its heroic struggle against the Lerroux-Robles fascist regime. The recent general strike in Sargossa, the con- finuous resistance of the brave Asturias . miners, shows that the fascist rulers have not been able to The proletariat has re- cap the yolcano of revolt. treated but has not been defeated. Preparing for greater revolutionary onslaughts against the butchers who now rule The toll of the fighting in Spain has been ex- tremely high. Over 3,000 workers were killed. More than 60,000 are in: prison. Hundreds are threatened _With executions. The armed struggle of the Spanish proletariat against the advance of fascism was crystallized in the united front of the Workers . united front is now being cemenied Now in their bitter struggle against the reac- tion of the fiendish, inquisitorial Spanish landlord- , Capitalists, the Spanish workers must receive the in the united workers throughout the world, regardless of politi- cal affiliation. Especially in view of the fact that on the barri- cades in Spain, Socialists and Communists hero- ically shed their blood in their efforts to stem the murderous fascist regime, the Communist Interna- tional has repeatedly appealed to the Socialist In- ternational for joint action in defense of the ‘heroic Spanish proletariat. Due to failure of the Socialist International to take immediate action to realize united support for the Spanish workers, there has been costly delay. The Communist Party of the United States has appealed to the Socialist Party for joint action, for joint demonstrations, meetings in support of the Spanish workers; for the defense of the arrested, for the freedom of their leaders, Socialists and Com- munists, against the executions of revolut'onists. To date there has been the gravost silence. Action of Sccialists and Communists in support of the Spanish workers is imperative now, if the Whe masses are Spain. Alliance, This more solidly. forces of reaction are not to slaughter hundreds more; if the Spanish proletariat is to be inspired by the unity of international solidarity in their be- half. Yesterday the Executive Committee of the Sec- ond International met in Paris to discuss the pro- posal of the Communist International for Un‘ted Action against Spanish Fascism, and in support of the Workers’ Alliance, the united front of the Spanish workers. The united front of Socialists und Communists in France, Spain, the Saar, Italy and Austria, is being welded into a mighty weapon against fascism through increasing united struggles. Now, especially on the question of the defense of the Spanish workers, there should be no more delay in realizing the united front everywhere. Vandervelde, the Belgian Socialist leader and outstanding figure in the present sessions of the Second International, speaking to the Socialist Par- ties of all countries declared: “If there is any sec- tion ef the Second International still hostile to rapprochment with the Third International, these sections cannot neglect pacts already concluded or to be concluded.” The Communist Party, U. S. A., again appeals to | the National Executive Committee of the Socialist | Party to end all hesitation, all delay in the arrange- ment of united front actions for the defense of the Spanish workers. We are ready to enter into immediate negotia- tions on this question, with a view to arranging nation-wide action for the liberation of imprisoned Socialists, Communists, Syndicalists in Spain. We are ready now to call joint mass meetings and dem- onstrations against Spanish fascism and in expres- sion of international solidarity with our Spanish brothers in the fight against world fascism. We call | upon all S. P. organizations to join the respective C. P. organizations for common local actions in support of our Spanish brothers. Every minute of delay plays into the hands of | the Lerroux-Robles executioners. Our 60,000 broth- ers in prison, facing torture or execution, look to us for united action. | bounced | ting the conference on record by resolution with the pointed remark | that he had no instructions that to- |day’s conference was “to do any thing but talk.” Many speakers insisted that work- (Continued on Page 2) Three Officials Leave German Marine Lines BERLIN, Nov. 14—Sharp con- flict with the fascist policies of the Hamburg-American North German Lloyd shipping combine today forced the resignation of three hieh officials of the lines, it was a4 here. These and other resignations ibished ae weeks ago followed the use of the Hitler government of these come Socialists, let us not fail them in this moment for the great need of united action panies es war and propaganda sube sidiaries,