The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 31, 1934, Page 1

Make Plans Now for Mass Sales of the Special Anniversary Edition of The Daily Worker Vol. XI, No. 312 Daily,.A Worker Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at % New York, N. ¥., under the Act of March 8, 1879. CENTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL ) NEW YORK, MONDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1934 NATIONAL EDITION (Six Pages) Price 3 Cents RALLIES PRECEDE JAN. © CONGRESS U.S. HURLS SHARP WAR THREAT AT JAPAN ORDERS HUGE NAVAL FORCE INTO PACIFIC. Most Powerful Show of)! Power in History to Be Made in Spring WASHINTON, Dec. 30,—Coincid- ing with the Japanese denunciation of the Washington treaty yesterday, a long-prepared move of colossal naval and aviation maneuvers was thrust to high speed today by the Roosevelt administration, a move scheduled as the grimmest and most tremendous demonstration of | naval power ever staged in the his- | tory of the globe. The Roosevelt government will hurl its battle fleet of 177 warships and 554 war planes into the north- ern and western Pacific as a huge war threat at the very doors of Japanese imperialism. As evidence of the leading role in war preparations which the United States government is assuming, a lurt role in which the Roosevelt war- government is so far outstripping the belligerent efforts of all other imperialist powers, the vast war- games to be cast in the theater of the Pacific Ocean as a threat to Japan were announced prior even to Japanese denunciation of the | pact. On May 3, according to Admiral Joseph M. Reefs, commander-in- chief of the United States fleet, the full complement of American sur- | face ships, airplanes and submar- ines compris)ag the fleet, will sail | Molotov and G. K. Orjonikidze in | from the mainland to operate in a “field” of 5,000,000 square miles, It will be bounded on the north by} the Aleutian Islands (1,500 miles | from Japanese territory), on the) south by the Tropic of Cancer, on | the east by the mainland of the) United States, and on the west by | Midway Island, 1,200 miles west of | Honolulu. | Included in the force will be 177) surface ships, 447 airplanes of the }or starting immediately to create | | machines Mire Teohnioal: Training Is Emphasized by Stalin In Talk on Man-Power Behind the Machines Is Discussed by Soviet Leader (Special to the Daily Werker) MOSCOW, Dec. 30 (By Wireless). —Emphasizing that technique is no mere “piling up of machinery” but. a@ development of the technical knowledge and skill of the man- | power behind the machines, Joseph | Stalin, General Secretary of the | Communist Party of the Soviet Union, yesterday sounded the slogan | of rearing “a numerous army of | technically and industrially trained | forces,” to a large delegation from the metal plants of the Soviet Union. Visiting Joseph Stalin, v. M. connection with the successful ful- fillment of the production program | for the second year of the second Five-Year Plan, the delegation, through the Academician Bardin, | technical director of the Kuznetsk | plant, reviewed the great political victory attained by ferrous metal- By. Stalin Speaks on Tasks In answering Bardin, Stalin dwelt | on the further tasks of develop- ment of Soviet ferrous metallurgy and on the most important prob- Jems in Socialist construction. “We had,” said Stalin, “too small a number of technically educated persons. We were faced with the | dilemma of either starting the} training of a people in schools of technical knowledge and postponing production and the large scale ex- ploitation of machines for ten years, until the technically educated cadres were sufficiently prepared, and developing their large-scale exploitation and train persons in technique in the process of production itself. We chose the second course and we decided open- ly and consciously upon the in- evitable expenditure connécted with @ country lacking a technically trained people able to handle ma-. chines, It is true, during this time no small number of machines were Steel Industry Cash Aid Is Needed At Once to Insure Success of Congress NEW YORK.—A last minute appeal for funds was addressed to all organizations yesterday by the National Committee of the Congress for Unemployment In- surance, 799 Broadway, Room 624, New York City. Thus far, financial aid has This leaves the been very poor. Congress in a position where it is unable to meets responsibili- ties to workers in poverty- stricken areas who are awaiting aid to send their delegates to Washington. Every individual and organiza- tion sincerely desirous of aiding the campaign for unemployment insurance is asked to rush funds at once to the National Sponsor- ing Committee, 799 Broadway. FASCISM HIT BY STRACHEY 5,000 at Mecca Temple Pledge Aid to Saar Fight on Nazis The anti-fascist. forces have only to achieve unity to bring “inevitable and invincible success,” John Strachey, famous English writer and | a leader in the fight against fas- cism, declared on Friday night to a meeting of over 5,000 people at Mecca Temple held under the aus- pices of the American League Against War and Fascism. Pointing to the necessity of form- ing the broadest united front against High Seas Area force, the dirigible | broken in our country, but we gain- | the advance of fascism, Strachey Macon, and approximately 55,000 | officers and men. Four airplane- | carriers, nine light cruisers, de-) stroyers, nine mine layers, thirty- two submarines and thirty-nine | auxiliary ships will be a part of the | war complement. The armada will steam westward, | making record cruises toward Japan, | with the main force heading for Pearl Harbor, Honolulu, where one of the most expensive and biggest war bases in the world has been built by American imperialism. A northern wing will move toward the Aleutian Islands, off Alaska, which possesses numerous submarine bases and more than fifty airplane sta- tions. Separating at Pearl Harbor, another powerful unit of the fleet will continue westward to Midway Island, a strategic military spot highly important for re-fueling and arming of battleships and sub- marines. In retaliation against such gigan- tic preparations for the approach- ing conitict, Japanese military cliques, representing the small group of Japanese imperialists, have forced through the Japanese par- liament one of the greatest war budgets in the world, only exceeded by in le war-programs of the Roosevelt government. Both war budgets have been squeezed from the working populations of both countries, and at the expense of the most necessary requirements of the ruined and oppressed masses. Un- employment insurance, farm relief, education, hospital appropriations, relief needs, all have either been | completely wiped out in the inter- | ests of imperialist struggle or have | suffered heavily. Scottsboro Protest Cable Sent by Dutch Group to Roosevelt Copy of a telegram to President Roosevelt, demanding the freedom of the nine innocent Scottsboro sent by the Holland Scotts- Committee, with headquarters at Amsterdam, Holland, has been received in New York by the na- tional office of the International Labor Defense, 80 East 11th Street. The Holland Committee, of which G. Manoury, well-known professor of mathematics at Amsterdam, is chairman, has enlisted the support of 93 prominent Dutch writers, artists, university professors, physi- cians and lawyers, for the Scotts- boro campaign. boys, boro Send your greeting today on | sphere of the manufacture of all the Daily Worker’s Anniversary! Send a subscription with it! * ed a most precious thing—the most valuable in our entire economy— cadres. Educated Technicians “In the ceurse of three or four years we created cadres of techni- cally educated persons, both in the sorts of machines (tractors, automo- biles, tanks, airplanes, etc.), and in the field of actually running them. What Europe has done in the course of scores of years, we have been able to accomplish roughly and in the main during three or four years, The expenditures for the breakage of machines and for other damages were more than com- pensated for. Therein lies the foun- dation of the speedy industrializa- tion of our country. “But we would not have had these achievements if ferrous metallurgy had not been developed and had not thrived in our country, We have the full right to speak regard- ing the great successes of ferrous metallurgy as constituting a basic force in our national economy. “We have conquered—this is true. However, we must not be haughty in connection with these successes. The most dangerous thing is to be- come comfortable in our successes and forget our shortcomings, to for- get our further tasks.” Stalin pointed out certain short- (Continued on Page 2) emphasized that this unity was the prerequisite for success on the part of the anti-fascists. Fascism is not inevitable, he said. ‘His eloquent plea for unity was the high spot of the meeting. After the speech by Strachey the audi- ence unanimously adopted a resolu- tion supporting the gallant fight of the Saar workers to keep that re- gion from going to the German fas- cists. A telegram was sent to Max Braun, one of the leaders of the united front between Socialists, Catholics and Communists against the Nazis, announcing full moral and financial support, to which the audience generously contributed. The thesis of Strachey’s talk was the fact that fascism breeds war. He anaylzed the situation in Europe today and pointed to the connection “between the growth of fascism throughout the continent and the ever-growing canger of an explo- sion of open warfare between the capitalist states of Europe.” Citing the events in Austria and elsewhere, he ridiculed the assertion of Sir Oswald Mosley, the English fascist, that fascism stood for a “majestic period of peace.” He showed how fascism immediately after being given power in any capi- talist country, increased interna- (Continued on Page 2) Home of Investigator of ‘Un-Americanism’ NEW YORK.—Using the same vulture tactics of the fascist hordes | of Nazi Germany, which he is “in- | vestigating,” tivities, secreted police and thugs | inside his home Saturday to assault a delegation of workers. The workers’ |which entered Dickstein’s home Saturday night to protest his at- tacks upon militant working class organizations under the cloak of in- | vestigating fascist activ Councils. As the committee entered |lurking in the hallways, Murray of the Seventh Precinct gave the order to attack. Blackjacks and clubs were swung at the work- ers. Tony Marsh, a member of the ambulance be. called. members of the Settlement House closed his wound with stitches. hospital by members of the Settle- ment House, who are also offering to pay all hospitalization costs. Throughout the day unemployed workers had picketed Representative Dickstein’s home at 306 East Broad- way. Police on several occasions at- tempted to halt the pickets. In the evening, despite the bitterly cold weather, 250 workers assembled at Rutgers Square and merched to Dickstein’s home, where they were greeted by 500 other assembled workers. The mass meeting elected the committee, which was later attacked as they entered the house. After the attack, workers at the mass meeting withstood the police | onslaught and refused to be intimi- the assault on their members, the assembled workers dispatched four telegrams of protest, one each to Representative Dickstein, Mayor La Guardia, and Police Commissioner Valentine and Chief Inspector John Seebry. Soviet Workers Send $395,500 for Victims Of Fascism in Spain (Svecial to the Daily Worker) MOSCOW, Dec. 30 (By Wireless). —The collection of funds for the assistance of the Spanish workers, commenced by the workers’ organ- ization at the appeal of the Spanish section of the International Labor Defense, has already produced 350,- 000 gold rubles, in Spanish currency 1,500,000 pesetas ($395,000). The ish LL.D. organization for the as- sistance of the Spanish workers and the victims of the fascist terror. | dated or provoked. Indignant over | money was transferred to the Span- | Would Leave Wages | to Arbitration Representative Dick- | stein of the Congressional Commit- | tee to Investigate un-American Ac- | delegation of five, | ies and to| | demand that he endorse the Work-| negotiated by Keller, jers Unemployment Insurance Bill.!tyally certain that the was elected at a mass meeting held | “progressive G slate will be | “Progr roup” sla i by the Downtown Unemployment | overwhelmingly defeated the | house, totally unaware of the police | Captain | workers’ delegation, was hurled to| and file elements through a state the stone steps. As he lay prostrate| ment printed in the Jewish Daily and bleeding from a scalp wound, | Forward, calling for a fight against police refused him medical aid and| the “internal enemy.” | jeered at the workers’ pleas that an| twelve | He was later rushed to a/ PATERSON, N. J., Dec. 30. new contract negotiated by Fli Keller, Lovestoneite manager of the American Federation of Silk Workers here, was rejected unani- mously at a meeting of shop chair- men and delegates last Saturday. | In introducing the contract, Kel- |ler declared that it was better than the original 1933 contract but was greeted by the workers with jeers and catcalls. The chief objection of the workers against the con- tract is that the question of wages is left to arbitration. The rejection of -The the contract makes it vir- Keller's in the | elections for officers of the plain goods department, in which there are 7,000 members. The Lovestoneites in the “Prog- ressive Group” are making the most desperate efforts to save themselves from being ousted. Their latest move is an attack against the rank This vicious attack is being ex- | Poseet by the.rank. #nd file workers Other workers carried their com- |i" the union as a last minute at- rade to the Henry Street Settle- | ment, where a doctor summoned by | Th¢ membership of the. union is tempt to confuse the membership. now realizing that the attempt of the reactionaries to save their posi tions is part of the effort of the bosses to impose a wage cit. Leaders Talk At Banquet For Center NEW YORK.—Crowded to capac- ity, the Irving Plaza Hall on Satur- day night was the scene of the Workers’ Center Banquet, which in every respect was the most success- ful in its history. Delegates from trade unions, workers’ clubs, frater- nal groups and mass organizations brought contributions to help in the maintenance of the center. The listed speakers were: Earl Browder, general secretary of the Communist Party; Clarence Hatha- way, editor of the Daily Worker; Jack Stachel, acting secretary of the Trade Union Unity League; James W. Ford, member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party Charles Krumbein, New York Dis- trict Organizer of the Communist Party, and Carl Brodsky, treasurer of the New York State Campaign Committee. of the Communist Party. The special Anniversary and Lenin Memorial Edition of the Daily Worker, to be published on Saturday, Jan. 19th, will have significance for every American worker. Canvassers, take orders now! Organizations, don’t wait before ordering your bundles! New York Delegates Urged to: Register For Jan. 5 Congress All New York delegates to the National Congress for Unem- ployment Insurance are urged to register at once at the office of the New York Sponsoring Com- mittee, 799 Broadway, Room 642. Delegates must bring with them $10.50 which includes round trip transportation by |; train, and food and lodging while in Washington for the sessions of the National Congress Registration will be made each day from 10 a. m. to 8 p. m. Tomorrow, New Year‘s Day, reg- istrations will be made from 2 to 8p. m. Individuals desiring to attend the National Congress as ob- servers may take advantage of the low rate transportation by registering with the local spon- soring committee. 14 PLOTTERS “SHOT IN USSR Counter - Reyolutionists and Sel f-Confessed | Terrorists Sentenced (Special to the Daily Worker) | MOSCOW, Dec. 30 (By Wireless). —The fourteen self-confessed ter- rorists and counter-revolutionists charged with the assassination of Sergei Kirov and tried by the Mil- itary Collegium of the Supreme Court of the U.S.S.R. were adjudged guilty, according to announcements in today’s papers, which published | the court’s verdict. The sentence— execution by shooting—was carried out immediately. | In examining the case of the ac- cusation against Nikilaev and others, | Openly Supports Campaign To Railroad 18 Defendants Defends Stool Pigeons and Police Relatives on Coast Jury By JACK CRANE (Special to the Daily Worker) SACRAMENTO, Calif., Dec. 30.— The jury was finally selected for the trial of 18 workers charged with violating the California Criminal Syndicalism Law, and the effort to railroad them to long terms in jail is expected to begin in earnest this coming week, Before the jurors were sworn in, the court was informed by Leo Gallagher, International Labor De- fense attorney, that the defendants were not satisfied with the jury and were of the opinion that they could not get a fair trial. Gallagher again charged the prosecution with plant- ing Mrs. Rose and other friends and close relatives of members of the District Attorney's staff on the jury. He again voiced objections to the methods practiced by the jury com- missioner of drawing jury panels from the habitues of pool rooms and booze parlors. Admits Planting Stool Pigeons | | District Attorney McAllister tacit- ly admitted Gallagher's charge that the prosecution had placed stool pigeons among the defendants to help in their frame-up, not denying Gallagher's charge, but making the cynical reply, “not as many as you haye.” Gallagher placed McAllister on the stand and questionéd him on the Planting of stools on the jury and in the cells of the defendants to | report back to McAllister the dis- cussions by the defendants on the merits of the jurors. “During the time the defendants were defending themselves, didn't you have stool pigeons placed in their cells?” Gallagher demanded. The prosecution objected to the question and was sustained by Judge Dal M. Lemmon, while McAllister shouted from the witness stand “I am conducting this case to the best of my ability and I refuse to an- swer your question.” Mistrial Refused of organizing and committing the | murder of Kirov, the session of the | Military Collegium, held at Lenin- grad, established that from among the former active participants of the | | Zinoviev anti-Soviet bloc an under- ground counter-revolutionary ter- | roristic group had been formed at Leningrad, where the accused par- | ticipated. This counter-revolution- | ary terroristic group was headed by | “Leningrad Center,” | | the so-called consisting of Katalynoy, Shatski, | Rumyantsev, Mandelstem, Miasni- | kov, Levin, Sositsky and Nikolaev. The underground counter-revolu- ionary work of this group became | especially active during 1933-34 | When, having lost any hope of the | support of the masses, began to | utilize terroristic methods of strug- | | gle, having in view by terroristic acts | policy in the sense of the so-called | Zinoviev-Trotzkyite platform. | The session established that this | underground terroristic co un ter- revolutionary group, not hoping to realize its criminal purposes only |by terroristic actions inside the | (Continued on Page 2) Thereupon Gallagher asked that the court declare a mistrial. His request was immediately denied by Judge Lemmon who, in his hostility to the defendants, has even taken | liberties with the Declaration of In- | dependence, altering a quotation from that historic document | which the right of the people to overthrow the government is up- held. Returning to his questioning of | McAllister, Gallagher asked, “Since you say you are conducting the case to the best of your ability, why are you afraid to answer my question?” McAllister ignored the challenge. Gallagher then offered the court to produce proof that a dope addict known as Cunny Niles was placed in the cells of the male defendants, Joseph Brodsky, head of the legal ‘directed against the leaders of So-| that he listened in on their discus- staff of the I. L. D., was toastmaster, | Viet power to disorganize the lead-| sion of prospective jurors, and that The event was held under the ership of the Soviet government. and| whenever the defendants expressed auspices of the Central Committee | accomplish a change in the present | the opinion that certain prospective | jurors might be impartial, these | prospective jurors were excused thé next day by the prosecution, Nora Conklin, one of the defend- | ants, testified that Marie Flores, a | stool pigeon, was placed in the cells | of the women defendants, and car- | | country was aiming directly at the| ried information on all discussions | (Continued on Page 2) Behind the Fable of ‘Kidnapping the President’ Is a Dire House Committee “investigating un-American activities,” better known as the Dickstein com- mittee, is playing right up William Randolph Hearst's alley. They've discovered a plot to kidnap the Presi- dent! And who are the alleged kidnappers-to-be? None other-than the Reds. Now if this were a publicity stunt of Paramount to advertize its movie, “The President Vanishes,” everybody would consider them clever rascals. The whole thing would be ludicrously funny, were it not the wildest imaginative poison deliber- ately utilized by the Dickstein committee, lacking anything more substantial, on which to base its anti-labor recommendations to Congress. This sort of hair-brained scare plot always is part of the fascist drives against cially against the Communist Party. When the Lindbergh baby was kidnapped, the Hearst press declared it was a plot of the Commu- the Lindbergh When the M more than 124 vana police, at transported on blame it on the Everybody re nist defendants, labor and espe- Threat Against American Labor AN EDITORIAL nist International. Now that the Nazis are coilect- ing funds in this country to defend Bruno Haupt- mann on the charge of kidnapping and murdering baby, Hearst and the rest of the capitalist press turns its attention to bigger game. forro Castle went up in flames and people were burned to cinders, the Federal investigating committee as well as the Ha- first charged the Reds with the crime. It was later definitely proven that the Ward Line was guilty. Inflammable material had been the ship and the officers had been instructed not to call for help until it was too late. In order to inaugurate the bloodiest drive against the German working class Hitler ordered the burn~ ing of the Reichstag in Berlin and then tried to\! Communists, members how the heroic Commu- led by Georgi Dimitroff, turned this trial into a counter-offensive against the Nazi in- cendiaries, It has since been proven, by confessions of the Nazis themselves, that the Nazi Minister Goering personally ordered and supervised the fir- ing of the Reichstag. And now the Dickstein Committee, as a sort of last feeble squib, sets off the canard about Commu- nists in the U. S. plotting to kidnap the President! * * . is how the plot is “proved” by the Associated Press, whose despatch all of the Pers print on their front page with “Walter S. Steele, of Washington, D. C., ap- pearing for the American Coalition of Patriotic, Civil and Paternal Societies, said a Red plan was being widely circulated in Communist circles to create civil war during a general strike; invade the White House; kidnap the President and his cabi- net; take over the government and supersede it with a Soviet State.” So much and nothing more! The plans, according to Mr. Steele, were discov- ered in a raid on the Minneapolis ts Aa ARR i tn right to answer leading boss pa- scare headlines: | gati to find out what But the truth Workers School during the teamsters’ general strike. When the Dickstein Committee, long before it closed its sessions, received telegrams from leading officials of the Communist Party demanding the the slanders and the lies raked up against militant labor, these law-writing “in- vestigators” of Communism did not reply. When the Communist Party declared that the Dickstein Committee, under the guise of “investi- * Communism and fascism, was actually pre- paring for a more vicious drive against all labor or- ganizations to help the New Deal attack on the workers’ living standard, the committee replies with the fairy-tale about a plot to kidnap the President. Had the Dickstein Committee taken the trouble the Communist program and tac- tics are from official spokesmen who insisted on being heard, it could have easily known the truth. is the last thing these gentlemen (Continued om Page 2) in} DICKSTEIN SILK WORKERS Judge in Sacramento Trial MANY CITIES GETS POLICE REJECT NEW TOASSAULTS KELLER PACT Workers Clubbed in the Lovestoneite’s Contract TO BE SCENES OF MEETINGS Sponsoring Committee Urges All Groups to Complete Programs NEW YORK delegates to the for Uemployrm rance began speeding across the continent for the historic sessions in Washington, the National Sponsoring Committee yesterday called upon all support- ing groups to rally their member= ship for huge mass meetings in all cities on Monday, Jan. 7, At that time, after their delibera- tions, workers from the shops and Picket lines, from the forced labor concentration camps and from the organized and unorganized unem= ployed will present their demands to Roosevelt and to Congress. Mere Locals Endorse Congress Meanwhile, an increasing number of local unions of the American Fed= eration of Labor yesterday an- nounced their support of the Na= j tional Congress and the election of delegates. Every effort should be made to bring out the members of all groups participating in the National Con- gress to mass demonstrations in all cities and towns in support of the demands of the Congress and setting forth local relief needs, at; the same time, the National Committee urged yesterday through its executive Sec- retary Herbert Benjamin, The increasing attacks upon the unemployed, the announced total abandonment of the sick, aged and crippled by the Federal Emergency Relief Administration should be made the focal point in mobilizing all employed and unemployed in city-wide demonstrations in the cities and towns, the Committee de- clared. In its last minute instructions to the delegates to the National Con« gress, the National Committee yes= terday stated that all delegates ar- riving in Washington on Saturday should report directly at the Wash- ington Auditorium, Ninteenth and E Streets, Northwest. Those arriy- ing before Saturday should report at the office of John ii ida Avenue, Northw urday, the Congress m: While workers’ onal Congress be reached by telephone at Metropolitan 9615 or Pontiac 4369. Cleveland Delegates Meet CLEVELAND, O., Dec. 30.—A final meeting of all Cleveland delegates to the National Congress for Unem- ployment Insurance will be held Wednesday night at 7:30 o'clock at the office of the Sponsoring Com~ mittee, 942 Prospect Avenue, Room 469-X. All delegates are urged to attend. The Cleveland delegation will leave for Washington, Friday. Jan, 4, at 3 p.m., from the Greyhound Bus Terminal, Superior Avenue and East Ninth Street, All bus reserva= | tions must be made not later than Tuesday, Jan. 1 While the delegates are in Wash- ington, the local sponsoring commit tee urges that all workers flood their Congressmen with the postcards is- sued by the National Sponsoring Committee demanding enactment of the Workers Unemployment Insure | ance Bill, U.T.W. Local Sends Delegates NASHUA, N. H., Dec. 30.—United Textile Workers Union Local 1829 endorsed the Workers’ Unemploy= ment Insurance Bill at its last meet= ing and elected Georg T. Haslam president of the local, as delegate to the National Congress for Unem- ployment Insurance. The United Shoe and Leather Workers Union local here has aiso endorsed the Workers’ Bill and will meet this week to elect a delegate to the National Congress. A. F. of L. Unions Send Delegates WINSTON-SALEM, N. C., Dec. 30. —Two delezates to the National | Congress for Unemployment and So | cial Insurance have been elected by Local 461 of the Hod Carriers’ Union | here. ¥ | BENTLEYVILLE, Pa., Dec. 30. — United Mine Workers of America, Local 155, has endorsed the Natio Congress for Unemployment and Social Insurance and elected one delegate. . MADISON, Wis., Dec. 30. — The _ John Reed Club of Madison has elected one delegate to attend the National Congress for Unemploy= ment and Social NEWARK, N. J., Dec. 30. — The Russian Mutual Aid Society, Branch