The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 29, 1934, Page 1

~ en aa UTILIZE THANKSGIVING AFFAIRS TO RAISE FUNDS FOR DAILY WORKER Yesterday’s receipts Total to date . Press Run Yes eee $291.77 $42,955.75 terday—42,300 { Vol. XI, No. 285 >** Mew York, N. Y., under the Bntered as second-class matter at the Post Office at Daily .Q Worker CENTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUMIST INTERNATIONAL ) Act of March 8, 1678. NEW YORK, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1934. NATIONAL EDIT ION (Six Pages) Priee 3 Cents SALES TAX LOOMS IN MANY CITIES | U.S. DELETIONS IN RECORD UNCOVERED State Department Acts to Protect Driggs _ Munition Firm 1 By Seymour Waldman (Daily Worker Washington Bureau) WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 28.— Not satisfied with having postponed the resumption of the Senate Muni- tions Committee investigation of the sensational world-wide activi- SUPPRESSES ARMS INQUIRY DATA Fascist Consulates Urge Bar Against Film on Thaelmann CLEVELAND, O., Noy. 27. The Ohio Attorney-General’s of- fice and the State Board of Cen- sors here are cooperating with the German and Italian consul- ates in an effort to suppress the motion picture newsreel biog- raphy of Ernst Thaelmann’s life which has been exhibited throughout the country under the title of “Ernst Thaelmann, Fighter Against Fascism.” Representatives of both State bodies, at the instigation of the two fascist consuls, visited the theater here where the film was to be shown and ordered the showing to be cancelled on the || ground that the film had not been submitted to censorship. | | | | | (LL.D. ‘THREAT’ TALE DENIED BY WARDEN |Wire Showing Paper Lier Is Suppressed By Leibowitz | Further evidence of the plotting | of Samuel Leibowitz to damage the | defense of the Scottsboro boys by | attacks upon the International La- |bor Defense and attempts to wrest | the defense from the International | jLabor Defense, is contained in aj |copy of a wire sent to Leibowitz by | He Robs the Poor to Pay the Rich! —~ LAGUARDIA- FOR OTH Pass Resolution Urgi | Throughout th | "By Si € A sales tax in New York ilar levies in other cities, it was BANKER POLICY SETS PACE ER TOWNS New York Conference of Mayors Expected to ng Sales Tax Levies e Entire State rerson City will be followed by sime indicated yesterday by Mayor ties of American munitions com-|| Anti-Fascist organizations here | LaGuardia at City Hall. “Yonkers will have 4 sales tax bee |Warden George P. Walls of Kilby | panies until after the recent elec- | tions, the Roosevelt Administration | went to bat again for the munition companies by doctoring the offi- cially printed record of the first | have called for a wide campaign of protest to the Board of Cen- sors and the Attorney-General’s office to compel the release of the film. iD senatorial cross-examination quota- tions illustrating the tie-up between Request by State Department to increase the profits of monopoly Stephen Raushenbush, secretary | capitalists in the heavy pond nis round of hearings. | An examination of Part 2 of the | record, now available to newspaper correspondents, today revealed that four important Latin-American | military exhibits and nearly a dozen IS M 0 0 p 0 LY the Driggs Ordinance & Engineer- , ing Company, the United States | Navy Department, and the Colom- | bian government, were stricken | from the record on orders from | Senator Geralé P. Nye, of North | Dakota, cheirman of the commit- ATLANTA, Ga. Nov. 28—The tee. drive of the Roosevelt government and chief investigator of the com- | r 9 mittee, told your correspondent to- ah _. cover of a house day that “at the request of the | Program” was made clear tonight State Department the exhibits deal- |in a speech delivered by James A.) ing with the Driggs Ordanance & |Moffet, Federal Housing ‘Admin: | Company were de- Engineering istrator, before the Capital City leted.” \ctup The official notice in the record, | : “Exhibit No, —— hhas been stricken | softer Geclared, “is to’ create, busi from the record upon instructiols | ness for the building and heavy |from the chairman of the commit- | goods industries.” tee,” appears four times in the |" Taken together with the recent ge hearings—on Pages 476, 477 | emarks of Secretary Ickes on the ane . ai The notices referring to the de- Saugeseal fp building” ee ris bees quotations are worded simi- |union wage rates prevailing in the larly. | building trades, Moffet’s statement Asked Colombia to Act lis an eroeerait also of the wage It is understood that the Driggs \cutting drive now being organized outfit got the Colombian govern-/in building trades behind the ‘sterdam News demanding retrac- | jthe rights of the Negro people, ment to get the exhibits suppressed by having the Colombian Consul General object to their publication, on the ground that publication would reveal secrets of military de- fense. These hearings, which have repeated other investigations in showing the working arrange- ments of ammunition and arma- ment concerns with officers and various departments of the United States government and innumerable Latin-American officials, are to re- open on Tuesday, Dec. 4, and to last through Dec. 21, Senator Nye an- nounced today. The witnesses requested to ap- pear include representatives of E. I. DuPont de Nemours, the kingpin of the munition makers and key con- cern in the War Department's in- dustrial mobilization plans; officers of the Colt Patent Firearms Com- pany, the Win¢hester Arms Com- pany and the Remington Arms Company. Heads of the DuPont outfit, which plays a leading role in war preparations at great profit, have already been heard. The other concerns, which do a large business in munitions for killing South American workers and peasants, will take the stand for the whom he described as an up and (Continued on Page 2) Seven Anti-Fascists Are Freed in Boston; Eleven Others Convicted BOSTON, Noy. 28.—A jury today found eleven of the Karlsruhe dem- onstrators guilty, and three not guilty. Sentences will be imposed Monday by Judge Hobson, The In- ternational Labor Defense today is- sued an appeal for telegrams to the judge, demanding that he free the eleven. (Special to the Daily Worker) BOSTON, Mass., Nov. 28— The seven young workers and students who were jailed for participation in the demonstrations against “Putzy” Hanfstaengl, Hitler emissary, when he appeared at Harvard University, were freed today by the Governor's Council. This victory is the result of a mass campaign waged continually throughout the 36 days imprison- ment of the seven, who had origin- ally been sentenced to six months imprisonment by Judge James. Their pardon application had been endorsed by great numbers of out- giccding liberals, educators and _ professional workers, | Roosevelt housing program. | Moffet went further and showed {that the Roosevelt housing program includes a system of direct subsidies to the building industry through a Plan for Federal guarantee of all bank loans made to purchasers of building materials through the so- jealled “character loans” “The Federal Government is now | | saying,” Moffet stated, “that it is| |ready to insure any lending insti- | |tution against loss from character |loans for modernization.” Under this combined system. the ; heavy industry monopolies will be provided with new profits through wage cuts in the building trades, and the banks will profit through gofernment insured loans. Whatever modernization will re- | sult will only increase the debt burdens of the small homeowner, while the wage levels of the build- ing trades workers will be reduced. Despite all the ballyhoo of the Roosevelt housing program, only $10,000,000 has actually been dis- bursed for home building. Hathaway and Ford Will Report in Boston On United Front Effort Boston, Nov. 28.—How the united front against war and fascism be- tween Socialist and Communist workers can be achieved in the United States will be the subject of speeches by Clarence A. Hatha- way, editor of the Daily Worker, and James W. Ford, member of the Central Committee of the Com- munist Party at a mass meeting here on Saturday. The meeting will be held in the Tremont Temple, 82 Tremont Street, near School Street. Socialist leaders have also been invited to the meeting to explain their view on the united front question. Ford and Hathaway will be in the delegation of the Central Committee of the Communist Party to call on the meeting of the Socialist Party National Executive Committee which will meet in Boston on Friday and Saturday, to make a formal propose! for the establishment of a united front. The addresses of the two will include a report of their call on the Socialist body. | LETTUCE PICKERS STRIKE | SANTA BARBARA, Cal., Nov. 28. —Filipino lettuce pickers in this district are on strike against a wage cut from 35 cents te 25 cents an | ‘panied by four of the Scottsboro (solidarity with |Prison, denying the truth of state- | {ments made by Leibowitz in last | week's Amsterdam News, regarding | | “threats” against Clarence Norris by} |C. B, Powell, I. L, D. attorney. | |. The wire of Warden Walls, sent | lin response to a wire from Leibo-| witz himself, was received by the | attorney on Nov. 23. It was not} published in the Amsterdam News| |of Nov. 24, which carried the text} jof a wire instigated by John Terry, | | Leibowitz’s bodyguard, and purport- | ing to be signed by Clarence Nor- | ris, making the charge that Powell | threatened to “withdraw the stay of |execution” obtained by the I. L. D.} for the two boys. | | Warden’s Wire | “Re your wire,” Warden Walls} wired Leibowitz, “Powell last saw | Norris on 21st. Was present at in- | terview, but did not understand Powell to say LL. D. would with- draw stay of execution. A copy of this telegram, sup- | pressed by Leibowitz, has just been received by the International Labor | Defense. Powell yesterday wired the Am-| jon of their statement. Tag Day’s This Week End In a mighty ‘fight to beat back the | present intensified attacks on the| fight for the Scottsboro boys, and} workers and intellectuals through- | out the country are rallying to the support of numerous Scottsboro protest actions called for this week, National Scottsboro Week, Nov, 26) to Dec, 2. i n New York City and Chicago many organizations have pledged; support for the Scottsboro Tag | Days planned for this Saturday and | Sunday, Dec. 1 and Dec. 2, to raise | urgently needed funds to push the | appeals for Haywood Patterson and | Clarence Norris in the U. S. Su- preme Court. Application for a writ of certiorari, with supporting briefs, | already have been filed with that court in the case of Norris by attor- neys for the International Labor! Defense. Papers for Patterson will! be filed shortly, the I. L, D, has an- nounced, | Indignation in Hariem In Harlem, the attacks by the New York Amsterdam News on the Scottsboro defense has aroused great indignation, and plans are be- ing made for a delegation, accom- mothers, to visit the Amsterdam News this week to demand a re- traction of its slanders against the |defenders of the boys. William N. (Kid) Davis, publisher of the Am-} \sterdam News, is one of the chief supports of the disruptive activities of Samuel S. Leibowitz, renegade defense attorney, who is accused by the Scottsboro mothers of having joined forces with the Alabama jlynch officials. 1 Another delegation, composed of | Negro and Jewish liberals and | workers, will visit the offices of the | Socialist Jewish Forward to demand ; a retraction of the lies peddled by | that paper and publication of the real facts in the case. On Saturday, a delegation spon- sored by the National Scottsboro- Herndon Action Committee, will visit the offices of the American (Continued on Page 2) Los Angeles Police Aid Car Strike Scabs LOS ANGELES, Nov. 28.—The Los Angeles Railway Co. is attempt- ing to operate cars in the face of the strike, by protecting scabs with wire-mesh screens. Police patrol cars cruise along the principal runs. International officials of the Amalgamated Association of street car men instructed the wives of the strikers not to picket, and are mak- ing other efforts to discourage mass picketing. The Los Angéles County Unem- ployed Conferences has declared its | the strikers and pledged support. The conference decided to issue a leaflet urging un- hour. The employers are organizing vigilantes to attack the strikers, employed net be scab, | Wall fore long,” he said. | The State Conference of resolution calling for a sales t SHIPOWNERS ~ REVEAL FEAR OF WALKOUT COUGHLIN BID FOR '36 VOTE MADE IN TALK By A. B. Magil (Special to the Daily Worker) ROYAL OAK, Mich., Nov. 28.— Father Charles E. Coughlin, radio priest and inflation advocate, at a mass meeting last night at his shrine of the Little Flower in this town just outside of Detroit, at- tacked the Soviet Union, reiterated his demand that the government take a hand in the organization of trade unions, and openly intimated | that his newly launched National Union for Social Justice was being primed for the 1936 elections. A crowd of 1,000, consisting al- | most entirely of middle-class people | and workers, jammed ever inch of space in the small chapel. Coughlin discussed his sixteen- point program, a program of a demagogic fascist character, around which he is building up 2 movement that may in a short} time become a serious threat to the | working masses of this country. Lies about U. S. 8, R. “Russian Communism,” Coughlin | declared, “is more or less nutty. It wants everything owned in com- mon; the hat you wear, the shoes you wear, even your children. Capitalism gives you a number in a factory, and Communism num- bers you in a state. One kind of slavery is as bad as another.” | Coughlin made his usual dema- gogic attacks on capitalism and Street bankers, but said nothing about the powerful cap- italist interests who are support- ing him. He denied that he was sympathetic to fascism, declaring that his aim was to effect a redis- tribution of wealth in order to save democracy and prevent revolution. In response to a question as to whether one must be a voter to belong to his organization, Cough- lin said: “All you have to be is | nineteen years old. which means | that you'll be a voter two years from now.” Coughlin is thus mak- ing an open bid to enroll the youth in his fascist movement, which he is preparing to convert into a poli- tical party for the 1936 elections. Coughlin paid glowing tribute to another budding fascist, Huey Long, (Continued on Page 6) Two Workers Held Without Charges in Birmingham Jail (Special to the Daily Worker) BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Nov. 28.— Police attacks on militant Negro and white workers here reached a climax yesterday with the arrest of two white workers, Raymond Har- ris and C. L. Johnson. The workers were arrested when the red-baiting detectives, F. T.| Moser and P. C. Cole, raided the | home of Harris. No evidence was cited against the two arrested | workers and no charge has’ been manufactured yet. Both are being held “for investigation,” according | Chicago Guarantees Fulfillment of Quota In Drive By Dec. 1 CHICAGO ILL NOV 28 1934 DAILY WORKER. 50 EAST 13 STN YC SENDING TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY DOLLARS STOP THOROUGH CHECK-UP GUARANTEES CHICAGO FUL- FILLMENT OF FULL QUOTA SIX THOUSAND FIVE HUN- DRED DOLLARS CAN PITTS- BURGH SAY THE SAME STOP PROVISIONS MADE FOR AF- FAIR CLOSING CAMPAIGN DECEMBER FIRST PEOPLES AUDITORIUM STOP CALU- MET SECTION DISGRACING DRIVE STOP URGE IMMEDI- ATE ACTION SECRETARIAT DISTRICT 8 WRIT SOUGHT TO PROHIBIT DYE PICKETS PA'TERSUN, N, J, Nov. 28.— While the shop chairmen and delegates of the striking dyers were in session today a report reached them that the Clairmont Piece Dye Works, and General Piece Dye Works have opened with imported scabs. The meet- ing was immediately adjourned, and a picket line of about 500 was mobilized, The strike committee called on strikers to mobilize in at least 5,000 outside these two plants early tomorrow morning and pre- vent them from working. PATERSON, N. J., Noy. 28.—The Victory Dye Corporation sought an injunction today against twelve of- ficials of the Dyers Federation and the shop local to prevent them from picketing, “intimidation,” etc. The application for the injunction will be heard before Vice Chancellor Bigelow, In answer to the activities of such employers’ agencies as the service clubs, George Baldanzi, president of the Dyers Federation, issued a statement declaring, “We are still willing to negotiate, but prefer to resume negotiations with the em- ployers. We would prefer that all outside parties keep their hands off (Continued on Page 6) Wall Street Receives Funds from Mexico MEXICO CITY, Nov. 28.—As one of his last acts of office, President Rodriguez, who will be succeeded on Noy. 30 by General Lazaro Carde- nas. todey o:dered the payment 20,000,009 pesos ‘abou’ $5,600,000) most of which will go to British and American oil trusts. The American Ambassador to Mexico, Josephus Daniels, has expressed himself as confident that Cardenas will prove to the police, a worthy successor to Rodrigues, | By George Morris | The hope of averting a general strike on the New York waterfront forced the ship owners to repeatedly Postpone action to challenge union- lization at the piers, was made clear in the arguments presented ‘in the hearing at the Kings County Su- preme Court on e injunction sought by organizations of mer- chants and shippers. Walter Gordon Merritt. nationally ENGLAND ACTS TO DOUBLE LONDON, Nov. 28.—Plans for a| day took almost the entire day in heavy increase in Britain's air forces| Presenting the arguments of the —almost double the present strength |™Ployers, before Supreme Court —was announced officially in the | Justice Burt J. Humphry in Brook- House of Commons today during a|!¥n. On Monday the entire day was debate on Germany's rearmament. |*@ken up with the speech of Sena- Winston Churchill reactionary |" Burton K. Wheeler, who has 7 : Y|been brought to aid in the defense | former Chancellor of the Exchequer, bale alae ee the defens of the International Brotherhood | announced that because by the end of Teamsters and the International | of 1936 the German air force would % —?sg Mayors will probably pass a ax in every city in New York the mayor declared. Nov. 6 or 7 will be the date of the mayor's meeting. It will probably be held at City Hall This planned action of Republican, Democratic and Fusion mayors throughout the state—to be followed promptly by mayors in cities throughout other states—is a clear example of the methods by which the capitalist class, through its local governmental official: is thrusting the burden of the crisis more and more on the backs of the toiling 1 — the workers, farmers, professionals, and small business people. its local governmental officials, is thrusting the burden of the crisis more and more on the backs of the toiling population the workers, farmers, professionals, and small business people An examination of the LaGuardia tax and relief policies illustrates this quite well, It is of particular in- to workers all over the coune of the place New York C among municipalities. New York has always been regarded as something of a pace-setter in city mat Policies laid down by a New York City administration on unemployment relief, taxation, labor policy, etc.. find a quick echo throughout the land. LaGuardia plays no mean role in all this. As a demagogue par ex- cellence, he has a national reputa- be 50 per cent higher than Britain’s |and by the end of 1937 nearly | double, ‘‘we ought to decide now to | maintain at all costs in the next} substantially | ° | decade an air force stronger than Germany Immediately following this state- ment, Anthony Eden, chief diplo- matic messenger-boy of British im- perialism. and disarmament “ex- pert,” admitted thet 96 United | Kingdom airplane engines had been exported to Germany in the first | ten months of 1934. “There is noth- | ing whatever illegal about these | transactions,” Eden said. | Behind this attempt of the British ; Government to whip up an arma- ment frenzy is the failure of the naval construction talks and the | determination of England, as well | as of all other powers, to perfe the most extensive war machines. Stanlev Baldwin, Lord President of the Privy Council, replying to Churchill “on behalf of the gov- ernment” assured the member of the Parliament that the British Air Ministry is contemplat- ing ordering between 80 to 90 per cent more aircraft next year. During the debate, Norman H. Davis, sent as a special represen- tative by Roosevelt to keep tabs on the war moves of American capital- ism’s biggest rival, was a most at- tentive listener, In disclosing Britain's aviation offense plans, Baldwin said, “Since July, over ninety sites for airdromes have been inspected, and sites for eleven new stations selected. An additional flying training school has already been opened and an- other is to be opened in April.” Worker Imprisoned Secretly in Alabama On Insurrection Law BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Nov. 28. Ralph Spooner has been held in- communicado in Fulton County jail since October 18. Arrested on the same resu:rected slave code used to railroad heroic Angelo Herndon to an 18 to 20 year sentence on the chain gang, Spooner is charged | With “inciting to insurrection,” and fi death in the electric chair if onvicted. Bail has been set at $1.000, and the International Labor Defense is engaged in a campaign to raise this amount and to mobilize mass pro- teste in Spooner’s defense, “honorable” | Longshoremen’s Association Merritt, who directly acts as counsel for 30 shipping and lumber compan! charged that the ship whers were not aggressive enough jin challenging the union’s control on the waterfront, and were shift- jing responsibility by continually claiming that there is danger of general strike. He indicated that in August the ship owners promised that as soon as the “turbulent” pe- riod blew over they will do some- thing about forcing a split between the teamsters and longshoremen, and force longshoremen to handle cargo trucked by non-union men “But it’s not August now!” he shouted, “It's nearly Thanksgiving time and I haven't seen a change of attitude.” He pictured the position of the iship owners as being helpless in |face of “sovereign rulers” in the port of New York, as he character- ized the unions. He demanded that an injunction be issued which (Continued on Pa Planted Bomb Explodes In Workers Center; Two Narrowly Escape (Special to the D: Worker) DETROIT, Mich., Nov. 28. — The Workers Center at 2113 Lycaste | Ave., was damaged and two wo! i narrowly aped serious iniury. when a dynamite bomb planted on the concrete steps outside the Cen- ter exploded at 3 a. m. yesterday The two workers, Robert Radu- lovich, care-taker of the Center, and Frank Miller, active in unem- vloved struggles, who were sleening in the place, were thrown out of their beds by the explosion The concrete stens, where the dy- namite had been planted and packed with soap, were torn out and the woodwork inside damaged. | Miller, who was slesping beside the window, was saved from serious in- |jury by the fact that the plate | glass fell outward instead of inside the building. Workers declare that the explo- sion was undoubtedly the work of a stool pigeon, working with the knowledge, if not the active cooper- | ation, of the police. About si ego police raided the Wo: ter and confiscated all litevature they could lay hands on. The: intimidation against members of the Unemployment Council, which) meets in the Center and has been active in winning relief for fam- | ities in the neighborhood. \ | thrown off the relief rolls. tion as a pseudo-radical, a leader of such mealy-mouthed “progressives” as N Nye. the LaFollettes, ete. Bankers’ Policy The actual picture of the relief and tax situation in New York City, stripped of the LaGuardian verbal smoke-screen, shows beyond any doubt that the LaGuardia policy is a bankers’ policy, one directed at taxing the great masses of the city to continue the payment of inter= est to the Morgan-Rockefeller banks, the real rulers of the policies of the city Mayor LaGuardia, with appro- priate theatrical gestures, has shouted time and time again that the unemployed of New York City will not starve so long as he is Mayor. He, Fiorello LaGuardia, would never, never let the city be a slave to the Wall Street bankers and the wicked public utilities, But who will benefit by the new sales tax? Evidently not the wage earner or the small business man. It will cut t low reduced purchasing of the worker and, especially, jobless person on relief. For mall storekeeper it will be strous, since the large stores will despite all their protestations, far more able to absorb the levy than the little merchant. Relief Cases Closed Consider the background. Relief is being slashed in New York. On , the same day that the of Aldermen adopted the sales tax, it was announced with high glc§ by the Department of Welfare that 14,130 families were “The cases were closed.” There is by no means an aceie dental reelation between the drive on the relief rolls and the passag@_ of the sales tax. It is all part of the concentrated drive by the Walle — Street-LaGuardia-Tammany forces — on the working population of the elief cases are being closed. Ine. vestigations have become regular Scoping proces Almost every 4 last bit of resources at the disposal ~ of a family—savings, insurance, ete, —must be gone before families will be put on the miserable relief, Coal was not given families until” month after steam-heated were given heat. The: sclers and aliens are on has been taken up f Wall Street. One of the aldermanic jackals, Jonit Cashmore, a Brocklyn Democrat, made the charge at Tuesday's sese sion of the Board of Aldermen (Continued on Page 2). 5 ef roll the wolf pack o!