The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 7, 1934, Page 2

Page 2 DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1934 SPANISH FASCISTS FAIL TO DISARM WORKERS IN MINING AREA Royalist Press Reveals Alarm On Situation Communist Mayor and Socialist Councilman Are Arrested MADRID, Dec. 6 gover Asturias is ¢ the cruelest terrorism, it finds itself unable to gain the upper hand The government $s now been obliged to ad a ict of Mieres. tant coal weapons—useless rifl ~—have been collected Government turning from Asturias t that the feeling among the workers there is increasingly rebe! day and that the their hopes monarchist alarmed, deman he mines should not be set in ope: on again and that the workers of Asturias, whose revolutionary viewpoint is in- corrigible, should be deported and exterminated, whilst other workers with “proper anti-Marxist training should replace them. It would be better to import iron and coal from abroad than to employ insurgent workers “with no love for their fatherland,” the fascist papers say. The Mayor of Turon has issued an appeal calling upon all posses- sors of arms to deposit these in the cemetery or in front of the church door, where no sentries stand. He promises that all who accede to this demand will go unpunished. Since threats have taken no effect, the authorities are now resorting to this method in an attempt to gain pos- session of the arms. In Asturias the Communist Mayor of Labiana and a Social-Democr: member of the town council Oviedo have been arrested on the charge of being leaders in the revo- dutionary movement. The town council of Oviedo has decided to make an inquiry with regard to all municipal employees, in order to discover who took part in the uprising. A report from San Sebastian states that the town council of that place—the last of the election of April 14—has been discharged. There are 650 political prisoners in San Sebastian. Mass Arrests Continue MADRID, Dec. 6.—Mass arrests continue all over Spain. In Bilbao the secretary of the miners’ trade union, Gomez, has been arrested, and the police assert that they have found 900 bombs in his house. A Socialist functionary who was & participant in the insurgent movement has also been arrested in Madrid. In Gijon, according to the official statements, over 1,000 revo- lutionists have been arrested, in- cluding the university professor of Salamanca, Roces, and other intel- lectuals, who are now to be charged with having taken part in the in- *surrection, although they only went tto the rebel district to investigate zthe situation. Professor Pujol of the medical ‘faculty in Barcelona was arrested ton the ship “Argentina,” as also -other professors belonging to the <"Patronat Universitari of Cata- jlonia.” Another arrest is that of +the president of the Trade Associa- -tion of Catalonia and leader of th ~Catalonian party “Nosaltres Sols,” ?Daimau. In Oviedo 94 persons have been arrested since Nov. 17, among them iGonzales, who took part in the workers’ and peasants’ government ‘He was commissar for the transport “service. The miner Grazio Alvarez, jleader of various groups of the «fighting miners, has also been ar- rested. s Action on Railroads = MADRID, Dec. 6.—An Andalusian =tailway company discharged 200 sworkers because they had struck awork during the October fighting. -When this became known, a strike -Committee at once formed in Sevilla, fend threatened the railway com- gpany that the whole of the rail- ewaymen would strike work at once if the discharge of the 200 workers avas not withdrawn. The unanimous Wdetermination of the workers was jSo great that the company found atself obliged to reinstate the whole Sof the men. = It will be remembered that the @ailwaymen have been placed un- Ger military control in consequence of their activities during the armed Struggle. As outward sign of this “they are obliged to wear a small ‘badge in their buttonholes, even «when not on duty. One worker laid yaside the badge when leaving work; the was arrested at once and taken ‘before a summary court, which sen- ‘tenced him to the frightful penalty ‘of two years imprisonment. His fel- dow workers were aroused to such dndignation that when the man was sto be taken away, the whole of the workers struck work, and made a protest so effective that the sen- tenced worker was released on the Spot. .. In Madrid 180 railwaymen were discharged for taking part in the Strike. The Unitary Syndicate del Norte at once mobilized the rail- Waymen, and organized a meeting. Whe railwaymen marched in proces- sion to the management and de- mmanded the withdrawal of the dis- missals. One hundred and sixty of the men were reinstated. * In Madrid the railway company del Norte attempted to force its #mployes to give “voluntary con- tributions” to the fund initiated by the government in support of its @pparatus of repression (guardia Pivil, guardia de asalto, etc. The Dnitary Syndicate distributed a deaflet among the workers, calling dipon them to refuse to give a cent for the murderers of their brothers. ‘The attempt was made to carry out ‘the collection—al! the railwaymen Tefused, THEY COLLECT THEIR PENNIES TO SAVE “DAILY” ‘| I ool Makers The following letter from the shown in the photograph is self-explanatory: Dear American Comrades: We are very poor. We are starving. Our children go hungry. Our ‘huts are made of gueyes.” The sufferings we have are unspeakable, We do not have a piece of land, not even the free- Fascism in this dom to protest and fight for it, country is growing every day. But Mexican toilers | in fighting again: “pencas de ma- Long live the ing masses! EL ME yet, we make a desperate effort and want to help the Daily Worker | with our insignificant share. §, P. Adopts United Front in the South (Continued from Page 1) hunger and misery are being met by an intensified fascist drive on the part of the ruling s. In this situation the united front be- comes the key question before the Southern workers and farmers. Al- ly the united front has been hieved by the Socialist Party and Communist Party in New Orleans, and auspicious beginnings of the united front have begun between the sh: croppers union (Alabama, etc.) and Southern tenant farmers One American dollar is all we could raise among all of us. The “Daily,” lar contribution Veterans Convention Will Open Sessions In Chicago Today CHICAGO, Dec. 6 ‘he sec- ond national convention of the Workers Ex-Servicemen’s League will be held here in the Capitol Building, 149 N. State Street, on Dec. 7, 8 and 9. This convention will review W. E. S. L, activi- ties of the past two years, since the first convention, held in September, 1932. It will then lay out its program of action for the future and prepare to take an active part in the rank and file convention of veterans to be held in Washington, D. C,, in Jan- union (Arkansas) indicating the 1Ary, power of this working class are weapon.” The New York delegation, || “In light of the action taken by the National Executive Com- mittee of Socialist Party, U. S. A. Boston, Mass., on Noy. 30 to Dec. 1, 1934, authorizing State committees 1934, authorizing state committees to front with other working class par- ties or groups, we, the undersigned members of the Socialist Party, in conference at Chattanooga, Tenn., Dec. 6, 1934, with Nat Ross repre- senting the District Committee (District 17, Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee, Mississippi) of the Com- munist Party, U. S. A., call on the S. P. organizations in North Car lina, Tennessee, Arkansas, Kentucky and Alabama and other Southern states to start negotiations immedi- ately with the Communist Party and other working class organiza- tions for effective united front on specific issues.” United Front in Maine PORTLAND, Me., Dec. 6 The united front between Socialists and Communists has been effected at a joint meeting of members of the Socialist Party branch and the Communist Party unit called for this specific purpose. The meetng unanimously voted to establish a united front in all fields of struggle after hearing Ned Sparks, district organizer of the Communist Party, and Frank H. Aaxfield, state secretary of the So- cialist Party, speak on the necessity of united action against unemploy- ment, wage cuts, fascism and war. “When the capitalist class finds democracy no longer suits its pur- pose, it will unhesitatingly throw democracy overboard,” said Max- field in pointing out the menace of fascism. The meeting unanimously en- dorsed the National Congress for Unemployment and Social Insur- ance and elected a special joint committee to visit the unions, ob- tain endorsements for the Work- ers Unemployment Insurance Bill and secure the election of dele- gates to the congress. A general united front committee was set up with equal representa- tion of Socialists and Communists to draw up plans for united strug- gle against fascism, for the defense of the Socialist, Lawrence Brown, and the Communist, Dave Halpern. both arrested in the recent sirike, for the defense of Gust Saderquis’ member of the Paving Cutter: Union of Rockland, Maine, who is| being held for deportation, as weli as other cases. Besides organizing a campaign for the defense of civil rights, the committee will also plan | joint actions against the cuttir relief of the unemployed workers and all other phases of the struggle. The united front in Portland comes as the fruit of a long period during which united-front actions have been carried out from time to time. The May Day demonstra- tions, both of 1933 and 1934, were united - front demonstrations. The experience of the Socialists in the past period has convinced that complete united front with the Communists is both possible and neeessary. Midwest Steel Parley Delegates To Be Given Greeting in Chicago CHICAGO, Ill., Dec. 6,—The dele- gates to the Mid-Western Confer- ence of the Steel and Metal Work- ers Industrial Union, will be greeted by an entertainment and dance on Saturday evening, Dec. 8, at the Workers Lyceum, 2733 Hirsch Boule- vard. The program includes music by “The Spaniards,” a play by the Workers Theatre Group, and songs and dances by well known artists, i Admission is 30 cents at the door, {him unmercifully. them | composed of members elected by various W. E. S. L. posts in the city, are on their way here in | automobiles. st Wall Street capitalism, is fighting | | also for us, for our “tortillas,” for our land and for | | our huts. Our town is very small and almost shut | | out from the rest of the world, but yet your call has come till here and it is our duty to respond to it. international solidarity of the toil- ‘XE, Hgo, Noy, 7th 1934, Mexico These oppressed Mexican workers sent their dol- to the credit of Harry Gannes, F.D.R. Committee Bars Insurance (Continuea from Page 1) the Workers Unemployment Insur- | ance Bill to Roosevelt and the United States Congress, will be held in Washington on Jan. 5 to 7. “The success of the National Con- gress for Unemployment and Social Insurance and the possibility for securing passage of the Workers’ Bill in Congress, depends upon the extent to which we are able to popularize the bill and the social insurance congress,” declared the | National Sponsoring Committee yesterday. “To bring this campaign before the masses in the trade unions, professional, fraternal, church and | unemployment organizations re- quires much effort and a great deal of money. Cost of printing ap- peals and other literature alone is ; very high. So far financial re- sponse to the Congress/has been very poor. Funds Needed Philadelphia Cops — Beat Delegation (Continued from Page 1) | scended upon the house to evict the workers. | They broke through the lines of workers who surrounded the house, | smashed through the door, and | cornering Heaterly shot him down. As his brother Sam tried to escape | the police cornered him and beat | In addition they | jailed him and are holding him without bail on a charge of assault | with intent to kill. | William Heaterly’s body has been | lying in the morgue for ten days. | Among the demands that the dele- | gation was going to present was the immediate release of Sam Heat- erly, damages for the assault, and | compensation for the death of Wil- liam and an adequate burial. | The Unemployment Councils are | calling for bigger demonstrations against police terror and for the release of Heaterly. Rush protests | demanding the removal of Police | Superintendent Lestrange, and the | end of the terror against Negro workers. 200 Homes Foreclosed As H.O.L.C. Abandons Allegheny County Office PITTSBURGH, Pa., Dec. 6.—The homes of more than 200 small prop- | erty owners were sold on the sheriff's auction block in Allegheny County Monday as a consequence of the closing down of the Home Owners Loan Corporation two weeks ago. Weekly sales will be conducted in | the future at which additional small homes will be sacrificed under Roosevelt's New Deal to the bank- Ts and mortgage sharks, Home owners here are pffered a way out in the Small Home and Property Owners’ Federation which, although only six weeks old in this county, has forced the payment of rent relief to many small property owners and stopped the sale of the properties of two of its members scheduled for the auctioneer’s ham- mer at the same sale, 28 Per Cent on Relief In Birmingham, Ala., Latest Figures Show | (Special to the Daily Worker) BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Dec. 6.— | Figures just released by the Jeffer- son County Relief Committee show that 28 per cent of the entire pop-| ulation of the county is on the re- | labor work relief jobs paying about | $4 a week. Direct relief does not average above $8 a family for a month, The figures just released show a 37 per cent increase over the same period of a year ago, despite whole- sale cutting of the relief lists and the fact that absolute destitution is made a requisite of any aid. The steel mills have laid off hun- dreds, and the Republic Steel and the Tennessee Coal and Iron Com- pany have discontinued credit, ‘mostly to union {iy lief lists. Half of these are on forced | “The national office is urgently in need of funds to carry on the| preliminary work of the Congress. Every working class organization and every worker who really wants to see adequate federal unemploy- ment insurance in this country should bend every effort toward securing funds to make the Con- gress a success, Unless more money | starts to come in the whole cam-| a | prepare for a strike of all workers paign must be slowed up. “Only one month is left before the National Congress. The cam- paign must be intensified. Pay- ment for stamps, literature and calls, and all contributions should be rushed to the National Spon- soring Committee, Room 624, 799 Broadway, New York.” Amter To Tour An organizing trip on behalf of the National Congress for Unem- | ployment and Social Insurance will be made by I. Amter, national sec- retary of the Unemployment Coun- cils, the National Sponsoring Com- mittee announced. Amter will speak at United Action conferences and mass meetings in the following cities: Shamokin, Pa. Dec. 8} Wilkes-Barre (Lucerne County Con- ference), Dec. 9; Buffalo, N. Y., Dec. 10; Rochester, N. Y., Dec. 11; Boston, Mass., Dec. 12-13; Hartford, Conn., Dec, 14; New Haven Conn., | Dec, 15; Providence, R. I., Dec, 16, Kirov’s Ashes Rest In Kremlin Wall (Continued from Page 1) —For more than two days a con- | tinuous flood of people from all parts of the city has been stream- ing to the Trade Union House, | where Kirov’s remains lie in state. They are coming here in order to pay their last tribute to a friend and comrade in arms of the great leader, Stalin, in whose name is em- | bodied the victorious march of the ; working columns toward the final | triumph of socialism, This grave | manly mourning procession of mil- | lions is marching to the coffin bare- | headed, welded in sorrow and rage in one resolution to crush the coun- ter-revolutionary vermin. LENINGRAD, Dec. 6 (By Wireless) —The town is in mourning. The plants, streets, trolley-cars, autos are draped in black crepe and mourning bands are tied to sleevs of coats. The impress of somberness still lingers on the faces of those who accompanied their leader and friend on his last journey in the | night two days ago. | The town is in mourning, but | there is no confusion. Hatred to- ward their enemies, the will to struggle to victory, is burning in the eyes of every Leningrad worker. “Kirov is no longer with us. Let us work then in Kirov's way.” These | words are resounding with special ; force at all workers’ meetings. All | the factories of the town are elect- jing the best of their best workers to attend Kirov’s funeral today in | Morcow. | The Leningrad workers have met | with particular satisfaction the re- | port regarding the handing over of | the group of White Guard terrorists to the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court, also the govern- ment’s decision mercilessly and im- mediately to punish the people's 4 enemies, ;owners of the Grunow Household | Utilities, | and refrigerators, cut the wages of | the tool and die makers 8 cents an | |local officials to do anything to| Win Against Pay-CutMove |Chicago Metal Workers Take Situation in | CHICAGO, Dec. 6—With the| | opening of the seasonal pick-up, the manufacturers of radios | hour and those of the production | workers as much as 15 cents an hour. This action met with resistance | on the part of the workers. Many | of the tool makers, members of Local 113, International Association of Machinists, A. F. of L., were dis- satisfied with the failure of the| counteract the introduced wage cut, | quit the organization and joined | Local 23 of the Mechanics Educa- Own Hands | SACRAMENTO 18 US. and Bosse ARE KEPT HUNGRY | AND COLD IN CELLS Nazis Seize Papers Showing Their Guilt In Reichstag Fire BERLIN, Dec. 6.—Copies of the French newspaper Le Jour- nal, containing the sensational copyright confession of the ex- ecuted Storm Troop leader, Karl Ernst, in which he proved Goeb- bels, Hitler's Minister of Propa- ganda, and Premier Goering had instigated the Reichstag fire provocation, were confiscated on their arrival in Berlin today. The confession was made by Ernst, who was head of the Ber- lin and Brandenburg Storm Troops, in Writing a few weeks before he was killed, and while in fear of arrest. tional Society, independent. After several meetings a decision to strike | ‘was adopted. | Preparing for a wide publicity | campaign, Matthew Smith, national | secretary of the M. E. 8, A., who} was called in from Detroit, and Mr. | Johnson, secretary of Local 23, sent | a telegram to Mr. Grunow, notify- | ing him three days in advance about the strike. Workers Displeased Displeased with this procedure, the workers took matters into their own hands, They called a meeting, elected a joint committee of work- | ers from both toot rooms (George | St. and Schubert St.) and both unions (locals 23 and 113) and sent them to the employers to demand | a minimum of 85 cents an hour for | all workers in the tool rooms, If} this demand was not granted there was going to be a strike, they in- formed the owners. The company | was forced to grant the demand, Mistakes Pointed Out While the workers considered the result of their action a victory and proof that the rank and file can and will carry on the fight, they pointed to the following mistakes made by them in the situation: (1) No recognition of the joint tool room committee was obtained: (2) No production workers were drawn in this struggle. The workers claimed that Mr. Grunow granted this demand with | the aim to take it out of the pro- duction workers, whose wages were | cut.15 cents an hour (from 60 cents | to 45 cents). Immediate steps to organize the production workers have been de- cided on by them in order to defeat the wage-cut in the production de- partments, to build a union of their choice in every department and to for the recognition of the union, Downs Law Victims Held in Birmingham BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Dec. 6. — The trial of Ray Harris and C. L Johnson, arrested under the new Downs literature law prohibiting possession of working class liter- ature, has been postponed to Dec. 13 Many militant workers, Negro and white, have been arrested under the ordinance and are threatened with tong terms on the barbarous Georgia chain gangs. The Interna- tional Labor Defense is dveloping a mass campaign for the repeal of the anti-working class ordinance and the release of those arrested. Pro- tests should be sent to Commis- sioner Downs, City Hall, Birming- ham, Ala. Chain Store Workers To Ask for Agreement CLEVELAND, Ohio, Dec. 6.—The Grocery Chain Store Managers and Clerks Union Local 712, met here last night and voted to submit a contract to another important chain store company of this city. No further details were given. There are three large chain store companies in this city, the Atlantic and Pacific, Kroger Baking and Grocery Company, and Fisher Bros. The union has already obtained recognition from the Atlantic and Paciic, although through a contract that virtually ties the union’s hands: with no permission to strike. Most likely, it will be the Kroger com- pany, as 80 per cent of its clerks, the union claims, are organized. A report is to be given on the out- come of the move at a meeting next Friday. Poverty Growth Seen In London Statistics LONDON, Dec. 6.— A continued extension of the numbers in receipt of poor law relief, that is, neédy persons who are not qualified for or have exhausted their unemployment benefit, is reported. In- the city of Glasgow one in five of the popu- lation is now on poor relief, The number of recipients is 190,414, equal to 1,724 per 10,000 of the popula- tion. This is 628 per 10,000 more than a year ago. Liverpool shows an increase of 146 per 10,000; Burn- ley 107 and Salford 102, In 47 selected areas covered by the return, the total number relieved was 10.6 per cent higher than in October 1933, and 14 per cent higher than in September this year, Moley reveals New Deal plots against the working class! The Daily Worker has fonght against the New Deal since it started. Contribute today to make up the money needed in the financial \ drive! Ernst was seized by Nazi Black Shirt Guards on June 30, day of the Hitler blood “purge” as he was boarding a ship to go on a honeymoon trip. He was rushed to Berlin and with others faced the firing squads in the Lichter- feld. In his document, Ernst admit- ted he had been one of those who had set the Reichstag fire. BOSTON BUTCHERS’ STRIKE ENDS BOSTON, Mass., Dec. 6—The strike of Boston union meat cut- ters and butchers, called in the wholesale market district Novem- ber 14, was officially ended in an agreement made before the state board of conciliation. Taking back of the strikers without discrimina- tion was promised, it is reported. Set aside an hour tonight to collect funds for the Daily Worker! {| jurors on their attitude toward > * : | Third Jury Panel Called | on Seventh Day of Syndicalism Trial (Special to the Daily Worker) | SACRAMENTO, Calif, Dec. 6—| |The women among the 18 working |class leaders on trial on | charges of criminal syndicalism are kept in unheated cells in prison, | while the heat in the men’s quar- | ters is turned off at an early hour, | and all of the defendants are di nied sufficient food, and have been | maltreated at times. | This revelation of the fascist | |methods used by the California | | authorities against political prison- ers was made in open court yester- day by Leo Gallagher, International | Labor Defense attorney, who vigor- | ously denounced the attempt to un- jdermine the health of the de-| fendants. | The selection of a jury was no} nearer completion at the end of the | seventh day of the trial. The sec- ond special jury panel was ex- | hausted by the challenges of both the defense and the prosecution, and a new panel has been called. Defense questions to prospective now Communism were objected to by District Attorney Neil McAllister, who at the same time challenged all workers and suspected sympa- thizers with the working class. Local workers are rallying behind the I. L. D. campaign for the re- | lease of the defendants and the re- peal of the anti-working class crim- inal syndicalism law. The I. L. D. yesterday appealed. to all workers and their organizations throughout the country to rush protest resolu- tions and telegrams to Judge Dal M. Lemmon, presiding at the trial, and Governor Frank Merriam of California, Patronise Those Who “Advertise in the “Daily” | the New Deal “r: S in Anti-Labor Pact (Continued fr -age 1) nm of emergency es is able to ase me the add responsibil« ity.” Continuing the note of fascist im« plication which has been sounded again and again ng the four days of the convention, as the spec- tre of rising ions hovered over the proceed sai “Democracy n strong man as much or even more than autocracy or It needs a man strong enough to combat the inequity of special ge and of class agita- ‘with ‘his pro- relief. posals for sla d trundleq before ‘the the fruits of the boasting of the following profits: Program fer Congress “During November, - seventy-five corporations passed ne $43,000,- 000 in dividends above the rates previously prevailing. More than $34,000,000 of this went through the extra dividend route. The earnings of over 500 of our leading corpora- tions increased almost 200 per cent for the first nine months in 1934 as compared with the first nine months in 1933.” The resolutions which the Con- gress will act upon before its ad- journment tonight provide a com- prehensive series of proposals for action by Roosevelt and Congress. They pr le for the open shop, for .anti-strike laws, for reduced relief and an end of Federal ap- propriations for rellef, and for an end of whatever N.R.A. provisions still stand in the way of direct control of the N.R.A. machinery by industrial monopoly ‘Together with Moley’s, Richberg’s and Roper’s speeches delivered be- fore the convention, they form the latest program of American capi- talism in its drive to solve the crisis at the expense of the working class and toiling population. *40 FABR Today men check clothi: more than ever before. Today more men are buying Crawford ICS ng value Clothes than ever before! 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