The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 11, 1935, Page 1

» “iting the United States, will make On January 7, the United States Supreme Court handed down a decision to hear the appeal in the cases of Haywood Patterson and Clarence Norris. This is a great victory for the working class and the Negro people, led in this struggle by the Communist Party and the International Labor Defense, in the Air Mail Greetings and Organizations Daily Worker from Individuals for the Special Anniversary Edition! Vol. XII, No. 10 Ss fight for the freedom of the Scottsboro boys, Angelo Herndon, and Tom Mooney, whose cases are now be- fore this court. Only the power of the working class could have forced this decision. The importance of victory in the Scottsboro case, in the Angelo Herndon case, and the Tom Mooney case, all three of which are now before the Supreme Court, to the working class and the Negro liberation movement, and especially to the trade unionists and the rest of organized labor, phasized,. can scarcely be over-em- raised TRADE UNIONISTS! BACK SCOTTSBORO, HERNDON, MOONEY FIGHT! By WILLIAM Z. FOSTER $14,560.20 since July 9, 1934, on the Scotts- boro-Herndon campaign, and spent much more, is I urge every trade unionist, every member of or- ganized labor, to join in the fight for these victories, to bring up the question of these cases in his union local, in his mass organization, and to secure the passage of resolutions addressed to the U.S. Supreme Court demanding the freedom of these victims. The International Labor Defense, which has Daily .Q Worker CENTRAL ORGAM COMMUMIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERNATIONA! ) Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., under the Act of March 8, 1878 NEW YORK, FRIDAY » JANUARY 11, 1935 need. now faced with the need of 510.000 to carry on the appeals and campaign. It is essential that this amount be collected before March 1. the Scottsboro boys to rush funds immediately to the national office of the I. L. D., Eleventh Street, New York City, to meet this urgent I urge ail friends of Room 610, 80 East NATIONAL EDITION (Six Pages) Price 3 Cents F.D.R. PLANS NEW TAXES ON MASSES ITALIAN TROOPS AT AUSTRIA’S BORDER STATE OF ALARM SEEN ~— INVIENNA A EUROPEAN WAR-CRISI Hitler’s Plan to Seize Saar and Austria Fans Military Flames VIENNA, Jan. 10.—Massing of Italian troops on the Austrian bor- der proceeded swiftly this after- noon as Italian fascism tensed to the possible devastating conse- quences of the impending Saar plebiscite on Sunday, fully expect- ing that Hitler's Nazi troops will spread into a two-front invasion— into Austria as well as into the Saar. A state of alarm was declared throughout Austria for police and auxiliary forces, while the danger- ously balanced peace of Burope was tipped by the desperate ambition of German industrialists and their puppet Hitler to seize jointly Aus- tria and the Saar. Hundreds of known German Nazis and their sympathizers were arrested in Tyrol province, adjoining the German frontier, and all demonstrations | were forbidden on pain of severe Punishment. Duplicating his fear of Austro- | German unity after the assassina- tion of Dollfuss last summer, Mus- solini today ordered military move- ments which threatened to bring on an even more acute war-crisis. Un- der the pretense of winter maneu- vers, it was learned, Italian garri- sons from the entire Verona district have been concentrated along the Brenner-Brixen border line. Fas- cist militia, formerly stationed there, have been withdrawn and replaced by regular soldiers. The Italian | army corps at Bolzano is so close to the Austrian frontier that it could push across it in a few hours. At Linz, an Austrian town 50 miles from German territory, 80 trucks filled with armed men were seen rumbling by. The government here is re-echoing the fear of the | Austrian bourgeoisie, who have, every reason to oppose, anschluss | with Germany, that Nazis now ex- | fled in Germany will attempt an | invasion after the Jan. 13 vote in| the Saar. Crop Destruction Plan Envisaged for France By Commerce Minister PARIS, Jan. 10.—Plans for the wholesale destruction of produced goods in admitted imitation of Roosevelt's profiteering “crop re- duction” scheme were envisaged to- day by Paul Marchandeau, Minis- ter of Commerce. The practices of Mussolini, Marchandeau confessed, had contributed not a little to his ideas. Under this project industry would institute its own wage-cutting speed-up “codes.” “I made a trip to the United States last summer,” the Minister said, “and brought back | much valuable information on Pres- | ident Roosevelt's program for com- batting the crisis.” Anna Louise Strong | Speaks Here Tonight Anna Louise Strong, associate ed- itor of the Moscow Daily News, au- thor and lecturer, longest American resident in the U. S. S. R., now vis- her. last public appearance in New | york City tonight at a lecture on) “Dictatorship and Democracy in -the Soviet Union” at Premier Pal- ace, 505 Sutter Avenue, Brooklyn. The lecture is scheduled to start at 8 o'clock sharp. Admission 25 cents. The lecture is sponsored by the Friends of the Soviet Union and HARPENS ILL.D. Sends Wire To Supreme Court To Release Mooney The following telegram was sent yesterday to the U. S. Su- preme Court by the Interna- tional Labor Defense, which, it has been announced, will prob- ably hand down its decision Mon- day on the writ of habeas corpus for Tom Mooney: “U. S. SUPREME COURT “WASHINGTON, D. C. “THE INTERNATIONAL LA= BOR DEFENSE, WITH TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND MEM- BERS AND AFFILIATES, DE- MANDS IMMEDIATE DECI- SION IN WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS BROUGHT BEFORE YOU BY TOM MOONEY FOR HIS IMMEDIATE UNCONDI- TIONAL RELEASE FROM SAN QUENTIN, WHERE HE HAS BEEN BURIED ALIVE EIGHT- EEN YEARS BECAUSE OF HIS MILITANT LABOR ACTIVITY. “Anna Damon “International Labor Defense.” 3 MORE HELD BY MILITIA 29 Are u Incarcerated | In Detention Camp in Atlanta CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., Jen. 10. —Col. L. C. Pope, in command of the 350 National Guardsmen at the} Richmond Hosiery Mill in Ross- ville, announced yesterday that three “radical agitators” were ar- rested, and will join 26 already sent to the Atlanta Camp. At a mass meeting of more than 500 at the Rossville Arena, strikers decided to continue their struggle despite martial law. Four hosiery mills, all units of the Richmond Hosiery Company re- main tied up, with more than a thousand workers involved. In a (Continued on Page 2) Detention | RURAL GROUPS |Repeal of A.A.A. Urged in Program—Real | Relief Demanded By Howard Boldt Daily Worker Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 10.— Two achievements, each signalizing the growing demand for unity upon the part of the working population, stand out above all others at the first national conference of agricul- tural workers, which ended a two- day session here yesterday. First of these was the bringing together of the delegates from thirty-ei ganizations, most of whi labor groups. The other, the ing of a united front pact bet the two principal organizations of the tenant and sharecropp2: the Southern Tenant Farmers Union of Arkansas, Oklahoma and Missouri, and the Sharecroppers’ Union of Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee and North Carolina. of both groups. The pact, a program of united | action, “pledges the efforts of our organizations to further the carry- ing out of united action for the following purposes: Pian of Action “I—To secure the repeal of the AA.A. and the Bankhead Act and the enactment of the Farmers Emergency Relief Bill, “2—To wage a common struggle against the evictions of sharecrop- pers, tenants and other workers from the land. “3—Common defense actions | egainst the violations of our rights to organize and bargain collectively, to strike, to picket and of our rights of free speech and free assemlage. “4—To fight unitedly against the widespread discrimination used by the white landlords and | agents against the Negroes, “5—To effect these purposes of united action, we agree to form a unity. committee of our organiza- tions and to make arrangements for holding a united conference to ad- yance still further our common struggles, “6—To united our efforts to se- | cure more adequate relief, to stop the use of relief agencies and pol- icies to force our conditions still lower, ann to secure the enactment (Continued on Page 2) Jewish Daily Bulletin Staff Strikes for Full Salaries The entire staff of the Jewish Daily Bulletin walked out yester- day in the first strike of editorial workers in Manhattan newspaper history. Thirteen persons are in- volved. All are members of the American Newspaper Guild. The strike was called as a result of the failure of the publishers to pay full salaries to the editorial em- ployees for months. Payments of full salaries each week and the res- titution of back wages due the staff, amounting to $1,360, are the de- mands of the strikers, Pickets patrolled the Bulletin plant at 222 Center St. yesterday, while other sections of the strike machinery were set into motion, Ne- gotiations with the Peretz Verein, the organization of Yiddish edito- rial workers, are being held, with the objective of striking the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, owned by the publisher of the Bulletin, Jacob Landau. Particular importance is attached to the latter question by the strik- ers since the wire service is ad- th> Crown Heights Professional Al- liance, mitedly a profitable enterprise, while the Bulletin is reportedly los- “4 ing money. Efforts by the management to de- | feat the strike were seen by strikers in the announcement by Victor M. Bienstock, managing editor, of the and the- meeting of all of the de- mands of the agency writers, organ- ized in the Peretz Verein. Their demands were met by Mr. Landau in the hope that the agency writ- thy with the Bulletin, strikers said. Legal action to compel the pub- lishers to make restitution of the | back salaries has already been tak- en, Chairman Joseph Weiner of the Bulletin chapter of the Guild, an- |nounced yesterday. A subpoena | from the State Department of La- bor has been served on Mr. Landau, Mr. Weiner said. Mr. Landau is to appear in court at 2 p.m. today. | Temporary strike headauarters were set up at one block from the Bulletin office at the Doll and Toy Workers Union, 161 Lafayette St. Support of the walkout was voted Wednesday night by the Represen- tative Assembly of the Newspaper Guild. their | Aged Lecturer Gives Confused Testimony Under Cross-Examination But Says Ransom Taker Said He Was Go-Between By ALLEN JOHNSON FLEMINGTON, N. J., Jan. 10 In the most.sensational proceedin, thus far recorded in the trial here of Bruno Richard Hauptmann, for the kidnaping and murder of the Lindbergh baby, Dr. John S, (Jafsie) Condon, a doddering old lecturer on Catholicism, yesterday admitted on the witness stand that “John”, whom he identified, as Hauptmann, told him that he was only a go-be- tween for the real kidnaners of the millionaire Lindbergh's child, Reilly, Hauptmann’s chief de- fense attorney, also forced Attorney General Wilentz, to admit that he had withdrawn from the records of the New York Public Library, a slip signed by a “Dr. J. Condon,” for a book on signs that Dr. Condon had read. Reilly forced this admission from Wilentz a few minutes after Dr. Condon had stated under sharp ¢ross-examination, that he had | never withdrawn a book from a New | could have been taken from the bock withdrawn by “Dr. Condon.” “ARE OUSTED 28 More Youths Fired | Raise ‘Red Scare’ | WEST ORANGE, N. J., Jan. 10.— | Fear of another strike against the intolerable conditions in te Civil- ian Conservation Camp 1281, here resulted in the discharge yesterday of twenty-eight more of the young workers who were active in the walkout that took place Tuesday. the youth had already been sum- marily discharged Tuesday, but because the men still were in a mood to carry on the struggle the officers in charge of the camp in- stituted a system of reprisals dis- charging more of the strikers and setting up the curfew hour to 19 o'clock. One of the demands raised | was the abolition of the 11 o'clock curfew. The usual “Red” scare was raised Fourteen of the most militant of | ang Condon — identified Hauptmann three times yesterday as the “John” he had given the $50,900 ransom money to, although he had always | refused to identify Hauptmann be- |fore on the ground that he wasn’t certain Hauptmann wes the man When the Bronx Grand Jury was hearing evidence on New Jersey's request for the extradition of Hauptmann, the nolice did not call Condon as a witness to identify Hauptmann, because the Bronx school teacher and lecturer had re- | fused point-blank to identify Haupt- mann at the Greenwich Street Po- lice Station in New York, when he was arrested. | The incoherent language of the | Catholic theologian was frequently |so far afield from the questions raised while he was on the stand, that even Wilentz had to caution | him not to wander. It was thus easier for Reilly to involve Condon in frequent contradictions, the na- This united | York public library. The point has/ture of which serves only to add front pact, however, is still sudject | relation to the ransom notes, both | more confusion to the entire case, to ratification by the membership/| of which bore curious symbols that and to indicate that several were | (Continued on Page 2) CCG STRIKERS POLICE HOLD 102 PICKETS Strikers Prevent Scabs cotton from Camps—Officers from Entering Majestic Plant Despite Arrests | | | A total of 102 workers were ar- rested yesterday, when the police broke up the mass picket line of the striking employees of the Ma- jestic Metal Specialties Inc. 200 Varick Street. The 400 workers employed by the company are in the third week of _a strike under the leadership of | the Metal Novelty Local 303, Steel Metal Workers Industrial Union. The mass arrests, which filled |seven police wagons, clearly dicated to what lengths the police will go in cooperating with morale of the strikers, In spite of the wholesale arrest. |the ranks of the strikers remain solid in thei: determination ‘ carry on to victory, in- | the | boss in his attempts to break the to immediate suspension of the paper | |ers would not walk out in sympa-_ by Captain Tobin who «sued a} Among those arrested yesterday statement declaring that everything were Phillip Gruyer, chairman of was fust like one big happy family the strike committee, and James until Communists entered the camp | Lustig, organizer of the Silver Hol- and “tried to stir up trouble.” The | loware Local 302 of the union, which attitude of the young workers since is closely cooperating with the | the strike however indicates that strikers. | they are not impressed by such lies) The pickets arrested by the police jand that they are ready to carry from the Sixth precinct, 135 Charles on the struggle for decent condi- Street, were taken to the Second tions, Brooklyn Rally Tonight Wednesday came up in the same Will Arouse Workers court late that day, The court was jammed by close'to 200 strikers and | for Saar Status Quo sympathizers. Although the court | : | was cleared when the workers were New York workers will join in a moved to laughter over the faxe spirited demonstration against fas-|stozies related by the police, the cism and for the Status Quo in the| court was forced to dismiss the! Saar tonight under the Aeadership | cases and release the pickets under of the United Action Committee of the pressure of the workers present. Ridgewood, Queens, at the Brook-| “None of the methods employed lyn Labor Lyceum, 949 Willoughby by the management, with the full Avenue. | cooperation of the New York Police | 1 Amter, representing the Department,” Irving Levit, organ- | beens Party; feted Gott | izer of Local 303 and leader of the lieb, of the Socialist Party; Dr. Har-| strike said, “will weaken our ranks. ry F, Ward, of the American League The militancy of the strikers and Against War and Fascism will join| the excellent spirit of solidarity dis- | in exposing the murderous maneu- | played by the workers in all the | vers of the Hitler forces in the Saar. locals of our union and other labor Nathan Frankel, attorney, will | organizations like the Downtown speak at a membership meeting of | Unemploymen: Council, Section One the allied professionals of the Anti- of the Communist Party and others | ordely conduct. 168 West 23d Street. i win,” | District Court on the charge of dis- | FARM PARLEY Condon Evidence Shows KELLER LIES‘ UNITES MANY More Linked to Case |N DESPERATE BID FOR VOTES Losing Paterson Clique Ignores Real Issues, Slanders Militants PATERSON, N. J., Jan. 10.—See- ing themselves doomed to defeat in the election of officers in the plain goods department of the American Federation of Silk Workers fatur- day, the Lovestonite officials of the union have issued a statement to the membership filled with lies and distortions on the role of the rank andfile in the union and give full Support to the expulsion policy of William Green, Their statement entitled “Save the Union” is signed by the “ pro- gressive” group, which combines the Keller group of Lovestone and agents of the Jewish Daily Forward, organ of the right wing of the So- cialist Party, in the union. Among the lies is the charge that the rank and file movement in the locals is out to destroy the unions, and that this is the object of the former members of the National Textile Workers Union which was merged with U. T. W. locals. Following the Hearst example the leaflet makes the sensational charge that the “or- ders from Moscow” are to destroy the unions, Distorted Quotation The charge is based on a dis- torted quotation from a speech by A. Losovsky, President of the Red International of Trade Unions, made in 1931, in which he is alleged to have declared that the object of the Supporters of the Red International in the reformist unions is to disrupt them and destroy their discipline. On that basis they raise the alarm that the union is in danger if the rank and file gets control. _ On examination it is found that in the very same speech the leaflet make clear that attacks against re- actionary officials (such as Gorman, | Green or Keller) should not. be con- | fused with an attack against the union or its members. An exam- ination of every important decision of the Red International shows that unity of the workers, despite the Splitting tactics of the reactionaries, is the cardinal principle, It was found that the quotation from Lo- Sovsky’s speech was dcliberately torn from a part in which he seeks to caution against formation of small weak unions if there is a | though it may be controlled by re- | formists. Losovsky Specially pointed (Continued on Page 2) By Vern Smith (Special te the Daily Worker) | MOSCOW, Jan. 10 (By Wireless). |—Paul Robeson, famous Negro The cases of the strikers arrested |singer and actor, feels “at home” in the Soviet, Union. So he said here last night at a reception given in his honor at the Domkino Club of film producers and actors, at- tended by Sergei Fisenstein, world- prominent persons connected with the Soviet film industry. come given by Eisenstein, Robeson, speaking in Russian, which he had been studying for the past two years, expresses his great pleasure in being able to come to Moscow to observe the life of the people. “TI feel at home,” he stated amidst thunderous applause. After Robeson had sung several Negro songs and Russian folk- Nazi Federation tonight at 8:30 at is the best guarantee that we will Since his arrival recently. “Although this is my first visit 7 refers to and in all the works of | Losovsky the object has been to! | . large mass union in existence, al- | famous film producer, and other | Replying to the speech of wel-| RESERVES’ POSTPON BURDEN Chicago Brigader Takes Early Lead In ‘Daily’ Contest Shock Brigader Chicago, has made the first hit in the Daily Worker s contest! Larson, of bscription Nine subscriptions are in the batch received to his credit yes- terday. Six are yearly ones. Another The. other is.for. twp. months. two are for three months each, This is the record produced by energetic, diligent work in get- ting subscriptions—though not even a week has passed since the drive started! It is an inspiration for every worker, Every worker must re- member that he can win a free trip to the Soviet Union and nine other prizes by getting sub- seriptions for the “Daily!” Workers—into the circulation drive, into the contest for sub- scriptions to the Daily Worker! AA DISTRICT ACTS ON BILL Endorses the Insurance | Measure HR 2827 At First Meeting BALTIMORE, Md. Jan. 10.— The first meeting of the Tenth District of the Amalgamated Asso- ciation of Iron, Steel and Tin Work- vith some fifty delegates at- here Sunday and y endorsed the Wor! | Unemployment, Old Age and So- jcial Insurance, Act, HR 2827. Other resolutions on organization, unem- ployment and the organization without discrimination of the Ne- gro workers also were adopted. Seven lodges of the Amalgamatzd | Association and a laree delegation of umorganized workers from | (Continued on Page 2) Paul Robeson Praiies Equality Of All Races in Soviet Union to the Soviet Union, it is not new to me,” he said, “as I have been reading Pravda and Izvestia (re- spectively the organ of the Com- munist Party and the government of the Soviet Union); but I must say what I have seen has amazed me and surpassed all my expecta- tions. The happy faces of the peo- ple, their bearing in the streets, and everywhere I have seen them, shows that they are a free peonle.” “It was a great contrast to Ber- lin, where I stayed on my way to |Moscow. There one felt almost afraid to speak, the people seemed afraid; it was ghastly! Here, hov- ever, things are completely opposite. The ireedom of the people strikes me forcibly.” Robeson’s comment on the ques- | tion of race prejudice, whicn he }and other Negroes know only too | well, vas short and to the point. In \in my favor.” ON ChEME, 2 YEARS, WORKERS No Benefits Possible Until 1938 Under Favored Plan SHINGTON touted old Ployment insuran velt will not o for by taxe not and g0 gen into effect to Roos commit Thus m ins q J ever cennot bs collected until 1936 at the ¢ since the Roosevelt plans all vide for the building p of serves” before the out any benefits. Roosevelt announced t that his committee had Ss d him with its final ri t he would not ic until early next v & 1 nature of the committee's resommenda- tions, however, was meade available te No Federal Insurance federal plans for case the Roose for State and with Federal supe contributions are n le by the Fy eral. government are dependent on contributions by the workers them= ans provide 1 contributions ision. Whatever selves. since all Federal pay- ll come from the collection of general t excise ta gasoline, and other a es of general consump- tion, ultimately the masses pay for these aiso. The Roosevelt plans call for cons tributions from ethe workers them< selves of one to five per cent of their pay envelopes. Workers earn< ing over $50 a week are not en: titled to’ share’ in any ir Ss Ss at all. Employers sup- to match the workers’ cons ince the employers will this tax on to the he masses again who will bear the cost of their own insurance, with the government also pa g its expenses along to the ma Not It is 3 the Sta aroun neo ng for Today’s Jobless idely admitted that most of 5 will not be able to. get even to the passage of the laws for the creation of the social insurance bureaus until late next year. Roo: 3 committee made it clear that none of their proposals apply in any way to the millions of workers now unemployed. The coms mitte2 continues Roosevelt’s policy. of leaving them to local charity. On the subject of unemployment insurance, Rooseyelt’s committee followed the lines of the Wagner= Lewis Bill which places the full brunt of the cost on the workers, gives the job! now no relief or insurance at, i, and contains ¢lauces which make the insurance reserves a strike-breaking instru< ment. At mest, under Roosevelt's plans the benefits will last only for ten weeks. Japanese Government Moyes Toward Inflation TOKYO. Jan. 10.—The enormous sums drained from the Japanes® masses to finance the imperialist conquest of Manchuria are rapidly speeding moves for inflation here, it was learned this afternoon. Fine ance Minister Korekiyo Takahashi songs, I was able to get a short answer to the question, “Have you admitted that Japanese banks were interview with him on his impres-| noticed any race prejudice here?” pressing for some means — {e. in= sions of life here, as he saw it!he replied: “No, I haven't noticed | flationary means—to avoid payment any—except, of course, that it’s alijon the redemption of $30,000.000 in South Manchuria Railway bonds,