The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 24, 1934, Page 1

INCREASE THE DAILY WORKER CIRCU- LATION BY BUILDING CARRIER ROUTES Press Run Saturda, > since te 55,700 Vol. XI, No. 306 td Daily .Q Worker CENTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL ) Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., under the Act of Mareh 8, 1879. NEW YORK, MONDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1934 ATIONAL EDITION (Six Pages) Price 3 Cents JAPAN IN WAR MOVE AGAINST USSR - NO JOBLESS INSURAN cS "Reserves’ Plan Only With No Federal Aid, Roosevelt Proposal Mass Support Rolls Up| for National Insurance Congress Jan. 5 WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 23.— While workers’ organizations throughout the county continued to marshal their forces for the com- ing historic National Congress for Unemployment, Secretary of Labor Perkins, speaking over a radio hook-up last night, gave out the nature of the “unemployment re- serves” schemes Which the Roose- velt regime has up its sleeve. The government's only role in its proposed schemes to head off the mass movement for genuine unem- ployment insurance would be to es- tablish uniform rates of contribu- tion to a “reserve fund” in all the States, which in turn would be free to legislate any. scheme whatsoever in the name of unemployment in- surance, Perkins said. Not one penny of these funds will go to the present unemployed, the aged or the sick, Perkins’ speech made clear. For the old-age in- surance which was promised by President Rocsevelt, Perkins out lined a plan whereby the young ‘would be urged to “build up “re- serves” for their old age. Even the unemployment insur- ance plans, for which contributions would be exacted from the workers, are designed to “tide the worker over seasonal layoffs,” only, Per- kins said. On the other side of the picture, @ sweeping wave of new endorse: ments to the National Congress for Unemployment Insurance reached New York yesterday. renee Central Labor Union Acts PITTSBURGH, Pa., Dec. 23. Adding their indorsement to the general wave of support developing within the rank and file of the A. F. of L. unions for the National Congress on Unemployment Insur- ance, the Central Labor Union of Jeanette, Pa., has elected a delegate to attend the national conference Yukon, Export and Biddle local unions of the United Mine Workers, in the same section, have also elected official delegates. In Carnegie, Pa., an independent union of the Columbia Steel and Shafting Company employes has elected two official delegates, and two are to be sent by the indepen- dent union of Pittsburgh Water Heater Company workers in the same borough. An A. F. of L. blacksmiths loca] in Hazelwood elected one delegate at its last meeting, and delegates are reported to have been elected in two other A. F. of L. unions in the Hazelwood section. From the Fraternal Federation for Social Insurance of Western Pennsylvania, thirty-one delegates have been named for a conference in Pittsburgh, the majority of whom wil attend the National Congress. These thirty-one include one from the Lithuanians Supreme Lodge, three from the Russian Mutual Aid Society, four from the I. C. O. R. and Jewish I. W. O. branches, one from. the Ukrainian I. W. O. of Leachburg, one from the Croatian Fraternal ‘Union, four from the Croation Workers Club, and one from the Hungarian I. W. O. branch, Broad Group Sponsors Congress MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Dec, 23.— Two delegates to the National Con- gress for Unemployment Insurance were elected by the recent con- ference called by the Minneapolis Sponsoring Committee and sup- porting organizations. Two dele-; gates have also been elected by the A. F. of L. Committee on Unem- ployment Insurance and Relief. Delegates have also been directly; elected by the Benevolent and Pro- tective Order of Elks, Ames Lodge, Brooklyn Center Commonwealth Workers Association and the Com- monwealth Workers Association of Rural Hennepin County, The latter is the central body of the E. R. A. workers in rural Hennepin. Among the sponsors of the Con- gress in Minneapolis are W. G. McGaughren, Chairman of the Hennepin County Central Commit- tee of the Farmer-Labor Associa- tion; M. Kurtz, President of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, Local 186; Edwin T. Hud-! son, alderman of the twelfth ward and member of the Carpenters (Continued on Page 2) cS Labor Defense Opens Research Department In New York Office The New York District of the International Labor Defense has opened a research bureau whose function will be that of obtain- ing all information and facts pertaining to the struggles of workers in a defense of their rights. At the same time the research bureau issued a call to all work- ers who are interested in research activity to aid the work of the bureau, It points out the value of this type of work to those who are anxious to understand and acquaint themselves with workers’ defense as a necessity in furthering their own under- standing of the workers’ moye- ment. | | | { | The plen as outlined by Harry Austin, who heads the bureau, ts “to include the mass activity of all workers in this manner .. . that workers when they come across articles, speechés, quota- tions, in newspapers, magazines, bulletins, periodicals, etc., which have to do with workers’ defense, should mail all this to the In- ternational Labor Defense. 870 Broadway, New York City.” NAZIS PLAN NEW MURDER H. Neumann, Former \ | Leader in German C.P. Faces Death (Special to the Daily Worker) ZURICH, Dec. 23 (By Wireless). —Heinz Neumann, former secretary of the Communist Party of Ger- |many, has been arrested by the Swiss police in Zurich. The mur- derous Hitler government has de- manded his extradition on the lying ground that Neumann was involved in the Buelowplatz affair (Albert Kuntz’ trial) and in the murder of the Nazi degenerate Horst Wessel. If Neumann is turned over to Germany, his fate is certain, No one here doubts that he will imme- diately be subjected to torture and execution. In order to save Neu- mann from being murdered by Hit- ler’s Nazis, immediate action must be taken by all mass organizations as well as individuals to bring pres- sure to bear on the Swiss police. “Neumann must not be returned to Germany,” is the slogan raised by the World Committee for the Vic- tims of German Fascism. Telegrams and letters, the Committee urges, should be immediately forwarded to the following address: Bundesrat, Schulthess, Geneva, Switzerland. ‘Writer Dies in Crash While Bringing Gifts To Strikers’ Children WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 23.— ;Dan Desouza, reporter of the Washington Star, and president of the Washington Newspaper Guild, was killed in an automobile acci- dent while on the way to Newark with an automobile load of Christ- mas presents for the children of the striking Ledger workers. member of the Guild, was injured, but was discharged after being treated at an emergency hospital. _Desouza. one of the most active leaders of the Newspaper Guild, was one of the members of the delega- tion, headed by Heywood Broun, national president of the Guild, which walked out in protest from the recent N.R.A. hearing in Wash- ington. The accident occurred at Hayatts- ville, near Maryland, when the car struck a truck stalled on the high- way. Hold a party and use the pro- ceeds to get Daily Worker sub- seriptiens for workers who cannot afford to order the paper! William Peake, the driver, also a; WAR-TIME ARMY URGED BY GENERAL for More Armored Cars and Tanks WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 23.— The command that America’s army must be increased echoed over the country today as General Douglas MacArthur, debonair chief of staff of the Roosevelt slaughter meahine, sounded a call for war-time effi- ciency of the army in his report here. The highest possible degree of mechanization must be given to the army, MacArthur said, and it must be equipped with fast tanks, ar- mored cars and airplanes, which will be able to shift from one front to another at the greatest possible speed, At the same time it was learned that the Roosevelt government in- tends to build up the Navy for American imperialism to full treaty strength even before the death of the Washington Treaty, outstrip- ping the war preparations of all other imperialist powers. The Navy Department intends to make com- plete and exhaustive surveys of all naval possibilities as of and after December, 1936, Another new development of mil- itary preparations is a plan ad- vocatéd” by Represeritative John J. McSwain, Democrat from South Carolina, and chairman of the House Military Affairs Committee, who is calling for underground, bomb \proof air bases to be con- structed along the Canadian border and the Atlantic, Pacific and Gulf coasts, in anticipation with the ap- proaching open conflict with British monopoly-capitalism, As a matter of hoodwinking American workers, McSwain pre- tended that such a procedure would merely be a precautionary move against “enemy planes flying over Canada without the consent of | Canada.” McSwain's plan _ immediately brought a proposal from Anthony J. Dimond, Alaska’s Congressional delegate, to erect a military base and airport near Fairbanks, Alaska, at a cost of $10,000,000. McSwain supported this proposal as being in line with the government’s plans for Pacific fortifications prior to the perialism, WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 23.— In a specially prepared summary of the past three weeks’ munitions investigation by the Senate issued by Senator Nye, chairman of the committee, it is made clear that the Roosevelt government is rapidly completing all its war plans, and that the War Department and the munitions monopolies have a com- plete understanding on the militar- ization of all labor the moment the war breaks out. At the same time, Nye in his per- makes it clear that one of his main objections to the present revela- tions is the “frightful weakness of the industrial plans for the next War.” ; Confirming the war character of the Nye committee was Nye’s jin- (Continued on Page 2) Gorman Acts To Sabotage PROVIDENCE, R. I., Dec. 23.— Francis Gorman, vice-president of the United Textile Workers of America acting over the heads of the striking workers of the Hamil- ton Woolen Mills at Southbridge has ordered them to return to work tomorrow. The workers are on strike be- cause the company refuses to take back all the union workers, and insists that 200 scabs be retained. In calling off the strike the na- tional officials are ordering the Southbridge workers to accept dis- crimination, which will virtually spell the smashing of their union, Francis Gorman is to speak in Webster, Mass., today and a com- mittee of “prominent citizens” of Southbridge is to see him on “say- ing the plant for the city.” Since the strike was called state troopers have been brought into the city. The workers have maintained large picket demonstrations, determined that the strike will not end until MacArthur Sounds Call| coming struggle with Japanese im-; sonal summary of the investigation, ; Textile Strike FACES NEW FIGHT A. G. MILLS MILLS FACES DEPORTATION |Fight Launched to Save Communist Leader of Philadelphia PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Dec, 23.— The Federal government has re- lmewed its attempt to deport A. W, Mills, veteran fighter for the work- ing class and at present District Organizer of the Philadelphia cis- trict of the Communist Party. Mills has been ordered by the immigra- Island by Jan, 2, 1935, for deporta- tion, Mills. was taken to Ellis two years ago, when immigration officials invaded the offices of the Central Committee of the Commu- nist Party in New York City and placed him under arrest, shortly after the First National Hunger March to Washington, D. C., of which he was the organizer. Mass protests forced his release at that time, although he was placed un- der $1,000 bond. The main charge against Mills is jthat he was the organizer of the first National Hunger March. The organized protest of the workers against unemployment and starva- tion forced certain concessions from the government, and the arrest of Mills followed. Mills had also earned the hatred of the bosses and their government for his activities of many years in the struggles of the American work- ing class, as an organizer in Chi- cago, Buffalo, Detroit, New York, and in the Pittsburgh coal strike and other actions by the workers against starvation, imperialist war and fascism. ‘The renewed attempt by the goy- ernment to deport Mills is directiy connected with the intense sharp- ening of the class struggle in this (Continued on Page 2) tion authorities to. report to Ellis | Island | | 18 Workers Tortured in. Jail, I. L. D. Attorney Tells Judge SACRAMENTO, Calif., Dec. 23.—| | Further attempts by the prosecution and court officials to tamper with | the jury were exposed by the de-| fense yesterday in its battle against the frame-up of eighteen workers | here on charges of criminal syndi- calism. The move to railroad these | workers was seen by the Interna-| tional Labor Defense as part of the nation-wide attacks initiated by the U. S. Chamber of Commerce, the Hearst press and government agencies on the working class and directed particularly against its vanguard, the Communist Party The eighteen defendants, men and women, were arrested in the | | joint vigilante and police raids on workers’ homes and headquarters | |during the West Coast longshore- | |men strike and the General Strike in San Francisco. The vigilante | terror followed and supplemented the betrayal of the strikers by the A, F. of L. bureaucracy. Held for Fighting Oppression The defendants are charged with | membership. in the Communist | Party and advocacy of its program against unemployment, starvation, \ynching and Negro opnression, im~ perialist war and fascism, If con- victed the workers would be given long sentences, and this would be a signal for sharper attacks against the whole working class movement. The importance attached by big business to their prosecution is at- tested by the huge mobilization at | the trial of well-known agents and paid pen prostitutes of the capital- ists, “Red” Hynes of the notorious Los Angeles “red squad,” and “red squad,” and scores of stool pigeons brought here to strengthen | the frame-up with perjured testi- | mony against the defendants and the Communist Party. Cites Fantastic “Threats” With the threatened collapse of | the original frame-up, District-At- |torney McAllister, defeated in the last election but still in charge of | the prosecution, svrung a new| frame-up with a fantastic story that “death threats” had been made “by reds” against himself and one of his hand-picked jurors, a Mrs. Nix. | This woman, although not residing in the state the year required under | the law for jury service was called | on one of the jury panels. The} capitalist press played up McAl- lister’s story, but failed to mention | its repudiation by the defense. | A similar attempted frame-up | engineered by McAllister collapsed | some time ago, when the announced | “kidnapping” of a prosecution wit- ness was revealed by the local pr as a hoax concocted by McAllister. | Jury Tampering Revealed | A sensational exposure of the! methods of selecting prospective jurors for the trial and of attempts (Continued on Page 2) _ Of Scottsbor: oO By Ben Gold the Southern lynchers, the fight to death on the chain gang of Georgia, working class and of the great ma- United States, which feels in one form or another the oppression of an exploiting capitalist minority. Haywood Patterson and Clarence Norris are threatened with death iin the electric chair. by the lynchers is Feb, 8. The de- cision of the Supreme Court of the United States as to whether it will hear the appeal may be handed down within a few days. The decision on the living death f2cing Angelo Herndon is aso before the Supreme Court of the United States. Decision Rests With Masses But the final decision rests with the masses. Only through mass action will the Scottsboro boys be taken out of the clutches of the Southern bosses. Only mass pres- sure will free Angelo Herndon from the sentence of 20 years on the chain gang. The fight {s now in its most cru- cial phase. The masses must use Ben Gold Calls for Support The fight to save the Scottsboro boys from death at the hands of save braye Angelo Herndon from jis the direct concern of the entire jority of the population of the The date set Defense Fund present moment to insure victory. The International Labor Defense, |which has conducted so energeti- cally a campaign of mass action, utilizing every possibility of legal tactics at the same time, which has |saved the lives of the Scottsboro boys for so many years, which has snatched Angelo Herndon for a brief time out of the Southern hell, must be backed up now with every available resource of the masses. With mass pressure. And with funds. Funds Needed Funds are sorely needed. It is unthinkable that at this time the working class and their sympa- thizers will allow any obstacle to be put in the way of a fight so glori- ously conducted up to now. The International Labor Defense |must have $6,000 immediately for the Scottsboro-Herndon Defense Fund. I am confident that the working class, employed and unem- ployed, and especially those organ- ized in the unions, and all the \the call with the speed which the jPresent critical moment makes so urgent. | Send funds at once to the Scotts- boro-Herndon Defense Fund, Inter- national Labor Defense, Room 610, every union worker is taken back.every available resource at this 80 East 11th Street, New York City. | Kotolynov. jchief leaders of the Soviet regime s | nik, Tolmazov, Levin, and S masses of the people, will answer | Terrorist Clique Seized As Plotters Against Soviet Union (Special to the Daily Worker) MOSCOW, Dec. 23 (By Wireless). Evidence that behind the murderer of Sergei Kirov was a terrorist un- | derground anti-Soviet group which had been formed from amongst members of the former Zinoviev op- | position has been established at the conclusion of the preliminary in- quiry here. By decree of the Cen- tral Executive Committee of the | US.S.R., the leaders of the former Zinoviev opposition were ordered | arrested and handed over for trial to the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court. | It was proven that the murder of | Kirov was committeed by Nikolaev by order of the terrorist under- ground “Leningrad Center,” given over to him by a member and one of the leaders of this center, named The investigation re- vealed that the motives of the as- | ; Sassination of Kirov was the aspira- | | tion of this underground anti-Soviet group to disorganize the leadership of the Soviet government through | terrorist acts directed against the and thus to gain a change in pres- ent policy in the spirit of the so- called Zinoviev-Trotzky platform. Special Hate for Kirov | The murder of Kirov, according | to statements of the accused, took place with the additional motive of | revenge against Kirov, who smashed | up ideologically and politically the | Leningrad group of the former Zin- | ovievites. Nikolaev says in his evi- | dence: | “The former opposition had its special accounts to settle with Kirov in connection with the strug- | gle which he organized against the Leningrad oppositionists.” | The inquiry established that this | | anti-Soviet group was a close clique | which had lost any hope for sup- port among the masses, was polit- ically doomed and, through hope- lessness of realizing its aims, started on a road of terror. It was established that the un- derground terrorist “Leningrad Center” was composed of Kotoly- nov, Shatzky, Rumiantzev, Mande stam, Miasnikoy, Levin, Sossitzky, and Nikolaev—all former members of the Zinoviev opposition. In this case there were arrested, according to decrees of the Central Executive Committee of the US. S.R., the following persons: Niko- laev, Kotolynov, Miasnikov, Shat ky, Mandelstam, Sokolov, Zvezdov, | Iuskin, Rumientzev, Antonov They were handed over for trial to! the Military Collegium of the Su- preme Court of the U.S.S.R. All these persons at various times | were expelled from the Party for belonging to the former anti-Soviet Zinoviev opposition, and most of them were reinstated in the Party after their official declarations of complete solidarity with the policy of the Party and the Soviet regime, while Nikolaev was expelled from) the Party at the beginning of 1934 for violation of Party discipline and reinstated after two months, due to | his declaration of repentance. | Move To Steal Votes in Silk | ‘Union Charged | |MOVE TO STEAL ,. .. .. .. ..V/ | PATERSON, N. J., Dec. 23.—Eli | | Keller, Manager of the American Federation of Silk Workers here | |and a group of officials supporting | |him, at an executive board meeting, | yesterday, took a step that will en- |able them to steal the elections in| the broadsilk department of the | union. i Having been overruled by the Joint Board in their attempt to find objection with the election commit- tee elected at a membership meeting | two weeks ago, Keller and his group | | at yesterday’s executive board meet- ing decided to ignore the decision of the higher body, and instead railroaded through a motion to | place the conduct of the election in the hands of the organization com- mittee of the unon. The committee | controlled by the reactionaries in- | \cludes many of the candidates | against whom the membership is at present in revolt CE, SAYS PERK Zinoviev, Kameney Among Those Jailed In Kirov Murder (Special to the Daily Worker) MOSCOW. Dec. 23 (By Wire- less).—In addition to those per- sons handed for trial to the Military Collegium of the Su- preme Court of the U.S.S.R. in connection with the assassina- tion of Sergei Kirov, the Com- missariat for Home Affairs has ordered the arrest of the follow- ing participants of the former Zinoviey anti-Soviet group Sharoy, Kuklin, Faivilovitch, Ba- kayev, Vardin, Zal! , Gorshe- nin, Zinovi Bulkh, Gertik. Ev dokimovy, Kamenev, Fedorov, | Kuklin, Kotolynoy and Rumiantsev, into the bi Kostina and Safarov. Because of less sufficient evi- dence concerning Fedorov, Safa- rov, Zinoviev, Vardin, Kamenev, Zalutzky and Evdokimov, which did not yet warrant their being placed on trial, their cases were handed over for consideration by a Special Council under the aus- pices of the Commissariat for Home Affairs, in order that they might be exiled administratively. The investigation of the remain- der of those arrested continues. ANTI-SOVIET PLOT FLAYED Pravda and_Izvestia Expose Opposition | As Bankrupt (Special to the Daily Worker) MOSCOW, Dec. 23 (By Wireless) —Emphasizing that the Communist Party of the Soviet Union was once more being reminded of hypocritical | anti- Party counter - revolutionary activities, Pravda, Soviet Party or- gan. comments as follows on the/| results of the preliminery inquiry into the contemptible, treacherous assassination of Sergei Kirov: “Kirov’s assassins and their in stigators are pinned by history to the infamous villory of apostates to Their names will he It humankind. despised for centuries to com is not incidental that the re was in the hand of Nikol that the shot was fired hy one of the members of the Zinoviev oppo- sition. “Zinoviey and Kamenev, Evdoki- mov and Zaluisky, Bakaiev and Shatsky and Tolmazov—th names and this onnosition has a history of its own, filled with black vages of treacherous attacks against the Part: On the eve of the O tober Social: ution. Zinoviev and Kamene pronounced themselves a2 nin and attempted to st of der to bring disorde: of the vroletariat. w advancing to storm tl “Deserters from Class Struggle” “Thev followed this line of wea ening the strength of our Par | the course of all the successive years | of the victorious Socialist Revolu- | tion. At every decisive stage of the revolution, Zinoviey and Kan revealed their real«faces es petty bankrupt politicians, capitulators | eney | and deserters from the front of the} tr class struggle of the proletariat.! Each time, after being violently de- feated, after meeting with enerztic resistance on the part of the Com-| munist Party and the working class. | these strike-breekers assumed a mask of humility and submission. | repented each time of their errors and secretly continued to further | their ignominious work, to work) detriment to the revolution, to the, Joy of its enemies. They concluded | unprincipled blocs with other anti-| Party oppositions, and with other counter-revolutionary grouns they| bowed before the Menshevik Trot- | sky. “Day by day they consolidated | their secret organization and drew| therein non-stable demoralized ele- | ments, who haphazardly entered the) ranks of the Party and the Com-| munist youth. They declared them- | selves the teachers of youth and in- (Continued on Page 2) S SACRAMENTO Troops Seek to Penetrate COURT TRIES the Soviet-Manchurian Border; TO PACK JURY Kirov Killer Tells Murder Story Attack on Soviet Guards Is Latest of Many Provocations HARBIN Japanese-led yesterday detachment of Soviet borde! on Soviet territo: area on the 50 miles ner This bold tr Union, follov provocative fi tier guards side on the ed and cut who were recently formed nd on the Soviet side of the Wushekou River wh chansed during the past summer Japanese xoeedingly preparing for attention to seizi impe' h particular ivostok 2 part of its plans for the invasio. of the Soviet Union. The i in the Wushekou River, which ap- peared after the floods receded, was immediately foztified with barbed wire by the Soviet guards, and hetd in the course of events without any immediate objections from the Jap- anese militaris Japanese Military Activity Only recently, however, and with- out warning their trcops were or- dered to march against the Soviet guards. All commun’ ns with the mainland were cut off The Japanese military has been particularly active recently in the Tungning district. Large war air bases have b2en constructed at Mulingchan, H and Mishan. Heavy troop concentrations have been going on at these points. All of the intensified war activi- ties in these zones have suspiciously been speeded up following the as- sassination of Comrade Kirov, and under the bar-age of anti-Soviet at- tacks from many foes of the work- ers’ fatherland throughout the world. Provocational firing upon Soviet frontier guards from the Manchu- rian side cn the state boundary of the U.S.S.R. and Manchuria in the Blagovestchensk region is reported to have occurred during the last two weeks, continuing up to the present, according to accounts pub- lished in all Harbin papers today. Guards Fired On A Soviet frontier rd named Korneev who was on duty on Noy, 28, gua state border within three mi ‘om the village of Bi- bikovo, (forty miles from Blagovest- chensk) was shot at by three un= known ind als on Manchurian territory armed with rifles. On Dec. 2, two miles from the village of Verkhne - Blagovestchensk, the guard of defense equipment was the Manchurian r hid himself in Near S. in on Dec. 4 a Soviet ry was fired upon from Man- ory, the bullet pass- ing just above his head. In other it was not only thanks to a ce that Soviet fron- jer guards have not suffered. The consul of the U.S.S.R. at Sakhalin delivezed a protest to the local dip- lomatic agent of the Manchurian government against these violations of the Soviet state boundary. The Japan: government is tak- ing the most far-flung measures to x war in this sector, along Manchurian border near and in the Amur té= gion of Northwestern Manchuria, To Settle Soidiers at Border On the same day that the Jap= anese-Manchurian troop movements were reported in the Tungning ree gion, the Manchurian authorities in Mukden announced an “agreement” had been reached with the Japane ese government for the financing of Japanese sctttlers along the Soviet border. A 50,090,009 yen fund ($14,000,000). had been provided to finance the immigration of 250,000 Japanese farmers to settle in Manchuria along the Soviet border. Preference is given to soldiers who served in the army during the Manchurian expeditions. The aim is in this manner to build up military reserves to assist the army in war against the U.S.S.R. and to counteract the hostility of the Chinese masses under the Japanese yoke in Mane churia, !