The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 23, 1934, Page 1

as FHL COLLECTION LISTS TO SPEED QUOTAS BY DEC. 1 Yesterday’s receipts Total to date ......... Press Run Yes $325.30 $40,491.96 ties —42,500 Vol. XI, No. 280 > Entered as second-class matter Daily, Worker CENTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL ) at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., under the Act of March 8, 1879. NEW YORK, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1934 NATIONAL EDITION : (Six Pages) Price 3 Cents CHICAGO UNEMPLOYED TO MARCH U.S. for Wage Cut in Building Program CKES SAYS UNIONS MUST FACE SLASH Will Obey Wall Street) Ediet To Strike at Labor Organization FIRST GUN IN DRIVE Seasonal Trade Picked For Initial Attack on All Wages By Seymour Waldman (Daily Worker Washington Bureau) WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 22.—| Pub’ Works Administratcr Har- old L, Ickes today fired the first | administration gun in the latest big | brci: vernment campaign to drive down wages. The first an-| nouncement a few weeks ago was made by President Roosevelt. Ickes, under whose “Public Works” direction hundreds of mil- | lions of dollars have been given to} war preparations, made the wage- cutting declaration during a dis- cussion with newspaper men con-; cerning tHe Public Works housing progzam, In response to question- ing, he declared that “some ar- rangements” will have to be madi the building trades unions at ative to cutting the present wage rates. Following the line set by the President, Ickes explained the in- tended cuts in hourly wage rates the pretext of guaranteeing a high- er net annual wage. Asked whether this new wage- cutting plan wasn’t merely another variation of the “spread-| -the-work” or “spread-the-misery,” Ickes re- plied, “Yes,” Ickes also made clear that the administration will, follow the demands of the Manu-j facturers’ and Bankers’ Associa- tions by making another thrust at trade union organizations. “Would you pay union wages in your housing program?” a reporter asked him. “We haven't worked that out yet,” he replied. A concerted wage-cutting admin- | istration-big business drive can be expected when the Roosevelt big wigs launch their so-called Social | Security program next month. The highly seasonal building trades, an industry with a compara- tively high hourly rate, has been se- Tected as the lever for toppling over already low wage scales in other industries. The drive is part of the recently @nnounced bankers’ and manufac- turers’ program to let “natural forces” operate towards “recovery.” Threat to Bar Jews from Jury Made in Boston (Special to the Daily Worker) BOSTON, Mass., Nov. 22. — The second trial of the 16 jailed anti- Fascist students and workers ar- rested last May during the demon- stration here protesting the pres- ence of the Nazi warship Karlsruhe started yesterday afternoon. Before the trial opened, the prosecuting attorney in an open statement to Donald Burke, Sec- retary of the Massachusetts Inter- national Labor Defense and acting as lay attorney for the defendants, threatened that he “could chal- lenge all Jews from the jury.” Jews have been excluded from the jury in the suit being heard here of the Artkino Guild, Inc., against Edward A. Hunter, executive secre- tary of the Industrial Defense As- sociation, an anti-labor organiza- tion. Benjamin Goodman, chief of the radical squad and bodyguard for Schoeneman, Nazi lecturer, on his appearance at Ford Hall last ‘Winter, was called to the witness stand by the prosecution yesterday afternoon. The first part of his testimony already shows him en- gaging in the same lies as in the first trial. The trial is expected to last until the middle of next week. The I. L. D. has issued an appeal to all workers’ organizations to rush pro- tests demanding the release of the sixteen defendants to Judge Hod- son, Room 402, Pemberton Square Ccurt, Boston, Mass. Boston work- jeral Emergency Relief Administra- ‘stated, minimum rates wil! be es- BARRICADES IN BARCELONA Seene at the headquarters of the Allianca Obrera (Workers’ Alliance), mm Barcelona, Spain, after General Batet’s army, seized the province. The Workers’ Alliance was the united front of Socialists and Communists, the anarchist leaders having sabotaged the general strike, aiding the counter-revoiution. Shaky Fascist Regime i in Spain Fails to Terrorize Workers by Brutality After Armed Uprising Asturias Watker Shaw Road to Victory of Revolution By Harry Gannes ARTICLE I | (This is the first of a series of six articles on the situation in Spain) | 'HE sword of revolution is drawn | in Spain, and the scabbard is thrown away. The “victory” won by the fascist Lerroux-Robles gov- ernment is not the victory of Mus- | proletariat, has served to intensify world fascism to a higher Stage.| Its aftermath, also, will lead to greater struggles and the-victory of the proletarian revolution. i The united front of Socialists and| Communists in Spain, the united} front of the barricades, of the struggle for the dictatorship of the, the crisis within the Second In- ternational. It has brought for- ward with bolder relief the burning questions of the united front of the tasks of preparing the road for the seizure of power and the establish- ment of Soviets. The heroic work- solini or Hitler. The armed strug- gles of the Spanish workers, led | by the united front, the Workers Alliance, carried the fight against | ers and peasants of Asturias, who set up the Commune, the fighting | workers of Madrid, Barcelona, by their deeds placed before the work- ‘Lack of "Preparations Urged by C. P. Cause | of First Defeat ers of the entire world the question of the struggle for power, for the | establishment of Soviets. What Are Perspectives? All of capitalist-feudal Spain for ten days was teetering on the prec- ipice of the proletarian revolution. Why was it not victorious in this tremendous assault of the working class? What led to the defeat of the armed insurrection? What were the mistakes? Now what is (Continued on Page 2) (CHINESE RED ARMY GAINS AT 3 POINTS HONGKONG, Noy. 22.—Exposing the recent lying official release that the Red Army, on its way from Kiangsi to Szechuan Province, has suffered great losses, is the latest report here today showing the vic- torious advance of the Red Army at three places. Marching in two columns toward Szechuan Province the Red Army in Hunan Province was reported at Hungming in its westward march, while the second column reached Chuanchow, in Kwangsi Province. In a little more than a week, the Red Armies have covered over one- third of the distance to their des- tination. It was also reported here that the Soviets in Fukien Province re- tain the stronghold at Hweichang, creating greater difficulties for the Chiang Kai Shek army. So great has become the menace of the Red Army against the Can- tonese forces, that General Chen Chi Tang announced today efforts were being made to get a loan of $10,000,000 from the British Dutch Shell Oil Co. or the Standard Oil Co., in order to carry on the war against the Red Armies. The Can- tonese militarists are ready to give the foreign imperialists the Canton electric plant as security for the badly needed loan. Relief Administration Abandons Wage Rates WASHINGTON, Nov. 22— Coupled with its intense drive to institute outright forced labor on all work relief projects, the Fed- tion today ordered all relief ad- ministrators to abandon the 30- cent-an-hour minimum wage. Hereafter, the order by Hopkins tablished according to local pre- vailing rates. That this means a further low- ering c= relief wages is frankly ers and students are urged to pack, the court cach day in Saree ee with the defesdasis. stated by Jacob Baker, assistant Pleads for a Worker, of Bank of the U. S. ALBANY, Nov. 22.—John Ww. Davis, attorney for the J. P. Mor- ‘gan interests and candidate for} President of the United States in 1924, appeared before the Appellate | Division of the Supreme Court here yesterday to make a plea on behalf of Isidore Kresel, who was con- victed in connection with the col- {lapse of the Bank of the United | States. Thousands of depositors lost their jSavings when the bank crashed with deposits totalling $360,000,000. Kresel, an attorney and director of the bank, was convicted as an aid in the “misapplication” of $2,000,- 000 of the bank’s funds. In his plea Davis said that Kresel was “seriously prejudiced” by the summary of the prosecution, U.S. Italian Labor Bodies In Unity Pact A united front agreement for the struggle against Italian fascism has just been agreed upon by the Italian Bureau of the Communisi Party, U.S.A., and the Italian Fed- eration of the Socialist Party of America, it was announced yester- day. The full text of the agreement will be made public in a few days, but the general outlines have al- ready been agreed upon as follows: for joint action to libezate the political prisoners now held in Mus- soliniss jails, such working class prisoners as Gramsci, Pertini, Lucetti and others; for the support of the international delegation in Paris now preparing to visit Italy; for the raising of funds to support this work, and for joint struggle in this country against fascism, for united front committees against fascism to be organized in the trade unions. FRISCO CLERKS ORGANIZE SAN FRANCISCO, Noy. 22-—The drug store clerks of San Francisco administrator in charge of work re- have organized into @ ics: zrowing Jocal union. : Davis, Morgan Lawyer, | GROUPS BACK SCOTTSBORO CONFERENCE Four Negro churches, two A. F. of L. locals, and several other or- ganizations yesterday announced their election of delegates to the Bronx County Scottsboro Confer- ence called for this Saturday after- noon, 2 o'clock, at the Epworth Methodist Church, 834 Morris Ave. 750 organizations were personally contacted by committees of the Pro- visional Scottsboro Committee of the Bronx, the Committee an- nounced. i! The conference will be addressed by Samuel Patterson, Secretary of the National Scottsboro-Herndon ; Action Committee, Rev. George Tay- lor, pastor of Epworth Church, Rev. A. Valvira, of the Thessalonian Ohurch, and Mrs, Ella Morgan, (Continued on Page 6) V.F.W. CHIEF ALSO SOUGHT | FOR FASCISTS Banks Wanted To Hire| Him as Fascist Head, J. E. Van Zandt States KNEW BUTLER PLOT} Evidence Mounts| New Proving Wall Street Fascist Plot MINOT, N. D., Nov. 22—The grim | actuality of secret fascist organiza- tion financed by Wall Street banks again broke through all denials to- day with the revelation by James that he too had been approached by Wall Street to be the “iron man” to lead a fascist army in this coun- None of the leaders of the V.F.W. had any doubts, Van Zandt de-| clared, as to the actuality of all of General Smedley Butler’s charges concerning the financing of a fas- cist army of 500,000 by financial cliques headed by J. P. Morgan. Van Zandt revealed that Gerald C. MacGuire, the Wall Street broker who acted as the go-between for the banks and the military cliques, had approached him with the prop- osition after a four months tour of Fascist Germany and a study of the organization of the Nazis in Germany. “He recommends the formation of a similar organiza/‘on in the United States with the eventual aim of es- tablishing a Fascist regime here,” Zandt declared yesterday, “We know that General Butler was ap- proached to head the organization.” Meanwhile the amount of evidence of the Fascist plot continues to grow as the Congressional Committee is taking testimony, U.S. Threatens To Extend Naval Bases TOKYO, Noy. 22—A Foreign Of- fice statement that if Japanese im- Perialists were accorded parity of naval construction with the United States, Japan would “refrain from building to the maximum limit granted her” brought a relayed re- port from Washington that Ameri- can industrialists had not only jeered at the statement but had openly publicized their determina- "| tion to extend military fortifications throughout the Pacific wherever Possible. It is ever becoming more clear that with the United States govern- ment pushing naval construction and war armaments generally and speeding up war preparations more swiftly and bellicosely than any other imperialist power, not the least possibility exists of either the London Nayal Conference or the Geneva Arms Conference restrain- ing the increased universal manu- facture of arms, ships and muni- tions, A revealing sidelight of Great Britain’s tactics in holding Jap- anese militarism as an ally has now been made clear by an official com- munique here, which suggests that the English delegates in London had themselves taken the first step in proposing.Japanese naval equal- ity with the United States, Detroit Wires ‘Daily’ $200; Pledges to Exceed Quota DAILY WORKER 50 EAST 13 ST NY © NOV 22 1934 DETROIT SENDING TWO HUNDRED DOLLARS STOP POLISH UKRAINIANS ARMENIANS OVER TOP BUT JEWISH ORGANIZATIONS ESPECIALLY I W O HOLDING BACK STOP REQUEST JEWISH I W O TAKE HOLD STOP OR- GANIZATIONS AND SECTIONS AGREED TONIGHT TO MAKE TASK ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS ABOVE QUOTA TO BE FULFILLED AT LATEST DECEMBER EIGHTH AT SPECIAL AFFAIR FOR DAILY AND PARTY WEINSTONE * This contribution, comrades, forms the major portion of yesterday's receipts. Only $325 came in! Chicago, Cleveland and Pittsburgh did not send a penny. Neither did Seattle. Milwaukee sent only $3, Minneapolis, California and New York did not do much better. We must ask the leaderships in these distrieis—What are your plans te finish your quotas by Dec. 12 E. Van Zandt, national commander | Unemployment of the Veterans of Foreign Wars,| Meeting Saturday morning. | recommendation was decided on by Mass Parade Will Protest Against Slashes In Relief; Detroit Jobless Plan Action Emergency " Conference Te Plan Action Called in Detroit By A. B. Magil (Special to the Daily Worker) DETROIT, Mich., Noy. 22—Im- mediate preparation of a county | march to win the demands of the| tens of thousands of unemployed workers and their families will be proposed to the committee of | twenty-five of the emergency con- |ference for immediate relief and insurance at its The a sub-committee of the committee of twenty-five following a confer- ence yesterday with John F. Bal-} |lenger, Wayne County Welfare Ad- ministrator, at which he sidestepped giving a clear cut answer to their demands. December 13 is the ten- tative date of the proposed march which will terminate at the head- quarters of the County Welfare Commission, 176 E. Jefferson Ave. The demands presented to Bal- lenger were adopted at a broad united front conference Noy. 11, called by the rank and file A. F. of L. Committee for Unemployment Insurance and Relief. They included withdrawal of the two relief cuts that have been put over in the past month, a minimum of sixteen dol- Jars a week on relief projects for married couples and eight dollars for single men with equivalent bud- gets for those on direct relief, a minimum of 75 cents an hour for unskilled labor end prevailing union rates for skilled, a maximum 30-hour week, repeal of the State Sales Tax and immediate exemption of the unemployed from this tax, abolition of flop houses and cash relief for single workers sufficient to enable them to live their individ- Jad lives, additional relief funds from the State and dental care for the unemployed on the basis of individual needs. The committee that presented these demands consisted of J. Lee of the Forgotten Men’s Club, H. E. Schultz of Painters Local 37 (A. F. of L.), G. Alsten, a young Negro worker, of Coopers International Union, Local 54, Alfred Macknick of the Unemployment Councils, Rich- ard Kroon, secretary of the A. F. of L. Committee for Unemployment Insurance and Relief, and a Negro worker from the Kelsey - Hayes Wheel Federal Local 18677, whose name cannot be given because of possible victimization in the shop. Ballenger, in his usual demagogic manner, said he agreed with 90 per cent of the demands, but could do nothing because of lack of fi- nances. He was considerably em- barrassed when Kroon, acting as spokesman for the committee, pulled out a copy of the city budget (Continued on Page 2) Aa at ae se N.Y. Couneils Back Jobless Demonstration NEW YORK—Responding to a call issued by the Unemployment Councils here, workers in all parts of the city are mobilizing for par- ticipation in the demonstration at Union Square tomorrow demanding increased cash relief, jobs at union wages and enactment of the Work- ers’ Unemployment Insurance Bill. Although all attempts made by the Council to establish a united front for the demonstration have been met with refusals from the committee which is sponsoring the demonstration, the Councils called upon their membership and all workers to join in the meeting and march and to fraternize with the members of the Workers’ Unem- ployed Union. The keynote of the Council call has been to let noth- ing disrupt the meeting, and for all to maintain rigid discipline. In Brownsville, one working class section, a united front has been formed between the Councils and the Socialist led Unemployed Union, They have arranged to meet jointiy, issue joint leaflets and participate under the banners of each organiza- tion. The Communist Party Dis- trict and the Trade Unicn Unity Council have endorsed the cal of the Counctis, its political | s subdivisions and free medical and} e Jobless Guard Homes Of Negro Families To Prevent Eviction PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Nov. 22. —The Unemployment Councils here are daily guarding the homes of several unemployed Negro workers who are faced with immediate eviction due to the refusal of the welfare ad- ministration to meet rent pay- ments. Three of these are the homes of Esther Stalon, a widowed Negress living at 2213 Harlem St.; George Johnson, a jobless Negro and father of eight children, who lives at 1523 No, 23rd St.; and George Jones, a Negro wo: who has been active in preve ing evictions in the neighbor- hood of his home at 2448 Ridge Avenue. The Unemployment Council local at 2222 Master Street, with the help of the entire neighbor- hood and the Councils in the section, are mobilized to stop these evictions. MASS MARCH TO SUPPORT DYE STRIKE UATERSON, N. J., Nov. 22.— Friday, at 2 p. m., starting from the Roseland Ballroom, all Paterson, Passaic and Lodi unions and other workers’ organizations will join the striking dyers in a mighty demon- stration -to answer the Chamber of Commerce and the ds ye bosses. Will Parade Streets The demonstration will through the principal of Paterson and return to Roseland Ballroom where a mass meeting in solidarity with the strikers take place. The chief object in the demon- stration is to counter the efforts of the Chamber of Commerce, and various businessmen’s clubs who have launched an intense campaign through the newspapers to arouse a sentiment against the strikers among middle-class people and non- striking workers. It is.quite com- monly regarded among the strikers that the agitation campaign launch- ed by the employers is preparing the way for letting loose police ter- ror against the workers in Paterson. The turnout todey is expected to be so great as to discourage all such attempts and to rather hurry the bosses to make a better seitle- ment offer. Deadlock Remains Another conference between em- ployers, strikers and Nathan Shef- ferman of the Textile Labor Rela- tions Board, Was held and broken off on the question of 100 per cent union shop. The strik- ers merely ask security, that the union members be given preference in the hiring and be the last in case of lay-off. But the employers refuse to listen to this. Emanual Schavick, the employers, stated: “The employ- ers have exhausted all peaceful methods for adjusting the situation, in which the public is vitally in- terested in the outcome. Where it will lead to no one knows.” Another conference is planned tomorrow, according to a statement by Schefferman. The dyers’ strike entering the fifth week today is now being seriously felt in many de- pendent industries, especially the silk mills, with many closing daily. Not a single one of the 25,000 strikers is known to heve returned. The enthusiasm and determinatim remains as ever since the beginning of the strike, proceed streets of speaking for FLINT WORKERS FREED FLINT, Mich, Nov. 22—Two workers arrested on a charge of vio- lating a city hand-bill ordinance which is commonly used to hamper working class organizations here in advertising their activities, were freed in Judge Mallory’s Court by an energetic campaign of protest. A third worker faces trial on the same oharge. will} yesterday | Demonstration Will | Start at 2 Points | Tomorrow at 9 BULLETIN CHICAGO, Il, Nov. 22.—All captains for Saturday’s march have been instructed to attend one of two special meetings to- night for last-minute instructions. Captains for the column from the South Side are to meet at Lin- coin Center, 700 East Oakwood Avenue. Captains of the column | from the northwestern part of the city are to meet at the Associa- tion House, 2150 West North Ave- nue. Both meetings are at 8 p.m. Every organization participating in the march has been asked to send as many captains as pos- sible. (Daily Worker Midwest Bureau) CHICAGO, Ill, Nov. 22.—In a meeting crowded with workers, trade unioni unemployed and liberals, the City Council yesterday granted a parade permit for the huge united front march on Sat day against the relief cut inaugu- | rated on Nov. 1. The very presence | of the assembled workers forced the City Council further to adopt a res- olution. protesting the relief slash, against forcing the jobless to ac- cept work relief, and proposing @ public hearing on the matter. To March From Two Points The march for which the permit was granted yesterday will start promptly at 10 o'clock Saturday morning from two points — Union Park at Ogden and Randolph Sts., and from the South Side, 22nd and Wentworth Sts—and converge on City Hall, where an elected delega- tion representing the united front will present demands for rescinding the relief cut. Other demands are for public works at union wages, immediate winter relief. such a3 shoes, new clothing and blankets, increased cash relief, recog: on of all committees of the jobless, and for the Workers Unemployment In- surance Bill. Central in the de- mands is that for no discrimination against the Negro people, youth and women, At the City Council meeting yes- terday, Elmer Johnson, secretary of the united front committee, read the workers’ letter setting forth the jobless’ demands and outlining the route of march. The full text of the letter appeared in the Daily Worker of Noy. 15. The resolution for granting the permit was introduced by Alderman Arvey. Oscar Nelson, vice-president of the Chicago Federation of Labor, was approached by a delegation of trade unionists before the opening of the City Council session. They asked that he introduce the reso- lution. He flatly refused, and when the resolution was introduced, he declared that he had originally in- tended to vote against it. He never- theless voted for the resolution, but launched into a vicious attack upon the Communist Party, which is part and parcel of the united front, arid occupies a leading role in it. Wants No Red Flags He demanded in his speech in support of the resolution that no placards, no red flags, and no signs against the “American form of gove ernment” be carried in the parade, He further apologized at the City Council meeting that he had not been present at the meeting of the Chicago Federation of Labor which endorsed the march. The Jewish Trade Union Federa- tion last Sunday. reindorsed the march when a motion was made to withdraw the endorsement. Pioneer Children To March The District Pioneer Council, in a special notice to all Pioneer lead- ers of children’s groups, requested that all leaders have their troops out on the streets for the city-wide hunger march on Saturday at 10 a, m. Troops on the South Side will gather at 22nd and Wentworth Sts.; troops on the North Side and West Side will gather at Union Park. The District Pioneer Council re- quests that only children of nine years or more should march. | Younger children should not be brought to the assembly points. TEXTHLE STRIKE IN FRANCE RONEN, France, Nov. 22.—More than 7,000 textile workers here on strike ageinst wage cuts, and the strike is still spreading to