The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 27, 1934, Page 1

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EDITION OVEMBER 27, 1934 (Six Pages) Price 3 Cents COUNCILS URGE UNITY OF JOBLESS | BROWDER Gi SHOWS ROLE OF TECHNICIAN IN SOCIALISM Points to Impossibility of Such a Program Under Capitalism PART OF SYMPOSIUM Describes Vest Planned Growth Result of Soviet Power Declaring that there can be no real planning of production and dis- tribution for the welfare of the masses unless the working class seizes power and abolishes the pri- vate ownership of the productive resources of this country, Earl Browder, secretary of the Commu- nist Party, yesterday presented the program of the Communist Party in a symposium on the role and opportunity of the technician in social planning. The symposium, part of the regional conference of the Interna- tional Relations Institute, held at the Russell Sage Foundetion to dis- cuss Social Planning, is to cover the various types of planning which are now being discussed and practiced as solutions for the crisis. Browder’s paper was read to the conference by Clarence Hathaway, editor of the Daily Worker, due to Browder’s unavoidable absence. Soviet Leader to Speak More than 300 pudlic officials, technicians, economists, managers in industry are meeting in this con- ference. A special session has been set aside for the report of Valery V. Obolensky-Ossinsky, vice-chairman of the U. S. S. R. State Planning Commisssion. He will speak on the Second Five-Year Plan Dec. 1. Alfons Goldschmidt, lecturer on economics, formerly at the Univer- sity of Leipzig, Germany, the Uni- versity of Cordoba, Argentina, and the National University of Mexico, ' opened the conference with a sem- inar on concepts and types of eco- nomic planning in the fascist, Com- munist and parliamentarian state. Other speakers at the -first. ses- sion, at which Miss M. L. Fledderus, Director of the I. R. I., The Hague, presided as chairman, were Miss van Kleek, Director of Industrial Studies at the Russell Sage Foun- dation and Associate Director I. R. I, and Leifur Magnusson, represen- tative of the International Labor Organization in the United States, who will read a paper on economic planning and labor legislation, pre- pared by Harold B. Butler, Director of the International Labor Or- ganization, Geneva. Pointing out that the limitations and contradictions of capitalism make impossible full use of the work of the technician, Browder challenged the technicians to co- (Continued on Page 2) Racine CP. Headquarters Is Smashed Up (Special to the Daily Worker) RACINE, Wis., Nov. 26.—A band of so-called vigilantes raided the Communist Party headquarters in Racine Sunday. Doors, furniture and literature were destroyed. A portrait of Tom Mooney was singled out for special attack and forn to shreds. The attackers wer; gang- sters inspired by manufacturers and higher city and county officials in an attempt to stop relief strug- gles. Reliable information is that the vigilantes worked with the police. Some reactionary A. F. of L. officials without knowledge of their rank and file participated in the raids, honing to terrorize work- ers and head off the wide growing movement for united action among unemployed headed by the W. E. R. A. Workers and Unemployed Workers Committee of Action. The Committee of Action was the leader of militant mass dem- onstrations last week at the relief station which was protected by armed gangsters who beat up the workers, men, women and children asking for relief. Four workers were arrested Saturday, while the vigilante sluggers go free. The police are making no effort to investigate the raids. More raids are threatened. A national protest to Mayor Swobod. former Socialist, and tothe Chicf of Police of Racine was wrecd by the Communist Party of Racine fie VES | Resolutions Demand Release of Mooney and Thaelmann Resolutons for the amalgamation jot the American Federation of Silk Workers and the Federation of Silk |and Rayon Dyers, for the release |of Tom Mooney, Billings and other class war prisoners; against Fas- cism and for the release of Ernst Thaelmann; for the organization of the youth in the industry and for the organizing of Pennsylvania were among the resolutions intro- |duced by the rank and file dele- | gates and passed at the conven- tion of the silk workers which con- cludede its sessions here yesterday. At. earlier of the Workers Unemployment and Social Insurance Bill, a uniform Wage scale in all silk centers and | motions that conventions be held annually, and no assessments be levied unless approved by a referen- dum vote, were other rank and file proposals passed. Although the actual number of delegates definitely pledged to a militant .program numbered not more than 15 out of the 114 voting delegates, their constructive fight won an increasing number of sup- porters as the convention neared its end. In the election of mem- bers of the.Executive Board, J. Mil- lotti, of the New York™tocal, a fighter for the line of the rank and file group, was elected. Sam Sheber, one of the most active mil- itant workers of Paterson received 39 votes although defeated in the | election of representatives from New Jersey on the Board. | The achievements of the mili- tants were made despite the most desperate attempts of the Schweitz- er-Woods reactionary machine to \stifle every progressive move. The , bulk of the delegates at the con- ;Vention came from tiny and in /some cases virtually non-existent locals, and these were the main Support to the officials. The dele- ‘gates following a militant policy jeame chiefly from Paterson, Penn- |sylvania and Connecticut. The lo- |cals which sent them represent the bulk of the membership of the Fed- eration. The Paterson plain goods departmein which sent nine mili- tants of its ten delegates has 7,000 of the 18,000 members claimed by |the officials for the entire Federa- tion. The thousands of silk workers who went out on strike under the leadership of the U. T. W. have not yet been organized into the un- ion local, or paid dues. But in their determination to keep the mili- tants off the Executive Board the machine delegates were organized to prevent a representative of the Paterson weavers from getting on. All their efforts, however, in- cluding a special nominating speech by a teactionary leader, could not elect the defeated and totally dis- credited Eli Keller, Lovestoneite, and manager of the Paterson un- jion. He was at the bottom of the list, with 28 votes. Another Love- ‘stoneite from the New York local, B, Herman came out the lowest in the vote with 15. The Love- , Stonéites throughout the conven- tion tried in every way to help the official machine in the hope that (Continued on Page 2) — HEARST CALLS FOR FASCIST MURDER BANDS IN U.S. AN EDITORIAL ANY more evidence is required to arouse the sessions endorsement | Convention of Silk Workers Backs Move For Amalgamation oe Eales OF $100,000 Dickstein Committee Shields Rich Organizers of Plot NEW YORK.—The mounting evi- dence of fascist plots financed by Wall Street banks was augmented yesterday by the latest revelation MacGuire, Wall Street agent act- ing as a go-between between the banks and the militarists. Despite testimony which they gathered, the Dickstein Congres- sional Committee has set itself against making any further inquir- jes into the ramifications of the fascist organizing that is increasing in the country and is financed by the leading Wall Street banks, and involves leading figures in the Roosevelt government. Clark Financed Studies It was brought out in direct testi- mony by MacGuire that Robert Sterling Clark, a Wall treet million- aire, had financed studies of the Nazi and fascist movements in Eu- rope in order to provide models for | this country. In a signed statement, the Con- gressional Committee confirmed the full authenticity of the Butler charges of fascist plottings, stating that “as the evidence stands, it calls for an explanation that the com- mittee has been unable to obtain from Mr. MacGuire.” Committee Shields Rich Men Despite all the evidence impli- cating the highest figures in the capitalist world in the banks and the government, the committee bluntly refused to call any of these men to the witness stand, thus shielding the very people charged with organizing the plots. The men whom the committee will not call and whose names are implicated are John W. Davis, Mor- gan lawyer and political associate of Roosevelt; Thomas Lamont, Mor- gan partner; General Hugh John- son and General Harbord. It was shown that MacGuire was receiving large sums of money from various Wall Street groups for the purpose of keeping the American fascists informed on the organiza- tion of fascist troops in Europe and for the purpose of copying these formations in this country. Particular study was given by MacGuire to the French veterans’ fascist groups and to the Nazi storm troops, the evidence showed. Klamath Falls and Yakima sec- tions of Washington went over the top in the $60,009 drive, the former with 150 per cent. But Belling- ham, Portland, Olympia, Everett and Centralia have not yet sent a penny for the Daily Worker. It is up to the Seattle district to push these sections into activity! realized when M’C GUIRE HAD FASCIST FUND that at least $100,000 had passed | through the hands of Gerald C.| A committee empowered to make a new offer for joint action against war and fascism has been elected by the Central Committee of the Communist Party to appear at the meeting of the National Executive Committee of the Socialist Party, which will be held at Boston from Nov. 30 to Dec. 1. The committee consists of Clar- ence Hathaway, James W. Ford, and Ned Sparks. They will be in Boston ready to lay before the So- cialist Party meeting proposals for }a discussion and action on the | united front. At the same time, it was def- initely revealed today in a letter sent out to a select group of So- cialist Party delegates, a group led by James Oneal, Algernon Lee, and Julius Gerber are organ- | izing a private pre-committee caucus to open an organized fight against the united front and to PICKETS KEEP DYE PLANTS | PATERSON, N. J., Nov. 26.—This | |morning was set by the Dyers In- stitute, as the deadline for the| |“opening” of the dye plants. The jauthorities were asked to have its police in readiness and to full cap- jacity, the veterans organizations jwere asked to supply protectors for; |the scabs. However, this morning saw an un- | usually large turnout of pickets who las early as five o’clock were already lin large groups around bonfires at the factories—hut to see that not a {single scab gets in, Not one worker |returned. Both the American Le- gion and the Veterans of Foreign |Wars posts, consisting chiefly of workers, repudiated the role of strikebreakers which the manufac- | turers sought to give them. The move to starve the workers back to the shops was likewise scotched by a campaign of protests, and National Relief Director Harry Hopkins was forced to issue a state- ment that no one will be taken off relief. Meanwhile the relief cam- paign. by the strikers is broadening out, and is reaching into the mass of workers in the unions. Yesterday a delegation of the strikers came before the American Federation of Silk Workers convention and ap- pealed for support. They were en- thusiastically greeted by all the \delegates, and a decision was made jthat all locals should take immediate steps to give fitNuncial aid to the strikers. In the silk weavers situation the latest development is the announce- ment that Thomas MacMahon, President of the United Textile Workers of America, is expected to take part in the negotiations now FROM OPENING. C.P. GROUP TO CALL ON SOCIALIST N.E.C. present a unified front against whatever actions the National Executive Committee may take toward joint action with the Communist Party. “Old Guard” Special Caucus The private letter, signed by the above-mentioned Socialist Party leaders, sounds a call for a caucus before and after the National Ex- ecutive Committee meeting, stating: “Considering the grave situation in the Socialist Party, a group of com- rades in New York City have de- cided to call a conference of rep- resentatives of a number of states in this city on Nov. 29, before the National Executive Committee meets in Boston the following day. “Considering that our opponents are thoroughly organized, this in- terstate conference is necessary. “As we are all interested in the (Continued on Page 2) FARM LEADER BRIDGETON, N. J., Nov. 26.— Rather than release William H. O'Donnell, who is in the thir- teenth day of a hunger strike against his imprisonment for ac- tivity in a farm strike, State authorities will resort to forcible feeding. O'Donnell is in a cri- tical condition as a result of his fast. . Governor Moore, refused to use his authority to effect O’Donnell’s release on the request of Jean- nette O'Donnell, the farm leader's wife. BRIDGETON, N. J., Nov. 26.— Slowly dying as a result of his 13- day hunger strike, William O’-Don- nell declared yesterday in the hos- pital of the Cumberland County Jail that “Hundreds of my brothers will avenge me if I die.” O’Donnell has refused to accept either food or liquids in protest against the six- month sentence imposed on him for activity in the Seabrook farm strike earlier this year. Dr. H. Garrett Miller, county physician said that O'Donnell could not survive much longer unless he begins to take liquids. “O'Donnell is starving to death by inches,” Dr. Miller said. “You can tell this is affecting his vitality merely by looking at him. His body is being burned up internally. This fast is drying up all his tissues. Toxins will form and he will die.” New Jersey workers, roused by O'Donnell’s steadfast militant fight for freedom are circulating peti- tions demanding his immediate re- lease and are arranging mass meet- ings in Vineland, Millville, and ‘on with the manufacturers. one remembers that the Hearst Glassboro, IS the capitalist system whose insanity and IN 13TH DAY CONNECTICUT ‘DAILY’ DRIVE OVER THE TOP Colorado Competes With | Jersey for Fourth Place in Campaign |. Connecticut has gone over the top! Speeding to finish its quota be- fore Dec. 1, the. Hartford section raised $68.50 at a banquet, Sunday night, giving Connecticut the 7 per jeent it meeded to reach its $750 | mark. | James Casey, managing editor of | the Daily Worker, spoke and Prof. H. W. L. Dana made the appeal for the paper. Connecticut is the third district to complete its quota, beating out Denver, which has been near the finish for the last two weeks, but is still at 92 per cent. Colorado must now battle the New Jersey district for fourth place, the latter being close at Den- ver’s heels with 87 per cent. The Daily Worker also received the following telegrams from Seattle | “With District Buro calling for |action, plenum just concluded rec- | ognized failure of District in rais- ing Daily Worker quota. Sections | broyght two hundred dollars. De'e- |gates pledged balance of quota by jend of drive.” | Seattle is one of the districts which was trailing behind. Cal- jifornia, with a quota of $2,000, is | another, having completed only: 38 per cent. With 16 districts sending con- tributions yesterday, only $611 wi received. Three of the largest dis- tricts in the country outside New York—Chicago, Pittsburgh, Detroit —sent only $61 altogether. Cleve- land sent nothing. With but a few days left to Dec. 1, the seriousness of such a situa- tion is inescapable. The districts, particularly the major ones, must realize the necessity of completing their quotas before this week is up. The Daily Worker depends upon every district going across the finish line! Philadelphia Jobless ToDemand More Relief At Rally on Friday PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Nov. 26.— Daily mass actions and wide dis- tribution of leaflets are mobilizing the neighborhood unemployed for a mass demonstration at the Amber and Wishart Street relief station on Friday morning at 10 o'clock. The demands set forth by the workers and at the neighborhood rallies held by the unemployment Councils call for an immediate 40 per cent increase in relief, winter clothing, and full payment of gas and electricity bills by the welfare department. working class. [He Is Hailed by 7,000 | Workers at R.R. Station in Toronto (Special to the Daily Worker) TORONTO, Ont., Noy. 26.—The| | working class of Canada won an important victory on Saturday |when Tim Buck, secretary of the Communist Party of Canada, was released from Kingston Penitentiary as a result of three years of un- |relenting mass pressure on the gov- ernment. | Buck is the last of eight Commu- | nist Party leaders to be released from five-year prison terms for activity in the Communist Party under the infamous “Section 98” of the pena! code, which is a more ex- treme version than the State crim- inal syndicalism laws used against | working class organizations in the | United States. Despite the efforts of authorities to shroud Buck's release in secrecy, 7,000 workers gathered at the rail- road station here within 2 period of two hours to await his arrival from Kingston. The authorities were powerless to prevent a demonstration and Buck addressed a huge gathering in a downtown street. The victory is made the more impression. by the fact that a demand for Buck’s re- lease was refused by the Ministry of Justice only two weeks ago ubilant messages hailing Buck {release are pouring in irom ail parts of the continent. Buck, addressing the enthusiastic mass which greeted him here, said: “I was a Communist when I went into Kingston and I am a better one now that I am released from Kingston.” The determination of the Cana- dian government to keep Buck in prison, broken only by the mass militance of the Dominion’s work- ers, wes indicated in the statement of Prime Minister Bennett some time ago that Buck and his com- rades “would serve every last five minutes of their sentences as long as I am head of the government.” Austrian Troops Move To Yugoslav Borders VIENNA, Nov. 26.—Great tensity is being stored up on the Autro- Yugoslav border by Austrian troop concentrations. Battalions from Vienna, Linz, and Burgenland have been continually on the march to- ward the border. Meanwhile the Yugoslav officials have cancelled all military leaves from northern garrisons, according to a Vienna | dispatch. Army of Reich Grows; | Brown Shirt Ranks Thin | BERLIN, Nov. 26—The growth of the “regular” German army is being steadily augmented from the ranks cf the Storm Troops, which are rapidly being thinned out on one excuse or another. Those who | refuse to enter the army are im- | mediately dispatched to the forced | labor camps. It is the Party of and by the work- SOCIAL PLAN FOR U.S. ‘Canadian Masses Win OFFER W. UU. Release for Tim Buck WITH UNITY OFF ER) After 7 Year Struggle Na ATE | Old Guard of Socialist Party Calls Secret Caucus To Fight Unity Front, Letters to Picked Delegates Reveal Cite the Success of United Front Rally in Chicago FOR RALLY JAN. 7 Mass Relief Meeting Called in Detroit for Sunday The Unemployment Councils of Greater New York yesterday ad- dressed a letter to the Workers Unemployed Union through its chairman, David Lasser, appealing for united action for Winter relief, shoes and clothing, increased cash relief, for the Workers Unemploy- ment Insurance Bill, and against relief cuts, work relief lay-offs, and the LaGuardia sales tax plans for financing relief enditures. The letter pointed to the tremen- dous mobilization of workers in the unemployed march in Chicago last Saturdey, where a united front has been established, and urged immes diate steps be taken to build the united front in New York City. The letter proposed that a joint committee of representatives of the Unemployment Councils and the | Workers Unemployed Union meet at once and draw up a plan of action. For Jan. 7 Demonstration united front dem tion at City Hall cn Jz day on which the delegates to the Na‘ional Con- gress for Unemployment Insurance present their demands to the United States Congress. A joint commit- tee of both groups was proposed_in the letter to bring a full represen= tation of all New York Unemployed to the National Congress for Unem- ployment Insurance. The text of the letter follows: “Noy. 26, 1934 “Workers Unemployed Union “22 East 22nd Street, “New York City. “Fellow Workers: “LaGuardia threatens to stop re= lief in order to heJp the bankers put over taxes to be footed by the workers. No appropriations have been made to provide clothing and fuel. No proper clothing is provided for the workers who are forced to freeze on relief jobs. We must unite to defeat this attempt to further lower our living standards. “Last Saturday, Nov. 24, we proved to the world that we can unite, The complete harmony and soli- darity among the workers of all organizations in the demonstration has proven that those who claim 6,000 Gather At Ford Plant On Job Rumor By A. B. Magil (Special to the Daily Worker) DETROIT, Mich., Nov. 26.—More than 6,000 Negro and white work- ers, after waiting all night at the Ford Plant because of rumors that there would be large scale hiring were driven away by mounted | Police at eight o'clock this morn- ing and told that there were no jobs. Among those who waited fruit- iF I entire working class of this country to the grim menace of apprdéaching fascism it is the editorial which appeared yesterday in every Hearst paper in the country, on the first page. In this editorial, signed by William Randolph Hearst, and issued as instructions to every Hearst editor in the country, Hearst gives a flat endorse- ment to the necessity for creating just such fascist groups as envisaged in fascist plots revealed by the jingo General Smedley Butler. In words whose sinister threat cannot be mis- taken, Hearst writes as follows: “I do not think that there is any danger of fascism in the United States AS YET... there is no danger of fascism as long as there is no danger of Communism... . Fascism will only come into existence into the United States when such a move- ment becomes necessary for the prevention of Com- munism. . . . We do not want to have to resort to a fascist movement in order to prevent such misgovernment.” (Hearst’s emphasis). Here then is the full endorsement of fascism as the weapon with which to fight the revolutionary movement. of the working class against the yoke of capitalism and wage slavery. __ The enormity of this development oan be ’ press reaches more than 10,000,000 readers! Hearst lays the basis for the fascist attack on the labor movement as follows: “The proletariat is composed of citizens without property of any kind; and the reason they have no property is because they have the lowest intelli- gence, the least industry, the least thrift.” “The proletariat today is the body of citizens least able to manage their own affairs and conse- quently least able to manage the nations affairs.” It is in this way that Hearst, the multi-million- aire who has fattened on the sweat of millions of workers, heaps his contempt upon the millions of jobless, the millions of workers whose labor makes the wheels of industry turn, whose labor provides the Wall Street parasites with their plunder. On the same day, Hearst’s papers endorsed Hit- ler’s policy in the Saar Valley. Hearst has just returned from an interview with Hitler in Berlin. This has one meaning. This means that the fascist organizations in this country have now found an official press in the Hearst papers, that Hearst has endorsed fascism on an international and domestic scale, This means that the tremen- dous Hearst press machine is at the service of _ Hitler and Hitlerism both here and abroad, t destruction have made life miserable for the vast majority of the country’s toiling population that Hearst defends with his vile slanders against the working class and the labor movement. It is against the “propertyless” masses, those who are propertyless because they are plundered and ex- ploited by a handful of capitalist pirates, that Hearst warns in his call for fascism. And at the same time, this fascist calls upon the masses to fight Communism as the main cause of fascism, to defend the system which dooms them to poverty and misery! The root of fascism in this country is the ef- fort of the Wall Street monopolies to uphold and defend their profits by means of violence and bestiality against the working class, against its revolutionary vanguard the Communist Party. Indeed it is the Communist Party which leads the fight against fascism and capitalism! But this fight is in the interesis of the whole toiling population, the vast majority of the popu- lation against the miserable parasites who are at- tempting to climb out of their capitalist crisis on the hacks of the working class. The Communist Party is part and parcel, flesh and blood of the ing class. Hearst’s instructions to his editors, following on the heels of the fascist revelations of General But- Jer, reveal with what speed fascism is developing in this country. And they reveal from where the menace comes— from the leading government and financial figures bound up with the Roosevelt government. It is not only the Communist Party that faces the menace of American Storm Troops, American concentration camps, violence and torture. It is the whole labur movement, the trade unions, the Socialist Party, and every liberal movement tor civil rights and culture which faces this rising menace of fascist brutality and darkness. Sound the alarm! class of America, the millions whose children are hungry, the millions who feel the lash of capitalist exploitation in the shops, mines and factovies! The United Front of the working class must be {| welded at once. The fascist monster can be smashed by the unity of the working class! The working class cannot and will submit to the heel of Hearst's fascism! Build now the united front against fas- Rouse the great working | lessly for the promised jobs were workers in cars with license plates from as far South as Georgia, showing how widespread have been the rumors created as a result of | Henry Ford's much publicized in- terview that he would hire 32,000 additional workers for the coming production season. The men started gathering about nine o’clock last night in the Ford parking lot on Miller Road, one |block south of the Employment Of- fice. At eight o'clock this morning, about ten mounted cops arrived, 'anrounced that there were no jobs land drove everybody away without permitting them to go to the Em- ployment Office. Uremployed Ford workers are urged to come to the great mass |mecting in Arena Garde: Wood= jward Ave.. and Hendrie, this Sun- |day at 2:30 p.m. where the job- less werkers of Wayne County will protest against the ten to per cent slashes in relief they have been given during the past n