The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 11, 1934, Page 1

=> Terror Victims || of Spain | An Appeal “In the name of those who} are dear to us, of those who are being tortured and killed, we call upon you, women toil- ers of hand and brain, of all) political convictions, to come to the assistance of the vic-| tims of fascist terror in| Spain!” This is the call to the| women of the world made by the wives and mothers of vic- tims of fascism in Europe and America: Dimitrova, mother | other sons have fallen victims to the fascist terror in Bul- garia, Alma Terracini, wife of the prisoner in Mussolini’s | jail, Mme. Vuillemin of| France, Frau Stenzer of Ger- many and Frau Muennich- réiter of Austria. Mrs. Ada Wright, mother of Roy and Andy Wright, two of the Scottsboro boys, also; subscribed to the appeal as it) was issued through the Inter- national Labor Defense here, which is leading the struggle in America in defense and for material aid to the victims of fascist reaction in Spain. The appeal is addressed to the toiling women of all coun- trie “We, the mothers, sisters, wives and daughters of the toilers who have fallen in struggle in the countries where fascism has developed its wild offensive,” they write, “we, whose dearly loved hus- bands, sons, fathers and brothers are suffering in the prisons and_ concentration camps, call upon you for soli- darity with the fighters in Spain. “In the Hitler jails, in the accursed islands of Mussolini, in the Pilsudski dungeons, in the prisons of Hungary, the! Balkan countries and Austria | —where Thaelmann, Gramsci, | and Rakosi are imprisoned, there are hundreds of thou- sands of other suffering pro-| letarian fighters. “We must unite all our forces, we must show resist- ance to the bloody offensive of fascism, we must hasten to the aid of the victims of bour- geois reaction. Too much blood has been shed; there have been too many victims. It is our duty to fight. “The International Red Aid} (world body of which the IL} L. D. is the American section) is already conducting a world of George Dimitrov, whose| campaign of relief for the victims of Spanish fascism, | for the heroic fighters of As-| turias, Catalonia and the Bas-| que Provinee, who so bravely ; fought in the towns and vil-| lages, supported by their| wives and children. “We, who are still weeping over the death or imprison- ment of our dear ones, stand in the front ranks of this campaign of solidarity with the Spanish fighters. The cause for which they fight is our cause. The struggle for the liberation of the many thousands of prisoners in Spain, and solidarity with them, is our duty on a level with the struggle for the lib- eration of our relatives, “Let us support this cam- paign, and mobilize our forces. All of us, women proletarians, workers, unemployed, farm women, housewives, intellec- tuals—we must all develop tireless activity, become tire- less propagandists for this cause of relief.” Funds for the relief of the victims of Spanish fascism should be sent to the national office of the International La- bor Defense, Room 610, 80 East 11th Street, New York City, for immediate transmis- sion to Spain, through the Spanish I. L. D. Worker Charged With Criminal Syndicalism For Selling ‘Daily’ MEDFORD, Ore., Dec. 10.—Kyle Pugh, of Grants Pass, charged with criminal syndicalism for selling the Daily Worker, is still held under $1,000 bond. A request made by 15 prominent residents of Josephine and Jackson Counties for his re- Jease without bond was denied by Judge H. D. Norton in circuit court last Wednesday. Protests should be sent to Judge Norton and Prosecutor G. A. Cod- ding, Medford, Ore., demanding the release of Pugh and repeal of the anti-labor criminal syndicalist lew. SPEED EFFORTS TO RAISE FUNDS FOR “DAILY” Yesterday's receipts ......... Still Needed to Complete Drive. Press Run Yesterday—42,000 Vol. XI, No. 295 <> ADDITIONAL -$ 519.87 - $6,979.00 Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., under the Act of March 8, 1879. NEW YORK, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1934 TY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL ) NATIONAL A Call to Aid| Vote for Unemployment Insurance--See Ballot for Workers’ Bill on Page 3 Daily QA Worker CENTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PA EDITION (Six Pages) Price 3 Cents JERSEY S.P.FOR WORKERS BILL Destroy More Crops, Says F. D. R. HULL URGES FARMERS TO BACK IMPERIALIST Hunger in Capitalist Countries NASHVILLE, Tenn., Dec. 10.— The principle of destroying agri- cultural crops to raise prices, and the organization of the biggest farm landlords behind a program of imperialist expansion for foreign markets, were the keynotes sounded today in messages delivered by { Roosevelt and Secretary of State | Cordell Hull to the convention of | the Farm Bureau Federation now in session here. In a specially relayed telephone message Roosevelt re-affirmed the A.A.A. program of acreage-reduc- tion, stating that the welfare of the farm producer depended upon “ad- justing the total production to the market that actually exists.” Hull admitted that in this coun- try, as well as throughout the capi- talist world, the policies of the gov- ernments in the crisis have brought “probably 80 per cent or more of the people around or below the poverty line.” Roosevelt boasted of the billion dollar increase in farm income, re- sulting from rising prices and A.A.A, subsidies. But he failed to point out that this increase has been wiped out by even greater ad- vances in the cost of manufactured | goods that the small farmers have to buy, as well as the fact that the lion’s share of this increase has gone only to the larger landlords, who could afford to reduce their acreage in return for government subsidies, and the banks and other mortgage holders. Urges Imperialism Secretary Hull urged the as- sembled farm producers to become | more “foreign trade conscious,” thus calling upon the farm population to solve its difficulties by support- ing the Wall Street program of imperialist drive for new markets. Hull told of the Roosevelt policy of “reciprocal trade agreements” where American exporters bargain with other countries for quotas of exports and imports, declaring that this country’s exporters should set themselves as a goal the winning of 16 to 20 per cent of the world’s trade, now shrunken more than 60 per cent by the ravages of world capitalist crisis. In this way, Hull sought to fix the blame for the poverty and cevastation in the countryside on the other ountries, inciting the farmers to a spirit of imperialist jingoism, in order to divert atten- tion from the misery resulting for the small farmer from the Roose- velt A.A.A. acreage-reduction pro- gram. “In the present low state of agri- cultural prices and of world trade,” Hull stated, “it is especially im- portant to develop foreign trade Trade in Latin America Hull then described the working out of this imperialist policy as it affects Latin America, where Amer- ican imperialism is meeting with more and more serious competition (Continued on Page 2) Which Aid This is the first of a series of articles analyzing the program of Father Coughlin, the “radio priest” whose speeches have led many workers to believe that Coughlin is to be trusted as a leader of the fight against the capitalists and for the needs of the masses. The main emphasis of the ar- ticles will be an examination of Coughlin’s ideas as they affect the needs of the working class now. Who really benefits from Coughlin’s activity? Does his program really offer a solution to the crisis for the workers? Should workers who hate the big Wall Street exploiters follow Coughlin? Where is Couyhlin trying to lead the werkers? And who is inter- A Admits 80 Percent Face | DRIVE FOR MARKETS COTTON WEAR WAGES CUT TEN PER CENT Industrial Co mmittee Makes Decision for 4,000 Factories WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 10.— Wages of cotton garment workers in about 4,000 factories throughout the United States were cut 10 per cent, effective today, in line with | the reduction of weekly hours. from 40 to 36, it was decided by the In- dustrial Committee of the cotton garment industry, acting under direct authority from President Roosevelt. A representative of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America and of the United Gar- ment Workers, both A. F. L. unions, are on the committee. ‘That the wages would be reduced, both weekly rates and piece rates, was predicted by the Daily Worker several months ago when President Roosevelt issued his Executive ; Order that hours were to be re- duced from 40 to 36 in the cotton garment industry. However, the Presideni’s order at that time stated that wages were to remain the same as before. Now the part of the President's order about the hours reduction is allowed to re- main, but the part about there be- ing no reduction in wages is elimi- nated. This wage cutting trick was re. |eral courts, which last week granted 92 manufacturers a stay as to the wages part of the order. The In- dustrial Committee yesterday ap- plied the court’s action to the rest of the industry. Sidney Hillman, president of the A. C. W., and David Dubinsky, president of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union, a few months ago threatened a strike in the cotton garment in- dustry if the wages were not in- creased 10 per cent when the hours were reduced. This strike was called off when President Roosevelt promised that wages would be in- creased to make up for the hours cut. Now, with the aid of union officials, the wage cut has been put through, effective today. Austrian Nazis Fear To Return to Germany PRAGUE, Dec. 10.—The Austrian after the failure of the Vienna putsch, and who have been living there in three camps, will be sent back to Germany, it is announced. Certain of the refugees have re- fused to go back to Germany, and declared that they would prefer to return to Austria no matter what the consequences would be. Him as He ested in seeing that his ideas get the widest publicity? Why does Coughlin attack the Communist Party and the Soviet Union? Why does he support Roosevelt? These are some of the questions that the series will discuss. * npg» Flick the dial of a radio any Sun- day afternoon at 4 o'clock and in a few moments you will hear the voice of one Father Charles E. Coughlin, now known to millions in this country as the “radio priest | of America.” Millions listen to him over a radio network that reaches into every corner of the country, a radio net- work that every year costs remark- ably large sums of money. Millions more read of him in the daily ; ® sorted to With the help of the Fed- | Nazis who took refuge in Yugoslavia | 5 RICH RICHER, | POOR POORER UNDER N.R.A. Big Incomes Soar While | Small Ones Drop, U. S. | WASHINGTON, Dec. 10. — The number of million dollar incomes more than doubled, the profits of big corporations jumped 35 per cent, while the incomes of all groups be- low the $5,000 level dropped sharply as a result of ten months of the Roosevelt New Deal, it has been re- vealed by a statistical survey of the national income just published by the Bureau of Internal Revenue, Blasting the whole structure of the Roosevelt ballyhoo about the “wider distribution of the national income,” the official government re- port shows that the Roosevelt New Deal has only speeded up the proc- ess of placing the lion’s share of the er hands through a slashing of all |; small incomes and a concentration | of wealth and income in the hands of the biggest capitalists. 26 More Make Million This is made clear by the follow- ing figures in the survey: the num- ber of millionaires, that is, persons receiving more than $1,000,000 a year income, rose from the time of Roosevelt's election and the begin- ning of the New Deal up to the mid- dle of 1933 from 20 to 46; these mil- lionaires benefitted by the New Deal to the extent that their income dur- ing this period rose from $35,000,000 to $81,558,000. While the number of rich ex- | panded, the sweep of unemployment. | reduced the number of persons in the lower income brackets as fol- lows: Net Income Classes. 1932 ‘"housands of Dollars.) 1933 | Under 1 | isabe goatee ese18 490,098 237.273 219.735 77,045 74,626] 17,658 18,168 5.844 5,997 | 190-150 962 1,085 | 150-300 a) 693 300-500 138 139 | 500-1,000 80 a4 1,000 and over . 46 Total =...5.. 3.760.402 3.660.105 This table shows that from the | $25,000 a year level up, there was “prosperity” New Deal, while for the millions down below in the lower brackets their conditions became worse. Income in Dollars This is further borne out by the | | } | ten months of the New Deal: Net Income Classes. 1932 1933 (Thousands of Dollars) 7,112,000,000 $6,792,000,000 1,594,995,285 1,477,827,461 1,127,225,987 — 1,096,874,033 601,257,813 621,181,731 376,214,524 394,766,366 116,117,954 129,275,825, 117,049,448 138,869,938 50,947,574 53,787,972 54,451,168 59,511,225 35,239,551 81,558,931 $11,185,499,309 $10,845,653,532 le reveals the startling drop in income for all people below the $25,000 a year level, especially below the $5,000 a year level, and the parallel rise in income for the (Continued on Page 2) newspapers which with singular unanimity give his speeches the most liberal space and prominence. And if one has escaped him in these great engines of propaganda, then he will be surely encountered in a specially made news reel of him which has been going the rounds of the small motion picture houses which “are the centers of life in countless American towns and villages. is amazing. Jobless workers, brood- ing with bitterness and hatred into the streets to starve at the of workers who see thé remors-less deepening of the crisis push ihem (closer and closer to the abyss of un- } As iii. pe ACCORD SEEN cue IN BALKANS The Daily Worker is today forced to hoist a warning signal! There is danger that the money | still needed for the paper may not | slavi ov. 7 be raised by the end of the drive! | Jugoslavia and Hungary With the exception of New York, | Announce Agreement every large district turned in a dis- | ry me Pan STATE PARLEY BACKS NATIONAL Report Shows | national income into fewer and few- | maying amount yesterday. Only |$519 came in. | New York contributed $404, Milwaukee sent in $33. The highest after that was $11 each from Chicago and Pittsburgh. Only five days remain to raise the $6,979 still desperately needed by the “Daily” before the drive ‘ends! Chicago must raise $1,333; Cleve- |land, $293; Pittsburgh, $263. New York lacks $1,273. These districts, and Minneapolis, Seattle, California and Buffalo, are still far from accelerating their pace sufficiently. The same is true of St. Louis, North Dakota, South Da- kota, and the other small districts. | “In Principle” | GENEVA, Dec. 10.—After bitter | discussions, and the oft-s2peated | threats of war, Jugoslavia and Hun- luce reached an accord “in prin- | ciple” on their difference arising | |from the assassination of King | |Alexander, it was announced today jin the League of Nations, | The ar iouncement of the “accor”, Auto Workers Union |came as a surprise as the Previous | Asks for Unity debates had been sharply personal Z 2 i and acrid. The greatest pressure | in Elections to prevent war was exerted by the | " Soviet Union in conjunction with By A. B. Magil France, whose agreement to still| Sony Moonee eres UNITED LABO VOTE URGED IN AUTO POLL 0) under the Roosevelt | following table showing actual dol-| Jar and cents income during the first | The Daily Worker must have the money by Dee. 15. | What will be the answer? | MAYOR SCABS INPITTSBURGH |further strengthen their security | past and the Eastern Locarno past, |had a tremendous effect on the jcourse of events at Geneva. France introduced a draft of a treaty providing for the creation of an International Criminal Court This was aimed particularly at the terrorist gangs sponsored by the }on the appeal of Jugoslavia to the (Daily Worker Pittsburgh Bureau) {Teague of Nations, blaming Hun- PITTSBURGH, Pa. Dec. 10.— | gary for assisting in the plot against Federal conciliators were brought in | the life of King Alexander. \today in an attempt to settle the| The International Criminal Court it was explained \strike of 300 truck drivers, members pts pals rg lesa on poten jof the A. F. of L. Local 249, who |the following cases: When an ac- walked out Saturday morning when | cused terrorist takes refuge in a ,330,602 |the Red Star, J. Kenny, and M. J.|country other than that which | |Hannon ‘Transfer Companies re- |Wishes to prosecute him, and when ‘ ‘; . |the country which the crime was fused ‘their demands for a new con- jcommitted renounces the prosecu- jtract and increase from 65 cents | tion, |to one dollar an hour. | Though the “accord” temporarily | Seab deliveries are being made for | decrees the severity of the situation the A. and P. Tea Co., with which |at the Hungarian-Jugoslav border, jthe three companies hold hauling |it does not in the least wipe out the |contracts, under the protection of |basic cause for the near out-break. | Mayor McNair, city police, deputies |The Fascists in Germany, and the \and State troopers. Palate fi ruling class still continue | trucks on Saturday and Sunday, rg \the Nazis in Germany arming to and had several strikers arrested lcarry out their wishes at that they |consider the most favorable moment. i 3,500 Crowd Theatre At Benefit in Newark For Ledger Strikers |for booing him as a scab. This morning strixers, scabs, and |Police clashed in Collins Ave., with three sent to hospital following a | battle. Two others were taken to hospital yesterday. Deliveries have been curtailed to @ great extent, but no picket lines for the repression of terrorist groups. | | {Hitler regime in Germany, Hungary |and other countries. | Nicholas Titulescu, foreign min-| \ister of Rumania, made a speech have been established, strikers cruis- ing about in machines, and trucks are being steadily loaded. John Frankel, attorney for the strikers, has announced that the men will go back at 75 cents an hour, and there is danger that if A. F. of L. policies are followed in the present strike as in that of the Swift Co. drivers, it will conclude in some kind of a lockout. No at- five hundred persons jammed the Mosque Theatre last night, where Screen and radio stars joined in one Jof the most elaborate entertain- ments Newark has seen in a long time. The occasion was a benefit for the striking Ledger editorial workers. After the performance a torch- NEWARK, N. J., Dec. 10.—Thirty- | By Milton Howard light procession paraded to the Ledger building and staged a dem- onstration there. About 250 par- ticipated in the parade. Response to the Citizens Commit- | tee in Support of the Strikers is in- creasing, with the number of pledges to boycott the Ledger piling up. tempts are being made to pull out {other drivers or to spread the strike in any way. Seventeen strikers have been ar- rested. Ten were released this morn- ling in police court; the other seven were held under $1,000 bail each for further hearing. employment, in whose minds there | to say that Coughlin makes a tre- is growing the determination to find | mendous appeal to millions of hon- a way out of the crisis in a new est American workers eager to fight man who is leading the fight! erately uses language that makes DETROIT, Mich, Dec. 10.—The Auto Workers Union today decided to propose to all legitimate trade unions in the automobile indus the holding of a joint mass meet to organize a united labor front i the elections that are being launched in the auto plants by the Automo- bile Labor Board. The union an- nounces that in order not to split the labor vote, it further proposes to call on all its mémbers and on | production workezs as a whole to | vote for the A. F. of L. United Auto- mobile Workers, and on all tool and die makers to vote for the Mechan- ics Educational Society of Amer- ica. The Auto Workers Union decided on these steps as a result of the announcement just. made by the Automobile Labor Board that it is preparing to hold elections for col- lective bargaining representatives at | | the Cadillac Motor Co. The union charges that the elections are being | organized in a way to assure vic- tory to the company unions less the legitimate trade unions act to present a common front. Demands Outlawing of Co. Unions | In announcing its proposals, the A. W. U. also declares its opposition to this whole system of elections, and demands the outlawing of com- pany unions and the right of the| workers to elect department and shop committees to condyct direct negotiations with the compani The Auto Workers Union a | announces that it is requesting that | j its representatives be alloted time at the hearings on conditions in the | automobile industry, to be held Sat- Lea and Sunday in Detroit, in connection with President Roose- | vent’s so-called survey of the in- | dustry. The elections at the Cadillac Com- pany have been designed as another |link in the chains of company |unionism that the open shop auto magnates are trying to forge on the limbs of the tens of thousands of |men and women in the industry. It jis a direct result of the strike- | breaking Washington settlement of | March 25, negotiated by the com- panies, the Government and the A. | F. of L. leaders. | The announcement of the Auto- mobile Labor Board provides for the |holding of elections inside the | Plants, with the workers designat- ing on their ballots the representa- | (Continued on Page 3) Coughlin, Radio Priest, Maintains Secret Ties With Wall Street | Pretends to Lead the Fight Against Big Capital | SES Ah 6 sce COR A REN UP EE CONGRESS AND RELIEF STRIKE Unemployment Leagues Elect Delegates for Washington Rally TRENTON, N. J., Dec. 10. — The State convention of the Socialist Party of New Jersey which met here on Saturday and yesterday en- the Workers Unemployment ial Insurance Bill, decided ort the National Congress employment and Social In- surance which is to meet in Wash- ington early next month, and en- dorsed the state-wide strike of re- ers on January 2, called by the ate Conference for Unem- ployment and Social Insurance. All of these measures were ap- proved by the convention after a delegation from the State Confer- ence for Unemployment and Social Insurance presented a letter ask- ing tk they get the support of the Socialist Party Backs State-Wide Strike TRENTON, N. J., Dec. 10—More than 140 delegates, representing 65,000 workers, partictpated in a State Conference for Unemploy- ment and Social Insurance on Sat- urday, and decided to call a state- wide strike of relief workers on Jan. 2. The delegates consisting of rep- resentatives from unemployed ors ganizations, trade unions, and fra- ternal organizations also endorsed the Workers Unemployment and Social Insurance Bill, and came out in full support of the National Congress for Unemployment and Social Insurance which is to be held in Washington on Jan. 5th to 7th. | The state-wide strike of the re- lief workers will demand a mini- mum cf $18 a week for unskilled workers and union ages for skilled workers. A special conference of the unemployed organizations leid plans for the strike, and decided to @ffiliate with the National Unem- ployment Councils. The Conference constituted itself the state federation of the National Congress, and the trade union and fraternal delegates decided to con- stitute themselves local committees |to push organizational plans for the National Congress. Resolutions were passed demande ing the release of Mooney and Bill- ings and the Scottsboro boys. A | telegram was sent to Relief Ad- ministrator Cole protesting against his action in cutting off milk from ; the unemployed in Essex and other | counties. This morning as the re- | sult of the protest the milk was (Continued on Page 2) 2 Misleaders Resign From | Toledo Union | TOLEDO, Ohio, Dec. 10—Thomas Ramsey and Floyd Bossler, who mis- led the Auto-Lite workers in the historic strike last summer, resigned d Automobile Work- ion, of which they were officials, after a motion at @ Jocal meeting to suspend them came | within five votes of the two-thirdg |mecessary to carry. The union has |5,000 members and is the largest in Toledo. Although the local capitalist press announces that the resignation was |due to “differences in the manage- |ment of the union,” it is due to the lrevolt of the rank and file which social order, look to Coughlin asthe | for a better life because he delib- | against the capitalists, against Wall him secm the apostle of a new so- | jof Coughlin’s career, the fact that has been developing ever since the this man in whom millions of | betrayal of the Auto Lite strike by workers have pinned their faith as | these officials. Ramsey and Bossler a leader against the hatred fortress |were forced to resign, despite ef of Wall Street capitalist exploita-|forts of President Green, of the tion, is himself in closest contact !A. F. of L., to assist them through Street and the banks. |cial order, of a fight against big Who listens to him? The answer | with a system which flings them | whim of any capitalist employer, | listen to nim with hope. Millions | ‘ Coughlin appears before them as , caPital. a “radical” who is unafraid of the| In short, Coughlin makes his ap- exploiters, as a fearless fighter of | peal to the workers as a fighter the Wall Street finance capital | against wretchedness which they groups in whom the workers in-/ feel as their daily lot under capi- stinctively see their main enemy. talism, Coughlin comes before the workers’ And this appeal is heeded by in the role of a mass prophet de-| orowing numbers of workers be- nouncing “unfair capitalists,” de- | cause hatred of capitalism is filling manding for the workers a “fair /the hearts of the American working share of the profits,” calling upon ‘class, as the United States enters the government to “protect the upon the sixth year of the crisis. | poor.” t | Later, we shall examine his pro- | gram in detail, But now it suffices | 'HIS brings us to the most re-j markable, the most sinister fact | with these Wall Street groups, holds | secret conferences with the biggest, | most reactionary Wall Street bank- lers, gets advice and help from the very capitalist millionaires whom he | denounces in his radio speeches! The full tracing of Coughlin’s | capitalist Wall Street connections is |& job that still remains to be done. When it is undone it will uneover |a trail of reactionary-fascist dick- ering behind the scenes that will | showing an extraordinary parallel | to the way the big German indus- | organizers especially sent to Toledo, The climax in the struggle within the local was reached when the | question of negotiations for a new wage scale came before the mem- bership. | During the crucial moment prior jto the outbreak of a general strike in Toledo, Ramsey was hailed by the Muste-led Workers Party here |as a great “leader.” He was mest responsible in averting the General Strike. The Communist Party warned the workers against these trialists financed a certain furious , misleaders, and the latest develop= ments are a result of the growing rank and file control in the union, | (Continued on Page 6)