The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 7, 1935, Page 1

: } t jhamas, with its passengers and Annivei | tremendously strengthening their ficers of Local 1733 of American was elected secretary, and Tony | tura and Harold Hyennouse, all on ted, according to the count which, Trovono, Tony Venturo (Special to the Daily Worker) Federation of Silk Dyers. ecutive board members to be elected, here does not yet include a | Vol. XII, No. 6 " Chosen for Posts | PATERSON, N. J., Dec. 6.—Pater- Charles Vigorito as president and In addition to Vigorito on the Ventura was elected as one of three Carlo Trichilo, Carmen De Lorenzo, i $number of small election districts. | | | Ni | f in Jersey Poll son dyers scored another victory, recent strike gains, by electing other rank and file workers as of- rank and file ticket, John Tovano business agents. Of the nine ex- Ray Emidio, Ed Healy, Joseph Ven- the rank and file ticket were elect- Anthony Ammirato, reactionary president of the local, and member ; of the National Executive Board of | the United Textile Workers of America, running for re-election, was snowed under by a two to one| majority. The two for business |} agents on the administration slate, to be elected, are Dominick Am- | | mirato and John Lydig. Charles | ) Perolo, also on the administration | | slate, was elected vice-president. In| | the course of the election, the main | opposition of the rank and-file was. directed against Anthony Ammi-) rato. Those on the administration | slate who were elected although | supporting the policies of Ammirato, played some constructive part dur- ing the strike. | ‘The election was one of the most | exciting in the history of the young | union and served greatly in con- solidating the membership for the fi time behind a union leader- | ship which will enjoy their confi- dence: The interest in the outcome of the poll was shown especially | im the way hundreds of workers | »pent the entire night watching the count of the ballots. At each of the ten polling booths, in addition to the official tellers, there were many workers who sat pencil in hand/ keeping score as names were being | called out. | The election victory in the dyers union is regarded as one of the most significant of the many won by the r and file. It is in one of the} largest locals of the A. F. of L.; it | follows a strike victory due to rank }) and file control and leadership; it is the greatest blow dealt the Gor- man-MacMahon misleadership of the U. T. W., and is an answer in a most emphatic manner to the slanders of the A. F. of L. and So- cialist Party leaders, and of the Lovestoneites that the Communists aim to disrupt the trade unions. | 200 Abandon Wrecked Ship Otf Bahamas The Ward liner Havana was yreaking up on the treacherous intanilla Shoals, north of the crew adrift in lifeboats, according to wireless messages to this city yesterday, ap Four lifeboats had been picked up by the S, S. El Oceano and was attempting to pick up the other two yesterday afternoon, Pilot C. B. Olsen of a coast guard plane radioed to his base at Miami that he had sighted one of the two life- boats and that it was “filled with people and rapidly filling with water.” The steamer, carrying two hun- dred persons, comprising both the passenger list and crew, went aground at 3:40 yesterday morning, but sent out its first S. O. S. call at 6:52 a. m., three hours and twelve minutes later. The distress call was intercepted by the local Mackay) Radio station. ~ | Built in 1907, the Havana was a vessel of 6,667 gross tons. It was enroute to Havana from New York City. - ‘The ship was breaking up from hi pounding of the sea and was luctantly given up by the Ward e offices here as a total loss. q Lawyers on Job While ibe meager details forth- coming see.i to indicate a repeti- tion of the criminal attitude dis- piayed by the Ward Line owners in the Morro Castle holocaust, the} ecmpany’s lawyers took no chances | RANK | eee ii | Appreach Sympathetic Teachers, Pro- fessors and Other Educators for f Greetings for the Daily Worker rsary — Entered as second-class New York, N. ¥., under Daily <\ Worker _ CENTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST IMTERWATIONAL ) matter at the Post Office at the Act of March 8, 1878 NEW YORK, MON Hand of Hitler Fascists |ANT|-NALIS 2,400 DELEGATES ATI EDITION AY, JANUARY 7, 1935 (Six Pages) ONAL Price 3 Cents oo INSURANCE FIGHT ORGANIZED ND FILE DYERS WIN IN PATERSON WELD UNITY. Seen in Lindbergh Case BATTLE FOES TELL OF FIGHT FOR WORKERS’ BILL: | Developments of Trial Indicate That Representa- tives of Fascists in Hearst Organiza- tion Are Aiding Defense By Allen Johnson (Special to the Daily Worker) FLEMINGTON, N. J., Jan, 6. — What the capitalist press is uni- | versally describing as the “greatest | crime of the century” is rapidly be- coming a devastating exposure of the bottomless corruption of capital- | ism and its supporters. Developments in the Hauptmann trial here over the week-end not only corroborate the analysis of the proceedings made last week by the Daily Worker, but indicate that representatives in the country of the | Hitler government, along with other friends of the Nazis in the Hearst organization, are helping to direct and finance the defense of the pro- Nazi Bruno Richard Hauptmann. | Within the last few days agents of Reilly, Hauptmann’s chief at- torney, have been seen conferring with representatives of the German consulate in New York. Handwrit- | ing exverts, picked by the Nazi gov- ernment in Berlin, are now analyz- | ing Hauptmann’s script ransom | notes in the attempt to confute | | the evidence of American handwrit- | ing experts that the notes were | written by Hauptmann. Reilly ad- | mitted Saturday that he was “im-| porting” German experts for this! purpose. Unless official pressure either here | or abroad, on Reilly, forces him to change the course of his attack on the evidence that is piling up against the defendant, the follow- | | ing will be disclosed at the trial! during the coming week: More Implicated Although Hauptmann will not, under any circumstances, absolve | himself from the State’s charge of | being in possession of most of the} $50,000 Lindbergh ransom money, it | will become increasingly clear that | the kidnaping and murder of a (Continued on Page 2) SILK WORKERS PLAN BALLOT Defeat Keller’s Moy é to Prevent Elections— Poll Set for Saturday (Special to the Daily Worker) | PATERSON, N. J., Jan. 6—At a membership meeting of the plain-| goods department of the American | Federation of Silk Workers, called by the Associated Joint Board Sat- urday, the workers cleared away the | last attempt of Eli Keller, Love-| stoneite manager of the union, to prevent an election, and next Satur- day election of new officers of the | department will finally take place. | The workers elected an election | committee consisting of virtually the | Same rank and file members they elected last time, but who were not able to conduct the poll because of the technical objections and tricks | attempted by Keller. Keller charged | that former members of the Na- tional Textile Workers Union, now in the U. T. W. cannot run for of- | fice as they have not been in the union for over a year, although when | the merger was accomplished full-| fiedged membership was promised. His objection was aimed chiefly at L. Valgo and M. Delveccio, two of the most active rank and file workers in the union. In addition, the meeting approved the action of the shop chairmen last Saturday in rejecting the agree- ment negotiated by Elli Keller. A| committee of five to re-open nego~ tiations was elected and includes those known as most active leaders of the rank and file. Last night the much advertised meeting arranged by the “Progres- sive Group” took place at the head- quarters of the Workmen’s Circle, controlled by the Jewish Daily For- ward, with Keller and Charles Zim- merman, manager of Local 22 of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union, as speakers. There were about 125 present of whom only a handful applauded the slan- ders of the Lovestoneites, against the Communist Party and the rank and file, who are desperately attempt- ing to retain power, | won their strike today and came to MINERS WIN IN POLAND 32 Come Out of Shaft | After Making Threat of Mass Suicide | WARSAW, Jan. 6. — Thirty-two miners of the Dobrowa coal fields, who had grimly stuck to their choice of death by drowning, rather than lose their two months meagre back- pay withheld by the mine-owners, the surface exhausted, after a week | in the pits. | Originally sixty-two miners were involved in the desperate strixe. With the pumps stopped and the water slowly rising, they refused to ascend to their old starvation ex- istence without their back earnings. Last Wednesday thirty lost courage and came up. The mine-owners, shamed by the disgust of world opinion at their life-and-death hag- gling, were forced to promise the } men their wages. Socialists Join IC. P. of Italy On Saar Issue (Special to the Daily Worker) PARIS, Jan. 6 (By Wireless) — Addressing their appeal directly to the Saar workers, the Italian So- | cialis; and Communist Parties | jointly called upon the population |of the Saar to use the Jan. 13 plebi- scite as an opportunity to inflict a crushing defeat not only upon the bloody dictatorship of Hitler fas- cism but upon capitalist dictator- ship everywhere. As the plebiscite approaches, all working class organizations, parties, the liberal, intellectual and religious anti-fascist elements of every coun- try are adding their appeals in the) world-wide sentiment of hatred for the Hitler regime. 150,000March inUnited Front Parade Against Hitler Regime SAARBRUECKEN, Jan. 6 (By Wireless).—The tension that is felt | throughout Europe broke out here today Nazi terrorists and anti-Nazi forces. More than 150,000 anti-fascists marched here in one of the great- est demonstrations against Hitler seen since the latter came to power. All had come in answer to the call of the Liberty Front, the united movement launched by Com- munists and Socialists in support of the status quo. It was after the huge mass meet- ing, addressed by Max Braun, So- cialist leader, Fritz Pfordt, secretary | of the Saar Communist Party, and Imbusch Sandte, head of the Chris- tian People’s Party, that the great | mass of anti-Nazis swung out in a tremendous parade. Nazi terrorists who tried to crash through the line of march were repulsed after brief and bitter bat- tles. Shots were fired by the Hit- lerites. ‘Women and crippled war veterans took part in the struggle, legless ex- soldiers fighting off the fascists with their crutches. Grimness and an undying en- thusiasm pervaded the anti-fascist demonstration. When a letter of greeting from a number of Steel Helmet men in Germany was read, the vast assemblage almost split the skies with cheering. The bad weather and the low-hanging clouds provided a sombre setting to the huge demonstration of fiercely- determined workers. Over 500 newspaper correspon- dents were present at the anti-fas- cist meeting, indicating the tremen- dous interest and sympathy that has been aroused throughout the world by the fight of the Liberty Front. The newspapermen openly expressed their disgust with the rovocations of the Nazi terrorists. In Saarlouis several bombs ex- ploded. No damage was done, how- ever. The populace suspects Nazis. Using every means of compulsion and persuasion in their possession— and they have almost unlimited means at their disposal — the Deutsche Front, the Nazi organiza- tion which through use of un- bridled nationalism is attempting to stampede the Saar inhabitants into voting for a return to Germany, succeeded in getting approximately 100,000 to a demonstration at Saint Amoul. SAARBRUECKEN, Jan. 6.—Faced with the probability of an over- whelming sweep of anti-Hitler votes in the coming plebiscite on Jan. 13, official circles here discussed today the possible postponement of the plebiscite to some later date. Contrary to the hopes of admin- istrative committees in the Saar, such a move will certainly swing a large number of voters, who have been fearing that a blow at Ger- man fascism would exclude them from ever re-joining the Saar to the German nation, over to the broad and growing anti-Nazi United Front. The largest demonstration ever staged in the Saar is now being held by all anti-fascist forces on the huge athletic field north of the Saar River. They marched to the field buoyed up by the exultant feeling (Continued on Page 2) in sharp battles between | 6 ee Thomas Writes to Benjamin On National Insurance Parley Union Groups Map Fight for Bill in All Labor Organizations WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 6—Norman Thomas, Socialist Party leader, has sent the following letter to the National Congress for Un- employment Insurance. “Mr. Herbert Benjamin, “199 Broadway, New York City. “Dear Friend: “I appreciate your invitation to address the Congress of Unem- ployment and Social Insurance. I hope the Congress will be success- ful in furthering the cause to which it is devoted. I understand that unemployment organizations which the Socialist Party has been active in initiating and supporting will be represented and doubtless their spokesmen can make our position plain. “I myself have two very important engagements on Sunday in and near New York which will prevent my coming to Washington. “Fraternally, By Howard Boldt | (Daily Worker Staff Correspondent) WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 6— | In addition to 307 official delegates | from the American Federation of Labor, hundreds of other workers were in attendance at the sub-ses- sions on trade unions of the Na- tional Congress for Unemployment and Social Insurance. The entire group repudiated a splitting maneuver by a Lovestone- ite, who was present, and unani- mously endorsed the trade union | resolution to back the Workers’ Bill, to carry forward a pexsistent struggle in the locals, central bodies | and State organizations for sup- port of the bill, to obtain endorse- | ments from every local union, and | to unite with every group which is fighting for the passage of the | Workers’ Bill. | The resolution further calls for | the organization of rank and file groups in all the local unions, to | exert every pressure on representa- tives in Congress, and to carry the | fight into every State legislature for the adoption of the Workers’ Bill. | The Lovestoneite had declared | that. more than’ 90 per cent of those claiming representation were not bona-fide trade unionists and had not been elected by their locals al-| though in each case credentials | “NORMAN THOMAS.” YOUTH HAIL FIGHT FOR WORKERS’ BILL By Howard Boldt | After their demands had been |completely rebuffed or trea with (Ditty WORE stat Correspentent) {7 patronizing -distegehy 4 them - WASHINGTON, D. C., Ja. 6—| hers of’ the Roosevelt administra- The Young Peoples Socialist League a yesterday threatened to split the 0%, the concluding sessions of the . the National Youth Congress wide| American Youth Congress set to | proved otherwise. open and withdrew completely from | work yesterday to formulate a pro- Resolution Hits Suspensions | the united front if it was the wish |8t@m of action for broadening the The resolution on trade unions|of the majority of the delegates to | basis of work and carrying forward states in part that “not only have|send a representative to the Na-| Organization among the whole of | millions in the American Federation | tional Congress for Unemployment |the American youth. | Opening sessions Saturday were | of Labor lost their means of liveli-| Insurance now in session at the| | hood through unemployment, but | Washington Auditorium. A working | devoted to a political symposium at inside the unions, members have|agreement was reached, however, | which representatives of the politi- | been dropped from the rolls or | that a@ representative, Elizabeth |cal parties spoke. Clarence Hath- | ousted from their organizations be-| Scott of the St. James Church, a away, editor of the Daily Worker, cause unemployment made it im- Negro delegate, present to the Na- | speaking in the name of the Com- possible for them to pay dues. | tional Congress the stand which the | muynist Party. brought forward defi- “Many of these workers have been | youth took in backing the Workers | nite propos: for the youth to members of their unions for years,| Unemployment, Old Age and Social carry forward the work of these ses- and have helped to build up the | Insurance Act, H, R. 2627, the new sions in unity with the program of American Federation of Labor. But | Workers’ Bill. |the American working class. Nor- | this had not prevented the bureau-| Before an agreement had been |man Thomas of the Socialist Party, cratic officials of the unions from | reached, however, August Tyler, of | spoke at previous sessions. disregarding their plight and carry-|the Y. P. S. L., cloaking his words | Tho: for Workers’ Bill ing through in the most brazen|in a veiled accusation, declared that | N “gan k for the manner, mass suspension.: and ex-|the Young Communist League had | _ Norman cognates sR a pulsions. This policy of discrimina-| packed the Youth Congress. ee eRe epee manacieg tion against the unemployed has; “The Y. P. S. L. is definitely op- | with the sentiments igeiea d ae weakened and demoralized the/|posed to backing this,” Tyler said | Lundeen Bill. It is my understand- unions as fighting instruments of |in reference to sending a delegation |ing that with a few changes that the workers at a time when the ut-|to the Unemployment Insurance | are to be made in re-introducing most strength was required to face|Congress. “We very carefully | the bill into Congress, it will prob- the determined drive of the em-/ Planned coming here as a minority.| ably be the best bill for the unem- ployers to lower wages and destroy; We are opposed to a mechanical | ployed,” he said. union standards.” majority. If you make a decision,; Thomas correctly stated that it United Front Urged you will be faced with the with-|is necessary for this Congress to The resolution of the unemployed | dtawal of sections of the confer-|reach out to all youth in a united | sub-session calls for the establish-|@nce.” Another member of the Y./ front and endeavor to carry for- ing of one organization of the un-|?. S. L. point blank declared for | the program of the first : | ward employed to equip that section of | Withdrawal. — | American Youth Congress. the working population which is} Weiss Applauded 4 | e he assembled most vitally concerned with the|, Mac Weiss, editor of the TOROE| sone’ people foak ait siueeuied unified power of the employed and | Worker and meni of the Young| of the youth are not necessari uoeEnioren be oe Congress | nity of the congress, proposed that Pont tu and ees 2 Bt ef rat sacle ft + the build-|2 delegate be sent merely to state | aeainst A 9 y — a re e ing of the united front tn all locali-|the Position which the youth had | ments. of fescism and fascist at: ie for the immediate|‘#ken on the Workers’ Bill. He re-|‘empts to Bh SOE cs ties in the fight for the immediate | ceived tumultous applause when he| action. demands of the jobless and for the declared in answer to Tyler that| Speaking in the name of the enactment of the Workers’ Bill. The “any group which mobilizes its en- | Communist Party, Hathaway called resolution further calls for the tak~ |tire membership behind the Amer- | upon the young people to definitely ing of necessary steps in localities) ican Youth Congress, as has the | align themselves with the American to force the several leaderships to young Communist League, in at-| Working class movement in work- form the united front, and to take tempting to get delegates and rep-|ing out its program and carrying the necessary steps in all locals, resentation from all groups, should! forward those plans into action. cities, states and national organi-| be commended by the Congress and|“You young people,” Hathaway should be the model of all organiza- | tions here.” (Continued on Page 2) (Continued on Page 2) Hearst Lies Venomously About Workers’ Rule to Save Wall Street R. WILLIAM RANDOLPH HEARST, multi-mil- lionaire newspaper and stock yesterday spoke over a national the “Rule of the Proletariat.” Mr. Hearst, no doubt, thinks that he is raising a frightful, terrible bogey by discussing the “rule of the proletariat,” which he calls gent” of the country’s population. But is it not remarkable tha’ minds”’ of the capitalist class are today totally help- less as they are confronted by the crisis which they themselves created? While at the same time, the “stupid” proletariat of the Soviet Union has abolished unemployment and insecurity, and tripled its production if the past five years, transforming the Soviet Union from a backward agricultural country to the second industrial power of the world! And while the Soviet government leads masses to ever higher levels of production and liv- (Continued py Page 2) ing standards, the “best minds” of American capital- ism, led by Roosevelt, are frantically burning and market magnate, radio hookup on the “least intelli- it Hearst's “best sixth year of the and so fortin. the lapse, and which gles to usher in It is, in short, who own no share in the country’s productive sys- tem, but keep this productive system running by selling to the parasites who own the country’s in- dustries their labor-power. The proletariat is historically the most advanced class in American society, without, whose labor the whole structure of capitalist production would col- destroying wheat and cotton under the A.A.A, and curtailing production to keep prices up! Which is preferable for the masses: a Soviet government in their own interest, working for ever higher living standards through true working class democracy, or the capitalist rule of Wall Street which grinds the masses into deeper misery, to make bigger Profits for the rich? Who is the proletariat? The proletariat is that section of ihe propertyless, working population, which sells its labor-power for wages to the capital- ist owners of the factories, mines, mills, railroads, the millions of American workers is being trained in its daily strug- & new superior order of society. AN EDITORIAL The dictatorship of the proletariat which Hearst | | conjures up as such a frightful calamity, would only mean the smashing of Wall Street's rule and the rule of the proletariat in alliance with toiling farmers, leading the country’s toiling population to a better life, to a new social system, the system of Socialism! The grim irony of the situation is that it is pre- cisely the rule of the working class which has for- ever abolished hunger, unemployment and insecur- ity in the Soviet Union, while the rule of the Hearsts and the Wall Street monopolies and banks in this country has brought stark starvation to 15,000,000 jobless American workers, and all the horrors of ex- Pploitation and insecurity to millions more! Hearst quotes as his authorities on starvation in the Soviet Union a group of Fascist conspira- tors specially organized to spread just such false Tumors about “starvation in the Soviet Union!” Hearst quotes the head of a mythical organization, Dr. Ewald Ammende, head of a so-called Inter- national Committee for the Relief of Soviet Russia. But this man is tied up with the fascist Cardinal Innitzer of Vienna, who helped in the slaughter of the Vienna working class by the Dollfuss butch- ers in February! This Ammende is a professional organizer of White Guard intervention against the Soviet Union! And it is highly significant that S HIS main argument that the proletariat is in- | capable of ruling a country, Hearst cites the Soviet Union! But of all glorious proofs that the proletariat is capable of building a social system in- comparably superior to “our” miserable capitalist system are the marvellous achievements of the workers and peasants in the Soviet Union. And to what lengths of despicable and vicious lying does Hearst go in his frantic attempts to con- vince the American working class that it is too feeble-minded to run the country in its own in- terests! Hearst’s main argument ts that the rule of the proletariat has brought famine and hunger to the peasants of the Soviet Union, (Continued on Page 2) IN THE SAAR OVATION GIVEN BROWDER SPEECH Speakers Show Fighting Spirit of Broadest United Front WASHINGTON, D. ©., Jan. 6.— William Z. Foster, beloved work- ’ leader, sent a letter of greet- ings to the Nationai Congress for Unemployment Insurance, declar= ing that “The central issue before the whole working class, employed and unemployed, native and for- eign born, is that of unemploy- ment and sociar imsurance. The letter of Foster, read late today, amidst a creat ovation, urged the Congress to line up whole-heartedly behind the “Workers’ Bill, and launch a movement that will impress ever larger numbers of white collar, and workers, Negroes, farme:'., vet- erans, youth, etc., into the strug- gle on the most burning issues be- Tore the whole American poopie today. The toiling masses are iscontented with th‘; terrible situation. We must leave this | Congress determined to unite them in millions behind the Workers Unemployment and So- cial Insurance Bill.” By Carl Reeve (Daily Worker Staff Correspondent) a Text of Browder Speech on Page 3 WASHINGTON, D. C. Approximately 2,400 deli everal hundred guest delegates, are today forging the program for a broad united fight r the Work- ers’ Unemployment and Social In- surance bill, H. R. 2827, in the huge Washington Auditorium, in the second day of the National Congress for Unemployment Insurance. | Earl Browder, general secretary of the Communist Party was given a tremendous ovation when he spoke late this afternoon. A partial analysis cf the regis- tration shows 2.243 delegates so far tabulated out of which 866 are of- ficially delegated by their trade unions. The delegates elected by trade unions include 307 elected to the convention by American Federa- tion of Labor local unions and Central Labor bodies of the A. F. of L.; 344 elected by independent unions, and 2 from the Trede Union Unity League. All basic in- dustries and all major trades are in ma ers, the convention, professionals, in addition to the representa of workers’ and farmers’, veterans’, fraternal and many other organizations. Rank and File Speaks The rank and file has been speaking today at this Workers’ Congress for Unemployment Insur- ance. Deep from under the bloody soil of America come these voices, Strong and solemn as fate they re+ int the tale of mass suffering, a that never is heard in the other Congress on Capitol Hill. A motherly colored woman in a red hat, fine and sympathetic, rep- resents 25,000 Negro and white un- j employed in New Orleans. “We are stopping evictions,” she says. “About | all these capitalist people think of these days is how to put us out on the street. But we are stopping them.” represented There are teachers, mini 8 is a tall upstanding and earnest youth. The local labor fakers went to the extent of framing him up jand expelling him from the union, | just for his determination that the Amer workers receive social ins surance, Socialist Cheered | “But I came here just the same,” . proudly. “Nothing can stop ight. It has just begun.” A Socialist was cheered to the welkin tod He was Frank Kid- neigh, gray, dark, eagle-faced boil- maker of Denvez, Colorado. He }is on the State Executive of the | Socialist Party there, also a veteran member and organizer of the A. F, jof L. | He was cheered because he was & {real Socialist, not the reactionary | liberal that many Socialist leaders have become, : “Some of our Socialist leaders threatened my local because I was delegated to this Congress,” he said. “Some of the A. F. of L. bureaucrats | haves done the same. What fools they are. I have worked too hard |for my Socialist and union cards | during 35 years of struggle to let them force me to become a coward jor @ traitor to the workers. Never | (Continued on Page 2)