The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 19, 1934, Page 1

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FILES APPEAL IN SCOTTSBORO CASE JOBLESS PL ON NEW R AN FIGHT ELIEF CUTS | IN MICHIGAN COUNTIES County Offices Closed as Federal and State Aid Is Withdrawn (Special to the Daily Worker) DETROIT, Mich., Nov. 18—The shutting off of all relief in three more counties and a fifteen per cent relief slash: in a fourth are the latest developments in the new series of, attacks on the living standards of the unemployed by| the Democratic Government of )Michigan. } Following the cutting off of relief Thursday night for nearly thirteen hundred families in Shiawassee County, the State Emergency Wel- fare Administration has closed its offices in Manistee, Lapeer and Tuscola Counties because they failed to raise one-third of the re- lief funds. where the importan; industrial city of Muskegon is located, the dead- line for shutting off state and fed- eral aid was extended one week. In Macomb County three thou- sand families nave had their al- ready meagre ielief cut fifteen per ceni. This fo'ows shortly after.a similar cut jin Oakland County, where the General Motors’ city of Pontiac is located. in Jackson County one hundred and twenty-five men have been jaid off work relief projects, 3,00 Fired In Wayne County, which includes Detroit and surrounding towns, as already reported in, the Daily , Worker, three thousand relief work- ‘ers have been dropped and seven- teen thousand others have had their | budgets reduced, eleminating money for rent, clothing, gas and elec- tricity. At the same time every effort is being made to keep new applicants off the relief rolls. Stubborn struggles against these attacks, which are in line with the program of the automobile Manu- facturers Association, the U. 8. Chamber of Commerce and the Na- tional Association of Manufacturers for priming the pump of industry by cutting down appropriations for relief, are on the order of the day for Michigan's tens of thousands of unemployed. The committee of twenty-five, elected at a united front conference Nov. 11, called by the Rank and | File A, F. of L. Committee for Un- employment Insurance and Relief, and the Unemployment Councils are going ahead with plans for demonstrations and other forms of mass protest in the fight for the necessities of life. They are also planning to send a big Michigan delegation to the National Congress for Unemploy- ment and Social Insurance in Washington, January 5 to 7, INews Writers Strike Against Newark Paper NEWARK, N. J., Nov. 18.—Edi- torial offices of the Newark Ledger were virtually deserted today as forty staff members, who walked out on strike Saturday, organized their forces to bring the fight to the en- tire population of the county. The walkout, under the auspices of the Ledger chapter of the American Newspaper Guild, was occasioned by the discharge last Wednesday of twelve Guild members by the pub- lisher, Lucius T. Russell. Mass picketing at the newspaper’s plant, 78 Bank Street, at the Hud- son’ Tube terminal and the busiest intersection of the city, Broad and Market Streets, was begun yester- day and will continue until the “ike is won, local Guild leaders an- nounced. Emmet Crozier, national treasurer of the Guild and one of those who led the walkout move, is head of the strike committee. Enthusiastic support from the local labor movement is evidenced by the pledges of support arriving at strike headquarters, Typographical unions in the locality have already announced their backing. To Hit Circulation A drastic drop in the circulation of the Ledger unless the demands of the editorial workers are met is in- dicated by the support newsdealers throughout Essex County are giv- ing the writers, Postezs, eight. by twelve inches, announcing that the strike is on, are already in the win- Gows of numerous stores in the (Continued on Page 6) ne In Muskegon. County, | CONFERENCE OF JOBLESS Committee in Alabama | | Makes Campaign Among Organizations | | BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Nov. 18.—| |The Alabama Arrangements Com- mittee for the National Congress for | Unemployment and Social Insur- | ance, which will be held in Wash- | ington on Jan, 5-7, has already been | organized, and plans are in motion | to reach the Negro and white work- ers in the trade unions, unemployed, farmer and church organizations. J. G. Owen, secretary of the Re- lief Workers League of Tarrant City, heads the Alabama committee as its chairman; Joseph Howard, Negro, membez of the Connors Steel |Local of the Amalgamated Associa- tion of Iron, Steel and Tin Work- lers, is ‘treasurer; Audley Thorpe, | secretary of the Switclimeén’s Union | | of North America and delegate to the Birmingham Trades Council, and Lee Burns, Negro, member of Federal Union 18435, and delegate to the Bessemer Trades Council, are national representatives and signers of the official call to the Congress. Lester Johnson, a representative of the national organizing committe, js secretary of the Alabama com- mittee. Thus far, endorsement of the Na- tional Congress have’ come from President Simpson of the Connors {Steel Local of the Amalgamated Association, the Relief Workers League of Tarrant City, Dr. Tag- gart, President of the National Association for the Advancement of the Colored People, Mr. Bradford, editor of the Birmingham World, and Mr. W. M Jones, prominent Negro professional worker. ‘The police have already attempted to interrupt the local preparations for. the National Congress by con- fiscating several hundred copies of the Congress call. Although no charge was made against the de- fendant for being in possession of the call, the police used this oppor- tunity to destroy the call. The Alabama Committee is plan- ning to hold a confrence on Sat- urday, Nov. 24, to broaden the whole campaign and rally wider support to the National Congress. Efforts to have the local government bodies endorse the Workers’ Bill and the Congress call are being made, Meet in Philadelphia PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Nov. 18.— A committee of five was elected at the special meeting on the National Congress to be held in Washington on Jan. 5-7 held here yesterday by ithe A. F. of L. Committee for Un- iemployment Insurance. The com- SOUTH BACKS | the Scottsboro case before the U. S. | Y.C.L. HEADS ISSUES ARE U.S. COURT Funds Urgently Needed To Meet the Costs of Defense Action Petition. for a writ of. certiorari, | and the supporting legal brief, in| the case of Clarence Norris, Scotts- boro boy now under sentence of death, was filed with the United States Supreme Court Saturday by |Osmond K. Fraenkel, attorney, re- | |tained by the International Labor | | _—_ |Defense in the Scottsboro appeals. The petition and brief in the case of Haywood Patterson will be filed within the next few days, S| I, L. D, announced. This legal move definitely puts Supreme Court, which has now to| decide whether it will hear the ap- peal. The state officials of Alabama have twenty days in which to file | an answer to the brief, after which decision will have to be made by| |the U. S. Supreme Court. | Other Points in Patterson Appeal The filing of the Norris petition | was decided upon in order to bring the case formally before the court as quickly as possible. The Pat- terson petition and brief, which will raise more constitutional questions, | because of the trickery of Judge Cal- lahan, who worked with Attorney- General Thomas. E. Knight, Jr., in an attempt to rob Patterson of his appeal rights, and because of Cal- lahan’s~-failure *to inform the jury} in the Patterson case that it was possible for them to bring in a ver- dict of “not guilty,” until reminded by defense counsel, who ir. doing So made possible the raising of this question in the higher court, will take a few days longer to complete, the ILD, said. Both petitions and writs are be- ing prepqred by Mr. Fraenkel with the assistance of Walter H. Pollak, famous constitutional attorney who prepared the papers in the success- ful Supreme Court appeal in 1932. I. L. D. Wins Stay of Execution With the stay of execution forced by, the. IL.D. from the Alabama State Supreme Court last Friday, for Patterson and Norris, the legal time for filing these briefs does not; expire until Jan. 5. The execution was stayed upon application by Mr. Fraenkel from Dec. 7 to Feb. 8 ,1935. The main- constitutional question raised in the brief is the exclusion of Negroes from the grand and petit juries. which indicted and convicted the Scottsboro boys. Many other points regarding the. condi- tions and conduct of the trial are raised in the brief. ‘The obtaining of the stay of ex- ecution, and filing of the Norris brief by the I.L.D, attorneys, is the best answer to the false contentions of Samuel S. Leibowitz, who in an attempt to damage the Scottsboro defense has represented himself as attorney for the Scottsboro boys. Leibowitz Disruption Continues The latest announcement of Mr. Leibowitz, made Friday in the “Amsterdam News,” published by William H. Davis, which has be- come his unofficial organ, was that he would apply on Monday, four days later, for a stay of execution for the boys. Even before the paper was off the press, the I.L.D. had not. only applied-for, but obtained such a stay. mitte was instructed to bring the. call to the National Congress to all union locals for the election of dele- gates, turers. Roosevelt himself has held private interviews with direct representatives of the Morgan banks and industrial trusts. trialists in the country, pledged dustrialists that the Roosevelt New to preserving and increasing profits. cea “aid and co-operation,” ASHINGTON is in a state of: great activity. Leading agents of the government are hold- ing daily conferences with bankers and manufac- Yesterday, the United States Chamber of Com- merce, leading body of the most reactionary indus- with the New Deal and hailed Roosevelt's policies. A committee > leading monopolists was chosen to work closely with Roosevelt in the coming months. Donald Ritchberg, Roosevelt's spokesman on the N.R.A., made an effusive speech promising the in- Two weeks ago it was the Wall Street banks meeting in national convention—this week it is the Chamber of Commerce, which pledged - Roosevelt In the same paper Leibowitz, who although he wanted to conduct this (Continued on Page 2) ington now, its “cooperation” expressed in his Deal is dedicated | and relief must profits—monopoly employment! es Daily’ Drive in Peril; PUT BEFORE Districts Fall Behind The table piblihed today shows that danger looms in the $60,000 drive for the Daily Worker. Three months of the drive have passed, but only two districts have thus far completed their quotas. Half of the districts are still below the 50 per cent mark, Increased momentum was anticipated as the drive went on, but the reverse situation has occurred. In the last two weeks of October $10,737 came in, but during the first two weeks of November only $7, the districts. 203 was raised in The California, Seattle and Minneapolis districts are trailing behind. Pittsburgh, a concentration district, sent in only $46 last week. Chicago is in the ninth place. All Districts! funds immediately! The “Daily” calls to you: Rush your IN SPAIN FACE EXECUTION BULLETIN News penetrating a heavy Span- ish. censorship has come to the Daily Worker that Rosado, secre- tary of the Central Committee of the Young Communist League of Spain, as well as Medrana, secre- tary of the Madrid district or- ganization of the Young Com- munist League of ‘Spain, are in jail and face momentary execution. MADRID, Nov. 18.—To solidify the fascist forces in the present government of Spain, Gil Robles, outstanding fascist leader, forced the resignation of two cabinet mem- bers yesterday because they had not applied sufficient terror against the workers before the armed uprising. Those who resigned were Foreign Minister Ricardo Samper Ibanez, and War Minister Diego Hidalgo. Both positions were filled by Premier Lerroux and Minister of Marine Jose Franco y Rocha. Robles, who precipitated the re- signations, utilized it as a means of | calling for the tightening of the terror against the workers, and for sharper fascist measures in an ef- fort. to destroy workers’ organiza- tions. He declared that more dras- tic action should have been taken against the Asturias miners, and that the Civil Guard, the hated po- lice corps, should have been en- larged before the uprising. The resignations, at the same time, show the growing inner conflicts of the Lerroux- Robles government. This fact was further stressed by the speech in the Cortes by Miguel Maura, conservative Left Repub- lican, who while heaping his venom on the revolutionary workers, de- clared that Robles was utilizing the Republic in order to enforce a re- actionary regime, and that he played with democracy for these ends. Standard Oil Loses In Bolivian War) ASUNCION, Paraguay, Nov. 18. —Standard oil interests supporting Bolivia lost heavily today as Para- guyan forces, financed by Brit-/| ish petroleum powers, captured 7 Chaco forts and smashed the Bol- ivian key position of defense. reactionary offensive against the . * * T lead for this reactionary offensive was given by Roosevelt himself in his “unemployment in- surance” speech the other day. The central thought of Roosevelt's speech was proclamation that social insurance wait on the revival of “general security.” No longer the promises of restoring full No longer the promises that “no one in America will starve.” tion that the needs of the masses must wait on the restoration of “general security.” And this pene security”—what is 1? Now the ruthless declara- SOCIALISTS SILENT ON WORLD UNITY (Special to the Daily Worker) PARIS, Noy. 18 (By Wireless). — Although the fifth day of delibera- tions has now ended, the confer- ence of the Executive Committee of the Second International on the proposals of the Communist. Inter- national for immediate united ac- tion in support of thé Spanish pro- letariat has issued no public state- ment of its decision. Reports given out on Saturday by the Havas News Agency and re- ported in the Daily Worker ap- parently have not been borne out by any official announcement of the Executive Committee. Saturday's reports disclosed the united front had been “accepted” on the condi- tion that “full political liberty” be granted to Russian Socialists long guilty of outright sabotage of So- cialist construction, “Le Populaire,” organ of the So- cialist Party of France, totally ig- nores the conference. The only in- formation, so far, comes from meagre reports in the Daily Herald of London, Meanwhile the Com- munist press is intensifying the campaign for united action of the world proletariat. L'Humanite, or- gan of the French Communist Party, urgently insists ‘on the necessity for common action on Spain, declaring that the recent refusal of the Sec- ond International has been a cause of rejoicing among the Spanish re- actionaries and of cruel disappoint- ment, to the Spanish proletariat. Proposing united action in sup- port of Spain for the second time, the Executive Committee of the Young Communist International has addressed a letter to the Executive Committee of the. Young Socialist International and asks that its pro- posal be included in its session. The World Committee Against War and Fascism has addressed a letter to the Second International demand- ing the withdrawal of the latter's decree forbidding the participation of Socialists in the League, with the resulting effect of sabotaging the whole struggle against war and fas- cism, Subscribers: Rush the collection lists you received for the $60,000 fund. Start with your own con- tribution, and fill the other four lines with more funds, This “general security” is nothing more nor less than the profits of the monopolies. portunity for the capitalist class to find profitable markets, profitable opportunity for exploitation, It is, in short, the maintenance of the steady flow of profits upon which the whole capitalist system rests. It is the maintenance of the rule of the Wall Street finance capital dictatorship, the rule of the banks and the industrialists. This comes first, Roosevelt declared last week. And the Wall Street industrialists have not been slow to respond to Roosevelt’s new call for “recovery.” They know what it means—a drive against labor. Roosevelt’s publicity agents have tried to create the impression that it is the Wall Street indus- trialists and banks who have knuckled down to him But the precise opposite is true. It is Roosevelt and the New Deal which has become more openly the instrument of the ‘Wall’ Street monopolies for grinding new profits, It is not Roosevelt who is giving orders. Roosevelt who is getting instructions from the banks and his policies. jin employes’ NRAHEAD AIDS BOSSES FIGHT PAY DEMANDS Manufacturers Group Lays Base for New Slashes in Pay (Daily Worker Washington Bureas) WASHINGTON, Nov. 18.—“ ‘Any | general advance. in- wage rates and | earnings,” the mane mittee on fanufacture of Chamber of Commerce of the Titel States served notice today, “would | be justifiable only if preceded or accompanied by an equivalent in- crease in productivity.” The belligerent declaration by the powerful big-business group, which led in the establishment of the N. R. A. and the codes that already have reduced real earnings, fore-| shadows a direct wage-cutting drive. | It followed a meeting of the Cham- ber of Commerce’s board of directors which emphasized anew that tha Roosevelt Administration and lead- | ing monopolists are ready to work together—in the open—more closely | and with less lip service to con- sidering labor's rights and needs. Donald R. Richberg, No. 1 advisor to the White House and head of the council directing New Deal agencies, addressed the Chamber of Com- merce leaders and declared again that private industry must be al- lowed to take the lead in “recovery” more and more. This followed re- peated indications by the business mén and government officials that govérnment-relief to the unemployed) is now. being restricted more and more in the direction of the Roose- velt. housing program. James A. Moffett, Federal Housing Administrator, told a Chamber of Commerce meeting yesterday that in the home modernization and repair program of the Housing Ad- ministration business must “take the initiative.” Industry Takes Advantage ‘Thus far, however, private indus- try has taken advantage of the housing program so slightly that (Continued on Page 2) Paterson Anti Fascists Urge Protest Against Mussolini’s Musicians} PATERSON, N, J., Nov. 18.—The Anti-Fascist’ Leagues of Paterson and Haledon called today on all antilFascist workers in both com- munities to mass theis evening be- fore the East Side High School here in militant protest against the ap- pearance in the school auditorium of Mussolini's Black Shirt Band. Mass protest’ backed by militant mass picket lines compelled the fascist band, to play to empty theatres in New York, with the re- sult that many of -its engagements there were cancelled. A leaflet issued by the Anti-Fas- cist Leagues, calling for the mobil- zations of all. anti-fascist forces at the school tonight, says-in part: “Mussolini wants, to sell his odious Fascism under the cloak of music. “Mussolini has boasted that ‘democracy is a thing of the past and liberty a putrid corpse.’ “Let us express our legitimate re- | sentment against this sort of in- sidious attack on our free institu- tions. Our public school auditor- iums should not be used by those who would destroy our hard earned |the textile workers, KELLER SLATE BEATEN IN ELECTION TO UNION NATIONAL CONVENTION NEW STRIKE IS EXPECTED IN TEXTILE Gorman Tries to Pin Faith of Workers On N.R.A. Boards WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 18.— Admission that there is “great danger of renewed strike action” of and that in- crease of stretchout and discrimina- | tion against union members con- inues, was made Saturday by Francis Gorman, leader of the United Textile Workers Union. At the same time Gorman, who sold out the general textile strike and subjected the textile workers to these conditions, praised the Na- tional Textile Labor Relations Board set up by Roosevelt, under which the textile workers are subjected to the anti-union drive of the mill owners. “We were given’a most sympa- thetic hearing by the board,” Gor- man declared. Gorman admitted that at least two hundred mills are continuing to blacklist textile work- ers who took part in the last gen- | eral textile strike. Would Pin Faith on Board The only action Gorman is taking! against the increased stretchout, evictions and the blacklist, is to] bring complaints once more before} the board. “In our first request for | hearing we shall name perhaps a half dozen mills and possibly m Selecting the worst cases of d crimination and eviction,” Gorman declared. Gorman declared that “elections” | will be requested in some mills, and| that complaints will be brought be- fore the work assignment board, which have not even been set up as yet. In admitting that the textile workers are demanding a re-strike | Gorman said, “We informed the} board of the great danger of re-! newed strike action because of the) prevelance of discrimination against | former strikers. by a great group of mills numbering some 200.” He added that a number of mills “h: increased the work load in defiance} of the president's specific orders.” Continues Betrayal Gorman is thus continuing his| betrayal policies which broke the| general textile strike. Gorman ended | the general strike on the basis of not a single demand of the workers | being granted. Now all of these de-| mands have been referred to Roose- velts National Textile Labor Rela-/ tions Board, which has the same} personnel as the Steel Board. The National Textile Labor Rela-| tions Board, following out the policy | of the employers and the Roosevelt government of intensifying the| drive to lower the workers living) standards and break up the unions, | is holding futile “hearings” and ac- | tually carrying through the | stretchout, evictions and the black- Pelitical freedom.” WALL STREET MONOPOLY CAPITALISTS TIGHTEN THEIR GRIP ON ROOSEVELT REGIME—PREPARE ATTACKS ON WORKERS AN EDITORIAL All this. activity is proof of one thing—that Roosevelt and the country’s most powerful financial and industrial monopolies are now organizing the basis for a new, whole American toiling population. A new offensive against the living standards of the people is now being organized in the White House. This is the meaning of all the activity in Wash- It is the op- is dominating the 'HESE events of In relief, Roos: for “work relief,” subsistence levels. has boiled down “insurance reserv It is , and manufacturers. menting on the New Deal, “it is the economy which nating the economy.” to every worker in the country. They mean that the living standards, the daily levels of life, of every working class family face new attacks, new degra- dations to starvation and misery. all cash relief, and to substitute for cash relief a nationwide scheme of forced -labor at the barest As for the unemployment insurance program, it meagre wages of the workers and, which become clubs for strike-breaking in the hands of the em- (Gortinued on Page- 2) list for the mill owners. In the words of Stalin, com- state, not the state which is domi- the past weeks are full of menace evelt’s openly proclaimed drive is that is to say, for the slashing of to the reactionary state plans of es,” which must come out the jule that |ing motion: hover | Delegates Instructed to Vote for National Silk Walkout (Specisl to the Daily Worker) PATERSON, N. J., Nov. 18.—A decision to bring out 8.000. broad silk workers on strike Wednesday at midnight was voted by the mem= beship meeting of the Plain Goods Depatment of the Paterson Silke Federation (U. T. W. Saturday, which also defeated the candidacy of Eli Keller and his clique for delegates to the national conven- tion’ of the American Federation of Silk Worke: The rank elected eight The convent Saturday at file opposition t of ten delegates, next takes place he Hotel Woods’ The delega a ge truct tional silk The mot ke came after a report was given by Eli Keller, Lovestonite manager of the union, in which he pointed out that al- ready the manufacturers were be+ ginning to negotiate with the rep= resentatives of the union, and that good results were expected. He ad- vised that for the time being the workers, working in shops where the bosses were trying to put over wage cuts, shot take no~strike action, and that the question of a national ‘silk strike should be con- sidered at the National Convention of the Federation. rank The and file workers, in {their di ion, pointed out that |the single shop strikes were inef= fective in defeating the wage-cut- |ting campaign of the bosses and that the wage-cuts were spreading throughout the city. They expressed the sb patiersss that only through a general strike in the city would ,|they be able ie force the manufacs ~jturers to maintain the price sched= prevailed before the na- tional textile strike and win union recognition in the shops. ° Alex Phillian, a militant rank and file work and member of the Executive Board, made the foliow- “That the Broad’ Silk Department declare a general stop= page on Wednesda. at midnight, and that the conduct of the strike |to be put under the control of the |shop chairmen with the cooperation of the Executive Board.” The membershi voted almost | unanimously in favor of. this mo- tion But Eli Keller got up and stated that such action can only be recommended to the Joint Board, since. the Joint Board was the highest body. The workers saw in this move of Eli Keller a deliberate maneuver to delay strike action. Following the reading of a come (Continued ‘on Page 2) Subway Guards Make Assault On Passenger Suffering from a fractaured nose, face abrasions and cut and swollen wrists, an unemployed worker is @ prisoner in the Metropolitan Hose pital on Welfare Islanu, following a murderous attack upon him by armed guards of the Interborough Rapid Transit Company at the Times Square subway station Frie day night. The victim is George Howard, 31, a jobless leather salesman, who was set upon and assaulted by the I. R, T.. thugs, who claim that Howard inserted a slug instead of a nickel in the subway turnstile. So infuriated was the crowd of nearly 2,000 which gathered at the time of the attack that the I, R. T, guards were for a time in danger of assault at the hands of the spec= tators. The arrival of a squad of 25 policemen and the crews of ten radio cars, bristling with drawn pistols and machine guns, saved the I. R. T. thugs. Witnesses told how Howard was seized by the subway guards, dragged behind a change booth in the locker room and unmercifully beaten, One of the guards was seen whipping Howard over the face with the chain of a set of handcuffs. Dr. Edward. M. Bere necher, superintendent of the Met- ropolitan Hospital, yesterday de= clared that Howard has black and blue marks on many parts of his u (Continued- on Page » 2 —?* h