The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 22, 1934, Page 1

iT) Build Newsstand Sales of the Press Run Yesterday Deily Worker! - = 46,200 Daily Q Worker CENTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL ) NATIONAL EDITION Vol. XI, No. 305 > * Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., under the Act of March 8, 1879. NEW YORK, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1934 (Eight Pages) Price 3 Cents S. PLANS FASCIST RULE IN WAR TAG DAYS OPEN FOR INSURANCE PARLEY FUND NEED STRESSED AS LIST OF DELEGATES GROWS 10 THOUSANDS Newspapermen Ele et | Delegates Instructed To Back Bill The National Sponsoring Com- mittee for the National core | for Unemployment Insurance yes- | terday sent out an urgent appeal | for funds. Five thousand dollars | must be raised at once. The Na-| tional Sponsoring Committee must immediately place $2,000 on deposit for lodgings for ali the delegates; preparations must begin ‘at once for providing 27,000 meals; must be paid on the rental of the meeting hall at the Washington Auditorium. Tag days have been organized | $1,200 | | | throughout the country for today | and tomorrow. Funds raised at these collections and all money col- lected on the sale of stamps and literature should be rushed at once to the National Sponsoring Com- mittee, Room 624, 799 Broadway, New York City. Newspapermen Back Bill By a special motion made at the membership meeting of the New York Newspaper Guild Thursday night, all its delegates to the Na- tional Congress for Unemployment Insurance-were~instructed to. work for the passage of the Workers Un- employment Insurance Bill. The New York Chapter of the News- paper Guild voted to send one em- ployed delegate to the National Congress for Unemployment Insur- ance and to send at least one dele- gate from the unemployed chapter of the Guild. An announcement was made at the New York Newspaper Guild meeting that the national organiza- tion, the American Newspaper Guild, with more than eight thousand newspapermen as mem- bers, would also have a delegate to the National Congress for Unem- ployment Insurance, and that wtres had been sent to all regional offices | of the American Newspaper Guild urging the election of delegates to the National Congress, Workers Committee Ebects CHICAGO, IIl., Dec, 21.—Chicago Workers Committee on Unemploy- ment, Local 2, 2150 West North Ave., voted at its last meeting to send a delegate to the National Congress for Unemployment Insurance. Be- cause of the expense involved in sending the delegate, six workers were nominated, and the one who raises the most money will be dele- gated to attend the Congress. Local 2 urged all other locals of the Workers Committee on Unem- ployment, which is under the lead- ership of the Socialist Party, to likewise send delegates to the Na- tional Congress. It asked those locals which could not send dele- gates to send contributions for the financing of the delegate from Local 2 City Council Acts On Bill KENOSHA, Wis., Dec. 21.—The Workers Unemployment and Social Insurance Bill was unanimously en- dorsed by the Council at its last meeting here. Copies of the resolu- tion were sent to Senators Duffy and LaFollette and to Congressman Thomas Amlie. Workers’ delega- tions have called upon Amlie to introduce the Workers’ Bill into the next session of Congress, but he has not as yet replied. SPRINGFIELD, Mass., Dec. 21— Powers Hapgood, of the National Executive Committee, and Leslie Richards, a member of the State Committee of the Socialist Party, endorsed the Workers Unemploy- ment Insurance Bill and spoke in its favor at a united front meeting held here last Monday at the Classical High School. Paul C. Wicks, Communist, and secretary of the sponsoring com- mittee, which includes Mayor Henry J. Martens of Springfield, Business Agent J. Masucci of the Westing- house Federal Union, and many prominent clergymen, explained the principles of real unemployment in- surance and pointed out the need for united action on the part of all working class groups to back the National Congress. S. P. Delegate Withdraws HARTFORD, Conn., Dec. 21.— The Socialist Party delegate to a conference held here last Sunday to prepare for the National Unem- plyoment Congress, was the only one of the representatives of 22 or- ganizations to withdraw, after say- ing that the Socialist Party fights (Continued on Page 2) MASSES HAIL BIRO-BIDJAN Widespread Solidarity Greets Region’s Congress (Special to the Daily Worker) MOSCOW, Dec, 21 (By Wireless) —The First Congress of Soviets of the Jewish Autonomous Region is | becoming the occasion of the most widespread demonstrations of the} international solidarity of all the | toiling peoples of the U. S. S. R. Not only is the Moscow press de- voting considerable space to the Congress and to the prospects for development of the Jewish Region but the central organ of the Com- munist Party of the Soviet Union, Pravda, is publishing a special issue in which Biro-Bidjan ‘occupies a chief place in a perspective of the history and development of the Far | Eastern erritory. The Khabarovsk journal,: Tikhokenskaya Zvezda, de- voted two full pages to the Con- gress, and the Red Army paper, Trevoga, one full page. Both papers carry slogans in Yiddish. On the second day of the Con- gress the main feature was a speech by Lavrentyev, secretary of the Far Eastern Party Committee, whose appearance caused a tremendous ovation. Lavrentyev said in part: “The creation of the Jewish Autonomous Region is a great holi- day. We rejoice and are heartened by the numerous delegations and greetings, not only from the Far Eastern Territory but from all over the U. S. S. R. and from capitalist countries. We must justify their | expectations and strike for great achievements. Our next task for the near future is the creation of a Jewish Autonomous Republic. Mikhail Kalinin, President of the Soviet Union, in a talk with the Jewish workers in Moscow, spoke of ten years within which this task must be accomplished: “We must even work to shorten this period. Difficulties must be overcome. In 1935 the basis must be laid for a great upswing and for further rapid development. The immediate tasks are to createa large industry and a strong agriculture, to develop the creative forces of Socialist Jewish culture. We boldly assure our guests that we, sent here by the Communist Party, will fully carry out these tasks, for the entire coun- try will help to build the Jewish Autonomous Region. The Bolsheviks of the Far East will fight for the rapid advance of the Jewish Auton- omous Region.” American Worker Speaks At the Congress other speakers who conveyed their greetings were: A representative of the Leningrad delegation, which presented gifts from Leningrad factories; Marhish, ® poet delegate of the Jewish writers; a Korean worker, repre- sentative of the Khabarovsk Avia- tion Club, who spoke in the name of the aviator heroes of the Soviet Union; Khavik, speaking in the name of the Central Executive Committee and the Council of (Continued on Page 2) F. the workers were allowed to go over the private files of the Morgans, Rockefellers, Mellons and du Ponts, they would see how clear and true is the Communist Party’s exposure of these forces, and their fascist program against American labor. At the Senate Arms Committee just one of the private letters from John J. Raskob, high official in the Morgan-controlled General Motors Company, to another leading executive in the du Pont war industries, was brought to light. What does it show? In so many words, it says the Morgans, Rocke- fellers, du Ponts, Mellons, are taking the lead in attacking the Communists and preserving capitalist society against the struggles of the working class. It is an open appeal to one of the most power- ful capitalist forces in the United States, one of the biggest war trusts, to organize a fascist group for a drive against the Communist Party, against Communist ideas and against labor which refuses to starve so that a few may get richer. Mr. John J. Raskob, a close friend of President LYNCH TERROR LL.D. FIGHTS IN TENNESSEE Attempt To Stab Negro Frustrated by Nurse In Hospital A flood of telegrams to Governor Hill McAllister of Tennessee, at Nashville, Tenn. demanding the} protection of the Negro inhabitants | of Shelbyville, threatened by lynch- incited mobs and a newly-formed | “vigilante” organization, was called | for yesterday by Anna Damon, act- | ing national secretary of the Inter- | | national Labor Defense today. | The telegrams should also de- mand the unconditional and safe release of M. K. Harris, Negro| worker whom the mob attempted to | lynch, the removal of Judge T. L. | Coleman, who by his refusal to} grant a change of venue even while drunken mobs were howling around the court-house where Harris was being “tried,” lent his ablest assist- ance to the incitement of the mob; | and apprehension and punishment of the organizers. of the mob, three of whose members were killed by National Guardsmen defending themselves against its attack while protecting Harris. Another Negro Attacked SHELBYVILLE, Tenn., Dec. 21.— Lynch violence against the Negro} population here, including an at- tempt to stab a Negro orderly at the local hospital, continued throughout last night in a gruesome sequel to Wednesday’s mob attack on the courthouse during the trial of E. K. Harris, a Negro worker. The Negro orderly had attempted to assist in the removal of the body of Gilford Freeman, one of the lynch leaders shot by National} Guardsmen defending the court-| house, when a white man attacked | him with a knife. A white nurse protected the Negro by throwing | herself between him and his as-| sailant. i Freeman, a mechanic, had died | yesterday, increasing the total of} dead to four. The other known} dead are Raleigh Edwards, an in- terior decorator, and Pat Lawes, a farmer, Local authorities have | thrown a thick shroud of mystery around the identity of the fourth dead lynch leader, leading to the belief that he is either a city offi- cial or a prominent local business man. His body is reported to have mysteriously “disappeared” after he had been declared dead by Dr. Joseph L. Morton, county health officer, | Jane Newton to Speak CHICAGO, Dec. 21—Jane New- ton, released Wednesday from the Psychopathic Hospital where she had been sent by Judge Green of the Municipal Court for an exami- nation into her sanity because she married a Negro, will be one of the main speakers at the mass meeting here Friday, Dec. 28, in defense of the Chicago Workers’ School. The meeting will be held at the Grill Room, Capitol Building, 159 N. State Street, at 7:30 p. m. Her husband, Herbert Newton, Negro Communist leader, is still facing trial in connection with the mass fight of Negro and white workers against his eviction from 615 Oakwood Boulevard, ordered by Judge Green on the landlord’s com- plaint that Newton is a Negro. fellow parasites about.” Communism: kob, General Motors from suffering to get rich.” A Danger Signal! AN EDITORIAL Yesterday's circulation of the Daily Worker dropped below the 40,000 mark. At the time of the general strike the circulation of our paper mounted to over 50,000 on many days. Before then by per- sistent work, despite the doldrums of the Summer months, the cir- culation had been worked up to 40. 000. Recently it has been dropping. Now it has reached a point which should arouse every Communist, every sympathizer of the Daily Worker, We do not need to argue here at length on the extremely favor- able situation for the growth of our paper. More than that. With the rising threats of fascist attacks, we should be rapidly increasing our circulation as the leading revolutionary fighter for the united front against hunger, war and fascism. Do not let this danger signal go unheeded! Let us not take a step backward in the circulation of the Daily Worker at this fime. DEAL AROUSES: SILK WORKERS Non- Elected Group Is Reported to Have Made Contract PATERSON, N. J., Dec. 21. — The negotiations committee of the American Federation of Silk Work- ers here, which was never elected by the membership but is conduct- ing conferences with the manufac- turers, has agreed to submit the | question of wages to arbitration. A contract expiring in September, 1936, and providing for union recog- nition is reported to have been con- cluded yesterday. The membership generally is aroused against submitting the ques- tion of wages to arbitration, seeing | in it a move to include the present seales following the wholesale wage | cuts, as the scale in the new con- tract. The workers voted last month | to strike against the wage cut, but the union refused to call the strike at the last moment, and entered into secret negotiations with the manufacturers. Cite Dyers’ Victory The silk workers are especially aroused in view of the recent vic- tory of the dyers, who, by refusing to accept arbitration, and depend- | ing on their militant leadership and mass picket lines, have gained a 16 per cent increase and many other) concessions. It is further reported that the proposed contract is to be voted upon through a secret ballot. The workers, as the dyers did in a similar case, will resist a secret ballot on the grounds that it is a scheme in the hands of the reac- tionary Keller officialdom to fake the poll. An open discussion and decision at a mass meeting will be demanded by the rank and file ele- ments in the union. Keller Seeks to Balk Elections Seeing his paid job in the union doomed in the coming elections, Keller is desperately attempting to delay election arrangements and to interfere as much as possible. The The ‘election in the broadsilk de- partment which was scheduled to take place tomorrow will not take place because Keller found reason to object to the manner in which the election committee, composed of rank and file workers, was elected at a membership meeting. The com- mittee appealed against Keller at the Joint Board of the union, and Keller’s objections were overruled. Final arrangements and an election | date will be set at the meeting of the Executive Board of the broad silk department tomorrow. AN EDI Roosevelt, who understands the real significance of Roosevelt’s pro-Wall Street program, tells his rich “people should not attack the President without knowing what they are talking Mr. Raskob, as far back as March 20, 1934, tells his very rich and very powerful friend, R. M. R. Carpenter, retired vice-president of the du Pont Co., to organize the wealthy few for attack against “You haven’t much to do,” declares Mr. Ras- “and I know no one that could better take the lead in trying to induce the du Pont and groups, followed by other big in- dustries, to definitely organize to protect society which is bound to endure if we allow Communistic elements to lead the people, to believe that all business men are crooks not to be trusted, and that no one should be allowed The same Senate investigation which stumbled on this letter also brought out the fact that the NAZIS’ RANKS: SPLIT IN U.S. Fitesnibien adenine Each Other of Corruption and Graft The constantly growing dissatis- faction of the members of the Nazi organization in the United States with the activities of their assorted “Fuehrers,” has led to a new crisis —not the first one and probably not the last one—in the “Friends of the New Germany” and to a split KIROV DEATH PLOT TRACED TO BELGRADE | White Gand Terrorists Openly Urged Killing of Soviet Leader The following cable from Mos cow shows that the plot to kill Kiroy was openly supported in Jugosiavia, among the white guardist groups. Sunday night at 8 P.M., a mass memorial meet- ing for our slain comrade Sergei Kiroy will be held at St. Nicholas Arena, 69 W. 66th St. This meet- ing under the auspices of the Friends of the Soviet Union, should be a fitting answer to all those enemies of the Soviet Union who try to slander the workers’ fatherland and to supp®t its | murderous foes. Pack this memo- rial meeting. (Special to the Daily Worker) MOSCOW, Dec. 21 (By Cable).— That a call for the murder of Com-| ,! The final seal of the Emperor on rade Kirov was sounded in Belgra, | Jugoslavia, in the month of Novem- | ber, is revealed by a document pub- | lished in Pravda, official organ of ; the Communist Party today. Among the Russian white guard | organizations which, as is noun: in New York. This rift is accom-| have great protection in Jugoslavia corruption, “treachery,” Embassy in this country to inter-| vene between the two warring fac- tions. man language paper of the Commu- | nist Party, learned in a meeting of | the Bronx branch of the “Friends” on Dec. 6, where the national leader, tional leadership, was openly ac- cused of stealing money belonging | to the organization. On the fol- | lowing day, Josef Schuster, ern District Leader,” ordered the |summary dismissal from _ their functions of all local leaders in this district, “faithful” Bronx leader. The “opposition” group, which is in possession of proofs of the! of the national leadership, informed the District Attorney, with the result that expulsions from the or- ganization followed. The headquar- ters of the New York Branch were watched by policemen, apparently on the demand of the national lead- ership. N. Y. Faction Takes Paper ‘Thereupon Anton Haegele, leader of the New York Branch and the formal owner of the Nagi paper “Deutscher Beobachter,” as well as its plant, took possession of the paper and utilized it for the pur- poses of the opposition. “Deutscher Beobachter” of Dec. 15 was published under the editorship of the Haegele faction, which an- of mismanagement” and “the self- destruction of Dr. Schnuch, Kappe, Gissibl and Co.” The Schnuch group then pub- lished a leaflet under the mast- head “Deutscher Beobachter,” in which they announced that Haegele and several other members had been expelled from the “Friends.” A large-scale leaflet “war” follow in which the Schnuch-Gissibl fa (Continued on Page 2) TORIAL government during the war time. + 8 . tion,” he writes further, The indications of these develop-| ments came as the “Arbeiter,” Ger-| | Dr. H. Schnuch, and the whole na-| Eli Keller, Lovestoneite manager of | “East- | with the exception of the! swindle and other criminal actions| The; nounced in big headlines “the end| tion published four more leaflets! du Ponts made $250,000,000 out of the blood and slaughter of the soldiers in the last world war. The du Ponts, it was further pointed out, made 39,900 per cent profit alone on one crooked deal with the IR. RASKOB, who himself made millions during the war, before the war, and after the war, out of the exploitation of labor and out of the killing speed-up and starvation of the auto workers, doesn’t want the Communists to lead the people against the rich parasites who brought the country to war, and later to the worst crisis in its history, and who are now preparing for a new slaughter. “There should be some very definite organiza- “that would come out | openly with some plan for educating the people | to the value of encouraging people to work; en- couraging people to get rich; showing the fallacy | of Communism and its threats to tear down our | capital structure, etc.” panied by mutual accusations of| js the so-called “National League of and has! the New Generation.” finally caused the Fascist leaders| vember jssue of their publication, in Germany to order the German} «7. Rogssia” In the No- (For Russia), this | League printed a direct call for the ; murder of leaders of the Soviet | country, One of the articles openly states: Urged Kirov’s Murder “Their annihilation 1s our first "| task and main concern.” The paper | gives names known to the whole world and hated by the enemies of | the working class. At the very lead of these names, the white guardist League organ states: “We must do away with Kirov in Leningrad.” These Belgrade scoundrels not only revealed the political intrigue for the murder and gave its motive, but openly pointed out their close | connections with the bandit teror- j ists who wormed their wav into and Union. In their article “How to Fight” they speak of “individual action.” This action — individual terror — is | recommended to those strong- there is no one in their midst upon whom they can depend. Connected With Bandits They acknowledge their connec- tions with the bandits who are re- ceiving their training in such coun- tries as Jugoslavia. They are sup- plied with money and arms and slip across the Soviet frontiers. They send their blessings to tt brothers in the common caus of bestial hatred towards the working- | class. | There are already real results— they write. “Our call has reached | you. The best among us is going to you and perish.” This is the best answer to the hypocritical wailings of a certain part of the capitalist press who try to make the world believe that the Soviet Union shot innocent men rorists sworn to kill the working class leaders in the U.S. S. R. Every reader a subscriber of the Daily Worker! Raskob Letter Gives Key to Recent Fascist Developments has developed a and a wage and Raskob why. on the batt conducted activities in the Soviet! DEPARTMENT OF WAR WOULD CONTROL LABOR AND FIX SLAVE WAGES JAPAN LAYS © “RIFT 10.0.8. Pact Abrogation Spurs! Naval Race Among Imperialist Powers TOKYO, Dec. 21. — The ruthless determination to press Japan and Britain in the vise of the Washing- | ton treaty, the terms of which had | been so advantageously framed in | the interests of American imperial- |ism, was directly responsible for Japan’s renunciation of the treaty, it was asserted here. the documents abrogating the treaty is being seized by the milit: clique here and their financial b: ers as a signal that the die is cast that the inevitable naval and arms |race provoked by American finance capital will find Japan ready to sweat and starve her population in} order to reach and maintain naval equality with Wall Street. For propaganda’s sake Japanese diplomats are anxious to avoid the impression of launching an arms race so quickly after the fall of the naval limitations conference. De- claring that denunciation was ac- tuated by “the most peaceful mo- tives,” the Foreign Office here in- timated that a few weeks would be allowed to pass until the great dis- appointment of the masses — whe are now concretizing a race in war- preparations in terms of intolerabie | somewhat subsided. | This strategy of glossing over the economic ruin which accompanies | war preparations and of inciting to nationalism and race hatred is no more than a duplication of war- incitement and war - prepar: now brewing in the United States Huge sums of money, apparently not | included in the recent Japanese bud | get for the coming year are eine sunk into war fortification, sub-| marine and ship wharves, and fort- taxes and deeper poverty—will have | tions | Industrial Program Is Bared at poraald by Staff Offic By Seymour Waldman WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 21.—The New Deal’s War De- partment proposes outright fascist control of labor during wartime. This was shown today, without any of the cv ing or demagogy given the Senate Munitions Com- mittee by Lieutenant-Colonel C. T. Harris, the officer in charge of the War Department's industrial mot lization plans under the direct pervision of Assistant Sec: War Harry H. Woodring. aa ty of The fascist kern of the plan proposes to estab “a prominent financier or ind rator of a wartime who would be as: tive of the War Indust e War and the Navy, and government department.” one other Fascist Board Harris admitted that the main functions of this board, as outlined in the present plans of the War De- partment, would be to safeguard th ofits of the b: es down and ize labor. The tions of spy upon fascist imp! are impress: that A lism for the first in its history since it be- came world pov ‘ul, plans to dis- pense with its usual front of A. F. of L. officialdom. Asked by your whether President proves of the plan, “Of course, President, correspondent Roosevelt ap- Harris replied: I can’t speak for the but there’s no indica- tion at President Roosevelt dis- approves of the War Department mobilization plan.” Harris thereby indicated what is generally ad- mitted—that no policy plan of such dimensions as the industrial mo- bilization program would be pre- sented without the expressed or tacit approval of the White House, minded people who found out that | resses now being completed with | Officially, the plan bears the official | great haste on the mandated islands| endorsements of Hoovi er’s Secre- in the Pacific, especially on the| taries of War and the Navy, the very Marianna Islands. In its entirety| wealthy real estate operator and when it executed the fascist ter-| lers, the Morgans, their wealth at the expense of holding the toiling population in subjection to the big trusts and their starvation program. while the great masses are driven to slave and die le fields for the god-chosen | whom Mr. Raskob speaks. That he means this small group of fabulously 's and trust owners, he makes cr} clear in his letter: “When I say this I mean that I believe there by American capitalism through the | Tiations. 21.—The shock- | brigaders of the Moscow Airplane | Factory have just completed the building of the new passenger plane MOSCOW, Dec. the famous mail airplane “P-5" which the aviator heroes of the So- | viet Union, Vodopyanov, Molokov, etc., used in the Chelyuskin rescues. The new airplane is fitted like a comfortable limousine, and can \carry four passengers and 100 lbs. jof mail, The cabin can be heated. | Its maximum speed is ‘meters (150 miles) an hour. Hitler, of course, has come out with his slave labor camps for “encouraging people to work,” and huge war preparations program, relief slashing campaign “encour- aging people to get rich.” wants an organization United States to come out openly to fight Commu- nism along Hitler’s line. To help the wealthy bankers, the Rockofel- here in the He makes perfectly clear du Ponts, Fords, Mellons retain He wants a few to get rich few for (Continued on Page 2) the enormous war budget of Japan- | lawyer, ese imperialism is exceeded only by | millionaire the much greater outlay provided| Francis Adams. Vinson Bill and other huge approp- | Roosevelt's Committee, “RP-5.” This is a perfected model of | profit out Patrick Hurley, and the banker yachtsman, Supervised by Baruch It is both foreboding and signifl- er, nti [cant that this fascist plan was | ie ss ;@rawn up under the personal su- Fast Mail-Passenger pervision of Bernard M. Baruch, Plane Built in U.S.S.R. millionaire Wall Street operator, head of the War Indusiries Board under Wilson. Baruch was recently appointed Chairman of President si which, ace cording to the demagogic ballyhoo, is to consider plans “to take the f war.” It is equally sig- |nificant that Woodring, who is re= 230 kilo- crowd behind the fascis | drive. sponsible under the National Des fense Act of 1920 for industrial mo= bilization plans, came out publicly nearly a year ago for War Depart- ment control of industry in gen- eral and for “economic storm troops” in particular, and that the plans of the War Department is the same bunch now dir ng the admini- stration-big business wage-cutting Furthermore, this Chamber of Commerce and National Associa- | tion of Manufacturers group is also | behind the present business and | government red-scare drive as the | wedge in the campaign whose ulti- | rate the m | ganized ¥ |mate objective is the destruction of the entire labor movement. To Assimilate N. R. A. Just as startiing as the testimony: aling the direct Wall Street war- ecntrel of labcr now being or= 2s the admission that the tment plans to incorpo- “N. R. A. into its machinery as socn as the integration of the two, which has been steadily since the inception of the N. R. A, is completed. In other = De | words, as the Communist Party has | charged repeatedly beginning in the ib | Sena | i early days of the N. preparations R. A, war constitute the steel e of the N. R. A. “Wo're giving serious considera- tion to the effect of N. R. A. code authorities. [the emplevers! on our | (warl plans,” Harris informed the 2 Committee. You are planning to abrogate the (Continued on Page 2) going on.