The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 28, 1934, Page 1

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NATIONAL EDITION NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1934 (Six Pages) Priee 3, Cents NEGRO KILLED IN HOME AT EVICTION Perkins Gives NRA Sanction to Company Union Plan LETTER ASKS UNITED FRONT OF NEW GROUP ScottshoroHerndon | Committee Warns Against Division STRESSES ACTION Reply Is Awaited from American-Scottsboro Committee A. proposal for a united front, based on an uncompromising fight for the lives and freedom of the Scottsboro boys, was made last Sat- urday by the National Scottsboro- Herndon Action Committee to the American Scottsboro Committee, which was recently set up around the claims of Samuel S. Leibowitz that he was empowered to repre- sent the boys. The proposal, signed by Samuel S. Patterson, secretary of the Action Committee, points out that the resultant situation “can only react to the detriment of _the boys, to the harm of the fight for the issues.involved in the .case, and of the cause of freedom for the Negro people.” Stressing the fight for the free- dom of the boys as the main issue in the case, the Action Committee declares its belief that “on this single issue there is room for all sincere and honest people to. stand together, irrespective of their po- litical or religious affiliation or sympathy.“ It declares that every division at this time plays into the hands of the lynchers, and proposes the holding of a conference during the present week of representatives of the two groups “to discuss how steps can be taken to present a solid front in the fight for the un- conditional freedom of the Scotts- boro boys.” Points Out LL.D. Achievements In its letter to the American Scottsboro Committee, the Action Committee, representing 242 organ- izations, with a total membership of some 190,000 persons, outlines the’ latest achievements of the In- ternational Labor Defense in secur- ing a stay of execution for Haywood Patterson and Clarence Norris, two of the boys whose execution was formerly set for Dec. 7, and the fil- ing with the U. S. Supreme Court of an application for a ewrit of certiorari and accompanying brief in the Norris case. It also an- swers the charges made by the Leibowitz group against the I. L. D. The letter follows in full: Copy of Letter “November 24, 1934. ‘American Scottsboro Committee, 289 Fourth Ave., New York City. “Gentlemen: “The three and one-half year fight for the lives and freedom of the Scottsboro Boys has again reached the crucial stage of appeal before the United States Supreme Court. The lives of these boys are once more in the palance before the country’s highest tribunal. “The International Labor Defense, through its attorney, Osmond K. Fraenkel, has secured a stay of ex- ecution for Haywood Patterson and Clarence Norris, the two condemned boys, irom the Alabama Supreme Court. Application for a writ of tertiovari and accompanying brief in the Norris case have been filed with the U. S. Supreme Court by the I. L. D. attorneys. Similar (Continued on Page 2) Nazis Padding Election Lists In the Saar GENEVA, Nov. 27. — Confirmed charges that the Nazi Deutsche Front is padding the voting lisis for the coming Saar plebiscite were made to the Council of the League of Nations by the united front com- mittee of the Communist and So- cialist Parties. The committee proved that “tens of thousands of wrong entries” had been exposed in the provisional lists for the plebiscite, citing as ex- ae ~, cases of double entries ‘imes of dead, insane and “iguelined voters. Foster Wires Buck Warmest Greetings On. Prison Release William Z. Foster, veteran leader of the American working- class and general secretary of the Trade Union Unity League, yes- terday wired greetings to Tim Buck, congratulating the secre- tary of the Canadian Communist Party on his release after three years of vigorous struggle by the workers of Canada against Buck’s imprisonment for his working- class activities. Foster's telegram follows: “Warmest revolutionary greet- ings on your release stop all American workers who followed your heroic fight against Cana- dian capitalism will be joyous to || learn of your freedom won after three years of mass struggles by Canadian workers stop your courageous spirit will inspire Canadian workers to more ener- getic fight for workers’ eman- cipation.” VAN KLEEK GIVES REPORT ON PLANNING | Asks Complete Change in U. S. Economie and Political Life A complete change must come about in American ecoonomic and political life which will bring work- ers’ conirol of production if a pro- gressively rising standard of living and culture is to be achieved through social-insurance planning, Mary van Kleek, associate director of the International Industria] Re- lations Institute, declared on Mon- day at a regional conference on social economic planning, held un- der the auspices of the I. R. I. at the Russell Sage Foundation. Miss van Kleek read @ paper on the objectives, resources and pre- requisites of social economic plan- ning in the United States. Her paper was based on materials made available by a group of technicians and ecnomists who had been meet- ing with the I.R_I.’s research group. She pointed out two basic facts. The first was that “the United States has resources, in raw ma- terials, in technological equipment and in knowledge and in skill, to achieve a progressively rising standard of living for all its people.” The second was that this economic development was retarded by the present social order as is made evident by economic crisis and the poverty which is the permanent lot of the masses of working people. A group of specialists from va- rious technical fields, education, economics and public health under the direction of the LR.I. has been analyzing the problems involved in raising the standards of living in relation to the full utilization and further development of present productive capacity. Miss van Kleek’s paper was based on the findings of the technical sub-sec- tions of this group of specialists. Her paper was not a static blue- print, but an outline of the dynamic processes involved in social plan- ning. At all times the paper stressed that social economic plan- ning could only be carried out under workers’ control. Hence it pointed out that not only tech- nicians were involved in the work of planning, but to their work must be added “the constant criticism and counterplanning by workers in agriculture, mines and industries of every type, and by household work- ers who are expert in the require- ments for a proper standard of living.” Such assumptions it was stressed (Continued on Page 2) Boston C. P. to Hear Hathaway and Ford On the United Front BOSTON, Nov. 27.—The Boston District of the Communist Party has called a meeting for Saturday evening at 8 o’clock at Tremont Hall to discuss a united front pro- gram with the Socialist Party. Speakers at this meeting will be Clarence E. Hathaway, editor of the Daily Worker, and James W. Ford, member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party. AID T0 BOSSES Detroit Is Challenged By Cleveland in Drive For Daily Worker Fund BY AFL HAILED BY WHEELER Senator Warns Ship Owners Asking for Injunction TELLS OF UNREST Cites West Coast Strike in Praising Conser- vative Unions By George Morris NEW YORK. — Advice to the ship owners that their efforts to destroy the conservative A. F. of L. unions is sowing the seeds of their own destruction, was the central point in the speech of Senator Bur- ton K. Wheeler, of Montana, in his argument in Kings County Supreme | Court yesterday against the injunc- | tion sought by the ship owners to prevent united action between the longshoremen and teamsters. The application for the injunc- tion now being heard before Su- preme Court Justice Humphries has been made by leading ship owners, the Board of Trade, the Manufac- turers Association and __ several Chambers of Commerce in the port of New York. They claim that the combination of locals of the In- ternational Longshoremen'’s Associ- ; ation and those of the International ‘Teamsters Union into the Trans- portation Councils, is a “conspiracy,” and demand that the longshoremen be forced to handle goods trucked by non-union teamsters. Wheeler Boosts “Progressives” The basis of their quest for an injunction is the Sherman Anti- Trust law and the various acts against conspiracies. Final hear- ings on the injunction have been postponed for more than two months. In the meantime, Senator Wheeler, who in 1924 was running- mate to LaFollette in the Presiden- tial campaign, has been brought into the case. His main object, it is stated, is to interpret the mean- ing. of the Norris-LaGuardia Anti- Injunction Bill, of which he was one of the sponsors. In a speech taking up the entire morning session yesterday, he read extensively from legislative records to show that the bill passed sought to restrain courts from exercising power to issue injunctions in labor disputes. At intervals he injected very emphatic remarks about “greatest statesmen of the coun- try,” Senators Norris, LaFollette, Walsh and Blaine of Wisconsin, who are prominent figures in the present move for a third party of capital- ism. “A F. of L, Ulira-Conservative.” In a dramatic manner designed to drive the point home to the ship owners’ representatives sitting across the table from him, Senator Wheeler said: “The A. F. of L. today is looked upon as ultra-conservative. Certain people are seeking to destroy the A. (Continued on Page 6) “Will Strain Every N | Daily Worker. | in the $60,000 Drive, John William- son, Cleveland District Organizer, | sent the above telegram to the Daily Worker yesterday. “Language Buro secretaries, after sonally work to fulfill their quotas on time,” his wire continued. With four sections—East Ohio and Sections 1, 3 and 17 in Cleve- land proper—already over the top, Youngstown, Toledo, Akron, Day- ton, Columbus and Erie are among the sections that are holding back the district's realization of its quo- | ta. Section 14 and 16 in Cleveland are still below the half-way mark NEW CRISIS BREAKS LOOSE AMONG NAZIS State of Emergen cy Declared Throughout Reich Area BERLIN, Nov. 27—An extremely acute situation has arisen among the armed forces of Hitler's regime with the declaration this afternoon of a virtual state of emergency, it was learned through reliable sources today. All Christmas leaves for members of the Reichswehr and the military police have been cancelled | Troops is being intensified. Immediately caused by the long- smouldering conflict among the various divisions of the army, these measures are at the bottom the con- sequence of a long series of tremen- dous blows hammered against the fascist dictatorship, the recent church conflict, the desperate strug- gles of the peasantry, and the crumbling of the fascist “Labor Front” having chiefly influenced the development toward the present situation. Bitter Struggle Seen Fighting to uphold its dominant military position, the Reichswehr, or the “regular” army, is engaged in a bitter struggle with the Schutz Staffel, Hitler’s Special Guards. Also, discontent has been spreading with increasing swiftness through- out the Storm Troops, which at one time, when the fascist administra- tion still exercised some influence (Continued on Page 2) Says Telegram from Ohio “Cleveland realizes serious financial condition of the | Making final revolutionary appeal to sec- tions to fill quotas by Dec. 1. beat Detroit in Socialist competition.” With Cleveland approximately 20 per cent behind Detroit | thorough discussion, will each per- | and drilling among the Nazi Storm) } erve to fe 0 Beat Detroit,” | Will strain every nerve to| and Section re has reached only | 57 per cent. The I.W.O. is trailing badly. | | still has not gained one-quarter of | its $600 quota, the largest quota in| | the district. Other language or- | ganizations which must be imme- | diately rallied are the Jewish, Fin- | nish, Hungarian and South Slav. The Daily Worker calls upon} those Party and mass organizations in Cleveland that are behind in | their work to at once take the most drastic measures to help the | district complete its quota before another week arrives. DYE BOSSES PLAN TERROR TO END STRIKE for Aid in Breaking Dyers’ Ranks PATERSON, N. J., Nov. 27.—The Paterson Chamber of Commerce today addressed a letter to William Green of the American Federation of Labor, and Donald Richberg, N. R. A. head, demanding that the Paterson dye strike be ended and the shops reopened. The letter declared that the mills will reopen under armed protection. The dye strike is one hundred per cent solid with all shops closed the strikers to accept an unsatis- factory agreement through “ar- bitration,” are now attempting to terrorize the strikers back to work. Threats to move are being made by the Textile Company. and other dye companies. The threat to open with police protecting scabs is be- ing made. The “Labor Board” of the Dyers Institute announced it is considering going to the courts for an injunction against the strik- ers. The silk and rayon dye code authority (employers) bas declavsd it will withdraw its offer for the thirty-six hour week, made pre- viously, Although Harry Hopkins, Federal relief administrator, again an- nounced from Washington that strikers are to get relief without discrimination, the strikers declare (Continued on Page 2) | Turn to Richberg, Green| and the employers, unable to force | DISCLAIMS MAJORITY RULE IN 7-A MakesAnnouncement As Manufacturers Get Ready for Parley PRAISES AUTO DEAL. | Covers Up Role of U.S. in Heading Off Motors Strike (Daily Worker Washington Bureau) | | Tae | By Seymour Waldman | WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 27.—| Secretary of Labor Frances reste today sent an encouraging company- | union go-ahead signal to the Na- | tional Association of Manufacturers, | | whose leaders are working upon the | precise permanent anti-labor form they wish the National Industrial | Recovery Act to take upon its ex- | piration on June 16 of next year. The manufacturers’ group, one of the chief sponsors of the N. I. R. A. ~ | and of the present big business | Roosevelt administration wage- cutting drive, will hold a contbined convention and congress of industry in New York City on Dec. 5 and 6. “Statute TA of the N, R. A. says collective bargaining and nothing | about majority rule,” Miss Perkins | told her press conf2rence today. She volunteered what is obviously the Roosevelt Administration opin- | ion, in reply to reporters’ ques- tions about her reaction to “com- mon rumors that the Secretary of Labor favors proportional and not majority voting.” Proportional vot- ing is the term for the company union plan the president and the automobile manufacturers used to abort last year’s budding auto strike. “Interprets” Houde Decision Though the Secretary remarked, “I don’t hear the common rumors | around town,” she paid them suf- ficient attention to reiterate the ad- | ministration-big business opinion | that the National Labor Relations | Board majority decision on the| Houde case doesn’t mean what it Says. It will be remembered that the “special committee on future rela- tions of government to industry” of | the Manufacturers’ Association, which meets Dec. 5 and 6, has ai- ready recommended anti-strike in- junction clauses and the extension of the “labor provisions” of the N. R. A., to be administered by the anti-strike Department of Labor, as part of the new legislation expected to be pussed by the next Congress In short, the manufacturers and bankers are getting up steam to take over openly what they con- sider vital to their program for the fasciszation of American industry. Their use of the Labor Department, from all indications, is motivated by the necessity to screen the ulti- mate objective with demagogy. Disclaims U. S. Role in Auto Asked whether she had anything to say about the announced plan of the manufacturers to take over (Continued on Page 2) Trachtenberg Greeted on 50th Birthday Head of fihtbrautionell| Trachtenberg Will B Be Honored at Banquet Publishers 25 Years a Revolutionary By A. A. Heller In his foreword to Lenin’s “What Is To Be Done?” (International Publishers, 1929), Alexander Trach- tenberg says that this book “still retains its freshness because of the revolutionary enthusiasm which permeates its pages. .. .” These words can be applied to Trachten- berg himself, who, today, at the age of 50, still retains his freshness be- cause of the revolutionary enthusi- asm with which he is permeated. Trachtenberg was born, so to speak, a revolutionist. He was a worker in the revolutionary move- ment in Russia before 1905; as soon as he came to the United States in 1906, he became part of the revolu- tionary movement in America, and every day since then has been ac- tive in the movement. always a Saturday Night by C. P. Central Committee will be held Saturday evening at 50 East 13th Street. in the movement. Trachtenberg Avenue, on Sunday evening at 8 o' A. Markoff. fighter in the front ranks. For Trachtenberg never had any inter- ests outside the labor movement, never recognized any allegiance but to the working class. His life re- flects the varied phases of the struggles of the advanced section of the American workers for more A banquet to acknowledge “the long service and contzibutions” of Alexander Trachtenberg on the occasion of his fiftieth birthday 7 o'clock: in the Workers’ Center Trachtenberg, long a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party, is entering upon his thirty-first year of activity “Theory and the Class Struggle” under the joint sponsorship of the Central Committee of the Communist Party and the District Com- mittee of New York in the New Star Casino, 107th Street and Park ‘cleck. Other speakers will be Alex Bittelman, Clarence Hathaway, Jack Stachel, Charles Krumbein and will take part in a disctission than a quarter of a century. Like many of the older members of the Communist Party, Trachten- | berg grew into it from the Socialist movement. I recall well the sum- mer of 1917, when out on a farm in New Jersey we followed with the keenest interest. the movements of Brought Works of Marx, Lenin, Stalin, to U. S. Workers Rees Bolsheviks in Russia and with what joy we greeted the October Revolution. Trachtenberg was then Director of the Labor Research De- partment of the Rand School and editor of the American Labor Year Book. He was on the side of the Bolsheviks from the first day and opposed to the majority in the So- cialist Party, Then in 1922 Trach- tenberg went to the Soviet Union; upon his return he made an exten- sive tour of the country, speaking in scores of cities and popularizing the achievements of the October Revolution. Revolutionary Publishing Early in 1924 the question arose: what work in the American labor movement is most urgent? To some of us it seemed th>5 education of (Continued on Page 2) Jobless Will Mass In Detroit Sunday To Fight Relief Cuts DETROIT, Noy. 27. — Jobless workers and organizations of the unemployed were called on today to mass at the Arena Gardens, Woodward Avenue and Hendrie Street on Sunday, 2 p.m., for a county-wide protest demonstra- tion against new, drastic reduc- tions in relief by the local relief administration, The mass meeting is being ar- ranged under the auspices of the Detroit’ Conference for Unem- ployment Relief and Insurance, an organization representing 38 trade unions, ten locals of unem- ployed organizations, and 46 fraternal and other organiza- tions. MASS FIGHT FOR RELIEF IN DETROIT , Conference fees Call for Big Protest On Sunday at 2 p.m. DETROIT, Nov. 27.—Pointing to |the slashes in relief of 10 to 30 per cent, and the impending repeti- tion of these cuts, the Detroit Con- \ference on Unemployment and Re- jlief has issued a call to all of De- | troit labor for a county-wide mass protest meeting on Sunday. The meeting will be the first step in consolidating the forces of labor here for a fight against relief re-| ductions on a county-wide scale. The meeting will be followed on} Dec, 9 by a conference at the Dan-| |ish Brotherhood Temple, 1775 West | Forest Avenue. The call for the mass meeting on Sunday points out that the sharp relief cuts have been met by the jresistance of the unemployed and that the successes with which this resistance met in’ some cases can become the rule with proper, county-wide organization. The call, in full, follow: Protest the relief cuts! Stop the ‘attacks on the unemployed! We |want sufficient food, clothing and jeoal for every man, woman and child this winter! To all Labor: employed—men and women—Negro | and white: Workers on Relief Projects and (Continued on Page 2) ‘Readers Aid Guild Strike In Newark NEWARK, N. J., Nov. 27.— The Newark Ledger, whose editorial em- ployes are on strike against firing and for decent treatment, is losing circulation daily. This morning, it was reported, the Ledger printed! 100,000 copies, and gave most of them away. The streets were lit- tered in some sections with papers | thrown away by sympathetic work-| ers. The usual circulation of the Ledger is 48,000. Now far less than that. number are being sold. Lucius T. Russell, publisher, broke off negotiations abruptly with the Newspaper Guild’s negotiating com- mittee on Monday, and practically ejected the committee of the strik- ers from the office. The Newark Newspaper Guild is- sued 50,900 copics of its own news- paper, The Reporter, this morning, and is planning to issue a regular morning newspaper, Eximet Crozier, | strike chairman, announced. In the negotiations Russell at- tempted to impose conditions on the! strikers, which would give him sole power to hire and fire and place in his hands the power to smash the Guild. In an attempt to discredit the Guild, Paul Smith, managing editor, of the Ledger, spread a wild story) about having received death threats| over the telephone. He said ‘as a} result he had hired a personal body guard. This man, it is said, is Mike Steele. whose record is said to be more than shady. Picketine by Guild members con- tinues daily, Unemployed and | UNITY URGED IN SCOTTSBORO FIGHT PHILADELPHIA POLICE SHOOT IN COLD BLOOD eighbors Put Up Mass Resistance to Aid Jobless Workers WAS CUT OFF RELIEF Murder Climax of Wave of Dispossessions in Negro Section (Special to the Daily Worker) PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 27. liam Heaterly, 25-ye |ployed Negro, w: in his home today, |Samuel, severely beaten and then arrested by policemen secking to evict them from 1011 Callow Hill Street, in the Negro section of the city — Wil- -old unem- ot and killed and his brother, Police had come for time in a week to evict Heaterly and his wife, his brother and four children. Neighbors massed before the house, and put up a desperate struggle to prevent the eviction. Others,” on roofs, rained milk bottles and other missiles on the Police as they battered at the doors of the Heaterly house. Shot in Coid Blood the second Reserves were calied, who broke through the massed workers, smashed down the door, and cor- nered Heaterly in his house, where he was shot down in cold blood, His brother was battered almost to insensibility and arrested. The |house was ransacked, and all their belongings thrown into the street. Policeman Joseph Anderson, of the Tenth District Court, was later jarrested on a technical charge of manslaughter, pending an inyesti- gation designed to whitewash the Police murder. | Last Monday t broken into Heater smashed furniture. They said that ‘they would be back soon. They |came back today to murder him, | William Heaterly had been de- nied relief of any sort by the Wel- jfare Department, because his wife worked one or two days a week at jodd jobs. His brother, Samuel, {father of four children, had been Police had home and |living with the family since his own eviction. Wave of Evictions The dead man’s wife had re- |peatedly offered to pay a few dol- jlars a week from her meagre wages to stall off the impending eviction. The offer was refused by the land- lord who proceeded to carry out the eviction. The terror and eviction of Heat- erly is not an isolated incident here. A relentless wave of eviction has been unloosened upon the unem- ployed Negroes. The relief depart= ment, paying them the barest mini- mum of relief, maintaining a double standard of relief which blatantly discriminates against the Negroes, have been part and parcel of the entire wave of evictions. Hundreds of Negroes have the threat continually hanging over them. In some sections, the Unem=- ployment Councils are daily guard- jing the homes of Negroes to stop | the evictions. | Unemployment Councils Act Recently H. Bismarsx, an organ- izer of the Unemployment Coun- | cil, was arrested while speaking at |@ mass mecting in protest against ;@n eviction. The worker who was to have keen evicted, John Sutko, | Was arrested on the trumped-up charge “attempting to kill a | constab: x | A vast protest movement is be- jing Ied by the Unemployment {Councils to demand the immediate repeal of all eviction laws and the passage of a city ordinance des | manding en end to all evictions, | With this as their’ central de- mand, a committee’ from the Un- employment Councils: will visit the City Council when it meets Thurs- | day at 2 ue m. | The nemployment Councils, jwho are in “constant touch with the eo of the murdered man, have arranged for a mass funeral march of all workers behind his cortege. — |. A mass protest meting will be |held Monday night at 9 o'clock, 1460 Cherry’ st. a _ gabe er arenes