The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 17, 1934, Page 1

| } "DERN ADMITS. 7% ‘ SS Re OE RE RRS SE, SEND DOLLAR BILLS TO PUT DSIVE OVER THE TOP Yesterday's Receipts Sti Needed to Complete Drive . 3 398.57 $ 3,840.81 Press Run Saturday—57,400 i TR SRN A ETRE Daily .Q Worker CENTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERMATIONAL ) NATIONAL EDITIO Vol. XI, No. 300 >_> Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., under the Act of March 8, 1879. N YORK, MONDAY. » DECEMBER 17, 1934 (Six Pages) Price 3 Cents MORE S. P. GROUPS BACK PARLEY Thousands March Tomorrow to: Protest Detroit WAR PLANS aviation Ruse With Imperialist Rivals in Far East Seen By Seymour Waldman (Daily Worker Washington Bureau) WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 16— In his annual report to President Roosevelt, Secretary of War George H. Dern recommended today that the war plan formulated last July by the special Baker Aviation Com- mittee be adopted “as a permanent. program.” Dern urged that this program be “initiated at once and completed within the next three years.” One may assume that this Program is already under way. The Baker plan calls for the pur- chase of more than 600 new war planes, an addition which, accord- ing to Dern, would bring the total “serviceable airplanes of the latest and best types, exclusive of res- erves” to 2,300. Technical war strength, within the shortest pos- sible time, is obviously the objective of the War Department. In describing the activities of the War Department in the Civilian * Conservation Corps, Dern indicated that the Administration fully re- alizes the rising anti-war sentiment of the workers, poor farmers and their allies. Avoiding the frank- ness of Assistant Secretary of War Woodring’s description of the war character of the C.C.C., Dern de- clared, “The members of the corps are given no military training, nor are they subject to military discip- line. But living in camp under the friendly guidance of the Army has greatly improved them physi- cally and has given them a much better spiritual outlook.” Wood- ring’s January 6, 1934 Liberty mag- azine account, which has never been repudiated by the Administration, Was less “spiritual” and more ac- curate. He said: “This achievemeni—the organiza- tion of over 300,000 men in more than 1,500 Civilian Conservation Corps camps—was the first real test of the Army’s plans for war mob- ilizaiton under the National De- fense Act as amended in 1920. It proved both the efficiency of our plan of defense and the equally important success of the Military Procurement Plan—the Army's eco- nomic war plan—which is entrusted to the Assistant Secretary of War.” Woodring added that if necessary the Army could organize the C.C.C. men “into a system of economic storm troops.” Plans Aviation Race Secretary Dern’s formal plea for execution of the Baker plan, which advised the War Department that “with more financial support its Army aviation can be raised to a world position equal to that held by our Navy,” makes it clear that the Roosevelt Administration plans to embark on an aviation race with its imperialist rivals in the Far East and other war spots that shortly parallel the intensity of the present naval contest. In addition, the report indicates that war man- euvres, such as those held’ last August in New Jersey, will become a regular feature of the Administra- tion’s war preparations. Other recommendations by the War Secretary include the con- struction of a new War Department building; “sizeable concentrations of troop organizations” in conjunc- tion with field maneuvers; increased pay for officers; permanent sup- port for training ‘the National Guard on the basis of 48 armory drills and two weeks field exercise annually;” and “the adoption of the policy of training at least 30,000 reserve officers annually for a period of two weeks.” In discussing the Baker report, Dery declared: “The Air corps still needs a large | number of military airplanes of the most efficient types to enable it to carry ou the necessary training and to be in a state of readiness for immediate and effective service in an emergenecy. For these pur- poses the Board concluded that the Air Corps should have a minimum of 2,320 serviceable airplanes of the latest and best types, exclusive of reserves. This will necessitate the procurement of more than 600 new airplanes. I recommend that a program for attaining this mini- mum strength be initiated at onec (Continued on Page 2) ® Cites Critical Situation Faced by the LL.D. in Long Struggle By C. A. Hathaway EDITOR, DAILY WORKER At any moment, now, the United States Supreme Court may hand down its decision on the applica- tion for review of the lynch ver- dicts of death against two of the Scottsboro boys, Haywood Patter- son and Clarence Norris. Today, the ‘appeal of Angelo | Herndon, young Negro leader of the unemployed, heroic fighter for the |unity of white and black workers, begins its journey through the same halls “of last illusion.” Unquestionably the fight for the lives and freedom of the Scottsboro boys, the struggle to hold Angelo Herndon from the horrors of the Georgia chain-gang, represent at this moment a major struggle in the fight of the American toilers to maintain their civil rights in the face of a general increase of politi- cal reaction. The fight for unity of action be- tween white and Negro, the uncom- promising struggle against those who would destroy this unity, set- ting white against black~in blind, uncomprehending fury of lynch hatred, is being conducted here. A: solid, united front of struggle |must be achieved on this basic issue confronting the American | working-class, and a mass move- |ment of huge proportions, involving hundreds of thousands of white and | black people opposed to fascism and |lynch terror, developed, to force the United States Supreme Court to hear the Scottsboro appeals and to reverse the lynch-verdicts. The fight must be continued and developed to the ultimate victory of unconditional freedom for the | Scottsboro boys. At this moment the International | Labor Defense, through whose un- tiring efforts in the leadership of the Scottsboro defense the boys have been kept alive for three and a half years in the face of the determined efforts of the white rul- ing class to murder them, faces a critical situation in this campaign. A total of $6,000 is needed im- mediately to continue the campaign, to cover the huge expenses of the applications for review and of the appeals to the United States Su- preme Court in the Scottsboro and Herndon cases. I urge every worker, every friend of the Negro people, every foe of fascism, every individual and or- ganization that wishes to see the lives of the Scottsboro boys and Angelo Herndon saved, their free- {dom won, to join wholeheartedly in |the mass campaign and the col- |lection of funds necessary to achieve this end. It is the special duty of every Commiunist, in our fight for the na- tional liberation of the Negro people, to participate in this campaign, to organize and stimulate it, every- where. Funds for the Scottsboro-Hern- don defense should be rushed im- mediately, by airmail, and special delivery, to the national office of the International Labor Defense, Room 610, 80 East 11th Street, New York City. Czarist white guards, and other | is indeed amazing. Soviet Republics. And what was the issue that the Soviet Union in one heap? leader, that 66 white guard spy ecuted, which these Czarist agents were workers’ government. The speed of certain “Socialist” leaders in form- ing a united front with openly avowed fascists, of the Soviet Union and militant American labor, Algernon Lee and Abe Cahan, right wing So- | Cialists, can leap over any obstacle whatever with the agility of grasshoppers when it comes to a poisonous attack against the Union of Socialist fugal force piled all this assortment of enemies of nouncement in the Soviet Union, after the assas- sination of Sergei Kirov, beloved revolutionary assassins of the foreign capitalist powers were ex- We will discuss fully the circumstances under But before doing that it is necessary to clarify several issues of a pertinent class relationship, touching on the reaction to the ttsboro Boys é | Readers of ‘Daily’ Called Upon to Aid Clean-Up in Drive Although the drive has formal- ly closed, $4,000 is still needed by the Daily Worker! If every reader will make a contribution, the “Daily” can easily go over the top. We call upon our readers, who have supported us so magni- ficently in the campaign, to con- tribute dollar bills to make up the required amount. If you haven’t got a dollar, but wish to contribute, get your friends to pool enough change with you to total a dollar. Send your dollars direct to the “Daily!” BURLAK HELD IN VIRGINIA Framed, After Meeting With Negroes on Insurance Congress | | DANVILLE, Va. Dec. 16. — Charges of being “of bad fame and | character” because they attended a | neighborhood meeting of white and Negro workers to discuss the Wash- | | ington Conference for Unemploy- | ment Insurance, have been placed lagainst Ann Burlak, nationally | known union leader, and Jane | Allen, a local girl. They will come up for trial in | police court here Tuesday. | The two were arrested in a raid | groes and five whites were discuss- ing the sending of a delegate to the Washington conference. The Negroes were beaten by police, and the five whites taken to the police station. Only the two girls were held on the framed “morality” charges, on the basis of their meet- ing in the same house with Ne- groes. The I.L.D. has called for broadest protests, especially by groups plan- ning to take part in the Washington conference, against these arrests and charges, to be sent to the Chief of Police in Danville. Kaynee Strikers Vote To Continue Struggle (Daily Worker Ohio Bureau) CLEVELAND, Ohio, Dec. 14—~ Strikers of the Kaynee Company voted to continue the strike in spite of maneuvering to have the strike called off. vote was taken was the largest since the strike began. Board in Washington delayed its ‘decision on ordering an election in the plant. The company’s Cleve- land plant is shut down tight. Of- ficials- of the Amalgamated Cloth- ing Co., who are leading the strike, filed a motion in court to have the injunction against picketing the Kaynee Co. Bucyrus plant with- drawn. scummy enemies executed with such centri- in Spain were It was the an- agents and paid then show half you seem to be Union? executed by the on a Negro’s home, where five Ne- | The meeting where. the, The National Labor Relations | executions in the Soviet Union. We must ask Algernon Lee, Abe Cahan and Nor- man Thomas (who in the last issue of the New Leader raises his voice indistinguishably from these bitterest enemies of the Soviet Union): ‘Why were you so passive when thousands of Spanish workers were being shot down in cold blood by the Lerroux-Robles regime; when hundreds were in Asturias by the hangman General Ochoa? Why did you resist the united front with the Communists when Socialists and Communists to set up a proletarian dictatorship? When 16 textile strikers were butchered in this country by the militia and employers’ gunmen dur- ing the last general textile strike, why did you not When the fascist dictatorship in Spain acts with lightening speed to destroy the upsurge of the pro- letarian revolution, you can find a thousand diplo- matic reasons to delay united front action, IS NEW BAIT OF COUGHLIN His Currency Proposal Would Only Slash the Workers’ Real Pay By Milton Howard (This is the sixth and concluding article of a series on Father Coughlin.) Coughlin’s final and most “radi- | cal” bait to catch the loyalty of| workers is his program for issuing | ten billion dollars of new money for } a public works program. | In this, our concluding article, we examine this ideal as typical of Coughlin’s trickery in concealing a capitalist solution for the crisis with a barrage of seeming support for | the interests of the workers. Also, we will discuss Coughlin’s general position in relation to the growth of fascism in this country as it is now developing in the in- creasing fascization of the Roosevelt | New Deal. Coughlin’s ideas on money are a perfect example of how this Wall Street-supported priest can offer the workers a program that looks as if it will benefit them, when, on the contrary, it will make their daily lives more miserable, make the daily struggle for a living all the | more bitter and difficult. The greatest phenomenon in American life, as far as the work- ers are concerned, is poverty and | insecurity. The need for cash relief is the most crying need of every | jobless worker; the need for work | at adequate wages, and for social ‘and unemployment insurance in | case of accident, disease, and loss of | & job. |. Coughlin knows this. He knows how the workers are looking for a | solution to these problems. And he hastens to give an answer that will seem to hit the capitalists and the employers and help the workers. But his program will exactly do the opposite—it will hurt the workers and leave the capitalists with more profits than ever. Inflationary Pay Cuts Let us see how this works out in practice. For the first twelve months of the Roosevelt New Deal, Coughlin was declaiming that the | “loosening of the dollar from the | bondage of gold” would mean an in- crease in the welfare of the workers. It was at this time that Coughlin made his connections with the Com- mittee for the Nation, the Wail Street group of industrialists whom we mentioned earlier in the series. This Committee of capitalists, strangely enough, was also inter- ested in “loosening the dollar from the bondage of gold.” Many workers fell for this idea of Coughlin’s. They thought that Coughlin was attacking the Wall | Street finance capitalists and banks who had most of the country’s gold supply in their vaults or under their control. And Coughlin, of course, encouraged them in this delusion. Coughlin ranted up and down the country against the “gold masters.” Then what happened? Roosevelt actually did “loosen the dollar from the bondage of gold.” He devalu- (Continued on Page 2) being slaughtered for their efforts the indignation and protest which able to generate against the Soviet OTHER GROUPS aS. G. lnidependent| Fraternal and Social | Bodies Aid Struggle By A. B. Magil (Daily Worker Detroit Bureau) DETROIT, Mich, Dec. 16—/ Thousands of workers in Wayne County are expected to participate | Tuesday in a mass march to the office of the County Welfare Com- | mission, 176 East Jefferson Avenue, | to protest against the drastic relief | cuts that have been handed the 66,000 families on the relief rolls! during the past two months. | The march is being organized by | the Detroit Conference for Unem- ployment Relief and Insurance, representing thirty-eight A. F. of | L. and independent trade unions, | ten unemployed organidations and forty-six fraternal and social groups, At its meeting last Tuesday night, | Painter Union Local 37 (A. F. of L.) | yoted to endorse and participate in | the march, ‘The business agents. of two other unions, Nicholas Theo-/| dore of the Fur Workers Associa-| tion, and J. McMahon of the United Poultry Workers Union, have also} endorsed the march and promised | to have their unions vote on it at| their next meeting. The march was enthusiastically endorsed at a meeting last Wed- nesday night of striking workers at Fisher Lodge, municipal flop-house, where nearly 2,000 unemployed single men are quartered. The Fisher Lodge men will participate in a body. The marchers will assemble at 2 pm. Tuesday in Times Square, from where they will go to the Welfare Commission office. The proposed. line of march, which has not yet been finally approved by the police department, is as follows: South on Cass Avenue to Jefferson; east on Jefferson to the Welfare Commission office; north on Brush and back to Times Square. The demands to be presented to the Welfare Commission are: Withdrawal of all cuts; adequate cash relief, with a minimum of $16 a week for married ccuples, $3 for single persons and $3 for each de- pendent; 75 cents an hour for un- skilled labor on relief projects and prevailing union rates for skilled; cash vouchers for rent and an in- crease in minimum rent allowance to $19 a month; adequate clothing and coal; medical and dental care for all unemployed on basis of in- dividual needs; abolition of flop- house at Fisher Lodge and instead work relief at 75 cents an hour to make a minimum of $8 a week; unemployment insurance and the endorsement of the Workers Unem- ployment Insurance Bill. Three thousand eight hundred more bills will put the Daily Worker drive over the top. Ask your fellow workers and friends to clip a bill to the coupon be- low the contribution list and rush it into the Daily Worker. sponsible for these murders. the enemies of labor throughout you do not hesitate for a moment a fascist writer as Hearst's pen Countess Tolstoya, N. Komyakov a: * * Russian Czarist white guards and tionists touches on “methods.” Union is growing stronger and must the executions take place wi When | rangements But when the proletarian dictatorship in the | Soviet Union strikes against its enemies—that is, Don Levine, and such open counter-revolutionaries as the Russian white guards in this country, the Then you can hastily form a united front—but with white guard murderers and counter-revolutionists. * 'HE gist of the objections which unites those who rant against the Soviet Union for executing the Why, if the Soviet ness and speed? Why were no there open trials? Doesn’t this deed tend to overcome the impres- sion of the “‘liberalizing tendencies” in the Soviet pai why 0 ae oe eal ace “t ! Relief Cuts PLANES ASKED IN WAR PROGRAM Be Us| To Save Sonata unds MONEY PLAN 38 UNIONS |Steel, Aluminum, Coal, Textile Workers Swing Into Movement BACK PARADE For the Insurance Congress Capital Committee Prepares to Receive 5,000 Delegates WASHINGTON, Dec. 16. — Ar- for welcoming some 5,000 delegates to the forthcoming National Congress for Unemploy- ment and Social Insurance in Washington will be undertaken by a conference of local trade unions and unemployed, fraternal and pro- fessional organizations at Painter's Hall, Sixth and G Streets, N.W., on Wednesday, Dec. 19, at 8 p. m. The Washington arrangements committee is headed by John An- derson, chairman of the American Federation of Labor Rank and File Committee for Unemployment In- surance and Relief. It also includes Charles H. Houston, acting dean, Howard University Law School; Mrs, Randall of the Women's In- ternational League for Peace and Freedom; Mrs. Pauline Shereshef- sky, field supervisor, District Emer- | gency Relief Admi\istration; H. Mackey, editor, Wasi\ngton..Trib- the; George Murphy, editor, Balti- more Afro - American; Gertrude Thorp, secretary Washington Un- employment Council, and Dr. D. N. Shoemaker of Friends’ Church, who is executive secretary. “Immediate enactment of genu- |ine unemployment and social in- |surance for all who need it will be |demanded of Congress by the na- | tional conference for which we are | preparing,” says Anderson, who is chairman of the local committee. | “All sorts of schemes are being pro- | posed, which make no provision | whatever for the millions now un- |employed; which would cut the wages of already underpaid work- ers by requiring them to contribute to unemployment reserves; which |would put drastic limits on the | number of jobless who may re- | ceive benefits | “The kind of social insurance | which working people and forward- | looking groups generally are de- |manding with growing impatience |calls for compensation to all work- |ers without discrimination for in- | voluntary unemployment, old age, industrial accidents or sickness and other hazards for which they are not responsible. This compensation must be at least equal to the average |rate of wages, and it must be pro- vided by the government and the employers, without any contribu- tions being levied on workers and other low-income groups. Further- |more, it must be payable for the |full period during which the work- jer is in need of it. “The growing demand for such genuine insurance is shown by the fact that, despite opposition from the top officials of the American Federation of Labor, these princi- ples, as embodied in the Workers Unemployment and Social Insur- jance Bill, introduced by Congress- man Lundeen as H.R. 7598, have been endorsed by more than 2,400 local, State and international bodies | of the A. F. of L., as well as by fra- |ternal and other organizations num- bering millions of members.” Who Are the Defenders of the White Guard Assassins? AN EDITORIAL American workers are shot down, you do not arouse the resentment against the Roosevelt regime, re- fact that the So the world—then | against all inner More Speed Asked in All the Districts For Workers’ Bill Ballots in the Daily Worker campaign for a million votes for the Workers Unemployment In- surance Bill are now coming in slowly. While today at least 200,- 000 ballots should already have reached the Daily Worker, only a few thousand have arrived. Detailed plans must be worked out by all sections and districts if the balloting is to be success- ful. Sections must immediately set up polling places. Fractions must take the ballots into the shops and trade unions. The un- employed groups should bring the drive into the relief stations, C. C. C. camps and transient bureaus. Daily reports of the drive should be sent to the Daily Worker. Fifty thousand ballots must reach the Daily Worker each day in the coming period if the cam- Paign is to i fucoeedl... Bring up. the campaign on the agenda of every meeting! YOUTH TO ACT AGAINST WAR Delegates Will Meet at Washington Congress Next Month ANN ARBOR, Mich., Dec. 16.— Five hundred and five delegated representatives from organiza- tions representing all political beliefs and social affiliations at- tended the Michigan regional youth conference here today. Rallying behind the fight against hunger, war and fascism, the rep- resentatives of hundreds of thou- sands of youth will assemble in the Masonic Auditorium, Tenth and U Streets, Washington, D. C. on Jan. 4 and 5 as delegates to the National Youth Congress. The call to the Congress states, that “the spectre of hunger and want resulting from mass unem- ployment faces the youth with grim reality this Winter. Mounting mili- tary budgets and sharpened inter- national relations bring nearer the possibility of outbreak of a new world war. Openly fascist forces raise their heads with greater |audacity. Policies of educational retrenchment are intensified. Wages lof youth in industry are reduced to unbearable levels. | To Make Demands on President “The purpose of this National Congress of Youth is to work out |the concrete steps necessary to jcarry the program adopted at the First American Youth Congress into | (Continued on Page 2) | Union with the advance of Socialism? All of these arguments try to dim in the eyes of the workers in capitalist lands the fundamental viet Union is the dictatorship of the proletariat, continuing the revolutionary battle and outer foes of the proletarian to support such state. With the rapid development of Socialism, prostitute, Isaac and the advancing victory over the enemy through Socialist construction, collectivization, and the strengthening of nd A. Bialovsky. force and power this to mean the counter-revolu- | strike hard, sudd Soviet Union in ism) and in the new crop of spies more powerful, ith such sudden- rom atitseseecers ts all forces of armed defense, the necessity of sudden demonstrative thrusts of the of the revolutionary proletariat is lessened and is relaxed. Some of the enemies of the Soviet Union took atrophy of the mighty arm of the proletarian dictatorship, its inability to strike—to lenly and drastically. With war being rapidly prepared against the the East (by Japanese imperial- West (by German Fascism), the and terrorists sent into the Soviet (Continued on Page 2) New Kensington, Easton Socialist Branches To Send Delegates Sweeping forward in a mighty wave from coast to coast, support for the National Congr for Unem; v< ment Insurance, W meet in Washington on Jan. 5-7, is grows ing at a tremendous pace, all ree ports to the National Sponsoring Committee for tk Congress ree vealed of 1 deg the Central Labor Union of Easton, the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Wi and scores of A. F. of L. unions and mass and fraternal grou are }among the latest to report their vote to back the Congress el mills of Bethlet Melion-controlled al the mines of | clothing workers in Boston, other workers in a host of trades will be represented at the Congress, } Socialist Branh Names Delegates NEW KENSINGTON, Pa., Dec, |16.—The New Kensington branch of | the’ Socialist Party endorsed the National Congress for Unemploys ment Insurance at its last meeting and elected two official delegates to attend, showing the steady progress |of the united front in the Pitts burgh district The American Truckers Associa tion, an independent drivers union, has pronounced a general approval | of the Congress and the question of delegates will be taken up at the next meeting; the New Kensington Unemployment Council has elected two delegates; and the Central La- bor Union of this ll consider |the sending of delegates at this next meeting. | Russellton local union of the | United Mine Workers has elected a jdelegate and contributed $20 from |the union for expenses during the trip. Easton 8. P. Acts EASTON, Pa., Dec. 16.—Entering their names into the sweeping united front of workers’ organiza- tions that have backed the Na- tional Congress for Unemployment Insurance, the Socialist Party, the Central Labor Union of Easton and Vicinity, the American Federation of Silk Workers, the Lithuanian Workers’ Association, and the Brewery Workers Union are among the host of workers’ organizations here to lend their support to the National Congress for Unemploy- ment Insurance, Each has elected official delegates to the Congress. From the steel mills of Bethlehem and from the silk mills of Easton delegates have been elected The large Hungarian population of Easton will be fully represented at the National Congress under the united front established by the | Hungarian workers’ groups to supe | port the Congre: International Union Acts | NEW YORK—The International | Union of Mine Mill and Smelter | Workers, affiliated with the Amere ican Federation of Labor, with headquarters at Salt Lake City, Utah, is cooperating with the Na= | tional Congress, the National Spon= |soring Committee stated yesterday, An order for 2,000 post cards ene | dorsing the Congress and the Work- |ers’ Bill has just been reccived from this union. “Please forward 2,000 jeards for the purpose of boosting {the Lundeen bill,” the secretary writes. The International Union |of Mine Mill and Smelter Workers | was one of six international A. F, lof L. unions whose last convention endorsed the Workers Bill. Wide Trade Union Representation PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Dec. 16.— At least 20 delegates from A. F. of L. unions are expected to attend the National Congress for Uneme ployment and Social Insurance, ace |cording to the A. F. of L. Trade Union Committee for Unemploy< ment Insurance. 7 International ders Union 11% has endorsed the National Con= gress and elected one delegate to attend the sessions in Washington, | | BELLEVILLE, N. J., Dec. 16—. | ne local of the American Federa« tion of Full Fashioned Hosiers (Continued on Page 2)