The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 21, 1934, Page 1

| eee mae ns ree inmeet tae Mass Organizations: Arrange Thanksgiving Af- fairs for the “Daily” Drive! seeeeeess 39,618.10 Press Run Yesterday—48,000 Vol. X , No. 278 >* Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. Y. under the Act of March 8, 1879, Daily .Q Worker anna CONTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.5.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST HITERMATIONAL ) NATIONAL EDITIO? NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, ! OVEMBER 21, 1934 (Six Pages) Priee 3 Cents WALL STREET SEEKS DICTATOR; MAPS CRUSHING ATTACK ON LABOR LL.D. PRAISED BY MOTHER OF PATTERSON ‘Tll Never Forsake the I. L. D.’ Her Letter Explains ADVISES HER SON Says That Leibowitz and Terry Tricked Her Into Error How she was tricked by Samuel 8. Leibowitz and his bodyguard, John Terry, into repudiation of the International Labor Defense, which has for three years led the fight which has kept her son, Haywood Patterson, and the other Scotts- boro boys alive, is told in a letter received by Anna Damon, Acting National Secretary of the I. L. D,, from Mrs. Janie Patterson. Mrs, Patterson has written to Haywood to have nothing to do un- der any circumstances with Leibo- witz or his agents. “Sor the last three years I have been with the I, L. D.,” Mrs. Pat- terson writes in a letter just re- ceive?. “I haven’t eaught them in no lie. They have always did whit they told me, and since I have learn what I have I am sor- ty that I have made such a error. I don't want a single member of the L. L..D. to have no bad feel- ing toward me whatever. I am going to die with the I, L. D. “Z have learned that Leibowitz was helping Mr. Chamlee to pull skin over my eyes. ‘Terry (John Terry, Leibowitz’s ard) said that Mr. Leibo- witz can do more with the case than the I. L. D. can. Now I don’t aim {to ever listen to no other living man come to me like that. I am expect to listen to the I. L. D. for they are the only friend I have “t am sorry, sorry to my heart; my heart is almost ready to bust, thei i listen to Terry. I am will- ing to go down with the L. L. D. Yl never forsake the I. L. D. “Terry trick me, also Mr. Chamlee. I always had a lot of confidence in Mr. Chamlee, but I have not got any in him now. “JANIE PATTERSON.” The I. L. D., which last week won a stay of execution from Decem- ber 7 to February 8 for Patterson and Clarence Norris, announced that application and brief for a writ of certiorari in the Patterson case would be filed with the U. Supreme Court today or tomorrow. The application and writ in the Norris case was filed last Saturday, In order to get the Scottsboro case before the U. S. Supreme Court as quickly as possible. The Patterson application, which, on account of the conduct of Judge Callahan in his trial raises more constitutional questions, took a few days longer to perfect. Crosbie Wins Fight in Trial At Legion Post A decision of far-reaching im- portance in protecting free politi- cal expression and activity for the rank and file of the American Legion was made on Monday night when the Blissville Post of the American Legion decided that “membership in the Communist Party is not sufficient in itself for expulsion from the American Legion. The decision was made on the joint recommendation of Queens County Judge Advocate Charles B. Schwanda and Assistant Trial Judge Advocate Angelo John Cin- cotta for the dismissal of charges Paul P. Crosbie, Commu- “nist candidate for Congressman in the last election, that he was guilty of “disloyalty by reason of his membership in the Communist Cincotta hesitantly admitted after the hearing that the decision would set a precedent in the juris- diction of the Queens County Legion. In the opinion of District offi- cials of the Communist Party, the decision to dismiss the charges was influenced by the wide publicity given Crosbie’s earlier trials. Following the formal dismissal of the charges, Crosbie said to the executive committee: “There was never a time in fifteen years that I have been so proud to be a mem- ber of the American Legion,” S.|newspaper reporter from Madrid Communists, Treachery | Of Trotzkyites Cited (Special to the Daily Worker) MADRID.—The news appearing in the foreign capitalist press about | the recent armed struggles in Spain is, for the most part, twisted and | misleading. The barrage of mean| and stupid lies about the action of the Red Guards laid down by the fascist government are not even be- lieved here. For the first time, one of the} mst important provinces in Spain, Asturias, has had a Soviet gov- ernment. The “victory” of the re-} action has brought no joy to the| shaken landlord-bourgeoisie. The Spanish proletariat is not pervaded | by the spirit of defeat, but is de-| termined to carry on and continue the offensive in the next attack, learning the lessons of the treach- ery and betrayal of the Anarcho- Syndicalist leaders, The censorship and state of war are still in full force as this is writ-| ten. The official news releases are | carefully doctored by the general | staff before they are handed out. The atrocity sories, however, are now being soft-pedaled. Lack of experi- | ence and poor organization gave re- sults so contradictory that they de- feated their own ends. Looting Is Protested As connections are slowly resumed | with North Spain, Asturias business men want to know if the govern- ment, is going to pay the damages in Oviedo, which was completely de- stroyed by government artillery and bombing planes and not by the Red Guard, as was first reported. Com- plaints and protests mount against the actions of the Spanish Foreign Legion and the Riff troops. Middle- class shopkeepers say that although the Red Guard may have confis- cated food and supplies, the robbing of jewelry and other stories and the real looting began when the Foreign Legion marched in to slaughter the workers. Reports are piling up that the perverts and escaped criminals in the Foreign Legion, the dregs of the underworld, together with the Riffs, killed with savage brutality and in cold blood. In the Cortes, a liberal member is preparing to exhibit photographs showing the Legion shooting pris- oners against a stone wall, among whom were women and children. A was shown shot down in a savage manner by 4 Russian White Guard who joined the Foreign Legion, and killed the correspondent because he was a “left” republican. The total killed in Spain is yet hard to es- timate. The figures run from 5,000 to 10,000. Role of Caballero As the smoxe clears, certain facts become known. First of all there are the tactics of the Socialists who started the movement, but failed to draw the masses into armed strug- gle. Largo Caballero. Prieto and other Socialists were acting with the Trotzkyites. Four days before Leading Role of the} Valor of Red Guards in Asturias Stands As Guiding Light to Masses In Struggle for Power in Spain GROUP OF SPAN H RED GUARDS | Here are seen armed workers and peasants who helped in setting up a Soviet government in Asturias, one of the most important provinces of Spain, PICKET TODAY 4,000 JOIN AT SPANISH CONSULATE Calling on Socialist and Com- munist workers to rally in thou- sands to picket the Spanish Con- sulate, 515 Madison Ave., today, to- morrow, Friday and Saturday, in protest at the terror against the fighting Spanish workers, the New York District Committee of the Communist Party yesterday de- clared its energetic support of the picketing called by the Interna- tional Labor Defense. The District's appeal follows: “The fascist reaction is raging in Spain. Our heroic fellow workers who took up arms and inspired the world with their heroic fight against the savage beast of fascism, are being fright- fully butchered. Entire commu- nities of mine workers in Asturias have been wiped out in fire and blood. Well-armed fascist gangs are running rampant in working class centers supported by the savage Foreign Legion and mur- derous assault guards. Many are sentenced to death by the courts martial. Tens of thousands are in the vile dungeons of the fas- cist inquisition. “The heroic Spanish working class, Communists, Socialists, Syndicalists, are calling for our help. The Spanish Socialists have issued a heart-rending ap- peal for the unity of Socialists and Communists, of all workers, in a mighty protest movement demanding the immediate cessa- tion of the fascist white terror, the release of all working class prisoners, the immediate cessa- tion of all court-martial and fas- cist murder of the workers, for (Continued on Page 6) States The sensational revelations of Smedley D. Butler, who was picked ican Hitler by a whole group of the States. whole movement toward fascism to organize the armed bands of thi Roosevelt regtme. More recently, the Roosevelt government has pe have already been perfected by American bankers for the organization of fascist armed bands to shoot down American workers, and to es- tablish an open fascist dictatorship in the United manufacturers, and munitions makers in the United States, published in the New York Evening Post yesterday, tells only the smallest part of the story of the development toward fascism in the United In fact, the very revelations of Butler are being utilized to give the impression that the danger is over, that the crux of the movement has been scotched, and American “democracy” saved. In today’s issue of the Daily Worker we pub- lish broader and more vital information on the States, and the forces and factors behind it. What the Post and General Smedley Butler do not make clear, and do not want the masses to know, is thet the rapid trend toward fascism in the United States does not grow out of the mach- inations of a few bankers, ready to spend millions Fascism springs out of every development of the (Continued on Page 2) ures rapidly, ANTI-FASCIST CONY STRIKE More than 4,000 City College stu- dents struck yesterday for two hours in as militant a demonstration as has been seen on any college campus the nation over. Demand- ing the reinstatement of twenty- one students, expelled for anti-fas- cist activity, the ouster of President Robinson, and the return of the dissolved Student Council, the strik- ers fought police for a brief period and won the right to hold their meeting at the central college flag pole. The spectacular burning of an immense colored effigy of Pres. Robinson was the high spot of the day’s proceedings. From 7 a. m. yesterday morning when a white on violet banner, screaming, “Strike,” was discovered high on the well-greased pole, col- lege attendants, police, and profes- sional steeplejacks worked until 10:30 before they finally yanked the flag down. A loud’boo went up from the crowd at the police success. Curator and Police Charge At eleven sharp, the strike chair- man, Wilfred Mendelson, mounted the base of the flagpole. The curator, Britt rushed over with his assistants and demanded the dispersion of the assemblage. Police joined the col- lege officials in attacking the first speaker. After a general melee, dur- ing which several students started impromptu meetings at various points on the campus, the strike chairman was successful in once again obtaining the flag pole for the continuation of the regular strike meeting. A score of speakers, expelled and unexpelled City College students, national leaders of the National (Continued on Page 2) i | SILK STRIKE HEADED OFF Big Trusts Mave To Hick. | Butler In Sweeping Program BY OFFICIALS For Fascist Government Decision of Members Disregarded By Keller Clique PARADE TOMORROW | All Workers and Unions Called To Take Part In Mass March PATERSON, Nov. 20.— Thursday morning, when the dyers énter the fifth week of their strike, a huge solidarity parade will proceed through the city, in which all work- ers and unions, including those of Passaic and Lodi, are called to parti- cipate. On the other hand the Keller controlled Executive Board of the silk workers sabotaged the decision of Saturday’s membership meeting for a strike, and refused to call it. Instead they held a conference with the employers and ordered that there be no strike. All are ordered to stay in the shops on the basis of the wages prevailing on Saturday, which means on the basis of the wage cut. The Executive Board of the Broad Silk department, composed chiefly of Keller's men, who were defeated as delegates to the Federation con- vention at Saturday’s meeting, de- cided with five opposing last night to recommend to the Joint Board of the union not to call the strike. This is a violation of the union’s consti- tution, which hakes the membership meeting decisions binding upon the executive board. The maneuver ofj the Keller machine not to call a joint board meeting until Thurs- day has been so thoroughly exposed that, the officials decided to call a joint board meeting for tonight. Since that body is reactionary to the core it is likely that Keller's strike- breaking actions will be endorsed. ‘The parade arranged by the’ dyers will be a demonstration of soli- darity with the strikers, and counter the continual threats of the bosses te open dye houses with scabs. The Central Trades and Labor Council has been requested to call on all unions to participate, Picketing at dye shops is now maintained night and day, starting at 5,00 a.m. and ending at 3.00 a.m. The workers of each shop are main- taining a rotation system. It was reported at yesterday’s shop chair- men’s meeting that single men were not given relief by the E. R. A. but were sent to the Salvation Army. The strikers refuse this, and set upon a broad relief campaign. A great deal of resentment was expressed at this meeting, because of the failure to carry out the deci- sion for a delegation to go to Thomas MacMahon, president of the United Textile Workers Union, and demand that dye houses in other states be pulled out. The decision was reiterated. Workers are parti- cularly criticising Anthony Ammi- rato, President of the Paterson dyers and member of the United Textile Workers’ executive board, for his failure to demand a special meeting on the question, AN EDITORIAL been pushing the development toward fascist meas- Roosevelt's close tie-up with the big bankers, the leading industrialists, the powerful trusts and monopolies, his gigantic preparations for war, the growing attacks on the workers, their civil Major General to be the Amer- richest bankers, and trade union rights, the greater use of force and the militia against strikers, are all the basic causes for the development toward fascism. Butler was presented with the job of mobilizing the armed hordes of fascism to direct their attack against the Communist Party and other militant workers, as a wirst move toward destroying the whole workers’ movement and making it easier for war. in the United e fascism army. factories. the finance capitalists, through an open brutal dic- tatorship, to spread their drive for lowering the standard of living of the American workers, saving capitalism, and speeding to a new bloody, imperialist There should be no illusions about Butler's rev- elations. This does not stop the development of the fascist armies, nor in the slightest hinder the greater moves toward fascism of the Roosevelt re- gime. The mass base of fascism is being organized in a hundred rivulets, moving on toward a main stream. There are the poisonous attacks of Hearst against the Communist Party and his instigation of the organization of fascist spying groups in the There are the Silver Shirts, and the multi-colored shirts. red-baiting organizations, so ably exposed by John There are the hundreds of L. Spivak in the Daily Worker and New Masses. More recently, there has been the demagogic cam- paign of Father Coughlin, and his million membership in his fascist National Union for Social Justice. Nor did But pend on him alone in their attempt to try to trans- form the American Legion into a * * 'HAT there is a definite movement on for the mass organization of the fascist bands, far ex- ceeding the plans exposed by General Butler, that will continue and will even grow and spring to maturity with these revelations, can be seen by the actions of the fraternal organizations, such as the Elks, the Moose, and the others, and the rabid at- tacks on Communists at the last convention. The process of bringing the representatives of the bankers into the Roosevelt government appara- tus has been going on at a rapid pace recently. Before and after the elections, Roosevelt conferred constantly with members of the firm of J. P. Mor- gan, and other Wall Street and It is these same bankers who are backing the or- ganization of the fascist armies. Both of these moves are pre} chinery for the time when all pretense at democratic forms of capitalism will be abandoned. Then it is proposed with the machinery be’ along witn the closer control of } | Morgan Lawyer Was To| Write Speeches In Fascist Set-Up | | iy heed Aiierioese: «| | Who are the forces behind the] | plot revealed by Major General} | Smedley Butler for the organization | and arming of a fascist army in| |the United States, Investigation by} the Daily Worker shows that the same powerful individuals, bankers, | capitalist politicians. nitions |makers, behind the $3,000,000 fund for the fascist army are with and an integral interlocked part of the| |Roosevelt administration. In fact,) |they occupy key positions in the N. R. A. and the whole New Deal set-up. They are the ones, together | with Roosevelt, who since the New | Deal have been the spearhead in mo_ | | nopoly capitalism's drive toward the | naked dictatorship of big business. | General Butler tells of the indi- viduals with whom he was in con-| tact in connection with the scheme | to finance a fascist army of over 500,000 men. He mentions John W. \Davis as a leading figure. Now Da- vis is the personal representative of J. P. Morgan & Co. He also was a heavy contributor to Roosevelt’s campaign chest in 1932, and he is a The du Pont family is mentioned by Butler as the ones who were to| order the Remington Arms Co.,, which they control, to furnish arms; ito the storm troops. One of the du Ponts used to head the National |Industrial Recovery Board, and was very closely connected with Presi- dent Roosevelt. Roosevelt Chose du Ponts Roosevelt, stration, deliberately of the Standard Oil Co. Jersey, who, through a favors from Morgan. | The Morgan-du Pont dynasty, cocting the plan for a fascist army,| and tried to get Butler to head it, | has powerful representatives in all the key positions of the Roosevelt | government apparatus. | For example, E. R. Stettinius, an| U. 8. Steel Corporation, and the son} of a deceased, Morgan partner, is | one of the most recent appointees {role there. Here he carries out the ‘fascist aims which coincide with the armed troops. Another key figure in the N.R.A set-up is W. Averill Harriman, chairman of the board of directors the driving force in the N. R. A. (Continued on Page 2) Wall Street Plots to Arm Fascist Bands! Unite Against Fascism! the policies and drive for a five- er's sponsors de- regime in order capitalist system. mass fascist base. . Butler merely armed bands of American Legion the organization Chicago bankers. i necessary, paration of ma- Co., the largest ing set up now, the bankers over | movement for the creation of the mal fore them was made very plain. capitalism by the institution of a dictatorship when the Roosevelt measures had prepared the way, and had openly failed to solve the crisis, with the first attack against the Communist Party and all other militant organizations fighting against the rotten, decaying capitalist system. ESIDES the Wall Street bankers, a group of Chicago bankers were involved in the plans for i General Smedicy D. Butler leading Democrat. Davis, according | to Butler, was to write his fascist | | speeches. | NRA TRICKERY By Marguerite Young (Daily Worker Washington Bure: WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov, 20.— The threadbare demagogy of pro- |A™ __, jfessing readiness to “enforce” | eta From the outset of his admini-! collective bargaining promise of the | Soldiers. N.LR.A. was pulled out of the hat, Smedley Butler was the “ideal the chose the du Ponts and others of ‘again today by Francis Biddle, cor- |! n u oF his kind who are speeding towards | poration lawyer and member of the | Z¢ @ million men over night. fascism, Roosevelt appointed such blueblood family dominating J. P. Rockefeller men as Walter Teagle Morgan's. Philadelphia affiliate, re— | gested of New cently appointed chairman of the] i Rocke- | National Labor Relations Board by | Proposal to put feller agent, received heavy stock president Roosevelt. Biddle, whose selection brought immediate formal protest by the |which had so large a part in con-|Pennsylvania Federation of Labor and apologetic endorsement by President Green of the A. F. of L., told the press today that the ma- jority-rule Houde decision “is law, and in my opinion will be su: tained.” The Department of Jus- back up the Houde decision. As if to emphasize the hollow- ness of Biddle’s declaration, two to the N. R. A. Administration, and |other developments occurred at the | is looked upon to play a dominant |Same time: Green on Band Wagon 1, President Green issued a for- statement urging women of labor everywhere” to “make it their job to assist in” the oosevelt housing program. Com- pletely ignoring the facts that this of the Union Pacific Railroad; a |Program holds out the threat of member of the board of directors of {wage cuts to the employed and re- the Guaranty Trust Co. an im-jlief-reduction to the unemployed, portant Morgan bank. Harriman is |Green thus hopped on the band wagon of big business leaders who (Continued on Page 2) apparatus of the Roosevelt regime, to set up an open dictatorship of the Hitler or Mussolini type which will destroy all pretense at democracy, and continue the bloody, vicious attack against the workers now carried on by the Roosevelt to save the decaying and corrupt supplied us with some interesting details of the technique in the United States of the bankers favoring the rapid creation of the fascism, The problem placed be- It was to save of the fascist army. Some of the largest corporations in the United States were ready —and still are—to supply not only the millions but the arms, Namours Co., closely associated with Morgan and The E. I. du Pont de arms and explosive manufacturers in the United States, now supporting the Roosevelt (Continued on Page 6) “men and} | Whole Plot Revealed By General Before Con- | gressional Group | Monopoly capitalism, driving for- ward toward open, ruthless fascism in the United States, is making ac- tive preparations for the day when | the demagogy of the Roosevelt re- gime will no longer be able to hold the masses in check. and is sroom- ing potential dictators to assume the job here that Hitler accom- plished in Germany. This development was revealed yesterday by the blustering retired Major Ge 1 of the United States Marine Corps, Smedley D. Butler, who told of proposals that had |come to him from leading Wall Street capitalists to organize a Fas- |cist Army in the United States. | Planned by Wall Street Men Butler told his story before the Congressional Committee on Un- American Activities at. the Bar As- sociation building, 42 West 44th St He said that he was offered $3,000,000 by Wall Street capitalists if he would undertake the job. Negotiations with Butler were | carried on through Gerald P. Mac- Guire, associated with the power- ful firm of Gr: M.-P. & Co. 52 Broadway, as w s Robert Sterling Clark, a broker with offices at 11 Wall Street, and 'who is reputed to be worth more 000,000. ire declared that: “We need a Fascist government in this country to save the nation from the Communists, who would | down all that has been built up in ca, The only men who’ have |the patriotism to do it are the He felt that Gen. tear leader” and that he “could organ- Conspicuous in the program sug- the Wall Street capital- through MacGuire, was the Gen. r in ; charge of the C. C. C. camps as a basis of organization for the con- templated Fascist army. $ Barracks for Jobless Another sinister proposal calls for |placing the unemployed of the United States into military barracks under forced labor. MacGuire |argued that if it is done “in the Hitler manner, we would soon solve | ists, ; | lem.” official of the Morgan-controlled|tice has refused even to pretend to| the problem. Another step in the Fascist pro- gram calls for the registration of the entire population of the United States. “That would stop a lot of Communist agitators wandering around loose,” MacGuire declared. MacGuire Is Monopolist MacGu firm, the Grayson M.- P. Murphy Co., is one of the mos® | powerful of the Wall Street groups. Murphy is a director of some of the biggest corporations in the |country, including the Bethlehem Steel Corporation, the Goodyear Tire Rubber Co., the Fifth Ave, Coach Co., the Guarantee Trust Co. (a Morgan outfit), the New York Trust.Co,, the Textile Banking Co., the American Ice Co., the National | Aviation Corp., the Anaconda Cop- | per Mining Co., the Interlake Iron | Corp., the Chile Copper Co., the (Continued on Page 2) 300 Germans ‘Revolt Against Forced Labor | BERLIN, Nov, 20. — Revolting against the cold, the hardship and starvation of the brutal Nazi forced labor camps, workers throughout the country and particularly in ; Westphalia refused to eat the slop handed t o them and defended themselves against atempts of the police to ofrce them to labor on the roads. In the “labor“camp at West- phalia 300 workers plastered their “breakfast” on the walls of the mess-hall in token of their dis- gust, demanded better food and living conditions, and resisted at= tacks of the local police called in by the camp superintendent. Of the 70,000 men engaged. in building new roads for military maneuvers 10,000 are housed in | miserable temporary barracks and | camps, and especially in cold and rainy weather the herdships against which the workers had revolted were unbearable,