The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 14, 1934, Page 1

Join i in the Campaign for Unemployment Tn: nsurance— ARRANGE WEEK-END AFFAIRS, HOUSE PARTIES FOR DRIVE Yesterday's Receipts .... Stil Needed to Complete Drive Press Run Yesterday—42,900 EI van canna ea CaN RET NTE Vol. XI, Ne. 298 <-> * aily QA Worker CHITRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL ) Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. Y. under the Act of March 8, 1878. NEW YORK, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1934 —See Ballot for Workers’ Bill on ‘Page pied NATIONAL EDITION (Six Pages) Price 3 Cents STEEL UNIONS BACK SURETY PARLEY F.D.R. in War Draft Plan Takes New Step Against Wages FIGHT ANTI-LABOR DRIVE, SAYS MOVE TO BAN C.P. 1S AIMED AT ALL LABOR Unity of all workers Is| Needed to Combat Big Business NEW YORK.—"The public call of the Chamber of Commerce for the outlawing of the Communist Party and all militant workers is aimed against the very life of every trade union, every unemployed and every working class organization,” Wil- liam Z. Foster, national secretary of the Trade Union Unity League, de- clared in an interview with the Daily Worker yesterday. “The recommendations of the Chamber of Commerce, the most powerful organization of the em- ployers which dictates government. policy,” Foster declared, “if carried into effect would mean the strang- ling of all the elementary rights of the workers and the destruction of their organizations.” Foster urged an immediate united front of all the trade unions, the A. F. of L. members, the Socialists, and every worker and farmer, with the Communists, to combat these fascist. proposals. He said: “The Chamber of Commerce proposes to enact a federal sedition law which makes six years’ imprisonment the penalty for membership in a fight- ing workers’ organization. The C. of C. proposes to deport all militant foreign-born workers and set up @ federal spy system to spy on the workers. The employers’ organiza- tion attacks the Soviet Union, the workers’ government. The workers’ press is to be abolished, and all ele- mentary rights taken away from the workers, if the Chamber of Commerce recommendations go through. This report is aimed against every member of the A. F. of L.: against every Socialist and every member of an unemployed organization as well as against the Communists.” Linked With Open Shop Drive ‘The ‘proposal of the Chamber of Commerce to outlaw the workers’ organizations, Foster continued, is inseparably linked up with the open shop, wage cut drive of the em- ployers. “They feel they cannot lower the standard of living of the American workers unless they at the same time suppress those militant workers who have been most active in the fight for higher wages for better conditions and for union recognition, “The report of the Chamber of Commerce signalizes the campaign to outlaw strikes, to reduce wages, to smash the trade unions and en- trench the company unions, and to increase speed-up. These proposals are a leaf taken bodily from Hit- Jer’s book. They are a definite move for fascism. “It is significant that these anti- working class proposals come just after the meeting of the National Association of Manufacturers which laid down a so-called ‘Recovery’ program, which means an attack on the workers’ living standards all (Continued on Page 2) 800 Jobless Miners Seize Courtroom McALESTER, Okla, Dec. 13.— Eight hundred unemployed miners took seats in the district court room here today after a march from nearby towns, and announced that they were staying until they were all given jobs and immediate is- suance of $5 grocery orders. The jobless miners had come from surrounding towns. First they assembled at Hartshorne for a hun- ger march to set forth their re- lief demands to the relief author- ities. Many of the miners stated that they had not worked for two years and more. Relief in Oklahoma, has varied from $1 to $2 a week for en- tire families. County F. E. R, A. officials at Pittsburgh, Okla., stated “friend of the poor’ and as Street industrialists. is also for private property, for capitalist profit that inevitably ac- companies private property in the means of production. He is for trade unions—but he is against strikes. (See his speech of Dec. 2). He is against lock-outs—but he is also against strikes and picket- ing. He is for “feeding the poor’—but he is against. unemployment insur- ance to be paid for by the bosses and the | government. He is for nationalization”—but he the secret agent of the Wall| He is for “conscripting wealth in | time of war”—so that he may also | be in favor of conscripting the workers whom he will urge to die in defense of Morgan's profits. He is “against fascism and com- munism’—so that he may organize | the fight against the leading enemy | of fascism, the Communist Party. | He is “for a living wage”—but he | thinks the $1 a day forced labor scale in the C.C.C. camps is a model as @ relief program. He cries that the rich dominate (Continued on Page 2) RELIEF MEN WIN POINT IN STRIKE (Special to the Daily Worker) DETROIT, Dec. 13.—The strike of the unemployed single men at Fisher Lodge, Municipal Flop house, won an important partial victory when the County Welfare Commis- sion yesterday appropriated funds to provide work relief for one thou- sand men ten hours a week at fifty cents an hour. This is the highest relief for single men in the entire state. This victory is expected to act ast as a spur to the county-wide Mass march next Tuesday to the office of the County Welfare Com- mission, 176 East Jefferson Avenue, to protest against the recent 10 to 30 per cent cuts in relief. Tens of thousands of leaflets and stickers are being distributed for the march, which is being organized by the De- troit Conference for Unemployment Relief and Insurance, representing thirty-eight trade unions, ten un- employed organizations and forty- six other workers’ groups. The marchers will assemble at 2 p. m. in Times Square. A meeting of Fisher Lodge strik- ers at Ferry Hall last night en- thusiastically hailed this victory and endorsed the recommendation of the strike committee to accept the Welfare Commission’s proposal and at the same time continue the struggle. Speakers at the meeting were Nelson, Negro chairman of the strike committee, and Earl Reno, of the Unemployment Councils, The meeting also voted to con- tinue picketing the Welfare Com- mission’s building Food is urgently needed by the pickets. It should be sent to Strike Headquarters, Greek Workers Edu- cational Club, 1413 Randolph Street. ‘Why? that the miners’ demands could not be met under the present relief pro- gram, +s ips a blow CHINESE LORD ‘ADMITS GAINS OF RED ARMY HONKONG, Dec. 12.—A severe conflict has arisen between Nanking and Canton, over the failure of 1,000,000 Kuomintang troops to stop the advance of a Red Army of more than 60,000 from reaching Western Kweichow Province, nearing its ob- jective in Szechuan Province. In a bitter telegram today to Gen- eral Pei Chung-hsi, Generalissimo Chiang Kai Shek berated the Southern war lords in Kwangsi Province for their failure in stop- ping the movement of the Red Army. Chiang Kai Shek is particularly embarrassed over the latest victo- ries of the Red Army because he had already published throughout world the lying stories that the Red Army had been decisively defeated. It now appears, on Chiang Kai Shek's own admission, that the Red Army is marching victoriously to- ward its goal in Szechuan Province, where it will strengthen the Soviet districts, increase their size, im- portance and fighting ability, nul- lifying Nanking’s long and bitterly fought fifth anti-Communist cam- paign. General Pei replied that his forces were engaged in “a single-handed | battle for five days against heavy odds,” and that he was defeated by the Red Army. The Red Army drove back the troops of General Chen Chi Tang in Kwangtung Province, marched across Kwangtung and Hunan, into Kwagnsi and Kweichow, where the various columns converged and in- flicted a decisive blow against Gen- eral Pei’s troops. They are now speeding towards Szechuan, where they will join forces with the Red Armies there with the objective of 0 the same day that Roosevelt announced his war-mobilization set-up, the United States Chamber of Commerce issued its provocative pro- gram for a fascist drive against the Communist Party and all militant American labor. Because every move to a new imperialist slaughter goes hand in hand with greater attacks on the American workers’ livving standards, on the demand of the unemployed for unemployment and social insurance, and on the rights of the trade unions and unorganized workers to mobilize their forces for resistance. In short, war preparations and fascist developments go together. Because the Communist Party is the most mili- tant, the most advanced fighter in the ranks of the working masses, the employers feel that they can proceed more quickly with their war plans, with their fascist program, if they can successfully land against the Communist Party. ~ — Mt they cap hit the spear apd shield of the | % storming the leading cities in this important provirice of China. working class, against the rest give. class and leads Party. Coughlin Hides Capitalist Baruch Réveals Fraud | Policy by Shrewd Trick ine Millon Howard Howard IV The handing out of ideas in pairs—one the ei dae | In ‘No Profit’ Slogan; | Gag on Inquiry Charged | bait, the other the reactionary actuality—is the core of | Arms Gouilites anal Baruch OE War Council Coughlin’s technique for appearing simultaneously as the | Full Aid to War Department | WASHINGTON, Dec. 13. — The} swift move of Roosevelt in calling | & war commission to draft plans | for military and industrial mobili- zation “to take the profits out of | war” emerged today as a drastic | move to freeze wages of all workers |Tunning the war industries, in an anti-union drive and a long step | toward setting the country’s entire | @conomy on a war footing. | At the same time the alleged move against war was shown to be | deliberate move on Roosevelt's | part to block the imminent expo- sures of sensational connections be- tween the War Department and the munitions manufacturers in the sale |of war materials. At the same time, it was made clear that the Senate committee in- jyettiesting the tie-up of the muni- tions monopolies and the govern= ment, would not expose the real situation by which the Wall Street war makers dominate the govern- ment. This pledge was given by Sen- ator Clark, one of the members of the Nye munitions committee, who, yesterday, while denouncing the Roosevelt efforts to spike the in- vestigation, stated, “Naturally we don’t want to expose anything that will embarrass our national defense plans,” adding as an afterthought, | “but we are the sole judges of what. we will do.” Senator Nye, whose activities in the munitions investigating com- mittee of the Senate did not pre- vent him from declaring for “an adequate defense” today openly | charged Roosevelt with having acted | on the wishes of the War Depart- ment in spiking any further reve- lations on munitions manufacturers. It is an open secret here that Roosevelt and the War Department | have been receiving private visits frem leading representatives of the duPonts and other war corporations. The sudden move by Roosevelt is attributed to these visits, Slogan Fraud Exposed Particular significance was at- tached to Roosevelt's appointment of General MacArthur, chief of staff, as one of the committee to “take the profits out of war,” as MacArthur's name has appeared prominently in the munitions ex- posures as a salesman of American munitions in European countries. MacArthur is also the leading spokesman for the War Depart- ments’ preparedness program. The fraud of Roosevelt’s slogan was quickly admitted by Roosevelt's spokesman on the new commission, Bernard Baruch, multi-millionaire ‘Wall Street speculator, who stated today, that he did not believe it possible to take the profits out of war. The real meaning of Roose- velt’s order he revealed as follows: | bor and soldiers. (Continued on Page 2) they feel confident their attack of the working class will be easier, will meet less organized and understanding resist- ance such as the revolutionary Party of the working class, the Communist Party, puts up and alone can The employing class, the rich bankers and other parasites, realize that the Communist Party knows and understands the war program of the Wall Street government, exposes it to the whole working the fight against it. Hence, when so open and drastic a war move is taken by the hypocritical New Deal government no wonder that the enraged bosses (taking their cue from the chief scab-herder and pro-fascist, Hearst) join in the baying of the bloodhounds against the Communist The Roosevelt government, which has supplied billions of profits for the war-makers, now speeds its war program under the most shameless, lying Made Millions World Conflict Dominating the committee set up by President Roosevelt to draft bills | for industrial and military mobili- | zation in time of war is Bernard M. Baruch, prominent Wall Street speculator and chairman of the War Industries Board which distributed | the swag to the monopolists in the| last imperialist conflagration. Ever since the termination of the} last war, Baruch, with the active | assistance of the War Department, | has been the direct instrument of | the banks and monopolies in lay- ing plans for the next war in which they propose to conscript both la- All the elaborate plans of the military staff for in-| dustrial mobilization were worked out under Baruch’s direction. He is an old hand at making mil- ligns out of the deaths of millions of workers.. During the last war he became a super-tmillionaire, util- izing his government sources of in- formation to roll. up millions for himself and hundreds of millions for the Morgans and the Guggen- heims whom he served so well. Huge Fortanes Made Even before war was declared he used his position on the Council of National Defense to enrich him- self. It was brought out in Con- gress in 1917 that due to govern- ment leaks, “men who a year ago did not have,$50,000, now as a result of playing the market have from $50,000,000 to $60,000,000.” Later Representative Bennet of New York charged that Baruch} cleaned up in 1916 by selling 15,000 shares of U. S. Steel short, on the basis of inside information concern- ing a message by President Wilson. | He was the liaison agent between Wall Street and Wilson during the war and rolled up hundreds of mil- lions for J. P. Morgan. It was in | brought out in Congress after the | war that Baruch had participated in a copper steal that netted the copper trust $200,000,000. Congress- man Mason said on May 27, 1920,) that ‘T am willing to have your attorney bring suit against Barney Baruch, the chief man, the closest | man of the President of the United | States, who stole $50,000,000 in cop- per.” When challenged by Baruch to) retract his statement, Mason was} quoted in the New York Times of June 3, 1920, that “since looking at (Baruch’s present statement, I would amend mine to say that (he) and his associates stole $200,000,000 in copper alone.” Just as the war was about to end, Baruch, with his inside tips, took another flyer in steel that netted him the comparatively small sum of $476,000. Since that time he has been or-| (Continued on Page 2) enough to make a horse laugh out loud, Senator Nye, no enemy of war preparations, chairman of the Senate Arms Investigating Com- mittee, was forced to cry out against the crude smoke screen set up by Roosevelt. use a Dillinger, a gangster and robber, to fight crime, as bring in a Baruch or a General Johnson in an effort to delude the masses into believing that the main point in the present war to take the profit out of war, intimated Senator Nye. Baruch and Johnson were the chief office boys of Morgan and other bandits who cleaned up huge fortunes out of the last world slaughter, They are now going to advise Roosevelt on profits in the next war so hastily being prepared Deal. . (Oo wonder the biggest arms manufacturer in the the du Ponts, could so joyously greet “The da Ponts and country, Roosevelt's latest war move. ONE MORE DAY! ‘Today and tomorrow will tell the story! Will Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Chicago, Buffalo, Milwaukee, Seattle | send enough funds to put them well up on top among those who have | provided for the security of the Daily Worker? The “Daily” California jumped to the front in yesterday’s contributions, | $205. Nine districts among those which have not yet finished their quotas sent what they could. calls upon them to move everything out of their way in | the final, concentrated effort to go down the line! with From the small district of Omaha came $16. New York, however, only sent $78. It is‘needless for the Daily Worker to reiterate its call to all indi- vidual workers and organizations in the districts. We believe we have stated the case plainly before! Send all you can to the Daily Worker TODAY! Put the Daily Worker drive over the top! POWERS SEEK TO END NAVAL DISCUSSION LONDON, Dec. 12. — Hopelessly locked in. the sharpest conflicts, British, Japanese and American | imperialist representatives are seek- \ing to terminate the naval conver- sations here with as little display as possible of their undying enmity for each other. The British government is seeking to end the futile three-months’ con- ference before the Japanese dele- gates carry out their intention of renouncing the Washington naval treaty. The Japanese had demand- ed naval arms equality with the United States, in view of the gov- ernment’s gigantic arms building program. With this demand re- fused, it declared it would call for the end of the treaty, which would | open a still greater struggle for naval armaments. British imperialism, which has been maneuvering with the Japan- | ese, as against their chief competi- tor, American imperialism, is in a difficult. position in view of the threatened breakdown of the Wash- ington treaty.. The Britsih trade mission to Manchukuo, has already announced that it will issue its re- port favorable to Japanese impe- rialism simultaneously with the an- nouncement of the treaty renunci- | ation to cushion the shock. | The aim of the Japanese dele- gates here, it is clearly pointed out, is to attempt to sharpen the rift between Great Britain and the United States, While the imperialist antagonisms are bitterly aggravating the war danger over the entire world, it is made clear in Japan, that the Jap- anese imperialists, faced with a crushing arms race, and growing discontent in their own country among the workers and peasants, are doing their utmost to speed the war against the Soviet Union as the best solution to their difficulties and one which will draw in their imperialist foes, Rally Against the Drive to Ban All Civil Rights of Workers; Speed the United Front in Fight Against War and Fascism AN EDITORIAL Times’ Colonel William Might as well The du Ponts preparations is for by the New What do the lighted over the news,” Washington correspondent. dent’s action received a more cordial reception from COMMUNISTS SHOW 10% GAIN-IN VOTE NEW YORK.—The final official | election returns for New York State reveal that the percentages of gains | made by the Communist Party in New York City as compared with | the Socialist Party was equalled throughout the state munist vote for Governor in 1934 was 45,878, compared with 26,407 in 1932, a gain of approximately 70 per cent, while the Socialist Party vote for Governor was 126,580 as compared with 102,959 in 1932, a gain of 20 per cent. The results for the leading state candidates were listed officially as follows: for Governor, Israel Am- ter, Communist, 45,878; Charles Sol- |omon, Socialist, 126,580; for Lieu- tenant-Governor, Williana J. Bur- roughs, Communist, 48,709, and Her- |man Kobbe, Socialist, 133,387; for Comptroller, Rose Wortis, ‘Commu- nist, 48,577, and Fred Sander, So- cialist, 136,632; for Attorney-Gen- eral, Fred Briehl, Communist, 49,- 696, and William Karlin, Socialist, 137,403; for United States Senator, Max Bedacht, Communist, 45,396, }and Norman Thomas, Socialist, | 194,952. Government Employees Back Reporters’ Strike WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 13.— Striking editorial workers of the Newark Ledger gained a new ally | yesterday when N, R. A. employees | of Lodge 91, of the American Fed- eration of Government Employees the walkout. The resolution sent to lishers of the Ledger stop persecut- membership in the Guild. A dona- tion accompanied the resolution. declared the New York “The Presi- J.. Donovan, counsel for the du Ponts,” stated the New York Herald Tribune. are among the leading figures in the U. S. Chamber of Commerce and were among those who inspired the ferocious plan of attack against the Communist Party. ago that Irenee du Pont, one of the billionaire du Pont brothers, declared that were it not for the Communist Party it would be easier for the arms makers to proceed with their plans of perfecting the war forces of American capitalism. It was not so long du Ponts, the Fords, the Teagles, the Sloans. the Mellons, Morgans and the rest pro- pose be done against the Communist Party in order < Gontinuad ay Bags 2) The returns show that the Com- | adopted a resolution in support of | the Guild demands that the pub- | ing the editorial workers for their | MANY CITIES MAKE PLANS FOR CONGRESS Organizations of Many Kinds Name Delegates on Unemployment (Special to the Daily Worker) YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, Dec, 13.— William Green and the reactio’ in the leadership of the Am mated Association of Iron, Steel | Tin Workers International U received a severe setback when th Sixth District of the Amalgamated Association, at a meeting here Sun- day, endorsed the Na gress for Unemployment In and re-endorsed the Worke employment Insurance Bill The Blue Eagle Lodge the | Amalgamated Association in the | Youngstown Sheet and Tube Com- pany elected a delegate to the Na- tional Congress, and elected three delegates to the Mahoning Valley | conference which will be h in the Youngstown Central itorium, Sunday, Dec. 23, at 1 p. The local conference is endorsed and delegates have been elected Ft the following lodges of the | Amalgamated Association: Jumbar Lodge and Youngstown Lodge 178 | of the Republic Steel Co., Yo! town; Buckeye Lodge of the Car- negie Steel Co., McDonald, Pa In New Castle, Pa., the Co-oper< ative Workers of America, an un< employed organization with an en- rollment of 3.000, endorsed the Con< gress and elected delegates. The Auto Mechanics Local of the Ma- chinists’ Union of Youngstown has also endorsed the conference. Prep- arations for the local conference are being speeded forward in the build- ing of a broad mass movement hind the Congress and the Work. ers’ Bill. Many church and frater- nal groups have elected their dele- gates and are supporting, in some instances, the Mahoning County Unemployed demonstration before the County Relief Offices, Friday, Dec. 21, at 2 p.m., demanding win- ter relief, endorsement of the Work- ers’ Bill, increased relief and jobs, Included in the sweep of endorse- ments received yesterday by the National Sponsoring Committee for the Congress were branches of the Unemployed Leagues, the National Committee of the Workmen's Sick and Death Benefit Society, and a member of the executive committee of the Socialist Party of Waterbury, Conn. The National Committee of the | Workmen's Sick and Death Bene- | fit Association, an organization | composed mainly of German work« | ers, named William Kade of Brook lyn as its official delegate to the congress. of | Unemployed Leagues Elect ALLENTOWN, Pa. Dec. 13. — Completely negating the decisions of their national president, Anthony | Ramuglia, who defeated a motion that the Unemployed Leagues offi« cially participate in the arranges {Continued on Page 2) ‘Communists | AskTo Speak On Auto Code By A. Be Magil (Special to the Daily Worker) JETRO! Mich.,- Dec. 13.—The Communist Party has sent an of- ficial request that it be allotted time at the hearings on conditions in the automobile industry, to be held here Saturday and Sunday. As an organization carrying on active ity in the automobile plants and with many auto workers among its members, the Party demands the right to be heard on all questions affecting the men and women in the industry. The hearings, which will start Saturday at one p. m,, and Sunday at two-thirty p. m., in Masonio Temple, have been organized by the National Industrial Recovery Board (Continued on Page 2)