The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 9, 1935, Page 1

——K—K_K—**<K<*_—__——_S= oe Unite: Only 3 days left in which to send greetings for Baily Worker Anniversary. Districts: Order extra bundles of Special Edition now! ————— eee Vol. XH, Ne. 8 baad New York, N. under the Daily A Worker Act of March 8, 1878 NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 9, 1935 CENTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERMATIONAL ) Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at NATIONAE EDITION (Six Pages) —— Price 3 Cents 150 Ministers Denounce Hearst Anti- CONFERENCE IS ® PARLEY WILL Faulty Indictment Seen! FARLEY FIRED CAL SPREAD FIGHT 48 Hauptmann Loophole 25,000 FROM TO FREE BOYS Appeal of Scottshoro-| Herndon Committee | Urges Action The tremendous partial victory | Jersey ‘Justice’ Which Prison Provides Tech Off If He Is By ALLEN JOHNSON FLEMINGTON, N. J., Jan. Appeals will free Bruno Richard | ; Hauptmann is being tried charges | Transport Barons Got 8—|him with murder in the first de-| | Unless unforeseen developments | gree. To convict him, the State of | take place, the New Jersey Court of | New Jersey must prove either that Railroads Workers nicality To Let Nazi Convicted to the murder of the Lindbergh baby of the mass fight for the Scotts-! Hauptmann of the charge of mur-| was deliberate and premeditated, or boro boys, organized and lead by he; dering the International Labor Defense, Lindbergh baby, the forcing the U. S. Supreme Court tO} sources close to Attorney General | agree to review the death sentences | Wilentz’s office. of Clarence Norris and Haywood | Thus renowned Jersey “justice,” that the baby was It is under the latter charge, that of killing the chilld in the course of committing a burglary in Lind- Patterson, was followed yesterday| which permitted Wilentz to try to|bergh’s home, that Hauptmann is with a call issued by the National | Scottsboro-Herndon Action Com- mittee for a second Scottsboro conference to be held} protested against Feb. 3 at the Finnish Hall, 15 West 126th Street. The mass fight, backed by the | brilliant and resourceful work of the attorneys selected by the LL.D., has again proved its effectiveness, the National Scottsboro-Herndon Action Committee points out. The committee has called on all indi- viduals and organizations to rally in the second Scottsboro conference to further consolidate the united | front fight and to push forward that fight to final victory, with the re- | Langer, 5 Union organizer, who was slain by law, is not a felony, but a mis- committing ? | crime of modern times.” commit John Vetter, an unemployed | worker in Princeton, N. J., to an city-wide | insane asylum for life because he | Prosecutor Wilentz. the _ starvation | to find the murderers of Morris} Needle Trades Industrial | fur company gangsters in Newark, | will allow to go free the Nazi crimi- | nal who is on trial for his life for the “most atrocious Hauptmann will go free of the| capitalist intrigue, corruption and lease of the Scottsboro boys and | stupidity. | reversal of the chain gang sentence Angelo Herndon. The call TO NEGRO MEN, WOMEN AND CHILDREN AND ALL ORGANIZA TIONS OF THE NEGRO PEOPL TO ALL ORGANIZATIONS AND INDIVIDUALS WHO SEE THE NEED FOR IMMEDIATE ACTION TO SAVE THE LIVES OF THE SCOTTSBORO BOYS AND TO DEFEND THE RIGHTS OF THE NEGRO PEOPLE: On November 16th a stay of ex- ecution from December 7th, 1934 to February 8th, 1935, was ex- tended to Haywood Patterson and Clarence Norris, two of the Scotts- boro boys, by powerful mass pres- sure initiated by the International | Labor Defense and the National Scotisboro-Herndon Action Com- mittee, and supported by new sec- tions of workers and Negro people. Overcoming many obstacles, the | LL.D. succeeded in filing appiica- | tion for a writ of certiorari for | the review of the cases by the | U.S. Supreme Court. The cases | will be argued by Messrs. Osmond K. Fraenkel and Walter Pollak, LL.D. attorneys, on fundamental constitutional points involving the age-old policy of exciusion of Ne- groes from jury service and the attempt to deprive Patterson of the right of appeal. The state of Alabama, through Attorney-General Thomas E. Knight, Jr., denies the charge, a | charge which has been proved at all trials of the Scottsboro boys and which the prosecution, as- sisted by Judge Callahan, tried to remove at the last Decatur trial by forging the names of Negroes to the jury rolls. The prosecution also claims that the U. S. Supreme Court has no jurisdiction in the case. Innocence Established The innocence of these boys has been established beyond the shadow of a doubt but the ruling class is determined to carry threugh the electrocution “to teach Negroes a lesson.” This means that not only the lives of the seven other boys are en- dangered, but the political, eco- nomic and civii rights of the en- tire Negro nation are in jeopardy. It means that discrimination and | abuses against Negroes will con- tinue. The outrageous lynching of Claude Neal shows mounting bar- barity against Negroes. Conditions in the economic de- pression have unloosed tendencies — that threaten the destruction of ALL civil rights, of workers’ or- _ ganizations, and of all organiza- tions that fight for the rights of the Negro people. Only those who are blind can fail to see the growth of these attacks by the Dickstein Committee and the yel- low, jingoistic Hearst press, The reports on the number of lynchings that took place during 1934 vary. The report of the In- ternational Labor Defense shows 25, each of which has been care- fully itemized; the N.A.A.C.P. and Tuskegee Institute report 15 and 18, respectively. Unquestionably (Continued on Page 2) | sentation system of the company. | | their behalf. The indictment under which! Press Court Fight Against Poll WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 8.—| The election ordered by the Steel) Labor Relations Board in the Du- quesne, Pa., and McDonald, Ohio, | plants of the Carnegie Steel Corpor- | ation, was stalled yesterday when, | through its company union, the corporation took court action in) Philadelphia and Cincinnati Circuit | Courts of Appeals. The election was ordered asa means of determining if the steel | workers want to be represented by | the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers of the A. F. of L, or the employe repre- The action of the corporation to stall election plans was taken| through individuals who presented | themselves as representatives of the | members of the company union. These company agents argued that the Steel Labor Board should review | the case, contending that the com-/| pany representation plan was a) “democratic form for collective bar- | gaining,” and election of its repre- sentatives was “voluntary.” Charlton Ogburn, counsel for the | American Federation of Labor and the Amalgamated Association, dec- lared that members of the company | union have never authorized these so-called representatives to sue in| | “The employe representation plan | is not an organization of employes.” Mr. Ogburn stated. “Testimony in this case shows that the company | union has neither dues nor a treas- | ury, and that the fees of the attor-| ney representing it were paid by the Carnegie Steel Corporation.” | From all indications months will | foreign-born workers. Dozens haye| retary of Labor Perkins on behalf | furiously against the native workers | being held. But the facis, even as admitted by must prevent his conviction on the latter charge level of relief in Princeton, N. J.,| because Hauptmann did not com- three months ago, and which pre- vents Wilentz from lifting a finger Even if Wilentz proves that Haupt- mit a burglary in Lindbergh's home. mann did steal the baby, the steal- ing of a body, under New Jersey demeanor. The charge that Haupt- mann stole the baby’s night shirt, and therefore committed burglary, which must be committed in a home that was forcibly entered at night. Had Hauptmann been tried in bergh money he would unquestion- (Continued on Page 2) STEEL PLANT FIGHT URGED - VOTE HALTED FOR NEUMANN Company Union Agents Letter to Cachin Tells Of Torture and Plot Of the Nazis PARIS, Jan. 8.—Marcel Cachin, | leader of the French Communist arty, has received a letter from Heinz Neumann, for whom world- wide efforts are being made to pre- vent his extradiction to fascist Ger- many. In the letter, published in the French Party organ, L’Humanite, Neumann states: “The public prosecutor informs me that I am in custody for the purpose of being extradited to teh Hitler government for a “common crime.” Neither I nor the Commu- nist Party of Germany had any- thing to do with the murder with which I am charged... . Since I have been deprived of German citizenship as an ‘enemy of the state,’ the question comes under the juridical competence of the League of Nations. I am imprisoned here like a common criminal, and treated like a murderer. I am in fetters and |cut off from all contact with the outer world.” L’Humanite goes to to declare that everything possible must be done to save Neumann from extra- dition and therewith from death. It quotes in conclusion the follow- ing lines from the letter to Cachin: “If our friends protest energetically, the matter may be ended quickly. ... It is very urgent, I have been told that the xtradition is to take place in early January.” ~ MAIL SERVICE |Report Shows Wall St. Big Subsidies WASHINGTON, Jan. 8.—The an- |nual report of the United States accidentally | postmaster General, James A. Far- | in| Daily Worker learned today from| killed in the commission of a felony. | ley, Roosevelt’s political henchman, shows that the Federal Government | has fired 25,000 postal workers since the crisis began, has instituted the practice of cutting down weekly pay envelopes of the poorest paid sec- | tions of the postal employees through the spread-work plan, and, at the same time, continues to pay millions of dollars in subsidies to “inside” ocean and airline shipping compa- nies. To reduce expenses, the number of employees has been cut from | 254,956 in 1929 to 229,646 on June 30, 1934. Airlines Got 20,000,000 The government paid out $20,000,- 000 to airline companies. An in- vestigation begun in October, 1933, | murder charge’ because of a web of | New York for extortion Of the Lind-| revealed that the airmail contracts | had been procured through corrup- | ton, graft and fraud. | The report showed that while the Federal Government was cutting the income of its postal employees to reduce expenses, its subsidies to the Wall Street transport companies steadily increased. Ocean shipping companies got $28,692,000 in 1934, compared with grants of $25,228,000 in 1933, and $21,666,000 in 1932. The airline companies, which are controlled indirectly through the firm of J. P. Morgan, received sub- sidies of almost $55,000,000 in the past three years, the report showed. | As a result of these huge grants to private companies, the postal serv- ice showed a gross operating deficit of $54,961,000 which Farley attempts | to hide with a juggling of figures. i Cost People 75 Million The report shows that the in- | crease of mailing letters from two to |three cents has cost the people | $75,000,000 in one year, an amount | which could have been saved by | stopping the subsidies to the private | ' companies. ‘As part of the Roosevelt “econ- omy” program, the service of 2.912 rural free delivery routes was dis- |continued bringing discomfort and hardship to thousands of rural | families. | Following the present practice of granting large subsidies to ocean |shipping companies for carrying | small bags of mail, in order to keep the merchant marine in good shape for war purposes, Farley’s report | States, “It is assumed that the gov- ernment’s policy of giving financial aid to the domestic air-transport CHAIN STORE STRIKE LOOMS CLEVELAND, Ohio, Jan. 8—After two weeks of negotiations between | representatives of the Retail Clerks International Protective Association. and the Krozer Bakery and Grocery | Company no ezreement was reached, it was announced here, and a strike ‘may develop. | and American companies operating | foreign transport will be con- tinued. . . .” LED 0 ry | RESOLUTION | AGAINST CP. Chicago Workers Win Victory Against the Hearst Forces In @ vigorous resolution 150 min- \isters of the Methodist church have denounced the virulent “anti-Red” campaign now being carried on by William Randoph Hearst and his |chain of newspapers. The ministers especially de- nounced proposals to suppress the | Communist press and the re-estab- | lishment of a secret service section | in the Department of Justice aimed | at militant labor. The resolution was adopted with- | out a single dissenting vote at a! |recent meeting of the New York | Weekly Preachers’ Meeting held at | |the offices of the Methodist Fed- jeration for Social Service,’ 150] Fifth Ave., New York City. | The ministers, as spokesmen for | thousands of parishioners in New} York and New Jersey, were out- | spoken in their denunication of Hearst's “campaign of terrorism against teachers in American col- leges, universities, schools and |even private schools.” The resolu- tion declared that “this terrorism is particularly vicious and insidious | because it masquerades under the! | guise of pretended patriotism and because it is aimed not only at col- lege teachers but at the very spirit and practise of free inquiry, dis- cussion and teaching. whether in the school or the church.” The resolution hailed the recent, protest against the Hearst “anti- | Red” drive by fifty leading educa- tors, and declared: | “Whereas, proposals have been made to the Congressional Com- | mittee Investigating Un-American Activities to enact a federal sedi- | (Continued on Page 2) Ellen Wilkinson Talks Tonight at Mass Rally For Saar Liberty Front Ellen Wilkinson, who has recently | arrived in this country, will address a huge mass rally tonight in sup- port of the anti-fascist Liberty Front in the Saar at the Central | Opera House, 205 East 67th Street. In addition to the noted British labor leader, other speakers will | include Rev. Eugene Shrigley of | the Methodist Church of Richmond | Hill; Roger Baldwin of the Amer- ican League Against War and Fas- | cism; M. J. Olgin of the Peoples Committee Against Fascism and | Pogroms; and Walter Schoenstedt, | who is in this country representing | the Liberty Front of the Saar. The Executive Committee of the International Workers Order in a | statement endorsing the meeting | called upon all of its members to attend. Many other groups have endorsed the rally. Oswald Garrison Villard, editor of | | The Nation, and F. K. Radcliffe, leade: in the Independent Labor | Party of England, will also speak at | the meeting. : COUNCILS GET HUNGER MARCH PLAN Red Campaign COTTSBORO A miter Opens Nati onal Pa rley Be Socialists at the Congress Sign Statement Back- ing Its Aims njamin By Carl Reeve (Daily Worker Staff Correspondent) WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 8.— A great, advance in broadening the united front of all workers, farmers, professionals in the fight for real unemployment insurance and relief and the fight for the Workers’ Un- employment Insurance Bill H. R. 2827, was emphasized by Herbert Benjamin in his speech closing the National Congress for Unemploy- ment Insurance. This decided step forward was seen throughout the Congress in the e delegation of 661 A. F.of L, mem- | bers who were delegates, in the more than 50 Socialist Party mem- bers who were delegates, in the large delegation of several hundred professionals, and above all in tte Spirit of unity on a fighting program which permeated the Congress from beginning to end. In spite of the fact that Norman Thomas was unable to take part in the Congress because of other en- gagements, in spite of the right wing Socialist Party leaders’ attack: on the united front, 27 Socialist Party members who were delegates or guests signed a _ declaration Pledging support to the purposes of the Congress, and declaring. "we be- lieve that this Congress contains the basis for a broad united front of all workers and farmers.” Other Socialist Party members sent in their names to be added to the statement as the Congress proceed- ed. The statement of the Socialist Party members declared: Socialist Members’ Statement “We, delegates to the National Congress for Unemployment and Social Insurance, representing either Socialist locals, districts or committees, or unemployed or other organizations, or as visitors to the Congress. want to go on record as endorsing the program of the Con- gress. “We pledge our support to carry out the prineiples and actions pro- posed by the National Congress for Unemployment and Social Insur- ance, to work in our respective lo- cals and organizations for the adoption of the bill, and for the Success of the work started by this congress. “We believe that this congress contains the basis for a broad front of all workers and farmers. “(Signed) Broadus Mitchell, Bal- timore Md.; Leslie A. Richards, State executive committee, Massa- chusetts; F. H. Maxfield, State sec- retary, Maine; E. P. Ormsbee, State committee, Rhode Island; George Barber, Somerville, Mass.; Milton D.C.; Pogoerlskin, Washington, neigh, Denver, Colo.; Howard Car- wile, Washington, D. C.; Charles F. Morrisey Camden, N. J.; Spencer (Continued om Page 2) Foster Appeals for Defense of F oreign-Born A drive is in full progress against | This is an admitted policy of Sec- pass before court action will be com- | been deported since the San F:an-|of the Roosevelt administration— pleted. In the meantime Mike) Tighe. president of the A.A.. and) William Green, try to keep the steel. workers from militant action with | | the idea that every step in the end- | less legal red tape must be com- | plied with. Reports of steel produc- tion show a rapid increase spurred | by demands from the automobile | manufacturers, in the race to com- plete orders for the season and who! hope that strike action by the work- ers will be held back long enough. However the organizational drive| in the industry, pushed by the ac- tive live wires in the union, is go- ing forward with full speed. A call for a mass rank and file conference of steel workers on Feb. 3 will go out next week and it is expected to mark the high-water mark in the advance towards a struggle to es- tablish the A.A. in the industry, cisco General Strike. Hundreds are threatened with deportation, Tie bosses have learned to respect and fear the unity of the working-class, particularly since the great strike wave of 1934 when, as in the West Coast general strike, native and for- eign born, white and Negro work- ers fought shoulder to shoulder against the bosses. The ruling class has decided it must smash this unity. It has begun its drive. It is out to split the working class four ways: native from foreign born, white from Negro. The great drive against the work- ing class has started with the for- eign born. A. W. Mills, district organizer of the Communist Party in Philadelphia, heads the list of deportees; they include Ujich, Carl- son, Mannisto and many other leaders of the working class, a means of getting rid of “foreign agitators.” It is part of the cap- italist drive upon the masses of this country. Upon examination labor's casualty lis‘ — wherever ing their right to live — we find names of the foreign born together | with native Americans heading the | list. The lynch squads against the Negro workers move practically si- multaneously with the deportation squads. The anti-Red propaganda filling the pages of the capitalist press these days with the purpose of outawing the militant labor or- ganizations headed by the Commu- nist Party, never fails to prominen ly mention “the foreign agitato:: Workers must be on guard. The capitalist offensive is heaviest against the foreign born at the moment. If they succeed on that By WILLIAM Z. FOSTER of | workers are shot down for defend- | "| slashed to date—to speed workers front, the drive will proceed more , —Negro and white. The attack is not only against the Hungarian, | mn, Polish, Slovakian, Jewish | | or other workers who emigrated to the U.S. A. It is against all work- j ers—all who built the economic sys- | tem here into the most powerful of the world. Let no worker fool himself by be- | lieving that the attack on the for- eigner is no concern of his. These | “foreigners” are as much the flesh | and blood of the American working class as the native born. The ter- |ror against them aims at weakening |the labor front as a whole. Roose- velt does the bidding of the big | bosses who are out to slash wages even more than they have been up at even a more inhuman pace. | He hopes to succeed by cowing the foreign born with threats of de- portation to the dungeons of Hitler, Mussolini, Pilsudski or the bloody Balkan dictators. With the front of labor broken, its forces divided, with the foreign born workers lashed into submission, the bosses know it will be easier to force the native born to accept the same wage cuts and the same exploita- tion. The strength of the working class is in its nity. The deportation drive aims to smash that unity This must never succeed. The workers must strengthen their united front—native, foreign born, black, white. A unified struggle must be initi- of innocent foreign born workers by the government. The cause of the foreign born workers must become the cause of the entire working class. More than that: every hon- (Continued on Page 2) PROGRAM SET Connery and Long Give Endorsements To Workers’ Bill WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 8. —Representative William P, Con- nery, chairman of the House Committee on Labor, the legisle- tive committee which last year refused to vote the Workers’ Bill H. R. 7598 out of committee and onto the floor of the House for vote, yesterday endorsed the Workers’ Unemployment, Old Age and Social Insurance Act H. R 2827. Senator Huey P. Long of Loui- siana also endorsed the Workers’ Bill by giving his endorsement to the whole of the veterans three-point program: The Work- ers’ Bill, the immediate payment of the bonus and the repeal of the Roosevelt National Economy Act, which has slashed the pay- ments to the disabled veterans BY COUNCILS National Convention of Unemployment Councils Opens in Capital (Special to the Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, Jan. 8. program of the fourth national convention of the National Unem- ployment Council which opened here today declares that the cen- tral issue before the whole working class, industrial, white collar and professional, is the demand for unemployment and social insurance But as the initiators of the na- tionwide struggle for the enact- ment of Workers Unemployment and Social Insurance H. R. 2827 (formerly H. R. 7598) in the last session of the United States Con- gress, and as the guiding force be- hind the historic National Congress for Unemployment Insurance, the Council declares in its program that social and unemployment insurance is not the solution for the capital- ist crisis or the problems confront- ing the working masses. As a central task, the Councils set for themselves the job of mobi- lizing the masses for militant struggle against all opposition to the Workers’ Bill, be it on the part of the bankers, the Federal admin- istration, the leadership of the American Federation of Labor, the Socialist Party, or of any reformist or reactionary organization. Reviews Congress On this score the Council con- vention reports reviewed the work of the mighty Unemployment In- surance Congress which has just closed its sessions here. Numbered among the delegates were 616 from the locals of the American Federa- tion of Labor, 307 of whom were , elected directly by local unions and central than fifty delegates from the branches of the Socialist Party. The Council program declares, moreover, that unemployment and | social insurance is no solution for | ated against the criminal treatment | the crisis or the problems con- fronting the masses under cap- italism; but considers it necessary for every worker to have at least this measure of protection under the present system. “We are not responsible for the crisis,” the pro- gram declares. “We demand the right to live and earn a 1 i. This demand we will fight for.” The program reviews the govern- ment relief policies in the sixth winter of crisis and in the face of rising unemployment and destitu- tion. “Today destitution faces the toiling population,” the program states. “Not only the industrial workers, but the white collar and professional workers, the poor farmers and the masses of Negroes | suffer from the ‘New Deal’ with all its promises and pledges to the toiling population.” ~The | labor councils and more | SCORES PLOT Of Militant Unemployed Group; Stresses Unity Gains Day to Day Struggles to Unite All Jobless Stressed in Report By Howard Boldt (Daily Worker Staff Correspondent) WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 8.—"“A national mass hunger march, such as was called for yesterday at the National Congress for Unemploy« ment Insurance i: le only if we build now for the success of this march by work in the localities, in and in the states,” Israel national secs retary, declared today in the con- clusion of the main report to the fourth national convention of the National Unemployment Councils, which opened here today In his report, which took cogni+ zance of the struggles of the past year, the immediate perspective and future work and the relief slashing policy of the Roosev gime, Am= ter reviewed’ the mighty work of the Unemployment Insurance Congress, which closed here yesterday. Millions Destitute “This congress was t itself,” Amter said, it must mean the taking stock of all our work in the past and in the future.” On the matter of social insurance, Amter cited the government figures that 5,300.009 families in the United States have no savings—nothing laid aside in case of illness. “For the aged laws have been states,” Amter n end in bi various enacted “But on what do we find? nsion plan provides erage of $7.69 cents a@ month. Compare this with the figures for maintaining these aged in the Colorado poor houses at $47 a month. New Vork, likewise, has a Pension law, and th again, the pension paid is far lower than the cost of maintaining these same peo- pension in some sa amining these ple in the state poor hou “Roo: Amter continued, d that ‘I stand or fall 1 to accept for the fu- anding army of the un- employed.’ But what do we find? The miners who are here know that there are in the United States to- day 300,000 miners who will never again get a job in the mines. Ra= tionalization of industry continues, In the chemical industries, and here I again present government figures, in the past four month pe- riod, while production was up 27 per cent, yet there was no increase in the number of workers and no appreciable increase in wages paid. Relief Graft “Yesterday a delegate from Ken= tucky showed me an official relief report that showed that for $1,218 actually given. out as relief. the ad= ministration costs were more than $6,000. How much graft there is in the relief we do not know.” Amter pointed out that the P.W.A, employed only 620.000 in the peak month, according to official ficures at an average wage of about $50 a month for all workers, skilled build- ing mechanics, foremen and all. This same P.W.A. in the last fourteen months, paid only $226,000,000 in wages and spent $509,000,000 million for materials—airplanes and war preparations. He continued by work of the c spectives for outlined in the draft Mitted to the delegates—the strugs gies against cutting any workers from the relief rolls, evictions, casi relief, and azainst the militaristic C.C.C. camps and the rezimentation of the transients and single workers, “Evictions are now taking place. in some sections,” Amter said, “and in others they are just beginning. We musi org2nize, not just to put the furniture back into the houses sevelt,” reviewing thé | after eviction, but we must prevent the furniture from houses. Not one must be removed.” Organized Mass Action Organization in the C.C.C. control by committees elected by the boys themselves, the picketing of the leaving the ick of furniture “In the face of this situation, the | large chain stores against increased (Continuca on Page 2) | est, freedom-loving person, whether | Roosevelt government, by decree. | cost of living and the fight for union (Continued on Page 2) hy