The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 8, 1934, Page 1

_ (SERED RP | i See Page 5 for Details of Drive for Unemployment Insurance AT WEEK-END AFFAIRS, LECTURES, TAKE UP COLLECTIONS FOR ‘DAILY’ Yesterday's receipts .... Still Needed to Complete Quota ......$ 7,775.23 Press Run Yesterday—41,500 Vol. XI, No. 293 ——->* 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. ‘WAR THREATS M NEW YORK, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1934 ANTI-LABOR‘DAILY? CALLS UPON WORKERS TO V PROGRAM SET FOR CONGRESS Major Offensive Aimed | At Workers Planned By Industrialists AT F. D, R.’s REQUEST Strikebreaking, Relief- Cutting Legislation Is Demanded By Milton Howard NEW YORK.—The detailed pro- gram of action agreed upon by the | Congress of American Industry, which brought together 1,300 of the country’s leading capitalist indus: trialists in the greatest Wall Stree! mobilization since the last war, will | be presented to Roosevelt and Con- | gress for action in the coming | months. | The resolutions and proposals | adopted cover the whole economic | scene and are directed mainly to; guiding Roosevelt’s policies regard- ing relief, the open shop, trade | unions, strikes and the N. R. A. administration of industry, with: especial reference to hours, wages and arbitration of strikes. Tighten Monopoly The industrialists, following the lead given them by Roosevelt's spokesmen, Raymond Moley, Don- ald Richberg and Daniel Roper, who addressed the convention, pro- posed that the N, R. A. be contin~ ued for another year, with all those | provisions which have been found obstructing “the self-government of industry” to be discarded. What- | ever N. R. A. machinery aids the | monopolies will be maintained, the resolution provides. The principle of tightening mon- opoly grip on American industry will be continued, it was made clear, in the proposal that in the “revised” N. R. A. a Fair Trade | Practices Commission be created to supervise industry in order to per- mit the regulation of “unfair com- petition,” referring specifically to non-monopoly competition. In addition, the principle of extending | monopoly control was affirmed nt a resolution demanding “that any | industry or group should be per- mitted to prohibit injurious and de- | structive acts of competition.” | Slash Relief | Following the line laid down by Roosevelt’s spokesman, Secretary of Commerce Roper, the assembled in- dustrialists demanded a drastic re- duction in Federal relief appropria- tions, a drive against the principle of Federal responsibility in relief problems, and a proposal that re- lief be considered a local and pri- vate question. Unable to ignore the mass de- | mand for unemployment insurance, the Congress made a bow to this sentiment by proposing that Roose- velt appoint a commission to study the question with the assumption that the working class must ‘“‘shoul- der its share,” Also, the convention set down the proposal that work-relief wages must always be lower than the lowest wages paid in private indus- try, that relief should never be paid to strikers, that work (forced Jabor) should be substituted for cash relief as quickly as possible, Anti-Strike Laws Regarding the trade unions and the right to strike, the convention went on record as favoring laws that will make the trade unions “Jegally responsible,” that will per- mit the open shop through “pro- tection of the right to work,” that will abolish the labor boards as be- ing cumbersome, and _ substitute “local action” on strikes, that will abolish the right to sympathetic and general strikes, On the question of taxes, the convention proposed the lightening of taxes on corporation surpluses, the fixing of taxes on small in- comes, and a nation-wide Federal sales tax. | The cenvention proposed the ignoring of the demand for the soldiers bonus and all demands for saoratoriums on mortgage pay- ments. The resolutions, based on Roose- velt’s recent speeches, declared for the continuation of private prop- erty, capitalism, and against all forms of government “competition with industry.” Finally, the resolutions warn against the “menace of Communism and agitators” and calls for a de- portation drive of all aliens, as well as militant native workers. Taken in its entirety, the adopted program and resolutions are the de- tailed program of the most reac- tionary sections of Wall Street menopoiy capital as requested by |of the unemployed. jeent of the sales tax revenue is to Roosevelt for action by Congress in Januarye "4 IN DRIVE FOR UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE | ‘New York Seamen | Win Fight for Part In Relief Operation Homer W. Borst, director of federal transient relief in New York City yesterday agreed to a demand made by unemployed seamen for a voice in the ad- ministration of relief on on the waterfront. The seamen picketed the of- fices of the Federal Relief Ad- ministration for more than two hours. A committee of seven elected by the jobless seamen conferred with Mr, Borst and presented the demands, A de- mand for cash relief was re- ferred to Washington. The committee will have the right to inspect sleeping accom- modations and kitchens. Cloth- ing is to be issued immediately to those workers who need it. The delegation refused to leave Mr. Borst’s office until he signed | an order for car-fare and hot BILL TO ROB aHlo WORKERS Utilities and Income Tax Sialled by Committee To Aid Monopolists CLEVELAND, O., Dec. 7.—A three per cent sales tax was passed by the State Assembly today, the House concurring with the Senate in ex- empting fluid milk, bread and news- papers. The tax is to go into effect |on Jan. 1, 1935, and only awaits the signature of Governor White. The tax will yield between $60,- 000,000 and $80,000,000, robbing the working masses of vital necessities. Although the governor promised to veto the bill unless an income tax bill was also enacted, this was only a maneuver intended to smooth the way for the passagle of the sales tax. Indicative of the real policy of the monopolies is the reenactment of the liquid tax bill, another mass consumption tax, But the income tax bill was defeated and the util- ities tax bill was stalled in a com- mittee. The class character of the sales tax is revealed by the callous re- |fusal to consider the relief needs Only 40 per go to local governments despite the increasing need for Winter relief. Since police funds and similar ex- ;penditures will come out of these local funds, comparatively little will be left for the unemployed. The Communist Party is answer- ing this attack against the living standards of the workers by initiat- ing struggles involving the widest section of the workers, middle class employees and small merchants, against the sales tax. A real peo- ples movement must be started, the Party declares, against this robbery of the masses. The Communist Party appeals to all its sections in Ohio to organize united front conferences, wherever feasible, to carry forward the fight against the sales tax. It has issued the slogans Don’t pay the sales tax; Against starvation by taxation; Tax the rich to feed the poor. LL.D. Fights Conviction Of Man on Downs Law BIRMINGHAM, Dec. 7.—Fred Walker, Negro worker, was found guilty in Judge Martin’s court of violation of the Downs literature ordinance upon framed evidence in- troduced by the prosecution. Lit- erature seized in a previous raid was used against Walker. He was sentenced to six months imprisonment and a $100 fine. Walker was arrested three weeks ago following a raid upon his home by Detectives Moser and Cole. The I. L, D., acting through Attorney C. B. Powell, has announced its inten- tion to appeal the case. TOBACCO WORKERS PICKET PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 7.—Strik- ing tobacco workers picketed the Bazarte Cigar Company at Franklin and Poplar Streets this morning fol- lowing their spontaneous walkout for wage increases, recognition of the shop committee, and improved (conditions IZVESTIA HAS SPECIAL ISSUE ABOUT KIROV Says Whole Proletariat Is Steeled to Defense By the Murder MASSES ARE ALERT Enemies of Workers Cannot Win Where Party Leads (Special to the Daily Worker) MOSCOW, Dec. 7 (By Wireless) —In a special edition of Izvestia, the Soviet government organ today, the leading editorial comments on the attitude of the two opposed di- | visions of the world, the interna- tional proletariat and the forces of world reaction, to the death of one of the workers’ great leaders, Sergei Kirov. “These days form a landmark in the consciousness of the masses,” writes Izvestia. “Four days ago many were absorbed in the enthu- siasm~of construction—still thought only in terms of great constructive tasks, and when they met difficul- ties they saw in them only the fact that thé Soviet Union needed to| learn a great deal in overcoming | the relics of its lack of. culture. “From the watch tower of the Central Committee of the Party which leads the Soviet Union, Stalin signalized one danger after another. He indicated the hostile | encirclement of the Soviet Union, he warned that the enemy was | trying to interfere in its peaceful | labor, and that in building it was | necessary to have a pick in one | hand and a sword in the other.) And the country has girded on its sword in defence of its labor. Capitalist Plots “Stalin indicated that world capitalism sends its spies to Soviet constructon for the purpose of at- tempting to undermine it. He called on the nation to arm itself with technical knowledge in order not to fall victim to deceit and} wrecking. And the working class promoted tens of thousands of its (Continued on Page 2) Car Strikers Stage March In Los Angeles LOS ANGELES, Cal., Dec. 7— Striking carmen of the Los An- geles Railway Company staged a huge surprise parade yesterday in which many sympathizers took part. Leaflets issued by the Commu- nist Party calling for support to the strikers rained down by the thou- sands in the downtown area. The parade started when James Thornton, a motorman, appeared in the middle of the street at Eighth and Hill Streets carrying an Ameri- can flag. Large crowds rushed from all sides to join behind Thornton. Police immediately seized Thornton, but were surrounded by hundreds of strikers. The situation appeared very threatening for the police were it not for the strong reinforcements which came to rescue them. Tear gas bombs were thrown in all direc- tions and the parade was dispersed. The workers formed lines again and stopped at Seventh and Broad- way on the way to the City Hall, but were again driven away by a barrage of tear gas. At the City Hall the workers asked to see Mayor Shaw, but were told that he was out. Strikers gather along Broadway daily and jeer as scab cars come by. However, unlike previous times, the police now do not wait for large crowds to gather, but discharge tear gas bombs as soon as a large crowd is anticipated. James McLean, a laborer and known as a militant worker, was dragged out of bed by detectives and is now held on charges of ar- son. He is charged with taking part in the burning of a street car last week, and the only evidence against him are burns on his hands. More than a score of arrests have been made during the past 24 hours, as a result of the growing militancy of the strikey Ballots To Be Collected MASS RELIEF ; workers’ NATIONAL EDIT ION (Eight Pages) WORKERS WI Will Be Sent to F.D.R. FREEDOM FOR Petition Also to Be Presented to Session of Con- gress for Passage of Workers Unemployment Insurance Every employed and unemployed worker from Maine to the Pacific Coast will have an opportunity to cast his vote for the Workers Unempl tion-wide campaign for one million votes which the Daily | Worker launches today. Ballots for the campai night, Jan. 1, will be carried daily in the columns of the Daily Worker, and 1,000,000 ballots have been sent out for wide distribution through- out the country. The Daily Worker appeals to its readers to speed the campaign, which will last twenty-five days. Each reader and all other workers are asked to get supplies of the ballots for their organizations and trade unions, and to carry the ballots in- to the shops, on the picket lines, into the C. C. C. camps, transieny bureaus and flophouses ; and to cir- culate them among the workers waiting in the home relief bureaus. When the balloting is completed MARCH SET IN DETROIT |Conference Sunday to Lay Basis for Broad Participation By A. B. Magil (Special to the Daily Worker) DETROIT, Mich., Dec. 7—A mass march to the county relief office on Tuesday, Dec. 18 will be the an- swer of the thousands of unem- ployed workers in Wayne County to the recent 10 to 30 per cent relief cuts and the flat rejection of their demands by relief officials. employment Relief and Insurance, representing 38 trade unions, 10 un- employed organizations and 46 other groups, is launching a campaign to rally the broadest masses for this march. For this purpose a conference of working class organizations is being held Sunday at 11 am. at Danish Brotherhood Temple, 1775 West Forest Avenue. The marchers will gather at 2 p.m. on Dec. 18 in Times Square, from } where they will go down to the building of the County Welfare Commission, 176 East Jefferson Avenue, where they will present the demands adopted at a previous conference and endorsed by a big mass meeting at Arena Gardens last Sunday. Withdrawal of all cuts; adequate cash relief, with a mini- mum of $16 a week for married couples, $8 for single persons and $3 for each dependent; 75 cents an hour for unskilled labor on relief ; projects and prevailing union rates (Continued on Page 2) loyment Insurance Bill in a na- gn, which will end on mid- jar: | Thirteenth Street, they will be col- lected in the form of a petition, and | presented to Roosevelt and Congress |at the time that the National Con- |gress for Unemployment Insurance jplaces its demands for unemploy- |ment insurance in Washington. | In this campaign to give expres- |sion to the demands of the millions j;of workers who have backed the Workers’ Bill in their trade unions and mass organizations, the Daily Worker yesterday sent out the one | million ballots to the district Daily Worker representatives and to the ‘districts of the Communist Party. EXEMPTED IN NRA EDICT | Move Blasts Ballyhoo of Wage Increases Through ‘New Deal’ WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 7.— The National Industrial Recovery Board today ordered that all man- ufacturers in the cotton garment | industry who have not joined in the move for an injunction against the 36-hour week and 10 per cent wage increase in the industry, can be exempt from paying the wage increase, if competition places them | made together with the decision to give direct charge over the Cotton Garment Code Authority to the | General N, R. A. code authority. | Those manufacturers who have filed for an injunction, have al- ready obdtained a temporary stay jin the 36 hour and 10 per cent | wage increase order, through the | District of Columbia Supreme | Court. | Means Wage Cut | The wage cut equivalent to four hours pay weekly, as the exemptions are only on the wage increase. The 36-hour week is not to be touched. This provision it is announced will hold pending decision on the ap- plication for an injunction which would restrain the government from putng the Executive order into effect. The granting of these exemptions | will be through a special committee upon which representatives of the ; Amalgamated Clothing Workers and (Continued on Page 2) On the Last Lap Racing against every other district which has not yet finished its quota—determined above all to beat Chicago, Pittsburgh and New York to the tape—Cleveland sent place in the drive to raise the sui Daily Worker secure! $310 yesterday, jumping to second im that is still needed to keep the Cleveland is now at 90 per cent—2 per cent behind New York! Chicago is still at 79 per cent. Pittsburgh, at 72. Buffalo jumped ahead of Pittsburgh and tied with Chicago, by sending in $56! Cleveland, New York and Buffalo were the only districts to send noticeable contributions. Only $16 districts which are still on the field! came in from the seventeen other The rest of the money which made up the total of $717 came from districts which are already over the top. Minneapolis, Milwaukee, Seatth penny! le and California did not send one Only a week is left to raise the $7,775 necessary to complete the drive. The Daily Worker need not lagging districts must be put into y gots next weekl emphasize that every wheel in the motion, Every district must fill its d all ballots have been returned | to the Daily Worker office, 50 East | The Detroit Conference for Un-| ®t 4 disadvantag.e This move was) exemptions will mean aj} O'DONNELL |Farm Leader Released From Cumberland County Jail |MANY GREET HIM | Was on Hunger Strike | For 14 Days—Mass Protest Won (Special to the Daily Worker) VINELAND, N. J., Dec, 7. — In response to the tremendous mass | protest that developed throughout |New Jersey, William O'Donnell, im- prisoned working class leader who |recently went on a 14 day hunger strike in jail, was released at 10 a. m, this morning, Word of his release from the Cumberland County jail was re- ceived at a mass meeting last night at Moose Hall where hundreds of workers gathered to protest his im- prisonment. O'Donnell was arrested |in connection with his activities in jthe recent Seabrook Farm strike led by the Agricultural and Can- |nery Workers Industrial Union and in struggles for relief. Five carloads of workers were at |the jail this morning to greet him jon his release. Lauds I. L. D. O'Donnell greeted the work of the I, L. D. and the Communist Party for their organizing of the mass movement that forced the of- ficials to release him. He said, “My |first thought on leaving the jail is la deep sense of gratitude to the |many workers and farmers organi- |zations that carried on the fight \for my release and helped with |money. I want to thank the I. L. \D. of which I was section organizer | when arrested for conducting the \splendid campaign for my freedom won aiter three weeks of my six months sentence, and the Com- munist Party, the political working (Continued on Page 2) Japan Cites Imperialist Aims of U.S. TOKYO, Dec. 7—Charging Amer- ican imperialism with “establish- ing an overwhelmingly superior navy both in the Atlantic and the Pacific for the subjugation of the world,” a Foreign Office spokesman today expressed the determination of Jap- anese imperialism to compete with the unprecedented war program of the Roosevelt administration. The Washington Treaty would be term- inated, he declared, on the date set by the Japanese delegation at the now crumbled naval conference in | London—Dec. 10, The spokesman answered yester- day’s London speech of Norman H. Davis, when he warned that if the Japanese abrogated the old treaties so favorable to the industrialists of the United States, it could only mean a terrific armaments race. of the present treaties, and his speech contains nothing new. We are not seeking a naval race. It is | Mr. Vinsom (Carl Vinson, the chief | agent in the United States Congress |for the vast war schedule of Amer- ican industrialists) who declares the United States will build five ships |to Japan’s three.” LONDON, Dec. 7.—In analyzing Norman Davis’ speech, Vice Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto declared that be- |hind Japan's desire for the revision lof the Washington Treaty was not only the attempt to retain control over Manchuria but to prepare for war against the Soviet Union and China. “I do not consider,” Admiral Yam- }amoto said, “that Manchukuo was the immediate reason for Japan's | However, as sponsor (!) for Man- |chukuo, we feel the responsibility ‘for protecting Manchukuo from pos- sible Russian and Chinese encroac! ments." ~ : | Workers to Mass Today to Protest || | Terror in Spain New York workers will mass this morning before the Spanish Consulate in a demonstration called by the American League || Against War and Fascism to || | | | | | protest the continued arrests and | executions of militant Spanish anti-fascists. | | A delegation will call at the | | offices of the consulate to present a formal protest against the | violent and ruthless terror being directed against the Spanish | working class in an effort to sub- |due the revolutionary spirit | | | | which brought it into armed | struggle against fascism. “We appeal to all those who | oppose fascism to support the | demonstration,” the American | | League said in its call to New | | York workers, “The growing | | | Strength of the Spanish anti-| , | | | | fascists must be supported by | the masses of the entire world.” UNITED FRONT I$ EXPLAINED BYHATHAWAY 1,000 Hear Editor of Daily Worker on Prob- | | lem of Unity | NEW YORK.—More than 1,000 workers, including many Socialist Party members, filled Irving Plaza Hall to hear Clarence Hathaway, editor of the Daily Worker, discuss the united front and the recent ac- tion of the Socialist Party Executive Committee defering joint action dis- cussion until 1936. “There is no one question that is so vital for the working class move- ment as a whole as the welding to- | gether of the common front of the | workers in the fight against capital- ist reaction in all its phases,” Hath- | away declared. “For that reason,” Hathaway con- tinued, “the Communist speakers, the Communist press, the Commu- nist Party as a whole, is today de- voting maximum attention to this | problem of the united front in an effort to make impossible in this! country the things that happened jin other countries because of the | division in the ranks of the working class, a division for which the Com- | munist Party has never at any time | | been responsible.” | Commenting on the action of the | | Socialist Party executive commit- | tee decision, Hathaway stated: | “Some comrades have gathered _ from this that this settles the issue | of the united front for two years, | and that all we have to do now is | to foid our arms and wait for the |S. P. national convention to take | place in 1936. This, however, is {hardly the case,” Hathaway de- | clared. | Hathaway then proceeded to show | that the movement for joint action | | of Socialist and Communist workers | had already before the S.. P. Exec- | utive Committee decision taken) ; many steps toward the united front, | and that even now local S. P. groups | were acting all over the country for | unity, citing especially the atZion of | the five southern states, and the} | action in New England. | | He concluded by showing that | |the need for joint action is greater |more toward fascism and war. | In the discussion and question ‘period that followed, Hathaway | took up in detail the charges that the Communist Party is “insincere” in its united front proposals, and showed how and why such accusa- | | tions are made to block unity. | The assembled workers unani- imously adopted a resolution to be sent to Joseph Stalin at Moscow on the murder of Kirov by a coun- | ter-revolutionary assassin. The re- | solution follows: | | “Thousand workers assembled |mass meeting New York December | (six express deep sorrow death | /comrade Kirov best leader Com- Lenin Stalin died at hands of ;agents enemies proletarian dicta- jtorship Pledge strength energies undying loyalty proletarian revolu- | the Jugoslavian king Price 3 Cents ADE IN BALKANS HUNGARY § ACCUSED AT GENEVA Benes Cites Conspiracy For Redivision of European States NAZIS BEHIND PLOT Clashes Occur on Border Of Jngoslavia and Hungary GENEVA, Dec. 7.—War clouds, ready to burst at any moment, hung over Europe today as Dr. Edouard Benes, foreign minister of Czechoslovakia, charged that Hun- gary was resorting terrorist oO | crimes such as the assassination of Alexander at Marseilles in a move to wreck post- war treaties by precipita a new | armed conflict “If the case now before the Coun- cil (of the League of Nations) had happened before the war and be- fore the League existed,” he de- clared, “war between the two states concerned would have been today a sad reality. “If any future attempt is made to imperil the unity of Jugoslavia, Czechoslovakia and Rumania.” ne added, “the same cat evitably would be prcv Border Provocations The bitter discussion and open threats of war at the League of Nations Council followed a s border incidents on the fron Jugoslavia and Hungary, with the deportation of thousa of Hur- garian citizens from Jugoslavia While not openly stated at League of Nations Council me in order not to charge the a phere still further, the terrc acts countenanced by the Hungar- ian government were plotted under the direction of the Nazis in Ger- many, who, together with Hurigary, are seeking to e Europe into a new world ughter to cha boundary lines Charges War Conspiracy Vhat happened in Marseilles,” Benes declared, “was only one as- the ting, pect of a conspiracy organized against the territorial integrity of the Danubian states blished. under the peace treat He in- timated that the as: nation of King Alexander follows the sim- ilar murder of the fascist dictator Dollfuss of Austria by German Nazis. “The forces which permitted the organization of bands of terrorists like those at Janka Puszta [Hun- gary, where they were armed with German arms and machine guns —Editor] are forces interested in hindering the historical develop- ments of an entire section of Eu- rope. They have as their final goal the separation of Croatia from Jugoslavia, and the separation of Slovakia from Czechoslovakia.” Armies Mobilized With open war talk seething throughout Europe, the capitalist powers are massing their armies for imminent action. Not only the Hun- garian army is massing for war, but citizens along the border are being armed by the government. The Hungarian newspapers, financed in many instances by the Nazis, are whipping up a war hysteria over the wholesale deportation of Hungarian citizens from Jugoslavia. Near Szeged, Hungary, a group of Serbian soldiers of the Jugoslavian army was reported to have crossed the border and challenged the Hun= garian guards to battle. Dr. Benes in his League of Nations speech declared that the Soviet Union had enter,3 into security pacts with the Little Entente (te- ferring to the Eastern Locarno pact) He declared, “We already knew today than ever with the Roose- |defining an aggressor nation as one Mr. Davis advocated maintenance jyelt New Deal tending more and | which supported armed bands or protected armed bands for the pur- pose of invading the territory of another nation, as well as a nation whose own army crossed the border of another nation. Hungarians Deny Complicity The Hungarian delegates at the League of Nations denied that their government had any part in the plot to ass: ate King Alexander, blaming Croatians in Youngstown, Ohio, with originating the idea. This merely emphasized the weak defense of the Nazi-backed Hun= garian delegates in answer to the charges of their complicity in the murder of King Alexander, In Belgrade it was officially ad= for attack against the Soviets of| munist Party Soviet Union colleague |mitted that of a total of 27,000 Hungarian residents, 2,717 have ale ready been deported. Following the debate before the {League Council on the tense Hun- jdemand for revision of the treaties. / tion which Kirov gave life pledge |garian-Jugoslavian situation, Capt. intensify fight triumph Socialism | Anthony Eden of Britain and the for extermination enemies working French Foreign minister, \Laval, conferred on the methods of Eeaey for defense Soviet Union for Soviet America i “Chairman” | Pierre prevéniing aggression in the presen® conflict, , 4