The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 27, 1934, Page 1

Air Force War Maneuvers Ord ¥ Roll Up Gigantic Vote for Workers’ Unemployment Insurance Bill -- See the Ballot on Page 3 Order a Bundle of Daily Workers for Every Membership Meeting of Your Trade Union SRS ie ts ee Tak A aaa ROR SRO Vol. XI, No. 309 Daily eX : 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 March 8, 1879. NEW YORK, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1934 SR ES Fe NATI EDI ONAL PION (Six Pages) Price 3 Cents RALLIES TO BACK JAN. 5 CONGRESS PLANE FLEET Forgeries Are Charged JAPAN CRISIS WORKERS’ IRE Nationwide Actions - TO BE MASSED In Cohoes Relief Work GROWS AMID MOUNTS OVER For Day When Delegates Meet ered Are Called IN ARMY TEST Hiller, T. E. R. A. Auditor Fired by Schoellkopf, | Says He Found Faked Signatures on Many | Mie hhioriant Step| Claims Presented to City Since World War,’ | Says Dern WAR PLOTSKIROV KILLING | Parliament Opens With Resolution from Soviet FascistGroups Making | Factory Demands Philadelphia Seadaff for Threat of Coup Death for Murderers | Bokeies es Arranged | | | JN YESTERDAY'S article we wrote of the iron-clad control TOKYO, Dec. 26.—While govern-| for Tomorrow that the Niagara and Hudson, the powerful utilities cor- | ment crisis, strikes and peasant up-| | poration, exerts over New York State relief, the duplicated | Tisings threaten Japanese impe- PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Dec. 26.— In Capital on Insurance Issues ® (This is the second in a series of three articles on relief admin- istration corruption and graft.) By Simon W. Gerson All Supporters of Parley Urged To Join Mass Demonstrations Students of World Will Open Congress In Brussels Dee. 29 (Special to the Daily Worker) MOSCOW, Dec. 26 (By Wireless). |—At numerous meetings held in | the last few days in the factories By Seymour Waldman (Daily Worker Washington Bureau) | WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 26.—} Carrying out the. famous Baker| Within eight d ‘Ss, workers direct - Pas . rialism, annu: io1 | Philadelphia workers will greet PARIS, Dec. 26.—It has now || from the shops and picket lines, Aviation Committee's war plans| bills which it presented to the Cohoes (N. Y.), Relief Bureau Sera can cm ieee alee ee pelleetive sate ee S| site ear es to the National|| been definitely decided that the sn ae aera oil recommendation fo raise army avia-| and the part played in the entire situation by Alfred H.} ANY ihe wes eruahing way bee tee ia shown by workers, collective | Congress for Unemployment In-|| Students’ World Congress, om the tion “to a world position equal t0| schoellkopf, State Temporary Emer-?- |farmers, intellectuals, scientists and | Swrance with a huge mass send-|} banned from Geneva, will be relief to gi When Mr. Hiller, then a TERA.) | that held by our navy,” Secretary| gency Relief Administrator, presi- | get in the nation’s history. The |. toilers of the Soviet Union when | Off at Broadway Arena, Friday|| held in Brussels in the last days demand for of War George H. Dern today an-| dent of the Niagara and Hudson and | field auditor, came to Cohoes,| appropriations for army, navy and|names of the dastardly dregs of the | evening at 8 o'clock. Herbert Ben-|| of the year, on Dec. 29, 30 and |/ insurance, wil nounced his approval, “effective at! director of nineteen other utilities. |he discovered not only the irregu-| air purposes amount to more than! former Zinoviev anti-Soviet opposi-| Jamin, executive secretary of the || 31. ‘ : once,” of a “test organization” of | ; | larities existing in the light bills | 1,000,000,000 yen ($228,000,000), and! tion, which murdered Kirov, are | National Congress Sponsoring Com- The agenda of the Congress is the General Headquarters Air, By unimpeachable evidence we paiq out by the local relief bureau | were directly provoked by the lead- mittee and Veteran leader of the|| 2s follows: Force which will centralize the air| Proved that Mr. Schoellkopf’s com-|f5. clients, but a number of ex-| force “with the special view of dis- | closing the practical needs of the) air force in war.” | “The new General Headquarters | Air Force,” said Dern, “will con- sist of practically all the combat | elements of the air corps in con- finental United States.” It will be) under command of Lieutenant Col-! onel Frank M. Andrews, Air Corps. | who will be directly under Chief! of Staff. Major General Douglas; MacArthur, the author of the plan. Headauarters are at Langley Field, | Virginia. } Pressing War Danger | Although he described the new) war nlan as “tentative,” Dern de- clared that it “constitutes by far the most important and evolution- ary step towards modernization of | the ferces of the United States that has been taken since the World| War.” and “is regarded by military authorities as of tremendous im- portance to the national defense.” That the war danger is a press- ing reality is emphasized by the} new air force project and by the, fact that the Roosevelt administra- | tion not only has greatly accelerated | the tempo of its war plane building, but has even announced its inten- tion to fascisize labor in war time by nlacing it under the antocratic | control of a “prominent financier | or industrialist” who will function, acecrding to present War Depart- ment plans, as “Labor Administra- | tor.” “This force.” predicted Dern, “will qum that the Philippine Islands| Harlem, commenting on press re-| | possess the “most important source | ports that William Green will speak be highly mobile and will have great striking power. It will be able | to employ its mobility so as to exert the maximum influence upon land} defense, not in one restricted re-/| gion, but potentially in all thea- tres of operation, ready ‘to meet a threat from anv. direction.” Bomb Maneuvers Illustrating the speed with which the government is preparing for war, Dern, in the announcement, ordered that “provisions should be made for adequate landing fields in all strategic areas and the ma- neuvers of the Air Force should in- clude concentrations thereon and operations therefrom.” Outlining “a typical maneuver of the Air Force,” Dern ordered that “considerable tonnage of supplies, and particularly of bombs, must be available wherever the force may be operating”; that “there must be developed a comprehensive plan of distribution of airdromes,” and among other significant directives, that “there must be a well developed plan for aerial intelligence’—that is, a special spy system. Tt is expected that “the imme- diate effect of this action will be to free the elements which go to make up the Air Force from the decentralized control of the com- mending generals of nine corps’ areas.” Under the plan approved bv Dern, there are three great ter- ritorial sub-commands or wings. These consist of the first wing, on. the Pacific Coast, with headquar- ters at Hamilton Field, California; the second wing, on the Atlantic Coast, with headquarters at Langley Field. Virginia; and the third wing, in Central and Southern United States, with headquarters initially at Fort Crockett, Texas, and later at Barksdale Field, Louisiana. Nazis Organize Groups In Shanghai, Tientsin _ SHANGHAI, Dec. 26—The Nazi organization in Shanghai, founded in April, 1932, today numbers 150 members, according to an interiew which the Shanghai Press obtained with Cavtain Theodor, the head of | the local section of the Nazi party. Other Nazi groups exist in Tientsin, ‘Hong-Kong, Canton, Hankow, .and Dairen. | covered in the relief administration /in one way or another are-repeated | U.S. HOARDS pany had profited from the dupli- | cate light bills racket, It was pointed | out he had discharged a T.E.R.A.! auditor, Karl Hiller, of 16 Oswald “Ze Court, Oceanside, Long Island, who | had dared to bring these facts to light and suggest an investigation of the moneys paid the utilities in| New York State since the inception of the relief program. | Today we want to discuss some | of the other phases of graft dis-/| in the City of Cohoes—rackets that | in the relief bureaus in many other cities. WAR METAL ChromiteDeposits in P.I. Are Called Biggest in World tremely suspicious things in con- nection with food, coal and medi- Hiller presented an oral review as well as a written report on the en- tire matter to his superiors. His statements have never been denied. On the contrary, a “clean-up” cam- paign was announced after Mr. | Hiller was discharged by A. H. Schoellkopf. Here we can do nothing better | than quote the facts as baldly re- ported to S. H. McVicar, Acting Comptroller-of T. E. R.A, by} WM. GREEN Declare Harlem Meeting Is Due to Pressure from Masses “the ing competition of war prepara-| tions of American capitalism. Navy spokesmen insist on more money in order to compete with the | unprecedented aggressive naval | program of the Roosevelt war gov-| ernment, which recently sabotaged | the London Naval Conference in its | attempts to continue the adyan- | tageous Washington Treaty, a fact which fereed Japan’s renunciation | of the pact. At today’s session the army as- serted that its attitude toward the) Soviet, Union had not changed, and demanddd more funds with which | to follow up its frequent provoca-| tions and causing of “incidents”| along the Soviet - Manchurian | border. force of the rising resistance of the small farmers and peasants against present miserable condi- tions. In many districts, accord- ing to official government figures, 30 per cent of the peasants in the villages are literally starving. | The Japanese parliament is care-| | fully reckoning with the explosive| mentioned. An insignificant petty handful of | contemptible persons, having lost | all hope of the support of the masses | and transformed into an isolated | group of murderers, raised their | dirty hands and attempted to direct them against the heart of the Party and the working class. These per- sons desired, by shooting Kirov, to | bring confusion into Soviet ranks, ' to disorganize Soviet construction ; {and to bring about a change in the | present policy of the Party. | Their Efforts Futile | Such attempts have been repeat- edly made by the enemies of the proletarian revolution and even dur- ing the years when the Soviet Union was threatened with difficulties and | failure. Still more are such efforts | futile at our time when the successes |and victories of Socialism in the country of the Soviets are evident even for the capitalist world, when are illimitably and utterly loyal to the ideas of the Party, to the ideas of Socialism, Back-bench members of the Sei- yukat, the majority part, fright-| ened and hoping to make political) brought in a proposal for a large The workers and collective farm- ers, and all toilers of the Soviet Union, are filled with pain at the | loss of one of the best sons of their capital ‘out of the peasant situation, | fatherland, and replied to the mur- |der of Kiroy by an unprecedented | organizations. dangers, they ended in complete | the toiling masses of the country | unemployed, Mother Ella Reeve Bloor, William Jones of the staff of the Afro-American, and A. W. Mills, leader of the 1931 hunger | march and district organizer of the | Communist Party, will be the} speakers, | In the wind-up of the campaign for the election of delegates to the| historic National Congress for Un- employment Insurance, the local | sponsoring committee is visiting all Handbills announc- | ing the giant mass send-off meet- | ing are being distributed in all | working class centers, in the shops | and at the relief stations, | Union Delegates Among the latest returns here of delegates elected to the National Congress are three vice presidents of the Central Labor Union, one} | delegate from the Coopers Union, | | and two delegates each from the| | Upholstery Weavers Local 23 and Dye Wool Workers Union. A conference of all delegates from | the Philadelphia area will be held) | Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock at| 937 North Eighth Street. Final plans for the congress will be made | and detaiis for the transportation to Washington worked out. Each delegate has been asked to bring to the Sunday meeting credentials 1. The student in social life (situation, role, struggle). Sup- plementary reports from Ger- many, France, England, America, Spain, colonies and Soviet Union. 2. The militarization of stu- dent youth. 3. The youth 4. The material position of students. Unemployment. The struggles of the students for their demands. 5. Manifesto, working plan and charts of demands. 6. Election of students’ World Committee. cultural crisis and AMTER URGES AlD TO PARLEY Says Councils Must Be Driving Force For Insurance Bill NEW YORK. — “The Unemploy- ment Councils must everywhere be MANILA, P. I, Dec. 26—Amer-| NEW YORK —Calling for ican capitalists felt themselves the broadest united front of all the! better prepared for war today when | Workers of Harlem, and the break-| |ing down of Jim Crow practices in| the United States Senatorial mis-| a1, ‘F. of L. unions,” James Ford, | |sion here declared in a memoran-|member of the Workers Council of sum of money to be spent on farm | powerful closing of ranks around the relief. These members are threaten-| Party, around the great architect of ing to upset the government if the! Socialist construction, Stalin. In demands are not met. The gov-|these days when the names of the ernment, expecting a coup d'etat; murderers of Kirov have become of war material under the Amer- ican flag.” Evidence of chromite deposits so huge that they have already at- tracted the attention of other na- tions, were cited by Judge W. Haus- sermann, wealthy monopolist of the islands’ gold-mining industry. He said the reports of “very con- servative engineers” were that the deposits, situated in Zambales Prov- ince, might soon “take their place as one of the most important ore bodies in the world and the most important source of chromite un- der the American flag.” “It is no secret,” he said, “that other powers have cast eager and covetous eyes on these deposits and kept the operations under vigilant scrutiny.” “Chromite,” he added, “is the one war material which the United States does not have in ample quan- tities within its own borders.” With a clumsy attempt at con- cealing the role which Philippine chromite would play in the coming war, Haussermann simpered that “by simply retaining control of these deposits of war materials, the United States would be doing a real service for the promotion of world peace (!) and political stability in the Orient.” Berlin Pastors Show Anxiety Over Hitler’s Plans in Saar Region BERLIN, Dec. 26.—It is with the greatest apprehension that every- one, in the ecclesiastical as well as in the political domain, is awaiting the measures to be taken by Hitler after the Saar plebiscite, The sermons preached on Sunday by the pastors of the “League of Distress” (the Protestant opposi- tional body) were full of anxiety. The drift of most of them was that the testing time was not past but was still to come. Riehter, the pas- tor of the Berlin Evangelical Cathedral, declared for instance that “many of us are celebrating in Harlem on Jan. 6, declared this meeting to be a gesture forced by mass protest against Green’s dis- criminatory Jim Crow practices. Green, according to press reports, has written Noah A. C. Walter, Jr., secretary of the Harlem Labor Committee, agreeing to speak Jan- uary 6 at Rockland Palace, 155 St. and Eighth Ave. Participating in the meeting will be officials of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union, the Building Serv- ice employes Union, the Union Mechanics Association and the Mechanics Association and the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Port- ers. A move to organize the workers of Harlem can only be successfully carried through by the broadest movement involving every trade union organization, and every work- ing class and left wing organiza- tion, .Ford declared. Ford pointed out in his state- ment that the very A. F. of L. of- ficials such as Green, Dubinsky, head of the I. L. G. W. U. and Frank Crosswaith, of the i. L. G. W. U., who are scheduled to speak at this meeting, have to this date taken no steps against the Jim Crow N. R. A. codes, and have in practice carried out Jim Crow policies, Mass Pressure Forces Meeting The meeting is forced by the of the masses and the united front actitivies now being carried on by the left wing and militant unions and the Workers Council of the Urban League,” Ford declared. William Green is scheduled to speak at this meeting on the sec- ond day of the broad united front Congress For Unemployment and Social Insurance which opens its three-day session in Washington, D.C. on Jan. 5. Green has repeat- edly attacked this Congress, al- though scores of local unions are sending delegates. Ford’s statement follows: “William Green, President of the) American Federation of Labor, is scheduled to speak in Harlem on January 6, to discuss the unioniza- tion of the Negro workers. It is_ Advent for the last time.” (Continued on Page 2) by the military and naval fascist | known to the workers and collective | the driving force in the organization of mass demonstrations in support of the National Congress for Un- employment Insurance,” Israel Am- ter, secretary of the National Un- employment Councils, declared yes- and railroad fare to Washington. | The Nationa! Congress for Un- employment and Social Insurance has been endorsed by Local 15 of the International Molders Union, workers’ program for employment and so Simultaneously wi of this h: Roosevelt United from the I put for as against the posals and schemes Ur advanced by the administration in the name of unemployment insurance. | Local Demonstrations In cities and towns, the workers |in the trade unions, fraternal and | unemployed organizations will hold huge mass demonstrations setting forth immediate relief demands, endorsement of the Workers Un- employment Insurance Bill by local governing bodies id support for the National Cor s The mighty power of the millions of workers and farmers, professional and white collar workers, and the impressive number of organizations that have thus far backed the Con- |gress and the Workers’ Bill is still diffused. The National Congress }and the mass demonstrations ar- ranged in support of the delegates at Washington will weld together this huge mover . Support Is Urged Herbert Benjamin, e retary of the Congr rrange- ments Committee, yesterday ed upon all groups that are backing the National Congress to rally be= ve sece \farm relief instead of for war pre- parations, refuses the demand, 'L.S.N.R. Calls For Protection Of Prisoner A vigorous protest against the lynch-inciting statements of Geor- gia law officers in connection with the arrest of Charlie Dotson, 17- year-old Negro youth, was wired to Governor Eugene Talmadge of Geor- gia yesterday by A. W. Berry, Act- ing Secretary of the League of Struggle for Negro Rights. An appeal for protests by other lynching of the Negro youth was also issued by Berry. Dotson was seized by a posse in (Continuedson Page 2) organizations against the threatened | groups if the money is given to! farmers of the Soviet Union the | (Continued on Page 2) Kirov Killer | Tells of Plot To Slay Stalin ‘That the assassin of Comrade Kirov had also plotted with his group to murder Joseph Stalin and V. M. Molotov, is reported in a Mos- cow dispatch yesterday cabled to this country by Joseph H. Baird, United Press correspondent. Leonid Nicolaev, the killer of Ser- | gei Kirov, the dispatch says, testi- fied before the public prosecutor at | of which he was a member, planne to shoot the leaders of the Soviet Union and to have them replaced by Leon Trotzky, Gregory Zinoviey and Lev Kamenev. ‘We Must Win, In Appeal for By ANGELO HERNDON The workers of America have saved me from death now twice, and Haywood Patterson and Clar- ence Norris four times. They have done so because they saw in the desperate attempt of the Southern lords to lynch the Scotts- boro boys and myself, by means of their courts, the spearhead of wine gigantic struggle between the Ne- gro people and their oppressors, be- tween the whole working class and the money-masters of America. From the day early in 1931 when T first threw myself into the Scotts- boro fight, which has been led so valiantly by the International La- bor Defense, I have never doubted that there was no stone the toilers of America would leave unturned to set those innocent boys free. And from the day when I also found myself facing the State's de- mand that I be put to death for taking part in the organization of Says Herndon, Defense Fund Negro and white workers, I had no doubt that, led by the International Defense, an equally valiant fight would be made to smash that at- tempt. Now another stage of the fight for the Scottsboro boys and for my- self has begun, with the appeals to the United States Supreme Court. It has cost thousands of dollars. It will cost still $6,000 more. This is what the courts demand in fees, along with the other unavoidable expenditures. The workers of America are pre- pared to raise this sum, Please, comrades, do so quickly. Now is the period when every single day counts. Rush every cent possible, without waiting a moment, to the | | International Labor Defense, 80 | Leningrad that the terrorist band | A. F. of L., here, the Office Workers Union and the National Federation of Post Office Clerks, an indepen- dent union. Four delegates to the Congress were elected by the Post | Workers. The Molders Union has asked the A. F. of L. Committee on Unemployment Insurance to repre- | sent them in Washington. U.M.W.A. Sends Delegates SHENANDOAH, Pa., Dec. = attend the National Congress for Unemployment and Social Insurance by the Maple Hill Colliery Local 807 of the United Mine Workers of America. This local has 1,130 mem- bers, JOHNSTOWN, N. Y., Dec. 26.— The Independent Leather Workers Union has endorsed the National Congress for Unmeployment Insur- ance and elected a delegate to go to Washington. Farmers Represented FAWN GROVE, Pa., Dec. 26.— The United Farmers League of this district has elected two delegates to attend the sessions of the Na- tional Congress for Unemployment and Social Insurance to be held in Washington, D. C., on Jan. 5 to 7. for Unemployment and Social In- surance were elected at a conference for the Congress just held here. A sponsoring committee of seven, in- cluding representatives of three dif- ferent trade unions and one business man, are backing the Congress here. The delegates will leave for Wash- ington by car on Dec. 29 or 30. NEWARK, N. J., Dec. 26—The Tool and Die Makers Club of New Jersey has endorsed the National Congress for Unemployment Insur- ance and has elected a delegate to Office clerks and one by the Office! Four delegates have been elected to| HOUSTON, Texas, Dec. 26.—Five | deegates to the National Congress | terday. “The preparations for the Na- tional Congress are now reaching a climax. In these preparations, the Unemployment Councils have played {a most significant role. The National | Congress will be a mobilization point | for the organizations that have al- |ready endorsed the Workers’ Bill, }and of many others that recognize that it is necessary to unite all forces willing to carry on a fight | for a genuine system of federal un- j}employment insurance,” Amter stated. The struggle continues. On Jan. 7 when the demands are presented to the United States Congress in all cities of the country, there will be | huge demonstrations. The unem- | ployed wewcers are those who are | most concerned with the enactment of unemployment and social insur- ance. The demonstrations of Jan. | 7 will be the expression of this pro- | found interest. The Unemployment | Councils everywhere must be the | driving force in the organization of these demonstrations. “For the Jan. 7 demonstrations, | (Continued on Page 2) Austrian Newspaper Sees Victory in Saar For Status Quo Vote VIENNA, Dec. 26.—In spite of the hind these mass demonstrations. At the same time, Benjamin stressed the need of all workers to be on constant guard against at- tempts of bureaucrats in some trade unions to put through re- versals of the Congress endorse= ments at this time. Benjamin, who had just returned from an organi zational visit for the National Con= gress, asked that all funds due to the National office be remitted at once in order to facilitate the ar- |rangements for the National Cons gress. | . “Delegates in the poverty-stricken South have been elected,” Ben- jamin said, “and workers on the FP. E. R. A. hunger rolls and in the trade unions are scraping together their pennies to send them to Washington. In Porto Rico an all- island conference on unemployment insurance will open tomorrow. A delegate to the National Congress will in all probability be elected, But money is rare in this outpost of American imperialism. Unex- ampled destitution exists among the unemployed and the sugar plantation workers in many cases receive their pay in tickets called |vales. Money must be raised to | bring this delegate to Washington, | “All workers must be on their guard against last minute attempts of the bureaucrats in trying to railroad through reversals on the decisions of locals to support the National Congress at a time when ; attendance is low. Workers should attend these meetings and at the |fact that the Austrian press has|Same time bring forward the dis= received orders not to publish infor- | cussions on the Workers’ Bill in mation on the struggle in the Saar,| Contrast to the program brought the Neue Freie Presse publishes a telegram from its Paris correspon- dent which declares that the oc-)| currence of a second plebiscite in Tobaceo Workers Held the Saar is far from improbable. “The probability is confirmed in) Greek Factory 14 Days authorized cizcles,” the communique oe runs, “. . .the French Minister for| SALONIKA, Greece, Dec. 26.—A Foreign Affairs declared his belief | strike of 370 workers who occupied (Continued on Page 2) in it during his speech before the | League Council. The matter was | GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — The} made even clearer by a second Hamilton Branch of the Working- | Statement made by M. Laval at | men’s Association has endorsed the | Geneva to the effect that France| Workers Unemployment and Social| Would not oppose the holding of a Insurance Bill. | second pleSiscite. As France is attend the sessions in Washington. | East Eleventh Street, New York | City: | This is the very center of the state committee here for the Na-| Possibility of a further change in \ struggle for liberation of the Negro people. We must win this fight. Pela AS | the only country which could op- a tobacco factory for 14 days, was ended today after police broke down a wall to force their way into the building. The strike had been so perfectly handled from its very start, with various committees detailed for strike activities, control of the food NEWARK, N..J., Dec. 26.—The (Continued on Page 2) supply, etc., that the Greek author- | ities could express their astonishs the event of a preservation of the ment by no other word than Status quo, is thus assured.” | “soviet.” | pose a change of allegiance, the