The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 8, 1935, Page 1

——————_________== Sneed Efforts to Secure Daily Worker Anniversary January 12! Greetings by Daily <A Worker CENTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL ) ‘(ATIONAL EDITION Vol. XII, No. Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., under the Act of March 8, 1878 <> * NEW YORK, TUESDAY, JANUARY 8, 1935 (Six Pages) Price 3 Cents I.L.D.WINS HEARING ON SCOTTSBORO | War Funds Show Biggest Increase in Roosevelt Budget INSURANCE PARLEY FOR HUNGER MARCH ROOSEVELT GETS DEMAND ON INSURANCE Delegations — < all On Officials for Stand On Workers’ Bill By Carl Reeve (Daily Worker Staff Writer) WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 7.— Twenty-five delegates at the Na- tional Unemployment Congress rose cheering to their feet late this afternoon as I. Amter, na- tional secretary of the Unemploy- ment Councils, called on the Con- gress to organize a national hun- ger march to Washington to de- mand the enactment of the Work- ers Unemployment and Social In- surance Bill, H. R. 2827. The pro- posal, date for which has not been set, had been approved by the Na- tional Sponsoring Committee for the Congress. WASHINGTON, Jan. 7. — The voice of the American workers was veiced to the President of the United States, the U. S. Congress and heads | xf government devartments today, n demand for passage of the Work- ers’ Unemployment Insurance Bill as large delegations of the National Congress for Unemployment Insur- ance visited all branches of the gov- ernment. The heads of the Roose- velt government gave answer—they evaded, squirmed, made empty} promises, but when pinned down, referred only to “study, investiga- tion,” or to a general program and refused to give endorsement of the! Workers’ Bill. President Roosevelt, “had a bad cold” and could not see the repre- sentatives of the masses whom he is supposed to represent and who had come, in many cases thousands of | miles, to the unemployment congress. Roosevelt's assistant secretary, Mar- vin MacIntyre, would see only 6 of the delegation. MacIntyre told the | delegation the President was “deeply concerned over the whole question,” ‘but when vressed to take a stand, declared that the President is pre- senting a “nublic works” program, and referred the delegation to Roose- | velt’s message. On social insurance he said he did not know exactly what Roose- velt would propose. He refused to take a stand on the Workers’ Bill. Elmer Brown of New York Typo- graphical Union No. 6 led the dele- gation to the White House. Garner Dodges Issue Vice-President Garner gave the delegation visiting him only fifteen | minutes after first refusing to see them at all. Even the Capitol police laughed when Garner told the dele- (Continted on Page 2) Betty Gow Tells Story Of Kidnaping FLEMINGTON, N. J., Jan. 7.— Betty Gow, the last person to see Charls Augustus Lindbergh, Jr. alive with the exception of the person who actually killed the child, was subjected to a searching cross examination today by chief defense attorney Edward J. Reilly in the trial of Bruno Richard Hauptmann here. The defense, which last week had promised startiing revelations about seryants within the Lindbergh home and had intimated strongly that it would disclose material that would shift suspicion away’ from Hauptmann and onto members of the Lindbergh household, did not get very far with Miss Gow. Under the direct examination of | Attorney General David T. Wilentz, Miss Gow, who had been the nursemaid of the murdered child from the time that he was only a few weeks old, identified the child's sleeping garment and the thumbd guard he was wearing on the night of the kidnapping. Background Searched Reilly was particularly keen on finding out the details of the pretty nurse’s background. He asked ques- tion after question about her “boy (Continued on Page 2) Aid Stranded Delegates WASHINGTON, Jan. 7.—An urgent appeal for funds to come to the aid of numerous workers’ delegations that have been stranded on their way to the National Congress for Social and Unemployment Insurance was issued today by leading committees of the Congress. Delegations of jobless workers elected to the Congress from Florida, Kentucky, Louisiana, Arkansas, Texas, New Mexico, Virginia, and several other states, are now caught penniless in towns midway between the Congress and their homes, with no way of reaching either the Congress or their homes, Contributions should be rushed by wire to 717 Florida Avenue, N. W., care of Herbert Benjamin, cipuskibeid secretary. ‘Workers’ Bill Central Issue Before Workers, Says Foster (Special to the Daily Worker) from the delegates at the National Congress for Unemploy- | ment and Social Insurance greeted the reading of a letter {from William Z. Foster, chairman of the Communist Party, | |U.S. A. The letter which was read from the sees plat- form yesterday was as follows: -—— Comrades: | tion at the present time in order | The central issue before the whole |t© Provide that welfare than working class, employed and unem- | through the enactment of a gen- WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 7.—A tremendous ovation | UNEMPLOYED, ployed, native and foreign-born, is | that of unemployment and social insurance. After more than | made-by the administrations of the two major political parties to solve the crisis and their promises to put millions back to work, we find un- | employment remaining at the ter- | The perspective is not that millions will return to work, but on the con- trary that the number of unem- | ployed will grow. Instead of the buying power. of the masses in-| creasing, the rise in the cost of liv- (ing has more than wiped out every | Wage increase brought about by the | codes of the N.R.A. The reaction to | these attacks unon the living con- ditions of the workers has been | tremendous: mass strikes of the workers in the shops; mighty strug- gles of the unemployes battles of the poor farmers. While the conditions of the work- ing population have grown worse, the banks and big corporations have | generally increased their profits and dividends and in some cases as high as 600 ner cent. The expose of the |munitions industry through the senate investigations has shown war | Profits that rise even above that amount coined out of the blood of the toiling masses. | Only Genuine Bill |. Based upon this situation, which involves not only the industrial but the white collar and professional workers, hundreds of thousands of | ruined farmers, etc., the holding of the National Congress for Unem- | ployment and Social Insurance is of the greatest significance. The mands to be presented to the sev- enth-fourth Congress of the United States. We are sure that in spite of the attacks that have been made upon the Workers Unemployment and Social Insurance Bill hy the bureaucrats of the A. F. of L. and other reformist leaders, the Con- gress will unite behind this Bill, which is the only bill for genuine federal unemployment and _ social insurance. | At the same time, the Congress will have to consider particularly the situation of the Negro and young workezs. The Negro worik- ers are most concerned with ihe question of some protection under the present system. They are hounded, jailed and lynched in the struggle for a piece of bread. Mil- lions of young people are unem- ployed and face a future of no work. The government attitude towa7 the rising generation is shown in the establishment of the semi- military C. C. C, camps in prepara- | tion for war. The New Deal has not solved and cannot solve the problems of the crisis. On the contrary, the crisis! is growing deeper, involving all sec- | tions of the toiling population. What is it that we demand in this situation? What is it that all work- ers want in order to protect them- selves and their families? They demand when they are denied the right to work and earn a living, that they shall be provided with unemployment insurance sufficient to help themselves and their stary- ing families. The most funda- mental function of the United | States government should be to [provide for the welfare of the people. | There is no more Important func- five | years of the crisis, after tl > efforts | rifically high figure of 16 million. | militant | Congress will decide upon the de-| uine system of unemployment and social insurance. The plan of the} federal government through the} Advisory Council of the National | Committee for Ecanomic. Secu: and the proposal of Wm. Green completely ignore the sixteen mil-! lion unemployed. Nor do they pro- | | vide any protection for the at pres- ent employed workers over a | long period of time. On the ‘con- trary, after stipulating a number | | of weeks of benefits, they again | throw the workers into the arms of | charity organizations. This point | jof view the National Congress should reject and declare as basic that every worker is entitled to full} compensation for loss of work. The | | Congress must declare for protec- tion by the government against part time, accident, sickness as well as for old age and mateznity. Presi- dent Roosevelt is no friend of the| | hungry masses of unemployed | workers, and his much-advertised social security program is just one | more of his many frauds upon the | Workers. The question of social | | relief and security is dealt with in | prope: form only in the Workers Unemployment and Social Insur- ance Bill. I trust, therefore, that the Con- | | gress will not fail to line up whole- heartedly behind the Bill and jJaunch a movement that will im- press ever larger numbers of in- dustrial, white collar and profes- sional workers, Negroes, farmers, veterans, youth, etc., into the strug- gle on the most burning issue be- fore the whole American people to- day. The toiling masses are discon-| | tented with this terrible situation. We must leave this Congress de- termined to unite them in millions behind the Workers Unemployment and Social Insurance Bill. Fraternally yours, WM. Z. FOSTER. Greet the Daily Worker in the name of your family. It has spent its eleven years fighting for you. Send your greeting before Jan. 12. U.S.8.R HIT BY LAGUARDIA Repeats Hearst Slander| to Delegation at | City Hall Rally | More than 4,000 New York work- | ers marched before City Hall yes-| terday in support of the Workers | Unemployment Insurance Bill in| one of the most militant and dis- ciplined demonstrations this city} has seen in many months, while at least that many workers from near- by buildings watched sympathe- tically. Mayor LaGuardia, who came to power on the basis of being a “pro- gressive,” a defender of civil liberties | ; and a friend of labor, flatly re- fused to see the delegation elected | by the unemployed. | The demonstration had been called as one of a series of mass} rallies in every large city through- out the country in support of the Workers Unemployment Insurance Bill, introduced into Congress by Rep. Ernest Lundeen of Minnesota. | In one of the most venomous at- tacks on the Soviet Union that any pubdlic official has. permitted.-him- self to make recently, LaGuardia told a committee of three who were negotiating for a meeting of a mass delegation with him, that if they “came this close to the seat of gov- ernment in Russia” they would be shot. Makes Hearst-like Speech He preceded his remarks to the workers’ delegation by a speech to a group of war veterans represent- ing the officer-controlled American Legion, Spanish American War Vet- erans and Jewish War Veterans where he made another outburst against the unemployed and against | the Soviet Union. “Your attitude,” the Mayor said to the be-ribboned officers within | the official reception room, “is in contrast with that of the people outside, most of whom are on relief.” Defending the seles tax as “the necessary source of revenue” for re- lief funds, he continued: “They are denouncing the nec- essary source of revenue that makes relief possible and denounc- ing the government that takes care of them, If they came with- in the same distance of Lenin- grad, or some other clty in the Soviet government, that they have come here, they would be put up agains: a wall by a firing squad and shot.” Police Bar Entrances Workers began to drift into the vicinity of City Hall early, although none were allowed into the Plaza itself by mounted policemen and patrolmen stationed at every en- trance. By 11:45 over 1,500 had gathered on the sidewalk on the southeast side of the Plaza with more swell- ing the ranks with every incoming subway train. By noon 2,000 had gathered, blood- red banners and placards held high. Promptly at 4:08 the huge picket (Continnca on Page 2) Lehman Co, Report Shows Big Interests Of N. Y. Governor NEW YORK. — An interesting sidelight on the Wall Street con- nections of Governor Lehman of New York, who in his inaugural address spoke of the “welfare of the people” as his main goal, is given by the annual report is- sued yesterday by the Lehman Corporation, the investment company of the Lehman family. Total assets, after deducting the dividends and taxes, were $60,237,000 on December 31, 1934, the report shows. The list shows invest- big ments in all of the leading Wall Street stocks, HILLSBORO 14 WIN FREEDOM SuspendedS entences of 9 Months Given on Minor Charge monopolies and utility (Special to the Daily Worker) HILLSBORO, Iil., Jan. 7.—The fourteen. Hillsboro defendants were freed late today on sus- pended sentences of nine months after being found guilty of the minor charge. The prosecution withdrew the charge of treason and the defendants waived trial by jury. The courtroom rang with the cheers of the workers present as the decision was announced. The defendants immediately sent a telegram to the Daily Worker thanking it for its as- sistance, HILLSBORO, Ill., Jan. 7. — The fourteen workers ar-ested for lead- ing an unemployed workers’ dem- onstration here early last year, and charged with criminal syndi- calism, today refused a compromise from the prosecution. As the trial opened, the prosecu- tion urged the following arrange- ment on the defendants as an al- ternative to facing trial and pos- sible long sentences on the crimi- nal syndicalism charges: Withdrawal of treason charges, agreement of John Adams and Jan Wittenber to accept one-year sen- tences on charges of conspiracy, agreement of Hutchins, Frank Prickett and Frank Panish to one- month sentences for breach of the peace and the parole of the re- maining nine on charges of break- ing the peace. The defendants voted unani- mously to reject the offer, which was made because increasing mass protest is beginning to make the prosecution’s chances of railroad- ing the fourteen to prison appear much slimmer. The spectators in the courtroom voted to send a telegram to Presi- dent Roosevelt expressing their support of the demands being formulated by the National Con- gress for Unemployment and So- ial Insurance Insurance (Special to the Daily Worker) 6-—— se WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 7— The National Congress for Unem- | ployment and Social Insurance to- | day sent the following statement to | Presicient Roosevelt, the Senate and | the House of Representatives: “Gentlemen :— “The prolonged and acute eco- | nomic crisis, now in its sixth year, has served to aggravate and extend the menace to the security of the Vast majority of the American population. “The welfare, homes and very ex- | istence of fully eighty per cent of the population are immediately and directly affected and under severe attack. More then one-sixth of the population of the United States— over 20,000,000 men, women and children have been reduced to a mere animal basis of existence— such as is provided by the relief agencies upon which they are de- pendent; many more millions of unemployed and disempleyed are | without even such relief as is pro- vided thost who manage to find a place on the relief rolls. Even those who hold a full time job are stead- ' tions, church, veteran, youth, women normal earning power due to social | and House of Representatives,” | unemployed. | ily reduced to the intolerable living | standards that prevail for the millions who have already been completely pauperized, while the} | millions on part time work live in | misery end hunger, along with the | Cites Lack of Security “The lack of social security, the denial of unemployment relief and social insurance, of old age pen- sions, maternity welfare. industrial eccident or sickness, and the need to organize and fight against the conditions and situation which ex- ists today for the majority of the Population of the country—the workers, farmers, Negro people, young workers, professionals, vet- erans, etc., has resulted in our com- ing to Washington to the Congress for Unemployment and Social In- surance, } “This congress of workers, farm- | ers, professionals, etc., gathered rep- resentatives and delegates from throughout the United States, from | nity. a wide category of organizations of trace unions, fraternal organize- | Congress Demands U. Ss. ‘Act on Bill and social service organizations, to | the extent of 2,280 delegates. The congress gathered to formulate a program to organize and fight for compensation from the government for all who are willing but unable | to work because of unemployment, old age, industrial accident or sick- {ness and during period of mater- Our aim is to establish by or- | ganization and collective effort se- curity from the devastating. condi- tion which now exists in the United | States for the majority of the pop- ulation. Announce Broad Campaign “Our Congress, after three days’ work, formulated a program to do verything within ovr power for |such sccial security and compensa- | Hon. Our Congress took steps to| |prevent exe further debasement of the living standards as well as the interruption of, necessary income for the great masses. Our decisions aim at establishing a greater pro- tection against poverty, want insecurity for the masses, whose livelihood depends upon wages, sal- | aries, self-employment, for loss of RULING OF U.S. COURT STAYS THE EXECUTION OF NORRIS, PATTERSON NOT A PENNY FOR JOBLESS. INSURANCE _War and “Navy Items) | Up $235,370,174 Over Last Year |Partial Victory Smashes Disruptive Efforts of Leibowitz Clique — I. L. D. Urgently Calls for Funds to Continue Fight By Seymour Waldman (Daily Worker Washington Burean) | WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 7.— Translated into the cold figures of | President Roosevelt's budget mes- | | sage for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1936, the “new order of things” [5 proposed in his Friday opening WASHINGTON, Jan. 7.—The unflinching fight of the International Labor Defense to win the liberation of the Scottsboro boys today brought another victory when the United States Supreme Court announced that it would y grant a review of the death verdicts in the cases of Clar- maternity °F) ence Norris and Haywood Patterson. The announcement of review automatically stays the execution of the two innocent Negro boys condemned to die in the electric chair on Feb, 8. speech to the Seventy-fourth Con- gress means not one penny for un-} employment, oid age, sickness insurance, but rather an- other billion dollar war preparations program. |. Illustrating what he meant last Friday when he said he would seek Satie ee arr eat Ree The fight of the I. L. D., through its organization of | “desire for change” through “tested . z g % | liberal traditions.” the President} one of the greatest campaigns of world protest in histor presented a budget message to Con-| hacked by the brilliant and resourceful work of its attor- and | gress today which scheduled a mini- mum of $802,107,158 for the War | and Navy Departments, an increase | | of $235,370,174 over the 1934 regular | appropriations —the principal in-| crease in the budget. An increase of $320,000 was given to the Bureau of | Investigation of the Department of | Justice, one of the most important | functions of which is to hound the foreign-born worker, assist in the breaking of strikes and spy upon) the revolutionary working class} | movement. “More Abundant Life” Roosevelt's conception of his oft- repeated intention to provide all of the people with “a more abundant | | life” is graphically reflected by an increase of only $28,780 “for expan- | sion of the work pertaining to child lar and maternal health, child and industria! conditions affe children, and dependent, neglected, | physically handicapped, and men-/} tally defective children, in co-opera- | tion with State and local welfare | organizations.” The Women’s Bu- reau of the Department of Labor is granted an increase of only $14,420. Frances Perkins, the $12,000 a year| Secretary of Labor, however, is helped to “the more abundant life” by an allowance of $3,500 for the replacement of her limousine. In brief, what Roosevelt's New| Deal government means by “security | against the major hazards and vi-| cissitudes of life” for all the peop!e} is legislation which proposes to sad- dle the workers, poor farmers and the salaried classes with the basic | anti-labor program of the dominant bankers and industrialists who | sponsored the fascist-smudged N. | R. A., and who were the prime mov- ers in the recently initiated admini- | stration-big business wage-cutting drive. Deficit Cut | The new budget, which amounts to $8,520,413.608, as ageinst $8,581,- 069,026 for 1935, presents an esti-| mated deficit for 1936 totalling! $4,528,508,970, as compared with $4,869,418,338 for 1955, or a drop of | $340,909,368, “On Dec, 26, 1934, the! hazard over which the individual has no control. Our Congress en- dorsed the Workers’ Unemployment and Social Insurance Bill (H. R.| 2827) now before the Congress of | the United States and decided upon |@ nation-wide campaign to demand enactment of H. R. 2827 which em- bodies the aims and general de- | mands of our Congress and which | Provides the maximum assurance of | | partial security possible under and | within the existing social sys! 2 “Therefore, we, the represznta- tives of the organizations from the | respective Congressional districts (demand from the representative in| Congress of each of these districts the following: “That you support H. R. 2827 in the Seventy-fourth Congress and | engage in the struggle for the im-| mediate enactment of this bill in preference to all counterfeit ‘Social | Security’ proposals which now may | |be pending; that you secure House | |and Senete hearings on H. R. 2827) and related measures; and assist |in securing discharge of H. R. 2827 from committee and its immediate formal consideration by the Senate neys, thus blasts to pieces the slanderous attacks of Samuel Leibowitz and the groups he organized to attack the strategy of thekelDons “blundering.” 1 L. D. POLICY UPHELD Leibowitz, who deserted the case at its most erstial moment, had freely predicted that the Supreme Court would not agree to review the case because of the “blun- dering” of the I. L. D. attorneys. Today’s announcement by the Supreme Court confirms the correctness of the I. L. D. policy of legal defense supported the most powerful mass protest. Just at the moment when the I.L.D. was straining a to mobilize all possible support for the boys in the fight in the Supreme Court, Leibowitz left the case to organize a vicious assault on the ILL.D, with the purpose of driving the I.L.D. from the case and dis- integrating the mass defense. Stopping at no shady methods, which included misrepresentation to the boys themselves in jail, Leibowitz gave the presecution every opportunity to smash the efforts of the I.L.D. to win its appeal for a Supreme Court review. In the Patterson case, where, for example, the Southern Judge Callahan and Attorney-General Kn’ tempted to prevent the I.L.D. from making an appeal, Leibowitz } fied the Southern courts on the ground that the I.L.D. attorneys had “bungled” the case. It was with this slander that Leibowitz attempted to or- ganize a nation-wide effort to drive the I.L.D. from the case at the most crucial moment in its four year fight to liberate the innocent boys. by S energies JIM-CROW JURY BASIS The victory today reveals the utterly unscrupujous and vicious character of the Leibowitz attacks, and also shows how dangerous they are to the welfare of the Scottsboro boys. The review announcement wrested from the court by the I. L. D, is all the more significant in view of the fact that the basis of the LL.D, appeal was the direct charge that the jury convicting the boys had been chosen in the typical jim-crow manner of the southern landlords, to the complete exclusion of Negroes. The application and the brief for the writ of certiorari granted today were prepared by Osmond K. Fraenkel and Walter H. Pollak, noted constitutional attorneys, working under the direction of the L.L.D, | Today’s announcement vindicates the I. L. D. at another point here, since Liebowitz had been fuming at the I. L. D. appointment of these two noted constitutional lawyers to argue the case before the court in Leibowitz’s place because Leibowitz had never had any experience argu= ing before the Supreme Court. FUNDS NEEDED With the announcement by the Supreme Court, the national office of the International Labor Defens> rushed all preparations for the nec- essary legal papers and briefs for the coming appeal before the court, It issued an urgent call for funds to carry the fight forward now with the greatest speed, setting the sum of $6,000 as immediately necessary. Funds should be sent to the I. L. D. at 80 East Eleventh Street, New York City, Room 610. The victory won today in the U. S. Supreme Court was hailed by Anna Damon, aciing national secretary of the International Labor De- fense, with an appeal to all friends of the Scottsboro boys and the strug- gle for liberation of the Negro ptople to intensify the fight, to force reversal of the lynch-verdicts and complete freedom for the nine boys. “This partial victory is one step further on the road to freedom of the Scottsboro boys,” she said. “However, it does not mean that our fight is over. The big fight is only beginning now. That is the struggle to force the U. S. Supreme Court to reve the lynch-verdicts in these cases, and to force the freedom of all nine Scottsboro boys who have been imprisoned neariy four years on framed charges. VICTORY DEMONSTRATIONS “We must have no illusions in this case. The lives of these boys are in the hands of the Nezro and white toilers of America and the world, They alone can save their lives and force their freedom.” Anna Damon called for the brozdest organization of united front action to intensify the struggle to save the Scottsboro boys. Victory demonstrations in every part of the country to raise the fight for com- plete victory to a higher level were called for by the I. L, D. This will be the second time that the U. S. Supreme Court hears an appeal in the Patterson case. * In a decision handed down by the U. S. 1932, in the first appeal in the Patterson c: that “court of last illu- sions” ignored the fundement2! issues of deprivation of civil rights in the exclusion of Negroes from grand and petit juries in the case, as well as the question of the mob atmosphere in which the trial was held, and handed down a decision on a technicality which was, in effect, an in= struction to southern courts on how to conduci legal lynchings without interference from higher co ‘This first appeal was also handied by Walter H. Pollak, who is asso= ciated with Osmond K. Fraenkel in the present Supreme Court action, upreme Court on Nov. 7, ‘| | A