The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 10, 1934, Page 1

j | 1 Cast Your Vote Today for Unemployment Insurance—Workers’ Bill Ballot on Page Z VISIT TRADE UNIONS. , MASS ORGANIZA- TIONS FOR EMERGENCY COLLECTION FOR “DAILY” Saturday's receipts ..... Still Needed to Complete Quota ....... $7408.87 Press Run Saturday—-58,000 eee aan net Ee RRR aT Vol. XI, No. 294 _>* Entered as second-class m: Daily .Q Worker CENTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERWATIONAL ) atter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., under the Act of March 8, 1879. NEW YORK, MONDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1934 EDI (Six Pages) \ATIONAL TION Price 3 Cents ULS.S.R. LEADS MOVE TO BLOCK WAR CAMPAIGN SPU ‘DAILY’ URGES => LARGE BALLOT ON INSURANCE 25 Ballots for Each Reader Is Quota Set | In the Drive | The Daily Worker appeals to each | of its readers to obtain at least | twenty-five ballots in the campaign | for the Workers Unemployment In- | surance Bill, circulate these ballots in his shop, trade union or mass | organization, and return the signed ballots to the Daily Worker at 50} Eest Thifteenth Street at once. | The campaign to get one million | votes for the Workers’ Bill was | | launched by the Daily Worker Sat- | urday. At the completion of the voting on Jan. 1, the Daily Worker | will bring the ballots to the Na- | tional Congress for Unemployment Insurance which convenes in Wash- ington on Jan. 5. The ballots will | then be presented to Roosevelt and | to Congress in the form of a peti- | tion demanding the enactment of the Workers’ Bill. Besides carrying the ballot daily in its columns, the Daily Worker | has printed one million ballots which are being distributed to, all districts, Each worker is asked to get a supply of these for his trade union, for distribution at the home relief bureaus, in the C.C.C. camps, among the jobless in the transient bureaus, and wherever workers gather. When the ballot is signed and the vote made, each worker is asked to return it to whomever passed it to him or mail it direct to the Daily Worker. The ballot, which is printed | in part on another page, contains a | full reprint of the Workers’ Unem- ployment Insurance Bill as it was introduced into Congress last Feb. 2. Side by side with this campaign, the Daily Worker urges all its read- ers to carry forward the widest pos- sible popularization of all the pro- visions of the Workers’ Bill by com- parison with the fraudulent schemes advanced by State legisla- | tures and the Roosevelt Economic | Security Committee which grant not one penny of benefits to the present army of the unemployed; and to obtain widest possible representation at the National Con- gress for Unemployment Insurance. Labor Parade Planned to Aid| Ledger Strike NEWARK, N. J., Dec. 9—A meet- ing of representatives of the Essex County Trades Council, and the striking Ledger editorial workers, tomorrow at 8 P. M. will make plans for a large labor parade and demon- stration in support of the strikers. This morning Heywood Broun, president of the American WNews-)} paper Guild and a large group of | Guild members of New York joined to make an effective picket line, After a meeting with representa- tives of the strikers, the Trade Union Unity Council of Newark, repre- senting T.U.U.L. unions and groups, pledged support to the strikers in every way necessary. At its meeting last Friday, the Essex County Trades Council re- ceived a letter from Lucius Russell, publisher of the Ledger, requesting that they help him select “a man to handle labor news for the Ledger | who will be given the job at $50 per week.” This only aroused the indignation of the delegates, and the letter was ignored. Unheated Shacks Ample For Needs of Children Says School Director PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 9. — Cold, unlighted shacks which serve as school rooms, separated from lava- tories by more than 100 feet of open ground, have been declared to “conform to all the requirements of the State Department of Public Instruction” by Superintendent of Schools Broome. This was his response to a school strike, organized by mothers of pu- pils in the third and fifth grades at the Hamilton School, 57th and Pine Streets. | As a result of the strike, and | petitions circulated in the neigh- borhood, the Board has announced | {* will install a new heating system in the shacks in this school, \ i | | | Williams, was very much in evidence RRED F The drive to raise the money suffered a setback. Only $276 came in! This still leave $7,500 to be raised. Only six days are left to pull the Daily Worker through to the security! still needed for the Daily Worker ANTL-FASCIST RALLIES SET RANK FORTHE WEEK I. L. D. Calls for Mass minimum amount essential to its BY SILK MEN (Nased Is Censured for! New York raised the largest sum—$179—but this is decidedly small in view of the fact that it must raise $1,700 more to complete its quota. New York must maintain an average of almost $300 a day during this week! Buffalo pushed Chicago down to fourth place among the districts which have not yet finished their quotas, although it sent in only $12. Buffalo still lacks $145. Chicago, which must raise almost ten times more than Buffalo, sent only $5. reported $52, advancing itself to 17 It must raise $274 more. With St. Louis sending $20, lifting itself up to approximately 60 per cent, almost tied with Chicago. | per cent of its $500 quota, Milwaukee, Seattle and California did not | send a cent. Minneapolis sent only $3. | The Daily Worker Management Committee repeats: The districts _ must not falter! “Daily” needs the money TODAY! Answer with substantial contributions immediately. THIRD PARTY PARLEY FAILS. TO SCORE NRA ST. PAUL, Minn., Dec. 9. — Third party discussions were held here all day yesterday by seventy representa- tives of eight states. The meeting was under the auspices of the Farm- er-Labor Political Federation, the leading spirit of which, Harold Y. during the parley. | Representing the main middle_ class elements dissatisfied with the steady crushing of their group by monopoly capital, the conference | nevertheless failed to attack Presi- | dent Roosevelt or his policies. A tactic of “watchful waiting” was decided upon. No third party ticket | in 1936 was drafted. This matter|to go off the gold standard. They | Edward F. McGrady, Assistant Sec- will wait until Roosevelt shows “whether he will go to the right or | left,” conference heads declared. | The parley did move to unify all the third party movements in the West—the Minnesota Farmer-Labor Party, the Wisconsin Progressive Party, and similar movements, It is not officially supported by the Min- nesota Farmer-Labor Party, how- ever. A series of proposals, designed to sluice the struggles of the workers and poor farmers away from revo- lutionary channels into those of old partry politics, will be brought for- ward, observers declare. The variety of old party demagogues, defeated and disgruntled old-line politicians buzzing around the as yet small third party sugar barrel, seems to lend credence to this view. Organizer Is Arrested on Keynes Picket Line BUCYRUS, 0., Dec. 9—Because | James Dudl, Cleveland organizer for the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America who are on strike here against the Kayne plant, refused to order pickets away from the fac- tory gates, he was arrested today. Armed police and deputized Amer- ican Legionaires reinforced police who yesterday were powerless to stop picketing We cannot continue the drive after Dec. 15—and the | MUSSOLINI. SFIZES FUNDS IN WAR PLAN ROME, Dec. 9.—The seizure of all external credits as an effort to bolster up Italy’s fast-sinking economy and as a key-plan in Mussolini’s scheme to raise greater funds for the war chest of fascism was contained in a series of strin- gent measures issued by the gov-| ernment today. All foreign ex- | changes and imperialist powers are | watching the Italian situation very closely, since the financial develop- ments here are intimately con- | nected with the war moves now | current in Europe and Africa. Reports from leading banking | actions and collections for the vic- Demonstrations at Spanish Consulates Overruling Vote for Strike Noy. 22 NEW YORK. — Participation in PATERSON, N. J., Dec. 9—At a International Solidarity Week by all|™eeting of shon chairmen of the , f fi sx d ae, |American Federation of Silk Work- enemies of fascism was urged ye§-| ers held here Saturday, a commit- |terday by the national executive | vas vhich is Pittsburgh, the only other large contributor besides New York, | fee 2) geron swine slected. sich te. t0 International | represent the rank and file in the negotiations now going on for an agreement with the silk bosses. The decision was made after the meet- ing adopted a motion to protest the actions of the Joint Executive Board and Eli Keller, manager of committee of the Labor Defense as the week of protest tims of fascist reaction in Spain, Unions, mass organizations, and all friends of freedom were called | upon to join in the actions led by the I, L. D. on behalf of the victims of fascism in Spain, Germany, Italy, Austria, Bulgaria, and the colonial the union, in overruling the deci- sion of the membership meeting for a strike scheduled on Noy. 22. The protest is to come before the Broad | protest delegations to the consuls, | and semi-colonial countries, by Anna Damon, acting national secre- tary of the I. L. D. Ki Demonstrations before consulates | * of these countries, and streams of | |Silk Executive Board and the Joint Executive Board. At the meeting Keller reported hat no agreement had been reached on wages. At the same time he launched an attack against shop chairmen, calling them scabs for permitting wage cuts in their shops. This was taken as paving the way for the acceptance of a wage cut, by shifting the blame on the shop are being arranged all over the} country by the International Labor | Defense for Wednesday, Dec. 12, | seventh anniversary of the Canton; Commune. | Th esse tn ti : “i heap aes roughout the country, special | rare intensive collection of funds for aid | Neon mone: neyereny |to the 60,000 prisoners and the| Next Saturday a membership hundreds of thousands of widows, | meeting of the broad silk depart- orphans, and families of prisoners | ment will take up nominations for in Spain, will be made by the I. L. | new officers and an executive board, D., with the support of numerous | as the first stens toward ridding the trade-unions. | union of the reactionaries who ig- |more and sabotage the decisions of |the membership. The local consti- Strike ‘Truce’ Pushed Anew | tution will likewise come up for discussion at the next meeting of |the shop chairmen. At a shop chairmen’s and dele- | gates’ meeting of the Federation of | Silk and Rayon Dyers, a decision | Was made that nomination of offi- |a meeting of shop chairmen and By MeG rady = for the union will be made at New Blow Against Enemies of Peace | (Special to the Daily Worker) | MOSCOW, Dec. 9, (By Wireless). —Commenting on the Franco-Soviet agreement concluded at Geneva | few days ago, Pravda, organ of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union writes as follows: { | { “The agreement reached between the People’s Commissar for Foreign | Affairs, Comrade Litvinov, and the | French Minister of Foreign Affairs, | Monsieur Laval, possesses great im- portance precisely because it brings | the full clarity into the question of | the Eastern European Pact. What is the meaning of this agreement? “Firstly, the agreement testifies to the firm intention of the govern- | ments of both countries to continue’| the work of carrying out the pact, | the work.of strengthening peace and | normal neighborly relations among | \all interested states of astern | | Europe. Both governments, as be- | | fore, continue to consider the East- | |ern Pact an irreplaceable condition | for achieving these aims. Thus the | | agreement strikes a destructive blow | ; at those who are attempting to} | speculate on their own imaginations | | regarding the positions of the U. S. | | 8. R. and France. | | “Secondly, the agreement must | put an end to all intrigues directed | towards sowing distrust between France and the U. S. S. R. We| know that various politicians of certain imperialist groups have ex- | ‘erted many efforts and much elo-| quence in order to complicate the | realization of the pact. The Franco- | | Soviet agreement shows that these |intrigues are doomed to defeat. Simultaneously, it shows the further centers in Europe and America | delegates next Friday. This will be | followed by a membership meeting | 5 ngthening of the friendly rela- openly recognize that Italy is about | also admit that the only possible | interpretation of this step is the} swift devaluation of the lira (which, | according to yesterday’s exchange | news stood at its lowest point since | 1931), universal wage cuts, particu- i larly among government workers, and the strangling of the national economy in the interests of Musso- lini’s war preparations. | The decrees ordered by the fascist | Cabinet Council demand that all Italian banks and bankers turn in their foreign credits to the National | Exchange Institute with in ten days. |This is a mere subterfuge for say- ing that the bankers, through their dummy “Institute,” will return the value of foreign stocks held by in- dividual Italians in inflated lire, sell the foreign stock on the European or American exchange, and pocket the difference for their own pur- poses and for war industries. Fail- ure of Italian citizens to register their foreign securities with the government will meet with imme- diate imprisonment and fine. The rounding up and near robbery of these credits will net the Italian war budget between $240,- 000,000 and $480,000,000, it is esti- mated. At the present time the “war-chest” of the Italian imperial- ists stands at about the latter figure. Overshadowing even the seizure (Continued on Page 2) WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 9.—| meet on Saturday, where the nominations will be acted upon. retary of Labor, yesterday proposed Six polling places were desig- that representatives of the American | nated for the 15,000 members in the Federation’ of Labor, the United|ocal, and voting will take place a 5 | week after the nominating mem- States Chamber of Commerce and bership meeting. A discussion arose the National Association of Manu-)on the right of the unemployed facturers, should come together upon | members in the union to vote. The a plan to prolong the no-strike|‘ecision was made that a special “truce” entered into by American | Polling booth be designated for all Federation of Labor officials and President Roosevelt. The six-month “truce” proposal was accepted by the American Fed- eration of Labor officials at the high point of the recent strike wave, fol- lowing the San Francisco General Strike and when a half million tex- tile workers were out. McGrad; proposal is considered as the first step of the administration in face of impending strikes in the automo- | bile, steel, textile and in other major | industries of the country. The “truce” proposal which Mc- Grady would make permanent, has thus far resulted in gains for com- pany unions in most industries which face a strike. In textiles it meant the locking out of tens of thousands of workers, and speed- up to an unp:ecedented degree. Mobilize the membership of your organization for a special fund-raising campaign to enable the Daily Worker to fulfill the complete quota by Dec. 15. | unemployed members who should |have full rights as union mem- ‘ bers. | Vigorito Seen as President { There is common talk among the | workers that Charles Vigorito, mil- litant strike leader, and now vice- | president of the local, will be elected as the next president. Ammirato, the present president. |has been so thoroughly discredited | during the strike that very few give | him any chances for election. | When Anthony Ventura, one of the militant members on the set- tlement committee returned to his | plant, the Supreme Dye Works, ‘he | was refused his job. Ventura, who was the shop chairman, was fired for his union activity several weeks prior to the outbreak of the strike, but his case was allowed to drag |and Ammirato made no serious ef- jaore to have him reinstated. The | Shop chairmen decided that Ammi- | |rato and George Baldanzi, president |of the Federation, are held respon- |sible for his reinstatement within | two days. If this fails a strike is to ‘be called in the shop. Anthony | tions between the two countries. “Thirdly, the agreement must also put a stop to all attempts of these groups to replace the Eastern Pact by an agreement less effective, which does not bind anyone to any- thing, or which has opposite aims. This is why information on the con- clusion of the Franco-Soviet agree- ment must cause deep satisfaction among all supporters and upholders | of peace.” | Prisoners Get Amnesty Offer In Venezuela NEW YORK. — More than 5,000 political prisoners in the living grave of Dictator Gomez’ prisons in Venezuela will be freed, provided they leave the country, according to word received here by the Interna- tional Labor Defense. Internal dif- ficulties of Gomez’ regime are be- lieved to have prompted this con- cession, It is reported that Colombia has announced she will open her fron- tier to these political refugees. Cu- racao and other countries close to Venezuela have announced huge head-taxes on the entry of the refu- gees. | Pravda Calls Agreement| British Forces Get Ready at Singapore For War Maneuvers SINGAPORE, “Straits Settle- ments, Dec. 9—The most exten- sive Far Eastern war maneuvers ever undertaken by the British government, were under prep- aration today, when the British navy, army and air forces gath- ered for the opening of the war display on Thursday. The purpose of the maneuvers is to test the new gigantic naval base here, which has cost the British government more than $50,000,000, Preliminary to the opening of the war games, all Singapore buzzed with spy reports. Many Japanese citizens were arrested and questioned on “spy” charges. Y. Nishamura, Japanese head of many iron works in the Malay Peninsula, fell dead under mys- terious circumstances in the office of the Criminal Investiga- tion department, when being questioned. NEW PURGE SEEN IN NAZI MEETING BAN BERLIN, Dec. 9.—The decree of the Nazi Minister of Propaganda Goebbels, forbidding the Nazi Party to hold meetings and demonstra- tions without first asking his per- mission, bears witness to the in- creasing bitterness of the strife both within the fascist leadership and the Nazi organizations, it ported here. Friction increases daily between members of the Storm Troops and the leaders of the party. Those who have been led to believe in Hitler's “economic and social program” would have been bitterly disillu- sioned. The opposition to Goering ap- | pears to be centered around the person of Darre, Minister for Agri- culture, whose policy on several oc- casions has been attacked by Dr. Goerdeler, the new commissioner for the regulation of prices, sup- ported indirectly by Dr. Schacht. It is certain now that Germany is on the threshold of a new “purge,” in which Darre will play the role of Roehm. Since the resig- nation of Feder, the Under Secre- | tary of State and apologist of Nazi extremism, Darre has become the | last defender of the “socializing” tendencies within the government. | Goering’s minions are pastmasters in the art of plotting and it is pos- | sible that the groups supporting Dr. Schacht will seize the opportunity to attempt to reduce the body of the Nazi party and the Storm Troop |sections to obedience before their ; discontent develops into open rebel- |lion. Observers here, however, point | out that the working class forces in |the coming explosion will find ex- | pression above any and all political ‘and diplomatic maneuvering of the Unite in Support of Soviet Peace Policy--The Bulwark Against War HIS time, the raging waves of war incitement in Hungary and Jugoslavia, for the against the solid rock of the Soviet peace policy. ‘The central power and force which in the past weeks prevented the whole world from being plunged into a new bloody slaughter was the mighty arm of the victorious revolutionary toiling masses of the U. S. S. R., backed by the vigilance of the workers of the whole world. By this we do not mean that the war danger has now been lessened by the slightest fascist gangsters ruling Germany, as well as insti- gators of war in Italy, in Japan, in the U. S., are striving harder than ever to speed The barely averted explosion in the Danubian basin in Europe was not, as the tried to make it appear, a spontaneous outburst of the festering conflict between Jugoslavia and Hun- More sinister, more powerful, more dreadful forces are working in the background, gary. moment dashed need for war, in Hitler wants t jot. In fact, the To achieve this a: the bloody day. ted murder and capitalist press Poland. Hitler in: set off the fuse ord AN EDI We cannot seek the origin of the bitter conflict in the much publicized brutal deportations of Hun- garian citizens from Jugoslavia. driving to war, in a capitalist world seeped in the The central force this instance, is fascist Germany. Fascist Germany has been arming for war ever since Hitler came to power in order to plunge Eu- rope and the whole world into mass murder, in order to reshuffle the boundaries of Europe. 0 change by oceans of fresh blood what was congealed out of the blood of 10,000,000 workers and peasants killed in the last world war. im, the fascist butchets have plot- intrigue with those countries also desiring a change of the boundaries created by the peace treaties ending the last world slaughter. Hitler has found fertile field in Hungary, Austria, stigated the murder of’ Dollfuss to on the European dynamite heap. He supported and aided the terroriss ands in Hun- TORIAL gary who plotted the slaughter of Poland. Each of these attempts is aimed to begin a new cist Germany, was to unscramble European capitalist powers. the war moves in Ee *>rn Europe, More than that. by means of its security pact, to slaughter. The object of Hungary, existing boundary lines to their benefit. But why have these plans so far failed of their criminal ends? The Soviet Union, the land of ad- vancing Socialism, backed by the unswerving will of 170,000,000 people, has by every means striven to block the war moves of the most belligerent of the Particularly to block has for months now been perfecting the Eastern se- curity pact, sponsored by the Soviet Union, joined in by France, and later by the Little Entente, Jugo- slavia, Rumania and Czechoslovakia. The Soviet Union nas striven, | King Alexander. ; He is working for an anti-Soviet war pact in | | and Germany, “peace.” These security along with fas- provide that any and change the | of war and meet powers signatory the boundaries ¢: the Soviet Union fascist Germany. But the Sov: draw in Poland ’ their oft-proclaimed hypocritical sking them to prove to the world pretensions of ets, sponsored by the U.S.S. R., nation proving to be the aggressor by crossing the boundary of another for the purpose of seizing its territory be considered the instigators with the resistance of all the other to the security pact. French imperialism, interested in maintaining reated by the last world war, was forced to support the Soviet peace policy. This has been a tremendous obstacle io the war program of iet Union maintains no illusions about the growing and more powerful war danger. The Soviet Union strives and will continue to strive by every means, in the League of Nations, by expos- (Continued on Page 2) is re- | OR WORKERS’ BILL | AND FILE Litvinov and Laval Sign Pact GROUP NAMED To Guarantee Peace Aims Of Eastern Locarno Treaty Soviet Role at Geneva Gives Setback to War Makers GENEVA, Dec. 9.—With Europe in a warlike tension over the Jugo<« slav-Hungarian border incidents, the role of the Soviet Union as the chief force for peace in the League of Nations is being powerfully em- phasized. Czechoslovakia, it was declared here today, will sign the Franco- Soviet protocol pledging to strengthen the Soviet’s proposals for an Eastern Locarno Pact, which is designed to impede the develop- ment of just such a war as that which threatened to engulf Europe last week. The Eastern Locarno Pact has been initialed by the Soviet Union, France, Czechoslovakia, Rumania and Jugoslavia, and is awaiting the | signature of the other interested nations, when it would become a general non-aggression agreement | covering Eastern Europe | The protocol just signed in be- [half of France and the Soviet | Union engages the signers to enter into no negotiations with other powers which would be in any way detrimental to the purposes of the Eastern Locarno security pact. The new Soviet-French pact fol- lows the efforts of Nazi Germany to undermine the moves by precipitating w: tral Europe, through its Poland and Hungary. Following the bitter controversy in the League of Nations sessions over the week-end, the imminent danger of the outbreak of war seemed to quiet down somewhat, The forces working for war, how- ever, increased their activities, in their efforts to nullify the Soviet Union's peace moves. The Little Entente (Czechos slovakia, Rumania and Jugoslavia), through Nicholas Titulescu of Ru- mania, will reply on Monday to Hungary’s memorandum to the League of Nations demanding re- vision of the post-war treaties. This is the crux of the question, and it was to precipitate war in order to change the post-war treaties and the boundaries fixed, that fascist Germany instigated Hungary to ter- | rorist deeds to provoke the out- break of a conflict. Mussolini’s agent declared himself backing the aims of Hungary, favoring the bloody re-shuffling of the European post-war boundaries. Meanwhile, it was pointed out here, the growing financial crisis in Italy is speeding the war plans of the fascist govern- ment, not only on the European scene but in Africa where Musso- lini’s troops are going into action against Abyssinia, the Ethiopian kingdom At the League of Nations meet- ings, Maxim Litvinov, Soviet For- | eign Commissar, pointed out the | Soviet Union’s peace policy, its ef- | forts to secure the peace of Europe | by the Eastern Locarno Pact, and sharply exposed the role of various capitalist powers in harboring and | Organizing terrorist bands with the |sole aim of provoking war. a alliance | Pierre Laval, French Foreign Minister, speaking before the | League of Nations Friday, after having entered into the supplement- ary Soviet-French pact, re-affirmed | the peace intentions of the two countries, declared: “Whoever tries to change one frontier post disturbs the peace of Europe.” Toledo Jobless n | Fight for Fresh Meat Through Mass Effort TOLEDO, Ohio, Dec. 9—After | many workers had been made seri- jously ill by eating canned F.E.R.A, |meat, and due to the pressure ex- ja@rted on Relief Administrator | Thompson by the Northwestern | Ohio Unemployment Councils, fresh |meat was ordered to be distributed | to the unemployed. | There is a large quantity of fresh | meat stored in the Great Lakes Terminal Warehouse and this will be given to the unemployed instead }of the condemned canned meat ie was shipped back to Colum- us. we