The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 18, 1934, Page 1

See MAKE THIS FI GURE GROW! Press Run Yesterday—41,400 } Vol. XI, No. 301 Entered as second-class matter st the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., under the Act of March 8, 1879. Daily Q Worker aes TEE Se TORS 2 GRNTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL ) NEW YORK, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1934 (Six Pages) PLAN PUSHED FOR RADIO A RO AD CAS | Urges Intensified Collection to Meet Burden Twenty Groups to Join’ in Mass Rally | at Canton CANTON, Ohio, Dec. 17.—Twenty focal unions of the American Fed- eration of Labor and the Railway Shop Craftsmen, and scores of language and church groups, which fare represented on the local spon- soring committee of the National Congress for Unemployment In- surance, have obtained the use of the City Auditorium for a gigantic mass meeting to popularize the Workers” Unemployment Insurance | Bill. In addition, the committee will have the use of the local radio sta- tion during the last week of De- cember. Theodore A. Wagner, busi- ness agent of the Stationery Fire- men and Operating Engineers Union, and secretary of the local sponsoring committee, has been chosen to deliver the radio address. Wagner, one of the outstanding progressive trade unionists in the Canton area, was chosen by the local committee to make this address fol- lowing his masterly exposition and comparative analysis of the various unemployment insurance bills. Plan Mass Send-Off The last meeting of the. local sponsoring committee sent a dele- gation to the last session of the City Council and obtained the use of the City Auditorium for a huge mass rally and send-off for the dele- gates to the National Congress from 29, will rally all workers behind the forthcoming congress. The request for the use of the auditorium, which seats 5,000, free of all charge was granted because of the tremendous mass backing which the Workers’ Unemployment Insurance Bill has throughout this area. Shortly before the mass meeting, Canton, Massilon and the surround- ing territory will be flooded with union-printed handbills announcing the meeting. The Drivers’ Unions here, which are represented on the committees backing the congress. have volunteered to distribute the handbills along their regular routes. ‘They estimate that in this manner over 26,000 working class homes will raised to rush to the National Spon- be covered. Money is now being soring Committee for materials on the congress for this wide distribu- tion. 7150 Unions Listed The total number of trade unions ] and other organizations actively participating in the Congress ar- rangements here number about fifty. In the past, regular meetings have been held in the Y.M.C.A., which donated the use of its rooms. This Wednesday, the meeting will be held in the rooms of the Canton Chamber of Commerce. Anna Damon Stresses C, P. IN DRIVECOMMUNISTS Need of Scottsboro Fund FQR SPREAD of Expense of Legal Steps Necessary in the A call to all those who are well- wishers of the Scottsboro boys, to all organizations and individuals who are opposed to fascist lynch terror, to intensify their activity to force the United States Supreme Court to review the cases of Hay- wood Patterson and Clarence Nor- ris, now before that court, and to reverse the lynch verdict of death against them, was issued yesterday by the National Executive Commit- tee of the International Labor De- fense. A decision by the court on the ap- plication of the I. L. D., through its attorneys, Osmond K. Fraenkel and Walter Pollak, for writ of certiorari in these cases is expected momen- tarily. At the same time, the I. L. D. U.S. TO LIMIT ARMS EXPORT Acts to Cripple Her Imperialist Rivals on Munitions Shipments Appeal . Party Leaders Stress through Anna Damon, acting na-| Theory as Weapon tional secretary, called for the im- 3 mediate and intensified collection | at Open Meeting of funds in its $6,000 drive to meet} the tremendous burden of expense} Though workers may win strikes, of the legal steps necessary in the | though they may win relief and for the boys’ release. |ist-controlled government, they will Already more than $64,000—a sum |never be able to find a way out of $2,500 greater than has been col-|their growing misery and oppression lected—has been expended in the | unless they understand and use the three and a half years of this cam- \revolutionary theories advocated and paign, of which 62% per cent was |Practised by the Communist Party. spent on purely legal expenses, 12.3; With this as the central idea, the per cent on the mass campaign, and/Communist Party on Sunday night 24 per cent on administrative ex-|launched a serious drive to improve | pense. This last figure, it has been | the theoretical equipment of its own pointed out, is in striking contrast| members and to bring to broader to the 71.5 per cent which, it has| masses of workers an understanding jof the Marxist-Leninist theories | which they need in their every day peaiook —} struggles. COU AT HOLDS. A meeting of members and sym- (Continued on Page 6) |ternational Publishers was the open- Casino, 107th Street and Park appeal, and the vital mass campaign | other concessions from the capital-| AFL LOCALS BACK INSURANCE LIST DEMANDS OF LENINISMIN AUTO FIELD |Urge United Front| of Unions in Struggle | at Hearing By A. B. Magil | | (Daily Worker Michigan Bureau) DETROIT, Dec. 17.—The Com- |munist Party, represented last night at the N. R. A. hearings on condi- tions in the auto industry, de- | manded the ending of the March | | agreement and called for a united | |front of all unions in organized | | struggle for common demands as | the only way to effect genuine im- | provements in the conditions of the workers. Earl Reno appeared for the Com- munist Party and read the state- ment of its District Committee. The statement called for the establish- ment of “the united front of the A. F, of L., Mechanics Educational So- | |ciety of America and other real | workers’ unions around a program such as: a minimum wage of $35 | for production men and $48 for, | skilled workers for a 30-hour five- | day week; regulation of the speed of production by democratically elected committees of workers and |the company; for one industrial union in the industry, controlled by the workers and struggling against the employers; abolition of the | March agreement, abolition of the jcompany union, of service men and | spy agencies; a guarantee working WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 17.— A move to cripple the imperialist rivals of American capitalism by | sion of the Negroes was bered in ail withholding all ammunition and_/ its ugliness during the past few days other supplies from them when warjin the attempt to legally declare breaks out and by refusing to pro-| Jane Newton, white wife of Herbert CHICAGO, Dec. 17.—The use of the courts to maintain the oppres: the Canton area. The mass meet- tect ships which carry such cargo |Newton, insane because she married | h ing, to be held Saturday night, Dec. js forecast in a detailed document|a Negro, and with the arrest of | voted to detailed and keen-visioned | just completed by the State Depart- | Newton and the issuing of a warrant ment and soon to be submitted to |for the arrest of Harriet Williams, President Roosevelt. | white woman with whom the New- This further development of ac-|tons shared an apartment at 615 celerated war-preparations now be- | Oakwood Boulevard, from which the ing masked under the demagogy of | chauvinist landlord and Chicago the “take the profit out of war” courts are trying to evict them. campaign is aimed directly at the| Jane Newton Held two chief competitors of American) Jane Newton, committed to the industrialists, Great Britain and Psychopathic Hospital by Judge Japan, | Green of the Municipal Court, is to This position is a drastic change,| be examined by a psychiatrist to- not in the profit-grasping motives of day, the judge having decided that the war-mongers, but merely in the | she must be out of her mind to have : tactics of how best to guarantee the married a Negro. International La- safety of these profits and to main-|bor Defense attorneys are trying to tain the pre-eminence of American | obtain a writ of habeas corpus for military and naval strength, The her release. y ‘ end of the London naval parleys, set; Newton, arrested with five other for next Thursday, is generally rec- | workers last Wednesday for picket- pathizers of the Communist Party in the New York District to cele- \brate the tenth anniversary of the |proletarian publishing activity of In- JANE NEWTON \ing signal of the drive, but the na- ‘tional importance of the meeting | LUE {was indicated by the fact, that it . | was sponsored by the Central Com- Chicago Judge Places mittee of the Communist Party as | - | well as the New York District Com- | Wife of Negro Leader | rittce. in Insane Ward | The meeting, held in the New Star | Avenue, filled the hall to capacity. | time of 40 weeks work per year or | |More than 2,500 Communist Party | its equivalent in unemployment in- |members and sympathetic members | surance.” lof trade unions and Socialist groups | For Higher Wages | were in the assemblage. | Reno protested the exclusion from | Need of Theory Stressed | the hearings of all testimony re-| . |Jating to Section 7a, which involves | In half a dozen speeches, each de |the crucial question of the right to organize; he also protested the ex- examination of the chief problems | | tension of the open shop auto code jWhich face American workers to-| for six months without giving the | |day, the point was hammered home | “ | again and again that “without revo- Rigige ater, Dpportunity to express lutionary theory there can be 00) ‘The Communist Party statement |revolutionary practice. |pointed out the unbearable condi- | | Jack Stachel, acting national sec-| tions of the workers—low wages, | jretary of the Trade Union Unity speed up, mass unemployment, and |League put particular emphasis on!so forth—and exposed the empty | the need of spreading among work-| talk about stabilizing employment. | ers the understanding that their only |“The auto manufacturers,” it de-| way out of the crisis is determined | clared, “have started this talk about | organized use of their strength as | staggering models in order to create a class to launch a serious struggle a smoke-screen, under cover of for state power. which they are conducting a fierce “Scores of misleaders and vision- | @ttack against the workers’ condi- ‘aries daily offer the workers rem-| tions and unionism in the auto in- edies for their misery, false ways out | dustry.” ‘of the crisis, The Upton Sinclairs,, Reno introduced into the evidence | the Huey Longs, the Father Cough-|@ Photosatic copy of a letter from |held ognized as the prelude to an open arms race and ultimately to open imperialist conflict. Senator Borah, chief protagonist in Congress of an aggressive foreign policy for United States’ capitalists, in a threat against attempts of in- dividual industrialists to aid Great Britain or Japan by exporting am- munition, stringently narrowed down commercial traffic in time of war to non-military goods, The United States government would not protect ships sailing into conflict zones “when they carry actual mu- The foliowing trade unions and nitions of war or when they actually |ing the Oakwood Relief Station, was \held on a warrant for his arrest is- sued by Judge Green in connection with the fight for Negro rights against Judge Green’s order for his eviction from 615 Oakwood Boule- vard. Newton was released Satur- day on $200 cash bail, furnished by the I. L. D. He is to be tried this Wednesday in Municipal Court at 26th and California. He has de- manded a jury trial. Jane Newton, who was arrested in the “Red Squad” raid on Newton's apartment, was given a suspended sentence last Tuesday by Judge fraternal organizations have been represented on the local spon- Green and placed on six months pro- lins and others attempt to win the | attention and sympathy of large masses of workers by their proposals | for a way out. “We, then, who have the only practical, workable scheme, already successfully tested over one-sixth of the earth’s surface, must show \greater enterprise and energy in making the workers understand our proposal for the way out. We must put in their hands as indispensable and invincible weapons the teach- ings of Marx, Lenin and Stalin. Stachel pointed to the attacks of the Hearst press on the teachings of Lenin, to the destruction of work- the Chrysler Corporation, published in the Daily Worker of Dec. 11, |showing that the companies are | cutting down men. | “To talk about an annual wage jin the abstract only confuses the | workers,” the statement declared. “We must show the workers that their first immediate problem is to weekly wages. We must show them that the winning of a guaranteed annual income is tied up with the winning of unemployment insurance |at the expense of the government and the employers. Such sterile and misleading measures as the Wagner-Lewis Bill and the various get a raise in their hourly and |yepresented at the HOUSE INVESTIGAT Communist Party Demands Hearing to Answer Charges; Asks Thomas to State View TELEGRAM TO MC CORMACK John W. McCormack Committee Investigating “Un-American” Activities House Office Building Washington, D. C, In view your declared intentions of drafting new measures di- rected against Communists and Communist Party which uld be merely preparatory step for fascist attacks on workers’ movement as whole the Communist Party demands full opportunity for presentation its position and reply to charges of reactionary, anti-working class forces now swarming around your committee. Communist Party dele- gation headed by C. A. Hathaway will be in Washington on Wed- nesday morning prepared to insist on being heard. C. A. HATHAWAY, for Communist Party. TELEGRAM TO THOMAS Norman Thomas 206 East 18th Street New York City You no doubt are aware of hearings now being conducted by Dick- stein Committee in Washington in preparation for new anti-Commu- nist and anti-labor measures. Our Party has wired demanding it be heard and allowed to present its position Which is being slandered and distorted by host of professional red-baiters. Our delegation headed by C. A. Hathaway will appear at hearing on Wednesday morning de- manding to be heard. Do you plan to appear and state position of Socialist Party and your own views? We believe situation demands clear stand your position directly to Dickstein Committee through personal appearance, C, A, HATHAWAY, Editor, Daily Worker. NOLKER LEADS ANTI-UNION. MINE POLL PACT SOUGHT By Tom Keenan | WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 17.— (Daily Worker Pittsburgh Bureau) | Protection to company unions and PITTSBURGH, Pa., Dec, 17.—At| Compulsory arbitration by the Steel a Rank and File Conference of|L@bor Board are among the points United Mine Workers local unions,|imcluded in a proposal reported in California, Pa., delegates ™ade yesterday by Myron Taylor, from 30 locals brought in duplicate president, of the United States Steel results of the U. M. W. A. District | Corporation at a secret meeting Five election last Tuesday to show| With the Steel Labor Board. The Charles Nolker, Rank and File can-| Proposal, designed to avert the didate for District President, lead- | Strike looming in the industry, it is ing Pat Fagan, Lewis machine can-|°xPected will be passed to the didate by about four to one. | Amalgamated Association of Iron, ‘ | Steel id Tin Workers’ official: Tabulated results obtained from | within a few rs es cveriaeer gees 19 of the above 30 locals give Nol-| e i ker, 4,066 votes to 1,576 for Fagan. The proposal is essentially the Out of the thirty local unions |S@#me as that which served to avert meeting, only |® strike in the automobile industry three — Cokeburg Junction, Arnold|!" March, and agreed to by the \City and Pricedale returned | American Federation of Labor offi- majorities for Fagan cials. The dissatisfaction of the Laying the basis dx a wtblsone workers in the automobile industry ci has finally forced the A. F. of L. atentn Yagan pecteniay announced | officials to back down upon their to the press that he and his entire | a¢reement which gives company |Slate had been returned to office by| unions control in all relations with seek to break a blockade.” | 4 Thus, in the event of a Japanese soring committee of Canton: Loy- attack upon the Soviet Union, alty Lodge (Federal Union. 18903— American imperialism might with- | steel), Lathers’ Union, Milk Driv- hold war-supplies from its rival, | ers’ Union, Firemen and Operating Japan inadvertently and unwilling- Engineers, Pictorial Painters’ Union, jy rendering passive support to the bation on condition that the New- tons move out of the house that same evening. She was not sworn in or informed she was being tried, and was not permitted an attorney. lers’ bookshops by vigilantes and to the burning of revolutionary litera- ture by -Naz§ hangmen as proof {that “the power of revolutionary ‘theory among the masses is recog- unemployed reserve fund schemes | ployed workers. Only by the enact- ment of the Workers Unemployment and Social Insurance Bill (H. R. give nothing to the present unem- | “majorities as high as 6,000.” ei ... |the employers. But these A. F. of The result counted for the Price-|1, officials, instead of preparing @ dale local union is highly suspici-| ctrixe, proposed a new compulsory jous, according to the Rank and File! synitration board. Committee, since a determined| Meanwhile, the Steel Labor Board fight has been waged there for some Stark Lodge 166, A.A.I.S.T.W., Gen- eral Tailors’. Union 144, Wilson Rub- ber Federal Union 18982, Arin Lodge 159, A.ALS.T.W., Bakery Drivers 92, Buckeye Lodge 18651, Canton Stamping and Enameling (Federal Union) 18506, Dental Supplies Fed- eral Union 19114, Dairy Employees Union 113, Donald. Richberg Federal Union (steel), Hotel and Restaurant Employes’ Union 333, Brotherhood of R. R. Shopmen, and the Barbers’ Union. More Fall in Line Aside from the trade unions on the local Sponsoring Committee, the following organizations are repre- sented: Eight language branches of the International Workers Order, seven right-wing language organiza- tions; the Massillon Tinemplovment Council, fhe Stark County Unem- ployment Council Committee, the Hungarian Presbyterian Church, the Massillon N.A.A.C.P., the Rou- manian Cultural Club, Canton Sons of Italy, Arrow Youth Club, the Greek Club (Canton). During the next two weeks every organization, trade union and fra- ternal, including such organizations as the V. F. W., American Legion, Disabled Veterans, Elks, Moose, and churches, are being visited and urged to send delegates to the Na- tional Congress. Fifteen regular delegates to the Canton Central La- bor Union are active members of the (Continued on Page 2) Soviet Union. /EETING in secret session, ninety of the country’s most powerful industrialists are now holding sessions at White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia. These meetings are of the greatest importance to the whole American working class. For they have been called by the two most powerful groups of in- dustrialists in the country, the United States Cham- ber of Commerce and the National Association of Manufacturers, Thus these meetings are the getting together of all the organized groups of American industrial cap- ital with the purpose of co-ordinating the economic policies of American capitalism for the new anti- labor drive, which was already outlined in New York two weeks ago at the Congress of American In- di Represented at these secret sessions are all the various interests of Wall Street monopoly capital. There is Owen D. Young of the General Electric Company, there is John J. Raskob of the General Motors Corporation, Lammot du Pont of the du Pont munitions monopoly, James H. Rand, infla- tionist advocate of the Committee for the Nation, and a leading industrialist, George A. Sloan, of the Textile Institute, as well as other numerous repre- sentatives of Morgan and Rockefeller interests, as well as smaller groups, (Continued on Page 6) (Continued on Page 2) ‘HIS formidable array of American capitalists is now weighing the various proposals adopted at the recent Congress of American Industry, with the purpose of ironing out any conflicts that exist be- tween various groups, and especially with presenting a rounded-out, co-ordinated program for American industry embracing all the newest phases in the “recovery” drive. These new phases have already been made clear in the resolutions adopted in the New York convention two weeks ago. They include: the re-emphasis on profit as the indicator of recovery, the demand for a balanced budget as against all relief expenditures, the re-affirmation of the prin- ciple of the open shop, the strengthening of anti- strike apparatus in the government, the lengthen- ing of working hours and the increasing of every workers output without increasing wages, the levying of new heavy taxes on all consumptive goods and the lightening of taxes on corporations and banks, the whole program to be topped off with a renewed reactionary drive to outlaw the Communist Party and its mass organizations. It is significant that the organization of this reactionary program is taking place at the same time that the U. S. Chamber of Commerce, the Dickstein Congressional Committee and the A. F. eee (Continued on Page 2) Wall Street Monopoly Organizes Its Forces Against Labor AN EDITORIAL of L. bureaucracy headed by William Green are launching a new attack against the Communist Party, as the first step toward a crushing attack on all militant labor, ‘ROM all this it is clear that the Wall Street mo- nopolies, with the direct aid and encouragement of the Roosevelt government and the A. F. of L. bureaucracy, are priming their guns for a new bar- rage of wage cuts and union smashing activity, in their attempt to climb out of the crisis on the backs of the workers. More, it is a further development of fascist reaction against the whole labor movement. In all this reactionary discussion and prepara- tion, the Roosevelt government is, of course, play- ing a decisive part, with Roosevelt committed com- pletely to giving the Wall Street monopolies prac- tically everything they want. It is highly signifi- cant that among those now deliberating in the | secret sessions is a leading representative of the | N.R. A. Advisory Board, Roger B. Shepard. As against this united battle-line of American industrial capital, the working class must begin to mobilize its own forces in defense of its standards | of living, its wage levels, its trade unions, its Party, and its hard-won democratic rights. | The drive for the thirty-hour week without any time against Fagan (Continued on Page 6) The fight for the right to organize, strike and | Picket must be widened to include all workers of | every Party or union, j The fight for cash relief and for unemployment | insurance, to be paid by the Federal government | and the employers, as well as the whole program of social insurance that will be presented at the National Congress for Social and Unemployment Insurance at Washington on January 5-7, now be- | comes a mighty weapon to meet the offensive of | the employers. The American working class must mobilize its forces. The united front of all workers in defense of the workers’ standards and interests must be- | come the main weapon against the Wall Street | monopolies now holding their anti-labor war coun- ciis. Not only the united front in defense of wages and conditions, but also a powerful united front in defense vf all civil rights, and, above all, of the rights of the Communist Party as the political ex- pression of the workers’ class interests and aims, The blows aimed against the Communist Party are also aimed at the whole American working class. Set up the united front against phe new Wall Street | offensivel | cut in pay must be intensified. mis NATIONAL EDITION Price 3 Cents PLAN RED DRIVE TO FIGHT LABOR GRESS ORS PROPOSE CAMPS TO IMPRISON MILITANTS: GREEN COOL TO NEW ANTI-RED LAW A. F. of L. Head Attacks Communists and the Insurance Congress By Seymour Waldman (Daily Worker Washington Bureau) WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 17.— Mindful of his recent failure to get American Federation of Labor locals the country to expel President William refused to recommend 1 congressional com- American z of Federal the Com- throughout to the “speci munist Party illegal or give the Department of Justice cial and appropriations to make intensive undercover in- vestigations of the revolutionary movement, |. Green, the main witness before today's opening anti-Communist | capital sessions of the committee, however, drew upon his strike- breaking activities during the great West Coast strike to recommend legislation which would make the general strike illegal except in’ “ex- ne cases.” Repeating the em- yers’ slogan, “Every general ike has failed,” Green uttered the old libel that the Communist Party | wasn’t interested in winning the | economic demands of the workers | but in “revolution,” despite his own acts and the clear official statement 'to the contrary ued during the strike by the Communist Party. Aim of Committee. The House of Representatives In- vestigating Committee, known pop- ularly as the Dickstein Committee, led by Chairman John W. McCor- mack of Massachusetts and Dick- stein, made it clear that, failing a recommendation for outright out- lawing of the Communist Party, it is interested in getting support for a recommendation which would broaden the present Section 6 of the Criminal Code so that an “overt act” showing a conspiracy to over- throw the Government would not be necessary to prove to obtain a conviction. McCormack asked Green to “give some thought and make some sug- gestions” in the near future “that where a conspiracy is established there should be the basis of convic- tion without showing an overt act.” Green said he would “be glad to give it thought and if some sugges- tions are helpful I'll be glad to do it.” To McCormack’s request for a recommendation for “dealing with an organized minority distinctly outside the pale of the law” Green replied that if the activities referred to were illegal then present statutes are sufficient. Rice W. Means, former U. S. Sen- | ator from Colorado and Ku Klux Klan leader in his state at the time of his election, appeared as the rep resentative of the Spanish Amer- ican War Veterans. Means declared; “We believe that the Department of Justice should be given authority and proper appropriation to keep constantly informed as to the Com- munist menace. We believe that a statute should be passed making | the teaching or preaching of Com- munism a felony. We believe that all aliens teaching or preaching Communism should be deported, and all naturalized aliens doing this should have their naturaliza- tion papers cancelled.” Urges Prison Terms ‘Thomas Kirby, the national legis- lative chairman of the Disabled | American Veterans, proposed: “That | those who advocate the destruction | by force of the American govern | ment be considered felons and sen- | tenced to long imprisonment, and | that aliens among those be de= ported, upon discharge from prison, | to the lands of their origin.” Kirby | boasted that Colonel William J, | Donovan, “that distinguished citi< | zen and soldier,” is a former Nas | tional Judge Advocate of the D.A.V, | Donovan is the big Wall Street law- | yer now representing the corrupt | duPonts’ munitions and textile dy- |masty before the Senate munitions committee. The D.A.V. legislative | representative repeated his dema- gogy, voiced before the War Policies — | Commission, about the “universal | draft,” that is, drafting property like men. However, he did not in-= form the committee that he had recommended to the commission the usual return to property during war= time. * McCormack and Green engaged in a long discussion about the “left j wing furriers union” and (Continued on Page 2)