The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 7, 1934, Page 1

Davis Warns Japan of Sti ONLY EIGHT DAYS ARE LEFT TO COM- PLETE FULL QUOTA! Yesterday’s receipts Still Needed in “Daily” Drive... Press Run Yesterday—41,300 - $8,492.73 Vol. XI, No. 292 >* ‘U.S. ANDB ~ Daily,.QA Worker ~ CENTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERWATIONAL ) ‘Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., under the Act of March 8 1879. NEW YORK, FRIDAY, DECEMBER , 1934 NATIONAL EDITION | | (Six Pages) ll Sharper Naval Bui Price 3 Cents OSSES IN ANTI-LABOR PACT lding Race 'S. P. ADOPTS UNITED FRONT IN SOUTH COMMUNIST-SOCIALIST UNITY AGREED UPON BY FIVE STATE BODIES United Front Program| Also Is Adopted In Portland, Me. The Secretary of the Revolu- tionary Policy Committee in the Socialist Party, Francis Henson, yesterday sent the following wire to Clarence Hathaway, editor of the Daily Worker: “Am strongly urging all other State organizations of Socialist Party throughout country to start united front negotiations at once in line with resolutions adopted by active Southern Party workers’ conference here. “FRANCIS A. HENSON, “Secretary, R. P. Hathaway on Friday headed a | delegation from the Central Com- mittee of the Communist Party to | the N. E. C. of the Socialist Party proposing jeint action of both | partics on immediate, specific is- sues. j me | (Special to the Daily Worker) | CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., Dec. 6. Following a conference with Nat Ross, Communist Party organizer in the Southern district, representa- | tives of the Socialist Party state or- ganizations in North Carolina, Ten- nessee, Arkansas, Kentucky, and Alabama, signed a united front agreement with the Communist Party and called on all state organi- zations to follow their example. This action goes over the proposal | of the National Executive Commit- | tee of the S. P. to defer united front action until 1936, and is based on the committee’s suggestion that in- dividual state groups might enter into united front agreements with the Communist Party. The statement of the Socialist Party representatives was signed by Howard Lester of the Tennessee State Committee of the S. P.; James Dombrowski of the Highlander Folk School of Monteagle, Tennessee; | Claude Williams of Arkansas; Gra- ham Lacey of Alabama; E. W. Suth- erland of Kentucky; Francis Hen- son, Secretary of the Revolutionary Policy Committee in the S. P., and George Streator. The united front agreement pro- vides that the agreement on specific issues “does not curtail in any way the autonomy of either party nor limit agitational or organization work.” Issues Stated The specific issues on which the agreement is based are as follows: 1—The struggle against war and fascism. (Against lynching, for disbanding the K. K. K. and’ other armed fascist bands, against denial of constitutional rights, ete.). 2.—Election of delegates to the National Congress for Unemploy- ment and Social Insurance (Washington, Jan. 5-7, 1935), A sustained effort to have passed | the Lundeen Workers Unemploy- ment and Social Insurance bill. 3.—Against the New Deal dif- ferential in wages, and relief for Southern labor. 4.—Campaign to unionize the South, and to develop an ag- gressive Rank and File trade union movement in A. F. of L. on basis of equal rights for Ne- groes and the unity of white and Negro labor. 5.—Support of united front ac- tion of the International Labor Defense in its struggle to free the nine innocent Scottsboro boys. 6.—Campaign against the A.A.A. and the Bankhead Act in the cot- ton fields and struggle for the needs of the exploited farm pop- ulation. “We urze,” the 5S. P. statement declares, “that these united front agreements result in prompt steps to effect action on these vital issues, while making at the same time, mu- tually satisfactory arrangements to allow for criticism by the parties of each other’s larger political pro- Urges National Action Continuing, the Socialist Party statement urges united front agree- ments all over the country, stating: | “Economic distress in the South under the New Deal increases daily. The srowth of labor unions and | the spread of the strike movement | and other militant struggles against | (Continued on Page 2) ‘Daily’ Staff Writer To Expose Coughlin in Series of Articles Letters from many sections of the country indicate that the propaganda of Father Coughlin is influencing many workers into believing that he is fighting for their interests. A series of articles by Milton Howard, beginning next Tues- day, will examine the platform of Coughlin, his radio speeches and articles. In fighting Coughlin these ar- ticles will be of great value. Readers are urged to order their copies now. SCOTTSBORO UNITY. ASKED OF PUBLISHER Davis Promises To Give Answer on Proposal Next Week A delegation from the National | Scottsboro-Herndon Committee yes- terday visited William H. Davis, publisher and owner of the Amster- dam News and a leading figure in Leibowitz’s attempts to drive the In- ternational Labor Defense out of the Scottsboro case, and forced him to promise to consider their pro- posal of united actions for the nine Negro boys. He promised to give an answer next Tuesday. The delegation also made him say that he would retract his telegrams to Haywood Patterson in which he said that the I. L. D. was bulldozing | the mothers. Mothers in Delegation In the delegation were the Scotts- boro mothers, Ada Wright, Viola Montgomery and Mrs. Norris; Steve Kingston of the District Committee of the Communist Party, Ben Davis, William Fitzgerald, of the Harlem I, L. D.; Dr. James J. Jones, Dr. | Arnold Donowa of the L. 8..N. R., Mrs. Craik-Speed of Tennessee, and Samuel C, Patterson of the National Scottsboro-Herndon Committee. Mr. Davis was evasive when the delegation pressed him to show the genuineness of his interest in the boys by joining in united actions to save their lives. He finally prom- ised to give an answer on Tuesday. He claimed that the case of Hay- wood Patterson was already lost. The delegation pointed out that if that was the opinion of Leibowitz’s American Scottsboro Committee of which Mr. Davis is a leading mem- ber, then they had no business de- fending the boys. This is the argu- ment of the Southern lynchers who try to stress the hopelessness of the case. It is the I. L. D. which does not despair, but which is intensify- ing its efforts to rescue the lads from death, Tried to Hoodwink Mothers Mr. Davis tried to persuade the Scottsboro mothers that they were following the wrong course. They answered that they were fully be- hind the I. L. D. The mothers said that anyone who wishes to save the bie should cooperate with the I. Samuel C. Patterson, secretary of the National Scottsboro-Herndon Committee, announced yesterday that the American Scottsboro Com- mittee had refused to meet for the purpose of working united actions in behalf of the boys. The latter group said that “our committee does not see the way clear for a confer- ence at this time.” The conference was to be between representatives of the two committees, SOCIALIST EXILES HELD IN PORTUGAL MADRID, Dec. 6—Two Socialist deputies from Bilbao and Tirado, who succeeded in escaping io Portu- gal, have been arrested by the Portuguese authorities, REST IN WALL OF KREMLIN Sixty-Six White Guard| Terrorists Executed | In U.S.S.R. | (Special to the Daily Worker) MOSCOW, Dec. 6 (By Wireless). —Today, when Kirov's ashes were | | buried in the Kremlin Wall on Red | Square, an editorial in Pravda, the | jorgan of the Communist Party of | the Soviet Union, comments under | a headline of “Sorrow and Anger”: | “There is not one section of the population which is not moved by this base crime. Working men and women, peasants, engineers, tech-| nicians, teachers, artists, painters, writers, Red Army men, young stu- dents, old and young, the whole | people is in mourning over Kirov’s | coffin. | “The waves of sorrow are rising | increasingly higher every day. To- day they roar in wrath at Kirov’s coffin in the capital of the Soviet country. The sounds of mourning | flow throughout the U. 8. 8. R. from | the columned hall of the Trade- | Union House, where the Moscow | toilers are paying their last tribute} | to the endeared Party leader of the | Leningrad proletariat. “Let our enemies not calculate on | | the leniency of the revolution. The ‘rage of millions of indignant people | at the odious crime will fall on the heads of those who attempt ta en- croach on the conquests of the So- viets. The unanimous call of the} entire country is—greater vigilance | resounding over Kirov’s coffin! The | revolution still has enemies enraged | over the Joss of all their hopes and aspirations. They are capable | of any baseness. Double, treble | your vigilance, says Kirov’s still | face.” 66 White Guards Shot (Special to the Daily Worker) MOSCOW, Dec. 6 (By Wireless). | |—On Dec. 5 the Military Collegium | | of the Supreme Court of the U. 8. |S. R. tried the cases of seyenty-one | White Guards accused of plotting | and organizing terrorist acts against | the Soviet Government and officials. | Sixty-six were sentenced to death | by shooting and were shot. The cases of five of the accused were | continued for additional investiga- tion. Thte court established that most | of the accused White Guards en- | tered the U. S. S. R. through Po- land, Latvia and Finland with the definite task of organizing terrorist | acts. Throngs at Kiroy’s Bier (Special to the Daily Worker) MOSCOW, Dec, 6 (By Wireless). (Continued on Page 2) Warren Mill Dyers Stay On Strike UNION CITY, N. J., Dec. 6. — While 25,000 dyers have returned to work, workers of the Warren Piece Dye works remain on strike as the company refuses to sign the agree- jment. The Warren workers have |been on strike for more than five | Weeks when the general dye walk- out started. The agreement for the Union City plants, other than the War- ren Company, was signed Tuesday. | The Warren strikers heartened by ithe victory for the union, feel very much encouraged to continue the fight to a finish. They feel certain that the workers who returned, will |vealize the importance of forcing the Warren plant to sign the agree- ment, and will back the strikers financially. Number of Unemployed Grows in Yugoslavia LYUBLYANA, Yugoslavia, Dec. 6. —Among the 8,000 families of the |town of Maribor there are 1,000 families out of work. In October |the number of unemployed fami- \lies increased by 390. The munici- \Pal administration is expending 300,000 dinars ($15,000) for the pub- lic welfare service for the whole year, an average of 4 dinars (20 cents) per family a dey. Congress Urges More as Answer to Pre: WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 6.—| An unemployment “reserves” plan, | under which contributions by work- ers would be compulsory, and which will provide for no benefit pay- ments to the present army of un-| employed, will be recommended to} President Roosevelt fy the Eco-)| nomic Security Committee, it was} announced yesterday. The plan| exempts the Federal government from any contribution. The committee, which is com- posed of members of the president’s cabinet, and was appointed by Roosevelt, will not draft legislation, | it was stated, but will leave it to) Roosevelt to decide on legislation. This means that the committee has abandoned all its plans for un- employment insurance. Roosevelt, | it will be remembered, when he | addressed the conference of his Economic Security Committee on| Nov. 14, said that any system fi-| nally enacted “must be financed by | contributions and not by taxes” and must be on a “sound actuaris basis.” One social worker who at- tended..this, conference said tiat | this*was “the kiss of death” to any genuine system of unemployment insurance. In stating that the present unemployed will not get any benefits under such a scheme, Roosevelt said: “We must not al- PHILADELPHIA | POLICE BEAT DELEGATION (Special to the Daily Worker) PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Dec. 6.—A | workers’ delegation of 100 led by | Mother Ella Reeve Bloor and Wil- |liam Jones, an editor of the Bal- \timore Afro-American and promi- |nent in Scottsboro defense activity, | was attacked and clubbed by police \in front of the City Hall at 2 p. m. | today. The delegation was going to the City Council to demand the enact- }ment of an anti-eviction ordinance land the punishment of the police- men who killed William Heaterly, | a Negro unemployed worker, and | arrested and beat his brother Sam | while evicting them ten days ago. Hidden in the entrance of the City Hall, a large number of police- men emerged and attacked the workers as they approached. 4| woman worker who protested was badly clubbed, and six workers were arrested. Mother Bloor was saved from arrest by the militant actions of the workers, who beat off the cops. The protest today was one of a series of actions organized by the Unemployment Councils to mobi- lize the workers against the cold- blooded shooting of Heaterly. The Negro worker and his brother and their families were living at 1011 Callowhill St. For the second time within a week the police de- (Continued on Page 2) | heels of Denver! But approximately $8,500 drive for the Daily Worker! © The major districts are not ac- celerating their pace enough to meet. the situation. Chicago still needs $1,353. Pitts- | burgh needs $328. Cleveland needs $612. California, Milwaukee, Minneapo- lis, Buffalo and St. Louis did not send a penny yesterday. California needs $1,171; Milwaukee, $328; Min- | neapolis, $477; Buffalo, $215; St.! Louis, 8318; Seattle has acquired | only $741 of its $1,000 assignment, Arrangements Committee of Workers’ National Intensive Campaign sident Roosevelt low this type of insurance to be- come a dole through the mingling of insurance and relief.” | To Tax the Workers | As far as its heralded “old age) insurance” is concerned, the Com-| mittee advised that present work- ers be taxed for future old age pensions, and offered a watered proposal that since the aged must be continued on relief, some con- cessions should be granted in that | direction, Essentially its plan is to tax the young workers to provide| benefit payment in the form of a| very inadequate hunger dole to the | aged. ‘The committee’s recommendation | for what it terms “unemployment | insurance” would be separate state plans similar to the Wisconsin Un- employment Compensation Act. Un- der this act basic sections of the workers are excluded from benefits, as are the millions now unem- ployed. National Congress The National Sponsoring Com- mittee for the National Congress for Unemployment Insurance today urged all possible speed in the elec- tion of delegates and collection of funds for financing the congress. | The congress, which will present (Continued on Page 2) CLOTHING BOSSES FIGHT 36-HOUR WEEK WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 6.—| Cotton garment manufacturers are now campaigning for a million) dollar fund to continue the fight | against the 36-hour work week without wage reduction which was | supposed to go into effect Dec. 1.| A letter sent to 5,000 manufac- | turers announces that by payment | of $200 a company gets its name en- | tered as one of those applying for the injunction, which would re- strain the government from putting into effect the 36-hour week. Be- cause a temporary stay for the or- der was already granted, each manufacturer is informed that upo! joining the move for an injunctio! he is hereby exempt from enforcing the 36-hour week. ‘The Amalgamated Clothing Work- ers’ Union, which include members in shirt and cotton suit plants, de- clared that its members are work- ing on the basis of the 36-hour week in 250 plants embracing 30,000 workers. ‘ Alex Cohen, Manager of the Shirt Makers’ Board of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, dis- closed yesterday that 25 of the original 31 who started the injunc- tion proceedings were cited before the code authorities for violations | of the Cotton Garment Code. An | investigation shows that the plants | opposing the 36-hour order worked on an average only 32.7 hours per week, and most had to be cited for paying below the minimum wage scale. $8,500 Still Needed | Sending in $100, Detroit went over the top yesterday! It went $67 above its $2,500 quota. It is the sixth district to finish, following close upon the is still needed to complete the These districts must remember that the drive ends in Eight Days! They must remember that the Daily Worker depends upon every one of them finishing its quota! The Daily Worker is in urgent need of the $8,500 that still must be | Anthony Eden, the British dele- j the plant. raised! The Daily Worker calls upon KIROV'S ASHES Roosevelt Committee R 00 SEVE IT Bars Jobless Insurance FHVQY MAKES SHIP THREAT U. S. Acts as Rival in Pacific, Prepares to Denounce Treaty LONDON, Dec. 6.—Open threats of a gigantic naval race, leading to drastic results, were made today here to Japan by Norman H. Davis, for the Roosevelt government, on the eve of the denunciation of the Washington naval treaty by Japan. Davis, United States Ambassador- at-large and representative at the London naval conversations, de- clared that the abandonment of the Washington and London naval treaties “would lead to conditions of insecurity, international suspi- cion, and costly competition, with no real advantage to any nation.” He failed to mention that the Roosevelt government has already undertaken the largest naval arms program in the world under the NR.A, (Section II) and the Vinson Bill. Davis made his threatening speech before the American Correspondents Association. It comes on the heels of the col- lapse of the London naval conver- sations, wherein the Japanese, in order to compete with Wall Street’s navy, demanded parity, or the 5-5-5 ratio of capital ships, as against the 5-5-3 ratio in the Washington and London treaties. With the break- down of the conversations, the Jan- anese declared their intentions to renounce the treaty on Dec. 10. Davis’ speech was considered a powerful threat in order to get the Japanese to submit to Wall Street's proposals. Hypocritically enough, Davis declared that Roosevelt of- fered a program for “a substantial all-around reduction in naval arma- ments,” when over 80 war vessels are now being constructed in Amer- ican shipyards, and funds are avail- | able for a total of 130. | States Government would insist on ROPER 6-POINT PROGRAM GRANTS MONOPOLISTS Hires Largest Hall for Lenin Meeting PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 6.—The District Committee of the Com- munist Party here has engaged Convention Hall, largest hall in the city, with a capacity of 16,- 000 persons, for the Lenin Mem- orial meeting which will be held next month, All Communist Party units and mass organizations have been asked by the District Committee of the Communist Party to send delegates to a special conference Sunday at 2 p.m. at 1331 North Franklin Street. Philadelphia C. P. EXPULSIONS SPUR BALKAN WAR TALK Hungarian Newspapers Call for Vengeance On Deportations BELGRADE, Jugoslavia. Dec. 6. —Ruthless deportation of 27,000 | Hungarians now in this country | was ordered by the Jugoslavian Government today, The govern- ment declared the proc®ss would | be “gradual but relentless.” More | than 2,000 have already been ex- | pelled, and about the same num- ber are being deported daily. ALL THEIR BUDAPEST, Dec. 6.—A tense war atmosphere hangs over Hungary and of over 1,600 Hungarian citizens DEMANDS |Industry Congress Ends with Pledge of Aid From New Deal By Milton Howard NEW YORK —A pr points for the “second p! covery” which in bstance gr Wall Street indu: monopoly every single demand made to Roosevelt in period, was presented Secretary of Commerce Roper to the Congress of Industry at the Wal- dorf-Astoria Hotel which brought together more than of the country’s most powerfu dustrialists to plan the gre: anti-labor drive since the wa The convention thus closed after four days of deliberation and plan- ning with complete nat between the Roosevelt gov and industrial monopoly on a gram of for the coming | months. Following R. Richberg, Roosevelt's personal agent on the N.R.A, Emergency Council, who on Wednesday evening ged the as- sembled industria t they had nothing to fear government “interference” in th offer for profit, Roper | firmed this position in his proposed | six points. | Roper Cites Profits | Boasting that the “first phase of |recovery’ had brought a 200 per cent increase in profit for five hun- |dred leading Wall Street corpora- | tions, Roper declared that Roosevelt is now entering on the “second phase of recovery” with a © insistence on closer “co-operati between government and busines | oper’s six points which he pre= sented as the immediate, major ob- jectives of the Roosevelt New Deal in its “second phase” of closer “co- operation between government and e yesterda} He declared that the United Jugoslavia, following the expulsion | business.” are as follows “1, Restore as rapidly as pos- “equality and security,” which from Jugoslavia in the past few| sible the return of relief respon- jmeans the continuation of the! days. The expulsions follow the ities and administration to | Washington and London treaties,| demand of Jugoslavia to the League| States and localities in order to which the Roosevelt government i} | | i} considers advantageous to it in preparation for war for the domina- tion of the Pacific markets. Sir John Simon, British Foreign Minister, is meeting with Ambas- sador Tsuneo Hatsudaira of Japan, ‘to get a statement of what Japan proposes to do after the abrogation of the Washington and London treaties. All-European Army to Police Saar Election GENEVA, Dec. 6.—An interna- tional army under the direction of | the League of Nations will patrol | the Saar during the plebiscite of Jan. 13, according to preparations undertaken today by the Council of the League following yesterday's | of Nations to investigate Hungary's | part in the assassination of King | | Alexander. | Special editions of Hungarian | newspapers were printed, calling for| | vengeance against the wholesale de- | portations, and whipping up a spirit of war. Later both the Jugoslavian | and Hungarian Governments pro-| hibited the newspapers from com- | menting on the situation for fear that clashes may be provoked. | The Hungarian Ambassador to| | Belgrade, Jugoslavia, has been re-| | called, and Minister Goemboes of | | Hungary is holding an emergency | conference to discuss the situation. | ons Ask Settlement After One-Day Strike Of Cleveland Drivers) CLEVELAND, Ohio, Dec. 6—A walkout of 125 truck drivers, mem-/| | bers of the International Brother- | | hood of Teamsters, Local 407, em- | | ployees of the Superior Transfer Company, has paralyzed deliveries | relieve the federal government of its large relief expenditures. “2, Planning of a sound public works program that will provide worth-while projects of general utility, where such aid is most needed, without conflicting with private investment and private in- dustry. “3, Devising of a practical plan for unemployment reserves which will bring a spirit of greater as- surance and safety to employees without penalizing business prog- ress, “4. Opening of foreign markets to secure a more extensive ex- change of goods. “5, Preparation for Congress of suggestions and recommendations looking to the preservation of those features in the National Re- covery Administration which have Proved workable and successful and the elimination of those | which have not. This must in- clude the readjustment of code operations in the light of experi- ence and administration so as to safeguard equitable treatment for all business and industry, large anid small. discussion. Making the proposal of an in- ternational Saar army, the British government declared itself willing to take the initiative in such a force in the name of the League. Pierre Laval, French representative in the Council, announced that France would not participate in the Saar army, if Hitler would not send a contingent of troops. Asked by Geoffrey G. Knox, presi- dent of the Saar governing com- mission, whether the Soviet govern- ment would include divisions of the Red Army in the numbers of the international police force, Maxim Litvinoff, Soviet Foreign Commissar, said that he would consult Moscow |on so important a matter. Captain |gate, began to puff nervously at his |cigarette at the idea of Soviet | for 200 establishments in this city. | | While the strike is only one day | old, 13,000 packages are at the de- | Pot and cannot be delivered. The| | company has already offered a wage | | increase and the union will decide| @nd re-employ capital.” | today if it is acceptable. Some of| Aside from minor differences this the largest stores. in the city are | program of Roper is the same as the | affected by the strike. Program for Recovery proposals which the convention will have etl Santi jadopted by this morning. Thus the Textile Strikers Halt |Roosevelt government and the lead- Work of Plant Despite ing Wall Street industrial monopo- i; zi _ jlies have now entered into an open Injunction in Alabama agreement to wage 2 joint reaction- \ary offensive in a new campaign BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Dec. 6—In for profits in the face of an inten- spite of an injunction granted |sifying crisis. = | against the strikers of the Utica | Pledges Relief. Slashes | Knitting Mills at Anniston, pickets! Roper pledged to the assembled prevented the moving of goods from capitalists that their wishes for re< |duced relief appropriations will be | The strike has been on ever since met, stating, the general textile strike. The em- “The Federal “§. Re-employment of capital is just as significant as a vital re- covery asset as the re-employment of labor, and business must seek every means possible to release Government is. every district that is behind in its |troops in the Saar in the vicinity | ployers are demanding that the na-| following the policy of tapering quota to put every ounce of force | of British soldiers and hinted thet | tional guard be brought in to en-| off expenditures just as rapidly ag into the most powerful action within the next week! Bolshevik |atmy divisions only of countries | force the injunction, but to complete their quotas |“conviently situated for this pur- | Governor Miller has not dared send utilised, pose” would be a ail ititittattet tt ateseanatatnaaeeiietinctiinene so far| possible, and will levy taxes to i them in, (Continued on Page 2) 4