The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 15, 1934, Page 1

Send Your Votes for Unemployment Insurance to ‘Daily’—See Workers’ Bill Ballot on Page 3 FENANCIAL SECRETARIES OF UNITS, SEC- TIONS: SPEED FUNDS INTO THE DISTRICT WITHOUT DELAY! Yesterday's Receipts ... Still Needed to Complete + 1504.83 +e $8 4,240.38 Drive . Press Run Yesterday—41,500 Vol. XI, Ne. 299 Entered as second-class >_> Daily QA Worker pe SP Bes Aa Be CENTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL) matter at the Post Office at Mew York, N. Y., under the Act of March 8, 1879. NEW YORK, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1934 (Eight Pages) Price 3 Cents INSURANCE PARLEY GAINS WIDEN Morgan Deal Linked to Imperialist War AGE CABLE TO WILSON BARES PLOT U. S. Thrown Into War To Protest Wall St. Loans to England WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 14.— The dominating part of the Wall Street banking firm of J. P. Morgan played in hurling this country into the world war in 1917 was revealed today when a government official close to the Senate investigation | committee on munitions made pub- | lic the fact that Wilson declared war on Germany to avert a financial | \ crisis of the British government in- | volving the repayment to the Mor- gans of a $400,000,000 loan. Referring to the now historic cable sent by Walter Hines Page, Amer- ican ambassador to England in 1917, warning Wilson of an impending | “crisis,” this official stated: “The crisis Page cabled about | was that Great Britain was unable | to meet its obligations to Morgan | for credits amounting to $400,000,- 000. This money was lent by Mor- gan and other banks and then was used to buy materials manu- factured by Morgan-dom/pated companies here whicch were Shipped to the Allies.” It was with the house of J. P. Morgan that Roosevelt in the recent weeks has been holding private con- ferences regarding the munitions in- vestigation, and the general execu- tion of the Roosevelt economic poli- cies in the coming months. Mergan Partner in N. R. A. It_is also a Morgan partner, J. Stettinius, who has been appointed by Roosevelt to act as financial ad- visor of the N. R. A. in its negotia- tions with the biggest monopolies in Wall Street. Thus the Wall Street financial | clique which ordered Wilson to de- clare war on Germany in 1917, is now more than ever in control of the government, with Roosevelt act- ing as their agent in building his record-breaking two billion dollar war program. Pages Cable Quoting from Pages’ long-secret cable to Wilson, the government official showed that the slogans of “keep the world safe for democracy” really masked a war to protect Wall Street investments. Page cabled Wilson just before Wilson declared war: “If the United States declare war against Germany, the greatest help We could give Great Britain and the Allies would be credit. If we should adopt this policy, an excellent plan would be for our government to make a large investment in a Franco-British loan. Another plan would be to guarantee such a loan. A great advantage would be that all the money would be kept in the United States. “Wwe could kep on with our trade (Continued on Page 2) Ledger Strike Benefit Is Set For Tomorrow “If you are spending any money on luxuries this week, spend it for tickets to the all-star benefit variety performance which will be held to- morrow night in the St, James Theater, 246 West 44th Street for the benefit of the striking editorial workers of the Newark Ledger,” it was urged yesterday in a letter re- ceived by members of the New York Newspaper Guild. More than 40 strikers are depend- ent on the Newspaper Guild for daily necessities, but they are deter- mined to remain on strike until they have compelled the Ledger publisher to submit to their demands. Among the performers who have agreed to appear at the benefit are the Albertina Rasch Dancers, Fred Allen, Phil Baker, Robert Benchley, Jack Benny, Block and Sully, Clark and McCullough, Ray Dooley, Eddie Dowling, Morton Downey, William Gaxton, Lou Holtz, Bob Hope, Walter Houston, Bert Lahr, Eva Le- Gallienne, Beatrice Lillie, Bert Ly- tell, Everett Marshali, Ethel Mer- man, Harry Richcman, Sigmund Spaeth, James Thurber, Rudy Val- lee and the shows from the Casino de Paree, The Hollywood Restau- rant and the Palais Royal. Hey- wood Broun and Mark Hellinger will Coughlin’s Production Plan Is Step to Fascism Economic Program Aids To Keep Prices Up For Monopolies By Milton Howard v PPROACHING ‘the end of our survey of Father Coughlin’s ma- jor ideas, it is now possible to see that this smooth-tongued ecclesi- astic is a sinister figure whose vir- tuous voice crying to millions of workers is a voice of evil, the voice of a Wall Street decoy, a “come-on | guy” striving to steer the workers of the country into a trap, a trap set by the exploiters and the mo- nopolists. i We state bluntly that Father Coughlin is a conscious agent of the Wall Street monopolies, hired in their service, rewarded for his labors, and placed by them in front |of the masses with only one pur- pose—to ease the way for the ex- ;ecution of the most reactionary pol- icies of the Wall Street monopolies who are marching the road to fas- cism For Specific Wall Street Policy And it is not only the general policies of Wall Street for which Coughlin prepared the way. It is the specific economic policy which Wall Street monopoly hap- pens to require at-any given’ mo- ment for which Coughlin hands out his propaganda. At every turn in its policy, Wall Street will have the support of Coughlin, who will find a way to sugar-coat this policy in his typical way. This is the key to Coughlin’s career, this is what will enable every worker who listens to him to fathom ,| the brutal, capitalist class policy, which underlies every speech that Coughlin makes, Listen to a Coughlin proposal, and then ask, what does Wall Street industrial monopoly require at this moment for the maintenance of its profits? And in every case an ex- amination of Coughlin’s plan will | reveal that he is issuing “radical” propaganda for just this Wall Street | requirement! Does Wall Street industrial mo- | nopoly require a policy of inflation in the “first phase” of the Roose- velt N. R. A. price-raising program in order to gouge the masses both at the point of production in the factory and at the point of con- sumption in the stores? Very well then, Father Coughlin will cry up and dewn the land for @ policy of dollar devaluation against “the yoke of gold rulers in Wall Street,” the very monopolies who demand inflation! Leaps to Aid Monopolies Do the Wall Street monopolies demand the restriction of all non- monopoly production in order to freeze out the low prices of the “Jittle man” in order to raise prices and maintain high, monopoly prices? Very well then, Father Coughlin leaps to their aid, as he did three weeks ago, telling the workers: “There can be no lasting prosperity if free competition exists in any industry . .. it is the business of government to curtail individual- ism, and, if necessary, factories shall be licensed and their output limited.” Is it any miracle that the Wall Street industrialists are willing to 75 Negroes Picket As ‘Crime Parley’ Ignores Lynchings WASHINGTON, D. C. Dec. 14. —Protesting the action of the Federal government in omitting the crime of lynching from the agenda of the Crime Conference in session here, seventy-five Negroes with hangman’s nooses around their necks yesterday Picketed the hall in which the conference was held. The pickets wore signs reading “5,068 in 52 years,” in reference to the number of Negroes lynched in that period. Howard University students and professors were largely repre- sented in the demonstration. Negroes picketing the hall at an earlier session had been arrested for an alleged violation of a “sandwich placard” law. GARDOS HELD IN CLEVELAND Chauvinist Lendess Call Police to Prevent Him From Speaking By Sandor Voros (Daily Worker Obio Bureau) CLEVELAND, Ohio, Dec. 14— Three squads of police, called by the reactionary leaders of the newly formed American Protective League for Hungarian Refugees from Jugoslavia last night arrested Emil Gardos, editor of the Hungarian Communist paper “Uj Elore,” and dispersed militant workers who en- tered a mass meeting called by the League. Gardos led a delegation of forty, elected at Tuesday night’s united |front meetings of Hungarian, Jugo- slav and Croatian workers to sub- mit a resolution to the leaders of the new League, whose shady rec- ord before and after the World War has been one of continuous misuse of funds collected under patriotic pretenses from the Hun- garian masses. The resolution demanded a real united front committee to handle finances, and deletion from the minutes of a previous meeting of the League of the statement that the League was organized to spread the truth and solicit international support for Hungary and inclusion of the motion conveniently omitted from the minutes demanding the freedom of Mathias Rakosi and John Hock, threatened with death by the Hungarian ruling class. Workers Protest Arrest The leaders of the League, see- ing the sentiment of the over- whelming majority of the audience was opposed to their racketeering scheme and were backing the dele- gation, had Gardos arrested as he attempted to take the floor. More than 200 workers proceeded to the nearby Hungarian Workers finance this man’s activities? Is (Continued on Page 8) Home, and held despite the late- ness of the hour a protest meet- ing. J UNEMPLOYED TO PARADE IN DETROIT To Demand 13 Million Bankers’ Fund Be Used for Relief DETROIT, Dec. 14—The workers of this city are completing arrange- ments for a relief march of the 66,- 000 families on relief in Wayne County to demand more adequate relief and unemployment insurance. This mass march is scheduled for | December 18, and will begin at |Fitnes Square at 2 p.m. | The marchers will demand that tthe $13,000,000 paid over to the bankers be turned over for imme- |diate use to feed the jobless, At |present the officials allow the job- less the miserable sum of $2,400,000 to feed over one hundred thousand starving men, women and children now on the rolls, not to speak of the thousands unable to get on the rolls. Follows A. F. of L. Conference As part of the fight for relief and social and unemployment insurance, the workers here have formed a local Sponsoring Committee to or- ganize the sending of delegates to the great National Congress for So- cial and Unemployment Insurance to be held in Washington, D. C., on January 5-7. This action follows the successful united front conference which was called by the A. F. of L. Trade Union Conference for Unemploy- ment Insurance and relief on No- vember 11, where many workers |groups, such as the Forgotten Men group, the T.U.U.L. unions, the work- (Continued on Page 2) Civil Rights In Cuba Are Suspended HAVANA, Dec, 14.—Grappling for the control of government offices with the fascist leadership of the A. B. C, Party and striving to carry out his own fascist policy of crush- ing all resistance in the Cuban work- ing class, the reactionary Fulgencio Batista yesterday rammed through the Mendieta Cabinet a law which allows the arrest of any person by the police and military authorities at any time and upon any pretext. ‘The new edict legally wipes out all preliminary hearings, the formal- ity of indictment, and provides for the indefinite imprisonment of work- ers seized by the police. The only precedent for this sweeping fascist measure is the identical abolition of the writ of habeas corpus under the regime of the butcher Machado. The Communist Party of Cuba and the trade-union organizations of the island, as well as the Auten- tica, party of the petty bourgeoisie, are raising the most vigorous protest against this new anti-working class legislation of the Mendieta admin- istration. ‘The newspaper of the A. B. C. L’Accion, was shut down and its editorial staff taken to prison and dosed with castor oil. AN EDI (ANTI- SOVIET RALLY STIRS MASS ANGER Counter - Demonstration| Sunday to Cooper Union Meeting | NEW YORK.— Intense indigna-| tion is spreading throughout the! working class of this city at the} anti-Soviet united front organized | by leaders of the Socialist Party and embracing an open fascist like Matthew Woll and notorious white | guards like N. Komyakov and A. Bi- | alovsky, as well as the anti-Soviet | pen-prostitute Isaac Don Levine. This indignation will express it-| self in a mass counter-demonstra- | tion under the leadership of the) Friends of the Soviet Union, before Cooper Union, Sunday, where So- cialist leaders and notorious anti- Soviet writers will join on one plat- form at an anti-Soviet meeting. Algernon Lee, Abe Cahan, Dr. In- | germann, Levine, Bialovsky and! Countess Tolstoya will speak against | the sentences passed by the highest Soviet courts against counter-revo- lutionary terrorists. Workers in the city, Socialist, Communist and non-party, are re- Sponding to the anti-Soviet incite- ments, printed in this week’s New| Leader against the recent shooting of 75 counter-revolutionaries, by speeding the preparations for the counter-demonstration in support of the Soviet Union which has been} called by the Friends of the Soviet | Union to take plece outside the Cooper Union meeting hall, East 8th Street and Fourth Avenue, Sunday, at 1 pm. Thomas Joins In The New Leader, in an edi- torial statement signed by Norman Thomas, joins the hue and cry of the capitalist préss against the stern proletarian justice of the working | class in the U.S.S.R., by comparing | these necessary and justifiable ex-| ecutions of class enemies with the desperate murders by the Hitler gov- ernment-on June 30. and the lynch- ing of Negroes in the South. | The New Leader takes the same} point of view as the Novoye Rus koye Slovo, Russian language or- gan of White Guards and other emigres, which is also conducting a campaign against the workers’ fath- erland, and supporting the anti- Soviet meeting. Attempting to arouse among the workers the same feelings against the Soviet Union that workers feel against the fascist murders and the American lynchings, Thomas writes as follows: “A country with as many lynch- ings as the United States . . . is in no position to take a holier- than-thou attitude to any nation. Nevertheless, not as Americans, but as lovers of the cooperative commonwealth and justice which it has always promised, we must protest against the incredible harm being done to our com- mon cause by the news that is now coming out of Russia. ... All this looks uncomfortably like Hitler's bloodbath of June 30.” Thomas goes further and com- pares the dictatorship of the pro- letariat in the Soviet Union with Czarism and fascism, stating: “We could not have justified similar conduct under the Czars, (Continued on Page 2) TORIAL ‘Daily’ Drive Contributors Of Staff and Management a Triumph; Get Thanks To Readers and Friends of the Daily Worker: Comrades: Today we close our financial drive! We can record our paper’s greatest achievement, an achievement surely never equalled by any other | States. In three months, workers and friends of working class paper in the United the Daily Worker, class fighters supporting our revolutionary policies and aims, have con- tributed $55,759.62 to insure the continued existence of our paper. This they have done in spite of their own personal hardships due to un- employment, wage cuts, rising prices, and so forth. As the drive is brought to a close in the hundreds of localities throughout the country, by the “ | success! and the funds sent in, the full $60,000 needed | ‘Daily” will be raised. The $60,000 drive will be a complete Surely this new assurance of mass support is cause for deep satis- faction and renewed confidence. Certainly all comrades will be in- spired and spurred on to greater efforts to protect and build the Daily Worker. We wish to thank all contributors for their support. We, who are directly responsible for the paper, will try to earn your confidence by making the paper a better workers’ paper—a better agi- tator, a better propagandist, a better organizer. We ask you, in turn, to throw the same energy and determination into a campaign to increase given to our financial drive. the paper's circulation that you have just Let us fight on together to protect the paper from those who are now preparing to bar us from the mails and suppress us. Let us unitedly | work to broaden our circle of readers and supporters. | Again, thanks! MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE | EDITORIAL STAFF FAGAN TRAILS IN EARLY VOTE Allegheny Va Valley Ballots | Put UMWA Rank and File Men in Lead By Tom ‘Keenan (Daily Worker Pittsburgh Bureau) PITTSBURGH, Dec. 14.—Karly | | returns from Allegheny Valley local | unions of the United Mine Workers | of America show heavy blows struck | by the rank and file miners against the Lewis-Fagan machine in Dis-| trict 5. With the count completed in six | out of eight strong locals, Charley | Nolker, rank and file candidate for district president, is leading a Fagan, the Lewis machine candi- date and present president, by a total of 1,089 to the latter’s 362. Fagan, who is a democratic poli- ticlan, received only five votes to Nolker’s 210 in Renton, while in Russelton Nolker received 279 to 12 Fagan led in only one local, In- dianola, where an incomplete tabu- lation showed 78 votes for him, 50 for Nolker. Scotty O'Hara, rank and file candidate for district vice- president, showed a substantial lead | over all Lewis rivals t Ted Gall, running for sub-district board member on the rank and file | slate, led John Murray 832 to 183 | in Russeliton, Renton, Curtisville, | No. 2, Leechburg and Harmarville. | Only one local has been reached | for International returns, Russell- ton, where only 14 votes were cast BOSSES SEEK NEGRO VOTE. Mississippi Tenants Told | to Go to Polls for Cut in Crops JACKSON, Miss., Dec. 14.—Ruli! ing | terror, usually directed to- | wards preventing Southern Negroes from voting, is today being used in | this State to mobilize Negro tenants | and share croppers to vote for the | continuation of the destruction of | cotton acreage in the referendum being held today on the Bankhead | Cotton Reduction Act. Participation of certain Negroes | in the referendum is advocated both | by the big planters and the local | agents of the New Deal administra- | tion in the fear that the Act will be | repudiated by the small white grow- ers and tenant farmers whose con- | ditions have greatly worsened since | its enactment. While Negro tenant | fazmers and croppers are by far the | worst sufferers under the cott reduction plan, those who are al- lowed to vote will be supervised by the planters and their agents, with | | the purpose of preventing any ex | pression at the polls of their hos rd | tility to the “New Deal” program of | | plundering the small growe:s in the | interests of the rich planters. Many militant Negro croppers and | small farmers are, however, reported to be planning to vote in today's referendum, both as a means of | class | tional Congre: | Loyal Order of Moose 1104, B FRATERNAL SOCIETIES FALL IN LINE Jamestown City Council Backs Congress to be Held in Washingten Fraternal orga. out the country ierday «s Insurance, of front izations elected from minimum of twenty is expected. A front commit one grou aim of gett eare action com: Congress From coast to garian fraternal g: solidly behind the gress. In Cleveland, izations, the most. of wh der reformist and church orgie Hungaria eee and Oo! American Hungarian Aid sc numbering 9,000 members, convention last Summer e | the Workers Unemployment Insur- ance Bill, sent out letters to the national ex: ommitices of the three an societies which have a c of 40,009, “Si members | Hu ungarien societies 100 per cent of wo’ jas our n membership ti nly and of- ficially represented at ‘the Was! | ton Congress.” Scattered endorsements of the | National Congress and election uf | delegates was reported yesterday to the National Sponso-ing Committe from the following organization: Bohemian Workers Sick and Death Benefit Society of Garfield, J, side, L. I.; Foresters of America Court Italia, Brooklyn, N. Y.; Thomas Jefe ferson Lodge of the I. O. O, F, (Continued on Page 2) Miners Win Relief Fight In Oklahoma McALESTER, . Okla., Dec, 14— for John L. Lewis, while Sloan, Em- | protesting the cotton reduction rob- | might hundred unemployed miners, ery and Green, rank and file nomi- nees for A. F. of L. delegates, re- ceived 268 votes, 265 votes and 267 The Crime of the LaGuardia Administration Against the Jobless from the polls in regular elections. bery, and of breaking through the| who yesterday stormed relief head- ruling class terror which bars them | quarters, took over the District Court House and camped there for returned to their homes after winning a decisive vi in which all their is were won. orders were iss | and all were praeet jobs on relief relief d Immediate food | work project: No food Ses offered them by the crimes which capitalist municipalities, as well as capitalist employers, commit daily against workers and their families could find no more typi- cal expression than the situation uncovered yester- day in New York City. Here is what an investigating committee, just scratching the surface, found: A total of 7,000,000 pounds of potatoes are rot- ting in warehouses, although originally delivered for relief distribution. A total of 9,000,000 pounds of cabbage are rotting awaiting distribution for relief. A total of 11,000,000 pounds of veal are rotting for lack of “proper cutting machines,” although originally intended for relief. A total of 1,000,000 cans of roast beef-are in a similar condition. Is not this revolting and criminal waste typical of the whole capitalist system which dooms miilions ® be masters of ceremonies, to starvation while warehouses are bursting with supplies for which “there is no market.” And what answer does Mayor LaGuarda make to this ghastly negligence which keeps food from the city’s jobless and their families? This is his answer: “We cannot give food away on the street corners in competition with trade.” Trade! Profit! Let the starving starve! Let the children of the working class starve while piled up food rots! But, in the name of all that is holy to a capitalist lackey, protect trade! The Communist Party points to this monstrous situation and brands the city administration with the responsibility for this crime. The Communist Party is the leader of the strug- gles of the unemployed for cash relief, for food, for adequate social and unemployment insurance to come out of the profits of the bosses. The Communist Party sounds a call to the work- ers of New York to answer this cold-blooded bru- tality to the jobless by sending hundreds of dele- gates to the great National Congress for Social and Unemployment Insurance which will gather at Washington on January 5-7 to voice the needs of the workers of America for relief and unemploy- ment insurance. It is the unflinching leadership which the Com- munist Party gives to the struggles of the jobless which has called upon it the hatred and terrorism of the employers and their governmental agents, This is precisely why the LaGuardias and his ilk call for police brutality against the Communist Party, why the U. S. Chamber of Commerce calls for a nation-wide terrorism against the Communist Party and all revolutionary workers’ organizations. ‘These parasites whose sole worry is their money bags, whose prime fear is for safety of the bankers’ profits and investments, know that in the Commu- nist Party they confront their class enemy which leads the unemployed against just such outrages as were uncovered yesterday in New York's “liberal” municipality. The wasting of precious food while workers go hungry is not some “unfortunate accident.” It is typical of the whole way in which the capitalist class looks upon the problem of caring for those whom they fling into the streets when profits can no longer be wrung from them. Does not Roosevelt order the destruction of millions ef pounds of meat, millions of acres of wheat, milliens of bales of coiton? Do not the “respectable” capitalists hold in their warehouses millions of dollars worth of goods fer lack of which the masses are suffering? The Communist Party declares that the crisis can be solved by abolishing the claims of these para- sites to this socially necessary goods, by expro- priating this wealth, by setting up a Workers’ and sialeaals Government in place of the present Wall Strect government. Right now, as part of the fight agai: cani- taliss em, the Communist Party calls for a nation-wide mobilization in support of the National Congress to meet at Washington January 5 to 7. Fight for adequate relief! Organize the struggle for social and unemployment insurance! relief administration last night, and the jobless workers stretched out cn |the floor and the corridors—hua- gry. In the morning bread was sent them by workers in the town, and plied by the relief y of the miners stated that they had not w: for two years or more and were a state of complete destitution. Relief throughout the State has always been haphazard and frightfully in- adequate. The entire State relief administration, local reports by workers state, is in a complete state |of disorganization. Official reports by the F. E, R. Ay }plsce the totel re granted to families at as little as $1 to the report ts inadequate,” * and give no figures, or list tots] relief expendi= tures variously from $4 to $6 — month for each family.