The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 20, 1934, Page 1

—————E= NEW SUBSCRIPTIONS WILL INCREASE THE CIRCULATION OF THE “DAILY” SOLICIT FOR SUBS! Press Run Yesterday - - 40,100 Tol. XI, No. 303 => aily <Q Worker CENTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL ) Entered as secund-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., under the Act of March 8, 1879. b |) NEW YORK, THURSD AY, DECEMBER 20, 1934. EDI (Six Pages) NATIONAL TION Price 3 Cents JNIONS MASS FOR JAN. 5 CONGRESS shicago Hall Barred red for Lenin Memorial M. eeting in Fascist Drive GREEN AIDS BOSSES AGAINST INSURANCE A.F.OF L. HEAD AGAIN RAISES ‘RED BOGEY’ In Letter Signed by Morrison, He Assails Insurance Plan By Seymour Waldman (Daily Worker Washington Bureau) WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 19.— With the leading generals of big business's Chamber of Commerce and National Manufacturers As- sociation in White Sulphur Springs, West Va., busy deliberating over the precise fascist-like structure into which to cast the N. R, A., William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, aided them to- day on the Washington Front by raising a red bogey in a desperate attack on the forthcoming National | Congress for Unemployment Insur- ance. He is obviously very much disturbed over the fact that work- ers’ organizations in twenty-seven states have already elected dele- gates to the Congress. In a letter to presidents of na- tional and international unions, State Federations of Labor and City Central bodies, signed also by Frank Morrison, secretary of the A. F. of | L., the two anti-strike moguls) werned the recipients to “be on guerd against an attempt to create! the impression that the Amorican Federaticn of Labor is in any way, connected with the ‘National Con- | gress for Unemployment and So- | cial Insurance’ . to be held in the Washington Auditorium, Jan, 5, 6, 7, 1935, inclusive.” Say They Are Opposed Cooperating with the big business | and banking bodies and the latter's | legislative representatives, th e| Dickstein or “Special Congressional | Committee investigating un-Amer- | jean acti Fe in the campaign against the Communist Party as the main objective in the plan to smash the entire working class movement, Green and Morrison de- cared: “The American Federation of Labor is opposed to those who called the meeting. They are Com- munists and are using the Unem- ployment Insurance issue for the purpose of gaining converts to their objectionable philosophy.” Green, who encouraged. the Dick- stein Committee to assist his strike- breaking activities by making the general strike illegal, concealed the fact that the Unemploymen Con- gress is being sponsored by an ex- ceedngly broad front of liberals, So- cialists, conservatives, Communists and trade unionists of all parties and that it has been endorsed by more than two thousand A. F. of L. locals, four A. F. of L. International Union conventions including the United Textile Workers, the Amal- gamated Association of Steel and Iron Workers, and the American Newspaper Guild. The two A. F. of L. officials how- ever, made no attempt to conceal the fact that their bureaucracy “has been participating in the develop- ment of an economic security pro- gram for the administration.” The Administration-A. F. of L. program leaves the present unemployed out in the celd and proposes to leave the future unemployed to the hazardous inadequacies of the vari- ous state machineries. ‘The A. F. of L. has declared its own policy for unemployment insurance . . . a program for action on unemploy- ment insurance,” Green and Mor- rison stated, “will be sent you for guidance in securing state legisla- tion. The local unions, the Central Labor unions and the State Fed- eration of Labor affiliated with the American Federation of Labor, should ke warned against believing that in giving their support to the ‘National Congress for Unemploy- ment and Social Insurance’ they are endorsing and supporting the program of the American Federa- tion of Labor. I ask that the Cen- tral Labor Unions make this letter a matter of official record at their next meetings, with the purpose in view of acquainting the delegates and representatives of affiliated local unions of the above.” Green Shows Worry Green's latest outburst against the Unemployment Congress re- fected the interest shown in the Congress throughout the country by attempting to get the “newspapers of the country” to boycott the pro- @eedings. Pelering ° that ‘it is ap- [Mlenlinyed on Pace 2) an, o- i What the ‘Investigators’ Choose to Ignore What I saw ‘er at wa ne by ro To the frontline fighters of the World War int ofthe Kisigaberg speech ofthe formar front rank Migher, Rudolf Hess (At Hider's Deputy). vam. sete fe ce in Germany. fares S08 here with hr spac ers WAR NEARER SCRAPS PACT U,S,-LedCompetition for Power Freed from Last Restraint | WASHINGTON, Dec. *19. long-prepared race by the Roosevelt |government went into high- -speed | | today on the pretext of the Japan- | AS JAPAN — The| COLISEUM. IS DENIED. COMMUNISTS Attacks Inspired by | House Committee | and Hearst Campaigns | | | CHICAGO, Dec. the fascist 19 incitement - Following sounded Only 5,880 Votes forBill Sent in So Far in Drive for a Million Chinese Students Ask Help Against Chiang’s Terror ese renunciation today of the Wash- | ington naval treaty. This step | brings much closer the whole ques- | against the Communist Party by the Only 5,880 ballots in the Daily In a desperate call for help Hearst press and the Dickstein) Worker campaign to obtain one mil-|| against the vengeful terrorism ion votes for the Workers Unem-|| exercised against them by Committee now investigating “sub- versive” activities, the corporation Chiang Kai-shek at his com- plete failure to crush the Chinese ployment Insurance Bill have been | received at the office of the Daily Wor hers’ Bill Ballot Campaign Lags Behind Sweeping Growth Of Support for the Parley al, Shoe, craft, Sicel Calais Texiile, Air- Name Delegates NEW YORK.—Trade unions, ternal and mutual welfare organi- zations continue to dous support tional pile up tremene for the coi Metp to RHI the Het : ime mambo art Monde ee of charge tom the Secretary af Michte A ssoclslléa(PichiosBendy, 50 Jungfernstieg, Hamburg 36. ‘Pieae Aneta ohne among yaar hid, Tons of fascist leaflets and pamphlets are daily benig smuggled into the United States directly from the poisoned sewers cf Hitler's propaganda factories in Hamburg, Berlin, and other cities, while the Dickstein Committee for the Investigation of “Un-American Activities” | ignores this immediate growing danger in order to engage im anti- | Communist and anti-working class slander-mongering. Printed in Eng- lish, these Icaflets, portions of which are shown here, bear the mosi | for equal naval power ratios in vain outrageous lies and myths about present conditions in Germaiiy, con- | ditions which newspapers and witnesses of every political opinion verify | are so steeped in misery and brutality as to be unparalleled anywhere in the world. Here one will find praise for the superintendent of 2 concentration camp who “showed such love for his work” and for the butcher Hitler's cut-throat fury resisted fascism. against all militant workers who Stupid contradictions are flaunted as truths, such as on the one hand approving the murder and persecution of Jews | on the basis of unheard-of “statistics” that the Jews dominated the | injured! Communists and Socialists, are rife throughout. | of the flood of fascist propaganda world and on the other hand denying that a single Jew had ever been Attacks on the best fighters of the working class, militant This is the character which the Dickstein Committee re- fuses to recognize is sweeping the country. ROAD OPENED (Special to the Daily Worker) SHANGHAI, Dec. 19 (By wire- less).—The new strategic Japanese reailroad, starting at Tsitsihar and pointing directly at the Manchu- rian-Soviet frontier, was opened to- day in the presence of numerous representatives of the Japanese authorities. The Japanese Telegraph Agency openly admits that the new line,. 180 miles long, possesses “extaor- \dinary strategic importance.” The | completion of this purely military | road is recognized here as the be- ginning of a new series of Japanese- inspired provocations upon the So- viet Union. The new military airdrome re- cently constructed on the outskirts of Tientsin remains unexplained by the Japanese officials there. News- papers state that the Japanese re- fused to give any written answer to the local Chinese authorities con- cerning the construction of the air- drome but limited themselves to a! an airdrome but simply a sta- dium.” IN WAR PLAN DAVIS URGES AID TO 1.L.D. By BEN J. DAVIS, Jr. Editor, the Negro Liberator All honest and sincere people in- ; terested in justice and fair play have for three and a half years clenched their fists in protest and |indignation at the bloodthirsty frame-up of the nine innocent Scottsbo-o boys by lynch class of the South. The innocence of these boys has been repeatedly established j by the relentless and militant de- fense struggles waged under the | leadership of the International | Labor Defense. Only this world- | wide mass protest has halted the iycnnens: hands. Why, then, are these boys still languishing under death sentences in the Alabama prisons? Clearly, it is because the slave-driving land- lords and industrialists of the South are determined to use the charred bodies of these boys as examples of terror to the oppressed Negro | Masses. It is because the lynchers of the South intend to brutally peruse every effort of the united [esto and white workers of this country to save the lives of the verbal statement that “this is not | Scottsboro boys and to win the com- (Continued on Page 2) tion of imperialist war for the domi- | nation of the Pacific. Foreseen long ago by American! imperialism and provoked by the vast naval building schedules of the United States, the scrapping of the tzeaty by Japan is only the formal answer of the Japanese to the ag- | gresive intentions of Washington, varticularly after the passage of the Vinson Bill months ago. Throughout the session of the now | abandoned London naval parleys the Japanese military authorities, | with the aid of the British, struggled {against the determined insistence of’ the*United States that both her | imperialist rivals stick by the terms | of tke old naval treaties. A tofal of 130 war vessels, the cost | of which runs into billions of dol lars, now. feverishly being con- structed in American navy yards, | provided the lever which led Japan- |ese industrialists to scrap the 1922 treaty in a mad scramble to com- pete’in naval construction with the United States. Fortification by the Roosevelt vegime of island possessions in the | Pacific Ocean has been under way |for years. Aviation flights, test cruises through the Panama Canal, naval maneuvers embracing the entire United States fleet held in the Pacific area, have placed the present administration in the first line of imperialist preparations for war. Millions of dollars have been hidden naval and air bases along the coast of Alaska and throughout | the Aleutian Islands, within 1,500 miles of Japanese territory. That such fortifications for war | | purposes were being constructed long before Japanese denunciation of the treaty is never mentioned here. All capitalist newspapers are cloaking the terrific pace and ag- gressiveness of naval building and general war measures of the United | States by attacks upon Japan for abrogation of the treaties. Al- though the new abandoned treaties of 1922 and 1930 have not been ; completely renounced, such renun- ciation is formally expected to take place Dec. 31, ELECTION COMMITTEE TO ’ MEET CHICAGO, Dec. 19.—The Com- | munist election campaign commit- tee in Ward 8 will hold a united front election conference on Sunday at 2 p.m. at 9233 Cottage Grove munist Party in the aldermanic election campaign will be discussed and candidates will be endorsed by the conference. All mass organiza- tions are urged to send representa- tives. set aside for the secret bullding of | Avenue. The platform of the Com- | hundreds of meetings, in our press and in our speeches, we Communists have told the workers the truth in the elections. And this truth was: if you workers elect Democrats, Republicans or cam- didates of any of the other bourgeois parties, then you are strengthening not your own power, the power of the working class, but the power of your enemy, the bosses, the capitalist class and their capitalist government. We have told the workers, “You must vote as you strike. Your vote must express the same spirit that is expressed in a strike against the employers, the spirit of class struggle for the interests of the working class.” But our voice was not yet loud enough, not con- vincing enough. Our organizations were not strong enough to break through the flood of lies, preju- dices and trickery of the capitalist parties, to con- vince the workers of this truth. ; Millions of voters did not vote as they fought on the picket lines. Many workers let themselves | fe ebested. and then wed uneomasioualy tor: Niels AN EDI enemies, for the representatives of the capitalists, for the strike-breakers, for the exploiters and the enemies of the trade unions. And the A. F. of L. leaders, who are at the head of the trade unions, and who are supposed to be defending the interests of the workers, did every- thing in their power to help the representatives of the bourgeois parties, the representatives of the bosses and the strike-breakers, to carry through this nation-wide cheating of the workers in the elections. . UT now, only a few weeks after the elections are over, with Roosevelt and the Democratic Party carrying off the victory, is it not already much easier to recognize the truth of what we Commu- nists told the workers before the elections? What do they now see, the workers who voted for Roosevelt in the belief that they were voting against the bankers, against the monopolies, against. the strike-breakers? _. What do these workers see now who voted for . owning the Coliseum here yesterday | | refused to grant permission for a| |Lenin Memorial meeting on the grounds that “it was against the law | to hold a Communist meeting any- where.” | The Coliseum r: ed the deposit | | which it hed originally accepted for | the meeting which is sc juled for | | 320,000. At Communist Party has for years been | quotas. raped the Coliseum for its meet-| returns, evidence. of a determined attempt | Jan. 1. to carry through the latest attacks | on the. Communist..Patr with the purpose of abolishing it as a legal | Political party as demanded by the Worker up to 10 a.m. yesterday, the management committee announced. Under the schedule which must be fulfilled if the drive is to succeed. | the total number should have a e start of the drive, the Daily Worker announced that at least 40,- 000 ballots must be returned to the) Jan. 20, despite the fact that the |New York office each day to fill| Later. because of the small this figure was raised to ing 50,000 daily. Today, however. 76,000 | This attempt to throttle the meet-| votes must reach the Daily W orker | lowe of the Communist Party is; each day to complete the drive by Paltry Returns The New York City sections un- took to collect 250.000" votes in) Soviets, the students of Pe and Nanking have sent a cat gram to San Diego, Ca!., it v announced at the New Yo: fice of the National League ye: Brit teneoly phresed, the wire rea “Please inform N.S.L. in New k by air-mail. Many students in Pekin Nov. 26, caused by students protecting one stu- dent charged with Communism from two detectives. Inform League immediately Mr. Shen- Kuo-Kwang arrested as Commu- nist Nov. 29 and being removed to Nanking. Five more students arrested as Communists, request immediate action. .. American students help.” the campaign. Yesterda rae | U. S, Chamber of Commerce several the management comm y of the terrible mass days ago. out, indicate the total le 2 perpetrated azainst | The recent hoodium attack) susnecs with which this pledge is|} ' ve Chineve suudent: | against the Chicago Worker. -choo!,’ peing fulfilled, The Uns !) the bute | directly instigated by the incite- Councils brought in 23 ba? from the eg |ments of the Hearst press, was the | Friends of the Soviet Union, 4: dictatorship in 1927 to the pre- | Opening of this reactionary reign) Builders, 89; Section 1, Unit 15 of|| Sent day, ® National Student |of terrorism and suppression. the Communist Party. 12; Workers || League spokesman declared these students must be saved The organized character of this {latest drive against the Communist |Party is to be seen from the fact that the American Legion leader- |ship is preparing an anti-Commu- nist parade on January 4. The District Committee of the Communist Party ce upon all working class organ ions, work- ers from the shops, Negro pecple, to elect deiogates ta the city-wide ciec- tion conference to take place Jan- uary 13th, 10 a.m. at Mirror Hall, 1136 N. Western Avenue, which will | mot only be a mobilization of the Clubs, 30; fellow In indivi ment committe results munist Party candidates, Newton for city clerk, in the city of Chicago. In Colorado County dere DURANGO, Colo.. Dec. 19.—The Communist Party vote, numerically small in La Plata | ing. of increase in the last election. Nel- the Communist Party in the pre- vious election. for Lieutenant-Governor, 71 votes. received | lecting votes; creased by half. The leading So- | the relief s j votes in the last election as com- in the previous election. | York City. TORIAL Roosevelt in the belief that in this way they were voting for social and unemployment insurance, for higher wages, for the right to organize and strike, and for all civil liberties? Today, with the election hardly over, the Wall Stret bankers and industrialists, all the very people who led the United States, especially the workers, into this terrible crisis, are now holding one meeting after another to dictate to Roosevelt just what they want him to do for them. Now they are speaking out more brutally, more cynically, than before the elections. And what is Roosevelt doing? His flood of sweet phrases continues. But only to hide the fact that his program is becoming more and more openly a program against the workers, a program of betrayal of all the sweet pre-election promises about social security, unemployment insurance, and “distribu- tion of income.” Today, after the elections, the pay envelopes | are becoming less and less weighty, the pockets of and individuals brought | in 48—a total of 187. Since the drive was started on Dec 10. returns each day Dec. 10, 26; Dec. 11 Dee. 13, 647; Dee. where real app drive had been made. In the Mel! Shop, which is completely organi: under the Steel and Metal Workers | Industrial Union, every worker in| Prosident Roosevelt today declared | | working class in behalf of the Com- | the shop voted in favor of the Work- | Karl| ers’ Bill on the Daily Worker Ballot. Lockner for mayor, 8. T. Hammers-|'The Steel and Metal Workers In- steel | mark for city treasurer and Herbert | qustrial Union, which is undertaking | ment followed _ his but also/a real drive to obtain ballots, re- against the growing fascist attack ported to the Daily Worker yester-|of the American Federation of La- upon the working class movement| day that votes for the Workers’ Bill bor, together with representatives of have come into the all the major steel companies 2nd bP gs a aaa quarters from unorganized wi Communist Vote Gains i” *¢ industry and from storekce: |ers who are enthusia ement of the W The mansgement committee of| ployers and the Am |the Daily Worker yesterday called] tion | upon all sections and di: although | speed the campeign for the ballot- | | movement which is growing among Less than two weeks remain to complete the drive. pe hac dag le Percentage | every vote possible, the management | | committee urged that polling places | son Dewey, Communist candidate pe established in every section; can- | for Supreme Court Judge received | vassing and the collection tag days | 75 votes as against nine cast for | for the National Congress for Un-| | employment Insurance be made to| Salazar, candidate | serve the double purpose of supnort- ing the National Congress and col- votes The Socialist Party vote here de-| the shons, into every meeting; stations, C. C, C. camps | cialist candidate receiving only 120 | and transient bureaus; and that de- | tailed daily reports be sent | pared with a vote twice that size Daily Worker, 50 E. 13th St., which from the certain death STRIKE (RUCE’ WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 19.— that he is hopeful of an early union h TS | memis | ons Boa: | The chi tions, on of the Steel Laber Rela- ¢ in their ez Labor offici is to prevent of to | agreed, jthe steel workers, to extend “truce” in the steel industry, to drive the growing rank and file movement out of the Am | Federation of Labor steel To garner / Steel and Tin Workers. Roosevelt declared today final decision on the proposals at yesterday’s conference will mede when proper language for ihe agreement is decided up: Yesterday's proposels, wh that nade be taken into into | a were William Green and Michael Tighe vhe and union, the Amalgamated Association of Iron, be and S ade unions wide support is given y age groups and fra- | ternal societies. Call Shenango Valley Conference FARRELL, Pay pe The call to the eer c signed by the Cro: Djakovich Club, German Benefit \ Society, Bricklayers Union Local 14, Italian Liberty Church Society, In- menaces them. ° ternational W 's Orders of Shar- have been as on, Masury, and Farrell, Hungarian Presdyterian Church, Second 100: Dec. 12 : rae 14, 889: Der, Dec. 18, 1.859. Indianapolis Delegates Elected one 5 aaheekes ‘to tue! National Con gress for Unemployment Insurance, ; agreement for a “truce” in the “an arrangements committee has industry. Roosevelt's state- | been set up here and in Madison meeting with County with the support of the powerful Relief Wo orkers Union there which numbers 500 members. At least ten delegates from A. F. of L, youth and fraternal groups pected to attend the Congress from this erea. Workers’ Bill a’ its lest m: Italian Groups Act CLEVELAND, Ohio, Dec. 19.—One hundred delegates from 58 Italian fraternal organizations mecting here Monday at the conference of the United Front of Italian Organiza- tions, elected ten delegates tothe National Congress for Unemploy- ment Insurance. One other delegate had previously been elected. and five othe: were selected should finances he sending of a latger nume lodges of the Sons of agreed to by Rosevelt and the steel tho Grend Lodze of to the | companies’ representatives, were Ohio, _fiv> Catholic ti eee ¢ : a the Xi : fa of St. | sare hn, two lodges of the Independent \ (Continued on Page 2) | Sons’ of Italy, four International Workers Order branches and other groups w represented. The Latest Anti-Labor Drive and the Recent Elections the jobless remain empty, the atiacks against the unions are becoming sharper all the time. Everywhere, the local governments are levy- ing new taxes on the masses, like the infamous sales tax in New York and Cleve’and. The bosses and the bankers say to them- selves: If it was possible to cheat the workers in the elections with sweet phrases and empty prom- ises, then it is still possible to use the stick on them still harder. Yes, today, the capitalists are taking the confi- dence which the workers unconsciousiy gcve to the representatives of the capitalist class in the ‘st elections as a proof that they new attacks against the wor! ways been this in his the capitalists, see that tn cless is not yet a united, independent clocs ft able to force the bourgeoisie to make concessions, (Continued on Page 2) Great enthusiasm greeted a tele- gram received from New York City | informing the conference that the | Naticnal Lodge of the Sons of Italy j had gone on record indorsing the at end Social do, pastor of Si, John | Bantist Church, praised the Workers® | Bill as the bes: introduced into Con- The conference unanimously voted demand of DeMaioribus, president he City Council, endorsement of Pormancat Committe: Sct Us qrouss With :a’coni of 5.000 me* here Sun: a d fifteen delegate National | (Continued on Page 2), the