The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 16, 1934, Page 1

ae cS USE WEEK-END TO RAISE FUNDS AT AFFAIRS AND FROM HOUSE TO HOUSE Yesterday's receipts .. Total to date Press Run Yes $649.68 $37,241.53 terday—41,800 Vol. XI, 274 = Entered ss second-class matter at New York, N. Y., under the Act Daily <AWorker CENTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL ) the Post Office at of March 8, 1879. NEW YORK, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1934 NATIC EDIT NAL ION (Six Pages) Price 3 Cents F.D.R. SAYS PROFITS COME FIRST BROOKLYN SCOTTSBORO PARLEY TONIGHT NEW GROUPS JOIN INFIGHT. FOR 9 BOYS Brooklyn Conference to} Bring Wide Front Into Action NEW YORK. — The Emergency Scottsboro Conference in Brooklyn | tonight will mark a big step for- | ward in the broadening out of the | united front struggle for the lives | and freedom of the Scottsboro boys, with many organizations that were | never active in the struggle before | taking part in tonight’s action. The conference will be held at the Ralph Ave. Church, Ralph and Chauncey Sts. Brooklyn, at _the | call of the Crown Heights Section | of the International Labor Defense. It will be addressed by Rev. Dr. Carrothers of the Ralph Ave. Church, representatives of various | participating organizations, and F. Griffin, Brownsville Section Organ- izer of the I. L. D. To Fight Legal Murder The conference will formulate | plans to intensify the mass fight to prevent the legal murder of two of the boys, Haywood Patterson and Clarence Norris, on Dec. 7, as decreed by the Alabama Supreme Court. The I. L. D. which has complete charge of the defense, has already filed notice of appeal with the U. S. Supreme Court anu is pushing the printing of the briefs and has engaged Walter Pollak, America’s foremost “constitutional lawyer, to argue the appeals before that court. It was Pollak who, backed by world-wide mass protest, succeeded in getting a reversal of the death sentences against eight of the nine boys in the first appeal taken by the I. L. D. to the U. S. Supreme Court. Tag Days Dec. 1 and 2 Tonight's conference will also consider ways and means of help- ing to raise the $6,000 now urgently needed by the I. L. D. to push the} fight. One ofthe important points | on the agenda will be the city- wide Scottsboro Tag Days to be held on Dec. 1 and 2, for which boxes have been already prepared by the District office of the I. L. D., 870 Broadway, Manhattan. The Workers Ex-Servicemen’s League and the International Workers Order have already pledged their co-operation in the tag day collec- tions. The District Office of the I. L. D. announced yesterday that tag day stations Will be set up and the addresses published shortly. Other Scottsboro conferences be- ing prepared in the city include, Queens, Dec. 2, Bronx and Browns- ville, Nov. 24, and South Brooklyn, Dec. 2. Relief Workers In Ithaca Take Strike Votes ITHACA, N. Y., Nov. 15. — Plans were being made here today by re- lief workers to strike every proj- ect in the city tomorrow in protest against a wage slash of 20 per cent. About 500 workers are employed on the city relief jobs. The strike vote was taken at a mass meeting of the relief workers last night, after wages were cut from the fifty cents rate to forty cents an hour. Relief workers in Seneca, Wayne, and possibly Steuben county may walk out with them, Waldemar Isaac, chairman of the Ontario County Relief Workers’ League, told them. Isaac was a delegate to the recent hunger march on Albany, and was chairman of the Ontario county relief strike at the cessation of C.W.A. jobs last winter. Berlin Police Official Jailed for Attempting To Pursue Roehm Policy BERLIN, Nov. 15.—The Assistant Chief of Police of the Reich, Heyd- rich, has been relieved of his office, thrown out of the Nazi Party and imprisoned, according to the latest confidential reports. Heydrich’s arrest is officially due to his attempts to “continue the policy of Roehm.” In actual fact, Heydrich was in- timately connected with Goering, whereas Himmler, an old rival of the President of the Council of Prussia, is in close relationship with Roehm’s - successor, Viktor Lutze, Rudolf Hess and Goebbels. Heyd- rich’s disgrece means a victory for this group at Goering’s expense. © Daily Worker, 50 East 13th St., N. Y. Detroit Keeps Pledge November 15, 1934 Cc. Detroit keeps pledge stop herewith is three hundred dollars promised last Monday stop Sections five, six and Bulgarians and John Reed Club over top, Polish, Jewish, Armenians moving to overcome lag stop Meeting tonight decided to make still stronger efforts for quick realization of quota stop This remittance takes care of Cleveland what has Chicago to say? Daiwork Committee, William Weinstone. The above telegram tells its own story. Detroit is on the march to carry out the decision of the Central Committee that all quotas be filled by Dec. 1! With this remittance Detroit jumps to 71 per cent of its quota— 11 per cent ABOVE Cleveland! per cent. Detroit, has thrown down the gage! answering? The Daily Worker needs the answers immediately. Chicago still remains only at 50 Are Cleveland and Chicago Only: two weeks remain to Dec. 1—and the danger to the paper grows greater every minute! All Districts—SPEED FUNDS Now! SURVEY BEGUN OF A.T. AND T. MONOPOLY WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 15.— Following the recent disclosures of huge robbery of consumers by the utility companies, the American Telephone and Telegraph Company came under fire today as an inves- tigation of the financial structure of this Wall Street giant monopoly was ordered ‘The Commission will begin an in- vestigation of the company’s profits, but will have no power to execute changes other than to take court action against the telephone trust. The American Telephone and Telegraph Company controls more than 95 per cent of the country’s telephone lines through a vast em- pire of interlocking connections. It is one of the country’s billion-dollar corporations whose securities are controlled by the Wall Street firm of J. P. Morgan The investigation of the Wall Street utility monopolies does not mean that the Roosevelt govern- ment is taking any steps to cut in on the profits of these monopolies. It merely means that these investi- gations are conducted to give the appearance of the Roosevelt govern- ment fighting the monopolies, while his actual N.R.A, policies aid these monopolies. In addition, certain top-heavy financial structures and inefficiencies due to swollen mon- opoly set-ups stand in the way of a war efficiency which the Roose- velt government requires. The company controls all the patents and manufacturing branches of the industry, as well as the com- munication sections. In recent years in has been steadily raising its rates Its stock distribution is fairly widespread, giving capitalist econo- mists the idea that the company is democratically owned and con- trolled. The exact opposite is true, since the ownership of small blocks of telephone stock merely permits the Morgan financiers to dominate more and more the savings of the small investor. 'HE hope of the American working class and mil- lions of hungry jobless lies more than ever with the approaching National Congress for Unemploy- ment and Social Insurance to open its doors at Washington on January 5, 6 and 7. Yesterday it was the banks, employers, landlords and coupon clippers whose “unemployment insur- ance” plan was ladled out by Roosevelt to 250 bour- geois “specialists” in scientific starvation programs. It is only at the January 5-7 Congress that the real needs of the American working class will find their voice. Flaunting the phrase TRADE WAR IS SHARPENED BY INFLATION BRUSSELS, Noy. 15.—The chief nations in the gold bloc, France, Belgium, Switzerland, Poland and Holland, are hurling accusations at one another of robbing trade by stealthily inflating the currency. For example, Swiss resort-owners are taking pounds sterling from British tourists at 16 francs, which signifies that a British tourist will be induced to spend his money in Switzerland rather than in France, since the pound is worth more in St. Moritz than in Chamonix, right across the border. Middle class sections and an up- per fraction of the industrialists in each of the gold bloc countries are struggling for open inflation as the only remaining competitive weapon for cutting production costs by cut- ting wages. Meanwhile shipments of gold are traveling west to Eng- land and America, as the countries where inflation has become com- paratively stabilized. American capi- talists, in alarm at the quantity of gold entering the country, have low- ered the barriers against gold leav- ing the U. S. in order to insure the continuance of high prices and low real wages. Colorado Coal Queen Gets Treasury Post WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 15.— Josephine Roche, of Colorado, head of the Rocky Mountain Fuel Com- pany, which operates coal mines, was appointed Assistant Secretary of the Treasury today by President Roosevelt. Miss Roche has long been a coal mine operator. She was once candidate for governor of Colorado, Miss Roche has also been given charge of supervising the work- ing conditions of the 56,000 em- “unemployment insur- ance,” Roosevelt, in his latest speech, proclaims an open offensive against every attempt to create a real Federal unemployment insurance plan. Using a few trick phrases, Roosevelt's speech gives the masses notice that every effort to win unemploy- ment insurance to be paid for by the rich, by the emp syers and the banks, will be ruthlessly fought by Roosevelt, Cloaked in liberalistic phrasem ployes of the treasury. She is a member of the Colorado Advisory S. P. FIGHTERS IN SPAIN URGE WORLD UNITY Prisoners ‘Appeal as Il. International Still Delays Decision (Special to the Daily Worker) PARIS, Nov. 15 (By Wireless).— While the Executive Committee of the Second International deliber- ated in closed session, united front leaders in France, Spain, Italy and the Saar today echoed the anxiety and impatience of Socialists and Communists throughout the world at the unwarranted delay in gath- ering the forces of the international proletariat against the rising wave of war‘and fascism. Two reporters, returning here from Madrid, brought with them a signed leaflet from the imprisoned | thousands of Socialist workers ask- ing news of united front negotia- tions and urging that not a moment | be lost in effecting the broadest united action. The answer to the united front Proposals of the Communist Inter- national will be rendered only after | lengthy discussions, and the official communique giving the deceision of the Executive Committee will not be released before Friday, Friedrich Adler, secretary of the Second In- | ternational, let it be known. Al- though all the leaders present are widely known as enemies of the united front, these leaders are now }idis the arbiters of the negotiations. Some Enemies of Unity Not only are the heads of the Scandinavian, Netherlands and British Labor Parties against the united front, but they would like to find means of breaking unity wherever it has been accomplished, as in France and the Saar. How- ever, they do not go as far as this. Adler and Emile Vandervelde, chairman of the S. I., take the posi- tion of favoring unity only as “local episodes” without wishing to assign it any international significance, and inasmuch as they are desirous of satisfying the English, Scan- dinavian and other workers, who are counting on the success of the negotiations, they are looking for some reasonable form in which to clothe their refusal. To be sure, they have declared themselves for the united front, but upon a “democratic” basis and on condition that the Soviet Union (Centinued on Page 2) Spanish Officer Faces Death for Giving Help To Workers in Revolt (Special to the Daily Worker) PARIS, Nov. 15 (By Wireless).— Because he refused to order his sol- diers to fire on Spanish workers and instead went over to the rebel forces, an officer of the Civil Guard named Torens is threatened with the death penalty, “L’Humanite,” French Communist Party organ, reported this afternoon. ‘The same account tells of a great demonstration held before the prison of Oviedo by the wives and children of workers in the hope of saving them from court-martial sentences. A Parisian lawyer, Opp- man, who was in no way concerned with the recent revolt, was released from prison after 17 days; a French trade union functionary named Rabate has been arrested for the Board of the Federal Public Works second time and imprisoned. AN EDI Roosevelt's speech is the declaration of reaction against the rising demands of the starving millions who have no work or who face the streets. ES not every worker remember how Roosevelt promised “real unemployment insurance”? But what Roosevelt at last offers, after eighteen months of steadily growing unemployment and mis- ery, is only a cloud of empty talk that doesn’t con- tain a single positive proposal to give any real relief or security to the American workers. What is Roosevelt's “unemployment insurance” plan? Boil down all the honeyed words and what do you get? Merely that Roosevelt urges a Federal law that will “encourage” states to set up insurance reserves some time in the future. What about the 18,000,000 million people who now are penniless as a result of the capitalist crisis? They do not count in this Roosevelt “insurance” plan. They can go on starving on the present re- lief rolls which face new slashes, DYERS DECIDE. TO STRIKE MORE PLANTS Strikebreaking Move) of Gorman Is Revealed PATERSON, Nov. 15. — That Francis Gorman, betrayer of the General Textile Strike is aiming | also to betray the strike of the silk | and rayon dyers, was revealed from | facts brought out at yesterday’s| meeting of shop chairmen and dele- | gates of the strikers. When discussion developed on| why efforts were not made to strike | the dyers of Pennsylvania, George Baldanzi, president of the Federa- | tion of Dye Workers, declared that Gormsn had instructed the Allen- town local that members of the lo- cal are not affected by the strike call and that they are to stay on | the job, and if pickets come from | Paterson, to chase them out of town. It was further reported that | Tavano, one of the leaders of the | strike, stated he has proof that} |such instructions were telegraphed | |by Gorman to the Allentown local.! The shop chairmen and delegates | were aroused to a very angry mood | at this strikebreaking action of the union officials, and decided that all | dye shops outside the North Jersey area will be pulled out at all costs, | to demand that Gorman call out | these locals which thus far have| not been affiliated with the Fed- Fe Se of Dyers, and in case imme- late actioneis not taken a large econ of strikers is to be sent to the U. T. W. These facts on Gorman’s role re- | call the announcement by the fed- eration officials, in the early days of the strike, that squads are being sent to bring out Allentown. The | workers who volunteered were turned back, and informed that the mayor of Allentown ordered all| outside strikers to be kept out of | town. Gorman was likewise mak-| ing efforts to take part in the ne- gotiations and did everything pos- sible to engineer a no-strike settle- ment. The workers now quite gen- | erally consider that Gorman is| working in collusion with Allen-| | town’s mayor, Denounce Paterson News The strikers likewise denounced | the Paterson Evening News for the | story it published in yesterday's | issue, which said that police did not fire into the picket lines in Union- town, but that some one of the (Continued on Page 2) Sales Tax to Make Masses Pay Relief Threatened in Ohio (Special to the Daily Worker) CLEVELAND, Ohio, Noy. 15—A | drastic 3 per cent sales tax which | will fall directly on working class consumers is threatened by the | Ohio State Legislature when it con- venes on Monday. The Cleveland Chamber of Com- merce today called for sharp relief cuts and for forced labor projects for the unemployed on a wider scale than has been common, The Unemployment Council, which has organized a mass delega- tion to present demands for winter relief to the State Legislature, has called upon workers throughout the State to send protest telegrams and letters immediately to Governor White and to their State represen- tatives against the proposel sales tax and to demand assurances that the mass delegation will receive a full hearing, TORIAL When will these state laws go jobless can wait for another year yelt’s plan has nothing to say on The plan is a complete fraud. during this year don’t get any pending on how large the reserve about 10 or 12 weeks, depending state plans now proposed. one knows. The various legislatures meet for 60 to | 90 days in January. If they do not act, then the one knows what the “encouragement” will be. And suppose they do act in January, then what? It will mean absolutely nothing either to the 18,- ; 000,000 now on relief or the workers who have jobs. The Roosevelt plan makes the workers pay out of their own wages. It does not go into effect until a year after passed. Workers who are fired After one year, workers get small benefits de- it is not large enough, the workers get nothing. Even if they get anything, the benefits stop after But suppose that a worker is out of work for Quick Actio n Needed To Save Scottsboro Boys From Execution ARE DROPPED Drive for Funds Is Part of Mass Struggle, Says Krumbein—All Organizations Urged to Contribute Immediately By Charles Krumbein N. Y. District Organi The International Labo izer, Communist Party r Defense in its appeal for funds to carry on the campaign to save Haywood Patter- son and Clarence Norris from legal lynching on December 7, has made clear the urgen not confined to the financial a question of development of a mass campaign. Here in New York, with its huge concentration of Negro population in Harlem, where the Negro people are discriminated against in jobs, housing, rents, and terrorized by Mayor La Guardia’s police depart- ment, we Communists have a special responsibility in regard to the fight for the lives of these boys. The main force of the attacks of the betrayers of Scottsboro is con- centrated in New-York and the metropolitan district as a key point nationally. An important aim of | these attacks has been to cripple| the Scottsboro defense financially, as well as to confuse the masses |and hold back the movement which | alone can save the boys. Mass action is needed, and money to carry on the legal and mass. de- fense. The Communist Party, New York | District, has pledged itself to the, development of the greatest mass movement around the Scottsboro (Continued on Page 2) ney of the situation, which is question only, buf is eaually —<_<_<_<_$<_$_$_$ i | CHARLES KRUMBEIN 1,000 AT CCNY VOTE STRIKE IN PROTEST NEW YORK.—One thousand stu- dents oi City College, at a mass | meeting which was permitted on| the campus by special permission from Dean Gottschall, yesterday voted unanimously to call a two- hour strike on Tuesday between the hours of 11 and 1. The mass meeting, which pro- tested the recent expulsion of stu- dents who had taken part in a dem- onstration against visiting fascist students, was a “legal” meeting per- mitted by the school administration on the ground that none other than members of the student body be permitted to attend. This, of course, barred the expelled students and speakers from outside sympathetic organizations. Following the mass meeting, a picket line of about 300 students paraded the campus, shouting their demands for the ousting of Presi- dent Robinson and the reinstate- ment of the expelled and suspended students. Although no permit has been granted for the mass picket line, the students swept past the police, Following the picket line, Edwin Alexander, leading member of the National Student League, and one of the expelled students, addressed the gathering despite the official school ban, Roosevelt Proclaims An Offensive Against the Jobless into effect? No him and his or two, Roose- this matter. No four years, the OOSEVELT’S principle of shrewd piece of benefits at all. tally on every should have, has become. If on the various more than 10 weeks, then what? plan is concerned. He can starve as far as this plan is concerned. The plan stops after 10 weeks. when one considers that millions of jobless workers have been unemployed for more than three and | plan is evident. ployment insurance” only in order to trample bru- Roosevelt's plan is just the kind of plan that gives the most expenses to the miserably paid wage workers and the least cost to the profit-bloated cor- Pporations, banks, landlords and employers. (Continued on Page 2) 15,000 FACE ‘LOSS OF JOBS IN DETROIT DETROIT, Mich., Nov. 15.—A | total of 15,000 out of 25,000 wor! jobs by an order of the State relief administration designed to force the |burden of unemployment relief on local communities. This stop will, of course, result in severe curtailment of relief budg- | |ets and increased suffering for job- less families dependent on relief. At the same time it was an-| nounced by officials that the relief | |case load in Detroit had reached 5 | new all-time peak with almost 62,000 families on the rolls. The exp: ences reported by many ef the job- less to the Unemployment Counce! here indicate clearly that hund: of families are being denied relief | | Edith Goldin, Boston Communist, Is Dead) BOSTON, Mass., Nov. 15.—Edith | Goldin, of Chelsea, died here in Beth Israel Hospital following a long illness. She was an active member of the Communist Party ande a leader in the Council of Working Class Women. All members of ma: organizations were called on today to pay last tribute to the active working class fighter at the funeral ceremonies which will take place in the Chelsea Workers Center today at 10 a.m. ' It is too bad for children, as far as the Roosevelt And utter worthlessness of Roosevelt's | . . . | plan is not an endorsement of the unemployment insurance. It is a hypocrisy using the phrase “unem- vital meaning that the principle It is the on relief projects here will lose their | {fascism no civil peace ALL ‘SOCIAL’ PROMISES Roosevelt Gives Service to Wall Street in Capital | Speech WwW. ASHINGTON, Nov. 15.—The full oosevelt speech insurance last ional Confer= ecurity as ma’ of a new drive s while all prom- 1 have to je apparent e on Feonomic ing the beginr to increased pr ised “social wait indefir late today ob: here e to Roosevel to get “the econo- mic system to function.” aia first task is to get the em to function so here will be greater security gen- erally,” Roosey “I do not know whether this is e.” Roosevelt said, “for any legislation on old-age We are developing « ministration into which can be fitted the various parts of the security program en it is timely to do so.” In “these ‘remarks ‘observers saw today the open alignment of Roose- nancial cliques and monopolie that all so- called “ref ve to wait | while profits a red and in- ~ | sed with the aid of the Roose- yelt govern: With the r tion against Roose- | velt’s speech one of keen disappoint oer even among many of the | capitalist “liberals” who had been led to expect that Roosevelt would seriously tackle the crying needs of } unemployment and social insurance on a national scale, it was said to- |day that Roosevelt “still has an open mind” on social insurance Proposals. This announcement was made to placate the rising resent- ment at his speech But no change is looked for in | Policy, as Roosevelt has made it quite clear that none of his schemes has any immediate significance or will cost the employers a single cent of new taxes Ban on Fascist Bands Demand of C.P. Deputy i (Special to the Daily Worker) | PARIS, Nov, 15 (By Wireless). — | Leading the exposure of govern= | ment supported arming of fascist the | ceanasens, secretary of the Communist Pa f France Maurice | Thorez, in a debate in the Chame | ber of Deputies, urged the imme- diate united opposition of all the | rdical sections to the reactionary program of Premier Etienne Flan- din. | “Communist workers,” Thorez des jclared, “will support all those who are opposed to the criminal activity of reactionary and fascist officers in the To the applause of the ” in the Chamber, horez followed his words with a demand for the dissolution and dise armament of every fascist organiza | tion. The Communists, he exe plained, will support every fight for the democratic rights of the masses, provided their daily needs are not neglected, and provided the fight for even the smallest gains of the workers is waged at every oppore tunity, The Socialist Deputy Lebas sup ported the demand for the dissolu< j ton of fascist organizations. Leon lum, leader of the French Social~ | ist. Party, all “lef! iE declared that “Against is possible, The last administration often showed that civil peace was the covering for co-operating with it.” Socialists, he said, were firmly against the government. RED SCARE CALL IGNORED (Special to the Daily Worker) LONDON, Nov. 15 (By Wireless), —The executive of the Transport Workers’ Union decided this after noon to ignore entirely the decree of the Trade Union Council to exe pel Communist members from the union. The 130,000 members of the union had given their complete supe port to the anti-war movement, —