The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 26, 1934, Page 1

LESS THAN ONE WEEK IS LEFT TO COM- PLETE THE $60,000 QUOTA! Saturday’s receipts ..... Total to date eteeeeeee eens BEB645 fk abaasdns's nets 41,564.69 Press Run Saturday—60,100 Vol. XI, No. 282 <> % New York, N. ¥., under the Daily Q& Worker CENTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERMATIONAL ) Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at Act of March 8, 1879. EW YORK, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1934. NATIONAL EDITION (Six Pages) Price 3 Cents ROOSEVELT WITH US,’ FASCISTS SAY 25,000 Jobless in Chicago Relief March CHEERS GREET UNITED FRONT © MOBILIZATION A.F.L., Desert and | Socialist Workers Unite in Action STREETS CROWDED Authorities Evasive Delegations Put Up Workers’ Demands | CHICAGO, Ill, Nov. 25.—Twenty- | five thousand workers marched here | yesterday demanding an end to the) sweeping relief cuts put into effect | on Noy. 1, and further demanding | increased relief, Winter clothing, jobs at trade union wages and un- employment insurance. The united front demonstration, in which both | — the Socialists and Communist Parties participated, was held un- der the auspices of a joint com- mittee elected at a recent confer- ence. The marching workers had pre- viously assembled at two ee Union Park and Wentworth Street —joining in the Loop, end passing the City Hall, where the workers paused to shout their demands. From City Hall, the march passed through Michigan Boulevard, pac- ing before the Congress Hotel, where Federal Relief Administrator Hopkins was in meeting with the United States Congress of Mayors, planning new attacks upon the un- employed — attacks which center around his “ten acres and a mule” program for the jobless. Demands Rejected The march proceeded to the headquarters of the Illinois Emer- gency Relief Commission, where an elected committee presented the de- mands of the jobless. They were met with one answer to all their demands—an evasiveness amount- ing to refusal. Similarly, other elected committees met with City Corporation Counsel Sexton, who ee the same evasive answers to e demands of the jobless for Winter shoes and clothing, in- creased relief, jobs and unemploy- ment insurance, While tens of thousands of work- ers lined the streets, cheering and expressing their support of the marcher’s demands, the workers continued, ending their march in a huge united front mass meeting. The banners of many locals of the American Federation of Labor, the Communist and Socialist Parties, (Continued on Page 2) Mrs. Williams Urges Support Of I.L.D. Fight Specific repudiation of any claims which Mr. Samuel Leibowitz may have made that he represents her or her son, or that the so-called “American Scottsboro Committee” has any authority in her son’s case, is made by Mrs. Mamie Williams, mother of Eugene Williams, young- est of the Scottsboro boys, in a document made public by Anna Da- mon, acting national secretary of the International Labor Defense, yesterday. Eugene Williams and Roy Wright are the two youngest boys, whose cases have been referred by the Ala- bama Supreme Court to the juve- nile court. The text of Mrs. Williams’ state- ment follows: “Chattanooga, Tenn., Noy, 24, 1934, “To whom it may concern: “I want the International Labor Defense to have full and exclusive charge of the defense of my son Eugene, who is now imprisoned in Jefferson County Jail, Birming- ham, Ala., charged with rape. Any statement I have signed to the con- trary is to be entirely disregarded. “I approve both the legal and mass defense policies of the I. L. D, I know that these policies have kept my son, and the other eight Scotts- boro boys, alive for more than three and a half years. “I authorize the I. L. D. alone to have full charge of the collection of funds for my boys’ defense. “I do not want Mr. Samuel S. Leibowitz, his agents or his Amert+ can Scottsboro Committee, Inc., to have anything to do with the de- fense of my son Eugene. None of these people came to my rescue in April, 1931, when my boy and the other Scottsboro boys had been As | j @ontinued on Page 2 [Dinwrraoai DIDN’T BROADCAST Mrs. Janie Patterson, mother of Haywood, was impersonated in a radio broadcast for Attorney Leibowitz. RO 0s EVELT AUTO PROBE AIMS AT CUT WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 25.— President Roosevelt took another step toward worsening the condi- tions of the workers in the auto industry Saturday, instructing the National Industrial Relations Board to conduct “study” of the “pos- sibility of reguiarizing employment and otherwise improving the con- ditions of labor in this industry.” Roosevelt's letter to S. Clay Wil- liams, head of the NLRB, was sent in connection with extension ‘of the auto code. Roosevelt re- cently approved the extension of the auto code, with the infamous “merit” clause in it, until Feb. 1, and even denied the workers a public hearing. The auto workers are indiginantly protesting against this extenson of the code which has worsened their conditions. Continue “Merit” Clause Under the merit clause, and under the rulings of the Auto Labor Board, the auto workers have been saddled with company unions and denied all of their demands for wage increases against the speed- up and for union recognition. Roosevelt's letter now stalls off the workers’ demands while another “investigation” is made. Roose- velt declared the results of the study would not be put up into effect “until ample opportunity has been given interested parties to review the results of this study and present their views on the ques- tions involved.” Meanwhile the vicious code re- mains in full force, Supported by Green President William Green of the American Federation of Labor, on Saturday issued a statement, simi- liar to the one issued the same day by the United States Chamber of Commerce. Green's statement, en- dorses the whole anti-labor drive now being carried through by the Roosevelt government and the em- ployers. Green says, “The Adminis- tration has sought the cooperation of businessmen and bankers and has answered some of their chief fears by indications that it is not ‘counting on currency inflation. changing the talue of the dollar or extravagant Federal spending to uns recovery, but rather on in- creasing employment in fitable business enterprise.” ey ssr] SCOTTSBORO BROADCAST WAS FAKED Mrs, Patterson Says Radio Talk Was Made by Policeman’s Wife WAS LAWYER'S PLAN Was Part of Maneuver To Sabotage Defense of Negro Boys Add that famous radio appeal “by Mrs. Janie Patterson” for support of the so-called American Scottsboro Committee to the collection of falsi- fications and brazen misrepresenta- tions spread by the renegade de- fense attorney, Samuel S. Leibowitz, and his cronies in their vicious cam- paign to disrupt the fight for the lives and freedom of the nine Scottsboro boys. The radio appeal, widely pub- licised by the capitalist press and the reformist Negro papers as “proof” that Mrs. Patterson was supporting the disrupters of her son’s defense, was not made by the mother of Haywood Patterson, but by the wife of a Harlem Negro policeman posing as Mother Pat- terson. This startling revelation was made Jast Friday “night by Mrs. Ada Wright; mother of two of the Scottsboro boys, at a meeting of the National Scottsboro-Herndon Action Committees, at its Harlem head~- quarters, 2376 Seventh Avenue. Mrs. Wright returned Friday afternoon from the South where she had visited Mrs. Patterson and had a long talk with her. Never Went Back on LL.D. “Mrs. Patterson told me she had never made that broadcast and had never gone back on the I. L. D.,” Mrs. Wright declared. “ ‘You know I couldn’t speak that good, nohow; they used the wife of a Negro po- liceman and introduced her as me,’ Mrs. Patterson told me. She told me further that while she had been confused by Mr. Leibowitz and his people into signing papers for them, she had never repudiated the I. L. D., nor made any appeal for that American Scottsboro Committee. And what's more, she said she would come to New York to tell the whole story if the I. L. D. wants her to.” Mrs. Wright also declared that Claude Patterson, Haywood Patter- son’s father, was opposed all along to signing any papers for Leibowitz and General George Chamlee, the other renegade defense attorney. (Continued on Page 2) Ashitias Commune Is the Forerunner To Victory in Spain | Union Leaders Oppose A group of specially picked soldiers sent against the Spanish work- ers during the October uprising. Workers Held ‘Power Fourteen Days—Set Up Governing Apparatus, Gave Land to Peasants, Supplied Food During Ceaseless Fight Article 1 By Harry Gannes (This is the third of a series of six articles on the Situation in Spain.) In Asturias, where the united front of the Communists and Socialists of Spain had the October general strike and the armed battles, a work- ers’ and peasants’ regime was set up. The heroism, the dis- cipline, the achievements of stand as an inspiration to the toil-¢——— _ me ae ing masses of all Spain. To this day the spectre of the Asturias Commune terrorizes and frightens the bourgeoisie. When the battles were ended or betrayed by the an- archist leaders in the rest of Spain, the Asturias proletariat held out against the greatest odds, fought with daring fury to entrench them- selves in the fortress of the Astu- rias Commune, hoping and waiting for reinforcements from the rest of Spain. They were finally defeated on Oc- tober 18 only by the greatest mobili- been established long before the Asturias working class zation of the most trusted sections of the Spanish Army, and above all by the terrific air bombardment of the entire Spanish air fleet and by the ferocious attacks of the cut- throat and well-equipped Spanish Foreign Legion and the Riff troops imported from Morocco. Oviedo, the capital of Asturias, was reduced to a mass of crumbling ruins. Men, women and children were slaugh- tered by the bloodthirsty scum of the Spanish Foreign Legion. This (Continued on Page 2) Pig-Iron Production In U.S.S.R. Exceeds United States Output (Special to the Daily Worker) MOSCOW, Nov. 25. (By Wireless). —The September production-sheet for metals reveals that the USSR. has taken first place in the world for the production of pig-iron, leav- ing behind even the United States. In October the U.S.S.R. produced 957,000 tons of pig-iron, indicating that the Soviet Union has done more than retain her first place. Pig-iron production in the U.S.S.R. is marked by a constant, confident, forward movement. The average daily pig-iron production amounted in September to 30,470 tons, in Oc- tober to 30,830 tons, and for the second ten days in November to 31,680 tons. By Nov. 19 a daily average of 33,339 tons were being smelted. 44. Workers in 3 States Face Criminal Syndicalism Charges HILLSBORO, Ill, Nov. 25.—Fif- teen defendants on charges of crim- inal syndicalism, including members of the Progressive Miners of Amer- ica, the Socialist Party, the Com- munist Party, and the International Labor Defense, will go on trial here December 3, it was learned today. The fifteen Hillsboro defendants were arrested following a demon- stration of unemployed demanding relief, and protesting against tne “tomb-stone” relief which grafting officials were putting into their pockets, credited to names copied from stones in the county’s ceme- teries. The defense will be conducted by a committee of the defendants themselves, assisted Ww. Oo Thompson, Chicago attorney, who will advise them. Protest against these frame-ups and demand for the repeal ef the Illinois Criminal Syndicalism law should be sent to Governor Horner, Springfield, Il, and State’s Attor- ney Hall at Hillsboro, California Trials Today SACRAMENTO, Calif., Nov. 25— Eighteen workers’ leaders, arrested in the raids here during the West Coast marine workers’ and San Francisco general strike, are sched- uled to go on trial here Monday on charges of criminal syndicalism. (Gontimued from Page Unions to Aid Spain Revolt With Money NEW YORK.—Eighteen national and local organizations, including several trade unions, have endorsed a statement of the International Labor Defense, pledging themselves to intensive action in defense and support of the revolutionary work- ers and peasants of Spain, and to participation in the collection of funds for the relief of the victims of the Spanish terror, it was an- nounced today. The I. L. D. has announced a special week of collections for the Spanish victims, December 10 to 16, in which the organizations will participate. Many other organizations besides the 17 who have already signed, will have the proposal for endorse- ment of such statements before the executives within the next week. Those that have already signed include the Paper Plate and Bag Makers, local 107 A. F. of L.; Rank and File in the Teachers’ Union; League of Struggle for Negro Rights; Needle Trades Workers’ Industrial Union; Federation of Architects, Engineers, Chemists and Technicians; Nurses and Hospital Workers League; Workers Interna- tional Relief; Anti-Imperialist League of U. S.; Classroom Teach- ers Groups; Independent Shoe and Leather Workers Union, N.Y. Local; Office Workers Union; Na- tional Committee, Jewish Workers Clubs; Metal Workers Industrial Union; National Committee for De- fense of Political Prisoners; Na- tional Furniture Workers Industrial Union; Trade Union Unity League; Marine Workers Industrial Union; Food Workers Industrial Union. Dyers’ Parade Halts Bosses’ Ballot Plan PATERSON, Noy. 25.—The tre- mendous demonstration of 25,000 striking dyers and their supporters last Friday, resulted in the em- ployers immediately announcing that they withdraw all proposals made since the start, of the strike more than four weeks ago. This maneuver is designed to save the face of the Service Clubs of this city which would be made ridi- culous by an attempt to take a se- cret ballot among the strikers on the rejected proposals. The tre- mendous turn-out of workers in answer to the Chamber of Com- merce, now makes such poll ob- viously foolish, Meanwhile the next trump card of the employers is to starve the strikers into submission through the cutting off of relief. Reports are increasing that the move will be made through Washington. Ber- tram H. Saunders, Chairman of the County Relief Advisory Coun- cil, although cautious not to reveal the steps which‘ are to be taken, declared that “there is a chance for a radical change, and maybe either a cut in the amount of re- lief or an absolute stoppage.” He did not issue a denial as in former eases when questioned on such re- ports. The strikers, however, are determined not to permit a single worker to be denied relief. In addi- tion the relief campaign among workers’ organization is broadening out. In Hudson County an injunction is being sought by the Pioneer ‘SILK WORKERS | ENDORSE BILL FOR JOBLESS jposed by the rank and file and Admission of Negroes | Into Federation — | ATTACK DYE STRIKE) Militants Fight Old Guard Leaders at Convention The second convention of the| American Federation of Silk Work- ers, in session at Woodstock Hotel, ! yesterday endorsed the Worker: Unemployment and Social Insur ance Bill, Other resolutions pro- passed were that all silk centers must have a uniform wage scale and that no assessments be levied on the membership without a ref- erendum vote. The convention, still in session as the Daily Worker goes to press, has thus far rejected all the other reso- lutions of major importance, which were introduced by the militant delegates. Among them are the resolution calling for a general strike, to condemn the Gorman- Schweitzer leadership for betraying the recent general strike and call- ing for the admission of Negro workers into che union without dis- crimination. Russell Woods, president of the Federation, stated that there were two “jokers” in the Paterson reso- lution for a general strike; one ecutive for running the strike and| and file, the other for setting a date. joining the Socialist Party, spoke | against the strike resolution and for leaving the decision in the hands of the executive board. He denounced the Daily Worker for supporting this resolution of the Paterson workers. Refuse to Admit Negroes Whien the resolution calling for especially in the South, came up for consideration, the resolution com- rence on the ground that it would open the doors of the union to Ne- groes. Other reactionaries took the floor, one using the word “nig- gers.” He was promptly reprimanded (Continued on Page 2) Film Record of Police Attack on Anti-Fascists To Be Shown in Court (Special to the Daily Worker) BOSTON, Mass., Nov. 25.—A sen- sational motion picture film show- ing the brutal police attack upon the demonstration in Charlestown last May against the propaganda visit of the Nazi warship Karls- ruhe, will be introduced Monday as evidence in the hearing of the ap- peal of the 16 anti-Fascist workers and students in Judge Hobson's Court, Pemberton Square, Boston. The defendants are appealing from long prison terms imposed at the first trial. The film will also be shown at the Scottsboro protest rally this Monday evening at the Dudley Opera House here. A protest, released yesterday by the National Commiite for the De- fense of Political Prisoners, signed by 22 noted individuals, asks for “the immediate dismissal of the for taking power away from the ex- | placing it in the hands of the rank | Jack Rubenstein, Lovestonite now | organization of the Negro workers | cils, marched into the Square. They ‘ eC he Downtown Coun- mittee recommen non- ip | eeretety et ss concur | cils, was marshal. cases in the interest of Massachu- setts justice.” Policemen Waiting | Call Against Jobless Shoot Each Other | CHICAGO, Nov. 25.— Lacking | an opportunity to turn their guns on jobless workers who massed on Saturday in a demonstration and parade to demand more re- lief, 150 policemen mobilized in the detective bureau turned their guns on each other. Seven were wounded. A firecracker exploded under the feet of a Negro patrolman being baited by his fellows, caused others to draw their guns and begin a fusillade. George L, Taylor, Negro po- liceman, was the most seriously wounded. One of the policemen was arrested on a seven-point charge of assault to kill and more than 109 others were locked up. 6,000 MARCH FOR RELIEF IN NEW YORK Between five and six thousand workers assembled at Union Square Saturday morning in a demonstra- tion called by the Workers’ Unem- ployed Union and supported by the Unemployment Councils, and marched on the offices of the State Emergency. Relief Administration, | where a hand-picked committee of the Unemployed Union met with relief heads. Although repeated appeals had | | been made by th Uni mployment | hr | and although the Councils had fe refused any representation on any | committee or the speakers’ stand, | the Councils mobilized their mem- | bers to support the meeting. | Perfect discipline and accord ex. isted between the workers of differ- ent groups, despite the refusal of the W. U. U. leaders to work jointly | with the Councils. Soon after the | meeting had started, the largest single group participating, the Downtown Unemployment Coun- were led by the Workers’ vicemen’s band, and Henry Ex-Ser- Forbes, At the opening of the meeting at Union Square, David Lasser, chair- | man of the Workers’ Unemployed | Union, outlined the demands— enactment of the Workers’ Unem- ployed Bill (which he constantly referred to as “the Lundeen Bill”) and its endorsement by the State Relief Administration; public works with a 30-hour week at $30 wages; cash relief at the rate of $10 a week, $15 for a family of two, and $4 addi- tional for each dependent. Committee Sees Relief Heads Led by the band from Local 22 of the International Ladies’ Gar- ment Workers’ Union, the first group started to march. The sec- ond group, outnumbering the first by more than two to one, massed behind the banners of the Unem- ployment Councils. David Lasser and eight others who formed the committee left by another route to place the demands before the T. E. R, A. During the meeting on the fifth floor of the T. E, R. A. building at 79 Madison Avenue, the room rang with the demands of the unem- ployed workers on treets below. Meanwhile the ers marched back to Union Square after circling up Fourth Avenue, marching West on Thirty-Third Street and down Madison Avenue. Returning to Union Square, a second mass meet- ing was held, at which the commit- tee reported. CHICAGO, Ill, Nov. 25.—A jury carefully picked for its obvious “solidity” swallowed line, hook and sinker, the “success” story of Sam- uel Insull, and set him free on Sat- urday afternoon after the Chicago utilities magnate had admitted his part in the billion dollar swindle that robbed thousands of people of their life’s savings in the collapse of the Insull Middle West Utilities empire. Acquitted with him on charges of fraud in using the mails are eleven other stockbrokers, financi- ers, and financial speculators of one kind or another from the Wall Piece Dyeing Company to restrain the workers from mass picketing. Street banks and brokerage houses involved in the collapse of the Picked Jury Forgives Insull His Billion Dollar Plunder $4,000,000,000 bubble which these financial capital erected on the power plants of Insull'’s “empire.” Insull and his associates were di- rectly charged by the prosecution with the following specific crimes: 1) Printing fake ballyhoo giving a false picture of the state of the companies whose securities Insull was peddling to the public. 2) Sending deliberately crooked information through the mails re- garding the financial condition of Insull's companies. 3) Organizing market operations in such a way as to trick small in- vestors into believing that the In- NEW FACTS ON BUTLER REVEALED “We Want to Sustain Roosevelt,” Plot Leader Siated HAD HUGE FUNDS Dickstein Com mittee Issues Summary of T v Sender Garlin have the President with us imony “We nen is what Gerald C. MacGuire, a rial Street man, told Major-Gen- eral Smedley Butler, according to | Butler’s testimony before the Con- | gressional Committee on Un-Ameri- can Activities. A summary esis of this sensational testimony wa ey by the Committee yesterday 3-page mimegraphed docu- eee MacGuire had approached Butler with the proposal that he lead a Fascist army of 509,000 men. Butler claims that when he asked MacGuire what he wanted* to do with such a set-up, MacGuire stated “we want to support the President.” “Don’t you understand, the set= up has got to be changed a@ bit, } We have the Preisdent with us now,” MacGuire said, according to Butler’s testimony. “He has got to have more money. There is no more money to give him, Eighty y now is in keep up the racket much longer. He has got to do something about it... He is with is nov.” To Sustain Roesevelt According to the testimony, But- ler then asked MacGuire: “Tne idea }of this great group of soldiers then is to frighten him, is it?” And MacGuire, according to But- ler’s testimony said, “No, no, no, not to frighten him. This is to sustain him when others assault him.” According to the summary report of the testimony, Butler declared that MacGuire then told him that the President was over-worked, that he needed an assistant to take over the “many heavy duties, and that such a position would be created and would probably be called ‘a secretary of general affairs’.” Despite the fact that evidence was introduced involving lead- (Continued on Page on Page 2) Dec. I Must Climax‘Daily’ $60,000 Drive! With Dec. 1 almost at hand, this week must ase sure the continued publica- tion of the Daily Worker, It must be made the smashing climax to the $60,000 drive! Every district must con- centrate on going over its quota on time! Particularly does this apply to the large districts—New York, Chi- cago, Cleveland, Detroit, Pittsburgh. In every district, the leadership must assume the responsibility of mobilizing the Party sections and units,, trade union groups and mass organizations. The Daily Worker calls upon all readers to make special efforts this week to contribute and get contribu- tions. Canvass every block in your neighborhood! Fill every collection list! Ar- range special Daily Worker parties and collections! The successful completion of the $60,000 drive means the greatest strengthening in the fight against hunger, (Continued on Page 2) fascism and war!