The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 5, 1935, Page 1

—~_»~x~q_q;&—E_E EE Between Now and Jan. 12 Concentrate Upon Obtaining Greetings for the Daily Worker Anniversary from Friends and Organizations ——_—_—_—_—_—X—X—X= Vol. XH, > CENTRAL ORGAN COMMUNI Daily 2. Worker PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERWATIONAL ) Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥. under the Act of March 8, 1878 NEW YORK, SATURDAY, JANUARY 5, 1935 (Eight Pages) NATIONAL EDITION Price 3 Cents INSURANCE CONGRESS OPENS TODAY ROOSEVELT PRESENTS BANKERS’ PLAN "TAKE HEED’ F.D.R. WARNS ALL OPPOSED Address to Congress. Ask ‘Liquidation’ of ‘Business of Relief” By Seymour Waldman (Daily Worker Washington Bureau) WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 4—| In presenting his opening message today to a joint session of the new seventy-fourth congress President Roosevelt personally outlined the general legislative program, heat manded by the big capitalists, | which simultaneously accelerates | the fascist measures already under | way and warns those basically op-} posed to “take heed.” In short, the j Communist Party was warned that its anti-fascist and anti-hunger Program is more than unwelcome to the new deal program of in- creased forced labor, militarization and wage-cutting. Declaring that “we have under- taken a new order of things,” an “American plan” within “the frame- work ., . and intent of the Amer- ican constitution,” Roosevelt recog- nized the people's “desire for change” with recommendations for! “a new economic order” which pro- | vide for the “liquidation” of “this | business of relief,” the throwing of about four and a half million s0- | called unemployables, or the aged, crippled and others. in a similar | category, on the inadequate mercies of “local welfare efforts” and the superseding of tie Federal Relief Administration with a “single new) and greatly enlarged plan” for “emergency employment” which will Rive as. “compensation” less than wha> the private employers desire to pay their labor. The big busi- ness-Roosevelt, legislative schedule proposed also that “the successful work” of the military-oriented and} Fascist-tinted “civilian conservation corps” be extended and enlarged. The President prefaced his an-! nouncement in a few days he will| make specific recommendttions to congress for “a broad program de- signed ultimately to establish” security of a “livelihood,” the “se- against the major hazards and vicissitudes of life,” and “the| security of decent homes,” with an eptimistic report that will be a dis- tinct surprise to the many millions | of poor farmers and workers who} haye borne the brunt of the new deal anti-labor and war prepara- tions program. “Materially, I can Teport to you substantial benefits to our agricultural population, in- creased industrial activity, and profits to our merchants.” he stated. “Security” in the Future Presiden! Roosevelt declared, | however, that this “security” pro- gram “will take many future years to fulfill.” His recommendations are known to favor State Unem- ployment “reserves” rather than any form of genuine Federal Un-| employment insurance such as is} provided for in the bill substantially formulated by the sponsoring com- mittee of the National Congress for Unemployment Insurance and in- troduced yesterday in Congress. He said that they “will cover the broad subjects of unemployment insur- ance and old age insurance, of benefits for children, for mothers, for the handicapped, for maternity care and for other aspects of de- pendency and illness where a be- ginning can now be made.” Though dressed up in character- istic middle-of-the-road demagogy, Roosevelt nevertheless voiced the} Sentiment which was expressed more forcibly in recent declarations of the dominant bankers’ indus- trialists’ and landlords’ avowed | anti-labor United States Chamber | of Commerce and the National As- sociation of Manufacturers. There is evident a restoration of that spirit of confidence and faith which marks the American char- acter,” he said. “Let him who, for speculative profit or partisan pur- pose, without just warrant would eek to disturb or dispel this assur- ance, take heed before he assumes responsibility for any act which slows our onward steps,” he added. Nespite last week’s extremely conservative American Federation of Labor leaders’ announcement that unemployment has increased for the sixth successive New Deal month and that it is nearly 500,000 more than last year at this time, Roosevelt declared that “we have proceeded throughout the nation a measurable distance on the road this new order of things,” and spoke about giving employment. to the 14,000,000 he said will remain on relief after the scuttling of the (Continued on Page 2) |Answer Wall Street! A concentrated three-month drive to get 10,000 new subscriptions for the week-day edition of the Daily Worker, and 15,000 new sub- scriptions for the Saturday edition, was announced yesterday by the Daily Worker Management Committee. “Every district is to begin its work todas mittee declared. ” the Management Com- “With Wall Street preparing to give the American working class a deadly blow—the stifling of its fighting voice, by outlawing the Com- munist Party and suppressing the Daily Worker—the necessity of im- mediately and tremendously increasing the circulation of the Daily Worker is one of the most important political tasks confronting every | Communist Party member and every reader of the Daily Worker. “We cannot afford to waste a moment in carrying the Daily Worker into every factory and mine, to the farm and to the docks— into the hands of every worker, white and black, in every category of labor. “The onslaught against the Communist Party and the Daily Worker is but the groundwork for a new and ferocious onslaught against the entire working class in America. “Let us answer Wall Street by making our circulation grow by leaps sae bounds in the face of its offensive!” Hearst Reported ‘Back | Of Hauptmann | Defense Indications hie) Ranson” Was Was: Uaed to Finance Nazi Activity in U. S.—Defendant Seen As Expecting Acquittal By Allen Johnson FLEMINGTON, N. J., Jan. 4.—The significance of cer- | Nickolaiev himself), tain to-+3 in the possession of the Daily Worker, indicating | tnat Bruno Richard Hauptmann was a leading figure in American Nazi circles at the time of his arrest on the charge of murdering the Lindbergh baby, aed the lanabera ran- som money was used to finance Nazi activities in this country, was strengthened today when the Daily Worker learned from __ reliable sources that William Randolph Hearst {s contributing to the legal defense of Hauptmann. The political ramifications of the trial are now extending in two par- allel lines, which are bound to meet in the next few weeks. On the one hand, Hearst is prepared to move heaven and earth to have the Nazi, Hauptmann acquitted of the charge | of murdering the baby son of a man who has been trumned up as “the most ponular hero of this time.” On the other hand, the slug of poison, amounting to more than a million words a day, with which approxi- mately 500 capitalist mewspapers represented here are trying to tem- porarily drown the minds of the American masses, will be used to cover up the enactment by Con- gress of anti-Communist laws. which will be pushed by Hearst in alliance with Wall Street. The desperate fight which Reilly, the Hauptmann lawyer, will make to free Hauptmann, was clearly evi- dent during the proceedings of to- day’s session. Subjecting Lindbergh to severe cross-examination, Reilly insinuated so strongly that the body of the baby found near the Lindbergh es- | tate was not the body of the Lind- bergh baby at all, but the body of a child born of extra-marital re- lations between the Lone Eagle and Betty Gow, the Lindbergh nurse- maid. The audience at one point in the questioning broke through the heavy decorum of the court: to applaud Lindbergh vigorously when he answered sharply. Realizing that he had over-stepped the bounds of tact in thus launch- ing a sudden attack on the popular aviator, Reilly softened his questions for the remainder of the session. he would return to the attack the first opportunity. Reilly is openly admitting that he will try to prove that the murder of the Lindbergh baby was an “in- at side” job, performed by five people, | and that the inception of a kid-| naping took place in. the Linsiberz | kitchen. Since there were only five, people in the Lindbergh heme on| and| since two of these people were | the night of the kidnaping, Lindsergh and his wife, the direction of Reilly’s attack is greater, not- withstanding his statement, over- attended, as if it were an after- thought, that the Lindberghs them- | selves were not involved. Reilly will next probably question Lindbergh about Violet Sharpe, maid at the home of his mother-in-law, evening | They made it clear that! KIROV KILLER COT AID FROM LATVIA ENVOY ‘Recall of Consul from) Leningrad Shows Link With Terrorist Group (Special to the Daily Worker) MOSCOW, Jan. 4 (By Wireless). —The foreign consul mentioned in the indictment case of the Lenin- |srad counter-revolutionary terrorist group, with whom the assassin Nicholaiev was connected, was re- called by his government from the U. 8. S. R. [The consul referred to was Con- sul General in Leningrad Bisenieks | from Latvia, who had formerly been attached to the Court of St. James Te io London.] Yesterday at the Commissariat of Foreign Affairs, the minister of Latvia acquainted himself with the | investigation material (evidence of and also with the corresponding part of the sten- ographic report of the trial wherein Nikolaiev confirmed the evidence given during the investigation, as well as with the identification of YOUTH GROUPS OP |the Latvian consul by Nikolaiey | | from 18 photographs presented to | | him. This fact of the recall of the consul inyolved in the counter-reyo- lutionary assassination plot is one of the best answers to the anti- Soviet press seeking to speculate on the fact that for quite understand- able diplomatic reasons the name of | the country ‘whose consul rendered assistance to the counter-revolution, Was not originally named. Soviet Ambassador Speaks LONDON, Jan. 4—A deputation of the General Council of Trade Unions and also the executive com- jmittee of the Labor Party visited the Soviet Ambassador Maisky here in connection with the campaign of the anti-Soviet press regarding the sentence of the military colle- gium and the supreme court against the terrorists. Replying to the delegation Am- bassador Mirsky made the follow- ing statement: “Persons recently shot in various towns in the U. S. S. R., according to sentences of the court which | Nye, chairman of the Munitions In- were reported in the Soviet press, were found guilty of preparing ter- roristic acts. The majority of these | openly admitted they were enemies of the Soviet Union, also admitted the execution of the crimes of | Mrs. Dwight W. Morrow (wife of|which they were accused. They the late partner of J. P. Morgan) who committed suicide after con- fessing that she had lied about her whereabouts on the night of the kidnapping. Prosecutor Wilentz, in his ques- tion yesterday of Mrs. Lindbergh, tried to discount in advance any attempt that Reilly will make to prove a rumor to the effect. that the Lindbergh baby was sud-normal and a deaf mute, on questioning Mrs. Lindbergh as to the normalcy of the child. Wilentz’s questions on this point, and Mrs. Lindbergh’s answers, follow: Wilentz: Now, during the after- noon, as I understand, you stated that you were with the child and the child was playing around. Will you tell us about the child, about his playfulness that day. Was he @ normai child? Mrs, Lindbergh: He was perfect- (Continued on Page 2) were arrested at various times and places. “Under ordinary circumstances, persons arrested before Kirov’s as- sassination would possibly be con- demned at various times and be subjected to corresponding punish- ment. However, Kirov’s assassina- tion aroused the necessity of the in- tensification of the means of the! suppression of the terror, and in connection with the circumstances | the Soviet authorities found it necessary to hasten the investiga- tion of all terrorist cases as yet not |examined, and also to investigate cases in court. Cites Jugoslavian Case “The assassination of the Jugo- slavian king and the French Foreign | Minister Barthou aroused all capi- talist countries to the greatest in- dignation, with the terrorists im- (Continued on Page 2) i beac is no mistaking the quality and meaning of Roosevelt’s speech to Congress. It is the speech of a man who will promise any- thing to the masses so that he can proceed un- obstructed in his carrying out of the capitalist bru- tality and exploitation dictated by the Wall Street monopolies and banks. Roosevelt’s speech yesterday is a warning of three immediate menaces to the American working class. Roosevelt is going to drive millions of jobless workers into a forced labor program to militarize the country at starvation wages. He calls this “pro- viding jobs.” Roosevelt is laying the ground for a new wage- cutting offensive against the whole working class, to begin with the building trades workers. He calls this “a home program.” Taken as a whole, Roosevelt's message to Con- gress is a deliberate challenge to the American working class on the life and death issues which are now being discussed at the National Congress for Social and Unemployment Insurance by the dele- gates from the working class of the country, The working class delegates are mapping out a fight for the most crying, immediate need of mil- lions of workers—Federal cash relief and Federal unemployment insurance to be paid by the govern- ment and the rich, Roosevelt's speech is the biunt declaration that the government vaashes its hands of the piight of the jobless, and will fight to the bitter end to pro- tect the rich from having to pay for the crisis and the miseries it has brought to the working class. * . . je was no lack of the typical Roosevelt New Deal eloquence which gushes windily over “the new economic order,” which speaks with cool hy- pocrisy about “social justice and security.” These phrases are cheap, and Roosevelt is very generous of cheap phrases that mean nothing in concrete results. But there was more than the usual empty Roose- velt New Deal promises in this speech, Yesterday, Roosevelt came forward more openly than ever as the defender of the capitalist system | National Youth Conference. He did 0} ve crags gl rag ch te ol |not mention the National Congress other arms found upon them. They | of private property, of the system which is the bul- wark of the Wall Street Dictatorship | first American Youth Congress, a | EN SESSION. AS UNEMPLOYMENT PARLEY DELEGATES REACH CAPITAL Thomas Talks to Youth! | But Dodges Meeting on Insurance By Howard Boldt (Special to the Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 4.— Working youth from the shops and trade unions and from among the unemployed, young people from the | ¥.M.C.A.’s and settlement hous members of the political parties and the student groups met here today at the Masonic Hall, Tenth and U Streets, to place demands upon the government. The assembled delegates, Negro and white young workers from the! mills and mines of the poverty- stricken South, elected directly by the trade unions and by regional conferences held in different sec- tions of the country, represent the first American Youth Congress held | last August in New York City and other groups recently brought into the American Youth Congress. The program to be acted upon in the two-day congress of seven ses- sions here was formulated by the SEC. 1. broad assemblage brought together by Viola Ilma with the direct con-| |nivance of administrative officials. | At that, time, the overwhelming ma- jority of the delegates, including those from the Young Communist League and Young Peoples Socialist | League, becoming disgusted with the | machine rule, entered into a united | | front around a working class pro- | gram of action, and repudiated the | reactionary sponsorship of the con- | gress, Thomas Speaks | In cartying forward the work be- | sun last August, the present Con- gress of Youth, after a report of | the continuation committee and the election of a representative presid- | ing committee, will formulate state- | ments of policy and demands to be | | made upon Roosevelt, C.C.C. Direc- | tor Fechner and Senator Gerald P. | | vestigations Committee. organizations. |. Norman Thomas, Socialist Party | |leader, spoke this afternoon at the SEC, 3 for Unemployment Insurance. He |was scheduled to speak tomorrow, | but requested to speak today on |the ground that he has an im- portant engagement in New York Y |tomorrow. Thomas has not yet re- plied to the invitation of the Un- |employment Insurance Convention that he speak. In his speech today he mentioned favorably the Work- \ers Unemployment Insurance Bill, | but did not mention the Unemploy- ment Congress. Tomorrow, the sessions of the| |congress, after a radio broadcast over the NBC hook-up at 10:15 a.m. by Waldo McNutt, chairman of the continuation committee and repre- | sentative of the Rocky Mountain Y. M. C. A., will hear reports of various political parties. The list }of speakers include Senator Nye, |Representatives Thomas Aimlee, William Roger and Vito Marconto- niom, former Senator Smith Brook- hart, Norman Thomas of the Social- ist Party and Clarence Hathaway, editor of the Daily Worker for the Communist Party. | In the concluding sessions, round United States. (Continued on Page 2) Roosevelt's Message Foreshadows Deeper Misery for the Masses AN EDITORIAL And yesterday, behind all his stale repetition of his stock-in-trade Néw Deal promises, Roosevelt stepped forward more boldly than ever before as the’ man who will lead in carrying through the economic program laid down in the past few weeks by the country’s most powerful at Teaction- ary Wall Street industrialists. “The Federal government must and shall quit this business of relief,” Roosevelt flatly declared yesterday. In how many millions of working class homes will this blunt threat spread indescribable wretch- edness and misery! With what terrible meaning will these words be soon driven home to the millions of workers and their families who listened to Roosevelt promise them “security and social justice!” Is it not clear that Roosevelt is hastening to obey the wishes of the recent “Congress of Ameri- can Industry” and the secret White Sulphur Springs conferences of the Wall Street industrialists who made as the first point in their proposed “Program for Recovery” the smashing of all Federal relief? i WASHINGTON, D. C., Social Insurance bill, now numbered H. R. 2827, is herewith given in full. workers and their organizations. The Workers Bill, Workers’ Bill, Now HR 2827 Improved by Committee, Introduced in New Congress formerly H. R. 7598 in the last Congress, The Workers’ Bill was presented to Congressman Lundeen by the National Sponsoring Committee for the National Congress for Unem- ployment Insurance, which convenes tomorrow. The bill was improved by the Sponsoring Committee in line with suggestions of thousands of Congressman Lundeen, against the desires of the Sponsoring Committee, made several changes in the bill with the few changes made by Lundeen, which is now before the present Congress, follows: Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa- tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, that this Act shall be known by the title “The Workers’ Unemployment, Old Age and Social Insurance Act.” SEC..2. The Secretary of Labor is hereby directed to provide for the immediate establishment of a system of unemployment insurance for the purpose of providing compensation for all workers and farmers above 18 years of age, who are un- emiployed through no fault of their own, authorized and Such compensation shall be equal to average local wages in such occupation but shall, in no case, bé less than $10 per week plus $3 for each dependent. | work, but unable to secure full-time employment, shall be entitled to receive the difference between their earnings and the average local wages in such occupation for full-time employment. mum compensation guaranteed by this Act shall be increased in conformity with rises in the cost of living. Workers, willing and able to do full-time The mini- Such unemployment insurance shall be administered and con- trolled, and the minimum compensation shall be adjusted by work- ers and farmers under rules and regulations which shall be pre- scribed by the Secretary of Labor in conformity with the purposes and provisions of this Act, through unemployment insurance com- missions directly elected by members of workers’ and farmers’ The Secretary of Labor is hereby further authorized and directed to provide for the immediate establishment of other systems of social insurance for the purpose of providing compensa- tion for all workers and farmers who are unable to work because of sickness, old-age, maternity, industrial injury or any other dis- ability. Such compensation shali be the same as provided by Sec- tion 2 of this Act for unemployment insurance and shall be admin- istered in like manner. Compensation for disability because of maternity shall be paid to women during the period of eight weeks previous and eight weeks following childbirth, SEC. 4. All moneys necessary to pay the compensation guaran- teed by this Act and the cost of establishing and maintaining the administration of this Act shall be paid by the Government of the All such moneys are hereby appropriated out of all funds in the Treasury of the United States not otherwise appro- priated. Further taxation if necessary to provide funds for the pur- pose of this Act, shall be levied on inheritances, gifts, and individual and corporation incomes of $5,000 a year and over. The benefits of this Act shall be extended to workers, whether they be industrial, agricultural, domestic, office or professional workers, and to farmers, without discrimination because of age, sex, race, color, reiigious or political opinion or affiliation. No worker or farmer shall be dis- qualified from receiving the compensation guaranteed by this Act because of past participation in strikes, refusal to work in place of strikers, or at less than average local or trade union wages, or under unsafe or unsanitary conditions, or where hours are longer than the prevailing union standards of a particular trade or locality, or at any unreasonable distance from home. Roe proposes to substitute a public works Program for the “dole.” What wages will he pay? His answer is taken almost literally from the demands of the Wall Street employers. Roosevelt made it very clear that the government wages will be in every case even lower than the starvation wages of private industry: “Compensation on emergency public projects,” Roosevelt declared, “. .. must not be so large as to encourage the rejection of opportunities for private emplerment, of for leaving private em- ployment to engage in government work.” Flung off relief to starve—or forced labor at starvation wages so miserably low that they have not even been reached in privateg@idustry! Thus Roosevelt is creating an army of forced labor work- ers to force down all wages! Is not this precisely what Wall Street wants? Is not this precisely what protects the profits of Wall Street most, protecting them from having to cut into their profits to pay for Federal relief and unemployment insurance? Does not this place the (Continued on Page 2) Jan. 4—The Workers Unemployment and and Draft Program Cites Mass Misery, Urges Broad Unity By Carl Reeve (Daily Worker Staff Correspondent) WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 4— As the delegates began arriving for the opening tomorrow morning of the National Congress for Unem- ployment Insurance, the improved Workers’ Unemployment Insurance bill (H. R. 7598 in the last Congres: was recorded in the present, Sevens ty-fourth Congress as H. R. 2827 The Workers’ Bill, now H. R, 2827, was improved by the National Sponsoring Committee of the Na- tional Congress for Unemployment | Insurance and formally presented to Congressman Ernest Lundeen by Herbert Benjamin, on behalf of the | Sponsoring Committee Lundeen then introduced the improved Workers’ Bill in the House of Rep- resentatives. | Lundeen, against the desires of the Sponsoring Committee, made a |few changes in the bill. In one | place where the Workers’ Bill calls | for no discrimin: nm because of past or present s |deen eliminated the jent.” He aso eliminated “the word | “citizenship” at the point where the | Workers’ Billcalis for no discrimi- |nation because of race, sex, belief, | citizenship, etc. | Bill Improved | However, the Workers’ Unemploy- ;ment Insurance bill as drafted by |the Sponsoring Committee, and jwith the few changes made by Lundeen, is an improvement over |the Workers’ Bill as presented 1 | Lundeen at the last session of Con- gress. | The Workers’ Unemployment and Social Insurance Bill (H. R. 2627) | will be presented to the delegates to |the National Congress for Unem- | ployment Insurance tomorrow, Delegates ar-ived last night and | this morning from Texas, Wyoming, Colorado, California, New York, | Michigan, Indiana, etc. The first delegate came in from California last night after making his way with ten dollars total expenses. A |“house on wheels” arrived from | Colorado with twelve delegates, in= | cluding a Socialist sent by both the Denver Socialist Party local and the Boiler Makers’ Union. Delegates already here include representatives jof Farm Holiday, U. M. W. A, |metal miners’, women’s organiza- tions, etc., showing the broad char- | acter of the Congress | Wires were received that ninsty | delegates will arrive this afternoon in buses from the Chicago District and forty in buses from the Iowa and fifteen women are due from the Minnesota regions. Eighty men and fifteen women are due from the Cleveland District in buses at 8 o'clock tomorrow morning. Draft Program The draft program which the Na- tional Sponsoring Committee will | Present to the delegates to the Na- | tional Congress for Unemployment | Insurance tomorrow, after analyzing jthe misery brought about by six | years of crisis, whose causes are | dealt with, declares, “The very na- | ture of the problem calls for united mass effort. The social forces that |make for mass destitution are not subject to individual control. The measures necessary must provide a greater dezree of social security, Such security cannot be achieved by the individual or by an isolated group acting independently and without the support of all others who are concerned. Our first pur- pose and task is therefore to bring about the greatest possible unity of action of all who need and all who seek to achieve an adequate system of social insurance.” The draft program declares: “Our aim is to secure compensation from the Federal government for all who are willing but unable to work be- | cause Of unemployment. old age, in- dustrial accident or sickness, and during period of maternity Bill Center of Program After giving the provisions of the Workers’ bill, the draft program states: “In this manner we under- take to prevent the debasement of living standards as well as the in- terruption of necessary income for the great masses. “Our central program and demand is therefore the immediate enact- ment by the Congress of the United States of the Workers’ Unemploys ment and Social Insurance bill.” The draft program fully analyzes (Continued on Page 2)