The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 6, 1934, Page 1

PLAN WEEK-END TAG DAYS TO RAISE BALANCE NEEDED IN DRIVE Yesterday’s receipts .. Still Needed to complete Brive .. - $1,814.36 Press Run Yesterday—41,700 Vol. XI, New York, N. ¥., Daily A Worker CENTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S. Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at under the Act of March 8, 1878. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERWATIONAL ) NEW YORK, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1934 ATIONAL EDITION ( x Pages) OLEY CALLS PROFIT NEW DEAL AIM Price 3 Cents HITLER’S ORDER DEFIED BY NAZI TROOPS SAYS ROOSEVELT GOAL IS TO SAVE CAPITALISM: CRISIS I$ NOT SOLVED REICH GUARDS. BALK EDICT TO DISARM Misgivings and Unrest Rule Behind Outward Appearance of Calm (Special to the Daily Worker) BERLIN, Dec. 5 (By Wireless, via | Zurich) —Whole regiments of the Storm Troops and the Schutz Staf- | fel (Special Guards) are in a state of alarm and have refused to give up their arms in accordance with an order issued today to these divi- | sions of the army. A great move- ment is spreading among the wives of the soldiers and the women are demanding that their husbands im- mediately leave all fascist organiza- tions. Furthermore, the expulsion yes- terday of Helmuth Brueckner as Nazi regional leader for Silesia and Governor of that province is agi- tating the entire fascist officialdom, which recognizes the Brueckner ac- tion as originating out of the deep whirlpool of bitter rivalries among the Nazi chieftains, Over the lower Nazi functionaries, as well as over the army, there is now hovering the fear of another “purge” like that of June 30, which reliable sources report has been set for Jan. 13, after the Saar plebiscite, at the latest. The Berlin corzespondent of the “Basler Nationaler Zeitung” has sent a private dispatch to his paper , Which reads as follows: “Unrest, strife and misgiving rule behind outward authority and calm ... Among the many rumors one finds repeated confirmation that Dr. Goebbels, at a gala affair in Berlin was howled down, and endeavored | in vain to pacify the crowd with the avpeal: “But I am your old doc- tor!’” “Tt is stated rebellious spirits among the Nazis are being scothed by situations and privileges. Goeb- bels has issued orders that meetings of Nazi party members must be re- corded with him, aims must be carefully examined before pe:mission is given to hold them. ‘The radicals of the Nazi party accuse the leaders with in- creasing openness of betraying their revolutionary ideals. The Storm Troopers are being pushed into the} background and are losing influence. Obstinate rumors cizculate that af- ter Jan. 13 a rep of June is planned. These rumors have become louder in the last few days, since well-informed sources state that all Storm Troop leaders of radical tvends, or suspected of secret sympathy for the victims of the 30th of June, have been refused Rasa to abroad.” Scottsboro Negro Rally Defies Klan By Harry Connor GLASSBORO, N. J., Dec. 5.— Breaking through police and Ku Klux Klan terror in Southern New Jersey, more than 400 Negro work- ers and farmers held a spirited Scottsboro protest rally in the), countryside near here, despite threats of riot and violence made by a united front of Negro mis- leaders and Ku Kluxers. The Negro villages, “80 Acres” and the “Lawns,” in Gloucester borough in the heart of one of the most notorious Klan, counties in New Jersey, Gloucester County, took ihe first step in breaking through the political domination of a handful of corrupt politicians and Negro misleaders who for years worked hand in hand with the em- ployers in subduing the Negro masses here with the methods of Southern lynch terror. Under the fighting slogan of “Defend ‘the Scottsboro Boys.” symbols of the brutal oppression of an entire Negro nation, it has been proved once more that the fight for the lives and freedom of the nine innocent boys’ is inseparably Jinked with the struggle for Negro liberation. Sharp Discrimination In the short existence of these two Negro farm communities, there is a shocking record of discrimina- tion, jim-crowism, lynch threats, Klan raids and flaming crosses— endless oppression. For years these communities have paid taxes to the borough and have received nothing in return, by way of water supply, sewers, paved streets, Street, lights cnn Fs fornti ctr alo- 5 two ate, (Continued on Page 2) and that their) ion of the 30th} Distorts Marx Cleric Is Depvatias) | of Fascist-Tinged Movement in U. S. By A. B. MAGIL (Special to the Daily Worker) ROYAL OAK, Mich., Dec, 5. — Father Charles E. Coughlin, radio priest and organizer of the new fas- | cist-tinged movement, the National | Union for Social Justice, ascended to new celestial heights of demagogy in a talk last night on capital and Jabor in his small chapel next to his lavish Shrine of the Little |Flower here in this tiny town just outside of Detroit. The chapel was jammed with about 1,000 persons, | brought Bishop Michael J. Gal- lagher of the Diocese of Detroit, who had introduced him on Armistice the radio the launching of his new movement. Coughlin is receiving the support of important financial and political interests and of the Hearst press, which has been instigating the or- ganization of fascist gangs to attack militant workers and their organ- izations. Mishandles Facts In the course of his hour’s speech Coughlin, who handles facts in the most’ liberal” manner, slandered the Communist Party of Toledo—that same Communist Party which played such a prominent part in the struggle of the Toledo working class jlast May against the hired thugs of the Electric Auto Lite Co. and the armed forces of the government. |The priest declared that a leading Toledo Communist announced over |the radio that he was Coughlin’s Personal representative and was) holding a meeting that very night. | Following the example of Hitler before the Nazis came into power, Coughlin lifted, without benefit of acknowledgment, about seventy- five per cent of his speech from Marxist literature — shrewdly dis- torted in vital places—and then offered his new movement, which he calls “Social Justice,” as the solution for the problems of the working masses of the country. More than any previous utterances, his |speech last night was calculated to win the support of workers and small businessmen. Coughlin also quoted liberally | from the Pope’s encyclical on labor | issued about three years ago and from a similar encyclical of his pred- ecessor, Pope Leo XIII, in which the two popes attempted to stem the tide of working class organiza- tion and struggle by demagogically criticizing the most obvious brutal- ities of capitalism, and then attack- ing the militant labor movement and calling for a scheme of class collaboration in which the working class lamb would be tossed into the lap of the capitalist lion. Significantly, Coughlin made what must be interpreted as an overture to the Socialist Party when he drew a sharp distinction between the European Socialists, by whom he meant the pre-war revolutionary Marxists and the present-day Com- munists, and the American Social- ists. He appealed to “the Socialists in my audience” as people who would not support the ideas of the “parlor pinks who sat around sam- ovars and taught that all profits should belong to the laboring men.” While talking repeatedly about (Continued on Page 2) Coughlin, Backed by Hearst, Fire on Militant Workers half of them being compelled to| stand. For the occasion Coughlin | Day when he first announced over | and Launches Articles in ‘Daily’ Will Expose Role Of Father Coughlin NEW YORK.—The series of three articles by Milton Howard, staff writer, exposing the role of Father Coughlin, Detroit radio priest, in building a potentially fascist movement will be pub- lished in the Daily Worker be- ginning next Tuesday instead of |) Friday as originally announced. Howard's articles will deal with the history of Father Coughlin’s development as a mis- leader and will describe in de- tail the powerful financial and political interests supporting him. || The radio priest reaches mil- || lions of workers weekly by his | |] broadcasts. HOOVER LINKS GOVERNMENT TO ARMS PLOT Says State Department, Requested Move to Wreck Parley WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 5.—| | Former President Herbert Hoover | involved the State Department in | a statement he issued today in reply | | to testimony presented yesterday at | the Senate Munitions Inquiry which showed that he had called a con-| ference of arms manufacturers when | he was Secretary of Commerce to; discuss means of safeguarding their | interests. The conference, he de-| clared, “was called at the request | of the Secretary of State.” Yesterday's hearing had disclosed that a conference of arms manu-| facturers had been called by Hoover | to devise means of wrecking disarmament conferences. Hoover now revealed that the wrecking was done with the full knowledge of the State Department. | The fear of the Senate Commit- tee that it may hit upon evidence that would show the tie-up of the} | government with the war mongers was again evident at today’s hear- ing. Lammot du Pont challenged Senator Walter H. Vandenburg, who presided at the hearing in the ab- sence of Chairman Gerald P. Nye,| to subpoena Hoover. Vandenburg did not reply, and Senator Bennett Clark hastily ended the discussion by urging that they “get on with the inquiry.” The clash had arisen from evi- dence showing “that Germany and Austria were rearmed by munition makers and used as a lever to raise military appropriations in other countries. The arms’ makers an- ticipated huge profits from these preparations by the imperialist powers for the next war. Senator Vandenburg presented evidence showing the rearming of Germany and Austria. Irenee du Pont, head of the huge munitions firm, denied that this was the case. He declared that the evidence ap- plied to all of Europe, rather than KIROV'S BODY | who would halt the progress of the | of winter. | days all theaters and cinemas are| y . Angeles Section of the Communist 'THRONGS VIEW IN MOSCOW Leaders al Communist | Party Carry Coffin- Funeral Today By Vern Smith (Special to the Daily Worker) MOSCOW, Dec. 5 (By Wireless). | | —Thousands of Moscow workers land representative detachments elected from each factory filled all the streets leading to October sta-| tion, where the body of Kirov ar-} rived this morning. | ‘The coffin was carried from the train to the street by Joseph Stalin, V. M. Molotov, Klementi Voroshilov, | and other members of the Political) Bureau of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, after which be- gan the procession to the Hall of | | Columns of the Trade Union House, where the body now lies in state. After the coffin arrived the work- | ers marched with banners and pic- | tures of Kirov in black and red) frames and placards, proclaiming their contempt for the cowardly blow dealt by the class-enemy, as well as their determination to rally | in solid masses behind the Commu- | nist Party policies of building so- clalism and defending the socialist fatherland. A typical slogan was: “Don’t weep, but wage merciless war against any workers and peasants.” The crowd: stood and marched through th snow-storm and the first severe cold Tens of thousands of Moscow workers have viewed the body yes- terday and today. The funeral will take place in Red Square tomorrow. According to the decision of the Moscow Soviet, Dec. 3, 4 and 6 are} days of mourning in Moscow. These closed. Relief Wages Cut in Half In Gastonia By PAUL CROUCH CHARLOTTE, N. C., Dec. 5.—} A slash in pay for work relief from | thirty cents to fifteen cents an hour | was put into effect in Gastonia im- mediately following the order of| Federal Emergency Relief Admin- | istrator Harry L. Hopkins that min- | imum pay rates for F.E.R.A. be| abandoned. Hardly had the announcement that the Federal government had abandoned the 30 cents per hour minimum for relief work appeared in print before Gastonia took the first move in the South to drive the unemployed closer to actual starva- tion. A committee of three, an of- ficial of the F.E.R.A., a representa- tive of capital and a “representative | of labor,” announced that in the future the pay on relief projects for unskilled labor will be 15 cents per hour. The rates for skilled labor were also cut in half. This applies to the county of Gaston. Similar reductions are being planned in Charlotte, at Danville, Va, and throughout the South. The unemployed are answering these attacks by building Unemploy- ment Couneils and carrying on mass (Continued on Page 2) struggles, | they brought tear gas guns and shot | |into the crowd. Scores were sick-| | seabs. | intersection, unable to escape the gas. A statement issued by the Los | similar schemes; not to leave the |jave, as a result of their protests Many Gaiied | In California Car Walkout LOS ANGELES, Cal., Dec. 5.— Thousands of street car strikers and sympathizers jammed on Eighth Street between Broadway and Hill at noon today and tied up traffic of scab-driven street cars in the busiest district of the city. Large squads of poice charged into the crowd with tear gas and swinging clubs, and only after great difficulty were the demon- strators dispersed. LOS ANGELES, Calif, Dec. 5—| Tear gas bomb-throwing and whole-| sale arrest of strikers, is now a fre- quent occurrence in the strike of Los Angeles Railway workers, as sympathy actions in support of the workers by the population is in- creasing. Strikers have adopted new tac- ties in their determination to stop! traffic. Strikers and sympathizers assembled at the intersection of | Seventh and Broadway, a very busy corner in the downtown section, and | | Tefused to move. The crowd in- creased until there were at least 2,000, and traffic was completely halted. Police Powerless Police were powerless to move the crowd for over an hour. Finally| ened by the gas, which was shot} without warning. Saturday a simi-| lar performance was staged by the strikers, and only the preparation} of hundreds of police made pos- ible a very slow movement of} streetcars, while masses lined the! sidewalks, shouting epithets at the| Without warning, police again’ charged into the crowds, discharg- ing tear gas. Many men, women and children were hemmed into the Party to the carmen, declared that the workers should not expect any assistance through the mediation of Mayor Shaw, but on the contrary, depending upon that weakens the| picket lines. | Directives suggested to the work- | ers include: Spreading the strike by urging the Pacific Electric Line men | to come out; not to permit injec- tion of religious. political or racial differences to split the workers; to| welcome support from all sections of the labor movement; not to per- mit red scare agitation to take ef- fect; beware of arbitration, or any conduct of the strike to the offi- | cials, but to elect representatives | | for negotiations and other commit- | tees, and that all workers should participate in the strike activity. California Transient |bread, milk and newspapers. Whi |of a proposal for a new tax for |Street above Chestnut, have struck 37 SALES TAX VOTED IN OHIO LEGISLATURE Only Breed: Milk and| Newspapers Spared | in Measure By Sandor Voros | (Special to the Dally Worker) | OLEVELAND, Ohio, Dec. 5—The | | Ohio State Senate today passed a} bill for a three per cent sales tax on all puchases excepting only levying this tax on the diminish- ing income of the working class | army, the Senate deleted from the bill, as passed by the House, an in- the higher unearned incomes. The popular resentment against | the sales tax levy was emphasized by loud applause from tiie gal- leries when Senator Harrison de- | clared that “the bill is a tax on] poverty, collected from those who can least afford to pay.” A ten per cent relief cut in food and a twenty per cent cut in cloth: ing for unemployed families which was voted by the relief administra- | tion for the second half of Peet) ber was rescinded when thi ministration received news of re call for a city-wide relief march on | December 22. The Vnsennioymient | Councils are making even greater preparations for the march to al other concesions, and for the Con- gress for Unemployment and Social Insurance to be held in Washington, D. C., January 5. A delegation will ‘call on the County Commissioners tomorrow to demand additional winter relief ot | $40 cash for families and $15 for | single workers who are unemployed. | Mayor Davis has called for a! public hearing by the City Council legislative committee for next Mon- day, 2 p. m., on a bill proposed in the Council opposing his ban of free speech. He has also threatened the removal of the rostrum from the Public Square. The Superior Transportation Oompany’s drivers of delivery trucks for local department stores | struck today for higher wages and | a union shop, after two weeks of unsuccessful negotiations. The) strike is seriously crippling holiday | delivery. All schools in Green Township have been closed for lack of funds following the defeat by the voters school funds. Cafeteria Workers Out For Increase in Pay} PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Dec. 5—| Workers of the Bain Cafeteria, 8th| Workers Win Increase LOS ANGELES, Dec. 5. The transient workers, working on the Los Angeles water pipe line at Mo- against the conditions they worked under are now getting one dollar a day “and found” to pacify them. The winning of one dollar a day, where they formerly got 16 cents a day ($5.00 a month), was won be- cause of the action taken in pro- testing by a group of workers who quit the camp and spread what was going on in Mojave every place they went. However, the camp officers will | not allow any organization of any | kind in the Mojave camps. i code for the industry provides. The | |workers had a work week of from| lof from $7.00 to $15.00 per week. and demand a 54-hour week, and| wages ranging from $15 to $30 per week as the minimum scale in the 70 to 93 hours per week, and wages | The strike began when Bain fired four young workers for activities to | organize the workers into the Food Clerks and Countermens Union of | the A. F. of L. Picketing is con- ducted, especially during the rush | hours, and the place is kept empty. Bain refuses to recognize any repres- entatives of the union, One worker | told the Daily Worker reporter while on the picket line that he worked 93 | hours one week and received a food Greatest Galicting a I indiantrialinis Since Crisis Prepares Anti-Strike Laws—Group Told To Prepare for Further Reaction By Milton NEW YORK.—Admis New Deal to solve the cris n ion ard ion of the complete failure of the , declaration that the Roosevelt New Deal is a program dedicated solely to the preservation and on the destitute unemployed | of capitalis sm and capitalist profits, and a call to the coun- | try’s leading industrial mono six months, marked the open alded Congr for American themselves polists to organ |come tax levy graduated to reach | for the direct control of government power within the next ing yesterday of the long her- Industry, as more than 1,000 | of he country’s leading capitalist industrialists gathered GUILD GROUP WALKS OUT AT HEARING Broun Scores NRA Role in Jennings Case at Code Session By Seymour Waldman (Daily Worker Washington Bureau) WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 5— After protesting against “the ex- traordinary action of the N. R. A in forcing the reopening of |Jennings case,” Heywood Broun, | president of the American News- | the rest of a delegation paper Guild, and large newspaper writers’ which came to the capital to attend | the public hearing on the News- paper Code walked out of the Rose Room of the Washington Hotel to “go back to the picket line in New- ark.” They left to rejoin the sutke against the Newark Ledger's reiusal to deal with the Guild. “We charge definitely that on | this occasion and on several former ones N. R. A. has allowed itself to be terrified by the publishers,” Broun declared. He placed the re- sponsibility: directly at the door of Donald Richberg, Roosevelt's right- hand man. Labor Advisor Withdraws Paul Frederickson of the New York Times, the labor advisor on the code, followed Broun, saying, “I withdraw until the impartiality of the N. R. A. shall have been es- tablished.” Morris Watson, chairman of the Guild Press Association committee. characterized the code as “a sham to protect the privileges of the pub- | lishers.” The National Labor Relations Board decreed on Monday that Hearst’s San Francisco Call-Bulle- tin had so acted as to force the resignation of Dean S. Jennings, its | chief re-write man, for Guild or- ganizational activities, and gave the Call-Bulletin ten days’ grace in | which to advise it of the reinstate- ment of Jennings. However, in the time between Monday's decision and today’s} allowance of only 50 cents per day. (Continued on Page 2) By C. A. Hathaway EDITOR, DAILY WORKER Article IT. INEST Socialist workers, feeling the sharpened attacks against the workers’ living standards by the Roosevelt regime, seeing the fever- ish war preparations and the ad- vance toward fascism, knowing of the united front achievements on an international scale, and desiring a class-struggle, united-front policy here, must now determine their at- titude toward the Boston N. E. C. decisions and toward the splitting tactics of the Waldman Right Wing. The national executive commit- tee, dominated by Norman Thomas and his misnamed “militants,” put over policies which, if accepted, can only serve to curb the growing united front sentiment among the workers. In fact. as yesterday's article “revec, the program of the Thoms; © toe te tak Thomas Program of Waldman. b Movement for Revolutionary Struggle | Waldman-Thomas Program Riko at Boston Places N.E.C. in Favor of Joint’ Action With Green, | Woll, LaFollette—Socialist Workers’ Only in Alliance With Communists Can Win Labor | | | | capitulated before the Right Wing attack, took over the program of the Right, added a few meaningless trimmings of his own to make the Program more palatable to the more advanced Socialist wo:kers, and made this concoction the program of the N. E. C.—the official position of the Party. C. P. Proposals Shelved The Communist Party’s proposals for joint struggle against hunger, fascism and war were shelved for two years—until the next national convention of the S. P. in 1936! Local Socialist organizations dsési ing to enter into united font ac- | tions with the Communists were | told that henceforth they must receive permission from the State Executive Committee, or from the N. E. C. in states where no state organizations exists. The plans adopted call for a united front with the A. F. of L. bureaucracy and the leaders of the various bourgeois third-party groups. The Right Wing, disagreeing with Thomas’ demagogic trimmings (his talk favoring working class unity “in principle’) and, above all, de- siring complete organizational con- trol of the Party (removal of Senior | and the addition of four of the “old | guard” on the N E.'C.), has de-| nounced the Boston decisions and is preparing to drive the S. P. still! further to the Right—into an open united front with Bill Green and Matthew Woll, with the N. R. A. and the National Civic Federation! Old Guard for Rule or Ruin Party discipline which the “old guard” used to prevent militant and united struggle by Socialist workers, together with Communists, is cast to the winds. They openly declare their intention of carrying on war- fare against the N. E. C. decisions and for control of the Party. They have held factional caucuses not only on a State-wide scale, but with | representatives of 12 States present. Their is a rule or ruin policy; either Party control, or a Party split. And the “militant” Mr. Thomas retreats in fright! This demonsiracion should serve to teach honest Socialist workers United Front Against A. F. of L. Bureaucracy Can Alone Bring Vietory this policy is to be found in the | following statement of Louis Wald- man wall signs of the time point to the fact that the future of ialist Party lies with the ganized laber movement, and or- not | with the Communists.” how talk of working ciass discipline, | a question of vital importance in| the workers’ struggles, can be dis-| torted by reastionaries into its very opposite. It is made to serve reac- tionary policies. When socialist} workers tried to join with Commu-} nists in a fight against a wage cut, these gentlemen shouted, “disci-| pline!” to force them to withdraw. But now, when they want to drag the 8. P. into the camp of open re- | action, into the very forefront of} oe fascist anti-Communist drive. | arty Discipline means nothing. By | Hoke methods they will teach So- | cialist workers more than they | think. The attempted justification tor | in eae iain canna ancient It is from this conception that the policies of the “old guard” are | built. From this flows their bitter opposition to the united front with the Communists and their desire to | build a farmer-labor party, Jointly the bourgeois demagogues of vari- ous stripes. In this statement, of course, there is an element of truth. Certainly} any working class political party, to be successful, to have a future, must win the support of the or- ganized labor movement. | million workers within the A. }L., as well as the millions F. of (Continued on Page 2) the | the | The four} still out- | *here at the Waldorf-Astoria in the greatest assemblage of industrialists since the crisis began five years ago. The Congress has been called to approve the strike-breaking Program For Recovery which the National Association of M urers will present to Co early in January Raymond Moley, unofficial spokes man for the Roosevelt government, in the lea address of the y, ironically entitled the “Goal of Lib- eralism,” made the blunt declare- jon that the New Deal, from its very inception, has always been considered by Roosevelt as a drive for the preservation of capitalism and capitalist profits and not in any sense a program for the build- ing of a new economic order. of March, “President capitalistic ‘After the collapse 1933,” Moley declared, Roosevelt restored the structure to something like @ working basis. Subsequent meas- ures were intended to re-enforce this structure.” | “Basically, the New Deal was an effort to save capitalism It seemed to me in 1933, as it seems to me now, that this effort to save capitalism was eminently wise and just. ... By no stretch of the imagination could the vote of November, 1932, have been in- terpreted as a mandate for the abandonment of the capitalist system and the substitution of another.” Thus, with one sweep, the leading spokesman for the Roosevelt gov- ernment today makes it clear that ell the social promises of the Roose- velt New Deal, understood by the on Page 2) Plans Pushed For Social | Bill Parley | (Continued | NEW YORK.—An intensive jcampaign for the widest possible popularization of the National Con- gress for employment Insurance |to be held in Washington, D. C. on Jan, 5- is already under way through the distribution of half a million Congress calls during the ten-day period from Dec. 5 to 15, the National Arrangements Commit- tee announced yesterday. | In order to permit this mass dis- jtribution, the National Arrange- ments Committee has reprinted the |call on newspaper stock. This makes it possible to supply copies of the |call at the rate of two dollars a thousand. The original issue of the Congress call, printed on bond paper, may still be obtained for ad- | dressing organizations. The new is< sue, however, should be used for dis- tribution in the neighborhoods, at shops, et union and lodge meetings, and at the relief jobs and welfare stations. After the call is distributed in a given shop neighborhood, commit- should be sent to canvass and utions to help defray attendant upon the congres3 local groups. Financial Response Slow On this matter, the National Committee yesterday stated that re= |sponse from groups which have ob< | tained stamps has been very poor. No money has yet been received at |the national office, 799 Broadway, Room 624, New York City, on sales of supporting stamps. | These stamps are supplied to lo- jcal groups. Thirty per cent of the |money collected from the sale of these in all localities east of Chicago \and north of Richmond, Va., should be remitted to the national office, (Continued on Page