The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 13, 1934, Page 1

Workers! Cast Your Vote Today for Unemployment Insurance-—See Ballot for Bill on Page 3 3 FRATERNAL ORGANIZATIONS: SPEED FUNDS INTO THE ‘DAILY’ TODAY! Yesterday’s receipts Stifl Needed to Complete Drive . 3 494.40 «$6,175.10 Press Run Yesterday—43,700 SPR FR LSAT ON Daily QA Worker CENTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERWATIONAL ) \AT IONAL EDITION Vol. XI, No. 297 > New York, N. ¥., under th Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at ¢ Act of March &, 1879. NEW YORK, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1934 (Six Pages) Price 3 Cents ROOSEVELT GALLS WAR COUNCIL Workers’ Bill Ballots Pour In to rm 000 VOTES [te Days ten PER DAY SET IN CAMPAIGN New England Strikers | Back Jobless Parley— Unity Moves Planned Hundreds upon hundreds of bal- lots began pouring into the Daily Worker yesterday in its campaign to obtain one million votes for the Workers Unemployment and Social Insurance Bill by Jan. 1. Forty thousand ballots must be received each day during the rest of the drive if the campaign is to end successfully. The balloting must | be carried forward with all possible speed, the Daily Worker manage- ment urged, adding that every bal- lot must be in the hands of the workers within the next two weeks. In undertaking their share of the | drive, the sections in New York City have pledged to obtain 250,000 votes for the Workers’ Biil. workers’ organizations, trade unions and other groups have been urged to obtain supplies of the ballots and immediately begin to obtain votes in the shops, at the relief stations, in thé C. C. C. camps, and wherever workers are gathered. . Strikers Back Congress NASHUA, N. H., Dec. 12—The Nashua local of the United Shoe and Leather Workers Union, with | a membership of 500, who are now on strike against the Fletcher and LaSalle Shoe Shops, endorsed the National Congress for Unemploy- ment Insurance and the Workers Unemployment Insurance Bill at their last regular meeting. The workers also voted to order one hundred sheets of supporters’ stamps, to be sold at five and ten cents a stamp, to help defray the costs of the Congress. A committee was elected to arrange for a special meeting on the election of delegates to the Congress. Dan McBain, of the Concord Granite Cutters. Union, which had previously endorsed the Congress, and who is a member of the State Sponsoring Committee, spoke at the invitation of the workers. He outlined the call to the Congress and the need for enactment of the Workers Unemployment Insurance Bill. United Front Plans Action PORTLAND, Me., Dec. 12. — The united front committee of Com- munist, Socialist and other work- ers which was elected at the mass meeting neld here last week in sup- port of the National Congress for Unemployment Insurance, agreed on a plan of action to rally wide- spread support and to appoint com- mittees to obtain direct represen- tation from the shops. Under the plan of action, two committees were selected to get delegates from the Rigby Railroad Shop and from the Cumberland County Power and Light Company. A letter was dispatched to all trade unions and other organizations urging them in the name of the united front committee to enter into all phases of the campaign for the Workers Unemployment Insur- ance Bill. Further arrangements have been made for the sale of supporting stamps for the Congress, election of speakers, and for a city-wide mass meeting where the Workers’ Bill will be outlined and discussed. Polish Conference Planned PAWTUCKET, R. I, Dec. 12— Polish fraternal organizations here will launch a mass conference on the National Congress for Unem- ployment Insurance under the auspices of the Polish Federation of Labor. Seven organizations representing 4,000 Polish people in the city have thus far elected delegates to the city conference, which will be open to the public. The meeting will be held on Sunday afternoon, Dec. 23. Shamokin Workers to Meet SHAMOKIN, Pa., Dec. 12.—Eight organizations have thus far sent in credentials for the Sunbury county conference for the National Con- ‘ess fcr Unemployment Insurance. mons + erganizations repre- inted a:. tvo Iccals of the United Mine Workers of America, All | To Go Over Sending $138 to-the Daily Worker yesterday, Chicago jumped ahead of Pittsburgh and made a_ serious threat to Cleveland and Buffalo in the struggle for second place among the districts which have not yet completed their quotas in the Daily | Worker drive. Cleveland has raised 90 per cent of its quota, Buffalo has 86 and Chicago, 83 per cent. New York also went up—to 97 per cent—by sending $241. With the drive not officially over until Saturday afternoon, all the districts which have not yet finished their quotas can still send in enough money to put the Daily Worker over the top. ~ Pittsburgh and Cleveland, for in- stance, need less than $300 each. Buffalo needs only $99. New York, Chicago, and the other districts must make a final, major | | effort to raise every cent possible for the Daily Worker! Workers! See that your district goes over the top! DETROIT AUTO UNION BACKS OUT OF PACT DETROIT, Dec. 12.—The district council of the United Auto Workers Union (A. F. of L.) under pressure of the dissatisfaction of the rank and file auto workers, has written William Green, president of the A. F. of L., announcing the withdrawal of the union from the presidential pact of Jast March 25. This pact, signed by Roosevelt, ny Green and other A. F. of L. leaders, prevented the auto strike and set up the com- pulsory arbitration Automobile La- bor Board. The district committee of the union, however, is again misleading the workers by calling for another “impartial” board to replace the Auto Labor Board. The auto work- ers are particularly dissatisfied with the support given the company unions by the Roosevelt Auto Labor Board, and by the merit system in the auto code. Farmers Protest Relief Shipment as Food Rots BOSTON, Mass., Dec. 12—Massa- chusetts farmers today lodged vehement protests with the Federal Emergency Relief Administration after 6,000,000 pounds of cabbage was sent to this State for distribu- tion to the unemployed. The farm- ers, stating that their own produce was rotting in the markets without a purchaser, pointed out that most. of the large F. E. R. A. shipment would likewise rot before distribu- tion. The six million pounds of cabbage arrived here Friday in 226 carloads. U.S. NEGRO IS ELECTED Robert Robinson Named by Fellow Workers to City Soviet By Vern Smith (Special to the Daily Worker) MOSCOW, Dec. 12 (By Radio) — Amid tremendous enthusiasm, work- ers in Moscow enterprises who cast their votes during the first day of the elections to the Moscow City | and District Soviets, elected Robert Robinson, Negro tool maker and So- | viet shock brigader, in company with Joseph Stalin. Mikhail Kalinin and other Soviet leaders and shock brigaders to the Moscow City So-| viet. Heinz Rosher, leader of the Flor- | idsdorf Shutzbund of Vienna in the anti-fascist fighting last February, | and later received asylum in the) Soviet Union, was elected a deputy of the Moscow Soviet by his fellow workers of the Stalin automobile plant. Robinson, who worked for six years in a Detroit motor factory without receiving recognition of his abilities or promotion, has been pro- | moted several times since he came to the Soviet Union in 1930 and, in addition, has received several sub- stantial money awards for a num- ber of important inventions and technical proposals. While working at the Stalingrad tractor plant, he was assaulted by two white American engineers who objected to his eating in the same restaurant with them. This chau- vinist act provoked a storm of in- dignation from the Soviet workers, who declared their relentless oppo- sition to any attempt to introduce capitalist race hatred and chauvin- ism into the workers’ fatherland. After a mass trial, in which tens of thousands of workers participated. Robinson's assailants were expelled from the country. Every Worker Votes More than thirty of the largest enterprises in Moscow, including the Stalin automobile plant, Kagano- vitch Ballbearing plant, the Dynamo plarit of the electric combine, car- ried through their elections on Mon- day, with every single worker at- tending the election meetings. The electors discussed the work of tne Moscow city and district Soviets in an exceptionally businesslike man- ner, while the mandates which they gave the 1ew membership of tie fioviets expressed the firm wilt of ike proletarians to pish the strug- gie against the remr.ants of capit.3l- ism with yeoater energy and seli- denial for the cons'ruction of the slassless soviety, for the transfer- mation of the U.S.S.R. into the rich- est country o: tre world, and Red Moscow into the model Socialist capital. Viacheslavy Molotov, J. M. Kagan- ovitch, Jdanov, chairman of the Moscow Soviet, and Bulganin, ad- dressed the election meetings at the various plants and were often in- IN MOSCOW * ANTI-SEMITIC SPEECH MADE Platform of Coughlin Is Based on Capitalism “Assails” Monopolies—But Urges Workers) To Support Private Property Basis of Their Wall Street Rule By Milton Howard Article 111 AVING set Coughlin’s program down in its entirety in yesterday’s article, we are now in a position to come close to the trick by which he manages to pose as a friend of the | workers and at the same time work hand in glove with the} very Wall Street capitalists against whom he declaims. Coughlin’s trick is simply this: he carefully chooses his words so that they contain an apparent | “attack” on some aspect of capi- | talism that the workers hate | while he always couples this “at- | tack” with another idea that | completely nullifies it, and ac- tually centains the reactionary program of the Wall Street capi- BY COUGHLIN By A.B B. 3. Magil (Special to the Daily Worker) ROYAL OAK, Mich., Dec. 12.— Venomous, lying attacks on the Communist Party, anti-semitic in- nuendoes, defense of Henry Ford, and firm unequivocal opposition to unemployment and social insurance —these were the sinister fascist features that emerged from behind the mask of priestly phrases in a speech made by Father Charles E. Coughlin, before an audience that packed the chapel next to his shrine of the Little Flower last night. Last night’s utterances were among the most significant Father | Coughlin has ever made. In many respects they bore a startling re- semblance to the demagogic propa- ganda of Hitler before he came to power. Throughout his speech| Coughlin, who has launched a new} potentially fascist movement, the) National Union for Social Justice, repeatedly invoked the authority of the Catholic Church and Pope Pius XI for everything he said and did. Lies About Communists Echoing the worst police provo- cations, he said at one point: “If labor is smart, they'll never join the Communists by throwing bombs into factories, bursting machinery and bursting your chances for work.” At another point he declared: “I'll give you one reason why I wouldn't be a Communist. I still believe in private initiative, that the man who wants to work is better than the man who has been educated to live on the hind springs of a box- car. Communism is generally ad- vocated by the man who doesn’t want to work.” Coughlin indicated the true pur- (Continued on Page 2) (Continued on Page 2) talists. He “always hands his ideas out in pairs—one the “radi- cal” sugar-coating, and the other the reactionary policy of the em- ployers. His is the favorite trick of ap-| pearing to oppose “both Commu- (Continued on Page 6) THREE BOYS DIE IN FIRE AT CCC CAMP NORRIS, Tenn., Dec, 12.—Three C.C.C. boys, unable to find work and reduced to working for the government at $1 a day wage, were burned to death beyond recognition today as they were caught in a fire which destroyed the C.C.C. camp here a mile from the Norris Dam. The boys all came from the New York area. Their bodies have been identified as: Elwood Kramer, 20, of Nutley, N. J., Jacob Klein, 20, of the Bronx, and Charles De Palma, 21, of East Orange, N. J. More than 200 boys were roused from their beds by the tire and shivered thinly clad in the freezing alr, All reports of the fire have come through the commanding officers in charge, so that detailed exvlanation of how the boys met their death has. not been forthcoming. A! curious circumstance of the official) reports is that the deaths of the boys was not discovered until some time after the fire, Ann Burlak Arrested In Police Raid on Home Of Worker in Danville DANVILLE, Va. — Ann Burlak, nationally-known union leader, and Jane Allen, a local worker, were arrested here Tuesday in a raid on the home of a Negro workez, where a number of neighbors had gathered to discuss plans for sending dele- gates to the Unemployed Congress at Washington. The two were released Wednes- day morning on their own recog- nizance, to appear in court next Tuesday. Charges against them have not been announced. BIG BUSINESS DEMANDS BAN AGAINST 6. P. System Is Urged by Commerce Group WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 12.— An open call to outlaw the Com- munist Party and the formation of |@ special national police system to | |fight the revolutionary labor move- }ment were recommended today by |the Chamber of Commerce of the} | United States, leading group of in- |dustrialists and employers. This follows the recent demand | | open shop conditions by the N: tional Manufacturers Association. | In a specially prepared circular | sent to all its members, the Cham- ber of Commerce warned that the | and economic order.” Follows Police Plan This open call for terrorism! | against the Communist Party and |all militant labor groups, includ- ing the trade unions, takes on added significance in the light of Roosevelt's recent declaration for a| Federal police system. The circular proposes the follow- ing measures: 1. The enactment of a Federal sedition law, similar to that in force | in Canada, where the Communist Party is illegal, to make all “sedi- tious conspiracy” ject to fine and six years imprison- ment. This would be broad enough to include practically any kind of militant utterance or criticism of the government. 2) The formation of federal secret ment of Justice to “investigate all oan activities with especial reference to the Communist Party Heda its foreign relationships.” This section of the report is pecially provocative against the So- viet Union, accusing the Sovie’ sov- | ernment of “openly and defiantly proselytizing for the forcible over- | throw of the present political and economic order,” and charging the Communist Party wi “Soviet domination.” 3) The launching of a terroristic drive against all foreign-born, and a strict closing of all immigration to any worker who is a “member of an organization advocating violent overthrow of the Federal govern- ment.” Would Shut Mails 4) The shutting of the m all literature and newspapers “w advocates or is distributed by organization which advocates sub- versive doctrines.” to ich disaffection or insubordination,” di- fight against their class brothers on | the other side of the lines. (Continued on Page 2) Nation al Police Spy illegal and sub-| spy agency as part of the Depart-| ‘Daily’ ORDERS BILLS DRAWN TO MOBILIZE MASSES, PLANTS F | Baruch, Johnson, Cab | Baruch himself showed his skill in making profits by clean: | h being under} an} To White House— OR CONFLICT inet, Army Staff Called Taking Profit Out of War’ is Smokescreen for Action Dec. 12.—_Under the smoke-s WASHINGTON, “taking profit out of war,” Pr the drafting of legislation p and immediate mobilization c tion and the preparation of ir for more drastic wage-cutting and | perialist war. In order to insure, at the same time, the for Wall Street out of the next war, leading representatives of J. | Bernard M. Baruch, and Hu dustries and the Wilson adminis lions in war stocks by his inside k The drastic nature of Roosevel mobilization’ of the entire country about “taking profit out of war,” Roosevelt government is going in | fare. reen of esident Roosevelt today ordered roviding for the most gigantic of the American toiling popula- ndustry for the next bloody im- greatest profits the President summoned P. Morgan interests, such as ghs Johnson, besides Cabinet Government had “been unfortu- | mately too lenient in dealing with | officials, for a conference at the White House at 2 p.m. to work out the propaganda intended to forcibly | war mobilization program overthrow the governmental, social, | Bernard M. Baruch was the go-between for the Morgan war in- tration during the World War. up 1 nowledge of the Wilson war program. it’s present step, the open call for the for war, garnished with the tripe shows to what great lengths the its rapid preparation for actual war- WAR COUNCIL SET UP Having already increased its expenditure for war beyond any pre- vious administration outside of the period of the last imperialist war, and having provided for th: ican history, the Roosevelt regim test val arms bt ing race in Amer- e now takes this additional step as an emphasis of its rapid move to war. The set-up in Washington c! General Douglas MacArthur, chief includes creates reated of staff of the U. by Roosevelt, whi S. Ar h my, a war-planning council, to prepare for the conscription of the working masses conduct of any Under the out of war,” emagogic slogan, President Roosevelt a desperate way out of the crisis of Amer: little doubt that the sharpeniz imperialism has speeded this step, severe than either the Roosevelt g permitted to leak out. for the rapidly appoaching impeialist war, and to provide for slashing of wages in war time for the most prof war which may come in the interest of Wall Street. “The time has come to take the profit able and effective spurred the preparation for war as ican capitalism. There is conflict between American and Japanese and the danger of war is much more overnment cr the capitalist press has WOULD CUT WAGES TO ARMY LEVEL This threat of mobilization for war, a nouncement by she ¥ Arms Treaty, Japan that vets, he talks about “equalizing” and workers in the munitions in won't arise any more, if the Ameri war intact. which gives Wall Street While fighting against the payment of the bonus to o, precedes the expected an- will renounce the Washington "Naval superiority in naval armaments. the World War the pay of soldiers in the next war dustries, so that the bonus question ican imperialists come out of the next Those called to the Cabinet meeting at the White House this after- noon to discuss Roosevelt’s war mobilization schemes are precisely those who would be consulted now if a war were to break out. Secretary Setretary of State Hull, Secretary of War Dern, Generai Secretary of Agriculture Wallace, y Roosevelt, sistant Secretary of Na | road Coordinator Eastman, George 5) The creation of special agencies) Baruch and General Hugh to guard the armed forces »“from| The American Federation of Labor | Joh: MEN EXPERIENC! Besides being Morgan’s man in | ence in the last World We They are: of the Treasury Morgenthau, Douglas MacArthur, Chief of Staff; Secretary of Navy Swanson, A®t- Secretary of Labor Perkins, Rail- Peek, Foreign Trade Adviser; Bernard inson. ED IN WORLD WAR the Wilson administra tion during the rected algainst the Communist| tact world War, Baruch was the chairman of the War Industries Board. Party's call to the troops not to! General Johnson was one of his secretaries. It is because of their experi- —-particularly their expe nee in helping the big bosses clean up billions in profits—that prompted Roosevelt to call (Continued on Page 2) WORKERS! MASS FORCES AGAINST WAR! RESIDENT ROOSEVELT called a virtual war council into session yesterday afternoon. Unable to hid The for war preparations, Roosevelt is forced to talk AN EDI le the fact that he has spent billions Unable to TORIAL moving to war and fascism in its desperate and criminal efforts to get out of the To ) crisis. We have | Nationai | the Socialist Party Executive Committee put off action on tt members we say: Your and fascism until 1 express purpose of this meeting of the leading war mobilization specialists of the last imperialist war was to prepare to plunge this country at the short- est notice and in the most complete and dramatic manner into a new imperialist slaughter. No worker should be fooled by the camouflage about calling the meeting to discuss ways of “taking the profit out of war.” Wars are made for profit, to protect the profit of the rich, to increase their plunder in the world market, to seize more colonial booty. Is it any wonder that in discussing the subter- fuge of how “to eliminate profits in war,” President Roosevelt calls in the expert of Morgan & Co,, who in the last world butchery helped the bankers, the industrialists and other parasites to clean up billions out of the welter of blood and slaughter of the American working class. Why is this war council called at this time? The Roosevelt government is preparing to threaten Japan with war in order to force the Japanese im- perialists to be content with a smaller navy than Wall Street is now building. The New Deal is mo- bilizing the whole country for war in order to in- sur> the American bankers’ plunder of the Chinese and Far Eastern markets. about “taking the profit out of war.” hide from the masses that he is getting ready to plunge them into the bloodiest, the most criminal slaughter in history for the profit of the rich para- sites in this country, Roosevelt talks about raising the wages of the soldiers in the next world Slaughter. The Roosevelt government, despite all its promises and demagogy, has not been able to solve the economic crisis. The conditions of the masses, work- ers and farmers, grows worse. The unemployed have their relief slashed, while the profits of the employers are forced up at the expense of the whole working class. In this situation the Roosevelt government now moves to the most drastic measures in an effort to drive American capitalism out of its crisis, this time at the expense of the wholesale slaughter, maiming and butchery of the American workers. What mockery to talk about “taking profits out of war!” in order to hide the fact that the Roose- velt regime is rushing to a most gizantic imperialist slaughter with seven league boots. Every day ‘rings beforre the American workers what the Communist Party has emphasized and warned them about. American capitalism is rapidly already had the exposures of the fascist moves. Now | we have the thunder-bolt news of Roosevelt’s con- | vocation of a virtual war mobilization cabinet. Can anything more powerfully show the need for immediate united action of all the workers against the danger of war? Rooscvelt no longer talks in general terms about war preparedness. He actual calls in the chief war experts to draft ways and means of labelling every worker, of mobilizing industry for the prosecution of an imperialist war, of a bloody, criminal slaughter for the preservation of the capitalist profit system, for the increase of | its plunder and booty. | We must speed our action against war, arousing | and rallying the working class for a revolutionary struggle against Rooseveli’s war plans, now reaching a high stage of fruition. The war danger which only yesterday hung over Europe, in the Balkans | and in the Saar, just as severely and as dan; ously hangs over the heads of the American toiling population. Only a revolutionary struggle egainst Roose- velt’s wer program can prevent war. Noverit we must rally all those who sincerely do not want | war and are ready to act and join their forces to fight to prevent it. r % \ united front against war But now we see the imperialist war mobilization going on apace. Can we say now whether befcre 1936 the ruling class will not decide to plunge us into a bloody slaughter for the preservation cf their system, for the seizure of new markets, new bo new colonies? Certainly we must unite our forces now to fight against the ov & We can best do this impetus to the working cl: fight a’ st war. In every branch, in every stato, we should make efforts now to achieve the united front against the danger of a new imperialist slaughter being en- gineered by the Roosevelt regime. Let us form the united front against war and fascism everywhere! To wait, for whatever hypo- critical reason is given, helps and strong’ is great! The Re rs are already hi coun- t mass our forces, the forces of the toil alist war, against fas- cism, for the unity of the working class in the face of the gravest danger, ‘ Trial Date Set For Hathaway ‘And Raymond Clarence Hatt Daily Wor staff writer, will face trial on Jan,.7 on chazges of criminal libel, made in. reprisal against the newspaper's ex- | pose of New York strikebreaking editor of the Raymond, agencie! Hath y and Raymond appeared before Judge Morris Koenig in Part 9 of General Ses- sions when the case was called to trial but were granted an adjourn- ment at the request of Edward Kuntz, International Labor Defense Attoz:ney, on the ground that. the {court had not given the defendants sufficient notice. Hathaway and Reymond were in- dicted on June 12 on the charges made by George Williams, then cons neetrd “4 the Sherwood Detective | Agency. ms is now employed joy x. L. Bergrfi, owner of another lagency dealt with in the expose, t