The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 1, 1934, Page 1

Canara ence aA Les RENEW EFFORTS TO RAISE BALANCE OF $60,000 IMMEDIATELY! Yesterday's receipts |. Total to date ..... S$ 4,567.07 + $47,932.35 Press Run Yesterday—43,100 NN ATS TT Vol. XI, 287 Bo New York, N. Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at ¥., under the Act of March 8, 1879. Daily Q Worker CENTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERWATIONAL ) NEW YORK, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1934 NATIONAL EDITION (Eight Pages) Price 3 Cents NEW POWERS PLANNED FOR F.D.R. Unity for Unemployment Insurance Urged on Socialist Party ‘BOYS SHOT IN CUBAN SCOTTSBORO RALLY POLICE OPEN FIRE ON 900 AT MEETING Application Filed on Patterson Appeal by LL.D. _ Attorney WRIT APPLIED FOR Brief Cites. ‘Tri ckery Of District Attorney To Help Appeal (By Cable to the Daily Worker) HAVANA, Nov. —Domingo . Ferrer, 23-year-old white worker and member of the Young Com- munist League, died last night in Emergency Hospital from wounds received in the pelice attack on the Sco'tshoro defence meeting. Three other Young Communists, who were struck by police bullets, are in a serious condition. Ferrer’s funcral is scheduled for late this afternoon, Protests are arriving from all over the Island accus- ing Police Captain Lombardo and other officials as being responsible for the shooting. (By Cable to the Daily Worker) HAVANA, Cuba, Nov. 30—Four youths were critically wounded and many others injured when police opened fire without warning on a crowd of 500 persons as they were leaving a mass meeting held for the freedom of the Scottsboro Negro boys. Two of the youths were re- ported in a dying condition today. Eight were arrested. The protest meeting, called jointly by the Committee for Negro Rights and the Cuban section of the Inter- national Red Aid was a tremendous succe: Among other speakers, the well-known intellectual Juan Mari nello and Antonio Maceo, nephew of the famous Cuban Negro patriot, addressed the assemblage in the auditorium of the Negro Union of Fraternal Societies. Resolutions were uanimously adopted protesting the monstrous frame-up of the Scottsboro boys and the fascist lynch terror against the Negro peo- ple of the United States and ordered presented to the American Ambas- sador here for transmission to President Roosevelt. As the enthusiastic crowd left the auditorium, a police car ordered to the scene by Colonel Pedraza, aide of General Batista, sprayed the peaceful crowd with machine gun bullets. Police then charged into the crowd, arresting 30 persons. Workers and students prevented the arrest of many others, including the attorney Ofelia Dominguez. It is the opinion of many here that the brutal attack on the Scottsboro demonstrators was or- dered by the U. S. Ambassador here. Brief Filed By I. L. D. WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 30.— Application and accompanying brief for the writ of certiorari in the appeal of Haywood Patterson against the lynch-verdict of death on framed charges of “rape” were filed today with the U. S. Supreme Court »y Osmond K. Fraenkel, at- torney retained in the appeals by Haywood Patterson and the Inter- notional Labor Defense. ‘The papers were prepared with the assistance of Walter H. Pollak, famous constitutional attorney who conducted the appeal to the U. S. Supereme Court for seven of the boys, two years ago, which resulted in reversals. Similar papers in the Norris case were filed some days ego. The Pat- terson brief took more time to pre- pare as it raised not only the con- stitutional question of the exclusion, of Negroes from the grand and vetit juries which indicted the boys and heard the trial, but other questions in regard to the conspiracy between the trial judge, Callahan, and At- torney-General Knight of Alabama, to rob Patterson of his appeal rights through outright trickery, and ques- tions of prejudice of Judge Cal- Jahan, displayed more openly in Patterson’s trict than in Norris’. “MOTHER” IN CHICAGO CHICAGO, Nov. 30.—The Soviet iilm, “Mother” made from the novel of the same name by Maxim Gorki, will have a week's showing here starting tomorrow. Not only is the film acclaimed by labor critics but ey the conservative press as well. ‘ ch BEN DAVIS. AND MRS. -PATTERSO! | GREETED | Left to right are shown Nathan Stevens, district organizer of the I. L. D.; Naomi Davis, of the Scotts- | boro-Herndon Action Committee; the editor of the Negro Liberator and the mother of one of the Scotts- | bore boys, who arrived Thursday from Birmingham, Ala.; erator, and Anna Damon, acting national secretary of the I. L. D, UNITED FRONT PROPOSALS 60 BEFORE S. P. Clarence Hathaway, editor of the Daily Worker, and James Ford, well-known Negro Communist lead- er, will present in the neme of the Central Committee of the Com- nist Party, proposals for the forma- tion of a united front against the danger of war and fascism to a regular meeting of the National Executive Committee of the So- ;cialist Party in Boston today. N. Sparks, New England District Or- ganizer of the Communist Party, will also be a member of the dele- gation. The session of the leadership of the Socialist Party, including Nor- jman Thomas, the best-known repre- sentative of that organization, is facing one of the most significant issues in the history of tnat body. Unity of action with the Communist Party will undoubtedly be the central question at the meeting. “old Guard” elements within the Socialist Party, who are represented on the executive by James O'Neal, editor of the New Leader, New York Socialist weekly, are prepared to put up a sharp battle against any effort to accept the Communist Party’s repeated proposals for a united front. A caucus of the “Old Guard” ele- ments to plan further struggles against unity had been called in Boston yesterday. How Will the “Letts” Act? It is the action of the so-called “left” elements and “militants” within the Socialist N.E.C., most of whom accept the leadership of Thomas, which is looked upon with the greatest interest. In the past this section of the Socialist Party (Continued on Page 2) | New Jersey District Passes Drive Quota; Fourth Over the Top Rushing $100 to the Daily Worker, New Jersey yesterday went $56 ovef its quota in the $60,000 drive! It is the fourth district to finish—the second district in the week to nose out Denver, which still stands at 95 per cent. The Newark section’s con- tribution in New Jersey’s trium- phant jump puts the section at 200 per cent of its original quota. Hudson County and Patterson, however, are still lagging. With several affairs still scheduled, with collection lists and other drive material still to come in, New Jersey pledges to reach 150 per cent of its present quota in the next few da: ra Firms Cut $42,540,101 Extra Melon NEW YORK.— While president Roosevelt is cutting relief, opposing unemployment insurance and pre- paring wage cuts, 74 corporations report an increase in dividend dis- buzsements of $42,540,101 above the regularly declared dividends during the month of November alone, it was announced by yesierday’s Wall Street Journal. This huge extra profit in November includes extra dividends of $34,322,244 declared this month by 50 corporations, Companies whose profits i n- creased $1,000,000 or more this month include Standard Oil, Ameri- can Can, Ingersoll Rand, duPont de Nemours, Lorillard, Coca Cola, Proctor and Gamble, Lake Shore Mines, Phelps Dodge, Illinois Beli Telephone, Montgomery Ward, and/aaginst speedup and for increased others, George Day, staff member of the Negro Lib- i | by George Baldanzi, president of | ment. DYE BOSSES INSISTENT ON OPEN SHOP PATERSON, N. J., Nov. 30.—That | the dye bosses are aiming to re- store the slavery conditions which prevailed in the industry prior to the 1933 strike, was the charge made in a statement issued today the Federation of Rayon and Silk Dyers. This statement was issued after} another conference with the em- ployers broke off with no agreé- This time the union offered to accept the modified preferential | shop, which only gives the union workers preference in the hiring. Baldanzi pointed out that the un- willingness of the dyers to consider | even this proposal shows that they | are set upon an open shop in the industry. The union did everything in its power to bring about a set- tlement, he said. The meeting of silk workers to hear the report of the delegates to the recent convention of the Amer- ican Federation of Silk Workers, will be at the union’s headquarters, at 2 pm. today. James Casey, Managing Editor of the Daily Worker, will speak here on Sunday, 8 p.m. at Oakley Hall, 211 Market St. His subject will be “The Capitalist Press and the Strike Wave.” A musical pro- gram has also been arranged. The meeting is under the auspices of the Communist Party. WEAVERS ON STRIKE (Special to the Daily Worker) NEW BEDFORD, Mass., Nov. 30. —One hundred weavers were on strike in the Nashawena mill | hours, wages. STREET CAR STRIKE FIRM ON COAST Riot Squads | Patrol ios Angeles When Traffic | Halts STRIKERS PICKET Bomb Throwing Is Seen} As Provocation of | Traffic Bosses LOS ANGELES, Nov. 30. — The| Los Angeles Railway Company re- fused today to meet with the strik-| ing street car workers, the excuse given now being the alleged throw- | ing of incendiary bombs at a stveet | car by strikers. Since the company refused from.| the beginning of the strike to meet | ith the workers, the bomb throw- ing was undoubtedly a provocation by an as yet unknown agent of the company, to furnish the reason. LOS ANGELES, Nov. 30—Strik- ing street car workers and sympa- thizers turned over three trolleys Wednesday, as militancy in the strike makes the traffic tie-up moze effective daily, H. A. Featherstone, president of the Amalgamated Association of Street Railyway and Bus Workers, has telegraphed President Roose- velt, requesting that he intervene | to persuade the Los Angeles Rail- way Company to accept arbitration. The union, he says, wanted arbitra- tion from the start. A National Labor Relations Board representa- tive has been ordered to Los An- geles. Union officials agree to call | off the strike as soon as the com- pany accepts arbitration. There is no rank and file strike committee. The turning over of the strect | cars was put into effect during rush in the very heart of the; downtown region. In all cases no one was hurt, as passengers were ordered off prior to the turning over. Traffic in main streets was blocked for hours, Late Monday afternoon militant strikers, ignoring the advice of their leaders, tied up traffic for almost an hour on Seventh Street for sev- eral blocks, ranging from Los An- geles Street to Olive Street. Between 200 and 250 strikers lined both sides of Seventh Street for several blocks. Scores of strikers rushed one car, tore the trolley pole free and removed the valves from | the air brakes. One hundred police reserves rushed to the scene, surrounded the car and permitted the valves to be replaced and the car pulled out. Not stopped by the police show of force, the strikers proceeded to an- other car and repeated the opera- tion. Even such a large reserve of police proved helpless against the militancy of the strikers and an- ; Many leaders and sub-c j the Socialist Party had other riot call was put in. They brought riot and tear-gas guns and grenades. COMMITTEE FOR CONGRESS WRITES NEC. Leaders Invited to Join in Backing National Parley Jan. 5-7 | APPEAL IS RENEWED Cites Support in Many Locals of S. P. for Workers’ Bill The National Sponsoring Com- mittee of the Congress for Unem- | ployment Insurance, which will be held in Washington on Jan, 5-7,/ yesterday made ovublic a letter ad- dressed to the National Executive Committee of the Socialist Party | proposing a united front for the} enactment of genuine unemploy- | ment insurance. The lette- to the Socialist Par Executive Committe, which meeting in Boston today for a tw | day session, pointed out that the National Congress. for Unemplo: ment Insurance represents an ae tempt to unify all forces behind |/_“—————- the fight for unemployment and social insurance. It pointed out, in renewing the appeal for a united struggle on this immediate need of | the whole wo-king ponuls that | their approval of the Workers Un- employment Insurance Bill. In order, therefore, that the National Congress may reflect the demands of the widest possible numbers of the working population, the letter asked that the National Executive Committee of the Socialist Party ake action on the Congress call. | Letter to S. P. The letter to the Socialist Party executive committee follows: “Noy. 28. 1934. “National Executive Committee, “Socialist Party of America, “Boston. Massachusetts, “Dear Friends and Comrades: “We believe that you will agree with us on the importance of vigor- ous and concerted action to compel the forthcoming 74th Congress to enact adequate social and unem- ployment insurance legislation. “Recent declarations by the Pres- ident and other administration spokesmen clearly demonstrate that despite the generous pre-election promises of the Democratic Party and candidates, the administration has no intention to enact such leg- islation unless forced to do so by an aroused and united mass move- ment. On the contrary, the admin- istration is patently launched upon @ program for further reducing the living standards of both the em- ployed and unemployed by means of further wage and relief cuts, in- creased commodity prices and tax- ation measures that will impose new burdens upon the great mass of the population. “We refer specifically to the (Continued on Page 2) On the Fiftieth Anniversary of Alexander Trachtenberg | [STATEMENT OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE, C. P. U.S, A.] | Jobless Princess Gets $125,000 Dole Which Masses Pay LONDON, Nov. 30.—The Lon- don Daily Worker commented | on the Marina-George wedding with the headline: “OUT-OF- WORK-PRINCESS SIGNS ON FOR DOLE. YOU PAY FOR HER WEDDING BELLS.” “Today Marina, daughter of an unemployed ‘Greek’ former prince, married George, son of the head of the most prosperous branch of the firm of royalty unlimited—the Buckingham Pal- fice branch of the old German family concern which supplies Europe with unwarranted mon- archs,” said the Daily Worker. “When Marina signs the mar- riage register she qualifies for the handsome dole of £25,000 ($125,000) a year. “By forming this match Marina has done very well for numerous members of her ranch of the royalty unlimited concern who, since the war and their ejection from Russia, Greece and elsewhere have been doing rather poorly. Swarms of these poor relations of the Royal Rabbit Warren are now in Lon- don, luxuriating in luscious pas- tures. Not one of the gang is engaged in any useful or produc- tive occupation. Consequently all their keep has to be provided beeen the British masses.” COURT TO ACT NEXT WEEK ON DOCK WRIT After days of f argument on the) application for an injunction which | would force longshoremen to handle | non-union trucked cargo, Chief | Justice Burt Hu who heard | the case in the Kings County | Supreme Court, declared that will withhold the decision Tuesday morning, so that in meantime he may hear from shipowners. Throughout the period during which hearings were held, the ship-| owners pretended to be “neutral,”! merely claiming that they were not in a position to force the Interna- tional Longshoremen’s AssOciation members to load cargo brought in from non-union houses and insisted that they could not risk to provoke a general strike while the West | coast situation still prevailed. 1 until | the | the | Commends Shipowners In rebuital, yesterday Senator} Burton K. Wheeler, brought in to help in the defense of the unions, | concluded by reminding the judge that “what took place in San Fran- cisco, Portland and Los Angeles is nothing compared to what would happen in a great city like New (Continued on Page 8) hel) ‘HE Central Commiitee of the Communist Party, U. §. A. greets Comrade Alexander Trachten- berg on the occasion of his fiftieth birthday. Thirty years of Comrade Trachtenberg’s life have been devoted to the working class movement. He has been a member of the Central Committee of the C. P, U. S, A. for many years. His po- litical life started in Russia where, alter returning as a demobilized soldier from the Russo-Japanese war, he joined the Russian Social-Democratic Labor Party and participated in the Revolution of 1905. Upon his arrival in the United States in 1906, he immediately joined the Socialist Party and became active in the American working class movement, as lecturer, writer, edilor, teacher and political leader. Some of his present co-workers in the leadership of the Communist Party today received their first political education from Comrade Tracht- enberg at the Rand School, of which he wes the Research Directer. From 1909 to 1915, Trachtenberg was active in the Socialist Party organization in Connecticut. He was one of the founders of the Intercollegiate Socialist Society, For some years he was statistician for the I. L. G. W. U., and took | an active part in the trade union struggles. In 1921, Comrade Trachtenberg joined the Com- munist Party, after having for some time already carried on a struggle within the Socialist Party against its reactionary policies, From the begin- | ning, he played an impcrtant and leading role in the Communist movement. In 1922, he was a deie- gate to the Fourth Congress of the Communist International. Combining his long experiences in the working class movement with a mastery of the theory of Marxism-Lenjnism, Comrade Trachtenberg, with an unfailing enexgy, has made and is making many and | varied contributions to the movement of the revo- lutionary proletariat. From the moment of the outbreak of the Russian Revolution cf 1917 he has been one of its staunchest defenders in this coun- try, being associated from the very beginning with all movements to support the Soviet power. He is among the first of the American Communists to have visited the young Soviet Republic and to popu- larize its achievements in a national lecture tour. He was among the few who brought to the Ameri- can workers first-hand reports of the leter phases of the revolution in Germany, which he visited in 1923. Comrade Trachtenberg has given his closest attention, leadership and advice to the cultural movement which has developed so rapidly especially during recent years. In his capacity as a member of the Central Committee of the Party, he has given leadership in many phases of our work. Comrade Trachtenberg’s greatest contribution undoubtedly has been in the field of Marxist- Leninist education, in the theoretical training of thousands upon thousands of workers, in the ex- tremely important and urgent task of bringing revo- lutionary theory to the masses. Upon him has de- volved the main individual responsibility for putting into life that great remark of Lenin’s: “Without revolutionary theory, there can be no revolutionary practice.” In making available for the first time to the American workers many of the writings of Lenin, correct and scientific translations of the works of Marx and Engels, and the works of Stalin, Comrade Trachtenberg has helped to provide that body of theory without which advance both in theory and practice in this country is impossible. He has also encouraged the development of American Marxist- Leninists, with serious studies of the problems fac- ing the American working class. But just to have preduced these books would in itself not have been enough: it was also necessary to distribute them, to bring them to the masses, And this also, Comrade Trachtenberg has tackled with great success, considering the level of devel- opment of the movement as a whole. The present publication of the 100,000 edition of Foundations of Leninism, by Joseph Stalin—the first time such wide distribution of a capital theoretical work attempted in our movement—bespeaks the rapi strides forward which have been made recently in the distribution of basic literature cf Commudism. Comrade. Trachtenberg’s 50th anniversary, be- sides serving as an occasion for the recognition of his services, should also be the starting point for intensifying our work in the field of the distribution of Party literature. Every member of the Communist Party must be- come a better and more effective Communist, more able to solve the day-to-day problems of organi- zation and agitation, by perfecting his own knowl- edgs, by rounding out his own political education. Lenin's slogan on theory must, first of all, be ap- plied by every Communist to himself, in connec- tion with thet particular phase of the working class movement with which he is connected. This is the greatest tribute which can be paid to Comrade Alexander Trachtenberg, the stalwart C.OF C. WANTS FUND CONTROL CENTRALIZED Dictatorship Over U. S. | Budget Advocated for Executive (EW ‘ARMY’ FORMED Likened ‘Citizens Force’ To Storm Troops Ts Proposed By SEYMOUR R Ww ALDMAN (Daily Worker Washington Barean) WASHINGTON, D. C., Noy. 30.— The Chamber of banearoe: of the United States, the hig propaganda and lobby the leading bankers and indeteee ists, announced tonight thet it will start its ler to obtain more active i tive control ordinary and emergency,” f dent Roosevelt This pronouncement has all the earmarks of a plan to maneuver the incoming Congress to give the president not only-greater authority than he has now but sweeping con- trol of many things besides the purely budgetary. The chamber’s jdeclaration recalls its September ultimatum which dictated ee velt’s first epen tur als for sweeping pa ‘al budgetary methods will 'be advocated by the Chamber of Commerce of the United States as the result of a referendum vote just taken among its membership,” the big business announcement said. The federal budgetary proposal ap- proved “advocates a more active |centralized administrative contro! of expenditures by broadening the ex- of funds ecutive allotment sy: so as to em include all exp ordinary and em strengthening it so as to 4 nec of deficiency appropria- tions and, when feasible, a re enditures below izens Army” Advocates What “broadening the executive allotment system of funds so as to include all expenditures” means will be appreciated when it is remem- bered that the president has been the sole arbiter of the $3,700,000,000 so-called Public Works funds, nearly one-third of which was shovelled into war preparations. It is extremely significant that the Chamber of Commerce, one of the chief sponsors of the N.R.A. is the same organization which has been conducting nation-wide propa- ganda for limitless war preparation lexpenditures, no unemployment in- surance and skeleton Federal reef to the destitute and unemp.yed. Its role becomes even clearer when it is remembered that it suvplied many N.R.A. figures, is the leader of the present Roosevelt-big busi- ness wage-cutting drive and has propagandized the country for what it calls a “Citizen Army This “army” would supplement the strikebreaking activities of the National Guard and the regular army. Hitler gave such an outfit its historical name—Storm Troops, Next Move by Richberg Tonight's Chamber of Commerce decision is the latest development in a serics of events characterized by the unanimity of opinion and action of the banking and business | fraternity and the White House— ng with the President's Sept. reside” radio talk, through his eneech (not broadcast) the bankers, and up to week's anti-lebor vrovocateur hes by Donald Richberg. next move, in 21) probability, will be made by Richberg, Roose- 's clocest advisor, and chairman of the P: ntial Emergency Coun- cil, and Professor Raymond Moley, former Assistant Secretary of State and editor of the Roosevelt organ, the magazine “Toda: which. is published by the multi-millionaire landlord Vincent Astor. Eoth Richberg and Moley are billed as the “keynote” speakers of , week's combined congress of indust:v and convention of the Na- ticnal Association of Menufacturers, the notoriously enti-labor outfit which is formulating the presice onen shop and anti-strike mold.in which it expects to nlec? the NUR.A, with Marxist-Leninist, the core of whese activities has been; Revolutionary theory to the masses! shortiv efier the latter's expiration next June. ¥